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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-06-09
Weezy's Sambo.

Little Weezy Haynes had more dolls
than she could take care Of. and they
were always falling into mischief. Her
china twins had but one leg and one
arm between them, and not q sign Of 3
head. Her pretty wax Rosa was with
out nose. And as to her grtta-percha
baby, it was so wrinkled and ugly that
Weezy rubbed the window-panes with
it when she played at cleaning house.
Phebe Redlan cut paper dolls for her
by the hour, but these frisked out Of
the window or into the fire; and Of
Weezy's large family there was left
only one sound child.
This was little Sambo, knit Of wor-
sted; black face, scarlet jacket, yellow
trousers, and all. When he tumbled
into the wash-bowl Weezy squeezed
him out, and dried him over the regis
ter. When he raveled mamma darned
him. and made him rs good as new.
o. he was the incest kind Of doll!
and from his white sewing-silk teeth to
his black buckingham toes, Weezy
loved every inch OF him. Yet she did
love to punish him. One morning
when she found him in papa's boot she
shook him till one OF his bead eyes
dropped out.
What for Sambo run away and
hidep" cried she. "Now mamma mus
tie Sambo, cause Sambo didn't mind"
She looked about the hall for some-
thing to tie him to. and saw papa's
overcoat on the hat.tree. The buttons
on the back Of it were just within her
reach.
There! Sambo must be tied till he
is a good boy," said she, winding the
ends of his tiny scarf round one OF the
buttons.
Then. leaving the poor doll hanging
by his neck, she danced OF to the
kitchen to tease Bridget Tor 1.-TWO big
plums."
Pretty soon Papa Haynes came out of
the sitting-room to 60 down town. Ii
was rather dark in the hall, and he put
on his overcoat without seeing the doll.
Next he drew on his gloves. and walked,
briskly into the street with Sambo bob
bling up and down from the button Mt
his back.
1t was funny enoughl One little boy
laughed so hard that he rolled of the
doorstep. Some school-children on
the corner shouted, and clapped their
hands. Papa Haynes wondered what
all the noise was about. He couldn't
see anything to laugh at.
He might have gone on right
through the village with Sambo's yell
low legs dancing Jig behind him, IL
the minister hadn't called to him.
"Sirr' said papa, wheeling in front
OF the minister's gate so suddenly that
the doll bounced against him.
why, what is this?" he went on,
reaching his hand behind his back.
.. Something that belongs to Weezy,
fancy" laughed the minister, un-
winding Sambo's scarf. a.
When Papa Haynes saw the doll he
couldn't help laughing. too.
"Well, must say I've cut pretty
figure" said he, with a very red face.
mo wonder the boys shoutedr'
He felt like tossing Sambo over the
fence. but then he thought of his little
daughter.
81 suspect Weezy Is crying this
minute for her lost baby" said he.
examining Sambo, head first, into his
pocket. I'll take It home to her this
time, but she must look out how She
ties It again to my coat-button!'--
Our Lille Ones.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-06-09

The improved French method Of
preserving wood by the application Of
lime u said to be found to work well.
The plan is to pile the planks In tank
and put over all . layer Of quicklime.
which is gradually slaked with water.
Timber for mines requires about week
70 be thoroughly impregnated. and
other wood more or less time, according
to its thickness. The wood acquires
remarkable consistence and hardness,
It Is stated, on being subjected to the
simple process. and the assertion Is
made that 1t will never rot. Beechwood
prepared in this way for hammers and
other tools for iron-works Il found TO
acquire the hardness Of oak. without
parting with any Of its elasticity on
tou9hness, and il also lasts longer.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-06-09

"A tri-monthly periodical devoted to
American affairs has been started in
Vienna, and is called Amerika.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-12-01
Forced Marches.

In 1857 Frederick the Great marched
about 100 miles 20 days; and again, after
Rossbarh, little greater distance in Is
days, but lost 300 men through exhaus-
tion. In 1760, with 10000 men and
1000 wagons, he accomplished about so
miles In days. The same year the
Austrian General Lascy, with It, 900 men
knocked off" $50 miles in 10 days.
Prince Eugene, of Wurtemberg, to re-
ieve Berlin, made a forced march on
the 4th of October, 176O, of 36 miles 1
day. This latter does not approach the
feat of the Sixth Corps-35 miles in 10
hours. 1t may aforementioned by many
of those who served with the Army of
the Potomac that Birney's First (2ed
Diamond) division of the Third Corps
had won for themselves the nickname
OF "Birneys Foot Cavalry" and this
title was subsequently applied to the
Second Corps after the Third Corps was
combined with it. In regard to the
Third Corps, Army of the Potomac, the
writer feels that it deserves equal pre-
eminence with the Third Corps of the
French Army under Napoleon in the
campaign of 1906. OF the latter organi-
zation, Marshal Davoust said to Napol-
con during this, the Jena campaign,
when the Emperor expressed his ad-
miration of its achievements and his
grief at it's heavy losses, "Sire, the
soldiers of the Third Corps, will ever be
to you what the Tenth Legion was to
Cesar" (Alison, H., 457, q. The ac-
tivity Of the Third and of the combined
Second Third Corps rivaled that of
Oudinots Grenadier's, in October, 1905,
when they actually outmarched cavalry,
accomplishing IL leagues day, and
contributed chiefly to the capture of
the Austrian Archduke Ferdinand's col
umn, which had escaped from Ulm. In
the pursuit of the Sixth Corps kept up
with the cavalry on the 6th--so SAYS Col.
Archabald Hopkins, Thirty seventh
Massachusetts, Volunteers, in his account
of Uittle) Sailors Creek, 9th of April,
1865-and it is claimed that the Fifth
Corps had likewise equaled the speed of
the hor8emen, prior to the concentration
at Jetersville, evening of the 9Th. Toe
infantry, both of the Army of the Poto-
mac and of the Army of Northern Vir-
ginia, justified Lieut-Gen. Baron Am
berps magnificent eulogy on the foot
soldiers, whom he styles the sinews of
an army" Gen. Roche-Aymon says
that cavalry is to infantry what poetry
is to prose, and, he meant exactly what
these words express. It is not bad
comparison, inasmuch as the world
might go on without poetry, while it
would be utterly impossible to get along
without prose. Moreover, good poetry
is very rare, whereas excellent prose is
not. Poetry, too, while all very fine. is
at best no more to real life than what
dessert is to a dinner.-MG United
Service.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-12-01

COMMANDER CHEYNE, of the Royal
Navy, has delivered o course of lectures
in Chickering Hall, New York, illustrat-
ing how it is possible to reach the North
Pole by balloon. Cheyne was an officer
in three Franklin-search expeditions.
He desires to be accompanied by Lieu
tenant Schwatka. The idea is to go in
vessels in the spring, until travel by that
process becomes dangerous, and then to
continue in balloons, three in number,
each balloon carrying three men, a
sledge, Esquimaux dogs, provisions, and
instruments. The distance calculated
at 696 miles, can be made in eighteen to
twenty-four hours, at the rate of thirty
nine miles per hour.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-12-01
On the Safe Side.

A Michigander VINO was riding along
the highway near Charleston, Virginia, %
few days ago, came across negro who
was grubbing out stump near the
meadow fence, and, after few questions
about farm products, the Wolverine
asked:
"What do you get for taking that
stump out2"
''Jist fifty cents" ," was the reply.
CHOW long have you been working
ut it?"
"Wall, nigh bout week, I reckon"
"And how much longer will it take ?"
"Wall, I spects I could finish it to-
morrer, but reckon won't do it afore
Friday"
"Why?"
"Wail, heah am de plot. If finish
it to-morrer an git my money I'll be
bound to drap down to Hallton an bet
on hoss-race an lose it all. Ef wait
till Friday kin hab de means oh gwine
inter de circus at Charlestown. I knows
my weakness, boss, an 80 I'ze gwine to
sot hcah an dig leetle an sleep leetle,
an chop off dc las root when l heah do
circus hons BLOWN on top de red skule-
house hill"
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-12-01

WHILE boring an artesian we'll in the
vicinity of Richmond and Carr streets,
Cincinnati, q stream or vein of gas, was
struck at depth of eighty-th feet.
A leap" was put on the pipe which had
been driven down, and rivited to confine
the gas, but the force of the gas burst
the cap off. A pipe forty feet in length
was then attached to the driven pipe to
convey the gas from the building, and to
test the quality OF the article match
was put to the gas as it escaped at the
end of the attached pipe, when it ignited
and blaze shot out seven feet produc-
ing Light equal to 500 ordinary gas
burners. The phenomena is producing
considerable excitement.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-12-01
HambIiHgs

Gambling in any form is, IN tho end,
eh9 2%RS mG mater be- "R"s he oer s n he
investor, the gamer the person who
made some kinds of calculations that, oD
an average, the investor stands from one
chance in five to one in twenty of gain
ing anything. 1t does not pay as mon
etary transaction; it is ruinOus morally.
Give all games of chance wide berth.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-12-01

Mr.. PRICE, Commissioner Of Indian
Affairs, has at last shed ray of light on
the vexatious Indian question. He says
we feed the White River mtrderers while
we compel the Uintachs to largely care
for themselves, and as a consequence of
this cause of treatment the Indians are
taught to believe that if they are to get
favors from the Government they must
refuse to work and commit depredations
against the Government. It does look
as if there was some truth in this state
ment.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-12-01

THE New York Christian UaioSs1reaks
In the highest terms of the devotion OF
Edwin Booth to his wife, whose death
has just been recorded. Evil-minded
PERSONS" it says, "would be put to
shame if statement of the character Of
Mrs. Booths illness and the devotion
and tenderness of her husband, were
made publio.s'
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-12-01

REALLY we take compression on those
persons who put 80 much faith in
Mother Shipton's prophecy. Their con-
1dence in prophets is sadly shattered
and they certainly feel bad over it.
Mother Shipton's trash, like herself, ia
now dead, and it should be buried very
deep. Superstition has seen its best
day by all odds.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-12-01

Con had commissioned Welles to kill
Jay Gould, but Welles was willing the
Divine command should miscarry, pro-
vided Gould would give him q pointer
on stocks. This is precisely parallel
case to Guiteau's, with the excep-
ton that Guiteau was permitted to ex-
ecute the command
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-12-01

HENRY WARD BEEoHER being adver-
tised to lecture before the Young Mems
Hebrew Association, q correspondent of
the JeaOish Messenger objects, because
Mr.. Beecher once said that the ''ancient
Jews hadn't much moral sense and
Jacobs twelve sons were little better
than cutthronts,'t
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-12-01

GUITEAU may be insane, but at The
same time he is sane enough to know
thatShis life is in jeopardy, and there is
not level-headed lawyer in the country
who has akeener appreciation of the in
sanity plea than he.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-12-01

BECAUSE Colombier claims to have
written the Bernhardt book, Sarah
Bernhardt takes occasion to remark that
"if Colombier were man she'd smash
her head" Now then, wouldn't it looks
just as angelical for Bernhardt to smash
q woman's head as it would for her to
smash man'sP Let the smashing go
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-12-01

The newspapers published that Jessie
Baldwin, of Youngstown, Ohio, had q
quantity of gold in his house. Thieves
went and blowed Baldwin's safe open and
carried off his gold to the amount of
$4,000. This is additional evidence of
the value of newspaper advertising.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-12-01

If THE word of crank is of any force,
God is appointing a great many people
in this country to go about killing their
fellow men. II We should get in the
habit of stringing cranks up as fast as
they pop to the surface, there would soon
be q cessation of Divine murderers.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-12-01

THE Protective Tariff Convention at
Chicago recommended that the Presi-
dent appoint a commission "to revise
our revenue system, including our tariff
laws, in the interest of protection and
for needed revenue" and passed reso>
luton asking for the abolishment of in
ternal revenues. l. In other words, it has
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-12-01

HENRY b. ABBEY has engaged Patti for
thirty concerts Mt something over 81, 1000
O night. These concerts will be divided
up among the large cities of the conti
nent. The highest price of admission,
Abbey asserts, will be five dollars, with
a sliding scale downward.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-12-01

THE remarkable discoveries of Jenner,
Pasteur, and others, showing that some
of the most fatal virulent diseases may
be rendered comparatively harmless by
inocculation with n weakened virus,
have led to the suggestion OF the pos
tibilIty of combating tuberculosis in
the same manner. 1t is now quite gen
orally believed that this disease, hike
smallpox, chicken cholera and anthrax,
is due to the very rapid increase of GER
tain minute organisms in the body, and
it seems reasonable to hope that inOcu-
lation with it's weakened germs may
produce as favorable results as have
been achieved in the case of the other
maladies. This is an important prob
lem for scienc" TO solve.
A COLORADO town is called Jamfull.
Its motto is, Preserve us ALL" and it's
children are all Saucy.
HENRY WARD BEEoHER says that God
Keeps list of rich men who cheat their
t'oor neighbOrs.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-12-01

PATRIOTISM, in Ireland, takes some
curious turns. For instance, when
farmer pays his rent, a lot of patriots go
and cut the tails off of one hundred of
his cattle, in the name of liberty. How
they propose to free Ireland with these
tails is moro than we know.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-12-01
The Medical Student.

No, sonny. When you read about a
medical student walking the hospitals
you must not infer that he takes the
hospitals out walking SO as to exercise
them. 1t means that he studies the
cases that are there. There are few
students who walk hospital who don't
believe that they could run one if they
had q chance. Cincinnati Saturday
Ni0hL
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-12-01

SO MANY boys in Baltimore have been
fatally injured through the handling of
the "toy pistol" that city ordinance
has been passed making it unlawful TO
sell the article within the city limits.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-12-01

TIE fact is recalled that Judge Folger,
the new Secretary Of the Treasury, was
one of the nine men in the New York
Legislature in 1867 who voted in favor
of giving woman the ballot.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-12-01

CINCINNATI has figured largely in the
Atlanta Cotton Exposition. You see,
there is a railroad from Cincinnati to At
lanta, and it is fondly hoped that as
line OF transportation it will have about
ali it can Go iii the future.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-12-01

The State Auditor Of INDIANA has
been advised by Attorney General Bald
win to open war on the Graveyard In
surance Companies of other States who
have been operating in Indiana.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-12-01

LUCY D. FISK, relict of Jim Fisk,
writes card to the New York Herald
in defense of the charity of Jay Gould.
She says he has always responded to
her actual needs since the death Of her
husband
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-12-01

newspapers. A Russian journal relates
to its reader, that President Arthur is an
Irishman who was driven from his coun.
try by Englnnd's misrule.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-12-01

WEnnrs, who attempted to blackmail
Jay Gould, is said to be respectfully con-
nected. That always seems to let the
criminal down easy like.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-12-01

SENATOR SHERMAN wants q law bv
which q creditor may persue debtor
from one State to another. He can do
that now, if he 80 desires.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-12-01

BERLIN has Sauer-Kraut Exchange.
We thought the Germans would eventu-
ally corner that article.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-12-01

IT IS expected that this country and
Mexico will be in direct telegraphio
communication with Peru and Brazil by
June next.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-12-01

ADEnINA PATTI has condescended to
appear before the Cincinnati public in
the oratorio of the Messiah, December
%. Beer and music In Cincinnati will
continue to go hand In hand.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-12-01

Gov. ST. JOHN, of Kansas, charges
tho Brewers Congress at Chicago with
authorizing the expenditure of an un-
limited amount of money to defeat the
prohibitory law in Kansas.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-12-01

The simpler the ceremony the more
fashionable the wedding. Dame Fashion
,miles on the poor at last.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-12-01

SEVEN comets have bobbedup severely
this year, still the old world rolls along
without jar in the same old rut.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-12-01

STATIONARY wages, with an increased
cost OF the necessaries of life, will have
o tendency to produce strikes.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-12-01

The Irish National Land League of
this country has sent $l27, 1886 to Ireland
during the past three months.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-12-01

The White House so completely
torn upside down by carpenters and
plasters, that Arthur is beginning to de-
spair of getting into it.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-12-01

THE Prince of Wales was forty-two
years old the 9th of November, and he
hasn't sowod all his wild oats yet.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-12-01

"W1rH malice aforethought is what
rlles Guiteau. He is sane enough to
know that that sort Of thing won't do
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-12-01

TAhMAaE says when boy isn't good
for anything they make preacher of
hun, and that is what allies the ministry.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-12-01

DAKOTA Territory, anxious to be ad-
mitted into the Union as State, claims
q population of 10000.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-12-01

AsToR's campaign in New York cost
him 100000.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-12-01

Gov. JOHN D. LONG, of Massachu-
setts, accompanied his Thanksgiving
proclamation with an original HYMN Of
four stanzas, in common meter.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-12-01

A WAR he's been begun in Chicago OF
retail grocery stores for selling beer by
the bucket to minors.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-12-01

INCLUDING magazines and other peri
odicals, there are II, ,418 publications in
the United States. Of this number 982
are daily papers.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-12-01

BLAINE is worth 81, 900, 900, and yet
his political ambition will not let him
stop at that. 1884" looks just as big
to him as it does to any one else.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-12-01

THE temperance tidal wave is cruising
about in Iowa,
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-12-01

THE mines of Colorado yielded $23,,
OOO,O 900 last year $4,000, 900 more than
the State of Caiitorn:2s
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-12-01

The wife of Mackay, the millionaire,
rides in a carriage in Paris which cost
100000.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-12-01

SMALLPOX is 80 bad in Chicago that
an epidemic is feared.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-12-01

IDA LEWIS has saved two members of
n brass band from drowning. Ida's
popularity is rapidly decreasing since
this rash act.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-12-01

The word "grease" is no longer in de-
mand. What is not butter is lard, and
V6ce versa.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-12-01

THE Chicago Tariff Convention asked
for the abolition of the internal revenue,
and declared for "a wise protection sys.
tem." This of itself is somewhat vague.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-12-01

THIRTEEN members of the next Legis.
lature of Virginia will be colored men.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-12-01

EIGHTY newspapers published in Me-
braska favor women suffrage.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-12-01

The Government paid $40, 900 for the
Yorktown celebration,
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-12-01

asked for a revolution in the tariff sys-
tenn.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-12-01

STRANGE things get into some foreign
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-12-01

JEw1sE refugees from Russia and Ger.
many are fiocking to America by the
hundreds. 1t is expected that 5000 will
come here during the winter.