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The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-05-04
BASEBALL MAKING.
Machines Which Do Their Work Auto
maticalIy and with Great Rapidity.

Machines Which Do Their Work Auto
maticalIy and with Great Rapidity.
The enterprising boy who has batted
the cover off base ball has probably
investigated it's internal organization
and knows of what it is made, but
perhaps the average boy does not
know how it is made.
All base balls are made in Philadel-
phia, and there is only one kind of
professional dead ball made, the sup
posed differences lying in the stitches
and stamps only.
Winding base balls by hand is a
thing of the past. Machines have
been invented to do the work automat-
ically, consequently every ball is ex-
actly like it's fellow. Each machine
winds two balls at one time.
A little Para rubber ball, weighing
three-quarters of an ounce, around
which one turn has been made with an
end of a skein of old-fashioned gray
stocking yarn, is slipped into the ma
chine. Then another, after which the
boy in charge touches q lever, the
machine starts and the winding be-
gins.
The rubber ball is hidden in few
seconds, and in its place appears lit
tie gray yarn ball that rapidly grows
larger and larger. When it appears
to about half the size of a regulation
base ball. there is i click, the M
chine stops, the yarn is cut, and the
boy picks out the bal and t0sses itiut0
a basket.
When this basket is full. it is passed
along to another boy, who runs a SINH
lar machine, where 8 haf-0unce layer
of worsted yarn is put on
The next machine adds a layer of
strong white cotton thread, and by
watching closely as the white appears
on the surface of the gray the beauty
of the winding-maehine can be appre-
ciated. There is perfect regularity,
and no point where the thread crosses
oftener than in another. A coating of
rubber cement is next applied, and
half-ounce layer of the very best line
worsted completes the ball, with the
exception of the cover. Each ball
when completed must weigh ST ounces
and measure 81 inches in circumfer-
ence. The minute differences in the
balls are equalized by the thickness OF
the cover.
Every ball and cover is weighed be-
fore the cover is sewed On. The cover
resembles two figure SIS in shape, and
is cut from selected and specially-pre-
pared horse hides. Several cheap
grades of balls are made. the interior
being filled with pressed leather shaw
ings.-Golden Days.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-05-04
OUR CHILDREN'S EYES.
Kindly and Wise Words Written by q
Careful Mother.

Allow me to say few words in re-
gard to the children's eyes. Years
ago when the children studied their
lessons from their books, we did not
hear very much about their eyes Civ
ing out. Let US consult our blackboards
and see what they can tell us about
this worldwide subject. Dear par
ents and guardians, all over this broad
land, how many hours through the
day are your little children sitting in
school, staring at blackboard upon
which are placed by the teacher most
of the lessons for the day, many times
the lines being so fine and pale they
could not be easily read more than
half or two-thirds the way across the
room, but the children are required to
see them all the way across and from
the remotest corners. Many of the
children when first looking at the
board do not see much of any thing,
but by looking very sharp for a
few seconds the lines reveal them
selves. This, my friends, means
strained eyes, and strained eyes mean
weakened or diseased optic nerves,
possibly no eyes at all, it all depend
ing upon the severity of the strain.
Even when the work is quite distin ct,
for children who have naturally weak
eyes the distance many times is so
great that the air waves coming be-
tween the poor, tired eyes and the
board cause the lines to waver and
flicker, and especially is this the case
when the light is poor and the ventila-
tion bad. Any thing put on the board
for children to see, whether old or
young, should have large proportions
and broad clear lines throughout, so
no extra effort will have to be made to
discover it. There is great differ
ence in eyes; one child will readily see
what another could not without the
fatal strain. I know whereof | speak,
for my own eyes were nearly destroyed
through this same practice, and 1
know others who have suffered a like
fate.-N. Y. Tribune.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-05-04
AN EXCELLENT IDEA.
The establishments of Railroad Pension
and Insurance Funds.

There ought to be connected with
every large railroad organization
certain funds, contributed partly by
the voluntary action of employees,
which would provide for hospital
service, retiring pensions, sick pen
sions, and insurance against accident
and death. Every man whose name
has once been enrolled in the perma-
nent employ of the company should be
entitled to the benefit of these funds;
and he should be deprived of it only
by his own voluntary act, or as the
consequence of some misdemeanor
proved before tribunal. At present
the railroad companies of this coun-
try are under no inducement to estab-
lish these mutual insurance societies,
or to contribute to them. Their service,
in principle at least, is a shifting
service, and so long as it is shifting
the elaborate organizations which are
essential to the safe management of
the funds referred to can not be called
into existence. A tie up, as it
might be called, between the compa-
nies and their employees is condition
precedent. We're this once effected
the rest would follow by steps, both
natural and easy. For company like
the Union Pacific to contribute $780,
900 year to hospital fund and re-
firing pension and insurance associa-
tions, would be small matter, if the
thing could be so arranged that the
permanent employees themselves would
contribute a like sum; and permanent
employees only would contribute at all.
Once let the growth of associations like
these begin, and it proceeds with al
most startling rapidity. At the end of
ten years the accumulated capital on
the basis of contribution suggested
would probably amount to millions.
Every man who was so fortunate as to
become permanent employe of the
company would then be assured of
provision in case of sickness or disa-
bility, and his family would be assured
of it in case of his death. Charles
Frances Adams, in Scribner's Maga-
zine.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-05-04
PITH AND POINT.

Nothing is more despicable than
to reach fame by crawling; position by
cringing.
"A woman who enters politics must
remember that chivalry is left outside;
judgment henceforth rules, not senti-
ment.
You can no more tell mans abili-
ty by the size of his hat, than you can
tell his strength by measuring his
Observation-Disclosures.
When you get into a tight place,
and every thing goes against you, till
it seems as if you could not hold on q
moment longer, never give up then,
for that is just the place and time that
the tide'n turn.-Harriet Beecher
Stowe.
Hope is a prodigal young heir and
Experience is his banker; but his drafts.
are seldom honored, since there is
often a heavy balance against him, be-
cause he draws largely on a small cap
ital, is not yet in possession, and if he
were, would die.-Colton.
"A man may have right to stint
himself of comforts, and even neces-
saries, if he prefers to employ in other
directions the money thus saved, but
he has no right to deny his wife, his
children, his servants, their proper
comforts and luxuries that he may buy
old china or rare boOks.-Once a Week.
Recreation is to the mind what
whetting is to the scythe. He, there
fore, who spends his whole time in
recreation is ever whetting, never
moving; his grass may grow and his
seed starve; as, on the contrary, he
who always works and never recreates
is ever moving, never whetting labor
ing much to little purpose.
The little dwarfed flower that;
springs into life in the crevice of some
rock, shut in from sun and rain, grows
struggling toward the light, and as it
withers gives forth a perfect seed,
which the winds bear to more favor
able soil. So it is that the infueual of
a word may not be felt by the nature
on which it falls, but its spell may Oe
borne to mJre Yielding heart, and there
blossom in gladness-
We talk of joyless people, and yet,
though there may be q few Of such.
they are not often met with. To near
ly every one. even though he be in the
severest situation, there is something
that gives him pleasure. And hidden
beneath exteriors that appear to be
wholly despairing there is frequently
a gladness that amounts to an exhila-
ration. Like the ''eye" of the desert,
they CLEAN even in the starlight
United Presbyterian.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-05-04
The Best Test of Success.

Survival is the best test of success;
but then survival may either be of the
whole or of a part only, of much or of
little. The man may survive as liv-
ing organisms geological specimen
but character may be gone, or hope, or
health, or happiness. The truly sue
cessful are they who carry with them
to the end that which makes life worth
living, who retain the sense of a pur-
pose and meaning in life, and who do
not, like James Mill, father of John
Stuart Mill, feel that when the fresh
ness of youth is past human existence
is somewhat dreary thing. To the
multitude perhaps success in life is
gagged by money scale; to be rich is
to be successful, to be poor is to be un-
successful; but this is far from being
desirable standard to erect. But few
can reap success according to this
idea; and the rest must reap failure
and discontentment. A truer and bet
ter conception is that the man who de-
velops his faculties and cultivates his
dispositions Alright, who, amid the war
fare and vicissitudes of life, keeps his
Judgment sound, his aims sincere, his
temper sweet, his domestic and social
relations duly adjusted, and who thus
in true sense lives through his whole
career, is the type of successful man.
Boston Transcript.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-05-04
ith bread and jam or with rice-pud-

with bread and Jam or With r1ce-puQ-
ding.
1t was not an easy matter to keep
Sam alive in the tropics; now that he
is not only well out of the tropics but
in a region where the winters are Sc
we're, one may well despair of being
able to preserve him. During the
twenty-seven months which he has
now spent with me, he has been my
constant companion. He went with
me to the Office when l was in the
south of China; he goes with me now
that / am in the north. In the south
he used to pull the hats of my chair
coolies off; here he continues this play,
varying it by pulling my hat off and
throwing it out of the chair. At the
Office he constitutes himself my
special guardian, making strong
protests against any one ap-
preaching my desk. He will allow a
stranger to go up to him and scratch
his head; but he makes the noisiest
demonstrations possible if any one
NCuIuI6o W oudh0 ublluo Will VI
touch any thing on my desk. If [
leave my home in the morning without
him, he speedily lets me understand
how sore in spirit he is, and l have
eventually to take him. Sometimes l
am reluctant to take him, as he pulls
things about at the Office, and on the
way to the Office he swoops down on
any fruit which may be within range.
If he captures pear or an apple, he
returns with it to the sedan-chair in
great triumph, showing as much pleas
ure in his face, and making as much
noise as a child does when given a
piece of cake of more than ordinary
richness or lollipop of extra quality.
1 am so well known here, that itinerant
fruit-venders know where to apply for
compensation for thefts committed.
There is no ill-feeling created; indeed,
there are roars of laughter when the
"black monkey" as they term Sam,
makes good seizure. | have to keep
a string of leash" at the Office to pay
for Sans depredations. ns.-ChamberS'
Journal.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-05-04
Lenton Discipline in Russia.

Nowhere in Europe is Lenton kept
as vigorously as it is in Russia. There
the faithful eat neither meat, eggs,
milk nor butter during the entire forty
days. Even in cooking oil is used in
stead of butter or lard, and not even
the children are allowed to drink milk.
On the day before Easter nothing is
eaten, and just before midnight the
people all go to church, bearing with
them provisions of every description.
At the stroke of twelve the church,
which has previously been kept in ut
ter darkness, is suddenly Illuminated,
and then, after the food has been
blessed, the eating begins and the peo-
pie satisfy their hunger before leaving
the sacred edifice. On Easter Sunday
every body has the privilege of salut-
ing whoever he may chance to meet
with three kisses on the cheek. Even
the Emperor himself is not exempt
from this custom, and it was the GUS
tom in former years for the Gar to
walk abroad on that day to receive the
embraces of his people, but this custom
has been discontinued by the present
Emperor Alexander who is afraid of
being killed by the Nihilists, and does
not care to court publicity in such e
manner.-St Louis Republic.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-05-04
Two Apt Comparisons.

'Miss Clara" he murmured, fondly,
''can you tell me why your eyes are
like the stars?"
mo. Why are they?"
Because they shine so brightly"
"Ah! thanks. But you are like the
stars, too, Mr.. Daily" ;.
"Why, may ask?"
Because you stay until daybreak-" -"
And shortly afterward his footsteps
could have been heard as they pattered
along the broad walk.--Minneapolis
Tribune.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-05-04

The rock to which a chain was at
tached during the war of the Revolu-
ton to prevent vessels going up the
Hudson river will have to be removed
in making excavations for the Peeks-
kill bridge in the Highlands. 1t will
be taken out entire and preserved at
either West Point, Newburgh, or in
the rooms of the Historical Society in
New York
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-05-04
VOLUME XVIII.
PLANTING.

Planting, in pain and weakness,
Good seed in the ground so bare,
The sad tears, falling, number
The grain that is planted there;
There, in the ground so fallow,
With never the sun to warm,
Under the SHOWS deep cover,
Beat on by sleet and storm,
Till the failing limbs grow numbed
Yet wearily ploddlng on,
Scattering still the seedlings.
Patiently, one by one.
Lifting eyes to the leaden,
Cheerless, gray-hued skies,
Rifting and renting its dullness,
A transcept vision lies;
Away and away over hillsides,
Waving fields of grain,
Is the harvest planted in sadness,
In weakness and in pain;
And seeing with sight immortal,
The rains Of Heaven which fell,
terminating the seedlings.
Were the tears could not quell.
Eana Miller Sheldrale, in Good Housekeep
ing.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-05-04

Two English servants, Ann Warde
and Eliza Wylde, went to Salvation
Army meeting on Sunday evening,
overstayed the time when they should
have been home, and for fear of a
scolding, tied themselves together with
a woolen scarf and drowned themselves
in a canal.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-05-04
Mail carriers in Morocco are sait

Mail carriers in Morocco are said
to avoid risk of losing their places by
oversleeping by tying a string to one
foot and setting the end of it on fire
before they go to sleep. The string,
they know from experience, will burn
so long, and when the fire reaches
their foot it is time for them to get up.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-05-04

Many men spend dollar to save
ten cents; they wear out a nickle $
worth of shoe leather In getting a gift
of two cents worth of grindstone from
a neighbOr.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-05-04

-"Whom the gods love, die young" )"
says the heather epitaph. Those who
know the survivors appreciate the
Judgment of the gods in selecting.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1889-03-12
OKLAHOMA nooMERs.
Tic Plan OF Action Adopted by ,hc
Promised Land Pilgrims.

Tic Plan OF Action Adopted by ,he
Promised Land Pilgrims.
ST. Louis, Mo-, March 1.-THE latest
information in regard TO the movements Of
Oklahoma boomers Ia TO the effect that
Harry llill, Ia an interview yesterday,
said he had formulated his plan Of action.
Tho boomers arc to be masscd at Caldwell
and llunncwcll, Kas. These he will lead
In person, while a company from the West
will be In command Of Col Cole, and the
people from the South will DO under a
competent leader. lie says that In thirty
days he can cross tho line with a
larger force than Payne ever had. II
pursued. he saws no will cut every wlro
in the Cherokee strip and burn the grass
10 the Chickasaw line. lie will 90 10 Pur.
cell Monday.
Col. Croker writes TO Col. Till that the
$1,000 people In the Chickasaw Nation are
willing aud that he cannot restrain them.
Soldiers have Increased along the Kansas
line. and nobody can enter the Territory
without n permit from the Cherokee Strip
Cattle Company. Capt Couch writes
from Purcell that something mus, be done
rs the people there will not keep quiet
Every day wagon trains Of from I've Il
twenty wagons pass through that cts
headed for the boundary line.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1889-03-12
Hoberi Observation-Disclosures.

LOUISVILLE, KY, March ll.-Mr. Rob-
ert Garrett arrived in the city last evening.
lilo and his physician, Dr. Jacob. were
playing billiards in the Gait House billiard
room this morning. Mr.. Garrett had Just
run fifteen and missed when a reporter en-
terd the room. The ex.presidont Of the
Baltimore & Ohio is looking quite himself
again. lie Is more ilcshy than lac was
three years ago. and his hair and beard
are much grayer. His face in rcpose is
heavier, aud there are lines under the eyes
that make the countonance dull, but when
he speaks his face brightens aud he talks
with animation. Ills smile is ready and
agreeable Ii there IL still anything the
matter with his mind il does not show in
his manner or conversation. lilo told the
reporter that he was on his way TO the City
OF Mexico for his health. lie had aban-
doncd all business, and his trip H. purely
ior his own pleasure. lie Is accompanied
by his family, and the party travels in two
private cars. Mr.. Garrett chatted with
the reporter on different subjects, but de-
clined 10 speak OF any business matters
lie leaves for the South this afternoon.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1889-03-12


That the business OF Memphis is steadily
increasing, and at rapid strides, is clearly
indicated in the reports of the Clearing
house, which are never-failing and ever
reliable barometer OF trade. The state
ments OF the Memphis banks exhibit large
profits and surplus, thereby showing that
these institutions have been making
money rapidly during the year. All this
indicates a prosperous business generally,
but is not so clear and reliable an indi-
Gator OF the extent and increase OF
business as is the report OF the Clear
ing-house. Tho total clearings for Feb
ruary, 1889, were SlI,S3S, 400 SO, an in
crease on the clearings. Of February,
1855, OF S2,39s, 022.06, and an increase
on the clearings OF February, 1857, Of
60, $50, 900. 6S, or over % per cent II is
claimed by statis,icians that clearing
house reports show only about 80 per
cent OF the business done in city.
While all branches OF business banking,
dry goods, groceries, boots and shoes,
hardware, clothing drugs, manufacturing,
etc. arc showing a heavy increase, the
principal increase comes from the cotton
trade, the receipts 10 date far exceeding
the total receipts OF any past season, and
being, 30 far this season, over 0l, 900 bales
in excess OF receipts for the same
time last year. The receipts nj present
amount to $50, 73l bales, and the indica-
tons are that the total receipts for the
season will amount 90 near $50, 900 bales,
which at present prices would make the
value some S,0000O0. This steady in
crease OF business is most encouraging and
gratifying, and there arc solid, sensible
business men who confidently predict that
within five years the cotton receipts OF
Memphis will exceed l,00O,000 bales, or
one-sevcnth OF the entire crop OF the
United States, 1.OO0,000 crop being now
regarded as the standard of supply
and consumption. Memphis is now looked
upon us the best cotton market in the
country, where higher prices for cotton
are paid and where a larger amount of fine
staple can be secured than at any other
point. Owing to the immense and increas-
ing trade aud It's prosperous condition, adj
| ditional banking capital has become nee
essary and will no doubt be supplied in
due time, the present banking capital be-
ing small i'm comparison with that OF other
cities OF like importance in trade and COM
mcrcc.
During the present season which will
close In short time the general trade Of the
city las been largely on the increase. es-
pecially with the dealers in staple goods
a marked increase over the business Of last
season, and continual increase in trade
annually is confidently expected. Not
only Memphis people, but non-residenis
have great faith in the future OF the Blud
City, regarding il rs the coming great city
OF the Mississippi Valley, and that at no
distant time. Her local government is
spoken OF in terms Of praise everywhere.
and no city in the land seems to have a
brighter or more prosperous destiny in
store, financially and commercially.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1889-03-12
AuImpor,sn, Rallroaa suit.

CNcINNAri,o., March ll.-Judge Peck,
OF the Superior Court, this morning de-
cided an important railroad suit, whereby
the stockholders OF the Cincinnati. Wash.
ington & Baltimore Railroad receive a SCI
we're blow. The judgment OF the Bald.
more & Ohio Road ior -, 10000 IL de-.
cided 10 be- a Inst lien on the proceeds Of
sale Of the Cincinnati, Washington and
Baltimore. The action decided was that
Of the Baltimore 4 Ohio Company on
a cross petition in the matter OF the Farm
en- Loan aud Trust Company, OF New
York. A decree for the sale Of the road Is
now being prepared.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1889-03-12
4 brakeman H,IIed Near IIaa.ou,l,lo

Special Dispatch 10 Tho Appeal.
wArrR VALLEY, Miss, March ia
brakeman by the name Of W. NJ. Blair, Of
this place, was killed In wreck ON the
Illinois Central this morning near Hud-
sonyillo. lie was the front brakeman and
a number Of ears were piled ON top OF him.
and Il took several houu 10 get him out.
His remains were brought here for in
termont.