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Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-03
THE COST OF PANAMA

The revised estimate of the Isthmian canal commission that the total expenditure UMon the Panama waterway will be at least $373 090,000, instead of the original estimate of $250,000,000, has caused some expressions of surprise. It is only reasonable to bear in mind that the original estimate of the cost of the canal was wholly tentative, as was explained at the time. There was no precedent for guidance. Moreover, the first estimate of the cost per cubic yard of eX- cavation took no account of other and incidental expenses. At the outset every other considera- tion was put aside to "make the dirt fiy,'' and thus the lowest possible figure per yard was fixed, without regard to sanitary and political cost.
 All of this initial outburst of energy was eX- pended upon excavation alone Later, when houses and machine shops were being built when Colon and Panama were being cleaned and made otherwise wholesome, and while vel low fever and malaria were being eliminated the ratio of expense to excavation inevitably rose especially during the rainy season. to about twice the initial estimate Again, it has no wbeen made plain that there is about half again as much work to be done as was at first calculated. Moreover, the working day is re- stricted to eight hours and wages have been ad. vanced from 30 to 60 per cent to meet the de. mands of more lucrative and congenial employ ment in the United States. But there will be no thought of halting in the enterprise. There is no suggestion that the ary administration in the canal zone has been other than honest and eff cient With no suspicion of graft, there will probably be no disposition in congress, after ap- propriate discussion of the estimates, to place any handicap upon the prestige of progress in this vast undertaking
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-03
You May We'll Be Proud of
 This City's Stores!

The city's stores are bigger better, more interesting this month than ever before in the city's history.
 Never before were so'many of life's needed things offered for sale in this cty-never be- fore were the offerings more 'tempting."
 The stores bring to our doors the best things the workers of the world make-the newest ideas-the best efforts of the makers of useful things to assure creature-comfort in the home, increasing self-respect as to ap- parel, and purer and better food.
 The stores, at this season, carry the city s Christmas cheer on their counters-the gifts that are to cement friendships, to brighten gray lives, to gladden. the children and warm the hearts of the old
 The store ads. are the best and timeliest reading matter to be fOund-for they carry real news for every person who expects to buy a gift even of the smallest kind, during these gift-giving days.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-03
EMBARRASSING LEGAL TRIUMPH

1t may be somewhat confusing to the ordinary citizen to hear that right upon the heels of the most significant legal triumph yet won by the government under the Sherman antitrust law there should be serious talk even in government circles, of weakening that law by amendment II the law IS strong enough and sufficient to dis solve the most puissant of our trusts he may ask, why is it not just and righteous statute2 Why he may further inquire should the gov ernment abandon the weapon wherewith it has Just slaughtered an industrial Samson!
 The administration, should an attempt be made to secure some modification of the more drastic provisions of the Sherman law. mioht ma these questions, sure to be propounded by the common people, politically embarrassing There has never been any doubt in the minds ot those acquainted with forms of trust or ganlzatlon and their relation to the plain probi- bltlons of the antitrust statute that the govern ment has been for long time in possession of an effective arm of offense against capitaIistic combinations Popular clamor has demanded it's use. Mr. Bryan has always maintained that the Sherman law has not been enforced. If ba were attorney general, declared Senator Bailey several times during the last session of con gress he could put every trust out of existence
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-03
USES OF THE POLE

The question is often asked, Of what ad- vantage is the location of the North Polea Pro lessor Winslow Upton, of Brown university, es- says an answer He says that several sciences are waiting for the data thefe obtainable The geoghapher is directly interested So is the meteorologist, and the geologist, too, needs the knowledge that will be brought to light by this achievement. Were our acquaintance with that isolated region to end with the few facts that have been brought back to us, perhaps it would not amount to much, but Unexpected to see ob- servation stations established throughout that great lonely expanse by which all the physical science would be benefited Thus, apparently the discovery will be barren achievement un- less it is followed up
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-03
A RAILWAY HERO

A brakeman on the Grand Northern railway, Charles Deyo, lies in hospital at Spokane af- ter an act of heroism He crawled with broken hlp and useless arm across 100 yards of frozen ground and up an embankment to an open switch at Dryden one dark night, and closed the switch Just Tn tune to save that roads crack passenger train from derailinent. Deyo was rear brake man on freight train that took the siding at Dryden to make way for the limited. The freight came on the siding at high speed, so that Deyo, as he dropped off the caboose steps, jumped into an unlighted "ground switch" and fell so that he broke his hip ard greatly injured one arm Although suffering intensely, he realized what 1t meant to leave the switch open, and pain fully dragged himself where the switch light showed red With his last strength he managed to turn the switch so that the green light appear ed and then fell fanting just as he heard the whistle of the express There the trainmen found him unconscious. Perhaps he will receive a Carnegie medal
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-03

practically settled by the dominant party in fa- vor of permission as against repression.
 And yet, in view of the striking evidence now before the country that even the most carefully organized trust is not proof against federal in- junction, may it not be just bit difficult, po- litically speaking, to assert that law under which the Standard Oil company has been forced to bite the dust is too drastic!
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-03

Some one in Missouri sent Mir. Taft white 'possum for his Thanksgiving day dinner, but the president turned it over to the Zoo It would be interesting to know whether Senator Stone had anything to do with that gift
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-03

A Chicago man claims to have discovered a nonintoxicating whisky. His records, instru- ments, Eskimos, and lecturing ability all will need to be o. K. d if he expects to make peo- pie believe it.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-03

Send packages two weeks ahead, marked Not to be opened until Christmas. !" Especial. ly II you are anxious that the recipient shall know two weeks in advance of Christmas just what is in the package
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-03

Mir. Walter WeIlman has been so conspicuous y silent as concerns the North Pole controversy that we are finding it difficult to resist wonder ing what he really thinks of it, anyway
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-03

They (the women) are pretty successful just now in keeping the men on the run" says the Atlanta Georgian There is fine sample of southern chivaIry for you.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-03

Naturally enough the picture of the lady is on the reply portion of the new postal card, '' says the Springfield Union. Also on the post script side of the reply portion
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-03

Perhaps 1t was really the many friends of MT. Joseph c. Cannon" that invited him to ac- cept the presidency. "The many friends, are generally very kind-hearted about matters of that sort
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-03

Mime. Tetrazzini is somewhat fretted, it is sad, by certain statements concerning her al- legged limited repertoire" She declines to be considered the female ''Uncle Joe" of the op- cratic stage.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-03

"'Unicinara duodnais' is the scientific name of the hookwOrm,' '' explains the Augusta Her ad The object of $1 100000 conspiracy is de serving of real fancy name.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-03
"Uncle Joe' on The Insurgents

cuSuldTly, tHe cTltlcS WHO lnSlSte0'tndt the tariff should be further lowered are the same critics who are dissatisfied because we have not gone faster and farther and appropriated more money.
 Senators La Toilette and Bristow and the other insurgents voted to increase the duty on barley and barley malt, for the reason that their constituents produce barley
 In other words, these gentlemen, who call themselves insurgents, {" voted with the re- pubiicans on schedules that protected the products of their constituents, and with the democrats on schedules that protected the products of other sections of the country.
 
 Senator Cummins complains that I have read him out of the republican party. Other sensitive gentlemen made the same complaint against President Taft. The senator does me too much honor. l have not the authority to read any man out, nor have I the disposition.
 In the past men who found themselves in the minority in their own party and too much committed to their ideas to accept the will of the majority, read themselves out of the par ties to which they had formerly belonged. That was their right, and is the right of ev cry man today.
 It is Senator Cummins right and Senator La Follette's right; but manly men of all political views have in the past exercised that right openly, and have not gone about in gar ments of martyrdom because they were not allowed to control the majority.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-03

That Kansas girl who recently wed the human ostrict' in side show already says she IS sorry of 1t. l" The mean thing kicked on her leaden biscuits, just as we predicted of course
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-03

That St. Louis girl who thought she was mar rying a count only to find that he was a cook probably would have considerable trouble figur ing out what she really lost, however.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-03

MT. Longworth declines to talk" says a headline in one Ohio contemporary. "Mr Long worth says nothing," says another headline. They do not necessarily mean the same thing, however.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-03

"The growth of the anti-Cannon feeling needs no stimulus" '" notes the Baltimore Sun. The anti Cannon feeling seems to be much more convincing than the anti Cannon reaching.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-03

Margaret Illington's present husband is a millionaire, and may decline to wear alarmed socks Poor Margaret! There being no socks to darn, doubtless she will have to spend her time eating bonbons
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-03

lady III western insane asylum declares that she IS not insane, offering as proof the fact that she understands everything Browning ever wrote That defense might go in Boston, but not Tn the wild and woody west we fear.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-03

"A woman admits that she once left her hus- band and eloped with ghost, :" says the Detroit Free Press. You never can tell just which way the spirit will move a woman, of course.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-03
By and by, nevertheless, Mr. Bryan surely will reach the ultimate issue

This is positively Zeaya's farewell appear ance Guaranteed by the government" Uncle Sans"
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-03

| Sul-SNlnS udNS.
 By and by, nevertheless Mr. Bryan surely will reach the ultimate issue
 This is positively Zelaya's farewell appear ance. Guaranteed by the government-'' Uncle Sam's.'
 That St. Louis girl who thought she was mar rying count only to find that he was cook probably would have considerable trouble figur- ing out what she really lost, however.
 Naturally enough, the picture of the lady is on the reply portion of the new postal card, '' says the Springfield Union. Also on the post script side of the reply portion
 ." "'Unicinara duOdnais' is the scientific name of the hookwOrm," explains the Augusta Her aid. The object of $1O000OO conspiracy is de- serving of a real fancy name.
 
 'The growth of the anti-C Cannon feeling needs no stimulus" <" notes the Baltimore Sun. The anti-C Cannon feeling seems to be much more convincing than the anti Cannon reaching.
 h "OlndH duIHlCS that Slle once lett her hlS- band and eloped with ghost, '' says the Detroit Free Press. You never can tell just which way the spirit will move a woman, of course.
 Mir. LOngwOrth declines to talk,n says q headline in one Ohio contemporary "Mr. Long worth says nothing" says another headline, They do not necessarily mean the same thing, however. -..
 Mme Tetrazzini is somewhat fretted it is sad, by certain statements concerning her al- legged limited repertoire She declines to be considered the female ''Uncle Joe" of the op- cratic stage.
 Margaret lllington's present husband is q millionaire, and may decline to wear alarmed socks. Poor Margaret There being no socks to darn, doubtless she will have to spend her time eating bonbons.
 Send packages two weeks ahead, marked Not to be opened until Christmas. v Especial. " II you are anxious that the recipient shall know two weeks in advance of Christmas inst what IS in the package.
 A lady in a western insane asvlum declares that she IS not insane, offering as proof the fact that she understands everything Browning eyer wrote That defense might go in Boston hnt not in the wild and woody west, we fear.
The Jasper news., 1909-04-01
Dame Rumor Says Ethel Is Retrothed

or will wait four years upon the
chance OF becoming white house
BRIDE
While no announcement has been
made of the engagement, 1t is under
stood that there is cordial under.
standing between the two young peo-
pie and that Miss Rooseyelts age is
the only Interference to an early
marriage.
Mr. Phillips, the lucky man, is per-
soma grata with the family of his in
tended bride. He is one of the young
est men who ever held a position of
such responsibility. He belongs to
one of the oldest families CT Masss.
chusetts, family which has figured
in the history OF the state and country
since the earliest times. He was ap,
pointed third assistant secretary OF
state Dec. 8, 1906.
The Jasper news., 1909-04-01
Love Brings Husband to Wife's Faith

without waiting for the death of their
respective parents, which will boost
the family bank account up to pretty
nearly $1Oo,0o0,0OO.
The Walsh, Mclean engagement had
been announced, the respective papas
had given their consent, the date had
been announced and the brides father
had announced his intention to expend
$4,000 in the laudable purpose Of
making his daughters nuptials the
most torrid and lavish stunt In the rec
ords of-western society. At the last
moment. however, the young pair
smashed the arrangements aud Incl,
dentally saved the Walsh cash by tax.
ing matters into their own hands, elop-
Ing with only a chauffeur and group
Of Wallets and maids in the party, and
getting married as quietly as possible.
Then Tom" Walsh and the renders OF
the newspapers were taken into the
secret, the BRIDES costume was de,
scribed at length to a regiment of In.
terested correspondent the parental
forgiveness arrived promptly and the
matrimonial expense money was giren
70 charity
i 4 Ell sIH i.
The Jasper news., 1909-04-01
Washington Will Miss the Fairbanks

he has reputation second 10 no other
man in public life.
Mr.. Fairbanks plans for the future
have not been announced. Il is known
among his intimate friends that he
long has been collecting material for
a history of the life and times Of VIII.
liam Mckinley. Doubtless the prep
aration Of this work will consume
much OF his time In private life.
Next to Mark Hanna, Fairbanks was
the counselor OF the Mckinley admin
istration. He was temporary chair.
man of the first convention which
nominated Mckinley in 1895 and to
him, therefore, fell the duty Of making
the keynote" speech. Mckinley ad
vanced Senator Fairbanks In every
possible way, and among other honors
made him the American chairman of
the joint high commission appointed In
1898 to consider commercial reciproc.
ity and other important questions with
the government of the Dominion Of
{ Canada. But for the opposition Of
stand pat interests in this country
this commission might have made an
epoch-making record.
The Jasper news., 1909-04-01

kER. AND MRS. BELLAMY sToRER
M are planning to return to Wash
ngton society. They are having their
beautiful home on Rhode Island ave
iue renovated, where they will be
'eady to receive their friends soon. 1t
q added that they will be persona
rata with the new president despite
ne Roosevelt, Bellamy Storer incident.
Since Mr.. Bellamy Storer's recall
rom Austria. where he was ambassa'
Tor before the quarrel with President
Roosevelt, have been living in retire
nent in Cincinnati. because Of their
many friends here.
Mr.. Roosevelt met Mr.. and Mrs. Bel
amy Storer when civil service COM
missioner here, and while Mr.. Storer
vas a member of congress from Gin
dnnati. Mr.. Roosevelt, as commits.
lioner, and as assistant secretary OF
he navy, was frequently entertained
It the Storer mansion and was be-
riended by them in many ways.
Mr.. Storer was later appointed am
The Jasper news., 1909-04-01

COCIETY In Washington as in at
y least two other cities OF the United
States has been peculiarly Interested
in the announcement that Evelyn
Walsh Mclean, daughter OF Thomas
Walsh, the Colorado mining king, has
brought her husband. Edward B. Nc
Lean, son of Publisher John r. Mclean
CT the Cincinnati Enquirer to the Ro-
man Catholic faith The date OF the
ceremony which Is to bring the young
scotch husband into the church Of his
irish. American wife has not yet been
announced.
Evelyn Walsh had been in the pub
lie eye to an unusual degree before
her marriage last August to young
Mclean. Each of the young people
has few millions on hand right now,
The Jasper news., 1909-04-01

AHISS ETHEL ROOSEVELT daugh-
Va ter Of ex-President Roosevelt, who
but recently made her debut, is about
20 become engaged to William Phil
lips, the young third assistant secre-
!ary Of state, according to report. So
definite is the Information from Miss
Reoseyelt's friends concerning the
state of her affections that guesses
are now being made as to whether the
sx-president's popular daughter will
follow the dictates Of her heart soon
The Jasper news., 1909-04-01
Storers to Return to Capital Society

bassador to Austria by President Nc
Kinley, the post being especially agree
able because Mrs. Bellamy Storer was
a deyout Catholic and Austria was rec.
ognized as the greatest Catholic court
in the world.
During Mr.. Roosevelt's administers
ton there developed movement to
have Archbishop Ireland raised to the
rank Of cardinal Mrs. Bellamy
Storer was interested in the success
of the plan. and there was much cor.
respondence between her and Presi-
dent Roosevelt, which brought the re-
port that the president was interested
himself in having Archbishop Ireland
promoted.
Bellamy Storer was then recalled as
ambassador by President Roosevelt,
and 1t became known that there had
been a wide breach between them.
The president made all the correspond
ence with Mrs. Storer public from the
White House and the Storers returned
to the United States and went to Gin.
cinnati to live.
Mrs. Bethany Storer was Maria
Longworth before marriage. She is
an aunt Of Representative Nicholas
Longworth, the ex-president's son-in-
law. She is wellknown here in so
ciety, being particularly friendly with
the Tafts, the Longworths and the
Deweys.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1909-06-25
EDITORIAL SNAPSHOTS.

Syracuse Post-Standard: Aid
rich is doing his best to create 6
consumers party.
Newark News: Sentiment in ia
vor of a safe and sane Fourth OF
July will reach high-water mark
about July 6 this year.
Birmingham News: A navel ex-
pert says New York is easy of inva-
sion. People who have tried it fl
nancially repentedtoo late for prof
it.
Augusta Herald: In Abyssinia
the wife is SAID to be the head OF
the household. But it isn't neces-
sary to 90 as far as Abyssinia to
find such a condition.
Chicago Record Herald: E. H.
Hartman was unable to get a spe-
cial train to take him from Cher
bourg to Paris. That's what a man
gets for going into country where
the railroads are not his
Cleveland Plain Dealer: To
Judge by the doleful warning of
college professors and graduating
reformers, America is, indeed, on
its last legs. The government
would appear to have about as
much likelihood of surviving as an
icicle in kettle of boiling water.
But cheer up, the commencement
season will soon be over.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1909-06-25
Obituary

The subject of this sketch, Mrs
Adelaide Gardner (nee Ervine).
was born near Mill Gap, Highland
county, Va. and died in Staunton
Va, May 4 1909, aged 76 years.
Her remains were brought to the
home of her daughter, Mrs. Mary
". Bird, of West View, and funer-
al preached in the Methodist church
by her pastor, Rev. Holmes Raj
ston, assisted by Rev. c, E. Sim
mons, after which she was inferred
in Thornrose cemetery in Staunton
In early life she ma FRIED Mr..
Sam'l B. Gardner, who was also a
resident Of Highland County, and
who at the advanced age of 81,
still survives her. She is also sur
vived by five children, Messrs. En-
erson, Patterson and Brown Gard
ner and Mrs. Mary Bird, wife of
Mr.. Harmon Bird, Of West View,
and Mr.. Price Gardner, who has
been for a number of years in the
South.
Mrs. Gardner had been for many
years a member of the Presbyterian
church, and to the writer, who was
often at her bedside and talked
with her about spiritual things, she
always expressed herself as trust
ing God and resigned to his will,
but desiring ferveptly to depart
and be with Christ.
During her long and extremely
painful illness the devotion and
constant attention shown to her
by her aged husband was beautiful
and touching; and she seemed to
feel that no one so well as he could
perform the offices that he had TAX
en- upon himself and took pleasure
in performing, though extremely
feeble from age and affection.
The home of this age couple had
been with their unmarried son, MI.
Brown Gardner whose devotion to
them was worthy Of special men
ton and was often spoken Of with
loving appreciation by the mother.
Mrs. Gardner was well-knoWn in
county, where she has
many relatives and friends. An
only brother, Mr.. Jas. R. Ervine,
lives in Pocahontas county, W. Va.
Of him she spoke with affectionate
during her illness.
To the sorrowing family we would
the eternal Friend who
has said "as one whom his mother
,omforteth, 30 ] will comfort you"
Mrs. H. A. Wilson.