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The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-06-12
Flag Day, June 14th.

Comparatively few people have the
fact indelibly stamped upon their
memory plates that some years ago
congress provided for an annual flag
day, the proper observance of which
is necessarily patriotic. 1t was a
happy thought wisely carried out,
so far as the congress that conceived
it was concerned, but the observance
of Flag day has not been so general
as it should have been, owing large
ly to the lack of proper efforts to
make it generally known that such
a day has been set apart for special
homage to "Old Glory. = 1t is to be
hoped that the observance of Flag
day this year will be more general.
Object lessons in patriotism are good
for old and young. We need more
of them'in this country for the good
of American citizenship.
Next Monday, June 14th, is Flag
day. Let the people give it due and
proper observance. Fling out the
flags and let them float, not only
from the staffs of public buildings,
but from every private residence
and business place. Some will say
they have no flag. No American
home should be without one, and
now is good time to supply a long
felt want.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-06-12
A BOatlOad of Each Was Shipped
From This Port This
Week. SrN
OF SUPERIOR QUALITY.
No Better Brick or BrOwnstOne
In the Country Than That
Which L'Anse Produces.

The "Charry Ames, large.
three-masted boat, took on a
cargo of fine brownstone at the
companys docks here this week,
The consignment being for
Chicago parties.
L'Anse brownstone is rapidly
becoming known far and wide as
the very best that can be had,
and the outlook is that the
company will have very pros
porous season.
CARGO OF BRICK SHIPPED.
The L'Anse Pressed Brick COM
pany this week also shipped
by boat $4,000 of its celebrated
pressed brick to Gregory Therien,
contractor at Lake Linden. IL
is understood that the company
has many more orders from
various points.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-06-12
For Rent.

The store room in the Sicot @
building, at L'Anse, formerly occu-
pied by jacobson q Levitan.
is now for rent, or the entire
building will be rented for one year
to responsible party for S25 per
month. For particulars address,
OCTAVE SIcoTTE,
[4-10tf] Minneapolis, MINI.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-06-12
Catholic Church Directory.

Sunday, June 18th: First mass,
Pequaming, 8 a. M; high mass.
L L'Anse. 1870 a. IN. catechism 2 p. m. +;
devotion pm. Rev. w. II. JoIsTEN.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-06-12

Mrs. A. Seigel is prepared to
serve the very best of ice cream,
either by dish or in quantity, at her
home OF Third street.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-06-12
Hancock ~ Calumet IL. Rad
ditiOnal Sunday Trains.

Commencing Sunday, June 9th,
and continuing until further notice,
the train leaving Lake Linden at
1915 p. IN. for Hancock and leaving
Hancock at l:50 p m. for Lake Lin
den, will run daily. These trains
will be run to secure direct connec-
tio2s at Houghton with the day
trains Of the ID. S. S. & A. R'y, from
and to Marquette, which are now
rIn daily.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-06-12

Mrs. E. Beeberts has opened
dressmaking rooms at Mrs. Seigel S
residence, and is prepared to do all
kinds of dressmaking. Prices rea-
sonable and satisfaction guaranteed.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-06-12
For Sale.

Secondhand buggy for sale
cheap. Also a number of buggy
wheels. Inquire of Con. Steinmetz,
L Anse.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-06-12
MINERAL RANGE RAILROAD
Additional Sunday Trains During
the Summer Months.

Commencing Sunday, June 9Th,
and continuing until Sunday, Sept.
Goth, the trains leaving Red Jacket
1915 p. M, for Houghton, and leav-
ing Houghton lao p. m. for Red
Jacket, will run daily.
These will be in addition to the
trains scheduled on the public time
bills as running on Sundays. [5-29t5
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-06-12

Next Monday the people of T. e
800" will vote on the proposition
to bond the city in the sum OF
sl4, 900 to be used for general street
improvements.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-06-12

Bicycle caps, shoes, stocking,
soyes,sweaters. Ed. HAAS & Co.,
Houghton, Mich.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-06-12
CITY ITEMS.

m for a change TO summer days,
Twill be welcome treat;
ubeu the weather clerk blows the frost away
And turns on plenty Of heat.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-06-12

Boys suits, 10 to 10, fancy plaids,
at $500. Ed. HAAS Il Co.
Houghton, Mich.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-06-12

Bicycle Suits, -. 90 to $1,000. Send
us your size and price desired.
ED. HAAS h Co, Houghton, Mich.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-06-12

Novelties in Childs Suits, ages
3 to years. Selection sent on ap-
proval. Ed. HAAS & Co.,
Hougnton, Mich.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-06-12

w. L. Douglass $500 shoes.
ED. HAAS & Co., Houghton, Mich.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1897-08-26
USES FOR CHERRY PITS.
Italians Gather Them to Make Medi-
cine and NewsbOys to Gamble.

Since cherries have become cheap
enough to be handled by the push-cart
peddlers number of Italians have
been picking up the pits thrown away
on the streets by cherry-eaters. a
diminutive Italian girl is the most per-
sistent worker of the kind seen here
abouts. She appears at the entrance
to the Brooklyn bridge soon after noon,
and few cherry pits round there escape
getting into the wooden box she car
ries under her arm. A bridge police
man stopped the girl few days ago and
asked her what she was going to do
with the cherry pits.
Make medicine" she replied.
What kind of medicine?" asked the
copper.
mo speak English" said the girl, as
she went on gathering the pits.
''That's always the way with them
Eyetalians," said the policeman to a
bystander. IF you ask them ques-
ton they'll give you a Knockout blow
by telling you they can't talk the
langwidge."
Park row is fertile hunting ground
for the pit gatherers, and the guam
tity of pits that can be gathered in few
hours is surprising. With box or a
bag in which to carry the pits the pick
ers work along the streets where the
cherry push-carts are stationed. They
scour the cutters and roadways, and
seem to be oblivious to everything but
what they are seeking. Cable cars and
trucks have no terrors for them.
Besides the use made of the pits as a
medicine, the newsboys gather them to
play with. They play a sort of marble
game with the pits, but it is not a pop
ular game, because cherry pits are easy
to obtain. Two players take part in
the game. Each player furnishes pit
and the players alternately take the
two pits in one hand, shake them and
drop them on the ground. Then the
player lays the index finger of one han6
on the ground between the pits ant
with one of his other fingers drives one
pit toward the other. If he hits it he
wins. If he misses the other player
wins. The stakes are the pits used il
playing.-N. Y. Sun.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1897-08-26


Mrs. Mason was lingering one of the
pamphlets with pardonable pride when
the door bell rang and the secretary Of
the society entered, prepared for work.
Have they Gomez" she asked, anxious
". The president nodded towards the
pile. The secretary took one up. "Oh,
Dow pretty they are! They will be
quite Irresistible"
ibe rest of the board entered shortly
IN groups of twos and threes, and a:
last all were settled down to work ear
nestly in directing the envelopes. The
sound OF many pens scratching away
herrily was broken only now and then
by laughing remark or spicy bit of
personality.
Mrs. Melrose Montagu? HIM" ex-
Claimed one. Must be pretty stirring
appeal to move her"
Better sprinkle some grated onions
IN to draw her tears" laughed an
other.
Mrs Bemas Burns" said the secre-
sary. oh. what's the use? We've sent
ner appeals every year, and we have
never got one cent from her, though
shes as rich as Crnsus."
Mentally the president corrected: !:
But not this appeal"
why, yes" some one answered. 1--WE
feaily should send her a bill for post
sge' we have wasted so many stamps on
Inc afternoon passed by, interrupted
oniy by the appearance of the little
.sr1 .u.ia with bread and butter and tea.
,nere's one thing" remarked the pres
.uent, with sigh of satisfaction: "I'm
cure there are no mistakes. If there's
vSs '0ing hate more than another it's
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1897-08-26

printers devils; we'll, they were right
lv named. Oh, wouldn't she go down
The next morning! wouldn't she! But
what could she do? No amount of
scolding woulc ever change the dismal
situation. The mischief was done. Not
penny would come to them from the
beloved appeals. There was only one
honorable course to pursue. She must
put her hand into her pocket and pay
for the expense of printing. That would
be $50. And then there was the post
stamps because they had thought first
class matter was more dignfed. That
would be $50. Fifty dollars in all, from
widows slender purse.
Poor Mrs. Mason went back to her
bed, but not to sleep. AS long as the
night was, it was not long enough, for
the dread grew upon her of being
obliged to face her colleagues after the
dreadful error should be known.
She remained at home all the morn
ing, waiting for ring of the door bell
that never came. At noon the postman's
whistle aroused her, and she went to
Tie uOOl uSISCif W tdhc tHC Aidll olu
him. There were three letters, which
she tore open in nervous haste.
The first was from Mrs. Bemas Burns.
Il am SO delighted to read" it ran,
"of your great success. see you have
$21 900 surplus money in the treasury.
Isn't it delightful? l have long put off
becoming member. You may put me
down now as patron at s25 year,
and. having kept you waiting SO long,
really feel that I owe You the iuclosed
check for s1oo to make up for my dila-
toriness."
The second was from Mrs. Melrose
Montagu.
II inclose a check for $780," she
wrote. 'for your magnificent and sue
cessful work. 1t gives me much pleas
ure to know that you are getting on so
well. If nothing happens shall be glad
to repeat this subscription next year
and the year after that. l am going to
get my mother and my sister both to be
patrons. for certainly you deserve the
| support of all thinking women"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1897-08-26
His First Day at the Races.

Farmer Wendell had come to the city
to look around a little and to see the
Brooklyn bridge. lie had read so much
about the races that he took run down
to Brighton to spend the day. Like
all others, he was ambitious to carry
back some of the money that was being
offered at big odds, and, approaching
bookmaker, selected 2O-to-1 shot
and then walked away to watch his fa-
vorite. AS the horses were going to
the post Farmer Wendell came running
back to the bookmaker all out of breath
and demanded his money.
Say. boss. that amt fair. Give up
my dollar! Give it up!"
"But what's the trouble?" inquired
the bookmaker.
"Wall, now, see here. I hain't been
drivin' hosses all my life fer nothin'.
Think yer kin make me believe hoss
can run mile and half on one-mile
track?"-N. Y. World.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1897-08-26

The Hanging Gardens of Baby Ion
four acres of garden raised ON base
supported by pillars, and towering IN
terraces one above another to height
of over 300 feet, and looking at dis
tance like vast pyramid covered with
trees-were constructed by Neb-
uchadnezzar, in order to crafty his
wife Amytis, who felt weary of the fat
plains of Babylon, and longed for some
thing to remind her of her native
Median hills. The vast achievements
of Thothmes il. of Egypt may be held
by some to surpass this; but it is a
question whether it was not rather
Queen Hatasu herself who did the
work. Hatasu was a remarkable wcm-
an, and wished to be regarded as a
man. She assumed male apparel and
an artificial beard, and gave herself
the name and style of a king. In adIi-
ton to all her wonderful achievements
as a builder, she erected two obelisks
of red granite 100 feet high before the
Temple of Ammon-great works that
are uneNcelled in form, color and beau
ty Of engraving by any similar pro-
ductions of Egyptian art, either earlier
or later.-Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1897-08-26
DELUstoN OF THE BICYCLE.
DtsappOin ting Riders who Look Well
When Seen from the Wheel.

When Seen from the Wheel.
81 have found that the experience was
the same with both the men and the
women" said a regular bicyclist, land
during two years of observation | have
never known the rule to fail. The slim
tailCr-Inade woman. who looks tidy and
pretty from behind, and is as matter
of fact neither young nor pretty when
her full face is seen, is already an old
theme for comic papers and jokers
But it took the bicycle to put a new
phase on the theme. Nine times out of
ten the woman who sits erect, wears a
well-titting suit, and displays a par.
ticularly slim and graceful figure is
certain to be-well, old when you ride
past her and look around to get good
view of her face. She is likely to be
thin, with wrinkled face, having as
much freshness and youth about it as a
dried apple. It's unfortunate that such
should be the case, but it is so, and in
the majority of cases the pretty, fresh
looking girl will not ride half as well
rs her older rival, who can keep a spick.
ness on the wheel that nobody can eN
Gel. The latter will dress better, hold
herself better, and so long as she is
viewed only by the men riding behind
her she will be far more impressive than
any of the younger and better looking
women on wheels. 1t is of course dis
appointing when the opportunity for
seeing the full face comes. But the
spectacle is pleasant enough for awhile.
'Something Of the same kind is true
of the men. | have known slim fell
lows, with ely-developed calves, to
turn out sallow-faced, dyspeptic-look-
ing men with eyeglasses and discon-
tented expression. Riding behind them
they looked like young athletes, and the
contrast with their real looks was some
thing awful. Not only physically but
also as far as their dress goes, such
men look better, when seen from the
rear, than nine out of any ten men
one sees on the boulevard, and they ride
along so slowly and delicately that they
are never ruffied and never wilt their
collars. They are like the disappoint
ing women, the spickestlooking riders
on the road. But they are never able
to stand the front yiew."-Chicago
Tribune.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1897-08-26
PERSONAL AND LITERARY,

Senator Chandler, who spends tn,
entire summer riding bicycle in New
Hampshire, has nearly 5000 miles te
his credit.
The fund for Prof. Barnard, tn,
veteran Connecticut educator, which
the Hartford Courant is raising, has
reached over $4,000.
Hon. Patrick \. Collins, ex-consu
general to London. who recently re.
turned to his home in Boston, will take
up his law practice Immediately.
Sir Julian Pauncefote rides about
Washington every evening on a three.
wheeled machine and is always accom-.
panied by one of the ladies of his family
MFR. Richard Sparks, of Boston, has
''four-clasp' medal for service in the
Crimean war. This not only certifies
that he landed with the first expedition
in 1884, and that he fought at Alma
Balaclava, and Inkerman, but that he is
one of the few survivors of the winter
of 1S54-'55.
Santa Teresa. the Mexican g.rl who
was banished from Sonora, Mexico, five
years ago, because of her wonderful
cures and influence over the Mex leans
left Texas for Arizona recently and was
accompanied to the station by three
armed men, who threatened to shoot
anyone who tried to modest her.
Lord Rosebery is one of the two or
three Scotchmen of prominence who dc
not play golf. He fears that it would
engross too much of his time. "When
a man in middle life" he says, "makes 4
deliberate choice of golf as his amuse-
ment, he is making a choice second only
in gravity to the choice of a wife"
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NO. 26.
WIT AND WISDOM.

HE Was Safe.-Rusty Rufus-"Ns
here paper says work amt what kills
men," Weary Waggles-"Dat's right,
too. 'Tain't loaded gun what shoots
folks; 'tain't pisen what pisens of 'em.
and faint work what kills 'em. It's
not KNOWN enough to let them things
alone-dat's what!"-Truth.
Those stories about the distress
in the agricultural districts on account
of the threatened failure of crops" OBJ
served the real estate man, 'are enough
to melt a heart of stone.' II don't
know" remarked the board of trade
operator. "They don't seem to be hav-
ing much effect on the curb. ."-Chica-
go Tribune.
-Matrimony. - "Oh, mamma" the
beautiful girl exclaimed, "he adores me
SO, and he is so noble and handsome,
and" "Yes, my child" "And he
brings such lovely references from his
last wife" Mother and daughter
mingled their tears of joy. Presently
they grew somewhat calmer and were
able to speak of trousseaus and things.
Detroit Journal.
An Achievement.-"T There is the
usual disposition to become jocose with
reference to Alfred Austin's poetry"
said the matter-of-fact person. YES"
replied the pale youth who writes, but
his detractors can't obliterate the fact
that he triumphs in one respect"
What is that?" "He gets his poetry
printed. d.'-Washington Star.
A Critical Moment-Arctic Explor-
er (recounting adventures of his last
expedition)-"We certainly could have
reached the pole, had not our dogs
given out at a critical moment" Fair
Listener (breathlessly). - why, I
thought that the Eskimo dogs were
perfectly tireless creatures!" Arctic
Explorer (gloomily)-"I-er-speaki in
culinary sense, miss" Puck.
IL. Addison!" "Yes, sire?" az
wish you would watch the newspapers
carefully, and cut out for my inspection
all the commencement essays and ora
tions you find" "Yes, your excellency,
but may inquire why you want them ?"
certainly. want to know how to dis
pose of certain grave questions which
are pressing for solution. on."-Pittsburgh
Chronicle Telegraph.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1897-08-26
THE BALLAD OF SLEEP.
, r,des 60 closely at my aide,

Who rides so closely at my aide,
Adovn the dusky twilight land?
what bold h.ghwayman. hollow-eyed,
With vizor black. and stealthy hand?
Each night he cometh unawares,
Or bright the stars, or dark the sky;
He heareth naught of tears or prayers:
No threat avails, Nor piteous sigh.
Gold hath not lured him to the strife:
For treasure-store he doth not bide:
Put Of that boon called human life
He cries, relentlessy: ''Divide!'
"7iye of that precious guerdon-time!
The hours when thou Houldst labor long,
And weave thy slender thread Of rhyme
Into the woof of human song.
How changed thou art, oh. robber grim,
Since erst | looked on thee in love,
Nor feared thy phantom vfsage dim.
Nor felt the iron meath thy glove.
Once thou didst WOO me tenderly
Within thy purple realms to rest:
Through dream-lit ways rode with thee,
NV shadow-steed with thine abreast;
Nor grudged thee then the glorious gift.
For youth was mine. with years of gain;
Now, brief the days!-I pray thee lift
Thy gantlet from my bride rein!
In vain plead: "One night Of gracer'
(The task so sweet, the world so wideD
The phantom llorsenian rides apace,
And sternly cries: Divide: divide!"
! Weld unto this bandit Sleep,
Whose sable pennOns ned and sway;
He draes me to his dungeon-keep!
He binds me till the break OF day!
Emma Huntington Mason. In N. Y. Inde-
pendent.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1897-08-26
ITO HIM THAT HATH." ?
6Y ANNA NATHAN EEYER, I
MRS. AMANDA HEMINGWAY MA

M RS. AMANDA HEMINGWAY MA
M son gave satisfied glance about
the room; she assured herself once
more that all was in readiness. There
were the tables and the chairs, the pens
and the ink, the stamps, the patent en-
velope moisteners. the Social Register,
and, last of ALL to which her eyes turned
in fond pride. :he neat piles of daintiIy
printed pamphlets-the appeals upon
which were pinned the hopes of the
West Side Exchange for Gentlewomen
the appeals that were to magnetic
the dollars from the pockets Of the very
miscrs.
Mrs. Amanda Hemingway Mason, the
president of The society, certainly had
every right to feel satisfied, for she had
been committee of one to attend to the
preparation of these appeals. Not only
bad the florid sketch of the socie,y's
rise and progress emanated from her
pne, and the ma.ny-sideJ and irrcfraga-
BILE arguments for its continued sup
port, but TO her sense Of the fitness of
things were due the size of the PAM
phlet, The width Of the margin; the ap-
pearance of the cover, the selection of
the type ard the color Of the ink. Not a
single detail of workmanship had es-
capped her eye. In the thousand and
one little matters that constantly arose
between her and the printer she had felt
q delicious and novel thrill She had
always cherished secret ambiricns IN a
literary way. In the correction of. the
proofs (both galley and paged) there
bad been rouchsafed her breath of the
divine afiiatus
And now at last the great work was
done, the little books we're ranged in or
derly piles and lay ready TO be slipped
into their envelopes and sent abroad
upon their triumphant mission. Each
bore the magnificent title tdone with
discreet variation of red and black ink):
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Typographical errors. To begin with,
there's no excuse for them, as skilful
proof-reader should correct them. And,
besides, there's something so cruel. so
irrevocable. ahcu, them"
YES" chimed in the treasurer: "no
amount of apologizing can ever make
up for them"
II see you have Miss Smythe with the
| final e." said the vice president. The
president smiled her contentment.
"And Mrs. Zerbolotzki will smile with
pleasure to see herself for once correct
y spelled" said some one.
That's worth about $50 to us alone"
replied another. The president beamed
At six o'clock the ladies left. Two of
them drove off to the branch post office
in the neighborhood to deposit the sp-
peals safely, and the president was left
alone with the great task accomplished.
That night Mrs. Mason had not been
in bed ten minutes before a terrible
thought struck chill to her veins. at
cant be possible!" she exclaimed, yet
rose instantly. donned her wrapper and
sure. There she lit the gas and seized
cne of the pamphlets. Turning the
pages rapidly to the treasurer's report.
she eagerly glanced dow the columns
of figures and was turned to stone.
Some dreadful! mistake of the printer
(tkis time she did not accuse the proof
reader) had placed sum of S21 900 in
ho u Ct 81.
ing deficit of that amount had made
it appear as If the society had $21 900
more than was needed Tor current ex-
penses.
What could be done? All that money
spent in vain: all that time wasted; all
that cloquence! 1t was cruel. And,
more serious even than all that, an in
stitution on the verge of bankruptcy
was bringing itself 70 the attention Of
everybody as successful. well-sup-
ported enterprise of philanthropy, OF
course it was hopeless now to expect d
single answer to the appeal. No one
was going to waste a dollar on society
with sci 600 more in the treasury than
it needed. The distracted president
paced up and down in agony. Oh. how
could be? How could he? Had she not
explained so elaborately and copied il
all so carefully. that this $2l,o 900 was
only loar and bad been paid back,
every penny, last year? Oh. dear! IT
was ridiculous to expect anyone to
study it all out and add aud subtract in
order to find ont the exact situation.
No, there was 90 help for it, il would so
abroad that the West Side Exchange
for Gentlewomen was in excellent fnan-
cial condition. and not a helping hand
would be stretched out to them-not
one She had heard people speak of