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Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-03-11
falls from either running off or avapor

falls from either running off or avapor- ating.
 A man named II. w. Campbell, who now lives at Lincoln, Nob., has been preaching it to the west for years. He had tho supreme nerve fifteen years ago to tell the farmers who were burned out by the drouth that it was their own faultr
 There was plenty of rain, he said, but it ran of the hard baked fields, and evaporated from the crusted earth and did the crops no good. If it had been 2,oo0 years ago they would have stoned him. But he went on. No founder of superstition ever worked harder for proselytes than did Campbell for believ- CTS in his sane and simple religion of making crops grow where nothing grew before.
 He taught them how to blow deep, pack the bottom of the furrow slice, and leave the top loose. This let the rain soak in easily, instead of running of, and the loose mulch cut the nlois- ture of from the wind and sun, and kept it from evaporating. Then he showed them how to harrow it whenever 1t got crusted on the top, and save rain from season to season, so that even with the dry years, the ground kept getting moister year by year.
 Nobody paid him to do it except by subscribing for the various papers he founded, and by asking him to lecture sometimes, and purchasing the cheap manuals he wrote and sold It never amounted to much. Any successful ward heeler in any big city can make more money in year than Campbell can in ten.
 But the feeling that truth must be told makes the telling of it its own re- ward. The recent dry farming congress is proof that the Campbell method has wen. And the world will profit by the
 knowledge that by proper tillage lit- tie rain can be made to go long way. South Africa, Western Canada, the Si- berian steppes, Australia, and arid South America, will learn how to utilize their scanty rainfall, and the growing population of the world will be fed.
 The waste of rain is one of the most ruinors of wastes.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-03-11
REFORM IN HOUSE RULES
How Great Deliberative Body May be
 Rehabilitated

! From q speech in the house of repre-
 sentatives by David J. Foster of Vt
 Let ne call the attention of the com
 mittees to two important changes in the rules which, in my judgment, are neces
 sary in order to enable the house tc have and to maintain firm grasp upon
 all pending legislation. In the frs, place, we need greater facility for se curing consideration of the bills favor. ably reported by the various commit. tees and placed upon the house and the union calendars. In order to make ii possible to secure consideration for every bill on these calendars which a majority of the house desire to consid- CT, would have what should be known as Calendar Wednesday, I would provide by change in the rules that on each Wednesday of the session no business should be in order except the consideration of bills on these two cal endars under call of the committees of the house, unless the house, at the time determined otherwise by a major ity vote upon the question. Shall this order be suspended for this day?'' In this connection, would restore it's privileged character to the motion to recess.
 Then, if at the hour of adjournment on any calendar Wednesday the house had come to no resolution respecting the bill under consideration, it would be in order to move to take a recess until the following day. It would thus be possible for majority of the house, if they so desired, to continue any calen- dar Wednesday as long as there re- mained on either calendar any bills which they wished to consider. When these changes are made, the house and union calendars will cease to be the graveyards of so many important mea- sures; the house will have that complete control over bills favorably reported which 1t ought at all times to exercise; and the committee on rules, except in rare cases, would be put out of busi- ness This, too, would do away very largely with legislation by unanimous consent and under suspension of the rules. Both of these methods, as has been frequently pointed out, are ex- tremely undesirable, except in the case of bills of a purely local character and of less importance.
 With these notifications in the rules. the house would still lack that grasp upon bills of public nature pending in the various committees which it. ought at all times to have. Today the committees of the house are it's masters and not its servants. It not infrequent. ly happens that committee to which an important measure is referred ne glects or refuses to report the bill either favorably or unfavorably To be sure in the great majority of cases where favorable report cannot be had, an ad- verse report is not desired. But have known instances during my service in the house where committees have arro gated to themselves the right to say
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-03-11
WISE OWL. FOOLISH CROWD

WISE OWL. FOOLISH CROWD
 A little brown screech owl uost its way in the fog from the small timber of New Jersey into the heart of New York city. Skyscrapers did not appeal to the bird as suitable for perches, so it cir cled around until it's peaked eyes fell upon a small tree in City Hall park, the center of the great metropolis.
 A tired messenger boy, passing under the tree on the following morning, saw the bird and stopped to feast his eyes upon the strange sight. Two other boys, attracted by the interested gaze of the first, also stopped to look and wonder. Seventeen other boys and men and women quickly joined the group, and in ten minutes hundreds of people formed in swaying, babbling throng under the tree, all interest upon the little owl, that only blinked in mild unconcern. The crowd of curious peo- pie grew to such large proportions that the police were called out to keep the streets and sidewalks clear.
 Now, there was a great deal of laugh. ter and talk among the people who formed this throng. The sight of the bird in the tree was amusing to proyin- cial New Workers who had never before seen screech owl But the talk was all about how the bird might be cap tured. One man suggested that mouse be found, and with a string, be baited to catch the unoffensive bird. A police man said net, attached to long pole, might bring the little fellow down. A boy who had seen one of William F Cody's nine-sheet posters was for using lariat.
 While these sinister plans were mak- ing, the solemn, moping bird, became annoyed by the molestation of "her an. cient solitary reign" spread her wings and flew back to the woods.
 And the crowd of New Workers cheered, cheered three times; cheered like mad, and then dispersed.
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 Not lcng ago girl was found half dead from starvation in Madison Square park, another populous New York cen ter Thousands of people during that day had passed within few feet of the dying girl, and no one had noticed her. She was not beautiful girl, and she did not wear bright silks or gay feathers. She looked like any ordinary plainly dressed girl, with face p.nched by privation and worry. She is a con- mon sight, and New Workers who gaze in wonder at screech owl turn their heads from common sights. Thousands passed her by though she was dying. l and no one but policeman found any interest in her
 Why did the crowd cheer the bird? We may draw our own conclusions. Its action in flying back to the woods and away from the gay" thoughtless city was certainly praiseworthy. It would be unfortunate indeed, for creature. lsed to the freedom of the woods. fa- niiiar with air not contaminated by foul ;ity smells, to be held captive in New York And it would be sad fate for ! nice little owl like that be held n the society of human birds, who will sacrifice the happiness or freedom of al- most any kind of creature to be unused.
 Indeed, there is plenty in New York Q fly away from. New Workers, under
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-03-11
THE SIN OF WASTING RAIN

A new religion has grown up in tho west. Its devotees are sworn to the prac. tice of saving rain.
 You think this is a joke? Well if you do, just read the proceedings of the National Dry Farming congress that recently completed its deliberations at Cheyenne, Wyo. It was a fine meeting. It was devoted, not to war or conquest or any of the usual modes of enlargine boundaries, and yet, if the new religion of moisture conservation once wins full acceptance from the farmers of the ra- ton, 1t may give us two acres of tiled land where we now have one.
 West of the Missouri riyer-far elough west-there begins the old short grass" range where first the buf- falo, and then the herds of the cattle barons, lived on the herbage cured on the ground in the dry summers. It is line range land, but the pressure for farms, coupled with the recurrence of rainy pertous, draws the farmers out on the plains, and they have broken the range up, and are determined to mako farms of it.
 But those dry summers that used to cure the grass as it stood-they are likely to recur and make farming pre- carious, Yes; but here the dry farming comes in and brings hope to all the semi-arid west. And dry-farming is nothing bSt the saving of the rain that
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-03-11

Tn recent state papers, MT. Roosevelt has been spelling through "t-h-r-o-u-g-h," and not "t-h-r-u,' as was his erstwhile custom. If the mter- rifled siInpEfed spoilers had known this latest treason lurked in his soul, doubt. less the late November returns would have told a somewhat different story.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-03-11
Shifting Slugs

AN ECHO OF THE HOMECOMING
 Uncle Jake (on board battleshp' An what in tn name O creation dc ye call this thing? Natty Midshipman-rhis is the con ming tower. Uncle Jake (glancing at him suspi ciously-By heck, do believe it is
 A BIT OF ART GOSSIP
 '.I hear that young Smear is working on a new canvas
 that will sell 1T think he will this time; he s work ing in an overall factory" A word from Josh Wise: 'This talk of snowstorms sweeping the country makes me tired. After snow storm we always have to do the sweeping" a**
 The directoire is doomed, say the fashion -platers. No matter. They were always a little unhandy when one was doing the weeks washing, anyhow.
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 Did you ever see woman who closed the door of street car as she went out, unless the weather was warm?
 One Chicago lawyer called another one practically grafter.'' He II get good and mad some day and say that he's almost liar, or very nearly 8 horsethief. He-Wonder why it is they always speak of the "blushing bride7''
 she-Nothing very remarkable about it, considering the kind of men most women marry.-Illustrated Bits.
 ''Your delineation of the part of a man under fire is marvellous declared the manager. II don't see how you do the thing so naturally.''
 We'll replied Hamdodo J. Banter, "you see on our recent Western tour, if a tableau or climax was good, the audience shot to show their apprecia- tion; and if it was bad, they shot to express disapproval. It has become habit. Pluck.
 Have you ever seen Robert Man tell in 'Macbeth?'''
 ''Yes, but really, I don't know much about it. I had just become engaged to the gentleman who took me.
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 J. Pierpont Morgan is wintering in Cairo. Wants to add the pyramids to his museum, eh?
 A RHYME or EDITING PARENTS Dainty Edith Wliffietree Drowned her playmate in the sea. Mamma looked quite grave, and then: Edie, don't do that again! See, my precious little pet, You have got your tootsies wet!''
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 Some California legislators are keen for a law to forbid man from settin 'em up at the bar Tn lot of Southern states folks would be glad even to buy for themselves.
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 Some forty-seven Americans are ex- pert aeronauts, according to recent fig ures. That doesn't count in everybody who's ever gone up in the air. Gracious, no.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-03-11

According to Miss Ida Tarbell, the tariff on hides adds SSo,Oo00O0 a year to the American shoe bills says the Richmond Times Dispatch. This coup. led with the abolition of railroad free passes, surely should cause congress to sit up and take notice.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-03-11

It seems that all the guns employed in the Carmack tragedy were borrowed by the users. However, the borrowed wea- pon appears to be quite as destructive as any other kind.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-03-11

MT. Roosevelt is going to lecture, y begins the Augusta Chronicle. No, he is not; he is going to shoot lions, and tigers, and things.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-03-11

There are others in this world be. sides Mir. Champ Clark and his immedi. ate colleagues who are sufficiently from Missouri to want to be shown what is what in the matter of the forthcoming successful revolt against MT. Cannon forecasted in a current magazine.