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The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1911-10-18

Jacksonville. oct 1S.-Fiorida claims
the distinction Of having the youngest
automobile driver ever partici pating
III a Glidien tour or any similar event
of national Importance. He is Eddie
Houston. the 14-year-old son of f. y
Houston, Of Jacksonville, who is COM
ing down over the gruelling run as
alternate driver with Mayor r. s.
King. Of Arcadia, who Is himself en-
titled IN some distinction as perhaps
the youngest mayor IN Florida
Arizona republican., 1911-11-06

dedicated the of Monroe street and Second avenue. a total cost of s25,OOO. This is one of the largest and finest church buildings in the city. seating about 600 in the auditorium. It also has d large vestry and other rooms in the basement A handsome parsonage valued at $5 OOO adjons the church
 The Arizona mission, embracing the churches of the state, consists of 21 churches.
 On the first Sunday in September 1878, ached the first sermon by a Presbyterian clergyman in Phoenx-Rev. William Meyer, sent At that time there but two members of the Presbyterian church in the whole munity The earlier services of the church held in the unfinished building of the Methodist Episcopal Church South in carpenters shop north of the city hall and later in the brush arbor' church erected by Rev. MT. Meyer and Henry Ryder Ryders chapel then put up. only to be blown down by Arizona storm. From the wreck enough material saved to construct d one-story the present site uf Ryder's lumber yard. It in the brush arbor church. 15, 1879, that the First Presbyterian church of Phoenix organized, with eight members, five by letter and three by orofes sion In the spring of 1889 the present church building was begun. On the first Sunday in December, 1SS9 the congregation worshipped for tho. first time in the lecture of the church. The edfice dedicated April, 1892.
 In character the church is strong and makes itself felt of the most potent moral forces in the community.
 In the fall of 1881 the First Baptist church was organized by Rev. R. A. Windes, who had a year before established Baptist church in Prescott The Baptist. like the Presbyterian church. worshipped for while in Ryder's chapel. In 1884 a frame building was erected at the cor
Arizona republican., 1911-11-06
CAPITOL GROUNDS

vague hope. Most of the land was covered with mesquite and other desert growths. though a part of it was covered with alfalfa. IL was plated. broad sweeping walks were laid off and grass was planted in the beds.
 It would require a book to tell the half of what has been done since. Thousands upon thousands of trees. shrubs. vines and flow CTS now flourish there. while mil lions more have had their day and passed away. The big trees that now ornament and shade the walks were then mere twigs and saplings. In the early years there was much to contend with. The water supply was not abundant or dependable and when 1t was avail able it was only through long. tortuous ditches, the city water mains not having penetrated so far into the suburbs.
 Today the capitol grounds are jungle of floral beauty. They show what can be accomplished
Arizona republican., 1911-11-06

dent priest in the person of Rev. Joseph Bloise, who was succeeded in 1887 by Rev. F. II. Jou- venceau. The parish grew rapidly and in 1896 was entrusted the of the Franciscan Fathers of the Province of St. Louis. Mo The present pastor is Father Severin WesthOff Un- der the administration of his predecessor, Father Novatus Benzing. was built the Franciscan Fathers residence, St. Mary's primary school with St Andrews hall and d residence for the Venerable School Sisters. In 1902 the above mentioned adobe church replaced by the construction of a basement of church. since completed. Services held in both Spanish and English Since 1892 parochial school has been conducted. St. Joseph's hospital is under the care and direction of the Venerable Sisters of Mercy.
 The first Protestant church organized in Phoenix was the Methodist Episcopal Church, South in IS71 This church has fine modern brick edifice. valued 25,000 and seating 500 persons It is located in the heart of the city, opposite the postoffice. This church also owns a parsonage valued at S25OO The Arizona Dis trict of the Methodist Episcopal Church. South, consists O five churches and owns property val ued at s50,O0O
 The First Methodist Episcopal church formed April 1. 1874, with three members and one probationer It has over 500 members. There regular pastor for several years but services were occasionally in adobe build ing on First avenue, which also used as court house. In 1878 and 1879 services were held jointly with the Presbyterian church in d brush arbor Jefferson street, not far from the present house. In May, 1881, brick church on the of Washington street and Second avenue. costing S4,00O, dedicated. In October, 1896. the old church having long since been Outgrown. a house of worship was
Arizona republican., 1911-11-06

The grounds surrounding the Arizona capitol building, a few blocks west of the city's center. on Washington street. is a boasted beauty spot of Phoenix. It is to the capitol grounds that the at tention of the visitor. searching for beauty in nature, is first di- rected. See the capitol grounds and you'll see what can be ac- complished here" is the advice given to every tourist.
 It has been 24 years since the capitol commission employed a gardener for the grounds which had been donated to the territory by public-spirited citizen. The gardener they employed was Geo. If. Smith. who died less than a year ago, and to his untiring care and labor is due in great measure the unsurpassable beauty of the grounds today.
 At that time the capitol building was not even planned and its fu- ture construction was only
Arizona republican., 1911-11-06

in this favored cline, even with limited facilities.
 Rare and interesting plants have been gathered from every corner of the earth and planted on these grounds Scores that are now growing there luxuriantly, no one would have attempted to plant a few years ago There is a gen eral idea that such grounds are merely little collections of trees. grass and flowers. but the Arizona capitol grounds are far more than that.
 The capitol grounds are a pat tern for all the landscape garden CTS of the Salt River valley. whether professional or owners of homes. There the first depressed lawns were established. This per mits flooding from the city irri- gating ditches. There are today thousands of beautiful lawns in Phoenix where there would have been scores, but for the ex- ample furnished by the capitol grounds.
Arizona republican., 1911-11-06

is large colony of colored people in the city and they do not lack church privileges.
 The recent organization is the Second Baptist church (colored) which came into being in 1906 The present membership is small but rapidly increasing handsome church building has been erected Jefferson and Second streets
 Phoenix, like other places. has various mis- sions for the expression of religious convictions which cramped within the regular orthodox and heterodOx folds This is large country and spirit of toleraton rules. You can believe what you choose and preach what you please so long as you do interfere with the irrigation ditches or disturb the public peace Peace and water things that the Arizonan demands and will have
 One of the happiest features of church life in
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1911-11-16
MAKE WASTE PLACES BLOOM
Railway Station Garden Is Latest
Move Toward the City
Beautiful.

During the last few years a new
kind of garden has come into being in
the shape Of the railway station gar.
den. 1t is tended by members of the
staff, and is usuallyIa picture of neat
ness, and often of beauty as well. The
small, tidy beds, or long narrow bor-
ders edged with white stones, are
often glorious masses of color, with
out one EARRING note. At some country
stations the nFme of the place is
worked out in flowers or small shrubs,
and should the traveller by chance fall
into conversation with the presiding
genius of the garden he will find that
a remark on the nattiness and pretti-
ness of the scheme of decoration will
be much appreciated In their season,
roses-usually red or white or yellow
Ramblers-bloom luxuriantly at many
wayside stopping place and trans
form the station itself into thing
of beauty. London Globe.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1911-11-16
A Word of Wisdom.

mo, me dear" said Mrs. Maloney
to the charity worker when the topic
had turned upon the question of mar
ried women taking upon themselves
the support of the family when the
husband is out of work. Don't yeez
ever begin anything of thot koind if
so hap yeez should one day have a
husband av your own. In the evint
av thot happening an he should come
home an fall to cryin' because he was
out av job, do yeez sit down an cry
until he foinds it ag'in. Moind thot,
now."-Woman's World.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1911-11-16
CBy GEORGE W. BROWN, ohio3

(By GEORGE w. BROWN, Ohio.)
There is no theme upon the farm
that will so benefit the farmer as to
keep the quarters and surroundings
of. the farm in sanitary and health
full condition where swine are kept.
Nowhere will an outbreak of chol-
era become so disastrous as upon the
farm where these animals are kept
with dirty, filthy surroundings, and
no care taken In the disinfection of
the nesting places and slop troughs
during the summer time.
Upon our farm we have never prac-
ticed the method of keeping herd
of swine in one place very long, and
never do we fatten out more than one
bunch of animals in the same field
in one year, preferring rather to shift
our operations about from place to
place.
We have no permanent quarters,
but rely upon the service of the cot,
shown in the illustration.
These hunks can be shifted about
easily upon runners, and many times
each year are changed from one field
to another, or from one pen to an
other, thus we always have the ami
mails in fresh sleeping quarters, and
upon fresh forage. While the animals
are located upon a new range, we
break up the old range, cropping It
in some profitable farm crop, thus get
ting the benefit of all excrement from
the animals, proflting in its enrich
ment of the soil, and we as well
freshening and sweetening the soil
by cultivation.
Then swine should be supplied with
some shade aside from a board shell
ter to ward off the heated rays of
the summer sun. There is nothing
for this purpose quite so nice as
clumps of willows, catalpas or pop
lars grown in some convenient loca-
ton in each field. preferably along the
fence row, in such manner that the
animals may have access to the cool
ing shade during the heat of the day.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1911-11-16
PROPER PLACE
FOR CHICKENS
Should Not be A Flowed to Roost On
Top of Harness or Buggy
Should Have Good
House.

One of the most important things
In the care of laying hens is the
house that they are to live in. On
most farms it used to be that the hen
roasted any old place, and her favor
lite place was on top of the harness
or buggy. And when they could not
reach their favorite place, they took
to the trees, but | can say that the
hens life on the farm has changed
for now you see nice houses and
yards for Them says a writer in the
Successful Farming.
A good poultry house may be de-
fined as one that is dry, warm and
ventilated, and fitted to accommodate
the kind of fowls that is to be kept
A stationary house suitable for any
kind of fowl may be built of stone or
brick, but the best house is built OF
lumber made In a size suitable for
moving once year at least. Lumber
is cheaper than brick or stone, and
when you find that there is some i'm.
provement that you could make to the
advantage of the hen and coop, it will
be good deal cheaper remodelins
the wooden building.
1t Is impossible to build q house
that will answer for all times of the
year. You will find alterations to
make in spring and fall, so when wood
is. used in its construction 1t can be
built in sections and bolted together.
In warm weather you can use wire
frames in place of the board sections.
Give the hens plenty of room, lots Of
clean straw to be used as scratching
material, fight lice nine days a week,
and see If the hens don't pay then
way.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1911-11-16

In one of our fields we have such a
clump Of quaking-asp and it is pleas.
ing to note how contented these ami
mails are during the sweltering heat
of the day, as they lie about in the
Shade of this rustling clump of trees.
If there Is not such shade planted
along the borders of a field we should
not be slow in planting such If we
were in the swine growing business,
and every wide awake farmer should
be, for indeed he should consider
himself too poor to be without this
profitable animal upon his premises.
Many make a mistake in allowing
their swine to run to the creek dur
ing the summer for water. We have
such place upon our farm, and we
might save much time in getting wa
ter to our swine many times If we
allowed them to go to this water
course, but we are afraid Of It, In.
deed in this field we never allow our
swine to roam, for we do not know
what farmer several miles above us
in another district might have chol-
era or plague, and our animals ex-
posed by contamination in the water
flowing down stream
We rather prefer to keep our ami
mails we'll away from this stream Of
water, and give them pure water
from the we'll in disinfected troughs
thus doing our part toward keeping
down loss from cholera.
We keep down the Objectionable
and nauseating hog wallow upon our
farm and do not tolerate 1t in the
least, We know the swine enjoy it,
but we have learned to detest its
abominable company, and by chang
ing the animals about, and locating
new quarters frequently we keep this
mire of mud and filth abandoned.
With the advancement along other
lines Of farm operations, the ad.
vancement in this line of work ap.
peals to us as very significant in keep
ing these animals in a sanitary and
healthful location at all times.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1911-11-16
South Americas Worst Brlaands.


made many expeditions from Po-
tosi into the surrounding country,
writes w Hilton-Simpson in the Wide
World. The Indians here are the no.
torious Aimara, likewise descendants
of the meas, and the worst brigands
In South America. Their principal oc-
cupation is murder and theft, and I'M
til quite recently they sacrificed their
prisoners to the gods, and then par
took of their, flesh. AS regards saw
agery. they easily excel all other
tribes. The sacriticial victim was not
merely butchered, as happens in most
similar cases; he was bound. and then
the flesh was torn off his living body
and eaten by men, women and chill
dren. If, in the process of being tor
tured, as much as moan escaped his
lips, the bones Of the victim were
thrown away; but If, on the contrary,
he was stole enough to be silent, the
bones were collected and set up on a
pile of rocks to be worshiped. 1t is
still within the memory of living man
that human meat was sold among the
Aimara.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1911-11-16
[iEllNII1lIEy7]z
RElT1ILTE(S y
~
GBS
SCIENCE OF CITY BUILDING
Many Cities Desert the Topsy Method
Of Expansion and Begin to
Reach Out.

There are certain cities, big and
small, that are deserving the Topsy
method of just growing, says Harper's
Weekly. They are being gently and
persistently pushed along toward
greatness. To use an invidious meta
phor. they are picking factories from
their less wakeful neighbors and
they are causing the transfer of hun
dreds of millions of dollars worth of
business from the somnolent cities
and. in this time of reforms, are
boasting of their remarkable progress
in population
The way the thing is done may be
aptly illustrated by the manner in
which Poughkeepsie obtained an auto.
mobile factory. The secretary read
in newspaper that an Italian COM
tory in this country. Without waiting
for the owners to have a chance to
look the country over and decide for
themselves. the secretary pounced
upon them and talked Poughkeepsie.
talked 1t hard and convincingly. He
invited them to come up and see the
place, and when he got them took
them all over the town and showed
them the schools and churches, the
parks and workingmen's houses, told
them about the railroad facilities and
rates. Then he took them to the very
spot that he had picked out in ad.
vance where they could build. He
pictured the factory to them, pointed
to the homes their men would live in,
told them how low the taxes we're and
how healthful was the air. When
they went away the visitors had ev-
cry good point about Poughkeepsie
throbbing in their heads in 100 differ
ent forms, and consequently they
straightway came back and built
their factory In Poughkeepsie.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1911-11-16

The ancients were as bitter on tho
subject of the stepmother as any mod
ern could be. Their metaphorical uses
of these words for a stepmother are
cruelty significant. Thus the Romans
had an expression ito complain to a
stepmother" (noverca), meaning to
complain in vain; and "novercae." be-
ginning, no doubt, as slang, came to
be recognized term for rough pieces
Of land or for bitches which drained
off the water imperfectly and slowly.
The Greeks were as bad with their
4sord, "metryix." Hesiod spoke of
lucky and unlucky days as mother
and stepmother days" and Aeschylus
brands a dangerous seacoast as "a
stepmother to ships"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1911-11-16
Plant Street Trees.

Plant tree. The expense is small
The subsequent attention is not large
Once started. the tree helps itself as
scarcely anything else of moment to
us ever does. 1t grows while we sleep
1t drinks the sunshine and compounds
its own food out of the refuse gases
Of the air and the watery solutions OF
the SOIL Out of these inert. inattrac.
tive, barely recognizable substances
by miracle Of transformation there
romes forth that thing of life and beau
~. which is also thing Of tangible
money value-a tree.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1911-11-16
Old Joke Appropriately Quoted.

Senator Sullivan of New York once
put in a new form joke as old as
medicine, The occasion was ban
quet of homeopathic physicians Dur
ing the banquet the usual casts were
drunk. To the health of "the ladies'"
of the president" of "Hahnemann.
the father of homeopathy" and of a
dozen other persons and subjects,
glasses were drained duly. and then.
all of sudden, the POSTMASTER re-
marked: Senator Sullivan has not
been heard from. Senator Sullivan will
now propose health" The senator
arose and beamed upon the assem-
blage Of physicians. 81 PROPOSE" he
said, "the health of the sick"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1911-11-16
MINCED THIEVES OF EGYPT
Steal Golf Balls From the
Links.

Out at Gezira, where all Cairo has
It's rendezvous at the Sporting club
every afternoon in and out of season,
there exist large colonies of kites and
crows. No sooner are the tea tables
laid out than the former who have
been perched on the Qui vive on the
adjacent trees, start circling round
and round With sudden dive one
of these hawklike birds will swoop
down, on the table he has chosen and
pick of the bread and butter and
cake.
New arrivals in Egypt are always
very disconnected by these antics. 1t
matters not how many people are
seated around the tables. The kite is
no respecteT of persons and On one
crowded afternoon last season, when
the German crown princess was tax
Ing tea, | remember seeing no fewer
than eight tables swept of their eat
ables by as many kites in the space OF
q few minutes.
These monster birds add to the ter
ror which they strike to the heart OF
the new arrival by the fact that their
flight is so sudden and the theft Is
committed without stopping Frey de-
scribe a curve, the lowest point of
/ Nhich Is the plate of bread and butter
or cake, and SO accurate Is their de-
cent that rarely do they leave or drop
anything. An amusing factor in this
otherwise rather annoying situation
is furnished by the crows, who invari-
ably act as scouts for the kites, and
the presence of whom, hopping about
the grass, always precedes one OF
these depredatory flights.
When the coup has been success
fully brought off the crows evince
their pleasure by ear splitting caws,
and proceed to follow the plunderer
OF respectful distance, possibly in
order to express their unbounded adj
mlration in the vain hope of obtain
ing a few crumbs. On the golf course
the kites are source Of endless trou-
BILE to the players-and incidentally
one Of great profit to the golf ball
venders-for 1t Is no unusual thing
for your ball to be whitfield off just as
you are making ready to put after a
record approach.-Cairo Correspond
once Pail Mall Gazette.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1911-11-16
Libel on stepmothers.

One Of Londons prominent medical
men has got himself disliked" by
the stepmothers of all nations. The
basis of his offending is his fublic as
sertion that "all stepmothers are In
stinctively cruel to stepchildren.
Such a statement is regarded, very
Justly, as in the nature Of wholesale
libel. In fact, every observing man
and woman in the civilized world can
recall plenty of instances proving the
1alslty of the doctors charge.
This London libeler would find &C.
casion for apology to the women he
maligns by reading the history of the
boyhood Of Abraham Lincoln and of
the devotion Of the stepmother of that
great American.-Chicago Journal.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1911-11-16
USEFUL GUARD
FOR A WINDOW
Missouri Man Has Invented Gate
That VIII be Found Con.
venient for Variety
of Uses.

The door and window guard pat
ented by Missouri man has variety
of uses. 1t comprises a gate made of
parallel pickets linked together by
short cross bars and sliding easily
back and forth on rollers. 1t can be
folded up into small compass against
one side of the opening it guards or
stretched all the way across and
made fast. The uses to which such a
gate can be put are both numerous
and obvious. 1t can be attached to
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1911-11-16
Satisfactory EXPLANATION.

thought you told me this place was
30 healthy that nobody ever died
here?" objected the prospective pur.
chaser to the real estate agent. 81
did, and I'll stick to IT, 'I'll bet you
will You also told me that people in
this suburb didn't have to pay grocery
bills, because the ground raised their
vegetables for the" II told you that
too" How do you account for the
fact that one Of your prominent citi-
gems died Of starvation yesterday ?"
~That was a doctor. Cleveland Plais
Dealer.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1911-11-16
Door and Window Guard.

home or store window to bar thieves
and in that case is made of iron and
padlocked in it's open position, or it
can be made of wood and erected at
any opening through which a baby
could fall, particularly at the head
of stairways in the house or on the
porch, in place of the gate of solid
construction most used for such pur-
pose. The height Of the pickets, of
course. will vary with the require
nenis
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1911-11-16
swindIers Prosecuted.

The mayor of New York is vigor
ously prosecuting swindlers who sell
short weight potatoes. The law re
quires the barrel of potatoes to con
tain 100 quarts, and to weigh ia
pounds, but most of the barrels In
use are short from 20 to 30 pounds
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1911-11-16
DIoqenes AGAIN.

Diogenes paused and shook the
hand of the prominent citizen heartily.
rs he the honest mani" asked the
Athenians.
"S-h-h," replied Diogenes in a whis.
per. 81 have to humor him. He owns
the oil trust"
Whereupon he made his way to the
refinery and had his lantern filled
free Of charge.-Milwaukee Sentinel.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1911-11-16
EMPIRES 10y,

$50 he claims to he the only per.
fectly impartial umpire in the gameI
On what does he base the claimT
HE says he's always abused BY
both sides instead Of by only one"