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Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-07-27
Unkind to the Drummer

Commercial Traveller, in New York Su-
 What remarkable difference thef' is in the reception accorded travelh. men in New England and New loIl state. used to hear men "making Boston and vicinity bemoan then taf and pray for a transfer to any otha territory, but really never aPPe ciated why until l left the Puritan ger ritory.
 In the Empire state if is easy to s' an audience; the buyer listens W',' interest to your story. In Boston !" hard to get in, and the air of the a' craze business man, aye. and won'r, impresses you that they first oi !" think you are there to swindle them
 recall an instance of one man i'O' Texas who was trying to introduce new drink-a drink that had prove a winner in many, many places ng poor fellow, could not even get an aOu enee, while the New York state n'' was selling nearly every one n', many others are there who have p'' the same experience. ,..
 One man after hearing the fan''" "We.I. what is it7' said in 'O'' known only to the BostoDese, ana ''' ing the territory, said to a friend; ,,
 If ever you can write me oi 'D town getting hard jolt draw oD :, for big blowout. l would ISe see these hard hearted cusses se' good and proper.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-07-27
Reflections of q Bachelor Girl
By Maude Nitric

When counting the cost of getting mar red, don't forget the alimony
 It is so hard for girl to hold her skirts just high enough to escape the mud and just low enough to escape criticism.
 It is only in novels that men ''love not wisely, but too well;" in real life most of them love too wisely and too often--to love well.
 When man compares girl to queen or a saint, she may feel fattered but it isn't until he begins to compare her to kitten or baby that she has any reason to feel per fectly sure of him.
 There is nothing like wife's absence to make her husbands heart grow fonder-of any woman who happens to be near.
 You can never make man believe that the way to sew on button is not to stab 1t through the heart as though it were an en- emy and then strangIe it by winding the thread round it's neck.
 Grass widows are so lucky; as soon as one man begins paying woman alimony, some how all the others begin paying her atten- ton.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-07-27
JUVENILE IMAGINATION

JUVENILE IMAGINATION
 The other day metropolitan newspaper put before it's child d-readers very serious tempta tion. It asked them what they would do if they had a million dollars.
 Even the normal child, like "the lunatic, the lover, and the poet" is "of imagination all compact" Goethe said he got from his mother his ''Lust gu fabuliren''-his passion for fc tion. So the child gets from its mothers ex- haustless power of fiction and half f-created lore its passion for fancying things, for living in world as remote from its real conditions as are castles in Spain or Isles of the Blessed It seems hardly wise to fire this fancy of the child into imagining what it would do with fortune so great that it cannot be conceived, and thus encourageng it to downright pretense and hy pocrisy.
 What would normal child do with $1 ,000- GOO! Would it not if left to itself, tear up the pretty paper in sport, or stick it around on wall and doll houses; or, if in gold, would it not nat urally, consider the yellow counters merely as playthngs? But, apparently, only the abnorm al children undertook to answer the riddle They proved to be more general than older million aires, and would scatter golden shower over the world There would be no more poverty or distress.
 One boy said that he would turn over his for tune to orphan asyIums and the Salvation Army.
 ''lf $l.000,000 were mine to spend,' wrote one delightfully."- sentimental Tommy 'I would use but little of it for myself" As Swinburne would say: 'Oh, child, what news from Heavens"
 eff had a mother' wrote another young sentimentaIist, '' would support her. l would buy comfortable home to live in, give some money to the poor, and help build them homes. ;"
 If seems that one of the boys struck a sort of average of humanity, but could not hold to it. He would buy himself an automobile But would he use it seIfshy! Not he! He would take the poor people out riding in his luxurious car.
 'Why encourage this sort of thing! A little later in life these pious little fellows will look about them, see men that have the coveted mil lion dollars and will know well what they are doing with it. If they shall have retained this pretty nonsense in their heads, they may then find their milk of human kindness soured and learn to despise those that are rich in every thing save ideals and generosity.
 It is too easy thing to spoil child. and to turn it into a sickly sentimentaIist or thor oughgoing little hypocrite. Let it alone, to pre- serve it's sweetness until such time as age and slow training may ripen its imaginings into true ideals for it's older years.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-07-27
FLOWERS

An observer of the why's and wherefores of howers-especially roses honeysuckle, and hyaclnths, 1t seemS-has reached the deliberate conclusion that they are possessed of certain senses, and undoubtedly show marked and well defined sentiments of affection for those who tend them regularly and treat them kindly.
 While the process of reasoning through which these conclusions are reached-too elaborate and involved for recital hereinZmay be some thing less than wholly convincing it neverthc less requires no violent stretch of the imagina- ton to believe it may be entirely sound and worthy of serious consideration. Flowers yield readily enough to the persuasive blandishments of friendly treatment, while the influence of sensible cultivation is easily traced when in telhgently contemplated, we think.
 1t is by no means the most beautiful flower however-from standpoint of physical perfec ton alone-that commands our deepest affec- tions It is quite possible to conceive that the old-fashioned pink might in certain circum- stances, be an object of much more tender soIci- tude than an American Beauty rose; and much more capable of returning one's affection, more over. It seems to be an invarabe rule that the artificial and scientific stimulation of a flower from its natural primitive state to- a much higher place in the scale of things physc- ally beautiful causes it to lose it's perfume as the evolution progresses, until, ultimately, while it shines forth, apparently, an approxi- matey perfect thing, its soul is no more
 People who love flowers are usually of gentle mold and know much of real happiness in this world. The man who sees more in the yellow heart of a garden rose than in the face of yellow coin is getting very close to the best there is of all the good things in this world we suspect. Those people who get the maximum of pleasure from flowers are they who appreci- ate them in their simpler forms the morning glories, the climbing honeysuckIe, the vioIets along the walk, the rose hedges, and the holly hooks. Stately and grand may be the ire proachably magnificent thing that lives because a thousand of it's kin have been sacrificed that 1t might be, but of such is not the real kingdom of flowers. It is cold unconditional. and unfeel- ing, and it can know no more real warmth of affection than if it were dead If it loves any one or anything, it must be itself, for it was fashioned and created in selfishness-it was designed to stir the emotions of one of two classes of people, the blase or the devotees of idle things. Good wine needs no bush: beauty
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-07-27
Press Comment
Horrors of Old Tert D..

I young pupils in our sche free rom some of the horrors 'q which the text books of their e vFl were strewn. A recent iBs,o.,: '' son of these educational anti, recnii interesting reminiscercor ,'l sur rising to note the prevol. harl drinks among their naoo. lad of generation ago. when h. Y ed. put together glasses of v, ' tod lies, and dippers of oin total of course, was of the nr,, Y moi of such a shocking mixture 4, the problems involved the tr.oi. 's' these melancholy examples of ,,' life: '"'l
 If 9 cats have killed IS birJy many has each killedg D''
 If cat divides birds ba,r kittens, how many will each L;. have! '''7
 A skunk went into barn vbo. found 3 nests; one had : eggs. anoa' s, and another 3. From each ' he ate ? eggs. How many da 7, skunk eatl
 Or the youthful mind might no,a over tragedies such as these
 A man had : children; } of :, were killed by the fall of a tree m many had he left!
 Three-seore and ten kings had n. thumbs and great toes cut oF Y gathered under the table of ,d', bezek. How many thumbs and ,,. were under Adonibezek 's table,
 A person was + years of ace years since, and suppose he will drowned 23 years hence; pray. in v,. year of his age will this happen.
 A human body, if baked until an fl moisture is evaporated. is reduced weight as l to 10. A body that weia 100 pounds, when living, weighs \, much when baked.
 Again, geographies depicted uo grewsome events, such as wolf h,;,, ing down a deer, an earthquake destw ing people. boa constructor crush, victims, savages roasting captives ,, the Hindoo suttee. Modern school M is more cheerful for the youngsten
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-07-27
His Motto

The hobo had asked for hand-out, or cold bite
 Why" inquired the householder "do you tell such an elaborate line when the truth might perhaps serve better!"
 Art fer art $ sake, my good sir, :" responded the wayfarer with Chesterfeldian bow.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-07-27
LET YOUR PAPER FOLLOW YOU

Tue SHver Belt wW be mailed upon request to subscribers leaving the city during tue sum- mer months. Change of address wiN be made ds frequently as desired; notices of such change should giUe both the ol0 aud meaV address. Call ct tue office or phone any change you wish be- fore lea0ing tue city. The subscription rate is the same out of toCn aS in the city.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-07-27
Had Heard Pa Speak of Hi

 From the Philadelphia Times. lt was at White House reeen,,, that Philadelphian picked up cho,, gem which he never tires of telm, A charming girl of eighteen. |, daughter of a western publisher. a.I quite society queen in her own citT had been brought to Washington by bs father, and at one of the White Hons receptions was presented to Presidet Roosevelt.
 As the small hand disappeared in ii, hearty grasp of the president, the mad en looked up at him and, smiling swee ly. said:
 l" m awfully glad to meet you. Nj Roosevelt; I've often heard faths speak of you.''
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-07-27
Great Modern catsstrOphes

From the Los Angeles Express :,
 Among the great catastropheS or . world may he reckoned the san cisco fire, the Messina eartbquake, 7, the Chino American celebration o' ,oa Fourth of July. Fifty killed anu n . injured make up the present TO" ' the last disaster.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-07-27

needs not the foreign aid of ornament; and the sweetest flowers need only that cultivation necessary to protect them from the weeds, the winds and the weather.
 That such flowers as these latter may be possessed of sense of pure and undefled af- lection we more than half way believe to be true
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-07-27
JVe M0rtdls

To certain heights do we aspire. And yet, l guess, If we had nothing else, we'd tire Of happiness. If we were not unhappy some We'd worry more; For happiness would soon become A dreadful bore.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-07-27
Stdoing q Trial

'Now your conduct during the trial may have considerable effect on the jury"
 "Ah, quite so responded the ultra swell de fendant And should 1 appear interested, or just mildly bored?"
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-07-27

A Florida republican explains that "thc high cost of chickens is not because of the protective tariff on beef, but because the negroes steal so many chickens" If the negro has any political friends left in this country, we should like to know where they are!
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-07-27
The Humorous Grind

'Wlat is your standard of excellence in a joke"
 "Well," explained the humorist, ''I use it when it isn't any rottener than some others have written.''
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-07-27
The F0LnRteer Bri1nde.

''Get out the hose reel, Si! Peleg Whiffie- trees barn is afire.'
 'Can't do it, Seth. That hose reel was jest painted today"
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-07-27

The women could bring the men to terms in hurry, if they would only decline association with them for ninety days" says militant suf- fragette Still, right in the middle of the ice cream season seems hopeless time for putting that theory in practice.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-07-27

The young Duchess de ChauInes is reported engaged to Prince Joachim Murat, but her father emphaticalIy denies the rmor." An! That, we believe, precisely parallels the original de Chaunes- Shonts announcement
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-07-27
IL Has

''I read 'The Count of Monte Crsto' recent Iy."
 How'd you like itg''
 ''Very much. Reads as if it might have been a six-best- seller at one time"
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-07-27

A Kansas man claims to have discovered perfectly graftless system of city government. The only trouble with his invention, we suspect, is that, like perpetual motion, it will not work
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-07-27

The hotel clerk struck Paradise Among crowd, And all he got was just cot Upon cloud.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-07-27

F'ifty-odd lieutenant coloneIs and one lone some major have been appointed to serve on the staff of the governor of Georgia The major however, will enjoy sort of splendid solation'
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-07-27

It has been definitely ascertained that the tsetse fly is not responsible for the sleeping sickness" This would seem to put it up to Philadelphia again to prove it's innocence.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-07-27

Bwanna Tumbo getting "homesick?" 1t seems so entirely probable that We do not doubt it, even little bit.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-07-27

Senator La Folette says that the Payne Aldrlch bill increases the rates of duty 565 per cent. Senator Shoot says it all depends on what basis the computation is made on And so 1t IS as true today as it ever was that there are two sides to the shield, says the Deseret News. Also that it makes considerable difference who is doing the figuring.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-07-27
W0nld Be Nice

"I don t know where to go this summer" "They all say their board is good"
 "Yes; 1 wish l could write for samples" 7"
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-07-27
Tue Bug6edr

Whats bogey at your golf club!" "The dues.''
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-07-27
Of Course

And if everybody lived in New York that registers from New York, New York would be twice as big"
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-07-27

Although his fellow Georgians call him :" Lit tie Joe" Brown, he is going to have the biggest military staff ever
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-07-27

Why are some of our contemporaries so con trary! One of them recently trotted out ''the crime of '13, and now comes the JOlnstowl Democrat wanting to know If it is not about time to open up the Brownsville affair aguin:'
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-07-27
MORNING SMILES
4 Mean Man

4 Mean MdR ''Her husband is brute. ''As to howl" and then put the money into a horse.''
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-07-27
His Altitude

"He stands on his dignity good deal"
 ''Yes and he seems to think that elevates him as much as standing on barrel"
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-07-27

The Standard Oil company already makes a yellow axle grease that is probably as good to eat as its pewfangled pet ol' ,lier
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-07-27

Having killed dpga linga and traed dig dig, why does not Mr. Roosevelt keep his eye peeled for a jabberwok!
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-07-27

Down in Georgia nowadays they say the wis itor without suit case is not cordially per- mitted to get off anywhere.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-07-27

According to the Chicago Record Herald. a New Jersey man has invented combination lawn mower and graphophone. That is, in all probability, the most terrifying implement ever fashioned by human hands.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-07-27

"The country will enjoy prosperity when the tariff is out of the way,'' says Mir. James J. Hill It is somewhat difficult to determine whether this entities Mr. Hill to go head or foot
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-07-27
Where She Started From

had to go.
 "Yes, woman is pretty near down to the original rib''
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-07-27

An editor m Ohio married young lady who had been contributing verse to the columns of his paper, /" says the Columbia State Seems to us Euterpe may have been putting n'' on Cupid's business
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-07-27

An Orville Wright in the air is worth a dozen hgh-brow critics on the ground nevertheless and notwithstanding.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-07-27

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 LET YOUR PAPER FOLLOW YOU
 The Silver Belt wW be mailed upon request to subscribers leaving the city during tue Sum- mer months. Change of address aoiN be made ds frequently as desired; notices of such change should giUe both the ol0 aud neaV address. Call at tue office or phone any change you wish be- fore leaUing tue city. The subscription rate is the same out of tOUn aS m the city.
 Bwanna Tumbo getting "homesick?" 1t seems so entirely probable that we do not doubt it, even little bit.
 A Kansas man claims to have discovered perfectly graftless system of city government The only trouble with his invention, we suspect is that, like perpetual motion, it will not work
 Although his w-Georgians call him "Lit- tie Joe' Brown, he is going to have the biggest military staff ever.
 '''Ihe women could bring the men to terms in : with them for ninety days" says a militant sui fragette. Still, right in the middle of the ice cream season seems hopeless time for putting that theory in practice
 1t has been definitely ascertained that the tsetse fly is not responsible for the sleeping sickness" This would seem to put it up to Philadelphia again to prove it's innocence 
 Florida republican explains that "thc high cost of chickens is not because of the protective tariff on beef, but because the negroes steal so many chickens" If the negro has any political friends left in this country, we should like to know where they are!
 Why are some of our contemporaries so con trary! One of them recently trotted out 'the crime of 13, /" and now comes the JohnstownI Democrat wanting to know If 1t is not about time to open up the Brownsville affair again."
 Having killed dipga lmga and trailed a dig dig why does not Mr. Roosevelt keep his eve peeled for jabberwok'
 Down in Georgia nowadays they say the wis ltor without suit case is not cordially per- mitted to get off anywhere
 The Standard Oil company already makes a yellow axle grease that is probably as good to eat as its rewfanglcd pet 'ol" tier
 'The country will enjoy prosperity when the tariff is out of the way'' says Mir. James J Hill It is somewhat difficult to determine whether this entities Mr. Hill to go head or foot.
 An editor in Ohio married young lady who had been contributing verse to the columns of his paper" says the Columbia State. Seems to us Euterpe may have been ''butting in' on Cupid's business An Orville Wright in the air is worth dozenI high-brOw critics on the ground, nevertheless and notwithstanding. According to the Chicago Record Herald. q New Jersey man has invented a combination lawn mower and graphophone That is in all probability, the most terrifying implement ever fashioned by human hands
 Senator La Folette says that the Payne Aldrch bill increases the rates of duty 565 per cent Senator Shoot says it all depends on what basis the computation is made on And so 1t IS as true today as it ever was that there are two sides to the shield, y says the Deseret News Also that 1t makes considerable difference who is doing the figuring
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-04
Cleaner School Books.

During the busy days of the last SEES
sion OF the Maine Legislature an amend
ment to our school laws was sent
through the law making channels which
deserves more attention than it received
at that time. The amendment pro-
vides that mo second hand books shall
be purchased for use in any school;
any person violating this provision
shall forfeit not exceeding five hundred
dollars to be recovered in an action of
debt by any school officer or person
|aggrieved.''
The bill was proposed in the
interest of cleanliness and health
fulness and is step in the right
direction. The difference in cost be-
tween new books and old is not so
large that it spells financial embarras-
ment for any community. The insur-
ance that the books the children use
are free from disease germs is worth
more than the difference in cost.
Books are splendid vehicles for carry
ing disease from one person to another,
unless they are properly fumigated.
Maine has taken a wise stand in thus
protecting her children
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-04
Let This Country Have the Next Avia
ton Meet.

lnasmuch as aerial navigation in a
fully accomplished in this country, and
inasmuch as an American won the in
races in Rheims, France, there would
seem to be no good reason why the
next international meet of this charac-
ter should not be held in the United
States. Such contests could be held
under the auspices of the Aero club of
this country which IS associated with
the International Aeronautical Fedora
ton, and which could be depended up
OH to establish the fairest possible
rules governing the contests and to see
that they were rigdly and impartially
enforced.
The suggestion has been made that
the leading cities of this country should
compete for the honor of holding this
international meet, hut inasmuch as
the first important matter is to secure
it for this country, this question, which
is, at best, a matter of detail may well
be held in allegiance until the Aero club
has definitely settled the main ques-
ton. Its representatives can have nc
hesitation in assuring the representa-.
tives of other countries that the big
meet, if held in the United States, viii
be conducted under the very best pos.
sib]e welcome, and that every possible
courtesy will be shown visiting avia.
tors.
There would undoubtedly be tn,
| warmest kind of a contest among tn,
great American cities for the honor O.
| holding the meet, which would be sur,
to attract enormous crowds, and al
that would remain for the Aero clul
would be to select the one which pre-
scented the most favorable conditions
and offer the most substantial induce
ments.