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Arizona republican., 1914-08-18
HUMAN WRECKAGE

He came to us like a specter out of the crys- tai freshness of a perfect morning. His costume was comical his hands and face smeared with coal dust burlesque audience would have promptly accorded him a laugh.
 He was panhandling clumsily In his eyes was agony and his lips unspeakable grief
 Some of us had known him when he moved as other men, belonging to world, sharing our traditions, our peculiar diversions, affection for the work that is His appearance brought a chill, disturbing anxiety. Whom has destiny marked down for the next spectacular fall? we in quired, each of himself.
 He spoke a few words about going to the source of things" You learn much enroute, he said Diffidently gave small coins to him as though it was our shame and not his that he should beg.
 No one moralized. To point out external req son is so easy and silly One goes up another down-Kismet
 The rush of work closed in over the memory of his visit Yet the stored memory, picture in strong colors, will up at times and we will wonder where and how he is existing. He be- longs there, in the alleys, the docks, in evil bars, and nothing bring him back Life, having twisted and battered him cruelty, will not let go but continues to drag him, helpless, through his private hell.-Detrot News
Arizona republican., 1914-08-18

Wilson; Willow Alley before and after Mrs Wilson's
 work thee
 Washington that Mrs. Wilson spent This district the lower class Shortly before Mrs Wilson's death she asked law eliminate the dis which before her death The alley three blocks from the capitol.
Arizona republican., 1914-08-18
CANALYSiS

The Panamanian pilots will be logged in creamy white; Youu know 'em from tn deck hands when you em in tn light No doubt they're made for ornament, you will quickly say A pilot on tn Panama cant help but know the way
 Cleveland Plain Dealer The pilot on the Panama will have easy snap; He'll have the softest snap that be found upon the map And in his creamy uniform he'll be the happy guy That puts the pie in piotage and captivates your eye
 Springfield Union The pilot on the Panama will have work to do; He'll have it on the captain, and he'll have it the crew. He'll attitudinize on deck in all his cream and gold, And please the lady passengers and get their hands to hold.
 Houston Post
Arizona republican., 1914-08-18
Domestic Sugar

It will be recalled that during the tariff debate the sugar the most active agency about Washington for the removal of the duty sugar. The trust, thereby, with it's refinetes in Cuba and elsewhere in the world hoped to destroy the beet sugar and independent industries in this country. It succeeded in putting free sugar into he tariff bill but the government needed the mon ey about $6OOO00O0 annually from the imports of sugar, the operation of that schedule suspended ntl May l. 1916. The rate sugar, however reduced, effective March IA of this year. It is good thing that the government needed the money, which. by the way it isn't going to get. in the it expected since there will be little sugar imported fIto this country this year. But it the disposition of our government to destroy the domestic industry and. but for it's money the sugar schedule would have been made operative at In that case, there would have been sugar beets planted in this country and the cane Louisiana would ave been restricted, if not eliminated altogether. AS it
Arizona republican., 1914-08-18
IS North First Avenue.

mathematicans chinch bugs, porterhouse steak would sell at penny pound.
 The sole objects of the chinch bug are to eat and leave descendants. Wheat is his favorite diet, but when the wheat harvest is he cheerfully gorges himself corn-which shows that he is not of English ancestry.
 When the climate has been favorable for the chnch bug population, the wheat crop shrnks until the harvest is a holiday and the administration Washington has supporter all. When the wheat harvest is and the wheat stubbe dries up, the chinch bug gets up and walks the neghboring field where he eats until he bursts. Nothing is more terrifying than the sight of sev eral billion chinch bugs advancing upon corn feld-unless it is the sight of several million office seekers marching Washington, armed only with certificates of unquenchable democracy.
 The chinch bug be discouraged by oil or creosote in his path digging a dust furrow and letting him fall in and smother. But too many farmers prefer into town and cuss provi dence instead of buying crude oil.
Arizona republican., 1914-08-18
QUAKER SPEECH RARELY HEARD

At a Friends meeting in Philadelphia the other day several speakers expressed regret that the dis tinctve Quaker speech known the plain lan- asserted that the gentleness that distinguished it the influence of Friends in measure de- creased by it's abandonment.
 Doubtless this view is correct The Quaker speech now so rarely heard, always much liked by people members of the sect because if was associated with calmness and serenity of manner Probably this serenity a quality not dependent on the language used. but was a mat fer of temperament and habit, but it seemed an essential accompaniment of the gentle thee and thou" and other peculiar forms of address AS used this Quaker speech not strictly gram matical-"thee s," for example being open to ob- lection if any thought of it in a critical way Nevertheless thee is had it's charm
 The passing of the Quaker costume was also spoken of with regret, yet those who la mented it's disappearance were not nsistent on it's readoption Apparently they saw no especial con- nection between the plain garb and the plain lan- guage yet there undoubtedly is
 The speech is expected from wearers of the distinctive costume-the straight, severe gowns and the close fitting bonnets, and loses it's effective ness when it comes from the lips of woman ar rayed in fashionable attire. The change in dress was urged by the young generation of Quakers on the plea that the old fashions set them apart from their neighbors and a hindrance. Perhaps they did to give up the quaint speech also but it's disuse inevitable. It does not be- long with worldly dress
Arizona republican., 1914-08-18
The Boiled Shirts
By WALT MASON

Sweet youth, you and ask for admoni- tiOn, you'd have preach and counsel you spel and I say, better your condition, go, learn trade, and learn it passing well. The world is short skilled and drilled mechanics but it is long trifling human squirts who, facing work, prone fits and panics, who kid gloves and boiled scaoped shirts. The who tolls at bench or loom anvil is worth gross of those who talk or wrte 'twoud them right to bring some cans from Canville, and put them in, and seal the bunch up tight. The man who takes his tools from out their locker who swings a sledge plies the shining saw, worth while than any tire less talker who boosts the Flag, yet eXpounds the law The country sWarms with demand ing ayment dizzy schemes, the thought which appalls; the country sWarms with men in princey raiment, and what needs the man in overalls Go forth fair youth and learn to be tinker plumber bold tailor a cook. and men will say you a peach and cinker when the product of your skill they look.
Arizona republican., 1914-08-18
THE SEVENTH INNING

It is a simple ceremonial, but impressive like all manifestations of the soul of a multitude. l need only close my eyes to call up the picture vividly: It is day of brilliant sunshine and a great crowd of men is seated in the open air, crowd made up of all conditions, ages races temperaments and states of mind. The crowd has sat there an hour or more while the afternoon sun has slanted deeper into the and the shadows have crept across green sward and hard baked clay to the eastern horizon. Then, almost with single moton-the time be somewhere between o'clock and } oclock--this multitude of divers minds and tempers rises to it's feet stands silent, while one might count twenty perhaps Nothing is said high priest intones prayer for this vast congregation; nevertheless the impulse of ten thousand hearts is obviously focused on single desire. When you have counted twenty the crowd sinks back to the benches. A half minute at most and the rite is over-Simeon Strunsky in the August Atlantic.
Arizona republican., 1914-08-18
A PRESCRIPTION

Here is one that told by Congressman Benjamin G. Humphreys in throwing the harpoon into a medical friend who fellow guest at a banquet.
 Some time ago the keeper of museum was engaged in placing some new curios that had Just arrived from Egypt when he noticed perpleXed look on the face of his. attendant.
 Whats the matter, Smith?" he queried, going to the assistant 'Is there anything you don't derstand?"
 Yes" answered Smith. Here is a papyrus on which the characters so badly traced that they indecipherabe. How shall 1 class 1t?
 Let see,'' returned the Keeper examining the curio Just call it doctors prescription in the time of the Pharaohs.
Arizona republican., 1914-08-18
WE SPOKE TOO SOON

The Arizona Republican is joking Cochise county about the number of it's political asprants. For the love of Mike" Bro Spear, have you taken stock of the candidates in Maricopa? There have been candidates from Maricopa county seeking votes in Cochse county, three to one, than from any other county. With three candidates for governor, three for United States senator and one for every state office in Marcopa county, we should think that The Republican would keep mum about the number of candidates other counties.-Douglas International
Arizona republican., 1914-08-18
The Chinch Bug
By GEORGE FITCH Author of At Good Old SiWash"

The chinch bug is the greatest obstacle to the spread of religion in the wheat raising districts.
 The world has had many deep thinkers ana reaoy writers but none these has been able to think up anything good to say about the chinch bug It Is small insect with large, terrifying odor and is dis tnguished for two things-fecundty and appetite
 The chinch bug multiplies at rate that makes
Arizona republican., 1914-08-18

the Belgian hare look like the poorest scholar in the class In a year. chinch bugs accumulate a family reunion which will fill seventy acre wheat field leaving only room for the mortgage when covers it. If cattle only one-tenth as me
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1914-04-22
Library Money.

The library apportionment this year
tions 4761 and 4762 as amended by
the 1913 session of the legislature. The
apportionment will be made by the
State Department of Public Instruc-
ton July Is, the date for making the
primary apportionment. A statement
will be sent every county clerk of the
districts that will share in this appor-
tionment. Each county treasurer shall
before the first day of August, make
the apportionment of the penal fine
money at that time in his hands,
among the several townships, districts
or township districts in his county.
This money when received by the
township treasurer shall be applied
to the support Of the Libraries in his
township according to the statement
sent him by the Department Of Public
instruction. Every township clerk
should report to each director on or
before August Is the amount of pri-
mary and library money belonging to
the district. Directors should see to it
that they have this statement that they
may give account in their yearly re-
port of all money belonging to the
funds drawn by their district or still
in the township treasury. Dog tax is
not a part of the library fund. 1t be-
longs to the general fund.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1914-04-22

form after death has been almost the uni
aspiration of the There have been doubers but
the night death their hope and listening love
hear the rustic of a wing"
The unknown writer of the book of Job guilty of
when he put the mouth of the chief character Of
great DRAMA pitched childhood of the the
IF dies shall he live again?'
No doubt hope of Immortality ghtened the of the
she kissed the cold forehead her
through his elder brothers jealousy Men have dreamed about
Immortality and theorzed about it from that day this There
about 5000 volumes the theme with the number
growing.
The possibility of the life beyond the supported by
many anaogies from The hrysa opening into butter
fly the buried grain of shooting into green stalk and the
birth of vegetation every spring all for theesurreco
Of or from, the dead.
Conceptions of justice and demand Evolutionary
development suggest unless the earth and all that dwell
be tragic failure Countless philosophers by unaded
have upheld the probability of Immortality while few have
positively denied its possibility.
But all people calling themselves Christians Immortality is
merely subject of phosophc conecures The fact of the
resurrection of Jesus oyous commemoraed both seal of
his divinity and to the ageod question of job
1t belief in that made early spread of Christianity
possible and the vital element all its subsequent history
In the eighth century John of Damascus sang Easter
the PRINCE of today
Christ has burst his prison.
From the frost and gloom of death
Light and life have
When Jesus became the first fruits of them that slept he
made possible for every follower cry with Paul. 20 DEATH
where is thy sting? 0 grave where is thy victory?'
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1914-04-22
Automobiles and Good Roads.

L cannot help calling your attention
to a subject that has been most amusing
TO me. ON all sides IL has been urged
that automobiles are the direct cause
OF the agitation for DETER roads and
that all the present agitation is due { }
their actniiy. Car attention has be, n
called so often to the Appian Way,
built three hundred years before
Christ; to the Simplon Pass, built by
Napoleon Bonaparte, that we forget
that there were good road boosters
before Claudius, Appius and Napoleon.
Who says this is a present day agi-
tation? A thousand years before Abra-
ham was born a magnificent system of
paved highways had been built in the
valley of the Euphrates. We further
know from history that Moses led the
Children of Israel out of Egypt on a
substantial paved road leading from
the Egyptian capital to the Isthmus Of
Suez and there connectd with the Bib
lical road Of the Philistines which had
been built by the Phoenicians and
connected Tyre and Sidon." We know,
too, that Darius built a stone road
from Sardis to Susa seventeen hundred
miles long, over which the first postal
service was established, making the
trip regularly in seven days. I'm all
history perhaps there has never been
a greater good roads booster than
Buddha, the great Hindu religious
leader, who established and construct
ed some wonderful roads in India and
placed them in charge of priests TO
maintain" They also built inns to
care for the traveller and continued to
improve these roads until recent years.
The paved roads of Jerusalem were
four thousand and eighty miles in
length, and altogether the Romans
built more than fifty thousand miles
OF the finest stone roads. So ii is we
find that in every country the men who
have developed the resources of their
nations have been great road builders.
The countries of the old world today
are demonstrating the fact that they
have learned this great truth in history
Germany and France, England, Bel
GUM, Switzerland, Italy, in fact all of
the world, are building and maintain
! ing roads. 1t remains for us to follow
| in the procession.
What / desire to impress is this,
that the good roads movement is not
alone the result of the automobile age
! in which we are living, but is greater
! factor in our industrial development
that we have heretofore overlooked
\ 1t is of the slightest Importance to us
whether or not this agitation is the di-
rect outgrowth of the building Of auto
mobiles; the real question is: How
shall we best organize to bring Michi-
gan up to the standard of our sister
states in road construction? If we can
get little inspiration from ancient
history we'll and good-but what we
most want and need is good roads.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1914-04-22
EDUCATIONAL NOTES
Items of Interest TO Friends and
Patrons Of our Schools.
County NoITnaIs.

The state of Michigan has in opera
ton forty-siX county normal schools.
These schools are conducted to train
teachers for the rural schools. Each
normal has two teachers and main
tains critic room where the students
do practice teaching under the super
vision of an expert teacher. Since
these schools were established they
have furnished over five thousand
teachers to the rural schools. Stud
ents who have completed the elev-
enth grade in a good high school can
complete the county normal course in
one year. Graduates of county nor
NAL schools receive credit at the Uni
versity of Michigan and at the state
normal schools. Graduates Of county
normal schools who are graduates OF
approved high schools may obtain a
life certificate by attending a state
normal school for one year and one
summer. High school graduates who
have not had the county normal work
obtain the life certificate at a state
normal in two years
The demand for trained rural
teachers is increasing. School officers
are awake to the need of employing
efficient teachers. They realize the
country must have as good teachers
as the city and they are willing to pay
enough TO secure them.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1914-04-22

rather than on battles and campaigns.
1t also promotes the observance in the
school of Peace Day. May IS. the an
niversary OF the meeting OF the first
Hague Conference on international
peace. Special efforts are to be made
by the Michigan Branch of the School
Peace League to have exercises held
in every school in Michigan, May IS.
and State Superintendent OF Public
instruction Fred l.. Keller is about to
issue a circular on this subject.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1914-04-22
L Would Not BE Content.

III l were a baker. j would not be
content with being a good baker, nor
even better baker than my neigh
Dor. ! would endeavor to bake bread
like Michael Angelo painted pictures,
like Thorwaldsen chiseled statuary, or
like James oliver moulded plows. 1t
would be my aim TO put into this trade
"a factor from which posterity could
draw economical and social better
ment. i would leaven my bread with
the ambition of my soul and crust my
pastry with the seasonable joy of sup
RENE effort profitably employed. 1t
seems to me the dough bin holds pos
sibilities for Man. Let him stand
forth.-Elbert Hubbard.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1914-04-22
Peace Day Nav IS.

One of the most active organiza-
tions in the peace propaganda is the
American School Peace League, or
ganized in 1908, with headquarters
at 405 Marlborough ST., Boston. The
League strives to lay emphasis on the
teaching OF peace in history courses
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1914-04-22
Good Roads Department
Conducted Especially for the Banner by Hon.
T. Colgrove, President of the Michigan
Good Roads Associa ton.

: III automobiles help they are entitled
to credit. good road for one is a
good road roi ali
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1914-05-14
ORDINANCE NO. 80.

An Ordinance of the City OF Alma,
Michigan, establishing and regulating
the salaries OF the various elective and
appontive officers of said city of Alma,
for the fiscal year, commencing with the
first Tuesday of May, 1914, and repeal
ing all ordinances or parts Of ordinances
heretofore adopted relative thereto.
The City Of Alma Ordains:
Section l.-That for and during the
fiscal year commencing with the first
Tuesday OF May, 1914, the respective
salaries of the elective and appointive
officers of said city of Alma shall be as
follows:
Mayor, $50 per year.
Aldermen, $50 per year each.
City clerk, 500 per year.
City treasurer, $500 per year.
Superintendent Of water works, street
commissioner and weed commissioner
(three offices combined) 500 per month.
City attorney, $50 per year, exclusive
of court work.
City marshal, $50 per year, marshal
to turn all fines and officers fees over
to city.
City night watch and deputy marshal,
$50 per month.
Health officer, 500 per year, with no
extra compensation as milk inspector.
City engineer, 80 cents per hour for
time actually employed.
Chief Of fire department, 500 per
year.
Firemen az men only 5000 per year
for II men or SIS per year per man.
City teamster, 5000 per year with a Is
day vacation without loss of time.
Section 2.-That all ordinances or part
of ordinances heretofore adopted rela-
tive to said salaries are hereby repeal
ed.
| Section 3.-That this ordinance shall
take immediate effect upon its adoption
and due publication thereof.
State of Michigan, County of Gratiot
City of Alma. SIS:
We the undersigned, Mayor and City
Clerk of the said city of Alma do here.
by certify that the above and foregoing
ordinance, known as Ordinance No. q
was duly adopted by the common coun'
Gil of the said city of Alma at session
of said council held at the council room.
in said city on Tuesday, the fifth day OF
May, A. ID. 1914.
ID. W. ADAMS.
City Clerk.
ALBERT p. COOK, Mayor.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1914-05-14
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS

Geo. w. Moore to James A.
Collision, NV IA, sec 2S and
pt Sc IA SW IA, sec. p, Wheel
observation-disclosures 5S6O
n. NJ. Bradford to J. O. Drew,
w II NE IA, sec. y, Wheel
er ... 5000
J. Sheldon to l.. Shellenbarge, NV
IA NE IA, sec ?, Bethany. 200
c. C. Phelps 10 w. ]. Gee, n ID
S II SW IA. sec ?, Sumner. 1900
Burt. Sharrar & Moore to +. Boyd,
l. 90 n - NE IA, sec. p,
Bethany .................... wv
J. Gamble to l.. B. Jenney, L IL
w ID SW IA, sec y, Beth
any .................. .''''''. 7'VV
T. Anderson to L. w. Simons,
SW IA Sc IA, sec Is, Sc
Vile ................,.. oOOO
G.. Landon to +. w. Clark, SW
IA Sc IA, sec %, Sumner. 1900
w. Walker to +. Mclean, N II,
NE IA, sec %. Arcadia. ........ $3.50
]. Redman to B. II. Shepard, lot
II, Park Place East, Alma 1000
4. Ademek to f. Whitman, lot ii
block 3, North Star .......... SOO
N. u. Waddell to ]. w. Neon
key, S IL NV IA SW IA and
L IL SW IA, sec. "a, Emer-
son Observation-Disclosures 1880
d. c. Whittemore to c. M. Cud-
ney. Sc IA. sec. IS, Hamilton 20OC
A. Stoves to +. Keppler, w. 80 A 5
/ 90 A, + l-2 S l-2, sec. 2, North
Star ................... loV,
]. w. Glass to p W. Smith, lot
SO, Park Place West, Alma. -. S5C
Z. ]. Alverson to w. Walker, lot
| 2, block 5. u. Ithaca ...,...... III;
NJ. p. Ferris to B. Summers, pit
IL Sc IA, sec 80. Sumner $40. 1SOt
! ]. S. Hunford to f. NJ. Struble,
Sc IA Sc IA and 5 IL n IL
Sc IA. sec 81, Arcadia ....... 72OC
J. Allen to II. Z. Bentley, pit 5 IL
SW IA, sec 8. Wheeler 49,. 500
+. O. Mead to A. G.. Wilhelm, w
IL Sc IA SW Ia and SW IA
NE IA of SW IA, sec "a, Beth
anv ........................ 800
l.. Pickard to o. w. Lyle, Sc
IA NE Ia, sec IL, Lafayette. 5l2
]. Seitner to ]. ]. Woodward, s IL
S l-2 NV IA, sec 80, Wheel
er ............... ..........'. oz/
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1914-05-14

Order Appointing Time For Hearing
Claims
STATE OF MICHIGAN-The Probate
Court for the County of Gratiot:
AT session of said court, held at the
Probate Office in the village of Ithaca in
said county. on the 2lst day of March,
1914.
Present, ]. Lee Potts, Judge.
In the matter of the estate of John
Ross, Deceased.
The above estate having been admitted
to probate and p w. Creaser Of Alma,
Michigan, appointed executor thereof,
1t is ordered, that four months from
this date be allowed for creditors to
present their claims against said estate
and that such claims will be heard by
said court on Tuesday, the 2lst day of
July, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon.
Ii is further ordered that public no.
tice thereof be given by publication of
this order for three successive weeks
previous to said day of hearing, in
the Alma Record, newspaper printed
and circulated in said county.
]. LEE POTTS,
Judge of Probate.
"a true copy.
BELLE JENNIE,
Clerk of Probate