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Arizona silver belt., 1896-01-04
KEPT HIS CANE.
And the Honest Bankrupt Found It Well
 Lined with Bank Bills.

And the Honest Bankrupt Found It Well
 Lined with Bank Hills.
 It was under some of the earlier bankrupt laws that this exhibition of rare shrewdness occurred, when it was required that in case of a mans in- solyency he must turn over to the proper officer of the law every bit of his property for the benefit of his cred itors. The subject of this story, says the Syracuse Post, was yet young man, and wealthy, when misfortune overlook him and failure was inevita- ble. Some of his proferty was real estate, some of it was not, the latter consisting of securities easily converted into currency. A nice little bundle of bank bills could be more safely han ,lled than certificates of stock. etc. When the time came, being an honor able man. he conscientiously surren- dered his entire effects, even tubular cane, from which the handle could be disjointcd, the gift of an admiring friend. After handing the walking stick to the official, thus satisfying the law, he suggested it's return. It was n present from a friend, and could be of little value to anyone but himself as mcmento.
 Certainly" said the officer, take it. It's of no use to us." <
 Thanks. I'll prize it highly"
 Some time afterward, in his quiet home, the shrewd financier disjointed the handle and removed from his tubu- lar depository several thousand dollars of well-crumpled bank bills.
Arizona silver belt., 1896-01-04
NO DOCTORS BILLS.
In Sweden the Price of Service Is Len
 with the Patient.

In Sweden the Price of Service Is Left
 with the Patient.
 Sweden has doctors, but no doctors bills. If you have occasion to call a physician you will find him not only skillful in his profession, but a highly educated and most honorable gentle man. You wilLalso have another proof of the honesty of the Swedes and their friendly confidence in each other.
 Swedish doctors send no bills to their patients.
 What you shall pay your physician is left entirely to your own choice. The rich pay him liberally whether they have need of his services or not, if he has been once retained by them. The poor pay him q small sum and the very poor pay him nothing. Yet he visits the poor as faithfully as he does the rich.
 On the last day of the year you put into an envelope, addressed to your physician, sum of money which you think not only sufficient to compensate him, but in accordance with your own position in life, and inclosing your card with the money, send the envelope by servant to your doctor. The servant returns with the card of the doctor in a sealed envelope direced to you. This shows that he has received your money and no word about the matter ever passes between you.
 Should you send him nothing he will come and prescribe for you all the next year and as long as you live, and he is too dignified ever to say word about it.
Arizona silver belt., 1896-01-04

Abraham Lincoln's opinion of the Monroe doctrine was clearly expressed to Gen. John M. Thayer, who served under Grant at Vicksburg. After the surrender of that stronghold, General Thayer visited Washington and asked the Presidents views concerning the French invasion of Mexico. MT. Lin coin said: My policy is to attend to only one trouble at time. If we get well out of our present difficulties and restore the Union, propose to notify Louis Napoleon that it is about time to take his army out of Mexico. When that army is gone, the Mexicans will take care of Maximilian." The proph- ecy was fulfilled to the letter. General Thayer states further that President Lincoln took occasion to say that he was in full accord with Monroe's eel ebrated message to Congress. Globe Democrat.
Arizona silver belt., 1896-01-04

iuncturc showed what kind ef fellow he was in an emergency, for he ap- peared on shore with car two lariats tied together, and juss as was about to let go and be smsshed on the rocks below he swung that iariat as cool as hr ever did fror the back of his mus tang and it dropped square over my head. The rest of it am not very con scious of, because by the time he had pulled ge ashore by the neck l was about as near hung as l ever want to be, but he brought me around all right in .he course of half an hour or so, and twas quite as good as new again" ''I'hat was narrow escape" re- marked the writer.
 And that was an odd fellow who saved me-" added the westerner; flor he was so mad about the scare had given him that I'll be blamed if he didn't turn to before the day was over and give me the worst licking I had ever got in my life for soaring him so." Washington Star.
Arizona silver belt., 1896-01-04

An Albuquerque, N. M., dispatch says: News reached this city this aft ernoon that on the Fist inst the Nav ajo Indians signed lease of the Carrizo Mountain mining country, on their reservation, to an Eastern sym aicate, who will extensively mine the gold and silver found there in large quantities. A. 0. Vorhies, of Denver, Colo, is at the head of the syndicate. This district is near that part of the reservation where there was mining excitement several years ago, but the prospectors were driven back by the Indians, and some of them never got out of the district alive,
Arizona silver belt., 1896-01-04

farewell to family and friends, which, happily, was not necessary. During each day he could plainly hear wagons and teams pass on the road not forty feet away, and what anguish and de- spair he must have suffered when he heard children at play near by and he could not make his voice heard. He was almost famished when found, but is now recovering. Florence Tribune.
 It is not generally known that all the minor coins of base metal, such as pennies and nickels, are made at the Philadelphia mint, and that nearly 100, ,OOO.O pennies are coined here every year. This large number !s oc- casioned by the fact that thousAnds of pennies are lost annually, an9 the gov ernment has some difficulty in main- taining supply. The profit of the Government on their manufacture is large. The blanks for making them are purchased for q per 1000 from a Cincinnati firm that produces them by contract. Blanks for nickels are ob- tained in the same way, costing Uncle Sam only II cents apiece. e.--Philadel- phia Record.
Arizona silver belt., 1896-01-04
ONE ON hAWKSHAW.
He EAided Don of Licensed Housobreak'
 CTS and Robbers.


 He RAided Don of Licensed Housebreak-
 CTS and Robbers.
 One of the detectives connected with the bureau at the city hall went into a barber shop the other evening and sat in one of the chairs to be shaved, says the Philadelphia Record. While the barber was making ready to shave him he started one of his characteristic con versations. Receiving short answers 10 every question that he put to the de- tective, however, the tonsorial artist brought the tete-a-tete to close and si- lence reigned supreme.
 The local Hawkshaw was in half a doze while the barber was busily en- gagged in applying Q father on his face, when suddenly the sound of a hammer striking against some metallic sub stance was heard emanating from the rear of the barber shop. Then voices were heard in the following dialogue:
 That was good job that we done ou, at Germantown last week, Pete" "Yes that was the neatest piece of work we done for some time; there was so little trouble with it." The detective at once opened his eyes and became interested The first voice continued:
 Tt brought us in s32s and we had better-'
 His conversation at thIs stage was in. terrupted by knocks on the door and hearing the detectives voice calling out Leave me in or I'll break dowr the door," one of the men in the back room threw the door open. The Hawk shaw, expecting to find a den of coun terfeiters or burglars, rushed through the door and fell into plumbers shop where two of the employees were work ing, tiHLplj ,tIi..i Ih. .T1fITGtp;
Arizona silver belt., 1896-01-04

A process has been discovered for making artificial cotton out of wood pulp, says the Minneapolis Times. The process consists in subjecting wood pulp to a chemical treatment which changes it iDto pure cellulose, from which it is spun into threads that can be woven as ordinary cotton threads. As cellu1oid material, which fig made from cellulose, may be colored by chemical additions, it is quite likely that such artificial cotton can be pro- duced in time in an indefinite variety Of bright colors. And if it it is true, as reported, that thread can be made from pulp as cheap as from the nat ural fiber of the cotton plant, the i'm bortance and value of the discovery are almost beyond calculation.
Arizona silver belt., 1896-01-04
SAVED BY 4 LARlAT.
Qualities of the Lasso as a Life Pre-
 aerver,


 server.
 The writer had corralled western man in hotel lobby and was holding him up for all there was in it, which was good deal, considering that the man hadn't been east for ten years or more, and had never fallen into the clutches of the journalist in quest of an item of interest.
 You were asking me awhile ago about the lariat and its uses," he said, land it reminds me of time on one occasion when it served an excellent purpose as life preserver."
 ''It isn't always used for that, is it?" queried the writer.
 ''Well, mo-" laughed the westerner, five seen it do prompt service, when there was no other rope handy and the hoss thief was. But this time was diff fcrent," he went on. 'I know, because l was the one preserved. We were up in the canyon country looking for some cattle, and one of the boys and I. had gone of the trail to a stream to take bath, as you might call it in the east, for it was hotter than blazes and shade was not plentiful. We went into the water some distance above a turbu- lent rapid and Q waterfall of twenty five feet, and as we didn't go to swim so much as to get cool, all we needed was enough water to cover us, and that's all my companion took.
 'I was, however, more ambitious, and having been fine swimmer when was in the east 1 thought would branch out bit. was soon branch ing out extensively, and the first thing knew the swift water caught me and down went toward the fall. I tried to pull for the shore, but it was no good, and then I set up yell that made the canyon echo, and my partner came after me along the shore. was fifty feet out in the stream, struggling, and there wasn't any more sign of sal vation for me than if I had been in midocean.
 Down I kept going, whirled and turned upside down and fired around promiscuously, until, about hundred yards above the final fall, caught on q rock. It was just high enough to keep my head out of water, and hung to it till my finger nails seemed to be imbedded in it. My partner at this
Arizona silver belt., 1896-01-04
THE BRAIN A FIRE.
A Doctor Says That Life Is a Lumin-
 Ous EffIuvium.

A DOctOr SdyS mat L11e Us LumIn-
 ous EffIuvium.
 Dr. s. Millington Miller, of New York, we'll known writer on physio- logical psychology, delivered lecture before the Educational club at the Normal school on "NIind- Building by Sense Development" Dr. Miller said, in part that the energizing principle that acts through the organs of sense is what is known as life or thought or mentality, whose principal habitation is the brain. A series of experiments recently conducted by Colonel de Rochas, the head of the Paris Poly technic school, showed that the human brain is burning fire, whose lumin- ous efiluvium escapes through the eye, ears, nose and mouth into the sur rounding atmosphere, filling the air for circle of some fifteen or twenty feet with mild, hay light. By means of hypnotic subjects 1t has been shown that the effluvium is sentient, and, if glass of water is pinched with the liners, the hypnotized giver of the light or life complains of pain. De Rochas has it that light or life is a uniform and stable quantity.
 Turning to the senses, the lecturer said the mutual aid society of the senses is now well-established fact the blind see with their fingers, the deaf hear with their eyes, the deaf and dumb and blind see and feel and hear with their fingers, or see and hear through their sense of smell.
 The meaning of all this is that the vital essence is uniform quantity and when any sense is diseased or defect i've it throws enough of its power into another sense to enable it to play a double function. The new education teaches the child by accustoming him to draw and describe objects before him as nearly as possible as they really are. The fact of having drawn the objects adds still more cells to the group already connected in the de- scription of them. As each impression has its separate cell storehouse, and as each storehouse is connected with the others, the recurrence of any one inn pression of an object at any tune will bring before the mind complete picture of all its qualities by the asso- citation of ideas. It was just this kind of education that Daudet gave to Guy de Maupassant. He set him to describ- ing natural objects, rejecting every composition as inadequate until one was written which came nearest to describing every possible quality of the objects, and the result of this edu- cation was that Maupassant was mar velously brilliant and pictorial writer. The lecture was illustrated by black board sketches of portions of the brain and of the nervous system, to which the speaker frequently referred. Phil adelphia Ledger.
Arizona silver belt., 1896-01-04

What the bimetallists demand is the lifting of the silver dollar from it's present position as mere part of the currency to the plane of full standard money. Gold has been made the sole ''standard." That is, money available for all purposes-national and inter- national. The demand for gold is therefore stronger than the demand for any other kind of money. As a result, it has greatly risen in value. Other forms of money are essentially credit money to be ultimately re- deemed in gold. Hence, as gold has gone up, these other forms of money having been adjusted to it, and being made virtually redeemable in it, have gone up along with gold. For this reason mere addition to the currency is very inadequate remedy for the trouble that now exists. Silver must be restored to the position it formerly occupied as money of the standard National Bimetallists
Arizona silver belt., 1896-01-04
The Austrian Monarch Provides Cash for
 the Debts of His Officers.

It is said in the Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph there is q queer feature of Austrian army life which is probably not known in America. Emperor Fran cis Joseph turns over every year to the chief of his private cabinet something like $25,0O0 for his private fortune. This sum is used in paying the debts of distinguished army officers, providing the debts are honorable and the officers are of sufficiently high rank.
 Every year the apportionment is ex- hausted before the end of the year, as Austrian army officers are proverbially unlucky in finances. The distressed of ficer, over his ears in debts and threat ened with disgrace, makes out state ment of his case, which is laid before the old emperor's kindly eye. If it is made certain that the debts are not gambling debts and were moderately unavoidable. so to speak, the emperor directs the chief of his private cabinet to grant relief. This custom was estab- lished long ago, but the emperor can af- ford it without having to deny himself of necessary food and clothing, for the private fortune of the Hapsburgs, which he inherited from his father, was $1S,- o00,ooo, and he gets n salary of $3,OoO,OOo year for ruling Austria. Next to the czar of Russia, he is the richest mon- arch of Europe.
Arizona silver belt., 1896-01-04

Congressman Shafroth, of Colorado, has introduced bill providing that all mining claims hereafter located shall be staked with stakes 100 feet apart, so as to clearly define the boundaries of all claims, and prevent, as far as possible, the overlapping of claims. shafroth says that the stalking will be slightly more expensive, but will save a great deal of trouble and law suits in the future.
Arizona silver belt., 1896-01-04

The Leadville Herald-Democrat' review shows a production for 1895 ef the mines of that camp of s1S, ,3ls,- TIA. This is an increase in value over 1894 of s5,e00, 900, and brings the total production of this camp up to s2O9,- 76S, ,222. The net tons of ore smelted during 1895 amounted to 304, ,710, which produced 100, 1899 ounces gold, 13,53O, 34S ounces silver, 62,471, ,67O pounds of lead, 4,5s4, 9O6 pounds of copper and 1 ,265, 900 pounds of zinc.
Arizona silver belt., 1896-01-04
Spanlsh in Public Schools.

oHtsAAAoA AAA A eSAAS s~SAASSAN'
 The Star is In favor of making Span- ish one of the Standard branches of all our educational institutions for the reason that the time is near at hand, in fact, is right here, when knowl- edge of the Spanish language, so as to write, speak and read it, will prove a valuable resource to the young men and women who possess the same, for they will be in great request as soon as trade relations are fully developed between the Spanish speaking repub- lies and the United States are And the fact that our political relations are coming closer together, those public men who can speak and read the Spanish language will be better equipped for political appoint ments to those South American coun- tries than those who cannot. Again, there are but two languages generally spoken on this hemisphere-the Eng fish and Spanish. This of itself shows the importance of our people having an understanding of this language. No one ching brings people closer together and creates and establishes mutual sympathy and interest in each other as speaking knowledge of their respective languages. Let the Spanish language be taught in our educational institutions. It will be a strong factor in strengthening our re- lations with the Spanish speaking peo- pie on this hemisphere and it will aid in planting and roofing more firmly the Monroe gospel.-Arizona Star.
Arizona silver belt., 1896-01-04
'--s -f-, g. .-es Qualified to Teach.

The esteem in which the sailors call ing is held in Massachusetts coast towns is indicated by story that comes from Martha's Vineyard. A teacher was wanted and sailor applied for the po- sition. He had to pass an examination by the committee, and he tremblcd at the ordeal, being sadly unlearned in look lore. The chairman began the ex- animation: "Mr. -, what is the shape of the earthY" Tt is round, sir" the candidate answered" "How do you know?" Because have sailed around it three times" That will do, sir!" II, received his certificate" as teacher without another question being asked.
Arizona silver belt., 1896-01-04
A Historic ship That Has Just Been Sold
 for Her Metal.

Reached upon the Beauport shoals, near Quebec, lies the old steamship Alert, remarks the New York Sun, which in IS75-76 was moorcd nearer to the north pole than any other vessel has ever been She was the flag ship of the Mares art;c expedition and lay all win ter at Fioeburg, s2 degrees li minutes north latitude. In 1883 she was pre- scnted by the British government to our government to take part in the Greedy relief expedition, and after that sue cessfu! enterprise she was rcturncdwith thanks to the British. In 1855 she was loaned to the Canadian government to investigate the navigability of the Hud- son strait, and to bring back the party of explorers left upon its banks in 1881 by the Neptune. On this trip the Alert was commanded by Capt. Gordon, and for three weeks was jammed in field of ice. It was her last northern voyage. The imperial authorities presented her to the Canadian government. and the latter, finding her at last unseaworthy, after employing her for some time in the buoy and lighthouse service, sold her atauction severaldaysago. She was bought for S4,0oo by ship builder of St. John for the sake of her old metal and other materials.
Arizona silver belt., 1896-01-04

Professor Douglas has bonded, for the Copper Queen company, a group of copper claims, eighteen miles south of Tucson, owned by Thomas Hughes and H. E. Barnes. The purchase price is s7O,ooo, on which SS,OOO was paid down,
Arizona silver belt., 1896-01-04

Frederic Remington, SD we'll known and admired as an illustrator of wild western life, has recently branched out into a new field of art, namely, sculp- ture. He has just finished a statue which he calls the ''Broncho Buster,n and 1t is pronounced success. The work is simple in execution and broad in handling.
Arizona silver belt., 1896-01-04
From tho 0auds,

And apropos of sea bathing. an amusing incident happened on the beach one morning. The girls were drying their bathing suits while sit ting Ia Turque on the sand, and one who was hatless and stockingless was holding parasol over her to keep the sun from burning her bare legs and freckling her nose. With hardly mo- ment's warning it commenced to rain, and there was gathering up of wraps and scampering for the bathhouses from all except the maid with the para sol. She danced out into the breakers, parasol and all, and was going to finish her bath in spite of the rain, but she wasn't going to get her "hair out of curl"
Arizona silver belt., 1896-01-04

The motto ''In God We Trust' was first placed on the copper 20 piece in 1864 by James Pollock, director of the mint. There was no warrant in law for it, but Salmon P. Chase, at the time secretary of the treasury, ap- proved it.
Arizona silver belt., 1896-01-04

Paul Becker, who was stabbed by Mexican robbers at Morenci, week be- fore last, and was supposed to be fatally injured, was reported by the Bulletin to be improving, and the doctor has strong hopes of his speedy recovery.
Arizona silver belt., 1896-01-04

Dr. Murray, an Omaha divine, has been talking from the pulpit about newspapers, and makes the admission that the press has stolen large part of the church audiences, and today reaches 10000 to the pulpits' 100. "The people," he says, ''have largely traded schoolmasters and are now instructed more by the reporter and editor than preacher"
Arizona silver belt., 1896-01-04

The average age of the thirteen new Senators is exactly A years, only one being over 50, and another is but 31. This is the youngest body of men who ever entered the Senate, and most of them are practically new to public life.
Arizona silver belt., 1896-01-04

A suit has been commenced by Pima county against Pinal county for the sum of about $500, alleged to be due the former on account of the Kibbey trial taken to Pima on change of venue.
Arizona silver belt., 1896-01-04
THE ARIZONA SILVER BET
OFFICIAL PAPER OF CHA COUNTY.
Saturday. January 4, 1896.

Delegate Catron, of New Mexico, has introduced m Congress bill to establish court of appeals for the Territories of Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma.
Arizona silver belt., 1896-01-04

Frank Perley, of Bisbee, spent the merriest Christmas this year in his experience. He fell in an abandoned shaft and remained there three days without food or water before being rescued. He had almost given up hope and was more dead than alive when found. He jotted down lis experience in his note book and left a
Arizona silver belt., 1896-01-04

There is report in Tucson that Ben Crawford will retire from the deputy collectorship of internal revenue for Arizona and will be succeeded by Mike J. Nugent, of Yuma
Arizona silver belt., 1896-01-04

A chess tournament will begin at Phoenix on the first Monday in Feb ruary, open to all players in the Terri tory. R. J. Hambrook, of Phoenix, now holds the championship.
Arizona silver belt., 1896-01-04

The Miner says: Mohave is the banner silver producer of Arizona, and has been for the past ten years.