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The Holbrook news. (Holbrook, Navajo County [Ariz.]) 1909-1923, 1912-10-04
DOGS FOR FARM WORK
AS VALUABLE AS TRUsTY HIRED
MEN, SAYS WRITER.
American AgricuIturists Have Not Suf
ficientIy Appreciated Their Wide
Usefulness, Though 1t Is REQ
ognized In Europe.

In England and Scotland farmers
learned long ago the value of dogs
to farm work. There the universal Gus
tom is to have dogs daily do theil
part the same as trusty hired men.
Here in America, however, few farm
ers know the value of a well-trained
dog. We are the losers because o.
this fact. We will learn, of course
in years to come; and working dogs
that are a daily help will replace the
countless farm help insists" now i'm
posing on the farmers generosity.
1t once happened that the owner OF
some sheep dogs worked them bach
and forth among flocks of sheep al
the same place where many farmers
were assembled in convention. The
farmers witnessed the work the dogs
were doing as the sheep were moved
from barns to pasture, through pens
gates and lanes. They were amazed
to find them so helpful and wondered
at their intelligence. They saw them
go quietly around the edges of a pas
ture and gather in the sheep from
far away, while the owner waited al
the gate. They saw them herd the
sheep along the lanes, doing work two
men could not have done. And they
prof1ted by what they saw.
They began to believe that the use
full dog will eventually be on most
American farms, when we get to
studying more carefully for ways and
means to save work and expense. II
may be on some large estates many
different men are employed, thereby
leaving little opportunity for anyone
to train a dog. But on the average
farm this is not the case.
Any farmer tired from a hard days
toll would praise the faithful dog that
would go the mile or two into the
pasture to bring in the COWS while he
prepared the feed for them.
No reference is made to the dog we
find on many farms that knows only
enough to run and snap at stock
driving them in whatever direction
they care to go. Such a dog is OF
little value, for he drives the stock
away as often as he brings them back
to the pen they have left. Such a dog
might have developed into good one
1t was the fault of the master that he
was never trained. Let no man for
get how important it is to have his
dog well trained and carefully edu,
Gated to do his bidding. The green
unframed dog is like the unbroken colt
or the new hired man. Neither Is
good as a real helper until taught to
do as you wish him to do.-Farm and
The Holbrook news. (Holbrook, Navajo County [Ariz.]) 1909-1923, 1912-10-04
BLASTING at the Canal.

In the last five years the operations
on the Panama canal have required
40,0S2,S50 pounds of dynamite for
blasting, or an average of S,016,570
pounds per year. The estimates for
the year ending June 80, 1912, are s.
533, 900 and for the II months follow
ing only S,9S6,50O. The comparatively
small amount for the latter is due to
the approaching completion of the ex-
cavation work, which will make the
total of dynamite used over 100000
pounds. Reckoned by tons. that will
be $4,000 tons, which sounds bigger
or smaller according to the mind OF
the person reading it.
For the coming fiscal year the estt
mated need of other materials for
blasting is $4,000 blasting caps. 1.s4O
pounds of insulated tape, 10000 feet
of connecting wire, 555,300 feet of
lead wire, 627,70O feet of electric
fuses, $4,000 feet of triple tape fuse
The Holbrook news. (Holbrook, Navajo County [Ariz.]) 1909-1923, 1912-10-04
Chocolate elnnerhread.

One cup molasses, one-half cup sour
milk, one teaspoon ginger, one tea
spoon cinnamon, one-half teaspoon
salt; dissolve one teaspoon soda to a
teaspoon cold water; add this and
two tablespoons melted butter to the
mixture; stir in two cups sifted -four;
finally add two squares of chocolate
and one tablespoon butter melted to-
gether; bake in three deep pie plates
In moderate oven for about 20 min
utes.
Vanilla Icing. Break the white of
one egg into bowl and gradually beat
into it one cupful of confectioners'
sugar. Beat for three minutes; add
one-half teaspoon vanilla extract and
when cake is done and still warm
spread between and on top. This
cake is best when eaten fresh.
The Holbrook news. (Holbrook, Navajo County [Ariz.]) 1909-1923, 1912-10-04
A Roundabout Explanation.

Have you ever gone into a ticket
office to make inquiries concerning
the cost of a trip by boat or by rail?"
Eyes"
"And have you ever found the
young man who was supposed to be
on duty there so calmly Indifferent
that he declined to give you an an
swer to any of the questions you were
bold enough to put to him?"
81 have had experience of that
kind-yes. Why?"
"Oh, nothing only you asked me q
moment ago how 1 had skinned my
Inuckles."
The Holbrook news. (Holbrook, Navajo County [Ariz.]) 1909-1923, 1912-10-04
TALKING CAT.

A cat named Peter is making Q
reputation in the German city Of
Hamburger, as it is stated Peter
speaks very clearly The animal IL
attracting considerable attention IL
scientific circles, and experts from
the zoo are to examine Peter. Some
time ago Peters mistress was very
much surprised when, instead Of the
expected "Miaou" which answers
call, the cat distinctly pronounced the
word NO" This was already won
'derful. But what is still more so IL
that the cat was taught some Other
simple words which it learnt quickly
''MiIk," Anna" (this being the NAM
of its mistress). and others we're soon
used quite easily by the cat.
The Holbrook news. (Holbrook, Navajo County [Ariz.]) 1909-1923, 1912-10-04
HomIny Drop Cakes.

One pint of fresh boiled hominy
(cold may be used and, if the latter,
break into grains as lightly as posi-
BILE with fork and heat in a double
boiler without adding water); one ia
blespoon of water, two eggs, whites
and yolks beaten separately. Stir the
yolks into the hominy first, then the
whites; add a teaspoon of salt, If not
already sailed; If so, half the amount,
Drop by spoonfuls on well buttered
tin sheets or pan and bake to a good
brown In a quick oven.
The Holbrook news. (Holbrook, Navajo County [Ariz.]) 1909-1923, 1912-10-04
He Was an Averaae Man.

to go through life and do nothing for
the world?" said the lady at the kitch-
en- door to the tramp.
do nothing for the world. madam!"
said the itinerant taking off his cap.
do you happen to know that. cleo
trically speaking, the average man
each day dissipates about two and
a half kilowatt hours of energy in
motion, muscular action, mental ex-
ertion and heat radiation"
The Holbrook news. (Holbrook, Navajo County [Ariz.]) 1909-1923, 1912-10-04
MORE MEN THAN WOMEN.

The worlds total population is esti.
mated at LOO millions. out of which
the proportion of the sexes is known
for 1,o3s. 100000. the ration being 1000
males to $50 females. The ratio va,
ries very considerably in different
places. In Europe there were, for
every 1000 men, 1,O27 women; Africa
1,045; America, 964; Asia. 961; Aus
tralia, 937. The maximum proportion
of women is found in Uganda. 1,4e7;
the minimum, in the Alaska gold fields
and the Malay states. with 391 and 3sS
respectively.
The Holbrook news. (Holbrook, Navajo County [Ariz.]) 1909-1923, 1912-10-04
ANCIENT REMEDY FOR BADNESS

Badness may be becoming more
common; but it is not by any means
a modern affection. A French Egyp
biologist has unearthed a papyrus thai
gives a recipe for the cure of badness,
prepared for king who reigned some
six thousand years ago. The prescrip
ton was made for the kings mother
This earliest of hair tonics was a salvs
composed of dates, the paws Of dogs.
and the hoofs of asses. mixed and boil
ed in oil AS no testimonial from the
kings mother has been discovered.
the salve cannot be recommended.
The Holbrook news. (Holbrook, Navajo County [Ariz.]) 1909-1923, 1912-10-04
Breadcrumb PUDDING.

Two cups bread crumbs, one cup
sugar, one cupful molases, one-half cup
raisins, little salt and cinnamon and
two cups sweet milk, bake one-half
hour, stirring often, then add four
cups sweet milk and bake two hours
longer. 1t will whey and can scarcely
be told from an Indian pudding. Serve
hot with butter or cold with cream.
The Holbrook news. (Holbrook, Navajo County [Ariz.]) 1909-1923, 1912-10-04
A rhlnn to Be Chained

81 see by this paper" said the mech
little husband that of the 112 tour
lists who lost their lives last year by
Alpine ascents, IL were women"
What" shouted his suffragetta
wife; only IL of the number wom-
emf"
That's what the paper says. dear"
well, you just wait until we
women get a vote. we'll change all
that!"
The Holbrook news. (Holbrook, Navajo County [Ariz.]) 1909-1923, 1912-10-04
OVeHeedinu,

A lot of people eat too much and a
lot more don't eat enough. Some stuff
till there isn't room for another swal-
low and then eat some more in be-
tween and then kick that they haven't
enough. There are those whose earn
ings Just spill over in a thimble, but
who expect results as If their weekly
check covered all Manhattan. A good
rule is to leave of eating while
there's still room for more, and I'LL Il
up the next time.-New York Press.
The Holbrook news. (Holbrook, Navajo County [Ariz.]) 1909-1923, 1912-10-04
SUGAR PIE.

One teacup sweet milk, one and one
half cups sugar, not quite half-cup
-four or cornstarch, one teaspoonful of
vanilla fiavoring. This will make fill
ing for one pie baked in large pie tin.
Bake without top crust.
The Holbrook news. (Holbrook, Navajo County [Ariz.]) 1909-1923, 1912-10-04
OF No Practical Benefit.

"You don't seem to regret the fact
that a number of people speak I'M
kindly of you"
NO" replied Senator Sorghum;
'+the only kind words that ever So
cure unanimous Endorsement are
those that compose an epitaph."
The Holbrook news. (Holbrook, Navajo County [Ariz.]) 1909-1923, 1912-10-04
ala EntarnrIae.

why don't you take a part in pol
itics?"
81 never take a part in anything"
replied Mr.. Dustin Stax. my rule
y all or nothing"
The Holbrook news. (Holbrook, Navajo County [Ariz.]) 1909-1923, 1912-10-04
UNUSUAL INDUSTRY.

) From a start of six head of deer, an
Indiana farmer increased his flock to
seventy in fifteen years. The deer
raising proved quite profitable, the
farmer selling several deer each year.
The Holbrook news. (Holbrook, Navajo County [Ariz.]) 1909-1923, 1912-10-04

the venison bringing so cents per
pound. He also make a shipment OF
horns once a year The bucks shed
their horns in March each year, and
they are sold for the making of knife
handles.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1912-06-28
MONEY TO LOAN

ENRoM $500 10 5000 on improved real
II estate In Montgomery county.
B0UIC d BoUIC,
IN lot Rockville Nd.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1912-06-28

TWO HOUSES. one Of SiI rooms aud on,
Of seven rooms; also . STORE AMI
DWELLING 10 the business part Of th
town. Store contains two large rooms, will
hve rooms over Il.
For particulars apply TO
JobEPH READING,
SEP l0-lm Rockville, Nd.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1912-06-28
FARMS FOR SALE.

OEE of 200 ACRES, MORE OR LESS,
OOne or 225 ~
situated within mile OF Boyd's, in Mont
gomery county, Maryland. Another farm Of
about 300 acres, situated In PoolesVille dis
trict, In said county and State.
Apply 10 HORACE d. WATERS,
aug 12-n Germantown, Nd.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1912-06-28
- TT q 70!
SCHOOL SUPPLIES.

| INVITE the attention of Teacbe,s soho,
Il ars and the genera public, 10 n mi II Iino
OF fresh goods. 'u'' 'ne
TABLETS, for Pen and Pencil, in varIs,v.
copy, Composition aud Exercise Booka.
Lead, Slate and Colored Crayon Pencils,
Inks, In all sizes and colors; '''
wards, Whiting's, Cranes and Hp,di
nne correspondence Paper and Envelopes;
Legal, Foolscap and Bill Paper;
Blank Books In variety,
Al WILSON'S DRUG STORE.
Opposite the Court Bouae,
oop 81" Rockville. Nd.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1912-06-28
Free Plans TO Build

go with our sales of bills of Lumber and Mill Work
to build our Cottages, Bungalows and Houses for
Out-Of-tOwn and suburban building of homes
Building your own house made easy if you adopt
our proposals. Don't buy ready-built houses.
Plan your own hOuse---build cheaper and better.
We furnish all the Lumber and Mill Work to
build our houses. We have free plans for houses
of 2 rooms, rooms, A, 5, 6 and rooms. Prices
ranging all the way from $3.50, 1926, $3.50, 1866,
$500, 1926, 1861 and 1928.
Our Bungalow, % #. by 40 it,, pOrches and bath
and rooms, all for $685. is the best offer ever nut
out anywhere. We have three changes of floor
plans for this Bungalow.
Our house bills are always 800 lower than the
Western Houses on same list and plan. If you
have your own plan and list, bring i'm you list
and give a trial. Our house bills contain ONLY
the best materials of Lumber and Mill Work.
FRANK LIBBEH s. CO..
9th st. & N. Y. Ave-,
Washington, I'D. C..
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1912-06-28

TO
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-01-15
WEST SIDE NEWS

. 80 - NAAS AN@P' -
Why do the people have to
stand up and be crowded into the
Van Buren, street cars? What
chance have they got to get to
work on time, when about every
second or third car stops for
them? and when they do stop,
you are jammed in like sardines.
Here's the answer: Nine Van
Buren, street cars have been taken
off the line in the last two weeks.
A number of West Side resi-
dents are going to petition the
city council to try to get them to
put the cars back on the line.
The Hull House Reds were de-
feated Saturday night by the Su
perior A. c. basketball team by
the score of "a to 19, at the Hull
House.
Fresh from fourteen victories
in the east, the Triple Basketball
team from. Billings, Mont, will
arrive in Chicago today to play
the Hull House team on. the lat
ter's floor. The game will follow
a game between the Hull House
Mercurys and the Cornell Square
five
Mrs. Fletcher Dobyns will be
the vocalist at a meeting of the
Hull House women's clubs held
at Bowen Hall Wednesday after
noon.
Robert Bond, 334 S. Green,
shot through back by William
Ryan, 1248 w. Monroe, while
former, it is alleged, was attempt
ing to rob chicken coop.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-01-15

street station. and asked matron
to kneel in prayer. Will be ex-
amined as to her sanity.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-01-15
G. Goulding.
Champion Walker.

Jack and Jim
(His last names Flynn
Are about to stage battle,
And if the black
Gets in a whack,
Some bones will likely rattle,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-15
CARNEGIE EXPLAINS
Writes a Letter Concerning His Testi-
mony About Knox.

Washington, Jan. 15.-Fearing that he
had done incalcuIable injury TO Secretary
Knox in his testimony before the Stanley
committee, Andrew Carnegie has written
a letter to the Washington Post IN an ef-
fort to soften the blow
In his testimony Carnegie said that he
had asked President Mckinley to make
Knox his attorney general Knox was
then the counsellor of the Carnegie Steel
company. When he went into the caol-
net his partner, Judge J. H. Reed. also
a Carnegie lawyer, went into the d.
rectorate of the United States Steel cor
poration. Mr.. Carnegie has nothing 10
do with the United states Steel company
except to own $500, 100000 worth OF Its first
mortgage bonds.
Following is the letter:
washington, d. C., Jan. IA, 1917.
Dear Post: The friend OF Mr. Knox
who states in your columns that Presi-
dent Mckinley needed no letter OF recon-
mendation from me is quite right. had
forgotten I had written such letter and
am inclined to think it must have begun
by congratulat1ng President Mckinley
upon being able to get such man Presi-
dent Taft, who had sat in the cabinet
with Mr.. Knox, called him out OF the
senate and gave him first position in the
cabinet successor to the man whom
President Roosevelt pronounced to me TO
be the 'wisest man I ever knew.
mo, Mr.. Editor, such men as Phllander
G. Knox need only to be known to I'M
press his associates and have high place
pressed upon him.
ANDREW CARNEGIE
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-15
ENTERS SIXTH WEEK
Trial Of the Chicago Packers Con-
tinues to Drag Along.

! Chicago, Jan. 15.-When the sixth
week of the trial of the ten Chicago
packers charged with maintaining g.
com bination in restraint of trade, was
begun today before United States
District Judge Carpenter, H. A Thorn
as, chief accountant for Morris & Co..
resumed the witness stand. He read
from the ledgers and journals of the
company items showing the allow
ances made for hides and other by
products in the period between 1905
and 1910.
The government expects to show by
reading these items into the records
that all the members of the alleged
combination discontinued making al
! 1oWances for hides in figuring the test
cost of beef in November 1907, and
did not resume making the credit Tor
this particular by product until April
1909, or until after the federal grand
/ jury had begun an investigation of the
pack rs' business.
1t may take the government three
weeks to conclude this line of testt-
mony.
Timmons today resumed reading
monthly departmental transfer sum
maries from the Morris & Co., books
to show that the allowances for hides
were partially suspended for Novem-
Der 1907, to April 1909, in figuring
the test cost of cattle. In May 1908,
the books showed 1859 cattle were
slaughtered for export. In June 1908,
was $1O5-15.
Allowances made by the packers for
hides cleo fat and other by~prooucts
wore traced through the different books
of account by months in an effort to
show that the amounts credited were
less than the market value
How Prices Were Raised.
The government contends that the
packers by this system were enabled
materially to increase the test cost OF
beef ana thereby raise the price OF
fresh meat to the consumer without
showing an exorbitant percentage or
profit on their books. The by-products,
it is charged in several instances, were
sold to subsidiary companies controll-
ed by the packers at less than rhe
market prices where they were manu-
CT these subsidiary companies, organ
izeo by the packers with a capital OF
$4,000 to handle cleo oils, Is reported
to have earned 1000, 600 in one year.
The government will endeavor to prove
before the close Of the trial that the
packers in figuring the test cost OF
fresh meat, allowed only to cents a
pound for hides when the market price
was to Is cents and that oleo fat
was disposed Of on the books for 3
cents a pound when the market price
was cents a pound. Although the
books showed Morris & Co slaughtered
from $1,000 to $4,000 cattle each month
from November, 1907, to~April, 1909, the
allowances for hides averaged from SOU
to $500. 49,.
The government argues that these
small credits were for salt and Irvine
obtained from other departments ana
that as a matter of fact no allowances
were really made for hides curing the
period mentioned.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-15

cumstances owing to the inability to
get to town.
Get Ten Trains Out.
Ealina KAN Jan. 15.-The trains that
were stuck in snow drifts near Wilson
have been extracted and gone east, the
last one going through Salina this after
noon. This temporarily relieves the
Union Pacific main line Of snow trouble
at least A heavy gale would make more
trouble by refilling the cuts The trains
were all from twenty-four to forty-eight
hours late. An effort Is to be made 10
run a passenger train west on the Lincoln
branch this evening, the first in two
days.
Superintendent Harry Richards, or the
Kansas division OF the Union Pacific,
stated today that his road never had had
what they have experienced in the last
two weeks. Richards was in the thickest
Of the trouble all the time trying to move
his trains Our trouble came IN
good condition but several pumping sta
tons got out of order and we had to go
many miles for water. The engines
would freeze to the track; in one case an
engine froze to the track and after
shoveling the snow away from it all
around, two engines coupled to it and
pulled out a draw head in their combined
efforts to move it. Later four engines
power was successful The wind blew
gale continuously, and the frozen snow
would cut worse than any sand storm
which ever blew across the plains. DO
not know how conditions are on the west
end but they can not be worse than this
division has had during the last Few
days.
The ice frozen to the rails makes travel
very slow, and If any speed is attained
the flanges of the engine wheels ride the
ice and ditch the train. The trainmen's
faces are cut, swollen and frozen as re
suit OF their exposure Of the last few
dava
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-15
LEAP YEARS HITCHCOCK
Texas Woman Writes to Only Bach
eIor in Cabinet.

Washington. Jan. 15.-Leap Year
has already brought to the only bach
elor of the cabinet. Postmaster Cen
eral Hitchcock, a proposal of marriage.
The one who is "willin' " writes from
Houston, Tex
"As we have now reached the year
1912" she says land hearing from
newspaper accounts you are a bachelor
and have always been too busy to get
married, thought probably you might
spondence with one who will be very
much interested. Now, even If you
have always been so busy. I trust you
will find time and pleasure enough in
answering this note when you realize
that YOU are giving pleasure to some
one else. -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-15
SHE IS FOUND.
Continued from Page one.l

She said that after her money be-
gan to get low she decided to get a
position and answered newspaper
advertisement for nurse She was
employed by Mrs. Anna Grett in East
Seventeen street. For more than three
weeks Miss Buehler, who is said to be
heiress to an estate worth several
thousand dollars, has been acting as a
nurse for the mother of Mrs Brett as
well as doing light domestic work.
The Brett family was aStoniSheo
when they found out who their SER
want was. The first news that the girl
and a detective was sent to locate the
girl Miss Buehler said she was will
ing to go back to Chicago and the po-
lice in that city were wired for in
structions.
After the girl had been taken to the
Children's court Clune appeared. In
passing through the corridor Violet
saw him and running to him, threw
her arms around his neck. Clune bent
forward to kiss her, but Detective
Mulligan pushed him away.
None of that" exclaimed Mulligan.
Then he added: who are you ~
I'm a friend of hers" said Clune.
You wait here; you may be want
ed said the detective as he passed on
with Violet. Clune said he had Moth
ing to fear and declared he had gone
voluntarily to the Children's court.
Violet told detectives who found her,
ship for a waiter Of the name of Jack
c. Clune, was responsible for her be-
ing in New York. She was reported to
have had her hair cut in different
style than when she went away and to
have made the statement that she did
not want to return to Chicago
VIII Be Welcomed Home.
Chicago, Jan. 15.-Just what steps
will be taken toward returning Violet
Buehler to Chicago has not been de-
cidcd The police hold no warrant for
her A conference will be held by Mrs.
BuehIer. foster mother. later today.
AS soon as it was learned the girl
had been found. several detectives call
ed on Mrs. Buehier but she was I'M
able to see them.
Il hope to hear directly from Violet
sometime today" said Mrs Buehler la
ter 1T Is my wish that she return
without protest. I Will we1e ome her
home
Later Mrs. Buehler said she was will
ing that Violet should stay in New
York if she wished
II wiz do ANYTHING to satisfy her. ]