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The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-08-18
THERE'S fine opportunity to get
your teeth attended to by calling at
the Thomas Hotel, LAnse.

At a camp meeting there were
elderly women sitting at the front
in oak rocking-chairs. 1t was
found out later that they comprised
the choir, for when the parson gave
out the hymn, "oh, for a thousand
tongpes to praise" lone of these
elderly females tried to raise the
tune. "Oh--for-a-" She had
struck the high G, and her voice
cracked. She cleared her throat
and began again. 'Oh--for-a--
thou" and she was an octave low,
while her voice sounded as If it was
lost in her shoes. Just then de-
funct stockbroker in the crowd of
listeners jumped to his feet and
cried out: Start her at five hun
dred and see If you can shove her
off r-Ex
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-08-18
LOCAL ITEMS.


]. E. Joyce, of Duluth, was a
visitor in town Friday
E. A. Culver was up from Mar
quette Wednesday.
Miss Sophia Novak returned from
Hancock last Saturday.
Miss Aggie Shields returned from
Lake Linden last Saturday.
Miss Elsie McKernan is visiting
friends in Houghton for few days.
The Misses Kate and Louise
Weber returned to their home at
Houghton Sunday.
VIM. Trethewey, of Calumet,
spent few days in town this week,
the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Gordon
Johnston.
The subject OF Rev. j. M. Shank S
sermon tomorrow evening will be:
"Singers. All who love to sing or
to hear good singing are cordially
invited.
Gust Dahlberg, of Skanee, who
has been attending the BARRIERS
examination at Houghton this
week, returned home today. He
passed highly creditable ex-
animation.
According to an exchange the dog
tax law will be taken up to the SUI
preme court and heard during the
September term. It's constitution
ality is being questioned, and if the
court decides it is net, the dog
wardens and the townships may
have to pay some good money for
the worthless ours that have been
destroyed according to the pro-
visions of the law.
NJ. L. Hudson, representative
of the Hines Lumber Co. of Chicago,
came down from L'Anse Monday.
He filed deed, conveying pine
lands in Marquette and Baraga
counties, formerly owned by Ed.
and John Mitchell and d. w.
Powell, to the Hines Lumber com
pany, with Register j, II. Primeau.
The consideration was S48 ,000.-
Marquette Mining Journal.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-08-18
To Proceed Against Nj. C. R,y.

Railroad Commissioners Osborn
has requested Attorney General
Oren to commence legal proceedings
against the Michigan Central Rail
road company for failure to comply
with an order to construct u farm
crossing in Macomb county. This
seems like small matter, but it in
wolves the authority Of the Commits.
sioner Of railroads to order cross
ings in certain cases, and it is de-
sired to have the supreme court pass
on the question.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-08-18

a total of 1886 persons were con
fined in the various penal and re-
formatory Institutions of Michigan
on the first day OF May last, accord
ing to figures collected by Labor
Commissioner Cox. The above to-
tai is made up of 1852 males and
39S females. The native born popu-
lation far exceeds the foreign born,
the figures being 2,539 and S47 re-
spactively. The prisoners are clas-
sitied as to offenses as follows:
crimes against life, 2S5; crimes in
volving virtue, 407; involving prop
erty, .5l7; involving good govern
ment, S15; involving morality, 357.
There were fifteen insane persons in
the jails of the state on the date of
the canvass. The prisoners are di-
vided among the different institu-
tions as follows Jackson prison,
166; state house of correction and
reformatory at 1onia, 40S; branch
prison at Marquette, 203; Detroit
house of correction, 423; industrial
school, $780, Adrian Industrial hon
for girls, 305; in county jails, 552;
city prisons, SO; village Iock-ups, 30.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-08-18
TOWN WIPED OUT.
800 People are Left Homeless by
Flames Ira British Columbia.

Vancouver, B. c., Aug. IA
special from Grand Forks says the
neighboring town of Columbia, BIC,
has been practically wiped out by
fire, which started in the Escalet ho-
tel The town had population of
800, but had no water supply. Dyna-
mite was used in blowing up build
ings in the hope of stopping the
flames, but it was unavailaing. The
loss is estimated at over 500. 900.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-08-18
FlTZ AND SHAIsKEY
Will Fight Saturday, August 2Jth
At New York.

Bob Fitzsimmons and Tom Shat
key Tuesday afternoon agreed to
fight August 25th, before the Concy
Island Sporting club, at New York.
At the Seaside Athletic club Tues
day evening, Tim Callahan, of Phil
adelphia, knocked out Itsey Ryan, of
Brooklyn, in the second round of q
billed 25-round contest.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-08-18
CHINA YIELDS.
Said Pckin is Ready to Surrender
the Minister'S.

Washington Aug. l5.-The state
ment was made tonight on reliable
authority that the Pekin govern
mcnt would designate high official
to meet the commanders Of the
allied armies at Tung.Chow and
agree with them on some measures
for the safe conduct of the members
of the foreign legations in the CAPT
tai. 1t is not unlikely that the
meeting already has taken place If
General Chaffce has pushed 10
Tung Chow.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-08-18
Safe in State Treasury,

The s310,371 paid by the general
government to reimburse the state
for expenditures on account Of the
Spanish war, was received from
Coy. Pingree Thursday, and credit
ed to the general fund Of the state
OF Michigan.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-08-18
Coils Huntington is Dead.

Coils p. Huntington, president Ct
the Southern Pacific railroad, died
at Pine Knot camp, in the Adiron :
dacks, near Utica, n. Y, Tuesday
evening.
Wall street estimates the fortune
of Mr.. Huntington at from so, 600,
600 to $50, 100000.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-08-18

Plump cheeks, flushed with the So
glow of health and a pure complex
ion make all women beautiful. HER
BINE imparts strength and vitality
to the system, and the rosy hue Of
health to thecheeks. Price, 80 cents.
For sale at Zellen's Pharmacy,
L'Anse, Mich.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-08-18
SUPERVISORS MEETING.
Special Meeting of the Board
Held Thursday AfternOOn-Ad-
jOurned Until Today.

A special meeting of the county
board of supervisors was held
Thursday afternoon. Alex. G..
Shields, chairman of the board,
was appointed committee of
one to oversee the work
OF making necessary repairs to
the county Jail building, for the
improvement OF the system Of VEN
tilation.
The board decided to go over
the Covington road, ascertain its
condition, and determine what
should be done to put it in proper
repair, and for that purpose
adjourned until this Saturday
afternoon.
Drs. Johnson & Kaake, the den
lists, at the Thomas Hotel, are grad
yates of and former instructors in
the Northwestern University Dental
college.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-08-18
DEATH OF JOHN j. INGALLS,
Famous, Nervy, Witty Kansas
Statesman Died I'm New
Mexico Thursday.

United States Senator John
James Irgalls died in East Las
Vegas at 9 :25 u. m. Thursday. He
was surrounded by his family. Tie
funeral will be held in Atchison,
Zoe
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-08-18

Drs. Johnson & Kaakc, the Chi
cago painless dentists, will be ut
the Thomas Hotel from August
10th to 23rd inclusive, and they
intend to visit this town every two
months.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-07-05
CANNON BALLS FOR SALE.
Extracted by the Hundred from the
Walls of nm Old safety Vault
I'm New York.

Workmen engaged in demolishing
the 48-year-old five-story building at
the southwest corner of Wall and Will
liam streets have found a number of
eight-pound iron balls let into the
joints of the granite slab forming the
outer wall of the street vault in what
was the basement of the building
About 200 of the balls have been found,
reports the New York Sun. One of
the workmen was sure be had discov-
cred some revolutionary relics" and
succeeded in disposing of number
of the cannon balls" at 80 cests
apiece. So many of the metal spheres
were discovered that the price soon
fell to tin of beer. The discovery and
sale continued Tuesday and yesterday
and as there are few slabs still in the
place there will probably be more "rel-
ics" for sale to-day.
The demolished building was occu-
pied by the Atlantic Mutual Insurance
company and by the Phenix bank. The
vault measures perhaps Is by 90 feet.
The granite slabs which form its outer
wall are IS inches thick. The top of
each one was followed out to receive
half the iron ball and the bottom of
the next higher was followed out to
receive the other half. Possibly the
metal balls were put in to bother any
burglar who might seek to dig through
the wall.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-07-05
Money In Circulation.

The monthly statement of the comp
troller of the currency shows that at
the close of business May 81. 1900, the
total circulation of national bank notes
was 1901, ASS, $50, an increase for the
year of SIS, 424,335, and an increase for
the month of $15,210,563 The circu-
lation based on United States bonds
was 1888, III, an increase for the
year of $50, 7s3, 163, and an increase for
the month of $17,021,955.
The circulation secured by lawful
money amounted to $37 ,399,772 an in
crease for the year of $1.641, 172, and a
decrease for the month of $1,S11, 1892.
The amount of United States registered
bonds on deposit to secure circulating
notes was S276, s29 800, and to secure
public deposits, 500, $50, $50.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-07-05
SAID CHRIST HAD BROTHERS
That was why q Massachusetts
schooI-Teacher Was Asked
to Resign.

Because she told her scholars that
Christ was one of ten brothers and sis
tiers, Miss Anna B. Hasbrouck, an in
structor In history. was dismissed
from the Holyoke CAlass.) high school
faculty by the school committee. Miss
Hasbrouck was asked TO resign, and
her letter was accepted without dis
senting vote, says an eastern ex-
change.
The incident which cost Miss Has
brouck her position happened in the
medieval history class few days ago
The discussion drifted as to the pa
rentaee of Christ, and one student
wanted to know if Christ was the only
SON. Miss Hasbrouck replied: NO;
He is one of family of ten brothers
and sisters"
A second student doubted Miss Has
brouck's statement, and wanted 70
know her authority.
81 cannot tell you accurately just
now" she replied, "but | have the i'm
preston the statement is made In the
Bible"
Some of the students, still skeptical
repeated the assertion at home. One
of the prominent clergymen OF the
CITY. Rev. p. j. Harkins, took occasion
to denounce the teacher in his sermon
at ST. Jerome's church.
Pupils" he said, should be with,
drawn from the school if incompetent
teachers are to misinstruct students
as this one has"
Miss Hasbrouck declined to make O
statement She was appointed a
teacher in the Holyoke high school in
January, 1896 She is a graduate OF
the New York state normal college.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-07-05
A Ross Carpenters Queer Way al
Discerning Capable
WorlSmcn.

Talking about the queer ways some peo
pie have OF sizing up a mans capabilities
for a job, said a resident of Paterson. n
j., to Washington Star reporter the other
day, there recently died in my town ;
boss carpenter named Hobart, who had one
question which he always asked of Journey
men who applied to him for employment
If the applicant was found to possess all
the other necessary qualifications Hobart
would ask:
''What are your favorite tunes?"
"Why, what do you want to know that
for?n
you whistle and sing some at your work
don't you?"
ooh, yes"
"Well, what tunes do you generally whis
"Oh, there's old Hundred and Aud
Lang Syne,' and Down by the Weeping
That's enough" the boss would exclaim
"You won't do for me- These tunes are
too slow for me. Good-day"
On the contrary, if the applicant answered
ooh, | generally whistle Yankee Doodle,
or The Fishers Hornpipe, or something Of
that sort, the carpenter would say at once:
Il think you'll do Take off your coat
if you want to and 60 to work"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-07-05
JOKE GAINED HIS POINT.
Michigan statesman's Clever Ruse
Worked on a Committee
on Pensions.

Not long ago Congressman Hank" Smith,
of the Second Michigan district, worked Joke
off on the house committee ON pensions. 1t
should be explained, says the Chicago Chron-
icle, that this committee is not the one
which has charge of the pensions which
grew out Of the civil war, says q correspond
ent. Its functions appertaiu to the granting
OF pensions to the widows and veterans OF
the Mexican and Black Hawk wars and
other ancient unpleasantnesses. 1t should
also be pointed cut that one OF their rules IS
that no widow pension shall be larger than
- month. This proceeds upon the theory
that any widow who survives veteran of
these wars must be a comparatively young
woman and that she must have married the
veteran m his dotage to get his pension.
Inc new member from Michigan appeared
before the committee at its last meeting and
IN an incidental and smiling way alluded to
the rule
That is a fine rule, said he in a guileless
sort OF way. i sympathize with its purpose
and believe it should stand. But just to show
good faith | am going to propose an amend
ment. / move that IL be amended So as %
read except. n the case OF widows over 100
years of age
The members Of the committee are always
IN favor Of joke and the proposition We
adopted with a unanimous laugh
And thereupon 'Hank" produced from his
pocket bill to grant a pension Of SO a
month TO Mrs. HiX0n, Of Clinton. Mich. She
had Just passed her one hundredth year. 1t
was not necessary to explain that her hus-
band had served TO within one day OF the
time requisite to get a pension in the reg
ular manner. The committee reported the
bill fayOrably
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-07-05
FRENCH LOSING GROUND.
Language of the Republic Not as
Popular on the Continent as
1t Once Was.

Is French losing ground abroad
that is to say, is it being less spoken
and read by educated people on the
continent than was formerly the caseP
This is question which has from time
to time given rise to interesting dis
cussion, and certain lamentations late
" uttered by Partisan review have
brought it once more rather promi-
nently TO the front, says the London
Telegraph.
There is no doubt that during recent
years it has met with formidable rivals.
The tongue of united Germany is more
studied than it was In the old days,
and various enterprising nationalities
of the smaller kind are bestowing more
attention on their own language and
literature than they had had the OPP
portunity of doing for centuries. All
this may be readily admitted, and moth
ing could be more natural. The i'm
mense facilities now given to travelling,
the enormous expansion of interna-
tional trade and the impulse which
the nationality movement he's received
were all bound to lead TO this result.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-07-05
FOWLS IMPROVE SOIL.
An Important Fact whose Value Has
Too Long Been Jnderestimated
by Our Farmers.

Some poultrymen are favorable to
the method of keeping poultry in
small fiocks, in confinement, with two
Yards TO each flock, in the greater OPP
portunities given for improving and
using the land. Only one-half of each
acre will be occupied at the same time
by the fowls, the other half being de-
voted to gardening, alternating the
hens and the garden as occasion per-
mits. The half acre in vegetables will
produce as much as was formerly Sc
cured on an acre, and no manure need
be brought or hauled, for not only will
the hens (like sheep scatter the drop
pings themselves, but they also accu-
mulate at night large quantity, which
may be applied where it will be most
seryiceable. One great source of fer
tility to the land from the keeping of
poultry, in addition to the droppings,
is an enormous loss of food from the
trampling of the fowls, the pickings
from the trough, and the discarded
amount due to fermentation, all of
which serve as plant food. Keeping
fowls in yards, removing them fire.
quently and turning under the manure,
prevents the fowls from living in filth,
and permits of an enormous produce
tion of crops. On a piece of light,
sandy soil that has been considered al
most barren, where a flock of 80 hens
were kept for year, was grown an
enormous crop of potatoes, beans, cab
bages and peas. The growth was ex-
cessively rank, and for three years
after the same spot was more produc-
tive than any of equal space on the
place. The food bought annually for
flock is equal to bringing large
quantity of fertilizer on the farm, and
In passing through the body of the
fowl it is reduced to a condition fitting
it for immediate use by plants. The
fresh earth absorbs and retains its val
liable properties better than the drop
pings from the roost can be saved.
That fruit, vegetables and poultry
should be combined is a fact that will
some day be admitted by all; but when
the system is practiced the free ar
rangement may be abolished, and the
hen be used not only for producing
eggs and poultry, but also for improv-
ing the soil, just as is now done in
France, and as is done with sheep in
England. The poultry in France keep
up the fertility of the farms, yield large
profits of eggs and meat. and increase
the fiocks, yet the floells are small and
no ranges are permitted. If it is pos
sible in France, it is possible here, and
the time will yet come when no small
gardens will be cultivated without a
flock of hens as assistants instead of
being considered enemies.-Farm and
Fireside.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-07-05
GLOSSARY OF CHINESE TERMS.
Key by Means of which the News
from the e mpire May De
Understood.

Tsung Ii yameI-The foreign office.
Bow Wong Wui-Society for the pro-
lection of the emperor - the reform
party.
Ye Ho Chuan-Society commonly
known as the Boxers = literally,
righteousness, harmony and fists.
Kwang Yu Waffle young emper-
or's chief adviser and the leader of
the reform party.
Lung Kali Chu-Second adviser of
the emperor and reform leader. Com
ing to America.
Kwang Sui-The young emperor.
Fan Kwei-Foreign devil.
Fu-A prefecture.
Chintal-Governor general, usually
experimenting two provinces.
Chun Chi-The general council Of
state.
Chung T'ang-A grand secretary of
state, of whom there are six.
Futai-Governor of province.
Hui-A club or association.
Hsiang-A village.
Hsien-A district.
Mel Ko-Grand secretariat and I'm
Deria1 chancery.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-07-05
A surnIus This Year.

Treasury receipts of the United
States for May amounted TO $45,166,-
053.22, of which customs contributed
S17,396, 573.2s. The receipts for the cur
rent fiscal year amounted to $517, 553,-
1854, against $f69. Os9, 500 90 in the pre-
ceding year. The expenditures for
May were $40,351, 1886, and for the
current fiscal year, $454,21S, 49s.57, as
against 1913, 709, 972.6 "a for the CORE
spending period of the preceding year.
There has been falling off in the item
war expenditures" of nearly 100000
600, since July !, 1899, as compared with
the amount spent for the same purpose
in the same period of 1898. a year ago
the deficit for II months was $104,620,-
600. This year the surplus is $63,334,-
CIT for II months.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-07-05
Use A. N. Kellogg Company's Stereotype Plates.
Two delicious Desserts

for price 81 one. The Grocers Of this city
are giving package Of Burnham's Cream
Custard 10 each purchaser Of package Of
Burnhsm's Hasty Jellyeon. Both make
delicious desserts, without cooking or bak-
ing. Dissolve the Cream Custard in hot
milk; Hasty Jellyeon in hot water. Order
to-day.
WHEN WHITING TO ADVERTISERS PLEASE
state that you saw the Advertisements in aais
payer.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-07-05
LIE THUNDERSTORM.

Gods voice proclaims His glory in the
thunder long and loud,
His autograph is writ in fiery letters on
the cloud:
Fierce winds which rush and revel over
rain-washed plain and hill
Repeat His mighty mandate where the
trees bow to His will;
The raindrops beat applause, and punctu-
ate through flash and flood
The truth that He is powerful and pur-
poseful and good.
Strong torrents rushing downward with
their grand resistless sweep
Grave the earth His messages in burrows
broad and deep
While rivers great repeat it in their
mighty rush and roar,
AS do the shouting pillows dashing white
named on the shore;
His javelins of fire In lurld Hshlhliss
swiftly fly
And pin His proclamations on the cur
tains of the sky
I hear earth's chorus praise Him in the
music of the streams,
Tall trees wave mighty batons in the
glare and lightning CLEANS,
The organ tones of winds and waves find
echoes underground,
And viewless voices join in chorus perfect
and profound;
Through ragged rittS burned open III the
canopy of cloud
Rings Gods own voice in thunder modu-
lated low or loud.
All grandeur and glory is the ighty,
matchess scene,
Heavens lightning printing messages on
landscapes gray and green,
And on the embossed velvet of the
scrolIed dun-cushioned skies
Those hre-traced words which glow with
proof and promise for the wise;
In earth and air a sound of countless vast
and viewless wings,
Der all the love which faith and hopes
true gift of seeing brings.
Join, all We human singers, in the storm
magnetic strain,
z he rainbows tints Of promise glow In
every drop Of rain,
The tempests mighty megaphone with
seeming angry voice
And all the wild wave shoutings reas-
sure US and rejoice;
Fear not the chaos-ChOrus, for the brief
1y-hiddcn sun
Makes swift TRANSPORTATION when the
riot-race is run,
Gold trimmed twilight brings rest and
night when stOTmier days are done.
/. EDGAR JONES.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-07-05
HANDY SHIPPING BOX.

press charges. / shall bless the day
when Uncle Sam viii take a hand in
the business and give us a cheap par
eel post. Sooner or later this will
happen. In the meantime | shall avoid
long-distance shipments so far as !
can, and when ! must ship, reduce size
of package as much as can be done
first by shipping younger and there
fore smaller animals, and then by the
selection of lightest packages. Just at
the present time great deal of ship
ping Belgians is being done. In the
comparatively few instances that /
have been shipping rabbits, pigeons,
etc, | have made use of light box, the
upper corners of which had been cut
away and the cover replaced by light
Stats. The illustration makes this
plain. To have the boxes especially
light l prefer to make them of white
cedar or linden, of course well sea
soned. Common store boxes, however,
may be fitted up in this way, and come
handy for shipping small animals
Farm and Fireside.