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The Holbrook News
SIDNEY SAPP, Publisher
HOLBROOK .... ARIZONA
Alabama 1 neither dry sor
Something like 'alf and 'alf.
-wot.
Operation for appendicitis are be
coming alarmingly prevalent again.
The Monroe doctrine la safe. Ger
many backs off from sharing our bur
den in Latin America.
An Inventor who should solve the
clothes problem for the changeable fall
weather would be a wonder.
There are, after all, some reasons
for being sincerely thankful. Neither
Kan Patterson nor little Evelyn is
making any noise.
Kermlt Roosevelt recently killed two
tangoes. We don't know just what a
bongo Is, but the probabilities are that
It Is Just aa fierce a man-eater as the
yamyam.
The products of the farms of this
country were worth $869,000,000 more
In 1909 than in 1908. The farmers are
Is Imminent danger of forfeiting pub
lic sympathy.
The spectacle of Congress going to
work heroically to cut down the nation
al expenditures $50,000,000 or so would
be almost worth working up into
thrilling lyric.
A French scientist elaims to have
caused a dead dog to bark, but a great
er achievement for him would be to
Invent a way to keep a Uve dog from
barking at 4 a. m.
While he was In England King Man
uel was snubbed by a chorus girl with
whom he tried to flirt. The name of
the piece in which the chorus girl is
to Btar has not been made public.
By becoming reconciled to strict re
tirement Abdul Hamid has exhibited
good judgment. He knows he could
never feel at home hanging to a lamp
post, with a rope around his neck..
Sorry to interrupt Mrs. O. H. P. Bel
xnont to ask her why we never hear of
women flocking to Colorado to gain a
voting -residence, while they fall over
each other In the rush for Nevada to
gain a divorce residence.'
Eugene Higgins. the wealthy New
fork yachtsman, has given $5,000 to a
man who saved him from drowning.
Considering the fact that Mr. Higgins
la worth several millions,- this can
hardly be regarded as an Indication
that he is much of an egotist.
Miss Isadora Duncan, the dancer,
has left this country in disgust, saying
that she will never return because the
American people who have money do
not appreciate art. The trouble with
Miss Duncan was that she didn't do
her barefoot specialty in a musical
comedy.
Coal enough in the earth for seven
thousand years is the reassuring an
nouncement of the Geological Survey.
At the end of that time, If the human
race has not passed beyond the need
of any fuel whatever. It ought to have
learned how to utilize the vast stores
of solar energy which are now going
to waste daily.
One of the large department stores
In Chicago has appointed an official
censor of the dress of its saleswomen.
The woman who has accepted the diffi
cult position is a believer In simplici
ty. A black or white tailor-made
shirtwaist black skirt, hair without
any artificial adornments, and an ab
sence of fashion exaggerations are her
ideas of what is fitting. "Rats," "puffs,"
raise . curls, paint, powder and other
xaake-up accessories are forbidden.
"Patience, philosophy, humor, good
luck, steadfastness, health, persistence,
clear-headedness, sympathy, diplomacy,
persuasiveness, positiveness, gentle
ness, open-mindedness, force, enthusi
asm, polntedness, clairvoyance, Inde
pendence, friendliness and charm."
Such is the equipment which Chicago's
new superintendent of schools pre
scribes for the ideal teacher. The for
tunate possessor of all these qualities
would be successful in any occupation,
lor they come near including every
virtue of mind and character.
The high price of cotton has led
German textile experts to study the
possibilities of other fibers. A com
pany at Chemnitz is reported to have
succeeded in using the fiber contained
in the seed of the kapok, or silk-cotton
tree of the tropics. Heretofore no
one has been able -to spin this fiber on
account of its brlttleness iu the natur
al state; but a German chemist has
found a way to treat it which pro
duces a tough, soft and silky yarn. The
experiment, whatever its outcome, em
phasizes the possibilities to industry
of the thorough technical education in
which the Germans have so far sur
passed the rest of the world. For t".i
man of the highest scientific training,
possible fortunes lie on every hand.
Chinchilla fur is likely to be scarce
if the slaughter of the small South
American rodents which produce it
continues at the present rate. In Chile,
for example, there are no game-laws,
and the hunters, attracted by the rap
Idly increasing price of the skins, are
exterminating the ' animals. Ia 1903
less than 12,000 skins were exported
at about a dollar and a half apiece.
Two years later the price became mo
attractive that more than a million
and a half skins were sent out of the
country. This has been accompanied
by so great a destruction of the- ani
mal that less than a tenth aa many
skin could be exported the next year,
in spite of the fact that the price had
risen to nearly double that of 1903.
Last year leas than 40,000 skins were
sent abroad, and they sold for about
four dollar apiece.
Every one who ha occasion to con
sult an atlas and that mean practi
cally every grown-up person finds it
annoying that the maps of adjacent
portions of territory are drawn to dif
ferent scales. At the fifth Internation
al Geographic Congress, which met In
Berne in 1891, Prof. Albrecht Penck
made the interesting suggestion that
all the map-making nations should de
cide upon a common scale, and co-operate
In the making of a map of the
world. He recommended a scale of one
to one million about sixteen miles to
an inch. A map of Pennsylvania on
scale would measure about twenty
inches from east to west, and nine and
a half Inches from north to south. Pro
fessor Penck also advised that the
sheets be so bounded by parallels and
meridians that any one sheet would
match the sheets representing contigu
ous territory, no matter by what na
tion the sheets were made. The sug
gestion was much discussed at that
meeting and in subsequent congresses.
Last year, when the society met In
Geneva, an international committee
was appointed to consider details and
formulate practical methods of co-operation.
Upon the recommendation of
this committee, - the British govern
ment invited the leading countries of
the world to send delegates to a meet
ing in London, for the standardization
of the proposed map, upon the scale
mentioned, of one to one million. The
delegates met at 'the British foreign
office. The representatives of the Uni
ted States were two members of the
Geological Survey. Good maps con
tribute to a knowledge of history and
geography, promote agriculture and In
dustry, and further the advance of civ
ilization. . In the matter of maps made
by the government itself, this country
has no need to blush. On the other
hand. In what may be called commer
cial maps, those which are made by
private companies for sale singly or In
atlases, the United States is far be
hind some European nations.
ADVENTURE WITH GRIZZLY
Captain Williams, an old-time trap
per, who voyaged, alone In a frail
canoe for hundreds of miles on the
great rivers of the interior, had many
thrilling adventures, one of which Is
related below. Captain Williams al
ways took the precaution at night ol
tying his canoe to the shore with a
piece of rawhide about twenty feet
long, which let the canoe swing from
the bank that distance. In case of
attack from Indians, be could cut the
cord that bound him to the shore, and
glide off without noise. He always
slept in his canoe.
One night he was roused from sleep
by the trampling of something In the
bushes on the bank. Tramp! tramp!
tramp! sounded the footsteps, which
were approaching the canoe.
The captain's first fear was of In
dians, but reason told him that no
Indian bent on mischief would ap
proach the canoe In that careless fash
ion. Peering Intently into the dark
ness. Captain Williams . watched the
shore, and soon discovered a grizzly
bear coming toward him. its. head up
raised as it Bniffed the air.
The captain snatched his ax, deem
ing that the best weapon to defend
himself from such a foe, and stood
with it uplifted, ready to strike the
huge aggressor.
The bear came on, and placed its
fore paws upon the stern of the canoe,
and nearly upset It.
Like a flash descended the ax upon
one foot, which was instantly with
drawn: but the bear held on with the
other foot.
The captain raised the ax again,
and brought It down on the animal's
head. Instantly it let go the canoe,
and sank, stunned. Into the water.
Although Captain Williams watched
Intently for the grizzly's reappearance
nothing more was seen of It. In the
morning two of the bear's claws were
found in the canoe, severed by that
doughty blow of the trapper's ax. They
were fondly preserved as trophies of
the adventure, and were always ex
hibited when the captain told th
story of his encounter with the grizzly.
Cause for Pause.
Your eyes are the bonniest blue, dear.
Your features and figure are fine.
Your heart ah, I know 'twould be true.
. dear.
Should I say to you: "Darling, b
mine."
But, alas! there a rrlgntenlng fear,
dear.
That will not allow me to speak.
You are spending a thousand a J-eat
dear; .
I am making twelve dollars a week.
The Club-Fellow.
ot W hat She Meant.
"John." queried her husband's wife,
"if some bold, bad man were to kid
nap me, would you offer a reward?"
"Sure thing," replied the wife's hus
band. "I always reward those who
do' me a favor." Chicago Daily New.
Better a blow than some kissel
WHERE WASHINGTON'S HISTORIC
Tka Ckia Mi u It iMkaá ta tnm as tM mtiwx.
The first question that is generally asked by persons arriving at Wash
ington's Chain bridge for the first time is, "Where are the chains?" There
are no chains, and there have been none for the last half century or more.
But there were chains at one time that particularly designated the bridge
that crosses the Potomac river at the Little Falls, several miles above George
town. The chains, too, were the all-Important part of the bridge, says the
Washington Post, for it was borne entirely by chains.
The first bridge over the Potomac, at Little Falls, the head or navigation
of the river, was built in 1809. . It was built by a Mr. Palmer, and lasted only
a short time, when It fell to pieces during a violent spring freshet. A sec
ond bridge took its place, but that only lasted even a shorter time, about
six months. What was known as the Chain bridge was erected in 1810.
It was a suspension bridge, supported entirely by chains thrown over the
piers erected upon the abutments, which were about twenty feet high. These
chains were four in number. The pendents were hung on them alternately
about five feet apart, so that each chain received a pendent in every ten
feet The bridge was invented by Judge Flndley, who lived near Unlontown,
Pa., and where he had erected a similar chain bridge, which performed very
good service for many years. The span of the bridge was 128 feet and
the width sixteen feet. Its weight was about twenty-two tons, which was
regarded as a heavy weight In the bridge line in those days.
On March 3, 1853, Congress passed an act appropriating a sufficient sum
of money to repair the bridge, and incidentally took the corporation of
Georgetown out of the transaction, the United States stepping In as its
owner, a transaction which was perfectly satisfactory to all concerned. This
repaired bridge was still practically a chain bridge, though In the repairs
iron In other forms was considerably used. The bridge covered only the
river channel proper, there being a dirt roadway that approached the bridge
from either side. It was the washing away of these approaches more than
injury to the bridge itself that put the Chain bridge out of commission so
frequently, for it became almost an annual occurrence, particularly during
the spring freshets, though in two or three years the washouts also occurred
during the fall storms.
The Chain bridge, besides being famous for its chains and equally fa
mous because it has no chains, played a very important part during the
Civil War. At one time one end of it was In possession of the Confederates,
while the other end was guarded by Union troops.
In the military campaigns in which the famous army of the Potomac
took such a prominent part the larger part of the transportation took place
over the Long bridge and the Aqueduct bridge, several miles down the Po
tomac. Still, the Chain bridge was a place of great activity and Interest
throughout the entire war. It was surrounded by fortifications for its pro
tection in case an effort was made by the enemy to use it as an approach
to Washington, and was at all times a very busy locality. The winters
when the army was camped in near-by regions of Virginia brought a good
deal of traffic to the Chain bridge.
In 1872 Congress put an end to the Chain bridge, except In name, by
appropriating $100,000 for the present iron bridge. Though there was noth
ing in the act itself suggesting it, the old name still hangs to the bridge,
though it has no semblance to chains about it.
"SHOOT UP" A TOWN.
At Englevale, X. D., two cowboys fa
tally shot Louis Maxwell, a farmer,
took possession of the town for twelve
hours, and finally departed with armed
citizens In pursuit. The cowboys.
known as the Gant brothers, escaped,
In a pool room fight Maxwell was shot
by one of the brothers. The Gants,
who recently came from Texas to work
on a ranch, then took possession of the
town. Firing volley after volley with
large revolvers, the two paraded the
streets and forced every one to do their
bidding until long after midnight
They then galloped off, much to th,e
relief of the Inhabitants.
CHURCH'S REAL HARVEST.
Ta
Clear a Debt the First Christian
of Bearer, Oltla., liaised Corn.
The congregation of the First Chris
tian Church, of Beaver, Okla, a Kans
as City Times correspondent says,
planted and 'reaped forty acres of
broomcorn last season to raise fundi
for reducing the Indebtedness on its
new church building. The Rev. R. R.
Coffey, the pastor, led his congregation
in the work, men and women and boys
and girls joining with him in the en
terprise. The land used belonged to James
Crabtree, a farmer, living four miles
west of Beaver. As the season prog
ressed the "church eld" thrived won
derfully. Whenever there was work
to do willing hands were found to do
it The time of ripening came and the
corn grew yellow and golden in the
sunshine. There was much talk about
the prospect of high prices for broom
corn, and as the season advanced buy
ers began coming from eastern mar
kets to the broomcorn elds of Beaver
County.
Finally the day of harvesting ar
rived and the congregation of the
Beaver Christian Church was astir
early in the morning. Fathers and
mothers, boys and girls and young
men and young women, with the Rev,
Mr. Coffey at their head, went to the
CHAIN BRIDGE GETS ITS NAME
"church farm" and all day there was
laughter and pulling of broomcorn
"straw." At noon everybody was
called to a basket dinner furnished bj
the housewives who had piled up small
mountains of . brown fried chicken,
with gravy, vegetables, country-cured
ham, llghtbread, jelly cake, caramei
cake, pie and all such things for the
hungry workers. '
When night came the harvesters had
"pulled" twenty-five acres of broom
corn, and next day the work was fin
ished. The straw was hauled to town
and baled and was then ready for . the
market. Buyers were asked to bid foi
the "church farm" crop, and when the
price, went up to $160 a ton, the corn
was sold five and one-half tons of it
which turned $880 in the church
treasury and came near lifting the
church debt.
What a Dollar Doa- Can Do.
A man in a nearby city bought for
his wife and child a year ago a dog,
ror wnicn ne pair a aonar. it was
obviously nothing wonderful In the
canine way merely a mongrel, with
the bulldog strain predominant The
owner was a man in humble circum
stances, and the dog in his modest
dwelling was the principal asset aside
from a few sticks of furniture. The
other night Tom was tied to a leg of
the kitchen sink, as usual, and the
family went to bed. They were awak
ened by the dog at midnight scratch
ing at his master's door. When bis
master came out to see what was the
matter the dog, with a remnant of
chewed rope banging from his collar.
whined and ran to the head of the
stairway. The bouse was on fire, and
shortly after woman and thlld and
man and dog made their escape their
poor dwelling was a mas3 of glowing
embers. The owner of the dog has
been urged to part with him for a
large cash consideration; but though
he is penniless, he will not part with
the four footed savior of his family,
Neither has the dog at any time had
thoughts of leaving them for luxurious
kennels. New York Times.
Not Qualified.
Two men were getting warm over a
simple difference of opinion.
They turned to the third man.
"Isn't a home-made strawberry
shortcake better than a cherry pie?"
demanded one of them.
'Isn't a home-made cherry pie bet
ter than any shortcake?" Inquired the
other.
The third man shook his head.
"I don't know," he said. "I board."
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Fast and Slovr.
The Father I learn with sorrow,
my son, tnat you are getting, to be
what they term quite fast. The Son
You shouldn't believe all you hear.
dad. I'll Introduce you to a man whe
will tell you another story. The
Father And who Is he? The Son
My tailor. He says I'm the slowest
'chap he's got on his books.
OPENING UP BRAZXx
Gnoraonsly Rich Country to Bs
Reached by New Water liontes.
Bolivia east of the Andes is one of
the richest regions of . the world in
timber, rubber and minerals and it has
some fine agricultural lands. It has
no outlet on the Pacific coast. Its
only outlet Is through the Amazon and
Para, and Blnce peace was made with
Brazil a railroad activity in this di
rection has taken possession of the
whole republic.
East of Bolivia is the great Brazil
ian state of Malta G rosso, a territory
nearly three times the size of Texas.
A dozen large navigable rivers pour
northwestward out of this state into
the Amazon. Its agricultural, mining
and grazing possibilities are very
great
It is said that a great deal of this
territory will grow as fine long staple
cotton as Mississippi or Alabama. The
Brazilian government has matured a
plan to connect by canal one of the
tributaries of La Plata in this state,
thus opening an all-inland water route
from Para to Buenos Aires, a distance
of nearly 6,000 miles, says the En
gineering Magazine. This extensive
route would reach the whole interior
of the continent.
Turning to the west and northwest,
the Amazon is navigable in its chief
tributaries in Peru. Ecuador and Co
lombia to the very walls of the Andes.
One may go aboard a stumer at Para
and remain aboard until rt has plowed
its way up to the hill city of Iqultos
and several hundred miles beyond.
Peru has little Pacific coast trade now
and the development of this country
must pour its wealth Into Para.
But if Brazil and Para had none of
these Andean republics to draw trade
from, the development of the Brazil
ian Amazon valley alone must in time
amount to untold wealth. In the states
of Para and the Amazonas and the fed
eral territory of Acre there are near
the water's edge 10,000,000 rubber
bearing trees of the Hevea variety.
These trees if properly tapped will live
Indefinitely and steadily increase their
yield. The state of Para is consider
ably larger than Texas and much of
this state will grow excellent cotton
Pawnshops in Chile are under spe
cial regulations of the general govern
ment, enforced by local authorities.
Fujiyma, the volcano that appears
in all Japanese pictures, is 12,365 feet
high and ten thousand pilgrims ascend
it every year.
Tracing the criminal by his finger
prints was successfully accomplished
at Scotland Yards, London, last year
in no fewer than 9,440 cases.
, According to the Hospital, London,
some English physicians are ordering
patients to eat oysters that have been
well soaked in sea water as a cure for
dyspepsia and tuberculosis.
As a weaver, nature is an exceeding
ly neat worker. Certain tree barks
and leaves furnish excellent cloth,
such as, for instance, the famous tapa
cloth used in the South Sea Islands.
In the vicinity of Concepción and
Taicahuano, Chile, there are more
than eighty million cubic meters of
soft coal of fair quality within au
area of eighty thousand square meters.
or about 30.7 square miles. The vein
is 3.5 meters, or about 11.5 feet, thick.
Excellent natural pottery is mana-
factured by nature in the case of a
certain cactus. Woodpeckers are apt
to excavate nests in the trunk am
branches, and, in order tnat it may
protect itself against these incursions,
the plant exudes a sticky juice, which
hardens, forming a woody lining to
the hole made by the birds. Event
ually the cactus dies and withers, but
the wooden bowl remains.
The congressional library is render
ing a great service not only to the
other libraries of this country, but to
those in Canada, Europe and Australia,
by Its catalogue division, by its com
pilation of rules governing cataloguing,
by Its classification methods, which
are being generally imitated, and by
its duplicate cards that now go to
one thousand libraries of this country.
Four million cards have gone during
the last year.
In 1801 there were in Europe only
twenty-two cities which had more than
100.000 Inhabitants. These were Lon
don, Dublin, Paris, Marseilles, Lyons,
Amsterdam, Berlin, Hamburg, Vienna,
Naples, ' Rome, Milan, Venice, Palermo,
Madrid, Barcelona,. Lisbon, St Peter
burg, Moscow, Warsaw, Copenhagen
and Constantinople. Two only of
these cities had more than 500,000
London, 950,000, and Paris, 600,000.
Naples came third, with 360,000, and
Vienna fourth, with 230,000.
At eighteen Mendelssohn produced
Midsummer Night's Dream"; Meyer
beer, "Jephtha's Daughter"; Schubert,
"Erl King"; Bach was court musician
at Weimar; Michael Angelo executed
his basso-rilievo of the "Battle of the
Centaurs"; Da Vinci's work was ac
knowledged by his master, Verochia,
as far surpassing hl3 own; Lope de
Vega, the Spanish -dramatist, and com
posed "Arcadia"; Savaqe produced
his first comedy, "Woman's a Riddle,"
and Shelley wrote "Queen Mab."
Hard Z.aclc.
Old Lady Poor man! What have
you done to your hand? Unemploy
able Broke my knuckles, mum, knock-
in' at people's doors askin' for work.
London Scraps.
Mrs. Henpeck Who were the three
wise men, Job? Mr. Henpeck Bach
elors. Life.
"My brother broke his leg yester
day." "Accidentally?" "We presume
so. He had nobody to spite." Kansas
City Journal.
"Here's a picture that my aunt
painted," said Mrs. Keephouse, show
ing a visitor through the flat. "It's a
pretty frame, though." Newark News.
Sapleigh The doctor says there's
something the matter wth my head.
Sharp You surely didn't pay a doc
tor to tell you that! Boston Tran
script "This advertisement savors of pessi
mism." "What's that?" "Gentleman
offers to exchange a Christmas present
for - something useful." Kansas City
Journal.
Bill I see a. man is trying to drift
across the A.ctic Circle. Where do
you suppose he'll bring up? Jill Oh,
on the lecture platform, probably.
Yonkers Statesman.
"Would you marry a woman who
had been divorced?" "Well, I don't
know. A good deal would depend on
what she had been doing wth her ali
mony." Chicago Record-Herald.
He So your husband has given up
smoking? It requires a pretty strong
will to ' accomplish that She Well,
I'd have you understand that' I have
a strong will. New Zealand Free
Lance.
The' Conversationalist (to well-
known authoress) I am so delighted
to meet you it was only the other
day I saw something of yours about
something or other in some paper!
Sketch.
"Did you have any assistance when
you made your appearance as a sing
er?" "Yes," answered the amateur
soloist "The're was a policeman keep
ing order in the gallery." Washing
ton Star.
The Lady Fare You can not cheat
me, my man. I haven't ridden in cabs
for twenty-five years for nothing. The
Cabby Haven't you, mum? Well,
you've done your best. New Zealand
Free Lance.
"I was nearly killed yesterday."
"What happened?" "I was having tea
in the garden when an airship passed
over wth one of those dldn't-know-you-were-underneath
fools ia it!" St
Louis Republic.
Mrs. Younglove John, are you
aware that you haven't kissed me for
a week? Mr. Younglove Y-yes, darl
ing. I was just waiting to see how
long it would take you to notice It
Boston Transcript
"Helen," said her mother, "if you
are naughty you can't go to heaven."
"Well," said Helen, "I can't expect to
go everywhere. I went to 'Uncle Tom's
Cabin' once, and to the circus twice."
The Housekeeper.
Sapleigh Bah Jove, you know, an
idea has occurred to me Mis
Pert (interrupting) Pardon me, Mr.
Sapleigh, isn't that more than a mere
occurrence? I should call It an event
Boston Transcript.
Her Father Yesterday I won the
prize in the lottery, and to-day you
come and ask me for my daughter'
hand. Suitor Yes, you know, one bit
of good luck always brings another.
Meggendorfer Blaetter.
First Chauffeur You're a bum driv
er, second Ditto say, wnat i Know,
about automobiles would fill a library.
First Chauffeur Yes, and what you
don't know , about 'em would fill a
morgue. The Club-Fellow.
Traveling Salesman Well, Mr. Ja-
bez, did you get in to see the Hudson-
Fulton celebration? Farmer Jabez
No; I didn't come nigh the place.
'cause d'ye know, I don't believe either
of 'em ever reached the pole! Puck.
Joynes I tell you. Singleton, you
don't know the joys and felicities of a
contented married life, the happy flight
of years, the long, restful calm of
Singelton How long have you been
married? Joynes Just a month.
Tit-Bits.
I am going to embark In some sort
of business, and want to know wheth
er you think there Is much money In
moving pictures?" "There was for a
fellow who moved a half-dozen of
ours," said tne nat aweiier. tie
chanted us $10." St. Louis Star.
"To-morrow will be my birthday,"
remarked the fair typewriter maid,
"and I'm going to take a day off."
"Huh!" sneered the bookkeeper, who
had loved and lost "why don't you
take five years off as you did the last
time you had a birthday?" Chicago
Daily News.
"Can I get the silver service for the
fire department?" inquired the young
man at the free library. "The what?"
asked the girl at the desk. "The sil
ver service for the fire department
the questions they ask you when you
take the silver service examinations,
you know." Newark Evening News.
Stubb What's the trouble, old chap?
You look angry enough to fight. Penn
Oh, I'm sizzling. It took me an hour
to button my wife's waist In the back,
and then I told her a Joke and she
laughed so much the buttons all flew
open. What's the use In telling a wom
an a Joke, anyhow 7 Chicago New.