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Williams news., 1915-01-28
WHITE GARMENT IN DEMAND
Pressing Need for Goat" That Cricket Umpire Was Wearing to Comply
 With Regulations.

John J. McGraw was talking at Camp Marlin about his recent baseball trip abroad.
 King George liked the game" he said. "All the English liked the game, in fact. It's a superior game to their cricket, you know.
 I heard lot of cricket stories in London. A cricket umpire wears long white coat. We'll, I heard good story about that
 "The Helions Bumpstead team was to play a match, and orders went out that the umpire must wear the white coat-but that was an innovation in that backwoods village.
 "The umpire. anyhow, appeared in white at the game all right.
 "The teams were lunching-you lunch and have tea and sleep in a cricket game-when little girl came and said she wanted the man in the white coat.
 "'The man in the white coat? said a player. Well, you cant have him. He's busy carving turkey
 "'Oh, is he busy carving?' said the little girl Well, please tell him, then, that mothers busy havin' a fit, and we want the nightie he's wearin', cause she's got to go to bed
Williams news., 1915-01-28
STATEMENT
Of the ownership, Manage ment, Circulation, Etc., /, Required by the Act of August "A, 1912.

Of the Williams News pub lished weekly at Williams, Ari- zona, for Oct. 1. 1914.
 Editor F. E. Wells. Business Manager, F. M. Gold.
 Known bondholders, mortgages and other security holders, hold ing per cent. or more of total amount of bonds, mortgages, or other securities: c. B. Boyce, Williams, Ariz.; Williams State Bank, Williams, Ariz.; Owners, F. B. Wells and F. M. Gold.
 Sworn to and subscribed before me this 26th day of December, 1914.
 (sEAL) F. M. GOLD.
 My commission expires May 9th, 1918.
Williams news., 1915-01-28
A Noble Task.

In too many instances the country papers mimic the city press by giv- ing prominence to scandals, accidents and political agitation. The new rural civilization has placed upon the rural press renewed responsibilities. and enlarged possibilities for useful ness. It cannot perform it's mission to agriculture by recording the frail- ties, the mishaps and inordinate ann bitions of humanity, or by filling it's columns with the echoes of the strug- gles of busy streets, or by enchanting stories of city life which lure our children from the farm.
 It has a higher and nobler task. Too often the pages of the city dailies bristle with the struggle of ambitious men in their wild lust for power, and many times the flames of personal conflict scar the tender buds of new civilization and illuminate the path way to destruction. The rural press is the governing power of public senti- ment and must hold steadfast to
Williams news., 1915-01-28
ONLY LEFT PAIR OF SLIPPERS
Reason for Curious Monument Tn Am
 sterdam Over Burial Place of Eccentric Individual.

There stands in a church in Amster- dam an ancient and curious monument of white marble which always attracts the attention of visitors, and their curiosity is usually heightened by it's inscription. On the monument are en- graved two slippers of a singular shape, with the inscription, "Effen Nyt," which, in English, would be "even nothing" or, more colloquially put, nothing else" The story that is told of this strange device is as fol- lows:
 A certain rich man, who was very extravagant in his tastes, because possessed of the idea that he had just so many years to live and no more, and he calculated that if he spent a stated portion of his principal every year his life and his property would expire together.
 He was lavishly generous to others, as we'll as indulgent of his own whims, and it so happened that he died the very year he had prophesied would be his last. He had, furthermore, brought his fortune to such a low ebb that, after his few debts were paid, nothing remained of all his possessions, aside from the clothes in which he was to be buried, but a pair of curious old slip perS.
 Some of his relatives, to whom he had been kind in his life, erected this strangely decorated monument to mark his burial place.
Williams news., 1915-01-28
RURAL SOCIAL CENTERS

We need social centers where our young people can be entertained. amused and instructed under the di- rection of cultured, clean and com potent leadership, where aesthetic surroundings stir the love for the beautiful, where art charges the at- mosphere with inspiration and power, and innocent amusements instruct and brighten their lives.
 To hold our young people on the farm we must make farm life more attractive as well as the business of farming more remunerative. The school house should be the social unit, properly equipped for nourishing and building character, so that the lives of our people can properly function around it and become supplied with the necessary elements of human thought and activity.
Williams news., 1915-01-28
THE COUNTY FAIR.
By Peter Radford
Lecturer National Farmers Union

Lecturer National Farmers Union
 The farmer gets more out of the fair than anyone else. The fair to a city man is an entertainment; to a farmer 1t is education. Let us take a stroll through the fair grounds and finger a moment at a few of the points of greatest interest. We will first visit the mechanical department and hold communion with the worlds greatest thinkers,
 You are now attending a congress of the mental giants in mechanical sci ence of all ages. They are addressing you in tongues of iron and steel and in language mute and powerful tell an eloquent story of the worlds progress. The inventive geniuses are the most valuable farm hands we have and they perform an enduring service to mankind. We can all help others for a brief period while we live, but it takes a master mind to tower into the realm of science and light torch of progress that will illuminate the path way of civilization for future genera tions. The nqen who gave us the sickle, the binder, the cotton gin and hundreds of other valuable inventions work in every field on earth and will continue their labors as long as time. Their bright intellects have conquered death and they will live and serve mankind on and on forever, without money and without price. They have shown us how grand and noble it is to work for others; they have also taught us lessons in economy and eff1- ciency, how to make one hour do the work of two or more; have length ened our lives, multiplied our opportunities and taken toll of the back of humanity.
 They are the most practical men the world ever produced. Their in ventions have stood the acid test of utility and efficiency. Like all useful men, they do not seek publicity, yet millions of machines sing their praises from every harvest field on earth and as many blows turn the soil in mute applause of their marvellous achieve ments.
Williams news., 1915-01-28
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS

A magicians' club of 200 persons has been recently formed in London.
 The oldest account of a chimney place is in Venice in 1347.
 An ostrich feather which cost $50 a few years ago is now worth $75.
 The value of imports into Chile by parcel post during 1912 amounted to s1,992,334.
 Oleomargarine imports into Ger many during the first five months this year totaled 22,SOO,O0O pounds.
 Japanese soldiers are nearly all gymnasts, and every barracks has gymnasium. So we'll trained are they that in less than half a minute they can scale wall IA feet high by simply leaping on each others shoulders, one man sustaining two or three others.
 The educational buildings in the United States are valued at $225, ,O00,- 900.
 Cigarettes imported into China at Tientsin increased s2 per cent in 1912.
 A $3,O00,00O telephone cable Is to be laid between England and Holland.
 It has been estimated that British Columbia has an area of about 253, ,000,- 900 acres, of which about 1,6O0,00O is composed of lakes in the interior There are 100, O,O0O.OO0 acres of timber land Of no value for farming other than for stock purposes, and while it is estimated that 3,000,000 acres IS either under cultivation or partly so, statistics show that the actual yield ing average, other than for grazing purposes, Is not more than 25O,00O acres.
Williams news., 1915-01-28
Granite Quarried From the Boulders

An interesting feature of the pro 'duction of granite in California is the quantity of stone quarried from large residual boulders. These Eboulders, according to the United States Geological Survey, represent the remnants left from prolonged odisintegration of large granite masses but after thin weathered coating IS removed they yield sound stone. Good granite should stand a crush ing strain of at least 20, 900 pounds to the square inch; some granites will stand 10000 pounds. This Hnay be compared to common rcd Ebrick, which will crush at about 5000 pounds to the square inch.
Williams news., 1915-01-28
By Peter Radford

Lecturer National Farmers Union
 A broad campaign of publicity on the subject of rural life is needed in this state today to bring the problems of the farmers to the forefront. The city problems are blazoned upon the front pages of the metropolitan dail- les and echoed in the country press, but the troubles of the farmers are seldom told, except by those who seek to profit by the story, and the glitter of the package ofttimes ob- scures the substance. A searching in- vestigation into the needs of the farmers will reveal many inherent de- fects in our economic system that can be easily remedied when properly un- derstood and illuminated by the pow. CT of the press.
 The rural press, the pulpit and the school are a trinity of powerful in- fiuences that the farmer must utilize to their fullest capacity before he can occupy a commanding position in pub lie affairs. These gigantic agencies are organized in every rural community and only await the patronage and CO., operation of the farmers to fully de- velop their energy and usefulness. They are local forces working for the best interests of their respective communities. Their work is to build and their object is to serve. They prosper only through the development and prosperity of the community.
 Every farmer in this state should subscribe for the local paper, as well as farm periodicals and such other publications as he may find profitable, but he should by all means subscribe for his local paper, and no home should be without it.. The local paper is part of the community life and the editor understands the farmers prob lems. It is the local press that will study the local problems and through its columns deal with subjects of most vital importance to local life of the community.
Williams news., 1915-01-28

Mrs. William F. Dermont en- 1ertained very pleasantly Monday afternoon.
Williams news., 1915-01-28
THE RURAL PRESS

The Local Paper a Most Useful Agency on the Farm-The Press, Pulpit and School Trinity of Influence That Must Be
 Utilized in Building
 AsricuIture.
Williams news., 1915-01-28

The farmers are in need of personal leadership. They have political lead CTS, but they need local industrial community and educational leaders.
Williams news., 1915-01-28

principle and keep the ship of state in the roadstead of progress. The rural press can best serve the inter- ests of the farmers by applying It's energies to the solution of problems affecting the local community. It must stem the mighty life current that is moving from the farm to the cities, sweeping before it a thousand boys and girls per day. It has to deal with the fundamental problems of civilization at their fountain head. Its mission is to direct growth, teach ef-
 iciency and mold the intellectual life of the country, placing before the pub lie the daily problems of the farmers and giving first attention to the leg fslative, cooperative, educational and social needs of the agricultural classes within it's respective community.
Williams news., 1915-01-28

When the soul communes with the spirit of nature the back to the farm movement prevails.
Williams news., 1915-01-28

have dreams. Successful farmers blow deep while sluggards sleep.
Williams news., 1915-01-28

Education is developing of the mind, not a stufing of the memory. Digest what you read.
Williams news., 1915-01-28

The growing of legumes will retard soil depletion and greatly add to its power to produce.
Williams news., 1915-01-28
The Power of Advertising.

The influence of advertising is clear ly visible in the homes and habits of the farmers, and the advertising col umns of the press are making their imprint upon the lives of our people. The farmer possesses the things that are best advertised.
 The farmer is entitled to all the advantages and deserves all the lux uries of life. We need more art, sci ence and useful facilities on the farms, and many homes and farms are we'll balanced in this respect, but the advertiser can render a service by teaching the advantages of modern equipment throughout the columns of the rural press.
Williams news., 1915-01-28

. Lazy farmers are just as useless as dead ones and take up more room.
Williams news., 1915-01-28

There are two kinds of farmers. One tries to take all the advice he hears and the other won't take any at all
Williams news., 1915-01-28

When honesty is merely good policy it is a poor virtue.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-03-14

ased by the physicists who use them. Il
these rays can pass through iron, stone.
solid wood, and other things that the
suns rays do not pass through, It seems
to be a Logical judgment that the sun
light also passes right Through number
Of things In space, which we see through
and are. therefore. unaware Of.
The so-called inter-stellar space. the
great outer ethereal nothing as II seems
70 US. which exists between the earth.
the moon. the sun. and the planets, Is
more than likely . solid mass-that Is,
q relatively solid mass-whieh sunlight
penetrates. just as X-raya and some OF
radium's rays pass through wood. flesh.
and other masses impenetrable to or
binary light rays.
The human eye, to be sure, has in no
other generation ever met any OF these
new kinds OF radiations. Hence, Il has
not yet become developed TO the point
Of seeing throush-that "a 10 say, meeting
hallway such curious kinds Of solid
penetrating light as Knight, radium light.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-03-14

ultraviolet light. infra-rsd light and all
OF the other present day invisible kinds
OF light.
Nature, evolution, mutation. and other
schemes OF iife-development, however, are
already at work 10 overcome this human
eye delinquency. The men and women
OF future generations, take Il, viii UNI
doubtedly have a greater visual power.
Their eyesight viii bemore than lynx
like In far and through sightedness. Eyes
viii begin 90 appear In greater ard
greater numbers that win equal or sur
pass or meet half way al Of the newly
discovered rays. Not even mountains
WIN be Opaque 10 such eyes.
That this realization IL not vain
imagining or fairy tale brought down to
date i confirmed By the fact that some
singularly gifted persons are now TO be
found who see what their preiudices
and superstitions make them think Is
a ghost. 4 spectre, wrath or q spirit
AS a matter OF knowledge, all Of these
seemingly supernormal things are ex-
plainable IN the plain terms OF actuality;
Downright 1915. bx the star Con
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-03-14
Boxing Trim.

they started in to talk boxing sports" They would
say something like this do you still like to box better
than to wrestler" Politely the eiress would smile
say" Fl boxing two years ago. after found that
could put dad out in five rounds!" Isl
The enthusiastic graduate would then deuge her
with questions and comments and because she kept
on smiling thought ne had made hit
But being polite OF Miss Biddles long suits;
even when smiling the pleasantest she would be black
listing the man, a q possible husband.
The seriously minded males tried her religion
having In mind her fathers famous Bible class.
blacklist And II went until at the time Of her
debut in December there scarcely eligible male
IN Philadelphia whose name was not on Miss Bdde's
blacklist Mrs. Biddle was pertuTbed to say the least
for the first duty OF every debutante is to marry as
speedily as possible
Dan Cupid way back last Winter 1t during the
Thanksgiving holidays year ago that the George
Goulds gave house party at beautiful Georgian Court
In Lakewood Young Mr. Duke and his sister Mary were
in the party. Miss Biddle visiting her aunt Mrs
was staying with the Goulds. Mr.. Gould suggested
private prize fight with Tony and nearprofessional
fortunately in training just then on farm mile out
Of town. leading gentlemen. The fight came on
In the Gould Casino one Of the most beautiful sport
ing theatres in thisJcOuntry. Miss Biddle was there
last appearance at any of dads fights She turned.
the story goes TO rather melancholy male sitting next
'Ths is my very last hght after tonight I'm done"
The male turned eye her direction and replied:
"'Tis beastly BORE isn't It's I came because had
to. I'm a guest in the house. but bah, never have
liked anything of q sporting kind" The male was
young Mr.. Duke. and that chance remark Of his
ten strike.
From that moment Miss Biddle enshrined him in her
heart and as he already keeny alive to her attrac
ton, the courtshp became strenuous. Mr.. Duke as
must already be clear. was not inexperienced. His
experiences in England alone. would have made him
past master in the gentle art Of eusiveness had ne
cared to be eluded Over there he has spent season
with his aunt. the lively Mrs James Duke who had in
stalled him In her Grosvenor SQUARE mansion and made
desperate effort to marry him to titled English
woman, even an Honorable would have pleased Aunt
Mana It Is said that the Princess Patricia
considered by the ambitious aunt who had been a
bright and shining member of King Edwards set but
Mr. Duke. while enjoying the attention he received
refused to fall for any OF Aunt Marys numerous seec
TONS He passed unscathed Though very trying
WIN also inherit fifty millions But sister Mary's
periences another story. She still mourns for
noble prince who wooed her but whom her father
would not let her have. He is lighting with the
allies. Perhaps when the cruel war is over-wel, per-
haps. there Will be story to.telL
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-03-14

By DR.. Leonard Keene Hirschberg.
a. B., M. A., NJ. o. (JOhns HopkInsl
sTTHERE are both facts and reasons TO
prove that millions Of real. ma
= terial articles are present in the
universe which are not only overlooked
- man, bat which are looked completely
through.
The X.rays were discovered because an
Enghshman. Sir William Crookes. had
previously discovered the vacuum globe
large glass bulb with metallic ends.
from which all air and gases had been
previously exhausted - which Is called
the CFookeB tube. The cathode radla-
tons which came from the cathode end
Of this tube, when frictional electricity
IL sent through the vacuum glass globe.
we're known before Roenigen accidentally
found that some OF them penetrate solid
things.
Even to-day the general idea which
undesiIes the XFayB or cathode rays
from 4 vacuum tube q not fully npprect
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-03-14

Thus common salt at once becomes
yeliowish or, rather, amber colored. Bro
mide OF potash turns INTO a lovely deep
ultra-marine blue, while chloride OF
potash becomes a beautiful violet. Fiuo-
ride OF soda takes a fine rosy hue. All
IN the fraction OF a second. yet they
remain for many years, II kept cool and
IN the dark. Daylight and heat. slowly
and after some time, cause return OF the
white colors.
This is a new and quick way to an
aiyze and tell what given specimen of
mineral, salt. or ore is made Of Il Is
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-03-14

II has been said that young Mr.. Duke successfully
resisted many onslaughts his heart Equally Miss
Bidde was not easily Mr.. Duke, with all his
millions and his prestige, found the winning Of tony"
Bidde's daughter arduous task His rivals were
thick as blackberres in Summer. but fortunately for
Bddle had drawn up two years ago as to what she
thought her husband should be.
And these specifications the crux OF the romance
which Of such interest to society at home and abroad
Now begin to why the little sketch of Mr..
Bddle was necessary. Little Miss Bidde brought
up boxing Gloves wrestling mats, Oxford Bibles and
athletics generally She talked the iargon of the ring
before she battered in French and German She knew
what half Nelson before she knew the date Amer
ica discovered and physiology was merely another
name for solar pexus
On her fifteenth birthday however. Miss Cordelia de-
cided that she utterly weary of everything athletic
IF marry" she said TO her room mate at board
ing school, II viii choose man who has never seen q
prizehght who does not know how to box or wreste,
play football baseball or do anything at all but
read books and be quiet"
In the beginning Miss Biddles parents did not take
these specifications and their daughters boredom ser
ously Mrs Blddle was busy leading Philadelphia
society and Mr. Biddle too busy teaching his Bible
class Row to tight and his fighting friends how to study
the Bible. to waste much time on their daughters
vagaries.
But when said daughter began turning down one
after another OF the best egbles OF Philadelphia they
began to sit up and take sharp notice. Gallant gradu
ates from Princeton Yale and Harvard and sturdy
dergraduaea the u Of p got the habit OF always
being In the picture whenever the Bdde beauty was
on view. They met with short shTift.
The trouble that they ali knew that she was the
lighting daughter Of hghting father. and naturally
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-03-14

not only done more quickly, but more
cheaply, easily and handily. Combina-
tions of salts, to be sure, produce diff.
ferent, yet perfectly constant, colo-s.
Lithium chloride is made bright yellow
color whe malone in the cathode rays.
but when mixed or dissolved in suiphate
OF potash a lilac hue results. Pure car,
Donate OF potash acquires a reddish TINT
a vivid green is made. No matter how
small the amount-one speck Of one to al
hundredth thousand parts OF water or
another salt==the appropriate celor 10
produced.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-03-14

class every Sunday. Some Of his best
boxers have come from It. This also
provided a curious atmosphere for
little Miss Biddie. Finally, Mr.. Bid
die joined the ranks Of the Billy Sun
dayers. On January 2, last year, he
declared forever for teetotalism, an
nounced there was more punch in q
glass Of milk than in a glass of
whiskey, and turned his wine cellar
literally out into the gutter.
Years ago." said Mr.. Biddie, II
drank quart Of rum day. Never
again."
And exclusive Walnut street paused
while Mr.. Biddle's servants brought
out bottle after bottle Of tlne wines
and let the contents of the bottles
flow down the gutter.
All this seems to be more about
Mr.. Biddle than his adorable daugh-
ter. but 1t is necessary to show that
what Miss Biddle apparently found
a trife oppressive.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-03-14

is temporarily mistAgen for spirit
nifty.
Researches by the great physicist. Pro
lessor u. Goldstein, soon 10 be announced
from Germany. bring all OF these matters
into closer relationship than ever before
with human progress.
He has found that II cathode rays fali
on certain salts. such as table salt, potash
and the like. vivid colors are immedi-
ately produced Ia these salts. Thia and
other new discoveries of his form class
OF phenomena which seems 70 constitute
q new condition Of matter which no one
has ever before realized.
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