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Year: 1871

We ask only part of our subscribers
TO read the following true words taken
from an exchange; but we hope those to
whom these words apply, will read and
rc-rcad them until they are moved to pay
at once their "small bills" and first the
one due The DEMOCRAT. A glance at the
head will show Tor whom they are in.
tended.


The payment of small bills, such as
newspaper subscriptions. is Il matter of
more importance than is usually attached
TO it. There are not few who, in times
when business is little depressed. and
the prospects for the future seem more
than usually unsettled, will hold on tn
their cash in hand, tell all the collectors
who wait on them with over due bills, to
'call again while the payment would
not give them any serious inconvenience.
and would accommodate large and de-
serving class OF creditors. Indeed we
know nothing that in a quiet way would
60 SO far to give animation 10 the mar.
kets throughout the country, as the uni
versal fulfillment of the obligation at the
first opportunity. II all the little debts.
for the discharge of which the debtors
now have the cash actually in hand, were
paid at once, the wheels of business
would be fabricated and general jollity
soon prevail throughout the land. The
first serious effect on tradd OF any public
excitement comes from the sudden check
on those little streams. Ii is true, the
large transactions are arrested. but il
everybody went on paying those little
debts, the check would be momentary, as
business would be forced along by tho
current thus continually renewed. Let
every one whose eyes fall on these lines,
pny out his ready money for bills he
knows to be due, and stop not until his
pockets are emptied. Probably before
this is realized. the return current will
reach his pocket too, and he will be able
to fill all his obligations. There is rs
much money rs ever Why stop its flow ?
Let it move on by prompt payment OF
bills due, and new business will catch
the inspiration and start off on n fresh
gallop."
Year: 1871

The sense of hearing in birds is singu-
larly acute, and their instinct leads them
Instantly to detect the slightest variation
in the song Of those of their own kind.
The following is a laughsble instance Of
this:


A bird-catcher, wishing to increase his
stock of bull6nches, took out his Gagged
bird his lined twigs, and placed them in
such situation of hedge and bush as he
Judged favorable to his success. It so
happened that his own bird was one of
education, such as is usually termed q
piping bullfnch. In the first instance q
few accidentally thrown out natural
notes, or calls, had attracted three or four
OF his kindred feather, which had now
taken their station not far distant from
the cage There they stood in doubt
and curiosity, and presently moving inch
Year: 1871

by irch, and hop by hop towards him
and the fatal twigs, they again became
stationary and attentive. It was in this
eager and suspended moment that the
piping bullGnch set up the old country
dance of "Nancy Dawson" Away flew
every astounded bullfnch as fast as wings
could move, in such alarm and confusion
as bullfnches could feel and they only
can venture to describe.
Year: 1871




shall be "Republican at all times and nnder
al circumstances We shall advocate the
security and enjoyment of broad civil liberty,
the absolute equality of all men before the
law, and an impartial distribution of honor
and patronage to all who merit them.


DESTROYS Of allaying animosities, of
obliterating the memory of the bitter past,
Of promoting harmony and union among all
classes and between all interests, we shall
advocate the removal OF all political
disabilities foster kindness and forbearance,
where malignity and resentment reigned,
and seek for fairness and justice where
wrong and oppression prevailed. Thus
united in our aims and objects, We shall con-
serve our best interests, elevate our noble
State, to an enviable position among her
sister States, by the development of her il
limitable resources and secure the full bene-
fits Of the mighty changes in the history and
condition of the people and the country.


Believing that there can be no true
liberty without the supremacy of law, we
shall urge strict aud undiscriminating
administration of justice.
Year: 1871

We shall sustain the carrying out OF the
provisions of the act establishing our
common school system, and urge as a
paramount duty the education of our youth,
"a vltally connected with their own enlight-
meht, and the security and stability of a
Republican Government
Year: 1871

We shall support the doctrine of an
equitable division of taxation among all
classes faithful collection of the revenues,
economy in the expenditures, conformably
With the exigencies of the State or country
sud the discharge of every legitimate
obligation.
Year: 1871

THE complimentary and social hop given at the Quartermaster's depart ment by Captain J. L. Johnston, on Thursday evening, was & fine affair. The arrangements for dancing and re- treatments were quite complete, and the pleasant opportunity was enjoyed up to 3 A. NJ. next morning. There was an unusual attendance of ladies done up in elegant gear, and they mostly seemed to take hold of the dance as a matter of pleasurable duty, and we have no doubt but they could again be coaxed and petted into the humor of repeating their part of the performance. The gentlemen present were numerous, and although no fault of Captain Johnston, the company was too large for the room. The Captain was unanimously complimented for the ample preparations made by which the guests passed joyful hop.
Year: 1871

By official notice given in this paper, it will be seen that there is money in the Territorial Treasury to pay all outstanding indebtedness, and this too just in advance of the receipt of the bulk Of the taxes due this year. If any Territory can make a better show ing, it has failed to do so. The fact is, with very few exceptions, the fnan- ces of Arizona federal and ter ritorial-have been unexeeptionably we'll managed. Under all her dis couragements, Arizona has financial record of which she has right to boast.
Year: 1871

CAPTAIN ALEXANDER MOORE, F Troop, Third Cavalry, can't endure much idleness, and hence employs 8 share of his time in hunting. Last week we noted his having made a killing of a dozen deer, and some days ago he returned from another hunt with nine fat ones. He was out again this week, with what success, we are not yet advised. The Troop is greatly benefited by these hunts by the way of delicious meats. The Cap tain will please accept our thanks for juicy rear quarter of venison.
Year: 1871

RAISING TURKEYS The turkey is
the most tender when young, ani
most difficult TO raise of all the domcs-
tic fowls; yet with proper care in
setting the eggs under tho game hens
and cooping the brood at night regu-
larry, while the turkeys arc young,
they may be easily reared in great
abundance. Never feed the young
turkeys boiled eggs or corn meal
dough, or wheat bread crumbs. They
need very little food of any kind un-
der seven days Of ag,, AMI sholli have
nothing but sour milk set in pans.
AT about week or ten days give them
also wheat screenings or crumbs soaked
10 sour milk. Let this bo their only
feed till they begin to feather, and
then give them grain Of any kind.
Tie the hen (Which has the young tur-
keys to q pen of to herself, with
coop near BY her so that she can enter
at night TO roost. At two weeks oil
let the hen loose to roam, aud If she is
a game hen she will do tho work of
rearing the brood.
Year: 1871

The girls keep fussing DER the bcaux.
They dress themselves each night and 60
To some party, ball, or other spree;


But 1t just the same as II used TO be.
The old folks sent the boys TO bed,


But out of the window, over the shed,
They go to the ground for little spree
But it's just the same MS it used to be.
The damscls old. they fume and fret
They say they never saw such set
OF girls n 3 these-"they make so free -
But they re just like the girls that used 10 be.
The old man says the boys won't do,
Who raises one Of them will rue


1t, and no good Of him ever see;
But they're just like the boys that used to be
'Tis but n new deal in very old game,
And think it will always be the same,
so have your fun fore youth Dish flee,
For h's just the same as il used to be.
Year: 1871

A cENsUs-rAKER recently asked q
servant girl 10 tho vicinity Of Boston,
how many regular steady boarders
there were in the house She informed
him there were fifteen b0ardsrs in all
"but not more'n four Of 'em is steady
tho rest is dimmercrats.
Year: 1871

The word fast has latteily obtain
ed peculiar significance as indicat-
ing tendency to general high living
and indulgen in sensual pleasures.
A man of reckless expenditure, who
INDUCES himself in all that can graft
" his sensual tastes, is fast man"
IN the common sense of the term.
This expressive adjective has also
been applied to those who habitually
risk money in games of chance, and
has in some instances been coupled
with the names of others who speculate
in doubtful stocks.


We have come To the conclusion that
sensual indulgence, exciting games OF
chance, or speculation in fancy stocks,
are not the only ways in which men
may live too fast.


Many a godly and devout divine is
fast man. Many AN editor, lawyer.
merchant, or scientific man, against
whom no thought of suspicion exists
As TO the soundness of his moral char
acier, Is fast in as just, though not in
80 reprehensible sense. As the man
who wastes his substance in riotous
living.


Fast living, in the sense Of such liy-
ing As shortens life, is a much more
common evil than it is generally re-
garded. We have been an observer
of faces and character for long time,
As We have had opportunity in our
daily intercourse with men. and we be-
Iievc that in the vast majority Of cases
1t would be found that the rapidIty of
the pulse is above the normal standard.
Every mans lite may be measured by
pulsebeats. He will live, accident
excepted, to make definite number
of these. and his life will be shortened
III proportion To the excess of work per-
formed by his vital organs in Il given
time.


Excitement, physical Or mental, is
the cause OF the rapid rate at which
most people are living. The love for
excitement is vice, As positively evil
III its effects as tue love for strong
drink, licentiousness, or gambling 1t
matters not what kind Of excitement
all excitement is fast living, and be-
gets feeling Of exhaustion in intervals
Of indulgence, which clamors for relief
from some other form OF stimuIant.


Thus 1t is that the universal demand
for artificial stimulants has increased.
until there is perhaps not one in thou
sand who does not resort TO something
pf this kind. Alcohol, absinthe, opium,
" hal
ever else it may be, is Z In to sI,nport
the system under the effect of nervous
prostration, and to supply in another
form the excitement which it Graves.


Now, all this is just the reverse Of
what should be the case. Instead Of
seeking excitement, health and ioag
life demand that we should shun it,
The natural, healthy condition of the
mind and body is that OF unrutiled
calmness. III excitement occur, they
should be exceptional, not the rule of
life. As soon as they become neces-
slty, there is diseased state of mind
and body, and the candle begins to
burn al both ends.
Year: 1871

that could be found in the land for the
Presidency but they prefer certainty to
the risk of faring worse; they are content
with things as they are and dread hazard
GUS experiment.


This sentiment of the business men of the
country actuates not only all the financiers
of the country who hold bonds to the
amount of some five thousand millions of
dollars, and who transact the great affairs
Of commerce, but it also actuates most of
the property-holders of the country, whose
possessions amount to thirty thousand
millions of dollars.


These large interests are averse to a
change of administration and of public
policy. And most intensely ayerse are
they to a change of a Republican admnis-
tration for one installed under the auspices
of that Democracy, which they regard as
the authors of all the caamities of
the last ten years. 1t is this aver
sion to change and to such
change that will re-elect General Grant.
His Message is not bid for the Presidency
in, terms or intention; but in its practical
sense, and sterling honesty, it presents an
appeal to the confidence of the country as
irresistible as it is unconsciously made.
Year: 1871

HYPOCRITICAL YANKEEs-AbttSe, mol
Merit-A Se,ciny Machine that Works
Badly.-If there is any branch of trade in
this city to which we are friendly, and for
which we have expended labor and money
in bringing prominently before the public, it
has been that of the sewing machine; and
yet we hear of cllss connected with one OF
the agencies here, and a Yankee one, too,
who boasts that he "notices nothing that
appears in that dirty sheet" Geferring to
us), and endeavors to sell his labor savers
by abusing us. The concern we have ref
erence to is in some way connected with
"the blue ribbon difficulty" and if we mis-
take not, the first letter Of its name is
"Wilson.v


Now, we have only to say to "Wilson,"
or any other man connected with his
concern, we have no objections to your en-
larging your trade as much as you can !;
we want you to sell your machines, be-
cause labor is saved to the poor women of
the country, and at no loss to them, but
unless you can do this on the merits of your
patent, and without STOPPING to abuse our
paper, you had better close up.


You need not attempt to canvass Rich
mond and appear so extremely loyal to the
people Of the South, as that you must re-
gard it necessary to abuse us. No, sir.-
We delight in going for all such concerns
as you are, and exposing your hypocracy
to the public.


As long as you travel OH your merits,
we are satisfied, but when you wish to
trade at our expense you have ''caught a
Tartar" who will thoroughly investigate
your establishment and lay your cheats
before the public. We charge you nothing
for this notice, but can't promise to con-
tinue our ibcrality.


1t is barely possible the little ''Buzzard"
fears it will be worn out inside of thirty
days by the use of small quantity Of
emory, and that it takes this plan of con-
tinuing its worthless existence.
Year: 1871

BADLY. BURNED Saturday night
between s and 8 o'clock, while colored
girl about seven years Of age was sitting by
wood fire in the kitchen Of the residence
of Mrs. Green, in Sidney. her clothes caught
fire. She ran out into the yard, when an
old colored woman extinguished the flames
with a bucket of water, too late, however,
to save the life of the girl, who died last
night from the effects of the burning.
Year: 1871

BY is aid gloves can be quickly ana repeatedly
cleaned and nude equal TO new; even when bad
y soiled they can be readily restored. II is easy
of application and is perferfectly free from any
dor For sale BY druggists and fancy goods
dealers, Price 90 cents a bottle
Year: 1871

: The symptoms of Liver
Complaint are uncasincss
and pain in the side. Some
times the pain is in the
shoulder, and is mistaken


for rheumatism. The stom-
ach is effected with loss of
appetite and sickness, bowels
in general coStive, some
stimes alternating with lax
/ with pain, and dull, heavy
sensation, considerable loss
of memory, accompanied


with painful sensation of hay


ing left undonc something
which ought to have been


done. Often complaining OF


weakness, debility and low
sspirits. Sometimes many of
Year: 1871

Especially who have become the Victims of
Solitary Vice, and dreadful and destructive
habits which annually sweep to al untimely
grave thousands Of young men Of the most ex-
allied talents and brilliant intellect, who might
otherwise have entrnnced listening Senates with
the thunders Of cloquencc, or walked to extacy
the living Tyre, may call with full confidence.


MARRIAGE
Year: 1871




"MERIAH" SAcRIFIcE.-The sacrifice
known as the Meriah yet dsfgures the
Police annals of India to the southeast Of
the Nagpore Province. For this rite
victims are purchased when children aud
fed up for the sacrifice A few days
before the immolation, the village in
which Meriah resides, is given up to-
every sensuality and licentiousncss, The
Meriah is free to anything in any mans
house, and what might at other times be
held to be dishonorable, is granted as q
favor. At the termination Of this brutal
season. the ceremony Of the human sacri-
fee commences: The victim is led round
the village. each person drawing hair
from his head, or Amounting their heads
with his spittlc, and he is then stupe6ed
with drugs and taken to the place Of sac
rfce. Here his head is introduced be-
tween the reft Of bamboo; the priest
advances, aud with an axe breaks his
joints the mob then fall on him and
strip the flesh off the bones and each
possessor Of piece hurrics with it to his
field, where he buries it in the hope that
the season will be propitious one. This
is the rite as it used to be practised. 's
Year: 1871

~ A cruel way of cooking turtles ap.
pears in Chinese cookery book. The
turtle is placed in vessel Of water on the
fire, and with lid over it having an ap-
erature so arranged that the turtle can get
his head out, and within reach of highly
spiced wine. As the temperature of the
water increases so does his thirst, and he
gradually goes on drinking the seasoned
fluid until the heat kills him, by which
time his whole system is impregnated with
the vino.aromatic seasoning, and a favor
described as delicious is impaired to the
flesh.
Year: 1871

AN EDITORIAL BRUTUs.-Hear US for
our debts, and get ready, that you may
pay trust US, we have need, as you have
long been trusted; acknowledge your in-
debtedness, and dive into your pockets
that you may promptly fork out. Ifthere
be any among you-one single patron
that don't owe US something, then to him
We say, step aside, consider yourselfa gen.
tlemau. If the remainder wish to know
Why We dun them, this is our answer: Not
that We care about ourselves, but that our
creditors do. Would you rather that we
went to goal, and you go free, than pay
your debt and keep US moving! As we
agreed, we have worked for you; as We
contracted, we have furnished the paper to
you; but as you don't pay us, We dun you
Year: 1871

PAY YOUR DEBTs-A writer in the
Methodist thus moraizes on the subject Of
paying off debts: Did you ever read the
story of Sinbad the Sailor! There is q
moral you may gather from it, which is
this: never let the demon of debt mount
your shoulders or you will find him hard
person to shake off when you want too
the harder to shake-off, the further you
carry him. Shun debt as you would
contagious diseasc--which, in fact, it is in
many communities. How can you avoid
it? When you purchase an article, pay
for it, and if you have no money, do not
purchase it for it is fact worth noting
down, that persons are led inte debt by
tastes, not by their neccssites-by their
desires rather than their wants. Pay as
you go, and thus you will add virtually one
tenth to your income. Best of all, you
will always have somes money for the
claims of charity, and thus grow in grace
by giving to the needy.


Ye who are Christians, ever be sensitive
to your financial obligations. Be guided
by the spirit of the Gospel Infuse into
the Transactions of daily life lofty moral
ity, and show that even in The fiery furnaces
Of business strife you can go and stay, yet
have a moral character unscorched. Let
your credit for strict morality remain un-
scorched
Year: 1871

1 An eccentric minister in large
parish, had seventeen couples to marry at
once in grand common service at church.
The course of the weddings he asked one
Of the men to pledge himself to the wrong
woman. The man naturally protested aud
was told: Hold your tongue I will
marry you all now and here; you can
sort yourselves going home"
Year: 1871

al theories advanced, and do hereby unan.
imously decide that the game commonly
known as old sledge, or seven.up, is emf
nently game of science aud not of chance.
In demonstration whereof it is hereby and
herein stated, iterated, reiterated, set forth
and made manifest that, during the entire
night the "chance" men never won game
Of turned jack, although such feats were
common and frequent to the opposition /;
and furthermore, in support of this our
verdict, we call attention to the significant
fact that the chance" men are all busted
aud the science" men have got all the
money. It is the deliberate opinion Of
this jury that the "chauce" theory con-
cerning seven-up is peruicious doctrine,
and calculated to inflict untold suffering
and pccuuiary loss upon any community
that takes stock in it.


That is the way seven,up came to be set
apart and particularized in the statute
books of Kentucky as being game not Of
chance but of science, and therefore not
punishable under the law. That verdict
is of record and holds good to this day.
Year: 1871

A Coon Word FOR COOP HUMOR.-
Every man should be sober sometimes. We
once knew one to be so unfortunate as to
be sober all the time, and yet an honest
man. We have known men who never
smiled. or seldom, whose face was as rigid
as an iron mask, and yet they were kind,
simple, and really reliable.


But such are exceptional cases. Uni
form sobriety is presumptively very much
against man. He who gives no play to
the geutler feelings has something the
matter of him which should be looked into
before you trust him.


Mirth itself is always honest. Mirth
has better stuff in it to make a man Of
than sobriety has. 1t, too, is sometimes
used as mask of hypocrisy, but not as Of
ten as sobriety is. Only consider how
many men, quite empty aud worthless in,
wardIy, are kept going BY the mere trick
of gravity.


When some men come to you it is like
sunrise. Everything seems to take new
life and shines. Other men bring night
with them. The chill shadow of their So
briefly falls on every innocent gaysty, and
your feelings, like birds at evening, stop
singing and 20 to their roosts.


Away with those fellows who go growl-
ing through life, all the while passing for
birds of Paradise.


He that cannot laugh and be gay, should
look we'll to himself He should fast and
pray until his face breaks forth into light.
Year: 1871

"A lady in letter from Long Branch to
the Philadelphia Press draws this unpleasant
picture OF the fashionable married women
there:


A married woman of the fashionable kind
at Long Branch has arrived at that, point
where there is nothing more that can be de-
sired. She has suite OF rooms set apart for
her exclusive nse. She has servants who
have neither eyes nor ears; she has a carriage
lined with satins as luxurious as .eider down
which comes and goes it the wave of her
jewelled hand. She has a professional bath
er TO take her into the briny fluid, lwho knows
how to manage so that even the Aclantic
ually very young man attached to her by IN
visible reins, after the dramatic manner of
Aunt Trotwood and Mr. Dick This inpo-
cent creature fills the measure of her vanity
when nothing better has been gathered for
the slaughter. The most desperate ffrtations
are seething and bubbling whilst the hus-
band is growing bald with hard thinking in
wall street. If this woman is cursed with any
progeny, she has muse or governess for
every child, whilst French maid waits at her
elbow to comb and adjust her false hair, to
powder, pencil and paint, to unhook, unlace,
or unite. Why, Queen Elizabeth was denied
more than halt the luxuries this American
princess enjoys. What return to the world
does this woman make for all she takes Gut of
il. Her mental organization is as false as her
physical; and yet New York sends scores of
just such women to all the fashionable resorts
in the country. Can women be said TO be en-
slaved when we have such pictures before our
eyes? Ii snch are in bondage, it is only the
God who created them can unseal their ewes.
notwithstanding Mrs. Cady Stanton and Par
son Beecher
Year: 1871

of cotton, over 800 head of cattle and her
cabin full of passengers. This is just as it
should be. The line packet Southwestern
leaves tomorrow, not to-day, and will also
get good paying trip. We wish all of
them great success, such as they may merit
by prompt attention to business.


LIBERTY