Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 October 1894 — Page 11

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 24, 1891.

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RILEY AND DONN PIATT.

TUB POET AND SACK MEET ODER AMISIXG CIItClMSTAXCES. Plait's Early Influence on Indlniut' ruft Seeds of Cientas AVatered ly the Great Ohio Free Lance The Two Meet ThronRh the Medium of 31is Lnorn Ream of Indianapolis How Riley Stopped the Farmer' Sheep. When Jarr.es Whiteomb Riley was not 83 widely known as he Is now he visited Dorm Piatt at his country palace, Mac-o-chee. O. Riley was then passing through thv final stage of his evolution from a newspaper man to a poet, and only a handful of his pathetic verses had fjons strug-glinj? through the pr?ss. The best of these, "The Old Swimmin' Hole end 'Leven More Poems, tr Benjamin F. Johnson of Boone," had been gathered into a little volum?, thin almost as th? back of an ordinary book and not larger than a man's hand. One of the most characteristic of thes?. telling of that pietur' that no painter has the colorm' to meek When the frost is on the punkln and the fodder's In the shock" is a parody upon Piatt's most beautiful and widely known poem, the 3ime which a Maine Yankee has made practical with: "When the crop Is on the market and the cash is in the soeif," and which Rudyard Kipling has Imitated at tho antipodes in "jlai.dalay": "Whtn the mist was on the rice fields an' the sun was droppin" s'.ow." Although this limited edition met with astonishing success, heing exhausted within a fortnight. Itll-y's pr lncti .ru up to that tim; were si f-.-w ard fragmentary that it reared the kef :i est l.terar? discernment on the p irt f lonn I'ia't to detect in tiu ni the bo Ming g-r.ius of America's sweetest find truest ing:r of the f-ong-s of the hearts of the pei.pL. and it required, too, it may be, the kindliness of Dmn Piatt to seek him uut and encourage him and invit him t spend a couple of weeis a; his home. They owed their per.-.mil acquaintance to Laura jImmi, an IndimupMis writer, well knwn t both, ays the Cleveland I'lain D?aler. ML-f Rf.-.m sent to Col. Piatt a topy of Mr. ItSIey's "tittle l..-.k. nnd to hi I-lior of thanks he add. d: "I have 1021.4 admired Riley's verses as they appe-are 1 in print. I wish ihat next :i;a: you vi.-it us you w.mld l.ring him along. There i.s ro man I can more to se". Please invite him for us. I shall fed h n .red by the Visit." The writer of dulcet vcr.-os, unknown to fame, bashful c a child an 1 a, warmhearted and iro.:ul-;ve as a wnian, 'ui-d fit Mac-o-ch.v di liur.tr1 that he had hardly dared h..pe f'r. I)nn Piatt, infinite in resource and illimitable in t rs.itihty. toe terror of pnubs an 1 .1 free lane to fraud-, had In him. t a delica'-y of sentiment and the chivalric graces of temperament to enchant the y.ainer p et. Riley told me rot L :ipr 7". .peeking of that vlst of years lwfre: "I oann-'t imagine two men more different in every respect than IMatt as his writings had led me to pietur him and the man as I found him. He won my heart quickly and c.-mpletely." Hi ley at 3iac--cIieo. And Mac-o-chee in itself is an inspiration. Its tall, gray towers and sharp Flemish gables, n.vll'.ng in owns smoothly rounded, wooded hills, and the- wlndine: little valley cut info two graceful slopes by the sparkling stream that seem.? to ping always of that time long ago when the lovers trysted on its banks "When the blossem was on t the alder and the tinsel on the corn." make up a vision and a charm as beautiful a? any dreamer's phantasy. Another guest at the house vnen isic was there was a tsoeiety bvlle of Xi-.v York. In the afternoon of the day or hi? arrival these two were walking together on th lawn, and Riley, overcame by an exuberant sense of youth and freedom and delight, suddenly threw his hat into he air and turned a seri.s of somersaults. Returning with Hushed face and i-.hinr .v.-s and noting his fair com panion's look cf astonishment and her evident limitation as to whether it were evident nsiiawon as 10 - ..un safe to remain or necessary to sacrifice her d'gnitv Iv taking to her heels, he exclaimed:' "Why. young woman, don't sa her you, too, feel like doing that?"' T .nun Ream tells of a walk with mm one m -rnir.g along a shaded road. Their delightful conversation was broken in upon by a farmer driving some sheep that stopped at their approach and seemed about to take fright. Riley promptly took In the situation, and bidding Miss Ream follow him. ran to the side of the road and climbed upon the fence. His go.xl intention was lost, however, for an old bellwether in lead of the flock, startled at Riley's rpakk movement, gave a bleat of terror and, in npite of the cries and gesticulations of the drover, broke back, followed, sheep'. Ike, by the whole herd, and away they went down the road and were soon lost' from steht in a cloud of dust. The farmer stood helplessly calling them, putting into his voice a pathetic pleading that might have stopped a stone rolling down hill, but the sheep did not heed him. "I assure you. sir," sail Riley, earnestly, approaching him. "that we are sorry to have caused you this annoyance. We ought " "Ya-as." draw'.ed the farmer, "it 3 purty bad. I've druv them dnggoned sheep twelve mile this in rn!n', an' hre they KO scootin' clean back to where they cum. from. poet itnreltaoU Rider. Riley did not wait to hear more. Jumping tho f T.-e he started at his best run on a detour through the fields, hoping to head off the fleeing sheep. Reaping a ditch his hat tlew off and went sailing out of reach. He did not stop to regain it. Reaching the high fence he placed nls hand. upm the top rail. Ie:p-d over like a gymnast that h- is and went on at a epeel that drew from the farmer an exclamation of admiration: "tl .-'n, he'? gettm there, but you Jest bet them cheep's maki.n' f r thir medd-r faster'n any man kin run." Riley was now out in Piatt's pasture, that stretches far along the road. About him on all sides were grazing horses that looked up at him In wide-eyed wonder. Slacking his speed t a walk he held out his hand to one, calling it by name, and the pent'.e animal came to him. fJrasping its mane he flung himself upon its back nnd. without saddle, brid'.o or spur, went faring across the .ward at the highest jfpeel of the trained thoroughbred. IIe was soon out of sight and Miss Ream sat down in the cool shade of a cot t on w od to await his return or the Intelligence that his nck was broken. The farmer climbed on the fnce near by and cutting off a splinter, leisurely remarked: "CJuess I can't do no pood nohow might well stay here." And he went to whittling. "Who might that feller be?" he asked in a. moment, jerking hLs thumo in the direction in which Riley had so strangely pone. "The gentleman's name Is Riley," ML3 Rf.im replied, "and he is a ioet." "A poet (io?h, I thought he must be one of . thee 'ere circus fellers." In a half hour the two saw a cloud of dust moving up the road, and soon after the sheep were distinguished; they passed by and Riley appeared, hatless and covered with dust and perspiration. "I am sorry to have delayed you," he faid to the farmer, who interrupted and silenced him with his profuse thanks. Col. I'lntt a n Ilont. Rut Riley did not spend all his timi rollicking about. Col. Piatt's resources 3 a host were too great and varied for It to be deslraMe to be long from his side even In one who loved the fredom of the field .is Riley did. But I.nn Piatt, too, was f jncl of the f.pn air. There waJ no a nook or knoll from the stony pak of Raid Knob to the level plain of Mad river that in his ramblej as boy and man he had nt learned to know and love; there waa scarce a rock cr ged

tree upon the hills or In the plen but was famed throughout the countryside in quaint legends told by him. He was the only or.e who could point ou: the exact spot, nt more than a mile fom Macche, where Simon Kenton, the intrepid pioneer, was tied by Indians to the stake for torture and was saved by the timely arrival and recognition of Girty, the renegade, who had been visited often by Piatt when a bov in company with Kenton himself, wm lived out his ripe old age within a few miles of Piatt's boyhood home. It was Pi itt alone who knew the tree beneath which in the Logan expedition the fiery Hugh McG-ary slew the caprive Moluntha. chief of the Mac-o-chee?. splitting his head with an a p:a5ped from the hands of the Grenadier squaw. It was he who pave to sang and stcry the beautiful legend of "Squaw's Rock," wherein a young Indian mother wi:h her babe upjn her breast, crouching beside the stone, awaiting her lover husband's return from the battle, is shot th.-oitfrh the heart by the while invaders, her body rolling Into the creek, where ever fince the waters have run red and the lightning scarred rock when the wind is blowlnp pive3 forth a sound as of a wet-ping child. Col. Piatt and Riley took long walks to?ct.ier in the woods and along ihs stream. Under the inspiration of nature Riiey became hla true poetical self and stimulated by sympathy of his companion, talked without reserve of his hopes and ambition. Once he said: "If I could but catch and reproduce bubbles from the lips of childhood I should have a rhytnm sweeter than that of any bird and a philosophy of content truer than any creed." Music nnd Philosophy. "You would have the music sweet enough, undoubtedly," Piatt replied, "but the philosophy would be sadly at fault. Content born of carelessness and ignorance of childhood is like wild flowers that spring into life In th" shade of the forest. When the sunshine iilters through they wither. Youth is intoxicated with hope and its future is a bright world of the i leal. Later on the ideal is crowded cut by the commonplace, the hojes become a

hollow mockery, and manhood i3 apt to feed on the poison of despair. Seek that philosophy, my boy, which helps men to be content with life as it actually Is, an existence In which toil and poverty and disappointment blend with the pleasure-, a campaign that has Us defects as well as its victories." Again, when Riley complained of the ni-ag r pay received for his work, Piatt si '!: "Nothing pays so pnrly as the pen in this country. To attempt to nnk a living by it is t breik one's heart befare dying of starvation. Rut on? able to wVit? anything that will benefit mankind must als) be capable of a higher motive than mere gain. Stick to it till you starve, then th- thousands of dollars that would hive i.ie.de you comfortable in life will be cheerfully contributed by a grateful p-o;-le fror a mighty monument over your p or body. ThU i fame." X w that Riley's books are selling at the rate of CD. 000 a year he may possibly take t different view of this matter. No 011 r?joicfd mor? in his steady attainment f suecess than Pinn IMatt. In ISsT he wrote t Miss Ream: "I am gratified to seft that Waiteomb is g?ttinp his recognition from the dudes of literature. They turned up their noses at him for a long time. Tell him for 1113 to deal less with thit Indiana dialect. A little is g"o 0,1, but h? has toi much genius for that. He is superior to Dickens In prose, for his pa this is p?neral, and his humor is quite as good. He has written more touehintrly beautiful things than Rurns from the same standpoint, but, bl?s th? boy, he must nit permit himself to think of either U10 one or the other." XAPOLROV AM) JOSF.PinXC. A Aevr Prlvnte I.tfe Which Defend tlie Act of Separation. A great deal of sentiment has been wasted over Josephine and her divorce, but the author of a new private life of Rona parte, by Simeon, and translated from the French by Arthur Levy, shows that Napoleon was fully justified, apart from the reasons of state, in taking the steps of separation. At the time -of his marriage and for a Ion? time afterward he wershlped her, but she was always cold and Indifferent, seldom writing to him during his absence, continually and secretly contracting debts for jewelry and dress, and finally compromising her reputation by her relations with an officer. Hip;, lite Charles, who had been expelled from the army of Italy by the emperor. This scandal occurred while Napoleon was in Kgypt. an J was kept from him as long as possible. He was at last told of it by Junot. ar. 1 determined on an immediate divorce. On his return he was met by Josephino with such a show of humiliation and sorrow and so many vows of future devotion that he forgave her and continued to live with her. although his love for her was dead. Later a genuine affection seems to have grown up between th'm. so that at last, when the divorce ucs decided upon. It was a matter of pain to l)oth. Xapolen never, even after his ma.rri.age- with Marie Louise, lost interest in Josephine. The second marriage was even more unhappy than the first. Marie Louise was a weak creature, with no principle, and when the emneror was banished to Elba she took up with a lover with whom she had long had relations. Roth wives, whom he had striven by every means in his power to make happy, deceived him. with this difference: While Josephine was unfaithful to him from the first. Marie Louise only deceived him after several years of marriage. In each of these unions he tried to found an exempalry and peaceful home governed by the simplest habits. Neither the splendor of his career nor the pride of state had any influence upon his character as husband and father. Several chapters are devoted to the relation of what Napoleon did for his offioeios and relatives, and the ingratitude shown by them in return. We are inclined to think that Mr. Levy does not suffii iently regard both sides of the question. As a general thing, when Napoleon bestowed a favor upon any of his relatives it was saddled with conditions which were often difficult and irritating; and. besides, any recipient of his favors was never allowed to forget the obligation. Rennt- In Spnnlnli AVonien. An eminent authority. Prof. Paul Montagretzza. says the Spanish women are the most beautiful in the world. Reauty is birthright of the dusky-eyed daughters of Sraln, and the big cities and the country towns there are full of feminine charmers. Of all the countries of the vorl.l Spain is the one where hair has remained the great glory of woman. It is a different vegetable In Spain from what it is in any othr country soft, gloriously beautiful, and from the days of Velasquez to (loya down to the present moment the Spanish woman has brought it low on her face and has put a flower in it with consummate grace. The types of Spanish beauty remain unchanged. From the lofty duchess who smiled on Kancho Panza, the Carmen and the Rosina of Seville, that type so beloved by the writer of operas, down to the cigarette girl and the favorite of the bullfighter, all Spanish women are beautiful once in their lives. Many of th?m of the patrician class remain very beautiful, and the hair is always superb. What men they have had to paint them! Perhaps if a higj forehead is permirsible anywhere it is in one of Murillo's Madonnas. A 11 r 11 a 11 1 Moment. . The Authoress "Have you read my new book?" The Acquaintance ""Well er ah only the first few chapters." The Authoress (coldly) "The book isn't divided into chapters." The Acquaintance Um I should have said I'd only read the er opening descriptive pass-ages." The Authoress (sternly) "There are no descriptive passages." The Acquaintance "Um er the preface I meant." The Authoress (icily) "There to no preface." Chicago Record. IoIitlenl Fronomj, She "Doe3 it make anything cheaper to put it on the free list?" lie "Certainly, my dear." She "Then why don't "they put house rent on?" Detroit Fres Prcs3.

GQHA URQUHÄRT PÖTTER.

THE TRAG ED IE WE IS AX TlIl'SIASTIC BICYCLIST. EXShe Favors the Imp of "Wheels by Women nnd .imnrm the Strlctnres of Mtm. Kendall Iter IUdr In Indianapolis Women Riding Astride Ada Iteliau The Xew School of Trnsedy." Mrs. Cora Urquhart Potter, the tragedienne of the Sunny South, is as fascinating in conversation as she is trua to nature in tragedy. A Louisiana girl with the hot French blood coursin? through her veins, eha married when a child and found too late that the hymeneal alt was shrouded In black instead of being L-iied In orare blorssoms. She determined to fight her own way in the world and first displayed her dramatic talent when she made her bow to the "Four Hundred" in that charming recitation in which she was ever Inimitable. " 'Ostler Joe." she adopted the stage and after battling with adverse fate In her own country went abroad to receive proud iecognltlon. And having won laurela in foreign lands she again comes to her own country with the fond ambition, supported Ly developed powers, of being the tragedienne of America. The Sunny South has claimed her for its own. It has had no tragic queen since Charlotte Cushman, and now proudly proclaims her the fit successor of that great woman. Mrs. Potter was in the city during the past week and waa found Thursday afternoon at her private parlors In the Rates. She had Just returned from a quiet ride on her wheel through the residence portion of the city and was sipping a cup of tea. For an hour previous thera had been moving swiftly and silently through th? residence streets of the city a heavy pneumatic-tired wheel upon which was gracefully seated a well-formed young woman of classic features and great brown eyes. Her wealth of giossy hair, which had in it a suggestion of golden brown, was hanging lazily about her brow and ears, while below her dark blue habit two rhapfly feet appeared and disappeared with the movement of the pedals. The graceful rider was admired by many, but not a person knnv that the lady cycler was Mrs. James Rrown Potter. Mrs. Potter was still attired in her ricyc'.e habit, which, needless to say, did not include divided skirts. "Yes, I've Jut re turne from my daily rot stltutional," he said, with a happy l-.a;a. "My tea always follows my reUmU from a ride. Shall I not order you some refreshment? No? Well, pardon ;ne if I finish my pot of tea. Rut I can talk right along; I a!w?.ys fee", like talking after coming lr frr.m. a rile. I tell you these bicycles are a great boon to women." "You dD not agree with Mrs. Kendall, then, as to the use of bicycles by women." "I most certainly do not and I am rurprised at the attitude Mrs. Kendall has taken as to wheels. I have written out my views upon the suhjee? cf bicycle riding for women and shall give them to you. This was prepared by me after reading Mrs. Kendall's objections. I have taken them up one at a time and, I think, answered them all. Mrs. Potter on Illoycles. "It is only recently that I learned to ride a wn?el. I am In no way expert, though I can already extract an amount of comfort and health from a Fhort excursion that has sallsfied mo that a real need among women cf all classes housekeepers no less than wage-workers is tn a fair way of being satisfied In this manner and in no other. It was during" my recent stay in Kansas City that I took my lessons In riding. Only three were necessary, and since that time it Is with never-failing delight that I have viewed the towns which I had visited from th vantage point of a wheel. The satisfaction of bein one's own mis'tress, independent of coachmen and grooms, able at any moment to alight, sufficiently near the ground to feel the exhilaration that must come to healthy natures from contact with Mother Karth and vet so uplifted in the air that a little burst of spe-d gives the m ist delightful sensation of flying, has added to it the certainty that jaded health and appetites are receiving the best possible stimulus imparted by moderate exercise, fresh air, and brilliant sunshine. I have been better in every way since I began to ride a wheel, and the amount of additional work it has made me capable cf in my chosen profession has astonished my friends and myself most of all. "So much for my personal experience which is so limited that I only cite it because it is a personal experience and because I am convinced that an ounce of actual practice is worth a pound of unverified theory. R is so easy to declaim against something one knows nothing about. 'Who knows the taste of pudding who pudding never ate." "Few things go further to persuade me of the entire reasonableness of women riding bicycles than the arguments brought against it. True, they eovtr a wide range, running from the novel appearance one must of necessity make in a novel situation, through physiology and anatomy, to the bible itself, as if revealed religion was involved. History and science are alike brought in regardltss of the authorities In each, and the subject is made to include, of course, the hygienic dress which women have already learned adds so much to their comfort cither on or off the wheel. "First, then, is a woman ridiculous on a bicycle? For one, I answer, 'No. Perhaps my best proof lies In the fact that women everywhere are taking it up. To assnm? that any considerable number of my sex will voluntarily in ike themselves subject to ridicule at th? hands and pens of th? public is tu fly in the face of their own feminin? nature. The countless sacrifices mule by them everywhere to the dictates of fashion in order to escape the dreaded verdict, 'out of style,' show to whit lengths they have always been ready to go. The Parisiennes, who have ruled the world through their nice sense of the fitness of things in dress, have taken up the bicycle eagerly and made the costume it requires as appropriate as the gown of a Worth is in a drawing-room. The motion Itself is graceful, the twinkling feet, steady arms, and slightly swaying body, making a perfect picture. A few minutes' calisthenics after each ride will do away with the effect of holding the hands before one and prevent any stooping of the shoulders. Tlier? is no reason whatever in bending thi bxly forward In ordinary riding, and the seat and handles can always be adjusted so that perfect erectness is maintained. In this It compares more than favorably with horseback riding when a side saddle is use-d, the distortion of th? spine In that torturing attitud? being Inevitable and unavoidable. Women Riding: Astride. "That brings me to the curious plea that it is unnatural for a woman to ride astride, though it Is p?rfectly apparent that the bicycle seat in no way differs from the ordinary chair or stool except that it i3 of smaller area and made to conform to the contours of the body more nearly. I have traveled throughout the East and nowhere have I ever seen a native woman riding anyway but astride. In India, Ceylon, Java, China and Japan when a woman goes on horseback she sits Ike a man. Arabs, Turk3 and Persians always do. and In Palestine I saw many women on horse3t mules, donkeys and camels and always in what I am sure is the way nature intended us all to ride. Our own Indian warnen in all the American ride so. The remains of classical antiquity make It certain that no Greek or Roman woman ever thought It necessary to face forward by turning her boly at right angles when on horseback. Customs are immutable in the Orient and Just as surely as the holy family fled Into Egypt with the aid of the mules and donkey3 of the country Just so surely did the mother of our Lord sit astride as he rode. 'Indeed, the custom of riding sideways cannot be traced further back than to the

! midnight darkness of the middle ages, j Some queen. afRi'.'ted with a painful disease of the hip, found herself unable j. to sit her horgs as othets did and rhiclded

i ncr liincfs and cuioinmy Dy seitirg a new fashion. We read in 'The Remains Concerning Rritaln,' published in 1114: " 'Queen Anne, wife of Rishard II. first taught English women to ride or. side-saddles, whereas, theretofore, they rode astride.' "This is the queen whom Shakspeare made to gay in r,uite another construction. It is true " 'My legs can keep no measure in delight.' "And that, perhaps, is a reason why more women do not ride bicycles today. Resides, the origin of the side-saddle Is distinctly Rohemlan: for th:.s poor Anne was the sister of King Wencelaus of f!ohemia and brought the Innovation with her from that kingdom. The ISIeyele Co tu me. "To return to the bicycle costume, which 1 have noticed is finding the same favor m western America it had In France and England. Whether divided skirts are proper or not may be merely a question of taste, but I am firmly persuaded it is rather a matter of common sense. In this, as ir. the question of the disposition of the legs on horseback, women today may -onn-dently apoeai to the unchangeable customs of the far East and to the c.vmpies of all antiquity. The only places where a skirt of the ordinary fashion has teen in vogu'i were and aie these whert the men wore a similar garment, as in ancient Greece and Rome. In Java and the Malay peninsular the 'sarang made by winding a slngto piece of light cotton cloth about the lower half of the body, is the universal native garment. "It is, pcrheps, difficult for the modern Imagination to depict Joan of Arc on a biclcye, though there would be no strain in imagining her in something very like divided skirts. Rut we could hardly think of her on a railway train, or an electric car; though it would do no violence to our thoughts to picture her sister here-lne, Charlotte Cor day. In a palace car. 'Times changes and we with them.' and when another generation, accustomed from infancy to the vision of a woman appropriately clad riding her bicyc'.e, comes on the scene it will seem as natural as any other form of transportation. Nor do I believe that this newer generation sprung from mothers mado stronger and better by exercise, fresh air, and survhlne, able at will to escape from the smoke of a modern city to 'green field and pastures new" in a way Impossible to a mere pedestrain, will make in turn worse wives and mothers than our revolutionary foremothers. Anything that will afford recreation, healthful. Interesting and innocent to women will always have mv enthusiastic support. "I ride a heavy w heel at present, which I carry with m but Intend to get a twenty-eight pound pneumatic. During my southern trip this winter I shall have great opportunities f- r riding." Mrs. porter was asked as to her opinion of Ada Rehrtn. and said she regarded her as a great artist. A to her own acting she said: Xew School of Tragedy. "I am of a new school. Art 13 a perfect imitation of nature and therefore the more accurately nature is adhered to the more nearly perfect does art become. Now in tragedy: Deep emotion Is rarely expressed by loud screams 0i other extravagant demonstrations. During moments of Intense sorrow silence is natural. On the stage the same should h Id true and the new school of tragedy therefore eliminates all extravagant demonstration." OLIl CVSTOMS IX VIRGINIA. The Manners of a Ilnndred Years Ago Sllll Found In Some I'lneea. Thcs genuine untouchel Virginian of tod:iy, suys u correspondent, lias often been declare i to be the niost comnlete survival of eighteenth century England now in existence. There are certain eighteenth century customs and phra-ses an! manners in common use here that have not been heard of In a hundred years in England. Ore cf the quaintest is a custom of the road which died out in Kiipiand when the past ro.il and the traveling chariot went out oi vogue. In those days It was considered almost nn a ft rout for one traveling in a cnrri.iKO to drive past another going the same way. The traveling class was made up generally of the rich and leisurely, an l as they bowle 1 along tn their coaches to have another coach dash by and give b.ick its dust end perhaps Incite the coachman ta a. race was consllered highly indecorous. To " take one's dust" was a common expression of cjntcm;it. The custom wart not without Its uses in Its day. Hut will it be believe! that at the close of the nineteenth cnturv this etquet of the read is rigidly maintained, and that among well-bred people mich equipage has to take the gait of the slowest? True it is, some Iconoclasts and outsi 1ers drive past their fellow travelers wit 1out compunctien, but they then-tore, prove their claims to be called iconoclasts and outsiders. When it is a very pressing eise an a-r.ology Is called out, such as, "1'ray, excuse rae, but my horse is restless." or "I am in haste to catch the boit," or something of the kind. Rut to drive ruthlessly ahead without a ward of apologyis considered the acme of ill-breeding. The roads in this part of the worli are not Interesting, except for their natural beautv, as the peopie of wealth, following their Knglish ancestors in practice, sought a proud seclusion Tor their houses. Only the poorest, people bu'lt their hemes on the main rued, and one may travel from one end of this fair country to the other and not lind a single hnndsome residence on the public highway. There was another and very practical reason for abjuring this public hlchway. Every man's house was at the sf-rvlce of every man, woman anO child In the country. An Arab hospitality obtained rnd was enjoyed to the full. The people no had undesirable homes wre al vays vdlling to bestow their company upon their more fc rtunate neighbors, so that it wouldn't do to be too convenient to the main arteries of travel. Especially was this so when a visit from a family meant the entertaining of two coaca horses, a coachman and a maid, for the negroes went visiting with the white people and enjoyt-t it just as much. Hospitality was one of their great virtue", and is still, for those people excel In social virtues, and this particular virtue costs little. It only meant the killing of a half dozen or more chickens for dinner, when there were hundreds, perhaps, scratching alout in the poultry yard; ami the gardens were overgrown with vegetables for which there was neither sale nor consumption. 'ITiere were icehouses full of Ice an. meadows full of cows, and ice cream was manufactured in a big tin bucket, turned about in a keg of ice and salt. It took two women and a man and a boy to make Ice creara, but It took that many to do everything. The Ice houses are among the most picturesque features In the landscape here. A Kreat mound of earth thirty or forty feet hteh was thrown up around a place that was brlcke.) up und looked like a gigantic well. This was finished at the top bv a circular roof. The Fides of the mound were graded and turfed, and made nice places for boys and girls to roll cXnvn when the short, slippery grass was wet. The Value of I'oIUenem, The phase man was dilating on the value of politeness everywhere, but especially in stores, and renarked that he would discharge a clerk for Impoliteness or inattention quicker than he would for pttty theft. An old resident of Roxbury overheard the remark, and as an illustration of the Importance of politeness on the part of s.i lernen said: "A ko xl nviny years ago I went to New York in company with my friend R. One snowy day v e strolled Into A. T. Stewart's store. Neither of us Intended to make a purchase. We merely went there as a matter of curiosity. "At the door we were met by a rollt gentleman, who Insisted that he should take our overecats and umbrellas to relievo us of the burden of carrying them about the store. We told him we were not Intending to purchase anything, but that made no difference in his attentions. Another equally polite gentleman insisted on cseorMng us tarutig.i the building. Tne fact that we did not intenl to purchase r ods dii not lessen his courtesy. "Finally to entertain us the courteous clerk showed us a large invoice of shawls which had Just been received. The clerk unfolded one after another, and by and by my friend uaid he would take a fifteen-hundred-do'.lar India shawl which ider-sed him. and a little later I purchase! a valuable carpet. When we enterti the store neirher of us h! the fllltrhtest Intention of making a purchae of anything, but the pollten'3 of that clerk put more than S000 Into the till of A. T. Stewart which wxiM not have been there otherwise. "You are quite right in omphunzing the value of politeneas. It Is the most valuable commodity a man or woman can carry nliOiKt. It nuy oom'times be misplaced, but In the long run Ii pays." Boston JournaL

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The Static Sextixel, which ever aims to keep abreast of the time9 and to prcmota the interests of lta lubscriber, ra JusJ tcmoleted an arrancement with the leading watch manufacturers of the country by which it is enabled to offer the best watchef bade, to its subscribers only, at the same prices which jewelers and watch dealers in thecities and townshave to jay f&r their good In somo cases we can sod watches to our subscribers for even less than dealers have to pay for them. Every man or woman, young or old, who reads The State Sextivel ought to own a watch. Every one ought to have a pood watch a watch that will nctonly keep lime.but is handsome and showy. If you take The State Sentinel you can, for a limited time only, eet a first-class, handsome cold watch, with the very fcecj orks manufactured, for much less than poor watches with silver or brass cases are commonly sold for. Our Btock of watches will not last always, and after the present stock is exhausted we cannot promise to fill orders. Tko who order firet. therefore, will be first served. The American Standard Vatche3 the best timekeepers in the world are graded as seven, eleven and thirteen jeweled, fall (weled and adjnpted. Very few men not one in a thousand carry either an adjusted or even a full-jeweled watch. The State öpstinel uses only the celebrated gold-filled cases made by Joseph Fahys, unless distinctly specified in tpdal affers. They are tha best made, and selected for that reason. His ten-carat cases, called Montauks, are guaranteed for filteea rears. His fourteen-carat filled cases, called Monarch, ar guaraateed for twenty years. When taa 2.d fourteen-car&t caaes ars tpokea cf they refer to enly Mcnteuka and Monarch. OÜK SPECIAL OFFERS! The cuts represent Joseph Fahye celebrated Montauk and Monarch cases as above. Cases will be furnished either plain (engine-turned I or beautifully engraved as the subscriber prefers. 5o. 18, size for eentlemen, are Elgin, Wa'.tham or New York Standard movements, and will be put ia auch casti aa desir& Note carefully the descriptions and prices belowGENTLEMEN'S MKTCH6S.

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Ko. 17. SIzo No. 18. rSo. 17. Size No. IS Waltham cr Igin movement, seven jewels, beautifully engraved Montauk case, SI 8. This watch would cost from $23 to $30 at jew slry stores. The abore No. 18. SIzo No. 18. No. 18. i'-e No. 18 Monareh cm, twenty-one j-ears guarantee, 14 carat, Waltham movement (engine-turned),$20.25 No. 23. SIzo No. 18. No. 23. iz No. 18 M.ontnnk cRsa (engine turned), New York Standard moTement, eeven jewels, SI6.25.

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No. 8. Size No. O. No. 8. Pize No. (5 Liberty for American) engraved case, Dorct movement (iSwiss), seven iewels. 512.

No. 21. Sizo No. 6. Wo. 21. Sizo No. C Monarch case, vermicelli border, faucv Elgin movement, seven jewels, 619.50.

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cjii viuuuiy . uu cii Save SJO to S20 on -j Krr'!''r'-::. 'r;-':?l f -Tiv ' V.V, No. 16. Size No. 13. No. 16. ie No. 18 Waltham or Elgin movement, seven jewels, (engineturned) Montauk case, SI 8- This watch would cost from $23 to $35 at jewelry etoree. ara all Montauk case3 and ara guaranteed for No. 19. SIzo No. 18. flo. ID. Size No. 18 Monarch case, fancv landscapo engraved, Elgin movement, S2I.50. No. 3. Sizo No. 18. No. 5. iz No. 18 Liberty fenglneturned) case, New York Standard move sent, will wear ton years, SI2.25.

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riciziuicit;iuri s rnuui a Watch ! 5 xi ex; :.- r. w -v e i e No. 14. Size No. 18. No. 14. Size No. 18 Box case, Lonla XIV. style, Waltham orT.lgin movement seven jewels, SI9.75. These watches art sold by retail dealers at from SiJO to $35. fifteen ye art No. 20. Size No. 13. No. 20. Size No. IS Monarch ease, with wide Vermicelli border and engraved center, Waltham movement, eeven jewels. $23. This is the finest watch we offer and is well worth $40, according to the pricef charged in jewelry stores. The cases are warranted for twenty-ono years. The readers of Ttte Sesttxtl never had an opportunity to get first-class watchet at any such prices as the above, and after this stock is sold they will probably not soon have auch a chance again. This offer is open only to subscribers t TnE Indiana State Sentinel. One of these watches will make a hand, some birthday or Christmas present foi your wife, your sister, j onr daughter, 01 our sweetheart; for your husband, yooi father, your brother or your eon. In order to avoid confusion and mietakea the watches should be ordered only by their numbers. Thus it is only necessary to say: "Send watch No. 8 (or whatevei number is desired) to tho following ad dress." Write the name, town, county and state vrr plainly. The cash must accompany every orde& We should prefer to have our subscribers use the following coupon, which caa be cut out, filled up and Rent to The In ijiana State Sentinel, with a draft oa Chicago, New York, Indianapolis or Cincinnati or a poetotUce money order for the amount 189

Please send one watch No. . . to the following address: Name Post Office County State Inclosed find draft (or money order) f or

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