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Arizona silver belt., 1900-12-20
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

Some one has estimated that Gen Miles has spent 10000 hours on horse back.
 The only peer newspaper man in England is Lord Glenesk. proprietor of the London Morning Post
 The sultan of Turkey su5scribes to clipping bureau and gets an interpreter to translate for him the most savage at tacks on his majesty.
 Luther said that if a man were not strong at 20. handsome at 30, learned at 40 and rich at 90 he never would be strong, handsome, learned or rich.
 Henry Clcwes. in talking to some young men on the best way to amass wealth, advised simply adherence to the Biblical command 10 do with all our might whatever our hands find to do.
 Ira D. Sankey, who recently visited the Jordan, said of that historic stream: We were disappointed in the stormy banks of which | had so often sung; but still it was worth trip half around the world 10 see its swelling food and cross to its farther shore
 Mir. Fanciuli. the musical composer and orchestra leader, has amused him self by exercising the muscles of his 17-inch neck until that portion of an- atomy is steellike in its firmness. A physician who examined the musician says it would not be possible to hang him with rope.
Arizona silver belt., 1900-12-20
BROKEN THINGS MADE NEW.
How . Boston Girl Ia Earning Lots of Money by Patching Up
 Fragile Ware.

A Boston girl has begun the work of repairing precious pottery, glassware, porcelain and statuary. Last year she patched up S300,000 worth of fragile ware, and she got nearly ten per cent. on the value of the goods redeemed. Ii is said to have been more than the sal ary of Mayor Quincy or Gov. Wolcott.
 This girl began by inducing a large department house to allow her to re- pair, not only their own fine pottery and glassware. but to take orders from the customers of the house who brought their broken ware there in the hope that there was some one in the es- tablishment who could fix it up. She was an artist, to begin with, and in ad- dition she had a good deaf of mechan- ical ingenuity. Later she got contract from an art museum in Boston to do such work of this kind as the museum could supply. This includes many rare vases and other articles which are dug up in old world fields, and which reach the museum a mass of a thousand frag- ments. The little pieces are taken 70 the studio of the bric-a-brac surgeon, and there the artist-mechanic spends hours. days and weeks in asserting the fragments and putting them together.
 She uses n particularly fine kind of cement. which is made from the al- bumen of eggs, mixed with evaporated whey. This cement will endure heat and moisture and is everlasting.
 One of the latest ,riumphs of this girl is seen in a builr-up glass urn from the valley of the Nile. This precious relic is exhibited in a museum. IL is apparently iawless. and through il the beautiful hues of the rainbow simmer like the dancing colors of soap bub- ble in the sunlight. Yet this urn came to the museum in thousands of little bits. So carefully have these frag- ments been put together that scarcely a trace of the mending can be seen. even by the keenest eyes. Recently a fabulous price was offered for the urn and refused,-New Haven Register.
Arizona silver belt., 1900-12-20
PEOPLE WHO WRITE.

B. L. Farieon. the English novelist, is son-in-law of Joseph Jefferson.
 Conan Doyle's first year of writing earned him less than ten shillings a week.
 Mrs. Amelia E. Barr was the mother of l5 children before she ever wrote a book
 The first visit of Thomas Hardy, the novelist, to America was made as col lege lecturer upon architecture.
 Upon being protested with for turn ing out novels with the regularity of railway time table," Sir Walter Besant replied: Why should not my business be as regular as any other?"
 William Morris once began story of Roman life, the other side of "The House of the Wolfings," but abandoned it in disgust. He left six completed poems Troy poems"-which have never ap- peared in print, save in the form of ex- tracts in Mir. Mackail's biography of their author.
Arizona silver belt., 1900-12-20
NOTES FOR CHURCH uUlno.

American Baptists send about s15,ooO annually to the help of their French brethren.
 Two Jews and Chinaman were re gently baptized into the Catholic faith at Elizabeth, \. J.
 Protestant missions in India and China claim 4,000,000 converts, the work being carried on by 5000 missionaries.
 In Boston there is one church to every 1,7S6 of the population, against one to every 1,o63 of the population in 1910.
 The 'hristian Endeavor Society of Guatemala, Central America, conducts the only English-speaking service in the city.
 While the membership of the Congre- gational church shows a gain of 2,370, the Sunday school membership shows loss of 3.C91.
 The Roman Catholic church has TO- GOO missionaries at work among its 3,500,O00 converts in China and India, the result of 900 years work.
 The Endeavor World states that a Christian Endeavor society in Indiana has furnished a medical missionary to China and supports a native worker in Japan.
 Some one has said one of the char acterizations of Christian faith is its positiyeness. It does not deal in per adventures. It has no use for question marks. So far as it goes at all, it is sure of it's ground.
Arizona silver belt., 1900-12-20
HINTS FOR THE DAIRY.

A COW abominates an unclean per son.
 Many dairymen feed too much; more feed too little.
 Cows need roots from October to May for best results.
 SaltiRg the cows is one of the things too often neglected.
 Do not milk your cows before they calve. Reduce the food if udder is get ting too hot. but do not milk.
 There is good reason to believe the colasirum. or first mess, should be di- vided between the COW and calf.
 In dairying brains are needed as much as "blood;" yet the amount of brains is not as essential as the quality.
 Most cows prostrated with fever can be cured if prompt attention is given. The remedy is not physic, but warmth.
 The greatest blessing tba' ever comes to dairyman is D sweet-temperedw wife, who can make fine butter. l know this by experience. The wife appreciates having her husband say nice things about her and her work. - Midland Farmer.
Arizona silver belt., 1900-12-20
STRANGE SUICIDES.

Forked branches of an apple tree were used as moose by Stroudsburg (Pa.) suicide.
 Because his mother would not let him go in swimming an Arkansas boy cut his throat.
 Her husband wanted to move and she did not. This led a Connecticut woman to drink poison.
 Champagne with arsenic in ii was used by San Francisco man as means of self-destruction.
 ''Ah. to see the moon at distance of one meter" was the note left by q Paris suicide explaining his motive for death
 Fearing that his wife would .scold him for getting home late, a newly made London bridegroom committed suicide.
Arizona silver belt., 1900-12-20
SCIENCE LKEsillES.

A kind of paper is made from sea- weed which is so transparent that it may be used instead of glass for win dows.
 Prussian blue is made by fusing horses hoofs and other animal refuse matter with impure potassium carbon ate.
 Dr. Palisa has given the name "Slatin" to the small planet which was discovered by him on the 9th of March last.
 A medical expert contends that out of 1000 girls studying the piano before the age Cs 12 about GOO are afflicted with nervous troubles in later life.
 "Gossamer iron." the wonderful prod. uct of the Swansea iron mills, is so thin that it takes 4,s00 sheets piled one on the other to make an inch in thick ness.
 Hydrogen light is especially favored in hospital work for hygienic reasons, aside from the advantages of economy, and the recent experience with the new Strache lamp at the Vienna general hospital confirms the favorable reports already received.
 In German varnish factories an easy way to eXtinguish a burning pan of oil has been found in the use of fine meshed wirc net. As soon as this covers the burning surface the iron wires con duet oif the heat so rapidly that the gasesiean no longer flame.
 Phrenologists say tha, the higher in- tellectual processes are performed in the front part of the brain. but recent studies have led some physiologists to conclude that the posterior lobes of the cerebrum are the real seat of men, tai power These lObes are more de- veloped in man than in other animals, and are most conspicuous in the highest races of men.
 The old theory that the apparent en- largemept of sun and moon near the horizon is due 10 comparison with ter restrial objects has long been unsatis- factory. Ii is nov eXpidined as re- suit of sol..e peculiarity of the eye, which accounts a,so for the late deter mination that the shape of the sky is a horizontally widcned Geaye,itv. with a singular depgesson ,n the zenith.
Arizona silver belt., 1900-12-20
FOR THE HOT SEASON.

Even too much well water will make one sick on a hot day.-L. A. w. Bull letin.
 When is cold spring most appre- ciated? On a hot summer day.-Rural New Yorker.
 People who can't afford to summer at the resorts may write to those who can. telling them how nice and cool it is at home.-Detroit Journal
 When a man has his hair shingled close to his head everyone is remind ed that he was once boy, and had cuts and bruises on his head.-Atchison Globe. -
Arizona silver belt., 1900-12-20
NEW ENGLAND EPIGRAMS.

The future keeps her secrets for his tory to tell.
 Touch is a magic wand that stirs the blood and rakes the soul.
 Mistakes pervade our lives; they are our teachers. but in this school di- plomas are withheld.
 The wind makes steps at every door, but when the friendly hinges turn the phantom feet are gone.--Springfield (Mass.) Republican.
Arizona silver belt., 1900-12-20

CTS English Remedy and, after service, I boughta bottle and began taking it. The Text night my throat was nearly well, and deliy- cred my sermon without difficulty. In few days Twas thoroughly cured. conceive it to be my duty io benefit mankind physically as well as spiritually whenever can, and am glad to write these words in praise of this grand old medicine. Those with sensitive th;c'tsand those wh0catch cold easily should certainly take Acker's English Remedy"
 tsigned) REV. EZRA TERRY SANFORD.
 Sold a' sSc BOG and q bottle throughout the United stSi. a,id Canada; rad m Enclnd ( i5 ei B. Sl., t,cI liy1n arc n"ts nsaola 2, r b"ying return the eo''.e to your druggist and get your money baes
 lc '''''"ei-e ne c'~rr so,arpntcc.
 " A' AOohLH C O.. .. .,,,V.s, AeV York. For Sale by II. o. Hitchcock, Globe.
Arizona silver belt., 1900-12-20

.elistic work away home. Not long
 went to Sandy N. Y., which is
 by the damp from Lake On Here Icontracted l cough, and be- so hoarse that I
 could hardly
 preach to my
 congregation.
 It was not only P distressing in Q i bodily sense, | but extremely embarrassingto 1 enter the pulpit
 in this condi-
 tion. l had
 heard of Ack-
Arizona silver belt., 1900-12-20
From a Pastor

I am the pastor of the Baptist Church at Port Jervis, N Y., and sometimes am called upon to take part in evangelistic work away
The age-herald., 1900-10-26
From the Montgomery Advertiser.

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
 The lease last week Of 52O acres of coal lands lying in Bibb County, belonging to
 the State University, to MT. T. H. Aldrich is a gratifying accomplishment. Last year Governor Johnston undertook to set aside
 the deliberately established policy of the
 board of trustees of leasing the lands do-
 mated to the university, by entering into a contract of sale of 44S0 acres of the very best coal lands, belonging to the university and lying in Walker County, at $22.50 per acre, the purchase money of which, amounting to 56,0O0, was paid to the Gov
 ernor and is now lying in the State Treas
 ury. At or about the same time the Amer
 ican Coal and Coke Company sold it's prop
 erty to the same corporation, the Sloss-
 Sheffield Coal and Iron Company, a New
 Jersey corporation with a capital of $2O,-
 900 900, for $125OOO. Governor Johnston
 owned in the American Company 2S2 shares
 out of s31 total shares of it's capital stock
 This property was given in by the Amer ican Coal and Coke Company for taxes in 1899 at 1000, divided as follows: Real es- tate, s19,3o0; personal property, $5,700 The commissioners raised the assessment to $35 600.
 The company owned 2534 3-5 acres of land. General Fucker and Governor Johnston bought and paid for 600 acres of these lands from the university through MT. J. H. Hayes in 1891 for the sum of $9000-that is, at $15 per acre. These lands were imme-
 diately afterward or upon the formation of
 the company, conveyed by them to that
 company at a price of $50 per acre, amount
 ing to $30,O0O, which shows profit of $21,-
 900 to General Fucker and Governor John
 ston out of the transaction.
 MT. Pink Jones sold to the company so
 acres at s2O or S25 per acre. These two
 tracts, in the opinion of MT. Hayes, 'con-
 stitute Il the workable coal on the Amer ican Coal and Coke Company's property"
 The interests of the company in the re- mainder of the lands were mineral rights. Nor could the sale of the American Com pany's property have been accomplished without including certain of the university lands which were "the key to the stua- tion," and these certain lands were includ- ed in a lease then about to be executed by the proper officials of the university to MT. H. F. DeBardeleben the consummation of which lease was prevented by Governor Johnston's unauthorized interference This university sale, however, is now pending in the courts.
 MT. Aldrich's company had lease of 6i0
The age-herald., 1900-10-26
5000 MILES TO SING ONE SONG

From the London Leader.
 Mme de Vere-Sapio, the soprano prima donna who has been at Covent Garden dur ing the last three seasons of grand opera, is now on the seas in the Furst Bismarck, bound for America to perform a verbal promise made months ago to sing at single performance at Boston.
 When Mime. de Vere-Sapio made the promise to Gericke, the conductor of the Boston Symphony Society, that she would sing in Beethoven's Mass in D at the in- auguration of the new concert hall at Bos- ton, she had every reason to believe that she would in the ordinary course of events, be in America at the time. It turned out otherwise, however The prima donna has been singing with great success as Elsa in "Lohengrin," Leonora in I'll Trovatore' and other parts with the MoodyManners Opera Company in the provinces. The Bos- ton ceremony was fixed for October 15 If the promise of Gericke was to2 be kept, the artist must travel over 5000 miles and abandon nearly three weeks work in Eng land merely to sing on one night in Boston. She decided to do so. The Furst Bismarck sailed on Friday last Mime. de Vere-Sapio sings at Boston on the 18th, she starts for England again on the 16th and on the 24th, nine clear days since her last appear ance with the Moody-Manners Company, she is to charm Sunderland with Elsa"
The age-herald., 1900-10-26
MIR. HoBsoN's INDIsCkETIoN

From the New York Times
 If the judicial friends of Admiral Samp- son could cause an injunction to issue re- ther public recital of the woes and wrongs of the admiral, there can be no doubt that they would apply for the writ without de- lay
 The revival of that controversy on any grounds would be of doubtful wisdom. But arraigning the American people for base ingratitude to Admiral Sampson and hold ing them responsible for the illness from which he is unfortunately suffering Is a mistake of which a naval officer of riper Judgment would not be guilty.
 Intimations have been heard that MT Hobson is talking about this matter with the permission of the President and Secre- tary Long. That is preposterous The reg ulatfons of the navy forbid the public dis cussion of the affairs of the departmen by officers. It cannot be supposed that the regulations have been suspended to allow Lieutenant Hobson, in the midst of Pres idential campaign, to air his views of the merits of Admiral Sampson and of the conduct of the American people.
 It is plain that the impulsive young officer is talking on his own hook. His offense must have been overlooked in the department, or he would have received an admonition before he had repeated his ill., advised remarks.
The age-herald., 1900-10-26
I'M 0sIr DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMA
Reform Suffrage m Georgia.

Governor Candler of Georgia has the eour- age of his convictions, and he puts this courage into his annual message to the Legislature, in these words:
 "In the interest of good government and in the interest of the negro race, l recom- mend that amendment to the constltu- ton be submitted to the people, providing for a qualified suffrage based on an edcua- tional or a property qualification or both. A man who has by integrity and frugailty acquired d title to a home and is tax payer, should be allowed to vote, whether he can read and write or not: but he who has for the last thirty years had the op- portunities of free schools and cannot read and write, and who has had an equal chance for the acquisition of property and yet through incidence or profiigacy or vice failed to become a taxpayer contributing nothing to the support of his State, should have no voice in making its laws
 This is the sense and honesty of the case. It is the only satisfactory solution of difficult problem in every cotton State. And the reason why tricksy grandfather and onstitution-interpreting tests are substl- tuted for it is simply because politicians lack courage. Governor Candler is exeep-
  tics at the end of his present term of office, and this permits him to speak his. conv1c- tions No politician can be trusted to deal with this problem fearlessly and fairly.
 Governor Candler's plan is the only plan that is just, square and enduring. The other plans will be assailed by the Supreme Court, and they will be turned into politi- cal capital in Presidential campaigns. The new grandfather amendments of North Carolina have been turned into popular cries on every stump in the Northern States. If Alabama wants something that will hold water year in and year out she will plant herself on the unanswerable platform presented by Governor Candler, but if she wants something that the Su- preme Court can upset in one excuse or another she will resort to the fantastic plans of Louisiana, Mississippi or North Carolina
The age-herald., 1900-10-26
WHOLESALE INDICTMENTS
Against Former Georgia Postmasters
 and Carriers

Atlanta, Ga, October 25.-The United States grand jury has returned thirteen in dictments against former postmasters and carriers in Polk, Harrison and Pauldng Counties, this State, charging conspiracy to defraud the government. The former post masters indicted are:
 F. O. Beavers, Cabot, Ga. Butler Davis, Way Ga; John G. Low, Rowland, Ga; B. F. Morgan, Frank, Ga; William A Green, Doster, Ga. w. c. Waldrop, Junior, Ga. i; J. Nj. Rutledge, Dicy, Ga; John R. Bush, Dicy, Ga.; T, J. Bell, Besma, Ga.; w. NJ Waddell, A. S. Waddell w. T. Head and w. J. Harden, former special carriers.
 The offices in which the alleged frauds were what are known as special supply offices. The four special carriers are charged with having been the principals in the affair. Their salaries depended on the business of the postotiice for which they carried mail.
 It is claimed by the postoffice authorities that the thirteen defendants formed a combination whereby they sought to de- fraud the government. It is charged that they went so far to give away stamps ir order to cancel them and sent bulky packages through the offices It is said that a dog was sent in this way, and that pieces of pine bark were stamped and mailed.
The age-herald., 1900-10-26
Yellow Fever in Havana.

Gen. Fitzhugh Lee scouts the scientists so far as yellow fever in Havana is con cerned He-~says they know very little about the yellow fever germ. For aught they know it may come from the sea, the air or the ground. It must come from one of the three and that is about all they know Their serums are inefficient and their safeguards valueless.
 It goes where it listeth, and no one can explain its outbreaks and virulence, much less prevent them. In year when case appeared on the mainland of this country, across narrow channel the dis ease was unusually prevalent, appearing in spots it usually shuns, and attacking persons who have hitherto been exempted General Lee mentions it's appearance at Quamados, a place seven miles from Ha- vana, on high plateau, where the dis ease has rarely appeared The government has barracks at Quamados, and every known sanitary rule had been applied to them and to the little town. And yet it was ravaged by the fever. Four members of General Lees staff had the fever, and two died
 Sanitation in Havana is not ideal, but it is better than ever before, and the fever has been and is unusually prevalent. "The fact is," adds General Lee, "the experts who have given a lifetime of study to vel low fever are all at sea, and cannot under stand the outbreak in Cuba this year" This is very discouraging view of the problem, but we may be sure the scientists will not surrender readily. They will go on until they conquer the fever as they have conquered other dread diseases. They have not conquered the yellow fever or the plague or typhoid fever, or dipthe- ria, or scarlet fever, but they do not pro- pose to surrender internationally. They will go on, and in the end their studies and tests will produce the needed remedies and knowledge. This is the history of science in the past, and it will be it's his tory hereafter.
The age-herald., 1900-10-26
MT. Underwood at Seals Hall.

Congressman Underwood will open and practically close the campaign in this city next Saturday night in Seals Hall. One meeting at least should be held during presidential campaign in order that public education may go on. The rally on Satur- day night should, for that reason, be well attended.
 Alr. Underwood has no opposition in his Congressional race, but he has made it his duty to give his time to the district, speak ing whenever and wherever his services were called for. He has canvassed his district, and for this work he deserves the thanks of all Democrats in the district He appreciates the importance of a full vote in the coming election, in view of Re- publican efforts to cut down Southern rep resentation and he has done all he could toward bringing out such a vote.
 Let Seals Hall be crowded on Saturday night. It will do any citizen good to hear the political issues of the campaign dis nussed, and no one keeps in closer touch
The age-herald., 1900-10-26
BIG SUM
Obtained by Swindlers Who Worked a
 New Racket

New York, October 25.-operating under the cloak of agents of the Republican Cam paign Committees, rogues have succeeded in obtaining probably $1OG.OOO on forged checks in this city and through the State.
 The method of operation is shown in the case of H. M. Cook, who is under arrest on the charge of passing bogus checks bearing the name of M. l.. Muehlman, treasurer of the Republican National Cam paign Committee. Cook, it is alleged, in- duced William J. Wright to deposit checks purporting to represent $110O to his account in the Mount Morris bank. These all bore Muehlmans name.
 Cook explained that they were eontribu- tions to the Republican campaign fund, and the committee, not desiring to let the amount of the subscriptions be generally known, had arranged to cash the checks in different banks
 Wright gave Cook $1100 in cash and a few days ago the prisoner appeared again with $1700 in checks. The bank officials be- gan an investigation and found the checks had been forged. Other similar transac- tions have been reported from the interior, which led to the suppositon that the total receipts by the forgeries will not fall short of s1C0,OOO.
 Treasurer N Bliss of the National Com mittee, says that Cook had no connection with that body.