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The oasis., 1894-06-28
DECORATION DAY.

''Crown them with roses.
 Our brave gallant dead.
 Red as the life blood they shed, Strew OCT them lilies
 Fair as the peace they had won When the wild strife was done. Wreath for them laurel; Their banner still waves Ger the land hallowed by graves, Bind it with myrtle:
 Loving tears will not cease For the dead heroes of Peace. stars and stripes waving Meath starlight and dew, Cheered our brave boys in blue; Through frost rain and sun, Over mountain and lea, Led their march to the sea. Back walled the south wind. While hoarse on Its breath Came the mad music of death. Loud roaring cannon. Fierce screaming shell; For the dead-paan and knell. Dead, wounded and missing, An, who can repeat The wild cry of grief in the street, When the messages came, Fraught with triumph, yet said: Some are missing and dead "One fell for glory, His comrade in arms Dying for Freedoms sweet charms; One for his country, Her laws, honor and fame, Leaving not even a name. They fell in the vanguard Of Liberty's host. Count not the sacrified lost That gave back to freedom The long-shackled slave, And made for Rebellion it's grave. Firing roses and lilies, Rring oak-leaf and bay, To strew OCT the fallen to-day. Bring myrtle and laurel For statesman and brave, Poet, scholar and slave. Honor our loved ones, Shout loud the glad song Of victory over the wrong, Forgive the brave foeman Who fell on the field While exulting, still yield. Fame to the soldier. But hate to the cause Lost in defying the laws Framed by our fathers This land to unite Tn freedom. equality, right. Our Stars and Stripes waving One country enfold; And the army of martyrs enrolled In the ranks of the dead Meath grave-dust and dew Wear both the gray and the blue"
Mesa free press., 1894-12-14
Electric gSiifers.

This remedy is becoming so we'll
known aud so popular as to need no
special mention. All who have used
Electric Bitters sing the same song of
praise. A purer medicine does not
exist and it is guaranteed to do all
that is claimed Electric Bitters will
cure all diseases of the Liver and
Kidneys, will remove Pimples, Boils,
Salt Rheum. and other affections caus-
ed by impure blood-Will drive Ma
laria from the system and prevent as
we'll as cure all Mala"ial fevers-For
cure of Headache, Constipation and
Indigestion try Electric Bitters. En-,
tire satisfaction guaranteed, or money
efunded-Price so cts aud 81 per
bottle at J H Barnett's Drugstore.
Mesa free press., 1894-12-14
Two Lives Saved.

Mrs. Phoebe Thomas, of Juncti on
City, III, was told by her doctors she
had Consumption and that there was
no hope for her, but two bottles DR..
Kings New Discovery completely
cured her and she says it saved her
life, Mr.. Thos, Eggers, l39 Florida
St., San Francisco, suffered from a
dreadful cold, approaching Consump-
ton, tried without result everything
else then bought one bottle Of Dr.
Kings New Discovery and in two
weeks was cured. He is naturally
thankful. 1t is such results, Of which
hese are samples. that prove the
wonderful efficacy of this medicine in
Coughs and Colds. Free trial bottles
at J. III. Barnett's Drug Store. Regu--
lar size SOC, and 81,
Mesa free press., 1894-12-14

Baxter NcCrearv, who has for the
past three years or more been consid
cred permanent fixture in Mesa, left
with his wife for Phoenix Wednesday,
where they haye taken up their per
manent residence. Nc. has been with
us so long it seems hard for US to give
him up, but the best wishes of our
people follow him and his wife to
their new home.
Mesa free press., 1894-12-14
TERRITORY OF ARIZONA,
County of Maricopa.

TERRITORY OF ARIZONA,
County of Maricopa.
In accordance with Ordinance No. 10 Of the
Villlge Of Mesa City, entitled an ordinance
Regulating the lew and collection of Taxes
of the Village of Mesa City. Maricopa County
Arizona, for the years 1894 aid 1885," hereby
give public notice that unless the delinquent
taxes for. the fiscal year 1894-1S95 under levy
and assessment of property in the said Village
of Mesa City by authority OF said ordinance
and herein above set forth together with penalty
and costs az added tt ercto b. virtue Of said
ordinance are paid on or before he seventh da y
of January, 1895, that 1 will on said day be-
tween the hour ofs1o m and p m, beginning
at the sail hour of 10 n, at the Village Hal
in the Village Of Mesa City, sell a public auction
to the highest bidder for cash, the real and per-
sonal property upon which SAID taxes are a
lien, or 80 much thereof as may be necessary to
satisfy such taxes. penalty and costs Of al
property then remaining upon the foregoing
list upon which said taxes, penalties and costs
are then unpaid.
G. B. LEWIS,
Ma, shal and Ex-offcio Tax Collector for said
Village OF. Mesa City.
Mesa free press., 1894-12-14

A picnic party of nineteen ladies
and gentlemen went 10 Mesa City
yesterday from Phoenix and had a
most enjoyable time. Camp was made
on the ranch of Jones Bros. who, aid
ed by Mrs. Jones did everything in
their power to make the occasion a
success and succeeded so wei! that the
entire party voted the picnic the most
enjoyable they ever participated in
A visit was made to the ranch of
Messrs. Moote, Schuele and Dunmel,
which consists of a sixty acre vine
yard and d twenty acre orange orchard.
The orange trees are but four years
old, yet some of them are bearing
heavily. The fruit is large, sweet and
free Of any trace of smut, and are all
of the Navel variety, The party was
each allowed to carry away fiue speci
mems of the fruit. Mr.. Schuele, in
speaking Of the vineyard, said the
yield this year from the sixty acres
was 2400 tons of raisins and samples
exhibited showed them to be of ex
ceedingly fine flavor, embracing the
Muscat, Seedless Sultanas, Thompson
Scedless and several other varieties
Phoenix Herald, Dec. 10.
Mesa free press., 1894-12-14
NOTICE TO VOTERS.

A meeting of the qualified electors
of Mesa City will be held at the City
Hall, tomorrow evening at 7 o'clock
for the purpose Of nominating a can
didate for Mayor and two Councilmen
to be voted for Jan. 2, 1895.
By order of the Mayor.
w. J. IEBARoN.
Mesa free press., 1894-12-14

S. Peterson is getting the grounds
around his residence laid out IA a
neat and tasteful m inner. A lawn
has already been sown and many va
rieties of choicest flowers planted, in
Guiding over city varieties Of roses.
Mesa free press., 1894-12-14
"What do YOU charge to wash {

"What do you charge to wash a
shirt 2" inquired man at the coun-
ter in the City Laundry.
"What kind of shirt % asked
the lady clerk, with her mind on
outing shirts, dress shirts, negligees
and the various other possibilities
in that line.
GA dirty shirt" replied the man
and the lady fell in faint.
Mesa free press., 1894-12-14

Wayyfarefs who happen to stop over
in Tempe should not fail TO patrouize
that old, reliable, thoroughly reGtted
and refurnshed Gregory House, kept
by that prince of landlords, D. j.
Curry. 1t is popular house and its
popularity is growing daily.
Mesa free press., 1894-12-14
1Sucklen's Arnica Saive.

The best salve in the world for Cuts
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum
Fever Sores, letter, Chapped itands
Chilblars, Corns, and all Skin Efnp
lions. aud positively cures Piles, o. no
paw required. 1t is guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction or money refunded.
rs ceu.s per box. For sale by John
Earnett.
Mesa free press., 1894-12-14
A $ Usual.

We have no competition this year
in prices on Holiday goods. We
know how to buy and give you the
benefit of the knowledge. Livery
lady gets pretty souvenir.
PRATT Bros, Phoenix.
Mesa free press., 1894-12-14
Everything Goes

But paper and ink. That is stationery
We are determined that everything
in our Holiday Department must go.
How can we sell Toys, etc SO low this
year.? Call and we will explain.
PRATT Bros, Phoenix.
Mesa free press., 1894-12-14
Ebew Drop

In and see the largest, prettiest and
only complete line nf Holiday gifts in
the Phoenix. Bring a silver dollar
and carry away load oftoys.
PRATT BROS. Phcerix.
Mesa free press., 1894-12-14
LOCAL NEWS.

LOCAL NEWS.
Our local officials have been getting
mp their bonds this week.
Haynaking is still in progress or
some of the ranches of the valley.
We have had generous, warm rains
and the country begins to smile.
Work on tbe Johnson block has
keen temporarily suspended awaiting
brick.
Chas. E. Burton received the sai
intelligence last week of the death Of
sister in Utah.
Chas. Peterson was kicked on the
leg by horse the othes day That is
why he is limping.
The entertainment given last Sat-
urday night by Mesa local talent was
a pronounced success.
Oar city election will take place
Jan. 2ad A mayor and two council
nen sre 20 be clec.el.
Z. i. Trask OF the Trask-Kessler
Grocery company, Phoenix, died last
week aftc7 G Drief illness.
Cast your eye upon the new ad. Of
Pratt. Bros, the most popular and the
heavics; dealers in their line in Phce.
nix.
The Territorial Teachers Asso-
ciation viii meet in Phoenix next
Monday. There will be over $50
teachers present.
The Pomeroy Bros. have re-
bonded J. r. Aorse's interest In
the Righfyer mins and will push
developments on it.
". 8. Johnson will prove his faith
in his own nursery stock by planting
twenty acres oil them himself. He
will plaot Royal apsicots.
The bright warm weather infuses
activity among the little busy bees,
They are working diligently upon
the pepper aud alfalfa bloom.
Judge Edwards, one OF the few sur
viying Democrats. was in town Mon
day. He succeeds himself as member
of the Council from GiIa county.
Read the new ad of the Arizona
Hardware Go. They are offering
special bargains, Go and see Harry
Eichelberger or Orleyi Stapley about
It.
W. A. Buel's Goldfield stage line is
still en- deck. He has comfortable
coaches and coed teams and sends
you through in the shortest possible
time.
The n. Simkins marble and lime
company keep large force of men
employed supplying the demand for
The excellent lime turned out at the
quarry.
W. 8. Johnson, the pioneer Mesa
nurseryman, has located tree yard
next let west of the Central Market.
In c few days ysu will see some Gne
trees there.
Moses Bullock is the happy IA
ther Of bouncing boy. 1t is a
native son and g fine one too. 1t
was presented to him by his wife
last Sunday.
Pomona CAL, onions and cabbage
are On sale in our markets. These
vegetables do excellently well out here
but they don't grow spontaneously,
and neither do tkSy over there.
Those fine Christhas peaches now
grace the shelves Of eur fruit dealers:
They are picked every morning fresh
from The trees and delivered with the
cool, efystsl dew upon them.
Just take look at the new ad. of
the Alkire Dry Goods and Clothing
Co. The AlkiTe Bros. are building
up An immense business by fair deal
Mesa free press., 1894-12-14
We WaaI Every Girl.

Under the age of Is years to call
and leave her name and receive
ticket free on $50 Doll. She is a
beauty PRATT Bros, Phoenix
Mesa free press., 1894-12-14
v.D. NeRTeN. A.P.sHEwMAN.
HORTON 4 SHEWMAN
Attsrneys-at-Law.
MESA, ARIZONA.

Will practice 10 allthe Courts OF the Territory.
government land business speciality. Col
eciisns promptly made
eI orrrss-in Vernon 3 Spragg Real Estate
Agency.
Mesa free press., 1894-12-14
REDUCTION SALE.

We take annual inventory Dec 3Oth and to
reduce stock and avoid the expense of listing and moving
large line of merchandise will fer the next thirty
days make cut prices all lines for cash orgo notes.
All unreasonable goods will be sold at first cost
implements, Buggies carriages and Harness. Charter
prices
For Christmas will have fne line of Lamp
Goods, Scissors, lable and Pocket Cutlery For the
children have the "cutest" little stove ever built
Call and examine prices and buy what suits you.
Arizona Hardware Co.
Mesa, ARIZONA
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-07-16

Mrs. S. E. Sherman, in an article CON
tributed to the American Bee Journal on
the subject of beekeeping and poultry
raising as an occupation for women,
among other things says:
One great advantage in this occupation
is, it can be carried on right at home, in
our very door-yards. Another is, it takes
but little capital 10 begin with-less than,
perhaps, almost anything else in which a
woman could embark.
In 1888 my bees gave me a ton of honey
gathered from the tiny flowers of the
hoar-hound alone, and two tons from
other flowers, making IN all 5000 pounds
of honey, 100 pounds of beeswax, and 80
per cent. increase, bringing the mum Der of
colonies up to 90; since which time have
made no increase, as that is as many as l
can well manage with other work. Re
member this was the outcome Of one col
ony of bees in the spring of 1880!
Gathering the honey is cleaning that
which is going to waste, and would other
wise be a complete loss. Did you ever
think of how many thing are going TO
waste, which a hand careful of minor de-
tails could garner in and make profita BILE
The study of bee culture is almost limit
less. There is all the time something
more to be learned. By the use of OBJ
servatory hives everything that is done
1u5IQtt a ldISC lNC CdLA NC oCCl duu uluCIl
learned in this way. / would advise
every one who keeps bees, either for
pleasure or profit, to have an observatory
hive. 1t is like an index to a book, and
about as indispensable to a successful
apiarist. l keep mine on my gallery, and
can tell whether honey is coming in either
freely or scantily without having to open
a large hive.
Poultry keeping combines very nicely
with bees, as most of the work comes on
at different seasons of the year. After
the bees are snugged away nicely for the
winter, there is no more work with them
until early spring and not much very
early in that season. and at this time the
chicks should be Matched for the most
successful rearing. / began the fine or
fancy poultry business at the same time
l commenced with my bees, and have
kept them right along together, and find
little conflict between the occupations.
| have raised from rs to $50 chickens
per annum. OF course all are not show
birds. The culls find a ready market
upon my own table, for we do like nice
fried chicken. and almost always have
plenty of it all seasons of the year Nice,
fresh eggs-we wouldn't know how to
get along without them, either.
! believe in chickens, and intend to
have them as long as / have ten square
feet of land upon which to keep them.
They pay me well as a financial invest
ment, besides adding luxuries to my own
bill Of fare.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-07-16
The Glory and Shame of America.
For the Morning News

No one need blush at an honest recital
of our national acts of disparagment, be-
lieving as we do, that our government is
so divinely constituted that even her
faults are wiser than the best acts of mon
arches. 1t is said that every man must
eat his peck of dirt. The same is true OF
every nation; but one having so much
political reform as Uncle Sam, will not
give up the ghost when the dirt is con-
sumed, but if his countenance becomes
fuliginous III the operation and his char
acter somewhat DETAINED, he will reclaim
himself by washing his face, turning over
a new leaf and be on hand for another
performance
If anything has tendency to make
short-lived this glorious republic, it is the
prevalence of isms You who have time
paper and patience, may enumerate the
isms and schisms that are now disturb
ing the public veal. Suffice it to
write that the most of them are
as incongruous with liberty
well-tempered intelligence, or bacchana-
liam debauchery with maximum sobriety ;
and as inconsistent with religion as truth
with falsehood whose fallacious teach
ings are vapor cloud obscuring truth,
serving to elude honest ignorance, and to
obliterate the now bedimmed impress of
morality. 1t is true that the first ingre-
dent in the public happiness of a people
is liberty; a privilege 1nvalua ole, but
frequently misunderstood and still
more frequently abused. Absolute lib
erty is absolute power If a few alone
possess 1t, the rest are in slavery; If all
have it, the whole must be in confusion.
In order to prevent mutual encroach-
ments, and ascertain the Just claims Of
each, liberty must be secured by con-
stitution, and guarded by law. IL is here
that our American constitution triumphs
Possessing advantages that no other form
Of government ever Possessed IL
stands forth the envy OF the
world, aud a pattern ~ succeeding
times. Our constitution. like the provi-
dence OF God, extends its gracious re-.
CARDS 10 all. While it protects the poor In
the possession Of their legal rights, IL is
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-07-16
Restoring Soil Fertility.

The greatest problem which now con
fronts farmers in all parts of the country
is how to increase the productive capac-
ity of their farms, says the American
Cultivator. This question is made more
difficult by the fact that the farm while
being improved must provide a living for
the man who owns it and his family, to-
gether with pay for the labor employed
in working it. Heretofore it has been
these necessities that have obliged farm
ers to grow and sell the more exhaustive
crops, because they sold for the moso
money.
There has been close competition by
farmers who were cropping and exhaust
ing virgin soil. That now has ended.
The farmer in the great west is under the
same necessity of restoring fertility to
his partly-exhausted land as is the farmer
in the eastern states. To this must be at
tributed the substitution of dairy nus
baudry in many western grain growing
districts II is this change to dairying in
the west that is keeping down the price of
butter and cheese, even more than the
manufacture OF counterfeit butter from
suet, lard and other substances.
8 In this contest the victor will be the
farmers, who secure the best stock and
are thus able to turn all the products of
greatest profit. The most serious losses
of farmers come from keeping stock that
does not pay it's way, but now the in
crease in competition makes merely pay
ing its way not enough. The greater the
returns from food given TO stock the more
cheaply the farm can be fortified The
farmer who has set out to make his farm
richer should not sell anything from IL
except as it is the product Of some stock
to which it has been fed.
A second point and hardly less impor-
tant is to grow as largely as possible of
renovating crops like clover and other
leguminous plants which procure nitro
gen from the air. If the supply Of nitro
9enous fertility can be thus maintained,
me farmer can well afford TO purchase
supplies of potash and phosphate that are
needed. By seeding with clover as often
as every third year, and allowing the
clover TO. occupy the land the second
season, a large amount OF rich teed can De
crown while tho soil and subsoil are be-
ing filed with clover roots.
ii Inc seeding Of clover is good, and is
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-07-16
Two Valuable Clovers for tho soutl

Two Valuable CloveTS for tho South
Not counting the Japan clover Iespi-
diza) which is well known as a plant
highly adapted to southern use, we have
two cloyers- that should be found on every
farm in the south where there is the
slightest pretence of maintaining fertil-
ity of the soil. Our peas are all very
good for this purpose. but their use i'm
plies extra blowing in the summer time
when much waste is involved in exposing
the freshly plowed land to the SUMS RAYS.
Here we have two clovers, the Burr
and the Crimson" one or the other of
which can be sOwed in the cotton fields in
August or September simply with a slight
stirring, such as the harrow or the sweep
gives, and the result will be fine lot Of
vegetable matter to be turned under in
the spring, and that after furnishing fine
pasture for the stock for several months.
1t was once thought that the south
could make no use of clover. That was
| before the three cloyerS that we have
named had heeu introduced into our Sec
ton. One was forced upon u.s. as it were,
by providence, and just in the same man
ner that Bermuda grass was. Both came
nolens volens. We refer to the Lespidiza.
The Burr clover came to US by the way
Of California some twenty years ago. In
that time large number of farmers have
tried it, and we will venture to say that
not one in twenty that have tried it would
say bad word against it, 1t is supremacy
valuable if we would only make full use
of it.
In the past few years the crimson clover
came to compete with the burr as
winter and spring pasture plant, and we
have no doubt some will prefer one and
some another after trial of the two. On
medium or poor land there are hardly
any plants to be had that will make bet
ter growth than these clovers. We be-
speak trial of one or the other or both
by every farmer who appreciates the ne
cessity for dong something toward in
creasing the fertility of his worn soil and
having some green food during the first
months of the year. Try even a quarter
or half an acre this fall.
We have several times asserted that
there was no need for the sio in the south
if our farmers made proper use of some of
the winter plants that are at their dis
pOsal. This assertion, we are quite sure,
win be substantiated by every one who
comes to understand the value of crimson
and burr clovers, turnips, rape, lucerne,
rye and and sapling clover grown to-
gether, oats and witch barley. We might
name few others, but these are enough
to render the silo unnecessary if we use
them Alright. What say our intelligent
readers
The fat pea, too, we are inclined to
think will be adapted to our use But
we can get along with it. Which one of
our readers will make the finest Febru-
airy and March pasture, and have plenty
of green food in January2
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-07-16

ing tomatoes, and one of which that has
given me much satisfaction is
the three-in-a-hill method. The
rows are laid off four to four and half
feet apart. Every four feet in the row
stout stakes are placed and about these
stakes three plants are set in the form of
triangle. the lines of which are Is to Is
inches long. just before the plants begin
TO fall down they are encircled with a
stout cord or strip of Cloth and drawn
slightly toward the stake One band will
De all sufficient to make the three plants
stand up enough to keep all the fruit off
OF the ground, and have found it a most
excellent plan. Sometimes put only two
plants to the hill, but more commonly
three. l am satisfied that three plants
thus placed will yield every time as much
as two that have all the space possible.
IL involves so little labor to keep the fruit
from the ground.
Ii were planting an acre and the land
We're level, | should check the land 4I5x5
feet. This would require 1000 stalks and
ABOUT 5000 plants to the acre If the
land is well MANFRED with mineral matter,
or is naturally suited to tomatoes. several
hundred bushels should easily be made on
an acre.
have seen hills that yielded from first
to last a half bushel of tomatoes. If the
hills could be made to average peck, the
crop would be 500 bushels There are
plenty Of truckers who could make a such
a yield
Another good plan of growing tomatoes
is the double row plan-one narrow row
and one wide row. 1 will describe it next
time. JABEz
Baldwin county.