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Arizona Republican Editorial PageRobert E. Lee to His Son

Do not waste your time figuring

larger projects for which appropriations are madeare meritorious ones and the proposed work is nec-

essary. But to secure the appropriations conces-

sions had to be made for projects that are notmeritorious.

There are altogether ahout 300 projects scatteredover thirty-seve- n states. This geographical distribu-tion indicates on the face of it, much unholy co-

operation; it gives a hint that concessions had tolie made to secure support for the bill. We noticein the list that provision has been made fru; "New-

ton Creek." "Absecon Creek, Woodbury Creek.""Osage River" and numberless creeks and rivers ofvarying unimportance.

But we observe with regret and shame that oursenators and representative did not take an active,or at any rate, a noticeable part In the making upof the rivers and harbors bill. What, we ask, hasbeen done to improve the navigability of the ragingSanta Cruz or the tumultuous San Pedro? Tuc-son has been left without a harbor and we of Phoe-

nix for the next year at least will not see vessels ofcommerce and pleasure plowing the broad bosomof the Rio Salado. Why did not our congressmenget in while the getting as good; while the waterwas fine?

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The Farce and Wrong of the. Personal Tax(lyos Angeles Tribune)

That one million dollars' worth of foreignstocks and bonds in Los Angeles county are escapingtaxation, as declared by a correspondent of County-Assesso- r

Hopkins, it would not be surprising tohave confirmed., It is a condition of affairs thatexists in all communities where the personal taxIs In operation. Doubtless the employment of atax terret, as suggested, would discover much more!

Not long ago St. Louis had an illuminatingillustration. Assessor Brinkop had Gus Campbell,the wealthiest man In the state, assessed for$2,700,000 of personal . property. Campbell made asworn return to the assessor that all he possessedwas $185,407. John Scullin was down for $1,000,000.He swore to $34,650.

David R. Francis, former governor, assessed at$2,000,000, and known the country over as a multi-millionaire, swore to $61,800. Adolphus Busch hadbeen assessed at $2,000,000, but swore he was worthbut $567,540. He had only $100 worth of Jewelry,and his household furniture was worth but $5,000.Mr. Busch did not say what had become of ajewel-studde- d tiara he had given his wife for apresent.

So it went. One millionaire had furnitureworth only $4,000, another had no piano, althoughconfessing to a $10 sewing machine, and anotherdrove a plug worth only $50. Of course thesereturns were sworn falsehoods. So common is thepractice of swearing off taxes that most wealthymen think it no sin. No characterization of thisevil can be too harsh. Government must be sup-

ported. What the rich do not pay the poor must.One way to beat the game of the dodgers is

to tax land values. If the single tax had noother merit, it would be almost enough to say forit that it concentrated the tax source Into onespot where it can be invariably located.

.j.(New York Sun)

The death of Gen. G. W. C. Lee, eldest son ofGen. R. F.. Lee, recalls to mind a private letter ofthe famous Southerner written to his son under date ,

of April 5, 1852, when Custis Lee was a cadet at theUnited States Military Academy at WTest Point, andwhich was found at Arlington House during theCivil War.

The letter throughout is characterized by con-ciseness, concinnity and clarity, and on this accountshould find a place, in any anthology as a master-piece of correct English and a model of parentalcharacter building advice:

"Arlington House, April 5, 1852."My Dear Son:

"I am just in the act of leaving home for NewMexico. My old regiment has been ordered to thatdistant region and I must hasten to see that theyare properly taken care of. Your letters breathea true spirit of frankness. They have given myselfand your mother great pleasure. You must studyto be frank with the world; frankness is the child ofhonesty and courage. Say what you mean to do onevery occasion and take it for granted you meanto do right. If a friend asks a favor you shouldgrant it, if it is reasonable; if not, tell him plainlywhy you cannot. You will wrong him and wrongyourself by equivocation of any kind. Never do awrong thing to make a friend or keep one; the manwho requires you to do so is dearly purchased ata sacrifice.

Deal kindly but firmly with your classmates.You will find it the policy which wears best. Aboveall,-d- o not appear to others what you are not. Ifyou have any fault to find with any one. tell him,not others of what you complain; there is no moredangerous experiment than that of undertaking tobe one thing before a man's face and another be-hind his back. We should live, act and say noth-ing, to the injury of any one. It is not only thebest as a matter of principle, but it is the path ofpeace and honor.

"In regard to duty, let me, in conclusion of thishasty letter, inform you that nearly a hundred yearsago there was a day of remarkable gloom and dar-knessstill known as the dark day, a day when thelight of the sun was slowly extinguished, as if myan eclipse. The legislature of Connecticut was insession, and as its members saw the unexpected andunaccountable darkness coming on they sharedin the general awe and terror. It was supposedby many that the last day. the day of judgment hadcome. Someone, in the consternation of the hour,moved an adjournment. Then, there arose an oldPuritan legislator, Davenport of Stamford, and saidthat if the last day had come he desired, to be foundat his place doing his duty, and therefore movedthat candles be brought in so that the house couldproceed with its duty.

"There was quietness in that man's soul, thequietness of heavenly wisdom and inflexible willing-ness to obey present duty.

"Duty,, then, is the sublimest word in our lan-guage. Do your duty in all things like the oldPuritan. You cannot do more. You should neverwish to do less. Never let me and your mother wearone gray hair for any lack of duty on your part.Your affectionate father, R. E. LEE.

' G. W. Custis Lee."o

What Color Are Your Eyes?t Are your eyes gieen? If they are n)t you can-

not claim, the indorsement of the great classicwriters. Of course, this does not mean grass green,but the grayish green so often found in the mostexpressive eyes. It was Dante who described Beat-rice's eyes, as emeralds, and in English literatureFrances Collin writes:

And let those sea-gree- n eyes divinePour their love madness into mine.

While Swinburne describes the finest eyes.O fervid eyelids, letting through

Those eyes the greenest of things blue.The bluest of things gray.Shakespeare did indeed speak of the "green-ey- e

monster," but he is the great exception.The eye has always been considered the most

expressive feature in the human countenance, so itis natural tliat every fledgling poet hastens to penan ode to the eyes of some fair maid. Called the"windows of the heart," their expressiveness hasbeen' emphasized rather more than the color. Somewriters claim that the color of the eye is an In-

dication of character. "Dark blue eyes are mostcommon in persons of delicate, refined or effemi-nate nature; light blue, and, much more, gray eyes,in the hardy and active; greenish eyes have gen-erally the same meaning as gray; hazels are theusual indication of a masculine, vigorous and pro-found mind."

Many modern poets pay full tribute .to blue eyes,Shelley comparing them to "deep blue, boundlessheaven."

In Spain they have a proverb: "Blue eyes say,'Love me or I die;' black eyes say, "Love me or II. ill thee.'"

Gray eyes have their admirers, too. Shakes-peare speaks of "Your eyes as gray as blass andright amiable." Black eyes are interpreted bothgood find evil, and the Mahommedan heaven is filledwith "Virgins with chaste mien and large blackeyes." But that the black-eye- d girl is deceitful willbe held libel by every dark-eye- d maiden. The sug-gestion possibly comes from one of the old folkrhymes:

Gray-eye- d greedy.Brown-eye- d needy.

Ulack-eye- d never likin',Till it shame all its kin.

Proyerbs are never more than half .true.The setting of the eye has much to do with its

beauty and the appreciation of beholders. Long,sweeping lashes are an added leauty, and the eye-- .brow- - has always been studied in connection withcharacter. .

Some hold that it is a good thing to have meet-ing eyebrows, such a person will never have trouble;The Greeks admire those eyebrows which almostmeet, . and Tennyson ascribes to Oenone "thecharms of meeting brows."

In Asia the women aid Nature by artificialmeans. Joining the eyebrows by black pigment whenthey do not grow together.

It is generally agreed that a woman's eyebrowsshould be delicate and nicely penciled, but fancyplays strange freaks as to color. In Central Africawomen stain them with indigo, and Georgian damselsblacken theirs. Japanese ladies, when married, re-

move their eyebrows altogether, so that their hus-

bands may have no cause for Jealously.That the eyebrow should be beautifully arched

is agreed by poets and painters alike, even if itbe not for the cause assigned by Herder, who saysit is the rainbow of peace, because, when, "straight-ened by a frown, it portends a storms."

oA FUTURISTIC FANTASY

(New York Sun)A Cubish Man loved a Sperist Maid;They met by stealth in a Forest Glade,But a saw the tw-ai-n

And painted the scene on an Upper Plane.

He followed a highly Subjective Plan,Most luckily for the. maid and man,For that they were there no one would guess

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Chinaman's Pigtail Defended

(Chicago Tribune)Dr. Budnerg has entered a defense of the

Chinaman's pigtail. . He. says the pigtail owes itsorigin to hygienic motives. According to ourauthority, the effect of the pigtail is a moreactive circulation of the blood, which benefits thebrain. He writes: "The observation we hear nowand then that Chinese without pigtails show lessintelligence strikes me as not altogether unreason-able, as an active circulation of the blood willnot fail to influence the nourishment and develop-ment of the brain." He states that the head ofa newly born baby is shaved ,and no cloth cap,or soft pillow is allowed to interfere with thecirculation ' of the scalp. When the child growsbigger, the hair is tied together in bunches, soas to expose the skin to the air, and thus promoteinspiration. Later the hair is grown so as toform a pigtail, and superfluous hair is shavedaway. The effect is a high and smooth forehead,and a face free from wrinkles; and hence evenold Chinese have smooth faces and a juvenileappearance. When rolled up on the top of thehead the pigtail acts as a substitute for a capand protects the heaed from the glare of the. sunand the cold of winter. It is also a neckclothand a pillow. '

A City Upon the Water

(NeW York Mail)The rivers flowing through Canton. China, have

upon their waters practically a separate city, com-posed of about 330,000 persons, living on sampansand houseboats. These floating homes are mooredtogether in such a way . that streets and squaresare formed, through which the tradesmen ply theirwares. Kitchen boats move along the liquid thor-oughfares, barbers and doctors paddle about ringingbells. There are fish boats, clothing boats, vegetableboats, and even, floating biers to convey the deadto earthly graves. There are floating hotels,floating restaurants, floating dance "halls, and" evenfloating leper boats, from which emerge pathetic

who hold out trays for alms.The inhabitants of the city never marry with

the- - shore folks and seldom even land. In somecases the meh get occupations on shore,' but thisIs rare, and they, chiefly make a livelihood bydredging for coal dropped by passing 'steamers orby searching for articles lost overboard by tourists.

Each sampan within its scant twenty feetshelters under its bamboo roof from six to adozen people. It is a rude one-roo- m affair, andin most cases extremely dirty. Over the sternis usually hung a basket, where squawking poultryand squealing pigs bewail the fates that castthem into such cramped quarters.

t What a Mixture Is Human Nature(From Horace Bushnell's "The Dignity of Human

Nature")Consider again the wild mixtures of thought,

displayed both in the waking life and the dreamsof mankind. How grand! how mean! how suddenthe leap from one to the other! how inscrutablethe succession! how defiant of orderly control!It is as if the soul were a thinking ruin; v whichit verily is. The angel and the demon life appearto "be contending in It. The imagination revelsin beauty exceeding all the beauty of things, wailsin Images dire and monstrous; - wallows' in" mur-derous and base suggestion that shame our inwarddignity; so that a great part of the study anda principal art of life, is to keep our . decency,by a wise selection from what we think and acareful suppression of" the remainder. A diseasedand crazy, mixture, such as represents a ruin, isthe form of our inward experience. And yet, - aruin how magnificent, one which a buried Nineveh,or a desolate Thebes can parallel only in the faintestdegree: comprehending all that is purest, brightest,most divine, even that which is above the firma-ment itself; all that is worst, most sordid, mean-est, most deformed.

Limiting LegislationSenator Preen of Coconino county, has

proposed to the legislature a constitutionalamendment limiting the number of laws which maybe enacted at any one session to twenty-fiv- e. Thisis probably exclusive of the appropriation measures.

Two arguments are urged in support of suchan amendment. One argument is that too many-law- s

are enacted at every session of not (inly theArizona legislature but of. every state legislature.Te other argument is that if the legislature werelimited to twenty-fiv- e new laws they would be givenmore careful and prayerful attention than our lawsnow receive.

We do not believe that Mr. Breen's amendmentwill be received by his colleagues with favor. Theaverage legislator is prone to legislation and hewould be impatient of such a restriction as is pro-

posed. But' we think the amendment would findfavor with the voters so that if the senator fromCoconino should be unable to launch the amendmentfrom the legislature he might try the initiative pro-

cess with a promise of success .

We believe that twenty-fiv- e new laws in onesession of the legislature are enough hut here is adifficulty: no constitutional amendment could carrywith it the assurance that all of the twenty-fiv- e lawswould be good and needed ones. Probably the pro-

portion of the bad and foolish laws of the twenty-fiv- e.

would be as great as it is of the hundred ormore laws that are ground out at every session.The human nature of the members would not bechanged by any constitutional amendment.

. They would still be found trying to put theirpet measures through regardless of their utility andsome really good and-- needed laws would be ex-

cluded by limitation. Much wheat would go outwith the chaff. There is another contingency. Theneed of legislation might become apparent after thefortunate twenty-fiv- e laws had been enacted, andmeasures essential to the state would be found barredby the constitution.

Puns of Famous Poets

(FromTit Bits.)Shakespeare, as is well known, was an inveterate

punster, and Doeetor Johnson, In his preface to anedition of the poet's . works, severely censures liirnfor playing with words on serious occasions. Forexample, in answer to King Richard's question:

"What comfort, man? How i't with ancientGaunt?" the playwright puts into the mouth ofGaunt, the words:

"O how that name befits my composition! OldGaunt, indeed, and gaunt in being old. Within megrief has kept a tedious fast; and who abstainsfrom meat that is not gaunt?"

Hamlet is made to pun, too. When the clown,digging graves in the churchyard, in answer to thequestion, "Whose grave's this?" says "Mine, sir,"Hamlet replies:

"I think it be thine, indeed; for thou liest in't."And later adds:

"Thou dost lie in't. to be In't and say it isthine; 'tis for the dead, not for the quick; there-fore thou liest."

The puns of Tom Hood are. well known. In"Faithless Sally Brown." "Faithless Nellie Gray,"and "The Duel," to mention but a few, almost everyline contains a pun. What could be wittier thanthe concluding verse of "Faithless Sally Brown?"

His death, which happened in his berth.At forty-od- d befell;

They went and told the sexton, andThe sexton tolled the bell.

Perhaps one of the, best known puns is that putinto the mouth of "John Gilpin" by Cowper. It willbe remembered that, according to the poem, JohnGilpin borrowed a horse from his friend to ride toEdmonton to celebrate his wedding clay, but thehorse had other plans and took the. jovial Gilpin tothe house of his friend, who, on seeing his ruffledcondition, asked him why ,he had come.

Gilpin replied:I came because your horse would come;

And if I well forbode,My hat and wig will soon be here

They are upon the road.The poet .Wither once lamented the decline of

his family in the words, "The very name of Withershows decay," and although the following verse,penned by Lord Lyttelton to lady Browne, is notthe work of a pot so called, it is welt worth quoting:

When I was young and debonair.The brownest nymph to me was fair;But now I'm old and wiser grown.The fairest nymph to me is Browne.

DANGERS OF THE AIRDuring one of the aviation meets a young wo-

man went through the hangars under the guidanceof a mechanic. After asking all the usual foolishquestions that the aviators and their assistantshave to answer during a tour of inspection shewanted to know: "But what if your engine stops

in the air what happens? Can you come down?""That's exactly the trouble," responded the will-

ing guide. "There are now three men up in the airin France, with their engines stopped. They can'tget down and are starving to death."

oSELF-CONFIDEN-

No man can get far without believing in him-

self; but he should also believe in a few otherthings.

If a man be endued with agenerous mind, this is the bestkind of nobility.. Plato.

Th Forest and the StatesThe Republican printed on Monday a letter

from Mr. Gilford Pinchot, former chief foresteK,protesting against the proposal for the destructionof the national forests by turning them over tothe control of the states. Mr. Pinchot is chieflyresponsible for the country's conservation policy.He is the man. backed by President Roosevelt, whostopped the looting of the public domain. It is re-

called that in the Ilallinger-Pinch- ot controversy,the voice of every looter was raised against thehitter and now, the looters are those behind themovement to put the conservation of our naturalresources under the control of the states.

As The Republican has previously pointed out.the plunderers are hopeless of any changes bycongress or the federal administration, of the pres-

ent national policy. The old order can never bedirectly restored. Therefore its restoration is soughtby indirection. State administrations may be foundto be weak or corruptible.

The movement for state control seems to havegained its greatest headway in Colorado where acampaign of misrepresentation has been inaugurat-ed by the politicians and the press and in whicheven a former governor of the state has joined. Itwas represented by him and is yet represented bythe newspapers of Denver and the politicians thatthe national policy is holding back the developmentof Colorado and the west; that all the live stockorganizations of that and adjoining states are op-

posed to it.In a late letter to the associate editor of Col-

lier's, a staunch supporter of the government policy.Secretary T. W. Tomlinson of the American LiveStock association enclosed copies of replies he hadreceived to inquiries sent out by him to local livestock associations regarding the attitude of thestockmen toward the national conservation policy.All of them protested against any change andespecially against the proposal to turn the forestsover to the state.

Among the results of the national policy, enu-

merated in the replies are: the permanency givento the live stck business and the better conditionof the ranges; the settlement of all disputes be-

tween cattlemen and sheepmen; an improvementof grades and 'quality of cattle, sheep and horses,brought about by the constant of theforest service with the stockmen.

One official wrote: "The government has lookedmore toward taking care of the small men than thestate has. State-politic- s are not hard to get at andwe feel that if the state secures control of . the for-ests the large moneye interests will have their say."

Another writes: "If a change has to be madefrom federal control we would prefer "free range'or anything, to state control." W'rites another: "Wehave also interviewed some mining men and sawmill men and all whom we have talked with wereof the same opinion as we were, that the forestsystem was gaining favor with longer standing."The letters state that about ninety per cent of themembers of the various associations are strongly infavor of the present system.

One of the most effective arguments againstfederal control is the favorite misrepresentationthat the national policy conserves the natural re-

sources by locking them up. This may be believedby a large part of the country, unfamiliar with theoperation of the federal system, but to this argu-

ment Mr. Pinchot makes reply., "The heart of theconservation policy Is development and use."

Rivers and HarborThe Rivers and Harbors Congress has just sent

out a synopsis of the rivers and harbors bill whichwas passed just before the expiration of the sessionand which the congress strongly endorses. Thebill earn ing $47,868,894 ; exceeds the appropriationof the last congress by $15,000,000. In addition thereare continuing contracts for which it is expected that$10,000,000 will be carried in the sundry civil bill forthe fiscal year ending June 30, 1914. This appropri-ation brings the totaL-f- or Tseven years to $274,338,-22- 8,

against $141,674,299 or the previous seven yearperiod. .'

The Rivers and Harbor Congress advocates "apolicy and not a project." It believes that the gov-

ernment is on the way toward the establishment ofa . policy and , hopes that it may include in a per-

manent policy, an annual appropriation of $50,000,000for rivers and harbors.

But Any, policy the government may adopt shouldabandon the present'plan of itemizing the appro-priations as has hitherto been done. No doubt the

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