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The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-03-28

left all my property to you, Ted, and
may you use it better than 1 have
DONE And then he fell a-coughing.
II remember thatquite well even now,
and how 1 went home cock-a-hoop. and
how he was in bed the next time l
called. The housekeeper was down
stairs drunk, and / fooled about-as a
young man will-with the girl in THO
passage before l went in to him. He
was sinking fast. But even then his
vanity chung to him. Have you read
iii? he whispered.
"'Sat up all night reading it, said
in his ear to cheer him.
"'It's the last said /, and then with
memory of some poetry or other il,
my head, but it's the bravest and best"
''He smiled little and triec to
squeeze my hand as a woman might do.
and left off squeezing in the middle, and
lay still.
1.-The bravest and the best said 1,
again, seeing it pleased him. But he
didn't answer. heard the girl giggle
outside the door, for occasionally we'd
had just bit of innocent laugh, you
know, at his ways. / looked at his face
and his eyes were closed and it was jus.
as If somebody had punched in his nose
in each side. It's queer to think of, he
lay dead, lay dead there, an utter fail
ure, with the smile of success on his
face.
THAT was the end of my uncle. You
can imagine that me and my mother
saw that he had decent funeral. Then
of course came the hunt for the will.
We began decent and respectful at
first, and before the day was out we
were ripping chairs, and smashing bu-
reau panels and sounding walls. Every
hour we expected those others to come
in. We asked the housekeeper and
found she'd actually witnessed a will
on an ordinary half sheet of note paper
it was written and very short, she said
not a month ago. The other witness
was the gardener ana he bore her on.
word for word. But I'm hanged If
there was that or any other will to be
found! The way my mother talked
must have made him turn in his grave.
At last lawyer at Reigate sprang one
on us that had been made two years
! ago during some temporary quarrel
with my mother. I'm blest if that wasn't
the only will to be discovered anywhere
and it left every penny he possessed tn
that Take i'm away youngster of
his second cousins! A chap who'd
never had to stand his talking, not for
one afternoon of his life"
The man with the glass eye stopped.
II thought you said," began.
Half minute" said the man with
the glass eye. Il had to wait for the
end of the story till this very morning,
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-03-28

tered upon the hills like sheep without
| q shepherd.
,ss"s. There is War and Rumors of. War,
and the Unlaw Spirit of Discord abroad
In the law, Nihilism, vivisection, Vac
cination, Drunkenness, Perjury, Want,
Socialistic Error, Selfish Capital! Do
you see the clouds, James ?'--my name,
you know-'Do you see the clouds how
ering over the land? And when 1t all
the Mongol waits!' He was always
very great on Mongol and the Scepter
of Socialism and such like things.
"Then out would come his finger at
me, and with his eyes all afire, and his
skull cap askew, he would whisper:
And here am 1. What do want? Ma
tions to teach. Nations! say it with
all modesty, Ted. I could, would
guide them; nay! but will guide them
to safe haven, to the land of righteous
ness-fiowing with milk and honey
That's how he used to go on. Ram
BILE, rave about the nations and right
eousness and that kind of thing. Kind
of mince-meat of Bible and blethers.
From fourteen up to three and. twenty,
when might have been improving my
mind, my mother used to wash me and
brush my hair( at least in the earlier
years of it) with nice parting down
the middle, and take me, once or twice
a week, to hear this old lunatic jabber
about things he had read of in the
morning papers, trying to do it as much
like Carlyle as he could, and used to
sit, according to instructions, and look
intelligent and nice, and pretend to
be taking 1t all In. Afterwards used
to go of my free will, out Of regard for
the legacy. was the only person that
used to go and see him. He wrote,
believe, to every man who made the
lightest stir in the world, sending him
copy or so of his books and inviting
him to come and talk about the Ma
tions to him-but half of them didn't
answer and none ever came. And when
the girl let you in-she was an artful
bit of goods, that girl-there were
heaps of letters on the hall seat waiting
tn go offaddressed to Prince Bismarck,
the president of the United States and
such like people. And one went up the
staircase and along the cobwebby pas
sages--the housekeeper drank like fury
and his passages were always cobweb-
by-and found him at last with books
turned down all over the room and
heaps of paper all over the floor, and
kilograms and newspapers Uttered
about. and empty coffee cups and half
eaten bits of toast on the desk and the
mantel. You'd see his back bumped
up and his hair would be sticking out
quite straight between the collar of
that dressing gown thing and the edge
of the skull cap!
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-03-28
A RESCUED GOOSE.
Her Extraordinary Series of Adventures
and . Strange Denouement.


and y Strange Denoucment.
During the civil war the state Of
Louisiana established at Mount Leb-
anon, in Bienville parish, laboratory
for the preparation of medicines to be
used in the confederate service. To
supply the water needed n deep well
was dug. After the war all the build
ings connected with the laboratory
were destroyed by fire, and the well
remained yawning and uncurbed. Thus
It has remained ever since, for no one
uses it, and it is no ones business to
fill it or cover it over. A pine wood has
grown up about it; and the well has
long served as pitfall for animals
that stray in the direction. A LOUISE
ana paper says that when COW or pig
or any other animal disappears from
the neighboring town, it is commonly
remarked that the animal is "at the
bottom OF the WE'LL" and that is the
last that is said about it.
One day recently fine goose, which
belonged to gentleman named Mat.
thews, WHO lives not far away, strayed
off in the morning, and in the evening
her brood of goslings came ''cheeping'
back without her. 1t was surmised
that the goose might have fallen into
the well.
Two days afterward, Mr.. Matthews.
rifle in hand, on his way to join n hunt
ing party, passed near the old we'll
and noticed that large hawk appeared
to be greatly interested in something
which was going on in the well.
The hawk circled round and round
above the opening, dived into it, re-
appeared screaming, and went down
again. After succession of such
movements the hawk finally emerged
from the well with great white load IT,
his talons.
1t was the missing goose; and the
goose, to Mr. Matthews establishment.
had a long black snake hanging from
her beak. A shot from his rifle
brought the trio to the earth, and the
man set about solving the mystery.
The snak, appeared to have attempted
to swallow the goose, head first, for
her beak was sticking in his throat,
so that he could not get away, nor
could she get rid of him.
Evidently after her fall down the
well the goose had found a foothold
on bit Of curling, and had there been
attacked Ivy the snake, with the singu-
lar result described. In that predica-
ment she had been pounced upon by the
hawk.
Mr.. Matthews killed the snake
bagged the hawk, and restored the
goose to the bosom of her grateful fam
lily; for she was little the worse for her
extraordinary series of adventures. The
hawk was found to measure five feet
from tip to tip of its outstretched
wings. Youths Companion.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-03-28

"'A momeht,' he would say. a mo-
ment, over his shoulder. The mot
juste, you know, Ted, lie mot juste.
Righteous thought righteously ex-
pressed -A-ah--concatenatio And
now, Ted he'd say, spinning round in
his study chair, 'how's Young Eng
land?' That was his silly name for me-.
"Well, that was my uncle, and that
was how he talked-tc me at any rate.
With others he seemed bit shy. And
he not only talked to me, but he gave
NE his books, books of six hundred
pages or so. with cock-eyed headings:
The Shrieking Sisterhood,' The Behe-
moth of Bigotry,' 'Crucibles and Gull
lenders, and so on. The very last time
but one that saw him he gave me a
book. He was feeling i'll even then, and
his hand shook and he was Respondent
l noticed it because / was naturally on
the lookout for those little symptoms.
My last book, Ted he said. My last
book, my boy, my last word to the deaf
and hardened nations and I'm hanged
ii tear didn't go rolling down his yell
low old cheek. He was regular crying
because il was so nearly over and he
hadn't only written about fifty-three
books of rubbish. I've sometimes
thought, Ted he said. and stopped.
Perhaps I've been lit hasty and an
cry with the stiff-necked generation.
A little more sweetness, perhaps, and
q little less binding light. I've some
times thought might have swayed
them--but I've done my best. Ted
"And then, with burst, for the first
and last time in his life he owned him
self failure. 1t showed he was really
i'll. He seemed to think for minute,
aud then he spoke quietly and low,
as sane and sober as | am now. I've
been a fool, Ted, he said. I've been
Tapping nonsense all my life. Only
He who readeth the heart knows
whether this is any thing more than
vanity. Ted don't.
"'But He knows, He knows, and IL
1 have done foolishly and vainly, In my
heart, in my heart
"Just like that he spoke, repeating
himself, and he stopped quite short
and handed the book to me trembling.
Then the old shine came back into his
eve. l remember It all fairly well be-
cause repeated 1t and acted it to my
old mother when got home, to cheer
her I'D bit. Take this book and read
it, he said. It's my last word. I've
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-03-28

and not for 12 yards of red cloth and six
strings of glittering beads could he be
induced to hunt it to its lair.
But now that Prof. f. A. Lucas, of thu
Smithsonian Inatitution, has written a
monograph about it, and Prof. j. j,
Quelch has given to the world the re-
suits of Ii careful study of it, and its
picture both in the fledgling and adult
state has appeared in the Sunday Jour
nal and the Popular Science News, its
days are as good as numbered, for sci
entists and menagerie agents don't
mind little thing like travelling to the
remote forests of British Guiana in
order 10 secure new bird, even if it
does give out an odor that would put
the mephitis Americanus to flight.
The chief popularity of the hoatzin,
according to Prof. J. C. Beard, is that
when it is Matched it possesses four
well-developcd legs, the front pair be-
ing of n reptilian character, as n glance
at the illustration taken from an Off
cial source will show. The parent
hoatzin seems to be an Indifferent pro-
wider, and it is fortunate thing for the
little hoatzins that they are provided
with foui legs, which enable them to
leave the nest of their nativity and
climb about over the adjoining limbs
and twigs in search of food, on which
excursions they look and act more like
tree toads than birds.
In early infancy modification Of
the fore limbs begins. The claws of
the digits fall off, the claw-like hands
begin to fiatten, and in the course Of
time feathers sprout and the forelimbs
of the infant become the wings of the
adult.
Prof Lucas on this point says that
"the adult birds not only have no claws
upon their wings, as was probably the
case in remote ages-witness the pet
rodactyie with its four-taloned legs,
and it's bat-likc wings, with an outer
row Of claws. The thumbs of the
grown-up hoatzin are so poorly devei-
oped that one would hardly suspect
that in the nestlings we have the near
est approach to the quadruped found
among existing BIRDS
Mr.. Quclch says that after Matching
the well-developed claws on the pol
lax and under are constantly in use for
hooking and holding on to surround
ing objects.-N. Y. Journal
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-03-28

| and was a blessed sight more interest.
ed than you are. You just wait bit,
too. They executed the will, and the
other chap inherited, and directly he
was one and twenty he began to blue it.
How did he blue it, to be sure! He bet,
he drank, he got in the papers for this
and that-I tell you it makes me wig
gle to think of the times he had. He
blued every ha'pcnny of it before he
was 30, and the last heard of him was
Holloway prison. Three years ago.
"Well, naturally fell on hard times,
because as you see the only trade
knew was legacy cadging. All my plans
were waiting over to begin, so to speak,
when the old chap died I've had my
ups and downs since then. Just now
it's period Of depression. tell you
frankly I'm on the lookout for help.
was hunting my room to find some
thing to raise bit on for immediate
necessities and the sight of all these
presentation volumes-no one will buy
them, not to wrap butter III even--wcll,
they annoyed me. I'd promised him
not to part with them, and never Kept
promise easier. let out at them with
my boot and sent them shooting across
the room. One lifted at the kick and
spun through the air. And out of il
flapped-you guess?
1T was the will. He'd given it me
himself in that very last volume of all"
He folded his arms on the table and
looked sad with the active eye at his
empty tankard. He shook his head
slowly and said softly: I'D never
opened the book. much more cut
page" Then he looked up with a bitter
laugh, for my sympathy.
Fancy hiding it there! Eigh? OF
all places"
He began to fish absently for dead
fly with his finger. 1T just shows you
the vanity of authors" nc said, look
ing up at me. at wasn't no trick of
his. He meant perfectly fair. He'd
really thought was going home to :oad
that blessed hook of his through. But
it shows you, don't it?-" His eyes
went down to the tankart again. 1T
shows you, too, how much we poor hui
man beings fail to understand one an
other"
But there was no misunderstanding
the eloquent thirst of his eye. He ac-
cepted with ill-feigned surprise. He
said in the usual subtle formula that ne
didn't mind II he did.
tcoPYRIoHT. 1ssal
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-03-28
THE VISITING SPARROW.

He Spent the Winter In Captivity, But
Flew Away In Spring.
A few years ago lady living IN the
Via Volturno, in Rome, had some pet
oanaries in cages, which she every day
hung out on n balcony in front of her
kitchen window. She observed spar
row frequently come and perch on one
of the cages, and one evening, when
she brought in her birds, she unawares,
brought in also the little wild visitor
perched on its favorite cage. 1t showed
no fear, and pecSed the crumbs she
offered it. Evening after evening the
same bird continued to come in with
its imprisoned friend.
An empty cage with food was left
near, and in this it made it's abode at
night, the door always being left open.
Spring came and the sparrow flew away.
Then the summer passed, and with the
shortening days she returned, boldly
entering the kitchen. surrounded by
brood of four or five-Iittle sparrows.
She had come, it seemed, to greet her
old friend and introduce her treasures
t. her. They all confidingly ate the
crumbs scattered for them on the
kitchen floor. Soon winter came, and
with it the sparrow again as an estab-
lished lodger with board. Again the
soft breeze of southern spring whis-
pered of new nests and broods, and the
sparrow flew away, but to return no
Spectator.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-03-28
A strange Case of Instinct.

A strange instance of animal instinct
occurred at the Theater Royal, Middles-
borough, England, dun ing the perform
ance of a pantomime. In the panto-
mime is introduced miniature circus
with ponies, baboon and donkey.
While putting the baboon through it's
PAGES the trainer noticed how eagerly
it sought the footlights and scanned the
first row of the stalls. A seafaring
man, who was evidently the object of
interest to the baboon, uttered a pc
culiarly distinctive cry, when instantly
the baboon sprang across the foot
lights into his arms. An inquiry on the
part of the acting manager ELECTED the
extraordinary fact that the seaman had
originally brought the baboon from its
native land, but that was several years
ago.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-03-28

moment later the mahout received q
fatal wound. and fell to the ground,
where he lay beneath pile of wounded
and slain.
The obedient animal would not move,
though the battle ragged wildly around
him. The Poona soldiers, who feared
they were being overcome, were
cheered on by the sight of the flag still
floating from his back.
He never stirred foot, and all
through the hot fight, the noise, the
smoke, the confusion, listened patient
ly for the voice of his master.
Sharp spears were hurled at him, a
score of jayelins pierced his sides, his
long ears dripped with blood, but he
stood like n rock.
"Come forward, my men!" cried the
Poona captain; "our flag still floats,
and the battle will yet be ours"
His men, discouraged and ready tn
fly, rallied at this command, and with
cheer for the flag pressed forward.
In a short time they had won the
victory, and put the enemy to fight.
And then they gathered around the
brave elephant Offering to lead him
where he could be fed and cared for.
But, though wounded and worn, the
obedient creature would not move un-
til he heard his masters voice. That
master could never speak again.
A rider was sent in great haste to n
place so miles away, where lived the
drivers little son, whom the elephant
knew and loved.
When the little boy was brought to
the battle-ground the elephant showed
very plainly that he was glad to sea
him, and permitted the child to lead
him away.-Jennie S. Judson, in Our
Little Ones
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-03-28
How . Lion Caught a pillow.

An English officer was shooting re.
Gently in Somaliland, Africa. One night
when he was in bed, inside his tent.
lion sprang over the rough thorn
fence which had been thrown up
around the encampment. Instead OF
picking up one of the men or animals,
that must have been lying about asleep
inside the fence, the beast made for
the sportsman's tent and seized him
fortunately by the hand only. Then.
ny some wonderful piece of luck, as tho
lion changed its grip for the mans
shoulder, it grabbed the pillow in
stead, and so vanished with its prize.
The pillow was found next morning
several hundred yards distant in tho
Jungle.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-03-28
FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.
WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO Dor

What are you going to do. boys.
With the years that are hurrying on?
Do you mean to begin life's purpose to win
In the strengthening dew of the dawn?
The toiler who builds In the morning.
At even may Joyfully rest.
His victory won as he watches the sun
Go down In the beautiful west.
What are you going to do, girls.
With time as II ceaselessly flows?
Are you molding heart that joys will i'm
part
AS perfume exhales from the rose?
Let things that are purest and grandest
In memory's wreath be entwined.
There is no other grace can lifes shadows
efface
Like the.sharm of beautiful mind.
Nixon Waterman, In l.. A. w. Bulletin.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-03-28
TIE BRAVE ELEPHANT.

Obedient and Faithful in tho Midst of n
Fierce Fight.
In some countries in Asia an elephant
is made to carry the flag in battles.
This is because the elephant is SO tall,
and the soldiers can easily see the flag
flying from his back.
One of these elephants, which be-
longed to the Poona host, was very
brave and very kind, but he would obey
the order of 10 one except his mahout.
or driver.
One time, while very fierce fight
was raging, the driver called out to him:
"Stand, my brave beast, stand!" A
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-03-28
FOUR-LE00ED BIRDS.
strangsst OF All Winged Creatures Dis-
covered In British Guiana.

strangsst OF All winged Creatures Dis
covered In British Guiana.
A bird with four legs; bird that in
its infancy climbs through the branches
of trees like monkey; n bird that
cannot be drowned; bird that flies.
dives, swims, or climbs with equal ia
cility; bird that is the last survivor of
the flying quadrupeds OF prehistoric
ages, the existence of which is only
proved by fossil remains discovered in
the lowest geological strata consistent
with animal life.
This is the remarkable bird which has
set the whole scientific world to talking
and writing. 1t is found only in the
most remote forests of British Guiana,
and it is called the crested hoatzin" IN
English, and opsthocomus cristatus by
the professors who, in their own lingo,
can Disguise the American national bird
so that you would never know whether
a turkey, eagle or blackbird is meant.
This bird has pursued the even tenor
of its way through all the centuries, and
was only discovered by the scientists
within the year. Its habits are very re-
firing, and this fact, to a certain extent,
accounts for it's survival. To another
habit it owes much of it's safety. II
feeds upon the leaves of the wild arum.
with the result that it's flesh has ac-
quired such an offensive smell that man
and beast flee from its presence, and the
vulture and buzzards even refuse to fat
ten upon it's flesh.
1t is described, when full grown, rs n
very large bird, mich larger than pea
cock, and it is very seldom seen. Its
long, wailing cry is often heard from
the depths of the tropical forests, but
the Guiana native regards it, for the
reasons stated, not only with physical
aversion, but with 4 superstitious fear,
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-03-28
Horse pldn,t Fit the shoes.

A horse was sent up from the farm to
the village smithy to be shod. Having a
number of ready-made shoes on hand,
the job, in the absence of the boss, was
given to an apprentice. After an in
terval the following note came to the
farmer: This horse don't fit any of
our Shoes"
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-03-28
The Fashionable Ribbons.

Double-faced satin ribbons in black,
dead white, cream white, stem gree n
and violet are all liked either for bows
or ties; the Persian ribbons, though
they may have certain vogue during
the early spring, will not achieve the
popularity given to the Dresden rib
hons, for they are not as generally be-
coming. Ribbons showing white
ground hair-lined with black, and with
an inch-wide stripe of pink, blue, violet
or green satin upon them, are rich il.
effect and make specially smart bows
on small bonnets.-Ladies' Home Jour
nal.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-03-28

Every American wears shoes, but
not every American knows that o,34s
patents have been taken out on the ma
chinery used in making them.
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Why She " ept.

Pastor-My dear little child, saw
you shed tears while l was preaching
asst Sunday when you were in church
with your ma.
Little Child--Yes, sir; I was sleepy,
and mamma pinched me 30 hard.-Texns
6iftings.
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Y uncle" said the
man with the
glass eye, was
what you might
call a hemi-semi-
denli millionaire.
He was worth
al,out a hundred