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Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-02-16

THE republicans Of the second con gressional district Of Ksnsas have nom- nated F. +. Funston Co fill the vacancy caused by the death of Dudley c. Has kell. Mr. funston vi have to fight Q fusion ticket made mp Of democrats. in- dependents and Greenbackers, and It is believed the election will be a very close one, both parties claiming that they will be able to elect their man.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-02-16

Describing the designs and -.. . ticns at the Union Leagues enc ment to President Arthur n "---- ton Wednesday evening, the -- says: Distributed along the w tables. which extended from '-.. [ which the President sat, WeTg bastions, and forts, with sit i- artillery, modelled ID pure conis. flowers in pots and cut, pals,' mounted by English Phea-anis' - -1 all kinds, and quiverng IeIlt7'
 intervals brilliant colOred AA-e presenting all nations. were the midst of the tempting disl i'-
 nd feature of the devoIa..-..-.'. ...-. ever. was a large model n conis... i.... of the Brooklyn bridge, when .t. I..' ,, across she northen end or il- table This model was 70 feel 'y.-. .-. upop it were figures repres.el.--~-, ~,i President and soldiers cros7i-1 < cnoDinr day. Beneath rePoseU .-5i salmon. raised on a fortress, 'I neatb rlis was a tank of water ,. a,oI5fsI were disportiug the--Iu < < {',' }o .ov-ers of the bridge were w wr ,ldta{ i lI v,tb colo-ed globe hghis r,i sbo,,r .i,', through open spaces ID t-. .r.i mssonary. and the effect was ~ ably realistic
Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-02-16

A MEMBER of G. 4 R. post in Hi nois introduced resolUti ns asking the government to pay all old soldiers the difference between the face of the green backs with which they were paid and tbe coin value o' the same. He estl- mated that the soldier who served three years, if allowed this difference on the amount of hls pay for services and the bounty Of S200 " tn compo nd interest for twenty years, ould receive S1,265. e-
Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-02-16

4 SMART ALECK" in the New York legislature has introduced and proposes to re-enact a law which, he is frank enough to admit, has been on the stat ute books of that ate for fourteen years, restricting the time for street car conductors and drivers 10 twelve hours per day He probably thinks, after the manner of other politicians, that there s nothing like keeping it before the people" for be gives. as a reason for in troducing it, that it has not been ob- served, and has been forgotten.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-02-16
THE STOCK MARKET

Mr. William H. Vanderbilt is very bluff man, and sometimes says things that might better be left unsaid. But the man who does not say something worthy of repeating once in awhile must be indeed barren of ideas. A New York dispatch repeats what purports to be an interview with the rich man on the question of stocks. h this lntey- yiew AIr. Vanderbilt is quoted as having sad: My money is in few things and not in 100 or 300. Now for the last two weeks l have been buying Who ever heard of such thing as Lake Shore go- ing down to 94 or 95? It is not only paying s per cent, but it is earning it. Look at Northwestern, what it has got ln it's treasury. It earned its last divi- dend for year in five months. Is New York Central worth any less now than when it was selling at 155? It was earning s per cent then and il is earning s per cent now. Government bonds are ~elling at l25. They are not worth as much as New York Central stock" While Mir. Vanderbilt may place a higher valuation upon hIs favorite stocks than others, yet his line of reason
 ing ls good. We do not suppose that when he said that "government bonds were not worth as much as New York Central stock" that he meant they were more stable than government bonds, but they should bring more because they pay greater per cent. on the dollar.
 There Is no doubt but fair estimate Of the value of stocks should be on what it earns or rather on what 1t pays. T. e. road like the New York Central, which has good prospects for the future, and for years has paid 8 per cent. dividends OF its stock as that road has, ,he-e is no reason why it should be beared down to 115, which was what IL vas quoted at last reports. It was perhaps too high when it stood at 155
 but SO long as it pays 8 per cent. divide nds, and money draws but and ! 6 par cent. in New York, Central stock should be worth not less than 135.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-02-16

Signor Negri. Tn a lecture at Milan recently, said that Bismarck was one of the most interesting and incomprehen. sible characters that has ever appeared in the history of the world His elo- quence. however, said the Itshan lee turer. Is not that of a Cicero. enlarginE pn a given subject in smooth. harmon ions figures of speech; his Is an eloquence passionate, full of irony, springng, as it were, upon his objects, and peoetrat- ing into their innermost depths. With Bismarck we are never in the world of words, but always in the world of facts. It Is the mighty obiectivity of his speeches which make them attractive.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-02-16

ToM OCHILTREF, the Texas republi- can congressman, is not only for Miss Mackay, but said recently in Washing ton, "l am for Arthur for President be- cluse he has male fairly satisfactory President, and because the business men don't want any change. The Presi- dent of th.s country doesn't need to be a man Of great qualities and convictions; a negative man will do for the place well enough"
Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-02-16

CAssrUs M. CLAY says there is not a more humane, charitable or considerate people on earth than the Russians" !" The thousands of Muscovites who came to this country to escape the religious intole ance of that country tell differ ent story
Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-02-16

PIMA COUNTY has the smallest delin- queut tax list In proportion to valuation of property of any county in ell this reli n. Los Angeles has B columns of delinquent it; San Diego 15. Yavapai IF, while Pima has but seven.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-02-16

SECRETARY FoLGER has taken a step forward iD the cause of woman's rights by authorizing the issuance of a license to Mrs. Mary Miller, Of New Orleans, as master tor rlistressl Of a steamboat. This is the second lady who has been authorized to command on the Father of Winters
Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-02-16

A gentleman who had an interviev with Jay Gould for 'he first time the other day. told Philadelphia press re- porter that at the beginning of the talk the small stature of the man impressed him SO unfavorably that he could scarce keep from laughing. "But," he added, 'he hadn't been speaking t,So minutes before l thought him as tall Rs was, and when he bid me good day 1t seemed as If his head touched the ceiling"
Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-02-16

TIE private land grant bill, as appears from our dispatches, has passed the Senate. Not having seen the bill, We are unable 10 pass upon its merits, but we have an abiding faith in the Senate's having passed such bill as will meet the approval of the people, whose inter est they deslre to protect. We are not adylsed as to how the House regard the nlii' but it will in all probability become a law.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-02-16
The Line COuldock Gave t0 NcAa
 Buchanan.

A few years ago Mexican Bucbs- or "Old Buck" Gs he was faull called, at a hotel in Cairo, H., met c COuidOck. The night was a disagresl one. After taking few glasses, a gl of poker was proposed. COuhlcek L. the sport but was not an expert, I chanan was-not that he was ever suo to cheat, but he always won. ll -l tune Couliock was "cleancd cut, he party went to bed.
 Next morning Buck met CLar.r. z said: "l am going out west for -' shooting recreation, but would l-- act while out there. Do you know man ger at Ch-yenue2"
 "I do" said the old man.
 "Wel," said Buck, "I wish yor give me a lIne Co him"
 Certainly said CouldCck; a immediately wrote the requested IL ran thus:
 CAIRO. ILL, Dec. :, ; MR. RUsKIN-NY DEAR SIR, IDS be handed to you by ny friend, At kean Buchanan, an actor oi merit. He comes to your town ~ fessional business. He play. lieu" "Hamlet." Richard ILL poker; he plays poker the best
 YOur obedieut se-vs,-
 c. ". Coupe
Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-02-16

Lord Houghton recently stated that HenrT Reeve was the only Eng ishman of letters who could speak French real ly as a Frenchman has elicited contra statements to the effect that among those of linguistic skill similar to MT. Reeve are Edmund Yates, Fl. l. Q houchere, c. 4. Sala, Mr. Blanchard Jerrold, and Mr Plott, the examiner of plays, are given. and of stat ssmen, also men O e ters, Lord Granville and Sir c. Dilke.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-02-16

There have been only two known cases Of lynching women ID this coun- try. The first occurred m 1851 at Don neville. mining camp in BodIe district of California, and the victim was a Spanish woman named IEez Paria, who had murdered aud robbed man in her husbands saloon The seco0d and last ase in the lyn hing of Mrs. Cudding- Lam m Ouray, Colorado, few days ago.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-02-16
caNkLENe oE Tzg PREE IDENCY.

James Nj Sc0vel Of Cu11d-u, New Jersey, is a devoted friend Of President Arthur, md was very anxious to so shape matters that he could secure Roscoe Conklng to his side which he thought would also secure New York to Arthur Col ScoveI who Is an editor of distinct ion as well as 8 soldier and politician. pub ished an editorial in the Camden Courier in whicl the great merits of Roscoe C5ukiiug as citizen, lawyer, and statesman were presented with d force aud eloqueDce worthy the pen of a Prentice.
 The editorial in questi was mailed to MT. Conkiiny, with suggestion that 1t only needed the influence ot MT Coukling t. secure the nomination of Gen. Arthur by majority shat would be irresistible and overwhelming. and 1t would delight 3r Scovd beyond meas ure. to be aol to convey to the presi- dent that Mr. Colkling's influence would be exerte1 in his behalf
 Nr Conkiing's reply would seem to i,- dicate that he is tUo busy att-njlng 10 important law cases to give that con- preheasive consid ration to tue question Of successor to President Arthur thal it's importance merits at the hands o such an eminent c.tlzen. l. is as fol- lone.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-02-16
? WALL STREET, NEW YORK, :

 The Hon. JAMES nj. SCuvEL:
 MY DEAR oR-Nou kindness toward me Is pin n Im -ual lin these times)- phenomenal and much e,termad. You pleas .nt words in the Con fer came evidently from the Eea5t-tuere is uO other place ID when such words. in such case could come. Many thanks. When the Persian embassy was abuut to take leave of the GrecIa1 court, once ID old-n time, they asked and received some message from each of the per sonages present. When the turn oi Zeno came he said: "Ten your master that you saw a gray haired old man iB Athens who knew enough to hold hi- toDgue."
 Plel-e ascribe to my admiration for ZelO and ms teachings my silence touch- Ing yOu- forecast If my action ID the politics ot { future. Cordially your.
 RosC0E CoNKLING. It is presumed tbat the eminent New Yorker ave his cherished lock aa extra curl, after dashing of this classical letter, and that he felt much better over il than he did over his last effort at Albany, when the people refused to send him back to the Senate simply to gra,ify his silly prde or dudeism, which has been his ruination.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-02-16

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Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-02-16

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. PA Bulletin Washington special says: Belford, of Colorado, yesterday introduced a bill in the house for the settlement of private land claims in Arizona, Nevada. New Mexico, Utah and Colorado. founded on the principle governing a similar meas ure which passed the senate on Friday last. The senate bill provided for bring
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-10-02

sey~ Generosity is the wealthiest feeling of
the heart. Feel as you would aid suffer-
ing if you could, and you will have
all the self-satisfaction that you would
have had if you really had relieved dis
treSS.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-10-02
TO BE CONTINUED. |

aay" Time may obiterate the novels and
make them mansions; it may make Chris
tians sinners, and poor men millionaries
but it can never take away the man by the
grocery stove who has just been reminded
of an adventure he had during the war and
which he would like to relate to the crowd.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-10-02
Seletted gpetrp.
WHEN THE M1sTs HAVE CLEARED AWAY

WHEN THE NfISTS HAVE CLEARED AVA
If we err in human blindness,
And forget that we are dust,
If we miss the law of kindness
When we struggle to be just,
Snowy wings of peace shall co.'er
All the pain that clouds our way,
When the weary watch is over
And the mists have cleared away.
When the silvery mists have veled us
From the faces of our own,
Oft we deem their love has failed us,
And we tread our path alone.
We should see them near and truly,
We should trust them day by day
Neither love nor blame unduly,
If the mists have cleared sway.
When the mists have risen above us,
AS our Father knows His own,
Face to face with those that love us,
We shall know as we are known.
Love, beyond the orient meadows,
Floats the golden fringe of day,
Heart to heart we hide the shadows,
Till the mists have cleared away.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-10-02
By MRS. NJ. w. STRATTON.

Never did local poet write
Or local novelist indite
A tale-but local readers wise,
Would pierce the hero's thin disguise;
And make the poor romance mean
To sneer at folks he'd never seen;
Of whom 1 write they'll know as we'll
AS if all real names I'd tell,
So nick them out yourselves to suit,
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-10-02
CORN.STARCH SUGAR.

The starch-sugar industry in the United
States consumes daily 10000 bushes of corn
and produces grape sugar and glucose syrup
Of the yearly value of $l0,O0O,OOO. There
are thirty factories in the United States,
furnishing their product to brewers and for
the manufacture of the table syrup and the
adulteration of cane sugar. 1t is also large
ly used in confectionery, in canning fruits,
making fruit jellies, and in cooking. Ar
gar. In France and Germany potato starch
is used instead of corn, the latter country
consuming over 10000 tons of starch and
making 40,000,O00 tons of starch sugar. The
industry is an increasing one, and is anoth-
er of the many contributions of chemical
technology to the wealth of nations. In
1911 Kirchhoff prepared sugar from starch
by the present plOcesS, which consists, in
brief, Of extracting the pure starch from
corn or potatoes, transforming this into
sugar by treatment with dilute acid, puri-
flying and then concentrating the product
to either glucose syrup or crystalline grape
sugar. BY this process tifty-six pounds of
starch sugar, the rest being used for cattle
food, as it is rich nutritive matters.
The corn is stepped in hot water for sever
al days, ground between burr stones, the
starch separated on silk sieves, cleaned by
alkaline waters and separated from the Wa
ters by deposition. The conversion into su-
gar may be accomplished by various acids.
In practice, one and one-half pounds of sui
phuric acid will change 100 pounds of starch
into sugar after short boiling with the di-
lutte acid The acid mixture is neutralized
with marble dust, decolorized by iltering
through boneblack, and is ready for the
market as colorless liquid oras snow-white
crystals. When made into table syrup it is
mixed with cane syrup to give it flavor and
tone, the cane syrup being used much as
butter is to give bovine qualities to oleo-
margarine. For brewing it is a very i'm
perfect substitute for barley malt, as it is de-
prived of the heterogeneous bodies and min
eral salts originally contained in the corn.
For the adulteration Of brown cane sugars,
grape sugar is added to the extent of twenty
or more per cent. But as the adulterant is
perfectly harmless nothing is lost except in
taste, as glucose only has two-thirds the
sweetening power of cane sugar. By no
commercial process can all the starch be
changed into glucose, about five per cent.
remaining as intermediate products, main
ly maltese and deXtrine, which, though
harmless TO the human system, have no
sweetening power.-Lpdiaaapolis Journal.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-10-02
THE BURIAL Ar SEA.

There is scarcely any ceremony more i'm
pressive than a burial at sea perhaps be-
cause nowhere does man feel littleness more
than when the mighty ocean surrounds
him. The graves of the dead on shore in a
measure localiZe their inmates; and our
associations are fortified by the power OF
referring to the departed as beings who
slumber in green places and are at all sea-
sons visitabe.
But Il burial at sea is the launching of the
dead into infnity. The sense of his eXtinc-
tion is absolute. He is swallowed up and
annhilated by the universe of water, which
also seems to Overwhelm his very memory.
At twelve O'Clock the body of Johnson,
sewn, up in canvas, with a weight of lead
attached to his feet, lay extended upon one
of the gratngs of the main hatchway, one
end resting on the bulWarks of the ship, and
the other upon the shoulders of two sailors.
The crew stood round, holding their caps
in their hands, and near the body stood
Mr.. Sherman, reading the Burial Service.
The mournful and impressive spectacle was
bell on the quarterback, which mingled its
clear chimes with the words delivered by
Mr.. Sherman. The vessel was sailing on
an even keel, her white sails swelling and
soaring one above another, and forming
a lovely picture against the bright blue sky.
The water leaped and sparliled and frothed
against her clean sides, and those swallows
Of the deep, the stormy petrels chased her
flashing wake, and gave by their presence
a finishing detail to the whole Of the sum
lighted scene.
How unutterabe the mystery hedging
the motionless figure in the canvas shroud-
his name unknown, a Waif of dead humanl-
ty snatched for a brief moment from the
imperious deep, whose will it was to keep
him The seamen sent shrinking glances
at the bundle on the grating. That he had
suffered the famine had made a skeleton
of him that thirst had twisted his lean face
into an expression Of agony which death
was powerless to smooth out, was all they
knew.
"We, therefore, commit this body to the
deep, to be turned into corruption"
The captain motioned with his hand the
grating was tilted, and its burden went like
a flash from the bulwarks; the steersman
turned his face upon his shoulder, hearing
the hollow plunge but those on the main-
deck stood without 4 move among them,
listening to the final comforting, glorious
words:
Hooking for the resurrection of the body
(when the sea shall give up her dead), and
the life the world to come, through our Lord
Jesus Christ, who at his coming shall change
our vile body, that it may be like his glo-
rious body, according to the mighty work.
ing whereby He is able to subdue all things
to Himself"
The reader closed the book the grating
was restored to its place; and the men in
twos and threes moved slowly forward,
talking in subdued tones and for the re-
mainder of that day at least, no sound of
loose laughter or reckless words was to be
heard in the forecastle.-JV. Oark Russell.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-10-02

MEXICAN CoURTEsY.-The Mexican is a
courteous man. Ask him /; question and
he invariably gives you the best answer at
his command. He is generally willing to
spend time and effort for your accommoda-
ton. He is never embarrassed, The girl
by the roadside never bushes and never
runs away. Look at a Mexican gentleman
and he is wont to smile and salute you.
Ask him question on the street and he will
shake hands with you on parting. People
whom you never saw before and in all prOba-
hilty will never see again, will willingly
show you through museums and libraries,
give you their time for an hour, shake
hands and bid you goodbye, merely be-
cause you are a stranger, and during the
whole time never ask you personal ques-
ton.
The MeXcans are slow. 1t is best not to
push them, and to avoid impatient gestures;
you must wait, and it is wise to be patient.
There is no need in Mexico of great va
riety Of clothing. The best is of moderate
ly thick material in light colors. The Mex-
lean climate is warm in the sun, cool in the
shade, and chilly at nightfall. There is no
day in the Mexican year when light flannel
underwear ought not to be worn.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-10-02

aSg~ The hours we pass with happy pros
poets in view are more pleasing than those
crowned with fruition. In the first in
stance, we cook the dish to our own appe-
tite in the latter, nature cooks it for us.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-10-02

A FEW FACTS ABOUT CANNIBALIsM.-
The frightful story Of the eXtremities to
which the Greedy party were reduced in
the desolate regions Of the North Pole has
caused considerable discussion of the subject
of cannibalism. Many eminent archeOlo-
gsts assert that without any doubt the
primitive ancestors of all races of men were
cannibals, and it has taken considerable
time and very potent arguments to induce
the Fiji Islanders to dispense with their
favorite dish Of human flesh. King Thank
ambau, who was feted by the Queen and
the aristocracy of England few years ago,
was an inveterate cannibal until a short
time before his visit to Europe and invent
ed many refined methods Of cruelty toward
his unhappy prisoners, while they were
vet alive, in order that his astronomical
tastes should be gratifed. Nowadays the
missionaries take pride in introducing one
of their dusky converts with the eXplana-
tion-"He was formerly a cannibal,' as if
it were Il mark of distinction. 1t is said
that the severest test to which the mission
ary's pupil can be subjected is to induce
him to take the pledge against cannibalism,
and, like reformed tOpers, the islanders have
to be watched closely lest they backslide into
their horrid orgies. The light Of Christian
ity spreading over the earth has gradually
dispelled all the abominable practices of
barbarism, and now we hear only of canni-
balism in cases Of the direst extremity,
such as the unfortunate Greedy party was
subjected to.-New York Telegram.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-10-02

ss5~ The man who economies saves, and
he who saves most can invest most, and he
who invests most reaps most in the way of
net profits. This is the law in a country
where all roadsare free to citizens. All roads
are free to the citizens of this country.
Thrift is not the absolute creature of statutes,
though statutes may afford the means Of
thrift.-NOfh IDlericdn.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-10-02

aSs~ Exquisite fitness of nature is quite
compatible with heroic bodily strength and
not conceivable without such delicacy. FL
ephantine strength may drive its way
through the forest, and feel no touch of the
boughs, but the white skin of Homer's
Atrides would have felt bent rose leaf, yet
subdue it's feeling in glow of battle, and be-
have Ike irOn-R,LskiD