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Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1896-01-28
Amusing Russian Lawsuit.

An Italian newspaper gives an ac-
count of an amusing lawsuit which has
taken place lately in a Russian city in
which German is the prevailing Ian
guage One man sued another to recover
the sum of so rubles, the debtor having
faithfully promised to return the money
ON st. Henry Is day. But having failed
to do SO for a long time the lender dis
covered that the Russian Orthodox
church includes no such saint as St
Henry, and the judge before whom the
case was tried was much puzzled as to
what verdict he should give. Happily
the idea occurred to him that, saint or
no saint, All Saints day included even
the most doubtful, SO he gave judgment
that the 90 rubles should be returned
next All Saints day.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1896-01-28
Iwo ELpeRLY egoReIANs.
One Married at 100 and the Other Co
the Mitten at 1913.

One Married at 100 and the Other Got
the Mitten at 1913.
Two remarkable cases of longevity
were recalled recently by conversation
between several gentlemen in this city.
They were discussing the death of the
Rev. George Mccall, the veteran Bap-
tist preacher, when it was automatically
stated that Mr.. McCall's great GRANDPA
ther lived to the ripe old age of 1877
years. He was bachelor at 100 and
took a notion to get married. He car
ried out his idea and was married.
Three sons were born TO him, and he
lived to see the Oldest son old enough
to vote.
This was considered remarkable, but
q gentleman in the crowd whose char
acter and standing, religiously and So
cially, are above reproach, told an au-
thentic account of the life of his great
uncle, who was one of Georgia's pioneer
citizens. This old gentleman lived to
be 1870 years old He lived in log
cabin, in the northern end of which
was cut a square hole. The old man
turned the head of his bed to that hole
and slept that way in the warmest and
coolest weather.
His wife died when he was about 80
years old, and for many years he lived
as a widower. At the age Of 1l5 he cut
an entirely new set of teeth, and at the
age of 1913 one morning he saddled his
own horse, sprang into the saddle and
rode 80 miles to address widow and
to ask her to be his wife. He evidently
was rejected, for he rode back that day
and lived years longer. Atlanta Con
stitution.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1896-01-28
Careful.

Two Yorkshiremen had been on trip
to Blackpool and were on their way
home, when one noticed that his COM
panion was carrying bottle half filed
with sea water.
why. what ave yer got there, Bill?"
he asked.
well, yer see,' was the reply, 'my
ould woman hasna seen t. sea, SO /
thought I'd take her a drop.
But" said the first, while yer
were doing it, why didn't yer take a
full bottle?''
mot mel' was the answer. What
should haze done when the tide began
a-risin' and broke the bottle? London
Tit Bits.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1896-01-28
Living ON One Food.

We hold that a well devised dietary
system does not need frequent changes.
al do not require to eat the same IN
amount or kind Uncooked fruits and
nuts suit some others live almost en-
tirely on bread and oatmeal; but when
the correct diet has been found it is not
necessary to change. Animals in a state
Of nature live ON one food throughout
their lives Vegetarian.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1896-01-28
DIR. collyer,s Appetite.

The Rev. Robert Collyer, while at
the breakfast table Of one of his friends
in the country near Boston. was asked
by one of the family, Mr.. Collyer, do
you enjoy as good an appetite as you
have in years past?'' To which he re-
piled, my dear, if lose the appetite
/ now have l hope no poor man viii
find it. -
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1896-01-28
A Hard Days work.

81 almost feel tired, " said the new
woman as she laid her beaver aside and
gave orders for the proper stabling of
her bicycle.
Il thought you men never got tired, !"
groaned her husband.
Rarely. ~ replied the new woman,
''but today made the speech that kill
ed the bill for the emancipation of hus-
bands, and raised the roof of the capitol
with a piece of my mind, and if that
amt enough to tire body I'd like to
know what is r'-Atlanta Constitution.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1896-01-28
MISS NEW SOLOMON.
HOW SIZE REACHED A DECISION ON
THE QUESTION or OWNERSHIP.

Testing Two Claimants For . Beautiful
Bfcycle-JassiCe Finally triumphant In
. DimenIt Case Through knowledge OF
the Mascuslne Nature.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1896-01-28

When cleaning house, it is convenient
to have stick with deep notch in the
end with which to lift picture wires and
cords off their hooks. 1t saves much
climbing up and down.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1896-01-28

A world without Sabbath would be
like man without a smile. like sam
mer without flowers and like home
stead without garden. -Beecher.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1896-01-28

In Egypt the natives believe that
crocodiles cry and moan like men in
distress in order to attract and make y
prey of the unwary.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1896-01-28
Immortal Fame.

Did any man ever achieve distinction
by lying?-San Francisco Post
Yes. Baron Munchausen. New York
3un.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1896-01-28

1t is not the many oaths that make
the truth, but the plain single VOW, that
is vowed true. Shakespeare.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1896-01-28

Lipper-In what frame of mind was
Porringer when you saw him this morn
ing?
Chipper-Same as usual--all frame {:
- ..,,.5 R;<l,.,,.o,d Dicnafoh
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-11-21

We are constantly confronted with
the fact that neither material advan-
tapes nor intelligence nor education
nor even a good moral record arc proof
against disloyalty to life. Many causes
are adduced, grief, shame, remorse' de-
spair being among the most numerous
But perhaps the foundation cause,
which uuderlies all others, may De said
70 be the common habit of thinking that
life is to be valued only for the happi-
ness it yields. Mary people grow up
with the idea that if personal life he
not personally happy it is useless. Thus
when they come to some epoch when
sorrow triumphs over joy, failure over
success. pain over pleasure, life loses
all meaning to them and is easily part
ed from. This view of life is essentiai-
~ untrue end most injurious.-N. \.
Ledger.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-11-21
THE BOY AND THE MAN.
An Inspiring Instance OF Manly Courage
and Loyal Discipleshlp.

An Inspiring Instance of Manly Courage
and Loyal Discipleship.
Colcridge Patterson-a scholar at
Eton, one of England's famous histori-
cal schools-was a high-spirited lad,
and great favorite in the cricket eleven
Of the school, for he was an uncommon
ly good player.
At the club suppers Cooley" as the
boys called him, was disturbed by the
questionable jests and stories of some
bf the members, and at length declared
publicly that he should protest against
anything like indecency in the converse
ton or in the songs that were sung.
Notwithstanding this, at the next
meeting one Of the boys began to sing
salacious ditty, and Coley rose indig-
nantly to his feet.
"If this sort of thing goes on, shall
leave the ROOM" he said.
The singer continued, and Coley
marched out. The next day he wrote to
the captain of the eleven, and assured
. him that unless he received an apol-
ogy he should quit the club.
He was too important man to lose,
and the apology was sent. The trial
of feeling to the young fellow who made
it could have been no greater than the
trial of demanding it and risking re-
fusal; for, like all enthusiastic cricket
players, Coley was passionatcly fond
of the game. But he loved character
better than cricket, and the outcome
was victory of principle.
Here was the kind Of boy of which
martyrs are made. The spirit that en-
boldened him to resent vileness sent
him afterward to present Christianity
to pagan people. A group of islands
north of New Guinea in the South Pa
cific became the brave mans field OF
| labor, and there he fell n victim to
heather cruelty.
But death has not erased from tho
memory of earth his example of man
ly courage and loyal discipleship. Thu
story of the boy Of E!on and MARTY
Bishop of Melanesia" IS told here-0nt
will be told for many q year to come
to liindle fearless virtue in other minds
end impress n noble lesson of Christ
| like enthusiastically Companion.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-11-21
Indifference.

Every now and then conscience,
among the men and women who live
easy. thoughtless lives, is stirred; and
some look up anxiousiy, holding up
some of the pretty idlenesses in which
such people spend their days and nights,
and say: as it wrongP Is it wicked to
do ths?" And when they get their an
swer: "No, certainly not wicked Then
they go back and give their whole lives
up to doing their innocent little piece
of usclessness again. All! the question
is not whether it is wicked, whether
God will punish you for doing that.
The question is whether That thing is
keeping other and better things away
from you, whether behind its little bulk
the vast privilege and dignity of duty
Is hid from you, whether it stands be-
tween God and your SOUL Phillips
Brooks.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-11-21
RECOVERY OF A BICYCLE.
It Had Been Sunk in the Harbor for Re-
venge.

IL Had Been Sunk in the Harb0r for Bo-
vcnge.
Among the residents of Bermuda are
two brothers, one of whom, besides
heing an enthusiastic yachtsman, Is also
n swift and skillful rider of the bicycle.
Some years ago, shortly before the date
set for bicycle race in which he was
to be one of the contestants his wheel
nystcriously disappeared and oil eff
forts to find a trace of it proved fruit
less.
One day, about IA months after the
bicycle had been presumably stolen,
fisherman who Was angling out in the
middle of st. Georges harbor for float
ing fish, hooked a large one, which in
stantly plunged into the depths of the
harbor in vain endeavor to escape.
The angler played with him for awhile.
and then feeling the line tightening in
his hand and the strain become steady
began to haul up. He soon realized
that he had at the end of his line one of
the heaviest catches which he had ever
made, and (what he could not under
stand about it) that it was almost ar.
parently dead weight. He hauled
away, however, until there appeared
above the water not only the fish that
he had hooked, but bicycle, around
the handles of which the fish, in his eff
forts to escape, had wound the rope q
number of times.
| When the astonished fisherman had
sufficiently recovered from his amaze
ment at the curious catch he took the
bicycle ashore. There it was identified
as the one which had so inexplicably
disappeared. Strange to say the ma
chine, in spite of the fact that it had
been at the bottom of the harbor for
IA months, was but little damaged and
was easily put in running order again.
| For some time no clew as to how IL
found its way to its watery hiding place
could be discovered. Eventually, how
ever, several circumstances came 10
light that pointed to n man with whom
the bicycle rider had once had trouble.
! At one time whenever he rode past this
mans place the dogs which were kept
there would run out and bark and snap
at the rider, causing him considerable
annoyance and trouble. At first he
contented himself with simply driving
off the brutes as best he could, but
when he found that they were set upon
him by their master he took prompt
measures to have the man arrested
brought into court and fined. From
various circumstances that were found
out regarding the disappearance of ths
wheel there seemed to be no doubt that
the owner of the ugly dogs was respon
sible for it and that he stole the ma
chine and sunk it in the harbor in orde,
to be revenged on its owner.-Bostor
Transcript.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-11-21
CRAFTSMEN WHO WANDER.
Pcripatetlc Shoemakers, Thinkers and
Grinders Who Work Outlying Districts.

PcripatetIc Shoemakers, Thinkers and
Grinders Who Work Outlying Districts.
In the outlying portions of Chicago,
and especially where its foreign ele-
ments abound, there are many features
even of street life that recall the older
cities of Europe. One of these con-
sisie in that class of rowing tradesmen
who carry their tools and workshops
along with them and ply their respcc-
tive callings wherever they can pick
up job. Various are their methods Of
advertising themselves and attracting
custom.
One aristocrat of shoemaker drives
about in closed vehicle as white and
garish as n circus wagon. Within it
are his work bench and stool, cup
board full of leather scraps and a
small heating stove. He has the knack
of restoring to usefulness footwear
that seemed to be hopelessly disabled.
When he gets a job at any house in
block he draws up his wagon to the
sidewalk and there "sticks to his last"
us long as custom may come.
The tinsmith, or tinker, is usually
less imposing than the cobbler. lie
carries his tools and small stock Of
tin in leathern budget slung over one
shoulder. He proclaims his coming in
the street by musical cry of "0ld
tins-tins to mend." When employed
to repair a leaking wash boiler or a
sroutless teakettle, he sits down to
his task in some convenient porch or
entry.
Another useful craftsman is the one
who has an ambulant grindstone for
sharpening knives and scissors. AS he
trundlcs it along by the sidewalk 1T
clangs an iron bell that makes piteous
appeal TO he silenced. The grinder gets
Numerous jobs too, for in many drudg-
iny households there would be no work
for the carving knife il the scissors
were long out of order. One knife
grinder was met lately who has no
grindstone, but does his work with a
set of very hard files. These he carries
in his hand rolled up in piece of can
vas, and as he makes no clang or cry,
| but has all the modest seeming Of an
opulent plumber, he is enabled to call
unterrified at the better class of resi-
dences. All these worthy craftsmen
| fill useful role and form a link lie.
tween American civilization and the
lands in which it was cradled.-Chicago
| Chronicle
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-11-21
Iue nEIoHBoRaooD BOY.


rne nelshborhood boy is neishborhood
JOY.
Va xhene'er he's away. to be absent a
day.
or without him the world in shadow Is
furled
And loses its beauty and light:
M, whene'er he appears. then 1t suddenly
A he sets all our troubles Alright.
40, = smile or frown comes to our part OF
town,
nut what he can give us the facts:
ar. 40 hle TO bring just the one needed thing
which elsewhere our happiness lacks.
rolEs nay move in and out. yet he knows
all about
A, the people who dwell in our street.
And he brings US such news as we love to
while he gives every item complete.
We runs errands galore to the office ano
store,
:. Winds the baby" and favors like that.
I'd there's none, we agree. quite so able
as he
To lind a lost dog or cat.
,r.'s n mothers boy" yes, and that helps
him to bless
whoever he happens to meet.
IA his heart is of gold and as manly and
bold
Az any he halls in the street.
70 there's anyone sick, he's the first one te
pick
And though rich folks or poor-doesn'
matter-he's sure
To scatter kind deeds In their way
The ne!ghborhood boy Is neighporhooo
Joy. .o
With a heart that is earnest and true;
And whene'er he's away 10 DE apseh'
day,
:, ants the whole block in stew.
N,xon Waterman. In l.. A. w. Bulletin.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-11-21
INDIVIDUAL EXPERIENCE.
Tho Essential and Uncssentiai In the
Christian Development.

Tho Essential and Uncssential In the
Christian Development.
When we bring all our powers and
submit them to Gods will, seeking only
to learn what that will is; when under
meath every volition of ours there is the
conscious, though perhaps unexpressed
"Not my will. but thine, 0 Lord, be
DONE" then, only then are we truly
free; free as the eagle as with strong
and steady wing he mounts up the
heights of air toward the sun. We
obey God, and that is to be obedient to
the law Of liberty. Our life is such as
God loves and approves, it is our self
conscious freedom working in har-
mony with Gods great designs OF
mercy for men. 1t is that which is
godlike in us moving in accord with the
Almighty's sight. So should it be with
us as regards spiritual sight. 1t must
in the nature of the case be an individ-
ual experience, and the vital thing is
TO have the experience, no matter how
it comes nor how it manifests itself.
However important these things are,
they are not essential. The question for
each one of us is not, do think or feel
or act like some one else? The question
is. am conscious in the depths of an
honest heart that love God and tina,
He loves me? We must beware lest we
permit ourselves to become slaves to
the experience of others, and thus
illustrate the grace of God."-N. \
Observer "a
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-11-21
WORDS OF WISDOM.

"A dollar never buys much for
stinpy man.-Ram's Horn.
Grace for efficiency in duty and
work is better than the knowledge OF
the hidden things of God.-United Pres
Lyterian.
When men learn to do good for
the sake of the good, and not for the
sake of self, they will come to know how
II is possible to glorify God.-Lutheran.
-EnterNinto the sublime patience OF
the Lord. Be charitable in view or
II. God can afford to wait; why car
not we. since we have Him to fall back
upon?-George Macdonald.
God speaks, and suns fash into light;
God smiles, and flowers the fields adorn;
Cod brcathes and fragrance fills the air;
God loves. and human souls are born!
Il. ii. Farmer.
JJa who receives n favor must re.
tain a recollection of it for oil time
TO come; but he who confers should az
oncc forget il, III he is not to show u
sordid and ungencrous spirit. To re-
mind n man OF Kindness conferred
on him. and to talk Of it, IS littlc differ
cnt from nrcproach.- Dcmosthenes.
--Ir proportion as VIC yield ourselves
10 Christ, and make room for Him in
the citadel of the soul, will He perfect
In us tho work OF Ills beginning. Tho
indwelling of Christ is the master work
man shaping the life for eternity. Is
not holiness the noblest OF all pursuits?
lie who loves it loves God; he who seeks
II seeks God; and he who finds 1t, Sc
cures that which mikes him like God.
s.. =. Dritc.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-11-21
THE INVALID.
There 10 Place and Service for Every-
one In tho Common wealth.

There IL Place and Service for Every.
one In tho Commonwealth.
Laid aside by old age or by some form
of invaiidism from active work, many
q one would say to himself: FOR me In
the commonwealth there Is no place.
1 am hindrance, not help. Forbid
den to minister. living only to be min
istered unto, the Masters motto Is not
for me. must lnger, useless to others,
a burden 10 myself, till death, more
merciful than life, comes to set me free
from this Imprisonment"
The highest service one soul can ron
der to another is to give to it some gift
of life, and suffering is the door through
which the highest life is given. To be
is more than to do; and suffering Is
better test of character than is activity.
Let the weary invalid, laid aside by in
trinity or old age, ask himself what was
the climax Of Christs service; when He
did most Divinely minister to the
world; in what did He give to 1T the
greatest gift. 1t was in the hour when
He was bound hand and foot to the
cross, when He could not go on any err
rands Of mercy, could not reach forth
His hand in healing touch, could scarce
ly speak any continuous words OF COM
fort or instruction. The cross is at
once the emblem of Christs greatest
weakness and His greatest power. The
the hour of His illimitable service, be-
cause the supreme revelation OF
His ilimitable love. 1t is Christ
II
be the manifest wisdom and the mani
fest power of God. And this is because
patient suffering is the greatest service
which one can render the world. Suf-
fcring, rot ostentatiously courted, hut
patiently endured when imposed, is The
greatest service because it is at once the
greatest manifestation and the greatest
bestowment Of life.
Blessed Is the home ministered by
| sanity invalid. She softens all LIES
aspcrities, evokcs in young and old
their most sacred sympathies, min
listers to others by the gracious recep-
ton of their ministries, thus teaches
them that it is more blessed to give than
| to reccive-a lesson we learn only in
! giving, and best in giving sympathetic
| ally where there is no expectation of re-
turn-reveals the life of the spirit hid
den from those who know only the life
of abundant health and vigor and thus
spiritualZes the commonest cXpe-
rences. To suffer patiently is to rem
der the highest possible service to hui
manity.
The infrm, the helpless. the invalid,
have their place and render their service
in the commonwealth-one requiring
greater heroism and furnishing no less
value than the most fruitful labor OF
the most diligent laborer. There are
two persons in the complete nome
whose hands add nothing TO it's wealth,
but whose presence is essential TO It's
perfection; the babe and the aged
grandfather or grandmother. = \. l.
| Outlook.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-11-21
His Method.

You are charged with knocking the
complainant down with club and tax
ing all his yaluables," said the judge.
.He tole me to-" said the prisoner.
"Eh?"
ale tole me to do it. i stops him on
the corner to get light-see?. An,
of course, we got to talkin' about de
money question. Den he says to me;
DE on'y right way to git at de money
question is to start right in on first
principles he says. is dat de way
youse wants to do?' l. says. 1T is,
saws he. AN right L says, an soaks
i'm an takes wot belongs to me by
rights of first principles. "-lndinnapo-
lis Journal.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-11-21
A BROADER LIFE.
Chrisrs Rule of Conduct Does Not Mako
Men Narrow.


Men Narrow.
Jesus never advised men to follow
some rule of conduct which would mar
row their lives or lessen their enjoy
ment. On the contrary, lie came to
show men how wide and deep life is.
II am come that they might have lie.
and that they might have it more album
dainty" No one in all the range OF his
tory asked men to do such great things,
climb to such glorious heights, or strive
after such magnificent rewards as
Jesus. His rule of self-denial means TO
turn aside from low aims to high AIMS,
to deny the baser passions for the Gooa
of the higher nature. 1t means 10 1ol-
low principle rather than passion; 10
choose real rather than seeming good;
to live for life" rather than for meat,
for eternity rather than for time, LOT
God and humanity rather than for SELF.
1t covers the whole ground OF conduct
which Paul proposed for himself, under
the direction of the Spirit, when ne
said he would keep his body under and
bring it into subsection, but setting
soul and body together on the CHRISTIAN
stadium he would press forward to-
wards the goal for the prize of the high
calling in Christ Jesus. 1t means all
the difference between the service OF
Satan and the service of Christ, and the
ends to which these rival services lead
are MS widely sundered as Heaven and
hell. 1t is to place the will OF the Crea-
tor before the will of the creature, TO
DENY self when self conflicts with Gods
life plan for the conformation OF man 10
tho imare of his Son.--Men.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-11-21
Food for tho Soul.

Sin ia condition of starvation.
Everything that lives eats. Tn flowers
Ct the field feed on the early morning
dow and bright sunshine, and oil things
else have to have sustenancc. THIS
planet cannot produce anything rich
enough for the soul OF man. God is
the food of the soul, and the soul 10
vtarving that is without Him.-Rcy. L.
c. Inglchart.