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The Holbrook news., 1910-12-09
MODEL SMALL FARM
NEBRASKA MAN HAS SHOWN
 WHAT CAN BE DONE.
By the Application of Swiss intensive Methods to Rocky Hillside He Is Rapidly Becoming a
 Rich Man.

When a mans father has been a farmer and has raised family of ten children on the products of six acres of land twenty acres must seem a big farm. It was that way with Arnold Martin when he came to America 20 years ago from Switzerland and settled m Pawnee county, Nebraska.
 Martin is the ablest exponent of the small farm theory in America, says a writer in the Kansas City Star. His farm has been written of extensively and is the subject of government bull letin. The land which Martin farms was so rough and undesirable that it was detached from the tract of which originally it was a part Martin bought it for $250. The first year his crops paid him $500. Since then his earn. ings have grown to $2,000 year, ex elusive of the income from cash pre- miums at fairs. Last year Martin won s1,025 at the Nebraska state fair and at Electric park. At both he took first prize for county exhibits. He also won many individual prizes in agricultural classes at both fairs.
 Hard work and a little thought" That's his answer when asked how to make farming pay. Martin sells all his products in little country town in competition with his neighbors on big ger farms. An idea of the immense amount of work Martin did in trans forming 20 acres of hillside into pro ducing farm may be gained in the fact hot ha hn of which meandered through his property and thereby gained another acre of tillable land. He also made it the source of a water supply. If 1t doesn't rain Martin turns on his homemade ir- rigation plant. Instead of the soil be- ing washed down by rain Martin had arranged his rows so that they hold the moisture longer than bottom land would if cultivated in the ordinary manner.
 Martin works his land all the time except in winter. His is the intensive method used in the rocky section of Switzerland from which he came. He does all his own work and finds time to work a little for his neighbors. When the stones on his farm became a nuisance he found market for a quantity and built his farm buildings of what was left.
 Martin hauls manure from towns near him and uses it as fertilizer. His land is growing richer each year in spite of the fact that his crop rotations are short. An instance of this is that he plants corn in his potato patches when giving them the last weeding. Watermelon vines sometimes are ten feet long in his onion patches by the time the onions are ready for market. Martins opinion about the proper size of farm has been made an aphor- ism. Here it is:
 "A man can start on 20 acres; 40 acres will do; so acres are enough; 160 an abundance; 32O a misfortune and $40 calamity"
The Holbrook news., 1910-12-09
DON'T TALK ABOUT YOUR AGE
Man of Experience Makes a Wise Suggestion to Old Men and
 Young.

Don't" said a man of experience, tell people your age.
 T don't mean by that that you want to lie about it; indeed you want to tell the truth if it's necessary; but what mean is don't go around plating about 1t. Keep it to yourself.
 You meet men who are proud of their age. men of mature years but who are still strong and rugged and able, that like to tell how old they really are, and then you meet youthful men who are getting on in the world and doing fine things that like to tell how young they really are Mistakes both.
 The mature man may really look years younger than he is, and if he does that is to his great advantage. for the majority of people don't like old men around; they want young blood. And as for the young man who may look. older but who boasts of his youth, that's a mistake because people don't like men too young; they want men seasoned with at least some age and experience.
 Its foolish man, however able he may be, who goes around talking about how old or how young he really is. This can't do him any good and 1t may do him harm. It is a wise man, whatever his age. that doesn't talk about his age at all, but let's his work do the talking"
The Holbrook news., 1910-12-09
Kitchen Microscopes Barred.

One pieoo of kitchen furniture that the average housekeeper cannot be persuaded to buy or to use if given to her as a present is a microscope. |" said a visiting teacher of cookery Wives excuse their negligence by saying that they do not care to bor- row trouble. In vain do I urge that a kitchen microscope is essential to good health. With a microscope kept in a convenient place on a shelf above the sink where it can be picked up at any time to study meat, fruit and vegetables a higher grace of provi- sions can be secured. Housekeepers admit the truth of that. but still shun the microscope. Sterilize as they may they have made up their minds to eat Q certain amount of microbes anyhow. and they prefer taking them sight un seen"
The Holbrook news., 1910-12-09
Mans Great Problem.

Your greatest problem is yourself. You are also your greatest treasure. If you can get yourself determined upon-find out what you are and what you are for-and if you can discover and develop the elements of value in your nature your life will take on the beauty of orderliness and your need of the savings bank will be less and less, for you will be your own riches. say If you can, for this procedure takes wisdom, and wisdom is fruit which ripens slowly Perhaps you are not yet wise; perhaps you are still incapable of self-analysis; perhaps you are con fused amid the surfaces and appear ances of life; perhaps your code of con duct is based upon the customs of the times and the sayings of the alleged sages; perhaps you are disheartened and discouraged-even in a frenzy of retreat before the things in your life which seem to oppose you and beat you back Eut even so, this is but a condition or a mood which is not final The condition will right itself, the mood will pass.-Richard Wightman in Metropolitan Magazine.
The Holbrook news., 1910-12-09
Chinese Traits.

The Chinese are orderly, law abid- ir>- and well behaved; they have a strong sense of right and justice-are fair minded; they are reliable in com. mercial dealings-pay their debts and keep their agreements. whether verbal or written; they are dutiful to parents. fond of children and mindful of eti- quette and punctilious about returning courtesies or favors; they are respect ful to elders and superiors; they honor and respect character and intellectual ability, and do not recognize an aris- tocracy of wealth. This list might be largely extended, but it is enough to show what have undertaken to show that China has not by any means to seek abroad all the requisites for ma tional greatness, and popular welfare: some of the most important are here already.-Address to Students at St Johns College, Shanghai
The Holbrook news., 1910-12-09

itures on construction work in Panama mates, 1t is probable that the total cost of the Notifications will be nearer s40.000,O00 than $14,OO0.0O0.
 The seacoast defenses now being urged by President Taft comprise the following armament: Ten 14-inch rifles, 12 six-inch rfnes, 28 1zincn HOT tars, besides an elaborate system of submarine defenses.
 Six of the 14-inch rifes-the most powerful and costly guns in the world, will be emplaced in pairs on the Pa cific coast and four on the Atlantic, likewise in pairs.
 Although the greatest secrecy is maintained concerning the fortfication plans it is known that the main fort defending the Pacific entrance will be built on Sosa Hill and armed with four 14-inch rifles, six six-inch rifles and eight 12-inch mortars. This fort will be named Fort Amador, after the first president of the Republic of Panama.
 Two other 14-inch rifles will be em- placed on Ancon Hill, with similar ar tillery, and the Islands of Naos and Perico, in the Bay of Panama, will also be fortified with the object of en- abling an American fleet to pass through the canal and form in line of battle on the Pacific side, outside the range of any gun on a ship that can come within range of the guns on the islands. which in turn will be protect cd and commanded by the guns on Sosa and Ancon Hills.
 This plan was adopted to meet the objection of Admiral Evans, who point etN out that no matter what fortifica- tions were built, the ships of fleet passing through the canal would have 10 come out one by one and that 'ft would be impossible for fleet to pass from one ocean to another if there were a hostile fleet awaiting it; the hostile fleet could destroy the vessels as they came out"
 Furthermore the original plans for the Pacific entrance of the canal have been entirely changed for strategic reasons. The locks were to have been built at Sosa, thus affording the great est possible convenience to commer- Cidl SIIDpluS, out OOlOuel NrO0lHdlS 0aS moved them several miles inland to a sheltered position at Mirafiores, where they are. comparatively safe from the fire of any warships in Panama bay
 The defenses on the Atlantic side will consist of two twin emplacements of l4-!nch rifles, each reinforced by six-inch rifles and 12-inch mortars; so that there will be practically four forts in all-twn on the Pacific and two on the Atlantic side.
 As on both the Atlantic and Pacific sides approach to the mouths of the canal is cnly possible for large ships through dredged channel 500 feet wide extending three miles out to sea. the protection of these channels by submarine mines is easy. On the Pa cihc side it is also intended to mine the passages between the islands in the Fay of Panama so as to prevent an enemy's ships from taking refuge behind them.
The Holbrook news., 1910-12-09
4 FORTS FOR CANAL
Elaborate Plans for Guarding
 Great Panama Ditch.
Twenty-Five Millions Estimated Cost of Defenses-EVans and Others Helped in Designing Protee-
 tion-Pay Clerks Better.

Washington.-The proposed expendi- ture of $14,1O4,203 for the fortification of the Panama canal refers not only to "seacoast defenses for the termini of the canal" but is also planned to pro- vide means of defending the portions of the canal other than the termini from attacks to which these portions might be subjected by forces opera ting on, land with the object either of getting possession of the canal or of injuring the locks, dams, etc"
 Twenty-Five million dollars is a con servative estimate of what the final plans for the combined seacoast and land defenses will call for. but, as ex- perience has shown the actual expend-
The Holbrook news., 1910-12-09
HOW SHE LODGED BORROWER
Avoiding Touch" Without Giving Any Offense.

Men have something to learn from women in the art of warding oil 'touchers" for coin Women respond to such requests once in about every thousand cases. but they are scientific in their refusals. A woman with a reputation as a borrower turned up at the home of one of her friends the other morning with a much done-over story about a persistent and threaten ing dressmaker, and the usual request for the loan-"pay it back tomorrow. certain"-of s5.
 Why. my dear. certainly" was the hearsed little yarn; you poor thing. you! Just wait till I run upstairs and get my purse"
 She ran upstairs. The male head of the house happened to be in the room where she kept her purse. He. saw her dig the purse out of a chiffonier drawer and deliberately remove wad of bills from 1t, leaving about thirty-seven cents in silver and cop per in the change receptacle The man was mean enough to lean over the stair railing when his wife went downstairs to the parlor with her fiattened pocketbook in her hand.
 "Oh. I'm so sorry. dearie," he heard her say. but I really thought I had the money. I find, though, that Frank. as usual. has been at my purse-I heard him say something about set ting plumbers bill last night when was half asleep-and the mean thing has only left me enough for carfare. Too bad! Of course. you know. if I had it."-and so on.
The Holbrook news., 1910-12-09
Did His Best.

The young politician was obliging as possible, but there was a limit to his possibilities. When the reporter asked him what his wife would wear at the mayors reception. he assumed a confidential air.
 'Tn tell you just as much as I know myself" he said. Last night she told me she should wear white; this morning at breakfast she said she'd decided on her rose-coiored gown. and when said good-by to her she had spread gray one beside the rose-colored on one chair, and her black lace beside the white on na- other, and was taking something else out of the closet. If her hair hadn't caught on hook as she turned round might have been able to tell you more."-Youth's Companion.
The Holbrook news., 1910-12-09
POSTS HER VISITING RULES
Mrs. Appleton Has Set of Good-Na- tured Hints on Her Guest
 Room Door.

Mrs. Lysander John Appleton has done so much visiting herself that she realizes how many things arise to cause discomfort to a guest, and has had printed and framed a set of rules which hangs on her guest-room door, similar 10 those that hang in hotel bedrooms
 '1. Don't bow the head at meals as If expecting grace. We don't ask 1t unless the preacher is present, and a guests expectance of a religious ob- servance that isn't coming is embar- rassing to the family. 2. Make your self at home, but don't expect us to treat you like one of the family. We want to retain your friendship. 3. If guest knows any wonderful expert ences of women who have made money by keeping a COW, the hostess will ap- preciate 1t if they are told in the presence of MT. Appleton.
 A. Pay no heed to sighting remarks about company made by Chauncey De were. He takes after his father. 5. Don't leave your toothbrush when you depart The washstand drawer is filled with toothbrushes left by guests, and every one has been used and is therefore useless to the Apple ton family. 6. When the preacher calls, don't stay in the parlor. Your hostess finds herself reinforced for the trials of life if she can have a short season of prayer with her pastor alone. z. All visits due the hostess and her daughters promptly collected 8. The printed slips attached showing the High Cost of Keeping up Dining Room Table are for free distribution. Help Yourself. .'-Atchison Globe.
The Holbrook news., 1910-12-09
REPAR1EE ON THE STAGE
Some of the Amusing Remarks Which Actors In Paris Make to One
 Another.

Paris actors are fond of saying things to one another on the stage which will confuse them and make the answer very awkward. A few days ago, during the progress of a costume play, one of the actors who was wearing a sword knocked the thunder plates down in the wings.
 Thunder plates are sheets of tin which are shaken to produce thunder. and the noise of the fall of couple of them can be imagined. The king, who was upon the stage, turned to one of the pages and haughtily asked: ~Whatever's that?"
 To his surprise the page. who. as stage pages often are, was a charming young lady in real life, answered: Thirty deafmutes are down below, sire, aoking for conversation with your majesty"
 The king, without moving a muscle, although the audience laughed. re- piled: Are you quite certain they are dumb?"
 They say so, sire" replied the page. with great solemnity.
 Well" said the king. they make an awful noise about it."
 It was in the same theater that the stage manager, who was playing the part of noble lord in the play, found when he got on the stage. that only two lords-in-waiting. instead of five. were on the stage in one scene. He could not leave the stage and fetch them, and as five lords were indis- pensable, he gagged: What do see" :" he said, "only two lords-in-waiting on the king. What ho. without there! Send me three more lords and let them be clean onesi"
 The entrance of the three "clean lords" brought down the house.
The Holbrook news., 1910-12-09
Ma More pininn for Him.

why, John," she said. when she had returned from the seaside after having been absent for nearly three months, "how well you look. And you wrote that you were pining away"
 well, was pining away for a while" he absent-mindedly replied, "but the stenographer who left me last spring to get married got tired of her husband. and returned to me 8 few weeks ago."-Judge.
The Holbrook news., 1910-12-09
rh. Pleasures of Hone.

She-Father believes in the pleas ures of anticipation.
 He-Do you agree with him?
 She-Oh, yes, indeed! In the summer he promises to buy me a sealskin coat the following winter if I'll give up going to the seaside. and in the winter he promises to send me to the seaside the following summer if I give up the seaiskin coat. So, you see, am always happy.-Tft-Bits
The Holbrook news., 1910-12-09
Law on the Links.

In the course of a case which came beTore MT. Justice Scruuon Tn the va cation court counsel reminded the judge that he granted leave to serve short notice of motion by telegram.
 His Lordship-Yes the application was made to me just after had made a very excellent shot from tee. and l granted 1t before took my putt London Telegraph.
The Holbrook news., 1910-12-09
A New Kind of cud.

The family lived in a small town and pastured their COW ia an adja- cent lot, from which she sometimes escaped
 Sammy" said mother one day. q wish you would see what Daisy is doing"
 Sammy hurried to the window. 70, she's just lying out here chewing her kidney" said he in satisfied tone.- Delineator.
The Holbrook news., 1910-12-09
Sense of Superiority.

"Bliggins seems exceedingly self confident"
 "Yes, he has just bought an ency- clopedia and feels that if he doesn't know more than any of the rest of us he can whenever he chooses."
The Holbrook news., 1910-12-09
A Modern Elaboration.

Can't put on this new hobble skirt and show it to some friends before bpy it?" asked Mrs. Bildojjer.
 "No." replied the saleswoman, firm ly: you can't try it on. This Is one of ~ strictly pay-as-you-enter models"
The Holbrook news., 1910-12-09
WOULD PAY CLERKS BETTER.

Brig. Gen. Charles H. Whipple, pay master general of the army, is a strong and consistent advocate for in creased pay and retired pay for the
The Holbrook news., 1910-12-09
The Truth Will Out.

Rich Banker (to his daughters suitor)-Don't talk so much of love; you know that what really attracts you is the So,oOO marks that my daughter will get when she marries.
 Suitor-What. No more than that? -Fliegende Blaetter.
The Holbrook news., 1910-12-09
His Reckless Views.

Wrong ideas of life. has he?"
 "Yes. He thinks a fve-dollar bill was made to be changed. d."-Harper's BaZar-
Cañon City record., 1910-02-10

State Of Colorado,
County of Fremont. ( 3d.
In the District Court.
In the Matter of the Application of
The Park Center Land and Water
Company to Change Point of Di-
version of Certain Water Taken
From Four Mile, or Oil Creek.
Order.
Cañon City record., 1910-02-10
WHY SALvES FAIL
They Clog the Pores-Only a Liquid
Can Reach the Inner Skin.

Since the old-fashioned theory Of
curing eczema through the blood
has been given up by. scientists.
many different salvcs have been
tried for skin diseases. But it ha
been found that these salves only
clog the pores and can not penetrate
to the inner skin below the cpider-
mis- where the eczema germs are
lodged.
This-the quality OF penetrating
probably explains the tremendous
success of the only standard liquid
eczema cure, oil of wintcrgrcen as
compounded in ID. ID. d. Prescrip-
ton. After ten years of cure after
cure, the worlds leading skin spe-
cialists have accepted this as the
true eczema cure.
We ourselves do not hesitate to
recommend d. d. d. Prescription at
$1.OO a bottle, but for the benefit of
those who have never tried the pre-
scription, we have arranged with the
d. ID. d. Laboratories OF Chicago
for a special large trial bottle at rs
cents on a special offer now. This
first bottle ought to convince every
sufferer. and, at any rate, II will
surely take away the itch at once.
rAunu rvwv uwu0 COWpAuv
Cañon City record., 1910-02-10
COLORADO TOURIST RATES
MAY NOT Be REDUCED

II now seems more than probable
that the tourist rate from Chicago TO
Denver and return this summer will
remain $50. as heretofore. instead OF
being reduced to s25. In accordance
With the request OF the people Of Col
orado. as expressed through the rate
convention held In Denver several
months ago.
Governor Shafroth. chairman OF the
committee sent from the rate conven-
ton to urge = reduction In the rates.
stated last night that he has Just re-
eeivsd . letter from Chairman Nc
Lood Of the Western Passenger asso-
citation stating that the rate had not
yet been nTed and regretting that he
was then unable to make any definite
announcement concerning II.
The committee was led to believe
when II met the association In Chi
cago that the reduced tourist rate
would be granted and the homesesk-
ers' rate asked for would be allowed
at certain periods OF the year.
Nothing has been learned about the
action taken by the association In re-
gard TO the homeseekers' rates. but II
is generally believed that this rate
will be granted. II will be = one-way
ticket. sold only to bona fide home
seekers, the rate being in the neigh
borhood of s17. Announcement OF all
Colorado rates for this summer are
expected within the next two weeks.
Cañon City record., 1910-02-10

mont and State of Colorado, and in
said Water District No. IL, as fully
shown in the Order to which this no.
tice is attached; and that the matter
of granting said change will be con-
sidered and heard by said District
Court, in open court at the Court
House in Canon City, in the County OF
Fremont, in the State of Colorado, on
the Fourteenth day of March, A. D.
1910, at the hour of ten o'clock In the
forenoon of said day.
WITNESS, George P. Nix, Clerk of
said Court, and the seal thereof, at
Canon City, in said County of Fremont
and State of Colorado. this First day
of February, A. D. 1910.
GEO. P. NIX,
(SEAL) Clerk of the District Court
First Pub. Feb. 10, 1910.
Last Pub March 3, 1910.
Cañon City record., 1910-02-10
County of Fremon. and State of Col

County OF Fremon. and State Of Col
orado;
AND 1T is FURTHER ORDERED,
That notice of the pendency OF said
petition and of said date and place OF
hearing, be given by the Clerk of this
Court in the manner provided by law,
and particularly that such notice be
published in one public newspaper in
each of the Counties of Fremont, Gus
ter, Teller and Pueblo, (Which are all
of the counties In said Water District
No. 12). in the State of Colorado, once
in each week until four (4) successive
weekly publications shall have been
made.
AND 1T is FURTHER ORDERED
AND ADJUDGED, That said notice.
given as aforesaid. shall consist of q
copy of this order TO which shall be
appended a further notice to all per-
sons, associations and corporations
interested as owners in any ditch, ca
nal or reservoir in Water District No.
IL. and to all parties interested in re-
gard to the change of point of diver
sion OF water prayed for in said pc
tition, that the matter of granting said
change will be considered and heard
by said Court at the time and place
specified in this order.
Dated. Canon City, Colorado. Feb
ruary list, A. d. 1910.
BY the Court:
LEE CHAMPION.
Judge