Arizona republican., 1897-11-28
HIT AND MISS CHAT.

Fate is not always ironical or unklnd She is often just. even amusingly and poetically so, and while she visits an att1iction on poor unfortunate mortals she sometimes makes It up to them and leaves them no worse of than they were. A well known Phoenix young man had an experience of the sort . day or two ago. In the morning when he was riding out Washington street to his work he espied half dollar lying in the road. Of course, he dismounted and picked it up. That particular half looked like another coin of similar de- nomination. No one came along to claim it, and there was no reasonable way he could have established his own ership if he had. That night when the wheelman rode home from work the half dollar was jingling againet the keys Tn his pocket. But here's where fate got in her work. Just at the spot where he found the half dollar in the morning he met with an accident, lost the valve cap to his wheel. He took the bike to a repair shop and it cost him just half dollar to get it fixed. He was no better of and no worse than he was when he started to work in the morning. Fate undou btedly knew of the accident and possibly led him where he would see the coin and reim purse himself in advance tor the unexpected-to him-loss. The question is how the goddess squared it with the fellow who lost the half dollar.
 The following lines may seem to em- body very modest request to those who arc ambitious regarding their prominence in the hereafter, yet if the place is granted him he will incur the envy of no small number who are ex- pecting something better:
 Lord. if find no place among Thy sheep,
 In pastures fair above,
 Yet grant me-straying with the goats
 to keep
 Some tether of Thy love.
 And though empsradised on Thy right
 I never may appear,
 Deny me not this only grace-to stand
 Thy left exceeding near.
 Contrary to existing belief and the newspaper paragraphers, neither Ar kansas nor Georgia has a corner on all the rustic simplicity and bliseful ignor- ance in Uncle Sam's domain. Squire James Higgins of Brooklyn township in Schuyler county, Ill.,. is 65 years of age. Hs lives on the farm on which he was born, and has never been farther than thirty miles from his own hearthstone. He never rode on railroad train, never saw steam boat, @ theatrical perform ance nor game of base ball. MT. Hig- gins has been @ justice of the peace in his township without @ break in the consecutive links of time since 1881. No ! decision handed down from his bench has ever been reversed by a higher court. He has married more than 500 couples. and points with pride to the fact that none of them ever appealed to divorce court for B severance of the matrimonial bond. Squire Higgins is a bachelor. and says that he cannot re me Der that be ever paid court to any young woman. He alto says that he is one Of the few Andrew Jackson demo crats" in the county. It was surmised at the start that MT. Higgins em braced the latter's political faith. In fact the mention of it at all was superfuoue. i
 1 Bones-the bones of human being. bleached by winter snows and summer eune bones-the bones of bear, ghast- ly in their whiteness; an old rife, whose ps ttern has not been in use fer more than twenty years These things tell, as no eye witness could relate 1t, the story of terrible ragedywhich occurred many, many years ago. The bones still | lie upon the mountain top, while the rife is in the possession of a man in the vicinity. Two men in Nevada went out on hunting trip 8 week or two ago. 1 Their chase carried them far from the habitation of man. During their search 1 for game their wanderings led them to point in the mountains where Jerry creek has it's origin. The track of a deer led them to clump of quaking as D trees. In this thicket the bleaching bones of man and bear were found. The human skeleton was that of a man of large stature the bones of the ani- nal were those of huge bear. Near by lay Henry rife. rust eaten and par italy buried beneath the accommodating soil of years. This silent array tells a story which no man, experienced in mountaineering, can misconceive. The terrible battle for supremacy between the man and the ferocious animal eprang up before tho eyes of the men ss plainly as though it were being en