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The St. Johns herald., 1896-07-25
Wonderful Arizona.

The following story was first printed in Sioux Falls, Dakota, Paper. The relator, MT. Allen of Tombstone. cer- tainly possesses very vivid imagin- ation. For an example of Concentrated lying, it takes the bun:
 Every one has heard ofthe petri6ed forest of Arizona," said T. A. Allen of Tombstone, "but few people are aware that there are springs in the territory where almost any object can be petri- fled. Frogs, Snakes, Hazards and other reptiles have ventured into some of these springs and turned to stone. Leaves, twigs and branches of trees have undergone the same process. But the most remarkable instance is that of a cattleman, who has the same name as myself. although no relation. He was in the habit of standing in one of these springs and bathing. He did th1s for some time, when he began to feel peculiar pains in his feet and ankles and he stopped, but the pains contin- ued. followed by numbness that never left him. He lost all control of mus cies of that part of his body, and it was but a few weeks until he realized that his feet had become petrifed, and for the past year he has been unable to walk. The rest of his body was some- what affected, but not so much so, as the water had not submerged him.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-07-25
Explaining It.
Washington Post 1

Washington Post.
 "Say, Mane," said Maud, as she bit off a tiny bit of chewing gum. 'I've been improving my mind again."
 ''Go way! You haven't"
 "Yes. have. I have been reading all about the convention. It's perfectly fascinating, too.'
 "Can you understand it?"
 ''Most of it I used to think a con- vention was stupid, but it isn't a bit. It's just like a gymnasium or riding q goat in an initiation, or something of that kIDd, you know"
 'How do they do ?"
 "Why. they bring out Q plank" "Yes."
 "And it's very wide and the candi- dates try to straddle it, and other peo- pie try to keep them from doing 80; and the side that wins gets the nomination. 1 don't know what it means, but that's the way it's done. for I saw it :n the paper"
The St. Johns herald., 1896-07-25
An Expensive Experiment.
[Phenix Republican.


 The bill passed through congress by Delegate Murphy by the conditions of which debt of fully one million dol lars is saddled upon the people of Arl- zona IS not pleasant for the taxpayers to contemplate.
 The people of Arizona are poor and it is difficult enough for them to pay the debts which they honestly owe without having million of dishonest debts made valid through the efforts of the man whose duty it was to protect the taxpayers.
 It was the business of Delegate Mur- phy to see that bills of this kind did not pass. It was his duty to look af- ter the interests of the people of the territory and not the interests of those whose chief aim is to rob the territory.
 The Republican does not care to say 1T told you so," but the election Of Murphy has turned out to be a very costly experiment. He has not secured a single thing for the benefit of the people at large. The legalizing of a million dollars of dishonest bonds. the passage of the school land lease bill and other masures of like character have occupied his full time
 It is lucky for Arizona that congress has adjourned.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-07-25

The Santa Fe Presc0tt& & Phenlx railway. with the Santa Fe route is the shortest and quickest route to Denver. Kansas City, St Louis, Chicago q all points east.
 The scenic Ii ie of Arizona. The best route 10 California. The only North and South line in Arizona 70 the Grand Canon of the Colorado, Petrified Forest, Great Pine Forest Cliff Dwell ings, Great Salt River Valley and other points of interest.
 Through tickets to ali points in the United States Canada and Mexico.
 All the comforts and conveliences Of Q first class road with superb eqni ment.
 No. 4makes connections at Ash Fork with A & r. vestibuled limited No. for the east. This is the finesttrain west of Chicago. No. connects with A. X P No from the west. Persons de string to stay over at Ash Fork will find the best of accomm odations at Fred Harvey hotel.
 No. makes close connections at Ash Fork with A, & P trains No. and 4. A. & P No. reaches San Francisco at 10:15 a. m. second morning.
 No and connects at Jerome Junction with trains of U, V. & P. Ky for Jerome,
 Connect at Prescott with stage ltnes for all principal mining camps: at Congress with stage fines for Harqua Hala Stanton and Yarnell; at Phoenix with the Phoenix & Maricopa Ky. for points ou the s. P. Ky,
 River valley. For information regarding this valley and the rich mining section tributary to this road address GEO. NJ SARGENT, G P. A. F. NJ. MURPHY, R. E. WELLS,
 Pres & Gen Man. Assist. Gen Man.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-07-25

AN exchange says it seems impossible for Mir Mckinley to acquire the habit of candid, fair and honest speech. Ina recent talk he spoke of the Democratic party as having destroyed business and confidence by free-trade policy" Mir. Mckinley knows that so far from having "free-trade policy" in force we have tariff averaging 42 per cent, which is 50 per cent higher than the original Morrill, war tariff, and quite as high, in the main, as the Republican tariff in operation from 1883 to 1890. A candidate for the Presidency, if he speaks at all. ought to stick to the facts.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-07-25

convention at Chicago, on the 7th inst
 Every incident was watched with inter-
 est, as everybody realized that the true representatives of the common people,
 and not the money power, were in the
 saddle.
 It is pleasing to note that those who
 cried for gold were in the insignificant
 minority and could not muster enough
 recruits to overcome the time-honored
 two-thirds majority. The golden cohe- rents of the Wall street fetish endeavored by every means dishonorable and tricky to stem the tide of public sentiment in favor of the whitc metal, but were turned down at every point and were forced perchance to have the bimetallic soup poured into them every time they opened their mouths, and they had to swallow it like Socrates taking the hemlock po-' ton that ended his life. The people are the doctors this yearA
 There is lesson to be deducted from the Chicago convention. It means that the people have finally awakened from their lethargy and the spirit of American independence has again asserted itself It tells of change in the seat of power and proves that the star of empire has indeed been moving westward while lag gards slept in the blind belief that hey were omnipotent. The heraldry of east ern arrogance and domination has been snatched from New York and planted in the west While Gulliver slept, the pig mys, so thought to be at least, have tied hlm down; the giant has been conquered and his peculiar power. by which he was wont to ride over all men, has been taken from him.
 Nor is this all. The unfair spirit of the east has been given such setback that it will feel the loss of it's prestige more keenlY than the mere vagaries of political preference would indicate. Caste, trade and supremacy must tumble. The idol totters and will tall from the pedestal upon which the votaries of Wall street had placed it. The golden calf erected by the followers of the single standard is shattered and the light that has broken in the east augurs much for the wesr, the return of prosperity, peace and plenty in this glorious land which the Lord God hath given us.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-07-25

We live in country of which the principle scourge is stomach-trouble.
 It is more widespread than any other disease, and, very nearly, mere dangerous.
 One thing that makes it so dangerous is that it Is so little understood.
 fit were better understood, it would be more feared, more easily cured. less universal than 1t is now.
 So, those who wish to be cured, take Shaker Digestive Cordial. because it goes to the root of the trouble as no other medicine does. The pure harm less curative herbs and plants. of which it is composed, are what render it so certain and, at the same time, so gentle a cure.
 It helps and strengthens the stom- ach, purifes ard tones up the system.
 Sold by druggists, price 10 cents 10 ,00 per bottle.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-07-25

Almost every conceivable :kind of a cause for law suit arises in the courts of this state, but at last we have a novelty. One member of a swell coast whist club said that another member could not play whist well. So member No. 2 sues No. for defamation of character, and asks for S299.99 damages. If the offending memker had trumped his partners trick or played, second hand high, or committed some other "bumble puppy" outrage, it might have been just cause for murder, but simple dec- laratiol, with some swear words mixed in. that man dosen't know how to play whist we'll ought not to call for law suit. Mighty few people do know how to play whist well.-Los Angeles Times.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-07-25
The Poorest Reporters.
-Journal.1


 Distinguished writers and statesmen do not always make good reporters for the daily press. The New York Morn ing Journal has demonstrated this by it's experiment of employing Richard Harding Davis to report the coronation at Moscow and ex-Senator Ingalls,, Henry George and Murat Halstead to discribe the St. Louls convention. Harding's story of the great fete was only an ordinary piece of descriptive writing; Ingalls, St. Louis effort was tame and spiritless beyond comparison, and Henry Georges contribution was notable only for it's presentation of his economic ideas. Field Marshal Hai- stead, the grizzIed hero of thirty-six years of Republican conven tions, evil dently didn't try. Poorer newspaper writing than these gifted men turned out could not be found in all the sIush that went out from St. Louis.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-07-25
Allowed That It Was so.
Boston Herald. l

All the defeated candidates and all the friends of the defeated candidates are perfectly delighted with the ticket, of course. Their feelings probably very much resemble those of the tenderfoot who Ventured into a barroom out in one of the mining camps once upon time. and, walking up to the bar, was asked what he would take.
 CA pousse cafe, if you please" was his polite response.
 "A what ?" said the astonished bar keeper.
 "A pousse cafe, if you please" re- peated the tenderfoot:
 "Young man," said the bar-keeper. ''you'll take whisky; just ordinary, plain whisky, and you'll drink it out of tin dipper. And you'll have to take it, too.
 And the young man allowed that it was so.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-07-25

Last summer one of our grand chill dren was sick with a severe bowel trouble. Our doctors remedies had failed, then we tried Chamberlain's Collie, Colera and Diarrhoea Remedy, which gave very speedy relief. We re- gard it as the best medicine ever put on the market for bowel omplaInt,-Mrs. E. G. Gregory, Fredrickstowu, Mo. This certainly is the best medicine ever put on the market far dysentery, summer complaint, collie and colera infaD tum in children. It never fails to give prompt rehef when used in reason able time and the plain printed diree- tions are followed. Many mothers have expressed their sincere gratitude for the cures it has effected. For sale by St. Johns Drug Co.,,
The St. Johns herald., 1896-07-25
IRRIGATION.
[Los Angeles Times.

[Los Angeles Times
 Should your moral nature waken And you suddenly be taken With wish to rise and join the holy band, Do not enter vour probation
 Till you're through with irrigation Have soaked and saturated all your arid land There is simply this about it.
 While your land can't do without it, The moral strains tremendous and intense; Besides mental irritation.
 Which's part of irrigatio 'Tis accomplished at youI souls expense One can see world of trouble Without looking at it double, But, sir, mortal man will never, never know Complete state of perturbation Till he's tried this irrigation, Tried to raise the water where the land is low You can run your furrows true. Still the water will break through, And you trot a mile to shovel ill the gap, 4s Spread before your observation The result of irrigation An expanse of water which would change the map.
 Then, in semi-savage mood. You use language which is rude Strain the third commandment as temper runs away,
 And you swear that irrigation Deserves mans exeeration, Was invented by the al t'increase his sway. You can say you won't be rattled, But when you've vainly battled With sixteen streams which each would run its way;
 You'll conclude that irrigation Entails your souls damnation, And you Il ask yourself the question, Does it pay?
 Then, periorce, you must conclude, Stead of trying to be good, When your moral force is put to such strain, To seek some new location, Where there is no irrigation, Where nature does her work with just plain rain
The St. Johns herald., 1896-07-25
CONVENTION AFTERMATH.

When the doctors of finance fall out it is time for the people to agree, and this is what they are going to do this year if there is anythingin the sign of the times. When the St. Louis convention met in June the programme was cut and dried in such an outrageous manner tt at it palled upon the senses of decent people and they expressed no uncertain indif- ference about the outcome. Not so, however, with the National Democratic
The St. Johns herald., 1896-07-25

WE have rece;ved sample of the latest campaign novelty in the shape of a Mckinley shirt front. While we are frequently pretty badly in need of a change for our tobacco-decorated shilt bosom, still we do not believe we can decorate our person with this gaudy dickey. With a red, white and blue necktie, we imagine wearer of the combination would produce @ startling Gansatiofn
The St. Johns herald., 1896-07-25

In one of the earliest trials before a colored jury in Texas, the twelve gentle men were told by the judge to ''retire and find their verdict" They went into the jury room, whence the opening and shutting of doors and other sounds of unusual commotion were presently heard. At last the jury came back into court, and the foreman announced We hab looked eyerywhar, judge, for dat yerdic'-in de drawers and behin' de doahs; but it ain't nowhar in dat blessed room."
The St. Johns herald., 1896-07-25
Too Good a Subject.
Gst. Louis Dispatch

"Gentlemen," said the professor of hypnOtism Tn an Oratoyica1 manner, ''you will observe that the subject be- fore IS has been in a deep hypnotic for seven days. But with few simple passes I will now restore him to full activity"
 But, despite the professors efforts, the subject slumbered on; nor did he awaken until the rush of spring trade was over.
 By fatal oversight the professor had selected a dry goods merchant who never advertised.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-07-25
GOLD STANDARD

The Republican party is unreservedly for sound money. 1t eau ed the enactment of the law providing for the resumption of specie payments in 1879 {; since then every dollar has been as good as gold. We are unalte-ably op- posed to every measure calculated to debase our currency or impair the credit of our country. We are, therefore, op- posed to the freecoinage of silver except by in ternational agreement with the leading con- mercial nations of the world, which we pledge ourselves to promote, and until such agree can be obtained, the existing gold stand ard must be preserved. All our silver and paper currency must be main- tained at parity with gold, and we favor all measures d. signed to maintain inviolably the obligations of the Uni ted States and all our money, whether coin or paper, at the present standard, the standard of the most enlightened nations of the earth.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-07-25
FREE SILVER.

We demand the free and unlimited coinage of both go d and silver at the present legal ratio of 16 to l, without wai;- ing for the aid or con sent of any other nation, We demand that the standard silver dollar shall be full legal ten- der, equally with gold, for all debts, public and
 private, and we favor such legislation as will prevent for the future the demonstration of any kind of legal tender money by private con- tract. We are opposed 10 the pOLlcy ana prac- tiee of surrendering to the holders of the Obli- gations of the United States the option reserv- ed by law to the Govern ment of redeeming such obligations in either sil- yer coin or gold coin. We are opposed to the is suing of interest bear ing bonds of the United States in time of peace and condemn tn traf- licking with banking syndicates. which in eX- change for bonds at an enormous profit to them selves, supply the Fed eral Treasury with gold to maintain the policy of gold monometalism.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-07-25
THE VITAL ISSUE.

We print below, in parallel columns, the two blanks in the Democratic and Republican platforms regarding the currency AS this is the principal and only real live issue before the people this year, we take this method of afording our readers a means of readily compar- ing the declarations made regarding the money question:
The St. Johns herald., 1896-07-25

THE platform of Silver Democracy de- clares for the free coinage of silver in terms that will not allow even those who through prejudice would desire to dis tort the construction to do so. Silver Democracy places men behind its plat form so true and sterling that gold bar ons of the world can not divert them in their purpose.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-07-25

ONE of the grounds on which Perry co. T.) physician secured divorce was that his wife loved poodle dogs better than she loved him, and the Chicago News thinks this Is probably the first instance of four-footed pup being made correspondent Tn divorce case.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-07-25

DoN H. KEDzIE, of the Lordsburg (N. M flies the following ticket at the head of his editorial column "For President, the Clean Shaved Man. For Vice Pres ident, the Man with Mustache."
The St. Johns herald., 1896-07-25

The ditch question it a very serious one. The only way to secure one's share of water seems to be to live at the head of the ditch and take it before anyone else gets chance, but as only limited number of ranchmen can do this, they are apt to be unpopular with their neighbors.-NeWS
The St. Johns herald., 1896-07-25
S TO LET.
Boston Transcript

[Bostou Transcript I have a castle would like To find a ten mt for; Iris roomy. airy full of light. Far from the city's roar. The view can nowhere equaled be, There's nothing to repair. With no expense to keep it up The ces le in inc air.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-07-25

HISTORY cannot repeat itself Some thing more than eight hundred years ago one Canute sat on the shore and bade the waves stand back. while the other day Chicago Judge asked law yer to shut up.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-07-25

An exchange says: In BIsbee, citizens are leaving town because the water is bad. It seems that in Bisbee they drink the water. They are getting al- together too effete in the camp and the fact that levers have come upon them, due to the water, would indicate that a judgment has befallen them for It.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-07-25
OUR STANDARD BEARERS. For President,
 VIM. J. BRYAN.
 Of Nebraska.
For Vice President, ARTHUR P. SEWALL
 Of Maine

"YoU shall not press this crown of tholns upon the brow of labor You shall not cruelty mankind upon a cross of gold !"-Bryan.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-07-25
SAhlA FE, PRESCOTT
 & PHGNIX HALLWAY.
NORTH BoUNr
SOUTH BOUND. 1

IN EFFECT JUNE 9th. 1896. Mountain Time is the Standard used
The St. Johns herald., 1896-07-25

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 Personally conducted Tourist Cars leave San Francisco every Wednesday and Los Angeles every Thursday running through to Kansas City, Chicago and Boston.
 Ask for beautifully illustrated book, which will be mailed free. DON A. SWEET,
 Gen. Passenger Agent, Albuquerque NM.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-07-25

convention at Chicago, on the 7th inst. Every incident was watched with inter- est, as everybody realized that the true of the common people, and not the money power, were in the
The St. Johns herald., 1896-07-25
HoIbrOok, St. Johns & Spring
 erVilIa Express.

DAVID K. UDALL, Proprietor.
 AGENTS.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-04-01
Passion of washington's Life.

Writing Of Washington great pas
sion, Sally Cary, in The Ladies' Home
journal, Mrs. Burton Harrison says
Apparently so riddled by the shafts
of the little god of love had been
the heart of Washington, the boy, that
it is hard to know how, after his signs
for the 'Lowland Beauty (Sally Cary,
and his repeated addresses to Miss Bet.
sey Fauntelroy, and his later sensibility
to the charms Of the very agreeable
young lady, afterward Mrs. Amber,
the passion for woman who never
might be his could have dominated him
as it did for so many years. But from
the evidence of his own letters the love
he had felt for the others was as water
unto wine beside the hopeless attach.
ment for his beautiful neighbor, Sally
Cary, that during this period threatened
to assume sovereign controup of his
ardent nature. Fortunately, thanks tc
time, to the lady's subsequent absence
in England with her husband, and,
above all, because it was made subject
to his own indomitable will, the feel
ing was subdued, and his marriage with
Mrs. Gusts ended the episode happily.
"The proofs are the enduring init
macy and confidence that existed between
Washington. his wife and every mem.
Der of the Belvoir family during their
respective lives. They may be read by
any student of the writings of Washing.
ton and will carry conviction in each
line y
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-04-01

The poet Emerson was never credited
with being handsome man, though
people who knew him saw in his face
his beautiful character and forgot to dis
criminate between him and his appear
ance. Years ago, when the "philoso-
piers were in camp at Follensbee pond,
In the Adirondacks, Emerson was one Of
the party, and his devotion to his stud
les and worthless writin" seemed to
several of the guides great waste Of
time, which might better have been
spent in hunting and fishing.
There was, however, guide, Steven
Martin, who became perhaps the most
noted that the Adirondacks ever pro-
duced, and who recognized in Emerson
something Of his real worth and upon
whom the poet made great impression.
"Steve," as he was familiarly called,
was an observing man, and the poets
physical defects, then undoubtedly more
prominent than in later years, did not
escape his eye, as may be seen from the
answer he gave to the question of the
writer Of this paragraph, "What kind Of
fellow was Emerson" "Waal. sir, ="
said the old guide, che was gentleman
every inch, as nice fellow as you ever
see; pleasant and kind, and scholar,
too, allus figgerin, studyin and writin;
but, sir, he was, believe, the all fired
est homeliest critter for his age that
ever came into these woods. Troy
Times