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Arizona republican., 1910-10-19
1.-THE BLACK DEATH"
Wherever People Are Dirtest and Most SuperstitioUs Cholera
 ThriVes Best.

The plague, or Asiatic cholera. or as it used to be called, the black death," has been spreading of late in Europe
 In Russia, where the people are dirtiest and most superstitious, the plague thrives best, says the New York Evening Journal. Seventy thou sand persons are known to have died of this attack in Russia already
 This is not surprising, for the in habitants, instead of cleaning their wells, cleaning their bodies and using their brains, get out the little ikons or images which the Greek church sells at a considerable profit, and to these little images superstitious peas ants pray, the prayers being inter rupted in thousands of cases by death from the plague.
 There is nothing more tragic in all the history of man than the record of the black death" in Europe.
 In the fourteenth century one epi- demic after another spread among the people. Twenty-Five millions of hu man beings are believed to have per ished in this single series of cpl denies.
 
 affected. In Oxford two-thirds of the student population died.
 In Constantinople the people died at the rate of 10000 a day.
 Charms. incantations. fear. filth, ig norance and superstition fed the dis ease.
 Curious results came of the long period of panic and of dying.
 The famous Dances of Death" in which desperate human beings par odied and made fun of the plague, Illustrating the Dance of Death" with grinning skulls and skeletons, was one feature of the epidemic.
 Another, curiously enough, was, in England, the tremendous rise in the cost of labor. The workmen died so fast that there were few left to do the work, and. following the law of supply and demand, the few that could work were offered eXtravagant wages, although laws were passed to keep the wages down. And it is said that this sudden rise in wages laid the foundation of the emancipation of working people in England.
 The plague in Europe appears now in the old familiar way-breaking out here and there, always in filth and in ignorance, spreading gradually.
 The disease is not thoroughly un- derstood now But the method of fighting it is understood. The people must be well fed-a strong man may have the disease germs within him, resist them and rid his system of them. The weak, half-fed man dies that is why the plague was often so violent in the old days just after famine.
 As far back as the fourteenth cen- tury Gabriel de Mussis observed that those who escaped the plague gave it to others with whom they came in contact.
 They gave it to others because they had the plague within themselves; their. essential tract was infected with the disease, and this disease they scattered.
 It is soms comfort to know that the disease Can only be acquired by actually swallowing the disease germs The man who will be sufficiently care full need not get the plague.
 If you will drink only water that YOU know to be clean, and only from vessels that you know to be clean;
Arizona republican., 1910-10-19
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
 Serial No. 01201S.

Phoenix, Arizona. United States Land
 Office, September 1. 1910.
 NOTICE is hereby given that the Red Rover Copper Company, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the Territory of Arizona, by Fen s. Hildreth, its Attorney in Fact, whose Postoffice address is Phoenix. Arizona, has made application to the United States for patent for the Red Rover Copper No. and the Red Rover Cop per No. lode mining claims, embraced in Mineral Survey No. PISA. and situ- ated in approximately Township North, Range 4 East. G. & $. R. B. & M, (unsurveyed), in the Magazine Min ing District, Maricopa County. Terri tory of Arizona, and is particularly de- scribed as follows. to-wit:
 RED ROVER COPPER NO LODE
 Beginning at Cor. No. 1, identical with the location corner, whence U. s. l.. NJ. No. PISA bears N. 46 degrees 45 minutes E. 217169 it. Thence S. 63 de- grees 50 minutes w. 1500 it. to Cor. No. 2; thence S. 26 degrees 10 minutes E. 500 1t. to Cor. No. g.; thence N. e3 degrees 50 minutes E. 1900 it to Cor. No. 4; thence N. 26 degrees 10 minutes w 600 it to Cor. No. 1, the place of beginning.
 RED ROVER COPPER NO. ? LODE. Beginning at Cor. No. l, identical with the location corner. whence U. s. L. NJ. No. PISA bears N 6S degrees l minue D. 35S5.67 1t: thence S. 26 de- grees 10 minutes E. 1500 it. to Cor. No. 2; thence s. 63 degrees 50 minutes W. 500 feet to Cor. No. 3; thence N 26 degrees 10 minutes W. 1900 it. t1 Cor. No. 4; thence N. 6S degrees 50 minues E. coo it. to Cor. No. 1, the place of beginning.
 This group of claims contained in Survey No. PISA contains net area of 41.322 acres as applied for; and the
 names of the adjoining and conflicting claims as shown by the plat of survey are as follows: On the Southeast by the Red Rover No. claim, on the Northeast by the Red Rover No. claim, on the Northwest by the Rcd
 Rover No. claim, all unsurveyed. and all belonging to the Red Rover Cop per Company: on other sides this sur yey is bounded by public lands. The notices of location of the claims applied for are of record in the office of tine County Recorder of Maricopa County, Territory of Arizona, in the Records of Mines, Volume and Page as follows: Red Rover Copper No. l in Book 19; Page GOT; Red Rover Copper No. in Book 19, Page sos.
 FRANK H. PARKER, 11bb Register.
Arizona republican., 1910-10-19
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

Estate of R. c. Keith, deceased.
 Notice is hereby given by the un- dersigned administrative of the es- tate of R. c. Keith. deceased, to the creditors of and all persons having claims against the said deceased, to exhibit them, with the necessary vouchers, within four months after the first publication of this notice to the said administratrix, at the office of the Clerk of the Probate Court, al the Courthouse, City of Phoenix, Ari- zona, the same being the place for the transaction of the business of said estate. in said county of Maricopa.
 JULIA F. SPEAR, Administratrix
 of the estate of R. c. Keith. de-
 ceased.
 Dated this 20th day of September 1910. 10dt
Arizona republican., 1910-10-19

if you eat no fruit that has not been carefully cooked, or carefully peeled with an absolutely clean knife, and if all the food that you eat is well cooked, and eaten when freshly cook ed, you will not get the plague.
 The main thing is to not worry about it in this country. There is lit tie chance, probably no possibility whatever, of a plague of the old kind among us.
 The work that is not done by the little sacred images of the Russian peasants is done very well by good sewers, plenty of disinfectants, plenty of soap and hot water and a little common sense.
Arizona republican., 1910-10-19
CHAS. E. ARNOLD.
I0-dr Receiver. IN THE PROBATE COURT, OF THE COUNTY OF MARICOPA, TERRI TORY OF ARIZONA.

In the matter of the estate of Anna NJ. Tait, deceased. notice of hearing petition.
 Notice is hereby given that Fred Tait has filed in this Court a certain writ ten document purporting to be the last will and testament of said Anna NJ. Tait, together with his petition pray ing that said document be admitted to probate as the last will and testament of Anna NJ Tait, deceased. and that letters testamentary be granted himself and that the same will be heard on Saturday. the 22nd day of october, A. b, 1910, at 10 o'clock in the fore noon of said day, at the courtroom of said Court, in the Courthouse, City of Phoenix, County of Maricopa, Terri tory of Arizona. and all persons inter ested in said estate are notified then and there to appear and show cause. if any they have. why the prayer of said petitioner should not be granted.
 Dated october 10th. 1910.
 dd JAMES M. GRAY. Clerk.
Arizona republican., 1910-10-19
STOCKHOLDERS, MEETING.

Notice is hereby given that the an nual meeting of the stockholders of the Santa Fe, Prescott & Phoenix Railway company will be held at the office of this company, in the City of Prescott, Territory of Arizona, on Wednesday. the 16th day of Novem- Der, 1910, at 12 o'clock noon of said day. for the purpose of electing a board of directors for the ensuing year, and for the transaction of such other business as may be properly brought before the meeting. Books for the transfer of stock will be closed November 1st, 1910, remaining closed until December 1st, 1910.
 Dated at Prescott. Arizona, this 18th day of October, 1910.
 (Signed) F. M. MURPHY,
 President. F. P. CRUICE, Secretary. bm
Arizona republican., 1910-10-19
READY LETTER WRITERS.

G. R. Denman of Omaha, Neb, is of the opinion that. as a nation, our people are ready letter writers. "I have a friend in St. Louis," he said, who is a shining example as a vic tim of ready letter writers. Recently he saved a little girl from drowning in the Mississippi river. He received fifty letters the second day after the rescue. They were from all sorts of persons, educated and illiterate, men, women and children. Some of the girls enclosed their photographs. AL most all of them wanted replies and desired to enter into correspondence with him"
Arizona republican., 1910-10-19
Mailed Him to the Sidewalk.

A man nailed to the sidewalk is hardly in worse predicament than one who feels too languid to move. Sexine Pills are guaranteed for any form of nerve weakness in men or wo- men. Price s1 box. 6 boxes s5, with full guarantee. Address or call Elvey & Hulett, where they sell all the prin- cipal remedies and do not substitute.
Arizona republican., 1910-10-19
O2593-fo09. CONTEST NOTICE.
Department of the Interior. United States Land Office.

Department of the Interior.
 United States Land Office.
 Phoenix, Arizona, Sept. 20. 1910.
 A sufficient contest affidavit hav- ing been filed in this office by Hugh J. Munro, contestant, against Home stead Entry, No. O2593, made January 20. 1909, for SEA Section F, Town ship 1 S., Range 2 E., G. & $. K. Meridian. by Burwell M. Davis, Con- testee, in which it is alleged that said Burwell M. Davis has wholly aban- doned said land for more than six months last past, said parties are hereby notified to appear, respond, and offer evidence touching said ale gation at 10 o'clock a. m. on NOvem- Der 8, 1910, before the Register and Receiver at the United States Land Office in Phoenix, Arizona.
 The said contestant having. in a proper affidavit, filed Sept. 20, 1910, set forth facts which show that after due diligence personal service of this notice can not be made, it is hereby ordered and directed that such notice be given by due ard proper publica- ton.
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Arizona republican., 1910-10-19
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

Estate of Martha Jane Armstrong deceased. Notice is hereby given by the undersigned. executor of the last will and testament of Martha Jane Armstrong, deceased, to the creditors of and all persons having claims against the said deceased. to exhibit them. with the necessary vouchers, within ten months after the first pub llcation of this notice to the said ex- ecutor at the place of his residence in West Capitol Addition to the City of Phoenix, Arizona, the same being the place for the transaction of the business of said estate, in said Coun- ty of Maricopa.
 A. A. ARMSTRONG, Executor of the Last Will and Testa- ment of Martha Jane Armstrong, Deceased.
 Dated this 2Sth day of September, 1910. 10-dm
Arizona republican., 1910-10-19
Slocum. Deceased.

Slocum, Deceased. Dated Phoenix, this 27th day of Sep tember, 1910. 10-dp
Arizona republican., 1910-10-19
STOCKHOLDERS MEETING.

F. P. CRUICE, Secretary.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-26

ment must be left TO the student of such
matters, but it may be news to some
readers that there is an alternative TO
the battlefield story.-Lady's pictorial.
y scheme has been set on foot for the
holding of a large imperial exhibition in
London in 1915. tho aims and objects of
which are to show what can be produced
and manufactured within the empire.
The originator of thcs cheme is Captain
Sir PETER G. Van i. Stewart Ban, until
recently senior member for Cape Town
in the Cape parliament. and he has sue
ceedcd in getting together an exceeding
~ influential temporary committee.
which is meeting Mndcr the supervision
Of the Royal Colonial institute. The year
1915 is selected. among other reasons, be-
caused it is hoped that the next colonial
conference will be held in that year. be-
cause the prince Of Wales will be cclc-
bratinE his 2lst birthday. and further, be-
cause it will be the 700th anniversary OF
the signing Of Magma Charta.-New York
Post.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-26
Editorial Comment
OF Benefit to All Parties.
tFarmers' Union NeWS.)


The establishment of rural parcels
post would mean great deal to the
farmers and Il great deal to the City
men.
The farmer very often has dozen
eggs, q chicken, Il bunch OF onions, a
few pounds of cabbage, potatoes,
beans or lettuce that he would send t.
some one in the city. The man III the
city would be glad to have such N"gc-
tables for his dinner, taken from the
farmers garden that morning.
The farmer cannot afford to hitch to
his buggy and drive to town for only
a small sale, bat il his friends in the
city could call him up in the morning
and say: send me so-and-So by the
next post" the farmer would b. glad
To pay the postage and send in the de-
sired Farm produce.
Then, if hc wanted small package
from the city, he could easily get ii by
the post and save o trip to town.
The farmers ana the city consumers
are entitled to dis service. 1t can be
conducted i'll such a manner as to
benefit all parties and to turn Il great
amount of revenue into the poStUilicc
department.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-26
Coming Events.

Dec. cG-waldo Pomona. Searsmont.
Dec. IS. Meeting Executive Committee
Maine Teachers Association Augusta.
Dec. 30--Mecting Governor and council.
Augusta.
Dec. 27-2S-2?-S1-Frecport Poultry Asso-
citation, Nreeport,
Jan. 3-4-5-Western Maine Poultry AS
ISOLATION. SO. Paris.
Jan. 10th Legislature convcncs in en-
larged State House, Augusta.
Jan. e-somerset Cow Testing Assn,
Grange hail. Cambridge.
Jan. 1l-Annual meeting OF Maine Opti-
clans, Portland.
Jan Il. Knox Pomona Grange Union.
Jan. 21-Kennebec County Christian
Endcavor Union. Gardiner.
Feb. G-1l-Commercial Travellers Food
Fair. Bangor.
Feb. 17-1s-19-Maino state Y. NJ. c. A.
and College Y. M. c. A., Lewiston.
Feb. 2l-22-Westcrn Maine Pythian Ju-
biee, Lewiston,
March 9-Cony High-Portland High de-
bate, Augusta.
April 19-2S-East Maine Methodist Con-
ference. Oldtown. Bishop Cranston pre-
siding.
April 1a-@s-Maine Methodist Confer
ence, Biddeford. Bishop Nicely presiding.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-26


mission to the camp of local Gideons 70
place Bibles in the rooms of his hotel.
In Chicago the Bibles are to be deliv-
cred to the hotel bedrooms at o'clock
in the afternoon Of the last day Of the
year by 1000 young men from the
churches and other religious organiza :
lions. They will form III procession
at the central y. NJ. c. a. and will
march to q central point in the loop
district, where they will break ranks
and go to the various hotels. If this
movement is supplemented by law
compelling wnbrokers to refuse to
accept Bibles which do not show con-
elusive evidence of having been care
fully read it may prove successful.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-26
so>y;no Hotels With Bibles.

The Gideons, an ASSOCIATION VI
Christian travelling men in the United
states. have an interesting as wen as
promising scheme of placing bioies IL
tho hotel bedrooms of the country
r, &c announced beforehand that these
Bibles will not be chained down. II
a patron steals one to read the doom
will be replaced, the purpose OF the
project being y encourage Bible read
ing.
It is planned to sow the country from
Maine to California with copies OF the
good book, and the Gideons hope to
reap a rich harvest from the seeding
The plan has the endorsement of hotel
people generally. One Portland pro-
prietcr has voluntarily rendered per-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-26
The Democratic Opportunity.
Lewiston Journal.)

Al editorial entitled democratic
Opportunity' appeared Tuesday morn
ing IN the Watcrvillc organ of the
Democratic machine. We have not
kept count of the number of editorials
with the same title, and have no press
ing Deed to determine the exact num-
Der or them, but if anybody should
ten us that this is the seventh or the
seventeen OF the 10th We should be
credulous on each count.
We have followed the eXpoStionS OF
these various editorials with much in
terest. Most of them arc beautiful.
Some of them are written on the clC-
waited plane of one Of Champ Clark's
appeals. Along side Of these preach
ments, however, in moments Of I'M
guarded discussion Of spoils, appear
lin that newspaper, as Well as in other
Maine Democratic newspapcrs) other
revelations of Democratic opportun-
tiles in Maine, which seem to have
more weight and seem, to appeal more
strongly to the Maine democracy than
do the platitudnous cXhortations Of
the editorials referred to.
These revelations to the outsider at
lcuS-, tllul LliC ulebiiatC ~
portunity of the Maine Democrat is to
meet in secret session, held under. the
thumb Of the BosS and under the di-
rcction Of the Machine. and there, by
tie working Of IL system Of political
supremacy, parcel out the pic 50 as
t. perpetuate the power of the BOSSES
to al extreme degree.
This il no new thing i'll the Maine
politics, it has been tue history
wherever party has attained power i'll
Maine. This star chamber idea of
legislation ana Of political reward las
been completely adopted by the Maine
Democracy, until it has become a part
of its very body politics. Take 1T III
Knox county, or in AnuroScoggin cOun-
ty or III the cities where they attain
bower: take it i'll its recent caucus
OF the mocratic Big Four in Port
land: look at the working Of the ma
chine in this city of Lewiston. and
Won will find 50 completes an lucnti-
f,cation With closc-corporation, back
Office politics. as to make the Sug-
gestion that the Maine democracy is
n party of the people. the biggest ana
best joke Of the Goth century.
Let any lover o. IN" open diScuS-
sion. Of the theory that the naming
Of Ilen for Office should be done by
merit rather than by political iniu-
cnce, lot any person who has suci!
thought come to the county of Andro-
scoggin, and investigate the workings
Of the machine here. Its methods
here arr a menace to its own existence.
as well as to the existence Of popular
government. as is shown by the out'
ragcous pervcrsion Of the peoples Will
in the shcriff's office. and the reck-
less misuse of the tax payers money.
through useless county officials for the
strengthening Of the boss system in
county politics.
Let the democracy get out into, the
open if il would endure.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-26
Taft, Supreme Court Maker.
(Boston IJcralJ.)

Although President Taft has al
ready named four justices to the Su-
prcmc Court oil tho United States. and
designated a fifth for the office of
Chief, his duties in this line are not
necessarily over. 1t seems improbable
that Mr.. Justice Harlan. now seven
ty-scvcn years old. will remain in the
court much longer than to break the
long distance record, which he will do
before the eEd of the present term.
NJ. Justice Holmes OF Massachusetts,
would also be eligible for retirement
on December Sti. 1912, while Mr.. Taft
was still in his present term. He will
90 down il. history, whatever hap
pens. as the President who. with
George Washington, virtually made
up the Supreme Court. 1t is more
likely that he will appoint more mem
bers than did our first President.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-26
Kindly Philosophy Of a Kindly Man.

| Moo-oo-oo! -Moo-oo-Oo. What q
fwelcome sound the about Is wien you
have been awakened in the middle oil
the night by the alarm that names q
dangerous section. Your anxious mind
is asking over and over, Watchnan,
what of the night? The mo-oo-oo---
moo-oo-oo tells you all is well. The
horror the Philadelphia and Chicago
fires gives il u keener gratitude.
The remarkable coincidence of the
two fires and Of both with the Christ
mas happiness may have lesson. We
will not here dispute with the scctari-
ans what Christianity is. None VIII
care to dispute that. whatever else IT
means, it means doing better by ones
fellow men than was demanded before.
Not getting rid of any old duties
not one jot OF tittlc-but doing and
being something new and better. phe
Master told them they must obey the
law; he told them, too, to stop quar-
rehng and seeking precedence over
each othcr--"iic that would be greatest
among you, let him be your servant
He said also some such words aS"Iic
that will lose. his life for my sake shall
find 1t" liz the shocking loss Of lie
among the iiremeu and, policemen Of
Philadelphia aud Chicago is u lesson
in Christianity. The way to realize
life is - put i into service The place
to die is ~ ones pest Of duty. 1T IS
told of D fire young officer III the ClFli
War chat he expressed a grcat dread
lest at the trying moment ne might
turn coward. run from his duty, shame
himself ard his people. That should
be the onlJ, fc&r.
The only fear. TO be found dead in
the place where YOU ought to bc. your
last act the work YOU ought to BE-
doing, that is best. The old maxim,
You cannot cat you cake and have it.
nay be rcs,atcd You cannot live your
life and have it left to live" The way
To live is 10 put ones life into ones
work; when it rut there. it cannot
% taken out and cush9d into lille vi
mere IicasU1 -mahing,-it is gone Ii
is lost. Lost for the sake Of the ser
vice il was. Lost; and, so, found.
Found " one in building up Il great
industry. Found by another in Ia
bCr-sGvinG invention. Found by an
other in agitation that breaks down an
old abuse. One life may go into a
painting beautiful through the ages
or u Plrtl4cnon or a David. One may
tel Il story. One write n poem or sing
a song, bringing a delightful moment
to many. or inspiring the thinkers OF
the ages. TO rs whose best is so nuch
less there may he At least the toier-
able consciousness that our smaller
u: Il n
ANA bury. useless. Some of Us may
have the good fortune OF those und's-
tj,,c,,:shod firemen " no found life by
ending it at the post of duty.
Christmas is the birthday OF the
teacher who taught how life may be
made worth the living. You try 10
exemplify it by giving presents TINS
week; it takes the lifty-one other
weeks to prove it.-When it is proved
the weeks are gone.-LewiGton sun.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-26
VaIun OF a Smile.

ne Thing that goes the farthest to.
-, ward making life worth while.
mat costs the least and does the most.
is Just pleasant smile.
Tho smile that bubbles from the heart
that loves its fellowinen
Ill drire away the clouds of gloom
and coax the sun again.
It's full Of worth and goodness, too
with manly kindness blent
It's worth Il million dollars, and it
doesn't cost u cent.
Ihsfe IS no room for sadness when we
see q CHEEKY smile;
Ii always has the same good look; it's
never out of style:
III nerves US on to try again, when
failure makes US blue;
Inc dimples of encouragement are
good for me and you.
IT pays The highest intcrest-fof it is
merely lent is-
It's worth million dollars, and 1t
doesn't cost Il cent. b.
\ smile comes very easy--you can
wrinkle up with cheer -,
~ hundred times before you can
squeeze out salty tear:
1t rlpples out. moreover. to the heart
{" strings that will tug
AND always leaves an echo that is very
like hug.
SO, smile away: Folks understand what
by smile is meant Y.
It's worth g million dollars and "
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