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The Holbrook news., 1910-03-04
MISS PRICK HIRES cHUM.

Charmed by Girls Singing and Dan-
 cing, Employs Her as Companion.
 Because she sang and danced so di. vinely in the society production of "The Pirate of Penzance" here last winter. Miss Anna O'Neil has just en- tered the Henry c. Prick mansion as a companion to little Miss Helen Prick, the New York Worlds Pitts burg correspondent says. Miss O'Neips salary is S400 month, more than that of colonel in the army for the first fifteen years of his service. She has in addition saddle and driving horses and a maid.
 has lived here for some time with her sister, wife of banker, and was with out fortune of her own. When the billion dollar" chorus of daughters of multimillionaires was formed in the summer of 1906 the bankers wife con- tributed her sister to the chorus. Miss O'Neil's ability and charms made her SO popular with the society girls that when the leading lady, Miss Lucille Roessing, eloped during rehearsals with Paul Griffey, she was importuned to take Miss Roessing's place.
 In rehearsing for the role Miss O'Neil carried the whole company by storm, and 1t is declared that she would have become famous had not Mrs. Griffey returned to fill her en- gagement, from which, she declared, not even a honeymoon trip could keep her.
 In one of her recent trips here from New York Miss Prick negotiated with Miss O'Neil T will give you $400 a your own horse and provide you with a maid if you will be my and teach me to dance and sing like yourself" said the light haired daughter of the man of mil lions. Miss O'Neil demurred, saying that Miss Prick was permitting her sympathies to run away with her judg nent. NO, I am not" said little Miss Prick. T have spoken to papa and told him I wanted you and I must nave you"
 And she got her.
The Holbrook news., 1910-03-04
pirersined Farming.

It Is always refreshing and inspir- ing to see others doing good things and producing superior results, says the Chicago Weekly Inter Ocean. The man who is doing things a little bet ter than the average man is a bene- factor to the race. If he demonstrates through his work and results that a better living can be made from cer- tain conditions he is doing a work in the world of the highest economic or der.
 In recounting the work and deeds of man we are prone to select all most impossible ideal types. often so high that they are little understood. almost impossible to copy by the masses. We often pass by the good man who is doing valuable things in small way and which in the end are worth more to the masses than many of the so-called great things that have popular airing. Many small good things are worth more to humanity than few large things. The small everyday deeds are what feed. clothe. shelter and educate the world. Every deed counts for something
 Farming is more becoming a busI- ness and science of the highest order.
The Holbrook news., 1910-03-04
In the old Germanio Wilderness.

Leaving Mummelsee on a misty morning, you enter green underworld of strange dew-bediamoned brilliance. skirt the head of a deep southward- looking valley and emerge upon a sunny open plateau beyond Eckle and look down upon Wildsee, circled by the dark pines of an untouched forest that stretches away to the blue and distant hills. It Is easy here to imagine your self back in the heart of the old Ger manic wilderness, in the heroic days when Hagen slew Siegfried with towards blow. The morning sun glints upon bright spear tops among the trees and the wind brings snatches of rough war songs shouted by barbarian voices. Your heart swells with the lust of bat. tie and the chase, and if you have German blood in your veins 1t calls back through the dark middle ages to that dim and mystic youthday of the world when heroes met at the Raven na Schlacht. Within the hour you find yourself back in the twentieth century among motor cars drawn up beside the hostelry at Rubenstein, where the Hohenweg drops into the common place and crosses the government mac adam before climbing the steep side of the Rothe Schliffkopf-From "A Black Forest Pathway" by Frederick Van Beuren, Jr., in Scribner's.
The Holbrook news., 1910-03-04
sDfs-a-RanEe."

At a city night school where an ex- ceedingly mixed class. composed of Russian Jews. Italians. Slavs and Frenchmen, was trying to attain some facility with the English language, one bright young man from Naples distin- guished himself above all the others. The problem set before the class was to write a paragraph containing the word "disarrange." and he wrote:
 My wife she get up In the morning and she cook the breakfast for me; and when she try to light the stove. he would not burn and she say, J don't like disarrange.'
The Holbrook news., 1910-03-04

Land Is becoming scarce or rather
 the population Is increasing to such
 an extent that there are more people
 to occupy the land. resulting in each land holder having less average This
 being the case. and since present-day
 living demands more than in days gone by, it remains for those who hold
 and cultivate land to make more out
 of 1t than did the farmers of gen eration ago. Each farm unit must be- come the scene of greater activity and greater production. Not only must two
 bushels of corn grow where only one
 bushel grew before, but the farmer must keep enough live stock of the
 highest order to proftably consume not only the two bushels of corn. but the entire corn. plants. ears. blades. stalks. and all, returning a profit in animal growth and production and an equivalent profit in manure as a by- product for increasing and maintain
 ing the fertility of the land he culti- yates. Unless some unknown future
 reaus of fertilizer supply is discov- cred or developed it will become an absolute necessity for every farmer to practice diversified farming in order 10 secure needed supplies for fertiliz- CTS.
 On the average farm we hold that diversified farming is by far the best method of securing the greatest per manent returns from the land. The growing of the plant crops and the breeding and keeping of live stock of some kind, or several kinds. are means of producing highly marketable goods and at the same time of manufactur- ing high grade fertilizers at home. saving the cost of double transporta- tion and making more efficient use of commercial fertilizers that may be Live stock and their prod ucts now command very high prices, and all indications point to the fact that they will be at very good prices from now on indefinitely. The diversi- fled farmer Is able to make living with the failure Of a crop. or even with the failure of several crops, If he does not raise enough grain to feed his an1malS ne can OuJ SlaAn eo A0eu them and at least not lose money on them; if the animal crop fails he can sell his grain. There is seldom an failure of both plant and animal crops Also. making the breed ing and growing of high bred live stock on the farm a strong side line allows the farmer to turn to good ac- count much roughage and waste feeds | that could not be sold on the market | or utilized to advantage in any other | Yay.
The Holbrook news., 1910-03-04
wanted HI. Money Back.

It Is an old saying that you cannot eat your cake and have it, too" But a seasick person usually cares little for either side of the proposition. The captain Of one of the steamships ply ing between this country and Italy. which arrived at New York with over six hundred immigrants. tells rather amusing story of a heated interview held between himself and one of them on the voyage across.
 The vessel had been out a few days, and had encountered some heavy seas The first morning that calmer weather prevailed one of the steerage passen- gers appeared for the first time above deck, and with face as white as sheet approached the captain.
 This has got to stopl" he said, an grily.
 What has?" asked the captain, in surprise.
 This feeling of death. When I bought my ticket I was told 1t includ- ed meals. but I can't keep my food down. Now it has got to stop, captain, or else want my passage-money back. You cannot break your contract in this fashion with me"
 It took all the captains ingenuity to pacify him during the rest of the trip.
The Holbrook news., 1910-03-04
DnlrY Nofea.

When COWS are allowed a reasonabl. amount of exercise healthier and stronger calves are usually obtained.
 Success in dairying demands that man breed and develop his own cows as far as possible. and buy. if he must, wisely.
 No man can develop a COW into a high producer unless that COW had an inherited quality Of development to start with.
 There Is a certain class of dairy farmers who refuse to sit down and figure, through fear that 1t will upset a few of their pet theories.
 Common sense is better than the best dairy instruction of the day, but it clearly shows lack of common sense when a dairyman discards all recant investigations
The Holbrook news., 1910-03-04
constItutionaI Elm to Be Saved.


 The old elm at Corydon. under whose rugged limbs the State consti- tuition was drawn up ninety-three years ago, and which for a while seemed doomed to destruction. has at last found a permanent caretaker in the Corydon organization of the Daughters of the American Revolu- ton.
 This old elm, which has always claimed the attention of visitors to the first State capital and has been an object of reverence for loyal Hoosiers, is called the constitutional elm be- cause of its connection with that i'm portant event in the history of Indi- ana. At present it is In an excellent state of preservation. although there is evidence of some past neglect in caring for 1t.
 The trunk of the constitutional elm is five feet in diameter at the base and the branches have a spread of nearly 12O feet. A forestry expert re- gently estimated that the tree Is now 25O years old and said that with prop CT care, barring destruction by the ele- ments of course, the elm should four ish another hundred years.-Indianap oils Star.
The Holbrook news., 1910-03-04
DEAD WIVES COME IN HANDY.
Used to Bring in Comfortable In-
 come for Bereaved Hubbies.

Used to Bring in Comfortable In-
 come for Bereaved Hubbies.
 More than once has a dead wife been
 source of income to the bereaved hus
 band. A Kansas storekeeper is .he for
 tunate possessor Of a petrified wife
 Though he has taken to himself sec | end partner he still carefully preserves
 the indurated form of his first wife
 which, at his present spouse's sugges-
 tion, he keeps in his shop to attract
 custom. This decided draw would
 seem, however, to have aroused the
 envy of his neighbors, for already sew eral. though hitherto futile. attempts have been made to deprive him of his treasure
 This sharp tradesman had a proto- type in Martin Van Burchell, quack doctor and dentist of considerable no- toriety in the reign of George III. He could likewise lay claim to some orig inality. for when his wife died he re- solved to utilize her for the purpose of increasing his practice. He accord ingly had her embalmed and placed in his parlor, where she was on view to such patients as favored him with their patronage. She was a decided draw.
 When in the flesh, Julia Pastrana, the celebrated "Nondescript and Beard ed Lady," was without question a source of income to her husband, MT. Lent. to whom. too. she proved. when dead, scarcely less remunerative. Her demise, which took place at St. Peters burg. was followed by the prompt sale of her body for $500. to Prof, Suckaloff. who embalmed it with such skill that the shrewd wldower repurchased it for $500, with the intention of exhibiting It In Russia. This. however, he was not allowed to do, so he brought 1t to this country, where, in 1862. 1t at tracted crowds to the Burlington Gal lery.
 The late Commander Cameron, in his entertaining book, Across Africa" relates how on one occasion he visited a certain hospltabIe but cannibally in- clined potentate at the very time he was about to hold high festival by de- vouring one of his dead wives-also, by the way, standing to him In the re- lation of aunt-whom he had thor oughly prepared for table by exposing in shallow brook, under a broiling sun, for several days. Needless to say Cameron had a most pressing engage ment elsewhere, so was obliged to de cline the royal gourmet's gracious invi- tation to the feast.
 A small farmer. living In the neigh borhood of Amsterdam, some time back lost his wife. Though the couple had always lived together without dissen- sion the love he bore his spouse did not equal that with which he regarded the fruits of his farm. So, at least. did it appear. for he hit upon the grew some idea of utilizing her dead body as scarecrow. the good housewife be- ing found by some neighbors, a day or two after her decease, dressed in a discarded suit of her husbands, and | keeping guard in a small orchard be- | hind the house. Popular indignation | was at the boiling point. but, luckily | for the farmer. he was nowhere to be |
The Holbrook news., 1910-03-04
THE SLIDING RocR.
Rather Exciting Amusement of the
 Young Girls of Samoa.

U Young Girls of Samoa.
 Among the aquatic sports of seaside, riverside and lake-shore picnickers there are often included hilarious i'm promptu variations from the usual pro- gram. But no sport so exhilarating, audacious and amusing as one engaged in by a picnic party of women and girls in Samoa has yet, however, been devised by our athletic summer girls. To be sure. none of them have yet dis covered the first requisite-a sliding rock.
 The sliding rock of Papasua, as an English woman traveller describes 1t, is situated in beautiful mountain gorge. amid a wilderness of brilliant tropical flowers and marvellous foliage. A swift mountain stream plunges in two falls, the highest a good thirty feet, over a smooth rock into deep, wide, amber brown pool This fall the Samoan girls have for generations visited in picnic parties, got up especially for a festive slide.
 Ut looked formidable enough" re- ports the Englishwoman, Miss Beatrice Grimshaw, and when Fangati and the others, with cries of delight, pulled off their dresses, wound white and green and pink cotton lava-lavas over one shoulder and round from waist to knee, crowned themselves picturesque ly with woven fern leaves. and plunged shrieking over the fall, I began to wish I had not come. or, coming, had not promised to slide
 However, there was no help for It., so put on my English bathing dress. which excited peals of merry laugh ter because of It's combinations, = waded down the stream, and sitting in the rush of the water, held tightly on to a rock at each side. and looked over my own toes at the foaming, roaring, thirty-foot drop.
 Tt was all over in moment. Just an unclasping of unwilling hands from the safe black rocks. fierce tug from the tearing stream. an exceedingly un- pleasant instant when one realized that there was no going back now at any price, and that the solid earth had slipped away. as it does in the ghastly drop of a nightmare dream; then noth- ing in the world but loud, long roar, and a desperate holding of the breath, while the helpless body shot down to the bottom of the deep brown pool and up again: and at last the warm air of heaven filling ones grateful lungs in big gasps, as one reached the surface and swan across to the other side of the pool, firmly resolved on no account to do 1t again, now that 1t was over.
 The native girls. however. did iS many times, leaving behind them as they went a long. loud yell. like the whistle of train going into tunnel"
 One went down head first; another caught a friend in her arms and gaily tumbled in with her. It was hours before they ceased the exciting sport. and then only when tempted from the water by the sight of the elder women spreading the picnic feast.-Youth' Companion.
The Holbrook news., 1910-03-04
Raising Cattle.

The surest money that one can make in handling cattle is to sart with a drove of steer calves and grow them to feed lot age and size, and if mar ket conditions are then right to finish before selling. Whether or not the finishing is done, the gain made in growing Is sure gain, and the maker of 1t can not lose. He who stands to lose or make is he who buys near
The Holbrook news., 1910-03-04
TRAP NESTS.

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The Holbrook news., 1910-03-04
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Chronic Heare..


 There Is no sure cure for a chronic case of heaves. The best plan is to sell the horse for what he is worth; or, If that does not agree with your conscience. give him the following treatment: Five grains of arsenic once every "A hours for two weeks. then omit a week and go on as before. For a small horse give four grains instead of five; for a very large horse, six. Heaves are caused by weak condition of a nerve, and anything you can do to relieve this will help the horse. Feed well and get him in good condition, but give very little rough feed. and even that is best cut fine and made moist.-B.. Apple Creek. Ohio.
The Holbrook news., 1910-03-04

ly matured steers and feeds them he either makes. comes out even or loses. The grower of steer calves to feed lot age uses little grain, hence has nothing but his time invested In the growth made-his time in putting up roughness and feeding it. His pas ture bill Is apt to be the greatest Farmers' Mail and Breeze.
The Holbrook news., 1910-03-04
61D0[p(yllA[D & 4GsS9GGgWIE E[5c[RY

The longest sea wave ever measured by the Photographic office was half ] mile in length.
 Sweden's increase in population last year was the greatest for any of the last ten years.
 The Chilean government has under construction sixteen different railroad lines or extensions.
 Blast furnace slag waste is being chemically treated in Great Britain for utilization as cement
 The Cape Cod ship canal, work on cd before the revolution.
 Attempts at aviation that met with some degree of success were made by an Italian priest in 1751.
 Recent cases of bubonic plague in California have been traced to squir- rels eaten by the victims.
 The Australian state of Victoria spends nearly s5OO,OOO a year in its warfare against the destructive rab- bit
 The Austrian government is build ing automobile trucks designed to car ry twenty ton guns up IS per cent grades.
 The swamp area of the United States, if combined. would cover the New England states. New York and New Jersey.
 London's electric street railways carry about 412,OOO,O 900 passengers year, of whom 24 per cent pay but a cent fare.
 Wooden pavements In Paris. treated with a bath of alkali. carbonates and wood tar at a high temperature, are said not to need repairs more often than once in two years.
 It requires approximately ten tons of pitchblende to yield a single grain of radium bromide. to obtain which over a thousand reductions and crys- affiliations have to be made.
 The development of motor-car en- zines, and other machines having much vibration, has concentrated at- tention upon devices for locking nuts uPOA OOIL5r III d lCCCAS 0AoCuSSAOA OL this subject attention is called to the fact that, for ordinary motor-car work, ! a well-ftted nut frightened upon we'll fitted thread will not slip under vibra- tion If the number of threads is more | than twelve to the inch. Such bolts i and nuts should be secured with | spring-lock washers. They are then | safe up to a bolt diameter of over | three-quarters of an inch.
 Whether the globe on which we dwell is gradually drying up or not Is question that has been much debat- ed. Recent discoveries In Central Asia have been regarded by some as favoring an affirmative answer. but others have replied that the observed phenomena are simply periodic changes. Doctor Walser of Zurich champions the affirmative view on the ground that a great number of Euro pean lakes have certainly disappeared | within the last 25O years. The canton of Zurich, for example, had 149 lakes a quarter of a century ago. and only seventy-six today. He believes that similar tendency to disappearance has affected the lakes of Germany and Russia
The Holbrook news., 1910-03-04
We Have Much to Learn.

In Europe, where land values com pei intensive farming. 300 bushels of potatoes to the acre is the average In the United States the average is less than 90. Our farmers have much to learn. The trouble with us Is that our farms are too big. AS many dol lars can be taken from 20 acres prop erly cultivated as from 100 poorly erop7-1
The Holbrook news., 1910-03-04
Sizing Him Up.

Do you regard that expert witness as a successful man?" asked one alien ist.
 "It depends" answered the other. "on whether you measure him by the amount of his learning or the size of his fees"
The Holbrook news., 1910-03-04
IlI-Tfnaed.

Ever try this keep a-smiling propo Sition?"
 Tried 1t once. but with poor sue cess. Unfortunately. I started the ex- pertinent on a day that the boss felt grouchy. Courier-Journal.
The Holbrook news., 1910-03-04

A mans respect for old age is apt to go lame when 1t bumps against boarding-house poultry
The Holbrook news., 1910-03-04

Before they are engaged he brings her candy in fancy boxes; later on she Is lucky to get it in paper bags.
The Holbrook news., 1910-03-04
Area EnunI to AIl Europe.

The total continental area of the United States, including Alaska. is equal to that of all Europe.
The Holbrook news., 1910-03-04
How to Pump Water.

correspondent asks how he can pump water from a well 20 feet deep
The Holbrook news., 1910-03-04

suction pump will have no difficulty in drawing water to a height of 20 feet. but if you can gain four feet by setting the pump in a pit. so much the better.-Farm and Home.
The Holbrook news., 1910-03-04

Nobody likes to see girl hanging over c telephone talking to a boy.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-03-27

gulches bottoms and to" tie-up' miles
above, with the pals towering thousands
of feet above one on every hand An
inland waterway, the only one in the
Territory, will the new ditch be. a
waterway through which supplies for
the ditch men, supplies for the taro
growers and the rice planters of Wal
pho viii be carried and down which,
before long, viii come the rice and
the paiai, which for many years has
been the only export of the valley,
the garden spot Of all Hawaii
In the prehistoric past, Waipio was
inhabited by hundreds and hundreds of
Hawaiian families. cultivating taro and
tending the fshponds for the chiefs,
who lived on the cooler uplands. Over
the pals today wind the steep trails
used by those who carried the valley
exports up to the Waimea plains and
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-03-27

that try the nerve of all who pass over
them. either afoOt or horseback. 1t
gives fair indication of the magnitude
ot the ditch operations to state that
the trails necessary for the preliminary
work cost the company some sixty thou
sand dollars. They are in to stay. how
ever, being in most places cut into the
solid face of the pals. one. two and
three thousand feet above the valley.
Along these trails have been packet
in on mulehack heavy pieces Of ma
chinerV, tons Of cement, thousands of
feet of timber and supplies of all kinas.
Along the trails. reminding one of the