The Coconino sun., 1920-07-30

forget to stir it up well. The business invariably rises to the top as a result.
 "A Kansas girl waved her hand at stranger as he passed, and in three days they were married" says Kan sas paper. In about three weeks she will probably be waving a rolling pin at him and three hours later he will come home waving divorce.
 In recent book on gardening pub ihsed by Rimmy Jim Giddings he tells how to raise strawberries at home. He says any person can do it very success fully by taking the edge of the box between the thumb and forefnger and lifting gently.
 Jimmie Swinnerton has as his guest out on the reservation one time chap who was something of sleight-of- hand performer. He took a dog be- longing to one of the Indians in hand and soon drew large number of sil- yer dollars from his tail to the aston ishment of the Indians. After Jimmie and his friend had retired the Indians promptly killed the dog and dissected him. They were much disappointed, of course at ont finding any money in the dog, but they partly made up for it by making the magician give them all the money he had taken from the dogs tail. They said it was their dog, so any money he had in his tail belong ed to them. He could have explained the whole matter by showing them how he did the trick, but was afraid that if he let them find out they had been fooled they would be angler than ever, resenting both tme fact that they had been taken in and the loss of the dog.
 Chief of Police R. L. Neill says he thinks Jack Lowry should be able to get a job at the Grand Canyon, stand ing at the bottom of the big ditch and handing up to the people at the top anything they might drop over the edge.
 w. F. Thompson, the Red Lake farmer, has raised some mighty fine crops on that ranch of his. He under stands farming thoroughly, and, be- sides, has some very fertile land. To show how productive his land is, here is an instance that, we understand, County Farm Agent Francis A. Chis- holm has not yet included in his re- ports, but it surely is worth noting:
 It seems that Thompson dug we'll about forty feet deep the first year he was out there, and put down a wooden pump. It happened that the pump was made of cottonwood log, that was still little green. The soil at the bottom of the we'll was so fertile that the pump took root, grew up and branched out. Now, while the chil- dren play in a swing attached to one of the branches, Mir. Thompson pumps water through the hole that still re- mains in the trunk.
 Chautauqua is an Indian name for an easy death. We always thought it meant talked to death, but can't see what there is easy about it.
 There is no doubt at all that mar riage makes the two one. But when the question is raised which one, the circus begins.
 Professor Douglass when he was here last week said something to the effect that the earth's circumference shrinks about two inches every year. Now we understand some people bet ter; they are anxious to ge the whole Of 1t before it gets too small.
 If you want to see a specimen of alacrity, watch clerk tacking up an early closing notice.
 Tom Stahl, the Santa Fe agent here, reports the management of the rail- road is very much concerned over their failure to find any means for protect ing their steel rails against a new spe- cies of worm, which bOres the rails full of holes and often completely honey combs several miles of them during single night. Several of the most deadly poisons have been used, in vain. At first it was thought the insect might be the army worm and that the rails became infected during the per- iod when so many troops were being transported, but it was later found that this theory is incorrect. Probably the vermin is some sort of insect pe- culiar to the bolshevists, as most of that breed are richly infested with vermin; this theory sounds the more reasonable, because any bug or worm that can stomach bolshevist ought easily be able to eat steel rails. The best remedy, we believe, for the ex- termination of the pest, is to elect republican president next fall.
 Frank Harrison says the hog of his native state-Tennessee-is quite al character. He is not always wild, though supposed to be blind, but is nearly always peculiarly lean, and has habit of winking at stranger.
 Frank says he was standing on the platform of small country depot in Tennessee, waiting for train, when one of the loungers remarked:
 "Well, it's about train time. see the hogs comin' down to the track"