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The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1898-06-02
Significance of CoIors.

The fact that that lovely shade,
burnt orange" is SO fashionable
just now is but another instance
proving that fashion as we'll as
history repeats itself, for in the "long
ago" orange was the preferred shade
for brides and the muses.. 1t is said
to mean "divine inspira ton and
poetry"
An exchange asserts that "the
muses. are represented with draperies
OF orange color" Orange was once
the color of Hymen.
Brides in olden times wore orange
colored wells called fam muem
Even now brides wear orange bios
SONS on their wedding day"
Black" con 5inues this writer
ISLANDS for sadness, for deception
for disappointed hopes. Legend
says that Apollo turned the raven
black because it had betrayed him
Hence the raven is called the bird O
misfortune"
"Pink denotes health, love, youth
pleasure. Violet Is the tint ascribec
to faith"
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1898-06-02

loss of energy which leads finally to con-
sumption is not always very rapid, but If
it isn't stopped it will presently begin to
saw its way into the most vital part of the
body, the lungs. There would be very
little consumption if every family would
keep DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical Discov-
cry in the house, and use it whenever feel
ing tout of sorts" 1t keeps the entire
body in such high condition of health
and forcefulness that wasting diseases have
no chance to get foot hold. A teaspoon
full or two before meals, in little water,
gives the digestive organism power to as
simulate the b1ood-making, nerve oning,
strength building properties of the food.
It enables the liver and excretory system
to clear the circulation of bilious poisons
and remove all waste matter from the body.
1t replaces worn out tissue with hard mus
cular flesh, and changes weakness and
debility into active power and nerve force.
The originator of this great Discovery"
R ". Pierce, M. D., Is chief consulting
physician to the great Invalids' Hotel and
Surgical Institute of Buffalo, N. Y, at the
head of a staff of nearly score of eminent
associate physicians and surgeons. He has
acquired, in his over thirty years of active
practice, reputation second to no living
physician in the treatment of obstinate,
chronic diseases. His prescriptions must
not be COMPOUNDED with the numerous
boom" remedies, "extracts," "com-
pounds" and sarsaparillas," which
profit-seeking druggist is often ready to
urge as substitute. DIR. Pierce's medi-
cines are the product of wide experience
and deep study. Any one may consult
him by mail free of charge.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1898-06-02
Sweetest Love story in Literature

"Wherever Mrs. Browning trod,
whatever she touched, became en-
dowed with the sacredness of her
presence" writes Clifford Howard of
Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Brown
ing in the June Ladies' Home
journal. "When Mr.. Browning re-
turned with her on visit to Eng
land, after an absence of several
years, he repaired to the little church
in which they had been married, and
there, at the entrance, he reverently
kneeled and kissed the paving stones
upon which she, the light of his be-
ing, had stepped And in after years,
when the light had gone, from his
life, he sought this sacred spot on
the twelfth of each September, and
in the dusk of the evening shadows
passers-by might have seen white
haired man kneeling for a moment as
if in prayer before the doorway OF
the dark and silent church. Yet
little would they have thought to
recognize in this man the poet
Browning: he whose mystical writ
iDgs had led the world to regard him
as q man of austere nature"
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1898-06-02
Food For the Aged.

At the latter extremity of life little
trouble Is taken to suit the diet to the
changed requirements. Sir Henry
Thompson warns us that old age-the
time when digestive forces are on the
wane-is not the period for increased
richness of food and condensed forms Of
alimentation. This is an error leading
to much misery in old age. Less meat
Is required after middle age, and the
food should be light md easily digest
ed. Dishes difficult of mastication are
also to be avoided for although the
modern dentist has d ne his part toward
removing this necessity, yet the ability
to assimilate the hearty foods is greatly
lessened in advancing years. Undoubt-
eddy many elderly persons suffer from
anamia through lack Of suitable foods.
Plain joints they can no longer eat with
pleasure or benefit. and, such things as
nourishing soups, minces and appetiz-
ing made dishes containing various CO.
reals and vegetables not being always
available, the appetite not being clam
orous, they go without, thus becoming
bloodless and suffering from lack Of vi
tality. Fruit, both cooked and raw, is
an invaluable food for those past mid
die life, as indeed it is at all ages.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1898-06-02
Will Take Our Time to Decide.

st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The desire of the continental
European nations to make the
United States declare itself on the
question of the retention of the
Philippine Islands will not be graft
fed. OF course, the islands will be
held until the war ends. Then the
country will consider the question of
whether it will hang on to them
permanently, sell them, or exchange
them for territory nearer home. But
the country will take it's own time
about deciding this question, and
will decide it according to what it
deems at the moment to be the best
interests of it's people. Europe's
meddlesomeness will neither hasten
this decision nor modify it in the
faintest degree. just at present the
United States holds no part of the
islands except the neighborhood of
Manila Bay, but enough soldiers will
soon be sent to Dewey to enable him
to complete the conquest
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1898-06-02
GROOM YOUR WHEELS.
A Bicycle Needs rs Much Attention as
Horse.

A Bicycle Needs rs Much Attention as q
Horse.
New riders should be advised to take
care Of their bicycles and told explicitly
how to do 1t. The bicycle is machine
that takes greater risk than any other
now in use, considering its strength,
delicacy and what is expected of 1t. 1t
weighs from 20 to 30 pounds, and Is
expected to carry from 100 to $50
pounds over rough roads at speed vary
ing from to 10 miles an hour. Too
many riders are under the impression
that a wheel needs no care and that 1t
is better than a horse chiefly for this
reason. While this is true, an exchange
says, manufacturer of hubs, pedals
and other parts realizes that too many
riders attempt to look after the me-
chanical details that are beyond them,
and advises them as follows: Don't
take your hub, bracket or pedal apart
as long as your wheel goes all right.
Do not fuss with it, except to keep it
clean. Many riders have the inquisitive
turn Of mind and desire to see how
things are inside, and the result is that
nine times out of ten things are not put
back az they were, and hence the wheel
goes lame. The machine is put up all
right, and if it runs all right let it run
all right until something does go wrong.
A wheel is like a horse, and if 1t is
we'll groomed and taken care of after
every ride it will do you splendid serv-
Ice. But don't fool with its insides. "
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1898-06-02
Some Samples of Spelling.
New York Sun.

new 10TH DUN.
A Jersey City druggist is making a
collection of the queer orders he
receives from people who send
children to the store for things.
Here are a few samples of them:
"This child Is my little girl. sent
you five cents to buy to sitless
powders for groan up adult who is
sike."
Another reads:
Dear Doctor, Piles gife barer five
sense worse of Auntie Toxyne for to
gargle babi's throte and obleage."
An anxious mother writes:
you will pleas give the lettle boi
five cents worth of epcac for to
| throw up in a i've months old babe.
N. Il -1he babe has a sore STUN
| mick"
This one puzzled the druggist:
81 have a cute pain in my child g
diagram. Please give my son some
thing to release It,"
Another anxious mother wrote:
| MY little bailey has eat up it's
fathers parish plasther. Send an
antedote quick as possible by the
enclosed little girl"
This writer was evidently in pain :
81 hat a hot time in my insides and
witch l wood likeit to be extinguished.
What is good for to extiDguish it
| The inclosed quarter is for the price
\ of the extinguisher. Hurry pleas"
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1898-06-02
co,ored whee,s AL, the RAGE.

It is evident that gay co1ored wheels
will be all the rage this season. - The
up to date cycles seen thus far indicate
that the brighter the color the more
popular the machine this year. Dealers
say the call for the somber black color
ed machine is greatly exceeded by the
demand for gayer colors. The most
popular hues of those asked for are
bright yellow and olive green. The
vermilion tinted wheel is not SO much
In evidence as the yellow, green OF
maroon or nickel. The last named col
ors seem to predominant this year, and
only the mild cyclist who is afraid OF
attracting attention will stick to the
quiet black frame modeL.-New York
World
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1898-06-02
THE LISTENER.

Postmaster General Charles Emory
Smith has resigned the edi5orship of the
Philadelphia Press.
Fencing is the chief recreation of Sir
Charles Dixie. At his Chelsea home he
has q splendidly appointed fencing room
General Fitz-Hugh Lee came home from
Havana on the anniversary of the day
that he went home from Appomattox, the
9th day of April.
The most notable feature of recent de-
bate in the Austrian reichsrath was the
continuously intoned declaration by Herr
Wolf, "Herr President, we shall throw ink
pots at your head.
Hector d. Lane of Alabama, whose
death is announced, was one of the found
ers OF the American Cotton Growers Pro-
tectfve association and was its presidents
at the time of his death.
Senator Allison is an accomplished diner
out, being in great demand on account of
his ability to sustain an entertaining con-
yersation. The senator has just passed his
sixty ninth birthday, but really does not
look over 90 or SO.
When Governor Brady of Alaska was
asked recently why he lived in such an
out of the way place. he replied, 81 can
get more of the good things of life in
Alaska with q smaller amount of effort
than in any other place have ever been
In =
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1898-06-02
PATRIOTIC KERNERsVILLE
Her People Anxious for Freedom OF
Cuba-One Boys Return.

Her People Anxious for Freedom of
Cuba-One Boys Return.
Editors Sentinel.
While our young men and citizens
Eave not shown an eager disposition
to volunteer and press toward the
front in the Spanish-American trou-
BILE, yet, there is a patriotic spirit
among our people and all are anxious
for the freedom .of Cuba and victory
in every conquest for the American
soldiery.
One of our young men. however, a
true, brave, patriotic son, enlisted.
learn that a few days since he went
to Greensboro with his captain and
there the captain deserted him and
the poor fellow was lost from his lead
er and had to return home at his own
expense. Ia pity that such captains
and leaders of this great war should
be put in authority and show them
selves so deficient in military leader
ship. The loss of this one soldier may
prove the loss of great victory.
However, we are glad to see him re-
turn and hope to gain the victory
without his service.
Kernersville, May 26. X.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1898-06-02
Wrinkles and Massage.

Wrinkles come from the relaxation Of
the skin and from the gradual with
drawal of flesh making properties from
the face. Massage will be found to give
tone to the skin, and if little carefully
prepared complexion cream is rubbed in
at the same time, it will supply the
nourishment which the skin would 9TH
erwise lack and without which the
wrinkles will become much more un-
slightly. For a double chin, face mas
sage is very good in reducing it to its
normal proportions. But the treatment
In this case is rather different and re-
quires the use of the tips of the fingers
rather than the kneading process with
the hand.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1898-06-02
sREATH AND TONE.
Unusual Advice TO Vocal Students About
Controlling the Breath.

Controlling the Breath.
The above title may seem little un-
usual, as most beginners in the study
Of the art Of singing appear to suppose
that it requires great deal Of breath
60 make a tone. But to such a one l
would emphasize the instruction, "Do
not take too much breath, or l might
change the phraseology and say. "Only
take little breath.
What Is meant by the above direction
Is don't overload yourself with breath,
as many do. One never does this in
speaking; why should it be done In
singing? Have you ever been forced to
think Of controlling your breath when
speaking? OF course not. You can speak
by the hour and never think it neces-
eary to take breath, because you do so
unoonsciously at the end of every phrase
or sentence, merely replacing in so do
ing the small amount of air which you
have just used. You are talking on
what might be called an even lung full
of air-viz, you have never either COM
pletely filled or euptied your lungs.
When beginner is asked to sing, he
almost invariably takes into his lungs
about as much air as he can retain. In
such a condition he could not speak
comfortably, and why, therefore, should
he expect to sing or produce musical
tone? When properly used, it takes on
ly small expenditure of air to make
tone, and singer with his lungs only
comfortably filed will not have that
suffocating feeling which causes him to
expel unvocalized air with the tone in
order to get relief from the overpressure
In his lungs.
Starting with the lungs only COM
fortably filed, singer will find it pos
sible, with throat perfectly easy and
relaxed, so far as his voluntary muscles
are concerned, to hold tone for long
time, because at first he will not be
tempted to OVERFLOW the tone and thus
waste the air, and later on, when it
seems that nearly all the air in the
lungs is exhausted, he will find that by
what call pulling up from beneath"
he can draw on a reservoir of air which
he rarely uses.
The foregoing ideas in regard to con-
trolling the breath properly are express
ed by a writer in The Etude.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1898-06-02
STAGE GLINTs.

Brandon Hurst is dramatizing "Quo
Vadis."
Fanny Davenport will not act again
until next fall.
Charles Wayne will star in ga Sure
Cure" next season.
Henry Guy Carleton is writing a new
comedy for Smyth g Rice.
Next season Smyth & Rice will prob
ably have six companies on the road.
Wilton Lackaye recently produced
"Charles O'Malley" in Washington.
Hoyt g Mckee have three companies
playing "A Stranger In New York. 1"
Sam Bernard and Marie DressIer will
costar in sThe Marquis of Michigan. !"
Merri Osborn has made hit in Bos.
ton in the title role Of "The Chorus
Girl. +"
Nancy Mcintosh will appear next sea-
SON in play written by her brother,
Burr Mcintosh.
"a True Kentuckian. /" with Joseph
Mortimer as star, Will start from Brook
Ign Next season.
Edna Wallace Hopper is to play the
part of boy In the new New York
Casino Review.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1898-06-02
FACTS AND FIGURES.

The United States leads the world
as a sugar consumer.
The Importation of madden root ia
chiefly from Holland.
Antwerp is the principle market of
Belgium for paints and colors.
Cape Colony's diamond production
during 1896 amounted to $22, 1885,
600.
Over $50, 900 pounds of ivory were
disposed of at auction sale in Ant
werp recently.
In Brazil a single pineapple has
never attained greater growth
than seven pounds.
In civil-service examination in
England there were 1866 failures in
a class of 1 ,972.
The exports of glass from Furth,
Bavaria. to the United States are
growing largely.
American apples have already, in a
large measure, conquered the markets
OF England and Germany.
| Wheat in Russia ranks third in the
production of cereals, rye taking the
lead and oats the second place.
In thirty years Germany, from
being little more than self support
ing, has become the largest sugar
exporting country.
During 1897 1928 head of liys
stock in Switzerland were affected
with foot and mouth disease; of this
number /, IA were killed.
The mining laws of the Republic o
Mexico insure the prospector full
protection and enjoyment of any
thing valuable he may find.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1898-06-02
Tarheel BOYS in Jacksonville.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, May 26 Col.
Eugene Harrell has been granted a
weeks furlough for the purpose of
returning to Raleigh and straighten-
ing up the business Of the First Regi-
ment. He will leave Jacksonville for
Raleigh next Monday. General Breck.
enridge reviewed the troops here to-
day, which was followed by an inspec-
tiOn
The Government has not yet
equipped US and see no prospect OF it
this week at least. Why the matter
is delayed is not explained unless it is
connected with the possibility that
our destination has not been fully de-
termined.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1898-06-02

BUTTERFLY AND HIGH COMB CoIFFUREs.
of blue the medici collars from the
shoulders look better than with almost
any other tint, especially when worked
in gold; for gold run lace is one OF the
extravagances of the day.
Apropos of evening dress may be
mentioned some new evening coiffures.
In one of these the hair is dressed with
the high comb now so greatly in vogue,
the arrangement being carried out with
a cluster of curls above the comb. A
second couture, from its clever arrange
ment Of wings or loops, has gained the
name Of "the butterfly"
Satin and velvet ribbons figure once
more as fashionable dress trimmings.
The skirt Of gray yelling dress is trim
med with innumerable rows of narrow
black velvet, requiring some dozens of
yards to make it what it should be. AT
the hem many rows follow the outline
of the skirt, but above they are put on
in rounded form, the two arrangements
, divided by space
Perpendicular line trimming of col
ored ribbon in groups of three lines on
skirt and bodice affords the simple but
distinguished garniture of some of the
finest imported cloth gowns Green on
black and blue on gray represent some
of the combinations
Pink evening gowns in the fashion
are pretty sure to show touch of black
somewhere. Black ruches in soft chiffon
| fall over the sleeves or hem the edge OF
| the skirt, and with this there often ap-
pears an admixture of lightest dove col
| or, a shade much in vogue and notice
able also in the newest light tinted
| cloth gown.
Silk fringe and colored cord lacine
| furnish newest garnitures for skirt and
| bodice of house dresses. For example,
! an opening cut out showing a contrast
/ ing color underneath will have lacine
| of cord across.
| Much interest at present is centered
! in a new form of dress decoration
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1898-06-02
The Hand That Feeds.

Chicago Journal.
Only one nation in the world can
war with us and escape destruction.
That nation is Russia, and Russia is
not keen for that sort of sport at
present. The lack of wheat is doing
more damage to Spain today than
the lack OF ammunition. You can
hire thousands of men to go out and
face death from bullet, but no man
will die OF hunger without displaying
considerable pique. just at present
you could get a whole regiment OF
soldiers for a quarter of Kansas
wheat in Italy. That is one reason,
among many why the "eombina
ton of European powers" has done
nothing of late, and why France
hurries to explain that she is ''strict
~ NEUTRAL" and why the German
emperor has reconsidered his hanghty
intentions. They are now quarrel
ng with their bread an d butter.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1898-06-02
The National Guard.

The War Department officials at
tribute much of the vexatious delay
encountered in raising the volunteer
army to the fact that Federal authori-
ties were misled by the statements
that practically the entire National
Guard would volunteer; that as a
whole it was we'll equipped and that
the only raw recruits that would have
to be trained in the primary princi-
pies Of soldiery and armed and equip
ped from head to toe would be the Is
or 20 per cent of the Guard who would
be rejected on the physical examina-
ton. Instead OF this fully half the
men mustered in as members of the
National Guard regiments are fresh
recruits, without uniforms or accou
trements, and without the slightest
idea Of military movements or tactics.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1898-06-02
HAT A KNOT IL.
A Nautical Term Which is Much in
Evidence.

A Nautical Term Which is Much in
Evidence.
Probably there is no nautical term
more frequently used during the
present naval war than the word
knot" The word is synonymous
with the nautical mile, or $3.50 81
feet, while, as every one knows, the
geographical mile is 5 $50 feet. This
would make the knot equal to 1
1900 of geographical miles, and,
therefore, in order to compare the
speed of a boat expressed in knots
with railroad train it is necessary
to multiply the speed in knots by
l Is 100. Another point to remem-
her is that speed means a distance
Travelled in unit time, SO that when
one speaks of a boat having a speed
of 20 knots it is not necessary or
proper to add per hour, as the word
itself when employed as a unit speed
signifies nautical miles per hour. A
cruiser that makes 81 knots travels
24.15 geographical miles per hour.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1898-06-02
THE MAD DOG RueARoo.
Scientists 1nsist That There L. Nc
Such Thing ms "HydrophObim."

Scientists Insist That There Ii No
such Thing ms "Hydrophobia."
In the June Ladies' Home Journal
Edward w. Box writes on THE
Rugaboo OF the Mad Dog" quoting
ii number OF authorities to show
that there ia no such disease as
ENCYCLOPEDIAS" and il quiring fit
ia not time, therefore, in view of these
indispubtable facts, that we should
give ourselves a little more freedom
from this lugaboo of. the mad dog2
What the newspapers so essentially
report as cases of 'hydrophobia' are,
in reality, nothing more nor less
than instances of people who have
been bitten by dogs and frightened
INFO hysterical conditions in which
they involuntarily reproduce all the
supposed symptoms of 'hydropho
bia.' They make the public mind
| nervous, and do more to spread the
silly notion of belief in 'hydropAo
bia' than anything else. Women
have had their feelings played upon
long enough by this foolish notion OF
'bpdrophobia,' and enough unnec-
essary suffering has been inflicted
upon the dog, who is often killed for
nothing but a popular fallacy. 1t Is
high time that common sense should
rule; that we should believe the fact
that there Is no such thing as
'hydrophobia,' and rid ourselves OF
this bugaboo of the mad dog"
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1898-06-02
MY Son Oliver" Again.
Raleigh News and Observer.

halelSn news ana observer.
In the year of grace 1896, Oliver
81. Dockery, the so-called war horse
of the Pee Dee," canvassed the State
denouncing the policy of the gold
standard and repudiating the Re-
publican candidates for President
and Governor. He told us that
Mckinley was Mark Hanna's tool,
and that Russell was nominated by
bribery and corruption. His long
leadership of the Republican party
gave him ample opportunity to ex-
pose the rottenness OF the party and
the unworthiness of its leaders. Yes.
terday he was nominated by a Radi-
cal convention of negroes and offict t.
seekers who endorsed Mckinley and
Pritchard. Ii he accepts, the Colonel
goes back to wallow in the slime of
Radicalism and gold bugism.