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The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1881-10-22

The celebration at Yorktown is
now in the full tide of success.
Our distinguished French visit
ors, after having been shown over
New York harbor, and treated 10
the hospitalities of Governors Is
land by Gen. Hancock, after hav-
ing enjoyed a pleasant sail up the
Hudson, an inspection of West
Point and a formal reception by
the Senate of the United States
at Washington, are now on the
ground forever consecrdted by
the disinterested and noble valor
of their ancestors. With them
are the descendants of Baron Won
Steuben, the German whose
splendid achievements in our
Revolutionary war caused Amer
leans to forget the infamous Elec'
tor of Hesse, whose trading of
his subjects to Great Britain ex'
cited the contempt Of the great
Frederick. There are two curl
Gus things about the struggle
which made us a nation. The
first is that the Washington mon
ument is not yet completed, and
the second that Yorktown has
been left without a fitting COM
memorative monument. The re-
currence of this centennial ami
versary has aroused our slumber-
ing patriotism and, within a
short time, the shameful neglect
of years will be repaired. 1t Is
pleasant to know, also, that OF late
years thorough impetus has
been given to the Washington
monument; and that, in a short
time, the Father OF his country,
in the city founded Ivy him, VIII
be fittingly commemOrated il
granite and bronze.-LOs Angeles
Herald.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1881-10-22

Young man be happy-hoot,
holltr, skip, gambol and snap
your fingers at the nightmare of
new overcoat for next winter.
Last fall Canadian genius shiv-
cred awhile and then reflected
awhile, and the result was the
purchace Of a box of mustard
pIasters, these were distributed
around on his frame where they
would do the most good, and
while men in beaver Over-coats
shivered with cold he was warm
and happy in his shirt sleeves.
One dollar takes you through a
hard winter, and you come out
fat in the spring.-Detroit Press.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1881-10-22

In another column we give an
unvarnished account of the rob-
bling of an emigrant passenger by
the gang of top-and-bO bottom men
who have been operating in this
place for the last six weeks. We
have written on this subject be-
fore, and are proud to say that
the SENTINEL has left nothing
undone, either publicly or pri-
vately. that would help to relieve
Yuma of the disgracetul presence
of these outlaws. Happily for US
we are not called upon to stand
in the equivocal position of a
public journal, laboring to benefit
the community by exposing
fraud, and a private pettifogger,
who for a paultry dollar defends
rascals against the operations Of
the law. We have but one voice,
and that is for the welfare of thu
community in which Providence
has cast our lot. Although no
one can remove the guilt from
the hands of the thieves, there
are several circumstance which
show that the skirts of some of
our own townspeOple are by no
means clean. The Justice of the
Peace before whom the case Was
broug t had it in his power, unless
we are greatly mistaken, TO hold
such rein on the proceedings az
would prevent the escape OF the
criminals, or at least to have pro-
tected the injured man from the
farcical compromise. The Dis
trict Attorney also comes in fol
a share of censure, for he, as
public prosecutor and private at
torney for the Railroad company
could have given the outcome o
the case a different complexion
But the culmination of tWofaceC
meanness is reached in the pei
son of the lawyer who represent
ed the raScals. This so-calleC
gentleman, if the WoId of the in
iured man Is worth anything, ha
been guilty of piece Of double
dealing that shows him to be M
novice in that line of practice
After receiving a fee from nj
principals for etfecting comprp
mise with a third party, he say
thai unless he receives an adul
tional fee from this third party
he will be unable to make nj
principals keep their agreement
So long as the more reSpectabl
members of this community re
tain their present apathy, just 5
long will Yuma hold her preSen
unenviable reputation. A pOlll
but determined invitation for tn
sharpers to leave town is IN
only way to rid the place of theni
fur 10 al appearance the prizes /
the judicial lottery are r, gulatG
by The price Of the tickets.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1881-10-22

A dispatch from Prescott, dated Oct.
10Th says: Deputy Sheriff Bryant was
murdered to-day in the official discharge
of his duty by man named Miller. He
leaves wife and three children. The
desperate escaped. Fifty men are after
him.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-10-27
M0rganatic Marriages.

Morganatic marriages have for centu-
turtles been made by German princes.
Neither the wife nor the children are en-
titled, usually, in union OF this kind,
to share the rank or possessions OF the
husband, the dowry being considered a
requittal for the loss of ordinary con-
nublal rights and privileges. One of
the most noted of such alliances was that
of Frederick William III, of Prussia,
with the Countess Auguste Won Harrach,
who, at the time of the wedding, was
made princess of Liegnitz; out of the
usage has gradually arisen code
of matrimonial law by which the
union of princes with members OF
the lower order in other than
morgantic form has been attended with
very serious consequences mainly to the
women. The lovely and unhappy
Agnes Bernauer, whom Duke Albrecht,
of Bavaria, had espoused, was ssvagely
put to death, in the fifteenth century
during the absence Of her lord, on charge
of having bewitched him. In the six
teenth and seventeenth centuries the
German princes were in the habit of taxi
ing morganatic wife in addition to q
regular wife. Jaudgrave Philip, of
Hesse, set the example, though not with
out the disapproval of the leading re-
formers. During the past century, Anton
Ulrich, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, tried
hard to depart from the established rule
in an effort to obtain for his morganatic
wife the title of duchess, and for her
children the right of succession. The
emperor sustained by the highest
nobility of the realm, refused his
suit, declaring that there could be
NO complete marriage in princely
families except between persons OF equal
birth. Morgantio marriages have not
decreased in Germany during the last GO
or 70 years. One OF the most remark
able instances Vas the marriage Of the
daughter OF the postmaster Of Aussee
(Styria), afterward created Countess Of
Moran, TO the late Archduke John.
These left handed connections are recog-
nized and tolerated among the higher
aristocracy not less than among princely
lines. In Prussia, even the inferior gen.
try may, and often do, contract them.
The Roman and the Greek churches
have virtually sanctioned morgantic
marriages, which are palpably unjust to
women, to true domesticity, and to the
best interests Of morality.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-10-27
The Sac End OF sn Ambitious Detroit
Polite an.

When poor old Uncle Silas Patterson
went to his grave the other day not a
mourner followed, and never will tear
moisten the earth above him. In by
gone days ne aspired to be a political
leader, and there are plenty of men who
remember how he once ran a ward eau
Gus. Knowing his ambition to become IL
power in the ward, three or four old
jokers put up plan to make him chair
man of the caucus shortly to be held,
and they visited him in a body and ex-
planned:
Every will depend on how you
run this caucus. Be calm. BE dignified.
Don't let any one ride over you. One
will move this and the other that, but
you must refuse to entertain any motions
until you have ascertained the pleasure
of the meeting"
Uncle Sile was delighted and puffed
up, and he could hardly wait for the hour
which was to witness his triumph. He
was called to the chair as planned, and
after few remarks to prove his graft
tude, he called for order and said:
Nov, then, what is the pleasure of
the meeting?"
A citizen rose in reply, and began:
II move you, Mr.. Chairman, that we
now pro-"
"Order! Order!" called Uncle Sile.
81 am in order"
"You are not! Take your seat or I'll
have you put out"
The astonished elector dropped back
to second fiddle, and Uncle Sile con-
tinued:
Now, then, what is the pleasure of
the meeting?"
Il move that we proceed to bal"
cit was another elector, and he had
only got thus far when the chairman
cried out:
II call for order. If we can't have or
der we might as we'll adjourn. I now
ask, for the third time: What is the
pleasure of the meeting p"
The cleo .ors were dumbfounded for q
time. but one of them recovered little
sooner than the rest and asked:
SIS this caucus?"
"You bet" answered Uncle Sile.
care we here to nominate ward
Of1icers?"
"We are"
"Then, sir, move that we pro-"
"Order! orderw yelled the chairman.
"That's the third or fourth time that
trick has been tried here, and the next
man who makes q motion before have
found out the pleasure of this meeting
will be put out! Now, then, is there any
pleasure in this meeting? If so, where
is it and what is it ?"
He soon discovered. About twenty
men rushed for him ut once, and he
went ont of the window like bag of
sand, and, before he had come too, the
caucus had transacted its business and
adjourned. The incident not only cured
Uncle Sile's ambition to be a political
leader, but it is doubtful if he ever cast
another vote.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-10-27
Poe aud SwlnDurne.

Arthur Tilley, in an essay on 1.-TWO
Theories of Poetry" in Macmillan's Mag.
azine, says:
"The poet who has given the most
practical effect to the doctrine of music
in poetry is Edgar Poe. Struck with the
beautiful harmony to be obtained by the
use of repetition, and especially Of that
species of it called the refrain, he delib-
erately made this the foundation of his
poetry. And is not this nearly the whole
Of his poetical capital? There is indeed
q sort of weird pathos in the Raven,
but its chief beauty is the refrain. The
Bells, too, gives me considerable pleas.
ure, but is mere intellectual pleasure
the pleasure which successful imitation
always gives. But 'Ulalume' and Anna
bel Lee are they anything but Q sense
less jingle? No, poetry is not to be made
like pudding, from q receipt. Take q
refrain, says Edgar Poe, composed OF
the finest sounding words to be had, add
plenty of ALTERATION and repetition,
flavor with little sentiment, and serve
as hot as possible. But it is the misfor-
tune of poetry made in this way that
it invariably comes up cold, and
people like cold poetry about as
we'll az they like cold soup.
Edgar Poe's poetry is, in short. a solemn
warning against making poetry by rule,
against starting with musical effect, and
then looking about for thoughts or emo
tons TO match it. II is to the level of
'Ulslume' that all poetry Of this sort
must ct last sink. MIR. Swinburne's
poetry has not happily sunk to this level
yet, but it is in great danger of it. For
all poetry in which the splendor of the
versi6cstion is not Sustained by the un-
derlying emotion, in which the rythmi.
cal effects are used 90 unspsringly with
80 little concealment. that they become
mere trick, is in danger Of this. Some
of the most beautiful passages in poetry
owe much, no doubt, to ALTERATION, but
they do not altogether depend upon it.
and they never suggest the feeling that
tho sense has been sacrificed to it. But
is line like this Of Mr.. Swinburne's:
The dsep divine DARK dayshine Of the sss.
anything but mere string Of adjectives
beginning with 4? Would not
The I'D supreme still sunshine Of the land.
or
The mild mad melting noonshins ofmy verse.
be equally poetical?"
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-10-27


down. After finishing these prepare
fired, and the weathercock, turning on
its pivot showed itself pierced through
and through.
"Oh, that's nothing!' said one of the
arquebusiers.
"Any one might do as much" said an
other.
I'm waiting for the remaining balls, "
said third,
"I'll wager brace of FORMS" said q
fourth, "that lie is hung before the third
ball"
"My business now is with the second.
and not with the third ball." said Rud-
ner. "Hold for moment-look sharp
there it is"
"Now for the third" said Rudner; and
he fired. "Does that describe the curve
line accurately"
"To admiration" was the reply.
"And the fourth-and the fifth" quoth
Rudner; "there, the O's made; I've only
to put tho tail to it now"
"Better and betterr' cried out the as
tonished arquebusiers; forgetting their
intense hatred of the man in their admir-
alton of his skill.
"Now for the sixth" The ball few from
the muzzle of his gun and lit as accur-
ately as if the schoolmaster of the town
had designated its place.
"Long live Rudner" shouted the ex
cited crowd; "the foremost marksman in
all the world"
Thousands of people, who but few
moments before had desired the poacher's
death, now offered up ardent VOWS for
his safety! Such is human nature. The
arquebusiers trembled with the appre
hension lest the remaining ball should
not be so accurately placed; the young
woman who had been the involuntary
cause of the situation of jeopardy in
which he was placed pressed her infant
closer to her breast and her heart beat
almost audibly.
The three remaining balls were fred,
and ranged themselves in the order
which was necessary to complete the
figure 9.
"Hurra!" cried the young woman.
"Hurra" echoed the arquebusiers.
"Hurra" repeated the people.
Rudner was instantly released from his
hempen cravat and carried in triumph
before the senator's.
"What dost thou mean to do" was the
first question asked, with the life which
we are about to render thee?"
Il will employ it in earning the char
acter of an honest citizen"
"Lawless man, why didst thou not
begin sooner"
"My companions prevented me. They
are dead-may they rest in peace. 1t
this young woman consents, shall be-
come her husband tomorrow, and Frank
fort shall possess no better citizen.
Hans Rudner kept his word. He be-
came an honest and law abiding citizen,
good and kind husband and affection
ate father, and in but a very short time
gained the respect of all his fellow towns
men.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-10-27
Pool four Kitchens.

The waste of room in separate kitchens
alone for small families is enormous. In
the ordinary fat-Aoor one fourth the
space is occupied for kitchen purposes.
In this is performed the cooking, say for
three or four people. This same kitchen
affords sufficient space to cook for twenty
people, and one cook could do the work.
Some one must do the catering for the
family, be it ever so small. One person
can buy provisions for forty as quickly
as for four-and cheaper. The landlord
of a great hotel goes to market ut an
early morning hour, and does not con-
sumo so much time in buying for five
hundred people as does the housewife
in buying u couple of dollars worth.
A glance at any of our groceries shows
an immense variety OF prepared food. re-
quiring the mere process of warming to
be fit for the table. Our groceries, in
fact, are fast becoming species of res
taurants for the sale in packages OF
cooked foods, such as soups, meats, corn,
peas, baked beans, canned salmon, cod
fish balls, plum pudding-indeed, one
third at least of articles of daily con-
sumption.
Cannot all the,e facts suggest the pos
sibility of serving number of families
in the same block of building with food
ut rate increased only by such cOmpen-
sation as is necessary for a caterer,
cook, and assistants?
If the wholesale grocer can cook his
beef, pork, chicken, turkey, and vegeta-
bles, put them in vessel and sell them
at cheaper rate than they cost at retail
IN market, why cannot the carrying out
of the same principle put these same
things cooked on our tables at cost but
trihe above wholesale prices OF the ar
ticles procured fresh from market? Aud
also at least one-third less than is paid
for them at the tirst-class restaurant?
Every block of houses in the city
might, if properly organized, become in
this mere matter of food furnishing, Q
club house, where the cost of the edi-
bles should be limited by the first price
and cost of preparation. The block could
be heated by single furnace, and the
cooking performed in single central
kitchen. There would be no buying Of
coal in dribbles, no hiring of help to
bring it to top floors, no constant per-
plexities with thirty or forty separate
cooks, good, bad and Indifferent, and the
best culinary talent could be employed.
The time occupied in private family buy
ing would be saved and the expenses
lessened. BY means of elevators and
architectural appliances each family
could easily be served rs in any club
house.
If the cost of living can be lessened by
such different ordering and systematic
alton of the catering and cooking, is it
not worthy the serious attention Of that
portion of the community who have dis
covered that life involves many other
positions and duties than those pertain
ing to the landlords and ladies of our
numerous small family hotels. and that
many women are far better fitted for the
discharge of such other necessary duties
than those of petty landladies New
York Graphic.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-10-27
DR.. Thomas Conviction.

Tue Rev. DIR. Thomas expresses disap-
pointment over the result of his trial for
heresy. He says he is sorry to have the
Methodist Episcopal church take posi-
ton of extreme narrowness and condemn
a minister Of such moderate, and, as he
thinks, orthodox views as himself. He
does not think that he was lawfully con.
victed under the articles of religion. He
says: my views are clearly within their
most natural Interpretation, and my
counsel are just as anxious and earnest
as am in their protest against dragging
in the catechism and hymn-book and
half dozen other works, and elevating
them to the equality of articles of re-
lgion by which Q minister may be
tried, and ON that ground we
shall carry the case up to
the highest courts of the church."
When asked whether he would continue
to preach in the Peoples Church, Chi
cago, he replied: II do not want to COM
plicate my case before the Conference
meets by laying myself open to charges
for contumacy in iisobeying tn. order Of
the court. On the other hand, am
doubly obligated to continue my work,
from the fact that, owing to my sickness,
i 1Oot AOuI AuO1sun Va AuoU yCuls VuC CV0-U
gregation having paid the pew-rent id
advance. But Of this they were so gen.
erous as not to complain. But now they
have just rented seats again. and it would
seem very hard to have the services again
interrupted. After Conference, whatever
the result Of the trial may be there,
there can be no difficulty in
the way Of my continu-
ing my work, Meanwhile I shall make
the most satisfactory arrangement pos
sible." DR.. Thomas thinks that il be 10
finally condemned, there will DO many
more "heretics" to be prosecuted.
There is Bishop Foster. he says: who
denies the resurrection Of the body, and
that is plainly in opposition not only to
our articles OF religion, but to both the
Apostles and Nicerne creeds; whereas to
condemn me they have to find law out
side the articles Of religion, and outside
the universal creeds on which the ortho-
doxy of the Christian world rests, and to
bring in the cstechism and standard an.
thors who do not agree one with the
other"
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-10-27
A SERMON IN VERSE.

l sat alone with my conscience,
In place where time had ceased;
And we talked of my former living,
In the land where the :, ears increased.
And felt should have to answer
The questions put to me,
And to face the questions and answer
Through an eternity.
The ghost offorgotten actions
Came floating before my sight,
And things that thought were dead things,
Were alive with terrible might;
And the vision of all m, past life
Was an awful hing to taste,
Alone with nv conscience sitting,
In that solemnly silent place.
And l thought of far-away warning
OF sorrow that was 10 be mine,
In land that then was the future,
But now is the present time;
And | thought of my former thinking,
Ofthe judgment day TO be,
But sitting alone with my conscience
Seemed Judgment enough for me.
And wondered if there was Judgment
To this land beyond the grave;
But no one gave an answer,
And 10 one can save;
Then | felt that the future was present,
And the present would never go by,
For it was but the thought Of my life
Grown into eternity.
Then awoke from my timely dreaming,
And the vision passed away,
And knew the far-away warning
Was but a warning of yesterday;
And prav that may not forget it
In the land before the grave,
That maY not cry in the future
And no one come to save.
And so have learned lesson
Which ought to have learned before,
And which. though learned it dreaming
hope to forget it no more;
So sit alone with my conscience,
In the place where the years increase,
And try to remember he future
In the land where time will cease,
And know of the future judgment,
How dreadful so'er it be,
That to sit alone with my conscience
VIII be judgment enough for me.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-10-27

Fogg is very nearsighted. He left hi
Rlasses ct home the other day and wish
ing to know the time OF day aud having
NO watch, be asked Of street boy, ct
tho same time pointing to the Old
South clock: Sonny. What time is it2''
The urchin looked Il Fogg with wide
open eyes. A fellow feeling made him
wondrous kind towards his intsrlocntor.
Gaid he: II can't tell time. neither. -
Bosaoa TEaasesipt.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-10-27

Wine-growing is being successfully
pursued in Virginia, and is rapidly as
Stunning larger dimensions. II was first
introduced by Germans, but others are
nov taking hand in it. One firm, with
81 acres Of land, has produced $500 GAL
Ions Of wine in season. Il 10 reported
that the yield Of two counties this year
will be g. 900 70 q, 900 gallons. There
y ready market for al that caa b pro
ducod.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-10-27

A humorist embittered by long manu-
facture Of jokes and the fiendish pursuit
Of puns, once impaled Q baleful joke
upon his wife at the close OF . washdky,
she then preparing the frugal evening
meal, whereupon she smots 6im over 81
broad brow with stewpan. The dying
man cried ont - he fell, with CLEAN a
immortal triumph in his eyes, 'slsv-
pandous joker and pasaed away 70 .
brighter land.-T Hawksys.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-10-27

Inc Dystanuers roareo out tneir ap-
plause.
I'll he fails but once CONTINUED the
same voice); If but one Of the balls is
ill-placed, most assuredly We will hang
him."
Good! good! excellent" shouted the
crowd, charmed ct the idea of having two
sighte instead OF one.
agreed" said Rudner, "H I do
what is required OF me. shall have my
pardon?"
"Yes, yes" cried the arqubusiers; i've
shall demandT
The senators consulted together for
some time; and, as the majesty Of the law
boosted no great supremacy in those
days, they informed Rudner that the
condition was accepted.
Let me have an srquebuse, powder
and nine balls" said Rudper.
"Place him beneath the gibbet," said
the burgomaster. put the rope around
his neck, and il he be not ~ good ~ his
word, pull until death ensues."
Hans Rudner examined the arquebuse
without seeming to pay the smallest
attention TO the painstaking and revolt
ing righteousness with which the ex-
ecutioner disposed the fatal knot, 20
thas, ct the slightest signal, he might
execute the burgomasteris order. Rad
ssr charged ths piece with powder asd
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-10-11

All the interest of said intestate in other
lands at and near Thunderbolt.
Terms cash. HENRY d. HEADMAN,
Administrator of the estate of Maria Williams.