The Sentinel Leader. (Sentinel, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, August 26, 1910 Page: 3 of 8
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SENTINEL MS50,
DURING CARNIVAL SEPTEMBER
If visitor, come in and get acquainted; if old time friend and ac-
quaintance, have your friends meet you here.
We want to make this carnival one of the grandest events in
the history of Sentinel, and our store headquarters at all times.
Special to the Ladies:
To the lady bringing the largest number of ladies over 16 years
of age to our store and registering them, during the three days'
carnival, we will give the following prizes:
First prize, $5.00 skirt. Second prize, $3.00 pair shoes.
Remember, our dry goods departments are complete in every
respect, and we will have many special bargains to offer during
the carnival.
COME, EVERYONE, AND ' N
ENJOY THE BIG 6
DAYS' CARNIVAL
Church Directory
M. E. Church, South.
Sorviccs < verv second an:J fourth Sun-
iuv "f each mouth, by Rev. M.
Weaver. >uodav School every Sun-
day hi i<> a. in. Prayer meeting each
Wednetnla.v night.
First Christian Church.
Service# every lirrtt and third Sun-
day of each month, by F. Jay Martin,
pastor. Sunday School every Sun-
day at io a. m.
Missionary Baptist.
Services ev'erv lirst and third Sunday
of each mouth, bv Rev. W. A. Smith,
holiday School every Sundav at 10
a. m.
Church of Christ.
Service* ex ii.\ ,-Vi <uu iinOa\ by Hro,
sV. Hailard: neivices every lourth
Sunday by Hro. Armstrong. Bible
reading at 10 a. ni. and singing at
3:30 p, ni., every Sunday.
People
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Secret Orders \
Sentinel Ludjje. No. 152, A. i'. & A. M,«
meets in FraJU 1 nsil Hull Satmda*
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uacli month and the Saturday uigli
two weeks tollow'mfi.
Dr Wm Tidball, W M
J VV Lambrtght. Sec
New Guinea
SENTINEL MERC.
"Everything to Eat and Wear."
Sentinel ('amp, No. 9765, M. VV. A.,
inerts ;ii Fiaiernul llall llie seconu
and lourth l hursday nights ot each
mouth. Visitinw members invited ti
attend. W F Mclver, Counsel
J A Harrison Clerk
SENTINEL,LODGE, No. 100, Knight*
of Pythias-Meets each Monday nighi
iii Fraternity ti all.
B F Bryant, C. C.
J It DeBusk, K of It.&C.
Sentinel Rebekah Lodge, No. 105,1. O
O. F , meets at Fraternal Hall eaci
Friday hitrht.
Miss Emma Tatum, N G
Mrs C P Siitjrletarv, Vice G
Sunflower Camp, No. 5202, K. N. A
1 lie first iiud third Thursda\
mi?hiN hf each month, at Fxaterniu
Hall. Mis. Ida A It xaniler, Oracle.
Mrs. Blanche I'.ehne, V. O.
Orient Lodge, No. 173, I. -O. O. F..
meets in Fraternity Hall each Wed-
nesday night.
J W Davenport, N. G.
T W Gault, Vice G.
Eastern Star Chapter, No. 224. meets
the first and third Tuesday nights
of each month, at Fraternal Hall.
Sarah E Smith, W M
Mrs J W H Plumlee, Sec
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Law and Order League- Meets every
Monday night.
J W Ballard. I'res
R W Stanfield. Sec
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To the Picnicers Visiting
Sentinel Sept. 1,2 and 3:
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and come in to see us while here, and we will make
you some prices that will interest you.
J. A. Harrison
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Thomas Commercial College
Is a Wide-Awake, Up-to-Date School of Business. Our
School is Practical in Principle, Modern in Meth-
ods. If You Want 3 Business Education, Go
to a School Where You Learn to Po by
Doing. No Vacation. All Books I^ree.
VISIT THE SCHOOL OK WRITE FOR CATALOG
Thomas Commercial Coliege
THOMAS, OKLAHOMA
Office Phone 7
Residence Phone 442
DRS. McDANIEL & BABC
TETE1IN1RT SURGEONS
Officei Stone Barn HOBART, OKLA
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Mrs. Blaine Jones and chil-
dren are visiting in Blackwell,
Oklahoma. Blaine took the folks
to Rocky yesterday, where they
boarded the Frisco.
Rain or shine, come to th pic-
nic September 1, 2 and 3. This
is Sentinel's fifth annual celebra-
tion. Don't fail to comf, and
bring your neighbor.
Don't overlook the Hobart fair
| September 8, 7, 8 and 9, It __
promises to be the biggest event! ~
ever pulled off at Hobart. Sev-! Kiowa county sends her greet-
eral hundred speed horses will be ing to Washita, inviting her down
in attendance. Plenty of amuse- to attend our fair at Hobart
September 6, 7, 8 and 9. All
ment, a ground full of shows
swings, ferris-wheels, in fact,
everything that goes to make a
fair complete.
Washita county
admissible.
exhibits
Island of New Guinea are
known as the Papuans, a race
which is found in its purest
and most typical form in the
northwestern portion of the
island, but which spreads west
to the Island' of Fiores and eastward
to the Fiji islands. Since the begin-
ning of the sixteenth century, when
Europeans first discovered New
Guinea, its Inhabitants have been
known by the above name, which Is
said to be derived from the Malayan
^papuwa or puwah-puwah, meaning
"woolly-haired." Professor Keane
says the Papuan Is "one of the most
strikingly distinct types of mankind,"
and though the natives in southern
and eastern New Guinea differ widely
not only from the type, but also
among themselves in many ways, the
typical individual exhibits such
marked characteristics, both mentally
and physically, that he forms an extra-
ordinary contrast with the Malays on
the one hand and with the Australians
and brown Polynesians on the other.
Like all others, the natives of New
Guinea have no doubt, intermingled
with these surrounding peoples, and
Malays have settled in some parts of
the Island and Australians and Poly-
nesians in others.
The typical Papuan fs taller than
the "average European and strongly
built, with large hands and feet, but
his legs are thin and weak, and he is
usually "spur-heeled." The color of
the skin varies in tint from deep choc-
olate to nearly black. The most Im-
portant characteristic of the face Is
the nose, which is large and promi-
nent, and through the septum Is thrust
a nose-bar, usually made of shell, bone
or wood. The hair, which is frizzly,
dry and stiff, is usually worn In an
enormous mop, to the training of
which much time and attention is de-
voted. Sometimes it is arranged in
tassels round the head, and various
other fashions are occasionally adopt-
ed. It Is frequently decorated, espe-
cially on festal occasions, with bright-
ly-colored flowers of the hibiscus and
with plumes of birds of paradise, and,
among the purer race one of the most
characteristic decorations Is a long
comb made of split bamboo and orna-
mented with feathers of parrots, etc.,
which projects above the forehead for
a foot or more. Necklaces of shells,
teeth and bones, as well as bracelets,
armlets and anklets, are much worn:
also arm-bands of grass, which serve
as pockets, in which small articles
can be tucked away. The breast and
arms are often decorated with raised
■cars, and the facs and body are fre-
quently painted with red, yellow,
white and black. Unlike the Malay,
the Papuan is described as Impulsive
and demonstrative in speech, his na-
ture is Joyous and opeii, his emotions
and passions finding expressions in
cries, laughter and boisterous ges-
tures. Both men and women in parts
of the northern coast go about en-
tirely naked, but usually the former
wear a small breech-cloth of bark and
the latter a short petticoat of woven
grass. Their houses are generally
built on piles, and, as in Borneo, are
often communal and of very large
size, many families occupying one
building, which may vary. in length
from 500 to 700 feet. There are also
club-houses, where gatherings take
place on festal occasions. The re-
markable houses built In high trees
and known as "dobbos" seem to be
peculiar to British New Guinea, and
are, apparently, chiefly used in time
of danger.
The natives of Papua are, as a rule,
Indifferent seamen, and as a race may
be described as agriculturists, their
chief crops being sweet potatoes,
yams, bananas and sugar-cane. Their
domestic animals are pigs, dogs and
fowls, all of which are eaten, as well
as various wild animals, reptiles, fish,
mollusks and insects. Cannibalism,
though not universal, prevails in a
great many districts. The native girls
make great pets of the young pigs,
and, like "Alice in Wonderland," may
be seen carrying them about in their
arms and caressing them! The bow
and arrow and the club are the wea-
pons most commonly used, while
spears, tipped with hardened bamboo
or bone, and knives and axes made of
jade, are met with and highly prized
are i b> collectors of ethnological objects.
| As a people their artistic skill is very
considerable. This Is shown In theli
wooden images, designed as earthly
habitations for the ghosts of the de>
parted, likewise in the carved head'
rests and figure-heads of praus, which
are generally executed with Iron tools,
Their religion consists mainly ol
saint-worship, and their feasts, which
are held on such occasions as mar-
riages and burials, are celebrated
with singing and dancing. Chiefs are
unknown, each community of peopl«
living by itself, and in a state of per-
petual warfare with Its neighbors,
having a different dialect, facts which
have rendered European administra-
tion extremely difficult.
Kingfishers, parrots and pigeons ol
most brilliant plumage are very nu-
merously represented In New Guinea,
and In their way are almost as stri-
king and remarkable as the birds ol
paradise. Among the birds of prey
the most remarkable known species la
the harpy-goshawk (Harpyopsis),
which is, perhaps, most nearly allied
to ' the great monkey-eating eagle
(Plthecophaga) of the Philippines and
to the harpy-eagles of America. There
is probably also another very large
eagle which up to the present time
has not been obtained. Cassowaries,
brush-turkeys and megapodes are well
represented, and among the small
birds we hav^ sun-birds, flower-peck-
ers, honey-eaters and fly-catchers, as
well as many more too numerous to
mention, a large number belonging to
peculiar genera and species. It is
difficult to forecast what new species
of birds may yet be forthcoming, but
we may safely assume that many nov-
elties will be obtained. The same
may be said about the reptiles, in
which the fauna of New Guinea Is par-
ticularly rich. The chelonians, or tor-
toises, and turtles are the most in.
terestlng group from the mingling of
Asiatic, American and Australian
types, and for the discovery In the
Fly river, some 25 years ago, of a
huge fresh-water turtle ICarettoche-
lys Insculpta), which proves to be the
type of a distinct family. More re-
cently, a snapping-turtle, allied to
Chelydra, has been found in the same
river and described as Devisia myth-
odes. The family Chelydridae, or
family snapping-turtles, is otherwise
confined to North and tropical Amer-
ica. The lizards are essential orien-
tal; a Wallace's line does not exist
for these reptiles. The genera are
most widely distributed, but allusion
may be made to the curious scincoid,
Tribolonotus, with its large spiny
bony shields, and to the remarkable
crested Agamas, Gonyocephalus. Tree
monitors (Varanus), green or black,
are also characteristic of the Papuan
fauna. Snakes "are represented by
members of the boa and python
groups, harmless colubrids, poisonous
colubrlds—allied to the cobras and
very similar to their Australian al-
lies—highly poisonous colubrlds—
forming the great bulk of the Austra-
lian snake-fauna—and burrowing blind
snakes (Typhlops). Batrachians be-
long to the families of true frogs
(Ranidae), tree frogs (Hylidae) and
toad-frogs (Engystomatidae). True
toads (Bufonldae), although they are
represented in the Malay sub-region
and in Australia, have not yet been
found In New Guinea nor In the Solo-
mon Islands, which lie to the east.
Hitherto very few species of fresh-
water fishes have been found, and
none which call for any special no-
tice.
The land and fresh-water shells ot
New Guinea, even as far as they are
known at present, are very numerous
In species, and many of them, espe-
cially the land-snails, are very beau-
tiful both in form and color. The
shell-fauna has, however, been only
partially investigated, and doubtless a
large number of species remain to be
discovered. Such a large area of the
island Is still unexplored conchologi-
cally that it will not be surprising if
many new forms are eventually met
W. R. OGILVIE-GRANT.
Awaiting a Reply.
Dealer—How does that horse ! sold
you last week answer?
Customer—Really, I can't say, 1
haven't asked him any questions yeL
King Menelik is simply trying to fill
a scrapbook, and when this is accom-
plished he will go on living at the old
stand.
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