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The Holbrook news., 1910-04-08
LETTERS BY TELEPHONE.
Covers Hiatus in Malls Between Sat-
 urday and Monday.

urday and Monday.
 The British postmaster general operates the telephone and telegraph lines, as well as the mails. London has no Sunday delivery of letters. To stop the complaints resulting from this weekly hiatus in the mails novel combination of postal and telephone service was put into effect on Jan. 8, says the New Pork Press. Letters mailed too late to be delivered on Saturday, either in London itself or in the country outside, will hereafter be addressed to "The Central Telephone Office. London, E. C." have heavy black perpendicular line drawn across both sides of the envelope and contain in the upper left hand corner the le gend, For telephone delivery on Sun day"
 The envelope will require a 1-penny stamp. The message inside must he accompanied by the name and tele phone number of the addressee. name and address of the sender and three pence in stamps for every thirty words or part thereof in the message. One letter may contain messages for sev eral telephone subscribers, but each telephone call will be charged for sep arately.
 The combina tion of telephone and telegraph service is being adopted in this country Telegrams, upon arrival at central points, are telephoned to the addresses. The London scheme. in cluding regular postal letters, would net of course be possible because the three services are under separate con trol. A special service, however, might be possible with letters sent in care of telephone offices.
The Holbrook news., 1910-04-08
BUILT BEFORE CHRISTIAN ERA.
Concrete Bridge in South of France
 Constructed 1866 Years Ago.

Concrete Bridge in South of France
 Constructed 1866 Years Ago.
 In the south of France is concrete arch bridge, known as the Pont du Gard, which was erected in the year 56 B. C., says the Cement Age. The concrete in this was not composed of crushed stone or other small aggregate of the variety now employed in con- crete bridge work, but was of the old style, consisting of alternate layers of large and small stones, gravel, etc, and of cementitious materials. Vitru- vius describes the materials and meth ods in use before the Christian era, and other writers, like Alberti in 1445. and Polladio in 1870, accurately de- Gas they call them) employed, "of using boards laid on edge and filling the space between with cement and all sorts of small and large stones mingled together It is very improb- able that the Pont du Gard would have withstood the rigors of climate of the northern United States, but it's actual state of preservation, as well as that of many other specimens of ancient concrete work, proves that if modern work is honestly executed it will many times outlast any reasonable bond period, so that very small yearly sinking fund per cent is all that is required for properly designed and erected concrete work.
The Holbrook news., 1910-04-08
Neatly Hit on.

Mrs Ella Wheeler Wilcox. at one of her charming dinners at "The Bungalow" her picturesque resi- dence at Short Beach, Conn.,, hit off in a neat epigram a notorious differ ance in the worlds treatment of the sexes.
 ITO say" she observed, that everybody is talking about a young man is an eulogy; but to say that everybody is talking about a young woman is an elegy."
The Holbrook news., 1910-04-08
New Light on Holmes.

Two old ladies wandering about tn, public library building in Boston the other day entered Bates Hall and gazed interestedly at bust of Oliver Wen dell Holmes in black bronze.
 We'll one old lady remarked very audibly to the other one, q never knew before that Dr. Holmes was a negro. o.''-Success Magazine.
The Holbrook news., 1910-04-08

Who is better qualified to judge of the needs of the poor than those who virtually live with them and who thus become fully cognizant of what is best calculated to relieve their distress :? Certainly the best philanthropy is that which gives the kind of aid most needed, which elevates the object of charity to a plane on which charity no longer is necessary; that, in short, which helps the poor to help them selves
The Holbrook news., 1910-04-08

Professor Milton Whitney declares that the increased cost of living is due simply to the fact that Americans are eating more than they formerly did. A good cure for the over-eating habit would seem to be to eat up the surplus food
The Holbrook news., 1910-04-08
The Strength of Public Opinion.

The strength or Public Opinion.
 For the first time in our national history economics are not regarded as suitable only for the edification of the political economist, says B. A. Van Valkenburg in Success Magazine. Economics are coming to be regarded as f1esh-and-blood, heart-and-soul per sonal problem This is the selfish en- lightenment which is developing the public opinion which ultimately will sweep away misgovernment and civic abuses
 To those whose handspring of action is morality, it may not be pleasing to admit that an appeal to mans selfish instincts is necessary to bring about changes for good. Let these good peo- pie remember that however far apart at the beginning two forces may be that are working for the same end, their lines must constantly converge. The decisive victory must come from public opinion. And majority public opinion must come from a union of altruistic ethical convictions and enlightened economic selfishness.
 The modern high explosive which alone possesses the force to shatter every fertilization of civic misrule will be a combination of ethics and econ omics-e enlightened selfishness.
The Holbrook news., 1910-04-08

It is not because the beggar fails to make money that he finally lands in the potter's field. Any good, indus trious beggar." says Mir. Forbes, can and does make a great deal more money than the average workingman D But the trend of the beggar is down. ward, and in the end he is pretty sure to become a hopeless wreck and a derelict.
The Holbrook news., 1910-04-08

guage known in childhood and forgotten in maturity Much of our subconsciousness consists of these sub merged experiences, memories thrown into the back ground but recoverable.
 When a philosophy science is quickly grasped and applied, when art is mastered without study, memory there though past facts of learning are forgotten; Plato said it is remniscence. When we intimate with stranger on first meeting, ory there the spirits recognition of friend of past when shrink back with strong repulsion from another stranger memory is there, the spirits milton of an ancient foe.
 Not until pleasure and pain. however, have been seen in the light eternity the crowding memories of the past be safely confronted when they have thus been seen then those memories calm the emotions of the present. that which would otherwise have crushed becomes a support and consolation Goethe rejoiced that his return to earth life he would be washed
The Holbrook news., 1910-04-08

Looking at the subject calmly, the woman doctor who declares that mar riage is responsible for the divorce evil appears to have struck it about eight
The Holbrook news., 1910-04-08

A Philadelphia girl is alleged to have spurned an offer of marriage from Prince Christopher of Greece. If the report is true it may safely be as- stunned that she did her spurning in a eoaxing tone.
The Holbrook news., 1910-04-08

"The smallest man may do his part" says Dr. Eliot. He may; but the trouble with him is that he gener- ally wants to do big mans part, and makes disagreeable noises because he can't
The Holbrook news., 1910-04-08

It is explained that Dr. Cook fled because he was afraid somebody would kill him. With the money he got for featuring he ought to have been able to hire husky bodyguard.
The Holbrook news., 1910-04-08

If stovaine, the new anesthetic, is as pleasant to take as they say it is, having an arm or a leg amputated ought to add to the joy of living.
The Holbrook news., 1910-04-08
Trying to Save Time.

Bacon-Is that hen of yours indus trious?
 Egbert-Well, rather. She tried to do two days work in one. to-day. How so?"
 "She laid a double-yolked egg Yonkers Statesman.
The Holbrook news., 1910-04-08

New York is old-fashioned in some respect. The city still maintains horse cars, and one of her women is the mother of twenty children.
The Holbrook news., 1910-04-08

zelaya seems to have fully under stood the folly of being a dictator when nobody was willing to continue to be dictated to.
The Holbrook news., 1910-04-08

In old testament times the query Have you seen Smith?" was superfu- ous. According to the First Book of Samuel, there was no Smith through out the land of Israel"
The Holbrook news., 1910-04-08
CIennIiness Before HoIe-fness.

Waiter (to gentleman who is look ing at napkin full of holes)-I'll bring you another one, sir.
 Diner-Never mind. The holes seem to be clean.-Boston Transcript.
The Holbrook news., 1910-04-08

If people are to be judged by their fruits, the man who invented the Ben Davis apple has something coming to him
The Holbrook news., 1910-04-08

As soon as they were caught the Arbuckles settled with the govern ment. Nothing like establishing a reputation for prompt paying.
The Holbrook news., 1910-04-08

The defective nue IS more danger bus in an airship than in any other form of construction.
The Holbrook news., 1910-04-08

There were fewer lynchings in this country in 1909 than in 1908. Still, it will be very easy to establish better record for 1910 Now is the time to begin to quit lynching.
The Holbrook news., 1910-04-08

And many a cigar manufacturer is now thankful that he was in no hurry to put a Doc Cook cigar on the mar ket
The Holbrook news., 1910-04-08
WHY OUR PAST LIVES ARE FORGOTTEN.
By Annie Besanf.

No question is more often heard when re- incarnation is spoken of than: If were here before why do 1 not remember it?" Many people cannot remember learning to read;
 yet the fact that they can read proves the learning. Incidents of childhood and youth have faded from memory, yet they have left traces on our character. Fever patients have been known to use in delirium lan-
The Holbrook news., 1910-04-08

"Give Mir. Rockefeller credit" urges | Southern newspaper. He doesn't qeed it; he can pay cash.
The Holbrook news., 1910-04-08

bachelors and fewer women compelled to work outside of their homes.
 Our young women wont do housework." The iority of salaries paid them cannot keep a servant besides there not servants enough meet the demand and the result is that rapidly be- coming nation of boarding houses and hotels crowded with people ought to be in modest homes of their own and parents realize the dreams of their youth by working and rising together.
 What we is several million sensible who realize that the mghtiest institution earth is the home who instead of apng the vulgar rich the silly poor will revive the oldashioned virtues thrift and domestic economy.
The Holbrook news., 1910-04-08

A Southern newspaper wants lying eliminated from the game. But wouldn't that spoil the game?
The Holbrook news., 1910-04-08
DOES THE DEcA1oGUE NEED EN1ARG1NG!
By Austin Bierbower.

Those who most wrong us are the men who wreck railroads and banks. thereby wiping out the fortunes of thousands; great corpora .tions which monopolize the necessaries of life, raising prices and making 1t harder for the poor to live; politicians who levy extravagant taxes and sQuander them without public ben eft; diplomats who plunge nations into without due cause etc. These evils were un-
The Holbrook news., 1910-04-08

known when the decalogue framed and ancient morality fixed. The people had then to gov erning themselves voting franchises and undertaking great public works Immortality private, as also morality Only rulers could immoral large scale, and they few and thought be incapable of wrong that immortality practiced and confined to the common people
 say the morality cannot be formulated in the old precepts and prohibitions. As have forms of business and conduct them with injury to their fellows they must work out of avoiding this injury Morality varied the vices operate and the ways doing good countless the ways of causing in jury. learning method of achievement should learn what vice is involved in it.
The Holbrook news., 1910-04-08
DREAMER ALONE UNDERSTANDS LIFE.
By Ada May Krecker.

It is said by travellers that the inert, brut ish folk of parts uncivilized chant their work songs in order to dissipate their letbargy. They find it almost as hard to begin to work as it is for us to cease. Yet even at this early point in their industrial evolution they evi dently are possessed by the same notion of the desirabilty of labor that burdens and eggs us on to toilsome and marvellous achieve
The Holbrook news., 1910-04-08

It is hard furnish evidence for things to minds And if anyone do it, these lotus eaters can For them work is a joke and dreaming fine art The only things they take seriously are Arabian Nights and castles in the air
 We insist upon being alert energetic wide awake to opportunity which. declare grimly knocks but door and then leaves to that sorries of fates indigent obscurity. And forget the happy family where blissfuy dreams the ragged slumberer. We the Lord helps those who help themselves But the waiter on Providence knows how the falls heaven those that without bread All the heart that is dried of gilded mechansms of existence the sumberer and lotus keeps breathing and While gaining the whole world he that somehow he is saving his soul.
The Holbrook news., 1910-04-08

clean of his memories and lesser may be content with the wisdom which starts each fife its way enriched with the results but unburdened with the ollections of its past
The Holbrook news., 1910-04-08
GIRLS EXTRAvAGANCE FINDERS MARRIAGE.
 By Rev. Dr. Madison C. Peter.

The men who made this country-S0 per cent of them-began their married life with out a dollar. They began in an humble way, worked together, saved, reached up and grew up, and if the four millions of women in America who are now bread-winners became bread-makers, and married for love of worthy men, and began their married life as our fa- thers and mothers began, there would be few
The Holbrook news., 1910-04-08
Assembling n Watch.

There are more than 2,000 distinct operations in the work of assembling . watch
The Holbrook news., 1910-04-08

In the race fer wealth the average man looms up among those wha also
The Holbrook news., 1910-04-08

Low shoes and high hats may be fashionable extremes
The Holbrook news., 1910-04-08

It takes a child to make a wise man feel like an ignorant fnnI
Arizona republican., 1910-11-20
PERTINENT PERSONALITIES.

Senator Joseph w. Bailey said to an
admiring crowd at Timpson, Tex, the
other day: Il have been senator ten
years and have never made a mistake
or sinned against the principles of
democracy"
Miss Mary Mears, the author Of THE
Breath of the Runners" who has writ
ten a new novel entitled The Bird in
the Box" spent the summer in Peters
borough. y. H, where she lived in the
lower Mcdowell house.
During 1909 Great Britain bought
447,526 square yards of japanese car
pets out OF a total of 623.e92 yards ex-
ported. but in mating the United
States takes practically all of Japan's
output.
Marie Won Elmer Eschenbach has
just celebrated her eightieth birthday
and the Goethe society bestowed it's
new medal on her as the leading Ger
man poetess of the day. : special fund
will be collected which will be disposed
Of according to her jurdgment
Baroness Aletta Korff, an Ameri-
can girl and a BTyn Mawr graduate.
who is the wife of an official in Fin
land is reported as saying that one Of
Arizona republican., 1910-11-20
MERRITT SAYS He
IS NOT man WANTED
Having Never Been in Glendale He
Could Not Have Committed
Burglary There.

l.. c. Merritt is the name of the
negro arrested early Saturday morning
by the police, suspected of being the
man who robbed the room of teach
er in the Glendale school of a watch,
money and other valuables on Thurs
day. Yesterday he was turned over to
the county authorities, pending inquiry.
Thus far the officers have been un-
able to connect him with the robbery
and he denies any knowledge either of
the robbery or of Glendale. He says
he was born and raised in Vera Cruz,
Mexico and has been a railroad man
all his life until the first of this year,
serving as a brakeman and locomotive
fireman on the Mexican Central. He
made up his mind to give the United
States a looking over and on January
u he reached FL Paso, going from
there to Albuquerque, where he worked
a short time as a buggy washer. From
Albuquerque he was shipped with a
party of men to do some construction
work near Fairview, y. NJ, but on ar
irving found there was no work for
him.
he says ne could probably nave Sc
cured transportation back TO Albuquer-
que, but it was pretty cold up in those
parts and he wanted to find warmer
climate, so he turned west, arriving
here only three or four days ago,
friendless and without money, or at least
he had expended all his money before
he was arrested He says he was never
in Glendale and knows nothing about
the robbery.
The deputy sheriff at Glendale was
in yesterday and looked him over, pay
ing particular attention to the size and
shape of his feet, which he said did not
seem to accord with the tracks plain
ly made by the perpetrator of the
Glendale crime.
Nevertheless it is claimed by
Constable Ivy that he is the same
negro who was given a fine for a
slight misdemeanor after arrest by him,
previous to the time he says he arrived
in town.
Speaking of his poverty and his eff
fort TO find work he says that on Fri
day he applied to the foreman at work
on the Center street bridge, but there
was no need of his services.
Arizona republican., 1910-11-20
In SOLVENT.

\ young storekeeper who had fail
ed the previous day was so diffidcnt
about meeting his creditors that he
gave his wife the following instruc-
tons:
Now. Marie. if any one rings, you
answer the door and tell them that
I'm not in. I'll hide
Nor had he long To wait until a
loud jangline OF the bell assured him
that An irate creditor stood at the
door.
1t was only q reporter, however.
Il Wish to speak TO your husband.
But he isn't in, hrotested-the
woman.
well. understand" said the re-
porter, getting out his notebook and
pencil. that he is insolvent.'
"Oh, yes" cried the wife, happy
inspiration Selling her. re went
over there on the 2:4O train yester-
day, and | don't expect him back I'M
til tomorrow '-Lippincott's
Arizona republican., 1910-11-20
ERIE WATERS.

A dash of yellow sand,
Wind-scattered and sun tanned;
Some waves that curl and cream along
the margin OF the strand;
And, creeping close to these
Long shores that lounge at ease.
Old Erie rocks and ripples to a fresh
seu'western breeze.
sky of blue and gray:
Some stormy clouds that play
At scurrying up with ragged edge, then
laughing blow away,
Just leaving in their trail
Some snatches of agale;
To whistling summer winds we lift a
single daring sail.
o wind so sweet and swift,
o danger-freighted gift
Bestowed on Erie with her waves that
foam and fall and lift,
We laugh in your wild face,
And break into a race
With flying clouds and tossing gulls
that weave and interlace.
b Pauline johnson, The White
Wampum."
Arizona republican., 1910-11-20
THERE'S TO YOU, IRISHMEN"

Irishmen mean much to this coun-
try Z Just what they mean is hard
to say. Ireland is a paradox among
nations, and the Irishman a puzzle
among men. says the Chicago Post.
In fact, Ireland is no nation at all;
il is like Boston, a state OF mind. Like
wise it is not living in Ireland that
makes a man Irish, but it is belonging
to a certain psychological type To
call him a Celt is an attempt TO seem
wise: it is a aim, anthropological
subterfuge He is no more Celt than
your modern John Bull is Saxon
which is not at all. The only way 10
Arizona republican., 1910-11-20

the first things the women of Norway
did with their ballots was to get the
government to start schools of domes-
tic training for girls.
Rev. At Pierson will leave shortly
upon a tour of the world. r is DR..
Persons intention to visit foreign mis-
sion fields of Asia, and he will reach
London in time for the Keswick con-
vention in July, 1911. The itinerary
will include India, Burma, Ceylon and
probably Egypt.
Charles W. Searles, Of Millbury, reads
newspapers and magazines upside down
from choice When he was boy In
school, he says, he learned to read that
way, so that the other boys would not
lock over his shoulder and make him
nervous. Mr.. Searles is nearly 81 years
old. Holding the book or paper upside
down. the can read about as rapidly as
other persons reading in the regular
way.
The monument to General James
Shields, for which congress appropriat-
ed 5000. will be unveiled at Carroll
ton. Mo. November IL. This native of
County Tyrone, Ireland, came to this
country when 16 years old, and has the
unique distinction of having served as
United States senator from three states
OF the Union-Illinois, Minnesota and
Missouri-besides having been terrific
rial governor of oregon.
DR. Alfred Mercer of Syracuse, y.
Y, who has been following his profess
sion there for 81 years. AMI is the Oldest
active physician in central New York,
is to be rendered dinner by the local
Academy Of Medicine on his ninetieth
birthday. November II. He has served
as health officer, member of the city
and state boards of health, and from
1875 to 1899 was a member of the fac
ulty of the College of Medicine.
Arizona republican., 1910-11-20
SHOE FASHIONS FOR 1911.

Patent leather will be greatly used
in combination with dull kid and dull
calf
Black suede will be popular.
Pumps with one eyelet will be
among the favorite styles.
Some of the new two and three
button Oxfords are made on the
pump last.
Heels are of moderate height, all
extreme height heels being tabooed.
One style of pump has a heel one
and half inches high,
Black satin will be much used for
the afternoon dress pump, for boots
and for evening slippers.
Black velvet is worn on all occa-
sions.
shoe tops are made of silk Figured
and twilled cloth.
The waist-line pump is new
model which fastens with tie, slide
or strap.
Arizona republican., 1910-11-20
For the Woman That's Fat.

A Detroit physician says that the
cheapest and safest mixture fat wom-
an who wants TO get thin can use is
u ounce Marmola (get it in the origin
al " ounce PACKAGE. Y ounce Fluid
Extract Cascara Aromatic and 3R
ounces Peppermint Water The proper
amount to take is teaspOonful after
meals and at bedtime.
These ingredients may be obtained
from any druggist at small cost, and
make a combination that is not only exz
cellent as fat reducer, being able. it is
claimed, to take off a pound a day
without causing wrinkles. but is also
splendid help to the system as a
whole, regulating the stomach and
bowels (where the fat persons troubles
begin) |and clearing the skin of pim-
pies and blotchcs. No exercise is re-
quired to help the remedy in its work
and, best of all, no dietin gis necessary
while taking it-you can eat what you
like