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Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-14
THE RAZOR AND THE LAW
.hen IS a razor not a razorg

When is a razor not razors
 May a brave citizen carry a safety razor in the dark of the moon without being arrested for having deadly weapon in his possession?
 These are grave questions, raised in local court in North Carolina, and their difficulty seems so complex that legislation may be re quired.
 It appears that one negro had caused the ar rest of another on the charge of carrying con eealed a safety razor The complainant averred that the enemy thus armed had threatened to cut his head off
 The court held that no colored man could de- capitate another with such an instrument, whereupon the complainant propounded the fol lowing query:
 ''Whaffor he got it if he can't cut nobody wifi it?'
 There, indeed, is raised a perplexing prob lem.
 To the mind of the African razor is a razor, without regard to qualifying adjectives.
 A razor that cannot cut off a head, even by way of ferocous threat, is an anomaly. It's utility is destroyed It's ultimate potentiality vanishes.
 A safety razorn is self-contradicton
 A razor that cannot decapitate is without a reason for being It is inconceivabIe that this instrument should be banished from the field of feud to the innocuous dressing table. The use of the razor as an article of the toilet has been always secondary to its importance on the field of Mars.
 Thus does the progress of invention create new problems for legal minds to solve.
 One answer may be that the conservative and cumulative colored denizens of the south will hereafter cling to the old-fashoned razor of the fathers.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-14
A COMPETITION AT ROME

The fiftieth anniversary of the unity of Italy will be celebrated at Rome next year, and one feature will be an architectural exhibition A competition will be that for the building of a modern house." As set forth, the purpose is that of affording the best criterions for the building of a modern house, in order to attest, with the originality of the architectural mod els, the variety of the decoration, and the ele- gance and practical usefulness of the furniture, the progress that has been realized during the last thirty years in thfs kind of building and to display the latest productions and needs of civil ization in the various nations. Three prizes of 10000, 100000 and 50,000 lire will be awarded There will also be two prizes of 50900 lire each, four of 10000 lire, and six of 5000 lire, for painting and sculpture; 10000 lire to be divided among black or colored engravings, monotypes, Autographs, and illustrations, and 10000 lire for the best criticisms of the International Art Ex- hbition of 1911, published in foreign and Italian newspapers.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-14
MORNING SMILES
PAantobls of Me Pqst

PhdntomS of tue Past The road to yesterday l sought And got jolt, For soon met the man who bought My spawned colt. A little farther on I met A tilted flame The.episode brought but regret And utter shame. I left the beaten highway then, And quickly, for I saw advancing from glen A creditor. Forthwith I sought my own abode In furtive way, And very glad to quit the road To yesterday.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-14
H0Hday Hints

Do your Christmas swapping early.
 Time to work off that old joke about the sweet buy and buy.
 Be patient with the busy clerks; servile, if necessary
 The bellboy now your clothing dusts, the jan itor's less grim; and each of them devoutlv trusts that yule remember him.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-14
He Specifes

'Now, hubby, tell me something. y '.Well9"
 "What sort of cigars do you want for Christ mas2 want to get the proper kind this year. "Panatellas They're just the shape of your new tube gown.'
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-14

Service acknowledged of notice that Mr. John D. Wells of the Buffalo News, repudates fel- low-townsman who recently sold his wife for $l5O As becomes one in sympathy with this repudiation, we hereby point the finger of scorn at that impossible person. thus adding material ly, we hope to his intense humiliation.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-14
College Timber

''I have good position to offer worthy col lege graduate. 1 presume you have some fine young men in your senior class?''
 Sure" said the professor. "What are your requirements! Would football player suit you or do you prefer mandolin expert?'
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-14

( Uncle Joe Cannon may be a standpatter," '" says a contemporary. There are people still, apparently, who incline to give Uncle Joe" the benefit of the doubt, no matter how infnitesmal.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-14
4 Modern IduL

Here's a suffragette marries a chauffeur-a down n-to-t -the-minute romance" As to how!''
 "They met in jail"
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-14
At He Reception

Me no speakee Chinese veily well,'' ex- plained the hostess on welcoming a distinguish ed visitor from the fowery kingdom.
 No matter" responded the latter ''I can converse in English"
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-14

Mr. George Bernard Shaw's fear that he might be arrested as public nuisance'' if he should visit this country is entirely unfounded. George would, we apprehend manage to get ad- .rertlsing in some other way, nevertheless and notwithstanding.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-14

A Pennsylvania planter says there are seven teen different varieties of chestnuts. Why, there are at least that many varieties of stand-pat ar guments known to Pennsylvania politicians.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-14
She ErpLains

What is this contrapton you're making9" It might be used for number of things" !" But what is it intended for?"
 For Christmas present"
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-14

Five hundred marriage licenses were issued in Chicago on Thanksgiving day. Marriage is one industry the tariff and its consequent in- iquities have never been able to depress ever so slightly
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-14

That gentleman who proposes Roosevelt shant" as democratic battle-cry probably is away under cover, a friend of the former presi dent all right.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-14

The Silver Belt has larger paid cir culation than any daily newspaper in the world published in city with 12,00O or less population.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-14

The advertiser is the man who has the goods. Watch the columns of the Silver Belt.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-14
The Question,

He eddies like broken spar
 Where tides of shoppers flow And murmurs to himself: "How far Will twenty dollars go?"
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-14

Rameses the mummy is now in Boston, and will soon go to New York He will not be per mitted to vote, however, until he reaches Phla- delphia
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-14

There are some people who hold to the opin- ion that Mesquite street would have been "prop- erly graded" had about five additional feet been trimmed off the thoroughfare at the intersection of Hill. The Silver Belt is free to admit that there is plenty of ground for the aforesaid con tention.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-14
Some Comfort

'tOur romance is different
 l.suppose he tells you that you are the only girl he has ever loved?"
 No; but he has never loved this near Christ mas.'
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-14

Pennsylvania grocer has. demonstrated that his eggs were fresh by eating them, according to a news story. The doctor, however, who has taken his own medicine is still open for mod ern Christopher Columbus, or a Cook or Peary
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-14

Just nine more shopping days before Christ mas. Do it this week.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-14

The Young Turks have notified Abdul Hamid that he will be buried in the royal tomb when he passes away, and with all due sultanesque cere mony. That should cheer up Abdul consider ably.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-14

France has raised the tariff on the importa- ton of cotton seed oil. When cotton seed oil gets to be as high priced as olive oil doubtless the great American public will discover that it likes it quite as well, anyway
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-14

Representative Fowler thinks the republican party is doomend unless it swaps 'Cannonism' and "Aldrlchism" for something presumably "Fowerism, " whatever that is.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-14
PeRuri0aS

He has a gift for. saving that Is so intense He never tells a story at His own expense.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-14

The trend toward conservation is apparently decided, but lye hominy is still referred to by its real name.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-14

Well, if Oak street insists, expect the grading outfit might just as well make that street the next stop
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-14

Governor Hadley protests that he is tired of having that old show me" joke handed his way at banquets, dinners, and things. Even as Gen eral Sherman came to abhor "Marching Through Georgia
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-14

One slight annoyance in connection with being son of the revolution in South America IS that one always has to stop and think which revolution it was" says the Ohio State Journal And one cannot be a son of all of them, because there are not lodge nights enough to go round
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-14

It is being pointed out that Zelaya's name is pronounced as though the two last syllables were spelled ''liah.'' Give dog bad name and everybody rubs it in, of course.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-14

Antl-prohibition doctors are now diagnosing the south's ailment as acute, rather than chronic, waterwagonitis. There are, as usual, numerous dissenting professional opinions, however
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-14

People who prefer their dramatic criticism short and incisve will appreciate this from the Peoria Herald-Transcrpt: /" "The Witching Hour, Saturday night, was an interesting play, in spite of the actors.'
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-14
OMite So

There are so many things one must learn by experience"
 We'll we can t learn everything by mail :,
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-14

President Diaz's statement that he "would rather shake the hand of an honest workingman than that Of millionaire" may be utterly sin cere. There is never the slightest doubt of Diaz $ election.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-14

Five wives have presented themselves as witnesses against a Columbus, Ohio, man, ? says the Springfield (Mo.) Republican. A jail sen tence probably has nc terror for that defendant.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-14

Public service and corporation people should cultivate the habit of smiling and looking pleas ant Newspapers in particular are rather diff ficult to "head in''
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-14

According to the news dispatches it took the senate exactly thirteen minutes to open the new session. Oh, Fate!
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-14

This year s corn crop is worth only trifing $1, 1,720OO0,00O. However, "Uncle Sam" will also have a little wheat, cotton, potatoes, and things to sell.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-14

It is interesting if not significant, that simul- taneously with the meeting of congress comes the announcement of the invention of perfect talkmeter.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-14
Not Like Me Staqe

She spurns my suit. ''
 Oh, you bound to get the girl in the end , "I m afraid not. Life ain't no melodrama ,
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-14
Of CoNrse

"But our ideas!''
 What of themg'' 'sAre they higher than they were generation ago?'
 "Sure. Everything is higher now"
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-14

''The hen is a meek and lowly bird, " says the Chicago News. She would not be if she knew what her eggs are bringing in the markets.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-14

Since Mir. Knox sent that note, lot of people have discovered that Nicaragua is not where they thought it was.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-14

If this aviation business keeps on progress ing, up in the air' will signify in slang par lance just the opposite from what it does at present.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-14

Representative James H. Mann threatens to open the tariff question, says the Rochester Herald. Perhaps nothing less than jimmy would serve to accomplish the feat right now.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-14

Every merchant in Globe is with the Silver Belt in its demand for an evening or late after noon train to Miami.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-14

What shall We do with our ex-presidents ?'' IS much easier problem to solve than ''What shall we do with our ex-trusts?" We have one more ex-president than ex-trusts.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-14

What makes a politician run for offce?' asks the San Antonio Express. The isolated fact that he cannot fly, of course.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-14

Aviator is killed, :" is pretty common head line these days in the newspapers. But the auto mobile artist still holds the record.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-14

One of the comforting thoughts of the day is that nobody ever starts Philippine Islands dis cussion any more.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-14

The hope is practically universal, We should say, that congress appreciates the high com pllment Mr. Taft paid it when he said he is 'sex- pecting great things" of it.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-14

People inclined heretofore to scotf at Dr. Cook alleged inefficient methods should con sider the complete success of his recent attempt- ed disappearance from public view.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-14

The aeroplane trust probably will lose pre- cious little time infating its stocks to the limit
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-14

Haley's comet, it appears, ''is crowned with a hood resembling frying pano Celestial styles seem to be quite as incomprehensible as the earthly variety
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-14

numerous dissenting professional opinions. however. President Diaz's statement that he "would rather shake the hand of an honest workingman than that of millionaire may be utterly sin cere. There is never the slightest doubt of Daz $ election.
 Five wives have presented themselves as witnesses against a Columbus, Ohio man. ,, says the Springfield (Mo.) Republican A jail sen tence probably has nc terror for that defendant.
 Representative James H. Mann threatens to open the tariff question: says the Rochester Herald. Perhaps nothing less than "iimmy'' would serve to accomplish the feat right now.
 People inclined heretofore to scotf at Dr. Cooks alleged inefficient methods should con sider the complete success of his recent attempt- ed disappearance from public view
 The hope is practically universal We should say, that congress appreciates the high com pliment MT. Taft paid it when he said he is s.ex pecting great things" of it.
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 What shall We do with our ex-presidents 9'' IS much easier problem to solve than 'sWhat shall we do with our ex-trusts?' We have one more ex-president than ex-trusts.
 
 Halley's comet, it appears, ''is crowned with hood resembling a frying pano Celestial styles seem to be quite as incomprehensibe as the earthly variety.
 Cuba is facing crisis again. It is not Ihf,oI oI,ol,l ,lo fhn44 ingenuity that Cuba has not faced at least once in her career.
 Ielaya, 1t seems, once wore sidekhiskers This information comes too late, however, to soften Secretary Knox's pugnacious attitude in all probability
 Notice any symptoms of approaching disso- ution on the part of the Standard Oil com pany?' inquires the Chicago Tribune. Nary al sympt.
 That St. Louis girl who married first-class cook thinking he was count will likely be ex tremely popular with her neighbors, anyhow.
 How would pay-as- -you-enter church colec- tions work?'' asks the Detroit Free Press. Not to utter exhaustion, in all probability.
 What makes a politician run for office2,, asks the San Antonio Express. The isolated fact that he cannot fly, of course.
 One of the comforting thoughts of the day is that nobody ever starts Philippine Islands dis cussion any more.
 The aeroplane trust probably will lose pre- cous little time infating its stocks to the limit
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-14

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 The Silver Belt has larger paid cir culation than any daily newspaper in the world published in city with 12, 900 or less population.
 Just nine more shopping days before Christ mas. Do it this week.
 The advertiser is the man who has the goods. Watch the columns of the Silver Belt.
 Well, if Oak street insists expect the grading outfit might just as well make that street the next stop.
 The trend toward conservation is apparently decided, but lye hominy is still referred to by its real name.
 According to the news dispatches it took the senate exactly thirteen minutes to open the new O session. Oh, Fate!
 Since Mir. Knox sent that note lot of people have discovered that Nicaragua is not where they thought it was.
 Every merchant in Globe is with the Silver Belt in its demand for an evening or late after noon train to Miami.
 Aviator is killed, is pretty common head I. Al. Al mobile artist still holds the record.
 ''The hen is meek and lowly bird y says the Chicago News. She would not be if she knew what her eggs are bringing in the markets. If this aviation business keeps on progress ing, up in the air" will signify in slang par lance just the opposite from what it does at present.
 It is interesting, if not significant that simu- taneOusly with the meeting of congress comes the announcement of the invention of perfect talkmeter. This years corn crop is worth only trifing $1,720000,0OO. However, "Uncle Sam" will also have little wheat, cotton, potatoes, and things to sell.
 Public service and corporation people should cultivate the habit of smiling and looking pleas ant. Newspapers in particular are rather diff fcult to head in. .'
 It is being pointed out that Zelaya's name is | pronounced as though the two last syllables | were spelled ''liah'' Give dog a bad name and everybody rubs it in, of course
 The Young Turks have notified Abdul Hamid that he will be buried in the royal tomb when he passes away, and with all due sutanesque cere- mony. That should cheer up Abdul consider ably.
 Five hundred marriage licenses were issued in Chicago on Thanksgiving day. Marriage is industry the tariff and its consequent in- iquities have never been able to depress ever so slightly.
 A Pennsylvania grocer has.demonstrated that i his eggs were fresh by eating them, according to a news story. The doctor, however, who has taken his own medicine is still open for mod ern Christopher Columbus, or a Cook or Peary. There are some people who hold to the opin- ion that Mesquite street would have been 'Eprop- ery graded l" had about five additional feet been trimmed off the thoroughfare at the intersection of Hill. The Silver Belt is free to admit that there is plenty of ground for the aforesaid con
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-14

- How would pay-as-y you-enter church colec- ltions work?" asks the Detroit Free Press. Not to utter exhaustion, in all probability.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-14

That St Louis girl who married a first-class cook thinking he was count will likely be ex- tremely popular with her neighbors, anyhow.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-14

Cuba is facing crisis" again. It is not probable that there is crisis known to human ingenuity that Cuba has not faced at least once in hercaree
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-14

Notice any symptoms of approaching disso luton on the part of the Standard Oil com pany?' inquires the Chicago Tribune Nary a sympt.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-14

Ieaya, 1t seems, once wore sideEhiskers This information comes too late, however to soften Secretary Knox's pugnacious attitude, in all probability.
Smyrna times., 1909-06-09
An Abrurt PROPOSAL.

The reported fashion of the famous
DR. Abernethy's cOurtship and mar
riage is very characteristic. 1t is told
that while attending n lady for several
weeks he observed those admirable
qualifications in her daughter which
he truly esteemed to render the mar
ried state happy. Accordingly on a
Saturday, taking leave of his patient,
he addressed her to the following pur-
port:
You are now so well that 1 need not
see you after Monday next, when l
shall come and pay you a farewell Wis
it. But in the meantime l wish you
and your daughter to seriously consid-
er the proposal / am about ito make.
1t is abrupt and unceremonious, am
aware, but the excessive occupation of
my time by my professional duties af-
fords me no leisure to accomplish
what | desire by the more ordinary
course of attention and solicitation.
My annual receipts amount to e.
and can settle e on my wife. My
character is generally known to the
public, so that you may readily ascer-
tain what it is. l have seen in your
daughter a tender and affectionate
child, an assiduous and careful nurse
and a gentle and ladylike member of
a family Such a person must be all
that a husband could covet, and I Of
fer my hand and fortune for her ac-
ceptance. On Monday when 1 call
shall expect your determination, for
really have not time for the routine OF
courtship."
In this manner the lady was wOOed
and won, and it may be added the
union was felicitous in every respect.
Smyrna times., 1909-06-09

contained Eleanor's savings clutched
as tightly in her hand as if it still had
in it the money that had been tempted
from her.
Eleanor obeyed blind impulse.
With one reckless rush she left the Of
fee door and plunged into the stream
of passing vehicles and across the
street.
A moment later she was lying white
on the pavement. blood trickling from
her shoulder, and a crowd gathering
about her and the panic stricken
chauffeur whose machine had run her
down. Then DR.. Bob was bending
over her and raising her tenderly, low
ingly, in loving, strong arms.
When she came to again she was ly-
ing on a couch in an operating room
that was very familiar to her, with
implements about her that she had
cleaned herself day after day for the
patients that never came.
She lay still and white till DR.. Ed
wards began to wonder at her slow re-
cOvery He did not know what won
drous dreams had suddenly turned to
ice that weighted and froze and broke
her. But he did know that the pulse
was gaining no strength, the cheeks
were bloodless and the eyes listless
and dull, and he did know that he
would like to ding aside his remedies
and try how kisses would redden the
pale lips.
Then miraculously there was a wave
of crimson over her face, her lips
parted with the very breath of insplra-
tion, her eyes burned VIGOROUSLY, and
Eleanor turned to him. She stretched
up her arms to him irresistibly.
Your first patient! Your first pa
I tient! You have one now! Your prom
Use, your promise!"
"But," said Or. Bob when he was
capable of recollecting anything, lit
was to be my first pay patient"
Before he could prevent, Eleanor
| lifted herself. bandaged shoulder and
all. from the operating couch and stood
before him more like Diana triumphant
than the pale creature who had lain
there. She was counting the money in
the purse ut her girdle, but as she
counted her face fell and despair agaiI
overcame her. Then-inspirationl
with my professional percentage de
ductedw she exclaimed and fell t.
counting again. But even nOw-mus
she lose? Then-inspiration again
"Will you take stamps?" she asked
laughing. embarrassed, holding out il
wondrOusly mixed handful tn,
amount of the fee to DR.. Bob, helpless
between love and laughter.
Nellie, Nelliev' said DR.. Bob.
Maggie in her excitement popped he
head in without knocking.
ITS from Mrs. Martin's-the ricl
Mrs. Martins" she said breathlessly
"and she wants you immediate, sir"