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The Parker post., 1917-06-23
ARE A PEOPLE OF CONTRASTS
But the Majority Of italians, Like
Their Country, Have Great Phys
icai Beauty and Charm.

Province by province, Italy mani
tests a varying charm, and the people
di1fer as widely as their surroundings.
The hOt-blOOded sOutherner observes u
different standard Of morals and hy.
glene, hres to anger or interest more
quickly, and Is generally less depend
able and industrious than his northern
brother. Both are gifted with the black
eyes and hair and the swarthy com
plex1On, as race, that Is Il general
characteristic OF the Latin people. But
the Italian is, broadly speaking. like
MS country, endowed with a physical
beauty and charm beyond that of most
of his fellows.
IN the uortiI, viewer remarks a
writer In the National ~t1.,uranhioo,
Magazine, there are exceptiGn iGns-fatr
haired and reddish men anG woman
who seem strangely out of pls ce among
their dark neighbors. -cc0ol, tempera.
tdre ex0ttcs they they are among the higher
colored grOwths that somehow seem
so tropical, with their sultry smiles and
fathomless, mysterious eyes, ia which
forever broOds the shadow of the pur-
pie mountains that always and every
where dominate all Italy, even to the
delightful carabinieri or rural guards.
those Napoleonic-looking officials who
parade always sOlemnly in pairs, hang
ers at their sides, cockades In their
black beavers, the majesty Of the law
In every line and footstep.
The Parker post., 1917-06-23
Get your stationary printed at The
Post.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.

To w. M. Guernsey, w. A. Potter, Jo-
siah Burchett and S. D. Guernsey
You are hereby notified that we,
the undersigned, have expended dur
ing the years 1911-12-13-14-15 and
Is, the sum of Six Hundred Dollars,
in labor and improvements on the
following described mining claim:
"Maude" placer mining claim, the
location notice of which is recorded
in Book 4 of Mines, page 248, Min
ing Records of Yuma County, State
Of Arizona.
That said work was done and inn
provements made on said claim dur
ing the years 1911-12-13-14-15 and
16 in order to hold the said claim
under the provision of Section 1924
of the Revised Statutes of the United
States, and the amendments thereto,
and the laws of the State of Arizona
concerning annual labor to be done
on mining claims.
undersigned the sum of seventy-five
dollars each on account OF your share
of said six hundred dollars expended
for annual labor on the said mining
claim during the years 1911-12-13-
14-15 and 16, and
You are hereby notified by the
undersigned that if within ninety
days from the personal service OF
this notice upon you, or within nine
ty days after the service of this
notice upon you by publication, you
fail, refuse or neglect to contribute
your portion of the expenditure, to-
wit the sum of seventyfive dollars
each to the undersigned, your inter
est In said mining claim will become
the property of the undersigned,
your co-owner, in accordance with
the law in such cases made and
provided.
Dated June 18th, 1917, State of
California.
O. L. GRIMSLEY,
B. G. ABERCROMBIE, JR.
Subscribed and sworn to before
me this 18th day of June, 1917.
EVALYN HUKMORE,
Notary Public in and for County Of
Los Angeles, State of California.
My commission expires April "a,
1921
(First pub. June 16, last Sept. 15.)
The Parker post., 1917-06-23
WHEN HEART ACTION STOPS
Not Always Easy to Assign Reason
for That PARTICULAR Form OF
Llfe's Ending.

Departments of health and medical
nize heart failure as definite cause
OF death for their mortality lists, the
term having come TO be ready refuge
for ignorant or indOlent physicians
looking for an easy explanation Of an
unexpected death. There seem. how
ever to be some cases left in which the
expression finds a proper place and
supplies a lacuna in present-day med
tcal knowledge.
Occasionally there Is apparently no
good reason In the heart condition to
expect that it may Suddenl! cease its
activity, and YET il actually stops. Ap-
parentiy the effect of even some slight
Irritation becomes so multiplied in
heart tissues as to bring about
definite disturbance or rhythm, and
cardiac action ceases for good and all.
Not infrequently such cases come to
climax shortly after food has been
taken into the stomach; then there
seems 10 be some connection between
the gastric condition and the sudden
heart StOppage.
Long ago DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes
suggested that the angel Of life sets
this living pendulum going and that ii
goes on and on until the angel Of death
breaks into the case and rudely stops
ii. The expression is highly dgura-
five and ypt contains in If thG germ of
the thought that sometimes life's pro
cesses seem TO have approached a
terminus which they may reach unex-
pectcdly as the result Of some irrita-
tiOn that would in itself, presumably,
not be sufficient 70 produce any such
far-reaching effect.-New York Her
aid.
The Parker post., 1917-06-23
WOMEN FOND OF SACRIFICE
Seemingly No Extremes to Which They
viii Not Go for the Husband
They Love.

Women often rush In where angels
with any kind of Judgment would fear
10 go. Strong men are faint-hearted
0y comparison to goOd-lntentioned
women in their reckless dashes, usual
~ TO give assistance to or throw some
protection around man.
A case in point is that of a Califor-
MIA woman who has just offered to give
up her children and sacrifice herself
ia devoted effort To make a man of
her husband, rancher. Trying to
make man Of husband is u job none
put woman III whose veins flows the
blood OF martyrs would think of. Many
women have tried 1t, but who knows
their namesf How many have any
lhlng better than the frayed and tat
tered remnant of a lifetime wasted in
endeavor TO make miracle one Of the
routine duties of dOmesticity? Only
the woman with the self sacrificing in
stinct cultivated to the precipice of
genius tries it,
Ii he is not up to the lowest limit of
tOACA COllluO1
time he is-Oh, whatever age he hap
pens TO be when she has him thrown
on her hands-she may as we'll make
up her mind to take him as he is. Ii
nature, through the centuries during
which men have been evolving, could
not do better with him than what she
sees has been done, why should one
lone woman hope to take it up there
and make him into man? Yet here
is woman who has lived with him
long enough to be convinced, offering
TO give up her children for one more
chance to turn q husband into man
before she acknowledges defeat.
1t Is not alone great military men
who don't know when they're beaten.
Pittsburgh Dispatch.
The Parker post., 1917-06-23
It's Congress.

The affectation Of calling congress
the congress" seems to be quite wide
spread among those who address thai
body officially or think they must be
strictly accurate in speaking Of it. Yet
the Constitution Of the United States.
which created it, called it "a congress
in first naming it, and III other place
calls it sometimes congress" and
sometimes 'the with a small "t')
congress" just as the construction Of
the sentence and the euphony Of sound
will be unconstitutional If he onIits
the The, st Louis Star
The Parker post., 1917-06-23
EMPTlED BASKET OF EGGS
Truthful Story OF Rats Strategy Which
Of Course One Is Not Com.
PEELED to Believe.

Really" said the young man as he
corner drug store. II can scarcely hope
that any one will believe this story.
| will just tell 1t and let Ii go at that.
My wife the other day bought dozen
eggs-nO that is not the most irnprOb-
able part Of the stOry-yes, she bought
dozen eggs and hung them up in q
basket Ia the cellar some distance from
the floor above. Hearing a noise In
the cellar she was afraid to go down
stairs. tiptoed my way half a dozen
steps down and there | saw q fine
piece Of strategy--l mean rategy-as
one could wish.
Three rats in string, the top one
on the cellar wall the lowest one in
The basket, were passing the eggs from
one to another. | made a little noise
and the rats, pulling themselves up to
the top Of the wall. disappeared.
Eleven Of the - eggs had been taken
from the basket. There they were all
in Il row on the top OF the wall.
Il went upstairs TO call my wife to
show her those II eggs. | wasn't gone
more than five minutes. When she
came down the cellar steps with me
and | was pointing 10 the top Of the
wall-well, the eggs We're gone. Then
| looked into the basket for the twelfth
egg. 1t. TOO, was gone! An even
dozen. at 4a cents
NO, l don't expect you to believe 1t.
l just tell the story Maybe you'll
even dOubt the price OF the eggs."-
Indianapolis News
The Parker post., 1917-06-23
MINE WARNING NOTICE.
To Whom it May Concern:

u w uOm IL MAY COuCeru:
Notice Is hereby given that the un-
dersigned. the EMPGRE-ARIzONA
Copper Company, is the owner Of the
American Eagle and Gray Eagle lode
mining claims, situate in Ctenega
mining district. Yuma county, state
of Arizona; and that said claims are
now in possession Of and are being
worked under a leasing contract by
John J. Stein and Linley Harpending
The said owner, the undersigned,
hereby gives notice that neither the
above-named claims, nor the owner
thereof. will be responsible for any
debts contracted for supplies or ma
terials by the persons working said
claims.
ARIZONA-COPPER co
By c. F. BALDWIN.
Dated at Parker. this 23d day Of
December. 1915.
The Parker post., 1917-06-23
Mine Warning Notice.
To Whom it May Concern:

To Whom 1t May Concern:
Notice is hereby given that the
mining claims belonging to the Mau'
Wis Mining company and situate i0
Cienega Mining District, Yuma coun.
ty. state Of Arizona, are under lease
and bond and are being worked by
Phillips, ,McDougal & Co., and that
the said Mauvis Mining Mining com
pany will not be responsible for any
debts contracted by said parties or
for any claims whatsoever Of any
nature for lbaor materials, or for &C
cidents to said lessees or their
employees
MAUVIS MINING COMPANY,
BY E. G. COVE, President.
Attest: A. G. ADAMS, Secretary.
The Parker post., 1917-06-23
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION

Department of the Interior, U. 5.
Land Office at Phoenix, Arizona,
June 4, 1917.
Notice is hereby given that Bertha
L. Nichols. widow OF G. Nichols Of
Los Angeles. Calf. who, on Decem-
Der 19, 1913, made Homestead Entry
No. 023984, for Ely SWA, SEA
Sec. 8; VIZ SWA, Section 9. Town
ship NJ, Range Is W, a. ). f.
B. & Meridian, has filed notice of
intention to make three year Proof,
to establish claimst to the land above
described, before D. M. Hammack,
U. s. Commissioner, at Los Angeles,
California, on the 14th day of July,
1917.
Claimant names as witnesses who
will appear before the Register and
Receiver, Phoenix, Arizona, on same
date: Fred shaffer, of salome, Ari-
zona; Charles Cochran. Of Wenden
Arizona; c. E. Blount, Of >Wenden,
Arizona; Mrs. c. Z. Blount, Of
Wenden, Arizona.
(4-8) J. l.. IRWIN, Register.
The Parker post., 1917-06-23
She Wanted to Know.

The baby was crying and Matte
stod beside him, very much to his in-
dignation and looked at his eyes. While
the baby struck out at her she tried
10 lift his eyelid
What are you doing, dear?' asked
her mother. The baby does not like
tDr you to touch him."
Mamma, / was trying TO see where
the tears come from. Where does he
Keep his tears when he isn't crying?"
The Parker post., 1917-06-23
Sustenance in Netties.

Nettles good human food? OF
course! They have been known as
such immemorially in thrifty Switzer-
land and other careful countries.
There is no better rival to spinach in
the whole vegetable kingdom. And
the nettle ought to be utilized, it does
so abound 1t Is the one weed, almost
the only one. that grows in all coun-
tries under the sun, SO say gardeners
who fight it year by year and have
never taken the right revenge of eat
ing it--LOndon Chronicle.
The Parker post., 1917-06-23

not be responsible for any debts con-
tracted by the said William Nc
Laughlin.
MARTIN BAKER.
Dated at Parker, Ariz., May 9Th,
1917.
The Parker post., 1917-06-23
Tima to Toll Bell

Were you ringing the bell sir2"
asked the waiter of the customer who
had been busy with the bell for Is
minutes.
Ringing it, manf' echoed the Gus
TONER Il have been tolling it. /
thought you were dead"
The Parker post., 1917-06-23
DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP
To Whom it May Concern:

TO w nOM It Way COnceCn.
Notice is hereby given that the
partnership heretofore existing be-
tween Martin Baker and William
Mclaughlin has this day been mu-
tually dissolved, the undersigned
having purchased the said McLaugh-
Inns interest in that certain 100
acres Of land situate In Mohave
county, state Of Arizona. On and
after this date the undersigned will
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1917-03-09

popular hatred Of Germany. nor any general de-
mand that dig III and lick her
But that revelation showed the people of the
United States how Germany. all the while She was
telling the United States one thing and express
Ing desire to maintain peace and friendly rela-
tons. plotting behind our backs to attack us,
to stick a knife into us when the tim" came. And
because it is mi born into an American to hate
" douhe-crosser, wave of sentiment swept
over this nation and removed the last Shreds of
sympathy and support Germany had in the popu-
lar esteem.
For two years and half amidst the turmoil of
a world at war, holding ourselves in leash only by
the exertion of the greatest patience, We had con-
tnued to take Germany at her word though there
were many incidents that hurt deeply; but pa
thence and trust eventually reach breaking point,
and ours with the revelation of the German
intrigue. Then almost unanimously decided
we were through-we had had enough.
Yet there is no strong sentiment in the United
States today favOring the entrance of this nation
into the European war. The people Of the United
States do not want to go to war-they prefer to
remain at peace and will remain at peace until
every agency of averting war has been exhausted.
But the revelation of the German intrigue has
served to align the sentiment of the nation against
Germany, nevertheless, no previous incident of
our international relations had done, and if
are finally dragged into the conflict it will be with
far more unified public opinion, a far gen
eral determination, than if Germany had not been
revealed as 'doube-crOsser.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1917-03-09
WILHELM L. JONES'"

Our views concerning a senator who went from
this state to the national capital bearing the
Wesley L. Jones, are published on another page,
together with the singing rebuke Of the Seattle
Post Intelligencer, which has sponsored the indi-
vidual in most of his recent campaigns We shall
content ourselves by adding here just another
short castigation of him who so grossly misrepre-
SCENTS the state of Washington to its sorrow and
shame-for the state to disown and disavow him.
a. the Post-Intelligencer declares, is too mild
treatment. We should bury him in an avalanche
of Indignation smother his blatant mouth, and
retire hiR to the privacy Of his own home as
quickly and as quietly We can
Or else send him to Germany.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1917-03-09
THREE EDITORIALS.

Elsewhere in this issue published three ed
torals clipped from last weeks Saturday Evening
Post, discussing as many phases of the present
domestic and international situation We
printing them because they appear to us to be the
best comments on the situation we have noted in
the current press, because they eminently sane
and understandable and do not attempt to arouse
or excite their readers, but to state the circum-
stances as calmly and clearly can be and to
discuss them from that viewpoint
We want to direct your particular attention to
the one ''The Difference Summed up in it's
short second paragraph is the nub of the whole
international situation Both England and Ger
many have been violating international law
admittedly so-and both have trampled upon our
rights as neutral, and to the acts of both
have vigorously protested; but the controversy
with Germany has attracted more attention,
achieved greater prominence and resulted in
graver consequences than that with England be-
cause it started from the loss of human lives.
If you 60 out on your farm to your neighbours
and set fire to his barn and destroy it, the neigh
hood is only temporarily excited about it, knowing
that the damage can be settled in court or out Of
it. But if you go over to your neighbours house
and murder him or some one in his family, the
neghborhood is Immediately up in arms, demand
ing the limit of punishment for you and that right
away.
So it is with England and Germany. The former
has Communicated our ships or bockaded our
trade, but it has not killed any of our citizens.
Germany has.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1917-03-09
NO LOVE FOR A "DouBLE.cRossER. +"

Strangely enough, but very little attention has
been directed to the surprising change in the
timent Of the people of the United States caused
by the revelation last week of Germany's plot to
ally with her Mexico and Japan to attack the
United States in case we did not remain neutral.
Yet that revelation marked the turning point in
the attitude of the people of the United States
toward the European struggle and entangle-
ment with it and cemented the nation into still
greater unanimty in approving the president
policy.
Prior to it, even after the break in diplomatic
relations, there was practically no enmity in this
country against Germany of an excitable or en-
thusiastic or demanding sort We did not like
her tactics and we approved the president course
in protesting to them but there was no general
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1917-03-09
+ WHAT OUR FATHERS READ ABOUT
/ N THIS PAPER FIFTY YEARS AGO :

From The Washington Standard for
Saturday Morning, March o, 1867.
Vol. VII. No. 10.
Illinois has purchased from Mrs.
Douglas the plot of ground in which
the remains of Stephen A. Douglas
were buried, paying therefore the
sum of $4,000.
One week from today we are to
hold our precinct meetings to select
delegates to the county convention.
The coming election will be perhaps
a more important one than has hero
tofore transpired in the territory.
both considering the issues involved
and the number of officers to be
elected.
"The New World"-This elephant
in the shape of steamboat arrived
last Saturday. What to do with her
is the next question. If she steams
along at paying speed, the "Ander-
son" will beat her; If she OPENS the
Unbelievable, the grecnbacks fly up
the smokestack. The Herald pre-
diets crash in "Washoe" stocks.
Already the forest looks thinner.
A man named Wilson fired six
shots from a revolver at one Thomas
Lee, near Percival's wharf, last Mon
day morning. Singular to state,
neither shot took effect. Wilson was
bound over in the sum of 5000 for
his appearance at court.
The bill authorizing steam mail
service between the United States and
the Sandwich islands has passed both
houses of congress.
There are good grounds for saying
that the president, IL arraigned be-
fore the senate on impeachment, will
decline to recognize the validity Of
congress which denies representation
to a Part of the states.
Hartford, Feb. 1.-THE Republic
ans have nominated P. T. Barnum
for congress from the Fourth district.
Madrid dispatches say the king
consort has been exiled from Spain
on a charge of plotting for regency
of the kingdom.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1917-03-09
AN AROUSED PUBLIC.

The universal and spirited Indignation through
out the length and breadth of the land at the
filbuster in the United States senate which de-
feated the armed neutrality bill and tied the pres
ident s hands in the international crisis, points
the way for the senate to reform itself, however
reluctant it may be to do The senate rule
permitting unlimited discussion and preventing a
vote on measure so long as member objects
has been rallied at times without number IN the
past but not in recent history at least has it or
the senators who used it in the closing hours of
the last congress been subjected to such criticism
as has been hurled at them this week.
We are but repeating what everybody else has
said, including President Wilson, when we char
acterize it as the most reprehensble, the most de-
plorable incident in the legislative history of the
United States, because it affects the position of
the United States among the nations of the world
and holds us up to rdcule and scorn of all of
them. That dozen members of the highest leg
islative tribunal of the nation, no matter how sim
cere or how earnest or how honest they may be-
can thwart the desire of majority six times as
great and prevent that majority from expressing
its views on the issue at stake and that having
that power they it, regardless of all attending
circumstances, is something so detestable that it
ID OlulCuAt W cAPICSo Pei SVA AooAAAAS" ANoN'~
ing it.
The people of the United States do not favor
such tactics-they have based their government
upon the will Of the majority, have been willing
and confident to trust their affairs to the judg-
ment of the majority and have exerted their part
Of the conduct Of the government upon the rule OF
the majority from the beginning of things The
very senator's who hid behind the unanimous con-
sent rule and conducted the flibuster were elected
by majorities, not by unanimous consent ); all our
officials, in precinct, ward city, township, county
state and nation are elected by majorities. In only
the United States senate must unanimous consent
be obtained before the membership may decide an
issue, and it is the only legislative tribunal in the
world where such rule prevails.
When we say the people of the United States DO
mot favor that rule when we declare it should be
changed to permit such an overwhelming majority
az in this instance desired to vote, We do not mean
that it is necessary for the senate to go to the
other extreme and adopt rules which would enable
the employment Of the "gag rule" But we do
believe that when tw0-thirds or three-fourths of
the members of the senate desire to limit debate
and vote on the issue under discussion, they should
be permitted to do so and not be prevented, as
they were in this instance, by little group Of
willfnl men, representing no opinion but their
own
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1917-03-09

The adoption of the resolution by the legisla-
ture Monday, without dissenting VOTE pledging
the resources and citizenship of the state to the
president for whatever use he deems necessary in
the present crisis is the browning rebuke to our
misrepresentation, Wilhelm L. Jones, and strik-
ingly shows the president that the people of this
state do not approve their senator's course.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1917-03-09

Let is be said to the credit of Senator POindex-
ter that he finally switched around, supported the
president and did not participate in the senate's
closing ilibuster. Let be thankful that one, at
least, of our representatives in the senate discov
cred his patriotism and Americanism before it
was too late and did what his own people and the
people of the United States generally wanted him
to do
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1917-03-09

If the next congress passes the bill preventing
shipments of liquor in Interstate commerce. as
many of the national capital observers think it
will, the days of the vets in the United States
will be numbered Boot-leggng there will be, of
course, just as there are murders and thefts and
other crimes in spite of the statutes but the liquor
traffic as an open, sanctioned and licensed bust
will be nearing the end.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1917-03-09

The members of the Legislature got peeved of
course, when Governor Lister ''called'' them for
their patronage graft, but the people of the state
not only should know the situation but who is re-
sponsible for it, and the governors veto of the
ten-thousand-dollar deficiency appropriation and
its passage over his veto, fixes the responsibility
where it belongs. There wasn't any "passing the
buck" in that instance.