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The Arizona sentinel., 1889-01-19
READING FOR THE YOUNG.
BEsSY'S DREAM.

Dear little Bessy, all tired with pay, Sat down to rest on warm, sunny day, Under the shade of an apple-tree,
 By the side of the brooxlet growing. She wore a white bonnet and pink gingham
 dress, And what sweet picture was delr little Bcss, With her sunny hair, so wild and free,
 Over her shoulders fiowing The murmur ng brook, as it glided by, Whispered to Bessy a sweet lullaby; Her eyes grew heavy, her curly head dropped, And soon she was fast asleep. She scarcely had slept but moment or two, When three little fairies, all dressed in bright
 blue,
 Softly down from the apple-tree hopped, And into her eyes did peep. Finding her sleeping. they mlde slight sound, And soon all the fairies came wiring around They took off her ginghlm and dressed her in
 silk,
 And one little fairy said: Dear Bessy we've come t0 invite you to tea, Oar food is as dainty as dainty can be- Sweetest of honey and best of milk Come, for our table is spread" She woke with a start, and opened her eyes, When what do you think was her great sur
 prise?
 No fairy table was waiting near,
 And in place of her robe of silk She wore her white bonnet and pink gingham
 dress; And instead of the fairy-do you think you can
 guess?-
 Mamma and Carlo were standing there, With her bowl of bread and milk.
 -Grdce $. BrOaCH. in Our [ HLe Ones.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-01-19
STRANGE DISCOVERY.
How Far Artiliciality in Dress Is Carried
 by Society Women.

How Far Artificiality in Dress Is Carried
 by Society Women.
 "I think I've now sounded the depths of artifciality in dress" said lady yesterday. ''What do you suppose is my latest discovery? You know I am on pleasant calling terms with Mrs. Blank. We'll, I asked her to let the nurse bring her little four-year-old Mabel in to see me some day; she said she would, and to-day the pair came. I immediately asked that Mabel be al- lowed to come in and have lunch with us. The nurse, French one, was en- phatic in her assertions that they could only stay few moments, and l should have succumbed to her dictum, but Aunt Mary came in just then and her hospitality took the form of just putting the nurse down and saying that Mabel must have off her things and stay awhile. Have off her thingsr Aye, there's the rub! For what do you think? You've seen the child on the street, haven't you? You know what lovely golden curls float over her shoulders? Well, hark! When Aunt Molly obstreperously re- moved the young ones pretty little close bonnet those lovely golden curls came too! On her head was left only short crop of straight hair. The curls were sewed in--bought and sewed in. l must be a simple creature, for now every body tells me that such furnish ing of children's caps is not uncom mon, and that the mothers don't allow the little ones to be seen except when in full street costume. But l haven't had such shock since l happened in a well-known belle's dressing-room to pick up one of her dainty little boots and found it padded half an inch deep on the instep."-N '. Graphic.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-01-19
PTTH AND POINT.
Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.

thirst and cold.
 The difference between pig-head- edness and frmness is this: it is your wife who is pig-headed. Terre Haute Express.
 -Flatterers are the cleverest thought-readers; they tell you exactly what you think. Von Schon- Man.
 Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and the laughter abundant. - Washington IrUi19.
 You can't turn butterfly into a caterpillar; yet some men are disap- pointed because the angel of courtship doesn't turn out to be the patient drudge of marriage. e.-Pac6.
 With full pockets and full stom- achs, and good linen, and broadcloth on your back, your heart and soul will get plethoric, and in the race of life you will find yourself surpassed by all the poor boys around you, before you know it.-J G. HolLand.
 We are reform CTS in spring and summer; in autumn and winter we stand by the old-retormers in the morning, conservative at night. Re form is affirmative, conservatism negative: conservatism goes for com fort, reform for truth.
 He is rich who lives upon what he has, He is poor who lives upon what is coming. A prudent man lives with in his income, whatever that may be, and saves against a rainy day. Keep your expenses within your income, and you will avoid the temptation of doing many shabby actions.
 It is comparatively easy to be fair to an opponent in a case where one is enlisted merely through sympathy with another. It is exceedingly hard to be fair where self-interest is touched. This causes a struggle with self which few are strongly enough imbued with justice to make.- Stand ard.
 Common sense meant once some thing very different from that plain wisdom, the common heritage of men. whom we now call by this name, hay ing been bequeathed to us by very complex theory of the senses, and of sense which was the common bond of them all, and which passed it's verdicts on the reports which they severally made of it.-R. C. Trench.
 Next to the evil of living beyond ones means is that of spending all ones income. There are multitudes who are sailing so near shore that a slight wind in the wrong direction founders them. They get on well while the times are usual and the wages promptly paid; but panic or a short period of sickness, and they drop help. less.
 To women there is an inexpressi- ble fascination in dalliance with dan ger-this compromise between love and coquetry. It is their one excitement, and it is worth to them all the thou sand others that serve to relieve, or more often to distract, the dullness of their lords and masters. They are con- tent to be whirled out of their own thoughts in that pleasing vortex. Its eddying rapidity is so delightful-its surface, up to the very edge,so smooth and glassy; all is e. rming till the last fatal plunge itself, when the abyss is opened to its victim, and then closes upon her forever.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-01-19

-"Charlie, you don't ever flirt or make love to women when you're away, do you, dear?" Well, l should say not Who put such an idea in your little head?" Well, Mrs Blunt said ali travelling men firted." You just tell her that she don't know any thing about it. No self-respecting travelling man ever firts, especially a married man who has such dear wife at home as you are" ''I told her that you didn't flirt and she laughed. But, say, Charlie, who is the lady whose photograph you dropped out of your coat pocket this mOrning?n And then came the usual story of customers wife who wanted a copy made of the photograph, and the recording angel sighed and called up his stenOgrq, pber --MlcbiQaH IrGdgsmQa.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-01-19
VOLUME XVIII.
WHY DO LOVE HER9

Why do I love her?
 How can tell? Why does the sunshine, Brirhten the dell? Why doth the dew drops
 Spangle the meadY Loving her not,
 Would be stranger, indeed. Why do love heri
 Look in her face, Fair and so youthful,
 Study her grace. Lips like a cherry
 Cheeks like a rose How could help it
 Do you suppose! Eyes like yon fair skies, Tender and blue; Clearer than crystal, Aye and SO true; No enc could doubt them, Merry or sad; Something about them Makes the heart glad. Why do love herr You would not ask If in her beauty
 Once you could bask. Not her cheeks roses, Not her lips red Something besides this Moves one instead. Not for her beauty Love alone; Not for her riches; Wealth she has none; PriZing her fond heart More than mere pelf, Dearly love her, And just for berSsLf! -NrS. N. 4. htdder. in " 7. Led0er.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-01-19
Ar Important Difference.

Mother--Are you sure Mir. Nicefel- low loves you as husband should?
 Daughter Of course. He wants to marry me.
 Mother (who knows Der daughters peculiarities) Glowing you well enough to marry you is one thing; loving you we'll enough to live with you is quite another. N, y, Reeklg
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-01-19

dertul extent the happiness of mau- kind; only such a scheme seems less calculated for the latitude of England than for that of Pekin, where marriage is regarded as one of the exact sciences, and there are Regius Pro- fessors of Matrimony.- Iete- 01.0nh
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-01-19

Twenty young men in a Pennsyl-. vania town formed a football club In three months fourteen of them had broken bones, three were crippled for life, and one druggist sold them SIS worth of ointment.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-01-19
LITTLE PRINCE ALL-RIGHT.

Why He Was Thus Calied-A Very Hap-
 py, COntented Hoy, One lovely day iB fall, the nuts lay
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-29
Reyond the Grave.

Colonel Robert Ingersoll, writing of
another recent work on immortality,
makes the most liberal statement of his
belief in the possibility of life beyond
the grnve: ,I.,
'If we admit the existenceof q God
or infinite wisdom and compassion we
may say that there must be a
world better than this. But how
do we account for one worse than
this? That is to say: If injustice
triumphs here, why not there If honesty
goes without bread in this world. why
not in another? Certainly God will be
no better then than now. Still, it may
be possible that a God of Intimate love
and compassion will go reward those
who suffer through suffering itself-that
all that happiness will be consistent
wisdom and compassion. Love and
hope are universal so long as
men love and so long as they
hope there will probably be in the
heart and brain splendid dream of i'm
mortality. 1t may be that we live no
more; that we 60 back to unconscious
dust, and yet the heart will always cay:
Perhaps there is another life.' But
whether there is or not, let us all paint
on the canvas of the future picture that
dalights and satisfies the soul. We know
that in this world after joy comes grief,
as after day comes night, and it may be
there is some world where after grief
comes joy, as after night comes day.
From New York letter.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-29
A Dining Cnr,s Load,


What Santa Fe dining car actually
starts out with is It's pounds of fresh
meats of all kinds, three dozen spring
chickens, two dozen ducks, two dozen
cartridges and fifty pounds of turkey.
Canned meats are used to some extent.
len or twelve quart cans of consomme
are slowed away somewhere for emer-
gencies, though it is the pride of the chief
to prepare his own soups. There are
forty to fifty pounds of fish, two hundred
pounds of CLAIMS and the same of oysters,
the latter being only for breakfast use
and an occasional plate for dinner. OF
fresh vegetables tho prominent features
are eight or nine dozen of green corn.
five or six bushels OF potatoes and crate
of tomatoes. In their season there are
taken bunch Of bananas, four baskets
OF grapes, four dozen oranges, two bas-
kets of peaches, ,seven dozen pears, half q
dozen waterrhelons. Within the cupboard
OF the pantry are some twenty quart Jars
OF preserves, five dozen loaves of bread
thirty pounds of butter, twelve pounds of
cake, fifteen pounds Of coffee, ten pounds
Of cheese, four pounds of tea, fifty pounds
OF sugar, eight to ten gallons of milk,
five gallons of cream, thirty dozen eggs,
fifty pounds OF salt-used largely for the
packing of wine and ice cream-1 900
quill toothpicks, estimated three for
every passenger, not to mention -four and
meal supplies for kitchen use.-[Topeka
Capital.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-29

THE recent severe storms have doubt
less done great damage in individual
cases. We hear of the destruction of
valuable orange orchards in the vicinity
of Rivera by the change of the course of
the Los Angeles river, and there is talk
of holding the city responsible for it. 1t
is claimed, we believe, that because the
city authorized the construction of levees
in the lower portion Of the river, it's
natural course had been changed,
sending it in the direction of the cid
Downey road, and causing dam
age where nothing of the kind
could have occurred had it not
been for the work done on the levees.
However this may be, it is certain that
no reliance can be placed in the steady
course of our streams during great and
phenomenal storms. The Los Angeles
river has changed it's bed before, and
will probably do 30 again. The New
river is branch of the San Gabriel,
which not great many years ago, dur
ing freshet, divided and formed another
stream. Unless it can be shown that the
city has purposely detected the natural
flow of our river by ill-advised work
upon the levees, it is hard to see how we
can be held responsible for it's vagaries
during the late tremendous storm.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-29
Ingalls, Heard Something Drop.

In an interview in the Washington
Post Senator Ingalls,, of Kansas, said !:
81 want to see the tariff reduced to de-
gree that the revenues OF the country
will only meet the expenses. l wish to
see the tax on whiskey and tobacco con-
tinued, because they are unnecessary
luxuries, and because every dollar raised
upon them relieve the tax on necessaYies
OF life to that extent"
This is sound doctrine; but the mis-
fortune is that Senator Ingalls,, who has
thus expressed himself before, always
turns up with his party fn Congress ON
these questions. In the Fiftieth Con-
gress he votod for the Senate tariff bill
which proposed to reduce the tax on
tobacco and increase the taxes on the
many necessaries of life. His action
then was in direct contradiction
with his utterances then and
now. But probably, this time
he means to stick. At any rate, his dec
larations afford no slight indication of
the advance of public sentiment in Kan
sas on the tariff question. Senator In.
gals is statesman who keeps his ears
very close to the ground to catch the
faintest rumblings of public opinion in
distant Kansas. As be is again q candi-
date for United States Senator it is likely
that he has recently heard something
drop.-Philadelphi Record.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-29

PARTIES who have got in from the line
of the railroad in the soledad caflop,
report very serious damage to the track
and the bridges. They say that the tor
rent has cut out new beds in its course
from Southside to saugus, and left
bridges in air in several places. The
Southern Pacific Company have dis.
patched large force of men and great
deal of material to the scene Of dis
aster to put the road in condi-
tion; but those who have come
in are of the opinion that it will take
several days to even make provisional
tracks around the worst places. The
washouts all along the csfion are the
worst that have occurred there since the
winter of 1884. and the damage done to
railway property will even surpass that
which was experienced during that
severe winter.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-29
PACIFIC COAST NEWS.
The Railroads Getting Back
in Shape.
OF THE FLOOD
Victims of the San Francisco Fire
Postmaster for Los Angeles
Appointed.
Associated Press Dispatches to the HrnAn1

Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD.
SAN Francisco, December 2S.-The
exertions which have been put forth by
the railroad companies to keep the roads
in order during the storm have been we'll
rewarded. The Oregon line trains are
running up to schedule time, and the
only lines on which great Irregularities
still exist are the Santa Fe aud Southern
Pacific roads south of Bakersfield. No
trains from that section have come
through yet.
SAN BERNARDINo, CAL, December 28.-
The first eastern train left Cotton this
morning over the Southern Pacific.
At Gro Graude the storm did great
damage. George Downey's ranch of 800
acres is over half washed away. The
ranches of Mr.. Davidson, Arthur
Kearney and Harley Swartout are en-
tirely washed away.
Three miles of track at Cajon summit
is buried under ten to twenty feet of dirt
and rock.
The first train left here for San Diego
over the surf route today.
Toy and Lawrence are damaged sew
eral hundred dollars at Cosy Dell by
washouts.
The railroad bridge at Barstow is
washed away. The first train from Los
Angeles since Monday arrived this even
ing.
BAKERSFIELD, December 2S.-Passen-
gers for the East and other points have
been delayed here for several days on
account of the heavy rains. No trains
from Los Angeles have arrived here
since Christmas, but the route is now
open over the Atlantic and Pacific
road, which enabled train to leave here
today for the East. Thirty or forty
passengers are here waiting to 60 to Les
Angeles and the South.
VENTURA, Cal, December 28.-Frank
Buzzell wss drowned while attempting
to cross the Santa Clara river eight miles
east Of here today. No mails have been
received here since Monday. There is
no damage here in town by the storm,
but much to the surrounding country by
the washing out Of roads.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-29
FIRE VICTIMS.
The Three Women Burned a
San Francisco identified.

The Three Women Burned at
San Francisco Identified.
SAN FRANCISCO, December 28.-The
identity of the unfortunate women who
lost their lives in the fire at the old st.
Ignatius' church building on Market
street last niaht, was fully established to-
day. They are: Miss Abigail Copeland,
a native of Massachusetts, 63 years of
age Mrs. Anna ]. Crowell, a native of
New Jersey, 36 years of age, and Miss
Ida Platt. native of California, 10 years
Of age. The body of Miss Copeland was
so badly cbarred that the only means of
identifying it was through plain ring
che wore on the third finger of her left
hand. She was in the employ of DIR.
Rogers, who had an Office in the build
ing. Mrs. Crowell was suffocated to
death by emoke, and the fire was ex-
tinguished before it reached her body.
She had not gone to bed when the fire
broke out. and she lost her life saving
her 19.year-old son, William Crowell
Miss Platt has relatives living in Liver.
more. She was employed in the Electric
laundry, and had only gone to bed q
short time before the fire broke out. She
was considerably burned about the body
and face. The financial loss is esti-
mated today at $50, 900. The origin of
the fire has not yet been determined.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-29

keeping up the roads, and the great
mileage in the county, lead to serious
inquiry as to the best policy to pursue in
the future. There is great deal of
work done on the roads that is money
thrown away. Carting soil from some
barley field a mile or ten miles to
fill holes in the roads is case of money
thrown away. Making road in such a
way as to create places for water to
accumulate in ponds along their sides 80
as to make veritable slough of despond
to all passers is case of the same kind.
1t is quite probable that ii the Board of
Supervisors were to attend to the whole
matter of the roads more would be got
from the money than is accomplished by
! the present method. A more intelligent
policy with more lasting results
would be pretty sure to follow. Then
thera is much frittered away in side
issues. What the county wants is few
really good arteries in the way of main
roads tapping the most important sub
divisions OF the valley and connecting
with this city. They ought to have per-
manent work done on them year by
year until good roads are provided.
Then pay more attention to the
lateral branches ramifying into
tho less important sections of the county.
Under the present system the taxpayer
does not get the worth of his money
The board has done some really good
work in the way of bridge-building dur
ing the present year, and it is gratifying
that these have withstood the floods o
| the past month.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-29
A sQUATTEHS, RAID.
Am Unsuceessful Attempt to STE
Indian Lands

Am Unsuceessful Attempt to steal
Indian Lands
PIERRE, s. D., December 2S.-Grest
excitement prevails here because of the
discovery this morning that a band of
about seventy five settlers had attempted
to found townsite across the Missouri
at South River. 1t is learned that the
scheme has been in embryo for sew
eral weeks. and number of prominent
residents of East Pierre were concerned
in it. Work commenced at IL O'Clock
last night. and all night thereafter men
with teams and leads Of lumber were
crossing and recrossing the river, the
people being unconscious of what was
going on until this, morning at
8 O'Clock, when half-breed, who
farms land whereon the squatters had
located, discovered them. Securing
band of followers, he attacked the squat
ters with guns, pistols and lassoes. They
lassoed the boss carpenter and severely
Injured several of the home seekers
Finally the latter took fight, being un-
able to hold, out in the battle.
To add to their dismay : storm Of rain
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-29
They Honor the Judge.

Yesterday when the term trial Jurors
in Department of the Superior Court
who have served for the past term of the
court, were discharged, headed by Mr.
Chamberlain, of Santa Monica, the whole
body visited the courtroom, where Mr..
Chamberlain proceeded in the name u
the others to express the deep sense Of
their appreciation of the uniform courtesy
with which they had been treated while
serving before the Judge.
Judge ]. W. Mckinley, who presides
over the department, replied in briei
speech, assuring the jurors of his deep
sense of the compliment thus rendered
him, and saying many complimentary
things Of the way in which the jury had
done their duty.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-29
REPUBLICAN politics are 20 like

- ''ihe equivocation of the fend
That lies like truth"
The Mugwumps, for whose votes Re-
publicsns fish in their insincere preten.
sions OF adhesion to civil service reform,
must often quote the bitter words Of
Macbeth" when he exclaimed:
"And be these juggling fends no more be.
That palter with us in double ,ense;
That keep the word OF promise to our ear,
And break 1t to our hope"
Mr.. Harrison, in his message, has a
good deal to say about civil service re-
form, and about his devotion to it's prin-
ciples. No Democratic office.holder is
to be removed until his term of office is
over, unless chsrges are preferred against
him. All, the saving clause of these
charges! 1t leaves q gap wide open to
drive the Republican official chariot
through in sheer defiance of every
principle involved in the civil service
laws. The latest victim of this hypocrit-
icsl insincelity is Postmaster Preuss. No
more competent, careful or honest official
holds place under the Government
than Ed. Preuss. His term is not ex-
pired, and no charges other than
trumped up rubbish could be brought
against him. He goes cut all the same,
long before bis term Of office has expired.
1t is aome consolation in the change to
know that the one Republican who
wanted the place, so far as We are in.
formed, whose appointment would be
acceptable to the people, is the one who
gets 1t. John W. Green will no doubt,
with his long experience in the office,
and with his general good nature and
capacity for business, administer the
ef6ce we'll. f
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-29
Fire at New westminst stcr.

SAN Francisco, December %. A
special dispatch from New Westminster,
B. G., says fire broke out there this
morning in wooden building occupied
by the Columbian Printing Company,
Lyal & Co., stationers, and Wolfsnden
Bros, grocers. The flames spread
rapidly and the building, with its con-
tents, and James Cunninghams tinsmith
shop aud stove depot were destroyed.
The principal losses are:
Wolfenden Bros, $1S 600; insurance,
$4,000.
Lyal & Co., SIS 600; insurance, 81 900.
Columbian Printing Company, SIS, 900;
insurance, $4,000.
James Cunningham, SO 900; insurance
So, 900.
Agile, Campbell & Freeman, $4,000
fully insured.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-29

The changed aspect of the weather has
now continued for two days. From dreary
and incessant dampness, from sky that
had been surcharged with water for sew
eral weeks, we have emerged into clear
sunshine, accompanied by cool, crisp
atmosphere which assures us that the
change has come to stay. A few days
of such weather as we are now enjoying
will dry the surface of the soil and enable
our farmers to plow their acres with
facility. This will mean very extensive
planting of crops and season of great
promise for abundant harvests.