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The Arizona sentinel., 1883-06-30
How To secure Health.

It seems starnge thet anyone will suffer from the many derangements brought on by an impure condition ot the blood, when SCOVILL'S SARSAPARR1LLA AND STILL!NGIA. or BLOOD AND LIVER SYRUP will res tore perfect health
 the physical organization. It is indeed a strengthening syrup, pleasant to take, and has proven itself to be the BEST BLOOD PURIFIER ever discovered, ef- fectually curing Scrofula, S,yuhilltic disorders, Weakness of the Kidneys, Erysipelss, Malaria; all nervous disorders and Debility, Bilious complainsts and all Diseases indicating an impure Condition of the Blood, Liver, Kidneys, Stomach Sk.n, etc. It corrects indigestion. A single bottle will prove to you it's merits as a health remover. for it ACTS LIKE 4 CHARM, especially when the complaint is of an exhaustive nature, having g tendency to lessen the nstural vigor ol the b1 an and nervous system.
The Arizona sentinel., 1883-06-30

As we'll as being a brave and fearless Indian fighter General Crook is an extremely modest man. At no time since his re- turn from Sonora has he appeared to take to himself the slightest credit for the capture of the Apa- ches. His recent official report &of the final engagement, pu- blished on our first page, gives Captain Crawford the credit, to- gether with the other officers and guides. It does not read much like that letter which was used last summer as a campaign docu- ment, containing a plethora of capital Is.
The Arizona sentinel., 1883-06-30
Correspondence.

. MIR. SENTINEL MAN: - The great, wonderful and cursed wa ter-melon season is now in full blast. The streets of Yuma are covered with the green and treacherous rind that causes pro- fane words to issue from lips to which oaths were unknown be- fore. The very air is impregnat- ed with the wild and peculiarly unpleasant odor of the water melon:-the physicians friend. the giver of pain, and the curse of Yuma. Instead of temper dnce crusade, I advocate a move ment to destroy this vile and worthless fruit; and laws should be enacted to crush out the sale of this "green and red cholera bomb she'll" The sands of time run rapidly through the hour glass of life, but the watermelon stays more innocent childre6, strong men and women, than the bullet and knife. So I say:- Death to the watermelon.
 MoLLY-CoPs.
 The writer has evidently eat en too much of the delicious fruit and is suffering from-remorse. ED. SENTINEL.
The Arizona sentinel., 1883-06-30

The SENTINEL has one request to make of some of it's contempo- raries. We wish they would turn to their dictionaries and see just what is the meaning of the word "avocation." Such terms as funeral obsequies, caption. avocation, etc., are responsible for a great deal of Wretched rhetoric.
The Arizona sentinel., 1883-06-30

The telegraph announces that Gen. Crook has been ordered to Washington to confer with the Secretary of War, in relation to the disposition of the captured Chiricahuas. It is to be hoped that a judicious policy will be decided upon, and that active steps will be taken to subdue the rest of the band. Gen. Crook has done we'll so far, bat much yet remains to be done before we can safely feel that the Indian ques- tion in Arizona has been happily settled.
The Arizona sentinel., 1883-06-30

Cincinnati furnishes a touching example of the progress of the w'men's rights movement. A wife beater was plying his voca- tion in that.city a-few days ago, when his long suffering victim retaliated with a brick. The brick was so much harder than her husbands head that he is now in tn 3 hospital in a critical condition. Selah.
The Arizona sentinel., 1883-06-30

Since the completion of the s. P. R. R. to New Orleans, and the reduction in fare from Havre, France, to San Francisco, emil grafton from France has steadily increased, Hardly 2 train passes here which has not a large num- Der of this class of passengers.
The Arizona sentinel., 1883-06-30
A Chicago Merchants Experience.

After had becoNe almost skin and bone, with neither strength appetite nor ambition left, and the doctors couldn't help me, two bottles Parker's Ginger Tonic cured me completely. NJ. B. Westcott, Lamp Mfr, Chicago.
The Arizona sentinel., 1883-06-30

The proud position which the
 United states holds among the
 nations of the worli is clearly
 shown by the wonderful fact that
 one-fifth of the wealth of the
 seventeen principal countries of
 the globe is credited to this Re
 public, which has only just en-
 tered upon the second century of
 it's existence. Tie wealth of the
 United States equals the combi-
 ned valuation of Italy, Spain,
 Portugal, India, South America,
 Turkey, Egypt, Sweden. Nor
 way, Canada. Australia, Dem
 mark, and South Africa. IL ex- ceeds the wealth of Germany and Russia combined. 1t is equal to
 the wealth of Great Britain, Ca
 nada and Australia. Our debt is less than that of Great Britain by a billion and a half of dollars; about three billions less than the debt of France; q billion less than that of Russia, and nearly a bil- lion less than the deOt of Spain and Portugal. The exports of the United States are greater by two hundred million dollars than the exports of any nation except Great Britain. The cost of run ming the government in Great Britain is about two hundred million dollars more than the expenditures of the United States; in France, over three hundred millions more; in Ger man, two hundred add thirty millions more; in Russia. two hundred millions more, and also greater by many millions in Austria-Hungary, Italy and India. It has heen estimated that at the present rate of in> crease our population fifty years hence will reach the enormous number of one hundred and million. If wealth ip- creases as rapidly as population, half a century from nuw America will be worth almvst as much as all other civilized nations put together (nOt including China and Japan) are worth 10 day two hundred billions of dollars. These figures of probable popu- lation aud wealth are rather too colossal, no doubt; but we can afford 10 drop a good many millions in the one case and bil- lions in the other and yet be able to boast that the bald-heade d bird of freedom will in fifty years spread his wings over the richest and the mightiest division of the surface.
The Arizona sentinel., 1883-06-30

The Epitaph grows sarcastic over the postponement of the trial of Frank James, at Gallatin, Mo. We are not surprised at the i. irony, but at the fact of his ever being subjected to the annoyance of a trial.
The Arizona sentinel., 1883-06-30

General Crook grows axioma- tic. "We must fight all the h. dians we swindIe;" ''It costs less to feed Indians than to fight them;" of they can not get corn they will get cartridges" are among his latest efforts in that line.
The Arizona sentinel., 1883-06-30

We have received Vol. I, No. 1,,of the Scientific Californian,
 published at San Francisco and
 Oakland, and edited by W. O.
 TrailkilI. The subscription price is S1 per year.
The Arizona sentinel., 1883-06-30
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The democrats of Ohio have nominated George Hoadly, of Cincinnati, for Governor.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-08-24
A Remarkable Case.

<. An old man'was arraigned before an
Arkansaw. Court for some trifiing of
Tense, and among, theiwitnesses was an
old woman who. in giving her testimo-
ny, made such efforts to shield the old
man that the Judge asked: 81. - ia
. Madam. have you known this man
very. long?n ntf = - ss1s5ni ST. s.'f
Yes. sir,n the aold woman replied.
have known him a very long time.
When was young girl this man used
to visit me- In fact, Judge, We were
sweethearts,' and she twisted her apron
and looked down. - Fsf Ro To
All. i SELL the Judge replied,
FUSED to be sweethearts, and think so
much of each other now because you
did not marry each other then?''
You are mistaken, Judge, for we did
marry each other then, and are husband
and wife now. 'isaA ~.
Indeed!" the Judge exclaimed,
''this is remarkable case, sLibenate
the old fellow, Mr.. Officer. ~ rkansau
Traveller. fss.urs sffIesY al
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-08-24
Webb's Death.

DR.. c. w. Palmer, of Lockport, N.
Y, who was one of the physicians hold
ing post-mortem examination on the
body of Captain Webb, furnishes the
following account of it.:
There was found marked rigor NOR
It's. The body was in a state of active
decomposition. All the tissues were
greatly distended by gases. There was
scalp wound ON top of the Uranium,
three and one-half inches in length, not
involving the bony structure. No bones
were found broken. There were sew
eral other local injuries of the body,
but unimportant as to the cause of
death. The scalp wound was evidently
produced after death. f.--5
The muscular texture was peculiar.
BY cut longitudinally with sharp
scalpel shreds of dessicated muscle
would be carried along with and collect
on the edge of the scalpel. All the
blood presented distinctly red color
in some places remarkably red
showing that the blood was not deox:d-
lied by asphyXia in drowning, but that
death ensued prior to that condition.
None of the characteristic symptoms OF
death from drowning were present,
neither was there any local injury suf-
ficient to necessarily produce death.
The muscles were pale and presented
the peculiar appearance for which we
could find no better name than ux-
desiccation, the filament being ragged
and broken and separating with remark
able facility. The examination on each
extremity and upon the various portions
of the trunk and neck presented uni
formly these conditions.
As the result of our examination | am
led to the conclusion, and in this am
seconded by my colleagues, that death
was caused not by asphyxia or drown
ing or by any local injury by the body
coming in contact with any hard sub
stance, but by the shock from the reac-
tionary force of the water in the whirl-
pool rapids coming in contact with the
submerged body with such force as to
instantly destroy the respiratory power,
and, in fact, all vital action by direct
pressure and force of contact shock
of sufficient intensity to paralyze the
nerve centers, partially desiccate the
probable sequel of death by drowning.
The cause of death in passing through
these rapids being thus constant, and
in no way accidental, as might be
drowning or an injury received from
rocks, forces the conclusion that no liv-
ing body can, or ever will, pass through
the rapids alive; a fact established OF
no little Importance, and an ominous
warning to all future adventures.
The river bed at the whirlpool rapids
is much narrowed, and also suddenly
assumes greatly increased precipitancy
The water strikes the unyielding rocky
banks with great violence, and by reac-
ton meets with such resistance as to
form in the center mountainous ridge
of encroaching waters from twenty to
thirty feet in height. Into this Captain
Webb was submerged after passing the
first breaker, and instantly subjected TO
the immense pressure indicated upon
his body as the cause of mis- death.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-08-24
'' That's Thee. jim"

A band of young men, with hands and
faces blackened, and dressed i'm very
queer costumes, sung some comic songs
at MIR. Cars door one day, and then
one young man asked for few pennies.
Mr.. Carr, taking up Bible, said:
"See here, young man, will give
you shilling, and this book besid,, il
you will read some of it to your CON-
rades, and in the hearing of the by
SANDERS"
Here's shilling for an easy job"
he chuckled ont to his mates. I'm
going to give you a public readingr'
Mr.. Carr opened at the 10Th chapter
of st. Luke, and pointed 10 the eleventh
verse.
And Jim took the book and read:
'And He said: A certain man had
two sons: and the younger of them sad
to his father: Father, give me the por-
ton of goods that falleth to me. And
he divided unto them his living. And
not many days after, the younger son
gathered all together, and took his jour
ney into far country, and there wasted
his substance with riotous living"
That's thee, Jim!' cried one of his
comrades. It's Just what you told me
of yourself and your fatherr'
The reader continued:
"And when he had spent all, there
arose mighty famine in that land: and
he began to be in want" -
why, that's thee again, Jimr' sais:
a voice-'go onp'
land he went and joined himself TO
a citizen of that country; and he sent
him into his fields to feed swine. And
he would fain have filled his belly with
the husks that the swine did eat; and no
man gave unto him. ~
That's like us allr' said the voice.
once more; "we're all beggars; and
might be better off than we are! Go
on; let's hear what came of it!''
And the young man read on, and as
he read his voice trembled: "And when
he came 10 himself, he said: How many
hired servants of my fathers have bread
enough and to spare and perish with
hunger! l will arise and go to my faith
err'
AT this point, ne fairly broke down,
could read no more. All were i'm
pressed and moved. The whole reality
OF the past rose up to view; and, I'm the
clear story of the Gospel, ray of hope
dawned upon him for his future. His
father--his fathers house--and his
mother, too; and the, plenty and the
love ever bestowed upon him there; and
the hired servants all having enough;
and then himself. his fathers son; and
his present state, his habits, his sins, his
poverty, his outcast condition, his mode
of living-all these came into his mind.
and fairly overcame him.
That day proved the turning point in
his life. 1t resulted in this 1ong-lost.
and yet dearly-loved son returning to
his home; and, still better, to his Heav-
emily Father!-E1chdnge.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-08-24
The Unriyaled Express Rider.

In 1910 Major Houghton, proprietor
of the Boston Atlas newspaper, engaged
Mr.. Twichell to collect the votes of the
State on the day of election, so that they
could be published in his paper on the
following morning. This feat, which
was regarded by many as impossible,
Mr.. Twichell accomplished by having
the returns brought by assistants, with
relays of horses, from every town of the
State to a central route. This was year
ly done for ten years. On one occasion,
after voting in Worcester and riding to
Greenfield, distance of fifty-five miles,
where he was TO receive returns in per-
son, he found that his messengers from
Williamstown, ADAMS and the north
western part of the State, delayed by
the bad weather and travelling, had been
unable TO leave Greenfield until two
hours after the appointed time. Mr..
Twichell rode to W orcester in the face
of an easteriy storm. but arrived ten
minutes. after the engine, which started
at the hour appointed, had left. He
pushed forward on horseback forty-five
miles farther, and reached Boston in
season for his dispatches to appear in
the morning AtIas. Another re-
markable feat was performed by
Mr.. Twichell in 1886. The lead
ing newspapers of New York were Gag
er to secure dispatches expected to ar
rive at Boston by the foreign steamer in
January of that year. The Herald made
arrangements TO carry its own dispatch.
es from Boston to Norwich by railroad,
thence by boat to Long Island, and
across the island by mail to New York
City. The Tribune and other papers OF
New York and Philadelphia being ex.
ciuded by the Herald from participating
in It's arrangements with the railroad
and steamboat companies on this route,
employed Mr.. Twichell, who was
obliged to use horses for most of the
distance. He could obtain an engine tc
run from Boston to Worcester only or
condition of its being fifteen minutes be.
hind the Herdlds train. From Worces
ter to Hartford, q distance of sixty-siz
miles, he rode on horseback through a
deep snow in the remarkably short time
Of three hours and twenty minutes
thence from Hartford to New Haven by
railroad, thirty-six miles; from New
haven to New York, seventy-six miles
by horse, and reached New York CITY
In season for the printing of the dis
patches before the arrival of those of the
Herald. Mr.. Twichell's remarkable
feat OF horsemanship excited so much
interest that it was commemorated by :
large and beautiful engraving entitled
lie Unrivaled Express Rider os
| ton Journal.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-08-24
Religious Reading.
MY PRAYER.

Father, how can I thus be bold to pray
Tnat fhou shalt grant me that or SCARE me
How should my ignorance not TO astray.
How should my foolish lips not speak amiss
And ask eor voc when fain they would ask
bliss? ~SA
WISE S A
TO show me Manifestation art ever kind
what is my feeble craving in Thine eyes
winch view the centuries vast, before, be-
And sweep unnumbered worlds like view
Thy goodness ordereth what thing shall,be.
my wisdom knoweth even my Utmost want:
why should raise needless PRAYER to Thee
Or 1mportune Omnipotence to grant
My wishes. dim, short-sighted ignorant?
And yet come-for Thou hast hidden and
said ~
But not to weary Thee, or specify
a wish, but rather with this prayer instead:
% Lord, Thou knowest: give it or DENY.
FIJI up the cup of joy, or pass me by"
Just as Thou wilt is Just what would win:
1ive me but this, the heart to be CO ptent
And II my wish is Inverted. to lie s.
waiting till puzzle and till pain are spent.
AND the sweet thing made plain which the
Lord meant.
Susan Coolidge, in S. S. Times.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-08-24
Mrs. Jones' Mistake.

Maria" said Mr.. Jones, when his
wife tod him she was going out riding
that afternoon ,''it's going to be hot,
and I'll send up fan and Japanese
parasol. You put the fan in the mar
tingale and spread it open, and fasten
the parasol in loop behind the ear :"
Won't that be fly,' said Mrs. Jones,
''where did you see them?"
''At the sea-shore," snorted Jones,
''they are the toniest things OUT
After dinner the package came. Mrs
Jones opened it and found gay paper
fan and 4 paper parasol.
Bridget" asked Mrs. Jones, 'what
is martingle?'
"Shure it's girth of some sort " an
swered Bridget, shortly.
"Oh, belt. Why of course it is. |
am to spread the fan in my belt and
put the parasol up and fasten it to my
head. Jeptha said so, the sweet
thing" 49,, 10. 4t. lc et,e.4-
So Mrs. Jones drove old Tom in the
phaeton up one avenue and down
another. and was the observed Of all
observers. She had fastened the handle
of the parasol into her bonnet strings,
and as it was not very large it did not
obstruct the view, and people stared as
much they did at Jumbo. She felt that
she was setting the style and was more
than happy. But when she got home
Jones was awaiting her, the maddest
man in town. aHuli si1
You ought to be pasted on a tea
chest or used as a wall decoration"
he shrieked Don't you know the
difference between horse and a
donkeyP' foai -
Il ought to- said Mrs. Jones,
meekly. r..- sa,ua yaI9 0fa4
Yes, you ought to; but you don't.
There you've gone out on the.avenue
with horse umbrella and fan. Why
didn't you wear the rest of the harness?
[ tell you what it is, Maria, if you go on
this way you'll get your name in the
papers; see if you don't n ~.
But the next day all of Mrs. Jones'
lady friends called to ask her where she
got that perfectly lovely idea of the fan
and parasol, and if the articles could be
purchased in the city.-DetroI Post and
Tribune r. f. e.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-08-24

Strips an inch or two thick are put
through picking process, then hung
on hooks over slow fire of corn-cobs
or sawdust of hard wood. After thus
smoking for a single night they are
ready to be shipped to any part of the
country.
The preparation of -caviare is an i'm
Portant part of the business. While
TINS is not yet in as general use in this
country as in Russia and other parts of
Europe, where it is so highly esteemed
that no repast is served without it, it is
coming into favor, especially in the
western and Southern States. There
are two sorts of caviare. the soft and the
hard; the latter being worth about
twice as much as the former. The
value of the best hard caviare, in the
South, early in the spring. is said to be
from fifteen to twenty cents a'pound.
In order to make the best artic e it is
necessary to strip the roe from the stur-
geon as soon as possible after the fish
has been caught. Before being dried it
Is rubbed through coarse sieve to
break the eggs apart and to free them
from membranous tissue. Next the roe
IS thoroughly sailed, after which it
stands certain length of time Then
1t is emptied into fine sleeves, where it
remains till it is so dry as to roll like
shot. The finished caviare is packed
into casks previously lined with napkin
linen, each layer being sailed with fine
table salt. Each key holds about $50
pounds. With proper care the cayiare
may be kept for year or longer. For
the trade it is often canned like fruit, in
which condition it will stand transport
tation to warm countries, and will keep
an indefinite length of time. 1t may be
eaten as put up without further prepar-
alton, though it is thought to be i'm
proved in flavor by the addition of a lit
tie !, vinegar or lemon juice. Pressed
caviare is favorite with Russian sol
diers,who are said to take liberal sup
ply in their knapsacks whenever they
are going on long march. Improve
ments might be made, no doubt, in the
preparation of American caviare, and
the subject is worthy Of receiving the
especial attention of packers.-H c..
HOUeV, in Scientific american. rr
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-08-24
The Sturgeon Fishery.

The sturgeon range from Georgia, in
winter. to st. John, n. B., in summer.
and are followed up throughout the sea-
son by men expert in their capture.
Large gill nets are used in this business.
each about two hundred fathoms LONG.
and. with meshes foot in size. The
Delaware River is. the principal field of
operation, Sturgeon enter this stream
about the I'D of May, and in such i'm
mense numbers that nets about quar-
Ter length have to be used, larger ones
being at that time, unmanageable. Mr..
Blackson, an experienced fisherman,
tells me that he has seen them so album
iant that his net would sink with their
weight as soon rs it was{thrown out.
The average. catch per net is from
twenty-five TO thirty fish apiece, at each
cast. This lasts about two weeks.
ThesttIrgeon move steadily up stream
toward the head of the river, and, then
suddenly disappear about the 10th of
June, afterwhich they must be sought
elsewhere. -Howthey get out of the river
without being caught is mystery.
All that the fishermen know about il
is, that, one day they, are busy catch
ing fish. and the next all their nets are
empty,
The boats used in this business are all
constructed on the same general plan:
about twenty -four feet keek seven or
eight feet beam, capable of carving
about thirty sturgeon apiece. A boat.
load of big ones looks, oddly enough.
like load of. small logs,
The flesh of the sturgeon, as is well
known, is rather coarse and oily: and.
as much depends on its right prepare.
ton for the table, We took some pains
to inquire how it is cooked by the wives
of the fishermen themselves, who ouph,
to know as well as anybody, seeing thai
itconstitutes staple article of tbei,
diet From several methods recon.
mended. we give the two that seem the
most promising:
The first method is to cut the flesh
into slices and parboil them to get rid
Of the suPerfuous oil, and then fry them
in . thin batter.
The. second method is to cut up tbs
meat into squares two inches thick.
which are to be thoroughly boiled. and
then picked for two DAYS in spiced vim
egar. after which they are ready fol
eating. and are considered excellent by
the fishermen. -'z.- .
The usual way of preparing sturgeon
for mixket, however, Is by smoking.