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The newspaper., 1909-12-24
FIRST NATIONAL
BANK NOTES

PAT Tax Sales this year against
294 last year.
Have you any valuable lapers
which you are afraid the mice will
getf Our safety boxes are mouse
proof. Only 81 25 per year.
The Banks of Delta County
gained over half million dollars
in deposits from June to Novem-
Der The Delta National Bank
shows the greatest gain.
We have money to loan on real
estate. TRY US.
THE MAN WHO DOES THINGS
"You have been with that firm a
long time" said the old school
friend.
YES" answered the man with
the patient expression of coun-
tenance.
whats your positionf"
I'm an employee"
But what is yonr official title !"
Il haven't any official title. It's
like this: When the proprietor
wants something done he tells
the Cashier. and the cashier tells
the bookkeeper. and the book
keeper tells the assistant book
keeper. and the assistant book
keeper, tells the chief clerk. and
the chief clerk tells me-"
"And what then1"
"Well. | haven't anybody to
tell. so have to go and do -
Judge.
THE
First National Bank
OF PAONIA
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Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-11-19
THE RIGHT SORT OF MAN
Says the Chicago Post:


 ''We know a man who has already bouob+ tro r,t mas presents" e"' '"' 0niiS'
 Do you, indeed? Good for him. He is an op tiinlst-a real, genuine Optimist. We are willing to wager good cigar on that Only persons of temperamental poise and atruistic dispositions are gwen to that sort of thing, and they are all apostles of hope and good cheer and sunshine moreover.
 Aside from the fact that the early Christmas shopper catches the guaranteed bargains and LlkeWlse avoids the rush, we think we see in him kindly disposition and benevolent inclination to take time by the foreock both wisely and well Tn all good causes. Christmas and it's sent; mental obligations must find release tbronob some sort of safety valve, or he is most uncon, iortable, If not actually unhappy. Wherefore he hes him forth while mercantile folds n,o fresh and green and browses in peace and on;ot while yet the pickngs are all of tidbit narsno sion and there is no hurry. He sn;Ios a,a,,,"e' lhgly to hmsef as he wanders throupb eooks sa'oIe ,. ana cigars ot doubtful lineage, too-and CD. CD ct HIS elSure he picks this or that for par Ss, oIStier sister friend, or office boy. he pats iSen 4,n s upon Ihe back and feels within himself t;I ol hlgh resolve never to put off un- o;a11 TDofiow e that which he may do today. espe onnd. o i It IS something benign and kindly and Tn sincerity and love- blessings be upon the head of this Cbicaoo man who aIready-ths good six weeks m iirosso ;n aS va put his Christmas shopping 60 r wo1 aI under way. Not only is he wise man G ;n %en I.n generation but he writes himself down bnn,a nn mlS ltarlan and good fellow in letters tbat ian- fll who run may read. Such man is the r;abt s9 .ney ana may his shadow-which must bo Iarao 0ol ' imposing grow less eo ana
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-11-19
LOVE IN A GRAVEYARD

Back in Newborn, N. C., one of those 'long- felt wants' you read about has at last broken in upon the public attention and in very sentl- mental way at that It seems that Newborn has no park, but has a well-attended graveyard. Also. in Newborn as.in other sensibly regulated places, there are plenty of young men and maid ems who are interested in love in the abstract and in each other in the concrete.
 Now we are very close to the denouement. All of sudden, eight of these young men and maidens or four couples, announced their in tention to travel the rest of the way in double harness. Amiable investigation being instl- tuted, it was discovered that the wooing in each case had been done in the cemetery, for want of a better place.
 Hence recent petition of the good people of Newborn to the city council for park in addi- tion to the graveyard
 The situation down there merits more than passing gulp of sympathy. It is absolutely fund amental-deep down among the underpnnings of our civilization and our evolution. The time is long last when a man, having incorporated an entra room with bird 's-eye maple trimmings in his dOmicile and therefore being out on a still hunt for a wife, could resort to the effective but savage method of chasing the girl of his dreams through the woods, hitting her over the head with a club with a spike in the end of it, and dragging her back willy-nilly, to his home and the bird's-eye maple trimmings It is al cause for rejoicing that we get the same effect now in a much more decorOus way The words of wooing must be arranged in proper exordi- um fervent but logical argument, and-if 1t is to be sO-a triumphant peroration; after which 1t Is in order to let loose the secret to the rest of the world through the girl "best friend, ' and some time later to get into the glad raiment and amble up the aisle of a church to the min ister, "heavily banked in ferns, palms, and flow CTS in season."
 The only effective setting for the above pro- cess is nice, mild-mannered park, with messy stones and weathered benches We feel sorry for those who have slipped into the holy state of matrimony through any door but that. But a graveyard? Out upon it Of course, as a substitute it's fair-passing fair. It is apt to- be pretty quiet, if not too many couples resort to it at once Also, if the old saying is to be believed few secrets are likely to leak out of it. But what musty place for the little fellow Cupid, tickled to death over new chance for commissionI While we are specializing in the other professions let us specialize in the profes- sion of love, and not force it to be made in cem- etery
 We hope the people of Newborn will persist in their efforts with the city council, persist with all the power of life that is in them, persist nI the name of their marriageable sons and daugb ters and sisters and cousins and unmarried amts. Because we are ready to stand up onI our chair and lay down the flat statement thatI II We ever make love we will not do it in New bern uness we can have a real park, handsome " furnished with messy stones and weatbered benches. '
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-11-19
Anze na By GEORGE E. KRINBILL (TNme, Solomon Leui)

Once on time my grip packed And left my good old home; l journeyed far from east to west, A stranger I did roam. l struck the trail at Santa Fe And onward made dash To Arizona s cactus plains
 Where l ran short of cash.
 Chorus Oh, Arizona, tra-la-la-la-la-la-la. Fair Arizona, ra-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la. Your mountains grand are filled with ore Of silver, copper, gold Your desert blossoms like the rose, And yields hundred fold Within your borders may be found The pedagogic man, The B. A. double D. A. M. Of every race and elan. And when I found that I was broke It gave me such pain I scarcely knew just what to do My fortune to regain. I thought that I would buy mine, Like any other fool. I lost my grit and then I quit And went to teaching school I started out with courage bold A pedagogue to be. My pupils were of every age From five to twenty three. Among them was a fair young miss As ever you did see. I married her, and then I sailed On life's tempestuous sea.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-11-19

Governor Conner of Alabama says he ''wil! not go to the United States senate" There seems to be only one thing left to be done: The United States senate must go to Governor Conner
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-11-19

''While young man was telling his girl good night last night, her mother came down the hall and handed him note with the request that he hand it to the milkman before he left says the Montgomery Advertiser. Well, was the young man game?
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-11-19

The Ell Paso Herald is of the opinion that the appointment of Judge Edward A. Mann for governor of New Mexico would be popular in that territory. To say the least man would be filling the office
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-11-19

"Pugilism is rather more grammatical than it was in the days of Tom Hyer and Yankee Sul- livan," says the Birmingham Age-Herald. Then it was a maximum of talk and minimum of fight.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-11-19

All needed i'll Globe. The Pboon;v couo44o says: "The El Paso Herald makes od;tor;OI nS'e or the Tact that Phoenix laid $3OOOO worth e oc cement sidewalks in two months. An item ol prosperity ana improvement like that attracts "'eell'ion away rom home. Good sidewalks are q me auVertlSement but paved streets are still 5TI't T1''er' sewer system would be still another me two last mentioned are still in the air,
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-11-19

A St. Louis girl recently wed foreign per son of alleged noble extraction, only to find that he was fraud. Near-poetic justice would sug- gest the hope that the lady's dowry was made up of stage money entirely.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-11-19

Oh, listen! Somebody now comes forward and declares that 'Dr. Cooks complexion ind- cates that he never reached the North Pole. '' What IS the matter with turning the North Pole TOW over to the Miss Nancies, anyway
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-11-19

The Phoenix Democrat is of the opinion that former Governor Kibbey will cut ice politically after Arizona has been granted statehood. Af- ter passing through period of frigid chilliness, the former executive should be acclimated for the work
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-11-19

And there IS nothing strange about the case after all, The unfortunate fellow recently
 blew m" from Douglas. The International says: Globe has strange case of hallucination m an overworked draughtsman, who believes that ne has been dead for some time and is only on earth in spirit form.'' '-i''
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-11-19

A Missouri minister thinks i've should revive the old-fashioned two-hour sermon" We fear this is one proposed religious revival that is not going to take like Nildfire.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-11-19

We do not mind saying to the Macon Tele- graph that we have not the remotest idea where the hookworm was in the eos. It seems to be reasonably certain, nevertheless, that it did not enlist in either army.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-11-19

Now that Mr. Peary has definitely rejected the idea of a south polar expedition, those English explorers may proceed with visions of knight hoods and peerages ahead devoid of all Ananias club trimmings.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-11-19

Ballinger, Pinchot Pinchot Balllnger! Ana the administration could be happy with either, were tother dear eharmer away!
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-11-19

An English astronomer says those white streaks on the moon are immense salt deposits. This should keep the man in the moon from get ting too fresh with sweethearts now-and then.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-11-19

The hest boost of heaven we have seen in many day was a recent statement that there is no politics there.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-11-19

"Another model cashier has run away with thecash," quotes the South Bend Tribune. Still, that is not an argument against being model cashier.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-11-19

The Tucson Star holds that "streets were de- signed for trade and traffic. If all reports be true the Star should have posted notices for the edifcation of the pensive Tucson bovine: "Keep off the grass.''
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-11-19

'sThere is no understanding a wOman," says the Milwaukee Sentinel Of course not; but that will not stop the guessing
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-11-19

After reading of the wonders to be performed by Madam Blooms Bloom of Perpetual Youth, we cease to wonder what has become of that dear old parsonage known as grandma.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-11-19

fnoS pc me per capita circulation is $1.3ls11 Tho lnal IL seems probable, the '31s,, norbare ,, ugly. Oe''iy snort and
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-11-19

Trust your Uncle Sam to make hay while the sun shines The treasury is being enlarged while we have nice fat deficit on hand and a fatter one staring us in the face
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-11-19

Brighten some one elsa,S Eeo,, Deacon Rockefeller. And do not fo,ao. auVlses the good deacon s kerosene when do;s1 se' to use
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-11-19

The Silver Belt has larger paid cir culation than any daily newspaper in the world published in a city with 12,OOO or less population.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-11-19

''The speaker talks through his hat" ob- serves MT. Herbert Parsons. uriously enough, too, "Uncle Joe' invariably wears a soft hat
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-11-19

That 10 per cent advance in the price of cham pagne will not disturb in the least the fellow, or fellowess, who guzzes the bubbles.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-11-19

We sometimes think it might be a good thing if Mr. Rockefeller would put up million or so for the extermination of the mothballs.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-11-19

The house of lords seems utterly unable to understand that it is loaded-the English polit- cal situation, we mean, of course not the lords
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-11-19

"A pessimist may knock,' says Poet John Wells in the Buffalo News. A pessimst will knock even in spite of the poets
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-11-19

>SAosE.AaL
 The Silver Belt has larger paid Cir culation than any daily newspaper Tn the world published in city with lZ,VuO or less population.
 The best boost of heaven we have seen ln many day was a recent statement that there is no politics there.
 BalIinger, Pnchot; Pinchot Balhnger! And the administration could be happy with either, were t'other dear eharmer away!
 'There is no understanding woman," says the Milwaukee Sentinel. Of course not; but that will not stop the guessing.
 A Missouri minister thinks Eve should revive the old-fashioned twohour sermon" We fear this is one proposed religious revival that IS not going to take like Wildfre.
 "Another model cashier has run away with thecash," quotes the South Bend Tribune Still, that is not an argument against being model cashier
 Trust your Uncle Sam to make hay while the
 
 while we have a nice fat deficit on hand and a fatter one staring us in the face,
 After reading of the wonders to be performed by Madam Blooms Bloom of Perpetual Youth, we cease to wonder what has become of that dear old parsonage known as grandma"
 An English astronomer says those white streaks on the moon are immense salt deposits. This should keep the man in the moon from get ting too fresh with sweethearts now-and then.
 The Tucson Star holds that ''streets were de- signed for trade and traffic. If all reports be true the Star should have posted notices for the edifcatiOn of the pensve Tucson bovine: "Keep off the grass"
 Now that MT. Peary has definitely rejected the idea of south polar expedition, those English explorers may proceed with visions of knight hoods and peerages ahead devoid of all Ananias club trimmings
 The Fl Paso Herald is of the opinion that the appointment of Judge Edward A. Mann for governor of New Mexico would be popular in that territory. To say the least man would be filling the office
 St. Louis girl recently wed foreign per son of alleged noble extraction, only to find that he was fraud. Near-poetic justice would sug gest the hope that the lady's dowry was made up of stage money entirely.
 Oh, listen! Somebody now comes forward and declares that "Dr. Cooks complexion indi cates that he never reached the North Pole' What IS the matter with turning the North Pole TOW over to the Miss Nances, anyway?
 The Phoenix Democrat is of the opinion that former Governor Kibbey will cut ice politically after Arizona has been granted statehood. Af- ter passing through period of frigid chilliness the former executive should be acclimated for the work And there is nothing strange about the cas alter all. The unfortunate fellow recently 'Dlew m" from Douglas. The International says: Globe has strange case of haIlucination m an overworked draughtsman who believesi that he has been dead for some time and is onIv on earth in spirit form.'' All needed i'll Globe. The Pboenix Gazot+o says: ''The El Paso Herald makes editorial note of the fact that Phoenix laid $50 OOO worth oa cement sidewalks in two months. An ;tan, ot prosperity and improvement like that ot+rao4a attention away from home Good sidewalko .ro H .l,y,A
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-01-24
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slash of knife in Kamchatkan brawl. "The medi-
cine is not good The cutting edge stronger than
the medicine"
1T strong man that drove the stroke" Su-
bienkow considered. Stronger than you stronger
than your strongest hunter stronger than he Again
with the toe of his moccasin he touched the Cossack
who moaning and slubbering from feat
ureess face, grisly spectacle longer conscious,
yet in whose dismembered body the pain racked life
chung and was loath to go. also, the medicine was
weak. For at that place there berries of a
certain kind, of which / you have plenty in this
country. The medicine here will be strong"
Il will let you go down river" said Makamuk,
land the sled and the dogs and the six hunters to give
you safety shall be yours"
"You are slow" was the cool rejonder "You
have committed an offense against my medicine In
that you did not at accept my terms. Behold,
demand more I want one hundred beaver
skins" (Makamuk snecred.) II want one hundred
pounds of dried 6sh." (Maksmuk nodded for fish
plentiful and cheap.) 81 want two sleds, one
for me and for my furs and fish. And my rife
be returned me. If you do not like the price,
in little while the price will grow"
Yakaga whispered to the chief
'.But how can know your medicine is true med-
cine?" Makamuk asked
at is very easy. First, I shall go into the
Again Yakaga whispered to Makamuk, who made
suspicious dissent.
you can send twenty hunters with me-" Subien-
kow went on. "You see, must get the berries and
the roots with which to make the medicine. Then,
when you have brought the two seds and Loaded on
them the fish and the beaver skins and the rife, and
when you have told off the six hunters who will go
with methen. when all is ready, will rub the med-
cine on my neck, so. and lay my neck there on that
log Then can your strongest hunter take the ak
and strike three times my neck You yourself can
strike the three times"
Makannuk stood with gaping mouth, drinking in
this latest and most wonderful devltry of the fur
thieves.
"But first" the Pole added, hastily, "after each
blow must put fresh medicine. The axe is heavy
and sharp, and want no mistakes"
"All that you have asked shall be yours" Maka-
muk cried in rush of acceptance. Proceed to make
xeux medicine"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-01-24

they were brought back and spreadeaged before the
fort where they and their tribe learned the efficacy
of the knout Two died under it, Others were injured
for fe and the took the lesson heart and
away no more. The was flying the fort was
finished, and then it time for furs. A heavy
tribute was laid upon the tribe. Blows and lashngs
continued and that the tribute should be paid the
and children were held as hostages and
treated with the barbarty that only the fur thieves
knew.
Well, it had been sowing of blood, and now
come the harvest. The fort was gone. In the light
of its burning half the fur thieves had been down
The other half had passed under the torture. Only
Subienkow remained, Subienkow and Big Ivan, if
that whimpering moaning thing in the could be
called Big Ivan. Subienkow caught Yakaga grnning
at him There was gansaHng Yakaga The mark
of the lash still his face. After ALL Subienkow
could not blame him. but he disliked the thought of
what Yakaga would do to him. He thought of ap-
peang TO Makamuk, the head chief but his judgment
told him that such appeal was useless Then, too,
ne thought of bursting his bonds and dying fighting
Such an end would be quick But he could not break
his bonds. Caribou thongs were stronger than he
Still dcvising another thought came to him. He
signed for Makamuk and that interpreter who
knew the coast dialect should be brought
Oh, Makamuk," he said, II am not minded to die.
| am great man, and it were foolishness for to
die In truth, shall not die not like these
other carbon he looked at the thing that had
been Big Ivan and stirred contemptuousy with his
toe-"l Sam. too wise to die Behold have great
medicine alone know this medicine Since am
not going to die, shall exchange this medicine with
you"
What is this mediciner Makamuk demanded.
1T is a strange medicine" Subienkow debated
with himself for moment as If loath to part with
the secret Il will tell you little bit of this med
cine rubbed on the skin makes the skin hard like
rock, hard like iron, SO that cutting weapon can
cut it The strongest blow of cutting weapon is q
vain thing against it bone knife becomes like q
piece Of mud and it will the edge of the iron
knives we have brought among you. What will you
give me for the secret of the medicine"
Il will give you your life" Makamuk made answer
through the Interpreters.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-01-24

the bloody virtues of the sea rovers gunpowder
South south they had coasted, clear to the mythand
of California Here 1t was said were Spanish adven-
turers who had fought their way up from Mexico
He had had hopes of those Spanish adventures. Es
Gaping to them. the rest would have been easy-a
year or more-what did ii matter more or less?-and
he would win to Mexico; then a ship, and Europe
would be his But they had met no Spaniards Only
had they encountered the same impregnable wall of
savagery The denizens of the confines of the world
painted for war, had driven them back from the
shores. At last, when boat off and every
man killed. the commander had abandoned the quest
and sailed back to the north.
The years had passed In 1883 he had served
under Tebenof when Michaeovski redoubt was built
He had spent two years in the Kuskokwin country.
Two summers in the month of June, he had managed
to be at the head of Kotzebue sound Here at this
time, the tribes assembled for barter Here were to
be found spotted deerskins from Siberia, ivory from
the Diomedes walrus skins from the shores of the
Arctic, strange stone lamps, passing in trade from
tribe to tribe, no knew whence and once hunt
ing knife of English make; and here, Subienkow
knew, was the school in which to learn geography
For he met Eskimos from Norton sound from King
island and St Lawrence island, from Cape Prince of
Wales and Point Barrow. Such places had other
names, and their distances were measured in sleeps
1t region these trading savages came
from, and vaster region from which, by repeated
trades that these stone lamps and that steel knife
had come. Subienkow bullied, and cajoled, and
bribcd. Every far journeyer or strange tribesman
brought before him. Perils uncountable and un-
thinkable mentioned, we'll wild beasts, hos
tile tribes, impenetrable forests and mighty mountain
ranges. But always from beyond came the rumor and
the tale of white skinned men, blue of eye and fair
of hair who fought like devils and who sought always
for furs. They to the eastfar, far to the
No one had them. 1t was the word that had
been passed along
1t was hard school One could not learn geog-
raphy very well through the medium of strange dia-
lects--from dark minds that mingled fact and fable
and that measured distances by sleeps that varied
according to the difficulty of the going But at last
came the whisper that gave Subienkow courage In
the east lay great river where these blue eyed
men. The river was called the Yukon. South of
Michaelovsh redoubt empticd another great river
which the Russians knew the Kwikpak. Then
arose Maakof the Russian halfbreed, to lead the
widest and most ferocous of the hePs broth of mon
grel Adventures who had crossed from Kamchatka.
Subienkow his lieutenant. They threaded the
mazes of the great delta Of the Kwikpsk, picked up