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Arizona republican., 1915-08-01

Mr. and Mrs R. F. Stauffer mo tored to Tempe yesterday afternoon
 Mir and Mrs. George PrOtZman and Mir and Mrs C. II. Tinker Were among Phoenix visitors yesterday af- teFnoon.
 Mrs. Baker is in Phoenix under medical treatment. She has suffered several attacks of appendicitis recent Iy but hopes to avoid an operation
 The young son of MT. and Mrs Homer Sine who suffered an attack of appendicitis has completely re corded.
 Professor Davis will now testify to the correctness of the assertion of Henry Ford that the Ford will go anywhere
 H F. J. Ahrens, formerly in the banking business in Kansas, but re gently with the reclamation service at Phoenix has accepted position with the Glendale State bank.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-04
New Idea In Gymnastics.

Cliff-climbing has become tame
sport for the students of the Philadel.
phia College of Pharmacy. Signing for
a new method Of testing the condition
of the nerves, the physical instructor,
w. Ward Beam, hit upon a decided
novelty-crossing a river On a rope
bridge.
The idea possessed one charm: the
outfit was cheap and easily portable.
for it consisted of two stout ropes and
nothing more. One rope. according to
the plan preached to the eager stu
dents and goods by the physical in
structor, was to serve asa support for
the foot, the other to. balance the one
who essayed to cross a river on this
precarious foothold.
According to Mr.. Beam, the object
of the rope-walking is simply to
harden the nerves of the students. We
lack nerve, he says, chiefly because
we never do anything to cultivate
strength in that direction.
This novel form of gymnastics is
now a part of the college curriculum
and the Women students are as expert
at it as the men.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-04
STAND ON ANCIENT RIGHTS
Northwestern Indians Insist pm Fish
ing Without Licenses Accord /
ing to Old Treaty.

Bellingham. Wash. - Attorney,Gen-
eral w. v. Tanner came here to con-
fer with County Attorney w. P. Brown
relative to issuing informations for
the arrest of Indians for alleged illegal
fishing, County Attorney Brown hav-
ing declined to issue informations q
Gently for the arrest Of five Lummis
who had been picked up by a deputy
State fish commissioner. Mr.. Tanner
was advised that until cases now in
the courts are settled n way or the
other no more ~informations will be
filed.
The Indians are defending their
stand under the treaty of Territorial
days, giving them the right to fish
when and how they please on ancient
and accustomed fishing grounds. The
fish commissioners is attempting to
compel the Indians to take out IL
censes.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-04
SEEING LIFE with
HENRY
%ShWG eo1geW Eobart
K1%1W1V John Henry on the Street Car
John Henry on the Street Car

I've been up and down and over
and across in the surface cars and
my experience is ornamented by
ripped trousers and discolored shins,
but my intellect blows out a fuse every
time l try to dope out the real way
not to be an End-Seat Hog.
Last Monday l jumped at an early
bird open-face car and it seemed that
all the world was filed with joy and
good wishes.
l was smoking one Of those Bad
Boy cigars. l call it a Bad Boy
cigar because as soon as it goes out it
gets awful noisy.
The car was empty with the excep-
ton of a couple of benches.
Two blocks farther on the car
stopped and a stout lady looked rel
the situation.
| think she must have been color
blind, because she didn't see the
empty seats and decided to cast her
lot with me.
1t was a terrific moment.
john l said to myself, don't be
a Hog-move overt"
And virtue triumphed.
l moved over, and the stout lady
settled squashfully into the end seat.
Her displacement was about fifteen
cents worth of bench.
After we had gone about ten blocks
more every seat in the car in front
and behind us was crowded, but no
body could get in our section because
the fat lady held them at bay like Ho-
ratius held the bridge in the brave
days of old.
People would rush up to the car
when it stopped. balance carelessly fore
and aft until their ayes rested on the
vacant seats in our direction, and then
they would see the stout lady sitting
there, as gracefully IS a concrete
Sphinx.
The people would look at the stout
lady with no hope in their eyes, and
then, with a sigh, they would retire
and wait for the next car.
No one was brave enough to climb
the mountain which grew up between
him and the promised land.
After a while l began to get a tooth
ache in my conscience.
John" l said to myself in a hoarse
whisper, perhaps after all you were
the Hog because you moved over.
After the lady had climbed over you
she would have kept on to the other
end of the bench where now there is
nothing but a sullen space"
l began to insult myself.
John" l exclaimed inwardly, what
do you know about the etiquette of the
street car? According to the newspa
pers it is only a Man who can be q
Hog on the street cars, and since you
are the original cause of blockadinl
the port when you moved over, YOU
must be the Hog"
Then l got so mad at myself that
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-04

empire for investment. England, Hol-
land, Austria-Hungary and Italy, in
the order named, followed Germany
in business with the Russians. Ger
man trade promotion was thoroughly
organized throughout the land, and
in Riga, Petrograd and Moscow names
of thousands of German firms could
be seen.
Russia, as are but few other great
nations, is self-sustaining in the mat
ter of raw materials; but the Musco-
vite empire is dependent upon the
factories of other lands for every step
that it may take in the upward scale;
it is even dependent upon foreign
manufactures to maintain standards in
it's wide-sweeping territory as high as
they are today. There is fabulous
riches awaiting transmutation by Rus
sian industry, but Russian industry
has hardly passed the birth"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-04

will always find four feet, and their
owners, unless one of them happens to
have a wooden leg.
Under ordinary circumstances four
into two won't go, but the Squeezer
cars defy the laws of gravitation.
A Suueezer conductor can put twen-
ty-six into nine, and still have four
to carry.
For a man with a small dining room
the Squeezer car has its advantage
but when a stout nan rides in them
he finds himself supporting a lot Of
he never met before.
One morning l jumped on one of
those S%queezers feeling just like a
two year old, full of health and hap
piness.
During the first seven blocks three
men, fresh from a distillery, grew up
in front Of me and removed the
scenery.
One of them had to get out in a
hurry. SO he kicked me on the shins
to show how sorry he was to leave
me.
One Of the other two must have
been in the distillery a long time, be-
cause pretty o o he neglected to use
his memory and sat down in my lap.
When l demonstrated with him, he
replied that this is a free country. and
II he wished to sit down l had no
business to stop him.
Then his friend pulled us apart, and
/ resumed the use of my lap.
During the next twenty blocks |
had one of the worst daylight night
mares | ever rode behind.
The party who had been studying
the exhibits Of the distillery became
obsessed with the idea that my foot
was the loud pedal on a piano and he
started to play the Blue Danube
Waltzes."
That man was such q hard drinkel
that he gave me the govt Just from
standing on my feet.
Then | jumped off and swore of
and swore at and walked home.
II the man who invented the idea
OF standing up between seats in 1
Squeezer is alive he should have I
monument.
My idea would be to catch him altv'
and place a monument on him, ant
have the conductor come arount
every ten minutes for his fare.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-04

of us may not be Hogs, but there Is
a m in the life of every ma
when he gets near enough to 1t to be
called a Ham Sandwich"
Just then the Disinfecti brothers.
Microbeini and Germicide, walked
over me and | had a short but excit-
ing visit to the slums.
Since hat eventful day | have
moved over thirty-six times, and out
of the thirty-six people l gave the end
seat to all but three of them belonged
to the Mucilage family, and stayed
there.
Therefore | made myself a severe
promise not to worry any more about
my Hog qualifications when movable
or immovable on an openface cal.
I will do as my conscience dictates,
and walk downtown as much as pos
sible.
And, speaking of street cars, | was
in one of those cities recently where
some of the cars stop on the near side
of some of the streets and some stop
on the FAR side of some of the streets.
Honestly. they had me in the air.
l left the hotel to attend to some
business downtown and went over to
the near side of the street to wait for
a car.
When the car came along | held
my thumb up in the atmosphere warn
ingly, but the motorman kept on to
the far side and stopped.
By the time l ran over to the far
side he was gone again, and another
car had stopped at the near side.
When l rushed back tn the lear side
the car passed me going to the far
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-04

refused to talk to myself any fur
Their.
The next day l was riding downtown
on the end seat with my mind made
up to stay there and keep the harbor
open for commerce.
Never" l said to myself, never
will anyone become a human Merri-
mac to bottle up the seating capacity
Of this particular bench while the
blood flows through these veins and
the flag of freedom waves above me-"
At the next corner a very thin little
gentleman squeezed by me with a
look of reproach on his face, the like
of which / hope never to see again,
but | was Charles ]. Glue and firm in
the end seat.
Then a couple of Italy's sunny sons
of the name of Microbeini and Germi-
eide crawled over me and kicked
their initials on my kneecap and then
sat down to enjoy a smoke of domes-
tic rope, which fell across my nostrils
and remained there in bitterness.
After / had been stepped on, sat
on, clawed at and scowled at for
twenty minutes, l began to discuss
myself to myself.
John" l whispered, do you really
think that the general public appre-
ciates your effort to keep the Harbor
open?"
And then myself replied to myself
with a sigh of exhaustion, Il don't
think"
John" l said to myself, mo mat,
ter what your motives may be the
other fellow will always believe you
are trying to get the best of it. II
you mov over and give the end seat
to another gentleman. he will consider
1t only as his right. If you don't move
owe he will think you are a Hog foI
keeping that which is as much yours
as it is his"
l began to grow confidential will
myself.
Civilization is a fine idea. but Hu
man Nature can give it cards anC
spades and then beat 1t Quit" ! tolC
myself. THE Human Hog was in
vented long before the openface stree
car began to stop for him. and ther'
isn't anybody living who should stol
to throw stones at him, becausl
selfishness is like the measles-i
breaks out in unexpected places. Al
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-04

MH Y friend, Hep Hardy, presented
M me with a neat little gold ham
mer day before yesterday. Why, l
don't know.
But now that l have it l might as
well use it.
Every time | hop into one of those
roomy, comfortable street cars in a
city OF the second, third or even
fourth class | Immediately contrast it
with the wood boxes we use in New
York, and l find myself growing red
in the face and biting my nails.
Those Squeezer cars that prowl the
streets of New York are surely the
b%reathless limit, aren't they?
The Squeezer a is the best genteel
imitation of a r~ough-house that has
ever been invented.
They are called Squeezers because
the conductor has to let the passen-
gers out with a can opener.
Brave and strong men climb into
a street car, and they are full of health
and life and vigor, but a few blocks
of the road they fall out backward and
inquire feebly for a sanitarium.
To ride on a Broadway street ear
for instance, about eight O'Clock of an
evening brings out all that is in a
man. including a lot of loud words he
didn't know he had.
The last census shows us that the
street cars in the city Of New York
have more ways of producing nervous
prostration and palpitation of the
brain to the square inch than the
combined population of Amsterdam,
Rotterdam, Tinkerdam and Gotterdam-
merung.
To get in some of the street cars
about six o'clock is a problem, and to
get out again is IN assassination.
One evening recently l rode from
FOrty-second street to Fifty-ninth
street without once touching the floor
with my feet.
Some of the New York street cars
lead a double life, because they are
used all winter to act the part of re-
frigerators.
It is a cold day when we cannot
find it colder in the street cars.
The germs in our street cars r ex.
'tremely sociable and will follow a
stranger all the way home.
Often while riding in the New York
street cars l have felt a germ rubbing
against my ankle like a kitten. Being
a gentleman, at least specifically,
did not reach down and kick it away
because the law says we must not be
disrespectful to dumb brutes.
Many of these street cars are bull
on the same general plan as a car
of condensed milk.
When you get out you cannot get in
and when you get in you cannot ge'
out. because you hate to disturb tn,
strange gentleman that is using you
knee to lean v
Between the seats there is a spac,
of two feet, but in that space you
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-04

side, and now the near side looked SO
much like the far side that ! went
back to the other side. which should
have been the near side, but how
could it be the near side when the car
was on the far side, and 1 could not
get near the side in time to catch the
car before it was far away on the far
side?
Just as I rushed back again to the
far side the near side became the
nearer side to catch the car, and
when l rushed over again from the far
side to the near side the nearer l got
to the near side the clearer l could
see that while the faf side was far
away it was nearer than the neal side,
when ! hoped to take a car on the
near side.
Then l began to grit my teeth and
made up my mind to anticipate the &C
ton of the next car by standing half
way between the near side and the far
side, so that l could run to either side
the emergency called for.
l was standing there about a min
ute, much pleased with the idea, be-
cause the near side was about as
far away as the far side, when Just
then an automobile sneaked up behind
me and one of the forward turrets
struck me on my personal far side
and hoisted me over to the near side
Just as a car left for the far side.
raaphad ont nv hand IN pras the
far. side step, but I missed it and
caught the near side, and by this
time the car was on the far side and
the motorman grabbed the neal side
of the electric controller and pushed
1t over to the far side, whereupon the
car started for Ell Paso, Tex. at a
speed of about 5000 miles a minute,
and there l was with the near side
of four fingers holding on to the far
side of the step and the rest of my
body sticking straight out in space
like a pair of trousers on a clothes
line in a gale of wind.
Then suddenly the lear side OF my
fingers refused to hold on to the far
side of the step, and with the near
side of my face I struck the far side
of the tracks, and the a side OF
my brain saw every individual star on
the far side OF the Universe.
Then l went back to the hotel and
crawled into the far side of the bed
while friend wife sent for a near-side
doctor who lived on the far side of the
block.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-04
Aprleot DAINTY.

Apricot dainty is one of the incest
apricot dishes l know. Pare and cut
in halves a dozen ripe a%pricots. Ar
range them on the bottom of a glass
dish and sprinkle thickly with sugar.
Let them stand for several hours, then
sprinkle with chopped walnuts and
rolled macaroons. Pour a rich boiled
custard over them, and top with a
meringue made of tie whites of eggs.
Flavor with almond. Stand in
crushed ice and salt till very cold
Exchange.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-04
OIL Cloth Table Mats.

Oil cloth table mats for the chill
dren will a " many soiled table
cloths. They can be made by taking
either a square OF an oblong of white
linen, drawing threads and hemstitch-
ing all around. Sew on a back. max
ing the finished article look very much
like a pillow cover with one end open
for the pillow. Into this slip a piece
of oil cloth the size of the mat, and
you will have a useful and attractive
a Of keeping the table neat The
child's initial embroidered in the cen
ter would add much to the beauty of
the article.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-04

toughest ash hoop pole. He cuts a
mortise in an oak heart plank with a
copper chisel and he has a copper
razor which the village barber says is
about the slickest tool he ever han
died.
These tools we're forged OF discard
ed soldering coppers from the sardine
cannery. bits of copper wire and an
old copper kettle. They may be
ground. whetted or honed like steel.
Foss says he a make a copper file,
or a copper hand saw. or anything
with a cutting edge and OF any degree
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-04
COPPER AS HARD AS STEEL
Maine Blacksmith Claims to Have
r Discovered Centuries Lost Art Of
Temperine Copper.

Milbridge, Me.-James Walter Foss.
the village blacksmith. s~ixty-seven
years old. says he has discovered the
centuries lost art of tempering cop
per. He shows copper knives that will
whittle long shavings from a hickory
wagon spoke. and a copper draw
shave that slices the knots in the
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-04
THIS DOG CATCHES FISH
Water Spaniel Supplies the Needs OF
Owner and N~eighbors In
indiana.

Aurora, Ind.-James G. Duggens. a
farmer, who lives on the Laughery
Creek, has a water spaniel that ia
noted along the stream for its method
of catching fish. Tie dog has caught
8 ,veral hundred pounds dur ing the
last few months for its owner and his
neignbors.
Tho dog dives into the water ana
o appears with a fish in its mouth.
and wlli repeat it's diving for several
hours at u time.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-04
What He Meant.

The Sultan want to speak to you
about the light of the harem.
Grand Vizier-The beautiful Fati.
ma?
The Sultan-No, the gas bills.
They're getting too high. = Boston
Globe.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-04
Dates and cream for ereaktast

Take about one-half pound of dates,
cover with tboiling water, stir and sep
arate them in the water with a silver
fork. skim them from the water to
an agate pan and set them in the
oven for three or four minutes to dry
on. Cut each date 10 halves and re-
% stone. Serve with cream.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-04

of hardness.
He says that he hopes to get enough
out Of his discovery to spend his last
days without work and then the world
is welcome to it He is sixty-seveh
years old and thinks he has worked
long enough. but until he made his
discovery 1t looked like years more OF
labor for him.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-04

Maj. Gen. George w. Goethals. gov
ernor of the Canal zone, arrived in
New York recently on board the S.
s. Pastores. He said he would offer
his resignation to take effect in No
vember. Colonel Goethals is accom-
panied by his wife and son Thomas,
and is here on a leave of absence to
visit the Panama-Pacific exposition.
The colonel expects tc be put on
the active army list, and If this is not
possible, he will ask for his retire
ment with the rank of brigadier-gen-
eral. He told newspaper men that
he intended to visit the exposition as
a private individual, and desired that
no fuss be made about him by any of
the officials. That Mrs. Goethals is
anxious to leave the Canal zone per-
manently was shown by a remark she
made shortly after the ship left quar-
antine and started for the pier: Il
hope never to go back" she said.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-04
no keep pies erom eurnInn.

To prevent cakes. pies and other
pastry from burning on the bottom.
sprinkle the bottom of the over with
fine. dry salt. and your cake or pies
WIN bake perfectly.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-04
Not That Kind.

Don't you think, my son, you need
a tutor?"
mo, indeed. dad. That new auto
horn of mine is a tooter that beats
the road"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-04
Apparent Contradiction.

"She twists her husband around her
little finger" Why, | thought you
said she had him under her thumb. -
Baltimore American.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-04
lacrosse an Indian Game.

The game OF lacrosse is OF American
origin and was introduced by Canadian
Indians.
Evening star., 1915-12-06
SEVEN AUToISTs ARRESTED,
Halted by Maryland Authorities on
Road to Baltimore.

Special Correspondence OF The Star
HYATTSNILLE. Md, December g.
Justice of the Peace Robert Z. Joyce,
determined to break UP speeding on
the Washington Baltimore boulevard
and to enforce other features of the
automobile laws. had a busy day yes
terday. and with the assistance of the
constabulary, stopped seven automo-
bilists between the District of Column
via line and Bladensburg. Most of the
offenders were without an operators
card, and each left s5 collateral for his
appearance for trial There names and
the charges are: A. NJ. Simon of New
York city. no operators card: w. G..
Burgan. 357s 18th street northwest. no
operators card; l.. S. German, Aber-
deem, Nd, no operators card and
speeding, SO collateral. G. l.. Lowe,
222 18th street northwest. no Mary
land tags. Samuel Tayman. 703 Florida
avenue northeast, no operators card !:
l.. Clee. 430 9Th street northwest. no
operators card and being in possess
sion OF New York tag, left so col
lateral. and William Young. Shirley
avenue. Baltimore, speeding.
Evening star., 1915-12-06
WOULD BENEFIT ALL EUROPE.
Rev. John Van Schaick, Jr.. Sug-
gests Use for Ford's Millions.

II wish that the millions of Henry
Ford and others like him could be given
to the American National Red Cross.
They would equip other ships. which
would put out without any advertising
but which would bring the blessing of
all Europe back to them" said Rev.
JoIin Van Schaick. jT.. in his sermon
yesterday at the Church of Our Father,
18th and l. streets northwest.
The pastor spoke of relief work in
the war zone and the best means Of it's
accomplishment "The President has
issued a proclamation calling for help
for the American National Red Cross. =
he said. Every man who loves his
country. every man who believes in in
ternational good will, every man who
believes in Judaism and Christianity,
owes it to himself. his religion and his
country. to help. Every mother. wife.
sweetheart and sister ought to have
every chance possible to have her man
come back from the war.
Evening star., 1915-12-06
Rev. Joseph H. Ham, S. j., Dies.

Rev. Joseph H. Ham. S. j., fifty-f1ve
years old, for a number of years sta
toned at st. Aloysius Church, died
yesterday at Georgetown University
Hospital. Funeral services are to be
held at Dahlgren Chapel. Georgetown,
tomorrow morning at 8 o'clock For
the past eight years Father Ham had
been connected with missions in
Charles county, Md. He was born at
Gettysburg, Pa, May a, 1860.