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The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-08
Detrimental TO Beauty.
Post ispatch.l

Grief, as well as all agitation of the
mind, is detrimental to beauty. Too
much excitement of the tear ducts
dims the eyes, and traces of the work.
ing OF the passions are left upon the
face.
Those people who are happily gifted
with an equal temperament grow old
much less quickly than those whose dis.
positions are the reverse.
Girls sometimes bite and suck their
lips In order to make them red. 1t is q
foolish habit, which may injure their
shape. Dryness and cracking of the lips,
as well as fever Sores" are usually due
TO disordered stomach
Persons liable to such troubles should
apply to their lips every night salve of
glycerine mixed with lard, which is the
best application known for that pur-
pose.
A fever sore begins as hot, painful
lump on the lip, soon changing into a
blister. Ii is both annoying and disfgur.
ing. The sore should never be rubbed
or scratched. At the very outset it should
be touched with this preparation every
few hour: Carbolic acid, ten drops;
glycerine, tesspoonful; altar of roses,
two drops.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-08
POVERTY OF THE PRESIDENTS
'There's Nothing SO Expensive as
GIOry.',
["Carp," in the Cleveland Leader ]

G"Carp," in the Cleveland Leader
If you will look back over the list you
will see that from the beginning most of
our Presidents have been poor men.
George Washington was, perhaps, the
wealthiest of them and Rutherford 3.
Hayes will perhaps rank next
John Adams, at the age of &c, after
twenty-six years of continuous public
service, retired to his little estate at
Quincy, Mass, with barely enough prop
erty to give him the needs of life on
farm.
Thomas Jefferson had to borrow some
thing less than $4,000 of Richmond
bank to pay his debts before he left'the
White House, and the history of the
last seventeen years of his life is one of
almost continuous financial embarrass-
ment.
President Madison left some property
at the time of his death, but his widow,
the peerless Dolly, was for time Deepen
dant on the bread and meat furnished
her by an old negro servant, and her last
days were made easy only by Congress
buying her for $50, 1000 the manuscript
notes of the debates of the Consti-
tutioual Convention which Madison had
taken.
President Monroe, though he declined
it is said, $685., 900 from the government
for his public services, died very poor in
New York.
John Quincy Adams must have re.
ceived over half a million dollars in gov
eminent salaries, and he is one of the
few Presidents who again took up life
after he left the White House. He re-
NAMED In retirement only about year,
and then entered the Lower House of
congress. After about sixteen years of
service there he died in the Capital in
lS4S, exclaiming, This is the end of
earth, l am content"
Andrew Jackson gained nothing in
wealth from his White House salary. 1t
cost him, he says, every cent of it to pay
expenses, and the mot of the proceeds
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-08
Home Life i'm America.

Out of slender resources many an
American wife makes an attractive
home. If the comparison were made it
might appear that there is more privacy
and quietness in the home life in Amer
lea than in England.
Is not the typical English home,
whether in country or city, always full
of guests? Does not conventionality in
wade the family? There could scarcely
be a more interesting study than COM
parison of the home life of different
countries-Germsny, England, America.
But to suppose that the thing itself is
wanting in America is to hit as far wide
of the mark as possible.
The increasing frequency of divorce
may be thought to indicate Indifference
to the sacredness of home and family
but, on the other hand, the alarm which
is beginning to be felt in view of the
fact shows how highly the home is
valued.
In any country it is, of course, true
that absorption in fashionable life is
fatal to the interests of the home.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-08
Some Reporters Of the Past.
whitman in American Journalist.


Charles Dickens was reporter, and
in that wonderful mirage of family life,
David COpperfield," he gives glances of
his reportorial impressions.
w. ID. Howells, the greatest of Ameri
can novelists, was a reporter, and is still
for that matter. His novels are nothing
more than the careful and painstaking
representations Oe an accurate observer.
While he has shown his newspaper ex-
perience his work in its attention to de-
tail and dependence upon narrative and
description, in Modern Instance" he
has distinctly set forth his newspaper
views. He deliberately starts his hero,
Bartly Campbell, in the newspaper BUSH
ness, be shows him what kind of writing
is valuable, what kind is worthless; he
brings him Though the various stages of
newspaper experience, and makes a
trained journalist of him, showing the
reader at every step just how it is done.
However little respect the reader may
have for BARLEY Campbel1s character,
he cannot help but have very lively
respect for his newspaper work.
There have been embryo poets, many
of them among the reporters. Hood is
said to have been a writer for the press,
and to have conceived the plan of that:
.'One more unfortunate
Weary of BREATH
while writing up a suicide of notorious
woman of the town.
Edgar Allen Poe was reporter, al
though very poor one. An amusing
story regarding Poe's newspaper expe.
rience was related to ME some time ago
by Philadelphia gentleman. Poe had
been for some time on the New York
Tribune, and was, after fashion, pro-
tege of Horace Greeley's. The old
nobleman's sympathies were often
touched by Poe's financial straits, and
several times he generously helped him
out. One day Poe came to him request
ing loan of one hundred dollars. He
offered his note, and Mr.. Greeley &C.
cepted it, giving him the money. That
same day Poe left for another city, and
that was the last Greeley saw or heard
of him or the money. Some years after
when Poe's poetry had become famous,
a Philadelphia lady who was, as she
said. "a passionate and devoted admirer
of the poets genius" wrote to Mr.. Gree
ley asking if he had Poe's sigma
ture, and if he had how much money it
would take to buy it. Greeley wrote
back: 81 have his signature, madam,
and it will take just one hundred dollars
to buy it." The lady sent on her check
for one hundred dollars, and by return
mail Mr.. Greeley sent her Poe's note,
the signature being underlined with
blue pencil.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-08

win smile from railroad right of way.
The full hand, the fours, threes, pairs
aud bobtail Pushes are all the same to
him, if you judge by his face.
When he gets hungry he cinches him.
self little tighter and continues to
"rastle" with fate. You look at his
smoky, old copper cent of face and you
see no change. You watch him as he
coins the last buckshot of his tribe and
later on when he goes forth pauper,
and the corners OF his Mountaineering
mouth have never moved. His little
black, smoke-infamed eyes have never
lighted with triumph or Joy. He is the
great aboriginal stole and sylvan dude
He does not smile He does not weep.
1t certainly must be intensely pleasant to
be wild, free, lawless, irresponsible, nat
ural born fool.
The Shoshones proper include the Ban
nOcks, which are again subdiylded into
the Koolsitakara, or Buffalo Eaters, on
Wind River, the Tookarika or Mountain
Sheep Eaters, on Salmon and Suabe
Rivers, the Shoshocss or White Knives,
sometimes called Diggers, of the Hum
boldt River and the Great Salt Lake
basin. Probably the Hokandikahs, YahOo-
skins and the Wallpapers are subdiyi-
sions of the Digger tribe. / am not sure
of this. but shall not suspend my bust
ness till find out about it. If | cannot
get at great truth right off l wait
patiently and go right on drawing my
salary.
The Shoshones live on the government
and other small game. They will eat
anything when hungry, from a buffalo
down to woodtick. The Shoshone does
not despise small things. He loves in
sects in any form. He loves to make pets
of them and to study their habits in his
home life.
Formerly, when great Shoshone war.
rior died, they killed his favorite wife
over his grave so that she could go to the
happy hunting grounds with him, but it
Is not 80 customary now. / tried to i'm
press OH an old Shoshone brave once that
they ought not to do that. tried to
show him that it would encourage
celibacy and destroy domestic ties in his
tribe. Since that there has been quite a
stride toward reform among them. In
stead of killing the widow on the death
of the husband, the husband takes such
good care of his health and avoids all
kinds of intellectual strain or physical
fatigue, that late years there are no wild
ows, but widowers just seem to swarm in
the Shoshone tribe. The woods are full
of them.
Now, if they would only kill the wild.
over over the grave of the wife, the In
dams future would assume more def
mite shape.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-08
BlOOdhOunds i'm Texas,
Galveston News

There was quite little stir here this
evening as the east-bound train pulled
in. Mr.. G. l.. Scott, Sheriff of Graham
county, had on board the train pris
oner, taking him to Navasota. Scott
stepped out of the train to take charge
of another prisoner, and while out the
prisoner made break for liberty and
succeeded in getting away As luck
would have it. Mr.. Jim Norman hap
pened to be on hand with his blood
hounds, which they put on the trail
of the escaped prisoner, and in about
half an hour the dogs run the prisoner
up tree about two miles from here. He
is now in the hands of Mr. Scott, and
will not attempt any more such breaks.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-08

1t is said by those who knew little of
George ID. Prentice that he wrote verses
fox recreation, and that he estimated
lightly all poetry. The truth is that he
was peculiarly of poetic temperament,
and wrote poetry because he loved it.
Yet he used often TO advise others not to
bother about it; "for," said he, 1T is the
most unmarketable article in all the
booths of Vanity Fair" This, however,
/ think he only did in the cases of those
whom he felt could never write credit
able poetry, fer it is certain that be was
the patron and encourager of numberless
poets and poetesses, many of whom be-
came lannon's
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-08
4 DOU BT IT.

When pair Of red lips are upturned to your
own,
With no one to gossip about il,
DO you pray for endurance TO let them alonef
Well, may be you debut doubt il.
When sly little hand you're permitted to seize,
With q velvety softness about il,
Do you think you can drop Il with never q
squeezed
Well, may be you debut doubt it.
When q tapering waist is IN reach Of your arm,
With q wonderful plumpness about IL,
DO you argue the point fwixt the good and the
harmf
Well. may be yoc debut l doubt it.
And II by these tricks you should capture heart,
With q womanly soffness about IL,
VIII you guard il. and keep II, and act the good
partt
Well. may be you wilI-but doubt il.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-08
Eight Hours to Sleep.

The value of sleep to brain-workers
cannot be exaggerated. In a recent
lecture DR.. Mains, famous English
physician, said that the brain requires
twelve hours of sleep at years old
gradually diminishing by hours and
half hours to ten hours at IA, and thence
to eight hours when the body is full
grown and formed.
Goethe, in his most active productive
period, needed nine hours, and took
them; Kant-the most laborious of stu
dents-was strict in never taking less
than seven.
Nor does it appear that those who
have Systematically tried to cheat nature
of this chief right have been, in any
sense, gamers of time for their work. 1t
may be paradox, but it is not the less
a truth, that what is given to sleep is
gained to labor.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-08

A prominent New Yorker, who has
been out West attending the National
Convention of "Cowbows," finds reason
to believe that the cry of hard times
is due to the over production of machin-
cry, and he echoes Horace Greeley's
advice, young man, 60 West"
There" be says, "sre one thousand
square miles of fertile farming lands
that have scarcely been scratched yet
1t costs So to plant and harvest an
acre of wheat, whether the yield is small
or great. II the farmer gets twelve
bushels of wheat to the acre, and COM
mands fifty cents a bushel for it, he gets
his money back IL he raises twenty.
four bushels to the acre, he doubles his
money.
Most of the Western wheat fields have
averaged twenty bushels to the acre this
year" He adds: IF you can name
any other business as safe, which gives
a larger return on the capital invested
/ should be very much pleased to hear of
-
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-08

did you enforce obedience on his part or.
did you let him have his own way? If
you are an intelligent, industrious, re-
spectacle father, and your son is loafer
the blame, quite likely, rests with you.
There has been loose wheel somewhere
ID your way of training.
Once In while you find a boy who
seems possessed of the evil one. and
neither coaxing nor whipping have any
good effect. Their end is State Prison or
the gallOws. You may find one such boy
out of 200, but not more. You can spoil
boy by pounding him, making slave
OF him, bossing him too much, or by kill
ing his ambition. Say to boy of Is that
his time and wages belong to you for six
years, and you will break down his ambi-
tion In no time. Have you offered your
son wages to work with you, or is it the
board and clothes idea you are seeking
to make him accept? What sort of home
have you made for him? When evening
came did you see that he bad papers,
books and games and entertainments. or
was be left to sit and look at his toes
while you mODopolized the only newspa-
per in the house?
1t may hurt your feelings to hear it,
bit | warrent if the case were left to a
Jury of six men, they would find the
blame resting with you. You haven't
studied your boy. You have simply
settled things in your own mind and
taken it as matter Of course that he
would accept them. Time was when a
great gulf separated father and son. The
son dared not confde in his father, and
the father dared not exhibit any tender
ness for fear of lowering his dignity.
Time was when anything was good enough
for boy, and it was impudent in him to
express an opinion.
That time has gone by, and we are do
ing as much for our sons as for our
horses. Thirty years ago boy who
started out for himself at the age of q
was getting an early start, as few men
married before they were %. In this age
boys of Is and 10 go into business and
marry at Il. A boy of 16 is to-day as
well posted in general matters as one was
at "a in days gone by.
If you and other fathers won't realize
this it will be the worst for you. A boy
of 1S ought to be fast friends with his
father, while your boy has been alien.
ated. At that age he ought to have fin
ished his common schooling and be ready
for trade or profession. Your boy is
vagabond. A young man of Is has
more pride of person and character than
at any other time of life. Your boy is
content with low company. Think it all
over and see if you don't feel self-con-
demned
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-08

National Druggist

DIR. Fleischl, of Vienna, declares that
morphinism, alcoholism and similar hab.
its can now be cured rapidly and pain
lessly by means of cocaine chloride.
The method is very simple-a with
drawal either gradual or abrupt and
complete, of the habitual intOxicant,
and treatment of the nervous and other
symptoms which arise there-from by
means of hypodermic injections of
cocaine. He claims that in ten days a
cure may be effected in any case. The
dose of cocaine chloride, ypodermically,
is from One-twelfth to one-fourth of a
grain. dissolved in water, repeated as
necessary.
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Bonneville Journal. |

Baby has an idea-the result. perbaps
of painful experience-that if any one is
sick, the trouble must lie in the epigas-
trio region.
The other day her father came home
from the office with a bad cold and
raging headache. Baby appeared to be
very sorry for him. but said little.
Two hours later her mother was tax
ing her down town in well filed horse
car. Suddenly looking up, after a sea-
son of pensive musing, Baby was moved
to remark in tone audible to every one
of the smiling passengers: "Mamma,
Baby's awful sorry papa's got e tummick
acheIn
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-08
THE SNAKE INDIAN.



There are about 5000 Snake or Sho-
shone Indians now extant, the greater
part being in Utah and Nevada, though
there il q reservation in Idaho and an
other in Wyoming.
The Shoshone Indian is reluctant to
accept of civilization on the European
plan. He prefers the ruder customs
which have been handed down from
fathe. to son along with other hairlooms.
use the word hairlooms in its broadcast
sense.
There are the Shoshones proper and
the Utes or Utahs, to which have been
added by some authorities the Conan
ches, and Moquis of New Mexico and
Arisons, the Netelas and other tribes of
California. The Shoshone, wherever
found, Is clothed in buckskin and blank
ct in winter, but dressed more lightly in
summer, wearing nothing but an air OF
intense gloom in August. To this he adds
on holidays necklace made from the
store teeth of the hardy pioneer.
The Snake or Shoshone Indian is pas
sionately fond of the game known as
poker among us, and which, l learn, is
played with cards. 1t is agame of chance
though skill and thorough knowledge
of firearms are of great use. The Indians
enter into this game with great zeal and
lend to it the wonderful energy which
they have presented from year to year
by sustaining from the facilitating
effects of manual labor. All day long the
red warrior sits in his skin boudoir,
nursing the sickly and reluctant Flush"
patient, silent and hopeful. Through the
cold Of winter, in the desoiute mountains
he continues to
slope on. hope ever"
That he will "draw to fill" Far away
MP the canyon he hears the sturdy blows
of his wife's tomahawk as she slaughters
the grease wood and the sage brush for
the fire in his gilded hall where be
sis and woos the lazy Goddess of Fort
une.
With the Shoshone, poker is not alone
q relaxation, the game wherewith to
wear out long and listless evening, but
e u passion, . duty and devotion.
He has face designed especially for
poker. It never shows sign of good or
evil fortune. You might a. well try to
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-08

Young men, don't rely upon your
friends. Don't rely upon the name of
your ancestors. Thousands have spent
the prime of life in the vain hope of
those whom they call friends, and thous-
snds have starved because they had a
rich farther. Rely upon the good name
which is made by your own exertions;
and know that better than the best
friend you can have is unquestionable
determination, united with decision Of
charocfoY
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-08
Simply 20 Lend Dignity.

"Youth is the time to serve the Lord, !"
according to the hymn; it's only in old
age. apparently, that one is expected to
serve mammon.
Ayoung man, the President of bank
note company, has found his youthful
appearance 50 disadvantageous that he
has hired a white haired old man to sit
at desk in his Office and read the papers
oil day. Customers thinking he is the
young mans father and the head eff the
institution, feel a confidence in it which
otherwise they would not have.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-08
Hadn't Read It.

"Oh, Mr.. Brown" asked Miss Azure
hose, "can you tell me where l can get
Mark Twain's Scrap bookG 1t is the
only work of his that | haven't read,
and l am just dying to get hold of it,
Brown was forced to admit that he
hadn't read it himself, and he didn't
know anybody who had; but be referred
her to the nearest stationer's, with face
as straight as the shortest distance be-
tween two points.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-08
The Hard and the Easy WAY.

In work there is way of doing which
saves strength. We call it "knack."
One does piece of work by sheer force
and another by skill of manipulation
does the same with half the physical
effort. To teach the other the sleight-of-
hand by which strength is spared is wise.
So in study, play and all else. There is
an easy and a hard way. There is no
wrong in doing it the easy way, if We
are thorough
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-08
THE LIsPING OF LOVE.

VIZ.
I'd like kith,
My pretty NTH,
Becauth kith Ith thweet
Thay. do you known
That kitheth grow
Where lipth Of lOverth meet'
SHE.
Oh, yeth. know
Where kitheth grow.
Without your limiting lOokth;
Becauth. you thee.
Te hel t. he!
read Of u in boOkth.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-08

The coal mines in the Nord district of
France produced 8, 7S9, 900 tones of coal
last year, an increase of three per cent
on the quantity Of the succeeding year.
To raise this total $3.50 men were en-
ployed, and of these there were about
1850 engaged under ground.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-08
A Valet.
fAtlanta constitutional,

A great many high-toned New York.
ers have Wallets A valet is a man EN-.
ployed to put another man to bed when
the other man can't get there himself.
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Weak and Debilitated

GARRISON HOSPITAL, Vienna, Austria
Johann Hof's Malt Extract has been largely used
In the above hospital and we cheerfuy indorse its
use TO the medical profession for general debility and
convalescence for which 1t has proved to be a
estimable remedy.
(Signed, DIR. LOEFF
Chief Physician Of III. NJ. the Emperor's Carr Hosp.
DIR. P0RIAS, House Physician
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-08
FOR NURSING MOTHERS

Johann Hoffs Genuine Malt Extract has been
chemically investigated I'm the laboratory Of Prof
KetZnsky and has been found contain only articles
which great benefit in of imperfect diges-
lions and bad nutrition, also affections Of the chest
for convalescence and general debility.
PROF. DIR GRANICHSTETTER
University of Vienna Austria
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-08

To NJ EIsSER, ESQ.,, Agent for Johann Hof's Genuine
Malt Extract 800 Race Street, Philadelphia
DEAR SIR DIR. E. Wilson recommended Johann
Hof's Malt Extract the best and only kind for oar
ptgpose. With kind regards, / am yours truly,
CHARLES S. TURNBULL, NJ. D.,
Assistant Professor Jefferson Medical College,
Philadelphia.
Mr.. M. EIsSER: / have used the Johann Hof's
Malt Extract sent NE with very good effect.
WILLIAM PEPPER, NJ. D.,
Dean OF the University of Pennsylvania.
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DYSPEPSIA

GERMAN HOSPITAL, PHILA
To NORTH EISNER, Esq, Sole Agent of Johann
Street, Philadelphia.
DEAR SIR: Please send one dozen of Johann Hof,s
Malt Extract TO the above hospital. I am very much
pleased with ii and my patients could not do with
out it.
E. RAAB, NJ. D.,
Resident Physician Of the German Hospital,
Philadelphia