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The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-05-13
They Could Shoot.


Mr.. Richard Harding Davis, in his
trip through the West, as described in
THE West from a Car Window" Wis
tied camp of Texas Rangers. Hey
| especially interested in their shooting
feats, which they performed for his
| benefit at the request of Adjutant-
General Mabry A board foot wide
and two feet high was placed about
| sixty feet off on the prairie, and
| Sheriff Schecley opened the ball by
| whipping out his revolver, and with
the sights upside down shooting into
the bulls-eye of the improvised target.
lie did this without interrupting his
conversation, but rather as il he were
punctuating his remarks with audible
commas
Then he said, II didn't think you
rangers would let a little one-penny
Sheriff get in the first shot on You.
He could afford To say this because he
had been a ranger himself, and his
brother Joe was one of the best cap
tains the rangers have had, and he and
all his six brothers are over six feet
hich: but the taunt produced an in
Spontaneous volley from every man in
the company.
They did not take the trouble to
rise, but shot from where they hap
pened to be sitting or lying and talk
ing together, and the air rang with the
reports and d hundred quick vibrating
little gasps. like the singing of wire
string when it is frightened on a banjo,
They exhibited some most wonderful
shooting. They shot with both hands
at the same time, with hammer under
meath, holding the rifle in one hand,
and never, when it was revolver they
were using, with 'glance at the
sights.
They would sometimes fire four shots
from Winchester between the time
they had picked it up from the ground
and before it had nestled comfortably
against the shoulder.
They sent one man on pony racing
around tree about as thick as mans
leg and were dissatisfied because he
put only four out of six shots into it.
Then General Mabry, who seemed to
think did not fully appreciate what
they were doing, gave Winchester
rifle to Captain Brooks and myself, and
told us to show which of us could first
put eight shots into target.
Captain Brooks, as far as l could
make out from the sound, used only
one movement for his entire eight
shots. As l guessed, the trial was to
show his quickness rather than his
workmanship and paid no attention
to the target, but devoted myself assidu-
ously to manipulating the lever and
trigger, aiming blankly at the prairie.
When l had fired two shots into
space, the Captain had put his eight
into the board. They sounded, as they
went Off like frecrackers well started
in barrel, and mine, in comparison,
like minute-guns at sea.
The rangers, l found, after l saw
more of them, could shoot as rapidly
with a revolver as with a rife and had
become so expert with a smaller
weapon that instead of pressing the
trigger for each shot, they would pull
steadily on it and snap the hammer
until the six shots were exhausted.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-05-13

To the large and highly respectable
family of sandwiches may be added
chicken jelly sandwiches. Their merit
is that they keep most all day in hot
room, and are well favored for even
the delicate palates that tire of almost
everything. Boil chicken until the
meat falls from the bones. Pack the
pieces of chicken in deep creased dish
and pour over all half a package of
gelatine dissolved in the chicken gravy
Add little pepper and salt and
moisten with the fat skinned from
the top of the liquid.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-05-13

IT is evident that the proprietors
OF city hotels and restaurants pay
low wages on the assumption that
the guests will make up the differ
ence with tips. In other words. it is
the proprietors Of such establish
ments and not the walters who really
profit by the charity. BY their pol
icy in this respect they have made 1t
almost incumbent on every guest to
pay tip in addition to the charges
printed on the bill OF fare. The
walters expect it, and no one can get
proper attention without it, Reform
should be sought until il is accom-
plished on at least two points. The
waiter should not be dependent on
charity for adequate compensation,
and the imposition OF rendering it
necessary for guests to pay a sum In
addition to published charges-and
very high charges at that--to secure
proper service or even courteous
treatment should be abolished
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-05-13
For Young Housewives.

Dry the tin dishes before putting
away.
A few drops of salad oil on tar stains
will remove them.
Add pinch of salt to whites of eggs
to make them beat up quickly.
Vinegar will remove the disagreea-
BILE odor of kerosene from tinware.
Never wash raisins that are to he
used in sweet dishes. 1t will make the
pudding or cake heavy.
To make brooms last longer than
they or dinarily do, dip them once a
week in boiling suds. This toughens
the strands.
Spirits of ammonia, il diluted, APP
piled with a sponge to faded or discol-
ored spots in carpet, will often re-
store the color.
If ink is splattered on the woodwork
it may be taken out by securing with
sand and water and a little ammonia:
then rinse with soda water.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-05-13
German Coffee Cake.

Two cupfuls of light bread dough,
one cupful of sugar, one-half cupful of
butter, one egg; mix well together. 1t
must be still enough to roll out. If
necessary add more -four. Let it rise
until light, then roll out upon the
moulding half an inch thick.
Place sheets in baking tins, allow it to
rise again, place in the oven, and
when half done cover the top of each
cake with the following mixture: Roll
very fine one cupful of blanch ed
almonds, and one-half cupful of sugar.
Bake very carefully.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-05-13
Sir John Hudson's brilliant Record.

Sir John Hudson, successor to the
Bombay command, has long been one
of the most brilliant soldiers in the In
dian army. He won distinction in the
Persian war, and again in the Indiar
mutiny. During the latter conflict hi
won the especial favor of Havelock
whose daughter he afterward married
and became an Assistant Adjutant
General. In Afghanistan, in 1879
Hudson'prevented Roberts, during hi.
dash on Cabul, from being surrounded
and during the fighting some years
later around Suakim he won fresf
laurels. His rank, that of Colonel,
alone withheld from him the thanks o:
Parliament, but he received the X.
b., and was kept in Africa for som.
time as Governor-General of the Rec
Sea Littoral. He is now in his sixtieti
year.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-05-13

THE law OF making macadam roads
is to have 'all the stones. which con-
stitutc the top dressing. small enough
to pass through two-inch ring, so
that they will pack together and
form one solid whole. How many
macadam roadways are thus built in
this country? The broken rock is
left so large that a wagon in passing
over them displaces them as it would
a heap OF powders. They roll and
tumble about until they arc ground
into dust or mud, as the weather is
dry or wet. Macadam roadways
properly constructed, constructed as
Mr.. Macadam planned them, and
properly cared for, ought to last q
life time even where the hauling is
heavy.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-05-13

1HE hotel walters OF New York
have organized, with view to main
tanning the right to wear their
whiskcrs just as it plcascs their fan
cy to do So The requirement Of
sharing OF their mustaches, which is
now insisted on in all the leading ho-
tells and restaurants there, is de-
nounccd as contrary to the laws
which govern the free-institutions OF
this country. The New York walters
appear to have takepoD Outrage from
the experience OF their Boston bretb'
rem on tins whisker issue.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-05-13

Is spite OF the unanimous voice or
history and science, Of experience
and theory. that the wasting OF for
ests inevitably tends to undesirable
climatic changes, TO decrease in
the average rainfall, to floods and
drouths, and u hundred other evils,
there arc still intelligent and we'll
READ men who insist that forests or
the absence OF forests have nothing
To do with the case, just as equally
intelligent men can be found who in
spite of overwhelming evidence to
the contrary persistently maintain
that there is no virtue in the Jenner
system of vaccination.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-05-13
An Old-FashIoned Jobnnv-Cakc.

One pint of -four, one pint of yellow
corn meal, one pint of sweet milk, half
cup of sugar, or two large table,
spoonfuls of molasses, which is bette.
than sugar, a spoonful of salt, two
tablespoonfuls of butter. Beat thor
oughly, and, when well mixed, add
two heaping spoonfuls of baking pow
der. Butter a pan, place it on the
stove where it will become hot with
out burning, pour the batter in and
bake in a hot oven from twenty to
twenty-five minutes.
Corn meal gems may be made in the
same way. Pour them into very hot
gem pans of cast-iron and bake at
once.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-05-13
THE BOLD BUCCANEERS.
Description of the Old Time Spanish.
American Merchantmen.

american
As rule, the Spanish American
merchantmen were formidable float
ing castles. They might carry $50 of
crew, with a company or two of
disciplined soldiers. They mounted
many guns of heavy metal. The
'.musketeers" were freely furnished
with those bell-mouthed trabucos
which belched out bullets by the
quarter bushel, and were excessively
disagreeable at close quarters; and
they were clothed in cuirasses of buff.
which would turn ball The poop
and the forecastle were solid forts,
and the former was furnished with
semicircular galleries. from which the
defenders could fire with command
ing precision. There were boarding
nettings to be triced to the rigging;
and even at the waist, where the
sides were the lowest, boarding must
have been like scrambling up the side
of a house.
IL we turn. on the other hand, to
the light buccaneering craft, it
would seem there was no sort OF
equality. They were generally
schooners or brigantines of small
burdens, with tall but tapering spars
carrying tremendous weight of can
vas. Their guns were necessarily
few, though one or two were formid-
able. The men at the most could not
be numerous, although packed away
above and below like behring's in u
barrel.
Where they excelled was in sea-
manship and dexterous maneuvering.
In certain light minds they had it all
their own way. II their luck was
good. the enemy's gunners would fire
wide of the small and shifting mark.
Their very audacity often sa?ed them
disaster, for at the closest quarters
1t was impossible to depress the guns
so as to do them serious damage.
When they did board there was no
need to give the watchword-dea
or victory. They were fighting not
only with ropes round their necks,
but with thumbscrews and hot grid
irons in the more remote prospective.
says Blackwood's Magazine. That
accounts for the animation they
threw into the attack, but we confess
we arc still mystified by the triumphs
that crowned their audacity. For
even the buccaneers never denied the
Spanish pluck, and the Spaniards
were likewise fighting for existence.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-05-13

During the early party of the reign
of Louis Nv. there was issued an order
TO change the mode of discipline
French soldiers were thenceforward to
be punished, when occasion required,
by blows with the fiat of sabre. A
warm discussion ensued on the grave
question whether this would be an
effectual way to cure the faults of in
dolence and characterization. Count
de Segur, in his Memoirs" gives an
amusing anecdote Of the interest this
movement excited.
One morning a young man, belong
ing TO one of the frst families at court,
entered my room. / observed that he
looked astonishingly serious. He
asked me to send away my servant,
which did, and when we were alone
he said:
1T may appear odd to you, but am
most anxious to ascertain the impress
sion produced upon the body of a
stout, courageous and well-built man
by the blows of the fiat end of sabre,
and how far his obstinacy will support
him under that species of chastise-
ment.
Take your sabre, my friend, and
lay on, entreat you, until cry out,
Enough"
endeavored to dissuade him, but It
was impossible. He entreated, he in
sisted, upon my compliance with as
much energy and earnestness as IL l
were to confer upon him the most sig
nal favor in the world. At length
consented, and applied myself to the
task. He stood as IL considering
coolly after every blow, uttered not a
word, and affected perfect Indifference
to the operation. After some twenty
severe blows, he turned around and
said; Enough, my friend. / am sat
isfied, and am convinced that such an
operation will prove an efiicacious
remedy for many faults"
Concluding that all was over, was
about to ring for my servant when the
viscount said:
mot yet; we have not quite done. 1t
will be proper that you should just
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-05-13

long and interesting the General lost
sight of the fact that he was talking to
a woman. He was vigorously refuting
one of her statements when he reached
into an inside pocket, pulled out
and opened a cigar case and offered
Mrs. Logan a cigar. She took it, and
apparently not noticing the incongruity
of the situation, quietly concealed
it. The General lit his and launched
on in oblivion. Among the most
treasured of Mrs. Logan's possessions
is that cigar.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-05-13
Gen. Cor.e's F.mou. Declaration,

The chance that Gen. John Corse
who "held the fort" at Altoona ani
after terrible battle declared that h,
could "whip all hell yet" may agar
be appointed to Office, recalls an inter
csting incident When he was mad,
postmaster of Boston the newspaper,
were full of stories of his valor ant
scores of clippings were sent to hin
at his home in Winchester. Repetition
of the phrase just quoted were abund
ant At length one day his wife, hal,
in Jest and half in feeling of annoy
ance, said to the General: "There II
one consolation at least, and that IL
that you have got through licking al
hell and will occupy yourself for SOM
time to come in licking postag,
stamps."
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-05-13

1.-THE Bee"--she sighed-"that haunts tn'
clover
Has natures errand to fulfil;
The bird that skins the azure over,
Bears living seeds within his bill.
"Without cause his fight pursuing,
He drops them on barren strand;
And turns. unconscious of the doing,
The waste into the pasture land.
~. craving service-willing, choosing.
To fling broadcast some golden grain
Can only sit In silent musing,
And weave my litanies Of pain"
l. making answer, softly kissed her:
"All natures realm OF bees and birds
What is such ministry, my sister.
Compared with your enchanted words'
''The seed your weakened hand is sowing,
May ripen to a harvest broad,
Which yet may help, without your knowing,
To fill the granaries of God W
Margaret j. Preston in Lippincott's.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-05-13

fHE experiment Of farm life for
boys who are deemed incorrigible
and who are now sent to industrial
schools or houses OF refuge is being
tried In Maine. 1t is said to work
we'll. The farm has large number
OF buildings. and the boys are kept
apart as they cannot we'll be In the
large institutions in cities. 1t is DO.
lieved, too, that work on tho farm.
and especially the association 1t
gives the boys with natures works.
are better for their moral health
than any other treatment would be.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-05-13

make the experiment in your turn
not on your account, but on my own.
You might perhaps amuse some OF your
friends at my expense, and make q
pleasant anecdote out Of what has just
passed"
then permitted him to take the
weapon, but after single blow; instead
of Initiating his courage, ] cried out,
Enough" and insured him that my
mind was made up.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-05-13
She Has n Mans Name.

John Strange Winter was not Mrs.
STANDARDS first nom de plume, writes
Grace Wassell in an interesting sketch
of the home life and personality of the
author of'Bootles' Baby" in the Ladies'
Home journal. For several wears she
signed herself Violet Whyte, and be-
fore she was 30 had written and pub
lished forty-two novelties under that
pseudonym; but when Cavalry Life"
was about to appear her publishers adj
vised masculine nom de plume, and
she accordingly chose John Strange
Winter, the name of one of her favor
tie characters in one of her own de-
lightful stories. OF course, Mrs. Stan
nard will always be known, particu-
larly, by her portrayals of army life,
ana surely there were never such army
stories written as her Garrison Cos
SIP" Army Society and ''Bootles"
stories. Perhaps her great success
with these stories is in some measure
due-apart from the fact that she once
lived in barrack town-to the fact
that her father was originally an army
officer, being one of the picked officers
chosen from the Royal Artillery to at
tend the Queen at her coronation. He
afterward entered the church. She
has always loved the army and army
life. Even after having achieved quite
a success, it was not generally known
that John Strange Winter was
woman.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-05-13
Tales for Women.

The Duchess of Fife delights in
gymnastics and is an accomplished
mistress of the art of fencing.
Mrs. Oliphant is one of the half
dozen lady novelists who, on an aver
age, can make $1,000 story.
The Czarina of Russia, although en-
ploying a houseful of seamstresses.
makes nearly all the clothing for her
younger children, and also takes their
new hats to pieces and trims them ac-
cording to her own taste.
Princess Louise (the Marchioness Of
Lorne) is an adept at sculpturing. She
has recently been devoting her atten-
ton to animals and has made some
very successful pieces of sculpture
from living models.
The worthy puritanical people who
are always so ready to eXclaim against
theaters and theatrical folk will be in
terested in reading from the report of
the Rev. Benjamin Waugh. President
of the English Society for the Proven
ton of Cruelty to Children, that that
charity has received more money
from theaters. music and concert halls
than from all the churches and chapels
in the kingdom"
Nine. Camille Collett, the well-known
advocate of the emancipation of women
in Norway, recently celebrated the
eightieth anniversary of her birth
A festival was given in Christiania in
honor. of the day and was attended by
Ibsen and many other famous writer's.
Prof. Loremy Diedrichsen made the
address. Nine. Collett is the author of
THE officials Daughter" and other
books. She still enjoys splendid
health, despite her great age
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-05-13

MRS. MoSTAGU, the aristocratic
Englishwoman who punished her in
FAINT daughter for trivial offense by
hanging the latter up by the arms
until she died, has completed her
term Of Imprisonment and is again at
liberty. During her incarceration
she gave birth to anotherchild.w whom
it is to be hoped she will treat rs n
mother should Mrs. Montagu has
gone to the continent for tho alleged
purpose OF living until her crime is
forgotten by society. She may be
able to carry out this part of the pro-
gramme, but il she has one spark of
natural instinct in her bosom she
will hardly be able to live anywhere
long enough to forge it herself.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-05-13
Anecdote of Gem. Gordon.

DR.. Russell, writing of the Crimeal
campaign, tells the following charac
teristic anecdote of Gen. Gordon
There was a sortie, and the Russians
got into our parallel. The trencl
guards were encouraged to drive then
out by Gordon, who stood on the para
pet in imminent danger of his owl
life, prepared to meet death with moth
ing save his stick in his hand. Cor
don, Gordonl come down. you'll b,
killed. they cried. But he paid N,
heed to them. A soldier said: IIe'i
all right. He don't mind being killed
He's one of those blessed Christians ;
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-05-13
You Can Tcii-sometimes.

You can tell pretty well how a girl
feels toward you by the way she takes
your arm. If she doesn't care a cent,
you know 1t by the indifference of the
muscles. If she has great confidence
in you the pressure tells it; and friend
ship Is as distinct from love in that
mode of expression as in words or
looks. A woman can take the arm of
fellow she likes very much with per-
feet comfort, even II she is feet high
and he 4. But even il the two were
just ma tched, she can make him feel
disdain, contempt, discomfort, dislike,
anything she likes, by the way she
does not hold on to him. / am told
there is a great deal of difference, too
between the way girl fits her waist
to one mans arm as compared with an
other; but hardly believe it.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-05-13
L'ANsR SENTINEL.


TIE story OF contemplated at
tempt TO assassinate the prince Of
Wales is regarded as doubtful In some
quarters. There is not the least ex-
eusc for any such mild and uncertain
feeling - doubt II is so surely and
and plainly fake, and rather stupid
QUE 81 that
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-05-13
Morton Sleeps.
BY ID. u. LUCAs.

NJ ~. W. LtthS.
Morton sleeps, his work is done,
And his earthly race Is run,
But bis name we honor yet,
Aud HE deeds wen ne'er forget,
For they are our country's pride,
In those days Of battle tide.
Morton sleeps, with thaSSgreat band,
Heroes Of our native land,
Those who stood for freedoms cause,
For all good and righteous laws,
So his name we honor brave.
BY wreath upon his grave.
MortoJ sleeps, and it is well,
That we here his story tell,
That the world may ever know,
That our hearts in fervor glow,
As we give a patriot true,
Honors that his fame are due.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-05-13

An appropriation Of $50. 900 was
made ut the last session OF congress
To pay employees Of the bureau OF eng
CRAVING and printing, but In the en-
crossing the thousands were dropped
and as signed by the president the
bill appropriates only $37. So until
congress meets again that appropria-
tion comes to naught instead OF to
three OF them.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-05-13
Souvenir of Grant.

Mrs. John A. Logan is a woman who
possesses somewhat rare feminine abil-
ity to comprehend and intelligently
converse upon politics. She and Gen
eral Grant had many heated battle.
The story is told that in the midst of n
discussion which had been particularly
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-05-13
An Anticipated Pet.

A resident of Mobile, Ala. has a
strong affection for pet cat. The
animal is said to be ~ years old, has
no teeth, and is also blind. The
owner cares fer it as attentively az
hough the cat were child, feeding
constantly on raw oysters, OF which
the cat seems very fond.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-05-13
women's Wages.

In pursuit of livelihood the hope
or ultimate intention to marry is a
drawback to woman's success. She
enters any vocation half-heartedly, not
as life career, but as temporary
stop-gap. Abandoning her trade for
marriage years afterward, perhaps, she
returns to it an invalid and with de-
pendents, her hand robbed of its cum
ming; and she must take her place at
the bottom of the ladder Economical
ly, indeed, she is yet an industrial
makeshift, rarely displacing man ex-
cept at half his pay. Again, being un-
organized, woman cannot fight. Such
trades unions as they dare form are,
for want of leadership, scotched by
hard-hitting manufacturers at one
blow, few associations surviving one
formal complaint or strike. Shoe and
tobacco unions have obtained substan-
tial results in shortening hours and
raising pay.