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Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1904-04-16
Could We Forget English ?

Mr.. w. B. Vanderlip, the mining
prospector who recently spent four
teen months wandering among the
book that when he met the ship which
his employers had sent to hunt him up.
he addressed the gentleman in Russian
and was reminded that the gentleman
spoke English. Vanderlip says it may
seem incredible, but is true, that for a
few moments he was utterly unable to
converse with the captain in his own
native tongue He had not used i
word of English in conversation for
fourteen months, and, being in a low
physical condition, his mind was con-
fused. For several days he spoke a
jumbo of English, Russian and Korak,
the language of the natives with whom
he had lived and Travelled. 1t was a
week before he could talk good straight
English again.
There are numerous examples of the
fact that Il person may become very
rusty in the use of his native tongue
if for a long time he has had no con-
versational use of it. This was illus
trated once by man whose fame had
filled the world. 1t was on the evening
that David Livingstone first stood on
the platform of Exeter Hall. His pro-
nunciation was peculiar and his speech
broken. He seemed to grope for words.
After a few sentences he paused to beg
the indulgence of his auditors. He
asked them to remember that for six
teen years he had not spoken English
to a living soul, and that he had almost
forgotten how to use it.
A few may recall the instance of an
illiterate British sailor who entirely
forgot English. He was a castaway
among the Solomon Islanders, and
had lived with them perhaps thirty
years before an English vessel found
him. He had been completely reduced
to the level of the natives. His mental
faculties We're evidently somewhat i'm
paired. This may have facilitated the
utter 1alIure OF his memory as far as
English was concerned; but the fact
that English had once been his only
language enabled him to acquire few
hundred words of it more readily than
he would otherwise have done
a highly educated Polish woman of
New York, who is about to revisit her
ma two Loy-a iS Dov- I,r,,gIiror -, La-
knowledge of the language of her ia
theirs. She tells the New York Sun
she has lived here so long that she
thinks in English, and that she will
certainly appear ridiculous in the eyes
of her relatives If she does not practice
her native speech. 1t seems quite evil
dent that facility in the use of our
native Language Is not an inalienabie
accomplishment.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1904-04-16
sEALED PROPOSALS indorsed

SEALED PROPOSALS Endorsed
Proposals for Building Material.
etc. and addressed to Chas- W. Good
man, Superintendent L. s. Indian
School, Phoenix, Arizonf., VII be re-
ceived by him at the school until two
o'clock p. m. of Wednesday, March %.
1904, for furnishing and delivering at
the school, as may be required during
the fiscal year ending June so. 1904.
"A. 900 feet of lumber, 10000 iath, $4,000
shingles, 81 windows and doors, 10
transoms, $50 barrels of lime, 200 bar
rels Of cement, $4,000 brick, one cen
trifugal pump Capacity $50 gallons per
minute), 455 pounds of electric wiring,
eco rosettes and sockets, $500 insula-
tors, brackets and tubes, 272 switches.
plugs and cieats, 1000 feet OF drop
cord, 1900 feet of moulding. u dry
batteries, Is lead traps, 400 feet OF soil
pipe, II closets, 1 slop-sinks. bath
tubs and 8 radiators, besides a Quanti-
ty OF tees, ellis, etc, full list and de-
scription of which may be obtained at
the school The right is reserved 10
reject any and all bids, or any part OF
any bid, if deemed for the best inter
est of the service. All articles offered
under a contract will be subject 20 a
rigid inspection. Each bid must be ac-
companied by a certified check or draft
upon some United States depository or
solvent national bank, made payable
10 the order of the Commissioner OF
Indian Affairs, for at least per cent.
of the amount OF the proposal. which
check or draft will be forfeited 10 the
United States in case any bidder or
bidders receiving an award shall fail
to promptly execute a contract with
good and sufficient sureties; otherwise
to be returned to the bidder Bids
accompanied by cash in lieu of certi-
fed check will not be considered.
For further information apply 10
Chas. w. Goodman, Supt.
A. 9. T0NNER,
Acting Commissioner.
First publication March /. 1904
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1904-04-16

dangers involved. The action of Com
mander Cowles throughout the terrific
baptism of fire which overwhelmed his
ship was in accordance with the best
traditions of the navy. He was cool
and collected, and his personal bravery
in rushing into the flames to rescue his
dying men, and again, his quick de-
cision TO risk the further danger ~
destruction from the magazine rather
a most capable commander when great
danger threatens.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1904-04-16

ter of recognizing Panama he and his
advisers had proceeded deliberately and
with circumspection. AT length pop
ular suffrage in those regions gave to
the new government a status OF reg
ularity," he said, and on the other
hand, there is no danger of its being
soon or easily overthrown. In view of
these facts, the Mexican government
has recognized it, wishing at the same
time to the new American state the ut
most prosperity and an era CT unin-
terrupted peace" He announced
Peru's assent to the compulsory arbi-
tration treaty of January %. 1902
the Pan-American conferences treaty
and he congratulated the congress-
men on the Caracas mixed commits
son's award in favor of the Mexican
claimants. He mentioned that c new
treaty of friendship with Austria
Hungary was to be submitted to the
Senate. We condense other interest
ing paragraphs of the message. The
pay of the rurales Gone Of the most
efficient constabulary forces in the
world) is to be increased. The capital
city has $500 meters of new sewer,
other sanitary improvements and
good showing of new pavements and
sidewalks. The work OF macadam-
izing the roads and planting shade
trees along them in the federal dis
tricts goes steadily forward. There
were fewer deaths by 4.7OS in the City
of Mexico last year than in 1901: the
deaths from typhus fell off from 1888
in 1901 to SIS in 1903. The health Of
icers of the federal government and
the states are cooperating in a systc-
matte war upon the germs of yellow
fever. A few bands of marauding In
dams are still playing hide and seek
with the troops in Sonora, but Presi-
dent Diaz regards the troubles there
and in Yucatan as practically over The
government continues to give great
attention to the schools, and has sent
a commissioner to this country to
study our methods of manual training
Mexico has now 1921 kilometers of
railway-3O3 kiIometers added last
year. The governments income is in
creasing satisfactorily; in the revenue
from import duties the gain last year
was S2500oO. The recent changes in
the tariff were inspired by the desire
to facilitate the importation Of certain
foreign articles of general use and TO
impart temporarily q moderate degree
of protection to certain Mexican indus
tries which are capable of easy and
vigorous development" on another
matter of interest TO Mexico's neigh
bors, as we'll as to herself, President
Diaz said:
THE monetary commission appoint
ed by the department of finance 10
study the varied questions connected
with the problem of stabilizing the
value of our currency in gold, has COM
pleted its labors. having presented Il
mass of data, opinions and reports
which viii assuredly serve as an i'm
po-tant aid to the government in MAX
ing UP its mind on this question.
take pleasure in making this public
statement of the value which the ex-
ecutive places upon the commissions
labors, which are a,credit both to he
nation and to the persons who con-
Quoted them with equal zeal and in
teIligencc.'
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1904-04-16
More Higher Criticism.

Not only Noahs flcOd. but Pharaoh's
famine dream has received a new ex-
PLANTATION and Interpretation. Accord
ing to the London Daily Mail, Sir Will
liam Willcocks, the Nile engineer, has
figured it out that in ancient days there
was huge lake in Egypt whose
waters. held in check by a great dixie,
were allowed to flood Upper and Lower
Egypt in due season and fill the earth
with richness and plenty. Joseph.
while in prison, heard from some of his
fellow prisoner that the Theban kings
were about to apture the city of the
Having this key to the situation, they
would naturally discriminate against
their enemies in Lower Egypt and
cause famine there. So Joseph inter-
preted Pharaoh's dream accordingly,
and had huge granaries erected and
prepared for the famine. And thus
what escaped all historians, who never
mention the evil designs of the Theban
kings at all. becomes clear as day to
Nj. Willcoeks. II reminds US of Mark
Twain's explanation of the miraculous
fire which Elijah, in his contest with
the priests of Baal, called down upon
the altar which he had erected ana
flooded with water. The old sea cap
tain, who is used as his mouthpiece by
the gentle humcrist, declares it was not
water at all. Then what was It?
Petroleum, sir, petroleum." he ex-
plains triumphantly.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1904-04-16
First publication April 9. 1904.

Office Constructing Quartermaster.
WhipplC Barracks. Prescott, Arizona.
February 9, 1904.-Sealed proposals
subject TO the usual conditions will be
received here until p. m. March Is.
1904, and then opened. for furnishing
the labor and material for the con-
struction. plumbing, gaspiping, heat
ing, and electric wiring of brick hos
pital. Plans, specifications. and 9TH
err information in this office and in the
offices of the Chief Q. NJ. San Fran
cisco, Cal, and Denver, Colo, and
Constructing Q. NJ, Fl. Leavenworth.
Kansas. Envelopes containing pro-
posals should be endorsed Proposals
fer Hospital at Whipple Barracks. Ar
iona" and addressed to CHAS. c.
WALCUTT, Jr., Constructing Q M.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1904-04-16
A FATAL DEFICIENCY.
SHIRLEY CHRISTI
Secretary.

-Old-time army mule chaufeurs and
others who are cognizant of the eff
oacy of clamorous cUss word in time
of trouble viii be shocked to learn that
in Japan's vocabulary no provision is
made for the fellow who wants to
swear. Whether a general with a tea
caddy title can really win a great VIE
tory without splitting the atmosphere
with a few choice oaths remains to be
scotland if so, there's heap of army
reminiscent history which might well
be neutrality-suspicious. Philosophy.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1904-04-16
RETRIBUTION.

Shade Of New Yorker (who meets
shade of theater manager coming down
the golden stairs sadly from St. Peters
pearly gate)-Wouldn't. they take you,
old chap?
Cant get in; spectators got all the
tickets. Yale Record.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1904-04-16
THE SHALLOW MURmUR."

The lid" has been lifted again from
the University Of Chicago and this time
the voice of Professor Albion w. Small
is heard declaring that Pilgrim" the
hero of John Bunyan's immortal work.
Pilgrims Progress was "a religious
cad,' because according to Smalrs in
depreciation, he was simply living to
save his own dear little selfish soul,
and he never tried to help anyone else. -
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1904-04-16

The Rochester Democrat and Chron-
icle remarks: Having voted for mu-
nicipal ownership, Chicago is now
porting over the problem of how to get
it, All same Phoenix.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1904-04-16
STOCKHOLDERS MEETING OF
THE CIENEGUITA COPPER co.

The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the CieEeguita Copper Com
pany, an Arizona corporation, for the
election of directors for the ensuing
year and for the transaction of such
other business as may properly come
before the meeting viii be held at the
Office of the company, rooms one TO
four Nicholson Bldg. corner Center
street and Broadway, in the city OF
Phoenix, Arizona, on the 18th day OF
May, 1900, at 10 O'Clock in the fore
noon.
The transfer books will close at the
office of the company, % Broad street.
New York, on the tenth day or May.
1904, and will remain closed until after
the annual meeting.
GEORGE BEEBE.
President
SHIRLEY CHRISTY,
Secretary.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1904-04-16
Les HMG EkES p
BOOTS AND SHOES.
REGAL SHOES by Mail.

s9.75 per pair, express prepaid $50 styles
for MEN AND WOMEN. ia sizes and
widths, one price. So stores. Tannery
to consumer. CataIog and self measure
ment blanks on postal request. Los An
geles store 222 w Third St, near Broad
way. A. S. Vandegrift. Manager.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1904-04-16

At any rate. love in a cottage has no
tanitOr TO contend with.-Philadelph
Record.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1904-04-16
MACHINERY, ENGINES, ETC.

WESTERN IRON WORKS, 9OS-928 N.
Main St, manufact'rs crude oil engines
and pumps. Complete irrigating plants.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1904-04-16

VULCAN IRON WORKS, 9I7-919 N.
ers. well tools. General machine work
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1904-04-16
BARRELS AND TANKS.
SANATORIUMS.

Los Angeles Cooperage Co. Tanks, bar
rels and kegs. Write for prices.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1904-04-16

BALLARD PULMONARY sANATOR-
Medical Director Write for Hooklet.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1904-04-16
PRESCOTT BUSINESS FIRMS
Hotel Burke
AMERICAN PLAN.

PRESCOTT, ARIZONA.
los rooms. All modern conveniences
A strictly first-class and modern hotel.
Sample rooms for commercial men.
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OPTICAL GOODS.
ADOLF FREsE

Eyeglasses, Optical Goods and
Draughtsmen and Surveyors Supplies
geles, Cal, 1875 s. Spring st. Sunset
Tel Main 1912 Home Tel 1892
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, ZEE e e Red LIST
POULTRY SUPPLIES.

HENRY ALBERS, SIS S. Main st.
Largest poultry supply house in u. S.
Send for free catalogue
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CARPETS AND RUGS.

T. ELLINGTON CO, 312-314 S. Broad
way. Curtains, draperies, China and Ia
pan mattings. All kinds of floor cover
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PATENTS.

PATENTS-Hazard & IIarphau1 Los
Angeles. Send for free book on Datsnts.
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lANIIIIS OVIIIIIIIHsIWlIEIs
First publication March /. 1904.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1904-09-27

teens a b~read-winner for a widowed mother with
five children. He hired himself to a neighboring
farmer near Woodstock, Maryland, where ne was
born. His only schooling was the meagre train
ing of a country school. At nineteen years of
age he obtained a position as brakeman on the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad; from brakeman
he was promoted to conductor, and five years of
his life we're spent in railroad service. His talent
and energy brought him rapid promotion. He
soon went into business for himself and amassed
a colossal fortune. He is not a man of large
culture, but he has great common-sense and ire
mendous executive power.
Thus, with the exception of Mr.. Roosevelt, all
the candidates for the highest places within the
gift of the American people, are men who in
their youth went barefooted and fought for bread
in a hand-to-hand struggle. 1t is an inspiration
to American youth that these are the boys who
win the highest honors of the world.
1t is no credit to a man to be born great, but
it is a real honor to achieve greatness and COM
pei the admiration and respect of mankind. The
sickly young gentlemen who learn how to bow in
a ballroom and perform all sorts of social antics
are not in the same class at all with the fellows
who are wrestling with oxen or handling the
maui and ~wedge.-Charity and Children.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1904-09-27
How to Water Plants.

Improper watering is often the cause of fail
ure with plants. The usual plan is to daily
sprinkle a small quantity of water in each pot
containing a plant. If those who water plants
in this manner, as most beginners do, could see
the florist water his plants, they might fear the
plants were being drowned, but they would learn
a lesson in plant culture that would be of much
benefit. The florist waters his plants with a few
exceptions) either daily, every other day or twice
a week, according to the weather, and when the
watering is done the soil about the plant is COM
pletely saturated. The pot being we'll provided
at the bottom with drainage material-usually
broken pieces Of pots-the surplus water passes
of, yet the soil is so wet that the roots can absorb
from it all the moisture required for the best de-
velopment of top growth. One watering of this
kind a week will do vastly more good to the plants
than the daily sprinkling so generally p%racticed.
September Woman's Home Companion.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1904-09-27
THE HOME CIRCLE
Ode to Autumn.

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness!
Close bosom friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-
caves run;
To bend with apples the moss'd cottage trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the CORE;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel-shels
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more
And still more later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For summer has o'erbrimm'd their clammy cells.
Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?
Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find
Thee sitting careless on a granary floor,
Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;
Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep.
Drowsed with the fume of peoples, while thy
hook
Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers:
And sometimes like a cleaner thou dost keep
Steady thy laden head across a brook;
Or by a cider-press, with patient look
Thou watchest the last oozings, hours by hours.
Where are the songs of spring? Ay, where are
they?
Think not of them, thou hast thy music, too,
While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day,
And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue;
Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn
Among the river shadows, borne aloft,
Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;
And full-grown lambs bleat from hilly bourn;
Hedge-crickets sing: and now with treble soft.
The redbreast whistles from a garden-croft,
And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.
John Keats.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1904-09-27
The Growls of a Grizzled Bachelor.

Man proposes and woman forecloses.
Too many men with unbleached incomes marry
women with hemstitched aspirations.
Marriages are made in heaven. The wise
bachelor is content to wait until he gets there.
Whenever I hear a man Boosting that his wife
made him all that he is, [ wonder how many men
will confess that their wives have unmade them
all that they amt.
The husband of the average hawk-billed. deep
voiced reformer is perpetually whitecapped by his
wife, until it is natural with him to be so thin
+bat when he eats cranberries they silk out like
buttons on his vest.
We are told that married men live longer than
single ones. Out in Indiana there is a bachelor
who is one hundred and seventeen years old. Eos
sibly he would have lived no longer had he been
married, but it is a safe wager that ne would
have been so much thinner he'd have looked
Ionger.-Woman's Home Companion.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1904-09-27
A Matter Of Geography.

Representative Heatwole, of M;nro,o
asheu Dy a TREND about a mutual acquaintance
VIZ nVeS IN the Congressman's district.
us he rich" was one query.
Wei. that depends on geography said Mr.
80 out at nome we consider him very
ricn, lie is worth about a million dollars, IF he
iiVed In New Jersey. I suppose he would ho
thought fairly well-to-do, while if he lived IN
New Y ork folks would be dropping dollars in bis
hat. "-Collier's Weekly. 40
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1904-09-27
Don't Let the Children Play in Cotton.

Bryant Partin, the little six-year-old son Of
Mr.. Frank Partln, was smothered to death YES
terday morning while playing in a small pile If
cotton in front of his fathers home.
Mr.. Partin had a small pile of seed COTTON
not more than half a bale, in his yard. His little
six-year-old son ~playfully dug a hole in the cot
ton and jumped in. He had not been missed at
the house and his dead body was found by his
little fve-year-old sister who was digging into
the loose cotton. The child was found standing
on his head in the centre of the hole. When he
dived down the cotton covered in and he had no
way to extricate himself.-Raleigh Post.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1904-09-27
The Philippines Humorously Described.

Mr.. Luther III. Corzine, a member of Company
D, Seventh Infantry, of Manila, writes home to
his father, Mr.. David Corzine, some impressions
of the Philippines and the Filipinos, which we
give below:
"The Philippines, as I saw them, are a bunch of
trouble gathered together on the western horizon
of civilization. They are bounded on the west
by hoodooism and smugglers, on the north by
rocks and destruction, on the east by typhoons
and monsoons, on the south by cannibals and
earthquakes. The climate is a combination of
electrical changes especially adapted to raising
cain. The soil is extremely fertile in producing
instructions and trickery. The inhabitants are
very Industrious, their chief occupation being
trench building, the making of bolos and reload
ing Remington cartridges. Their amusements
are cock-fghting and cheating; their diet con-
sists of boiled rice, stewed rice, fried rice and
rice.
"The Philippine marriage ceremony is very i'm
p~ressive, especially the clause wherein the wife
is given the privilege of working as much as her
husband desires. The animal of burden is the
caribou. On a three mile journey it only takes
three days rations along; but if the journey be
for a hundred miles, the driver usually dies of
old age before reaching his destination. The
rivers are serpentine in their courses, the water
running contrary to all known laws of nature.
Manila, the capital and largest city, is situated
on Manila Bay, a large land-locked body of
water full of sharks, battle ships and transport
boats. Their principal exports are rice, hemp,
sick soldiers and locoed soldiers. The principal
imports are American soldiers, beer, ammunition
and tobacco. Luzon, the largest island of the
group, resembles a No. 10 boot. Communication
has been established between the cities by using
mosquitoes, they being much larger and better
able to stand the fatigue of the journey than
horses. The native costume consists of a -four
sack tied about the waist, and anyone under
twelve years of age has to wait until next year
for theirs. The towns are an aggregation of
shacks, built of bamboo and vipa, full of bed
bugs Heas, cur dogs, filth and disorder. The
dogs cats, pigs, lice and family all sleep together
on terms OF equality. The natives are a friend at
the muzzle of a gun. The climate is pleasant for
the reaches, snakes, tarantulas and scorpions,
On the whole, the islands are a God-forsaken
annlballzed-infested blot on the face of the
earth."LConcor Times.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1904-09-27

cit Amt fer me ter say dey amt no gooo Ill
praying fer rain" said Brother D1ckey' "out II
happens frequent dat it comes ter nuth1n, Ter oe
reason dat de clouds Amt got no rain ter spare
or dey is savin' up fer de Teller IN de mex coun.
ty, who Lit in ter prayin' two days aneao er Sou'
Atlanta Constitution.