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Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1909-10-13

kicked up into wrinkles by careless
feet or involuntarily dragged into po-
sitions which give look of disorder
and unrest to the room.
The furniture should be of a variety
which will stand hard use and the
test of time. Ample in dimensions,
simple and dignified in line. refined in
color, with no vanished surfaces to
show every scratch and keep a rec
ord of every drop of liquid spilled
on it,
A writing desk or table which ne
shall use only for study work and
writing provides properly for boys
home work." and lends dignity and
charm to the letter writing, which.
when a matter of duty, has been
known To take the combined efforts
Of the whole family to accomplish.
AT least one chair should be deep
and soft and very comfortable. for
quiet hours with books. A broad. low
couch, with the head placed near a
window, provides another restful
lounging place. If the head or the
couch is not raised, cushions should
be added to raise the head to a proper
height for reading. as it will certainly
be used for that
A table light enough To be readily
moved and not devoted TO any regular
use would be a great boon in the car
rying out of boys notwithstanding
stamps. drawing, printing. etc
would prevent the disorder incident 10
borrowing from other rooms. Deal
kitchen tables are respectable furni-
ture, and one would not at all detract
from the appearance Of the room if il
were stained. and in the top of a kitch
en- table one need not shudder at pin
holes. jackknife digs and the like
These articles of furniture added to
the positive necessities. and with the
bookcases and closets or cabinets men
toned, should amply provide for COM
fort and orderly living
To sum it all up. the boys room
should recognize his potential man
hood in its strength of treatment and
his present Astounding physical
strength and dislike of restraint in the
sturdiness of the furniture. simplicity
of arrangement and serviceability of
color scheme.-Woman's Home Com
panion.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1909-10-13
Nervous Dyspepsia
II You Have it, Read This Letter.
The lovett Drug Store Guar
antees Mi-o-na.

Il was taken last August with a Sc
we're stomach trouble. The doctor said
il was nervous dyspepsia. He gave me
medicine for that | took his treatment
four weeks. didn't feel any better at
the end Of four weeks than | did when
commenced taking his medicine /
took everything / heard Of The first
day Of December. 1908. / got box of
Mi-ona. | took them that afternoon
and the next day and haven't had one
bit Of pain i'm my stomach since the
End of December. | took five boxes.
Feel well now, sleep good-that is
something | haven't done in a number
of years" Mrs. NJ. f. Maxfield. r F.
ID. 2, Avoca, y. Y, June 9. 1903
Mio-na in the form of a tablet Is
the best prescription for indigestion
ever written
1t relieves after dinner distress,
belching of gas, foul breath, heartburn.
etc, in five minutes.
II is guaranteed by the Lovett Drug
Store to permanently cure indigestion.
acute or chronic. or any disease of the
stomach or money back.
Mi-o-na is sold by leading druggists
everywhere and in Phoenix by the
Lovett Drug Store at 80 cents a large
box. Test sample free from Booths
Mi-O-na, Buffalo, n Y.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1909-10-13
Peary's Eombshell.
izensihp.

Having waited until DR. Cook has
comes forward with what he terms
the proofs of Cooks lying. Assuming
that Peary himself is telling the truth
and there is no present occasion to
doubt his wOrd-he certainly estab-
fishes a prima facie case against
Cook. Peary's witnesses are the very
Eskimo boys on whom Cook has said
he was relying for confederation of
his story-the two boys that he al
leges accompanied him to the pole.
These boys, if they are correctly
quoted by Peary. make it plain. as
hitherto asserted by Peary. that Cook
was never out Of sight of land" ex
cept for an interval of some twenty
seven days which appear to be I'M
accounted for Considering the dis
lance which necessarily would have
to be Travelled in this doubtful per-
Tod, Cook would have found it neces-
sary to make more than twenty miles
a day in order to make the round trip
dash to the pole. Every Arctic ex-
plorer has insisted that a daily rec
ord of such travel is impossible.
a very important piece of evidence
furnished by the Eskimo boys is
their statement of the quantity of
supplies brought back by Cook on his
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1909-10-13
MY MOTHERS HANDS.

Such beautiful. beautiful hands,
They're neither white nor small:
And you, l know. would scarcely
think
That they were fair at all.
I've looked on hands whose form and
hue
a sculptor's dream might be;
Yet are those wrinkled. aged hands
Most beautiful to me.
Such beautiful. beautiful hands,
Though heart were weary and sad.
These patient hands kept toiling on.
That the children might be glad.
always weep. as looking back
To childhood's distant day,
think how those hands rested not.
When mine We're at their play.
Such beautiful. beautiful hands,
They're growing feeble now.
For time and pain have left their
mark
On hands and heart and brow.
Alas, alas, the nearing time,
And the sad. sad day to me.
When meath the daisies, out Of sight
These hands will folded be.
But oh. beyond this shadow land,
Where all is bright and fair.
! know full well those dear old hands
VIII palms of victory bear:
Where crystal streams through endless
years
Flow over golden sands,
And where the old grow young again.
I'll clasp my mothers hands.
Anonymous.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1909-10-13
NEWSPAPER REFEREES.
The Bantam Weight Championship
Goes to Webster.

Los Angeles. Oct 12.-Danny Web
ster of this city, was given a decision
over Monte Attell, the bantam weight
champion. in a ten round fight here
tonight, by two out of three sporting
writers for morning newspapers. The
Examiner and Times gave the decision
to Webster, and the Herald to Attell.
Both men were strong at the end of
the tenth round, but Webster's face
was badly cut up. No decision was
permitted in the ring. but the fighters
had agreed TO leave it to the newspa-
pers.
The decision carries with it the
championship of the bantam weight
class. The winner got a diamond belt.
given by Tom McCarey, manager Of
the Pacific Athletic club, where the
fight took place.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1909-10-13
PANAMA LIBEL CASE
GOES OUT OF COURT
Judg Anderson at Same Time Defined
Duties Of Newspapers.

indianapolis. Oct. IL Judge A. r.
Anderson of the United States court
today dismissed the proceedings
against Delavan Smith and Charles r.
Williams. proprietors of the Indian
apolis News. who were resisting their
removal to the District of Columbia for
trial under a grand jury indictment
charging them with criminal libel in
publishing articles alleging that there
was a corrupt profit of S2s,000.000 in
the sale of the Panama canal to the
United States.
Judge Anderson said: Il believe that
the fact that certain persons were
called thieves and swindlers" does not
constitute a libel per Sc. A newspaper
has 4 certain duty to perform, as a
former president had said, 1t is the
duty of a newspaper to print the news
and tell the truth about it 1t is the
duty of a newspaper to draw infer
ences for the people.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1909-10-13

The farmers of Kansas are growing
wealthy so rapidly that in large num-
bers they are leaving their farms to
tenants and moving into the towns.
So extensive is this migration be
coming that the press is beginning
to discuss the economic and other
questions involved.
on the economic side there is unan-
unity of opinion-it is a bad thing
for any community when its farms
fall into the hands of tenants. Not
only does production fall off. but
nearly all desirable standards are
lowered.
As 10 whether moving into town
is a good thing for the farmer him
self, he probably thanks nobody for
advice, and is likely to resent such
expressions as the following from
a resident of Topeka, as quoted by
the Kansas City Journal:
The farmer leads a very active
life. and his hands and brains are
strenuously occupied from an early
hour in the morning until night. and
this life becomes 4 part of his ma
ture. In town he is likely to have
little or nothing to do. and it is soon
noticeable that he is restless, uncom-
Portable, and more or less dissatisfied.
In an endeavor to find some outlet
for his pent-up energies he is liable
to embark in some line of business
in which he almost invariably loses
money
No doubt there is much truth in
this picture of the farmer in town
Less fair, however, is the effort to
show that the farmer is not desir-
able addition to the population of
progressive town:
The business or controlling ele-
ment in a town does not, as rule,
regard retired farmers as desirable
citizens for the towns progress and
welfare. The retired farmers ideas
of economy, taxation and the con-
slant need of public improvements,
all calling for actual outlay of money,
raised by taxation. are almost sure
to cause his opposition to movements
in this direction which the town men
regard as absolutely essential to their
well being; so, his an
tagonism. while well meant, causes
him to be regarded as an obstacle
TO progress and civic welfare, when
with a different training he would
have been a progressive man, and a
valuable acquisition.
There is a deal OF nonsense in these
statements. They furnish an exam
ple of foolish generalization from an
instance here and there. Farmers
NOWADAYS are quite as likely to be
found progressive" as any other class
of the community. They are educated
as a rule. and are constant readers
of the daily papers and the maya
zines. Residents of the towns, in all
sections of the west, are familiar
with the progressive type of retired
farmer who takes a live and well
balanced interest in town affairs. And,
on the other hand. old residents OF
the towns are also familiar with
town men" who are chronic kickers
against all expenditure for public i'm
1t is a question of the
individual, solely.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1909-10-13
PHOENIX, ARIz,, OCTOBER p, 1909.
Mr.. Taft's Welcome.

More than once, in his tour of the
great west, Mr.. Taft has expressed
pleasure because of the extreme cor
diality with which the people have
greeted him everywhere. He would
be somewhat other than human if
this marked friendliness were not
gratifying to him. And he is a very
human president-which is one of the
many reasons why he is so immense
" popular. The people look upon him
as one OF themselves. With charac-
teristic modesty he has ascribed this
cordially to the desire of the people
10 honor the office of president. II is
a fact, however. that it is largely
ularity of William H. Taft-plain Bill
Taft, if you please.
Mr.. Taft is known to be American,
through and through-to and includ-
ing that great backbone of him. And
being so thoroughly American him
self. he should feel peculiarly at home
in Arizona today.
For. be it known, Arizona belongs
in the forefront of American COM
monwealths. In the crowd OF thous-
ands of people who will greet him
at the city hall plaza today, Mr..
Taft will look into the faces of
distinctly American gathering. He
will see men and women from every
section of the union. A notable fact,
if he have the time to discern it,
will be the high degree Of intelligence
visible in the faces.
He will see not only intelligence.
but alert, aggressive independence.
Arizona is new country, settled by
the best people from every state. The
very fact that a man has left the en-
vironment of his birth and struck out
for himself in a new country, to make
a career for himself, without influ-
ence and without other help than his
own courage, his own perseverance.
and his own capital and integrity,
argues a superiority of fiber. Thus
Mr.. Taft will meet here the typical
builders of a great new state.
Mr.. Tafts welcome will be extra
ordinarily cordial here. because he is
so well liked personally. And he is
liked by everybody in Arizona be-
cause, being so intensely American
himself. he is is hearty sympathy
with the aspirations of Arizona's cit
iZensihp.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1909-10-13
r. II. F..
AFTER BALLOON RECORD.

st. Louis, Oct I'm an effort to
exceed all American balloon records
for distance and win the Lahm cup,
A. Holland Forbes. of New York, and
Max Freshman, of Cincinnati, sailed
away from st. Louis in the balloon
New York at 5:35 this afternoon. They
went directly, east.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1909-10-13
Roosevelt Dam Breaks

II you should see the above headliner
in your daily paper. what would you
do2 There would be an awfuf scat
tering for the safe ground. Every
one would try to get there first
That is just the way our ad telling
that "A NEW CAR OF FURNITURE
JUST RECEIVED" acted on the peo-
pie who KNEW.
We have the finest line of furni-
ture, best and lowest prices, most
select stock. largest and only FULLY
GUARANTEED stock of household
goods in the city. Here is just a
small list of our stock: Brass Beds.
Enamel Beds. Mattresses of all kinds.
Dressers in Oak, Birds Eye Maple.
and CHARTERED aOk. ChiffOnieres in
Oak. and Birds Eye, Oak Extension
Tables-GOlden Oak or Mission, China
Closets also in the Mission; also
Library Tables, Chairs, Rockers.
Serving Tables and Bullets in MIS-
SION.
MASSIE'S SPECIAL SPRINGS ARE
THE BEST IN THE CiTY!I
GET WISE-BE ONE OF THOSE
WHO KNOW.
MaSSie ( Sons
114-116 West Washington Street.
Phone Main PSI.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1909-10-13

Mr.. Taft will find no insurgents in
Arizona.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1909-10-13
BOSTON AMERICANS WINNERS

Boston. Oct 12.-Speaker, Boston's
speedy center fielder, won the third
game in the New York Boston post
season series today. when he smashed
a liner to the right field in the ninth
inning and scored a home run.
The score:
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1909-10-13
LIMITATIONS.

Man wants but little, so they say.
And this tits safe to pray for;
The shops won't let YOU get away
With more than you can pay for.
Washington Star.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1909-10-13
The Fight Is On
Every moment Of your life, when
you are at homo or abroad
awake or asleep

Between the poison germs that are IN ar,
food and water, everywhere in fact
and the billions of your invisible friends,
thelittle OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES blood.
If these little soldiers are kept strong
and healthy by taking Hoods Sarsa-
parilla, you need have no fear of dis
ease. Begin using it at once if you are
at all under the weather, or have
troubles of the blood, stomach, liver
and kidneys. Get it of your druggist.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-14

teahouses. and are ready to give one a
jab In the arm upon asking.
In the past It was customary for the
members of a party to stand up In a row
and hold out their arms with the sleeves
rolled up to their shoulders. The most
common place for the injection was about
the biceps, but many of the opium fiends
were tattooed from their necks to their
wrists, and also on other parts OF their
bodies. The morphine injectors make their
own solutions, and, as they use dirty water,
the danger Of their communicating diseases
is great
The government is doing all It can to
abolish these morphine practices. 1t has
stringent laws against them, but they are
still secretly carried on in most OF the
cities. In the meantime, I understand
hat the English and Germans have been
flooding China with cheap hypodermic
syringes since the present crusade began,
and that the Chinese imperial customs
board has now issued regulations prohibit
ing their importation. except by the foreign
medical practitioners and foreign druggists.
Hereafter all morphla and syringes landed
without a special permit from the customs
viii be co~nfiscated.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-14
As to Raising Opium.

The greater part Of the opium used in
China is raised at home. That imported
from India amounts to millions OF dollars
a year, but a far greater quantity is
grown upon Chinese soil. Poppy planta-
lions are cultivated as far north as Man
churia, and there are provinces in south
ern and western China where opium is
one OF the principal crops. The reducing
Of the areas of cultivation is causing a
considerable loss to the farmers. The gov
eminent realizes this, but, nevertheless,
it insists that the laws be enforced. Ac-
cording to them, no ground can be planted
to peoples, and the old fields must be
cut down one-tenth Of their original size
every year.
In some provinces the vicerOys have Or
dered the immediate stoppage of all Guilt
walton of opium, and in others they have
remitted the taxes for five or ten years
upon opium lands which have been turned
over to other crops. In Yunnan the sol
diers have been directed to dig up the
poppy fields, and the viceroy OF Marking
recently issued an order that his farmers
must destroy their opium seeds, and that
such as had planted them should dig their
fields over and put in something else
All the opium raising lands have been
registered and the government at Picking
is keeping a close watch over the amount
cultivated. The prince regent has Offered
medals and rewards TO those who lave
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-14

fiend is as false on its face as it would be
to allege that every man woman and child
in England and America is addicted to
drunkenness.
In closing this letter / would say that It
will be a long time before the hopes Of
the Chinese statesmen and patriots can
come to f%ruitlon. The work Of repression
is going on rapidly, but opium is still
smoked largely In secret and an enormous
amount of underhsnd selling and SNUG
Cling is done. These people are just as
human as we are and the same conditions
prevail as would obtain in the United
States were we to try to abolish the drink
habit within as short a time as the Chinese
have allotted to the wiping out of this ter
rlble drug. Some of the officials are hypo-
critics. others are openly dlsobeying the
law, while others, bound In the LAGOON
grip Of the opium, are secretly smoking
the drug or are injecting morphine into
their persons behind their closed doors. The
movement for the most part IL earnest and
honest, and 1t has already accomplished
a vast deal Of good.
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-14

is also assuming largo proportions Last
year the farmers sold and shipped out
$4,000 pounds of butter and $4,000 gallons
OF cream, together with 1855, 900 dozens of
eggs and 10000 pounds Of dressed poultry.
ThNyer county, with a few others, has
q history somewhat different from most
OF the counties OF the state, that may be
designated as the Great Trail period.
Nearly two and one-half decades before IL
became a county, Il was the great high
way along which those ambitious throngs
of emigrants moved to the land beyond the
great Rockies. This trail from the Mis-
souri, river to the Rocky mountains and
beyond, was white with the sails Of the
ships OF the desert" all moving toward
the setting sun.
Horace Greeley passed over this route
in 1853. In the same year the Pony Ex-
press was established along this line
from st. Joseph. MO, to Sacramento, Cal
The trip from st. Joseph to Sacramento
a distance Of about 1000 miles. was made
in eight days.
1t is supposed that a man named Chris
tian Luth, a German. was the first sets
tier. He located near the government
road. He was ridiouled by the pilgrims
over the road, for attempting to farm on
the great American desert.
Joseph Walker and James Reed. from
Fort Kearny, in 1859, located on the Little
Blue near the east line OF the county. In
the same year. Isaac Alexander settled on
the Big Sandy. He brought with him,
from Kansas. a portable gristmill. In the
winter Of 1S6O-6l, the few settlers were
shut in by a snow blockade, till their stoch
OF provisions was nearly exhausted. For
tunately they had raised a crop OF corn
and buckwheat, which they brought TO
the little mill. and by hard work, ground
out by hand, their immediate salvation
with that memorable mill.
Probably the first permanent settlers in
Thayer county, we're George Weisel, John,
Charles and William Nightengale, who To-
Gated In the vicinity Of Alexandria in 1858.
In July, 1863. the first postoffice In the
county was established at the dugout OF
= D. Rhodes, on the west side of the Blue.
The Salt Lake express, established in
1858, carried the first mall across these
desolate prairies. The stations were fifty
miles apart. The part OF the route through
Thayer county. was between Big Sandy,
on the east, to PawnC~ Ranch on the
west. In 1853, when Pixies Peak rush had
reached Its highest point, this route was
a vast caravan Of gold seekers ando init
grants, the latter seeking a place 70 stab
lish a home, lie former thirsty with the
ambition for gold.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-14
Thayer County


CONTINUED from rage Three.)
abundant living water for the extensive
stock farms located on its banks. The
native timber along this creek is especially
worthy of notice, bearing walnut trees,
and oak, maple and box elder that would
do credit TO eastern forests.
One of the distinctive features OF this
place is a very fine magnesla limestone
which is extensively quarried here and
shipped to points east and west. 1t ad-
mits of very fine polish and gives the ap-
pearance OF brown marble. 1t makes a
fine building stone.
1t should be remembered that over half
Of the trade Of this place comes from the
state OF Kansas. from which they are only
distant one half mile.
Thayer county. though not the largest in
the state, is one Of the most productive.
Last year this county sold and shipped out
1900 head Of beef cattle and 1900 head OF
fat hogs. Also l,153.OOO bushels Of corn,
l,l55, 900 bushels OF wheat and 136, 900 bushels
Of oats. Besides this the Touring mills
shipped out 10000 pounds Of flour and
10000 pounds OF mill feed.
The county has POI 900 acres in farms and
191. 900 acres under cultivation on which
they produced this year, 5000 acres OF
corn, 1900 acres Of wheat and 5000 acres
Of oats The dairy and poultry industry
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-14
Carpenter Letter
CONTINUED from Page Two.J

- @"St
that the opium habit can be cured. Every
where pills to take away the craving are
sold, and, in most OF the great cities, hos
pitfalls and refugees have been established
where tho slaves Of the drug go to break
Off the habit. In Foochow there are six
such hospitals, and four Of these report
that they have already cured 1888 persons.
Such Institutions have been established at
PeKing, Marking, Tientsin, Wuchang. Can
ton and In many other places. Foreign
doctors have also come in. and profess to
be able to cure the opium habit. One Of
these who is we'll recommended is an
American. Mr.. c.. B. Towne. He processes
to be able to cure any one Of the opium
habit in three days. He established hos
pitfalls at Tientsin and Shanghai, He has
started one at PsO Ting Flu. where It is
said that one hundred patients came to him
during the first month and we're cured.
Then the number Of applications myster-
iously decreased, and Mr.. Town found that
this came from a report to the effect that.
although the cure was successful. 1t al
ways killed the patient within 100 days
thereafter. This story was false. but it
almost broke up the hospital.
Mr.. Towns institution at flemish was
established at the expense OF the viceroy,
and officials who were cured received a
certificate certifying that fact.