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The Arizona sentinel., 1900-11-14
When He Yielded.

The judge of western court decided a point adversely to 6 certain lawyer. The lawyer was stubborn, and insisted that the judge was wrong.
 'I tell you 1 am right" yelled the judge, with flashing eyes.
 q tell you that you are not!' retorted the counsel.
 "Crier," yelled the judge, '1 adjourn the court for ten min utes."
 He pitched into the counsel, and, after @ lively little fight, placed him hOrs du combat, after which business was resumed. But it was not long before an other misunderstanding arose.
 "Crier" yelled the judge, ''We will adjourn this time for twenty minutes.
 "Never mind, judge" cried the counsel, "keep on your coat -the point is yielded. Ny thuub's cut of joint, and I've spraIned my shoulder" "
The Arizona sentinel., 1900-11-14
SUBSCRIPTION RATES

SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Six Months co ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. Address:
 ARIZONA SENTINEL.
 Yuma, AriZ.
The Arizona sentinel., 1900-11-14
It is Hard But True.

Man that is born of his par
 ents is of few days and full of microbes. He goeth to school when youngster, and gets the seat of his pants paddled for something he did not do, until he is sick at heart. He grOWeth up like a weed in a back yard, and soon reacheth the age when he is composed largely of feet, freckles and appetite for pie. About the time he gets too long for short trousers and not tall enough for long ones, he goeth away to college and learneth how to monkey on three dol lar mandolin and play whisky poker. He cOmeth home a big
 ger fool than ever and marrieth sweet young thing whose pa is supposed to be wealthy, but whom, he subsequently, ascer- taineth, couldn't buy a prize rooster at a country inn. lie worryeth along from year to year gradually acquiring off
 springs until his house resem- bles Sunday school class just before Christmas. He fretteth through the day and lieth awake at night, trying to figure out how to keep his dependent pop ulation out of the poor house; his efforts are rewarded by having his daughters run away and get married and bring home a nice son-in-law every day to feast at his board. His sons grow up and call him governor and set him back for a five every day or two. About the time he has ac- quired enough Gucte to quarrel
The Arizona sentinel., 1900-11-14
"Haf to GO to Hell Yet."

A German once said to his dog: My dog, you haf snap. You vas only a dog, und Pm a man, but I wish I vas you. In effery vay you haf de best of it. Ven you wants to go mid de bed in you shust durns round dree times und lay down. Ven l go mid the bed in, I haf to lock up the place and wind the clock und undress myself, und my wife wake up and scholds me; den de babby cries und 1 haf to walk him up and down; then ven 1 shust get to sleep it's time to get up again. Ven you get up you stretch yourself and scratch a couple of times und you vas up. I haf to dress mineself und light the fire und put on the kettle, scrap some init my wife already, und den maybe 1 get some break fast. You den plays around all day und haf plenty of fun. l haf to york hard all day und haf trouble plenty. Ven you die you still haf de best of me; you shust lay still. Ven 1 die 1 haf to go to hell yet"
The Arizona sentinel., 1900-11-14

along the river, and as he is in terested in about all of them he spoke Interestingly. Along the river there are a number of points where the de- caying mountains have left de- posits of gold bearing sand and gravel, but the percentage of gold to the deposit in most cases is too small to make hand work protita ble, though in the case of the Advance Gold Dredging company's lands from one buck etful of dirt $240 was taken. It is believed by the use of the dredger and water this gold can be taken with much profit and at an expense of several thous
 and dollars the company above mentioned has built such a dredger after securing 2100 acres of land at the Pot Holes, and it is now digging a passageWay for itself through sand bar, and is expected to have the machine in the pay ground before the end l of this week, when the result of the experiment should soon be demonstrated. This dredger has a capacity of nearly 200O cubic yards of earth per day, and if the earth proves as rich as has been estimated, fortunes should soon be acquired by the stock holders.
 It is not only members of this company who are interested in the work being done, for five or six other companies have been organized, and have secured
 whatis believed to be rich placer
 ground. They are only awaiting
 a knowledge of the results of the
 first experiment to build addi-
 tional dredgers and begin similar
 work, the holdings of the various
 companies, ranging from twelve
 to twenty five miles above Yuma.
 While this is the most novel
 experience of the mining industry
 of the territory, it is but one H.
 lustration of the efforts being , put forth to develop it's mineral , resources, and each day is bring ing it's record of new discoveries , and development of former finds.
 1 know of no people more uni formly optimistic than those ot Yuma, or more thoroughly justi- , fled in their expectations. This , is even without speaking of irri- , gation development, of which ] will have considerable to say in the future. The worst thing , can say of Yumais that it has ar unspeakably worse case of peri t odical political irritation than Los
 Angeles, but as politics is but 3 skin disease, there are worse r things than that. The best thing ] I have to say relates to irriga tion, and of that later. .-E. F. H - in Los Angeles Herald.
The Arizona sentinel., 1900-11-14

over, he contracteth a bad cold and is hurried away before he has time to talk to his family. His sons blow in his estate on bad whisky and plug hats, and his wife puts the finishing touches on his career by marry ing the hired man.-EX.
The Arizona sentinel., 1900-11-14
OFFICIAL. MINUTES
Of the Proceedings of tis5 Board of Supervisors oE Yuma County, Territ0r of Arizona.

Yuma NOulay, iSTTEIVi
 of Arizona.
 OFFICE OF THE BOARD OF SU- PERvIsORS OF YUMA COUN- TY, ARIZONA. J
 Yuma, Arizona, Oct. 30, 1900. The board met pursuant to ad- journment.
 Roll called.
 Chairman P. G. Cotter, Super visor c. v. Meeden and clerk present. Supervisor T. ". UnderhilI absent.
 Minutes of the two previous meetings read and approved
 The clerk reports the sending the election matter to the in spectors in the fOlloWing-named' precincts
 Kofa, Mohawk, Toltec, Fortu- na, Somerton and Blaisdell-
 The clerk is instructed to ar range for the delivery of the election matter to Gila City and Laguna precincts; also to turn |
 over to c H. Brinley, inspector for Yuma precinct No. 1, the election matter for said precinct The board having been duly notified that l.. F. Bradshaw, the inspector of elections for Tyson precinct, would not be at said precinct on election day, being called away, and cannot act as said inspector of election, Rich ard Darling is hereby appointed inspector for Tyson precinct and the clerk is instructed to notify said Darling of his appointment
 At 12 m. the board adjourned to meet at 10 o'clock a. m. No vember 18th, A. D. 1900.
 P. G. COTTER,
 Chairman Board Supervisors. l Attest: w. B. MARVIN, 
 Clerk Board Supervisors.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-02-21
An Episode in Boredom.

An Afrikander, trekking from
Schuin's Hoogte to Palapsie with a
load of biltong, halted by a fontein al
the foot of kloof A Vortrekker sud
denly appeared from behind kopje,
waving a vierkleur
"Oorlogr' shouted the yoortrekker.
"Dopr replied the Afrikander, who
was a man OF ready wit.
Produce 1t" said the Voortrekker,
| Though | an no dopper.'
Ihe Afrikrnder's yoorlooper, who
WIS standing or the disselboom MUNICH
ing meaIies. jumped off and started on
( a run toward a krantZ. In Jumping a
SLUT. his foot slipped on a kip and he
| fell into a donga. The Others. after
much dop, got into heated argument
in Taal over the quickest way TO the
nearest dorp. One sail he should take
the drift over the spruit. and the other
that he should pont over the pan. a
carp came along and took them both
around the vlei and through the poort
TO the lager where they should be safe
from rooineks.-N New York Sun.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-02-21
String ding with Death.

Among the poverty-stficken peasants
of Russia each winter finds many vic
tins of starvation, but adds also TO the
experience of those thousands whose
one and only object is to solve the
problem of keeping soul and body to-
gether. Their only solution of the
problem was found in the example of
nation-and when the sun begins to
fall the peasants seek forgetfulness of
hunger In the lozka or winter sleep"
Great heaps of peat are piled up, and
what grain there may be is baked into
hard loaves of coarse bread. Around
the great oven that stands in the cen
ter of each poor hut the low wooden
cots cf the family are arranged. The
fires are started. There is almost no
ventilation in the huts, and that is
The members of the family will lie
down in the winters sleep and soon
lose consciousness. One alone of the
family will stand guard-to feed the
fire. The atmosphere is sitting. The
sIeepers lie in a torpor, more dead than
alive, but at least unconscious of the
deadly pangs of hunger. But hunger
at last manifests itself. Once each day
The sleepers rouse from their stupor. a
crust OF bread for each Is taken from
the hoard. soaked in water and MUNICH
ed. The guard is changed and again
the sleepers crawl back TO their cots.
And SO. day after day, night after
night, the long fight against starvation
is kept dp-until a. last, the spring
comes, and with it new life and new
hope.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-02-21

n share or more in some corporation in
which her father owns stock. and she
should be allowed to manage the stock
herself, not through a lawyer 4 busi-
ness man would do we'll to give his
daughter a small interest i'm his bust
ness-let IL be ever SO small-so that
she will set her lind to working as to
how it can be improved. Parents who
have real estate would be wise to give
their daughter the title to a house, and
let her manage II herself-eollect the
rental, bargain for repairs, etc.-al-
ways with her parents consent, of
course. Such a girl will make n better
wife when she marries, knowing how
to counsel her husband at critical times;
again, she will make a better mother,
in that she can begin her sons business
training almost from their infancy: and
in the third place, she is prepared In
case she should happen TO be thrown
upon her own resources"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-02-21
CECIL RHODES PLUCK.
1t Has Made Him More Popular Among
the English.


the English.
The pluck displayed by Cecil Rhodes
in going to Kimberley when he knew
that town was sure TO be attacked and
in the face of the fact that a reward of
$4,000 had been placed on his head
has rehabilitated his popularity in Eng
land not a little. 1t has also brought
TO light sever Il stories of the empire
builders daring in previous wars.
AT the time OF the Matabele war it is
related of him that be went into small
Boer lager not far from Salisbury and
asked If the enemy were in the neigh
borhood. The captain said they were
in the bush and that he was waiting in
expectation of an attack
Then" replied Mr. Rhodes, I'VE shall
go out and draw the bush"
Carrying only switch, which he in
variably uses in place of cane, lie
went out in company with the armed
burghers. They soon encountered the
enemy and sent them flying in all direc.
lions. On the way back Rhodes heard
his companions estimating the number
of natives who had fallen al from TWEEN
ty to thirty.
81 doubt IT." said he. but I'll go and
see.''
Back he went, unaccompanied, al
though the bush was Infested with saw
ages in hiding, and returned with the
Intelligence that be had counted thirty
two dead bodies.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-02-21
Washin tons Last Words.

Although some statements have been
made by early biographers of Washing
ton TO the effect that be was bled to death
by his attending physician. DIR. Cralk
there was never any foundation for the
accusations.
Washington was only i'll two days
having exposed himself 10 the inclemency
Of the weather on Thursday, Dec IL
He became violently III on the following
day ana expired between 10 and II
o'clock Saturday night. his death being
directly due to cold in his throat and
lungs. The room in which Washington
died In his Mount Vernon home is one
of the most interesting portions of the
colonial residence of the first President.
Washington's last words spoken to Dir
Craik were: Il am just going Have me
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-02-21

Joyed the conversation ef a guest be
would pay him the complement of listen
ing to him until after 8 o'clock, or even
of lighting him with the candle TO bed
room for the night. Mrs. Washington
al this time was Il healthy, pleasant and
transformations little woman. still showing
traces OF good looks and with seldom any
other thought thar OF playing respectfully
her role OF mistress OF the house of a
country gentleman, of caring for the ne
groes. or Of amusing herself with hei
knitting. She had great pride in her re
ceipt for making cherry bounce, and on
a midsummer day she cut out thirty-twc
pairs Of brooches for the men working
on the farm. She had said that she and
the general felt like children just releas
ed from school when he left the presi
dency, and she told OF her satisfaction In
settling down again TO the duties of an
oid-fashioned Virginia housekeeper
steady as a clock. busy as bee. and
cheerful as cricket
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-02-21

The following thrilling account OF
the bloody battle of Magersfontein
where Beers and British alike Were
moved down like grass before the
scythe, is given by the correspondent
of the London Daily News. He writes
During the night it was considered
expedient that the Highland Brigade
about 1000 strong, under General Wau
chope, should get close enough to the
lines of the foe to make it possible tc
charge the heights. At midnight the
gallant but Inflated brigade, under Gen
Wauchope, moved cautiously through
the darkness toward the kopje where
The Beers were most strongly en-
trenched They were led by guide
who was supposed to know every inch
of the country, out into the darkness
of an African night.
THE brigade marched in line OF
quarter column, each man stepping
cautiously and slowly, for they knew
that any sound meant death. Every
order was given in a hoarse whisper
and in whispers it was passed along
the ranks from man to man. Nothing
was heard as they moved toward the
gloomy, steel-fronted heights but the
brushing of their feet in the veldt grass
and the deep-drawn breaths of the
marching mon.
80 onward. until three of the clock
on the morning of Monday. Then out
of the darkness a rifle rang, sharp and
clear, a herald of disaster-a soldier
had tripped in the dark over the hidden
wires laid down by the enemy. In a
second, in the twinkling oil an eye, the
searchlights of the Beers fell broad
and clear as the MONDAY sun on the
ranks of the doomed Highlanders
though it left the enemy concealed III
the shadows of the trowning mass OF
hills behind them.
"For one brief moment the Scots
seemed paralyzed by the suddenness OF
their discovery, for they knew that
they were huddled together like sheer
within fifty yards of the trenches OF
the foe. Then clear above the confu
sion rose the voice of the general
steady, ca. steady" and like an echo
to the - Grams voice, out came the
crash of nearly thousand rifles.
"The Highlanders reeled before Tho
shock like trees before the tempest
Their best, bravest fell in that wild
hail of lead Gen. Wauchope was
down, riddled with bullets, yet gasp
ing. dying, bleeding from every vein
the Highland chieftain raised himself
on his hands and knees, and cheered his
men forward. Men and officers fell in
heaps together.
'"The Black Watch charged, and the
Gordons and the Seafortns, with yell
that stirred the British camp below
rushed onward-onward to death OF
disaster. The accursed wires caugk'
them round the legs until they houn'
dered like trapped wolves, and all the
time the rifles of the foe sang the song
of death in their ears. Then they fell
back. broken and beaten, leaving near
liz one thousand three hundred dead
and wounded just where the bread
breast of the grassy yeldt melts into
the embrace of the rugged African
hills.
"An hour later the dawning came OF
the dreariest day that Scotland has
known for generation. OF her Off 'els
the flower of her chiyalry. the pride OF
her breeding, but few remained to tel
the tale. a sad tale truly, but one IN
tainted with dishonor or smIrcbet
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-02-21

with disgrace, for up those heights,
under similar circumstances. even n
brigade of devils could scarce have
hoped to pass. All that mortal men
could do the Scots did. They tried.
they failed they fell, and there is moth
ing left us now but to mourn for them
and avenge them.
"All that fateful day our wounded
men lay close to the Boer lines under
a blazing sun. Over their heads the
shots of friends and foes passed with
out ceasing. All day long the battle
ragged. Scarcely could we see the foe.
All that met our eyes was the rocky
heights that spoke with tongue of
flames whenever our troops drew near.
"Once our Guards made a brilliant
dash at the trenches, and, like a tor
rent, their resistless valor bore all be-
fore them, and for few brief moments
they got within hitting distance of the
foe, Well did they avenge the slaugh-
ter of the Scots. The bayonets, like
tongues of fame, passed above or be-
low the rifles guard and swept through
/ brisket and breastbone. Out of their
trenches the guardsmen tossed the
Beers, as men in English harvest fie. Is
toss the hay when the reapers' scythes
have whitened the cornfields, and the
human streams were plentiful where
the British guardsmen stood.
Then they fell back, for the fire
from the heights above them fell thick
as the spume of the surf on an Aus
tralian rock-ribbed coast But the
Guards had proved to the Boer that,
man to man, the Briton was his master.
''In vain all that day Methuen tried
by every rule he knew to draw the
enemy. Vainly the lancers rode reck-
lessly to induce those human rock
limpets to come out and cut them off
Cronje knew the mettle of our men.
and an ironic laugh pl. y I'd around his
iron mouth, and still he stayed within
his native fastness.
But death sat ever at his elbow, for
our gunners dropped the lyddite shells
and the bowling shrapnel all along his
lines, until the trenches ran blood, and
mauy of his guns were silenced. In
the valley behind his outer line of hills
his dead lay piled in hundreds, and the
slope of the hin was a charnel house.
where the wounded all writhed amid
the masses of the dead, a CHASTITY trib-
ute to British gunnery.
when, at half-past one o'clock on
I rFv-- r.
Modder River to recuperate we left
nearly three thousand dead and
wounded of grim old Cronje's men as
token that the lion of England had
barred his teeth in earnest"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-02-21


has done much to render more endur
able the condition of the English sol
diers in South Africa.
The first public work she attempted
was the organization of a charity
baZar. the proceeds of which were to
be used for The Quitting of hospital
train for field work. The affair was
most successful! and was attended by
royalty and the nobility. She was as
sisted in this undertaking by the Ouch.
ess of Sutherland, one of the most ex.
elusive women in English society.
Mrs. Paget's latest success has been
the production of an entertainment
the proceeds of which were given to
the Scots Guard fund. The most fash
ionable talent in London We. secured
and it was easily the event of the sea
son.
/ BY her efforts to raise funds for the
relief of the soldiers, Mrs. Paget has
made herself one of the most popular
women in London society, and her
functions are literally patronized.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-02-21
NEWS TRAVELLED SLOWLY.
Washington Was in the Tomb Two Days
Before New York Il new 1t.

Had George Washington lived and died
at the close of the present century in
stead of the last his death would have
been known at all four corners of the
globe inside two or three hours. whereas
il was not known that he had passed
away for several days aftcrward. Even
in Philadelphia. the old capital of the
United States. where the Sixth Congress
had just assembled, 1t was not known
that Washington was dead until Dee. 10
two days afterward.
News travelled slowly in those days;
cable. telegraph. telephone and postal IA
cilities We're an unknown quantity, and
It took days and weeks to transmit infor-
nation then, where seconds and minutes
figure now in this rapid age of invention
and improvement
The Alexandria Times was the first
newspaper to announce Washington
death, printing on Monday, Dec. IL, a
single paragraph obituary. thus: 1T is
our painful duty first to announce to our
country and to the world the death of
Gen. George Washington. This mourn
full event occurred last Saturday evening
about Il o'clock. Cn the previous night
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-02-21

he was attacked with a violent inlamma
tory affliction in his throat. which in less
than twenty-four hours put period tc
his life"
The New York papers did not get the
news of Washington's death until Dec
10. and it was four days later when the
Boston papers published their first in
formation. President Adams issued q
proclamation advising all citizens to wear
Grape on the left arm for thirty days and
setting apart Feb. %. Washington
birthday. as a day when special services
in honor of Washington should be held
New York paid its tribute to the de-
parted President OH Dec. 81, No carts,
carriages or horseback riders were allow
cd in the streets through which the fun
eral procession passed on the way to St
PauI's Church. where GOV. Morris deliy-
cred the funeral Grafton and Bishop Sam
uel Provost conducted the religious ser.
vices.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-02-21
Washington in French Eyes.

Eugene Robert, in the Revue Chre-
tiennc, the leading French religious
monthly has an excellent article on the
life and character OF the great American
who is not nearly as well known in
France as is Franklin, but whose life
contains many lessons for the French.
The tales he tells Of Washington during
the war and of lie simple nature that re-
fused higher Office than that of the
President must seem astounding to ms
readers. NJ Robert says that two grand
sentiments were the soul of Washington 5
life, an ardent love for the fatherland.
to which he sacrificed all. and his inyaria-
Bile fidelity to dufs, III which he was I'M
influenced by considerations OF friendship
IT by the fear of enemies. The secret
af his character is found in faith. for he
aad faith in his cause, his people, their
future, and in God That gave him a
confidence that brought him victory in
peace as well as in war.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-02-21

progress OF IL pier at Douglas when
shipwretA~u sailor, who had been
fortunately LANDED" on the Orders
below, crawled up the steps. mas
ter of the ceremonies" came forward,
smiled, bowed and said, Exceedingly
pleased to see you. sir. Can find you
n Dartner?"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-02-21

Because a girls father happens to
be well off financially is no reason why
she should not have a business train
ing" is the emphatic position taken by
this woman of vast wealth, giving her
opinions upon '"rhe BENEFITS Of Bust
ness Training for Wome2" in the Won
ans Home Companion. Besides be
ing allowed certain amom1t tor her
clothing. she should be allowed to have