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Graham guardian., 1909-12-24
The RATIONAL
CHRISTMAS.
By ELLIS FRAME

copyright. 1908. by American Press Asso-
ciation.l
"Let US give in reason this year" she
suggested
mot merely for the sake OF giving
things.
It's the spirit. not the money invested.
Let US. therefore. turn from foolish
squanderings.
Let the gifts we give be things that may
be needed
Instead of. trash soon to be cast aside"
my darling, your suggestion shall be
needed.
For there is wisdom in it," he replied.
She did her shopping early, being guided
BY lessons learned from much expert
She would show her lord and master. she
decided.
How excellent thing was common
sense.
For their baby boy she purchased
French corset
And an oriental rug that caught her
eye.
Though the darling longed to have a
rocking horse. 1t
Wasn't sensible" she murmured. with
sigh.
They had promised not to buy things for
each other.
Ihey would merely get a rev tninBs ior
the child.
She would sacrifice her sister and her
mother.
And it gladdened her to see the way he
smiled
AS he said his people. too. should be omit
ted.
SO the wise and winsome woman, day
by day.
From shop to shop. with sweet emotion,
fitted,
Having dry goods bound up and sent
away.
He bought a pipe and splendid smoking
jacket
To give their darling glee on Christmas
morn.
With these the child could make no such
racket
As might have been produced with drum
and horn.
He also got the works. unexpurgated.
OF old Boccaccio and Rabelais.
10 that their little one might be elated
And long have glad remembrance OF the
day.
On Christmas when their presents were
displayed
They sat upon the sofa side by side.
And while their child looked up at them.
dismayed
He had a culprits manner, and she
cried.
Graham guardian., 1909-12-24

A body of carbonate of ore twelve
feet in thickness and running ten
per cent. copper was encountered a
few days ago in an upraise at the
Mary shaft of the Great Western
Copper Company at Courtland.
The students of the University of
Arizona have planned many unique
events, including a faculty race, a
pillow fight with the contestants
mounted on horseback, and Japanese
fencing, for their annual janitors'
benefit on Saturday, January 18th,
known as Pascual Day.
H. T. Crosby and number of
his friends and neighbors from the
vicinity of Yoakum and Talpa, Tex
as, will form a farming colony in
the San Simon Valley. They plan
to install gas engines and centrifugal
pumps for the sub-irrigation of the
soil.
Government inspectors have rec
commended the building of cement
water tanks within the reserves for
watering stock in times of drought,
the government to place all material
on the ground without any expense.
and the only consideration asked of
the rangemen being that they erect
them.
A terrible rear-end collision oc-
Cured Thursday afternoon, Decem-
Der 10th, on the Santa Fe railroad,
near Winona, flag station, fifteen
miles east of Flagstaff. The East
bound Flyer, No. A, ran into an
eastbound passenger train, killing
one person and injuring eighteen
others.
The farming enterprise of the
Deffern Mining Company, consisting
Of about one hundred acres in the
Sulphur Springs Valley adjacent to
their mining property, cleared three
thousand dollars above expenses the
past season in addition TO furnishing
supplies for the mine force and
provender for eighty hogs and other
live stock.
Graham guardian., 1909-12-24

Most amazing of all. the author of the
tale professed to believe that 1t was
Mrs. Perkins Ball" that had made
his reputation-that. too, In the face o.
tie fact that Vanity Fair" had just
been published. This perversion Of
Tnackeray IA regard TO the literary
value of his wares and his lack Of faith
IN his masterpiece-he had so little
confidence In the success of Vanity
for small government position-are
proof sufficient that the man who ere.
ates masterpiece may have a dim
conception of artistic values.
All the makers of great fiction are
more or less under the spell OF their
immediate surroundings. but few have
made it more apparent than Charles
Dickens. Those who knew the circum-
stances saw plainly that he had put
himself and his sad childhood into
many Of his pathetic short stories.
This is especially true Of ''rhe Ghost
In Master BIS Room" which is an ac-
count of things which happened to
him in his troubled boyhood. AS
child he was firm believer In ghosts.
and it is probable that he never entire
ly abandoned his faith In spectral ap-
pearances. Many of his tales are peo-
pied with diseinbodied spirits, and they
are like the ghosts Of no other writer.
They are the spooks that appeal to one
and make one believe in their genuine
ness. They are frequently more real
than the living characters who consort
with them. Although they are dead.
they conduct themselves like living en-
titles
Dickens Christmas ghosts are unique
In the realm of literature. or all the
Graham guardian., 1909-12-24
CHRlSTMA5
IN FICTION.
Hy GEORGE II PICARD

ICopyrigAt, 1909. by American Press Asso-
citation
Graham guardian., 1909-12-24

use on the continent. but the more
secular minded English had only the
rude Yuletide jingles and the quaint
carols of beef eating antiquity.
Contrary to the prevailing notion, the
inventor Of the tale with distinctive
ly Christmas flavor was an American
1t is likely that II would occur TO few
Americans and to no Englishman to
dissent If It were asserted In their
presence that Charles Dickens origi.
mated the Christmas story. His name
is so inseparably connected with so
much Of the holiday literature en-
shrined in the popular heart that It Is
small wonder the mention of Christ.
mas suggests him The credit Of the
literary find." however. must be given
to another. a man who was at the end
of hts thirties when Dickens was born.
who had been at Malta when Nelson's
feet sailed away to Trafalgar. who had
visited Sir Walter at Abbotsford and
had captivated him and who was aft
erward secretary to the United States
legation In England That, Of course,
means Washington Irving.
Irving's first book. THE Sketch. Book
Of Godfrey Crayon, Gent" had pleased
everybody, so much so. indeed. that It
was republished by John Murray In
London and translated into several con-
tinental languages, Both the publish
ers and the public were urging him to
do something equally meritorious. No
body realized more keenly than did the
author Of the exquisite work the diff
Guilty of producing its mate. and he
was not a man to be driven into medi-
ocrity. Three years later he published
"Bracebridge Hail." and the chapter of
that masterpiece Of literary workman
ship entitled christmas at Bracebridge
Hail. was the pioneer holiday tale Of
English literature and has furnished
model for subsequent 6ctionists which
has seldom been equaled and never
excelled Its easy grace and felicity of
expression were revelation to every
body in those days. and the wonder
and the charm are potent still.
William Makepeace Thackeray, mas
ter of a realism that Is the wonder and
the despair Of those who have followed
Graham guardian., 1909-12-24
FOR THAT Dull FEELING AFTER
EATING

| have used Chamberlain's Stom-
ach and Liver Tablets for some
time, and can testify that they have
done me more good than any tab
lets / have ever used, My trouble
was heavy dull feeling after eat
ing David Freeman, Kempt, Nova
Scotia. These tablets strengthen
the stomach and improve the diges-
ton. They also regulate the liver
and bowels. Tney are far superior
to pills and cost no more. Get a
free sample at the Stafford Drug
Co.'S drug store and see what a
splendid medicine it is.
Graham guardian., 1909-12-24

silent Shapes thaC
have been sum-
moned from the
upper and neither
worlds to lend en-
chantment to dhe
Christmas Z a e
his q lone have
become acclimat-
ed. There Is nev-
er anything re-
pulsive q b o u t
them. They are
the most compan.
Graham guardian., 1909-12-24

Fl a W I b orn e'S
Christmas Ban
quet" and Miss
Mitford's Christ
mas arty."
There is little of
9 hr 8 I m a s in
Fl a w t h orn e $
grewsome "a J e.
The joyous festi-
val Is only n lit
erary makeshift
around which Is
xryADnn an w a % Al
Graham guardian., 1909-12-24
TERRITORIAL NEWS
Interesting Items Condensed
From the Columns of
Our Exchanges

1t is reported that the Twin
Buttes Mining Company will soon
begin sinking a new 300-foot shaft.
1t is being generally reported that
the Southern Pacific will build
switch from Gleeson to the McKit-
trick property at once.
A beautiful crystal cave about
fifty feet long was recently discov-
cred between the five hundred and
six hundred levels Of the Irish Mag
shaft at Bisbee.
Judge Doan has refused change
of venue in the Pfannkuche murder
case. The case will be called for
trial December goth, but will prob
Ky cSAzIsss.s Issss knlat time until De-
aember 9th.
The contract for the purchase of
$125,0 worth of Phoenix school
bonds was awarded to the Harris
Trust & Savings Company, of Chi
cago, although they were third in
the list of bidders.
Wilcox will hold a celebration
beginning Thursday, December 30th
and ending January lst. A pro-
gram of races and broncho busting
matches has been arranged. A
masquerade ball will end the fes-
tivities on New Years night.
G.. j. Kilmer, who was awarded
the contract for laying the steel on
the Shannon-Arizona Railway, failed
to accept when the final papers were
ready for signatures. This caused
a change in the program and the
contract was later awarded to Harry
Westlake, who will hustle the work
through as fast as possible.
A Phoenix husband has petitioneC
Chief Justice Kent to compel his
wife to live with him. The couple
have been married six months anC
the wife has left him several times
during their short welded life. The
court is stumped in the matter anC
and can find no law to compel ,
wife to live with her husband, bu
the lawyers contend such power is
lodged in the court and the cas-
will be threshed out.
Graham guardian., 1909-12-24

him. nee ded no
model and chose
n o n e. His Mrs
Perkins Ball. re-
sembles u 0 t h | n g
ever conceived In
the mind Of any
OF er man. The
public was pleased
with II. but never
SO N u C b as was
Thackeray himself.
Graham guardian., 1909-12-24

)T until the first
half of the last
century was well
spent did the spe
cies of literature
which has come to
be known asChrist-
mas fiction effect n
permanent 10 d &
ment in the hearts
of English speak.
ing mankind. The
ancient para b e
PLAY vs. and the
r b y IN e d holiday
legends of the mid
1IS AaSs aRe still In
Graham guardian., 1909-12-24

ionable spooks ever invented. They
are seldom sepulchral. but are fire.
quently cheerful. They are not the
haunting, sleep killing and never to be
exercised phantoms Of the fairy tales.
but actual personalities. freed from all
Graham guardian., 1909-12-24
Here are a few bargains

One hundred and sixty-four
acres, one-half mile from SAT-
ford, with "a shares Union
water; 80 acres in alfalfa,
balance in grain; seven-room
house with bath; hot and cold
water; barns, outhouses, wind
mill and tank; 81, 900 worth of
farm machinery. Price $32.-
500. Easy terms.
Sixteen acres on the west
border of Stafford, Ii shares
Montezuma water. AS fine
land as can be found in the
valley. A bargain at SO, 200.
Joining this property is 15a
acres, with four-room house;
good we'll and pump, barn,
corrals, young orchard; which
can be bought with the above
land. See us as to price and
terms.
Four acres in heart of SAT-
ford; seven-room house, with
hall and screened porch; good
well and pump, outbuildings.
one share Union water. Some
cash and rest on easy terms.
Four-room brick house, with
bath; new; lots rs by $50; on
Main street, Stafford, in desir-
able location. Terms, $1,000;
$500 cash, balance on long
time at 7% interest. The
best offer of the season.
The Chiricahua Cattle
Ranch, consisting of 324 acres
bordering upon the Town of
Stafford; 250 acres in cultiva-
ton (172 in alfalfa. Two
thirds of the Sunfower Canal,
and 5 shares Union Canal
Stock. Price, $36, 900. Terms,
one-third down, balance at s
per cent. interest. This is
less than $3.50 per acre for the
land actually in cultivation,
with the uncultivated land
thrown in.
The Winslow mail., 1909-10-30
AMENDED ARTICLES OF INCOR
PORATION
of the
NAVAJO-APACHE BANK AND
TRUST co.

BAGE, as president and f. W Nell
SON, as cashier and ex-Otficio secretary
of the NAVAJO COUNTY BANK, a
corporation at Winslow, Arizona, do
hereby certify that at a special
meeting of the stockholders of the
NAVAJO COUNTY BANK, a corpora
ton, held in the office of said bank at
the town of Winslow, Arizona, on the
seventeenth day of July. 1909, and at
vhich meeting the total amount and
mum Der of shares of stock of said cor
poration we're present and represented
in person or by proxy, namely: wo
hundred and fifty shares. The follow
ing resolution was adopted by unan-
imous affirmative vote, namely;
RESOLVED, That Articles ], Ii. III,
V and VII of the Articles of Incorpo-
ration of THE NAVAJO COUNTY
BANK be and the same are hereby
amended, such amendments to take
effect October 1st, 1900, and the said
articles as amended 10 read as follows :
ARTICLE [.
The name of this corporation shall
be the "N4VAJO-APACHE BANK &
TRUST COMPANY" and It's principal
place of business shall be inslow
Navajo County, Arizona lerrit ory.
ARTICLE Ii
The general nature of the business
proposed to be ransacted by this cor
,.oration is, III aud 10y its corporate
name TO take, receive and hold, and re-
convey, ard dispose of any effects and
property, BOT b real and pers sonal, which
may s,e granted. .eemmit'td, Transferred
esHsveyed 10 il, with its consent, up,
~rms. or npon auy sust or
trusts y hs4-..-. At any time or times
by any person or per- ons, including
married women or minors, body or
bodies corporate. or by any court of
record 70 administer, fulfill and
discharge the duties of such trust or
trusts. for such remuneration as may
be agreed upon. 10 act generally as
agents or attorneys for the transaction
of business. the management of es
tates, the collection of rents, interest.
dividends, mortgages, bonds, bills,
notes and securities for money.
70 act AS agents for the purpose of is
suing, negotiating, registering, trans
ferring or countersigning the certifi
Gates of stocks, bonds, or other obli-
cations of any corporation, association
or municipality and to manage any
sinking fund therefor on such terms as
may be agreed upon; to act as agent
for fire Insurance., surety ard other
companies, aud generally TO act as
agent for any person or corporation
in the transaction of any lawful busi-
ness.
To accept and to execute the office
of executor, ad ministrator, trustee, re-
ceiver or assignee or guardian of any
minor, incompetent person, lunatic, or
any person subject to guardianship.
To loan money upon any real estate
and collateral security, and to execute
and issue it's notes and debentures
payable at future date, and to
pledge its mortgages on real estate and
other securities therefor. To take and
receive from any individual or indivi-
duals or corporation, on deposit for
safe keeping and storage, gold and
silver plate, jewelry, money, stocks. Sc
curities and other valuable and per-
The Winslow mail., 1909-10-30

ness to which this corporation shall
subject itself, over and above the
amounts due depositors. is two thirds
of the actual paid in capital of the cor
poration.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, We have
hereunto set our hands and affixed the
seal of said corporation this thirtieth
day of September, 1909.
w. FL. BURBAGE,
Attest President.
f. w. NELSON,
Cashier and Ex-officio Secretary.
The Winslow mail., 1909-10-30

certify abstracts of tItle,to guarantee or
insure to guarantees the vali-
dity of titles in real estate transfers, at
a rate of compensation, and upon such
terms and conditions as may be agreed
upon.
To lease, hold and convey all such
land and real and personal estate as
may be necessary to carrying on Its
business, as well as such real and per-
sonal estate as it may deem necessary
to acquire in the enforcement or settle
ment of any claims or demands arls-
ing out of its business transactions;
and to issue and execute in the trans
action of its business all necessary re-
ceipte, certificates and contracts which
shall be signed by such persons as may
be designated by the bylaws of the
corporation.
To do any and all acts and things
pertaining to or that may be connected
with the purpose and objects above
specified, or that may be necessary, or
convenient, or usful tc the main pur-
pose of the corporation, in carrying on
a general banking and trust company
business in all its branches.
ARTICLE Ill
The amount of the capital stock of
this corporation is TWO HUNDRED
THOUSAND DOLLARS ($2000O000,)
divided into two Thousand (2,000) shares
of the par value of ONE HUNDRED
DOLLARS ($l0000( each, all of which
shall be paid in cash, at not less than
par value, upon the issuance of said
stock, aud when so issued shall be non
assessable
Seven hundred and fifty shares OF
the par value shall be issued, subscrl :
ed and paid for before the first day OF
Oct ober, 1909
The balance of the stock shall be is
sued at such time or times, and in sur h
amounts az the hoard of directors may
determine, provided that all stock shall
be sold for cash and at not less than
par
The Winslow mail., 1909-10-30
By G NJ. G. HOUCK, Deputy.
TERRITORY OF ARIZONA
TERRITORIAL AUDITOR
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
OFFICE OF THE

IERRIIORlAL AUDITOR
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
TERRITORY OF ARIZONA. S.
|, W. q. FOSTER, Territorial Audi
tor of Arizona, certify, that on that
fourth day of October A. d. 1909, at ten
o'clock m., an Amendment to the
Articles of Incorpora ton of the MAYA
10 COUNTY BANK, was filed in this Of
fee.
In Testimony Whereof, [ have here
unto set my hand and affixed my Of
fetal Seal. Done at the City of Phoe-
nix, the Capital, this fourth day of
October, A. d. 1909.
(SeaD w. @. FOSTER,
Territorial Auditor
The Winslow mail., 1909-10-30
Attest:
TERRITORY OF ARIZONA, !.
COUNTY OF NAVAJO

COUNTY OF NAVAJO
Before me, the undersigned anthori
FL. BURBAGE, known to me to be the
president of THE NAVAJO COUNTY
BANK, a corporation, and he acKnowl-
and for and on behalf of said NANAJO
COUNTY BANK, executed the forego-
ing instrument for the purpose and
consideration therein expressed and as
the act and deed of said corporation.
Dated September 30Ch, 1909
(SeaD w. 2. GEARY,
Notary Public.
GRITTY commission expires Mar. 2, 1911.
The Winslow mail., 1909-10-30
ARTICLE V.

The officers of this corporation shall
be "a president, not less than one nor
more than three vice presidents, Il
cashier aud secretary, aud such other
otfivers as The board of directors shall
from time o time determine.
The affairs of his corporation shall
be conducted by d board of directors
consisting of eleven (1l) mem bers, all
of whom shall be stockholders The
directo ors shall be elected at the annual
meeting of the stockholders to be held
on the second Saturday of June in each
year
The board of directors shall at their
first meeting following the annual
stock FOLDERS meeting elect a president,
not less than one nor more than three
vice presidents, cashier and a secre-
tary and may elect or appoint an eX
ecutive committee and such other Off
GERS and agents as they may determine
to be necessary
The board of directors shall have the
power to open or cause to be opened
and maintained one or more branches,
and to appoint such agents to aid in
the management of its business and in
conducting the affairs of the corpora
tion as they may from time to time
deem advisa BILE, and may vent in such
agents such powers as they may deem
eXpedient.
The remaining directors shall have
the power to fill any vacancies in the
board of directors as may occur until
the next regular annual stockholders
meeting
The board of directors shall also have
The power to esta blish bylaws and
make all rules deemed expedient for
the management of the affairs of this
and the officers thereof,
not inconsistent with the constitution
and laws of the United States and the
laws of the Territory of Arizona
ARTICLE VII.
That the highest amount of indebted
The Winslow mail., 1909-10-30
BY @. NJ. G. HOUCK,
Deputy.

Filed and recorded at the request OF
+. w. n eJson, Oct l, 1909, at p. ul., ana
duly recorded III Vol. l, Articles OF In,
corporation Oh pages Nos. 1875, 1876, 1877
and 1873, records Of Navajo County, Ari
zona. G HESS, Jr.
Do...n3 -,
The Winslow mail., 1909-10-30
TERRITORY OF ARIZONA !


L, Q. Hess, Jr., County Recorder i'll
and for the County and Territory afore-
said, do hereby certify that have com
ginal Amended Articles of Incorpora-
tlon of The Navajo County Bank, flied
and recorded i'll my office on the Ist
day of Octooer 1909, i'll book No l of
Articles of Incorporation at page 1875
1856, 1877, 1913, and that the same IS full
true ana correct copy of such origina,
and of the whole thereof.
Witness my hand aud seal of Office
this LIST day of October 1909
(Seal1 G HESS, Jr.
(
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-01-14
PLEASED MANDAN AUDIENCE 4
& The following account is from

PLEASED MANDAN AUDIENCE 5
The following account is from q
listener: ~. - -. .,4U*..s . -
. "The Rev. c. W. Harris OF Bis
marck, gave an excellent lecture on
his travels over England and Scot
land last Tuesday evening before
the Literary club, OF Mandan. The
Presbyterian church was filled with
an appreciative audience. ! After .
few words, we'll chosen. and fitly spok
en- about the travelling company, Of
which he was q member he addressed
himself at once to his subject, and
aided BY the stereopti con, he gave
splendid Illustrations Of the different
points Of interest, including cathed.
rails, rural scenery, homes Of the
poets, walks of Shakespeare, Cold
smith, Colredge and others, and thus
made his lecture realistic from start
to finish. s! IN s.; 55 Il ii
Rev. Harris manner Is pleasing, his
descriptive powers are massive IN
their grasp. and his diction Is Of
the best. He may be sure Of large
and interested audiences to attend
the remaining lectures Of the course
he is engaged to give
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-01-14
SHOULD BE RElNsTATED. :.

49,. SHOOIO BE 1ENNSSA 6O. cis@>1
There is great deal Of kicking
going on among the Mandan people
as well as people on this side Of the
river over the withdrawal Of the
switching outfit which for years has
been going back and forth between
the two cities and which has been .
great convenience. Under the new
arrangement the switch engine does
not come over any more. the switch
ing being done by passing freights.
Inasmuch as passenger trains num-
bers 5 and g. have been annulled be,
tween jamestown and Glendive, and
the uncertainty OF when the other
passenger trains will come, and 80,
has made intercourse between Man
dan, and Bismarck dihicult and nm
certain. This would seem q matter
upon which the Commercial club
could probably get busy. n. ~ Il, "
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-01-14
II ssssIfss; ,.$tssSssYfs sS
Papuan Medicine Mems Method.

Papuan medicine men are regarded
with great respect by the natives.
Those have met certainly seemed
energetic and hard working. They sit
close to the patient managing the
seat 81 pain with much visor,. and
while they are thus rubbing make 2
noise with their lips rather like that
which groom makes when rubbing
down horse. 1-s r.. -,
The process is firing one. and the
medicine man stops at intervals to
drink hot water in which taro has
been boiled. His object II to extract
some mysterious foreign substance
from the sick mans body. and II he
succeeds in this he receives = to.
otherwise he gets nothing. mo cure.
no pay" is apparently the Pspuan's
motto. st.E 22u.:>s -. :. !.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-01-14
DAN rs APPRECIATED.

When the; house convened yester
day afternoon the members were
pleased to- see facing them an array
of handsome and intelligent manhood
in the shape Of press correspondents
who have been fixed out with desks
in front of the chief clerks desk. The
Arrangement is the inspiration o.
Supt. Slattery, and Is highly apprec
lated by the press gang, and will at
ford the newspaper men a better op
portunity to report the proceeding
of the house, land to the greater salts
faction of the members thereof.