Arizona republican., 1918-06-30
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A PRESCOTT EXPERIENCE

A PRESCOTT EXPERIENCE
 Arizona is a great state! Arizonians are great people!-The cruel warp of time, the influence and tyrannous commands of the church, and I may well add the advance of civilization, has wrought wonderful change, but my devout brother, never forgot one truth: It was your ''uncivilized, uneducated, unchristian, determined ancestor, who brought to your tiny feet the wealth and the lands which now are the envy of a world-Good and bad among them? I should say yes, and some of the bad, or their progeny still remain, as I will here testify On the Sabbath there gathers in Prescott's Park, to listen to the sweet strains of music, a motly crowd among which I strolled, till spying a vacant seat by a lucious appearing damsel, down I popped: No formality necessary, and from that fountain of dewy eXcresence there was poured forth more entertainment than words can express. Why l simply was carried away, and filled with pitious solicitude for a near mortal whose companion in silence seemed annoying. don't believe in a waste of space on benches in parks, so smuggling close to "venus," I drank to a surfeit, frol- icksome, gleeful, cheerful, and very confidential messages, which filled me (coupled with soul inspiring musicl with spontaneous effulgence, and l might add relieved me later of solid matter, which the term metal" ap- | plies to. I thought at various times I felt fluttering or crawling of life in my panties pockets. but what cared I for beetles, bugs, Gila monsters or
 Rattlers, when so near. what dreamed
 would be the loving embrace of "Ce-
 celia," and as for that dainty beautious
 hand with tapering masasged nails
 ever entering the portal of side pock-
 cts, was simply slanderous.-Well sir after some moments she seemed chil-
 ly, cool, and quite unfriendly, which
 made me more ardous in my atten-
 tions. until with apparent disgust, shC
 shook her garments, remarked that
 ''old fools were the easiest of all,'' ant giving a twist to her angelic form, lief
 me to loneliness. It being near traiI time, I woefully shuffled toward tn,
 depot. wondering meantime if astrol
 ogy was a science, and if I had com
 forth during the wrong phase of som
 planet. Ticket to Phoenix, please, I nonchalantly sputtered, while claw
 ing thru each pocket for the necessar . exchange which you probably hay surmissed was securely resting i |. others possession-Come, said tn
 agent, ''don't be all day. dig up!" I di dig and jumped and leaped, an sprawled, and bounded, and swore, an , snorted, and prayed, and believe
 cried but the filthy lucre had vanishe with that dazzling sunbeam CD wh had bewildered my brain. paralyzed m 7 senses, and filched my last penny. No, . I believe in chastisement. so gettin my thoughts right down to brass tack concluded to punish MT. Tight
 brain," so dropping some pebbles i , each shoe I started straight for thi land of milk and honey,on what tn boys term, "Shank's mare" Not a bi have I bit not a sleep have 1 slept l Not a weep have I wept: Mine ol , toes are raw, my feet are baked, blis
 tered, and bruised. and my stomac feels like an Austrians. but boys m