The Arizona sentinel., 1899-08-12

vegetables can be grown earlier than anywhere else in the United States"
 B'gosh, he does stagger near the truth occasionally! But then he bears about the same relation to the truth as does the devil to holy water, and the farther he holds aloof the more self-confdent and voluble he is. Here is an ex- qulsite little paragraph:
 "But no one lives in Yuma for the fun there is in it. Every man is here
 because he makes money by it, and every. woman and child because tbeir
 provider is here and they cannot con- veniently live elsewhere"
 Of course no one lives here or any where else simply for the fun there is in it, but since they do live here they can have lots of fun. The only reason
 people live in Kansas City is because
 the are ignorant of the existence of such fair land as we possess. Then
 Yuma must be pretty good place if everybody in it makes money, and that they do the Kansas City galoot
 ayers, and who could doubt such re. liable information! In one place our author says all the inhabitants go away in summer and in another place
 he contradicts himself by saying that Hundreds have lived here each sum-
 mer for years, and have no more to say about few days of temperature at 103 and I04 in the shade than eastern people do when the mercury in their thermometers raises to S0." That is pretty good advertisement for the salubrity of our climate, but consistency is a jewel conspicuous by it's absence around Kansas City re- porters.
 Right here while we think about it we wish to refute one of the most pal pablo islanders of this article. In re- ference to clothing he clothes most of the inhabitants in gee string and a coat of tan, but the lie we wish to nail is the one in which he asserts "biled" shirts are unknown and 8 stand-up collar an abomination. The writer hereof has worn a "stand-up" collar all summer, and has not wilted 8 single one. Writing this article is an unusually warm job, because when one comes in contact with such an array of ignorant lies in which his town and people are slandered it makes him warm under the collar, but he sits in his den here in the mii- dle of the afternoon with high col lar on and attempts to daily with a real warm baby from Kansas City.
 The gentleman takes fall out of the prison and paints in lurid lan- guage the sufferings of the convicts from the intense heat. Why, God bless your sweet soul, he has seen them standing before the iron grat- ings and panting like Hazard! He has the prisoners confined in cells cut into the solid adamant, but makes no of how they are supplied with air. Hold McDuffl There's prisoner standing at the door of his cell gasping for breath! Gee whiz out that's terrible!
 We have only space enough for one more paragraph and then we must eave the poor author to himself and St. Peter. Turn on the electric fan and read:
 "On most summer days here there s scarcely breath of air stirring any where, and from early dawn until sunset there is a constant downpour- ing of sunshine. When a wind comes ID from off the deserts, air is almost and even the people of Yuma go in their adobe house and shut the door to avoid the air that blows upon the whole town as hot as lir that comes from the furnace room of 8 foundry. The fierce sunshine causes inflammation of the eyes. Every )ne does as much work here as pos ible in the evening or early morning, before the sun has got in his best l efforts, and there is little or no un- necessary movement about town in midday. 1 have seen mining and | ivil engineers carry bits of carpet to ay under their shoes while at work, o keep the sun-baked adobe from listering the soles of their feet. Rail- oad brakemen wear leathern mittens 0 that they may handle coupling Lnks and coupling pins. Window anes are unbearably hot"
 Well, dadblame it all, he's gone and again! Hurry up with the salts, and a little more ice ater, quick! His eyes are again in- amed - likewise his imagination. yonder if those mining and civil en- neers used Brussels carpet to place nder their feet? Thy were probably 'me high-toned "experts" who had andeled out here from Kansas City Id were too proud and pretty to have leir tootsie wootsies come in con- ct with old Mother Earth. Leath- n mittens are plain enough. He F lls IlC nh of Lind nf m ttn,r thn rn;I S