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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-04-08
A LONE STAR" SHINES.
1t Throws Light on Billiard Halls md Pool
Playing.


1t Throws Light on Billiard Halls md Pool
Playing.
KIND H L. C. FR1ENDs-After this long
silence, | will try to gain an entrance to
your merry paror.
"Chatterbox," we would comply with
yourrequest five knew your present name
(please favor us with it, for as you know
! was once in the FAR West, and letters
from friends were a great pleasure. evil
nina" your request is granted. "Mark
haywood, did you receive my letter?
Randolph" and "Only Sister," why this
long absence from the club? "Pompa-
dour" see has returned from his "trip
around the world"
We VIII have to get Detective" to dis
cover the secret hiding place of sister
'Pierria" AMI bring her back to the band.
"Go'den Star" is we'll again, and Little
Star" fills our home with sunshine.
There is one subject that | wish to call
your attention to, and hope that more
able writers than mvse viii discuss it,
and that is the billiard hall. In my esti-
nation the billiard hall is 4 horrid nui-
sance. 1t is pub ic trap which catches
new victims every day. 1t is a gambling
den any way you may look it. To play
billiards or pool is to gamble
and that cannot be denied
they play billiards and pool to see who
shall paw for the treats. In Kansas it is
cigars. cider and other stufls of non-dic-
tionary names, which is tine regular rou-
tine OF saloon drinks, and the game is
generally kept up until the PLAYERS can
not see straight, for the looser is bound to
get even with the winner. The billiard
and pool table is often the sole cause of
making drunkard's grave. II young
men would spend their spare time in read
good books or by pursuing a course of
seli-education instead of frequenting such
degrading places they would make far
more useful citizen than by pursuing the
downward road to ruin. BY the billiard
and pool playing they often create thirst
for gambling which leads them down to
the bottomless pit OF ruin. Ny young
friends who read this. | hope YOU will
shun such places as Won would a deadly
plague. Dear sisters, | hope also you will
use all your influence to turn the lads
from such dangers. Now we have just as
much use for billiard hall or saloon
as we have for rattle
snake and you know how one feels at
| the.sight of those venomous reptiles.
| III have stepped on some ones toes it
cannot be helped, for have only very
| poorly expressed my honest opinion on
this subject. Let us hear from some one
| else.
"P-," we have lately reread that re-
form club. and, have taken new resolu-
| tons and hope we will succeed.
Fra;ernally yours,
LONE STAR.
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1877 Lake-st.. Lawrence, Kas.
Opposed t. Interference.

DEAR II. L. G. FRIENDs-As l may call
you, for 1 have lately joined your pleas
ant club, and as this is my first visit will
be brief with my remarks. The question
that ''Wilmipa" has proposed is this,
(Which has caused the most misery in
the human family, war or intemperance ?"
1 would say intemperance without
faltering. The fre-water has ruined
more people and has caused more deaths
than did all the wars ever known. Is in
temperance started publicly? l would
say the most of it is not. Why we hear
OF men continually who use fire-water,
whom we thought too noble to do such q
thing and keeping it hidden from their
best friends.
would Ike to hear from some of the
others on this subject.
Where has our detective" gone? 'Lit-
tie True Blue" come again with another
good letter. "Aunt Sue," Iowa Blush, -
"Evelyn," "Kate Stover," and all the
others, come to the page. find go much
pleasure in the III. l.. G. page. Who will
welcome. "RoGER."
Zionsvi.le, Ind, March 81.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-04-08
FARM AND HOUSE COLUMN.
INCREASING THE YIELD OF COWS.
Profits Of Certain Good Mich Breeds
Grade Up tbs Herd-some Hints to the
Farmer-Anons the Chickens
valu.bis Household Recipes.

1t is CURIOUS and strange fact that the
very thing that should cause the most dis
satisfaction TO farmer or dairyman is just
what he complains of the least, and that
is the average yield of milk from his COWS.
In the face of the great yields of milk
from cows of certain breeds, reaching over
twenty-five quarts of milk per day from
particular individuals, the farmer is con-
tent to feed and care for cows, that are
considered by him as first-class if they
yield ten quarts of milk per day for six
months, or average seven quarts per day
for the entire year. The difference be-
tween the yields of pure-bred Holsteins,
or even OF Ayrshires, and the average OF
the ordinary dairy cows is SO great as to
make comparison a simple matter OF form
and yet the dairyman, while careful 10
save food and economic in every other
direction. as well as to secure all the best
modern appliances and implements per-
tanning to successful dairy management.
oyerlooks the source OF protit-the COW
and refuses to use the best and most
serviceabe for his purpose.
milk in a wear. or more, has been secured
by the use of the breeds that yield largely
of milk, while but one-iourth that amount
has been the average on most dairy farms,
and these large producers of milk the
Holsteins) have also produced rs much Is
one hundred pounds of butter in a month,
which shows the great inIpor ance OF the
breed as well as OF the feed. Every ounce
OF milk over and above that usually re-
ceived is so much gain. and the greater
the yield the larger the profit from the
original cost. With this comparison OF
yields before h m the farmer buys the
| cows instead of raising them, under tie
sapposition that il pays to sell tie cali III
its infancy and also the dam ~ soon as she
becomes dry. as long rs farmers buy
their fresh COWS and sell o. the calves
they will have but fraction Of the profits
to be derived from dairy products.
One pure-ored bull will. III 4 short .irne.
| if the COWS are raised on tie farm, not
| only pay for his cost. but SO largely IN
crease the profit as to render it almost
| Impossible to fail in dairying. unless from
| disease or Encouragement; and the cost
| OF keeping the CAT Ia bu; 4 small item
compared with the future gain that will
| be derived from it. While 5000 quarts OF
milk NAV not be obtained from every cow
OF the pure breeds. the fact that 1t has
| been done is sufficient to encourage those
! who improve their herds that the average
We'd NAV be more than doubled. and the
/ larger yield, while .rhaps requiring some
| extra feed, need not incur any great adj
| ditiOnal expense tor shelter or labor. BY
| aiming to improve constantly the herd
! will be more rofitahle every wear. and 6
! better system OF treatment ana manage
ment will also be the result.
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The HOWARD LITERARY.
NOTICE TO H. L. c. MEMBERS.

THE SENTINEL company kindly agrees to
allow the club a small commission on each
subscription sent in by the members for the
benefit of the Fl. L. c.
To secure this, members should send their
subscriptions to the II. L. c. treasurer, Anna
K. Guenther, III Fayette-st, Indianapolis, and
you will be duly credited and the paper sent
Immediately. Remit the full amount of sub
Scription tsl.OO) by draft post office order.
II receipt from treasurer is desired. enclose
postal card
By order Of Executive Committee.
'IATER On" Chairman.
Box %. Gravelton, lad.
Persons desiring to become members of the
Howard literary club should make application
10 the secretary, Mrs. E. o. Lowrey, Box 737,
Bloomington, III.
Ali those interested in the work, and desiring
TO contribute to this department are cordially
solicited to join membership.
All contributions for publication must be
written on one side of the paper only. and ac-
eompanied by the writer's real name and ad-
dress, as well as the nom-de-plume.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-04-08
SOME BITTER-SwEET TALK.
About Teaching and Then How to Capture
n Man.

n Man.
DEAR Howard FRIENDs-I have n few
minutes OF my own again and perhaps
they can be used in no more profitable
way than with you; surely no more
pleasantly.
wonder how many of you are teachers
There is a warm corner in my heart for
all teachers and 1 know some of their
trials, troubles and tribulations, also joys
and blessings, from experience. The
pecuniary compensation of a teacher is
usually small, and it is only by practicing
the most rigid economy can he she hope
to lay aside dot for rainy day or old
age, and it seems but just, after devoting
almost a lifetime in the schooi-room that
he or she should receive a pension. Far
too often the best talents have been
tempted to other empovments because
they can command higher wages, and
those with not sufficient energy or wit to
make living otherwise with their hands,
are left to experiment on our precious
young-as instructors.
III the teacher can put aside all
thoughts OF pecuniary compensation for a
higher gain, more elevating and inspir-
ing motive than mere money-getting,
there is a very bright side to the picture,
and the consciousness of following one of
the most useful and most honorable callings
nerves him or her on in the noble conflict
until victory is won andh or she receives
final reward. 1t has been generally con-
coded. l believe, that among instructors
of the young, and especially SO of those
IN the primary grades, woman have no
equal. Nature seems to have endowed
her with special gift that enables her to
best understand. instruct and gain the az
fections of the child, but in the higher
grades the male teacher is her equal, if
not her superior. but sex alone should not
determine our work in the world "Adap"
or Eve can. think, work either outside
or inside of the house and not be out of
his or her sphere. Our place in the world
is the one we can fill the best. or where
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-04-08

profitable source from which TO obtain
sugar it can then be produced in nearly
all sections.
The soil must be fed literally il Il is to
do liberal work. The capacity of all soils
depends on its soluble plant food and the
treatment given the crop. As soils vary
the farmer alone is the JUDGE of the kind
of plant food required by his soil. To
farm in an intelligent manner the farmer
should not only kow what soil needs, but
also the requirements of the crop to be
grown thereon, in order 10 produce the
greatest amount at the least cost.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-04-08
When she was a Child she cried for Castoria.
When sine became Miss, she chung to Castoria
When she he'd Children, sho gave them Cassoria
A Tramp's Gratitude

Well-Dressed Stran Madam, in the
upper left-hand corner OF a vest that you
gave to miserable tramp few months
ago there was cigar belonging to your
husband / have"
Lady of the House-"Why, this is the
same man. What great changed"
Stranger-"Yes. A rich uncle suddenly
died and left me all his wealth. AS i was
about to say, | have to thank your hus-
band"
Lady of the House-"Why. what for ~
Stranger-"For the cigar. / gave it to
nv uncla"-
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-04-08
CObwebs.

Cobwebs cobwebs, cobEebs; We find them every
where,
From the dusty garrett, to the cellar damp and
bare,
Ugly festoons, draping walls in somjre tones of
gay.
Very uuwholesome and unclesnly objects are
they.
Yet more unsightly, unseemly. I cannot re-
frain
From plying, though desp.sing a cobwebbed
bra n,
But the most abhorrent and the most need 70 con-
dole
Over, is filthy, unhealthy. cobwebbei soul.
H. L. C. brothers, sisters, your duty do not shirk,
But with heart, and hand and pen, join in the
cleansing work,
Destroying first dusty cobwcbs which at home
abound.
Then striving to eradicate this evil elsewhere
found. l"BITTER-SUEET."
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-04-08
Heroic Measures.

Mr.. G. Washington Coon (tenderly)-T
know 8 Use unworthy to kiss de hem of
yoah gahment, Miss Johnsing, but still
hope IFS me up"
Miss Johnsing--"Y d better lif yo'self
up, yo' low-down niggahl IF yo' wants
me to be voah wife don't kneel there
like dressmaker befo' job o. pleatin' !"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-04-08
A TIMID WR TER.
One Who DIscourses Friendship and
Seems Out of Spirits.

One Who Discourse. on FrIendship and
Seems Out of Spirits.
H L. c. FRIENDs-Timidly enter the
charmed circle of bright minds and Ten
nysonian hearts, whom so i call because
have judged them to be worth more
than coronets, and my timidity arises from
the surmise that such spirits will not Ger
warmly welcome a misanthropic poet of
low grade, which have the honor or
shame to be known among my friends.
Friends, did | say? What friends have
/, who only twice in twenty years have
been granted a blessed moment to
pour out the pent up quality of pain
(which has no cognomen, but makes
amends Tor the loss in intensity of exist
encel into an understanding ear, which
alone can be real friend? Only two
have l known and these We're soon carried
out OF my reach by the eddies of time
Very plain faces hey had, and common
names-Heen and Lou-but to me their
pronunciation is music and fragrance of
flowers. l remember you friends; the
grasses will shield my nominees when
you twain are forgotten, dear faces, fair
hearts that heard me and throbbed with
sympathy. ! love my kindred, love and
pity al mankind, each individual waif or
grandee whom I meet. but how can call
them friends who will never know what
makes my eyes CLASSY and puts a meian-
chOly cadence In my voice. Dull and I'M
meaning 10 them are the lines which l re-
member 70 have written:
am sighiug, am singing.
an crying. I am Gin ding
All soul OF sense and feeling
Into syiables Of sound;
Though scarce caa tell thee why for,
Why my soul with grief is rife or
M0urnfui rhy m. are from IL stealing,
Like the warm blood from a wound.
You will have perceived that my SUBJ
ject is friendship, and friend. as 1 think
II, is one who can appreciate your worth,
lecture your faults and shed the tear
which is not born of sorrow. This is he,
not the starched and cnattering auto
maton who is always at my side, who like
me, weeps by the bier aud laughs by the
board. But there is discord in his sorrow
and his laugh lacks the spiritual ring:
A primrose b. the rivers brim,
"A yeliow primrose IL TO him,
Aud 10 is nothing more.
This is enough for an introduction
will write more at another time, and a
poem soon. Meanwhile, friends, forgive
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the blueish tint which evidently pervades
this brief essay. You would write in a
sorry strain, too, on the business desk in
a storeroom by the light of a lamp at mid
day-and the sun hidden for a week.
Flora, H., April Z. DAN d.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-04-08
NfnZg MASCOT

May Mascot, fair and tickle.
What dreadful thing you've spreait
Now who tod you was married
And my hair was fiery red?
Listen May: Listen dearest;
Don't you know what you have done?
You have oiled my chance forever.
just when had IeAr, won.
May May! Who has told you,
All this crue! stuff of me?
Surely. Surely you amt made it
Made pepper pod of me.
Whisper May; come still closer
Who has told this awful ib.
Told it to yOu young and guIeless;
With tsnguo so smooth aud glip'
May, tell me; Til not tell IL
If YOU do-that is, hi. name;
But I'll gently warn You, May,
Not % trust his word again.
In to puzzleland you're going;
Watch the friends thst there YOU meet
Thy will pose as something stunning,
Bat their names are fraud complete.
Raleigh, Ind, April /. 'IpA s.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-04-08
After the New Baby.

Mama-"Johnny, why don't you come
in TO see mama when she's sick? Don't
you love me any more?'
Johnny-"0h, yes, mana; but / didn't
know but perhaps il might be catching"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-04-08
Housecieaning Time.

II. L. G. FRIENps-Here / am again.
After that typesetter made such blunder
in my last letter / was afraid to try it
again. no, Ida" Moses was all right, but
think that typesetter was learning to
sing "Razzle Dazzle"
"May Belle" ii | were allowed one
thing in the kitchen think would want
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-04-08
A Natura Ambition.

PUCK.
. 'Do You want six-shooter?"
"well, I'd rather have nine-shooter.
I want to kill a cat"
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1891-01-04
The Third Party Vote,

James B. Weaver, as Presidential nomi-
nee OF the Greenback party, obtained 307,-
306 votes in 1890. This was the largest
vote ever polled by the Greenbackers. Pro-
hibition strengh reached its highest mark
in 1888, when Clinton B. Fisk, the Presi-
dental candidate of the organization, re-
ceiyed 250,29 votes. The only other
minor parties which ever had much sup
port were the Free Soilers in 1S4S, the
Know Nothings in 1856 and the Constitu-
tional Unionis!s in $780, The Free Soil
vote was 291, ,236. the Know Nothing S74,-
534, and the Constitutional Union 5S9, ,5Sl.
Martin Van Buren was the candidate of
the first named of these organizations at
that time, Millard Fillmore of the second
and John Bell of the third. The Liberty
party, however, in 1874, James G. Birnev
being its Presidential standard bearer, al
though it polled only $1,000 votes in the
whole country, cast enough in New York
to give that State and the country to James
(. Polk, the Democratic nominee, defeat.
ing the Whig candidate, Henry Clay
State Democrat
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1891-01-04
SCIENTIFIC HINTS.

The substitution of electric lights for the
Davy lamps in coal mines is likely to re-
duce the danger of gaseous explosion to a
minimum.
The Scandinavians excel in the opera.
tions of manufacturing and packing
matches. Machines are at work in Nor.
way which complete 1000 boxes per
minute.
If box six feet deep was filled with sea
water and allowed to evsporate under the
sun there would be two inches of salt on
the bottom. At this rate, were the Allan
tic Ocean to dry up, there would be layer
of fine salt on the bottom go feet thick.
DR.. Muirhead, OF Lanarkshire, Scotland,
has kept $150.000 for the founding and
maintaining an institution for the instruc-
ton and education of women in medical
and biological sciences, whereby they may
be trained to become medical practitioners,
dentists, electricians and chemists.
The London Inyent,on remarks: Not
withstanding the fact that cotton mills
are being increased wonderfully in the
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1891-01-04
He Had a Reason.

Murphy spokesman of committee)-
"Slattery, we byes do be appointed by
tn orther to wait on yez IN have yez put
yer name to this payteeshnn for shorther
hours"
slattery-"oi do put moy name to no
payteeshuns."
Murphy-"Phwotl Don't yez be in wild
tn movement" ?"
Slattery-"O' course OF DO be in wild tn
movement, but Oh put my name TO no pay.
teeshuns."
Murphy-"Whst ails ye, mon 2n
Slattery-"Oi do tells ye Oh put moy
name to no payteeshuns."
Murphy-"All tn rist o. tn byes do be a
signin' O. it,
slattery-"Well, Oi'll be domd if Oh do
Murphy-"Don't ye be afther wantin'
shorther hours and bigger pay?n
Slattery-"O' coorae Oh do"
Murphy-"Do ye wants tn byes to think
ye do be scabberl'
Slattery-O' coorse not.'
Murphy-"Thin, Mr.. Slattery. phwy tn
divil won't ye sign yez name TO the paytee.
shun?n
Slattery-" Because, Mr.. Murphy, Oi
don't De afrher KNOWN how to WROTE moy
name'i-E EDoch
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1891-01-04
The Last Facforx

clergyman riding on the down train
from Boston to Yarmouthport the other
day had his attention attracted by the sue
cession of factories as the train was passing
through Brockton. the city Of shoes.
How many factories are there here?r he
asked a neighboring passenger; has the
row no end?"
That's the last factory" replied the pas
senger.
You're mistaken" said the clergyman;
here is another
II tell you that was the last factory. y said
the other, imperturbably.
As there was likely to be hot argument.
third person pacifcally interposed and
explained that it was the last factory, or in
other words, the factory where lasts are
made.-Cape Cod Item.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1891-01-04
HE BEAT HIS WAY.
A Young Chicago Trickster Rides Down

Town for Nothing.
II have not failed to ride down town on
a North Side grip-car free of charge for a
week" said smooth faced, dapper young
man to his companions as he stood on the
corner of Clark and Center streets waiting
for chance to get aboard car.
THAT SO? Tell US how you do it and we
will work the snap, too" said his compan-
ions in the same breath.
well, it's this way: There are always a
lot of people on the corner waiting for a
car, and while the conductor is helping the
women on jump aboard in front and take
seat inside. Then pull out paper and
become intent on the news. The gripman,
nine times out of ten, is busy fixing his
tension screw, or watching the track
ahead, and pays no attention to me. When
the conductor comes through the car for
his fares 1 never look up, and he has
doubts about me, but usually after hard
stare at me his memory gives out, and he
passes en-"
Don't believe it works more'n one time
in hundred" said one of the listeners
bet you a V DO it Oh the ride down
town." promptly responded the smooth
faced individual.
Its 60" said his companion.
The money was put up in the hands of
the other members of the party, and the
trio prepared to board car. But for some
reason the first limits car that came along
did not appear 10 suit the free ride man,
and there being little room in it, he bad an
excuse to wait for the next one This was
a Lincoln avenue, and he directed his
friends to get aboard on the rear platform,
while he gained entrance in front, as he
had explained Sitting down about the
center of the car, he pulled paper from
his pocket and began reading with great
interest.
His friends secured seats near him and
went through to the front and collected
fare, then on to the two friends, got his
nickels, gave an old lady change for a quar-
ter in pennies. refused to accept Canadian
dime from fashionably dressed young
woman, and passed out without so much
as glance in the direction of our reading
friend. Just as he was opposite him, how.
ever, the diligent reader rustled his paper
vigorously, quite like man whose sole
thought was to find the editorial column
or the funny paragraphs.
When the three arrived at Washington
street they alighted and sought the seclu-
sion of q saloon to pay the stakes
Pretty good scheme I'll work it N.Y.
SELF" said the one who had lost his V.
Yes, it's easy when you know how"
replied the winner as he pocketed his $40.
Then he left. and in another minute was at
the tunnel entrance, where he caught the
same car that he had come down on. "I
had great luck that time Jimmie said he
as he handed the conductor So So CHICAGO
Times
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1891-01-04

South, New England mills are largely in
creasing their capacity. There seems to be
room enough for all" Yes. and the room
will be larger under our new tariff.
The Photographic Neps (English) asks:
why does not one of the English photo
graphic organizations appoint committee
TO deal with all new discoveries made in
foreign lands? From the proceedings of
most of our societies (it remsrks) it might
be inferred that photographic workers do
not exist out of the United Kingdom"
Masters of vessels cannot be reminded
too often of the use Of oil in stormy wealth
er Its importance is well illustrated by
facts now referred to at length in standard
books on seamanship, and the Information
al Marine Conference at Washington rec
commended that 1.-The several Governments
require all their sea-going vessels to carry
q sufficient quantity of animal or vegetable
oil, for the purpose of calming the sea in
rough weather, together with suitable
means for applying it."-Plot Chart