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Holbrook argus. (Holbrook, Ariz.) 1900-1913, 1901-06-08
CHEATED OUT OF THE CLAIM.
Successful Trick of Quartet of Land
Booming Swin1lers.


MANY things occurred during the
opening and settlement of the Cherokee
strip in Oklahoma in 1898, the like of
which had never been seen or heard"
said Joplin printer, who was mixed
up in the race at the opening, and Sc
cured a number of town lots at Paw
nee. 81 remember young fellow who
came down to Perry from Iowa and
staked out a nice corner lot. And, by
the way, merely stalking out a claim
did not give one the complete right of
possession. You had to sit down on it
and hold it fast, and the Iowa chap
was a slayer. He ate his meals on the
lot and rolled himself in a blanket
and slept on it at night. Inscriptions
schemers were ever present, beating
the unwary out of their claims. But
the Iowa man held his base and played
safe.
zone night four men silently ap-
preached the sleeper. They carried a
tent, table and four seats. They
quietly erected the tent over the Iowa
man, got out a deck of cards and be-
gan playing seven up" quotes the Jop-
lin, Mo-, News-Herald. "The Iowa
man slept on. After awhile one of the
players gave him a poke in the ribs
with his foot. The man in the blanket
awoke rubbed his eyes and stared
about inquiringly, and in very much
bewildered manner. "What the -
are you doing here, young fellow" de-
manded the man who had kicked him.
'Why-why-I don't exactly know
faltered the Iowan, as he eXtricated
himself from the blanket. II must
have been walking in my sleep Right
sure you amt trying to steal this lot
from me? demanded the other, scowl-
ing in a threatening manner at the
Iowan. NO, sir; am not. 1 had no
tent or anything on my lot and do
not wish to beat you out of this claim
4 believe you're lying to me, young fell
Ter, an I'm a great mind to fix you
right now, but l won't. If you will
hold up your right hand in the presence
of these three men and swear this is
not your lot and that you will not try
to claim it an make trouble, III let
Holbrook argus. (Holbrook, Ariz.) 1900-1913, 1901-06-08
The Mayor who Couldn't Spell "1a.u

During the several terms that Tim
Campbell served in congress he was al
ways prominent before the house. One
Of his colleagues from Manhattan was
Colonel Jack Adams, who, a lawyer,
while he and Mr.. Campbell were in
congress together spent most of his
time working off practical jokes at the
expense of the east side statesman.
Tim had been in and out of Tammany
Hall several times, those changes de-
pending on whether his claims were
recognized or repudiated.
A very hot political canvass found
Tim one of the stanchest adherents of
the Hall. Colonel Jack had had a fall
ing out with the powers and was just
rs strong on the other side. Tim took
this very much to heart, as his admira-
ton for his fellow congressman was
very strong. He concluded that, where
I'll others had failed to bring Colonel
Jack back into the fold, he CTim) could
succeed.
Now, Jack" Tim said insinuatingly,
what do you want to go and fight the
mayor for? Sure, he's fine young fell
low, bright and enterprising and one
Of the best educated men in America"
"Educatedp exclaimed Colonel Jack
CONTEMPORARY. Educated, did you
say?'
Sure, he's one of the very best edu-
Gated young fellows in this CITY,"
Educated" reiterated Adams, put
ting an extra dose of contempt into his
voice. what would you say, Tim, if
told you that he was so little educated
that he spells if with only one 'fY"
Does he do that?" responded Tim in
heartbroken tone.
''He does"
''Well, then, have nothing further
to say. l don't blame YOU Saturday
Evening Post.
Holbrook argus. (Holbrook, Ariz.) 1900-1913, 1901-06-08
Big Price for Old Carpets.

When a carpet gets to be half CEN
fury or more old you usually expect to
be able to pick it up for a song
haps a song of a few sixpences-in some
secondhand shop, but sometimes you
Will find yourself mistaken, which
would have been the case had you been
at a recent secondhand carpet sale in
Lisbon. Two carpets sold there We're
four and a half centuries old, and yet
they were not bought for rags. They
were carpets presented by the Infanta
Donna Sancha to the Royal Convent of
st. Antonio in 1900, and were put up at
auction to raise money with which to
repair the convent. French and Ger
man bidders were the most anxious,
and the carpets were started at $4,000.
A Frenchman finally got them for S.
500, and was congratulated on his bar
gain.
Holbrook argus. (Holbrook, Ariz.) 1900-1913, 1901-06-08
Excuses Given by Looters.

The Russian papers contain comical
stories of the effects of the Russian
ministerial order against looting in
China. A private soldier hauled be-
fore the provost marshal with some
valuable gauZe ornaments in his pos,
session pleaded that he meant them as
a gift for the Vladivostock museum
He got off, and few days later his
escape placed the military judges in a
farcical dilemma probably without
precedent. A man had been caught with
a live Chinese hen in his haversack and
ne, too, pleaded that he had thought of
sending his prize to the museum. The
papers aver that this culprit also was
permitted to escape.
Holbrook argus. (Holbrook, Ariz.) 1900-1913, 1901-06-08
PHINEAS HARDEN'S
INHERITANCE

ca HEY stood about the farmhouse
in awkward, constrained groups,
a waiting, as they might have eX-
pressed it, for the funeral to start. "
The dead woman was lying in the best
room. 1t had been the passing away of
a hard life.
Phineas Harden leaned his head
against the shutter which had been
closed to keep out the glazing light, and
as he sat there, half-hearing the sounds
which came to him through the open
window, he heard quite distinctly these
words:
"Died peaceful at the last, they say.
Well, there'd ought ter be some peace
in the course of a natural life, an If
there was going ter be any in old Mis-
Harden's life, guess it had ter get Its
innings in at pretty nigh the last lick,
an close shave at that My, didn't
she lead Dick Harden n life. Reclect
when there wasn't a sprucer man in
town, but she took the spirit out of him.
an 1t warn't much of job fer con-
sumption ter finish him up"
Phineas never forgot that 1t had
been the putting into words what he
had never quite admitted even to him
self.
The days that followed. his mothers
death passed peacefully enough. After
a while he became used to the quiet Of
the house It didn't seem lonely to
him; he had never felt lonely, not even
at the first. 1t was only as though
some discordant note had dropped out
of his life.
People sometimes looked curiously at
him and wondered if he ever thought
of Lorinda North. But no one could
read the thoughts that were hidden
back of his eyes. They were eyes that
rather baffied you; they had always
annoyed his mother When he was a
child she had said one day, "Where he
gets that look beats me. He minds
well, an he'd oughter, SEEM the trou-
BILE I've been to, bringing him up. His
hands an feet are quick enough to do
as 1 say, but 1 can't feel but what
Holbrook argus. (Holbrook, Ariz.) 1900-1913, 1901-06-08

there's somethin' back of his eyes that
1 amt never touched"
Lorinda North kept a little shop,
which was the local exponent of metro
politan styles. She was a woman who
took life hard. 1t did not come easy to
any of these hard-worked, narrow
lived women, and she had fought
against each hard knock until all the
softness, which may once have been
hers, had been rubbed off. There had
been an old love affair between these
two, but how far it had progressed no
one ever quite knew. Some one had
once ventured to ask Lorinda about it.
'She wasn't going to be an old wom-
ans nurse" she had said. "She'd al
ways made out to make a living for
herself, and she guessed she could still
She wasn't going to live in any mans
house and have another. woman boss
It,"
Perhaps in these years in which
there had been plenty of time for quiet
thought she had sometimes regretted
her lost chance of happiness. Surely
they had been lonely years, hard years,
too, and they had borne their fruit in
Lorinda North. There wasn't woman
In the town who did not feel a little
uneasy when under the battery of her
sharp eyes. Phineas Harden had been
the only one who had ever pushed open.
even ever so slightly, the door of her
heart; and after she had closed this
little chink, love had gone to easier
pathways, and left the door of Lorin-
da's heart closed hard and fast.
People had specialized somewhat as
to how she would take the news of
Mrs. Harden's death. Perhaps it had
stirred, more deeply than she knew,
the undercurrent of her life. Surely,
Phineas was often in her mind in these
days. Not with any tenderness of feel
ing did she think of the lonely man:
but perhaps because his solitary life
bore so closely on her own did her
thoughts so often turn to him. AS she
looked forward, as she did sometimes
of late, to the years and years stretch
Ing out their weary length before her,
a thought, which was at first vague
and underlined, gradually took definite
shape in her mind.
They had both always been regular
church attendants. Through the sum.
mer Lorinda had sat just back of Phin.
cas- Harden's pew, and the time seemed
very long ago when the pew in front
had been empty at the evening meeting
and he had sat back with her.
His mother had been dead lust six
months. The cold and dreariness of th5
winter was gone, and it was a soft
night in early June. The windows in
the old church were open, and perhaps
Phineas listened more to the monoton
GUS voice of the minister. When he
was a little boy he had often wished
that they would have church outdoors
God seemed nearer there. The woman
sat and watched his face during the
long sermon. She looked at it NOR,
carefully, perhaps, than she had evel
done before. But Lorinda North wa.
not capable of seeing the real Phinea.
Harden. All she saw was slight, ben
figure; face with eyes that were an
to fall little before the hard look il
her own. She could not know that h,
did not meet her eyes only because /
panied him to see the expression which
time had printed on her face
The long service was over, and Their
was a sigh of relief as the congrega
ton stood and received the benedic
Holbrook argus. (Holbrook, Ariz.) 1900-1913, 1901-06-08
Social Mistakes.

Perhaps the greatest of all social mis-
takes is to be continually talking about
ones self There is no word in all the
vocabulary of conversation so tedious
to others as that personal pronoun 81"
Though one of the smallest words in
use, there is none that takes up more
room in the everyday world. 81" is a
bore; it is better not to mention his
name oftener than can be avoided. An
other social folly is "gush." There is
an insincere ring about it. True, there
are people who gush from sheer good
nature in wishing to give pleasure, yet
they should remember that even ami
able exaggeration is like a coarse sugar
plum, agreeable at first, but leaving a
doubtful taste in the mouth afterward.
On the other hand, there is a certain
class of people in society who are
equally foolish in going to the other
extreme They feign Indifference
about everybody and everything, sell
dom expressing either interest or adj
miration. They think it dad form
to show any pleasure in life, and a
sign of superiority to be incapable of
enthusiasm. A social folly is to i'm
agine that people are always looking
at or thinking os you. Such ideas are
often the offspring of conceit. AS a
matter of fact people very often look
at you without seeing or thinking of
you They have other things to think
of. If we could only convince our
selves that we are not always the pivot
of our friends and acquaintance
thoughts there would be fewer hurt
feelings and imaginary grievances.
Holbrook argus. (Holbrook, Ariz.) 1900-1913, 1901-06-08
PUNISHED THE PAINTINGS.
They Violated Editor Storey's Cast
ILnn Rule md XXeE. Hnnrad

They Violated Editor Storey's Cast
Iron Rule and Were Hanged.
when we went to Chicago to live
just after the fire." said a woman who
has since returned to New York, 1--WE
furnished the house with all that was
necessary to make it attractive. One
winter my husband bought a number
CT paintings, and after they had been
placed properly we invited a clever
young woman to come in and see the
collection. 1 don't mind telling you
that she wrote for Mr.. Storeys news.
paper, The Times. She understood art.
She had been reared in Boston and she
had studied abroad.
"When the article on our collection
appeared, what was our horror to read
that each picture described had been
hanged by a man who made n spe-
cialty of putting up paintings. My
husband was leased into a fit of neu-
ralgia the next day by his Chicago
acquaintances, who expressed their re-
greet that all his paintings had been
executed. OF course the women heard
of it and there was a giggle for blocks.
81 called upon the young woman
from Boston and asked how she had
made such 4 blunder. She was in ar
agoniZed frame of mind and protested
that she didn't write it hanged 1 was
sure she didn't. Then came the ex-
plana ton. A few weeks before there
had been an execution in the Chicago
Jail and Mr.. Storey's reporters wrote
that the man was hung Mr.. Storey
was furious and issued an order, so l
heard, that henceforth editors, report
ers, copy readers, printers and proof
readers must write and set up and
read hanged for hung The rule was
infexible. The young woman who
wrote of our collection used the word
hung throughout her article and Mr..
Storey's rule was enforced. But as
long as we lived in Chicago we were
always known as that New York
family who had their paintings eye
cDted.' New York Sun.
Holbrook argus. (Holbrook, Ariz.) 1900-1913, 1901-06-08
Tulip Festival.

Tulips are cultivated in Constantine
pie, and there is a tulip festival there
once year in spring. Every palace,
room, gallery and garden Is decorated
with tulips of every kind. At night
they are all lighted by colored lamps
and Bengal fires, and the Sultan sits in
their midst, while women sing around
him and his odalisques dance before
him.
Holbrook argus. (Holbrook, Ariz.) 1900-1913, 1901-06-08
The Wife,s Pocketbook

"The average American husband does
not seem to be able to get it through
his well-meaning but halting mind that
nothing on Gods earth humiliates a
wife more than to be compelled to ask
her husband for money" writes Ed
ward Box in the Ladies' Home Journal
HShe instinctively hesitates to do it,
and oftentimes she goes without rather
than ask. Every wife should be given
all that it is possible for the husband
to allow for household expenses, and
it should not be doled out to her in
driblets nor given to her as a favor;
but as her right, and without question,
Over such share she should have in
dependent sway to do with as she sees
fit for the wisest interests of her home
and children. That is one rightful step.
But there is still another. She should
have an allowance of her own apart
from the family share Of the income.
l have no hesitation in saying that if
the truth were known it is just this
humiliating dependence upon a man
for every little trifie that a woman
needs that is making thousands of
women restless and anxious for outside
careers. This is the only fair excuse
l have ever been able to see for the
hysterical rantings of the modern adj
vanced woman. In that particular she
is right and is absolutely justified in
filing q protest. A wife is too great
and important a factor in the life of
her husband to be made financial de-
DaOdnnt -
Holbrook argus. (Holbrook, Ariz.) 1900-1913, 1901-06-08

Thompson Mills,
who is at the head
of the only school
for deaf mutes in
China, was living
in perfect safety at
Cheerfoo, with ma
tives of all classes
and beliefs ready to
come to her assist
ance in a minute.
Mrs Mills who
Holbrook argus. (Holbrook, Ariz.) 1900-1913, 1901-06-08
Languages Spoken by Army omcers.

hSuhBCS DPOhCH UJ 1AHIHIJ OIiICtI5s
The Army and Navy Journal states
that 304 commissioned officers of the
regular army speak Spanish fuently,
and that most of these are serving in
the Philippines and the West Indies.
About as many more officers possess a
limited knowledge Of Spanish. French
is spoken by 224 officers, German
by 1876, the language of the
American Indians by IS, Ital-
ian by 8, Swedish and Norwegian
by 4, and Tagalog by 8. Chinese. jap
anese, Eskimo, Dutch, Hungarian.
Portuguese, and Polish are also spoken
by some of our army officers.
Holbrook argus. (Holbrook, Ariz.) 1900-1913, 1901-06-08
either victim knowing anything about

either victim knowing anything about
the other.
One would think that the parents
would seek to know who the men are
that seek their daughters in marriage.
1t would seem as if they would not only
learn something about the manner of
life of the wOoer, but would also find
out something about his family and
about what that family thinks of the
proposed union. Under proper circum-
stances a marriage between the chill
dren of two families results in the ac-
quaintance at least of the parents by an
interchange of letters if in no other
way. Where the daughter is overtaken
by such disaster as has just come upon
the young woman whom Smith induced
to marry him her parents cannot es-
cape some of the responsibility for what
happens. A young woman's life is too
precious a thing to be intrusted to the
first plausible stranger who asks for
her hand. But from recent events one
must conclude that this has been for
gotten in Brooklyn.-Brooklyn Eagle.
Holbrook argus. (Holbrook, Ariz.) 1900-1913, 1901-06-08

How does it happen that all milliner:
come from New York, Chicago OF
Paris?
Holbrook argus. (Holbrook, Ariz.) 1900-1913, 1901-06-08

A favorite way to praise man is to
abuse his kin for imposing upon him.
Holbrook argus. (Holbrook, Ariz.) 1900-1913, 1901-06-08

So many people, when you hear
about them, sound well.
Holbrook argus. (Holbrook, Ariz.) 1900-1913, 1901-06-08

Woman's Unique School in China.
While not many miles away the Box
er fanatics were numbering mission
aries and converts, Mrs. Annetta
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1901-02-28
A SsnaSher Shot.

Topeka, KAN, Spacial.-J. w. Adams
was fatally wounded in q battle be-
tween three policemen and a band OF
citizens who made a midnight raid Oh a
north Topeka hole3ale liquor house.
A large quantity Of cased beer was de-
stroyed before the crowd as dispersed.
A crowd OF from 80 to SO citizens, armed
it'll revolvers, s1edge hammers, crow
bars and a baterin ram, broke into
tbs, on West Curtis street, between
Kansas avenue and Jackson streets, at
midnight, and smashed the beer foua2
there.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1901-02-28
GUARANTEED


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Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1901-02-28
Deal Arranged.

Copenhagen, By Cable.-A satisfacto-
~ understanding has been reached by
the conferees of the ministry and tfe
financial committee Of the Rigsdag re-
garding the sale Of the Danish West ln-
dies The result it is understood, VIII
shortly be communicated to the wash
linton government in such form as It
is thought here will prove acceptable.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1901-02-28

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New-York tribune., 1901-02-06
NETWORK CITY.

New-Yorl Commandery Of the Military Order NJ
Loyal Legion will have general meeting this
evening prior 10 the dinner At the latter Cen
eral Grenville NJ. Dodge viii read paper on Per
sonal Recollections Of Some of our Great Com
manders of the Ciyil War"
The Republican Club of the NNVIth Assembly
District will give entertainments and ball AZ
National Hail. No So1 10 % East Seventy-third-
St tomorrow night
The monthly meeting Of the Chamber Of Com
nnerce will be held tomorrow al 1890 p. Briga-
dier-General James II. Wilson viii make an ad-
dress American Interests in Chira"
The meeting OF the Alliarce Israelite Universelle
will take place in the synagogue in Sixty-seventh-
St between Third and Lexington aves AT o'clock
this evening.
The Anawanda club. OF the NVIIIth Assembly
District met last evening and elected the follow
ing officers for 1901. Philip r. Donohue. president
Edward r. la Fetra and William J. King. vice
presidents Flee Mork. treasurer; Francis z. V.
Dunn. George q. Kiesel anu Edward !. Hinch sec
retsries The Anawanda's entertainment and ball
will be held At the Lexington Opera House on
Monday evening. February Is vaudeville show
will be presented.
New-York tribune., 1901-02-06

4G cabin passengers to Jane, u Wand & q,
steamsT Tjomo CNoro,, Nilsson. car1ena January 2s.
Arrived a, the =; Bar Bar at uD IitS n 46 l',
& steamer Jam J9mesoTn @ TaPey Newport 3 News and Nor
sfameE GldsbSr9 1 swain Phil9delPhia with mdss
Kew West Fab2ar vifS s SstVesI9n % January 30 and
steamer Athos C7rl Lund savaniIIa January 90 Car
to PIN. Forwood & KeIock Passed in sandy Hook at
United States Army transport Ravvlins Cuba
Sandy Hook n J. Feb 3. $50 m-wind northwest.
SAILED
steamers Deutschland Ger tank) Flushing; Asen-
RD. Antwerp: III Paso. New Orleans: AnchoSia C3r}.
Colon: Mamma Hata baltimore: HeveIius d3esj PeTnam
3aS1, , se' 1piysHdo''e Norfolk and Newport News:
Philadelphia: Alamo Galveston: Nacoochee savannah
THE MOVEMENTS OF STEAMERS.
FOREIGN PORTS
-, Ligerpo9 Feb ARRIVED. steamer Caledonan CBr)
swansea Feb 4-salled steamer Bristol city Csr9 SEN
c EaFowa frSn IS HSmBulR ISe seA"er Pretoria
MINES. New-Yor for Antwerp; Chester Tufeb, IP
Prawle Point, Feb 5Passed, steamer American Dutch)
Butt Ne~-iork for Rotterdam.
sktodt Me"ItY9rk; 3ist Xena Oanl. Hoist. New-YorR
terdam Dutch Potter New-York for ROTTERDAM 5Snd
Belfast; Feb S-Arriyed. steamer cilenarm Head Ry.
New-York -' --'N 'H'''
Bordeaux, Feb Arrived steamer AIab.ra ~,
Gwatklus, New-iofk ND'''
Oporto. 31-Arrved steamcr ro,. Mi. n,
Jensen. New-Iorx IeiN,eS -''@ "i'-4o pNI'
Lisbon Jan ;s'-Sailed steamer Peninsular CPoro Bat
tencourt. New-Hork -0'V' h7V-
Gibraltar. Feb 5-Passed. steamer GIenartnev fEr,
New-YOrk- N''
Gibraltar. Feb 5. 4 p m-Arrived steamer Hob.,.ou.
Hogemann New-York for Naples and Cenos 1sph
proceededJ. " 'aNu
Naples. Feb I-Sailed. steamer Gauta rr,-, W..
New-York' Attn arrived steamer Victoria CBr) Rridges
samarsng. Jan Arrived steamer Arara Gsr,. Will
Brisbane Feb Arrived steamer Glanton CBrl Isisk
via 81 Vincent. G V. Adelaide
Para. Feb 3-sailed steamer Clement C3r1 PineI New
York ~
NevT-York
Feb 4-Saied, steamer MaracaihSl
Nevv-f1 1rk
ST Thomas Feb ARRIVED. cruising yacht Prinzesstr
Victoria Luse Ger. Sauermann. NewYork Por-au
Prince etc
from Santos. etc. FOR New-York-