The Coconino sun., 1919-08-29

fed" he said, land spend their money far more freely. l have had more tourist business this year than in all preceding years combined"
 Perhaps you find the daily news. papers monotonous these days. Sc many of the news stories exhibit such striking monotony.
 Edwin Box, in recent issue of the Ladies' Home Journal, says:
 "A true story of the dangers and pitfalls that comfort the girl when she comes to the metropolis alone" Why, MT. Box!
 Instead of the dollar, the old-time measure of value was the OK. That's how we get the modern usage of the ward "pecuniary," which is derived from the Greek word "pecus," mean ing cattle.
 It takes more dollars" to buy g few "pecus" now than it used to. Geo. w. Harben tells about an In dian down in Oklahoma who, when he came to file on his quota of gov ernment land, was informed that he could do so only under an English name. His Indian cognomen was Bob. Tailed Coyote. He thought for a mo. ment, and then announced that he would change his name to Robert T Wolf.
 Sheriff Harrington was kidding Un. dersheriff Bill Hicklin about attending some races, and accused him of bet ting on them. They were sitting ir Harrington's Ford.
 Harrington asked:
 "Did they have any automobiles al the races, Billy"
 "Yes," said Bill. "All the white folks did; the Indians and niggers had Fords."
 Do you know anything about the reliability of that man, Al Dickinson
 Please advise, at once. Our motive in asking is that we overheard him telling a tenderfoot the other morning that the wind the night before had blown the tops of the Sar Francisco peaks, way down to the timber line, burying lot of ranchers on the other side.
 We investigated the yarn, and we found there was nothing to it., Fred Caring says he's heartily ir favor of the ei1ht-hour working plan, in fact, he has always observed it in his own work - eight hours before dinner and eight afterward. Now we have great love for hoi hominy,
 And believe, heart and soul, in au.
 tonomy;
 So it may be absurd, But we can't stand the bird Who pronounces it plainly "ignom.
 iny."
 U. Moran says he saw the fog SC thick once in the old days down in Virginia that man who was shing. ling his roof when the fog came uI found after dinner--when the fog had cleared away--that he had shingled six feet out on the fog.
 "Rimmy Jim" Giddings says he never saw the grass looking so good nor the cattle looking so fat as they are right now; but, in his fear of the minions of the sheriffs and county attorneys offices, he is kept from eating any beef.
 of it wasn't for those devils," he says, q would be living on the fat of the land."
 Speaking about queer names fol pets, Paul Coffin has dog named "T-bone." Artist Swinnerton inflicted the name on the poor dog.
 "Isn't it wonderful how civilization has advanced?" asks Judge Jones.
 "Take eating, for instance.
 First, we had:
 Food.
 Cooked food.
 "A table to keep the food from the ground.
 "A plate to keep the 1000 from the table.
 "A thick cloth to keep the plates from the table.
 "A thin cloth to keep the plates from the thick cloth.
 "Then another plate to keep the food from the first plate.
 "Then a dolly to keep the second plate from the first plate.
 "When the table is protected by the thick cloth and the thick cloth by the thin cloth, and the thin cloth by a plate, and the plate by dolly, and the dolly by a second plate-the food is protected by diet"
 Sarah E. Abbott, government field matron at Oraibi, and Miss Johnson missionary at First Mesa, rode to gether nearly every day past a great sand hill on the desert near Oraibi They frequently spoke of the fascina. tion this hill had for them and of their desire to climb to the top and roll down it. Finally the temptation became too great to resist, and they went to it. It turned out to be