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The Coconino sun., 1922-05-26
WILD ANIMALS LOOSE ON SHIP

Wild animals across the sea some times get loose on the voyage. An English dealer who came over from India to England with $10,OO0 worth of animals aboard sailing ship had such an experience.
 An Indian badger was loose for two weeks and a specimen of the sacred monkey of northern India was out of It's cage for nearly the whole voyage. Where the badger concealed itself dur ing the day nobody knew, but the meat and boiled rice that were put out for 1t at night always disappeared before morning.
 The monkey lived up in the rigging comfortably enough, notwithstanding i've feet of chain hanging to its neck. Food was put out for 1t every night, and by day 1t satisfied its hunger by catching and eating the potatoes that the sailors amused themselves by throwing up to It.
The Coconino sun., 1922-05-26
WHERE LINCOLN WAS GOING

A characteristic story of Lincoln Is retold by his biographer, the Rev. Dr.. John Wesley Hill. In 1S46, when Lin coin made his single-term race for con- gress, he was prevailed upon to attend revival meeting conducted by the renowned evangelist, Peter Cart wright. The famous exhorter called on all desiring to go to heaven to stand up. All arose but Lincoln. Then he asked all to rise who did not want to go to hell. Lincoln remained still seated. "1 am surprised" said Brother Cartwright, ito see Abe Lincoln sit ting back there unmoved by these ap- peals. If Mir. Lincoln does not want to go to heaven and does not want to escape hell, perhaps he will tell us where he does want to go." Lincoln slowly arose and replied, "I am going to congress" And he went for one term, as per "gentleman's agreement"
The Coconino sun., 1922-05-26
MADE IT PLAIN TO JUROR

A Boston lawyer tells of a clever colleague who, in court there, once took advantage of the nautical knowl. edge he possessed to work upon the feelings of juror who did not seem to show any great degree of compre- hension of the case being tired, name ly' suit against a street railway for damages.
 Now, the dull juror was an old sail or who, though doubtless very keen of perception along some lines, was nevertheless rather slow in his under. standing of the points involved in this case. The lawyer noticed this and made his strike with this particular man. Approaching the jury box he addressed himself to this one juror and said:
 MT. Juryman, win tell you how it happened. The plaintiff was in com mand of the outward-bound open car and stood in her starboard channels. Along came the inward-bound closed car and just as their bows met she jumped the track, sheered to port and knocked the plaintiff off and ran over him."
 The old sailor was all attention af- ter this version of the affair and joined in a $100O0 verdict for the injured man.
The Coconino sun., 1922-05-26
EGYPTIAN DWELLINGS LASTING

The climate of Egypt, with its blind ing sand storms and rising waters of the Nile, demanded dwellings of great stability.
 Archeologists report that oftImes houses are found so deeply imbedded in solid rock that even huge iron der ricks remove them with difficulty Egypt's whole private and public his- tory seems woven about this innate sense of strength. She seemed to glory in the might of wise building of homes and fortresses.
 The furnishings of the homes, on the other hand, exhibit a crude but true sense of beauty and harmony. Homes of rough, bare stones were found 10 be as full of delicate color and rich adornments as those of any other ancient people.
The Coconino sun., 1922-05-26
RUINED BY BEST WORK

"The Night Watch" the best paint. ing of the famous artist Rembrandt was the cause of his ruin. says the Mentor magazine.
 Popular, rich and married to a beautiful woman whom he loved de- vo.edly, he was at the tfde of his for. tunes when Capt. Franz Banning Cock and his company If wealthy young guardsmen commissioned him 10 paint them.
 He put the captain and E'S "e"tan, ant in the foregruund TT" other members were mere incidental ftg- ures. Recause of this they reused to pay their pro rata and withdrew their patronage.
 From that time Remnrardt's mis fortunes grew. He WAS disronsolats through the death of his wife and children. His house was sold for debt. At sixty-two he dipd lcavinQ barely enough money for hts funeral expenses.
The Coconino sun., 1922-05-26
NO DOUBT ABOUT HER LOVE

Here is sample of why one woman is too busy to be unhappily married, as she writes it herself:
 At 7:30 o'clock breakfast is on the table. Dad is ready, but where is the school girl? Dad, you go on and eat have to get that child ready for school She is standing on one foot, holding her stocking In her hand.
 Mother, if we caught bluebird-- could we catch a bluebird, motherr
 "'Yes, dear; now lace up your shoe while l brush your hair
 "'We could give it to Dorothea; she has a cage
 Honey, hurry up. You will be late.'
 Well, I want to catch a bluebird.'
 "'Now, darling, brush your teeth while I fry daddy's eggs
 Did you brush your teethT
 "'Do have to?
 "'Of course. Do you want to be uglyT
 "'Won't I get to go to parties if am uglyr
 "No; but for goodness sake come to breakfast
 Mother dad cries, come and eat with me-
 "I simply can't, dad. See that this child gets something inside her, will you? I have to dress little sister. She's up now
 After dad and the school girl go, sister Is made ready for breakfast. Mother puts the iron on to heat. Sis. ter will not eat her cereal, and mother has to feed her. The iron gets too hot. While it is cooling mother puts the vacuum cleaner to work on the living room. She makes the beds. She cleans the house. She irons until 11.30. She hurries to get lunch. She rushes to finish pair of boomers. She makes buttonholes while the oven heats. She makes a pie while sister practices on the piano. She gets dinner. She watches small sis. ter playing. She shoos home whooping coughing child and rescues the piano from an apple core. She never wonders if her husband loves her She is too busy. She loves him or she would never, never, never mend his sox."
The Coconino sun., 1922-05-26
WIRES HAVE UNITED NATION

Students of the American form of government agree that one of it's mar yels is the fact that a democracy has been made possible throughout a na- ton made up of widely separated sec. lions, with a population of over 1OO,. GOO GOO people. IL will be remembered that Monroe warned congress that a country that reached from the Atlan- tie tO the Middle West was too ex- tensive to be governed but by a despOt- ic monarchy"
 Monroe's pessimistic prophecy would doubtless have been fulfilled if the nenns of distributing political infOr- nation had remained what they were in his day. Even with horseback rid CTS displ0cing the stage coach. postal service was slow. It required three weeks for the news of MadisOn's election to reach the pioneers of Ken lucky. The nation was merely a group of isolated communities.
 To the telegraph and the telephone are due in part the satisfactory opera tion of election machinery. and hence, to a large extent the success of a democratic form of government, under modern conditions.
The Coconino sun., 1922-05-26
EASY WAY TO FIND BEAM

"Oh, dear!" sighed Rose, "here l have battered the wall all up with this nail-made dozen unsightly holes trying to strike beam, for that picture is heavy and must have a strong support"
 Now. if Rose had only run her gaze along the mop board and noticed where 1t was nailed, she could easily have driven her nail in line with that and struck the beam or studding the first time.
 Also, Rose should have dipped the nail in hot water before pounding 1t into the wall; then there would have been no chipping away or cracking of the plaster.
The Coconino sun., 1922-05-26
IS LAND OF SUPERSTITION

If you ask an Italian about the SUI. perstitions of Italy he will say-it he is we'll traveled-that Italy is rife with superstition, and that one has but to journey 15 miles in any direc. ton to find an entirely new supersti- ton, writes Temple Manning in the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
 A village at the foot of mountain may vary in its belief in certain su. perstitions from town in the plains or village halfway up the mountain. side. Indeed, there is tendency in old countries for one little community to vie with another community In Its belief in or scorn of signs, DOT. tents, omens and charms. It is a sort of competition in superstition.
 In the matter of days of the week, the average Italian girl and her fiance have strict preferences. Many believe that to marry on Monday Is sure to bring bad luck to future genera tions.
 Tuesday is drowned on because 1t Is supposed to be devoted to witches, evil spells and all their attendant sor- rows.
 Wednesday is fast day, and, there. fore, out of the question, as is Fri. day. In addition, Friday Is consid. cred unlucky. If it happens to be Friday the thirteenth, woe betide the Neapolltan youth who ever breathes the name and date of this day to the woman he loves.
 Saturday Is, the day reserved for widows, and so Is out of the ques. tion from a maiden.
 Thursday might do, but Sunday the day of rest and of sacred offices usually Is the day of the week chosen to celebrate weddings in Italy.
The Coconino sun., 1922-05-26
IF OLD ORGAN COULD SPEAK

If church organs could talk, there is one at the National museum that could settle the question whether or not George Washington mapped through Sunday sermons in Christ church. The decision could be strictly relied on, for the reason that the organ was there at the time. Unfortunately for history, the tall and somewhat grandfather clockish instrument is dumb in every key of its five Octaves, though to any mathematician able to put two and two together and make five of it, its dim mahogany and tarnished gilt speaks for the prosperity of our ancestors, two centuries back who could afford to import luxuries until a war came along and gave us liberty and homemade melodeOns.
 "The George Washington organ" was brought from England in 1700 but was not placed m the Alexandria edifice until 1t had served in the choir of church in another part of Vir ginia. After an uncertain stay in Christ church (so far as the label will divulge) Its adventures took it to ShepardstOwn and later to Han cock, Md, where 1t remained until the vestry donated it to the museum, where it new heads a collection of musical instruments which vary in size from a rattle tJ a grand piano and represent every WOrld-DeriOd from Pans pipes to jazz
The Coconino sun., 1922-05-26
REAL HOUSEHOLD ECONOMY

Speaking of household economies, 1t is always question of just what an economy is. Some people save one way and some another. What to one family seems an extravaganza to an- other appears as a necessity. One persons way of saving strikes the next as foolish. So 1t goes.
 There Is one woman in this city who saves by lighting used matches from the gas stove flame, and using them to light additional burners, in- stead of using a new match for every burner.
 One would imagine that person might save as much as S1 year by this procedure. Perhaps in lifetime the saving might amount to S10. And yet, if some noted financiers are to be believed, this is the very way to save money and arrive at affluence.
 Success by such methods, however, would seem to depend largely upon the thoroughness with which the idea is applied to many matters.-Ex- change.
The Coconino sun., 1922-05-26
THOUGHT GAS WAS SPIRIT

Although discovered early in the Seventeenth century, gas was never put into practical use to any large ex. tent until little more than a century ago. In fact, its very name indicated the superstition which surrounded 1t in the early days.
 It was Van Belmont, a Belgian chemist, who in the course of some experiments discovered that coal yielded up "a wild spirit" for form so phantom-like and elusive that he named 1t "geist" (the German for spirit).
 Thus at its very christening gas was enshrined in a veil of mystery that for nearly two centuries obscured 1t because it carried the suggestion of intangibility to the superficial mind.
The Coconino sun., 1922-05-26
CLEVER SCHEME DIDN'T WORK

Old Meane felt very annoyed be- cause his wife wanted him to take her to the theater. She was always want ing to go to the theater. Why couldn't she be contented with the pictures?
 For 40 cents at the picture show you could get just as good show and better seat than you paid s2 or $3 for at the theater.
 Thus he unused as he wended his way along to get the tickets for his wife. But on his road he passed a pic ture theater and then stopped for a moment to look at the bill.
 Then an idea struck him. He would tell his wife all the theater tickets had been sold and bring her to the pic lures.
 Mrs. Meane swallowed the yarn, and later that evening they could both have been found in the Accent seats of the movie. They watched the big picture through, and Meane was just about to rise to go out when the fashion pic lures were thrown on the screen.
 The first picture was a positive dream of hat.
 How perfectly lovely!" sighed Mrs. Meane. "That reminds me, Henry dear, I need new hat" And she rose to go out, adding :'Hurry up, I'll just be in time before the stores closet"
 The hat cost-but Henry wished he had taken her to ten theater shows.
The Coconino sun., 1922-05-26
HE DE TREILLES

The point of the island, of the original He de Treilles, behind the statue of Henri ", Is one of those bright spots of green which leave an unrecognized impression upon the summer visitor to Paris.
 "The western point of the island, that ships prov continually at anchor, which, in the flow of two currents, looks at Paris, without ever reaching it. A lonely strand, planted with great trees, delicious retreat an asylum In the midst of the crowd" (Zola) in Paris" Augustus J. c. Hare.
The Coconino sun., 1922-05-26
GLADSTONE ANNOYED

The prolonged debates on the ad. dress in answer to the kings speech were matter of annoyance to Mir. Gladstone, says the Manchester Guar dian. If the royal message, he once declared, instead of being "a dignified, decorous and convenient method of meeting between sovereign and peo- pie and of initiating the business of the session, was to be made the sub- ject of all manner of amendment, 1t would become mo better than a pub lie nuisance"
 He even went so far as to hint that it might be wholly discontinued" but neither he nor any prime minister since has had the courage to put an end to the old custom.
The Coconino sun., 1922-05-26
MOVING DAY" NO PROBLEM

There Is not an encampment more picturesque than one of the nomads of New Chile as the Chileans call their southern territory. Notwith- standing the Patagonian winter is rough and cold, with heavy rains, the Tehuelches prefer to remain in their toldos or skin tents that are like a half-hoop in shape. They group their toldos around that of the head tribes man, together with their innumerable dogs and fowls and horses; and as quickly strike camp as pitch it.
 At word from the chief there is bustle everywhere. The young men and boys lasso and bring up the horses, and the women, who are well treated, place on their backs the bol- sters of reeds, tied with hides and the skin ponchOs and blankets, forming the saddles.
 Others strap their belts on. get pots and pans, etc, together, or put their babies into wicker-wOrk cradles; some of them rolling up the skins forming the covering of the toldos, and tying them and the tent poles on the bag gage horses.
 Meantime the men collect their herds of horses and fill the water skins, which are carried on the march.
 The women mount astride of their bolster saddles, their babies and pet dogs are hoisted up behind; then they take their baggage horses in tow and set off in single file, the men driving the spare horses.
The Coconino sun., 1922-05-26
PREHISTORIC TIN TRADE

Recent investigation of the old prob lem of the diffusion of tin over east ern Europe and Asia Minor in pre- historic times, leads to the conclusion that about a thousand years before Christ the tin of the British isles was carried overland to the Aegean sea. The invention of the anchor led, about 2,7OO years ago, to the opening of a marine route between England and the eastern end of the Mediterranean, and then the Phrygians controlled the tin trade with their ships. The short summer nights of north Britain were among the wonders that Greeks talked of in the days of Homer.
The Coconino sun., 1922-05-26
HOW
THE c. A. R. MEMBERSHIP

. THE q. A. R. MEMBERSHIP , IS RAPIDLY FADING AWAY. /, Figures compiled at the na , tional headquarters of the / Grand Army of the Republic , show that at the annual nation l, al encampment held in Indian, l, apolis in September more than , 10000 of the Civil war veterans l, who attended the encampment , of 1920 were counted among the , missing, as the ranks have been , depleted to this extent through |, The last year.
 : Total membership of the c. A. z R. today is 93,155. while it's mem {, bership in 1920 was 103,25S. Total membership Is scat : tered among 4,445 posts in every state. Ohio, with 10,241, has the , largest membership. with Penn sylvania second with 9,122; New York third. S,795; Illinois fourth, , 6,S6S; Indiana fifth, 5,949; Massachusetts sixth, 1856. No , other states have 5000 or more members. Members in the old |, Confederate states total approx lmately 2,200.
 The G. A. K. was organized in Illinois in the spring of 1866. By , July, 1866, there were 40 posts in Illinois, representative of , which met in convention and or ganized the state department. Posts were organized in other
 states, resulting in the first na-
 tional encampment being held in
 Indianapolis November 20, 1866.
 Ten states were represented at
 this encampment, 21 states In
 1867, 24 in 1868, 37 in 1869, hay
 ing 2,050 posts.
 In 1890, reports taken as au-
 thentic declare that the member
 ship was 4O9,4 ,4S9, the highest
 mark recorded. From 1878 to
 1890 the growth was rapid, be-
 ing from 12,0O0 to 5000 annual
 ly. Since 1890 the decline has
 been constant, except for a B..
 GOO gain in 1906. said to be due
 to prospects of favorable pen
 sion legislation. The member
 ship of late years is as follows:
 159,s63 U915; 149O74 G916);
 135,931 Q917; 12O,9l6 Q91S);
 110,357 G9l9); 1O3,258 (192O);
 93,l55 (192D.
 The 1920 national encamp-
 mcnt voted to meet every year
 as long as single member sur
 vived. Brig. Gen. John l.. Clem,
 addressing the Army and Navy
 club, Washington, maintains he
 is the youngest G. A. R. member.
 He is seventy-one years old, hay
 ing enlisted as a drummer boy
 when eleven years old. The
 question of who is the oldest
 member always brings up hun
 dreds of claimants and no relia-
 ble record has been obtained.
The Coconino sun., 1922-05-26
SCENE IMPRESSED ON BRAIN

An old man of nearly eighty, writes Nova Scotia reader, who was res cued from a burning house without any injury about a year ago, says he still sees the fire every night. Whether he thinks of it or not he sees the flames and awakes in horror.
The Coconino sun., 1922-05-26

If man tells the truth about him. self in the smoking compartment of a Pullman you're safe in lending him all the money he. asks without secur- itY.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1922-11-02
Local and Personal

Buy your magazines at T~aylors.-
Advertisement.
Special reduction on all pattern
hats. Mullen's Millinery.-Advertise
ment.
The w. G. T. U. will meet at the
home of Mrs. Dunbar, 1877 Eleventh
Ave. on Thursday, November 8.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Buskirk of Sioux
Falls, spent the week end visiting at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Lyle Bun
day.
Bake and fancywork sale by DOrcas
society at Dybdahl's garage Saturday
afternoon, Nov. 4. Lunch served.-Ad-
vertisement.
Notice-Another big dance at Au-
rora, Tuesday, November 7th. Music
by Mikes 5 piece orchestra featuring
Happy Jacks Singing. - ADVERTISE
ment.
Mrs. Eric Fairness and her grandson,
Lavon Griffis, left last week for Mem
phis, Tenn, for a visit with her daugh-
ter, Mrs. j. A. Griffis.
Mrs. Donald Campbell and baby Of
Tracy, Mimi, spent last week visiting
at the homes of her aunts, Mrs. G.
Blakeslee and Mrs. S. Selix.
Prelude-"Shall the Turk be Toler-
ated?" Sermon-"Burying the Hatch
ct, Handle and AL" Baptist church,
Sunday Observation-Disclosures.
Miss Dorothy Bradley of New Ok.
ford, N. d., arrived last Wednesday
to make her home with her uncle and
aunt, Mr.. and Mrs. l.. j. Kendall and
attend ~Brookings high school.
Rev. and Mrs. S. w. Keck and child
rem Of Watertown, motored down last
Friday and visited at the home of the
formers parents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. A.
Keck. Mrs. F. A. Stone and daughter,
Miss Helen, accompanied them down
from Watertown and visited at the
home Of Mr.. and Mrs. Amer Keck.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. C. Barr, Mrs. Cora
Bonesteel and daughter, Francis, Mrs.
Mrs. F. J.. Potticary and Mr.. and Mrs.
S. l.. Overhulser Of Watertown drove
down last Friday to attend the Chris
tian Science lecture given by DR.. John
NJ. Tut of Boston, Mass. The party
remained over night as guests of local
friends.
The Madison Sentinel made the fol-
lowing comment last Friday concern.
ing Brookings and Hobo day: "The
State College Hobo band was in town
last evening advertising Hobo Day at
Bookings tomorrow. We did not see
any Brookings people in Madison on
Pioneer Day, but perhaps we better
send a good delegation over to our
n%eighboring city tomorrow just to
show them that Madisonites are good
sports anyway. Perhaps Brookings
will recognize Pioneer Day" next
year.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1922-11-02

Buy advertised products. 1t is
the surest way to be certain OF
satisfaction and your moneys
worth.
Taxi Phone 354.-Advertisement.

Taxi Phone 354.-Advertisement.
Special reduction on all trimmed
hats. Mullen's Millinery.-Advertise
ment.
Adding machine paper at the Reg
lister Office, ~ inch roll, Is cents
Advertisement.
White Ash Coal, also Kentucky and
Wyoming Coal. Atlas Lumber Co
Advertisement.
Stamped art goods and models. Boil
proof cottons for embroidering. Evans
and Akin, Specially Shop.-Advertise
ment.
Miss Edna Riley came down from
Redfield where she is teaching, and
spent Hobo day with old friends In
Brookings.
Miss Esther Brown, who teaches al
Lake Andes, spent Hobo day visiting
at the home of her parents, Dean and
Mrs. G. L. Brown.
Miss Ruth Atkinson, who is teaching
at Ashton, was visiting over Hobo day
at the home of her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. G. H. Atkinson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Reiter Of Yank'
ton, spent the week end visiting at the
home of Mrs. Refers parents, Mr.
and Mrs. A. w. Morton.
Mrs. w. II. WEIGH and Mrs. c. P,
WEIGH returned Friday from Roches'
ter, Mimi, where the former under
went surgical treatment upon her eye
Mr.. and Mrs. C. E. LaGrave of Sioux
Falls, spent Hobo day visiting at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. w. E. Purdy
Mr.. LaGrave is a brother of Mrs
Purdy.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. II. Pickett of Pierre
were here for Hobo day. Hubble
was much in evidence as leader of the
State college alumni band, one of the
best features of the day.
Among the prominent men OF the
state who were here Hobo day we
noticed Regent T. w. Dwight of Sioux
Falls and former immigration commits
sioner, Chas. McCaffree who is now
secretary Of the Sioux Falls Chamber
of Commerce.
Prof. and Mrs. J. A. Wright, Mr.. and
Mrs. A. H. Whittemore and Mrs. r. A
Morgan Of Vermillion, arrived last
Thursday evening and visited unit
Sunday. Professor Wright of the Jour
nalism department Of the university
addressed the Journalism day gather
ing of high school students at State
college Friday. Mrs. Morgan was
guest at the home Of Mr.. and Mrs
Paul butcher.