Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 March 1894 — Page 5

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geniality flappings?. To Piic-nira.s: -in-l circulate pi:r literature is t mutually ail each other tu a higher anl böt"n- life. OFFICERS. Present V. S. Kk n-loticr, Mo;itcVali... ilo. First Vi. e-Frosiriont Willi tin A. Clark, 4ox I'anvillf. 1ml. , P ond Vice-IMvsidPnt Mrs. Sarali Tayl-r, Armani. Inri. Kordinp i-Vt-retary Mi Porn YVenJier. FMeasnr- .. Indianapolis. Ind. Corresponding S"-rnary -Mis Mary J. LoiidnM. k. W-k box 1"-. Wo.tvill o. "Treasurer Miss Jnnii Uhrdes, Ft. 'Ilecovery. O. i:."ECUTIVi: C MMITTEIT. Robert X. Moulrou. 'int-rs iil. Inl. MIfs Mary K. Sv.aim, fiOS Vermiliont.. Ianvill.-. I!!. J. F. F'.ir, Fcru. Ini. Mr?. Minn;.-- Y li Miller. Altoona, Kas. Yw!l!.c:n E. Ful!. lratnr. In ). Oi;.l I'.CTM. Sec. 2 of Art. 1 of "-iitti H The i'j-cts of this lub shall l'- to staWisli sociability, strengthen p'l morals in fc i'ly. increase h desire for mind improvement arc! literary attainments and tu extend the vrk of reformation. MKMKKRSHIP. Se-. 1 of Art. - of Constitution All i f ?0"'l nioial character, who are interc.'deJ in the obje.-ts of this orpanizat i'.n, anil at - willing to work in acconln :v o theiewith, are eligible to meinbf-i -liip. So. Art. - All lii'Miio'M of the H. 1j. .'. in Rood Mndin? shall share etiually i;i its benefits and privileges. pud It shall Ve the duty of arh nif-nib"r to eek. by example, by word and by pen to promote the objects end interests of th club. Sec. 7 of Ky-I,nw; "Members rhanpin their place of rs-iden e l:all notify the recording secretary of such change. CKXKP.AL. Sec. 10 It shall be the duty of all officers to report to the president, from time to time, or upon his request, the progrre?"? of any business before them, or of the condition of th-;r respective offices, and shall advis him of all matters pertaininpr to the interests or welfareof the club. 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Prompt action puara.iteed. Dues for 3Sf4 are 25 cents, payable durlns: January and February to the treasurer. A YA IDK TOPIC. TVht Kffeet IIa Frischt mill Four I nn the rityfticlnl lioflyf" Pear Brothers and Sisters The above topic assigned to me. and on which I am expected to discourse, surely contains breadth and depth enoueh to give tjs a wl'le field for investigation and discussion. That thought has effect upon the physical body but few. if any, deny in this Eg- of Investigation and enlightenment. Hut what effet any special uualiiy of thought has upon thf Ixxly is far less recognized and undei stood. Titus, in repar l to fritrht ami fear, while the more observant, who investigating along the lines of advanced thought, and are ver on th alert to dt-tect cause and effect, have noted the fact that both fright and fear do effect the physical IkkJv, there are those who. if they note it at all. jive it but littl" thought and less heed. Fright and fe-ir ate the same quality of thought and differ only in degree of rapidity and intensity of the emotion. Fright being that of sudden intensity of action, its effects bein correspondingly violent, are more readily pen-elved. It rauses the heart to almost ceas its office of circulating the- blood, producing a chill and pallor of the body, weakness of the muscular system, causing a trembling of th limbs, with loss of action, loss of speech and a penerai vpakti"fs of all the organs of the physical body, often terminating in spasms, fainting, insanity and even death. Dr. Iewey says: "Some have died from sudden fright, which paralyzed the action Cf the- heart. Su'lden and prolonged terror has turned the hair white in a single flight. Sudden and startling- news will destroy the appetite, arrest digestion, check the secretions and cause the food tha.t is being swallowed to stick in the throat." Also in regard to prolonged effects, by the remembrance of experienced fright, the author, 1. E. Whipple Fays: "Some people faint repeatedly for no other reason than the subconscious recurrence in mind of a past fearful experience; othe-rs feel dizzy and inclined to fall for the same reason, it i.-t common to hear such expressions, as 'It make me shudder to think of the danKcr, 'I trembl at. the rempiijNncp of that situation,' 'My jeth rhf'r at the Very sound' and others of like character. A ti1k1rr illustration of th effect nf an Impression left upon the mind by a scene of terror i contained in an xyrlnce of th late Charlciw Dickens, an account of which i given in the concluding installment of an extremely interesting reminiscent series of six paces. r-titlM, "My Father as I Recall Him." "by Mamie Pickens. In th number fr April. 1S33. Miss Eickens writes; "It t.cus whilz un his way J

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home that he wa in the railroad acciduit to ehielt he atluds in a letter which I quoted in the last number of thse i-en,inis ence?. saying that his Ivan had never been in good condition since that accident. It occurred on th Iih of June, a date which, five yens later, was the day of his death.' Then follows a letter written by himself, describing in detail the accident from which h escaped in a marvelous way: "1 ha-,- I don't know what to call it constitutional (1 suppose! presence of mind a od was not in the lea.st fluttered at the time, hut in writing these scanty words of recollection I feci the shake and am obliged to stop." Miss Pickens further explains: "We heard afterward how helpful he had been at the time, n.ini: tring to the dying. Flow ealmly and tenderly he cared for the suffering ones about him. Mut he never entlrely t-eco ered from the shock." More than a year later the novelist wrote: "It is reniarkahle that my watch a special chronometer) has never gone quite correctly since, and to this day there sometimes comes over me in a railway train or any ioi t of conveyance, for a few seconds, a voxue snse of dread that I have p,o power to check. It come? and passes, but 1 cannot prevent its coming." Miss Dk-kms adds: "I have ofien seen this dread come upon him. and on one occasion niy father suddenly clutched the arms of the railway carriage sat. while his face grew ashy pale and great drops of perspiration stood upon his forehead: and though ho tried to master this dread, it was so strong that lie had to leave the train at the next station. The accident had left its impression upon tl).r memory and it was destined r.ever to 1- effaced. The hours sjont i pon railroads were thereafter often hours of pain to him. I realized this often while traveling with him. and no amount of assurranco could dispel th feeling." Hy the statements concerning his last hours it is thought that from the time of his sudden illness to' its close iu cb-ath his mind was centered upon the scene of this accident. Fear being less active, caused by either impending da.nger or the apprehension of evil and disaster, in which the effec ts are net so violent and visible, are none the less certain and proportionately deleterious in Its action. Its most readily perceived effects being palpitation of the heart, with increased circulation of the blood, causing intense fever, and an increase of muscular strength as shown 1 y the lifting and carrying of ponderous weights and in rapid running when under its influence. Also organic derangements s of the kidneys, heart, stomach, brain, etc.. ira often attributed to fear alone. And it is a well-attested fact that fear of the con sequences of disease aggravate and increase the malady; therefore the first effort nf the physician is to adjust the -mental atmosphere of the patient. Another fact in the experience of all. In various degrees, is that most easily expressed in the words of job, who said: "The thine: which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is tome unto me." While many attribute these results to a law or outside influence over which they have no control, will, by a careful Investigation along the line of mental action see that fear is far more instrumental in bringing about these condition? than is generally supposed. Those who least fear disease and disaster form a mental barrier against their approach. Also pain and disease have been known to be wholly banished by a greater fear in other "directions, which for a time predominated to the exclusion of all else in the mind. A simple illustration Is that of toothache. How many have been relieved, oftimes wholly, of intense pain in a tooth from no other caus? than the fear of its extraction. As to that of disease I will quote a case given by Pr. Evans on this subject. He said: "The wife of a tailor in New Hampshire who had been confined to the bed for years as a helpless and hopeless invalid, was awakened in the middle of the night by the flames in her room. The house was on fire, and there was no time for debating the fuestion whether she could rise and walk or could not walk. The all-absorbing thought of the impending danger effaced from her mind the idea of disease and this suddenly dropped out of consciousness, and in spirit she ran out of doors, and the body went with it. In her case the i ure was permanent." We must not lose siht' of the fact that we may possess fear that is not always present in our consciousness, but lies in our sub-oonsoious mind, or the dormant state of mental action. So that physical disease and vital disturbance may not be the result of immediate action of fear in the mind. As fear in its greater intensity is shown to produce direful effects on the physical body, so must all fear produce proportionate effects. There is fear mild in its form yet prolonged by indulgence, con vspondingly work its insidious mischief in vital disturbance, nervous derangement and chronic ailments of every desc ription, beside great weakness of Intellect and character. We will note some of these fears that man is subject to. Perhaps the most prominent is the fear of public opinion to which he daily caters. He bows to all forms of customs, fashions and conventionalities in fear of unpopularity and criticism. He fears to be good, honest, ruthful and unselfish, lest he miss some Imagined worldly happiness; fears his feliowman lest he cheat, rob or murder him. and fears to trust hlmpelf. is afraid to form a po"'Uoal opinion without ilu- sanction of hlR party; afraid to frm a religious epinlon without the sanction of his church; afraid to investigate and sesrr-h for truth without first the sanction of priest or preacher; afraid to accept a nexv thought or Idea unless recognized by the masses, lest he be thought to be a crank; afraid to be true to th dictates of his Mghe.it consciousness the intuition of his own soul in the face of opposition. He fpars to erat and to drink without the eouncil of h physician; he fears the elements lft storm, flood or flame destroy him er his po&iesrions; he fears the influence of the sun, moon and stars; h fears the very air he breathes lest it be pcisoned wlt.h miasma or filled with microbes. He fears the cold and th? hea.t. disease nd death, and. jyerhaps, more than all ele, fears .eternal punishment afr.rr deah and an angry God. Atari's t-on1iee to fear is Indeed great. In the fact; ul all this i3 it any vond:r

that we see the humn race struggling in its chains of bondage to these effects in disease, deformity, insanity, poverty, anxiety and distress, with theft, duplicity, suicide and murder running riot? O. humanity: how long wilt thou serve this ruler of the kingdom of ignorance? While I have made my article lengthy I have but touched upon the effeot cf fear upon the physical body, and hope others will give their views and ex-pe.j-erices on this subject. Just note for one week how often you hear the wrrds, "I'm afraid." and you will comprehend how constantly fear f.lls the mind of many. Whatever may be the resnir. o? this treatise in awakening thought on the subject. I trust that at least, if it meet the eye of any mother who habitually presents pictures of far to her chill, in order to ga.ln obedience, that she will p-inder long and well pre she again impress the plasUc mind of childho-id wi:h such direful effects as that of fear. "MAUD MAriE." Danville. III.. March i.

SOMK FI WV TALKS. "Tnscnmhla" Finds nn Old .losli Hilling nook nnil Make F.v trad . Pear Howards This memorable and auspicious occasion finds me engaged in the laudable avocation of inditing an article that p-radventure may tend imnienselv to arouse obstreperous ebul- j lit ions of mirth, hilarity, consolation and comforting entertainment, particularly to the 'shut inns" and seriously ailieg portion of the noted H. I... O... and cheer them on in their pilgrimage o'er lii'cs J rugged and thorny pathway. I allude to divers gems of wisdom, rich and rare, from the groat American humorist. Josh Millings, which are exceedingly mirth-provoking, and with vour unanimous consent v.tll now Intro duce with the, injunction that you don't j entirely collapse with boisterous laughter. ! Coquet res are better than pruo.es; one oi the most miserable of men is a thirdclas tiddler; there is no cine for laziness, but a second wife has been known to quicken it; nature js fond of a joke, the crab's favorite joke is to bile; thv have two rets of legs on the stai!inrd side of their persons, they are boiled in a jMit: two bushels of them, until they have stopped boiling; then they are eaten by throwing the body away; krabs bite with their feet, and bold on like a country cousin; they have a relative called the musquito; they tell us that there wasn't anything made in vain, but I have thought that tip- time consumed in unking the musquito was wasted; they were lorn of poor, but industri ui parents, and they have in their veins som of the best blood in the country; it is easy to kill a musquito if you can, they are very courageous animals; I've known one musquito to tight a man and his wife äll nlplit and draw the first blood; tlvv are very cheerful little creatures, singing as they toil; niule.s are like sonie men, they are corrupt at heart, I've known a mule to be good for six months just to get a chance to kick; Newfoundland dogs are useful to save children from drowning, but unless you've got a Iond of water and a child to run around it and fall in. the Newfoundland dog is an unprofitable boarder; human happiness is like the wandering flea, when you put your finger on hiui he doesn't seem to b- there; when you pursue him he ain't there also; human happiness is like th" Hottentot language, everybody can speak it, but few can understand it; two-thirds of the pleasure in riding down hill consists in drawing the sled back, but I don't know of anybody who would like to ride down a hill eighty-five -miles 1'uig; a man who begins life as the first lieutenant in a family need not expect promotion; the man who will wear a paper collar a whole week ain't lit for nothing else; the live man is like a little pig, always rooting; the live man is as full of business as a girl with two beaux: the live man is not always a deep thinker, he jumps at conclusion, he is an American pet and has done as much with charcoal to mark out the destines of this nation as any man living. Beauty i a gift that don't last long; handsome men are scarce; it is a gixxl thing, for there is more vanity in a handsome man than in a whole drove of peacocks tails; after all. a great beauty is a left-handed compliment; I would rather have a nose seven inches long in the clear than to be called the handsomest man in town; I've known men so pious that when they went out fishing on Sunday they always prayed for goiKl luck: the time to be i arefulest is when you have an armful of wash tubs; the jkassionate man is like a last year's wasp nest; I don't want it understood that I am exclusively in favor of the kind of men who won't get mad; I never believed that if a mule kicked me on one side that I ought to turn the other side too. If a hornet sits on a fence and thinks it is a good thing let him think, but if he bites you then I say: "Blot out the hornet;" it has often be-n said. "An honest man is the noblest work of God." this is true, but the demand is so limited in these times that I believe a large part ot the first edition is still in the hands of the author; there is nothing iu the world like a poor but a virtuous young man, who with Christian fortitude is struggling with a mustache; thirty years ago I was a resident of one of those sudden towns in the West. I was rich and owned a house and lot. at the corner of the honise was a tree as awkward as a Shanghai rooster, T wanted to trim it and got the advice of four friends all of whom had a particular way of doing it; after impressing my mind with the four different plans I went to work to carry them out, but when the shade tree was trimmed it was nothing but a hard stick about thirteen feet high, too ugly for a hitohins-post. This shows that .-id vice is only good as corrol oru tingle stimony. Advice is like doctors' doses. It is good sometimes to receive them without taking them: one man can milk a cow better than four u.eii can; neatness is one of the virtues; in my opinion it Is almost as good as chastity; I've seen individuals who wouldn't let the weary lty light on the walls of their rooms long enough to take breath, and who would chase a single cockroach up stairs and down: no persons work so hard as the victims of ecstatic neatness. They keep the house dirty all the year cleaning it up. If my wife was one of this kind T would love her mure than ever, but I would keep traveling around, and only Hop one night in each place, and then 1 don't think she would undertake to scrub up the whole United States; patience, if constitutional, is no more a virtue than cold feet. Napoleon was a great warrior, but did be ever keep a district school? Did he ever have the jumping toothache? Did he ever get up thirsty In the morning and go three miles for a drink to find that the man kept a temperance house? Did he ever sit down on a new litter of kittens in the old rockingchair with his new summer clothes on? If he could do all thesa and yet praise God. I say, "bully for Bonaparte;" the only being that loves others better than himself is the dog; the best way to bring up a boy in these degenerate tim?s is to bring him up the back way. Raising boys is a good deal like raising colts; if you don't raise but one out nf ten it will be a fast one, and you are doing well: manifest destiny is like a disease; It broke out once rn me in the shape of poetry; I sent it to the Atlantic Monthly and received a reply that I was a phool, but no poet. A young ladywants to know how to receive a proposal of marriagr It is not wi"o to jump forward sudden or to fly back sudden; if your lover wants to kiss you don't say yes or no, but kind o let the thing take its own course, Ymi say you can't understand the miracle of how th" whale swallowed Jonah: I don't supoy.se that Jonah or th" whale fully understood If cither; I can't tell you what Jonah did in the whale's society; I know what a Yankee would have done; he'd have rigged a rudder on th animal and fleered into port, where he would have Fold the oil for salvage and given up his claim to the territory; great thinkers are

not apt to be good whistlers; man was created a little lower than the angels, and has bc-en genius a little lower ever since. Patience is a good thing in a man but when he can fish all day over the side of his boat without any nah on his hook laziness is what is the matter with him. If you want to know how mean and dishonest your family and yourself have always been get nominated for som" jolitical office; the jealous man is always hunting after something he don't expect to find, and after he has found it he is mad because he has; suc-oess in life is apt to make us forget when we wasn't much; to He about a man never hurts him. but to tell the truth about him sometimes dees; when a man gets started running down a hill it seems as if every thing was greased for the occasion; ever since nature was discovered the mouse has had a hole to fill; catchirg a mouse is one of the first things that a man engages in; I'd be afraid to buy a house without a mouse in it: I like to see 'em come- out of their Ivies ar.d stream across the nursery, and to hear them nibble in the. wainscot at night takes the death out of silence; a mouse vnn Jive better anywhere than in a church: this shows that he can't get fat on rel'sbm any more than a minister can; a heule eked husband i the second lieutenant in a family, and is even linble to lose that position: when he is out in the world sometimes he dares assert his importance, but he is like a second-rate rooster he daren't crow without looking over bis shoulder; "throw physic to the dog;." is an old saying, but wherc-'ll you tind the dog that will touch it? There are n weeds that wilt so oui' k as the weeds of the widower; the poodle is a small dog; he has inflamed eyes ami a. small body, concealed in a mass of promiscuous hair; the poodle is a p't a lady's pet; there was nothing made in vain, and poodles arc- good for fleas; I never knew a man t keep a poodle; it see ins to me that if he was a man's pet the poodle would soon fr.de and die; I never ex pre, to have a poodle, but if anybody ever gives me nn he must expect to be placed on a long pole to b used in washing windows on the outsit'.'-. Thr re is no station in life so difficult to fill as that of the mother-in-law; dogs have infested the earth as long as man has. and probably will as long as gristle remains on a bone; Hsau sold his iedigroe for soup; I am astoni'--bef at his extravagance. "TUSCUMBIA."

fhom Tin; imif.sm)i:t. Mntler for the I'age. with Siiiiip Olh-r MfMHijr to the Clnli. Kind Howard Friends Perhaps you will think I come often and say but little when I do eon10. This evidently is tlv fact, but this should please you. for I do not use much of your valuable space, when I know others can interest you mil'- l better than I. I notice the cry "make the nape interesting" is being proclaimed by all. Suffice it to say I join in with a hearty approval. am watching the page with an eye that, never tires, and note the encouragements with much pleasure. But I also notice features that, do not tend to encourage. r.t with a feeling of pleasure, but sometimes 1 fear we do not take proper thought at all times, when writing for ihe page. We should no firm in our belief that what we submit .for publication will have a tendency to more firmly establish our objects and principles; that we will interest the reader. Now. my dear friends. I am giving this for our collective good, with love to all. 1 notice from time to time an inclination on the part of some of the writers to introduce polities on the page. I cannot mike my disappr.rval too emphatic on this line. T must embrace the language of some writers, giving their opinion on this matter. Politics should appear on another page of The Sentinel. There is no way in which we could stir up injurious dls-cu:-?ion more speedily tbn to dis'itss politics on the page. Ours is a grander. n nobler, a more elevating aim than that which actuates the po!ühir.n to risk all in the uncertain lie-Id of battle. I say it is too noble to be contaminated with politics. I would be grateful ar.d I believe, on a second thought, we aH would he. if the editor would draw the line here and keep politics from the page; or. in fact, anything that would tend to ref'ect discredit tipm the club. We should always try to give pure thoughts, free from plagarisni. such as will win the esteem of the host yf readers of the page. In this way we will make many firm friends among strangers, and in time become members of the club. 1 say it rests with us all whether our ranks shall gwell or whether retrogression shall be the dominant element In the vase. Let us rally around our standard of "Honor, Iove and Charity." How many will bring one new member? All could. T think. I shall soon bring one. and "I. Phrates." how are y-.u progressing? Is it a branch club? Many thanks. In my last note to the page I stated that we wished all members to be enrolled in one of the three corps. I was somewhat in error in this, and wilt explain. There are three divisions, viz: Minute corps, regular corps and recruits. Those that stand in readiness to be called upon and assigned any special topic should be enrolled on the minute corps, and we hope the greater part will signify their willingness to be enrolled on ihis corps. Those enrolled on the regular corps contribute regularly, either once a month or once in two months, and are allowed to select their own topic. The recruits are those who contribute occasionally, or whenever they can do so. Now. friends, please consider it a "binding duty" to aid in this work. Send your announcement tc Chairman "Howaid" where you want to be enrolled. Kind f:ieiids, I would gladly contribute more on the line of club interests, but my time is limited, and I am confining- n,y interests largely to private w'ork. Therefore please take the "will for the deed" and be assured I think it for the best. Tlie fact that I do not demonstrate my interest on the age is no reason to believe that f am not interested. I am. Let all be. Let all begin to work in the direction of a successful reunion. It is corning. Let all anticipate meeting at the reunion this year. Extending a hearty good will to all. and wishing thlt the efforts of each member will be crowned with success, 1 am yours in 11. L. C. bonds. W. S. KOKHNPOUFEK. II WKF.YFV IIOM:V.MOO. Why tlie II. 1.. C. I'livr lln Not llml Any I.etlerN from Ulm. Dear Howards I do not kn.w how o begin or wha.t to say to excuse myself for my long absence from the page I love so we'll, so will only state a fewfacts and not even ask fo: givenness. I feel that whatever blam? any of you may have to give is more than deserved, and will take-it as tokens of your interest and kind regard for me. To begin with. I greatly surprised my friends and myself by getting married on the 20th of last July to a charming widow alxnit my age, whom I had known for five years, and was as lonely as I was. It seems that with such a gcod and rue helpmate and the happiness we have enjoyed that our page ought to have shared a iart of it in some way. Wo were in Chicago from the Hth to the I'Uh of September; spent two days at thev parliament of .religions, one at Moody's meeting and the rest of the tineviewing the wonders of i he. world in the White City. After tbut we virited about half th time until the llth ef Pcr-embcr, when we sartcd for .southern California, arriving at Drange the Kith. Since tint we h.ie been over the country from San Pirgo to Lojj AngMes and several times t the coast, and north and west for alwmt fifty miles, and driven a team over the country between

towns, so we know a great deal more of this land of fruits and flowers than we can tell. And more than I suppose you would want to read. I have seen our page but few times and know nothing about what you have been saying or doing during my absence. I put my finger in the Pacific ocean, drew it out and looked for the hole and could not see it. and I am told that is ho'v I will be missed when I drop cult of the place I litl on earth. Now, to tell you the truth, I have seen so much of strange thing at Chicago and on my trip oat here, and heard so much of new thought on subjects of such startling interest that I feel like still looking and listuilng and saying nothing. I do not want to be a drone in our literary hive and yet I feel but little like writing. I lost the paper telling where to find members of the clul at Chicago and W-ked in vain during my stay for 1rothers and sisters. "Lone Tramp" and "Ida S." T was grca'tly interested in your articles of the 7th of February. Would like to have your ad Iress. "Howards," if you think it would be of any use to put me on the minute corps do so. 1 hot,e to reo the pige regulativ now and see it well fill-M. Pes; wishes to all. "HAWK EYE." Orange, Cal.. Feb. 2.

Tin: inns ami Tin: fahm. Why Ho They All Hanker After I-lfe In the Iti'i Pear Howards I note with sorrow that that there ar but few letters to the page that take up the subject of farming. Oddly enough, too. it seems that most of these letters are penned by the lady writers, from which it appears that tht y are more nearly interested in the farmers' cause than are tlvir timid brothers. One can h.-rd'y imagine a vr disgusting r -versa 1 in the natural onb r of thing.--. There is no good reason why the firm f-ii-.'tild be abandoned an 1 the old folks left to niourn the absence of a son. whose life in the city may b i-hort. ending in disgrace to hir.is.--lf and orrow to his parents. I have never experienced this s:ol trial, but I can feel for those who have, and wh-n I do sc.? its picture in real fife. I say to myself: "Surely, we know not sorrow until our children bgin to part." Still, there is r.o check in the rush from farm to ci'y. Right or wrong, there is a cause for it. Can it be that science has rendered farming too easy and monotonous to need only the attention of women a nd children ? Here is a sample of what I am trying to tell you. But maybe you have this kind of a picture before your own eyes: Out of twenty farms in this county you will find only eight young men under twenty that are P-lng farm work, and at least half this number an complaining aoont the dreariness of farm life. 'Tis sad. indeed, that we who should stand first on the roll of honor have almost unawares drifted fmm the harbor that made life worth living. No wonder we look scared when we meet a man in the road. No wonder we snatch a gun frotn the rack when we sv a ped Her coming with his pack. No wonder this eternal chatte r about the hardships of a farmer's work, with the everlasting cry for higher prices for what we sell and lower prices when wo buy. No wond -r one's c hildren pri'-k their cars up and fan themselves out of jh home like this, away to the city, where excitement and evil temptations destroy soul and body. Tlr home on the farm should be a quiet one. and the head of the family can do more to make it so than anyone else. But in most cases papa takes the cake for high kicking on the farm. He knows, too. that angry words never made a smile never mended a broken wheel, or ever made one think more highly of themselves for doing it. Yet it goes on more through habit, I believe, than a desire to lie contrary. Some people will worry more over killing a h-g than Lincoln did over the civil war. Children are quick to learn by example, and the best that we can give is none to good to induce (hem to love home. 'Tis true the farmers are oppressed by unjust laws, which should be repealed, but I fear they will be disappointed. Yet I believe-, excepting the favored class, they have withstood the hard times better than those of other occupations. Therefore, the l'aimers should not, by example, make home unpleasant for the young. "Cornel." "Marie." "Winnie West" and "Blue Jay." while I cannot view the world's fair in the same light you do. I am glael that you enjoyed y.ju'elves there. I still think the fair was detrimental in its bearing to the country. How could it be called a success when it received the attention of the winde world diverting money from its proper channels. A Chicago paper tells us that the seven thousand saloons t k in $1?.00(1.000 during the fair. Where did this come in as a pleasing siceess? Even THE BEST Your wife will Anticipating the demand, ipecial arrangements to supply

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the president and congress disappointed the people's wish in order to attend the fair. "Tuscumbia." you scratched your back against the G. O. P.'s record most beautifully. But what can we say in favor of our boasting democratic congress? They have split their tongues from a to izzard without dissecting the tariff gizzard. Wo are waiting, not very patiently, while they continue to hold down the Chicago plaform and wait for bids. "Lone Tramp" ami "Ida S.." go on with your interesting subjects, please. Who can tell what has become of our good sister "incog?" Best wishes for all. "ABANMOKE." Chambersburg. 111., March 1.

Suh.leet for IHsrnaaion. The topics for the "Minute Corps" are announced fer the month of April as follows: On the 4th, "The improvements neeeled in the English language." by "Pollock." On the llth, "How to study faces, and what they teach us," by "Cyril." On the lMh. "Is the old testament scripture symbolical of man's spiritual unfoldments, or is it a narrative of events?" by "Ida S." On the 2.1th. "Comments on authors who have giv-n us the highest ideal of life." by "Ben Ardys." Will the other members of the committee on work please prepare and send me a few topics such as they deem suit-aide-for the minute corjvs? I hope the members of the regular corps will continue to contribute at the time as assigned them on whatever subjects they may choose to selec t. Yours fraternally, T. H. SWAIM. Danville. III., March 1. m iihi.k hi.owim:;. Plenxing- Little Kiirrlmrntn (.Iving: Light on Ihe Siic of Snnp Hnhltle. Ordinary soap bubbles are blown with a pipj. a straw or a small tube of some f-ort. But if you wish to obtain bubbles as large as your head you must have re course to objects of quite a different nature. Place around the lxdy of a bottle a piece of common wire and twist the erds together in order to form the handle ef the ring which is thus obtained. Steep this ring in soapy watr, throwing in a little sugar to make it stronger. TaJie it out carefully, and von will perceive that the ring is furnished FANTASTIC SOAP BUBBLES. on the inside with a thin covering cr skin of soapy water. Now hold the ring vertically before your mouth and blow gently but continuously at the center of the soapy covering. You will perceive the latter begin to swell on the opjwisite side and gradually transform itself into a pocket, which grows longer and longer until it detaches itself from the ring in the form of an enormous bubble tinted with the colors of the rainbow. When you are quite familiar with this method of bubble blowing, you may try the following method. This time you operate without instruments whatever, neither pipe nor tube nor ring of wire being required. This experiment may ie literally termed "sleight of hand:" Steep your closed list in soapy wafer; open your hand slowly in ihe water while rounding your fingers, causing the end of the thumb and that of the index finger to tou-h in such a way as to form a ring. Now lift your hand gently out of the water and you will perceive in the ring a thin, soapy skin or covering which we have just spoken of. Bring your hand up in your mouth palm upward, with the little finger turned toward your body and blow inte the hand thus shaped like a funnel, as shown in the cut. Spec tators will be surprised to see coming out of your hand a mamcolored balloon whose diameter cannot be less than eight or ten inches. II is Favorit nlmtiln. Sunday-Scho -l Teacher "Do y.nt love animals?" Boy "Yea'm." That's right: I'm slad you do. What animals do you like best?-' "Snakes." "Goodness! Why do you like snakes?" ' 'Cause it ain't wicked to kill 'em." Street & Smith's Good News. MACHINE be in want of a THE SENTINEL ha9 made your wants.

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Mr. Isabel Y. It.il! Uns a DonM Claim on Ihe Till-. Looking tack to the sixties, we mutadmit that for a girl in short clothes tcseemed then a far cry from a prairii. cabin to a desk in the sanctum of 5m? great newspaper and the privileges of a journalist in the counsel of the state and national capitals. This Jong, h'.ri road wes traveled by Isabel Worrell, x successful Washington sjecial -.nspondent and one of the founders of th Western authors and artists' dub. Mrs. Ball was born at Hennepin. III. over thirty years ago. Her parents wr Scotch-Irish, that compound race which gave western America many ct its most able, thrifty and energetic pioneers. Ii childhood she was a good scholar anl in youth studied history and law. At the age of sixteen a weakness of the eyes compelled her to leave school, andj about that time her home was tra-J ferred to western Kansas. There sh - j - - r .--e "- k e-y - 7r . ' - ..v5?v MRS. ISABEL-WOP.RELT, RAUL, turned her hand te cattle herding. 'b.' came a horsewoman, skilled with ths lasso and th gun and coaxed back jrood health by outdoor exercise. she. aho taught district school and tended sit or while in her teens. From JSTt! to JSv she served as clerk during sessions of the Kansas legislature and also as press reporter. She wrote for the Albuquerque Journal and the Kansas City Times an l1 followed up the const nioti."n party of the Atlantic & Pacific railroad acres Arizona and New Mexico. The work demanded a repe.rter who con i-e pv a gripsack and smile at danger. Today'' it was an Indian outbreak of CotnamheV or Apaches, and tomorrow a washout or0 a -wreck in the heart cf the hostile Indian country, which must te "written: upi on the spot." She narrowly escaped with l;r life arid once saw tw of her companions on the same ctj- shot cKwt while battling with Indians. On Tit return to civilization, she served en editor on various papers, wa secretary of the Kansas historie.al society, and Anally, in 1S91. removed to Wa-shinsrton. Besides her journalistic; work, Mr.?. Rail has contributed to Ihe western, periodical press. She does not lay claim, to drawing-room graces, nor docs shs care for fashionable life. Rut she is a. moving spirit in the club which sh helped create and also a leader amon women, though not a suffragist. THEO. HOLLAND. Three Clever SlMcr. Miss Klumpke, the American girl who lately took the mathematical degree at the Sorbonne in Paris fas remarked upon by all the newsiapers. and by the weekly among them), is one, it appears, of three sisters, all of whom seem imbued with a resolute missionary spirit, and each of whom in a different linhas been able to give French soeiety valuablc points about the capacity of the contemi'orary woman to ct-pe with unaccustomed tasks. Eac h one has met a different form of French pre judice, a nd has shown the requisite ability and discretion to overcome it. The oldest sifter .studied medicine, and. in the faee of much objection, became ihe first resi-d-nt woman physician in France. The second one followed art in a studio where work from the nude is closely studied. The third ore close astron vmy as her tield. and it was as an incident of her astronomical studies that she invaded the higher mathematics, and wrote the thesis on the rings of Saturn which has won her so w ide a reputation. It is to be remarked that all these ladies seeir to have gained the sinceie g'XI will of their French associates, and that, they have done it partly by carefully respecting French social customs, and. diverging only so far from the existing conventions as was indispensable to th-s ! prosecution of their work. Keep the blood pu-e by taking Hood's Sarsaparilla. If you decide to buy Hood's Sarsaparilla, do not be persuaded to taka any other. ON EARTH No. 4. if it is not as advertised. No. be furnished with the STATR

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