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Arizona republican., 1911-12-31

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Arizona republican., 1911-12-31
FOR SAlE-lIVE STOCK

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Arizona republican., 1911-12-31
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FURNISHED ROOMS-Meals if de sired 1924 North Third St. Indian car line. 1-b
Arizona republican., 1911-12-31

10 acres of fine level land north Of &Ihambra brick yard. for Sf25.00 per acre. This is a fine location for . home Soil is first class. schools close. ard only 4r- miles from the post office. A good proposition for the .mall rancher One-third down vii! buy this.
Arizona republican., 1911-12-31
FOR RENT-HOUSES

FOR RENT-A nice new modern 5- room brick house. close in. BriShts Realty Co. 23T w. Monroe St. d
Arizona republican., 1911-12-31

FOR SALE-50 acres in garden land, close in. cheap, half price. Box 3S. Republican. b
Arizona republican., 1911-12-31
FOR RENT-FURNIsHED ROOMS

FIRST CLASS furnished rooms,
 south exposure. Single or ensuite No
 sick. 356 \. Fourth Ave I'm
The Washington herald., 1911-12-17
TRAINS TO CROSS SAHARA.
French Engineers Plans Likely to
Go Through.
IAN IAlaN Are-Herald.

From the birmingham (Ala-) Age-Herald.
Paris, Nov. 25.-The Cape to Cairo road,
that dream of the great English empire
builder, Cecil Rhodes, which is now slow
Iy but surely approaching realization, is
to have a rival or rather a complement, IL
the plans of NJ Andre Berthelot come to
fruition. And they are being very care
fully considered by French financiers. 1t
is no less than a railroad from Algiers
across the Sahara, tapping the Cape to
Cairo road in the Congo Free State near
Lake Tangan Yika.
NJ Berthelot points out that Africa, like
Asia and America, can only be properly
exploited by means of railways. Along
the whole coast, what ports there are
seem to be often either inadequate or
dangerous to health. And then the riv-
ers, how little adapted they are to COM
merce compared with the Mississippi, the
Yangtse Kiang, or the Ganges? 1t Is
only by transporting steamers piecemeal
UP the railway that they can be of any
use navigating the inner waterways.
The lay of the land, too, is all in favor
of the railway from the north to the
south. for the mountains are either in the
extreme northeast, the Atlas Mountains,
or in the east, where Renvenzoi towers
up above the great rift in the continent
A line running from Algeria across the
Sahara, down through the French Congo
what is left of it after the present ne
gotiations-and' on through the Congo to
the railroad of the Cape to Cairo line at
Katanga- would not have to climb any
hill or plateau more than 200 feet high.
Then there is the practical and financial
side of the project. Deducting the por-
tIons already constructed, the Algerian
and Cape to Cairo and some bits in the
Congo, there remains some 3,7oo miles to
cover. The Siberian railway is that length
and II was carried across marsh and lake,
through trackless forest. and over frozen
steppes in nine years at the rate OF seven
miles a day.
Practicable or not, it .is-a fascinating
project. The Bedouins of the desert, the
pygmies Of the tropical forest, the gentle
Nasal" and the beIligerent Kikuya might
soon taste the delights OF travel. The
great unknown land would become the
known. Scenes Of cruelty would vanish.
Instead of the slave gang, the railway
truck. Instead OF Congo horrors, bless
ings cast Ger a smiling land.
The Washington herald., 1911-12-17
CHEAP LIVING POSSIBLE.
Ignorance of Food Values often
Makes Men Poor.

From the Philadelphia Times.
In searching for contributing causes of
poverty among wage-earners of the low
er classes, the head of a domestic
science school in Chicago has found one
that especially deserves attention.
1T is either feast or famine with these
people, she says. when they have
the money. they have good meal OF beef
steak. and then they starve for a week
to pay for it.
Such conditions should be handled in a
practical way. 1t must be pointed out
that the wiser course, under the circum-
stances, is to live we'll within an in
come.
Instead of beefsteak once a week. and
starvation during the remaining days, it
would be much better to have more
wholesome and less expensive meals on
each of the seven days.
What is required is a knowledge OF
food value, and. this ought to be easily
supplied to those who need it.S
incidentally, this same investigator has
found an appetizing bill of fare which,
for the price of two pounds of beefsteak,
will sustain one person for seven days.
1t consists of cornmeal porridge and
milk, brown bread, and coffee for break
fast; bread and jelly squares, fruit and
peanut-butter sandwiches with chopped
raisins for luncheon; pea soup, fish,
apple sauce, ginger bread, and tea or
coffee for dinner, all for 40 cents.
The Washington herald., 1911-12-17
Russia.

President Taft will be sustained by
popular approval in his determination
to notify the Russian government that,
after the expiration of the period of one
year, as required by the terms of the
treaty, the convention negotiated in 1882
will be regarded as no longer in force.
In view of the attitude of the Russian
government, as communicated TO the
United States government by the Rus
sian Ambassador, no other course is
open.
If Russia. after having disregarded
the solemn obligations of its treaty with
the United States, would agree to observe
that treaty, there would be no occasion
for further expression of the unanimous
sentiment of the American people. 1t is
not at all likely, however. that any grave
alarm will be occasioned in this coun-
try because the Gar manifests an angry
mood. For innumerable years his gov
ernment has been informed in polite
government could not tolerate existing
conditions. These protests have been
studiously ignored They have been
contemptuously tossed into the royal
waste-basket and we. as nation, have
accepted this neglect without a murmur,
But now. when Congress has at last
spoken in no uncertain tones, the in
dignation of the Gar is aroused 1t
would be much more to the point if
his government would agree to recog-
nize American passports. This country
hopes that when the treaty has been
abrogated. as it ought to be, Russia will
enter upon negotiations which will re-
suit in a new convention which will solve
the present difficulty, and which Russia
will observe. This is the obvious course
which can be and ought to be pursued
The American people have some feeling
in this matter, as well as the Gar.
The Washington herald., 1911-12-17
SWAT THE HYPHEN!
New York World Starts Crusade
Against Needless Writing.


From the New York World.
Advocates Of reform spelling are con-
tinually trying to do away with useless
letters in the construction Of words. Few
of us realize the enormous amount Of
time and energy expended in writing
superfiuous letters, ana even signs For
instance, a statistician with an infinite
capacity for detail has just figured out
the amount OF time and energy we waste
in the use Of the hyphen in the words
to-day" tonight and tomorrow.
He figured the three words are used on
an average OF forty-eight times daily by
17s, ,236,5O2 English speaking people and
an average of five in every forty-eight
are written in longhand.
The daily output of hyphens, the sta
tIstician declares, is SsI, ,236 $50. Allowing
one-quarter OF an inch TO a written hy-
phen. this would mean a continuous line
1854 miles in length. or more than the
distance across the continent. Writing
at a fair speed, 1t would take one man
seventy-sIx years to write that number
OF hyphens, working during an average
workday.
Typewriter and typesetting machine op-
orators write to-day" Tomorrow" and
tonight at an average of four times
each on about a quarter of a million
typewriters and about three times each
daily for each word on about 1882 limo
types. One ounce pressure is required to
operate typewriter or linotype key, an
aggregate Of about S52,g74 foot pounds of
energy wasted on a practically useless
character. The same amount Of energy
would draw a railroad train across the
continent
OF further interest is the useless waste
OF ink and paper in writing hyphens,
the same master of figures declaring that
the value of the ink and paper so en-
ployed would buy bread for one day for
everybody in the State of New York
The Washington herald., 1911-12-17
SMOKING HABIT GROWING.
Internal Revenue Receipts from
Tobacco show Increase.

From the Knoxville Sentinel
Internal Revenue Commissioner Cabell
has made his report for the fiscal year
ended June 30 last. He collected S67,-
10000 from tobacco. $s,0OoO0O more than
in the year before. This means that more
tobacco was smoked, for the rate of tax
alton was the same. The increase OF
full-siZed cigars smoked was IA, 325, 900. Of
small cigars 70, OOO, 900. There were sold g.
so, 600 600 large or full-sized cigars weigh
ing at least three pounds TO the thOus-
and, and 1.l2O,OOO.OOO small cigars. Nor
was there a falling OF In other forms Of
tobacco consumption. The increased sale
OF cigarettes was 1,S25, 10000 and n,7Oo,OOO
more pounds OF smoking tobacco was
dispensed over the counters. Plug to-
bacco sales grew nearly a million pounds,
fine cut nearly 10000 pounds, and snun
., 1000 pounds. Ingenious figuring fell
lows have calculated how many times
the cigars and cigarettes would lap
around the earth If used for that pur-
pose, but We shall spare our readers the
infiction. The cigars were smoked, not
laid around the earth. A great deal of
money was paid for them, for cigarettes,
and for plug, fine cut. and snuff. Posi-
bly, the smokers got value received for
their money. Who can say?
The Washington herald., 1911-12-17
What a Railroad Can Do.

Some idea of the immense impor-
tance attached by a railroad TO the saw
ing of time may be gathered from the
fact that the Lackawanna corporation
has just completed, at a cost of $II.-
100000, cutoff between New York and
Buffalo in order that the running time
may be reduced twenty minutes. The
new construction, which is nearly thirty
miles in length, shortens the line about
eleven miles. eliminates a very large
number of curves and heavy grades and
two long tunnels. 1t includes the long
est railroad FIJI in the world, three miles
in length and los feet high, and mag
nihcent concrete bridge across the Della
ware River.
Not only as an evidence of railroad
enterprise, but as a prophecy Of the
The Washington herald., 1911-12-17
Almost Beyond Belief.

Ii is almost unbelievable that the
British authorities at Gibraltar had or
ders not to respond TO the appeals for
assistance which might reach them from
a merchant steamer in distress. 1t
seems, however, as if the assertions to
that effect have ample foundation. When
the Delhi went ashore at Cape Spartel
and sent through the air the story of
disaster, the wireless messages were re-
ceived at Gibraltar and were unacknowl-
edged. In the meantime, the French
cruiser Friant, also receiving the mes
sages, hastened to render what proved
to be most valuable assistance.
When the authorities at Gibraltar
later learned that royal personages were
on board the Delhi, there was great
CONSERVATION, and three British cruisers
were at once dispatched to the scene
of the shipwreck 1t is no wonder that
the London papers, with all their love
of royalty, condemn the inaction of the
officials at Gibraltar. 1T was indefensi-
ble," says the editor of the Daily Ex-
press; and the whole world will echo
the sentiment When human lives are
in danger, it ought not to make any
difference whether those lives are upon
a British war ship or upon a merchant
vessel. The commonest instincts of hu-
manity would demand that help should
be rendered.
1t is no excuse to say that the wire
less station at Gibraltar is designed
merely for communication with ships of
the feet The storm OF protest which
has arisen in Great Britain will un-
doubtedly lead to the PRONUNCIATION Of
new orders, and in the future. unless
the character of Englishmen has en-
tirely changed, no appeal for succor will
go unheeded, even by the tape-bound
officials who represent the British gov
ernment at the entrance to the Medi
terranean Sea.
The Washington herald., 1911-12-17
SUPERSTITIONS OF THE
RUSSIAN ROYAL FAMILY

a party which included Lady Paget, Mr.
Augustine BirreIl, Mr.. and Mrs Rochfort
Mcguire, Mrs ]. ]. Astor, Countess Won
Arnim (author of Elizabeth and Her
German Garden'), Mr.. Owen Seaman. Sir
Francis Trippel, Mr.. A. E. w. Mason,
Mrs. Bischoffsheim. Mr.. Acland, and Mrs.
Creighton (widow of a former Bishop OF
London). Lord Haldane presided and
pleaded the cause of the college.
The company which assembled at Lady
Cunard's table comprised Prime Min
lister and Mrs. Asquith, with Miss Vio-
let AsquIth; the Princess OF Monaco.
Mr.. Oscar Hammerstein, Baron and
Baroness Won Kuhlmann, Lady Horner,
Lord Howard de Walden. Prince Antoine
Bibesco, Mrs. Winston Churchill, and Mr..
Norton.
Lady Essex, another compatriot Of the
Duchess Of Marlborough. was also
hostess. Included among her guests
were Lady wemyss. Sir Edgar and Lady
Helen Vincent, Lady Ancaster, Lord
Curzon of Kedleston, Mrs. Waldorf Astor.
Lord RIbblesdale, Lord Winterton, and
Mr.. C.. Mills.
The most pathetic figure in the eye Of
the world at this moment, no doubt, Is
the poor little baby Emperor Of China,
whose vast, mysterious country Is In
state of revolution and who has recently
issued an apology from the throne"
The little fellow, OF course, Is never seen
by his people, but an American physician
who has been called to the palace at
Pekin to prescribe for an infantils in
disposition has written an account OF
what he saw there, as follows:
THE Emperor" he says, sleeps in
gigantic bead, big enough for six persons.
He rises at and at once has big meal
of rice or swallows nests, sort OF glu-
tinous material. After this he goes TO
pay his respects to the Dowager En-
press, but when his own father and
mother come to visit him they have TO
remain kneeling. An old Chinese nurse
carries him about all day, or did until
Just recently, when 1t was announced
that his education was to be taken IN
hand. She sleeps in a small bed by his
side The baby Emperor's rooms are full
of the most expensive toys, but what san
itary arrangements there are are OF the
most primitive kind" FLANEUR
Copyright, IsII. By Court Gossip s5udicatsJ
The Washington herald., 1911-12-17
After-dinner Speeches.

1t is no wonder that the members of
the Merchants and Manufacturers As
sociatiOn of Baltimore view with alarm
the request OF Senator Clapp, Of Min
nesota. that he be allowed one hour and
a half in which to deliver his after
dinner speech al the annual banquet Of
that organization The request is, in
itself, remarkable Even if Senator
Clapp is literally bursting with infor-
nation and advice. it would seem as if
he might he able to condense his re-
marks into limited period of time
As a matter OF fact, the formal din
ncr Of modern times needs genuine re-
form. 1t consists of assembling 200 or
800 men, serving them with food for
two or three hours. during which time
they are likely to Surfeit themselves. and
then imposing upon them a mass of ora
tory, some poor. most OF it valueless.
and very little OF it worth while The
average after-dinner speaker seems to
Il
himself. and he fills the atmosphere
with sound. utterly regardless of the
welfare Of his helpless listeners. The
latter must either endure the inhiction
of long and prOsy utterance or leave
the banquet hall Departure is dis
courteous, and to remain is mental tor
ture. 1t is a choice between the devil
and the deep blue sea.
The model after-dinner speech should
be brief and yet not vacuous; instruc-
tive, without being pedantic; humorous
and witty, but not foolish. Very few
post-prandial orators reach this ideal
Most of them are ponderous and te-
dious. If it be not invidious to cite a
personal instance. it might be said that
Speaker Clark, at a recent dinner in
this city, demonstrated that in few
words an after-dinner address can be
be made interesting with historic fact
combined with a sense of humor. A
volume of Lotos Club dinner speeches,
recently published. contains some ad-
mirable examples of this particular
kind of oratory. Joseph H. Choate, Hor
ace Porter, Samuel L. Clemens, Elihu
Root, Chauncey NJ. Depew, Hamilton
w. Mabie, Thomas B. Reed-these, and
a host of others, are recalled as men
who enlightened and entertained. Some
of them have passed to the other side,
but those who shall remain give evil
dence of possessing the art, and it
is an art. of after-dinner speaking.
But not one of them, even before 4
most willing. not to say most patient,
audience, ever talked for an hour and
The Washington herald., 1911-12-17
Eternal Vigilance.

1t was only through the scrupulous
care observed by the officers of local
trust company that the institution was
saved from the loss OF $1,000 through
an attempted swindlc Even with the
safeguards placed around the loaning
of money by financial institutions, this
transaction was almost successful, and
the fact proves the necessity for the
rules which surround commercial trans
actions of this nature, sometimes to the
discontinue and annoyance of honest
people who deal with the banks
A Washington banker once said that
out Of twenty men who applied for
loans, seventeen were honest, came with
proper security, and dealings with them
would be perfectly safe and a pleasure
on the part of the bank officials Two
of the twenty would be dishonest and
come forward with some proposition of
doubtful character. by which it would
be attempted to take advantage of the
bank One would be swindIer whose
sole purpose was to rob the institution.
The president added that the safeguards
adopted TO check them were to check
mate the two dishonest men and the
one swindler, and the painful part of the
situation was that the seventeen men
had TO suffer more or less for the
misdeeds of the three
The swindle attempted upon the trust
company was so bold and brazen that it
would appear to have had little pros
pect of success, yet the perpetrators
based their expectation upon a rush of
business and the possibility that papers
executed in due form would be passed
upon without great scrutiny on the
part of those handling them. 1t was
this very scrutiny which was the undo
ing of the attempt to place the loan.
Insistence upon identification of the
stranger was the rock upon which he
stumbled
The incident demonstrates the care
fulness and conservatism with which
the banks of Washington are conducted
1t is not easy to manipulate a doubt
full transaction with any of them, and
to this is due the safety of deposited
funds and the confidence which the
financial institutions of Washington in
spire in the minds of the people.
The Washington herald., 1911-12-17

railroad of the future, this cutoff is
worthy of attention. In the first place,
it proceeds nearly in a straight line
throughout its entire length, fact which
has added immensely to its cost, and,
secondly, there is not a grade cross
ing anywhere in the whole distance.
This is, of course, the ideal rail-
road In olden days it was thought
to be economical to twist and turn
i'll order to save excavations and
fills, while heavy grades were regarded
as cheaper than level construction. Ex-
perience has proven that this policy is
fallacious Time is money nowadays,
and minute saved is a dollar earned.
More than this, having learned that a
gallon of oil equals hauling one ton
of freight sixty miles, railroad man.
ayers find that true economy consists
in reducing the strain upon the loco
motive which hauls the freight. The
railroad of the future, therefore, will
be excessive in its first cost, but cheaper
in its maintenance and operation. 1t
will be as straight as possible. and it
will be free from grade crossings.
Not long ago the Pennsylvania Rail
road expended millions of dollars in
constructing elevated tracks through va
riouS towns and cities between Wash
ington and New York, in order that a
higher average of speed might be main
tanned between the two cities. The
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad spent a
very large sum in Strengthening its
tracks between Cumberland and Pitts
burg. Other companies are practically
rebuilding their roadbeds in order to
shorten their running schedules. Before
many years have passed there will be
a radical change in all sections of the
country The tendency of railroad
management is in the direction of con-
slant improvement, fact which it is
we'll to remember during a period when
the public is apt to be overcritical to-
ward corporations.
The Washington herald., 1911-12-17

half An address of such inordinate
length shows that the speaker lacks an
appreciation of the proprieties of the
occasion. He must be man of words
and not ideas who undertakes to spread
his thoughts thinly over such a space
of time. After-dinner speeches, as 4
rule, are an imposition and waste of
time Their chief virtue is their brew
ity. When they extend over a consid-
cradle portion of the twenty-four hours
in a day. they are apt to play havoc with
the good digestion that should wait on
appetite.