Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 July 1893 — Page 11

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING. JULY 20, 1893 TWELVE PAGES.

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THE MAN UNDER THE BED

BEI.G THE EXPERIEXCE OF A CLERK WITH A RODDER. lie nad "Made Up for a Cnttomtr'i Cashier and Worked a Forged Check on a BankDriven to Bar He Became an ITntrelcome Gorst, hat Wmm Anxious to Make Thing RIerüt with Ills InwllUnK Host He Eswiped and the Admirer of Nerve Will ot Be Sorry.

At 2:45 o'clock on the afternoon of Sept. 8, 18S4, the paying teller of the Sixth national bank in the city of C cashed a check for $3,000 drawn by the firm of Burke &. Burke in their own favor. It was presented by the cashier of the firm. There were a dozen men in line and the transaction did not occupy two minutes. Burke & Burke could have had $50.000 as well as JS.000. At 2:57 the cashier of Burke & Burke handed In his book and checks and money amounting to $5.000. Bank tellers always remind me of the dealers in the his games of chance. They are automatic. They are sphinx-like. They are imperturbable. Even when they receive a check and stamp it "No funds" and phove it back through the window It. is done In a machine-like way, the same as clothespins are made. You want small bills for a fifty. The teller picks up your bill! reaches around for his stamp, stamps it "counterfeit." and away you go while he is cashing a check for the next man in line. On this particular occasion, however, as I have several witnesses to prove, the rftylr.g teller was startled. He chanced color. He looked frightened. He didn't ask Burke & Burke's cashier if he was there twelve minutes previously. He called some one to take his place, disappeared from view, and within ten minutes the police were at work on the case. The check presented at a quarter to 3 was a forgery. The man who presented it was a counterfeit that is. he had been "made up" to pass for James Long, cashier for Burke & Burke. This whs not a difficult matter. Both nun were about the same hei?ht, weight una complexion. Lonjr hadn't spoken ten words to the teller in a year. He always vore Scotch tweed, no matter what he season. He always wore a stiff hat. No one at the bank ever saw him without eyeglasses. Long had a nod for other patrons whom he knew, hut s-.'Mom opened his mouth. The paying te'.ler had been done up with his eyes wiüe open, but he moved so rapidly that it seemed as if the sharper mut be nabbed. Officers were sent to the railroad depots; others made the rounds of gambling houses and salens. If the fellow hadn'c a secure hiding place selected the chances were more than even that he would be caught. In room No. 1? of the Inter-Ocean hotel, which I will admit was only a third-class hostelry, but rich enough for a man earning only $25 pr week. I read most of the particulars given you above in an evening paper. The bank officials aad made every effort to suppress the facts, and the detectives were as mum as clams, but "our reporter" had caught cn after all. A sharp, shrewd class of men, these reporters. Give them a lead ajid they never let up until they have the case in hand. I had como in from the store tired out. and on g. ing to my room after supper I pulled ot" my boots, lighted my ripe, sat down with my feet on the ted. and this bank business was the first thing I struck in the evening paper. I had just finished the article when the night clerk came up. "Heard about the bank swindle over at the Sixth national?" he asked as he entered my room. "Just read it." "Cool chap, that, but what do yon think! There are two detectives down ftairs who claim to have shadowed him here and want to search the hous. They are on the floor below and will soon look in on you." "All right. Wish I had the boodle." Ten minutes later the officers came in. I was a head shorter than Burke & Burke's cashier. I hadn't his complexion, his build. hi3 facial expression or hair of his color. Indeed, there wasn't a point of resemblance. The clerk had vouched for me, as I had boarded there a year or more, but those "old sleuths" came in on tiptoe, looked at me from the corners of their ferret eyes and sat down to question me. It was a quarter of an hour before they let up, and then they appeared to feel injured because I hadn't beaten a bank or committed a murder. Queer fellows, these detectives. Sometimes I have felt a bit conscience stricken over not doing something for which I could be arrested and sent to prison for their glory. Before my visitors left one of them contended that I might as well be taken along anyhow on general principles, as there was no telling what I wouldn't own up to after being locked up for three rr four days, but the other was more conservative. He assumed a fatherly interest in me. called me "my son" and triM to make me realize how much better it would be to restore that money and take a clerkship in the bank at $1.200 a year than to wear a zebra suit for twenty years In state prison. I refused to disgorge, and he went out sayinp that I had missed a- golden opportunity. The hotel was thoroughly searched, everybody questioned and cross questioned, and the detectives finally withdrew. At 10 o'clock I was smoking my third pipe and had long before exchanged my paper for a book, when a queer thing happened. My bed stood in the middle of the room. I sat in a chair on the left-hand side, with my feet across the middle, t had my book upon a line with my eyes, and all had been quiet for ten minutes, when a voice suddenly observed: "Well, old man, that must be an Interesting yarn!" As I dropped my book my eyes rested on a man standing on his feet on the opposite side of the bed. To say that I was astonished was drawing it mild. I pa.t there with my mouth open and my eyes bulging out until he laughed heartily and said: "If you could see a photograph of yourself with that expression on your face you'd laugh yourself into a fit." "W-who are you?" I finally gasped out. "Well, that's a fair question," he replied, as he sat down on the edge of the bed. "For the last three hours, up to a minute ago, I was the man under the Led. Owing to a change of position, I am now the man on the bed." A Cool Caatonier. He was a cool hand. I could read human nature well enough to know that he had lots of nerve back of that assurance. As he sat down I noticed a revolver In his hand. The thing had been sprung upon me in such a way that I was not rattled. The evening paper had griven a description of the swindler, and as I looked this man over it dawned upon me that he was the Identical chap. "You were hiding under the bed when I came in here three hours ago?" i queried as we sat looking at each oth' r. "Kxactly," he replied. "You heard what the clerk and the detectives said?" "Every word." "And, to come right down to business, you are the man who got the $8,000 of the Sixth national bank this afternoon?" "I am." "How did you get here?" "I had other plans, but they miscarried. In fact, a pal of mine lost his nerve at a critical moment and left me In the lurch. I dodged Into this hotel In search of a temporary asylumn and was lucky enough to find your door unlocked. Carelessness of the chambermaid, probably. Did you ever see $S,000 in one pile? Good for sore eyes! See her." I He bent over and picked up the money from the floor. There wer ihre

separate packages $3.000. $2,000 and $1.000 but he had tied them all together and made one large package. Most of the bills were new, and the bundle was worth a second look.

"This means 8tore clothes, quail on toast, a trip to London, Paris, and Berlin," he said as he fondly patted the money. "So the affair is already out, eh? Please hand me the paper." I passed it over, and he read the account with a smile on his face and said: "Pretty close shave that, but a miss is as good as a mile. Sorry for the paying teller, .but I suppose his bondsmen are good for it and that he will wriggle along .some way. Excuse my Impertinence, but what do you do for a living?" Head of a department with Gill & White, retail dry goods." "Married!" "No." "Ever been abroad?" "No." "Look here, old chappie." he continued, as he coolly 6tretched out full length on the bed, "I'm willing to dlvy with you. Hand in your resignation and make a European tour with me. It'll help your health and broaden your mind. The boodle will enable us to travel first-class for a year." His impudence aggravated me. I had now recovered from my surprise, and as he looked at me for an answer I said: "I'll ?ee you hanged first. I'm not making European tours with bank sneaks and forgers. Your trip will end at the front door of the state prison!" "Too peppery altogether too peppery for the head of a retail department." he quietly observed. "And do you think I'll be arrested?" "Certainly. I'm going to take you down-stairs and turn you over to the police." "That's all wool and a yard wide, but It will shrink when you come to try it on." he said, as he flung his feet off the bed and stood up. "I don't know that I blame you for refusing the trip to Europe, but please don't be an idiot in other directions." "How do you mean?" I asked, also getting up. "Just figure for a minute. I'm no chicken. Having played for a big stake and won it, I'm not going to prison as you would lead a calf. Your own common sense should tell you that I'm willing to put my liberty and this boodle against your life if It comes to that, though I hope it won't. I'm armed as you see. while you are not. Even without the revolver, being the larger man, I could do you up." "You cold-blooded scoundrel!" I muttered as I realized the situation. "Don't call names," he pleasantly remarked. "Let's ask what your duty is in the case. I've beaten a bank. Banks are soulless corporations. They have no mercy. Last year ninety-three banks in the United States closed their doors and beat thousands of depositors. Every failure wis brought about by fraud of some sort. Right here in this city the president of the Third national stole j50,fxto of the deposits. And don't flatter vourself that you owe a duty to the public. The public would let you starve or freeze. The public denies that it owes you anything. The public would rob you of your last dollar. You owe a duty to yourself; it is to preserve your prtsent state of health." "You mean that you will shoot me if I give an alarm?" I queried. "Certainly. I may kill you or only Inflict a wound which will lay you up for weeks. It may result in my arrest, but where Is your gain? The firm might bury you or the bank might pay your doctor's bill, but where will the profit come in for you in either case." His arguments silenced me, and coming around the foot of the bed he continued: A Chanae of Face. "I thought I was right when I first sized you up. We have now come to an understanding. I've got to ask a favor or two, but won't bother you long. Ah, here are your scissors! I must sacrifice this mustache. Please sit over by the window. He laid his revolver on the dresser and usd the scissors to clip off as fine a mustache as you would see in a week's travel. I sat watching him and wondering over my own placidity of mini. "You shave yourself, don't you?" he finally asked as he turned to me. "Yes; it's in the right hand top drawer." "Ah. thanks! Good razor good brush good soap. That makes shaving a luxury." He handled the razor with the deftness of a barber, and in seven or eight minutes he was clean shaved. He had sandy hair, while his eyebrows were almost red. There was a bottle of black ink on the dresser. He used his handkerchief for a sponge and colored his eyebrows. With the same fluid he made up as neat a black eye as one rowdy ever gave another, and he was chuckling as he turned to me to say: "Just one thing more, old man a suit of clothes your oldest suit. I'll pay cash for it." I had a much-worn suit in the wardrobe, which I handed out. "Rather a tight fit. but I'll make it do," he said, as he began to peel off. "My object is not to pass myself off for you, but to get rid of tlje Scotch tweed. You can sell that suit for at least $10, and here's $25 for yours." "I don't want your money." "Don't be finicky. That's no part of this boodle, but was honestly earned. I'll leave it on the dresser. Now, then, to wrap up the money in this newspaper and take my departure. Look here, my boy, take this thousand and put It where it will give you a start." "I d starve first!" "Too goody good to ever get ahead of the game! What course are you going to pursue when I leave th-2 room?" "Kick myself for a fool and then go to bed!" "Go to bed without doing the kicking act. You are the most sensible young man I've met in a year. If I'm arrested I shall say nothing about what has happened here. If I get away I shall always the money. Tra-la, old man!" When he had closed the door I locked it and sat down. After a quarter of an hour had slipped away I tumbled into bed. I fell asleep after a bit, and It was 7 o'clock before I opened my eyes. While I was dressing I had to go to the bureau for a collar-button, and the Ink-stained handkerchief caught my. eye. As I picked it up. lo! there was the $1,000 package of greenbacks In plain view. Did the man get away? Yes. He walked down-stairs and out of doors unquestioned, and the detectives never got a clew on him after that night. lie probably went right to one of the depots and took a train. About the money? I returned it to the bank by mail, and my action Is still a puzzle to the bank officials and detectives. I could enlighten them, but I shall not. Chicago Times. He Hated Diminutiv-. "Diminutives of names," he said. "Are silly; I will marry No Caddie, Nellie. Katie. Ted. No Cassie, Prue, or Carrie. "Away with Jnsle, Rosie, Lou And Sallie. Kan and DoUie! Away with Mftmle, Hattie, Sue And Grace, Nan and Mollie!" He gave up one he loved because She bore the name of lora! Wed one whose appellation was Mehitabel llonora. y A burden now he finds his life; He's captious, sour and fussy; KIs name's Augustus, and his wife Has shortened it to Gussle. N. Y. Pre3. A Stand and Deliver Scheme. Small son "Mamma, I wish you'd buy me a fiddle." Mamma "You have no ear for music, and the noises you would make would be utterly unendurable." Small Son "I won't play only w'en papa Is at home, 'cause then 1 think maybe he'll buy me a nice bicycle so I'll stop.'' Street & Smith's Good News. A Bit of Contort, Little Johnny "Was I born on Thanksgiving day?" Mamma "Yes. but If you keep on being such a bad boy I don't know what I'll have to be thankful for." Little Johnny-"Well. you run be thankful I Isn't twins, anyhow." Oood Niw.

THE STORY OF TIPPU TIB.

I if Ar äv rnr t i7fnTTTT7 mr a a lVAV FROM IVORY. Hovr Tlppn Tricked an African Tribe Stanley Telia of the Rise of he Chief Who Played Him False A Broad and Deserted Track. Up to 1876.Tlppu Tip had been the acknowledged leader of the slavers, on account of his marvelous success, writes Henry M. Stanley In Harper's Magazine. His career had been romantic From a poor coast slaver. Involved In debt to the usurers and money-lenders of Zanzibar, he has grown wealthy and famous. By the storming and capture of Nsama's stronghold (May, 1S67.) he had become possessed of a fortune In ivory and slaves. He had relieved himself as soon as possible of his embarrassing store by sending his brother Mohammed In charge of his plunder to Unyanyembe, and. with 500 guns, continued a triumphant and unchecked course from the south of Tanganike, through the heart of Ruv, to Nyangwe. As he marched he ravaged to the right and left of his route, gathered ivory and made slaves by hundreds. Not far from a district called Mtotila he learned from a captive that the king had disappeared mysteriously many years before, and that, though frequent search had been made for him. nothing was known of his whereabouts. Tlppu Tip artfully conceived the plan of representing himself as his son. and accordingly schooled himself in all the local knowledge necessary for the deception he Intended to practice. By the time he approached Mtotila Tippu Tip could rehearse the long line of the king's ancestry, the names of his living relatives and the elders of the land, and was familiar with the events, traditions and customs of Mtotila. He dispatched messengers into the country to announce his arrival, and to tell the wondering people the news of his father's fate and of his intention to assume his father's rights. The people accepted the story withotit difficulty, as it harmonized so well with their own conceptions and expectations. The elders were deputed to go and meet their prince. They brought rich presents of ivory and abundance of food and offered to escort him with honor to his father's land, which Tlppu Tib courteously accepted. At every stage of his journey he was welcomed and feasted. On reaching the town of Mtotila he received the chiefs and ciders In a grand barzah. at which he told the story of his father's disappearance, with a wealth of fictitious details of love and marriage with a king's daughter, of honors bestowed upon his father, and of the reluctance to his departure which the natives manifested: of his own birth and life, of his recollections of his father's conversations with him respecting the Mtotila. country, his relatives and local events until all were thoroughly persuaded that this able and affable stranger was no other than their lost king's son. He was at once formally accepted and Installed as th-ir king; and to ingratiate himself still more he distributed liberal largess of showy beads and copper and brass trinkets. Before many days had passed the people of Mtotila understood that ivory was very acceptable to their king, and as the article was abundant and of little value to them, the entire country was ransacked for it. and heaps of it were daily. laid before him. until his store of ivory became prodigious. Breaches of the peace between his subjects were compounded by payment in Ivory; his favors were sold for ivorv; in every imaginable way he augmented his treasure. Finally, when he had depleted Mtotila of elephants' teeth, he sought occasion to embroil Mtotila with the surrounding countries, and his myrmidons were dispatched with the native forces to despoil them. Within fifteen months he had gathered 900 tusks. He proposed now to the Mtotilas that they should muster carriers to convey his treasure to Kasongo. another country which, according to his reports, he owned, where he had great houses and his great estates. In this manner he succeeded In obtaining vast wealth, and the Arabs of the Manyuema settlements, when they viewed his vast store of Ivory and innumerable retinue hailed him as a genius and recognized his superiority. The general admiration which had been excited by his genius had greatly subsided by the time I reached Nyangwe In 1876. He was then Induced to escort my transafrican expedition a few marches north of Nyangwe, and on his return he undertook the transport of his Immense colection of ivory to Zanzibar, where it Is said that he realized 39,000 by its sale. Out of these lucrative returns he was able to pay the usurers of Zanzibar the advances of money he had received, with the heavy interest accruing, and with the residue he equipped his large force with the best weapons procurable. In 1S81 he was back again in Manyuema, and witnessed with his own eyes the disembarkation of the ivory and slaves obtained by Abod-bin-Salim's agents. Fired at the sight, he lost no time In making his preparations for a second great campaign, which should excel in results his own previous exploits and surpass Abed's successes. He divided his forces in two divisions. The land force he dispatched under his nephew, Rashld, to the Lumami; the flotilla descending the Lualaba he led himself, assisted by his brother and son. The vessels were navigated by the Wenya fishermen, whom during his long residence In Manyuema he had protected and propitiated. These people numbered several thousands and were scattered along the left bank of the river from the confluence of the Luama to Stanley falls. The cataracts were therefore no Interruption to Tippu Tib's progress or his projects. On a large Island just above the lowest of the Stanley falls, called Wane Sironga (Sons of Sironga), Tippu halted and established his headquarters, whence he was to operate on the left bank as far as the Lumami In connection with his nephew Hashid. Rut for some months tefore his arrival Abed-bin-Sallm's agents had extended their depredations below the falls along the right bank, leaving a broad, desolate track as a witness of their crimes. The Top Floor the Healthiest. Live as near the top of your house as you can. It is the most healthful part of the whole bulldin?. There la more air, a freer circulation and loss of the unwholesome dust from the street. People often wonder at the rugged health of servants in spite of their constant and wearing duties. It is to a great extent owing to the fact that they usually sleep In a purer atmosphere than any other occupant of the house. The attic generally devoted to storage and servants' rooms. Is far more valuable than the second-floor bedrooms pre-empted by the heads of families. There are certain physicians who insist on their patients being taken way up stairs at the beginning of an illness. In the average flat house the top floor Is always rented for a smaller sum than any of the others, and yet it Is sure to be light and cool, while In the stuffy down stairs rrmm nnm must burn firas all riav. Hn nna passes your door or tramps over your head. ana you can nave me roor ror a garaen. Some people object because their ceilings get the benefit of every leak in the roof. Hut there is deep consolation in the fact that no one can be legally compelled to pay rent when the roof leaks. bonahoe s Magazine. The Delphic Epitaph. Primus "That old villain Scrunrs epltaDh is 'Well done, good and faithful servI ant.' Not very appropriate, eh?" ! Secundu-"Yes. It is. It's supposed to be i the devil's order to the head flraaan."-

THE MEXICAN WASP.

II ott the Insect Cured a Very Dad Case of Rheumatism. "I see they're talking about the virus of a certain Mexican spider being a sure cure or preventive of typhus," said a well-known railway passenger agent to a New York Sun man. "Some people may doubt it. but. knowing what I do about the curative properties of another cheerful creature that makes Mexico Its home, I'd be willing to back that spider to knock out the typhus or anything else. The Insect that doctored me Is an interesting specimen of the wasp family. I forget what the Mexican name for it. is, but translated It means tarantula hawk, and it Is called that because it has a way of swooping down on the tarantula and disposing of it as easily as a chicken hawk can do up a pullet. "This wasp is the only thing that big hairy spider is afraid of. The tarantula will tackle a rattlesnake or a bear without a moment's hesitation, but it turns tail and digs for home if there is a tarantula hawk buzzing anywhere in its vicinity. The wasp does not eat the tarantula. It simply drops down on It and socks its stir ger. in the spider, whereupon the spider turns up Us toes. The wasp lays a couple of eggs in the fleshy part of the tarantula's big body and then buries Its victim .The curious part of it is the spider isn't dead. It is only paralyzed or embalmed, so to speak with all Its vital juices intact. The wasp's eggs hatch out grubs in the course of time, and the grubs go right to work dining on the tarantula's preserved meat. "When they have eaten it all they bore out of the spider's shell, dig their way to the surface and become wasps themselves, and start out for business on their own account. "This interesting wasp Is something like a couple of inches long when it is of age, and has a stinger with close on to an inch of plunge. This stinger is what you might call a nonforfeitable stinger, for it doesn't yield itself op at a single plunge, like a honey bee does its stinger, but is good for an all day's job. The Mexican wasp is the color of a bay horse, and they say down there that it will go ten miles out of its way to sting a man. The natives get fat on centipede stings, but they will dive for cover when the wasp of that favored clime heaves to. I had the honor, to my everlasting joy. of being tasted once by one of these blessings in disguise. Why to my everlasting joy? I will tell you. "For fifteen years I had been a big favorite with the rheumatism. It seemed willing, even anxious, to put all it had on me at any time. I had tried pills, and liniments, and batteries, and springs and every other unfailing remedy for rheumatism, but still it clung to me closer and closer. A couple of years ago a friend of m'ne told me to go down into Mexico and Iry the climate there, because, he said, he knew a man who had gone there almost tied in a knot by rheumatism, and he got well. "So I went down into Mexico, and promptly and steadily got worse every day. I was getting ready to come back home and die. If 1 could, when one day a Mexican wasp, pitying me I suppose, came along and socked his stinger into me. He sampled me on the cheek, and. although I had been a passenger agent for twenty years, my cheek was feazed by that wasp. At first I felt as if the whole of one side of my head was asleep. I had heard all about the way those wasps treated tarantulas, and 1 said: "'Great Scott! Is this wasp going to embalm me, fill me full of eRgs, and serve me as free lunch to its incipient progeny?' "My face kept on getting cold, and 1 couldn't make it hurt by pinching it or pricking it with a pin. Jn the horror of what I supposed was my Impending fate, I lost all recollection of the rheumatic pains that had been turning me almost inside out only a minute or so before. The cheering numbness and coldness in my face and head didn't last long. They quit as suddenly as they came, and were succeeded by a pang such as I imagine might follow the insertion of a wire into a sensitive part of your body, and then having it gradually heated until, it stood at white heat. I clawed my jaw and pulled my hair and pranced around and howled. Five minutes before it was all I could do to hobble around with a cane. "A sympathetic nature told me that I would keep on feeling that way for a couple of hours. I did, for nobody would lend me a pistol. I could have laid down and died with willingness, and moaned when they told me that the sting of the Mexican wasp never killed anybody. The two hours that I kept company with the aftermath of that wasp's plunger were two hours of mortal agony. But the pain went away after that so suddenly that I went to sleep and had delightful dreams. When I awoke I felt like a new man. The cheek hadn't swollen a particle during the entire course of the treatment, but It was as sore as nine boils for two days. "Now, queer as it may seem. I couldn't imagine what it was about me that felt so new and strange for those two days, and then all of a sudden it hit me that it was because my rheumatism was gone. There was no more sign of rheumatism about mo than there is about a kitten. And there never has been from that day to this. J don't care how bad a man has rheumatism, let him go down and take the Mexican-wasp-sting treatment, and he'll forget he ever had it. I know what the Mexican wasp can do in rheumatism, and so I'm willing to back thaf Mexican spider at big odds - against. typhus, and, you may tell 'em that I say so." IS THE Sl'X BLtfcf Prof. Lang-ley's Experiments Seem to Show That It Is. Some years ago Prof. Langley gave expression to the idea that the sun is not white, but blue, its apparent whiteness being due prlncipaaly to the absorptive action of its own atmosphere, but in quite an appreciable degree to that of our air. After several years of further research the professor was able to show that the sun, although we regard It as white, is blue, or at least bluish. He reasoned in this way: It appears to us when setting that is, when we look at it through a long range of our atmosphere to be red, or orange, or yellow, according to the state of the air. When the sun is high above the horizon the action of the air Is similar, but less intense, thus mklng the sun's disk yellower than it actually is. Moreover, the extreme edge of the disk is less bright than the center, although it is a fact that Just as much light is emitted from the former portion as from the latter: this can only be due to the absorptive action of the solar atmosphere upon the light. A further proof is given in photographs of the sun. It will be observed In these that the darkening toward the edge Is distinctly noticeable. This shows that rays which rroduce the photographic Image (principally blue. Indigo and violet) are affected to a far greater degree by the sun's atmosphere than those which form the ordinary visual image of the sun. Thus, after a series of detailed experiments, Prof. Langley demonstrated the accuracy of his theory that the sun is really blue, its apparent color being the result of the absorption exerted by its vapory atmosphere upon the rays of light as they passed through. Boston Globe. Those Sleeves. Old Standup "Say, conductor, can't you get me a seat somewhere In this car?" Conductor "Sorry, but it's all full." Old Standup "All full? Why, there 'are only three women on either side. These seats are supposed to hold fourteen, aren't they?" Conductor "Yes. they used to; but that was before the women got these shoulders." Boston Courier. Finishing; Toiletten. Little G'rl "Yes, we is going to the world's fair, but I guess we won't go till the last week." Little Boy "Why not?" Little Girl "Cause I hearn mamma say she'd wait till they was puttln on the finishing touches." Street & Smith's Good News. J

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No. 8. Size No. 6. No. 8. Size No. G Liberty or American) enaraved case, boret movement (.Swiss), seven iewels, $12.

No. 21. Size No. O. No. 21. Size No. 6 Monarch cao, vermicelli border, fancv Klein movement, seven jewels, $19.50.

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No. 16. Size No. 18. No. 16. Size No. 13 Waltham or Elcin movement, seven jewels, (engineturned) Montauk cape, $18. This watch would coat from $28 to $35 at jewelry etores. are all Montauk cases and are guaranteed for No. 19. Size No. 18. No. 19. Size No. 18 Monarch case, fancy landscape enpraved, Elgin movement, S2I.50. Ko. 5. Size No. 13. No. 5. No. 18 Liberty fenpineturned) case, New York Standard movement, will wear ten years, $12.25.

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No. 14. Slzo No. 18. NOi 14. 'Qie No. 18 Box case, Louis XIV. style, Waltham orF.lgin movemenv seven jewels, $19.75. These watches art sold by retail dealers at from $30 to $35. fifteen year. No. 20. Size No. 18. No. 20. Size No. IS Monarch ease with wide Vermicelli border and engraved center, Waltham movement, seven'jewela, $23. This is the finest watch we offer and is well worth $40, according to the prices charged in jewelry etores. The cases are warranted for twenty-one years. The readers of The Sexttsel never had an opportunity to get first-class watches at any such prices as the above, and after this stock is sold they will probably not soon have such a chance again. This offer is open only to subscribers t4 Thk Indiana State Sentinel. One of these watches will make a hand some birthday or Christmas present fof your wife, your sister, your daughter, of your sweetheart; for your husband, yooi father, your brother or your son. In order to avoid confusion and mistakes the watches should be ordered only by their numbers. Thus it is only necessary to say : "Send watch No. 8 (or whatevei number is desired) to the following address. " Write the name, town, county and Btate vrv plainly. The cash must accompany every order. We should prefer to have our subscribers uee the following coupon, which can be cut out, filled up and sent to The Indiana State Sentinel with a draft oa Chicago, New York, Indianapolis or Cincinnati or a poEtolfice money order for tha amount. 189 foil owdraft (or money order) for t 1 L wntehea to be rrecieelr a? ther are represatisfaction. It will be both neeful and orna-

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