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The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-07-02
SAW wHrrMAN.s FACE.
she Was In Connscticut and II Was Just
ut the Time He Died.

| sho Was In Connecticut and It Was Just
ut the Time He Died.
On Saturday night March 20. 1892.
q Connecticut woman was en- route 10
New York by way OF railroad train
due at the Grand Central at 1880
o'clock. Her husband was with her.
says the New York Times but he sat
near ono OF the lights reading. while
she occupied window place in a seat
with a.stranger. She had been look
ing out Of the window as the darkness
grew. watching the lights and faces
OF the people In the car reflected In
the Opaque dusk. when suddenly she
was startled by the appearance direct
partition In marble 1t seemed.
1t was the face and head OF q ven.
cradle man. with high forhead. flow
ing white hair and long beard. I'm
like the faces OF the other occupants
OF the car which were turned in the
same direction with herself this face
looked at her from forward. so that 1t
presented almost square front.
Something in the sight chilled and
frightened her. Not daring to turn.
she reached around and touched tho
woman at her side. to whom before
this she had not spoken.
.Look!" she sad earnestly; 'look
at that"
Attracted by her manner the stran-
ger leaned forward and peered over
her shoulder into the darkness.
Il see nothing" she said, and as
she spoke the face vanished.
!. why. didn't you SEQ it as you
lurned" the other asked eagerly.
"A marble-white face like Longiel-
lows. only larger and with more hair
and beard. Whose could it have
beeu?'
She turned and scanned the occu-
pants OF the seats near her, then got
up and walked the length OF the car
searching for tho original. thinking
she was the victim OF some illusion OF
refraction. There was nobody in the
car whose face in the least resembled
that she had seen. and she and her
seat mate talked OF the matter till tho
latter left at the next stopping place.
On her way from the train the Con-
necticut woman felateu ner VlVlu VS.
ion to her husband. and then dismissed
1t from her mind for the time.
The next morning, however. on
opening a Sunday paper she started
back In alarm.
Why" she exclaimed. there is
the face that looked at me through
the car window" pointing as she
spoke to a large cut OF Walt Whit
man, and he died last night" she
finished in an awe.s struck voice.
In the accounts OF tae poets
death 1t was stated that he
breathed his last ut 6:43 p. m. BY
recalling the station at which her seat
mate had left the Connecticut woman
was able to estimate that it must have
been few minutes before 7 that the
face showed itself.
In conclusion 1t may be said that
she Is n woman over so. OF exception
al intelligence the wife OF promin-
ent man. and aside from her reputa-
ton OF unimpeachable veracity has
the testimony OF two witnesses that
she spoke OF and was affected by
something she had seen before she
could possibly have known of the
poets death.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-07-02
cHANsoN.

My love he roams the dark blue sea
Begirt by golden shore,
And though my love may absent be
I'll love him ever more.
The moon shines bright his bark to guide,
The stars burn far aud clear,
Eolus rings his airy strains
Forever In his ear.
My love, II Is the dark blue sea
So deep and pure and strong,
And like q buoyant boat so light.
1t bears my love along.
My eyes are all the stars he sees.
My arms for him the shore;
Within haven safe he'll find
Whene'er the breakers roar.
Inter Ocean.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-07-02
THE WHITE JEssAMINE

] new she lay above me,
Where the easement all the night
Shone, softened with phosphor glow
or sympathetic light,
And that her fiedgling spirit pure
Was plumlng fast for flight.
Each tendril throbbed and quickened
AS nightly climbed apace,
And could scarce restrain the blossoms
When, anear the destined place,
Her gentle whisper thrilled me
Ere gazed upon her face.
waited, darlsling, till the dawn
Should touch me into bloom,
While all my being painted
To outpour its first perfume,
When low! u paler flower than mine
Had blossomed In the gloom.
-Harper's Magazine.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-07-02
Mnn md Mnsier

Mr.. Billgate entertaining a friend
at his suburban house)--I have not
much elegance to offer you, but this
modest little home is the result of
years OF self sacrifice and it's dear to
me.
His Guest-Oh. that is delightful
BY the way, who owns that elegant
mansion across the wayp
Billgate- Oh that belongs to one
OF my commercial travellers. Spare
Moments.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-07-02
He Tells Hor Truths Nowadays.

Mra Stoutenberg- didn't usc
to puff and growl when asked you
TO put my slipper on before we were
married.
Stoutenber9-No; but you forget
that while your foot has grown three
sizes larger you still wear the same
VIE shoe Puck.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-07-02
An UnIucky r.eshoc.

Popular confidence in the luck
bringing power OF the horseshoe can
not but be rudely shaken by the ex-
perience OF Mr.. Eberhardt Of East st.
Louis who received full charge Of
lightning transferred to him through
horseshoe nailed over the door.
Thus are our cherished illusions dis
PEELED by the sad evidence OF fact.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-07-02
A mad ISreak.

Patent Medicine Man Ito editor)--
You made a nice mess OF that testl-
monial advertisements ~
Editor--Howp
john Smith wrote: Your Livs
Forever Pellets are doing me great
deal OF good. Send mo another box.
and I told you 10 give 1t prominent
place"
'Idld-immediately preceding the
death rates.
Yes; and the first death notice on
the list vas that OF John Smith. -
Texas Siftinga
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-07-02
EducasionnI News,

First New Yorker--To what college
do you propose sending your son TO
acquire classical educationp
Second New Yorker-To Yale o.
course; haven't you read how the
Yale base ball team whitewashei the
Harvard twice In succession last sen.
SON. Texas Siftings
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-07-02
An Urgent Casc.

Poor Patient--I sent for you. doc
tor. because know you are noted
physician. but feel 1t my duty 10
inform you that haven't over $25 to
my name
DR.. Bigfee-vcry we'll thcn. wo
must try to cure you up as quickly as
possible New York Weekly.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-07-02

From an ancient account book
found at Eastport Me-. it appears that
In 1897 tobacco was sold by the yard
in that settlement The limited pur-
chasing power OF days wages at that
period is shown by the price OF nails
Is 2id pound. A days ordinary
wages would pay for about four pounds
OF nails
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-07-02
Out of ton,non.

Cora-He has rather plehelnn
name.
Merritt--Yes but he spells II dif-
ferently from anybody else. New
York Evening Sun.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-09-10
"RoB ROY" MAcGREGoR.
A Short Biographical Sketch of n Lat
English Writer.

Short Biographical Sketch of Late
English Writer.
Mr.. John MacGregor, better known
as Rob Roy" MacGregor, who died at
his residence, Lochlel, Boscombe,
Bournemouth, lately, was the eldest
son of the late Gen. Sir Duncan Mac
Gregor K. G. b. He was born at
Gravesend, January "a, 1926, and few
weeks after his birth, his parents, with
their infant son, embarked on board
the Kent, East Indiaman, which after
ward took fire in the Bay of Biscay.
Young MacGregor was educated at
Kings school, Canterbury, and at sew
eu other schools, in consequence of the
frequent removals of his fathers regi-
ment. Later he was sent to Trinity
college, Dublin, and afterward to Trim
ity college, Cambridge, where he grad
uated as b. A. and a wrangler In
1915 Mr.. MacGregor wrote and sketched
for Punch" and during the revolution
of 1S4S he visited Paris. Two years
later he made a tour through Europe
and the Levant, and also visited Egypt
and Palestine. On his return in 1851
he was called to the bar. Being of a
restless disposition, however, he soon
left for Russia, visiting likewise every
other country in Europe, as well as
Algeria and Tunis, and subsequently
the United States and Canada. He pub
lished an interesting account of his
wanderings. In 1865 he undertook his
first canoe voyage, and in the ensuing
year his memorable log-book appeared,
under the title of "a Thousand Miles
in the Rob Roy Canoe on the Rivers and
Lakes of Europe" This work passed
through thirteen editions in less than
| twenty years. 1t was succeeded by
various other accounts of canoe voy-
ages, all of which enjoyed considera-
BILE popularity. Mr.. MacGregor was
twice elected member of the London
school board, for the division of Green
wich; and he acted as chairman of the
| industrial schools committee, rendering
signal service in that capacity. His
! leisure he employed in contributing
articles on marine propulsion and other
subjects to the reports of the British
| association, and he worked on the COM
mittees for erecting various memorial
statues to public men. He married in
1878 daughter of Admiral Sir Richard
Caffin, X. c. B. Mr.. MacGregor had
been in failing health for some time be.
fore his death, and in consequence set.
tied few years ago at Bournemouth.
| London Times
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-09-10
Happily Arranged.

An instance of great matrimonial fe.
licity is given by the wife of New
England farmer, who, finding that a
widower in the neighborhood proposed
to marry her maiden sister, aged fifty
two years, felt called upon to give the
good man a slight warning. AS she
triumphantly says, she ''ain't ever felt
t regret it"
" Now says /, real firm to him, a
week before the weddin', you know
old maids is set-they're turrible set.
" Why, air they?' says he, jest as
solemn as could be, lookin' me right in
the eye.
Yes says l, they air. They allus
want t. hev their own way, allus.'
" Why, dew they? Indeedp says he.
"'Yes, says /, they dew; an ye can
rely ont, Hetty she'll want her own
way
why, will she?' says he.
"'Yes, says /, she will; there amt
any doubt bout it-not a mite
"'Well,' says he, kinder slow an
mild, still lookin' me in the eye, she
can hev her way!
AN she does hev it, an they dew
live jest complete"-Youth's Com
panion.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-09-10

have little dance tonight. You must
be sure to come. want to see il
you've forgotten my lessons of last
summer. There comes MY brother
now. l cut across country and reached
this pike before he did" The gentle
men saluted; Miss Carter nodded gay
goodbye and was gone.
Should hego-and see Hetty? No, he
would stay at home and count the cost
of cultivating those new acres. 1t
would be much more sensible than
joining that gay party Of city people.
Yet, in spite of his resolution, Nathan
iel was at the Winthrops. He danced
with Miss Vail and Miss johnson and
Eleanor Carter. He asked for a dance
with Hetty, but she blushed and told
him her card was full. 1t was only
another excuse, he felt sure, yet Hetty
had always been so truthful, so frank.
He went home early, cursing his folly
in not obcying his reason and staying
at home.
The next few days were full of hard
work, and Nathaniels labors were
never half done. He felt grateful for
his unusual strength, his large, we'll
proportional body, his perfect health.
What more could man ask for than
to be the owner of so many broad
acres, a pleasant home, and plenty to
do that he must be signing for willful
woman?
One day lamb was missing and Ma
thaniel set out to find it. At last low
bleating came to his keen ears. He
ran on, and there, down a steep ravine,
he saw the missing creature, lame
from its fall ana oleating forth it's pain
and trouble. In moment he was by
its side. He had provided himself as
usual, with ointment and linen. The
legs were treated and bound. He
picked up the trembling creature in his
strong arms and climbed the steep as
cent When nearly at the top he felt a
sharp wrench. He tried to put the
lamb on shelving rock, then lost his
footing, and, slipping and falling, help
less with that keen pain in his foot, his
head struck something and he knew no
more.
When Nathaniel's consciousness re-
turned he thought at first that he had
entered paradise, for, bending over him,
was Hetty's face, pale and frightened
She was bathing his head with water.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-09-10

Gigsley has often been told that he
was the meanest man in the world. In
fact he has a red-headed sister and
couldn't well escape being told SO, but
many of his friends doubted until he
was married. They all believe it now.
Mrs. Gigsley is one of the dearest, love-
liest, most innocent, trusting, affection
ate creatures that ever longed for a
strong, manly bosom to rest upon.
They were married two weeks ago,
and, as Gigsley doesn't believe in we'd
ding tours, they began housekeeping
Immediately out on the avenue. The
second day OF their welded bliss
had passed and Gigsley had just fin
ished the supper which Mrs G. had
spent all the long torrid afternoon in
preparing, when he took his hat and
cane, kissed the little woman tenderly,
and started out for the door, "Why,
Charlie, you aren't going out, are,
you?" said the sweet creature" with a
tremor in her voice. "Why-yes," was
the rather unconcerned reply. ';And
leave me all alone?" A suspicious
moisture of the eyes accompanied this
appeal. "Oh, / won't be gone long"
he answered, reassuringly. "l'm just
going down town to get something to
eat. t."-Chicago Times.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-09-10

piazza watching her son. He was noted
the country over for his tender care of
his widowed mother, as we'll as for
his success as farmer. He had all the
newest improvements in implements
and architecture for his land and build
ings. Only the old homestead remained
the same, with the addition of bay win
dows and piazzas to its rather too plain
exterior.
"Thank you, Philip, it must look it's
best for the summer boarders," Mrs.
Morrison replied, smiling. Philip
frowned and turned away. He strobe off
down the road to speak to one of the men.
A quarter of mile away was lovely
spot with trees and wild flowers every
where. Here Philip had planned to
build a new home some day-the home
stead must be for his mother, Aunt
Jane, and his younger brother, now
away at college, But here was to be a
modern cottage to suit Hetty's tastes.
"Are You going to slight old friends?"
called out merry voice.
And there was Eleancr Carter,
mounted on fine new tho, oughbred,
and smiling upon him. He came up to
her at once and greeted her cordially.
He liked Miss Carter-she was so intel
ligent and original. They had ex-
changed books and thoughts. He was
glad to meet her again. She was a
stately, fair girl with golden hair and
deep gray eyes. Nathaniel thought her
beauty. He longed yet feared to ask
about Hetty, but Eleanor replied to his
unspoken wish: ''The Walls came with
us, and also Miss Stanfeld. We're TO
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-09-10
ABOUT ATLANTIC LINERS.
1t Takes Lots of Money to Pay the Ex-
penses of n Single Trip.

1t Takes Lots of Money to Pay the Ex-
penses of Single Trip.
In view of the fact that in few
months the Cunard company will have
two vessels afioat which are expected
to reduce the passage between Queens
town and New York to five and half
or five and a quarter days, some statis-
tics given by Arthur j. Maginnis on the
ships, men and working of the Atlantic
ferry are of great interest. In a ship
like the Teutonic, to begin with, a sum
of about $1,000, 900 is invested, and the
working expenses are proportionately
heavy. In the sailing, engine and pas
senger departments the large number
of 322 hands are required-47 in the
first, 161 in the second and ia in the
third. The wages paid to these hands
amount to say, 81, 500 for the sailing de-
partment, $4,000 for the engine and
$4,000 for the passenger, making total
of IS, $50 a month. When these figures
are considered, together with the other
expenses of maintenance, Office eX-
penses, insurance, agency commission,
shore staff, works, port charges, in
terest on capital, and depreciation, it
may be fairly taken that at least the
sum of $4,000 must be realized trip
before any profits can be counted on; so
that some idea of the enormous sums at
stake in the working and management
of an express transatlantic line can be
formed. Mr.. Maginnis holds strongly
to the belief that when these vast fig
urcs are considered, together with other
equally extensive requirements, the
chimerical nature of some of the schemes
proposed from time to time for forming
new lines which promise three and four
days passage across the Atlantic can
easily be discerned. He regards them
as overwhelming proof that insur.
mountahle difficulties are in the way OF
any company or firm without shipping
experience who can create all at once a
service more luxurious and having
higher speed than that now afforded by
the existing lines which would at the
same time prove a financial success
Detroit Free Press.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-09-10
IN LITTLE FOLKS EYES.


How strange II would be IL the pixies 'pme
down,
And set up a shop in the midst of our town;
Aud sold to us spectacles, through which the
guise
OF all things would seem as in little folks eyes
In little folks eyes, oh, what dreams will come
true!
How long is lifetimei What things one will
dol
How wealthy one is with purse OF small size;
For pennies are dolars-in little folks eyes
How easy 1t is from all danger to fee
10 harbor OF safety, on somebody's knee
How quickly soft kisses and low lullabies
viii clear away trouble--n little folks eyes
Such wee clouds of darkness make everywhere
night,
Such wee glints of sunshine make everything
bright,
And birthdays come slowly, for time seldom
flies
But crawls toward the future--in little folks
eyes
What great world OF singers we'd have before
long
If these magical glasses were sold for song!
Oh, clowns are SO funny and sages so wise,
And hearts are so honest--in little folks eyes!
S. Walter Norris, in Youths Companion.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-09-10

day his thoughts ran on, though his
work never faltered. If only the Win
throps hadn't turned their place into
summer resort last year, everything
might be as it was in those delightful
days, which seemed now like a past Ar
cadia Never had the meadows and
orchards looked so beautiful-never
had the wild flowers and ferns grown
as they had when he and Hetty, free
and unconstrained, wandered together
to the woods, or, mounted on their
feet horses, dashed down the road for
canter. Every day was full of
Hetty. His work was planned to give
the evenings to her, and he had hoped
that she, child as she was, was learn
ing to care for HIM. The Stantields
lived the simplest of lives, and
Hetty had been brought up to
lend hand to all kinds of domestic
duties. But now since summer board
all was changed. Innocent, Industrious
supplemented Hetty no longer cared
for such quiet, even round of duties
and pleasures, as had hitherto been her
lot. How soon she had become init
mate with the Carriers and Walls! How
quickly she had learned new ways and
those coquettish turns of her pretty
head, and that little trick she had of
dropping her eyes and raising them,
which seemed nowadays more con-
scious than of old! Then how quickly
she had learned to dance! And what a
belle she had been at the parties at
T,r
again, and already the seasons raid
upon Winthrops' had begun. But
Hetty still fingered in the city with her
new friends. the Walls. And handsome
Arthur Vail was, he supposed, her
faithful shadow, and in the same city
was that cool, cynical Philip Carter
who had paid the little country girl so
much attention. He supposed they
would all come back-Hetty among
them-but why did he want her to
come? He surely did not enjoy heart
ache and maddening doubts and con-
stant pain-oh, why couldn't he give
her up? His work was farmers and
if Hetty longed for more varied and
changeful life, and cared for men more
polished and versed in the worlds ways
than he, why couldn't he let her go, and
settle down to his loved domain and
be content?
"Now, mother, your lawn is i'm
proved, and Jake must run over it with
the mower and the grass sha'n't get SO
tall again." he said.
Nathaniels mother, a sweet-faced,
white-haired, yet singularly youthful
W oman of her age, stood on the broad
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-09-10

AS he looked into her eyes the color
flashed into her face. 81 thought
thought you were dead" she faltered
and turned away. Nathaniel was not
yet sure whether he were on earth or
in heaven, but he was a man, and the
sight of Hetty's agitation decided him
to follow up his advantage. He seized
her hand. "Hetty, did you care?" he
demanded.
"Of course cared; haven't we been
friends all our lives?" she asked, re-
proachfully, and trying to withdraw
her hand.
But he held it fast. "Tell me, are
you to marry Arthur Vail or Carter?"
he questioned, eagerly.
Tell me, are you to marry Miss
Eleanor" Hetty asked, saucily, for
answer.
"Oh, that is nonsense-you know
very well that l never cared for anyone
but You, Hetty; but you are so changed,
you seemed so tired of our country
life" A sharp pain in his ankle made
him pause. He knew now that he was
still on earth, yet even the pain
seemed as nothing to Hetty's reply:
II thought you had tired of me; you
know l am not clever or wise, and
there were others who could talk to
you SO much BETTER" faltered Hetty
with downcast eyes.
Nathaniels eyes opened wide in
genuine astonishment: why, Hettyl
l supposed you always knew that 1
loved you, but / thought you liked
those other fellows" he said. ''If you
can't care for me now, just let us go
back to those old days when we were
such good comrades, and perhaps in
time you might care for me; do you
think you could, Hetty?"
Again the lovely eyes were down
cast. mo, couldn't" murmured the
girl.
''Oh, Hetty!"
"Because-oh, Nat, you are so stupid
for such a great splendid fellow-be-
cause / love you already"
"oh, Hetty!" But in what differ
ent way that same exclamation can be
uttered!
Later, demure young woman sent
two of the men to help Mr.. Morrison
home, as he had met with an accident
-sprained his ankle. She carried a
lame lamb whose bleating first led her
in her fern hunt to the spot where
Nathaniel lay helpless.
People wonder why Nathaniel Nor
rison and his pretty wife never would
| fill up the ravine when it interfered so
with the field west of it, but the ravine
betrayed its secret, even to me.-Daisy
Rhodes Campbell, in Count ry Gentle
| man.