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Arizona republican., 1912-02-25

serve holds firm. I now increase the weight to 90 pounds and
 At this point in his discourse the piate broke and there was a crash, whereat the crowd smiled broadly.
 The raker, however, refused to be cast down by this mishap. And now, gents he continued, you will further observe tha5 the plate now breaks with ease. thus affording an opportunity to cemert the edges more carefully and firmly together whenever it is desir- able to do sO.'
Arizona republican., 1912-02-25

holding forth to a crowd with regard to the virtues of his cement. He was demonstrating by actual experiment the wonders it might perform. He took up a plate, broke it into halves, cementcd the two pieces and then sus- pended from the mended plate a To- pound weight.
 As strong as steel. gents" beloved the faker. and always ready. To this plate | have hung a 10-pound weight. I will now substitute therefor a 25- pound weight. The cement, you ob-
Arizona republican., 1912-02-25
THOMSON REGARDLESS co.
Good Sales Made This Month. Will
 Soon Occupy New Office.

Thomson McCandless CO, 21 South First avenue, report the following sales so far this month: Twenty acres in section r. N. E.. to H. M. SUouGh, lots in Watts, Calif to Mrs Noble, 90 foot lot in block l.. Capitol addition to Mir. Washer. Lot r. block 2. F.. Evergreen to D. J. Peters, ? lots in block 51. Collins ad- dition to Everett Tedder. 10 acres in Somervi!lc acres to =. F. Williams.
 This firm will move about March 1st to II East Adams street. to one of the new offices now being fitted up by Roy =. Goodrich.
Arizona republican., 1912-02-25
SOLD A COTTAGE.

II. F. Groom reports the sale dur ing the week of a beautiful new five room cottage recently completed by C. w. Hunter located on North Twenty first avenue to NIT. Plunkett of Lee X Plunkett. expert accountants. Mir. Plunkett will make this his future home MT. Groom also has sold d It. tie home on West Buchanan to Mr. w c owen
Arizona republican., 1912-02-25
CAPITOL REALTY co.

The Capitol Realty Co has started on another brick house on Monroe street two blocks northwest of the Capitol building. The Capitol Realty Co. has built about twelve houses in the Capitol addition since it started operations last April and has disposed of all but one house It expects to build a number of other houses before summer.
Arizona republican., 1912-02-25
A GOOD SUGGESTION
Phoenix Business Men Should Visit
 Ray Hayden Section.

William Fickas of the F'ickas real estate office spent several days during the week in the Hayden-Ray district Mir Fickas stated that he was astounded at the great development and growth of d district so near to Phoenix and yet so little known. Mir Fickas predicts that this district will be second only to Salt River valley and suggests that Phoenix people would do well to get acquainted with these neighbOrS
Arizona republican., 1912-02-25
WILL BUILD HOUSE

Geo. H. Fancher last week sold to Mir. Balyeat, letter carrier in the Phoenix pOstoffice. two lots near Van Buren street on Fifth avenue This is highly desirable ground and con sidered close in. MT Balyeat is pre- pairing to build house upon one of the lots at once.
Arizona republican., 1912-02-25
A FINE RESIDENCE

A great deal of comment is heard upon the beauty of Miss Angie Park CTS new house on Third street in Evergreen addition. This structure is rapidly nearing completion and is proving to be one of the very prettiest residences in Phoenix. It is d two story brick with stipple finish. Be- fore it is entirely completed the cost will run up to over $l.OOO.
Arizona republican., 1912-02-25
HOME TRACT SOLD
 FOR SUBDIVISION
Last of the Brill Acres to be Cut Into
 City Lots.

T. NJ. Burroughs real estate office reports the sale of the last of the old Brill estate land in Brill addition. The property just sold included the old home and SIa acres at the corner of Seventh street and Mcdowell road. This property is in the city limits and it is the intention of the new pur- chaser, MT Irwin Miller, to improve the property at once for the purpose of subdivision and sale in city lots. This deal was for spot cash.
Arizona republican., 1912-02-25
WENTWORTH LOT SALES

Locke & Co have just sold three lots in Wentworth place for the Hartranft Tweed Co. The sales were made to people who expect to take advantage of the 10 per cent discount by building at once Wentworth IS proving to be one of the good sellers in Phoenix. Locke x Co. state that inquiries for lots on which to build homes are increasing.
Arizona republican., 1912-02-25
CAME FROM MAINE.
Likes Phoenix So He Bought a House
 to Live In.

The T.. $. Land. Legacy & Title Co. report the sale of a house in West Lawn Annex to a AIr. Kennedy who with his family recently arrived from the state of Maine AIr Henry of this company has under course of con struction a number of houses that he will soon place on the market
Arizona republican., 1912-02-25

Perhaps counsel for the gas com panv can cease their lamentations long enough to explain why it is that with a moderate temperature of 20 degrees above zero the twilight gas pressure is as feeble as it was when the mercury went to 20 below zero.
Arizona republican., 1912-02-25
SOME LOS oLIvos HOMES


  g located in the east half of Los Olives Coronado road In the center
  the home of T. Whitney, with Splendid lot only of the first for
Arizona republican., 1912-02-25
EQUAL TO EMERGENCY.

William Collier. the player. ;ells of a street 1dker, who was eloquently
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-18

I'd love her if she'd let me, but I
can't go back to be buried by her
gold.''
He stood irresolute God knows"
he said earnestly, that if could make
it so, you should never go back-but
my hands are tied"
And as she took a step toward him,
he told her the truth. II love you,
he said, my little white rose, but l
have no right to tell you'll am bound
to another woman
She grew as white as the roses for
which he had called her. You are
married?"
mo, but 1 am betrothed to the
daughter of my partner-the old man
who used to come to dine with you"
Yet you seemed to care-for me?'
You were such a child did not
realize until too late-how much
cared. 1 was sorry for you, felt that
you were lonely"
Yet now you love me?'
with all my heart-but I have no
right to tell you"
You have a highland I have a
right to tell you that for me there
will never be any other-but you
He did not touch her hand; he only
stood looking at her, all the light
gone out of his twinkling eyes, his
shoulders bowed.
Presently she said Take me back
to my grandmother"
And when she came into the great
dim room, she flung herself on the
hard old wOman'S breast and said,
Love me, 1 have come back to you,
and the old woman leaned down and
kissed her cheek.
The winter months passed and the
snow was as white as the white roses
which came each week to Cecile. No
word came with them, and the news
OF the preparations for the marriage
was in the society columns.
Then one day as Cecile sat at the
little table in her grandmother room
the companion, Agatha, looked up from
the morning paper and said:
Adrian Drew has been Tilted. The
girl he was going to marry has run
away with another man."
Cecile's grandmother looked hard al
the girl. You love him. she said.
I've known it for long time Mari
MN, II you will; L can't have you
looking so thin and pale. 1t hurts my
heart
That night Adrian Drew came into a
room that was filled with white roses
and IN the center of them all was a
slim girl in black velvet, with a white
rose at her breast, and he took her
IN MS arms and said, IT love you'll
am free"
Then there was a long silence. and
the fragrance Of the roses was around
them. At last when Adrian lifted his
head, Cecile said:
Upstairs is an old woman who loves
me. In my sorrow my heart found
her heart. We must let her live with
US IN our rose garden, and-and let
ner share our joy of love and YOUTH
-(Copyright, 1912. by McCIure's News
paper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-18
RANISH THE CATS.

Now that the women have equal
rights in Kansas, a prayer goes UP
from the male voters that their suf-
frage sist, 5 share their hatred for
cats. The average healthy man hates
a cat-any kind, black, white, maltese,
spotted or pole. When the housewife
isn't looking, the husband knows moth
ing he would rather do than plant his
foot in the ear of the domestic Prov
Ter and alleged mouse-catcher. Here's
hoping the women realize their import
ance in the nations cause and aid in
Kidding Kansas of cats.
Now for the exceptions. OF course
it isn't necessary to kill all the cats.
A few of them should be spared in or
der to lick up the milk left over af-
ter breakfast, repose companionably
in the lap of the spinster and crawl
through the decorations in drug store
windows. Then there are the long
haired angora cats-a few of this va
riety should be allowed to live and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-18
FOOLISH GUN TOTIN'.

| If a law abiding citizen can extract
any consolation in the habit of carry
Jig a gun, it is a law breaking privi-
| lege that meets with very little ap-
prevail Day after day the newspapers
carry articles of deaths and near
| deaths caused by the careless and
meaningless idea that 1t is necessary
for self protection to have gun in the
hip pocket or under the pillow.
Gun totin' is a crime whether it is
the habit of a man for self protection
or a man with villainous intent.
What is the advantage in having a
weapon? If a holdup jumps out from
behind a tree and pokes a revolver into
your face with a request for your
valuables-what good is the shiny toy
in your pocket? Even if you are able
to put your hand on the instrument
who cares to risk his life in an ex-
change of bullets for few dollars and
a watch?
A gun under the pillow is another
folly. Bad dreams and sudden
awakening oftimes bring on a sense
of danger. This means lunge under
the pillow and probably a shot at an
occupant of the house who is up in
the night Many have been killed
through this mistake. The case of
daughter shooting her mother in
Pullman car the other day is an ex-
ample of ol-under-the-pillow fool
cry.
This is a civilized country with po-
lice protection and with criminal scar
city. 1t is safer to attend to your daily
duties and your nightly slumber with
out the aid of a gun. Guns are trou-
BILE breeders. A double fist or even
few chords of selected swearing will
sooth the temper much quicker-and
without the aid of a lawyer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-18
NEWSPAPERS FAVORED t. r.

The readers of the daily newspaper
shook their heads the other day when
they read in Colonel Roosevelt's after
election statement the assertion that
the Progressives made their fight
against the wealth of the country, the
politicians and "the chicken channels
of public information
Never before in the history of a
presidential campaign has a candidate
been given the publicity and the space
accorded to Colonel Roosevelt. Nearly
every day for weeks preceding the cleo
ton. the front pages Of newspapers,
Republican, Progressive and Demo-
cratic, were plastered with ct. R.,
Teddy" Colonel Roosevelt and
cartoons of the familiar fighting face
of the Progressive candidate. Roose-
welt, a character familiar to every
American, and popular with millions
Of them, did not meet chicken channels
in the press-instead the news of his
campaign did the choking.
The colonel was favored with 100000
votes Without the aid of newspaper
publicity his cause would have been
defeated hopelessly. Not that the
newspapers had anything to do directly
with the voters choice-but they gave
publicity to the utteranees of the co..
onel.
Against the bitter hostility of so
per cent of the press of the country,
he raves Suppose the newspapers OPP
posed to tne beliefs of the Progressive
party had combined and turned their
news columns against Roosevelt? 1t
would have been a different story to-
dav-and the Progressives could not
have boasted of four million votes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-18
JAYHAWKER JOTS

| A X. u. graduate walls in the Hutch
inson News: Everything has gone &C
| Democratic this year that the Missouri
football team is likely to beat K. u
Ottawa has an undertaking firm by
| the name of Bell & Bird. This oughI
| to form a winning combination at a
funeral as Bell could ring and 1-Fd
could sing.
Religious note from Grainfeld CAP
Mock left last Wednesday evening for
Paradise, where they are going to visit
friends and relatives
Now librarians of the state want a
travelling Libraries commission with
power to hire a visitor to travel over
the state and look after the libraries
complains the Leavenworth Times. or
making many offices there is no end
A new way to seek Office in Norton
county. The Norton Telegram: the
county commissioners were highly en-
tertained the other day by Arthur
Saum at a fine dinner and the good
things to eat were too numerous t.
mention.
A criticism by the Manhattan Mer-
curry: The newspapers of Kansas have
shown as little journalistic enterprise
in finding out the result of the vote
on the proposed suffrage amendment
to the constitution, as though they
were published in the wilds of Arkan-
SaS-
One of the very strange things
about the count in Kansas was the
fact that nobody could find out for
q week how Cherokee and Crawford
county voted wonders the Lawrence
Gazette. 1t would be interesting L
know if they kept right on voting
down there all week.
A Cherryvale Journal society item:
"a East side girl has an unique hid
ing place for her valuables. The other
night when she had retired, she
thought she heard burglars and imme-
diately thought of a valuable diamond
ring she was wearing. I sure didn't
want any burglars to get my ring
she said, so 1 just put it on my
toe. And the funny thing is: 1t just
fit'''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-18
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
fFrom the Chicago News.1

=.
Some people learn to do by being done
1t always costs more to acquire a grouct
than it is worth.
Before marrying a poet a girl should
have her appetite amputated.
girl of 10 hates to be kissed almost as
much as girl of 20 doesn't
tt may be all right for a man to have a
past, if it will only stay past
The less man understands what he's
voting for the more excited he gets over
an election.
We would like to see picture OF tb..
man who can always please himself a. al
his wife at the same time
Success seldom comes to a man until
late in the game. By the time he is in a
position to get all the pie he wants he is
a dyspeptic.
When a man does talk sense at least
half the people don't recognize it.
No man ever assumes the pose of a
political reformer as long as he is in Of
flee.
There ought to be a great deal of salts
faction in being coed, for it cuts you out
of a lot of fun
After a man once holds a public oft ..
he is hardly ever again willing to waste
the time necessary for earning living by
working.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-18
GLOBE SIGHTS
8Y THE ATCHIsON GLOBE.

Half-hearted protests are better left I'M
said.
Don't be annoying by working your
thanks overtime.
Generally speaking, an election contest
is the poorest investment.
A good loser seldom goes so far as 70
concede that the best man won.
Quitting a good job in December is an
other indication of a hard winter.
Some men pay so much attention to de-
tail they overlook everything else
A man who has to go to church won t
hear great deal of the sermon.
Appeals cost money, but a man who
needs them doesn't consider the price.
A free thinker. Maud, is an unmarried
man. Get up bucket of coal, please.
A windy day aggravates US until we
pause to think what it does to an aviator.
While many men have found cigarettes
a cure for the tobacco habit, they don't
help much
Doc Robinson: 'I went out on the street
my finger
Electric lights are a great success be
cause the busy housewife has no chance
to neglect to fill them.
No capitalist appreciates how interest
piles up as thoroughly as does the poor
devil who has to pay it.
Only few people can afford to maiz.-
tain a crouch, and they can have more
fun out of an automobile.
One reason that business in the divorce
court increases, is the notion of married
couples that they own each other.
Hint to musicians: The rest of the
worlu isn't pining for pity, and might
even go SO far as to question your great
superiority.
A man who has read market reports for
them very well. What do you find hard
est to learn?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-18

take to the ark in case of any such
dire necessity.
Professor Dyche, state game warden.
says the cats are the worst enemies
of the birds, quails, robins, thrushes
and other insect-eating varieties
Dychc recommends a license for the
felines. The professor has submitted
many unique ideas to the people OF
Kansas-but here is one that should
receive support.
You may say that cats catch mice
and so do mouse traps. The traps dc
not play with the children and dis
tribute germs. The traps do not snoor
around the house, and sleep on the
beds. The traps do not meow at night.
The traps do not kill birds.
Place a license on cats-and make
it so high That the cat catchers WI
have a thouSand years bad luck com
ing to them at the end of the cat
killing season.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-18
KANSAS COMMENT
DIVORCE PRoCToR.


1t is understood that a movement
will be started in Hutchinson for a
new official of the district court to
be called the divorce proctor. KAN
sas City, Mo-, has had a divorce proc
tor now for about two years and re-
ports excellent results from the new
department. 1t is practically the same
thing as a Judge personally investi-
eating every case that comes up for
trial. 1t would be impossible for a
busy district judge to visit the home,
but in Kansas City the judge renders
his verdict mainly on the report of
the proctor, who as a disinterested
party can render calmer decision. 1t
is the duty of a divorce proctor, when
a case is tried, to call at the homes
of neighbors and at the home threat
ened with disruption and try to patch
up the differences, especially where
children are concerned. Several
prominent club women of this city
have discussed the matter and they
may recommend the adding of the
office. That an officer of this kind
would help can not be doubted. The
divorce cases filed are increasing all
OF the time. An average of three pc
titions for divorce are filed every
week in the office of the clerk of the
district court The result in Kansas
City is that the divorce proctor has
been especially fortunate in effecting
reconciliations between husband and
wife where there are children and in
patching up a new beginning for the
family. The divorce proctor has also
been a protector to public morals by
destroying the chances of some peo-
pie for divorce who merely desired
divorce in order that they might mar
ry some one elSe-Hutchinson Ca
Zette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-18
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

GFrom the Philadelphia Record.J
Made to order-the walters clothes.
Do the people who go to law patch up
their differences with Court plaster?
The Married Mani met an old flame
of mine last night The Bachelor-"Oh,
you MOTH
Silncus-''You can never tell what a
woman is going to do Cynicus-''And
If you could she would probably do some
thing else"
Blobbs-''Bjones says he mikes in the
best society" Slobbs-''I guess that's
right; He's bartender at the B1ueblood
Club
Hoax-'I thought you said he was a
settlement worker" Joax-"He is" Hoax
why, he tells me he's a bill collector -
Joax-"Wen?'
Muggins-"Would you consider Wig
wag a masterful husband2" Buggins-
We'll, he can make his wife do anything
she wants to do"
Lives of great men oft remind US,
We should guard against attacks,
And departing. leave behind us,
Plans to cover up our tracks.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-18
HUNOR or THE DRY

me Lead-I see that our Juvenile ara
ms souDrette wife have patched un fbeir
T1as e erlces s, When every one thought It
was all on with them. The Heavy-Yes
neither one would give up the doR-[Ssn'
sas City Star. nan
an that is foolish" We'll 90 on. - an, ~
you never see an old gander hoard a
d nna,,od kernels of corn and then 20
Kansas City Journal.
She-She told me to tell her that secret
l told you not to tell her. He-The mean
thlns! L told her not to tell you I told
her- Shell promised her / would NOT
tell you she told me, SO don't tell her
old you.-Lfe.
To run in debt is never US.
For debts are sure to is,
ana thus because of what he o's
a man can't take his els.
Boston Transcript.
Minerva-Isn't It strange, mother. that
all the heroines in novels marry poor
men? Mater-Yes, my dear; but that Is
fction.-Judge- 20
One good thing about being a worna,
is that no matter how large she NAV oct
she can always find a hat that will sSei'
ter her.-Dallas News.
do you think you could learn IN love
me?" asked the diffident youth. How
much money have your injured the Nv
tirely practical girl. Il beg your pardo,,
This Is a matter of marriage; not a bet;
Washington Star.
i've tried to propose to Mabel a dozen
siumped every " time 6 sa1 do DO it. I've
slump?" Yes" My boy, Won are co; you
ing the wrong girl-"-Boston Tra1scrtn,
Miss Yellowleaf.-Its better 70 ha,,.
loved and lost than never to have Io,,a5 ~
ALL Mr.. Knox-Sure. That's a case vSt az
you win when you lose.-Chicago New
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-18
BEST BRITISH AMBASSADOR.

All intelligent Americans will regret
the approaching retirement of James
Bryce, historian, essayist, traveller,
philosopher and profound student of
men and affair, from his post as British
ambassador at washington. This great
diplomat has commanded, from the
first, the confidence and admiration of
the American people. He has made no
mistakes worthy of notice, and through
out his long term of service he has done
all that could be done to make the
relations between the British empire
and the American republic in every way
satisfactory.
Before Mr.. Bryce was sent to Wash
ington to represent his government, he
had distinguished himself in American
affairs as the author of the soundest
and greatest work ever published upon
this country and it's institutions, by a
foreigner. Many Americans whose opin-
ions carry weight would make no ex-
ception as to foreign authorship. They
would credit Mr.. Bryce with the truest,
fairest and wisest discussion of Amer
lean progress and American problems
anywhere to be found in one book.
Ambassador Bryce is "A years of age,
and he has served his country long and
well. He is fully entitled to spend the
of his life in the repose and
retirement of his home, but in this
country there will be wide and deep
regret that he cannot continue for an
indefinite period to represent the United
Kingdom at the national capital.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-18
JOURNAL ENTRIES

A girl spends all her spare time
learning music only to drop it after she
is married.
q *
What has become of the small boy
who wandered down the street stamp
ing'' white horses?
If men had to wash dishes there
would have been mechanical dish
washers in every house many years
ago.
The girl who will make the economi-
cal housewife is the one who will turn
out the lights when her lover comes