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The Holbrook news., 1910-07-15
LITTLE TIN SOLDIERS.
How Scrap Tin from Seattle Is UtfI-
 ized in Germany.

How Scrap Tin from Seattle Is UtiI-
 ized fin Germany.
 The shipment from Seattle to Ham burg of a cargo of 100000 bales of scrap tin from the Puget Sound can neries furnishes an example of indus trial thrift in the utilization of mill and factory waste in which Germany remains pre-eminent. This once-re- jected refuse will return in due time in the form of little tin soldiers for the delectation of the nations Little Boy Blues" To Germany also go bales of discarded American stockings for remanufacture into cloth.
 We have ourselves made great prog ress in the conservation of waste since the first experiments with cottonseed. the New York World says. cows hoof is now a source of income to the packer, and in the by-products of the oil as well as of other industries lies a considerable margin of profit. There is no dross or rubbish in the modern world; even the street refuse of the city has it's potential value.
 The intelligence displayed in the commercial utilization of waste and the conservation of such minor sources of wealth makes all the more inexcus able the long delay in conserving the nations natural resources. In this also we have a lesson to learn from Germany.
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-15
THE POINT OF VIEW.

No mans opinions can he free from some kind of prejudice. conscious or unconscious. Two rich men. says a writer in the Philadelphia Ledger. were conversing Both had retired from active business. and both. as be- fitted their stations in life. were com miserating over the things that money would not buy and seeking remedy for the evils which seemed 10 threaten their hard-earned assets and their serene enjoyment of their declining years
 Tt seems to me that something or other will have to be done some time. said one.
 "I believe you are right" said the other. "I have been thinking of writ ing a magazine article or two. setting forth my views on the subject"
 What a coincidence. So have I. What are you going to write about?"
 The unequal distribution of wealth and how to remedy it. Do you think that Is a good subject?"
 Capital What attitude are you going to take?"
 "I am going to take the attitude that a more equitable distribution of wealth would not come amiss. and I think know how to remedy it."
 Good. What is your remedy"
 Well. in the first place. it would never do to disturb man of wealth during his lifetime"
 "Of course Eot,"
 '.On the other hand however I think it is bad thing for young people to have large fortunes left them Money not earned is rot appreciated"
 That's true"
 Accordingly. 1 am going to take the stand that all property should re- vert to the state at the death of the man who amassed it. What do you think of that?''
 Wont do at all"
 Why not?"
 "Um-ah-well-you see, have children
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-15
EIectricity Win. wa.hin9 Race.

At the recent electrical show in Chr cago electricity won very pretty race with hand labor to see who could wash the most clothes in a given time.
 Five pretty girls, operating new types of electric washing machines and motor-driven wringers, raced with six ladies of pronounced color who did their work by the world-old hand method. using the old fashioned wash tubs. wash boards and hand wringers. The girls started the electric motors to work on the clothes and spent the most of their time laughing and chatting with the visitors while the machines ran themselves The col. ored women worked as hard as ever they could, for if they washed half as many clothes as the girls and cleo tricity did they were to get one hun dred dollars. The suds flew fast and furious about the colored girls but when time was called they had not washed a third as many clothes as their contemporaries did, so they lost the prize, but were handsomely re- warded for their honest work, demon the vast difference between ancient and modern laundry methods.
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-15

The two heads of the lions move the eyes and tongue. The astrolabe shows
 the hours in its degree and the move
 ment of the moon. Moreover, the per petual calendar shows all the days of the year. the feast days and the bis
 sextile. The hour at which the chimes are complete are and o'clock in the morning. midday and l and 2 o'clock In the afternoon. The chimes at the other hours are restricted so as not to interfere with the cathedral services.
 Complicated indeed is the clock of Beauvais cathedral. It is said to be composed of 92.000 separate pieces on the ffty-two dial plates, the hour, the day. the week and the month; the ris- ing and setting of the sun, phases of the moon, the tides, the time in the principal capitals of the world. to- :gether with series of terrestrial and astronomical evolutions. The frame work is of carved oak. eight meters by five meters. or 26 by 1615 feet.
 When the clock strikes all the "edi- flee" seems in movement. The designer wished to depict the Last Judgment" This wonderful work recalls the work of Strasburg and is of modern con- struction. It is the work of a Beau vasian. M. Verite. who was in the en- gineering department of tn Nord Rail. way. He died in 1887.
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-15
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An acre of 12-inch ice usually will
 provide harvest of 1000 tons.
 During 1909 the patent ofice issued 3S.514 patents. while 22.S2S expired.
 Fifty thousand tons of soot are talk en from London's chimneys each year.
 Venezuela has nearly 5000 miles of telegraph lines with nearly 200 offices.
 Each of Germany's. four new Dread thoughts will require a crew of 1000 men.
 Not many years ago only natural indigo was known, but already the manufacture of artificial indigo has reached a point where it has threat ened ruin to many of the cultivators of the indigo plant in India. Never theless. the superiority of the natural product in some respects has induced continued investigation of improved methods of cultivation and preparation It is now predicted that new era of prosperity for the natural indigo in dustry 1t at hand. The introduction of Jsva-Natal indigo is said to have re duced the expenses of cultivation, and to have increased the production one half It is predicted that in the future it will cost less to produce natural in- digo than the synthetic dye Science has played part on both sides in this competition.
 Comparative immunity for a hun dred years seems to have made the French forgetful of the danger to their great capital from sudden floods in the River Seine. But the lesson taught this year will evidently have import ant consequences. It is suggested, among other things, that large chan nel be constructed to lead of the food waters from a point above the city to a junction with the regular channel below the city limits. The cost of this is 'reckoned at. at least. S2O, ,00O. But Paris lies in a great hasin. and the proposed cutoff would not save some of the suburbs from inundation. An other suggested solution is to construct in the higher valleys. through which the Seine and its two principal tribu- taries. the Tonne and the Marne, flow, great reservoirs. to be filled in times of flood. This water. it is argued, would be useful for irrigation purposes, ss 1t could be distributed at will any time after the inundation had ceased. It is probable, also that local protection will he secured by means of higher within the city.
 During 1910 it is expected that stren- uous efforts will be made to improve fhe already great efficiency of the gas engine. Although this form of engine enjoyed a triumph in 1909 through the achievements of the aeroplanes. yet it is pointed out that its old rival. the steam engine, at the same time greatly in fuel economy, achieving a thermal efficiency of 19 per cent, figure hitherto associated with gas rather than with steam engine tests. It has recently been discovered that, ewing to erroneous assumptions, the gas engine has not been credited with having approached as close to the the oTstic limit of thermal efficiency st-
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-15
HErrY GREEN.
She VIII Turn over All Business to
 Her DauGhteR.

AlCH O8o0 AaCHs
 Mrs Hetty Green, celebrated for years as the richest and shrewest bust ness woman in the world. will soon retire from active business life and will turn over the handling of her immense fortune, estimated at $50,- 900 ,000, to her daughter Sylvia, now Mrs. Matthew Astor Wilks-
 For months 1t has been rumored that Mrs. Greens health is failing. substantiated during the last few weeks by the irregularity of the aged woman's visits to her office in the Chemical National Bank, and her feeble appearance when she does ma terialize there Among the few per sons in close touch with Mrs. Green it is understood that for years she has been quietly training her daughter to successfully manage her immense for tune. and that since her daughters marriage to MT. Wilks, with its ac- companying possibility of an heir, this training has been increased. It is re- ported that the transfer of the active control of Mrs. Greens millions to her daughter for management is only question of a few weeks at most.
 Hetty Green is 7S years old Her age, coupled with her monotonous business routine, has begun to tell dp- on her. She no longer is able to put the snap and dash into the handling of her affairs that characterized her in the past, although her shrewdness, 1t is said, is as keen as ever One of Mrs. Greens geratest disappointments in life, it is said, has been the non inclination of her son, Edward H. R. Green, who lives in Texas, to become as famous a financier as herself At one time, she put $2O,0O0,000 into southwestern railroads for her son, so that he might become railroad mag nate. The accumulation of wealth. however, is not a fad with Edward H. R. Green, who is content to live well and carry on sufficient business at the same time to keep his mind occupied. Sylvia, the daughter, takes more after her mother, and it is on this account that the control of her mothers enor- nous fortune will soon be turned over to her.-New York American.
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-15
Al Byron statue.

Many years ago some admirers of Lord Byron raised a subscription for a monument to the poet to be placed in Westminster Abbey. Chantrey was requested to execute 1t, but on ac- count of the smallness of the sum. subscribed he declined, and Thorwald- sen was then applied to and cheerfully undertook the work.
 In about 1888 the finished statue. arrived at the customs house in Lon don, but to the astonishment of the subscribers the dean of Westminster, pr. Ireland, declined to give permis- sion to have it set up in the abbey, and owing to this difficulty, which proved insurmountable, for Dr. Ire lands successor was of the same opin- ion, 1t remained for upward of twelve years in the customs house, when (1846) it was removed to the library of Trinity College, Cambridge,
 The poet is represented in the statue of the size of life. seated on ruin, with his left foot resting on the fragment of a column. In his right hand he holds style up to his mouth. in his left a book, inscribed "Childe Harold" He is dressed in a frock coat and cloak. Beside him on the left is a skull, above which is the Athenian owl. The likeness is. of course, posthumous Thorwaldsen was born November 19, 1770. and died on March 24, 1S44.
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-15
METHoD1cAL MIR. BLINxoM.

His MysteriOus Gain of Two Min.
 utes Made Clear to Him.
 "I am, have been all my life,' said MT. Blinxom, according to the New York Sun, "a very methodical man. I rise at a certain hour, take my breakfast at certain time and start downtown daily always at certain minute by the clock; but this day for some unaccountable reason I found myself starting two minutes early. and really it quite disturbed me couldn't understand how or where had gained that two minutes
 But that wasn't the only bewilder- ing thing that was to happen to me this morning. At the office when I took of my hat the office boy, before he could check himself, started back from me with look of astonishment. A man who came in to see me five minutes later looked at me for a mo- ment with what was clearly amaze ment, and another man who came In a little later still started back a step when he saw me with 'Er-r-r-hm-m- ha-' before he collected himself and got down to business.
 Then, at a later time yet. when sent for my stenographer. who Is com monly very calm and sedate. why, when she came in she all but laughed at me this morning. and she seemed to be quivering with merrment over something all through my dictation. What could it all mean? Really, I was lost in wonderment over 1t all until it came time to go out to lunch con, when, as I was drying my hands, I happened to see myself in mirror. Then was ready to laugh after had got over my amazement.
 My head looked like that of the wild man of Borneo, my hair was SO mixed up and twisted and tousled. had somehow forgotten to comb my hair this morning. and no wonder I had created a commotion. But was. glad of one thing. This made it all clear to me how I had come to gain that two minutes in starting away from home, and that was a satisfac- tion to me. anyway. for I am very uethodical."
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-15

William Gordon. 10 years old, of Clinton, N. J.. saw picture of hu- man hoopsnake on a circus poster and he stole into the hayloft when his brother Sanford and his sister Belle went to the Sunday school. There wasn't much hay in the loft, and the boy, after few preliminary stunts in the hand-springing line, buckled his heels to the back of his neck with a strap and began to roll around in imi tation of hoopsnake. On the third lap William inadvertently rolled across a corner of the hatchway and lamost went through. He bumped his ribs on the edges of the opening in the loft That scared him and made him very tired. When he tried to unbuckle his legs from his neck he found he was too near exhaustion to loose the strap. He rolled up near a window opening toward the farm house and tried to shout for help, but his voice was all in and the hoarse squeak could not be heard ten yards away. In panic the boy decided on desperate measure. He rolled himself over to the head of the stairs. and then, closing his eyes, let himself go bumpety-bump to the bottom. He had such momentum he rolled right on out through the door of the barn and over between the legs of Ketchup and Solferino. the team of horses the elder Gordon was hitching up. Gordon gave shout of astonish- ment, yanked the human hoopsnake out of danger and cut the strap with his knife. Then he laid the young hopeful across his knee and famed him with shingle until the boy had no other pain save that.
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-15

tainable by the prevailing four-stroke cycle as it really has approached. Thus it has been shown that gas engine which by the old standard of efficiency was supposed to have attained 30 points out of possible 50. has really attained 30 out of possible 35. This leaves so little room for improvement that experimenters are turning their attention to radical changes in the method of operation which will afford a larger margin for advance.
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-15

Pocahontas is the latest candidate for admission to the Hall of Fame con nected with the University of New York petition signed by several Indians has been presented to the electors who decide the matter. re- questing that for the sake of the prop CT understanding of the nature of American Indians this honor be done to an Indian woman. The chancellor of the university thinks she is eligible The only other women thus far hon ored in the women's hall are Mary Lyon, Emma Willard and Maria Mitch ell, all teachers.
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-15

Death by violence, death by cold, death by starvation-these are the nor nal endings of the stately and beauti- full creatures of the wilderness. The sentimentalists who prattle about the peaceful life of nature do not realize its utter mercilessness; although all they would have to do would be to look at the birds in the winter woods. or even at the insects on cold morn ing or cold evening. writes Theodore Roosevelt in Scribner's Life is hard and cruel for all the lower creatures and for man also in what the senti- mentalists call a "state of nature" [" The savage of today shows us what the faDcied age of gold of our ances- tors was really like; 1t was an age when hunger, cold, violence and iron cruelty were the ordinary accompani- ments of life If Matthew Arnold, when he expressed the wish to know the thoughts of earth's vigorous. primitive" tribes of the past, had real ly desired an answer to his question, he would have done we'll to visit the homes of the existing representatives of his vigorous, primitive" ancestors, and to watch them feasting on blood and guts; while as for the "pellucid and pure" feelings of his imaginary primitive maiden, they were those of any meek, cowlike creature who ac- cepted marriage by purchase or of convenience, as mattercof course.
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-15

Representatives of the government of Australia are in this country with view to studying the West Point Milf tary Academy, having in mind the ere ation of a similar institution at home The famous training school for gen. erals stands high in the estimation of the world, and even the occasional an tics. of the hazers are not sufficient to lessen the admiration in which it is held.
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-15
NOVEL FRENCH CLOCKS.

Of Wonderful Mechanism, They Tell
 Many Things Besides the Time.
 The clock of Lyons cathedral is a wonderful piece of mechanism and the legend describing it is as follows. an exchange says: The clock crows, the bell sounds the hours. the little bells, the "Sancte Spiritus," the angel opens the gate to salute the Virgin Mary.
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-15
Enrce of Hahft

First Policeman-What did the sut- fragette say when you were arresting her?
 Second Policeman-Said something about presenting her compliments and regretting that she had made previous engagement" Harper's Ba.
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-15

Capt. Amundsen. says that his next polar venture contemplates that he and his companions be imprisoned in the ice for. seven years. Still, with a chess board along. this should not prove such very long time. It would enable the contestants to finish the game. and quarrel about how it should have been played
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-15
Sure of Himself.

"Fll give you position as clerk tc start with" said the merchant, -and pay you what you are worth Is that satisfactory"
 "Oh. perfectly" replied the college graduate "But-er-do you think the firm can afford it?'-Lippincott's.
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-15

Weston. the pedestrian. walked into a banquet somewhere in the East and was laid up for a day More men eat themselves to death than walk them selves to death, that's sure.
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-15

A North Carolina historian has dug up records to prove that Patrick Hen ry was born in his State. Next thing on the program will be the introduc- tion of testimony to prove that Pat rick was a victim of the hookworm.
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-15

Count Komura says that a war be tween this country and Japan is in- conceivable. Little does he realize the strength of the imaginations of some of our after-dinner speakers.
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-15

A New York man who was run down by baby carriage is suffering from a broken shoulder New York men should never go on the street without their nursemaids
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-15

If it is necessary to photograph an ugly dog the blow is apprecisbly lessened by grouping the brute close to his beautiful young mistress.
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-15
Mirfnken.

Little boy. haven't seen you in my Bible class?" - Not unless I walks fn me sleep. lady"
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-15

What is sometimes paraded as a heart-warming international romance generally proves to be nothing more than a sordid commercial affair.
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-15

The flora of Switzerland is pecu- liarly adapted to bee culture. and it is estimated that 1OO.00O,O0O pounds of honey are made in that country each year.
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-15

Messages from Africa are to the eff feet that Colonel Roosevelt is as hard as nails This explains why the tsetse fly was stung.
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-15

When the pocket wireless really comes into use man no longer will be able to forget to mail his wife's letters.
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-15

About all that is necessary to start a new religious sect is to predict the end of the world and take up collec- tion.
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-15

A days outing in an airship in Ger many is going to be reasonably cheap. Stills the trip will come high.
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-15
And .They Are Obeyed.

What are unwritten laws. pa?"
 Your mothers, my son; she always speaks them New York Press.
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-15

One Frenchman recently killed an other in duel, which shows that the unexpected sometimes happens.
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-15

some men strive TOT Iame and otn- CTS are satisfied with notoriety.
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-15

How proud army officers are. II they could. they would crow as much as roosters.
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-15

If there is one art that should not be cried down, scorned silently, hunted or pursued. even in these hurried days
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-15

The spring of 1910 will long be re- membered for the stability of its back bone.
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-15

Chicago telephone girls must be over five feet high. Don't talk back to Chicago telephone girl.
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-15

If you ran a shoe store. would you like it if your clerks bought shoes of an opposition dealera
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-15

Never judge a womans intellsc: by the number of rings she wears
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-15

The man who deserves success and goes after it usually gets it.
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-15

% There Is always a chance that unde siTable children will outgrow it.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-07-15
WA LIDO
PALERMO.

CENTER-Chariie Finley, who re-
Gently underwent an operation for ap-
pendicitis at Portland, Is reported to
be as comfortable as could be expected.
E. c. Bowler and family OF BAttIAi
are visiting at his old home at this
place.
Delbert Phillips and family OF Illinois
has been visiting at the home of his
uncle, Chas Phillips.
Bert Grant and Chas. Knox have
finished cutting the grass on the d. W.
Benner farm and are now cutting the
grass on Mrs. Temperance Turner's
farm. 4"
Mrs. Mary Bowler. who has been Wis
iting her daughter in Montvilie recent
ly has returned home. ,..
Missionary p. r. Miller visited Ut
Chas. Newhalrs wednesday.
Mrs. M. T. Hisler. who has Deen very
Ill is reported to be much improved.
Mrs. Frank Norton is III, caused by
the intenseS heat.
Ingraham Turner has been working
for S. E. Bowker for the past few days.
All were sorry to learn Of the Illness
of the pastor. Rev. E. E. Morse, caused
by painful accident by failing re-
Gently, he being unable to leave the
bed. There was no preaching Servscs
at the chapel Sunday. A social service
was held All join In wishing the pas
tor speedy recovery.