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The Arizona sentinel., 1886-05-15
GUARDING THE RICH.
How Jay Gould Protects Himself Against
 the Attacks of His Enemies.

The private service for the protection of the Vanderbilts, Astors and Gould was organized three years ago, and is ostensibly separate for each family, though the men who defend the Van- derbilts and Astors are provided by the same establishment and work together. Regular patrol duty is done, night and day, and twenty detectives are exclu- sively employed for the purpose. There are four Astor residences and five be- longing to the Vanderbilts, all in or close to Fifth avenue, between Thirty third and Fifty-second streets. The spies are on watch eight hours each per day, and the beats are so arranged that the nine houses can not be approached unseen by one or more of the guardsmen. William H. Vanderbilt was the origina- tor of this system, and he was melted to it by the large number of cranky letters which he received. He professed to have no fear of rational evil-doers, but was apprehensive that maniacs might attack him or some member of his fam- ily. Since his death the mails have been laden with all sorts of appeals, demands and threats directed to his sons.
 Jay Gould's self-protection is more secret and characteristic. He does not trust it to detective agency, but hires his own body guard. For years he has been always accompanied by stalwart young fellow. But that is a safeguard against Wall Street enemies. Cranks who might cut up capers in or around his home are under the view of spies whose quarters are in room of the Windsor Hotel, across the way. That is additional to patrol duty done by a separate set of men. These employees of the millionaire families, whose names are poor peoples synonyms for wealth, are kept informed as to every new dem- onstration by crank, and they are alert to descry and drive off the monomaniacs who attempt any exploits. During the Western strikes Jay Gould made the trips between his home and office in a cab, instead of elevated car, as former ly; and it is observed that ring at his bell brings sauntering watchman to the foot of the steps about as quickly as it does the servant to the top.-N. r. Cor. MiloCduEee Sentinel.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-05-15
CHINESE THEATERS.
The Peculiarities of One of the Oldest In-
 stitutions of the Celestial Empire.

The Peculiarities of One of the Oldest In-
 stitutions of the Celestial Empire.
 In China, where every thing is old, the stage is one of the oldest and most popular of institutions. It is recognized as moral agency, and it is kept from backsliding by edicts the most rigorous in intention, the most respectable in quality; its drama fills some thousands of volumes; it has its laws, its cOnven- tions, its traditions, its genres, its type, for all the world like the great theaters of the West. As in Japan to-day, as in seventeenth-centuryF France and Jacob can England, its servants are outcasts and celebrities at once. It is the thing for high-toned Mandarins and persons of consideration to have play-houses of their own Gas was the fashion in France of Pompadour and Mime. de Maine) and to treat their guests to after dinner performances by companies specially engaged; while as for strollers playing for the million, the Flowery Land may fairly be said to teem with them. It costs little or noth- ing to manage travelling theater. we are told Given a few boards, bamboos for columns, mats for matching, painted cloth or two for wings and background, as many benches as your space will hold, and by the side, or in corner of the city square, the house can be run up in a couple of hours. The denzens of the quarter suscribe; the local Man. darin assists, and straightway the theater is in full working order. Costumes, scenery, appointments--to all these luxuries the Chinese is pro- foundly indifferent. He asks no more than good play and half a dozen ac- tors; that much is enongh for him. He has, says General Tcheng, the true sentiment of the stage, the right play goer's instinct and capacity; he is in- terested not in spectacle, but in drama and in histrionics; he supplies the nec- essary illusion from within, and to him those European theaters, where noth- ing has been forgotten save the acting and the play, would seem a weariness and mockery.-Saturday ReUteW.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-05-15
A BABY'S REFLECTIONS.

What It Can Do, and Its Opinion of
 Mothers-Not Half as Sweet as Sugar.
 five been baby. all my life, but 1 expect to get over it some time. I used to be little bit of baby. and now I'm very large one, indeed. I can do lots of things. can pull over the work-basket. and tear up the morn- ing paper, and play with the earth in the fiower-pots. can take hold of the table-cloth, and pull it of the table. But I don't like to. That's a thing you only want to do once, be- cause they t0iH set all sorts of things on a table-cloth, and it isn't nice when they come tumbling down on your head.
 ." can walk a little, too, but my feet have way of wabbling about, and getting all tangled up in each other, and then sometimes the floor jumps up and gives me bump. They think kissing the place stops the hurt ing, but it dOn't-though it helps.
 "Mothers are nice things to have. They'd be nicer if they didn't keep coming at you to wash your face, and always put you to bed just when you feel like having big time with papa They do these things because they think they know more than 8 baby does. I am willing to believe they do in some things, but they do make mis- takes sometimes. For instance-minc kisses and kisses me till I'm all out of breath, and says:
 "'Ou teeny, weeny, hweet, hweet. itty sing! Gu is hweete'n sugar.
 "One day I thought I'd try if that was SO. gave my thumb good bite, but it wasn't half as sweet as sugar! I squalled like every thing, because it hurt, and because I was, of course. dis appointed. I've nothing against thumbs, for they're very good in their way. They last. You can suck one half 8 day, and they're just as good as ever. If you suck sugar in a rag, it's all gone very soon, and then you're sticky-which wouldn't matter, only you're sure to get washed. But it's no use to talk about me being as sweet as sugar, you see.
 Another baby came here one day, and his mother made the same mis- take. He isn half so big as me, and he can't do any thing smart. Never pulled table-cloth down in his life that I heard of. His mother said to him: Will lou sitty downy on e floor, lou cunny wunny? Gu hweety, weetiest sing in e whole worldr
 ''Then she sat him on the floor. Of course I wanted to find out about that. crept up, and took good bite of his arm. It wasn't bit sweeter than my thumb. but he squalled louder than l did. You ought to have seen how they grabbed him up and hugged him, and made fuss over him. And pointed to the pretty little tooth-marks made on this arm, and said: .Ah-h-h-naughty naughty!'-to me.
 "What do you think of that, now, for a way to treat baby that wants to find out about things? Kouth's Cont pGnio1.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-05-15
TRAFFIC IN BABIES.
Women Who Adopt Poor Children fol
 Purposes of Speculation.

Women Who Adopt Poor Children for
 Purposes of Speculation.
 '1 know of one woman out Penn avenue who makes business of going to the poor-farms and other institutions and securing babies. The law will not allow one person to have more than two of these babies at once, so they get their quota and proceed to rear them in the way they should go. The child in surance man is hunted up and an in- surance that would yield about seventy dollars in case of death and call for premium of about five cents a week is taken out on the child's life. I have given this matter very careful attention, and find that none of these children taken away from the poor-farm ever live more than about five months. Itis very remarkable thing. No doctor is called until after the child is dead. The doctor knows nothing of the child's illness and after looking at the corpse and hearing the statements of its adopted mother in regard to the symp- toms gives her a certificate to the 6U6CG IIldU IH6 CHILLI ul0u ITOm SpdSNlS (natural causes.) With this certificate in hand the broken-hearted foster mother hastened at once to the insurance office to get her seventy dollars. No sooner is that safely deposited in her ex- chequer that she is again seen at the poor-farm, begging for another child. It is almost impossible to obtain evi- dence to convict in case like this. If I were to attempt a prosecution without the most positive proof of guilt, or reasonably well-founded grounds for the same, I would be held to answer both civilly and criminally. have tried very hard to get some evidence on two or three women that I have been watching, but without very good results. Ido not mean to say that the poor-farm authori- ties are in any way responsible for giv- ing out these children. Many poor go there and, being unable to support child, give it away to the first woman that comes after baby, and this the farm management can not stop. Mrs. Myers, of Pittsburgh.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-05-15
THE PRAIRIE CHICKEN.
Some Points Not Mentioned in Curren
 Natural Histories.

Some Points Not Mentioned in Current
 Natural Histories.
 The prairie chicken is the leading game bird inhabiting this region. It is somewhat smaller than the ordi- nary domestic hen found scratching in the garden and flies faster when you are shooting at it. It seems to have acquired the fly habit early in youth and it hangs on. After a hunter has shot five dollars worth of ammunition into the limitless void from whence the prairie chicken recently flew he is sell dom adverse to stating, for publication if necessary, that in his opinion its fly education has been far from neglected.
 During the spring season of the year the prairie chicken is engaged in look ing the ground over and chanting it's low, captivating melody before break fast. As soon as the weather will per init. the hen will withdraw from the whirl of social life and lay seventeen ashes-of- gum-shoe-colored eggs in a nest in the grass. Seldom waiting to be asked she then takes her seat and for the space of three almanac weeks seems to De 1OSG III Ill0ulJdIlOH.
 Probably one of the most pleasing sights in nature is a prairie hen thus buried in thought and speculating as to how she will probably feel after waiting three weeks for breakfast.
 At the end of the time seventeen young prairie chickens came out of the shells and commence to fly while the hen gives up her sedentary life and swallows young and inexperienced grasshopper.
 August 15 the local paper announces in its first editorial that prairie chick ems are now ripe" This means that the minions of the law will not talk about arresting you if you shoot oue on or after that date. The prairie chicken is now much wilder than before. As soon as the sixty-dollar bird dog sits down violently on the short and stunt ed rose bush the chicken flies up. The experienced hunter at this point shoots and brings down the bird. The one who isn't quite so heavily charged with ex- perience blazes away and kills the dog. Also he frequently arranges to have his gun explode and blow off three of his fingers.
 Prairie chicken properly cooked is much sought after by the epicure. Also by the man who is pretty laundering hungry. As humble representative of the latter class we have frequently over powered large and satisfactory quanti- ties of cooked prairie hen with the best ofresults.
 The thoughtful student of current events has probably noticed that this is a far from perfect life. There are draw backs even to prairie chicken mastica- tion. There is the bird-shot which il brings upon the table concealed about it's person. When coming down upon a piece of prairie chicken spare-rib with both feet, fguratively speaking, it is very uncomfortable to have shot shove a tooth into your jaw bone about .an inch and half After protracted en- gagement with roast prairie chicken seasoned with No. 6 shot we have had our teeth become so overloaded with lead that our under jaw has hung down like an old boot sole ripped of clear back to the heeL-EsteIlise 70. T. Bell,
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-05-15
Who Are Your Companions7

A boy is known by the company he keeps. You are judged by your associ- ates, for the very good reason that people usually select for their friends those who are Tn sympathy with them selves.
 If suspicion in a school trouble of any sort falls upon lad or a set of lads, you may be certain that they have been companions in mischief. Wrong-doing is much like snow-ball rolling down hill; it gathers size and momentum as it goes. If bad boy could always keep good company. few. persons would credit him with badness. But bad boy would be i'll at ease among the good, and so you seldom find him in their society.
 May your Aunt Majorie explain that she is not one of those tiresome people who never have patience with fun, and who consider nigh spirits and merri- ment out of place? Indeed, no. When there is frolic going on, count me in, if you please. Under the head of bad ness, I include the meanness which makes boy tell lie rather than own that he has been in the wrong; the malice which prompts him to play . practical joke. and the lack of principle which borrows and does not return.
 There are diseases which are con- tagious, that is, communicated by the touch We are very careful not to put ourselves in their way. The worst disease in the world which affects only the body is, however, to be preferred to a wrong condition of the soul. and the best way to keep out of that is to choose good companions and avoid bad ones. .-Au'st Mgorie Precept, tD Har- per's Young People.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-05-15
Electric Rat Cremation.

A rat, while attempting to escape from human enemies in the electric light station in Reading, Pa., a few weeks ago, jumped directly to the floor on to one of the brushes and was thrown back to the ground. He lay motionless, ap- parently and certainly dead, but with out even hair burned. One of the en- ployes was sent with shovel to gather it up, but as soon as the shovel touched it the rat fell to dust, with little cloud of particles rising from the place where its body had seemingly lain. There was no vestige of hair, flesh or bones re- maining. It is not generally known. probably, that Prof Wood, of the Fuller Wood American Electric) Company, cremated rat by electricity some four unnre "r~ Electrical Revieac.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-05-15
VOLUME XIV.
THE LAWYERS WooING.

e.1 have an Attachment for you,"
 The lawyer told Ethel one night, "And for your affections, I Sue
 My Case is of love at first sight. ~'And in my best Suit have come
 To Court-but," the lawyer low spoke, ''I sit by your stove very dumb
 And burn your pas Blackstone and Coke. Ny Foolscap wear like dunce- haven't the courage to Plead, And life will be Brief if this once
 You don't take the Will for the Deed" "Consider Pve 'popped' and Decide
 If you will Retain me or not; O. Judge how lover is Tried
 Who can not Appeal from his lot, '1'm told, sir, you stand at the Bar And Cross Questions ask" said the maid, "And make people Swear, and you are Too Fee Bill to live, Pm afraid" 60, miss, I Object and take
 Exceptions to all that you say A Motion to go I shall make
 If you do not grant me Stay" "Well, then, 1 won't Witness you woe," She said, "and my words withdraw I'll Try you be Cause, Sir, know
 Your need of a mother-in-L Law
 HI. c. Dodge, in GoOddPs Sun.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-05-15

The above programme, rigidly adhered to throughout the year, does not show that the Kings bed is one of roses. One has little idea, unless told, as have been, of the manifold duties resting upon him. There is brilliancy, no doubt, but it is coupled with misery and unhappiness, over which the shroud of secrecy hangs, compared with which the humblest cot is paradise.-R. J. Mooney, t'a Chicago Ne1CS.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-05-15

A New York judge has ruled that 8 husband is liable for slanderous words spoken by his wife. and on this ruling verdict of six cents was rem dered by jury against man whose wife had uttered the slander.-M F. Aail
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-05-15

A San Francisco woman asks for divorce on the ground that her husband .'dyed his hair with offensive and bad odored compounds. "-Snn FranciSca ChrOnicle
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-05-15

-"A man can not get along in the world without fair allowance of cheek" There are times when a pre- ponderance of chin will serve him as ruon X I,nlIn.nnanlIn,nf
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-11-03
wi.eonsin.

MINIATURES. November AIT this
hour, 10.I5, Indications point to the re-
election of Governor Rusk (Repuohcsp).
for Governor by a plurality OF from
6,OOO 10 1000. More sanguine Repub
Leans estimate II as high as IL COZ. Dat
the lsSor vo,e = 20 surprisingly heavy
tnat all figures arr but surmlses. In
Milwaukee County the labor party has
carried things by storm. Indications
point TO the election OF the entire labor
county ticket. Smith (labor) for Con
gress in the Fourth district is IN
doubtedly elected. In the second
district in which Delaney had so hard
a struggle with General Bragg for the
Democratic nomination, Guenther is
undoubtedly elected. He is the present
representative in the Sixth district, bat
failed of denomination, and was placed
In nomination against Delavey as car
pet Dagger" in the Sixth. At the Demo
cratic headquarters in this city the
election Of Woodward for Governor is
claimed.
MILWAUKEE,, November 2.-The city
returns are coming in slowly, owing 10
the large number of scratched tickets
At 9 o clock the indications are that
II. nry Smith, labor c. ndidate, for Con-
ess, is elected and the entire labor
ticket with him. The returns from
towns NAV change this estimate, as II
s expected that TIE labor vote there Is
very lign:. Rusk, Republican, fol
Cover or, ran we In The entire county
and undoubtedly : as good plurality
IN this county over Woodward, Dem
ocrat.
1I.3O D. m-Repor,s from rural dis
tricts are swelling Rusk's plurality and
at the Republican headquarters between
Is 600 and 10000 plurality IS figured fol
Governor Rusk. In Milwaukee. &C
cordIng TO returns received up to II
O'Clock. Rusk had plurality OF /. IS;
over Woodland, Democrat, but COch
rane, Labor, had a plurality OF 2it
over Rusk. AID midnight il is con
coded that the entire State Republican
ticket has been elected by q handsome
majority, with Governor Rusk lead
ing. The plurality will probably
exceed 5000. The legislature goei
to the Republicans with
reduced majority on JOINT ballot. Tn,
Labor Party has elected from ten q
twelve members Of the legislature, anC
their leaders claim they have enough
10 hold the balance Of power. and thus
control the selection OF q United State:
senator. The Congressional delegation
will be-First District. L B. Cssve ]
Republican: Second District. RicharC
Guenther. Republican. a Republican
gain; Third District, L. NJ. Lstolette
Republican; Fourth District, Henri
Smith. Labor, q Republican loss; Fiji
District. Thomas Hudd, Democrat
Sixth District z. B. Clark, Republican
Seventh District. o. B. Thomas Repub
lie n: Eighth District, w. T. Price. he
pub,ican: Ninth District, Isaac Stephen
son, Republican.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-11-03

800 plurality, a Republican gain
OF SS5; Crawford County. Beaver
estimated at $50 plurality. q
kepuoiican gain of 511; Lebanon
county, Beaver, 2.100 plurality, q Re
puoncsn gain Of SIS Allegheny
county, Beaver. estimated at 5000. a
hepuoican gain of 5.lS5: Twenty-sec-
ond district. John Dalzell. Republican,
200 plurality; Twenty-third, Thomas
ID. Bsyne, Republican, 1000 plurality I;
the Republicans elect both Senators and
Twelve Representatives. The Demo
Gratis elect two Representatives. The
mslori1es cannot now be given. Berks
County, Black. $50 plurality, q Republi-
can gain of 2, go. Northampton County
Black, 800 majority, a Republican
gain OF l,l73; Lycoming County. Black,
estimated at 10 plurality. Republican
gain OF 62S; Montour County, Black,
100 plurality, Democratic gain of LIS.
chairman Cooper estimates Beaver
majority in the State at 10000.
a.m.- Only twenty eight out Of
sixty-sevsn counties in the State have
been heard from These show a
net gain for Beaver (Republi-
CAM of 67,253. This wipes out
Pattersen's plurality of 1852, and
gives Beaver plurality in the State OF
1851. The counties yet T. be heard
from will increase this largely.
Beavers plurality will reach close
upon 1000.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-11-03
Ohio.

ToLEDo, Nov nber 2-There will bt
heavy vote in this congressional dis.
trict The contest is close, with 9
driit OF feeling in favor OF Rorneis
election over Hurd by ma.
jori:y OF less than 500.
The Democrats concede the election OF
Kennels over Hurd, (Democrat). Ohio
sos precincts net n Republican gain Of
2,724.
CIScISSATI. November 2. The
polls closed in Cincinnati at pm.
after the most orderly and quiet cleo
Nearly the entire registered vote was
polled. The 6rst six precincts reported
showed q Republican gain of go, the
comparison being with the vote for
governor last year when Hoadley's
(DemocraD plurality was 6i6 l. HamIl-
ton County.
Ohio returns will be compared with
Governor Forsker's vote OF 1855, when
he had plurality of II 49,. There are
now l67 voting places in the State.
the total vote of 1855 was 73I, l95; the
Prohibition vote was IS 0Sl.
Twenty Ohio preciDc;s with total
Tot- Of ST ISL, show = net Republican
gain of l,O19. A large portion OF this Is
in Hamilton County. Baltimore re-
turns Of to-day's election in this city
are coming in. In the Third district.
Rsyne. Democrat, has carried every
ward heard from I'D TO this time.
ComptOn's, Democrat, msiority IN the
Seventeenth Ward of this city and
part of the Fifth district. Is over l 900.
which, ii is claimedi insures his cleo
ton.
CLKviLIxp November Returns
from one-third of the wards in Cieve
land including the TWenty-frst Con-
gressional district, show gains which
if kept up throughout the district. will
elect FoIan, Democrat, by J0J TO l .0o0
majority.
Return so far received cover about
one-third of the State. They show
slight changes in the counties outside
of Hamilton. where violent gains were
made in $ few of the wards. Setting
Hamilton County aside il appears that
the vote throughout the State
will. very nearly show The. same
majority as last year. Adding Hamil-
ton Iunty. the majority would iLdi-
cate q Republican majority OF from
is, 100 to 20 600. This may be modised by
later returns, showing exceptional gains
but tie present outlook is as above
stated.
The chairman OF the Ohio Republican
State committee claims the State by -.
90 and fifteen Congressman sure with
two districts doubtful. Williams
Republican. for Congress. carried the
Soldiers Home at Dayton by 800
majority. Seven hundred End twenty
Ohio precincts, give 3 net Republican
gain off 25S.
CoLUNBUs, November 2.-The Rspub-
lican Stste committee claims the cleo
ton of sixteen Congressman. 6 Repub-
lican gain Of siI, and comedies the
election Of five Democrats. The
Democratic committee claims the eiec.
ton Of six Congressman.