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Arizona republican., 1909-05-01
HIGHEST PERFECTION
OF CIVILIZATION
Drunken Indian EmuIates White Man
in His vices-Plays for Sympathy
Through Intellectual Suicide, Then
Lays II on Snake.

Jose Tom, an Indian. full OF liquor.
ton. decided that the greatest cruelty
he could practice on his wife would
be to commit suicide. He made the
attempt. but being under the influence
OF liquor, his aim was poor, and he
did himself no harm. The man who
was the realcause of the trouble by
reason of the fact of furnishing liquor
to the Indian, is Mexican, Estrada by
| name, and he lies in the city Jail, wait
ing to receive a penalty that VIII pos
sibly be severe. A number of Indians
have been arrested in the last few
weeks charged with drunkenness, and
it is probable that the man now I'M
der arrest has been guilty in more than
one instance.
The Indian to whom the liquor was
furnished. and who banished monotony
from North Second avenue for a time,
at least, has been in the city Cor sew
eral days on a visit to his wife, who
is employed at the home of DR.. Nor
ton. Late yesterday afternoon ne came
to the Norton residence in an intoxi-
Gated condition and made his way 10
took him to task for drinking and had
sent for a matron from the reserva-
ton who was visiting in the vicinity
to further reprove him for his con-
duct. He demonstrated with his wife
for her severity and lack of sympathy
for his temptations, and finally decid-
ed to commit suicide. He pulled a
fortyfive and fired one shot but failed
to inflict any injury. In the mean
time. Mrs. Norton, hearing the alter
cation and the shot. ran from the house
and from the home Of neighbor no.
titled the police. The hurry call was
answered by Officer Connors, who ar
rived to find the Indian seated dis
consolately in the gutter having been
disarmed by Harry Props.
The brave insisted that he had been
shooting at snakes, but, nevertheless,
he was placed under arrest, On the
way to the police station he became
rather sulky and threatened TO resist
arrest. but little effective persuasion
on the part of the officer convinced
him that resistance would not be the
part Of wisdom. He will be given a
hearing this morning on a charge OF
drunkenness. The trial OF the Mexi-
can will occur at the same time on
the serious charge of furnishing liquor
to an Indian.
Arizona republican., 1909-05-01

See DR.. Swigert for correct glasses.
II E. Adams st. Phone Red 2461.
Arizona republican., 1909-05-01
4. Sweet Arizona oranges. s2.5c a box.

Often the best laid plans are started
too late
Arizona republican., 1909-05-01
THE GRAPHIC STORY
OF THORNTON HAMS
II Was Far Too Graphic to Suit the
Court.

Flushing, April 30.-The incidents
of the day of August Is, 1908, lead
ing up to the shooting of William E..
Annis at the Bayside Yacht club by
Capt Hams, was graphically review
ed today on the witness stand by
Thornton ]. Hams, the defendants
brother. Thornton was called by the
defense at the conclusion of the cross
examination of General Hams, father
of the defendant. Thornton gave q
minute description of his movements
and those of the captain on the fate
full day, up to the time they reached
the yacht club float whore Annis was
shot down as he was stepping from
his catboat, but at this point the de-
PENDANTS chief attorney suddenly
broke off without asking the witness
single question about the shooting.
District Attorney Dewitt, beginning
the cross examination asked sudden
ly: ION June l, 1901, did you shoot
and kill one Edward A. Hannigan?'
Mcintyre instantly objected that the
question was without merit and that
the innocence of the defendant was
established in that case. Justice Gar
retson ordered the question to be
stricken out.
Dewitt then questioned the witness
in regard TO all his direct testimony
about the defendants mental condi-
ton at various times. The defendants
brother startled everyone and brought
upon him a severe reprimand from
Justice Garretson, when. during the
examination he shouted at the top
of his voice, in an attempt to echo
the heartrending cry of the captain
on the night his wife, Claudia Hams,
confessed to him, as is alleged. her
relations with Annis.
Arizona republican., 1909-05-01

POST CARDS, PHOENIX VIEWS,
1e. EACH. PHOENIX VIEW BOOKS,
15c. EACH. AT THE BIG cURIo, ON
ADAMS ST.
Arizona republican., 1909-05-01
Of Local Interest

LAWN FETE-A May day lawn
evening at Eastlake park by the
be a May pole for the children, games
of all sorts, booths and dancing in
the evening. A general admission OF
ten cents will be charged.
OSBORN WINS THREE OUT OF
FOUR-The Osborn school played the
Gazette nine four games of baseball
this week, three of which they won.
Two of the games were very hotly
contested and ran to twelve and thir-
teen innings respectively. Both of
these games were won by the Osborn
school by score of seven to six.
CHANGE OF HOURS-Dr. S. J.
Rogers will preach in the First NJ.
E. church tomorrow, both morning
and evening. The evening service
has been changed to O'Clock. The
society of the Kings Heralds will
meet Sunday afternoon at o'clock
and the Epworth league will meet
Sunday evening at o'clock.
ARIZONA OPTICAL SOCIETY,"
The Arizona Optical society organized
a year ago, held its annual meeting
yesterday for the election of officers,
at the Ford hotel, the meeting being
followed by a sumptuous dinner. The
officers elected were DR.. E. Munson,
Phoenix, president; II. A. Schell,
Tucson, vice president; Frank La
mont, Tempe, treasurer; E. Trout
cacratarv-
committee: Dr. Harry Friedman,
Phoenix, chairman; Chas. A. Shell.
don, Bisbee, c. B. Linn, Prescott, A
H. Kallison, Phoenix. Those present
at the dinner were Dr. E Munson,,
DIR. Harry Friedman, A. H. Kallison,
c. B. Linn, DR.. Swiggert. DIR. En-
mons, Frank Lamont and DR.. Bow
man.
EXCURSION TO rUCSON-For
the benefit of those who wish to at
tend the baseball game between the
valley nine and the Tucson nine
next Sunday, a special train will be
run to connect on the return trip
with the train from Tucson at Mari
copa, which will bring the excursion
sits into Phoenix about 1890 p. m.
hl6Hl IDt l1iC AOi Nlit
round trip will be $3.50. The lineup.
for the two teams will be as fol-.
lows: For the Valley nine; Norris.
catcher; Cuber, pitcher: Tebben, first
base; Spaulding, second base; Dunn
son, third base; Warner, shortstop;
Rudolph, left field; Lynch, center
field; Stevenson, right field. For
Tucson the lineup will be: Woods,
catcher; Hart, pitcher; Bottom, pitch
er. Btlsz. first base; Reister, second
base; Phelion, third base; Godfrey,
shortstop; Sullinger, Stevens. MCGEE,
Hudson in the out field.
ALL RECORDS BEATEN-The
Phoenix postoffice- has during the
month of April beaten all records in
stamp sales and general receipts.
even putting to shame the boosted
December or Christmas business of
last winter by 1888. During the
month that ended yesterday the
sales aggregated s6207.53 as against
s4131 in April one year ago, a gain
of s2,O76.53, or sex per cent. The
sales for last December amounted to
s6133.90 or 1888 less than the sales
of the month just closed Probably
never before in the history of this
postoffice, has any of the eleven
months following, exceeded in the
amount of business the business of
the preceding Christmas month. This
not only shows that Phoenix keeps
growing, but that the town is grow
ing faster right now than it ever did
before.
Arizona republican., 1909-05-01

Big strawberry sale at McKees Cash
Store today.
Arizona republican., 1909-05-01
TRINITY GUILD EETE.

The guild Of Trinity Episcopal
church will give fete at East Lake
park on May LIST. beginning at O'Clock
p. m. There will be much of special
interest to the children in the way of
games and good things to eat. The
Mexican band will furnish music in
the evening. and those who wish may
dance. There will be a good time for
all who come.
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Henry of Navarro. Henry turned Catho-
lie to get crown; James threw away
crown to retain his Catholicism. We are
bound to respect such a man.
William of Orange, James son-in-law,
now became King of England, and for
threescore years thereafter there was
constant plot to restore the house of
Stuart to it's hereditary right. Claver-
house raised the Stuart standard In Scot
land:
Dundee, he is mounted; he rides up the
street:
The bells are rung backwards, the drums
they are beat.
But the Provost. douce man. cried, "E' en-
let them gaze free.
For the toun is web rid o. that dell o.
Dundee"
There are hills beyond Pents and lands
beyond Forth,
Be there lords in the lowlands. there are
chiefs in the North,
And brave dunnie-wassels, three thousand
times there,
Will cry, Up with the bonnets of bon
ME Dundee"
Then no, for the hills. for the caves, and
the rocks;
Ere I own an usurper, I'll crouch with
the fox.
But tremble. false Wings, in your trait
orous glee;
Ye haze nae heard the last of my bonnets
and me.
Nor had they, for Claverhouse soon fell
Gfrfplxan Hald with of a
glorious victory ringing in his ears But
it was all in vain. William was secure
on the throne, and when he died, Anne,
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Romance of History.

G. K. Chesterton in London News.
peasant girl called halfwtted did
promise to defeat the vietors of Agincourt
and did it; it ought to be a legend, but
it happened to be a fact A poet and
poetess did fall In love and
elope secretly to a sunny cline; it is OBJ
viously a three-volume novel, but 1t hap
pened. Nelson did die in the act of win
ming the one battle that could change the
world. 1t is a grossly improbable coin
cidence. but 1t is too late to alter it now.
Napoleon did win the battle of Auster-
litz; It is unnatural, but 1t is not my
fault. When the general who had sur
rendered a republican town returned say
ing easily. 81 have done everything"
Robespierre did ask, with an air of in
quiry, Are you dead?" When Robes
pierre coughed In his cold harangue, Gar
nier did say, THE blood of Danton cholses
you" Stafford did say of his own de-
sertion of parliament, IF l do it may my
life and death be set on hill for all men
to wonder at" Disraeli did say, The
time will come when you shall hear me-
The heroic is a fact, even when 1t is a
fact of coincidence or of miracle; and
fact is a thing which can be admitted
without being explained.
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draw said Ned proudly. ''Well my time
is limited. Do you wish them?"
II will take them. Now, If you will
excuse me- I'll be glad to see you some
other time. 1 have all this correspond
ence to attend to-
"Tu be gone in a few minutes" said
Ned, in more pleasant tone of voice, be-
cause he was glad to have sold the story,
'sbut you have forgotten the most impor-
tant thing. l wish to be paid for my
work The laborer is worthy of his hire
You have bought my story and my pic
lures and yet you would send me away
without payment. Is that just? Is that
the way you would buy horse? 1 must
have my money at once or 1 will carry
the story and the pictures to a rival es-
, tabishment.'
The editor saw that he was dealing with
no ordinary man, and he rang for a boy.
While the boy was coming he said: How
much do you think we ought to pay
you? Would a cent a word be enough for
the story and So apiece for the pictures?
That is what we ordinarily pay. 1t would
be about $780,"
Ned thought rapidly. Sixty dollars
would be soon spent at the rate at
which he and his wife preferred to
spend it, and he might not care to
write another story for some time.
What do you pay your star contribu-
tori"
"Ten cents word" said the editor,
"but-"
and your star illustrator"
Fifty dollars picture for that size.
But"
"And you were going to put me off
with the beggarly pittance of cent
word and three dollars a picture" said
Ned, his color rising. my work is
worth as much to me as Kipling's or
Gibson's work is to them There are
5000 words in my story. That Will be
$780, and there are IL pictures; that
will be 5000 more. Let me tell you en-
PEASANT that 1 think artists have a
cinch. 1t did not take me as long to
draw the pictures as it did to write
the story. Kindly have them draw
me a check for 5000 and I will go at
once Otherwise I'll have to take my
wares to a rival establishment. You
gave me a speedy reading and I am
eminently fair. 1 would rather you had
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be a very great scamp. His life had been
one of hardship and danger. He had
seen human nature as tickle as the winds
lists and as false as dicers' oaths. He
did not believe there was honor IN man
or chastity in woman. And So instead
of being great statesman. he elected 20
be a great triher. He was called the
''merrie monarch and his was the mer-
riest court in Europe during his entire
reign of more than twenty years. In
stead of giving laws to the continent, as
Cromwell had done, he was content to be
the pensioner of his cousin, Louis XIV,
who was the virtual ruler of England as
long as he could keep Charles amused,
and that was not at all difficult when the
purse was full or the women handsome.
James II, his brother and successor,
was very different order of man. Some
wit said of the two, while Charles was
yet living: 1.-The king could see things if
he would; the duke would see things if
he could" James, too. loved pleasure,
but he was much fonder of statecraft,
and took his job of statesman seriously.
He was always projecting with affairs.
Once he thought he had discovered plot
to ASA sinate the king, and went to
Charles with a long story about it, to
which his brother replied: Rest easy,
James, nobody will kill me to make you
king"
No sooner was James ON the throne
than he began to NEEDLE with things
the English people would not allow to be
tempered with. He was a brave man, as
soldier, we'll approved by the test of bat
tie He might have been a successful
ruler had he been a Protestant; but he
sought to re-establish the Catholic relig-
ion and lost his crown in the attempt.
In this he differed from his grandfather,
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were mutely listening. The honeysuckle
still scented the air and the sun was
peeping in at the third window. All the
breezes sang of love and the world
seemed young.
IT know you sold it,, said Nelly, laying
aside the mandolin from the look of
your face. 1 hope you got plenty for it.
1t was certainly the best story 1 ever
read"
II could only make him give me a beg
carly nine hundred for it, said Ned.
Nellys face fell. And how much did
you get for the pictures, my love?" said
she, coming to him and twining her arms
around his neck.
THAT included the pictures, my dear"
said he.
They cheated you shamefully, my
dear" said she. Gibson gets a thousand
dollars for every one of his pictures But
never mind" she added, upheld by her
beautiful optimism You can draw more
and we'll be very economical and make
this last at least fortnight
| She looked lovingly into his eyes.
'Oh, I'm so glad you aren't horrid
business man.
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would have saved her crown, and In the
other he would have been King of Scot
land and she Queen-Dowager of France,
a land she loved so passionately.
But fate would not have it so. The
niece of Francis of Guse, the first cap
tain of Christendom, the head of the
house of Lorrain, the defender of Metz
and the conqueror of Calais, Mary was
married to a worthless King of France,
and through her Guse governed that
realm until the kings early death, when
Mary was sent to Scotland, weak wo-
man to govern the most ungovernable
people of whom history gives account.
Her entire reign was series of unbroken
mistakes, possibly attended with crimes,
according to the canons of our age; but II
Mary was criminal, she was dealing with
a lot of baser and crueler criminals, and
as a general proportion the unbiased
man is on her side imprisoned in Loeb
liven castle, her brother became regent,
and upon her escape he overthrow her
army, and she, fated to destruction,
sought asylum in the kingdom of her
cousin, Elizabeth, who, after long impris-
onment, cut off her head.
Mary's son became King of England
and Scotland He had been bred a
Protestant, was a pedant and perhaps
the most learned fool in history. 1t was
in his reign that was produced the Eng
fish translation of the bible, fact that
would have added distraction to any
reign. In theory he believed in the di-
vine absolute right of kings to rule; but
he was too timid to practice it. His
cut off his head. a
From the landing of Mary in Scotland
to the battle of Culloden, a period of
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the story than another. But I am not
sentimentalist. Please decide at
once"
Nine hundred dollars for East
Side story seemed a good deal to pay,
particularly as Edwin Merryfield was
a new name but the editor saw that
he was dealing with no ordinary man,
and when the boy came in response to
his call he said to him:
Take this order to the cashier and
bring me the money at once
A few minutes later the boy came
back with a large roll of bills and
asked Ned to count them and let him
know if it were all right, as no mis-
takes could be rectifed after leaving
the establishment.
"It is quite right" said Ned. He had
always been used to carrying large
sums of money before he had married
Nelly, and it was no trouble at all for
him to count 5000.
"I would like you to accept this $40
BILL" said he generously to the boy.
Thank you, sir" said the boy. smil-
ing. This is most unusual"
Inc laO TOOK inc HOuoy anu WShl
away, and then Ned, taking a $50 bill,
said to the editor. II beg of you to ac-
cept this"
Sir" said the editor, reddening, you
mean well, but this Is the magazine that
first exposed the wickedness of Wall
street, and what you have offered me is
nothing less than a 'rake-off.' Invite me
to lunch some time If you wish to, but
never tempt me that way again"
Ned shook hands with the editor. You
are a good fellow" said he.
Then he pursued his way toward home
with a. light heart. On the way he passed
Kelth's.
'Shall I stop in and have my voice
tried?" said he to himself mo, 1t will be
time enough to do so when our money is
exhausted, 1t is awfully easy to make a
living. This money ought to last us
good month IL Nelly is economical. and
then l will write another story or sing a
ballad or perhaps paint a scene for a
theatre. What man has done man can
do, and / am a man."
He ran up the stairs, four steps at
time, and burst into the room. Nelly was
singing a merry song and accompanying
herself on a mandolin, and the canaries
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most all human beings, and that this
forceful implement had too long been
in the hands of those who WELD it for
the purpose of empty amusement or an
appeal to the senses.
The extraordinary interest which has
been aroused by a play recently given
In London is a proof positive of the
truth of this assertion.
1.-The Enghshman's Home is an at
tempt made to show the defencelessness
of our position and the ease with which
a foreign invader could enter our island
and capture our country.
This distinct contingency has never
really been taken into account, but this
play has wildly presented not only the
possibilities but the relation that such
urban home or peaceful country dwell
ing. The result has been electric.
Home defense is the great cry of the
moment, and although l hate war with
deadly hatred, l feel that we must all
concede the fact that the defense of the
home induces not only patriotic desire to
protect the country but also that it en-
lists the interest and sympathy of all
classes, brings them nearer one another.
and above all things, recruits from the
wastrel population, brings them under
discipline, keeps them in camp for at
least three months in the year under rig
orous training. and sends them out un-
Outstanding what dicipline means for the
first time in their lives
Mr.. Haldane's plan for the territorial
army is to my mind one Of the finest
things that has been conceived for a long
time. 1t has nothing of the spirit of con
scription about it, but 1t has in 1t very
strong element of self-denying patriotism.
Discipline Is more wanted among the
youth of our day than ever before.
1t is impossible to live in the slums of
our great cities without knowing that
there are vast armies of hooligans who
could be turned to useful account, whose
lives would probably be changed if they
could be brought under control for even
few weeks at time.
They have never known a parents
control, for from the age when they
could toddle they have taken them
selves out into the street to live a life
OF their own, sleeping only in the
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THE OLD PIANO-By Mrs. S. W. John

fingers over the time-stained keys bring
ing forth some modern tune, it seems that
each key is a voice from out the sacred
past which holds my most reverent de-
votion
1t has stood in several homes, some
new, some old, in the city and in the
country, being transported by horses and
wagon over rough roads, and by rail- yet,
like the true and faithful mother, its
heartstrings have never failed amidst all
the jars and moves to respond to worthy
calls. Time and place, the strong or the
weak touch 1t knows not, but ever true
it holds it's melody for joyous youth or for
the sad-eyed the lonely ones, whose lives
are bereft of love.
Through the quiet OF the big house
memory comes and knocks at the door of
my heart. l see my mother at the piano
playing '"rhe Irish Washerwoman, =
'Titus March and loft in the Silly
Night, when we children crowded
around her big-arm chair pulling her
4. against her will to play for us. In the
corner sat my father looking on at the
sport smiling and saying, "Oh, yes, EN-
lily, let us have some music" Then we
would clap our hands and beg for just
one more piece, "Bonaparte Crossing the
Rhine" as the grand finale, and march,
ing up and down the long hall, we
would call, NOW for the Virginia Reel
from some one else. SO papa and mama
can join in the dance"
Down the 50-foot hall, back and forth
again, the walls reverberating the peals
of laughter, the family and neighbors
would go tripping till age and youth so
commingled in fun and frolic that mid
night seemed too early to kiss the eye
lids down.
Oh music Oh Lowell Twin sistersl Sor-
row comes browning you with her soul
cells of sweetness; joins you in your
loftier flights to where the vision leads to
higher efforts, where the ideal becomes
real, where all we loved or lived pro-
claims the eternal peace of the soul
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Hear, Land O. Cakes, and brither Scots,
Frae Maidenkirk to Johnnie Groats.
TNOR the first time in more than three
centuries a Catholic has just been
4 elevated to the supreme bench of
Scotland, and that, too, upon the nomi-
nation of Protestant King of England
And the name of the new justice is
Campbell. Shade of McCallum More!
Shade OF John Knoxl
This incident makes the mind revert to
Mary and her bastard brother Murray,
to Montrose and his heroic kinsman
Clayerhouse, to Prince Charles and Flora
Mcdonald, to Lord George Gordon's riots
and the agitation they caused in Scot
land. How has religious zeal and the
malignant fanaticism it spawned receded
before the resistless tread of enlightened
civilization Only a while ago Charles
Russell, a Catholic Irishman, died lord
chief justice of England.
The writer of this Is no Catholic, nor
does he belong to any Protestant church
he is Just a simple Christian, for whom
the bloodshed on Cavalry made all and
ample atonement, and therefore, he can
discuss without bias the incident with
which this paper opens
In the political and religious strifes be-
tween Protestant and Catholic in the
British Isles, the former reaped substan-
tial victory, while round the other side
cling romance, devotion, and glory, and
the same is true of another cause counted
as lost on this side of the world. Mary
was the most beautiful of women and the
most unfortunate of queens. Had her
brother been Catholic, or had he been
legitimate, hers might have been a happy
fate. In the one case, Murrays sword,
directed by his consummate statecraft,