The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-04-08
A PLEASANT LETTER.
"Incog" Discusses u Picture, n Book and
som ething {" Eat

Some thing {" Il NJ.
My Howard FRIENDs-How good it
seems to have the page full again. 1 won
der ii we cannot manage in some way to
keep it so. l suppose that those who
wrote last week write again in two months
from that date and those who write this
week write again in two months from this
date, and so on. If the editor gets more
Mss. than he can use we will make the
space between letters three months in
stead of two and let each member have a
stated time to write and not shirk his or
her responsibility; and don't say week
after week, Really. l must write for the
page" but write when your turn comes
What do you think, friends, OF the plan?
will il carry?
Hamlet" 1 found your letter all the
more interesting as we have an etching OF
''Chrisl before Plate" from Munkcsy's
painting and | studied it with more inter
est with your letter for "key," than l
had ever done before. The young man
with uplifted arms crying Cruelty Him."
"Crucify Him." Eldridge s. Brookes
takes for the hero of his bible romance.
"a Son of Issachar" He was the wild
ow's son who was raised from the dead at
the gate OF Main, and for a time believed
| the rabbi joshua" was the Messias. and
that he had come to set up his king
dom on earth He was aware OF Juda
! Bar-Simon's Judas Iscariot) plan to be-
| tray the Lord, but they both thought 1t
would Onlv hasten the end for which they
We're so impatient, the overthrow of Rome
and the restoration of Israel. The
one was descendant of a
| long line of princes and con-
| fidently expected to reign q prince in
| Israel. He did not think the multitude
| could take Jesus. He thought when the
supreme moment arrived He would call
legion of angels to His rescue, and when
he saw Him led away like criminal he
| fe,t that he had been duped and cheated.
Instead of prince in Israel, he was again
a poor camel driven from the potter's
| street of Main, and in an agony OF disap-
pOintment he cried with the mob, Cruel
| fv Him!" Cruelty Him." But when
| darkness covered the earth, and the veil
OF the temple was rent in twain he knew
| that il was indeed the messias and that he
| had helped to cruelty his Lord He was
| one of those who witnessed the appear
ance of Jesus to the disciples and had Him
| And for about twelve years he was in the
ministry, as he had been called Cheiel-
son of a crown. He was afterward called
| Stephen-a crown. He died the first
! Christian martyr. The story is very In
| teresting and one from which a good
| moral can be drawn.
"U. b. Sti |" tells us he has read some
| OF Robert El5mere," but has nothing TO
| say about it. / think it a most interesting
book, and how any oEe can read any,
| thing about Robert, or Catherine, or the
! Squire, and not wish to read the whole. Is
a mystery. Even Rose and LGRgham are
! interesting characters. | know there are
| those who think the books religious in
| fiuence is bad but it seems impossible to
me that Christian can be injured by Rob
| e7t ErsncTeS creed. 1t may not be a very good
book fOrskeptics, but count it an interest
ing one fOrall that The New Brotherhood"
is a reality. 1t exists in London and Mrs.
Humphrey Ward is one OF the workers
therein. | have recently read THE Fair
God" | commenced il one rainy Sunday
and finished it the 70 lowing afternoon; so
you see | found it interesting.
Newspaper gossip tells us that Gen.
Lew Wallace Is writing a story OF the con-
quest OF COnstantinOple By the Turks in
l454, and intends 1t to be as good in its
way as ben f1uF, DQI i doubt IL. L be-
lieve ben Hur" will be his masterpiece.
At present l am making scrap-books, one
of short sketches and items, one of short
stories, one of poems and one of house
hold items and recipes. When they are
finished it will make eight
scrap-books / have made in eight years.
use the books put out by the state, and
get them at the county clerks oifie. The
last time / was in the courthouse there
was a large pile of the BOOKS in one OF the
corridors and the ianitOr said they were
glad to have them taken away. l prefer
| the size containing about 800 pages, as
| large books break in the binding Every
| second leaf must be cut out The ietter-
| ing on the back can be painted out, and
the words scraps, poems or anything suit
able, can he substituted with god paint,
and they are not bad looking books for a
| book case.
And now, lest shock some one who is
too refined to indulge in anything so
| vulgar as eating, 1 will step into
the kitchen and tell sister ''Nant"
/ that / found her cream pies
excellent, and ali the more welcome that
"pie timber" is not plentiful here this
spring. AS "H. o. NJ" SAYS fruit is scarce
| and have come down to mock mince
pies. here is an improved recipe: One
| and one-half cups brown sugar. two cups
hot water, one cup chopped rasins, one
half teaspoonful cinnamon and tie same
of cloves, small lump of butter when
boiling add eighteen crackers powdered
fine, bake in two crusts. 1t makes two
pies.
House-claning time Is fast approaching
and if any OF you have carpet that does
not need busting, and yet you fear there
are moths in it. take a strip of cloth
eighteen inches wide, wiring it from a
basin of water, spread it on the carpet
close to the base and iron it dry; keep on
ali around the room, and when you have
finished there will be no live moths Left
| If you have a small oil stove take it to
the room with you and save steps.
April /. ''INcoG."
| JESSIE CLYDE" COMES AGAIN.
| Home Rule a Bright Fnce and n Cheerful