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The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1915-01-22
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bone and shell. / know. The human
race is doomed to sink back--farther
and farther into the primitive night
ere again 1t begins its bloody climb
upward to civilization. When we In.
crease and feel the lack Of room, we
shall proceed to kill one another.
And then / suppose, you will wear
human scalp locks at your waist, as
well-as you, Edwin, who s<e the
gentlest of my grandsons, hsve al
ready begun with that vile pagtail.
Throw it away, Edwin, boy; throw it
away"
What a gable the old geeser
makes" Hare-Lip remarked, whea,
the teeth all extracted, they began an
attempt at equal division.
They were very quick and abrupt in
their actions, and their speech, in mo-
ments of hot discussion over the al
lotment of the choicer teeth, was
truly gable. They spoke In mono.
syllables and short, jerky sentences
that were more gibberish than a
language. And yet, through 1t ran
hints of grammatical construction.
and appeared vestiges of the conjuga-
ton of some superior culture. Even
the speech of Granser was so corrupt
that were it put down literally it
would be almost so much nonsense to
the reader. This, however was when
he talked with the boys. When he
got into the full swing of babbling to
himself, it slowly purged itself into
pure English. The sentence grew
longer and were enunciated with a
rhythm and ease that were reminis-
cent of the lecture platform.
Tell us about the Red Death, Gran
SER" Hare-Lip demanded, when the
teeth affair had been satisfactorily
concluded
"The Scarlet DEATH" Edwin cor
rected.
An don't work all that funny lingo
on us" Hare-Lip went on. Talk sen
sible, Granser like a Santa Rosan
ought to talk. Other Santa Rosans
don't talk like you"
The old man showed pleasure in
being thus called upon. He cleared
his throat and began:
Twenty or thirty years ago my
story was in great demand. But in
these days nobody seems interest.
ed"
There you go!" Hare-L,p cried
hotly. Cut out the funny stuff and
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1915-01-22
The Literary Future.

What will be the effect Of almost
worldwide war upon the worlds
writers? No one can escape its
psychological effect-the irst stun
ming sense of the futility of ones or
binary labors and habits of thought, a
profound unsettling of ones mental
base. But afterward? Perhaps, as a
reaction against the literature OF the
war, we shall have food of light
comedy of the gayest sort. Serious
writer's, finding their usual material
stale and improbable, will turn to
making mad farce. With the world
going to pieces about one, what can
one do but laugh? We must laugh,
in spite of ourselves, at the spectacle
of Anatole France, in uniform, editing
the Soldiers Bulletin! And no one
of course will take seriously George
Bernard Shaw's advice to the soldiers
of the opposing armies, to Shoot their
officers and go home!" Shaw is the
only literary man to raise voice
against patriotism-but then of course
he is an Irishman. People are used
to oaying: SHAW isn't serious!"-
Meth Boyee in Harper Weekly.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1915-01-22

s A BoY-when I read of 10
nah and the whale-I never
4 dreamed that one day l was
to stand at Jonah's tomb and
see Arabs worship him as q
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1915-01-22
Activities of Women,

Minimum wage laws for women
have been enacted in Oregon, Cali.
fornia, Colorado, Massachusetts. Min
nesota, Nebraska. Utah, Washington
and Wisconsin.
II women do not get the vote before
her death, Mrs. Margaret Stockman
Of London, is so framing her win that
her son will be disinherited.
Bertha Krupp, head of the Krupp
Gun works at Essen, Germany, has an
income of over $11,O00,O00 year.
Miss Elsie Burr, a well-known Bos-
ton society girl, has gone to Paris.
where she will act as Red Cross
nurse.
There are over forty thousand wom-
an teachers in the Japanese elemen.
tary schools at a salary Of eight dol
lars per month.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1915-01-22

days warriors used to cross the TigriB,
even in heavy armor, by swimming
on inflated goat skins; but / had no
idea that the practice still survived.
So was astonished on arriving at the
river bank to see an old man walk
calmly down to the waters edge, blow
up a goat skin which had hung over
his shoulder, wade out into the river
waist deep and then lie down on the
inflated skin and begin to paddle leis-
urely across. While / still watched
him, two women came down, carrying
skins, already blown up, and followed
the old mans course across the Tigris;
somehow they seemed to keep the
bobbing skins easily balanced under
their bodies, and thus supported swan
slowly, without firing.
MosuI Washerwomen.
And all up and down the river banks
were hundreds Of round-limbed Kurd-
ish women washing clothes. There
must have been half thousand, all
shouting, plunging and wringing null
high above their knees and no sign of
yashmak or veil, they were noisy,
easy-going set, dispelling the Illusion
that in the East all women are Sc
cluded or eternally draped from head
to foot.
Long strings of pack donkeys,
driven by noisy, swearing Kurdish
muleteers, came down to the river to
drink. and fusillades of jocular abuse
passed between these ruffians and the
washerwomen. Higher up the river
bank, and all along the waterfront,
ran long row Of coffee shops, dance
halls and other resorts. Till late at
night these places are running full
blast, the din of tomtoms, native fid-
dies and the harsh voices of the paint
ed women who dance and sing, making
amusement for the men of Mosul. They
like excitement, these Kurds and
Arabs, and crude and amateurish as
their methods seem to us, they have
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1915-01-22
IN A r1osuL CoFrEE HousE

animals, and around the edge of this
platform runs a mud manger, from
which the beasts are fed.
These historic caravanserais form
one of the most picturesque features
of middle eastern life. No traveller,
from Marco Polo down to date, has
crossed Mesopotamia without record
ing his impression of the unspeakably
filthy and noisy ''khans."
Naomi and His Sisters.
Next morning early Naomi and left
the pesthouse that had sheltered US,
and started out afoot to do Mosul, Ma
omi hunted up his Telkafi relatives,
WHOM he had not seen for many years,
and of course the master then became
the servants guest, for a few hours
at least. We ate preserved sweets,
pistach1o nuts, mama, nougat, and
many such delicacies for which Mosul
is noted; we drank sweetened rose
water and smoked countless cigarettes,
and gave away to these curious, pry-
ing, but polite people all the secrets
Of my family for three generations
back.
Naomis numerous sisters, unveiled
and good to look at, came shyly out
and sat cross-legged on the rug he
placed for them at a proper distance
from me. Being native Christians,
they could show their faces without
being disgraced. They wore baggy
blue trousers long Mother Hubbard
gowns Of some dark color. yellow
stockings and fancy slippers all COW
cred with beads. Their big brown
eyes gazed steadily at me with that
luster that is bought in western worlds
at the price of belladonna, and their
white teeth glistened in beautiful per-
fection-in land where no dentifrice
was ever seen.
From the main bazaar I wandered
on through the town, followed by the
usual crowd Of curious Arabs and
Kurds, and then continued on my walk
toward the river. And here beheld
an odd spectacle.
| had read that in early Assyrian
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1915-01-22

never seen anything better and hence
are pleased.
Over Odd Bridge to Jonah's Tomb.
A unique bridge spans the Tigris at
Mosul for which parallel cannot
be found anywhere in the world. It
is built partly of masonry, partly OF
wood, and for some distance is of the
pontoon type. First comes a 100-foot
stretch of masonry pier, then bridge
of boats 400 feet long and crossing the
main channel; then comes another
stone pier of $50 feet, leading to an
S00-foot stretch Of brick arches, fol-
lowed at last by another stone pier
nearly 200 feet long. It seems as il
the builders changed their minds sew
eral times before finishing the odd
structure.
1t is across this bridge that one
goes to explore Nineveh. where Botta
and Layard made their sensational
discoveries so years ago. The whole
dry, brown plain about Mosul is a
vast forest of ancient mounds, thick
with signs of long-forgotten inhabi-
tants
Ninevah is not even memory with
the wild, ignorant tribes who roam the
desert of old Assyria. At one edge OF
its ruins stands the little village OF
"Nebi Yunus," and the reputed tomb
OF Jonah. The identity Of Jonah
seems alone preserved-and he was
one of the least in his day.
At night walked back to Mosul
! looked back once, and the setting
sun was reflected from the dome Of
Jonah's tomb. What fame this man
won, by riding in a fish! Sennacherib
is forgotten, but all the natives know
"Yunus" and the tale of the big fish.
On the morning of the Great Dey, Jo-
nah may be put in the dock with Doc
tor Cook. But for the present, the
people are with him and he wears his
medals unchallenged.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1915-01-22

until have added as many grains
as Edwin has fingers and thumbs.
That makes what ! call one hundred.
Remember that word-one hundred.
Now | put this pebble In Hare-Lip's
hand. 1t stands for ten grains of
sand, of ten tens of fingers. or one
hundred fingers. l put this pebble in
Hare-Lip's hand. 1t stands for ten
grains. Take mussel shell, and it
stands for ten pebbles, or one hun
dred grains Of sand. or one thousand
fingers.
And so on, laboriously, and with
much reiteration, he strove to build
up in their minds a crude conception
of numbers. AS the quantities in.
creased, he had the boys holding diff
ferent magnitudes in each of their
hands. For still higher sums, he laid
the symbols on the log of driftwood;
and for symbols he was hard put, be-
ing compelled to use the teeth from
the skull for millions, and the crab
shells for billions. 1t was here that
he stopped, for the boys were show
ing signs Of becoming tired.
There were four million people in
San Francisco-four teeth"
The boys eyes ranged along from
the teeth and from hand to hand,
down through the pebbles and sand
grains to Edwin's fingers. And back
again they ranged along the ascend
ing series in the effort to grasp such
inconceivable numbers,
That was lot of folks, Granser,"
Edwin at last haZarded.
(TO BE CONTINUED)
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1915-01-22
CHAPTER II.
The Beginning Of the End.

The Beginning Of the End.
The tale began.
There were very many people in
the world in those days. San Fran.
cisco alone held four millions"
What is millions?" Edwin inter.
rupted.
Granser looked at him kindly.
Il know you cannot count beyond
ten, so / will tell you. Hold up your
two hands. On both of them you have
altogether ten fingers and thumbs.
Very well. | now take this grain OF
sand-you hold it, Hoo-Hoo." He
dropped the grain of sand into the
lads palm and went on: Now that
grain of sand stands for the ten
fingers of Edwin. ! add another
grain. That's ten more fingers. And
l add another, another. and another.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1915-01-22

talk sensible. What's interested?
You talk like baby that don't know
how"
Let him Alone" Edwin urged, "or
he'll get mad and won't talk at all
Skip the funny places. Well catch
on to some of what he tells us"
Let her go. Granser," Hoo-Hoo en-.
couraged; for the old man was al
ready Numbering about the disre-
spect for elders and the reversion to
cruelty of all humans that fell from
high culture to primitive conditions.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1915-01-22
Iron cross FOR ! oYpsx.

Gypsies of Europe are the outcasts of
outcasts. For centuries they have wan
dered, refusing to be absorbed by
the populations of the countries where
their tents have been pitched. The
bestowal of the Iron Cross on mem
Der of this despised race for gallantry
in action upsets whole shelfful Of
race prejudice.
But some day the idea is going to
filter through mems heads that all
mankind is at least 80 per cent hu-
man-and maybe IS.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1915-01-22

AA to stand at Jonah's tomb and
see Arabs worship him as q
saint, writes Frederick Sisupich in the
Los Angeles Times.
The famous old prophet who rode In
the fish is buried at Mosul, in far-off
Mesopotamia. Mosul itself, from which
our word muslin" came, stands on the
foaming Tigris opposite old Nineveh.
And here is a sketch of what life is
like today in the town where Jonah
rests.
1t is dirty, crowded town, is Mosul,
with $4,000 people jammed inside it's
medieval walls. It's narrow, warped
streets are no more than crooked al
leys that wander aimlessly through
the town-dusty in summer and seas
of mud in winter. So narrow are these
passages that two loaded donkeys, If
they chance to meet, cannot pass till
one donkey has been backed into a
doorway.
Mosul's houses are Moorish style
two stories, few windows, an open
court inside and fiat roofs with para
pets-so that the family may sleep on
the roof in summer. The main door to
each house is a huge affair, studded
with great bolts and barred at night
like the cato to fortress-suggestin
the old days of Mongol invasions.
To accommodate its important cara
van trade, Mosul has built up many
caravanserais, or 'resthouses." With
Naomi, my Bagdad boy, spent my. first
night at Mosul in one Of these singu-
lar khans, as the natives call them.
The khan is sort of compound or
stockade of mud walls, without roof
Around the inside of the walls runs
row Of little cells, to which travellers
are assigned.
In the middle of the Enclosure is
great platform, on which are piled the
bales of freight taken from the pack
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1915-01-22
SYNOPSIS.


In California valley an old man. one
iot the few survivors of worldwide
plague that has destroyed civilization,
tells tho story of the Scarlet Plague to
his grandsons.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1915-01-22

Telephones In Chile.
Chile has 5000 miles Of telephone
operated by an English company.
Arizona republican., 1915-07-24
TIME TO GET OUT
When Five Americans Had Killed Two Mexican Officers by
 Mistake
GAssocIArEp rnEss DIsrArcHI

DOUGLAS. July 23.-Defending thelr homes under a mistaken belief that they were being attacked by bandits. five Americans who arrived here last night as fugitives from Colonia Morelos. a Mormon colony in Sonora. told of a fight in which two Mexican officers were killed and an other was wounded. The officers surrounded the house of the Ameri cans while purusing an alleged cattle thief who escaped after two com panions had been captured.
 Seeing a horse they believed be- longed to the bandit, the MeXicans surroundd the home of Glen and William Hanie, Fred and Ben Loving and William Neagle. The Americans were summoned to surrender but i'm stead opened fire on the supposed bandits.
 After discovering their victims were Mexican officers. the five Americans secured horses and fled across the border.
Arizona republican., 1915-07-24

Art circles of the national capital are agog over the newly discovered talent of Miss Eleanor James, stu dent at Fairmont seminary, whose sculpture work has just been accept ed by the Panama-Pacific exposition. She had entered her work incognito.
Arizona republican., 1915-07-24

and further apPreciating the disad- Vantages our valley has to contend with on account of the inadequate railroad facilities; the members Of the Mesa Commercial Club, at a meeting held in the club rooms on the even ing of July goth, unanimously en- dorsed the following resolution and requested Senator o. s. Stapley, vice president of the club. to make public said resolution at the main line han quet to be held in Phoenix July 23, 1915.
 Be it resolved by the Mesa Com mercial Club at it's regular meeting held this, the goth day of July, 1915, that the Club unanimously endorses any legitimate move toward securing through line railroad into and through the valley;
 Be it further resolved that we offer as a bonus to any company, who first builds a through line into Mesa, all suitable grounds, from five to twenty acres, free from all incum- branccs for the purpose of locating thereon all shops, roundhouses, de- pots and switching yards, etc.
 And that we further pledge our best efforts toward securing the right of way through the valley.
 (signcd) Ii. O. ROBERTSON.
 Secv
Arizona republican., 1915-07-24
APPLICATION FOR MAhDAMUS WRIT IS
 FINALLY IN COURT
Appropriations Muddle to Come Up for Hearing on August 2; Boyco Claims Legislatures Act in Including Repeating Claus
 es Unconstitutional

The application for an alternative
 writ of mandamus to compel State Auditor Callaghan to honor claims under the new appropriation bill was filed yesterday in superior court by George J. Stoneman. attorney for Jesse Boyce, in whose name the suit is brought. Notice was at once served on the state auditor through his attorney. G.-P r. Bullard. who will today file a demurrer to the applica ton and motion to quash the- alter native writ. The case will come up for hearing on August 2, at 9:S0 d. m.
 The application for the writ GOV CTS @ typewritten pages. together with copies of the governors call for the first special session of the leSis- lature. the appropriation bill. and the governors letter of diSapproval of certain sections of the bill After recitiug the formal statement of the case and a description of the claims assigned to BoyCe. the application takes up the reasons for payment of the assigned claims.
 The attempt of the legislature to include in the title of the act any object or purpose of repeating an eN- istinS statute, the plaintiff claims was contrary to the constitution. as was also tine inclusion of repeating clauses in the general appropriation bill lt was not within the call is sued by the governor. whose veto of the repeating sections was lawfully cNyrciScd says the application. The application further alleges that the statutory appropriations in force on June were for the fiscal year. to continue until and including June %. and that by the addition of the emergency clause the new bill. which sought to repeal the statutory ap- propriations became law prior to the thirteth day of June
 By agreement Attorney Bullard will file a copy of his brief in the case with Attorney Stoneman at the same time that the paper is filed in court, | so that the reply to his answer may he drawn up as soon as possible 1 Everything possible will be done tc l further an early decision in the case
Arizona republican., 1915-07-24
.ROOSEVELTS PLEA
 FOR THE INDIAN
Opening of Rodman Wanamaker Ex-
 hibit at Panama Pacific Exposition
ASSOCIATED PRESS DrsPArcH1


 SAN FRANCISCO, July 23.-CoIo- mel Theodore Roosevclt's enthusiasm for Indian lore caused him to par tcipdte in the formal opening of the exhibit at the Panama Pacific expo sition made by the Rodman Wana- maker Historical Expeditions to the North American Indian. Roosevelt came from the audience and made a brief talk on the attitude the Ameri- can people should assume toward the Indian.
 The Indian must be preserved" he said, his art must be Treserved and made an integral part of our civiliz- ation. The products of Indian manu- facture. baskets, pottery, blankets and bead-worl1. should be preserved. not only for the sake of the Indian but for the sake of the industrial and art life of the American people"
Arizona republican., 1915-07-24
VALUATION IF STATE SHOWS
 FIFTEEN MILLION INCREASE

over the 1914 valuation. The decrease in Coconino was $236,S1S.35, in Green lee it was $1,705. BOP and in Maricopa $2,9I5,G5S.91. The greatest gain is shown in Cochisc county, where the valuation was increased $S,G24. .453. Gila was second in increase, with a gain of $6,O90907 over last year
 Mines and mining property contrib uted eleven millions of the fifteen mil lion gain. one million was accounted for by the increase in railroad property and another by the gain in live stock. while public service corporations and improvements on town and city lots show a substantial increase. Farming lands show a decrease as compared with the 1914 asscssmcnts.
 The following comparative statement Of net valuations for 1914 and 1915 was given out yesterday by the state board of equalization:
Arizona republican., 1915-07-24
Total of County Abstracts is S422, l23,4 III - Mines. Railroads and Live Stock All Show Substa Il tia i Gains

A gain of over fifteen millions in the net valuation for the year 1915 is shown in statement compiled yesterday by the state board of equalization. the to- tai for the state being $422.423.411.9g This amount is the sum of the net val nations of the fourteen counties. and is subject to revision by the state board Of equalization at its meeting next month.
 With the exception of Coconino. Greenlee and Maricopa counties. every county in the state shows an increase
Arizona republican., 1915-07-24
AS TO ATTACK ON ORDUNA
ASSOCIATED PRESS DrspArcH1

WASHINGTON, July 23-FormaI inquiry IS to be made of the Berlin foreign office by Ambassador Gerard for the German official version of the recent attack by a submarine on the British liner Orduna bound to New York with a score of American citizens among the passengers.
 The report on the investigation conducted by Collector of Customs Dudley Malone at New York has been presented to the state department It submits affidavits of officers. sea- men and passengers including Ameri- cans, declaring that the ship was at tackled without warning.
Arizona republican., 1915-07-24
CHANGE OF REGISTRY
Before ReIiefship Can Sail to Albanian
 Sufferers
1Assoc1Arrn prrss p1spArcnl

WASHUNGTON, July 23.-Secretary Lansing instructed Ambassador Page to ask the British government to cN- pedite action on the application of the Albanian relief committee of New York to change the steamer w. G. Cochranc from Canadian to American registry. The Cochrane with q full cargo of grain for the Albanian famine suffer CTS. of whom there are said to be 300,- GOO in distress, is at New York and cannot proceed until the registry is strengthened out.
Arizona republican., 1915-07-24
THE SILVER LINING

The two taXicabs met in a head-on collision, but when the rescuers reached him meath the tangled mass the lone passenger was grinning broadly.
 Look, Look" he eiggled as they drew him out the darn meter is butsed. Buffalo Express.
Arizona republican., 1915-07-24
STORY OF CONSPIRACY
PRESS DISPATCHI

LOS ANGELES, July 23.-The pre- sentation of evidence of both sides in the trial of Charles Elder and ten other former officers of the Los An geles Investment company, a five million dollar corporation, on charges of using the mails in the furtherance of a conspiracy to defraud, was con cluded before Judge Bledsoe, of the United States district court. The arguments will begin tomorrow.
Arizona republican., 1915-07-24
HOW WORLD PEACE WILL COME

Lasting and universal peace of which dreamers and prophets speak will come not by Hague tribunals. world courts. arbitration treaaties and neutrality agreements.
 Should a nation steal?
 Should nation lie?
 Should nation murder?
 When half a billion souls say no, war lords will become impotent, sub marines obsolete and battle fields a memory.-Daniel A. Polling.
Arizona republican., 1915-07-24
MOOSE WAIT ID
(Continuad from Page One)

for Arizona T think Arizona has one of the best chances to secure the To- cation" said Thompson
 Decision as to where the million dollar sanitarium will be located rests with the executive committed. but the matter will not be ratified until at the 1916 convention