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The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1876-11-25
DON'T DRINK TO-NIGHT.

I left my mother at the door,
My sister by her side;
They casped their hands, and loving looks
Forbade their doubts to hide
| left and went with comrades gay
When the moon brought out ner light
And my loving mother whispered me,
Don't drink, my boy, tonight"
Long years have passed away slnoo then,
Ny jetly cuvls are gray,
But, ob those words Bile with me y9J
And will not pass away
I see my mothers loving face
With goodness sadiant light,
And hesr her wopds ring iG diy ears,
" Don't drink. my b9y >J-r'!
My mother IS now resting sweet
In the grave yard Cd the hil,
But her kind words come tack 30 me
And haunt my memory still.
I've often passed the cup;
Oh, then my heart was right !
Because I've heard the warning WORDS,
Don't drink my boy. Tonight -
I've now passed down the road of life,
Aud soon my race is run;
A mothers warning listened to,
An immortal crown is wen
Oh, mothers with your humbl9 emile.
Look on your boy 81 bright,
And say, az you alone can say,
Don't drink my boy, tonight -
Those words viii prove Earning when,
Ia the tnoTny p.th at ats,
The boy ia iG the teInpters wiiss
Aud warning i'll the strIfe.
The worde will stop the morning cup
And reVeiry at night,
By whispering back mothers voice,
Don't driuk, my boy, Tonight
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1876-11-25

A correspondent of the London
Times, who has been travelling in
Bosnia, saw at several of the miii-
taIy tationsOccupied by the Turks
sharp pointed stakes about twenty
ieetnign. On inquiring what they
were Intended for he was told shat
they Were used for impaling che
Christians insurgents OF Bosnia.
6e describes the process thus ::
"DOyoQr readers understand what
impaiing means? The victim's
hands and feet being fastened, he
is raised aioft and dropped in q sit
ting posture upon the pointed
stake, which is thus driven into
his body. There he is left to wri-
the in agony till death puts an end
to his anguish, which happens, on
an average, at the end Of about
two days. If his powers of endu-
rance are good, he may linger for
three days"
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1876-11-25
BEFORE THE COURT.
An Hour at the Detroit Central Sta
ton.

"Seems to me I've seen you
somewhere" remarked Charles
Allen Thomas as he stood before
the court.
II can help that. sir" answered
the court; ''you were very drunk
last night, and the case must be
investigated"
Didn't you use to run wood
en-leg factory in Penn Yan? con-
tinued the prisoner.
"Never mind wooden legs, Mr..
Thomas. How do you plead?"
Just wait a minute. judge. If
| didn't see you in Penn Van,
wasn't you connected with tile
factory in Buffalo in 1864?'
''I'll connect you with the house
of correction if you don't answer
| my questions p exclaimed his
honor.
"Can't a feller think that he has
seen you somewhere?
mo, sir :"
"Then I don't want to say any
thing more," humbiy remarked
| Mr.. Thomas, "If this is western
justice you can go ahead and mu-
tilate my remains"
They were speadily mutiIated
to the extent of thirty days, and
he went in and leaned on the hoe
handle and called for chocolate
and hot buns.
AHEAD OF TIME.
Cassius Clay Donaldson was
yaWning and rubbing MS eyes as
he was pushed out, aud it Was a
minute or two before he realized
that he was standing 0n the feet
| of an old man from Barrien c0uH-
| ty.
"Anything to say?" asked the
court.
"Oh, nothing much," replied
the prisoner. "We sco0ped'm
yesterday, didn't we?"
"ScOoped who ?"
"Why, 'lected our candidates. -
What do you mean, sir?"
81 mean the election.
"What electiOn?
"The one yesterday"
"Cassius Clay Donaldson" De-
gan his honor in deep bass
groWl, there was no election yes
terday. Liquor has befuddled
your brain until you can't tel
whether you are afOot or a horse
back"
"Pll bet you dollar Pm not on
| horseback !" exclaimed Cassius
going through his pockets in .
wild way.
'Tis sad 10 see a great big over
grown man like you standing "a
here with boots most gone, Goa
going to pieces, hair uukampt
ewes bfeared and teeth fuIl Of pine
splinterS. Why. dvn't you try 4
be someb0dy?'
81 am somebody now"
"Yes, you are chronic vagrant
a law. shiftless, reckless"
"Down in Ohio they don't talE
that way to me, judge. Pm I
big gun down there. They cam
even lay rod of sidewalk with
out asking my opinion. Pm kind
er run down now. I've lost my
good clothes, lent my money, anC
l don't look fancy. If had
chew of tobacco and clean colial
I'd be all right"
"Where would you go if [ le
you OFF,"
"Pll go to some free lunch sa
loonw
II thought so. You take a sea
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1876-11-25

''Is it very hard work, judge 2"
"NOt very. All [ want of you
is TO go TO the house Of correction
| for three months"
HER HEART DISEASE.
She came out with her hand
pressed to her heart, and her step
was slow and face anxious. Her
name was Katie Jones, and she
had seen just such miserable fall
! weath6N;o on for nineteen sea-
s0as.
( "Got boil ?'' asked his honor
as he noticed the position of her
hands
80 paop!s nave ooiIs on their
/ Daarts?' she laiuCiy asked. "N hal
4ils nae is heart disease.
"Weil, that's bad"
Yes sir, very bad. When
these spells come on me my heart
thumps and thr0bs and beats un-
til the room turns dark, am
liable TO drop dead at any time"
$50 am /, Miss JOnes-sO am |.
None of us know at what mement
a Texas steer may slip in between
us and the last run of nutmeg mel
Ons. III going home to my breakfast
this morning building may fall
OG ne, u sewer blow up, or a small
boy, foOling with an unlOaded pis-
tol, may shoot me dead"
"My spell is getting WOrse,"
she sighed, leaning on the railing
Doesn't it always help your,
heart disease TO get half-drunk,
and then go over and hit poor
Mrs. Benton with an axe-handle,
as you did last night?" And the
night before that four of your bad
girls were lighting all night
long"
But [ am a poor girl with on
ly a few months to live" she pro-
tested. II may die right here if
I get excited"
"Bijah, is the morgue in first
class 0rderw asked the court.
sit are," answered the old jani-
tors deep voice.
sis the coroner in the alley
talking politics?"
"Re are"
"Then Miss Jones, you depend
upon everything passing off in
f:ne style. Your sentence is sixty
days"
con, great-great-"
please dOu't Miss JONES'" he
Interrupted
"l can't-no, I can't endure
this" she gasped.
"Hartsh0rn might help you.
Get the bottle Bijah, and be sure
you don't bring the acid, which
is in the same kind of a bottle"
Pn die in there" she sobbed,
pointing to the corridor, and she
went in. When BUah offered her
the hartshOrn she made a grab at
his ear, missed it, aud bringing
up against the door she put in
several heavy kicks, and called
cut:
"Oh, won't somebody give me
k-lub?"
FRAGILE SPEIKDOMER,
"POoh !"
That's what his honor said as
the slim, sickiy, pale-faced, thin
legged Mr.. Speikdomer stood be-
fore him, charged with nOt being
able TO get into MS wagon and go
home.
"Vot means dot?" asked the
prisoner.
''Do you suppose Pun going to
use up one of these tW0-ceat
blanks to try your case?" demand
ed the court. "Why, there isn't
more than 2 mOuthful OF YOU.
Such a thin, small man as you
couldn't have got half drunk
"Det's shust as der case vas,"
replied the prisoner.
Do you want to go hOme?"
Yaw, l guess So"
Well, you start for home; be
careful next time"
| shall be careful all de vile"
answered the man, and he gor
his pipe and adjourned with the
court.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1876-11-25

IfyOu would learn to bow, watch
a mean man when he talks TO 8
gentleman Of wealth. A narrow
minded man can no more stand
upright in the presence of a mo-
ney- bag, man than he can throw
q somersault over the moon.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1876-11-25

back here. I've got ajob for you"
''Is it very hard work, judge ?"
"Not very. All want of you
is to go TO the house of correction
for three months"
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1876-11-25
JOR PRINTING

JOB PRINTING:
Legal Blanks. Briefs. Bill-H eads, Letter
Heods, Circulars, Labels, Cards. Program
mes, etc, printed in every style. with neat
ness and dIspatoh.
IF Currency taken AT PAR when pay
aents are made 10 advance.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1876-11-25
Ghe Srizana Sentinel.
Published Every Saturday, by
WIN. J. BERRY,
EDITOR & PROPRI ETOR.
TERMS--InvariabIy in Advance
SUBSCRIPTION :
ADVERTISING:

ADVERTISING:
Sne square. each Insertion ------- ~ 5u
Each subsequent Insertion on-------- ! 70
Contracts by the year or quarter at re-
&uced rates
A square consists of ten lines of this
size type.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-08-16
The Wealth ofSfberia.

It is needless, says the Paris Temps,
to estimate all the sources of wealth
pertaining to this immense region,
which is at least three times as large
as Europe; unfortunately very little of
it is available, owing to the scarcity of
the means of transport. Russia lfas
long been aware of the necessity of
creating routes i'm order to derive all
the benefit she might expect from her
Asiatic provinces, rich in gold, silver,
platinum, copper, coal, marble, and, in
the South, wheat and rye. Great I'M
provements have already been made in
the navigable rivers, where the boats
are now enabled to go against the
stream by means of steam-tugs, where
as before they used only to be built for
one trip down the river, and then bro
ken up for tirewOOd. Still the number
of steam-tugs is very small, and there
is, therefore, no relying upon escaping
seven or eight months. The problem
of improving river navigation is a very
difficult one i'm that country the Gov
ernment is willing tOprOvide the funds,
but feasible plan has not vet been
hit upon. Some engineers propose cut
ting a canal thirty-five miles in length
from the kel to the Yenessei. so as to
open a direct route from Tjumen to
Kiachta by the Obi, the Ten, the Tchu-
lin, and the Tell on one side, and the
Angara on the other, as far as Lake
Baikal, and thence by the Selenga to a
point not twenty miles from Kiachta.
But this plan would require the widen
ing of seventy-eight narrows. which as
yet none but the boats of the natives
can venture to pass. Hence. railways
will have to be executed. where pc
riOdical inundatiOns and enormous ac-
cumulatiOns of snow will present OBJ
stacles of different nature. For the
present there is but one line in con-
temptation. that of Oural, or Ekathe-
rineburg, which will start at Peru and
end at Tjumen, with branches into the
several metallurgical centres, such as
NUhi-Taghilis, North of Mask, and
South of it, ZlataOuist. Ekatherine
burg is an important centre where the
iron of the Oural is worked, and anne
thyst, rock-crystal and topaz are cut in
establishments belonging to the Empe-
rOr.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-08-16
The MisfOrtuBes Of q Kansas woman
VINO Put - Painful Of Dirt under the
StOye

A gentleman who has Just returned
from Cherokee County, Kan, is full of
remarkable "reminiscences of the
grasshOppers infesting that vicinity.
lie will stand around for an hour, re-
lating the hairbreadth escapes of the
people whom the hOppers have COM
pletely Overrun, and who are leaving
their homes and fleeing from the fear
full scourge. One of his most credit
able stories is to the effect that, few
weeks ago, a woman dug up a painful
of dirt in which to plant some flower
seed. She put the pan under the stove,
and went out to see a neighbor. Upon
her return, after an hours absence,
she found seven thousand bushels of
grasshOppers generated by the heat
literally eating her out of house and
home. They first attacked the green
shades on the windows, and then a
green painted dustpan. A green Irish
servant gial, asleep in one of the rooms,
was the next victim, and not vestige
was left. The stove and stOvpipe fol-
lowed, and then the house was torn
down SO they could get at the chimney.
Boards, jOists, beams, plaStering, cloth
ing. nails, hinges. doOr-knObs, plates,
tinware, everything, in fact, the house
contained, was eaten up, and when she
arrived within mile of the place, she
saw two of the largest hOppers sitting
up on end and playing humble peg
with a carving-knife for which should
have the cellar.-St. LOUIS Globe.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-08-16
Learning To Talk.

At first the infant cries, and employs
its vocal organs in the same way as
its limbs, spontaneously and after the
manner of reflex action. SpOntan-
eOusly, too, and because 1t finds plea
sure in being active, the infant later
exercises its limbs, gaining the perfect
use of them by repeated essays. and by
a process of selection. From inarticu-
late it thus passes to articulate sounds.
The variety of intOnations which ii
acquires evinces in the child great de-
licacy of impression and of expression
hence the faculty of forming general
ideas. All we do is to aid it in gras-
ping these ideas by suggesting our
words. To these the infant attaches
ideas of its own, generaliZing after its
own fashion rather than ours. Some
times it invents not only the meaning
of a word, but the word itself. Sew
eral vOcabularies may succeed to one
another in its mind, new words Oblite-
rating old ones; several different sig
niticatiOns may successively be at
tached to one word several words in
vented by itself are natural gestures
in short, it learns a ready-made Ian
guage as a true musician learns cOun-
terpOint, or as true poet learns pro-
sOdy the child is an original genius,
which adapts itself to form built up
bit by bit by a succession of original
geniuses. If there existed no language
it would discover one, or find an equl-
valent.-Poputdr Science Monthly.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-08-16
Hot Days Of the Century.

The present boiling weather make.
interesting a retrospective glance Ovel
the hot weather our ancestors had t.
endure. Mr.. j. A. WheelOck, of Hart
ford, contributes a record of the hot
test days of each year for the past cen
tury, in which it is noted that the heat
of the Centennial year is not without
parallel. In 1776 the warmest day fOI
the British was July 4, but the 18th of
August was the warmest day for Con-
necticut, thermometer 102 degrees in
the shade. Other days of extreme heat
were July ., 1870, 40 degrees August
4, 1871, 115 degrees; August 12, 1923,
los. From this no very warm weather
was noted until 1888, July 4, 107 de-
grees. In 1916, July 10, showed 10 de-
grees, and the same date in 1861, 100.
The warmest days in the past ten
years were: 1866, August 4, 100 degrees;
1861, July 10, 109; 1868, July Z, 105 ;
1869, August 4, 104; 1870, July IL, 10j
1871, May, 80, IS; 1872, July 4, 106; 1873.
August ., 102; 1874, August 10, 104 /;
1875, July 6, 105; 1876, July 0, 102; Sew
eral cool years are noted in which the
temperature did not rise above 100 de-
grees, the hottest days being: 1872.
August IL. 9S; 1901, August 4. 96; 1911,
August IL, IS; 1916, August 10, 92; 1918,
August %, IS; 1885, August 10, 90; 1853.
May 80. 80; 1865, August 6, 9S; 1871,
May 80. 9s. IL will be seen that the
hottest day during the last century Oc-
CURED August 4, 1871, when the mer-
curry stood at lis in the shade. The
coolest summer was that of 1916, when
the mercury rose only TO 92 in the
shade; a cool, wet summer, with frost
every month during the year IN the
Northern States. During the past 100
years the highest point of mercury oc-
CURED only three times In the month
of May, and the balance in July and
August.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-08-16
The History Of n skull.

Until within a few years past, says
in the possession of prominent family
down the Chemung river, from Elmira
few miles, an object that possesses a
history of its sown-the skull of human
being. 1t was put into rather strange
usage, as it had been rugged up for
chipmunk's cage, and set on bench
near the kitchen-doOr. Out and in
through the eye-hOles ran the little ami
NAL, grinnning at the by-standers from
the mouth, and munching its corn and
nuts while watching from the nose.
Right i'm the centre of the forehead of
the skull was small bullet-hole. When
Sullivan's army passed through this
valley, an adopted son of the Indian
corn-planter, named Watt Baldwin, pre-
ceded it as scout, as he was thoroughly
posted i'm Indian warfare and knew tie
country as well as he knew his own
door-yard. On the day before the fa-
nous battle at Baldwin's creek, Watt
was scouting about the hills between
the army's camp at the foot of Newtown
creek and what is now Wellsburg.
Carefully making his way through the
woods, his quick eye saw the head of
an Indian pop up from behind log at
short distance from him. He placed
himself behind tree and watched.
When the head came up again he fired,
and there was one less Indian in the
Chemung valley. Ten or twelve years
after the close of the war, the scout with
his grandson was walking on the
hills i'm the vicinity of the occurrence.
''Lotey," he said, ''COrnplanter killed
an Indian somewhere about here and
left him." Let us see if we can't find
him. He found the tree from the shell
ter of which he had fired, and presently
the log behind which the Indian had
lain. After some further search and
di igging, the bones of the fallen brave
were discovered with the bullet hole in
the centre of his forehead. And out of
the skull was the chipmunk's cage
made
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-08-16
Brains.

A brain attains its highest utility, as
distinguished from its highest devel-
Opment, observes a medical cOntem-
porary, when it cannot only absorb
from others and direct its own further
evOlutions, but can also organize and
regulate the working of other brains
under its own superintendent andcon-
troll. This power it is which enables the
rising merchant or manufacturer to
utilize other brains, either to use them
for purposes of comparative mental
drudgery, or to perform higher work
under the immediate superintendent
of the ruling brain. By such means the
single brain can multiply its work in
definitely by q well selected series of
other brains under its self, a few brains
of comparative high order regulating
the working of numerous brains of a
lower order, which perform the purely
mechanical mental work. Such is the
organization of "a first-rate business In
full working order.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-08-16

stone mOrtars, found in undisturbed
white and yellow gravel of a subaque-
Gus formation, not fiuviatile, under
lying the vast sheets of volcanic rock,
of which Table Mountain is part. In
one instance amOrtar was found stand
ing upright, with the pestle in it, ap-
parently just as it had been left by its
owner. In some cases the mOrtars
have been found at a depth of forty
feet from the surface of the gravel
underlying Table Mountain. The dis
tributiOn of the mOrtars is such as to
indicate with great pOsitiveness the
former existence of human settle
ment on that ancient beach when the
water stood near the level at which
they occur; time anterior to the vol
canic Outpouring which Table Noun
tain records, and anterior to the glacial
epoch.
The recent geological history of that
region may be briefly summed as fol-
lows: Previous to the placing of the
mOrtars in the position in which they
have been found, the early and middle
tertiary sea level had receded to the
position of the coal beds underlying
Table Mountain, fully one thousand
feet below the level of Cherokee. Sub
sequently, in the pliOcene period, there
was further subsistence of about fif-
teen hundred feet. something like SIX
hundred feet occurring after the NOR
tars had been abandoned. All this, as
has been noticed, took place before the
volcanic outflOws which covered up all
the ancient detritus of the region, in
Guiding that of the ancient rivers
(whOse gravels have furnished so much
af tho OnlI nf Califnruial Tho uanin0i-
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-08-16
A Chinese Religious Procession.

In its many turnings the path agar
led the visitor to the near neighbOr.
hood OF the river. More music of the
same kind, but somewhat more solemn
and sOnOrous. was audible upon the
right. From behind clump of trees
and bambOOs, in which a snug home.
stead lay embOwered, emerged a lOnp
procession. In front came the musi-
clans, then several men carrying
slaves. then a gayly-dressed object or
a triumphal chair, and then body OF
men and very few women; all OF
whom tOgether-perforce moving along
the narrow path in single file-made up
a goodly show. Upon the triumphal
chair was seated, in gorgeous robes OF
scarlet, with a tinsel crown and jewels,
a divinity of wood with pink COM
plexiOn, a long black beard, and Aryan
features. The chair was borne high on
the necks of four stalwart coolies; and
by It's side, steadyjng it as it swayed to
and fro IN Its passage along the mar
row way, walked with difficulty, owing
to the narrOwness of the path, grave
citizen of the higher class. LictOrs,
bearing stout slaves, formed a body
guard. All-bearers, lictOrs. musi-
cians-wOre a peculiar head dress, a
kind of tall flower shaped hat, with
a brim not unlike those seen in illus
tratiOns of the life of our English Puri-
tans. AS the procession passed in
front of the hOmesteads, the inmates
came out and exploded whole strings
of crackers. In front of many houses
small altars were placed, on which
were burning slender scarlet tapers,
and little sheaves of incense sticks
placed IN censers of brass or earthen-
ware. Children were brought out by
their mothers. and taught to render
Obeisance-tO chin chin, as the express
sion in the 'Pidgin" dialect is-tO the
image as it was carried by. The blasts
of music grew louder and louder, gOngs
were sounded. more crackers were ex-
plOded. and the procession turned on to
wind about among the fields. Strange
and grotesque as it all was, it still re-
minded the spectator of the periodical
outings of st. SpiridiOne to bless the
vineyards of the olive groves of Corfu.
Its meaning was thus explained in
"Pidgin" by a bystander who had q
slight knowledge of that wonderful
dialect. Thrice year the divinity is
carried forth in solemn procession,
that sickness may be warded off from
the country. \ collection of fumuii
lying in one spot, rather closer together
than was usual, formed quite a hillOck
on the unending plain. Thither the
procession wended its way, and on the
summit of the eminence. in front of a
table beneath an awning, the image
was deposited. An attendant fired off
four barrels of quaint petard. vOlleys
was lighted on the ground before the
image. A Bonze with completely
shayen head then advanced recifed a