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Arizona silver belt., 1893-06-03
Necessary Edncatlon.

While it would be pleasant to ohayo our schools cultivate the literary element in English composition, this is not the first end to be sought All educated men cannot hope to be poets or essayists, but no one has right to consider himself educated till he is able to say in writing what he would say to his correspondent aloud if they were standing face to face Sloyenliness of expression not only is usually traceable to slovenliness of thought as q cause, but the habitual neg lect of expression has also tendency to increase by reflex action the habit of loose or muddy thinking. A person who lacks the power of clear thought and ex- pression is not q person to whose keeping it is safe to coniide public interests, and in our country. where every citizen is liable to be called upon to bear some of the burdens of state, tits especially neces- saIy that the stady of written as well as spoken English be given the place to which its importance plainly entities it in every American school conrae fiona tioYerument
Arizona silver belt., 1893-06-03
sehooIIne nt rment, l,cllar. . ,cnr.

However moderate the c5peascs of a sudden, of the present tIue may be they can hardly reach tho extremely modest sum which spnicel f0t JeaD Msrmontel. Q French poet. during Inc reign of Louis &Y, for years Echooling Tn his Memoirs" he speaks Of his 5chool life as follows
 was lodged, as was the. custom of the school. wj,h Eye other 5cholars at She house of au honest mechanic.
 Ny provisions for a week consisted 9. large loaf of ye bread, e little cheese q pioceof bacon and two or three
 ounds of beef. Ny mother had added 10 them 8 dczea apples,
 This was tbo weekly provision of the best fed scholar of th school The nlis- trcss of the house cooked for us. and for her trouble. her fire, her lamp, her Ucds, her houseroon. including oven the vcge- tables of her little garden which she used Tor our soup, each of u5 gave her twelve pence halfpenny a month.
 Reckoning everything except my clothes, cost my father between four and five pounds a year This was much to him and an expense Of which I was yery anxious to see him relieved.
Arizona silver belt., 1893-06-03
ysrotnble non non.trlclnra.


 Portions of the South Pacific ocean produce a wonderful species of the se,l- weed called the vegetable boa constric- tor" They are likely to be met with at any point between tho lower point of southern California and the Sandwich Islands on the one side and between Chili and Australia on tie other. These vine like stranglers are frequently found tightly ontwined about the body of a dead whale, shark or porpoise but wheth- CT they had fastened upon the bodies of ihese dead sea animals before life had become extinct or had only yentured to attack the remains after the vital spark had fled are couumdrums which of course cannot be answered. Experiments made with this curious vine and the car cass of a porpoise washed ashore in tue harbor at Apia tend to prove that the vine, like that of our common bean, will not entwine itself around anything dead, whether that thing be of vegetable or animal creation.
 Dr. Chadbourne, in his Annals of tho Caroline Islands" says: "l have often seen monster specimens of macri- cystis (the giant seaweed) with every vestage of life squeezed out of them by that ocean demon, the constructor vine. which is itself species of seaweed Macricysistis often grows to be from 20 to 80 inches in diameter and l,500 to 5000 feet in length, while the constructor vine seldom exceeds 100 feet in length and is never larger in diameter than pound and half salmon can. It is the squeeze snake of the ocean, however, and woe to the unlucky man, animal or plant that comes within it's reach. "-St Louis Republican.
Arizona silver belt., 1893-06-03
4 nInltarr Handkerchief.

Permission for soldiers to carry pocket handlerchicfs will now probably be given, for see the war office guthoglg.ss have sanctioned military handkerchief being patented by Lieutenant Colonel Fulton
 On this handkerchief is printed al sorts of useful information concerning the use and construction of the Lee Met ford rifle, the alphabet used by army sigualers, general rules to be observed iu any position in which soldier may find himself on campaign, the various buglo calls and other things, many of which are so nicely illustrated that t won!l be a thousand pities to use it in the manner naturally prompted by cutting nor easter. Leeds Mercury.
Arizona silver belt., 1893-06-03
CALIFORNIA PERMITS.
sTcn Passing Their Lives in IdIc Solitude
 on inc MonnfnIh Tons


 sEon Passing Their Lives in IdIc Solitude
 on the hountoin Tops. Is man essentially a social animal2 The scientists say So. But in the mountains of California there are almost enough men who For years have led fife of ut ter solitude to disprOve the generaliza- ton. These mountain hermits can be found scattered through the Sierras and the coast range from one end of the state to the other. They are particularly nu- nerous through this region, eentering about the Yosemite valley and extend- ing far bavk into the high Sierras. Some Of them were once guides in the valley, others have been miners, and some agGin seem to have taken mp the life of solitude simply because they like it.
 To this class belongs old r. k. Gibson --''Old Cdb, as be is generally called who lives on u mountain ranch. He is seyenty-fve years old, but is possessed of as much physical strength and endurance as the average man of half his age. He came thirty years ago from Tennessee, where he left wife and large family of children. Ono of his sons came to see him recently and tried to induce him to visit his former home, but "Old Glib" steadfastly refused to leave bis little ranch and solitary cabin. He has never seen railroad, and the stage drivers from the nearest station try their utmost to persuade him to go to town and at least look at q train of cars But his in- variable answer is; Do you think I'm going down there to be blowed up by one of them there blamed engines2 Not much!"
 Nearly all the men who live this life of solitude very long get a bit queer in the head, and .'Old Gib' is no exception to the rule. He has a ligluarole descrip- ton of himself winch declares that he is ''the best man in the United States or adjoining territories, either directly or indirectly, financially, commercially, ec- elesiastically or uuchurchGed. The old man is a hard worker, and when he is not busy on his ranch he is working energedcally making shakes that is, clapboards split and sawed by hand from big pine trees.
 0ld man Lambert, who has cabin in che high Sierras some tlhr1y miles back of the Yosemite, is another of the noun tain hermits. He has neither ranch nor mining claim, but lives by what he shoots and by an occasional few dollars earned from camping parfies. He has lived alone in that same spot for years and years, and will in gll likeIbaa tstay there until he dies, There are months at a time thst ho does not auotller human being. 4 Tarty of campers one summer found him making hugo stone wall that seemed to have TO purpose whatever. h surpriae thoy asked him what he was piling up those stones for.
 Why" he ssit, "a maa's got 10 do something, up here alone or he'll go wrong, surc. CorAUsuslatG tGa) Cbr9a. iclc.
Arizona silver belt., 1893-06-03
Not to Be outdone.

Governor Turney, of Tennessee, tells a good story and has a keen appreciation of fun. Once while his regiment was in winter quarters with a Georgia regiment a religious revival was started in camp An officer told him one day that twelve of the Georgians had been converted.
 "How many of our men professed Christianity he asked.
 'None, sir.
 What! whatr he said. none of my men converted? It will never do for Georgia to get ahead of Tennessee. Ser geant, detail eighteen of my men for bap- tism at once. New York World
Arizona silver belt., 1893-06-03
In a Railroad Wreck

Say. these things are mighty funny lfterward, said the baggageuau, 'Uut when they happen it's nothing to laugh about When We bumped into tbat freight just out of Chicago three years ago I was sitting back in the car check ing up. It threw me down and then started to crawl for the back door The tender telescoped and came through at me. It didn't stop till was within four feet of the bacl; of the ear, md sat there waiting for 1t to catch me. remember it had '4s7' in red figures. and as it came grindin through at me every figure looked ten feet high. When 1t stopped could reach out and touch t. Chicago News-Rccord
Arizona silver belt., 1893-06-03
uard Luel, of Two Lucky Men

Early in the present century two brothers of the peasant class were labor ing in the fields when their tools struck against a metallic substance, which proved to be massive chain many pounds in weight which they took to be Of brass and carried away with them, thinking it might be useful as a blow chain. On reaching their humble cot. tago the weight and luster of the metal aroused their attention. A link of the chain was detached and taken to tho nearest town was tested and proved 10 De fino gold. The fortunes of tho mon were assured could they have kept their own counsel, but boasting of their pros poets and spending money layishly on the strength of them, curiosity and sus- picion were aroused. Wives and chil- dren chatted about the wonderful find, and at last the officers of the crown de- seconded upon the scene. The treasure, which proved to be worth several thou sand pounds, was snatched from it's find CTS, who, for all result of their good fortune" were awarded term of im- prisonment at the following assizes,-- All tho Year Round
Arizona silver belt., 1893-06-03
4 neantIrnl rna.t.

On a grand day In the old clivalric times, when the lady of each knightly heart was pledged by name, when it came to St. Leon's turn he lifted the sparkling cup on high and gave them this; T drink to one, he said, whose image never may depart. deep caryen on the human heart. till memory is dead :" With that he paused as if he would not breathe her name ill careless mood thus lightly to another, then bent his noble head as though to give that word the reverence due, and gently d-''my motherln-London Tit-Bits
Arizona silver belt., 1893-06-03
Rnnrh Ernericnces.

David Christie Murray, the novelist, writes. Eight or ten years ago I was sitting in the Savage club in the com pany of four distinguished men of let ters. One was the editor of a London daily, and he was talking rather too humbly, as 1 thought, about his own career. I do not suppose, he said, that any man in my present position has experienced in London the priva- tions know when first came here. went hungry for three days, twenty years back, and for three nights l slept in the park. Ono of the party turned to me. You cap that, Christie? an- swered Four nights on the embank. ment, four days hungry My left hand neighbor was a poet, and he chimed in Iaconically, Five. In effect it proved that there was not one of Us who had not slept in that Hotel of the Beautiful Star which is always open to everybody. We had all been frequent guests there, and now we were all prosperous and had found other and more comfortable lolsiug"
Arizona silver belt., 1893-06-03
Illnr.s nanrh,crs il, rnrl.or.

Smyrna, Turkey, has an active circle of Kings Daughters engaged in the prac- tical charitable work for which this or der is noted. By sewing embroidering, scrubbing floors, blackening shoes, or any work for which money would be paid, they have distributed rice and coal among the poor, visited the sick, edu- cated children, provided medicines, paid rents and dono other similar acts of charity. On holidays they divide into committees for the purpose of decorating the rooms where poor families live and providing small remenbrances for the cbildren.-New York Sun.
Arizona silver belt., 1893-06-03
Four Ronaa.ie MaId. pi.appolnted.

Last July party of young ladies were spending the day at Plum island on the coast of rock ribbed Essex. While idling on the beach, watching the rippling waters gently kiss the pebbly shore, in fuenced by the surroundings, the con versation assumed a romantic turn. It was proposed to write letter, inclose it in bottle ana cast it to the waves where after many days it might again return.
 For days afterward the young maidens lndulged themselves in the fancy that mayhap some Romeo, with eyes that Bmacked of sunny Spain, would find their billet and return an appropriate answer.
 The days, however. quickly flew, and still no tidings, until one day the well come double knock of the postman was heard at the door of one of the signers of the letter, and the letter so eagerly looked for came The glad intelligence was quickly conveyed to the other fair maid ems, and cluster of heads was eagerly bent over the missiye,
 Such formalities as Savannah. Ga. NOV. lO, loJS, were quickly passed by and the words Dear Lady or Ladies" evoked chorus of "Ohs" "Ahsr' and "How lovelyT The writer went on to state that he had picked their messenger up Nov. 10, 400 miles from the mouth of the Savannah river As their names had been signed to theiR little message a tinge of rosy red erept slowly OCT their faces when they read, II, too have been at the Bluffs, and have walked around Plum island and picked mp shells on the rocks, and have looked over to Squam and Lanesville." "Who is llo2 Oh. who is hef" quickly came the interrogation from one of the fair crowd
 But they were obliged to guess. for their Romeo had signed, Truly yours 5. c. s.'-Boston Journal.
Arizona silver belt., 1893-06-03
AT TIE BABY,s BEDTIME.
This is bahye bedtim,:

This is bahySs hedtimc:
 My little one comes Co nie In hcr snowy little niglitgown And leneels down at my knee, And fRney h sweet child angel Is for a time my guest As she says her little prayers over With her bands upon her brcas,. "Now l lay me" she whispers In lov toiuc, down Co sleep. Ipruy the Iord"-and the blue eyes Half clese-''niy sm,l to keep If should dic"-.Oh. the ahiyer Al my heart "bcfore ] wake, pray the Lord"--and the eyelids Droop low my soul tp take" Then ] lift up the little one, clasping Her close to my loving heart, And give her warm, good night kisso Till tho closed lids break apart As the leaves dc, folding flower And the Violcts of her eye, Look mp iA their drowsy fashion And smile at mo angeiwise. "Dood night" she whispers me softly And sleepily, with a kiss That fingers with me in slumber, And stirs my heart with bliss, As think of the little one dreaming With her head against my breast, Till my sleep is as Full of rapture As her dreaming is Of rest,
 -Eben E. Rexford
Arizona silver belt., 1893-06-03
Fat in t,,e Body.

Fat stored in the body as adipose tis- eue is a bank on which the body may draw for supplies of energy and heat when required. It is stated tbat in the Franco-German war of 1870 the German emperor, acting on the strongly ex- pressed opinion of Ebstein, that muscu- lar fatigue could be best supported on fat, gave orders that each soldier should have served out to him 250 grams of fat bacon, It is also a well known fact that fat animals lear priyation of food better than thin ones.-Pittsburg Dis patch.
Arizona silver belt., 1893-06-03
The 1snr.lc.t rro,l, nf All.

Few poets had more admirers among women than Whittier had, and this ad- miration frequently took personal form. One day his sister, in her slow, Quaker fashion, was describing these eruptions: ''Thee hast no idea" she said, "of tho time Greenleaf spends in trying to lose these people on the streets, Sometimes he comes home and says, Well, sister, l had hard work to loso him, but have lost hin" To this Whittier pathetic ally added, "But I can never lose q her. ? .-San Francisco 8rgonant
Arizona silver belt., 1893-06-03
Turkish Greai Guns |.


 h 147S Mohammed IT., in forming the siege of Scutari, in Albania, em. ployed fourteen heavy bombards, the hghtsst of which threw a stone shot of 370 pounds weight, two sent shots of 300 pounds, two of 75O pounds, two of $50 pounds, one of 1900 pounds, five of 1,500, and one of the enormous weight of ] $40 pounds, even in these days, for the only guns whose shot ex- ceed the heaviest of these are our S0- ton guns, throwing 1,70O-pound pro jectile, our 100-ton, throwing one of 2,000 pounds, and the 110-ton, throw. ing an l 1,S00-pound shot with high velocity. The stone shot of Moham- med's guns varied between twenty and thirty-two inches in diameter, about the same height as dining table; 2, J34 of them were fired on this occasion, weighing, according to a calculation of General Lefroy's, about 1000 tons, and were cut out of the solid rock on the spot. Assuming twenty four inch ss as the average diameter of the shot fired at this siege, the total area of the surface dressed was nearly 32,O00 square feet At this siege the weight of the powder fired is estimated by General Lelroy to have boen 25O tons. At the siege of Rhodes, in 14SO, Mo hammed caused sixteen basilisks, or double cannon, to be cast on the spot, throwing balls two to three feet in diameter. Chambers Journal.
Arizona silver belt., 1893-06-03
Merely n Hrnnthnsi..

One remarkable thing in Japan is the number of small children and babies which are strapped to the backs of other children. Heaven only knows where they come from. In Germany there is legend to the effect that storks bring babies Perhaps the great number of storlSs in Japan are engaged in the sanoA pursuit. uit.--Baltimore American.
Arizona silver belt., 1893-06-03
new U MI to .le ln , I.nllnnr M

How It teels to l5e tu H Hallway NrcCE,
 "A man who has never been in a wreck wouldn't believe how long it takes fer the cars 10 get through riling up,n said another "After the first crash there is a rebound clel to the back of the train, and then the whole thing takes another lUnge. something gives way, and maybe three or four more cars telescope Then there's Gnother jerk backward and another lunge, and t seems as if the cracking and grooming and tumbling keep on for fivo minutes. When man is mixed up with the trucks under the whole stack it seems like an hour.
 Make it an hour and a half, said an cx-5rakoman as he scratched his nose with the only clawHbe finger remaining at the end of a twisted and shriyeled stump of hand. The crowd knew how he had been dug out with derrick and laughed at the joke Chicago News Record
Arizona silver belt., 1893-06-03

The Scientific American says; The cry of extortioH at tho Worlds Fair, is a false one so far as present conditions and future prospects are concerned, and should not deter one person from visiting the Exposition, which is the greatest industrial achievement in the history of the United States.
Arizona silver belt., 1893-06-03

4 gentleman performed the clever feat at Birmingham Shakespeare club of proposing the toast of the poets memory for nineteen years without re- beating himself-a feat which most of us will envy.
Arizona silver belt., 1893-06-03

''At any rate, my daughter is marry ing a scholar, said the proud mother. 'I didn't know that he was an educa- ted man, said the neighbor. "Oh, yes, he is He's graduate of the Keeley Institute "-N. Y. Press.
Arizona silver belt., 1893-06-03

The Temple of Diana at Ephesus which was about an even hundred years in building, was 450 feet to the first sup port Of the roof.
Arizona silver belt., 1893-06-03

A Kansas City man swallowed door key early one morning. Tho Trenton (Mo.) Tribune says any one who mis- takes his mouth for keyhole should reform at once.
Arizona silver belt., 1893-06-03

The promptness and certainty of its cures have made Chamberlain Cough Remedy famous. It is intended es- pecially for coughs, colds, croup and whooping coughs, aRd is the most effec- tual remedy known for these diseases. Mir. c. B. Main, of Union City, Pa, says II have a great sale on Chamber lain's Cough Remedy l warrant every bottle and have never heard of one failing to give entire satisfaction, 50 cent bottles for sale by H. c. Hitch cock, druggist
Arizona silver belt., 1893-06-03

A cowboy was bitten ou the nose by a skunk, Q short time ago up in AriZo- na, while lying asleep near camp; and after lingering along for time in great agony, the skunk has just died of deli rum tremens, Exchange.
Arizona silver belt., 1893-06-03
Saturday, June 3, 1898.

Cattle shipments Since our last issue were as follows; Tuesday, the West ern Reserve Stock Company and others 520 head of steers, sold to Mr. John ston, of Wyomiug On Wednesday the same company shipped 379 head of cows to Bazn Kansas, to be placed on pasture The same day !. P. Gray of Fucker, and others shipped 451 head of steers to Wyoming, having been purchased by M,, Johnston. The cat tls wore all in excellent shipping condi. tion. Wilcox Stockman.
Arizona silver belt., 1893-06-03

An applicant for the Albuquerque pestmastership got mad because some one put dried herring in his postofiice box. If he had waited for the office and lived on expectations as long as some of our Tucson candidates, we would think that even dried herring would be most acceptable. As rule a man who waits on street corner for an office to come to him ought to beyery thankful if even dried herring flew his way. Albuquerque ofilee-seekers are unusually fastidious, Tucson Citizen,
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1893-03-10
THE SILVER PLATFORM.

The silve, wing Of the Repuhli
Can State ConveAa-s uuanui,'us-
" adopted 80 Nxs.,tV'n n ,:5nrm:
The &c ,tLtlnn eu,~-4oco and
adopts the platform If the Rel ub.
lIcsto ST. ate Gonv,.p Ian. helA Va
cit, Gu the 81 OF ApllI las, as fol.
lows:
Resolved, Th,t We c.n'l-in'' the
Republican, !sai!y / 'i.e Eastern
state. and tie admihi rati"n OF
President Harrison. lnaeta' 7e hey
have ii d 10 nc onpiloll til com.
Ittt- remuue lzutle,n 81 rllr,r, and
IL e a. t laws iruv dins III the
r.. {. aut uuIeotri,: ed cplntir- Ok
that metal.
Rrso we'd ;, That tie .'e3t"r tion
of silver the place Il n'i't.pled
previous t. tie Passage Q, the
Mint Act Of 673 is IS ent!al to
the tueptlilv OF tt G country and
paramount e. other pa llcak
cunei. elati'.ns TIE ltgl-tafiJn
w ich iothed silver Of lte mo icy
fl.u!iupS aud denied Cu the waer
of i ver bullion tire rlght tu +: ave
the same cuin-d int money upon
the -.,llIe terms and c,lniiIlon9
which, a ply tu the iIIagt OF gold,
lt..iI,.,ti the money Of nltm te re-.
demptI.n or atIntnt, about one.
half. aud enabled the owners Of
money and uhlI- atlo' uaya'le In
IL" neN 10 nunupo lZt I'll coin OF
the CONNIE, cial vulld.
Resolved, That tile eop1e OF
N vada arr in lnvoT Of the coin.
age II silver upon the same con-
diti'us viii Ii ala ly to he c'ihnge
Ct Y.Id, and they are oppressed tc
| tl.vating ANY person 70 nthce VINO
/ is not known to be unrq lV'rally
4 ini VT et u ellng The Mil or
tie UAitpd States 10 tie ace and
4 ull nited G. in ye OF silver
In we. ul I'll rrl> ati factory at
/ titudt Of President HaIIis'ir I" the
paIaneuttIt isotlr 81 the trlnnnetl-
Zatiu1 of elIyer, t is c~nNtnlIon
Will IN kt nu nenii.atIotls ia + eS-
identI Z ectoTe ana the stare n-
trail Commute To he appointed by
1tls ol ve,,,ion shall hove DO au.
tho ity 10 put ia numlnalirn el-o-
tors
The G. INVENTION c"riia.ly en-
dorses the viyu Gus +ffri t. VI cur
1 Senator. ana Rrpr, sel1,alivts ~
secure tt,- ire" and uullnltt-h COM
/ .ot If ,lIvrl ana the t-tiura,IotlH
W.. that tt.rt Ia We done iu lie.
stntina the ttnr IL ue, t,tivttu the
money .r,w, r. ana the t.ondh,ld-
or. q Il liltoft-rS asa prnductro OF
! wealth
And we t;tv the continuation.
If y i,ati i, 5tll co.4r Il ,. loi ihe
f e. ANT mited {. =. II -ll-
yer II t4.+- present lalI Ii Il, [,
for rh,st own ttnetit ~ 5nr Tie
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na1u..r.. ann re. d,ole ) aud me-
,lanit.s.
Tn. tiljZeIIs If Nevai.s. ttpfe-
spuIaiINt tt tie Ma mus silver
leagues Irrespective II pa,, tai ty
atfi,IntiaI,5. in convention il4etrnlpl.
Ell ID, set ltn ne fpilaAin. trc-
;iti.il uf ,,4Iut.il,It-
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