The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-02-25
"rHE DErEcrIvE" COMES AGAIN.
He Discusses woman's Progress and Some
Other Subjects.


Other Subjects.
KIND al. c. c." FRIENDs.-As l have
not yet answered to the roll call OF '9l 1
doem it proper that DO so at once, so l
answer there"
had one misfortune since my last chat
with YOU On the third Saturday OF De-
cember, 80, took my breechloader and
started in search OF game, as you know
pedagogues OF the masculine gender do
for a recreation. I met with fine success
in the forenoon, butwhi returning home
timid hare invited me to try my expert
nees. / sent the leaden hail and checked
the progress of that animal. Yes, and
something was the matter with the Ode
tective's" anatomy. After recovering my
senses, which occupied quite a while, i
found one of the chambers bursted and
both hands badly torn and bruised; also
portion of my wearing apparel torn off
amidships where r portion OF the flying
fragments passed. A close call, but such
are the trials of Detective"
Some one has asked me kindly to write
moro concerning love and the matrimo-
nia' path. To what / have said IN the past
l will add this: AS l sit reclining in my
are in path where the full blown flow
ers of youth pass either 10 a state of love,
social happiness, with all the noble &C
quirements of such, or TO state OF mis-
cry, depreciation and sin.
There always seems 70 me something
pathetic when / consider the lot OF
womankind No matter however pleas
ing and attractive the surface may be, it
has been a record of trouble since the lay
ing Of the cornerstone OF history.
Sacred record, intimating that it was
not good for man to be alone, speaks in
the following chapter that the first
woman's mission was to be blamed for the
transgression Of her husband.
Now, for the next thousand years she
carried the vain tic and jrudgeiy OF
slave-absolutely recognized by only one
qUalificatiOn-physic beauty f-o
This may be noted and understood by
studying tine history of past kingdoms.
All rulers OF the opposite gender were
noted IN greater or lesser degree for
their personal endowments. Even at the
opening of the Christian era We find her
still under subsection, but from that time
on she has steadily advanced until today
she is mans peer intellectually and his SUI
perior socially.
This is indeed gratifying fact, but 1
am sorry TO say that ii is Overshadowed by
one OF the darkest clouds that has ever
east a shadow upon the horizon of human
existance. The woman OF today has adj
vanced intellectually and morally, but
has sadly refrigerated physically. Every
student of history or reader of events has
been conscious that woman's health of
today is far superior to that OF the be-
ginning of the present century, such being
caused by the demands of fashion and
fads Of society. dress and custom. | will
leave here abruptly and take the opposite
sex. Man, the first violatOr of the law,
the first Inebriate and 10, the MANY deeds
OF degeneration that he has performed.
How many little threads OF life have been
snapped by the animal instinct and pas
siOns OF man. The tendencies and in
stigating elements of this line are almost
without number, but one Of the most
prominent and chief of NIL is intemper-
ance.
wonder il the young man who patron
ICES those places whose entrances are
screened by green blinds or costly cur
tains, really means what he says when
paying his sweetheart his best attentions.
He may mean Tor rather attempt 70 do sol
but am sorry to say that he seldom full
fills his promises, yet how many pure and
noble young ladies Join fortunes with
man OF this type with a view III retorlna-
ton, only in the end TO lead a miserable
life. Girls, never marry man OF this
type. My twenty-seeond milestone IL
within lew hours apace yet in that short
period j have seen several young buds
scared and future happiness blasted.
During my short existence on this ter
restial ball haYe studied nearly all mat
tiers of interest relative TO the existence
and welfare OF mankind and find 'tistime
to begin to devise some plan of reforma-
ton in the various phases OF human socia-
bility.
VT On flows the human tide,
hssistless and never at rest.
Bearing on Its swell banks that ride
Der mountain waves whose crest
Is dashed in fury by the tempest.
Some will founder some may wreck.
While some will enter the harDor OF rest.
Some one has asked me why THE SEN
TINEL was wrapped in material of it's own
likeness. Also why some MSS fall into
the w. Il. The latter reminds me of the
little boy who went a fishing on log
when his mother told him to dig potatoes.
It's hard 10 fish anything out OF de
tective." They always like to do that
themselves, especially when they can
make sucker believe he is fishing for
succor.
will now leave my few broken re-
marks with you and start in pursuit Of
"Bonny Bird" as "Pompadour" has wired
me to bring her to justice.
Wishing The SENTINEL and all writers
success now take my departure.
OBJECTIVE"