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The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1910-02-05
Distant Relations.

"Bliggins was referring to distant
relations in rather disappearing
tone. wonder whom he meant?"
II don't know" answered Miss Cay.
enne. Judging from their manner, /
should say the most distant relations
be knows anything about are his wife
and her family"
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1910-02-05
First pub. Feb .5-Lsst March. s, Is
PROBATE NOTICE.
STATE OF MICHIGAN.

The Probate Court for the County Of Baraga.
At u session of said court, held at the Pro-
bate once in the Township OF L'Anse. in said
county, on the 3lst day of January, A. ID. 1910
Present: Hon. James Mem ahon, Judge of
Probate.
In the matter Of the estate of John
Brady.
Patrick Brennan having fled In said court a
petition praying for license to sell the interest
Of said estate in certain real estate therein des-
cribed.
II is ordered, that the 18th day Of Febru-
AIRY A. d. 1910, at ten O'Clock in the forenoon, at
said probate ONCE. be and lie hereby appointed
for hearing said petition, and that all persons
interested In said eetate appear before said
court. at said time and place, to show cause wny
license to sell the interest Of said estate In
said real estate should not be granted;
II is further ordered, that public notice thereof
be given by publication of a copy Of this order,
for four successive weeks previous to eaid day
of hearing. In the L'Anse Sentinel, a newspaper
printed and circulated in eaid county.
JAMESMcMAHON,
Judge OF Probate
A,True copy.
JAMES MCMAHON,
Judge Of Probate.
HUBERT A. BRBrNAN.
Attorney for Petitioner.
Business address: L'Ause, Mich
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1910-02-05
isn't worth anything, How could l

isn't worth anything! How could l
tell?"
Couldn't you tell from the plans?"
inquired the young man.
Those things always make my
head ache" protested the young wam-
an. Like railway timetables and pro-
positions in geometry. ! can't make
any sense out of them! Why don't
you buy bonds or stocks or something
like that? Then you won't have to
bother. Isn't there always an awful
lot of trouble about owning houses?"
"Oh, ] don't know" said the young
man, q trifie gloomily. I'D rather
build house than buy bonds. Ter
oh, / can make lot more out Of It!
This seems to be nice house-look
here!"
"Ye-e-s," said the young woman aft
er glancing at the plan. But isn't 1t
awfully small? Only six rooms!"
THAT isn't 80 terribly little!" pro
tested the young man. There's lots
more room in six-room house than a
six-room fiat. for example. Still,
don't like that hall l like q good
sized hall that looks inviting when
you come in-don't your
II don't see." said the young woman
bit irritatedly, why you should
bother much about whether it's invit.
ing or not when you're going to rent
It. People rent anything. What do
you carer"
The young man looked still more
gloomy. "Oh. like to have things
right" he said. do you think the
bungalow style is more convenient or
is an upstairs better? And is a porch
on the side preferable to one right in
front where everybody can break in
on you when you're in the hammock,
reading?'
Mercy! don't know" cried the
young woman. Please talk to me and
put down those old magazines!"
The young man discarded the liter
AZURE. There's nothing in them any
how" he said. THAT is, nothing I
like any better than my own plan.
You see, I've been sort of figuring II
out in odd moments and have drawn
up one of my own" He drew care
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-12-15
GIRL LIVES AMONG PUEBL0s
English Student Writes Home of In
teresti1g Experiences in New
Mexico

London.7Miss Frierre-Marreco, who
holds a research fellowship to Somer-
vile College, Oxford, an adventurous
young woman who is deeply interest
ed in the study of ~anthropology and
who has taken the unconventional
course of living with the Pueblo In
dams in New Mexico, with a view to
getting first-hand informationA in her
pursuit of knowledge, has been writ
ing to her friends in Oxford giving in
teresting details of her life among the
Indians.
She tells how the Indians have
christened her TIA Yopovi," or Flow
er of the Sedge." She lives by her
self in a little house of wood and can
vas, doing practically all her own
homework. The Indians treat her
with every courtesy and friendliness.
She finds an obstacle to her purpose.
however, in their r~eticence on all
matters relating to themselves.
The people are extremely proud
and sensitive" she writes. and very
much on an equality with white peo'
pie, In their own estimation, at least.
There is an obvious determination to
Illustrate the inquisition of white PEG.
pie. In some places it is yelled under
forms of politeness; in others 1t takes
the form o. open hostility"
She further tells that she succeeded
best with the old women, whom she
induced to teach her something about
Indian medicine.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-12-15
Mosquitoes Most Deadly and
Unrelenting Foe.
Experiments Being Made at Bronx
Park to Determine ACCESSIBILITY of
Raising Insects { o Destroy
Little Singing Pests

New York.-"Some experiments are
being made at Bronx park to deter
mine whether it would be a good in.
vestment for the government to breed
dragon flies to destroy mosquitoes"
said a tall, elderly man who sat In a
boat on the Little Bronx river at One
Hundred and Eighty-ifth street and
Boston road the other day. He was
William Conroy. an employ of the
geological department of Harvard, and
is spending his vacation in and about
New York and Jersey City taking
notes on the mosquito.
Not everyone knows he said. that
the dragon fly is the worst natural en-
envy that the mosquito has. Both of
them are born in the water. and both
wriggle around in the mud and ocze
till the time comes for them to
emerge. Then they come out on the
stock of a lilypad. dry off in the hot
sun n split their skin down the back
and emerge from it with wings.
The dragon fly has a wonderful
lower jaw that shoots out like an arm
and can grab almost anything that
comes its way, but what it likes better
than anything else is a mosquito.
"A few years ago / was out on the
plains Of Wyoming at . rather high
altitude and near some wet land where
mosquitoes simply seemea to eat US
alive. Late In the afternoon they
came swarming around US as the sun
sank, and made life a torment. ! was
with a troop of United States soldiers.
and We had camped for the night and
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-12-15
SAVED OLD LADY'S HAIR

MY mother used to have a YER bad
humor on her head which the doctors
called an eczema, and for it had two
different doctors. Her head was very
sore and her hair nearly all fell out
in spite of what they both did. One
day her niece came in and they were
speaking of how her hair IA falling
out and the doctors did 1t no good,
She says, Aunt, why don't you try
Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Oint.
ment?' Mother did and they helped
her. In six months time the itching,
burning and scalding of her head was
over and her hair began growing. To
day she feels much in debt to CUT.
cura Soap and Ointment for the fine
head Of hair she has for an old lady
of seventy-four.
MY own case was al eczema in my
feet. AS soon as the cold weather
came my feet would itch and burr and
then they would crack. open and bleed
Then 1 thought ! would flee to my
mothers friends, Cuticura Soap and
Cuticura Ointment. | did for four OF
five winters, and now my feet are as
smooth as any ones. Ellsworth Dun
ham, Hiram, Me-, Sept. 80, 1909"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-12-15
DIET AND AGE

Medical experts, insurance men. ed
ucators and teachers of the science |
health and happiness generally are
making a sort OF campaign just o
in favor of simpler living and q re
turn to nature. The mortality of adult
age-of the period between forty and
.sixty-is Increasing, but 1t is o due
to the stress of modern life, to worry
and overwork, as some have sup
posed. 1t is due, we are assured. to
~overeating and bad diets. There Is
every reason why we should live long
er and be healthier, for comforts are
increasing and inventions are lessen
ing toll and anxiety. But our very
prosperity has led to richer and am
pier diets, and there is where the
mischief lies.
There, and in our indoor life. We
hun nature; we shut out light and
r; we walk little and seldom eat or
st in the open air, in gardens, fields
r on porches.
This is all wrong, and the wages OF
this wrong are i'll health. depression,
gloom. the shortening Of the natural
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-12-15
Tribute to Painters skin.

One of the still life paintings by
Jan van Huysen in the museum at
The Hague was recently injured. but
it is believed the perpetrator was
neither vandal nor thief.
The picture represents a basket of
fruit on which a number of insects
have gathered. On a pale yellow APP
pie, which is the centerpiece in the
cluster of fruit. is a large fly. painted
SO true to nature. 20 say the officials
of the gallery. that the canvas was
injured by some one who endeavored
to "shoo' it and brought his cane or
hand too close to the canvas. "A
tribute to the painters genius" says
the letter recording the fact. for which
the work had TO suffer-"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-12-15
Clam Shells Are Also Medium Of Ex
change Pending Release of Gov
eminent Agent.

Chicago.-Nathan H. Secrest. the
American recently arrested in Chicago.
charged with counterfeiting $200,00O
worth of N-icaraguan paper money. has
pitched his native and his adopted
lands into a diplomatic tans'e without
precedent. Although himself innocent
Of any crime, he may serve from one
10 FIVE years in the federal peniten-
tiary for a crime against the United
States of which his government is
guilty. unless a treaty or diplomatic
agreement Is forthcoming.
The federal statutes provide that a
foreign country having currency print
ed or minted in the United States
must first obtain permission of the
federal government. The crime OF
falling to obtain this permission rests
with the Nicaraguan government, but
Secrest holds the proxy of his adopted
xovernment and federal authorities
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-12-15
BREED FL

built a fire to smoke the mosquitoes
away. but it did little good. While
we sat there shaping al the pests
there came a sudden dispensing of
them. In a seconds time almost there
wasn't n of them in sight We all
noticed it. Then, darling from side to
side and flying around the camp, came
the dragon flies. six or eight of them.
with their big. shining bodies and
tremulous gauze wings making a pref
Is picture in the afternoon haze.
AN old Indian guide who was in
the party was the first to point out
the dragon flies and tell us that tie
mosquitoes had been afraid of them. A
little after the dragon flies had gone
and back came the mosquitoes. Then
after a little the flies came back. a
dozen of them this time, stretched out
across the plain III line of battle Is
feet apart and each one advancing and
darling from side to side in quick
dashes. Every dash meant a mosquito
killed and eaten, and it was no wonder
that the mosquitoes fed.
"A few years ago the question was
seriously taken up at the Museum of
Natural History and at the Smith
sonian in Washington of whether it
would not pay TO breed dragon flies, or
devils darning needles. as the grand
mothers used to call them, to rid the
country Of mosquitoes. The investiga-
tons were called off for some reason
and never pursued.
Il knew a lady out In Cambridge
who breeds a lot Of dragon flies in an
aquarium on her back porch every
summer Just to keep the mosquitoes
away After breeding they hang
around the porch all summer close to
the water. wnere they were Matched,
and she never has to use screens
While l sat there OH the porch under
the honeysuckle n evening l counted
10 dragon flies ON the walls or vines
but never a mosquito"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-12-15

there seemed something familiar in
the long stride.
Therefore she was ready to say de-
seeing you here?"
He peered up at her through his
glasses. "Babbie," he said. by all the
fates! Did you drop from the sky?"
She shook her head. Il was watch
ing the ships from the sea wall"
Wait till | come up" he said. and
made a quick ascent.
Now tell me-" he commanded. He
sat down beside her on the shawl.
The telling was not easy. Il am liv-
ing here in the city and earning my liv-
ing"
"How?" was his quick question.
She evaded him. And this is the
first clear day for a long time, so
took a holiday and brought my lunch
and my book. aI6-it's lovely"
In spite of the brave tone, he was
not deceived. His keen eyes had noted
the. shabby black shoe tucked under
the worn skirt, the plain little hat and
the questionable coat. II was not
thus that Babbie had CARRIED herself in
her butterfly days.
"Babbie." he said. graveiy. what has
happened to you, my child?"
II mustn't tell you," she whispered
He leaned down TO look in her eyes
Why not?"
Because | don't want-pity."
"Ah-" His hand went over hers
in a sudden hard grasp. rs 1t as bad
as that?"
"Yes, I have almost died of loneli.
might have helped-and | couldn't ask
you"
why nct?"
s"I think you know"
Because you sen me away when
you we're prosperous, you wouldn't call
rne back when you were poor? Is that
il, Babbie?"
yes"
Don't you know that my love
wouldn't ask questions? Don't you
know that I've been sailing the seas
travelling in foreign lands to ease my
heart? Could anything make me Sc
glad as to spend my life in service for
your"
Il know. but the same cause exists
today that existed a year ago. Rich
ard"
You still stick to that?" There was
a note of anger in his voice.
Eyes"
He stood up. Then I might as well
20. as ] went before"
Her hand went out to stay him. then
she said. drearily: yes. you might as
we'll 60"
So he went, heavily, as one who car
ries a burden. but when he reached the
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-12-15
WOOD MONEY NICARAGUA

are at a loss to know how to release
him with p%ropriety.
Meanwhile Nicaragua is trading In
wooden buttons. clam shells, a few
Mexican dollars and patiently waiting
the new currency t. take the place of
the $4,000. 600 which disappeared
about the same time that President
Zeiaya departed.
Then President Estrada sent a cable
asserting Secrest was authorized by
the cabinet to get the money made in
Chicago. President Estrada accord
ing to cabIegrams will make a formal
protest to Secretary of State Knox
with the assurance that Secrest acted
for the new government in printing
the bills.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-12-15
of Chicago Has Rescued Old
Melodies.

Chicago.--No melodies are more
tuneful than Irish melodies. No songs
stir the heart more surely than Irish
songs.
No tune set the pulses leaping or
the feet dancing more quickly than
the dance music-of Ireland.
Who has not been moved to joy or
sorrow. smiles or tears by the lyric
witchery of Tom Moore? The words
of his songs were his own, but the
music to which he set them was the
music of the Irish race.
Irish folk music is a wonderful
treasure house of quaint melody IL
has been due to the interchangeable in
dustry and antiquarian zeal of former
Chief of Police Francis O'Neill and
other Chicago Irishmen that much OF
the ancient folk music of Ireland has
been rescued from oblivion.
Captain O'Neilrs W. former books,
The Dance Music of Ireland" were
collections of music which resulted
from his researches. Another volume
has just been published which is an
outgrowth of his delvings in the music
lore of his native land. He has called
1t Irish Folk Music" 1t sets out the
history of the ancient tunes and is
full of interesting and gcssipy infor-
nation about them.
Captain O'Nein is a native of West
| Cork, the glens of which, he says, are
a e~forehouee of mueical trea sureS nm
explored by the great collectors of
Irish melodies. Near the Castle Dono-
van his grandfather, O'Mahoney Nor,
or, as he was generally called. Cianach
Mor-his clan title-kept open house
for the wandering Ministries of his
time.
Born In brought up in such a
home amid an environment of tradi-
tional music and song" says Captain
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-12-15
To Start Huge Crab Farm.

Norfolk, Va-E. E. Elliott of Hamp
ton, h largest crab dealer in the
world, will have a crab farm in a basir
that cost the government $500, 900
1t is located at the jamestown exposi
ton grounds.
IL is Elliott's intention Il stock the
farm with crabs during the summer sc
that there will always be a supply for
the country during the winter. To pre-
vent a feast of the families" he pro
poses to cut off the claws of all crabs
he puts into the basin.
The government has not yet given
it's consent to Elliot's plan. but prob
ably will as the basin Is perfectly
useless at present.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-12-15
WAR ON UNLIMITED GUESTS
English Woman Asks Friends to Bring
Cards Of lnvitation-Police
Eject Undesirables-

London.-The experiences OF the
London hostess, who has requested all
guests invited to her dance at a Lon.
don hotel to bring their cards of invi.
tation in order to exclude unlimited
guests, have been related.
The lady in question. a very we'll
known London hostess, has suffered
such annoyance at the hands of unin
vited guests hat nowadays she neve
holds any large function without first
taking strict precautions TO render the
presence of these undesirable persons
practically impossible.
Some tinre ago / had my eyes
opened to this scandalous practice IN Q
most unpleasant fashion" she said.
Il had occasion to give a dance at .
London hotel, TO which | invited 23e
guests. l had very carefully checked
these figures before the dance began,
yet before it was halfway through
the manager of the hotel informed
me that there were already over 40o
people in the rooms who claimed to be
my guests.
Last year | heard of two ladies'
no one seemed personally acquainted
with them-who had attended unin'
vited practically every canoe or func'
ton of the season Consequently ]
have been driven to adopt precautions
which. as truly pointed out a shori
time ago, had become absolutely zee
essary for the exclusion of these PEG
pie.
$50 1 have asked all guests invited
to a dance | am giving at a hotel this
week 20 bring their cards of invita-
ton.
THE hotel management has prom
ised to have three men at my disposal
whose duty it will be to take the
name and address of every person
who comes claiming to be my guest
but is without an invitation"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-12-15
Sense of Taste.

From a series of experiments re-
emily made at the University of Kan
5 il is evident that the average per-
IN IAN taste the bitter of ~quinine
Ehen one par. is dissolved in SO. 900
rarts of water. Salt was detected in
water when one part to Gao Of the
liquid was used. Sugar could be tast-
ed in 22S parts of water and common
soda in AZ. In nearly all cases women
could detect a smaller quantity than
men.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-12-15

'O'Neill, "it was to be expected that
my MOTHERHOOD rest her soul-would
memorize much of the folk music OF
Munster. and naturally transmit it by
her lifting and singing to her children
who inherited a keen ear. a ~retentivt
memory and an intense owe of the
haunting melodies of their race. Sim
ilarly gifted was our father. who. full
of peace and content and occupying
his accustomed chair beside the spa
cious fireplace. sang the old songs in
English or Irish for his own pleasure
OF the entertainment of those who
cared to listen"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-12-15

A month of rain and a month of high
winds had kept the Little Lonely Girl
4 prisoner. Hence, on the first sun
shiny morning in October she sailed
.orth, locking the door of her room.
high up in the tall tenement, with a
sense of joy and of freedom unknown
10 those whose lives are not bounded
by four narrow walls.
The Little Lonely Girl carried a very
small basket and a thumbed paper
backed volume. Over her arm hung a
shabby shawl. She stepped lightly,
however, as if her feet wanted to fly
over the ground and take her as quick
ly as Possible from the griny street
where she lived.
1t was ten o'clock when she reached
the goal of her desires. Most people
would have see nothing attractive in
the stretch of stone sea wall at the
end of a smoke stained city park. But
there was a curve in the wall which
made a rest for the Little Lonely Girls
back. and, with the shawl tucked in
for a cushion and her book In her lap,
she could read and watch the ships,
and drink in the freshness of the
sharp, salt air.
At noon she was ready for her lunch,
and the hard-boiled egg and slice of
bread seemed wholly inadequate to the
demands of her appetite. She ate the
very last crumb. then flung the box
from the top of the wall. With it went
a fine white napkin, which was a left
over from more afluent days. She
craned her neck to look where it fell,
and saw 1t futter across the eyes OF
a msn who lay half asleep on the
sands below.
He looked up.
Would you msnd," b hesitated
handing it to me?"
He vas on his feet in a moment
Wait till l catch it," he called.
Ac che watched him RIM after "A
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-12-15
Stone Ace STYLES.

New iork.-A suit of clothes made
of stone is being shown by p Broad.
way clothing dealer. The f1Dric from
which they are made was imported
from Russia. IL is manufactured from
the fiber of a filamentous stone from
the Siberian mines. The material is
soft and nliable and when soiled has
only to be placed in a fire to be made
absolutely clean.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-12-15

increases in the salaries of all EN-.
pioyees of the city having more than
one child The increase is ten per
cent. for two children, 10 per cent. for
three and 20 e cent. for four. The
additional salary is to continue until
each child in the family has reached
the age OF sixteen years and is able
to earn his own living.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-12-15

YES" says the lady whose dress
case is covered with strange foreign
labels, the way railroads are run now
idays is a great Improvement over
what they were fifty years ago"
But surely you had no experience as
> traveller fifty years ago." says her
friend.
Il don't NEAR that. But nowadays,
don't you notice. when there is a wreck
1t is always had at some point convent
ent to a cluster of farm houses where
the victims can go for coffee and to
get warma"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-12-15
M ustard Seed

Mustard seed is sown in Holland In
March and April. It blossoms like
rape. but the plant is stronger. The
crop as q rule is ready for harvest
in August or September. The plants
are cut and the seeds dried on the
SHRUBS of the plants. or. perhaps more
generally, the shrubs are put together
in small piles and thus dried in the
fields.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-12-15
HorribIe Reauest to Father.

What is probably the strangest and.
at the same time, the most horrible
bequest ever made, is to be found in
the will of Lieutenant de Pap. former
ly an officer in a smart regiment OF
Austrian hussars. who was executed
by strangling some few years ago for
the murder of his brother. Previous
to his execution the murderer request
ed that he might be photographed
while hanging on the gallows, and q
copy of the CHASTITY picture sent to
his father.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-12-15

span Of life. Habits of outdoor life
should be formed early, at school. AS
much teaching as possible should be
done in the open air-and as much
playing likewise. After graduation,
boys and girls should continue to cul-
tivate the outdoor life, and families
should continue the practise.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-12-15
Chickens in a "snower.'

Stamford. Conn. = The chicken
shower" is the latest Connecticut nov
city in ministerial donation parties.
Seventy members of the Torringford
Congregational church called on their
new pastor, Rev. w. Z. Page, the 9TH
er night. each person carrying a live
chicken The flock will stock the pas
tors hencoop to overlooking.