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The Coconino sun., 1927-06-17
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Tucson Sunshine Climate club in
recent issue of the Tucson Citizen
said that more than $500 persons
have arrived at that city since Sep
tember /, 1922, in direct response to
advertising run in various periodicals
by that organization.
The air race to Honolulu from Los
Angeles for the $4,000 prize offered
by James d. Dole, pineapple magnate,
will be held between August l to
August IL, according to the National
Aeronautical association,
The famous Pons- Winccke comet
is to be visible from the earth on
June 26, according to astromers. 1t
will be only 3,500,000 miles from
earth.
H. C. .Clapp, former cashier Of the
Carson Valley bank, Reno, New,
pleaded guilty last week to the charge
Of abettlng in the embezzlement OF
$4,000 from the Nevada state
treasury and was sentenced to from 5
to Is years in the state penitentiary
Two other men arc being held on the
same embezzlement charge.
1t is estimated that good roads now
save highway users S75O,0o0,Ooo a
year.
William Randolph Hearst has
Offered Clarence A. Chamberlain and
Charles Al. Levine 100000 to make a
return flight from Europe to New
York.
American "chain store methods
will be introduced in Germany, and
Germans will shortly for the first
time pay cash and scarry their own"
foodstuffs. Study Of American stores
is being made by German grocery
company.
A flood of complaints has been
pouring into the office of the state
corporation commission from Phoenix
residents in regard to the whistling OF
Southern Pacific trains. Living on
the main line of railroad has some
disadvantages, after all.
Arizona grown cantaloupes made
their first appearance on state mar
kets last Saturday when 200 crates
were distributed to Phoenix retailers.
Suggestive popular songs have
been condemned by the National As
sociation Of Music Merchants in a
resolution calling on congress Tor
legislation to permit censorship Of all
songs Ito high standard of decency,
morality and fitness"
A new and modern fire alarm
system is to be installed in Tucson to
replace that which has been in service
for rs years.
There are 30,0Ooooo,0OO stars in
the heavens, according to DR.. 0. G.
Abbott, director of the astrophysical
observatory at the Smithsonian
Institute. Our nearest star is four
light years removed from the earth
light years removed from the earth.
With light travelling $4,000 miles a
second you can easily figure out the
distance but never be able to compre-
hend it,
One hundred yearling steers, fed at
the University of Arizona expert
mental farm, brought 11.65 cents
The Coconino sun., 1927-06-17
STYLES FOR THE SUMNER DAYS
SPORTS MODELS YEAR HOME AT THE
COUNTRY CLUB OR TENNIS COURT
BY HARRIET

VIARM days bring thoughts of
w summer clothes. And this
year, summer clothes mean sports
clothes.
Nothing ever was fashioned to
fill in-between needs like sports
clothes. They look chic with /or
without coats. They are smart
without being dressy They are
equally "good" on the country
club veranda, the tennis court,
and at home.
Rules From Paris
Four. rules are laid down by
Paris this year for general guild
ance of the sports modes.
First. the sports dress is always
a two-piece frock. A few unusual
models come in the one-piece
style But nine out of ten have a
skirt and jumper.
Second. hip length is the proper
place for a jumper to end. Sleeves
may be long or short-but must
never adopt halfway measures.
The jumper may slip on over the
head or button clear down the
front. If it has a collar it must
be small and have a notch in it,
or something distinctive. Odd
shaped necklines prevail when coll
lars are missing. Belts are all-im-
portant and often give the one
note of distinction.
Third ckirtcs no11cf have fu11uaSS
in front only Box-pleats are the
first choice Inverted kick-pleats
still are used but solid pleats in
the trout panel are better. III the
dress is of striped or blocked ma
tcrial. OF. course the skirts stripes
run the opposite direction from
those on the blouse.
Fourth, colors should be light
or strikingly dark. Pastel shades
are good. Green holds high favor.
Materials should be washable
when possible and silk combined
with wool. crepe with silk and
georgette with radium brings chic.
This is the first season georgette
has become democratic enough to
be used for sports wear Fashion
is making the most of the chang
and using it freely
Pretty and Practical
The models shown today are
charming. practical and different.
The white georgette model has a
stunning tight hip-band, and cuffs
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the use of his own machine to go to a
garage for mechanic.
Somebody in Dressings store saw
Dressings car drive away with wo-
man at the wheel and told Mrs. Dress
ing The sheriff's office, the police
department and Constable Prince all
were notified and the wheels of the
lav moved swiftly. Sheriff Jim Chap
pei drove all the way to the Tele-
graph Pass road ID thes search for the
"stclen0 car.
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and small, snug collar of striped
lavender and purple fiat crepe.
Its front is fashioned entirely
of small tucks running lengthwise
of the material. It's back is abso-
'lutely plain. So are it's sleeves.
Kick pleats among the front tucks
give the desired freedom of mo-
tion. Double pearl fastenings
CLEAN at the colorful cuffs and
collar. Made for the costume is
The Coconino sun., 1927-06-17
HOW WARS ARE STARTED

His friends know of Ed. H. Dressing
that above all else he is chivalrous.
Yesterday that spirit of gallantry
caused some excitement and no little
CONSERVATION in the police depart
ment and the sheriff's office.
Mrs. Milford Winsor's automobile
stalled in Main street near Dressing S
store and when. Dressing learned of
her plight, he offered Mrs. Windsor
The Coconino sun., 1927-06-17

pound on the hoof, when they were
sold in Los Angeles as baby beef last
week. This was something like three
cents over the market.
The board Of regents of the state
university are backing DR.. Byron
Cummings for permanent u presi-
dent, according to the Tucson Citizen.
The Coconino sun., 1927-06-17

the purple blocked Milan hat with
its ridges spreading in a sunbeam
design from the center front.
Stripes are seldom just plain
stripes this season, as the other
model illustrates, or beige and
white novelty striped crepe Ba-
roda, this frock gets its smartness
from its snug, fitted hip-line of its
jumper, it's combination of stripes
and its long notched revers.
The Coconino sun., 1927-06-17

He was we'll on his way when Dress
ing returned to his store and explained
the situation.-Y Yuma Sun.
Petitions have been circulated in
Yuma Tor the city council to call
special election to decide whether
the city viii purchase the light, water
ard gas systems from the Arizona
Edison company.
Give the Sun your job printing. 4
The Coconino sun., 1927-06-17

Newspaper advertising in America
cost S235, 100000 last year, gain OF
ES15 900 900 over the previous year.
Evening star., 1927-03-20
A PART OF THE THACHER COLLECTION BOOKS PRINTED
WHEN PRINTING FIRST TAKEN UP IN EUROPE

guished bearing visited him. doing him
great honor. An Albany banker had
from France regular remittances of
money, which were paid over to the
Indian foster father
The boy became q missionary ana
was of considerable service 10 the Gov
ernment in the War of 1912. The per
sonal resemblance of Williams to
members Of the Bourbon family was
remarkable. This letter by Williams
is dated 1926.
Little personal trinkets and curiOsi-
ties of the day are preserved in this
collection. Among these are one of
the little needle boxes used by women
of royalist sympathies during the
reign of terror. The rims of the box
We're so carved that when the light fell
upon them the shadows they cast
formed a profile of the King. Any
body found with one of them was
sure candidate for the guillotine
There is a button from the cap of one
OF the Swiss guards slain at the Tuil-
cries and buttons from the uniforms
of the National Guard during the
reign of terror. There is small col
lection of the books used by the King
i'm teaching the dauphin geography
and history.
%AIi iiiCA ASoliHS dItICle All tile COiISC-
ton is the new calendar drawn up by
the public instruction committee of
the convention. Each year was divid-
ed into IL months of 80 days each
and each month into 3 weeks of 10
days each. 1t was suggested that the
days of the first week be named for
plants, of the second for vegetables
and of the third for animals. This
last suggestion never was adopted, but
the calendar remained in official use
for approximately IA years, or during
the period of the revolution.
Slowly the record runs through the
years of the revolution, with tragedy
after tragedy checked up to the
makers of the letters or orders CON
ia med in the collection. TO calmer
days. The last item is dated August
g., 1904, shortly after Napoleon be
came hereditary Emperor of the
French. 1t Is a letter written to his
Evening star., 1927-03-20
TITLE PAGE FROM ONE OF THE THACHER BOOKS SHOWING
THE ELABORATE ART WORK TIE OLD!TIME PRINTERS.

lines. now preserved at the Library
of Congress.
This history in autographs goes
back to the beginning. The first rep
resented are the thinkers and their
intimates-the men and women upon
the anvils of whose minds were forged
the intellectual scythes and hatchets
welded by the Paris mobs few years
later.
Quite appropriately the French
Revolution collection starts with an
autographed letter by the old philoso-
pher, Montesquieu, sometimes refer
red to as the grandfather of the revo-
luton. Voltaire said of him: Man
kind had lost their rights, but Monies
quieu found them again" His work
inspired not only the French but the
American Revolution. Next comes
the real John the Baptist Of the Revo-
lution--Voltaire himself There are
letters signed by Voltaire, by his ia
ther, who was bitterly opposed TO the
literary studies of his iconoclastic son.
by his mistresses and by his son-in-
law, in whose house in Paris the old
philosophers heart was kept.
After Voltaire comes the still more
radical philosopher, R0usseau. and his
close associates.
There is a signed letter from Button,
naturalist whose theories and writ
ings did much to change the habit
of thought of the French people and
prepared the French mind to under
stand and accept the revolutionary
teachings of the philosophers.
The collection continues through
various figures of the corrupt French
court to Necker, the minister who
caused the states-general to be called
and gave to the third estate. the
people, the same representation en-
joyed by the clergy and nobility com
bined. Thus was laid the political
foundation of the great upheaval,
which was so shortly to follow.
From the Necker letter on, the fig
ures of the actual revolution are
reached. Page after page of the cat
alogue contained. with every name,
the notation: Born 1860, guillotined
Nav 1874" Not many men and WO-
Evening star., 1927-03-20

L want to thank you for the note
you sent the Rambler in tribute to
him. My mother, Eliza Shriver Fun.
denberg, and 1 are at the Wyoming
Apartments and would be very
pleased to have you make us a visit
and have a talk over old days at
Weston. She remembers all that fine
fruit and many happy days. She has
recently celebrated her eighty-eighth
birthday, and has been visiting
Washington since she was a little
girl. Our home is in Oakland. Md,
but we spend each Winter here. so
Washington is our second home.
Very sincerely yours. Miss Thekla
Causten Fundenberg"
In connection with the Causten
story the following letter came to the
Rambler from Elizabeth Du Hamel,
1920 Euclid street:
Mr.. j. Hadley Doyle's account of
Mr.. James ii. Causten was most in
teresting. and my only regret is that
he did not allude to the brave and
romantic fight that Mr.. Causten made
to secure the passage Of the bill for
the French spoliation claims. The
amount of energy he gave to the
AiAeitNGt uSoC4 NCu al AlOOAC IcWdTus
Thirty years ago / was one day
entertaining Miss Maraquita Carvallo
with that amiable parlor pastime of
viewing the photograph album. When
we came to the picture of Mr.. Causten
she informed me he was her great
grandfather. l asked IL she possessed
his photograph and. with a sigh. she
replied. No. / spent a few moments
OF silent selfdebate. In which I con-
cluded that a judge as wise as Solo,
mon might award her this treasure,
since she was the mans relative and
was not. I therefore concluded TO
rid myself Of all qualms by presenting
the picture to her. She has since
and is living in Chile. L am
sure she has taught her boys and
girls to revere the memory Of their
eat-great-grandfather.
There has been a distribution of
prizes on many occasions from nv
old album. and, since the
pictures have gone. 1t sometimes
seems like a little chapel from which
the windows have been taken. How
ever, l know these pictures are hang
ing on walls where they are honored
by their descendants as IL they were
saints. One of the last
Of the photographs that I gave AWAY
was that OF the late Miss Abbie Fes-
senden. The recipient was her cousin.
Miss Lucy Fessenden. Both Of these
aides are nieces Of William Pitt Fes-
senden. Would not an old album be
4 source OF a dozen topics upon which
you might build your stories? II mine
possessed its original richness I would
ielight In lending it to you. How
sver, reel sure you are congratu-
atfng me that the contents OF mine
laye gone In such good cause"
Evening star., 1927-03-20

was signed in the presence of Justices
OF the Peace Thos. q +. Van Iandt
and y. Callan. ir.
y x X
THE will of James II. Causten was
witnessed October 3. 1873, and
filed for probate December IS. 1874.
/ quote the following from it:
In the name of God Amen. Where
as | nave arrived at an age 50 years.
when the thoughts are irresistibly
drawn to the near termination of my
career on earth, and being now in inn
proved health, both in mind and body.
and therefore fully capable to define
my Will and disposition Of my worldly
affairs so that my heirs shall have but
little trouble in carrying the same
into effect, | hereby declare that my
real and personal estate shall he dis
tributed as follows:
Il. That within six months after my
death my farm. called Weston, situat-
ed quite near and north of George
town, ID. c., on the Tenallytown turn
pike road. shall be sold at public or
private sale as my executors shall
elect and that the avails Of such sale
Evening star., 1927-03-20

its owner was led out to the guillo-
tine.
Among the most picturesque figures
to live in these autographed letters IS
Schneider. the notorious public ac-
cuser before the revolutionary tribunal
at Strassburg. At the beginning OF
the revolution he was a German
priest. He appeared in Strassburg as
an agent of the revolutionary leaders
and became a constitutional bishop.
Later he renowned this office to act
as aCCuSer. He was one of the most
bloodthirSty Wretchcs even in the his
tory Of those cruel days. lie made
Suassburg streets run red with the
blood Of the scores he had dragged to
the guillotine. When news of his eX-
cesSes reached the convention in Paris
emiSsarieS were sent TO investigate
and Schneider's head soon fell in the
basket under his own guillotine.
There is an autograph document
signed in the hand of Jean Paul Ma
rat, the second member of the reVOlu-
tiOnary tribunal, stabbed in his bath
by Charlotte Corday. Marat, a scholar
and scientist. sometimes Is described
as the intellectual leader of the group
After his assassination his body was
rendered almost divine hOnOrS.
MaXimiien- -Marie-lsidore Robespierre,
the last Of the triumVirate to survive,
and the central figure in the bath of
blood which deluged France. is well
represented, as is his brother. conf
Dental agent of MaXimilien, who was
guillOtined the same day.
* X * 4
4 n example of the romantic nature
1 of the collection is seen from an
autographed letter of Eleazer VIII
liams. man of mystery, believed by
many to be the French dauphin, Louis
XVII In 1875 this youth appeared
in Albany. n. Y, accompanied by
three French refugees, . man, a wom-
an and a little girl. All showed him
marked reverence. The woman
claimed TO have been at one time en-
ployed in the royal household OF
France. The lad was taken to an In
dian village near Lake George, where
he grew to manhood. He was adopted
by Il half-breed Indian named Thomas
Williams. While ne was still with the
Indians two Frenchmen of distin-
Evening star., 1927-03-20
Rambler Records Tale of Album Which Was Real Benefactc

July 25, 1S43, for the 80 acres that
were part of Weston.
The deed of Walter Story Chandler
of Washington County to Thomas l..
Mckenney of the same county, con-
veying the tract subsequently called
Weston" was recorded November 21,
1917. The consideration was 1900,
and the land is described in part 'as
all that piece of land, heing part of a
tract called Pretty Prospect, begin
ming at stone marked "A standing
at the intersection of the third and
fourth courses of q conveyance made
by the said Walter S. Chandler to
Thomas Platter for part of said tract
of land about January 8, 1906" There
is long account of degrees and
perches, and of such boundary marks
as "a small spring under a maple
tree" and "a bounded oak tree that is
now stump" The land sold to Nc
kenney joined land that had been
sold by William Craik to Walter S.
Chandler in 1905, land conveyed by
John Rousby Platter to Walter S.
Chandler in 1910, land conveyed by
Chandler to Philip Barton Key in
1910 and land conveyed by Chandler
to Richard Harrison in 1910. The west
line of the land conveyed by Chandler
TO Mckenney was on the east side
OF the George Frederick road.
Chandler's wife was Margaret.
James FL. Causten bought the prop
erty on the south side Of r street, 60
feet east Of Fifteenth, in 1887 James
II. Causten conveyed the home lot,
under certain trusts. to his son, James
II. Causten, June "a, 1843. Mr.. Caus-
ten. sr. was no doubt arranging TO
buy Weston and move to the country,
and desired to turn his city home over
10 his son. The deed reads that the
+ street lot extended to the northwest
corner of the house and ground, part
or the lot 3, square 225, conveyed by
William Thornton to Julius Forrest.
thence southerly 96 feet to the south
west corner Of the said julius For
rests lot No. 8, being that land which
was conveyed to James II. Causten by
Robert M. Gibbs of Baltimore May g.
1887 The deed continues: I'm trust
for the sole use and benefit, free Of
rent and charges of every kind of my
beloved wife Eliza Causten during her
natural life, and also as slight token
of affection endeared by her unfailinG
love through nearly 80 years past, and
thereafter for the use and benefit in
~9N~A PibPOi Aibii5 vi iIN Pt
the said Eliza, to wit: Henrietta, the
wife of Joseph Shriver of Cumber-
land, Md: Mary. the wife of Manuel
Carvallo of the city of Santiago In
Chilli; James II. Causten. jr.. of the
city OF Washington, and Josephine.
the wife of McClintock Young of the
City of Washington; Alice Causten.
now aged about seven years, of the
city of Washington. and Carvallo
Causten. now about two years old, Of
the city Of Washington" The deed
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and to my granddaughter, Mary c..
kunkle, / leave nothing of my estate,
but deep regret that their recent mani
festations of alienation and unkind-
ness have obliterated the long-endur-
ing affections 1 had cherished for
them from their birth"
The executors named were Josephine
c. Young and Manuel c. Causten. The
witnesses were Charles 7. Larned,
Allen Barrett and N Callan.
A codicil was filed which modified the
direction as. to the sale of Weston" :"
leaving the time and manner of the
sale to the discretion of the executors.
Until such sale, Josephine G. Young
and her children were "to enjoy pos
session of the farm Weston together
with all the buildings, farming stock.
utensils and crops and household fur
niture in the dwelling, free from all
deductions and charges whatever, in
Guiding taxes"
The will of James III. Causten, jr.,
was signed in August. 1856 1t was
not witnessed. but was proved in Oc-
tober, 1856, to be the writing and sig
nature. of n. Causten, jr., on the
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ket would bring fabulous sums. The
same is true of the collection of an
cient books, which would seem to
have in them something Of the very
personality of the medieval master
craftsmen who labored at the very
dawn of printing. And the same is
true more particularly of the collec-
ton Of the material relating to Chris
topher Columbus, his associates. and
the men who followed him across the
unexplored Atlantic to a new world.
Hereafter, the student must come to
Washington to study Columbus.
The aspirations and passions of that
thunder tempest of history, the French
Revolution. are told in series of
more than 500 autographed personal
letters. documents and portraits. The
collection is invaluable to the student
of history Washington becomes head
quarters for the study of the motives
and injustices underlying those blood
drenched days. Hardly an actor in
the drama but is represented by some
thing in his own handwriting.
X X X
DUT the collection is more than a
~ mine of history. 1t contains ma
terial for a thousand romances. 1t
preserves an intimate, personal touch
with some of the great figures whose
memory has survived out of the past.
1t is, in itself, sort OF drama. Each
one of the actors-cynical philosopher,
tragic queen, ragged mob leader
comes on the stage TO speak his piece.
Perhaps IL is a personal message to
wife, perhaps an order to troops, or
perhaps something cryptic and mex
plicable, like Danton's scribbled note
to Marie Antoinette, warning the
doomed queen to put the motto Of the
revolution over her door TO escape
death. But why did he warn her? He
hated her with as passionate a hate
as ever ragged in human heart.
Then. one after the other. they are
dragged away to the hungry guillotine
philosopher, queen. mob leader
leaving little behind them for a COM
ing century except these scribbled
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shall he distributed thus: Ten thou
sand dollars thereof shall be paid or
secured to my daughter Josephine G.
Young. if then living, or TO her sur
ViVing children then living in equalS
shares, and that the residue of such
aVails, together with the avails of the
entire of my other real estate and per-
sonal property shall be distributed
thus: viz
"2. To the then surviving children
Of my deceased daughter, Henriette
j. Shriver one-fourth part of the ag
gregate fund above indicated. TO the
then surviving children of my de.
ceased daughter, Mary c. Carvallo,
one-fourth part of the aggregate fund
above indicated. To my daughter,
Josephine c. Young. if then living, or
to her surviving children one-fourth
part of the aggregate fund above in.
dicated, being in addition to the S10.-
900 hereinbefore mentioned. To my
son, Manuel c. Causten, if then living,
or to his then surviving children one
fourth part of the aggregate fund
above indicated.
ITO my daughter. Alice e. Fisher,