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Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1895-09-24

SIR-I lost a blecat--lost, strayed
or stolen. / advertised for 1t in prom
inent newspaper, but didn't get the cat
back. Then / tried The News. You told
me, as you put the cash for the adver-
tisement in yonr money drawer, that
you had no doubt the cat would see the
ad in The News and come back of her
self Within SO hours from the appear
ance Of the advertisement the cat ap-
peared at my window and scratched to
como IN. am not prepared to say
whether the cat saw the ad. herself and
acted on IL or whether some one found
her, picked her up and dropped her ia
my yard after seeing the ad At any
rate the cat came back, and feel CRATE
ful to The News. Letter in Providence
News
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1895-09-24

At tho British embassy to the king Of
Italy calculation was made somo time
ago Of the amount Of gold brought by
travellers into Italy every year. By fai
he largest number Of these travellers
come from England and the United
States The calculations made IL evident
that no less than ego, 600, 900, or 500, =
900, 900, are brought into this country
and left here by these travellers Ia the
scantiest years that sum has not been
less than Ella, 600, 600, while ON Other
occasions it has risen to e22, 900, 900.
Mr.. Stamer, a writer On Italy, relates
that an old woman In Sorrento once told
him that tho people in England had no
SIN, because the English had told hor
time and again that II was not for So
cioty they had come to Italy. but to sec
the sun. Besides all the English were
fair and ruddy. If they had had sun,
why were they not ~ sunburntG II they
do get sunshine in Italy, Oh they do,
they pay very sweetly for it-Romo
Letter Ia Baltimore Sun.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1895-09-24
oLosINa sceNss oF TNe We.
A confederate Hand which Deserted In .
Body 60 Washington.

In the latter part Of tho month Of
March, 1866, Washington saw many
signs Of collapse Of the rebellion. The
Confederate army appeared to be badly
demoralized, and desertcrs, who arrived
constantly in large numbers, reported
that men from Alabama, Georgia, Flor
ida and the Carolinas could not be ex-
pected to have amy heart in q fight
which then seemed only for tho defense
Of Virginia, while their own states were
overrun by the armies of tho Union.
During the month Of March moro than
5000 deserters were received at Wash.
ingtOn, and great numbers were quar-.
tered at Fort Monroe, Annapolis and
other points nearer the lines, whore they
were put to work In tho quartcrmaster's
department. or in the naval service.
One curiosity Of the times was n Con-
federate regimental band which had de-
serted in a body with its instruments
and was allowed to march through the
streets Of the national capital playing
Union airs. This was ono Of the oldest
signs Of the final break up People re-
called n story, told by Hooker, that
when tho Union army scaled and occu-
pied Lookout Mountain a rebel sentry
on duty On the crest Of one Of the most
difficult precipices saw our men pilo up
in solid masses over sleeps which had
been thought inaccessible and was so
surprised that he forgot to run, but
stood with feet rooted to the spot,
watching the Union force climbing up,
and streaming past him, and driving
the enemy far to tho rear, until he was
left alono, a statue Of omazement Re-
covering himself ut last, hc threw down
his muskot, stripped Off his rebel gray
JACKET, stood ON thom both, and looking
far of to the sunny south stretched out
as a map below him, said, "How are
you, Southern Confederacy?"
But notwithstanding such indications
of a collapse Of the rebellion at this very
time many northern Union newspapers,
led by Horace Greeley and others Of his
stamp, were demanding. that appeals
should be made to the southern people
''to stop the flow of blood and the waste
of treasure" and that sonlo message
should be sent to the southelners $50
terss that it win surely be circulated
aud so lucid that it cannot be miscon-
etrued or perverted, by way Of an In
vitation to cease fighting Curiously
enough, the nearer tho time came for a
final aurrender the moro fervid was the
demand for negotiation and appeal from
the unreasonable radicals in the ranks
Of north hern Unionists. But all this was
soon to end, and while a small party
was aakiIg, why not negotiato?" the
downfall came. Noah Brooks in Cen
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1895-09-24

There is but a small amount OF WOOD
In n broom, but so many millions OF
these implements are used every year
that tho consumption of wood for broom
handles is a considerable item. While &c
would have beeu almost impossible to
sell broom handle made Of heavy hard
wood few years ago, at present the ro-
verse is truc.
The manufacturer prefors hard wood
because 1t does not require so large a
bolt, can be turned down smaller and
yet retain sufficient strength and can be
ornamentod more chenply and artistical-
ly. Broom swith hard wood handles sell
more readily and do not deteriorate in
appearance like the soft wood handles
Any kind Of inexpensive hard wood,
such as beech, birch, maple or ash
makes acceptable handles, while springy
woods like elms are not salable, DO.
cause one essential Of a good broom Is q
straight handle
The manufacture of broom handles
can only be made profitable when the
timber runs largely clear. In the eastern
states the timber waste in making broom
handles exceeds 90 per cent, while in
the southwest it is usually less than 26
per cent. There are four factories in
Amsterdam, N. Y, one Of which has q
capacity Of / 200 finished brooms day.
They use hard wood handles from the
south and west and get them for less
than the bolts ready for the lathe can bo
furnished from native hardwood
The handles are turned green and
dried nfterward. Tho large end on which
the brush is wired must be thoroughly
dry, or tho broom viii work loose Tho
drying of tho upper part of the handle is
of leas consequence, except in the saving
Of freight. Southern Lumberman.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1895-09-24

The keeper Rt tho ZOO, describing to
me the hamadryad's appearance when 1t
raised itself to strike, said it was
proud and "bold looking" Its ac-
tion was as swift as Thought and looked
almost like spring from tho ground.
How high when irritated the terrific
thing can strike is not known, but no
other instance Is authenticated Of a
snake making good a blow so high as
four feet from the ground, while marks
on the glass Of its cage show that the
reptile las, in its endeavars to escape
from confinement, reached mp to the
height of niue feet
Supposing, then, that we wero in
clined to believe all that the natives Of
India say about it--thRt It is so herco as
TO attack man at sight, so vindictive as
to follow him with dogged resolution
and add TO It all we actually know about
tho reptile. that It can climb trees like
an anaconda, swim like hydra, get
over q D foot wall and squeeze through
a inch hole, and that ita bite Is death,
Il would have 70 be confessed that the
snake eating snake ia tho most terrible
creature IN nature. Good Words
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1895-09-24

Many people have never even heard
Of such a thing, and it is not to be won.
dered at, for these mats are exceedingly
rare, aud it is Eaid by those who know
that only throe Of these beautiful curl
ositics exist In tho whole world The
one we now writo about Is tho largest
one made II measures 8 by feet
and though made IN small hin state
Ia tho north Of India has an almost
Greek design for ita border. Il was
only used on state occasions, when
the rajah sat on It TO sign important
documents Tho original cost Of the
mat Is fabulous, for 0.40O pounds Of
ivory were used in its manufacture
Tho lucat strips Of ivory must have
been taken or the tuslgs, as The mat ia
as flexible ns q woven stuff and beauti.
fully fine. Ladies' Pictorial
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1895-09-24

Mrs. Weldon, the wife ct Mr.. Frank
Weldon Of the editorial staff Of tho At
lanta Constitution, is in correspondence
with the Princess Nazle Of Cairo, Egypt,
with a view to securing an exhibit Of
the work Of the women Of Egypt IN the
woman 3 exhibit at the Cotton States and
international exposition. The Princess
Nazle, though Moslem, has abandoned
the veil and enjoys more freedom than
most Mohnmmedan women. She Is re-
garded as the most enlightened and pro-
gressive woman in Egypt and has many
hiends and correspondents in America
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1895-09-24
The nlrds, ser,lcc 10 Mon.

Before many years have passed the
legislatures Of our states and nation
will 10 forced to some action ON the
needless destruction Of birds. The robins
and bluebirds and wrens and the hum
dreds Of glad little singers Of the woods
and fields have been driven away not
merely from the cities, which they used
to inhabit, but from the villages ON the
outskirts, and in some cases from even
tho isolated hamlets The increase in
insect posts within two or three years
betokens a grave danger, and the cheap
est and surost way to meet it is TO stop
killing the birds and let them return and
dine upon tho moths and catorpillarB
and the rest Of the evil tribe that strip
our trees and gardens. twill take many
years, at best, to restore them in such
numbers as they could be rcckoned by a
dozen or 20 years ago, but people by
oeasing to be sportsmen, or at least by
ceasing to kill tho birds that are Of no
use as food, can bring good times back.
--fxrkauro
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1895-09-24

Ex-senator Evarts was givon, in tho
preparation Of his speeches and opin-
ions, to exceedingly long and involved
though perfectly lucid sentences. This
gavo riso to more or less jocular oriti-
oism ON tho part Of the press Some one
mentioned it TO EyErts one day. His eye
twinkled ns he said; "Yes, know there
arc two Glasses Of people who are very
much opposed to long sentences; one is
telegraph operators, and the other is
criminals.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1895-09-24
Grnrltatlon md the nlood.

We ordinarily think Of the attraction
Of gravitation only as producing what
we call weight, and as governing the
motion of the earth and other planets in
their orbits. But gravitation acts in a
very important manner upon the circu-
lation Of the blood in our veins and ar
teries An elaborate series Of experi-
monts has recently been carried out in
England to determine Just what effect
gravitation exercises in this respect, and
how its disturbing influence is compen-
sated in the bodily mechanism.
II has been found that man probably
possesses a moro complete compensation
Of this kind than any other animal, and
that the monkey stands in this respect
next to man.
Injuries to the spinal cord, asphyxia,
and poisoning b. chloroform or curare
paralyze, more or less completely, the
power Of compensation, and then the in
fuence Of gravitation ON the circulation
Of the blood may become o serious dan
ger.
In such a case death is more likely TO
result, according to the conclusions of
Professor Leonard Hill. if the body is
placed in such position that the alb
domen is at a lever level than the heart
But tho danger may be diminished or
removed either by elovating the abdo-
men or by COMPRISING it so as to drive
tho blood mp TO the heart When the
heart itself, However, has been injured,
as by chloroforin, thero is danger in fore.
ing tho blood too rapidly into it.
Professor Hill finds that, generally
speaking, tho best position for the body,
when the power Of compensation for the
affects Of gavivation has been arrested,
is with the feet up instead Of with the
feet down. Youths Companion
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1895-09-24

OF tho Dublin gallery boys a famous
baritone, ia his "reminiscences, tells
somo facotions tales, ono Of Faust, " IN
which no played Valentine: after the
duel Martha, who rushed IN ut tie head
Of the crowd, raised my head and held
me IN her arms during the first part Of
tho scene There was q doathlike still
nesa ia the house. which was interrupt
Cd by voice from the gallery calling
out, 'Unbutton his weskitr Dublin
Herald
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1895-09-24
a aIRfApAY

Ny hea1t A. Ike n singing bird
Whose nest A. IN n wntercd shooti
Ny heart q like an apple trce
Whose boughs arc bent with thicisot fruit; I;
Ny heart u like rainbow she'll
That paddles IN haicyon seal
Ny hoart a gladder than all thcs8
Because my love is como 70 me.
Raise mo a dais OF silk and down:
Hang II with vaiF and purple dycsi
Carve it IN doves and pomcgranates
And peacocis with q hundred cyeo;
Work q ~ gold and slllor grapes.
IN leares and silver fcura- -do-iis.
Because tho birthday Of my life
IL como; my love is come 20 mo.
Christina q. Roaaetti.
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He seemed preoccupied.
''Why 80 thoughtfulg" she asked.
while with dignity born Of womaniy re-
serve aud consideration Of n drug store
complexion she did not come too near
him.
"Is Il true, " he said, directing an in
tense gaze upon her, "that you have al
ready had " husbandsf"
Yes
Throwing her sbynesa 10 Tho Winds she
came and kissed him.
yes, but am not a bit supersti-
tious. "-Doir0it Tribuna
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Ana - Id NYsnl nom..

"Afr stalnte," she murmured, edo
ron remember when in 1894, we sat up
to watch the new year inf"
"Yes," ho replied rapturously.
'Well-don't you--don { yon'--
'Don't 1 what?"
"Daut you think we are beginning
rathei early this yoarf'--Waslington
Star.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1895-09-24

"sny, 4" said the deputy. II put No.
I'll ON the treadmill eight hours ago as
q punishment, aud III be dinged If no
amt goin On jist as clipper and happy
as can be.
"Why, Of course" said the prison
warden D.. tones Of disgust Didn't you
know the fellor was sent here for bicycle
stealingl That sort Of thing Is right in
his line, indianapolis Journal
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1895-09-24

Mr. Billus-I'vo had roaring ia my
head al day. think III cmsalt o doc
tor about IT.
Mrs billus-Hadn't you better con-
sails . sheclwrights-Chicago Tribune
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1895-09-24

However rich OF elevated we may b8.
a nameless something is always want.
ing TO our imperfect fortune Horace
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1895-09-24

A substitute shines lightly as a king
until q king be by, aud then his state
empties itself, as doth an inland brock
into the main Of waters Shakespeare
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1895-09-24

Coal gas was described and manufao-
tured BY Or. Clayton Of England a.
early as 1889.
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WwssnamsoHs
TANBs coRBlN,

,r,l.ts Public for Grant county. n. NJ. Com
.,'"Iener ol Deeds fer fltQna Territory tll
rel. N real estate haud and bought aud
,.|f % commission
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1895-09-24

n. silver City Chapter, No. 2, at Masonic
Haii Regular convOoatiOns on Sd "Wednesday
evening Of each month. All companions invited
90 attend. AARON Schultz, II. 4.
PRRRY D. LADY, Sec.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1895-09-24

T o. o. T.; - -.
J.. San Vicente Lodge, No. o, meets every
brothers invited. A. ID. hoss, n. T.
J. j. KELLY Sec.
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Gharrhss.

ctT. VINCENT de DAUL CHURCH. Sunday
~ Services-lst Mass o'clock a. nj End Mass
gsOa M Benedlcilon, p. no.
AU0. NORM, Pastor.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1895-05-04

Gods people, yet that when it is matter
OF personality carried to the highest and
most delicate degree of organization and
refinement it is woman upon whom the
Scriptures regularly put the stamp of
divine prefelment And the Scriptures
have not been read for hundreds and thous-
ands of years without the above sentiment
having become in very wide degree an
element in the general estimate. Not all,
but a great deal of what is known as gal
lantry is silent eulogy which man yields
to the queenliness of Gods favorite sex
The same sentiment asserts tseli, although
in a manner not always understood, in the
heavier penalty which woman is publicly
required to pay when she sacrifices her
womanhood. 1t is easy to say that the sin
is as much his as hers, and social toll
Grafton for him is an injustice, and so in
way it is. At the same time in that dis
elimination there is an unconscious tribute
paid to woman. for the dishonor can only
be as deep as the honor is high from which
1t has declined. That estimate of wo nan
lies very deeply intrenched in the mascu-
line mind
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WHY MEN SHOULD MARRY.

1t was clearly meant that all men, as
well sail women, should marry and those
who, for whatever reason miss this obvious
destiny are, from nature point of view.
failures. II is not question of personal
felicity which in eight out of ten NAV be
more than problematicl but of race respon-
sibility. The unmarried man is a skulker.
who, in order to secure his Town ease.
dooms some woman who has a rightful
claim upon him to celibacy. And in so
doing he defrauds himself of the oppor.
tunities for mental and moral development
which only the normal experience can pro-
vide. He deliberately stunts the stature
of his manhood, impovershes his heart and
brain and chokes up all the sweetest poten-
tialities of his soul. To himself he is ant
to appear like the wise fox that detects the
trap, though it be ever so cunningly baited
that refuses to surrender his liberty for the
sake of an appetizing chicken or rabbit
which may, after all, be decoy stuffed
with sawdust; while as matter of fact his
ease is that of the cowardly servant in the
parable, who, for fear of losing his talent,
hid it in napkin, and in the end was
deemed unworthy of his stewardship.
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first church, and the home is the first state.
There is not hing in either of the two that
is not initially prrsel in Il small way in
side the home circle. As regards the
former there is a very important idea CON
served in so arranging our church audit
DRUMS as to combine the congregation
without sacrificing the identity OF its
families The pew SN stem of worship is
the deft way that our church architecture
takes to teach the doctrine that each home
is a little religious organism. This is one
OF those interesting casts where il sense oi
fitness even without b. ing distinctly con
scious of 1t, nevertheless asserts itself and
creates a very substantial expression of it
self And there is no preacher-at least
there's no pastor-whO does not carry
distinctly in his head and particularly in
his heart this cellular structure of his con
gregation and does not feel that that signiti
canoe of his congregation depends not on
the number of its individuals, but on the
number of its families
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1895-05-04
WHEN A WOMAN SHOULD WED.

Would it be for wOman's real happi-
ness to seize the first or any opportunity
that offers itself simply from the fear that
another may not present itself? We think
not. Would any woman take the first
train that left the station, whether it were
the right or wrong one? Would she not
rather wait until the one that SUITED her
arrived? Why, then, should she st,rt
upon the journey of married life with
man whom she is not quite sure is the
right one for her, whatever he may he for
some one else? \ woman may change a
train If she find it to be the wrong one
and retrace her way without much difficulty
or trouble but there is no such retracing
of the way out OF matrimony when once it
is entered upon.
The right time for woman to marry
without needing the number of years she
can number-s when SIZE is sure that the
feeling aroused in her heart is not a mere
passing fancy or Il sense OF gIatilied vanity,
but the love that can bear all things; that
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HINTS ON READING.

Your teachers no doubt often ask you to
read books, as side helps, supplementary
reading in your serious studies. Never
feel that time is wasted when spent in this
occupation. One gets the atmosphere OF
period from the books which were written
about it, as, for instanc, if you are studying
the history of the French Revolution, your
instructor may ask you to read Tale OF
Two Cities, by CHARLES Dickens. The novel
vii throw flash light on the time and
the men and women, which will make the
swiftly moving events very vivid i'll their
impression on your mind. The several
books of Mrs. Charles, especially The
Chronicles of the Schonberg Gotta Family
are valuable, not only as stories, but as
helping you to understand the period of
the Reformation, The Draytons and the
Davenants doing for the Reformation in
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1895-05-04

artificial poish. Indeed, the manners
of our Queen Elzabeth-!et us call her so
for want of a better descriptive type-were
not very faI remote from those of her pro
totype: robust, direct, plain.spoken, and
not Ovcrnice. This helped unquestionablv
toward her success in England, where the
more refined type Of American manners is
apt to be thought little too squcamish and
sensitive. You know the lady in
question once said, ''the English rather
like to see an American show Independence
what they liked. 1t fell in with her dis
position, c0nceding and conventional
enough in little things. there was a reserve
OF bluntness and blutfness which suited
John Bull very well. If it be true, as is
somt times urged, that the main value of
Society people" is to illustrate the maXims
ing in this case EmeTson's remark that a
strong will is always in fashion" This
was very true OF her. She was as real and
is individual as one of Miss Austen's char
acters which is saying great deal None
of them precisely matched her-Lady
Catherine de Bourgh, in Pride and Preju
dice, doubtless coming the nearest But it
cannot be doubted that if Miss Austen had
lived to this day, and had sought for
American tipurps 81 u Would have mt orr
Queen Elizabeth in.
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England what the Schonberg-C books
do for that in Germany
If you delight in exciting tales read The
White Company, by A Conan Doyle; OF A
Gentleman of France, by Stanley j. Wey-
man; or My Lady Rotha, also by Mr.. Wey
man. Micah Clarke, by DIR. Doyle, is full
of battle and siege and moving incident,
and it is an error to fancy that only boys
find pleasure in this thrilling sort of story.
Girls like it quite as well. Can | not per-
sliade YOU to 90 back little and read
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott, and Quentin
Durward and Tales of Il Grandfather, by
the same great novelist?
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WOMEN AND MEN.

TO any one who knows the circumstances
the career Of an eminent social leader who
has lately died is a refutation of two de
lusions-the one, that to be a queen of
society implies feebencSs or Incidence; and
the other that it implies refinement and
elegance. No rcsoute farmers wife or
washer woman, toiling for her children's
prosperity, ever worked harder in the pro
cess than did this lady; and when the thin
vcneering of custom fell off for a moment,