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Year: 1878

Young man, a glorious future is per-
haps before you. A future as vet un-
tarnished and unspotted by single
sin. There are those who are looking
forward to the time when you will take
your place among the men of the
country, an honor to yourself and to
those to whom you are most dear.


You have no desire to bring dis
grace and shame upon your brothers
and sisters. You do not wish to bring
down the gray hairs of your parents
in sorrow to the grave. You do not
want the finger of scorn pointed at
you as you pass along, and to hear
it said, there goes a drunkard. You.
sec men with bloated faces, with de-
Pravity stamped upon every lineament
of their countenances, swearing, reel
ing, and falling in the streets. You
do not desire or ever expect to be as
they are, then don't drink.


AS you advance in middle life, and
have taken to yourself for a compan.
ion one of the fair daughters Of Eve,
and are the father of family, you do
not wish to find yourself slave to an
appetite which will blight all your
prospects, wreck your life, disgrace
your family, and oonsign you to a
drunkard's grave, then don't drink.


And when your head is silvered
over by the frosts of many winters, if
you would see a respected family
around you, would look back over a
life of temperance well spent, take my
advice and do not drink intoxicating
liquors.


Children are very nice observers,
and they viii often perceive your slight
est defects. In general, those who
govern children forgive nothing in


hem, but everything in themselves.





IN THE srREEr.-A gentleman VIII
ted an unhappy man in jail awaiting
his trial. "SiF," said the prisoner,
tears running down his cheeks, aI had
a good home education. MY street ed.
ucation ruined me. / used TO slip out
of the house and go off with the boy5
in the street. In the street ! learned
to lounge; in the street I leara6d to
swear; in the estreet I learnedto smoke.
in the street learned 10 pilfer and 10
do all evil. Oh, sir, it is in the street
that the devil turks TO work the ruin
( Of the young
Year: 1878

There's beautiful face in the silent air.


Which follows me ever and near,
With smiling eyes and amber hair,
With voiceless lips, yet with breath of prayer
That feel but cannot hear.
The dimpled hand and ringlet of gold


Lie low in marble sleep;
stretch my hand for a clasp of old,
But the empty air is strangely cold,


And my vigil alone keep.
There's a sinless brow with radient crown,
And cross laid down in the dust;
There's a smile where never a shade comes now
And tears no more from these dear eyes flow,
So sweet in their innocent trust.
All. well! And summer is come again,


Singing her same old song;
But oh, If sounds like sob Of pain.
AS it floats in the sunshine and the rain


Ger the hearts of the worlds great throng.
There's beautiful region above the Skies


And long to reach its shore,
For know shall find my treasure there
The laughing eyes and amber hair


OF the loved one gone before.
Year: 1878

q Be severe to yourself, and indulgent to
others you thus avoid all resentment"


/" The wise mar makes equity and justice
the basis of all his conduct the right forms
the rule of his behavior Difference and
modesty mark his exterior sincerity and
fidelity serve him for accomplishment"


Love virtue, and the people will be
virtuous the virtue of great man is like
the wind F; the virtue of the humble is like
the grass when the wind passes over it the
grass inclines its head"


" Children should practice filial piety at
home, and iraternal Difference abroad they
should be attentive in their actions, sincere
and true in their words, loving all with the
whole force of their affection"


" Return equity and justice for evil done
to you, and pay goodness by goodness"


" Without the virtue of humanity, one
can neither be honest in poverty, nor con-
tented in abundance"


" Real virtue consists in integrity of heart
and loving your neighbor as yourself"


What | desire that others should not do
to me, equally desire not to do to them"


Think not of faults committed in the
past, when one has reformed his conduct"
Year: 1878

Mr.. Mac Gahan's account Of the condition
of things at Plovna after the surrender
presents q terrible picture. 1t is a scene of
war as it was commonly known to all
nations in ancient times, before the barbarian
savagery had given way to the conception of
the common brotherhood ofhuman creatures,
and also before the progress of medical
science ard the application of many inven-
tions had rendered it possible TO alleviate on
very large scale the miseries of men
wounded in battle, or the untold wretched-
ness of those who fall into such pest houses
as hospitals become in beleaguered town,
where there are no conceptions of sanitary
needs. If we contrast wars as they are
commonly known to the present generation
of men with such war as is shown on the
Vid-which is of the type of ancient war
fare--we shall see at a glance how much has
been done by the proper organization of the
medical and surgical service and by such
philanthropic movements as that of the
Society of the Red Cross. Save when a ma
ton at large may be under the influence of
some dominant passion-as France under
the impulse of revenge-war in our time
does not imply any animus in the combat
ants; consequently, the battle once over, the
wounded soldier Of one side passed his can
teen generously to the MANNED enemy near
him and not only do the Red Cross men,
acting under the sanction of the public law
of Europe, gather up alike all they find, but
the proper ambulance service of any army
when it has properly cared for its own
wounded cares for the enemy's wounded as
well. Moreover, in attendance to the mere
point of the burial of the dead there is a
great advance. Some of the greatest battle
fields Of our own war witnessed this change
in wonderful degree; for reinforcements
that came up to relieve men on hardly con-
tested lines never saw either dead or wound
ed, for the dead were buried almost as fast
as they fell and the wounded were sent to
the rear without delay. All the differences
found in Pleyna are due to the absence from
the Ottoman mind of those conceptions of
civilization that have so much ameliorated
the conditions of the soldiers of other coun-
tries; they present final reasons for the alb
oiton of a race that it is clearly impossible
TO ciyilize. In the awful scenes of the dogs
and birds fighting over the bodies of the
deed we get in the nineteenth century
glimpse of what was characteristic of all
war in Homer's time. 1t was wrath then,
as now, that


- hurried to Plnto's gloomy reign


The souls uf ghUv Chlafs untimely slain


Whose hmbs, uuburled o the naked shore


Devouring dogs and angry vultures tore.
Year: 1878

am never more convinced ofthe progress
of mankind than when think of the senti-
ment developed in US by our intercourse
with nature, and mark how it arguments
and refines with our moral culture, and also
(although this is not so generally admitted)
with our scientific knowledge. We learn
from age TO age to see the beauty of the
world or, what comes TO the same thing,
this beautiful creation Of the sentiment of
beauty is developing itself in us. Only re-
fleet what regions lovely as Paradise there
are over all Asia and Europe, and in every
quarter of the globe, waiting to receive their
conscious creature. The men who are now
living there do not see the Eden that sur
rounds them. They lack the moral and in
tellectual vision. 1t is not too bold thing
to say that, the mind of man once cultivat-
ed, he will see around him the Paradise he
laments that he has lost For ono para
disc Lost he will singofa Thousand he has
gained. How every tender as well as every
grand sentiment comes reflected back TO us
from the beautiful objects of nature There
in lies their very power 10 enchant us, Ma
I. g is full of our own human heart That
rose-has not gentle woman leant over it,
and left the reflection other own blush upon
the leaves of the flower? To the old man
there is childhood in every bud. No hand
so rude but that it gathers with the Hover
more and other beauty than what the dews
Of Heaven have nourishsd in it, HRion
SstI
Year: 1878

PERHAPS the most inconvenient place in Arizona for handling freight is at the R. R. warehouse in Yuma. All freight for the interior has now to be lugged out of the warehouse, across two tracks and through the sand to the wagons. This can be easily remedied by putting up plat form outside of both tracks, from which wagons could be easily loaded. This plat form could be readily connected with the warehouse by movable gang blanks sup ported in the middle on posts erected be- tween the tracks. The suggestion is sea- sonable and we look to see it acted upon.
Year: 1878

THE regular annual election for village officers went by default. A special cleo tion comes off next Monday, but so far we have heard of only one candidate for any office. The new officers have heavy res possibility to shoulder in securing the pu- bile health and will have to assume the odium of levying tax for that purpose.
Year: 1878

WORK was resumed this week on the artesian well just above town. When the first well was down about 150 feet the pipe got so badly jammed that the well was abandoned and another one started When the second one was down to about the same depth, the boys ran snort of money and stopped while to recuperate They deserve success.
Year: 1878

THE Rickard furnace is repidly growing into favor with miners on account of its cheappess of construction, simplicity and effectiveness. Read the advertisement and send for pamphlet.
Year: 1878

IT was no such thing-what we said ast week about the Gila not getting off for two days on account of not getting a crew. We make this statement at request of off, cers of the c. s. N. Co, but will not dilate on the subject, lest additional explana- tions become necessary.
Year: 1878

THERE seems to exist among us a feel ing of hostility toward the Southern Paci- fic R. R. Co: unreasonable complaints are made of their blocking up the foot of Main street Not at all. The street is open; if one can not climb over the box cars, one can always pass by crawling under them
Year: 1878

IN another column will be found the card of Bagley, McPherson & Pickens, general commission merchants at San Francisco. They are all well known and stand very highly in business circles. They are interested in Arizona mines; their last venture being the purchase of the Gene see mine in Eul eka district, this county. This mine is a part of the old and we'll known Santa Margarita property. They have shipped down quantity Of tools and supplies and evidently mean business We have known members of the firm for years and can vouch for their character and standing. Inasmuch as they are investing their capital here in developing property, it is only right that our people should give them any business we may have in their
Year: 1878




On "Wednesday and Thursday of
last week the Grand Lodge of Good
Templars, of Washington Territory
and b. c., held its ninth annual ses.
sion, in Seattle. The session was one
of the most harmonious ever held in
/ the Jurisdiction; and, although it
was completed within forty-eight
hours, a large amount of business
was transacted-perhaps more of a
Legislative character than ever took
place at any former session. AS will
be seen by the minutes, published on
our first page, Port Townsend has
been favored in the choice of two
of the Grand Lodge officers and also
lin being chosen as the place for hold.
ing the next session of the G.. L. A
change in the time of meeting has
been made, from September to June,
principally Y for the convenience Of
delegates coming from farming dis
tricts, their leisure being usually be.
tween seed time and harvest.


The principal on ward movements
made by the Good Templars as a
body have been in the direction of
obtaining legislation which favors
Temperance, in taking initiatory
steps toward the ultimate establish.
ment of a Temperance newspaper,
and favoring the organization of
Temperance party in politics. All
members Of the order were enioined
to increased watchfulness and zeal in
building up and extending its great
work; much interest was manifest in
the affairs of subordinate lodges, and
warm anticipations were expressed
of glorious years work just ahead.
AS will be noticed, the open-meeting
movemeht-of which our Port Town
send readers have had some oppor.
tunity Of judging-was heartily en-
dorsed, and its continuance decided
upon wherever practicable within the
jurisdiction. Besides all this, a new
feature of the order was introduced
by providing for the holding of dis
trict conventions, having for their
object the education of members iL
the work, and the good Of the order
generally.


We look upon most, if not all, Of
that which has been done as being
highly favorable to the best interests
of the cause Of Temperance. How
ever, although favoring politico-tem-
perance agitation, we do not deem it
for the best to establish a distinct
political party. Our reasons for this
may be set forth hereafter.
Year: 1878

As the time of the election draws
near, party lines are closer drawn
and party differences become more
apparent. Arguments, pro and con,
regarding the truth and Importance
of principles are often forgotten or
wholly lost in violent attacks on, or
fulsome eulogy of, individuals.


The Democrats have taken the
lead, placing their candidate for Del
egate in the field and their platform
of principles before the people.
Whether or not these will stand the
test of public scrutiny and party crit,
cism remains to be seen.


The Republicans will hold their
Territorial Convention October 9th;
and they are agitating the moment
Gus question-not of what Is-but OF
what or who is TO BE. "A number Of
candidates have been prominently
mentioned; and number Of local-
ties have claimed the preference for
their candidate. The probabilities
are that if the counties East of the
mountains come down united in their
support of one man from that district,
the Sound and River delegates will
heartily join in to make their selec.
tion the unanimous choice Of the con
vention.


OF the candidates East of the
mountains, Judge Wingard seems
now to have the most strength, and
he will command large vote on the
Sound. IF, however, dissensions oc
cur among our Republican friends of
Eastern Washington, and they divide
their forces among several candidates,
the field will be thrown open, and it
would be hard to say who will be the
choice of the convention.


Gov. Ferry has warm friends who
are pushing him forward; and Judge
Jacobs has served so well that many
demand that he continue to give the
Territory the benefit of his expert
ence. Either of these men would be
acceptable, not only to the party bu;
to the people, should they be elected
to the Office in question.


The River counties and the lower
Sound may claim the candidate, on
the ground that Seattle or Olympia
have always been favored with the
choice. Who the River counties
would name remains to be seen;
they have worthy and acceptable men.
We believe the choice of the Repub-
licans of the lower Sound would rest
with Col. L. H. Briggs, the efficient
and courteous Deputy Collector Of
Customs. His unquestioned ability,
and long acquaintance in the De
partments would make him certainly
not the least useful to the Territory
Of the candidates named for the po.
sition of Delegate.


That true Repu blican who, faith
ful to the interests of the Territory,
can best unite and strengthen the
party, is the one we hope will be
nominated and elected.
Year: 1878

"A LENGTHY session OF the Probate
Court was held this week. The sale OF
property in the Fowler estate was con-
tirmed as was also that of the Bell estate
We look for some improvements to be
made shortly, as we understand those who
purchased property from the Fowler
estate did not deem it advisable to COM
mence repairs until the sale had been con-
flrmed.
Year: 1878

As many of our readers are aware,
the city council Of Port Townsed has
passed an ordinance regulating the
charges of the Union Wharf Co.
Already complaints are being made
that it is not the intention of the
company to live up to the prescribed
arrangement in every particular.
We have not inquired fully into the
facts of the case, but are prepared
to advocate justice and equality with
all.
Year: 1878

The travelling salesman, or as
they are sometimes called. drum
mers'' Of the Northwest, are in
for q fight with the Northwest
erni Railway Company. The
trodble. originated in suit in
yolying the right OF a railroad
company to allow or refuse pas
sage to a commercial traveller
who'h not procured a lay-over
check. The case went to the
Supreme Court of Iowa, and in
his argument Judge Hubbard,
attorney for the company, closed
as follows:


"It may be stated now, as a
matter Of history tina. the Court
will take judicial notice of, that
this class Of men are the hardest
lot OF men on earth. They mo-
nopolize all the best rooms in
the hotel; they insult or seduce
all the chambermaids between
Maine and the Gulf of Mexico,
between the Atlantic and Pacific
oceans, every month of the cal
iendsr year; they rush into the
ladies' car on every railroad in
the United States and Canadas
every day, and crowd into the
seats of every respectable lady
travelling alone and insult her
five minutes afterwards; they
travel with harlots, and make
assignation houses on every Sat
urday night of every hotel in
America; they have flirtations,
intrigues and elopements with
innocent, unsuspecting and re-
spectacle girls in every village
and city on the continent; they
pursue all virtue and all good
ness as the sharks pursue a ship
with the yellow fever on board.
There may be men in other call
ings who for some single vice
can challenge a comparison with
a commercial tourist, butt have
never seen them. But for a
combination in harmonious
blending of dishonesty, impu-
dence, cowardice, poltroonery
and leprous rascallty in all vari-
eties he stands without rival
and without peer
Year: 1878

Things are looking up in Arizona.
The soil and mines can now be work
ed without fear of Indians; the rough
food of the old days hae given place
to better fair; telegraph, and mail
lines begin to traverse the Territory
in every direction; the mines yield
handsomely. and the future is full of
premise.
Year: 1878

Two men of this city were out, the other
day s0liclng money for charitable object They came
to the Office Of certain rich man. and hesitated about
approaching him. One the pair finally concluded he
would try IT, When he out his partner asked hun
what luck mot cent" said the man wh9 mad mad
bearded the lion in his dem" not cent told him
all about distress OF the family but 1t was OF no use
He was Indifferent as the guard OF funeral pro-
cession. ."-(VrgDia New Enterprise
Year: 1878

The thing that is most apt to be neglected
in this world is religion. For everything else
men prepare themselves by hard study or prac-
tice at their trade or business, but they seem
to think that religion is an affair into which
such care does not enter. Religion, they seem
to think, is sent by God for His sake rather
than their own. 1t is Gods affairs, not theirs ;
Gods benefit, not mans. This is very false
and mischievous idea which possesses men
more than they think. 1t is this that moyes
them to grumble at q miserable dole to q large
Christian charity, while they will readily
enough throw hundreds of dollars over the
shoulders of their wives or daughters. For
the poorer, it is this that moves them to put q
cent in the collection, or nothing ct all, while
on leaving the church they will readily enough
"treat" their friends to liquor.


knowledge never comes by inspiration, un-
less by q special miracle of Divine Providence,
which very rarely occurs. Men must learn
their religion as they learn everything else.
Religious zeal is Ss much q matter of necessity,
if we would win Heaven, worldly zeal is in
things of the world. Both are good, bat sure-
ly the first is better. A little generosity Tith
hereafter.-CineinnSti Telegraph.
Year: 1878

HOME MADE TELEPHoNE.-Anybod body can
make telephone useful at a distance of
over 100 yards if be follows the directions
given by Prof. Barrett in recent lecture.
The materials needed are cheap and
easily obtained-two wooden tooth powder
boxes, two disks of timed sheet iron, two
bar magnets, two email silk reels, and come
iron wire. Cut q hole about the size of q
half dollar piece in the lid aud bottom of
one of the wooden boxes, place one of the
disks of tin on the outside of the bottom of
the box, and fix the cover on this tin ; on
one end of one of the bar magnets place
the reel and wind on the reel the iron
wire, leaving the ends loose and, lastly,
attach the other end of the magnet as near
as possible to the disk, but take care that
it does not touch the disk. One end of the
telephone is now finished. Follow the
same directions in making the other cnd.
Connect both ends OF the telephone with
the wire, and the machine is complete.
Year: 1878

80, who would foot the expense entailed


upon the county by that limited number.
But no doubt the genius who is trying


to seduce the county into this project


will tell of the children who are to be


sent out to the Work House. In the
first place there is no law by which chill


dren can be sent there. In the next,


would it not be q nice place to send chil-
dren to, in company with such scum of
creation as Toby Vance? A beautiful
set of reformed Juveniles would soon be
turned out of such an institution.


Mr.. Fleming showed in his late le tier
that Work House is not only penal
but reformatory institution, and in
cludes detention, work, worship and ed
ucation." Without any one of these, said
he, ait would not be completen awithout
the cell il would not be penal; without
the shop it would not be economical" !"
and "omit the school and chapel and it
would not be reformatory.n These are
essential characteristics of Work
House. And yet the genius of the Sunday
Leader, who once undertook to show the
Island people that they ought to get their
toll for cent per trip, (by which their toll
would have been greatly increased) tries
to bamboozle the community into believ-
ing that this sort of an institution can
be put under way and carried ON
for = few thousand dollars. A few
thousand dollars wasted on such an
institution would be, as a prominent
citizen we'll expressed it the other day,
like throwing stones into quagmire.
They would disappear and leave no trace
behind. We therefore warn the people
of the city and county against the
attempts now making to commit them to
the Inauguration of this project. We
warn laboring men as well as others
against it. Every fresh dollar
of debt added to the burden al
ready resting on the people of this
community is so much added to every


mans rent, whether he lives in a high
priced or low priced house. Taxation eats,
like a canker, into every interest of the
community, and finds its way to the en-.
ployed as we'll as the employers Therefore


it is the interest ofevery citizen to oppose
every wild scheme for plunging the com.
munity iuto the expenditure OF public
money. Especially when business is so
generally depressed as at present, and when
so large debt is already in existence.
Year: 1878

PRETTY FAsr.-Port Townsend is
getting ahead Of every town and city
in the United States in some things.
For instance, under our new ordi-
nance in reference to fire works, no
person is allowed even to fire off a
cannon within our city limits. We
deem this law a little too stringent
and sweeping, leaving its trainers
liable to tho charge of attempting to
display their temporary power, rath-
er than benefit the town.
Year: 1878

New VEssEL.-A schooner Of about
hundred and fifty tons measure.
msnt is building at Port Ludlow by
the Hall Brothers, for the Sandwich
Island trade. She, is said to be OF
very sharp build, and is intended for
q fast sailer.