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Arizona republican., 1913-09-02
It is only things we permit to trouble us that do so.
 Winston Churchill.
Praise of the Legislature

The first state legislature of Arizona has been subjected to a great deal of criticism fnuch ol It proper and much of it unfounded. II mas peei charged with extravaganza and waste of time More money was undoubtedly appropriated than was heeueo and the legislature in session much longer than ii should have been but this waste of time ana extravagance. blameable to the loose unsclentlc system of legislation which prevails generally throughout country, and not to the personnel ol legislature.
 But legislature has been bitterly crltl- cised it comes in good deal of praise from Sir Hubert' which is praise indeed. The mem bers of the legislature must read with satisfaction the report for the commissioner of educa- ton.
 Concerning the law passed by the legislature for the retirement teachers pension. the report of the commissioner says: TO the new state Of Arizona must be accorded the distinction of having a retirement that is by far the best in the United States" Several reasons adduced, show ing why the best, and the report adds: No other possesses all these good points in com bnation."
 On the subject Arizonas free textbook law the report says: If free text the proper policy, and uniformity is desirable, then Arizona has the ideal system. In few concise paragraphs the knotty problem of textbook supply is solved at a stroke. The simplicity of the thing is such wonders after 1t is done why It had not before.f
 The report in dealing with the law providing for subsidy high schools teaching agriculture domestic other vocational subjects says that the provisions well conceived and well stated"
 The child labor law of Arizona, says the report, bears every paragraph evidence of not only legal acumen but of a thorough Knowledge of the enact ments o states it avoids the weaknesses and adopts he strong points of all of them; the occu- patons permitted prohibited at the several ages, are graded with the nicety and with rare iudernant. methods 0 enforcement ideal; the newest state has a law that is at least equal that of other state of the union
 As to the general school law of the state it has been pronounced upon authority be of the best n he country.
Arizona republican., 1913-09-02
The Catcher
BY HOWARD L. RANN

The catcher a Iowly and gaZele-like receptacle for the spit ball. the dizzy floater and the paralvzng up-shOOt, and carries more defensive apparatus arnored cruiser. Nearly all of our great catchers from humble homes n quiet hamlet, where the curfew jolts the juvenile population off the village green at 800 D. m, the principal pastime is guessing on the age the bullet It is the duty of the catcher brush league pitchers who are long saliva and short on about everything else and inform the umpire that his decisions on balls and strikes would make Jesse James reVoiVe rapidly in his sarcOphagus. The catcher IS the autocrat of the ball field He has system of signals which nobody fathom except the oppos- ing team he changes them so often that the fnfield runs around the circles. The catcher never knows entering game whether he will come out piece or have to be returned to the hotel a gunny sack. His principal competitor is foul tip, which catches him under the chin about twice week and bends his thorax into a horseshoe. Every once in q while some batter who has just escaped from the hay field will swing at the ball With so huch earnestness a miss it entirely and stroke the catcher across the base of the braln arouslhS considerable resentment and a translucent bump The catcher also has contend with delrlouS slab artists who imagine they pitching quolts on the old and try to see how far they can bury the ball his breast protector When 2 pitcher is told waste a ball and wastes u III the pit of the catcher's stomach, certain amount of coldness is bound arise between thehl me catcher is supposed to supply brains Tor ms own use as well the pitchers and IL Is wonder ful how well he succeeds with the material on
Arizona republican., 1913-09-02
HUMORS OF HANDWRITING.

Sheridan's writing a scandal to his school puzzled the He wrote pass" to Drury Lane, and the doorleeper stopped it's bearer and immediately pronounced it to be q forgery, could decipher it! To make matters Sheridan also uncertain in his spelling. A which" a where" and a whether his hands, instance, often not deprived of their "aches' and a thing was to him all think" and nothing more.
 The atrocious writing of celebrities recalls the claim made behalf of Baron Bramwell that he three hands-"one which he alone could read, another which his clerk could read and he couldn't, d third which nobody could read and the last-named his usual style
 Curzon, when q young college, found his bad handwriting stand him in good stead. Writing two letters, one to a relative the other to chum he lnclosed them Tn the wrong envelopes It chanced that in the second letter he had made uncOmpimentary reference to his relalVe and on discovering the mistake he had made he awaited developments with anxiety. There presently came letter from the uncle. T have tried decipher your epise, it ran, but your writing is atrocious I make head tail of it. However, I guess the drift of be that you need money, rogue so 1 q cheque"
 Bad handwriting s always handicap in life The late Lord Goschen once said that his father attributed the foundations of his fortune to the fact that he obliged to found a firm be- he wrote such bad hand that no one would take him for clerk. Of Goschen himself, Arthur Elliott records that his handwriting got steadily and in his latter years he might spet chose. At length his script be undecpherable by himself. He could not, speaking Parliament make what
 
 in later days to abandon almost entirely his old practice of making nOtes.'
 Professor Blackie had a peculiar fist" An elderly compositor the Scotsman however, nearly all about the professor. One night here a particularly difficult manuscript from the professor. It put before the expert with inquiry whether he could it. T could do that" said the veteran from In verary; but if I'd ma pipes here I could play her.
 Another instance of the usefulness other people of illegible handwriting is included in the collection of anecdote and fable that deals writing of Horace Greeley, the American editor. compOsitor could get used his appalling scrawl and, in rage at the continued typographical erorrs," Greeley a the foreman to discharge the once, he was inefficient workman be any longer ployed Tribune. it, but the compositor got hold of the note and took it another office, where the foreman, much puzzing, finally read it: Good and efficient work man, and long employed the Tribune" and promptly took him on!
 Joaquin Miller, Sierra" who died a months since, has put forward as very writer that lived. secre- tary of literary society invited him to which could decipher a word. wrote again to the poet. stating the difficulty, sug- gested in replying, he should make a a the foot of his letter if he could be present Miller compiled with the request but nobody could decide whether the mark he made intended for circles a
Arizona republican., 1913-09-02
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ing parks. This element enlisted in the cam pagn against mayor
 The recall invoked by a remnant of what is known Cotton Sox" faction of the re publican party, standpatters. The park ques- ton became real The recalers counted upon democratic opposition and republican division O mayor. But the campaign did not align way. There organized demo cratic opposition. Former Mayor A P Clayton, a leading democrat who had been defeated for re election by MT. Pfeiffer, became of the mayors chief supporters.
 Partisan lines wholly ignored. Decency found itself arrayed against indecency and decency won will always win in municipal contests which are complicated by partisan politics, for there is decency than indecency in this world So Mayor Pfeiffer sustained. and it proved again the recall cannot be easily used for inn proper purposes, though it is effective and ready weapon against wrong.
 this in all other cases where the unworthily applied, invoked by those who do believe in the principles of popular gov ernment who would bring it ito disrepute for the qualification of spite and selfishness.
Arizona republican., 1913-09-02

Saturday Evening PoSt)
 Stocks and bonds America and Europe nave suffered an enormous decline in price the last SIX months You read about it and say: That means nothing more different set of quotatohS' the actual wealth the securities represent IS ils great as it was before" But that is not neces- sarilv so The moment capitals power to repro duce tsef-Which is tantamount to US earning power-is c1sppled the capital itself begins to perish. With exaggeration John stuart NH wrote "The greater part of the wealth now existing in England has been produced by human hands within twelve months very small proportion of the large aggregate when IS now in existence existed ten years ago. The lana subsists and land is almost the only thing that subsistes Everything which is produced Is kept in existence to age not by preser- vation but by perpetual reproduction
 If you turn the schedule of national wealth issued by the census bureau you will see how true this is There are and gold and silver and is passing away while the enumerator ducts manufactured products mining products constantly wearing and being renewed. Scarcely a physical part of the railroad that was in eXls- tence twenty years ago exists now. It must re- produce year by year. So must practically all capital except land We rebuild almost our whole transportation and manufacturing plant every twelve fifteen years. To destroy capital nothing is necessary except to cut off it's power reproduction earning capacfty-a fact to be kept mind, for example, in considering rail- road rates.
Arizona republican., 1913-09-02
Hypnotists and Others

According to Mayor Rose of Los Angeles there is no proper place but the jail for the hypnotlst If he is really a hypnotist he should be locked up for being one, but if he only pretends to be hyp- notist he should be jailed for being a faker This highly sensible view the expressed by the mayor other day the application of a man claiming ypnotst for license to practice a fraud upon the citizens of Los Angeles.
 view of the mayor becomes a definite ad- mnistration policy, there will be a great cleaning out in Los Angeles which is overrun with fortune telers, palmsts. clairvoyants etc There are more of them in Angeles than in any other city of size in the country
 strange that they should have been allowed to congregate such numbers, at all, in Los An geles which been advertising itself to the world as chemically pure. But have thought that the city subjected itself prosecution the charge of misbrandng. War with brass bands has been furiousy waged upon all sorts of vice except fraud pretense.
 There really such things fortune tellers, cairvoyants palmsts. The persons who pretending practice these arts fakers and fakers, according Mayor Rose. should be in jail,
Arizona republican., 1913-09-02
"eNGLrsH LITERATuRE's DEBT TO BIBLE"

"ENCLISH CW. c. Perry in August North American Review)
 The dawn which CoWpcr and Burns heraldad became full morning when the Lyrical Ballads If Wordsworth and Colerdge appeared in 179S; and in these poets the influence of the Bible is strikingy manifest This appears primarily in the spirit of he New Testament which permeates all WOrdsWorths poetry; it shows directly in frequent Biblical allusiOn and reference throughout his longer philosophical poems. Moreover his jour tells specifically how deeply the stories of Elijah and Elisha influenced his great Ode the Int- nations of Immortality" It would be sufficient, however, cite that splendid passage in the most familiar characteristic all his poems, Tin Abbey:
 And I have felt a presence that dsturbs me with
 the joy
 Of elevated thoughts; sublime Of something more deeply interfused, Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, And the round and the living air,
 the blue sky, and the mind of
Arizona republican., 1913-09-02

A motion and a spirit. that impels All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And through all things
 Here one finds a gorgeous paraphrase of the PSalmist's:
 70 Lord my God, thou art great who GOV crest myself light with garment: who srechest the heavens like curtain; who layeth beams his chambers in the maketh the clouds his chariot who walketh upon the wings of the wind
 Nor this influence Coleridge less notable Not only does it pervade his prose but the one flaw poetic jewel his golden casket is sentially elaboratey beautiful application of Chrisgs new commandment," that Coeridge defines with a and deeper meaning who Is our "neighbor"
 He prayeth best that Ioveth best all things"
Arizona republican., 1913-09-02
Prevalence of Decency

the recall and good government were vim dcated a Joseph, Mo, the other day when attempt to recall Mayor Charles A. Pfeiffer failed MT. Pfeffer. who has been important figure in republican municipal politics in St. Joseph for twenty-fv years incurred the enmity of several leading republicans by retaining democrats in ap- pointfve offices refusing find places the relatives and Of leading republicans.
 Mayor Pfeffer had already aroused the hos tility of another element by his advocacy of the requirement by city a large of land for a park Though Joseph richest cities the country according to it's population, any other, they have been always a frugal set and they naturally opposed mayors notions regard
Arizona republican., 1913-09-02

Tucson will decide today whether there shall be water bonds shall be water bonds for rehabilitation the city waterWOrks system amounting the installation of system campaign of than usual bitterness, involving the newspapers of the city and many of the en- gineers of the state, has preceded the election Many points 0 difference been raised The paratve merits of redwood, concrete and iron pipe their resisting qualities have been con sdered, and doubt has been expressed by the op ponents the bonds whether there is any water to be developed at the place where vocates the bonds expect develop it.
Arizona republican., 1913-09-02
THE MEXICAN SITUATION.
By John T. McCutcheon.
1Subiect to Change Without Nottce.)

tCopyrsSht: 1913: By John T. McCutcheon1
Arizona republican., 1913-09-02

was a pleasant celebration holiday dedicated organized labor. There inspiring speeches. mspirng music and warmly contested games. A perfect day added O the enjoyment of the Those who participated in the cele- bration by right of their position in the ranks of labor thereby closely brought together than they had already been by the obligation which they had assumed toward each other members organized labor. Those obligations busi- like. Those yesterday those of friend ship.
Arizona republican., 1913-09-02
The Big Men
By WALT MASON


 The big men dare, and the big men do; they dream great dreams, which they make come true They bridge rivers and link the plains, and gird the land with their railway trains; they make the desert break forth in bloom they send the through a Hume to turn the wheels thousand mills and bring the coin to a nations tils the big work, and the big men And the cheap men yelp at their carriage wheels, the small dogs bark at the big dogs heels The big while the cheap men sleep, and when they to their fields to reap, the cheap cry We must have a share, of all the grain that they harvest there! These men pirates who and reap and plan and build while asleep. Wen legislate till they lose their hair. We'll new laws that will strip them bare. We'll tax them right and we'll them left till of their pIunder they bereft; we'll show these that all despse their skill, their courage enterprse!" the small yap at the big mems heels; the fake re- formers with uplift spels, the fOur~eyed dreamers with theories fine, which bring them maybe three a line, the tin horn grafters who always yearn collar coin that they do not And the big sigh they their way; they'll baIl1 whole blamed thing day!
Arizona republican., 1913-09-02

September opened with decent behavior, which trust be earnest of it's conduct during the next twenty-nine days. It brought with it q tnge the fall and indication of the permanently fractured
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-03-22
PLAN A MINSTREL SHOW
FOR ST. PETERS ORPHANS
Entertainment to Be Given Next
Monday Night.

Preparations have been completed
by the members of the Young Mems
Orphan Aid Society of st. Peters
Church for a minstrel show, to be
held Monday night in Kruger Audi
forum. The proceeds of the affair
will be turned over to the ST. Peters
orphan Asylum. The entertainment
is under the general direction of
Alois Kraemer, who will also act as
stage manager.
The committee in charge of the
arrangements consists of August
Struening, chairman; Jacob A. Wild
mann, Robert Kahrer. Frank B.
Khan, Andrew Isenberg, Adam
Freund and Henry Werner. Among
those taking part are: Tombos,
George Lair and Adam Poh, jr.;
bones Francis Gargan and Freder-
lex A. Braun. August Scharffen-
berger will act as musical director,
while the music will be furnished by
Professor Frank Suenderhaft Jo-
seph Herold, assisted by August
Werner, will have charge of the
properties. There will also be a
chorus of twenty-one voices.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-03-22

break Lent's monotony could not be
selected.
AS a. farce, intended TO promote
fun, 1t is clean in humor, ingenious
and CHEEKY in effect. True to life, a
real picture of a Western town dur
ing boom is revealed.
The moral is clearly brought out
that If crooked men would devote as
much energy to honest business as
they do to their evil schemes they
would win honorable and enviable
success.
Clifford Stork will be at home In the
title role, as the thousands of admirers
of thi clever young actor are aware
of his skill in the portrayal of COM
edy parts. With Arthur Jarrett as
Daw, the patrons of the Orpheum will
again have an opportunity to see
these two artists admirably cast in
harmonious characters. On every &C.
casion the pair team it-as 1t were
curtain call after curtain call result.
Harry B. Roche, the inimitable
comedian of the company, will en-
body Andy Dempsey, and Miss Mabel
Brownell, the charming young lead
ing woman, will capably represent
Fannie Jasper, the stenographer, who
reforms the shady financier. There
are many quaint and interesting
characters to lend plcturesqueness
and color to the story and afford OPP
portunities TO every member of the
stock company.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-03-22
"LITTLE WOMEN MARCH 81
AT THE SHUBERT THEATRE

Two women-Miss Jessie Bonstelle,
a charming actress-manager the
first stage director of the only
municipal theatre in America, and
Miss Marian DeForest, a product of
the cold, forbidding atmosphere of
Buffalo-are principally responsible
for Little Women" which will be
produced at the Shubert Theatre
March 81. To them add the per-
spicacious Mr.. William A. Brady, who
saw profit where more renowned pro-
ducers saw failure, and you have the
play which ran for six months at the
playhouse In Forty-eighth street,
Manhattan. AS everyone knows, the
drama is founded on Louisa M.
Alcott's novel, dear to the hearts of
women who were girls when it was
written. Its production is a tribute
to Miss Bonstelle. a woman of whom
Mr.. Lee Shubert AYERS that her judg
ment is infallible in stagecraft, and
to Mr.. Brady's knowledge of human
nature. When his aid was invoked
he knew at once that he, had play
that would appeal to the hearts of
all American women.
why" said Mr.. Robert Emmett
MacAlarney, professor in the School
of Journalism, Columbia University,
at is a tradition, a possession of
Americans; putting 1t on the stage Is
a stroke of genius"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-03-22
WILSON OPPOSED
IN PANAMA TOLLS
Majority of Senate Committee
Against Repeal of
Exemptions.

WASHINGTON, D. c., March %
Five Democrats and five Republicans
on the Senate committee having
charge of all Panama Canal legisla-
ton are opposed to the repeal of the
toll exemption clause for American
coAstwise ships. which is favored by
President Wilson. Three new Demo-
cratic members are expected to vote
the same way. Only one member of
the committee, Brandegee, of Connec-
ticut. former Republican chairman,
favors the Root proposition to re-
peal. If President Wilson recon-
mends a change in the canal act pro-
viding for the repeal of the toll ex-
emption clause in order to appease
Great Britain he will not be able to
get a favorable report from the Sen
ale committee, unless Senators re-
verse positions to which they have
tenaciously held throughout all this
controversy
Those Democratic members of the
committee who voted to grant exemp-
ton from tolls are O'Gorman, Thorn
ton and Simmons Senators Chiffon
and Owens, members of the COM
n1ittee, were paired on that side. The
Republican members who voted for
no tolls were Borah, Crawford,
f3ristow. Perkins and Page This
makes the ten votes in the commit
tee. The new Democratic commit
tee members are Shields, of Tennes-
see; Walsh, of Montana, and Thomas,
of Colorado. If all three vote with
Senator Root, the committee will
stand ten to four against any propo
Hition to repeal the toll exemption.
The Senate will support its COM
mittee.
On August last when the vote was
taken on a direct motion to strike
from the bill the exemption clause, it
was rejected by vote of forty-four
to IL. These eleven votes were cast
by Republicans. as follows:
Brandegee, Burton, Crane, Fall,
Gronna, Lodge, Nelson, Oliver. Pen
rose, Root and Wetmore, A few
Democrats were paired, but not
single Democratic voice was raised
against the proposition to give Ameri-
can ships engaged in the coastwise
trade free passage through the Pa
mama Canal. When in the last ses-
sion Senator Root introduced a bill
to repeal this clause Of the existing
law the committee, after considering
II. laid it upon the table by the de-
cisive vote of to 3.
If President Wilson is correctly
auoted as favoring this repeal and
urges it upon Congress he will run
afoul of determined opposition within
his own party and, as the Senate now
stands, almost a solid Republican
opposition.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-03-22
PRESIDENT BONILLA, OF
HONDURAS, Is DEAD

WASHINGTON, March 22.-Gen-
eral Manuel Bonilla, 70, president Of
Honduras, died yesterday of Brights
disease at Tegucigalpa. He was
elected on November 3, 1911. He had
been ailing since May. 1911, when he
visited General Porfirio Diaz on the
eve of the latter's fall from power in
Mexico Bonilla and Diaz had been
close friends for half a century.
Manuel Bonilla first came into no.
fice outside of Central America in
1899, while he was GOVERNOR of the
District of San Pedro in Honduras.
He was a cousin of General Poly
carpo Bonilla, who once sentenced
him to death, who fought in the
earlier revolutions and who was Pres
ident of Honduras in the early nine
ties. Manuel took part in the revo-
luton that followed the close of Cen
eral Sierra's presidency in 1908, and,
after defeating Sierra and General
Arias the President ad Interim, was
elected to the chief magistracy