Arizona daily citizen. (Tucson, Ariz. Territory [i.e. Ariz.]) 1884-1901, 1901-01-10
Leaves From
a Reporters Book.

Inc sunshine cluD IS QeaQ--QeaQef
than the p:ovefbial door nail. 1t was a
peaceful death withal, weeped over by
the gentle rain and mourned by the
winds which blew the storm clouds over
the sunny sky. There was no fearful
valedictory at its last meeting, no sad
parting never to meet again, only an
unexpected dissolution due to too much
rain, too much mud and too little sun
shine. Those who participated in the
pleasures which men find in chatting
each other, and dispassionate:y picking
flaws in everything in Gods creation
will mourn its loss with something OF
the doubtful consolation which many
find in thinking how wicked thing it
might have come to be had it grown up
There will be some who now and then
cast an enyious glance over the fence
| while it was in session, who will rejoice in
it's misfortune. for there are those who
find displeasure in anything which they
cannot themselves enjoy; but whether
they rejoice or whether they sorrow is
of little consequence to the club which
hath travelled into those realms OF which
men know nothing and hope every
thing. ~
If I were to die, dream over my
pipe-I never think upon the subject
unless the genial tobacco has rubbed off
the rough doubts which cling to thoughts
Of death--I would prefer TO die in the
| harness as the club has done. There
was never thought of the impending
| doom up to its last moments-it Just
went out like the electric lights some
times do and never came back. There
might have been hint of dissolution,
however, in the quality of the joke
which the thin man perpetrated as he
looked over the fence. A young lady
was passing, the disparity between
whose slender shoulders and well
rounded hips marked another of mans
kindly assistance of the forgetful Dame
Nature.
''That girl reminds me of room in
the insane asylum" he said noting the
iliy-proportioned woman. "She's pad
ded SELL"
A sariegated round of excavation
greeted this.
"Why don't you marry her then, -
snorted the tall man. "You need one
to take care OF you"
Didn't mean any harm, gentlemen, y
said the thin man hambly. That re-
minds me of Jones, seeing that girl.
Jones never could judge woman and
got his heart broken by several whom
he idealized and then found lacking.
IL got to he Jest among the fellows, his
| inability to see flaws as flaws and Jones
carefully herded to save what was
left Of his finer susceptiblities. One
oight while at party F. and / went
out to smoke and found Jones doing the
turn OF "Iover's Lane in the garden with
his arm around girl who was about
equal parts girl and pln npers.
F. stopped short at the sight and
pulled viciously at his cigarette for a
| moment. Turuing to me with gesture
OF intense disgust he growled out:
There goes Jones again hugging one
of. his delusions.'
Say" said the brake twister xho
| was next" in the line of eligibles, 81
saw funny thing ON the last run in.
We had just finished dinner and / was
| clearing away the stuff. There was a
piece OF Yuma Vienna bread at the
table and took it out and threw it off
the end of the caboose. 1t struck
about twelve feet from the car in the
middle of the track and started to roll.
I watched the thing rolling along and it
gained on the train until the last | saw
OF it was running along under the
trucks. We were going forty miles an
| hour and i tried to figure out how long
it would be before itcame out from under
the pilot
! The members looked at him with
something OF pity. He noted the CLAN
ces and it "riled" him, and put him on
his mettle.
eyes" he continued, "and when we
got up to the yards looked under the
caboose and saw the Vienna bread stand
ing in the middle of the track waiting
for us to 60 on. found it on examina-
ton, only little worn on the edges.
I'm going to send it to the shop and
have new tires set on It,"
| At this triumph of audacity the
others merely took of their hats in
| silence. They we're bluffed. The brake
twister grinned cheerfully.
"When was in Ell Paso," began the
thin man meekly, but furry of rain
drops cut him short and the club ad-
ljourned indoors. That ended the meet
ing and as it was the last we shall never
learn perhaps what happened to the
thin man in. Ell Paso.
A Prominent Chicago Woman Speaks.
Prof. Roxa Tyler, of Chicago, vice.
president Illinois Woman's Alliance, in
speaking of Chamberlain's Cough Rem
edy, says: suffered with severe cold
this winter which threatened to run
into pneumonia. tried different rem