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Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1911-10-17
THE GERMAN COLONIST IN
AFRICA.

The world at large need not be APP
prehensive at the prospect of Germany
PLAYING a freer hand in African poll q
tics. Two score years and more have
removed most of the skepticism about
the Germans adaptability for coloni-
cation. Perhaps he is less imperial
in his upbuilding when compared with
the French. but the isolation of his
colonies forbids vast railroad projects
and ocean to ocean telegraph lines. In
his attitude toward the African native
and his methods of fitting him for en-
larged opportunities. the German de-
serves the commentator of all good
men. a large part of Africa must for
ever remain uninhabitable for any large
white population and its destiny rests
i'm the hands of the native. Without
the blowing of horns and the noise Of
the press agent, the German is train
ing the young African in his own way
and making a pretty good job of IT.
The writer has watched the German
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1911-10-17
The Great American Game.

Philadelphia winning yesterday. the
interest of the whole country in the
series Of games between New rk
and Philadelphia for the worlds
championship will this morning rise
to fever heat.
The dispatches may tell of politics
and wars. the dynamite trial in Los
Angeles. Taft's visit to-southern Cal
ifornia and his speeches to the Cal
ifornians: may tell of the machina-
tons of the insurgent gathering at
Chicago. Of disasters and markets
bur what cares the average Ameri-
can about such news until after he
has read the details of the latest bat
tie royal between the champion club
of the National league and the cham
pion club of the American league ;
For baseball is the one great Ameri-
can game, and just now the games
the thing.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1911-10-17
BEYOND THE WOOD.

This little dooryard plot is mine.
Mine are the garden and the wood;
l hear the wind sing through the pine,
The thrush in forest solitude.
know the dark green wildwood ways
Where lace-fern and the jewelweed
Line down each path on summer days
While far and near the sheep-bells
lead.
Beyond the wood the Squire's wide
lands,
The house by deep verandas hem
med;
But here the work of my own hands.
The little dooryard blossom gemmed
The Squire's young daughters face is
fair,
Her eyes like violets by the brook 4:
But Oh, my Ladies' sun bright hair
Our life with hOme-task and with
book
This little dooryard plot is mine
Mine are the brown hives of the
bees;
An autumn promise crowns the vine
The plum turns in the sun-sw
breeze.
o Laddie, Laddie, once my child:
But head and shoulders past me
now
The Squire's high barns with grain
are piled.
The new hay crowds this sheepfold
NOV.
hear the tinkling homebound bells:
Yet feet of youth were meant &c
roam,
And Strength its hope to Beauty tells
Hush, mother heart, it's Love makes
home,
Cora A. Matson Dolson in National
Magazine
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1911-10-17
ARlZONA'S DELEGATES.

Following is the list Of delegates
who have served Arizona in congress
since 1864 when the territory was or
ganiZed
J. Chas. d. Poston, elected 1864.
served one year.
? John y. Goodwin. elected 1865.
served one year.
J. Coles Bashford, elected 1866
served two years.
4. Richard c. Mccormick, elected
1868, 20, -, served six years.
.. Hiram S. Stevens, elected 1874
rs, served four years
6. John G. Campbell. elected 1878.
served two years.
:. Granville H. Curry, elected 1880,
so, served four years.
s. c. c. Bean, elected 1884, served
two years.
3. Marcus A. Smith. elected 1884.
SO, 'SS. go '92, served eight years.
10. n. o. Murphy, elected 1894. served
two years.
II. Marcus a. Smith, elected 1896.
1898, 1900, 1902. 1904 and 1906 served
twelve years, twenty years in all.
II. Ralph Cameron elected in 1908.
served three wears.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1911-10-17
ANENT Mr.. IVES.

Phoenix. Arizona, Oct. 16, 1911.
Editor Republican,:
1t is amusing to note the antics
of a Phoenix evening paper; ever
prating of the virtues of those that
drafted the constitution; and those
that went to Washington at their
own expense and secured statehood
for us through their bombastic elo-
quence and all for purely unselfish
motives. CD
None others were by that paper.
until recently. regarded as fit to be
at all considered as candidates for
any county or state office. However.
the great change has come about and
now Eugene Ives is being doomed
for United States senator. principally
on the grounds that the Southern
Pacific defeated him for constitution
al delegate.
This is a misleading statement. The
Southern Pacific did not defeat him
but wished very much for his cleo
ton, but the workingmen who knew
his sentiments toward all that live
by honest toll, did defeat him. They
knew also of his private life.
1t is strange that paper does not
mention the manner in which he
was received in Cochise last week
when he was almost hoOted from the
stage by the miners on. account OF
the stand he has taken at all times
against labor. oh, well, Money will
cover a multitude of sins
MERIDIAN.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1911-10-17

closely in his relations to these half
wild proteges on the west coast. The
administration of government there is
largely a matter of temperament and
the men from the Rhine country are
probably less easily driven into irrita-
bility than any other white man. There
have been occasional charges of cruel
ty and oppression, it is true, but the
Germans themselves have been quick
est to call the responsible officials to
count. Besides, we should remember
that the administrative job in Africa
is one of the hardest in the world. The
heat and the rains. the isolation and
privations of the white mans life. and
the debility that comes from frequent
fevers drive the amiability from most
men who work within the equatorial
belt Moreover, the official is expected
to work miracles with a primitive and
sluggist people-and the African is at
times the LATEST. the subbOrnest. an 1
the stupidest creature ever fashioned
in the form Of man.
After observing the white men OF
many nations at the task of regener-
ating Africa. one cannot escape a con-
viction that the German native will
rise as high in the scale. if not higher.
than any other within the same belt.
At the same time. were the present
writer an African he should prefer to
live under the French flag.-From
"Frenchman and German in Africa,
by Edgar Allen Forbes, in Review of
Reviews
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1911-10-17
The Greater Phoenix.

several weeks ago the Oasis editor
spent the greater part Of three days
AT Phoenix, and he returned with
greater belief than ever in the grow
ing magnitude and Importance of the
capital city. In no other place ne
tween Los Angeles and the Mississippi
river is there any greater growth or
more life and activity. The streets
are being graded and paved. and
great business structures are arising
on all sides. The new Hotel Adams
a handsome siX-story concrete struc-
ture is approaching completion ana
will be opened to the public apout
the first Of November. a new gram
mar school has been completed, and
contracts have been let for new
high school which will have five fine
edifices on one campus. The y. NJ
c A and the Woman's club have
cornpleted recently two handsome clun
buildings The foregoing IS simple
enumeration of what was noticed IN
cidentallv. The editors visit was
for other matters. which kept him oc-
cunied and he had little time to OBJ
serve i'm detail all that was going on
Suffice il to state that at every turn
the visitor sees new structures arIs-
ing and men employed. Great Is
Phoenix. and il is becoming me-
tropolis and capital in which all ArlZ-
onans may take just pride. '-Nogales
Oasis.
The foregoing statement Of facts is
reproduced because it is typical OF
the expressions made by everybody
that visits Phoenix. The very Ia
miliarity of our own citizens with inc
various phases Of the city's develop
mont tends to lessen their apprecia-
ton of what il all means-they take
the rapid and substantial growth o.
the town as a matter of course. Bu'
outsiders recognize the import OF thl'
growth. They know that Phoenix Is
not only the most important city IL
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1911-10-17
SAMUEL PEPYS EYESIGHT

Interesting speculations by Darcy
Power, F. r. c. s. on the causes
which led Mr.. Pepys To end his diary
at the age of 80 are given in the Ian
Get. Mr.. Power read a paper on the
subject at a recent meeting of the
Samuel Pepys club. He quotes copi-
Ously from the famous diary the
pathetic illusions to falling eyesight.
which begin in 1863 g. at the age Of
80. and end i'm 1863, with the close of
"all that l doubt | shall ever be able
To do with my own eyes in the keep
ing of my journal" Says Mr.. Power:
ANY one who reads critically the
account which Mr. Pepys has given
Of the state of his eyes must feel sure
that he has suffered from hypermetro-
pia. with some degree of astigmatism,
and that his fear Of becoming blind
was wholly unfounded. These errors
of refraction were not very great.
though they were sufficient to cause
eyestrain and undue sensitiveness Of
his retina. He did not suffer from
headache or he would have said so:
he did not squint, or his portraits
would have shown it. The eyestrain
came on when he was about 80. He
had been accustomed to lead an out
door life, but he now settled down at
his office. began to use his eyes for
long spells of work and was concerned
with masses of figures which often
required the closest attention. The
paper at this time was coarse, the
writing was grabbed and the candle
light by which he worked was insult
ficient. Considerable strain, therefore.
was put upon his accommodation, and
the latent defect soon became mani
fest"
With his friend. Ernest Clarke. Mr..
Power evolved the following as the
prescription which present-day ocu-
list would have written:
For Samuel Pepys, Esq.
Spectacles-
X2 Dc. XO5O D. cyl axis 9O'
Pepys, the Westminster Gazette
points out. tried various tubes" and
glasses. which were all that the spec
tacle makers of those days had to Of
fer: but the hypermetropic astigma-
tism from which he suffered could not
have been cured by glasses during his
lifetime. for science was not suffici-
emily advanced to rescognize the con-
ditiOn.
But astigmatism can he relieved by
allowing the rays Of light to pass
through only a single meridian Of the
irregularly curved cornea, or lens. 1t
is tantalizing to think that Pepys
might have stumbled accidentally
upon this method if anything had
caused him to read through a slit
while he was wearing his glasses.
This might easily have happened had
he sat upon his tubes and crushed
them. or if. in the agitation Of speak
ing. he had squeezed them flat in
his hands He would then have found
his eyestrain removed; his acute mind
would have set itself to determine the
cause: he would have pasted strips of
black paper on each side of his
glasses. and the diary might have
been continued to the end of his life,
while the paper he would have GER
tainIv read on the subject before the
ROYAL Society would have added still
greater luster to his name and might
have revoIutionized the laws of diop-
tries London Telegraph.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1911-10-17
The Chinese Rebellion.

Calamities in China are always on
big scale.
Because of the great density of
population in China. calamities such
as floods and famines take a fearful
toll in human life. And because of
the natural cruelty of the Chinese,
their riots and minor civil disturb
ances are always accompanied by sick
ening slaughter When one of their
frequent rebellions reaches the pro-
portions of civil war the lives taken
would appaI the world if brought
within the actual sight Of the civil
lied nations. Our own civil war is
frequently described as the greatest
war of modern times, yet while that
war was going on there was re-
bellion in China compared with which
the American rebellion was mild
disturbance. The Tae-ping rebellion
beginning in 1850 and finally sup
pressed in 1865, left a record of
twenty million lives taken.
There is reason to believe, there
fore. that the fragmentary news
which is now coming out of the
Celestial kingdom concerning the re-
bellion started recently does not in
the least exaggerate the seriousness
of the situation which confronts the
government.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1911-10-17
PHoENIX, ARIZONA. OCT Il. 1911
The Sugar Beet Industry.

When Il beet sugar factory was
established at Glendale near Phoe-
nix. the croakers asked: Where will
they find a market for their sugar."
Each year the factory does a larger
business.
According to Uncle Jim" Wilson,
secretary Of agriculture. four humid
red additional beet sugar factories are
needed in this country to supply the
nations demand for sugar. Approx
mately seven million tons Of beet
sugar are produced in the world every
year, and of this amount the United
States produces only one-fourteenth.
or about half a million tons. The
leading sugar beet states so far are
Colorado. California and Michigan,
but there is no reason why Arizona
should not become one OF the fore
most. DR.. B. T. Galloway, chief of
the bureau of plant industry Of the
department Of agriculture, is quite as
enthusiastic as Secretary Wilson in
predicting a great future for the beet
industry in the United States, his OBJ
servations being based upon long and
exhaustive Investigations. He said the
other day:
The department has done every
n
sugar beet industry in this country
1t has had its effect, but the WORK
is slow for some reason or other
Possibly the fact that practically all
seed has TO be imported from Europe
has had something to do with keep
ing practical sugar men out Of II
This we are overcoming gradually
T,yperts are laboring hard on the
seed question and l think it Is but
= matter of time before we shall be
able to produce all first grade seed
here that our sugar beet planters can
use
The possibilities of beet sugar
making in the United States are
practically unlimited. Vast areas OF
excellent beet land in the middle and
practical sugar men to work
The experiments made locally in
dictate that beet seed may be grown
successfully in the Salt River val
ley. At any rate, the beets do splen-
didly. the yield of sugar being eX-
ceptionally satisfactory. Lack OF
knowledge as to the best methods OF
culture. the best time for planting, and
so on, led to varying results among
the ranchers in the first seasons OF
trial. but the experience of the past
season demonstrated that not only
does the sugar beet grow to perfec-
ton in this valley, but it can be
made one Of the most profitable oil
all crops.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1911-10-17
Current Comment
TIMIp AND CRAVEN BUSINESS.

We are less concerned with the
presidents Iowa speech than with the
extraordinary state Of mind upon
which it fell Capital is timid. we
know. but it that any reason for its
being hysterical? II is the duty OF
business men, we admit, 10 watch
affairs closely and to be on the alert
for danger signals, but is that d
justification for being foolish in arg
ument or abject in spirit? The IAN
guage used during the last few weeks
by men of high standing in the COM
mercial world is little creditable 10
them: can anything go wrong IN
business and the president not be re-
sponsible? Simply because there is a
slump in the market and general
trade is not satisfactory we are to
believe that the administration Is a
dead failure and the chief executive
recreant to his duty. Mr.. Taft is
now subject To much the same kind
Of complaint and even abuse that
were visited upon President Cleve-
land in 1S94-95, and upon President
Roosevelt in 1907. Business condi-
tions which are the result of large
economic forces, and financial strains
due to huge speculative folly. are
charged directly upon the president,
as if he alone We're at fault; and be-
cause he does nothing to stop what
he did not cause, and really has no
power to stop, he is called a fool or
= llnave
To say that this attitude is un-
worthy of business leaders is to put
the matter mildly. Their display of
moral quality is disheartening. We
their courage, their sagacity, their
far sightedness, and indomitabie spir-
it. That praise is frequently deserved
but il must be said that under the
threat Of financial difficulties, or in
the pinch of market depression, they
too often act like men who have no
reserves of GOODNESS and pluck. 1t is
most discouraging to find them look
ing to the government as the source
Of all prosperity and the cause of ev-
cry financial adversely. and going
with the multitude Of limp dependents
on Washington for every blessing. II
1t were simply a question of getting
plausible point" for an operation
in stocks, up or down, the affair
would not be so serious. one knows
how spectators grasp at straws. and
are influenced, or think their rivals
are. by every "rumor" that floats
about the exchange. In such an at
mosphere. and upon men so minded
it may well be that the gossip and
tips" and hopes and fears about
what the president may or may not
do or say will have temporary effect
But the problem to which sober
financiers with a reputation to lose
| have to address themselves IS fan
larger and more important They
have to deal with questions world
wide in their scope, and with indus
trial and financial conditions into
which subtle but powerful economic
causes enter. What they ought t.
give us is some reasonable explain
alton. some steadying point of view
some practical guidance; but instead
they go off with the crowd into the
unrealities and superstitioss about al
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1911-10-17

all the southwest but is destined to
be a great city within a very few
years. There is more falkland all
Of it favorable talk-abOut Phoenix
throughout the west than about any
other town in the whole west eX-
cept Los Angeles.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1911-10-17
HOW'S This?

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any
case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hairs
Catarrh Cure.
FL. CHENEY 4 CO.. Toledo. o.
We. the undersigned. have known p. j. Cheney
for the last Is years and believe him perfectly hon
orable IN all business transactions and financially
able TO carry out any obligations made by his firm
WALD.NG. KISSAN & MARVIN.
Wholesale Druggists. Toledo. o..
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally. acting
directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces OF the
system. Testimonials sent tree Price IS cenfS pse
bottle. Sold by all Druggists
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Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1911-10-17

coming right if any other president
would do something to remove their
fright. But their timidity sometimes
seems so unmanly as to appear
craVen.-New York Evening Post.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1911-10-17
For Superior judge.

I hereby announce my candidacy for
the Republican nomination for Supe-
rior Judge of Maricopa county subject
to the primary October "a. 1911.
J. c. PHILLIPS.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1911-10-17
For Superior Judge.

I hereby announce myself as can
dIdate for the Republican nomination
for judge of the Superior court OF
Maricopa county. subject to the pri-
mary, October "a, 1911.
p. H. HAYES.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1911-10-17
For County Attorney.

hereby announce my candidacy for
the Republican nomination for County
Attorney OF Maricopa county, subject
to the primary October "a, 1911.
BARNETT Z. MARKS.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1911-10-17
ANNOUNCEMENTS
For State Senator.

! hereby announce myself as a can
didate for the republican nomination
for State Senator subject to the re-
publican primary oct. oath, 1911.
dix FEN \ HILDRETH.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1911-10-17
For Clerk Superior Court.

I hereby announce my candidacy
for the Republican nomination FOL
Clerk OF the Superior Court OF Mari
copa County. subject to the primary
October "a. 1911.
E. S. CURTIS.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1911-10-17
For County Superintendent.

I hereby announce myself as a can
didate for county superintendent Of
schools, subject TO the Republican
primary.
II HOMER DAVIS.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1911-10-17
For Corporation Commissioner.

l nearby announce myself as a can
didate for the republican nomination
for Corporation Commissioner subject
to the primary. october "a.
w s. STURGIS.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1911-10-17
For Supervisor.

I hereby announce myself as a
candidate for Supervisor OF Maricopa
county subject to the republican
primary oct. "a. 1911.
ok c. C. GREEN.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1911-10-17
For CORPORATION Commissioner.

l hereby announce myself as a
candidate for the republican nomina-
ton Tor Corporation Commissioner
subject to the primary. oct. "a.
F. NJ. POOL
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1911-10-17
For Supervisor,

hereby announce myself as a can
didate for Supervisor OF Maricopa
county subject to the republican pri-
mary.
PHIL. c. ENSIGN.
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CANDIDATES, NOTICE.

Phoenix Trades Council urges use
OF nomination blanks bearing union
label.
SIIsMsrs.
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Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1911-10-17

This little jooryard plot is mine.
Mine are the garden and the wood;
l hear the wind sing through the pine
The thrush in forest solitude.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1911-03-15
BiLLINGER WILL SUE FOR DAM
AGES.
To Seek Recovery of Big Sums From
His DctractOrs.

Washington. March 13.-Secretary
Hallinger has not decided to make
Clifford Pinchot, former forester of
the United States, n defendant in a
libel suit to be filed in this city, ask
ing 100000 damages.
This was made clear at the Inter
Tor Department, when ii was said Mr..
Ballinger will not fully decide as to
his contemplated libel suits until he
has spent some time in his home city,
Seattle, and has had time to study
the situation with his legal collea CUES.
Then he will finally make up his
mind as To whom he will make de-
PENDANTS and the amount of damages
he Will claim. No doubt is left in the
minds of Mr.. Ballingcrs friends that
u" intends To bring libel action against
those responsible for the ouslaughts
mad" against him sine" he first took
Up the duties Of Secretary Of the In
terror.
He makes this plain to his friends,
hut as TO the defendants t. Ice named
and th" amounts to hc claimed ho
Il d'r~ not make amy stotcmynts
Mr.. ruchot it is believed. viii %,
ono man whom Mr.. UaIlnecr viii
s.psir out roI One Of lhc defendants
md a New York weekly is known Ia