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The Arizona sentinel., 1889-08-17
TEST OF CIVILIZATION.
An Instance OF the Superiority of Chris
tan to Classic Life.

An Instance of the Superiority of Chris
tian to Classic Life.
The civilized man is distinguished
from the savage in nothing more than
in the cultivation of his sympathies
In barbarous countries men learn to
endure the actual sight of cruelty and
suffering that in a more advanced So
ciety would arouse a storm of sympathy
for the sufferers and Indignation
against those by whom the sufferings
were inflicted. 1t is one of the strongest
instances of the superiority of Chris
tian to classic civilization that the cruel
sports in which the most refined of
Roman men and women took delight
are impossible in modern times, and
that the countries in which these sports
survive are rated lower in civilization
on that account than the countries from
which they have been banished. The
Punishment is nowhere quite complete.
but the advance is steady and constant
We are on the way to the establishment
of the ideal condition of the poet in
which it shall be the rule of human life
Never to blend our pleasure or our pride
With sorrow Of the meanest thing that feels.
We have so nearly attained it that the
actual sight of protracted suffering is
avoided by all civilized people. But
there is long step from this condi-
ton to one in which the thought of
unseen human suffering is intolerable.
A much higher refinement is needed
to evoke sympathy and aid for distant
and unknown victims. Even the most
advanced nations have still a great
step to make before the brotherhood
of man is recognized in them as
practical fact, and before a family in
India or in China excites the same
emotions as a story of starvation in
the next street. But here also prog
ress is steadily making. Already the
solidarity" of Western Europe and
what we may still call
great social force,
and the sympathy that comes from it
does not fail to be translated into help
full action whenever a disaster occurs,
the results of which are plainly be-
yond the power of relief of those who
in a more restricted and less Scriptural
sense are the neighbors of the victims.
N. Y. Times.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-08-17
THE AGE OF MEOIOCRITY.
Reflections and Reveries of a Wise Poet
PhilOSOnhar.

Reflections ana ReVerleS OF a wise Poet
Philosopher:
The age of great men is going; the
epoch of the ant-hill, of life in multi
plicity. is beginning. The century of
individualism; if abstract equality tri-
umphs, runs q great risk of seeing no
more true individuals. By continual
leveling and division of labor, society
will become every thing and man moth
ing. AS the floor of valleys is raised
by the denudation ana washing down
of the mountains, what is average will
rise at the expense OF what is great.
The exceptional will disappear. A
plateau with fewer and fewer undula-
tons, without contrasts and without
oppositions-such will be the aspect
of human society. The statistician
will register growing progress,
and the moralist gradual de-
cline; on the one hand, IL progress
Of things; on the other, decline of
souls. The useful will take the place
of the beautiful. industry of art, polit-
ical economy of religion, and arithme-
tic of poetry. The spleen will become
the malady of leveling age. Is this
indeed the fate reserved for the dem
ocratic era? May not the general
well-being be purchased too dearly at
such a price? The creative force
which in the beginning wessee forever
tending to produce and multiply diff
ferences. will it afterward retrace its
steps and obliterate them one by one?
And equality, which in the dawn of ex-
istence is mere inertia, torpor, and
death, is it to become at last the
natural form of lifeP Or rather, above
the economic and political equal
ity to which the socialist and nom
socialist democracy aspires, taking it
too often for the term of it's efforts,
will there not arise a new kingdom of
mind, a church of refuge, a republic
of souls, in which, far beyond the
region of mere right and sordid utility,
beauty, devotion, holiness, heroism,
enthusiasm, the extraordinary, the in
finite, shall have a worship and an
city? Unitarian materialism,
barren well-being, the idOlatry of the
flesh and of the ~" of the temporal
and of Mammon, are they to be the
goal of our efforts, the final recon-
pense promised to the labors of our
race? do not believe it. The ideal
of humanity is something different and
higher. But the animal in US must be
satisfied first; we must first Danish
from among us all suffering which has
its origin in social arrangements, be-
fore we can return to spiritual goods.
From Amiel's Journal
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-08-17
SCRAPS OF SCIENCE.
IT requires $50 Bushels Of potatoes
make q ton of f,ofatn starch


IT requires $50 Bushels Of potatoes 10
make a ton of potato starch.
CITRIC acid is derived from lemons, it re-
quiring from $50 to 300 to produce pound
of solid crystals.
ONE pound of coal or coke burned evap-
crates nine pounds of water, while pound
of wood does but half this.
'FWIzARD' Edlson's latest invention is an
ore separator, which is expected to revolu-
tionize iron mining methods.
DR.. W. D. JOHNSON, of San Francisco, iii
lecture on the lower forms of animal life,
said that ''the oyster is capable of being ed
ucated in limited way"
IN experiments continued for four years,
M. F. Larroque has found that, after eight
or nine months, copper wires under the ae-
ton of electric currents show signs of de=
terioration.
THE Chemical News describes new dis
infectant called Thlocamf, the basis Of
which is a curious liquid which results
when sulphur-dioxide is brought in contact
with camphor.
POTASH, chemically considered; is the OK
ide of the metal potassium, but the name
is generally given to the crude and impure
substance obtained by evaporating the liz
ivlum Of the ashes of wood in iron pots;
whence the name of potash is derived.
Pearl ash is a refined or tolerably pure pot
ash.
The news comes from the University of
Padua that Prof. Gravenigo has succeeded
in grating the cornea of barndoor fowl
on the eye of human subject. The oper
alton is spoken of as most successful, the
transplanted cornea being transparent,
glossy and convex. If it be as is said there
is new hope for many blind people:
AN average of five feet of water is esti-
mated to fall annually over the whole earth,
and assuming that condensation takes
place at an average height of 5000 feet,
scientists conclude that the force of evap-
Grafton to supply such rainfall must equal
the lifting of 322 000,O0 pounds of water
5000 feet in every minute, or about three
hundred billion horse power constantly ex-
erted OF this prodigious amount Of ener-
gy thus created very small proportion Is
transferred to the waters that run back
through rivers to the sea, and still smaller
fraction is utilized by man; the remainder
is dissirated in space.
YEAST has been largely used in medicine
for many years, especially in Europe, where
the highest opinion is entertained. of it's
valuable qualities. 1t is used not only in
scurvy, diphtheria, scarlet fever, measles
and cholera infantum, but in cases of ty-
phus it is actually a specific. Its entire
harmleSSnesS permits It's use In large
quantities. and to break up severe cases OF
typhus from 100 to 200 grams are admins
tered. In severe cases of diphtheria six
to eight grains of unfermented fluid yeast
are given to children every hour and the
mouth and face are mopped at the same in
tervals with u mixture of one part yeast and
five OF six parts water.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-08-17
A COURAGEOUS WOMAN.
How She Got the Best of a william Who
was Bent on Robbery.

How She Got the Best of a william Who
was Bent on Robbery.
One day recently, in the rotunda OF
the Fifth Avenue Hotel, a number OF
men were discussing the question OF
pluck and bravery frequently exhibit
ed by persons advanced in years. Gen
eral Dan Macauley, now resident of
this city, but formerly of Indiana, re-
lated the most remarkable instance, as
follows:
"Dr. Walker, about sixty years of
age, and his wife, few years younger,
together with two grown sons, resided
in Indianapolis after the war. One
night Mrs. Walker retired late, but
not to sleep, for she expected her hus-
band to come in from the next room
every moment. A light was burning,
and lying on her bed she could see the
floor at certain angles. Instead of her
husband coming in she saw villain
Ous-lOOking man, with bowie-knife
between his teeth, crawling through
the door on his all tours. In a second
he disappeared under the bed. Her
husband then came in, blew out the
light and got into bed.
Mrs. Walker said nothing for few
minutes, for she was thinking of
scheme to capture the robber and save
herself and husband from being MUIR
dered. Finally she said aloud to her
husband: L am thirsty; I'll go and
get drink of water She got out of
bed and went to the room where her
two sons were sleeping. Putting her
hands over the mouth of one she
whispered in his ear that man was
under her bed and that she wanted his
pistol. The son told her that he gave
her the pistol few days ago, because
she objected to having one around
loaded. Then she remembered that
she had hid it in the basement-room,
on top of a shelf. wait, boys, I'll get
it, she said. Going down stairs she
passed another robber, the pal of the
one under her bed, though she was I'M
aware of it at that time.
After stumbling around in the dark
she managed to find the pistol and
hastily rushed up stairs with it. In
the meantime her husband suspected
that something was the matter, be-
cause she had consumed too much
time in getting drink of water. The
robber became suspicious also and was
pulling himself from under the bed,
and had almost assumed a sitting posi-
ton, his face toward the bed and the
knife still clutched between his teeth,
when the old doctor was in the act of
springing to the door. Without a mo-
ments hesitation the doctor tumbled
right on the robber and at the same
time dealt him powerful blow in the
face. They both fell on the floor, the
doctor on top and gamely punching
him at every opportunity. 1t was
short and desperate struggle. The
rObber attempted TO cut the doctor, but
the latter knocked the knife out of his
hand. In tumbling around the robber
got cut his pistol and pulled the trig-
ger, but the old doctor seized his wrist
in time and the ball struck the ceiling.
With a strong effort the robber extri-
Gated himself from the doctor and ran
for the door.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-08-17
SPEED OF GAME-BIRDS,
What an Old Sportsman Related to an In
quisitive Reporter.

What an Old Sportsman Related to an In
quisitive Reporter.
81 have held my watch on several
kinds OF ducks and geese, but the main
/ part of what l am going to tell you
/ comes from several old hunters who
have favored me with their experience,
and one of these old-timers in a letter
says: L can tell you just about to the
siXty-third part of dot how much
space any one of them can get over in
an hour. There is not railroad train
that can hold candle to the side of
the slowest duck that flies
THE canvas-back can distance the
whole duck family, if it lays itself out
to do it. When this duck is taking
things easy, enjoying little run around
the block, as it were, it goes through
the air at the rate of abuut eighty
miles an hour. If it has business
somewhere and has to get there, it
puts two miles back of it every minute,
and does it easily. If you don't be-
lieve this, just fire square at the leader
in string of canvas backs that are out
on a business cruise some time. Duck
shot travels pretty fast, but If you hap
pen to hit one you see if it is not the
fifth or sixth one back of the drake or
leader. A drake does not always lead,
but it generally does if there is one in
the flock; if there are more they will
seldom take the lead. If you wish to
bring down the leader you must aim
at a space of at least eight feet ahead
of him, and if he falls you will find
him long distance, probably two or
three squares of.
The mallard is a slow one; it is all
he can do to make a mile minute,
but he can do it if he wants to. His
regular rate is about forty-five miles
an hour,
THE black duck is a slow coach.
He is about as good as the mallard,
and the fntail widgeon and wood duck
can not do much better. The red head
can go easily, and make ninety miles
an hour as long as he likes, all day if
necessary. The blue-winged teal and
its beautiful cousin, the green-winged
teal, can fly side by side for one hun
dred miles in an hour and take it easy.
The gadwale. you see them here
very seldom, though we'll known
further West on the Allegheny river
and at Kishammock, though looking
like the mallard is smarter duck and
harder to shoot 1t can make ninety
miles in an hour and not try hard.
May be you may think goose can't
fly. Why, it can double the speed of
the fastest trains on any of our rail-
roads. Of course l mean wild goose.
Well, it has a big corporation, but it
can get from feeding ground to feeding
ground so suddenly that it fools our
best wing shots.
IF you see flock of honlers NOV
ing along so high up that they seem to
be scraping the sky with their backs,
you would not think that they are
close on a hundred miles an
hour, but they are The wild goose is
not much on foot, but it means bust
ness every time.
The broad-bill goose comes next to |
the canvas back duck in speed. Put
the two together and in an hour the |
broad-bill would not be more than ten
miles behind. Wilmington (DeL)
News.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-08-17

"A farmer in Wilson County, Tex,
reports some rather remarkable re-
suits of experiments in cotton plant
ing. His purpose was to ascertain the
result of planting in rows of different
widths. Most of the cotton was plant
ed in the usual width, but five acres
were planted with the rows eight feet
apart, and he reports that the cotton
in this field did not cease growing the
entire year and made twice as much to
the acre as that planted the usual
width.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-08-17
Use GentIenesS.

Be gentle in stimulating the kidneys, 9th
erwise you will excite and weaken them
The happiest results follow the use OF Hos
letters Stomach Bitters to overcome renal
inactivity Avoid the unmedicated, fiery
stlmulants of commerce. The kidneys have
a delicate membrane easily irritated, and
upon this the action of such excitants is per-
nicious. Malarial complaints, indigestion,
rheumatism, neuralgia and biliousness sue
cumb to the corrective influence OF the Bit
tiers.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-08-17
Remarks on Nature.

Mature is very venturesome," re-
marked the snake editor, "but there
are degrees in her venturesomeness. -
Yes, replied the horse editor, al
though / can't say l grasp your mean
ing exactly "
well, some scenery is bold, but
when there are plenty of rocks in the
landscape it is bowlder. - Omaha
World.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-08-17

WHEN cream is colder than the surround
ing air it takes up moisture and impurities
from the air. When the air is colder Il an
the cream it takes up moisture and what.
ever escapes from the cream. In the former
case the cream purifies the surrounding air.
in the latter case the air helps to purify the
cream The selection of dreamer should
hinge on what is most desired, highest
quality or greatest convenience and econ
omy in time, space and labor.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-08-17
Two Hundred and Eighty Years of Inn

In 1902 after traversing the Hudson
River from its mouth to Albany, and care
fullS noting the grandeur and beauty on
either sidB Of this magnificent highway OF
nature, HendfieE Hudson wrote these
words:
ut is as beautiful a land one csn tread upon"
Two hundred and eighty years have mar
velously Increased the beauty of the great
river called by his name, and could ne re-
turn to the scenes of his manhood, ne
would find many more lovely sights
than those Upon which his eyes rested
In the early part of the seventeenth
century. The natural beauties OF the
Hudson are much the same, and no
description can sEaggerate them; but the
magnificent steamers that ply between New
York and Albany, the innufhegable sailing
Graf, that dot the surface of the mighty
river, the never-ending clusters of Canal
boats that are being lowed up and down,
the beattiful villas that one encounters at
every ttrn; the magnificent monuments,
perpetuatinE herSie deeds, That we find here
and there along the banks of this noblest
river of the continent sdd an endless va
riety to the scenery, and res1stEess charm
to the eye of the traveller.
The New York Central and Hudson Aiyer
Railroad runs along the bank of the Hudson
river the entire distance between New York
and Albany; and Is the great Trunk Line
that CONNECTS the metropolis of the western
world with the famous health and pleasure
resorts of Central, Northern and Western
New York, including in It's list the Catskiu
Mountains, Saratoga, Lake George, Sharon
and Rithfeld Springs, Lake Ontario, the
Berkshire Hills. Niagara Falls, the Thou
sand Islands, Lake ChaIhplain, the River st.
Lawrence, and hundreds Of Sthers:
The New York Central is part Of the
great national highway across the eontf-
hent, and for the beauty of its scenery, tbs
Number and importance of the cities through
which it passes, its almost total lack of
grades and curves, this great four-track
Railway is unsurpassed IN Europe or Amer
lea.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-08-17

Mrs. CRAIG WADswoRTH, who lives in
Washington, but is New Yorker, is said
to be worth $1,000, 600 Miss Sarah Hitch
cock is not only a society woman, but is said
to have in her own right several millions
with which to command society. Mrs. Levi P
Morton is said to have well over 81, 100000
of her own.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-08-17

Mrs. JAMES P. KERNOCHEN has 81, 500 900
in money and real estate at a low estimate
By the same apportonment Mrs. John G..
Green has at least "a, 000, 600, and Mrs. Ma
son Jones, so often called by queer old peo-
pie ''Lady Mary Mason Jones,'' she has 81.
100000 of her own and is contestlng the
Hammersley will besides.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-08-17
Save That Sweet Grill

droop into invalidism or sink into an early
grave for want of timely care at the most
critical stage of her life. DIR. Pierce's Fa-
vorite Prescription will aid in regulating her
health and establishing it on a firm basis
and may save her years of chronic suffer
ing and consequent unhappiness.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-08-17

have any effect, and where the patient can
not take it by reason of its unpleasant in
1uence, a cureis promptly obtained by Shall
lenberger's Antidote. 1t cures imm edidtety.
In no Gaze will there be more than one chill
after the first dose, and in the majority of
cases not even that. Sold by Druggists.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-08-17
There is a widespread popula

There is a widespread popular
impression that very large proper
ton of deaths from disease takes place
in the early morning hours-between
four and six o'clock. That this is an
error is well known to most medical
men. From time to time careful OBJ
servations have been made in hospi-
tails which have resulted in showing
that the act of death takes place with
fairly equal frequency during the
whole twenty-four hours of the day.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-08-17
Heirs Wanted.

Information is wanted of the whereabouts
of Johanna Wilson, daughter Of Mark
Sweeney, wife of Thomas Wilson, born in
Limerick Co., Ireland. She is, if living
heir to an estate If dead, her children or
next Of kin are wanted. Address, W. j..
CovI1., Webster City, Iowa.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-08-17

Mrs. W. E. DODGE is worth 100000
much of the income of which she sends to
the heather. Mrs Robert Goelet is worth
$3,OOO,OOO, and Mrs. John G. Green, the
widow of the Princeton College patron, is
reputed to be worth 100000.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-08-17

A NEW fashion is said to be holding sway
this summer among the fair bathers at the
sea shore. Light chamois skin masks are
worn, entirely conceallng the features.
his is not done for modesty's sake, but to
preserve the complexion.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-08-17

sPENNY wise and pound foolish" are
those who think 1t economy to use cheap soda
and rosin soaps, instead of the good old DOB
bins Electric Soap; for sale since 1864. Try
it once. Be sure. Buy genuine.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-08-17

A CITIZEN of Hagarstown, Md, claims that
the inside of box in his possession was
made of part of the Penn treaty tret, and
the outside of part of the original coffin OF
Washin ptOn
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-08-17
A more pleasant physic
You never will find
Than Pierce's small ''Pellets,"
The Purgative kind.

MRS. MARSHALL o. ROBERTS, who is often
pointed out as the most desirable part
among fashionable widows, has a life in
terest in 100000
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-08-17

To BE the friend of sovereign you must
be without passion, without ambition, with
out egotism, elear-sighted and far-sighted;
in short not man.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-08-17

MRS. FRtDERTcK STEVENS that was, now
the Duehesse de Dino, is New Yorker still
TO the tune of ten real golden millions Of her
own, and nowj one may say, the Dukes, too.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-08-17

"A tive-dollar gold piece was founu
in an orange which lady in Syracuse
was eating, and the dozen people who
heard of it first went out and bought
every orange in town to look for more
gold.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-08-17

The Russian Government proposes to
takc steps for rendering the rivers of
Siberia navigable and connecting them by
canals.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-08-17

PAIN in the Side nearly always comes from
| disordered liver and is promptly relieved by
| Carriers Little Liver Pills. Don't forget this.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-08-17

You hardly realize that it is medicine,
when taking Carter's Little Liver Pills; they
are very small; no bad effects; all troubles
from torpid liver are relieved by their use.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-08-17

CHEss-so named from its principal piece
C1ingJ-was one of the earliest inventions
Of the Hindoos, being devised by Brahmin.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-08-17

BUFFALO BILL, Amelie Rives-Chanler,
Belva Ann Lockwood and WhItelaw Reid
formed an interesting group at recent re-
ception in Paris.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-08-17

IT Is positively hurtful to use ointment for
skin diseases. Use Glenn's Sulphur Soap.
Hills Hair and Whisker Dye, so cents.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-08-17

The two elderly Misses Rhinelander have
100000 between them, and bid fair to leave
it to collateral heirs with wonderfully fat
accumulate
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-08-17

THE man who boasts that he is ready to
shed his last drop of blood is apt to be par
ticular about the first drop.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-08-17

TIE codling moth does not lay its eggs
till the blossoms fall and the sprayin z
should not be done till the fruit Is the size
Of small peas.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-08-17
ASK your druggist for "Tansill's Punch. "

IT will pay to shake off a large proportion
Of the fruit from trees that are overloaded.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-08-17

WE only know ourselves and what we
really are when the force of circumstances
brings us out
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-08-17

THAT virtue which requires to be ever
guarded is scarcely worth the sentinel
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-08-17

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