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The oasis., 1909-01-16

amputate the ears of his horse or remove it's head.) And it is just such fellows that make ridiculous the newspaper calling, and nullify the power of the press. But of course they have to be endured. They cannot be suppressed by law as can the frauds and charlatans who might flock into the law or the practice of medicine, were the bars let down; for any attempt at their suppression would result in that very subversion of the right of free speech and free press to secure which battles have been fought" They have to be endured. They have the same right to promulgate their views or their lack of views that is possessed by the capable
 
 newspaper man. The same con stitutional guaranty that protects him in giving the community a good newspaper protects the fraud or charlatan in the perpetration of a uondescript that is a disgrace to the community and an eyesore to all right thinking people. And the funniest part of 1t is that those very fellows plume themselves upon their own weight, influence and power. (One of them here in Nogales, last Spring, is reputed to have considered seriously a plan he had in mind for defeating the nomination of Mir. Taft for the pre- sidency, by the tremendous weight and influence of his alleged news paper). As advanced hereinbefore, they have to be endured. The worst sufferer at their hands is the good capable experience newspaper man into whom they butt. They deprive him of revenue that he ought to have, and which would make his paper better, much more representative, and of more value to the community. They can dc little or nothing for the community yet they can and do limit his capa. city for good. He cannot appeal to the law to protect him, as car the doctor or the lawyer, for the very law that is his protection is theirs also. But he has one remedy and that is putting into theil hearts the fear of his command 0 language and the poison of hi ridicule. That is the only protec tion the real newspaper man hai against fakes and pretenders in tn, business. And it is an unfortunat, thing that so much of the force o the real power of the press has t be exercised against the small fir, who imagine vainly that the, wield the power of the press"
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The oasis., 1909-01-16

WHAT with shutting the gates of race tracks all over the country, and prohibition of various forms of gambling, there will be nothing left to the sporty for hazarding their money but mumble-the-peg and iack-straws.
The oasis., 1909-01-16


 handful of type with the constitu- tional right to use them makes a man no more great newspaper man than makes the possession of law library great lawyer of another, nor case of fine surgical instru- ments a great surgeon of a third man. To be a great or even a good lawyer man must have a broad mind, we'll trained in general in formation together with a particu- lar and technical training in the law, to which there must come the accreted power that is given by long experience. To be good sur geon or a good physician a man must possess also a fine intellect we'll trained generally, and tech nically, to which must be added experience. The library, and the instruments and the pills may be all in hand, but they are useless all without the intellect, the train ing, the knowledge and the exper-  fence that enables the possessor to use them with precision and effect. Some years ago the editor of TIE OASIS was travelling in the noun tains of Sonora with a friend who is fine physician. At one point their roads separated, and the doc tor going direct to the railway and out to Arizona, not needing his saddle bags where he was going, asked the editor to take them and leave them at an agreed place where the medico could pick them up on his return by another route Two days later the editor was taken very sick with pleurisy, and lay very ill for more than a week, with all kinds of medicines right at hand, and no one knowing how to use them. Had the doctor been there to apply some one or more of the remedies in the saddle bags, the illness would have been checked at once. That incident is case in point. There at hand was everything that would consti- tute a good physician except the trained intellect and experience, while the patient nearly died for the need thereof.
 Seldom is there found anyone with the presumption to attempt to practice law or medicine without complete and thorough training Yet there are found in the ranks of the newspaper makers all kind: of people. ignorant. illiterate. un. intelligent even, who imagine they have a divine mission to instruct the public mind; and getting holc of tumbledown press and a few cases of type, they mount tho editorial tripod and wield the pon derou8 Eve" with all the grace anc dexterity that rocky" manifest in executing the moulinet in tn, sabre exercise. (They don't le
The Prescott daily news., 1909-03-05
FEAST OF PURIN.

Orthodox Jews are today ob- serving the Feast Of Purin This observance commemorates the deliyerance of the Jews from the plot Of the designing william Ham, an through the heroism of Queen Esther story familiar to all lovers of romantic tales. Why the feast is observed is explained in the book of Esther in the ninth chapter.
The Prescott daily news., 1909-03-05

and coming again in glory to estab- lish His kingdom. the preaching Is not according to the Scriptures. Philip began just where the man was read ing and preached Jesus. and, while 1sa. liil is a specially good portion to begin at and to preach from, there is no part of the whole Bible where He can not be seen and from which He can not be set forth as the suffering and the glorified one.
 There is no possibility of following Him as our example until we have received Him as our Saviour.
The Prescott daily news., 1909-03-05
ELECTION AT HOPE.

Hope. March 4,-The primary held here yesterday for the nom inatiOn of a Democratic ticket for city officers passed off very quietly, though the vote boiled showed a fair turnout of voters. and resulted as follows:
 Mayor-McMiIlan, 1S3; Lowry, 12S; Sanders, v.
 Recorder 263, Roberts, 124.
 Marshall-Bl Black, 40; Grif- fifth, 127 i; Moses, 67 Hamilton, 5S.
 Chas. A. Hervey was nominat tel for treasurer without opposition. First Ward-k. c. McRae and G. k. Breedlove.
 Second Ward--T B. Bowden. and c. c. Spragins.
 Third Ward-W. A. Briant. and J. T. Robinson.
 Fourth Ward-J.L. JamisOn and K. R. Green.
The Prescott daily news., 1909-03-05
WHY WE PUT ON FRlLLS.

Pres.dcnts-elect don't ride un- attended up to the fence, tie the mare tnareto and then hunt up the Ca.es Justice and take the oath or office, On foarths of March, nowadays
 There is much ceremonial pomp in the Twentieth Century in Washington, on the day Of inaug- uration. Huge committees Of men of affairs and initiative for month beforehand have taxed their resources to effect displays which the Fathers might have regarded as unrepublican and extravagantiy wasteful. The cir cumstance of uniformed troops, the blare of brass, the gleaming regalia of go,d-braided staffs, att tend the imposing functlon. Crowding tens Of thousands wit ness it.
 There are those who affect to lament this retrogresSion from a simp icity of which once we were wont to boast. Probably there are some who do not af- feet but truly lament it. But their position is not held on SOL i'd ground.
 The great Republic, the indis- soluble union of eighty millions welded into homogeneity by the spirit Of it's vital institutions, the richest nation in the world, has left the bud and expands luxur- iantiy in gorgeous flower. The magnificence of it's quadrennial official demonstration is but the natural and spontaneous mani- festation of it's consciousness of greatness. The people hail a new chief magistrate because he is of the people and represents in his person the power of the peO- pie who chose him to administer for them.
 There exists no sentiment of adulation for a man, but a feel ing Of swelling pride in the dig nity of the occasion. It is the fete day of Democracy, let the head-shaking pessimists mutter as they may.-St. Louis Times.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1909-05-13
AN INTERESTING PAINT5 TEST.

There IS a very simple and inter-
esting chemical test by which to de-
tcct impurity In paint materials.
Thousands and thousands OF people
all over the country are making this
test. II is a sure way TO safeguard
against tho many adulterated white
leads which are on the market. Any
one can make the test-all that is
needed IS q simple little instrument
which can be had free by writing Ma
tional Lead Company, 1902 Trinity
Building, New York, and asking for
Houseowners' Painting Outfit No. 40.
The Outfit also includes a book OF
color schemes for exterior or interior
painting. or both II you wish, and
set Of specifications. No houseowncr
should make any arrangements for
painting till he gets this outfit.
One can't expect a satisfactory
painting job without pure white lead.
There is a way TO make sure you're
getting a pure white lead-without
testing IT. See that the keg bears
National Lead Company's famous
Dutch Boy Painter trademark, which
is q positive guarantee of purity. Your
dealer probably has this white lead.
II not let National Lead Company
know,
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1909-05-13
The Value Of Radiun,

The value of a speck of radium Is
incredibly great, and when the Hon.
Sydney Holland, at Sir Frederick
Treves' lecture at the London Hospi-
tai last week, picked up the tube con-
tanning the famous surgeons micro
scopic $500 worth of radium bromide
Sir Frederick's concern for lis safety
may not have been altogether assum-
ed. While the late Prof. Curie was
lecturing on the wonderful element one
day in Paris he dropped the glass tube
containing the few grains of radium
with which he was demonstrating.
and, the glass breaking, the precious
powder was scattered all over the
4oor. At once the room was cleared,
every speck of dust collected with the
greatest care, taken to the professors
labo fltoIy, dissolved, recrystalliZed,
and the Tadium extracted from the
refuse again with the loss of only an
infinitesimal fraction. The cost of ra-
dunn bromide is about 97 a MILL
gram, which would mean over $780,
900 for an ounce avoirdupois.-Dunde
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1909-05-13
Not His Place.

Judge Frederick Z. Crane, the
young and brilliant jurist who pre-
sided over the Thornton Hams trial,
has a way of illuminating with an
apt anecdote a point he wishes to
make.
In one of the early cases he so
brilliantly conducted before his ele-
walton to the bench, Mr.. Crane said
said to an obstinately reticent wit
ness:
You seem bent on giving the
court all possible trouble. You are
like the man who sat in the dock
one Sunday morning with a bandag-
ed head.
Prisoner said the magistrate
to this man, you are charged with
having been drunk and disorderly.
What say you - guilty or not
guilty?'"
That's wot you're paid to find
out growled the prisoner. Il
amt got no call to help We do yer
work. philadelphia Bulletin.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1909-05-13

There are occasional doubts IN the
minds OF the elders OF the Morse
family as to the Quickness OF Bob
by's wits, but there has never been
any doubt that lesson once learned
by him, however slowly, is forever
after remembered. Wont you
shake hands with me, Bobby?" ask
ed one OF his sisters admirers, but
Bobby hung back.
Il don't care to-" he said, with
terrible distinctiveness.
Don't you like me?" asked the
unwise visitor.
mo. 1 DON'T" replied Bobby. and
then there was a shocked chorus
from the family.
Bobby" said the aunt, reproach-
fully, as she withdrew him from the
public gaze, why did you say such
a rude thing to Mr.. Brown"
Because, aunty," said her vrig-
Cling charge, 81 got spanked last
week for not telling the truth, and
/ shan't never take any risks again!"
Youths Companion.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1909-05-13

months use of them. Mrs. S. A.
WILLIAMS, r. F. d. No. Il, Box 80,
Gardiner, Me.
No woman should submit to q Surgi-
cal operation, which may mean death,
until she has given Lydia f. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound, made exclusive
ly from roots and herbs, a fair trial.
This famous medicine for women
has for thirty years proved to be the
most valuable tonic and remover OF
the female organism. Women resid-
ing in almost every city and town IL
the United States bear willing testi
mony to the wonderful virtue of Lydia
e. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
It cures female ills, and creates radi
ant, buoyant female health. If yor
are i'll. for your own sake as we'll as
those you love, give it trial.
Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass.
invites all sick women to write
her for advice. Her advice is free,
and always helpful.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1909-05-13
REMARKS From rnE PUP.

She's taught me that 1 mustn't bark
At little noises after dark.
But just refrain from any fuss
Until I'm sure they're dangerous.
This would be easier. I've felt,
IL noises could be seen OF smelt.
She's very wise, have no doubt.
And plans ahead what she's about;
Yet after eating. every day,
She throws her incest bones away.
IL she were really less Obtuse
She'd bury them for future use.
But that which makes me doubt the most
Those higher powers that humans boast,
Is not so much a fault like that,
Nor yet her fondncSS for the cat.
But on our pleasant country strollS
Her dull indifference 10 holes!
Oh. IL I once had time to spend
To reach a holes EXTREMIST end,
I'd grab IL fast without 4 doubt,
And promptly pun il inside out;
Then drag 10 home with all my power
To chew on IL i'm n leisure hour.
OF all the mistrcsses there are
Mine is the lOvelest by far
Fain would 1 wag myself apart
II l could thus reveal my heart,
But on some things l must conclude
Mine is the Saner attitude.
-Harper's Magazine
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1909-05-13

1t amt no use trying to bear II.
cause l can't, nohow."
With his eyes fixed on the sDot on
the opposite hill where the King OF
the Pines had DISAPPEARED into the
night he reeled across the field He
tripped over a stone and in falling
tore his hands on the brambles. but
ne staggered along again until he
reached the gate. where he found he
was too weak to let down the bars.
In his disappointment and despair,
ne stood there, sobbing. Then he laid
down and crawled under. Twice he
tried TO stand on his feet, but each
time his quivering legs collapsed. Fin
ally he crawled across the road and
began to climb the mountain. When
he came into the clearing where the
ungainly saw mill rose vast and dread
"a great black mass casting weird
shadows on the ground-he felt a
tremor pass through him, and cold
sweat saturated his clothes. He
hurried on the quicker, falling over
stumps and stones and bruising his
aching limbs.
When he reached the halfway boul-
der he sank to the ground exhausted
and could only continue the climb by
crawling over the stumps of trees on
his hands and knees. Once he stopped
to listen TO the notes or whip-poor-
VIII, which seemed to him to be an
other expression of sorrow.
I'VE can't none of us bear it, ken
WEI" he cried
When his own group of pines loomed
up in the distance, his strength return
ed and with arms outstretched he al
most ran the rest of the way. When
he reached the King of the Pines he
sank on his knees before it and car
essed its massive roots, with trembling
fingers he sSroked and patted its huge
trunk and cried:
Eye be all mine. Ye be all mine.
Bent ye?"
Through the murmuring branches OF
the monarch tree, the soft night wind
whispered words of comfort to Uncle
Ord. His gasps grew less and less
frequent until he gradually ceased to
sob and finally sank to sleep on the
pine needles.
They laid him away where they
found him, under the King of the
Pines, which still stands alone on the
top of the mountain. faithfully and
necessarily whispering to one who
loved it-and understands.-Bost
Post.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1909-05-13
COMMERCIAL COLUMN
Weekly Review Of Trade and Latest
Market Reports

r. G. Dun & Co.'S weekly review
OF trade says.
With bank clearings outside New
York 1913 per cent better than last
year and 24.5 per cent. better than
IN. 1905, and in New York 24.1 per
cent. larger than In 1908 and 10
per cent larger than in 1906; with
railroad earnings for the month Of
april showing a gain OF 1919 per
cent. over 1908, and only 1913 per
cent. decrease as compared with the
banner year of 1907; with immigra-
ton $4,000 larger than last year;
WIN imports much greater than in
1908 and nearly equal to 1907; with
distinct gain in the iron and steel
trade in both orders and prices; with
a hardening tendency in copper;
with works of new construction go
ing rapidly forward, the trade situa-
ton seems to afford ample grounds
Tor the prevailing belief that as soon
as tarin revision is out of the way
the last obstacle to a full restoration
OF normal industrial and mercantile
activity will be removed.
Bradstreet's says:
Improvement in retail trade,
some regaining of lost ground in
farming operations and a distinctly
more optimistic feeling as to trade
Tor the future are the leading favor
able features in this weeks reports
TO Bradstreet's. Jobbing and whole
sale trade for immediate delivery
SHOWS between-seasons quiet, but fall
trade is developing a better tone and
enlarged demand.
Business failures in the United
States for the week were ga,
against 26S last week, 2SS in the like
week of 1908, 154 in 1907. 1872 in
1906 and 15S in 1906
Wheat. including flour exports
from the United States and Canada
for the week aggregate 1,452.969
bushels, against S96,312 bushels last
week and 1.956,SS3 bushels this
week last year."
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1909-05-13
IL : s:'' %; IS ThOmpSOR'S
RESIGNATION.

Paul Wilstach, playwright. and
biographer of Richard Mansfield, dis
cussed, at the Players Club in New
York, a farce that had failed.
1t wasn't worth much" said Mr..
Wilstach, and ! suppose its author
minds its failure no more than old
JethTo Higgins. of my native Lafay-
cite, minded the decease OF his third
wife.
The minister visited Jethro &c
condOle with him; but the old man.
putting on his pipe. said:
Thank ye. parSOn. fur the visit
and kind words; but as fur Hannah
Maria. she wuz . croSs-Eraine5 crit
ter. and the Lords Welcome % her -
philadelphia Bulletin
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1909-05-13
A TIRELEsS cAMPNGNER.
The Rough, Busy Life CT Travelling
Minister in Missouri.

Two hour speeches three times a
day, long drives and firing rides In
day coaches and chair cars and the
hardships of enduring all varieties
VI food and cooking and beds and
weather make up a program which in
three months has ruined the health
OF many hardy politician; but a min.
lister, the Rev. X. l. Davidson OF Kan
saS City, state superintendent Of Bap-
list Sunday schools. has worked IN
der such a schedule for two years.
gained flesh under it and found spare
time 10 make careful studies in the
sociology and economics Of Missouri
and even in its geology.
In the last 90 days he has travelled
S240 miles, delivered 23O addresses.
preached 10 sermons and held 40
Sunday school institutes-an average
he says, of three speeches a day, each
at least two hours long. His cam
paign is all the year round, and this
is his second year. He further chal-
lenges the admiration of the poIiti.
cal camDaigner by driving sometimes
as far as 20 miles before breakfast. He
never wears rubbers; he never bun.
dies up" Whenever he has the chance
he adds a walk of five or six miles
TO the regular daily program or
takes physical culture exercises in
his room before bedtime. He never
catches a cOld-he can't afford It.
Once in two months he comes to Kan
sas City to take a vacation of four
days of office routine varied with
preaching and addresses. His work
carries him into all but three or four
counties Of the state.
The Ozark country is the part OF
the state that is changing the most
rapidly; and the Ozarks have been
DR.. DavidsOn's special study.
They make up the states new
world he said. do you know the
great principle of life in the Ozarks?
1t is this, that you can't raise enough
Of any one crop to make a good liv-
ing. Nowhere is 1t possible to exist
with less effort, but to be successful
you must be versatile. It is not un.
usual TO find such a combination OF
activities as a farmer who Is a car
penter, the owner of a sawmill and a
sorghum mill, proprietor of a black.
smith shop and a country store, rails
ing corn and fruit, holding a commits
sion as notary public and justice
of the peace and of course doing a
little preaching for nearly every
grown man in the Ozarks is preach.
er.-Kansas City Star.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1909-05-13
NOT DRUGS
Food Did 1t.

After using laxative and cathartic
medicines from childhood a case of
chiC0ic and apparently incurable con-
stipation yielded to the scientific food.
Grape-Nuts, in few days.
From early childhood I sufferea
with such terrible constipation that (
had to use laxatives continuously, GO
ing from one drug to another and suf-
fering more or less all the time.
"A prominent physician whom
consulted told me the muscles Of the
digestive organs were partially par
alyzed and could not perform their
work without help OF some kind. SO
have tried at different times about
every laxative and cathartic known.
but found no help that was at all per
manent. / had finally become dis
couraged and had given my case up
as hopeless when / began to use the
pre-digested food. Grape-Nuts.
Although | had not expected this
food to help my trouble, to my great
surprise Grape-Nuts digested immedi-
ateiy from the first, and in a few DAYS
I was convinced that this was lust
what my system needed.
~The bowels performed their func-
tions regularly and / am now com
pletely and permanently cured of this
awfua trouble.
Truly the power OF scientific food
must be unlimited. There's q Rea-
'on."
Read @The Road to MELVILLE. (" In
,kgs.
Ever read the above letter? A
lew one appears from time TO time.
Sey aEc genuine. true and full OF .
Nan interest.