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Arizona republican., 1908-10-07

The minister and his most worthy wife have been untiring in their efforts to build up the church in every way and do all in their power for the ad- vancement of the cause to which they have no wholly consecrated their lives.
 Under Mir. Crouch's charge, the membership of the church has been nearly doubled, lacking only about three of being twice as large as it was when he took the charge. MT. Crouch and family take with them to their new home the best and most hearty wishes of the entire community, for their health, happiness, and prosperity. They number their friends in the Gem City among every denomination repre- scented here.
 Mrs. Crouch and young son, Paul. will leave for Tucson either today or tomorrow, and Rev. Crouch and Char lie will go direct to Tombstone being joined later by Mrs. Crouch at that place They expect to leave this week. Miss Mary, the daughter, is now the guest of an aunt residing in Tucson.
Arizona republican., 1908-10-07
FUNERAL OF CHARLES FRIEND

Yesterday morning funeral services oyer the remains of Charles Friend whose death occurred in Maricopa Sunday night last, took place from the undertaking parlors of Hodnett X Carr here.
 The remains were accompanied from MaricOpa to this city by Mrs. Friend and J. P. Friend, a brother of the de- ceased.
 The following were the paH-bearers: F. P. Gurley, w. F.. Smith, Claude Can non, F. Giles, A. A. Jones and Guy Al loWay. After the last sad rites, the remains were inferred in the Mesa cemetery.
 Mrs. Friend will return at once to the old home at Bay City. Michigan where she will take up her residence. Mrs. Friend recently suffered the loss of her father. who also died at her home here about two weeks ago and has the sym pathy of the residents here in her deep bereavement. The Maccabees of which order the deceased was a member con ducted services at the grave.
Arizona republican., 1908-10-07

John Swiftwind, a full blooded Sioux, who has been educated at Harvard uni versity, and who occupies the post of assistant surgeon for Gen. Crooks bri- gade at Fort Terry, Mont, during the Indian troubles. The role will be in the hands of Louis Lytton.
 A big surprise is promised for tomor- row night when that remarkable play "The Devil' will be presented. The Devil is the sensation of the season. It has caused more argument and dis cussion, than any recent dramatic of fering The play while daring is so brilliant and fascinating, that it simply holds the audience in a spell of en- chantment It is at present being play ed by all the best stock companies in the country. and packing the theaters to the doors. Mesa will have an op- portunity tomorrow night to see what this latest dramatic novelty is like. There will doubtless be a big crowd on hand to witness this out of the ordi- nary production.
Arizona republican., 1908-10-07
RRYAN-KERN CLUB MEETS

The democratic organization known as the BryanKern club, at a meeting held on Monday evening last. nominat- led L. V Guthrie for justice of the peace of Mesa precinct and W. J. Le- Baron was chosen for constable. The delegation to Phoenix of which J. D .Loper was made chairman was in- structed for Don c. Rabbit for coun- ty treasurer.
 It has been learned later that MT. Le- Baron has declined to accept the nomi- nation of constable and therefore another will probably be chosen.
Arizona republican., 1908-10-07
MR. CROUCH'S GOING
 REGRETTED BY ALL
The Transfer of the Popular Minister To Tombstone.

Rev. J. A Crouch who has been in attendance at the conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, which has just adjourned its session in Tucson, returned home yesterday morning. At the conference it was decided that Rev. Crouch be transferred from his charge in this city to a similar one at Tomb stone and that Rev. A. l.. Hawley, a minister of the Methodist church at Jerome be sent to fill the pulpit in Mesa.
 Rev. MT Crouch has just closed the work Of three years of ministering to the large congregation here and it is with regret of the entire community that he leaves for other fields of labor. His work here has been of a high or der, and he has labored most success ful. During the three years that Rev. Crouch and family have resided in Mesa, they have endeared themselves to the hearts of all with whom they came in contact.
Arizona republican., 1908-10-07
SPEAKS GOOD WORDS
 FOR WATER CONGRESS-
The Return of One of the Delegates
 To Albuquerque.


 c. C. Manning who has just return ed from the sessions of the national irrigation congress and has much to say in connection with the big exhibit which has just finished. one of the most memorable conventions yet held. Besides the display of agricultural land mineral products from different sections of the great southwest all of (which were particularly fine, there were fine displays by the different branches of the reclamation service and the forestry service. The Santa Fe Railroad company exhibited many of it's beautiful paintings in its own building Many of these were by fam ous artists and depicted life and scenes in the southwest.
 An interesting portion of the eXhib- it's made by the reclamation service was that of the immense photographs and transparent pictures of the diff iferent government projects now in the course of construction in different parts of the country. The transparent pictures being particularly fine, having the effect of making the different Ob- l jects stand out in relief. The dam at
 Granite Reef was the subject of one of these plates and the intake at the l Roosevelt dam was another. The for l estry service had several views of the big trees" of California on similar plates.
 Among the many other attractions furnished for the entertainment of the guests during their stay in the New
 Mexico town was the military feature, there being two troops of '. $. Cavalry from Ft Wingate. x. NJ. and cadets from the University of New Mexico I and Roswell Military college. In a prize drill given, the University cadets came out with the honors. Several
Arizona republican., 1908-10-07
RETURN OF THE BURGESS COM
 pANY TO MESA

The Earl Burgess CO. that made such a splendid impression on their last vis- it to Mesa, opened a return engagement at the Vance Auditorium last night. The play given was the Little Minister, and no more charming play has ever been seen in this city. The famous story of the weavers of Thurms has been one of the biggest successes on the American stage and brought much fame to that well liked actress Miss Maude Adams.
 The Burgess Co. has been greatly strengthened since the last visit. Miss Anderson. the new leading woman is Ia remarkably clever actress. and her performance of Lady Babbie last night was exceptionally clever. The new leading man is Jas Cunningham. a very handsome chap, and an actor of real ability.
 The vaudeville features include the Kelley Sisters. three young women Who have been headliners on all the big cir cults and whose act last night fairly brought whirlwind of applause Then there is Billy Cummings, a singer who can act. Cummings is magnetic and brings out all the points of a song and his voice has a quality rarely heard outside the operatic stage. That dain- ty Miss Rothe is still with the com pany and charmed her hearers as of yore. Pretty Miss Bronridge was as well liked as ever. The company is better in every way than before and that is saying a good deal, as no com pany that has ever visited Mesa has been better liked
 Tonight's play will be Northern Lights a powerful story of the famous Custer Massacre. No stronger play has ever been written on the Indian question. The leading male role is
Arizona republican., 1908-10-07
FALL MILLINERY OPENING

The firm of A. Hunsaker announces through its change of ad. a large fall millinery opening which will begin on Monday, oct. F. A large number of this falls latest designs in hat styles have just been received from eastern markets and will be on display at this 'opening
Arizona republican., 1908-10-07
ITEMS OF LOCAL INTEREST.

George s. Irwin spent yesterday in the Capitol city and attended the ses- sions of the republican county conven- ton which was held there yesterday. Mir. Irwin being a delegate to tha. body.
 Civil Engineer l.. c. Knipp was in Mesa yesterday and spent the day in specting the work on the new Union high school being erected here. MT. Knipp has charge of the engineering work of the new structure.
 Charles A. Stauffer, circulation man. ager of The Republican was in the city yesterday.
Arizona republican., 1908-10-07
SOME RULES.

Nothing but paid in advance sub scriptions count, points will be given on back payments of renewals to the extent that the subscription is paid in advance. If a subscriber owes three months and pays six months. points are given according to table of points for the entire six months. If six months is due and eights months is paid, credit for points is given for four months. This is a good chance for de- liquents to pay up and give help to favorite contestant
 If subscription is paid to the office or to the agent, the points may be or dered given to desired contestant.
 Remember coupon count, they may be saved and sent direct to The Republi- can or to the contestant Clip them neatly and write the favored contes- tants name on them. Every coupon will help the score
Arizona republican., 1908-10-07
AMBITIOUS ENTHUSIASTS
The Mesa Contestants Are After
 Prizes.

Eugenia Guthrie and Walter Tway are busy every evening for an hour or so hustling for new subscriptions and renewals for The Republican. They are getting a large number of promises and expect to soon line out big scores. The people of Mesa will see that both of these young hustlers get first choices at the best of scholarships or bring to Mesa that 5000 Baby Grand Vose piano. Eugenia wants a course in music at the Arizona School of Mu- sic and Walter is after d business course
Arizona republican., 1908-10-07

fine bands we're in attendance includ- ing one from old Mexico.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-08-21

AZ. Mr.. Cortelyou took a secretary
ship at Al five years ago. Most of the
members are decidedly beyond middle
age. Secretary Wilson, the oldest, is
nearly 70. In view of the fact that
brilliant achievements in other fields
than politics are often credited to men
in their thirties or even younger, it is
fair inference that the nation is un-
reasonably depriving itself of services
that ought to be at its disposal.
In at least one great department of
politics, the house of representatives,
that barrier is evident. The rules of
the house, coupled with the procedure
that makes desirable committee as
signments go by seniority, must hold
down young men. The house is no
longer debating body. 1t does it's
work almost exclusively through COM
mittees, which are in turn subject to
the domination of the speaker and his
party colleagues on the committee on
rules. If capable young man is sent
to Washington he is assigned to some
unimportant committees and he is
bound and gagged so effectively that it
is almost a miracle if he manages to
break away and let anybody know of
his existence.-Kansas City Star.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-08-21
Arctic Regions as Known in 1890.

lin expedition, stating its history be-
tween 1916 and .1S4S. Further
searches were continued up to 1879,
in which year Lieut.. F. Schwatka of
the United States army, discovered
several graves and skeletons.
The northward movement, after ex-
hausting mercantile, exploratory and
humanitarian motives, finally became
purely scientific and eliminated in the
dash for the north pole" In 1927
with the aid of sledges, Parry reached
81 degrees As minutes. Nearly SO
years later Markham raised this rec
ord to SO degrees 20 minutes. In 1888,
as member of the Greedy expedition,
Lieut.. Lockwood succeeded at SO de-
grees "a minutes in coming within
$50 miles of the pole. The year 1895
marked the attainment of sc degrees
| IL minutes by hansen, who had
adopted the drift" method of attack.
The Abruzzi expedition came in 1900.
when Cagni raised the figures to SC
degrees SO minutes.
"Farthest north" is now 200 miles
| from the pole. 1t was attained by
Commander Robert e. Peary in his
last expedition of 1905-6. Leaving civ
ilization in the Roosevelt, Peary spent
three weeks in boring through the mar.
row ice-swept channel between Green,
land and America, only to have his
ship driven ashore into winter quar-
tiers at Cape Sheridan. In subse-
quent sledge trip over the ice, the ex-
plorer was cut off from his support
ing parties. The final dash, with eight
| men and six teams of dogs, enabled
him to reach 81 degrees 6 minutes,
where the condition of the ice and
lack of food compelled immediate re-
| turn.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-08-21

Africa and Siberia. Columbus reached
San Salvador in 1892, and his sue
ceeding voyages revealed Jamaica,
Trinidad and the Orinoco. Amerigo
Vespucci coasted down the continent
of South America in 1901, and Magel-
Ian discovered Patagonia and Terre
del Fuego in 1920. Mexico was added
to the map in 1913 by Grijalva and
California visited in 1882 by Cortez.
For 800 years thereafter the work of
exploring the Americas proceeded by
leaps and bounds, yet in 1900 more
than half of their territories remain
geographically unknown. The whole
region west of the Mississippi was
then blank on the maps, and Alaska
utterly untraveled. There are still
patches of North America which need
description, and vast areas of South
America on which the zeal of the ex-
plorer is yet to cast light.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-08-21
dered all the more inaccessible by

dered all the more inaccessible by
strange languages, stranger customs,
and rooted distrust of the foreigner"
1t was the Russians who were first
showed the way from Europe to the
Pacific, for after Yermak had reached
Sibir in 1879, the successive stages Of
their advance could not but end in the
regions of the Amur, the Sea of Ok
hotsk, Kamschatka and Behring
straits. Central and southern Asia
have been actively explored for two
centuries past, yet there are still un-
known areas of considerable extent in
Burma, Thibet and China.
Australia, now the home of a civ
ilized people living below the equator,
is of peculiar interest to Americans.
Prior to the sixteenth century this i'm
mense continent, with its population
of over 100000, was totally unknown
to the world. The Spanish, following
in the wake of Magellan, were the
first to sight it; the Dutch explored it's
coast lines, and after the voyage of
Capt. Cook in the latter end of the
eighteenth century, the English took
up the work of colonizing and explor-
ing what was originally called New
Holland" Even in 1900 it was an I'M
known waste, peopled by savages in
teresting to the anthropologist and
supporting flora and fauna of consider
able value for the purposes of descrip-
L.
settlers appeared, and few populous
cities and towns sprang up. Thanks
to the efforts of men like Wentworth,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-08-21
YOUNG MEN HAVE NO CHANCE.
Striking Difference Between British
and American Practice.

While age is no bar to the service
of British prime minister, neither
does youth disqualify from cabinet Of
flee. In both respects the British
practice differs strikingly from the
American. No American has held the
presidency above the age of So. The
minimum age of a member of the Uni
ted States cabinet is not on record.
The reorganization of the British
ministry invites attention to this diff
ference. Five members are in their
thirties. Lord Lucas, one of the un-
der secretaries, is 80, Winston Spencer
Churchill 80, F. d. Ackland "a, G. F..
Masterman 35, and Walter Runciman
SO. Gladstone, Salisbury, Rosebery,
Peel. Fox, all entered the cabinet be-
fore they were 40 Palmerston was
secretary of state for war at 20, and
William Pitt made record by being
prime minister at "a. :.
Contrast this with the Roosevelt
cabinet, in which the youngest mem
her. Mr.. Garfield. was appointed at
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-08-21
In Your Youth,

And then there was the time you
took Her to the county fair. You wore
that new $9.98 suit; had Dewey Mum
gers best roadster and rubber-tired
rig and new whip with red ribbon
tied around it. She wore a white
dress with a blue sash, and a string
of blue glass beads about her neck.
Mind those entries in your daily ex,
pense" book-candy, 10 cents; pea.
nuts, 5 cents; merry-go-round tickets,
Is cents; side show, 20 cents; weiner.
wurst sandwiches, 20 cents; lemonade.
10 cents; ice cream, 20 cents; shoot
ing gallery, 10 cents; tintypes-you've
got 'em yet, you sitting and she stand
ing with her hand on your shoulder
80 cents. Gee, but you thought you
"blew yourself that day, didn't you:
Los Angeles Express.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-08-21
SELF DELUSlON
Many People Deceived by Coffee.

We like to defend our indulgencies
and habits even though we may be
convinced of their actual harmful
ness.
A man can convince himself that
whisky is good for him on a cold morn
ing, or beer on hot summer day
when he wants the whisky or beer.
It's the same with coffee. Thousands
of people suffer headaches and nerv-
BUSINESS year after year but try to
persuade themselves the cause is not
coffee-because they like coffee.
while yet child commenced US
ing coffee and continued it." writes a
Wis. man, until was regular cof-
fee fend. I drank it every morning
and in consequence had binding
headache nearly every afternoon.
my folks thought it was coffee that
allied me, but liked it and would not
admit it was the cause of my trouble,
so stuck to coffee and the headaches
stuck to me.
Finally, the folks stopped buying
coffee and brought home some Postum.
They made it right directions on
pkg.) and told me to see what differ
ence 1t would make with my head, and
during the first week on Postum my
old affection did not bother me once.
From that day to this we have used
nothing but Postum in place of cot
fee-headaches are thing Of the past
and the whole family is in fine health"
Postum looks good, smells good.
tastes good, is good, and does good to
the whole body" There's Reason"
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read 'The Road to Well
ville," in pkgs.
Ever read the above letter? A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full of human
Interest.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-08-21
DID HIS DUTY AS HE SAW IT.
But Still Some of the Automobile
Tourists Might Have Got Lost.

The Glidden trail up Main street in
Saco was lost the other day because
OF the agility displayed by Charles
Schofield, head pusher of the refuse
department. He is employed in pick
ing up paper, sticks and rubbish that
collect on Main street. He looks after
this branch of work with such faithful
ness that piece of paper larger than
a postage stamp cannot be found along
the principal thoroughfare.
Recently when the advance guard of
the Glidden auto tourists passed
through Saco they left trail of con-
fetti. This was for the benefit of
those who followed. The city man
saw the streak of paper bits on the
pavement and Immediately got busy.
"Confound the scamps who dumped
this rubbish" he muttered as he
worked. eff / knew who the culprit
was l would notify City Marshal Wig
gin." He had destroyed a good part
OF the white trail Oh the pavement
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-08-21
CONTINENTS ARE BEING MAPPED
Marvellous Results Achieved by .Sys-
tematlc Exploration
Tremendous Tracts Haze Been Opened Up in the Last
One Hundred Years-Northern Asia Still a Field
for the Venturesone- Peary Now Undertaking One
of the Greatest Fedts

- EARY'S new expedition to the
81 north pole opens up an inter-
esting field of thought, writes
Edmund Noble in the Boston
Sunday Herald. 1t emphasizes
some of the inconsistencies of
human achievement. This is an age
of scientific marvels Man has har-
messed nature to do his bidding, and is
daily discovering new forces or new
ways Of utilizing them After pene-
tratlng to the depths of the sea, he is
already aspiring to the dominion of
the air. He weighs planets and suns
In his balances, and writes down their
composition in the unerring formulate
of the chemical laboratory His tele-
scopes and prisms fetch exact infor-
nation from the very confines of the
universe" He has not yet completed
the survey of his own planet. The
night skies have become to him as
an open book, yet there are worlds
at his very elbow which the most re-
cent geographical science is compelled
TO class as unknown"
This delay in mapping the earth
is less surprising when it is remem-
bered that geographical science could
begin only at late stage in the evo-
luton of man. For its very POSSIBLE
ity, systematic exploration of the
planet needed highly civilized peo-
pies, good at conquering, as well as in
trade and travel. The earliest pro-
motors Of geographical knowledge
were thus peoples like the Babyloni-
ans, Assyrians, Egyptians, Phoeni-
clans and Greeks. None of them knew
the shape of the planet on which they
lived; many of them believed it to be
a fiat plane, diversified by hills and
valleys; some pictured the territory
of their known world" as surrounded
at distance by a wide river called
ocean.
Five hundred years B. G. this nu-
cleus of culture, from which modern
civilization was to come forth, COM
prised patch of territory considera-
bly, smaller than the United States,
reaching from the confines of the Per-
sian empire on the east to Spain and
the coast of Africa on the west, the
whole bounded to the north by the
"Hyperboreans." The subsequent ex
pansion of these limits up to the be-
ginning of the Christian era was main
ly the work of the Greeks, the Cartha-
ginians and the Latins. The known
world of the Roman empire reached
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-08-21
DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA.
Great Continent Has Only Recently
Been Opened Up.

pScH SpSncu Up.
A ERICA is another great continent
n with which the world made late
acquaintance. Egypt, the shepherd
kings" the Nile, the pyramids, make
up it's classic period. Modern Africa
began for geography when, about $50
A. D., Hanno, the Carthaginian, sailed
down its west coast as far as Sierra
Leone, and the knowledge of it was
advanced a further stage when in the
fifteenth century Portuguese explor-
ers, including Vasco da Cana, rounded
the cape. In Africa, exploration has
followed the flow of the great rivers,
and will ever be associated with such
names as Livingstone, Mungo Park,
Bruce, Baker, Stanley, Spoke,
Schweinfurt, Du Chaillu, Serpa Pinto,
Wissmann and Donaldson. The Niger
had it's course determined in the early
part of the nineteenth century. "To-
day." says geographical expert, "the
Nile has been scientifically explored
for its entire length of 3,400 miles; the
Niger, with the exception of a small
portion of its middle course, for 1900
miles; the Zambesi for 1900 miles;
and the Congo, which in volume is ex-
ceeded only by the Amazon, for near
ly 5000 miles," In Africa, where vast
areas are still dark" for geography,
the politician has sometimes followed,
has now and then accompanied the ex-
plorer. This immense continent first
fed the demand for slaves, then salts
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-08-21
CAUGHT on the Rebound.

John, DEAR" said Mrs. Skimpem. as
she poured the coffee at the breakfast
table, ''if I remember rightly, you
have often said you disliked to see a
woman constantly getting herself into
print"
That's right" rejoined Skimpem.
"You consider it indicate and un.
womanly, don't your"
II certainly do" -
"And you don't think sensible man
would allow his wife to do anything
like that?"
Most assuredly not"
"Well, John, I'm glad you have such
radical views on the subject, because
they justify me in asking you for a
new silk Dress"
'W-what?" SO
"You heard what said, John. For
the last five years I've had nothing
but bargain counter calico, and I'm
tired of getting into print"
And what could poor John do?