Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 August 1893 — Page 11

THE INDIANA bT A SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MOKMNG. AUGUST J, 1893 TWELVE -PAGES.

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CALIFORNIA'S BIG TREES. I

struggle: to savti them fhom TUB LOIUFJt MILLS. The MarlpoM Grove- Belongs to the State of California and Is Carefalry Protected from Ax linil Fire and the V. S. Government II as Provided for the Protection of , Several Other GrOTtt-"Ota, If "Those Immens Trees Were Only lit My State," Says the Michigan Lnmlernian. An eastern tourist, cwner of a shingle mill in Michigan, visl ted the Mariposa STOve of big trees last summer, and when the Grizzly Glan t was pointed out to him he took a strin from his rocket, measured the circui nference of the mighty trunk, inquired the height, and fell to work with pap r and pencil. He figured out, much to Iiis own edification, that some vast number of shingles could be made from that tj;ee; but his satisfaction and admiration were tempered by regret that the gro- ,-e was not located on land contiguous to his Michigan shinpie mill. The big treei would have been destroyed by such mm long ago had the groves been aajfcssible; but fortunately. they are hirh up the western Blope of the Sierra Nevada, and until recently most of thes groves have been to Inaccessible to be tempting to lumbermen. ' The sequoia giganea is the largest tree on earth, proba.bly the lone stirvivor of some long-pitt period, and has been found only la widely separated groups on the slope of the Sierras in California. It is a valuable tree, regarded from the timber merchant's point of view, but it. has another value In the estimation of persons not wholly dominated by the commercial spirit. It is unique in species. ' magnificent in size, and one of the handsomest trees in th forest. The advisihillty of preserving the sequoias and stopping the destructive work of the lumbermen who have Becured possession of some of the groves probably will not U? questioned by any but the owner of a convenient sawmill. The Mariposa grove belongs to the etat of California ;and is carefullly protected from ax ancJ fire, and the U. S. government has provided for the preservation of two of the groves further south: but other i groups of sequoia are ptill in danger. The United States interfered ju.t in time to rave one of finest gToves. knivrn as the Giant Forest, which was bein? totally destroyed by some persons railing th-mist-lves the Kaweah colonists, who had filed claims under the timber-ian J act and v-"r' trying some queer socialistic experiment up in the mountains. The colonists were persistent in th-ir enterprise of converting1 the sequoias into merchantable lumber, and it required a troop of cavalry to con vir. co them tha the Giant Forest did nnt IxMohk to them. Xear Maripos.a grove was another group of sequoias called the Fresno grove, contalnirg several hundred very large trees. th second or possibly the third grove discovered in the state. Many years a.jo a man nam-d EMt took up as a homestead the land upon which the grove stood, and so Ions as he lived protected the treos. Elder was? an intelligent mnn who appreciated the big trees, and he tried to induce the county and then th state to buy his homestead at a reasonable price and preserve his grove as a public prk. but he tailed to arouse any public interest in the matter, and at last he was obliged tx sell a part of his land, being old an j poor, and when he died the whole trat fell into the hands of mill men. Th; Fresno grove Is now a wreck. Most of the avail ib'.e trees have been cut dowr and work-.-d up into commercial "redwood," and many that remain standing: have l'cn ruined by fire. The usual wasteful California methods of lumbering have been employed, and whenever a tree fell in a place from which It world be difficult to remove the Iocs, it was left there to rot or be burner! . A similar fate has overtaken another large grove in Fresno county, on King's river. One. of th l;irst lumbering plants on the coast is located there, and the sequoias are felled, sawed into lumber and firewood, and floated down to th valley ic a flurne Fixty miles long. This vandal work has bren going on in some fvm ever since the b.jtr trees were first discovered by white nvn. The first white men who saw the trees did rot discover them. They wore pioneer miners, and they passed throush the Calaveras prove on a prospecting trip. One of the party told me that they noticed some very Inrge trees, but "did not pay any particular attention to them." They were like one of the men of Capt. Savage's company, who followed the Indians into the mountains and found Yf.stmite valley. When I asked him what wre his Impressions and emotions upon first seeing Yosemlte he replied: "Well. I didn't notice It much. If I had known it was going to be so famous. I'd have looked at it." When the Calaveras grove was reallydiscovered, the first thins that suggested itself to the discoverers was a scheme to make money. So they selected the biggest tree, the mother of the forest, and laboriously stripped all the bark off. The bark was exhibited all rver the country, and the mother of the forest died. Then they ringed up pump augers and bored another tree- clown to. make a dancing floor upon the stump. Whenever there is a world's fair or a big show of any sort where money is to be made by exhibiting something Etrange. sornebocfy gets into a soquoi.I grove and cuts down a big tree. A thirty-foot length of trunk has been sent from the Tulare grove to Chicago, and speculators are figuring on making a train of cars out of another tree. The Calaveras grove and Mammoth grove, the latter containing over l.SOG trees over IS feet in diameter, have been held as private property and preserved by the owner for nearly forty years These groves are in the heaviest timber belt In the state, and the eye of speculation Is turned toward them. A syndicate has secured thousands of acres of sugar-pine and fir timber land In the vicinity, and a line for a railway has been surveyed through the belt. When that timber shall be made accessible the big trees will be very valuable, and the owner can hardly be expected to forego indefinitely th'i possibilities of profit. In fact. h has held the property out of the market about as long as he can, and unless the state or federal government shall take some steps to secure the groves the ax and saw will soon bei Kin their destructive work. Sonv grows hive Leen saved by reservation. but the Calaveras and Mammoth groves cannot b-; saved In that way. It Is a question to be determined by the Caij. foraia legislature or by congress whether the prese rvation of these grand trees is of sufficient public Importance to Justify the use of a considerable Fum of public money in securing possession of the groves. Leslie's Weekly. Moon Itllnrfneaa. An old sailor affirms that moon blindness is not of infrequent tncurrenee among sailors whil in the tropic, and it Is usually attributed to pleeping on l"Ck with fare exposed to the rays f the moon. He fays: "Some years ago while in the WVt Indies one of the crew among which I belonged had an attack of moon blindness. The only Inconvenience he seemed to suffer was in being tinable to see at night. He was obilge I to b led whenever he went out as much, as if he had been totally blind, while during the day he had full use of his eyesight." Ill .Memory Mjateni. "With whom did Achilles light under the walls of Troy?" "With Pluto." "With Pluto. That is not correct." "No, with Nero." "With Nero?" "Ah. then it was Hector. I knew it was one of the three dogs we kept at our house." Cobleiizcr Zeitung.

A Ft.MG PAIIROT.

The Record of This Bird's Depravity Is Xott Complete. "I am a dandy Polly, and nobody can kidnap me, can they, doctor?" These words came from a lively, goodnatured Brazilian parrot with glaring red tall in Justice Lyon's court yesterday afternoon, to the amazement of the usual crowd of spectators in a Justice's court, . and also to the great astonishment of Theodore Stevenson, who claimed the ownership of the Englishspeaking bird. Dr. Heber Robarts, who resides on Wentworth-ave., near Thirty-fifth-st., 13 the real owner of the parrot, and the bird knew him as soon as she saw him in the court room. This recognition resulted in the exclamation which begins I this article. The parrot was stolen from S Ir. Robarts' front porch one evening snortly after dusk, three weeks ago. Last Monday he learned that Stevenson had the bird, and at once instituted replevin proceedings to recover it. The plea that Stevenson set up was that he owned the parrot by virtue of having purchased it form a peddler who had all kinds of birds to sell. Dr. Robarts believes that he has the most remakable bird In the country, and considers hirfself very fortunate in locating his talkative pet. For several years the actions and sayings of this parrot have been jotted down In the physician's diary, and. with this in his hand to refresh his memory, he told the court of the bird's wonderful intelligence and command of language. "The parrot's memory, power of imitating sounds and of articulating words are good. Judge Lyon, and " "He says you're lyin'. Judge," interposed the attentive parrot, with a twinkle in his glaring eyes. "Polly, I'll fine you for contempt of court if you are again guilty of such a ghastly pun," remarked the judge, in a jocose manner. Turning to the doctor the court continued: "I think you are right, doctor. If the bird does not possess the qualities you mention it would not have made the assertion that nobody could kidnap it." "Yes. Polly recognized me at once," said the physician. "Take your base, doctor," chipped in Polly, twisting her red tail a bit. '"She learned base ball talk from hearing boys at play near the park," continued the physician. "With it all I am satisfied that the bird possesses a superior degree of intelligence. There are no words that she cannot be taught to articulate, and scarcely any sound which she cannot imitate. She can imitate the barking of a dog, th- mewing of a cat, the crowing of a rooster and the whistling of any bird or boy. She has even got some of the car whistles down fine, and as a mimic she has no equal, and" "You're- wrong, doctor: I can't equal a Columbian guard, and I won't whistle 'After tTie Ball,'" interrupted the proud Polly, indignantly. "Her imitation of the voices of people she hears is remarkable," the physician went on, paving no attention to the bird. "She carries the accent anil bif'e-Mi' n well, and I am sorry to say she keeps me on a steady trot sometimes at hooie. She has learned every inflection of Mr.;. Robarts' voice, and I have often mistaken her calls for those of my wife ' "Play ball, doctor, play ball.' was another interruption by Miss Polly, who began to show Impatience as she jumped about in her '.ar.e cage. "She is by no means a ?!ouil as a ventriloquist. She can reproduce a distant sound just as It falls on one's ear. The hooting of an owl, t!;. brtrkirf, of a dog in the listance and the squealinsr of a. pig ir? weil tlnn. Tbl. ihwever. is only sec:id irv. Her oiot distinct claim is ner po.vr to learn words and utter senten es. She mimics the familiar salutation of the milkman and the procer's boy. and has even been known to hold -tn int'lit-nt discussion with the baker's man. he never fa"s to pay 'Good morning' and 'Good-by as they go out." "Watch your base, doctor: go flow; Chicago's playing d d poor bail," came from Polly. "The bird, jud-?. can express her wants very nie-' . Sh ? often a.-ks for a cup of eoffe. or will say. "Poily wants a drink,' and when water or coffee is given to her she drinks with Much relish, revealing a genuine thirst." '"Three strikes, out," chimed in the bird. '"At home she freuently sits at the table on her pel ch at mal time. When the servant begins to set the table and she hears the dishes rattle she will begin to scream. 'Doctor, come to dinner!' I often pretend not to hear her. Then she will show symptoms of vexation and snappishly say, 'Doctor, come to dinner. Do you want, your dinner. Polly's hungry." She is plufui at times and has lots of fun after a meal, pulling my hair and throwing cigars and pencils on the floor. Sometimes I pietend to cry and Polly will demonstrate much affection by saying, 'Don't cry, doctor; come and kiss inc. If your honor will take notice her inflection is pleasant and she gesticulates when talking with both her head and tall." "Sneak your base, doctor; do It quick," was the bird's only reply to all flattery. "She's been in the cage outdoors a good deal and picked up these base ball phrases from boys, as I stated before, and by being out is how she came to be stolen. I believe with care and patience and proper associations she could be made to acquire a command of words and phrases so that she would be able to hold a conversation." "Make a home run, doctor, and take me with you," shouted the bird, as she thought it was about time for the game to be at an end. "Yes. Polly." remarked the Judge, "the doctor may make the home run, and as an umpire's decision, you may go with him, for he has won the game." Chicago Journal. Tlie Perfect Keniale Kumt. Nothing is more truly artistic than the simply outlined oval of the perfect female form. It is slightly depressed at the waist, the hips are as wide as the shoulders, there is not an angle from top to toe. It is as different from the outline of the fashionable "well set up" woman, with her squared shoulders and angular hips, as a horse is from a camel. We call the high-belted empire dresses artistic because they preserve this oval form better than the longer walsted shapes. The nude figure has no belt line. When the weight rests equally uion the feet and the belt Is held upright, the smalest measurement of the waist is. about where the modern belt Is placed. I5ut let the body bend to one side, ami the point of intersection of the hip and side muscles will be over an inch above the former belt line. This is why Held laborers, even to the slenderest young girl, are "short-walsted." For hygenic reasons the belt should never be placed below this ioint. and by thud shortening the straight under arm seam by an inch the beauty of the unoorseted waist is materially aided. May It. Kern in Ladies' Home Journal. The Selture of an Aztec God. The seizure of ail Aztec kx1 at Xohlltepec, in Mexico, by the catholic archbishop has stirred up the god's Indian devotees, who threaten to go on the warpath in his behalf. He is of stone and in form Is partly human, partly aequiline. We presume that the archbishop must have believed he had a right to seize the god of the Aztec religion, and yet it Is a fact that, under the contsitutlon of Mexico all religions are tolerated there, so that the Indians are as free to worship their god as the Chinese, for example, nre to worship theirs. The Aztec religion Is of unknown antiquity, and the hHlevers in It were once numlered by millions. Even yet it 1.4 not entirely played out. We do not nee, however, that the Indians of Xohiltepee need to do battle for their god. They tun make another. New York Sun. Arronimnilntl (Suard "Frauleln, get In quick, please! The train is just going to ftart! Young Lady "Hut I want to grlve my sister a kins." Guard "Get in. get in, I'll see to that." Frauenzeltunjc.

PLAYS WITH COPPERHEADS

HOW A CHILD CHARMED THE DEADLY S.VAKE. A Mother See Her Little Girl with a Slimy Reptile Squirming in Her Hand t'omr, Mamma, and See the j Live Cnrpet Rag." For some reason it has always been the general belief among the people who live in the moifhtalns in York. Lancaster and other counties where copperhead snakes abound that this venomous snake will not bite children, and there are numerous wonderful stories told, especially In the Wish mountains, about the copperhead's leniency toward these children. Outside of the mountaineers these stories have never received credence, but a well known family living on the York county side of the Susque- : hanna are ready to accept them here1 after. The family consists of Jacob . Loan, his wife, and two children, the i youngest a little girl three years old. : Copperheads are always uncomfortably . plenty in that locality, but this season i they have been more numerous than J usual. The haying and harvest hands ; Killed from thre to ten a day during a week on the Lo n farm. One day last week the little three-year-old was playing In the front yard, and her mother noticed her sitting in the grass near -the front gate. Every now and then she would be heard laughing gleefully, and Mrs. Loan finally walked out to see what was amusing the child so much. When the little girl saw her mother coming she called out to her: "Come, mamma, and see the live carpet rags!" At the same time she held up to her mother a snake, which she grasped in the middle of the body, and which twisted and squirmed in the air. Mrs. Loan saw at ore? that it was a copperhead. Although ihe was most swooning with terror, the child's mother acted with rare presenre of mind. It occurred to her that if she showed her alarm by crying out to the child the latter would undoubtedly become frightened, and the change that would naturally follow in her handling or sudden dropping of the snake might anger the copperhead and cause it to bite. With a great effort Mrs. Loan said quietly and coaxinely: "Fetch it to mamma, dear. Don't hurt it." "But there's two of 'cm. mamma," replied the little girl. I'll fetch 'em both." She reached down and picked up another copperhead that lay in the grass and which Mrs. Loan had not seen and came todd'lng plong the path toward hr mother with them. She retained her calmness, and when th chi'.i was within a couple of yards of hespoke to her and said: "Put them on the ground, darling, and let mamma see them walk." This seemed to please the child, and she placed the copperheads in the path. The two snakes caught sight of Mrs. Loan and instantly their manner changed. The copper spot on the top of their heads began to deepen in color, as it doe? when this snake is enraged, and they both made toward the child's mother showing great rage. The little girls clapped her hands and ttarted to ratch the snakes again. Her moer rushed out of the path and around the snr.kes, and snatching the child up in her arms flew to the house and Into it. closed the door behind her and fell to the floor In a dead faint. The other child, eight years old. was In another room making a kite. He heard the noise of his mother's fall and his little sister crying and ran into the room. His father was at work near the house, and the boy quickly summoned him. It was some time before the farmer succeded in restoring his wife to consciousness, and learned the cause of hr swooning. Farmer Loan went into the yard, and the copperheads were still there and still in belligerent mood. They were soon killed. So great was the shock to Mrs. Loan that she is still confined to her bed. and the little girl mourned for her deadlv playthings for two or three days. Cor. N. Y. Sun. CARE OK INVALIDS. If They Are len Thfj- Will De Neither Polite Nor firateful. How much a little tact and delicacy in the sick room contribute to the soothing of an invalid's sensitive nerves! The most faithful and affectionate nurse, who give her life to save the patient pain, is often guilty of some small, unconscious act that frets the ill person beyond endurance. If anybody who is likely to be called upon to attend the sick and most of us are liable to be placc-d in that position sooner or later would bear in mind the following bits of advice, adduced from the Impatient utterances of an irritable invalid, it might help both the sick person and the nurse: Do not ask a very ill man what you should do for him. The doctor has already given the proper directions, and If the patient wants any other attendance that is not so obvious that you can give it without questioning him he will ask for it unprompted. Do not breathe in his face or hang over him. He needs all the fresh air he can get. Do not press your hand upon his brow. It sounds well in novels, but it is quite possible that your hand seems to him to weigh a ton. Do not touch him unnecessarily at all. unless he indicates that he desires it. Do not ask him every half hour how he feels. Take It for granted that he does not feel well. Do not keep telling him that he Is better, for if he is he will know it quite as soon as you do, and if he is not it will merely vex him. Do not attempt to lift him unless you are stronar enough to do so without hurting him. Abortive efforts to raise him cause him pain und irritation. He can take food lying down, provided that you feed him through a glass tube bent at a right angle. Instead of pouring his beef tea or milk into the bosom of his night-gown with a spoon And speaking of spoons, wash the medjeine spoon every time it is used, that the dregs of the previous dose may not offend him. Do not interfere, no mater how quietly, with his private belongings, unless he wishes It. It annoys him intensely to think that his small properties are being yjc am Inert and rearranged. If you cannot control your agitation, keep out of his sight and hearing until you can. If he has his senses do not treat him like an infant, smile at his whims, or disregard his reasonable wishes. Above all. do not expect him to be polite, grateful or even civil, no matter if you are sacrlficim? your comfort and enduring anxiety for his sake. If he Is cross, do not tell him so or be hurt by the fact, for he is suffering, and his nerves are In a state of rebellion. liemember that he Is not responsible for It and that It is your duty to be considerate and patient for both. ISARI'LLA rUOCTOR. I'lafe ;iua nrlclta. These are made from the sand used In glassmaklng and heretofore considered worthless after having served that purpose. A peculiarity of these plate glass bric ks. whl h are perfectly white. Is that thev withstand frost and are not attacked by acids. They will also resist a crushing force of from K00 to nearly 1.0)0 pounds on O.lf.5 square inch. They are tated to be much superior to others not only In point of durability, but In appearance. A (Inrrf lilt of Information, Somebody has alleged that the buffalo bug's birthplace Is found In the golden cup of the lovely common field daisy that everybody loves, nnd a lady tells the Upholsterer that, determined to investigate the matter, she looked into some daisy cups growing In a field, and sure enough there she found In Beveral daisies thedetestcd inaect comfortably taking Urn tcuaa.

CREATURES OF THE OCEA.V DEPTHS

Fall to Piecea When Water Preaanre Falls to Hold Them Together. The new submarine world now explored and mapped out presents a very difterent picture from' that painted for us by the poets. But a short time has elapsed since the bottom of the ocean was supposed to be the counterpart of the face of the earth above water with hills and valleys, with precipitous mountains lifting toward the surface and profqund gorges sinking to unfathomable depths. The ocean floor is far less diversified than the land. Here and there, to be sure, islands in midocean are the summits of enormous mountains, ri3ing, more or less abruptly, from a generally level surface, and the tea lying over a narrow, depressed region in the northwestern Pacific reaches its greatest depth. But this is exceptional; in its general character the ocean bottom consists of vast fiat or slightly undulating plains. An extraordinary circumstance that has been noticed with interest, and that always creates surprise when first learned, is the entire absence of foreign matter in the deeper part of the ocean's floor. Of all the vessels lost in midocean, of all the human beings that have been drowned, of all the marine animals that have perished, of all the clay, sand and gravel let fall by dissolving iceburgs. of all the the various substances drifted from every shore by shifting currents, not a trace remains, but tn their place water from l.OOO to 2,000 fathoms in depth covers the uniform deioslt of thick, bluish, tenacious slime, called globigerina ooze. A bit of this under a powerful lens is a revelation of beauty not readily forgotten. The ooze is composed almost entirely of the daintiest, most delicate beautiful shells imaginable. At depths greater than 2.500 fathoms the bottom of the sea consists mainly of products arising from exposure, for almost incalculable periods, to the chemical action of sea water, of pumice and other volcanc matters. This finally results in the formation of the red clay deposits that are considered characteristic of the profoundest depths of the ocean. Carbonate of lime, which In the form of the shells of foraininifer? makes up so large a part of the globigerina ooze, is here almost entirely absent. Sea water Ii very nearly a universal solvent, and before any shell, large or small, reaches the bottom of these "tremendous" abysms it is chemically eaten up, literally dissolved a result which the enormous pressure of the water must materially hasten. At 1,000 fathoms the weight of the water pressing on all sides of an object immersed to that depth is -very nearly one ton to the square inch, or more than 100 times that sustained at the sea level, and at the greatest depths the pressure is so increased that it would seem nothing could withstand it in fact, heavy metal cylinders let down with the sounding apparatus are sometimes, on being drawn up again to the surface, found bent and collapsed; strongly made glrtss vessels which the metals enclosed are shattered into fragments. In the profoundest abysms of the sea are strange forms of life that never, save when brought up bj the trawl, see the upper light. The work carried on by means of the U. S. fish commission vessel, the Albatross, has established the fact that forms of sea life inhabiting upper waters may descend to about 1.200 feet from the surface, but that below this, to a depth of 300 to 301 fathoms, a barren zone intervenes where marine life seems absent. But still deeper, strange to say, ha been discovered an abundant and. varied fauna, new to science, living under renditions of tremendous pressure, and paucity of the life-sustaining element of oxygen, that induced an eminent zo-ologist to say quite recently: "Whit we know of the greatest ocean depths forbids us to expect to find them inhabited by living organisms." Here. indeed. survive forms of life of which no inhabitant of the upper world, not even the sun himself, has looked upon before the dredges of the Challenger, the Albatros, the Blake, and similarly equipped vessels dragged up marine creations from congenial cold and dark. It might reasonably be supposed that these denizens of great sea depths would be built more firmly and strongly than surface animals to resist the pressure of the element In which they live, but it is just the contrary. The most universal characteristics of these creatures is the looseness and ftabblnes of texture they exhibit. Indeed, they seem to need the excessive pressure of the water about them to keep their parts together, for when they are brought to the surface they are ready to fall to pieces. It is a problem, so strangely are some of them formed, how they can move from place to place; were they not entirely below the distributing element of wave action they would, to all appearances, be helpless. Inhabiting these abysmal spaces, as completely cut off from communication with the upper waters as we are from the inhabitants of other planets, we can only vaguely speculate on their habits and judge their manners of life from their somewhat remote analogies to the surface species nearest akin to them. Plant life is entirely absent from their place of abode, and although they doubtless prey upon each other, some original source of food supply must, of course, be conjected to exist. Proper Cnre of the Flnjjrer 'ntl. The nail uncared for receives very little more odium in these days than the overcared-for nail. It is no longer any better taste to go about with nails glowing with the red salve of the toilet table than it is to have cheeks bright with the brightness of rouge. Neither are nails any longer polished to the brilliancy of isinglass. The natural gloss is maintained but not heightened. Manicure sets accordingly are somewhat simplified and are not bought as sets at all. Better implements are obtained by buying them separately. A pair of nail scissors, a fine Jeweler's file, a chamois pad, an emery board for smoothing the under surface of the nail and a box of nogallne for healing the soreness caused by loosened cuticle comprise the necessities. Great Mrn In Thnndf rutnrnn. When Sir Walter Scott was a little boy he was lost during a thunderstorm. The alarmed searchers found the future novelist lying on his back on the hillside looking at the lightning, clapping his hands at each flash and exclaiming, "Connie! bonnle!" A story of the same kind Is told of Schiller, the Oerman poet. One day, when he was a very small boy, a severe thunderstorm came on. The boy was missed and could nowhere be found. The whole household searched for him. but It was not until the storm was passed that he was seen descending from the top (t lime tree near the house. To the Inquiries of hl father as to what he had been doing he replied: "I only wished to see where all the fire came from." The OrlKlnnl lue f Duller. Butter, which is almost indispensable to the meal nowadays, 'was formerly used solely as nn ointment. Herodotus, u Creek historian. Is the first writer who mentions butter, It. ('. f00. The Spartans treated it very much the same as we do cold cream or vusellnc, and Plutarch tells how a hostess wns Flckened at the sight of one of her visitors, a Spartan, who was saturated in butter. The Scythians Introduced the nrtlcle to the Greek."., and the Germans showed the Romans how to make It. Rut the later did not use It for food. They, like the Spartans, nnolnted their bodies with it. Mlatnke In Cn pari It. Mm. Kindly "Now, I'll give you a dime, poor man. But I hope you will not go and get drunk with it." The l'oor Man (much hurt) "Iady, you do me a treat wrong to suggest such a thing." Mrs. Kindly "I didn't mean to accuse you" The Poor Man "I'm triad of It, lady. Do I look like a man who could get drunk on a dim?" Puck.

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No. 17. Stzo No. 13. Ho. 17. Size No. 18 Waltham or Elgin movement, seven jewels, beauti- j luuy engraved ;uontauk cae, jy. I his watch would cofat from $'S to $ J3 at jewelry stores. The above No. 18. Size No. (8. No. 18.' Sizo No. 18 Monarch case, txrenty-one years guarantee, 14 carat, Waltham moTemeut lengine-turned),$20.25 k :y? j -Vy" V Y$ v?f ' 4 'T;oi-.Vv .." No. 28. Sizo No. 18. Np. 28. Size No. 18 Montrnik cafe (engine turned). New York Standard movement, seven jewels, $26.25.

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Then are the bet Watches ever offered for any thief like those figures. Who need go without a watch when he cau get lira ciaea tioiekceper in a hundeome caee tor $12.25 or JIG.'Jj?

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No. 8. Sizo No. O. No. C. Pu N. ß-I.itHrt7 (or American) entr.ivcd ch, l)oret movement tSwisa), seven jewe's, $12.

No. 21. Sizo No. G. No. 21. Size No. (Monarch cae, vermicelli border, fancy liltrin movement, even jeweln, $19.50.

Toe watch will reach you within a week after you send the order.

Ilmomber I hat Iii INDIAN AlULiS ember that Um INDIAN ATOMS sentod. We can aiwure our reader- that sbaqUI, a tbin of beauty and a joy forever.

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No. 10. Size No. 13. No. 6. Size No. 18 Waltham or Eifin movement, eeven jewe's, (enpineturtied) Montauk cat-e, $18. This watch would cost from S-'S to $35 at jewelry Btoree. are all Montauk cases and ere guaranteed for No. 19. Size No. 13. NO. 19. Size No. 18 Monarch we, fancy landscape engraved, Elgin movement S21.50. No. 5. Sizo No. 18. T0. 5. Size No. 18 Liberty fenglnetorned) case, New York Standard moveneat, will wear ten years, $12.25. County State Inclosed find . i SliNTINKL COMl'A.N unt Nr.MLM - li U)M1.. l unrnnteos mcse every watch will Ke complete ana entire will K'v coniplet

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No. 14. Size No. 18. No. 14. Size No. 18 Box case, Louis XIV. 6tyle, Waltham or Elpin movement teven jewels, $19.75- These wntches are eold by retail dealerg at from o0 to $35. fifteen years. No. 20. Size No. 13. No. 20. S:ze No. IS Monarch case, with wido Vermicelli border and engraved center, Waltban. movement, seven jewela, $23. This is the finest watch we oiler and i well worth $4' according to the prices charged in jewelry ptores. The cases art warranted for twenty-ono years. The readers of The Sentinel never had an opportunity to get first-class watches, at any such prices as the above, and aftef this stock ia sold they will probably not coon bave such a chance again. This offer is open only to subscribers te The Indiana State Sentinel. One of these watches will make s band some birthday or Christmas present fof your wife, your sister, your daughter, ol your sweetheart; for your husband, youi father, your brother or your son. In order to avoid confusion and mistake! the watches should be ordered only by their numbers. Thus it is only necessary to say: "Send watch No. S (or whatevei number is desired) to the following ad dress." Write the name, town, county and state vrv plainly. The cash must accompiny every order. We should prefer to have our subscribers use the following coupon, which caa be cut out, filled up and tent to The Indiana State Sentinel, with a draft oo Chicago, New York, Indianapolis or Cincinnati or a poetoliice money order for the amount.

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189 INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL CO.: Please send one watch No. . . to the following address: Name Post Office

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