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Year: 1873

walked down the Valley of Silence.


Down the dim, voiceIess valley-alonel
Around nle-save God s and my own!
And the hush of my heart is as holy


AS hOvers where angels have noWn.
Long ago was weary of voices


Whose music my heart could not winp
Long ago was weary of noises


That fretted my soul with their am
Long ago was weary of places


Where met but tile Human, and Sin.
I walked through the world with the worldly;
And said: t.In the world, each ideal,


That shiaes like star on hfe's wave,
Is toned on the shores OF the Real,


And sleeps like dream in a grave"
And still did pine for the Perfect,


And still found the False with the True;
sought mid the Human for Heaven,
But caught a mere glimpse of its blue;
And wept when the clouds of the Mortal
Yelled even that glimpse from my view.
And I toiIed on. heart-tired of the Human;
And mourned mid the mazes of men;
TIL knelt long ago at an altar


And heard q Voice call me; since then
walk down the Valley of Silence


That lies far beyond mortal ken.
Do you ask what found in the valley?


'Tis my trysting-placc with the divine;
And abe about at me me a ave Voice sal said @ %Be Miner
And then rose from the depths of my spirit
An echo; "Ny heart shall be thine"
Do you ask how 1 live in the Valley?
L
But my tears as sweet as the deW-dropS
That fall on the roses In May;
And my prayer like a perfume from cenSer,
Ascendeth to God, night and day.
In the hush of the Valley of Silence,


dream all the songs that / sing;
And the music floats down the dim Valley,
Till each finds n word for a wing,
That to men, like the doves of the D. luge
The message of Peace they may bring.
But far on the deep there are pillows
That never shall break on the beach;
And hoard songs in the silence


That never shall float into speech;
And have had dreams in the Valley


Too lofty for language to reach.
And have seen thoughts in the Valley
All, me; how my spirit was Stirredl
And they wear holy wells on their faces
Their footsteps can scarcely be heard;
They pass through the Valley, like Virgins
Too pure for the touch of a word.
Do you ask me the place of the Valley.


Te hearts that are narrowed with care2
1t liefh afar between mountains,


And God and His Angels are there;
And one Is the dark mount of SOrrew,


And one the bright mountain of Prayer.
Year: 1873

are always full and accurate. The Review OF
the Markets is accepted by the mercantile com.
munity As the true index Of the commerce of
the city, while its repor other E.arkets are
full and reliable.
Year: 1873



 COLORADO STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY. Men of Prescott who employ you to carry goods for them, from San Francisco to Ehren- berg, would be thankful if you would here after charge freight by the pound, and not by measurement, which latter practice of yours has caused you to be talked at and about by some men here, who say that they can never tell what bill of goods, bought in San Francisco, is going to cost, until after they have received and read your bills, for the simple reason that they are and have been unable to tell how much or how little freight will cost, by measurement. This be- ing the case, an announcement from you that goods will hereafter, be transported between the aforementioned points, as well as to all points on the Colorado river, would be sure to give great satisfaction, and, as you have always dealt generously and been Sup to time" with your struggling constituency in Arizona, we, who have always given you credit for right thinking and fair dealing, hope and expect that you will make the needed change.
Year: 1873

The circulation of the MINER being considerably great CT than that of any other Arizona paper business erywhere will fnl advantageous to make known their business in ts advertising columns,

 There Is not town, village, military poet farming or mining settlement thc Territory in which the paper does not circulate and copies of 1t are every State and Territory of the Unoni which, coupled with it's age and standing make it very desirable advertising medium,
Year: 1873

The agitation engendered by the proposition
to reduce the salaries of the public school teachers
scarcely aayed before they startled by the report
that they would be obliged TO wait some time beyond
the regular day for their monthly salaries, in cOnse
ouence OF the refusal Of Controller Green In reply TO
the reauson OF the Board Of Education for the usual
amount TO meet this and other current expenses, 20
transmit the money he claiming that under the new
Charter all bills pay-rols, and other vouchers Of the
Department Of Education must be sent to his office for
auditing and payment. AS this action Of the Controller
was made known to the Board at the meeting on
"Wednesday il impossible for want or funds 10 pay
he monthly salaries the teachers the 18th inst
customary Ii important as0 TO test the correct
ness OF Mr.. Green's interpretation OF the statute
and as the matter referred to a committee
the DELAY promised be indefinite, and much anxiety
was consequently caused among the teachers. Pending
the decision OF the question It was deemed best 70 com
aeeordpgly sent to his office Monday morning. As
soon as ney were received several clerks were set TO
work 10 examine them and every effort was made to
hasten their payment as rapidly as possible On In
oniry ast evening at the Controllers Office reporter
of TuE TRIBUNE was informed that all the warrants
mad been made out and would be signed by the Mayor
and Controller to-day and that they would be paid to
he principais as usual, tomorrow morning, at the De-
partment Education. This will afford considerable
relief TO many the teachers who relying on the prompt
payment OF their salaries the 18th OF each month";


almost invariably done heretofore meet their current
expenses and 10 fulfill such obligations they might
reasonably incur have been greatly disappointed and
embarrassed by the failure TO receive their money at the
net al
Year: 1873

BosroN, May 20.-In therAlassachusetts House
this afternoon the minority bin for the Hoosac Tunnel
Railroad scheme substituted for the majority bill by
a vote OF yeas 10 30 nays. The minority BIN was
then ordered TO third reading This bill proyidesio Tor
State MANAGEMENT and omits the Lowell Railroad from
the lines The subject comes ID again tomorrow.
Year: 1873

The German papers claim that the nsw Mauser rife is ahead of any rife ever given to an army.

 The rife in question is cross between ,le Chassepot and the Needle. The MISiR hopes that 1t will not soon again be fAe cause Of sending the Prussian cat into Fra,se --a housing. U
Year: 1873

/ Why the - News - Man Publishes IIis


Pro gnosticatOr.


No one who remembers the past sum
mer can fail to understand why I have
got out an almanac At the eleventh
hour I have stepped between man and
the elements, and said: "Don't p
Whether my actions VIII be sustained,
my honesty recognized, my sacrifice APP
preciated, and my publishers remuner-
ated, it is for the people to say. 1t
was necessary that some one should
take hold of the matter. / have done
So


And so have got out an almanac of
my own. 1t is my first almanac, but
you would hardly think it. When
look over the work myself, and see how
complete it is in every department., ard
realize how easy it has been, it seems
as if I never did do anything else but
make weather and fool with astronomy.


I don't think the arrangement of the
work can be improved. have got in
ali the planets mp to going to press,
with full and pleasing assortment Of
signs of the zodiac. I might have got
other signs cheaper, but prefer zodi-
acs. There is a tone and finish to them
which place them above their fellows.


The reader viii recognize many famil-
lar characters in looking over our cal
endars, but he will experience much
suffering and sorrow and disappoint-
ment in searching for moons equal many
respect to those our artist furnishes in
this little work.


They were engraved from ,ketches
taken on the spot, and can be relied on
in any climate 1t is notmy purpose, of
course, to elaborate the work in this note
of explanation, but I think I may be
pardoned in calling the attention of the
student of human nature to the EXPIRE
sion of the eyes in our moons. There is
life there. They are not store moons.


By special request omit, on the sec
ond page, the portrait of the man who
has no coat to his back, nor any to his
stomach. apparently. I should have
omitted it any way. 1 have always be-
heved that there was something repul-
sive in this exposure and cutting him
open to excite sympathy, with view to
mitigating disgust, has always appeared
to me to be a coarse and disgraceful
artifce. And just think, for one mo-
ment, of the awful absurdity of the
idea. Here is a perfectly nude man,
with a skylight in his stomach, and sur
rounded by things no one canpronounce
the name of. standing with his legs
apart, and staring at the horizon with
as much intensity as if he had made it
himself, and had come around to view it
from a new point.


We have got a new man to take his
place-a man who has been brought upto
respect society," man whom it is a gem
uine pleasure to look az and TO think of
in the twilight.


He stands up there and illustrates the
seasons for his clothes, and looks after
things generally; and as long as there
is an eye to offend, or a cheek to blush,
we shall strictly observe our part of the
contract.


hope you will take this little book
home to your family, and hang it up by
string; and when you are writing to
your wife's mother, urging her to come
on and stay all winter, you will find
many valuable suggestions in regard to
the date line. Yours, truly,
Year: 1873

God make my life little light,


Within the world to glow;
little fame that burneth bright,
Wherever 1 may 60.
God make my life a little flower,


That giveth joy to ali,
Content TO bloom in native bower,
Although its place be small.
God make my life little song,


That comforteth the sad;
That helpeth others to be strong,
And makes the singer glad
God make my life little staf,
Whereon the weak may rest,
That 50 what health and strength have
May serve my neighbOr best.
God make my life little hymn
OF tenderness and praise;
OF faith-that never waXeth dim,
In all his wOndrous ways.
Year: 1873

That we Americans are an ingenious
people in devising mechanical means to
cheaper art and render it more facile of
production, is a weIl-established fact.
Witness the extraordinary instrument of
numberless points invented by the
sculptor Hart, to measure his sitters and
models, according to his specious theo-
ry that sculpture is merely a question
of the superficial accuracy of a asufieient
number of given distances on the skin
of person; the ingenious contrivances
and tools of Powers to make the sur
face of his statues as smooth as ivory
turning the making of wood carvings
in molds; and other ways of dispensing
with creative genius, by which we so
diligently labor TO transform art into a
mere industry. But the best hit at
cheapening the works of our own artists
to the buyer, instead of the producer,
has recently been made by a shrewd
American lady, who, in visiting a we'll
know studio here in quest of genre
paintings, finding one to her mind, de-
manded to know the price. Upon being
told. she Immediately said; "I wish
you to make me copy of it, " naming a
sum which bore the same relation to the
original before her that a cheap copy
does to an old master in the Uffizi galle-
ry. On being assured that the artist
did not repeat his pictures at any less
rate than he asked for his first, she
naively remarked that she could not see
any difference to him in copying one of
his own pictures or one in the gallery,
except it would be more convenient and
easier of execution, and his price of
both copies ought to be alike. BY the
same rule, if he asked one thousand
francs for the first picture, he could
readily afford a copy at one hundred.
The argument did not strike our artist
as practically conclusive, so far rs his
interests we're concerned; but as he
acknowledged to me that the fair bar
gamer was theoretically in the right,
may we not live to see its fruits in some
artists consenting to make copies at
copy prices of their popular work A
4" Cleopatra or ''West Wind senior,
that sells for five or ten thousand dol.
lars, would be followed by scores OF
sisters at One-fifth those prices; and Sc
with the 4" Niagaras," " Rocky Noun.
tains," ANDES" and other canvases oi
the painters. Commend me to the
Yankee brain for devices to cheaper art.
It was one which discovered that copies


made from copies were the most desira'
BILE, because even cheaper than the slop


work made at the gallery itself.
Year: 1873

One of the effects of the existing
money stringency is the discharge OF
large numbers of women from various
employments in New York. The World
of that city, after referring to the in
crease in the number of applications at
the various institutions for the relief of
destitute women, adds


Already the number of women who
walk the streets by night is perceptibly
larger, and police officers declare that
while on their beats they continually
see new faces which they can tell be-
long to no hardened women of the
town.


One of this description appealed to a
gentleman recently, who recognized in
her former maid Of his wife's, and she
told him that she had been for more
than twenty-four hours without food,
and only was induced to take such n
step by the hope of getting food for her
starving brother and sister at home.
Similar instances are occurring nightly,
and their number viii increase IN fear
full ratio as the winter comes on. The
results of retrenchment do not reach
seamstresses and the other class referred
to merely, but women in all phases Of
employment. Families that had two
chambermaids are getting on with one,
and those that had only one send away
the nurse and give the chambermsid the
care of the children.


Shop-girls are being dismissed from
the stores in large numbers. The activ-
ity and quickness of woman is to her
disadvantage in these cases. While il
is difficult to make eight men do the
work Of ten, half dozen shop-girls,
when pressed, do the work Of almost
twice that number, and the, sbopkeep-
ers are well posted enough to be aware
of that feminine faculty. They dismiss
the supernumerary half-dozen.
Year: 1873

AMoSG the manifold advantages Of
Texas is a shower oi mama, which fen
recently in Hnl county. go, Moses I


TIE man who comes on the stage
exactly at his cue is prompt but the
man who does not come on at all is
Year: 1873

THE GLArTON,


on which embarked by the courtesy Of the Ad-
miralty Is you viii perceive, one OF the strongest
ships In the service. Indeed so confident were the
Admiralty In the security OF her armor plating that
last year they lent her as target TO test the
prowess OF a twenty-five ton gun, and she came
almost unharmed out OF the encounter. With
low freeboard, not more than two feet
above the water painted dull lead
color, and without masts or sails OF any kind, she
A. truly hideous; but her officers are courteous
and hospitaDle, and she Is placed In an excellent
position for seeing all that occurs. In direct
line with her is the latest development OF
OF turretshp building, the nat iron, as
the sailors have nlck-namcd the Dsvas-
tatIon, though her size gives her
certain comeiness which the dwarfsh Glatton
misses The Glatton Is, in reality. out OF comIns-
slon and u at present manned by scratch crew,
hastily got together. Her commander Captain
Aynsley, Is commander-ln- Chief at Sheerness; her
CHIEF otDcers, Lieutenants Jocelyn and Hodg-
knson, belong one 10 another ship, the
other to the barracks OF the Steam
Reserve at sheerness, but all are most
courteous TO their visitors, and not merely give
them all the information they want, but admins
ter TO their creature comforts with an hospitality
which loses none of its charm because its arrange
ments are OF the rough and ready, speedily impro-
viscd picnic order


There was some time to wait before there would
be any chance OF the appearance OF the royal
party, so II was decided that the 'main brace
should be spiiced," and with this view a select
party Of us proceeded to the wArdroom. Did you
ever "go below" on board a turret ship' not,
permit me to describe the operation. A hole is
pointed out 20 you In the deck,


SOMETHING LIKE A coAL-sHoor


in the London pavements. through which you are
requested to descend. On inspection YOU find
inside very thin and slippery iroa ladder, down
which you climb, scrapng on alternately all the
buttons ON the front Of your wsistcoat and all the
hair on the back OF your head. Eventually you are
brought up standing on an iron stage, and
by the ntful CLEANS OF q smoky oil lamp,
find yourself surrounded by enormous steam
engines between which there Is O narrow gang
way. Far away In the dim distance voice urges
you to "come on" You obey. At the first step
your hat is crushed over your cars by the low roof
at the second your legs slide away from you on
Year: 1873

the slippery iron, and you clutch at og-wheels,
main shafts, safety valves, anything TO sustain
your falling frame. By the time that your hands
are covered with coagulated black grease you re-
quire them to wipe your face, and you thus present
a parti-colored appearance when, after making
final stumble over q high step, you plunge
head foremost into the wardroom. This Is
the place where the officers OF Her Majesty's
turret ships spend their lives when not on deck.
1t Is very dark, the only light it has being admitted
through shaft which goes from the centre Of the
room to the upper deck and the only means OF
ventilation are provided by steam engine, which
is constantly


PUMPING IN FRESH AIR,


TO find Its exit through the before me toned shaft.
On either side are the rooms Of the officers, dark
and narrow dens, by no means fitted for the occu-
patton OF gentlemen. After the splicing OF the
main brace, which turned out to be proceeding
OF an alconolic nature, we returned to the upper
deck, and found that good deal had
taken place In our absence. The various
ships Of the feet had been dressed with colors and
board our own vessel the men had been beaten
70 quarters and were now ranged round the lowess
deck, while the first deck was occupied by the
Marines Captain Aynsley had gone on board the
Agincourt at whose stern lay quite notilla OF
galleys gigs and steam launches, belonging to the
captains who were to be


PRESENTED By THE ADMIRAL TO THE SHAH
on his visit to the flagship. The three lines OF the
fleet were complete and unbroken, such stray craft
as dared to intrude between them (and among the
Offenders beautiful steam launch, with lady In
an elegant blue and white striped dress for its
central object OF attraction, and hidcous,
snorting, excursionistcrammed .ug, called the
Fiery Dragon, were the most conspicuous
being hunted M by the Portsnoutb Dock
company's steamer Grinder, commissioned for the
day as kind Of naval constable. 1t was pretty
nearly halfpast eleven O'Clock before BY the aid Of
my faithful lorgaon, through which have seen
many odd things In my time, perceived the royal
yacht Victoria and Albert steaning majestically
out OF the harbor, and two minutes afterwards the
guns Of old Southsea Castle rang out With


A SALUTE,


which was at once followed by every ship in the
neet wonderful 1t was to see the light, neecy
pufs Of white smoke belched forth from the gun
boats, and then to notice the little gunboat itself
recoil from the shock. as did the aun Of Mr.. win-
Year: 1873

The conviction, sentence and imprison-
ment of Boyd for frauds upon the govern
ment must have wholesome influence
upon the people of East Tennessee. That
influence will be all the greater because of
his former social position, wealth and in
huence. The punishment of such man
is always attended with more beneficial
effects than those attending the conviction
and punishment of an ignorant and poor
criminal. Judge EmmOns, in the fear
less, vigorous, and yet impartial manner
with which he conducted the trial deserves
The thanks o: all good citizens. We need
bin the administration of justice in Tennes-
see more zeal and force on the part of the
Judiciary. Our courts would be more
feared by criminals and more
respected by law-abiding citizens if our
Judges made their power and influence
felt more than they have done. That is a
foolish sentiment on the part of a Judge,
that permits him to see a notorious and
impudent criminal escape justice because
of false idea that it is his duty to sit calm
ly by and see his officers and jurors out
witted by cunning, shrewd and unscrupu-
lous friends of the accused. While the
law presumes every man innocent until
proved guilty it is nevertheless not the
duty of Judge to act upon this maxim so
far as to see his court trifled with and gull
ty men escape 10y cunning and fraud.
Judge Emmons has by his vigor and
ability in the Boyd case given an example,
which, if followed by State and Federal
judges in this and adjoining States, will
be productive of great good.


The press can do much good by giving
fair but fearless publicity to criminal trials
and the exposure and punishment Of gull
ty sc0,rndrels. ..#.H


The CHRoNICLE has from the beginning
of the Boyd case given the facts TO the
public, not from any desire To persecute
him or his friends, but solely for the pur-
pose of exposing his crimes and OF ere
ating u healthful public sentiment against
crimes of all grades and kinds.


The debt statement shows an increase Of
L M .4aI. ID
Year: 1873

There are probably few, however, famil-
lar with the subject Of the rapid increase
Of capital put at interest, who would not
be startled at the statement that the cost
Of the outfit of Christopher Columbus in
his first voyage of discovery, put at inter
est at six per cent. would by this time have
amounted to more than the entire money
value Of this Continent, together with the
aecumulations from the industry Of all who
have lived upon it. If any doubt this, let
them reckon the amount, estimating the
entire outfit to have cost only the small sum
of five thousand dollars, and remembering
that money doubles at six per cent. in a
little less than twelve years-or accurately,
in eleven years, ten months and twenty
one days. Allowing it to double every
twelve years, this FIVE thousand dollars at
interest at six per cent. since 1892, it will
be found, would have amounted to S17,-
1896, 200, ,000,0 which estimating the
population Of the entire continent Of
America North and South to be eighty
five millions, or seventeen million families
(averaging five members each) would give
more than million dollars as the posses
sion of every one of these. The interest
on million dollars at six per cent. is sixty
thousand dollars, which would now be the
princely annual income of each of these
seventeen million families, from the accu-
mutations up to this time upon so small n
sum as that named for the outfit Of the
discoyerer.


In Hildreth's History of the United
States" it is stated that Manhattan Island


-afterward called New Amsterdam, now
the city of New York-was bought by the
Dutch from the Indians for sixty guilders,
or twenty-four dollars 1924, and this only
about two hundred and fifty years ago.
And yet, if the purchaser could have Sc
curely placed that s24 where it would
have added to the principal annually, in
terest at the rate Of seven per cent, the
accumulation would exceed the present
market value of all the real estate of the
city and county Of New York.


Again, if n man at the age Of twenty
FIVE, should commence business with a
capital of one hundred thousand dollars,
and could by any possibility add thereto
interest at the rate of seven per cent. an
nually, the result would be Tin round
Dumbers) as follows