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The Holbrook News
SIDNEY SAPP, Publisher
HOLBROOK
ARIZONA
Iroquois, Blocum, Cherry the
ever lengthening.
list
Even the old bandita are being
crowded out by the young mea.
My boy, the world admires a game
man, ven If he does get licked occa
sionally. At soon as a man Is elected to office
a lot of fellows who didn't vote for
Jm begin to advise him what to do.
While we were finding fault with
the tough steak, Borneo cannibals
we eating an old British sea captain.
.The young Turks must have suc
ceeded in getting most of the good
Jobs. They are. making very little
olse.
It Is a Messed thing to struggle,
ays John D. Rockefeller especially
when you realize on your tugging as
4ohn did.
The man who pretends to laugh at
and to criticise women is like the
. email boy who whistles In the dark
because he is afraid...
There are some women who cannot
look for support from their husbands
now. ' What -"rill they expect if they
ire iut up for office?
Mrs. John Jacob Astor is to get ali
mony amounting to $10,000,000. She
must know something that the colonel
pretty anxious to have kept quiet.
The n an who named his horses
"Peary" and "Cook" because they had
a pole between them may have ob
served that they are a good pair to
4raw, too.
Those serviceable New York judges
who seal up divorce case testimony
should take note - that it says some
where in Revelations, "And the seals
'"ere broken."
It is reported that "a Montana
bride ate twenty biscuits of her own
making." Her husband must have had
grave misgivings if it took that many
to convince hint he was running no
lsk.
Have you ever met Smith? His fam
ily is the oldest on earth. ' Professor
Mahaff of England has discovered that
there was a man known as Smith in
the twentieth year of the third Ptole
my. 227 B. C. '
A student at.Beloit College claims
to have discovered "a new world's
power." We hope he has taken pre
cautions which will leave it unneces
sary for him to depend" upon the per
suasive power of gumdrops when be
Is called on to furnish proof of his
discovery.
Women, not to mention children,
usually feel better after "a real good
cry." It seems that tears not only
soothe the spirit, but also serve anoth
er useful purpose, for an eminent spe
cialist asserts that the saltiness of
tears clears the eye and refreshes Its
delicate organism. In their passage
down the face the tears sterilize the
skin and kill germs upon which soap
and water have no effect, and thus
serve as a natural beauty bath.
Ever since the presidency of George
Washington,- every citizen has felt it
his inalienable right to shake the chief
magistrate by the hand, and the chief
magistrate has usually submitted with
very good grace. During Mr. Taft's
Western trip, however, the custom was
started of changing the form of greet
ing. The names of the guests were
called out, and tows and smiles were
exchanged. No doubt, the new way
seems less cordial than the old, but
he reform is a good one.
Forestry methods of the most ap
proved sort are applied to the great
Vanderbilt estate at Biltmore, N. C.
From the ten thousand acres of wood
land are taken annually four million
feet of lumber, five thousand cords of
tannic acid wood and fuel, a thousand
cords of tan bark, and considerable
quantities of pulp wood. Yet the for
est, far from being injured, increases
In value every year. What a blessing
It would be if more owners of timber
land were content to regard their prop
erty as a permanent investment, and
not an opportunity to "get rich quick"
at the expense of the future of the
land!
The sobranje of Bulgaria has passed
a law imposing a tax of about $3 a
year on all unmarried men who are
SO years old and older. At Tirnovo.
the ancient capital, it has been a cus
tom for many years to humiliate un
married men. 'On the first Monday In
Lent all marriageable men who had
not selected life partners in the car
nival season were beaten on sight with
Inflated pigs' bladders. The bachelors
always dreaded the, day, while the
girls looked forward to it with pleas
ure. Since the tax act has been
passed the bachelors of Tirnovo have
entered a formal protest against the
continuance of the practice. They say
they will gladly pay the tax, but want
the chastisement declared unlawful.
All over this country the conditions
et farm life have taken on a new in
terese Such men as James J. Hill
have been stating Important if unwel
come t rutins about the conditions ol
food supply. These have shown evec
the urban people that the problem ol
farm development -comes close hom
to them. The government has had s
Commission on Country Life, which
has made Important suggestions upon
how to keep the farm population nr.
to an efficient level. The commission
found, for one thing, that there was
deficient social environment on the
farm which tended to make young
people quit it and go to the towns.
But this is not all. An educator, Pres
ident Beard of the Iowa Teachers' As
sociation, has found that very young
people, children in fact, are sent from
the farm to be educated In the city
schools. Of these there -were 14,000
in that State last year who paid tui
tion of $176.000, and other expenses
which he estimates at a million more.
This depletion of the rural school at
tendance results from two causes, th
actual loes of farm population, and the
emigration to the town schools. From
the report of the State Superintendent
Mr. Beard quotes these facts about a
number of school districts in Iowa:
Nine schools had two pupils each;
36 an enrollment of three; 137 an en
rollment of five; 432 an enrollment oi
ten. Out of such schools he considere
It Impossible to get stimulus for either
teacher or pupil. Children are gregari
ous. Nothing compensates the child
for the absence of companionship.
Hence these graveyard schools, where
there are not enough pupils to organ
ize a game, must mightily disgust chil
dren with rural life. The child de
mands comradeship, and if he is
taught from his earliest conscious
years that it cannot be had on the
farm, he will, when he grows up, seek
it elsewhere. It is then too late tc
implore him to stay on the farm. He
should have been taught, through the
best schools and the best teaching, tc
enjoy the farm from the start. What
President Beard asks, and it is not an
unreasonable demand, is that the farm
child be given as good a school, but
not the same kind, as the town chihl.
and that, above all, he be brought in
contact with a sufficient number of his
neighbors to make school life attract
ive and bright. .
REFORMATION AS A CRIME CURE.
By Caamo O. Romilly.
It is now an uncontested truth that our
methods for dealing with crime have been
sadly defective. We have regarded punish
ment only from the deterrent and retributive
standpoints, and have paid no attention
whatever to the reformative. There is a
movement to try to help and reform crimin
als, and so by reclamation to cure crime by
going to the root of the evil, and by studying
criminology as a science. This movement is growing
day by day, flowing in like an enormous wave that is
beyond the power of man to check. The abolition of
capital punishment is only a small part of this great
movement, but a part of no mean importance. One hun
dred years ago death was the penalty in England for
an enormous number of offenses, and among others for
counterfeiting stamps for . the sale of perfumery, and
also of certificates for hair powder. We have made
some progress at least! We are altogether more hu
mane now than we were then.
Let us remember that two wrongs do not make a
right, and that the state does not annul the murder by
putting the murderer to death, but, instead, makes it a
double tragedy. Some countries have abolished capital
punishment, but it still remains a "blot to honor and
religion." That same spirit which has abolished the
punishments of drawing and quartering in the past will
abolish the punishment of death in the future.
HOW THE DRUG MAH "STUNQ.'
Mixed Up a Few Thlnara (or ÍO Cent
Got SO Centi for It.
Dr. Charlie Hearn, of Swarthmore,
always has a new Joke to tell, and in
his latest a prominent advertising
man of this city was the victim, the
Philadelphia Telegraph says. The lat
ter had a touch or indigestion, and.
meeting a doctor who was a friend of
his upon the street, asked him what
to take for It.
"A little bicarbonate of soda, a few
drops of aromatic spirits of ammonia
ind some water," advised his medical
friend.'
"Write it down, will you, doc?" ask
ed the advertiser. The doctor did so.
The man went directly to a drug store,
Dr. Hearn says, and asked for 5 cents'
worth of bicarbonate of soda and also
5 cents' worth of aromatic spirits of
ammonia. The drug clerk got them
for him and was wrapping them when
the purchaser pulled the prescription
blank from his pocket. "Say," he ask
ed, "this Just says put them in some
water. How much ought I to use?"
The druggist leaned forward and
took the blank. "I'll fix it," he said,
and disappeared.
A little later he came back with a
bottle labeled.
"I added the water," he said, tri
umphantly. "Fifty cents, please."
"Fifty cents!" roared the customer.
"You said It was only 10 cents! Do
you usually charge 40 cents for a bot
tle of water?"
The druggist frowned. "This is a
prescription," he said, "and we never
put one up for less than 50 cents."
And the customer,' whispering
"stung!" left the shop, wiser and poor
er by 40 cents.
INDUSTRIAL BETTERMENT ESSENTIAL TO CITY.
By O. Edward Fuller.
Strange that we have learned to regard in
dustrialism with pride but shy at reference to
"work" and "trade." Art and culture we con
jure with, like fakirs in front of a sideshow,
although we draw our food and clothes from
work and trade; while past history indicates
no future prospect of the solid furnishing
forth of a worthy national life with lack of
broad and wholesome respect for the wage-
earners. The course of the nations is strewn with
wrecks of culture, and no dominating art exists to-day
nothing but fragments. There never will be endur-'
Ing art and culture until the people of a nation grow
up to them as a whole, and through adequate vocational
pride and skill, perhaps, but certainly not through par
asitism or partial views.
Japan has shown us, Germany is teaching us, and our
disjointed national educational system is in sore need
of proper articulation with a growing, a vitalizing in
dustrialism based upon meliorism in the factory, the
warehouse and the store, but detached from tricky and
sorded forms of mere commercialism.
It is the hope of scientific meliorism j that mankind
has reached an epoch of betterment by: a controlling,
conscious evolution acting with natural evolution, and it
is believed that only through enlightened industrialism
shall we "find that state of things in which it should be
impossible for anyone to be depraved or poor."
There is no altruism in trade building, and mere op
timism is not Immune, but scientific meliorism stands
the wear and tear, while a healthy industrialism offers
the safest and sanest means, in the workshop, labora
tory and marts of trade, in wearing away the barriers
between the races and between the classes.
NEED OF INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION.
By Edwin O. Cooley.
Within recent years there has sprung up a
widespread demand for industrial education.
It comes from the manufacturer, profession
al man, mechanic, farmer and educator. In
dustrial education has probably a different
meaning for each o! these types of individ
uals. Yet all agree upon one thing, and that
is that it is something not found in adequate
form in our present educational system.
Fractically1 nothing has been done in this
country for the development .of industrial education
outside the college or university. Thousands of pupils
now leave school at an early age with no training what
ever directly fitting them for the' activities of life in
the industrial world, where most of them will find their
work. In the larger cities trade schools and continua
tion schools of various types must be organized. The
scope and character of, their work will be varied and
must be adapted to local conditions. In rural com
munities secondary schools in which the study of ag
riculture and related lines of work is the dominant pur
pose must be organized. But when these different types
of schools come into existence, even in considerable
number, throughout, the country the solution of the
problem has just begun. For the great mass of those
needing industrial education the existing public schools
must furnish the facilities.
FLEET VS MOVING PICTURES.
DON'T SELECT THE CHILD'S OCCUPATION.
By Rev. Madison C. Petsrs.
Many an ambitious parent forces a boy to
become a preacher, doctor or lawyer when
measuring dry goods would have been the
fittest thing for him to do, while, on the con
trary, we find parents taking boys out of
school at 14 to sell dry goods whose skill in
hair splitting, whose adroitness at parry and
thrust and whose fertility of resource in
every exigency show that nature designed
them for the pulpit or the bar. Parents might as well
try to turn back the waters of the Niagara as to de
cide what profession or business their sons should adopt.
God gives to every man a particular work he can do
and in the performance of which he can be happy, but
the place which a man can fill with satisfaction to him
self and others is that for which nature designed him.
UTPOSTS of.the:
'WIRELESS
Eaejllah Womn'i Clob Life.
A French woman has been making
an investigation of the women's clubs
In England and her report is favor
able, the Minneapolis Journal says.
She says the club is the woman's
haven, that when she enters It she Is
free from molestation by her husband
and able to find enjoyment and re
laxation without the intrusion of out
side cares. For the unmarried wom
an the club in England is a place
where she can entertain her friends
of both sexes and gain companionship.
If the French woman came to this
country she would find the woman's
club a different Institution from that
in England. The average woman's
club here does little more than meet
once a month; in tbe-East it is mainly
used for social politics, while in the
West it dabbles in real politics and
expresses Its views on every public
question. - In England the club idea
is followed to the letter. There'every
woman's club has its restaurant, its
library, its card rooms, its lounging
room, its billiard room and many have
gymnasiums and swimming pools. The
London clubs are crowded with women
every noon for luncheon and in almost
every club women are permitted to
smoke and do smoke.
Id It Place.
The librarian of a mediaeval librae
in Baltimore was puzzled recently to
know what to do with e book entitled
"The Birth of the Locomotive," but
at length she placed it among the
books on "Diseases of the Newly
Born." Publishers' Weekly.
With the possible exception of a
willingness to fight, you can't prove do it?
anything by calling another a llai.
A dozen men in the wilderness up
beyond the gateway of the St. Law
rence where the shreds of civilization
fray out against the barrier of the
great North link up the world with
the wilderness of the Atlantic and the
wilds of the Arctic regions. They do
it with a wireless key and the mes
sages they receive and send pass over
barren wastes where no man lives and
land wires have never been strung.
A dozen there are who serve as
operators; others of the repairing
crew and the supplying department
come and go, but these dozen men are
year after year held practically pris
oners on the bald cliffs of Labrador
and Newfoundland before the. key of
the wireless. They send through the
air the tales of ships , that come and
go, reports that may interest St.
John's or Montreal shipping ex
changes; relay from the one to the
other the meagre commercial mes
sages that must pass from dealer to
fisherman; send down to the land
telegraphs the occasional news of
shipwrecks and sea sufferings that
find a way Into the papers. At Battle
Harbor Gordon Sprackling, a young
Nova Scotian, is the Marcos i opera
tor, and Leonard Stephenson his en
gineer. Compared with some of their
fellows Sprackling and Stephenson
are fortunate in the environment of
a metropolis.
But the wireless men are far from
the maddening crowd even at that.
To. reach the wireless station requires
a nice training in alpine climbing, a
sure foot and an undisturbed sense of
balance. Here, In a cleft below the
summit of the cliff is the wireless hut
and in this hut less than two months
ago events occurred which need re
cording. They should be recorded be
cause they measure the stamina of
the men who work the wireless in
this cheerless country.
The polar ship Roosevelt worked
her way into the narrow harbor one
sunny morning, and while the town
seethed with excitement Commander
Peary climbed the crag to the wire
less station to interview Spracklin. He
told the operator that he wanted to
send to the world below his account
of the discovery of the north pole.
He believed that he could put it on
the land wire at Chateau Bay down
the coast, but the wireless man at
Indian Harbor had told him that the
Dominion government had abandoned
that land wire since last he bad come
down from the North and he must
use the wireless. Could the wireless
I Spracklin said that it could. Then
he called the man at Belle Isle over
the strait a hundred miles away, and
told him to pass the word along the
line that there was big work ahead.
The word was passed down to the of
fice of the management in Ottawa.
Spracklin worked twenty hours out of
every twenty-four for five days alone
and unaided save for the relief his
engineer gave him while he was eat
ing his meals. Spracklin and all the
others pounded the key during those
five days, not knowing at what min
ute the spark would fail because of
the strain pnt upon the apparatus.
Spracklin would send two, three or
four thousand words, then stop. Each
succeeding station below would re
ceive, then forward this amount, and
not until it had all been put upon the
cables at Cape Ray would the next
installment be launched.
Here is how Peary's story was zig
zagged down the coast through the
air to the cable end. From Battle
Harbor it went southeastward across
the Straits of Belle Isle to the sta
tion situated on' the northern tip of
the island of that name. Belle Isle
relayed to Point Amour, back to the
westward and on the southern tip of
Labrador.
Point Amour sect the message to
the east and south again to Point
Richie, on the west coast of New
foundland north of Bay of Islands.
From Point Richie the spark jumped
westward once more and across the
Gulf of St. Lawrence to Heath Point
on the island of Anticosti. The final
jump was back again to the New
foundland coast, where at Cape Ray
the message was put on the cable. ' -
Not for many years will the men
who sit on the tops of crags in New
foundland and Labrador and send
through the air to the world below
the news of ships and of men have
such a task to perform.
JVot Literary.
"The late Frederick Burton was the
world's foremost authority on the
American Indian," said a Yale ethnol
ogist. "Burton was almost alone In
his field. There are, you know, so few
students of Indian lore. He said to me
once, with a vexed laugh, that he
found it quite as impossible to discuss
the Indian with people as a Boston
critic found it to discuss poetry with
the girl he tcok down to dinner. The
girl . was very pretty. Leaning fcer
dimpled elbows on the table, she said
to the critic:
"'And what Is your lecture to be
about, professor?'
-'I shall lecture on Keats,' he re
plied.
" 'Oh, professor, she gushed, 'what
are Keats?' "
A boy's idea of hardship is to have
to wash his neck and ears every day.
THIS WLNTEB'S DINNERS.
Courses Will Be Fewer, bat Will
Incladf All the Laxarle.
In a way dinners are to be simpler
this winter than before. They are not
to be composed of less rich or luxuri
ous materials (indeed, the use of lux
uries in, food will be of greater vogue
than ever), but according to the pic
ture, the simplicity will be present in
the form of fewer courses and less
elaborate of dishes.
Dinners will begin with one of the
hundred canapes, with caviare or with
oysters. The grapefruit as an opening
course for dinner Is quite out of it.
It comes first to the luncheon table
frequently, but when it figures in the
dinner it is as a salad. And salads of
any sort must be removed as far
as possible from the ornamental vari
ety. Above all, they must not be
mussy or messy.
Yet this appearance is not to be
avoided if several kinds of vegetables,
for Instance, are collected in the salad
bowl. Three vegetables make the very
limit of those that may be employed,
and Included in the three is the let
tuce that is the background.
The French vegetable salad, to be
sure, consists of several kinds. But it
should not make its appearance in a
formal dinner of courses. It is for a
luncheon or for a dainty home dinner.
which consists of but a soup, a chop
with a vegetable, a salad and a light
dessert with crackers and cheese.
Wines, it goes without saying, must
be of the choicest variety to form a
harmonious note with the simple din
ner composed of luxuries paradoxi
cal as that may seem. And the pleas
ant custom of serving an hour or so
after dinner an imported mineral
water will be more popular the com
ing season than ever. A short time
after dinner a dryness of the throat
is often experienced, and this mineral
water is a refreshment at such a time
to be appreciated. It is also to be re
garded as an excellent digestive.
Special Show Given for Officers of
tbe Army and Kitf,
Moving-picture views of the Atlantic
battle-ship fleet at target practice on
the southern, drill grounds in August
and September were exhibited to-day
by Lieutenant Commander Leigh C.
Palmer, inspector of target practice,
to the high officials of the navy and
army, a Washington special dispatch
to the Baltimore Sun says.
The "show," which was held in a
darkened and unfrequented corridor,
on the fifth floor of the Navy Depart
ment, was impromptu. Shortly after
noon Admiral Potter, chief of naviga
tion, notified Acting Secretary Win
throp that it would be held at 2:30
o'clock. Notice was also Issued to all
the naval bureau chiefs, ordnance offi
cers and others interested. It was
then decided to invite the army ob
servers. Accordingly Gen. Oliver, acting sec
retary; Gen. Bull, chief of staff; Gen.
Murray, chief of artillery, and all the
other bureau chiefs at the office to-day
were invited. The invitations went to
the members of the general board of
the navy and to the army and navy
joint board.
Nearly 100 officers gathered for the
show. The corric or had been screened
off from intrusion and precautions
were taken to prevent the presence of
any one except the guests. Corre
spondents, department clerks and for
eign attaches were left on the out
; side.
j Several hundred yards of film was
j exhibited, most of it showing the fir
j ing of the Georgia and Nebraska. The
! photographer, a yeoman on the Ver
' mont was stationed on the tug towing
I the target in' most of the pictures, the
Í object being to photograph the splash
as the projectile struck the target or
; went over or under it.
Most of the pictures were on battle
i practice, and they are likely to prove
of benefit in aiding the target inspect
ors to confirm observations of the spe
cial umpires on close shots that may
be in dispute. The distance of the
camera from the target being known,
j as also the distance of the firing ship
J from the target, it will be an easy mat-
ter on the picture to correctly measure
I the distance any given sht missed
the target Several snapshot pictures
I of target work were made by the same
yeoman in Manila bay last fall, at the
suggestion of Lieutenant Commander
Palmer, who was then ordnance offi
cer of the Vermont, which won the
battle pennant. They proved of such
value that this year he had moving
pictures made, which, of course, were
much more accurate, each shot being
numbered on the back of the film on
I which it was photographed at the time
the picture was taken.
Gen. Bell, Secretary Winthrop and
the officers were greatly pleased with
the results. At the close a number of
films showing the movements of the
American and foreign warships in the
recent Hudson-Fulton celebration were
shown. It is expected that the entire
j performance will be given for Presi
dent Taft and members of the Senate
and House naval and military commit
tees when Congress meets in Decem
ber.. A HINT TO THE WISE.
Poetry and Proie.
"What a beautiful sight it is, Mrt.
Bates, to see your two little boys al
ways together!" the summer boarder
exclaimed, in an ecstasy, on the ap
proach of Bobby and Tommy Bates,
hand In hand. "Such brotherly love Is
as rare as it is exquisite.
Mrs. Bates nodded in pleasant as
sent. "I tell Ezry," she said, "that they're
as insep'r'ble as a pair o' pants."
Nineteen of Every Twenty Person
at Ak of SO Are Dependent.
According to Dr. J. C. Clemmer, of
Columbus, O., 95 per cent of all men
are dependent upon their daily earn
ings or those of their relatives for
their support when they reach the age
of 60.
"Yes, sir," said Dr. Clemmer recent
ly, "19 out of every 20 persons living
at the age of 60 are dependent. In
looking through the probate records
of one of the principal counties of
Ohio I found that in a period from
January 1, 1901, to January 1, 1905,
four years, there were close to 8,000
deaths of adults, and of this number
more than 6,000 left no estate at all.
A few more than 800, or 10 per cent,
left property valued at less than $1,000. '
Six hundred willed estates of less
than $5,000, while 200 had worldly
goods amounting to from $10,000 to
$20,000! There were only 76 who left
property valued at more than $25,000.
In New York 85 per cent of the men
who die leave no estate, and this aver
age, I believe, will apply in most of
the large cities.
"It is strange, perhaps, but when a
man reaches 40, he must, according to
all statistics, be an exception if he
does not lose all his accumulations.
At 45 years 97 per cent of the persons
have lost everything, while at 50 but
one person in 5,000 can recover his
financial footing. These are unpleas
ant truths, perhaps, but they may
cause some young men to think while
they yet have time about saving up
for the rainy days that are sure to
come."
ot Jtlnlcrialiiins.
"I went to the spiritualistic seance
to find out If I had a ghost of a
chance of getting the sealskin coat I
want."
"Dear me! Would you be satisfied
with nothing more material for a coat
than a spirit wrap?" Baltimore Amer
ican. A boy is never as much consolation
to his mother in her Borrows as her
daughter, but he can't help it; It If
not his way.
Reviainic an Old One.
Miss Prim When I marry I am de
termined that my husband shall dress
in good taste.
Miss Cayenne But you must re
member, my dear Miss Prim, the rec
ipe on "How to Dress a Husband.' It
begins like this: "First, catch him!"
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Too True.
"What's one man's get-rich-quick
scheme," said Uncle Eben, "is often
a git-poor-sudden scheme for a whole
lot o' folks."
Sometimes a preacher's popularity
can be measured by the shortness of
his sermons.
If a woman has nothing to worry
about her happiness is incomplete.