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Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-05
INDICATIVE sTRAws

A careful contemplation of the cur rent news discloses some interesting and highly satisfactory facts, if a statis- tician who dabbles in such things is to be believed
 He finds that the homicides, accidents, and casualties of various kinds offtimes incident to Christmas showed 6 marked falling of this year as compared with the past five. He argues that this has resulted from a more temperate use of ardent spirits by people in general throughout the country and a more marked display of common sense in the matter of Christmas celebrations, es- pecially as it relates to Christmas trees, illuminations, fireworks, &c. He thinks, too, though of this he is not so sure, that the wave of economy accompanying the more or less hard times of recent months was an indirect but powerful factor contributing largely to the final outcome.
 This is interesting, and when coupled with further announcements from other quarters that the comic supplements are on the wane and souvenir postal cards playing out, positively refreshing. It indicates that with all its faults the old year has not been all bad--that, in- deed, 1t might have been very great deal worse. Man is naturally prone to magnify the disagreeable things of life and overlook the good things. We remember the villain who robbed us of dollar longer than we do the friend who helped us out of dificulty or dis tress, we fear. Perhaps we do not when put to sharp test. But, on the sur face we see the evil much more plain ly than the gsod.
 And so it is with the summing up of the year. When we sit down quietly and analyze it, We find an abundance in 1t to commend and be thankful for. That there was less crime at Christmas time than has been the rule heretofore must be gratifying; that there were fewer physical misfortunes is pleasing to know. That comic supplements are passing away indicates our steadily de- veloping good taste. We have much upon which to congratulate ourselves. Who knows but that February IA next may see a reformation in comic valentines and All Fools Day in prac- tcA jokes7
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-05
EvADINa THE LAW.

It is, as has often been observed be- fore. hard matter, indeed, to legis- late morality or bigotry, as you please, into mortal man. He is perverse animal--is man. He likes to have his own way about tNngs, and never more so than when some one in authority says he shah not, mayhap.
 Of course, the law is the law, and 1t ought to be enforced. A distinguished judge has said that the best way to get rid of a bad lay-aud there are, admittedly. we believe, bad laws--is to enforce it to the very ultimate let ter. This, to be sure, does look as if he were advocating the application of homeopathic theory on an allopathic scale; but it may be good remedy, for all that, even though neither here nor there for the purposes of this argument.
 The point that primarily impressed us,. and which we had an idea of dis cussing, however, is mans prediction for evading laws and ordinances he con- sidsrs pestiferous and annoying-wheth- CT he should justly so judge them or no. There, for example, was the Raines law, so called, in New York. It was em- ployed exclusively as a means of evad ing the Sunday laws relating to the sale of liquid refreshments of ardent persuasion. Gothamites with thirst in need of quenching gravely bought sand wiches they never intended to eat-and could not have been bribed to eat-for the sole purpose of getting the fire water one might legally acquire incident thereto, but not otherwise. The law was one large, enthusiastic joke-never was taken seriously, and never would have been, in the nature of things.
 And now comes Portland, Orc, with a new and novel scheme for acquiring supply of cigars on Sunday. It is against the law to sell tobacco on the Sabbath in Portland, but it is not against the law to sell sandwiches. So enterprising cigar dealers in that town have adopted tho "cigar sandwich" which, as you may have guessed is nothing more than two slices of stale bread between which is to be found the after dinner smoke the purchaser craves but may not obtain otherwise.
 We do not care to consider the mer- it's or demerits of this matter just at this point. We merely point to the Portland situation as indicative of a condition supplanting theory. The whole town, it is said, thinks the eva sion of the law good joke--something to be laughed at, not punished. Which may or may not be wildly important, but certainly is matter of more than passing concern.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-05
Reflections of a Bachelor Girl
BY MAUDE MARIE

up hnt-the hill matrmony awful Jill almony! the pitfalls Wall yellow typewriter
 something inside everybody outside curious and
 
 No pass by without glancing window
 because  chance that 
 beautiful painting will look just like wife that will Ike a ,f f , that he musnt make love youhat is r begin a
 
 to be fascinating money will do the talking
 second time from the bottle n again girl
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-05
PERSONNEL 0F COMING
 ARIZONA LEGISLATURE

Council Apache-S.. E. Day, R. Mohave-Keen St. Cha les, D. Coconino-Fred s. Breen, R. Yavapai--M. G. Burns, D. Navajo-William Morgan, D. Maricopa--Eugene Brady O'Neill, D. Pinal--Thomas F. Weedin, D. Yuma-George w. Norton, D. Gila--G. w. P. Hunt, D. Graham-John R. Hampton, D. Cochisce-Ben Goodrich, D. Pima.Santa Cruz--James B. Finley, D.
 Assembly Mohave-S. W. Tobey, D. Navajo--Joseph Peterson, D. Yuma-R. A. Highwater, D. Gila--John Mccormick, D. Pinal--G. l.. Shaw, R; A. R. Coleman, D.
 Graham-w. W. Pace, D.; Phil Mer. Till, D.
 Santa Cruz-Frank J. Duff, D. Maricopa--S. T. Webb, D.; F ank De Scuza, D.; J. W. Woolf, D.; J. c. Reed, R.
 Pima-John Doan, R.; Kirl Moore, R.; W. J. Haywood, D. Yavapai-G. A. Bray, R; Perry Hall, D.; George D. Morris, D. Cochise--Fred A. Sutter, D.; Oscar W. Roberts, D.; Neil E. Bailey, D. Apache-J. s. Gibbons, D. Coconino-T. J. Coulter,R.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-05

The Fl Paso Herald's annual edition was ono of the finest works of the kind ever issued in the southwest. It was well written and attractively illustrated It is an edition which will bring profit to the entire southwest and reflects great credit on the publishers. It should have wide circulation.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-05

The republic of Panama is preparing for a worlds fair in 1915. No matter how small and inconsequential . nation may be it is never so far down the scale that it can't indulge in one of those things somewhere along the line.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-05

The poor, downtrodden colored broth CT seems to have found one field of en- deavor at least where advancement is not begruged him. The laity in general seems perfectly willing for him to win the pugilistc champonship.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-05

''The less woman has in her head, the more she puts on it. says the Bluff City, Tenn, Developer. And ths more a man talks after that fashion, the less the chances are he is married
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-05

Perhaps we should not be too gay with that English paper which referred to the vice-president elect as "Mr. James s. Palmer" Ten years from now if some one asks you who was vice-pres- ident in 1910 you will be doing pretty well to come that near to the correct reply, we suspect.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-05

A New York genius has invented an automobile for the blind. Still, we have no idea they will be more terrifying than some of the other kinds now in op- eration.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-05

''Three Sundays and three Mondays in niue days" exclaims the Norfolk Land mark, apropos of something not quite clear. However it win be voted good scheme by everybody whose pay days come on Mondays.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-05

A pig game hunter says the president will encounter no elephants along his proposed hunting route. From this we infer that elephants are not nearly so curious as people.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-05

We regret to note that young man was cut into ribbons at . recent Christ mas dance at Lovelady, Texas. Neither very lovely, or ladylike, was it?
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-05

What the common people of this land want right now is chance to buy eggs at price that permits few fried along with the breakfast bacon these crisp mornings.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-05

The cruel part of 1t is that years from now some heartless iconoclast will come along and prove that those Pittsburg councilmen who spurned the money were mere myths.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-05

Chancellt.. Day has been talking again and will not Do comforted. Plainly enough that man is determined to wear the grouch that won't como oil.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-05

6We have found o'it something else about that St. Louis man named Gmel- ich. He wants to 'oe lieutenant gover- nor of GnissouSi
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-05

Leave tho one-cent piece alone. It is the most artistic coin we have." says the Cleveland Leader. And yet we are told that familiarity breeds contempt.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-05

There may be luck in odd numbers. But as regards tho spelling of their names it im't probable that either MT. Taft CT Mr. Bryan believes it.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-05
THE PRESIDENT AND THE LABOR
 Nt CASES


 It was foregone conclusion that President Roosevelt could not interfere in the contempt cases wherein Messrs. Gompers and others were sentenced to Imprisonment. Executive intervention under the circumstances would have been open to misinterpretation, even if it were not precipitate. As the cases stand, no injury is done the defendants by executive inaction, for they have been appealed and the defendants mean while enjoy freedom under bail. Read ing between the lines, MT. Roosevelt's temperate statement indicates some sympathy with the widely expressed opinion that the sentences imposed were too sever, and that if the ceses were &C., tually and properly before him, he would feel 1t his duty to commute the penalties. The question has now been raised whether the president has any authority to exercise clemency in cases of contempt. It is pointed out that if the president has such authority, his exercise of it would destroy the inde- pendence of the judiciary. Story in his work on the Constitution discusses the point whether the executive could par. don those punished for contempt of the legislative branch, and reaches neg ative conclusion. His reasoning seems aplicable also to cases of contempt of court:
 '.It would seem to result from
 the principle on which the power of
 each branch of the legislature to punish for contempt is founded that
 the executive authority cannot in-
 terpose between them and the of-
 fender. The main object is to se-
 cure purity, independence, and
 ability of the legislature adequate
 to the discharge of all their duties.
 If they can be overawed by force
 or corrupted by largesses or inter-
 rupted in their proceedings by vio-
 lence without the means of selfspro-
 tection. it is obvious that they will
 soon be found incapable of legislat-
 ing with wisdom or independence.
 If the executive should possess the
 power of pardoning any such offend
 CT, they would be wholly dependent
 upon his good will and pleasure for
 the exercise of their won powers.
 Thus in effect the rights of the peo-
 pie intrusted to them would be
 placed in perpetual jeopardy. The
 Constitution is silent in respect to
 the right of granting pardons in
 such cases, as 1t is in respect to the
 jurisdiction to punish for contempts.
 The latter arises by implication,
 and to make it etfectual the former
 is excluded by implication.
 It is an interesting question that can be viewed from several different angles. Fortunately it is not immediately per tinent, as the president purposes await ing final adjudication of the cases, which may not occur during his term of ofice. Meantime it is worthy of nots that union men are coming around to the view that the law should be obeyed, no matter how obnoxious, and that the proper mode of obtaining relief from it's operation is to secure legislation modi- flying it. That is a conclusion as sensi- bic as 1t is likely to be productive of an approving public opinion.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-05

Some people seem to believe that 1t is more blessed to give than to receive only in thu matter of sage advice.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-05

MT. Roosevelt never has said, how ever, that his spear does not know MT. Taft's alf-brother.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-05

The German people have merely hand cd Emperor William sort of reign check, as 1t were.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-05
What shs Said.

Bobbie-That Mrs. Castieton said son ething nice about you.
 Mrs, von Runner tpurring,- What was 1t. Robbie?
 .'she said you didn't show your age.- New York Life.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-05
Poor MsnIi

IL was wild, despairing cry Which echoed through the duh re-
 sort. i. at Ii startled all who ioitered nigh. But all their thrills. alas. were shors. For. though it broke the Iistiess spell 4 moment. it was soon restored. Because too well they know that Veil Man overborcdr'
 -KAasas Casy ransss
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-05
Hot and Cold. Hot and sultry was the day. Co I'vn atpr~ hanp sniA

Hot and sultry was the day. So I've since been told. When proposed to May. Who gave 1t to me cold. The mercury stood at ninety -three. As the mercury often will. But the answer May handed back to me
 Gave me an awful chilL
 Chicago News.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-05

The statement that "Castro is out for good is hard to discount from any stand point,
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-05

FOR RENT-rwo rooms 14x14, house keeping; $15 per month. Phone 1883. Box 13S.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-05

FOR RENf-Largs corral, stable, wag- on shed, hay house, etc. Inquire of Eugene Middleton.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-05

FOR RENT-0ne nicely furnished front
 room, 354 South Hill street.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-05
FOE RENT.

FOR REET-By Globe Real Estate Of fee: large warehouse, Bone and R. R., S40.00; 4room all modern house, East Globe, $50.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-05

in every instance. Count your words, always Found, v. sn,ed, etc, a the case may be, snt VIII know the exact cost, which must accomp, indefinite period will be accepted except from
 WAITED. wANTED-Position in . mine, or as salesman; experienced in real estate business. Address H. M. B. wANfED-Pupils for piano instruc- tion. Graduate Chicago Conservatory of music Address Miss Aillie Hut ter or apply at sl5 Maple avenue. Terms reasonable. wANTED-Cotton rags at che Silver Belt Office.
 WANTED-Experien dtningroom girl at Mountain View Restaurant. wANTED-Colored lady wants work by the day. Mrs. Jones, 42e Euclid street.
 wANrED-A Ne. l COOK wants work. Inquire Bank Exchange cigar stand. Position as bookkeeper or clerk. Three years experience, A No. II references, sober healthy and in dustrious. Address Box "A, Stafford, Ariz wANrED-Any kind of work for a woman. Address W. w., Silver Belt. wANrED-Gi for general housework. Apply sl5 Maple avenue. wANTED-To rent modern four-room house not too far cut. Address s. M. C., Silver Belt office. State full par ticulars.
 WANTED Solicitors for the Border Magazine. Fine premium proposition. F. W. Rolando, Room 6, 636 North Broad street.
 WANTED Cotton rau as the sDvsr Belt Office.
 FOB RENT. FOR RENT-By Globe Real Estate Of fee: l large warehouse, Bone and R. R., S40.00; 4-room all modern house, East Globe, $50. FOR RENf-Largs corral, stable, vag- on shed, hay house, etc. Inquire of Eugene Middleton. FOR RENT-Two rooms 14x14, house keeping; $l5 per month. Phone 1883. Box 13S.
 FOR RENT-One nicely furnished front room, 354 South Hill street. FOR RENf-Forty or more acres of fertile land, ranch seven miles below town; also water in abundance. In. quire at this offiee. FOR RENr-Foug-rosm cottage on Pas COG hill; rent $2o; cheap. Apply Sal vation Army.
 FOR SALE. FOR SALE-Navajs bianxets at Ander- son Candy Co.
 FOR SALE-one hundred hives of bees, with fixtures. Located at Liv- ingstone. Address, W. H. McCor- mick, Miami, Ari2. FOR SALE-Oue hundred hives of bees, with fixtures. Located at Liv- ingstone. Address, W. H. McCor- mick, Miami, Arix. FOR aALENLeeasisn Net1css, 26 esnts dozen at the Silver Belt Office. T0H SAI.1-SDaa sf Dsatas, hArns9 sad buskboard; pIaiss god fer rid. ias aaa driving. hssirs s5s NsrtA Breed. FOR sALE-Fsv thoroughbred Piym- outh Rock eoskerels from prize win sers, perfectly marked and from . strain of fine breeders. For inforns. tion write P. B. wAlksr, Box s2. THyisteu. kYR
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-05

wANTED-To rent modern four-room house not too far cut. Address s. M. C., Silver Belt office. State full par ticulars.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-05

WANTED Solicitors for the Border Magazine. Fine premium proposition. F. w. Rolando, Room 6, 636 North Broad street.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-05

wANTED-Colored lady wants work by the day. Mrs. Jones, 42e Euclid street.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-05

wANTED-Pontion ss bookkeeper or clerk Three years experience, A No. il references, sober healthy and in dustrious. Address Box "A, Safford, Ariz.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-05

FOR RENr-Forty or more acres of fertile, land, ranch seven miles below town; also water in abundance. In. quire at this office.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-05

WANTED Cotton rau as the Silver Belt Office.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-05

FOR RENr-rour-rosm cottage on Pas
 COG hill; rent SEQ; cheap. Apply Sal vation Army.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-05

wANTED-Girl for general housework Apply SIS Maple avenue.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-05

wANrED-A Ne. l COOK wants work
 Inquire Bank Exchange cigar stand
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-05

FOR sAI.1--SDaa sf Dsntss, harnsa sad blackboard; p.aiss ossd fer rid iAg axa driving. hsuirs e5S NsrtA Breea
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-05

PoR sALE-Fsw thoroughbred Piym- outh Rock eoskerels from prize win sers, perfectly marked and from . strain of nne breeders. For inforns. tion write P. B. wA,ksr, Box s2. Tsviatsa, Asi2
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-05
WAITED.

TED-Experienced diningroor girl at Mountain View Restaurant.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1909-12-25

It was during the cold weather that
behring's work atook him one after.
noon to Lakeview to look over the
work Of the Amateur Art club. As he
left the house after finishing his task
dull roar fell on his ear. He started
and listened eagerly-yes, 1t was the
lake. In q moment more his coat-col-
lar was pulled up about his ears, his
nat settled bore firmly over his eyes,
and he was on his way to the shore,
The lake had peculiar fascination
for him. He could never resist it, es-
pecially when 1t was roaring and
laundering like this
A few minutes walk brought him
in sight of the mounting, threatening,
white-capped breakers. His heart
leaped with exultation. The power of
the storm was ON him. He longed to
run. to leap, to wrestle with 1t and
scream himself hoarse against it's
tumult. 1t was like the ocean-that
long stretch of lonely shore as yet
unprotected by the breakwater.
Gradually, as he looked, be became
conscious of something homelike and
protected in the midst of the uproar,
A thread of smoke rose from the chin.
ney of small, rude house, far down
the shore, almost within reach of the
threatening waves that ran up tho
sandy beach. All about the house
boats lay stacked, evidently in winter
quarters; and here and there rem.
nants of fishing-tackle showed the oc.
cupation Of fair weather. The house
was sheathed in rough red boards and
patched with artistic regularity. 1t
was sketch made to hand-a touch
Of nature within arms reach of Chi.
cago.
Helen was filled with enthusiasm
and scoffed at his suggestion of wait.
ing for warmer weather. Half its
charm is in the contrast" she pro
tested. Don't you see?-winter quar-.
ters in the midst of all that tumult.
shall go up this afternoon"
Derring consented unwillingly. He
was obliged to go to Hyde Park for
the day, and 1t was not till four
o'clock that he was free to seek her
on the North Shore.
She was seated near the point from
which he had first seen the house, an
old piece of sail-cloth, fastened be.
tween two stakes, sheltering her from
the wind.
She looked UP when he approached
as casually as IL be had stood there
all the afternoon. II haven't caught
that wind and 1t isn't cold enough
too much blue. isn't there?" she asked,
holding her head back and surveying
her work critically.
Really. aren't you blue with too
much cold?" he responded meekly.
Don't be foolish. am all right"
He had taken of his overcoat and
was fastening It around her shoulders.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1909-12-25

A sudden darling seized Kim. "Win
you not be good, too?" He lifted his
hand to the violet at her throat and
drew it from its place-watching her
face, to obey its lightest wish. She
did not stay him. She stood with her
hands clasped, her figure swaying a
little forward and her eyes following
the flower as he placed it in his coat
In another minute she might have
raised her eyes to his. A door
opened below-a step sounded on the
stair.
you are not angry" he pleaded.
mo" It was half-breathed, half
spoken, hardly audible, but it set his
pulses thrilling. He passed into the
cool night air with new joy in his
heart. She had understood. 1t was to
be, not only comradeship. but love- He
raised his flushed face to the quiet
stars. They stretched away into in.
unite space. But only love could make
life worth the living.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1909-12-25

ooh, you mustn't do that. You'll
take cold. Well, then, If you will
only you must 80 into the house and
get warm. You'll find them highly en-.
PERTAINING, besides being good" she
added. "They made me some hot cot.
fee and the man rugged up this sail.
cloth to keep off the wind. And
there's pair of candlesticks In there
l would give my eyes for. But they're
not for sale. SO you're not to raise
my bid"
II couldn't raise it-if It we're only
glance Of your eyes--let alone the
eyes themselves"
Il hope you didn't come all the way
up here in the cold Just to be funny"
she responded severely. But she did
not vouchsafe him the glance. She
was absorbed in washing out the un.
satisfactory sky for a second trial.
Derring did not go into the house.
He walked rapidly up and down the
beach, watching the angry sky and
the isolated little house. He fancied
that, rs the early twilight settled
down, it stood out more distinctly and
vividly-emphasizing it's individuality
the work Of man against the power
Of darkness.
At last he came and looked over her
shoulder.
Rather better, isn't IT," she asked
complacently without looking up.
you have caught the very demon
of the storm in those clouds"
It was true. She had done what the
water-colorist seldom achieves-suc.
ceeded in washing out her first at
tempt and replacing it with the desir.
ed effect. The thorough wetting of
the paper or touch Of genius had
aided the second attempt, and the
result was a wash-clean and fresh in
color-and in the clouds what Derrins
had called the demon OF the storm.
Come" he said decisively as she
sat putting in the last few touches
lingeringly. "Come. You must stop.
It is too dark. You will be frozen"
She began to collect her sketchinG
materials.
Leave those for me. Go on to the
house and get warm. I'll bring your
traps"
She started obediently towards thu