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Arizona republican., 1915-03-18
Electricity on the Farm

A recent consular report by Henry P. starrett American consul at Owens Sound, Canada, the use of electricity the farm ought to be of great interest to the farmers of the Salt River valley Mr Starrett says the farmers of the Dominion are takin; advantage of electricity power in a mach greater degree than tue farmers on this side ol the line.
 We learn from the report that before the breaking out of the European the problem of procuring skilled farm labor had become very grave The departure of so many the front greatly increased the difficulty, and land owners booking to electricity as d friend in need
 As early as March. 1911 the provisional lesis- hture passed a power commission act the object of which to facilitate the distribution of electrical energy among the rural districts. In bringing to the attention of farmers the benefits to be derived the of cheap electric power, the commis sion instituted extensive educational campaign. consisting of lectures given by experts before agri cultural societies and meetings and of actual demon- strations fairs and exhibitions of the operation of hreshers, silo filters and dairy and other machn cry As result of these efforts. the report states, the farmers in many localities became interested in the economy and convenience of electricity as of motive power applied to farm equipment.
 The power commission pays attention to the de, eopnent in hydro electrical way. of local streams and small reservoirs. In Canada, well as in the United States, hundreds thousands of horse power is going waste which, if harnesseG and developed in economical way. would prove to farmers in these days of high prices of products.
 In this valley electrical energy is already de- Neoped and only awaits application We relieve that only in single section have the formers sought avail themselves Of the economy and Vcnience of electricity. though when the Roosevelt project was proposed of the results pleas antly contemplated the diffusion of electrical energy throughout the valley. To stimulate and make easier the application of electricity, bill for the creation of electrical districts was introduced into the late session of the legislature and passed by both houses. But it somehow buried in the debris of unfinished business and not transmitted to the governor until four days after the adjournment of the legislature It is doubt ful whether the governor could legally approve However the failure of the bill will not prevent the farmers of this valley from making of the en crry which awaits their demand.
Arizona republican., 1915-03-18
THE BEST LIKENESS OF NAPOLEON

Everybody knows the fine sepi;t by Isabey, rep resenting Napoleon at MalmasCn. It first pub licly exhibited the Salon of 1902. The artist caught the likeness" says the Journal des Debats of the time while the first consul walking in the gardens of Mamaison. The picture is being engraved under Isabey's supervision, and the public will be able to enjoy sight of it."
 Here is the way it is spoken of by the poser, Rechardt in his book, "JTn Hiver a Paris lc Consuat," published at the time: Tt is the onlya known portrait of Bonaparte, though Isabey has made him too tall' One of the earliest printed notices of the picture appeared in the off cia Moniteur in it's issue of August H. 1901: "Cit- Isabey has just made drawing of the first consul walking alone at Mamaison. The likeness is striking. He is wearing the uniform of the Corps des Guides and has a plumeless hat The deep interest which the subject of the drawing awakens and the very simple arrangement which the artist has adopted produce contrast whose charm it is difficult to describe" Isabey thus speaks of it:
 At Malmaison l executed the first fuillength portrait of General Bonaparte that made. From morning till night I could follow him with my eyes he promenaded along in the grounds, buried in thought, his hands behind his back. I could thus easily seize his pensive expression and mark the outlines of his body When the was finished. gave it to the general, who pleased with the likeness and congratulated me peciallv on having been able to do the work without his having had to pose"-I1arpers Magazine
Arizona republican., 1915-03-18
Vest Pocket Essays By George Fitch
EDUCATION


 Education consists of stocking the memory with a large collection of valuable facts so neatly arranged that they can be taken out in a minutes notice
 This is a very difficult task. | takes almost twenty years to ac- quire a complete and well catalogued stock of knowledge. And even then it consists only of well chosen samples from all the different lines which have been produced in the last 1000 years.
 Many man has collected knowl- edge for sixty years and has still been compelled to order vast quanti- ties of necessary facts from the cata = Iogue each day.
 When the young man has finished laying in the sample lines at tn high scEool he goes to college where an enormous collection of fancy edu- cation is dispensed at very low rates. Here he may remain for four years buying stocks of Latin. Greek, lie brew, archaeology, pheontology, cos mologv. biology and phycho-socio 
 logv. history, neo- Platonology and ether costly complications with the utmost recklessness.
 1 Some young men have unlimited shelf-room for this sort of stuff. anu when they have been graduated go on through life acumulating new and alarming lines of knowledge. But Inanv students fill all available shelves in their memory in thelr sGphmorc year and pile the rest oi the stuff on the floor
 This is a great mistake Nothing l is sadder thar to sec an earnest voIng man wadng weariiy through 9S.7s5 poorly catalogued facts in the effort to find d little mslaid inior- nation in the art of holding an elGht dollar a week job
 He becomes confused and dis conragcd, not to mention dusty. m the process. When you see such il young man trying to sell bili of groceries with complete working knowledge of the style principles of Walter Pater. we arc constrained to believe that he has ovcrbouSht the education shop.
 He has ovcr-stockcd and under oatalogued. His mental front door is blocked with unpacked goods. and his every day lines of knowledge are buried in the coal cellar under a fine new consignment of ancient his tory.
 Knowledge is a great thing but the lart of arranging and using it is Tar greater. We should fill our shelves with the best available knowledge, land until we have learned our stock and have completed our invoice, we should waive further salesmcn stern ly away.
Arizona republican., 1915-03-18
The Whipping-Post

The state of Delaware clings the whipping post with a grimness of determination that ndi- ci,tes that it thinks it knows good thing when 1t sees it. By vote of sixty 10 four, the lower house legislature defeated bill for the abolition of the whipping post That vote evidently represents very strong sentiment in the state in favor of the retention of this form of punishment. Meanwhile remote as well as adjacent states, and reforners everywhere directing the scornful finger at Delaware.
 We ar engaging n defense of this in stitution but the whipping post though round, as some posts are like many other subjects of con troversy in this world, two sides. Much de- bends upon what use is made of the whipping post
 Those who condemn it adr,it that it is not without strong deterrent effect. One who has been once casgatet takes not to be whipped he second time; the whipping post knows recv- ists But it is argued that no other form of pun iyhment now administered is humiliatng and destructive of sef-respect and that nothing in this world not life itself. is worth retaining self respect We admit this latter proposition to be true If all men retained their seli-respcct there would be no crime in this world. and much less suf fering.
 But the who soes to the whipping post in these days as rule takes no self respect with him. lie has 1t away. He is usually a wife beater, though in the earlier days of the institution many petty offenses punished at the post, and the state was saved the expense of maintaining the oi7 lenders in jail. The cat nine tails cost less than provender.
 man who has been publicly whipped is not likely to become useful citizen in the same com niunity though he may thereafter be a harmless one Any form of punishment which renders man n cipher and keeps him is not good one, so
Arizona republican., 1915-03-18

With names-of imperishabe glory being made on both and land in this greatest of all wars. the question presents itself: Who are the grea est commanders in the British navy and army of the past whose achievements may be cquaed if exceled by several of those taking port in the Titanic struggle of today? One or two names, of course, leap to everybody's tongue Nelson and Wellington Drake and Marlborough. But what of the others fittest to bear them company? Is there any consensus of opinion upon the subject among the experts, represented by distinguished off cers versed in naval and military history and writ CTS who have made the work of our fleet and our army their special study? To put the matter to inc tesf we have sought the opinions of a number of representative experts of both kinds. Their an- swers are that Engands ten greatest sailors were: Nelson, Drake, Blake. St. Vincent, Hawke, Rodney, Anson, Howe Collingwood and Hood
 And Englands ten greatest soldiers were: Vel Iington, Marlborough. Roberts. Cromwell SMolfe, Moore. WolseIey, Give. Sir Charles Napier, and CIyde-Strand Magazine.
Arizona republican., 1915-03-18
ELECTRIC ROADS INCREASE
Network of Trolley Lines Extends
 From Coast to Coast

There were in the country in l9lZ 126O electric and street railway syS- tems. employing 2S2,461 men, and ca pitalized at $4,70S, ,56S, Al. A network of trolley tracks covers the entire United States. It is pos sible to ride from Boston to Chi cago on the trolley cars with only a few miles of steam road travel Trolley lines have reached their high est development in the central states east of the Mississippi river Here the trolley lines frequently maintain sleeper and dinner service, and the cars are large and luxurious and tra :. vel at high speed.
 The trolley lines of this country pay out 200S90939 annually in sal aries and their gross income is over $579000000 a year. New trolley lines are being built every year. but the greatest increase is found in the eX- tension of existing lines in to new territory.
Arizona republican., 1915-03-18
ELECTRIC POWER EXTENSIVELY
 USED IN MINING
No Other Farm Energy So Cheap,
 Safe and Desirable

Mining is che industry where the raw material" cannot be shipped to industrial centers where cheap power and cheap labor are always avail able. Nature has decreed that the mining work must be done where the mineral is found and, often enough the mineral deposits are tucked away in the most inaccessible places in mountains deserts and out of the way places.
 Often the richest material deposits are found far back in the hills re mote from water or other possible source Of power. Because of the high cost of labor and fuel and the scar city of water it is out of the ques ton to generate steam power on the ground; and under all the circum- stances there is but one alternative secure electric power from outsid, or abandon the property.
 No other power is considered fol mining operations where electricity is available Where electric power car be secured at a cost within reason II lS uS'u Witliout pucStioli- lhia Y especially true where reliability is {; prime factor-Where the lives ol many men are at stake underground where the stopping of a pump or fan might result in disaster. In anf around the mines electricity is now used for the operation of pumps fan, drills, stovels locomotives, hoist: trans. mills and other labor -savinf devices. For lighting mines ant mills it is indispensable. There i' every reason why electricity should be used here to the practical eX- clusion of other forms of power.
Arizona republican., 1915-03-18
"C2ean Ub" Movement Is Growlmg

and school children generally will be
 formed into squads and sent into every section of the city to put va cant lots into prcsentable condition, is Saturday, March 27. That will be banner day in Phoenix. It will be the day that placed Phoenix firm ly on the map of clean cities. The
Arizona republican., 1915-03-18
coETHALs: MAN WHO DID THINGS

Others dreamed and wrote and talked and pro- phesied; Colonel George w. Goethals spoke little and wrote less but he handed the completed Panama Canal to Uncle Sam. Among all living Americans he is of the greatest. He has mast cred nature. vanquished disease, organized gov-> ernment, managed multitudes of refractory men and in doing it he has divorced two continents, welded two oceans and changed the trade routes of all the world. Yet if he asked what he had accomp lished he would say quietly and modesty My duty soldier That is enough; many men has had national monument for doing less-Philade phia Tedges.
Arizona republican., 1915-03-18

and the faculty of the public schools. and others, have organized a com mittee that is forwarding the move ment to make Phoenix q cleaner city than over before in it's history.
 The movement started with the rlan of Manager Parish to clean up various vacant lots about the city that arc oVcrrun With rank growths cf weeds The Republican suggested that the movement include all lots
Arizona republican., 1915-03-18

Prime Minister Radslavoff of Bull garia is reported to have had some difficulties with King Ferdinand be- cause of the formers insistence that Bulgaria should invade Turkey with out delay and seize Adrianople. King Ferdinand and his advis- CTS declared that such policy was too venturesome and that the nation could not afford, at this time, to antagonize Germany and Austria. According to dispatches reaching London from all the Balkan states, the people are clamoring for war, and hostilities are expected to break out this spring. ,
Arizona republican., 1915-03-18

and alleys. Secretary Blair of the Y. NJ. C. A., augmented the su9gcS- ton that the entire city be cleaned up. And that's the plan up-to- o-date.
 Vacant lots will be freed of weeds. Accumulated brush will be removed or burned Housewives will have their carpets beaten and their rugs
Arizona republican., 1915-03-18

Phoenix is going to clean up. City Manager Parish and The Republican sometime ago started a "Clean-Up Day movement, with the result that various civic organizations, particlt
 larly the Y. M. C. A., the chamber of Commerce, the city police depart ment, Superintendent John D. Loper
Arizona republican., 1915-03-18

shook Soap and water will be work ing overtime the next few days. Bon Ami. Pearlinc, Sapolio and old Dutch Cleanser will be pressed into serv- ice in hundreds of homes. Painters. amateur and professional, Will De busy, and paperhanSers will reap q harvest.
 The real Clean Up Day'-the day when Boy Scouts. members of the boys department of the Y. NJ. C. A.
Arizona republican., 1915-03-18

Having been notified by the British government where to head in in of the high seas, duty becomes a simple one The order for us to get off the earth is yet abeyance. We may expect it later.
Arizona republican., 1915-03-18

work that is being done by indiVidu the end that the work of the or ganiZed cleanup band shall be com rlcte.
Arizona republican., 1915-03-18

First Constitutionalist Chief CarTanza shows symptoms of emuating Captain Scotts coon, and may speedily down.
Arizona republican., 1915-03-18

Hire little salesman at The Re publican office. A Want Ad will see more customers than you can.
Arizona republican., 1915-03-18
THE REASON

"Why did you critics roast that piecc?'
 Because it was so aW."-Butte Miner.
Arizona republican., 1915-03-18

While almost everyone in Greece wants to go to war, King Constantine is for peace. It is believed the req son can he found in the fact that the Queen of Greece is Emperor WILL iam's sister.
Douglas Island news., 1915-12-08
The NOrthIand The Latest News, from Reliable Sources, Concerning the Great
 North. Condensed.
Information for Everybody.

Anchorage residents will while away the winter days watching dog races.
 In Skagway, the flower city pansies and sweet alyssum are still blooming.
 II. E. Peterson, of Anchorage, was killed by brown bear on Nov. 2d, near Hope.
 Peter Norberg, one of the very old timers of Fairbanks, has been sent to the Pioneers Home at Sitka.
 While coasting at Whitehorse, Con- stable Pavely, of the Mounted Police, suffered a broken leg, and J. Hopkins sustained serious injury to bis pants.
 The wife of A. S. Dautrick, travelling agent of the Great Northern in Alaska with headquarterr in Juneau, has been left a considerable fortune by the death of a relative in the east.
 According to a statement given out by Premier Mcbride, the question of prohibition throughout the province of British Columbia will be left to the people at the next provincial election.
 C.G. WulR, former editor of the Val- dez Prospector, has disposed of his in. terests at that place and will locate at Brooklyn, N. r., where be will enter the retail coal business in partnership with his brother.
 The Fairbanks friends of Boris M. Rakocevich, who was sentenced for life for the killing of Frank Sellers, over game of cards, are circulating pc. tition to be presented to President Will son for his pardon.
 The Nome Industrial Worker states that the natives are complaining of the shortage in the school of tomcod that they usually were able to haul in dur ing the fall heretofore for dog feed and the animals are hiyu empty.
 In connection with the plans of the Alaska Steamship Company for service to the Atlantic coast, the big shipping corporation is also considering the ex- tension of the route served by it's fleet to include the west coast of South America.
 Tbe ice in the river at Whitehorse stopped moving Saturday night, Nov. 27th, five days earlier than last year. By the end of November there was as much snow on the ground as at any time last winter, and still falling at the rate of an inch or more a day.
 Every once in a while some onet takes exception to some article in our col. umus and jumps onto the editor wish both feet. We have kept a careful tab of the desires of the l269 citizens of this great metropolis, and have come to the conclusion that it would take 1869 papers edited by 1909 editors to please each and all of them,-Valdez Miner.
Douglas Island news., 1915-12-08

Banker Hayden, multi.millionaire of Boston, who holds vast mining in- terests in all parts of the world, states that more money than ever will be but iuto development work in Alaska this coming summer and that the northern country will receive attention from mining investors. The certainty that after the present war the demand for metals will be heavy and will continue for many years is so certain that bank CTS and mining men are planning to make heavy investments in mines.
 It is reported from Nome that the police overlooked a good bet when they failed to raid a resort in the city the night before the big crowd of passen- gers got away for the south, on the Victoria. According to the story there were more than one hundred men who had spent the summer working for the dredge companies in the far North and
 who were simply "lousy" with lucre,
 because they had no opportunity of spending it while working. The lid
 was taken off for the night aud games
 of all kinds practically wide open. As the men all had their tickets for the States in their pockets, it is dollars to doughnuts that any reasonable fine as. sessed by the judge would have been paid. Nome overlooked the chance of getting a new city jail.
 After seven months of strenuous work in Boring sea and the Arctic ocean, the United States coast guard cutter Bear arrived in Seattle the 23rd of last month and the next day con. tinued her journey toward San Fran cisco, rounding out her twenty-seventh season in Uncle Sam's service in Northern waters. Capt. c. s. Cochran is master. The Bear went as far North as Point Barrow, carrying mails to the various towns and stations on the Alaskan coast. On this trip Bishop Peter Trimble Rowe was a passenger on the coast guard cutter. He visited the Episcopal mission stations along the coast and attempted to reach the Siberian coast, but was blocked by heavy ice. A humber of people, unable to pay their fares to Seattle on the regular steamers, were brought south by the Bear.
 John F. Pugh, collector of customs for the territory of Alaska, was visit. or in Seattle on his way North after at- tending the conference of customs col- lectors at New York. Mir. Pugh also visited Washington on routine business connected with his office According to Mr. Pugh the present year is record breaking one for volume and value of business between the United States and Alaska. "It is the greatest year in history" he said last night. "There has been an enormous volume of business between the territory and the United States. The exports from Alaska have been particularly heavy. The copper shipments alone have been three times as heavy as any year in the past, and value, owing to the high price of copper, has been even greater" Mir. Pugh says that if interest in a country indicates investors and settlers, then the whole East is likely to move to the North. "All had time to do in the East was answer questions about AL aska," be said. "Everybody wants to know about the new treasure house.