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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-10-18
SHED AND EAT THEIR COATS.
Interesting Proceedings of Two OF
the Largest Snakes in America.

The two large pythons which were i'm
ported from India for the geological gar
den have made themselves at home IN
their new quarters. They are said to be
the largest reptiles in this country and
naturally attract considerable attention
They had only been here two weeks when
both snakes underwent change. Ihey
became droopy, and it was seen that they
had begun to shed their skins.
The shedding process is about at an
end now, but the manner in which the
snakes accomplish the greater part of the
job is wonderful. The greater python
measures sixteen feet and the other
twelve. They are males and have
mouths like cellar doors, that are filled
with fangs. On Monday last the big
snake. which had eaten nothing for three
weeks because he was shedding his coat,
got move on himself and climbed one
of the small trees and coiled all around
the limbs. Then he rubbed his head and
neck violently against the branches in
every direction and gradually lOosened
the old cuticle from around his head,
mouth and neck.
In the meantime the other snake was
not idle. 1t, too, coiled around the tree,
and raising its head took hold of its big
brothers neck, and by careful manipula-
ton loosened the skin from the head and
neck for about a foot down. Then II
took hold of the loosened skin, and the
keeper and spectators who were watch
ing the proceedings saw what was going
to happen. With its head and neck free
the big snake could help in the shedding
operation, and it twisted around the tree
near the top and began to pull away
from the smaller snake at top speed.
; Inch by inch the old skin was released
and the bright colors of the new cuticle
came in view. 1t took nearly an hour
TO get about half of the body free from
the old covering, and then both snakes
rested. The skin was pulled back just
as one would turn glove inside out and
gave the reptile a peculiar appearance.
When the snakes resumed their job,
they employed different tactics. The lar
ger snake climbed higher, and the other
made itself fast lower down the tree.
The smaller one took hold of the skin
and pulled for all it was worth until
all Of the covering, with the exception of
about two feet from the big snakes tail,
was loose.
Then a most wonderful thing hap
pened. The big snakes head was at the
top of the tree, and he hadn't been pay
ing much attention to the goings on at
the other end of his body. When the
smaller snake stopped pulling, the big
one looked down apd saw that something
was wrong. His eyes glistened. and
reaching down he grabbed a mouthful
of his own covering and proceeded to
hnish the job. 1t was done with dis
patch and ease. The big snake seemed
proud at his new suit and wriggled all
around the case and admired himself
for some time. Then, to the astonish-
ment of the watchers, the smaller snake
climbed the tree and went through the
same performance, assisted by the larger
one.
After both reptiles were free from the
old skins they made meal of them, and
each drank about a gallon of water TO
wash down the repast-Philadelphi
Press.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-10-18
THE KAISER AS GOD HEIMDALL.
The Ancient Dfvinity's HornbIowing
Heard Through the World.

The brief sketch of the old Scandi-
navian god Heimdall, to whom Kaiser
Wilhelm compared Germany on Monday
night at Carlsruhe, and who has been
so generally accepted as the prototype
and portrait of the Emperor himself,
may be supplemented by an account of
that interesting divinity taken from Du
Chaillu's Viking Age" There is one
point of resemblance especially in the
Du Chaillu description that is especially
striking-namely, that about the horn,
the blowing of which by Heimdal is
heard through all worlds" It may be
as well to say that White AS means
White God. The description in 1.-The
Viking Age is as follows:
"Heimdall is the Waterman of the gods
standing on Bifrost bridge Ghe Rain
bow-Later Edda, 30.
"Heimdall is named the White AS; he
is great and holy; nine maidens bore
him a son, and they were all sisters.
He is called Hallinskidi and Gullintanni
gold TOOTH
His teeth are of gold: his horse is
called gold named. He lived at a place
called Himinbjoerg Cheaven mountains,
by Bifrost.
HE is warden of the gods and sits there
at the end of heaven to guard the bridge
against the Berg Risar (mountain
Joetnar.
"He needs less sleep than a bird; he
can see equdlIy wen ny hlShI anu ny udy
a hundred leagues away, and he hears
when the grass grows or the wool on
the sheep and all that is louder than
these.
HE has the horn called Gjallarhorn
and his blowing is heard through all
worlds The sword of Heimdall is
called Hoefud (Gylfaginning, 20"
Again, If Heimdall was the warden of
the gods Kaiser Wilhelm certainly con-
siders himself the warden of the Ger
man princes Of the empire-an assump-
ton which Prince Bismarck has recently
attacked with considerable vigor.-N. Y.
Herald.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-10-18

difference? Wen float along side by
side till you paddle your boat over to
me-"
IT guess we had better wait awhile"
renegade, who now wished TO give his
Indian allies time to carry out their
little scheme.
Indeed it was already under way.
While the last words were on the lips
of the speaker, Kenton saw the canoe
shadow. Like the moccasins of the
great scout and ranger, the paddle
seemed ''shod with silence
The Shawanoes at first had descended
the river so far that even the keen eyes
of Kenton could not see them when they
shot across to the Kentucky shore. Then
they went up stream until safe dis
lance above the flatbOat, upon which it
was now advancing in a straight line.
The subtle red men, for there were two
of them, intended to land at the stern
and creep over the gunwale. Fully
armed as both were, they counted on no
difficulty or danger in overcoming the
single defender and towahawking the
defenseless ones.
Since there were but two in the canoe,
Kenton decided to attend to them with
out help from his friends.
He expected the little craft to advance
swiftly now that it had entered the field
Of vision, but to his surprise it hesitated
and held back, as though the inmates
were not fully satisfied with the outlook.
They were more guarded than he antici-
pated.
What is your name?" he called with
a view of inducing an advance by his
enemies in their little craft.
"Volney," was the prompt response,
land 1t was a sorry day when we left
our home in West Virginia to come to
this cursed country. Aren't you sorry
that you've been fool enough to do the
same?"
Il don't know why I should be; there
hain't nothing happened to us yet"
KentOn would have said more, but,
while keeping his eye on the canoe, now
in plain sight and approaching faster
than ever, he was startled to discover
that whereas there were two Indians in
it few minutes before now there was
only one.
What's become of that other var
mint?" he asked himself, knowing that
some subtle mischief was afoot; he s
up to some deviltry, I'm sure, and there's
more in this business than L thought
The conclusion of the scout was correct,
as he quickly learned.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-10-18
some Moon Myths.

Many approximations beliefs as to the
Influence" of the moon still remain,
even in this decade of the nineteenth
century, In some localities it is believed
to be unlucky to be empty handed when
one first beholds the new moon, and
among the same people having silver in
the hands or gold in the pockets is a
good sign" If one is about entering
upon an important undertaking, ne had
best defer proceedings until the moon
is ''filling'-that is, until some time be-
tween new and full moon.
All English speaking people refer to
the moon as ''she'' AND the sun as he
in Hindoo mythology, however. the
goddess of night" is a male diety, sup
posed to be the son of the patriarch Atri.
young man who was transferred to
the realms of space because he was too
good to associate with other human be-
ings. The Malays, Siamese and several
classes and castles of the Chinese. speak
of the moon as a great milk curd or
butter ball which arose from the
primeval sea of milk when IL was
churned by the gods to procure the much
priced beverage Of Immortality. st.
Louis Republic.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-10-18
Food and Fat.

Human fat is composed of 70 per cent.
carbon. a little over IL per cent. hydro
gen and a little over 3 per cent oxygen.
Of course this fat cannot be accumulated
unless it's ingredients are taken into the
body in food. The food which has a
preponderance of these ingredients can
he worked off by open air exercise, be-
cause the oxygen of the air uniting with
the carbon goes out of the lungs in the
form of carbonic gas and relieves the
system of so much fat This is the rea-
SON why people who lead an open air
life or who live in the country or on
mountains and breathe a great deal of
fresh air are less likely to be corpulent
than business men, shOpkeepers and
others VITO are habitually in an atmos-
phere with less oxygen and who take less
exercise. Open air respiration is one of
the best ways to work off fat, says an
exchange.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-10-18
SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS

Simon Kenton. hunter. whose deeds
along the Ohio and Kentucky fronuer
Boone, while threading his way through
the depths of the Kentucky wilderness lVo
years ago. discovered that in spite OF his
precautions to cover his trail, the herce
Shawnoes. who, led by their famous Pan
ther. were in hot pursuit, had traced MN:
With audacious cunning, yet conscious OF
his awful peril, the renowned traPper anu
Indian fighter lodged behind the trunk OF
a tyee The red men had seen him, oespltHS
see, Renton was between two fires.
Kenton's adventures with the lndlahs
brings him in contact with young George
Ashbridge. who is following the river oank
while looking for the nat-boat In when
are his father mother and sister. me
smoke from a distant campfire causes
the pair to be on the alert for savages'
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-10-18
Her Youngest.

A candidate for parliamentary honors
who, by the way. is not family man
wishing to ingratiate himself with the
wives of the electors. made round of
visits and came across woman with a
very numerous family. He professed
great interest in her children, making
Various INQUIRIES as to their ages, etc.
and Just as he was going pointed to
three-months' -old baby in the cradle and
asked:
{ And is that your youngest child,
madam ?''-London Tid-Bits.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-10-18
CHAPTER xI.
The subterfuge.

Now that the second fatboat had
doomed to view in the dim moonlight
Simon Kenton took charge of matters.
Surely none was better flied than he
and all were glad to have the benefit
of his skill, experience and personal
daring.
the women any intimation of what was
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-10-18
DAD WAYS
- Pill S,
Always Reliable,
Purely Vegetable.
ThGGrGat Liver and Stomach Remedy
PERFECTLY TAsTELEss.
Over Forty Years i'm Use and
Never Known to Fail.

Possess properties the most extraordi-
nary in restoring health. They stimulate
to healthy action the various organs, the
natural conditions of which neces-
sary for health. Grapple with and neu-
tralize the impurities driving them COM
pletely out of the system.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-10-18
CUREs AND PREVENTs
Colds. Coughs. Sore Throat.
inflammation, Bronchitis,
Pneumonia. Asthma.
Difficult Breathing,
Influenza,
Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Scidhcd, L0n1-
bago, Swelling of the Joints, Pains
in Back, Chest or Limbs.

The application Of the READY RELIEF
TO the part or parts where the difficulty or
pain exists will afford ease and comfort
BOWELS or STOMACH, CRAMPS, SOUR
STOMACH, SPASAIS, NAUSEA, NOMIT-
ING, HEARTBURN, NERVOUSNESS.
DIARRHOEA, collie. FLATULENCY.
PAINTING SPELLS are relieved instantly
and quickly cured by taking internally
half to a teaspoonful of Ready Relief In
half a tumbler OF water
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-10-18
EsADWAY'S
IL SarsapariIIian
zzz.Ezzzz~ Rncnivnnt
THE GREAT FLOOD PURIFIER,


A remedy composed of ingredients of ex-
traordinary medical properties, essential
to purify, heal, repair and invigorate the
Droken-down and wasted body. Quick,
pleasant, safe and permanent in its treat
ment and cure.
For the Cure OF Chronic Disease. ScrofuIoUs.
Hereditary or co1tag Gus.
Not only does the SarsapariIla Resolvent
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Chronic, Scrofulous, Constitutional and
Skin Diseases, but il is the only positive
cure for
KIDNEY AND BLADDER COMPLAINTS.
Urinary and Womb Diseases, Gravel. Dia-
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thence of Urine, Brights Disease, Al
bumiuuria, and all cases where there are
brick dust deposits, or the water is thick,
cloudy, mixed with substances like the
white of an egg, or threads like white
silk, or there is a morbid, dark, bilious ap-
pearance and white bone-dust deposits,
and when there is a prickling, burning,
sensation when passing water, and pain
in the small of the back and along the
ioins. Sold by druggists. Price, One Dollar.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-10-18
RAILWAYS is a Compound Pill.

One of their ingredients will attack the
lazy LIVER. another viii rouse up the
BOWELS, another will attack the SKIN.
and still another will hurry up the KID
NEYS. This is the beauty of their effect
i've operation: whilst they have a specific
action on the Liver, they have reflex
or reflective action on this same organ
by their other specific effects on the or
gans of the system; whilst they force
with the one hand they persuade with the
other, till all the organs are brought to
harmonious action and perform their re-
frrOc
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-10-18
CONQUEROR OF PAIN

and has done more good than any known
remedy.
FOR PAINS. BRUISES. BACKACHE.
PAIN IN THE CHEST OR SIDES,
HEADACHE TOOTHACHE OR ANY
OTHER EXTERNAL PAIN, a few appi-
cations rubbed or by the hand act like
magic, causing the pain TO instantly stop.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-10-18
RAILWAYS PILLS

Drive out all diseases from whatever
cause they may be making inroads
your system; delay no longer; the remedy
is at hand; a dose or two will convince
YOU of the truth.
To thousands now suffering we say, you
have the remedy in your own hands. Rad
ways is a well-known Pill, containing the
choicest extracts taken from the Negeta-
bic Kingdom only, compounded in the most
scientific proportions, which were found
bv DIR. Railway to be the best adapted TO
stimulate and restore TO healthy action
the disordered organs. They contain
mineral or metals or their salts-nothing
poisonous enters into their composition,
and they are perfectly safe to take To
those who are looking for a
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-10-18
Health Restorer

we cannot too strongly recommend a
well-tried. safe and efficient remedy such
as is presented in Railways Pills
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-10-18
r. r. r.
DADWAY'S
ID READY RELIEF

The most certain and safe Pain Remedy
in the world that instantly stops the most
excruciating pains. 1t is truly the great
The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-03-31
The Cowboys Accomplishments.

One of the chief sports Of the cowboys
is snatching IA solnbrero from the ground
on "a horse running at full speed. This
is done by many. They have become ex-
perts in the use of a 6-shooter trevolverl,
and u cowboy on the plains is seldom
seen without one or more, often two,
buckled to his waist. 1t becomes a
weapon offensive and defensive. Some
times "a roped bull becomes so furious
that the cowboy is compelled to shoot
him. Usually the cattle N the plains
are not dangerous. They will seldom
attack a men on horseback unless they
have been roped. If d man was on foot,
a herd would run over him trying to find
out what lie was. y COW or bull Is DAN
gerous when roped. 1t is not much of a
trick to throw n lasso and catch a COW,
but the skill, courage and strength comes
after the COW has been lassoed.-Cor
Richmond Dispatch.
The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-03-31
He Was Too Smart,

The boarding house joker has at last
met with a setback. He has beer crushed
by the landlady. and it came about in
this way.
He was the only man at the table full
of lovely girls, and like all only men he
was spoiled. So when the belle OF the
table remarked that she was very fond Of
pepper and then siftei half the contents
of the pepper box over her food he sprang
an old gag on her:
ut won't hurt you. This pepper is half
peas
What is that YOU say" asked the
landlady from the next table. ''Speak a
little louder, won't YOU
He reiterated his remark.
THAT isn't true," retorted the land
lady holly. L do not use adulterated
goods on my table"
MY dear madam" said the bland
joker, there are always a lot of ps III
pepper"
There was an impressive pause; then
the landIady said in a crushing tone:
'.Oh. yes; just as you always furnish
part of the dessert
Il don't understand"
"The chestunts." Detroit Free Press.
The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-03-31

Attacks Of s4ci headache coul1 often
be avoided il she cause Of them were
knovyu. In nary instances the oaase Is
y d~isordared condition Of the stomach.
In such cases there Is often a regular re-
c~urrence - the attacks. the person III the
meantime feeling perfectly free fromthe
complaint.
Here it will often be found that by
some error Of diet the patient Is gradu-
ally accommodating i'll his system some
uoxious substances. which it takes a spe-
cial effort OF nature to throw OFF. Then
the whole internal machinery refuses to
do It's ordinary work. The stomach, the
intestines. the liver and other ORGANS
which produce the digestive juices al
most entirely cease their regular task of
rendering the food taken into the mouth
fit for absorption into the system at large.
Someti,.. IS habitual o%vereating will
produce this result, or a person who
has been constantly active may continue
| to eat his usual amount of food after ex-
changing IS occupation for some more
sedentary one. IN either case the result
Is the same-the overburdened organs
become partially paraiyzed, the undi,
gested food acts as an irritant, and head.
eche and general disorder in the digestive
tract prevail.
A person who has no symptoms Of
stomach disorder, or who has been
taught by his physician to avoid indis'
cretions which formerly resulted ii
trouble, and who still has regularly re
current attacks of sick headache, mus
look to some other than these, the mos
common causes of such attacks. Youths
Companion.
The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-03-31
The Influence of Light.

The boy who Is put off with the tallow
dip in the mountain cabin or the Wee
taper in the city tenement will in all
probability seek the store in the canyon
or the saloon in the city for their bright
ness, because there is that within him
which leads him straight to q brilliant
light, wherever it Is placed. A strange
pedestrian On a dark night will instinct
lively bend his course to any light which
he may see. and you may be sure the
devil always has his lantern out.-Mar-
garet Lemon in Godey's.
The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-03-31
The Heavens In the North.

From the last days of May to the end
of July in the northern part of this laaa
the sun shines day and night upon its
mountains. fiords. rivers. lakes. forests.
valleys, towns. villages. hamlets, fields
and farms. and thus Sweden and Nor
way may be called the land of the mid
night sun. During this period Of con-
~tinuous daylight the stars are never seen,
the moon appears pale and sheds no
light upon the earth. Summer is short,
giving just time enough for the wild
flowers TO grow, to bloom and TO fade
away. and barely time for the husband
man to collect his harvest, which, how
ever. is sometimes nipped by a summer
frost.
A few weeks after the midnight sun
has passed the hours Of sunshine shorten
rapidly, and by the middle of August
the air becomes chilly and the nights
colder, although during the day the sun
is warm. Then the grass turns yellow.
the leaves change their color, wither and
fall: the swallows and other migrating
birds fly toward the south; twilight
once more: the stars, one by one.
make their appearance, shining brightly
in the pale blue sky: the moon shows
itself again as the queen of the night and
lights and cheers the long and dark days
of the Scandinavian winter.
The time comes at last when the sun
disappears entirely from sight; the heav-
ems appear in q blaze of light and glory.
and the stars and the moon pale before
the aurora borealis.-"Land of the Mid
night Sun"
The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-03-31

I've had tonne experience myself,
said an old sailor. hut two years ago !
came the nearest taking after Jonah that
= ma ever did. We had made IA strike
all right and the wisa!e went down, not
very far, but when liz tame up he had
mis- mouth opan. AMI somehow or other
he came up with ID jaw on the port
and the other on the lee aideef orr boat.
SURPRISED? Well tsat Whate tooked very
much rs if he was rtany 10 receive com.
pany. bnt | wasn't invited, 81 made ;
streak for another boat.
The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-03-31

Are you particular about the
matter of a perfect fit: If you
are not, you certainly ought to be.
There is only one sort of fit about
a suit of clothes that doesn't sit
casily-thcy are fit for nothing. Il
it cramps you in II place and
hangs too loosely in another, it
The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-03-31
Immobility In a Chiid's Life.

We believe a large part of the unfavor.
able influence of school life upon the
chiid's health is due to the prolonged
immobility which the ordinary system
requires, ard the necessary confinement
of a young child to a chair or bench
without some intervening muscular ac-
tigity or relr ltlon. Immobility is oI-
posed 10 growth, it is opposed to all the
instincts of the healthy lower animals.
and 10 those of ali vigorous children
9arpers Bazar.