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Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1914-02-19
FREDERICK RAILROAD
Thurmont Division

Schedule In Effect November 10, 1918
All trains Daily unless specified
Arizona republican., 1914-02-17

Miss azel Hrdman and Charles Manning
 N J, whose wife murdered in his affinity Miss Hazel Herdman in affidavit him with having failed tell the police authorities of the Such neglect under the New Jersey law msd punishable by three prison and fine of Ooo Man. his
Arizona republican., 1914-02-17
CENTER OF ANCIENT CITY OF ROME

Professor Bonis discovery of the ''mundus" or center of the ancient city of Rome, is only now beginning to be generally known. There difficult natural obstacles to be overcome in the course of the excavation.
 The "mundus.' pit in which the instruments used in founding Rome deposited, reach ed after close examination geological struc- ture by the sinking of shaft. The site, which is at the northwest angle Of the vast impuvium in the atrium of the Palace of Domitian, entirely cred by the solid foundation of second century building.
 The Romans themselves lost the site of what was once the most sacred of sacred spots. and ap- parently Augustus made unsuccessful to find it. Professor Boni laid bare shaft filled with de- bris of the Augustan era, which probably sunk in the explorations carried by order of the Elm perOr
 Professor Boni's report has not yet been pre- pared. Meanwhile. archaeoogists recalling that the references to "lapis manas" and "sucus primi- tet' in the writings of Cato Varro, Plutarch and others are now unexpectedly illuminated by the come of Professor Bonis patient work for fifteen years. which has laid bare much that seemed to have been hidden forever
 The -mundus' was sacred to Pluto and Perse- phone and was venerated until the fall of the re- public as the center of the furrow which traced the ritual boundary of the primitive city. It the lnnermost shrine of the ancient religion of Rome.
 The 'lapis manalis" is a square rough hewn slao of tufa, one of the kinds of used in the construction of Rome pierced with round holes Professor Boni appears to have braved the terrible shades, which legend says guarded the "lapis ma nalis,' and he found the vaulted granary and fla vissae, below the granary. The favissae excavated forty feet deep in the tufa below the clay of the summit of the Palatine hill guarded the sacred seeds for the primitive Romuaen race.
 The lapis manalis7 concealed the most ancient mysteries Of the mundus,' whence germnated and spread forth the fundamental energies of the Ro- man people, mysteries ancient that the Roman race tsef-New York Sun.
Arizona republican., 1914-02-17
Men find it more easy to flatter than to praise.
 Jean Paul Richter.
Crowdinq Out the Loan Shark

Ever since Cain the Guilty asked, Am I my brothers keeper?" mankind has been asking the same question in much the same spirit, with an assumption that answer in the negative is the and reasonable answer. But for a long time there has been growing conviction that that answer is wrong. There have been multiplying manifestations of awakening to the fact that we are the keepers of weak brethren
 Among the later manifestations is the organi- zation of the country wide Industrial Finance poration with branches in different parts of the country, combat the loan shark evil. Perhaps, we should say combat it but take it's place, by furnishing those without collateral needed funds when that be done without other risk than the loan shark assumes. terms that will be burdensome to borrowers.
 By the loan shark particularly mean the uslIrer who loans money on household goods and such ruinous of interest that before his victim has been freed his clutches, he has paid many times the amount of the loan and who finally enforces collection by species of black mail.
 The loan shark, despcable as he is, has a place in our economy and if We substitute some thing better for him we should him alone. He offers the only assistance many who in dis tress The unfortunate find relief there, though at a terrible price, but it is needed relief. He is also the haven of the unthrfty and it is here that the most evil work of the loan shark is accomplished The unthrfty who fall into his hands bid adieu to all hope of becoming thrifty. The unfortunate, after the breathing spell which the loan shark al lows him and which he charges dearly may take his place among men again. The bonds of the unthrfty only become more tightly drawn
 Most states have legisated against the loan shark but he still thrves because the legislation has offered nothing his place. It is not construc- tive legislation. Destructive effort though the oo- feet aimed at should be destroyed, be really ef- fective and beneficial be followed by con- structive effort It is of little tear down a house unless one is be erected on it's site.
 The Industrial Finance Corporation has been organized to occupy the site of the loan shark. It is a phanthropc. but charitable enterprise The who have gone into it do not intend to give money away for the asking On the contrary they expect, least small returns their invest ments They hope be able to relieve the needs of the unfortunate and perform a still greater service by showing the unthrifty how to be thrifty The service the Industrial Finance Corporation will perform will be infinitely greater than any charit- able institution could perform.
Arizona republican., 1914-02-17
Public Play Grounds

We suppose that large majority of the citizens of Phoenix who have given the matter any thought at all, agree that Phoenix ought to have public play grounds and must have them-some- time But perhaps not resident in a hundred is insistent upon early sometime There will never be better time than now. A year, six months or perhaps month hence it will cost more than half as much present Two years hence they will probably twice much
 The playgrounds should be centrally located. We do not that they should be in the heart of the town, the business district where the price of ground is prohibtive but in those Iocal- ties which will be central the town expands, as it is expanding far beyond them There should be than of these playgrounds for the accom- ,modaton of children in different parts of town. They should be equipped with sand piles where the smaller children could romp and play, and with all other paraphernalia for the delight and exercise of children all ages The public play grounds should include public bath especially a shower bath where young and old may refresh themseves
 The other day gentleman whose business calls him into all parts of the country a visitor at The Republican office. He was in Phoenix the first time He had been over the paved street dis trict He had been driven along the principal thoroughfares adjacent to the city. He had noticed the new steel and concrete buildings in course of construction. He had a considerable part of the rich agricultural backing of Phoenix and he had been impressed.
 Phoenix" said he "is the best town of it's size in the United States. have lately been in hun dreds of towns but have seen no other so beau tifu and highly improved" He spoke of the school houses especially. All these things had been seen at glance. But in that glance he had not
Arizona republican., 1914-02-17
Ancestry of the Wild Horse

An interesting controversy is raging in South America. perhaps owing the presence of a dis tinguished North American faunal naturalist, over the question: Are the wild horses of Argentina descended from the horses brought over by the early Spanish cOnquerors from horses indigenous to the country? The question recalls to the Chicago Tribune the fact that similar controversy has been waged in this country, without definite con- clusion ever being reached. Fossil remains indicate the presence this continent in prehistoric times of small animal that might have been the ancestor of the modern horse. However scientists in clined to believe that wild western horses were the descendants horses brought into this country by the Spaniards. The testimony of historical rec ords is that the Indians had horses when they were first visited by white while tribes Were well mounted and herds of wild horses were numerous when American pioneers first penetrated the interior of the continent.
Arizona republican., 1914-02-17
THE MAN WHO DOES

The Forecast says that Orve Wright in dis cussng the floods in Dayton took an optimistic view, expressing himself thus:
 Optimism or pessimism-its all in the view point A pessimist grows the thorns on the roses An optmist rejoices over the roses on the thorns"
 And it is the meiorist who jumps in and builds a bigger and better Dayton than before
 It is the meliorist who burbanks the roses into something better with thorns minus
 It is the meliorist whose pessmism is tenn pered with pessimism, and his pessimsm pointed with optimism, both directed and yielded with ener gy and precision for the good the world
 A meoriSt is burbanker with optimism and pessmism balanced with vision and power push and persistence plus.
 Elizabeth Towne in February Nautilus
Arizona republican., 1914-02-17
Art
By WALT MASON

l went to the painless artist to have brand photos made; he's celebrated the smartest slickest workman in his trade. And now said, in accents naughty, T to look just like myself, and like old doggone dot
 ty image a shelf You need not fuss around and hustle to beautify me, it were; l am not Colonel I-on Russell and do wish to look like her Just picture I am looking each day. upon the busy mart; I'll have you know I brooking yoGr high experiments in Let actresses and kindred friskers do posing stunts with mouths ajar
 just photograph my and wIlislers my and larynX they are" Just sit down here he said with feeling. place your chin within your hand, and glue your eyes upon the ceiling and look jestic weird and grand" | it tarry; he simply would play my game, and make picture I could carry arolnd without
 blush of shame In all my pictures I resemble some folks never came across; the late lamented Fanny Kemble or else the long lost Charlie Ross.
Arizona republican., 1914-02-17
PROMOTING HYPOcHoNDRIA

The other day you commended a new society having for it's object to persuade people seemingly IT good health submit to a medical examination from time to time ascertain whether not they are sound in body they think they In my opinion such object is far from commend able That society might well be called a society for tte increase of hypochondriacs In some cases to be sure, medical examination might reveal to a assured of his good physical condition that and not otherwise For such there would be half dozen where the examination would reveal incurable disease result in mistaken diagnosis Doctors, the most skilful of them. do sometimes hlunder in their diagnosis especially when dealing with the obscure beginnings of disease. The insurance companies though they may require every applicant for policy to have medical examination. not by any means con- vinced the infallbility of it, when made by their officials. They put more confidence in what they learn of the longevity of members of an applicants family than in the examining physicians g report. And moreover, insurance companies not ih- frequently contest the payment of a policy on the ground that they deceived to the state of the decedents health when he appd for his policy although they had in hand the report of their own medical examiner I f has an incurabe dis and doesn't suspect it, what is the use of telling him of his condition? Why transform him cheerful. light hearted person into a sad-faced hauner of doctors offices, years 1t may be he feels an ache a pain?-C. M. Nickerson in York Times
Arizona republican., 1914-02-17
Sidewalk Sketches
BATHING
BY HOWARD L. RANN


 Bathing is a disease which is making rapid in home It is very eXasperating ament and is liable strike in when hasn't got a clean shirt to his Not being a contagious disease, however. it doesn't spread very rapidly unless d has stern wife and large and sarcastic buary. Bathing has kept many man down town until the fire has gone out in the kitchen range. This malady manifests itself in various forms the most popular of which are the Turkish bath the mud bath the wash basin bath and the immunity bath The mission of the Turkish bath, is to enable stout get into their clothes without the aid of a shoe horn. No lean infess a Turkish bath unless he is in search a painless death. The mud bath is resorted by people af- ficted with large means and ingrowng rheumatism Its chief advantage is that it draws the rheuma- uns to the surface, where the patient can see it. and makes post mortem unnecessary. The wash basin bath is not quite thorough as the Turkish bath out it is shorter and costs less Also there IS no danger of a relapse, The immunity bath has been tried out with good deal success by our leading financiers and pillars of society the rnci- pal ingredients being whtewash, a pure life and legal Nerblage- Some people have a passion for bathing and indulge in it once or twice every month while others, by the exercise of great will power and self restraint become almost immune women who insist upon their husbands bathing at unseemy periods of the calendar year should have care. Man is meek animal but soaded too far he is liable to turn and rend the poadee ny teasing a flat in close proximity to the town pump
Arizona republican., 1914-02-17
NEVER A THOUGHT OF A LEeuME

It is a fine world but men blow and follow corn after corn with thought of a legume There is lovely sky, but look up at it when he is taking to escape the mudholes in the undragged road? It is a lovely morning hut we know lot of farmers whose notes fall due to- day. We wonder if they have fed their cattle wise ly and have the cash in the bank with which to pay. It is great weather, but we happen to know of whole sections of farming country in the United States where the bathroom has not yet come nor water in the farmhouse. We are the greatest people on earth, we admit that. but wheat yled IS pitiably low, not what it ought to be and the farmers renting their depleted farms for cash and moving into town-Breeders S Gazette
Arizona republican., 1914-02-17

curious phase of Mexican life is found in the fact that the carried in the northern part of the republic has scarcely any effect the sport of horse racing at Juarez, the American border. It apparently makes difference whether the federas the so-called Constitutionalists plain everyday Mexican bandits hold possession of the town, oppor tuntes for riskng money the ponies, the jockies as the case may be, offered to both sporting Mexicans and Americans. The Mexican is born gambler, and when engaged in eyercis ing his skill q bandit he is ready risk his pesos the ponies It is said that the book makers Juarez reaping a harvest. and they are credited with giving odds to Amc.icans and NcXicdns on the same terms
Arizona republican., 1914-02-17
ABOVE THE PRIDE OF PRINCES

During the Civil War the late Col Ga5e Bouch organized a regiment which he controlled as oe- tator
 "I am o humble servant of the Lord" said tinerant evangelist vho had wandered into camp one day "endeavoring the souls of the un- fortunate have inst left the camp of the-th Massachusetts where I was instrumental in leading eipbt men into inc maths of righteousness"
 "Adjutant." thundered Colonel Bouch alter a moment's nause Detail ten men for baptism. No damned Massachusetts regiment shall beat mine for nietv,~-From s.rhe Pest Stories in the World" by T. l.. Mason.
Arizona republican., 1914-02-17
PARROTS AND REPATRIATION

both H. G. Wells and Sir Gilbert Parker in thelr new novels The Passionate Friends and The Judgment House. write of the period of the Boer war The heroes of both books fight In south Africa, but MT. Wells keeps his hero there after peace ls decared, to take pant in the important MorA or repatriation. No has written any, t"lhs that really conveys the quality of that re- p"tila'ioh process. says he hero of'The Passion ate ffiends; the queer business of bringing these suspiclous, llhterate, Respondent people back to
Arizona republican., 1914-02-17

their desoate homes reunting sWarthy tatilers di" stockish mothers witnessing their touchingly mex nressiye encounters doing what one could to put heart into their resumption. Memories come back 10 me of great Uttered heaps of luggage, bundies blankets rough boxes. piled newly purchased stores ready made doors window sashes heaped ready for the wagons moving apathetic figures sit ting and eating and internal squawking o parrots, sometimes a wailing of babies All the prisoners helieve brought back parrots.
Arizona republican., 1914-02-17
=[ Arizona Republicans Editorial Page

noticed the public play grounds or the absence of them If they had been there, he would have seen them and would have noted and remarked another evidence of Phoenixs progressiveness. But in the matter of playgrounds Phoenix is tagging behind progressive towns of both the and the west
Arizona republican., 1914-02-17
RosToN.ANs IN GOOD STANDING

Yes had brother in Boston once, s'iu q Chicaso ladv to a Bostonan. He was Tn soiie .,reat musical society there but forget It's hdie
 Handel and Haydn Society perhaps susses' ed her visitor DAG
 Well I guess so Handel and Haydn were boS ton mon weren't they?-Christan Register
Arizona republican., 1914-02-17

Talk of aeriaj around hC orld for a rtiZe of $200000 advertise the Panama exposition shows how rapidly the worlds fair business pro gressed since the time when Pan-American was advertised with line of illustrated blotte.s.
Arizona republican., 1914-02-17

Miss Christabel Pankhurst announces that she has abjured hunger strikes indicating return to sanity.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1914-12-26
HAROLD GRANT DENIES
SEING WOMAN'S SLAYER

Sheriff Harris, of Elko county, is in
receipt of a letter from GAINESVILLE,
Wis, relative to Harold +. Grant,
arrested there a couple of weeks ago
for the murder of Miss Jennie Miller,
state librarian, at Aurora, III. In as
much as Harold was born in Elko, the
news of his arrest, printed exclusive
lv at the time by the Free Press,
created no little interest locally. 1t
now appears that Harold probably did
not commit the murder, to which he
at first confessed, and the Wisconsin
authorities are anxious to get rid of
him and send him book to Nevada.
The letter informs Sheriff Harris
that the young man was arrested at
GAINESVILLE for vagrancy, later making
a confession that he had slain Miss
Miller by smuggling her over the head
with a club. His story, coming vol
unfairly, was doubted at the time, and
now the Wisconsin authorities are al
most positive that he had naught to
do with the foul crime. Harold now
SAYS that he m.de the confession in
order to get a warm place to spend
the winter, he preferring Jail to fight
ing his way penniless during the
.troublous months. He said he had
ben unable to get work, so he decided
to tell some tale that would insure
him a Jail sentence of not less than
90 days.
Since then he has been examined by
physicians, who pronounce him mild
ly insane. He has been incarcerated
in three insane asylrns, as told by the
Free Press at the time, one of them
being in Toledo, Ohio. In each in
stance he escaped and %journeyed
elsewhere.
through Sheriff Harris of Elko, are
DESTROYS of locating the lad 8 mother,
who is believed to be living in
Parks, having married since the
death of Harold's father. Then, if
the mother or any other relatives
prove willing to advance the money
to pay his fare, Haetld Grant viii
be shipped from Wisconsin % Neva.
da, but only on his relatives promise
that he will be adequately cared Tor
on his arrival here.
Harold claims that he has tried
repeatedly to make his way back to
Elko, but that each time the police of
Colorado Springs compelled him to
return eastward again. Just why he
always travelled via Colorado Springs
is not stated, but there are several
other transcontinental routes by
which he might have come west.
Amy information as to the present
whereabouts Of his mother will be
cheerfully received by Sheriff Harris.
l-Elko Free Press.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1914-12-26
LOCAL BRIEFS

Percy G. Harrison, manager of the
National mine, arrived in town last
evening from the east and left for
camp this morning.
F. R. Sprague, cashier of the Me-
Dermitt bank, left here Wednesday
evening for Reno.
E. A. Duvivier, of Golconda, is in
town today.
Senator-elect j.. ID. Bra lsh NV ar
rived in town from Paradise Valley
this noon and will leave tonight for
California, where he will rena n un-
ii, shortly before the Legislature con-
venes.
William Blattner is in town today
from Paradise Valley, registe led at
the Eldorado.
Commissioner and Mrs. J. p. Byrues
came over from Paradise Valley today
and will remain over Sunday. the
guests of their mother, Mrs. Mary
Byrnes, of the Shone house.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1914-12-26
RoME'S OPERA SEASON
OPENS WITH WAGNER

(By Alice Robe, United Press staff
Correspondent
ROME, Rec. 2G-The opera season
here opens tonight with the presenta-
ton of Wagner's Twilight of the
Gods the Gotterdsmmerung."
That is the simple announcement
but in the minds of the Romans, ~
ways ready to read some significance
concerning the war situation into cv-
cry action-even the program of the
opera house is srousing comment.
Why oesn't the Costanza open rs
season with an Italian operas? Why
must a German opera be given 10
launch an Italian opera season at
this hour of ~Italv's neutrality
These are a few of the comments of
the Romans, many of whom see a lee
laration of favor to Germany in this
selection of a Wagnerian opera for
the premiere of the season.
While German opera has been under
discussion as n possibility in other
countries and willie its prohibition in
France, were opera to be given there,
has been assured-Italy, armed with
neutrality, is producing this season
idHN tCl lndh OH1t nOl VIII
out comment.
leaves but little solaee to the excitable
ones who are constantly wondering
which way she viii turn in the hon-
of ultimate decision.
Music so artistically inter
woven with the lives of these people
Yields its part in the discussion and
the sidelghts on the war. The popu-
lar concerts given in the Piazza Col
onna have been removed to the Pin
clio because, after each concert there
has beer an ant-Austrian demonstra-
tion before the Austrian embassy
which is situated in the palace facing
the Piazza Colonna. Quite naturally
it is the anti Austrian who read in tae
presenting of German opera an unde-
sired mark of favor toward the hated
Teutons.
At a recent musical given by the
wife of a man high in diplomatic err
cles, a guest CHANGED to remark that
she wished some dire fate would be-
fall the Kaiser. The next morning
the hostess received a mysterious let
ter warning her that conversations
sucH as hdu tdhtH pidte at ner SOsial
gathering must be tabooed or SER
Gus consequences would result.
Naturally, as the guests were al
friends, the hostess is beseiged with
fears that German spies are in her
house and she is in constant dread Of
her servants. The incidents only IL
Illustrates the highly wrought nervous
state of Italy-generally speaking,
concerning the va: and this country's
neutrality.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1914-12-26
Catholic Church Services.

At st. Paul's church there will be
mass at 1920 O'Clock a. m.