Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 May 1893 — Page 12

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THE INDIANA STA.TE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 3.1893-TWEVLE PAGES.

A GENTLE MURDERESS.

THE STRANGE 8TORY BY SIR EDWIN ARNOLD IN HAWAII. The Sniunnrr Who Had to Choose ISetwern Savin; Her Child and Her Husband A Pathetic Tragedy of the Waves of the tit eat Pacific. fSir EJwiu Arnold In the London TlfRrph.l It is only a little etory! I picked it up 'pon tne oeach oi Oahu, among the uniting huts under Diamond Head, in those beautiful Sandwich Islands where a eet of commercial and political sugar-Slibuaters have temporarily taken away her crown from the rightful sovereign. Queen I.ilicuka'ani. I shall tell tne etory imperfectly, knowing to littlo as I do about the locality and the language, bat I aeked three or four Questions afterward an to the Hawaiian word and phrases, and what follows is, aa far as I can remaiober, the manner in which it was related. They are wonderful awimmsM In the Fandwich Islands. 3 in aimoät all those clusters of the l'aciüc archipelagoes, and it ia a fine sig,ht for such as love healthy manhood to watch tho amphibious peop'e play with the sea. It ii a much their nonio aa the land. I ithinz is quite aa important to them aa agriculture, and they ell know tha ways and the whereabouts of the creature3 of tha deep and of the reef, aa well aa of tha birds of the grove and mountain slope. With nets of the olona fibre- and awesp-roj-.es of hi leaves, they draw tha countless vprietrated tiuny tribes into the shallows of the lagoons and out upon tho fands, and have a trick whera it is permitted of placing under heavy atones beneath the water the bruised roots of a plant the auhuhu which intoxicated every fish coming- wuhin the inlluence of its juice, llxcelleni boatmen, in epite of the primitive character of the native canoes, they make a Ivonturoua runs from island to i.laud, and are especially skillful in handling a littlo craft in the midst of surf or great breaking billows. It is a eight to see a Hawaiian canoe coming ashore, with or without the tma, an outrigger of liyht wood which eteadies the frail craft. The sea bird ekimming over the rollers do cot seem more at home in the middle of the hue l'aciilc eurf than the brown-skinned Kanakas paddling to land from a liahing or tailing excursion, in tha evening. They understand the tricks and dangers of the coral barrier which they must cross, and take the enormous wave which roll over it with ehouts of excitement and delight If they are capeized it in nothing to them eo lonz as no sharks are about. They rei'.ly make the white and blue breaker their play-fellows in their popular sport of hee nalu, or surf ewimming. where a party of these laughing water-babies of all ages, naked except for a wreath of pea weed or a wisp of bark clotri, will go down to the reef's edge at eunsat, carrying long light boards of koawood, 8 feet long and 18 inches broad, stained black and highly polished. Clamping these, they twim boldly out to etaward, diving, plank and all, under each incoming roller as they meet it, until they have gone as far out es where the ocean feels tha first of the coral bottom, and swells for its outer line of long billow. Then, turning their iacea shoreward, they lie down flat upon the plank, balancing themselves upon it and holding it with feet and hands straight along the glassy back of the preßt roller, which foams, curia, leapa and thunders under them as they tear along toseed like bubbles amid the milky ppume and the whirling sealace, until they come drenched and shining to the shore, or into the placid green water inside the reef. The very babies learn to swim almost before they are able to toddle, and an for tho grown boys and pirls of the islands, and its men and women, the waves are as much their playground as the woods and meadows, and there ere instances where Hawaiians have been thirty hours in the Fea, after a capsize, and have yet come eafely to land. tut one mu.'t bo Ftrong, nod well, and unencumbered for these lon twims, and a sick man cannot sport with the ocean in puch a fearless way, which is why MinaMina lost her first born, and bought with his little life her husband's safety. We parsed her, walking with a string, of fish, and a tiny child upon her arms, under the palm trees near L-ahi, and my friend an old resident ?ave her good-day ia tho musical Hawaiian, calling her by the name I have mentioned. "What a pretty word that is," I said, "to call a woman by ; what dus it mean?" "Oh!" La answered, "that's not her right name, but one which the neighbors have given her ever eicce a sad adventure that sha met with on Koko Head, round yonder. Mi-na-mi-na siemfies 'regret for the memorv of anything,' Vadnes,' 'something precious that is gone,' 'eorry to lo.ie.' &he is a good and brave girl, and ehe has (rot another baby now to play with, but she can never forget the boy sha was obliged to leave to tae sharks "in the bad time." Of course, I asked him for the etory; and this is how he told it: One day ia the season of the chanzs of weather Mina-Mina, with her husband and their little boy of about a year old, had gone in a canoe over to Molokal to fetch ironwoed and shells. The man was weak and ill with fever, though recovering; but the wife, like most of these Hawaiian women, could handle a paddle with the best, and Msrea, her voting partner, was quite strong enough to take part in loading the craft and steering her. ho they were making tha voyago home ward under tha little sail of mat spread on the bamboo mast, with the red bird painted upon it, and Mina-Mina was suckling her son of eighteen months forward, while her husband directed tha boat; and all had gone safely up to about midway in the broad channel, l'erhaps he was pinging her an ioo, a love verso for the people are like birds and are always chirrup ing; or she, perhaps, was cooing asleeppong to her email son, in the dove's voice which the island mothers have. Hut all In a moment one of those circular gusts which sweep the sea at the change of weather, came upon them without warning out of the clear sky over the smooth sea. He was languid and alow with his fever; che was engaged with her child, and had no time to let the sail fall or to fling over-board the heavy stuff" In tne bottom of the canoe. The gust forced the pun whale of it under, though they both leaned well to windward, and although Mina-Mina reached over and cut the halliards with her knife. In a moment the little craft filled and sank from under them, drawn down by her load, leaving the throe floating on the agitated sea, with only one paddle, which Manao held. Mina-Mina had swnng her baby over to her back, and' his little, round bead, like cocoacut, peeped well forth from the water as his mother struck out by the side of her husband for the shore under Koko Head. Although this lav fully two leaguos away ther was nothing ia the situation greatly to dieconrert an Hawaiisn family, it only the young husband had been in his proper rtrengtu Le would have shifted the baby to his own shoulders, and side by aide, while the sua grew ijulet again, they would have managed to make their long awlm to the land, If no shark intercepted them. For any one I cm fatnllisr with the open ocean than these Islander no doubt It would have been a dreadful plight. Urea from a host the wide and naked fact

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Even in the quietest weather there is a throb of polid motion in tho shiniDg surface, which drops a small boat into vast, shallow valleys, and again lifis it upon the brea?t of gradual but farreaching slopes, and the very peace of the sleeping element becomes dreadful. 15ut when a swimmer beats the alt sea, far from land or help, his chin upon its ehinir.tr top, his eyes just level with the Ion clitter of the surface, the vastness and bareness and deadlines of it become to all but the hardiest absolutely terrible. There is no man who, ewimming in tho ocean, has not experienced, even when he had safely closo at hand, that irresistible horror a; the littlenep of his powers and at the largeness of the chilly death lapping and washing all around him, before and behind, and right and left, as far away on every quarter us to where the sky comes down to the sea. And it is worss when he thinks of the deep abyss of liquid beneath his feeble feet although, for tho matter of that, seven feot of water will choke the life from a wearied swimmer as well 4,00!) fathoms of the ruidPaeific. Actual death by drowning is, probably, like most other forma of dying, not at all painful; but never does death appear more visible and dreadful than when you look along the face of the sea. Etruzgling with its waters for every breath that is drawn and every yard that is won, while the dance of the brine washes over the lips and nostrils, and Hing its bitter menace into the blinded eyes. Mina-Mina soon found that her man could not keep the baby's head and his own at the same time above thi water. Tho little brown imp was, nevertheless, laughing and crowing at the sparkling waves, without any mark of fear or tremble, and when she drew him down beside her in the sea, and let him paddle for a cable's length or so, the tiny castaway swam like a small fish, and all three wer making fair progress. In the moment of the capsize they had fallen into the sea, of course fully clothed, but both had since loosened and cast aside in the water their garments of tap a, for freer swimruing, although Mina-Mina still retained her waist-band, in which she kept her tishing knifo. The ocean was quieted down again after the sudden blast, and it was not dilicult to rest sometimes b lloating, the wife holding up their small companion. Only this would not do for any long time togetl er. because a current ws running before the light trade wind, and they might drift too far to reach tho land at laL Presently Mina Mina's bright eyes perceive upon the watsr to the right on her husband's eide a dark edge, moving slowly, like a blade of black sea-weed tilted up. "Oh! Mokuhalii (great God of the fish), help us now," Ehe cried. "He kokua! help! here is he mano, the shark." "Your aumakua is the great fish. IIa will not hurt you, wita, but he will take me cr the little one." lloing of the ii-ih God's line, she was tabu to Eharks, and they to her, and to injuro the butcher of tha deep was forbidden to her, for there is plenty of ancient belief Klill among them, in epite of missionaries. But now she was thinking only of her husband and her baby, and superstition fled to the winds for tho dear sake of those ehe loved. Of all examples of eimilar religious courage in Hawaiian womim. none is batter known than that of lvapiolani. the daughter of tho chief of HUo, who broko tho ppell of Pele, the goddess of the great volcano, eutin; the sacred berries of the dreaded goddess, and Hinging stones into the seething fiery crater of Mauna Loa, thereby converting the people from their antique fears. But "that is another etory." "Beat hard upon the water. He Luna! Master! Beat when be comes near, and keep him a little oil". I will kill my aumakua! Otherwise will he eat my precious eon." At any other moment these words would have seemed too impious to hear or pronounce. Now, however, the enfeebled and weary husband could only sign (silent absent, and put his elbow under the child's arm, while Mina-Mina drew her knife from her belt and held it in her pearl-like teeth, silently paddling to meet the shark. There ia a spot in these murderoui brutes, well known to the inlanders, where the stroke of a long blade driven hard into the white belly will find the swim bladder, and when that Is pricked the shark sinks or becomes disabled. The cruel nah had seen or divined the baby as a dainty prey, though ordinarily this Hawaiian species is too well fed or too particular to care much for brown meat. Aa ha came within twice his own length of the father and child he turned slowly over and slipped below the surface, the pale colored underside gleaming up through the green water; and jut when you could discern tho horseshoeshaped mouth opening to show the sharpnotched jaws and red palate of the maneater, Mina-Mina's knife was plunged, with all the weight of her lifted body, into tho shark's side, whereupon the savage creature bounded half its length into the air, and then, with a furious threshing of its tail, vanished into the depths, Isaving streaks of oily scarlet blood upon tho foam which its leap had caused. "Give me the child," she said; but before placing him on ber back again, for the babv had grown somewhat wearied and chilled, she rubbed her nose hard against the little no?e, after the fashion of Hawaiisn kissing, and "aloha ino, oh, my darling," she cried, "If iwa-hiwa, my sweet little black pig! my life is nothiog to give for thee." The land which meant rest; which meant safety, rescue, comfort, life bad come nigher by this time, and there would not be more than a rollo and threo quarters to traverse. Mina-Mina, with the long black hair knottod on her head, still full of soaked hibiscus flowers, was swimcoin bravely, keeping the boy's tiuy hands upon ber shoulders, and the pea was still and the current safely pasitd, when her ear missed the regular heat of Manao'a arms behind her. rhe turned her head over her shoulder, and saw that he was treading tha water in the manner of a strong swimmer exhausted, his cbin thrown back, his mouth open. "My King I be nlu mos," she criod, "come on I Yet a little more, and we shall touch the coral lc lgs with our toes." "Olua!" be answered, "go forward you two. I must dial The favor has takn all the manhood from my muscles. Mai hull oe. I'o not turn round again. Good-by t I ruuNt go down into the night of the sea." 'N'ol father of my ion I no," Mloa-Mloa

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passionately exclaimed. "The land is bo close I can sea the doors of their hut?. The reef is so near I can tee the seaweed waving on the outside shelves of the reef. Oh, a little farther, and we shall all be saved !" The poor fellow struck out courageously again, but as she watched herself gallantly breasting the sea. which broke gently on either side of her bosom a from the prow of some dark ship she uaw his hands fall down, and tho sea-water spill from the top of a wavelet into bis mouth. Her Manae was spent; he could never traverbe by his own strength tha distance atiil to be dealt with. These island women are placid and slow on shore, but in moments of crisis quick to act as a eea bird is to decide on its course oi llight. Fall on your back, friend, fall Makamaka! 'she eaid; "I will give you some rest," and then the executed a wonderful piece of waterdearning, fanning the eea be.-ide him, so that in each stroke her returning arm gave him a eulficiont support, wüi'e ehe kept herself and the baby" still steadily moving in the right direction. But ehe was too much accustomed to the water not to know that her man wa beyond hope if ho should be loft to himself. Hastily her fond heart msdo up its purpose. She could not keep thorn both above the waves; the el'ort she was making inuit soon come to an end. She must accordingly choose between the life of tho father of her child and the life of the son of her husband. A Hawaiian woman of her character would never hesitate. MinaMina did not hesitate. ".wim now by yourself for a littlo. Manao!'' ghe moaned, with water in her black eyes, which was not from the sea ; ' I can help one of the two to land, but I cannot help both. My son Kahaha! thou must die for him that gava thee beginning." "Ah, wife! wife-! no!" cries tho Hawaiian, striking out anew; "let be kaiua live let him come to be a man, and keep vou when you are old. I must go. It is I will die. I cannot swim one canoe's length further." At this moment tho baby, from its mother's back, chuckled out, from fun or habit, tha word of the little .Sandwich Island children when, they go to their mats for sleep at night. "Listen," said Mina-Mina, "he know3 it is all right. He says farewell to vou. Oh! my manu, my bird, you will take so long to drown, you are eo hearty. You will strung e, and cry for me, and call the sharks to you, before you are dead. And there is no time left. Good-by, rub my nose hard witti your little nose. Kuh honigala aloha 1 Oh, my last sweet, loving kiss to you ! Good-by !" With that she buried the knife bade in her boy's heart, and let him elide dead into the sea. Two thin lines of blood from bis little sinking body tr.-.iled backward to the spot where Manao was just sinking, and a large blot of bright crimson darkened the green water where he sank. The father saw, comprehended, but was too far spent to speak. Airaost gone herself with grief and physical strain, she drew his hands over her shoulders, and setting her chin hard for the shore, Hung out her strong shapely arms in splendid strokes, supporting ber helples lord ; nnd, gradually neared the coral reef. Where it opened into the lagoon a couple of fishermen were drawing their nets inside. They heard in the evening stilln. fs the beat of her hands, started up, and saw Mina-Mina on the point of giving up within a stone's throw of the ledge, quite exhausted. The two Hawaiiaus dashed into tho pea and dragged the pair safely to land, whero both lay for a time speechless. When they recovered power to speak and move, the fishermen were astonished to poe the husband kiss the wet feet of his wife and say, very softly, 'Tor my life I am your debtor and my son's." Afterward, "when all understood well what had happened in the water, they called her Mina-Mina, and praised ber exceedingly ; and she has-aa you cawby this time another little baby-boy. But there is never out of her look a wistfulnt83. such as you may havo noticed in parsing her, and she wiil go down of evening to the eea-edee at Koko i'oint, or Waikiki, and eay things to herself. Wo think sho, perhaps, siys. "Barling, he hiwa-hivta! oh, my littlo black pig. that I had to cast away! If only I could have died for thee."

Tutelar ancestor. The natives still believe that the spirits of their relative enter ap-cial Animals, which become the totem accordingly of particular families. . Sensitive to J Decree. Psrls Hsr.. The company wore seated at the table. Suddenly Baptists rushed into the room in a Rtate of wild alarm, exclaiming: "Quick! a glass of. wine!" Everybody stared, but his wi?h was complied with and Baptieto swallowed at one gulp a glass of wine poured out by the lady of the house, who inquired what was the matter with him. "Oh, madam. I am dreadfully upset. That glass of wine has done mo good. It ha broueht me round. Only think, I have just had the misfortune to break your two large dessort dishes of Sevres porcelain." She 1U W W ktil. N. Y. WeekU.l Revivalist "Is it possible that you danco?" Fair Sinner "Oh, yos, often." "Now tell me, honestly and lairlv, don't you think tho tendency of dancing is toward ein?" "I must confess that sometimes while dancing I have very wicked thoughts." "Aha! I feared eo. When is it that you have wicked thoughts?" "When my partners stop on my toes." A Clnver Operntor. IStr.ct A Smith's (icod News. Upton "Your son has gone to speculating in stocke. I hear." Downtown "Yes, mighty fimart boy George is, I can tell you." "Boing well, eh?" "Splendidly! Wonderfully! He's been on the street for three months, and isn't broko yet." A Tent. LuitiK litsttr. Paterfamilias (to hie wife) "I tell you, Adele. I always judge a man by the first impression, and I am seldom wrong." Younz Hopeful (interrupting) "I eay, pa, what impression did I make upon you when you saw mo first?" What Can Culiciira Do Eve rylMnir thitt Is flFnnslnir, purifying, sn1 liesu. Ufyiu' tut tho r kin, Hi-alp, fin. I ll.nr of Infinit and I hililrcti, Iii I I TU I'ltA Kr.NKMi", nillilo. Tliry I'.T.Illy cure luhliig ami Imming rrrmm. stxl other pulntul and tliMlffiirlriir skin and rl llimUKf, rloullMV tha sralp of scniy Imitior, u'l rt.ir the li.ilr. A iolnti.y t"iir, SlTlTtllill' K'l.l Ullfliliilllf, lYrr anvil to tnnihi-rs as th l sl.ln imrlhVrs sii'l l.f.iutlllrr In tit j "M. pari'tits, tliink of Hilt, snva your MMr-n ) inr f incntHl rll ) 1 1 y . . n siifTriliiK ly rctiB'iti of J'it.i.IikI ill!!ifiirrfiirt,t s.li'l to Ix. dily tortiint, l'iiri. in. Iff Iii rlitl.lhon.t r ajrf tMly, pcriiifinriit, stl't Tiniir!..-ul. Hol. I every. Wli f'orTKH 1'ltl 'l üHtl ClISM. ''ni'., I'.DttuU. Jtr" All slivut fcklii, fcculp, aud Jlulr " fits. BABY'S flkln and fleilp pnrlflerl sni fcrstitlflcl by Cltrliu Hoap. AUoliiU-ly 1'iirs. rV ACHIIiQ SIDES AND DACX, M 'J,)"!", Kid ney, ami ftorlno I'stns at.. I Vtlit. ! r-!lvd In nn minute j. IU Ui sua ouly )alu killing ylaslor.

TATTOOING NOT UNCOMMON

MANY ARISTOCRATS BESIDE LORD CRAVEN ARE MARKED. It I Quite the Custom Among Englinhmen AVho Have Visited K.-tatern Countries Ieclared, Too, That Many Club 31 en of Tli City Have Iteen Decorated Mr. MrAlliater Dort 't Approve of It at All He Say It's Vulgar nud Karbarous Tho rushion started bj the l'rince of Wale a. N. Y. Times. That both an attendant at the Bacquet club bath and a member of that organization should have been surprised, upon viewing the earl of Craven in puris naturalihüs, to eeo him ta'.tood with the crest of his house and o'.her designs in gorgeous .tni appropriate colora, has excited some amazement and languid surprise as well as unfavorable comment at tho Fifth-ave. clubs. The Pecquet, which started modestly a few a years ego on Sixth-ave., has recently asp ired to bein j the emartest eocial organization in town. Cornelius Yanderbilt is one of its directors, Isaac TowiiS-'Dil is its president, and in i's list are the names of halt tho jeunebso doree in the town. . The unanimous opinion of clubmen in this town and al60 that of Mr. Ward McAllister, whoso authority on such subjects cannot bo. questioned, is that tattooing is nearly general among swaggermen in England, and it is declared that there ia any number of men iu this city who have been beautifully ueenruted and who are simply walking picture galleries. The earl of Cravtn has remained silent in all this discussion. His friends, Lowever, do not deny that ha has been tattooed, and that Sherman Martin, eldest son of the earl's father-in-law, has also uudergone tho operation. A very popular non-resident member of the Union club of this city exhibited to friends last summer at Newport a most beautiful specimen of tattooing done so ue years ago in Japan. Birds and snakes and foliage were the objects depicted, and the colors were extremely bright. His full name and address were also tattooed on his chest. This gentlemen, who runs up to this city occassional!)', was in town yesterday, and he was seen at tho Uuion club. "The procoss,'' he sui J, "is not painful, after you are used to it. At first it is decidedly disagreeable, and it took me a number of days to have one email design punctured, it is not done in the old fashiou, such as is used by sailors, b it it has become a regular art. I wish I could tiescribe to vou the process. I can say that it is not ua.iSte branding. I will, however, give you the siddress of one of the moat celebrated tattooera in Japan. It was he who adorned the body of the late Buke of Clarence with beautiful designs, and whose handiwork is exhibited on the bo.ly of tho present heir apparent, l'rince George, Buke of York. lie Is attached to tho art establishment of Messrs. Arthur & Bond at Yokohama, Japan." The name was engraved in ordinary script on a business card. Three feathers and the motto "Ich dien" surmounted the name of the artist, who described himself thereon a "llori Chari, ta'ooer br appointment to H. Ii.ll. the Prince of Wale, H. lt. H. the Duke of C.arence, H. K. H. l'rince George, and to the Nobility and Gentry." Following this is the address of Messrs. Arthur & Bond at Yokohama. "There are many such artists ail over Japan," eaid the informant, "and now they even cdvertisa in euch modiurns as tho guide books, where you will find a note at the foot of a number of advertisements caiiing attention to artistic tattooing done in the establishments, whether it be an "art gallery," an establishment h'llnf, or a Lairdreeser. "I am very much surprised that so much fuss should be made over the fact that the earl of Craven is tattooed. Nearly all the army ami navy men in England, in fact, every gentleman who hr.s traveled in the Kast whether if be Japan, China or India, has been adorned with epicirnena of the tattooer's art. Mv valet, who is an Knglishman, hss had both arms very artistically done, not in the old sailor-blue India ink, but in the bright colors used in Japanese art." Mr. Amory G. Hodges, one of the directors of the Bacquet club, refused to say positively yeetcrday whether be had heard anything of tho tattooed coat of arms, hut his manner indicated that he bad heard something to that el!cct. He did not express any eurprie. Mr. Frederick Dioiati Thompson, who has mado most extended travels in Japan, spoke a short time ago to certain members of the Knickerbocker club about the wonderful skill which the Japanese have attained in the exercise of this new art. In his recent lecture before the Geneological and Biosratdiical society at the Berkeley lyceum ha made some slight reference to it, and it is understood that he will treat of it somewhat at length in his forthcoming book on Japan. Mr. Thompson has not, so far as it could be learned, confided to any ono whether he is tatooed or not, and society is hoping that he will treat it to the confidence in his volume. Mr. Lispenard Stewart Is also suspected, as he has spent some time in Japan, but the fact could not be ascertained yesterdav. The earl of Ava, who by rights is Lord Ava, retaining the name of earl only by courtesy, has bjen in India and the Bast, and he is said to be most beautifully tattooed. The prince of Wales' tatnoage ia an old story. The late duke of Marlborough was also tattooed, as is the carl of Lonsdale. Becently there was opened a branch of the Yokohama tattooing establiehment in London, and it has received much patronage. There are no tattoers in New York worthy of the name, and only those young clubmen who have had the good fortune to have made the eastern trip are able to exhibit evidences of this new fad. Boports from Paris state that It is also be coming fashionable with women, and that tha BrincvM da Ioon, the l'rincess de Sagan and other well-known leaders are being gorgeously tattoed by skilled Last Indian artists. As Ward McAllister is supposod to know more than any one else about clubmen and club life, a representative of tho New York Thum cal'ed upon him at his home, IG W. Thirty-sixth st. yeiterdav morning to get his views on tattooing. Mr. McAllister was in his rear druwinj-morn openititr his morning mail. He had not beard of the tattooing of tho earl of Craven. After reading about It in the New York Thnr be laughed. Well," he said, "I had not heard of this, but I doubt not thst it may all be true. Perhaps you may not know that for years It has been customary among fashionable society men In Fngland to have themselves tatooed. It is certainly the most vulgar and barbarous habit the eccentric mind of fashion ever invented. It le considered, I bolievn, that profuse growth of hnir all over a pernon Is token of a low aud unrefined nature, bnt the habit of adorning a body liko the savage of tho South Sea islands with figures of various designs is a relic oi barbarism. It may do (or an illiterate- peatpan.but hardly for an aristocrat. "Society men (n Fngland were the victims of rircutnstanres when the prince of Wales had his body tattooed by the 'tattooor to bis royal highness,' LILe a Hook of sheop driven by their tna-der they had to follow suit. The operation was

very painful and expensive one, but it bad to be done, and that was the end of it. The duke of Marlborough and the tluke of Manchester were among the firet of the Fnglish noblemen to foll-iw tha example of the prince of Wales. I do not know how widely extended the habit ia on the continent." "Bo vou know how the custom originated?" "I am not sure," answered Mr. McAllister, "but probably in India. When tho F.nzliüh obtained a foothold in India the rich Englishmen went thither to see tho country and they learned and got into the ways of the natives. An acquaintance with the Siamese and the Japanese tended to strengthen the habit." "Have any susceptible Americans 6UCcumbed to this custom?" was asked. "Well, I must eay yes, although I do Dot feel at liberty to mention tha names of any tattooed faehionable Americans. The deplorable suggestion came from Fugland, but when wealthy Americans began to make trips to Japan they put themselves into the hands of the expert Japanese tattooers, and allowed dragons, snakes and the like to be pricked into their arms, legs and chests. I am very glad to be able to say that the great majority of youngando'.d clubmen here despise the custom." It is but justice, in tho face of the various charges of "nn-Americaniam" mado against Mr. .McAllister, to say that he is far from being ad an omgniac. Mr. McAllister's manner and tastes are American, and he is free from the decorations cH the aristocratic Englishmen. Mr. MtAiliiter had three ancestors who fought ns colonels for tha union of the colonies in the war of the revolution, and he deeires nothing better than to be a thorough American.

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We will furnish the Famous SENTINEL SEWING MACHINE (No. 4) and the STATE SENTINEL for one

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POINTS OF SUPERIORITY. INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL, SEWING MKCHINE Has tho latest design of bent woodwork, with skeleton drawer ruses, made In both walnut and oak, highly finished and the wont durable mad. The stsnd is riuid and stronjr, having brace from over each end of treadle rod to table, has a larpa balance wheel with belt roplaccr, ft very easy motion of treadle. The bend is free of plate tendons, tho machine is so eet that without anv chano of upper or lower tension you can lew Ironi No. 40 to No. l'() thread, and bv a very slihtchang-e of disc tension on face plate, you can sew from the coarsest to the finest thread. It hss self-setting needlo and loose pulley device c.t band wheel for winding bobbins without running the machine. it is adjustable In all Its henrincre and has less springs than any otht r rewin michino on the market. It is tho quickest to thread, being m lf-threitlinjr, exoopt the eye of needle. It is the euxlent machino in chaiiicihg lenuth of stitch, and is very quiet and easy running,

Address all orders to THE SENTINEL, Indianapolis, Ind. 1 S This Machine is shipped direct from tho manufactory to the purchaser, caving all cuddle men's profits.

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3Aents Wanted in every MACHINE want of a First-Class v -iy a a .7 sa mm THE SENTINEL has made your wants. OFFEKs $16.00.

One Huftier, with Shirrer Plate Ono Het of 4 l'lato Ilemrncrs, One Hinder, One 1'resser Foot. One Hemmer and Feller, One Kraider Foot, One Tucker, OneQuiltor, ' One l'lato listige, One lide for Uraldor, One Oil Can (with Oil), One Thread Cutter,

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ATTACHMENTS Accompanying Each EVZachino ARE AS FOLLOWS:

Attachments in bracket are all interchangeable into hub ou pressor bar Fit Hobbins. Heven Needles, One Large Screw Driver, One Small Screw Driver, One Wrench, One Instruction Dook.

WAnnANTY. Every Machine la fully warranted for flvo years. Any part proving defective will be replaced free of charge, excepting ueod.es, bobbins and shuttles.