The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-02-21

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before swine, they will turn again and rend
you. Nor, again should you claim too much
openness, as duty due to you, from your
child, your friend your wife or your hus-
band. Much of the charm of life is ruined
by exacting demands of confidence. Respect
natural modesty of the soul; its more deli
cate flowers of feeling close to their petals
when they are touched too ru6ely. Wait
with curious love-with eager intersection
the time when. all being harmonious, the
revelation Will come of its own accord, I'M
demanded. The exception has its charm,
for as long as life has something to learn,
life is interesting; as long as a friend has
something to give, friendship is delightful.
Those who wish to destroy all mystery in
those they love, to have everything revealed,
are unconsciously killing their own
happiness. II is much to be
with those who have many things
to say to us which we can not
bear now. Ii is much to live with those
who sometimes speak TO us in parables-if
we love them. Love needs some indefinite
ness in order to keep its charm. Respect,
which saves love from the familiarity which
degrades it, is kept vivid when we feel that
there is q mystery in those we love which
comes of depth of character Remember
that in violating your own reserve or that
of another you destroy that sensitiveness of
character, and beauty of character is not so
spoil it,
The statistics of English drinking, if re-
ports can be depended upon, are fearful. In
1861 with a population in England and
Wales of 19,900.O00, the number of COM
initials for drunkenness was SS, 761; in 1875,
with a population of 24000,0 00 the commit
tails were 203, 1856. At this rate of increase
there is no telling where the evils of exces-
sive drinking are going to end. Their bear
ing upon the industrial and commercial as
well as the social and moral interest of the
nation Is very clear. Among the plans of
relief is that described above as the Gothen-
berg, so called from the city of that name in
Sweden. 1t proposes that the selling
of liquors shall be taken out of the
hands of individuals and be assumed
by the local authorities. The advantages
claimed are that each municipality adopting
it can at once reduce the number of liquor
shops, prevent the sale of adulterated liquors
and in many ways keen the trade under re-
straint. Mr.. Chamberlain, member of
parliament. is the chief advocate of this
scheme. The town council of Birmingham
recently voted in its favor.
In our own country the temperance re-
vival has been more confined to hard drink
ers. They have taken up temperance as
question of self-reformation Mr.. Moody
has also in his meetings gwen prominence
to this subject with the very best re-
suits Whatever inspires Incorporate
men with the confidence that they
can recover their manhood is an unmixed
benefit to them. Experience has proved
that they have peculiar power to reach
each other In the past two years the re
form clubs" of eastern Massachusetts, and
Maine have wrought a great change in the
social habits of the wOrkingmen and fisher
men; the same effects are already visible
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workmen and miners of Pittsburg and the
adjacent region of Pennsylvania and Ohio.
The spectacle of two nations endeavoring at
the same moment to throw off the burden
of a great social vice is one which
must arrest the attention of both philan-
thropists and statesmen.
The uses of the segregated cabbage leaf are
comparatively few and unimpsrtant 1t en-
tiers into competition with American epic
poetry as an envelope for parts of butter and
steaks; it is the base of these best Havana
cigars in town which Psychological tobacco
nists sell eight for quarter; it serves to
battle too curious infant inquirers into the
origin of man. In medicine it tigures-in
Burns, if we remember aright-as a rude
yet ready aid to scientific diagnosis OF late,
however, il has aspired TO a much more pre-
tentious part, since Mr.. Blaine, an eminent
physician of Paris, has Just published a book
on the cabbage cure, showing that the leaves
of the ordinary cabbage are for the healing
of all nations afflicted with ulcers, sores,
boils, rheumatism, gangrene, fever and cry
sipelas. These numerous uses, in conjunction
with the excitement over the discoveries OF
General Pleasonton, convey a whole host OF
suggestions even to the unscientific mind. Ii
STAN s IN raasc that if blue glass be so goc d
and green cabbage leaf so good, the number
of curative purposes of glass and cabbage
I1.f =. H.
that will remain to be done will be TO grow
the cabbage under blue glass frames, thus
happily combining dual excellence in the
single product In the bright lexicon of
eternal youth there will in the future be in
scribed but two words. Man shall sit under
his blue glass vault munching his savory
messes of the leaves of the brdSsicd, death
and disease not daring to modest him,
neither making him afraid. To insure that
survival of ones powers, acquaintance, af-
fections and usefulness which men affect
to consider desirable one will but
need at sunrise TO repair to his blue
glass house (abstaining carefully from the
throwing of stones during his occupancy
thereby, there to bask in the actinic rays Of
the sun till twilight draws on foretelling the
night wherein he shall draw the drapery of
his cabbage leaves around him and lie down
to pleasant dreams of the next centennial.
The prospect is most 1attering one, though
it may look blue. Let us, therefore, con-
slider the slugs on the cabbage-leaf; they toll
not neither do they spin, yet for all sanitary
purposes they are more favorably situated
than the modern ben sfactor of humanity
who patents panacea, grows rich by its
sale, and either perishes miserably like Parr.
the inventor of the ''life pills" who died at
thirty-three, or experiences the more dole
full fate OF an Aver or Helmbold.
THE TEMPERANCE REVIVAL.
The temperance revival in England and
the United States nearly equals the dimen-
sions of the religious revival to which pub
lie attention has for more than two years
been drawn. 1t has taken in Ireland the
shape of Sunday closing movement. In
this all classes-(,athol1cs and Prnfasfants