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The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-03-22
Religious Secrecy for Doomed Men

OTTAWA, ILL, March 15-Attorney- General Moloney has rendered decis- ion which establishes the right of a prisoner to privacy with his spiritual adviser at any and all proper times Hardy, the Rockford murderer, who is to be hanged Friday, asked that tho lo- cal Catholic priest be called in order that he might ma Ike his peace with God, but the sheriff demanded the right to be present in the cell, and the priest, according to the rules of the church, was unable to perform the canonieal rights He appealed to At torney-Genoral Moloney, who decided in favor of the prisoner,
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-03-22
An Easter Soug.
Sing a song of Easter,

t1ihb 1 oOhb Ot AIaotCi
 A song of happy hours, Of dashing spray, and shadow play, And lovely springing flowers, or birds come home again to build Beside the cottage caves, Of waking buds, and rushing floods, And dance of rustling leaves. Sing song of Easter,
 A song that means prayer, Of want and love to One above Who keeps His world in care: A song for all on this green earth, For dear ones passed away, Sing clear and strong the joyful song, The song of Easter day. Sing Q song Of Easter
 A song of pure delight, A song that starts in merry hearts, And swells from morn till night; An Easter song that children lift Without a jarring chord, That thrills afar from star to star, To praise the children's Lord.
 -Harper's Young People
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-03-22
Changes His Political Faith.

ROANOKE, Va, March 17-CoL J. Hamilton Hoge, who was appointed consul to Annoy, China, by President Cleveland, and removed while on his way to his post, at meeting of the republican central committee last night announced that henceforth he would act with the republicans
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-03-22
News from Congressman Wilson.

WASHINGTON, March TIA dispatch was received yesterday by Representa- tive Strauss, of New York city, from Representative Wilson as follows:
 GUADALAJAaA, Mex, March i6 Strength. sning slowly, Still in bed, w. l. WILsoM
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-03-22
An Iowa Liquor Biil Ruled,

DEs MONIES, Ia., March F. The Car. penter liquor bill was defeated in the senate to-day by vote of S6 to aa. The bill in the house was defeated by vote of 57 to AS.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-03-22
MR. WILSON RESPONDENT.

The Congressional Leader Affected by His
 Enfeebled Constitution.
 WASHINGTON, March la-Dispatches received here from the son of Repre- sentative Wilson, now in the City of Mexico, are far from reassuring as tc the condition of the latter. He is sui. fering from despondency induced by an enfeebled constitution.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-03-22

HERE was a night so strangely still No sound it's heavy hours m 1 g h | thrill;
 E 'en whispering nature seemed to be
 Dumb with un. told calamity.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-08-16

ernor of Ceylon something like hum
dred and fifty years ago. Anyhow, the
English took good care of him when
they came into possession of him and
the island, and most of the time since
then he has had park to live in. He
was pet of the children, and half a
dozen of them used to ride at time on
his huge back, He was not to be trifed
with, however, and seven men who
once tried to persuade him to visit a
show in Colombo found that, compared
to him, a piano is an easy thing to move.
In fact, they gave up trying to move
him at all, after a tussle in which the
turtle came out best.
Not long ago the British government
concluded to use for a dock the park in
which the old fellow had lived for a
century, and it was decided to remove
him to another park mile away from
the shore. He was carried to his new
residence, but he was evidently home
sick, and after a short illness he died.
This is pity, because people had be-
gun to think he would live forever.
The age of turtles is an interesting
problem. Some people have a mania
for turning every turtle they see upon
its back and carving their initials and
the date on its under side. The writer
once knew of turtle which crawled
about wearing this inscription: "Pon-
thus PLATE, B. c." That seemed a
very remarkable turtle, until somebody
called attention to the fact that time
was not reckoned "B. c." until long
after it ceased to be "B. c." Probably
the unfortunate turtle is still wearing
that lie on his belly, for it takes tur-
tie almost as long as a tree to outgrow
a cash from -IIarper's Young
People
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-08-16
WASTED MONEY.
The Appalling Yearly Outlay Upon Liquor
and Tobacco.

The Appalling Yearly Outlay Upon Liquor
and Tobacco.
Boy at head of the class, what are
we paying for liquor as nation?"
Mine hundred million dollars annu.
ally"
step to the blackboard, my boy.
First. take a rule and measure this sill
yer dollar. How thick is it?'
Nearly an eighth of an inch
well, sir, how many of them can
you pile in an inch?"
Between eight and nine"
''Give it the benefit of the doubt and
call it nine. How many inches would
it require to pile up these 5000, OOO, OOO?'
Zone hundred million inches
How many feet would that be-"
Eight million three hundred and
thirty-three thousand three hundred
and thirty-three feet
How many rods is tHat?"
Five hundred and five thousand and
fifty rods"
How many miles is that?'
cone thousand five hundred and seven.
ty-eight miles"
Miles of what?"
cone thousand five hundred and sew
enty-eight miles of silver dollars laid
down, packed closely together our ma
tional liquor bill would make"
Now add the 5000, 900, 900 we are pay
ing for tobacco annually to the liquor
miles of silver dollars, which is two
thirds as much, or 1852, and we have
1852 miles OF silver dollars packed
closely together for our nations one
years grog and tobacco bill. Let these
same silver dollars be laid fiat, touching
edge to edge, and they would make a
continuous ring around the earth
Reader, if You need facts about this
question, nail that to post and read it
occasionally. 1t would take a small
army of men with scoop shovels to
throw away money as fast as we are
wasting it for grog and tobacco.-Anti-
TobocrO Gem.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-08-16
BITS AND BREVITlES.

ONE THOUSAND carloads of pocket
TASKS for liquor were used in Cincin
natl last year.
Mr.. OTTO LANG found that eighty
eight per cent. of the crimes committed
in Zurich We're due to drink
In Great Britain and Ireland there
are nearly twenty thousand juvenile
temperance societies of one kind and
another, with an estimated member
ship of two million six hundred and
forty-four thousand young people
IN connection with the sanitation of
armies thousands of experiments with
large bodies of men show that they
are better able to endure the fatigue of
hard marches when not allowed any
alcohol at all.
A CONVENTION composed of the repre-
sentatives of the rulers of Great Brit,
ain, Germany, Belgium. Denmark,
France and the Netherlands, first gath
cred at The Hague, November Is, 1887,
to consider the means of remedying the
evils of the drink traffic among the fish
ermen in the North sea. As result
has been forbidden. and later conven-
tions in February, 1898, and April, 1894,
ratified the orders.
ELIZABETH WRIGHT and May Muir
ply, twelve and thirteen years of age,
were convicted at Glasgow southern
police court of having been drunk and
incapable, riotous and disorderly in
Bedford street. One of them, it was
mentioned. was so drunk that she had
| to be carried to the Office. Capt Don.
! aid said little girls were to be seen roll.
ing about the streets dead drunk in
! that locality every Saturday evening.
The prosecution gave the accused nc
apparent concern. They seemed to re.
gard it as gS d fun, and Police Judge
Martin said they evidently thought
they were in circus instead OF. police
court.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-08-16
Where He Belonged.

The witness on the stand was one of
the kind who finds it convenient not to
know anything and it made the court
hot.
WAS it at eight or nine o'clock that
you saw the prisoner" asked the attor-
ney.
Il don't know" replied the witness
promptly.
80, don't you? Well, was it at the
first OF the second house from the cor
PERI"
81 don't know"
"Was the man with him short or
tall?"
Il don't know"
Didn't the men go across the street
after standing in front of the house for
few minutes?'
Il doa't know"
Here, interrupted the judge, VINO
had formerly been a newspaper man,
''I'n rired of that sort of thing; take
the witness off the stand and hold him
to serve on a jury. Detroit Free Press,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-08-16

and put my forefinger under her breast,
lifting very gently. The ruse worked
in moment she fluttered up lightly
and perched upon my finger
walked carefully to the lamp at the
other end of the room, and there we all
stood looking at our tiny visitor, our
big faces within foot of her.
She was perfectly self-possessed.
Cooking her little head to one side, she
returned our stare from an eye so tiny
as to be barely visible, and kept her
of an hour before she decided to explore
the room more fully.
We determined to take her picture.
We got out the camera. marked a spot
on the yeS0-whitened wall and focused.
Then l gently caught Ia chnparoSa, who
at once cheerfully resumed her perch
on my finger.
1t was a contrast which struck even
the child-my squat, hard hand, rough
and rope-burned with the breaking of
savage bronco, unfolding that tiniest,
tenderest and loveliest of all the feath-
cred world.
Here was a sitter whose head could
not clamp, and to whom l could not
say: Now look pleasant" but never
was artist more concerned than | about
a pose.
The flash-lamp refused to work, and
we had to burn the magnesium powder
on a paper, with many struggles.
There was strong probability that our
puzzled sitter would fly away, or turn
the back of her head to us, or in some
other way spoil the desired effect. But
just as the flash went off, she was
watching us out of corner of her eye,
and the magic glass caught the very
image we wished.
In the morning 1 took our little
guest out into a field breast-high with
the purple guaco. She poised an in
slant on my hand, and then flew off as
blithely as if she had been all her life
used to sitting for her photography
F. Lummis, in Youths Companion.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-08-16

.;,1 often reach tGmax in criminal
~ ;or. Drink is more than an accumu-
ton of venom in the systems of men;
lsooner or later it creates fangs.
4 When children do not inherit the
Taste for alcohol from their drinking
parents they vet reveal the effects in
(solne mental or moral perversion.
0 Says DR.. Grenier, of Paris: alcohol
has come to be social question. 1t is
one of the most active agents in the de-
generacy of races. The indelible eff
fects produced by heredity are not to
be remedied. The morbid influence of
parents is maximum when conception
has taken place at the time of drunk
enness of one or both parties. Those
with hereditary alcoholism show ten
denotes to excess; half of them become
alcoholics"
DIR. Baer, of Germany, affirms: THE
injury of drunkenness to family life
can not be reckoned, but daily eXpe-
rience teaches that nothing disturbs
family life as much: the hovs fall into
idleness, slothfulness, az, nnally crime;
the girls become the booty of prostitu-
| ton"
Among the startling facts concerning
crime is its growth among women.
The proportion of criminals among
women used to be exceedingly small,
| but there has been a rapid increase
within the last decade. This is due to
| the inheritance of alcoholized blood.
| Even where parents are not drunkardS,
but moderate drinkers, the cumulative
effect is likely to manifest itself in some
abnormality of children.
| Steadily and persistently the work is
| going on. A criminal family will die out
in from three to five generations, but
the ranks of crime are renewed con
stantly from alcoholic sources.
This current of depravity is fed
from new rills of drink, which
flow increasingly. SO the dangers
from the alcohol vice rise up and con-
front us on every side. 1t is astound-
ing that men who claim to be intelli'
gent, and who have certain knowledge
of the facts, are so uncertain in their
conceptions of duty concerning this
evil.
There is no question which car
weight the scale with the liquor ques
ton, whether examined from the re
ligious, social, or scientific standpoint
Every interest of mankind is pledged
by the instinct of self-preservation tc
become the foe of alcohol as the worst
form which evil has thus far assumed
in the history of the human race.-M
C. Lockwood, D. D., in the Voice.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-08-16
THE TINY CHUPAROSA.
Smallest Creature Which Ever Sat to B
Photographed.

| Smallest Creature Which Ever Sat to Be
Photographed.
In years of wandering through the
remoter corners of the southwest, my
camera and have iolted over hundreds
of thousands of miles, on trains, en-
gines, hand-cars; in sulkies, buck
| boards, farm wagons and clumsy car
retaS; on mules, on horses, on burros,
on foot.
We have Caught" the savage dances
| of half-known Indians with living rat
+ tlesnakes in their hands and mouths;
the crucifxion of a fanatic, and the in
conceivable self-tortures of his flagel-
liant brethren; witches and bewitched;
and a thousand other remarkable
sights.
After all this, the smallest and prct-
tiest object on which we ever focused
our joint attention came to us only the
other day.
We had been revealing for the twelfth
time in the wonders OF high-perched
Acoma, the strangest little city in the
world, amid whose peerless cliffs one
never wearies of picture-making. Com
ing down to its daughter pueblo Of
Laguna, was passing the evening in
one of the rare GASES of New Mexico,
trying to talk queries to 5eep-eyed
two-year-old Laguna maiden.
In the midst of our chatter there
came curious buzzing, and my little
Indian friend began 10 clap her hands
at something which was whirring along
the ri1ds of the roof
1t was humming hird-the tiny chup-
drOSG, which my aboriginal neighbors
declare has been nearer than any other
creature to the sun. In the mythical
Contest of Wings, the turley-buzzard
flew higher that the eagle, but lost the
race because the sly chupNosa had all
the time been perched on the turkey
buzzard's head, and so had been higher
than he!
This little visitor, who had come by
the open door into the light and laugh
ter so late at night, was female of the
tiniest species of humming bird, not
nearly so large as the two first joints
of my finger. Her exquisite brown
plumage was almost as small as butter
flies feathers; she was notified under
the throat, and iridescent with emerald
on head and neck.
Weary of beating her translucent
wings against the walls, she alighted
upon the top of cupboard. stole up
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-08-16
SHE WANTED REVENGE.
She Wanted Her Photograph to Use 1t as
Club Upon Her Friend.

She Wanted Her Photograph to Use 1t as 8
Club Upon Her Friend.
''Got boat?" she brusquely demanded
of Detroit photographer, as she
walked in the other day.
''Yes'm.''
"And fish pole?'
"Yes'm.'
And painted screen for a back.
ground?'
''Yes'm''
''Look like Cape May?"
sit does"
"Can you get good-loolling young
man to sit on the boat with me?''
Il can"
"Then want six photos"
''Yes'm. Doyou go to the seashOre
this summer?'
Nav! Dads busted in business, and
we've got to take cheap board on a
farm. | want the photos just the same.
you know. Want EN- to send to girl
friend who is sick and can't get any
where, this summer. She'll think I'm
dow@g -. sdfl right"
so of an illusion. eh?'
Sort O. revenge, rather. We were
down there last season and she stole
my summer young may away. l want
to make her believe I've got him back.
Hurry up with the Teller. and tell him
he can sit with one arm around me and
his mustache touching my ear!"-De-
troit Free Press
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-08-16
TWO CENTURIES OLD.
Story of Turtle Which Died Recently on
the Island of Ceylon.

Story of Turtle Which Died Recently on
tho Island of CeyIon.
There died few days ago at Colon
DO, in Ceylon, famous resident who
had reached the very great age of at
least two hundred years. The figure
is put at two hundred, because nobody
knowns exactly what it is. He him
self was never heard to say a word
about it, or indeed about anything else,
but during the whole of his long life
contented himself with wild hiss now
and then at people and things that did
not suit him. This was a rare example
of total abstinence, because he heard
three or four languages spoken nearly
every day of his life. There is, first.
the language Of the natives of Ceylon,
who are kinsmen of the Malays. Then
there are the many Dutch, who live at
Colombo because their ancestors once
ruled in the island for century or
more. Finally there are the English,
who now own Ceylon and pretty nearly
everything in 1t, including all that is
left of this Oldest resident. He was al
ready old when the English took Cey-
Ion from the Dutch in 1896, and he has
ever since been a sort of pensioner on
the Brisish government.
His silence of two hundred years was
not the only curious thing about this
aged resident Of Colombo. His skele-
ton was on the outside. 1t was stuffed
soon after his death, and is now one of
the principal attractions in the museum
of the city where he was so well
known.
As you have already guessed, this old
fellow was a turtle, and his portrait
appears above. He seems to have been
conscious all along of the dignity of
his name, which was IeStudO elephan-
t0oriS the second half Of it being given
in honor of the fact that he was an ele-
plant among turtles His immediate
family is very small-so small that few
of his relatives survive him, and it is
thought these will die out in a COM
parative short time. Even now the
family lives in only one spot on the globe
-Aldabra island, north OF Madagascar.
Formerly there were a great many of
these Testudos, and trading vessels in
Ile lHuldA ocedh uSeu W Id III d SUOch
of them in order that the crew might
be sure of having fresh meat should
scurvy break out on board.
The turtle that has just died was one
of the largest of his family, and his
shell was four and a half feet long, but
when his head and tail We're unfolded
from his she'll he was fully six feet
long. 1t was said that he was sent
from Java as present to Dutch gov
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-08-16
FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.
ANSWERED.

Give us this day our daily bread"
In humble trust we pray;
Then do not idly fold our hands
And with assurance say:
" As ravens in the olden time
The hungry prophet fed,
SO We shall have our wants supplied
For G50 Will give US bread"
Oh mol not so the answer comes
God never willed it so;
The earth must first receive the seed
Before the grain can grow;
Then watered by the rain of heaven
And nurtured by the sun,
The blade springs up; and in that blade
The answer is begun.
When harvest comes, the ripened grain
In golden sheaves is bound;
Then gathered In, and threshed and cleaned
And in the mills Is ground.
By busy hands, in myriad homes.
The fresh, brown loaves are made;
This is the bread" and this the day"
For which. long since, we prayed.
Mrs NJ. A. Heller. in N. Y. Independent
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-08-16

Jones' Hul-lO, Handley, old boyf
Haven't seen you for an age! Come
along and have drink.
Total Stranger turning round)-Un-
fortunately I'm not Handley, but-er-
(wistfully)-might have his drink
Buffalo Express.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-08-16

Miss Richgirl (of Chicago)-And SO
you kissed the Barney stone at the
Columbian exposition? IIa! ha! 1t was
nothing but Chicago paving stone.
Mr.. Smartchapp-So heard at the
time, but thought perhaps you might
have walked on it.
Then she married HMM. Y Weekly.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-08-16
TEMPERANCE NOTES
A HAPPY DAY

we hau some words together.
Me and Las, on that day
flr know d he'd git to drinl,in'
An had to hey my say.
bul ne wa IT more n out of ear-sbo,
"neh dropped into cheer,
Al the mex thing remember
was Wipin of tear.
tur 1 couldn't help a-tbiul,in,
HOW kind he Used to be:
But now he loved his lik5er
heap sight more then me-.
Ihere wa mt better huSban'
Ihen him, above the groun'
Until he got to stoppin in
10 that saloon in town.
How well could remembe
The day when we was w
He put his arm around IN
An kissed me, an he -
We're Jined together uSie'
fur sickness an fur'aiUn'
Fur better or fur -YusF
Fur poverty or Ven
My shoulders thedr broader
Then yournIl esr be:
30 al your cdTtS-H 49,
Jest let EN- fal on me.
An when your tired an ary'
Or faelin softer blaze,
Come lean ag'in' my shoulder,
An let me comfort you.
Al me- Our better days was gone,
An now, it seemed to me,
iva Mt nothin' else but "wusser",
. An wouldn't never be.
fTT6 t1f1dren played together,
Or tusSled on the floor,
But Jest Sot an fretted,
An worried more an more
Fur Las. he had took jug
When he was putin out,
An soon he'd be a-comin' home
Half-drUnk l didn't doubt
An So my tears come faster,
To think SIGN things should be,
An all LIES cares an burdens
Seemed falling onto me.
At last ! heard him comm
But didn move nor speak
When I felt an arm slipped round me-
An kiss fell on my cheek.
An 'LiaS, he was saying
His voice seemed fur away
Don cry so bitter. Ailsie,
l signed the pledge to-day.
You said this mornin', AilSie,
You wished that you was dead;
An happiness WIS over
Fur you an me. you said.
An 50 got to thinkin',
Suppose your wish come true?
An Ailsie dear, it staggered me
TO thiall of losin' you.
AN so l tool, the money
Id meant to waste to-day,
An bought IA Sunday frock fur you,
All throwed the jug away.
1 bought some little trinketS
To please the children, too;
So dry your tears, dear AilSie,
Al wen begin anew"
1 don't know what l answered.
MY head was in whirl;
But I h2dn t been so happy,
Not since l was girl
Long Years hey passed above US,
We're Citing old an gray,
But LAS has kept faithful
The pledge he signed that day.
-Demorest's Magazine
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-08-16

Mrs. Robinson-O, you brute!
Mr. Robinson-What's the matter
now. dear?
Mrs. R.-Here I've been hunting high
and low for my bathing suit and you're
using it for pen wiper. Oh. =
Truth
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-08-16
Afraid to Show Them,

Little Brother-Nomatter how warm
it is, Mrs. De Fashion always wears
gloves.
Little Sister-Poor thing! Mebby she
used to take in scrubbing for living
and her hands are red yet.-Good News,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-08-16

There's one thing about me that
l don't understand" said Tommy,
thoughtfully, and that's why it is
that making marks on wall paper is
such lots of fun and making 'em in
copy books in school Is such hard
work. Toronto Mail.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-08-16

Van P.lt-You wouldn't marry the
best man living, wonld you?
Miss Sears-Um-now, really this Ia
10 sudden.-zN. Y. World.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-08-16

Smithers-Aldine says he's just awak-
ened to the true comforts of married
life.
Withers-Yes, his wife left town day
before yesterday.-Ch Chicago Record
Der fortschritt. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1891-1915, 1894-08-09
3meiter b.
1. &apitel.
Nie e

Die Jamtlienebre.
Mbba mar auf ben 8e ill4 bes baron
porberettet, tie empfing ibn NIT einem
Bid, in benz elm parmes lebbaf ties
SntereKe fi4 1piegelte, mas fir i'm
nur 1dmei@elbaft ietn tonnte.
&altenberg itellte i'm Dor als ieinen
b e1ten 6reunb, ben ct na9 LANCER
Srennung bier tpieber9efunoen babe,
obne 3iererei Bot Nboa benz Baron
bic 9anb uno Tub i'm Elm plaB gu
nebmen.
Sie tannt. iein i&0nes @ut @4lanz
genital, lie bate audi ieinen Watsr
getannt, Der @toF CUR unter5altung
mar lofort gefunoen. 5rieorl4 bon
3altenberg ourfte f4 in3mil4en nit
ben Mbums be14dftigen, bic ouf benz
Slid la9en.
Die lebbafte lnterbaltung ber 8eiz
ben, bk all9ema4 einen pertrauli4en
Mnitri@ er9ielt, g:fsl ibm teinespe9s,
bos Snterei1e Z, bos aus ben 1ont 10
rubigen 3iigen leines 5reunbss 1praA,