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The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1903-12-19
STORIES ABOUT EAGLES.
They show That the Big Birds Are
Not Afraid to Tackle Even the
Strongest Antagonist.

Some years ago Sir Charles Mordaunt
witnessed in Scotland q strange battle
between an eagle and . stag. which COM
pletely dispels any theory that the orni-
biologist may put forward as to eagles
rot attacking large animals. says the
Chicago Journal. The bird singled out
from herd one particular buck. which
1t succeeded in driving from the rest.
1t struck the animal repeatedly with its
powerful wings. knocked 1t down and
finally killed It.
Baron Schroeder witnessed still more
remarkable spectacle. IAN eagle at
tackled fawn which was one of herd
in the highlands. The cries Of the littlo
onc were answered by its dam. which
sprang upon the eagle and struck 1t re-
peatedly with Its fore feet. Fawn. deer
and eagle rolled headlong down decliv-
ity. and the bird was dislodged from its
hold and the fawn rescued.
But Sir Kenneth Mackenzie knows q
more thrilling story than either Of these.
for. according to report. an eagle was
rent in twain during a battle In his for
est of Gairloch. Fixing its talons In tho
quarters Of a roe, the bird was dashed
against 4 tree, to q branch Of which Il
endeavored to hold to stay the flight OF
its captive. The bird was halved In an
instant.
Many traditions are extant 40 to
eagles having carried on and devoured
children. In the north of England the
legend Is perpetuated by the name Of
many an inn. the sign THE Eagle and the
Child" being common. The most recent
case bearing close scrutiny appears to
be one which occurred In South Africa.
A Boer farmer. living on the veldt just
beyond Barberton. whose stock had been
harried by eagles. lay In ambush for the
aerial robbers. and saw one Of them de-
scend and carry on the hve-year-old
child of one of his Kafir servants. He
shot the bird. which. with the child stlll
clutched in its grip. fell into . thorn
bush. The bird was dead when picke1
up, but the babe was little hurt. Tho
Eagle measured nine feet from tip to tip
Of its wings.
Two eagles will stalk q covert in con-
cert. While one conceals himself the
other beats about the bushes with great
screaming. driving out its quarry for the
hidden eagle to swoop down and make
an end Of It. An even more insidioua
method has been observed, when an
eagle. detecting sheep on the edge Of q
precipice. screamed shrilly, and with
forceful best Of wing hurled It into the
valley below. where It could devour Il AZ
its leisure.
There h good reason for believing.
after all. the ancient legend - 70 he
manner In whish Eschylus. the 0fesk
poet. met his death. II II said that -
eagle dropped Z turtle on his bald heo1-
Algerian travelers are familiar with ~:
sight u eagles carrying turtles end tor
toisss 20 Z height and dropping therf
upon rocks to break the creatures sho11n
and render the nesh aecsssible-
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1903-07-10

the interval. and was one of the rea-
sons for the immense increase in pop
ulation.
To the $4,000 square miles of ter
ritory of the United States previous
to that time the Louisiana acquisi-
ton added tract of 1854. 1000 square
miles. Every expansion of territory
which the country has made since
that day came as consequence OF
1SO3's addition to the national do
main. 1t constrained Spain to cede
Florida in 1919, sent the settlers
across the Rocky mountains and into
the valley of the Columbia who won
for us, in the Anglo-American treaty
of 1916. undisputed control of the
Oregon region. started the series of
influences which, first peopling Texas
with Americans, then made it indie
pendent of Mexico, annexed it to the
United States q few years later, and
brought on the war which resulted
in the annexation of the locality
comprised in the present states OF
California, Nevada, Utah, portions OF
Colorado and Wyoming, and the ter
ritories of New Mexico and Arizona.
in the treaty with Mexico in 1s4s-
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1903-07-10

he was listening to sermon on the
desert around Sinai, from which he
quotes Imagine a dreary waste
nothing but sand and rocks, torn by
storms and destroyed by time, no
sign of vegetable life except here and
there q cactus" After the sermon
Mr.. Branton told the preacher that
all authorities agreed that no cactus
was native to any of the country
around Sinai. But" said the preach.
er. 81 Lave seen them growing there"
However, few days later, Mr..
Branton received clipping from him
in which it was stated that young
artist was painting a picture OF
Jerusalem at the time of Christ.
Near a wall, he had introduced q cac-
tus, A friend told him that he had
committed an artistic anachronism.
as no cacti grew in that land until
carried there by the Spanish after the
discovery of South America Like
many other of our institutions the
cactus has been adopted by many ma
toni EDWARD JULIAN
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1903-07-10
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

sAnd what is your opinion of Mrs.
Humphry Ward?" an enthusiastic
American hostess once asked of an
English literary lady of worldwide
di,tinction. The visitor politely made
an effort to recall the name. and then
answered with half-closed eyes and
weary intonations: I'm told she is
very Industrious woman"
When the friends of the rival claim
ants Of the discovery of anaesthesia
we're proposing monuments for each
other, Oliver Wendell Holmes sug-
rested that all should unite on erect
ing single memorial, with central
sroup symbolizing painless surgery.
statue of Jackson on one side, .
/ statue of Morton on the other, and the
Inscription beneath: ITO E(Dther."
The last literary work upon which
IL late Richard Henry Stoddard was
engaged was in connection with his
s2ecollections, Personal and Literary"
volume of memoirs covering period
d more than so years and affording
e glimpse OF many of the foremost
eriters of the last half century, in
|r4luding Hawthorne and Thackeray.
~. Stoddard was author of the much
rooted advice, write if you want to.
NJ earn your bread some other way"
when Dumas, broken in health, for
tne and spirit, left Paris for the
hst time he took with him his total
1srtune-a single gold louis. A few
1ln before his death he pointed to
- single coin as it lay on the corner
~ the manteipiece. "See there" he
-. calling to his son. Fifty years
- when came to Paris, had one
h d my possession. Why have peo-
- accused me of being prodigal?
han preserved it and have it still
10y. there it is"
Conan Doyle was once asked why he
1'testablish detective agency and
1taoy Sherlock Holmes tactics in
ndncting the business. For the
~ good reason" he replied, shat
1Ae knots Sherlock Holmes united
- q my own tying. should fail
Undertook to unravel other peo-
- eqtangiements. / believe that
y eee occasion / could have done SO,
q. | was in q tailor shop when
MsAer unattractive man was select
pair OF trousers. He fatty OBJ
- TO striped goods and l got the
that he was an ex-convict. To
myself / visited one OF two
- and, sure enough, found the
Picture In the rogues' gallery.
lekshe had had enough of striped
the APPAREL
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1903-07-10

John Jackson, of Glasgow, Mo-,
noticed recently that a valuable
heifer had disappeared from his
herd, and advertised for her in the
newspapers. A month after he had
first advertised, and after he had
given up all hope of recovering her.
he found her in straw rick in field
adjoining his feed lot. The poor
brute had got into a narrow passage
way in the center of the rick, which
was closed at one end. and being I'M
able to turn around and lacking
sense to back out, had remained there
throughout the time without water
and with no food except such straw
as she could reach. Mr.. Jackson, on
finding her, got her out as quickly as
he could and gave her some water.
but she had taken only small drink
of it when she dropped dead. 1t il
supposed she was without water AZ
least six weeks.
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1903-07-10
THE CACTUS FAMILY.
Botanists Divide It Into Four Dis
tinct Branches.
with Very Few Exceptions They Are
All Natives OF the Western HEM
isphere-How They Are
CLASSIFIED.
Especial Los Angeles (caL) letter.

Especial Los Angeles (CaL) letter.
ITO THE collector probably no
family of plants, outside the
orchids, present SO many fas-
cinating features as the cacti, which,
with very few exceptions, are natives
OF America and its adjacent islands,
only. The cactus industry moves in
cycles. Latterly. it is very quiet,
but interest is again gathering, al
though it will probably be about ten
years before another actual craze is
experienced. Even now there is q
great demand, especially in Europe,
Germany furnishing the best mar
ket, at present. Most of our large
cities, according to their several cli-
east, that at Baltimore is, perhaps,
as worthy of remark as any. OF
course, in climates where the plant is
native it thrives best, as is seen in
the parks at Los Angeles and River
side, Cal. In the latter city is probably
one of the most interesting little cac-
tus parks in the world. In our first
ILLUSTRATION is DIT from one Oh
the gardens in Los Angeles, in which
the Cereus giganteus is most promi-
nent.
The Echino cactus grows to q
height Of about eight feet. Its fruit is
sour and not much relished, but the in
ner part of the plant itself is soft, &C
rid and juicy, and, to some. agreeable
to the taste. An Indian selects plant
three or four feet long and two feet
in diameter, cuts it down and hollows
it to form q trough into which he
throws the soft pulp. which sur
rounds the central woody axis, and
adds meat, roots, seeds, meal, fruit,
or anything edible at hand, together
with water. He mikes the, whole and
drops in hot stones, which he takes
out and licks, reheats, and drops in
again, repeating the process until the
mixture is thoroughly cooked. Horses
sometimes kick open the cactus
plants. to obtain the juicy pulp. The
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1903-07-10

small, black seeds of the Echino cac-
tus are dried. parched and pulverized
into meal.
Closely resembling this variety in
structure is the Cereus giganteus
Represented also in the second cut).
This latter is found native in Arizona
only and sometimes attains a height
Of 60 feet. The fasceate form at the
right in the photograph is very rare
and highly priced. A collector dis
covering same would cut off the fam
shaped top and if he felt unable to
retain such a prize for himself. could
readily find a purchaser A specimen
of this kind was recently sold at the
Royal Botanical garden at Kew, Eng
land, for a very large sum. The
plant here represented is probably
about Is feet high and two feet in
diameter. The cactus plants furnish
the abiding place Of these little desert
woodpeckers. The fruit grows near
the top of the plant and is highly
priced by the Indians. Its interior
is of beautiful red color and is ve-y
palatable, being more juicy than the
fig while resembling it in favor. 1t
is sometimes preserved, also made
into syrup. The Pimos Indians pre-
pare from 1t a clear, amber colored,
exceedingly intoxicating wine called
Tiswine. After a plant has been
dead for about a year. it splits longi-
tudinally into long poles. The natives
utilize a strip from d dead plant with
which to reach up and push of the
fruit from a living one. There are
various uses to which this plant is
put. Sometimes a cup-like cavity is
made in the side of plant and al
lowed to fill with the sap. In case
of extreme thirst, this may be drank,
hut the taste is acrid and exceeding
" unpleasant and the beverage il
never used except in extreme cases.
The plant might serve as fuel, but
this is SELDOM necessary as, in the
desert, all the vegetation has q
greasy tendency and, as rule, may
be burned VIXEN green. The scrubby
little bushes seen all over the ground
in the picture are gre.se-wood. To
illustrate this Characteristic of desert
foliage, the pepper-tree, q native of
perm, found through Mexico and Cali
forn:a, rarely presents the dusty APP
rearance observed on cultivated trees
which have been introduced here
from moist climates. This is due to
the quantity OF volatile oil in the
leaves which constantly explodes. r.
peIlirH Ne dust.
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1903-07-10

in running water. They are very
tenacious of life.
There are more specimens of cactus
in Texas than any other state, among
which are at least 40 of commercial
value. The most common of the
Opuntias is that shown in the third
cut, where the fruit may be seen
growing in abundance on the fat,
pear-shaped leaves (so-called). Indian
figs" are very common. This fruit
grows from three to four inches long
and two or three inches in diameter,
is egg-shaped or pear-like in form
and covered with minute and Excess
sively annoying spines. The pulp il
of an agreeable sub-acid flavor.
They are sometimes called "Barbary
figs" Over $50 varieties are native
in the United States. The Opuntias.
set in line, make an impenetrable
fence. They grow in any dry,-sandy
soil and will subsist where scarcely
any other vegetation is found, as on
the porous lava of volcanic districts.
A fact interesting to scientists il
that the cochineal insect lives on q
species of the Opuntia. In southern
Mexico, Central America and the
Canary islands, the plant is largely
grown and insects reared. Cochineal
dye, carmine, lake and other dyes are
prepared from this insect. In the is
land of Sicily over 10000 acres are
L. hA frr,st
alone.
A fourth but very small section OF
the cactus family is found in this
state, viz: the Mammillaria. WHICH
does not often grow more than one
foot high. Many new and curious
forms of cacti are constantly being
produced by cultivation.
Mr.. Ernest Branton, one of the
best authorities on the cactus and to
whom we are indebted for our infor.
nation, states that on one occasion
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1903-07-10
WIT AND WISDOM.

You can know q man so well that
you will overlook his faults.-Atchison
Globe.
That man who is always complaining
must be awful tiresome to himself
Chicago Daily News.
Fire and sword are but slow engines
OF destruction in comparison with the
babbler.-Steele.
Suffering itself does less affiict the
senses than the anticipation of SUI
fering.-Quintilian.
Be calm in arguing, for fierceness
makes error = fault, and truth dis
co"rtesy.-Herbert.
Every base occupation makes one
sharp in his practice. and dull in every
other.-Sir P. Sidney.
Every man is his ewn ancestor, and
every man is his own heir. He de-
vises his own future, and he inherits
his own past.-H. F. Hedge.
Ny work will yet take high place
in the world" said the proud author.
1T has already taken it," replied the
bookseller. "Been on the-top shelf
two years."-Atlanta Constitution.
No Cause for Grief.-"Hello, Tomp-
kins! Haven't seen you for a month.
Where's your wife?" my wife? She's
gone where all. good people 60"
.What! Not dead?" 'sNope. Gone to
church. kansas City Journal.
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1903-07-10
SURPASSED IMAGINATION.
Hundred Years Greater Than Pic
tured By Widest Dream.

In his first inaugural address
Thomas Jefferson elicitated his coun-
trymen on possessing a chosen
country with room enough for our
descendants to the thousandth and
thousandth generation" That was
the judgment. passed on. March 4.
1901, by one of the most prescient Of
Americans. On that day the coun-
try's western border was the Missis-
sippi. Its southern boundary was lat
itude 81 degrees. The region west
of the Mississippi, the province of
Louisiana, had just been coded by
Spain to France by the treaty of San
Ildefonso, but that compact was not
executed until two years later.
Spain held that territory. Spain
also held the territory east of the
Mississippi below the thirty-first par
allel. That region, comprising the
present state of Florida. the south
ern ends of Alabama and Mississippi
and the eastern projection of the
present state of Louisiana was
known as East and West Florida.
The area of the United States at that
date was $4,000 square miles Its
population was in the neighborhood
of 5.4O0, 1000, all but about $4,000 OF
which was east of the main divide OF
the Alleghanies.
A country little over three and
half times as large as the one Jeffer'
son had in view when he uttered that
prophecy 1Oe years ago, counting
only the contiguous portion of the
nation of to-day, has since been fair
" well peopled, says the st. Louis
Globe-Democrat, although only three
Of Jefferson's "thousand and thou
sand" generations have passed since
then. The 100000 population o.
| fs(d has grown to more than $4,000,
600 in 1908. The beginning of the en-
lar1ement in area in the centur.
dates from the annexation of Louis
lana, which was two years in the fu
ture when Jefferson made his fore
cast, and which he was not looking
for as a possibility. That acquisition
was directly the cause OF all the en-
largemeut Of the countryS ares
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1903-07-10
ARP'S FOUNDATIONS.
Philosopher Now Realizes Truth of
Certain Old Maxims.
Incidentally He Tells of Australian
Way of Dealing with Labor Prob
lem-Quotes Uncle Remus' Re-
view Of HIS Book

Longfellow said: "All things come
round to them who wait" Emerson
said the same thing in substance be-
fore Longfellow. Both got it from
the Prophet Isaiah, who said: wait,
l say, wal. on the Lord, for though
He tarry, He will fulfill His prom
ises." And Jeremiah said: Let u
man hope and quietly wait" We are
all too impatient, and if we look back,
We will be surprised that we cannot
recall the numerous things that dis
turbed Our peace through apprehen-
sion, but that never happened. We
did not wait.
There is a good story about an old
Persian king, who, ON his death-bed,
friend and counselor, and said: Il
am about to die, and am troubled
about my son, who is to succeed me.
He is good-hearted, but thought
less and imprudent. You must look
after him and guide him. Can't you
that he will never forget?" So the
old sheik promised, and after the old
king was buried he had long talk
with the young man, and gave him
maxim of five short words: "Even
this shall pass away" If you suf-
fer adversely, it viii pass. If you
have war, and are defeated, victory
will come in time. If your people suf-
fer from famine or pestilence,
health and plenty will come again.
But y al must wait.
/ was Eliminating about this, be-
cause the printers have gone to work,
at last, and my publisher has plenty
of books now. But the time is COM
ing when all this foolishness will
have to stop. l take an Australian
paper, and am interested in what the
new parliament is doing.
England has recently given that
great country parliament of their
own, and they are making laws to
suit the people. One of the first
was to grant to woman the right of
suffrage. Another was a vigorous,
drastic law against strikes, and the
law has completely driven labor or
CARNATIONS out of existence. Par
lament provided a substantial pen
sion for the families of those who
had labored long and faithfully. Rail
roads and manufacturers were taxed
to pay part of this pension, but par
Lament had to approve it all, and the
new law provides that any laborer
who joins a strikers organization
shall be dropped from the rolls, and
it further provides that if more than
four persons meet together to or
ganize a strike. they shall be arrest
ed and imprisoned and tried for
crime. The law was far-reaching,
and left no escape. and now peace
and contented labor prevails all over
the land, and the price of their labor
on railroads and other great works
is fixed by law, and is uniform. The
truth is that this striking business,
that drives others from work, I'M
der maHreatment and intimidation,
cannot stand the test of time and
reason. 1t is close akin to anarchy.
But now that Mr.. Byrd writes me
he has plenty of my books on hand,
l wish your readers to know it, and
that single orders will be filled post
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1903-07-10
BOGUS poTENTATE's STAMPS.
celved by q Make-Beheve
Eastern Monarch.

In m article on some notable In
stances of stamp forgeries writer in
the London Magazine says: Some
few years ago both the M3tin and the
Petit Journal announced that the Gay
City would soon be visited by an cast
ern potentate, his majesty, Harie l.,
of Sedang, an island few hundred
miles of the coast of China, who would
be sure to find a welcome from all true
Frenchmen, owing to the fact that his
majesty had assured his Independence
in the teeth of perfidious Albion In
due time, his majesty, wearing plenty
of jewels. with his ministers and
retinue of gorgeously attired black
servants, arrived at famous hotel,
where he lived in regal magnificence,
and Paris found a new sensation in
watching his daily drive along the
Bots de Boulogne. A few days later
some letters arrived bearing curious
" shaped and pretty designed stamp.
on which appeared the words "Sedang
two moons" as well as some French
colonial stamps. Partisan philatelists
gave huge brides to the hote; servants
for any Sedang stamps that came their
way, and so rapidly did these rise IN
value that they soon changed hands at
1000 francs.
This fact, too, was recorded IN the
newspapers, but when orders were
coming from all parts of France and
everything appeared proPltious, a
very prominent stamp dealer received
/. command to wait on his majesty.
but after being received with great
ceremony, the king directed one OF his
ministers to complete the contempiat-
ed business. The dealer was told that
81 consideration Of the payment OF
large sum down he would be apPoin led
sole agent for the stamps, and to this
he readily agreed. The minister tisen
whispered that for q few thousand
iouis he could buy up fine collection
the minister had brought with him IN
heknown to the king. but the utmost
secrecy would have to be observed, be
c.uxe II his majesty heard of 1t he (the
ministerl would lose his head.
A large sum OF money found its way
into the Golfers Of the bogus Marie l
and his minister, and then Europe was
flooded with the stamp = wa
not. however, until schoolboy wrote
Is ! newspaper asking where Seeene
~. situated that the imposition wss
discovered, which sat 81 Paris isuee
1n9s =
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1903-07-10

The third great cactus section >
the Opuntia. OF this, the Tema fam
lily is the most extensive. In Los
Angeles county are found many va
rieties of Opurtias. The edibies
grow on fat-leaved plants. There
are two local fields in this state In
which collections of value may be
made. First, the Colorado desert be-
tween San Bernardino county and
Yuma, beginning about 100 miles
from Los Angeles. The other field II
the Mojave desert, beginning on >
line with the San Fernando tunnel
and ending at Bakersfield, the north
ern-most limit of native cacti in CALI
fornia. Prickly pears, very common
Opuntias, have been known to grow
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1903-07-10

With restrictions in provinces of Canada women now
municipal suffrage throughout the British empire
cent South Africa and here the has
his intention of introducing in the provincial parliament bill
ng In Holland the social democratic party Just added
municipal suffrage for plank its political platform
this country during the past year suffrage bills
Arent been introduced in legislatures of states
and territories; and though notable gains made there
have indications of increased strength In Arizona
granting complete suffrage passed by both houses
the legislature though prevented by of the governor
coming law
United States do not faster than by
people In the paiaments OF the British provinces
often examples the number Of bills
@ and government When premier South
convinced of the wisdom of suffrage province
fairly likely get it. Under different system, which
the interest and responsibility of the individual citizen
more cautiously than do esteemed
SLOWLY THOUGH WE ADVANCE, THE CAUSE OF WOMAN
SUFFRAGE IS SURELY GAINING HEADWAY.