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Snowflake.

John R. Hulet was up last week.
 H. B. Smith spent a few days in town this week.
 President Jesse N. Smith and Smith D. Rogers were at Show Low Sunday.
 A number of young people went to- Woodruff Friday to attend the dance and theater.
 Preston Bushrnan, who has been driving mail on this line for a while, returned to St. Joseph Monday.
 Messrs. J. N. Smith, Ninian Miller, Jos. w. Smith, John w. and John A. Freeman have gone to Holbrook to attend the an nual meeting of the A. C. M. l.
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Show Low.

There was a light snow fall here last Wednesday.
 Orson Kay and John Saul were over from Linden Sunday.
 Hyrum Cheney and Joe Brewer were over from Pinedale Sunday.
 E. H. Crabb came through here on his way to Fort Apache to get the doctor. He reports Mrs. E. E. Smith very low with pneumonia.
 The Ward Conference was held here on Sunday. President !. N. Smith and wife, Smith D. Rogers, l. H. Richards and Sister Emma West were up from Snowflake.
 Joel w. Flake and Lucy Whip pie were married here Wednesday at the home of the brides father. A dance was given Wednesday evening in the White House. Quite a number from Snowflake attended the wedding dance.
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It is stated that fully S,O00,OOO people in Mexico-more than half the population-live with out work. We had no idea that there were so many political offices under the Mexican gov ernment.
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Mrs. w. H. LQvha, of 1901 Agnes Ave-, Kansas City, Mo-, has for several years been troub. led with severe hoarseness and at times with a hard cough, which she says. would keep me in doors for days, l was pre- scribed for by physicians with no noticeable results. A friend gave me part of a bottle of Chamber lain's Cough Remedy with in- structions to closely follow the directions and ! wish to state that after the first day 1 could notice a decided change for the better, and at this time after us ing it for two week, have no hes itation in saying realize that l am entirely cured.
 This remedy is for sale by F. J. Wattron.
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If the proposed state of Ari- zona is created the new state would have two senators and three representatives in Congress, instead of two voteless delegates as at present.
Holbrook argus., 1904-01-30

Tom Schultz of Prescott is pre- pairing a special edition of the re- sources of Yavapai county. Ten thousand copies will be issued for free distribution at the St. Louis exposition.
Holbrook argus., 1904-01-30

The total railway mileage in the United States is now 2O9, 1855 miles, the additions of the year just closed having been 5,723, a gain practically the same as that of 1902.
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The designs for the stamps to be issued in cOrnmemoratiOn of the Louisiana Purchase Exposi- tion have been decided upon by t postoffice department. The portraits on the new stamps will be as follows: One-cent, Robert H. Livingston, minister to France who conducted negotiations for the Louisiana purchase; 2-cent, Thomas Jefferson; Scent, James Monroe, who with Livingston concluded the nego iations; g. cent, President Mckinley; TO- cent, map of the United States, showing the territory purchased from France.
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SHE WAS NOT DUCKED.
of a Troublesome Shrew in
Colonial Days.

An hOnOred parSOn OF old New
bury, Massachusetts, had n shrewish
wife, who led him a life of it, relates
the Youths Companion. His parish
toner's more than once beheld their
pastor fleeing from his own door
pursued by a hurtling saucepan.
Occasionally the irate woman refused
to allow visitors to enter her house.
and emphasized her refusal by turn
ing key on the poor man in his
study, through the windows of which
be was ANONYMOUSLY driven to con-
fer with his deacons on church
affairs. The climax was capped when
one day passers-by were Mortified to
hear a woman's sobs and means,
interspersed with piteous cries of:
Don't strike me-, sir! Oh, don't
strike me!'
But the worm had not turned, and
the parson had not struck. 1t was
merely his ingenious consort's latest
way of making her husband uncom-
Portable
A half-century earlier. and per-
haps, minister's lady though she was,
this notable shrew would have stood
in danger of the ducking-stool; as
things were, if she were not the
edifying exemplar of all the virtues
she was expected to be. she could
at least serve the parish as an awful
warning.
A colonial shrew of another town,
who really was threatened with the
ducking-stool, was once saved by a
plea in which the value of such a
warning was definitely alleged.
You wish to duck Ann Willot to
cure her of scolding!" her defender
declared Now if she be not cured,
where is the gain of ducking her?
And if she be cured, all the women
who now keep a guard over their
tongues through distaste to be hken-
ed to such known. notorious and
contemptful seold as Ann, will do Sc
TO longer; but, although it is not like
any should become such as she. YET
all will scold little more than now
they do. the check of her example
being removed Now it is better that
Ann. being single woman. without
family to aff1ict. should go unpunish-
ed and. unducked, but despised by
all. and wag her tongue as she will
standing therein for the whole town
| that she should be silenced, and the
| tongues of other women run more
free"
This argument seems to have pre-
vailed. for Ann Willot was never
ducked.
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Exports

agriculture. Thus while in 1851 We sold
abroad agricultural matter to the value
of STAG. III. 431, but $7,522,4S0 was for
animal matter, the remainder being for
vegetable matter. principally grains.
Twenty years later, 1871, We sold
abroad agricultural products to the
value of 1870, 4S1 ,939, of which $40. 49,
451. or ia per cent. was for animal
matter. OF the 1857, 1883 sales OF
agricultural products abroad in 1902.
$256, Ale, 722, or 1913 per cent, was for
animal matter.
OF the vegetable matter wheat and
wheat -four forms by far the largest
item in our exports Of grain. In 1851
we sold abroad $1.026.725 bushels or
wheat, receiving for it $1,025. 1872. BY
1871 our exports of wheat had grown
to 34,304 ,906. for which we received
s45 ,143. 424 In 1902 we sold abroad 154.-
$50, 102 bushels, receiving for 1t $112.-
S75, 222. In the range of prices the year
1866 shows the top notch, when export
wheat brought on an average for the
year $195 The minimum was in 1896.
when the average price for the year
was but 651a cents per bushel. From
1853 to 1884 the average price of wheat
| for export went below the one dollar
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ROOM AT The ToP.

There is always room at the top, boys,
Whatever your calling may be,
so be ready to climb with a will, boys,
When stepping-stone you see.
Don't loiter along by the way, boys,
Till somebody else gets ahead.
And you see him gather the prizes
That might have been yours instead.
There are honors enough to go round,
boys,
Then be sure that you win your share;
And fame has always laurel wreath
For the noblest and bravest to wear.
And don't be pushing and cheating, boys,
Be honest, upright and true,
And be sure you deal with all men
AS you'd have them deal with you.
And be ready to help brother;
If his steps are feeble and slow.
Take his hand where the path is rough
est,
And show him which way to go.
There is always room at the top. boys
And the smartest will win the day;
Then let each year with it's chances,
Be step in your upward way.
&C. E. B., in Christian Work.
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Of the agricultural exports for that
period in comparison with the value of
the manufactured products exported, as
is shown by the chart printed with
this article.
Notwithstanding the great increase
in population, and the consequent
larger demands Of the home market,
the development of agricultural pro-
ductivity in the United States during
domestic requirements, leaving an in
creasing surplus to be disposed of in
foreign markets. According to the re-
turns for 1851, which comprise the
earliest record given in the department
our agricultural exports for that year
we're valued at $147,000,000, while in
1902, the latest year for which sta
tisties are available, the value amount
ed to 1857 100000. The striking differ
ence between these two records shows
how rapidly this branch of our COM
merce has developed The present value
of the trade is nearly six times as large
as the value SO years ago.
While our export trade in agricul-
tural produce has grown marvelously,
a still larger growth proportionately
has occurred in the expectation of
manufactured products, and thus the
percentage that agricultural produce
comprises of all merchandise exported
is considerably less to-day than it was
half century ago OF the merchan-
disc sent abroad in 1851 products OF
agriculture formed about 81 per cent.
whereas in 1902 the proportion agri-
cultural was only SO per cent The
change indicated by these percentages
has been particularly rapid during the
| last two decades. 1t is explained in
part by the more extensive manufac-
ture in the United States of certain
raw materials of agricultural origin
previously shipped lin large quantities
to foreign countries.
An interesting feature disclosed By
| the records of our agricultural export
| trade for the past so years is the In
creased importance of animal products
| in that trade as compared with vege.
| table products. In 1851 95 per cent. oil
| the agricultural exports consisted Of
vegetable matter and only i've per cent
of animal matter OF the exports fol
/ 1902 vegetable matter comprised abou
| II per cent. and animal matter about
% per cent These figures show thu
extent to which our export trade ha.
been affected by the growing promi
nenee of stock raising In American
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brother, of whose household she was
with that cordiaiity which the tories
of Philadelphia showered upon the
British officers, he spent much of his
time at her uncle's house, which ac-
counted. doubtless, for the courtesies
he paid her. She had been new to
such things then, and she could not
deny that his red coat and gold lace,
his London manners, and the high
esteem in which he was so evidently
held by his superior officers had
touched her girlish fancy and made
her heart f1utter not a little.
When the fortunes of war took
him away from the city, he had lefe
her with many expressions of indy
ing devotion, and she had believed
him. But with the lapse of time it
had grown to be matter neither
for surprise nor resentment with her
that he had apparently forgotten all
about her the moment he was out of
her sight, and that she had heard not
one word from him. although she
had heard much of him, until he had
appeared at her home the other day.
1t had amused her a little then to
note that Bessemer had been willing
to make all ont of their former ac-
qualntance that he could, and to i'm
press his officers that there had been
more between them in Philadelphia
than there was. She could easily I'M
derstand that from this might have
Ior \
been exaggerated by the time it
reached Godfrey's ears into the
words he had repeated to her. That
the young American had deliberately
lied or that he had even amplified
the tale in its telling she knew him
too we'll to believe: but she had been
angry enough with him to be willing
to give him any slap in the face
which came handy, and she was too
much woman to worry herself over
in Justice.
1t was pity Godfrey could not
| read her thoughts, for then he might
have picked his way through the
woods with more care and might not
| have, forced his horse to crash
| through underbrush that scratched
it's TANKS and tore his own buckskin
leggings.
He had gone perhaps mile in this
reckless fashion when a thought
struck him that made him rein in
| his steed and sent the color from his
| face with as much swiftness as had
James cruel stabs awhile back
| Good God, if he should be too late!
| Why had he not thought of it before
He turned his horse about and re.
traced his way with even more speed
1 but at the same time with more care
| than that with which he had come
ITO Be Continued
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Smelling a Phrase.

In her Letters from the Holy
Land Lady Butler protested vigor-
ousiy, although vainly. against the
introduction of railways into Pales-
tine. Every yard of that small and
beautiful country is precious in her
eyes, and that its echoes should be
awakened by a snorting locomotive
is. she believes. abhorrent to rever-
ent persons She scores a point with
her statement that an express-train
could runin two hours ''frosn Dan to
to Beersheba. which cuts down
significance of the familiar associa-
ton of the two places so that there
seems to be nothing left
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cried, refining up his horse beside her
carriage with the confident air cf an
old friend, 81 am in luck to-day. 1
have longed to see you since our as
sault of the other night to-
If James head could have reared
itself higher, it would. II should
think" she observed, that Capt.
Worthington might at least have the
decency not to refer to his ruffianly
behavior. Absalom, drive on
Jane" the captain cried again,
''you must permit me to explain.
It"
Explain: And what, pray, is there
to explain? L am not SO dull that
need have it explained to me how
Capt Worthington used his knowl-
edge of my fathers premises to spy
upon my guests, nor how he forged
note in his sisters name to give
some color of excuse to his presence
there
Forged" the captain gasped.
"And as for what followed, while
/ know that it must have disappoint-
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mark but two years, 1859 and 1860
Since 1884 the price has been steadily
below the dollar mark with the ex-
ception of the year 1892, when it was
$103 Of wheat -four our exports
amounted to 2,202,335 barrels in 1861,
valued at $10,524, 331 In 1902 we ex-
ported II ,759, 203 barrels, valued at 65,-
gel 974 The minimum price per bar
rel for -four was reached in 1895, when
it sold for 1888; the maximum price
was in 1865 when it reached $10.41.
From 1853 to 1884 -four never sold for
less than five dollars per barrel. Since
a barrel but one year, 1898, when it
averaged $4.51.
The largest item in our agricultural
exports is that of cotton. The growth
of home manufacture has prevented
the same wonderful growth in expor-
tation that is shown by other lines. In
1851 it formed the bulk of our agricul-
tural exports. In that year we sold
abroad 927 ,237, 0S9 pounds, for which
we received $112.315 BIT In 1902 we
sold 1928, 974, 636 pounds, for which we
ICCOttSQ SGO4yoOc,oCos OOltOu I6dCutu
the highest average price in 1864, when
it sold for the year at 82h cents per
pound, though the smallest amount ex-
ported was two years earlier when wa
shipped by 5,064,564 pounds The low
est average price of cotton was in 1899.
when it sold for but 5k cents per
pound.
Corn. while a heavy item in our ex-
port trade, shows remarkable varia-
ton in total values from year to year.
This is illustrated by the year 1901
and 1902. In the former we exported
III, S17 ,965, for which we received $S2,-
SGT 1888, while in the latter we export
ed but 26,636, $50 bushels, for which We
received $16.1S5, 673 The annual aver
age expectation of corn for the ten
years ending 1861 was 5,150, 309 BUSH
els; for the ten years ending 1871, Il
was 10.061 los bushels: for the ten
years ending 1881, 1t was So .643, 47O:
for the ten years ending 1891, it was
1885, 57, and for the ten years end
ling 1901. it was Ill 1876, 4Ss. The price
has ranged from 3eK cents in 1897 to
$1.31 in 1866.
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renewed efforts to prevent
heir losing their hold upon the COM
herce of that and other continents,
las aroused an unusual interest in ex-
hort figures among our own people.
Especially is this true of the farming
lasses. They have an interest not
Inly in the selling their products and
he price it brings, but they wish to
snow where it is consumed, and what
lemand it is that makes the price.
such demand from this class of the
American people marks an increased
Intelligence in the marketing of farm
sroducts
/. To meet the demand that has arisen
rom the farmers for Information Of
his kind the agricultural department
1t Washington has issued from time
o time series of pamphlets giving
/ mass of detailed figures which should
irove of exceptional interest. These
booklets show the increase in exports
If agricultural exports from 1851 to
902, inclusive, and show also the value
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agricultural of total
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HE marked success of the
United States in competing
for the worlds markets, a
success which has stirred
the countries of Europe to
The San Francisco call., 1904-10-30
RED RoT IN coLUSA.
immediate war.

JUDGED by what appears always able
able contemporary the Cousa Sum- that fertile part
Sacramento Valley the only place the United States where
the campaign above blood Indeed appear
fever thermometer would quicksilver
top if put under the political tongue
Sun shines vertically up there and every beam
recent issue that paper he white people the South
do all their elevate the standard
tegence But Mr.. Roosevelt
take the negroes equals they
Really that is bad that call for bill particulars
We want the text of that order and the language
President told them make the negroes social President
Jefferson the father and founder of the party had
dine with him. and the Democratic party candidate
for the Vice Presidency who had negro large
family Of mulatto children he had become President negro
would have been the mistress of the White House and the
first lady OF the land Wouldn't that have made Colusa orrd?
But what the wisdom of being foolish? imagine vain
tngs President Roosevelt has
him He accepts all sensible do declaration of Booker
Washington that the negfo thinking of equality and
does not desire IT. What he needs recognition of the fact that
human being and entitled the rights belong to
Social distinctions artificial
they equally artificial among negroes as much al
fected by and color.
our venerable friend Of the Cousa Sun receive
Of social equality by order of President he will
have longer life than his ondest friends wished for him We
impoe him to refrgerae little 1t good the blood to
get hot.
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university and further sought have the annual State appropriation
the support of farmers institutes advanced from $Io
600 to meet the increasing needs of the service.
This appeal OF representative agculturists from all the
State consideration by the Legislature for directly
immediate needs of the of Caornia industries The ag
cultural college Berkeley which has take the position
of questions practice
ideas for producers the State has far ougown the
limits of its earlier province be seriously handicapped the
work of properly training students and carrying original
vesgaon along lines At time isolated sheds
and unused barn have been pressed into
date bulk of work that has upon this department of
the university building adequate needs and de-
signed permit of the introduction of instruction in and
portant courses, crying need
The work that has been done by the farmers institutes
sufficient argument the need of increasing this sphere
the univerty activity At time regular instructors the
agricultural department forced divide their time largely be-
Berkeley institute
aims of their joint endeavor accomplished with difficulty only
Through its work agricultural experiment station and its
of instruction through the institutes the department
Berkeley has made itself invaluable agricuss every district
State that producers
depend upon the assistance and
State institution Their call for aid represents
the whole State and should be accorded favorable
consideration
The San Francisco call., 1904-10-30
RECIPES

Caramel Pudding.-Melt one-haf cup
Of sugar and cook until 1t begins to
color. then add two tablespoons OF hot
water and four cups OF hot milk Beat
six eggs, add half a level teaspoon OF
salt, a teaspoon OF vanilla favOring.
then pour on the milk. Have a mold or
dish buttered and strain the mixture
into ii. Set in pan of hot water and
bake half an hour, or until the Gus
tard IS set Serve with a sauce.
Sauce for Caramel Pudding-Melt
one cup of sugar and cook until II
colors slightly. add one cup OF hot
water and cook gently for ten min
utes- Turn the pudding from the
mold. and when served pour little OF
the sauce round each portion
Coccanut Cam Pie.-Line a deep
plate with paste and bake. Heat two
cups of milk to the scalding point and
pour it over the yollxs Of two eggs,
One-cuarter cup OF sugar. and one
quarter cup OF cornstarch mixed to-
gsther. Return to the double boiler
and cook for six minutes. PoJ.- into
tie crust, cover with the whites Z the
two eggs beaten with a tablespoon Of
powdered sugar. Brown In the oven,
which should be moderate
The San Francisco call., 1904-10-30
MOST TICKLE IN LOVE is THE MAN
WITH PROFESSED IDEALS OF WOMAN

'" HERE is no type Of man more
tickle in love than the egotist
with professed ideals of woman
He is as hard to suit as a Scotch
sermon faster
He has put himself on record, and
the fact makes him over-critical. He
feels bound to selfish consistency of
conduct; he must live UP to the repu-
tation for fastidiousness which he has
established for himself with his ac-
quaintances, says Dorothy Fenimore in
the Chicago Journal.
Self comes to assume in his horizon
undue proportions. He stands, as 1t
were, upon an imaginative mountain
Of the Brocken, and he sees his fig
ure reflected, many times it's normal
size, upon the clouds of popular pre-
judice around him.
OF course every high-minded man.
married or single. has his ideal Of
womanhood, in which he believes i'm
plicitly, even against the evidence Of
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unfortunate personal experience. o-
against the testimony Of meaner .r.
lures than his own.
The generous youth who thinks %
wedlock has faith in the possibfftv -
there being in the world a fit mate so~
himself at his highest reaHzation. us
knows his preferences. and has sor,,
general idea Of the style of woman v-b,
would suit him Rarely, hOweva~ e,-
cept in idle mOOd-at least sr. M,
have told me-does he attenn+ 49,,
the outlines of a feminine port~sf-
He likes, rather. to let the sweet in
fiuence which he dreams may sons 5o..
enter into his life be like soft ronsi,
filling in the silences of his bachelor
solitude He expects to find hirnssls
by losing himself-in loving.
The egotistical man. on the other
hand. defines his ideal in terms Of h.s
own personality. My wife must be
thus and So" he reasons. "becausa T
myself am thus and so. Unless a gfrI
meets these requirements of mine she
will not make me happy"
The San Francisco call., 1904-10-30
Turkey Hatches Chickens.

Bert Crum, who resides northeast Of
Sulphur Springs, o.. has a turkey COB
bier which has succeeded in Matching
a dozen chickens Not being satisfied
with the work already accomplished
the gobbler has undertaken to raise the
chicks and is doing as we'll as mother
hen could. This Is the second attempt
of the gobbler to hatch a lot of eggs.
the first attempt being failure Sew
enty-nine years ago Crum's great
grandfather possessed a gobbler of
equal distinction, the ancient gobbler
having Matched a lot OF eggs.