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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-09-01

The most desirable furnished rooms are
advertised in The Bee. Get a nice cool
room for the summer.
Arizona republican., 1914-03-01
ILL AT EASE

J. J. GOULD, Secretary.
Arizona republican., 1914-03-01
PROGRESSIVE PARTY
 IS HERE ID STAY

Geo. B. Wilcox, State Secretary)
 The progressive party is made up or about one third of the whole vot- ing population of the United States, q majority of whom have been dis satisfied with the management of both the old parties, for some years rast.
 Many of the leaders of both the old parties. make the mistake of con sidering the new progressive party a sporadic affair; merely the result of failure to win their choice of a presi- dential candidate, in 1912. Such is not the case. The theft of the nom ination at Chicago merely precipitat7 ed the divorce proceedings.
 Progressives believe, absolutely, in every plank of their platform. They are pleased whenever they see one of their measures enacted into law; at the same time, they are amused at the shallowness of the old party leaders in their belief that these 1 spasmodic efforts on their part will
 result in the weaning away of the progressive voter from the party Inc
 has helped to organize.
 The progressive voters, made up ol the men who wore the blue, as wei as of their good friends who worv l the grey, and principally of the de- scendants of each, left the old par ties after giving the matter due con.
 sideration and deliberation. They re-
Arizona republican., 1914-03-01
MANY IMPROVEMENTS ARE WELL UNDER WAY
Fourteen New Homes are Being Erect ed-Oakland Development Makes
 Good Progress

Development work in several sec tions and active building operations are reported by Greene x Griffin.
 Work was somewhat delayed at Oakland by the recent storm, but Is now actively progressing and will be well under way early this week. A part of the shipment of trees have been set out and the planting of the palm trees is to follow this week. Street grading has been completed and surfac- ing is now under way. In the coming week, the beginning of work of laying cement curbing will be begun.
 In Bonnie View, c. B. Linton has taken the house that is being erected on lot s. Work on this house and the one on lot ', is well under way and cement walks are being laid.
 In McElroy Acres, lot in block 1, has been taken by Martha Miller
 The entire tract of Meadow Brook was recently fenced and the material for the new suburban station that is to be erected there, is now on the ground Work has been begun by the Home Builders on their one hundred and eighteenth house at Las Palmas for John Tracy, the secretary of the company
 The two de luxe houses under con- struction by this company at Chelsea Place, are now in the hands of the painters and will undergo the finish ing touches in the course of the present week.
 Some idea of the great extent of the work of upbuilding that is being carried on by the Home Builders in the resi- dential districts of Phoenix, can be conceived when it is stated that they have at the present time, fourteen homes in course of construction.
Arizona republican., 1914-03-01
REAL ESTATE
NEW RESIDENCES ARE GOING UP RAPIDLY
Southwestern Realty Company is Com
 pIeting Two and Planning Two | More Houses

Very satisfactory is the report of the Southwestern Realty company, relative to sales of their stock. They further report good progress in the building work which they have on hand. At the office of the Southwestern Realty company it is learned that they have about completed their tWo-story house in Wentworth Place, at 522 West Portland street The painters will have their work completed early this week. This home is a very attractive house and distinct credit to the ad- dition
 The house that they are building at S1 West Willetta street, in Chelsea Place, is ready for the roof and work upon it is going on rapidly. though it was unavoidably delayed by the recent rains. It win be equipped with day and night solar heater and all modern improvements.
 The same company has plans for two more houses on Willetta street in Wentworth and report that interest in that tract continues and that it is building up with very substantial resi- dences.
Arizona republican., 1914-03-01

alized, and still realize. that there was good in both the old parties, but
 that there was, and is, so much cor ruption in both of them. that nothing but a clean house, from cellar to roof, would suffice So we builded Ia new structure along progressive,
 up-to-date lines. The foundation of
 this structure is of material that is
 warranted to last as long as the pyramids of Egypt. The structure,
 itself, is made of those concrete and fundamental principles which have Weathered the storms and assaults of
 the ages.
 The Golden Rule" and "A Square Deal" are the slogans of our party.
Arizona republican., 1914-03-01
DEVELOPMENTS
 ARE ALL GOOD
Rains, New Verde Project, Introduction of Bill EX- tending Time for Pay ments on Salt River Pro- ject Augur for Prosperity

Optimism prevails in all of the Salt River valley and Phoenix and prevails with good reason, for condi- tiOns could hardly be better than they have recently developed. Right on top of the announcement of the agreement relative to the prolonga tiOn of the time to pay for the Salt river project, came the splendid rains, and the still more splendid raise in the water supply stored up back of the big dam, the real starting of a Verde irrigation project, and the in troduction into congress of the bill to carry out the extension agreement. Thus did important events follow one upon the other.
 The late rains have started vege- tatiOn and fitted the soil for the spring and summer growth without the need of irrigation. The entire valley has taken on the appearance of an immense and beautiful garden. And the great gains in the stored water have put to rest effectually the last doubts of the few lingering
 
 supply for the summer irrigations. The gain of 92,00O acre feet in seven days constituted a percentage of gain of nearly forty-five per cent. something that was far better than the most sanguine had anticipated. And still the gain continues.
 No doubt is felt as to the passage of the bill that will extend the time for payment of the irrigation projects, substantially as introduced and with the definite knowledge of what pay ments must be made and that they will extend over twenty years, con- fidence is inspired that has hereto fore been lacking.
 The importance of the proposal to dam the Verde at Horseshoe Bend is not to be overlooked. It will make possible the bringing into cultivation of large tracts that would otherwise remain desert land and add greatly to the rural population that will surround the city, bringing trade and enhanced prosperity to the in dustries here now and to come.
 With so much of importance it
Arizona republican., 1914-03-01

We progressives do not believe that We are absolutely perfect; that we can do no wrong; and that if we once get into power this United States of America will become one vast, second edition of the Garden of Eden: but we do believe that when the principles Of good government, for which we contend, are generally adopted, this will be a much better country for the average citizen to live in, than it is today.
 We shall be glad to welcome any honest voter to our ranks who feels | as we do about these matters, but as
 parties, no real progressive who
Arizona republican., 1914-03-01

can only be expected that deeper interest will be felt by the investor, in both valley land and city property. A stability that existed before is made more certain, and a new stability is established besides. The most pros porous season that has ever been known here, or hereabouts is promis ed, and with such promises nearing fulfillment, only confidence can pre- vail
Arizona republican., 1914-03-01
AUCTION SALE LOTS
 | IS SET FOR THURSDAY
Large Holdings of Residential Lots
 Will Be Put Upon the Block

B. w. Getsinger, the owner of Wisc's addition to the city of Phoe- nix, plans another of his popular auc- tiCns in that section for next Thurs day, immediately after noon. Street cars will carry prospective buyers to the location, where MT. Getsinger will be his own auctioneer. He has sixty eight handsomely situated building lets to be sold there, three blocks south of the state house.
 This addition is well situated below the state house between Seventeenth and Nineteenth avenues, with water and city conveniences. It is just out side the city limits. Recently there have been more than twenty houses built in and around this addition.
Arizona republican., 1914-03-01

Mir Rocks-So you want to marry my daughter. Well, young man, what are your prospects.
 Young Man-Excellent-if you don't spoil them-Judge
Arizona republican., 1914-03-01

knows why he joined the progressive party, dreams of such a thing. Our 1 latch string is out, There Is room in our ranks for all ProgressiVes go ahead-never turn back.
Arizona republican., 1914-03-01

Bill--Go in an tell de bartender dat if he don't give yer a drink you Il drop dead.
 Red-I dasn't-if he did l would Houston Post.
Arizona republican., 1914-03-01
A TRANSPORTATION

Maid (to postman delivering long delayed parceD-"What is it?' Post man-'Label says, Wild Ducks put they're 'umming birds now."-Punch'
Arizona republican., 1914-03-01
LEGAL NOTICES

The annual meeting of the stock holders of the Highline Canal Con struction Company will be held at Room 4O2 Goodrich Building, Phoenix, Arizona, on Tuesday, March 10, 1914, at ten o'clock A. M. for the purpose of electing a Board of Directors to serve during the ensuing year and for the transaction of such other business as may lawfully come before such meeting.
 ROY s. GOODRICH,
 President. J. J. GOULD, Secretary.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-22
Pointed Paragraphs,

Better hair in the head than two in
the brush.
Experience teaches us how dishonest
other people can be.
A good many people would saw more II
they didn't talk so much.
A wise man makes the best of It when
he gets the worst of it.
Every man thinks he needs a wife until
after he acquires one.
The man who really knows a woman
doesn't pretend to understand her.
How the shrewd promoter does love to
encounter fool and his money!
A man might just as well patronize a
safety razor as deaf and dumb barber.
1t is possible to avoid temptation by at
tending strictly to ones own business.
woman never feels absolutely sure
that her husband has loose habits until
he comes home tight.
After getting the worst of it in an ar
gument she says to him, Now, why can't
you be sensible?
Even if an up-to-date woman did look
like the pictures in a fashion magazine.
she probably wouldn't be satisfied.
An ordinary cold is one of the very
few ailments the modern physician has
been willing to undertake to cure without
a surgical operation.
Of course 1t is less trouble to make
enemies than friends-but friends are
worth the trouble.
When a woman considers her husband
a necessary evil marriage is a failure
Some people seem to think a philan-
thropist merely an easy mark.
Often a womans silence is more signifi-
cant than mans words.
The open season for office hunting is
twelve months long.
A kissable girl often pretends that she
doesn want to.
What the wisest of us say is of far less
importance than what we leave unsaid
If marriage is lottery. that may
explain why the law interferes in SO many
cases.
Occasionally the breaking of an en-
gagement enables both parties to live
happily ever after.
Faith may be all right in its place,
but it doesn't enable a man to deliver
the goods on schedule time.
Many a girls matrimonial chances
would bump the bumps if young man
could see her her mother sees her.
If it is true that there are no mar
riages in heaven. the old bachelors-if
they get there-wont be able to crow
over the other fellows.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-22
FOREST NOTES.

The Canadian Forestry Association,
which recently met in Ottawa. has Sc
lected Halifax, Nova Scotia, for its next
annual meeting place.
The stringent requirement of the forest
service that all sheep be dipped before en-
tering the national forests has practically
eradfcated scabies on those areas.
The lumbermen of Maine in 1900 orig
inatd in this country the use Of noun
tain lookout towers. with telephone con-
nection for the prompt location and sup
preston of forest fires.
A California firm is selling eucalyptus
charcoal at $24 a ton, as against $50 a
ton for oak charcoal. Since most Of the
California-grown eucalypts do not make
good lumber, uses for other products of
the tree are being sought
Fifteen small sawmills are cutting tim
Der from the Powell national forest in
southern Utah. more than 100 miles from
the nearest railroad. They are run by
settlers during time that can be spared
from the crops, and supply local needs,
since there is no opportunity to ship tim
Der in or out.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-22
BLOODY FLOOR IN
A PEACEFUL HOME

A FLOOR smeared with blood A
= peaceful home where the haus frau
sits and patiently darns her mans socks
or croons quaint lullaby as her sub
stantally shod foot rocks the cradle to
and fro. One can hardly conceive Of
sucn condition of things. But they are
so, not in one home, but in hundreds of
quiet. peace-loving, law-abiding homes.
The homes are in South Africa, in the
Transvaal. the land of the Boer farmer,
the kafflr and-here is the cause of the
tale-the ant. the big variety of ant that
| is not content to use his or her nippers
on people, but that persists in eating the
wooden floors as WELL These insects
would eat the wooden floors if there were
any wooden floors to be demolished.
| knowing that nothing made of wood
will Withstand the rayages of the ants,
| the Boer farmer puts unique founda-
| ton under his residence. He has the
| katfirs haul many loads of yellowish
brown clay, known as "geelklei,'' and a
few dozen OF the Kaffirs tramp 1t into
| fine dust, which they mix with water
and work UP into the consistency of
dough ready for the oven.
| 1t is then thrown into the Enclosure
| made by the foundation walls and again
| trodden by the black men until it is as
solid as a piece of stone. When this
mass has thoroughly dried and the sur
face has been smoothed off, it is smeared
( over with thick coating of fresh OK
| blood which is allowed to dry for two
or three days. 1t Is then in condition
| for polishing.
Again the natives set to work, and nc
| piano receives a more brilliant polish
| than these bloody floors get with the
bare palms of the Kafiirs. The inter
! mingling of the deep red o. the OF
blood and the pigment of the clay forms
a mahogany red, rich and beautiful, and
of a brilliancy of polish that is won.
derfully artistic when set off by the
skins Of such animals as the tiger
leopard and native lion.
Unless the visitor to the Boer home is
| informed beforehand of the way the
floors are made, no idea of the substance
composing them would be conveyed BY
the appearance of the finished product
| which. after being treated with a Ger
tain kind of varnish, is thoroughly water
proof, and insect proof.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-22
MANAGERS MACK AND O'DAY
WERE ONCE BATTERY MATES
Big Stars in This City Quarter of Century
Ago-Charlie Dryden Can Appre
ciate a Joke.

cut that nature never intended him to
be another Eddie Plank.
Joke Was on Dryden.
Charlie Dryden came here with the
Chicago club. The base ball humorist
is as full of wit as ever. The first day
the Cubs were here Dryden and bunch
of war correspondents and players decid-
ed they would go to the ball park in
style. So they bargained with the driver
of an automobile. The latter told them
it would take them thirty-five minutes to
get to the park in street car and fifteen
minutes in the auto. He would consent
to take them for four bits, or % cents
each.
That was satisfactory. So Dryden and
his five friends hoped into the machine
They settled themselves back in their
seats. expecting to enjoy a ride of fifteen
minutes.
Dryden concluded to time the ride. In
exactly four minutes the auto arrived al
the ball park
AS the driver had collected the fou1
bits from each passenger before starting
Dryden and his friends concluded it was
no use in kicking.
Charlie can see joke as well as write
one.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-22

after 1905; deaths are further reducing
the number of slaves; many are able to
buy their liberty for sums ranging from
So to SIS, and in addition many owners
are voluntarily giving their slaves free
dom.
The governor predicts that slavery prac-
tically will have ceased to. exist without
further restrictive measures by 1880. and
pleads against setting any fixed date for
a general emancipation, which he de-
clares would ruin many plantation own
ers. provoke rebellion among the native
farmers. and cost the government at least
$2,0O0OOO to indemnify owners for the
loss of their property.
The governor uses arguments that had
familiar ring in the United States sixty
years ago. He says the negro by no
means feels the lack of personal liberty
as hardship; that the slavery is Of a
decidedly patriarchal character; that tie
labor eXacted is light and that they are
given certain days each week to cultivate
their own little garden. BY a general
emancipation the aged slaves, who are
now fed and sheltered by their owners
when no longer able to work, would be
thrown destitute upon the world.
Government Is Criticised.
In discussion of the report in the budget
committee of the reichstag the socialists
and clericals sharply criticised the attf-
tude of the government, behind which.
they averrcd, was the self-interest of the
plantation owners seeking a cheap sup
ply of labor. Advertisements from CO.
lonial newspapers, offering to sell or buy
slaves, We're read by the socialists. who
declared that the government was favor
ing, and even promoting the slave trade,
and a clerical leader alleged that German
planters organize regular manhunts to
get labor for their plantations. DR.. Solf
secretary of state for the colonies. admit
ted that the law has been interpreted to
justify compulsory recruiting Of native
labor for plantations, and that grave m
fringements of the law had been commit
ted by native soldiers with the knowledge
and consent of their white officers.
The native population Of Africa is al
best shrinking under contact with the
white man. 1t has been thought tina,
under the influence of white civilization
the cessation of the continual tribal wars
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-22

rial for professional base ball So soon as
| a boy goes to work regularly ne mus'
| put aside all hope of base ball career.
! Base ball is most exacting profes-
sion. The boy who would succeed IN IL
| must give it all his time.
so. unfortunately. the good boys VINO
go to work are lost to us as base ball
material
This leaves US two classes from which
to draw our recruits the boys who so to
high school ar d to college and who learn
to play ball while doing so, and the boys
who avoid school and work or loaf or
bum about the lots.
Between these two classes there is
really no comparison.
The college boy is educated. mannerly,
tractable teachable. He has learned how
to learn. AS President Wilson put 1t, his
mind has been trained to grasp ne"
things. 1t is not what he knows, but what
he can be taught that makes him valua-
Bile.
THE very fact that boy is inclined to
avoid school to bum from his classes, to
avoid work, Is in itself. primary evidence
that he does not want to learn and that
he is intractable and hard to teach, that
he does not learn readily.
Learns How to Think.
As rule the boy who does not learn
readily in school will not learn readily
in base ball
There it is in a nutshell.
Zone boy has learned to learn. the
other has learned not to learn.
You can talk to the college-bred play
er on matters outside of base ball. He is
easily enlightened. You can get him TO
see beyond the moment. He can see the
gain. or the dollar, that the future holdS
much better than the uneducated man
You understand the point 1 am trying
to make? I know that 90 per cent OF
American boys go to work by their six
tenth year. These are all good. ambi-
tious boys, willing to learn and willing to
work But as soon as they go to work
they are lost to base ball.
THAT, as I have explained. leaves US
but two classes from which to recruit
players, the collegians and their oppo-
sites. the boys who refuse to learn at
school or to go to work.
ayers get the extremes, the most de-
sirable class. which is the college class.
and the most undesirable class. which Is
made up OF the boys who refuse to either
go to school or to go to work.
'''rhe great middle class. good boys who
would go to school if they could or II
they knew the great value OF educatlon'
is lost to base ball.
1.-The logic of this is that base ball gets
the most promising and most favored
boys the ambitious collegians who are
not the sons of rich men, and the least
promising and most unhappy class, the
BOYS who will not study and who refuse
to work steadily.
"One class is first class. The other is
fourth or fifth class.
Can you wonder, then. that base ball
managers are favoring the collegian?
Apart from base ball. considering life
as whole. my earnest advice to the
Young man, base ball player or otherwise
is that he shall. first of all, get the best
education ne possibly can. 1t did not
matter SO much when 1 was a boy, nor
does 1t matter so much today, bue TWEEN
ty years hence the man who has not got
good education will be in pitiable con-
dition."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-22

and the introduction Of scientific medical
methods the negro population in Africa
would grow rapidly. Diederich Wester-
mann. professor at the Oriental Semi
nary of the Berlin University, declares.
on the contrary, that the depopulation is
steady and rapid. He cites the report of
a Catholic missionary. Father van der
Burgt, who after twenty-five years OF
work in German East Africa found that
the native population in that time had
decreased a third, il not a half. Infant
death rates of from Al to so per cent and
a surprisingly low birth rate are factors
which missionaries observed in Togo,
the Cameroons and other African colo
MES as well as German East Africa.
Comment on Lack of Farm Labor.
The Farmers League, whose annual
convention in Berlin. just closed, declares
that the exodus from rural district to
city has made 1t impossible for the land
owners to find enough native farm la
borers. They have to depend on the
hordes Of Russians Poles and other for
eigners which invade Germany each
spring and return to their homes in the
autumn, taking out of the country the
savings of their six months work. The
problem has recently become sraver, in
view of the announced intention of the
Russian government TO forbid its sub
jects from coming across the border.
This would mean that the German larm-
ers would have to look elsewhere for nc
less than 100000 laborers at time when
army increases are about to take a fur
Their block of 10000 able-bodied men
away from productive pursuits.
Prominent speakers of the Farmers
League asserted that laws limiting the
right of domiciliary choice of persons
under eighteen years old should be en-
acted. This would mean that the peas,
ants. whose right to choose their owr
domicile and to move about freely was
established by the imperial constitution
more than forty years ago, would return
to serfdom. 1t was also proposed thai
even adult Inhabitants of rural communi
ties should not be permitted to move te
cities without first proving that they hat
secured a home there. How such law
could be enforced was not explained.
The same conditions make for the drift
to the cities in Germany that are OBJ
served elsewhere. These are primarily the
superior educational and social advan