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The Coconino sun., 1926-10-29
Her Knipht's Armor

Girl Ito phelgmatic loverl You
ave ard cart, George!"
George "a taxi driver) NO amt,
Maud. That's my number plate you've
hot your cad against!"
The Coconino sun., 1926-10-29
Biting Speech

The patter of tiny feet was heard
from the head of the stairs. Mrs.
Morton raised her hand, warning the
Others to silence.
Flush" she said softly 1.-THE child
rem are going to deliver their good
night message. 1t always gives me
"a feeling of reverence to hear them
they are so much nearer the Crea-
tor than we are and they speak the
love that is in their hearts never so
fully as when the shadows of night
have fallen. Listenw
There was moment of intense 81
|lence-then--
MAMA" came the message in a
shrill whisper, willie has found a
Ibed-bug!"
The Coconino sun., 1926-10-29
Bad Dreams

Senator Reed Smoot, of Utah,
chairman of the senate finance COM
mittee, said in speech recently that
it is about time the French people
awoke to the fact that it is to their
advantage to settle the debts they
have incurred. The senator went on:
(Which reminds me Of the story:
:" 'Whot's the matter? You look
broken-hearted, inquired Pat.
:" And so am replied Mike. i
was a-sittin' ere in this bar, dozin'
and dreamin, when bloke came in
an ordered drinks round for every
body three times-and / slept through
lit ALI"
The Coconino sun., 1926-10-29
Sleepy Tour

Mr.. Smith-When we go east we
will take through sleeper.
Mrs. SMITH don't want to sleep
all the way.
The Coconino sun., 1926-10-29
One Hot Day

One hot day my husband was get
ting ready to go over to the corner
drug store. When | learned where he
was going cried eagerly, "Take me
with you; | want soda!"
To which he replied: "Well, 'sodas'
you old man."
The Coconino sun., 1926-10-29
A Mare Cnmma

What a difference comma does
make
Woman is pretty, generally speak
ing.
Woman is pretty generally speak
ing.
The Coconino sun., 1926-10-29
A Short Story

There was once a man who had a
mania for travelling, and to such an
extent that he could not agree with
anyone else. One day he went on a
trip to the South Seas, and was ship
wrecked off an unknown coast. He
fell in with group Of cannibals-
and he agreed with them.
The Coconino sun., 1926-10-29
MisunderstoOds

Speed Cop-Hey there! Pull over
to the curb, you have flat tire.
Driver-I beg your pardon, sir,
this is my wife.
The Coconino sun., 1926-10-29
No Need to Get Excited

"But Luisa, you know can't bear
those vulgar flesh colored stockings"
"It's all right father. / haven't any
stockings on!"
The Coconino sun., 1926-10-29

The report that President Coolidge has ordered
the Marines to guard the U. S. treasury against
the promises of Senator Cameron is not con-
firmed' "Tell it to the Marines"
The Coconino sun., 1926-10-29

In the middle west they have been having some
terriblesfloods, and the entire country is sub
merged in a flood of campaign oratory.
The Coconino sun., 1926-10-29

If Cameron's claims are all true, then there
was only one other man on earth during the past
1926 years who in the least compares favorably
with him. He was crucified.
The Coconino sun., 1926-10-29

If we only had law that would compel politi-
clans to tell the truth OF souse em in jail, the
people would be saved much mental agony, also
much strife and money.
The Coconino sun., 1926-10-29

While it is said that the people loved to be
fooled-they don't like to be dam-fooled by Sen
ator Cameron.
The Coconino sun., 1926-10-29

"If / had nine children and eight
apples how would make the apples
go around ?"
saw, applesauce."
The Coconino sun., 1926-10-29

A headline in the Ell Paso Herald announces
'Police seek man who shot woman" Evidently
the Ell Paso police disapprove of his action.
The Coconino sun., 1926-10-29

Pretty soon there will be enough eligibles to
start Loyal Order of Channel Swimmers.
The Coconino sun., 1926-10-29

1t is understood France will attach some reser-
vtions to its debt settlement and the reservations
are probably all we will ever get out of it.
The Coconino sun., 1926-10-29

Lars: "The word is goin' round
that Karl's health is failing since he
took to ski-joring."
Axel: "Too bad, yes; he goes down
hill very fast"
The Coconino sun., 1926-10-29

Swimming the British channel which was once
to be fad
The Coconino sun., 1926-10-29
A wedding in High Life

A physician was praising the late
DIR. John Duncan Quackenbos.
"Quackenbos," he said, "was keen
witted. AS we were motoring one day
we passed a fashionable church. A
crowd was gathered about the church
door, a red carpet was spread over
the steps and superb foreign limou-
sines were driving up.
"What's going on there, wonder?"
/ said.
''The beginning of divorce" said
DIR. Quackenbos.
The Coconino sun., 1926-10-29

We Believe in Life Insurance For
Those who have no life insurance.
The man who slaps you ons the
back.
The man who borrows part of your
daily paper.
The man who puns "defeat.Ss
The man who puns anything
The man who calls you "old Thing. !"
The woman who prefacesg asratty
remark with nice one. ~ ~
The man who remembers good
jokes and tells them as his own.
The man who doesn't carry a
watch.
Those who begin every sentence in
the first person singular.
The life insurance salesman.
The Coconino sun., 1926-10-29
Comforting

Guest (angrily) You have kept
me waiting SO long for my lunch that
now l have missed my, train!
Waiter-Never mind, sir, now you
can eat your meal in peace.
Don't make any passes at me, boy
cause if you get me reused, you'll be
aged in the wood.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-24

WITH the eyes Of the world now
w fixed enquiringly upon the fl
nancial condition of France, 1t may
not be amiss to invite attention to a
little corner of that country in viii n
religious tradition is treasured more
than material wealth.
The ordinary tourist knows little or
nothing Of La Camargue. or its cu:i-
GUS inhabitants; he skirts it in the
railway train as he travels from
Mines or Aries to the sea, which is
just enough to impress him with its
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Curious Legend Lives in France

This delta Of the Rhine is really an
immense swamp over which, some
1000 years ago or more, the sea is sup
posed to have rolled. Uninhabited, add
practically uninhabitable as it is, La
Camargue preserves and treasures a
tradition associated with its chief
town which bears the names OF
Saintes- Maries-de. Le-Mer.
AN ANCIENT LEGEND.
This ancient legend tells how the
holy women who had been the closest
attendants on Jesus, were, after His
death, put into a boat without sails or
oars by the Jews; pushed out to sea
and abandoned. Among them were
Mary Magdalen, Martha. Mary ia
CODY and Mary Salome, relatives of
the carpenters son, Marcella, Sarah,
poor Egyptian woman who was SER
want to the two Marys, and othtr
Saints.
Sarah who had been forgotten and
did not wish to be left behind spread
her veil or wrap on the waters, and
carried by it as it floated, reached the
vessel when it was already well out
at sea. God did not abandon HIS
faithful. and the sea. which had been
stormy when the boat started, soon
became calm. aad a gentle wind car.
ried the little craft across the Medi-
terranean.
Twice daily mama came down to
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vas ito become q mother for the
second time in eleven months" She
had nearly died at the birth of her
second child and she felt that she
could never live through another
travail so promptly. Thinking taat
she would die, she resolved to take
herself and her two children out of
the world with her.
1t is easy to express horror Of such
a woman, especially if one is a man
and particularly If one is a celibate.
but it is for just such cases that the
birth-control idea is upheld, and not
for the sake Of encouraging vice. Vice
needs no encouragement; it has al
ways flourished in all communities, in
the strictest little more furiousiy
it seems, than in the more liberal.
RANDOM CLIPPINGS.
The newspapers of the last few
days show no lack of crime. / select
almost at random a few examples of
women's activity at the stage of civili-
zation reached in the year Of our
Lord, 1926. Here are the headlines {:
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also Count Of Provence, and was more
of poet than a king. He put the
holy legend into verse and on canvas
and even set it to music. Wishing to
show their approval of his work it is
said the holy Marys appeared in Il
vision to the good poet king and CON-
manded him to go and seek their relics
at the village where they had died,
then called "Our Lady of the Sea-" a
name he himself changed to Saintes-
Maries-de-La-Mer.
For a time the fame Of the place
and of the fame which Rene built to
enshrine the relics. attracted thou
sands of pilgrims from all over south
ern Europe and the inhabitants be-
came wealthy. After the Reformation
and the general growth of scepticism
however, the fame of the shrine fad
ed. With the French Revolution it
seemed to pass from human ken, au1
where were once thriving inn keepers
there are none but struggling fishe--
men.
Still it would be wrong to say that
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES is today en-
tirely deprived of pilgrims, for legend
and tradition die hard in these coun-
tries, AID every year on May "a, the
usual solitary and silent roads Of Ca
margue are alive with the hustle of
travellers; the chatting and laughing
Of the country people the cries of
wagoners and the neighing Of horses.
1t is the crowd of pilgrims threading
their way over the cracking salty soil
through the rows of tamarisk trees
now vivid with red bloom and the yell
low broom, to pay their respects to
the relics of the holy Marys.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-24
Tremendous Rush by Women for Free.
dom Impresses Novelist as
Main Feature.
BY RUPERT HUGHES
(Famous Novelist)

Turkey the shackles and the masks
were thrown off, superstitions out
lawed, and the enslaved woman Of
fered equality with the tyrannical
males. In Persia, China, Japan, In
dia, Korea and many such benishted
lands, great strides have been taken
toward freedom.
In America, on the other hand,
movement is started in Washington by
a congressman's widow to compel wo-
men to wear longer skirts! There is
also great activity among multitudes
of women to oppose the granting Of
equal rights to American womankind
and to put through countless laws Of
censorship and other interfennces with
individual liberties.
Many women scientists have accom-
plished big things during the year
and many women are fighting noble
battles for political and educational
advancement. Yet other women fight
just as hard against it.
The birth control idea which, it was
hardly decent to mention a year ago,
and hardly legal to enquire about, has
spread around the globe and won num-
berless adherents among the most emf
nenty respectable women, among
statesmen and clergymen. Yet opposi-
ton to it is waged ferociously by other
women, statesmen and clergymen.
AS TO BRITISH CONTROL.
In the last week of the year 1925
the subject was brought to mind with
startling effect, by woeful tragedy.
The more circumspect newspapers an
nounced that woman in a Long Is.
land village shot her 4-year-old boy in
the head, her S-months-old boy over
the heart, and herself in the left breast.
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UNIQUE Museum Of Printers Art

and initials having been first intro
duced by Erhard Ratdolt in Venice
toward the close of the fourteenth
century.
After feasting my eyes upon a page,
in splendid preservation of the Gut
enberg Bible, I undertook to gain a
knowledge Of just what in chief the
library that spread out before me con-
sisted.
A task indeed would it have been
to learn that definitely, for there are
more than 10000 books in its con-
tents-histories, biographies, books re-
lating to engraving in wood, with, ex-
amples of the famous engravers; books
relating to process engraving with ex-
amples Of the superseded processes;
books relating to paper-making in all
its branches books relating to journal
ism-such a collection as one could
with difficulty find anywhere else
in the United States.
WINDOWS SEALED.
To preserve these books from dust
and climatic changes, all windows in
this vast room are sealed and an ar
tificial ventilating system established
which keeps the temperature at an
even 20 degrees. .
But it is in its collection of speci-
mems of types used in all countries
from the invention of Typography to
the present time, that this little
known museum is indeed unique. No
where else in all the world can you,
it is said, see every single shape, style
and graduation Of the metal objects
which have stamped their various in
dividualities upon billions of tons Of
paper since the days of the patient
monks,
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Sins Place in Mans Progress
- Bv Rev. r. B GyegO,v

The Bushmen in Australia, the red
savages Of North America, the Tar
tars and Kalmucks of Central Asia,
the black fetich-worshipers that Liv-
ingston and Stanley ran up against in
Darkest AfricaAdid those men look
as though they had once been "per-
feet" and had fallen from" their
happy estate?
The first Of human kind perfect |.
Why the human race has been on this
earth not six thousand and four years
but probably millions of years, and
there is not a perfect human being
yet.
But there is pretty good proof that
the race is getting a little better right
along.
Even the terrible jolt that the World
War gave US was not enough to shake
our faith in the slow but steady in
tellectual moral and spiritual advance
ment of humanity.
The time will come when even the
most careless of the preachers will
have advanced far enough to feel
ashamed to stand up and tell with a
straight face of the "fall in the Gar.
den Of Eden
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"Pretty
Girl 10
Arrested
As Queen
OF eW
Rum
Plant"

feigned, brings death on Christmas
Eve
Russian poet ends life, leaves IL
legible note written in his own blood.
Youth divorced by American dancer,
Isadora Duncan, had recently wed
granddaughter of Tolstoy."
austrian baron assaulted and LEFT
unconscious by unknown man whom
he believes to have acted under Or
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-24

A T the end Of the year it is Gus
"a tomary to take an inventory and
lind how the business stands, to reckon
up profits and losses, stock on the
shelves, liabilities, assets and pros
poets.
Now that the one thousand nine
hundred and twenty-fifth year Of our
calendar is closed on the books, it in
terests met may interest you-to
glance at the shop as it stands, with
particular reference to the status of
womankind.
An enormous amount Of bookkeeping
would have to be done to show the
actual condition. but have no inten-
ton Of trying to weigh the ocean or
describe it. The newspapers show
flashes of the surface and the depths
may be guessed therefrom.
Whenever you read of crime or a
virtue dramatic enough to reach the
headlines, you may be sure there is a
vast amount of same that has escaped
the reporters or has lacked picturesque
hess.
Whenever you see movement, a
crusade, a rebellion on foot, you may
be sure that powerful forces are at
work in the opposite direction. As in
the most ancient histories you find
poor souls fighting for liberty and
progress, so you find in the most
modern history, ferocious conserva.
tives trying to drag mankind back to
the good old times when things are
supposed to have been better, by peo-
pie who know nothing about them.
PROGRESS BY WOMEN.
The year 1925 was amazing in the
tremendous rush for freedom on the
part Of womankind about the world. In
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NEW YORK, Jan. 23.-In the Ii
~ brary Of the late J. p. Morgan is
Canon Missal printed during the four
teenth century by the firm of Fust &
Schoeffer, which was the first sue
cessor Of Johannes Gutenberg Of
Mainz, the inventor Of printing. AL
though very rare and valuable, it is
neither from the first or second edition
of that work, but is a third edition
volume. OF the much rarcr second
edition, only two copies are actually
known to exist at the present time.
But 1 am getting ahead of my story,
which had its origin in a discussion,
to which recently was listener,
between two newspaper men, concern
ing the history Of printing, and its
allied arts. Finally volunteered, hav-
ing considerable leisure, to look up
chiefly disputed point in the New
York public library.
"If you are as interested in the
subject OF printing as all that said
one of the gentlemen, you'd better
pay a visit to Jersey City," OF course
I inquired why, and was told that the
most complete topographic library in
all the world had been established in
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-24

the occupants, and an angel, invisible
to them sat at the PROV of the boat
which vas waited to the coast Of La
Camargue in Provence at a'village
inhabited by some fishermen.
TEACH THE NATIVES.
Once ashore, the holy women then
set themselves to the task of teaching
Christianity to the inhabitants. Mary
Masdalen went to Sainte-Beaume and
Martha to Hariscon where she was
buried. Saint Lazarus-who was also
said to be Of the party-went to NAL
settles. The two Marys and their SER
want remained where they were and
converted the nomad people who lived
in the pine forest, and beside the lag
CONS.
After a life devoted to the accom-
plishment of miracles, they received
the last Sacrament from Saint Tro-
phine, the first bishop of Aries, s1d
died and were buried at the place
which is now called after them. Their
tomb soon became a place of pilgrim.
age and about 1000 A. D. a church
was built over it-a church which
also combined the qualities Of d
fortress as was not unusual in those
days, one of its objects being to safe
guard the peasants from the attacks
of marauding Saracens.
KING WROTE LEGEND.
This curious legend owes a great
deal of its life to King Rene who was
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-24
Rupert Hughes Finds Hopeful Signs Of Progress in 1925

She did not die at once and was ar.
rested on a charge of felonious assault.
The polite journalists merely refer.
red her deed to nervous illness. A
paper that believes in giving the read
ers all the information in its posses
sion states that the mother was driven
to desperation by the fact that she
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-24

Adlerika gives the system a REAL
cleansing and brings out old metabolic
poisons which may have caused trouble
for long time. Just ONE spoonful
relieves GAS and takes away that full.
bloated feeling so that you can sleep
at night without rolling from side 10
side. Even IL your bowels move every
day. Adlerika removes much additional
poisonous matter which you never
thought was In your system, and which
caused sour stomach, nervousness, Sleep
lessness. headache, etc. Don't wait any
longer but let Adlerika give your stom-
ach and bowels QUICK relief. At A. NJ.
Fischer's and other leading druggists.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-24

aged wife causes husbands kill
ing. Chicago woman of IS confesscs
conspiracy which eliminates IN pru-
tai murder Of her aged husband; she
admits love affair with ex-convict Of
AZ
"Poor-box thief ends life she brands
unfair Poison dose, thought to be
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-24
have declined startlingly.

ca have declined startlingly.
Equally startling is the announce
ment that in France, which has long
been a by-word for decreasing birth
rate, there has been an improvement
that places France we'll forward in
Europe. The figures for 1924 show
that France has surpassed her birth
rate for 1913 while England has fallen
far below her birth rate before the
war.
Statistics from London show that in
London there are 400,O more women
than men, and there were 10000 few
er marriages in 1925 than in 1915 in
spite Of the great increase in popula-
ton.
MUCH FOR REJOICING.
London has 539,700 bachelors and
1900 widowers, 725,0OO spinsters and
$4,000 widows. But there was not
one death from smallpox last year. In
view OF the plaques that used to
slaughter the citizens by the tens Of
thousands this Is good news.
In fact, the world has much to re-
joice In. Crime flourishes, vice is
busy, progress is bitterly opposed, and
progressive souls are reviled as worse
than criminals. But that has always
been the case. The new things are
that disease is being understood and
conquered for the first time;. that
womankind is gaining further emanci-
patton everywhere; that children are
neither brought into the world so reck-
lessly nor so ruthlessiy neglected, per-
secuted or exploited as always before;
and that millions of high-hearted wo-
men are marching into the year 1926
with a determination (as the club
treasurers say in their annual re-
ports) to make it just the best year
this old club has ever known.
Copyright 1898. By Bell Syndicate. Incl
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-24

"Stenographer, p, found dead with
two bullets in breast and embezzlcr
found shot in the temple and dying
in apartment occupied by stenographer
and her mother"
Mothers letter leads to drug raid.
Description of how daughter got mar
cotics brings arrest of alleged vendor.
Girl found in mans apartment"
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-24

Girl of S assists in $1,000 rob
berry. Poses first as buyer. then as
lookout. Woman locked in ice-boI."
pretty girl arrested as queen of
new rum plant. Federal officials
charge that vivacious Miss boosted Of
from $1,000 to $500 a day; also seize
girl bookkeepr."
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-24
Mother! Childs Best Laxative is
california Fig Syrup"

When your child is eonstipated. bill
ious, has collie. feverish-breath, coated
tongue, or diarrhea, teaspoonful OF
genuine California Fig Syrup
sweetens the stomach and promptly
cleans the bowels of poisons, gases
bile, souring food and waste. Never
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posed to have the latest word on the
great subjects of human thought, and
here be comes with one of the silliest
stories that was ever printed and asks
us to receive it as the most important
part of Gods infallibly inspired Word.
The Lord have mercy on us What
is to become Of us If he doesn't?
What was our young preacher doing
while he was going through college
and finishing up in the seminary?
Did he read nothing Of the story
Of Mans past on this old earth? Did
he learn nothing of the River Drift
Men, the Cave Men, the Lake Dwell
ers, the Observation-Disclosures, the men
of the Old Stone Age, the men that
the Navigators of the fifteenth and
sixteenth centuries and the explorers
Of the eighteenth and nineteenth CEN
turtles found in Africa, parts Of Asia,
Australia, the polar regions, and the
islands Of the South Seas? Did he
come out of college and seminary alb
solutely ignorant of such types Of
humanity 2.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-24

cramps of oyeracts. Children love its
delicious taste.
Ask your druggist for genuine "Calis
fornia Fig Syrup" which has full di-
rections for babies and children OF III
ages plainly printed on bottle.
Motherl You must say California
or you may get IN imitation fig syrup
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-24

Sunday full preacher
"A big Southern talked for
rapidly and did speak word
ton that % a wonderful of truth
"Sn" Of the minister sincerely
especially thought that he speaking