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The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1890-02-01
BURDETTE ON THE ROAD.

Some OF the Humorous Expert
euces # the Lecturer.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1890-02-01

COulCO uP AOAN VI OlO OebOh VI
the chair and begins to shake it-don't
you make her quit it right away? And
if she doesn't stop, don't you box her
ears with your precious book?
What! Don't lie to me; I've seen you
do it.
Well, that's the way the iig-jog, rat
tle-rattle, shake and shiver of the car
affect me. 1t just about drives me wild.
"But 1 can while away the time in
pleasant conversation with"
Oh, can 1? Do you remember reading
about the remains of a well-dressed man
found in the Genesee river, who was
supposed to have fallen from an Erie
train while passing Portage Falls?
Well, the last time that man was seen
alive, he had lifted my 400 ton-''said
400 pounds little while ago?"-I said
tons, both times; you can look back and
see-he had lifted my 5OO-ton valise
from my seat, and crowded himself in
on me for what he called ''a little chat"
enjoy conversation, but not in boiler
factory. If you were having a quiet
conversation in you parlor would you
like the children to come in and make
&c mncb noise as a railway +roin9 7
+row not. Well 7 don't like - either
The man who wastes time +rvinc- 40
droy me into a converea ton ON -
inr CRASHING bnzzircr railrooJ +roi,, Iii
r-o3 much better results and o,,i+o 80
o1oacont onoc 40 bimealf If be vii bo1s
b;c nal,ed eve ont of the window ond
1ooly for cinSars
t.p,,+ tu do,,+ +uo1 ~ a;,h+ a
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>--.y-..--. .- +to fte-Toor o- +l-a a,-,,-..7.
+--f-l -.n.r SION Won nh 40 -reI5
ssI, 47,a natrfots h. have t-ai- torcl,lio-I7+
,,roea-ef6ns in the roo~ri0g And ag r,~
-7oani-or T., o. e1oaDer co,,r5 Won. .lo.- s.,
--,-~ he'd a+ homo # Il z-as sboD+ 40 ,,,f5a
nc a cot6n ana seven feet from, -ba
eoor and twantv-t17o i,cbos fro-, +ho
ceiling with nillowe twon+r-o;obt
incbes sonare and a blanI,o+ of t.
inch felt and somebody sbool, and
SWING the he'd all nigbt and - in+or-
vals freight train 61o1yino whistle
and rinping hell ran tbronob +bo bou
and jumped down stairs and once or
twice in the night they pulled YOUR
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1890-02-01
LOVES OF THE POETS,
At Their Head Stands White-BOsomed
Azure-Eyed Helen of Troy.


In fair and far-off country, hidden to
none, though visited by few, dwell lit.
tie band of lovely ladies, to whose youth
and radiance the poets have added the
crowning gift of Immortality. There
they live, with faint alluring smiles
that never fade; and at their head is
II elen of Troy, white-bosomed, azure
eyed, to whom men forgave all things
for her beauty's sake. There, too, is
Lesbia, fair and false; laughing at
broken heart, but holding close and ten
derly the dead sparrow
That, living, never strayed from her sweet
breast.
She kisses its ruffled wings and weeps,
she who had no tears to snare when
latulius sung and sued And there is
Myrto, beloved by Theocritus. her naked
feet cleaning like pearls, o bunch OF
Coan rusiie5 pressed in ler rosy Gpgarsi
and the nameless girl who held incheck
AnacrcOn's wanderinr heart with tho
magic of dimples, and parted lips and
thin purple floating s7rmonts. With
these are later beauties: Fiammetta the
ruddy-haired, whom death snatched from
Boccaccio's arms, and the gentle Cate
rina, raising those heavy-lidded eyes
that CamoenS loved and lost; Petrarch's
Laura, robed in pale-green spotted with
violets one golden curl escaping wan.
tonly beneath her vail; the fair blue
stocking, Leonora d'Este, pale as rain
washed rose, her dress in sweet disor-
der; and Beatrice, with the stiffness Of
eternity in her brooding eyes. If we
listen, we hear the shrill laughter of
MignOnne, child of fifteen summers,
mOclling at Ronsard's wooing; or we
catch the gentler murmur of Highland
Mary'S song. She bushes little, the
lowborn lass, and sinks her graceful
head, as though abashed by the fame her
peasant lover brought her. Bare-footed,
yellow-haired, she passes swiftly by;
and with her, hand in hand, walks
Scotland's Queen, sad Jane Beaufort
''the fairest younge foure" that ever
won the heart of royal captive and suf-
fered the martyrdom of love. England
sends to that far land Stella, with eyes
like stars, and vail OF gossamer hid
ing her delicate beauty, and Celia, and
false LucaSta, and Castara, tantalizingly
discreet, in whose dimples Cupid is fain
to linger signing, exiled, poor frozen
god, from the
Chaste nunnery of her breasts.
Sacharissa, too, stands near, with a
shade of istlessness in her sweet eyes,
as though she wearitd little of Master
Walters courtly strains. A withered rose
droops from her white fingers, preach
ing its mute sermon, and preaching it
all in vain: for rose and ladv live for
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1890-02-01

ting up all night, all to pieces. But ii
isn't luxury; and it isn't comfort. It
costs like it, and must say it's worth the
price, but it isn't comfort. It's merely a
protection against greater dis
comfort. In times of siege and
famine, men have paid twenty dol
lars for rat and have eaten it greedily.
But that wasn't because rats were even
then considered luxuries; it was because
it was rat or nothing. When the un-
grateful man got back to porterhouse
steak again he let the cats have the
rats. You may talk about Luxurious
palaces of princely comfort''-as the
man with a pass is apt to do-but
maintain that sleeping in one not very
large room, with thirty-fve people,
thirty-fve snOres, thirty-five breaths
and seventy secondhand boots and
shoes, IS not Z luxury; and whatever the
man with the pass may say, I don't be-
heve that Kings and Princes who Iivq,
a. real V.las5s sleep LoIU .la a bedroom.
boots, breath. feet and all True, i have
never been abroad, and can't say how
Kings may live, but believe they have
more room and fewer bod-feDows thau
thai
''Well them" asked the Ass, when I
grumbled thus far-I don't mean half
the savage things l say when L growl-
''why don't you ride on the freight
trains?"
do, whenever the company will let
me. They're not so tiresome. You can
move about in the big caboose. Some
times the conductor invites you up into
the edome"-what a nice, breezy out
look it is. 1 wonder the conductor and
rear brakeman don't turn artist and
poet, and go out and teach and amuse
the people. And once in awhile the
brakeman will take you by the hand
and take you for promenade over the
tops of the swaying cars. I've tried it.
It's like walking on the back of a snake.
1 never walked on the back of a snake,
but that is just like it.
You get more of variety in such
walk than you would think. This is
White Line car we're on now, and this
next one an old Wabash box car, eight
inches lower; Jump DOWN. your heart
jumps into your mouth as you jump, but
you're alive; all these are foreign cars of
different makes and differing heights,
and they rock and roll and lope along
with mongrel gait, like a horse
that trots in front and PAGES be-
hind; this long car is cotton
car; this high monster is a car for
shipping carriages in or something of
that sort; right next it is an old squatty
box car, with batten roof; it looks two
miles down; you jump, but your heart
flies clear out of the top of your head
and you don't get it back again on the
trip. TNH-> --r>'' ---"11- Nrn~ "a~ Of Inn
Der; that nice: it has au easy, smooth
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1890-02-01

oVoT, I0LoU n each 0LIeT'8 I0u0- And
by her side casting her fragile lowell
ness in the shade, is one of different
mold, o sumptuous smiling woman, on
whom Saoha-isaa's blue eyes fan with p
soft disdain. We know this indolent
beauty bv the brave vibration Of her tenn
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1890-02-01

Probably there is no occupation in the
world that gives man such an easy life
and large profits as lecturing. 1 don't
suppose that SIX horses, harnessed
abreast, could draw me from the plat
form. 1t is just like lolling around in a
June meadow, picking up gold dollars
instead of buttercups. Now, last Tues
day night lectured in Granville, n. Y;
didn't leave dollar in the town. Next
morning 1 got up at 4:45 o'clock, got into
a buggy, piled valise weighing four
hundred pounds-nO, sir, won't take OF
one ounce-on my feet, and drove eleven
miles through pelting, driving rain
storm, over muddy roads to station on
the d. & FL. c., that has a train five
times a year. At Granville they have
one every spring. Well, got train,
and changed cars once or twice and got
more trains, and finally got to Albany
at 1926. May be 1 didn't want my
breakfast Sat down to a table and
drove restaurant man to despair,
bankruptcy and suicide. Got on the
cars again, and at 6:sO that evening,
without stop or stay for bite or sup, got
off at my station. Raining like house
afire and two miles to drive. Fun? L
don't care so much for the actual lectur-
ing, but the getting from one place to
another 1 do enjoy.
And then, the pleasure of travel. Do
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1890-02-01

E0U NOV, some WIeEs- have 8at sun
iu tle cars, one day after another. from
8 "a. IN. to- a, 5. g or 7 p m, without NOV
inF, save at meal timo2 How do you
suppose au ac.iye man. fond OF Walking,
enjoys that sort of thing? Its enough
ta drive craven image mad with
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-11-12
HEIGHT OF WAVES.


The Highest Measurements Are From For
ty-fOur to FOrty-eight Feet.
All sorts of nonsense has been writ
ten about waves mountain high" The
truth is that when ship is plunging
down the back of one wave and is at the
same time heeled over till her rail is
close to the water, the next wave looks
as If it would sweep completely over the
vessel and therefore appears as big as a
mountain. Lieu tenant Qualtrough says:
"We find reports of heights Of 100 feet
from hollow to crest, but no verified
measurement exists of height half as
great at this. The highest reliable
measurements are from Al to 48 feet-in
itself very remarkable height Waves
having a greater height than thirty feet
are not often encountered. The height
Of wind waves is governed by what is
called the fetch" That means their
distance from the place where their
formation begins Thomas Stevenson,
author Of Lighthouse Illumination, -
and father of the well-known writer of
our day, Robert Louis Stevenson, gives
the following formula as applicable
when the fetch is not less than six sea
miles: 1.-THE height of the wave in feet
is equal to LIS multiplied by the square
root of the fetch in nautical miles. F"
Let us suppose that in a gale of wind
the waves began to form 100 miles from
the ship you are on. The square root
of 400 is 20, which multiplied by 1.5
gives 80 feet as the height of the waves
around the ship.
Now, it is we'll known that in every
storm there are occasionally groups Of
three or four waves considerably larger
than the others. Captain Lecky is of
the opinion that these are caused by
the increased force of the wind in the
squalls which are feature of every big
blow. Now, waves travel at a rate
which is the result of their size. Waves
200 feet long from hollow to hollow
travel about 10 knots per hour; those of
400 feet in length make 81 knots, and
those of 900 feet rush forward irresist-
IDLY at so knots Let us suppose, now,
wave 400 feet in length and 3s or 40
feet high rushing along at 81 knots 1t
overtakes slower wave making about
20 knots, with height of 25 feet and a
length of 200. The two seas become
one, forming at the moment of their
union an enormous wave. just at that
moment they meet one of these steam
ers caIIeo ocean graynounds, wnlcn,
as every one knows, never slacken speed
unless it is absolutely necessary for
safety. She is butting into the storm
at the rate OF say eight knots an hour.
She runs plump against a great wall OF
water which seems to rise suddenly out
of the general tumult, rushing at her
with height of As feet or more and a
speed of over 80 miles per hour. There
Is fearful crash forward, accompanied
by deluRe, and as the tons of water
roll of the forecastle deck, it is found
that damage has been done, and the
officers on watch enter in the log the in
teresting fact that the steamer has been
struck by tidal wave" w. j. Hen
derson, in St Nicholas.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-11-12

said a man who has handled a good
many of them. There are the Nation
ri bank bills and the Government notes
The former have vignettes on each end;
the latter on the left hand only. The
Treasury Department made mistake
In putting the vignette on the left end
OF the Government note, for this reason:
Take g bundle of these bills in bank;
the bank clerk in counting such a
bundle places his left hand on the left
end of the bundle and counts the right
end with his right thumb and finger.
The vignette is the most difficult thing
to counterfeit, and for that very reason
1t Is counterfeited most. In counting
such bills as ! have been speaking about
this vignette is not seen by the bank
clerk and he is more liable to count in
a spurious note than if he saw the Wig
nette. The expert knows bad vignette
almost at glance. think if the Treas
ury Department had thought of this the
vignette would have been put on the
right end of the bill"
This was told to the cashier of Dear
born street bank. He smiled when he
heard it ''In the first place." he said,
bank clerks do not count bills in the
way you mention. If they do they
violate orders. The instructions are
that they shall handle the bills so that
each one will come entirely within the
range Of the eye. presume there are
violations of this rule in every bank.
Even 30 an expert has other means of
detecting bad bill than looking at the
vignette. However, ] am Of the opinion
that the vignette would be an additional
safeguard If it were on the right end of
note. Chicago Tribune.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-11-12
AN EXPENSIVE PAsTlME.
What 1t Costs to Cruise in a Yacht For q
Seaaon of Five MOntha.

What 1t Costs to Cruise in a Yacht For q
Season of Five Months.
One authority in position to know
states that for a season of five months a
steam launch forty to fifty feet in length
imposes an outlay of 81, 500; steamer
from seventy-fve to 100 feet in length
will cost $40, 900, and one slightly larger,
with flush decks, not less than $11, 600.
In the big steamers, with crews varying
from thirty to fifty men, the monthly
expenditure varies from So, 900 to $12,-
900; and in two yachts of this kiHd de-
scribed by another writer, who gave the
details, the annual cost was figured at
$3.50, 600 each; and in an isolated in
stance, where steamer made the voy-
age around the world, the expense for
the five months cruise was said to have
been something over $50, 900. Leaving
those extreme cases, and taking as a
fair basis belonging to the class which
includes vessels measuring from sew
enty-five to 100 feet, we get the follow
ing fixed charges: Monthly wages fire.
man, cook, steward, three deck hands,
engineer and pilot, $3.50; coal, $500; re-
pairs, deck stores, engine room supplies,
uniforms, $40, and mess, $3.50; commits
sioning and laying up, So. 500; total for
five months, $4,000. If to this be add
ded what it costs for the cabin outfit,
without the delusion that you are saw
ing so much on your shore expenses
for in the long-run you never dot will
be seen that it costs pretty penny for
the sport.
There is not very great difference,
save for coal, in the running expenses
OF q steamer and sailing craft In
deed, on similar displacements. the
large schooners often cost more to k6ep
! up. So far as the smaller schooners and
/ sloops go. it is an axiom that you always
/ spend more than you have allowed. One
owaer Gf sloop, whose experience is
/ not exceptional, confeSses that when he
had built his ship for sf6, OeQ he hoped
/ to get her into the water for So, coo
more, but by the time sails were bent
and he was ready to cruise. his total ex-
penditures had reached SIS, 500. His
first season cost him IS, 600 mores but
! from his own accounts it is easy to see
/ the cabin was run carelessly, and too
| laviShly for comfort In the next lear
he had his yacht hauled out by the
ship-builder for an examination, and
though the sailing-master had taken
good care of her, his bill for spike here
and craving piece there was nearly
$1,000 A new main-sail and other sail
making jobs cost another 81, 900, and be-
fore he got the rigger out of the boat
there was handspike and serving-mal-
let account of $500. Altogether he
found his running expenses for the Sec
ond season, in boat under sixty feet
! on the water-Iine. averaged $50 per day,
and it must be added that he was not a
Johnny Raw. d. Jerrold Kelley, in
Harper's Magazine.
-I1mKlns-''Lawn tennis is a regular
woman's game; nothing but child's
play" Tomkins-f'Did you ever play
tennis?" Timkins = mo ~ Boston
Herald
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-11-12
POST-OFFICE THIEVES.
According to an Inspector They Risk Much
For Small ReSultR.

According to an Inspector They Risk Much
For Small Results.
"How do you grade the man who robs
letters in the category of thieves?"
st is difficult to answer that ques-
tion. They are neither foolish nor
stupid. can say that they are gener-
ally desperate men who are willing to
risk so much for such small results
Suppose a man should open a dozen let
tePs and abstract their contents He
would be as much amenable to the law
IS II he should open 9 hundred or
thousand letters and secure a goodly
booty. Yet in that dozen letters there
may be not q penny. The mail thief
always take great chanceG He always
knows that the authorities will use
every means in their power to get him
into their clutches and when they do
that IL Is all up with h m. Men who
break open letters and take their con-
tents are generally men who have fallen
from grace into bad habits and have be-
come reckless. Generally they lose
their self-respect and their possessions
by gambling. Then in trying to get
even with the world they hope that the
mails will help them on, forgetting for
awhile the consequence Of their acts.
Take the case OF George w. Harris, the
railway postal clerk who is now a fugi-
tive from justice. He was In the Gov.
eminent service for dozen years He
was a good clerk and was we'll known
His weakness was betting on the races
One week he won over fourteen hundred
dollars, but the next week he lost 1t and
more. too Getting deeper into debt
and lacking the nerve to be honest and
to face his creditors he got desperate,
robbed the registered letters in his
charge, disgraced himself and his fam
lily, left them destitute and ran away.
His was an example of the average
weakness OF the man who will pilfer the
letters TO which he may have access 1t
is not SO much the damage that the post
Office robber does the letters whose con-
tents he abstracts, but the loss that he
infiicts upon others outside of the letter
writer. He may have to open fifty let
ters before he secures dollar bill. All
these letters that have no Enclosures
that he can not use are willfully de-
Stroyed, and great loss and inconven-
fence is entailed upon the correspond
ents and upon those merchants to whom
the letters have been directed. Gener-
ally the thief Is discovered, and then he
is made to dance a very lively jig to the
music Of his own piping. Chicago
Evening Post
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-11-12
MORTALITY OF WIdouars.

In a paper on tuberculosis in Bel
GUM, MN. Destree and Galimaerts
come to the conclusion, as the result of
their Investigations that comparing
the mortality from phthisis of bache.
lors, married men, and widowers, the
last are very much more subjected to
this disease than either of the other
classes. The same statement holds
good for all ages, and it is, they say,
also true that widows are more liable
than single women to die of phthisis.
The authors do not think this is to be
explained except by direct contagion of
wife to husband or husband to wife.
They can not think Irregularities and ex.
cesses INDUCED in by widowers can be
AnswerabIe for it. for advanced age
does not seem to make any difference.
They would ascribe it to infection occur
ring during married life, the disease
claiming its second victim some time
after the death Of the frst st. James
GazeS
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-11-12

Tin five years slO0, 900 worth OF prop
erty has been lett in London cabs
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-11-12
ANCESTRAL PETTicoA7.
A Wonderful Work Wrought Fully
Century and q Half Ago.

A Wonderful Work Wrought Fully a
Century and Half Ago.
A marvellous example of old-time
needle-work has found its way into one
OF the exchanges for women's work in
this city through the mpecuniousness
OF the family in which it has long been
cherished as an heirloom.
1t is piece of the quilted work which
has become one of the lost arts in these
days, and was the border of petticoat
worn by some richly-clad German dame
$50 years ago. The strip is half yard
In width and about three yards in
length. It consists of two thicknesses
Of f1ne white cotton with soft inter-
lining. 1t is quilted all over with an
exquisite medley of flowers, foliage
and arabesques, into which is wrought
every variety of 'stitch" known to ex-
pert needlecraft, In those DAYS there
were no other ornaments nor any
devices for stamping. The patient
fingers that fashioned such work
also made their own designs,
drew them with needle,
free hand, as they went along, and so
this petticoat border was the work of
an artist as we'll as a clever needle
woman. The fabric is stiff with stitches
there are millions of them-and the
surface puts one in mind of piece of
fine repousse work in white silver.
The woman who is now compelled to
part with this has a pitiful history.
She and her husband in their advanced
age we're forced by reverses to emigrate
to the Far West, where in an unsettled
country, three days ride from human
habitation, they took UP claim. -
The wife, unused to hardship finally
lost her health, and in the hope of re-
gaining it came East last autumn, leav-
ing her husband alone. The severity
of the winter killed all their stock, and
the old man finally met with an acct
dent which laid him up with both legs
broken. He is helpless and penniless
and alone, and his wife is helpless and
penniless here, unable to reach him.
She had sold every thing available be.
fore she made up her mind to part with
her ancestral petticoat 1t is a rare
and interesting piece of work and
ought to be in museum.-N. + World.