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Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1893-10-03

nv father, Mr.. A. O. King Of lie Roy.
Ills, was very sick with 10 grippe in Jan.
nary, 1899. On the Goth / was sent for
and staid with him several days until he
was somewhat improved. I then re-
turned to my home, Decatur, his, some
80 miles distant, telling my brother Ed
ward to write mi every day and IL
necessary TO telephone or telegraph me.
For quite awhile the letters came regu-
larly reporting everything favorable.
Then they ceased. There had not been
any letters for about q week, when, on
the evening Of tho 10Th Of February /
concluded that / would try the expert
ment Of making Brother Edward write
mo by writing to him and then tearing
up the letter, as suggested by Mark
Twain in Harper's. / wrote the letter,
commencing it, Dear Brother Edward
Il suppose that no news is good news,
as if oil were not well you would write"
After / had written the letter / con-
cluded that I would send it, as, If the
mind influence bad acted upon Edward
by my writing the letter, the sending
thereof would not interfere with 1t. He
would receive it the next day. At Z
o'clock on tho morning Of Feb. 10, l re
] ceived q letter from Edward, dated the
10Th, saying; Dear Brother James-I
have not written you for several days,
because l have had no bad news to re-
port. Recollect, no news viii DO good
news" AS near as we can learn, he
wrote this letter at the same time that l
was writing to him. Is the fact that his
thoughts, and ever words, were tho
same as mine a mere coincidence, or
something moro?-Arena.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1893-10-03
Ehot whlls colnn rpr a poetor.

aHIA NNAHE @L
II was in Pittsburg somo seven years
ago that my wife woke me up one night
and said that our little boy was very
sick and would ] go for q doctor. / said
Of course l would, and slipping into my
clothes l grabbed my hat and started
ont. When ! reached the first corner, !
passed a stranger who was running the
other way. l cut %diagonally across tho
street and ran toward the center Ol
town. Pretty soon l heard footsteps
some distance back, and then several
shots were fired. I felt as though some
n had thrown q stone and struck me
on the leg, but 1 couldn't u any more
worth q cent. l stumbled down and
then drawing myself mp put my hand
where l felt the pain and found that my
leg was moist with blood. l easily real
lied that / was shot. The possessor OF
the revolver drew up before me painting
for breath and exclaimed, "You will rob
people, will your" 1t wa a policeman.
l began to upbraid him most thoroughly.
Explanations nor excavations did not
elp the matter any, and ! was taken in
a patrol TO the station. l repeated my
story and insisted that a doctor should
be sent to my house. The desk sergeant
finally did as 1 wished, and II family
doctor called at the house, and later
came by the station. 1t did not take me
long to convince the station officers that
l was not the party, and was set at lib
erty and removed to my home. When ]
was able to get around again, l sued the
city for $1,000, and / got it.-Interview
in st. Louis Globe-D Democrat.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1893-10-03
Simple SalVe.

Pine tar is excellent burned in a
sick room as a disinfectant. 1t
induces sleep.
A cup of hot milk favored with
orange water or one Of beef tea, is
excellent for an iavalid just before
retiring.
To prevent the hair from com
ing out take a pint Of bay run and
half an ounce of quinine. Mix
and apply to the scalp twice a day
with a wooden cloth, rubbing it in
well.
A child's head should always be
placed SO that the light should
come from one side. If it be al
lowed to strike in front or behind
the head, it would have a tendency
to make the child cross eyed.
Earache, from which children
often suffer, may be relieved by
roasting an onion and binding i
over the ear as hot as it can b.
borne. Then place q hot waite
bag, or, if this is not handy,
heated brick or aatiron next TIN
face to keep the heat.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1893-10-03
mr.. Tens a storv or Two.

Mr.. Theodore Roosevelt is o practical
politician and has some good stories to
tell Of his experiences while in the legis-
lature. In his address before the Liberal
club on Thursday evening no told some
OF them.
One was of a legislator who used to
ask him to support unconstitutional hills.
"Dut, my dear friend" Mr.. Roosevelt
would say, ''it's unconstitutional u
never allow the constitution to come be-
tween friends" was the reply, and then
becoming very indignant the man would
add, "Mr. Roosevelt, the constitution
doesn't treat little things like that"
Another mar objected to his quoting
Latin. what do you mean by quoting
Latin on the floor Of this houseT' thun
dered the objector, when you don't know
tho alpha or omega Of the languageY'-
Buffalo Express.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1893-10-03

Nature is very particular 10 conceal
her deformitieH, and all that is worthless
or ungraceful generally drops of from
a tree unless it DO an injury to the trunk,
From such effects the tree never recov'
ers. Go into the forests and how often
we see deformod trees, some bent and
twisted, some parted till tho original
trunk becomes like twO-each crossing
and recrossing tho other. This was done
by depression or injury TO the tree in III
young and tender years. Nature has n0
power TO right o broken ~law-neither IN
the animal nor the vegetable organism.
Punishment follows, and deformity 70
sults.-Boston Transcript,
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1893-10-03

Stories of unexpected fortunes are as
common as blackberries. Somebody is
always making OF finding or inheriting
q heap of money which seems to himself
almost to have come from the clouds.
Worthless shares become valuable, as
happened to more than one mar in the
history Of Devon great consols. A work
ing1nan discovers a rich mine, Us Mr..
Graham did inSouth Australia; or a rela-
tive from whom nothing was expected
suddenly heaps everything on the hns-
man who bored him least, as occurred
last year within our own knowledge in
southern country. Only last week q pau
per In a poorhouse was declared heir to
e8OO. 600, a sum which he probably could
not have put down accurately on a slate,
but which had been earned in Australia
by a relative who died interstate. Lon
don Spectator.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1893-10-03

In the drawing room Of one Of Califor-
MAS bonanza men, now living in New
York, there hangs a painting Of a very
common country scene-a girl feeding a
flock Of turkeys. The money kings
daughter says that her father cares more
for this picture than for any Of the other
furnishings Of his palatial home and
often stands before it for long moments
at a time. His boyhood was spent in a
tiny hamlet tucked away in the Cats
kills, and when the pretty girl says, pet
tishly, II don't BOO what you find IN that
tea chrome thing to admire" he sighs
and answers, mo, for you never had
such q home. New York Times.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1893-10-03

Hounslow heath, Fnchley common
and Gadshill, in the neighborhood OF
London, were celebrated hRunts of the
highwayman, and the secluded roads OF
Epping forest, ON the route to Cam
bridge, were often the g of plumber
in broad daylight. These desperate rob
bers at last became so dangerous, and
the peril Of their attacks so serious TO
travellers Of all kinds, as well as to the
postmen, that the government passed a
law making highway robbery an offense
punishable by the death of the criminal
and tho coniscation of all his property.
But robberies still occurred.
In 1888 mail coaches, protected by
armed guards, took the place Of post
boys. Tie coaches carried passengers
also, and as these generally carried arms
the mails were better protected, bat
still daring and oftentimes successful
attacks were made upon them.~-St.
NinhQiaa
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1893-10-03

BERTHE had been forbidden under 20.
we're penalties to play IN tho rain barrel,
but the other day, sad to relate, his mann
ma and grandmother found him splash
ing IN II in high CLEO.
His mammals face hardened, but TIE
grandmother kind heart led her to mako
q plea for the offender.
BERTHE heard the plea, and when his
mamma asked him sternly what she
should do to q little boy who did not
mind what was told him, he answered
promptlyi
81 fink you had better mind your
muvyor. youths Companion.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1893-10-03

Mrs. Binks-Oooi Doesn't IL make
you nervous to have the wind blow 80
this time Of night
Mr.. Binks-Why7
Just hear the windowsl They rattle
like everything"
"Um, 1t would make mo nervous to
hear the windows rattle If the wind
wasn't blowing. New York Weekly
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1893-10-03

Mr.. I. L. Wiley, 146 Chambers
st. New York City, says that Ayers
sarsaparilla cured him Of a dry
and scaly humor, from which he
had suffered intolerably. He adds;
~ have not now a blemish on my
body, aud my cure is wholly due
to Ayers Sarsaparilla."
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1893-10-03
Nan Outdone by Moman.

"You may talk all you like about
women being tho weaker sex" said Mrs.
snipps, 'but the women Of this country
did something last year that men could
never do"
"And that WASP inquired Mr.. Snipps
Lost b o,000, 900 haiIpins and wore the
wings OF 5000, 600 birds on their hats"
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1893-10-03

There are many small villages in tho
alkali districts near the Asiatic frontier
where the blind predominant. In this
region the allali dust constantly Ellis tho
air, and those not actually blind have
their eyes more or less diseased.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1893-10-03

An incident Of interest to Amer
leans was the unwilling, on the
21st Of August, Of q statue Of Lin
coin at Edinburgh. The ceremo-
ny Of unwilling was performed by
the daughter of Mr.. Wallace
Bruce, for the past four years the
popular consul of the United
States in that city.
Mrs. Hicks-I hear the cook
screaming down stairs; there must
be a burglar in the house.
Hlcks-Good heavens, where is
my gun?
Mrs. Hicks-Don' you stir O
step; he might shoot you.
Hicks-What do / care for be-
ing shot; suppose he should carry
off the cook?
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1893-10-03
Sunday Services BIZ Wire.

For many years past, it is said, asunday
school has been held every Sunday ON d
certain railroad. The superintendent
propounds questions to tho class over tho
wire at different places, prayers are said
and a chapter In the Bible read-aI by
wire.-New York Tribune.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1893-10-03

When the refrigerator is placed near
the cook stove in the kitchen, the cook
complains that the ice melts so rapidly
that her milk sours every day.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1893-10-03
Amnr,nnnn nnd cndnrn.

For some unknown reason the cedar
Of Lebanon has never been a favoritt
with American planters, although It Il
hardy in the latitude Of New York, and
the few specimens here which have at
tanned the age Of 90 years and upward
are noble trees.-Garden and Forest.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1893-10-03

Knighthood has been conferred
upon DIR. Benjamin Ward Rich
ardson, Of London, in recognition
Of his valuable discoveries in medi-
cines and his great abilities os an
instructor aud writer.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1893-10-03
The PHILOSOPHER.

War is the butcher shop of di-
plomacy.
Grumbling won't pay l per cent
on the investment.
The golden calf never grows into
a cow that gives milk.
If you want TO be O. happy old
man, be a useful young one.
The man who has no business of
his own to attend to generally goes
to bed tired.
Opportunity rings the door bell
and is gone around the orner be-
fore the sluggard gets out of bed.
According to the latest informa-
ton there are now published in
the world about 5000 daily news
papers and fully 1000 of them are
in the United States. In addition
to the dailies there are said to be
fully 10000 weeklies, besides the
multitude of monthly and other
periodicals whose mission is to
keep the world informed. The
oldest newspaper in the world is
said to be the Pekin Gazette
started more than a thousand
years ago and in the same form
and size in which it now appears
The whole empire of China has
but nine other dailies and four
teen periodicals, while its orienta
neighbors, the japanese, have
ninety-two dailies, besides l7j
other periodicals. The oldest pa
per in Europe is the Frankfor
Post Zeitung, unless some Of tho
bulletins once posted in the Rom
an forum are dignifed with th'
title of newspapers.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1893-10-03

Australia is a great tea drinking coun.
try, and most Of the medium sorts Of
black find a ready sale in the southern
land. Very little green tea, and that
usually for mixing, is imported there.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1893-10-03

Octavius Augustus had a mortal dread
of thunder, and whenever q storm camd
on he retired TO an underground vault
built for protection.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1893-10-03

In a single season it Is said that 5,000,.
900 dead birds were used by the milliners
Of our seaboard cities. Over $1,000 Of
these came from Cape Cod alone.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1893-10-03
Coins and Coinage.

The Mint Of Philadelphia has a
collection of over 5000 coins of
different nations.
Stone coins are frequently found
in the funeral mounds of the
| American Indians.
The first American counterfeiter
so far as known, was one William
Buel, of Vermont.
The first coinage of money after
the revolution bore in many cases
the image of Washington.
The Aztecs filed quilts with
gold dust, sealed them and passed
them from hand to hand as coin.
The earliest coins Of New Hamp-
shire we're copper pence, 1O9 to
the Spanish dollar.
Vermont was the first state to
issue a coinage on its own author
ity. Copper coins were issued in
1885.
The first woman's face repre-
scented on a coin was that of Pull
cheria, the empress of the eastern
empire.
The earliest coinage in Connec-
ticut was a private issue by John
Higley, made of copper found on
his own farm.
In China, gold and silver are
merely commodities, whose price
is regulated by the laws of supply
and demand.
The Chinese stamp bars of gold
or silver with their fneness and
weight and pass them from hand
to hand as coin.
The earliest Roman coins were
stamped with the figure of an OK,
hence the English word pecuniary
from pecus, cattle.
One of the early Washington
coins bears the legend, "Washing-
ton the Great. d. G." Only two
specimens are known TO exist.
The first purchase of copper for
the United States mint was on
September IL, 1892, and comprised
6 pounds of old copper utensils.
| The first silver coins made al
the United States mint were turn
ed over to the treasurer on Octo-
l Der Is, 1894, and amounted tC
SIZES.
, The old English pound sterling
was derived from the weight Of
1850 grains of sound wheat wei
dried.
The mite mentioned in the Cos
pei in connection with the widow
contribution to the treasury, was
Greek copper coin weighing Il
. grains.
The Indians of the Ohio vale.
. made coins of anthracite coal
= These tokens were engraved will
figures supposed to indicate theiI
value.
The piece Of money taken b.
Peter from the mouth of the fsI
in order to pay the governmen
II poll tax, was an imperial slater c
silver worth about 25c.
% The first coins, as the term
now understood, were made b
d clipping the edges of a piece c
gold until it was nearly round an
e then stamping it with a punch an
20 hammer.
The earliest New England shi
II hngs bore the device OF a willo'
a tree, afterwards changed to an oal
out of compliment to King Cha.
les Ii, whose life was saved b
a climbing INTO a tree of that d.
in scription. Later, Massachuset.
s. coins bore a pine tree device.
~ In 1884 the Massachusetts, gen
he eral assembly made bullets a leg
tender by the following enactmen
at is likewise ordered hat mu
!, kett bullets of a full boare sha
pass currently for a farthir
apiece, provided that noe man |
s. compelled to take above Kid. a
a TYNE in them"
m When the Boston mint was e
rs. tablished in 1862 the master WI
as ordered to accept for refining al
n coinage "any bullion or SPANS
COME" and the depositor was a
We lowed to DO present "to see Il
rs same melted, refined and ALLAH,
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-11-29
SAD covaT SCENE.



MILAN Brewn ssns to Gsuss Of Corrsction
For xssrss nxenth~
BRocEToN, MssA. Nov. %. = N che
Brockton polics court. tsis mornias. Nil
Ian Brown of wcreastsr, srcccsssnl
travelling salesman, was sentenced 10 th~
house of correction for three Hoatbs Tor
obtaining money on fsisc rreteaces.
Brown was employed Oy Kcsrnsr q Hayes
OF Buffalo, and on Nov. Is TIE firai issued
a circular notifying their customers that
he was no longer in their employ, and thst
the checks or drafts made 10y Lin would
not be honored
Last Sunday evening Brown was In
Brockton and offered draft for $50 70 n
merchant and asked to have 1t eashei.
Brown was we'll known. and the merchant,
who had not the cash To spare himself,
sent him TO Charles S. Sargent, hard
ware dealer, with n ,nesssgc that Brown
was all right" Mr.. Sargent cashed the
draft, Brown being in hurry TO catch the
pa5 p. IN. train for Boston. Hs said that
his wife was sick in Worcester aud he had
not money enough to get home.
After Brown had gone to the train, Mr..
Sargent recalled circular he had received
from Browns former employers, and on
looking IL up found that he had cashed a
draft upon that firm.
The Boston police were notified by wire,
and arrested Brown on the arrival of the
train. and he was brought tn Brockton on
Sunday. He confesssd TO Officer Boyden
of the Brockton police that he had been on
a debauch, ard that d lux had been the
cause of his downfall.
n I'm court this morning he pleaded guilty
When sentence was pronounced he stood
as though dazed for moment. and then
fell back to his seat sobbing bitterly. City
Marshal Chase has information that he is
wanted elsewhere Tor another offence of a
like character.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-11-29
STANTON DEFENDED.
saluted the Only BRAZILIAN Flag Flying
In Rios Harbor.

NEW YORK. Nov. 20. - The steamer
Morkyle arrived yesterday from Rio. She
left that port in Brazil Nov. 8. Among
her passengers was sailor from the
United States cruiser Charleston, which
was anchored in Rio harbor. when acting
Admiral Stanton salutcd Mello and re-
ceived the revolutionary admiral on board
the United States vessel.
The Charleston sailor Is Charles Let
ford. He says thore can be no doubt rs to
tho ndmirals action in saluting. The
United States commander only did what
every foreign commander is expected To
and always does on entering the harbo
But our admiral knew full well the sailor
adds, that Mello WAS a rebel.
The admiral ordered the Unilei States
ensign sent 10 the peak and fired the sa-
lute, There was no other vessel i'm the
harbor which flew brazilian flag and
was not under Mello's command, 80 an
error could not have been committed. No
comment was made about the matter by
those on other foreign war vessels as they
all had done the same thing and Admiral
Stanton's recall occasioned much sur
prise
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-11-29
CLINGING TO RIGGING.
Lifo Savers Unable TO Rescue Crew O,
tho Louise II. Randall

BAyPoRT, N. ", Nov. 29.-Patrolman
Corwin of the life-saving station at
Smiths Point, South bay, saw four
masted schooner. stern down. in four
fathoms of water, about quarter OF a
mile off shore. Ten persons were in the
rigging
Word was Immediately tclcphoned To a..
the stations along the line. The life.
saving crews from Fargo station, Smiths
Point and Bellport fastened to TIE beach
at a point opposite where the wrecked
vessel lay The breakers were solid, aud
IL was impossible 10 launch liieboat.
The life-saving crews shot ont their life
lines, but the lines either burned or fell
short. The attempts 20 send them across
the rigging of the wreck were unsuccess.
full, but the trials were continued unit.
every cartridge had been used.
A bundle Of letters which had been
washed ashore were all dated about 10
months ago and were addressed to Cap
tain w. II. Randall, schooner Louise II
Randall. Portsmouth, ". IL. Boston and
New York. From thess letters the
identity OF the schooner was learned.
The beach Ia strewn with wreckago. At
nightfall the unfortunate people were nlI
at the fore and main masthead. From the
size Of the vessel the lifc-saving crew think
that there may have been l2 or IL men on
board and that some ot them are lost.
The wind is plercingly cold and there l.
no doubt that some o. those In the rigging
will succumb 90 hunger aud exposure
IL will be almost impossible FOR n beat t.
get close enough TO the Randall to take
her crew of.
The Louise Randall belongs in Newport.
IL. l. She left Philadelphia, on Nov. %,
for Boston. She was carrying cargo Of
coal. She registered 1902 gross tons. She
is comparatively new boat, having been
built In Boston about year ago
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-11-29

prudential reasons the firm declined to
give the name of the port, but there is good
reason to believe that it is Bridgetown,
Barbados.
II is expected that the Brazilian cruiser
America, which sailed from here last Sat
urday night, will join the Nictberoy next
Thursday or Friday. There is little doubt
that the Destroyer will be towel TO Bra
zil under the American flag. and will not
hoist the Brazilian flay until she reaches
Rio Janeiro.
lIrhe vessel is yet the property Of the Err
iccson estate, and will not be actually sold
until she reaches Brazil. Charles X. Flint
e. Co. only having taken An option on ber.
The Lassoe gun in the vessels hol | is now
the property Of the Brazilian government.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-11-29
ITHACA'S MYSTERY.
erhaps DIR. Merriam and Miss Yeargln
Were Not Drowned.


ITHACA, N. Y, Nov. % Much excite
ment was caused here over the report that
DR. L. S. Merriam and Miss Mary L. Year
gin, who were supposed TO have been
drowned in Lake Cayuga Nov IS. were In
New York, and that the doctor had writ
ten a friend in Ithaca Informing him of
his whereabouts. The report is said to
have been started by letter carrier, who,
however, said he could not account for the
origin of such story.
Every day since the two young people
first disappeared the lake has been dragged
by competent boatmen. Electric lamps
have been employed in Illuminating the
bottom of the lake so that the search could
be more thoroughly made, but so no avail.
There are some very queer things con-
nected with the affair. When Boatman
Jarvis asked Mr.. Merriam to keep near
the shore. as he started out that afternoon,
the doctor is said TO have told him to mind
his own business. The doctor and young
lady then pushed off, beading directly for
the center Of the lake. The finding Of the
doctors overcoat has also created consid-
cradle comment. The coat, together with
Miss Yeargir's gloves, were found on the
bank Of the lake, quite dry. The boat
was near by, partly filled with water.
There are some who incline to believe
the story that DIR. Merriam and Miss Year
gin are still alive, and more important dis
closures are looked for.