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Year: 1878

Round Valley lies on the GIla rlver

 about seven miles above Florence, and contains some two thousand acres of very rich and superior land, SO situa- ted as to be easily irrigated after water is once on the land. This beautiful valley has remained unappropriaied until recently, persons being deterred from making any settlement from the great estimated cost of taking out ditch and would have remained unoc- cupied still longer but for the keen and far-seeing business capacity of MT. James Brash, who on seeing the place

 few months since, determined st once to l. cate the tillable portion of the

 land under the Desert Land Act, and immcdiately set e. work to construct a

 lar-e canal or water ditch, and by in domlaule perseverance the ditch is very nearly completed to the head of the valley, being about two miles in length along the rough banks of the river and in places through hard rock. But few men would have been bold enough to have risked his money in such an undertaking. The ditch is twelve feet on the bottom and will car " quite a river of water. The head dam is solid mason work, built upon a solid rock foundation that win resist any volume of water. Another year and Round valley will all be under cultivation and with it's advantages of having water the year round, must become very productive and rich ID. heriiance for Mir Brash, who well-de- serves to be rewarded, for like many other pioneers he crossed the Colorado river six years ago without anything beyond his blankets and scanty cloth ing, and in this short period, under ad- verse circumstances he has accumu- lated quite competency and laid the foundation for large and permanent wealth. Mr. Brash intends to contin- ue this ditch to his place of residence below Florence and use the water power to drive the machinery of a fouring-mill to be soon constructed. If this community had more of such men the country would be largely the gainer.
Year: 1878

THE very best and most respectable citizens of every town and neighbor- hood ought to organize for the purpose of detecting, capturing and punishing the highwaymen who are SO active robbing mails and passengers, and stealing generally. Officers work much better when properly backed up by their constituents, and when it is once understood that the best forces of the people are organized and bent upon catching and punishing robbers, the latter will be somewhat deterred in their outrages. Highwaymen are now worse public enemies in this part of Arizona than the Apaches ever were, and if found they should be killed without ceremony or mercy.
Year: 1878

Those newspapers which are too proud or too obstinate to retraet any unjust or improper language which they have admitted to their columns should profit by the example of an exchange, which gives notice as fol- lows:" If any subscriber finds line in his paper that he does not like and cannot agree with, if he will bring his paper to the office and point out the offending line, the editor will take his scissors and cut it out for him.
Year: 1878

We were shown several stalks of lfemp grown in the yard of w. W Hutchinson, some of which attained the extraordinary height of twelve feet. The culture of hemp will prob ably at some future day become exten- sively entered into by Arizonsns.-Mi- ner.

 This is a happy suggestion, for if this stage robbing business continues hemp will soon be in great demand.
Year: 1878

For anumber of years past the Royal Humane Society of London has been experimenting as to the length of time a person can remain under water, and the best method of restoring the partially drowned. They have finally determined tbat four minutes is the greatest period of time person can be completely submerged and live. The results of observation lead to the belief that even after person has been under water eight minutes he can be restor- ed to consciousness.
Year: 1878

Louisville COurierJournal.-A lady writing from one of the fashionable watering places declares that the low-necked dress IS an abomination into which it is the duty of the press to look" Very true, and we must say, in simple justice to ourselves, that it is duty that we have seldom lost an opportunity to discharge.
Year: 1878

THE good citizens Of every town and community ought to organize themselves so as 10 give prompt and effective aid to the peace officers ID their endeayors to capture criminals especially highwaymen and stage rob hers
Year: 1878

WHEN a man leaves our side and goes to the other side, he Is a traitor and we always felt that there was a subtle something wrong about hlm. But when a man leaves the other side, and comes over to us then he is a man of great moral courage, and we. always felt that he had sterling stuff in him.-Exchange.
Year: 1878

There is something terrible in the thought
of having our friends stricken down at our
side, without parting word of endearment
or cOnsolation-one moment at our side in the
flush of vigorous life, cheering our hearts
with their loving sympathy; the next at our
feet, pale with death, deaf to our cries and
needless of our tears. Every excessively fat
person is in instant danger of such death.
Seven-tenths of the victims of obesity die OF
heart disease or apOplexy. Alan's .Anti-Fat,
the only remedy for obesity, reduces the
weight BY regulating the digestion and assim-
ilation of the food. 1t is perfectly harmless,
and its use will insure, in every instance, re-
duction of weight from two to five pounds a
week
Year: 1878

A Canada paper, the Ottawa Citizen,


gives an interesting account of the pres


ent position of Sitting Bull and his fol-


lowers. A British officer, Major Walsh,


is at present in charge of post in the


immediate vicinity of Sitting-Bull's en-


campment, near Wood Mountain, and


is on the most friendly terms with the


"big Indian" chief. The Major ap-


pears to have decided influence over
the red men, and they all look up to


him as great and noble chief of their


White Mother. He has a contingent of
20 picked men. as brave and true as
steel. The Sioux camp at this point
numbers about 500 lodges, representing
nearly 1,000 souls, and is divided up at
present into small hunting parties. The
old braves are most peaceably inclined,
and there would be no fear of a breach
of the friendly relations existing were it
not for q number of hOt-headed young
bucks who make depredatory incursions
across the borders, and sometimes 90
so far, when a favorable opportunity
presents itself, to steal horses in Can
adian territory, and escape to the United
States. The old braves deprecate this,
and in every way endeavor to prevent
it. In fact, they invariably make good
the value of the horses stolen. To show
how strongly they feel on this point, In
spector Allan says that the daV before
he left party of Sioux were out hunt
ing when they came across a young
buck with a number of horses in his
possession, evidently making his way
to the Uuited States. The father-in-law
of the young man was in the party, and
wanted to know where he got the
horses. He replied that he got them as
a present from white trader. The ia
ther-in-law quietly limited that he
handled the truth carelessly, whereupon
the young buck grew impertinent, The
father-in-law considered this sufficient
justification for him to dispatch the
young man to the happy hunting
ground, and without further parley
dashed his brains out with war club.
Year: 1878

A BRAINLEss young noodle stopped a
gruff old merchant on the street, and
said: Il have a thought" Have
youP" said the merchant, "pll goright
oft and hunt up reporter, and tell him
about the accident" And as the old
man started off the young fellow was
so amazed that he couldn't think of
what he thought.-KeoEuk Constitution.
Year: 1878

THE municipality of Prague, advised
by the Hygienic Council of that city,
have just issued an edict prohibiting
ladies from wearing dresses with long
trains in the public streets, on account
of the dust which the appendices raise
being detrimental to public health.
The municipality of Leipzig published
a similar edict some time ago.
Year: 1878

Some time ago my husband used to
complain that his linen collars did not
set nicelyin front. There was always q
fullness, which in the case Of standing
collars, was particularly trying to man
who felt good deal of pride in the dres
sing of his neck. as it spoiled the effect
of his cravat, and often left q gap for the
display OF the collar band Of the shirt or a
half inch of bare skin. While talking
with particular shirt maker one day, be
mentioned bis annoyance, aud inquired
If there was any way of relieving it
"Yes." answered the man, athe fault il
with your laundress, while doing up your
collars she stretched them the wrong
way. Damp linen is very pliable, and 8
good pull will alter a fourteen-inch into .
fifteen inch collar in the twinkle OF an
eye. She ought to stretch them cross
wise. There in strengthening out your
shirt bosom she makes another mistake
of thesame sort. They also, ought to
be pulled crooswise instead OF length
wise, particularly in the neighborhood o.
the neck, A Alengthwise pull draws the
front Of the neckband somewhere di-
rectly under your chin, where it was new
er meant to go, and,of course, that spoils
the set Of your collar. With the front O
the neckband an inch toe high, and YOU
collar an inch too long, you have a mos
undesirable combination"


The speaker was right AS soon al
my husband ordered the necessary chan
ges to be made in the methods of oul
laundry, a wonderful difference NANTES
ted in the appearance fthat most impor


tant part OF bis clad anatomy, his neck
Let me commend the shirt-maker's hin
to other distressed men.
Year: 1878

Most OF our invalids are such, and
millions of more healthy people will be-
come invalids, for the want of paying
the most ordinary attention to the re-
quiremenss of the skin The membrane
is too often regarded as covering only
instead Of Complicated piece OF ma
chinery, scarcely second in its texture
and sensitiveness to the ear and eve


Many treat it with as little reference 10
its proper functions as If 1t were hofh-
ing better than bag for, their boues.,slt,
is this reconsideration for the skin that
is the cause of very large proportion


Of the diseases Of the world IF, as
claimed by some scientists, four fifths,
in the bulk, of all we eat and drink,


must either pass off through the skin or


be turned back upon, the system as y


poison, and that life depends as much


upon these exhalations through the skin


as upon inhaling pure air through the
lungs, it must be of the most vital i'm


portance to keep the channel free
Hartford Times u ssss
Year: 1878

:


Put the milk into pail or can, and
lower it into the well by rope until il
swims in the water. The milk needs to
be aerified first, and care must be taken
not to spill it in the water, as by souring
it would faint the water. The milk is al
ways sweet and cold, and may be kept
for several days. In this way we have
also kept the milch from twenty cows
sweet from Saturday night and Sunday
morning till Monday morning. and ther
have made it into cheese. Of course
this requires large can, and some sor
of derrick for lowering it into the well
but the expense is small.and we consider
this practical solution Of the question
how the cheese maker can keep the Sab
bath.-Country Gentleman.
Year: 1878

A good dairymaD gives his experience
that bran is an excellent food for cows
at any time when extra food is required.
He has generally been able to get from
it more milk than from an equal cost OF
any other ground feed. 1t is better suit
ed to warm weather than meal. As the
weather becomes cool, If the COWS are al
all thin, meal may be proftably added
At any rate he advises that feed enough
of some kind SHOULD be given to keep uI
both milk and strength all the fall. One
of the wors. errors the dairyman eveI
commits is to let COW 90 into winter
quarters dropping.
Year: 1878

"Here is your writ of attachment" ;"
said town clerk, as he handed lover
a marriage license.


1t is reliably estimated that Iowa will
produce this year 45,000,000 bushels Of
wheat, bushel for every man, woman
and child in the United States


The poet says: "Tis sweet to hear the
watch-dog's gentle bark" 1t is, ell
When man is standing way out in the
center Of a melon patch at midnight in
the dark of the moon and hears "the
watch-dog's gentle bark" but a few feet
in the rear and fully realizes that he has
on his thin linen pants, the voice of the
angel Gabriel calling the defendants to
trial would pan out more sweetness to
the square inch than the gentle bark Of
q million watch-dogs.
Year: 1878

Sand bathing has been introduced on
the beach at Ocean Grove, N. j. A
trench is dug in the damp sand near the
ocean, and the SUMS rays are allowed to
pour into it until the sand becomes al
most hot. The bsther then reclines in
the trench, and an attendant covers him
with sand until be looks like terrapin
The bathers say the baths are no: only
pleasant but beneficial, and three such
baths will cure rheumatism.
Year: 1878

The following directions for conduct in
case of fire are issued by the British Roya,
| Society for the Protection Of Life from
Fire ;,z... ... .-sr ...s#a


Every householder should make each per.
son in his house acquainted with the bes,
means of escape, whether the fire breaks
out at the top Or at the bottom.
Inmates at the first alarm should endeav.
or calmly to reflect what means of escape
there are in the house. If in bed at the
time, wrap themselves in blanket or bed
side carpet; open neither windows nor
doors more than necessary; shut every door
after them. [rhis is most important to OBJ
serve zsrr


In the midst Of smoke it is comparatively
clear towards the ground; consequently
progress through smoke can be made on the
hands and knees. A silk handkerchief,
worsted stocking, or other flannel substance
wetted and drawn across the face, permits
free breathing, and excludes to great ex-
tent the smoke from the lungs. A wet
sponge is alike eficacious.


In the event of being unable to escape
either by the street door or the roof, the
persons in danger should immediately make
their way to the front-room window. taking
care to close the door after them, and those
who have charge of the household should
ascertain that every individual is there as
sembled. @-


Persons thus circumstanced are entreated
not to preeipitate themselves from the win
dow while there remains the least possibili-
tg of assistance, and even in the last ex-
tremity plain rope is invaluable, or re-
course may be mad TO joining sheets or
blankets together, fastening one end to the
bed post or other furniture. This will en-
able one person to lower all the others sep
arately, and the last may let himself down
with comparatively little risk. Select a
window over the doorway rather than over
the area.


Do not give vent to the fire by breaking
into the house unnecessarily from without.
or il an inmate by opening the windows or
doors. Make point of shutting every
door after you as You 60 through the house.
For this purpose doors inclosing the stair
case are very useful.


Upon discovering yourself on fire. reflect
that yours greatest danger arises from drafts
to flames, and from their rising upward.
Throw yourself ON the ground and roll over
on the fame--if possible, on the rug or
loose drugget. which drag under you The
table cover, mau's coat, anything of the
kind at hand, will serve your purpose.
Scream for assistance, ring the bell, but do
not run out Of the room or remain in an up
right position.


Persons especially exposed to the risk of
their dresses taking fire, should adopt the
precaution, of having all linen and cotton
washed ina weak solution Of chloride of
zinc, alum or tungstate of soda.
Year: 1878

PLAIN TALK TO GIRL.-Your every
day toilet is part Of your character. A
girl who looks like g fury or sloven In
the morning is not to be trusted, howsse.
finely she may look in the evening. No
matter how humble yonr room may be,
there are eight thingsit should contain,
viz: . mirror, washstand, soap, towel,
comb, hair, nail and tooth brushes. These
are just az essential as your breakfast, be-
fore @Aich you should make good and free
use Of them. Parents who fail to- supply
their children with such appliances NOT only
make great mistake, but commit q sin Of
omission. Look tidy in the morning, aud
after the dinner work is over improve your
toilst. Make tia rule of your daily life 70
assdrsss up" IN the afternoon. Your dress
map or may not be any thing better than
Calico bat with ribbon Or dower, OF some
BIT Of ornament JON can have "a air Of self
respect and satisfaction that Invariably
eozpas with hsing well dressed,
Year: 1878

We don't like to be irreverent, but would
like to ask, What did our forefathers
know? What, for instance, did George
Washington know? He never saw steam
boat; he never saw a fast mail train; he
never held his ear to telephone: he never
sat for his picture in photograph gallery;
he never sighted Krupp gun; he never
listened to the "iizZ" of an electric pen;
he never saw pretty girl run sewing
machine; he never saw self-propelling en-
CINE 90 down the street to a fire; he never
heard of evolution; he never took laughing
gas; he neve had a set of store teeth; he
never attended an International Exposition;
he never owned bonanza mine; he never
knew "Oid Prob" he--but why go on ?
No; when he took an excursion it was on a
fiatboat. When he went off on train it
was a mule train. When he wanted to
talk with man in Milwaukee he had to 90
there. When he had his picture taken it
was done in profile with a piece of black
paper and pair of shears. When he got
the returns from back counties they had to
be brought in by a man with an OK cart.
When he took ann at the enemy he had to
trust to a crooked barreled old flint-lock.
When he wrote it was with goose quill.
When he had anything to mend his grand
mother did 1T with darning-needlc. When
he went to fire he stood in a line and
passed buckets. When he looked at clam
be never dreamed it was any relation OF his
When he went to concert he heard
cracked fiddle and an insane clarionet.
When he had tooth pulled he sat down
and never left off yelling. When he got out
of teeth he gummed his victuals. When be
wanted an international show be sent for
LAFAYETTE and ordered his friends up fiom
Old Virginia with the specimen carefully
labeled in bottles. When he once got hold
OF nugget of gold from an Indian chief
he felt rich. Whtn he wanted to know
anything about the weather be consulted
the ground hog or goose bone. When
hut why 90 on? What did such man
knowa Who was be. anyway p VISA.
Union.


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Year: 1878

A wild rose by the wayside hung,
Dcw-glittering on the morning air.
A pure, scarce conscious perfume flung.
looked. and found the foweret fair
So fair, / sought with sudden zest
To wear its beauty on my breast
The trembling petals at my touch
A sweeter, subtler fragrance shed;
Tis strange loved the flower SO much,


And--it was dead,
III that high mood when thought had wings,
And finds alone its speech in song,
struck an o.d harp's slumbering strings
And drew an idle hand along;
Nor seemed the careless chords had caught
The life-note that my spirit sought,
Till sudden on my startled ear,
Its dream-created accents woke;
Alackl bought the rapture dear


The string had broke.
I heard wild bird on the shore
Singing wild song to the sea,
And bold the burden that it bore
And sweeter than all else to me-
So swe It, l Gagged the bird to hear
His magic minstrelsy more near.
Untamed; the captiyes swell ling throat
In enc sad song his whole soul cast;
Too well know his loveliest note


Had been his last
And yet, while memory hath power
To count the hours too vainly spent,
The fragrance of that faded flower,
That harp's last dying music, blent
With the wild birds wierd death song, will
haunt every waking moment, still ...,
Teaching my heart the bitter cost
Of all the eye of hope hath seen,
OF all that life hath won and lost


That might have been.
Year: 1878

The sixteen thousand square feet o


smooth, level asphaltum at the Rink, Twen


ty-third g. Chestnut, were alive last nighi


with more than four hundred skaters


"Our average daily attendance" said the


manager, /" is between seven and ei ght


hundred. and one night last week there


were nearly nine hundred upon the surface
at once" Away they sped around ant
around in giddy whirl, just as did the
Parisians of sixty years ago, upon the same
| kind of skates, over the smooth, broad
walks of the metropolitan parks. The
| whole mass is constantly changing and
| shifting with motion as rapid as the ka-
leidoscope, and with colols only less bright.
The violence of the exercise renders outer
beauties of form are brought out with ev-
cry change of motion. Most of the skaters
seemed at home upon the rollers, but here
and there mild-looking, middle aged per-
son, with some hazy recollection of the
way he used to skate when boy, might
be seen just In the act of getting up or
down, or else foundering about the edges,
to the terror Or amusement of those more
expert. Now and then a man feels q sud
den, conyulsve grasp on his arm, strongly
reminding him Of the proverbial drowning
man and his straw, and the next moment
finds him going down, with feminine
shrek in his ear, to land amid wreck of
barber-pole stockings and crimson skirts.
Here and there u pom the surface are to be
seen good-looking young men, whose os-
tensible duty 1t is to instruct and assist be-
ginners, but by some principle of natural
selection they seem always to be found
among the pretty girls, and their manner
does not always seem to have that gravity
which becomes an instructor of youth.


While the sons and daughters glide back
and forth to the merry strains of the music,
the sedate mammas and papas and the UNI
fortunate awkward ones sit around in the
galleries looking on. Little "Ohs" and
s'Ahs are heard now and then among
the crowd, and the whole performance is
filled with enthusiasm and life. Though
the Philadelphian who had the honor of
skating with the Empress Eugene was not
present, there was enough grace and ease
among the performers to make one half in
clined to change that pretty definition of
dancing "the poetry of notion" to the
kindred art of skating. Sometimes the
evening is varied by game of polo, and
there is a large windlass of rope to mark
out the lines for racing. Stoves in each
corner of the large room enable lookers-on
to enjoy the scene without discomfort.


"We have to scrub the surface two
or three times a week to prevent its becom-
ing gummed with oil from the skates"
explained one of the attendants. Two
hours in the morning are devoted to in
structing such young ladies as wish to
learn the mysteries of the gliding art, and
then it is that the gold buttoned young
men are especially happy. An equal space
of time in the afternoon is devoted to
wrestling with the male novices, and a
conspicuous placard informs us of the fact
that the special time for business men is
from half past FIVE to eight o'clock
PhiEa. Times. .s- -.-.t.ss
Year: 1878

o thou. whose cherished image seems


A portion of my heart,


Whose eyes of light make glad my dreams,
. Farewell, for now we part.
The beat is swelling on the bay
That bears me on my distant way,
For years to rove the dreary sea
For years-and think Of only thee.
Yet will that beauteous image make


The dreary sea less drear,
And thy remembered smile will wake


The hope that tramples fear. -.,
When shall face the tempest's wrath,
Or struggle through the dangerous path,
Where the blue icebergs, vast and steep.
Drifting and dashing. crowd the deep.
Then, too, when heaven with clouds is dark,
And wild winds sweep the vale,
Wilt thou not think of him whose barque


Strives with the polar gale?
Wilt thou not think and softly pray
For the sea wanderer far away,
That, all his tolls and perils DER
His hand may clasp thy hand once more?
But shouldst thou hear no more of me,


Or hear that have died,
And sleep within that icy sea,


Or on its desert side,
Will not pang thy bosom. press,
Even in thy pride of loveliness-
A tear in thy sweet eyeids shine
For him whose latest thought was thine