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Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-12-19
JURORS GO ON A
 STRIKE AT B|SBEE
WANTED TO KNOW WHERE THEIR PAY WAS COMING FROM
 SETTLEMENT REACHED

George McIlvrey yesterday secured judgment against one O'Neil to the amount of $l47.50. The ease was tried by judge and jury in Judge Hogan 8 court The plaintiff alleged the money was due him for board and other con alterations, says the Review.
 The trial was marked by some very unusual features. When the witnesses were disposed of counsel for the plain tiff asked the court whether or not the jurors were to receive pay, and if so who was to pay them. The court stated that the jurors were to receive pay, as the case was civil one, and that the side that won the suit would pay the jurors. Counsel for the plaintiff then asked what the jury fees would amount to. He was told sl2.90, there being six jurors and each being entitled to $2.l5,
 Counsel for plaintiff then put up an amount sufficient to insure his client paving the jury fees in case the suit was decided in his favor, and asked that the the other side, the defendant, put up a similar amount. The defendant t's attorney refused to do so, and the de- fendant claimed that he did not have the money. Thus the tangle was woven.
 The jury, the plaintiff, the defendant and the iudge argued the matter pro and con. The counsel for the defendant claimed that his client should not be depriced of his rights because he was poor. while the other side said that they did not want the jury to work for noth- ing.
 Jack Kelly spoke up and wanted to know whether they were to be paid by the hour or by the job.
 The jury finally decided to leave it to the judge, and the latter decided to leave it to the jury. The jury took vote on it and by a two-thirds major ity voted in favor of not working" unless the pay was forthcoming Then more discussion followed, in which the counsel for the plaintiff and the court expressed their desire to clear up the ease as it had been standing for five i or six weeks.
 The matter was finally settled zy the jury deciding to go ahead and render verdict and afterward put in their bill for fees.
 The point involved is interesting be- cause of the fact that 1t makes 1t Inn possible for the defendant to demand a l jury trial in a civil suit unless he has money sufficient to pay the jurors their fees. Judge Hogan says that he will not be caught in this manner again; that the next time he will demand that deposit sufficient to pay the jurors their fees be put up in advance of the trial.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-12-19
couldn,t .shoor 2 catamount.

Levi II. Kissinger, proprietor of the Windsor Park brick works, on the out skirts of the city, smothered to death a large catamount in corner of brick kiln after fierce fight. He thought the creature a big tomeat and was "shoot- ing" it out of dark corner of the kiln, when it sprang at him.
 Although the attack was unexpected, Mir. Kissinger threw the animal from him, and, stripping off his coat, ran af- ter it. He succeeded in wrapping the garment about the creatures head 2nd held it tight until the struggle ceased.
 It is thought the animal must have strayed in from the nearby hills for food It weighed eighteen pounds York (Pa.) dispatch to the Philadelphia Record
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-12-19
Villain Was Really Handcuffed

The performance of "Shadowed by Three, a thriller at the Bayonne Opera house, yesterday had to be postponed until one of the villains, Daniel Dandy, went across the street to police head quarters to get pair of handcuffs re- moved from his aching wrists,
 It took two policemen fifteen minutes to file through the cuffs, nobody having a key to fit them.
 Dandy is handcufred in the play, but the cuffs are not supposed to lock. They did yesterday, and when the property man said he had mislaid the key the villain had to appeal to the police New York Times.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-12-19
carnoas Sailors pon,t Like.

"Sugar, pine lumber, and coffee IS three eargoes what oughter never be carried" said the sailor, "They put shellback of his feed They make him wuss n seasiek. A pine cargo soaks the ship and its contents in turpentine smells, so that the very drinkin water tastes as if there was rosin in 1t. Sugar cargoes ferment, and the fumes comin day and night from the hold causes the darnedest headache you can think of.
 "But coffee is the worst of all. A coffee cargo gives the ships meat, its bread and even it's tea sickenin cof- fee taste. New Orleans Times-Dem- ocrat.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-12-19
EVERYTHING FOR THE HOLIDAYS

Author Cir. search of copy)-How much farther to Biddlefordl
 Hodgekins-Ee II see moilstonc about moile on.
 Author-Ah, now; suppose l can | readl
 Hodgekins-Then it'll just suit 'ee, for there s nowt on it.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-12-19
Good Advice.

man advertised recently in Lon don paper to forward, on receipt of postage stamps, "sound, practical ad- vice, that would be applicable at any time and to all persons and conditions of life v
 On receipt of the stamps he sent his numerous victims the following:
 "Never give boy penny to hold your shadow while you climb a tree to look into the middle of next week. ''- Montreal Star.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-12-19
Reflections of a Bachelor.

Brains won t help a man to in a wife, but they come in handy afterward to support her.
 Even the man who waters his whisky and dilutes his religion wants to take his politics straight.
 It's mighty smart boy who can earn enough to pay for his neckties after a college education.
 If u girl can't get even with a man any oSher way for not asking her to marry him she win iilt him in her imagination.-New York Press.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-12-19
Equal to the Occasion

Pal caught young Smith hugging our Maria the other night.
 Ma--Goodness gracious! What did you saya
 Pal said; "You are getting on fast young man. And what do you sup pose he answeredf
 Ma--Dear knows What did he say9 Pa-He said: "Well, l am holding my own. '--Baltimore American.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-12-19

"You say you were once an actor on the stage7'
 "Yes; played with all the big ones Tn my day"
 "What part did you find the hardest to play in your stage careerI'
 "Well, " replied the old actor, era Ve- ly, "I think the hardest part was ty' ing to live up to the salary l was sup posed to be getting. ''-Milwaukee Sen tinel.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-12-19

eff you serve your country faith fully and intelligently,' said the pat riot, "your portrait may one day adorn the engrayings on our currency
 "Yes, :" answered Senator Sorghum, "but what is the use? Nobody is al- lowed to hold piece of money long enough to take any interest in the pie ture on it. it.''-Washington Star.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-12-19

Beggar-Lend us sixpence, guy 'ner. Banker-No, certainly not.
 Beggar-"'W Well give us fourpence for q bed.
 Banker-Ah, now you re talking bus mess. We're s the bedl-Bystander
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-12-19

The kaiser's dislike of the use by his subjects of non German words is well known, and from time to time he adds a fresh one to his blacklist. Quite the latest, we learn, is Camarilla,-By stander,
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-12-19

"She is a great actress. v How many times has shee been marTieds'
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-12-19

For Sale, For Rent and Furnished Room cards for sale at the Silver Belt office. l0c each, 3 for 25c.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-12-19

Hewitt-Are you in favor of capital punishments
 aJewett-7I think capitalists should be punished. .2Judge.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-12-19

Guest-That steak is too rare Take it back and have it cooked well done. Waiter-Itll cost you 20 cen;s extra, sir.
 Guest-What for9
 Waiter-We cook with gas, SIT Brooklyn Eagle.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-12-19

This Is Change Day A swell comedy act. Two new nov ing pictures; two new illustrated songs.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-12-19
DEL MONTE
 Restaurant 393 NORTH BROAD ST.
Twenty to fifty per cent of on Ladies Skirts at Sultans'.
Storage room phone 60l.

Satisfaction our motto. We have the best equipped paint store in the city. Van Wagenen, next door to the post office. Give us a call.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-12-19

We frame pictures. Naquin & Co.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1907-10-17
n1d fII1a mcurl Joy Skates.

Few Of the present generation OF
skaters ever saw q pair OF old fash
lonec "curl up" skates or know what
they are, but II they are native born
their parents or grandparents can
probably tell them about these old
time appliances for Swimming over
the ice. The boys and girls Of today
have quick fastening, light and hand.
some skates, and in many cases keep
them attached to shoes that are used
only for skating and are put on at the
pond side.
In the old days straps for the "curl
ups" were unknown, leather thongs
Or stout strings being used with a
SORT of harness" to keep the skates
On the feet. The term "curl up" comes
from the n in which the forward
end OF the skate irons were curled,
extending over the toe Of the foot.
Doubtless many OF the old folks a
remember when the cheapest skates
consisted only of a wood bottom for
the foot and a strip of metal for an
Ice surface. These were Cheap in
deed.-Hartford Times.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1907-10-17
Ne Wanted to Know.

Justice Harlan, of the United States
Supreme Court, recently celebrated
the golden anniversary Of his wedding
and the event brought to light some
stories of the stalwart jurist. One re-
lates how the justice was riding to-
wards Washington on a sleeping a
from Louisville. Before retiring he
went into the smoking compartment
to get a drink of water. There were
half a dozen men in the place. and a
flask had been passed around and the
glass used for the liquor. Justice Har-
Ian took up the glass. smelled 1t, n
turned on the smokers:
who" he roared. in his deep bass
voice, "has had the termerity to drink
whiskey out of this glass?"
81 did," piped up the owner of the
flask. somewhat awed by the great
bulk of the justice.
Then, sir" said the justice, stern
Iy, "where are you hiding the bother
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1907-10-17
a KING Of Long Descent.

The Sultan OF Brunei is S3 years OF
Age-at least so he told me. And
while he stoops as he walks, he makes
the appearance rather Of a temporary
invalid than of an old man. He seem
ed pleased when I told him that he
might pass for co; and indeed he
might for his face is singularly free
from wrinkles. His expression OF
benevolence suggests the late Leo
XIII.-his smile is engaging, albeit
tinged with sadness.
His house was ruling when the Ro-
man empire had hardy ceased to
crumble. His ancestors gave the law
to a vast Eastern empire when Eu-
rope was but a patchwork of barbar-
GUS chiefs, and when, after centuries,
Spanish and Portuguese found their
way to the Spice Islands they laid
propitiating gifts at the feet Of the
Borneo Sultan-as vassals. humbly
begging the right to live within his
dormintons.
Brunei is still the metropolis Of ma.
tive Borneo-indeed, the name Borneo
is bat a corruption of Brunel-yet few
maps show the existence of this EN-
pire.-Harper's Magazine.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1907-10-17
Cotion-FleIds ~ 4. Arctic Circle.

The climax OF natures irony in the
arctics Is the cotton-plant. Whef-
ever cotton blooms, declares the
miner, ice is not far below. One may
trudge for miles through fields of cot
ton, the white, silky tops swaying de-
family in the arctic breeze. The bios
som is silky, dainty, Elusive as the
down of our own yellow dandelion on
its way to seed. From June until
late August the tundra is white with
the cotton-plant. Unlike the cotton
of the Southern States, the fiber Is
short and soft, having more Of the
texture Of silk than of cotton. The
cotton-plant will, in all probability
some day, be the Means of developing
an Alaskan industry giving employ
ment to thousands. To-day, however,
the cotton-fields are purely decora-
tive-a splendid sweep of Immaculate
bloom in a bleak, timberless land
scape guarded by hills ever hung in
wells of deepest purple. In great
bouquets it is occasionally met in a
miners shack, while not a few house,
wives gather the cotton for pillow
filling.
Throughout the cotton-felds flow
ers bloom in abnormal splendor, as
becomes a country in which the sun
shines continuously during summers
voluptuous reign. 1t is an ~intoxicat-
ing Joy for the flower-hunter to
gather great armfuls of purple lark
spur. bluebells, monk's-hood, prim-
roses, sweet peas, beautiful purple
and red asters as large as the most
cultivated, lilies of the valley, baby
breath, yellow arrow, sage-rose, pink
and white straw-flower, gentians of
many hues, arctic geranium. crimson
rhododendrons, and giant fre-weed,
all growing on the hillsides-to
enumerate further is to reproduce a
florists catalog!-From "A Wild
F. over Quest in the Frozen North.s
b. Ida Rose McCabe, in the Circle.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1907-10-17
such a Bio Hotel.

Mrs. E. R. Thomas, the day he's
horse Nemesis won at Gravesend, was
congratulated on the success OF ner
racing stable.
"When one wins" Mrs. Thomas an
swered modestly, zones losses are
forgotten. But in racing ones losses
are many, and the keeping of a stable
has its troubles.
"The general idea of a racing stable
the idea that it is n long triumph
and Joy is very wrong. 1t is as ex-
aggerated as the foreigners descrip-
ton of our mammoth hotels.
"Tn American he said, everything
is on a grand scale. They have gigan-
tic buildings of incredible splendor. l
live in New York in a hotel of such
colossal proportions that when / rang
the bell Thursday evening the waiter
would come to my room Monday morn
ing philadelphia Record.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1907-10-17
IIttIa sanctItles.

There are men in this great city
who insist upon living in houses and
streets which have the same number.
There is the president of a big cor
poration, for instance, who searched
for weeks to find this combination, and
because he could not, went to a hotel
to live. He still keeps his eye out,
and is ready to snap up something OF
the sort at the first offering. Was
Justice Barrett one Of the supersti-
tious? When he moved into Seventy
ninth street he bought No. 70 for a
home. Lots and cords of stout-heart'
ed men have these little sanctities.
One gets a notion that s is his lucky
number, and will live nowhere except
In the f1ves. Another believes in the
sevens, q third in the mines, a fourth
In the threes, etc. Some avoid the
thirteenth floor in a business Office;
others. insist on having a suite on
the thirteenth.-New York Press.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1907-10-17
bio Matthias Love Affairs. DID

I aI?"
"You!"
aI!n
Malta rose to his feet ana ap-
peared to wish to make some sort of
protest, but merely sat down again.
"You humbug!"
Here the scene ended: but there
was poison in Nanna's heart. Malta
had the honey, and was keeping a
close mouth.
He had set Leprina upon the altar
Of his hopes, and fancied how she
would look up among his hills, all
affection for him, with flowers about
her and the full sunlight on her
pretty little face. He fancied her
there, on the tomato-festooned
threshing floor, and In the farm house
during the long winter evenings, with
the fire flashes reflected in her black
eyes, and he there, too, close by, en-
We'd, but so contented, overwhelming
her with his caresses.
Upon such dreams -Ciuffo. the
butcher, threw, SO to speak, a jug of
ice cold water.
"Leprina," quoth he, seems an
angel dropped from the skies; but she
isn't. Let Malta beware. A man
forewarned is a man forearmed!"
l. The result of this warning was a
fist fight, and Malta changed his
butcher, without changing his mind
in the least. Leprina smiled on him
more sweetly than ever and made
him believe that he beheld a paradise,
with seraphim and cherubim more
gloriously depicted than by Dante
Alighieri himself.
The first chance that Malta had of
hugging Leprina was one evening,
just behind the wall of the Viale.
The laurel boughs shielded them; ST.
lence surrounded them, while the
moon cast it's white radiance upon the
little villas over the way. Amid the
shadows could be discerned the girls
pretty head, studiedly inclined, and
Matthias visage uplifted, with its
glistening eyes and its open mouth.
And above this little tableau,
perchei amid the LEAKAGE like an
owl, was Mamma, apparently upon the
point of bouncing down upon them.
Instead, however, when Leprina and
Malta put their heads together for
a resonant kiss, Mamma vanished, with
a stirring of the branches Tat caused
the couple to turn round and look up,
and then stare at each other.
"Good-by, Mammal" said Malta one
day not long after. My masters
have discharged me-"
Mama did not reply. She had
turned to her oven, and was looking
at a saucepan that contained nothing.
Malta touched her on the arm.
Then she wheeled about, with two big
tears dropping from her eyes,,
Malta was serene. He was dis
missed, and he would go. The folks
were not satisfied with him; SO let
them suit themselves elsewhere!
Where do you intend to go?. in
CURED Mamma.
Home" 'S
"That is not true!"
Nor was it true. He would have
gone home, had Leprina not been in
the way. But there she was.
Malta, you want to ruin your
a fra pa
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1907-10-17
.,ananese Politenes..

The Japanese prince drew in ms
breath with a kissing sound, as he
bent over the young girls hand.
Prince" said she, Il have been uI
against a lot of Japs and they all hiss
like that when they meet you. What's
the reason, anyway"
"The reason is politeness," the
prince answered. Il hiss-like this
i draw in my BREATH keep on draw
ing it in as long as | remain neal
you. For if / blow out, some of 1t
might be blown in your face. What
an offense! Shocking! And so we
Japanese always hiss in exchanging
greetings. Out of p~oliteness we hold
our breath."-Chicago Chronicle.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1907-10-17
A Nature Fake.

"The late Senator Morgan" salu a
resident of Selma, was a keen nature
student, and nature taking was as
abhorrent to him as to the greatest
personages in the land.
Il once say Senator Morgan throw
down a magazine with a sheer.
Another nature fake!' he ex-
claimed. Why, these things are as
absurd as-as absurd IS
And then he laughed and said that
1t reminded him of an address that
an absent-minded missionary once
made.
In China, dear friends said the
missionary, human life is regarded
as of but slight value. Indeed, if a
wealthy Chinaman is condemned to
death, he can easily hire another to
die for him. and / believe many poor
fellows get their living by acting as
substitutes.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1907-10-17

onstrating thru suits Tor 1amaeeDs
that it can be more artfulsfn eyading
liability for libels than fhe humble
but resentful victims Of IT'S defama-
ton, or does it hope bK starting a
campaign of libel suits t6 silence the
popular indignation, reproach and re-
sentiment which it has aroused.
Golfers can not dodge this public
controversy bySprivate law suits. 1t
can not POSTPONE the public judg-
ment against Ut. That great jury, the
Public, viii hardly blame us for not
waiting until we get a petit jury in
a court BON, before d~enouncing this
prodigat detractor of institutions
founded and fostered either by indi-
viduak, or by the public. itself.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS during our n
tire business career were ever made
claiEiing medicinal effects" for either
Postum or Grape-Nuts. Medicinal
effects are results obtained from the
use of medicines.
Thousands of visitors go thru our
entire works each month and see for
themselves that Grape-Nuts contains
absolutely nothing but wheat, barley
land a little salt; Postum absolutely
nothing but wheat and about ten
percent of New Orleans molasses.
The art of preparing these simple ele-
ments in a scientific manner to OBJ
tain the best food value and favour,
required some work and experience to
acquire.
Now, when any publication goes
far enough out of it's way to attack
us because our advertising is med
ical," it simply offers a remarkable
exhibition of ignorance, or worse.
We do not claim physiological or
bodily results of favorable character
following the adoption of our sug-
gestions regarding the discontinuance
of coffee and foods which may not be
keeping the individual in good health.
We have no advice to offer the per-
fectly healthful person. His or her
health is evidence in itself that the
beverages and foods used exactly Mt
that person. Therefore, why change!
But 10 the udu Ot WOhiah
ailing, we have something to say as
aresult of an unusually wide expert
ence in food and the result of proper
feeding.
In the palpably ignorant attack on
rs in Golfers. appeared this state
ment,-aOne widely circulated para
graDh labors to induce the impression
that Grape-Nuts win obviate the ne
cessity Of an operation in appendi-
citis. This is lying and potentially
deadly lying"
In reply to this exhibition OIL
we'll let the reader name it, the Pos
tum Co.. says:
Let it be understood that appendi-
citis results from long continued dis.
turbance in the intestines. caused pri-
marily by undigested starchy food
such as white bread, potatoes, rice,
partly cooked cereals and such.
Starchy food is not digested In the
ruper stomach but passes on into the
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1907-10-17
Fortune Founded ON Nerve.

One day the Mellon Bank in Pitts
burg was amazed to receive from an
unknown man signing himself III. C.
Prick" a letter requesting the loan of
$4,000. He had very little to offer
in the way of security. the writer said,
but he pledged himself that IL the
loan was made it should be returned
with interest.
The audacity of the request inter-
ested the banks head, and he sent a
trusted agent to find out about the
man Frick. When the agent made
his report the bank decided to make
the loan.
The $4,000 was the foundation OF
the colossal fortune of Henry Clay
Prick. Not only did he return the
principal with interest, but the bust
ness which he subsequently gave the
Mellon Bank was worth a hundred
times the amount of the original loan
-Pittsburg Post.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1907-10-17
A Tree Climbing Woodchuck.

Two Oxford County girls were re-
Gently driving from Hartford to Bear
Pond when the small bird dog which
accompanied them was heard barking
at something. Investigation showed
that he had a half grown woodchuck
up a pine tree. One of the young
ladies promptly got a pole and
prodded the chuck off the limb and
to the ground, where the dog made
quick work of despatching it. When
first seen the woodchuck was some
fifteen feet from the ground on the
first limb of a pine measuring about
twenty inches in diameter, and how
he got up there was a mystery until
it was discovered that a small,
branchy hemlock grew within a foot
of the pine. Evidently the wood
chuck lad been surprised by the dog.
climbed the hemIock and then jumped
to the pine.-Maine Woods.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1907-10-17

Ere Malta could stir, ann nau
opened it and rushed out like a wild
beast.
Malta heard her gnash her teeth,
and then Logan such a battle of cuffs
and scratches. as would have scared
the dead out of their graves.
But it did not last long.
Mamma presently returned, with her
face besmeared with blood, g~rasping
Matthias gift, which she had torn from
the -ears of Leprina.
Look" said she.
Bewildered and amazed. he took
the earrings, gazed at them, turned
them over, while n more tear, the
last, of rage and remorse, dropped
down. Then, SO very softly and
gently, he put the earrings in Nanna's
ears, and said:
"They are thine. r-Orozio Grandi,
translated from the Italian by Will
lam Struthers, in the American Cutie
vator.