Arizona republican., 1892-01-17

enCe Tn the moral and business atmOs- phere, but few people consider as often as once week. On the principle of "Let the dead past bury it's dead" they go on from day to day slaughtering the hours and themselves as well, by not protiting by the greatest of all teach ers-EXperience.
 The Salvation army, now fixed in- dustry of Phoenix, is blowing the fields of sin for the wrongdoer, and from re- ports they are getting much encourage ment. Some people might live under the voice of the best gospel minister for years and not be the least affected by tender conscience, but the moment some reformed" drunkard or gambler puts in an appearance they follow hun of. 1t is indubitable proof of the fact that the American public runs after sem sation, no matter how much some news papers cry that it is not so.
 Though, as Bill Nye puts it"silent med- itation" is an unknown quantity in the mental composition of some people, and to great degree, that accounts for so many worthless men and women. They do not mean to be stumbling blocks but they cannot help it. They have never thought of there being a higher sphere, so they run on day after day in the same channel till the course of life is run out, and when dead the old saying of three words will write thelr history. "They were born, they lived, they died." The man who thinks will do something. Caesar did not like tEe lean and hungry look of Cassius, because he was judge of human nature and he knew that Cassius was man whose brain was never idle, and that with an honest thinker, despotism and tyranny stood little show for conivance.
 The Independent Order of Good Tenn plars, holding their meeting in this city this week, IS one of the Institutions that deserves the encouragement of all cili- Zens whether good or bad, for there are none perhaps who will not be benefited by 1t. Such institutions when good in the least, reflect their benefits outside their membership and it is felt often by by those who have no part or parcel with them. This is a life of action. Without labor and thought it takes one
 
 the age that his catching up again is matter of impossibllity. Business, has its rush, literature IS getting to be an enormous thing; the professional peo- pie are bound down to their books, and the old dreamy life of couple of centu- ries ago, will no longer accomplish the object for which men are striving.
 The week in Phoenix has been very quiet. Only one sensation. The elope- ment oi a prominent citizen, and the wonder seems 10 be that he left alone. This kind of eloping is quite out of style, but we can hope that as the doc tor was one of the leaders of fashion it will become the rage to elope, without taking another mans wife or some too contiding girl. His wife is left to mourn his loss and duplicity if the matter is as she represents II, and Nab sympathizes with her in the displacement of her affection. If there is anyone in the world who deserves the symyathv of humanity it is wife whose bleeding and lacerated affections have been made a foot ball, as it were, by some un. scrupulous and erring husband.
 Another proof of this desire for sensa- ton IS the record of the sales of Albert Ross novels for the last few years. Peo. pie heard that there was probably some sensational matter in the Kreutzer Sonata and they wonld not wait for their bookseller 10 get it but sent to New York for it. Emil Zola has sold O,OOO of his productions iu the United States during the last year, still some people say the Americans do not like sen sstion. Not long ago I stopped into the store of prominent bookseller in New York. While looking at some of his display lady of the Fifth avenue 400 series came in. Her purchase was Detinedt0r for which she paid thirty cents. Knowing that the price was too much Tor the magazine, after she had gone out l spoke to the salesman. and asked him abont the charge. His reply was, "Oh that was not for the Delinea,or alone. There was copy of the Towa Topics inside and she did not wish any one to know of her purchase. We put them up that way" Now, everybody is acquainted with the sensational char. acter of the TOwn Topics, and it let the feminine purity of literature down, a good deal in my estimation. My opin- | ion IS that next to the French the Amer cans are the most sensational people | living. They want to know everything that occurs whether it's off color or not, 1 and where three years ago it was con sldered de trOp to speak of Ouida in | society, today her books are | read and discussed everywhere.
 MAE.