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The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1908-12-18
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES.
(By Our Special Correspondent

Miss Annie Golf, the county Supt.
as visitor of the Kennewick
Schools Wednesday.
A meeting will be held about the
middle of January at Prosser, to
determine what will constitute the
exhibition of the Benton country
schools at the A. Y. P. Fair. This
county is allowed to have three
cabinets.
The White Rose club issued
challenge for contest in all COM
mon school subjects, with the ex-
ception of spelling which has been
previously mentioned, for the pur-
pose to correlating the work of the
Schools as much as possible by a
comprehensive review of some SUBJ
.ject.
The Kennewick High School has
submitted the following question
Resolved, That elimination of
profits is the best solution of the
problems of the liquor traffic. F."
Prosser said that the question was
satisfactory to her but she wished
to see how much material could be
collected before arrangements were
made for the debate.
Blanks have been received from
the University of Washington to be
filled out in order to enable that
institution to determine whether or
not the Kennewick High School
should be kept on the accredited
list.
Mr.. Lewis has offered the mem
bers of the Sophomore class prize
of two dollars to be awarded to the
pupil who writes the best original
story during the holidays,
Otto Myers is new pupil in the
9Th grade
Lucy Fender, a pupil of the
fourth grade has left school because
the family has moved to Spokane.
Roxie Shoemaker has been pro-
moted from the Bird b. into Bird A.
during the past week.
School will be dismissed for the
holidays on Wednesday, Dec. %,
and will take up again Monday,
January 4.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1908-12-18

Single comb white leghOrn cocker
ais for sale Improve your flock by
getting one of these birds from prize
winning stock. Mounsey Bros.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-01-06
TheManandH His Job
BY HERBERT ]. HAPGOOD.

Prosperity augments dimnises in direct ratio proper
hona the value of crops This is the fundamental prnc
pie of the economic system under which live Plot mate
NAUTICAL showing the rise and fall Of business conditions
during the century in this country There will appear points
the where the times bountul than the
age and points showing marked depression Both these
occasioned by such big political BOOM
a
The high level of the curve however illustrating the generally
sound condition of the nation period of months will be
found be concdent with of good crops On the other
hand the low level of the will be observed be direct
result of bad crops.
Bad crops hard times and good crops point prosperity
A passing financial furry may be accounted for by number
OF but real panic genuine business depression
only after of bad crops In economic history
we have experienced period of hard times that the
effect of anything else Crops alone responsible for business
conditions and when crops good prosperity abounds
Now, listen those of you who have been talking panic and
hard times
Up November the yield OF Americas 1907
follows:
Corn: $I735ooooo hundred millions greater
than 1000
Wheat: $53IOOoOoo-twenty millions than 1000
Oats: $333OOoOOO-tirty-three millions than 1000
All other products: $G7G7OOoOOo-a hundred millions
greater than the year before.
All these figures show increased value 1900 of $324
100000
Does that look like hard tmes Cease this foolish panic
prate and everybody get together and boost
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-01-06
NOT BUILT TO SPECULATE.

Thomas w. Lawson. was talking
about success to a financial reporter in
Boston.
Success in the stock market" said
Mr. Lawson "comues from reckless
daring. He who enters this arena
must throw aside the old copybook
maXims about prudence, and looking
before leaping and studying both sides
eXhaustively, and so on. Swift and
reckless is the successful speculator
and the unsuccessful one has nearly
Away too much of the prudence OF the
old fluteplayer
There was you know an old man, a
Milk street clerk, who played the flute.
The old man entered a music shop one
day, opened large book of music, and
laid it on a shelf before him in an out
of-the-way corner
Then he took his flute out of his
| coat-tail pocket, screwed it together
and began to play softly the first tune
in the book.
When he finished the first tune. he
turned the page and played the second.
Then he played the third
at the end of half an hou he WAS
still playing on. The clerk, to hurry
him up a bit approached and said
civilly.
Do you think the book will suit
you.sir?'
/ don't know. said the old man,
/ have only played half the tunes
And he resumed his subdued toor-
ing"
AN ALMOST PARDONABLE ERROR.
Lawrence Mott. the well-known
young author and automobiles. con-
demned scorching at dinner in New
York.
i condemn" he said, the scorchine
and the scorcher, but don't condemn
the scorcher unheard | don't con-
denim the accused man hastily. Has,y
condemnation is always a mistake
Once on a Canadian railway. | got
OH the train for five-minute luncheon
at railway eating bar.
There was a man beside me gob-
bling away and when he finished
heard him say bitterly. as he took out
his purse
Call that a ham sandwich? It's
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-01-06
Fleet a Great
Uncertainty

ny much weaker aeet-such as Japanbecause of
the vital structural defects The charges made sweeping that
% would seem not worth anv attention except that they made by
real expert who studied the subject in the naVe OF the eaS
bowers He Henry Reuterdha his article appearing IN Nc
S said TO have been inspired Admiral Brownson the cen
with Roosevelt BroWfoh uI
Reutera called upon him and secured information and the charges
are made all the more startling that the admiral freely
said to sympathy. Here briefly the man detects Wch are
charged to Admiral Evans great fleet Of all the Russian TONES
which came to light great battle of Tsoushma that sealed the
Russian Japanese war; one stands out eSpecla
baleshp when they went into that hight were ovoaeo
until the selproo their waerne underneath the
water ships the battle fleet of the United States are IN eN
acy the condition as the Russian ships at lsoua
porariy permanently OF all battehps not one ITS man
rmor-be inches above the water when fully equipped and ready
for In other words 1t would be mPossoe IN rough
weather fire the forward tue one half that is on
heaviest which form the man reliance Oh the modem
ship In the weather foreign baesP with their hg9 bows
their forward urret with ease The 5roadsde guns
ships position than those the forward
tre In the Georgia Idaho and Connecticut
bateps aAoathey only about eleven e
above the In each of armoed cruisers ten OF the
fourteen medium guns height None of these
fired wndward while the ships steang at battle
fought all in the advantageous positions The boadsde
70 foreign baehp and cruisers generally speaking twice
best the world have faster ships than they
could cases. pick fighting only fairly heavy
teries forward rre and three of wndward broad
side guns would heavily handicapped quite useless These
constitute than third of the guns upon fighting ship
Other defects pointed the lack protection
magazines and ports urre unarmored the
structures and lack Of hosting ammunition Anne
RIGA lacks topedoe and der and baeshp guns fight off
toyer 1t is generally believed that the japanese fota of de
should attack fleet upon trip
must be badly crippled destroyed Finally charges back
ed to an extent by photographs followed up figures showing
at under the American system OF promotion in the navy
past their and the age they can reach
commanding positions that they reach higher
and begin experience than retirement usefulness
An answer to all this is criticism is that it is sweeping as to be
unhnkabe Those responsible for the baeshp plans must have
uer reasons for the methods of
snow winch experts right But the contro
V between the highest ranking experts place. how
utterly uncertain IN the light of rapid modern changes naval STRENGTH
1t seems to that in conhctwih Japan or anv other ma
uon OF a sengvicoy defeat depends upon the assur
unsurpassed but the scientific question of what set
naval experts right ~ ~ "
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-01-06
THE CHEESE.

The late Gen. Thomas II. Ruger,
said Stamford man. was, like many
army officers an authority on good
cooking but he detested rank, high
cheeses. At a dinner he said that a
very rank cheese was once left at his
headquarters to be called for, and
after it had remained unclaimed two
days he posted up this notice:
If the cheese sent here addressed
to Private Jones is not called for in
two days it will be shot
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-01-06
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Tales Worth Telling
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HANDED DOWN.

The venerable professor at a large
Eastern University had been noticing
for some time that a young man on the
front row of one Of the classes ap-
parently never paid the slightest heed
to his lectures. One day, becoming ex-
asperated at this conduct, the professor
testify asked:
See here, young man, what do you
mean by coming into my class day
after day and never taking notes?"
Il have my fathers was the calm
rejoinder.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-01-06

Roosevelt had been quiet too long 1t was hardly to /
hat he coud avoid getting into rumPus with someone m
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-01-06

The Board Of Health is entirely
without either blame or credit,
whichever it may be, for "releas-
ing" for local publication, the arti-
Gle by DR.. Gcodhue of Holualoa re-
garding his brothers discovery in
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-01-06
JUST WHAT THEY WANT

They have found a twenty-thous,
and-yearold mastodon in Montana.
Finders should be careful or the de-
mocrats may seize it as vice-presiden.
tial timber--New York Herald.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-01-06

the worst ham sandwich ever ate No
more taste than sawdust, and so small
you could hardly see it.
" we've ct yer ticket, said the wait
err This here's yer ham sandwich"
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-01-06

The row in the navy has for one
of its supposed causes an article by
a naval expert which indicates that
the great battleship fleet now on the
way here is an almost worthless
collection of ocean ornaments, east
" TO be sent to the bottom by a
Mohave County miner., 1908-08-29
Compulsory Military Service in Mexico.

If the new military law, providing for compulsory service, which IS now under consideration by a commission of military experts. is passed, Mexico in few years will have a large army of well drilled men ready to defend their country's flag. The new meas ure is one of the most important which has been under consideration during the past few months and in case of it's adoption by congress, when presented, will be the means of supplying l5,OOO new recruits annually for two years of active service and steady contribu- tion of well drilled men in the national guard.-Phenix Democrat.
Mohave County miner., 1908-08-29
The Steptoe Shelter Running.

Nevada will begin to figure as an important factor in the copper situa- tion before the first of next month when initial shipments from the Ne vada Consolidated and Cumberland Ely companies to the east will be made.
 The Steptoe plant shelter is now running successfully and the convert CT is to start July b. The reports of the metallurgists show an improve ment on Nevada Consolidated and Cumberland-Ely ores, being much bet ter than originally estimated. The production of the mines is being grad ually worked up to the first unit. The second unit will go into operation shortly.
 A statement just issued reports that the development of the Ely copper properties has involved an outlay to date of 2O.OOJ,OOOS. The reduction plant alone cost 6,000,000$, and the building of 200 miles of railroad 2,50O,- O00$.-M. x M. Journal.
Mohave County miner., 1908-08-29
Golconda in Big Ore

A crosscut from the 100 level of the Golconda mine this week cut great body of zinc ore in the middle vein of that property. The ore gave an aver age of over 50 per cent and carries gold and silver values. MT. Boyle, su- perintendent of the property, states that he now has enough ore in sight to produce three cars week the next two years. In the old workings of the property there is an immense tonnage of ore ready to be broken down and sent to the shelter. As soon as stopes can be opened more men will be put on and the output of the mine mater- ially increased. The company recent ly took over the Prosperity mine, an extension north of the Golconda, which at or e time was a great producer of gold and silver values. It is under stood that the adit drift on this vein is to be continued into Golconda ground and the three veins in the property crosscut and opened up to that level. Abutting on the Prosperity on the north is the Gro Plata group of mines, which in years gone by was one of the biggest producers of gold and silver in that section and which mines have been opened to but a superficial depth. These mines are now idle, but it is to be hoped that the company will take notice of the great success being lode and get busy. The entire lode, wherever opened shows good ore and from present indications the Golconda is to become e of the greatest prop critics in the county.
Mohave County miner., 1908-08-29

As result of little trip into the hills of Placer county, three Sacra- mento men have "struck it rich. " The men are James Griffin, miner. Louis Frye, cigar.maker, and Harry Cowpers, machinist. The party has taken up six claims in heretofore un- known district, and the outcroppings in many places assay as high as 22,OOO$ to the ton. The vein of ore uncovered by the prospectors is five feet in depth and is rich in telluride and chloride of gold. Samples brought to this city show that the bulk of the ore, which is of untold quantity, assays over 5OS to the ton, and is easily worked. Sac ramentO News.
Mohave County miner., 1908-08-29

Ten bricks, estimated at l2,OOO ounces troy, were shipped Monday to the Selby shelter at Vallejo Junction by the Montgomery Shoshone Consoli- dated Mines Company. The shipment represents the cleanup of the zinc boxes for July. The shipment is worth about 36,000$, which is somewhat higher than that of June. In addition to the bullion, the company sent out the usual tonnage of concentrates. General Manager Kirchen states that the July output was about the same as Herald.
Mohave County miner., 1908-08-29

The government report on public lands of the west gives out the state ment that there are forty-three mill ion acres of unapproprlated surveyed and nnsurveyed lands in Arizona. Much of this land will be brought into the market within the next few years by reason of conserving of flood wa ters and for grazing use.
Mohave County miner., 1908-08-29
Oil Still Booming

The oil excitement at Yucca still continues and thousands of acres have been located. In fact all available lands in that section have been filed on as far north as Little Meadows and several miles south of the town of Yucca. While the stump of the rail- road company has been draint of all oil the flow continues into the we'll unremittingly, which leads to the be- lief that oil exists in the underground stratums. Rol King, of Los Angeles, representative of the Kramer Oil Con- pany, and many interested in oil in the Los Angeles and Bakersfield fields have been on the ground and consider the indications of oil so good that they are interesting capital in the field. A test well is soon to be sunk close to the railroad well, which is believed to be on the outer edge of the belt, and the people are sanguine of big flow of the oily fluid Tests have been made on the oil from the railroad well and the impression is that there is a wide difference in the gravity of the two oils, the oil from the well being about ten gravity, while the usual oil used by the railroad runs from l5 to P Baume. If the oil came from the stump, it is held, the filtration through the gravel would relieve it of it's hy- drocarbon base, leaving only the vol, atile oils to run into the we'll Any way the oil continues to be pumped from the railroad company's we'll and there is good reason to believe that oil exists below the surface of the Yucca section.
 Again, if oil should be found in pay quantities in the Yucca section it would be of incalculable benefit to the whole of Mohave county. At the present time oil is shipped in at great expense from the Bakersfield country for fuel purposes, and coal is brought in from the mines of New Mexico. With oil at our doors little if any coal would be used and the home product would come into instant demand.
Mohave County miner., 1908-08-29

Fred w. Morrison, president of the Arizona-International Min gc 'mpany, came in from L's Angeles last We'd nesday to confer with Albert B. Bauer, of New York, on matters ap. pertaining to the beginning If extensive work on the mines of thA c,mpany, at the old copper camp, twelve miles east of Yucca. Mr. Bauer is the rep resentative of Jan Kubelik, one of the largest own ITS in the min $, and it is und rstand his examination of the mines convinced him that the proper ty was on of the b-st h. had exam ined in recent years. As soon as he returns to New York he will arrang ge for the necessary money to begin op- erations at the mines. Machinery will be put on the properties and work will be rushed this fall and winter. J. D. Jordan is the consulting engineer of the company and will have charge of the preliminary work, whil, Frank Dadek will take charg, of the mines. MT. Bauer went to Los Angeles and will return to New York at the end of the week. In conv rs ,tion with the MINER editor, he stated that it was the intention of the the company to open the mines to depth of several hundred feet and crosscut the big veins below the l-ached zone. The veins are immense, showing ore throughout width of four or five hundred feet and for distance along the strike of several miles.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-06-07
"The Innocents Abroad'

words per letter, and the pay be twenty dollars
per letter
l to East St. Louis to say good by to my
mother; and then | was bitten by the prospectus of
Captain Duncan of the Quaker City excursion, and
ended by Joining 1t During the trip | wrote and
sent the fifty letters Six Of them msCarried, and
wrote SIX ones to complete my contract. Then
put together lecture on the trip and delivered it
San Francisco at great and satisfactory pecuniary
profit. Then | branched out into the cOuntry-and
was aghast at the result: | had been entirely for
gotten never had people enough in my houses to sit
a jury of inquest my lost reputationi l IN
quired into this curious condition of things, and
found that the thrifty owners of that prodgiously
rich Alta newspaper had copyrighted all those
poor little twenty letters and had threatened
with prosecution any journal which should venture
to copy paragraph from them!
A ND there l was! I had contracted to furnish
large book, concerning the excursion to the
American Publishing Company of Hartford, and
supposed | should need all those letters fill it Out
with. was uncomfortable situation; that is, if
the ropretors of this stealthily acquired copyright
should refuse to let the letters. That is Just
what they did Mr. Mac-something-1 have for
gotten the rest of his name-sad his firm were going
make book out of the letters IN order to get back
the thousand dollars which they had paid for them
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-06-07

said that if they had acted fairly and honoraby,
and had allowed the country press to the letters
or portions of them, my lecture sklr1nlsh on the
coast would have paid me ten thousand dollars,
whereas the attitude of The Alta had lost me
that amount.
Then he offered a compromise: he would publish
the book and allow ten per cent. royalty on IT.
The compromise did appeal to me- and SAID So
7 was now quite unknown outside of San Francisco,
the books sale would be confined to that city, and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-06-07

DICTATED ~
FLORENCE. ITALY.
APRIL, Goo4l
T WILL begin
i with a note
upon the ded-
iCatlon l wrote
the book IN the
months Of March
and April, 1903,
IN San Francisco.
Il was published
ID August, 1900.
Three wears
afterWard Mr..
Goodman Of Viz
ginIa City, Ne
Vada. on whose
newspaper |
had served ten
years before,
came East. and
we were walking
down Broadway
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-06-07


presently forgot whence It came 1t lay lost in some
dim corner of my memory year or two then came
forward when | needed a dedication, and was
promptly mistaken by q child of my own
happy fancy.
was new. was ignorant, the mysteries of the
human mind were sealed book to me as vet and
stupidity looked upon myself as a tough and unfor-
givable criminal. / wrote to Dr. Holmes and told
HIM the whole dlsgraceful affair, 1nPlored him in
IrnpassIOned language to believe that | had never
intended to commit this crime. and was unaware
that had committed It until | was confronted with
the awful evidence.
have lost his answer. | could better have af-
tOTded to lose uncle. OF these | had a surplus,
many Of them OF real value but that letter
was beyond price. beyond unCledOm, and unspaT-
able In It Dr. Holmes laughed the kIndest and
heangest laugh over the whole matter, and at con-
siderable length and happy phrase assured me
that there was no crime in unconscious plagiarism;
that committed It every day that he committed 1t
every day, that every man alive on the earth who
writes or speaks commits It every day, and not
merely once twice but time he opens his
mouth: that all phrasings are spIritualized
shadows cast rlultItudlnously from our readings;
that happy phrase OF ours IS ever quite original
with there IS nothing OF IN II except some
slight change born OF Our temperament, character,
environment, teachings. and associations; that this
slight change dItferentlates It from another mans
Of saving It. stamps It with our special style,
and makes Il for the time beng. al the rest
Of Il beng old mOldy. antique and smelling OF the
breath Of thousand generations OF them that have
passed i over their teeth before
In the thIrtv-Odd wears which have come and gone
since then. l have satisfied myself that what Dr.
Holmes said true.
T WISH TO make note upon the preface Of So The
Innocents." In the last paragraph OF that bret
preface, | speak OF the prOprletOrS OF The Daily
Alta California having waived their rights N
absent on the Quaker City trip. | was young then,
| am white headed now; but the insult OF that word