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The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1895-01-12
THE SEA ELEPHANT.
Largest Representative of tho Seal Species
Is Almost Extinct.

Largest Representative of tho Seal Species
Is Almost Extinct.
The California sea elephant is an ami
NAL with fcarfully long Latin name,
but very short stay on this earth,
writes w. Il. Hornaday in st. Nicholas.
1t Is the largest of all the seals, it's
average length when fully grown be-
ing from twelve to fourteen feet, while
it sometimes reaches the astonishing
length of twenty-five feet, including
the hindhippers. 1t is still an open
question whether this animal Is of the
Same species as the sea elephant of the
Antarctic ocean. Our animal, like the
other, derives it's popular name from
the heightened, tapir-lilSc proboscis, or
snout, of the old males, which some
times projects six inches or more be-
yond the end of the muzzle.
The hair is exceedingly short, very
stiff and harsh, and when clean and
dry Is of a dusky yellowish color. This
species once inhabited about two hun
dred miles of the coast of California,
from Point Reyes south, but it has
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1895-01-12
Tho hoy. Accounted For.

The observant Jerseyman had been
dressing. Anyone watching him
would have seen him pull out of a
drawer shirt after shirt, and one lot
after another of collars aud cuffs, and
stare at them in way that seemed un-
called for. II should like to know"
he exclaimed. as soon as he Joined his
family downstairs, what Boy is
doing on all of my laundry goods?
Every shirt, collar and cuff that have
got is marked Boy with indelible ink"
His wife smiled in that careless manner
that women have regarding such
things as do not belong to their ward
robe. "Ohl" she said, "the boys are
as big as you now, and couldn't tell
their things from yours, so recently
marked their things in that way In
order that might distinguish them.
The Chinese laundryman evidently
concluded that 1t was a family mark,
and ne has duplicated it upon all the
shirts. collars and cuffs that have gone
to him since. My things, as well as
yours. are all marked Boy now."--
N. Y. Sun.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1895-01-12
FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.
"eRAvE AND TRUE"

Once. In my happy childhood days.
A mother kind knew,
Who gayo her boy the rnrcst praise:
She called him Brave and True"
He was my chosen mate at play.
loved his bright, young face,
His pure. high brow, that ev'ry day
Shone with some added grace.
Ho was so quiet. fair and mild.
Yet had so bravo an air.
The neighbors grew to love the child,
And kissed his golden hair.
Boys. love the truth and follow It,"
Our teacher often said,
"As While does; your lives twill 1t
For station just ahead.
~And ever dare to do the right,
DO patient, earnest. true;
These arc the notices, wreathed In light,
That Willie keeps In view
And this is why oil love him so.
II wins his mothers kiss:
1t shows his young feet whore to go,
And fills his heart with bliss"
Years since left that old schoolroom,
But have kept In view,
Come days OF light or days OF gloom,
The motto, Brave and true"
George Is. Griffith, in Golden Days.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1895-01-12
A CONSCIENTIOUS DOG.
He Meets with Severe Test, But Coraei
Out Ahead.

He Meets with n Severe Test, But Coraes
Out Ahead.
The following anccdote, told by a
writer in the Culver, shows power Of
self-restraint that puts to shame some
children whom we have seen:
have little silver-mounted Malacca
cane that 1 sometimes carry when
walking out with the dogs. This stick
Smith Ia DachshundD is never allowed
to carry, as his teeth would leave too
many traces behind; and his most elo-
quent pleadings to have 1t ''just once"
are always met with steady denial
One day 1 had accidentally left this
cane lying upon the lawn, and saw
from an upper window struggle Of
Smiths conscience over his wishes that
really did him the greatest credit.
AS he was playing about the lawn by
himself, he suddenly came unawares
upon this long-coveted treasure. He
stopped and stared at 1t eagerly, and
then looked carefully around him.
was hidden behind the window cur
tain, and there was nobody in sight.
Then began the battle with himself;
he looked at the stick; he smelled It
carefully all the way along; he drew
back little to gaze Mt 1t, and licked
his lips with the delight Of anticipa-
ton. Then he approached it and
smelled 1t once more and 1t seemed
just as IL he must take IL and pull it to
pieces, as he loves to do. But all of a
sudden his better nature came to his
aid. He turned his bnck upon tcmpta-
ton, and sat down with his head the
other way, guarding the treasure till
his mistress should claim 1t, but not
touching himself what he knew he was
not allowed to have.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1895-01-12
THE ALAMO MISSION.
How It Was Defended by n Handful 81
Heroic Texans.


Heroic Texans.
1t is safe wager that nine ont OF
every eleven boys who are proficient In
the use of bowie knife have not tho
slightest idea where the instrument
got its name.
Col. Bowie of Texas fame gave the
knife its title.
And when one writes of the Texas
hero, one must needs think of the bat
tic of Alamo, that heroic fight of which
our American boys and girls seem to
think so little, and half of them know
nothing whatever.
They read how the brave soldiers
fought and held the pass of Thermopy-
lac, but they seldom think of how n
nero handful of men defeated the
Alamo mission. How they dropped
fighting on their knees and then died
facing the foe.
II you should go to the historical city
of San Antonio In Texas you will SEQ
the old mission building standing with
battered, bullet-pierced walls, monu-
ment to the l72 heroes of 80. Behind
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1895-01-12
Two Brave Girls.

Here is the record Of two brave girls:
A fourteen-year-old girl at Beecher
bay, b. c., killed with Winchester a
big panther which her dog had freed;
and another girl, seventeen years old,
Of Benton, Ore, killed a cougar which
was making of with young pig
Chicago Inter Ocean.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1895-01-12
Freddie Hns nm Idca.

"what are you doing with that key.
Freddic?"
"I'm goin' to try and make tho baby
walk with 1t. Seems to me II key In
smart enough to make doll that amt
alive walk, 1t ought to be smart cnouRk
to make live baby do it."--Harpcr's
Young People.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1895-01-12
RULE NO. 1872.
BY EVAN GEORGE CARpENTER.

HECONV VERSA
TION tagged
in the smoking
room of the
&c G n / | G m e n
Riders" club,
and no one
8 e G m e d in
clined to start
a fresh topic.
A wet Satur-
day, with no
ra C / N z, h d
made its de-
pressing infu-
ence felt and
general dull
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-01-17
undermining the Holy Land.

The completion Of the Jaffa-J Jerusa-
lem Railway, with the early prospect
of n completed road between Haifa
and Damascus, is but the most prom
inent of growing indications that the
lands of Bible history are falling under
undermining influences. Tho first
American locomotive which circled
the Mount OF Olives and Gethsemane
on its way to Jerusalem marked tho
first step i'll the change. Actuated
apparently by the prospect of COM
mercial ACKNOWLEDGEMENT for his Asiatic
possessions, the Sultan afterward gave
his assent TO the construction OF the
new road 10 be known rs the Syrian
Ottoman Railway.
Already the effect OF these new ell
deavors is to be seen in the efforts of
British and other capital to secure
field for investment on the historic
ground. Tho same company which
has placed modern steel bridge
across the Jordan has laid plans for u
grain elevator in the heart OF the land.
There are propositions to establish
public carriers for n great grain trade,
TO put on lines OF steamships from
London to Haifa and to open up
through tho region made famous by
religious associations the paths for
active and profitable commerce.
In short, the influences which arc
everywhere else knitting the world
together are at last at work upon the
holy land. II will be n curious evolu-
ton which this region OF ancient ira.
eition will have undergone when the
triveler OF nifty years hence sets foot
in Jerusalem or Damascus and finds
in tiem the busting commerce and
trade OF latter'day civilization. =
Chicago Record.
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Roadways 10 the RoOi.

Modern invention has been not n
little busy Nth improvements in the
arrangements and fireproof qualities
of the theatre. 1t has been sought to
render access to any part of the house
easy, and egress immediate. But the
furthest advance in this direction is
probably that found in the new opera
house for Buenos Ayres, South Amer.
ica II will be tho largest place OF tho
kind in the world. The stage will ac.
commodate 500 people, and tho pro.
scenium will seat 5000 spectators. The
house is SO designed that box-holders
can drive their carriages right up to
the tier npon which their box is 10.
Gated. 1t has been suggested that n
feasible and practicable counterpart
of this scheme would be to revert to
the antique form OF theatre, and to ey.
cavate huge hole in the groud 30
that while the stage would still be in
the same relative position TO the up.
per galleries, tho ''gods" would after
all be only on tho level of the street.
But such theatres would not be very
popular in the tropics. Detroit Free
Press.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-01-17
Alpine Torrents in Harness.

CAL over the Tyrol, Switzerland,
and the Alpine country generally, you
find to-day n curious conjunction of
the modern and tho medieval in the
village streets, the stores and the
inns, " said n traveller. 'In the small
est, the most remote and the most au-
cient villages in the Bavarian Alps,
tho Tyrol and the Bcrnese Oberland
you find the streets, the stores, the
inns and not infrequently the
houses supplied with electric lights.
| revisited last August u little village
back in the Tyrolean Mountains, near
Innsbruck, which is ono of the most
Enthusiastically medieval COMMUNE
ties one could well find. The people
live in the houses of their grandsires,
and follow their customs and ways.
''This year arrived there in the
evening, and was amazed to find tho
streets as brilliantly lighted as Broad
way, where formerly the only light
was from a swinging horn lantern here
and there. There were clusters of
incandescent lights strung across the
streets every few yards. The little
inn had II complete installation, and
30 had the few little shops. / was
prepared 20 learn that tau formerly
quiet village had become a fashiona-
bic watering place. But it hadn't.
IL was as quiet and as slow, antiquated
and out OF date as ever. Later, as l
wandered about the Tyroi and Switz-
erland, j found the same change
everywhere.
at IL very natural that it should DO
so, too, for III all that region there
ispower III supcrabundance running
waste on every hand. From every
rock leaps IA cascade, and over every
cliff roars waterfall; there are
streams that tiow evenly with steady,
small power, AMI torrents that thuu-
der down with tons OF force. The
village of Murren, perched on the
edge of cliil opposite the Jungfrau,
Mt height OF 5000 feet above sea
level, has a very complete electric
within IA few hundred yards radius to
light half New York. The villages get
their light almost free.
This IL, 80 far as could learn, the
very first uso TO which the vast water
power in the Alps has been put.
Hitherto it has all run idle. Materi-
ali5tic travellers often wonder why
Switzerland is not big manufactur-
ing country. Alas II soon may be,
now the patient plodders there arc
finding what Il wonderful capability
Tor work Is in the waterfalls. New
York Sun.
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mountain side. A few mourned over
the fading laurols OF the convivial old
fellow, always ready for a "drap"
with his patients, sick or dying though
they might be; but among the min.
ers, whose daily life was prolific of ac-
cidents, the cool head and ever firm
hand of the temperance man" could
not fail to inspire confidence.
Slowly, but surely, the tide turned
in his favor. During the very severe
winter which followed, the doctor
braved many hard ride through rain
and sleet, snowdrifts and swollen
streams, while tho anxious wife spent
many a lonely night wishing for the
dawn and his safe return. Spring
found the doctor with slight balance
in hand, and a steadily growing prac-
tice, as others besides "moonshiners"
and miners gradually became aware
of his existence, and took due note of
it for future reference.
In n new country like ours, towns
often spring into cities and men into
riches; but our doctor and our town
climbed upward, step by step TO fame
and fortune. For man ready to seize
every honest opportunity TO rise,
there are always moreups than downs,
and such one is certain to have,
sooner or later, what many style
luck" but the doctor and his wife
called it, "Taken at the flood"
Ere middle age succeeded in CATCH
ing our young couple, tho doctor
could and did afford u belated we'd
ding journey, during which the little
wife bought and wore her Paris bon
nets, with sublime Indifference to
what people might think of the still
youthful face. Her husband ran.
sacked Europe in the interests of his
profession, making special researches
which brought him fresh laurels i'll
the medical world. New York Inde.
pendent.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-01-17
THE PERIOD OF REVELATION.

81 tell you" soid the Inspector.
leaning back in his chair, detective
work is not the snap it's cracked up
to be-"
Were you ever badly taken IMP"
"Well, rather. The worst ] was
ever fooled was by a pretty, baby
eyed, innocent looking young girl.
could have sworn sho was an
ANGEL"
"And wasn't she?"
"Well, / guess not I She had tenn
per like Western cyclone; and once
when l attempted to call her down, 1
thought an earthquake had struck
me-"
GLOW did you happen to discover
her real character"
Simply enoush-I married her."
Truth.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-01-17
Sleeping In Cold Rooms.

When doctors disagree, it is time
for the intelligent laymen to give a
little thought to their own conditions
and ascertain, if porsible, by careful
and prudent experiments, just what is
best for them. One class of physi-
cians will advocate cold rooms, abun-
dance of out.of-door mir and what
would seem to be almost fatal ex-
posure, and will insist that this is con-
ducive to health and that the patient
will thrive under such heroic treat
ment. A medical man claims to be
able to cure consumption and all pul.
monary troubles by keeping the
patient for goodly portion OF the
day in an atmosphere of intense cold.
In mid-winter the sufferer is put by
an open window and inhales the sharp
outside air for hours ut time. This
is all very we'll and no doubt q good
thing, but from this state of affairs
people who have neither tho expert
ence nor the facilities take their cue
and imagine that extreme cold, if APP
plicable in this way, must necessarily
be so in Others. They seem to lose
sight OF the fact that these invalids
are put upon wheel carriages, tucked
up as snugly as baby in II cradle and
wheeled in by these open windows.
They may sleep there or sit there as
long as they are comfortable. some-
times perhaps longer than the sick
one desires, but. under no circum-
stances, are these people even for an
instant exposed to the atmosphere in
any dangerous way.
But, on this theory, somebody
thinks that sleeping in cold room,
or sitting in one, has its points of
grace, consequently we find extremely
delicate people going into cold rooms
and getting into beds that arc just
about as comfortable and safe as ice-
houses. To inhale prodigious quanti-
ties of cold air is ono thing, and may
be beneficial, but to retire in room
with temperature at zero, in q cold
bed with the blankets and wraps IL an
absolutely congealin3 condition, is
quite another. With an abundance
Of hot.water bags and warm blankets,
1t is possible to get into a cold bed
and finally become comfortable (; but
when, after nights rest, one rises in
the morning and comes suddenly in
contact with the freezing air of such
an apartment, even though one goes
Immediately into n warm room, it is
little short of suicide. Under ordin-
ary circumstances, it is better to sleep
in n room us nearly as possible of the
temperature OF the one occupied dur
ing the day. Children should not he
permitted to sleep in very cold rooms.
They are restless, and almost always
get more or less uncovered, and get
colds that start long train of ills.
All things being equal, the use of a
moderately warm room with fresh air
brought in by tube from out OF
doors is much the safer and wiser
method OF procedure. New York
Ledger,
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NOT sAGAcioUs.

"Well have to discharge that
agent" said tho president OF the in
surance company. Hes q nice fell
low, but he isn't suited to this bust
ness.
"What has he done?" asked the
cashier.
"Issued accident policies to foot
ball team. "-Washington Star.
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EnSllsll and American

The difference in compe
tween the postmen in Loa,
United States is remarkabl
est sum paid to a Londonl
ing S34 II month and the ]
to posiman in the UniteiJ
$50. The pay of n Lond1
is only from eighteen tol
shillings, or from 81. % ,ol
i'll our money. But he
three good-conduct strip
which entities him to one
twenty-five cents, n week
first stripe is given for iiv'
ful service, tho second to;
third for tifteon. He ree1
when absent from duty q
sickness, is provided Wit
medical attendance aud 4
pension when he is too o
abled to work. He also
with two suits of uniiora
one for winter and one
Thus u London postm.n
even after fifteen years o
vice, q larger salary tha4
while the pay OF IN Ame'
is 5000 at hrst, then $50
$1,000.
The number OF auxllla1
"subs" in London is -
age TO earn from six to
lings II week-that is, y
Si-according to the an
they perform.
Twelve deliveries II dI
the downtown or buslne
from ak to eight in the
tion. Postmen are omP
hours Il day, but their
tinuous. 1t is made up
or sometimes four tuF1
two to four hours each
ord,
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-01-17
a rfoNoPo1is1,s WANTS.

nv wants nre few, sit serene
Upon con,entment's highlands,
II / can have earth's continents
! care not for its Islands.
Iwould not climb upon throne
Through seas OF bloody slaughter,
II can call all lands my own,
Why you can have the water.
Give me but these, they arc enough
To suit my humble notions.
Ind you can have for all your own
-'he land beneath the ocean.
md It's generous slice OF earth,
And DOUBTLESS quite prolific,
Iiyou can only drain 1t once,
The bed Of the Pacific.
Aad all ask is just this earth,
To regulate and man II.
and | surrender ali my claims
70 every other planet.
hni so you see cut ,ny cloth
On contracted pattern
r,vo me the earth, dro? all ciaia
TO Uranus ami to Saturn.
Little mood, my wants are few,
Nor woullI hayethen greater
] only wan; the lanl between
The poles IN the equator.
Give me tho earth, It's all I ask,
For fae and my wife Sarah.
T."n I'll give all my fellow mea
\ house 10: In Sahara.
The earth is very, very small,
Anl not In good repair;
Compared with Sirius itis
\ very small affair.
hui Just want Il white live.
And Death, I'll not resist HIN,
Tor after death hop,to get
Tho whole great solar system.
-San Walter Foss, in Yankee Blade.
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wILLLE's ONE ACCOMPLISHMENT.

"Do you know what Miss Cayenne
Gays about you?" said the young wo-
man who bears tales.
"No," replied Willie Washington.
":ohe says that you have proposed
to her seventeen times.
"Yes. That's quite twue. It's the
only thing that | can do that WEAKLY
seems to amuso her"
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HIS MITE.

The woman emapcipationist had
tackled the serene old bachelor. He
squirmed occasionally, but he retained
his serenity.
"Haye you ever done anything for
the emancipation of women, I'd like
to knowP" she said, coming down the
home.stretch.
"Indeed, Ihave. madam, he smiled T;
81 have remained bachelor, DE
troit Free Press.
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THE WORM TURNS.

"My dear young lady," said the old
gentleman at the matinee, leaning for
ward. would You object to taking off
your hat? I can't see the stage on
account of it,"
Certainly not, SIR" replied tho
young lady, removing her hat.
Then she spoke in clear, metallic
voice to the young man in front of
her.
"May ask you, sir" sho said, "to
comb your pompadour down? l can't
see over it. ."--Chicago Tribune.
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EEsIpUUM FROM TIE LAST.

"Bridget, / an tired of Your care
lessness. Only look at all that dust
lying about on the furniture. It's
six weeks old Mt the very least"
Bridget very dignited) "Then it
is no fault OF mine. You knows very
well, mum, that / have been with you
only three weeks"
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ONE WAY.

al wonder" unused tho one, "how
the sirens transformed the men in to
brutes."
"Married them, probably" "gloomily
answered the other, who had Just
quarreled with her husband. Puck.
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REVERSING TIE RULE.

$50 you want to marry nv son, ="
said the stern mamma to the Emanci-
pated Woman.
al do"
"Can you support him in the man
ner in which he has been accustomed d?"
al can"
Then take him and be happy.
Life.
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achieved the summit OF earthly wis.
dom, and one, too, whom all men re-
gard with unbounded love and illimit-
able esteem"
Uncle George--''There's one thing
l like about the Startler. 1t never
e1aggerates. IT always prefers TO un-
derestimate rather than to overstate." I"
Boston Transcript.
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A NEEDLESS INorr nY.

"What was the principal object of
interest in America when you were
there"
The eminent British novelist looked
Mt his questioner with chilling scorn
and replied:
81 was, Of course. Washington
Star.
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A TwO-StOrled

A Baltimore man B
novel idea for a hearse'
storied vehicle with d 4
coffin in the upper
mourners are to ride I
were in u stage. --Ne1
tiser.