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Arizona republican., 1912-06-25

Children that are affected by worms are pale and sickly and liable to contract some fatal disease. WHITES CREAM VERMIFUGE eX- pels worms promptly and puts the child on the road to health. Price 25c per bottle. Sold by Elvey & Hu- let's Pharmacy.
Arizona republican., 1912-06-25

A regular morning operation of the bowels puts you in fine shape for the days work If you miss it you feel uncomfortable and cannot put vim into your movements. For all bowel irregularities. HERBINE is the rem- edy. It purifies, strengthens and reg ulates. Price soc. Sold by Elvey & Hulett'S Pharmacy
Arizona republican., 1912-06-25
TEXAS FOR BRYAN.

BALTIMORE. June 24.-The Texas delegates tonight adopted a resolution asking their national committeeman to vote for a progressive candidate for tempOra- chairman. The Texas pri
 mary convention instructed for Wilson
Arizona republican., 1912-06-25
NON COMMITTAL GEORCIANS.
But Delegation Almost Unanimous for
 Parker

BALTIMORE, June 24.-Although the sentiment of the Georgia delegation was said to be practically unanimous in favor of Parker for temporary chair man. the caucus of that delegation ac- cepted Ioday the advice of it's national committeeman Clark Howell and de- clined to adopt a resolution pledging its
New-York tribune., 1912-02-11

some rare intrinsic value in the date itself
which made troths pliGhted at the time
proof against all the unhappiness that
sometimes follows the best OF weddings
The first unmarried person OF the opposite
sex that one met on that day was supposed
TO be his or her destined bride or BRIDE
groom. ON this account the English girls
were exceedingly careful about going out
on this day.
Finally some unsung genius evolved the
idea of getting good gold crowns out OF
the heart throbs that went 20 waste on
February H. He rang in the printing press
and the photographers stone TO turn out
cut-and-dried passionate sentiments by the
thousand. The modern valentine Is the
grandchild of this unknowns idea.
with the Improvement Of printing presses
and the refinement Of color methods the
rapid development Of the valentine is some
thing to make the discerning student OF
evolution sit up and take wide-eycG notice.
We have the skyscraper valentine OF two
o. three stories, highly cOlOrcd throughout
and respendent with red roses, pink crpids
rampant and a few covies Of white turtle
doves thrown in TO add a cooling atmos-
pnerc. Sometimes there is a pathetic sent-
ment hidden away in the point lace paper
wilderness, but IL would take both the
architect and builder OF the thing to lead
you TO IT. You can get these common
carriers Of sentiment for from s. to one
cent.
one of the most approved 1912 models
shows u. Cupid as an aviator. cutting
through a smother of baby blue clouds with
New-York tribune., 1912-02-11
Constant Reader Tells Him
What He Missed In Last
Weeks Papers.

Has any particular heat been generated
In the last week rDy the friction in certain
political circles?" inquired Busy Man last
evening as he and Constant Reader settled
down to the enjoyment Of brace Of brevas
IN tell you all the political and legis-
letive news, and you can judge for your
self replied Constant Reader.
Supporters Of the President decided to
open Taft campaign headquarters I'm Wash
ington. The headquarters will be in charge
Of Representative William B. Mckinley, OF
Illinois. Mr.. Mckinley was also formally
reelected TO act as chairman Of the Re
publican Congressional Campaign Commit
tee. which held its first meeting in Wash
ington and determined 10 wage d vigorous
campaign for the control of the next House.
Reports of political gains for the Presi-
dent continue 20 reach the White House.
Secretary Hilles the other day received a
Telegram advising him that the Florida
e4ste convention had elected delegates-at-
hsrge to the national convention and that
the lSt, I'd and Sd districts had elected their
delegates and that all ten had been in
structed 10 vote for the denomination Of
the President An effort to indorse Theo-
dore Roosevelt for the Republican Presl-
dental nomination was defeated. SCI TO l9S,
while a resolution commencing President
TAFT and his administration was adopted at
the Cook County (Chicago) Republican con-
yentlon.
"s ator Robert NJ, La Toilette on the
Verge Of a physical breakdown. cancelled
New-York tribune., 1912-02-11

several amOrous doves are roostnG MAKES
its unexpected appearance and overhead a
cloudfuI of the regulation cupids completes
the scene-and the valentine.
The comic valentines There Is some
thing else that you would naturally sup
pose TO be a purely American institution.
But it's like everything clsG-when YOU go
TO digging for it's birth records you dis
cover that 1t bad long gray whiskers on
It when Christopher Columbus was travel
ling in a go-cart.
In spite Of the inroads OF the all peryad-
inc postcard. tons Of the comics have gone
out 10 the trade this year and further tons
are ready for next year. One New YORK
firm, Mclaughlin Brothers, prints pracu-
calIy all the comic valentines consumer
I'm this country. over at South llth ana
Berry streets, In Brooklyn, IS their factory
where labors the man that writes the comic
verses.
Ills name is William j. RiGney, and he
has bcen composing verses for the hrm' )
comic valentines for twenty years. In that
time he has schooled his pen to turn out
red hot sonnets that the author OF 'he
woman with the Serpcnts Tongue would
be Justly Jealous Of Nitriol is as witch
hazel when compared with the stlngIns
quality OF his pen products. And yet he is
the most mild hammered man on the SURFACE
that one could imagine. When he ism
working his pen on Carbolic acid muse ne
edits picture books for children.
where do / get my inspirations TOT
verses?" Mr.. Rigney repeated yesterday
81 don't know that would call II inspira-
New-York tribune., 1912-02-11

heavy cargo Of crimson hearts lmpaI"d
on arrows-two hearts 10 the arrow. In
ycntors have also put on the market the
mechanical valentine, which does things
when YOU open IL up one Of these repre-
sents six and seyen-eighths head OF cab
bage on each cover. When one opens the
two leaves young man unfolds and stands
un displaying the startling announcement
across his feet that Two heads are better
than one"
Still clever as We Americans constantly
admit ourselves to be, We have TO go TO
Germany for the most elaborate valentines
over there in some districts the time be-
tween beers and talk of super-Dreadnoughts
Is whiIed away by the construction OF these
super-valentines. The different parts are
Autographed and distributed to the country
folk. who cut out the doves and things ana
assemble them with glue and unlimited
patience
They call these valentines drops in
tho trade. and the majority OF them are
intricate enough 20 drive an American crazy
II he ever foolshy tried 20 construct one
Of them. Besides, he would ask about $50
for the Job.
You hang these drops" on the wall. all
closed up after the manner OF the old
fashioned paper rack. When you catch the
outside cover and yank II down all kinds
Of curious things happen TO the interior OF
the valentine. The little boy with the blue
plush pants and the little girl with the
1S-k. hair move up half an inch, porch
covered with hat-you-may-c -cail-'ems comes
down 10 shade them. a fence on which
New-York tribune., 1912-02-11
His Bag Is Filled the Fourteenth of February with Vast
Quantities of Coos and Kisses Embalmed
in Vibrating Rhyme

between hungry tigers and local athletes
armed with pitchforks Only in those days
Of genuine melodrama they didn't call Il
Valentines Day.
Now, during this joyous, festive season.
which rell about the middle of February,
one Of the games thct the patrician debu-
tantes and johnnies played was this:
bunch of 'em would gather together
in a big room, push back the crowd OF
household gods into corners, and each tf
the girls would stylus her name on a piece
of papyrus Then sister Valeria would tell
little Maximus Lucullus TO chase out into
the kitchen and get a tin bread box or
fathers last years bronze helmet. When
little Luculus got back, all the names
would be put IN the hat. and the Roman
johnnies marched fearlessly up 10 the hat
and each drew out a slip
Whatever name he drew it was sup
posed that he and the girl owning the
name would some day walk up to the altar
and have Hymen ring the Roman wedding
bells The game was accompanied by the
usual surplus of giggling and minute talk
both Of them I'm Latin. A laugh in Latin
doubtless is a good deal Ike a laugh in
American-but the small talk was abom-
inably different, as your hated Terence and
Plautus will attest.
Whether or not he married the girl whose
name he drew, the Roman youth had the
right to kiss her then and there, il he
cared TO. The old custom is doubtless the
origin of the repeated and undeniable
charge that marriage is a pure lottery.
Another good old custom that We had
better let rest in peace consisted of getting
the other persons valentine-somethinS
after the manner Of getting ones Christ
mas gift" as they used to do in the South.
When a PERSONS valentine was got he was
supposed TO come through with some pres
ent 10 redeem it-sort Of a mild form OF
ransom. They tell of the Duke of YorlI's
giving a $1,000 diamond TO some fortunate
young woman that got his valentine.
The same poor and middling" classes
Of England used TO think that February Il
was the date when all the little birds met
and selected their mates for the year. From
that they got the firm idea that there was
New-York tribune., 1912-02-11

ticn exactly But Charley Howard, who
draws them all, furnishes most of the ideas
you'll notice that most OF them, ike
this one here, is signed with an II. That's
for Howard. Charley has been drawing
the valentines nearly as long as | nave
been composing verses to go with the pict-
uree He doesn't stay here in New York
he travels all around Says that In that
wav he meets more different sorts of peo-
pIc and that when man is travelling MS
particular besetting sin sticks out more
prominently than when he's at MS own
fireside.
"sav a waiter in a dining car gives MIN
Door service and then hangs around lot
fin. Charley gets the idea TO immortahze
that flunky and pay for the meal with a
valentine on the walter He works OF the
drawing and turns Il over to me 10 turn
out the verse"
Some Of your odes are-er-a, rather
rough. aren't they?"
Rough? You ought TO have seen them
fifteen years ago! When you can't exactly
! hit on the right sort OF rhyme, or when
! the drawing is n hard one to put into
verse. all you have 10 do IL 10 pile on the
abuse-and I'm pretty good at that Get
me upset a bit and can turn out Things
tha, burn your eyes when you read them.
Here's one ! did when we had an un-
usually unsatisfactory butcher" and Mr..
Rigney put into evidence the following
effort which shone forth Mt the bottom OF
a portrait Of red faced gentleman in
dirty apron, who had just executed some
ones pet poodle on his block:
You call yourself butcher, but TO slaughter
you don't know how,
For you never killed ram or lamb or calf or
bull COW
You deal in moudy ssusagcs, composed OF
chopped UP rat,
And the only carving you can do is on a dog
or cat.
The proper way to punish you. and 90 the thing
right well.
Would be to make YOU eat the meat that now
you try 10 sell
And here" he continued, lis another
little thing that friends of the wife can
send 20 the man who makes his better
half do the work-rather a hot mixture Of
literary cayenne and horseradish. ehT'
The picture TO which the ode hung dis
New-York tribune., 1912-02-11

blyman Bradford r. Lansing, OF Rensse-
laer, N Y, died at his home in that city
after an illness of several weeks. George
Jarvis Brush, professor emeritus Of the
Sheffield Scientific School, Yale, and a d.
rector OF the New York, New Haven &
Hartford Railroad Company. died at his
home, in New Haven.
Field Marshal Wilhelm Won Hahnke.
one of the most popular soldiers In Ger
many, died in Berlin. The Right Rev.
George Holmes, Lord Bishop of Athabasca
Canada. died at London, England, from in
ternsl hemorrhage. He had been Bishop OF
Athabasca and Acting Bishop of Mackenzie
River since 1909. DR.. Edward Wimot Bly,
den, the negro author and lecturer, died In
Sierra Leone
James Noble Adam, former Democratic
Mayor OF Buffalo, died i'm that city. lie
was seventy years old. Able Charles Loy-
son, known throughout the world as Pere
Hyacinthe, died at Paris in his eighty
fifth year.
Major W. r. Logan. custodian Of the
recently opened Glacier National Park in
Montana, and an Indian authority, died al
Chicago from heart disease. Mrs. Mary u
Leavitt. for forty years an honorary preei-
dent Of the Worlds Woman's Christian
Temperance Union, and u traveller in many
lands I'm behalf of temperance, died In Bos-
ton. James Tolman Pyle, a son OF the
founder OF the Pearline plant died in Hack
ensack, y. j. Mrs, Mary j. Butler, wido"
of Henry L. Butler and mother Of Presl-
dent Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia
University died at her home In Paterson
n. ]. George j. Greenfield OF Clifton
Staten Island one of the Oldest attorneys
in New York City, died at the Hotel Al
gnpnuin -
New-York tribune., 1912-02-11

To-day is to-day and after that comes
tomorrow. following which is Tuesday
and then Wednesday.
Every one who knows what that day
ts please elevate the right hand.
No, II isn't the anniversary Of the day
that Hendrix Hudson stumbled onto the
North River, nor George NJ. Cohan's birth
day, nor the date Dorothy Arnold disap-
peared II you were a postman you
wouldn't have to ask
A regular postman can tell by taking a
glance into his tan leather bag what the
day is without referring to the resplen-
dent calendar presented hopefully 10 the
family by the corner butcher In ana
around Christmas time the gorged mails
are full of Yuletide postcards wishing
friends an endless recession OF good fort
une that cannot possibly happen TO man
unless he has discovered the lamp Of Alad-
din.
When the first of the month comes
around the postmap knows it the minute
he begins handing out the mail by the
unusual number of letters that have little
glass windows for the addresses TO see
through. These are bills-he knows from
experience that nothing else ever travels
that way.
Next Wednesday the letter carrier will
know by the epidemic of elaborate and
bulky envelopes and by the elusive barber
shop perfume that emanates from them
that inside the envelopes are frank
tokens Of death-proof affection printed on
highly autographed paper. the whole sur
rounded by fiocks Of little pink baby an
gels, who ought to be in arms instead Of
nying about without any clothes on in
company with irresponsible turtle doves.
It's a relic of defnnct paganism. anyhow,
this Valentines Day. In. fact. when you
get on it's trail you find that it runs 50
far back that its origin is lost in the mys-
terioUs haze surrounding the ancient times,
when Mount Olympus was still in working
order and the sportiVe Jupiter went gun
ming for erring Iportals with quiverful
of high-power thunderbolts II was quite
a celebration back in the days when all
the theatres along the Appian Broadway
in Rome were standing ein ZIP to contests
New-York tribune., 1912-02-11

in fixing March as the date on which the
final vote will be taken. II Is confidently
predicted that the treaties will be ratified
without change after the resolution OF ratl-
fcation presented by Senator Lodge Is
agreed on.
The House committee investigating the
Department Of Agriculture formulated
plans for an inquiry into charges Of Repre-
sentative Frank Clark, Of Florida, that
Secretary Wilson has aided In the cKploita-
ton Of the drained lands OF Florida by sup
pressing reports inimical TO the interests OF
the land promoters. Solicitor McCabe.
speaking for Secretary Wilson, denied the
charges in toto
The vacancy in the United States Su-
preme Court caused by the death Of Asso-
ciate Justice John NJ. Harlan probably will
he filed by the appointment OF Charles
Nagel, OF St. Louis now Secretary OF Com
merce and Labor. President Taft is ex-
pected 10 send the nomination of Secretary
Nagel to the Senate in a few days. Judge
William c. Hook OF Kansas, who had been
prominently mentioned for the place, Is
said to have been eliminated from further
consideration on account Of his concurrence
in a Jim Crow law decision in an Okla
homa railroad case"
New-York tribune., 1912-02-11
NOTES FROM BUSINESS WORLD.

is there any interesting news I'm COM
mercial circIes?" asked Busy Man.
Deputies from United States Marshal
Alcotts office. IN Trenton, N j.. served
writs on the United States Steel Corpora
ton and other defendants named In an
order signed by Judge George Gray and
fled In the clerks office OF the United
States Court by Henry Il. Cotton, special
assistant TO Attorney General Wickersham
in the dissolution suit against the Steel
Corporation. The writs were Issued to re-
strain the United States Steel Corporation
and twelve other defendants from destroy
ing books and papers and other evidence
which might be useful to the government
in the dissolution suit.
Charles NJ. Schwab. the rriding spirit Of
the Bethlehem Steel Works said before the
Senate Committee on Finance that IL the
Underwood bill becomes a law he Will quit
the steel business. After all my work and
the investment of my fortune ! have never
taken a penny out OF the industry and have
never paid dividend, and If the proposed
tariff is to be the law, l repeat that | shall
cash in he said"
m LANDS OVER THE WATER.
Whats the news from foreign lands?'
asked Busy Man.
"A new and striking view of the situation
In China Is now taken. 1t is believed In
many quarters that Premier Yuan Shihkai
will possibly succeed in saving the throne
after all. The Peking papers no longer
mention abdicaton or discuss the thrones
retirement from the government. The re-
q, IN
nent armistice and also their willingness 10
grant to the court liberal concessions in
splre the belief that they themselves rec
ognize their inability 10 capture Peking.
Reports received al the capital indicate
that the republican predicament is worse
than that in which Premier Yuan fnds
himself. Coniscaton Of property. forced
assessments and brigandage are causes OF
discomfort throughout the republican prov
inces. The Empress Dowager issued an
edlct the other day instructng Yuan shih-
kai to establish a republic In cooperation
with the southern republicans. The edict
has not Yet been published.
Replying to an inquiry from the German
government, the Secretary Of State at
Washington has addressed a note to the
German government, through Ambassador
Won Bernstorff. setting forth the views Of
this government regarding conditions in
China. The earnest hopes of the United
States that strict respect for the integ-
rity and administrative entity Of China and
absolute neutrality be maintained and that
no action be taken by any nation except IN
concert with all powers appear to be In
accord With the wishes Of all the powers
New-York tribune., 1912-02-11
TENS OF DOMESTIC NEWS.

How about miscellaneous news In our
own land?" queried Busy Man.
Union labor officials and agents. said TO
number between thirty and forty, whom the
government holds cr!minally responsible
with the McNamaras and ortie Z. Nc
Manigal for perpetrating more than one
hundred explosions which occurred in cities
from Massachusetts to California In the
last six years, and In which the wrecking
New-York tribune., 1912-02-11
But the OIdtime Frlled and Laced Messages of Love
Are Not So Numerous Now the
Vtrolc Comics"

played man with face like a bulldog
from which protruded a busy pipe. In the
background was the figure Of the patient
wife getting out the weeks laundry for
some large hotel. And here's the valen-
tine sentiment of that one
Such men as you arc a deep disgrace
And burning shame to the human race.
Your wife, whom you ought to support you
allow
To supply your bread by the sweat Of her brow,
While you idle around and do nothing at all
Except 10 loaf and drink and brswl;
For prison you're ripe, snd you well deserve
Al hard labor good long term to serve.
Did you ever so in for anything serious
in the way of poetry?" asked the inter-
viewer, putting down the sheet TO prevent
its scorching his fingers.
Hardly" answered Mr.. Rigney Don't
think that ! take those things seriously
I turn 'em off when they need them, which
isn't often now. You see we have covered
the foibles Of the human race pretty wen.
so that the only thing 10 do now Is 10
change the verses every few years TO bring
the slang up to the present. And don't ask
me whether I think they have done much
10 point out the weakness Of humanity and
force egotlstical persons 10 reform. II they
have contributed anything 10 the upward
boost of mankind ] haven't discovered IT,
They are simply something that people
want, and We furnish them.
But as to the postcard ever killing the
comic valentine-that will never happen.
In the first place. the postcard hasn't the
privacy of a valentine that comes in an en-
velope Then, the custom is too old. II
was natural for men with a humorous or
satirical turn of mind 70 send comic val
cntines when other people were sending the
lovey-dove kind. Tho first comic valentine
was probably carved on a stone with a
bears tooth.
And when a custom gets as firmly en-
bedded as that In the practices OF man II
will take something stronger than post
card epidemic 10 dig it out"
New-York tribune., 1912-02-11
BRYAN AGAIN TRoDDEN UPON.

Riding roughshod over the Bryantes,
the Democrats of the House at Washing
ton, in caucus, defeated Representative
Henry's resolution for an investigation Of
the money trust by special committee.
The caucus adopted instead substitute
offered by Representative Underwood which
refers the Henry resolution TO four stand
ing committees Of the House. The Under
wood faction won by a vote Of l15 to 66.
"Scenting the plan of the minority to
offer embarrassing amendments, one Of
which to have been aimed at the con-
tinuous candidacy of William Jennings
Bryan, the Democrats of the House at
Washington deftly sidestepped a vote on
the Slayden resolution declaring against a
third term for any President. When ENJOYS
brought word to the Democratic side that
the minority was planning a coup that
would have made the whole proceeding
ridiculous a sufficient number Of Democrats
fled the reservation 10 defeat Mr.. Slayden's
motion TO take up his resolution under a
suspension of the rules
The end Of the long fight over the rati-
ication of the general treaties OF arbitra-
tiOn with Great Britain and France was
foreshadowed by the action of the Senate
New-York tribune., 1912-02-11
News of the Last Week Is Here
Recapitulated for the Busy Man

all his speaking engagements for the next
two weeks and will seek a complete
rest. Senator La Toilette made a vicious
and prolonged attack on the newspapers
at the publishers dinner In Philadcl-
phia. Later il was intimated that he
was not mentally responsible for the at
tack he made on the press and was unable
10 remember anything about II, The Sen
ator, through his campaign manager, an
nounced that he would not withdraw from
the race for the Republican nomination for
President.