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Cash quotations were as follows Flour was firm; winter patents, $4.2Od4. 40; straights $3.2O@41O; clears, $3 OO@3 80; spring specials, s4.75; patents, $9 6OG4 20; straights, s3.20@370; bakers, $2. 4o(D3.0O. No spring wheat, S3@S5c; No. ? red, S91hc No corn, 42190D424c No. ? yellow, 425sp43c No. oats, 26@261sc; No. white, 271a@2Saic; No. white 27A02SAc. Good feeding bar ley, -; fair to choice mating, - No. 1 flax seed, $1.S0 No. 1 northwestern, $1.S0. Mess pork, per barrel, $11. 55d1270; lard, per 100 pounds, S6.95@7071s; short rib sides, loose, S.0067.30 dry salted shoulders, box ed, 6A@7c; short clear sides, boxed, $50Q 760. Whisky, on basis of hikh wines, per gallon, $1.23. Sugars-Cut loaf, $64S; gran ulated s592; confectioners' A, s5SS; off A. $5.7 Clover-Contract grade $500. On the produce exchange today the butter market was firm; creamery, 14d19c; dairy, 13d1612c. Cheese was steady at S1aQ912c. Eggs Fresh were firm at 101ac.
 Metal Markets
 New York, June 23.-The brokers price for lead was s 609sS. .65; for copper S16.25; ir,tr-
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LOCAL MARKETS.

local Cotton Market Good middling, S7sc. Middling, SAC. Strict low middling, SEC. Low middling, 7Bc.
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Tho Iron Mar'rat. Birmingham, June 23.-The following are
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New York, June 23.-The brokers price for lead was s9 6O9sS.65; for copper S16. 25 casting copper, $15.
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The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1900-07-20

Public events that have come home
with peculiar force to the people of
this nation seem to call for "A repet ton
Of the homely aphorism, Honesty is
the best policy" If there were no
Christian religion, If thou shalt not
steal" had never been Inscribed in holy
writ, the truth would still hold good
that the risk of dishonesty Is out of all
proportion to any possible gain. 1t is
said that most newspaper men are pes
simists-that they are, as class, cruel
and unfeeling. There may he some
thing in the charge. Their work bring
them in contact with so much that is
insincere, with so much of misery, with
so much of crime, that, unless they be
broad enough to understand that their
lives are narrow, they are prone to
think the world Is made up of these
things. But the newspaper man usually
learns early that honesty is the best
policy Almost daily he comes in con
tact with the hardship. the disgrace
and the misery that follow dishonesty
almost as surely as night follows the
setting sun. A trusted employee sudden
ly resigns" and when the reporter
comes to look into the facts he finds a
sOrrOwful employer, a crushed and pen
itent ex-emplOye and family. half
crazed with grief that is worse than
death. lmplorng that nothing be print
ed of the matter. Nothing appears about
In, fhf. ,,fa lt1t bn
man, "short in his accounts never re-
covers from the blow A building as
ISOLATION or bank has been looted by
its managers, a commercial enterprise
has been wrecked by dishonest prac-
tees, in almost any of the cases that
occur, always comes the same stagger-
ing load of sorrow and shame. We are
in the world to gain as much of happi-
ness as we can. Let any one look among
those he knows best and ask himself
who. among them. are the happy ones.
Invariably he finds them to be the ones
that have lived the best lives according
to the Christian code of marals.
Whether they be rich or poor seems to
make little difference in the sum OF
happiness they are able to extract from
life If their records be clean. if they
have nothing to be ashamed of, If they
possess the proud consciousness that
they have accomplished good I'm the
world. If they have the confidence and
respect OF those that know them. riches
beyond a comfortable competence can
make little difference in their happi.
ness.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1900-07-20
HOW SHE WON FATHER.
The Old Man Was Amused at Her
Little Deceit.

The Old Man Was Amused at Her
Little Deceit.
This Piety hill family is rich, intiuen-
tlal and free from the weaknesses Of
the parvenu. The daughter in quest on
has an admirer who pleases her. But
she is the only one in the whole dOmes-
tic circle who is under the spe of his
attractions He is a fine fellow, perhaps
a bit too fine for he has some very old
fashioned ideas and lives up to them.
The other day she had battle to have
him with them for dinner, says the De
trOit Free Press.
They had just begun to enjoy the
soup when he turned to the father and
eifusively thanked him for a picture re-
celved as birthday present. 1t was as
dainty and pretty piece of work as he
had seen In long while, and it was
particularly welcome from her father.
All but one of his hearers, father in
cluded. looked stunned. He cleared his
throat and. while sparring for time.
caught the eye of the favorite daughter.
1t was shining, knowing, and command
ing.
"Ah. yes, yes; glad you liked It," And
the head of the house deliberately
burned himself with the soup.
What was it?" And the mother
lowered the temperature of the room
until the more timid Shivered
Il presume it was water color"
said the daughter. hurriedly. Some
thing pastoral, no doubt. George likes
such things Dark frame of course"
Guessed it the first time" smiled the
father.
1T was so good Of you" murmured
the visitor.
You darling old pOpsy,' she whisper
ed after dinner. Il knew you'd under
stand We never show him any kind
ness. so just went down and bought
that picture and enclosed your card.
Isn't he grateful?'
1t tickled the old gentleman. He felt
important and like a protector. Before
the family separated for bed he made
an emphatic announcement that the
daughter should marry any one she
wanted to and he would allow no inter.
ference.
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silver maple WOOD. bearing the natural
bark, and Its ornament consisted OF
'nree heavy gold bands, or rings, en-
clrciing the shaft at equal distances.
what made it remarkable was the
seI-eyident fact that the bands had
Deen put on when the branch from
"nich the handle was made was part
OF living tree, and much smaller in
diameter. The wood had grown
through and around the combining
metal and bulged out at either side.
producing an odd and striking effect.
II TOOK me four years to get the ma
terial ready for this umbrella handle"
salu the proud owner. Il live in the
suburbs of st Louis and have several
nne maple trees on the premises. In
1915 the Idea occurred to me, and
had Jeweler make me these three
rings which l slipped over small
branch and tied at the proper distance
with cords. had to select very di-
mlnutve branch, because otherwise
the twigs would have prevented the
rings from going on, and | picked out
PANe'S HiSn up so IL would be out
OF the way Of pilferers. Then [ wait
ed patiently for nature to clinch the
bands by process of growth. said
nothing about the experiment, and the
family often wondered why in the
world l climbed that tree so often.
am a travelling man, and whenever |
returned from the road l would lose no
time in taking a look at my prospec-
tive umbrella handle. 1t was slow
work, however, and the fall of 1897
had rolled around before l finally cut
the branch. Then l turned it over 10
an expert, who kept it ten months
longer, seasoning and polishing it, ana
bending the upper end into the crook.
which was done by process of steam
ing. The result is what you see. I
am convinced it is the only thing of its
kind in the world, and take good care
to keep it away from umbrella
thieves. New Orleans Times-Demo-
crat,
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1900-07-20
YOUNG VANDERBILT TO WE'D.
His Bride-to-Be, Elsie French, Is of an
Ancient Family.

His Bride-to-Be, Elsie French, Is of an
Ancient Family.
An important society event at some
still undeterminate date will lie tie
marriage of Alfred Gwynne Wander
bit, head Of the Vanderbilt mill. ons.
and Miss Elsie French, whose engage
ment was recently announced.
Young Vanderbilt was born in 1877
and graduated from Yale in 1888. He
was making tour of the world and
had reached Japan when his father
died. Returning home, he found that
his father had passed by his eldest son.
Cornelius j., and had left the entire
fortune of $1OO,OOOO0O to himself. Very
generously, however, Alfred Gwynne
disregarded this arrangement and turn
ed over some 100000 to his brother
This action was noble one a faml ~
feud over the distribution Of the Van
derbilt interests would inevitably have
affected many innocent persons who
were interested in Vanderbilt proper
ties. 1t seemed proper AMI co. rect
enough to settle all dispute by giving
away a kings ransom, but how many
young men are there just out Of college
who could have done it so quickly and
so gracefully. Alfred Gwynne is "A mod
est young man and is said to have in
herited the Vanderbilt genius for
finance
Young Vanderbilt inherited the Van
derbilt millions in accordance w tn tn
traditions of the fam ly. At tie yea h
of Old Commodore Vanderbilt the
founder of the family the bulk Of his
fortune passed to his son. Will am II.
Vanderbilt, who was said to have in
herited about $75,OOO,OOO at the age OF
80.
When William II. Vanderbilt d ed he
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1900-07-20

at the court house elevators waiting
to be carried up to the several court
rooms remind one that it is domestic
scandal day, and if anything else is
wanted to convince one of that fact. a
glance at the excited faces will fur
nish evidence. 1t is pulling and haul
ing to secure the most available seats.
and when they are secured these faces
say. Now, ring up the curtain"
Meanwhile and during the lulls a
woman may be seen plying her knit
ting needles, and man here and there
scanning faces as If trying to make a
selection for wlfe-his third of
fourth, more or less. So the divorce
court is place not only where matri.
monial ties are severed, but also where
they are originated.
Whether men are, on the whole.
more manly than women are womanlv
has always been an open question. but
II is true. according to the records of
the divorce courts, not only in Chica-
so, but everywhere else. that the aver
age man will bear about every indig-
nifty before he will face the publicity
of divorce trial. 1t is equally true
that nearly all men will avoid making
the charge of faithlessness if some.
thing else can be used to secure the
desired end. He has a thousand times
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1900-07-20

lures find the supreme heights Of their
hearts delight in pathetic, in brutal
and in coldly Indifferent rec.tals OF the
mlsfortunes Of husbands and wives.
A study Of the faces Of the habi-
tues of divorce courts is likely to make
one believe that the process Of evolu-
ton has been reversed in them, and
that they are grinding at the mills of
involution, the grist of which is
hearts that are happiest when misery,
disappointment and cruelty are haul
ing others to and fro in the slough of
social and domestic slime and filth.
Such habitues are mostly women
women who have no interest there eX-
cept to feed their minds upon the stor-
les that fall from the witness stand.
Perhaps so, and perhaps not, many OF
them belong to the ranks of the legally
separated, but If their facial express
sion, either in repose or in expectancy,
indicates anything, II says they do be-
long there, and even the casual student
of human nature would be constrained
to congratulate their late matrimonial
partners on their escape from such
barbarians.
Every Saturday morning the crowds
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1900-07-20
DIVORCE CASES DRAW
CURIOUS CROWDS FLOCK TO
CHICAGO COURTROOMS.
All Sorts of Types Ranged in Exhibit
fiOn-Busybodies Prominent Among
Visitors-Stern and Gentle Sexes Have
Their Own Fancies and FoibIes.

When Moses was building up sys-
tenn Of laws for the government Of his
people he decided that it should be law
full for a man to write his wife bill
OF divorce and send her out of his
house II she proved to be disappointing,
but he made no provisions for the wife
to shut the door against the husband.
But customs as well as laws have I'M
dergone a radical change since Moses
time. The rule in these degenerate days
is to recognize the fact that woman has
reached about as great a distance from
the jungle as man has, and another
fact is made clear that four women
undertake to send their husbands ont
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1900-07-20

Massachusetts, 5,562 are residents OF
the State and Ss.37 per cent. are resi-
dents of the North Atlantic division.
The colleges in Oregon draw 99.S7 per
cent. of their students from the Pacific
coast and 5000 come from tie State. 1t
is safe to assume that most Of these
students would have to do without
collegiate education were it not for the
small colleges in Oregon. The report
Of the University of Michigan excel
lently illustrates the truth of DR. But
ler's contention. Although the Unver-
sity of Michigan draws from all the
world. yet of its 3447 students 1908
are reported as residents Of the State.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1900-07-20

left the bulk of his fortune to his eldest
son. Cornelius, who inherited o. t
$50 100000 at the age of ~. And now
Alfred Gwynne has inherited Sl00.OOO.-
600 from his father, the latter cutting
off the elder son because Of the latters
marriage. which displeased the father
His bride-to-be is a daughter Of the
late Ormond French, who was tenth in
descent from Edward French, one OF
the founders of Ipswich, Mass. in 1886
She is an heiress in her own right and
is an athletic young woman. with
fondness for sailing, riding swimming
and tennis. She was a playmate of her
future husband in her childhood and is
81 years old.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1900-07-20

In his monograph prepared for the
educational exhibit of the United States
at the Paris exposition Prof. Nicholas
Murray Butler feels called upon to JUS
tify the multiplicity OF small colleges
which is often the subject of foreign
criticism. There are 4I2 and he ad-
mits that the number is euorOmus and
that many are small and weak and i'll
endowed and that the criticisms
against the existence of many are JUS
tilted. Yet he says il should not be for
gotten that almost any college exerts
a helpful influence upon the life of its
locality. The fact is frequently over
looked that all American colleges de-
Jend for their student attendance in
large measure upon the residents of
their own immediate neighborhood.
Few draw from the nation at large,
and even in these few the greater num-
Der of the students are from within the
institutions own State or the limits Of
their own section Of the country. For
example, Of the 1886 students attend
ing colleges in the North Atlantic divi-
sion of the United States 26.393. or
e4.41 per cent. are residents Of the
States included in that division. OF
the $3.50 students in the colleges OF
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greater horror of the public knowing
that he has been fooled" than n wa,
man mas for her husbands faithless-
ness. The science of social economv
shows that to be true Still. there ore
EXCEPTIONS OF course. which are to no
expected as long as man and vo-
man are to be found here and tboro
who do not hesitate to break nm tbo,r
marriage relations deliberately a,d
purposely. "Iu
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1900-07-20

All the momentary indications to the
contrary Notwithstanding, we venture
the assertion with great confidence
that never We're character and a good
name of as much value as business as
sets as they are to-day. Time was
when by change of environment and
the formation of new connections a
business man who had kept within the
Revised Statutes to the extent of keep
ing out of Jail could balance the record
OF his past and open II new account
with fortune. This is becoming in
creasingly difficult The very perfect
machinery of investigation maintained
by the commercial agencies. supple
mented by the even more searching
analysis OF the associations of manu-
facturers, merchants and financial in
stitutions formed for mutual infOrma-
ton and protection, give the man with
a shady past or II record clouded by
wrongdoing very little chance to es-
cape recognition, however disguised.
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GREW HIS UMBRELLA sroov

Infinite Pains of a St. Ion,
slowed Upon Maple sapiing.
a guest Of one Of the principal hotels
yes.eIoay exhibited a curious and
oeauurui umbrella handle to nart,
OF admiring friends. 1t was a cro p' % y
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1900-07-20

Word comes from Texas that a cy-
clone recently picked up girl carried
her half a mile and put her down
without even a bruise. Texas cyclones
have now done nearly everything but
hatch out eggs and churn the butter.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1900-07-20

Prince Alexis Dolgoroukoff has been
in this country investigating the stand
ing OF American capitalists for the
Russian government. If he limited his
researches to n consideration of the
tax lists he found that American CAPT
talists are generally very poor lot
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1900-07-20

An Italian opera company is reported
to have been wiped out by yellow fever
in Brazil but some mean people will
probably claim that the chorus died
of old age.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1900-07-20

The latest thing in railway inven-
tons Is a cigar-shaped train. 1t is
being puffed by some of the scientific
Journals.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1900-07-20

"Bobs' is still the way the English
papers refer to Lord Roberts, although
they confess he's made bigger name
for himself.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1900-07-20

There Is a movement on foot to or
ganize a banana trust II will require
no Supreme Court to take the hide Off
that
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1900-07-20

A cycle path for wheelmen mar be
considered "A good thing on the side.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1900-07-20

There Is bound to be reaction
against the present popular form of
action, with It's dueling duchesses. gam
bling princesses and abnormally ar
dent lovers The realists will have
their day and we shall know just how
Evelina felt when she went to market
in the morning. and just how the car
rots and cabbages We're arranged in
the grocer's window. There is much
to be said for these still water come
dies, and even the relation between the
hOusekeeper and her grocer is full OF
psychological subtlcties. For the gro
Ger knows exactly what his customers
standard Of crispness. both in life and
in lettuce, is, and just what degree Of
wiltedness Il will be possible for her
to endure. 1t is time that the world
realized that the eternal love theme is
not the only legitimate subject for
novels All Of the lanes of life are not
lovers lanes with the altar and orange
blossoms at the end of them. There
are some pretty sequestered paths
where platonic friends love to wander
and where all sorts of lofty relation
ships are formed. II would be crafty
ing to many readers should the novel
lists take TO these paths when in pur-
suit Of subject matter.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1900-07-20

At last all is made clear. He is called
the unspeakable Turk because money
talks.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1900-07-20

A contemporary asks in an editorial
headline "Were our ancestors blackT
Some OF their deeds were-very.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1900-07-20
Hear Cases on satnrdays.

The Chicago courts, says the ChrOn-
icle, devote Saturdays to hearing di-
vorce cases, and the mills of these judi
cial gods go at very rapid rate, but
not carelessly or with Indifference.
Doubtless very many peOpe will be
amazed when told that 5000 divorces
are granted every year hy tie Oh cage
courts. and as they hear such cases
only one day in the week it is found
that after deducting holidays the week
~ average is great. 1t is ascertained.
too, that four-hfths of the petitions are
filed by women. and nine-tenths Of the
charges are drunkenness, cruel t.eat-
ment and abandonment.
Nearly all men applicants for divorce
make charges against their wives I'M
der the guise of 'incompatibility.
Only occasionally, except in cases Of
abandonment. does a defendant let the
case 90 against him or her by default
There seems to be a streak in the ma
ture of such people that forces them
to wind up their matrimonial relations
by filnging mud, so that the other one
shall go out into the world besmirched
with suspicion and branded with let
tiers that spell vicious "devilish,"
"beastly" 'fiendish." When such cases
are on the boards the crowd of specta-
tors is always large, for the play deals
only in perfdy, hypocrisy. falsehood,
mud-hinging, cussedness and human
depravity.
1t is said that some men and more
women are afflicted with a mania to
attend funerals, and that it matters lit
tie to them whether it be a funeral Of a
friend, an acquaintance or a stranger
1t Is enough for them to know that II
Is a funeral, and that they are I'm IT.
and enjoying the pleasure Of the
mournful occasion. But however much
Il funeral may charm some people, one
must go to a divorce court when facts
which should not be voiced in public
are being told.
There the article that gladdens the
heart of such people most is given ou
kaw and by wholesale. There these vul
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of the house to one man who tries the
game. And because the one will not
move out at the bidding of the other
the strong arm of the law is appealed
to to expedite the going.
Nor are the ethics of tearing matri-
monial ties into tatters considered n
whit more seriously at this day than
they were thousands OF years ago. In
fact it was not very much of an ethical
question then, nor is it now. Then it
was wife ownership by the husband,
and to-day, according to the secular
laws. the relation between husband
and wife Is largely one of dissOluble
partnership by petition by either one of
the parties in interest to judicial au-
thority. The judicial autho .ity orde. S
that the partnership be continued or
dissolved. and when the court has
spoken its decree is enduring if the dis
solution Of the partnership is com
handed but if not the belligerSnts
surely will continue the la tie in an
other judicial ring.
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Some people go through life looking
as II they were sorry they had ever
started
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1900-07-20

Nothing succeeds like the success OK
a man who has a political pull
The Coconino sun., 1900-11-10
THE COCONINO SUN.

To remove troublesome corn or buniOn: First soak the corn or bunion in warm water to soften it, then pare it down as closely as possible without drawing blood and apply Chamber lain's Pain Balm twice daily, rubbing vigorously for five minutes at each ap- plication. A corn plaster should be worn for few days to protect it from the shoe. As a general liniment for sprains, bruises, ameness and rheuma- tism Pain Balm is unequaled. For sale by Pioneer Drug Store.
The Coconino sun., 1900-11-10
Reading Room.

The public reading room, with lunch counter in the rear, is now open to the public. It is the hope of those having the matter in charge that it will be freely patronized. The room will be open from a. m. to l0:30 p. m. Walter Beeson has charge of the reading room and lunch counter. The location is central-east side of San Francisco street. half block north of the rail- road depot The room has been fresh- ened up with paint and paper. and there is already good supply of read ing matter in the shape of magazines and daily and weekly papers. Suit able games. also. will be provided at an early date. Drop in and see the place. and then if you think it is q good thing for the town and ought to be supported, leave your name and the amount of your subscription at the Arizona Central Bank.