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Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-09-07

frequently as desired; notices Of such change should giUe both the old and neU address. Call at the office or phone any change yoa UtSh be- fore leduing the city, The subscription rate is the same oat of toVn as in the city.
 The boys of the bar showed their full ap- preciation of the stars and stripes.
 Globes future never was brighter, and there IS nothing the matter with the present
 Halley's comet may decide not to hit the earth, when it sees what number of airships 1t will first have to dodge.
 Simply because the purchasing power of a dollar bill has been trimmed, it does not neces- sarily follow that the bill should be-
 Here's to you, union labor. Despite the in element weather you had an outing day of en- Joyment and you acquitted yourself proudly.
 There are 1S6 religious denominations in the United States. Really, it does seem as if the per capita supply of religion might be larger.
 A former gambling place in New York has
  still largely in favor of the house. however.
 The young king of Portugal is to visit King Edward European royalty must enjoy wis iting in England. It seems to be one place where the bomb-throwers refuse to operate
 The president of Brown university says "the colleges of this country are turning out Hitter Pprhancf mt @I a4l.r departments must be kept up to the standard. no matter what else happens.
 The rice crop, 1t seems, is to be very short this year, but New Jersey announces record breaking mushroom crop Surely nature itself IS not going to line up against the common peo- pie?
 Prosperity is just around the corner says the Philadelphia Times. This game of s'T spv'' with prosperity is getting more or less monoto- nous, however, especially when Globes peorIe has never lost sight of the golden ray.
 Alabama has made it a misdemeanor to use the word saloon" in connection with any bus mess. When 1t comes to stimulating drinks the wise Alabama man even keeps his thoughts to himself nowadays.
 And now England has ''nigger' prob iem,' says the Columbia State The worst of 1t IS France, Spain Italy and lot of foreign countries probably will insist on settling it for her.
 One hundred and forty-six million pounds of catfish were taken from the Mississippi river last spring This nsures sufficient supply of canned salmon for next winters necessities. of course
 "Veloclped isticalstnarianologist is we are informed. the longest word in the Eng fish language Happily for the linotype opera tors and the proofreaders, however. it's use is very, very limited The photograph seems to be about the only machine of relatively late invention that is not out for breaking records these days. says the Washington Herald. Tut, tut, wiseacre. Lastl year over $4,000000 worth of the peskv tbinos were imported. Isn't that breaking record
The Holbrook news., 1909-12-31
Battle of Boston Town.

Constructively to right of them, Allegorically to left of them, Metaphorically in front of them The imaginary instruments of war
 constructively thundered; It was theirs to cogitate upon the req
 son why, So that they might difrerentiate be-
 tween those who should con
 structively die And those who. constructively over
 whelmed. should fly Otherwise, some responsible head
 might have blundered. Into the supposed jaws of death, Into the for r-the-sake- of arguments
 jaws of perdition, Stormed at with theoretical shot and
 shell,
 Rode the metaphysical six hundred: Bridges succumbed to metaphoricaI
 stress, The constructive heroes perished ap-
 parently at the moment of suc-
 cess Fatally wounded in the subliminal
 consciousness. While. constructively. all the world
 wondered. Honor. mathematically, the charge
 they made, Euclid's theorems for the part they
 played. While the differential calculus and
 logarithms in mines construct
 lively laid Detonated and left the ranks con-
 structively sundered- Subtracted from the constructive jaws
 of death, Letting K" equal the theoretical jaws
 of perdition. The problem is to solve the equation
 trigonometrically, And we shall have the remainder of
 the six hundred. constructively Chicago Evening Post.
The Holbrook news., 1909-12-31

| States in an effort to discover the cause of the spread of pellagra, a dis ease of which no authentic case was recorded in America till seven years ago. Pellagra is distinguished by an eruption of the skin resembling ec- zema, but 1t is a much more serious ailment. It frequently causes insan- | ity, and is fatal in more than 50 per cent of the cases. The physicians at present think that it is caused by eat ing food made from corn which has
 been spoiled by the appearance of some fungus growth. It prevails in those parts of Europe where corn is commonly used as a food. There are thirty thousand cases of it in Rouma- mia; in certain parts of Italy from one-third to one-half of the popula- tion Is suffering from it; and in Spain 1t is said that two persons out of ev- cry hundred have 1t. The disease has been known in Spain since 1735, and in Italy since 175O. It was first noted in the United States in Georgia after the influx of Italians had begun. Dur ing the present summer cases have been reported in Massachusetts, in H. nois-there are said to be a hundred and fifty cases in an insane asylum in that State-in North Carolina, Ala bama and Mississippi. When the dis ease in the Illinois insane asylum was diagnosed as pellagra, the use of corn as food was stopped. Pellagra has not hitherto been prevalent in America, it Is supposed, for the reason that the climate is better suited to raising and preserving corn than that of southern Europe. It has been suggested that one cause of it's appearance here lies In the consumption of corn that has been sent to market before it is thor oughly dry. Such corn heats in the cars, but it is ground up as cattle feed, and doubtless some of it gets into the kitchens. There is no need for any one to be seriously alarmed over the matter, for the average American fam fly eats so many other things besides corn that it is in little danger of con. | tracing the disease.
The Holbrook news., 1909-12-31
An UnweIcome Innovation.

"So Lewis Waller is going to tour AmericaI He'll make hit here. He's so dashing"
 The speaker, a New York manager, smiled and resumed:
 Waller will now be able to test the verisimilitude of his American stories He has. you know, host of them. One is about the mining town of Tin Can According to Waller a tenderfoot en- tered Tin Can on an August day in white duck trousers. The residents at once surrounded him, bound him hand and foot and thrust him into the bag gage car of departing train.
 " Never, said the mayor as the train drew forth-'never you come back here, pale face, under no consid- eration agin. We can stand billed shirts, but when 1t comes to piled rousers-wowi'"
The Holbrook news., 1909-12-31

fessional witness. Your case gets into the paper; you are knocked down by a bicycle or run over by a cab. To your house comes a seedy individual
 who tells you that he saw the accident
 and is prepared, for a consideration, to give evidence on your behalf in a court of law touching the responsibil- ity of the cabman or the bicyclist. He has reconstructed the scene" in his own imagination, and warmed by his eloquence and his graphic details, you begin to imagine yourself as the most injured of mortals. Touched by his enthusiasm for your case, you give him something for his trouble, and ar range for his attendance at the case. But the altruism of your visitor has not carried him as far as that; he halts at the something on account"
The Holbrook news., 1909-12-31
1oNDoNER cR1T1c1sEs US.
Our Roads Are Bad and Our Farm ing Unsystematic, He Says.

Our Roads Are Bad and Our Farm
 ing Unsystematic, He Says.
 No country I have visited has such bad roads as the United States re- marked Robert H. Jackson of Woburn Lodge, London, England, at the Shore ham, according to the Washington Post.
 This is surprising to me, for if there Is any improvement a nation can make that pays for itself it is the building of first-class highways I spent several weeks in Indfana-at Terre Haute-and as l am interested largely in farming, I made frequent trips through the surrounding coun- try. Some of the roads were six inches deep in dust, and in the winter time, l doubt not, this dust becomes sludge. How the farmers can get to market with their crops Is beyond me. Your roads, wherever I have been, are gen. orally very bad. In England we have excellent roads. as in other countries of Europe.
 Road building and road improve ment are done through the township unit system. Nearly every township has one or more steam rollers, and the cost of improving the roads or build ing new ones is borne by the property owners in proportion to the value of their holdings. Most of the modern roads of England have a foundation of brick-not the ordinary brick. but brick of large size. Upon this foun- dation Is placed several inches of soil, and on top of this soil blue stone, which is ground into the soil by means of the steam rollers This makes a first-class, durable road that will keep in good condition during all seasons of the year. Over here most of the roads are made by simply turn ing the turf and grading; at least that is how they impressed me.
 Farming. too. is not done in the best manner in the United States" continued MT. Jackson. You let the weeds grow too much. wonder what the people of this country would do If they had the limited area that we have in England and had to depend upon the soil for their prosperity"
 MT. Jackson is an exporter of pota- toes and other products of the earth, and Is visiting the United States for the first time.
The Holbrook news., 1909-12-31
CURIOUS PARIS INDUSTRIES.
One Man Made Living as a "Be-
 fore-and-Af Poser.

One Man Made Living as a 'Be-
 fore-and-After-Tal<i Poser.
 wretched-looking man, long and lean, was charged the other day be- fore the Tribunal Correctionnel with being a vagabond, says the London Pall Mall Gazette. He was asked what his occupation was and replied, T pose for obesity
 The magistrate was mystified, and the prisoner proceeded to explain. He had been employed by a chemist who sold "antifat" to pose for his picture of before" and after" treatment.
 For the first picture he wore a suit of gutta-percha and was then inflated like a balloon; in the second he re- sumed his normal bulk, and that did excellently well for the purpose of contrast. Unfortunately, it was not trade that lasted forever, and here was the poser, face to face with the other poser-how to live on air when 1t has escaped.
 Paris Is noted for its curious indus tries. There is, for instance. the pro-
The Holbrook news., 1909-12-31

In response to the mothers plea, a New England magistrate agreed to dis charge youth accused of larceny and drunkenness if he would join the navy. The judge was evidently unaware of the rules of the department, for when the youth sought to enlist he was re- 5ected on the ground that the Ameri- can navy Is not reformatory for the cure of the vicious. Both the army and the navy properly insist that can didates for enlistment shall be of good moral character.
The Holbrook news., 1909-12-31
TUTORS AS PALS OF STUDENTS.
Direct Contact n Marked Feature of Oxford University Education.

Direct Contact n Marked Feature of
 Oxford University Education. Another important person to the student at Oxford is the tutor, W. W. Boyd says in London letter to the St. Louis Times. The teaching func- ton is performed by two classes of people; by the professors and readers. who teach in the name and with the authority of the whole university, and by the tutors and lecturers, who are appointed and paid by the colleges.
 Until quite recent years all the teaching of a student was done within the walls of his own college. Now all the colleges combine for their public teaching and honor examinations and an undergraduate of one is admitted to the lectures of all. But there is this striking difference between OK ford and an American university. In America, as in Germany, the univer- sity itself is the teaching body and its professors are in each of the vari- ous faculties; so that a students at tendance at lectures is taken into ac count with his examinations. He can not shirk the lectures and then pre- sent himself for an examination only. But in Oxford. so far as obtaining a degree is concerned, man need not have attended a single lecture All his work for the examination may be done under the supervision of his tutor. And the fact is that at Oxford professors and readers are popular, just in the proportion that their lee lures bear upon the subjects of the public examinations and tend to pre- pare the listener for them.
 At most colleges at Oxford the un- dergraduates are distributed among the tutors, a certain number to each. They are not necessarily to attend their lectures, but to regard them as fatherly advisers, who will also assist them in their college work, tell them the lectures to attend for the examt nation for which they are reading provide them with list of books to be read, overlook their readings and help them over the hard places and develop in them, if possible, studioue habits and noble character. It is this direct personal intercourse of tutor and student, of teacher and taught. which Is the most marked and most praiseworthy feature of Oxford uni versity education
The Holbrook news., 1909-12-31
The Expense of Being Careless.

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 A prominent business man, accord ing to Orison Swett Marden, in Sue cess Magazine. says that the careless ness, inaccuracy, and blundering of employees cost Chicago one million dol lars a day. The manager of a large Chicago house says that he has to station pickets here and there through the establishment in order to neutral ize the evils of inaccuracies and the blundering habit, Blunders and inac- curacies cost a New York concern twenty-five thousand dollars a year.
 Many an employe who would be shocked at the thought of telling his employer a lie with his lips is lying every day in the quality of his work, in his dishonest service, in the rotten hours he is slipping into it, in shirk- ing, in his indifference to his employers interests It is just as dishonest to ex- press deception in poor work, in shirk- ing, as to express it with the lips, yet I have known office boys, who could not be induced to tell their employer a direct lie, to steal his time when on an orrand, to hide away during work 1ng hours to smoke cigarette or take
The Holbrook news., 1909-12-31

the power be what 1t wishes be, the dignity to which it finally attains, whether that of grasshopper is the conclusion process analogous ionic life
 The superstitions of science have their root in the medieval concept of matter All the superstions of modern science directly indirectly related to the mechanical concept of matter This concept, inherited from the scholastic first received blow f.om the the of the organic descent of plants and animals from the natural forces and substances
The Holbrook news., 1909-12-31

Souvenir hunting" as it is too charitably styled, has reached a point necessitating stern measures to wipe 1t out Hotel proprietors, who are the greatest sufferers, are usually con tent with adding to the bill, when they detect the thief, the value of goods stolen. That is mistaken len- iency. In the interest of public nor- aIity such offenders should be handed over to the police for prosecution. With judge and jury doing their duty souvenir hunting" would soon cease to be popular.
The Holbrook news., 1909-12-31

Children? There are millions of them! Taxpayers are grooming every where because of the constantly in- creasing levy upon the resources to build schoolhouses and support schools that the swarming multitude may be given the proper chance or start in life, says the Portland Oregonian. In vain do school trustees exert them selves throughout vacation period of each year to provide room for the in creased number of children that each succeeding September sends trooping to the schoolhouse doors demanding admittanoe. Equally in vain do the good district fathers" in the rural sections strive 10 keep ahead of the yearly increasing outflow of juvenile life from the .farmhouses of a popu- lous, prosperous land AS for villages. their streets are thronged and their homes and schools are crowded with children. There is no lack of child life anywhere except in the fevered imagination of the alarmist and the homes of the relative few, to whom nature, perhaps for good reasons of her own, has declined to send children.
The Holbrook news., 1909-12-31

Out of the seething turmoil of as- ssrtions and contradictions in connec- ton with the discovery of the pole comes the London paper which ex- plains to its readers that Lieutenant Peary did not literally nail the flag to literal pole, as there is no pole eherel
The Holbrook news., 1909-12-31
NO MONEY FOR STREET BEeGARs
How Charity Often Forces UnfOrtu- mates Into Ranks of PanhandIeFa.

| How Charity Often Forces Unfortu-
 mates Into Hanks of PanhandIera.
 Money should never be given to street beggars," says Theodore Walters in "Six Weeks in Beggardom," in Ky srybodys Magazine Tt is impossi- ble for the average person to discrimi- nate offhand between the genuinely needy and the professional panhan- dler. There are many overland people who prefer to give to all rather than that one go hungry, and If there were no depots of immediate relief. this might prove a good rule. But in the existing conditions the possible conse- quences are too fraught with danger to the genuinely unfortunate for the practice to be continued by any right thinking persons.
 The danger of giving the unfortun- ate money offhand is that you may force him into the ranks of profession al beggardom. However honest he may be in first intention, unless he have definite goal before his eyes and men who are down and out sell dom have such-he will more than likely return to the same free fountain at which he so easily quenched his in- itial thirst
 There are many cases to prove this. 1 know of one man who until a year or two ago owned a profitable little fruit shop in a side street far down town. One night, having locked up the shop and being ready to start home, he found himself by accident without money to pa.- his carfare. He stopped a man on the street and asked him for 5 cents. He got 1t so easily that he determined next day to tell the story often and get many nickels. He did so and the practice became so re- munerative that despite his wife's pleadings and protests he sold the lit tie shop and became regular beg gar"
 Never do panhandlers make the mis- take of appealing to the reason-the motions of the crowd only are attack edl there is always a complete human story in the pose. What, for instance, could be more compelling of sympathy than the spectacle of the bent old gray head patiently and despairingly. as it seemed. grinding a wheezy old organ which he had tied into a broken-down baby carriage? The suggestiveness of that perambulator. coupled with the walls of that organ, more forlorn than mortal child ever uttered, was worth dollars day to the old fellow. It was art-reprehensible art of course but art nevertheless. And the artist grew rich, for when investigated by the police he was found to be the own CT of many houses in Hoboken.
 Again, could there be anything moro likely to excite compassion than the crust-throwing trick? It was invented by German beggar named Lang. whose French disciple, Lemaire, prac- ticed it subsequently,. I have seen a crust-thrower operating in 9th avenue. It was before the time of this investi- gation He was a semi-well-dressed the crowds of shoppers. Suddenly he uttered a horse cry and darted out into the roadway. where, bouncing upon crust of bread, which he had thrown there previously, he began gnawing it ravenousl--. He did not wait for sympathy. i-a walked rapid ly away, but a number of women who saw the act ran after him and crowd ed one another for the privilege of giv- ing him money,
The Holbrook news., 1909-12-31
Cognomen suitn Him

Figg-That chap notice you going into the club with so often is one of the best dressed men in town. What is his name?
 Fogg-Owen Taylor, and he lives up to it.-Boston Transcript
The Holbrook news., 1909-12-31

Lovers are getting more impatient every day. One in Pennsylvania shot himself because his sweetheart didn't come down stairs on time.
The Holbrook news., 1909-12-31

If one is at all inclined to talk, the North Pole controversy offers fully as fascinating an opening as the Ameri- can tarif. It is not necessary to be hampered by much exact knowledge in either case.
The Holbrook news., 1909-12-31
A Prudent Young.ter.

And you say your teacher whipped you cruelly?"
 Yes, dad"
 Show me the marks" "I can't, dad. There ain't no marks ' No marks?" for it"
The Holbrook news., 1909-12-31

Anna Besant says the coming man will be seven feet tall. It will fatter ex-Vice-President Fairbanks to have the coming man fashioned after his own style of architecture.
The Holbrook news., 1909-12-31

For a woman who confesses that she is not less than 12.000 years old, Mrs. Annie Bessant is the best pre- served person of her sex now in cap dvity.
The Holbrook news., 1909-12-31

Wrangell Land, which lies well with in the Arctic Ocean, is an eminently fitting place for Cook and Peary to meet and settle their dispute.
The Holbrook news., 1909-12-31

If flies are such horrible menace, the milkman and the grocer could tell you of kitchens where the cook de- serves a hero medal.
The Holbrook news., 1909-12-31

Love making Is going to be easier this winter. The waist line is to be moved to its proper position, where 1t may be located without difficulty.
The Holbrook news., 1909-12-31

A man with a bald head was shot by boy hunting turtles Moral: If you're shy on hair, don't masquerade as a turtle.
The Holbrook news., 1909-12-31

a nap, not realizing, perhaps, that lies can be acted as we'll as told, and that acting a lie may be even worse than telling one.
The Holbrook news., 1909-12-31

As further evidence that there are two sides to every question, a woman's anti-suffrage association has been started in New York.
The Holbrook news., 1909-12-31

Don't be anxious to be told secret. It is nearly always something urpleas- ant. and when it gets out you will be accused of telling it.
The Holbrook news., 1909-12-31
The poNvntroddcn.

"The world wipes its feet on me-" said the doormat.
 And every mans hand Is against me-" said the push button.-Kansas City Times.
The Holbrook news., 1909-12-31

But the dead at the mine may not be the most serious of the community problems His injured broth perhaps helpless burden upon the community from the of the accident until the end of long life may be the pitiable figure of the two. And for every 2000 of coal produced there is the injured at the mine Applying the death and injured rate to the 30000O,OO0 tons of coal produced annually in the whole country the dead the mine numbers
The Holbrook news., 1909-12-31

An Indiana editor has suddenly in- herited S400,O00. Now he can bring out his poems in book form
The Holbrook news., 1909-12-31

The next man who goes to the North Pole will take white notary public with him.
The Holbrook news., 1909-12-31

The cotton crop is so short that one might think the speculators had done the hoeing this season.
The Holbrook news., 1909-12-31

The geographies will have to be re- vised and that means more dividends for the school book trust.
The Holbrook news., 1909-12-31

A cure for the sleeping sickness is reported Father used to be the cure' when the boys suffered from it.