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The Washington times., 1906-06-24
New Rules for Tenants

There IS at least one landlord hc
Harlem who has solved the problem CT
keeping his house full OF quiet tenants
who VIII not complain OF the noise
overhead HIS method was discovered
quite by accident when a new tenanc
applied for a lease on the string o.
rooms known as a fat IN this p6-IisG-
lar building
All The necessary formalitiea about
references, finances, etc, had been sss-
tsfactorily gone through with. when
The new tenant observed an extra
clause Jypewritten IN the printed form
OF lease.
What's that fOrr' he tnQairU4z-
Read IL and see answered Ihs
landlord That is for your protection
as well as for that OF the tenants IN.
der you. II explains ttself-meralY a.
obligation on your part TO wear rub
Der heels on all your shoes, and re-
curing every member OF your family
10 do likewise Oh-never mind the
eNpense-the lease. you VIII observa
requires me 70 furnish you with the
rubber heels. 50 It costs you nothing
The tenant read the following clAuss
pointed %. n the lease by thg iE1d-
lord.
And IL IS hereby further agreed
that The said party Of ths second
part ltae tenant) obigates himself and
the mcIubers OF his family to weax
and use only shoes equipped with rub
Der heels, and the said party OF the
first part Cthe landlord) hcrcby aEreea
70 paw the expense Of fttiny rubber
heels 70 oil shoes regularly Fvcrn by
tire tenant ard the members OF his
-.
be fitted only At a shop - be desiE-
mated b. the party OF the n part"
The prospective tenant c7ul6 only
articulate-
Der heelS2'
In that case we viii nave no DIM
Guilty in finding some one else who
Will answered the lord This
clause Is my own idea a-lS Is inserted
10 guard against noise fIJ-n the fat
aboVe-an evil which yOu must admit
is one Of the greatest dnT oyance5 ot
life on fat IN New York
People who wear rubber heels
walk noiseIessly- Not only are ruo-
Der heels comfortable and nOiseleSs.
but YOU viii ind many physicians VINO
advocate them for all ordinary
walking. or the score OF the nervous
shocks which are avoided Dy tneir
use
~ have made an arrangement with
q shoemaker near my building, who
rubber heels al q reduced rate. and l
pay the bills II costs me something
Ike s. "a mouth-but for that 1 get
about fifteen pairs of rubber heels put
on and when they wear out ! am
willing tn pay for new ones
The best possible proof Of the prao-
ticaI uuLty or my scheme IS that my
flats are IlWa-S rented. and the par
ticuElr one that YOU are asking ABOUT
Is The only vacant fat in my build
ing However. II YOU don't want 10
wear rubber heels, say no more. for
! haze had three other inquiries today
about tire fat and have no doubt but
] viii rent il by tomorrow mis- ht.'
SAY no more. responded the pros
pective tenal T. Il nave never worn
rubber heels before, but / am willing
10 Try them The people in the fat
below me may nave been worried b.
the noise made. quite as much a.
the people up above have been wor-
rying rlC with their internal rsicket.
By all as let Us have a law passed
c0rnpeIliig everyone who lives in a
fat 20 wear rubber heels The next
thing will be rubber soled pianos
but l guess thai dream viii never
come true"
The Washington times., 1906-06-24

in bare cell with nothing but stool
and a cot for nearly twenty-three
hours out Of twenty-f1ur-for exercise
and prayers occupy little more than an
hOur-the mind turned in upon itself
in mouorory and desperation: no sign.
no word from any friend or relation.
no look of kindness or sympathy from
anyone; no chance Of doing or show
ing kindness 10 anyone. And this
10 40 on for days. weeks. months.
years! To be cut off from all healthy
human intercourse. all social interest
and feeling. in a cell whose windows
are too small 10 admit the needed
light. and are so placed. so high up
or in such position. that one cannot
see anything on earth. ard frequently
of ground glass 50 that one cannot
see the sky. not even a wandering bird
nor a passing cloud. neither the sun
by day nor the moon by night
Mrs. Maybrick. in her own story"
The Washington times., 1906-06-24
THE THING THAT WAS 4 MAN


5 tounb3
There sailor upward Of yeaH
and who in few months time would sOl
tary confinement!
4 glad hear your nearly
say? Nothing Why he his pick fesh
upon fingers instant every
walls which have gray
he has sometimes
always pluck
parting
s nothing MOI
10 say
drawing did
very ago;
everything helpless
his
thoroughly gratifed.-"A
The Washington times., 1906-06-24
What il means 10 ssrve twenty years SOLITARY CONFnNEMEN
The Thoughts and Feelings Of Prisoner
When He Begins Term of Solitary Confinement

Charles Dickens the famous English novelist during his tour
of America visited the Eastern Penntary where Kdnaper Kean
is condemned twenty years solitary confinement He
went from cell TO cell viewing the had buried alive
in punishment for various The following description of the
miserable wehes first emotions when hood just taken off,
and the of their captivity disclosed in all its dismal
monoony of the most realistic descriptions of everyday
tragedy to be found in English literature
confinement is hiaeou
his old life reality
abandoned despair
ness Of the place him his
rrays
o 10 or I shall oraving
He has IT. and by
now and then there him
be
OF those who are hidden from his
his siding
caped
moaning Suddenly
wondering
cell like that either n listens keeny.
prisoners may
self that the cells
other,
the right
is he sitting
How he
he white
Scarcely he
in but
dark form puts
day.
often whom he wakes
changes they
younger
'an the left-whO
him emble
weary pass solemn pace like nDourners At funeral
and slowly
horrible that their smooth sur
face hls
Every
upon him. The blessed
light through the unhang
able S piso wind
of that hateful corner swell
make his dreams hid
his he strange dislike to IT,
something of corresponding
ne began to fear It, then to dream of it, and
and pointing It Then his
back IT. Now, place a ghost: shad
oW-a silent something horrible
he
When yard without When he
IN the yard he breads
courage to stand in its
place and drive Che
D IN the twilight and always at the
name as the darkness thiekens, that
his comfort hdeous hint daybreak
Again by slow degrees these horrible
intervals and in
less alarming matters with the
and has written PRAYER
sometimes Of his children or
they dead have deserted him He ~
moved TO brokensplred Occasionally
the old thing revive it, even famn-
scent of summer flowers in the air. bt f. docs nor I
long now; for the world without vision this
ad reality
OF Imprisonment be short-1 mean cortr,r 20, ,
bethe than all for en bs
thinks in the ruins or thar he Is
doomed to die within on some false
charge and sentenced something no matter
"ha must happen to prevent his going large
cause after his long e
human nfe and appear 10 hin, more
~
II his period Of confinement prospect Of release
oe"d and confuses him HIS a moment
and what it might have been 70 ~ -
all those door has been closed too
long on all its hopes hanged him in the begin
ming him forth to n,npIe ~ b
kind. kind more
Dickens American Notes"
The Washington times., 1906-06-24

tamination and filth arising from the
herding of prisoners together. etc It
was also argued that under the solitary
system it would be impossible for evil
communications to corrupt good man
ners
But il has come TO be recognized
that the solitary system. and all that
goes with IL, is in a more refind way
quite as inhuman as that which il sup
planted. 1t condemns the prisoner TO a
life devoid of any touch OF humanity.
deliberately shorn of all that might
soften the heart. life which contains
nothing but silence. solitude. desertion
by all the world. absolute monotony
and hopelessness.
II is in the English prisons that the
system has been most thoroughly tried
out. After repeated experiments. in the
course Of which many prisoners went
insane. it was found that nine months
was the longest period Of solitary con-
finement that could well be endur :.
So nine months solitary confinement
was generally imposed as tht first in
stallment in the serving of a long
sentence Later more humane coun-
sells prevailed. and six months t'soli-
tarv is not regarded BY the Rf'tish
penal code as quite enough.
Think what IL means-tn be confined
The Washington times., 1906-06-24

says: NO one can realize the horror
OF solitary confinement who has not
experienced it." And again. such
punishment Csix months solitary IS
inexpressible torture 70 both mind
and body. speak from experience
The torture Of continually enforced 81
lence is known TO produce insanity OF
nervous breakdown more than any
other feature Of prison discipline
a good deal has been said OF the
gradual effect Of the solitary system
on the mind IN the way OF inducing
hanucinatious and partial insanity
The Washington times., 1906-06-24
leach IN HIS SEPARA7E HE'LL

K 'ow not F'hether Laws be right,
o. whether Laws be wrong:
An that who lie in gaoI
Is that the wall is strong;
And that each day is like a year
A year whose days long!
With midnight always in ones heart.
And twilight in ones CELL
We turn tine crank. bear the rope,
Each ia his separate He'll
And the silence is more awful. far
Than the sound OF brazen bell.
And never a human voice comes
To speak a gentle word:
And the eye that watches through the door
Is pitiless and hard:
And by all forgot, rot and rot
With soul and body marred.
And thus rus, LIES iron chain
Degraded and alone;
And some men curse. and some men weep
And some make moan:
But Gods eternal Laws are kind
And break the hearts OF stone.
Oscar Wilde's Ballad Of Readn
The Washington times., 1906-06-24


one from its home. II is the one
crime for which there cannot be
sufficient provocauon, for which
there are no extenuating circum-
stances. for which there is absolutely
nc excuse. no palliation. When some
grief-stricken parent cries aloud.
Help me find my lost child,'' the
whole world is at once enlisted in the
search. The machinery OF govern
ment, Of public or private business is
arrested. IL thereby the little one may
be returned TO its home. Consciously
or unconsciously. every human being
who mas heard of the loss takes part
in the quest
So it proved thirty years ago when
Charlie Ross was stolen from his
PHILADELPHIA home. and because he
was never found. the case became one
The Washington times., 1906-06-24

o CRIME known or imagined
so rouSes a community as
the KIDNAPPING of a child
The most brutal murder
does not so stir a city
-, .,,f. - . rg-r,a
The Washington times., 1906-06-24

ty years in solitary confinement ana
al hard labor
Twenty years in the Eastern peni-
tentiary in solitary confinement. and
at hard labor" II is a terrible fate.
Twenty years at hard labo--Or even
life imprisonment.-would not have
been so bad Indeed the hard labor
Is the only mitigating clause. It is the
solitary confinement which IS terrible
beyond thought or belief. I; is so ter
rible that II has been Q, minated from
the penal codes OF nearly every state
in the Union Such a sentence could
The Washington times., 1906-06-24
FREDDIE MUTH,

The Kidnapped Philadelphia Boy, Whose
Case Has Aroused the Greatest Ex-
citement Of Any Child Disappearance
Since The Famous Charley Ross
Mystery.
Arizona republican., 1906-03-01
WOu7an's Trials.

The bitter trail in a wOman's life Is to be childleSS. Who can tell how hard the struggle may have been ere she learnt to resign herself to her lonely lot? The ab- Sence of this link to bind marital life together the absence of this one pledge to mutual affection is a common diSap- pOintment. Many unfortunate couples become eStranged thereby. Even if they do not drift apart, one may read the whole extent of their disappointment in the eyes of such a childleSS couple when they rest on the children of others. To them the largest family does not seem too numerous.
 In many cases of barrenlCSS or child leSSneSs the obstacle to child-bearing is easily removed by the cure of weakness on the part of the woman. Dr. Pierce'S Fla VOrite Prescription has been the means of restoring health and fruitfulneSS to many a barren woman. to the great joy of the household. In other, but rare cases, the obstruction to the bearing of children has been found to be of a surgical character, but easily removable by painless opera tive treatment at the InValldS' Hotel and Sur gical Institute, Buffalo. N. Y.. over which DT. Pierce of the EaVOrite Prescription fame preSdeS. In all eases where chn- dren are desired and are absent. an effort should be made to find out the real cause, since 1t is generally so easily removed by proper treatment.
 In all the various weaknesses. diSDlace- mentS, prOlapsus, inflammation and de- blitating, catarrhal drains and in all eases of nervousness and debility. Dr. Plerce's FaVorite Prescription is the most efficient remedy that can possibly be used. lt has tO it's credit hundreds of thousands of cures more in fact than any other remedy put up for sale through druggists, especially for wOman's use. The ingredi- ents of which the rFavOrite Prescription ls composed have received the most positive endorsement from the leading medical writers on lEdtcriu MCdjCd Of ali the several schools of practice Al, the on the wra pper enclosing the bottle. so that any woman making use of this famous medicine may know exactly what she Is taking. Dr. Pierce takes his ua- uents into his full confidence which he can afford to do as the formula after which the "Favorite Prescription is made will bear the most careful exam nation.
 pr Pierce'S Pleasant Pellets are the best and safest laxative for women.
Arizona republican., 1906-03-01
FUTURE NEW YORK.
Astounding Transportation Improve
 msnts Being Made.

New York, Feb. Exchanges of rev olutionary significance are being made l in the conditions of life in New York. | iSkyscrapers are filling the narrow con fines of Manhattan IsIand-sky-s -scra- per offices, sky -scraper apartment houses, sky -scraper colleges, sly-scra- - per chUrches-soon the city will be a vast workshop with an overwhelming demand for numberless trains to take : the human workers to their homes in
 the suburbs in lightning-lille time.
 To handle the local traffic from points near the city, transportation lines are constantly multiplying their facilities by additional trackage. new stations, and under-river tunnels.
 The New York CentraTs huge new station is rendered necessary mainly by the crOwding thousands who must be brought to and carried away from the city morning and evening. The Pennsylvania station. the foundation of which now looks loke a swath of a whirl- wind through the densely built up section of the west side, will pro vide for only tithe of the army that invades the New York shore from Jer- sey every morning only to swarm back again at night.
 When transportation plans now un- der way are carried out. map of Manhattan Island will I2ok like cen tipede. from every side of which will stream the lines indicating tunnels, ferries and bridges. to Jersey, to Brooklyn. to Long Island City, and ad- diuonaI lines of rails to the north ward, spreading fan-like from the Hudson to the Connecticut line and beyond.
 The steam railways, rapidly as they increase their facilities, cannot keep up with the suburban traffic. This has shown the opportunity for the hign speed electric railway. From the ter minus of the subway at 177th street a new road. the New York. Winches- ter and Boston, Is being built to con sist of four tracks over private right of way. and with no grade crossings
 This line will mark an epoch in su- bUrban transportation. IL will be of as perfect construction as modern engi- neeriug can make it. Penetrating the heart of beautiful Winchester county the road will run to Portchester on the New York Connecticut boundary line. and to White Plains on the foot hills of the Berkshires. The line is be- ing built for electric express traffic, at a mile a minute; locals will run as fast as 45 miles an hour The whole line and branches cover only 36 miles, but it's roadbed and equipment are the same or better than the steam rail- roads maintain. With such roads as this the city can be emptied of its Out-Of-tOWn workers comfortably and quickly. The Old-style, one-Car trolley in suburban traffic is giving way to the hish-speed electric train If the city of the future is to be only a work shop, the new Westchester road shows how the laborers will get to and from their IaboTs This is the type of rail way that will solve the problem of over population in cities.
Arizona republican., 1906-03-01
PHOENX. ARIz., MARCH 1, 1906,
The Half Capital.

It is understood that Senator Bever- fdge wilt endeavor to amend the Ham rton bill by a provision making Phoe- nix the capital every other year until the year 1915, and that additional con sessions of the public domain to the extent of 100000 acres are to be pro noe-l. These amendments. it is said will he made in the event of the adop- ton of the Foraker amendment.
 We do not believe that the cause of joint statehood would be strengthened by the proposed location of the capital in Phoenix half the time. As we have before pointed out, the location by the Ham ilton bill of the capital at santa Fe was never one of Arizona's objections to joint statehood. It is true that ob- jection has been made to the great in convenience of visiting the capital in case 1t were established at Santa Fe but the same objection would be against it's location in any other town within the proposed new state. It is just as far from Santa Fe to Phoenix as it is from Phoenix to Santa Fe. Wherever the capital might be t would be inconvenient and nothing could be gained by shifting the incon- veuience from one point to another.
 It is possible that if the proposed amendment by Beve-idge should be adopted joint statehood would gain the votes of a few short-sighted citi- zens of Phoenix and it's vicinity. It would certainly gain no strength out side
 There would be nothing in the amended situation to enlist the favor able interest of people in the northern part of the territory nor those of the DoPulous southeastern part. They would not profit in any way by the To- cation os tha capital here
 Throughout the early part of the fight against joint statehood Phoenix was looked upon as the storm center of opposition. Not a word has been said about the loss of the capital Tn the first place. 10 those who had the real interest of the territory at
  to be given any thought in the face of the threatened annihuation of the ter ritory. If any took a narrower view and felt really concerned about the capital they realized that it wouldn't be decent to aHude to it.
 It wouldn't be decent now or at any other time to let the matter of the cap itaI come under consideration. If we were given the capital all tEe time. that would not avert the New Mexican domination and the wiping out O. the prosperity of Arizona.
 Our brethren in the other sections of the territory who have stood with US against this common peril would nat urally feel a great measure of weH-de- served contempt for LIS if we should desert them for this sop of a half cap itaL Their contempt would not be les sened if the bribe were a whole capital.
Arizona republican., 1906-03-01

Violence toward the negro is nos confined to the south. It is like the prospector's description of the loca- ton of gold-bcaring rock, wherever you find it. l. usually is worse and more unreasoning when it breaks out in the north. Southern mobs usually have some definite negro in view, and when they have disposed of him by the bullet the rope, or the flames that is the end of that chapter. It is in the northern states that anger against one negro is turned against the whole race. as in Springfield, ohio, night before last
Arizona republican., 1906-03-01
AN ERROR IN THE BILL.

He had a TOW on hand with the gas company and he was in such a hurry to get down to the office that he Ies an auto chase him up on the sidewalk and around the corner without filing an objection.
 sir, is this meant for me-" he sternly demanded as he slammed the gas bill down on the shelf of the pay window.
 Bones. Bones? Are you William Bones" asked the man in reply.
 'I am, sir"
 'Is that your street and number2"
 Yes. sir
 Well. what do you find wrong with the buI?"
 Wrong! Wrong. Why there's a bill for $24, and my house was shut up all the mOnth,"
 ''Y-e-s. I see. Yes. there must be mistake about it."
 "Of course there's a mistake about it. I didn't know but that you had gone into the highway robbery busi- ness. You bet you're life, there's a mistake about it"
 Yes, a trifling mistake, said the gas man, after consulting the books. MT. Bones. your corrected bill is SAP"
 What? Whats tkat2"
 And I think we will let you off pret- ty cheap at that Your house was clos ed for a month. When you went away you left five gas jets whizzing away and if you hadn't been an old custo- mer and a man who never kicks the bill would have been $50"
 By George! By George," whispered Mir. Bones to himself as he walked around; and then he paid the bill with out further objection. The gas man had said five burners. He had come home to find that seven were blazing away
Arizona republican., 1906-03-01

Poultney BigeIow came, saw and jumped-at conclusions. Jumping often goeth before a fall.-Chicago Record.
Arizona republican., 1906-03-01

Compliments arc like the styles in dress; easily spoiled by overdoing.- Atchison Globe.
Arizona republican., 1906-03-01

"If you see it in the Sun it's so" was a laconic guaranty by the late Charles A. Dana of the unimpeachabIeness Of the Suns news columns. The Suns recent reference to our Sharlot NJ Hall as MT" is, therefore, a most striking lapse from accuracv.
Arizona republican., 1906-03-01

We wonder what on earth Mrs. Co., rey can be doing in South Dakota at this season Of the year. It had been understood that there had been an ad- justment of the differences in the steel magnate's Household
Arizona republican., 1906-03-01

IHlEtiD HAItlD. Iusp spcCtOT-JOhn T. Dunlap. Judges-Seth Byers. IT. L. TuIburt. Clerks-J. II. LangstOu, Sylvester
Arizona republican., 1906-03-01

Section 4. The grades of the center l line of any alley within the territory embraced by this ordinance are fixed and determined and are hereby estab- lishe1 2t olI elevation of twenty-five hundredths of foot below the side walk grade at the point where said center line of such alley intersects the side line of any street hereinbefore mentioned, said sidewalk grade to be taken along the property line grade.
 SectioG ,. TEa grades designated by this ordinance are hereby declared to be straight lines joining the consecu- tive grade points which are by this ordinance established.
 Section 6. All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict with the pro visions of this ordinance are hereby repealed.
 Section '. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after it's passage and publication.
 Passed by the common council of Phoenix this fifteenth day of February. 1906 F. E. MOSS. Acting Mayor. Attest: FRANK THOMAS,
 City Recorder.
Arizona republican., 1906-03-01
FIRST WARP

spectOr-James D. BOwycr. Judges-F. NJ. Mognett, Frank Lo- vett.
 ClerIzs-C. F. G. Fike. WaIte- Norris
 SECOND WARD. Inspector-S. r. Hoefe-. Judges-T. L. Eden. II. II. NcNeiL Clerks-C. C Campbell, James Me