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Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1890-05-24

oNR ENJOYS
Both the method and results when
Syrup Of Figs is TAX it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, and act.
gentlyyetPromptly on the Kidneys.
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the w..
tenn efectually, dispels colds, head
aches and fevers and cures babitu.l
constipation. Syrup of Figs is the
only remedy of its kind ever pro-
duced, pleasing to the taste and &C.
cePtable to the stomach, prompt in
Its action and truly beneficial IN it.
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeable substances.
Its many excellent qualities com.
mend it to all and have made It
the most popular remedy known.
Syrup Of Figs is for sale in 500
and 81 bottles by all leading drug.
g'sn. ANY reliable druggist who
may not have it ON hand will nro-
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it Do not accept
any substitute.
MNokYM Fc syrup ca.
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The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1890-02-01
PITH AND POINT.

"A man is great when the trif1ing In
cidents of his life are noticed.
An unruly stomach is not to be tanned
by lectures.-Table Talk.
Success depends quite as much on
adaptability as ability.
How ridiculous are the mistakes OF
others; how perfectly excusable our
own.
The poorer man is, the more apt
he is to refuse the pennies you give him
in change.
When mans temper gets the best
of him, it reveals the worst of him.
Altoona Tribune.
"A miser grows rich by seeming poor;
an extravagant mau grows poor by SEEM
ing r-el.-ShenstOne.
-UHceasjng and relentless watching
over ourselves is the price Of success in
the higher aims of life,
There is not enough Justice in the
world to prevent the right from occa-
sionally getting left.-Binghamton
Leader
Be courageous and noble-minded;
opinions of US, form our true honor.
1t is a cold, clammy thing to say, but
those people who treat friendship the
same way as any other selfishness get
most out of it.-Atchison Globe.
1t is the man who orders room on
the top floor who takes up the mostroom
in writing his name on the hotel regis
ter.
The sympathies of people are always
with the unfortunate, because the people
know they are so liable to be unfortu-
nate themselves.
1t is said that ''men are the archi-
tects of their own fortunes" This ex-
plains why so many of them fail, for but
few get beyond the nave.-Philadelphia
Press.
If some people would stop worrying
about the past and worry a little about
the future they would improve their
chances of success. Detroit Free Press.
What an unmarried woman doesn't
know about bringing up children could
be written on the back of postage
stamp, but it would ruin the stamp.-N.
Y. Commercial
With the most of us, the man who
believes as we do is not only right, but
strong, able and successful; our SYM
pathies are so strongly with him that we
take it for granted he is carrying every
thing before him.-United Presbyterian.
I'm removing friction, in calming ir-
ritation, in promoting sympathy, in in
clining the hearts of others towards, in
stead of against him, the speaker of
kind words exerts force much greater
than he conceives of. Results that
could never be accomplished by harsh
compulsion or an iron viii often flow
easily and pleasantly under the in
vigorating influence Of kind words
Once A Week.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1890-02-01
and the timbers ana Uies laid ON the
The Results of LiberaIity.

On the death of the elder Krupp one
of the first acts of his son and successor
was to give to the town of Essen the
sum of els, 900 for public Improvements,
which he followed by another dona-
tion of $50, 900 for the creation of a fund
for the benefit of his sick, disabled work.
men. The interest in the welfare of
the employees which was shown in this
and similar ways has been very bene-
fetal to the firms interests. The
Krupp Gun Works has the pick of the
labor market at the ordinary wages,
and during the recent strikes in West
ern Germany they were in no way af
fected. While 100, 900 workmen from
the majority of the large establishments
in the neighborhood were on strike,
causing an entire suspension of work.
Krupp's works never had to suspend op
erations for an hour, though the total
number of persons employed exceeds
twenty-five thousand-Glasgow Mail
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1890-02-01
J. W. DORRINGTON, Proprietor.
FOR LITTLE PEOPLE.
THREE LITTLE BOYS.

Three little boys in a rollicking mood
Out in the snow at play;
Their hearts are light, for the sun is bright,
On this glorious winter day.
Three little boys with shouts of glee
Slide down a snowy hill,
And the names or the rOllicking little boys
Are 81 Can't" "I Won't" and 81 WILL"
But play must cease, and warning voice
Calls out from the open door:
"Come, boys, here's task for your nimble
hands,
We must have it done by four"
"IWill" speeds away at the mothers COM
mand
With a cheerful and sunny face,
And 81 Can't'' follows on with murmur and
grOan
at weary and tagging pace.
But ''I WON'T with dark and angry frown
Goes sauntering down the street,
And 7ullenly idles the time away
Till he thinks the task complete
At 1l, 90" WHIP learns his lessons weU.
A. seldom absent OF late:
81 taa finds the lessons aI too hard,
- Mt" hates books and slate.
So the seasons come and the seasons 20,
II their never ceasiug race,
And each little boy, now staIwart man,
II the busy world finds his place,
'1 VIII, ," with n CoGr7-e undaunted, tolls,
Ana :. -. ..,.- ..-0 --solute aim,
And the world is better because he lives,
And he gains both honor and fame.
"I Can't" finds life an uphill road;
He faints in adversely,
And spends his life unlOved and unknown,
In hopeless poverty.
'T WON'T opposes all objects and plans
And SCOTS at what others have wrough
And so in his selfish idleness wrapped
He dies and is soon forgot.
Mary Miller Mckinney, in Housekeeper.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1890-02-01
Coronation In switzerland.

A great outcry has been raised in the
Swiss Canton Tessiu against the preva-
Ienoe there of bribery at elections The
political workers are constantly racking
their brains to devise new means of buy
ing votes. The mayor Of small city
near .Locarno recently for reelection,
invited every one who would promise to
vote for MIN to eat and drink at ms ex-
pense for three months at certain speci-
fed taverns. The success of his plan is
shown by the fact that he was reelected
and that his bills at the taverns in ques-
ton amounted to IA, 900 francs Votes
bought in the old-fashioned way cost
from 90 cents to SIS each. Even the
clergy are said to bribe electors right and
left Paris GaulOiS
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1890-02-01
SECRETS OF SUCCESS.
How the Ounce OF the College Made Him
self Famous Man.

How the Ounce OF the College Made Him.
self Famous Man.
AS boys and girls grow toward man
and womanhood, they naturally feed on
dreams of their future life, and look for
ward with hope to gaining success.
They see that it follows and comes as
the reward of honest, faithful work,
which they are willing to give. Many,
however, forget that the work must be
mixed with brains, that there must be
intelligence as we'll as industry.
A rustic lad, anxious to climb the lad
der of fortune, willing and Industrious,
hired himself out to thrifty farmer on
the outskirts of large city. Hitherto
he had labored hard all his life, follow
ing the reapers and mowers in the field,
or the wood-choppers in the forest, as
each days task was given him, as a
faithful drudge. His work had required
no thought or intelligence, only simple
obedience and industry. The first day
of his new life he was sent to sell load
of pumpkins in the city.
At evening he returned, discouraged,
with his cart still heaping full, saying
he had driven faithfully, all day long,
through all the streets of the city, and
nobody had said a word to him about
pumpkins.
If persons are willing to learn from
their failures, they can conquer most of
the difficulties of life. DR.. Blake, as
boy, was a student at Rome, and so re-
markably slow and dull as to ,e con-
sidered Ounce. This was, in part,
owing to great indistinctness in speech
and stammering tongue. One day he
modestly gave his opinion in some dis
oussion among his comrades, and 70 his
surprise he was rudely interrupted by
''yYhat business have you to speak, who
are the Ounce Of the CoIege?'
The wound was keen and sharp. The
raor boy did not reply, but turned away,
With the harsh words burning into his
bosom. He reflected that the cruel
speech met no rebuhe from any one, but
was silently accepted by all. That must
be his character among them, and the
opinion of all, even of the kindest of
his friends. For this rough rebuke he
felt he ought to be thankful
And now what was to be done? The
reproach must be wiped away, the char
acter changed. So he wrote on slip of
paper: "The Ounce of the College," in
plain, unmistakable letters, and placed
it in his desk, where, unseen by others,
it should be ever before his eyes. This
sharp, stinging goad was ever at his
side.
He strove to speak slowly and care
fully, and after time cured the defects
of speech. By close, faithful effort he
soon rose to a post of honor in his class
and in the school. His comrades never
knew the secret of his success.-Mary
Lansing, in Santa Claus.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1890-02-01
A Few "Ifs."

Jwonder if there would be less work
to do if Edward should hang up his hat
instead of leaving it for Mary! If Mary
should carry her shawl with her to the
carriage instead of asking Edward to
step back for it! If Anna could bring her
book downstairs instead Of asking Alice
to turn back to get it!
Or if Alice did not say: 'Please, Anna,
run. turn off the gas; 1 forgot i'll" TX
Frank had brought the dipper from the
field instead of sending little Ben (be-
cause he was only a boy) for it! If. when
Lucy left the piano, she had shut it, in
stead of mother having to do it when
bed time came. If Alfred always closed
the door after him instead of wife hav-
ing to get up!
remember how willing we are to do
these little things for each other-but
Il just wonder!-Santa Claus.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1890-02-01
A VISION OF YOUTH.

In meadows sweet where my bare feet
! Once twinkled in the clover,
And bloom and bee delighted me
Ere became a rover,
Bearded and gray stray to day,
And from them to the wildwood,
Again to seek-again to speak
The happiness of childhood.
Cooled by the breeze near whisp'rin trees,
lie and look and listen,
Till natures truth and dreams OF youth
In all their glory glisten.
In changing skies my happy eyes
Find Castle great and steepled,
Fhat years ago. full well know,
Ibuilt ana owned and peopled.
1ll-fortune, tears, mistakes that years
---.- odded 30 life's sorrow
= thrust behnd--l1eep out of mind
Forget until TO- morrow:
Nor clOudnor storm could now transform
Ii&Tision OF my pleasure,
y en- after rain 7 d try again
70 find the rainbow's treasuIe.
p. on, in Leslics -e., sI.4--
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1890-02-01
THE LOVE OF LACES.
A Fashion That Has Been in Vogue fol
at Least Four Centuries.

A Fashion That Has Been in Vogue for
at Least Four Centuries.
A lady who does not care for laces is a
phenomenon. They have been in vogue
with the sex for at least four hundred
years, and amid all the mutations of
fashion, have never lost their prestige
as a specially of the aristocratic toilet.
Puritanism, Quakerism, Methodism
have decried and denounced them in
vain, and sumptuary laws aiming at
their restriction to privileged few have
proved dead letter.
Strange to say, the world is indebted
for some of the costliest of it's lace fab.
RIGS to class vowed to perpetual absti-
nence from the vanities of the flesh.
The nuns of the Middle Ages intro
duced guipure, and in fact almost up to
the time of the Reformation tho
nunneries were the principal lace and
embroidery faCtoric7 THO fair dnvo+nna
foI long period limited their iabors 10
t.a production of cobweb robes for tho
images Of the saints, but eventually
taey exercised their vestal fingers in
the adornment Of Queens and noble
women.
SOmetImes-sO slow was the process
or manuiaCturo-l5 took two OF three
generations to complete a robe for the
Virgin Mary. When the delicate film
work dropped from the hands of the
superannuated sister who had spent a
Lifetime in its elaboration, it was
caught as reverently as if it had been
prophets mantle by some younger
member of the order, who in her turn
growing old an6 blind, transmitted it to
another; so that the grand cathedrals
and stately towers of medieval Europe
were constructed in less time than it's
thread-lace walls and mantles
The lace ruffs of Queen Elizabeth's
reign were an abomination in the ewes
of the pious fathers of the Reformation,
but Good Queen Bess'' thought thew
became her stiff figure and vixen face.
and she piled them one above another
up to her royal ears, in utter contempt
of the ecclesiastics. An author of that
day, referring to the Elizabethean style
of wearing ruffs, says:
They were placed grGdatim, one beneath
the other: and underneath all the MASTER
deuu ruff wrought all over with needIework.
Lace-making is not now the tedious
work it was a few centuries ago: but
even yet the finest laces are all manu-
featured by hand, and rare specimens
are worth almost fabulous prices From
two to five thousand dollars have fre-
quently been given for bridal robe in
this land OF republican Simplicity.-N.
Y. Ledger.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1890-02-01
A Good Name.

"a good name is rather to be chosen
than great riches" Even unscrupulous
men know the worth Of good principles
that can not be moved. A gentleman
turned off a man in his employ at the
bank, because he refused to write for
him on Sunday. When asked afterwaro
to name some reliable person he might
know as suitable for cashier in another
bank, he recommended this same man.
Numerous items have recently ap-
peared in the press concerning the
pearls of the Sugar River, Wisconsin,
which have not all been without founda-
tion, since some parcels have been sent
to New York which were worth from
few dollars to over $1,000 parcel Io
mauy who have read these accounts ~
mar be interesting to know that, In tne
last twenty years, more than SIOo'OOV
of pearls have been found in the Onlteo
States in that family of mollusks known
as s'unios," or fresh-water mussels, the
same that abounded at one time In the
rivers Of Scotland;
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1890-02-01
Prettv Pictures in Sand.

Parisians have lately been entertained
bv a remarkable artist, who displays
wonderful skill in her peculiar form Of
painting. With plates of various col
ored sand before her, she takes the sand
in her right hand and causes it to fall in
beautiful designs upon table. A bunch
of grapes is pictured with violet sand. a
leaf with green sand, the stalk with
brown sand, and relief and shadows by
other sands; when the work is brushed
away bouquet of roses and other OBJ.
jects are represented with the same dex
terity and delicacV -Pittsburgh Dis
patch.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1890-02-01
THE FOOT'S ANATOMY.
Why 1t Should BE Considered in the Sc
lection of Shoes.

Why 1t Should BE Considered in the Sc
lection of Shoes.
A skillful anatomist says that If we
wore shoes day and night our feet
would become permanently and hope
lessiy diseased, but the airing and
change they get while we sleep keep
them in tolerable condition.
''The human foot is merely hand
modified for base of structure to sup
port the body" 1t is longer and thicker
and narrower than the hand. Its solid
parts are firmer that the corresponding
parts of the hand; the movable parts
less movable than those of the hand.
The foot has two arches; one from
front to rear composed of eight bones,
and another from side to side
composed of four These arches, on ac-
count of the cartilages iaterposed
between the segments that compose
them, are flexible and give elasticity tc
the step and gracefulness to the gait
Fh. largest bone in the long arch OF
lg foot is the heel bone, and ,o this IS
attached the largest tendon In le body.
III Unls tendon the three muscles which
compose the calf of the leg and which
are of the greatest value to us in the
act of walking unite.
The more nearly the shoe approaches
the form of the foot the easier it will be
to walk in. High heels are nothing but
an injury, not to the foot alone, but to
the whole body. They flex the three
muscles in the calf of the leg that give
erectneSs of the body, throw the weight
of the body on to the ball of the foot,
throw the knees forward, and put the
whole mechanism out of poise. This is
well understood by lovers of field sports
and athletics, whose shoes have hardly
any heels at all.
The earliest form of foot cover was
the simple sandal, secured to the foot by
thongs, and often by button, coming
between the first and second toes The
material used for shoes and sandals is
various, chiefly the skins of animals.
Wooden shoes are much worn in Europe,
and are becoming common in this coun-
try. The Japanese wear sandals of
straw, and South Americans, in some
localities, sandals of plated hemp. The
early Greeks went barefoot or wore sim
pie sandals; the Romans wore buskins,
similar to the moccasins of the American
Indians.
The skillful shoemaker or shoe-itter
should understand the anatomy of the
foot as we'll as the art of making shoes,
and he should be able to fit each shoe to
the foot that is to wear it, but probably
not one shoemaker in million ever dis
sected a human foot with a view to
learning how shoes should be made.
We never think of working with our
hau5s-wrou aag arc gloved, and all we
ask of glove is -aa5 it neatly fit the
hand when al re-.. tlt we never think
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1
high wassail within. His face darkens,
he goes back to the ore car and return
ing lies down to hurl two
dollars worth of highly-protected
raw material into the hilarity
I'll fix you laddy-bucks next stop!" he
roars and the merriment ceases; changed
alas, to remarks not suited for publica-
tion. Then you get down on an
empty fat. This is jolly. A lands
man isn't afraid on this. 1t looks
so low, and long and broad, and humps
itself along with such good-natured, easy
rOughness, that it's perfect nursery. 1
once said that canal boat was the ideal
vehicle of travel NowI begin to think
that lounge and an easy chair on
fat-car, with may be low railing
around the car, so that you couldn't pos
sibly fall off, knocks the canal-boat out.
If were president of railroad I'd fix
fat-car up that way and travel on it.
But much railway president knows
about railway travel. When he travels
he takes ship and goes to Europe. ,%sss
But here, we've got up to the engine,
and we can't go any further without spe-
cial permission. And this is the water
tank, and here we stop, and you and
will get into safe place, up on top of
the high carriage car, and see our brake
men, who is the soul of hospitality,
make it pleasant for his chronic ene-
mics, the tramps.-Burdette, in Brook
lyn Eagle.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1890-02-01
A Railroad on Tree-Tops.

1t may not be known outside of the
neighborhood in which it is situated,
but it is nevertheless a fact, that in
Sonoma County, Cal, there exists an
original and successful piece of railroad
engineering and building that is not to
be found in the books. in the upper
part OF the county named, near the coast,
may be seen an actual road-bed in the
tree-tops, between the Clipper mills
and Stuart Poiu. where the road crosses
a deep ravine. The trees are sawed OFF
on level with the surrounding hills,
and the timbers ana Jies laid ON the
stumps. In the center of the ravine
mentioned two huge redwood trees,
standing side by side, form substantial
support. These giants have been Topped
off seventy-fve feet above the bed of the
creek. This natural-tree bridge is con-
sidered one of the wonders of the Golden
State, and for safety and security far
exceeds a bridge framed in the most
scientific manner.-St. Louis Republic.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1890-02-01
LAZY AND CUNNING.
How an English Girl Wounded Herself to
Shirk Work.

NJ c., aged seventeen, a plump,
healthy-looking country girl, in service
in minister's family, was brought to
me by her mistress about the end of
March last complaining of severe prick
ing pains on the dorsal surface of the
left hand. Her mistress informed me
that the girl was not at all fond Of work,
and that she had deal of trouble to get
her to do it; that since the hand had
been bad she would do nothing but sit
down and cry. On examination of the
hand found it puffy and inaamed, and
on asking if she felt the pricking sensa-
ton at any particular point, was re-
ferred to a spot in the center OF The
hand. On touching this with my finger
distinctly felt something sharp and
pointed. l used pair Of Dire --
fOrceps and extracted d full
sewing-needle, which had been pr na.
obliquely into the flesh until .e
whole of it was out of sight. She coulu
give no account of how it got there.
Three evenings afterwaGd she was again
brought in, and from the same place
and in the same manner l extracted an
other needle. About week after she
came again. and this time | withdrew
pin (which had been pushed in until the
head was covered) from the same place.
A few days after she came again, with
her hand (of course previously inflamed
from her treatment of it) very oedema-
tous and of bright-blue color, which 1
found she had produced by liberal use
of the blue-bag and vinegar. l felt so
disgusted with her that 1 advised her
mistress to get rid of her at once, which
was done, and the girl returned to the
country 1t seems hardly credible that
a person of her age could be so cunning,
and would infict so much pain upon her
self to avoid work.-London Lancet.
AT the Government printing office
in Washington few days ago one of the
pretty young women employed there
suddenly suspended toy rat before the
face of another employe. The latter
was so badly frightened that she faint
ed. Her fainting was followed by
spasms. Realizing the serious conse-
quences of her playfulness, the joker in
turn became frightened, and, taken sud-
denly i'll, hastened to the toilet-room
where she, too, tainted and afterward
had hemorrhages. For awhile it was
feared that both women would die, but
they were soon we'll enough to be re-
moved to their homes,
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net that clasps her throat, the rainbow
ribbon around her slender waist, the
jewels wedged buckle-deep on every
tapering finger, and even-oh, vanity
of vanities!-on one small rosy thumb.
We know her by the scented beads
upon her arm, and by the sweet and
subtle odors of storax and spikenard and
galbanum that breathe softly forth from
her brocaded bodice, and from her hairs
dark meshes caught in a golden net. 1t
is she to whom the glow-worms lent
their eyes, and the elves their wings,
and the stars their shooting fires, as she
wandered through the dewy woods to
meet her lovers steps. 1t is Herrick's
Julia whom we see SO clearly through
the midst of centuries that can not vail
nor dim the brightness of her presence
Agnes Repplier, in Atlantic.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1890-02-01

Six Horses Haruessed Abreast Could Not
Draw Him rom the PlatfOrm-De-
lights OF the SIeeping-Car-
Riding on a Freight.