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PAGE TWELVE THE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN, FRIDAY 'MORNING, APRIL 24, 1914 '! 4 1 1 1 My, Those Flies! Let's shut them out with . good pair of- Racine Screen Door Hinges, they air adjustable so any door can he closed tight with them. Let us give you an estimate on your Ruilders' Hardware. We have a large stock to select from. Some very beau: tTFuTdcsigns m dull hrass, old copper, and sand Mast. Jf you are building be sure to see our line. We can save you money. EZRA W. THAYER Everything in Hardware 121-130 i:. Washington St. 127-133 E. Adams Amusements The Avenue Theatre -a THEATER LAMARA LAZA THEATRE Regale Theatre II H 4BbV P B Today LIUN SAVOY THEATRES 1- it u-j w""ii, Big Chorus Girls Contest Tonight Try A Republican Want Ad. THE AVENUE THEATER formerly the Wionam. The home of "licensed Pictures" and "Famous Players." Continuous performance 12 m. to 11 p. m. two-reel visualization of Dickens' immortal taio, "THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH" Featuring Sydney Ayres and Vivian Rich THE THEATER COMFORTABLE ANTHONY AND CLEOPATRA in S reels. Jo and 30 cents. Performances at 12 m., 2: .a p. in., 4:4i) p. m., 7 p. m., !:20 p. m. Latest moving pictures, from 9 a. m. to 11 p. m. Entire change of pictures every day A. R. CAVANESS, Mgr. 210-12 E. Washington. The only house running first-run pictures of Universal service. Complete change of program daily. WEBBS 5 MINSTREL MAIDS AND TWO OTHER EATURE ACTS THE LATEST IN MOVIES 10c and 20c BOSTON IDEAL OPERA CO. presenting "OLIVETTE" This excellent comic opera is offered in full with three big acts. One show per night starting at 8:15 sharp. Prices 10-20-30. Reserved seats 50c, order them during the day. . ix rn n at? lVJAvc Tonight GreatTrials History TRIAL OF MAXIMILIAN In view of the present disturbed con ditions in Mexico the trial of Emperor Ferdinand Maximilian Joseph, the Austrian, is of especial interest. It was only a little more than half a cen tury ago that Mexico was the scene of very much the same character of revolution that exists in that country today. Maximilian accepted the throne of Mexico in an evil hour. It was not his own wish that he should become the ruler of a country with which he had no sympathy whatever, but his am bitious wife goaded him on, picturing to him the honors and riches that would come to them. Instead, what a sad state. Maximilian lost his life and Charlotte went mad. AVlum the French army had virtually conquered Mexico the people agreed to adopt a monarchial form of government under a Catholic prince, who should take the title of emperor, and Napoleon offered the Mexican crown to Maxi milian. His brother, the emperor of Austria, was strongly opposed to his accepting the offer, but the influence of his wife was too strong to over come the objections. All the difficul ties and dangers were pointed out to them, but Charlotte scorned the counsel of the timid. With eharactertistic self-confidence, she was certain that she could direct her husband, placate bis enemies and establish his rule in .Mexico. Maximilian felt reluctant to mount a throne which sat over the crater of a volcano. However, the new emperor and his wife entered the capital on the 12th of June, 1S64. No sooner was he seated on the throne than the clergy, a large and official body, maintained that he should restore to them their im mense properties which previous gov ernment had confiscated. He found it impossible to comply, and the clergy used their power to weaken the rule of the sovereign. finally, when things had become In a turbulent state. Napoleon sent a spe cial messenger to Maximilian stating that he was no longer able to support him and advised him to return to Europe. Charlotte begged him not to sign the abdiction. and she started for Europe to talk over the matter with Napoleon. The scene with the em peror was an exciting one, and her troubles preyed so upon her mind that she became insane. News of the madness of Charlotte came as a crushing blow to her affec tionate husband, who, harassed on all sides, ill anil despondent, decided to leave the scene of his troubles. When the French army had withdrawn In March, 1S6-7, the emneror issued a man ifesto and rallying some S000 men around him, placed himself at their head and prepared to fight the Repub lican army. On the night of May 14 he was be trayed by one of his generals. Miguel Lopez, who admitted the republicans into the city of Queretaro. Opportunl ties were piven him to escape but he refused, preferring to surrender his sword with dignity. Two of his gen erals, M'ramon and Mejia were also taken prisoners. His majesty was lodged in the tower cell of the convent of San Teresito. He had an oppor GUARANTEED BY ME Lodge Notices TTVfc Phoenix . Lodge xno. 2, nmgnis oi Pythias, meets 7:30 p m. every Friday Visiting members Invited. Clarence E. Ice. C. C Center.' W. C. Powell, K. R.I & S Phone Office 567; Residence, 209R5. PHOENIX LODGE No. 708 Loyal Order of Moose. Meetings every Tuesday, I. O. O F. Hall. Visiting brothers Invited. Wal ter J. Hayt, Dictator Walter R. Van Tyaa, PARENT TEACHERS OF THE HIGH SCHOOL Election of Officers Yesterday for the Next Year Jlrs. C. If. Pratt, president; Mrs. S. J. Duster, vice president; Miss Sara Whitfield, secretary-treusurer. These officers were elected by the High School Purent Teacher association yes terday and will take up their duties when the season opens in the axitumn. The first Thursday in October has been set lor the initial meeting of the year and at this time the work for the winter will be outlined. The executive board will meet in September to appoint a program com mittee and discuss the policy of the as sociation. The circle has had the co-operation of the schools and the parents and has had a most successful season. tunity to escape while in prison, but refused. A day later the plot to smuggle Max imilian away was discovered and its principal promoter. Phince Salin-Salm was threatened with being shot. The trial of the emperor by court-martial took place on June 13 in the Iturbide Theater, at Vueretaro, which was dec orated with flags as if for a festival. The judges were six young captains, several of whom could neither read nor write, pn sided over by Lieutenant Co lonel Plato Sanchez. Knowing that the trial would be a mockery of justice the emperor retused to be present, and while it was preceding passed the tims alone in his cell in reading the history of Charles I or England. Three of his judges voted for the banishment of Maximilian, and three for his execution, the casting vote, which led to the execution, being given by the presiding officer, who later on was shot by his own men. Neither the emperor nor his friends, with one or two exceptions, believed that the sen tence would be carried out. But the Mexicans of the sixties were as today, blood-thirsty, and nothing would satisfy them but the death of the emperor, who was shot on June 16, 1SC7. What ft sad ending of the hopes and ambitions of Charlotte who, it was ordained, should spend the rest of her life in a madhouse, never realizing what had become of her husband she had influenced to such a terrible fat Tomorrow Trial of Fit.. -John Por ter. W. C. T. U. AT "SMS OF THE TIME" The Woman's Christian Temper ance I'nion held its regular weekly meeting on Thursday afternoon, at the pleasant home of the society, 227 West Monroe street. The devotional exercises were con ducted by Mrs. La Chance. An im portant business session followed. The program under the direction of Vs. Wing, among other things con sisted of articles read by various members. The president read the following encouraging extract from The Vindicator." Drops Liquor Advertising Chica go Record-Herald Closes Its Columns to the Makers and Sellers of Alco holic Drinks. Chicago, April 6. Yesterday morn ing the people of Chicago who read the Record-Herald had a very de cided surprise presented them in a big triple-column announcement which appeared on that paper's first page, telling its readers that, while it will carry out contracts already maue, the Kccoril-Herald, which as ill the world knows, is one of America's greatest dailies, will never again enter into contract for ad vertising alcoholic liquors. The announcement reads: "The Record-Herald has decided to elimi nate liquor advertising from its columns. t will fulfil its existing contracts to print this class of ad vertising and, having done that, it will accept no more." The Record-Herald does not deny the view that pure alcoholic liquors have their wise and proper use in individual instances, hut contends that the responsibility for the ad vocacy of such use should rest with the family physician rather than the family newspaper and declines henceforth to share this responsi bility." Another encouraging announcement read was that the women's vote in the last Illinois local option election closed 1000 saloons. Mrs. La Chance announced that Mrs. Grady Gammige of Tucson will visit Phoenix on May 6 and 7 and a reception will be tendered her at the W. C. T. U. on Tuesday afternoon. Further announcement regarding this and the public meeting which she will address will be given through the press. MORE ROOM FOR CLEANLINESS To the Editor of The Republican, Sir: I noticed an article in your paper yesterday morning commend ing the city of Phoenix for having cleaned up and stating that it is hoped that it will continue to keep clean. It must be that the writer of this article did not take the trouble to walk through some of the alleys and look into the back yards. If he bad he certainly would not congratu late Phoenix on having made a clean up. Your valuable paper can do a good deal toward making a cleaner city of Phoenix, but to make the statement at present that the town is clean Is a huge joke. I trust your paper will keep up a campaign whb- will result in giving Phoenix a good clean-up, remove some of the manure piles of ten years' standing and urge the (leaning up of vacant lots that have been used as a ; dump ground for a number of years. , To find these conditions it will not be neces sary to go more than two blocks away from the post f fire, the center of Phoenix. Respectfully, At SUBSCRIBER, F The very important issue of state- wide prohibition has been raised. A I campaign in tavor or a constitutional amendment will be shortly instituted, i This like all other important ques- tions has two sides, on each of which are found honest and intelligent per sons. The Republican has decided to pro vide for a reasonable discussion of this issue in its pages, allowing to each side at least a half column daily for signed articles, for which there will be no charge. No anonymous article will be published. It Is only stipulated that the com nunications for and against prohihl- THE ROAD TO WRECKS Rufus Steele, in an illuminating ar ticle in the Saturday Evening Post under the title, "Keeping John Bar leycorn Off the Train," tells tin story of wreck and disaster caused bv drink. Here is one of his strong est passages: i "Right on the heels of the ins- covery that the running of trains by steam could be made safe and prac- tical came the discovery that the running of trains by alcohol could not. The secret of an untofd num - her of railroad disasters never has been solved, for the reason that the engine man's stomach was allowed to go to the cemetery instead of to the chemist. I'.eiause alcohol be came a factor in transportation shortly after steam did. and because it has remained a factor, the general public has never learned to -distinguish clearly between a hazard con sequent on the natural stimulation of the engine tnd the hazard conse quent on the unnatural stimulation of the engineer." What are safety devices and block signals and the thousand and one appliances designed to make travel safe when any one or all of them can be and are repeatedly defeated anil set at naught by a drunken op- erator. engineer, fireman or Switch- man! The death toll has been alarm- ing but it has not all been caused, by the greed of railroad directors and stockholders anxious to sacrifice life for dividends so long as someone else furnished the former and they se cured the latter. Too much of it has been due to indifference to the traffic that unfits men for any haz- DRUM FOR DEBATING STATE WIDE PROHIBITION ai dous employmi nt: that vhicherty is a misnomer. The lives and makes men careless and unfaithful: that which makes men forget their duties to their charge; that which steals awav their brains and makes, them irresponsible; that which he- fogs and beclouds the mental and moral vision: that ii h always has and always will M-eU disaster to the outlawed by big business and the victim of drink crd the more inno- j question of sentiment is not the only cent victim of misplaced confidence force that will conquer in the end. who trusts him. G. F. RIXEHART, Is it any wonder that forty rail- General Superintendent Temperance road corporations have rigid rule Federation of Arizona. against the use of alcoholic -drinks by their men? Is it any wonder that they are compelled to resort to a sort of supervision or spy system to ascertain whether their men live up to the requirements or not? With saloons on every hand to tempt their employes from the path of abstinence and sobriety the task of these cor porations is made doubly difficult and the public, in whose interest and behalf these spy systems are con ducted, are so little concerned that You'll be prouder than ever of your woodwork when you clean it with It quickly and grease, 5c "Lmt th 00 RED MAN Just the Collar You've Wanted 2 FOR 25 CTS. EARL & WILSON MAKERS OF TROY'S BEST PRODUCT Phoenix fngrav&(ompattjj pMAKE CUTS THAT PRINTjj S. HARRY 35 East Washington St. tion be just and fair and that in no case shall mere De any who ana ex travagant statement that will in any reflect upon the reputation of phoenix for good order. It is suggested by The Republican that either side, desiring to avail it self of this offer of space, name a committee through which all matter relating to the issue shall be trans mitted. In such case, all communica tions received at this office from other sources will be rejected. We believe that this arrangement is ne cessary to keep the discussion within reasonable lines. No paid advertisements from either side will he accepted. they run the risk of wreck and dis aster on the railroad rather than blot out the evil that causes it. It will not be long before alcohol will be the motive power of automo biles, but the alcohol will have to be in the tank of the machine instead of where it is now, in the tank of the chauffeur. Most of the tatalities ! j automobile travel comes from "joy 1 ridinfj," merely another name for a oad of intoxicated pleasure-seekers j u no endanger the lives of every other j llser Cf the highway as well as their jown. J Rule "G" of the book of ru-fi-s i adopted by the American Railroad association reads as follows: "The llse of intoxicants by employes while on duty is prohibited. Their use, or the frequenting of places where they are sold, is sufficient cause for dis missal.' But do you question the right of the railroad company to enquire into the personal habits of its men.' If you do, forget it. They have an ab solute right to know the comings and goings of their employes so far as it relates to their occupation. That is a right preservative. Efficiency Is a requirement of any business, and efficiency and alcoholic liquors are enemies. Henry Ford, the great j manufacturer and philanthropist, says: "It is our business to s'-e that they ( the employes) spend their money right. That applies not only to the men out there in the shop, but to everyone in this organization all th" way up to the top. We have stopped some of our highest paid men from spending money improperly." j Henry Ford is right. Personal Iib- ( Habits and relations of all men are j ton much interwoven to segregate any individual and permit him to do as he pleases. .Mere and more the forces of regulation and prohibition are closing around the evil things of me. .More and more liquor is being A COAXER FOR BABY When the doctor called to see the baby its mother informed him that the medicine left fur the infant the day before was all gone. "Impossible," declared the surprised physician. "I told you to give him a teaspoonful once an hour." "Yes. but John and mother and t and the nurse have each had to take a teaspoonful, to,, in order to get babv to take it." Youth's Companion tyi'i! mm : is 'GOV GOLD DUST dissolves and removes all dirts and cleans everything. and larger packages. CHICAGO COLO DUST TWINS do your work" Or ROBERTSON Phone 1709 E. S. WAKELIN CO. WHOLESALE GROCERS BEST FOR SEWER connections. Specify our ma chine m;uie cement pipe CEMENT PIPE CO. Phone 1312. 54T. !:. Jackson St. PHOENIX LAUNDRY PROTECT YOUR CLOTHES Phone 1530 Triplet's Market Opposite City Hall, 114 K. Wash ington Street. Phones: O 783, 739 California Restaurant Under new management. Give us a trial! KXzp si ? Garden City Restaurant New Location 21-23 East Adams St. MACHINERY Machinery of all kinds built, re built or r-pahed. Be'jt equipped shop in stat. Only expert me chanic. Work guaranteed. OVERLAND AUTO COMPANY 326-328-330 N. Central Everything In Lumber Halslead Lumber Co. Five Points BENNETT LUMBER COMPANY Everything In Lumber S'H-O-E-S and Hosiery That's all Harry A. Dractiman Siioe Co. 22 WEST ADAMS ST. Good Grain Sacks at Third Street and Jackson. PHOENIX WOOD AND COAL CO. LUMBER See Us for Prices Phone 1204 O'MALLEY LUMBER CO. GEO. W. McCLARTY Electrical Contractor ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES 20S-210 West. Wash. St. Phone 407 Do your teeth ache? If so consult Dr. Belt, the New System Dentist. All work absolutely painless. Lot Angeles prices. DR. BELT Phono tni tl Monlhoa Bid. Hire a little salesman at The Re publican office. A Want Ad will see more customers than you can. &3 j WANITED I Secretary.