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Year: 1875

As he spoke, a strange white light suddenly filled one end of the smoking room, but amid 1t there came gradually, but distinctly to view, two figures, one was a little boy with golden hair, the other 8 woman whose left arm was around him-a beautiful woman, with clearly-cut features, masses of dark hair curling over low, broad forehead, lips full and handsome, with a massive chin and classic throat-the woman of the yelled picture, line for line, but to all appearance living and breathing, with a beautiful smile in her eyes, and wearing, not the riding habit, but floating crape- like white garment, impossible to de- scribe. There was a strange weird brightness in her face-the transfgured brightness of great joy and greater love.

 Constance Constance and my child !'' cried Sidney, in voice that rose to shriek; and like 8 dissolving view, the light, and all we looked on with eyes transfxed, faded away!

 l was aware of an excess of sensitive ness, and that my heart was beating with painful rapidity. I did not become insensible, but some time elapsed before I became aware that lights were in the room, and that several servants, whom my friends cry had summoned in haste and alarm, were endeavoring to rouse him to consciousness from fit that had seized him; but from that fit he never recovered. His heavy stentorious breathing gradually grew less and less, and ere doctor came, he was dead.

 His death-sudden as hers on that eventful night, but retributive one was declared to be apoplexy; but knew otherwise. Since then, though the effect of the grape-shot wound on my nervous system had quite passed away, I feel myself compelled to agree with the hackneyed remark of Hamlet, that "there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in our philoso- phy."
Year: 1875

What is success9 The answer to this question depends on the different courses which men pursue, and the ends they have in view. The general object of pursuit is that which people most want-money. The money test of sue cess is that which they best understand. To make certain income, therefore, is among the first duties which the world prescribes. People cannot all appreciate the poet or the thinker, and they esti- mate his works accordingly by the prices which they realize. There are other ideas of success, however, than this trading notion. The soldier seeks it in promotion by deeds of valor; the scholar in the discovery or enunciation of truth; the poet in the praises of his generation; the lawyer in professional advancement; the politician in the as- tendency of his party and his accession to office. When Agassiz, engrossed in scientific pursuits, was told that ho ought to look more after the practical ends of life, in leaving a provision for his family "I have no time" he replied, "to make money"

 The making of "getting on !" an end in life is purely an English notion. The ideal of man is generally in happy con tinuance. As to making advancement in the world, as we understand it, the object of existence, an Asiatic would think his life thrown away. "Why should he get on? He is where he is by the Almighty's will, and why should he interfere with the Divine appoint ment9" It is this anxiety to succeed which gives to English practical life its fierce competition and earnest tone. The attainment of almost any position or dignity being made possible, to suitable talent and well directed effort, inspires nope. What a blessed possession is hope It is the salt of human life that sweetens all toll and difficulty. Phoenix like, it "springs eternal from the ashes, of the pyrites we place in the crucible, as gold; it is the panacea to the disappointment that makes the heart sick; it is the dawn of the radiant orb which, after season of darkness, is yet to shine in monday splendor; it is the buoyant element that keeps our bark afoat till we reach the harbor, for with out hope there can be no endeavor. Ex- celsior is only hope intensified. What ever mans position or calling may be, he should aim at the first rank and the foremost place. |" It can't be done" is cry of indecision, indifference, and in- dolence. Such plea is mere excuse for not attempting at all. Difficulties should serve but to reveal mans true strength, to test his power of will, to train him to the exercise of his noblest faculties Failures discipline the strong only the weak and unstable are over whelmed. Diligence in business should form part of mans religion, as it is in dissolubly associated with the spiritual in worship.
Year: 1875

Nothing makes women old more rap idly than overwork-the reason, prob ably, that American women fade so soon. Sunshine, music, work and sleep are the greatest medicines for women, who need more sleep than men. Their nerves are more sensitive, and they are not so strong, and exhaustion from labor or pleasure takes place sooner with them than men. Never permit yourself to be reused out of deep sleep in the morn ing. In fact, one should never be wakened. The body rouses itself when it's demands are satisfied. Take warm bath occasionally before going to bed at least once week. Retire as soon as you feel sleepy in the evening; don't rouse yourself and go to work. Youneed rest then, and will pay for the trespass on your physical nature the next day If you disobey.
Year: 1875

The following description of mar riage in the Druidical days is given in Saintine's "Myths of the Rhine."

 At a place where two roads meet, the cracking of whip is heard; hogs, sheep, and small oxen are driven aside te make way for kind of procession, consisting of grave and solemn men and women.

 It is wedding,

 Two young people have just had their union blessed by the priests under the sacred oak. The bride is dressed in black, and wears wreath of dark leaves on her head. She walks in the midst of her friends. A matron, who walks on her left, holds before her eyes @ white cloth; it is a shroud, the shroud in which she will be buried one of these days. On her right Druid intones Q chant, in which he enumerates in solemn rhythm all the troubles and all the anxieties which await her in welded life.

 From this day, young wife, thou alone wilt have to bear all the burden of your united household.

 You will have to attend the baking oven, to provide fuel, and to go in search of food; you will have to prepare the resinous torch and the lamp.

 You will wash the linen at the fountain, and you will make up the clothing.

 You will attend to the COW, and even to the horse if your husband requires it.

 Always full of respect, you will wait on him, standing behind him at his meals.

 If he expresses wish to take you with him to war, you will accompany him to carry his baggage, to keep his arms in good condition, and to nurse him If he should be sick or wounded.

 Happiness consists in the fulfillment of duty. Be happy, my child.

 What is still more strange is that this dolorous wedding song, but slightly al- tered, is still in some parts of France, at this day, addressed to brides by local minstrels.
Year: 1875

Our present Chief Justice has talk en every possible ground in favor of public instruction by means of the common school system of the coun- try. Not any enthusiast could go farther than he has III this regard. In his argument in favor of State tax in behalf of the liberal public school system he helped to establish in Nevada, he held "that the more "populous portions of the State ought ''to contribute somewhat towards the "support of education in the outside places" and proceeded to explain why i'll these words:

 That such system works no in justice to the parents of children liv- ing in the populouS counties, because they draw the same amount of mon ey in proportion to the number of their children that is distributed to the children living ill those outskirts of civilization and the application of the rule is simply that the large cap italists of the metropolis, who have no children, and therefore derive no benefit to their families, or individ- ually, pay their proportion for the ed ucation of the children of the whole State. What the capitalist pays goes to the general fund, and is thence dis tributed, and 1t works for the interest and advantage of the largely popu- lated communities also, for the reuson that they draw from the fund in pro portion to the number of children they have, and hence they suffer no injustice. And 1t works no injury to the capitalist, because under the the ory cf our government he should be made to pay for the protection of his property, and 1 suppose 1t will not be disputed that there are no better means of affording such protection than the support of GOOD COMMON SCHOOLS. Therefore he cannot complain-or if he does we should pay no attention to his complaints, but continue to levy a small tax upon his wealth, for the support and encouragement of public instruction.

 Now, reader, bear i'll mind the strong language used by MT. Dunne in advocacy of tax to support con- mon schools - not parochial or any other than the exact kind now SUD- ported by Territorial and county tax es in Arizona. He says the capital ist who has no children and derives no benefit individually, suffers no in justice, and if he complains i've Cin~ cluding himself) should pay no atten- tion to his complaints" for he sup poses 1t will not be disputed that there are no better means of affording protection to property than the sup port of common schools. He never even hinted that others than capital ists would complain, and by just in ference, if others did, no attention should be paid to their complaints. A great many people hold to the opin- ion that if Judge Dnnne had remain ed in Nevada, his utterances on the public school question would have continued in harmony with his record in the constitutional convention.
Year: 1875

AN Englishman-raveIcd, of course -Ielates that an American gentleman who had at an early day gone the over land route to California, told him this We crossed the sand-hills near the scene of the Indian mail robbery and massacre of 1856, wherein the driver and conductor perished, and also all the passengers but one. But this must have been a mistake, for at different times afterWard on the Pacific Coast l was personally acquainted with a hun dred and thirty-three or four people who were wounded during that mas sacre, and barely escaped with theiI lives. There was no doubt of the truth of it-I had 1t from their own lips And one of the parties told me that he kept coming across arrOw-heads in his system for nearly seven years after the massacre"
Year: 1875

If there is anything 8 newspaper man wants in preference to th e amounts due him on account, 1t is news of interest. Men who have such news and could give it without any inconvenience, usually grumble most If 1t does not appear in the local paper and perhaps they are the only ones who knew of 1t and they would not imPart 1t. Many cases of this exact kind are in our knowledge. Men who rush around, work hard, discover @ promising mine or do some other thing likely to benefit a whole community, think tlcir efforts worth public recognition. 0n general pr1in- ciples they are, and we are always glad to print them, but in nearly every instance of the kind, no report is made to the editor or any one con- nected with him. We have spent hours to trace up with some degree of exactness, a report of apparent value for publication, when the man who knew all about it passed us or our of flee more than once and did not offer to tell his story. This applies to nearly all classes of business men, many of whom often act as if they deemed inquiries more or less impu- dent. Under the best circumstances, it is a very difficult task to make complete local paper, and utterly inn possible without much information from the people among whom it is published.

 We want to note progress in mining discoveries, development and pro ducts, quantities of gold dust and sil- yer or other bullion produced and bought or shipped away condition of crops and yield of them; number and kinds of domestic animals brought into the Territory and particularly this section, by whom, cost and condi- tion; additions to population by births or immigration marriages and deaths movements of freight trains of new buildings and projected ones, etc. These are all matters mainly of @ private character. There are mol public records of them as of official proceedings of public affairs. If the il. t.i ',.....1 ., .1o 24asV the facts col.- nected with them, will not report them, 1t will often happen that no publication will be made, or but in perfectly if at all Ii IS we'll enough to now and then remind the people that if they would have @ complete local paper, they have duty to per form as we'll as the editor.
Year: 1875

THE New York Herald says: Ii Is estimated by those who claim tc have opportunities for forming correct conclusions on the subject that at least fifty thousand people from the Pacific coast will visit the Eastern States dur ing the Centennial year. That date will be most suspicious for home reun- ions, and the great mass of our people still look Eastward for the full sig influences and meanings of that word.
Year: 1875

"FoR want of water I am forced to drink water if had water, I would drink wine." This speech'is riddle, and here is the solution. It was the complaint of an Italian vineyard man, after long drought and an extremely hot summer that had parched up all his grapes.
Year: 1875

ME WILL PAY THE HIG H EST w price in cash for the above amount of good, clean barley of crop of 1875, and Furnish Sacks to Farmers to Put itin We are determined to Stand by the Farmers and business men of Pima County, as against class of Contractors who bid so low that the Farmer or BuSi- ness man cannot live.

 We ask the Farmers to stand by us and sell us their grain or give us chance for cash.

 EWING & FISH. Tucson, May l, 1875. 30-tf
Year: 1875

OUR MILL NOW BEING IN FULL V operation, we are prepared to furnish the market with a quality of Flour, which we guarantee far superior to any manu factured in the Territory, and fully equal to the very best imported from California. We will keep constantly on hand at the Mill, and at our several agencies

 Three Qualities of Flour,
Year: 1875

There is no excuse for the hostility
of the Democrats to the Civil Rights
bill as manifest in their fortv-six
hours Of fillihustering last week in
order to prevent its passage. The
bill has been toned down by amend
ments until there could be no excuse
for opposing it except blind determi-
nation not to do justice to the negro
As finally passed by the House, the
s.mixed school clause, which former
II constituted the preiext for oppos
ING the bill was done away with, and
the following provision substituted
.slt any State or its authorities having
control Of common schools or othe
public institutions Of learning shal
establish and maintain separate
schools or institutions giving equs
educational facilities in all respect
to all classes entitled thereto, school


shall be in compliance with the pro


visions OF this BILL"
Year: 1875

The prospects Of the Hennepin Ca
cal project in Congress are not good.
The speech of Mr.. Dawes setting
forth that the government had hard
work to get money for current ex-
penses, to say nothing Of such whole
sale appropriations as the one propo-
sed, was severe blow, and further
consideration of the bill went over 'o
save imminent defeat. We have not
felt like raising our puny voice to any
great extent in the matter, but while
willing to grant that the proposed
water route to the sea board would
be good thing for the West, and
this part Of il particularly. we must
say that private and not public mon.
ey should undertake the work. II
will save investigations--to say moth
ing Of its being, in our humble opin
ion, the only proper way for sucl
enterprises to be carried forward.
Year: 1875

Estimating ice to be worth half u
cent a pound, or ten dollars ton
the ice crop Of 100000 tons jusr
harvested on the Hudson is more
valuable hv two million dollars than
either the wheat or corn cop Of the
entire State Of New York.
Year: 1875

ea1 .his notice out and bring it with
you We ATE authorized 10 refund the
cash TO any person or persons who shall
guy and use Parsons Purgatiye Pills
ana ian Of relief and satisfaction
Year: 1875

Just what good the world has derived
from certain natural creations remains an
impenetrable mystery. George Francis
Train and the CORNISH grasshopper are
most excellent examples of these strange
anomalies. In respect to the former case,
the observing people of the world have
given it up as an unanswerable question,
while few persistent and untiring scien-
fists are still applying themselves assidu-
ously in their efforts to sustain the maxim
that nothing is created except for some
good purpose, so far as it relates to the
latter. But thus far their labors have
brought forth nothing, ahd they begin to
feel i: a hopeless task


In the days Of Egypt's sore distress,
when a famine was upon the land, and her
river ran red with blood, and the frogs and
vermin bred contagious diseases and filed
all the coasts Of the kingdom with an in
suffcra ble corruption; when bois and blains
afflicted IN already scourge-ridden people,
anu q mighty hail storm swept over the
face Of the earth and annihilsted all
vegetable life, and lett the country near
and ,ar barren waste, then came the
locusts The veritable ancestors of our own
grasshopper, and before the sun went down
nothing green was left in all the land of
Egypt. It will he remembered that this
terrible blow covered for q moment
the naughty spirit Of the proud Pharaoh,
and n hi, wild despair he cried aloud to
Heaven. imTIuTing that the curse be taken
from Ain:-yea. this grim death. Imme-
diately strong wind arose from out the
West, and, taking the voracious pests in
an unguarded moment, elevated them
from The face of the earth, and,
hurrying them off on the wings of the
whirlwind, dropped them without further
ado into the broad waters Of the Red sea.
And now it is with honest pride that these
prophesiera of ''gsOd results" point to this
sacred example, and with triumphant
smiles say, Behold the wondrous in
"fluence the hOppergrsss had on the OBJ
"durate heart of the mighty kings" This
is all very proper and nice. But just now
if it is not too much trouble for these
prophets, will they tell US from what
source are to arise the good results of the
great belt Of pesiierOus plaques that
spread today like gloomy pail over the
fair land from Minnesota to the Gulf Who
is the Pharaoh with the hardened heart?
And why don't this object of omuipOtent
wrath soften and speak so that this inYic-
iOus curse may be snatched up by the ire


'7ehed into the depths
Year: 1875

Last week a protest" against q new
pavement for Pennsylvania avenue was in
dustriously circulated for signatures, and
it seems that some thirty-fve were OBJ
tanned out of the twelve hundred, more or
less, business men on the Avenue, and Of
these thirty-fve the greater part of them
are renters of property on the Avenue,
and have no further interest in its business
prosperity than what pertains simply to
the collection of their enormous rents.
There is not a single owner of property on
Pennsylvania avenue who would sell it to-
day at its assessed valuation with one third
added, and there never was time when
such high prices for rent were charged as
now. The prices asked for property and
the rents charged are the true and only
criterions of its value in the estimation OF
its owners. Columbus Alexander signs
the ''protest;" and what for? Simply to
try to delude Democratic House with it
as an evidence Of corruption, when he,
as every other well-iniormed person
knows that the late Board of Public Works
had nothing whatever to do with it. The
best and surest business interests OF every
merchant on the Avenue is jeOpardized by
all who oppose the improvement. 1t
makes no difference what has been and
what might have been. The fact is we
need a new pavement and vast majority
of those interested have earnestly petitioned
for it, and are ready and willing to bear
their share of the expense. "Wait for
Congress, the opponents say. "Wait for
the Judgment, would be no more sense
less cry. Even if Congress should take
the matter up favorably an appropriation
could not be made available before the 1st
of June next, and the new pavement
could not be finished before the 1st of No
vember, 1876, and by that time nothing
but the skim milk Of the great Centennial
will be left. We shall have suffered our
losses and disgraces, and all be a. great
deal poorer. By that time business will
be almost wholly driven from the Avenue,
and really the most snowy and the most
celebrated part of the city will be the sub
ject of derision on the part Of strangers.
We know that we speak the voice Of nine
teen twentieths of the merchants, business
men and property holders Immediately in
terested in this improvement when we
urge the Commissioners Of the District to
go on with it. The selfishness of the few
should not bar the success, prosperity and
wishes of the many.
Year: 1875

The New York ''hard money press be-
labors the Ohio Democracy most 1nmerci-
fully for its financial plank, and insists that
it should have taken its inspiration upon
that subject from Wall street. While we
cannot for moment approve Of the doc
trine of initiation put forth by the Demo-
Gratis, VIC do not see why the denizens of
Wall street should find any fault with it.
They have taught this policy by their man
agement Of all railway enterprises in the
West. The moment that New York Gapi-
talists assume control the stocks are
watered and the whole business carried for
ward upon imitation principles. Western
men have learned this to their sorrow.
They have paid for it in the shape of i'll
fated rates Of freight, and now they want
inflated prices for their real property and
produce. They know that they can only
obtain them by an increase of the circulat-
ing medium. They do not care for New
York. They have decided advantage of
New York capitalists They owe New
York more than New York owes them, and
they know, besides, that if Eastern capital
pushes the West and South to extremities
the reaction will break New York To be
sure the West will break first, but New York
will be overwhelmed when the great fnan-
cial tidal wave returns back from the West
and South.


The Hendricks and Pendleton men are
not looking for Eastern votes to carry the
next Presidential campaign They pro-
pose to unite the West and South upon
cheap transportation and initiation, and defy
the capitalists of the East. They propose
to pay their Eastern debts in deprecated
currency. 1t is possible that they have
shown theI hand little too soon, but
they think they can surely count upon the
election of their candidates without the aid
Of the North. Perhaps they are not to be
blamed, considering how they have been
swIndled by the railway and bank capital
lists of New York. The latter say that if
they contract their rates of freight and
passage on the great trunk roads to "hard
pan" prices, prices that will pay dividends
and interest on the actual cost of the i'm
provemeDt, on the stocks and bonds re-





they will break-will be hopciessls bank
rupt. No doubt they SPEAK trlly. Tne
managers have stolen and pockcred III th,t
is now represented by Water and sold OF,
as Gould did out of the Ere.


Now, the producers of the West turn
around and give these New York capitalists
tit for tat They say, if you contract the
currency and force US to gold prices, we
will be hopelessly bankrupt and cannot
pay you these inflated rates Of freight nor,
in fact, produce large crops for your roads
to carry OF. What is sauce for the goose
is sauce for the gander. YOu loaned US
inflated money, and you want your pay in
gold. We propose to pay you in kind. We
have the power to Out-vote you, and we
intend to use it. If you do not like it, we
will trade with New Orleans and Baltimore
and Norfolk. This is the plain English of
the Obio platform as il is whispered under
the breath How does the New York De-
mOcracV like IL