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Arizona republican., 1908-11-23

was never satisfied with the post office quarters, so he advocated a campaign against our government for a federal building and hammered away on this subject till an appro- priation of S140,OOO was obtained.
 By ways that are dark and tricks that are vain,' he succeeded in rais- ing our postoffice from second to first class, thereby causing the en-
 nrity and jealousy of our large and pompous neighbors, Tucson, Bisbee and Globe, each and all of which boast of over 12,OOO population.
 He has incurred the displeasure of one of our learned professors be- cause the mail carrier delivered his mail half an hour late. The professor thought he would humiliate our post master by showing him up to the world as an ignoramus on scientific matters; hence he accosted the post master at his private office and belched forth the following staggerer: MT. McClintock, kindly inform me if in season of atmospheric depres- sion, alternating with boreal excite ments, do not the polar etherisatton of the superior processes of the dor sal vertebrae in the storm. belt cause showers?"
 Without quailing in the least, as he had received pointer from Jesun- ofsky of the weather bureau, Me CIintock answered with a bland smile from his beaming countenance: The sudden accumulation of mOis- ture with borealic changes in the sub b-derangements and hyper -effer- vescence of the four cardinal points of the conical glandular electrifice charged clouds, when rounding the hotundum of the acepta-locysts, and joining the chronological hyper carbu- rated gases, will produce a cloud burst" The professor, crestfallen, now swears that the management of our postoffice is simply rotten, and demands the removal of our post master
 The postmaster should be a piano pounder possessing the loquacity of a book agent and be a linguist; in sensible to cutting snubs, he should manifest no sense of anger if fired out of office but say, JOb-like, with patience and humility, "The republi- can party hath given, the republican party hath taken away; blessed is the name of the republican party" Had the good old democratic party come into power at the late election, the above Biblical soliloquy a la Job would read something like this from our worthy postmaster: "The Solar system cannot be changed, the north pole cannot be reached, the Missis-
Arizona republican., 1908-11-23
A TweINe-Foot Bear.

In the December Everybody's Rex Beach tells this incident of his adven- turous "Chromatic Bear Hunt Tn Alaska: As I dashed across a snow field I saw our guide suddenly appear on the ridge above me like a phan- tom. silhOutted against the evening sky. He was bareheaded-it took us three days to find his hat-his rubber boots were straddling at a ridiculous distance from each other, and he was hitting it off at the rate of one hun dred yards in nothing and three-fifths seconds. He was looking backward over his shoulder, fumbling at his hip pocket for shells, and yet he coursed over those loose boulders with the sureness. of foot of a mountain goat. He dipped out of sight as suddenly as he had appeared and l heard him cracking away again, then the louder report of Fred's rifle.
 An instant later I reached the top and. glimpsing a huge brown body rushing toward us in prodigious leaps. I joined in the fusillade The mon ster's great weight bore him deeply into the snow, which he flung behind him at every plunge, and yet, shocked and torn by those exploding bullets. he still came on and on. tremendous, ungainly figure of rage and determina- tiOn.
 Even when he was down to his launches and deathly sick, he redden- ed the snow in a futile endeavor to continue that charge. It was a mag nificent exhibition of courage, and he died facing us as befits a monarch, the red glare of rage still in his eye.
 "Whewl I certainly stepped around a bit that time said Joe, wiping the sweat out of his eyes. My first four shots never faxed him, so I thought I'd sort of withdraw and reload on the run. but I couldn't seem to locate you fellers nowhere
 We had no means of measuring our prize, but the carcass was tre- mendous, so large in fact that our united efforts were barely sufficient to roll it over. The skin stretched twelve feet in curing"
Arizona republican., 1908-11-23
The Empty House.

The lawn flows smooth and the hedge
 is trimmed,
 The garden shines in a blush of
 bloom, The door swings wide on a hall un-
 .dimmed
 And the glad sun halos the we'll
 kept room Yet about the whole is a soulless air, And the spirit within one blights
 and wraps; Is it, perhaps, that the windows stare Like the open eyes of a friendless
 corpse? Or is it. perhaps. that the curtain stir, Touched by the ghost of her-of
 her In every room is subtle change. And every chair stands aloof. alone; The kettle sighs on the kitchen range, And the children play in a half
 hushed tone. The naperied table spreads it's wares Like the Yictualing place of a sordid
 inn; From the music room the piano glares. Showing it's teeth in a ghastly grin. And from dawn to dusk and dusk till
 dawn
 The house cries out, "She is gone
 is gone" Edmund Vance Cooke, in Appleton's for November
 NAVAJO INDIAN BLANKETS. Special sale. Large assortment Prices right and goods genuine. Miller Sterling Co, 9-11 E. Washington.
Arizona republican., 1908-11-23
DISEASE 0f LEPROsY
 ACTUALLY DURABLE

The Louisiana Leper Home may be described as an institution which de- stroys popular fallacies about lep. rosy. Its recent reports, for example have shown that the grim old theory that leper is a hopeless incurable is untrue. Another instance in point is that the immunity from the dis | ease of the many persons who live at, or in close proximity to the Home has demonstrated that the panic usu- ally created by the presence of the to the category of by-gone days along with the medieval red plague and black death. The institution moreover. is full of examples of the fact that a leper can keep whole somely unimparied the attractiveness of the image in which he was ere ated, and despite the sacredness of the writ in which it originated, the epithet "unclean" hardly applies to any man, woman or child who makes his abode in the Louisiana home for
 
 Probably one of the sweetest mes sages ever delivered to lepers any where was contained in report made by the home in June of this year. The message was part of a biennial report to the state assem- bly,. Couched in the statistical terms characteristic of legislative docu- ments, it announced practically that six lepers out of a total of sixty had been cured at the home in the past two years. This portion of the report was included in ten words, as follows:
 Discharged cured-one"
 Practically well and kept for ob- servation-five" ,
 "No explanation of these cures and no claims for special credit in mak ing them were put forth by the re- port. Such modest brevity is charac- teristic of the manner in which, dur ing the twelve years of its exist ence, the home has been quietly stripping leprosy of it's terrors.
 This success is due in part, at least. to the impressive fact that the Louisiana Home is one of. the few piaceS- III lne Worlu where lepeT, ance his malady is made known to the public. is treated with the con sideration due a human being. The physicians in charge do not claim to have done much more than apply remedies recognized for many years past as beneficial to-leprosy. The important new factor introduced at the home has been regularity and favorabel conditions under which to apply the old remedies Technical World Magazine.
Arizona republican., 1908-11-23
A COMPLAINT AGAINST
 THE POSTAL SERVICE.


 To the Editor of The Republican:
 Sir-OUr Phoenix postmaster won't do l don't think he is qualified for the position. The gentleman s a versatile citizen. a scholar possessing affable manners; his assistants are prompt and exact at the distribution Of mail matters and civil to all en- quirers on all business topics per q taining to the post office, but that is not enough. We want a postmas / ter who can give minute information why the trains are late, why they don't come in at all some days, why engines run off the track. He must be an adept at deciphering hiero- glyphics, time a race horse, run a saw mill, dance the two-step, turn a double sommersault and be able to state why the mail trains didn't connect.
 His deputies have not the good manners to stop the distribution of the mail to chat with a fellow, or answer if There's something for me?" A gentleman inquired at the general delivery: What time does the next train pull in here. and how long does it stay?" The saucy "pe- tite blonde at the general delivery replied: At two-tOO. twO-toO. too too" Well. I declare" said the stranger. Be you the whistle2" He now swears that his mail comes in variably two days late. A German was heard to ask at the stamp win dow: Did it rain tomorrow" to which the urbane official replied: Me links it vas" The German thinks that the clerk made a Dam phoOl' of him; he will complain that he never gets his papers from "Yar- many"
 A young man timidly approached the money order window and with l fearful optics inquired if the Los Angeles west bound, having his mother-in-Iaw aboard. ran any chances of the cars running off the track. The benevolent and chari tably inclined clerk replied: If your dear mother -in-law is on board, the chances are that there will be ter rible accident" The youth returned sincere thanks with tears of grati tUde. Our postmaster for once scored one point in his favor, and the only one.
 Our postmaster is a noted high kicker He bored our federal gov e-nment so much, regarding the ne cessity of a free delivery that, to put a stop to his obstinate demands, the free delivery was established. He
Arizona republican., 1908-11-23

ten minutes the waiter served my friends, but left me nothing
 Whats yours?" he asked, address ing me
 Why" said I, surprised and re- proachful, T ordered ,corned beef and cabbage at least ten minutes ago"
 The walters jaw became a trifle more aggressive than usual.
 Well" he said grimly, do you still stick to it?"-From the Bo- hemian Magazine for November.
Arizona republican., 1908-11-23
Such Is Fame.


 Before engaging our carriage for a drive in Richmond we especially em- phasized our desire for a iwell-in- formed driver, as we were strangers in the city. We soon discovered the utter ignorance of the one assigned us, but the climax came at the en- trance to Hollywood cemetery.
 You of course know where the graves of the presidents are and will drive directly to them?" l mildly suggested.
 "Presidents!" he echoed. What presidents? I didn't know any were buried here.'
 Tersely reminded to learn at once, he stopped a man driving on a load of dirt
 The presidentsi" he smilingly am swered. Sure. Monroe lies in. that direction. Tyler to the left, Jefferson Davis on the right hand corner, and H-, the president of the cigarette factory"
 But we hastily drove on.-From- the Bohemian Magazine for November.
Arizona republican., 1908-11-23

sfppi cannot be damHed-bst~ dem ocratic party can be and it should be and it will be-
 For this and other reasons before given. our postmaster must go.
 A. REDEWILL.
Arizona republican., 1908-11-23
What's Yours2

It was 1:3O a. m. in the cheap, all- night restaurant
 Whats yOurs?' said the tough 'waiter, arms akimbo.
 We gave our orders and in about
Arizona republican., 1908-11-23

Dr. Emmons fits andsfurnishes glas. ses, 36S N. 4th avenue.
New-York tribune., 1908-09-22
QUEER, R,SAYSPRESIDENT 7
COY. HASKELL'S S300,OOO.
Mr. Roosevelt Remembers Parlcer's
Denial of Corporation Contributions.

oyster Bay, Sept. 21-Timothy L. Woodruff
spent some time in conference with the Presdeht
to-day They went over the political situation
generally, but with special reference to Ne"
York State and Mr.. Woodruff left Sycamore
Hill bearing the impression that. while the Pres
ident was we'll pleased with the situation, there
was need of hard work to insure Republican
success.
II was summoned by telegraph to come here"
said MI woodruff before starting for New York
81 found the President pleased with the situation
in the state and also with the national campaign
but he emphasized the need of hard WORK 10
bring about the success Of the party.
"Incidentally the President remarked that he
considered II significant that $500, 600 had been
found in the treasury of the Democratic party
after Judge Parker had declared throughout the
last national campaign that the partyss treas
ury was receiving nothing from corporations;
and further because it was announced at the
time of the election that the treasury was
empty The President said that ne thought II
looked queer that such a large sum of money
should turn up after Mr.. Haskell was appointed
treasurer of the Democratic National Com
mittee"
CONGRESSMAN A. P. Gardner, of Hamilton,
Mass, also was of the Presidents guests
to-day. Congressman Gardner said ne had come
to talk with the President on plans to prevent
flibustering in the House of Representatives.
He said he had recently been abroad for his
health and while there studied the parliamentary
systems of England and France. He thought
some agreement could be reached with the Dem
ocratic leaders of the House in regard to fill
clustering, and had talked with the President
with the hope of bringing about some change.
He liked the system in the Chamber of Deputies.
where the matter of taking up bills for action
is decided by vote of the members of the House.
Both Congressman Gardner and Mr.. Woodruff
returned to New York the 2:40 p m. train,
having been the Presidents guests at luncheon.
New-York tribune., 1908-09-22
VOLIV4 ANOTHER DOWIE.
Leader of Zionists Plans InUasion
to Purity Chicago"

Chicago, Sept 21.-A visitation from the hosts OF
Zion CITY is 10 purify Chicago" which was brand
ed as rotten as h-H' by the Zion leader to-day
Wilbur Glenn Volva, successor to John Alexander
Dowie announces that the militant host VIII marcn
on the city the latter part of October
Volva's proposed invasion of Chicago Will rival
Dovrie's famous visitation to New York few years
ago He plans to bring host of one thousand fol-
lowers TO the stormIng of Chicasos stronghold OF
vice With banners streaming, bands playing sa-
cred music and hymns swelling from the long ranks
the Soldiers of the Lord will march from Zion
City to Chicago. BY this missionary descent upon
the city Voliva hopes TO add several thousand rehl-
bers TO the Church of Zion.
Voliva's speech was made in the Whitney opera
House His wrath fell upon the city at large in
Guiding the courts and ministers. and particularly
caustic words directed at Judge Lands OF the
United States District Court, and against Jonn
HateIy former receiver of Zion City.
New-York tribune., 1908-09-22
CEEERED BY BROTHERS FEAT.
0rville Wright in Better Spirits-Plans for
Lieutenant Selfridge's Funeral

Washington, Sept. H.-Although he suffering
from restlessness to-day, Orvle wright's condi-
tion tonight is satisfactory He succeeded in get
ting several hours sleep this afternoon and after
the news Of his brother Wilbur's record breaking
fight in France was shown him he was in better
spirits Miss Catherine Wright. his sister. re-
mained almost constantly az his side during the
day and will be within call at the hospital through
the night.
The father of Lieutenant Selfridge viii arrive on
Wednesday night, and the funeral probably will
take place at Arlington Thursday. In a set Of
resolutions adopted meeting to-day of the
Aerial Experiment Association high tribute was
paid 10 Lieutenant Selfridge. DR.. Alexander Gra-
ham Bell, Glenn Curtiss +. W. Baldwin and J. A
D. McCurdy. members of the association, expressed
their regret over the Of their friend and as
sistant. The sympathy OF the members of the
association was extended 70 Orville Wright in an
sther set OF resolutions
Alexander Graham Bell, when Informed Of the
ersat fight made by Wilbur Wright in France to-
&as. said:
That is q great achievement. There IS no doubt
mat Wilbur and orville Wright have conquered
the air"
Orville Wright when told by his sister Of the
record fight made by his brother. said:
That is splendid. Perhaps VIII soon may be
able 10 over
New-York tribune., 1908-09-22
CALLS FORAKER VICTIW.
Watters0n attacks HeGrst-PrOphe-
sizes Dire End for Republicans.
. IBy telegraph to The Tribune. ]


Louisville. Sept 21.-Henry Watterson IN To-
rnorrow's "Courier-Journal' will discuss the re-
cent Foraker Standard oil incident In a
long editorial. Mr.. Watterson expresses the
opinion that Mr.. Foraker is victim of his envi-
ronment, and that the Senator has done nothing
that he did not believe to be honest He charges
that the Republican party has among its leaders
many men who guilty as Foraker. but who
have not as yet been caught with the goods
Mr. Watterson also pays his respects to Hearst,
whom he calls the ''unspeakable, and intirates
that the letters obtained by bribing en-
ployes of the Standard Oil Company. In closing,
Mr.. Watterson says that the Republican party is
the real attorney of the Oil. Steel and Sugar
trusts. and says:
1t is amazing 1t is ptiful- 1t is hunliliatin
Their sins indeed. have found them out at last.
Scandals TO right of them; scandals to left CT
them defeat in front Of them; only the Taft
Sinton millions between Cannon cIinging 10
son-in-Iaw RockefeIler-the thieving tariff exud-
robber trusts-the people disguised on the one
hand indignant the other-the grand old
party of graft and fraud is in truth. sight to see
Yet little longer and then the boneyard. leaving
only stencil behind, and this inscription:
Whilst it lived ii lived in clover;
When it died, ii died all over
New-York tribune., 1908-09-22
TRY TO HOLD UP AUTOS
-Four Attem pts at High1Cay Robbery
Made an WeStCheSter.

Attempts to hold up four automobile parties
IN Namaroneck were made in broad daylight
Yesterday by two highwaymen. who were foiled
by the quick action of the drivers. who knocked
the robbers out OF the way.
Dr. F. N Irwin. eye specialist of this city,
who lives in North Broadway. White Plains.
with his wife. two sisters-in-la~ and brother
in-law had the most exciting experience Dr.
Irwin was running his automobile, when man
rushed out OF the woods into the middle of the
road and shouted Money your life.''
DIR. Irwin swerved his car into the robbcr.
knocking him down. and then putting full
speed got out of the way before the hold-up
man could have shot him. even II he had tried.
The other automobilsts also held up by
one man, who seemed to be crazy. He carried
an old, rusty revolver.
New-York tribune., 1908-09-22
FL1MES LICK CUN4RDER.
burning Lighter Tosoed alongside
of the SIaUonia at Pier.

The big Cunarder Slavonia. lying at Pier 80,
North River. was in serious danger of catching
fire yesterday when the lighter Ariel, loaded
With burning paraffine. towed out of her
:noorings alongside and guided between the
steamer and the government mail boat Post
master General There was a space OF less
than seventy-five feet between the Ariel and the
SlaVonia- The flames shooting up from
the lighter to a height of almost one hundred
feet as she was drawn cut into the river.
Cunard employees made a rush for their own
hre apparatus, and opening the doors
leading from the pier floor to the edge of the
burning boat when the latter was taken in tow
by a passing tug and the freboat George B.
Mcclellan. which had been called from the sta
ton at Gansevoort street Quick work on the
part Of the rescuers, however, left no time for
the flames to reach the steamer, and the lighter
in the middle of the river.
The fireboat New Yorker Joined the George
b. Mcclellan after the lighter had been towed
into the river. and they played streams on the
blaze until il was extnguished.
New-York tribune., 1908-09-22
R4ZOR EMPTIES FACTORY.
Women IN Panic When Boy Re
fused q Job Turns on Them.

When Philip Unzio, seventeen years DID, Oh
No 635 L.orimer street, ran through the build
ing yesterday fiourishing a razor several nun
dred women employees in the j. T. Perkins wool
len knitting mill, at Kent avenue and Hooper
street Williamsburg, deserted their looms ana
ran pelmen through the factory, their shrieks
attracting an excited crowd on the outside
Unzio had applied for job and when told
there was no vacancy drew the razor and made
several slashes at the superintendent, who
sought refuge behind loom and armed himself
with large wrench.
After frightening the women Unzio darted
down the stairs, with the superintendent in pur-
suit By f1ourishing his razor the young Italian
made an opening and ran through Hooper street.
Marx Kaugman, eight years DID, living with his
parents at No. 81 Hewes street, who was play
ing with some companions, ran in front of the
fugitive and tripped him. AS he scrambled to
his feet the Italian struck the boy, but the su-
perintendent seized him. He was locked up on
a charge of attempted felonious assault.
New-York tribune., 1908-09-22
FORAKER NOT SOCIABLE<
I'm Not SO Fond of the President s
Company, He Says.

Cincinnati. Sept. 21.-W. H. Taft read and re-
read the statement of President Roosevelt. in
spired by the Foraker and Hearst controversy
He recalled writing the letter which the Presi-
dent quoted. but decided to say nothing regard
ing it at this time
Senator Foraker said that owing to the late
ness of the hour he would not make any COM
rnent on the statement. The Senator said he
would probably not read tonight the copy OF
the statement handed him by representative
of The Associated Press.
The suggestion was made that he might wish
a statement from himself to appear in the same
editions of the newspapers in which the Presl-
dents statement would be published senator
Foraker in reply said:
4I an, not so fond Of the Presidents company
as that"
He said that he might make a statement TO-
morrow IT, after consideration, he deemed any
comment was necessary.
New-York tribune., 1908-09-22
TAKE MILLION DOLLAR POLICIES.
Third Transaction for That Sum in History
of American Life Insurance.

Frank T Heffelfnger, president, and Frederick
p Wells vice-president. OF F. H. Peavey & Co.,
Inc. Of Minneapolis have been in New York for
several DAYS completing the details incident to the
taking out of 81 Oo0G0o in life insurance 100000 on
each of their lives. which is payable to the cor
oro+iop The Provident Life and Trust Company
ote ite limit of S75 900 On each life. and the bal
ance was placed in the Equitable Life Assurance
Society.
This is the third million dollar transaction In the
history of American life insurance Frank H.
Peavey founder of the firm. left nearly milnoh
ond half dollars in life insurance. of which
a ono o,o was in one policy payable 70 the firm
George W. Vanderbilt is the only other man who
has ever taken out million dollars in life insur-
ance at one time though John and Rodman Wana-
maker and others carry policies which aggregate
considerably more than million
New-York tribune., 1908-09-22
sw1sEER w1THDRAws CANDIDACY.
Rivals for Governorship Nomination in West
Virginia Dictate Terms.

Charleston, w. Va, Sept. H.-At a meeting OF
the Republican State Committee here tonight the
resignation of Charles w. Swisher, Secretary OF
State as candidate for Governor was received ana
accepted. In rendering his resignation Mr. s"1sher
gave out a statement in which he said he with
drew because of his love for the party and his de-
sire that in the Presidential campaign it be not
torn by differences and dissensions-
Following the resignation Of Nj. Swisher there
was discussion to the proper man for the va
cancy and the names of Judge Robinson, Senator
Pine Senator Scott ex-Tax Commissioner c. W.
Dillon and j. L. Caldwell put forward.
E NJ Grant, state chairman of the Lincoln Re
publican State Committee and State Auditor Ar
mold c. Scherr in the city, and were in confer
ence with the regulars over the telephone during
the evening They demand the reorganization of
the state committee and the selection of a candi-
date for Governor agreeable to them before they
will consent to withdraw the scherr ticket from
the field.