The Arizona champion., 1889-08-10
wINsLUw SWITCHES.
Nswsy Items from Our Regular
Correspondent.

WINsLow, August 9, 1889.
Oh ! Will you stop now
Twenty four cars Of tea rushed
over the A. &. P. Friday.
Parrett, the tailor, is proud Of his
increasing business, the result Of
advel tising.
Mr.. Chamberlain, formerly a
passenger condu ,tor on the A. & P ,
is in town.
Tails of Arizona is at present on
the sick list, having dropped caddy
of tobacco on his foot Wednesday.
Dillon, the operator, escaped being
utterly exterminated or wiped from
the face of the earth on Thursday
evening. He Internationally hurt
the feeling of a railroad tiremen,
named Moore. Mr.. Dillon is to be
congratulated.
The all-absorbing question in some
circles is: "Who is the writer of the
anonymous let.ersl" We may state
here that there are two persons EN-
gagged in this b inous practice. One
is man and OIL a girl. The m sthod
OF stirring up var Is not confined to
Winslow Tut has spread to such an
extent that people in Albuquerque
having friends here have received
long accounts OF their actions, etc.
In our own column, devoted to
Winslow, too much cannot be said
bearing OH tits crime, for ciims it is,
and it is our intention 1t some future
dste to hold up to reticule the guilty
persons. There is very beautiful
theory We should all know and live
up to, concerning anonymous letters.
A theory to the effect, that this style
Of communication being cowardly
and despicable, like the assassin
knife that strikes in the back, or
like the blow of hidd. foe that
shelters himself ander the cover Of
night and flies amay; an anonymous
latter should by every noble AMI
generous soul, be treated with the
.. orn and hatred which it richly d.
serves-it should be flung instan' y
into the hottest flame o. the neares.
fire, and be simultaneously elected
from the mind and memory. as
though it had never been written,
and that the recipient Of that foul
and evil communication should go
his way with shudder of indisna-
ton, and remember it no more.
When an anonymous letter lies like
vile, crawling reptile upon mans
table as he prepares to begin his
days work, does he always so cast
out that hateful thing, not only in
the letter but in the spirit, as the
code of honor of an upright man en-
joins him to do2 We think not. He
probably reads and re-reads the
pois n-instilling words that strike
sickening horror into his heart. In.
quire for yourself and see. Go to
such and such a place and find out, !"
says the writer vino, with bitterest
satire signs himself or herself mostly
as "Your friend" Probably we
burn the letter, as did the writer of
this article on two occasions, but
do we forget their contentsl No. 1t
is not in human nature to do SO
Down deep in our hearts and minds
remain for many long days the bicter
dregs of the cup we have been forced
to sallow. No matter how untrue
we know the letters to have been,
suspicion has been aroused and it is
not in mortal man to forget it. The
letter turned to ashes may long since
have blown to the four winds but
the memory of it remains and all its
awful consequences are yet to follow.
How sad that in town the size of
Ninslow such u crime should be
committed and 20 UNPUBLISHED.