Arizona republican., 1897-10-17

street is Spr1nkleu very generously with business edifces. Almost as much can be said for Adams street. There has never been a time during these four years when business hcuses were not being built, and d[he resi- dence portion of the town has grown wonderfully But people don't seem to realize the importance of these im- provements They have become so accustomed to seeing buildings going up that they give it TO more than casual thought and taEe it as mat ter of course Why, don't you know that if all this progress had occurrel in town of this size in the east it mighty boom? You will keep on passing the Adams hotel as though it had always been there and looking at the Fleming block as something beyond your recollection until scme fine morning you will awake to find you have grown up with a city.
 
 In a Phoenix family where tn re Is little boy not yet abe to talk the formality of saying grace Gin which the articulation is dis inc and every word can be contrary
 
 regularly practical. The other morn ing the father had gone to work be- fore the other members of the family had breakfasted, and the mother was preparing the children for school. Finally she sat down to the table with the children and was on the point of breakfasting when this young puritan motioned her to desislt and bowed his head in mute but elo quent silence. The good woman was so humbled and shamed she could command no words in which to full fill the du.y, but she bowed and mur- mured few incOherent sounds which was no doubt satisfactory to all con cerned for it is believed the AL mighty gives heed to the spirit rath- CT than the expression) except the boy. He caught none of the words the sound of which he had become familiar with by hearing his father repeat so often. He displayed this dissatisfaction by kicking the table legs and by loud walls of seeming ag- ony The mother at first could not imagine the trouble and vainly ex- amined his clothes to see if amy pins had been displaced and were pointing g inward to the flesh, but she finally divined the meaning of the display, and bowed her head again. The child at once became pacifed. By this time she had recovered her con- posture and repeated the prayer as nearly as possible word for word as the head of the house had been in the custom Of doing, giving particular emphasis to the f'amen," as she, knew and the child knew right where that portion of the plea was located. The boy was then satisfied and proceeded with his breakfast with more relish than common.
 A good story is told of Abraham Lincoln and Congressman Hit of Hi nois. Hit, who is one of the best known men in Washington, began his career as a reporter on the Chicago Tribune. His experience as a sten- Ographer led to his being assigned to | report the speeches of Abraham Lin coin in his celebrated joint debate with Douglas in 1858. Lincoln came i to depend on his young friend so that his first thought, when facing an au- | dience, would be to see that Hit had his pencil ready. On one occasion the chairman of a meeting had intro | duced Lincoln to a great audience, and ] every sound was hushed and every head bent to catch the first syllables from his lips. Lincoln was observ- | ed to be uneasy. He craned his long neck this way and that, peering about the front rows of the expectanIt mul- titude. Then he broke the stiffness with the sudden query, Where's Hitt?' The spectators exchanged glances, thinking something untoward had happened. Nobody understood the question, except few newspaper men, who were aware of the part played by the young stenographer | Again Lincoln made as if to speak, but only to ask anxiously: Where's Hit? Doesn't anybody know where Hit is?" A reporter who stood near the window, after taking a quick sur vey of the landscape, called back ''1t's all right; Hitt's coming" And he was. He had been to dine with friend, and accidentally overstayed his time. AS he pushed his way in- to the hall, all breathless, Lincoln heaved a great sigh of relief, and soon plunged into speech which, by many critics, was pronounced the most effective of the campaign.
 
 Of course you have read of the death of ex-Senator McPherson ot New Jersey. The hand of death was on him last winter when he spent several weeks here. The death c1 his only son a short time previou: to his arrival in Arizona was a bit ter blow to him. He was a man o1 great wealth and had had distin- guished career. He went to New Jer. sey from western New York in 1858 settled in Jersey City, and became prominent live stock dealer. He tool up the investigation of the problem , of changing the vicious modes O. transportation of live stock and it. slaughter for market, and adapted the business to the growth of tn, great cities of the nation. He plan
 ned the abbattoir from a DOT oFrencl system, and so improved it that it hai gone into general use in this coun } try, and is of the greatest utility. H, invented, perfected, and put in, . ! practice new devices and nrinnin1o