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The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1902-05-24
Georgetown.

visit, on horseback, to the devastated
district of this island, during which
he travelled so miles, and penetrated
to within five miles of the Soufriere
crater. The ash-covered area of st.
Vincent exceeds that of Martinique,
which the correspondent has also
explored. The most conservative es-
innate of the death rate here now
places the number at 1,700. About
1900 bodies have already been in
tered. The entire northern part of
the island is covered with ashes to an
average depth of IS inches, varying
from a thin layer at Kingstown to
two feet or more at Georgetown.
The crops are ruined, nothing green
can be seen.
While the outbreak of the volcano
on the island of Martinique killed
more people outright, more territory
has been ruined in st. Vincent, hence
there is greater destruction here.
The sulphuric vapors which still ex-
hale all over the island are increasing
the sickness and mortality among the
suffering among the new arrivals. The
hospital stats are giving way to over
work and are with difficulty bear
ing up.
The stencil in the afflicted districts
is terrible beyond description. Near
~ all the huts left standing are filled
with dead bodies. In some cases dis
infectants and the usual means of dis
posing of the dead are useless, and
cremation has been resorted to. When
ii is possible, the bodies are dragged
with ropes to the trenches and are
there hastily covered up quicklime be-
ing used when available. Many of the
dead bodies were so covered with dust
that they were not discovered until
walked upon by visitors or by the re-
lieying officers or their assistants. The
scenes witnessed were unprecedented
in the history of this colony.
Owing to the great heat it is still
impossible to approach the Soufriere
volcano from the leeward side. In
teresting discoveries have been made
regarding physical changes on st.
vincent resulting from the eruptions.
PeIee Again Active.
Fort de France, Island of Mar
Unique, May 17.-Great flashes of
very bright light were emitted from
Mont Pelee between 10 and IL o'clock
Thursday night. They were visible
from here. Thick, glowing red clouds,
interspersed with flashes of light,
are now issuing from the valcano.
Showers of cinders, lasting for 20
minutes, accompanied the activity.
The people in the districts of Lor.
rain. Marigot, Sainte Marie and La
Trinite are panic-stricken.
ship Supplies to Sufferers.
Washington, May 16.-It is stated
at the war department that the sup
plies and stores shipped to Marti-
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1902-05-24
TRADE REVIEW.
situation In the business World ms
Outlined by Dun's COmmmer-
cial Agency.

New York, May 17.-R. G. Dun & Co. 8
Weekly Review Of Trade says: Weather
and wages continue the only seriously dis
turbing factors In the business situation.
Excessive moisture and low temperature
made the crop outlook more uncertain, and
ity In the agricultural sections. On the
other hand. recordbreaking distribution
of pay in the Pittsburg region accelerated
retail trade. while resumption of wooden
and other mills added largely to the active
force. Transporting lines continue to make
splendid exhibits. railway earnings for the
first week of May exceeding those of a
year ago by 81 per cent. and surpa sedng the
same weeks earnings In 1900 by 1919 per cent.
Failures for the week numbered 22S in the
United States against III last year, and II
In Canada, against 10 a year ago."
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1902-05-24
WILL GO TO SUPREME BENCH.
samuel Hoar. of Massachuseets, 70
Succeed Justice Gray, Who II
to Retire.

Boston, May 10.-It is said in Bos-
ton on the best authority that Sam
uel Hoar, of Concord, Mass, Bos-
ton lawyer of wide repute, has been
rendered by President Roosevelt the
position of the United States SUI
preme bench now Occupied by Justice
Horace Gray, and that Mr.. Hoar has
accepted. Judge Gray is well past
the retirement age, 20 years, and he
is said to have notified the president
of his intention to retire. Mr.. Hoar,
who is 81 years old, is a nephew of
Senator Hoar and son Of the famous
Judge +. lockwood Hoar.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1902-05-24
Monument Dedicated.

Indianapolis, Ind, May 16.-Impres-
sive ceremonies and an assemblage OF
more. than $4,000 people made notable
the dedication of the Indiana state
soldiers and sailors monument at ten
o'clock Thursday morning, the corner
stone of which was laid in 1889 in the
presence of Benjamin Harrison and
his cabinet. The monument stands
2s4R feet high in the center of Monu-
ment place, which is the heart of In
dianapolis. The total cost of the
monument was $59s,31s.76. John W.
Foster, of Washington, ID. c., former
secretary of state, delivered the ora
fiop
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1902-05-24
ERUPTION SPREADS
DESOLATION AND DESTRUCTION.
Seventeen Hundred Reported Dead and 5000 Destt
tute Island of ST. Vincent-Mont Pelee Reported
Active Asain-Supplies Hurried to Sufferers

nique and st. Vincent ON the cruiser
Dixie from New York and en the col
lier Sterling from san Juan undonet
eddy will be sufficient TO meet the ur'
gent needs of the suffering people
for fully month TO come.
The government already BIAS expend-
ed little over sioo,o 900 OF the available
appropriation Of $500 900, aud as much
of the balance as necessary viii be
utilized. The administration antiei-
pated the action of congress in pro-
viding for the immediate relief of the
situation with the result that the
Sterling sailed from San Juan with
supplies within five hours from the
time the appropriation became avail
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1902-05-24

Washington, May 17.-Late Friday
afternoon the navy department re-
ceived an unsigned cable, dated at
st. Lucia Friday, and apparently
from Lieut.. Mccormick, of the Po-
tomac. 1t read as follows: Island
st. Vincent devastated north of line
Georgetown east, Chateau Belair
west. Sufferers country people.
Dead, 100; destitute, 5000. Imme-
date relief supplied by local govern
ment. Destitution will continue sew
eral months"
DesoIation In st. vincent.
Kingstown, Island of st. Vincent,
May ia correspondent of the
press has just returned here from
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1902-05-24

surmounted by a heavy, gilded crown.
The gold plated, nodded lamps of this
carriage were especially striking, be-
ing inset with imitation jewels. The
hammer-cloth, wonderful piece of
embroidery work, is valued at $4,000.
The king and the queen regent were
seated side by side in the royal coach,
and were accompanied by the Infanta
Maria Teresa, youngest sister of his
majesty. 1t was drawn by eight fine
speckled grays, in dark red harness,
having heavy ormolu ornamentation.
Immense white ostrich plumes waved
from the heads of these horses.
AS the royal party entered the hall,
everyone present rose and remained
standing until the queen regent pro-
nounced the words: "Be seated"
The president of the chamber, Senior
Vega Armijo, who approached the ia
BILE on which the Bible rested, then
said, amid impressive silence:
"Senor, the cortes, convoked by your
august mother. are assembled to re-
ceive from your majesty the oath,
which, in accordance with the constitu-
ton, you come to take, to maintain the
constitution and laws"
Senior Armijo then drew near to the
king and held out the Bible, at the
same time keeping open book con-
tanning the formula of the oath. His
majesty, placing his right hand on
the bible, then uttered the following
words:
II swear, by God, upon the Holy BIZ
BILE, to maintain the constitution and
laws. II so 1 do, may God reward me.
II I do not, may He call me to ac-
count"
The queen regent, the royal party,
and all others present, listened to the
foregoing, standing. King Alfonso
then again seated himself on the
throne, and the others also reseated
themselves.
The president of the chamber re-
turned to the table, and from there,
addressing the king said:
"The cortes have received the oath
your majesty has taken to maintain
the constitution and laws"
At the same moment the booming
of 81 guns was again heard, ANNOUNCE
ing to the city that the king had taken
the oath.
Madrid, May 19.-An anarchist plot
against King Alfonso has been discov-
cred and six arrests, including that OF
Gabriel Lopez, an employe of an insur-
ance company, have been made. Dyna-
mite cartridges were found on the
premises where Lopez was arrested.
Lopez says he received package of
cartridges from another anarchist
with instructions to throw them at the
moment of the passage Of the royal
carriage in Saturdays procession.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1902-05-24
Many Horses Perrin,

Milwaukee, May 19.-One hundred
and two thoroughbred horses were
killed early Sunday morning by the
burning of the Andrew Uchlein stock
farm, near Racine. Mr.. Uchlein is
one of the leading officers in the
Schlitz Brewing company and raised
fine breeds of horses on his country
place. The fire was caused by light
ning
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1902-05-24
A Fatal Mistake.

New York, May 10. = Miss Julia
Williams, daughter of Mrs. Julia Will
liams, of Detroit, Mich, said to be n
relative of Senator Hanna, died Sum
day at the Fifth avenue hotel of an
overdose of strychnine, taken in
form of pills, by mistake. She was 20
years of age.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1902-05-24
HOW Le.ahx Fire.

Houlton. Me-, May 19.-Fire here
destroyed the greater part of the
business section of the town, rs resi-
dences and three churches, entailing
n loss of 100000, only one-third OF
which. is covered by Insurance. One
hundred and twenty-five families are
rendered homeless.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1902-05-24
Revi.ion Report MADE.

New York, May 1.-THE Presby-
terrain creed report, made TO the gem
eral assembly. offers a declaration
that the confession does not teach
infant damnation. The report Is GER
tain Of adoption.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1902-05-24
round GuiIty Of Pe,s-,v,

st. Louis, May 19.-The jury in the
case of julius Lehman, ON trial for
perjury in connection with tho
doodle" scandal, returned verdict
this evening Of guilty and fixed his
punishment at two years in the PEN
itentiary.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1902-05-24

Havana, May 19.-Havana u cele--
bratine the advent of the republic
with fireworks. Havana merchants
gave farewell reception and BAN
quet for Gen. Wood. President-elect
Palma Is writing his message,
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1902-05-24

London, May 19.-The foreign Office
officials here say there is no truth
in the report, circulated in the
United States, that Lord Pauncefote,
the British ambassador at Washing
ton, has requested that, on account
of the state of his health, his resig-
nation be Immediately accepted.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1902-05-24
WIN Meet In MinneepoIls.

Chicago, May 19.-Hundreds Of Chi
cago teachers are making prepare
tions to attend the annual conven-
tion of the National Educational as
ISOLATION. which will be held at Min
neapolis, July 8 TO II.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1902-05-24
Neutrality Not Violated.

Washington, May 16.-The BRITISH
camp at New Orleans Is decided by
President Roosevelt to be lawful. No
recruiting Is done there, and mule
shipments do not violate neutrality,
though contraband.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1902-05-24
ROW in Tammanx.

New York, May 15.-Lewis Nixon,
leader of Tammany, has resigned.
charging that every move must be
vised by Richard Croker, and that he
could no longer remain at the head
of the organization and retain his self
respect.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1902-05-24
A..nme. HI. puties.

Washington, May 14.-Eugene F.
Ware, Of Kansas, on Tuesday took
the oath of Office as commissioner of
pensions, and this morning will as
sumo active charge Of his new duties.
Mr.. Ware has determined for the
present, at least, to make no an
nouncement of the policy OF his ad-
ministration of the Office.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1902-05-24
VIII of Sol Smith as,eII.

Minneapolis, Mimi, May 15.-Thc
will of Sol Smith Russell, the actor,
was filed Wednesday. The estate,
mostly real, is valued at $150,00O. The
only heirs are the widow, Mrs. Alice
Adams Russell, and two children, Rob-
ert and Alice. The document is very
brief and leaves everything to the
widow.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1902-05-24
Lord Pauncefote Re.Isp..

London, May 17.-Lord Pauncefote
has rendered his resignation as am
bassador to Washington and asked
immediate acceptance.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1902-05-24

London, May 19.-Lord Kitchener's
figures showed 1880 Beers left In
the field on July 8, 1901, and since
then he has killed or captured 17,avo
without appreciable decrease In
fighters.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1902-05-24

Chicago, May 14.-After bravery
saving the life of Alfred Smith, IT.
year-old Fred Fowler sacrificed his
own in vain attempt to save two
other companions from drowning by
the upsetting of a canoe in Downer's
Grove pond Tuesday afternoon.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1902-05-24

able and the Dixie sailed from New
York with additional supplies in ex.
actly 30 hours after the president
signed the act making the appropria.
ton. These two vessels carry more
than SO days. rations for $4,000 people,
together with proportionate amount
of clothing, tentage, etc.
Enormous Fall of Dust.
Kingston, Jamaica, May 17.-Ac-
cording to report received here from
Barbados, b. w. L., it is calculated
that 100000 tons of volcanic dust
from the eruption on st. Vincent have
fallen over that island. Volcanic dust
is now falling in the highest attitudes
Of Jamaica.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1902-05-24

Toledo, o., May l9.--The first fatal
automobile accident occurred here
Sunday, when James T. Bradley, the
well-known Independent telephone
magnate, while speeding in his auto
mobile with May Schook, 1a-year-old
girl, riding a wheel. The girl was al
most instantly killed.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-07-28
RAIN ON THE COAST.

Just a little sunshine, just a lot of rain. We don't suppose anybody in this region is praying for rain, and yet lit comes almost every day. But let us not complain. IL is better to be rain ed on by good clean soft rain than by the stuff that came out of Mont Pclee. It is also better to have rain at this season of the year than snow. It looks occasionally as if we might have snow, but so far only rain has come down. Some more rain is predicted for to-day, and there may be some more to-mor- row. At the present rate of progress it will soon be sufficiently damp on the coast, but let us not repine until it is as damp on the coast as it is in the water And even then we can perhaps keep af1oat until the waters subside Not so very long ago We were wondering if it would ever rain. Now we are won dering if it will ever stop raining. If it is going to stop we hope it will stop in time to save corn.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-07-28
THE NUmBrR OF FIGHTING BoERs

THE HUMBER OF FIGHTING BOERS.
 Soon after the war in South Africa
 began it was apparent that the intelli-
 gence department of the British army
 wasn't as intelligent as it ought to be-
 Evidence that it wasn't Is found in
 the fact that the British war office fig
 ured that the fighting strength of the
 Boers was about 35O00 men. The Red
 Cross Identity Depot, which has, to an
 extent, fulfilled the functions of cas-
 ualty office for the Boers, figures that
 during the war some 3,700 Boers were either killed in action or died of wounds. It also estimates that the British took some 32,0OO prisoners during the war; of whom, perhaps, 700 died. This will account for about 36000 Boers. If 20, 900 more are taken as the number that were in the field at the time peace was declared, this would bring the total strength of the Boer army up to 50000 But this makes no allowance for the Boers who died of disease or of those who returned to their farms, or who left the country before peace was estab- lished, and there must have been quite a number in all these classes. The Red Cross Identity Depot figures that the total Roer force which had been in the field was about 75,OOO men, and this is an estimate that has been previously made by one of the Boer commanders.
 Those Boers certainly did pan out sur- prisingly both tn quantity and quality.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-07-28
-IJl r.

You say the evening wore on. What did it wear?' Why, the close of the day, of course. e."-University of Minne- sota Punch Bowl.
 Do you think perfection is ever actually attained in this life?" asked the serious youth. Yes" answered Miss Cayenne; some people become perfect bores. s.''-Washingt Star.
 Mamma Cat the breakfast table)- You always ought to use your napkin, Georgie." Georgie-"I am usin' it, mamma; I've got the dog tied to the leg of the table with t."-Motherhood.
 Strange thing about Tracey and Merrill, the Oregon desperadoes," ven tured Blinks.
 Let Ter go!" said links.
 Why they were not only brothers-in- law. but brother-outlaws s."-Indianapo- lis News.
 Let me see," said old Gotrox to young Mainchantz. who had just asked for his daughters hand, didn't over hear you referring to me the other night as 'an old pirate?'"
 'Well-er-you see. didn't mean that exactly"
 No. I'm no pirate, but I'm sort of freebooter. This (biff) won't cost you @ cent. t."-Philadelphia Press.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-07-28
TEACHING CONTEMPT.

It is not only in regard to religious matters, of course. that early associa- ton of ideas makes permanent impress sions. Women are themselves very largely responsible for the con- temptuous attitude which many men take towards them, and which is so in- grained by early training that no later experience and so collated facts can possibly affect the after-life's uncon- scious conviction. Mothers, nurses and teachers are only too often responsible for this sentiment. Lightly and pur- posely, they continually speak to the small boy in a manner derogatory to the mothers sex. The object in view is frequently the very desirable one of arousing the masculine infants better qualities; the purpose is to make him courageous, hardy, enduring, truthful. honorable, resOlute before difficulties, and so forth; but the means adopted are deplorably evil ones. The mother
 nurse or teacher suggests that the fault which she wishes to amend is ''behav- ing like a grill" How can the small boy fail to connect such faults thenceforth with the fact of femininity? Terribly common is the blunder. It is the one idea of many a teacher in prepara- tory school, when the boys under her charge do anything weak, ignoble. and undesirable. to say to them Why, you are like a girl" Never do I hear this deplorable mistake without a protest, audibly when possible. silently some times-as when Miss Olga Nethersole on the stage at the Adelphi is made by the author to addSess this form of reprimand to the apapallng infant who comes home to her maternal arms. That child behaves in the most out rageously boy-like manner that imagin- atiOn can conceive, and, behold! Sapho observe, Why you are behaving as if you were a grill" The women who en- courage nay, who absolutely teach and impress this scorn of their sex suffer from it themselves every day of their lives; in the denial of citizens rights, in the tendency to pay women half wages for equal work, in the difficulty that ev- cry woman finds in convincing the men with whom she has to do business, from her tradesmen upwards, that she is sensible and honorable person, who knows what she wants, and means to give what she should to get it. Nay, there are much deeper wrongs than all
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-07-28
.ANNUITIES

Prof. c. s. Grimes of Evanston, Ill.,, now o4 years of age, carried a policy of $5,ooo for many years and when he reached the advanced age of 7ohe despaired of its eyer becoming a claim, so he compromised with the company on the basis of an annuity of S41oper year for the rest of his life. During the past A years he has received his annual payments with regular ity and great equanimity of mind and, having already drawn So,84o, he has come to the conclusion that he has found the elixir of life in an Annuity 6
 At age 70, SI,ooo deposited in The Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York will yield an annuity of SI34.77 for life.
 This great corporation is the most wealthy moneyed institution in the world and more than SIo, ,ooo, GOO in claims has been paid in this state through the under signed.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-07-28
AyTNTER EsTING SITUATION.

MT, Roberts, the director of the mint, has been looking around some in Iowa. He declares that Iowa farmers are sell ing out and going north, into the Da kotas and Canada. Nearly every cross roads settlement, he says, has formed syndicate to enable it's residents to dispose of their land. From Canada the news comes that a day rarely passes when twenty-five thousand acres of wheat land do not come into the hands of American farmers, and MT. Roberts sees no reason to believe that the statement is much of an ex- aggeration,
 In the House of Lords Lord Burgh- clere asked Lord Onslow, under-secre- tary for the colonial office, if he could inform the house regarding the alarm ing statements that Canadian land was being bought up by Americans of whom two hundredt thousand were said to have emigrated to Canada this year. The under-secretary said he thought Lord Burghclere's figures were incor- rect In 1901 the number of Americans who emigrated to Canada was 17,987, while to the most recent date this year the number was 24,1CO The under-sec- retary also said that in western Canada land was being taken up with unexam- pied rapidity not only by Americans, but by Englishmen and other Euro peans.
 The Canadian Pacific railroad has of fered to put line of large, swift steamers on the Atlantic, similar to the line it operates on the Pacific, and to equip such vessels with cold storage appliances. This railroad traverses the wheat belt of Manitoba and Assiniboia and carries to the East vast quantities of grain for consumption abroad, Much of this grain is shipped from United States ports a t present, but with direct service from Montreal to Liverpool, or even an improved service from Quebec to Liverpool, which is shorter route by four hundred and fifty miles than
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-07-28
iIow He Lost Her.

He hardly dared to touch her hand; He deemed she was sO far above him That he would never have the sand TO even think that she could love him. And so he let cOncealment prey Upon the cheek he lacked so badly And dumbly watched her day by day And m0Ded about and acted sadly. It may be she his secret guessed; If so, she never seemed to show it. But, then, if love is not expressed girl cant be supposed to know It. She let the foolish fellow call, He had a crude idea of SpOOniDg; He seemed afraid to talk at all, And sat and took it out in incoming. Another suitOr came at last,
 Who was not shy about hlS wOoing; She knew ere many minutes passed That there was something certain doing And one week from the day they met His ring was on her second finger; Also, the happy day was set That lover surely did not finger. And No. 1 he dropped and pined, Recovered, some time later mated, And ever after was inclined
 To thank his lucky stars he waited. The moral is. when all is done. Our love we should not hide nor smother But, anyway, it's six of, one
 And half dozen of the other.
 Chicago News.