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The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-02
Hats For Children.

In hot weather children should wear
loose fitting straw sun hats, with broad
brims to screen the eyes and protect the
back of the neck. The hats to be by
gienic must be light and allow all per-
SEPARATION to escape easily. Sunbonnets
are very useful head coverings for lit
tie girls before the heat of summer, but
when the weather is excessively hot the
hats are decidedly preferable, as bon.
nets prevent free passage of air round
the child's ears and neck and add to
her discomfort American Queen.
Tom and Jerry.
"My husband, F" said Mrs. Innocent to
her neighbor, lis going to shave him.
self after this.
Is that so?" said the neighbor.
Eyes; he hasn't told me SO yet, but
found a shaving mug in his coat pocket
this morning. He brought it home last
night, and his friends Tom and jerry
gave it to him, for their names are on
it in gold letters. "-Cincinnati Com
mercial Tribune.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-02

should be cut as nearly to the size and
shape indicated in the picture as pos
sible-three inches wide at the center
and tapering down at each end to one
inch in width. The lower side OF 1T
should be left perfectly fat, and the up
per side should be carefully whitfield off
so that it will be smoothly convex.
Any boy can do this work with sharp
jackknife. 1t may then be scraped
smooth with bits of broken glass.
secured with sandpaper and then oiled,
although it will fly just as we'll without
any oil.
1t is as impossible to explain just how
to throw a boomerang as it would be to
explain how to skate. The only way to
become an expert thrower is to throw.
You will be surprised how quickly you
learn the secret of the sport. The throw
should be quick and vigorous, and after
the boomerang has left your hand you
would better run few steps back-at
least at first-so that it will not return
and knock you down. Wind greatly in
fuences the flight of boomerang, and
the best results are, therefore, obtained
on a perfectly still day.
The measurements for the boomerang
shown in the picture were taken very
carefully from a real boomerang brought
| from Australia, where it had long been
used in one of the native tribes. Conse-
quently if your boomerang is carefully
made you cannot fail to accomplish
some remarkable feats with it.-Chi-
| cago Record.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-02
Must stand ExsniH alton.

Collector Harkins has decided that a
number of revenue men who are pros
tecttd by civil service must stand ex
amlnations just as do those who ap
ply for appointments under the law.
He claims that taking their reports
as an example. large number of
men now in the service are incompe
tent, and he proposes to have those
whom he deems incompetent stand
the examination. In many cases,
he says, revenue agents have found
irregularities at distilleries that he
thinks the storekeeper and gauger
must have known of. The collector
says he has not decided when the ex'
animation shall be held, but that II
can be done either on some special
day or at the regular civil service
examination.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-02
N. o. INSANE ASYLUM.
A Man of Experience Says There is
Not Another Like 1t.


Staff cor. Atlanta Journal
W bile seated in the lobby of the |
Park hotel, (Raleigh. N G J yester-
day. L overheard some remarks made
by gentleman, who proves to be a
travelling representative of an extern
sive eastern pharmacy. His remarks
were about the management of the
insane asylum here and quite inter
es'ing to me.
"lvisit every year," he said. "more
than 30 of the leading institutions
for the insane in this country and |
tell ycu this one here is by far the
hest managed asylum on earth 1t
is without an equal anywhere The
patients are the happiest | ever saw.
fell you there is not another one
like it,
| The gentleman talked for some
| minutes along this Lille, and | decided
To visit the asylum. The picture
WAS not overdrawn. A more model
institution for the insane does not
exist
And the genius to whom credit is
dine for so happy a condition ia DR.
George l. Kirby, who was elected
superintendent June, 1894, and
although only under his manage
menr f'r three years, the marked i'm
provement and advancement of the
insti' ution, within that short time il
n compliment to the wisdom and
foresight al The men who placed DR.
kirby ~ it's head Under his man
apemrnt the institu tuition has grown
ia pnD,IlnIity and favor with al
North Cnroirnians. The internal ant
external improvements OF the asylum
AID surroundings have added great
~ 10 the t,'autg AMI attractivrDes
OF :hr place the comfort aud happi
, uess al he patients is more earnestl.
con. uited han ever before in tn
history of the institution; the neat
| ness and productivent 80 Of tn
asy iuIn farms clearly show that ID.
: Kirby has not forgotten the training
: OF bis early youth, and y lille b
$ ranks IN one o, the l-ading physi
cihns of the State, he is also one [
e the best agriculturists The genera
L condition OF the institution tOda
stands as lasting monument to h
executive ability and the result {
treatment at the asylum Of which /
is the executive head, places hil
among the ioremos1 ply siciaDs
: the dav
r DR. Kirby hr' ught to his life wor
a mind we'll prepared for seri"t
= work. His exceptional educatiOn
Is advant ages were made the most c
e and with native ability to gras
: them his professional career b,
re proven d succ.s rs
d, DR. Kirby attributed much of b
a. success to the warm friendship, wi
ls counsel and uutiring devotion of |
OF inestimable wife
1T In his early youth DR. Kirby unit
D. with the Presby terian church,
n. which he has since been faith
is and valuable member He was for
IN long time, uutil his disconnecti
y with that church, an elder in t
a church a GoldrborO.
In As a citiz n he is of the progressi
n. order, and among men he is esteem
be and respected for his moral and j
IL tellectual cOuragt; socially he
he pleasant, affa BILE and courteous; L
eT ostentatious and unassuming
Mt character; man OF unselhSh he's
a and charitable disposition.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-02

His head and body were mass
of sores, and his nose was swollen to
several times its natural size; to add to
his misery he had catarrh, which made
him almost deaf, and his eyesight also
became affected. No treatment was
spared that we thought would relieve
him, but he grew worse until his cond1-
ton was indeed pitiable. A dozen blood
remedies were given him by the whole
sale, but they did not the slightest good.
[ had almost despaired of his ever being
cured, when by the advice of a friend we
gave him SIS. (Swift's Spec1hc), and
at first the Inflammation seemed to IN
crease, but as this is the way the remedy
gets rid of the poison, by forcing it out
of the system, we we're encouraged and
continued the medicine. A decided i'm
provement was the result, and after he
had taken a dozen bottles, no one who
knew of his former dreadful condition
would have recognized him. All the
sores on his body have healed, his skin
is perfectly clear and smooth, and he
has been restored to perfect health"
Mr.. A. 7. Morgan, one OF the prom1-
nent druggists of Macon, and member
of the board of aldermen of that city,
saws: 81 am familiar with the terrible
condition of little Charlie Mabry, and
the cure which SIS. effected in his
case was remarkable, and proves 1t tic
be a wonderful blood remedy"
SIS. is the only cure for deepseatec
blood diseases, such as Scrofula, Rheu
matism, Cancer, Eczema, Catarrh, etc
1t is the only blood remedy guaranteed
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-02
Backgrounds For Flowers.

According to The Art Amateur. 1t
is important in flower composition
that the background should either har-
monize with or offer contrast to the
dominant note of color. A bunch of vio-
let's, for instance, will look well on q
ground of duller violet gray. which is
in harmony win it, or on a ground OF
yellow, which is contrast. It will do
we'll on brown, which is also in con-
trast with both the leaves and the flow
ers, and makes their colors look bright
er, but hardly on red, which robs the
flowers of their color and makes them
look almost gray, while it brings ont
the green of the leaves more than is
necessary. Nevertheless, little red in
picture In which there is large
mass Of violet almost always looks well,
but that red becomes then the dominant
uota. and the Toilet only an accessory.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-02
WOMAN's WORLD.
The CAREER OF AN INVESTMENT
COMPANY IN KANSAS CITY.

The Woman Barber In New York-Queen
victoria-what They Have Done-The
Queen of Italy's Maids-The Tilted Hat
A Third Requirement.
1t may be regarded as something of a
reflection upon the stockholders, officers
and managers of the numerous big and
little real estate investment companies
that f1ourished in this town in the days
of the great boom that the only surviv
ing organization of that character is the
one that is managed by women.
In those days of wild real estate spec
ulation the most familiar organizations
were the investment companies. These
bid for customers with all sorts of at
tractive titles, some of the firm names
being positively spectacular.
Of course when the market fell in
Kansas City, as it always does when
property values are pushed to fictitious
limits, many Of these companies prompt
ly closed their doors, not necessarily
with the significance of business fail
ures, but in acknowledgements of the fact
that it was expedient to seek other lines
or other fields.
This company of women investors
was organized not as real estate
agency, but as legitimate investment
company, each stakeholder having one
or more shares in the concern. 1t was
organized in 1886, with Mrs Emeline
Twiss, wife of Judge S. P. Twiss, as
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-02
TRADE CONTINUES TO IMPROVE
Business Has No Backward Turn,
Says Dun's Agency.

R. Dun 81 Co. in their week ly review of
trade say: Speculative markets have their
turns of reaction. but business has n ,ne this
season, gaining with a steadiness which is
most gratifying. The starting of works. in
crease of hands employed, advance in wages
and in price of products, and the heavy
movement of crops, facts before which
the speculative influences have to bow. The
weeks dispatches mention sixteen iron
works which have started, against one CLOS
ing, while many more works have increased
force, and many are preparing to resume,
and some have increased wages.
While these things continue. with grain
rising and going abroad in enormous guam
titles, money markets have reason fol
aboun ding confidence, and speculative mar
kets for strength. Crop prost ects are con-
Trajectory, as usual at such time, but it i:
noteworthy that none of them indicate a
lessening supply
Failures for the week have been 223 in the
United States against 22S last year, and "a in
Canada, against 80 last year.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-02
THE FOOT AS A BRAKE.
Ski1Iful1y Applied 1t Often Prevents Ac-
cidents on Steep Hills.

cidents Steep Hills.
AS rider of ten years experience al
low me to add few pointers on brak
ing that may save a broken limb or
two. First, a rear brake is of little or
no use. To test this statement, clog
your rear wheel and see how easily you
can pull your bicycle along. Try the
same experiment with the front wheel,
and you will need no one to tell you
where the brake should be applied. A
brake is absolutely necessary for safe
city riding. One of the keenest enjoy
ments of cycling is coasting, and the
greatest element of danger is removed
if you know that you can stop your
wheel when you see danger looming up
in the course of your flying trip down
bill You can stop your wheel any
where on a hill by braking with your
foot. You can learn this in half an
hour, and knowing how few of the thou
sands of riders use the foot as brake
has prompted me to make this commu-
nication.
After you have learned to coast Sc
lect hill with an easy descent. When
| started nicely, with your feet on the
| coasters, slowly draw back your right
! foot, keeping a firm hold of the handles,
! your left foot Oh the coaster and your
wheel steady. Keep your eyes ahead,
only glancing at your right foot to see
that it is not low enough to get into
the spokes, turn the toe of your shoe te
the left, feeling your way under the
backbone and back of the forks. Dom
press your foot down until you are sure
your toe is across both forks; then pres
down gently at first, increasing thu
pressure until you bring your wheel t.
full stop. Repeat this until you hav'
full control of your wheel and can snul
or stop it at your pleasure, taking care
however, not to hold your foot s.
straight with the wheel as to have you
toe drawn in between the forks, ant
thus jam your wheel suddenly an
throw you If easier, use your left foe
in place of the right as the brake.
weigh $50 pounds and have stoppe
81 pound wheel on hill SO steep
using my foot as brake-that bac
pedaling and brake com bined did nc
previously stop. A rubber sole on you
shoe is more effective than leather
w. Haywood in New York Sun.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-02
A Third Requirements.

To be we'll shed and we'll gloved,
"bien chaussee ct bien gantee," used to
be the old fashioned criterion of ele-
gance, but the modern woman of fash
ion adds another requirement, "blen
corsetee,'' for the corset is today one OF
the greatest essentials of successful
toilet. 1t is now necessity to have an
appropriate corset for Nightingale
cycling, riding, golf-and corsets for
ordinary day and evening wear. Every
dress must have different corset, &C.
cording to the latest French fashions.
For golf corded waist without bones
is worn. This buttons in front and
offers no resistance to the swing of the
body. For riding very short black
satin affair is put on. A bicycle corset
is very similar, but is not SO thickly
boned, while a corset designed for even
ing wear is veritable cuirass-very
long wasted and literally making the
figure, but so we'll cut and balanced, as
it were, that there is no sensation OF
discomfort in wearing it.
Skirt and corset made of the same
figured taffeta or satin are the latest ex.
travagances. Both are trimmed with
lace and ruff1es and are even more cost
ly and far more elaborate than the gown
which covers them. -Exchange
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-02
rrIed on a BIKE.

Had it not been for the bike one Eng
lish volunteer in the late war between
Turkey and Greece declares that his
mang1ed body surely would have been
left upon the plains OF Larissa. In the
stampede from Larissa the volunteer
fell from his horse and twisted his leg
severely. He wss stunned by the fall,
but managed fnally to crawl back to
Larissa, where he net fellow country
man with a bicycle. The injured man
was placed on the wheel, and with his
sound leg he pedaled safely over the
plains to the nearest railway station,
where he abandoned the bike to the
Turks.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-02
MRS. ELIZABETH NJ. TAYLOR.


president; Mrs. Sarah Donnelly, vice
president, and Mrs. Sue Reppert, secre-
tary and treasurer Mrs. Reppert was
the leading spirit in the organization
and early management OF the company.
She was very active woman and gen
orally showed good judgment in making
purch asses and in making sales when an
opportunity presented itself. In COM
paratively short time the company had
purchased property valued at $40, 600,
with comparatively small cash pay
ments and with the future obligations
SO distributed as to make a proper care of
the investments after the collapse of the
market considerable burden upon the
stockholders.
It was soon learned that organization
and investment were simple matters as
compared with a judicious management
of the investments which had little or
no revenue to defray the expenses CT
special and regular taxes and the con-
stantly maturing payments. In 1891
the investment company's affairs We're
in somewhat chaotic state. 1t was
then that Mrs. Reppert was succeeded
in the office of secretary and treasurer
by Mrs Elizabeth M. Taylor, and Mrs.
Donnelly, who had removed from the
city, was succeeded by Mrs. Agnes
Munford, widow of the late Morrison
Munford, for many years the editor OF
the Kansas City Times.
Mrs. Taylor became the active officer
of the company. She has had some
years. experience in the offices of the
Marty Bros, who have handled large
real estate interests. Mrs. Taylor re-
stored order and made the necessary as
sessments to cover all delinquencie!
| and soon had the property of the com
| pany ON firm footing. Since that time
| every dollar of Indebtedness has beer
| paid off. Last week the company wa
reorganized under new name for thu
| purpose of disposing of its property
the stockholders being quite confiden
| that, with the renewed activity of tn
market, already felt, they will not onl.
come out with no loss but that the.
will make some profit on their invest
neepts- Kansas City Cor. Chicag
| HriDc-A
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-02
THE BUSY HOUSE FLY.
Although Much Too Familiar We Really
Know Little About 1t.

Although Much Too Familiar We Really
Know Little About 1t.
It is almost impossible to ascertain
the length of life of the house fly or the
details of it's habits and peculiarities,
save as they manifest themselves to cas-
ual observation, for the reason that,
while buzzing about everywhere and
apparently living with ease under the
most adverse conditions, it is, neverthe-
less, when confined within narrow quar-
tiers. almost certain to die within short
time, frequently living but few hours.
Nevertheless, according to the best de-
auctions possible, Good Housekeeping
finds it apparent that in the latitude OF
Washington there is time for IL or IL
generations each summer. 1t is estimate
ed that each female fly lays about 120
eggs during her lifetime, and with
dozen generations per year 1t VIII easily
make the head of a skilled arithmetician
swim to compute the multitude OF de-
scendants from a single mother" start
ing business in earnest in the early
spring.
In remedial way not much is recon-
mended which is not already familiar
| to every housewife. A careful screening
: of the windows aud doors during the
summer months, with the supplementary
use of sticky fly paper, is method
| known to every one, and there seems te
| be little hope in the near future of much
relief by doing away with the breeding
| places. A single stable in which horse
is kept will supply house flies for an ex
tended neighborhood. People living IL
agricultural communities will probably
never be rid of the pest, but in cities
with better methods of disposal of gar
bage and with the lessening of the mum
bers of horses and horse stables conse
uuent upon electric street railways ant
bicycles, and probably horseless car
riages, the time may come before yer.
long when window screens may be dis
carded.
The prompt gathering of horse ma
nure, which may be treated with linn
or kept in a specially prepared PIT
would greatly abate the fly nuisance
and city ordinances compelling hors
owners to follow some such course al
desirable Absolute cleanliness, eve
under existing circumstances, will
ways result in diminution of tt
numb ers of the house fly, most house
hold insects being less attracted to tt
i premises Of what is known as the oil
fashioned fnusckeeper" than to tho:
of the other kind.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-02
Oueen Victoria.

No portrait of Queen Victoria, 1T has
been said, is satisfactory to those who
know her WELL The likeness may be
perfect, but the expression is too sad,
too melancholy, and gives no idea OF
the brightness with which her face can
light up in private life when free from
public cares But what other expression
than that of sadness-the sadness OF
one who has burden almost too great
to bear-can be expected in the por-
traits of woman who for so years has
been ruler over one-fifth of the globe
and the sovereign of 300, 900, 600 OF
souls? The first remark she made when,
a mere girl, she was Informed of her &C
cession to the throne of Britain was,
my lord archbishop, pray for me. p"
And the sense of responsibility which
this first presentiment of the duties
which her lot called upon her to per-
form must have deepened as the sphere
of her influence widened, as the rush OF
the modern spirit of change increased,
bringing ever new problems to be
solved as years with all their memories
passed over her head. The influence of
Queen Victoria has been twofold. She
has never ceased to be queen, with a
strong natural sense of her own claims
and the authority of her position; she
has never ceased to be a good woman,
whose domestic virtues have given her
a hold on the hearts of her people that
no one in the long line of her predeces-
sors ever possessed.
In public life she is the best informed
person in her empire as to the progress
OF political events and the current OF
political opinion at home and abroad,
and in private life she has united hard
thinking and love of art. The work OF
a sovereign, such as she has been called
on to do, is never ending. Every day.
every hour, has its task, which can on.
ly be accomplished by systematic ar
rangement of every moment of time. Ii
these royal duties, in the supreme cour-
tesy of punctuality, she has never fail
ed, and when this is remembered it Il
only a mean spirit that can object tt
her not taking of late years NOR
prominent part in the social life of Eng
land. A sovereign who takes such
part is apt to become partisan and b
Influenced by the factions of the court
and indeed, before Victoria's reign, ev
cry sovereign was partisan, while sh
has always been loyal to her ministers
to her parliament and to her people,
Harper's Bazaar.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-02
BIG REUNION OF OLD VETS.
Held at Old Salem Church, Rocking
ham County.


A big Confederate Veteran reunion
was held at Old Salem church, Rock
1Dgham county, August Goth. Col. j.
S Carr, of Durham, was the princ' pal
speaker.
There were fully 5000 people pres
ent. Barbecue, fried chicken, coun-
try cured ham, pies and cake and
things, that constituted feast fit
for king followed the feast OF reason
and flow OF the soul. that Col. Cai r
spread before the old vets.
1t was Rockingham's gala day, and
evert body and his wife took day off
and had a good time. Col. Benton
Withers, Of Danville, Capt. John r.
Webster Rev. Mr.. Munday and 9th
ers spoke. Mrs Gov. Scales and
daughter, Mrs. Wiley. of Danville. sat
| upon the platform. A splendid brass
band from Danvl!le furnished capita
| music for the occasion. Young ladies
| recited war poems, and sang wal
songs, until the old vets lived ovel
| the past and wept The day was per
| feet, and the occasion grand sue
. cess
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-02
BICYCLE JOKELETS.

Those old bikes with the high front
wheel were the "high rollers of the
cycling world.
The difference between a ball player
and biker is that the latter always
earns his runs.
The congressman who bike are not al
together in favor of rotation in office,
however much they rotate while in
office.
The new fad of the Christian En-
deavorers called "church cycle runs
may be considered a choice combination
of "grace and grease. "