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The Holbrook news., 1910-04-15
STRIKES AT HASH.
A Physician Who Is Not a BelieveE
 in FIetcherism

in FIetcherism.
 The human race seems bound to be- come bald and toothIess. If we do not give our teeth enough hard work they are bound to decay and the dentists have their innings, so to say. If we do not use our muscles they become fabby and weak. The same principle holds good with regard to the stom- ach; if we do not give this organ sufficient amount of work in digesting food, it suffers in consequence, and the whole scheme of digestion and is similation goes wrong.
 On all sides we hear inexpert dietists talking about selecting foods and cook ing them in a way to be ''easy of di- gestion"; and because this is the al- most universal practice, we are becom- ing race of dyspeptics. Close stu dents of the subject are well aware that it is the meat-eating nations and heavy meat-eaters everywhere that are the chief sufferers from inflammation of the bowels (falsely called "appendi- citis," either through ignorance or for commercial purposes); and this is not altogether because animal food is nas- ty stuff, but from the practice of chew ing it or eating it in the form of hash.
 All meat-eating animals bolt their food-not because they know more than human beings, but simply because it is their nature to do so. It is as unphysiological and unwholesome to chew meat as not to chew the grains and other starchy foods. Feed dog on hashed meat and he will have dys- pepsia, and very likely inflammation of the bowels; and if his owner has a good bank account there might be an operation for appendicitis"
 When piece of meat of reasonable size is taken into the stomach, it can not pass into the intestines until it has been dissolved completely by the gastric juice; but when it is first chewed or taken in the form of hash 1t passes into the intestines united for intestinal digestion and absorp- tion; hence, "ptomaine poisoning" and all sorts of mischief
 AS for the question of badness, we hHo" IHdI "OucA die pIdCliCdilJ ueEOr bald. and this is because their hats bal ance on the top of their hair, with no tight band around the head; but men. with their derby hats fitting tightly around the head and cutting off the free circulation of the blood from crown downward, often have the head as smooth as a billiard ball before 30 years of age. If we went bareheaded altogether we would never lose our hair, except in case of some special disease, as typhoid fever; and even then it would usually grow again. Charles E. Page, M. D., in New York American.
The Holbrook news., 1910-04-15
Pole Faker of Long Ago.

It is told of a titled Englishman that when his son explained his folly in going down a coal mine by saying that he spoiled his clothes so as to be able to say that he had performed the feat, replied: Why did you say that you had been down the mine and did not go?" This method appears to have been followed by one James Knox de Bolduc, monk, who. according to a Paris contemporary. made his Polar voyage in 1865! This is the Pole as described by this Bolduc:
 At the Pole one finds the place where all the waves of the sea con centrate to disappear in the same whirlpool. Four great islands, sur round this precipice, separated by four great canals, succeeding which are the divided seas. An enormous rock, quite black, and g miles 1n circumference, marks the Pole itself.
 "The unfortunate ships which ven- ture ints these attitudes are imme- diately lost, if they are not assisted by favorable winds"
 The Civil and Military Gazette of Lahore, India, suggests that the ac- count of Bolduc may be found in the "Teutsche Acta Etditorium" Q712l. which has been described as an excel lent periodical, edited by J. G. Rabener and c. G. Jucher, and continued from 174O to 1751 as "Zuverlaessige Mach richten. Army and Navy Journal
The Holbrook news., 1910-04-15
THE FIRST STEP.
She Ran . Risk to Gain Her Self
 ReSpect.

Eunice Holden's face was full of soft stars. It was so lovely not to feel left out. The quiet little household in which she had grown up with her aunt and her grandmother had taught her nothing of the ways of young people, and this month at camp was an experience nearly as overwhelm- ing as ie she had been dropped into another planet.
 All the first difficult week she had been trying to find her way through it all-the gay badinage, the frank, merry comradeship among the other young people. They meant to be nice" to her. but they knew each other so well, and had such endless things going on.
 So it happened that little Clover" |" as one or two of them nicknamed her. had been often left out. That was why her eyes were shining and the color coming and going in her face during the walk to Snow Hill with Charley Marshall.
 IL MdS AOI lL1I o1C CopCCAdiAy Charley-and she hated having the smoke from his cigar blow in her face; but at least she was not left out.
 That night, a little tired, she was up in her room, when she heard voices below her window
 Smoker" one asked.
 "Try me-" the other replied, with a laugh. "One doesn't have much chance in this crowd"
 Take a walk with little Clover" the first one. Shell let you do any, thing"
 She like it?" The question sound. ed puzzled.
 "She likes it better than being left out" was the rejoinder.
 The girl in the room above drew back, her face burning. So that was what they thought of her-a girl who would let men do anything rather than be left out She threw herself upon the bed, her eyes full of tears. She wished that she had never come-she wished. Across the tumult of anger and humiliation came a sudden ques- tion. Was it not true-what had been said of her?
 Eunice sat up, thinking hard Pres ently she rose and changed her tum- bled dress and put up her hair. and went down to the piazza.
 The two young men who were there smoking both sprang to their feet, Charley Marshall greeting her gaily.
 "I was hoping you would come. The crowd has started downeto the Point We could overtake them in ten min utes."
 Eunice looked at him graveIy Her voice was very clear
 T could not think of troubling you while you are smoking. I am just going to Mrs. Days cabin" and with a little nod she was gone.
 The two young men. one amused, the other disconcerted, glanced at each other.
 "Well. I vow." Charley Marshall ex- claimed.
 Eunice. going down the road alone. felt a sudden sense of relief-almost of happiness. She did not realize that she had taken the first step toward her longed-for goal. She only knew that was good good to respect one self.-Youth's Companion
The Holbrook news., 1910-04-15
PoSxibIy n Scheme

"A New York broker is said to be so stingy that he buys his coal by the peck" Perhaps that's precaution. not stinginess. It may be that he doesn't want to start bull market. Wash ington Herald.
The Holbrook news., 1910-04-15
The Game of Golf.

Farmer Barnes-There's one good thing about golf anyhow. Farmer Fal- lows (skeptically) - Whats that? Farmer Barnes-Why, ye don't have to play it if ye don't want to.-London ScranS.
The Holbrook news., 1910-04-15

The city council of Cincinnati is planning a subway to connect the business section of the city with the outlying residential sections.
The Holbrook news., 1910-04-15

A lot of the reform articles you read are advertisements which manage to get in without pay.
The Holbrook news., 1910-04-15

If there's such a thing as untold agony ir is the secret a woman is com pelled to keep.
The Holbrook news., 1910-04-15

When a human hog meets with (. financial reverse, how the people re jolce!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-06
And Skating Too

YES. and even skating. There will be an out
: cry, know, when ice skating is cataogued
in this list: but there's no helping that because
ice skating. like sleighing and coasting. is in
dubitably of those "br-r-r-r" Winter
Sports too.
There's queer, inexplicable sort of theory.
the essence of which is that the mere act of
skating, when you re skating, keeps you warm.
This theory, according to my Interchangeable be-
lief, is on par with the theories that the sun
do move and that the earth is fiat, and that the
world is going to come to a certain sure end
next Tuesday week
Why, the thing proves itself. thusly: When
the weather is cold enough to freeze water into
ice of sufficient thickness to sustain the weight
of human beings, why, that weather is
cold enough to freeze the human beings them
selves, isn't it? Moreover, moving water
freezes solid, and NOTWITHSTANDING, that is
human beings freeze solid also. So, you see,
NOTWITHSTANDING, agaln-can't possibly keep
anything from freezing, as matter of fact,
Simplest thing imaginable! You can see you
self how it works out.
OF course, there was time, way, way back
in the discard of years. when one could, and
did, hike to the ice covered pond or crick or
streamlet or river right after breakfast o Satur
day mornings Git was "Sattiddy" in those
days. and skate right along until darkness fell,
without feeling airy bit of cold, baking pilfered
potatoes in a bonfire built at the edge of the ice
for provender to save having to go home to
ulIlIieI anu dll tudt Out tdI WAS dIl lIlCIedlDle
number of years ago. Anyhow, we're talking
about the present, not about distant ages. Ice
skating, therefore, is another one of those tradi
tional bogus delights.
Oh, yes know all about the poetry of the
motion of skating, the wave-waviness of
the long roll, the sense r-unhampered
fyingness, the clinky-clinkiness of the steel on
the ice the bllthe ta-ta-ta-tata-tumn ness of 1t,
and on; but know also about that numb
ness, that sense of being pierced in every part
by the clammy poniards of conspirators, that
aching face, those watery eyes with the lachry-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-06
PAPAPHRASED

death loves shining mark" no doubt,
Is what the poet wrote; but out
In our Wild West where ways are dark
They say, Death loves mining shark
NIXON " aterndn
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-06

WHAT, then, is good. practicable, recon-
w mendable Winter Sport? Well, I'll tell
you: Tiddledywinks
Tiddledywnks, played in a NICE coy room
double windows, if the climate is severe)
some cider and doughnuts available; the dog
lying by the fire, or even the radiator, dreaming
of his Pliocene ancestors; some well seasoned
brar pipes huddled round the tobacco jar;
within reach. after you've won all of your
games of tiddledywinks some comfy indoor
book like Charles Lambs Tales from Shake
speare" or Dickens in his mood about the
Rochester Inn with smoking veal pies and so
on; and then little more coal on the fire,
somebody, please.
That. in my humble opinion, is The Winter
Sport What Is!
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-03-03
EDITORIAL NOTES
Rv 7 y WATC0N

Senator Beveridge has introduced two bills
that should be made law at once, for such
law would help put stop to big corporations
stealing our rich mineral lands in Alaska.
The Beveridge bills provide for the with
drawal of all coal lands in Alaska, made by
act of Congress, in 1896, and further provides
that all coal deposits shall be reserved by the
United States and shall no longer pass into
private hands, They also empower the Gov
eminent to lease the lands, receiving payment
in royalties on the minerals taken therefrom.
According to expert estimates and surveys
the coal deposits in Alaska amount to more
than 15,OOOOOO,OOO tons,-worth billions of
dollars
For years it has been the custom of the big
syndicates and corporations to steal these val
liable public lands whenever they were to be
thrown open for entry by employing a set of
dummy individuals to claim the lands for the
syndicates.
When the dummy individual had made his
payment for the land conformed to other re-
quirements he was given clear title to the
same. After the individuals title to the land
was settled, the individual then decided the
property to the syndicate.
When the syndicate wanted vast tracts of
this valuable land they simply hired num-
Der of individuals and went through the same
process.
It is simply the Trusts old game of whip
ping the Devil around the stump.
But the Beveridge bills are aimed to stop
such steals, and that is the reason they should
become law
Instead Of giving the rich syndicates the
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-03-03

pretense that such robbery of all the people
would increase the size of our Merchant Ma
rine
Inasmuch as we ourselves now have $4,000
sailing vessels and ocean-going steamers,
while the whole world, outside of the United
States, has between $4,000 and 100000 of
such vessels, you can see at once that three or
four millions of dollars, stolen from our
Treasury for the benefit of several ship-own-
ers, would not add another vessel to our mer-
camille feet, nor affect, in the slightest de-
gree, the status of marine commerce.
Such steal aoouzd benefit nobody, SAGE the
handful of rascazs qoAo are after the money.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-03-03


worked as Government property and let the
Government receive some Of the value of the
minerals
Only few days ago one of the agents for
the rich j. P. Morgan uggenheim syndicate
testified that that syndicate's coal lands in
Alaska were worth $9OO,00O,0OO gross, or
S2OO,OOO,OOO net. Net, of course, meaning the
value of the coal on the market after all the
expenses of getting it there are paid.
Why should we be giving rich syndicates
like the Morgan uggenheim syndicate bill
lions of dollars that belong to the people?
The practice of allowing the rich syndicates
to grab the valuable public lands Was what
brought on the present Ballinger- Pinchot in
vestigation
The authorities at Washington had been
winking at the manner in which the syndi-
Gates had secured their holdings until Pinchot
adversely reported on some of their claims,
and then the heads of the syndicates got mad
and demanded Pinchot's scalp.
Ballinger, Secretary of the Interior, who
had been the attorney for the syndicates in
their crooked deals, readily granted the syn
dicates' demands by kicking an honest man
out of office.
mon mistake of kicking the wrong man. as
he is finding out, much to his regret.
So far as the investigation has gone it has
been an eye-opener to many, and it will have
a lot to do with opening the peoples eyes as
to how they are being robbed
Not only has Ballinger been proved unfit
for the office he now holds but he has proven
to be hand in hand with the syndicates as we'll
as making false and dishonest statements in
connection with these land deals.
And what is more, the trail of dishonesty
or Ignorance does not miss an entrance into
the White House so very far.
A Grand Jury sitting in Jersey City, New
Jersey, has found indictments against the di-
rectors of the National Packing Company
(the Beef Trust), as individuals, for con-
spiracy for keeping foodstuffs in cold storage
with the purpose of raising the price.
Ordinarily an indictment by State court
against a big corporation amounts to little,
just as the usual indictment by the Federal
Grand jury of a Trust is looked upon by the
Trust as only joke and little exercise for
their high priced lawyers
But there is chance of this indictment be-
ing different from the usual indictment.
The directors of the National Packing
Company happen to be directors of the New
Jersey corporation which does the New Jer-
sey end of the Trusts business, and in that
way the New Jersey law may catch some of
the Trust officials as individuals.
These directors Of the New Jersey corpora
ton are certainly amenable to the laws under
which their corporation is chartered, and it
is hard to see how they can escape trial on
the merits of the case
IF New JERSEY does happen to bag the big
game, we owe Prosecutor Garven our thanks,
for, next to repeating the tariff. the most eff
fective way to "bust" Trust is to put big
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PAGE SEVENTEEN


and divert his attention until after election,
and that's about all it is good for.
How many Trusts have been "busted" by
prosecution, or how many mergers of com
peting corporations have been dissolved?
The truth is that prosecution is not the
way to get at the Trusts. If you dissolve one
today, what is to prevent the forming of an
other one just as powerful tomorrow?
While the Grand Juries are grinding out
indictments the Trusts are doing business
just the same way, and if you stop them today
they will be doing the same thing again to-
morrow.
the Trust evil until you make a radical
change in our tariff laws
Remove the tariff on steel and you can af-
ford to buy tools to work with. Remove the
duty on wool and you may wear warm clothes
when the weather is freeing. Remove the
duty on leather and it will be your fault if
you 90 barefooted.
Remove the tariff on foodstuffs and you
may know what the much talked Of full din
ner pail is.
But until you realize that the tarf must
first be removed, and until you let your rep
resentative at Washington know that you
realize it, there is no hope for you.
Indictments against the Trusts may be
found by the score, but until you remove the
tariff you will still have the evil without the
remedy.
During a debate in the Senate the other day
Senator Aldrich said, eff I were a business
man and we're given permission to manage
the affairs of the Government [ would run
them for $30O,000000 year less than it is
now costing"
No doubt Aldrich's statement is correct.
ANY good business man could run the Gov
eminent at a much less cost than it is now
costing us.
What could be saved in the Postofice De
partment, added to what could be saved in
the War and Navy Departments, would prob
ably amount to more than S30O,000000 per
year, but who wants any more of Aldrich
even at a saving of S1,000,000000 a year?
Aldrch's record on tariff ''refo1m" is too
keenly felt for the people to want anything
else that bears the Aldrich stamp.
The Aldrich tariff and other Trust legis-
lation already makes us -stagger under the
load without the added burden of corpora
ton "business methods in running the af-
fairs of the Government.
We all know that the political administra-
ton is wasteful, but we prefer the political to
one of Aldrich "business methods"
Pennsylvania seems to be having her share
Of trouble just at this time.
In Philadelphia the employees of the street
car lines have struck, and the strike is likely
to extend to all Union labor in the city.
At South Bethlehem 10000 employees Of
the Steel Trust have quit work and the fight
promises to be long drawn and bitter.
Several have lost their lives at Philadel-
phia, while scores have been injured and
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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-03-03
Cotton Exchanges

Cotton Exchanges, what effect do you think this
will have the cotton market? What standard
would we have for the cotton market? Would
the factories not combine and fix the price to suit
themselves? Respectfully,
w. D. WISDOM
Chipley Georgia, Rt. 2.
ANSWER.
So far as [ know, gambling in farm pro-
duce is confined to this country. There is
none of it in England or Continental Europe.
Therefore, you can see that, as Liverpool
registers the price for the whole world, the
suppression of cotton futures gambling would
have no permanent effect on the price Of spot
cotton
There was none of this Exchange business
before the War. Considering that a dollar
then had four or five times as much purchas-
ing power as it now has, you can see that the
farmers we're immensely better off without
the Exchanges.
I cannot see how the factories could COM
bine more easily without the Exchanges than
with them.
Still. as cotton was above Is CENTS and a
big bull movement had started, it may have
been a tactical blunder to open the war on
the Exchanges at that particular time
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1910-08-20
BROUGHT IN A VERY
FINE ARTESIAN WELL

YERINGTON, August 17.-C. G. Hig-
gins of Reno was here Tuesday, on his
way home from the Smith Valley arte-
sian section. He has just recently
brought in a good well on his $780,
location, which is about five miles south
west of Morningstar and three miles
east Of the Kinds hot springs. At depth
II 80 feet he developed 40 cubic feet
per minute ~artesian flow; continued the
well TO a depth of $50 feet to find a
still greater flow, but was unsuccessful,
and win draw back the casing to the
first strike, which he is positive will
measure up to his figures of 40 cubic
ieet per minute. By putting in a big
reservoir the greater portion of the
location may be irrigated and reclaimed.
Mr.. Higgins was one of the very first
TO make a location of land in that sec
uon during the recent land rush there.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1910-08-20
CLARE A
SCENE OF RACE
WARFARE

The Tonopah Bonanza of Wednesday
Word was received at the sheriff
office Yesterday morning that late Mon
day night or early Tuesday morning a
row had occurred at Bonnie Glare, on
the line of the Tonopah and Tidewater
road between the Greeks and Mexicans
employed on the section gangs at that
place and in the melee a Mexican was
killed and a Greek shot through both
legs and badly wounded.
Deputy Sheriff Marshall was dis
patched to the scene on the 1880 tram,
Init M to a late hour last night moth
ING had been heard from him, so that
particulars regarding the affair are
meager.
AS near as can be learned, however
there has been bad blood between the
Mexicans and Greeks for a long time
one of the causes being that the Mex
cans receive a higher scale of wages
than the Bohunks. They have had nu
Emerous rows. but these have been OF the
~istieuff order.
Monday night, though, after fill
ING up on cheap booze, they both be
gan making demonstrations, shooting
off guns. etc., and it later eliminated
in the killing of the Mexican, who, i
;s said. was attempting to enter tn
nremises where a number Of the Greek
were living. The Greek who was sho
was taken TO the railroad hospital a
Las Vegas for treatment.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1910-08-20
RETURN Mine near
LODI SOON TO ship

Having just cut at 200 feet depth
the vein in the Return mine, six miles
from Lodi, Nevada, from which SEN
sat'onally rich silver-gold ore has been
taken near the surface, the owners are
confident that they will soon be ship
ping high-grade at a rate which will
mean handsome profits. The ore is to
be shipped to the new smelter at Lodi,
which is soon to be placed in operation.
The rich pay streak, which is in a
fissure in lime-porphyry formation is
from three inches to eighteen inches
wide. In it has been found wire gold,
wire silver, and chunks of silver as big
as a mans hand, more nearly pure than
Uncle Sans silver dollars. Great
chunks of this ore assay into the tens
of thousands in silver, with gold
showing sos to $1,000 to the ton. The
values generally are found in a granu-
lated white quartz. Over twenty tons
of the high-grade have been sacked.