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Arizona republican., 1915-09-11
The Arabic's Hip Pocket

The defense of the commander of the submarine which destroyed the steamer Arabic much vogue and generally effective n the Southwest in the primordial days of Billy the Kid. Curley and others who ensanguined the when gentle men died without the previous formality removal If their boots. When the precpitate action of citizens resulted in the death of other citizens and the former brought into court, the invariable plea self-defense It might be shown trial that the victim unarrned. The defendant always carried with him a look os sincere that he had made guess his victim with respect his armament. he @ound ~olace in the declaration Tt seemed like he motoned toward his hip pocket"
 That defense. though now worn threadbare has not vet fallen entirely into disuse Less than it employed by a young in Bisbee who killed a man in a restaurant after inadvertently killing the first shot bystander. But COchise county jury returned verdict of guilty. young man had thought that his adversary had "motioned toward his hip pocket though postmortem examination had disclosed that it empty. That jury well earlier Arizona iuries could bring itself recommend punishment of a fellow citizen for a mere of judgment.
 The hip pocket a deadly appurtenant of apparel in the early days We have often iered why people persisted wearing it. act of reaching for handkerchief fraught with peril It is related that many tenderfoot succumbed unfamiarity customs of The country.
 Though the law books prescribed that self. de- fense was allowable only when one was backed against wall hedged in a corner. nobody heed ed that prescription any citizen bound restrain himself until seized with such fear reasonable man might entertain that great bodily harm meditated against him.
 The commander of the destroying submarine appears to have thought that he the Arabic -'motionng toward her hip pocket though the testimony of those who survived the result of his misapnrenenson shows that only the hip pocket empty. the rabic cf he presence of
 The commanders government takes the ground. however, that his judgment, errng it may have turned be- sonably formed that his action upon that judgment thereby excusable It therefore, disavow action, however regrettabe the result of it
 It remains whether this country will ac0Uiesce in the doctrine that 'motioning ard the hir pocket" a sufficient for homicide
Arizona republican., 1915-09-11
THE BOYS OF LA BASSEE

You'll from the La Bassee Road sum day, The children herding nannygoats, the women making hay. You'll see the soldiers. khaki-clad, in column and platoon, Come swinging up La Basse Road from bilets in Bethune There's hay and but harder by Awaits the soldier boys who reap harvest fields
  You'n swinging up the road, where women work at hay, The straight, long road, La Bassee Road on any summer day. The night breeze sweeps La Bassee Road the night the hay, The boys coming bach again, struggling crowd they. The columns lines broken up and in the platoon, They'll not need many hillets for soldiers in Bethune. For many boys. good. lusty boys. who marched so very fine. Have now got little of clay beside the firing line. Good luck to them, Godspeed to them, the boys who march away A-singing up La Bassee Road each sunny summer
 
 Patrick MacGll, Westminster Gazette
Arizona republican., 1915-09-11
The Zeal of Dumba

Dumba, the Austrian ambassador. went too far in his zeal for his country and he placed himself and this country in a position embarrassing that request for his recall became unavoidable. To a certain point he within rights. He had a right to demand of Austrian subjects in this that they refrain from working in American muni- ton factories which turning out material for the allies. There is a municipal law in Austria, enacted recently, believe making a for subjects of Austria to engage remain in employment. Though could not be enforced outside the boundaries of Austria Hungary, and though violate could be punished unless they should return to that empire, it proper for the ambassador to inform his country in America of the law and urge their obedience But when he far to engage strikes and prevent from working in muniton factories. otherwise interfere with occupation which is legitimate if moral. he urging violation of American laws
 The mere interference with American laws though TO violation involved has been O the dismissal O a foreign minister When MT. Cleveland candidate for reelection in 1SSS letter from Cali the British minister Washington asking his advice former British subjects. but then American citizens their action the ap- preaching election. The letter stated that such American citizens had lost of their love for their mother country and desired to vote n a best her interests. It is need less to that the letter republican trap and the thick-headed diplomat fell into
 replied urging his former countrymen to support MT. Cleveland, who, he said friendly Great Britain and whose tariff policy espec- ialy favorable O British trade The reply became a republican campaign document and contributed, per haps than any other incident, to the defeat O. MT. Cleveland. At the request this government British minister recalled.
 The most fragrant the diplomatic posi- ton of Ambassador Dumba the dispatch of messenger under American passport to the Aus tr;.n foreign office By that he only gave offense to this government. but placed 1t, as neutral, in an embarrassing position respect the allies.
Arizona republican., 1915-09-11
SEE AMERICA FIRST-FORElGN
 LANDS AT HOME

Every American desires to travel in foreign lands and soak himself in strange and uncouth customs. How ever it is not necessary to pay over the price of a durable automobile to some steamship company in order to do this All that is necessary is car fare to New York.
 New York is the metropolis of America and half a dozen other na- tions. By feeding a nickel at inter vals to the paracious street car cor poration the visitor in New York can skip lightly from Italy to Hungary. to Palestine. to China, and on to Russia without bothering about customs du- ties He can find as much difficulty in making himself understood as Ii America was three weeks and $500 away. and he can eat meals which are as hard to understand and get over as the celebrated table d'hotes of Naples, and Canton, China.
 The New York visitor who leaves Fifth avenue and plunges resolutely into the East Side a mile away can see Sicilian feudists stabbing each other in the back with all the grace and fluency which has made their native land famous He can worship at Chinese joss houses if he likes and can wade through Russian streets which show as little regard far sanitation as the originals far away.
 When he has tired of this he can go over on Fifth Avenue to some of the city's most tightly buttoned up clubs and discover more perfect Eng fish accents and manners than can be found in London; and he can go to a hotel and order a meal which IS all French but the boy who steals the hats at the entrance.
 The New York visitor can also study the customs and manners Of Ireland in Tammany Hall and Varl- ous precinct clubs; the justily cele- brated literature of Greece in the shoe-shining parlors. He can look over the naval architecture Of all the countries on earth except America in New York harbor and can find enough Gothic churches. Renais- sance palaces, Early Tudor resi- dencee and late O'Brien billboards to keep him sightseeing for month
 Seeing foreign lands in New York is very pleasant. because whenever the tourist gets homesick for Amer ica he can get into a subway jam at six o'clock and have the buttons torn off his clothes in manner which will make him weep tears of thankfulness and exclaim: After all. there is no place like home Get off my foot, you chump.
Arizona republican., 1915-09-11
Taxing the Mall Order Houses

We cannot conceive what excuse congress could have offer for failure pass Hinebaugh bilL taxing the mail order houses the of business they .he different states. The proposed of per certainly low enough, almost ridcuously comparison the iirect and indirect laid upon the local chants.
 The latter pay municipal and sometimes state county license in addition to their prop Heavier than all. they voluntarily, though shape of subscriptions of kind another. We suppose it IS much everywhere it is in Phoenix. Here the merchant is the first approached by sub scription circuators. expected make conribu tions to every enterprise, worthy ond unworthy. He subscribes the fund of church and times more than He subscribes the r. M c. A. He pays into a fund for the state fair He buy tickets to the of balls and suppers given by the local lodges and organizations. Public popular movements sometimes requiring large expenditures of money make demands upon the merchant His subscriptions them range sl S10O. The money spent by chant in this probably exceeds state, county municipal and license taxes amounting to
 This outlay proves a serious handicap his peal their patrons ignorance of quality, quality altogether.
 Moreover the mail order houses dip only the of the trade. the trade. There left for the heavily taxed local merchant the credit trade the expense of bookkeeping. final
Arizona republican., 1915-09-11
Vest Pocket Essays
By George Fitch
THE PINE TREE

Next to the horse the pine tree has been the most faithful friend of man.
 Other friends are Tickle. The oats curl up and die in the early June sun. The corn flourishes nightly and Wilts under the September frost like a geranium on cold night The wheat receives the chinch bug joy fully to it's bosom and lets man strug- gle through the winter on credit. But the pine tree stands at attention through the centuries, waiting for man to come along with a two-ended saw and make it into houses telegraph poles, fumed oak furniture and ten thousand other conveniences of civ ilization.
 This nation has housed 100000 900 people in the last century, but it couldn't have done it without the pine tree When the Pilgrims landed they were met by the Indians, mos quitOs, chilblains and pine trees and only the latter did them any good. The pioneer built his home of pine logs and when the husky young western city desired to become a metropolis, in ten years it built a railroad to the nearest pine forest and let the car
 penters do the rest.
 However the pine tree is now over doing the friendly business. It is spelling us like the fond parent. We build our hotels of pine and discover after the defective flue has gotten in
 it's deadly work with pain that the occupants were not covered by in surance We build our schools of pine and hunt for our children over two counties after the succer cyclone has passed. We build whole cities of pine and ten years afterward they look like the paintless ruins of an ar chitect's disordered dream.
 1 The pine tree has served it's day. Like the horse, it is becoming an ex- trava gance. We use pine now. be- cause we are lazy and in a hurry. But America is already completed and it doesn't need to be in hurry any longer. The government should protect the pine tree with a leak proof. air tight injunction and use 1t for scenery while we get busy with the brick yards and stone quarries and concrete mills and build our nation over so that a lighted match will not cause a shudder to run cOnvulSiVely ] through a hundred insurance com panies.
Arizona republican., 1915-09-11
WHO'LL MARRY BRITISH ROYALTY?

Brtain's royal house will be al loss for royal families marry into when this war is concluded. German royalties, even if the Hohenzoerns are ielt on throne. never again marry or be given marriage with kings queens. princes or prIn- cesses Britains royal family. Royal families Of Germany and of countries sympathetic with Germany the list of candidates for Wedlock with British royalties. RUssias state church IS on brotherly with the Church of England Re ligous difference would not absolutely forbid Russo British royal marriage. Europe is not the home many royal houses that at once Protest and pro- British Wars effect on future royal marriages Britain interesting than i'm portant. British peoples are now concerned with awful and momcr tous issues than those related O the intermarriage of royalties. British princes princesses for all time to come will have to look elsewhere than Germany for brides and bride grooms.-Toronto Telegram.
Arizona republican., 1915-09-11
COFFEE HER ONLY FOOD

Baltimore, Md.-Kate Laroer, 13 years old has, since she was IA months old, 'taken practically no nouriShment but coffee, which she drinks in large quantities sometimes twenty cups a day. This according to her grandmother.
 The child. says the grandmother, has been at Johns Hopkins and the Hebrew hospitals for treatment. but she never has been persuaded to eat. Though emaciated and unable to stir from the couch where she lies all day she appears perfectly normal in in other ways. talks intelligently and is perfectly content if supplied with ice balls and coffee.
 She has never been able to attend school and shows no desire to go out or indulge in the ordinary pastimes of children. Never has she eaten meat, vegetables or bread.
Arizona republican., 1915-09-11
Ripping Rhymes
By Walt M Mason
BEFORE AND AFTER

"To gain a smile from your starry eyes, I'd slay a dragon" the lover cries I'd dip the sea from it's an cient bed, To scoop the snow from youn mountains head. I'd grab a star from the spangled sky, to light your path as you toddle by. I'd catch whale though it's fierce and fleet, and proudly lay it before your feet. Whatever a mortal man can do. will be done by me, dear love, for you.'' Oh, the fair maid falls for this tommyrot, and off to the Tarson then they trot, and the good man says, lou are man and wife; have sentenced you, and your terms for life" The passerby, when a year has flown, may hear the pas sionate husband groan: The mInuJe I step within these doors, you have a list of a thousand chores. There is no rest for a weary soul; you want some water, you want some coal, l should be moving the ding donged lawn, or pulling weeds till the light is gone, or pruning trees with a butcher knife-a mans chump when he takes a wife Oh, girls, who plan to be happy fraus, beware the man who is long on vows,
Arizona republican., 1915-09-11
THE MORTGAGE

You'd need white paper by tie ton, the pen of Oppenheim or Dante. if you'd describe the grief of one who has mortgage on his shanty. The mortgage is a grievous weight for woIkingman to stagger under, it bends tho back that once was straight and makes the hair as gray as thunder. The toiler says, "TC blithely roam the landscape OCT, I've long been wanting; I'll put a mort gage on my home, and buy a car and do some jaGnting." He puts the mortgage on his shack and buys a motor with the money. Tn fourteen months I'll pay it back" , he says, 'Or it will be blamed funny" Alas, an Old Man of the Sea he's placed upon his back and shoulder, and from the weight he won't be free till he's asleep beneath a boulder. The home that once he viewed with pride-a pride that all the world indorses-will soon from his posses sion slide while he is paying for dead horses. Debt is the worst and fiercest hell that Ger inspired a smoking sonnet; 'twere better meath a bridge to dwell than in a hall with mortgage on it.
Arizona republican., 1915-09-11
Arizona Republicans Editorial Page

ly many uncolectble be charged off after futile attempts have been made collect them. This item alone amounts to much more than the proposed cent the business of the mail order houses.
Arizona republican., 1915-09-11
A BIG DOZEN

A young lrishman, shortly after coming to this country. was stopping with friend of his boyhood now IlVlng in New York. One day the friend took him down to have a look at WashlnStn market. Passing a 1ruIt stand, they saw some grape fruit which the new arrivals friend said were oranges.
 My, my said the other. but they're big fellows. I'll engage you It wouldn't take many of them to make a dozen. n.T-E,verybody's Maga- zine.
 Says J. Fuller Gloom: "Whenever possible I prefer to get it in my D i -lr.LI =.l- :.
Arizona republican., 1915-09-11
THE ENDLESS BATTLE

Look around today. Lo, here and now in our civilized society. the old aegories yet have mean ing the old myths still true Into the Valley of the Shadow of Death yet often the path of Duty leads; through the streets of Vanity Fair walk Christian and Faithful; and Greathearts armor ring the changing blows. Ormuzd still fights with Ahriman--the Prince of Light with the powers of darkness. He who will hear to him the clarions of battle call.
 they call, and call and call, till the heart swes that them! Strong soul and nigh en- deavor, the world needs them Beauty still lies imprisoned, and wheels still the good, the true and the beautiful that might spring from human lives
 And they who fight with 'ormuzd though they may know each other-somewhere sometime, will their muster roll be called.-Henry George.
Arizona republican., 1915-09-11

And that last is a bad thing to be unless you are familiar with it's action. I know one man (no relation oI mine) who was so versatile that his people had to put him in the insane asylum l know several here in Phoenix who are troubled with it and people think they are liars It's VERSATILITY.
Arizona republican., 1915-09-11

Grown people should always take the children with them to a plcnlc in the woods. The innocent little things make excellent bait for the chiggerS.
Arizona republican., 1915-09-11
Umeem@@redS Sense and Nonsense
(By Remlik)

Ir writing short verse, of the Limerick
 style Your thinker goes back on you. once
 in a while And you can't get drink To help scare up think So you've got to be wise or else darn
 versa tile.
Arizona republican., 1915-09-11

For the benefit of those who don't know the meaning of the word yer satility, but who wouldn't own it, will explain that it means-just what the dictionary says it does
Arizona republican., 1915-09-11

who was so versatile that his people had to put him in the insane asylum. l know several here in Phoenix who are troubled with it and people think they are liars. It's VERSATILITY.
 For the benefit of those who don't know the meaning of the word yer satility, but who wouldn't own it, I will explain that it means-just what the dictionary says it does
 'The Bulgarians are fortifying Dede- aghatch". Those press fellows ought to translate the whole message from the cyphergrams. In this instance they only got as far as fortifying.
 There are a whole lot of knockers and others who are crying hard luck and hard times who are busy WATCH ING the paving on First avenue It up sets some of-their "theories", but it gives them grand opportunity of tel ling the other idleweisers how the work "OUGHT' to be done
 US luncheon when you have money and lunch when you're broke. For in stance when went to lunch vesterday well, Father I cannot tell a lie"
 Dig out that old sock of cash. or take 1t out of the old heatin' stove. or down rom out the attic and put it into cir cuIatlon- Make ANY sort of an in vestment and there are plenty of them right here at home that will net. you ten per cent and perfectly safe at that and you will have done YOUR part to- ward giving us all a chance to partake of luncheons. The COWARD the SELFISH and the IGNORANT is the HoARDER He Cor she) is not only an undesirable; but an enemy of hu- ihahlty Tn general. HOarding money is equally as criminal. in the minds of flnanciers. as stealing money. Indeed It IS stealing. It is grabbing it ont of US channel and checking the flow
 That money is not YOUR money. Jt mas merely fallen into your unprin- cipled hands and you are withhoJding 1t from those who have as much inter est in it as YOU have Therefore vou are an EMBEZZLER.
 The law cannot get at YOU. but if is to be hoped that some person. whom the law might style THIEF. WILL. md your cache, and if he does. I hone that THE LAW will be unable to find HIM. He is ONE kind of a robber. put MT. Hoarder. he's a better man than YOU are, ANY day.
 If lots in Oakland are worth a car tain price (and they may be I'm m real estate party) What are lots in KeDilWorfb "
Arizona republican., 1915-09-11
HE HAD HIS DOUBTS

Wife-Dont you think should have vote? Husband-I dunno, Jane. You'd probably want a new hat at the polls
Arizona republican., 1915-09-11

"The Bulgarians are fortifying Dede- aghatch'. Those press fellows ought to translate the whole message from the cyphergrams In this instance they only got as far as fOrtifying.
Arizona republican., 1915-09-11

If lots in Oakland are worth a cer- tain price (and they may be- I'm no real estate party) What are lots in Kenilwortho
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-11-11
GUARANTEE
Of the clarksburg Merchants
Stands Back Of Every Pur-
chase Made Here.
Ten reasons:

Ten reasons:
First. Because you should edo
unto others las you would be done
BY" i. 4 !,
Second. Because by advocating.
the buy in Clarksburg" movement
means advocating the circulation OF
money in Clarksburg. IA,
Third. Because It is our duty, as.
loyal citizens to support home indus
try. s. Z. "a
Fourth. Because it Is unfair and
disloyal to spend the salary or
wages (as the case may be) earned
in Clarksburg with outside firms. n
Fifth. Because we have the
privilege OF examining the articles
before purchasing.
S Sixth. Because the guarantee OF
the men we know and Of whose in
gritty we are assured, stands back OF
every purchase. *
Seventh. Because as a business
people, ever interested on increasing
business, they not only wish to make
you o lifetime customer, but desire
your recommendation to your 4
friends. s s 8 Il 4
Eighth. Because by buying at
home you increase the prosperity In
all lines Of trade, and prosperity In
trade means prosperous Clarks-
burg. 5.ts
Ninth. Because q prosperous
Clarksburg means civic Improve
ments Of all kinds.
Tenth. Because by supporting the,
buy in Clarksburg" movement and
spending our money at home. we not
only receive better goods. better SER
vice. but We reap an additional bene-
fit by enjoying the civic Improvement
that only "a prosperous Clarksburg.
can afford. and q prosperous Clarks.
burg means a prosperous people.
MRS. M. F. HARRISON.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-11-11

MRS FLORENCE coPENHAvER. j
az Sycamore Street.