Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 August 1893 — Page 12

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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 9, 1893T WELTE PAGES,

PURSUED BY A TORNADO.

FinisiiAn:n cinrn chased two men ov ax engine. An KnKlnrrr Vividly Describe III Harr for Ufr III Einerlence "ach nn Few Mm Meet Tilth In LlfeTlmr A Ilrnrt In Hi Ilond Take Him Safely Out nf the Truck of That Fearful Tornado. "I don't believe that fright ever turned a person's hair white off-hand," said Henry Wethereil, an engineer of the Jersey Central rail read. "If such a thing could happen these locks of mine would not be as black as you see them now, for I will venture to say that no man ever went through a more fear-Inspiring experience than I did once. Tell you the story? Why, certainly. J Jut I am not good at a yarn, an 1 I can only Rive you the bare facta without descriptive ornamentation. "It happened this way. The year was 13TS or ISl'J. I forget which. Anyway it was some time In July. The weather had been pretty hot, and it was just the Sort of day for breeding a tornado. "But I am getting ahead of my story already, ii"t being very expert In the way of anecdote. I was working on a one-horse railroad in Southern Kansas. The superintendent wired me to fetch my engine a distance of about seventy miles t a place called Peteistown. It was wanted tu haul a lot of perishable freight, mostly market produce, which had got shunted off Ly some accident on t a s-i i'j mu-K antt was in danger of spoiling: A suit against the company might have followed, and the business had to be attended to in a hurry. There were only sovn locomotives on the road, barring two or three that were disabled. "Well, not to be too long-winded, I got fuel and water aboard as quickly as possible and started for Ptterstown, taking it rather easily, because the track wasn't in condition to stand fast running well. 1 was about an hour out from my starting place, ar.d had gone about sixteen miles perhaps, when 1 noticed sonii queer-looking clouds! on the western horizon. ' The day was extremely sultry, and there was a urious sort of glare over the landscape which made it look sort of feverish. I can't think of a better word for describing it. There was something unnatural about the appearance of everything. My lirernan was a boy who had been brought up in that region, and he sai 1 that it looked like a tornado coming. He ought to have been a good judge of the symptoms, because the whole of his family, together with their jru;jrty and live block, had been wiped out by such a 'twister,' as they call 'em, when he was hardly old enough tu todUle. "I5y the time we had gone may be eight or nine miles further a dense bank of cl uds had spread around toward the southwest. It was black as ink, but beneath it was a blank streak of white. I had never seen anything that looked quite like it before. As I looked at it the bank r. higher, and presently I saw something like a sharp point of cloud project itself downward from the black mass. All time there was no thunder nor lightning1, but only a look about the sky that was dreadful to see, because it was so unnatural-like. It seemed as if something awful was going to happen. It was the boy who called my attention to th pointed cloud, and he said it was a tornado beginning. "I pretended not to be afraid, and said If It was a 'twister it would not be likely to hit us. But he was as pale as a ghost. Says he: "'Don't you see that It is directly southwest of us?' " 'Why, certainly,' I replied. 'What of that?' " 'They always travel northeast,' he said, 'and we are right In the track of it!' " 'Then w '11 run away from lt. I gus,' says I. pulling the throttle wide open, r.ut the boy, he sail nothingonly watched the clouds in the distance. "By this time the pointed cloud had pot very muih bigger, the lower end of it nearly touching the ground. It grew rapidly larger and seemed to be approaching at a great rate of speed, while the rest of the view toward the west and southwest became blurred to the eye, so that nothing could be made out very clearly. I saw that it was a tornado thmt was coming, and no mistake, for the strange -loud, which hud the shape of a gigantic peg-top, was distinctly outlined in Its inky blackness against the general blur. I began to feel pretty badly frightened myself. Now and then, when I could take my eye off the cloud. I looked at the boy, but he only sat silent in the cab, staring at the great peg-top with starting eyeballs and white lips. Finally I said: " 'Do you think we are going to escape It? " 'We are right in its track,' he said, without looking at me. "You see. we were running In nn air line over the prairie, directly northeast, and pursuing the very path in which the tornado was cmirg. Any other course, with the steam I had on, would have carried us out of the way. "The boy shoveled more coal on. lie had already done so three or four times since the sträng cloud was sighted. IJut it w;i? no ue. The engine was do lag its best, ami she wasn't capable of more than thirty-eight miles nn hour. ' 'It's gaining on us.' I said. "How fast docs FUch a thing as that travel?' " Arut one hundred miles an hour,' repli.d the boy, white as a sheet. "If that had been true I would not be here t: tell the story. I have since learned that fighty miles an hour Is supposed to lie the best a tornado can do. My belief is that this one was going at about sixty miles. Anyway, It wasn't more than Fix or seven miles distant by this time, and gaining on us rapidly. If my reckoning- was correct It would catch us in a little more than twenty minutes. The way I calculated It was that the great peg-tor was moving at the rate of three miles to our two. "It was the most frightful spectacle to look at that can poslbly be Imagined. To me it seemed to be a monstrous giant, pursuing us with an evil intention to destroy. Now and then its blackness would be transformed into a dark green, and it was constantly lighted up by flashes, as If it were an immense balloon illuminated from within. It appeared to whirl round with Inconceivable rapidity, and from it came a sound across the prairie as of bellowing, with a voice so awful that the rumbling of the locomotive was lost in it. Of the destruction it was accomplishing I could get no notion from my point of view. Fortunately there were few settlements In that part of the country, but as we passed two or three, small hamlets at full speed I could see. the people running about trying to find some place of safety. "The boy staggered to my side the rocking of the engine made It difficult to keep one's feet and clutched my arm. I stooped my head, and he yelled Into my ears the words: 'Make the bend.' I knew what he meant on the Instant. Less than ten miles ahead of us was a bridge over a river, after crossing which the road turned abruptly southward. It was a freak railway anyhow, and Its zigzags were Intended to pass through as many supposed centers of future population as possible. The only long stretch of It In a straight line was Just where we got caught by the tornado. If we could get to the bend ahead of the monster we might run out of Its track. "As you may well Imagine. I had no opportunity to consider the plan calmly and in detail, but It struck me like a flash. It was a race for life sure enough. If that engine never did her forty miles v an hour before I think she must have done that and more too. then. With the great funnel cloud rushing on behind us

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HOW MY CACKACKES! Ache, Kl.loer Tail), and Weak. Jflll n,'"fc Horetien, Lammen, Strain, r-tr and Pnlti r-llerel in one nilnuto hy (I ft thu Cutiruria Antl-l'nln l'laeter, tbc oaly pain-killing eircuthenin pUU-r. an'l steadily aproachlng, we tore over the rails at a frantic rate of ppeed. I was fairly crazed by the excitement, so that It almost overcame my sense of fear. I remember distinctly that I pulled the whistle cord and lot the locomotive scream with all her miht. though it coul. 1 hardly be heard in the roaring of the pursuing tornado. "Six miles passed, as well as I could estimate, and the monster was only about four miles behind. Three miles more and It had lessened the distance by a mile at least. Hut we were near the river. A minute later and we were running across the bridge. No time then to heed the warning that 'trains must run slowly over the stream,' In obedience to the sign post. "Over the bridge, we Hew around the curv and dashed away southward, just in time to see the mighty balloon pass by with a whirl and a roar, as if all the demons in (he infernal regions were let loose. We could not make out anything very distinctly, the sky being darkened and the air filled with dust, but we knew that we were safe. A few minutes later the clouds rolled away and everything was as quiet and peaceful as before the storm. We ran back to the billige, but It wasn't there. It was Jean gone, and such remains of it as were left were scattered all over the country. The road was so badly torn up, the track for considerable distances being twisted and broken to pieces, that th" expense of repairing It nearly bankrupted the company. Hieven people lost their lives by that tornado, which afforded me an experience which I would not repeat for all the money in the world." Washington Star. A I'AItO KIMi'S I llllTtM lie H et I red n Winner tintl Died I-env-ing h III INtiite In Ott I for ii la. James I. Itynders, the faro king, never made much of a talk among the sports about being a rich man, says the San Francisco Ohroniele. lie was one of those kind of peoj.le who do a. whole lot of thinking and very little talking. Consee.uently, when he died In Oakland a few weeks ago not many of his friends knew whether he had gone to his grave a rich or a ior man Hut they said that old Jim would not care, because he was alone in the world, never having married. It had been years since Jim Itynders toyed with the "kitty" or bucked the tiger. He had forsaken many of his old sporting friends and located himself in a quiet home in East Oakliml. where he spent his last days In peace and happiness. It was said of him that he had no worry on account of his gambling days, for he had lost more money at the gambling table than he had ever won. In fact, he made the greatest loss In the state, dropping flOO.OoO at one sitting at faro. That loss is a matter of history. Hut Jim Itynders did not die penniless. When he retired from the ring of chance he made a few legitimate speculations, and the reformed gambler made an honest fortune. That is the reason that he could enjoy life. Yesterday W. D. Thomas, John I Hromley and James Larne filed in the Alamada superior court an Inventory and appraisement of the Ryndr estate. It shows that the decedent had 34.73' in cash and some mortgages In the East valued at Jl,f.22. He ah) held a promissory note of an attorney for ?2,2f,3. The home plac In Kast Oakland is valued at 54,500. The I'ulgas ranch, in San Mateo, consisting of 4u4 acres. Is valued at $t'.,0H. The total value of the estate is $74,222. A niece of the deceased will inherit most of the property. Anavrer the Children Quentlonn. There are many parents who think all sympathy or interest wasted when given to their children. The little ones are told so often not to ask so many questions and to keep still that they are repressed just at the age when they should be learning the most and by a natural nt'thul. A child will remember the things he sees and asks about a great deal better than something he reads that is full of words which he cannot pronounce. Many teachers do not take the trouble to make full explanations. They are like these same parents. So the child is repressed both at home and at school. It is easier not to do some things Jpst at .this particular time than to do them. A child treated this way at home and at school will learn on the street and In other ways, and the Information thus obtained is seldom desirable. If a child is encouratred In right linen by his parents, he knows where to go when he does not understand what he sees or hears or reads. The mother who can cheerfully stop reading or writing to help her child is not the one to grudge the little investment which she makes for her children as so much capital wasted. Philadelphia Tin.es. A Literary I'niilljty In China. The marvelous child mentioned in the Chinese classics who at four years old was able to recite the 300 verses of the T'ang poetry as well as the "Ancient Book of Odes." has been eclipsed by an Infant prodigy of the same age, who Ji'as presented himself at the recent licentiate examinations in Hong Kong as a candidate for literary honors. The. P'anyu Chehsien personally examined this tiny candidate and found that the child could write a concise essay on the subject that had been given him, although of course in an Infantile scrawl. It is observed by a local commentator that it now remains only for the literary chancellor to "pass" the prodigy ere he can be styled as "having entered the portals of the dragon's gates" that is, obtained the degree of "Siu-ts'al," or licentiate. London News. Penrya Yacht for Arotie Tue. Lieut. Peary's next trip into the Arctic regions will be made on the steam yacht Sylvia, which he has purchased from R. S. Nickerson. The Sylvia is twenty-two feet long, seven feet beam, and draws only two feet of water. She is now propelled by a five-horse power engine, but changes will be male to use oil Instead of coal for fuel. She Is light and yet very stanchly built. The yacht will be stored in the hold of Teary's Arctio steamer until the Polar regions are reached. She will be used in short expeditions from the station on McCormack bay, where Peary intends to locate for the winter. Philadelphia Times. Like Johnny. Little Johnny (with conscious pride) "Old Mr. Muggina says she had a little boy Just as nice as me once." Fond Mother (delighted) "Did she, really? I jiresume he has become a great man by this time." "No'm. he's dead." "Too bad." "Yea'm. He was hung." Street & Smith's Good News. , Have Reecham's Pills ready In tthe household.

DEPRESSION IN ALLIGATORS

IlECKLKSS llt'XTING HAS MADE THEM SCAIICE IX FLOIUDA. Lnrxe Ntimber of AlllKnfor Are Iealroed llefore Tlie- Are Old Enough to II reed He (irow as Lour mm He Live, but at the A tee of Twelve I n Llllle Fellow Only Two Feet Loug. Alligators are high. For many years the suppiy of them has been obtained mainly from Florida. There has been-a great demand for their skins, and. as a result, they have been hunted relentlessly. Now they are getting scarce, and the Industry of procuring them for market is threatened with extinction. This is not surprising, inasmuch as it is estimated that 2.500,000 of these great lizards have been killed In Florida since lbSO. Earge numbers of alligators are destroyed before they are old enough to .breed. They grow very slowly. When one year old 4 hey measure only twelve inches In length. At fifteen years they are two feet long. When you sef one of the largest size, a twelve-footer, you can take It for granted that the animal Is at least Feventy-flve years of age. lie grows as long as he lives, but the process is not rapid. Xibody knows the duration of an alligator's life under natural conditions, but It Is certainly much longer than that of the average human being. Dr. Hugh .Smith of the U. S. fish commission says that there nre very few alligators left in the St. John's river. Hunters In that region who have devoted many years to the business are giving It up. It seems only a question of time when this valuable fishery, which could by proper care be preserved for an Indefinite period, will become exhausted, to the great loss of a large element of the population Inhabiting the Interior of the state. In the Indian river country. Cocoa. Melbourne ar.d Ft. Fierce are headquarters for alligator hunting and trade in the hides. A few years ago one hunter at Cocoa killed SOU alligators in a season, and another secured forty-two in one night. In 1SS3 anl twelve hunters in the vicinity of Melbourne killed about 2.000 alligators. At Ft. Pierce large numbers of the saurlans were handled In former years. In 18X9 twelve men brought in 4.H)0 skins, and In 1S90 2,000 skins. In iss:) alligator hides to the number of 6.700 were shipped from Miami to New York, and in lSSO the number shipped was 5,03:?. Kisslmmee, situated on Lake TGhopekaliga. in the Interior of the state, is an Important center of the alligator trade. In lSvj three firms were located there for the purpose of buying skins taken In the region between Lake Kisslmmee and Lake Okeechobee, and in that year they handled 33.C00 hides. In lV.'O only two firms did business, purchasing 15.000. This decline of over 50 per cent, was due chielly to scarcity of alligators, but was also influenced by the low price received by the hunters. The skins mentioned represented the work of about twenty professional and eighty semiprofessional sportsmen. The aggregate number of animals killed and the average number to a man are very much les than the result a few years ago, when a skillful hunter could easily secure CoO 'gators in two or three weeks. The marketable skins are from three to twelve feet in length, and are paid for In provisions, ammunition, etc. The dealers get C." cents apiece for them from the tanners in New York. The income of the alligator hunters in that region is considerably augmented by the capture of otters, says Dr. Smith, of which 1,00) skins were sold in 190 at an average price of $3.50 each. Large numbers of other skins are also brought in. including those of the deer, bear, wildcat, opossum and raccoon. A few years ago a large trade was carried on in the skins and plumes of various aquatic and and wading birds, but the practical extermination of these wild fowl over large areas has put a stop to the business. During the past three or four years a large part of the alligator trade of Florida has been centered In Jacksonville, where there are two firms which purchase hides and teeth from hunters and dealers, mostly In the southern part of the state. In 1SS9 these firms handled about 60,000 skins, and in IS'JO about 20,ooo. They assert that the decline in the business is due to the fact that the hunters have been obtaining more remunerative employment in working the phosphate beds, and that much of the trade that formerly went through Jacksonville now goes directly to New York, Live and stuffed alligators enter largely Into the trade in Florida curiosities. In Jacksonville there are twelve dealers In alligators and eighteen other dealers in shells, fish-scale jewelry, alligator teeth, etc. In 1X90 about 8.4' alligators were disposed of to tourists in Jacksonville. The taking of small alligators for sale as curiosities is now a prominent feature of the business. Large numbers are annually secured and disposed of at prices varying with the season, supply and size, ranging from $20 to $30 per 100, although as low as $10 has at times been received. The price for stuffed alligators is about 23 cents more than for live ones. Alligators from six to twelve feet long bring from $12 to $14 each. It is estimated that about 450 pounds of alligator teeth were sold In 1890. Of the best teeth about seventy make a pound, but from 150 to 200 of the smaller ones are required. The teeth of alligators have some commercial value to the hunter, but in many places of late not much attention has been given to them on account of the difficulty of extracting them and the low price received $1 to $2 per pound. They are removed by burying the head and rotting out the teeth. The stuffing of alligators and the polishing of alligator teeth give employment to forty persons In addition to the regular dealers. Washington Star. A Ilrlile'n l'rrxrnli In 1 !. Glovanna del Medici, the bride, received from her different relations no fewer than twenty rings, and six more from the bridegroom two when he fetched her, two for the espousals and two on the morning they exchanged rings. From Bernardo she received 100 florins and some other coin, with which she made herself two handsome dresses, one of white velvet richly trimmed with pearls, silk and gold, with open sleeves lined with pure white fur; one of zetani, a stuff of very thick silk, trimmed with pearls, and the sleeves lined with ermine. She has also a gown of white damask, brocaded with gold flowers, the sleeves trimmed with pearls; another silk with crimson, gold, and brocaded sleeves, besides other dresses and over dresses, so called giornee. Among the jewels given her were a rich necklet of diamonds, rubies and pearls, which was worth 100,000 gold florins, a pin for her hair, a necklace of pearls with a large pointed diamond, a hood embroidered with pearls and a net for her hair, also worked with pearls. The dowry, which today would seem modest, was 60,000 florins, including the trousseau, in which was Included a pair of chests, with richly worked edge3. and several long dresses of different shapes for everyday wear, made of fine stuffs embroidered; also a lawn shiffc fashioned out of material that came from Reims, a hood of crimson cloth wrought with pearls, two caps with silver, pearls and diamonds, a little lluminated missal with silver clasps, and an Infant Jesus In wax wearing a damask dress trimmed with pearls. Resides this there were cloth in the piece, satins, velvets and damask, embroidered cushions, belts, purses, thimbles, needlecascs. Ivory combs, etc. Blackwood's Magazine., N'o Cbanee for Comfort. Little Dot "Old folks has everything Just right, but childrens never has." Little Dick "Guess that's so." Little Dot "Course it is. Wen old folks' shoes gets old they feel comfortable, but chiidrn's grows so fast their shoes stay tight right along." Street & ! 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WOMAN'S WOHLD IN PA RA G It A 11 1 S.

The Man Who Does Not Detleve in Woman S ulTras e. I have found him. He thinks women have not intelligence enough to vote and never will have. He says besides that politics is none of their business anyhow. Their place Is to stay at home and keep house and take care of the children. The woman who does anything else "unsexes herself," says the man who does not believe In woman suffrage. He is against equal pay of the sexes for ecpual work, too. tie affirms that women are puch botches and so shallow brained that their services are worth no more than a third as much as a man's. He would never let a woman who is obliged to "unsex" herself and earn a living do anything but housework, washing or scrubbing If he could help it. Also if he had his way he would take away from women every public clerkship, every stenographic and typewriter and cashier's desk and give them to men. especially if they pay fairly well. He would not xermlt a woman to be a lawyer, doctor or preacher if he had his way and has said so. In brief, he declares out and out that a woman Is a poor creature at best. Inferior to man in every respect Just so! And I have found out exactly why the man who does not believe In woman suffrage or equal pay for equal work holds such unmanly opinions. There is a reason for It. He Is a lawyer now and a public speaker who has attained considerable distinction in fact, if I should mention his name you would know it in a minute. In youth he was very, very poor. He did not have money enough to study law, but he married a noble, lovely, energetic lady who was as devoted to him as if he was not a man little man. She taught school. She kept boarders. She earned money in various ways and skimped and saved to the last degree to get money enough to pay her husband's expenses as a law student. She carried the whole burden of the family support till he was able to get practice enough to keep soul and body together. Whatever he Is or may be in the future he owes absolutely to this brainy, self-sacrificing wife. Her reward Is that now he turns and rends her, not only her, but womanhood. What do you think of a man like that? I know one sarcastic woman who says it served the wife just right. The most precious quality in this Ufa Is human sympathy. The Emma Willard association is an organization composed of the former pupils of the school which thia eminent educator founded and conducted so many years at Troy, N. Y. Forty years ago it was as mu' h honor to have been trained at Mrs. Willard's school as It is for the girl of today to be a graduate of Cornell or Ann Harbor. Mt. Holyoke seminary and Mrs. Willard's school at Troy were really the pioneers of higher education for women. The Emma Willard association held a meeting not long since In the Woman's building at Chicago which was the occasion of much enthusiasm. It is desired that all the former pupils of the Troy school become tnembers. Mrs. Kussell Sage, New York, is president of the association. In the colony of Victoria, Australia, women teachers In the public, schools are eligible to receive a possible salary Of $i.r.oo. This year ten young ladles passed the famous mathematical tripos examination at Cambridge, Ergland. Two of them would have attained the rank of wranglers if women were allowed to be wranglers. They will be, however, in course of time even In conservative England. For the present they must content themselves with passing better examinations than' the men wranglers themselves can, as Fhlllppa Fawcett did. Five ladles have been sent as official commissioners of education from Great Britain to the world's fair to examine the American school exhibits and see what features of our system of public instruction can be adopted with profit in England. The New York School Journal publishes a chapter of biographical sketches of the great teachers of the past four centuries. You may or may not be surprised to learn that there is not a woman's name In the list, although there have been women educators quite as distinguished in that particular line as Jefferson was, to say the least, and he has a prominent place among the number. Mr. Josephine K. Henry tells us an awful story on the gallant Henry Wattersm. She declares that the CourierJournal once responded to an argument in favor of higher education for women by an editorial headed "Higher Fiddlesticks!" Henri. Henri! Is it possible? A comparatively new occupation for women Is now. opening. It Is that of cashier in large city hotels. At the Palmer House. Chicago, it was tried and proved a great success. Mr. Palmer testified that women cashiers are quite as efficient and accurate as men and "perhaps more honest" than men. They do not feel obliged to wear a dazzling diamond pin or snub a timid tourist as If they were at the very least the Russian czar. Mr. Palmer says there Is only one trouble with these fair and capable girl cashiers, and that is that they will marry. But that Is quite" as much man's fault as woman's, and therefore they are not wholly to blame for it. The magnificent new Holland hotel on Flfth-ave., New York city. Is another house In which young women cashiers have lately been Introduced. The Holland liked the first one so well that It secured another. The young ladies require seven different books for taking all their orders, and they must keep track of these and not get tangled up. They also have occasion to cash large checks at times and must know when these are genuin and when bogus. There la much responsibility attached to the place, and it is a credit to a girl's brain that she can carry the load so lightly. The West hotel, Minneapolis, has a woman cashier too. . ELIZA ARCHARD CONNOR. Floor Cuahlona. Floor cushions are convenient and very popular, especially for summer cottages. They may be stuffed with either feathers or excelsior down has not sufficient body and if they are embroidered the design should be bold and conspicuous. The cushion cover illustrated Is of blue denim, and the outline design of scroll and flowers worked In heavy white cotton. Striped awning cloth in red, yellow, or blue and white is a picturesque covering for cushions that are liable to receive rough usage. It is a good plan not to sew cushions inside, the washable covers, but to close one side by means of eyelet holes In either edge, through which cotton cord is laced. The cover may then be easily removed for cleaning. E. K. Antidote for Tragedy. Winks "Come along, old boy, I've got two complimentary tickets for a dramatic performance." Jinks "Tragedy or comedy?" "Trasedy." "I don't like tragedies. They appeal so strongly to one's sympathies that I always feel blue for a week." "This one won't. You'll come home as Jolly as if you'd been to a circus. It's by an amateur 'company." N. Y. Weekly. .

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CONVENTION' FOIl GflEAT ltKlTAI Y. An Experience of Forty Years Ago Recalled by the Home Rule 11111. It Is forty years or more since I received a visit in Worcester, Mass., from a young Englishman who has since risen to high distinction. He was glad to hear me talk on American politics, and I enlightened him as I could. Among other things I told him he must stay in Albany long enough to see the convention which was remaking the constitution of the state of New York. And I said he would be interested in seeing In session at the same time the legislature of New York, carrying on its business under the old constitution at the same time when the convention was making another. I said that if the French had understood our system and had a separate convention to make the constitution, with a separate parliament to govern France, they would have done better, for this was not long after their revolution of 1S4S. My friend looked at me with surprise and said that what I proposed was impossible. He said that one of the two bodies must be superior in authority to the other. The other then would refuse to act or would act merely to register the decree of a higher power. So I began all over again, as you do with such people, and explained :igain that the business of making a constitution is one thing, the business of governing a state or nation is another. You might as well say that while you were sailing a shir the seamen should occupy their leisure In making a. steam engine for her as to say that a legislative body fit for one business should turn to making a constitution, which is quite another business. In fact, there is a sort of risk in letting the legislature making a constitution, for if It has that power another legislature can unmake it, and then nothing is really constituted. My friend listened to me with the courtesy of an English gentlemen, and then with the solidity or stolidity, which they sometimes show, he said: "What you propose Is Impossible. One body must have control over tlie other." And so I bade him goodby on one of the hottest days of this century. And he took the train to Albany to see the next day, as I suppose, the constitutional convention and the legislature of New York sitting and working in the same city at the same time to see his impossibility made possible. I have never seen him again, except i.t his seat in the house of commons, I being in mine in the gaTlery. I do not know if he is in the house of commons now, or Indeed if he Is living. If lie is, I wonder If he ever "harks back" to that day In Albany, for the house of commons Is working at that same well nigh impossible undertaking, which has brought France such misery so often, and which America never attempts that is, the house of commons is trying to be a constitutional convention. The regular legislation of Great Ur'tain is neglected because the house is revising the constitution. And the revision of the constitution limps and is hindered because the house Is trying to carry on legislation at the same time. Now, constitution making is one thing, and legislation is another. In this matter of home rule Great Britain is fond of studying American experience and Hungarian-Austrian experience and other federal experiments. Why will they not try our habit of calling a ''constitutional convention," which shall have nothing to decide but the change in the constitution? In three months' time, according to Mr. Gladstone, otir federal convention struck off a constitution involving more political wisdom than any other work of the same time. Why will not Great Britain do a like thing in three other months? The house of lords will refuse to pass the present Rome rule Mil. The way is then open for an act of parliament which shall call a constitutional convention to act on that subject and on no other. This convention can meet In the recess of parliament. Men will be willing to sit in it who would or could not be chosen to parliament. Jurists will sit there, close students of politics, and men of affairs quite outside of political lines would sit In It: Party lines would govern the choice of delegates in part, but not exclusively. Noblemen and commoners would sit In the same house. And it is quite within the possibilities that such a constitutional convention would make a plan for home rule which would satisfy England and Scotland and Wales and Ireland. Edward Everett Hale in N. Y. Recorder. NegHee Drena. A noticeable thing In the suburbs is the fondness fashionable women are showing for neglfgee costume. The blouse waist Is probably responsible for this in a measure. It is beins worn this season with a freedom nevw indulged In before. It Is a comment upon woman's gradual emancipation from the combination of the dressinaker that while the latter is decreeing more elaboration than usual even decorating bathing costumes with bretelles, epaulets and like paraphernalia cirls of unouesUoned taste and style are quietly

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assigning the simple shirt waist to new purposes, such as riding habits and bicycle costumes. Young women who a year Ego thought it necessary to assume the most conventional outfit for the wheel now whirl by in loose white shirt waists that look far more comfortable with the heavy cloth skirt than did the old tight bodice of dark stuff. A short jacket may be worn, but oftener is carried as a protection against sudden changes in the almo.-phere. Philadelphia Times. HOW TO CHECKMATE MOTHS. A New nnil Odorlen Device to Proteet Winter Wraps During the Summer, Just at this time of the year the careful housewife is particularly busy packing away the winter garments and furs in a place of safety from the muchdreaded and most pernicious of all insects, the moth. She is perhaps at her wits' end to know just what to do with the many .articles belonging to the different members of the household. The powders and moth balls she has used are surely effective, but It takes nearly a whole season of thorough airing to eradicate the disagreeable odor which has permeated every thread of the garment during the months It has been stored away. Happily, however, some thoughtful and Ingenious person has come to the rescue, and the perplexed housewife can now do away with old newspapers, cloth bags and pasteboard boxes. The Invention la simply a paper bag. but ho arranged that it takes the place of all previous devices and at the same time does away with disagreeable odors, which fact is not the least to be considered. The bags can be bought In three sizes, ranging in price from 23 cents to 45 cents each. The largest are roomy enough for coats and gowns. They are made of very strong, heavy paper, thoroughly saturated with moth preventatives, principally cedar oil. Within are hooks r. on side and pockets on the opposite, which are Just the places for fur cas, muffs, mittens and numerous small articles. There Is a sort of lid at the top which can be brought over and tied securely, thus keeping out the dust and every interloping insert. The bags are not only very inexpensive to begin with, but they will last for years In fact, if well cared for, a liretime. They may be used in summer for the winter garments and will be of great convenience in winter for packing away summer gowns. One great advantage which every woman will thoroughly appreciate Is that at the end of the season the garments come out smelling as sweet as though they had been stored In a flve-hundred-dollar cedar press. MARY MATIIEW EATON. Not Altogether Superntltlon. The old time superstitious belief that human beings should sleep with their heads toward the north Is now believed to be based on a scientific principle. Some French savants have made experiments upon the body of a criminal who had suffered death, and these tests go to prove that each human body Is in Itself an electric battery, one electrode being represented by the head and the other by the feet. The body of the subject upon which the queer experiments mentioned above were made was taken immediately after death and placed upon a pivotal board, free to move in any direction. After some little vacillation the head portion turned toward the north and then remained stationär'. One of the experimenters took hold of the pivot board and turned it so that the head pointed south, but upon being freed it almost Immediately resumed the first-named position turned until the head pointed north. To prove that this was neither accident nor coincident upon muscular twltchlngs. as some had suggested, the board was repeatedly turned half around and then freed, but always with similar results. Dancer In lev. A serious note of warning has been sounded by the city analysts who have charge of of the Toxicologlcal laboratory of Paris. The officials state that the Ice used In Parisian cafes and restaurants contains legions of the terrible microbes of typhoid fever. The hygienic council, or board of health, have accordingly passed a resolution calling on the police authorities to take steps in order to make the persons who manufacture ice for personal consumption use only the purest water obtainable. Some such regulation as this would be advisable in many American cities. Nobody 'now supposes that water on freezing loses Its impurities. Recent developments show that the average amount of impurity retained by lee is 34.3 per cent, of organic matter, and 21.2 per cent, of Inorganic matter. It is. therefore, important that ice dealers should give some guarantee as to the relative purity of the commodity they supply Are as small as homoeopathic pellets, and as easy to take as sugar. Everybody likes them. Carter's Little Liver Fills. Try them.

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HE WAS FRANKLIN" PIEItCE. Recorder Smyth Relate nn Anecdote nllh nn Important Lesson In It. "Fostmaster Dayton's experience with the clerk in the bureau of information in the postolTiee a few days ago," remarked Recorder Smyth yesterday, "reminds me of the time when I was assistant U. S. district attorney. John, McKeon was then distiict attorney. When Mr. McKeon was on his vacation I was left in charge. We had In the office then a young man, whose business it was to attend to the wants of visitors. This young man on the day in qui-stion was reclining in a chair with his f.et cocked on a. de'.c. He wits Industriously puffing a cigar. There was a knock at the door. " 'Come in yelled the clerk. The door opened and two gentlemen entered. "'Well. That's wanted?' the clerk said in an insolent tone without changing his position or removing the cigar from his mouth. " 'Is Mr. Mc Keon in?' the elder of the two visitors inquired politely. " 'No, he's out of town,' replied tha clerk gruflly. " 'I am very sorry,' the visitor went on, apparently not noticing the clerk's insolence; 'for I have not seen him since we were In congress together.' " 'So?' muttered the clerk in a tone that plainly expressed 'I don't care a continental.' " 'Can I leave him a line?' the visitor asked. ' 'Yes; you'll find pens and paper over there," answered the clerk, pointing with his thumb to a dust-begrimed table la the corner. "The visitor sat down and wrote line on a small piece of faper, which hj handed to the clerk, who glanced at It. Down came his feet with a thump on the floor. On the paper was written 'Franklin Pierce.' "The visitors were the president o! the United States and his private secretary. When the clerk recovered from his astonishment he was alone. From that day there was a marked chanare In the reception of visitors in that office." X. Y. Sun. Electricity Made Perfectly Plain. An old man from somewhere beyond, the suburbs stood on a Forty-seventh-t. corner watching a trolley car moving swiftly eastward with a heavy load of passengers. "That's one of these 'lectric cars, ain't it?" "Yes." "I don't see how Mectrlclty can make a car full o people flip over the ground like that." You don't." exclaimed the other, becoming Interested. "Why, It's eay enough to see through when you onco understand it." I 'xpect so. but I've never heard enough about it -to understand it." "It is all a mater of watts. A watt, don't you see. is a fraction of a horsepower, expressed in the technical language of electrical engineering. You know what an ampere is, don't you?" "A what?" "An ampere. It is a quantity of electricity that goes through the wire and developes the watt. The electricity comes from the central dynamo through that wire you see running along oerhead, runs down through that Iron pol and goes to the motor, which is an" Ingenious but perfectly simple arrangement of wire colls with revolving frame, acted upon by the current which sets it to spinning, and thus puts in motion a smali cogwheel that engages another cogwheel that communicates the rotary movement to a third cogwheel fastened to the axle of the car. It's as plalii aa day when you get the idea." "Yes. but how" "Don't you understand it yet? There' a sort of wire brush that presses against a copper plate connected with the motor and the wire is wound on the frame I was telling you about, so that when current enters the motor It can go either way, and part of it goes one way and part the other, so that the pressure is applied in opposite directions, and that's what makes the jigger revolve and. sets the wheels in motion. The current goes back through an underground wire. See through it now?" Y-yes. I think I kind o get tha idee." The affable stranger strolled down the street and the old man took another look at the overhead wire gazing earnestly In the direction In which the car had gone, took off his hat and wiped his forehead. "What I'd like to know," he muttered, "is how in thunder the electricity makes the car go!" Philadelphia Inquirer. Every Man .hoaltt Ileatl Thia. If any young, old or middle-aged man suffering from nervous debility, weakness, lack of vigor from errors or excesses will Inclose stamp to me I will send him the prescription of a genuine, certain cure, free of cost. No humbug. No deception. Address Mr. Thomas Barnes, Newsdealer, Box 237, Marshall, Mich. tr