Arizona republican., 1911-05-15

rived in the city Saturday night for 2
 visit with her grandmother, Mrs. David
 r. Carver, and her aunt, Mrs. Louis Dysart
 SONGS OF THE DESERT-Under
 this title the Berryhill company of l Phoenix has, with the permission of the
 author, J. William Lloyd, published a
 little volume of desert poems. Most of | mem were written in 1903 while the
 author was tarrying for a time on the
 Plma Indian reservation, studying the
 mystic Indian legends of which he has
 written at length elsewhere Many
 readers will remember My Arizona
 Bedroom which was published at the
 time in the New York Sun, republished
 In The Republican, and some years
 later again published in The Republi-
 can at the request of many readers. It
 was from the pen of MT. Lloyd and without reflection on his other work | the suggestion is made that he has
 written nothing else that is so truly sentimental and expressive of the des-
 ert life of the free and open west, so typically characteristic of central and southern Arizona as this little poem. It is found in the Berryhill collection and is itself well worth the 9 cents
 asked for the little volume. which ap
 pears in paper covers. There are a number of other quite appealing verses
 the little publication containing a dozen
 poems. It is a nice little souvenir of Arizona and something also that the home people will like to have on their bookshelves. Even if their literature is compressed into Dr. Eliot's five-foot shelf, this volume is so thin # may be squeezed in between the others. some where
 SlSTO HAS HAD ENOUGH.-A- most everybody in Phoenix knows Slsto Lizarraga, even if they do not know his name and face together. One never forgets either after he once makes its acquaintance. But if not notable for his personal pulchritude. he is regarded as one of the most faithful and accommodating Mexican citizens of the town and performs his daily duties humbly and without os- tentatiOn. He is the official grave digger for this community, and for thirty years has been performing that office in a very satisfactory way The word official is used unOfficially, for he has become an official only after long service and general acquiescence in the recognition of his suitability and dependability. But none of this has to do with the story, except to identify the subject of it. Sisto nat urally has a curious interest in the progress of events in the home coun- try and the other day some one asked him why he did not quit digging graves and, returning to Mexico, en- list on one side or the other and help to make business for other grave dig gers. He shook his head and replied l that he already had a war record 1 and he did not care to lengthen it. | Long ago, before he ever saw Phoe- ! nix, he was a brave soldier in the ! army of MaXimillian, where he fought ! hard and Valiantly, successfully dodg- | ing bullets for three months. Then | he was captured by the opposing force | and forced into the ranks for another 1 three months. This service ended | when a hole was bored through him from the region of the wishbone to an | exit in the rear, and another bullet | crossed him at right angles, making only a shallow flesh wound, however. By the time he got into fighting trim again the trouble was over. Concern ing the present difficulty, Sisto says he has no decided convictions and it do if he did have, for in the event he were to go to Mexico they would catch him coming and going md work him on both sides. He isn't | bit superstitious, but he has ac- luired a high estimate of the protec- ion he has secured under the Stars md Stripes and is content to let well though alone.