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Arizona republican., 1891-11-24
PUT SkYLlGHTS IN.
There should Be No Dark Room, In the
 Christian's Heart


 There was a time in bygone days when the one manufactory prepared all the parts of the house, but now there is the door manufactory, the sash and blind, the mantelpiece, and. as l read on a wagon that passed me the other day the "skylight" manufactory, Az read the one word, 1 realized as never before the value of the skylight. recalled to mind that dark staircase in that tene- ment house, up which had often stum- bled and groaned when making calls on the dwellers in the upper stories, and how delighted and amazed was when one day found the stairs all aglow with sunshine, and on looking up saw that skylight had been placed in the roof. Iremember how the new light had called for the cleansing and painting that made the old staircase new pathway.
 Skylights are grand things in the daily workshop of life, A man or woman is in good business when manufacturing skylights for human life. Such person IS assuring streams of cheery help and healthgiving light from the sun of righteousness that shall light up many a weary, dark staircase, bring light and health into many d place of toll and even make light the -darksome valley of the shadow of death. But light means Lot only cheer and inspiration andthealth it means instruction, it means arevela- ton of the dirt and filth that festered in the darkness. There must be the clean ing up or the covering up of the sky light.
 In the advertisements of suites of apart ments you often meet these words, "No dark rooms" Make sure of this bless ing in your own heart. Let there te no dark, weary staircase, no feebly lighted attic; put in the skylight, and as the sunlight pours in there will be light and joy and melody and the merry heart that maketh cheerful countenance, that giveth a continual feast and that doeth good like medicine. ". A. Lewis in New York Weekly Witness.
Arizona republican., 1891-11-24
Building and Loan Association.
ORGANIZED NOVEMBER, Isss.
 THE PHGNIX Building & Loan Association.
A Purely Local Association Managed by
 Some of Our Best Business Men,

Two years successful operation has proven it a sue cess. 9per cent dividends have been made every six months which enables it it's stock in six and oneha years
 The best investment for the laborng and woman desiring to lay aside portion their earnings where it absolutely safe and earning the largest returns; equally good investment for the of means wishing sure investment. The best place to borrow money to build buy home; you pay than you pay for rent, and have home paid for in six and oneha years. Managed upon the most economical plan; officer receives compensation except the secretary part of the monthly payments used for expenses.
 The five series of stock issued November 1s Persons desiring stock loans any information regarding the Association, should call upon the secretary
 R. H. GREENE, At the Hat Store
 p. o. BUILDING, PHOENIX, ARIZONA.
Arizona republican., 1891-11-24
Foreign Trade of the Arcentin. R,nub,,,.

ForeIgn Trade or the Argentine Republic.
 The bureau of American republics of the state department has received the official returns of the foreign commerce of the Argentine Republic for the first six months of 1891. As compared with the same period of last year they show that the imports have decreased 56 per cent. and the exports per cent, while the total foreign trade has decreased 33 pap cant
Arizona republican., 1891-11-24

as workers, whom he writes down among his noblest ministers. They do no great things; but they are bless ings, oftentimes, perhaps, unconsciously, wherever they go.--Exchange.
Arizona republican., 1891-11-24

itis not q cosmetic in the sense in which that .esm ,ea IS popularly used, but permanently beau unes " creates soft, smooth, clear velvety sSln; ana by daily use gradually makes the com plexion several shades winter. It is a constant protection from the effects of sun and wind ana prevents sunburn and freckles, and black heads, VIII never come while you use it. It cleanses the face far better than does soap and water, nour1shes and builds up the skin tissues ana those prevent the formation of wrinkles It gives the freshness, clearness and smooth ness Of the skin that you had when little girl. Every lady, young or old ought to use 1t, as 1t gives most youthful appearance to any lady, ana that permanently. It contains no acid, powder or alkali, and is as harmless as dew and as nourishing to the skin as dew is to the flow. CT. Price $1.OO. ask your druggists for 1t.
 SAMPLE BOTTLE mailed trso to any lady on receipt of 10 cents in stamps to wanted.
 MRS. GERvAIsE GRAHAM, Beauty Doctor" |" lO3 Post street, San Francisco.
 Mrs. Ida J. Williams, Cor. Madison and Cen. lar sts', is Mrs. Graham's lady agent for Phenix
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-01-08
The Great Black Cockatoo.

In the islands of the Malay Archipel-
ago is found the great black cockatoo,
whose special food is the kernel of the
kanari nut, the shell of which is said to
be harder than that of any other nut and
to protect a kernel of most delicate
flavor. The kanari tree grows to q great
height and bears feshy fruit which in
closes an extremely hard shell of glass
like smoothness of surface Within this
shell are from one to three kernels COW
cred with a thin skin; when this is re-
moved the nut falls into number of IT.
regular flakes of snowy whiteness and de-
icious taste.
The fieshy part of the kanari fruit is
eaten by many birds, particularly by the
large wood-pigeons, but only the black
cockatoo is able to get at the nut, which
it does by the great strength of its i'm
mense sharply pointed and hooked beali.
Taking nut endwise in its bill and
keeping it firm by pressure of tho
horny end of its tongue, the cockatoo
cuts u notch across the shell by saving
motion of the sharp edge OF the lower
part of the beak. This done, the bird
takes hold of the nut with one foot while
biting off a piece of thick leaf This
it wraps around the nut to prevent the
CLASSY shell from slipping, while it uses
the upper part of its beak to hold the
nut and the under part to insert in the
notch already made and wrench off
piece of the shell by powerful nip.
Again taking the nut in its claw the bird
inserts the very long and sharp point of
its bill into the hole Just made and picks
out the kernel, which is seized flake by
flake by the horny end of the long and
flexible tongue More time is required
to tell about this nut cracking than the
bird takes to perform the operation, for
the cockatoo is a very rapid feeder and
will consume great many nuts in an
hour Chicago Herald.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-01-08
Where Big powders Form.

Wherever the big glaciers melted they
left an immense amount OF drift that
is, sand, gravel stones Of all sorts, which
had been frozen in the ice when the
glaciers were forming.
The stones of this drift are of all sizes.
Some are as small as pebbles, others as
large as small houses There is one at
Bradford, Mass, which measures 80 feet
each way, and weighs A, 800, 900 pounds.
There is another on ledge in Vermont,
which is even larger than that, and which
must have been carried by the ice across
valley lying 500 feet below where the
stone now is, showing that the ice was
500 feet thick. Great boulders of trap
rock extend through Connecticut on a
line running to Long Island Sound, and
as some of the same kind are found in
Long Island the glacier is believed to
have crossed the Sound, carrying these
rocks with it.
An immense statue of Peter the Great
in st. Petersburg stands on one Of these
glacier powders OF solid granite, which
weighs three million pounds. Orc Of
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-01-08
YOUR MONEY, Or YOUR LrFTi

This question is "pert" one, but we
mean it. Will you sacrifice few paltrv
dollars, and save your life? or will YOU
allow your blood TO become tainted. and
your system rundown, until, finally, Won
are laid away in the grave? Better be
an time, and "hold upn your hands for
DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery.
guaranteed remedy for all scrofuloue
and other blood-taints, from whatever
cause arising. 1t cures all Skin and
Scalp Diseases, Ulcers, Sores, Swellings
and kindred ailments. 1t is power
fully tonic as well as Alternative, OF
blood-cleansing, in its effects, hence it
strengthens the system and restores
vitality, thereby dispelling all those
languid, stirred feelings experienced
by the debilitated. Especially has it
manifested its potency in curing letter,
Salt-rheum, Eczema, Erysipelas, Boils,
Carbuncles, Sore Eyes, Goitre, or Thick
Neck, and Enlarged Glands. Worlds
Dispensary Medical Association, Max
ers, No. 663 Main Street, Buffalo, N. Y.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-01-08

the Sioux country to make war upon
other and peaceable tribes in Dakota.
Montana and Wyoming. The Sioux
force numbered about three thousand
warriors, all mounted and we'll armed
with rifles and reyolvers as good as those
used by the regular army, and they were
well differed, too, among their chiefs
being Crazy Horse, q warrior for whose
fighting qualities all officers of the army
have profound respect, and old Sitting
Bull, who though only ''medicine
man. has no living equal as mischief
maker and stirrer-up of strife An army
about equally large and in three columns
started under Generals Crook, Gibbons
and Terry toward common point at
which 1t was supposed the main body
OF the indians would be the pur-
pose being to force the In
dams to leave the warpath and
go upon reservations. The starting
points were about as far apart and in
the same relative positions as Cleveland,
Ohio; Springfield, Mass. and Washing
ton, D. c., and the country was wild
and utterly without roads, but the plan
was the only one practicable, and the
troops did wonders in the way of march
ing and fighting. Each column met
some outlying bodies of savages, but
Custer, with detachment OF Terry's
column numbering about two hundred
and fifty men, struck the main body,
fully twenty-five hundred Sioux, with
results which all the country still rcmem-
bers and mourns.
The hostiles were given but little
peace from that time forward. All
troops that could be spared were sent in
to the Sioux country. Crook chased,
punished and starved the greater body of
Sioux under Crazy Horse until that
astute warrior gave up and surrendered,
while force almost equally large, under
Gall, warrior second only to Crazy
Horse, and with whom were Rain-in-t the
Face, Spotted Eagle, and other war
chiefs, were finally so closely pressed by
General Miles that they fled across the
border and enacted the role of injured
innocence under the protection OF Queen
Victoria, whom they named "the great
grandmother. This was the last great
uprising in which the Sioux have taken
part against the United States. Il New
York Herald.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-01-08
THE CARDIFF GIANT.
The Story of a Great Humbug Re
called-Scientists Made Ridicu-
Inns

called-Scientists Made Ridicu-
lous.
One of the men who made fortune
out of the Cardiff giant humbug is re
ported dead in this city, says the New
York correspondent OF the Troy Daily
Press. Nearly twenty years have passed
since the public at large, as well as many
of the most distinguished scientists, were
duped by this monumental fraud The
Cardiff giant idea was conceived in the
brain of George Hull, tobacconist of
Binghamton He secured large gyp-
sum slab in Iowa and had it cut into the
form of gigantic man by an Italian
stonecutter in Chicago The stonecutter.
by the way. subsequently removed to
Troy and engaged in business as maker
OF statues. ! think l have heard that
examples of his work are to be
found in your city to this day. TO
stimulate the appearance of age
Hull had the stone mans figure
rubbed with sand and water, then
bathed in writing fluid and also in sui
phuric acid. The image was then
boxed, taken secretly to the vicinity of
Cardiff, near Syracuse, and privately
buried at a spot where it was convenient
ly found year later and heralded as the
most marvellous discovery of archaeology
cal history Ia petriiied specimen of pre-
historic man. The alleged find excited
most profound interest among all sorts
OF people. Eminent men of science ex-
amined the stone image, and some of
them graveiy certified to their belief that
1t actually was the body of being who
had lived thousands of years before any
OF the present race of men were born.
The Cardiff giant was placed on exhibit
ton in the great cities, and multitudes
locked to get sight of the humbug.
Intelligent persons in all sections of the
country were hoaxed. Some who re-
fused to credit the supposition that it
was the body of a man of prehistoric
times believed that it was a very ancient
statue. The fraud was at length exposed
and the scientists and acknowledgment
men who had been deceived and had
afterward assisted to deceive others.
were advertised in very ridiculous
light. Hull sold out his interest in the
image to a party of men who took it
across the ocean and endeavored to inter-
est our trans Atlantic cousins in the
giant. The speculation did not succeed,
although the stone man was advertised
as the body of Finn Macoul, the prehis-
toric Irish giant, and the claim made
that 1t had been discovered in the Giants
causeway in Ireland. Hull made another
effort in the same line. He produced
smaller figure made of composition of
ground stone, pulverized bones, clay,
plaster, blood and dried eggs The
composition, after being baked in
kiln, was advertised as .sthe Colorado
stone man." Colorado then being the
wonder state OF the union. Hull and
his associates were disappointed in their
hopes OF great gains, for the public
would not be deluded by this second
fraud.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-01-08
The Cowboys Attire.

! was talking to a gentleman here in
Utopia one day who was just from the
States, when a cowboy passed, going on
gallop through the village. He had
on leggings, jacket, spurs and wide hat.
" He is cowboy, suppose, remarked
the man. ''Yes," l replied. s'Now,
don't he feel big" he continued, s'with
all that rigging ona' ''No, sir" |
answered, "he does not. That is the
only kind of a rig he can successfully
run cattle in, and he is not aware that he
is exciting any special attention. Those
strong ieggings and jacket protect him
from the thorns and bushes through
which he sometimes has to run at full
speed to head off wild steer. Those
large spurs are to make his pony 90
quick when he goes to rope an animal
F''t Il ls"''sls"h ,st ia1s.A. III.
lace nom t.lc burning sun in this South
ern climate. That cowboy belongs to
the church, and next Sunday you may
see him in the congregation as neat as
pin and likely teaching class in the
Sunday School. = Galveston (Texas)
News.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-01-08
Wait II Little While.

Yes, take your time for it is better late than
never, and If you will not at once try the prop
er remedy to restore your health wait until your
doctor says you can't live and then try IT, Doc
tors make mistake quite often and doctor
symtoms instead OF diseases. A patient COM
plains OF mysterious aches and pHins, slaspaeas-
ness, gloomy forebodings, nervous disquietude,
eto. He is given a lihiment for his aches, a
narcoctic for his sleeplessness, whisky to make
MIN cheerful, and nux vomica or other poison
to quiet his nerves. Verify the last condition
OF that man is worse than the first. How
many fall into the whisky or opium habit and
remain confirmed invalids until death brings
relief. You don't need such stuff You need
An Alternative. You need a remedy that will
merely assist nature in regaining her equili.
brtum. You need remedy that will assist
body. You need remedy that will assist the
digestion and assimilation of food you eat,
remedy that is easy and kind TO the stomach,
Sarsaparilla. Try it and you will then get well
In spite OF doctors and erroneous treatment
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-01-08
Bright Days Make Bright Colors.

Some years ago an English manufac-
turer of carmine, who was aware of the
superiority of the French color, went to
Lyons for the purpose of improving his
process and bargained with the most
celebrated manufacturer in that city for
the acquisition of his secret, for which
he was to pay So, 900.
He was shown all of the process, and
saw a most beautiful color produced :;
but he found not the least difference in
the French mode of fabrication and that
which had been constantly adopted by
himself. He appealed to his instructor
and insisted that he must have kept
something concealed. The man assured
him he had not, and invited him to in
spect the process a second time
He infinitely examined the water and the
materials, whichwere in every respect sim
liar to his own, and then, very much
surprised, said: 81 have lost both my
labor and my money for the air of Eng
land does not admit us to make good
carminen
"Stay p said the Frenchman, ''don't
deceive YOURSELF what kind of weather
is it nowgn
"a bright, sunny day." replied the
Englishman.
And such are the days." said the
Frenchman, ION which make my color;
were to attempt to manufacture it on a
dark and cloudy day my results would
be the same as yours. Let me advise
you, my friend only to make your car
mine on bright, sunny days.
The moral of this will apply quite as
well to the making of many other colors
used in manufactures and also in the fine
arts, for it illustrates, in practical way,
the chemical influence of light upon GER
tain coloring compounds or mixtures.
DRY Goods Chronicle.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-01-08

the gest powders in America is in
III ndian village Of Mohcgan near
w yfle, Conn. The Indians call the
I'd "Shehegan-' Its top, which is
t|Rt and as large as the floor Of good
sized room, is reached by ladder
Sometimes these powders are found
perched upon bare lodges of rock, so
nicely balanced that, though of great
weight, they may be rocked by tho
hand. They are called rocking stones. y
Near the little Connecticut village of
Noank, on Long Island Sound, there is
an immense bowlder called by the peo-
pie there jennings Pulpit" 1t was
formerly rocking-stone, but the rock
has worn away below it and it can no
longer be moved.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-01-08
A Bewitching African Pigmy.

Henry NJ. Stanley, in his article on the
African Pigmies in Scribner's, says "We
have seen some-a few--who might be
said to be we'll formed. The little plump
beauty we saw with Ugarrowwa-an
ivory raider--was bewitching little
creature thirty three inches high. 1t is
possible that this beauty was due to per-
feet health and the good food with which
she was fed by the Arab. She was GER
tainly gem worth seeing, and as calm
and self-possessed as a well-bred lady.
Artists would have doated on her, and
sculptors would have paid goodly sums
for such miniature model. She was
young, just at the dawn of womanhood,
and her youth and girlish innocence
made her simply charming"
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-01-08

These two watohets are among The
oldest employees Of tile White House at
Warrington, and one Of them is closely
1; associated, in humble way, with one 81
ne most exciting periods in its history,
". 8. Lewis was one of the White House
deorkeepers in the time of Lincoln. and
each night, between 1890 and ii
O'Clock during the war period. he acted
Is the escort of the President when he
went from the Executive Mansion to the
War Department to got the latest news
OF the conflict before going to bed,
lewis left the White House and went on
the city police force, where he remained
for many years. About twelve years
he came back to the White House service.
where he has been ever since. T.. F.
Fendel, the other night doorkecper, has
been employed in the White House for
twenty-six years. These two men know
the face of every man of prominence in
public life, and they can spot crank at
The other end of the avenue by easlight.
They open any kilograms which come to
tho Executive Mansion after midnight,
and determine whether it is advisable to
ito show them to the President or not.
There Is no one at the Executive Man.
sion at night who can act for the Presi-
dent. onlyt the members of his family
and the domestic employees of his house
hold sleep at the White House. So if
anything demanding immediate attention
should be delivered at the Executive
Mansion after midnight, the President
would be aroused from his sleep to at
tend to it. It is seldom that telegram
sofsny kind is delivered at the Executive
Aension between midnight and day
break, for the local manager of the West.
|ern Union Telegraph Company has in
structions to hold all messages which are
NOT Of the utmost Importance until morn
ing. And it may not occur once in six
months that the President is called from
bis bed to read late dispatch.-Neu
York Star.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-01-08

A brilliant black coat upon zinc can
Pc obtained by immersing the zinc OBJ
tecss in solution of ten parts copper
Tree -sulphate Of iron and six parts of am
moniac salts in fifteen parts of boiling
water.
The safest piece of water upon earth
y the, Lake Of Urumia, in Persia, situated
more than 1000 feet above the sea level.
It Is much salter than the Dead Sea, the
water being found on analysis to contain
Asarly twenty-five per cent. of salt.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-01-08

There 10 moro Catarrh in this section Of the
country than all other diseases put together,
and until the last few years was supposed to
be incurabIe. For great many years doctors
pronounced 1t local disease, aud prescribed
local remedies, and by constantly falling to
cure with local treatment, pronounced it In
durable. Science has proven Cafarrh to be a
constitutional disease. and therefore requires
constitutional treatment, Hali's Catarrh
Cure, manufactured by Il. j. Cheney q Co.
on the market. 1T Is taken internally In doses
from ~ drops TO q tesspoonful. 1t acts direct
~ upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the
system. They offer one hundred dollars for
any case it fails 1t cure. Send for circulars
and testimonials Address
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-01-08

FITS stopped free by DIR. KLrNE's GREAT
NERVE REsToRER. No FITS after first days usa
Marvellous cures. Treatise and 81 trial bottle
free. DR.. Kline. 93i Arch ST.. Phila-, Pa
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-01-08

Physicians informed me that was threat
ened with paralysis or apoplexy. suffered
especially when would read or write, and on
rising to my feet would become perfectly blind
and had to hold to something to prevent my
parilla has entirely relieved me. My appetite
is good and for the first time in long while
enjoy my dinners.-Mr y. q, RiusTs. Louisville,
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-01-08

LADIES needing tonic, or children who
want building up, should take Browns Iron
Bitters. Ii is pleasant to take, cures Malaria
Indigestion, Biliousness and Liver Complaints
makes the Blood rich and pure.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-01-08

worm medicinel The very name puts bad
taste in a child's mouth, unless her mother has
been kind and given her DR.. Bulls Worm De.
stroyers. These little candies taste gAnd
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-01-08

Lee Was Chinese heaaaene cure Harm.
less in effect. quick and positive in action.
Sent prepaid on receipt of 81 per bottle.
Adeler d Co. 522 WyanHalte 81. Kansas Cit. Mo
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-01-08

MANY persons s.rv otoAcn down from over
work or household cares. Browns Iron Bit
tors rebuilds the system, aids digestion. re-
m0yes excess of bile, and cures malaria.
aplendid tonic for women and children
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-01-08

We must confess small faults in order to
insinuate that we have no great ones.-Ia
RochefOucauld
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-01-08

Many Of our cares are but a morbid way
OF looking at our privileges Sir Walter
Scott.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-01-08

The front stairs of club house are gen
orally to be found at the windows. Boston
Commercial
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-01-08

The bicycler just learning does not loss
weight, though he falls off great DEAL
Washington Star