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Graham guardian., 1913-08-15
"OUR ISLAND QUEEN"

Inscribed to the memory of those who
/ perished in the storm which swept over
Galveston Island, Texas, on September
8, 1900.
Toll! Toll! Tolll
Where the seething waves unroll
Over the doomed city
Where few were left to pity
The cries of the drowning souls
Bruised and battered on the shoals,
Cast up to moan in anguish
Amidst the sands to languish
Away from the tender hands
Dying alone on the strands.
ROLL Roll!' Roll!
In fury ye maddening waves
Ger the storm swept watery graves;
! Marks of your furious wrath,
Left in your desolate path
But why will ye rush and surge
With your mornful, mocking dirge
Where all lie listless and dead
When youth and beauty have fled
To the deathless goal.
Moan! Moan! Moan!
With your pitiless hollow groan
For the dead and shrOudless unknown
Asleep in your depths below
Where cometh no life with its glow
TO quicken the pulse-beats and fill
The heart with warm blood and thrill
The laughing dancing eyes
With glimpses of Paradise
| Across the trackless bourne.
Sigh! Sigh! Sigh!
With the broken heart and fearful eye,
Where men are living, but wish to die,
When all are snatched and gone,
| And their hearts are left bleeding alone,
Like deserts in dreary wake
Parching to the feverish taste
Alluring with mirages of rain
Frought with visions that are vain,
Where all is death-like and dry.
Weepl Weep! Weep!
Where the night winds their vigils keep
Der the briny, billowy deep
Where the mermaid sportive laves
In its foam-encrusted waves;
Where all seems peaceful and calm,
Soothing as healing balm
But ye can ne'er stay the smarts
Oft the wounded broken hearts
Mourning their loved ones asleep.
Oh, Island Queen
We weep over the desolate scene,
Where hearts and homes swept by the
ire
Of cruel waves could but expire;
In sadness join we with thy cries
Tc him who dwells above the skies
When sorrows hover over thy head
OF anguish for thy many dead
We too shall join with briny tears
Which fall upon your loved ones biers.
NOTE This piece was composed Sept.
IL, 1900. "Our Island Queen" (the name
given this piece), is pet name given
by Texans to Galveston City. ..
WIN. Z. STEPHEN.
Graham guardian., 1913-08-15
WHAT 1T DOES FOR YOU

Your home newspaper heralded
to the world your birth. 1t told of
your entry into school. Mentioned
your birthday party when you were
sweet sixteen. Applauded your
graduation from the high school,
started you to college, and when
you returned mentioned the first
job you secured. Told of your mar
riage to the sweetest girl in town
and also mentioned the advent Tor
event. of your first born. Told of
the visits of pa and ma. sympathized
with you in your sorrow. laughed
with you in your joy, and when you
die it will do its best to get you
through the pcarly gates, at only
81 SO year.-Warrenson IN. W
Banner,
Graham guardian., 1913-08-15
BOOST LOCAL FAIRS

The following paragraphs from re-
cent bulletin of the Arizona State Fair
Commission show broadmindedness
and spirit of working for the best
interests of the entire state which
are commendable. Their position
in advocating county and district
fairs is of particular interest in Ora.
ham county.
1T is the policy of the Arizona
State Fair Commission TO encourage
county and local fairs as much as
possible. II is on the recommends
ton of the State Fair Commission
that bill was passed by the fegis-
lature authorizing the several county
boards Of supervisors to use not ex-
Graham guardian., 1913-08-15
NEW HEAD OF WEATHER

Prof. Chas. F. Marvin has been
selected chief of the weather bu.
reau to succeed Willis l.. Moore,
who was recently removed. Marvin
is now chief of the instrument di-
vision He was appointed to the
old signal service in 1884. from Ohio.
The president will send his nomina-
ton to the senate this week.
Under the. new chief more atten-
ton will be given to the weather
reports and forecasts as they affect
agriculture. Other changes will be
made in the bureau by Secretary
Houston, but he is not ready to an
nounce them at present.
Graham guardian., 1913-08-15
AUGUST Is, 1918
HIGH SCHOOL AGITATION

The high school question is be-
coming interesting and it looks as
if the people are waking up to the
need of higher education at home
for their children.
From what is heard on all sides
there does not appear to be any OBJ
lection on the part of anyone to the
establishment of high school, the
only question being as to the man.
ner in which higher education for
the children of this district will be
instituted.
There are a number of people
who declare that the only way in
which high school can be success
fully conducted at the least expense
to the taxpayers, is to consolidate
the Layton and Stafford districts into
one school district, which would
give the necessary financial support
for its upkeep.
Theirs are others who are opposed
to consolidation and believe Stafford
should establish its own high school,
in which event children who have
graduated from the eighth grade in
Layton, Lone Star. Solomonville,
Graham and Artesian district schools
are eligible to become students and
can attend the high school here.
No man can seriously be opposed
to the establishment of higher edu-
cation for the graduates of any
school district. and everyone must
realize that in order to obtain high
er education high school must be
established somewhere in this county
and be directly under the control of
the pubic school system.
If combination of school dis
tricts were accomplished outside of
Stafford for the purpose of securing
high school and such effort proved
successful and a high school built,
it would be blot on Stafford, for
the reason that Stafford is so far
ahead of every other town in the
valley in every way that goes to
make up good, live, progressive
and leading business town, that it
would be step backward if it did
not secure for itself and successfully
carried out the plans for building a
high school within its corporate
limits.
The people of Stafford must wake
up and cut out all dissension. They
must take the lead in educational
matters, as well as in business and
other improvements, and the sooner
the people of this town realize that
it is really up to them to get busy
and plan for high school the bet
ter it will be for every one.
There can be no better advertise
ment to the outside world than the
known fact that high school is
maintained successfully in Stafford.
This fact is 50 apparent that it
should be needless to remind anyone
of il.
Wake up, get busy and build the
high school in Stafford.
Graham guardian., 1913-08-15
Address all communications to
The Guardian Publishing Co.
Stafford. ARIZONA

This paper is kept on file at E. c. Dake's Adver-
yertising Agency, 40 Market St.. San Francisco
California. where contracts for advertising can
be made with it.
Graham guardian., 1913-08-15
A FLY SONG

Ten little flies,
All in line;
One got swat!
Then there were 10000 900
Nine little flies, 20.
Grimly sedate,
Licking their chops
Swat There we're o o o o
Eight little flies
Raising some more
Swat Swat Swat! Swat!
Then there were 900
Four little little flies
Colored green-blue;
Swat! (Ain't it easy?)
Then there were %
Two little flies
Dodged the civilian
Early next day
There were millionl
Graham guardian., 1913-08-15

Inscribed to the memory of those who
perished in the storm which swept over
Galveston Island, Texas, on September
8, 1900.
Graham guardian., 1913-08-15

President Wilson has bounced
Ambassador Wilson. Now, if the
president will continue his good
work. he will, without further de-
lay, bounce Consul Edwards, not
only out Of his job, but out of the
United States. We have no room
here for traitors like Edwards and
the last place we should find them
would be in the service of this
country as consul. Edwards belongs
with Huerta and ex-Ambassador
Wilson, and we hope the president
will take immediate action. /.
Graham guardian., 1913-08-15
Notice

Office of the. Town Council, town OF
Stafford, State of Arizona.
Notice is hereby given that the
original assessment roll of all as.
sessable property within the corpor-
ate limits of the Town of Stafford,
Arizona for the year 1918, has been
filded in this Office and is now open
for public inspection at the office of
the Town Clerk, Stafford, Arizona.
Also that the Town Board of Equili-
zatior will hold its annual meeting
in said town of Stafford on the Sec
ond Monday of August, 1913, accord
ing to law.
j. S. ABBOTT,
Town Clerk.
Stafford, Arizona, July %, 1913.
23-3t
Graham guardian., 1913-08-15
SECURE YOUR LICENSE

Before you start out hunting in
Graham county you better see the
game warden, w. B. Fonda. and
secure your license, and avoid trouble
and expense, as the law governing
licenses to hunt in this county will
be strictly enforced.
Graham guardian., 1913-08-15

The best line of Pumps, Cylinder,
Pipe and Fittings to be found in the
valley is stocked by The Utility Shop.
Agents for Red Jacket S,.Easy.to-
Fix Pumps and Never-Fail Cylinders.
ADJ -,c-lt
Graham guardian., 1913-08-15
Minister Praises this Laxative

Rev. H. Stubenvoll of Allison, Ia,
in praising DR.. Kings New Life
Pills for constipation, writes:-"Dr.
Kings New Life Pills are such per-
feet pill no home should be without
them" No better regulator for
the liver and bowels. Every pill
guaranteed. Try them. Price 25c.
at Stafford Drug Co. Adv. .-24-5t
Money talks, but to most of us
it simply says: Goodbye" "
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fine such immense floods as the recent
one in retaining reservoirs, 1 cannot say.
certainly such reservoirs would have to
be constructed of a size and strength
engineering. For the present. l think the
levee the most practicable and feasible.
Il think. by the way, that many per-
sons lose their lives at times Of flood by
a lack. OF appreciation of danger and
venturing back into fatal risks after they
are safe. In almost every case of any
large loss of life by flood one may read
OF instances where persons. after escap-
ing all danger, Will venture back to a
dwelling, perhaps to save some trifie-
and lose their lives. People are much
like horses at a fire in this respect:
Now: take the lower Mississippi val
ton, will reach there in about three
weeks from its inception in Ohio. Mean
time, the inhabitants Of the districts that
will be threatened with inundation there
Of the progress of the flood down the
river. not only by the daily official re-
ports Of the weather bureau, but also by
the daily papers papers: Several days .3e,,,a
locality Its Inhabitants will know, prac-
tically within a few hours, when it will
arrive; they will also know within frac-
ton of a foot just how high the water
will rise. And yet 1t Is a moral certainty
that there will be great deal of prop
erty lost: and, in all probability, consid-
cradle life"
In the matter of saving human and ami
NAL life from flood in the vast lowlands
of the lower Mississippi, a most plau-
sible theory has been advanced to explain
the Indian mounds that occur with more
or less frequency throughout the region.
1t is suggested that these were built by
the aborigines as protection against the
floods. In times of high water they
would retire thither with their families
and livestock, taking with them provi-
sions sufficient to sustain all creatures
until the subsistence of the waters.
Whether or not these mounds were
built and used by the Indians for this
purpose, it is a fact that the white men
who succeeded them have found the
hillocks excellently well adapted for that
purpose. 1t is a common thing for
farmer in lower Arkansas. on the ap-
proach of flood. to take his household
gods and his pigs and camp upon some
convenient mound.
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Ro~ o. ONE HOUSE TORN ORFAND HR0W14 AGAINST
ADJOINING DWELLING
Thus much for the flood aspect of the
havoc wrought by the elements.

Thus much for the flood aspect of the
havoc wrought by the elements.
x i
When, Easter Monday, the American
citizen picked up his morning paper its
flaring headlines blaZoned forth the most
gruesome array of cyclonic disasters that
ever afflicted the country. From far
Nebraska eastward to the base of the
Alleghenies the land, Easter Sunday, had
been swept by tornadoes that took their
dreadful toll alike from city and country.
While Omaha, from its awful visitant of
o'clock that afternoon, had suffered a
loss in life and property far exceeding
any other district. Terre Haute, more
than 800 miles eastward, was stricken at
the very same time by terrific tornado.
less destructive only because it found less
food of life and property to devour.
Never before has the American people
had to make such a sad reckoning to the
account of the cyclone and the tornado:
and hence the question arises in the mind
of the nation: Is this recent condition an
abnormality in weather that may be dis
r. garded because in all liability it
will not occur again in generation, or
has some sinister change been worked in
our climate in these later years that will
make tornadoes a thing of most tragic
frequency? From time to time the pub
lie shivers with fear over stories of how
the destruction of the forests will bring
upon us dreadful weather possibilities, or
the smoke of the great cities work fright
full climatic changes. Have we been doing
anything now that we shouldnt-and the
logical punishment is coming in the form
of the tornado?
mot a single thing" answers the
weather bureau at Washington to these
queries. There is nothing that human
kind can do that has the slightest effect
on the causes that produce these destruc-
tive phenomena. The force that gives
birth to the tornado is the cycione0the
cyclone is the tornado's parent, in fact
and the force that gives energy to the cy-
clone is the sun. When man can regu-
late the heat of the sun as he regulates
the temperature of his furnace, then he
can exercise some influence on tornadoes
but not before!"
Clear it is. therefore. that no acts of
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FREIGHT CARS CARRIED ON BoSoM Of AFLooD
LIKE. SO MANY CHIPS

man. indiscreet or otherwise. contribute
to these frightful visitations. But the ex-
perts of the weather bureau, though they
confess to our absolute Inability to con-
troll or direct them. have learned vast
deal about their origin. their habits and
their predictions.
First, there is "class of meteOrolOgi-
cal phenomena" as the experts term IT
(hut what may be better understood II
called a weather family'O consisting OF
cyclones, tornadoes. hurricanes and whirl-
winds-a family whose acquaintance no
one desires the least to make. Dismiss
ing the hurricane, which Is peculiar 10
the tropics. and the whirlWind which
is small sort of an affair, anyhow, con-
sisting mainly of the little dust devils"
that do not rise above the dignity of a
nuisance, there remain the cyclone and
the tornado-two forms of storm in
spread. common. indeed. to all the coun-
try east of the Rocky mountains and
the adjacent plains Concerning these,
Mr.. Edward H. Bowie. chief weather
phreys. physicist. of the weather bureau.
stated the following interesting facts
"The name cyclone as used by the
weather bureau, has a very different
signifcation from that given it by the
layman. In common parlance, it is used
loosely to define any kind of high velocity
wind with a whirling movement. inva-
riably. however. with reference to local
wind storm OF abnormal intensity. AS
used by the scientists, though. the word
cyclone means a specific storm cover
ing vast area and caused by the rush.
ing in of the air from places Of high
barometric pressure toward particular
point of very low pressure: this latter
point is the storm center. A high
velocity wind is not a characteristic Of
the cyclone.
Take. for instance, the recent storms
throughout the west" said Prof. Hum
phreys, spreading out a weather chart Of
March "a, covered with numerous lines
You will observe at the point about
the center Of Illinois the word low
Around 1t as a center are a number OF
lines in the general form Of circles or
ellipses. These lines, called isobars,
show the places of equal barometric pres
sure. The center. of course. shows the
place of lowest pressure; as the lines re-
cede from that center. the pressure is
shown as rising.
"Now. the wind always blows from
points of high barometric pressure toward
a point of low pressure. Thus, this map
shows the winds blowing in from high
pressure points on the south Atlantic
coast and in the northwest portion of the
country. The air. you see, is trying to
get from the high to the low pressure
point to equalize the pressure of things
a quality characteristic of all fluids
But in their course toward the center of
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litigation was handled by him before the
Supreme Court-Lehnlann never lacked
time to swap stories.
One Of his favorites concerns the visit
of New Yorker to st. Louis. Judge
Lehman pointed out to him one day the
modest house in which Sherman had
made his headquarters at the start OF
the civil war. Just opposite was an I'M
posing residence built by man who had
made his millions in the meat export
business.
That's a curious contrast" said Leh-
mann, 1.-The old home of great soldier
and the magnificent palace Of a man who
made his money in pork"
THE pen,' replied the New Yorker.
was always mightier than the sword"
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protect myself" finally announced young
Owen.
The fatuous attorney, however, instead
Of taking warning, grew still more Of
fensive. Suddenly, at the end of one of
his most insulting remarks, a pile-driver
collided with the point of his jaw and
somebody turned off the sunlight for
twenty minutes.
Next day, as young Owen was walking
upon the street. he passed two attorneys
There goes that young Owen he
heard the one with the swollen jaw say
to the other. Hes like the rest of those
Cherokee Indians, got plenty of sense, but
can't control his temper,
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dawn, the goose-1esh pimpled up on his
audience and folks began to wriggle in
the chairs.
Right in the middle of it all there was
a sudden jar of the building, a muffled
rumoie-and out went the electric lights!
A chaotic tumble of squeals and femi-
nine cries Of distress, mingled with the
bass of the bewildered males, immedi-
ate1y ensued. Then through the dark
ness came booming the reinsurance of the
senator-who had swiftly ascertained the
cause Of the trouble
Ladies and gentlemen" he said, don't
be frightened. I've merely talked the
head out Of the boiler!"
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An Inadequate Authority.

senator James l..
Clark of Arkansas
is not one of the
story tellers of the
Senate, but he
told The following
recently with great
relish:
"One of the best
known judges In
my state was hear
ing a case the last
time l went back
there, and the law
yer for the defend
ant, to illustrate a
point, declared:
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Entirely Inexcusable!
Senator r o b ert

Senator r o b ert
Owen Of Oklaho-
ma, who is one
eighth Cherokee In
dian by blood. when
a young lawyer
was one day trying
a case in which the
opposing counsel,
a man Of more
experience, sought
to browbeat him.
Owen repeatedly
called upon the
judge to protect
him, but without
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ed, informing him that he was no mean
Bible scholar and that he was positive the
quotation was not to be found in holy
writ.
1.-The lawyer heard him in respectful si-
lence, scratched his head thoughtfully
and said:
Your honor, you are doubtless right,
but l maintain that it's burned good doc
trine. and if it isn't in the Bible it ought
to be- -
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From a New Angle.
Solicitor

When Solicitor
General Lehman
left Washington to
pick up the threads
of his st. Louis
practice he left a
gap in the ranks
of w g. S hington's
official raconteurs
that will not be
easily filed. In
spite of the volume
of his work-and a
great par. of the
governments most
important tr u S t
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Perhaps It Was True,

1t takes a. good
deal to fluster
S e n ator Fletcher
Of Florida: even
then, you'll prob
ably need a little
more to do it. Last
year he delivered
an address before
the California So
ciety of Washing
ton city in the
main hall Of a
hotel.
Now, in word
painting, the sena-
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avail, and the older lawyer, feeling safe
within the sacred precincts Of the bar,
grew more offensive.
III the court will not protect me, I will
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Strong Backing.

r e Pr e sentative
Henry D. Flood
has a constituent
down In Spottsyl-
vania county, Vir-
ginia, who has
long, aspired to the
position of post
master at the
neighboring cross
roads store. His
name is Stephen
Noah, and when
at last his applica-
ton was presented
to Mr.. Flood for
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"'Your honor, as the Bible tells us.
every tub must stand on its own bot
TOM
THE learned judge promptly interrupt
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THE tornado has several movements;
principal is the rotary or gyratory mo-
ton of that funnel-shaped cloud which is
so characteristic of this type of storm.
This motion is one Of inconceivable ra-
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ed upon the San Francisco earthquake
and sketched the scenes Of that dreadful
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1.-The concomitants of a tornado are
invariably. an oppressive condition of the
air-that is. a high temperature and eN-
cessiye moisture and huge masses OF
dark and portentous clouds in the north
west and southwest. possessing remark
able intensity of color, usually deep
ereen-what would be called an angry
tumbling and boiling IN d
madly chaotic manner, while fragments
of white scud flying thither from All a
rections- rush headlong to the center o.
the cloud mass From this confusion "i
cloudland there comes a humrnlng, no.
low. roaring like thousand trains rum
bling over a wooden bridge.
.Soon there appears a little cloud. pend
ing from the vortex, small, ragged rag
rent This rapidly descends TO the earth'
sure,linp in every dimension TO the shape
of gigantic funnel, whirlins with IN
conceivable velocity, and when 1t touches
the earth-well, there's your tornado!
.As the end of this funnel, which may
vary from a few feet in width to hai
mile goes careering across the country
everything in its path is sucked inward
and inward into the NAV or the monster
II has been said that within the center
of This aerial maelstrom an absolute va
mum exists; this is for the purpose OF eA-
nlaining some of the remarkable eHe'i'
produced by its passage. Ihus, III man
instances stone and brick buildings sew
eral stories in height have had an entire
wall on one side blown outwardly, whlie
the rest of the structure was lett whoHy
intact This showed, of course, that there
was a tremendous sucking from the out
side. ,,,,,., =.
count for these freakish results, SAID
the weather bureau expert "A rarity
very much less would accomplish them
A barometer I'm the path of the St. Louis
tornado of 1896 fell to 25.S inches-that
;s more than three inches less than -
70 inches of normal pressure. In Other
words. the pressure in the tornado funnel
was about one-eighth less than normal.
Now. the normal pressure of the atmos-
nbere is about sixteen pounds TO the
snrare inch: consequently, the pressure
in the funnel was about two pounds 10
the square inch, or 2sS pounds TO the
square foot less than the surrounding air.
"Suppose that the funnel was passing q
b,,ildin. fifty feet in front and five sto-
ries high whose wall would therefore
present a surface area to il of about
three thousand square feet. The sudden
drop in pressure on the outside would
cause the air within the building 10
exert an instantaneous outward push on
that wall of more than five hundred tons
enough 20 send it bursting outward!'