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Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1894-04-10

low he May Make Himself n Decidedly
Unpleasant Person.

ow lie May Make Himself n Decidedly
Unpicas SAINT Person.
A stout and determined looking man
with whito chin whiskcrs, gray hair
brushed severely back from his forehead
ana gold spectacles on his prominent
nose entered a restaurant I'm Fourteenth
street at the rush hour aud strobe
rapidly TO one Of the tables at which
there was a vacant seat. He hung n
stout cane on the hatrack far mp on the
wall Dear the end Of the table and was
divcsting himself Of his oyorcoat when
be happened to notice That the waiter
was about leaving the table with orders
for the other men.
Hold On "a minute, young Teller, and
take my order, too, - he shouted. Bring
me some hash, with poached eggs on It,
and a couple Of sinkers and come coffee
in n hurry"
Then he finished taking oil bis over.
coat and tried to hang it on what he
probably thought was a peg Of the hat
rack, but he hit on the end Of his cane
instead, and the coat Topped down on
the floor, while the cane, after knock
~ ~ a. mas gAA kAN AdNhr ANAA vi Alb
head Of a man near the wall and then
bounded on the table with force enough
70 break several dishes and scatter coffee
and gravy about promiscuously. The
mon at the table picked up their hats
and began TO say unpleasant things, bat
they were quickly awed to silence by
the stout man, who declared with a fog.
horn voice:
ITS an Internal outrage for a man to
keep such a rack as that in his place. II
] was running this house, I'd see that
there'd be decent arrangements for folks
who ~patronized IT,.
Then he slammed his cane back on
the rack, hung his o~vercoat on a peg
and sat down to glare at the waiter, who
cleared away the broken dishes and
wiped up the spilled coffee and gravy
with fresh napkins. Two minutes after
TIE waiter had left the table the stout
man began TO grumblo.
Il guess, - he said, that he has go"J
down town 10 buy the meat 10 iaakd
that hash with. He must haze been
born late in the day. IsIid / was in a
hurry, and o suppose be will takoall
day. If don't get what | ordered right
away, I'm going 10 leave"
Tstn the waiter came with Hie hash,
sinkeIs and coffee, and the stout man
made them disappear in a way that
showed no was a bnstlcr." When his
Jaws had ceased to work, be yelled for
his check and made a grab at his over.
coat and ene There was another show
er Of hEts from tho rack. bat tho man
In a hurry did not stop 10 pick them up.
He evidently was too angry to SAY more.
The other men did not try to dotain him,
but ono Of them said:
THAT man must have been born be-
fore daylight"
There were some expressions Of assent
10 the remark, and then another man
rounded it of with the declaration,
And he is trying the best he knows
how to make other men wish he never
had been born at all. - New Yorh
Tribune.
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HIS LAST JOKE.

The Danbury News Man Was n PhllanthrO-
pist rs We'll rs n HUmorist.
The Danbury News man made fan
almost everywhere and all the time to
the end of his life. He was just rs funny
in his Office and at home rs he ever was
in the funniest copy Of his newspaper. It
was quiet, unexpected, quaint, homelike
funmaking on his part, with nothing
strained or pedantio or pretentious-as
natural and spontaneous as a sunbeam
or the ripping of a hillside brook. Like
sunshine, too, his jollity cheered, warm
ed, delighted every one and wounded
none. Everybody was his friend, and he
was everywhere beloved. He was the
life and light Of every gathering, but was
never forward or obtrusive.
He was also a philanthropist. Every
year he gave away a small fortune to the
unfortunate and unhappy, to Migrants
and the most notorious tramps and beats.
Every tramp who drifted into Danbury
wandered into Bailey's Office eventually,
and none ever failed to get Il pecuniary
lift there to help him on his thorny path
in life.
One Of the worst Of professional bum
mers, accosting Bailey on tho street not
long ago, said, with the self assurance of
a friend addressing another:
Ten cents, Mr.. Bailey, please. l want
to get a drink with it,"
What do you say7' was the quick re-
ply. you mean 70 get a drink Now.
don't you try to deceive me. You in
tend to buy sandwiches with it."
The Danbury News mans last quip
was unique and pungent. He had been
i'll Of pneumonia, but rallied temporarily
and visited his Office n day about three
weeks ago. An Office employee greeted
him as he came in, looking wan and
feeble, with:
"Well, how are you today, Mr.. Bailey?'
ooh, l am very much better. l was
able to get down town today in one
hack"
Not many hours after he had passed
away from the world which he had done
so much to brighten and cheer Dan
bury Special.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1894-04-10

Judge Kent once in a very sensible
and summary fashion disposed Of a quib.
lie such az lawyers so often set up in
defense Of tboir clients. A man was in
dicted for burglary, aud the evidence on
the trial showed that II consisted in cut.
ting a hole through a tent in which sew
eral persons were sleeping and then in.
Producing his head and arm through the
bolo aud a|bstracting various articles oi
value.
1t was claimed by prisoners counsel
that inssmuCh as be never actually en-
tered the tent with his whole body he
had not committed the offense charged
and must therefore DO acquitted.
The judge in reply to this plea told
tho jury that II they were not satisfied
that the whole man was involved In the
crime they might bring 10 a verdict Of
guilty against so much Of him as was
thus involved.
The jury. efteT a brief consultation,
found the right arm, the right shoulder
aud the head Of the prisoner guilty OF
the oIense Of burglary.
Tho judge therefore sentenced the
right arm, the right shoulder and head
70 imprisonment with hard labor IN the
state prison for two years, Iemarking
that, as 90 the rest Of the mans body, he
might DO with IL what DO pleased
Green Bag.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1894-04-10
AS VIEWED BY AN ENGINEER.
Impressions of n Piano Solo From n Rail.
read Mans Standpoint.

road Mans Standpoint.
Il was lettering around the streets
one night, =" said Jim Nelson, enc OF the
old locomotive engineers running into
New Orleans, to a reporter. "As / had
nothing to do 1 dropped into a concert
and heard a sleek looking Frenchman
play a piano in a way that made me feel
all over in spots. As soon as he eat
down on tho stool / knew by the way he
handled himself that he understood the
machine he was running. lie tapped
the keys way mp one end, just as IL they
were gauges, and he wanted TO see if he
had water enough. Then he looked mp
as If he wanted to know how much
steam be was carrying, and the next
moment he pulled open the throttle and
sailed on to the main line as If he was
half an hour late. You could hear her
thunder over culverts and bridges and
getting faster and faster until the fell
low rocked about in his seat like a era
die. Somehow / thopght it was old SO
pulling a passenger train and getting
out of the way Of a special The fell
low worked tho keys on the middle di-
vision like lightning, and then he flew
along the north end of the line until the
drivers went around like a buzzsaw,
and / got excited.
about the time l was fixing to tell
him to cut her off a little he kicked the
hampers under the machine wide open,
pulled the throttle way back in the tend
or, and how he did runl l couldn't
stand it any longer and yelled to him
that he was pounding on the left side,
and if he wasn't careful he'd drop his
ash pan. But he didn't hear. No one
heard me. Everything was flying and
whizzing. Telegraph poles on the side
Of the track looked like a row Of corn
stalks, the trees appeared to be a mud
bank, and all the time the exhaust Of
the old machine sounded like the hum
of a bumblebee.
Il tried to yell out, but my tongue
wouldn't move. He went around curves
like a bullet, slipped an eccentric, blew
out his soft plug, went down grades 90
feet to the mile and not a controlling
break set. She went by the meeting
point at a mile a minute and calling
AOA HOAU StCdlH' MY halA otOOu up
straight, because l knew the game was
up. Sure enough, dead ahead of us was
the headlight of a special In a daze ]
heard the crash as they struck, and !
saw cars shivered into atoms, people
smashed and mangled and bleeding and
gasping for water. l heard another
crash as the French professor struck the
deep keys away down on the lower end
Of the southern division, and then !
came to my senses. There he was at a
dead etandstill, with the door of the fire.
box of the machine open, wiping the
~perspirstion off his face and bowling to
the people before him. If l live to be
1000 years old, III never forget the
ride that Frenchman gave mo on a pi-
sno. New Orleans Times Democrat.
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A new MESSIAH.


AMMAHW NNN ~ 0uAtnNs
News hasroached here that Loon Lake,
60 miles from Spokane, on the Spokane
and Northern railway, is in q fever Of
excitement. Six weeks ago William
Lewis and wife came to the Lake and
instituted q series Of revival meetings.
Lewis proved to be a fluent speaker and
captured his audience. He was energetic
and enthusiastic and inspired in his hear
crs a wonderful degree OF confidence.
When he had his audience thoroughly
aroused, among other things he stated
one evening that he possessed supernatu.
raj power. lie claimed 10 be q specially
ordained apostle Of God and had come
into the community to work miracles
and save souls. The meetings were con
Quoted in the schoolhouce, and while he
succeeded securing many followers an
element in the community, believing him
IN impostor, succeeded in getting the
permission granted him Of preaching in
the schoolhouso revok vi.
He was loud in denunciation OF his
prosecutors and finally disturbed o re-
hgious meeting, which resulted in his
arrest, trial and conviction. Being ana
bic to pay the fine, he was committed to
jail at Colvillo. He now lies i'll at Loon
Lake, and the authorities are unable to
remove him.
lie declared that he was empowered
by God to heal the sick, cast out devils
and raise the dead. He secured 10 or 20
converts, who went through a singular
%gymnastic performance In his soul cleans
ing process. They were required to die
a spiritual death, lying upon their backs
Oh the floor, closing their eyes and pass
ing into a trance.
Before they entered the spirit land
Lewis reminded the converts that it was
easier for q camel to pass through tho
eye Of a needle than for q rich man to
enter the kingdom Of heaven, where
upon he required them to surrender to
him their pocketbooks, rings, watches,
pins, jewelry and valuables of every de-
scription. At this juncture ell who re-
fused to accept the faith were excluded
from the room.
The community is still considerably
wrought up over the affair, and feeling
is divided.-Spokane Cor. San Francisco
Chronicle.
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uerrlsH view or me KEAasAeoe.
why > Won Hor combat WIN the CON

why She won Her Combat with the Con-
fcdcratc Destroyer.
The old Ecarsarge, which sank tho
Alabama, herself came To- q violent end,
wrecked in tho Caribbean sea. happily
win the loss Of but one life. It is 80
years since she fought her great fight off
Cherbourg. So she has kept the seas a
long time. She deserved an honored
place on tho retired list Of the American
navy, for she had claims on national
gratitude only second to those of tho
Constitution.
Her fight with the Alabama was n
duel conducted very much on the model
Of the personal contests IN the z Of
chivalry. After a hot pursuit she had
at last cornered the Confederate cruiser
which had wrought so much ruin to
American commerce, and it was we'll
understood that pursuer OF pursued
must perish. She watched the mouth Of
Cherbourg harbor, which her enemy
was under short notice to leave, and the
fight was inevitable. The steamers in
port came out 70 ste it, and some of
them carried excursion parties from
Paris. The Kcarsarge won by superior
artillery, superior discipline, superior
patriotism. Her crew had a nobler idea
to Eight for than the medley Of merce-
naries that crowded the priyateer. These
were a desperate gang, and they had
given their officers endless trouble before
the Kearsarge took the reformation Of
their name In hand.
AS the Alabama steamed out of har-
Dor at 10 o'clock on Sunday morning,
June 10, she found her antagonist wait
ing for her, and the two approached
each other in ever narrowing circles,
firing all tho time. The Kearsarge was
better prepared for defense as well as
Cor attack. Her commander had rough
~ armored her in the most vulnerable
parts by laying all his spare chain ca
bles in folds over the sides. The Ala
bama opened fire at n distance Of abou.
a mile, and when the ships had made
seven complete circles she suddenly
turned and headed for the land. She
was sinking, for both shot and she'll had
reached her with fearful effect on ship
and crew. A British yacht, the Deer
hound, which had come out to see tho
fight, came up IN time to save about 40
of the crew as they jumped for their
lives. The last shot was fired as she
went down. II was a glorious victory.
We can say so with a clear conscience
now, as The Daily News was among tho
few metropolitan journals that said &c
when it was won. London News.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1894-04-10

Jan Van Beers first great hit, LA
Sirene, " representing o naval officer
helping a pretty girl into a yacht gig,
underwent some strange viciEsitudes.
The picture, as we are told, was exhib-
tied at the Brussels salon, and having
been distinguished by royal notice tho
critics and brother artists were soon in
full cry. They declared that Jan Van
Beers could not have produced such
Laboratories of finish and minGtenes1
of detail had it not been that he lad
painted over a photograph.
The pugnacious young Belgian did not
sit quietly down under what he termed
this Infamous assertion" The head Of
the young yachtswoman had been spe-
cially assaulted, and he offered to allow
his critics to scratch the head out and
chemically destroy the colors down to
the white canvas, and should there be
found any trace of Il photograph he
pledged himself to pay over G1, 600. On
the other hand, should 1t be shown that
the picture owed its art to the sole agen-
cy Of brush and pencil, then his critics
Were to pay a like zUm to his pet home
for incuiable idiots or some such insti-
tuition.
Needless to say, the challenge was not
taken mp, but a short time after, while
the picture was etill in the gallery, the
head Of the lady was surreptitiously cut
out and the picture otherwise defaced.
Fortunately the painter was able to set
it all right again with a few days hard
labor, and it now belongs to q wealthy
South American lady and is understood
to be in London. The right of %reproduc-
ton was sold by the artist for 1000
francs, and he believes the publisher
who bought it made something like 1907
600 francs profit out Of it.-Pall Mall
Budget.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1894-04-10

The poet Bryant, while editor Of the
New York Post, insisted that young
poets should be alphabetically noticed
in the book columns of tho paper. Once
a subeditor handed him a thin volume
Of poems saying that they were worth.
less. Mr.. Bryant looked through the
book and then said, you might say
that It is prettily bound and clearly
printed"
The editor of whom this story is told
also had a soft side tor young men who
would write poetry.
"Give me your candid judgment OF
these lines, " said the young man Of lit
erary aspirations. do they convey the
idea Of poetry at allY"
YES, sir, replied the editor, look
ing them over, they do. There is some.
thing in every line that conveys the
idea. Every line, continued the kind
hearted man, letting him down as gen.
tly as he could, ''begins with a capital
letter. Youths Companion.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1894-04-10

Jack, an Irish setter whose homo il
in Maryland, has the regular duty of
bringing the mail from the letter box at
tho gate, the house standing we'll back
from the road. His family were an
ticipating a two weeks visit to New
York and proposed sending Jack to the
country during their absence. Jacks
wishes in the matter were not consulted,
and he was not invited to take part in
the discussion, but that he listened was
proved by his actions. 1t was decided
to start on a Tuesday evening, provided
a letter were received by the mornings
mail. 1t did not come, however, nor in
the afternoon, when Jack brought up q
whole batch, and to his satisfaction no
one left home. Several days. passed.
Then a telegram came inquiring what
was the matter. An exchange of letters
disclosed the fact that the promised let
ter was written and should have been
received when expected. A search, into
which Jack was Impressed, much against
his will, discovered the missing letter
hidden in a hencoop, and it bore unmis-
taxable evidence that Jack had placed
it there.
Now, it Is not to be supposed that
Jack could read or distinguish hand
writing, so his keen nose must have rec
ognized the writer, who was a frequent
visitor, Of whom he was very fond, but
only from listening to the talk could he
have connected hat person with the
plans for departure. This is the only
instance Of Jacks ever betraying a trust,
but the Ragacity evinced was SO great
that confidence in him was increased in
stead Of lessened by it.-Demorest'a
Magazine.
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She con,ldors II Libsl.

Kentucky editors cannot be too care
full about what they print. The citizens
of the blue grass commonwealth are
touchy, and statements published with
the most amiable intentions are likely tc
cause trouble. Here is the editor Of the
Mount Sterling Times, for example, who
printed what he thought was a graceful
obituary notice, winding up with the
perfuncto-y statement that "the decess-
ed had gone to a happier home" He is
now the defendant in a libel suit brought
by the widow, and when he goes home
after seeing the paper to press no takes
the middle Of the street and carries his
shotgun at full cock. The notice was
gratis oo.-Chicago Herald.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1894-04-10
She Was Dyspeptic.


A rather sallow looking woman, we'll
dressed and refined, was at a table in
company with another lady, somewhat
her junior in years.
"What do you want2" said the maid.
"Oh, | don't know. Sometimes ii
gems like l had dyspepsy. And I've
DONE everything for it. Drank hot wa
ter in the morning and lived on milk
diet exclusively for a month. Then /
tried the raw beof System and took
enough medicine to float a steamboat in.
Didn't do me no good, and l just quit
thinking about myself and said If l was
sick l was sick, and I'd inst give my
stomach something to think about. So
l quit foohng, and now l just eat any
thing l please or want. Well, just Or
der me a chicken salad, a piece OF hot
mince pie and a cup Of chocolate with
whipped cream. They won't hurt me
any more than crackers, beef tea OF
toast. If my stomach doesn't last long,
it viii enjoy itself while it does last. "
Cincinnati Tribune.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1894-04-10

The striking thing about the ezecu.
ton was the appalling q~uickness of il
all. Action was so rapid from the in
slant the condemned appeared in the
doorway of the prison 10 tho moment
the knife fell that it was almost impos-
sible to distinguish the slight chain Of
incidents. He flung himself eagerly
against the plank, was strapped to it,
and in the flash Of a glance the plank
was pushed forward on the platform of
the guillotine. An instant's vision OF
a Iecumbent figure, face downward. In
the same moment a head, with two
staring, wide open eyes, whirled almost
deiuntly, as it seemed, and with a
slight zigzag movement TO the right
ward, while simultaneously the pinioned
body rolled inert, co~nvulsiye, into the
capacious basket, also at the right hand
side Of the guillotine. The swiftness,
the mechanical promptness of the bust
ness, fairly stupeied the spectator. 1t
was impossible to realize that a human
life had ended in less time than it would
take TO draw a fail breath. Tho guillo.
tine had done its work we'll. Theie was
scarcely a n Of horror-in the sight.
New York World.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1894-04-10

The power Of song is illustrated in Q
custom on tho railroads of northern
Florida. Whenever a train crosses the
Swanee river the conductor announces
the fact in each car. If any passenger
has never heard "Way Down Upon the
Swaneo River" this DECENTRALIZATION
Of the stream must seem peculiar, aud
tho 5uwanee Is like a dozen other rivers
in the same region, aud these are passed
without comment from the conductor.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1894-04-10

Doubles some form Of cooking stove
has been used from a very early period.
Previous 10 174j the stoves Of ali kinds
used in America were imported from
Holland or Germany, but in that year
a stove was invented by Benjamin
Franklin that was a great improvement
on all that had preceded it. In 177t he
continued his inventions In this line and
produced a stove for burning bitumi.
nous coal which consumed its own smoke
and another which, after being filled al
the top, could be Inverted and made &c
burn from the base. Between 1855 and
1898 several improvements IN stoves,
ovens, heating and cooking apparatus
were mado by Count Rumford, and ~
early az 1898 his soapstone lined ranger
had been introduced in Now York and
were coming gradually into general use.
st. Louis Republic.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1894-04-10

Robert Collyer tells the story Of a lit.
tie girl with a vivid imagination which
constantly led her into amazing extrav'
agances regarding things which she
claimed TO have seen. One day after
IN extraordinary exhibition of her in.
ventiyo powers her mother exclaimed in
despair: "Oh, my dear, my dear, my
dearl Don't you know that Ananiai
and Sapphira fell down dead on account
Of tho lies they toldg Don't you remem-
Der that terrible storyI" "Oh, yes, 4"
responded the child, unabashed. Il saw
them carried in after they fell down
dead!'
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1894-04-10

There has been much dispute as to the
causes of earthquakes. They are often
associated with volcanic phenomena.
When the lava Of a volcano contains
much water, the latter is converted into
steam and produces explosions which jar
tho ground for miles. The explosion Of
tho great mine at Nell Gate, In New
York, occasioned tremblings OF the earth
which were observed 175 miles away.
Washington Star.
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stnndlnr by No Mnmon.

Mrs. Catherine Waugh McCulloch
writes TO the Illinois Sulfragist;
The Illinois supreme count isstill stand
ing by women's right to vote at school
elections, as is evidenced by their recent
decision Of Alderman versus Haenck ct
al. 1T is claimed that COO women We're al.
lowedto vote. Under the law as declared
by this court In Plummer versus Yost,
IA Illinois, 08, tho women who voted
for members Of the board Of education
and president Of the board were qualified
voters" My congratulations 20 the COO
women suCragsts in Spring Valley,
where this contest rose
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1894-04-10

A young negro gifl was met by M
old negro woman. aud tho usual saiuta.
tiOns, with Isl quegliona as TO tho health
and happih6as Of the families, were
p sed. Does you nanny still take 10
Wa hingf asked the older. "Yes'm, "
rspled tho younger. 'sbo been doing
ashing for hr. Blank down here al
e boarding house, bot he says
80 IS TOO bard 10 lnye clothes wash.
f1i dunno what sire gviuo 90 dc
Faldoata lGa) Telescope.