davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1885-04-17

few hundred by sellin' q good prospect
or two, that money fairly burns our
jeans when we hit a lively camp, and
we generally paint 'em red. COS we
know right whar to pull out to next
spring. If we amt got no dust it's
about the same. for our credit is par,
you bet, whar our cronies is. Some
times we brace up and go slow to squar
up, but moneys no use 'cept in towns
and camps, and the winter gets mighty
long in such place."
..But do all old prospectors spend
their money as fast as they get it?a
-s.No; sum has families, and that
keeps 'em down to hard pan. and when
they git q good stake they fixes the
folks and generally quit the mountains.
These fellers make better bargains for
prospects, and hold on and develop
'em into pay mines. and you would be
astonished to know how many fellers
have got good ranches or are in good
paying business all over the country
that get their start from the mines"
''Shall tell your friend to come out
to learn prospectingP"
mot much; If he has got folks de-
pendin' on him he'd better stay thar.
I'd no more think of advisin' that than
I'd take his advice to come back East
to make Twin in store or workin'
on farm. Won't go out to take suth-
in? Well, good-by, pard. I'd rather
prospect than be newspaperin' Deb
Ter CHARACTERIZATION.
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1885-04-17

composed of the triune '.Publius.
whose papers appeared in the Indel
pendent journal or the General Adrer1
tiscr, which was issued in Hanover
Square semi-weekly. '.Publius' was
| the giant in the crowd of a hundred
names that filled the newspaper;
Cato, y ..Centinel," ..Brutus;" '.Brul
tus Junior" and "Cincinnatus, "a
Son Of Liberty" Observer" IAN
Officer in the Continental Army. "
Medium" "A Countryman." "A
Citizen,- IAN Old Whig." ..One of the
Common People," and more of the
same strain. whose essays would not
have seemed to Jefferson false or fabu-
lous or malignant. because they OPP
posed the adoption of the Constitution,
of which he also was exceedingly dis
trustful.
Jefferson's impatience and injustice
are as old as the modern newspaper
itself, which dates from the time when
it ceased to be mere gazette ofevents,
and began to comment upon events,
and advocate and oppose public poll
cies. and to discuss all public ques-
tons. In his censure jefferson con-
POUNDS two things-the actual news, or
reports of occurrences, and the re-
marks upon them. When he says that
a man deludes himself if he supposes
because he has read the papers that he
knows what has "passed in his time, "
he means that he has lost its signiti-
canoe if he has allowed the gazette to
interpret the news for him. Without
the record of current events a man
would be singularly uniformed. OF
course, however, even the editor OF
newspaper may share the frailty OF
common humanity. and misled by
passionate preference for his own view
and his own objects, he may dexter
ously color or ..cook' the news, in or
der. as it were. to turn it against itself,
or spike its own guns.
Thus. If he d sbelieves in the sea-ser-
pent and the telegraph announces from
Nantucket that yesterday afternoon at
four o'clock the serpent was distinctly
seen lying or swimming upon the sur
face of the water with a gently undu-
lating motion, its head raised and of
about the size of a barrel, etc, ETC., the
able editor can relieve his ceilings by
saying that it was string of old hogs
heads rolling upon the water, and that
the reporter of the spectacle was in that
condition which all good reporters
ought carefully to avoid. In like man.
ner the newspaper which states the
fact of discourse by Hortensius can
always slyly turn the fact against the
orator by observing that the effort was
far from what was expected, that the
audience was small and cold. and that
there was no applause. These last OBJ
servations might fall under the head of
what Jefferson calls lies. But certainly
the reader would know that Hortensius
had spoken.
A general onslaught upon the press,
like that by jefferson. is as droll as a
similar yituperaton of the weather; for
the press Will always reflect the time
and the community in which it exists.
Geo. William Curtis, in Hdrper's
Magazine.
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1885-04-17
THE NEWSPAPER.

Jeferson's Pessimlstic Remarks Upon the
Fourth Estate Of the Repuhllc.
The London Times has just com.
pleted its hundredth year. But it is
not as old as our Newport Mercury,
upon which DIR. Franklin did journey
work in his prentice days. It is of q
graceful salutation to a centenarian
journal to recall Jefferson's remark in
letter written in 1907, that nothing
can now be believed which is seen in q
newspaper. Truth itself becomes sus-
pc Gus by being put in that polluted
vehicle. The real extent of this misin.
formation is known only to those who
are in situations to confront facts with.
in their knowledge with the lies Of the
day.. really look with commiseration
over the great body of my fellow-citi-
zens who. read ng newspapers, live and
die in the belief that they have known
something of what has been passing in
their time; whereas the accounts they
have read in newspapers are Just as
true history of any other period Of
the world as of the present, except that
the real names of the day are affixed to
their fables. will add that the man
who never looks into q newspaper is
better informed than he who reads
them, inasmuch as he who knows moth
ing is nearer the truth than he whose
mind is filed with falsehood and err
rors. He who reads nothing will still
learn the great facts, and the details
are all false"
These extremely pessimistic remarks
upon q power which calls itself the
fourth estate of the realm, and which.
as Thackeray said of a certain gentle
man, thinks no small potatoes Of itself,
occurs in q letter to Mr.. John Noryell.
replying to request to mention o good
elementary work upon civil govern
ment. jefferson mentions Locke, Sid
ney, Priestley. Chapman. and the Fed
eraiist, with Beccaria, Smiths Wealth
of Nations" and Says .Pol teal Econ
omy." which he says is not yet trans
lated into English The observations
upon the press are by far the most pun
gent and energetic in the letter, and
they show-for it was toward the end
of his second term-that jefferson had
felt the thrusts of the Federal news
papers. But Jefferson had also taken
. hand in the game. While he was
still Secretary of State he made Philip
Freneau translator in the State Depart
ment. and Freneau's paper assailed
Washington and Hamilton. and, q
was understood. not only with the
countenance. but with the aid Of the
Secretary.
The reader pcrceives also that JeiIer-
son winds up this tremendous feu dc
joie against the falsity and worthless
ness Of newspapers with . letter in
which he recommends, among. the few
sources Of sound knowledge upon the
subject Of civil government. series a
nsvspsper essayA The Fsdealise W.
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1885-04-17
o
SEASlCkNESS.
a New England Doctor anggeses ~ n
May be Prevented - =.

a New England Doctor Rnegeses u6e \
- May be Prevented. : - -
The sem:-circular canals OF the -
nal ears are nowadays .pretty ven -
derstood p0tst0 be organs Of hearing
but of equilibrium. The sensation III
normally give us is that OF chknge =
direction and speed in the m0v y
of our head through space. Wha
over-excited they gave rise to vertits
and nausea A large percentages q
deaf mutes,s in whom the canals -
presumably, thrown out of function
are insusceptible of icing ma&e dizzy:
OF considerable number of inch desi
mutes who had been exposed to seoeIe1'
ness, none, with the exception OF ~
doubtful cases. hadeyer suffered. AZ
these facts lead TO the hypothesis -
seasickness may arise. in the hrSs =
stance, from the. over-excitMsgf i
these sensitive organs, and,
they lead to the practical suGgs
that such over-excitement .might =
warded off or allayed by '-counte57
tation'a which consists in blister
otherwise reddening the skin ahovee
behind the ear. The experimcst -
simple, and would be. if successful
pregnant of relief that it seems 49,
It should not be tested by iargs
Der of persons. have tried Il a ~.
twice. The first time was on the
ish Channel, ON very rough
when every one around me was ~
lently sick. / simply rubbed y,
behind my ears till it was slientm
coriated. An incipient nausea1
l felt at the end of the first ban
completely vanished as the senaf'e
cutaneous burning became strong
crossing the Atlantic was less s. ~.
full buf my seasickness -
anomalous. its principal U1pPWa
ing a high fever and no nauseaA -
do not consider the failure 70 - - =;
tation of the method. 1t may p
the latter will serve for short expsso
like channel voyages, but NOT tor ~
ones. At any rate. the scientinc
sumption in favor of its utilifyT
tainfy large enough to warrant 49, ~
mentation by any one who dre4 S
direst of all forms of MISERY
William Jones, Cambridge. Mas e
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1885-04-17
A MANS SPHERES.

When mans babe and has to crawl,
What Il 1t that makes crazy all!
When he's boy and fall of fun.
what does he hit you with and run?
SNOWFALL
When he's a youth what does he play
To MAIN himself and comrades gay?
Base. ball.
When n young man and fond OF girls,
What keeps him up ali night In whirls?
What sends fiutter to his heart
And fixes In 1t Cupid's dart?
Eye-balls
When fond of poker, dress and smoke.
What helps him out when he is broker
Three balls.
At college, at his pas expense,
What does he learn to show his sense?
Foot ball.
What takes his money every night,
And makes him swear and drink and fight;
Billiard bills.
What does his landlady, sedate,
Pass him each morning on plate?
Fish-balls
When he is old and wisdom knows,
Head-ball-d.
And then, just when he wants to stay,
Terrestrial ball.
n. c. Dodge, In Chicago San
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1885-04-17
A WISE FATHER.


Humor n bad Thing. But Candidacy Fo
Congress Quite Another.
$50 You are going to start humor
GUS paper, said an old gentleman t
his SON.
"Yes, sir. Have you any advice t.
offer?''
Don't start it.'
"Why?"
''Oh. there are many reasons. some
of which, in most serious manner,
shall give you. The quality of humor
is Unborn, but the employment of its
finer forces requires the most careful
cultivation. The rough semi-vulgar
sketch is not humor. 1t may create s
laugh, but it is not humor. Do you re
member what Addison says of humor?'
mo, SIR
slave you ever read Addison?'
"Very little"
"What have you read?'
'Oh, l don't know what all. I,
would take me some time to enumer.
ate.n
II don't think it would. How is your
imagination-yery good?'
mo. Sir. can't say that il is.
''Ah, hah. suppose that you will
attempt to make people laugh?r
''Oh. yes, sir. +"
ga fatal error. young man. People
can be slyly drawn into mirth, but you
can not shove them into it. We can
persuade men to weep, but we can not
force them. You no doubt have good
supply of original jokes"
"Yes. sir. / think so.''
''Tell me a few"
II can't tell them.r
well. sit down there and write me
one"
The young man wrote the following:
''Sebles0n went to see his girl the 9TH
er night. The old man was at the
lodge. Sebleson enjoyed himself pref
ty well. The girl brought in some pie.
The young fellow said it was first rate,
and asked her If she made it. She said
yes. .Ah. replied the young man,
anybody who can make such pie
ought to make good wife, Then
they both laughed. Did YOU ever
make any pie?' she asked. No. said
he. but have killed sight of it -
is that alp" asked the old gentle
man when the humorist had, with elo-
cutionary effect, read the production
Yes, but could make it longer
Don't do it. ~.
Father, l am afraid you don't like
humor."
81 am afraid so."
"You didn't smile, but will YOU lend
me o., 0oO?''
What, do you want topay people to
laugh?"
"Oh, no, want to buy MATERIAL
why. you intend to print the paper.
.O course -
"Oh. no. I can not let you have the
money"
Il tell what thought, father. You
have been suggested as suitable can
didate for Congress. Well. nothing
more than a good joke helps man po-
litically. l thought that you might get
off several good jokes about yourself
and that could print them. OF course
everything from you would be interest
ing. You have great imagination,
and have read Addison you-'s
Two thousand dollars, you saw
Hand me that check-book, please. OF
course do not expect to be a candidate
but say, if I were elected, 1 could
make the country laugh. couldn't IP''
-ArkansaU Traveller.
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1885-04-17
A Northern contractor gfzdiu9

A Northern contractor GRIM
railroad in the South had cons
trouble with his negro lssoEe -
complained to friend Of Their ~
ness. Discharge the leader o -
gang said thelatter. land g.
man who can sing lively song.
was done, and the design hao cs
sired eject, the negroes cn
shoyels moving obediently to the
dy.-C@cago Tribune,
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1885-04-17
A COLORADO PIONEER.
His Experience AS q Professional
Prospector.
II "lGakes Him Tired" to Hear Tender.
feet-Talk About the Business-A
Letter That Young Man In
the East Wrote Him.


1t sounded like brass knuckles, that
rap on the door last evening when, in
response to q correspondingly vigorous
..come in" q stalwart, pleasant-faced
man, clad in slickenside canvas suit,
entered with resounding step. sugges-
tive OF robust health and hob-nailed
boots. and in ringing tones inquired:
Are you the mining sharp of this
here paper?"
Yes; take seat and tell me all
about it.
Tell you all about what?"
s'Why, your big strike. of course;
how many thousands of dollars it runs
and you only want capitalist with a
few hundred dollars and lots of grub
to make it the biggest bonanza in Colo
RADIO"
s.Now, hold on, pard. you're dead of
the trail this shift; l only want to show
you letter.
..Oh. that's it; your pard has struck
Il, and you want to sell an interest to
90 and join him and stake of the whole
country"
mo. you're on the wrong lead again.
I've got letter from tenderf0ot who
wants to come out here and prospect
for mines"
ssWell, why don't you let him come
as one OF the grana army OF prosPec-
tors who swarm through the gulches
and climb the rugged peaks OF our
: mountain ranges!
"1ou We caught ON, that's the hoat
follow 1t up and you'H INT the vein
cropping right through the surface
Ienderfeet make the best kind OF
prosPectors, don't they
ssPard. now you're on the pay streak
% dead moral certainty. and I'll do
the assessment work for You free gratis
Tor nothin y your put u In the paper
my darn fool friend back in the
States.
IAN rignt nre away, ana make 1t
short
Weil TINS CHAP writes that times
wages down-he's clerk in dry
goods store-and 80 ne says he'll quit.
come out here ilnd rich mine and 90
back thar ana sell IT.
whats wrong about thatT Amt
ne g liable 70 ma good mine - any
u0uys
Now you're gittin' right down to
! ned-sock business IT'S al wrong, both
e theory and In practice. Nobody
nnds . mine. II takes money, and
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1885-04-17

A Description Of . Portion of the Pres
emit Seat of War In That Country.
He who has never travelled through
the desert can not form just idea
of that strange and marvellous region, in
which all the ordinary conditions of
life are completely changed. It is es-
sentially waterless land, without riv-
ers, creeks. riyulets, or springs. Once
away from the Nile, the only supply of
water is derived from deep wells, few,
scanty. and far apart. Long droughts
are frequent. When I explored the
great Arabian Desert between the Nile
and the Red Sea, it had not rained for
three years; and when l travelled over
the Suakim route and through KordO-
fan. no rain had fallen for two years.
Between the twenty-ninth and the nine
teenth degree Of latitude it never rains
at ali. Water becomes precious to q
degree beyond the conception of those
who have never known its scarcity.
Members Of the Catholic mission
at Ell Obeid. where water
is much more plent full than
in the deserts, assured me that the
summer before water had been sold as
high as half a dollar a gallon by the
proprietors of the few wells that had
not dried up. When long droughts oc-
cur. the always scanty crop of doura
fails away from the Nile, and the
greater parts of the flocks and herds
perish, as well as q considerable part
of the population. Itfollows naturally
that when undertaking a journey
through the DESERT the paramount
question is water. A supply must be
carried sufficient to last to the next
well. be it one or five days distant. 1t
is usually carried in goat and OK skins
suspended from the camels' pack sad
dies. These are the water-bottles of
Scripture. which become leaky from
wear, and always lose considerable
portion of their contents by evapora-
ton. The first thing after reaching a
well is to ascertain the quality Of its
water. As to the former, it may
have been exhausted by
preceding caravan, and hours
may be required for o new supply TO
ooze in again. As to the quality, desert
water is generally bad, the exception
being when it is worse, though long
custom enables the Bedouins to drink
water SO brackish as to be intolerable
to all except themselves and their
fiocks. Well do / remember how at
each well the first skinful was tasted
all around as epicnres sip rare wines.
Great was the JOY if it was pronounced
..m0yG heftrd." sweet water; but # the
Bedouins said ''moosh tayi6. not good,
we might be sure it was a solution OF
EPSON salts The best water is found
in natural rocky reservoirs in deep mar.
row gorges where the sun never shines.
As to live spr ngs." l never saw more
than half dozen in six thousand miles
travel. General Cotston, in Century.
The o1ov,rae< ,,ou Loo-.l e r.
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1885-04-17

The clevcrest man heard of for
some time is he who, becoming bald. had
four wigs made, the hair of one short, the
hair of the next trifie longer, the hair
Of the third longer still. and the hair
Of the fourth quite too long for beauty.
He wears each week, beginning with
the former. The effect achieved is the
same . though his hair was growing
When he gets to the long one and has
worn II week he changes 20 the short
one again. and his friends and acquain-
ta0coB not IN the secret belicve he has
visited . Observation-Disclosures bst-
JoDiN.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1885-02-19
THE STATE SANITARY ASSOCIATION,

Held a two days session In Columbus
last week, From their proceedings as
published, we CLEAN the following:
DR.. Childs, Of Akron, read n paper on
Sewer aud Surface Drainage and Com
buatiOn,"
DR., sluaaer, of Canton, on tho "TO.
bacco HAbi."-its effect upOn the mind
and body, advocating the passage OF q
law prohibiting the sale Of tobacco TO
minors,
DR.. Won Kline, OF Dayton, had a paper
on "rhe Disposal OF Sewage and its Uti-
lizAtion," the purport OF which was.
that IL could DO converted into fuel
equal TO nd cheaper I q coal.
Prof, Nelson, OF Delaware, read q
lengthy paper on "The Relation Of the
Literary 10 musical Colleges"
DR., Ricketts,, OF Portsmouth, gave a
history Of the Ohio floods of 1884 and
their sanitary results, proving by NOR.
tuary reports, that there had been less
sickness and fewer deaths than for
years previous TO the foods, though the
contrary was predicted.
This was accounted for by the wash.
Ing away OF debris. DR.. Scott, PfOtes.
sor OF Adelbert College, Cleveland,
opened the evening session with q paper
on Hygiene OF the Working Glasses "
In which no called attention TO the foul
underclothlng oftlimes worn by these
classes, In which they sleep, The farm.
Ing class were arralgned M being guilty
OF the same Objectionable habit, Tho
statement was made that there was u
greater number Of deaths and more
sickness In the country In proportion 10
tho population, than In t0wns. This
was attributed to q disregard Of the
laws Of health among the rural pOpu.
latl0n, more than with town people.
On the second day Professor 0rtop, Of
The safe University, read an interest
Ing paper on Sewage" saying II ought
not to DO emptled into rivers, but should
DO utilized IN fortili2ing material,
claiming that IL would pay. lie said the
people should demand aud insist upon
having all vaults and cess' pools cement.
cd,
DR.. Silver, OF Sidney. read a paper on
Heating and Ventilation" which was
highly commended. He favored the
Rutan system, the same adopted by our
new High School building.
Or. Reed, Of Mansfield, was heard on
the Climatic Changes In Ohio. from the
Destruction OF the Forests and the
Drainage OF the In ID, and its effects ON
tho Health Of the people" He account.
cd for the change In the constitution Of
man, and the forms OF disease.
A resolution was adopted advocating
the establishment OF local Sanitary 80.
cieties throughout the State for tho dif.
fuslon OF knowledge pertaining 10 the
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1885-02-19
"CLEvELAND's LACK OF EXPERT
ENCEl"

EDITOR DEMocRAT:-The Republicans
nesd not fear or trouble about the
President elect, Cleyeland's experience.
He cannot do worse than the galaxy
OF the Republican party have done.
They have us over head aud cara In
debt. Public lands given away to power
full m%onopOlies, and absent landlords.
tho great bug bear Of Ireland, and the
whole country, In a state OF m%istrust,
almost amounting In places 10 rebellion,
to.wit, the Hooking Valley; all the re-.
suit OF running things at break neck
speed, and based on unjust and un-
equal laws.
What we want Is honesty. A man
wants no experience 10 be honest, II Ia
The tricklter, and dish0nestschemer that
needs TO DO trained. Christ says: "If
thy eye be single thy whole body
shall be full OF Hight, but II thy eva be
evil, then thy whole lody shall be full OF
darkness" Seek 20 1rsI the kingdom OF
God, 1. 0, the kingdom of good FOR God
~ good, The kingdom Of righteousness,
Justice and equality in law, 'and all
other things shall b9 added thereunto,"
surely they do not mean that Cleveland
does not understand The lawsl
Our boast Ia that Cleveland IA IN hon
est man, willing 10 be President OF the
United STATES, aud TO work with n single
eye and pure motive for the gOol of all
the peoples not OF the few, not the Dem.
oeratic party alone, but the citizens OF
the United States.
Let tho Republicans cease their chat.
Ing, read the lrst psalms, and get their
berths prepared. and themselves ready
70 do their duty honestly, and they will
mud that the captain will DO found equal
TO the position, the people OF the United
states have thought III 10 entrust 10
him.
One ls almost led to conclude that n
certain class Of Republicans (so. cailed)
do not belong TO the United States, but
only TO the Republican party, and all
who do not fall down TO them and
worship them are rebels. But every
honest citizen OF the United States will,
In tho words OF Christ, say: Get thee
behind me Satan, for IL IL written, thou
shalt worship the Lord thy God-(good)
and him only shalt thou serye."'
JOHN 8, MILLER