Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 July 1893 — Page 11

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 12, TWELVE -PACES.

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Into hoping to et it on fire. The colonel ordered everything to be removed from the disabled boat, which incurred no small amount of danger, but was soon rorri!f ted by the great number that undertook it. Td attract the attention of the battery. not that they could du it any harm, they discharged several volleys from their musket. thn disappeared into the darkness to escape the range of field pieces. This had the desired effect, preventing the discovery of tho men who had manned the small boats and started to the opposite bank. "With muffled oars they easily crosed the river, but were carried about a mile below the point they desired to reach. Disembarking quietly, leaving the boats In charge of a few trusted men. they kept under the shadow of the bank, so that thy conld not be seen by the enemy at the battery or othr persons on tr hill, hurried with a ppeed not to I despised till they reached the point whore the bank was low and receding, and where they could make the ascent easily and readily by following the ineanderings of a little ravine, and, then climbing a rather steep hill, they had the battery between them and the river, and nt mere than three hundred feet away. TJeconnoifering for some minutes, to their surprise they ound a larger force at the battery than they expected, and larger than their own. This was not pleasant news, and the debate arose at once whether they should attack them or return to the boats and snd . for more recruits or withdraw till jnorning. They did iKt fear the battery, as it could not be turned upon them, nor would they have feared the Mipcrlor numbers had they been assured that they were as poorly armed as the confederates often proved to be, but what they lacked In arms they frequently made up In courage. Stuntr with the reflection that their tvt wis disabled and h thousand nieri ma'ie helpless before a few Johnnies, behind a little battery was t'. much fnr the J.rave eomma nrtr, and he resolved to try the fight. That resolution wai sanctioned by every one of his men. In this family titn. where brother 1. against brother, which v as shamef'jlly true in our great rebelltot, any defeat i considered rather a disgrace than being overpowered and a retaliation is often both bloody and heartless. Kormin their line they slowly advanced until within a few pai'S of the battery, then they halted a moment to await the word fre." A scene worthy of contemplation, unworthy of Mstory. thft the hildren of the same ration, like one household had (rown up together with immts of friendsrip and love, cemented by the hardships arid trials and privation of war. our many battles with fordism foes. nir conflicts with wild beasts and wilder men. our strnccles to subdue a wilderness and a trackless waste, that fields, sreen and ftnlden. mieht wave in the sunshine and that a mother in peace roizht rock the crad' benoath the dome of the temple of liberty, and. afo-r all this, turn upon each other with a vehemence, and pavagry hardly equalled by the awful primitive past, and not content with the ravages or the battle-field, but curry their inhumanity to the prisoi pnis that the ranks of their oppsets miiht le thin and their sravefi countless. Mul so it has ever been, the dearest friend when enraged stabs the deepest. The enemy had just destroyed their twat and kille! their friends without a warning. They will retaliate without w:rtiusr. The men about the hnttry were jniiy all laughter and thus the craft of war went on. As the Commander said in a low voire "Make ready." just then a strancpleoking being appeared between them and the t 'onfederates and for a moment all was well seen In the lieht about the battery. A deformed, cliib-fontM creature, guessing from her dress, one would first wiy a woman, but from her app,araneei later one would think a vampirtv -.but. after ail. a female of pome description H they- gieticd. and they were comuriiid' d to wait. As soon as she passed by the order was given, and the Confederal- for the first time learner! that they had reckoned without their host. Before they -iiM r.illv another vollv was pnired Into them, and they fell thick and ft. and many a poor fellow went down. The battery was captjred. s-tne were killed, some captured, and some escaped. Amoncr others they had captured a stranee-lookine. redheaded creature. The rbl soldiers represented this deformity with the cross eyes as the cook and boss of the camp, ami the captain of the company who manned the tattery. paid to hi raptor: "Though he looks monstrous, a kinder heart no one ever had. and f will I--peak for her from yen northern men the same respect us southerners have ev r shown her." Touched with this manly appeal in which the true American aiain got the better of the animal, the bo s gve him one cheer, and he was promised that it should be so. Soon all were taken to the river and th t-oats went to the opposite side. The wounded and all were transported to the' ?iahle. steamer.Among the wounded was John Brook. (To be continued )

AT A BROADWAY HOTFL HOW PEOPLR Wr.UF. HKDKYII,KI AMI IIYPXOTI.KI) nv A iIKU Ilre KfTec of Violet and Rrprrnalon The House Organ to Kan llnelf for the Telecrnph Stand llefnrr the Proprietor ould Tell What Warn the Matter. There i an nrwn hotol with one fjee n Broadway. It is and has been for several years, a publie rendezvous for politieians. actors, sports and men about town. Its ample orridors are a '-rt of socdal bourse from 1 till :!:"(. It.s rapacious bar-room Is the meeting plaee of good fellows; its cafe is noted for its pottage, its black coffee and its civilized Walteijs. Obviously the proprietor is a goo-i fellow himself and so are his clerks, attaehes and mesengers, and even hs bouncer puts on gloves and uss moral suasion. This is. of course, a great big newsstand where the daily papers melt like the dew of Hrmon in the morning and Mary Jane Libby and others of her kind disport themselves all through the hours for the unsuspecting merchant from up country. Then there are leather padded settees on the marble tloor where gxd fellows can wait for hours for their friends to keep up an appointment, and over by the grand staircase is a mobile mountain of trunks that are forever coining in and going out. This place is a busy sluiceway, where the fever of Broadway drifts in continually and anxious men come and go and comfortable men watch the tide, and actors hobnob and gamblers consult, and city officials meet their friends and managers set up the drinks and the country buyers look on and feed that they are in the swim. One day there was a strange, soft odor of violts in the place that nibody had ever detected before. This subtle, invisible atmosphep; settl"d down graciously around the leathern settees, floated sideWays over Mary Jane Libby and drifted into the open doors of the cafe and barroom. It wa.H so gentle that while nofody srok? of it, every body was conscious of it. It was the new telegraph girl in her rage at the end of th bis look stand. She percolated In a most extraordinary manner through the network of her inclosure; streamed out, y to speak, through her wicket; really wafted herself all over the place. that the blase Jim Meade tiuk to one leathern chair where he could watch It, and Henry Abbey took to standing in the draught of It, and Jimmy Kelly tried to catch it on hla sleeve cuff with a pencil, and all the waiters over In the cafe turned their heads toward it as they passed the open door and spilled their coffee and soup. You see the apparition was not at all credible. We had read of such things, but we never expected to see them methodically planted there In the swim like a Lunch of amaranths In a watering cart. All Jim Meade could do was to sit in that leathern chair and try and coax himself by sticking his scarfpln into his pjllet that he wasn't dreaming. Certainly there never was In any business jn anything quit like that or quite an conscious of it. I noticed that most of the good fellows who had to go from one nd of the vestibule to the other and cross the outlook from that wicket, got their umbrellas !etween their legs or trod on a bit of orange pepl or ran rains t somebody In the most Idiotic manner, and Mr. Harry I,ee, who otic killed su original four-act yUal drama

by sitting down on his hat In the first act or rather had It killed by a boy in the gallery who promptly shouted out, "Pop (Joes the Weasel'- Harry Lee told me when he trod on that orange peel and made a sudden descent from dignity to anthropoid absurdity, he was sure he heaM a silver gurgle like a chime going up from that wicket. The fact Is that in less than a week, instead of that telegraph stand being run for the house, the house was beginning to run itself for the stand according to some unwritten law. There was some dlfferem-o of opinion in condential circles as to whether it was the hair or the eyes or the curve of the neck or the mouth. My own private opinion is that thes things were so co-ordinated that it was the hight f ahouirdiy to specify them. They just melted evasively into a general concept of girl. It's a funny thing, but everybody down to a waiter who spills pottage has In his soul an ideal of girl, that never was on land or sea, and when he suddenly finds her on deck he hardly believes the evidence of his sense. As Mr. Harry Iee observes and he has had an extensive experience a real girl is always too good to be true." Well, this telegraph operator, in a plain black dress began to melt the foundations of the hotel as a sunbeam melts an iceberg. She demoralized the hotel basis of things. Jim Meade wouldn't take any more drinks because he had an infatuated notion that her eye was on him. Some of the yoning fellows who promenaded the Into the bar room regularly built up an absurd theory that she counted the trips. All the old fellows who used t4 stand with their hacks to the telegraph wicket and tell funny stories fell away, for there was sure to come somebody and motion to them that there was a girl on the other side who could hear them. Then they always got red in the face and moved away and never by any possibility got tit- courage enough to do their telegraphing there afterward. The bookstand was the first to suffer. Men who wanted to purchase Mary Jane I.ibby looked at the pure face behind the wicket, changed their minds and asked for Canon Farrar or Talmage. The sale of flash papers fell off. Somehow the pictures were not as fascinating as usual. The joyous lone of the loungers was subdued. Some of the jocund "damns" mysteriously disappeared. An air of respectful suppression fell upon the place, and even the porters began' to suslect that the tninks might have dynamite in them. It was not long before the proprietor began to ereeive that some kind of a holy blight was settling on his corridor, but it was a good while before be got at th- cause of It. Meanwhile all sorts of attmpts b" rash youth bad been made to break down the ei luslveness of the wicket, ('holly had plunged at it in his sclf-contldent way: "Now. my dear, rush that off. don't you know, that's' a good girl," and he had been struck by a "sir!!" that sounded lik a buzz saw. I'reddy had leaned on the stand for an tnteriew, and respectfully asked her some questions about the hotel, and shehad referred him to the desk without looking round, until he backed out; then she smiled sweetly. The fact is nobody could get over the discreet line, and to write telegrams under her eye was next lo impossible. I spelled bottl with one t because she was looking sit me. and Harry I.ee forgot where it was he wanted to send bis telegram, and she naid "she was sure she didn't know," in which there was an awful implication that he didn't want to -send a telegram at all. nad was wasting her time. The fact is this girl, with her superb no k that would require a Rives to write alxuit. and her arched eyebrows that were like the moral law. and her searching look of innocence that was like a iisemboweled conscience so bedeviled, hypnotized and tangled up the state of things at the hofe thr t it began to have the sober air of a Quaker meeting. Kven Henry Abbey, when he went to get the morning papers, that lay very dose to her, hummed a strain of "Nearer My le'd to Theo." and some of the politicians, who had to do business at the stand, slipped their big diamond Into their pockets for the iitne being. All the fellows who worked the races and the pool rootns went somewhere else with their dispatches and the mashers who sent violets found mit that the coek-eyed news agent at th" stand always wore them In his buttonhole. Then it was that the proprietor of the hotel began to perceive the truth, and one morning there appeared behind the wi ket a gaunt girl with red ringers and skimpy hair and Rhinestone jewelry. She bad little gray eyes and wore glasses, and Harry Iee swore she wore pantalettes tied round her ankles. I think this was Irony. She winked her gray eyes and worked her long red fingers and chatted with everybody and she knew her business. Then the corridor recovered its equilibrium. The good fellows breathed easier and the cheering smash of the trunks greeted the cars once more. The waiters spilled no more pottage. The jocund damn broke again on the ambient air. The new girl took a cocktail herself at lunch time and left the class with the lemon in it where everybody could see it. As the proprietor proudly remarked, "There Is no Venus of Milo. Salvation army Sunday-school Venus-rising-from-the-sea nonsense alout that girl."

The hotel was saved. Busines was business. And the other girl? Heavens! Have I got to that? Well, she married the cockeyed purveyor of Mary Jane literature. Buffalo News. ;n.VNMiorii:Hs ox toast. The Suniptnonn Hepnxt I'lrlnkti of bj- a Hungry Traveler. "Kver eat any grasshopper?" asked John Mills, at the Pacific hotel in Pomona the other day, while conversing with a rejMuter of the Progress. "You never did'' Then you don't know what luxury is. Talk about your fricaseed frogs, pate de foie gras, and all the rest o your hifalutin' French flxin's They just ain't in it at all with a big. fat Kansas hopper, done brown In fresh country butter. 1 was once traveling from St. Joe to Wichita when the hoppers swooped down on Kansas like a horde of hungry oftlce-seekers on a president-elect. When they finished feeding and hopped up on the barbedwire fence to pick their teeth and talk it over, the country looked like the burned district in Chicago after the big lire. I had a new green wagon with red wheels, and the hoppers ate every bit of paint off It and knawed the woodwork. They ate all the blacking off my harness, the tails off my horses, and 1 had to keep my dog under a tarpaulin to prevent them devouring him raw. You never saw such appetites. They got into my commisary department and made away with everything but a stone Jar of butter I had bought in St. Joe. I didn't have a cent, and It was two days' drive to Wichita. Couldn't live on butter, you know, so I concluded to play for even. I built a Mre, put on my skill't over It and dropped in half a pound of the dlspepsia provoker. It was mum frying and IzzIIiik away at a great rate, and the hoppers were hopping Into It, sixty a seomd. I let 'em fry about a minute, then I removed 'em and sat down to give my stomach a surprise porty. Well, sir, the hind legs were the finest meat I ever ate. They had an excellent game flavor and tasted like mountain brook trout. I fared sumptuously after that, and found the journey far too short. 1 had always been sorry for St. John, whose diet was locusts and wild honey, but I tell you he knew his business. If a locust Is anything like a Kansas hopper the original pathfinder had no kick coming." Horr to lie llnppy, ThnaRh Living. "Kver quarrel with your wife?" "Nope." "Have any trouble with servants?" "Nope." "Children worry you?" ."Nope." ";reat Caesar, man; how's that?" "Ain't married, and live by myslfVHaiper'a Uazar.

HE WAS WITH LOLA MONTEZ

THAI) PHILMl'V m:"OLLECTIOsj OF TUB KAMOtS ADVKVTfRESS. Her Income front Knulnnd The Fate . n( Urin Valley Shipley anil Actor Fow ler Discovering I.ottn Lola's Frraklfh Kttinlnn of an Altnrhmrnt In Australia Uttering; .Menicntoea of Klnff Louia Infatuation. There is a well-mannered colored man on the Oakland ferry service of the Southern Pactiic who does not put much faith in the biographers. His name is Thad Phillips, and his work consists In looking after the hand luggage of such patrons of the Southern Pacific as do not care to be burdened with grips and shawl-straps during the ride over the bay. Thad docs not believe in biographers, because he has read about a score of books labeled, "Lif- of Lola Montez," and has not "found any of them truthful according to his ideas of the eventful history of the notorious woman. The old man's own ideas on this subject were gained by three years of association with her in the capacity of servaut and valet. "I'm a little mixed in my opinion of Lola to this day." says Thad. "she was a mighty woman for a man to fool with, and yet she had some good traits that about balanced her bad ones. I have nothing to say about how she got her money, but I know she was the most generous and charitable person I ever met." The present baggage carrier was a person of some consequence himself at one time. He knows about every Californian of note and has a lot of pioneer secrets locked up in his breast. In the Hush dys of the Ootnstock and Pine street one of the old residents gave him some stock pointers and advanced him a few hundred dollars to test the soundness of his tips. Thad found himself in a position to sell out for :0.im0 at the end of a few weeks, but here he neglected his patron's advice and hung on to his shares with the idea of doubling that comfortable figure. The market slumped and Thad was worse off than nothing when the hammering down of the stocks in which he was interested ceased. Hut it was long before this that Thad was In a position to know anything of the history of l.ola Montez. He first met her In Sacramento In JSÖ4. when he was employed as a sort of messenger for the American theater. His business was to look after her diamonds and wardrobe, see that what she wanted to wear in the way of costume was ready, and to attend to her many little commissions. In his opinion she was not a handsome woman, but josscssed the power of fascinating men to an extraordinary degree. "She could catch any of them,"says Thad; "Just how 1 don't know, but I think it was with her eyes. Mavbe she was a hypnotist she lived In India for unite a while, and they have sdl sorts of charms oyer there, to hear her tell It." When questioned concerning her nationality. Thad answered that he defied any one not present at her birth or having actual knowledge of her parentage to discern the strange woman's origin. She was conversant with no less than thirteen languages, and he never heard her claim the same nationality twice. If she sought to please she was a French woman to Kronehmen, an Irish woman to Irishmen, a Spmish woman to Spaniards, and even a Herman to Hermans; and so on through the list of civilized peopic. As near as Thad could nunc to believing her she was a native of Limerick and the daughter of Ihe yonnge. t son of an Irish nobleman named Hilbert and one of the Montalvas of Spain, whose antecedants were Moors. Her baptismal name was Marie Dolores Kli.a llosanna Hilbert, and the death of her father hi India left her mother a widow at Ihe tender age of eighteen. At fourteen Lola married a Capt. James in order to defeat her mother's plan of marrying her to an elderly Indian merchant. Capt. James eloped with the wife of hi..; host before Ids child-wife realized what marriage was, nod this ej reu ..stance always seemed to afford the woman much food for merriment. "I was with her on her trip to Australia and there were several exciting experiences for all of us before we got back. There were twenty-four people in the company when we left here on the bark Kannte Major, and the first stop made was at the Navigator Islands, or Samoa, a they call thee.- now. The bark anchored there foi- six days, and everybody had a great time ashore. Fred Jones, who was engineer In the San Krancisco mint for a long time, was the manager. He and Ida both had claims on the Kmpire mine in Crass valley, and that is how he came to go out with the company, for he wasn't much of a manager. "At Sidney the company commenced playing 'Ivda Montez tn itavarla" at the Iloyal Victoria theater to very poor business. The women in the colonies would not go to see I.ola on account of her reputation at first, but she got acquainted with the governor and made him brins his wife, and after that there were full houses all the time. The engagement ended with a big row in the company. An actress named Ormsby or Crosby. I forget which, quarreled with her husband over something between him and Lola, the company took sides In the row and the papers had a lot to say about it. Lola wanted to skin out and leave all those who were against her, but they got out an attachment Just as she was about to sail for Mellourne. She was on board the steamer with the Misses Fiddes and some others when an officer came off to serve the papers. What does she do but run down to her stateroom and strip herself stark naked and defy the man to take her. "The officer tried to set a signal for help and a woman to come off and dress Lola, but some of the passengers cut the halliards and threw the flags overboard, and finding that he could do nothing alone he rowed ashore and got away. "I was only a kid when 1 entered her service." said Thad, In rehearsing the dead adventuress' career a few days ago, "and I forget a good deal that would have been valuable to anybody that really wanted her true history. She didn't brag much out here about the title of countess of Landsftdd that Louis I of Pavaria gave her, and about a'I I ever heard of her doings in upsetting the throne and that country generally was in relation to her escape with the aid of the king's gardener, a man named Buch. "We went to Crass Valley shortly after she hired me, and about the lirst thing she did there was to try to horsewhip an editor named Shipley, who crlticsied her (not as an actress) in his pa pot. She called him to the door of his otfb e and hit him a couple of sharp cuts with a cowhide before he could take it away from her. Shipley left Crass Valley soon after that and went to Oregon. where he committed, suicide. lie killed himself, I've heard, because some Oregon paper ridiculed him as a man who had been horsewhlpied by a woman. "It was Lola Montez that first discovered and brought out Ixtta, or little Charlotte Crabtree. as she was at that time. Lola saw the little girl in an amateur entertainment some school affair, I think and took a great fancy to her. She pent for Itta. taught her some dancing steps and stage business, and really made a professional of her. "Huslness did not pay very well In Melbourne, and Ida abandoned everybody but the manager, one actor named Fowler and me, and sailed for home. Fowler Jumped overboard on the way up and drowned himself, on Lola's account, everybody said. She did not seem to mind it much though, for she had a good time with the royal families at Tahiti and Honolulu, at both of which places we stopped. Hut when she arrived here the first thing she did was to look up Fowler's wife and children. She found they were very poorly provided for, and sold a lot of diamonds and gave them the money amounting to several thousand dollar. "There in one thing said about her that 1 don't belle v 1 true, aad that Is that

she died so poor as to be almost suffering for food. I have several reasons for believing that she always hod enough to live on comfortably, even without appearing in public. One reason is that she had an income of 100 a month from Kngland. I know this, because Consul Booker used to visit her in Grass Valley every month or two and give her the money, she told me that this income would last all her life, providing she never set foot In Sussex, Kngland. Her story was that she had a child there, and that the father had married, was the head of a family and did not want to risk the scandal her appearance in that country would be sure to cause. "Then again she had diamonds on which she could have realized a fortune. There was one necklace of 125 stones, given her by the king of Bavaria, which she valued at $23.000, and I think she must have had enough more to swell the figures to SR0.O0O. mostly In unset stones. When she left here it was her declared intention to quit the stage and end her days in the house of Buch, the gardener who help her to escape from Bavaria. He came to this country with her. and as a reward for his services she bought him a piece of land near New York and ret him up in the nursery business. He changed his name to Buchanan I am told, and his place she alwavs spoke of as a refuge whenever she

should tire of public life. "That she went there to died is be- j yond question. She died in 1S0. and about a year afterward I met an actor wearing one of her biggest diamonds. He said that Iola had given it to him less than two hours before her death. He pronounced the story of her starvation a canard and said that she had everything she wanted during her illness." One of Phillip's treasures is a spirit message he received from Lola through a medium named Jackson, who was found dead in a doorway on Dupont-st. a few years ago. Lola wis a spiritualist ami frequently held circles and seances. Phillips took to spiritualism, but he says he has no time for anything of that sort now. Jackson gave him Lola's message In writing. It was as follows: "I have been around you a great deal, Thad. and am glad you are doing well. "LOLA." Phillips thinks that Jackson bad no previous acquaintance with either himself or the dead actress, and that the handwriting was that of his former mistress. ;mx; thf, way of the ih kfai.o. Wanton Miinffhirr of Klrphanl to .Snpply the Demand for Ivory. Among the arrivals on the Oaellc from the Orient yesterday was a quW, blonde man in middle life, whose achievements in barbaric lands have been talked of around the globe. Fewknew him, yet he has been received by kings, and for some years his deeds have been heralded everywhere by lightning. The distinguished man was Lieut. Otto K. Ehlers, the famous Herman explorer, who lirst climbed the the lofty mountain of Kilimanjaro, ana who saved all that part of Hast Africa to the Herman empire. He is just returning after some years in the strange wild countries beyond the Pacific and what he has to say is of extraordinary interest. He went to India after his arrival In Cermany from Africa primarily to get a number of tame elephants with which to subjugate the wild ones of the bark continent, but this led him into many other explorations. It was in tSK."i, it will be remembered, that he went out to Africa. It was the time that tierce wars were raging. He explored KUmanjaro. . 1!.S0) feet high, being the first white man to set toot upon its crest. He also accompanied Maj. Wissman. the Herman commissioner in Africa, against the Arabs, and was with him on several other expeditions. In these exploits Lieut. F.hlers had many narrow escapes, and today his face is scarred by conflicts on battlefields and in Jungleg. Lieut. Khlets spent some time in the Harrow hills in Assam with M. riavi hunting elephants. In lhi he took great interest, because it involves a great ivory hunting and carrying project which he has In view in Fast Africa. His object is to form keddahs. or great corrals made of trees and roots. In the Herman territory In Kastern Africa, where the difficulties in connection with transport animals arc very great. Mules, ponies and camels die tiff quickly in the African jungles but there are thousands of wild elephants waiting to be caught In the forests. On the slope of Kilimanjaro many herds are to be met with. Trained Indian elephants. mahouts, and a few native Indian elephantcatchers are to Ik? introduced there, and large catches' will be made every year. It will ccst about 2,000 rupees a i head to transport elephants from India j to Zanzibar, but the Hermans can easily stand the cost of what is needed. In a few years, therefore, the African elephant will become something more than a mere ivory-bearing; animal, to be slaughtered wholesale. This plan, it is conceded, will benefit Knulishmen and Germans alike in Kast Africa. The lieutenant said he would have gladly seen the Knglish and Oermun governments Joining hands in such a project and he dwelt upon the fact that some 60,000 elephants are killed yearly in Africa for their ivory. "In Zanzibar alone," said he, "some r.00,000 pounds of ivory are brought every season to the market. There are tusks among them weighing from l.0 to 100 pounds, and even more, but. of course, the tusks are mostly small, for it is much easier to trap or kill a young elephant than an old one. Let us say that on an average every tusk is from twenty to twenty-five pounds. The tusks of - 10,000 elephants are brought annually to Zanzibar. "Klephants in Africa are mostly killed with poisoned arrows. Perhaps 50 per cent, break away to die in the Jungle. So, perhaps, 20,000 elephants have been sacrificed to get the ivory for the Zanzibar market alone. Besides this a lot of ivory Is used In the interior for all kinds of domestic putses. The tusks are used as grain pounders, etc.. while ornaments are commonly fashioned of ivory. There are even chiefs in the interior who have a fence around their houses made of elephant tusks." San' Francisco Chronicle. Cure for Writer' Cramp. "With all the advance that has been made In steel pens." said Oharies L. Kilbourn, nothing has yet been produced to equal the old-fashioned quill for easy writing and for facility in making strokes of varying thickness. It is true we have quills today, but unfortunately cutting a quill Is one of the lost arts, and It Is very difficult nowadays to ' find a man or a woman who can prepare a quill with that beautiful accuracy which was one of the accomplishments of our parents and grandparents. A generation ago what is known for want of a better name as 'writer's cramp' was unknown, and although It may be said that we are more of a generation of writers than our forefathers. It must also be remembered that printing was much less used then than now, that the typewriter was unknown, and that many men and women wrote ten and twelve hours a day for a livelihood. Supposing writer's cramp to be the result of a series of Imperceptible electric shocks. It can easily be seen why It was that quill-drivers never suffered. The only relief nowadays from that tiresome contraction of the muscles called writer's cramp Is a firstclass lead-pencils. Many well-known auauthors use a pencil Invariably, arguing that It Is less exertion and the How of thought is less Interfered with than when a pen Is used. This' may be correct, but however that may be, it Is certain that if the pen is mightier than the sword. It 1s certainly mightier than a pencil as a Anger-ache- producer, and unless something equivalent to a quill pen Is Introduced shortly there will be a strong revulsion of feeling In favor of pencil and jencil-wrttis." Post-DU-patch. . I

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The State Sentinel, which ever aims to keep abreast of the times and to promote the interests of its subscriber, hai JtjiI completed aa arrannetnent with the leading watch manufacturers of the country by w hich it is enabled to oiler the bctt watchei made, to its subucnberd only, at the same prices which jewelers and watch dealers in the cities and towns have to pay for their good, In some cases we can eeil watches to our subscribers for even less than dealers have to pay for them. Every roan or woman, young or old, who reads The State Sentinel ought to own a watch. Kvery onn ought to have a good watch a watch that will not only keep time, but is handsome and showy. If you take The St a tk Sentinel you can, for a limited time only, get a lim-class, handsome gold watch, with the very best vorks manufactured, for much lees than poor watches with silver or brass cases are commonly sold forx Our stock of watches will not last always, and after the present 6tock is exhausted we cannot promise to fill orders. ThoM who order firet, therefore,. will be tirgt served. The American standard 'batches the best timekeepers in the world are graded as seven, eleven and thirteen jeweled, ful pjweled and adjiste. Wry few men not one in a thousand carry either an adjusted or even a full-jeweled watch. T?n State Sitinel usea only the celebrated gold-filled cases made by Joseph Fahys. unless distinctly specified in fpecial fieri. They are the bes: made, and selected for that reason. His tea-carat cases, called Montauks, are guaranteed for tiiteea f ears. His fourtecn-carat filled cases, called Monareh, are guaranteed for twenty years, Whea taa sJ fourtecu-carat cases art poken of they refer to culy Moutauks and ilonarcha. OUR SPECIAL OFFERSrThe cuts reptesent Jogeph Fabyt?" celebrate I Montauk and Monarch cases as above. Cases will be furnished cither plnin (engine-turned) or beautifully engraved es the subscriber prefers. No. 18, eize for centlemen, are Elgin, Waltham or New York Standard movements, and will be put in each caiel as dtSTflA Note carefully the descriptions and prices below. GENTLEMEN'S WRTCH6S.

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Mo. 17. SUe No. 13. No. 17. i7 No. 1H Waltham or F-Vin movement, seven jewels, benutilully engraved Mont.iuk ca., &Q. This watch would cot from :.'S to $-3 at jewIry stores. The above No. 18. Size No. 13. Ho. 18. Size No. IS -Monarch case, twenty-one years guarantee, 14 carat, Waltham movement (eugine-lurned!,$20.25 - .V . .Vv eg 1 opj No. 28. Size No. 13. No. 28. Size No. m Montfltik ca?a (engine turned), New York standard movement, seven jewels, S16.25.

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These are the bet Watches ever offered for anytbiaf like these figures. Who need ?o without a watch when he can get a tira'rclafs timekeeper in handsome caee tor $12.'J3 or $ 1ÜYJ5? i

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No. 21. Sizo No.C. No. 21. Mze No. . G Monarch case, vermicelli border, fancy Elcin movement, seven jewels, $19.50.

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No. 16. Size No. IS-Waltham or Elgin movement, seven jewels, (engineturned) Montuuk cae, $18- This watch would cost from S-S to $;5 at jewelry stores. are all Montauk cases and are guaranteed for C-l V,?2"' No. 19. Size No. 18. No. 19. Pi-o No. 18 Monarch 5se, fancy landscape engraved, Elgin movement, S21.50. -. vf No. 5. Size No. 18. No. 5. Sixe No. 1 Liberty Centrlnetsrned) case, New York Standard move Btat, will wear ten years, SI2.25. -wv. after you send the order.

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No. 14. Sizo No. 18. No. 14. 'Size No. Is? -T.OX case, Tnl XIV. style, Waltham or I'ljrin movement, seven jewels, SI9. 75. These watches arc sold by retail dealers at from $:;0 to $35. fifteen ye ax a No. 20. Sizo No. 18. No. 20. Size No. 18 Monarch eas with wide Vermicelli border and engraved center, Waltham movement, Beven jewela, $23. This is the finest watch w e oiler and is well worth $40, according to the pricel charged in jewelry Ftores. .The cases arc w arranted for twenty-ono years. The readers of The Sevtinkl nerer ha4 an opportunity to get Crst-claes watchei at any such prices as tho above, and after this stock is sold they will probably not soon have such a chance again. This offer is open only to subscribers t The Indiana State Sf.ntinf.u One of thege watches will make a handsome birthday or Christmas present foi your wife, your sister, your daughter, of your sweetheart; for your husband, youi father, your brother or your pon. In order to avoid confusion and mistakes the watches bhould be ordered only by their numbers. Thus it is only necessary to say: "Sen! watch No. S (or whatevea number i.s desired) to tho following address." Write the name, town, county and btate vev plainly. The cash must accompany every order. We should prefer to have our subscribers use the following coupon, which can bo cut out, filled up and sent to The Indiana State Sentinel with a draft oa Chicago, New York, Indianapolis or (Tiacinnati or a poetollice money order for the amount.

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189 INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL CO.: Please send one watch No. . . to the followiiig address: Name Post Office County State Inclosed find draft (or money order) for ?

watches to be rre"iselv a they are renre- --- - . r ' I J aatisfactioa. it will be both uaelul and oraaSENTINEL GO.