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The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-11
Some Practical Hints.

For a Coda writer in the House
keeper gives the following: 81 send you
a good recipe for colds, whooping-c cough,
or pneumonia. 1t is simple and cheap.
We have used it for several years, and
think it is much better than any cough
medicine we have ever bought. 1t is
simply onion syrup made Dy slicing on.
ions into a bowl, and putting three or
four large spoOnfuls of sugar over them;
cover with a saucer, set on back of stove
an hour or two, when there will be rich
syrup. Dose, one or two tea spoonfuls at
a time as otter as necessary. | believe
this saved our little girls life when she
had typhoid pneumonia.
To Keep Honey in the Comb.-Take
a stone jar, one that nothing sour has
previously been in. Pack the comb in
the jar without heating jar or comb.
Take a muslin cloth, double it, and put
it over the jar double; then put a plate
or pie pan over the cloth, then cut the
cloth one-half inch from the edge of the
plate. Now put sealing-wax around the
edge of the plate and jar. If made air.
tight the honey will keep for years. The
jar should be kept in a cool, dry place.
10 open the jar, take a knife and put il
between the plate and jar, and raise the
plate up. To reseal, take a hot iron and
melt the wax on the plate and jar. Do
not leave the jar open several days with,
out sealing.
To Render Beeswax.-Fill a kettle two
thirds with comb, one third water; boil
till soft. Have a tub of cold water, put
q coarse muslin cloth over the tub; dip
the comb out of the kettle, put in the
cloth, and strain while hot in the tub.
Take the beeswax out of the water, and
put in the kettle with one half cup of
beef.tallow, to prevent burning; let il
boil; then put in one-half or two-thirds
cup of corn starch, powdered, to clear it.
Take from the stove quickly or it will
scorch. Dip the beeswax in pans well
creased.
To Keep Hams and Shoulders.-Take
one pint of sorghum molasses, one pound
Of ground black pepper, and boil. Then
put on the flesh side of hams and shouh
ders, and kneejoints, where the string is
put in to hang up. 1t must be put ON
before smoking. Leave hung up in the
smokehOuse all Summer and Fall. The
dies will not disturb it.
To Keep Sausage.-Take fresh sausage,
salt and season as for table. Pack
in stone jars, within Que inch of the
top of jar. Fill up with boiling lard.
Little Red Ants.-To keep them out Of
pantry or cupboard, take oil of cinnamon
and wash the shelves with it. Essence
of cinnamon will do, if very strong.
To Make Socks and Stockings Wear
Good--Take linen spool-thread, single, or
three threads cotton yarn, and put with
one thread woolen warn.
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POOL GOLD.
fBill Nye, in New York Mercury.l

fBill Nye, in New York Mercury.l
1t is singular how soon a plain, unas-
Stunning tenderfoot becomes an expert
enced miner and mountaineer-in his
mind-and how soon be begins to con
verse about difficult and dangerous terms
in mining. He begins in two DAYS to
talk about blossom rock. surface indi-
cations and float. Inside of a week he
converses freely on the subject of "col-
ors, milling ORE, refractory ore, contact,
copper stains, carbonate formations, dips,
spurs, variations assessment work, ore
on its dump, ore in sight, mill runs.
true assures, mineral in place, pyrites of
poverty, s~ulphates OF disappointment"
etc.. etc.
One summer day / went out into the
mountains with hope springing eternal in
my breast. l did not tell any one what
my scheme was, but ! fully intended to
wrest a comfortable fortune from the
bowels of the earth. As write these lines
| learn that the aforesaid bowels remain
intact.
There were two of us in the xpedition.
and our bedding consisted mosteiy of two
patchwork quilts. Old hardened miners
do not travel through the mountains with
patchwork bed quilts, unless they desire
to promulgate their fresh and guileles.
natures.
We labored under the delusion that
hunting for gold and hunting for black.
berries was a good deal similar, but il is
not. Nothing could be less ditto.
We hunted for two weeks before we
found anything that looked like gold,
and our supply of toothsome viands wa
beginning TO get low. How we'll I re-
member the beautiful day that L found
my first nugget in the bed of an old
stream in q wild and rocky gulch. There
was q little water standing in . slight
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women in Action ON Board ships o.
IN Royal Navy.
Notes aud Queries !

In 1912 her Msjesty's ship Swallow
fought two French vessels off Feejus. 1t
was on June 10, and after a most obsti-
nate acton she succeeded in driving them
both in under the batteries of the town.
The following anecdote, as narrated by
one of the officers of the Swallow, is told
at some length in the Naval Chronicle,
xviii, 1876:
I'm the gallant and sanguinary act on
there was a seaman named Phelan, who
had his wife on board. She was stationed
as is usual when women are on board
in time of battle-to assist the surgeon
in the care of the wounded. From the
close manner in which the Swallow en-
gagged the enemy, yardarm and yardarm,
the wounded, as may be expected, were
brought below very fast; among the rest,
a messmate of her husband, Consequent
ly her OWN who had received a musket
ball through the side. Her exertions
were used to console the poor fellow, who
was in great agonies and nearly breath
ing his last, when by some chance she
heard her husband was wounded on
deck. Her anxiety and already over
powered feelings could not one moment
be restrained; she rushed instantly on
deck and received the wounded tar in
her arms. He family raised his head to
kiss her; she burst into a food of tears,
and told him to take courage. All would
yet be we'll, but scarcely pronounced the
last syllable when an iltdirected shot
took her head off. The poor tar, who
was closely wrapped in her arms, opened
his eyes once more, then shut them for
ever. fhelan ano
his wife were sewed up in one hammock,
and it is needless to say, buried in one
grave
The narrator adds to the pathos Of the
above story telling how, only three
weeks before, a fine boy had been born
to them, and how poor Tommy Jared
until they put into Port Mahon. The
sailors agreed .'he should have a hun
dred fathers, but what could be the sub
stitute of a nurse and a mother"
Happily there was a Maltese goat on
board which proved a. tractable and
faithful to it's charge as the immortal
dumb foster mother of Roman story.
In RodDey's battle with tDe Guicben
off the Pearl Rock, Martinique, April IL,
1870. there was a on board the
Sandwich, Rodney's flagship. who
fought a "a FOUNDER gun, and afterward
attended the whole night upon the wound
ed men,"
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RELIGIOUS AND PHILOSOPHICAL.
HUMAN PROGRESS.

What does it mean when we are hidden
to work together with God, or what is
the work of God in the world Of men if
it be not the slow track of human pro-
gress, the improvement of man physical
ly, materially, mentally, and morally?
Is not every inventor working out the
emancipation of man from the enslave-
ment of toll? Is not the poet making us
more tender and the philosopher making
us more wise? There is so line that can
be drawn around the sphere of the Di-
vine action. You cannot shut God up
in your pretty provinces. You cannot
make a parochiaI monitor of the Infinite
Spirit.-IHeber Newton.
G0ETHE's MORAL HEREsY.
Starting from the idea of tie satisfac-
ton of desire, and with a strong preju.
dice against all systems of self-denial, he
preceived, further, that chastity is the
favorite virtue of mediavalism, that it is
peculiarly Catholic and monastic. Then.
rs his mind turned more and more to the
antique, he found himself in a world of
primitive morals, where the IN is
half a slave. He found that in this an
cient world friendship is more and love
less than in the modern-to this point.
too, Winckelmann bad called his atten-
tion-and, since he had adopted it as a
principle that the ancients were healthy
minded and that the moderns are NOR.
bid, he jumped to the conclusion that
the sentimental view of love is but q
modern illusion.-[Prof. ]. 3. Sellsy.
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Recreation.

There is a homely saying among thu
fishermen that those vino will not mend
their nets will soon be unable to catch
fish," and one is seldom found 80 improv.
ident as to let a hole grow larger and
larger until the net il useless.
The nearest approach to absolute rest
is sleep. and of this every man, woman
aud child should have abundance, pro.
portioned to his constitution and occupa-
ton; but there is a relative rest, quite as
important, and more neglected by most
busy men and women, this rest is rec
r~eation. The II haven't time" excuse, al
though as popular as ever, is sadly thread
bare. -.
A man owning property can afford to
invest a thousand dollars though he with
draw it from active business, if he is SIRE
that the money will double itself. We
all have tw~enty-four hours every day to
invest, and if one hour Withdrawn from
business can be better invested, is it not
a wise thing to do it?. Relaxation, how
ever, TO be profitable. must be whole
hearted. 1t is not rest for the business
mar to bring his affairs and worries home
with him. es
1t is not rest for the student to brood
over theories and formulas when he
walks, neither is ii rest to take ones fear
and anxieties TO our friends table. If we
have no heart to throw off these burdens,
We should make the effort in spite of our
selves. We have been bound TO our cares
as the convict is 10 bis ball and chain,
and it is time to master circumstances,
instead of being their slaves
Mental slaves are more independent
upon the physical condition than we are
inclined to think. I%rritabiity means
overstrained nerves; the "blues' and
"black butterflies" are other names OF
indigestion and a poor circulation. Rec
~reation, it is TO be remembered, is neither
dissipation, nor yet absence of activity.
Complete change of thought lie relaxa-
ton and Hood is quoted by a recent
writer as saying that the Quaker always
enjoys life, for he makes a pleasure of
his business and a business Of his pleas.
ure. ). :
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-11

The following beautiful illustration of
the power Of truth, is from the pen of
8. II. Hammond, formerly editor of the
Albany State Register. He was an eye
witness to the scene in one Of the higher
courts in New York.
A little girl, nine years Of age, was Of
fered asa witness against a prisoner,
who was on trial for a felony committed
in her fathers house.
"Now, Emily" said the counsel for
the prisoner, upon her being offered as a
witness, Il desire to know if you under,
stand the nature of an oathr
81 don't know what you mean," was
the simple answer.
"There, your honor" said the counsel,
addressing the court, is anything further
necessary TO demonstrate the validity OF
my objections This witness should be
rejected. She does not comprehend the
nature of an oath"
"Let us see," said the judge. "Come
here my daughter"
Assured by the kind tone and manner
of the judge, the child stepped toward
him. and looked ~confidingly up into his
face with a calm. clear eve, ard with =
manner so artless and frank that it went
straight to the heart.
did you ever take an osth?" inquired
the Judge. The child stepped back with
= look of horror. and the red blood
maptled in a blush all over her face
as she answered:
mo, SIR"
She thought that he intended to in
ouire il she ever b~lasphemed.
al don't mean that" said the judge,
Who saw her mistake; 81 mean, were you
over a witness before"
"No. | never was in q court before"
was the answer
He handed her the bible open.
"Do you know that book, my
"She looked at it and answered, Eyes,
sir, it is the bible"
.Do Won ever read itg" he asked.
ayes. sir, every evening"
"Csn you tell me what the bible isl"
inquired the judge"
AT is the word of the great God" she
answered.
"WelI, place your hand upon this
Bible. and listen to what l say" and
be repeated slowly and solemnly the
oath usually administered to witnesses.
aNow," said the judge, "you have
sworn a. q witness, will you tell me
what viii bsfall you II you do not tell
IT, truth -
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Mothers.

The singular fact in history that great
men rarely have distinguished sons Is ex-
planned BY another fact: Great men
rarely marry great women. A mans
force of character and his ability are gen.
erally derived from his mother.
Napoleon sscribed his success in life
to the severe training he received from
his mother. She was the only one who
had any command over him, and by
mingled tenderness, severity and justice
compelled his love and respect.
The mother of Cromwell was an extra
ordinary woman, who reared a family in
comfort by her rare business capacity.
She gave dowries to five daughters, mar
ried them into families weather. than
her own, and preserved her influence
over Cromwell in the palace at White
hall no less than in the early home at
Huntington. !,
Goethe always ascribed his genius and
character to his mother, and Washington
aid that he derived his business habits
from his mother, whose household was
always governed by method and Law.
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youths c-ompaniOn.l


Years ago, when a low standard of
morals prevailed. the epithet Great was
bestowed upon any monarch who won
battles and enlarged the territory and
resources of his kingdom. Ii mattered
little then to the historian what might
be q kings private character, provided
he made his nation formidably by its
brute strength and full treasury. Even
If he was a bad man, they eulogized him
asa good ruler. Peter /, Of Russia is
called "Peter the Great" because he
transformed a barbarous into a semi
barbarous nation. But no n can now
read the following summary of bis char
acter without a feeling of disgust. The
sensation indicates that the day has
passed when kings are ~pardoned for
private wickedness because of their pub
lie deeds:
Voltaire, in his philosophical Die
ti0nary," saws that 'Peter was half hero
and half tigar." Macaulay declares
that ito the end Of bis life be lived in
his palace like a hog in a sty, and when
he was entertained by other sovereigns,
never failed to leave on their tapestried
walls and velvet state beds unequivocal
proof that a savage had been there"
When William III, visited him in
London, the air of the room was so foul
that a window had to be opened before
the English King could enter.
The nastiness of himself and suite al.
most ruined Evelyn's villa at Deptford,
where the imperial party were lodged;
and the owner applied for and received
compensation from Parliament.
Peter, when the fit was on him, liter
ally caned everybody-from his cook to
his counsellor, from the canes peasant
to the highest noble-sparing neither age
nor sex.
He would get up from the table and
fog the host who was unlucky enough
to entertain him. He would stand at
the door of the Senate House and fog
each Senator that went in.
Lefort was an intimate and trusted
friend, yet on slight ~provocation he was
knocked down and brutslly kicked by
his imperial master. But all this fog.
ging was in the way of recreation.
When Peter meant business" it was
q more serious matter. Incredible as it
may seem, it is nevertheless, well-authen-
ticated that one of his own sisters-it is
said, more than one-received a hundred
strokes of the whip on her back in the
presence Of the whole court.
In 1713, Alexis. his only son who out
lived infancy, was for some offence of no
great seriousness. several times tortured
in the presence of the diabolical father,
and a few hours later ~died-either from
the effects of the torture or by assassina-
ton.
For sy~mpathizing with Alexis, the
Princess Golitsyn, the bosom companion
of the Empress Catherine, was publicly
whipped by soldiers
For the same reason the brother OF
his first wife, Eudoxia-whom he had
thrown into prison-was tortured, and
then broken alive on the wheel.
Nothing ever told of Nero is more
horribly grotesque than this, yet THU
man, or monster rather, is paraded be
fore the world as Peter the Great.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-11

How They are Sold so Cheap by Ped
dIers-A Very Decetvtng Article.
''Sponges are as deceiving in appear.
anc as any article in trade" said the
head clerk in a drug store on Broadway
to a Mail and Express reporter.
Glow is thatp
why, by a certain process the cheap
est sponges are bleached to a pearly
whiteness aud resemble then the finest
Mediterranean sponge. 1t takes an ex-
pert to pick out a good sponge from the
bogus ones, and then he may be deceived.
You take a common carriage sponge, use
~permanginate of potassium, which is not
only a disinfectant taking out all the an
imaI matter in the sponge, but at the
same time changes its color to a deep
crimson. Then this crimson color by the
application of muriatic acid is rendered
perfactIy white, producing the bleached
sponge. Then again a beautiful yellow
is often obtained by immersing the sponge
in a light solution of saffron. 1t is prin-
cipally by these processes that street
sponge vendors are enable to offer such
white and apparently fine sponges for
sale 50 cheap"
'"Where do they get their sponges?"
"Well. you will never buy another one
from them after l tell you. From the
hospitals where the surgeons and nurses
have thrown them away after they have
been used in very loathsome diseases and
Tt.ov fha. oxr fkarn ~
process of cleaning and bleaching and do
actually offer surgeon silk sponges for
sale. But who knows whether all the
animal matter SIS out, and who wants
a sponge that has been through a hospi-
tai?
These vendors also take the common
estscarriage sponges, bleach them and
sell them for the finest Mediterranean
bathing sponges, at almost a nominal
price, but still at q great profit. They
are worth from SO to So apiece, and the
vendors get 81 to rs cents for them.
Now the commonest reef sponge retails
20 cents; bleach it and it soon rots and
becomes worthless. Indeed bleaching
has the effect, / think, of killing the
vitality either in a silk or common sponge.
Druggists often bleach them to a saffron
hue, but the process more or less deadens
them.
"Nearly all of the surgeon silk sponges
are small and are worth more than their
weight in gold. They are delicate and
soft and their pores are not as large as
the bathing sponge. BARRIERS use them
to sponge a face over after the razor has
done its duty, ank ladies frequently sat-
urate theirs with sweet perfumery OIL
glycerine and pass them gently over their
cheeks.
Common sponges are put to many
queer uses. Enclosed it bottles and sat-
urated with aromatic vinegar, they go
| by the name of ~inexhaustible salts, and
are used to cure a headache by smelling.
Then sometimes they are dipped in aro-
matte vinegar and ammonia, placed in
a bottle air tight, and sold to allevi-
ate neuralgia and similar complaints.
Tooth brushes often have on their
handles a fine silk sponge to pass over the
gums after they have been washed by the
brush. SpoDges are conductors of cleo
tricity too. and you will find them on the
handles of electric batteries. A sponge
is frequently charged with electricity and
placed on a horses head to relieve him
Of certain palma"
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de depression of the gravel, aEd in this little
puddle lay my nugget 1t was a pebble
A. large as a robins egg, literally fnll of
yellow. glittering metal, that made ny
hear; jump around in my throat IN a most
tumultuous manner l examined the little
pool of water more carefully aud found
another larger and even richer nugget.
| was crazy. | began to feel arrogant
and purse proud. | knew what it was
to look down on the poor. / sat down
on p big boulder and tried to look upon
nv former associates in the same way
that | did before prosperity had come
upon me. | began to invest my money
where il would be safe and still yield me
q fair interest.
By and by / began to get hungry. l
went down to camp and ate a little fried
salt pork that had been left over from
the midday banquet. showed the DO
Danza TO my partner. and told him that
he had better take the gold and go TO
town for more grub. He did SO. Two
DAYS passed and / toiled on. My partner
did o return. A horrible fear came up
on me. Perhaps he had taken the pro-
ceeds of my nuggets and meandered away
to some other cline. | could not endure
the uncertainty, and started out for town.
He was not there. He had fed. / in
quired everywhere, but could learn moth
ing of him till ] went to an Quitting
place, where one Of the clerks said that a
man answering to the description of my
partner had been there q few days before
and had tried to "trade some fool gold for
grub" he said. And the boys had told
him to leave town inside of thirty min
utos or they would hang him, and probs.
b.y he had skipped.
Then I asked him what "fool gold'
was. and he told me. 1t is generally q
streak of yellow mica that runs through
pebble and under water looks like gold
only a little too bright. He said that from
the mum Der of these nuggets that had
been brought in that season he judged
that the fool killer must have been
drawn on a jury somewhere and pre-
vented from attending to routine bust
ness.
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rs aid That IN heaven, ..once on a time"
Mhiiea grand orchestral swell
On tnyosan1 harps- repeated tbs chime
90 happy marriage bell.
Inc recording angel turned aside
From viewing asaf the fair vourg hr,S.
And smiled 10 behold an humble nair1
WIN iaded cheeks aud silsery hair.
snaf dost thou seholds" 81 Peter cried.
In that oldsn couple there;
z.s'scI tnine eye nom the fair young bride,
vita orange wresths on her hair"
II See said the angel. "a golden chain
11sIn OF the years-aD0 cemrnted with pafa-
tn.t pinos their hearts in a bond Of
AZ rue as the course CT the stars above
me sweetest Of blossoms are soonest to fade;
And those Of that fair young wife.
Are - N ensc on vanityss ALTAR laid.
Ano cannot survive through life;
~ 'ne golden chain, inwoyen By years
VI mutual forbearance, and sympathy's tears.
a. stronger than death. and sweeier than life.
AAd sufns to an angel the silyer-haired wife.
-fArkansaw Traveler