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The Holbrook news., 1912-06-28
captain's Specific Orders.

Capt. John l. Lewis, an official o1 the Arundel Sand and Gravel company of Baltimore, has toured the world. Captain Lewis in recalling some of his trips said that he met friend one time, and they talked of the dangers of icebergs.
 He remembered that his friend, also 2 tourist, said:
 "One night while returning from Europe I came out on deck. It was SO foggy that nothing could be seen The captain of the ship was walking the deck and I approached him and said:
 '.How fast are we going?'
 "The master replied, 'Twenty-two miles an hour
 "Ts not that violation of the lawT asked. The captain admitted that 1t was.
 .'Then asked. Why do you run so fast through a fog?
 'aThe captain replied, My official standing orders are Heaven, hell or New York in five days"
The Holbrook news., 1912-06-28
Younc EInancier.

It appears that there is more or lesA humbug about the traditional slowness of the messenger, the fabulous lazt ness of the office boyzand all thai sort of stuff. At any rate. there is young fellow in Cleveland who may be said to be abreast of the age In which he lives He works in down town office building, but he has rapidly growing account in a savingi bank.
 The other day our young hero went to his bank to make a deposit of 6e cents. The teller, with more than his customary haughtiness, informed the boy that the bank would not receive deposits of less than $1. The kid didn't waste any time arguing about 1t. He walked over to the desk, wrote a check for $1 and presented 1t al the paying teller's window. It wal honored, of course. Then the little fnancier said:
 'I wish to deposit $1-5O-"
 And that deposit was accepted Ano the teller ground his teeth.
 Haec fabula docet-that you can oe posit a cent if you have an account Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Holbrook news., 1912-06-28
EXPLAINING WHY ONE LIVES
There Are Times When Logic and Dc Votion Require. That You
 Should Be Dead.

The Dominic had another observa ton or two to make in the line of his usual thoughtfulness. Did it ever occur to you," he asked, "that one of the hardest tasks man may have to perform, sometimes, is to explain why he is alive? The necessity has arisen after certain battles, and it may arise after shipwrecks. Several of these men whom we are awaiting may find it awkward tomorrow to explain their continued existence. The world re- uuires a certain adherence to the log teal necessities of things, and when all logic, human and divine, has de manded that a man should die, and he is nevertheless alive and well, the anomaly of his healthy presence is something that he cannot account for, with all his explanations.
 "I was an army chaplain once, and I saw a captain, whose duty as the personal aide of a general in battle, was to etand by that generals side when the bullets flew. It happened that a bullet-two bullets-three bull lets-struck the general, and none struck the captain. The general fell dead; and an hour afterward, when the captain was back at headquar- ters explaining that there was urgent need of endorsements at the front and inst the general had fallen, that captain had great trouble in explain ing why he was not shot, too. In fact, the mystery has never been cleared up yet. The fact that rein
 forcements were not needed at all has always clouded the captain story, though there was no positive proof of cowardice against him.
 "No; when logic and all the laws oi human devotion require that you should be dead, you had much better be dead than alive, for all the rest
 of your life will be but a living death
The Holbrook news., 1912-06-28
RECORDED QUEER BET
LOSER PAID GUINEA A DAY FoH
 THREE YEARS.
Made Wager with Clergyman Based oE Expectation of NapoIeon's Death and Finally Was Released
 From It by Jury.

"One of the most curious bets ] ever heard of was made in England hundred years ago." said Angus Mo Gregor, an attorney of Edinburgh Scotland, at the Belvedere.
 .'The wager was between knight who was also a member of parlia ment, and a clergyman, for in that day it was not considered scandalouf for dominies to put up their money on sporting propositions. It is but fair to the preacher, however, to say that the other man did the banter ing, and this was the knights singu lar offer: That if anyone of crowd present would put up 100 guineaa (something over $50O) he would give to such person one guinea day dur ing the remainder of the lifetime oi Napoleon Bonaparte.
 sTn making such an extraordinary offer he evidently thought the great Corsican had but few days to live Before the others in the company could recover from the shock of the strange proposal, the clergyman shout ed out that he would accept the terms and then and there the wager or deal was consummated, there being wit nesses to the act of the minister in putting 100 guineas into the challen gers hands.
 "A splendid bet 1t was for the rev erend gentleman, but miserably pooI one for the other, who had to surren der a guinea every day and this he continued to do for the better part oi three years. Along toward the close of 1874 the knight wearied of his los ing game. As you American say, he began to have cold feet. At first he tried to beg of, but the parson would not listen to his entreaties. A bet was a bet he contended, and the fact that he was ahead to the tune of some 800 guineas made him not in the least compassionate. Boney might live good while longer and that daily rev enue was very sweet.
 "As a last resort the knight refused to pay any longer, and the parsor brought suit before judge. Eloquent and learned counsel spoke on both sides, but it must have been that the advocate for the defendant knight pro duced the most convincing argument in telling the jury why his client should not be made to pay any longer .Tn the first place." said the law yer his client had not in the begin ming made the bet seriously; 1t was , sort of jocular proposal, but once be
 ing made the proponent was too gam' to back out. Secondly, it was con trary to public policy to give lega sanction to such bet. Napoleon wal Britain's most dreaded foe and for British subject to have a procurinl : interest in proIonging the enemy : life was a horrid and untenabi : thought. The jury took the sam view and freed the knight from fu1 !. ther payments. s."-Baltimore Amer can.
The Holbrook news., 1912-06-28
Planting the Topples.

When the daffodils are in flower the garden begins to regain the at fractions which 1t lost in winter, and the tasks which the spring imposes are entered on with zest. Among the most important is the sowing of an nuals. Two very common mistakes should be avoided. One Is sowing toe thickly and the other sowing too deep, iy. An annual such as Shirley pop py. when we'll grown, will occupy square foot of ground at least, yei in that space dozens, if not scores, oi seeds are often sown. The result is c tremendous waste, not only of seeds but also of plants. for all that do grow must be spoilt, unless they are thinnet quickly and severely.
The Holbrook news., 1912-06-28
A Birthday Toast.

There is no modern instance fol which a wise saw may not be found in Shakespeare, apt and to the point; the move we reect on his wondrous works, the more we are lost in astonishment at the depths of that unfathomable mind that has given volume to the world containing passages quotable in relation to every occurrence of life, and poetry of such excellence as may challenge the combined talent of men to produce its equal. Without Shake speare our dramatic literature would have taken a respectable station in modern Europe; with Shakespeare it is supreme-in our drama challenges all the world; tasteless and sezi-barbarous as 1t was, he converted it into a feast of reason for men < education and refinement. (Cheers.O The age of Elizabeth may well, indeed be called the golden age of literature when it could boast Shakespeare A contemporary, who hourished with him-Ben Jonson-has said that man could not be a poet without being e good man. Of our bard he has also said that he was of an honest, good an dopen nature. For myself, l can only say that love the man and hon or his memory in the fullest sense oi the words on this side of idolatry (Cheers.) I give now ''The immorta memory of William Shakespeare. - From a speech made by Benjamin Webster, London comedian and actor manager, at a Shakespeare festiva dinner given at the Town Hall, Strat ford-on-Avon, April 26, 1853.
The Holbrook news., 1912-06-28
WHEN MUIR REJOICED
NATURALIST WRITES ABOUT /
 HNo5LE EARTHQUAKE"
impressive Description of shoeks h Yosemite Valley Which Gave Birth to a New Mountain Avalanche
 TaIus While He Looked.

A noble earthquakel A nobk earthquake!' exclaimed John Muir when he was awakened at half-pasi two o'clock of a moonlit morning ir the Yosemite valley. For years ht had believed that the many great ava lanche taluses leaning against tho walls of the valley at intervals of c mile or two, had been caused by ar earthquake at least three centuries before, and here was his chance te make some observations. Never be fore had he enjoyed a storm of this sort, but the strange, thrilling motion could not be mistaken, and so he ran out of his cabin, both glad and fright ened as he made his exclamation
 "The shocks were so violent and varied, and succeeded on another SC closely" he writes in the Century that I had to balance myself care fully in walking, as if on the decE of a ship among waves, and it seemed impossible that the high cliffs of the valley could escape being shattered In particular I feared that the sheer fronted< Sentinel rock, towering above my cabin, would be shaken down, anC I took shelter back of large yellow pine. hoping that it might protect mS from at least the smaller outboundini eoulders."
 r7be most impressive part of his de
 .btion is of the sounds. Tt was [ calm, moonlight night" he says, "an' no sound was heard for the first min ute or so save low, muffied, bubblinl underground rumblings, and the whis pering and rustling of the agitate' trees, as if Nature were holding he breath Then suddenly out of tn strange silence and strange motio there came a tremendous roar. Tn Eagle rock, on the south wall abou half a mile up the valley, gave way and I saw it falling in thousands o the great boulders I had 50 long bee studying. pouring to the valley loo in a free curve luminous from friC tion. making a terribly sublime spe' tacle-an arc of glowing, passionat fire, fifteen hundred feet span, as tru in form and as serene in beauty as rainbow in the midst of the stupeI dous rock storm. The sound was 8 tremendously deep and broad and eai nest that the whole earth, like li7 ing creature, seemed at last to hay found voice, and to be calling to he sister planets. In trying to tell som' thing of the size of this awful soun' it seems to me that if all the thu der of all the storms had ever hear were condensed into one roar,
 would not equal the rock roar at th birth of a mountain talus. Thin then, of the roar that arose to heaye at the simultaneous birth of the a cient canyon taluses, throughout u length and breadth of the range!
 The Indians and many of the whii men left the valley in terror of tn earthquake, the final rumblings which were not over for two month but Muir remained to study It's fects. Among other things, he kel a bucket of water on his cabin tab to learn what he could of the nov uents.
The Holbrook news., 1912-06-28
ParadoxIeaI Display.

Miss Mary Garden, at a dinner a sherry's in New York, said of beau tifuI girl who was wearing one of the ultra-decollete dinner gowns of the 1912 season:
 ssWhen you see pretty girl in such a low cut gown as that you nave 2 remarkable paradox before you-1ne paradox of a person who display. simultaneously very bad taste anu very good form"
The Holbrook news., 1912-06-28
sridqet NonpIussed.

Mrs. Jenkins had retired to her room to tr yto sleep of headache She had a particularly devoted maid Bridget. Bridget now annoyed Mrs. Jenkins greatly by tiptoeing to her door every little while and peeping in at her.
 Finally Mrs. Jenkins called to Bridget and asked her not to do it as it was disturbing her, to which Bridget re piled:
 "shure, Mrs. Jenkins. phat am 1 to do? When yez makes a noise l think yez wants me, an whin yez is quiet Eits to thinkin' maybe yez Is dead -
The Holbrook news., 1912-06-28
Mhere the panaer Lay.

Poorman-When you call on Misa Applegate, beware of the bulldog. or you'll get nabbed.
 Richman-That's all right; the bull dog and are good friends. It's Miss ADDlegate I'll look out for.
The Holbrook news., 1912-06-28

COUNTRY spacious and sparsely inhabited. A land
 where men found gold or reared cattle. A remote part of the world into which
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-05-29
BARROW HOLDS HIS
own FIGHTING HARD
Has Blocked the Prosecution and
May Win Material Advantage
in His Defense

Los ANGELES, May 25.--Fighting
every inch was the defense of barrow,
the lawyer accused of bribing a Juror
at least, he stopped the proceedings
by Directing to portions of the testi-
money. George NJ. Lockwood was on
the stand and told of the alleged at
tempted bribery of himself by Bert
Franklin, a detective.
The defense objected to the amss-
ibility of the evidence showing alleged
offsenses other than the attempted
conception of Lockwood, and an adj
journment was taken until Monday
to permit Judge Hutton ruling on the
matter. Both sides admitted a crisis
had been reached in the case of
Darrow who as his chief counsel. Earl
Rogers said early In the proceedings,
is on trial for his name. reputation
and every right he has on earth.
A ruling in favor of the defense
would be a serious setback to the
prosecution, while a decision in favor
of the prosecution would let down the
bars for the admission Of flood Of
evidence purporting to connect Oar
| row with wholesale corruption of
Jurors and witnesses in the trial of
James Il Mcnamara.
Before the court this morning Oar
lrow made strenuous denial of the
reports emanating from the East that
| he had negotiated with the district at
itorneys office with a view of enter
ling a plea of guilty to the indictments
| against him.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-05-29
HAS NO FEAR OF
0vER-PRODUCT|ON
Spokane Man Sees Time Coming
When Northwest Will Have
$4,000 Carloads of Fruit

: SPOKANE. May o5.--The North
western Fruit Exchange, headed by
r. H. Parsons of Medford, Ore, has
opened joint offices in the Chamber
of Commerce building, Spokane. H.
W. Otis of Peshastin, vice president
for Washington, has charge. The Of
fee is on an equal basis with head
quarters at Portland and will han
die the tree fruit crop of eastern
Washington, northern Idaho and
western Montana this season.
President Parsons, who is in Spo-
kane with c, A., Malboeuf, secretary,
and l.. f. Meacham, organized, said
in the course of an interview:
No Pear of Overproduction
''Ten years from now the northwest
should be producing $4,000 cars OF
apples, peaches, pears and other
fruits. But we need not fear any
danger of overproduction, for two
reasons. In the first place, a large
ma jority of the fruit trees planted
will never come into bearing. Prob
ably not more than so to 20 per cent
of them will bear.
I'm the second place, we Will solve
the problem of distribution. BY meet
ing the demand by proper distribution
and by stimulating further demand
we will be able to dispose easily of
what we produce.
"Another thing we need to do is to
produce in this northwest a perfect
fruit, as nearly as possible. 1t is es-
eential to counterfeit the growing OF
fruit in the east We cannot meet
their competition on freight. but they
can not produce the quality of fruit
we can here with our virgin SOIL
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-05-29
REFUSED LICENSE TO WED
Oakland Oriental Could Not Mari,
White Girl i'm Seattle

SEATTLE.-Lew Gum, Chinese
foreman of a canning company (
warehouse at Oakland, was greatly
surprised when he led Miss Mary
Taschella, a pretty white girl to the
marriage license window at the
county auditors Office and was refused
license to wed. The couple came
from San Francisco on the last boat
finding that the California laws were
against the marriage of Chinese with
whites. Clerk William Castle ex-
planned that it was against the policy
of the Office to issue licenses to Orien-
tails and whites, and Lew, with plenty
of money in his pocket and a pretty
girl ready to marry him, was unable
to understand why matter of policy
should interfere with his happiness
He finally asked Attorney A. j. Speck
ert to take up his case. Speckert ad-
vised him to go to Tacoma, where ii
was more smooth sailing for a mixed
marriage, and Gum and his intended
bride took his advice and left on an
afternoon boat.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-05-29
Will Welcome Blue JaclSt
why ventilation is Required

- Is not, however the need of OK
ygen which renders important con-
slant and adequate supply of air by
means of ventilation. Ventilation Is
needed chiefly for the purpose of
washing away the impurities which
have been thrown off from the lungs
and which have rendered the air of
the occupied apartm ent unfit for fur
Their breathing. There is an abund-
ance of oxygen. but it is impure and
unfit to breathe.
Every one should become intelli-
gent in relation to the matter Of van
tilation, and should appreciate its
Importance. Vast and irreparable in
jury frequently results from the con-
finc ment of several scores of hum
dreds of people in schoolroom.
church, or lecture room without ade-
quate means OF removing the impuri-
ties thrown off from their lungs and
bodies. The same air being breathed
over and over becomes densely charg-
ed with poisons, which render the
blood impure, lessen the bodily re-
slstance, and induce susceptibility to
and other infectious diseases, which
are always present in very crowded
audience room
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-05-29

breaking prows and tools for ripping
up the prairies tired of growing buff
falo grass and sagebrush and wanting
to produce wheat. The officers of the
league selected the prize because
there Is no single factor in the de-
velopment of the northwest which is
playing a more important part than
the modern farm tractor. All over
Minnesota, North and South Dakota,
Montana, Idaho, Washington and Ore
gon these giant horses are cutting the
broad prairies into fertile farms and
making homes for thousands of set
tiers
Great Value to Winner
Winning such prize enables a
farmer to almost do away with horses
Breaking and threshing are not the
only things which the big tractors are
doing. They work in soft ground,
drilling, dragging, discing. narrowing
and harvesting. Their broad wheels
work where horses cannot get a foot
hold. The distribute the weight OF
the machinery to such an extent that
the pressure per square inch under
the drivers Is less than under a
horses hoof.
The Northwest Development league
delivers the tractor and tools free to
the winner, believing that no greater
encouragement could possibly be Of
fered to the wheat growers of the
northwest than to make possible this
competition for the worlds greatest
what prize.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-05-29
u. S. Blue Jackets and Marines
Will Be Made Ready to Land
in Cuba Immediately
SITUATION DEMANDS
READINESS FOR ACTION
Strike Situation Aggravated to
Point of Inswrection Has Gov
ernment in Such Straits That 1t
Will Weisome u. S. Troops


WASHINGTON. May 25.--Insurrec-
ton disorders which threaten life and
property of Americans and are be-
lieved by the United States to be
spreading beyond the control Of the
Cuban government caused the Ameri-
can government to take active steps
today. Preparations to cope with any
situation which may arise Is the stand
of the republic.
Two divisions of the Atlantic bat
tleship fleet were ordered to take a
full quota of marines making a total
of 1900 in addition to 700 now en-
route to Guantanamo, and rendezvous
at Key West ready to move to CUBA
the instant their presence is needed.
In all dozen warships will be in
the immediate vicinity of Cuba within
a few days The army Is prepared to
act with an expeditionary force of
Is, 900 men, If it is needed and plans
for a campaign to stamp out the re-
bellion are ready to be put into exc
cution at the call of the president
Done for Moral Effect
Insurrection and serious labor
troubles as the result Of the renewal
of the longshoremen's strike are be-
lieved 10 warrant American prepared
ness OF the TWO the disturbances
which probably Will arise In Cuban
ports through the operations OF strik-
ers VIII be the more immediate and
dangerous elements in the situation.
1t is believed the near presence of one
or more American warships will have
a moral effect preventing violent dem
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-05-29
PARKER BERRIES ARE
AN EXCELLENT LOT
Crop From Fred Goodells Ranch
Will Be Marketed by the
Horticultural Union

Strawberries which appeared to be
as fine as anything ever shown in the
North Yakima market were brought
to the city Saturday from the Fred
Goodell ranch at Parker from which
seventeen crates of the berries mad
been picked and from which it is ex.
pected to get fifty crates Monday
Mr.. Goodel has five acres of the ber-
ries, four acres being planted to
Nick Omer and he has arranged with
the Horticultural Union to handle his
crop. The Union viii send AN eX-
pert or two to the field Monday morn
Ing to supervise the packing or the
fruit. The Parker berries this year
as in previous years, have been on
the mar,.ct as early as those from any
other section of the valley and those
brought in by Mr.. Goodell sold at the
KennewiclS prices
w. b. Leslie starts into the field
Monday as local representative OF
the Union and will cover this valley
and territory as far east us Montana
practically having the retail end oi
the trade to care for. Mr. Leslie has
had considerable experience in this
field and is We'll acquainted with the
conditions.
Ernest l.. Hopkins, who has come
to the city to take a position with the
Union as secretary to Manager Sam
son, is newcomer from the east, his
experience having been i'm New York
city, where he was private secretary
for years to the manager of "A lead
ing newspaper there ana was also IN
charge later Of the office force OF 4
leading attorney. He has come west
TO find a new field and is remarkably
highly recOmm ended.
Mr. Carico Of the business office Oh
the Union has returned to the city
from Virginia where he was called
BY the sickness of his father. who Is
now much better. Mr. C8ricu was
forced to hurry both going east and
coming west and was unable to make
any inquiry into the crop conditions
during his absence. He reports bus
mess good in the east and says that
in Virginia he az not find Roosevelt
OVer-pODular.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-05-29
ATTEMPT MADE TO
ASSASS|NA1E OFFICER
San Diego Chief of Police Shot at
by lndustrialist Who Used
Maxim Silencer

SAN DIEGO May 25.-Develop-
ments today in the /. w. W. situation
included the assertion of Chief of Po-
lice j. K. Wilson that attempts were
made recently to assassinate him and
one Of his officers, He stated that he
was shot at one night as he was re-
firing. He said he heard two shots as
he passed the window but heard no
report, presumably because a Maxim
silencer was used 1t was stated that
Detective Boisserec and "vigilante"
We're also shot at.
Warm Reception for Emma
When men, said to be vigilantes,
We're told today of the prospective
visit Of Miss Emma Goldman and Or.
Reitman, they said the pair would be
shown a good time IF they returned
here" A declaration was made that
they would met at the station by sew
eral thousand citizens and they never
would get off the train
The so-called Vigilantes further an
nounced they had no intention of dis
banding. They said they still had
work to do and the presence of At
torney General Webb in san Diego
would make no difference In their ac-
lions
Webb devoted considerable time to-
day ia hearing committees from the
federated trades. socialists and Cali.
forniA Free Speech League