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Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1893-12-05
AN EXCITING ExPgRltAcg.
Ind when It Was All Over the Station
Agent lIended Things.

And when It Was All Over the Station
Agent AIonded Things.
At a way station on the Louisville and
Nashville one winter the station keeper
had an exciting time. 1t was midnight,
and the station being in a deserted part
of the country had been left by the loaf
ers. It began to rain. The station keeper
was not sleepy and determined to sit up
a greater part of the night, especially as
be had an unusual sum of money in his
cash drawer, and he felt uneasy aboutit,
Robberies Of stations and farmhouses
down the line had been frequent. So he
settled himself down to q vigil. As he
felt hungry he took can of cove oysters
down ffom-the shelf and set it In the
stove. A moment afterward there was
a knock at the door, and he admitted a
cold, drenched tramp, whom he allowed
to lie down by the ere. Just then train
came around the bend, and the station
agent stepped outside TO display the go
ahead signal. He felt distrustful Of the
tramp and feared that he would fool
with the money drawer. AS the train
passed he hurried into the room and had
scarcely opened the door and seen the
tramp standing by the stove with some
thing glistening in his hand, when there
was a report, and the agent felt a sting
ing sensation over his eye.
Although blinded with blood from the
wound, he drew his pistol and fred i've
times into the room. He then dashed
round 10 the rear Of the station and hid
under the platform. After an hours
time he crawled out, resigned to the loss
Of his money and thankful that he had
escaped with his life. The room was
dark; the ire was out. The tramp had
evidently escaped with his booty. Sor-
rowfully the agent 1t a match, but
instantly dropped 1t when q startling
sight met his eyes. He lit another one,
found a candle and gazed about at the
scene Of desolation. ,
The lamp had been shattered by a
bullet. A cheese had been perforated
with two bullets. The room was filled
with smoke from tho ~stovepipe, which a
fourth bullet had p6rforated. Strangest
Of ali, the room was filled with cinders,
and oysters frescoed everything. Oys'
ters, oysters, oysters, cove oysters, The
agent gasped aud realized it all. The
can lad remained In the stove too long
and being sealed up had exploded from
the steam when the tramp pokod tbs
FIRE. OF course the tramp skipped wher
the shooting commenced. The cast
drawer WIS intact. A piece Of tim wa.
found neal the door, where 1t had 70
cooled off the SCENTS face. The agent
spent tho remainder Of the night il
mendhg the stove door-Louisvill'
Commercial,
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1893-12-05
uNaAvELINe THE MYSTERY.

Some New Light Has Been Thrown on the
blue Light Seen by DTrs. Carter.
An Oakland, Qlls), correspondent Of
the Chicago Herald tells the following
story;
When Zach Carriers house south of
Martinville burned last August a year
ago, Rnditw was alleged hewas cremated,
the fact developed that he carried S46,-
600 insurance on his life, although he
was always regarded as a poor man.
How he could pay the premium on such
an enormous sum is explained by his
widow. About four years ago she was
visiting a friend at Harrisburg In what
was known as a haunted house.
One evening while out In the yard her
attention WIS attracted to a spot on the
lot by a blue light. She had a stick In
her hand, and going to the spot indicat-
ed by the light placed the end Of the
stick in the ground, when 1t began to
push and sway and move the dirt, A
box was thus disclosed. She took 1t to
her room and found it contained $11, 600.
She mentioned the fact to no one,n not
ever her husband, for two years. After
returning home she buried a part of the
treasure and kept the rest in the house,
That part, some 5000, was burned.
Upon looking mp the records 1t wal
found that some months previous to the
alleged discovery Of Mrs. Carter q safe
in a lumber yard at Lawrenceville had
been robbed Of S11, 900, and the man
Penn, who was arrested for the crime,
said that the amount taken had beer
buried, but refused to tell the place,
Detectives were Of the opinion that Car.
ter was an accomplish Of Penn, and q
warrant has been sworn out for Mrs
Carter, charging her with receiving
stolen property. She has since left the
state.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1893-12-05
al Amsrlean psne.r IN Londop.

Loie Fuller has been In London, and
some Of the critics are now piecing to-
gether the Vocabularies they tore 10 tat
ters for her sake. One poor, lone man,
ell by HIS unaided self and in just two
paragraphs, said that she was wonder
ful, mystic. bewildering, u%ndulating;"
that her drapeties were Of enormous
amplitude" and were "diVinely diaph-
s%nous;' that she was "a fairy" IAN
iridescent dragon n.y." "a fragment Of
q rainbow stolen between sun and
shower" "a soap bubble "a humming
bird" "a coruscation," - ghttering
gem Of many facets" SO viii o the
wisp." Then he takes refuge In dashss.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1893-12-05
oirln Going In ForFun.

The young ladies to the number Of 100
have organized an association to provide
entertainments. A progressive euohre
party is 10 be held tomorrow evening, a
donkey party this evening, tableaux next
Tuesday and Friday evenings and mas
Querades on other dates. The society
was thought necessary because Of the
scarcity Of young men. Straw parties,
horseback parties, dances, balls, wagon
parties, tennis parties, moonlights, ETC.,
win be Of daily occurrence from now
until the close Of the season.-Monterey
Springs Cor. Baltimore American.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1893-12-05
AMoNo the biIIs whichl viii be

AMONG the bills which, will be
brought forward early in the com
ing session Of congress win be one
for the admission OF New Mexico
to statehood. New Mexico has
kept on going ahead quietly and
steadily in spite of hard times;'in-
creasing in wealth, population and
education; but with statehood her
advance will be far more rapid.
Admission is not a party question
with us, democrats and republicans
alike are united in their desire for
statehood. The sooner it comes
now the better.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1893-12-05

In Canada's last famous murder case
the accused was %'John Reginald" Birch
all. In the present one the prisoner is
John Reginald" Hooper. Have John
Keginalds a propensity for becoming
Letorious7-Ottawa Journal.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1893-12-05

A Liverpool policeman, who, as he
thought, swallowed a sixpence i8 years
Hse recently had a severe pain Ia his
throat "A * Of coughing came on, and
tht i0Ag LOST coin, half Of its original
tlichueaS waq-reieased from his throat
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1893-12-05
New Zealand Mutton.

The sheep farmer, it seems, finds that
he can deliver his sheep, with a fair
profit, for 2 pence a pound at the nearest
port or freezing point. The killing and
freezing process is undertaken chiefly by
companies, which have established freez-
ing stations at various convenient points
along the coast, and which ship tho car
cases, consigned to agents in London OF
elsewhere. One of the sights Of the day
at the Albert docks is the arrival Of one
Of the New Zealand Shipping company's
fine steamers, perhaps the Tongariro or
the Rimutaka, orsome other of the feet
with the soaorous Maori names, and to
see the subsequent discharge of some
1900 ~carcasses, each neatly wrapped in
its winding sheet of'white calico.
The whole years expectation now ib-
ures to about 1000, 600 frozen c~arcasses
and Is rapidly increasing. Yet with all
this depletion the number Of sheep in the
colony is rapidly increasing. The fockG
have largely increased in number, and
the export Of wool has risen from about
81, loco, 900 pounds in 1882 to 10S, GOO, 600
in 1891.-An the Year Round.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1893-12-05

IF Secretary Gresham is right
in his statement of the way in
which the Hawaiian government
was overturned through the off
cious interference of American
representatives, the course which
he advises of the United States
putting that government back
where it found it and then leav-
ing the Hawaiians to run their
own concerns, is the only just and
honorable course for this country
to pursue. Americans have quite
enough to do running their own
country without interfering.in the
private concerns of other nations.
The New York Herald went to
work to find out what the feeling
is on this question among the
leading lawyers of our metropolis
and they unanimously declared
that if an armed force of this ma.
ton was used to aid in deposinq
Queen Liliuokalani, it can only be
fair for US to restore to the Ha.
waiians their form of government
which we displaced. Mr.. james
G. Carter and Mr.. Frederick r
Condert. who acted as counsel foi
this country before the Behrinl
e. commission, concur in this
view of the cas- 1t would bc
simply an act of PREPARATION wor
thy of as great a nation as the
United States.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1893-12-05

The assayer who examined the zero
lite that fell on The farm Of Lawrence
Freeman near Bath, s. d.. on the after
noon u Aug 90, 1892, reports that the
principal n'uerals 10 c0nisirs are gold
fiiFIr. n..... and ..frf
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1893-12-05

TIE committee on the tariff has
about got its work completed; and
a good, wholesome democratic tar
iif-reform bill will be presented to
congress probably next week. The
committee has been too busy to talk
about its work, but is is understood
that the idea is to reduce the tariff
all round as far as can be done, to
take off all duty on raw materials,
andto have a low ad valorem duty on
those manufactured articles which
are the raw material of other manu-
features. The quicker this is done
the better it will be for the coun-
try at large, and it will be special
ly beneficial to.the mining regions.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1893-12-05
IN OLD OCEANS DEPTHS.
Living Lanterns That Are Borne About t.
light Up tho DArkneAs.

|
Living Lanterns That Are Borne About to
Light Up tho Darkness.
Away down in the dark depths Of the
ocean there are living lanterns that are
borne about to light up the darkness. A
queer fish called the midshipmite carries
the brightest and most striking Of all
these sea torches.
Along its back, under it and at the
base of its fins there are small disks that
glow with a clear phosphorescent light
like rows Of shining buttons on the
young middy's uniiorm-in this way il
gets its name, midshipmite, by which
young sailors in the navy are often called.
These disks are exactly like small
bullseye lanterns with regular lenses
and reAectors.
The lenses gather the rays, and the re-
Electors throw them out again. There
is alayer Of phosphorescent cells between
the two, and the entire effect is as per-
feet as If made BY some skillful optician.
Many other fish have "rehectors, y
man have "lenses," hat the ''midship-
mite" is the only kind that has such
splendid specimens Of both.
The fish Is so constructed that when II
.us frightened by ONE devouring sea
monster it can close its lenses and hide
Itself in the darkness. It car turn ita
.IaRtern off and on at viii, and then it ID
RAlfays 'tflled"iand ready when wanted.
'G ApOther marine animal has a luminous
Iibulb that hangs from it's chin, and thus
'6thfows the light before 1t to warn it Of
che approach of enemies. Still another
! dpholds a big light from the extremity
Of the dorsal fin. Others, again, have
constant supplies Of a luminous oil that
runs down thk sides from tho fms, max
ing a bright and constant light oil
around them.
Most Of the jellyfish are phosphor
escent. These live far down on the very
floor Of the ocean, where 1t is Away
dark and gloomy. The jewellers in thesi
watery depths are provided with light
of their own shining bodies and fins
which illumine their home with 4
strange though no doubt cheerful glare
There Is an unknown quantity Of silver
In the bay Of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil-a
silver mine, in fact, Of, comparatively
speaking. unlimited dimensions, and ey'
cry ship that drops anchor there cuts In.
TO the bed Of ore .-Exchange.
Apeculiar gsowth from a stalk Of corr
was grown recently on the farm OF 10
Beph T. Robinson, near Ringguid, Ga
About the center Of the stalk, where th'
shoot fret appeared, there matured a 20
culiar bushy ending about 2 feet long
on which there were nearly 100 htl.
ears 400 size ~ "a mans finger
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1893-12-05

ton afterward, and their help lasts, They
absolutely and permanently cure Constipa-
ton, Indigestion, Bilious Attacks, Sick and
Bilious Headaches. One tiny, sugar-coated
granule Is a gentle laxative or regulator ;
three are cathartic.
They're tho smallest, the easiest TO tako-
and the cheapest, for they're guaranteed 10
give satisfaction, or your money Is returned.
Buy Of reliable dealers. With any others,
something else that pays them better viii
probably be urged as " just as good" Per
haps it Is, for them but II can't be, for you.
For a perfect and permanent cure Of Ca
tarrh. hake DE-. Sagaa Catarrh RamadY.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1893-12-05

VIOLENCE.
That "a what tho ordi-
nary pills and bowel
medicines depend upon.
explains why your
system Is in a worse
condition afterward
than before. And that
Isl the reason why DIR.
Pierce's Pleasant Pei
lets are the best things
IN the world for every
stomach and bowel
trouble. There's no
disturbance, no reao-
-
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1893-12-05

There is an unknown quantity Of silver
Ia the bay Of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil-a
silver mine, in fact, Of, comparatively
speaking. unlimited dimensions, aud ev-
cry ship that drops anchor there outs in
TO the bed Of ore.-Exchange.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1893-07-14
CURIOUS GROWTH OF RATTAN
Tough Wood Of the Climbing Palm Tree
Found in the Malayan Countries

Tough Wood Of the Climbing Palm Tree
Found in the Malayan Countries
Everyone knows the pretty, light and
graceful chairs and other articles OF
furniture made from rattan, but every
one does not know that the extremely
tough and flexible wood called rattan
is that of the climbing palm tree. This
curious climber, which is more of q
vine than a tree, is said by the Phila-
delphia Times to be one of the singular
characteristics of forest growth in the
Celebes and other Malayap countries.
Starting with a trunk little thicker
than a mans arm, it winds through
the forest, now wrapping tall tree In
its fold, like some gigantic snake, and
then descending again to the earth
and trailing along in snakelike curves
until it can find some other stately
tree to fasten and climb upon in its
pursuit of light and air. The forest
is so thick and jungle-like that 1t
seems impossible to follow the course
of any of these serpent climbers, but
there is little doubt that at the last the
successful aspirant, which stopped and
cringed SO long below, will be found
shooting up like a Flagstaff a dozen
feet or more above the tree which has
helped it to rise. A use of rattan
which is unknown to those who have
not seen it in it's native forest is as
water carrier. The thirsty traveller
has at all times tumbler of cool, re-
freshing water at hts command by cut
ting off six or eight feet of rattan and
putting one of the severed ends to his
mouth or holding it over a dish to
catch the water
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1893-07-14

blotted scrolls into one, for the har-
monies are grown discordant You
must learn them over again. But that
you may not fail another time, I wish
you to understand the full meaning OF
each song that l gave you, and how
necessary each is to the harmony of the
whole. Then, with renewed hope and
earnestness, you may set to work once
more, /, therefore, knowing how you
had failed, have brought with me, from
other villages which have better learned
the tasks which I set them, a choir OF
singing men who will sing your opera
for you, and show you how each song
goes, and its place in the whole"
He opened an inner door. There, in
the full glow of many candles, stood
band of men and boys, and on their
faces was a light that resembled the
singers. They all carried scrolls writ
ten in the singers own hand. He him.
self, stepping forward, gave them the
signal On sudden they began all at
once to sing, and the sound broke on
the people like a sea of light. They
raised their faces from the ground and
wiped away their tears. They seemed
bathed in the glorious harmony With
wonder they looked. at each other One
said: Surely tha cannot be my little
songp and another: Gould mine have
sounded like that?" And they clasped
each others hands as in the old days,
and wept with joy. Then the singer
began to sing above them all song
which they had never heard. 1t filed
the pauses of the other songs, and glor-
fled them
When the last notes died away, they
stood hushed and awed, and their faces
shone like the faces of the choir men.
They said: ''Sing US again that new
song" But the singer answered, suil-
ingly: Nay, you must learn your own
songs first. Then will l sing you the
new one, completing your harmonies
with the master song" The villagers,
still clasping each others hands, with
their hearts full of joy and love of the
singer, cried out, eagerly: "Give us
again our old songs, that we may learn
to sing them Alright"
He, still smiling, took from the choir
men the fresh scrolls written in his own
hand, and gave them to the villagers.
Then they went slowly back to their
quiet valley. But the singer stood
long in his study window, looking down
upon them from the cliff. He smiled
gently, and said softly to himself:
"Bide thou, and never be impatient"
just as ne had so often said to his peo-
ple.-Christian Union.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1893-07-14
UNSOPHISTICATEp.

She was bashful, self-eonscious but rosy,
This fresh little bud from the felds;
Shed blush like the heart Of Q posy
when 10 the soft zephyr il yields.
And not being well up in grammar.
Shed often say came stead OF come"
And she'd pick at her apron and stammer,
And Eat home with this maid, W-s -
hum"
And the questions she'd ask you were funny
On matters irrelevant quite;
But her smile was so open and sunny,
To answer them all was delight.
And she'd tell you, with naive little touches
OF frankness confding as sweet,
OF things the most personal, such as
Her age and the size OF her feet
And Of qUizzing she'd never suspect you,
Though amused at her sallies you were,
And her laughter uncurbed would infect you
As wei as her ''bon hornmie" rare.
As for slang-lct IS draw here the curtain,
And country slang, mind you. at that;
And, heavens! the town bellies, I'm certain
Most swooned at the style Of her hat
Yet, still, this sweet maiden bucolic
Had virtue enough in her way;
Though rather too ready 70 frolic
She kept incoming dUdelcts al bag.
In facl, she had just enough 'gUmption."
Or call il good sense, If you please
While blandly ignoring resumption,
With look the pres umer'' TO freeze
And then she could get up such dishes
And "fZin's an things, that you'd own
That never such cooking delicious
To tickle your palate you'd known
Besides. she made all her own dresses
As well as her sisters, they say,
And neatly she groomed her brown tresses,
Though not in conventional way.
So while all the girls in the city,
Where she'd come for 70 visit spel,"
Tried, each, TO be brilliant and witty
And laughed at her frequent do :ell,'
She kept her own gait most demurely,
Nor noticed their quizzing and chat,
And, all quite unconscious, was surely
On them neatly turning the laugh.
For soon it appeared that this posy,
So verdant and fresh from the fields;
SO blushing, confding AM rosy,
With arts that true innocence wields,
Had captured nobility's scion,
The hope OF the citiscl belle,
Who said, as she sighed for her lion:
"Well there! Did you everl Do tell.''
Emile Pickhardt, in Detroit Free Press.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1893-07-14
NOT A MODERN INVENTION.
The Bicycle Said to Have Been First Use
by a Young French Physician In 1896.

The Bicycle Said to Have Been First Used
by Young French Physician In 1865.
s'The popular belief is that the BIZ
cycle is modern invention, when In
fact it really dates back to the seven
teenth century, said DIR. L. c. Minor,
according to the Cincinnati Star. Il
learned this one day when | was max
ing some translations from the Jour
nal de Medicine de Paris. Ozaram, in
1894 in his Mathematical and Physical
Recreations, tells of a carriage, as he
calls it, in which one can ride without
the use of horses And then he goes
on to tell of how lackey sits at the
back, makes it run by walking alter
nately with his two feet by means Of
two small wheels concealed In a case
lust between the wheels behind and
attached to the axle of the carriage
This was the principle of the veloci-
pede, so much improved since then.
But the priority of the discovery of
the bicycle | believe to be established
without further argument or dispute.
1t was by physician, Eli Richard,
young physician of Rochelle, France,
who made the first machine after
which our modern bicycle Is pat
termed. He was medica al student in
Paris in 1866, and became one of the
great physicians of France. He died
at the age of sixty-one at Rochelle in
1706, and there is street in Rochelle
named for him, and there is now
movement on foot to erect bronze
statue, not to Michaud, who it is
claimed was the discoverer of the bicy-
Gle, but to the true discoverer, DR.. Eli
Richard"
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1893-07-14

any length. SO as to have the roost sus-
pended about 10 inches above the drop
ping board. B are the hooks on tho
ends Of the wires to fasten into staples
to support the roost The staples where
is attached should be about IL inches
apart, which will prevent the roost
from swinging. The roots are easily
kept free from lice, as there are no
mortices to lay eggs in and thus escape
fumigatiug. Also the roost can be
easily detached, by unlocking at B and
removed from the building and cleaned.
Kerosene oil should be applied to the
roosts once every week. also they
should be taken out and saturated with
oil, and then set fire to; this will de-
stroy all ven 4nin.-Ohio Farmer.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1893-07-14
HOAxES ABOUT CANNIBALS.
There Is Not Near So Much Msn-Eatfni
as Generally Rennrtad.

There Is Not Near So Much Man-Eatfns
as Generally Reported.
DR.. Livingstone, in hitherto unpub-
lished letter, warns his friend, DR..
Hamilton, against accepting too read
lily stories of cannibalism among Afri-
can tribes. The Manyuema, among
whom he had been then living for
many months, are reputed to be canni-
balls, and the people themselves, being
"a laughter-loving" race, appear to en-
JOY the joke of hoaxing the white man
on this subject. One showed DR.. Liv-
ingstone the head of recent human
victim" but it proved to be the skull of
a gorilla. DR.. Livingstone persever-
ingly tried to get a sight of one of the
cannibal orgies which the traders
profess to have seen or heard
of, but in vain. He offered
goods of the value of 81 to any
one who would call him to see human
flesh cooked or eaten, but nothing
came of the offer Livingstone con-
trasts this absence of evidence with
the terrible traders tales he had heard
at Ujiji and the information given by
adjacent tribes. eff had believed" Z"
he says, tenth part of what 1 heard
l should never have ventured hither."