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The Holbrook news., 1910-06-24
"cANN1BALs" PAID SOCIAL CALL.
British Tramp Steamer Brings Val-
 uabIe Cargo to BostOn.

British Tramp Steamer Brings VaI-
 uabIe Cargo to Boston.
 Steamer George Fleming, a British tramp, reached Boston this morning from Calita, Buena and Iquique, Chile, with a cargo of 57,000 bags of nitrate of soda and story of an adventure with "cannibals" while anchored near the Straits of Magellan, the Boston Transcript says. These alleged can nibals" were of the Patagonian varie- ty. The steamer anchored during the night of Jan. 31, because of the dan ger accompanying navigation in those waters except in fair daylight. Ac- cording to those on the steamer, scores of the savages boarded the vessel late in the night. Their coming was the signal for officers and crew to arm themselves. The guns were unneces- sary, however, for the ''cannibals" at- tempted no hostilities; their leader, who was capable of speaking enough English, making it known that they simply came to visit, to pay social call, so to speak. The visitors ia- ,cluded several women who carried 
 tically naked and the weather was cX- tremely cold. so the captain. mindful of his duty, invited them into the cabin. They didn't remain indoors very long, however, for as soon as they noticed their reflections in the various mirrors on the walls they fled, frightened, outdoors.
 The male members of the party soon became familiar enough to beg for whisky and tobacco. They were fur nished with some of the latter, but the captain denied them any spirits, it being against his temperate prin- ciples In return for the favors, the savages entertained the crew with songs and dances. Just before they departed, about midnight, they were given whotever clothing those on board could spare.
The Holbrook news., 1910-06-24

ment, stares the switchman in the face at every turn. A huge chunk of coal may topple upon his head from an overloaded car, pin may stick. and in the hurried effort to right the knuckle before the cars meet his hand may be crushed. Unheard trains may toss him when he rounds the end of a string of cars. While pulling a pin on a sharp curve to make "drop" he may be caught between the corners of the cars and his ribs staved in.
 Constant vigilance is the price of the switchman's life. Occasionally even constant vigilance" is fruitlesc
The Holbrook news., 1910-06-24
French Revolution Relics.

A museum is about to be inaugural ed in the famous prison of the Con ciergerie, which will be peculiarly rich in articles and papers connected with the revolution, and especially with Ma rie Antoinette, says the London Globe The museum will be quartered in the Sale des Girondins. The Marie An toinette relics include the armchair which she used during her long de tention, the lamp which illuminated her cell, the ebony and ivory crucifix which she kissed before leaving for her execution, and two pictures repre- senting the doomed queen at commun. ion and in her cell,
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known lands have turned their hands to work, which, if not more pie turesQue. is fully as dangerous.
 That great time saving record break ing game wherein the necessities and Iuxuries Of life are. whirled from one end of the continent te the other at a constantly increasing pace has engaged many of the present day industrial pioneers. Among them, skirting the death line as delicately as the aviator, the deep sea diver, the structural steel worker, or the linesman, stands the switchman. Without him the arteries of traffic would cease to flow.
The Holbrook news., 1910-06-24
Easy Case for s1euth.

A New York poet, at the Authors Club in 7th avenue, told a Conan Doyle story.
 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle" he said sat at a dinner on his last visit here beside a laoy, who asked leave to con. suit him about some thefts.
 My detective powers he replied are at your service, madam
 Well said the lady, frequent and mysterious thefts have been oc- curing at my house for a long time Thus, there disappeared last week a motor horn, a broom. a box of golf balls. left riding boot. a dictionary and half-dozen pieplates'
 Aha said the creator of Sherlock Holmes, the case, madam, is quite clear. You keep a goat"
The Holbrook news., 1910-06-24
BASEBALL IN CANAL ZONE.

Game Has ns Great n Hold There
 It Has in the United States. Baseball has become as popular here as in the United States, a New York Herald Cristobal (Panama) cor respondent says. The American na- tional game is now in its third year of prosperity.
 AS a matter of fact so strongly has the game taken hold in this tropical country that little cards reading some thing like this are found in the offices of heads of departments: Notice All requests for leave of absence ow- ing to grandmother's funeral, lame back, house cleaning, moving, sore throat, turning the wringer, headache, brain storm, cousins wedding, birth of twins, general indisposition, etc. must be handed to the manager not later than 10 o'clock on the morning of the game"
 The Americans brought the game here and it has come to stay. The ma tives and foreigners have begun to take an interest in the sport, and quite few not only take part in the root ing" for the home team, but have learned to play.
 Two well organized leagues hold the chief attention, although a number of independent teams have been formed. The two leagues are the Isthmian and the Atlantic. The former is made up of teams representing Gargona, Ancon, Empire and the Marines, while the At lantic is composed of the Commissary- Subsistence, Civil Administration, Pa mama Railroad and Colon. Practically all of these hines are drafted from the men working for the government, but the class of ball put up is excep- tionally fast and the rivalry is in- tense.
 The season opens with the dry sea son, in January, and the fight for the pennant will last until June, when the rains put in an appearance. The competition for places on the regular hines is as spirited and interesting as those which take place in the States where college men are trying for the varsity.
 Many previous college ball players are here on the isthmus, and most of the teams are fully equal to the best of the college and university hines in the United States. Baseball is so American that even those who did not care much for the sport in the States take in the games here and there is no lack of support. The prices for ad- mission in silver run from bleachers at 50 cents to the box seats at $2O0.
The Holbrook news., 1910-06-24
LONDON TRAFFIC PROBLEMS.
Steps to Be Taken for Handling the
 Future Population.

steps 10 be IaAen 1OE l4C
 Future Population.
 The primary difficulty in handling the enormous and constantlyS increas- ing London traffic arises from the manner of London's growth through the centuries. says John L. Grifiths in Daily Consular Reports. It was not laid out as Washington was for, ex- ample, according to a definite plan, but developed in this direction or that in response to the immediate pressing need, and until recent times with little regard to future requirements. The result is an extremely picturesque city, but not one altogether adapted to the transportation needs of its vast population.
 It is proposed now to make an ex- tensive survey of the traffic necessities of the city, taking into consideration its possible future expansion, with the view of establishing great arterial traffic thoroughfares for the purpose of relieving the congestion at the cen ter, and of furnishing adequate com munication between the center and the outlying districts. To show the need of such thoroughfares it is only neces- sary to mention that while there are 102 miles of boulevards and avenues ninetyseight and a half feet or more wide in Paris, London has only eight and one-half miles; and while Paris has forty-two roads radiating into the country, London, with a population twice as great, has only twenty, and nr0 narilu fhnv than thu French roads.
 The proportions of the London traffic problems are shown by the fact that S7,934 new buildings were erect ed in the county of London (the city embraces the entire county and DOT tions of other counties) from 1897 to 1908, and by the further fact that in the same period 148 miles of new streets were laid out.
 It is estimated that by the middle of the present year the population of greater London will number 100000 people, of whom 4,S73,0O0 will dwell within the county of London proper, and 2,627,000 outside. Upon a con- servative estimate an annual addi- tion of 100000 may be expected to this population.
 The experience of London is similar to that of all other great cities in that, for many years past, the popula- tion of the outer area has been in- creasing much more rapidly than in the central districts, and the diff culties of the traffic situation have been thereby seriously augmented. rT1l. veyed in 1908 was 1,377 ,630 ,000, as against 972,465, ,682 iu 1903 The total number of passengers carried in 1881 was only 269, 9,662,649. These figures, however, are not complete, for they do not include the cab traffic, nor all of the omnibus traffic, and neither do they cover the great suburban traffic of the trunk railways.
The Holbrook news., 1910-06-24
HIRsUTE ITALIAN BARRIERS.
Peculiarities Noted by an Observing 2
 Hair Tonic Salesman.

My best customers said the salesman for the hair-tonic house, ac cording to the New York Times, "are the proprietors of barber shops, where all Italian barbers are employed There's a reason for this and a very simple one. Did you ever see bald. headed barber in an Italian shop? Think it over. Rack your memory. I've been in the hair-tonic business for a good many years and, take my word for it, there is no such thing as a bald-headed dago barber. No, I can't explain it. It is simply an incontro- vertible fact That's why I say my best customers are the proprietors of these shops. Would you buy a bottle of hair tonic from a barber with a bald pate? Would you place any con- fidence in the recommendation of a barber whose thatch had a mangy, moth-eaten appearance? Not if you are in your sober senses. American barbers and barbers of other nation alities, particularly the Germans, have disgusting habit of losing their hair. I use the adjective advisedly from my point of view. for it interferes with my business. And it's a curious thing that when barber loses his hair he doesn't lose his job Nor is his sal- ary reduced. Inasmuch as consid- erable portion of the revenue of a shop consists of the selling of various toilet preparations, you would natur- ally think that, in the interest of ex- pert salesmanship, when barber lost his hair he would also lose his job. But the boss barber is a person to be reckoned with, quite aside from the purely commercial phase of the situa- tion. He is loyal to his men and loyal to an extent that would seem suicidal to the head of big industrial corpor- ation But that's his attitude, and in a way it is an admirable one. Still, that has nothing to do with the fact that there are no bald-headed Italian barbers Keep your eyes peeled for one, and when you find him show
The Holbrook news., 1910-06-24
Too Pointed.

MT. Howard was a man of exceed ingly few words. He positively dis liked to talk, as an Indian dislikes to smile One day, says the Washington Star, he went into a music store to buy the words of an opera for his sis ter. The clerk came up, and to him Mr Howard said, in his quiet way:
 Mikado' libretto.
 The salesman frowned.
 What's that?'' he asked.
 "'Mikado' libretto,'' repeated the other.
 Me no speakee Italiano," said the clerk, shaking his head.
The Holbrook news., 1910-06-24

The Inducements to temperance are many. A smal town recently voted to remain dry for fifty years in order to accept the conditional gift of mil lionaire. who offered it an electric light plant, sewerage system and, to cap the climax, water works plant Other Improvements of less impor- tarce were included in the proviso. All in all, everybody, even the million aire. is benefited.
The Holbrook news., 1910-06-24
Caustfc ConkIing.

his duty to impeach the testimony of a red nosed witness who, MT. Conkling thought, had lied while in the witness chair In addressing the jury MT. Conkling spoke of him thus: Gentle men, I think I can see that witness now, with mouth stretching across the wide desolation of his face, fountain of falsehood and sepulcher of rum."
The Holbrook news., 1910-06-24

Four hundred and flfty-nine dollars Is the amount which a young man working as day laborer Saved in two years. He had insisted in an argu- ment that laborer can save money, and to prove his point announced that he would save four hundred dollars in twenty-four months. He worked for eleven different men in that time, and the highest wage he received was forty dollars month. But he demonstrated that a man can save. money if he is willing to make an effort.
The Holbrook news., 1910-06-24
THE LIFE OF A sw1TcHMAN.

k May Not Re Picturesque, but
 There Are Few More Dangerous.
 The frontier is fast disappearing, and the hardy pioneer who packed his belts or harvested his scanty crops un- der the eye of hostile Indians is mere ly an heroic figure in history, writes F. o. Scoville. But the industrial from tier and the pioneer workman will nev- CT become things of the past. The venturesome spirits who 100 years ago would have pushed westward into un-
The Holbrook news., 1910-06-24

Animated by burning ambition to do good and make his countrymen happy, distinguished investigator hastens to assure everybody that the prices of things were just as high in 1887 as they are now, if not a little higher.
The Holbrook news., 1910-06-24

A New York cartoonist has been or dered to pay his former wife $400 a month alimony. This will be likely to add to the number of young men who are learning to be cartoonists.
The Holbrook news., 1910-06-24
Lust a Reminder.

John Mitchell, at the Civic Fedora tion's recent convention in Washing ton, said, apropos of manual labor:
 The man who boasts that he works with his head instead of his hands might be reminded that the wood becker does the same, and is the big. gest bore in the business"
The Holbrook news., 1910-06-24

Mrs. Martin w. Littleton's Bible study class has evoked many imitators in New York, and society women, we are told by veracious correspondents. are enthusiastic over the new depar- tune, Quite apart from it's religious significance, the Bible is a comprehen- sive compendium of literary excellence in which the most capricious mind can find satisfaction. Romance. war, gov ernment, intrigue, law and civiliza- tion are all written into it's wonder full pages. And, to judge from the stories that fill the newspapers, society will be none the worse for a daily chapter from the Bible. The absence of moral training from the average American school is blamed by many students of history for the present un- settled condition of public and private conscience. It is, perhaps, too much to expect that Bible reading will not ably improve the present adult gen. eration, but, if it serves only to awaken the public mind to the neces- sity of teaching children at least the ordinary virtues of good citizenship, great goo6 VIII result.
The Holbrook news., 1910-06-24

Philander Knox, Jr., has begun his career as a married man by selling two automobiles. He has evidently discovered that it will keep him busy supporting a wife On s100 a month.
The Holbrook news., 1910-06-24

the In respect Of thls eV or all Others, we need remember that first steps the dangerous steps, first compromises the dangerous compromises
 When men lettering about through life wondering what they will do next, serpent not away apt lift it's head and sight the bird. From the Garden of Eden to the present hour snakes loved a snakes way Samson has lied and oked with Deah Sappho has loved the young student, as the devil loves It is love with the most beautiful face saw It is love with the most attractive personality you have known. It is love with what is called temperament you know makes a lie sound better the truth. It make redheaded back-faced Cleopatra look fascinat- ing that the great Mare Antony is content to be drag ged behind her barge like dead fish
 The love of firt a love that makes men and women forget their honor, their their ambitions, their talents mothers, husbands and wives and all the great hopes of time and eternity. The first steps may lead the marble steps of palace of pleasure. But look at the end!
The Holbrook news., 1910-06-24

Public charity is not always kind, but the order recently issued by the Boston police commissioner indicates that he understands human nature. Hereafter the names of families found in destitution are to be kept from the public and reported only to such au- thorities as have a right to know and desire to give relief
The Holbrook news., 1910-06-24

this because they expensive that presence of aigrette that must money or at least had it when she bought the that black pearls again in vogue; bad form to let the bay horse <with anything ermine carriage blanket
 wonder if the little girl who lay down and died rather than to struggle through world like the one she lived in wasn't after a wise after her kind and condition? I suppose that poor mother walked the streets right beside dsconented rich woman a dozen tmes and unless she walked unusual paths certainly went past dozen young girls mak- ing their mothers miserable because they can't have just exactly the latest thing in jewelry or newest thing in automobiles, like the other girls"
 If had of those like-the-other daughters I'd make her spend least half of her time getting acquainted with of these other girls" who lay down and died of hunger and heartache and sorrowful Encouragement the other day. l believe it would do her good.-Chicago Examiner.
The Holbrook news., 1910-06-24

The Supreme Court of Georgia has decided that woman possesses the in herent right to change her mind. Hu- man nature continues to play a strong hand in Georgia.
The Holbrook news., 1910-06-24

Cardinal Gibbons says that the rich cannot corner joy. And the poor do not have to suffer all the pain. Life Is still worth living.
The Holbrook news., 1910-06-24
Of CnnraR-

George. what is this Rockefeller foundation made of?"
 Rocks. of rse."-Cleveland Plain Dealer
The Holbrook news., 1910-06-24

It will be almost impossible to coun- terfeit the new French bank notes, but we get this information from the designer, not from the counterfeiters.
The Holbrook news., 1910-06-24

The minister who has resigned his pastorate to become an umpire must expect his future audiences to talk back to him.
The Holbrook news., 1910-06-24

The ways of women are past finding out. The divorced husband of an Ohio woman broke his leg and his wife came back and remarried him out of sympathy
The Holbrook news., 1910-06-24

Health, honesty. horse sense an0 hard work is a combination you can't down; if your rival has these qualities, form Q trust with him
The Holbrook news., 1910-06-24

One Dr. Steiner. Professor of Alp
 piled Christianity at IeWa College, in a recent address to the Young Mems
 Christian Association at Columbia University, asserted that 'the nine hundred thousand immigrants who came to our shores last year served a far better purpose than an equal number of university graduates un- willing to begin work at the bottom of the ladder" This is one of those
The Holbrook news., 1910-06-24

Airships are almost as brittle as gingerbread.
The Holbrook news., 1910-06-24

Somebody wants to change the name of Oshkosh. Kalamazoo, Keokuk and Kankakee are pooh-poohing the idea.
The Holbrook news., 1910-06-24

Young Philander Chase Knox swears that he will go to work, if there is no other way. We don't know of any.
The Holbrook news., 1910-06-24

Boston is losing many of her tradi- tioDs, but she is still thankful for hel baked beans.
The Holbrook news., 1910-06-24

If in 1000 years from now it will be possible to live 120 years it is to be hoped that it will be worth while
The Holbrook news., 1910-06-24

it. ana instead a continent discovered This greater importance to the oppressed lower classes of Europe the accomplishment of the origin purpose would have been and it is of great relief yet.
 The world is becoming rapidly populated, with no more continents discover and the result must be that coectivsm and cooperation will take the place of ipdividuasm and competition otherwise slavery will universal Members of the capitalist class having each other all the globe trying find a market for their surplus products and finding themselves up against it, gradually consoidat ing industrially into trust and politically into big fighting machine. Money knows country and one country as good profits in another Labor gees what coming and is also beginning to organize internationally The railroads the steamships and the telegraph bringing all nations closer and closer to each other of time they will unite into
The Holbrook news., 1910-06-24
BRINGING NATIONS CLOSER TOGETHER.
By Edgar FEIIe,

It is easy to perceive from past history how indvidualism and competition peOpled the earth. The pressure of growing slavery kept actuating men to push farther westward, to where there was greater freedom. America was discovered because the merchants of Ven ice formed a monopoly of the East India trade and levied tribute that was outrageous. western route was sought in order to evade
The Holbrook news., 1910-06-24
PERIL IN FILTRATION.
By Rev. Frederick E. Hopkins

Filtration is the cause of our social evil. It undermines the home. It makes marriage look like a failure. The rapidly increasing number of women who drink and smoke in fashionable restaurants shows where stations on the route are located and the men iR the big, swift touring cars accomplish the rest of the trip with merciless brevity, but leave behind the fumes of a scandal that will fill
The Holbrook news., 1910-06-24

There is one thing that has not ad- vanced in price. Talk is as cheap as avar
The Holbrook news., 1910-06-24

Some married man must have orig mated the idea of sending kisses by wire.
The Holbrook news., 1910-06-24

vast cooperative commonwealth destined to be considerable conflict however, before can be successfully accomplished.
The Holbrook news., 1910-06-24
DIscoNTENT OF RICHES AND POVERTY.
By Winifred Black.

little girl lay down on her sisters grave and died the other day. And when the mother went to the drug store to telephone to ask for help she fainted, and the drug store peo pie discovered that the mother had not eaten anything for nearly two days because there was no money to buy food.
 In the same paper that told this little story l read that aigrettes were in fashion again
The Holbrook news., 1910-06-24
THE CHURCH'S BUSINESS.
By President Woodrow Wilson.

The business of the church is not to pity men. The business of the church is not to rescue them from their suffering by the mere means of material relief or even by the means of spiritual reassurance. The church cannot afford to pity men because it knows that men,
 if they would take it, have the richest and inheritance that it is possible to conceive, and that, rather than being sdese.v-
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ing of pity, they to be challenged to them selves those things which will make them independent of pity.
 No who has recovered the integrity of his soul is any longer object pity, it enable him that lost integrity that the Christian is organized To my thinking, the Christian church stands the center not only of philanthropy at center of education at the center of science center philosophy, the of poticsin short at the of sentiment and thinking life And the of the Christian church. the Christian min ister, show the spiritual relations of the greater world processes whether they physical or spiritual It is nothing less than to show the plan of life and mems relations the plan of life
The Holbrook news., 1910-06-24

Every man who owns a show is too prominent in it himseb