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tny precipitation was like a cloud burst.
 had made my will with few men tai and Indian reservations, and was choking up for the last time when, with one mighty jump forward, the train shook itself free from the sub way and once more we were out in the sunlight. After picking enough sulphur of my clothes to make box of matches, I reached gently over and tried to put tbe window up, but it was closed >SflteF than the front door when oo,,, G >etor calls.
 oot ~e the window-sash couple of
 S ors and few short-arm ulpcbes pp hut tt sat there and laughed in my face. oa I
 The guard came through anu IT, spoke to him about th "lhuo" said. "The first time I s>e the pres, dent of the road I'll tell him Spout iI' and left me fiat.
 Once more I tried to open that Nil- dow, but I only succeeded in open1ns my collar; so then I opened my Inoulh and made a short but spicy announce ment, whereupon the old lady in the seat ahead of me got up and left the Year.
 % Just then the train pulled into sta ti,n which I hadn't paid for, but we ut out and took it, because it con tain ed a little fresh air.
 G. ne day I will mention the name of thi,y subway company and make | hlush. Meantime you may have onf
 Well after I left Bunch that after noon [ il .1cked Tor the depot, anC reached Rl1raldene just in time to wit ness the b eginning of a most painful ] episode
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Teddy can fill the Bill

/ If wanted @ nlan to go around the world, to have all kinds of things un- furled,
 I'd get Teddy. If I wanted the world turned ups de down, and the Tita ntic placed on solid ground,
 I'd get Teddy. If Was delega,ed a man to pick, that wouldn't hesit ate his friend trick,
 I'd get Teddy. If Twas hunting for the biggest fraud. outside New York City ward,
 I'd get Teddy. If needed man to betray cause. one who would not hesir ate or pause,
 I'd get Teddy. If I wanted crooked politi cal duck. that on himself is so awfully st, 7ck'
 I'd get Teddy. If I really cd the champion Be 'ss. whose equal you never havr run acros >
 I'd get Teddy. If wished to have the world stand still, there would be no troubld to fill the bill,
 I'd get Teddy If I wanted man to fool the people good, never ac ed square and wouldn't if he could,
 I'd get Teddy. If I wanted fellow to break up h-ll l don't know one who is fitted so well,
 I'd get Teddy.
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Since Uncle Peter Grant was elect ed mayor of Ruraldene our family group considers it extremely disloyal to stay in the big town for more than four hours at time So with us it is a case of catching those imitation rail- road trains at all sorts of hours and commute to beat the band.
 Since I became a confirmed com muter have sprained three watches and two of my legs trying to catch trains that are wild enough to dodge a dog-catcher.
 The commuters are div led into two classes: Going and coming.
 One of the first rules for a com muter to follow after he locates the railroad station, and hikes there cou- pie of times to get in training, is to get red and pink and blue hammock.
 A hammock is a necessary evil in the country, because only by this means can the insects become ac- quainted with the new commuter.
 The day after we first put up our new hammock Uncle Peter came rub bering around to look it over. He was all swelled up over being elected mayor, and he dropped in the ham mock with splash. Ten seconds later the rope exploded and Uncle Peter made deep impression on the stone porch.
 Every mosquito in the neighborhood rushed to his assistance and tried to lift him up with their teeth.
 Then Uncle Peter ran home and told Aunt Martha that Cinders, our bulldog. had tried to bite him.
 The national emblem of the com muter is the lawn-mower.
 The lawn-mower was invented orig finally for the purpose of giving the lawn quick shave, and because 1t can't talk like a barber 1t makes a noise like the fall of Port Arthur.
 remember the first day decided I would trim the Vandyke beard on our lawn. Of course got all mine, and got it good. The result will always live in history side by side with the battle of Gettysburg.
 The lawn-mower was sleeping peacefully in the barn when rushed in and dragged 1t shriekingly from its slumbers.
 Perhaps it was because forgot to father the lawn, but any way 1t was the hardest shave I ever had anything to do with.
 The lawn-mower began to com
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WinsIow News Notes
From the Winslow Mail

1 w. G. Kelly returned from Washington yesterday morning where he went regarding a pat ent railroad device that is now in the hands of patent attorneys in that city. MT. Kelly is glad to be home again and expresses himself that there is no such good a place as Wir1slow. Although we have had some warm weather here, Mr. Kelly says that it is nothing complre.l with the heat in the east. Politics he says is at it's highest pitch at the present time and from indications around Washington he says Tat will ne the Republican nominee for Pres
 lent.
 County { Recorder C. M. C. Houck was a visitor i'll town last Sunday.
 Judge and Mrs Sidney Sapp we're visitors here Sunday wit messing the cornerstone laying # the High School.
 The Foreign Mi>si onary S1ci ty will give q pie supper in tn, Methodist church yard. June IS, at 8 p. m The i'll vitatiun Is general. Ladies are requested to bring pie to be purchased by the highest bidder. A general good time Is expected
 Mrs. Florence Robbins was visiting here this week with friends from Gallup. Mrs. Rob bins left the latter part of the week accompanied by Mrs Mamie Horner for the Carbon City
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The house was lighted up from eel lar to attic. As soon as l opened the door l found oar respected mayor. Uncle Peter, and he was also lit up.
 Its surprise, Johnny" he whis. pered hoarsely. Clara J. is giving an entertainment for the benefit of the Christian Soldiers league, and it's going to cost you two dollars to come into your own house."
 It made an awful hit with Uncle Peter to see me cough up those two bones. but ! said nothing and made good
 My wife called it musicale, but to me it looked more like fight.
 With the help of Aunt Martha and Alice Grey, my wife arranged the pro- gram and kept it dark to surprise the rest of the family.
 It was such surprise to me that L felt like doing glide to the wood. lands.
 It was my second experience with musicale, and this one cured me all right.
 For awhile everybody sat around and sized up what everybody else was wearing.
 Then they gave each other the silent double-cross.
 Presently my wife whispered to Miss Cleopatra Hungerschnitz, where. upon that young lady giggled her way over to the piano and began to knock It's teeth out.
 The way Cleopatra went after one Of Beethoven's sonatas and slapped it's ears was pitiful.
 Cleopatra learned to injure a piano at conservatory of music, and she
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plain so loudly that the neighbors TOT mile around rushed to the rocK pie and armed themselves for the fray. The committee of citizens attracted by the screams e the lawn-moWer car ne over to see if | was killing me mber of the family TT only a oi' tal 1t relative.
 When they saw me boxing sne esi is of' stubborn lawn-mower the. aIN my punishment was heavy enough, e they threw away the lynching rol and left me at the post.
 Clara J. came out on the porch and said, John, perhaps that lawn-mower would stop screaming if you used a little axle grease!"
 "A1l right" I came back at her, "but It will take me an hour and half to find out which part of the lawn mower will fit the axle grease"
 Then I lifted the machinery up to examine it's constitution and bylaws, and about two and half pounds of wrought iron fell off and landed on my instep.
 The wrought iron made good.
 Then l tried to stand on the other foot, but lost my balance and fell L>n the lawn-mower's third rail.
 l never was SO mortified in my life as when that lawn-mcwer began to saw it's initials on my shin bones.
 Every time l tried to get up I lost my balance, and every time I lost my balance the lawn-mower would leap up in the air and fall on my wish-bone.
 When loving hands finally pulled US apart l was two doors and a half be- low unconsciousness, while the lawn mower had recovered its second wind and was wagging it's tail with excite. ment.
 After waiting for about ten minutes
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Wo ana falr Founos or Iron Land- ed on My lnstep. could take fugo by Victor Hugo and leave it for dead in about thirty-two bars.
 At the finish of the sonata we all applauded Cleopatra just as loudly as we could, in the hope that she would faint with surprise and stop playing; but no such luck.
 She tied a couple of chords together and swung that piano like pair of In. dian clubs.
 First she did My Old Kentucky Home," with variations, until every body who had a home began to weep for fear it might get to be like her Kentucky home.
 The variations were where she made a mistake and struck the right note.
 Then Cleopatra moved up to the squeaky end of the piano and gave an imitation of Swiss music box.
 It sounded to me like a Swiss cheese.
 Presently Cleopatra ran out of raw material and subsided, while we all applauded her with our fingers crossed, and two very thoughtful la dies began to talk fast to Cleopatra so as to take her mind off the piano.
 Then the Bingledingle brothers, known as Oscar and Victor, opened fire on us with couple of mandolins.
 Oscar and Victor play entirely by hand. They don't know one note from another, and they can prove it when they begin to play.
 Their mother believes them to be prodigies of genius. She is alone in her belief.
 After Oscar and Victor had chased one of Sousa's marches all over the parlor and finally left 1t unconscious under the sofa, they bowed and ceased firing, and then they went out in the dining-room and filled their storage batteries with ice cream and cake.
 This excitement was followed by an other catastrophe named Minnehaha Jones, who picked up a couple of so. prano songs and screeched them at us.
 Minnehaha is one of those fearless I W uO NOCdllL6 odlCly valve. She always keeps her eyes closed, so she can't tell just when her audience gets up and leaves the room.
 The next treat was mixed duet on the flute and trombone between Clar- ence Smith and Lancelot Diffenberger, with violin obligato on the side by Hector Tompkins.
 Never before have I seen music so roughly handled.
 It looked like a walk-over for Clar ence, but in the fifth round he blew i a couple of green notes and Lancelot got the decision.
 Then, for consolation prize, Hec | tor was led out in the middle Of the room, where he assassinated Mascag ni's Cavalleria Rusticana so thorough v that it will never to able to enter q ffty-cent table d'hote restaurant again.
 Then Cornucopia Coogan arose and gave us a few select recitations.
 Just as she started to tell us tha Curfew would not ring tonight Uncle Peter winked at me, and we sneaket out and began to drown our sorrow.
 Those musicales would be all to th' good if the music didn't suffocat them.
 Copyright by c. W. Dillingham; Coo
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Woman Finally Recover From Nervous Breakdown

Impoverished nerves destroy man people before their time. Often D, tore sufferer realizes what l.. trouble is, he is on the verge of complete nervous breakdown. I IS ot the utmost importance to keel your nervous system in good con dition, as the nerves are the sourc, ot all bodily power. Mrs. Ann; kounz, 2II Mechanic St., Pueblo Colo, says:
 For many years I suffered fro,I nervous prostration; I was unable to do any house work and doctor: ta!led to help me. Remedies tried from druggists did not dc me a particle of good. A neighbol told my husband about
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Dr. Miles Nervine

and he procured a bottle. After the first few doses 1 showed a marked improvement and after taking two bottles l was entirely cured. I have been perfectly well for years and cannot praise Dr. Miles Nervine too highly"
 If you are troubled with loss of appetite, poor digestion, weakness, inability to sleep; if you are in general run down condition and unable to bear your part of the daily grind of life, you need some thing to strengthen your nerves. You may not realize what is the mat ter with you, but that is no reason why VOL should delay treatment
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 here. Large volumes of smoke may be seen at times thru the day ir the direction of the fire, which is being fought contin. ously by the rangers and who at the present time seem to have the same under control. Up to the present time about Is square miles of forest have been swent by the fire. Rain has been scarce here this spring, making things very favorable for fires of that kind. This is one of the biggest forest fires that has happened here in the last five years.
 Miss May Anderson returned this week from the east where she has been attending college for some time.
 Mrs J P Williams and daugh ter Lora of Los Angeles are vi>- ting here at present with Mir. and Mrs. Chas- M. Service.
 Mrs. J.. Hesser will open q curio shop Monday morning ill the building formerly occupied by Vim. ] Daze & Co.,, on Front Street.
 Mir. C. o. Case, State Super intengent of Schonls who ad- dressed the people ot Winslow at the New High School. last Sunday was very much impressed with the progress our little city IS making, and the cordial greeting extended by our citi zens.
 A small fire started Sunday afternoon in the back yard of l. B. Drumm, buring the sheds and wood pile. It is thought that the fire was started from some live coals in the ashes that is generally deposited in tub in the back yard, and some see m to think that the fire was started by some small bcys who were seen smoking in that vicinity during the afternoon Only for the quick response of both fir departments there might have been a serious loss by the burn ing of nearby buildings. Dr. Paul. D. Sprankle is now occupying his new offices over the City Meat Market, said off, ces having been recently remod led and arranged for that pur. pose. The entire second floor of that building is now occupied with offices of Drs. Spi ankle and Gaines.
 Jos. Matthias of White Palace Bakery is having his delivery wagon thoroughly overhauled and newly painted and will again commence making his daily diliveries around town Monday.
 Gus Mulholland of Babbitt Bros. Meat Market is reported sick this week.
 Rabbit Bros. are having their display windows on Front Street enlarged and remodled which will make quite an im- provement in the appearance of that establishment when they are completed. Miss Elsie French returned from her visit with her sister Mrs. Shope at Fresno, Gal, where she has been visiting for the last six months. -.4 R
 Mrs. Scharr returned this week from her visit with her mother:at Bluewater, N. M.
 Mrs. W. 6. Hunter, of the Racket Store, who was quite i'll during the week is again able to be about.
 Mrs. Fred SeHen returnedIlast
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Dr. Miles Nervine

has proven it's value in nervous dis orders for thirty years, and merits a trial. no matter how many other remedies have failed to help you.
 Sold by all druggists. If first bottle fails to benefit your money Is returned. MILES MEDICAL CO.,, Elkhart, Ind.
Arizona republican., 1912-06-14
A Few Make the Noise

Gentlemen at Chicago are calling each other bribers, thieves and liars with criminal designs against the presidency of the United States. These charges on one side are caught up at Oyster Bay and they re-echo across the continent Surely the presidency is not being clothed with additional dignity.
 But all this indicates good repub Ican enthusiasm. We should not be alarmed at the sounds of discord which we hear now. While the gen tlemen who are making it are very much in earnest and hate one another profoundly, and probably will retain this unfriendly disregard of one an other for some time, there are com paratively very few of them Not enough to store the ice houses during presidential campaign.
 The great body of the republican party is unexcited as it has been throughout the preliminary struggle for delegates. We hear much now about the will of the people and the outrage that is being committed upon the people. As q matter of fact, less than half the republicans in the primary states expressed any will and presumably the others do not care any more about what is happening at Chicago than they did about what was happening at the primaries which they did not attend.
 They will be, in all probability as loyal to the party as they ever were though they may feel some disgust at the methods employed by a few leaders, large and small
 The republican party is not being split up the back at all though politicians knife each other and in- dulge in other acts which may be construed to be marks of disapproval of one another
Arizona republican., 1912-06-14
COLLEGE BASEBALL
FLOWERS LURE RATS TO DEATH
Florist Ayers Carnations are Fatal to
 Rodents.

Pretty pink carnations have lured an army of rats to their death in the store of John Steizig, florist, at Belle fontaine, Ohio, and the latter now is considering patenting a perfume bait for rats to take the place of cheese, bacon, aud other less savory articles of food
 Steizig found that a regular father and mother of a rat had been growing fat and prosperous by nibbling the car nations the florist was cultivating. He tried the time honored cheese as bait for his rat trap. When that failed he used bacon rind and other rat tidbits, but Mrs Rat ignored thom all and continued to chew the flowers
 Finally Steizig baited his rat trap with a carnation and the night prowler was captured.
 Since then, using the carnation bait, Steizig has captured and killed nearly all the rats in the neihbOrhoOd. He is experimenting now with roses, lilies of the valley, and other flowers to de- termine which is the most attractive from a rat standpoint.
Arizona republican., 1912-06-14
The MaItreatment of canines

Some artistic admirer of Mir. ROose- welt has paraphrased or made an imitation of the .'houn' dawg" song. the war chant of the followers of Champ Clark and has made it the battle song of the Roosevelt hosts. It is sung or intended to be sung to the inspiriting tune of Casey Jones'" One stanza runs as follows:
 hound,
 He's a square jaWed bull, and his
 face is round;
 His legs is short, and he's close to
 the ground
 And you can bet they ain't kickin'
 Teddy's dog around.
 We do not know when the para phrase was committed but we as sume that it must have been done before the sitting of the national re- publican committee, or at least, be- fore the committee got to working good. That body, almost from the beginning seems to have had little other occupation than "kickin' Teddys dog around" Day by day the kicks have increased in number and vio- fence and we have thought that some of them were administered without due and sufficient provocation.
 Teddy's dog, in spite of the des- cription of his pugnacity has already been kicked through more than a dozen states. In only one instance has the committee toe been with held and even in that instance, half a kick was administered.
 It is suspected that it is the pur- pose of the committee ultimately to kick Teddy's dog out of the window and be done with him, at least for four years or as in Kathleen Mavour- neen, maybe forever"
Arizona republican., 1912-06-14
Finances and Markets
ASSOCIATED PRESS D1sPATcHl

NEW YORK, June 13.-The money trust inquiry and a further urgent call upon the American reserves were a few of the items which bore upon todays stock market. A renewal Of the German demand for American cash was interesting because of the sidelight it threw upon the recent re- ductiOn in the discount rate by the Reichsbank. Berlin bid 512 for thirty day money and the rate proving at tractiVe, several loans were made. The stock movement here was small in volume and largely professional judg- ing from the efforts to excite interest in issues of unknown merit. The un- dertone, however, was more steady especially in leading railroad issues .Guggenheim Exploration shares which were admitted to the exchange today proved more active than many old time faVorites at an advance of three points. A money transfer of $1,000.- 000 it's ultimate destination being Ja- pan was a notable feature of the money market. Bonds were steady; total sales, par value, $1,56S, ,O00. Gov ernments unchanged on call.
Arizona republican., 1912-06-14
The November Election

Governor Hunt, having been advised by Mir. Bullard that the election bill is sound, will sign it. Thus. the way To an election in November seems clear
 The supreme court may have to say the last word, though we do not think that any directly interested person. that is, any officeholder, will openly raise any question which the supreme court will have to decide Such d question may be raised at the covert instance of some officeholder or by some person having a selfish interest in the continuance of the present regime.
 The court could reasonably decide under the constitution, either for or against an election next fall and so far as the legal aspect of the case is concerned, the decision could not be questioned. but in the case of a de- cision against the election. the mo- tive of the court would certainly be questioned either rightly or wrongly.
 But there are some we'll known facts that would greatly assist the court out of any perplexity it might face in a constitution so evenly bal anced as to this subject. One of these facts was the undoubted purpose of the constitutional convention to pro- vide for an election in 1912 Another fact is that it was absolutely under stood last fall that there would be an election this year. Still, another fact is that a very large majority of the voters of both parties want such an election.
 The members of the court are good lawyers and honest men and would gladly accede to the wishes of the people when they could do so under the law. If they were dishonest men and were willing to disregard the law and violate their own notions of justice in this case, self interest and partisanship alone would cause them to hesitate for the failure of an cleo tion, as the democratic state execu- tive committee recently pointed out, would be ruinOus to the party and fatal to every man who might con- tribute to the ruin
Arizona republican., 1912-06-14
Nevada's New Senator

Nevada, though the least wealthy in the aggregate of it's resources, of all the states, has contributed more steadily than any other to the Rich Mems Club,'' by which term the dis respectful and the envious designate the senate of the United States.
 As we recall, no man less wealthy than a millionaire and most of them have been multi millionaires, has ever represented Nevada in the sen- ate. This tradition has been main tained in the appointment on We'd nesday of George Wingfield to sue ceed the late Senator Nixon.
 Mir Wingfield who for many years was a partner of MT. Nixon is reput- state. He has also. for some years, been an aspirant for a senatorship, though it must be a matter of regret and even sorrow to him, that he has attained it by the death of his for mer partner.
 As to the qualifications of MT Wingfield we know nothing. His name has seldom appeared in con nection with the political affairs of Nevada but for that matter, the world has never heard much of the political affairs of that state. The people of Nevada have been generally self contained What has been done in Nevada has not been done to the ac- compartment of d brass band.
 If MT Wingfield should turn out to possess little or no qualification. his election. anyhow, will act as a check upon the tendency, manifested of late to make the senate less of a rich mems club