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The Holbrook news. (Holbrook, Navajo County [Ariz.]) 1909-1923, 1912-10-04
AUNT HEPSY TURNED AROUND
Couldn't Enjoy Herself In Country
Where the Sun Rises In the
North and Sets In South.

Follows herewith the story of Aunt
Hepsey Garside's vacation.
Aunt Hepsy. who never had been
outside Of her native village for a
ionger period than a day or two in all
her life, had gone to visit a relative
IN the country, intending to stay q
month. At the end of a week, how
ever. she suddenly announced her in
tention to return home.
Whats the matter, auntie?" asked
her niece. Are you homesick?"
Sort o."
why, you'll get over that in an
Dther week"
No, shan't, child; It gets wuss an
wuss."
But this is no visit at all, auntie.
You haven't seen half the sights in
the neighborhood. There's beautiful
lake about six miles from here that
We want to show you, and there's
Rocky glen, and the Robbers cave,
and"
"'Tain't no use, child" broke in
Aunt Hepsy. You're all Just as good
an kind as you can be, but the sun
rises here In the north an sets in the
south, an the north star is over in
the west, an the moon is in the wrong
part of the sky, an I can't get things
straight to save my life. If 1 stay
here another week, dearies, I'll go
'tark crazy"
The Holbrook news. (Holbrook, Navajo County [Ariz.]) 1909-1923, 1912-10-04
LANGUAGE USED IN SPORTING
Many of Terms Is Our Inheritance
From Middle Ages-PhraseoIogy
Extended to Man.

Much of the language used in vari
ous sports is our inheritance from the
middle ages. Different kinds of
beasts when in companies were distin-
guished by their own particular cpl
thet, which was supposed to be in
some manner descriptive of the habits
Of the animals To use the wrong
form of these words subjected the
would-be sportsman to ridicule.
Many of these terms have passed
away, but some of them are still re-
tanned. This list from the middle ages
Is still good usage today. A pride"
Of lions, "lepe" of leopards. herd"
Of harts and of all sorts of deer, a
'bevy" of roes, a "sloth" of bears. a
singular" of boars. 'sounder" of wild
swine, a route" of wolves. "harras"
Of horses, a ray of colts, stud of
mares, a pace" of asses, a barren"
Of mules, team" of oxen, drove"
If kline, flock" of sheep, "trite" or
goats, a "skulk" of foxes, a down" or
nares, a nest" of rabbits. a "clowder''
If cats, a "schrewdness" of apes and
/ labor" of moles.
Also, of animals when they retired
% rest, a hart was said to be "har-
,ored," a roebuck "bedded." a hare
formed" a rabbit set" Two grey
hounds were called brace" but two
larriers were called couple" There
vas also a mute" of hounds for a
number, a kennel" of raches; a lit
er" of whelps and a "cowardice" of
ours.
This kind of descriptive phraseology
vas not confined to birds and beasts,
,ut was extended to the human spe-
lies and their various propensities.
natures and callings.
The Holbrook news. (Holbrook, Navajo County [Ariz.]) 1909-1923, 1912-10-04
Street Car Company Promises Millennium

q TREET realway companies are go
y ing to put into effect a policy OF
not fighting claims they believe to be
Just If they hurt you or tear your
clothes or smash your hat they are
going to pay you without any fuss.
All you do is to walk up to the claim
agents Office, tell him your troubles.
point out that the conductor knows
now it happened, and you get check.
Yes. sir. Just like that.
Well, at least one of the street rail-
way companies of Washington says
that is what they are going to do. and
that one is the Washington Railway
and Electric company, according to
e. ]. Whitehead, its claim department
manager.
According to Mr.. Whitehead, an era
is going to come in the history of
public service corporations that will
make legal battles unnecessary.
The old day, when you had to have
1 dozen witnesses, just as good if not
letter than the companys, as well as
stack of Bibles, and a first-class law
yer to prove that an accident actually
lid occur to you for which you are
entitled to damages, has gone out Of
The Holbrook news. (Holbrook, Navajo County [Ariz.]) 1909-1923, 1912-10-04
Banks May Adopt the Finger Print System

z NIGER PRINTS as a means of iden-
L tifying depositors who cannot write
their names may be adopted by Wash
ngton Banks. Among the patrons Of
he banks, especially Of those which
10 savings business, the proportion
Of illiterates is considerable, 1t was
said by bankers the other day, and
he fact that some of the Brooklyn
banks have adopted the system of
inger print signatures for their Hit
crate customers has suggested to To-
al bankers that the plan might be
feasible for meeting conditions here.
c. L. Bowman, cashier of the Union
Savings bank, said he believed the fin
ger print system of signatures was
practicable, but he did not know II it
was needed in Washington.
The finger print system has proved
lot only popular with the officers of
Brooklyn savings institutions, but also
aas proved an unfaiiing method of es-
:ablishing the identity of the Hitter
ates.
The chance of making mistake on
a finger print is said to be very re-
mote. In the first place, the marks on
4 persons fingers or hand never
change during life, and in the second
place, there is only one chance in six
ty-two billions, it has been estimated,
where two persons would develop the
anne finger prints. Heretofore. the
The Holbrook news. (Holbrook, Navajo County [Ariz.]) 1909-1923, 1912-10-04
UTAsHINGTON-A thrilling nara

WASHINGTON thrilling nara
w tive of how Miss Josephine
rhrockmorton, author, artist and lover
Of "our dumb friends" braved a saw
age bulldog in a vain endeavor to save
kittens life was disclosed the other
day by police court records.
Miss Throckmorton, who lives at 121
c street, southeast, was in court as a
witness in the case against Miss Lille
Hinkle of 119 street, southeast.
charged with permitting her bulldog
10 run at large without a muzzle, and
in another case against Edward Wells,
Miss Hinkle's brother-in-law, also Hv-
Ing at 119 c street, northwest, for
cruelty to animals, in that he per-
nitted the dog to kill the kitten.
According to evidence, Miss Throck-
morton, accompanied by Miss Annie
Laurie Tully, who lives with her, walk
ed from the rear of her premises into
Rumsey's alley Just as Wells opened
the gate of the Hinkles' yard and
tarted out with the bulldog.
The Holbrook news. (Holbrook, Navajo County [Ariz.]) 1909-1923, 1912-10-04

finger print method has been used
almost exclusively by the police. AS
a part of the Bertillon system it has
been used to trace criminals. The po-
lice are accustomed to taking impress
sions of the thumbs and the fingers of
both hands, but the savings banks do
not go that far.
They take prints of the first three
fingers on the right hand, emitting the
thumb. These prints are made with in
delible ink on a card which is filed
away along with the depositor's name
and pedigree. When he presents his
bank book to draw out his account he
is questioned as to his pedigree.
Should his questions prove unsatisfac-
tory he is then asked to make a du-
plicate finger print for the purpose OF
comparison. This is done by simply
sprinkling black powder on the moist
ure left by the fingers on a bank
card When the powder is blown OF
the print remains and the comparison
can then be made.
The Holbrook news. (Holbrook, Navajo County [Ariz.]) 1909-1923, 1912-10-04
The Weak Spot.

All the days provisions except the
butter were ordered by telephone. The
housekeeper came to the store to pick
that out herself.
THAT is a popularity of many
women" said the grocer. mo matter
how long they have been trading with
a grocer or butcher, no matter how
reliable they may know him to be,
they make hobby of one certain COM
modify on which they 'distrust his
judgment. Everything else may be
ordered by telephone or through the
clerks, but they insist upon coming
to the store and picking out that par
ticular article. Some women want to
sort out the eggs, others must taste
and smell the butter, or maybe it is
the tea or the coffee or the cheese
they are suspicious about. It's a
queer notion. If they can trust us in
other things it stands to reason that
we'd give a square deal all the way
through, but these doubling Thomases
will take no chances"
The Holbrook news. (Holbrook, Navajo County [Ariz.]) 1909-1923, 1912-10-04
GIories of Mems Hose Tempt Their Wives

ments the other day explained away
the mystery. Appropriated and not
dirty is the word which is the key
to the situation in short. Washington
women have been and are now wear
ing their husbands socks. And one
of mans last claims to superiority
has been taken from him without his
knowledge.
"Of course women are wearing mems
socks" said a saleswoman in a Penn
sylvania avenue department store the
other day. Society women are wear
ing their husbands socks these hot
days and holding them up with their
husbands garters as we'll.
IF the men had only been content
to wear plain hosiery all would have
been well. They clamored for color
and figure, however. The garden, the
rainbow, the peacock were robbed for
color schemes for masculine hose. The
women became envious. The shades
to which they had access were dull
and tame. Boldly they reached out and
began wearing mems half hose in all
their gaudy colors.
Every day we sell the women doz-
ems of pairs of half hose Most of
them say, I want something suitable
for my husband, but that is all
bluff, you know"
The Holbrook news. (Holbrook, Navajo County [Ariz.]) 1909-1923, 1912-10-04
Proper credlt Given to India.

The art OF concentration, by which
iron is carburized and converted into
steel on heating in charcoal powder,
has been investigated by Sir Robert
Hadfield in an ancient chisel Of Cey-
Ion, 1900 years old or more, and he
confirms the claim of India to the dis
covery that has done more than any
other to advance civilization.
The most complete collection of iron
and steel specimens from 1900 to
1900 years old is in the museum at
Colombo.
The famous pillar of Delphi is a
most notable ancient specimen of iron.
1t is a mass of wrought ircn welded
into sold shaft % feet inches long
and weighing about six tons-a cred
liable piece of work of at least six
teen centuries ago.
The Holbrook news. (Holbrook, Navajo County [Ariz.]) 1909-1923, 1912-10-04
SOMETHING
,XG
SIGHT OF CAT IN THE DARK
Where the Light is Dim Pupils
of Eyes Open Wide.

Some persons will tell you that cats
IAN see in the dark. Now nothing can
see in the dark, but some animals can
see with a great deal less light than
others, just as some cameras will take
picture with less light than others
You open or close the lens in a camera
according to the amount of light, or
else you speed up the shutter or slow
1t down.
The human eye does this automat-
lcally, as the pupil expands or con-
tracts according to the amount of light
10 which it is exposed; but cats can
expand or contract the pupils of their
eyes at pleasure, just as you open or
shut the stops in the lens of your
camera.
When cats are not particularly anx-
ious to see anything the pupils OF
their eyes become nothing but narrow
Sits, like this:
The Holbrook news. (Holbrook, Navajo County [Ariz.]) 1909-1923, 1912-10-04
Woman Fights Bulldog to Save Kittens Life

There was a small kitten in the al
ley, and Miss Throckmorton and the
bulldog saw the kitten at about the
same time, 1t is stated. Miss Throck-
morton called to Wells to hold back
the dog, and ran toward the helpless
little kitten. But Wells, it is said did
not hold the dog, so Miss Throckmor-
ton, who loves but does not fear
beasts, she stated, seized the bulldog
by the neck.
Miss Throckmorton's strength was
not an equal match for the dog, and
Wells, 1t was said, did not help her.
but only cried out warningly that the
dog would hurt her.
Finally the bulldog got away from
Miss Throckmorton, and with one
crunch of his powerful jaws, and one
shake of his massive head, ended all
and every, singly, separately and in
dividually, nine lives of the kitten.
Then Miss Throckmorton swore the
warrant against Wells and Miss Hin
kle. She said she did not think that
persons ought to be allowed to per
NIT such dangerous animals, as the
bulldog to be at large without being
muzzled.
Judge Pugh, who tried the case.
fined Wells $40 for cruelty to animals,
and fined Miss Hinkle SIS for allowing
the dog to be at large unmuzzled and
without leash.
The Holbrook news. (Holbrook, Navajo County [Ariz.]) 1909-1923, 1912-10-04
WORKED NEW VACATION IDEA
Western Woman alfred Out" to Her
Husband, and Is Enthusiastic
Over the Result.

The following letter was written by
woman who lives on a farm in Wyo-
ming:
ITO begin with, then, I'm a ranch
er's wife, and was farmers daughter,
SO know what it means to get up
early and work till late. I've read a
great deal about vacations, but not
much about vacations for the woman
on the ranch.
Most women who live on a ranch
know something about horses, and can
harness and drive team. Now every
one knows that to people who have
always worked with their hands idle
ness is not rest, and that recreation
comes quicker and surer from change
of work; so 1 hired out to my hus-
band.
I'VE have rs acres of alfalfa, and
here in the west men are scarce and
wages are high, so l hired a girl to do
the homework and take care of the
children, while 1 donned a pair Of
overalls, a jumper, broad-brimmed
hat and pair of stout gloves, and
went forth to take my vacation.
THE first day I moved, and the
first night 1 kicked levers and drove
horses all night. l wasn't so enthusi-
astic the second morning, but moved
some more, and raked some, and that
night l slept; and 1 slept every night
that followed during the harvest, for
stayed with it till the hay was in the
stack, doing team work altogether, and
when we were through my husband
said I was the best man on the job
Il was decidedly better woman,
for I had gained five pounds of flesh,
stronger nerves, harder muscles, and a
coat of tan that hasn't all worn off
yet.
81 told the girl that was not to be
consulted about anything, so l shifted
the whole responsibility of the house
hold and did just as the men did;
washed, ate my meals, an6 then rest
ed till time to start to work again.
my girl cost me four dollars per
week and 1 made $12, which left me a
clear gain of eight dollars per week
in cash, besides the other good things.
1 felt so rested when I took up the
reins of the household again that
what had before been a task was now
a pleasure. Really, it did seem good
to cook a meal once more, and I had
not thought it possible. "-Woman's
Home Companion.
The Holbrook news. (Holbrook, Navajo County [Ariz.]) 1909-1923, 1912-10-04
TRIAL MARRIAGES.
Land Where This Custom Has Been
PractIced for Ages.

Land Where This Custom Has Been
Practiced for Ages.
Sociologists who view with alarm the
growing interest in trial marriage as
an institution and conservatives who
condemn its advocates for having too
advanced ideas, due to twentieth cen
fury freedom of thought and speech,
should go to the Philippines, where
mating on the installment plan has
been practiced for ages among the
primitive tribes, such as the Igorrotes.
The Igorrotes live on the sides of
almost perpendicular mountains, and
the rice fields are built with stone
walls dug from the highly hills and
dirt hauled from afar. The one pur-
suit is raising rice, and in its weed
ing and gathering children are most
useful, therefore the woman who bears
children is respected. Motherhood is
gloriied The woman who bears no
children is an object of pity, if not Of
scorn.
The Igorrotes marry at an age when
white children are scarcely ready to
leave the grade schools. The wooing
is simple and direct If a child prom
ises to bless the union within a year,
this is taken as a sign of compatible
ity and future domestic happiness, and
the permanent marriage follows. If
within a year no promise of mother
hood is given, the couple are summon
ed before the village council, and the
man is given his choice: Either he
may leave the woman and seek bride
elsewhere, or he may take chances on
a childless marriage. But once a trial
marriage is made permanent, the idea
of another love affair never enters the
Igorrote's head. Not only does he take
it as a sign from heaven that this
woman is to become the mother Of his
children, but he knows that any out,
side entanglements with the fair sex
will end his career, matrimonially and
physically.
In that land they have trial mar
riages, but no divorces. The seventh
commandment is seldom fractured.
There is no kindly jury to listen to
the fair wife's tale of how she needed
human sympathy and companionship;
no skilled attorneys to paint with lurid
words the sufferings of the injured
husband. Collision is unknown. There
is only one verdict against the offend.
er-death.
The Holbrook news. (Holbrook, Navajo County [Ariz.]) 1909-1923, 1912-10-04
Had Given Him Wrong Banner.

Tau GiNSH TIM wrong DdnTeTs
Charles R. Holden told the following
story at banquet given to some law
yers and their wives at Chicago:
"a prominent educator of a co-edu-
cational institution recently told with
evident appreciation the following
experience of a prominent professor
of celebrated university in New York
city:
THE professor is blessed with a par
ticularly energetic and progressive
wife, who is a leader in the suffra-
gette movement. When the recent
demonstrative procession was organ
lied in New York she insisted upon
the professor adding his influence to
the movement by participating in the
procession. He yielded and set out
The wife's prominence in the move
ment gave her a place in the review
ing stand and she was MORALLY chag-
rined to see the professor, shame
faced, struggling along. carrying his
hammer in such a dropping and care
less way that she could not even see
what was upon it.
"At the first opportunity her re-
proaches fell fierce and fast on the
professor, who finally managed to
break in with, But, my dear, my dear,
you really must not blame me; had
an awful timS What do you think
that banner was? Imagine! 1t was
most horrible cartoon of a whisky
soaked and bedraggled bum with the
motto, This man can vote, why can't
I?"'"
The Holbrook news. (Holbrook, Navajo County [Ariz.]) 1909-1923, 1912-10-04

fashion, says Mr.. Whitehead.
I'VE do not have time for these
old-fashioned fights" Mr.. Whitehead
said, discussing the subject They
are out of date. The fights are ex-
pensive for the railway company, and
the Washington Railway and Electric
company, for one, intends in the fu-
ture to pay such claims when they are
sincere and just without the formality
and expense of legal prosecution and
defense.
THE modern policy is to keep GUS
toners of a public service corpora
ton in good humor-to keep them as
customers. and not antagonize them.
think most large public service cor
porations are coming to understand
that principle and are putting 1t into
practice"
The Holbrook news. (Holbrook, Navajo County [Ariz.]) 1909-1923, 1912-10-04
BEGINNINGS Of LIfeboat.

Like many other inventions the life
Doat was a long time in finding favor.
The first lifeboat was designed by
Scndon coach builder, Lionel Lukin, in
7S5, under the encouragement of the
Irince Of Wales, but despite royal pa
ronage, his invention received Httie
ttention, though one Of his boats
aved several lives at scarborough.
rhe loss Of the Adventure in 1880 first
destroyed public apathy in this SUBJ
ect and, with the offering of prizes
or lifeboat designs a first step toward
ife saving at sea was taken.
The Holbrook news. (Holbrook, Navajo County [Ariz.]) 1909-1923, 1912-10-04
Has 1852 Living Descendants.

Henry Smallwood, aged 81, former
~ employed as a chairmaker of High
Wycombe, has 1852 descendants living,
including ninety-three great-grandchil-
dren and seven great-great-grandchi
dren. He has a brother aged go, and
a sister aged 80. A son, a grandson,
a great-grandson and a great-great-
grandson are all named Henry.-Lon-
don Daily Mail.
The Holbrook news. (Holbrook, Navajo County [Ariz.]) 1909-1923, 1912-10-04
Girls Take the Lead.

Judging by the facts, women are
pretty fully in possession of formal
education. If we examine this monop-
oily a little more carefully we shall
ind that while in the kindergarten
and in the elementary schools boys
furnish 81 per cent of the enrolment,
simply because more boys are born in
civilized communities than girls, az
soon as we reach the nigh schools
girls increasingly take the lead.
The Holbrook news. (Holbrook, Navajo County [Ariz.]) 1909-1923, 1912-10-04
Other Vacations.

How many graduated from Yell
ward this June?"
Five hundred and ten"
"All going into professional base
ball, 1 s'pose?"
Not at ALL" retorted the dean
peevishly. THAT sort of talk is be-
coming offensive We have two men
who expect to be doctors and one
man who is going into his fathers
hardware store"
The Holbrook news. (Holbrook, Navajo County [Ariz.]) 1909-1923, 1912-10-04
Care of Persian Girls.

Great care is taken that the Per
han girls shall conform to the recog-
iized standard of beauty. which re-
Iuires her to have a cypress waist. a
ull-moon face, gazelle eyes and eye
orows that meet" says a traveller.
Her eyes, brows and hair must be
,lack as night, her lips. cheeks and
gums as red as blood. her skin and
eeth as white as almonds. and her
Iack, limbs and fingers long. If these
onditions are naturally absent they
ire supplied. as far as possible, By
TT. Persian women are always paint.
d, their eyes darkened with khol ana
heir fingers stained with henna-"
The Holbrook news. (Holbrook, Navajo County [Ariz.]) 1909-1923, 1912-10-04
SEASONING.

He was taking his breakfast food
at the boarding house table. Sudden.
ly he stopped. and. addressing the
landlady, said:
why, madam, this wood has not
been properly seasoned?"
We'll" replied the landlady, with.
out a smile. here are the pepper
and salt; season it."
The Holbrook news. (Holbrook, Navajo County [Ariz.]) 1909-1923, 1912-10-04
His "AmerIcan Name.n

A small Italian boy, after due at
tendance upon the public school, ask
ed his teacher If he might not change
his name and have, instead of his true
parronymic, "a 'Merican name" What
name would you like?" asked the
teacher. Proudly the lad produced q
scrap Of paper on which was written
Patrick Dennis Mccarthy"
The Holbrook news. (Holbrook, Navajo County [Ariz.]) 1909-1923, 1912-10-04
UnweIcome Guest.

A young merchant called his home
and said to the maid who answered
the telephone:
Tell Mrs. H. am bringing
spaghetti home for lunch"
The maid replied:
''All right, but it's nearly noon and
we haven't much of anything cooked.
Couldn't you take him to a restaurant
DOWNTOWN"
The Holbrook news. (Holbrook, Navajo County [Ariz.]) 1909-1923, 1912-10-04
Candid and Explicit.

'T don't believe in letting religion
get into politics" said the man with
the dubious nose.
Neither do l." replied the one with
the large diamond stud; "if 1 could
have my way there wouldn't be no re
ligion except in the churches, and
darned little of it there"
The Holbrook news. (Holbrook, Navajo County [Ariz.]) 1909-1923, 1912-10-04
Friendship That Is Worthy.

Oh the comfort-the inexpressibls
comfort Of feeling safe with a per
son-having neither to weigh thoughts
nor measure words, but pouring them
all right out just as they are, chat
and grain together, certain that a
faithful hand will take and sift them,
keep what is worth keeping and with
a breath of kindness blow the rest
aWay.-Dinah Mulock
The Holbrook news. (Holbrook, Navajo County [Ariz.]) 1909-1923, 1912-10-04
RacterIa Not Necessarv to Lie.

Though bacteria of many kinds live
In most animals, a French expert
menter has disproven the theory that
they are essential to life. 1t was
claimed that a chicken lived abso
lutely free from miscro-organisms, and
growth and de Tclopment went on as
usual
The Holbrook news. (Holbrook, Navajo County [Ariz.]) 1909-1923, 1912-10-04
Her Business Instinct.

Three-year-old Eleanor was given .
dime as a reward. for docility in tax
ing dose Of medicine. The next
day her elder brother offered her Q
nickel to pick up a basket Of chips
in his place. "Hm!" refused Eleanor,
Il can make more than that taking
castor oil"
The Holbrook news. (Holbrook, Navajo County [Ariz.]) 1909-1923, 1912-10-04
Up to Date.

This is where Warren FELL" said
the guide. showing the visitor Bunker
Hill and the monument.
Warren" said the visitor Never
heard of Warren"
What, never heard of General
Warren?"
mo; what particular style of air
ship was he exploiting"