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Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1894-04-03

The latest fad among the ladies Of the
English royal family, including, II IL
said, the queen herself, Is to beguile the
winter hours by plating straw for the
fabrication OF hats to be presented 10
their sons and husbands at the approach
ing season. A well known halter has
just finished handsome straw hat for
Prince Henry Of Battenberg. every inch
Of which was plated By Princess Baa-
trice's own hands. Il is said to b. q re
markably delicate piece Of workman
ship. London Letter.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1894-04-03
ADimeultFe

A member of Houston volunteer FIRE
company did not appear at the scene Of
the conhagratiOn until after the fre was
under control. Tho chief Of tho fire de-
partment reproached him bitterly for his
neglect Of duty.
Its not my fault, replied the fire.
man. II liveQuite distance from the
FIRE. ="
That's no excuse. You must move
nearer to the next FIRE. Texas Sift-
ings.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1894-04-03

The old fashion Of using the candied
petals Of the orange blossom In tea
seems to be almost forgotten. II few
OF the candied petals be put into the tea
before It is STEPPED, they give It a flavor
noticeably peculiar. but once esteemed
very fine.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1894-04-03

Il is seldom that wood which has
grown more than 4, 600 years before the
Christian era is used In the construction
Of a present day residence, and yet this
really happened recently in Edinburgh,
where mantelpiece was fashioned from
wood said TO be Q, 900 years old.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1894-04-03

What a difference there is between
talking and writingl II Is mighty dull
correspondence where one pcrson has to
do all the writing, but 1t iin no unusual
thing e. hnd person whose idea Of per-
feet conversation Is where he does all
the talkinss-Boston Traveller.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1894-04-03

Tommy heard hiA mother call an in.
sect that was flying around them the
darning needle. The next day he said,
Mamma, were those funny things we
saw yesterday safety pinsl"
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1894-04-03

The title mayor comes from the French
and originally signihod zone who keeps
guard" He was the head steward Of a
city, administering its affairs in the
name Of the king.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1894-04-03

Win an lncOmpleto account or what the
months had In store for her. This was
% follows:
Feb.-Avoid o.s.
June-P. l.
Aug.-Good.
Hov.--
Below this was statement Of what
the letters meant. This was as follows:
H-0ood; deal freely.
E-Eot 90 good IN woman as man.
O-Very bad.
s-Unpleasant news from = distance; sur
prise.
A--Good; male or female.
P-0ood.
Livery good: male or female
K-0oOd; new friend.
V-New friend; good fair man
Don't marry in %: 20 good.
t or 81. SQ.bS.
BIS very good; deal freely.
W-PropOaltiOn; good for airtation; never
marry.
C-GOOd; mAlo or femalo.
M-Better woman.
T-New friend; good.
0-Vory good.
N-Not quite 20 good; be careful.
She had drawn a rude circle, and there
were dots IN it as IL a pencil point came
down in many places. The supposition
lS that the letters were placed inside .
circle, like the numbers on the face Of .
clock. and she then let the pencil held in
her fingers drop wherever chance brought
II, The letter on which It hit signified
the outcome Of whatever she might have
been thinking Of. In this manner doubt
less she found whether the months were
10 bo good or bad for her.
She had marked February as a month
to avoid and with the letters 30 g." Ac-
cording to the mystic dictionary, 20"
meant that February was very bad for
her and IS" that she would receive un-
pleasant news from q distance Curl
ously she did get some news from New
York lately, which is presumed to have
been unpleasant, and February proved
to be the month Of her grieVous exit
from tho world.
A spiritualistic doctor fingered around
the Baldwin theater yesterday until he
could tell Mr.. Presbrey, manager Of the
Palmer company, that he had received
knowledge Of the reunion Of the souls Of
Lovecraft and Miss Brooklyn. The spirit
ualistio theory is that when her efforts
to establish communication with her low
er's spirit failed she felt the necessity Of
taking exactly the same terrestrial route
that ho had journeyed on. To employ
any other poison than carbolic acid might
serve to keep them parted forever, and
80 she submitted herself to the scorching
liquid. She bought the deadly draft in
Columbus. o.. ON Nov. 20 and treasured
1t until she felt impelled to put the bot
tie to her lps.-San Francisco Chronicle.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1894-04-03

$50 you proposed to Miss JinglebiltF'
"Yes."
And she refused yoni"
"Yes." A."
d" Perhaps It was e hasty ansveF?"
mo. She took care Chst a. shouldn't
be. She sent II by q messenger boy. -
Washington Star.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1894-04-03

Statistics show that mild winters are
much more conducive TO health than
severe ones.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1894-04-03
TRHNsFoRM4II~-

The morning came M strange aud white
Aud still ns death doth come. Amo-t
Il was ne though tho ca IA had slept
Aud woke 10 ind herself giost.
Close, oh, 90 close, 10 her changed face
The sky drew down. How could shc know
Herself rs the lay slroudcd there
In tho white wonder Of the anoW3
Mary n. Bradford IN Donohoe's Magazine.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1894-04-03
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

NE EHlT7oT LF1UsTos
II / were poor little tippet mink.
] think
That VI all Kind fates Il would seem the best
To rest
RouRd the slender white throat Of sweet AIsrie.
All mel
would bend cArsssinsly to her VIII
Until
Shed lean her cheek tondsriy down on mo.
Marie,
YOU'D waste such Joy on . poor little mink,
think.
M. d. Hatch in New York SIM.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1894-04-03
~ eRookYNs suPgRsTlTloNs.

The Actress Kept IR Her Room what
Seems 10 ne = List Of Omens.
In Miss Brookyn's room were writings
which sttested her superstition. The
name o. test medium and psychome-
trist" Of this city was on a card which she
kept In her handwriting was what ap-
peAred TO be list Of omens, Il began
with an incomplete account Of what the
months had In store for her. This was
90 follows;
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-05-07

In FORMER years there was q good
deal of whaling done by Nantucket and
New Bedford vessels in the islands of
the South sea. particularly off New
Zealand and Tasmania. They butchered
the pregnant females on their breeding
grounds, however, and that soon put an
end to the sport. The old station at Sir
George Gray's island has not seen an
American flag there in twenty years.
Now it would seem as if the industry was
reviving in those waters. for the New
Zealand papers mention the incorpora-
ton of company with a capital OF
e25, 200 to operate whaling stations on
the Kennsdec islands, Immediately
northwest of New Zealand. That looks
as if whales were once more becoming
plenty in those waters. The steam
whslers from San Francisco will be on
hand about the same time.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-05-07

Many FrauduIent Concerns Operatii
at Kaneaa CITY.

Many FrauduIent Concerns Operating
at Kansas city.
KANSAS Cry, No., May 6.-Almost
every mail bringc a score of letters ad-
dressed to ths public officials by the
victims of swindling lottery concerns,
each OF which has been doing an extern
sive business across the state line under
the pretonse of being the successor to
the expatriated Louisiana lottery. The
letters are from all sections OF the
United States snd Canada. and the vic
Tins ell tell the same story of how they
have been duped through answering
nicely worded circulars of winning for
tunes "by the turn of the wheel"
The principal concerns mentioned in
the complaints are The Louisiana
Lottery company of New Orleans and
Kansas City, and E Fox & Co. also
claiming to be the Louisiana lottery.
Their business il carried on through tn
express companies. The following ex-
tract from one of their circulars shows
their methods:
IF some we'll known man like your
self should draw $4,000. 10000, $I0,-
900 or even $4,000 in our lottery, it
would be the means of selling thousands
OF our tickets in your part of the
country aud would create an old-time
boom for Us again. Now re give you
the enclosed $500 tie:.st free, hoping
you may win src.i prize as the above"
A winning number, the complaining
writers cay, they are unable to get,
though they have long ago paid for
their tickete
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-05-07
A new DAY COINED.
The Calendar Used in Los Angeles to
Be Adjusted Accordingly.
some Side Remarks on How the Calendar
Was Formed and by Whom-rhe
Hand That Julius Caesar and
Pope Gregory Took in
It-How Time Is
Computed.

The calendar is product of the last thou
sand years. Prior to thai time men had very
vague and foolish notions concerning the
measurement of time More important than
all his cam paigng, all his contributions TO
Roman development was the correction by
Julius Caesar OF the calendar, conforming it as
closely as possible to the most advanced as
tronomv OF his day. The discoveries OF Cali
leo shed food of light upon vexsd questions
regarding computations and divisions of time.
Pope Gregory, during his reign, made Oher
and valuable additions to the science OF tn o
calendar, SO that the calendar we use today is
largely the one given to the world by Gregory.
After the fact Was perfectly attained that the
earth reyolved on its axis, and thus spinning
travelled along the line of an ELI ptical
orbit and around the sun, there was an I'M
swerving basis upon which to form all calcu-
latons. The period required by the earth to
revolve ON Its axis was accounted day: tn at
period consum ed in making a complete circuit
OF the sun was fixed upon rs a year. Gregory
was prom pied TO delve into the calendar by his
desiie to distribute throughout the year many
church observaneeS which were set apart for
different days. In this way days came to have
designated names and TO so appear in the CAL
endar. Great events, too, in the worlds or ma
tOn's history have g,van distinctive names to
days. NJ. German, for Instance, has given
Tuesday a name in nat calendar VIII CHI is used
in Los Angeles. The name of Tuesday is
Ladies Day, and 1t obtsinR at the large
jewslry establishment, No. $50 South Spring
street. On that day all ladies visiting the
store are presented with O valuable souvenir.
The auction sale in progress affords them
opportunity to buy from the great stock any
article they may desire. Sale begins at pm
and pm.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-05-07
MINE HOSTS, PIoNIC.


Hotel Men Speeding to Denver to Hold
Convention.
CHICAGO, May 6.-Three special trains
carrying several hundred hotel men and
heir wives left Chicago this evening for
Denver over the Santa Fe road. The
excursionists were bound for the annual
convention OF the Hotel Mems Mutual
Benefit association, which will begin
Tuesday. A special train over the Penn
eylvania road brought the hotel men OF
New York to CHICAGO, and little after
p. 10. the train was transferred to the
Santa Fe tracks. 4 few minutes later a
special arrived with the Boston and New
England delegation. which was also
sent west over the Santa Fe at O'Clock,
aid preceding these trains from the
east special OF four Pullman sleepers,
with dining car, left the Polk-strees de !.
pot with the Chicsgo delegation and a
number OF hotel men from the midd lie
aud western ststea, which made Chicago
their starting place. The train will r
rive in Denver Tuesday morning bsfors
tho convention meets.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-05-07
MAKING WARRANTS.

Among many other things wise. as
well as witty, Tom Hood said:
EVIL is wrought by want of thought
AS well as want of heart"
The most perplexing question of the
time is the swarms Of idle men.
There were thousands of tramps, veg.
rants from choice, before any sign of the
depression in business which has forced
30 many men into the ranks of the un-
employed.
When every branch of business shall
be restored to full activity, as will surely
be done before long, we will still have
an army of tramps. creatures who will
not work for living under any circum-
stances.
And yet boys are being trained in e
way that will inevitably make them
tramps. Little fellows about eight wears
OLD frequent the trains between the city
and Santa Monica, and under pretense
of singng make regular business OF
begging. Their singing is torture to
listen to; their impudent begging ia
very irritable nuisance. And yet these
boys reap rich harvest.
Alter practcing such life as this for
a few years, and finding how easy it is
to get money, it is safe to predict that
very few, if any, OF these boye will ever
settle down to any honest and regular
industry. When they become 90 we'll
grown as to be no longer tolerated as
children, they will become idle va
grants, swelling the ranks that are al
ready too numerous. The railroad COM
panies should prohibit this form of beg
ging on their trains; if this ia not done
the public should put an end to the
nuisance by refusing to give money for
training children to become dangerous
vagrents.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-05-07
THE PROMISE OF THE SEASON.

Although percentage of our farmers
will be sufferers from the unusual
paucity of the rainfall this season, our
agricultural interests generally will not
have much cause for complaint. Our
best and most valuable crops are raised
on land that has the benefit oiirrigaton,
and the yield of these lands will not be
drouth. There will be an abnormal
shortness OF feed, but this will be made
up for in a great measure by the in
creased amount OF alfalfa hay that will
be raised upon the moist lands. The
prospect is that something like quar-
ter crop OF barley will be harvested, and
this, with the large quantity held over
from last years crop, which ruled so
low in price as to be no inducement to
sell, will probably carry US over the sea.
son. The prices will of course rule high
for feed, but that is rather a general
benefit than otherwise. Grain raiaing
would be sorry business ii the low
prices that obtained last year vera to
continue for any great length of time.
The fact is, orr best times here have
been in seasons of short crops and high
prices; and our poorest when crops
were abnermally abundant with prices
discoursgingly low.
Our fruit crop still promises to
be an unusually large one. and the
prices will comport with the size
OF the crop. Dried and preserved
fruits will be in large demand
in the eastern markets. for they
are confronted on the Atlantic side with
u failure that is widespread and will be
utter in some OF the most reliable fruit
states. There will be great money in
preserved fruits this year. and that
ought to lead up to much greater ac-
tivity in this industry than we have 30
far developed. There is room for inn
mense progress in the preserving and
canning OF our deciduous fruits. 1t is
estimated that, take one year with an
other, more than one.half OF our fruit
crops are lost by the failure to prop erly
preserve them. Some seasons it is pitia.
BILE to see the amount of fruit that is
allowed to drop from the trees and rot
on the ground for the lack of the energy
and enterprise to turn it into a paying
commercial commodity.
We have indeed much to learn and
put into practice about the economy OF
preserving our fruits and the prevention
OF waste. There is more material for a
fine orange marmalads that goes to
waste in this country every year than
would make q European community
rich. Dundee, in Scotland, thrives
principally upon the developed industry
of making orange msrmslsde; and yet
it has to import from Italy, Spain, etc,
all the oranges it uses, and from the
West Indies the sugar. Here we have
the oranges going to waste that would
make an excellent msrmalsde, aud pro-
duce our own sugar from ths beet. Yet
Dundee, under the lowering skies and in
the blighting blasts of Scotland, has be-
CO me rich on what we throw away. If we
fail to take advantage of OUT opportuni-
ties, the opulence of nature will count
for nothing.
We have no doubt that when the
books OF this agricultural season are
balanced we shall find that the right
side of the ledger will make a splendid
showing for us, Notwithstanding the
paucity of rainfall.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-05-07

THE womsn's suffrage controvers y
continues to rage in New York. Mrs.
McKeen, who is one of the spokesladies
for female organization that has been
formed for the purpose of antsgonizing
the reform, made streng speech
against it. She esid she saw in the
offer of votes made by the men q trap,
and she feared 1.-THE Greeks, even bear
ing gifts." This may be SO whom the
gifts are the suffrage; but as 9 general
proposition it will not be accepted. The
ladies IS q rule do not fear the Greeks
(men) even when bearing gifts. 1t is
rare that the gifts are not accepted.
especially when the Greeks are hus-
bands, suitors or relatives; and as to
trepidatien abont receiving them, Mrs.
McKeen can tell that to the marines.
The haberdashers might close business
if the Greeks stopped bearing gifts.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-05-07
WE hope that the mass mestinV at the

WE hope that the mass meeting ct the
opera house, to give work to the unen-
ployed by the building of fine boule-
ward from this city to Pasadena, will be
followed up by the COED practical re-
suits we all anticipated from it. We
presume that the committees appointed
at that meeting are doing everything
they can to bring the matter to a sue
cessful issue. The public, however, are
IN the dark as to the steps that have
since been taken. In affairs of this kind
the iron must be struck when it is hot.
The public interest in it must not be cl-
lowed to cool. The project 10 a good
and beneficial one, and can be carried
out if the right kind of energy is shown
by those who have undertaken to pro-
mote the worthy scheme. A fine boule.
ward between the two cities would be of
great advantage to both communities
and to the persons owning property
along the line of the road. 1t would
pay to have such drive between Los
Angeles and Pasadena, and to make the
tine improvement now would be q
measure CT great relief to the unem-
ployed IN our midst who are urgently in
need Of just such boon as this work
would afford. Let us hear from the
committees who have this matter in
hand.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-05-07


IT Is difficult to see now the authori-
ties OF Washington are going to make
their charges against Coxey finally hold
They may possibly make out a case OF
resisting an officer in the performance OF
his duty against Browne; but that will
settle nothing. The fact is big blunder
was made by the Washington people in
taking any notice of Coxey's harmless
march to the capitol grounds. He ar
rived there with few hundred dilapi-
dated followers, foot-sors, hungry and
weary, who could do no harm even if
they wished to, which ia not at ell an
parent. If there had been q concen.ra-
tion OF the many thousands of disordarly
and clamorous iadustrials, which was at
one time anticipated, there would have
been excuse for driving them cut of the
grounds. But as it il, the action OF the
police authorities ia another Gaze OF tax.
ing up heavy boulder in order to kill
small fly. Coxey and Browns will pose
as martyrs, and the cause they repre-
sent will receive whatever glory or
prestige ia to be got out of this rdicu.
lous hasco. The people OF Washington
ought to have learned lesson of for
bearance aud patience in the face Of this
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-05-07

1t SEEMS odd for one who recalls the
bitterness which prevailed between
Russia and France 40 years ago, to
realize that Prince Louis Napoleon is a
lieutenant in the Russian navy, and, in
all probability, the strictest disciplin-
arian in the Muscovite service. He
speaks the Russian language like a
native and has long since ceased to be
anything Of Frenehman. In this
respect he is just the reverse of the Rus
fsian Prince Demidoff, who lived in Paris
sfor the last 40 years of his life. where he
lived career of unbridled licentious-
ness.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-05-07

YOU'VE Lord Rosebery is far from
sleeping on bed of the flowers whose
name he besrs, and it would not be as
toniehing if he petitioned to have his
name changed to Thornbill or Thorn
berry before long. The trouble with the
Liberals is that there are too many re-
forms demanding recognition simultan-
eously and they cannot all be answered
at once. What with Scotch and Irish
parliaments, disesta blishment of church
and state, reforming the house of peers
and all that sort OF thing coming along
in heap, Rossbery has peculiar task
before him. 1t remains to be seen
whether he will get away with the bag
gage or not.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-05-07

RUSSIA is about the last nation on
earth with which the United States
would care to have war, but if the
story of Franz Ssillich, as published, be
true, the American flag has been in
suited. The story reads very much lks
Marcus Clarke's story of Rufus Dawes,
and may be yet subjected to considera-
BILE amendment. The question would,
if made the subject OF an international
controversy. turn principally upon the
validity Of Seillich's naturalization
papers.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-05-07
Kansas Eauai suRragists.

KANSAS CRY, Kan, May 6. = The
opening meetings OF the Equal Suffrag.
ists in Kansas. that have closed here
after being participated in by many OF
the leading womsns' rights leaders Of
the country, unanimously adopted reso'
lutious demanding that the Republicans
and populists endorse the suffrage
amendments 10 their state platforms
Mrs. Laara NJ. jones. president OF the
state association declared that il neither
party saw bit ia espouse the cause oil
woman's suffrage. the women of the
state would keep up the fight alone.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-05-07

THERE is new q chance for O row over
the alien labor question, concerning the
employment of Mexican band which
passed through here last Thursday night
on it's way to the midwinter fair. The
local wind musicians there are in q peck
of trouble and threaten to have the
federal commissioner Of immigration re-
moved from Office "wheR the band be-
gins to play" The midwinter fair has
just az good right to hire that Msxi-
can band for week or a month as Mr..
Alfred Lyman has to hire Irving or 90.
quelin to play in one of his theaters.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-05-07

novel development Of unrest from the
people Of the western and Pacific coast
cities. As lis, they have done the very
thing they ought not to have done.
They have given an Insignificant de-
monstratien of the Coxeyites en- import.
ance far above its merits, and aroused
sympathy in their behalf in quarters
where, ii left severely alone. they would
have only been objects of commissra-
ton and pity. Some people always do
the wrong thing at the wrong time.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-05-07

Would it not be better if more atten-
ton were paid to deserving people while
they live and got so much money squan-
dered over them after death? Adam
Lindsay Gordon, the Australian poet,
shot himself for the want OF 910 to pay
groosr's bill, and the three monuments
erected over him have cost in excess Of
$4,000. A like cass comes from Wolver-
hampton in England where the mother
of Alice Ayres has died in the poor
house. And who was Alice Ayres? She
was servant girl who rescued two OF
her employers children from burning
heuee and lost rifle in going back to