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The Holbrook news., 1911-02-17
RULES FOR SEA TRAVELLERS. On Navigation Courtesy and the Proper Poise in
 Quams-

"Do not interfere with the captain in the performance of his duties, or offer suggestions in navigation based upcn your own experience in running a catboat on Lake Mohonk,Y John Ken drick Bangs says in Harper's Weekly. There are few captains now in the transatlantic service who have not crossed the ocean several times, and we know of none who has acquired his knowledge of the sea in q correspond ence school.
 "If the lady with golden hair seated in the steamer chair next to yours inadvertently puts her head on. your shoulder and groans, do not rudely re- move it, but whistle soft lullaby as if you did not notice the act Bear in mind that two heads are better than one. The lullaby may put her to sleep, when her curls may be gently removed to her own soft pillow. Should you desire to go below before she goes to sleep, send the deck steward after her husband and ask him to remove them himself
 If in the midst of your dinner you feel a sudden emotional qualm arising within you. rise with it as nearly simul- taneously as possible, and hasten from the saloon, taking care in your flight to stick to the aisles between the ta- bles and not go leaping from table to table like a frightened antelope to- ward the exit, This latter course would cause considerable confusion in the dining room and in your haste you might inadvertently trip over another passengers welsh-rabbit. which is not considered good form in polished cir cles, either on the land or on the sea.
 If, on your way to the upper deck, you find the staircase blocked by oth- CTS hastening upward like yourself, do not step upon them in your mad flight upward. but slide down the banister to the lower deck, which you will find just as well adapted to your needs as the upper. Any deck is good in 8 Qualm."
The Holbrook news., 1911-02-17

tinguished Russian nobleman, was shot down September 4, 1907, by Nick olas Naumoff, who was madly in love with the countess. It will be recalled that there was another lover, Luiz Prilukoff, also implicated in the crime. The jury found at tho close of the ia nous trial that Naumoff and Countess Tarnovsky were not fully responsible for their acts, hence they were sen fenced to three and eight years. re- spectively, while Prilukoff was given ten years.
 Pending the determination of her appeal Countess Tarnovsky enjoyed unusual privileges in prison until a few days ago, when she began her soli- tary confinement She was permitted to buy and wear luxurious clothes and to care for her magnificent tresses. She spent $10 a week for perfumery, which she used chiefly on her hair. She spent several hundred dollars a month for clothes end for embroidered linen and for flowers. She has pas sion for flowers and insisted on hay ing several bouquets in her cell at all times. The countess is great reader and ordered French and Italian novels. which she read rapidly. Now that she has lost her appeal she entered upon prison life in a cell without any of these luxuries She must have her hair cut, wear a coarse linen dress and see no one at all. She will not be permitted to have books.
 l &l, IT., sky. whether guilty or not, looms up as the most beautiful and captivating of all great criminal adventuresses of history. She is about thirty years old of a majestic yet supple figure rising to nearly five feet nine, with a Gre clan bust and neck and a well-poised head. Animated expression gives life to her features, which in complete re- pose have a cruel look Her large green-black eyes are. quick to melt into 'softness or harden into hate. Her head is crowned by wealth of brown ish black hair that gleams golden bronze in the sunlight. This feature of her beauty is now gone, of course, since prisoners in solitary confinement are not allowed any privileges.
 To one of thirty matter of eight years soon passes away, leaving little in the way of marks to show the effect of time on the beauty. Ordinarily, this woman who is to spend her days in solitary confinement would find little diminution in her beauty at thirty eight AS it is-well, doubtless she will have fewer lovers in her train dur ing the future, after the prison gates have for her swung outward
The Holbrook news., 1911-02-17
HOW FAR HAVE YOU TRAVELLED
Will Be Surprised at Dis tance Covered.

Have you ever counted up the mum, ber of steps which you have made in the course of one day-in going to business, in walking from one room to another at home, and so on, throughout the course of the day? If you will take the trouble to do so, you will be surprised to find what a distance you have covered without realizing it. Multiply thos distance by 365 and you will find that it will not require many years before you have made up the 25,000 miles which is equal to the circuit of the globe Most people would certainly be sur prised if they were informed that during the course of their lives they have walked a distance as great as the length of the equator Yet, how ever sedentary we may be, however little inclined to gain the reputation of globe-trotter or of an Alpine climber, most of us have, unknown to ourselves. covered a distance equal to the full circuit of the earth, or a climb to the highest mountain peaks in the world. More than that, we have accomplished a task still more colossal. Without having had occasion to explore the unknown regions be- meath the crust of the earth, we have descended as far as the depths of the most unfathomable abysses, even as far as the very center of the earth Strand Magazine
The Holbrook news., 1911-02-17
The Impossihle.

"The late Admiral Read" said a Washington naval officer, owed his great success to ais ingenuity. He would, in fact. undertake and carry
 trough the impossible
 Admiral Read, at the naval banquet, was once talking to some young of 6cers about the strength and beauty of the arch. He took an egg from basket, and holding it aloft. he said:
 Notice this eggs arch. Nothing could be prettier Nothing, if you set it right, could be stronger, Why, gentlemen, can set this egg on the floor in such manner that you could Tt break it with half bushel meas ure'
 The young officers demurred A stout, iron-bound, half-bushel measure was brought in. The admiral at once showed his almost inhuman in genuity by placing the egg in a cor ner where the measure couldn't reach it..
 "'You can't fill a square corner with round measure,' Said the young off cers, graciously acknowledging their defeat"
The Holbrook news., 1911-02-17
disciples of silas wegg caroled as

disciples of Silas Wegg caroled as follows lately:
 Oh, carrier with the willing feet. Deliver this on Fiftieth street; The number, thirteen twenty-four; The town, New York. and on the door You'll find, set in silver frame. That which you seek-a persons name James Ipson Strong-who'd want a bet
 ter?
 And 'tis 10 him I send this letter.
 Another allowed himself to over flow with a fragment built on the same lines as the effervescent college yell. It ran:
 Harper's, Harper's.
 In Franklin square.
 New York. New York,
 With haste and care.
 The envelope was bulky and surely held ipt-undoubtedly a poem on spring-but whether that diabolical bark resem bling the ululation of mountain wolf on the war trail was to drive the post office to unusual ex- ertions in forwarding the letter, or whether it was to convince the pub fishers that author was rough and ready genius of the west, who would not brook refusal of copy, can only be conjectured.
 It would be supposed that the crank bent on addressing letter to himself and have it come back after jour- ney around the world resem bling a porous plaster from postmarks is dead. It has been announced off cially scores of times that letters mailed for such a purpose will be re- turned to the writer by the speediest route-that is. by local carrier. Still. the round-the-world crank is on the hustle and as eagerly bent on vast ing postage stamps.
The Holbrook news., 1911-02-17

good standing Stark is manager Of the football team, one of the most popular students in the school, not small job fin itself considering the handicap of a valet in the eyes of the average Tex as youth; is director of bank, saw mill. a paper factory and several other industries and the fiance of one of the popular young women of Austin.
 He is active ln all undergraduate movements and does his share with fellow students whenever work or money is called for. He especially favors the movements that make to ,he upbuilding of the athletic depart ment.
 Starke's grandmother is Mrs. H. J. Iutcher of Orange, Tex, owner of a gigantic lumber plant She regards nothing as too good for her grand son and his expense account is un- questioned. The automobiles he keeps here for his personal use are worth s17 800 and recently he gave his fiancee a handsome car for birthday off Two years ago when contest for the most popular girl was held as :, ,,.rt of a benefit for the athletic fund Stark bought. $500 worth of bal lots in one lot. His fiancee was final ly elected
 Under his management the lootpaIi team has made a remarkable record, losing but two games. Stark won this nosition by promotion, having served ac assistant manager of the team last wear and his good work won him the advanced position, where he has ac- ouitted himself with credit.
 When the rich youth appeared at the university with his valet and auto mobiles he was placed under heavy handicap, as his classmates expected him to be a snob, but he has lived down the natural jealousies and shown himself to be very democratic.
The Holbrook news., 1911-02-17
NO TROUBLE AT ALL
LETTER WRITING COMPARATIVE
 " AN EASY MATTER.
With the Aid of the Weather, It Seems, Long and Chatty EpistIe May Be Indited
 in Short Time.

There is a more or less commonly held delusion," said MT. Inpinconton, that the weather, with it's alternating rain and sunshine and that sort of thing, was made for farmers, for the nourishment and ripening of crops, and so on, but this only goes to show how a delusion once started may, however i'll founded, hold it's ground, for the fact is that the weather was really made to give letter writers something to write about
 You take people, friends or rela- tives, who from affection or a sense of duty write to each other at regular intervals. However greatly interested they may mutually be in many things, it is often difficult for them to find things to write about, but in such cases they can always fall back on the weather. That is subject that is perennial and as varied as the ever varying temperature or the multiform shapes of the clouds. In the weather there is always something to write about Thus when it comes time for us to write our weekly letter to sis ter, who lives a piece up the state and with whom we correspond regu- larly, and I find have nothing to say. why, l am not put out 1 don't hesi- tate a moment. I fall back on the weather and go right ahead like this:
 Dear Sister: 1 was going out to Aunt Mary's to breakfast Thursday morning, but the weather looked so threatening that I finally thought I wouldn't go. It was all cloudy in the west and the wind was east, and real ly it looked quite threatening, and I thought the safest thing to do would be not to go. But you cant always tell. Along about half past eight things began to brighten up and by g o'clock it was clear as bell. 1 think it's often likely to happen so, espe- cially at this time of year, but when it seems threatening like that the only safe thing to do is not to go. BEt how it did rain Friday We are wondering if you had any rain there. 1 suppose you must need it. l have been reading in the papers lately that the brooks and springs are all dried up- AAu IhSA ySSlOl udS, WudI d lONC- ly day. with glorious sunshine after the rain and a fine. cool bracing air, and not a cloud in the sky, not sin gle cloud. And today isn't bad, lit tie cloudy and somewhat windy, and the air is sort of raw and chilly, but you know we're always liable to get weather Of this sort at this time of year; it almost always comes; you can pretty surely count on it, though don't you know that sometimes there comes along one of those soft, balmy days that make you think of spring? hope it's day like that tomorrow, because if it is we are going to try again for Aunt Mary's Your loving brother. CEPHAS
 You sec there's your letter? And just as easy as rolling off log!"
The Holbrook news., 1911-02-17

the beautiful ti- tied lady of mixed
 Irish R u S S i a n
 blood who was sen fenced by the Court of Venice, Italy, to eight years imprison- ment for her part in the murder of Count Paul Kamar- ovsky, with whom
 she had been liv- ing for some time. The count, a dis
The Holbrook news., 1911-02-17

may put this earth in the scrap heap. The professor has no doubt that such an end will come to the earth, but he makes no attempt to say when the event will occur. Those who know about the eminent astronomer and his work do not doubt his word, of course; and those who do not know may rest assured that Professor Lowell is amply qualified to render an opinion on this important subject.
 The probable nature of the end of the world, as the conclusions of the scientists show, will be a drop into the sun; but Professor Lowell says we shall have advance knowledge of this, and he knows. AS the scien- lists have figured it out there is somewhere in the remote confines of space a great mass of matter-once a world, but now dead-hurtling toward our sun. When it hits the bull's-eye. as it is bound to do some day, our little hunk of mud will cease to exist.
 It is we'll for our peace of mind that no such dead world is at present within dangerous proximity. Yet who knows what day the morning papers may announce that one has been dis covered by aid of the suns light re- fiected upon it as it enters our little circle-butting into our society, so to speak While it would then be cer- tain the end of the world was at hand, still, there would be ample time in which to prepare for the inevitable. About 27 years would elapse from the time it was discovered by some as tronomer with his telescope until the fatal mass could be seen with the naked eye, and not until three years later would it appear as large as the brightest stars in the heavens. Nearly three years more and our seasons would begin to change, the days be- coming longer. The beginning of the end would come about five months later The stranger would not strike our little planet, but would pass so close in it's dash to the sun that the earth would turn and follow until, to- gether. they would drop silently into the sun. like a couple of dust specks into a roaring furnace fire.
 Professor Lowell, who has so calm ly announced the probability of this startling end to all earthly hopes and fears, was born at Boston, Mass, March 13, 1855. Graduating from Harvard in 1876, he continued the study of astronomy in many parts of the world until 1894, when he estab- lished the Lowell Observatory at Flagstaff, Ariz. Being a fellow in nearly all the important scientific and astronomical associations of Europe and America, his opinions have long been accepted quite generally as au- thoritative. His odd theory concern ing the end of the world, therefore. has aroused no end of controversy among men of science
The Holbrook news., 1911-02-17
REBUILDING THE TREASURY.

The contractor who Is remodeline part of the United States treasury. has begun the installation of three new vaults in the big building. Two of the old strong rooms in the sub basement and one in the basement are being torn out and will be re- placed with modern steel structures, which will be guarded by an elaborate system of electrical devices. In ma king these alterations, the new vaults will be built in the west side of the treasury, and after their completion the money and express business which now enters the treasury on the Eff teenth street side will go into the building by the west side One of the old vaults in the basement is to be entirely removed and will not be replaced
 When a small army of architects and artisans finishes the work now in progress the beautiful old structure will show the first material changes since 1869. Architecturally, it will represent a pagan temple, or, as many folk say, the American peoples worship of money.
 The nucleus of the present build irritated by the procrastination of congress in choosing a site, put his hickory stick down with thump and exclaimed, Put 'er there, on that spot" will remain unchanged, but the double stone staircase leading up to the colonnade on the Fifteenth street side has been torn away. Architects said it spoiled the beauty of that side of the building.
 The 30 granite monoliths, each of which cost $5,500 and weighs 30 tons. now stand in an unbroken row. They are said to be the finest example of their kind. It required ten men work ing 60 days to produce each of them. and a solid train uf 30 fiat cars brought them to Washington from the quarries in Massachusetts.
 The appearance of the front of the treasury has been marred. the artists say, by the commercial aspect which the scores of trucks and wagons backed up to the curb gave to it. When it is finished the big three horse truck, which brings up its rich cargo of currency every day to the vaults from the bureau of engraving and printing, will carry it's precious load practically into the building, in i stead of depositing 1t on the sidewalk. Express wagons which carry off hun dreds of valuable packages will do the same.
 To give more space inside the build ing. all the files of letters and docu- ments will be stored in the old coal vaults under the lawn on the Penn sylvania avenue side, and new coal vaults are being built on the side op- posite the White House.
 The completed building, as it stands, represents three stages of construction The nucleus was To- cated by Jackson and finished in 1S42 The south wing was finished in 1864 The north wing, finished in 1869, is on the site of the old state depart ment building.
 The long colonnade of sandstone. erected in 1864, deteriorated in the southern climate, and was replaced by the present granite monoliths little more than a year ago.
The Holbrook news., 1911-02-17

next door to Harry Clay. He de scribes Clay as being the possessor of remarkably long ears and prodi- giously big feet. His favorite attitude was sitting, book in hand, with feet elevated, leaning against a tree. He would always stop and converse pleas antly with young Cooper whenever they met and the latter has always cherished his memory in his heart of hearts. The opposite, however, is true in the case of Thomas H. Ben ton. The Coopers removed from Ken lucky to Clay county, Missouri, in 1887. Mir Cooper's father became a close political associate and trusted lieutenant of Benton. He managed Benton's campaigns in that section of the state and the great Missourian was a frequent visitor at the Cooper home. On one of these occasions the younger Cooper was tempted to whip Benton. My father" said he, in a reminiscent mood, was a talking man, and could make q better stump speech than Benton. At one time when the latter was spending the night at our house my father said, referring to me, This young man is not going to vote with us this year Benton, in a loud enraged tone. roared. If he was my son I'd disin- heTit him
 "Td have given all I was worth" :" said Uncle John, with vehemence. If he had been a young man of my own age so I could have thrashed him."
The Holbrook news., 1911-02-17

sity of Texas. He is so busy that he keeps three auto mobiles and a ra- cing motorcycle to help him in get ting to his duties an2be has a valet to tighten his rou- tine affairs. He does his studying first hand. how ever.
 Aside from be- ing a senior in
The Holbrook news., 1911-02-17

end of the world
 will come to pass suddenly should find considerable comfort in the as sertion of Profes- sor Lowell that
 there is the best of scientific evi- dence for believ- ing mankind will have many years warning of the great and final cataclysm which
The Holbrook news., 1911-02-17

Thomas H. Ben ton. but Uncle Johnny CT. who just celebrat- ed his ninetieth birthday at his farm home near Hamburg, la, was
 p e r S O n a lily ac- q u a i n t e d with
 those famous men. MT. Cooper is by birth a Kentucki- an and in his boy hood days lived
The Holbrook news., 1911-02-17
old Houses.

Old houses have a far larger com
 mercial value than their owners al ways remember. Milton's well-known observation in his "Areopagitica," !" Al most as well kill man as kill a good book" applies not little to a good old building. which is not only book but a unique manuscript that has no fellow.-Address by Thomas Hardy
The Holbrook news., 1911-02-17
HIaher Criticism Wanted.

There are two things my three
 year-old wants to know" said the young mother. He says his little prayer every night without the slight est idea, of course, of what it all means, and he is always asking me, Where is Lay Mes house and what is God Bless's other name?' If any body can tell me I'll be much obliged"
The Holbrook news., 1911-02-17
Her Reasoning Confused.

-.she hasn't any confidence in her husband, has she?''
 NO. She caught him telling the truth the other day, and now she can't dope him out at all.'
The Holbrook news., 1911-02-17
Shy on Filler

Wienerwurst Vender-What's the matter, sonny, ain't yer hot dog sand wich all right?"
 The Newsie-No. stingy. Dish is ony got puppy in it.
The Holbrook news., 1911-02-17
THE COUNTESS TARNOVSKY
 WHO LOSES HER APPEAL

Solitary confinement! That is now the fate of Countess Marie Tarnovsky.
The Holbrook news., 1911-02-17
ASTRONOMER DESCRIBES
 WORLDS PROBABLE END

Those "easy" persons who are all WAYS afraid that some predicted
The Holbrook news., 1911-02-17
NINETY-YEAR-OLD IOWAN
 WHO KNEW HENRY CLAY

It is rare nowadays to meet a man who knew Henry Clay. Crittenden and
The Holbrook news., 1911-02-17
TEXAS COLLEGE BOY HAS
 VALET AND THREE AUTOS

H. J. Lutcher Stark of Orange, Tex. is the busiest student at the Univer-
The Holbrook news., 1911-02-17
eut Not Now.

Howell-"Is he in good standing?" Powell-"He was until I sat on him"
The Holbrook news., 1911-02-17

The envelope ought to have gone into the waste basket. but Uncle Sam's orders are to use all possible means to find the party to whom 2 letter is addressed. So finally re- formed puzzler in the office decinbared the address to be: Fred H Ad.,ns Jackson, Tenn"
 Crank Who Writes Poetry
 Next in degree of adherence in the minds of the letter handlers is tbe poetical crank. He is strongly i'm. pregnated with the idea that all tba world loves a poet. and that. above all, postal clerks need some intellec- tual refreshment to ameliorate the hard grind of daily toil One of these
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-06-17
rRorl,crIoN on rnIAI.

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people being held
manpuaors OF 9rgc
benefits most manufacturing
fortunes by panpu-
frequently small Even in
lhc study
this country viii stand
good
add to it by
to robbery there cut should
plate glass is too hshi tat
excesve that 81 cent on bhed
vedged cotton KNIT
gill netting too much arh ua'
per 126 per cent ON steel
steaI that lss cent on PLAYING u
pocket Knives is ynfr and hence the
tarTn Items to he cut down
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indefinite expaaon Mexico and defends his rule
sympathy ordered many patriots o
Mexico shot owl without a trial
There is big crop and they are bringing
In &c marke 800 $500 per bushe
Noticing Roosevelt is having D'z mmNs he won"
prefer to stay home and c a old expeident
Insurgents the Lormer nveusahon that VIII
not be a preausngei -whtewashins festival
Now that the Tobacco trust the Supreme Courts
semmer It 8 no look at
kentucky suffered the drouth ana neat III may
hoping happened to the good ola rye
our seasons are changing! many showers ana not
resr so many June brides a used to be