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The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-09-07
Income from the Moose.

The few moose yet in Names woods
bring no inconsiderable money annual
ly to the State. | have been told of
one man who has spent S., 600 in Maine
trying to kill moose, and he has
neither secured the moose nor given
up the task. 1t would be greatly to
the benefit of hunters who wish to call
moose if the law was changed so as to
make September an open month, for
only during the September moon is
there a reasonable prospect of success
in calling. 1t was once my pleasure to
meet a sportsman just in from moose
calling. His Indian had called a moose
to the water, but was unable to get
him to come out of the bushes, and a
shot into the shadows was unsuccess-
full. Said the hunter: 81 have never
seen any sporting to compare with
this. / could hear the moose coming
for an hour, and when he came down
off the hills to the water could think
of nothing but a locomotive off the
track and running through the woods.
| have killed no moose, but that ex-
perience was worth all this trip cost
me. 1t fairly made my hair stand on
end to hear that moose come. Yes,
sir; it was worth $3.50 of any mans
money. Forest and Stream,
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-09-07
Southern Negro Superstitions.

Women in the North have trouble
enough over the servant girl question,
but their ways are paths of pleasant
ness compared with those of Southern
women-except that the Southern wo-
man is less disturbed over the more
serious situation. When a Virginia
woman wants to change girls she is
compelled to go at least three days
without any girl at all. The kitchen
help is black, OF course. and supersti-
tious No colored girl will go into a
house until three days after the retir-
ing help has vanished, for fear of being
"tricked'' in other words, hoOdoOed,
placed under a spell-by the dismissed
help. Whatever the colored person
doesn't understand he fears. He is full
of superstitions, believes in good luck
from the rabbit foot when in his own
possession, and in bad luck when it is
''put on him" Not long ago a large
number of negroes were on Virginia
railroad platform waiting for train to
take them to a picnic ground. A Bos-
ton drummer, with face as serious as
a parsons, took piece of chalk and a
rabbit foot, and in the most business
like way began to make crosses on the
backs of the negroes and touch them
with the rabbit foot The crowd broke
for the woods in panic and there was
no picnic that day.-Milwaukee Sem
tinel.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-09-07
PITH AND POINT.

When you introduce a moral les
son let it be brief.
Fortune does not change the char
Rcter, but it reveals it.
1t is not good that repels or evil
that attracts, but the monotony of good
and the variety in evil.-Atchison
Globe.
What glorious world this would
be if people lived up to the epitaphs
on their Observation-Disclosures
(Kas.) News.
Most mems experience is like the
stern lights of ship which illumine
only the track it has passed.
The character of men placed in
lower stations of life are more useful,
as being imitable by great numbers. :
Atterbury.
Every man has his chain and his
clog, only it is looser and tighter to
one man than to another. And he is
more at ease who takes it up than he
who drags it.
Man doubles all the evils of his
fate by pondering over them; a scratch
becomes wound, slight an injury
jest an insult, small peril great
danger, and slight sickness often
ends in death by brooding apprehen-
sions.
In all that we do we have a right to
consider the effect it will have upon
our characters, or upon the upbuild-
ing and development of our higher
natures. No man is required to do
what will belittle him. United Pres
byterian.
If a man wish to rightly grow in
grace he must accustom himself to see
and look at the larger things in life,
and the larger world in which he
lives. A constant attention to the lit
tie will dwarf him, and finally unfit
him for his place among other men.
He that will not permit his wealth
to do any good to others while he is
living prevents it from doing any good
to himself when he is dead, and by an
egotism that is suicidal and has a
double edge, cuts himself off from the
truest pleasure and the highest happi-
ness hereafter.
Men may experiment in certain
lines in social intercourse after mas
terlng the forms long usage has proved
good, but to cling to peculiar ways of
their own. that are not agreeable or
that fail to show the hearts kindness,
limits the mans power as the use of a
cradle in the wheatfeld limits the
man who SCOTS at the self-binder his
neighbor uses
1t is not usually those who are in
the direst poverty that are the most in
veterate borrowers. 1t is much more
frequently those who allow their
desires for superfuities to outrun their
ability to obtain them that resort to
this dangerous and insidious practice.
All such desires grow by what they
feed on, and become more and more
exacting; while the strict rectitude
which can not brook the long cOntinu-
ance Of debt is gradually impaired
Onoa n Waal-
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-09-07
NUMBER Al.

for the last two years had been twelve
hundred dollars So when we made
him the offer to become a partner in
the business, and suggested that it
would be more satisfactory if he could
put some money into the firm. he re-
piled:
elf ten thousand dollars will be any
object can put in that much. have
saved out of my salary nine thousand
four hundred dollars, and my sister will
let me have six hundred
II can tell you that / was never
more astonished in my life than when
the fellow said he could put in ten
thousand dollars, and the most of it his
own money. He had never spent a
dollar, or twenty-five cents, or five
cents for an unnecessary thing, and
had kept his money in bank where it
gathered a small interest. l am a great
believer in the Bible, you know, and /
always kept two placards in big letters
up in the store. On one was this text:
He that is faithful in that which is
least, is faithful also in that which is
much;' and on the other: He that is
diligent in business, shall stand before
kings and not before mean men, And
Frank Jones success was the literal
fulfllment of those two texts He had
been faithful in the smallest things as
in the greater ones. and diligent in busi-
ness. That kind of a boy always sue
ceeds;" concluded Mr.. Alden.
A small boy of ten, who had listened
to the story with eager eyes, aswell as
ears. said:
''But we don't have any kings in
this country, Mr.. Alden, for diligent
boys to stand before!
'Yes, we do. laughed Mr.. Alden.
1--WE have more kings here than in any
other country in the world. We have
money kings, and business kings, and
railroad kings, and land kings, and mer--
chant kings, and publishing kings, and
some of them WELD an enormous power.
This is a great country for kings. -
Wide Awake.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-09-07
TWO GIRLS.
The More There Are Like Them tn.
Better for All Concerned.

The More There Are Like Them the
Better for All Concerned.
We have reason to believe that the
type of girlhood described in the fol-
lowing extract from an article in the
Christian Advocate may be found in
the homes of many of our readers; and
the more of such girls the better:
There is girl, and love to think of
her and talk of her, who comes in late
when there is company. who wears a
pretty little air of mingled responsibility
and anxiety with her youth, whom the
others seem to depend on and look to
for many comforts. She is the girl who
helps mother.
In her own home she is a blessed
. little saint and comforter. She takes
unfinished tasks from the tired. stiff
fingers that falter at their work; her
strong young figure is a staff upon
which the gray-haired, white-faced
mother leans and is rested. She helps
mother with the spring sewing, with
the weeks mending, with a cheerful
conversation and congenial companion
ship that some girls do not think worth
while wasting on only mother. And
when there comes day that she must
bend, as girls must often bend, over the
old worn-out body of mother lying un-
heedful in her coffin, rough hands fold
ed, her long disquiet merged in rest,
something very sweet will be mingled
with her loss. and the girl who helped
mother will find benediction of peace
upon her head and in her heart
The girl who works-God bless her
is another girl whom l know. She is
brave and active, she is not
too proud to earn her own living,
or ashamed to be caught at her daily
task. She is studious and pains
taking and patient. She smiles at you
from behind counter or desk. There is
a memory of her sown into each silken
gown. She is like a beautiful noun
taineer already far up the hill, and the
sight of her should be fine inspiration
for us all. 1t is an honor to known this
girl-to be worthy of her regard Her
hand may be stained with factory
grease or printers ink, but it is an hon
est hand and helping hand. 1t stays
from many homes; it is the
one shield that protects many forlorn
little family from the almshouse and
aSVlum.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-09-07
THOUGHTS ON LIFE.
Why 1t Is Well That We Can Not Lo
Into Each Others Minds.

Why 1t Is Well That We Can Not Look
Into Each Others Minds.
Life would not be happy if we could
look into every body's mind and know
exactly what our nelghbor was think
ing about. If we could see the spirit
as easily as we can look at the body
we would be afraid to go along the
street If we were sympathetic it
would be a constant misery; if we were
cold our best friends would have moth
ing to do with US; if we were vicious
nobody would speak to us; if we were
virtuOus we would make any number
of enemies wonder whether, in that
rebelious spiritual state, which we can
imagine as the only possible next form
of existence, we shall all be known eX-
actly as we are We must then be all
purely good, and it is not easy to see
how that is to be brought about unless
death is kind of filter and absorb all
our wickednesses. 1t will take an
awful lot of charcoal to take out all our
impurities.
But, still, life is for all of us a lone
lv kind of business. Friendship, love,
sympathy, confidence, trust are all
very well. Yet are there things they
can not aid or remove. We have all
some grief in which we must tread the
winepress alone. l suppose there
would be even more trouble if we
started in to try to help one another
in real earnestness. l suppose we
would make a mess of it. There are
people who want to be let alone and
people who want sympathy, and the
perversity of things is such that you
invariably worry the fellow who wants
to be let alone with your sympa thy
and let the fellow alone who is anx-
ious to be helped. Some people when
they are sick are angry and annoyed if
you call to see them; others never for
give you if you don't go to see, them.
What are you going to do about it?
Do whatever friendship in your opin-
ion demands, whatever be the out
come.-San Francisco Chronicle.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-09-07
VOLUME XVIII.
ROMANCE OF A BUTTON.

He was about TO say adieu,
Was thinking of some word to hatter
When from his oVercoat there few
A button with dismal clatter.
He blushed but she, with woman's tact,
AS if she saw good joke in it,
Cried, laughingly: ''There, now, TIL act
Your tailor's part for just a minute"
He doffed the coat and watched her thread
The needle with her head low bending.
Now, do you Know" he softly said,
II have an awful lot OF mendingy'
"A bachelor, Wen say, like me,
Is at the mercy of his tailor.
And then there's something else, you see,
(At this he turned a trife paler).
My heart needs mending much, 1 fear,
do you suppose that you could do ity'
Well, don't know" she mused, ''but, dear,
Til give my whole attention to it,"
Ladies' Review.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-09-07

"A marriage was celebrated in
Brooklyn recently, in which both the
contracting parties were inmates of the
Old Peoples Home. The groom was
seventy-six years old and the bride
seventy-fve.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-09-07

He who does no good gets none.
He who cares not for others will soon
find that others will not care for hizp.
The Press., 1889-08-15

A fly on the hand is worth two in the sozr
The Press., 1889-08-15
AT THE FRONT GATE.

| @ & "Purty night, ainf it, lilly ?''
 "Yes, purty enopgh; good night, Hank"
 "What's yer rush r t'I'd say rush if Iwere you"
 "Why, we ain't been standing here but few minutes"
 .O-o-o-h, Hank Sparks, what big story teller you are.s We've been here over an hour."
 ssWell. what if we have ?"
 "Well, that's long enough, that's what. We'd ought to be ahamed of ourselves, anyhow. :"
 s.What for?''
 "For being 80 silly" ~b8 II reckon we aiu't the only silly folks in the world, then" ''That don't make 10 difference. Good night"
 "No. wait minute, lilly"
 "What for You s'pose I'm going to stand here all night Y'
 Nobody wants yan to stay here all night; but don't see why you snatch yourself away like this.
 "Pall be calling nae first thing know"
 ''Let i'm call it won't hurt him.
 "It might hurt you if he took notion to come out or to set old Boze loose.' "Pooh Who's afraid ?''
 ''You'd better be. Good night"
 "Wait minute.
 "What for, you big gump, you?'' "Oh, because. ?
 T shan't stay out here another minute. i" "Yes, you will" s "I shan't. Let go my hands. 'ssss
 q don't have to. " .. "You mean thing, you! Tiff you dare kiss me again, Hank Sparks P "Oh, I daren't, eh? Therer'
 "Hank Sparks p 'oThere's another"
 "I've notion to call for pa. I will if kiss me again, sir !'' @ "Oh, you will There Now call him. g 'You're the worst case I ever. saw. Shame on you"
 "Pooh I pity fellar who ain't grit enough to kiss his girl when he can.''
 'I'd be shamed if was you, sir. Good night. ..00- "Good night, lilly"
 "Good night"
 "Good night. Don't forgit that we're going to the singing school Friday night. 2 May be we will and may be we won t. 7 "You better look out or I'll kiss you again." ! .'Yes, you daren't sGood night"
 Bye, bye"
 "Good bye. "- Time.
The Press., 1889-08-15
MRS. MLEAN,S REMARKABLE WAR FIX. PERIENCES.

A Mrs. Mclean, who lives near Point Pleasant, West Virginia, had an unique I war experience. She is Virginian, and when the war broke out was living on 8 | plantation at Manassas, and it was on that plantation that the first battle of Bull Run was fought.
 "That scared us nightly, I can tell you" she said in telling of her experiences short time ago. "When it was over, and we found that we had escaped alive, we began to consider what we would do and where we would go. MT. Mclean owned plantation in another part of Virginia. Some of us thought we might as we'll re- l main where we were as the war would soon be over i; and if it were not, it would be carried into the northern states. It was finally decided, however, that we should move to the other plantation, and move we did.
 That other plantation, upon which they were to be so safe, was at Appomattox courthouse, and it was in the Mclean house that Generals Grant and Lee met to decide upon the terms of the latter's sur render.
 So the first and the last battles of the war were fought in and about the Mclean plantation.
 Ever since that last scene at Appomattox. Mrs. Mclean has been on the lookout for an article of wearing apparel in which she was greatly interested at the time. That was pair of gentleman's trousers. For some weeks the poor housewife, reduced to the straits in which many other poor south: ern housewives found themselves in those days, had been. at work upon some cloth- ing for her husband. The homespun cloth had been made, homespun for which the country parts of Virginia were justly famed, and from this Mrs. Mclean had with her own hand made the different articles which go to constitute a ujt of mems. clothing. When the pantaloons were finished they were hung on the upper balcony. The soldiers came and the house was taken by the generals as the place to settle upon terms of capitulation. General Grant and his officers occupied the first floor, General Lee and his advisers the second. The news of the event which took place in that coun. try home was heard over the entire world !: yet to one lady these events were insignifi cant as compared to the one in which she was more interested-the disappearance of those brooches. For they had gone. A search was made-the best possible under the circumstances no trace could be found of the unmentionables. For twenty four years that search has been kept up. but it has been in vain no trace has been found of the brooches. }+''2 st'
The Press., 1889-08-15

A STRICTLY JUDICIAL ANsWER.--One so1 the best stories of white haired. white. chokered, courteous Calvin Record is about mellow old lawyer who nseds to live on the banks of the Androscoeain; The squire was given 10 deep potafiore and was famous for his fine distinctions. It is said that in special pleading he could split hair even more closely than MT. Record can himself.
 But, after the shades of night had fallen the squire might have been seen strug.. gling home so boozy that he apparently could not split shingle, to say nothing ol a hair.
 One night, when he was drunker than usual, he staggered completely out of hie course and could not find it. Realizing that he was lost and drifting into unfamil. lar regions, he called at house to ask for information.
 ''Madam, he gravely said to the lady who came to the door, candle in hand d- "can you (hic) tell me where Squire Blank lives? p
 Certainly" she said, and gave him full directions sEE
 But as she talked and looked, and as her candle brought out the features of the man qefore her, puzzled expression came into her face, and she finally asked
 "But isn't this Squire Blank ?''
 Madame" replied the old lawyer, as. stunning a a judicial air, "that is entirely (hic) immaterial."
The Press., 1889-08-15

| Most articles in the line of soap shrink from chemical analysis. Not so with Brus-
 sells soap, best in use.
The Press., 1889-08-15

Puck: Gilifower isn't much of schol! ar, and the other night when he was read. ing to his old fashioned wife out of news paper he came across an item about some some woman having charge of twenty five kindergartens. The last being little blurred he read it twenty five kind oi garters. !"
 "Law sakes!" exclaimed the old lady. as she snatched of her spectacles in astonish. ment, "twenty five kind CT garters Nc wonder there's so many busted people and repy ytashuns nowadays. Why, when I was a gal we used to knit 'em or use a string, if we wanted something right handsome we'd get the seividge of the cloth when the boys got pair of trousers made out b. store cloth. Twenty five kinds 9 gartefs An O course other things to match. This is what Sarah Togy and Nary .Ganset, Then she replaced her specs and went on with her knitting. E.
The Press., 1889-08-15

It is just splendid for hannels," says Stafford Springs lady, speaking of Brusse soap. N' " .'' "-
The Press., 1889-08-15
How to make 8 town prosper : Write about it. 7 Beautify the streets. .

Be friendly to everybody. Keep the sidewalks in good repair.
 Sell all you can and buy all you can at home. T If you are in fair circumstances, invest in something employ somebody. se
 Be courteous to strangers that come among you, SO. they will go away with good impressions.
 Always cheer on the men who go in for improvements. Your portion of the cost will be nothing but what is just.
 Don't "kick" at any proposed improve ment because it is not at your own door, or for fear your taxes will be raised a. few cents.
The Press., 1889-08-15
HIGHER LICENSE COMING.


 The annual conference of the county commissioners of the state was held in the office of the county commissioners in Hart ford last Thursday. Those present were as follows
 Hartford Oounty-Spencer, Woodhouse and Norton.
 New London unty-saxton, Ayers and Hurlburt.
 Windham County Kelly, Morse and Stan ton.
 Middlesex County-Hubbard, Wright and Griswold.
 Holland County-Walker and Brown.
 Fairfield Oounty-Page, Johnson and Olm- stead.
 Litchfeld County-Dunning.
 New Haven Oounty-Jacobs and Burleigh.
 Commissioner Spencer offered resolu- ton, that women are not suitable persons for licenses. The resolution was discussed at some length and finally tabled.
 The screen law was next considered and reports from the different counties showed what action had been taken by the com missloners to enforce the laws Commis- siOner Griswold, while under the circum- stances he would be lenient in enforcing the clause this present year, was strongly in favor of obliging all saloon keepers, af- ee> AAo~' ANOvO1AOOAs VO OlAAS LuCAE DhIb tO the front of the building in plain sight of the public. The question was discussed at considerable length.
 The question of raising the license fee to $500 was then brought up. On motion of Commissioner Olmstead the question of raising the fee to $4OO was strongly dis cussed. The expression was strongly in favor of raising the fee to at least S4OO and make it uniform throughout the state. In New London county it is now $225; in Windham county $25O in Hartford and New Haven counties $500 in Holland county $55O. The expression seemed to be in favor of making the fee uniform and when rising vote was taken upon the mo- tion to fix the fee at $4OO only two or three members remained seated.
 A SOUND LEGAL Op1N1oN.-E. Bainbridge Munday, Esq, County Atty, Clay Co.,, Tex, says: "Have used Electric Bitters with most happy results. My brother also was very low with Malarial Fever and Jaundice, but was cured by timely use of this medicine. Am satisfied Electric Bitters saved his life.'
 Mir. D. I. Wilcoxon, of Horse Cave, Ky, adds like testimony, saying He positively believes he would have died, had it not been for Electric Bitters.
 This great remedy will ward off, as we'll as cure all Malaeial Diseases and for all Kidney, Liver and Stomach Disorders stands une- qualed. Price soc. and $1, at E. K. Taft's.