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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-23
Queries andAnswers
Cost of MctnI..
, more valuable than
Id 80 their value AS
Al VI silver?

compared With that " silver?
X. j.. WHARTON.
Roughly. ktlogran OF silver ia
worth >i50o, the same weight OF gold.
$50. OF iridium. $2.40O. OF palladium
S".pI1i OF calcium. $4,000; OF strilidiurn.
100000; OF vanadiurn. $4,000. Thes.
values are taken from "a French list
calculated soinc yea.- ago. and may
not now bc reliable. r:ncc some of the
processes of reduction have been i'm
proved.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-23

THEY 20 round ana exaatne tue
childrea's teeth in schooi Mese oayg
and send them 70 the den,s, Wen
WAGER that what they oueh, to do Us
to make some % these cowardIy
srown-upa get into the torture chair
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-23

The only football casualties so lar
seem TO be from sunstroke
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-23

New Mexico ano Arizona Forty
eight II is quite likely that. as you
state. the problem was set In u civil
service examination we have seen
simpler folly than this in some OF.
them. The problem may. OF course,
not be solved with the conditions given.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-23

We hope Richmond VIII not nave
any more % this London weather for
Fashion Week
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-23
Y HriOI,s.

Please tell me what two States wcrn
asst admitted To the Union, and tho
OF $4,000 y holds ninety shares OF
stock at $50 a share and his loss is
:l,26O. What was the capital?
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-23

hcyA be calling bananas ;hc poor
. os''AIF"N'' hrst Thing We Know.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-23

Apparently some people can forgive
Nir. Bryan everything but making
money
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-23

Wen forgive Edison for working
"ten hos SICK il hc'l take the scratch
out Of the photograph record.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-23

anyhow, the Virginia Chautauqua
circuit mad al the papers in the coun-
iry doing publicity work.
Arizona republican., 1913-02-27
Sudden Ending of Ambition

George Bancroft: Last Moments of Eminent Men')
 Mmc De SeVigne. in her charming letters, gives the true sensations of the ambitious man when suddenly called to leave the scenes of his efforts and his uiumphs Runor. with wOnted credulity, ascrbed to LouVois, the powerful min ister of Louis XIV, the crime O suicide. His death was sudden but not by his arm he fell q victim, if not disease, the revenge woman. In night the energetic reckless extending his influence to every cabinet and bracng in his views the destiny of continents, called away. How much business was arrested m progress! How many projects defeated! How many secrets buried in the silence the grave! Who should dsentangle the interests which his policy had rendered complicate? Who should ter minate the which he had begun? Who should follow up the blows which he had aimed? Well might he have exclaimed to the angel of death:
 "Ah, grant me short reprieve; spare till l can check the Duke of Savoy; checkmate the Prince Orange."
 No! mo-! You shall not have a single single minute
 Death is neNOrable to the prayer of ambi- ton as to the entreaty of despair. The ruins of the Palaunate the of the Huguenots, Were to be avenged; and LouVois, like Louis NI. and like the rest of mankind, to learn that the passion for life. whether expressed in the lan guaee of superstition, Of abject despondency, or of the desire of continued power. could pro long existence for moment
Arizona republican., 1913-02-27
Story of the Brash King

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 A modern king, after having beal absorbed thought for some time, called his attendants and
 Take my throne out and sell it for what you can get for it; hereafter I will receive delegations an ordinary chair"
 This not being d duty that interfered with the rules of the union, the attendants complied The king thought some more and said:
 Have my crown taken d jewellers and bro ken up; the stones be reset for my wife's In fact, remove all of my stage setting and let sink swim ability. would rather have strangers ask why l haven't these things than why l have"
 But, sire" murmured the attendants.
 Drop the on that too imposing word. will still be king much l can, but without the accessories"
 Having heard about the new regime, the people immediately surrounded the royal palace now termed a cottage"
 Give us back our rights" they asserted, "or We shall abolish you altogether.
 Which made the king, somewhat mystfied for he had really the square thing -appear the northeast balcony.
 My friends he observed with his best bow, that am still king l hereby maintain; l have only, in accordance with the latest modern thought taken d democratic atmosphere, winch means that l abolshng certain time honored ceremonies and getting down to business
 At this the populace murmured more loudly than ever. After conference among them the ringleader advanced and laid down his ultimatum:
 Sire, will give you tWenty-four hours to get back to where you before and being an style king; we'll do the business of this country, just we've been doing, through the legislatures and the labor unions; don't want you to help us; all need you for is for court functions and to make nice living picture for the masses that's where you come in; you're all scenery when you try become anything else"
 The king. seeing that all up. ordered the throne and crown put back and arranging his royal person in his ermine bathrobe resumed work at the old stand, singing to himself as he did
 Tn these days, it's a wise king who knows his limitations
Arizona republican., 1913-02-27
HmaHerS nOt 1Ohat yOu are thOught to De bat 1Ohat yOu are.
 --PubIiuS Sy1uS
Waste of School Money

If all the county school superintendents of the state Were as watchfu of the interests of the tax payers as Superintendent Hotchkiss of Cochse county this state would be a less profitable field for exploitation by the school supply agents and supply houses Mir. Hotchkiss does consider his duties are limited to an inspection of the work of the schools in order that a proper standard shall be maintained He has plenty of time for that with some left to keep a tab the movements of agents for the supply houses.
 The agents deal directly with the boards of trustees. Some of the members may be business men but they are familiar with the prices of the supplies them and they not familiar with the methods of the houses They assume that the business much like any other legitimate business that the houses seek only fair profit and that there cannot be a great variation in the prices of supplies.
 Mir Hotchkiss has lately issued second warn ing to the trustees of his county showing that the agent of a certain house ravaging the state again, taking orders slate backboards at price twice as great they be bought for at the quarries or of in other parts of the country that he is selling desks for than twice much as they can be bought for in the local markets of Cochise county; that the most outrageous prices are being asked and paid for every kind of supplies used in the schools, Furthermore, the agents unloading upon trustees many things which the schools do not need at all; of absolutely no use The money paid for them might well be thrown into a bottomless we'll
 We trust that all the other county superin- tendents in this may take interest in this matter and awaken the trustees of their counties to the methods of the supply houses which are different from those of other business houses.
 They are dealing with who have the handling of public money and are expected to eXer- else less care than they would with their own money They dealing, also with men who do understand the supply house business.
 The expense of the schools of this county is thirds of the entire expense of county govern ment. We suppose that is the in every other county and with the growing population of a new state legitimate expense of the schools will in crease rapidly, rapidly than any other public expense cannot afford allow the treasury be raided by the supply houses
 last the methods the prudent business should be applied o dealings with those who furnish books and other supplies for the schools
Arizona republican., 1913-02-27
Why We Have Eggs at Easter

Washington Gladden., writing about the history of Easter in the Wouan's Home Companion, shows how eggs have been connected with Easter from the eardiest days. Dr GIaddens explanation of the origin of the custom of using eggs Easter fol- lows:
 Probably the fact that the egg holds. shut up in itself the elements of future Iife-a life which may long be dormant and then come forth into vigor and beauty, into consciousness and activity made d proper symbol the resurrection But of all the millions who have decorated eggs at the Easter season or played with them as pretty toy, fed upon them delicacy, very few have stopped 10 reflect upon the profound mean ing of the emblem. In my own boyhood break of eggs of the unwritten regulations of Easter Sunday: the main question with the boys was thg number per capita that could be con stunned. Among there none of that dainty decoration with dyes and pigments which has given so much pleasure in old times and new. This fashion, the opinion old writer. arose among the Christians from the joy occasoned by their returning their faVorte food after long an abstinence from them during Lent This is not Impossible for the was formerly counted as flesh and denied good Christians during the Lenten season.
Arizona republican., 1913-02-27
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A Plan of Retrenchment

A member of the state administration urges as a means of retrenchment of public expenses which he warns will be heavy this year. the building of a $5O0 mansion for governors. This propo- stion which seems extraordinary when standing alone is put forward offset to another propo- sition add wing the capitol building and so carry the original plan
 The official explains that this expensive guber- material mansion should be used by the gover- nors as a residence should be the home of the various commissions and boards which now tucked away in the corridors and obscure corners the capitol building.
 So, after all, the proposition is for wing to the capitol building, though not contiguous to il, at a cost that would probably be greater than the cost of completing the building We fear that this plan of retrenchment will not commend itself to the legislature or to citizens generally.
Arizona republican., 1913-02-27
Breaches Need of a Navy

"Battleships cheaper than battes."-From Sixty-Seven Reasons Why the United States Should Maintain Strong Navy.
 The Navy League of the United States is sending from headquarters in the south building Washington invitations men and women of the country to enroll their names on it's membership list.
 For those who may merely have heard that there is Navy League and somewhat hay about it's objects the league sends along pamph- let entitled sixty Seven Reasons Why the United States Should Maintain q Strong Navy" A paragraph from this pamphlet explains it's purpose:
 The Navy League the United States is nonpartlsan patriotic society. Its purposes acquire and spread before the citizens of the country information as t9 the conditions of the United States naval forces and ships, and awaken public interest and activity in all matters tending to aid, improve and develop the efficiency of the navy
 The principal officers of the league are: Gen. Horace Porter, president; Charles C. Glover treas urer, and Arthur II. Dadmun, secretary. The in vitation bears such names those of Admiral George Dewey retired), Rear Admiral Richard Wainwright retred), and the name of R. A Long, of Kansas City, state director for Missouri. The siXty-seven reasons why the United States should have d strong navy cover wide range beginning with the assertion that power was indispensable the success of the War of the Revolution and coming down through the var ious crises of the nation to the more modern il- usration that Turkey lost TripoI because of pitifu naval weakness. Only few of the more important ''reasons' need be mentioned.
 The navy has twenty -one thousand miles of line defend
 The United States navy has har- bors with large cities and d large number of strategic points to defend than any other
 nations navy.
 The navy must defend: Porto Rico, the Philippine Islands, the Hawaiian Islands and the Panama canal
 The money American battleshps is paid to American workingmen, American builders and American craftsmen.
 The navy a trade school has been called our Great National University" It returns civil life annually many trained efficient and patriotic young graduated from the five leading uni versailles of the country.
 The annual cost of the navy, which is about 13O million dollars for 1912. is cheap insurance against the war, and rep resents approximately the of the tion's tires 1912.
 Negative righteousness means abstain ing evil positive righteousness may require fight against evil.
 Outside the sphere of may be mentioned: citizens abroad
 Repeated earthquake and famine reliefs Messna. Martinique, San Francisco, in Ireland and elsewhere
 The annual convention and dinner of the Navy League will be held in Washington the lat z: part of March, the day having been decided on The league invites all citizens the United States of good repute, either women. join and anyone who wishes enroll should address the Navy League the United States Southern Eud- irg Washington.
Arizona republican., 1913-02-27
ORIGIN OF A FAMOUS SONG

Indianapolis News) The song of Home, Sweet Home" written by John Howard Payne, first given the world in play called "Clari, the Maid of Milan" of which Payne was the author Charles Dickens who fond Of amateur theatricals a young man. appeared in this play in which his elder sister Fanny. took the part of Clar The original paybi is of about the year 1885:
 HOME, SWEET HOME!"
 Sung by Miss NJ. Tree in
 "Clari, the Maid of Milan" at the Theater Royal, Covent Garden;
 also by
 Miss Stephens a the Musical Festivals.
 Composed and Arranged by
 Henry R. Bishop,
 Composer and director the music the Theater Royal Covent Garden, The poetry by John Howard Payne. Esq. The play has been forgotten for nearly three quarters of century, but the song has in it the heart throb that gives it everlasting life.
Arizona republican., 1913-02-27
Cabinet Makinu

President-elect Wilson, until now, within a lit tie than week of the beginning of his ad- ministration permitted the American people to enjoy the excitement of guessing to the personnel of his cabinet. Some of the curious of at times, have resented with impatience the retcence of Governor Wilson in this matter Like children, wanted know and if had been told, say, on night of November would have been deprived of almost four months of pleasant and citing speculation.
 To get the best out of fascinating novel do immediately turn to the final page of the last chapter to how it out"
 We have enjoyed the experience of cabinet mak- ing ourselves, a privilege that belongs to every American citizen who desires engage in it, and of which many of us, including the newspaper cor respondents have avaed ourselves enthusiastically on March A. perhaps, will ascertain whether cabinet making is approved by the master workman
 We have provided many cabinets for the new president and he take his choice he dis card them all and construct entirely different one, to his liking.
 We shall have had fun and fling for four months.
Arizona republican., 1913-02-27
Mexico of the First Century

TaCituS "HisOry.')
 On the overthrow and death of Nero the vet eran soldier, Gaba, proclaimed imperator by his Iegions in Spain and accepted by the Roman senate, mounted imperial throne His brief reign was terminated in January of the following year by a sudden revolt O the Praetorian Guard, instigated Nero, who had betrayed his former patron and was dissatisfied with the results Gaba was slain and OthO made emperor to reign, in his turn, for brief term of three months.
 Revolt against Otho quick to show itself The egions of the Rhine up a rival emperor in the person of their commander, Auus Nitellius' whose single talent in gluttony. Otho marched the legions and suffered defeat at Bedrla- H. slew himself and Nitelus made his way to Rome without further opposition.
 But the armies of the east put forward can ddate for the purple. Their choice fell on the stur- dy soldier Titus Flavius Vespasanus, then com manding in Judea. F1avius Sabinus-brother of Yes pasian-tool refuge his supporters in the Cap itolium Temple Jupiter But the sacred pre- cincts were by Vtellian mob the capitol corps the forces supporting Vespasian soon ap- peared at the gates of the city to avenge this outrage The unorganzed which attempted opposition driven before it in disorder Nlctors and vanquished poured into Rome together, slaught- ering and being slaughtered in the streets. The rabble of the city joined in the bloody hunt Nitel- Illus among the slain, his brief reign ending on the 21st of December, A D.. 69. Vespasan was still in the east and did not enter Rome until the sum of the following year.
Arizona republican., 1913-02-27

a1 and nothing loath. you talk about your greater growth You your beauties fade away, the prairie flowers give place to hay, the waterfalls grind wheat all day, . Canada proud Canada! In time you doubtless will invade the Arctic regions with spade and shovel all the snow away so that the greedy grangers may plant squashes in the fertile clay. Q Canada, swift Canada, NOu'l manu- fracture bricks and tiles your famous Thousand Isles and harness down the scented breeze that used a million trees. it will manufacture cheese, Q Canada great Canada! The dear old Can ada of yOre! No man shall it evermore! The Canada of fine romance, of woodland pomp and circumstance, of mighty deed and parlous chance, O Canada, old Canada!
Arizona republican., 1913-02-27

and using all the inland seas for waterpoWer for factories, Q Canada. fair Canada, In Can ada, where roamed the bear, jay villages pollute the air with smoke and germs and things like those; where once the unstained forest rose the housewife's hang
 ing out her clothes. c Canada, my Canada, In sylvan groves where once the owls were fright
 ened by the gray wolf's howls, the Whiskered farmer builds his shack and shapes his ugly forage stack; the frontiers driven fur
Arizona republican., 1913-02-27
A PosT-lMPREssloNlsr POEM

LOndOn Punch) The Snaky twilight crawls and clanks; scarlet shriell thrusts home; The jigsaws snap among the blanks, Where, lush and loud,
 Plump, plastic, proud,
 The coupons crowd Along the road to Rome. Acrd essential, winged with eyes, The powdered plummet drops; The beldame's bonnet draWls and dies. And, foul fair,
 Calm NeVerwhere
 InScribeS his square Amid the malt and hops. Oh, anguish of the slaughtered shaft That skins the sullen looms! Oh. vaguely Vaunted overhaul.
 Oh. savage spin
 Of twain and twin,
 While out and in The shapeless secret bOOms
Arizona republican., 1913-02-27
The Filling of the Roosevelt Dam

There Were some souls fearful that there would never be enough water to fill the Roosevelt dam. There some, who last summer and fall with tinge of anxiety, compared the stage of water each day with the height of the the correspond ing day of the previous year. It always little lower Yet there always plenty of in the dam before the filling-up process was begun again
 We do know whether there is enough snow the watershed and enough rain yet come, to fill the reservoir this year. but there is already enough snow in sight to make Roosevelt lake much larger than it before; enough to assure us that there will be twice much in the dam will be needed the coming season.
 From the time the great work undertaken there was never any real doubt about adequate water supply at all times and for all time.
Arizona republican., 1913-02-27

This is d difficult when the person who is doing the dctating thinks in words of syllables and tries to express himself in words of six. For some reasOn> >Or other, young women stenographerS always good looking that mans mind is liable to wander and spoil the contents of a busi- letter by inserting a lot of irrelevant compli ments. Many a man has started to order set of new safety blades and wound up by inviting the stenOgrapher out to dinner. If the average stenographer should take down all that is said to her by employers whose minds have been thrown out of gear by her complexion, her notebook would look like between a business manual and the love letters of Madame PompadOur Some business men seldom hire stenOgrapher for ornamental purposes but prefer to have who spell short, crisp words without attacking Webster's Unabridged with both hands. This kind of stenographer may never any heart fIutterings in the business office but it will not be necessary to proofread her letters with a heavy heart and write explanatory notes on the margin.
Arizona republican., 1913-02-27

demure look She is sometimes placed in close juXtaposition to a sentimental employer bound in full calf. The mission of the stenOgrapher is to take down somebody else's thought before it vaporizes and translate it into the English language on a type
 writer Thousands of men all over this continent are sitting around in fancy vests and die tating long, chunky words which they couldn't spell on a bet The stenographer has to take these words, shape them up with a rat tailed file and try to make them dovetail with the context.
Arizona republican., 1913-02-27

It is just investigation after another. Is it because sinful than fathers, more curious?
Arizona republican., 1913-02-27

When President Wilson enters upon his duties Tuesday he will find the tools and material ready for intervention
Arizona republican., 1913-02-27

The next man who speaks of Arizona as the arid region will be required to prove it.
Arizona republican., 1913-02-27

Mrs. Pankhurst's excuse for blowing up David Lloyd Georges house is better than that the McNamaras and all other dynamiters.
Arizona republican., 1913-02-27

We approaching the vernal equinox which has three weeks meet
Arizona republican., 1913-02-27
Stenographers
By HOWARD L. RANN

A stenOgrapher is animated dictionary bound in shoes. a starched shirtMaist and a
Arizona republican., 1913-02-27
ONE OF HIS FAULTS

(Boston Transcript Mrs Peck-I must you have more faults than any other I met. Peck-Wel, you have plenty of faults your self.
 Mrs Peck-There you go again-always chang ing the subject when I try to talk to you.
Arizona republican., 1913-02-27
ADAMS GOOD TIMES

Chicago Record Herald)
 Just think how Adam would be surprised if he could come back to the earth now
 Yes l suppose he would be considerably aston ished but I'll bet he wouldn't be here two houls before he'd begin tell how much better they used to do things in Eden
Arizona republican., 1913-02-27
In Canada
By WALT MASON

In Canada, the land I knew when up from in fancy l grew they're chopping down the noble trees,
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-05-10

said deed of trust will offer for sale
and sell at public cutlery to the highest
bidder for cash in front of the court
house door of Forrest County, Missis-
sippi, on the 22nd day of May, A. D.,
1918, during the legal hours of Gale,
the following described real estate.
situate in the county of Forrest and
state of Mississippi, to-wit:
Lot number fourteen (14) in block
number one hundred md thirty-seven
(137), of the Hamper & .Whinnery sur
vey and addition to the City of Hat
tiesburg and state Of Mississippi, to
gether with all the Improvement
thereon.
Terms CT sale Cash. Purchaser u
nay for titles. Edward w. Bell,
4-26-4sats Trustee.