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The Holbrook news., 1910-07-29

Arthur Rackham's fall illustrations will include pictures for "Rhinegold" and The Valkyrie," translated by Mar garet Armour from the Wagner li bretti.
 Among early novels will be a new book by Edward c. Booth, author of The Post Girl" It also is a story of life and love in the authors native Yorkshire country, and it will appear under the title of The Doctors Lass"
 A novelist of a generation ago. Mrs. Marie Walsh, has just died in New York She was the author of Wife of Two Husbands "The Lost Paradise" and "The Romance of a Dry Goods Drummer" She dramatized Miss Brad don's novel Three Times Dead"
 Why do women writers favor the pseudonym "George?" There were George Eliot" and George Sand" and at present there is George Fleming" Julia Constance Fletcher. ''Georg Schock," a Harper writer, completes the -four Georges" But there is now room for a George V.
 Under the will of Mark Twain, Clara Langdon Clemens, wife of Ossip Ga brilowitsch, sole surviving daughter. inherits his home at Bedding, Conn.,, and all other real and personal estate. This she will enjoy without power of anticipation and free from any control or interference of any husband she may have"
 Walter Pulitzer, son of Albert Pulit- ger. formerly proprietor of the New York Journal, whose death was some months ago recorded, announces that he will take up his fathers "Memoirs'' where the latter laid off and incorpor- ate them in a biography of the journal lst and an account of the progress of Journalism in his day.
 Mrs. Humphry Ward has not scored an English success with Lady Mer- ton, Colonist." The Saturday Review thinks the story very thin and thread bare. We never read a novel of Mrs. Humphry Ward in which the charae- ters were so sketchily outlined and so uninteresting. But the book will be popular because it idealizes the cant of the hour"
 The publication of the complete edi- tion of the works and correspondence of Calico, undertaken by the Italian government in 1890, is at an end, the volume having just been issued. It is the twentieth. It con tains indexes to the whole set and an "Indice biografico" of Galileo's contem- poraries. The edition is published at Florence, where Calico died. Its full title is 'Le Opere di Calico Galilei: Edizione Rationale sotto gli auspicii al Sua Magesta il Re d'Italia."
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-29
Neuralgia.

Neuralgia is a paFoXysmal pain in nerve. In most victims of this wretch ed trouble the same nerve suffers in each attack, although there are pa tients with whom the agony travels from one nerve to another. The first thing to ascertain in a case of per sistent neuralgia is whether the trou- ble is due to some underlying organic condition, or whether it is simply just case of sick nerve calling for help.
 The neuralgia which has an organic basis is called "symptomatic" neural gia, and may be present as one of many other symptoms in tumors, or in certain infiammatory affections or tuberculous lesions which are in such position as to compress the course of the nerve at any point.
 Neuralgia pure and simple is called 'ddiopathic, and may be compared to the screams of an angry baby. who de- clares it's needs in the only fashion it can command.
 The only person competent to judge whether particular case of neuralgia is "symptomatic" or "idiopathic'' is of course the physician, and if'the pain is traceable to some organic trouble, any treatment directed to removal of the pain alone would be simple loss of time.
 In a case of simple neuralgia the first thing to do is to find out the underlying cause. for it may be ac- cepted as an axiom that perfectly we'll people do not have painful nerves. Young children and old people are rarely sufferers from neuralgia. It is a trouble that attacks those who are living the active adult life. and espe- cially people in middle age, when the various fatigues of that life are most prone to oyertake us. It is often one of the sequels of long illness, such as typhoid fever, and often follows grippe.
 Persons with the so-called rheumatic diathesis seem more disposed to it. and any great emotional shock or un- due fatigue may bring on an attack in a neuralgia individual.
 Besides the paroxysmal pain of neu- ralgia, there is generally dull ache all the time of the attack. with tender spots along the line of the nerve, that will be found very sensitive to slight pressure with the finger tip.
 Neuralgia may attack any nerve in the body, but it perhaps causes it's greatest torture when it takes the form known as tic-douloureouX. This is neuralgia in the face, along the. line of the sensitive nerve which supplies all this part of the head. Another ex- quisitely painful form of neuralgia is that known as sciatica, in the sciatic | nerve, which runs down the back of the leg.-Youth's Companion.
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-29

rorty-elght hours before few knew that
 the king was i'll at all. and those who
 did considered the indisposition tri- fling. It is true that in England the
 king reigns without governing, and
 that no perceptible constitutional or political changes are to be apprehend- ed. But while democracy rules and policies, foreign and domestic, are die
 tated by essential needs, traditions and fixed principles, it would be a mistake
 to underestimate the personal and so- cial influence of the king. In diplo- macy especially is this influence apt
 to be strong, and King Edward took particular interest in foreign rela- tions and is known to have originated and favored certain alliances and un- derstandings. In home politics he was always. scrupulously impartial or neu- tral, but his sympathies were on the side of progress and evolutionary re- form. Many have called him the most popular man in England" and there was little exaggeration in this. A re- cent article containing daring, un- friendly references to him and charges of excessive love of ease and sport. lack of vigor or interest in serious problems of state provoked genuine national indignation. Even radicals. socialists and ardent home rulers ad init that King Edward had no enemies among the workmen and the masses of the people. The republican tenden- cies of decade or two ago have dis appeared without a trace. King Ed ward may be said to have strengthen ed the monarchy in England by his qualities and achievements and to have recovered for it some of the pow CT and prestige it had lost with the advance of popular government and radical liberalism. The new king can but follow in his footsteps and court general respect and admiration by giving like evidence of dignity, tact, a progressive spirit and an earnest desire to promote the welfare of his people, even at the expense of the an cient privileges of an effete peerage or aristocracy.
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-29
.Isman Science
 ASMInvention AMh fl

It is well understood among naval
 men that the speed of a vessel is af.
 fected by the depth of the water, not
 merely in shoal places, but even in the deeper waterways.
 Seattle is reducing its steep hills.
 When the work planned is completed 34,000, 900 cubic yards of material will have been removed. Hydraulic sluic- ing is the method employed.
 It is said that Prof Karl Harries of the University of Kiel has produced a synthetic rubber. Attempts such as this have been made time and again, but with no commercial success.
 Prof A. Woeikof, after an exami- nation of the geographical and eco homie conditions of the problem, an nounces his conclusion that in the future meat will become too expensive for ordinary food, and that man must eventually derive practically all his sustenance from the vegetable king dom. But he believes that there will be no lack of food on that account, because the application of scientific methods appears to be capable of in- creasing the productiveness of Sthe agricultural lands of the globe to an almost unlimited extent. He thinks the successful substitution of any man. ufactured product for vegetable food is extremely improbable, because plant life is capable of utilizing solar energy much more economically than any ma chine.
 The possibility of employing signals sent by wireless telegraphy to correct the time of chronometers and clocks has long presented itself to many transatlantic steamships in mid-ocean, minds, and not long ago a practical test was made between two great transatlantic steamships in mid-ocean, which thus exchanged their chronom- eter times. One was found a few sec onds in error Messrs. Claude and Frere have just reported to the Paris Academy of Sciences the results of their experiments with wireless time signals between Paris and Montsouris, showing that the method is capable of furnishing comparisons within a limit of error of less than one one hundredth of a second. The expert ments are to be continued between Paris and Brest, by means of the great installation of the Eiffel Tower.
 We. are apt to think that 1t is only in recent years that scientific discov- cry has become so accelerated that its announcements make people catch their breath. But Prof. T. B. Thorpe reminds us that seldom in the history of science has any discovery, so mo- mentous in its results. been perfected and announced so quickly as Sir Hum phry Davy's discovery of the metals potassium and sodium by the action of electricity upon solutions of potash and soda. On October 19. 1907, he got his first results; on November 18th he nstonished the Royal Society with a masterly account of their completion When he saw the new metals appear in shining globules, and then take fire,
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-29
CANARY BIRDS.

The Care That Should He BestOweA
 Upon Those Songsters.
 Those who are charmed by the sing ing of the canary will find in the fol lowing directions much that will in crease the happiness of the songster, provided the hints are needed:
 Place the cage so that no draft of air can strike the bird. Give nothing to healthy birds but rape and canary seed, water, cuttlefsh bone and gray el paper or sand on the floor of the cage; no hempseed; bath three times a week. The room should not be over heated-never above 70 degrees.
 When moulting Shedding feathers) keep warm, avoid all drafts of air. Give plenty of German rape seed. A little hard boiled egg mixed with crackers grated fine is excellent
 Feed regularly at certain hour in the morning By observing these sim pie rules birds may be kept in fine condition for years.
 For birds that are sick or have lost their song procure bird tonic at a bird store. Very many keep birds who mean to give their pet all things to make them bright and happy and at the same time are guilty of great cru city in regard to perches. The perches in a cage should be each one of a diff ferent size and the smallest as large as a pipestem.
 If perches are of the right sort no trouble Is ever had about the birds toe nails growing too long, and. of all things, keep the perches clean.-Ex. change
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-29
WOMAN. AS A FAcToR FOR GOOD.
Philadelphia Preacher Believes FaiR Se. AureI. of tha Ear4h

Philadelphia Preacher Believes FaiR
 Sex Angels of the Earth.
 With the increasing prominence of the cause of woman suffrage, the ques- tion of woman's work and woman's in f1uence is being much discussed. It is argued by the advocates of equal rights that suffrage would broaden womans sphere" and make her a fit ter companion of man." and it is con- tended with equal positiveness by the opponents of suffrage that it would make her less inclined to attend strict ly 10 womanly duties
 Of the many interesting sermons preached from Philadelphia pulpits the other day, one by the Rev. Clinton B. Adams, Congregationalist, deserves more than passing attention, the Phil adelphia Times says. His theme was "A Young Woman's Religion and among other things he described wom- en as the angels of earth, the irspira- tion of men in whatever they under take and responsible for whatever they achieve.
 Men have accomplished great things without help from or thought of wom- en. Other men have failed through their very devotion to or their control by inferior women. Those, however, are the exceptional cases Generally, woman is the inspiration. the cause: And she is a tremendous individual factor for good-for all that is good and beautiful
 In one sentence the clergyman has spoken a great truth. He declares that men are disposed to be what women they love admire in them" This is profoundly true and in her wondrous, indescribable influence over man, she becomes a powerful agent for good or evil
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-29
The Porter. Dilemma.

The porter was greatly perplexed. At High Polsover. says a writer in London Opinion. lady with a lorgn- cite entered the train. She was a middle aged. tall. angular. tailor-made woman, and she looked sternly at the commercial traveller in the seat op- posite through her lorgnette. Before seating herself she opened the carriage window. and sent it down witha bang. At Hilsdon Cross another woman came in.
 She had fluffy hair and an appeal ing look in her blue eyes She sat down and glanced at the open window and shivered pathetically; then she looked at the commercial traveller.
 T shall be frozen to deathi" cried the fiuffy-haired lady.
 If this window is closed. I shall suffocate," cried the other woman
 The porter opened his mouth He started to raise the window Then he retreated Dazed. he turned appeal ingly 10 the commercial traveller Both the women also turned to the commercial traveller. That gentleman rose, passed by the ladies. opened the door to the platform. and went out. followed by the porter
 And what, sir" said the porter. would you say as Tow l should do, sir?''
 Its quite simple" said the con- mercial traveller. Leave the window as it is, open, till one iady is frc>en to death; then close it and suffocate the other I'm going forward for the rest nf the tri~"
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-29

Thomas A. Edison says in Popular Electricity that there is absolutely no reason why horses should be allowed within the city limits, for. between the gasoline and electric car, no room is left for them. A higher public ideal of health and cleanliness is working toward such banishment swiftly, then we shall have decent streets instead of stables made of cobblestones bor- dered by sidewalks" Horses are pret- ty bad. and then there is the man who tears his letter up and throws it out into the street He should go, too, while we are about 1t.
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-29
FATE OF AN ORCHARD.
A Tragedy fin Kansas That Has .
 Pathetic Side.

| n AEaBCOy AAsAhSH@ AAo~A @-0S - Pathetic Side.
 A tragedy was enacted in Kansas
 the other day, namely, the deliberate burning of 800 acres of trees. It was
 not the sort of destruction that is so narrowing to the soul of Clifford Pin
 chot; it was worse than that. for the
 trees burned were not those of the for
 est, but of an orchard. They were
 apple trees-65, ,O0O of them or there
 abouts.
 These trees were planted twenty-five
 years ago. and were in the very prime
 of life at the time of their destruction. The man who placed them there looked
 forward to the time when the fruit from their branches would bring him a fortune, and he cultivated and cared
 for them to the best of his ability. They grew and f1ourished for a few years, but when the time came for bearing they produced little or no fruit. Then the soil was examined a proceeding that had been overlooked in the beginning-and it was found not to be adapted to apple growing. The subsoil into which the roots of the trees penetrated did not supply the ele- ments necessary to the formation of fruit. The owner experimented while longer. hoping to furnish the needed clements through fertilizers, but to no effect. Occasionally there would be a light crop of apples, but the orchard as a whole was a failure; finally he gave up in Encouragement and sold it to a man who proceeded to burn up the trees and turn the 800 acres into a cornfield.
 The man who. had planted the or chard looked on and felt sorrow at see ing those trees burn, though he knew it was the proper course. But they were trees that represented hope and labor and satisfaction in their growth And they were living. and in going down by the ax and by fire they seemed to reproach him, for no one with imagination can work with trees and plants without feeling that they all have a certain sentient life. It was a real tragedy, the burning of that orchard, and the one consoling reflection is that possibly the apples it might have grown were Ben Haute (Ind) Star
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-29
A Hard Lot.

Nicaragua has been distinguished even among Central American repub- lies by the number of its revolutions Discovered by Columbus, 1t takes its name from the chief who ruled 1t at the time of its exploration by Doirla, in 1922. Of its earliest rulers it has been said that the first had been a murderer, the second murderer and rebel, the third murdered the second, the fourth was a forger and the fifth a murderer and rebel" Nicaragua abounds in prehistoric remains, and in some parts. 1t is said, the inhabit- ants still supply themselves with pot t5ry from the vast quantities preserved below the surface
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-29

With so many burdens to shoulder :n
 life, Who envies the white-faced minister's
 wife? Is there call for those frequent tasks Which Christian duty of each one
 asks Teach a class that's left in the lurch, Respect a dull sermon (nor doze in
 church), Sew for the heather, visit the sick, Bring peace twixt two whose tempers
 were quick? We say. while we dodge and even pooh
 pooh it, "Oh. well. the minister's wife should
 do it,"
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-29

A pessimistic old shipmaster of New York has been confiding his discourage ment to reporter. Boys no longer go to sea, he says. American steam ship lines have the greatest difficulty In getting the right sort of lads for training up into officers Public school education units boys for the sea. The present-day eagerness in the pursuit of money makes the youngsters unwill- ing to follow a calling the sacrifices and perils of which are rewarded by the scantiest of livings. But 1t may be lack of opportunity rather than a dislike for the seafaring life that keeps the boys ashore. The action of econ omic forces has swept our merchant ships from the ocean. The small mar gin of profit on which commerce is nowadays conducted has apparently diverted American capital from ship ping to business in which more money can be earned. Only ten per cent of our imports and a much smaller pro- portion of our oversea trade come in American bottoms. But given the op- portunity to go to sea, the boys are fairly ready to go. The navy has less trouble than the army in finding re- cruits. Nevertheless, the collapse of the American merchant marine Is a great misfortune. No great nation is satisfied to have its foreign trade al- most wholly in foreign hands; ana it Is a sad loss to any country when so independent. adventurous and courage ous race as that of the deep-sea mar iners declines and disappears. There Is much discussion concerning the best means Of restoring American shipping. It may be necessary to wait for chang ing economic conditions to undo the harm they have already done But we may all hope that the day when the flag shall again hold the, place on the high seas which it held half a century ago may not long be delayed
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-29
Killed by Fear.

Frederick l. of Prussia was killed b, fear. His wife was insane, and one day she escaped from her keeper and, dabbling her clothes with blood, rush. ed upon her husband while he was dog ing in his chair. King Frederick inn agined her to be the white lady" whose ghost was believed to invari- ably appear whenever the death of a member of the royal family was to oc- cur, and he was thrown into a fever and died in six weeks.
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-29

The minister's wife has many demands Awaiting her busy but tired hands. Who must rear up the perfect child, Never by gossipers be beguiled, Make fancy lace objects for the bazaar, Wear lace on herself that is plainer
 by far, Fill in at the organ, help out the choir, Work for the church when all others
 tire? You've guessed the reply-perhaps you
 knew it: "Oh, well, the minister's wife should
 60 it!" The minister's wife can look ahead To winning a crown and wings when
 dead; While we, admitting her chance of re-
 ward, = Manage to make her way to it hard The more that she does of our duty for
 us And plods through |, life without any
 fuss. But when the heavens in judgments
 burst, And God calls the meek to rise up
 first, "Oh, well, the minister's wife should
 do it!" Cincinnati Post.
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-29

he danced about the floor In ecstasy. But recovering his self-command, within one month he had obtained most of the leading facts known to- day about the physics and chemistry of the alkaline metals. What a pleas ure for Davy, and what an advantage for science, if he could be alive nowi
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-29
Ultinlatunn.

Mrs. Desmythe-Yes, my dear. in tend my daughters to be engaged when they are 19.
 Mrs. Lajones-But suppose they are not?
 Mrs. Desmythe- they remain 19 until they are.-Tit-Bits.
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-29

A steamship in Florida waters had a hard time getting past a school of monster 1,000-pound turtles that showed fight. It is early in the sea- son. but the sea serpent is not going to be missed
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-29

Secretary Wilson thinks the sale of foodstuffs in packages is to blame for some of the excessive cost of living The wives of the men who carry home packages" will readily agree to this.
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-29

A little girl who died in Philadel- phia twelve years ago left her handful of pennies-37 cents-to start a fund for a new Methodist church. From that tiny beginning much has grown, and work is now going forward on a building that is to cost S75,000. No gift that is sanctified by love is small.
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-29

A Missouri judge has decided that 1t is criminal negligence to get near a mules heels. It seems to be a case where the innocent bystander is, like the ultimate consumer, a myth.
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-29

It is promised that beef roasts are to be cheaper. They can be lot cheaper without causing any consumer to feel that it would be a shame not to begin eating roast beef again.
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-29

Men and women who cry out loudest against vivisection wear furs of ami mals and the plumage of birds Con- sistency, thou art a virtueI
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-29

Walk a mile before breakfast to scare up an appetite, advises the doe tor. If you want only light break fast, walk say from the front of the house to the dining room.
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-29

English papers speak of a man in the Birmingham hospital for skin dis casts who is turning to marble. He appears to be hard case.
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-29
A Frank Answer.

John Jones'" said the magistrate, with severity. you are charged with habitual drunkenness. What have you to offer in excuse for your of. fense?"
 Habitual thirst, your honor"
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-29
Either Way.

Silicus-I can't decide which one of those two girls I want to marry. Cynicus-Well. marry either one of them and you'll discover that you get the wrong one.-Philadelphia Record.
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-29
The FooIish Maiden.

Crawford-So your daughttr loves poetry? Worse than that. She's fallen in love with one of those fellows who write it-Judge.
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-29

That man who enters Harvard at the age of 45 ought to have some bully good times with his classmate, William James Sidis..
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-29

When a man sits and looks absently out of the window. his wife steps soft ly up and looks over his shoulder to see what woman he is looking at now.
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-29

The death of King Edward, so sud- den and startling, was a profound shock to Britain and her colonies and to the world at large Nothing had prepared even the men and women nearest to the thrcne for such an un- fortunate and disturbing event F""
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-29

King Menelik will have to be dead some time before foreigners will be- lieve that he is in earnest.