The Arizona champion., 1884-01-26

complaint.
 A Maine letter says that an interest ing Sourenir comes from the lumber woods of the North in the form of a communication written very legibly on fine sheet of birch bark and enceascd in an envelope composed of the same material The letter is dated Matta miscontis, Range seven, about fifteen miles from any settlement, in a lumber camp where Mir. John McGregor has a crew of men engaged in cutting spool wood for his factory. The writer gives some idea of how men live in logging camp: "Our camp is built of rough logs Of poplar. The roof is covered with cedar splits four feet long and laid the meas shingles, making very good covering though not very tight. The floor is made of poles laid on the ground We have two stoves, one large heater and the other a cooking stove. For sleeping apartments we have a berth made the length of the camp, which is nineteen and a half feet and accomodates fourteen men. In front of this, and on range with the two stoves, is the 'deacon's seat of the same length as the camp. Our fare is pork and beans, bread and cookies, gingerbread and doughnuts, dried ap- pies, beef, codfsh, mackerel, tea and molasses. FoI our breakfast We have pork and beans hot from the oven, with gingerbread and tea. For dinner, which is eaten in the woods, We have beans, dcughnuts and bread, with tea, and occasionally beef. For supper we have codfsh or mackerel with potatoes or fried pork. We get any amount of fresh perch and pickerel close by the camp in Mattamiscontis Lake. Fish forms q prominent item in our diet"
 
 Now is the little country child, seven years old and full of life, blood pulsing and nerves tingling with all the dynamic energy given by the pure air and whole some food of the cosntry, prisoned for SIX long hours each day in the low, bare, dreary schoolroom; gaoled more rigor- ously than the murderer in his cell, for it is deprived of the privilege of locomo- ton, and must sit straight in an uncom- tortable seat. And as if this were not cruelty enough, it dares not speak, dares not even whisper to those placed tempt ingly near it. Have we really grown less cruel? Should we wonder if the child dislikes are yours; what are you going to do about it? Shall you do anything? Do you expect little child to study six hours? Think moment :; then act.
 A ccnsorOus tutor, in lecturing to his class ''On The Vice of Betting" declared that under no circumstances could bet be anything but gross sin and a shame. "But you've always gone in for one kind of bet" exclaimed the ineverent pupil. The tutor was at first supplied with amazement at such eiirontery, but, re- covering his seli-possession, he blandly informed the student that if he could make his statement true he should have a holiday. "Well, haven't you always been in favor of the alpha-bet?" asked the student. The teacher acknowledged the corn
 
 The "Old Subscriber" the Pekin Gazette, is nearly ? 600 years old, and every now and then an o!d man hobbies into the office and pays a years sub scription, with the remark that he had been subscriber ever since the first number was printed. The clerk, with out betraying any surprise, observes as he hands him a receipt;
 "Yes, we have several names on our list who have been subscribers from the start"
 Then the old man goes out muttering something about this world being full of liars.
 Whilst the gendarme was leading the prisoner away the advocate whispered to him: