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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-01-13
INSANE AsYLUMs FOR THE INSANE.


The old complaint that the doors of insane
asylums swing inward with more facility
than they open outward is made in Brooklyn
from a new source, The superintendent of
the asylum in that city wants legislation
that will allow him to have a voice in the
matter of receiving patients. AS the law
now is, he is obliged to give room and atten-
ton in the hospital to any one who may be
sent there by commission in lunacy, re-
CARELESS of their condition. Many patients
are sent to the institution, he says, who are
perfectly sane in every particular but one,
who are absolutely harmless, and have no
business in a public hospital He tries to
get rid of them by discharging them, but as
their friends have no trouble in finding two
medical men to testify again to their lunacy,
they are returned in short time, and he
has no alternative but to keep them. In
public institutions public purposes
should be subserved, he thinks,
without regard to private benefits,
which is certainly a sound proposition.
With authority to dismiss applicants for
admission who, according to his judg-
ment, would be better outside, although
they might not be of sound mind, the super
intendent maintains that much good would
result. Not the least of the benefits would
be the prevention of overcrowding in the
institution.
Complaints OF this kind are likely to arise
wherever the lunacy laws are of similar char
acter Where the incurable insane are not
accommodated, as in the Indiana Hospital,
the trouble is not likely to be so pronounced,
but it is probable that every institution con-
tains many victims Of harmless decisions
who are kept in confinement from motives of
family convenience, rather than necessity
Every one is acquainted with individuals pos
sessing minds so Unbalanced that, if their
friends chose, they could easily be incarce-
rated as lunatics, but who do no harm when
at large. 1t is to be presumed that such
cases are not infrequent in any asylum. No
one has authority to turn them out, and yet
they would be better outside, besides giving
room to patients absolutely needing attention.
The line between the sane and the insane is
so ill-defned that the facilities for getting
out of an asylum should not be made too
idea may we'll receive attention everywhere.
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Jericho. Having once stormed its walls
under the banner of the one and only God,
the promised land of the future will be
ours"
The Christianity of to-day is farm advance
of the Christianity OF the eighteenth century,
and the Judaism of the present seems on the
verge OF great reforms The people of all
religions are coming closer and still closer
together. The ignorance and superstition of
the past are melting away, and the empty
rites that have SO long stood between differ
ent religions are becoming less restrictive.
1t is a good doctrine to have one day of
rest for all peoples, one destiny and one God.
This consummation must of necessity be
approached slowly, but such state of affairs
is coming just as certain as intelligence con-
tinues to spread and charity to prevail
over the barbarisms OF bigotry.
The dawn is already breaking The church
has come down to the people and the people
are rising to the church. Increased enlight-
humanity everywhere that the church is not
the goal of the soul, but simply the gateway.
The church has better appreciation of its
duties toward mankind. and the people are
growing more conscious of their obligations
to the church. The breaking away from ira
ditions that have long since lost their signifi-
canoe will strengthen, not weaken, the
church, and the introduction OF reason,
tempered by sincere sense of dependence
upon Divine Ruler, will go far toward
bringing all peoples together and mankind
to q better destiny.
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Marine Dominion.

S. S. Cox is excited about our shipping
He said in his Saturdays speech "Others
rule the sea, while we are scepterless, forlorn,
dispirited, disgraced Others bear our enor-
nous surplus to feed the world. The leva-
thans of commerce smoke up the sky, the
thunders of their engines and shouting of
their captains shake the sea. But Others
not we, do this smoking and shouting
Others gather glories capitalize moneys and
so forth, while we place the gives on our en-
ergies and imprison our genius" What
Cox means is that the shippers and import
ers down East would like to have some
American ships and sailors on the seas But
we Americans who have plenty Of land, plenty
of work and good homes do not want to go
to sea. A sailors life is the most dreadful
life known it is worse than life in prison-it
is prison, with suffering, and danger and
degradation added thereto Wages are low
on board ship The captains and officers of
the greatest ships receive contemplate sala-
ries, and the sailors receive less than laborers
wages The sea is for the poor of Europe
who have nowhere else to go; let them work
it; they are welcome to it. But why should
we leave our free, comfortable lands and
homes and go to sea to endure the dangers of
winds and waves and the tyranny of a hard
master? We don't have to-
NJ nr,,-
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A "HENDRGcKs Democrat" cards the St.
Louis Post-Dispatch to the effect that there
will be general stampede from the Demo-
cratic ranks in case Pendleton's civl-seryice
reform bill is Endorsed by the party, and
concludes by saying: Now let the next
convention nominate Pendeton or Bayard,
and the laIter's State will be large enough to
hold what is left of Democracy, and ], as a
Democrat, will be satisfied" Yet there are
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some who profess to believe that the Demo-
cratic party is sincere when it processes a de-
sire for reform in our civil service The
few who may happen to really favor some
thing of the kind could no more withstand
the event of a Democratic victory in 1884
than thistledown could turn back a cyclone
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-01-13

choice ornaments in the front windows and ar
ranging parlor tableaux Cor the benefit of pass
ers-by died out some time ago, having been voted
bad taste. New York is a little slow in these
mattera
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-01-13

THE following lectures are announced as on
the Chautauqua course for the next season.
Rev. Joseph Cook, John B. Cough, DR.. j. B.
Angel, president Ann ArbOr University; DR. j.
B. seelye, president Amherst College, Massa-
chusetts; DR.. C. II. Sims, chancellor Syracuse
University, New York; DR.. c. II. Payne, pres-
dent Wesleyan University, Delaware, o.; DIR. A.
G. Haygood Oxford, Ca; Hon. Will CumbacR,
Indiana; Bishop Fl W. Warren, Atlanta, Ga;
DR.. LYMAN Abbott, editor Christian Union,
New York; DR.. ]. NJ. Buckley, editor Christian
Advocate, New York; DR.. P. S. Henson, Chicago;
Judge A. W. Tourgee, editor Continent; DIR. d.
A. Goodsel, New Haven, Conn; Miss Frances
L. willard, president of National W. II. u;
Chicago; DIR. W. f. Mallallieu, Boston; Prof. ".
P. Coddington, Syracuse University, New York;
Rev. r. B. Hull, d. D., DR.. A. f. Birmingham,
DR.. II. NJ. Sanders, New York.
AN American circus manager is advertising in
the newspapers of Germany France and Italy
for a prize beauty to travel with his show next
season. committee IN each of the three coun-
tries will choose one specimen of female lowell
ness from the contestants mo may present
themselves. These three will be taken to Eng
land, where another committee, composed of
members of the London press will make "a single
choice. An American beauty will be chosen to
represent Cleopatra in the same circus, but moth
ing is said about allowing newspaper men TO
make the selection. And yet American jour nal
lists are all experts.
Mrs. LANGTRY went to a skating rink, put on
rollers and fell fiat of her back. The fact is
deemed of sufficient Importance to telegraph at
length. She laughed. She fell decOrously.
Freddie was not there
IT is the pious wish of the Peoria Transcript
that Herr Most may go to Texas, and be mis-
taken for "a horse-thief. But why Islander q
horse-thieff
THE sandbagging still goes on-Inter Ocean.
Let us not be discouraged. Gebhardt's turn will
come yet.
NEW YORK paper saya
sit seems to be the fashion to put pieces of
statuary in the parlor window now, and at night
to have an effective arrangement OF curtain and
gas-light III the background"
Out among the Hoosiers the rage for placing
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-01-13

THE sandbagging still goes on.-Inter Ocear
Let us not be discouraged. Gebhardt's turn vii
come vet.
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IT is the pious wish of the Peoria TRANSCRIPT
that Herr Most may go to Texas, and be mis-
taken for horse-thief But why Islander
horse-thiefl
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-01-13

NEW YORK paper saya
at seems TO be the fashion to put pieces OF
statuary in the parlor window now, and at night
to have an effective arrangement OF curtain and
gas-light III the background"
Out among the HO0siers the rage for placing
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-01-13

Mrs. LANGTRY went to a skating rink, put on
rollers and fell fiat of her back The fact is
deemed of sufficient Importance to telegraph at
length She laughed. She fell decOrously.
Freddie was not there.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-07-05
Reecher's Rad Head.

For two months in the year Henry
Ward Beecher can't preach. In Au-
gust and September he takes his vaca-
ton and endures the onset of hay fe-
yer. And it is, SO he says, something
terrible and tremendous. A man with
hay fever isn't accountable for his ac-
tions. He is merely wild beast
frantic with snufling. sneeZing and
headache. His eyes are red and so is
his nose. Every nerve in his skull
thrills with distress and his head is a
fountain of tears. He lives only to fly
from seaside to mountain-tOp in search
of relief. And yet whether we call
this form of Catarrh hay-fever, rose
fever, hay-cold, or rose-cold, Ely's
Cream Balm will cure it. This rene
dy is simple, pleasant and easy of APP
plication. Placed in the nostrils it
penetrates and soothes the affected
parts at once, restores the impaired
senses and creates healthy secretions
in cases of the longest standing. Iou
cannot run away from hay fever, but
you can drive it from you by usin g
Ely'S Cream Balm.
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Spring valley.

Potatoes will suffer by the bugs.
They are numerous.
Mrs. Tovey, mother of Thos. Tovey,
passed to the higher life on the 29th,
and on Monday, July I'd, her remains
were followed to the cemetery at Ell
Paso where large concourSe of peo-
pie assembled to listen to the funeral
discourse. Mrs. Tovey's death was
caused by paralytic stroke. She was
a kind, beloved mother, and a good
neighbor, and will be missed by many
friends.
Sidney Tic, of the town of Spring
Lake and a Miss Plumley, of Ell Paso,
were married last week.
Mrs. VIM. Geer, of Maiden Rock,
was on visit to friends in Spring
Valley last Friday.
We have babe farewell to our two
mail carriers, Mr.. Geer and Mr.. Cham
bers. Those along the route will miss
them much, as they were both very
lively and accommodating. We hope
the carriers just entering upon the
four years trip will have it said OF
them at the end of that time, "Well
DONE
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q ROYAL PRINCE. .

This well bred and finely built stallion
will stand for the next sixty days for u
limited service, as follows: Mondays and
TUESDAYS at the stable of the owner, in
Clifton: Wednesdays at Trimbelle; Thurs
DAYS at Ellsworth and vicinity FRIDAYS
and Saturdays at the Bracket House
barn, River Falls.
ROYAL Prince was sired by a French
Norman, and his dam was three-f0urths
Morgan He is six years old, weighs $50
lbs, stands IS hands high, and his color
is iron gray. He was raised in the town
of Clifton.
TERMs.-To insure, 80; single leap, s.;
payable January l, 1884. Parties dispos-
ing of mares will be held for the service.
For twenty-five colts five months old, in
good condition, sired by this horse and
from good brood mares the subscriber
will pay $40 each. FL. 5. Colby.
Clifton, May 10, 1883. Aft
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Clifton.
Barley has headed.

The 4th was celebrated at the Hol-
low.
Mr.. Meade is occupying the old
boarding house recently vacated by
the family of J. D. Otis.
School in district three closed with
a picnic at the Hollow last Thursday.
School meeting last Monday night.
The change in the time of meeting is
generally approved.
Mr.. Wilkinson and wife are expected
home from Dakota this week.
Our farmers have commenced hay
ing. The crop is an unusually good
one.
t. j. Atwater and Dist. Atty. Ross
traded horses recently.
Ben Rissue is rusticating in town.
The camp-meeting pilgrims expert
enced sultry day in their trip to and
from Red Rock last Sunday.
Picnic celebrations seem to be all
the go this year.
c. w. West has the finest piece of
corn we have seen.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-07-05
BrOOkViIle.
Chintz bugs by the millions.

ChintZ bugs by the millions.
Mr.. MCLEAN reports seeing large
black bear near his place one day last
week. Each doubled quicked i'll oppo-
site directions.
A severe thunder storm passed over
this vicinity on the night of July LIST.
Lightning struck the school house in
the town of Cady and burned it to the
ground with school furniture and
books of the pupils. Insured for $400.
Some miscreant last Saturday night
hurled stone at the window of ii.
Wood & Sons store, but missed the
window few inches and struck the
building. He let loose a hog from its
pen belonging to Mr.. Wood. Such
acts of vandalism betoken very low
and debased order of manhood in some
one.
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China " eddinr.

In response to invitations previously
given, a company OF about forty assembled
at the residence of G.. ID. Smith, of Kin
nickinnic, last Saturday, to commeino-
rate the twentieth anniversary OF ms
marriage. Nearly every one of the old
settlers of the valley was represented,
and some personal friends of later ac-
quaintance. Soon after two o'clock the
guests came and spent about an hour IN
social conversation. The valuable set OF
porcelain, consisting of about two hundred
pieces, purchased in st. Paul by Mrs. II.
L. tollansbee, was then uncovered and
the guests We're called into the dining
room. The presentation of the set was
made by H. ;. Baker in behalf of the
donors. Mr.. Smith then replied in few
remarks, well chosen but with much
emotion. OF those present at his we'd
ding all but one was living to-day, he said,
and that one was his mother, who had
been called to her reward some years ago.
The guests then spent another hour IN
conversation when they were called to
a very bountiful supper, of which all
showed their opinion in way that could
not be misunderstood. Special mention
of dishes may not be proper, but your
reporter can testify to the good quality OF
several dishes of strawberries and the
GOODNESS of the ice cream, as well as the
delicious flavor of the coffee. OF the
pOst-prandial cigars he is not competent
critic. Nothing happened to mar the
pleasure of the guests, and whatever OF
the serious aspect of life the gathering
suggested was yelled by the gayety OF the
occasion.
Besides the full set of ware, Mr.. r. n.
Jensen, who could not be present, sent an
extremely beautiful pair of China cups
and saucers to Mr. and Mrs. Smith. Mr..
Fred. Burhyte sent a fine chamber set.
Charles d. Smith and Lucia Gilbert
Hurlbert were married by Rev. I. Nj.
Fullerton, afterward Presiding Elder of
the st. Croix district, at the residence of
Mr.. S. w. Williams, whose wife is sister
of Mrs. Smith. She has three other
sisters living, but not in this vicinity.
Mr.. Smith has one brother, +. w. Smith,
of Kinnickinnic, who was present. Mrs.
Smith was born in Vermont and Mr.
SMITH in Malone, n. Y. They have three
children, two girls and boy.
The following are the names of those
who contributed, and with few excep-
tons all were present, with their wives:
NJ n. Wilson, l.. p. Whitcomb, j. A.
Mapes, i. F. Follansbee, J. L. Perrin, W.
L. Perrin, Clint Williams, b. +. Timber
lake. S. w. Williams, +. 7. Cole, r.
Churchill, Heman Dodge, G. L. Weston,
F. w. Smith, H. S. Baker J. Crowns. j.
T. Deans, G. B. Musser, Jud Knight.
The following single persons also con-
tributed and were present: MIR. Einl
MuSser. Miss Sheridan, Mrs. Laura Full
Ter, Mrs. X. B. Musser, Miss Ella Musser.
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Farm For Sale

| desire to sell my farm of l60 acres,
near Clifton Mills, Pierce Co. 80 acres
under cultivation, good soil, plenty of
wood and water-hard and soft-large
house, granaries, &c. II sold soon SO,
900 will buy the farm. Ia head of cat
tie, 80 sheep, 4 swine, two horses, all
the machinery and farm implements
cheap at So, 900, or the farm will be
sold separate at bargain. Easy terms.
Best stock farm in the county.
4. S. DAVIS.
June 18th. 1883. am
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FIVE PIECES,

which put together make practically but ONE PIECE While
Simplicity it something much BETTER
by careless
licious impossible
with pinion
end endless
which of pnon the Cord Holder reos
required and THE MOTION Is
Holder the right point and
not far enough IT WILL NEVER GET OT
ORDER and service The
fully by patents and cannot he initiated ntrnged by
other manufacturer.
The DEERNG HARVESTER has the best Main Wheel made 1t model
initiating but do not to be able equal The
which
light draft the machine The
they adjust themselves the bulk
The Dng the finest and therefore the cheapest twne 1t
the bundle but does this by
Irvine by binding
bundle of the medium ze saving onehd the
by other binders.
These few points superiority of the DEERNG over other
machines the Deng and
points superiority second
they think Of it, third Deng
of
of making mistake
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CONSUM PTION CURED.

An old physician, retired from active prac-
tice, having lad placed i'll his hands by an
East India Missionary the formula of sim
pie vegetable remedy for the speedy and
permanent cure of Consumption, Bronchitis,
Catarrh, Asthma, and all Throat and Lung
affections, also positive and radical cure
for General Debility and all nervous COM
plants, after having thoroughly tested its
wonderful curative powers in thousands OF
cases, feels it ais duty to make it known to
his fellows The recipe, with full partcu-
lars, directions tor preparation and use, and
all necessary advice and instructions for sue
cessful treatment at your own home, will
be sent you by return mail, free OF charge,
by addressing with stamp or stamped self
addressed envelope.
DIR. NJ Il, CASS,
20l York ST., Jersey City, N. J..
n-5" Mention this paper.
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"CLNTON, Iowa, April -, 81.
81 wish you would send me spring for
the VIM. Ellery Watch y II II BY the way
this Ellery is watch | sold in your Screw
Bezel Case to farmer last fall. The first OF
January he lost the watch in the woods, and
found it this week in about one foot OF water.
1t had lain three mouths and over in snow
and water, with but slight injury to the
watch-onlya hair spring.
G. S. RAYMOND"
The above are very severe tests, and de-
monstrate beyond a doubt, that for any reas-
enable length of time during which watch
might be under water it would receive no in
jury whatever.
We make these cases i'll both gold and
silver, and as a PERFECTLY DUST-PR0OF
STEM WINDING WATCH CASE, CHAL-
LENGE THE WORLD TO PRODUCE ITS
EQUAL.
For sale by all first -olass jewellers. 33m
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Farming naturally every
Machinery latest adj
will be still pleased
tie
combination
farming public well know.
the Binders made with the Deeng
will the
the Deering las n public.
With this them, willing do anything however hazard
Gearing throwing
machine
yielding
knote being yield
leaving these competitors still
further in the
made Deeng Irvine Binder has been in the
Every makes much
careful much
making complicated the time
the
improv has finally
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The Contiunnt.

With its I2s broad quarto pages, handsomely
adorned with 81 rich illustrations the monthly
part of THE CONTINENT weekly magazine makes
a strong bid for popular favor Among Inc con-
to this issue are Marion Harlanu,
Louise stockton, Elizabeth AkeTs Alien, the poet
ess HELEN Campbell, Rhoda Broughton. anu
other writers Of distinction, Marion Harland
new story Judith A Chronicle Of Old Virgin
story in the good old ia lioned aeeeptation OF
the word-full of incident and excitement ana
vet replete with the quiet d0mcstlclty when TINS
writer treats with charm of manner entirely
her own. The genial conditions OF southern SO
ciety in the old plantation days with the old
plantation dark1es and patrlarehal masters ana
surroundings, afford fascinating subject Tor a
romance which until now no master hand mas
undertaken. Marion Harland, who was Nlr-
gilman during her girlhood, deals with her sub
iect ICON anore," and her new contribution 10
serial literature promises to be one OF her best
II is illustrated with drawings by w. L. shep-
abundance of excellent illustration accompanies
interesting articles on "The Jersey Crabbers, by
William w. Howard; stephen Girard, Mariner
and Merchant" by Louise stockton, ana tue
clever and humorous papers on landscape gar
deniug which T. e. Gardner, author OF ''Ihe
House that Jill Built" is contributing 10 THE
Continent under the u ique title of "All out
Doors " w l.. sheppard A. Brennan, and other
Weil-knoWn artists have illustrations OF pOellsi
several clever short stories are given complete;
Helen Campbell begins her long promised hints
for girls in The Mhat-to-do Club and Judge
Tourgee's hand, relieved from the labor OF writ
ing serial Stories is plainly evident in the Sur
ring editorials in the department called Mig
strength of this number that THE CONTINENT,
like wine, improves with age and with TINS earn
est of the past and present for the excellence 81
the future we wish it long life and prosperity
II is admirable in every respect and occupies
alone in its weekly issue distinct field in mag
aZine literature.
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The FOLLOWING letters tell their
S1lEla SfOfM:

''VALposTA, Georgia, July 90, '8?.
ssI sold one OF your Patent Dust Proof Cases
about ten months ago, and the other day it
came back to me with the request to make it
wind easier On examination found that
the stem was rusty, and inquired into the
cause OF it. The gentleman stated to me that
he was starting some saw-logs that had
lodged in the bend of the river, when his
cham caught in a bush and threw his watch
into about twelve feet of water, and he was
about two hours fndingit it. When he got 1t
out it was running and he thought all right.
In about three months he found that the
stem was hard to turn and sent it to me.
can say that the watch is all that the
company claims for it and recommend it to
all railroad and mill men.
B. w. BENTLY."
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Piers Honey Salve,

Never fails in curing ulcers, salt
rheum, fever sores, burns, piles, PIN
pies and wounds. The Honey Salve
is the best salve ever offered to the
public.