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The Arizona sentinel., 1888-02-04
A Marked Difference.

'.What marked difference there is in young men," remarked suburban matron the other day. '1 have two nephews who alternately run out from the city to see me, generally staying all night. It almost gives me the shivers to allot that spare room to one of them, he is so exceedingly care less. It looks the next morning as If Bedlam had been loose. Every thing is out of place; the towel-rack is over turned, the pillow-shams are crushed, the wash bowl is left full of water, the windows are thrown open to the in cursive flies. and every thing generally is at sizes and sevens! But there the other nephew-Bless my soul, it's a pleasure to have him comei Why you'd think the daintiest lady had slept in the room. He removes the shams and spread, washes the soap before he re- turns it to the soap dish. puts the towel squarely on tha rack and the comb in- to the brush, refxes the tidy on tho bureau, and bows the shutters before he comes down and all that Why I've got nothing to do scarcely but re- make the bed, and one would hardly know he slept in it. can not see why there should be such marked difference between the young men, when they are so much alike in almost every other respect. It's more like lv born in them than bred in them. Ba; tist Week'y
The Arizona sentinel., 1888-02-04
POMEROY'S PHILOSOPHY.
Practical Lessons for Those in Search (
 Happiness and Content:

Practical Lessons for Those in Search of
 Happiness and Content:
 Destroy ignorance and let progress sion progress. .>.'a:+ The greatest fool of all is he who fools himself.
 Every utterance creates some kind of an impression.
 Drop your bad habits and they can not lower you.
 Those who go for berries should not retreat from briars.
 The man who does not provide for. his family is not its head.
 Every time you help a lazy person you rob yourself and your family.
 Less argument and more work will make any person better off. .-.--..
 Genius beckons a man, and if he at. temp!s 10 climb, %will help him.
 How few are those who really under stand what1lre 1nlnd.is good for.
 He who does not engage in the ouarrels of others will have few of his own
 Prayers without work and a note without a signature are alike in value.
 The sooner you cut loose from one who deceives you the better off you will be.
 The world was never so full of op- portunities for young men of good thoughts as now,
 The more willing you are to let others enjoy their own think the clearer will be yours,
 The sooner you begin training your own mind, the sooner you will have a mind to train.
 Those who can not readily under stand sense are generally the most op- posed to nonsense. You will learn more from reading good books and papers than by talk ing about your neighbors.'
 Young man. cultivate your gifts, rather than the mouth of a bottle, and you will succeed better. Happiness has no time to stay long with, those who interfere with the pri- yate affairs of others.
 Taking interest from the poor, and taking interest in the poor are invest: ing for different results. -Pomer0y' $ | AdUance ThOu0H.
The Arizona sentinel., 1888-02-04
----3-o---- Puzzles for Postmasters.

A letter addressed to Mir. Tn Schmel- der aKrafKa Lack Post Office. St. Louis, mo-" was sent from St. Louis post-offic, to Creve Ceur St. Louis County, Mo Look at this one, '" said MT. Patrick. diving after curi- osity:, A wi bi August Yeaksn No Bob To Levrr st. Sweanis, NJ ." It was. sent to August Jackson, 3O6 South Levee. The Bob" by hard study, became "3O6," and the "To" was easily changed to 'So' for south. 'What do you think of this oneP" asked Ms Patrick; party -patchaar- Ganay c. h. harhyed ip nat divrerd inp6ayes retukn to matay caR?enteR :" After much study that letter was sent 10 c. A, Hubbard, Apache, Arizona, the rest of the superscription being: If not delivered in ten days return to Hattie Carpenter. MT. Hubbard was found and claimed his letter. St. LouiS Globe Democrat,
The Arizona sentinel., 1888-02-04
BACTERIA IN ICE.
The Latest Scare Promulgated by New Ybrk's Scientific Men.

Y6rk's Scientific Men.
 Determined to save the human race from as many evils as possible. but not always very certain what is or is not an evil, one of our esteemed contem- poraries is making things hot for the bacterium even in his frozen home, the crystal cake of North river ice; and it postulates as great truth the state ment that the ice we use is full of bacteria some of which arc deadly. So we may say the woods are full of crows, some of which are white; or the river is full of fishes, some of which are cells; or the world is full of seeds, some of which are poisonous. There is no doubt that some seeds are poisonous. One handful of the seeds of that wayside weed the datura stramonium would keep an undertaken busy all winter. and sim gle quaker button would clean out Fourth ward lodging house. But sup pose because some seeds are poisonous man should abjure the use of all seeds. His lovely dish of rice is made of seeds; his Vienna roll is but baked paste made of crushed seeds; his pork and beans, his buckwheat cakes, his corn bread-how can he have any of them, and not eat seeds. It would not be wise to abjure all seeds because some seeds are deadly, and it is fool ish to tremble in the presence of every bacterium because some of the family are bad. It is by no means certain that the live'y bacteria are not more of a help than a hindrance 10 man in his little life. We can not live without. air, and the bacterium may be one of it's necessary elements We can not live without water and we swallow millions of bacie eria in every drink, and it may be that they give it the taste we like. There is not tissue of your body that the bacterium does not inhabit-and probably he considers us his own. He may feel a sentimen { of patriotism to- ward us. Who can say that our vital functions are ot the mere revolutions of squadrons of bacteria? Perhaps the great problem of cercbration may yet resolve itself into tho mere sqnirmings of bacteria in the brain. Let LIS think kindly of the bacterium while we are vet in doubt. IN r. MatI and E1- | press.
The Arizona sentinel., 1888-02-04
A Remarkable Disease.


 In no physiological phenomena is the influence of the nerves upon the body shown so forcibly as Tn the case of homesickness, which, when pro- longed and intensified. becomes q mortal disease. The melancholy of the nature which loves home and de- spairs of again seeing it preys upon the nervous system until it is wrought into a state of abnormal excitement which presents distinct physical symp- toms. Respiration presently becomes labored. and is more like signing than breathing; the face wears the pallor of corpse already; the heart beats with the swiftness of great debility; there is no appetite, there is no sleep; secre- tions become irregular, and con ngestion matter of course; the sight be- comes dina, fever sets in, and either sudden death closes the scene, or the exhaustion of the fever carries off tho patient after prolonged suffering. There is no cure for this terrible .ill- ness, after it is strongly. established, put reCurH tO lIc udlt'c COuHtIy, duu sometimes that cure is undertaken too late. It attacks mo9tainers. singular ly enough, more frequently than any other class of people, and 'the only preventive. against itis the presence of s,me other equallyi strong emotion with the love of home, or some ab- sorRing occupation twhich leaves ono no lime to think, aid hardly. .to. feel. Perfectly sane thoueh the patient be. he has all the impelFmenta of inSan- ity in an effort for recovery, and is as ;p;f fable as any vfcti h inthe records of suffering. = farpefa Bq9ar.. ..
 Men are too mush inclined to. .ac !; cept pretty womans at her face Yalne,. -IeI4S SJtiWqs. < ,,
The Arizona sentinel., 1888-02-04
READING FOR THE YOUNG.
TWlLIGHT-LAND.

Here we are in twilightland,
 Creakety-creak, Rocking-chaIrs at every hand
 Sway and swing and squeak; Here is neither park nor5treet. Bare are the little twinkle feet;
 White are the gowns and loose; No place here for ball or bat, No need now for coat or hat,
 None for stockings or shoes. What are the stories of twilight-land?
 Hark, ah, hark! -s Gall the sweet names where they stand,
 Waiting in the dark. Cinderella, and little Bo Peep, ., Who lost her sheep, her pretty sheep
 Jack Horuer, bold Boy Blue, And the three bears living in the wood, And the wolf that ate Red Riding Hood, And the spinning pussy, too. The little children in twilght-land
 Are still as mice, And the storyteller must understand
 She's to tell each story twice. TEe crickets chirr, the stars eyes wink; Perhaps the man ip the moon may th.nk
 Them saucy in their play; But. whatever is heard or said or done, Each sleepy, weary little one
 Gets rested for next day. For the pillow is white in twilight-land,
 And white the bed, And the tender loving mothers hand
 Is laid on the drowsiest head. And list, the tune she huns and sings, As with soft crcak the rocker swings,
 How far away it seems, That tune-that lullaby -ah, mel They are leaving twilight-land you see
 For the stiller land of dreams. -CIara DOtg Bates. to Youths Com l1dn'oA.
The Arizona sentinel., 1888-02-04
Scotland, divorces in America are by

Scotland. divorces in America are by no means uncommon.
 In the old Grecian and Roman States the way to married life was just as easy as in the States of the new world; but there certain physical re- quirements were at one time insisted upon. A Spartan law forbade mar riage until men and women arrived at their full strength. and there was an Athenian regulation that men should not marry until they were thirty-fve. The Athenians at the same time favored married men, giv- ing them the preference when vacan- cies occurred in official life.
 The Romans did the same They would help married man so far that if he had not reached the age limit as- signed for position, as many of the years were dispensed with as he had children. These favors did not alto gether succeed as & marriage bait. The young men of the empire had at one time, in fact, to be forced as well as bribed into marriage, the censors going so far as to insist on all the bachelors pledging themselves on oath 10 marry within a given time. Penal ties were in addition laid on celibacy, and these and other disabilities of the single men were not removed until the time of Constantine.
 Taxes on bachelors have been inn posed by many nations, including our ovls. but no more remarkable law on the subject was ever passed than that by the local authorities of Eastman. in Massachusetts, in 1885. In that year these functionaries passed a law 10 the effect that every unmarried man in fhe township should kill six black birds or three crows yearly while he remained single, and that as penalty for disobeying the order he should not get married, and no one should marry him until he had destroyed the num- Der of birds he was in arrears. Leeds (EnG Mercury.
The Arizona sentinel., 1888-02-04
VOLUME XVII.
TAE FUNNY MAN.

Who is t2Gt man who sits and bites His pea with aspect solemn? He is the Fun y Man who writes The weekly Comic Column. By day he scarce can keep awake; at night hecannot rest. HIS rseals he hardly dares to take He :ests, he can't digest Jfis I air, though not with years, is white, HiI cheek IS wan and pale, And Ill with seeking day and night F;.r jokes that are not stale. His oys Ere few: the chiefest one Is wh en by luck word Sug gests to him a novel pun
 E,is readers haven't heard. Aui when Yankee joke he sees In some old book-well then Ptrhaps he gains moments ease,
 And makes it do again. Tle thought that chiefly makes him sigh @ss .lsat . IIEle n5 asJ come T hen jokes extinct like mammoths fte, And jokers must be dumb. When every quip to death is done,
 And every crank is told: When men have printed every pun,
 And every jokeis old; When naught in Heaven, or earth, or sea Has not been turned to chatf, And not single oddity
 Is left to make us laugh.
 -C. E. BenbaAa. ia HGTpef's Mdqazine.
The Arizona sentinel., 1888-02-04
The Beginning and the End.
THE BEGINNING.

THE BEGINNING.
 A school-boy ten years old, one love- ly June day, with the roses in full bloom over the porch. and the labor CTS in the wheat fields. had been sent by his Uncle John to pay bill at the country store, and there was seventy five cents left, and Uncle John did not ask him for it.
 At noon this boy had stood under a beautiful blue sky, and a great tempta- tion came. He said to himself: Shall I give it back, or shall wait till he asks me for it? If he never asks, that is his lookout. If he does, why can get it again" He never gave back the money.
 THE ENDING.
 Ten years went by; he was clerk in bank. A package of bills lay in a drawer, and had not been put in the safe He saw them. wrapped them up in his coat, and carried them home. He is now in a prison cell; but he set his feet that way when a boy, years before, when he sold his honesty for seventy-fve cents.
 That night he sat disgraeed, and an open criminal Uncle John was long ago dead. The old home was deso- late, the mother broken-hearted. The prisoner knew what brought him there. School Journal.
The Arizona sentinel., 1888-02-04
J: W. DORRINGTON, Proprietor.
10.
tome all you merry school-g rIs,
 From north, south, east and west; From out this bright array of caps Choose which you like +he hae4 =

N--N
 From out this bright array of caps
 Choose which you like the best"
 "Oh. Rob, don't laugh! I didn't want so many" said Beth. pleading. ly and with half-smile.
 ''Come all you merry maidens,
 Of every name or station;
 Here's just the place to find
 Caps for all the nation" sang Rob. teasingly.
 Just then Beth heard her father calling her at the foot of the stairs. "Yes. papa" she answered, aud went 10 see what was wanted.
 Here is something for you, 5argh- ter," he said. tossing small ps.oAage into her hands.
 Rob's eyes twiukled mischIevously as she carried it into her room and disclosed to view red toboggan cap. T solemnly advise you to wear these three at once" said he. taking up the red, the white and the blue one; ''then you will look like the American flag, and be an honor to your country and terror to the foe." !"
 Robert Livingston Raymond, said Beth, twill you please behave your self for few minutes, just 10 see how it would seem, and tell me 1CtGt l am going to say at the tea-table?"
 Well, if I were you. returned Rob. trying to look serious, T would sim ply say: My dear friends, my little hint worked like charm-far beyond ny widest hop.s. I give you vote of thanks for five toboggan caps. May you all live long and thrive Say just that, and r recite few apprO- priate lines when the right time comes How would these do?
 My sister has her wish, dear friends,
 Of caps a goodly store;
 She never gave little hint
 With such success before.
 And-'
 But Beth put her hands over her ears, and ran down stairs and left him alone.
 Of course the whole story came out at the tea-table, and Beth's cheeks burned as the merry laugh went round. And she resolved never, as long as she lived, to give any little hints of that kind again.
 As Rob passed her door on his way to bed that night, she heard him sing ing:
 'Oh, know little maiden, Do, de, dunn! Do, de, dumi With toboggan caps laden. Do, de, dumi D-u-mI D-u-mP' E. L. BroUn. in Golden Ddys.
The Arizona sentinel., 1888-02-04

A firm of undertakers of Roches- ter, Pa, while taking charge of 8 funeral at Woodlawn, a rival under taker had boy pass around busi- ness card durmg tho services. stating that collins could be had at the cheap est rates, carriages to hire. traVelihg men accommodated. etc. The firm when informed of what the boy was doing. expelled him. It has created quite d sensation. and the relatives or the dead man arc very indignant
The Arizona sentinel., 1888-02-04
WEALTHY coLoRED. MEN.
A Few of Those Who Are Worth Over
 Fifty Thousand Dollars.

Frederick Douglass is said ito be worth S250 900. although he is only assessed for SIS S95 worth of property.
 Samuel Harris, negro of Williams burg, Va, is worth $50. 000 In Rich- mond there is*an Africo-American barber named William Lyons who is worth s50,000.
 The weallhiest person of the African race north of Mason and Dixon's line is Dr. James N. Gloucester, of Brook lyn. The Gloucester estate is valued at $2OO 900.
 A. Nickens. owns and manages, a pottery at Haddonfield, from which he turned out work that outrivaled every thing of its kind at the New Orleans Exposition.
 In Augusta. Ga., W. G. Johnson, general merchant, is said 10 be worth S35 900. Mrs. Nora Foster, hand some quadroon, recently inherited a fortune of nearly $1OO, 900 from her husband.
 Nineteen colored men of Baltimore. dIC Sstlu -tO'D Dc WOIIn SOOO, JUL 1uO wealthiest is Joseph Thomas, who is a boss stevedOre. He is worth $S0, 000.; James l.. Bradford, a green grocer, is worth $50, GOO. .l..,i....
 Rev. James Ramsey. of Hancock County, O., is worth s15O 0oO and is the largest Individual holder in the Bank of FirFllay. There are quite a number of negroes with property in Ohio amounting to S75: 900: - .' Stewart E lis, of Raleigh M G., has filled Government roptract for car: pen lering oa a. building worth $500 900. W. c. Colemah,- wholesale and retail merchant .of !Concerd, IN e.. owns several. of, 'tha finest breed of horses !iP ,,the State. - Minneapolis l Tribune P ., =. ..i ,.:
The Arizona sentinel., 1888-02-04

A .Colnraao c, paper tells of'a visit. ing damselt who was ;'attaeked. by "a vicions bulL in grta. fright. .she.east herself 'Oh the 'grdund,. face down wdrd. Tlle bull gosed that tenderfy- framed airscastle. called 'a' hustle until tt.gaye waE .and he retired with the trophy. TAeSQpng woman was saved.
The Arizona sentinel., 1888-02-04

Men are % mush inclined; to- .ac, !; cept pretty womanns at her face value. -Iexas SjftiRqs- ...
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-03-22
A Mexican snake Story.

a family in San Luis Potosi pos
sessed very fine rattlespake. They
bad captured it by means of forked
stick when it was but a baby and sue
ceeded in demonstrating it. In the
course of years it grew to be IA feet in
length and became tame and playful,
never showing the slightest symptom
of anger when handled by the child
rem, but it would not allow its rattles
to be touched. 1t became very much
attached to its master and would fol-
low him around the house like dog.
During the recent storm in San Luis
many of the houses were struck by
lightning. The bolts were falling fast
about the dwelling which had shell
tered the snake from childhood. No
bly, determined to die for its benefac-
tors the serpent crawled up the out
side walls of the house, and mounting
the roof it stood on its head in per-
pendicular position for the space of
several minutes shaking its rattles vio-
lently at the heavens. like Ajax defy
ing the lightning. The electricity at
tracted by this living lightning re-
duced to ashes the noble animal and
also the house. There is no use in let
ting the American papers have a mo-
nopoly of these snake stories. 1aOO
Republics.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-03-22
Apog Prepares for a Journey.

Col. Dunford was stationed at Cape
town, whence he went to pay short
visit TO some friends in the country.
Prince was left behind, in care of an
English servant, who had strict injunc-
tions 10 see that he did not attempt to
follow his master.
On the coloners return, after q short
absence, the servant reported that at
first the dog had taken his masters de-
parture quietly enough, showing no
desire whatever to leave the castle in
search of him. This conduct the man
looked upon as having been deep-laid
scheme on Princes part.
The man had almost ceased to watch
his charge, when suddenly. at the pre-
else hour of Col. Dunford's departure
on the previous day, the dog sprane
up and dashed out of the place.
Without the slightest hesitation ht
made his way to the railway station
and Jumped into an empty iirst-class
carriage Of the train about to start
unobseryed by any of the officials
The servant, who followed just in time
to drag him out, found him sitting
upon the seat, not hidden under it
having taken his place on the YER!
train BY which his master went on th'
day before, and probably in the yer!
carriage he occupied. - Youth's Com
pQni0n.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-03-22
Art on the Pacinc Coast.

The great and liberal man, j. e.
Flood. is a patron of the arts, says
The San Francisco Post, and he thought
of plan the other day whereby he
could befriend a poor and struggling
artist, so he contracted with sculptor
for two gigantic bears statues to adorr!
his building on the corner of Market
and Fourth streets.
"And what is yer idee, NEE mon,
said he to the artist, "as to the tee
statoos that you will erect upon mes
spashus buildingP"
"Ceres and Bacchus, think, will
make good subjects" was the reply.
Hut tut, mon; what do Oi want
wild statoos of Sears and Backus.
What did they ever do, Old like to
know, but be collector and postmas.
ter. Be jabers, Oi moight as veil have
statoos of auld Hager and Doc Bryan,
and j. c. Flood fairly swelled with
rage.
The little mistake was Strengthened
out. and thR artist was set to work,
though in the mind of the would-be
wheat-cornerer certain misgivings
found harbor that the artist did not
Understandable nature of the Job.
The sculptor worked away merfily
on Ceres and Bacchus. and Bacchus iii
clay was completed when j. c. Flood
! strolled in to have look at it.
There's Bacehus." said the sculp'
tor. pointing proudly at the clay
figure.
But the great j. c. Flood shifted The
air hanghtiiy, and upturned his nose
in disdaiu.
why ant them little things on his
feet?" he asked. In so sharp maBnel
as if he Thought the sculptor was try.
, ing TO beat him out of sume work.
"What things?" asked the amazed
man.
Them little things" and J. G.
Flood lifted up his feet and pointed tc
i his heels.
'.Ob," said the man. ''Those things
don't belong to Baeehus, they belong
: to Mercury"
II don't care a cent to whom they
belong" replied Flood, wrathfully
"How dare you eontrhadict mou
of my standing tooice. sor, OH tache
you yer bizness, SOL. Oi won't take
'em too statoos, sor. won't"
And be did not.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-03-22
Shadow Pictures ON the Pane.

A very amusing incident was OBJ
served by a crowded house in one of
the leading local restaurants a few
days since. A niceiy-dressed gentle
man and very pretty lady called for
supper and were shown to the ladies'
department. which is paftitioned Oft
from the main diniug-hall. The rich
est viands in the house went back to
the room, together with several bottles
of yellow label. In snort while those
who were sitting at the tables in the
main hall were amused by two
shadows which appeared on the frost.
ed window looking into the ladies'
apartment. The shadows dipped
towards each other and seemed TO
glue together in a lovers kiss. One
shadow embraced the other. which
seemed to sigh. Tnen there was a
! shuttle of feet and the shadows danced
around on the frosted glass as though
! in a collar-and-elbow wrestling-match.
The whole hall was In a litter by this
time. aud the proprietor. fearing scan
dal if the matter went any further,
sent a servant to tap on the windo"
and notify the guests that they stood
between the gas-jet and the door, and
that their every movement was paint
ed on the glass. s.-LoutsTttIe P0st