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The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-03-30
WORTH TELLING AGAIN.
An Old Story with a Delightful TOr ch of
Humanity in 1t.


Humanity in It.
Twenty years have passed since
certain Bath sea captain, entering the
port of New York, telegraphed his
wife at Bath to join him at the metrop-
oils prepared for a sea voyage. Ac-
cordingly a day or two after the ar
rival of the message saw the wife en-
barked upon the through train from
Bath to Boston, accompanied by an
infant child scarcely two years old.
The car was shunted on to the end
of the Portland train at Brunswick,
and leaving the child asleep, the cap
tain's wife seized the opportunity to
fill the baby's bottle with milk in the
depot restaurant. While the mother
was intent upon her errand the train
slipped quietly out of the station, and
when the mother emerged from the
restaurant door it was fast disappear
ing under the Spring Street bridge.
Eagerly she explained the situation to
the sympathizing group of railroad
men who gathered around. Baby and
purse containing her money and ticket,
were in the fast-disappearing train.
A hurried council followed, and a plan
was instantly formed.
Old No. %, ''The Brunswick" was
side-tracked, waiting the passage of
the train just gone. Uncle Thompson,
the station baggage-master at that
time, ran hastily to his engine, and
asked her aid to overtake the flying
train. The genial Charles, ever ready
to aid the cause of any female in dis
tress, volunteered to catch the robber.
Hastily filling the fre-bOx with wood
from the tender, while Thompson was
assisting the woman to mount the en-
CINE, with a command to the switch
man to ''give us the main line" with
hand upon the throttle, No. % flew
quickly over the switches, and COM
menced her run.
An empty engine chasing a heavy
train up "Oak Hill grade" which ex-
tends four miles straight away from
Brunswick, has an easy task, and be-
fore they had covered more than hal,
of that distance they could see the OBJ
ject of their pursuit
To sound his whistle, calling the at
tentiOn of the train men to the chase,
and thereby stopping the train, was
not part of the programme, fearing
that he might run over them, should
they suddenly stop. So quietly rum
ming along, the rear of the train dead
ening the pursuit, he is soon immedi-
ately behind them. Then his tender
for they are running backward-rubs
against the rear platform of the train,
and while the engineer holds her there
Thompson assists the woman over the
tender, down upon the platform of the
car containing the baby still fast asleep,
the mother clasping tightly the bottle
of milk Waverly Magazine,
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-03-30
A BOX TURTLE.
Some of the Odd Ways of a Very Peculiar
Little Animal.

Some of the Odd Ways of a Very Peculiar
Little Animal.
A Brooklyn boy, writing to the
Christian Union, asks that / shall tell
him ''all about turtles-land turtles,
water turtles and every other kind of
turtles-especially the box turtle" "
don't suppose, my friend, that you
meant to set me such task, but you
have really asked me to write book,
and I'm sadly afraid the editor wouldn't
be willing to give up the whole paper
to an account of those queer little
bodies who wear their bones outside,
instead of inside, as the rest of us do,
no matter how interesting it might be.
Why, do you know there are hum
dred of kinds of turtles, from sea
monsters, the size of a big double bed,
down to droll little fresh-water fellows
that can hide under a three-cent piece?
There are sixty kinds that live in
fresh water alone. So, unles you can
persuade the editor to let me have the
whole paper some day-and l almost
know you can mott shall have to con-
fine myself to the one you ask par
ticularly about, the box turtle.
This parsonage has a proper scien-
tifc name, of course, and if you want
to read about him in the big books,
you may look for TertudO Carolina.
The box turtle, who is so much better
off than the rest of his family that ne
can 90 into his house and shut the
door, is found all over the United States
east of the Mississippi river; not in
swamps or woods, but in pastures and
uplands, where grow the mushrooms
and toadstOols on which he lives. He
is one of the smaller varieties, rarely
more than seven inches long. But if
some of his relatives exceed him in
inches, few can outdo him in age; he
has been known to live one hundred
years.
This may be due to the fact that he
is calm in temperament; he takes
things as he finds them, and never
frets. If some inquisitive boy tethers
him to post on the lawn, as a certain
young friend of mine often does, he
never thinks of raging around, and
wearing himself out, as do many Great
ures; he simply digs hole and retires
from the light of day. Should he be
placed in a box or pen, with sides too
high for him to climb over, he just
shuts up his doors and waits till his
captor gets tired of a pet so dull. He
can wait better than any body know.
He doesn't care for three meals a
day; he is able to fast a long time; and,
so far from liking the water, he will
die if he is kept in it.
The young friend mentioned above
is particularly fond of turtles, and on
going to the country in the summer
the first thing he does is to scour the
neighborhOod and set up turtle pen.
Last summer, out on Long Island, he
had six, or eight turtles in pen which
he filled every day with fresh water,
and two box turtles, which were tied
in the yard, The smaller of the two
was about three inches long, and was
much interested in it. 1t was the first
l had noticed closely, for l must admit
that almost any live creature is more
attractive to me than the reptile. 1t
is altogether too cool-blOOded for my
taste.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-03-30
FIRST DISCOVERIES.

Historical Facts About tho Hawaiian
Islands Not Generally Known.
1t is not generally known that the
Sandwich group is identical with a
cluster of islands discovered by the
Spanish navigator, Gaetan, in 1912,
and by him named The Kings
Islands," These the Spaniards placed
in the tenth, although the Sandwich
Islands are near the twentieth degree
of north latitude, which La PerOuse, a
celebrated author, concludes unhesi-
tatiugly to be a mere clerical error.
The difference in longitude-sixteen
or seventeen degrees-he ascribed to
the imperfect means of determination
possessed by the early navios .nrs- and
10 tnelr ignorance OF the currents of
the Pacific.
Allowing for the mistake in latitude,
the Kings Islands are evidently the
same as those found on some charts,
about the nineteenth and twentieth de-
grees of north latitude, under the
names of La Mesa, Los Magos and La
Diograciada, which Captain Dixon, as
well as La Perouse, sought for in vain
in the longitude assigned to them.
They appear to have been introduced
into the English and French charts
from that found in the galleon taken
by Commodore Arson, and of which
a copy is given in the account of his
voyage.
Cook, or Lieutenant Roberts, the
compiler of the charts to his third
voyage, retained them; and La Pc
rouse was the first to erase them from
the map.
There can, indeed, be little doubt of
their identity with the Sandwich ISL
ands. But although Cook was not act
ually the first European who had Wis
tied these islands, 10 him rightly be-
longs all the glory of their discovery.
Forgotten by the Spaniards, mis-
placed on the chart a thousand miles
too far to the eastward, and unap-
preached for 240 years, their existence
utterly unknown and unsuspected,
Cook was, to all intents and purposes,
their real discoverer. Days.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-03-30
GIRLS ON HORSEBACK.
How the Knack of Riding Is Taught to
Beginner.

How the Knack of Riding Is Taught to
Beginner.
The base for all riding lessons for
beginners is the safety and careful
training of the horses. Only horse
of strong will-power, wide intelligence
and disciplined nerves can bear with
equanimity the succession of surprises
a sweet girl manages to arrange for
him when she mounts for the first
time. The first mounting is from a
block, and a rider has only to sit down
with a little spring to be in her place.
but there are something like one hun
dred ways a girl manages to take that
little spring and take it exactly wrong
before she is in the saddle. Then it
takes an artist to arrange girls skirt
and two grooms to hold the horse
while it is done. When she doesn t
forget to unhook the little loop that
holds her dress in the back she sits
down squarely on the fullness that
should go over the pommel, or gets so
helplessly wound up in the skirts that
no one but the fifteen-puzzle man can
ever get her out alive. Her saddle is
never exactly right, her stirrup either
too long or too short. and she fidgets
and fuses and nestles and giggles and
gets pink in her cheeks and a lot of
imprecation and profanity in the heart
| of the groom befOre she is finally sat-
isfed and rides into the ring, only to
come back again in nine cases out of
ten for another horse or saddle or
something.
Mounting from the ground is yet
more difficult feat, and usually the first
few trials end il disaster One hand
on the saddle, tie other on the should
er of the master, his arm about her
waist, her foot in his hand and then
count one, two, three, and she springs
only to land where she least expects.
while the horse quivers and shivers in
patient submission and bears it.
The favorite mode of riding is after
the English style, and ,he master rides
round and round with the pupil, COR
recting, criticising her position, and
suggesting such ideas as she may find
beneficial. Suddenly, without warn
ing, he chirrups to her horse, and
away they go, his land underneath
her elbow to teach how and when to
rise from the saddle as the horse
bounds. Faster and faster they fly,
and whittier and whitr grows the girl s
face through the mmeless fear that
will come and must be dispeled by
heroic treatment.
A naturally graceful woman who is
not afraid of horse, and understands
how to manage one, can learn to ride
well in very few lessons, but a timid,
nervous woman rquires considerable
practice to accuston herself to the ter
rifying motion ofthe powerful animal
she rides. Il p'acticed months and
months" said pretty young girl, ''to
learn to rise in the saddle according
L--CI.~ masters teachings, but l just
couldn't do. it at all, and l was lame
all over, until om day papa said:
Why. just sit still and let the horse
throw you, and in ten minutes 1 had
it, and have neve, had any trouble
| since. e.n-PhiladelDlia Item
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-03-30
BEAUTYS QUALITIES.
All About Noses, Their PeculiaritiC
Shapes and characteristics.

All About Noses, Their Peculiarities,
Shapes and Characteristics.
The positive nose is well proper
toned, though slightly inclined to the
retrousse. 1t betokens bright, viva
cious nature, and is somewhat emo
tional
Benevolence is indicated by large
nose, with well-defined Roman curve
to the bridge. If sharp at the point
mental activity is denoted. 1t is one
of the most common types.
The truly feminine nose is something
of a snub, but it is a good, lovable
nose for all that.
The vigorous, pushing nose is set
with frmness on the face, and is al
most masculine in the severity of it's
outlines. 1t is usually accompanied
with a strong, fair development, and
denotes practical, hard common sense.
Susan B. Anthony has such nose.
The characteristics of the social
nose is irregularity in outline, though
this does not necessarily imply lack of
beauty. On the contrary, it often adds
to the attractiveness of its possessor.
While not an Intellectual nose, it is
brainy enough for all practical pur-
poses.
The literary nose is a refined and
well-balanced organ of the composite
style, somewhat inclined to droop at
the point Morally and mentally it is
rather strong than otherwise, and in
such one as might be inherited from
good line of worthy ancestors
Omaha World.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-03-30
FOR OUR YOUNG READERS.
I CANNOT AND ! CAN.

Away far off in Slowtown, many, many years
ago.
CTwas the place just out OF Notown, as geo
graphers may know,
There lived plain old farmer, and most &C.
centric man,
Who called his sons these curious names:
Cannot, and Can.
Twin brothers they, and like as peas, through
childhood's tears and joys,
They daily grew, till one bright morn were
great big, grown-up boys;
In face and form, tho much alike, alike they
lite began,
ICannot was in many ways far different from
Can.
ICannot when baby, always wore a scowling
face,
At his nurse he e'er was blinking, or else max
ing sly grimace,
And all he seemed to live for was to wriggle
and to twist
Or to scream, and choke, and strangle, while he
shook his little fist.
And when to boyhood he was grown, his only
thought was play;
From school he ran a truant oft, and idled time
away
And if to work he e'er was asked, he'd always
rave and rant.
Or else he'd whine and cry aloud: Il can not,
o, can'tr'
Can. the blessed baby, always wore smiling
face,
And he'd patty cake the bakers man" with
dainty, childish grace;
And if a stranger took him, he would neither
sQuirm nor twist,
But would only try to swallow hard his chubby
little fist.
And when to boyhood he was grown, through
brimming DER with fun,
He went to school, and college, too, and laurels
there he won;
His teachers called him oft and oft manly lit
tie man.
He never whined. but always said: I'll thy;
think can"
A young man grown, I Cannot was sorry sight
to see,
For he scarcely knew his letters, only A and B
and c.
OF course his head was empty, as an old tomato
can,
For shaking it. he laughed at work, and eel
from duty ran,
But what he sowed that must he reap, it was
the same in kind;
1 Cannot would not take the pains to store uI
we'll his mind,
And so for bread he went to beg; his time fol
work was past
And in howell ended life, in drear Notown al
last.
Can, unlike his brother, was both handsome
straight and tall
And he spoke each foreign language, Portu-
guese and French and all;
His head was full of learning as nut is full OF
meat.
And he filled most every office at the Slowtown
county seat
His fame went forth to Notown, as most dis
tinguished man,
And the reason was most surely that he always
said Il cam
And had he lived in modern times he'd been a
candidate
For President, or constable, or Governor Of the
State.
Mrs. ]. T. Greenfeaf, in n. Y. Tribune.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-03-30

ton, had recourse TO pictorial mani
festations, which were posted in the
woods and fields for the enlightenment
of the natives.
One of these lately saw in the In
ternational Exhibition at Melbourne.
At the top it showed in realistic way
the advantages of civilization and
unity, under the symbol of black
woman nursing white child and a
white woman nursing black child,
blacks and whites walking arm in arm,
etc. To show the operations of the
law there was shown black spearing
a white man, and the black being
hanged over the corpse of his victim;
also a white man shooting black fell
low and being similarly treated, the
Governor and soldiers assisting in both
executions.
Finally Hobart bricklayer named
George Augustus Robinson set out, un-
aided save by two or three friendly
natives, to induce the blacks to come
in and surrender. He Travelled about
for nearly three years, walked over
four thousand miles, underwent the
most extraordinary and perilous ad-
ventures, and finally, by sheer force OF
moral suasion, induced the two hun
dred and three natives who still sur
vived (this was in 1850 to go to Film
ders Island, on the northeast coast,
where they were well cared for by the
government. Like other South Sea
Islanders, however. they did not thrive
under civilization, and in twelve
years all but forty-four had
passed away. In 1869 king Billy"
the last male of the tribe, died of in
temperance at the age of thirty-four,
and in 1876 the record of the race was
ended in the death of Trunganini, a
woman aged sixty-fve years, and one
of the friendly natives who had assist
ed the work of Robinson. 1t is a
thing, perhaps, unprecedented in our
time to see the last of race of the
human family disappear. In this in
stance the fact is singularly pathetic,
as the native Tasmanians were a peO-
pie who had more than ordinary claim
upon the interest and charity of the
race whose only gift to them was that
of premature death. Y. Times.
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NUMBER 1S::

But this little boxed-up youngster
was curious. When the shell box was
placed on the table near the burning
lamp its owner was out of sight, every
door shut, apparently not at home to
callers. His house was decorated with
orange and black in beautiful pat
tern, and as clean and bright as if it
were scrubbed and polished every day,
like Philadelphia doorstep.
While we were admiring his man
sion, we noticed that the front door
was ajar just a crack-probably
enough to let the hermit peep out. We
kept perfectly still, and very slowly it
opened wider. Soon there appeared
in the middle tiny pink point; then
as the crack widened-a pair of very
bright black eyes; and when it was
opened about half an inch, we saw in
the doorway the drol'est face that one
can imagine.
The whole face came to a sharp edge
Qike wedge). At the top, between
the eyes. was the funny pink nose,
with blackish dots on it, as if he had
been playing in the mud; and below
the nose a small black mouth, with
corners drawn in the primmest fash
ion. He looked like a very precise
and prim old gentleman, and he pro-
ceeded to take a good look at his
neighbors, who, by the way, were star
/ ipor of him moot r,1do1v
The eccentric Individual had no fore
head to speak of, his head going di-
rectly back from his nose. But, though
there seemed to-be no place for brains,
it was plain from his knowing ways
that he had some. At the tip end of
his nose was a pair of nostrils that
looked as if they were made by stick
ing in two pins side by side; and the
"puckered' little mouth, come TO look
at it, extended around the side-from
ear to ear, you might say-and had
sharp edge to the upper lip, that could
bite as we'll as any body's teeth.
The head of our strange little guest
turned one side or the other, his sharp
eyes moved this way and that, and al
together he bore the appearance Of
very wise old person indeed, with de-
cided opinions regarding the present
company.
Still we did not move, and little by
little he opened wide his door, till we
saw his neck, wrapped in what looked
like small orange and black shawl,
but, when his head was thrust out,
proved to be fold of his skin. Then
we noticed two cushiony-looking OBJ
jects at the side, all covered with his
favorite black and orange; and slyly
peeping out from behind, two broad
fat feet, having five odd little toes,
with a sharp black tOe-nail on each.
In time the side cushions turned out
to be his two fore feet, and hanging
down behind was the most absurd tail,
half an inch long, as straight as a new
pin. and no bigger.
When the turtle had pushed out, at
his leisure, all these members, the
house rose on its four feet and began
to move along the table. But if any
one offered to touch it; behold! the
comical little tail bent around one
side, the four yellow-clad legs drew
themselves in, the quaint old face van
ished, and the door was slammed in
his very face!
And now, if you please, I should
like to ask a question. Why are all
of you boys so fond of turtles?-Olive
Thorne Miller, in Christian Union
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-03-30
HAPPY HANS.

Hans had naught of earthly wealth;
Hans had much of rugged health.
Hans. while toiling all the day,
Sang because his heart was gay.
Hans rich neighbor, reused at morn
BY Hans singing, was forlorn;
For his-heart, oppressed with care,
Hated gladness anywhere.
"Hans," he cried, one morning why
Are you always singingy' Il
Can not help IT." Hans replied;
"rm too happy-here inside"
"Hans! Here is a box of gold
Take it and thy music hold,
For the songs you sing with zest
All destroy my morning rest"
Foolish Hans He took the box
Filled with gold and strong with locks
Took it thinking 'twould bestow
Happiness he didn't know.
Unhappy Hans Instead of joy
All his treasure was a cloy;
Guarding it by day and night
Robbed him of his hearts delight
Sitting on his box, he wept-
Even while his neighbor slept;
Wept because he couldn't sing,
Wept because he was king.
Nature seemed to him as cold
AS his load of yellow gold,
Friends as enemies appeared,
Those he loved before he feared.
On morning Hans arose,
Took the box that held his woes
To his neighbor. "Sir, behold"
Hans exclaimed, 81 bring thy gold.
''Tale ii back-thy gift was wrong;
Take it-I must have my song"
Happy Hans Enslaved no more,
Sang as ne'er he sang before.
H. C. Dodge, in Goodalls Sun
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-03-30

Instances of dogs leaving new
homes and walking long distances to
their old masters are numerous, but
the pig wasn't suspected of accom-
plishing such feat, though one in
Chester County recently did so. The
West Chester Republican reports that
the animal was among a lot disposed
of at a sale there, adding: 1T was
driven to Weston, but would not enter
the pen prepared for it, and after
wards strayed off to neigheoring
farm, and, apparently not liking 1t
there started towards West Chester.
1t travelled all night, and the next
morning the owner found him in that
borough"
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Charlie in the Swing.

Emma and Harry went with their
mother to see their grandma, who lived
in Indiana They were in high glee
when they got out of the city and Jaw
the green fields and woods They took
their pet rabbits and swing rope along.
and grandpa made a pen for the rab-
bits and put the swing up in the wagon
shed in the barn. =
Grandpa had a horse called Charlie,
and one of the childre was always on
his back when he was led to the well
for water. One day grandpa found
that Charlie had got loose, and was
gone from the stable. Where do you
guess he was? Fast in the swing!
He had put his head through the
swing, and then his fOrefeet; then he
tried to get out, but he could noti so
he turned round and round until the
rope was twisted up tight But Char
ley was a good horse, and would not
kick, but stood quietly until grandpa
came and let him out. This is every
word true story.-Our Dumb Ami
mails.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-03-30

"A Western rancher hired very
inexperienced boy to help him about
the farm. Al told the lad to take some
salt and salt the calf over in the
pasture The boy took about quart
of salt and rubbed over the calf, work.
ing it well into the hair. A gang of
colts in the pasture scented the salt
and got after the calf They licked
the hair all off the calf's hide and
tried to lick the hide off, too. Al tried
to catch the calf 60 wash it.. but the
creature, thinking he wanted to lick,
too. kept out of his reach. The boy
and the calf and Farmer Al are all un-
happy. The colts are the only ones
that got any fun out of it,-AstOria
(Ore.) Pioneer,