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Arizona republican., 1915-10-31
THE OCCULT SCIENCE OF LAW

LaW-more especially criminal law has usually been an occult science. It is still the practice in Burma. we of the same size, to be lighted at the same time. The one whose candle burns longest gets judgment against the other
 Less than a hundred years ago 9 defendant in an English criminal trial appealed to the ordeal of battle and the court was more or less sur prised to find that the ancient law on which he relied had never been repealed. Determining a mans guilt or innocence by his ability to walk on hot plowshares. or carry a hot iron, or drink a poisonous concoction, or by throwing him bound into water, has been practiced for ages among many peoples. The medieval method of letting accused and ac- cuser fight it out with weapons was common over Europe.
 Our modest ancestors confessed their inability to find the merits of affair to the intervention of super natural agencies. The main differ ence $ that we are less modest. In stead of the ordeal of battle or the old key-and Bible test or the sieve witch" we have the defendant play a game of trip the court If he can catch the judge putting down an i-dOt over an he wins. and is pro- nounced innocent=Saturday Evening Post.
Arizona republican., 1915-10-31
II WAS OPENED AUSP|C|OUSLy
Columbia Theater's Doors Swing Wide to a Large and Pleased Audience - Roy Clair's Players Well Received

With an enthusiastic welcome for
 the old favorite and cordial greet ! ing for the new, Phoenix theater- goers last evening crowded the Co., lumbia theater. The opening night | of the theater marked also the initial
 appearance here of the NRoy Clair players, and if they continue to please as they did both those stand | ing room only audiences their stay | will be for an indefinite period, They need have but one standard-that which they themselves set in The Girl from Vassar.'
 It is splendid to have Hazel Vain wright here again. The prima donna was given real ovation and in her dressing room was a wealth Of flowers that expressed the affection
 which the local patrons of the thea ter have for one of the most popu-
 lar members of the profession. Ap-
 plause greeted Ray Duncan on his
 reappearnce in Phoenix, and among
 the new players were several who
 were equally deserving of apprecia-
 ton. and who received it. Roy Clair
 was splendid. His comedy was
 clever and he was most effective in
 the manner in which he put it over
 He sings a bit, talks a bit and
 dances a bit, and does tt all well.
 So many and varied were the good
 features it would be impossible to tabulate them all. As the title suS gests, it gave occasion for the rah- uah songs that always add pep" to a musical farce. There were other numbers that were popular. especially
 Simple Melody" by Babe Barker and chorus which was encored half a dozen times.
 Orville Harris. "The Last Ones 1 the Best of All was another song hit of the evening.
 The leads do not deserve the en- tire credit for the success for much ] of it is due to the chorus The | singing was exceptionally good and | the dancing above the average. There | were several changes of costume l each a little more attractive than the one preceding. All were dash ing and in one instance, at least, a bit daring, but there was nothing offensive in any way about the fun proving college farce. It will be given tonight, Monday and Tuesday.
Arizona republican., 1915-10-31
STYLE SHOW ID
 BE B|C AFFAIR
Merchants of Downtown Section Are Making Big P Preparations for Show on Tuesday Night-Deco- ratOrs to Be Busy

The annual fall style show an insti- tuition that has come to Phoenix to stay will be in full swing, Tuesday evening as soon as the shades of night appear. All of the downtown stores are making great preparations for the l big event, decorations, music and the latest fashions are being thought of all in the same breath.
 A prize of $10 has been offered for the best decorated machine in the big parade to be held that night A spe- cial request has been made that all owners turn out and make the parade one of the largest ever held in the city. Another prize of $5 has been of fered for the placard bearing the best description of the style show Con | tenders must limit their literary eff forts to ten words. The dest decor ated show window will net the owner or decorator $5
 Though they have not as yet com pleted their arrangements, Doris Heyman expect to draw all sorts of crowds to see the latest things in fur niture. All the windows will be ap- propriately decorated. showing differ ent rooms of a house.
 It is expected that Goldberg will
 follow out their usual plan and have dancing during the evening. Aside from the fact that they expect to have their store elabOrately decorted, noth- ing definite has been announced
 McDougall and Cassou will exhibit the latest things in haberdashery and will have a special call for all men looking for the latest dictates of fashion.
 The Hub will be right in line with a complete display of mems clothing and other necessaries. Elaborate decorations have been planned
 A new line of jewelry will be the feature at Hege X Co.'S.
 Probably one of the prettiest places during the show will be the exhibition of flowers at Braces Flower Shop on First avenue. Attractive ecorations and floral souvenirs will be passed out.
 Vic Hanny will have the floor space cleared and dancing will be the order of the night. The latest Hart Schaffner and Marx clothes will be out for a looking over, in addition to which Vie himself will be on hand to pass out carnations to visitors.
 Practically all of the downtown stores will be dolled up and have their arms open for visitors. An immense crowd is expected on the streets that night. It is safely predicted by those interested that the nights entertain ment will be far in excess of all other shows put on.
Arizona republican., 1915-10-31
VIC FANNY GOES IN
 FOR THE MOVIE CAME

The latest moving picture impresa- rio to choose Phoenix for headquarters is Victor F. Hanny, formerly of Cairo, III. This individual showed his first pictures at the Columbia last evening. and through the coming week his interestig films will be dis played at all of the local moving picture places.
 These pictures are an innovation, both in the movie and the rag" bus mess their subjects being the stylish new models in mems clothing offered by well-known Chicago firm whose line is sold here by the aforesaid Vic" These movies were posed for by fine-lool<ing lot of young fel- lows, amidst interesting scenes, and the proper wear for business and so- ciety occasions is shown in detail.
Arizona republican., 1915-10-31
STUDENT coNFEssEs RoRsERIEs
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH

BERKELEY, Oct. 30.-Leon Norman Long, a sophomore in the University of California, has confessed that he secured the money necessary for his eXtravagant living through rObberies. His college mates in Berkeley, store keepers and others he met socially, were his victims. Long is the stepsOn of the superintendent of the Pacific Electric railway at Redondo Beach, California. The police say they have records of burglaries committed by Long in his high school days
Arizona republican., 1915-10-31
NEW RATE ON IRON SHIPMENTS

The corporation commission yester- day ordered the Arizona Eastern rail- road to publish a new rate for the ship ment of scrap iron and brass between Globe and Miami. The present cost of shipment per ton on that product is $1.1G and the new rate will be soc for the same quantity
Arizona republican., 1915-10-31

This new bridal gown is trainless and simple in lines and trimming. Of heavy Georgette crepe, the gown has a very full skirt which has three deep tucks in it. Tie waist is plain and blousy with very full sleeves, and has a girdle of white satin with band of orange blossoms. The veil is of fine quality aud draped in a very simple manner with band of orange
Arizona republican., 1915-10-31

Which are the pictures in your gallery that you value most high ly?' T dunno" replied MT. Cum FOX. 'Mother an the girls told the man to go round and take off the price marks l had put on 'em before I had time to learn 'em by heart. = Washington Star.
Arizona republican., 1915-10-31
HEATED
TO YOUR SATISFACTION

with all the bother left out. The thermometer does not rise and fall with every whim of a capricious fIuc-draft in the home that is heated
Arizona republican., 1915-10-31

Good Joy Any and AZ Occasions WalkoVer Shoes are not confined to any particular season. They are worn on Manufacturing, Christ mas Fourth of July and every other day in the year by dlscllmlnatlng dressers all over the world
Arizona republican., 1915-10-31
W0Ik-OUey Shoes

not already come to it. And they are the shoes you will continue to buy you begin.
Arizona republican., 1915-10-31
PATIENT BEATEN TO DEATH
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHl

CHICAGO. oct 3O.-John Stock dale, a retired Iowa merchant, was beaten to death in a sanitarium by Oliver Bennett. also a patient, who was under treatment as being men, tally disordered.
Arizona republican., 1915-10-31

To lynch them we are gOaded.
 These twins that we all know: T didn't know twas loaded and T was driving very slow"
Arizona republican., 1915-10-31

Hire little salesman at The Repub- lican office. A Want Ad will see more customers than you can.
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1915-04-30
CELEBRATION A
SPLENDID SUCCESS
Barbecue at Hastings Great
Credit to Those in
Charge.

Hastings carries off the palm for a
successful celebration. 1t is doubtful
if any community in the state, popu-
lation considered, ever staged such
a splendid program as that of Friday.
The estimates of the crowd in atten-
dance at the official celebration of the
laying of the last brick i'll the H .st-
ings section of the John Anderson
Dixie Montreal to Miami highway,
run all the way from 1900 to 1000 peo-
pie; it will be safe to place the num-
Der at betw, en- 1,500 and 1900. St.
Augustine contributed three carloads
by way of the Florida East Coast R'y,
and at least twenty-five automobile
loads. Palatka was there in great
force and all the surrounding terrific
ry contributed liberal quota.
The celebration was undoubtedly
one of the biggest events ever pulled
off in this part of Florida. 1t re-
fleets unboInded credit upon the town
of Hastings and the business men
who had the arrangements in charge.
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1915-04-30

one, ever since the original author,
the Honorable Liberty Billings of pu-
trid memory tossed it to a mixed as
sembly of carpet-baggers and freed
men in the early 70's. The late
Senator Wilkinson Call always slow
to adopt anything of mongrel origin,
nevertheless saw it's value and made
frequent use of it on his biennial Of
fetal visits TO Tallahassee, and if we
mistake not, Senator James P. Tallia-
ferro also used it to good advantage
in his time. The News has no pur-
pose to cast doubt over the quail
fications of the present Florida law
making body; it would simply warn
them to beware of politicians who
come to them with smooth, soft
words, for inwardly they may have
designs.
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1915-04-30

One bill introduced at Tallahassee
proposes an increase of judicial sala-
ries as applied to judges of the su-
preme and circuit courts. 1t fixes
the salary OF Justices of the Supreme
Court at $4,000 per year, and that
of Circuit Judges at $4,000. Well,
there's nothing the matter with that
bill. If all Circuit Judges were of
tie calibre of Judge James 7. Wills
of this circuit no one would object
to paying them even double the pro-
posed amount. Big Drained men are
needed fo- judicial positions, and big
men are worth big money. Florida
hasn't encouraged the idea of heavy
weights for it's judiciary, and now is
a good time TO reform.
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1915-04-30

Gov. Trammell has decided to sum-
marily remove from office tie Sher-
ifs of Hillsborough and Palm Beach
counties. The reason given is that
gambling in these baliwicks has been
notorious; and that these men,
charged with the laws enforcement,
have not acted up to their knowledge
of the facts. The News is willing to
bank on Gov. Trammell for a good
reason for his acts, and thct chat
good reason goes a lots deeper than
good politics. 1t is never good poll
ties for an executive to remove a
faithful official, high or humble, and,
but-Gov. Trammell knows this. And
so does the able editor of The Tampa
Times.
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1915-04-30
VISITORS WHO
FOOL THEMSELVES.

1t is not always safe or wise to
judge the whole of anything from a
small part of it; and yet this method
of reasoning-or want of it's COM
mon to many persons. One who
lands at Brownsville, for instance, is
not justified in talking learnedly
about Texas because he has seen only
the tip of one point of the largest
state in the Union. One who goes
to New York City from the South
sees next to nothing of the most pop
ulous state. And San Diego gives
one but the most superficial idea of
California.
Of all the states Florida IS proba-
bly, the one most and oftenest mis-
judged 1t is considerably more than
500 miles, as the railroad rms, from
Jacksonville to Key West; and it is
about 400 miles from Jacksonville to
Pensacola. In this large area so gen.
erall ydefned, there is wide variety of
climate, products, soil, people, and
conditions. Now there are thousands
of our Northern visitors who come in
December and January and return in
February, March, and April, Who pen
citrate only the Northeastern edge of
Florida. Some Of them get no furth-
er than Jacksonville; others go as far
as Daytona. But these transient Wis
itors talk learnedly with their friends
at home about the Florida they have
failed to see; the Florida they do not
know. In this way incorrect and in
adequate views of Florida are formed,
and doubtless hundreds come, or, are
discouraged from coming by what
they have been told bv their neigh
bors who have acquaintance with only
one little corner of the state. Grant
ed that this corner is desirable, at
tractive, and well worth knowing; but
it gives one very little on which to
form a conclusion about Miami, Tam
pa. or Tallahassee.
The truth is that Florida is one of
the most inviting states in the Union,
with rich resources hardly scratched;
and possibilities about which we are
learning more and more every day.
Those who come from the North and
the East would find it pleasant and
profitable if they would make trips in
to the interior of the state; if they
would go up and down the Atlantic
and the Gulf coasts; if they would
find some of the wonderful springs;
if they would view some of the hun
dreds of charming lakes. In word,
if they would really see something of
Florida. B. F. T.
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1915-04-30
FLORIDA COULD
DO BETTER.

A headline in a Jacksonville paper
the other day read this way: FLORIDA
Farmers Busy Selling Many Prod
ucts." How much truth the head
line told depends upon the point of
view. Florida farmers have been dis
posing of large quantities of pota-
toes, lettuce, celery, tomatoes, and a
few other trucking products. The
horticulturists have been sending to
market more carloads of citrus fruits
than ever left the state before in an
equal space of time. But it does not
appear that much cotton, or corn, or
oats. or hay, or other of the staple
crops have gone beyond our borders.
The hard fact is that all. of these and
other much-used commodities are
brought into the state, as are eggs,
poultry, fresh and cured meats. We
as Floridians are paying hundreds Of
thousands of dollars every year for
foods we could just as well produce,
but fail to do so.
1t has been demonstrated over and
over again at the Agricultural EX-
pertinent station that Florida can pro-
duce almost every article it consumes,
and that it would be profitable to do
so. And yet most of our farmers
and horticulturists stick to the beaten
path. If Florida farmers were real
ly busy selling many products instead
of a comparative few there would be
a larger volume of money in the
banks of the state. Bat we are
headed that way though we may not
be moving so fast as we ought to
move. 3. F. T.
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1915-04-30

Our old friend, the Hon. Bill Thigh
man, who is helping to represent US
in the lower house at Tallahassee,
hasn't been heard of very much yet,
but this fact ought not to weigh
against a modest new member, es-
pecially one whose one supreme hope
was extinguished when the Senate
failed to stand for the prohibition
amendments submission. The Hon.
Bill Tilghman is first and foremost
a Methodist; second prohibitionist;
thirdly more Methodist; fourthly
more prohibitionist-and then some
and filthy, ducedly good and sensi-
bic man who will surely get there
with both feet after he RECEIVERS from
this prohi knockout, which naturally
takes longer for a man like the Hon.
Bill than for US more worldly-mind-
ed democrats.
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1915-04-30
HARLEM HAPPENINGS.

NJ. Bohannon and W. ]. McRae vis-
tied Palatka on Friday last.
H. Pruitte was a visitor to the Gem
City Saturday,
Saturday and Sunday were meet
ing days at Providence church. Rev.
Malphus, the pastor, was present and
preached two very instructive SER
mons. Sunday night the prayer
meeting was we'll attended.
Mrs. Mamie Varnes and Mrs. Min
ME Pruitte who were reported on the
sick list last week are both better.
W. D. Hunter was a visitor at the
home of H. Pruitte Sunday.
Crops are beginning to grow since
we have been having some warmer
weather. HARLEM.
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1915-04-30
500 Reward. SlOO.

The readers of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is at least
one dreaded disease that science has
been able to cure in all its stages, and
that is Catarrh. Halls Catarrh Cure
is the only positive cure now known
to the medical fraternity. Catarrh
being a constitutional disease, requires
constitutional treatment. Halls
Catarrh Cure is taken internally, act
ing directly upon the blood and mu-
cous surfaces of the system, thereby
sease and giving the patient strength
by building up the constitution and
assisting nature in doing its work
The proprietOrs have so much faith
in its curative powers that they offer
One Hundred Dollars for any case that
it fails to cure. Send for list of tes-
timonials. Address:
Sold by Druggists 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for consti-
patton.
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1915-04-30

the fruit has never been surpassed,
the prices have been unfortunately
low. Many growers have not broken
even when all the items of cost are
taken into account. Among these
items are interest on the money in
vested, cultivation, fertilization, pru-
ming, the treatment of sick trees,
spraying, taxes, picking, hauling, and
freight charges. But many another
industry has done no better. The
European war has been brought
home to the citrus fruit grower quite
as much as to the cotton planter, and
the man out of job.
There are other conditions out of
the common. While the crop has not
been large in the number of boxes,
the sizes of the oranges have been
large. There has rarely been a sea-
son when the markets all over the
country have called for small sizes
with so little change. The crop was
from a month to six weeks late in ma
turing, due to drouth and insect pests;
and the early sending of immature
fruit from all parts of the state de-
moralized prices. This and the ina
bility of so many thousands to buy,
made the business Improbable up to
February. But since that time, and
during the past month or six weeks
there has been a margin of profit for
those who had fruit to sell. Another
fact that was hard on the markets
was the very large yield of grape
fruit, the largest by hundreds of
thousands of boxes ever grown in
Florida. Up to this time more than
$4,000 carloads have gone out Of the
state Of fruit of all varieties beside
several thousand boxes shipped by
coat. A conservative estimate places
The number of boxes at not much be-
low 100000 boxes; and there may
be half a million boxes in the state
yet to ship.
The prospects for the coming sea-
son, take the state as a whole, are
hardly so good as they were a year
ago at this time. Grapefruit, gener-
ally speaking, is an every-other-year
crop. The trees that bore so heavily
last season are not promising SO much
for 1876. True thousands oil
trees are coming into bear
ing, and this will be increasingly the
situation for years to come, but this
year it is not thought by good judges
that the gain will equal the loss by a
great many boxes. In the Southern
part of the state the bloom has not
been so heavy as it has been in the
more northern growing sections. It|
is doubtful if the promise of large
yield is better anywhere than it is
about Crescent City. Abundant rains
during the next two weeko will make
the present assurance pretty sure.
B. F. T.
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1915-04-30
National Bank Reports

Washington.-Loans and discounts
of the 1889 national banks reporting
to the comptroller of the currency on
his last call, March 4, amounted to
Sc, ,499, ,964,6O5, an increase over De-
cember u, of S152,32S,094, and an in
crease over the call year previous
of about $142, 100000. Demand de-
posits amounted to $5,149, 7O1,S25, a
decrease from the call a year ago of
S492, ,425,931, and from that of Decem.
Der 81 of about $25,OOO,OOO. Overdrafts
amounted to S7O46,534. Total re.
sources $11, ,566, ,S46,O ,O04.
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1915-04-30

This country has been sending to
Europe from five to ten times as many
commodities during the past few
months as it was shipping a year ago.
This is particularly true of bread
stuffs and munitions of war. We are
doing the best we can to put food in
the mouths of the hungry, and, at
the same time we are contributing to
the awful slaughter by furnishing
powder and guns. But from all
points of view the world, and this
country included, will discover later
that the horrible war has been a
curse to all classes. 1t is impossible
to destroy lives by the million and
property by the billions of dollars
without causing suffering that has
never been equaled.
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1915-04-30
Mrs. Story Reelected

Washington.-Mrs. William Cum
ming Story of New York, was re-elect-
ed president general of the Daughters
of the American Revolution over Mrs.
George Thatcher Guernsey of Kansas
by vote of 695 to 461. The election
result was announced well after mid
night after day of exciting ballot.
ing, and it showed a clean sweep for
the Story faction ticket for all of the
national officers of the society. Mrs.
Mary S. Lockwood of Washington was
reelected chaplain general without op.
position.
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1915-04-30

Much has been said of a compli-
mentary character by a certain class
of citizens concerning the Honorable
John B. johnson, Senator demeritus
from the Suwanee ribber district, and
whose recent Grafton in the Senate
in Explanation of his vote against
prohibition submission has already be-
come a classic in pro-booze circles
throughout the Universe. BIT it is
doubtful if anything ever came quite
so near causing him to Abandon
Himself as those remarks of Mayor
Presumptive Bowden. "Sinetor
Johnson" says Bowden, saysee, sis
the Living Picture of President Wood
row Wilson of Washington, D. G..
Were they ridin' together on Broad
way, New York, one-half the people
would be lookin' at Sinetor Johnson
and singin' Hail to the Chief, while
the other half would be lookin' at
Woodrow and sayin': That's john
son of Liveoak, in Floridy, the great
Apostle of Local Self Government fer
Boozers and the White Hope of the
Distillers of the Twentieth Century /"
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1915-04-30

Secretary of State Bryan is in a
position to know the weaknesses of
Americans more than any other Off
cial of the federal government. They
go to him for passports to enable
them to travel abroad, it being impos-
sible to get into some of the countries
at war without these identifying pa
pers. The secretary warns curious
Americans to stay at home. Why
should such a warning be required? :?
What does any American want to go
into the war zone for, correspondents
and army observers excepted. But
there are sTch dizzy Americans and
some Of them are women.