The Coconino sun., 1919-08-08


 He saw sign atop pole,
 As down the street he took stroll And climbed it up (near-sighted soul)
 So he could read-and read: "Fresh
 Paint!"
 As down the street he took stroll
 He cursed, for all he is saint.
 In Virginia, they call horse a team; two horses hitched together are 1.-two teams; and horse and a buggy are "a team and fix" But even odder oddity in horse lingo was once sprung by John Fetter.
 John was working out at Green laws mill, near Lake Mary, driving team. He went into a saloon one noon to get warm, got it, and then a few more; then, forgetting both team and job, sat into a poker game. He stayed until near morning, when he drove the team into the company's barn. Next day he informed friend that he had been fired, and explained that it was because he had forgotten to "take off the horses clothes"
 On June 1, this year, there were ASA automobiles in Coconino county, their assessed valuation being S200,- 2S4. The latter figure, of course, does not equal the total cost of the cars, because the second year car is as- sessed at 10 per cent less than cost, the third year at 20 per cent less, and, after that, at whatever the as- sessor may think it is worth. Heard an old fellow say the other day that boys are now much more mischievous than few years ago. Huh! Show us a boy of any old time since the world began who was not mischievous, and we'll show you a sissy.
 Boys are boys, always will be, all ways "wuz."
 Don't you remember how George Coffin, who used to run grocery here, used to rare and tare every time little Tom Manning crossed his range of vision. And Tom most usually stayed that far away-whenever MT. Coffin's back wasn't turned.
 And remember the time Charlie Marshall stole the eggs from under his mothers settin' hen and traded them to Coffin, and what a fuss it raised?
 Peck's Bad Boy wouldn't be in it with a true recital of some of the pranks some of you sedate old gray heads played when you wuz jes' boys.
 Tom Brown says land surveying in the West in the early days was often done much differently than now. He recalled the time when Bert White, proprietor of the Weatherford Hotel, was lad in Texas.
 Bert helped survey the KIT ranch, in the Texas Panhandle. It was very small ranch, containing only three million acres, and had been granted by the state to the Capitol Syndicate in payment for building the state capitol.
 Included in the surveying outfit were ten or a dozen horses, all for Bert's use. He would jump on horse, gallop away a dozen miles or so, and, directed by white cloth waved by the instrument man, locate asta ke. Then he would rush back, grab fresh horse, and beat it off in another direction, keeping at it all through the day, using horse after horse, as they became tired. For weeks at stretch he averaged much over hundred miles day.
 "No other rider in that part of the state had greater endurance than he had" Tom says.
 The KIT ranch was valued to the syndicate at S1 an acre. Today it averages about S20.
 Texas, by the way, reserved every foot of her wild land, when admitted to the Union, as public domain, none of it belonging to Uncle Sam.
 The notices one usually finds tackled to the bulletin board in any public place are mighty dull reading. Not so, however, those in the office of Miss Irene Bart, our county recorder.
 Miss Bart caught Sun man copy ing some of these bulletins the other day, and came forward, smiling, to ask why. Told that probably Sun readers would be interested in her philosophy, which it was to be sup posed the bulletins revealed, she pointed at and asked the reporter to read bulletin which said:
 "A cordial reception isn't an invita- ton to stay all day"
 The reporter did what you would have done-beat it. But he had al- ready copied the following from among the many, equally pertinent:
 "It is easier to work than it is to dodge"
 Keep your temper. Nobody around here wants it."
 Look wise, but say nothing. Then nobody knows the difference"
 People who blurt out what they think, usually don't think"
 "If you must lie, tell big one"
 "Some fellows are so obstinate that even their food doesn't agree with them."
 "The voice with the smile wins."
 Miss Bart says she knows just which of her bulletins fits each of most of the people she knows.