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The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-06-11

ishly. "Wby not? am an officer
quartered in the citadel"
"You can't pnss! Go back" repeat
ed the voice, hoarsely.
The tones seemed familiar, and
rather irritated by the somewhat
percmptory answer. ] advanced an.
other pace and saw close in front OF
me sentry with his rifle at the port.
go back go backl" repeated the
figure in the same hurried tones.
The nightwas not so dark but that
could make out the features of Pri-
vate Adair Cameron. For one mo-
ment l thought of inquiring the rea-
son OF the road, which was usually
open, being closed, but on second
thoughts / reflected that :. >,as
scarcely judicious to enterinto nm nj.
tercation with sentry whose orders
were evidently stringent; so, very
sulkily, / turned and retraced my
steps. / had gone only n few yards
when / heard behind me the cry
"Sentrygo!" ring through the quiet
night air.
The sound fingered in my ears till
the echoes from the gray ramparts
died away in the still air and oil was
once more profoundly silent. In no
very good humor, l found myself Mt
last, hot and tired with my burden,
in the passage leading to my quar-
tiers.
The room occupied by my subal-
tern was next to mine; the door was
open and heard voices within,
"Those infernalsappers are always
Mt some game! They go and move a
bridge for some silly reason or other,
and never think of telling any one.
] only heard about it 10 minutes
ago, and now I've get to go and
post n sentry over it or some poor
devil will break his neck to n moral"
"iou may save yourself the
trouble, old boylp exclaimed gayly,
as burst into the room. "The SEN
try'a on already, and 30 I've saved
my neck, and Evetts there won't get
his company just yet.
The adjutant for it was he that
had been speaking) and Evetts, my
subaltern, greeted me with all the
boisterous welcome of old comrades.
"Glad to see back, old chap!" said
Halves. the adjutant. "But what do
you mean about the sentry being
posted?"
..Why, over the ditch on the short
cut, confound him!" l replied. He
made me go back the whole heastly
"Over the bridge at the inner
ditch?" asked Halves with surprise.
"Yes," i answered.
"But / haven't posted one yeti"
said Halves. II was just going to
see about doing it when you came
in. For they've taken away the
bridget"
"Well. dear boy, there he is any
way" answered, laughing.
"But not one of our mem" asked
Halves, in tones of great surprise.
"Surely not one of our mem"
yes" / replied, still laughing.
"One of our men! ] ought to know
him, too; for it was Private Adair
Cameron of my company.
The two officers looked at each
other. A curious expression came
over their faces, after pause, my
subaltern said slowly: Private
Adair Cameron died in the hospital
last night. '-Cornhill Magazine.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-06-11
Not a Communist.

Dick Bassett is q Robinson Crusoe
who lives on ON acre island in Grand
Traverse bay. He lives in a log cab.
in, is a fisher, n bachelor, veteran,
well-posted, poor, votes, pays mo-
taxes. is not on earth according to
the maps, is jolly, witty, happy,
honest, and his only title to the isl.
and is the fact thnt he is in posses.
sion and it isnot down on the charts.
--netroit News.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-06-11
KEEP laoziNo AND PRAYING.

Said Farmer Jones In whining tone
To his good old neighbor Gray.
1--WE worn my knees thro' to tho bona,
But u amt no use TO pray.
"Your corn looks twice as good ms mine,
Though you don't pretend To be,
"A shinin' light in the church TO shine,
An tell snlvation's Tree.
eve prayed to the Lord thousand times
For 10 make TINT ere corn grow.
An why your'n beats IL so and climbs
I'D gin deal to Know
Snld Farmer Grny to his neighbor Jones,
In his easy, quiet way,
"when prayers get mixed with lazy bones,
They don't make farmin' pay.
your weeds. notice. are good an toll,
In spite OF all your prayers:
You may pray Tor corn til the heavens foil
Hyou don't dig up the tares.
~ mix my prayers with little toll,
Along In every row;
An work this mixture into the soil,
Quite Vigorous with a hoe.
can I've discovered, though still In sin,
An sure as you nrc born,
This kind Of compost well worked In
Makes pretty decent corn.
$50, while I'm praying ! use my hoe,
An do my level best,
To keep down the weeds along each row,
An the Lord he does the rest
"Its well for to pray. both night an morn,
As every farmer knows;
But the place to pray for thrifty corn
10 right between the rows.
"You must use your hands while praying.
though.
II nm answer you would get,
For prayer-worn knees an rusty hoe
Never raised q big crop yet.
"An' SO ! believe, my good old friend,
nyou mean to win the day,
From blowing, clean to the harvest's end,
You must hoe as well ns pray"
Iowa state Register.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-06-11
Victoria Was Not Moved,

Mrs. Norton inquired eagerly OF
Lord Panmure. alter the queen had
pinned medal on the breast of brave
Sir Thomas Troubridge, the Crimean
hero:
was the Queen touched?"
bless my soul, nor was the reply.
She had a brass railing before her
and no one could touch her."
Mrs. Norton explained:
mean, was she moved?"
Moved! returned Lord Panmure,
casion to move"
And then Mrs. Norton gave it up
IN despair.-Lady Pictorial.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-06-11
Keeps Right On.
Detroit Free Press.

When coal oil was first discovered
it was predicted by oil the leading
scientists of the day that 1t would
be exhausted in six months. When
natural gas was first discovered, it
was predicted that every 'pocket"
would be exhausted in sixty days.
When the average man gets fooled on
@ watermelon when 1t is plugged
tor him, these gray-haired savants
can't be trusted to always hit things
plump center. :.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-06-11

OF considerable size In the south OF
England.
In order that the circumstances OF
the adventure am about to de-
scribe may be understood, l must ex-
plain at the risk Of being tedious
that the citadel ofthe fortress in which
my regiment lay is defended by two
circles of dry bitches, each about so
feet wide. The side wall of these
bitches, technically known as escarps
and counterscarps, are as was usual
in fertilization of TINT date, rivet-
ed with masonry and are perpendicu-
lar. The outer circle ditch is 30 feet
deep, the bottom being paved with
fagstone. The inner ditch is 40 feet
deep and is similarly paved, so that
I need scarcely say that q fall
from the edge would be almost
certainly fatal. The regular APP
proach to the fortress is by wide
road of gradual ascent, SO contrived
as to be raked by fire from one or
other OF the bastions or outworks
throughout it's course. Itcrosses the
ditch over drawbridges, protected by
special works OF great strength.
!, In time of war these drawbridges
would be kept raised, and would only
be lowered temporarily on urgent oc-
casions. When raised, the fortress
would DO inaccessible from without,
unless scaling ladders were used to
cross the bitches. In time of peace,
however, the drawbridges are rarely
raised, strong guard, nevertheless,
being invariably posted over them.
For the convenience Of the officers
and certain OF the residents in the
citadel there was short cut that
might be used. This was foot
path up the steep side OF the
cliff, through strongly guarded
postern gate. The path led in zig
zag fashion up to the counterscarps
of the bitches, which were crossed by
light plank bridges, 80 designed rs
to he removable with great ease in q
/. few minutes. None but officers quar-
tered in the citadeland a few persons
with special permits signed by the
officer commanding the garrison
were allowed to make use Of this
short cut, the soldiers and others
who had occasion to visit the citadel
being restricted to the main ap-
proach.
Among the young of the company
was q lad of the name Of Adnir Cam
eron. had horror of favoritism,
the bad effect of which l had often
seen, but it was impossible not to
feel strong interest in this young
fellow. Clean and soldier-like in APP
pearance, smart at drill, well set up,
and steady as rock, he was mod
Ell of what q young soldier should be.
A deadly bowler, he was one Of the
mainstays of our company's criket-
ing team, and rs matches were fire.
quent saw much of him, and moth
ing to find fault with. Though /
carefully avoided taking undue no
tice OF Cameron, the natural instinct
which think men have to find out
their friends and their enemies made
me aware that while ! greatly liked
him, he or his side, was warmly at
tached to me.
One day q batch OF recruits arriv-
ed at headquarters. III Q adjutant,
being away on leave, had got me to
do his duty for him, and was busy
oil the afternoon drafting the new
arrivals into companies, ind arrang-
ing for their rations and bedding.
About hall an hour before mess l
was sitting in my room in the citadel
barracks. rnther tired, when heard
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-06-11
A Cross-Examiner Answered

A story is being told at the expense
of one of the leaders of the parlia-
mentary bar. He was engaged in an
Irish railway bill before q committee
of the house of commons, and min.
licking the pronunciation of an Irish
witness whom he rose to cross-ex-
anime, he asked If Waterford was
spelled with two Us in the witnesses
part of the country. "No," said the
witness; "but l spell manners with
two MS" This concluded the cross
examination'-Pall Mall Gazette.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-06-11
Why Toll the Bells2

The tolling of bells at funerals is o
relic OF the earliest ages and origi-
mated in the Pagan idea that the
sound Of bells frightened evil spirits.
IL was hept up until watches and
CLOCKS Became common to apprise
the worshipers of the arrival OF
church tirae. Why the custom now
prevails isis difficult to coniecture.--
Chatter.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-06-11
SENTRY cor

ANY years ago l
was serving rs q
ca p tain in the
10th regiment.
At the period Of
my story we were
quartz at
D., q fortress
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25

score,n as Byron has IL, entertained
her friends recently, watched an ex-
Quisitely dressed, faultlessly beauti-
full girl lounging awkwardly, with
one knee crossed over the other and
one arm thrown over the back of the
chair, in the glare of the lights and
in a prominent place in the crowded
building. The girl seemed to be a
great favorite, for a constant pro-
ccssion of young men passed into the
box. To each she gave an indiffer-
emit little handshake, her elbow on.
level with her shoulder, her handV
a line with her eyes. To each She
said only: Jaw. You here? De-
lighted to see YOU" That was all;
And all without a change of position
or a particle of animation in the
pretty face. The elderly woman
who chaperoned her rose quickly as
the young men greeted her. and said
to each n the sam set formula of
words: saw. You here: Don't
make yourself so scarce" And that
was all that was said by the two
women from s o'clock until II. Can
that type of vapid girllnood develop
the charm that makes ome of 40.
dangerous and of so fascinating?
Better the punctiliousncss and OBJ
sequiousncss of the old school than
the slovenlincss of dcmcanor CHAR
actcristic of this closing century.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25

We've been having a perfectly dread
full day. The singing superintendent
and the drawing superintendent have
both been here-happened to come at
the same time-and on Il rainy Monday!"
Then she looked ut her little flock as
II they were shorn lambs. Singing was
asked for, %whereupon the teacher drew
down a chart from some hiding-place
and the children, following her pointer,
ranged up and down of sound,
and into cross streets with apparent con-
fidence. "They have learned twenty
three exercises by note," the teacher
said, producing a primary-grade singing
book. "They learn by note everything
they sing"
Whether this represents the teaching
in all primary grades is not known.
The excellence may be sporadic or it
may be fairly general.
In q grammar grade was found musi-
cal teacher whose enthusiasm had evil
IDENTIFY awakened much interest in the
possibilities If throat, chest, and lungs.
At her command the pupils climbed the
scales bravely, curved among the tones,
jumped abruptly from Joy to despair,
and seemed to enjoy the vocal GYM
nastics.
DO you begin with your pupils on the
.supposition that they have learned to
read music in the lower grades?" was
asked.
TIE answer came with a smile: II
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25
MUSIC IN TIE SCHOOLS.
CRITICISM OF METHODS OF IN
STRUCTlON EMPLOYED.
Children Can learn To Read Muslc ~
Readily as They Learn to Road Words
When the Ono La Taught in as Rational
u Manner us the Other.
Practical sugxestion..

Many public schools are giving much
attention to music. Rote-singing, in
vogue for q time, has been abandoned
for the scientific method. And there are
Observation-Disclosures and assistant
Observation-Disclosures, and charts, and
blackboard exercises, and graded sing
ing-bools, and u compliant force OF
graded teachers. Yet in tho face of all
this machinery and talent the leader of
n boys choir says, in the Chicago
Times: Il have had scores and scores
of boys come TO me for training-ncarly
all boys from the public schools-and in
not n case were they able TO read ever
simple music at sight"
He believes the root of the trouble to
lie in the fact that the reading of music
is no. taught generally and systematic
caliy i'll primary grades. He declares
that pupils drilled from the first primary
10 the grammar grades ought then to be
able to real and sing with ease and
spirit such music as trios from Rossini
and Ait. Furthermore, he says he cun
Prove that it has been done. He sud:
Singing and speaking advance side
by side in childhood. When the educa-
ton of IL child commences, the reading
q words and notes should not part COM
pany, and the writing of notes and words
should be allowed to remain compan-
ions, as words and music were before
the child commenced it's education; then
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25

all would understand written music as
we'll as they understand written words,
and would write down their own musical
thoughts as easily as they write their
nonmusical thoughts, and never will
there be IL thoroughly musical nation
until it is educated up to this point.
Scale sounds must be known. They
can be taught to the least child that en-
tiers IL school, and should he taught upon
its first entering the school. A chart
which contains all the twelve scales
should he USED for this purpose, be-
cause upon it is represented all the
sounds used in music, except the ex-
IRENE high and low sounds which are
not necessary in vocal music. AS a
change from the chart, simple note cx-
erciscs upon the staff should be COM
menced, and extended and varied as the
ability of the child develops. Here is
an example of IL tune made of three
sounds:
"All blackboard exercises should be
written by the pupils as soon as they are
competent to do so. Reading should be
mainly taught in the primary depart
ment. Practice of the highest grade Of
music would then be possible in the
grammar department"
To give variety to chart-reading and
the note exercises of blackboard and
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25
New pisintcctant.

The manufacture of Il new disin-
fectant and d%cordorant called Sauri-
don has been commenced at Maryhill,
England. 1t is a residual product of
an uncommon kind of black stone
shale. which is composed of animal
and vegetable remains. is remarkably
light and yields a large proportion of
heavy volatile oil. The oil is extract
ed by distillation, and the residual
product is reduced to grains of differ
emit sizes, varying from IL fine powder
to the size of a pea. The powder is
Claimed to have an instantaneous
effect upon obnoxious matter, while
also being t~asteless and colorless and
harmless to animal life.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25
PLAYING Wits LIGHTNING.
Why 81 rakir Rolled ON the Ground and
Yelled Like a Demon.

why u caklr ltOllGO Oh the GrOUnu and
Yelled Like ~ Demon.
The unfortunate fakir must have
been firmly impressed with the SUE
pcriority 81 English magic to his own,
although these strange men are often
adopts in mystery, and perfect mas
tiers of tricks of all kinds. The anna
tcur experimcnter had arranged his
apparatus in the open air, and was
setoing to work when the fakir made
his appearance and asked for aims.
These wer: refused, on the ground
that the fellow could quite we'll work
if he chose, and the Englishman re-
sumed business, trying to disregard
the mendicant, who, however, did
not bulge an inch, but remained
silent with what appeared to be a
pair of tongs and a brass dish at the
extremity" still extended to receive
the expected coins.
1 looked up at him again. There
he stood on one leg, his eyes riveted
on mine. He continued this per-
Torrance for nearly an hour.
"If you stand there much longer"
| said, at length, "I'll give you such a
taste OF lightning as will soon make
you glad to CO."
The only answer to this threat was
q smile of derision that sent his mus
tache bristling against his nose.
Lightning" he sneered. Your
lightning can't touch a fakir; the
gods take care of him."
Without more ado / charged the
battery and connected it with a coil
machine, which, as those who have
tried it are aware, is capable of rack
ing nerves in a way that few persons
are capable of voluntarily enduring
beyond a few seconds.
The fakir seemed rather amused at
the queer-looking implements on the
table, but otherwise maintaineda look
of lofty stoicism, nor did he seem in
any way alarmed when l approached
with the conductors.
l fastened One wire to his still ex-
tended tongs, aud the other to the
foot on the ground. The machine
was not yet in action, and beyond dis
%conccrting him a little, the attach
mcnt of the wires produced no effect,
but when l pushed the magnet into
the coil, and gave him The full
strength of the battery, he howled
like a demon. The tongs, to which
his hand was now fastened by a force
against his will, quivered in his grasp.
He threw himself on the ground,
yelling and crashing his teeth, the
tongs changing an irregular accom-
paniment. He rolled about in such
a frantic way that l began to fear he
would do himself mischief. l stopped
the machine, therefore, and he
scrambled up and left the lawn at a
d%ouble-quick step.-N. Y. journal.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25

SOME of the papers in the North
west are taking tim, by the fcrelock
in %agitating for the making of ar
engagements to secure needed farm
help for the spring. The immense
wheat crop of last year put all kinds
of farm work badly in arrears in por-
tions of North Dakota and Northern
Minnesota. Thrashing was 50 muc!..
delayed that the usual fail! blowing
was not finished in many places. and
in Others hardly begun. 1t is csti-
mated that these conditions and the
extension of acreage will require at
least 10000 more men than are now
to he found in the Northwest to do
the spring work wanted to be done.
The Minneapolis Jobbers' Committee
eXerted itself etfectually last year in
furnishing help, and is expected to do
the same the coming season. 1t can
he of service only us parties who are
likely to want help will make their
requirements known in time. Other
wise the spring will he far advanced
before many of them will he in shape
to begin work soon enough to have
reasonable assurance of a matured
crop before the fields are swept by
autumn frostS.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25
Quiet Opinion.

NJ. Got. the famous old comedian
of the Comedie-F rancaise (says the
Stage), can occasionally be funny off
the stage as we'll as ON. The other
day an author vas reading his drama,
when. turning around, he perceived
that the great comedian had fallen
asleep. He turned and reproved the
sleeper. How was it possible, he
argued, for a man to express an opin-
ion of a play when he was sound,
asleep? NJ. Got rubbed his eyes and
remarked, with a yawn. to the angry
dramatist: sleep is an opinion"
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25
A kissing Campaign.

In a recent campaign in Alabama,
says a dispatch, political kissing was
developed into a nigh art. One can
didate. after making a speech at the
Blue Creek mines one evening, led in.
a dance and kissed the boss miners
wife once. His opponent hearing =
this went to the same place, also madol
a speech and led the dance afterward
and kissed the boss miners wife
twice. 1t is said that the boss miner
himself got very tired of the pro-
ceedings.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25
vAPID GlRLHooD.
Type ofYoung Woman Doubtless Doomed
to Early Decay.

Type Of Young Woman Doubtless doomed
to Early Decay.
There is a type of womanhood now
in New York society which, it is
greatly to be feared, will perish with
the generation that gave it birth.
There seems to be nothing in the
t1ippant shallowness of the young So
ciety girl of the period that will de-
velop into the rare dignity and cour-
tesy of demeanor characteristic of
this type of which some of our wom-
en- of Southern birth represent, says
the New York Sun. One of them
very well known is a tall. slight
woman with wonderful glow
ing Southern eyes, full of fire and
tenderness, of Joy and of sorrow, soft
ened into memories. Directly she
greets you with that peculiar COM
bination of dignity before which you
bow, and graciousness that charms
and puts you at your ease; the old
Saxon word "lady," which has been
SO abused and degraded, seems to be
honored again in that woman's per-
sonality.
Another woman here more COM
manding in her personality, but
none the less courteous, has a guam
tity of dark, soft hair, framing a
purely oval face, still beautiful and
expressive of strength of character
and rare intelligence. Her ready
flow of well-chosen words on any sub
ject, interesting, unusual and enter
tanning as we'll, always spoken in a
low, firm, but musical voice, con.
trasts strangely with the high
pitched, vapid commodities with
which society regales its d~evotees.
A lady sitting near a box in which
one of the fashionable twenty
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25

soprano angel or descend like a basso
%profundo, tut the gentleman heretofore
q O cd ma;ntan s that every child can
learn to read music intelligently, and he
should be taught to do so, not in the
hurry and crowding of the upper grades,
but in the leisur, and patience of the
beginnings o: knowledge. This uge,h he
says. knows 10 bounds in science O
art. Let the wee tots" be placed wise.
~, pers:stently at the head Of st,
Cccilia's train and future years may
have 10: rs the revelation of genera!
musicaI power.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25

GEORGE A. RAABE. of San Fran
cisco, is out in a circular appealing to
the pulpit and the press to an aban-
donment of that custom which COM
pels men to remove their hats at flu
nerals, despite the danger to health
involved. Respect for the dead does
not call for a sacrifice of the living.
Grief is Il question of hearts. not of
hats. Many have contracted fatal
illness while paying their final tribute
of respect to the dead. and the move.
ment so vigorously pushed is in the
line OF common sense and self-p-es-
ervation as opposed to sentiment.
More than twenty organizations on
the Pacific coast have adopted Mr..
Raabe's idea, which is by no NEAR
q new one, and a reform involving
such VITAL considerations should Sc
cure universal Endorsement.