The Arizona champion., 1885-01-03

cacti produced irmt for him, and grasses gave seeds which were utilized as food: Little dld he plant, as Ma ture was so good and so kind. There was something of the dude in hls na- ture and he was happy if he could only array himself in ornamented skins, paint himself and look better than his squaw. Valiant, in his way, he was, of course, warrior-not of the bold kind-cunning as the coyote which howled around his mansion of sticks and beargrass; watchful as the rattlesnake; swift of foot as the ante lope, he was not to be despised as an enemy. He killed small game, but never, 1t appears, '1ost" any bear They were little too bruinish for him, so he solemnly resolved that if they would let him alone he would let them alone. His combats were mostly with 'Navajos, Zunis Moquis, Pimas and Papagos. It was war to the arrow, and yet not reckless war, for discretion was large part of the Apache valor. His amusements were running races. torturlng prisoners, singing and dancing. He was, at most times, gloomy beng; he loved his country and studied its features as a scholar studies his books. He was, we may say, dramatically sealed until the whites stumbled upon his retreat and commenced to give him what he most desired-light; the light of civilization. which has not set well in his eyes.
 History repeated itself here as in other portions of the New World, Johnny Apache soon smelled large sized white "mice." Rats had been a part of his diet; he swallowed them and felt good; but the white mice we'll, these he has not been able to get away with, although Heaven knows how earnestly he has devoted himself to the task of exterminating them.
 "Alas, poor Yorick, he is now cribbed, cabined and confirmed" to his reservation. His we'll ment en- deavors to drive out the invaders have not succeeded, Crook and his soldiers finished what other soldiers and citi- zens had not succeeded in doing and this Mir. Indian knows. The land is no longer his. It is ours by "con- quest" For it those of the pioneers who have died, toiled and suffered j; those who have been spared realize the danger of the struggle; they braved battle and the freeze; have redeemed the land from barbarism; have caused portions of it to "blosson like the rose," have climed its steepest noun tains; waded its streams; explored its solitudes; prospeCted its very bosom, and by so doing, enticed railriods and other magnates 10 come here and play such roots upon them as they were forced to play upon the Indians,
 Nevertheless, Arizona is land one cannot help but love. It is a rough diamond; it is a collection of coun- tres and climes; it is panorama of delight to all who ever slept on its bosom; there is nothing deceitful about her; she is what she appears, rough and rugged; but withal a piece of Mother Earth that makes her chil- dren rich and rare Christmas and New Years presenst.
 Let us, then, on this New Years Day, think of the long strgugle that has put us in peaceable possession of the Territory. Let us forgive the In dlan; help the cuss to become man and brother, but above all, letus, first of all honor the brave who lost their lives in combats with the savages and then drink (water of course) to the health of those who fought and whc
 live to fight another day for the re- generation and glory of our adopted land. Courier.
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