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The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-04-13
HOTELS IN NICARAGUA.
How Inn keepers Take Care of Their
Guests in That Country.

How Inn keepers Take Care of Their
Guests in That Country.
Let me tell you what they call good
hotel in this part of they world. The
landlords have no idea of permitting
one guest to selfishly monopolize a
whole room to himself, or even parties
of two or three; therefore the largest
inn has utthree or four sleeping apart
ments, around the halls of which single
beds are ranged as in the wards of a
hospital. OF course our party can not
consent to such plan, and so we are
compelled TO pay several prices in order
to buy up an entire room and secure it
from intrusion.
The little iron bedsteads Gall ''sin-
gle" ones) are bottomed with Ox-hide,
stretched tightly from end to end, upon
which are thrown sheepskins with the
wool on, or mattress, or pairs of
blankets-the result being couch to
which a good pine board would d be
downy by comparison. At the head OF
each bed is the skeleton of table,
painted black. upholding tin basin
filled with water, which is supposed to
be all one will need during twenty-fOur
hours for ablution or any other pur-
pose. The "chambermaid" is always
man-and a rather cross one too
who can not be bribed by a bit of rib
bon, a fan, or other feminine para
phernalia TO grant unusual indul-
gences, as with the bonny hotel maids
of Yankee land-heaven bless them!
Soap and towels there are none; but
will generally be furnished (such as
they are( by the payment of dos reGtes
(twenty-fve cents) extra; and if you
are so unreasonably extravagant as to
desire other illumination than that of
Luna to 60 to bed by, you may buy a
tallow dip stuck into an old bottle for
medic (six cents); or come provided,
as the natives sometimes do, with a
pocket full of beans, which-strung on
a stick and ignited, furnish a better
light than many civilized lamp.
Not another article of furniture do
you get, for love or money-not even
chair; unless you reckon in the in
ventory peg or two, stuck into the
wall, upon which you are privileged to
hang your clothes without extra
charge For these accommodations
you pay at the rate of a dollar d day,
per capita, al naozIr, or first breakfast,
thrown in-the latter consisting of a
small (and generally dirty mug OF
coffee or chocolate for each person, ac-
companied by tiny loaf of unbuttered
bread, which looks like croquet ball,
and is about as easily masticated. Din
ner you must forage for elsewhere; but
there is generally forsdita, or restau-
rant, attached to each hotel.-Fannie B.
Ward, in Detroit Commercial Adver.
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The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-04-13

duced at a Chestnut srreet thea
ter early next week. You'll find
the very scene on dozen
downtown bill boards. 1t is a
quarrel The woman attacks the man
with a pair of scissors and he responds
with dagger. The play was pro-
duced in small cities last winter and
at one or two popular watering-places
in the summer. You've seen three re-
hearsals."
Holt, don't believe you" l cried,
as it flashed upon me that my old ill
ness was returning and Holt had taken
this method of diverting my mind from
the threatened calamity.
True as gospel" said Holt, briefly,
pouring out another drink.
81 will not believe it until you de-
scribe the scene exactly as it appeared
to me-"
Holt promptly went over the whole
occurrence and his description differed
in no important feature from my own
vision. l was convinced. We talked
half an hour longer, and five minutes
after going to bed | was sound asleep.
Next day l went around to my doctor,
laughed at his learning and accepted
his apologies for the discredit he had
cast upon my visual sanity.
That evening at dinner, while read
ing an afternoon paper, | came upon a
cons picuous heading in these words:
''sLAIN AT REHEARSAL.
l started, read on and discovered
that James Carr, alias Arthur Leroy,
had killed his wife the night before in
their rooms on Clinton street. Then |
knew that Holt and l had actually
seen the crime committed. According
to the newspapers account Carr, upon
being arrested, had confessed the
homicide and pleaded self defense,
He had lived and quarreled with the
woman for five years. After their re-
hearsal of the night before she had
called up an old grievance, and finally
in fit of anger had attacked him with
a pair of scissors, the very weapon she
was to have used in the mimic scene
on their approaching first night" He
had defended himself with the dagger
just employed at rehearsal, and was
Mortified to find that he had slain her.
Nobody quite believed Carrs story
at first, but the testimony of Holt and
myself saved his neck.-Philadelphia
Times.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-04-13
Love in a Cottage.

General Horatio King, formerly
Postmaster-General, has been writing
his views on the question of the size a
mans income should be before he gets
married. ut depends" he says, ION
where he lives-in city or country
what his habits of economy, and above
all, whether or not he is sure of care
full. economical wife. If he is all right
in these respects and has small capi-
tai, as he should have, to begin with,
he may be entirely safe on an income
of from four to six hundred dollars a
year and save something out of the
larger sum. provided no expensive i'll
ness intervenes to prevent. They
should live frugally, denying them
selves the theater and all other costly
entertainments, as we'll as all luxu-
ries until fairly out of the woods. ~
Lewiston Me.) Journal
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But it was not impossible.

But it was not impossible.
"John," said Anna, Il have been
reading that in old times there were
people who used to go about from
castle to castle playing on harps and
singing beautiful stories, and people
liked to hear them, and they were
we'll fed and had money given to them.
They were called minstrels. Should
you like to be a MINSTREL"
John, who was some years younger
than Anna, looked grave for moment,
and then said:
II can't play, and can only sing a
"Song of Sixpence." Would people at
castles like it?''
''Oh, don't mean really, because
can't play on a harp or carry it about
But we might have a game IN the gar
den, and the summer-hOuse could be
one castle, and the conservatory anOth-
er. and the verandah by the drawing
room windows another. "
But what should we play UpOn2 L
have broken my drum and trumpet" D."
"Why, you might have your little
tin bucket, and strike on it as loud as
YOU can with your spade, and 1 can
pretend that this old piece of slate is
violin, and scrape on it with a stick,
and we can think that we are singing
in French or Italian, and scream and
shout like ladies singing their fine
songs"
They had been to the summer-hOuSe
and conservatory, and had arrived at
the verandah.
''The noise grows louder" says man.
ma.
''It is horrible" said papa; and he
threw down his paper and walked to
the window.
Then he began to laugh.
"What is the matter?" asked mann
ma.
Come and see."
So mamma went, and there she saw
Anna and John scrapin and battering
away and shouting with all their might.
Papa opened the window.
Papa" said John, ''we are min
strels Will you give US some money
for our music"
''Do you call that music?" said papa,
laughing.
Papa" said Anna, gravely, ''you
must not laugh; we are playing at be-
ing minstrels. 1 read all about the
minstrels in my history book, and L
have told John about them So have
taught John some history, have Inot'"
Then papa made this verse which ne
said Anna and John might sing:
For our music you must pay
If you don't, We'll go away.
Julia Goddard, in Little Folks.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-04-13
PITH AND POINT.

1t takes two to tell a lie-one to
speak and one 10 listen.
"A skeptic is a man with faith in
nothing who believes in himself. Bal
timore American.
The poorest education that teaches
self-control is better than the best that
neglects it.
The voice of conscience is so deli
cate that it is easy to stihe it. But it
is also so clear that it is impossible to
mistake it.
1t is often more necessary to con-
ceal contempt than resentment; the
former being never forgiven, but the
latter sometimes forgot Lord Ches-
terfeld.
The truly generous man is he who
denies himself some luxury, or. better
still, some necessary, in order that he
may have wherewith to give to those
who are in need.
Nothing is so narrowing, contract
ing, hardening, as always to be NOV
ing in the same groove, with no
thought beyond what we Immediately
see and hear close round us.
If man could make a single rose
we should give him an Empire; yet
roses and flowers no less beautiful are
scattered in profusion over the world,
and no one regards them. Luther.
"A mans individuality is what
brings him success in this world, and
there have never yet been laid down
any set rules or regulations by which
men are made to gain distinction
among their felIow-men. brunswick
GA Times.
Unless we can cast off the pref
udices of the man and become as
children, docile and unperverted, we
need never hope to enter the temple
of philosophy.
The blows of workman must be
judged not merely by their immediate
effect, but by their relation to his
whole purpose. The mason who takes
down a wall and clears away the rub
bish in order that he may build some
thing better in its stead is engaged in
constructing work.-BOston Chris
tian Register.
Day by day we are making the in
Auences which will presently be our
rulers; we are making our destiny.
We are choosing our habits, our asso-
ciares, our traits, our homes. In time
these acquire a power over us which
enslave our will, and from which we
neither will nor can break loose.
-Self-confidence and self-respect
grow from habits of decision; not those
feelings which set up self as the only
oracle, and despise all opinions ol
others, but such as lead a man to con-
slider well the dignity of his nature
lat noble self-government which also
fails not in duty toward another
Thomas Aird.
Learning, wit, gallantry and good
breeding are all but subordinate quail
tiles in society, and are of no value,
but as they are subservient to benevo-
lence, and tend to a certain manner OIL
being or appearing equal to the rest Of
the company; for conversation is com
posed OF an assembly of men, as they
are men, and not as they are distin-
guished by fortune R. Steele.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-04-13
ANIMALS AT PLAY.
How Small and Large Birds, Jaguars and
Cougars Amuse Themselves.


Small birds chase each other about
in play; but perhaps the conduct OF
the crane and the trumpeter is the most
extraordinary. The latter stands on
one leg, hops about in the most eccen-
trio manner, and throws somersaults-
Some call it the mad bird, on account
of these singularities. Water birds,
such as ducks and geese, dive after
each other, and clear the surface of
the water with outstretched neck and
tapping wings, throwing abundant
spray around. Deer often engage in
sham battle, or trial of strength, by
twisting their horns together and push
ing for the mastery. All animals pre-
tending violence in their play stop
short of exercising it; the dog takes
the greatest precaution not to inJure
by his bite; and the ourang-outang, in
wrestling with his keeper, pretends to
throw him, and makes feints of biting
him. Some animals carry out in their
play the semblance of catching their
prey; young cats, for instance, leap after
every small and moving object, even
to the leaves strewn by the autumn
wind; they crouch and steal forward,
ready for the spring, the body quiver-
ing, and the tail vibrating with emo
ton, they bound on the moving leaf,
and again spring forward to another.
Benger saw young jaguars and cougars
playing with round substances. like
kittens. Birds of the magpie kind are
the analogues of monkeys; full of mis-
chief, play and mimicry. There is a
story of tame magpie, that was seen
busily employed in a garden, gather
ing pebbles. and with much solemnity
and a studied air, burying them in a
hole made to receive post. After
dropping each stone, it cried "cur-
rackr' triumphantly, and set off for
another. On examining the spot, a
poor toad was found in the hole, which
the magpie was stoning for his amuse-
ment IN. Y. Ledger.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-04-13
j. W. DORRINGTON, Proprietor.
NUMBER 20.
The surface Of the lake sparkled In

The surface Of the lake sparkled In
the sunlight. The snow was frozen
into crust as solid as ice.
''If 1 could only draw Kitty out
there" he said; but he knew that in
such a wind both might be lost.
He tried to fasten the sheet over the
window to keep the wind from Kitty;
but it blew about so that he could
hardly hold it, and just then bright
thought came to him.
ut goes just as the sail of my boat
used to last summer"
He had heard his father tell OF ice
boating on lake near the lumber camp.
With fingers aching and smarting with
the cold, he nailed to his hand-sled a
mast which he had made for his row.
| boat, and soon had his ice-boat ready.
''Now, Kitty, I'm going to give you
the finest ride you ever had in your
life"
Very carefully he wrapped the lit
tie one and seated her on the sled. he
gave old Brickdust plenty of hay, seat
ed himself behind Kitty, and seized his
sail-ropes.
"Now, Kitty, hurrah!"
The sail tapped wildly, and Benny
could scarcely keep his breath. Down
the hill they went like flash of light
ming, and shot out upon the glistening
lake.
A man in the village, who had seen
what might have been taken for a
white winged bird, came toward them
'Its fatherr screamed Benny.
He took the little travellers to Uncle
Roberts, where mother was getting
ready to go home.
Poor Benny's hands were frozen, but
his darling little sister was as safe as
when his mother had left her in his
faithful care. = Sydney Dayre, IN
Youths Companion.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-04-13
VOLUME XVIII.
DEAR OLD FACES.

Strange new faces day by day
Through the busy mart and way
Beaming as the lucent sky,
Or portending storms are nigh
Wreathed in smiles or wan with care,
Loads revealing hearts must bear
Flushed with luck and victory,
Wondrous for diversity!
And the diverse tide rolls on
From the dawn till day is done.
Sweet the faces that we greet
OF the children on the street.
Happy, hearty everywhere,
Blossoms in the open air,
When the frost doth pinch and blight
Every other bloom in sight,
And look into those eyes
Telleth, even while snow flies,
May is coming very soon
Followed by the rosy Junel
But VIC sadly miss dear faces
From the old familiar places
Though the world moves on the same
With its greed for gold and fame,
And as ever to the sea
Flows the river past the lea,
That had mrrored from the shore
Chances it will catch no more
Yet it floweth down the vale
Waiting not to weep and wall
Cherish faces while ye may
That can tarry but day;
Yet whose look of Heavenly claim
Through the prayer and hymn and psalm,
Is revealing a sure trust
Crumbling never into dust,
And whose frames of silver-gray,
Golden where the sunbeams play,
Holdcth portraits dearer all
Than those soulless on the wall.
-Springfield (Mass.) Republican.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-04-13

Nothing" says a dOwn-hearted
philosopher, nothing fingers and stays
on like a stain on the character. Ha!
YOU haven't noticed, then, the appal-
ing staying powers of the hired girls
Young man? Possibly not AT the un-
earthly hour when he makes up his
mind to begin to think of going the
rest of the world is locked in slumber
so profound that nothing short of a
serenade or a troubled conscience could
disturb it.-Burdette.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-04-13

1t is easy for the observer to read
lily trace the evolution of culture with
out going out of the cars. Leaving
San Francisco you are on good terms
with every body, from the engineer to
the rear brakeman, within twenty-four
hours. The California Senator divides
his lunch and cigars with the home
ward-b bound Bostonian, and the San
Francisco millionaire plays whist with
the sad-eyed humorist. Crossing the
Missouri river the air of curiosity man
ifests itself, followed east of Chicago by
a falling off in the rapport and persi-
Aage business, until between New York
and Boston the stranger feels the same
air of cordiality that Mr.. Enoch Arden
did when he got home late at night,
looked in the window, and went away,
Bill Nye.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-04-13
THE LITTLE MINsTRELS.

A Strange Noise. and How and BY Whom
1t Was Made.
"What strange nOiseG" said mann
ma.
II can't read my paper, said papa
And the noise went on.
81 never heard any thing so queer,
said mamma And she rang the bell.
''What is the matter?' she asked;
"what is all this nOise?"
II think, ma'am," replied the maid,
'that it is Miss Anna and Master
John"
Nonsense" said mamma, ''it is
impossible"
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"A letter was received at the execu-
tive office in Atlanta which ought TO
be framed or placed among the ar
chives. In the letter occurs this sem
tence: II was mortally wounded twice
in active battle at Griswoldville.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-04-13
FOR OUR YOUNG READERS.
OUR "QUEEN OF HEARTS.

know a little fairy,
have named her Queen OF Heares;"
She's sweet and bright and winsOlne,
And - do fairies trundle carts?
Do they talk like grown-up folks?
Do they tell of their affairs?
How with measles Group and maids,
They are quite worn out with caresf
Do they pet and squeeze the kitten
Till it sQueals outright for air:
Do they wear siIken ribbon
In their soft and silken hair?
When they talk of Christmas gifts -
The jolly little elves -
Do they wish q chamber-Set
and big room to themselves?
When tired out with make-believe
Their brain begins to whirl,
Do they climb your lap and say:
''Ill be your little Girl?'
Helen Bird in Our Little Men and Women.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-04-13

"A celluloid pen-holder exploded in
the pocket of a Portsmouth On. H.)
man, burning a hole in his coat and
tearing out the pocket
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LIFE'S LIMITATIONS.
Conditions Under Which They May Be
Made n Help to Success.

Conditions Under Which They May Be
Made n Help to Success.
Limitations are often deemed him
drance, when they might be a help, to
enjoyment and to power. Every mans
life has its own peculiar and inevitable
limitations If he works cheerfully
within them, he can be happy and sue
cessful. If he does not accept them,
but chafes himself against them as the
pining canary frets herself against the
iron bars of her cage, he will be mis-
erebly unhappy, and will accomplish
nothing. We may be hopelessly cut
off from the very things we long for
most. We may see the very avenue on
which we had proposed to achieve
splendid success being closed before
our eyes. We may not possess the
iron constitution and physical strength,
or the well-stocked and magnificent
library, or the grand church, or the
MAGNETIC voice, or the abundant leis-
ure, or the affluent imagination, or the
influential connections, or the prestige
of blood or wealth, which we are
deeming so essential to our welfare;
and vet, without them, and within our
own peculiar limits, there are wonder
full opportunities for doing great things
with what we have, and there is Won
derful happiness, after we have made
up our minds not to cast covetOus eyes
on what it is not ours to possess, in
using those powers which the Lord has
placed at our disposal. Both success
and happiness will crown our life if
there be a cheerful acceptance of LIES
limits, and faithful service within
those limits SIS. Times.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-02-16
Fashion Notes.

The fan of seven sticks is the fancy of
the moment.
Colored piques are very stylish this
season made in tailor fashion.
Cut steel is seen on some Jersey waists
of French manufacture.
Cuffs of watered silk and a high dog
collar are seen on stylish wash costumes.
Dotted fabrics are as fashionable as
plaided and barred stuffs.
Brown with bronze green makes a
stylish combination for a dark costume.
Chinarsilk of white and cream shades
is used for summer underwear, and
washes like cotton cloth.
Deep coquelicot red gloves in Suede
kid are worn with the brilliant costumes
SO fashionable this seasons
Pink yarrow is now counterfeited, and
forms the garlands that trim round hats
and lace bofnets so prettily.
The large oxidized silver buckles are
stylish worn with the watered belts
which finish the fsund waist.
There is a revi al in the so-called
emancipation clothing WHICH allows it to
be comfortable and elegant as well.
Powered lawns have a sunshaEtet made
of the materials, and are ornams 2ted
with a bow of bright ribbon velvet.
Chantilly guipures are worn with silk
skirts. and have a stylish and pretty eff
feet if worn with colored skirts also.
The point d'esprit net is used in giving
light effects in yelling the posey of flow
ers which decorates the stylish shads hat.
Sandals are now made to match every
suitable costume for house wear. They
should be worn over open worked stock
ings.
Pin-head dotted white muslins are re-
yiyed for young girls' wear. Thev are
worn over colored slips or white ones at
pleasure.
China Grape shoulder scarfs and small
white and tinted shawls, with deep net
ted fringes, are the f%avorite piazza wraps
at watering places.
AS long as the Princess of Wales is the
leader Of fashion on the otheaRide OF the
water. We win have high and close neck
and throat dresses.
Theodore girdles are only worn with
heavy fabrics as their weight makes II
desirable that they should be best worn
with substantial materials.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-02-16
Alkotf Lands of the s~outhsvest

On tie desert plains of the west and
the southwest arc large white patches Of
land, commonly known as alkali soil.
The popularity is caused by the presence
Of carbonate of soda. Even in the irri-
gated valleys much of this substance is
found, and in places it is impossible to
raise crops on account Of its excess.
On the desert plateau, where agricul-
ture is impossible, the presence of the
alkali is of no economical disadvantage,
but in the fertile valleys it is a source of
much trouble to the agriculturists. BY
the natural processes of evaporation at
the surface and capillary rise from be-
low. these salts, which are present in
variable quantities in nearly alLsthe
soils of the southwest, tend to accu-
mulate near the surface, and form the
efiorescence, which gives the appear
ance above noted. Such a soil, aside
from the destructive effects of the al
kali, cannot be used for crops, because
even the most thorough cultivation only
results in breaking the soil up into
hard Jumps. Each irrigation softens it,
but as o 0 as the sun has commenced
to dry the surface, it becomes hard and
cloddy.
A system of drainage must therefore
be established, and in this way the land
can, doubtless, be made of great value,
for it is naturally richs The broadcast
culture of cereals is the worst possible
crop for an alkaline soil. They are
readily killed, do not admit of cultiva-
ton, and give little protection to the soil
against evaporation. Deep roofing crops
which shade the ground are especially
well fitted for such soil. Alfalfa, a very
profitable crop in the Southwest, takes
readily to alkaline soils, if the salts arr
not tooa abundant. All fruits, especially
The sweeter kinds, are found to flourish
in slightly alkaline ground. Possibly
sugar-eane and sorghum viii ffndthe sol
adapted to their demands.-[American
AgricuIturist.