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PAOE FOUR
THE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN, SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 18. 1914
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Have We Heard Aright?
XXV l-sually rely implicitly U"'U tile statements
of the Associated I'I'. PS hilt We suspect that lilolc
is an error in the story of yesterday morning of the
afr-et..i-op..n adjustm. nt of the Tampico Incident.
The .W.xkvns will fire a salute and the Aim n ans
wi.l .'ire a salute. according to the reported stipula
Cois of war. XX'ith the rolling away of the smoke
ami tio- dying reverberations of the cannon fire, the
animosity Uiween the republics will lie entirely dis-s-ipm
'1. Xo international complications since men
wer.- organized int.. nations was ever .so absurdly
i.-m..v. il
Paraphrasing the old rtnnie:
ihe trouble was so soon done fur.
XVhatevcr was it begun for?"
We are informed by the same, dispatches that,
the warship- which Were so feverishly ordered from
widely separated points to ilexiean ports have been
halted and turned back to their posts. Again we arc
reminded '.h it
"The King of l-'rance inarched up the hill
With thirty thousand men.
And then inarched down again."
The mirage of war lessee! away when the sun
of irai'i. struck it at the right angle. Those of us
who thought we saw a vision of a chalice over
flowing with t.-l-loo'i have discovered tile gory con
tents to be nothing but grape juice.
How ha! pily lias it all been settled' XVc scratch
tile Mcviean back and the Mexicans scratch ours.
Surely, this b.ats mini .and grisly war. lu the rip
pling atmosphere set in motion by ihe concession,
of the mutual salutes, the Stars and Stripes tmd tin?
.Mexican tri-color wave and dance gaily. We hear
no more and we see no mote of the ominous flap
ping of war' tlags. The "Prince of Peace" smiles
broadly over all. the while the dovs build nests and
lay their egas in his back hair.
Hut this pleasant way is not the coir, entional
way of settling these things. On the instant that
the news that Hear Admiral .Mayo had ordered tin
federal commander at Tampico to salute the flag,
experts at Washington began to search for prece
dents, and they triumphantly declared that they had
itt last found one. thoimh it was admitted that it
was not quite on all fours with the Tampico affair.
The nearest approach to that was an incident that
occurred during the civil war. Confederate shore
'batteries recklessly fired upon a Rritish warship.
The British commander sent word that the insult
to the Tnion .lack would be wiped out in one of
only two ways, one was by the firing by the bat
teries of 3 peaceful salute to the flan: the other,
the wiping out by the guns of the warship of the
offending batteries. There were no cables then, and
tlie commander couid not wait to communicate with
the. foreign office. Probably he would not have
taken the trouble to communicate if he could. The
thins hail to be settled there anil then. The con
fedrates, realizing the error they had committed and
which was made more apparent by the threatening
guns of the warship, xvere inclined, to pal ley: the
would fire a salute if the warship would reply in
kind. The British commander objected on the
ground that a salute by him would be -univalent
to recognition of the confederacy, an act beyond his
' jurisdiction. He was only authorized to av.-n.ae in
sults to his this. Jfe pave the shore batteries cer
tain minutes to file the peaceful salute. Tlicre was
no further time for negotiations, and the s-.ltite was
fired.
This precedent, which was so avidly sei.ed upon
by the Washington experts, is now. according to the
Associated Press, about to be disregarded in its
most essential part. We. think the Associated Press
must have been misinformed by some enemy of the
administration-
Disarmament of the Staff
Just as we are in a fair way lo tret rid of one
complication with our neighbors below the line, an
other one arises. Those Mexicans seem to be en
dowed with a p.-c.uliar faculty for embroiling them
selves. First it was with England; then with
Spain: then with the 1'nited States, ami now with
the sovereign state of Arizona.
The other day Covernor H unfit staff accompa
nied the governor and Governor MeOonald of New
Mexico across the line into Agua Pricta on a friendly
night-seeing tour, and. perhaps, for proving their
friendliness to the constitutionalist onuse. The auto
mobile in which the staff was riding included among
its contents, consisting of the staff officers in their
peaceful trapping of war, no hostile design against
the constitutionalist government. U appears that it
did not include even a familiarity with international
regulations, for the warriors wore their glltterim;
side-arms. The staff was held up and divested of
these accoutrements, nntu ilhstanding the known
friendliness of Governor 1 1 inf. toward ( 'arranxa and
the known antipathy of Governor McDonald toward
Iluerta.
IHit the side-arms were taken away, and, ac
cording to the latest dispatches from the frontier,
the Mexicans still hold them, though thty regret the
necessity of taking them in compliance with the
Mexican practice of Mexicans seizing arms wherever
they find them. There are no other such brilliant
swords jn all Mexico.
In passing, we may say that il is a good thins
for the m.-inoers of the staff that the embargo on
arms had been lifted or they might have to answer
to the general government to ;i charge of smuggling.
The members of the staff may have erred in going
int.. Mexico in ihe panoply of war. Perhaps ihcy
should have remembered that in the early days in
Arizona, when cowboys cam.- to the towns from the
range., the first thing they did was to leave their
guns behind a bar as ev idence of ' friendly inten
tions. Put we will take occasion to warn the consti
tutionalists ,,f Agua Pricta. that they cannot keep
these swords and maintain the sympathy of the
governors staff in their struggle to free Mexico
from the tyranny of Iluerta. And this, by the way.
is not the first affront the constitutionalists have
offered us. Il was Dot long ago that they shot four
' of our -honor men" who escaped from a road camp
Hear Hisbee and took refuge across the line. In the
name of Arizona, we would let the.se misEi-i.J.-d
Mexican patriots know that they cannot destroy our
sacred birds and steal our swords and get away
Willi it.
A Misapprehension
A dispatch from Phot-nix, appearing in several
of tlie stale papers, announces that the candidacy
of Hon. Kugene 'hal'in. who seeks nomination as a
prohibition candidate for the office of I'nited States
senator, was repudiated at a late conference of ".ro
hbiitionists" in this city. XX'e suppose allusion is
made to ;he late meeting for the organization of a
state temperance organization.
XVe haw not the slightest interest in the can
didacy of Mr- Chafin or any other m m wla.se rtame
has been mentioned in connect ion with tlie office of
I'nited States senator, and we an- aware only by
hearsay of the proceedings of the late meeting. Hut
we ale interested in dispelling erroneous impres
sions which our brethren of the press may entertain.
The meeting was not a meeting of prohibition
ists. The organization formed here includes prohi
bitionists, progressives, socialists, republicans, demo
crats and representatives of organized labor. The
object of the organization is to secure a constitu
tional amendment against the manufacture, sale or
importation of liquor, obviously, the organization
could find no surer way of defeating its object than
its endorsement of any candidate of any party for
any office. A meeting in which such a purpose
Should have been proposed, and composed of the
elements in that meeting, would have broken up
before it could be organized.
We have understood that care was taken to an
nounce in advance of the meeting that it would be
interested in the candidal: of no man, and we have
been further informed that no one in attendance
suggested sympathy with any candidate. In these
circumstances, there could have been no repudiation
of Mr. Chafin or unyho.lv else.
ALASKA INVITES THE BIRDMEN
Dawson should be on the round-the-world a.-re-plane
route. San Francisco's project to have the
first circumnavigation of the globe accomplished in
connection with the Panama fair in nil probability
will be successful. The race should be made in
summer, t will have to be made in tlie northern
hemisphere, and naturally the flyers will seek to
fly over land as much as possible.
Granting that the flight be1 westward front
San Francisco, 'he aviators first should head up
the Pacific coast, through California, f'regon.
Washington and P.ritisli Columbia: then through
the Alaskan archipelago. From .Juneau they might
skirt the Pacific shores to the Aleutians, but it will
1." found far more adavntageous to follow the trail
of tile Klondike! over the Cbilkoots, via Skagway
and AX'hite Pass. Every foot of the flight can be
made along a much-traveled course, where, should
the aeroplane need repairs, aid can be had on short
notice. Over the White pass and down the Yukon
telegraphic communication always is ;tt hand, and
sit; imboats can distribute tlie gasoline or petrol as
frequently as desired. The midnight sun will be
blazing and flyers can travel day and night with
equal ease.
Dawson. Fairbanks, St. Michael and Nome can
he. visited. Then the fivers ran cross the compara
tively short run over Hearing swa to the Asiatic
Hide, and cruise down the Siberian coast to X'ladi
vosstok, whence the trans-Siberian railway will be
the natural course to St. Petersburg, alter which
the flight to Herlin, Paris and London will be a
comparatively easy matter. Then will come the
longest stretch, the flight across the Atlantic.
The News urged the undertaking of the round-the-world
flight over this route, two months ago,
anil believes this will la1 the course over which the
first man to encircV the globe in the air will tra
vel. A million dollar prize will be an incentive,
but it must be remembered the fivers who enter
wli have to spend some rash to make the trip.
The most favorable time to start would be in
May, which would afford days in the northern re
gion during the period of greatest sunlight and
warmth namely, in May, June, July, and August.
Let the Yukon send an invitation to the pro
moters of the flight in 'San Francisco to t ike the
course down the Yukon. All ships rounding tin;
globe, come as far north as possible to take the
great circle route and shorten the distance, and
air craft will find the same advantage on the
same course. Dawson Daily Xews.
HE KNEW
"If T were you." his wife said, "til go to that
man and tell him exactly what I thought of him.
He lied to you and you ought to tell him that yu
know it. if I were you I'd let him know just how
I despised him. I'd have the satisfaction of mak
ing him feel ashamed of himself "
"No, my dear." he replied, "you wouldn't do
anything of the kind. If you were me you'd do
just as I'm doing. This fellow weighs fifty pounds
more than I do and they tell me he's one of the
best boxers in this town." Chicago Record -Hera Id.
WORLD'S MOST NOTED SURGEONS IN
CONFERENCE IN NEW YORK CITY
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Standing, Dr. A. T. Jurasz (left) and Dr. Edouard Kehit. Seated, Dr. A.
Kehn.
Many of the most noted surgeons In the world are attending the
International Conference on Surgery, now in session in New York city.
Terhaps the most famous of foreign nurgeons at the conference is Prof A.
Fehn of Frankfort. Germany, who is at the head of the Hanilumr sa...."ary
commission. He was the first surgeon to successfully stitch up the human
heart. Other lioted foreigners at the conference arc Dr. Kdouard Kehn, Iht
son of the professor, and Dr. A. T. Jurasz.
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I Farm Notes . The Loafers
BY HOWARD L. RANN By WALT MASON
A good deal of fuss has been made over tlie
statement that a g.rl in central Illinois tan away
from her home because her mother made her work
t.) hard. A Chicago preacher made the affair tile
subject of a touching sermon on filial cjuelty,
thereby extracting real tears from a hard-shell
deacon who had driven two wivs into an early
grave with a stove polt.r. No doubt the facts in
the case were a whole lot different. The chances
are that a job in the chorus of .some burn-storming
troupe looked softer than doing the dishes and mak
ing the beds. A girl from Keokuk, win. was so tail
that if she caught cold in June she couldn t sneeze
until Uctolx-r. ran away a few weeks ago with a
flat-headed runt of nn actor who was so short that
he. had to talk to her on his fingers, and she gave
the excuse that ma made her do up her own hair.
She stayed with the show until ihey billed her as
the female giraffe, and then she loped hack to tlie
old home, where she was affectionately greeted with
the flat side of a hair brush. The effect was salu
tary. She got up the next morning and hail break
fast ready lor the hired man before sun up. which
was such a shock to her mother that she fainted in
the sink and clogged the drain pipe. The best wives
are always the girls who have been flattened out
across the parental knee about once a week and
whose heads are not .added up with store hair until
they look like a buck sheep at shearing time. .Noth
ing will straighten up a love-sick girl who makes
goo-goo eyes at every traveling man in sight quicker
than an old-fashioned spanking. The gill whose
daily labor consists in brewing fudge and making
the trains is about as useful to a man who has to
work for a living as a coin pocket in a kimona.
WEEDS HAVE THEIR USES
Coal keeps getting dearer in all civilized coun
tries, and the search for possible substitutes ir.r coal
is' getting very keen. Tlie latest idea is the original
one of skimming the weed off the famous Sargnsso
sea and making it into blocks of fuel.
i'ho .Siii'f.iff.. sii is a Brest tryt of the Athletic
lyinV some htmoied;'- of miles south of the steamer
routes from 1 tritii in to the state.'!. A great patch
of oce. m there a I out twice the area of the I'nited
Kingdom, looks just like a vast green meadow.
The explanation is that it is covered to a thick
ness fif three or four feet with a weed called "sar
gasso." in the center of the sea there is a tract
the size of Ireland, where the weed is even thicker,
and stands sever. 1 feet oat of the water. In many
places the weed covers .iei'eiict ships which have B"t
caught. Steamers carefully avoid the Sargasso sea
owing to their screws get.insr fouled.
The idea has been suggested of raking the Sargas
so sea to make it open for navigation, but !t would
probably fill up again. This fact will make it a
permanent supply of fuel if the new idea catches on.
Thevveed is to be hydraulically compressed and cut
into blocks. These blocks have already been ex
perimented with on tramp steamers and have been
found to bi'1 a v ery economical fuel, giving out near
ly the heat of coal tit only a third of the eost..
Weed is not quite unknown as a fuel. Many Nile
steamers are run on blocks of sudd, the floating
weed that chokes the I'pper Nile.
Where the sargasso weed comes from has not
be en definitely settled. Some scientists stick to
the. old belief that the roots are on tlie sea-floor
half a mile below. Pearson's Weekly.
YOUTH'S RAPID RISE
Manager (hiring office boy:) Well, my lad, what
do you say?
Applicant Before I lake the job, sir, I'd like to
know if there's any chance of promotion.
Manager Well, as to that, it depends on the
boy. The last one we had here owned the whole
place before he'd been with us two months. Ron
ton Transcript.
When Spring comes, soft and balmy, with
zephyrs living loose, and weather cold and clammy
is canned for future use; when Spring, the genial
fairy, brings solace to our souls, and ali the world
is merry, the loafers leave their holes. They come,
tlie whole blamed slather, from holes, the Iud
knows where, and on the corners gatlnr, and chew
and smoke and swear. They com.-, the ragged loaf
ers, who'd rather die than work, as useless as the
gophers that in the cornfields lurk: as useless as the
foxes that steal the farmer's geese, they sit on dry
goods ooxes their smell disturbs the K'aoc. TUu
peelers see them sitting all day, a dingy sight, their
perches never quitting from morning until night:
but do ihe peelers n ib them, or try to get their
goats? Ah. No! N. cops will grab them, for loafers
all have votes. They are as independent as donkey
eating hay, because, they shine resplendent upon
election "lay. They'll still defile the pavement, and
stir up women's wrath; they shun ail sane endeavor,
these skates with thirsty throats, and they'll abide
forever, because they have their votes
WHEN THE COWBOY REIGNED
a tie Grey, among all the expressions of apprec
iation he has received of his recently published
n tl. "Tli. Light of Western Stars," says he values
most highly the opinion of one who might be called
an expert in the life he has describi d. Tlie following
extracts are taken from a letter scut Mr. Grey from
California. "Stewart. Stilwt II. Fells iV Monty are
g reat. They remind me of the cattlemen and cow
bows 1 knew in western Texas from 1 STo to '"). Ah.
those were stirring years in that part of Texas. The
cowboys down there knew no fear. Their greatest
pleasure was rounding tip wild, stampeding cattle
and chasing and fighting hostile Indians: and let
.lie tell vou tin re was as much danger in doing one
as the other. At first I thought it was awful the
way the cowboys punished rustlers i horse and cattle
thieves). One morning soon after going west, while
riding on the prairij 1 saw the bodies of seven men
hanging from the limbs of one tree; said tree, by
the way. was the only one for miles around. The
rustlers ban' been caught red-handed. It was a sick
ening sight, and. being a tenderfoot, 1 felt like fly
ing hack to civilization. However, I didn't, and
it was net long before 1 made up my mind that it
was absolutely necessary the rustlers be sternly
dealt with. Thanking you for the very great pleas
ure I have derived from reading 'The Light of Wes
tern Stars,' and hoping with all my heart you will
write a sequel to it, equally a fascinating, I am.
Verv Truly.
, "VOl'K ADMIRER."
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PAY IN ADVANCE
The younir man from London took his jr en '
necktie and his best girl inlo a seaside restaurant,
and like some other young men, he was disposed
to be facetious at the waiter's expense.
"Waiter," he said, "I want yu to brinB me a
grilled crocodile."
"Vessir." replied the waiter, perfectly unmoved.
"And. waiter, bring it with butter."
"Yessir."
Then he stood like a statue for a minute.
""Well." said the you ns man, "aren't you (joins
t bring it?"
"Yessir."
"Why don't you. then?"
"Orders is, sir. that we get pay in advance for
crocodiles, sir. Crocodiles with butter, sir. are nine
pounds three shillings and sis-pence a portion. If
you take it. without butter, sir." Philadelphia Re
cord.