To all our customers and friends: GREETINGS The year which ia juit drawing to a cloac haa been a moat succetsfnl one with thia bank, for which we have to thank oar customer* end friend* who have made this possible. We hope you have enjoyed a prosperous year, and that we bare been of satisfactory service to you in bringing tbi* about. The Officer* and Director* individually and collec tively extend to you the Compliment* of the Seaeou, hoping that yoar Christmas may be a Merry one, and that the coming year may bring you increased pros perity and happiness. Citizens National Bank of Gsstonla BIO GAMEINARIZOHA. Manilla Llaaaaid Bears find la Parts si tha Slats. Vfcotslx Coimpoateci o( thx Lex Aacxlxx Tiaxx. Despite the destructive activi ty of mankind, large game ap pears to be about as plentiful as ever in Arizona. Deer and an telope alone have decreased, and it is hoped, under protection of late laws, that they will hence forth be fonnd in gradually in creasing number. A decade ago ' deer were plentiful in the moun tains around Phoenix and antel ope ran in great bands in the Grand Canon region. Though $20 a scalp is paid for their slaughter, mountain lions and bears are numerous in the MatzatzaL, Mongolian and Sierra Ancba Mountains, as well as in tbe mountains of south-eastern Arizona., The "Hons can be . hunted only with the aid of well , trained dogs,. for they flee from man and bide themselves read ily, despite their size. They have been killed as near Phoenix , as McDowell showing them velvet, at a rule, in their quest for colt. meat, for .which they have a special fondness. A 9 fool lion was killed last week north of Phoenix by James Lin ville. Bear of great »«e are common •11 along the rim of the Mongol ion, from tbe upper Verde sonth east to tbe new Mexico line. An 800-pound black bear, tbe largest of the species ever local ly known, was killed a few days ago in the . Ricon mountains, near Tuscan, by Under Sheriff Henry Myers. Tbe bear bad been wounded and was charging Myers when struck by a fatal ballet. Black bear are common near Payson, under tbe rim. They are mainly of small varie ty, harmless to man, and best hnnted with dogs end boracs, for they run at surprising speed. Tbe brown and cinnamon bear are little different from the true grizzly and are fnlly as ferocious. Most sportsmen pass them if the weapon at hand be lighter than a .303 rifle, preferably carrying an expanding ballet. A few years ago a cinnamon weighing nearly a ton was killed in tbe Sierra Anchas by Phil Atkins, a celebrated banter. Atkina at mltted that the bear wonld have been too much for him bad it not been for his pack of dogs. Atkina usually made about $2, 000 a yiar on lion and bear bounties. . - / , • i nt uuu LI I I LE GECKO. A •»«« <>Ib«I That Llrm |a >Mm mm* h»lkm 11m gocho U u odd little muter*. Hie nemo le eehlom heard, and lit* fom la eeMom im, for he uvea In Africa and tho southern can no lea or Thle Utile gecko Eta as many atrange weye end there u Mwtklig ao ua «***r to We appearance that Urn poo pie ef tbe ooantrtae wham he Itrea ire rather efrebl el Mm, Honoring hie bite - to be potoooona. although thle la do ‘ toed by natwrallata. flo le a Rule crag taro, with a bread. Sat bead, like a make, aad a long body, with e narrow tall, with odd •taped btta to akin arranged Kke ecet tope along the rtdae to It Ha bm ■hort lag* and queer, catMke darra, which amble him to eaatly eMrnb the ota wane and rorfca opao which be UvcO. retching tbe baaeti to verba •erte which make bta <1 toner. He to ■ nocteraal aalmel. walking ■breed at night end alaeptog to tho daytime. Ha movaa wtth aeddan end wuheot any notea whit aver. Hie tod enme woe gfrfto him from the qoeer note# be makee. wbkh to aomothtog Uke the oalee yon weald maba to MM e home wtth. The mala gteho to to e grey eetar, ao mar the to tbe * tnackoL Th* «av«*tm*Bt aa be *1*. hwl It had b*aa tried with romaiho Ul* reeulte at Potato me. “All that you require.'* saplalaad AM profmnar. “la aa toe trie light tn your hrnbouo*. Throe boors after tbe fowl# bar* been w*B fad and bar* (Oh* to r*o*t Cor tbe night you turn on th* «toetrte Hght Th* anroaarmtng bird* Jump to tb* eooetutoa that th* aaa ha* ctawt, anti they gy dew* from their p*rcb*a with intone* appetite* tad eat another hearty aaaal of ooea, Than you tarn out th* light Thro* bom* liter you torn on ft* Hght again. **d oner m«r* they era* their crop* wlfh feed, ta this mannar ehlekon* con b* fat* toned far tb* Star*at m abort notle* and at cwnparatlr*ty email oapanoa." New an tb* farmwa who ar* attrod tag th* farmer*’ lastltuto *r* planning to her* their chicken homes equipped with ataeftrto light* to denelro dm slaw pt* Kind of th* troattag ben. V* •seem Ante *»inrew often have we been cheered by a heavenly father’s pardoning smile I Whcu wc take this retro spect of the past, shall we not strain every power to multiply thanksgivings? Shall we not, taking courage from our Go.tpel hopes and' God’s unchanging love, eater in deep humility hut with undaunted confidence on the new year? God has keen indeed mcreifnl to us all during the past year. He has blessed the labor of our hands* aud has kept back tbe death angel from entering our homes, aud in fact baa given us many occasions to bless aud adore His holy name. How, during this new year, do we expect to show him our ap preciations? My first exhortation, there fore, is, that as heirs of faith we should advance, blessing God for past mercies and trusting Him for all which may be hefote us. Let us enter this new jear with deep solemnity. It may conclude onr earthly course. The number 1906 may be the date on our tombs. The thought claims serious impressions. Bnt as one with Christ no apprehen sion shall disturb us. For the Christian to die is to be with Christ, whicb is far better. In closing our eyes on earth we quits;forever a world in which 1 temptations, troubles, difficul ties harass and in which Satan fights against us with uuspariug hate. Let ns 'then cross the threshold of Uie new year peace fully, bearing our lives in onr bandt and ready at any moment to snrrender them, remembering that be comes in such a moment as we think not. Let ns be lis tening all the while for our Lord’s chariot wheels. May we realiie that if death should come there is nothing for ns to do but calmly die. If He should knock, let ns be ready to open to HUm immediately and say yea. Lord, Tbe beginning of the new year should be marked by new resolves. Oh. let it be our anx ious hope that we 'serve our Lord in newness of Hfe. Let our dedication of ourselves to JKim be fully and unreservedly renewed. May we present our selves. onr hearts, our minds, our souls, our every opportunity a consecrated offering Unto Him. Let it Ik our effort each day throughout tbe year to grow iu tbe knowledge qf our blessed saviour. A vulumne is on our tables sod in our book-shelves written throughout with glorious revelations of his work, end his love. The Dible shotil * be our unrernilted study. Oil, my dear, dear people take down this neglected treasure and read with cries uplifted to the Holy Spirit, "Open thou our eyes that we tuny behold wondrrov.a things out uf thy law." Let no trivial engage ments interrupt our searching for Jesns in those sacred pages. Do yon say you haven’t the time? Remember. He has given you many happy years, and gives you each day of your life. Cau you not give back fifteen or twcuty minutes cveu to Him daily?’ Don’t take your time off of God, take it off of seif or your earthly masters. My dear Christian parents, erect the family altar this year if you haven’t done it before. If you hove no love for it, try it as an experiment this year even, and I guarantee the love for it will come, and the year 1906 will be the moat prosperous and suc cessful in your spiritual and temporal affairs. Dear sons and daughters, if the parents won’t uy u, wuu % vuu nu u 101 wirior 1 can piclnrc no more beautiful or grander scene than to aee the child take up the dear old neg lected Bible and call father end mother in around the fireside and all the family and lead them to God in family prayer. Try it, God will givw you the strength dear child ol God to do it you will )>oly trust Him, and each day will be a little heaven in yonr borne. Oh, tbe joy that will be mine when I return to ray people nod find the altar erected in every borne. Let this be your greeting to me when 1 return to you after this long separation. Nothing could make me happier. Is it too mneb to expect? I pray not. It Ls important that we.should not nullif/oiir desires to glorify our Lord by slowing them to evaporate in vague generalities. It is far better that we shonld select some distinct object to which our effort through out the year should maiuly be di rected. A little rill enclosed in boundaries will turu a gigantic wheel and give motion to large machinery, but streams from a spring if allowed to spread ati random may only form a swamp. A cable is the onion of small threads. Our means or oppor tunities may not be large but if well united or consolidated may effect important good. L:t us address oor means and oppor tunitics to one object this year. And let that object be a bouse to tbe glory of God. Do our spirits often fly heaven ward on tbe wings of interces sory prayer?' I fear we fail much in the exercises -of this exalted privilege. To neglect .it ia a grievous fault. Personal need again is so great, tbe claims of seif are so potent; our trials, and oar pains are so tuauy tbat tbe power of prayer is exhausted before we have traversed our individual ncces , titiea. But let us resolve this i year to break down these limit ilia harn*ra ««i/t to our spiritual desires. In prayer we may visit every mis sionary station and bring every laborer before God’s uotire. We may enter every sorrowing home and supplicate the balm ot consolation for every wounded spirit. We miy mourn over sin so rampant these days, and we may wrestle with God that gospel light may shine from .every pulpit, such intercessions will not impoverish ns. Job’s prayer for his friends was to blm great gain (Job 42-10) And brethren let na strive this year to be exemplary. In all meekness and humility we should stand as sign posts pointing to Christ. Many eyes are always watching us. I>t ui not be stumbling blocks in the way of our neighbor bat let them by taking ksowledgc o! ns realise that religion- as we profess it la an intense reality. It la sot ttse humility to place • mask upon Christian features. Now (oat a word to oar Sab bath school teachers. Will yon listen my friends to a few words from one who is intensely inter ested in your work of faith and love? Yon cannot tell what a sweet comfort it is to me In my absence to know that yon are in the midst of the lambs speaking to them for God. "Be not weary in well doing” dear friends for in dne season we shall reap if we faint not. Do not be impa tient, wait on the Lord and the blessing will come. Use, 1 ask once more, a few spare half hoars in seeking after the Iambs on the week day. This proves to the parents that yon are in earnest. It is not enough to meet the children week by week to bear their lessons, and go through the business of the school. The tools of children are committed to oat care sod the glory of God through their _. 2 — _1J ___... . aim. Bring yoar class before yoar mind, think of yoar do pi la one by one and ask how many you could hope to meet is heaven if they were now called into eternity. Could you bear to ace any on* of them taming away under the fearful "Depart ye cursed?" Let us awake to onr responsibilities aod ask our selves. Have we faithfully per* formed our duty to oar children or to God? Have we felt the precious worth of their seals? Have we felt their dangers, thought over it aod wept over k when alone with God? In tbe adll boor of prayer have their names been mentioned before Him? In the spirit of Holy Jacob have wc -ever cried, "We can not let tbe go till tbou bast blessed them?" Have wc knelt before our Saviour and brought each member of onr class to Him one by one asd said to Him; dear Lord didst Tbon not say of old. "Suffer the little children to come nnto me/’ aod wilt thou turn these away? Out of all our Sabbath school teachers at Bessemer, Concord and Glass, one has come to me in person end has written to me and said "Do pray for me that I may be able to teach my chil dren aod pray far tha children." An, dear friends there is a teach er who is in earnest about her great and important work and anxious, so anxious about tbe souls of her pupils that she wishes to be prayed for that she mirht be enabled to lead them into the true light, I talked to that class once'daring the teach er's absence and asked them to pray for their teacher. I trust tbev did. 1 think 1 can say I know they did. With a praying teacher and a praying class Mod will always result. I shall never forget the moment when I visited that teacher's sick bed and told bar that three of her clam bad ac cepted Christ as their Saviour during onr meeting that had just closed. Ob tbe joy that could be seen in that teacher’s face. Don’t you believe that on that sick bed that teacher prayed for those three boys? Dear teacher what So yon know of yonr class individually? gentleness, even in reproof- to win their confideoca mid love. Have von ever taken them alone, prayed with them, and tenderly inquired, are yon a MUIU Uf Oaua - — -_ invited them to yoor home; and before letting them gp pray with them and for them, thereby letting them ate that yon are interested in them? Do you visit them when they are mck end in every way lead them to regard you as their friend. Jast before leaving America I re ceived a photograph aad a letter from my Sabbatb school teach er, showing me that she was still interested in me. Do yon think 1 could ever forget that Friday evening in her home when she would have her clam of bora tc meet her end pray with them. And next to mother aba bai been the controlling influence of my life and character. And my love for her was kin to tbaf of a mother. And my being in the ministry to-day la the mail of ibeir influence and praytra. Ob with what glowing bantu we shall mart in heaven thorn whom God has nsrd na si hombl* instruments in savtni ami Influencing for good. T< bring one child to the bosom ol Christ would be reward foe all oar pains sad labors. Thera are other things 1 should like to write, bnt tbli has already grown lengthy. At I leave Edinburgh on the lsi of Pebroaqr for my long joarag) ... *. • . to Bnpt tad Palestine this will possibly be my last letter to yoa. Hope to we yon ell Mot. after the 16th of April asI land in New York on that dote. Mop God continue to blew end keep you, my dear people. Everyocr •flectionate friend and poetor, absent in body bot not in spirit. I WALT<» SUCTQOK. An leamet lick Nan. v j|i Marshall Fteld’a fortune waa eaUauted at nearly two hundred million dollars, a earn so tone that many perhtpa will not be able to eomprahead it, and wbOa &^i?ffsFi£rss,*.2 coma to over his counters. Mach of bis wealth waa dot to iu Melons investments. Redid not ows a trust, then la ao avidenee that be retorted to sharp practice or conaptlon, bat he bad character, which waa hia moat valuable meet la Hie. The bu.inew world bed aa abundant confidence In Us hooestyand bto weed. Redid bot speculate: he merely en deavored to become e rich man by lair aad square dealin* with his people. • ; r *■« k ,J , .** J »'« a ’ t * /jk • * • • k Does your baking powder contain alum ? Look upon the label. Use only a powder whose label shows it to be made with cream of tartar. NOTE. —Safety lies in buying only the Royal caking Powder, which is the best cream of tartar baking powder that can be had. / — ■ I. I Laces and jnfl ■ ggHg Special Sale Next __.__ •mmmhmbhb* ’ Beginning atari Wednesday morning. Jap. 31*t, at 9 o’clock. wc offer for axle 15.000 Tarda at Laces and 15.000 Tarda Embroideries wsonemua meats itauca Wc reqacst the honor of yotsr of goods we offer baa oarer of beauty, high quality, and will fiad here a harvest of Windows will contaia jaawJ Watch ' James F. r The Love Trust Co.1 Insurance is standard companies. Ketl estate handled on commission. Treats executed. ^Savings draw wswimm interest. With the welfare of one town and county ever in mind, we strive to succeed and help others to ssccaaa. Yonr business ablidted. The Love Trust Co. . _| [