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The Coconino sun., 1908-03-12

A Nebraska woman sewed her husband between two blankets and belabored him with rolling pin until he agreed to sign a temper ance lodge. We rather suspect that is one variety of prohibition likely to actually prohibit.
The Coconino sun., 1908-03-12

Even when Congress shall have restored the mott) Tn God We Trust" on the $20 gold pieces. how many of US can swear from our own knowledge that it ever was taken off.
The Coconino sun., 1908-03-12

The Illinois man who left a thou sand empty whisky jugs as his mon ument was evidently a believer in departed spirits"
The Coconino sun., 1908-03-12

The advance fashion notes indi- cate that women's sailor hats this summer will not be so wide but that two of them can occupy the sidewalk at the same time.
The Coconino sun., 1908-03-12

The fool killer ought to find something to do in the Kentucky legislature, where republican was elected to the United States senate when the democrats had a majority of the members.
The Coconino sun., 1908-03-12

Now that it has narrowed down to Taft and Hughes. the country is safe for four years from March 4. 1909.
The Coconino sun., 1908-03-12

Mir. Hearst takes himself enthu- siastically and the rest of the coun- try takes him with calmness. We ought to get at the bottom of the Independence League by the end of this campaign.
The Coconino sun., 1908-03-12

Sailors in the Peruvian Navy beat our joke in an international beat race. Looks like an exchange of courtesies.
The Coconino sun., 1908-03-12
Card of Thanks

desire to thank the people of Cliffs and Flagstaff for their kind ness to me during the illness and death of my dear wife.
 -F,Aix Lovel.
The Coconino sun., 1908-03-12

If we can get the Chinese to- fighting the Japs the yellow peril will not be so perilous.
The Coconino sun., 1908-03-12

Another monkey has been dined by nuriber of its near relatives in Newport.
The Coconino sun., 1908-03-12

Senator Hale estimates the cost of our new navy at $l.2OO, 900. .O)O and to think that it is already near ly obsolete!
The Coconino sun., 1908-03-12
COFFEE

Three-quarters of coffee is such that we can't touch it; we make five grades of the top quarter.
 Your grocer returns your nom If you don't liks Sehfllins's Best; we pay him
The Coconino sun., 1908-03-12

Arizona has S534. 9S2 in her treas urey at present, being gain of Sl00,0 0O0 a year for the past two years. Never before in her history has the Territory been SO prosperous as now, from the viewpoint of the Territorial treasurer.
The Coconino sun., 1908-03-12

Issued every Thursday. Subscription price two dollars year. in advance. Every paper 8 stopped at 10 expiration Of the time paid for
The Coconino sun., 1908-03-12

The average Presidential boom is nondirigible and keeps hitting against things.
The Coconino sun., 1908-03-12
The Gocnnino &mu.

Entered in the Postofnee at Fiagstan as second
 class matter,
The Coconino sun., 1908-03-12

Your grocst returns your money If you dent Mks Sehillines Best; we pay him.
The Coconino sun., 1908-03-12

THURSDAY. MARCH l2, 1908
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LODGE DIRECTORY
IouNTAN LoDGE. No. la X. oF D.

Meets in Elks Hall csrry Mrjnesdny nigh Visiting knights are cordially ihyitrd tn aitrfi
 JoHN J. WrTH FRow C J. A. WILSON. K of R and N and M. of r. JOHN MARSHALL. N r.
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COURT COCONINO NO. ssG INDFPENl- V kNr ORDER or fpRESrEks.
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Meets first and third TncsaN~ in re"i l',nib in Elks Hall. Nisitlnl members i"' '.-f to attend the Court meetings.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-03-06

The admiral had two years of very
hard campaigning in China and the
Philippines, and it was he who COM
manded the navy relief expedition dur.
ing the Boxer troubles. 1t was during
the Sampson-Schley controversy that
he called on Schley one day and in the
course of conversation about the dis
pute then on remarked, isn't there
glory enough for all?"
The phrase in slightly altered form
was embodied by Schley in his report
and in that way it soon afterward be-
came famous.
Rear Admiral George w. Melville
and Rear Admiral Bowman II. Mccall
la, who have both been drawn into the
discussion over the condition Of the
navy and the organization of the navy
department, have had more than the
average number of stirring adventures
in the course of their long careers.
Both are now on the retired list. Adj
miral Melville is siXty-nine, and Ad-
miral McCalla will in a short time be
sixty-fdur.
Melville who recently urged the pur-
chase by America of the captured flag
of the American frigate Chesapeake,
made brilliant record in the civil war
and in 1879 sailed with De Long on the
Jeanette in the i'll fated arctic expedi-
ton. He commanded the boats crew
which escaped from the Lena delta.
and later he led the expeditions which
recovered the bodies of De Long and
his companions. Admiral Melville was
quoted by President Roosevelt in his
letter regarding the Rixey- -Brownson
episode and the command of the hos
pital ship Relief. Question having
arisen as to where he stood in the
navy controversy. Admiral Melville sent
a letter to New York paper, in which
he said that in public address in 1899
he finished his oation in the following
words:
ssThe navy of the United States in
its personnel and its material. man for
man. ton for ton and gun for gun. has
not its superior on the face of the
globe"
In his recent letter he declared
''This was my opinion at that time
and have never had reason to chanss
my opinion. Notwithstanding all th3
newspaper reports to the contrary"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-03-06

ting at the time in one of the pews Of
this church-"the clearing house for
sorrows" as they call 1t in Boston.
The rector. Rev. DR.. Elwood Worces-
ter, acknowledged that he had OBJ
tanned from Dr. Mitchell many of the
ideas which he and his associate have
put in practice in Boston and which
have now extended to other cities, for
besides being a noted author DR..
Mitchell is eminent as physician
and especially as neurologist.
Though an authority on how to treat
other peoples nervous troubles, his
own nerves once got the best of him.
He was in Austria at the time, and he
consulted the most eminent nerve spe-
cialst in Vienna. The foreign physi-
clan noted that he was an American
and asked from what city he came.
Learning that DR.. Mitchell lived in
Philadelphia. he exclaimed. "You
come to Vienna to be cured of a nerve
trouble when you live in Philade-
phia?"
"Why not?' asked the physician-au-
thor.
because" was the reply, you have
in Philadelphia the greatest and most
famous nerve specialist in the world
Dr. S. Weir Mitchell"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-03-06
The CANDIDATE (
Tribute of Minnesota Political 0p.
pOnent, HE Has Nerve and N
Tact; He Is Not Aggres.
siye. but Firm" 4

help support his mother. the Minnesota
correspondent continues:
'As governor johnson has done very
well. There really isn't very much for
a governor to do except be decent and
sensible, address public gatherings and
represent the state on public occasions.
johnson has done all this with credit.
He has appointed good men to office,
been sane and reasonable, kept ont of
trouble and from taking extreme posi-
tions. The state is very proud of him
and. think, has right to be. He has
nerve and tact. He is not aggressive,
but he is firm"
This from a political opponent is
deemed a candid view of the man who
twice has been elected governor of
Minnesota strongly Republican state,
on the Democratic ticket. Governor
Johnson's first election may be explain
ed by the sad error of his opponents in
circulating the poorhouse story and that
about his mother taking in washing.
When the voters of the state discovered
NAot ihO NOlheu HIS way
up from the bottom of things, and not
only that, but had supported his mother
and several other little Johnsons, they
elected him governor, the Republican
party being split open to begin with. His
second election appears to have result
ed from his good record as an exec
utive in addition to the story of his
early career. Somebody once asked
Governor Johnson what he had done in
his office to make the people re-elect
him.
81 only tried to make good,o he re-
piled.
Governor Johnson is forty-six years
of age and native of the town where
until three years ago he ran the St.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-03-06

CHARLES NJ GAVIN. form unions with
titled foreigners. A bill to this effect
was introduced not long ago by Repre-
sentative SABBATH. also of Chicago. and
in speaking On it Mr.. McGavin said he
wondered if the pioneers of the coun-
try did not turn over in their graves at
the spectacle of so many of the wom-
en- of this country sacrificing their
souls and honor on the altar of snob-
berry and vice" The house at the
time was in committee of the whole
on the state of the Union, and Mr.. Nc
Gavin thought it was opportune to in
quire into the general tendency to-
ward unions" Finding that the bill
of Representative SABBATH had been re-
ferred to the committee on ways and
means because it proposed to levy a
tax, Mr.. McGavin continued:
I was curious to know whether the
present tariff schedules included dukes
earls, lords and counts, and, finding that
these things were nowhere mentioned. I
thought that it might be proper for the
customs officer to classify them like frogs
legs or as poultry, for it is the general
opinion among Americans that they are
a species of geese.
We upon this side of the house have in
recent years referred triumphantly to the
fact that rs between this and other nations
the balance of trade was in our favor
but nowhere in the summary can be found
a reference to such trades as these, where
soiled and frayed hobility is exchanged
for few million American dollars wrung
from the lambs of Wall street, with wo-
man thrown in ito boot"
There was time when wealthy Amer
leans travelling in Europe were contented
with buying costly fabrics and paintings
by old masters of whom they knew moth
ing, but now they want something even
more costly, but less valuable. So when
the wealthy girls travelling with their par
ents abroad see some remnant of royalty
they enthusiastically eXclaim, "Oh, mann
ma, buy me that" An interpreter is OBJ
tained, the bargain is made, and the
money is produced, and the girl is gone,
soon TO return sadder but wiser one.
Mr.. McGavin was born in Illinois
thirty-four years ago. is Republican
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-03-06
NHE era of travel under the Hud-

M son river has come at last. 1t
means much to the country at
large as well as New York
city and its environs. Manhattan Is
land is now joined by underground
railways with Long Island on the east
and the New Jersey shore on the west.
Distance is annihilated. Electric trains
can whiz through the tubes laid under
the waters over which great steam
Bhips ply, and whether the waves run
high and the storms rage or fogs en-
danger navigation it is all the same to
the tunnel traveller. One hundred feet
beneath the surface of the rushing wa
ters the elements can no longer inter-
fsre with tie schedules of Transports
ton.
Recognizing the general public inter-
est that would be taken in the opening
Of the twin tubes from Hoboken to
New York on Feb. %, the officials of
the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad
company decided to invite President
Roosevelt to press the electric button
which should furnish the impulse for
the starting Of the first trains, and
they planned by way of further signal
izing the event a dramatic meeting be-
tween the governors of New York and
New Jersey under the bed of the no
bic Hudson and midway between the
opposite shores. Thus the honor of Off
cially declaring the tunnel open fell to
these two executives, Charles E.
Hughes. representing the Empire State,
and Franklin Fort, representing New
Jersey.
The so called McAdoo tunnels pierce
the earth beneath the North river to
the south of the tunnels which are be-
ing bored by the Pennsylvania rail-
road. The part of the McAdoo route
now complete consists of twin tube
tunnel extending from Hoboken to
Sixth avenue and Nineteenth street,
New York, distance of nearly three
miles. This section of the tunnel syS-
TEN is generally spoken of as the Nor
ton street or uptown tubes. The down
town tubes run from Jersey City to
the great terminal station at Cortland
and Fulton streets, Manhattan bor-
ough. The south or downtown tubes
will be completed some time during
the coming summer. On the New Jer-
sey side between the terminal at Ho-
boken and that at Jersey City trans
verse tunnel has been constructed. 1t
taps all the trunk and local transpor-
tation lines on the Jersey shore and
serves as feeder to the underriver
tubes. Passengers on any of the roads
whose stations on the Jersey shore are
in proximity to the transverse tunnel
may reach New York by the under
ground route now in readiness. AT
present they can only go to uptown
New York by the McAdoo system, but
six months or so hence they will be
able to travel under the river to the
downtown section also Besides the
routes described, the McAdoo system
of railways underground and under
river includes branch running from
Jersey City to Newark aud a spur
running from Sixth avenue. New York
under Ninth street to Nstor place. con
Meeting with the Interborcugh com
pany's subway at that station The
Newark branch is partly underground
and partly above the surface Tle en-
tire system embraces about eighteen
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-03-06
His Dissertation.

In the English club at Hongkong a
white haired old gentleman who had
come down from some northern port
was seated at dinner when he sudden
ly became very excited. He had been
brought a letter by solemn faced
Chinese butler, and he saw something
on the outside of this letter which sent
him downstairs two steps at a time to
Interview the hall porter. When he
came back he told us what was the
matter The hall porter had inscribed
CO the envelope in Chinese for the in
formation of the butler:
This is for the old balloon with
white fur"
Unfortunately for the hall porter, the
old gentleman was first class scholar
IN the Chinese language.-London
Mail.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-03-06

flee for country. His statue presents
an interesting contrast to that of Mac
Monnies. Neither had any portrait OF
Hale upon which to work, for none
exists. They had to be guided by the
descriptions Of the hero which have
been handed down and by their own
conceptions of his appearance and ex.
preston. Each statue has its special
admirers. Hale was twenty-one at the
time of his cruel death. Perhaps he
seems more boyish in the statue by
MacMonnes. Partridge has succeeded
well in expressing in the features of
his Hale the patriotic fervor of the
young enthusiast in the cause of the
new nation and his athletic qualities.
The hero was about six feet tall and
could put his hand on a fence as high
ms his head and clear 1t with a bound.
The spot on the Yale campus where he
made the famous jump that marked
him as the best all around athlete of
the college was shown for years after
his time. He Is said to have possessed
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-03-06
No 81
A CLEVER BURGLAR.
How He Fooled Man Who Thougi,t
He Couldn't BE Robbed.


He Couldn't Be Robbed.
"B. z. Hutchinson used to say no
burglar ever could get into his house
without waking him." said central
station detective the other day, accord
Ing to the Chicago Record Herald, "but
1t remained for Chief Simon ODonnell
to put one over the famous trader.
"You know, Mr.. Hutchinson was fa-
nous in Chicagos commercial life
years ago and was known popularity as
old Hutch He prided himself on the
fact that burglars never had got into
his house and often boasted Of the
fact to his intimates. One day while he
was at lunch with Chief O'Donnell and
a number of other friends the COM
pany fell to discussing a crime that
had been committed the night before.
"T'd like to see anybody get into my
house. Mr.. Hutchinson said. why. I
hear every tick of the clock all night
"I'll bet you dinner for this
crowd said the chief. that l can pro-
duce man who will enter your house
and you will not know of his visit till
morning
'Mr. Hutchinson accepted the wager,
and it was agreed that he was to let
the chief have latchkey, so that the
burglar could get in without being dis
turbed by some patrolman. Mr.. Hutch
inson also agreed to leave some article
of value in the 0arlor where it could
be found readily. The chief said the
robbery would be committed within
the following week.
''Three days later Mr. Hutchinson
awoke in the morning and discovered
that both sheets of his bed, which had
been in place when he retired, were
gone. SO was little antique clock he
had left on the mantel He hurriedly
dressed and FASTENED after breakfast
TO the chiefs office. ,O'Donnell saw him
coming and, as he entered the office.
greeted him with:
"NIr. Hutchinson. have two sheets
and clock that belong to you. We
will have the dinner today
''rhe burglary was done by former
criminal who at the time had reform
ed. He did the job at the request of
the chief How did he get the under
sheet? He rolled Mr.. Hutchinson over.
rolled the sheet after him and then
rolled him back"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-03-06
FREAK OF THE TIDES.
At the Mouth of ST. John River, Where
Water Flows Up Hill.

At the Mouth of ST. John River, Where
Water Flows Up Hill.
Speaking of freaks of the tide, there
Is nothing in this world to equal the
phenomenon at the mouth of the st.
John river, where water flows up hill
and down twice daily. These revers.
Ing falls are in class by themselves
In the worlds natural curiosities.
The rise of the tide in the bay of
Fundy. which ranges up to sixty feet.
averages at st. John harbor twenty
eight or thirty feet.
At the mouth of the st. John river
the great body Of water is forced
through a deep and narrow gorge. On
the one side of this gorge the harbor
opens; above it the st. John river.
nearly 500 miles long, stretches away
into the province of Quebec.
When the tide in the bay of Fundy
Is on the flow, the waters rise with
such rapidity that the level in the har-
Dor becomes in less than an hour con-
siderably higher than the level In the
river
The water is forced through tho
gorge at such a rate that 1t literally
falls up into the river, the height Of
this fall reaching at times fourteen
feet. So great is the area of the river.
so great is the amount of water rising
in the harbor and so narrow is the
gorge that it would take hours longer
than the interval of any tide to bring
the river level up to that of the harbor
at high water. -
AS consequence. after the tide has
turned and is on the ebb In the barbor
the level is still so much higher than
the riventhat the tide in the river con-
tinues to rise for two or three hours
the water still falling upward.
The same force works in the dow
After the water in the harbor has
fallen until the level in the harbor and
in the river are the same the fall
downward begins. During the next
few hours the harbor recedes until the
drop from the river to the harbor Is as
much as sixteen or seventeen feet at
the very lowest tide Once more the
tide turns inward and comes up quick
ly, but over three hours eapsef before
| it is sufficiently high to counteract the
downward flow from the river
At half tide there is a period Of
something less than an hour when
navigation is impossible. = Boston
! Globe
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-03-06
ANIMAL ODDITIES.

The Australian water lizard walks
erect.
The tree frogs Of South America sing
as musically as birds.
Sheep in time of famine eat the wool
from one another's backs.
Gamecocks sometimes take to catch
ing mice, which they devour greedily.
An eagle can live twenty-eight days
without food, while a condor Is said
to be easily able to fast for forty days
A decapitated snail kept in a moist
place will, 1t Is claimed, in few weeks
grow new head quite as serviceable
and good looking as that which was
taken away.
The chameleon's eyes are situated in
bony sockets projecting from the head.
BY this curious contrivance the pecuI-
lar little animal can see in any direc.
ton without the slightest motion save
of the eve
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-03-06

ENTRANCE TO TUNNEL FROM NEW YORK
SIDE.
ed. Each train as it proceeds acts as
piston. forcing the air ahead of it and
drawing it more as it moves ON. Appa-
ratus for artificial ventilation has been
installed for use in emergencies like
the blowing out of fuse=to clear the
tunnel quickly of smoke.
At the downtown terminus of the
tunnel a great structure known as the
Hudson Terminal building is almost
completed, and beneath it trains COM
ing into lower New York from Jersey
City will discharge their passengers.
There are two sections of the building,
Dey street running between them, and
together they comprise what is said to
be the largest office building in the
world, with thirty-nine fast running
elevators, all sorts of conveniences for
the public and offices providing room
for 10000 people, small city in itself.
Looking into the tunnel now open to
uptown New York one sees extending
out under the river from the vaulted
archways of the station itself two bril-
liantly lighted tubes dwindling as they
vanish in perspective until they resem-
BILE most the points of polished nee
dies. Though the effect is subterra-
mean, it is not unpleasant, and an i'm
preston of mystery is given, which
may well be inspired by the sight Of a
completed work of engineering which
has involved an expenditure of $70,-
100000 and the employment of capital
and brains on a scale never before wit
messed in the execution of such an en-
terprise.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-03-06
UNDER THE hudson XIV

niles of underriver and underground
railways Five minutes is ell the time
necessary for the trip under the Hud.
son, and the trip from Hoboken to the
station at Sixth avenue and Nineteenth
street, in the heart of upper Manhat-
tan, may be made in less than ten mini
utes.
In equippfng the new road under the
Hudson with facilities for transporta-
ton the latest devices for comfort. con-
venience and safety have been en-
ployed. The cars are of steel. abso-
lutely fireproof. and both tunnel and
cars are brilliantly lighted. The sta
tions are built of concrete and metal so
as to preclude the possibility of fire in
their case; also congestion and crowd
ing have been avoided as far as posi-
Bile by providing the cars with en-
frances both at the ends and in the
middle and by arranging the platforms
at stations so that passengers enter on
one side of the car and leave at the
other In the tubes under the river the
atmosphere will be preserved fresh and
cool by the system of ventilation adopt.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-03-06

ham Lincoln in his earlier surround
ings, but John Johnson, poor as he
was, had boyhood advantages of
which Lincoln never dreamed, because
the latter's early environment was
that of a pioneer in an illiterate, book
less, almost manless wilderness. John
johnson had the advantage of the
towns public library, which he used
faithfully during the years when he
clerked in a drug store. Between sell
ing patent medicines and liver pads he
filed up the chinks with reading the
best authors.
The governor is married, Mrs. John
son being a charming woman consider
ably younger than her husband. In the
event of White House occupancy both
the governor and his wife would be
able to maintain the social dignity of
their spheres. Governor Johnson.
though decidedly a man of the people,
does not resist dress suits and top hats
when social usages call for those ha-
biliments.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-03-06
NOTED IN TWO elll1s.

g, Weir Mitchell, AGthor and rhyai.
clan, and H;s Ideas
A new story by T.. Wei: Mitchell
entitled ''The Red CITY" Las just he
gun running as a serial in tha Centur.
Magazine. 1t is a romance of the sec
ond administration OF President Wash
ington. and the frs, installments de
scribe the experience in America of a
young Frencbman who fees hither aft
er the murder of his father during the
French revolution b. Jacobin mob.