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Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-08

FOR RENT-Five-room house with bath, on Squaw hill. This is very reasonable at $30 a month. Apply to McPherson, Union Realty Co.,, IF North Broad.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-08

FOR RENT-Four-room house with bath. Well fenced, with stable and out buildings. Union Realty & Trust Co.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-08
Needs New Jail

My predecessor transmitted to the con gress a special message on January II, 1909, accompanying the report of the commissioners heretofore appointed to
 investigate the jail, workhouse, etc, in the District of Columbia, in which he directed attention to the report as setting forth vividly "the really out
 rageous conditions in the workhouse and jail."
 The congress has taken action in pur- suance of the recommendation of that
 report and of the president to the ex- tent of appropriating funds and enact ing the necessary legislation for the es- tablishment of workhouse and reform atory. No action, however, has been taken by the congress with respect to the iail, the conditions of which are still anticipated and unsanitary. earnestly recommend the passage of a sufficient appropriation to secure thorough remodeling of that institution to be made without delay. It is a
 reproaeh to the national government that almost under shadow of the capi- Dol dome prisoners should be confined in building destitute of the ordinary decent appliances requisite to eleanli- ness and sanitary conditions.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-08
FOR RENT

EOh RENT Furnished house on Tonto street Co. Furnished house near reservior, S2O Broom house three blocks from c,r,. house. $50. ''' 5rosm house, corner Bailey and F.., street, $25.00. '' 4-roem house close in. $20.0O. Two-room house. school hill, s25N1 4-room house, Noftsger Hill. We'll s, uated. $20. ''' 3 rooms and basement room. partIv C. nished. Noftsger Hill. $lsO0
 FOR SALE New four-room modern house in s,uu Globe. Price $500. CasL s206 Toi ance on easy terms.
 UNION REALTY & TRUST eo
 Room l, IF N. Broad.
 MAC PETERSON, Mgr.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-08

FOR RENT-Five-room house. En- quire 149 North High street.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-08

FOR RENTING room house, centrally
 located 325 South Hill street.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-08
Postal Rate Attacked

The deficit every year in the post office department is largely caused by the low rate of postage of one cent a pound charged on second class mall mat ter. which includes not only newspapers but magazines, and miscellaneous peri. odieals. The actual loss growing out Of the transmission of this second class mail matter at l cent pound amounts to about $63 100000 year. The aver age cost of the transportation of this matter is more than g cents a pound. It appears that the average distance over which newspapers are delivered to their customers is 29l miles, while the average haul of magazines IS l,O49 and of miscellaneous periodicals l,l2S miles.
 Thus, the average haul of the maga- zine is three and one-haf times that of the miscellaneous periodical, nearly four times the haul of the daily news paper, vet all of them pay the same hostage rate of l cent a pound. The statistics of 1907 show that second class mail matter constituted 63,91 per cent of the weight,of all the mail and yield ed only ,. l9 per cent of the revenue.
 The figures given are startling and show the payment by the government of an enormous subsidy to the newspapers, magazines and periodicals, and congress may well consider whether radical steps should not be taken to reduce the deficit in the postofliee department caused by tnis discrepancy between the actual cost of transportation and the compensation exacted therefore.
 A great saving might be made, amounting to much more than half of the loss, by imposing upon magazines and periodicals higher rate of post age. They are much heavier than news papers and contain much higher pro portion of advertising to reading matter and the average distance of their trans portation is three and one-half times as great
 I commend the whole subject to con- gress, not unmindful of the spread of intelligence which low charge for car rying newspapers and periodicals as sists. I very much doubt, however. the wisdom of policy which constitutes so large subsidy and requires addition al taxation to meet it.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-08
FOR RENT-HoUsEs

FOR RENT-Three-room house, electric lighted, $l7.50 per month. Inquire 349 South Devereaux.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-08

WANTED-Assessment work by con. tract or day. c. A. Shreve, 5l6 Dev. ereaux.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-08
WANTED

homework in small family. Apply to Mrs. R. H. Jacobs, Third and Maple streets.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-08
Navy Reorganization


 Early in the coming session com parative plan for the reorganization of the officers of all corps of the navy will be presented to congress and I hope it will meet with action suited to it's urgency.
 Owing to the necessity for economy in expenditures l have directed the curtailment of recommendations for na. val appropriations so that they are $3S,- 000,000 less than the corresponding es- inmates of last year and the request for new naval construction is limited to two frst-class battleships and one re pair vessel.
 The use of navy is for military pur poses and there has been found need in the department of military branch dealing directly with the military uses of the fleet. The secretary of the navy has also felt the lack of responsible ad- isers to aid him in reaching eonclu- sions and deciding important matters between coordinate branches of the de partment. To secure these results he is inaugurating tentative plan involv- ing certain changes in the organization of the navy department, including the navy yards, all of which have been found by the attorney general to be
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-08

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Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-08

WANTED-To buy saddle pony and saddle. Address C. M., Silver Belt.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-08

recommend that in compliance with the promise thus made appropriate leg islation be adopted The ends of justice will best be met and the chief cause of complaint against ill-cOnsidered injunc- tions without notice will be removed by the enactment of statute forbid ding hereafter the issuing of any in junction or restraining order, whether temporary or permanent, by any feder- al court without previous notice and a reasonable opportunity tD be heard on behalf of the parties to be enjoined; un- less it shall appear to the satisfaction of the court that the delay necessary
 to give such notice and hearing would result in irreparable injury to the com plainant and unless also the court shall from the evidence make written find ing which shall be spread upon the court minutes that immediate and irreparable injury is likely to ensue to the com. plainant, and shall define the injury, state why it is irreparable and shall also endorse on the order issued the
 date and the hour of the issuance of the order. Moreover, every such injunc- tion and restraining order issued with out previous notice and opportunity by the defendant to be heard should by force of the statute expire and be of no effect after seven days from the issuance thereof or within any time less
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-09-18
Poor Relations.

IF the people who are perfectly
well able would take care of their poor
relatives" said the curate at Trinity,
'the church wouldn't have so much
care on its shoulders. Did you see
that woman who just went out? She
is starving-actuaily starving. The
doctor told her that the partial loss of
her eyesight is due to the lack Of
food. Well, her husband is wealthy
Englishman, SO wealthy that / am go.
ing to see a lawyer about writing him
a letter that will bring him to his
senses, / hope. He is a member of a
prominent family that would bate
such exposure as shall threaten it
with unless they take care of this
wife of his. And did you see the poor
wretch who is waiting outside in the
anteroom for me to give him money
for a bite to eat? His brother is a
wealthy broker at No. 81 Wall street"
New York Press.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-09-18

Pictures in the Alexander Museum.
In the afternoon we went to the
Alexander museum, very beautiful
building between two gardens, which
was once the palace of the Grand
Duke Michael Palovitch, and made by
Alexander III. into national museum
of arts.
The pictures are all of the modern
Russian school, some of them very
fine, and among them many by We're
schagin-scenes of TIE war of 1872
with Napoleon and a number of his
small oriental paintings.
After looking at them we walked to
the Alexander Memorial church, built
over the spot where he fell, which is
preserved under a canopy of bronze,
Nhe. rough paving stones upon which
his blood was spilled looking very
pathetic among so much gold and
mosaic.
The church, which cost 100000
rubies, is most gorgeous in color, the
interior being entirely Of mosaic, and
In the sanctuary, into which / was al
lowed only to look, the silver cande.
labra and the icons are most costly
st. Petersburg Letter to Vogue.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-09-18
OBJECTED TO BEING SHOCKED
Partisan PurVeyor of SnaiIs Went Too
Far in His Efforts to Prevent
! Petty Larceny.

Electrifytng shop wares to prevent
larceny is an ingenious practice in
Paris. A man who sells snails near
the Bourse found that gourmets in
passing frequently "pinched" a hand.
1ul OF them and disappeared. He had
brilliant idea, and connected the
wire baskets in which the snails are
onered for sale with an electric bat
terry In his shop. When a genuine
customer came along he cut off the
current. The snails themselves were
permanently electrified without appar.
ent harm. Anyhow, they did not OBJ
ject audibiy, and they seemed just as
good to eat after the treatment as be-
fore, when boiled and seasoned. But
party of schoolboys passed the shop
and 'pinched"s some of them. They
had no sooner done so than they set
up howls which brought a crowd In
curing bystanders touched the snails,
also, and similarly yelled. The cur
rent was not strong enough to kill
the snails, but transmitted a shock
which made the shocked persons
dance. Having recovered, they rushed
into the shop and went for the shop
man. Some of them were dancing
upon him and others were wrecking
his establishment when the police
came and rescued him.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-09-18
Aquarium Seals Joke

Scores Of visitors to the aquarium
In Battery park are victims every day
OF a peculiar joke and the perpetra-
tor is an old SEAL This big fellow
has tank to himself and he swims
about quietly enough until a crowd
collects at the rail to watch him.
Then he swims over where the crowd
is thickest, suddenly rears his body
out of the water and falls back 'ker-
PUNK. The water splashes ten feet
in the air and everybody in the vicin-
ity gets a ducking. The old seal
dashes to the other side of the tank
and seems to enjoy watching his vic
tins hopping the water from their
faces. The victims usually collect at
safe distance and wait to enjoy the
discontinue of the next crowd.-New
York Sun
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-09-18
state Roads in BAD Shane

Government railroads are having
rather hard time of it in Eurone
The experiment of ownership and On.
Grafton by the state, as far as If has
been attempted, not only in Eurone
but elsewhere, seems to have failed
and time and trial more and moro
demonstrate its inevitable and inner.
ent inefficiency
Everywhere state operation is criti.
cized and every year proves it in.
creasingly unsatisfactory to every.
body except the politicians and tbo
funetionaries. Thus in Belgium the
financial situation has grown SO had
that the railroad administration IL
now contemplating what is practical.
ly impossible-a substantial increase
both in freight and passenger rates
It is that or bankruptcy for the
scheme. Moody's Magazine.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-09-18
WHEN RAILROADS WERE NEW
Diary Long Kept by EneIishman, Re-
Gently Deceased, Reveals Some
Interesting Facts.

There has just passed away one
who was intimately associated with
our railroad system when it was in
its very crude infancy, says the Lon
don Globe.
Mr.. David Stevenson, whose death
has occurred in his Lightweight year,
Joined the London & Birmingham
railroad in June, 1887, and rose to the
position of goods manager Of the
London & Northwestern railway. He
kept private diary of the important
events of those early days when the
third-class passengers rode in open
carriages and tickets were torn from
book
Mr.. Stevenson told how the road.
side stations were inclosed with lofty
iron ratings, within which the pas
sengers were imprisoned until the
train arrived. They were then per-
mitted to rush out to take their
places, for which they sometimes had
to join in a free fight. Then the en-
CINE gave prolonged whistle, which
Charles Dickens described as saying,
Here are $50 people in the veriest
extremity of danger, and here are
their $50 screams all in one The
clatter caused by the stone blocks,
which were used until the wooden
sleepers replaced them, added great
ly to the unpleasantness of the jour
ney."
In Mr.. Stevenson's early days the
signalmen were actually men signals.
They were attired as policemen of
the period, with dress coats buttoned
up to the throat, white duck trousers
and top hats. They stood at inter
walls along the line and performed
with their arms, their worried
brains and two flags" all the duties
of the signal posts by which they
were superseded. Sir Robert Peel,
Lord Brougham and Daniel O'Con-
nell often rode on the railway, ac-
cording to the diarist, for the novelty
of the sensation.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-09-18
Like Weeds in a Night.

"Of course children outgrow most
youthful vocations," said the observer.
Little girls grow too tall for cash
girls, little boys spring up out of the
size of bell hops in night or two, it
looks like, but the most pathetic
specimen OF sudden and untimely out
growing is the flower boy who sells
roses in the downtown Italian cafes,
who one season stands hardly higher
than the table, looking at you so visit
fully out of big, sad italian eyes that
the money comes out of your pocket
of itself, and the next season towers
over you like a football player, all the
sympathy you felt for the infant
flower seller crushed by his gigantic
size
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-09-18
seoretarx Adee,s smart Doc.

A. A. Adee, assistant secretary of
state, is the proud possessor of an in
telligent collie dog, reckoned the
smartest canine in Washington. Dur
ing the Boxer outbreak in China,
while Mr.. Adee was acting secretary
of state, kilograms on the situation
in China received at the state depart
ment at night were hurried to the
Adee home.
About one o'clock one morning such
a dispatch, of the utmost Importance,
arrived. A messenger took it post
haste to Mr.. Adee's residence, but
after repeatedly ringing the door bell
failed to obtain any response. Up.
stairs in bed Adee was snoring away,
deep in sleep. He couldn't have heard
a dynamite explosion
But the collie heard the jangling of
the bell He waited in patience for
time, and then, as his master did not
go to the door, he marched into the
secretary's room, pulled the bed
clothes off the sleeping official, great.
ly astonishing that person, and then,
having aroused him, dragged him to
the door. 1t happened to be dis.
patch requiring an immediate reply,
and Secretary Adee was more than
eyer impressed with the intelligence
of his favorite dog.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-09-18
WOMAN WAS A SOLDIER

long marches with Lees army, had
slept out in the open when only the
snow that fell served as a cover to
keep the little soldier warm.
Comrl des had a warm spot in their
hearts for Duravan The little sol.
der was strong In the belief of the
southern cause, eager to bring about
the defeat of the unionists.
One morning Duravan was found
dead in the prison cell and then it
was learned for the first time that the
pale little soldier was a woman.
Two days ago the story of the
brave woman who had donned mans
clothes to go to war was revived and
her name will be especially emblaz.
oned on the bronze tablet that will
mark the resting place of the sol.
diers.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-09-18

well, that don't matter anyhow.
couldn't say what she was like;
couldn't tell blind man what b ILL
was! Your cities never grow tina
kind, no more than they do IugaI
pines or rhododendron flowers. =
Well, we were-friends. We usi
to go for white azalies, she AMI l, p
on my hill when school was tlfoul.
1t wasn't my hill then, not tin hg
after, when she'd gone away, andet
we called it ours"
We used to sit there wherehe
trees grow thick an plan out lat |
the years would bring. We'd sit ire
till the shadows came an shuIhe !
world away, an then were gIafor
all the night an all the stars seed |
made for just us two! The wooWls
nested in those trees, an wheTd |
say / loved some one, they'd says
ask me: "Who?"
And SO the summer slipped ong
an time come for me to 20. was
to fix a little home, an when n, the |
white azalies bloomed to gooack !!
again for her.
Well, first she wrote mo yular |
every week, and then her lett got /
to soundin' queer, like one whcughs
an wants to cry, an then-wt then
they stopped. Those were outlines
with us, but wrote by everyige.
One evenin'-'twas along May,
an / was potterin' round dusk
a-doin' up the chores-I saw man
come down the trail. The n was
Ephraim Jones. He nevertid a
word-just reached out an ok my
hand, an wrung it hard, aKind O.
choked. By and by he said
Look here, old man, itkes an
awful blast, you know, to ster out
that hard gray rock so you cget the
gold. Well, the good Lordasts us
hard sometimes-perhaps lind our
gold"
Then he told me how hfather'd
got in debt, an gone avian left
her mother sick an therrgo little
sisters on her hands, with hing but
the money from her schohow she
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-09-18
ar 3 So for old ploa.

'If Diogenes is still hunting for an
honest man think could give him
an address that might be worth look
ing up said one woman to another
while waiting for car. Il was riding
up Center street the other day and I
saw an inconspicuous brass sign at
the entrance of big loft building,
which said: M Negevetovitch, Manu-
facturer of Russian Antiques He's
the only man ever heard of who was
In the antique manufacturing business
who was honest enough to say so on
his sign. New York Sun
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-09-18
Trees Used for Cross Ties.

Fifteen species of trees are shown
by government report to have been
n demand for cross ties purposes. OF
these the oak is easily the most i'm
portant, furnishing more than $4,000
200 ties, or 43 per cent. of the entire
amount. Next is the southern vel
low pine, furnishing 21,50O,000, or 10
per cent of the total. Cedar and
chestnut supplied more than 5000 900
each, and the Douglas fir supnlied
nearly as much. Next comes the tam
arack, with 100000; the cypress
with 100000, and western pine and
hemlock with about 5000, 900 each
Smaller quantities were used of red.
wood, white pine, lodgepole pine. gum
beech, spruce and several other
woods.
An interesting fact brought out bv
the report is the increasing resort to
chemical treatment of woods to make
possible the use of timber otherwise
unsu1ted to the purposes. This has
been caused largely by the great in.
crease IN the cost of oak ties. A
treatment with creosote or chloride of
zinc to prevent decay makes possible
the satisfactory use of loblolIv nine
douglas fir' western pine and lodge
pole pine. Beech and gum are also
trees which are becoming important
as sources of cross-ties because of
me resort to chemical treatment. On
European roads it is said to be not
uncommon to secure from 20 to 30
years use from treated beech ties.
whereas untreated they would not
last long enough to be used econom-
ically at all.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-09-18


tenn at Twin Falls, Idaho, few days
ago, when a lusty swarm accomplished
what the national congress, James ].
Hill and other well-organiZed agencies
have failed to do.
E. r. Ferguson, a travelling sales
man of Chicago, who was an eyewit-
ness, brought the story to Spokane.
He said in describing the incident:
Tin dishpans, tam-tams, whistles
and other recognized lures failed to
dislodge the swarm, which had settled
in the spout of the standpipe at the
water tank, where long train of
freight cars stood on the main line
without sufficient water in the boiler
of the big mogul to pull out. The
driver and fireman did excellent team
work in trying to reach the pipe, but
the bees gave them short shift and
the men refused to make the second
attempt.
III. A. Swab, an expert on bee lore,
bore down upon the scene to capture
the swarm. He was armed with a
nail key and two long sticks He sent
his helper to coax the bees into the
key, but in less than six seconds the
assailant had a score of active bees
up his sleeves, and he made a dash
toward the railway station. Swab also
remembered he had an important bust
ness engagement elsewhere.
The f1remen and members of the
section crew were next routed, and
when the engineer appealed to Agent
Sullivan that worthy declared it was
matter for the maintenance of way
department. The conductor of the
stalled train suggested sending for
the sheriff, while the stoker insisted
on calling out the fire brigade. The
brakeman on the front end offered no
solution, as he was nursing dozen
or more knobs of the size of mature
hickory nuts on face, hands and body.
Finally bystander prescribed the
water cure, adding: If that doesn't
drive EN- away nothing will
"A well-directed stream from a gar
den hose seemed to have uuieting
enect, and the pipe was lowered to
the intake on the tender and the tank
filled with bees and water.
While replacing the pipe the fire.
man was attacked by several strag-
glers, and to protect himself from
further onslaught he tied red ban
danna handkerchief around his head.
After raising the spout he tucked the
handkerchief into his pocket and ac-
cepted the congratulations of the on
lockers upon his escape, but while
hopping his face a vagrant bee
winged it's way out of the folds of the
oandanna and stung him on the lip.
After the excitement with the bees
two small boys climbed to the roof
of the water tank and with bare hands
captured the queen, placing her in the
bottom of the key, into Which the bees
quickly swarmed. SWab bought the
swarm, paying the youngsters S1.25 to
swell the candy and lemonade fund.
md the incident closed"
AS it is not likely that the real
cause of delaying the train will be
Incorporated in the official report to
headquarters, the foregoing record is
made to show how the tie-up occurred. |
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-09-18

"Ary old black auntie, I'D Repre-
sentative Robertson of LLAMA, "the
old black shepherdess wraised me
and who still looks on 1as lamb
of her rearing, grows dmes very
congratulatory.
""Deed l is proud tou, Marse
SAM she said On the osion of our
last meeting. I takes ds'est pride
in yo', honey, an de wa0' does hol'
Office. Yo' is des lax OF father,
Marse Sam. He was IS holm Of
flee, same as yo', horhol Office
all de time, yo' paw die yo' minds
me O. him SO much. q Use proud
O. bofe o. yo'!'
"'Why what office my father
hold?' / asked. / wa bit aston
ished, for, while I hadlim recollec-
ton of the old gentlerrunning sew
eral times, / never kTof any Office
he held.
'sho, Marse sanIs yo' done
gone an forget de se yo' father
hor?' the old auI replied, re-
proachfully. Use 'shd TO yo'. He