The weekly Arizona miner., 1878-03-08
o,lD rlsEns.

A kind of sacred halo rasIiafes frcsn inc ] brows of the Arizona pioneers that cissi- lieaees our venerafiop. amounting almost tp ! worship, sort of subdued, yet tintcnse saint ! iy light. glory. lso to speak, such as we sec in ideal pictures of holy personages acsl
 beafiic visioi $.
 This comes of long and m timate assoc i..:icn with the old timers, and alesl.za;ion of their virtues. mol the Least of which is capacity ! Co viyidly portray in words the ten thous- land dangers. t0ils. trials aEd harJships 1 through which ws., with themselves, passed !! in the long and tedious years cf our Terri tory's infancy, when the now old timers were adventurers, not to say carpet balsseIs l themselves, aud modestiy steod back and
 allowed the prehistoric occupants of the
 land to monopolii.e all the soft and desirable
 positions, whether in state. mining, ronl-
 mercial. connul,ial or agricultural sililfs,
 and righteously frowned upoc those. who, fol- lowing in their footsteps, had the teme.-ty O
 dare also to seek homes in this ''new bright
 laad- in any capacity other than aspeones so
 those who had preceded them.
 These attributes, possesse'i in such emi-
 nent degree by SO many of tine old timers
 together sith minor yirt1es, such as go to constitute the just man in his dealings. truth and warmth in his friendships, and honesty in all his relations with his fellow man, which so many of another class of the old timers possess, sre what constrains as to love the average old timer, and ths.u3a he have q fault to overlook it and drown IL m the reccollectioa of the virtues ofhisieilows, who in turn may have others which his good qualities may smother.
 The old timer is rough diamond, con cealing bright gem beneath rough ex- terior, and yet ,stl have noted few scatter ing exceptions to the rule and here and there, at long intervals. found an old timer, whose life did not perfectly illustrate tkat sscharity which vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, seektfh not his own etc. and on the other hand we have occasionally en- countered in ouI. latter day pilgrimases, those who were not entitled to canoniz ltion as saints in the calendar of noble old timers, on account of their lives having been cast in other if net pic;lsanter places, which they have forsaken in the evening of their lives to come over and take an humble position under the old timers of Arizona.
 Many of these.we have found to be human, possessed of qualities of head and heart, 10 which, iffound in an old timer, we should feel like paying devotion, nay, evea adora- tion, but when VIC remember that they were not here lat an carly day" we are, however 10th to give them up, forced to acknowledge that they are '1prefanes,n so [" speak, and, however worthy they may prove themselves ofour confidence, we can not recognize them on an equality with the genuine olo timer, and are ccnstraipe6, when one oftEese out side barbarIans seeks to intrude his inrcgeueraie presence into the society of members of the lunta of "an early day to cry ''unclean, un clean" Where this idea of caste is to end. we have made no calculation, or who is to rule when the old timers are all dead, but feel | ing secure as member of the aristocratic 1 class the Arizona ancients, we''stand in" with the old timers, many of whom We rec ogmze as the noblest portion of gods handi- work. while others are the yeriest old frauds | that ever marrcd the harmony of creation.