The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-06

81 learn of your dispossesstOn OF The league
room. Shall say nm surprisen3 That were 10
confess ignorance OF all History, both sacred and
seoul ar. From The foun iutiUn OF the world every
advancement i'll the scale of human progress has
been met Ivy persecution. The noble Hypnha
was sacrificed 10 Ihe blind bigotry OF iian. Joan
de Arc dIe,t The death of tine martyr. Servetns
led the baleful fires of persecution They may
claim that such persecution Is OF the past, ana
has no place In modern history. There Is a moral
persecution as potent as the blaze of he fago-
The noble souls that lead the van OF progress,
that seek to lift humanity from the slOugn OF
degradation have ever suffered at the hand VI tbs
ignooie, the low and base"
With such u champion as this, women should
see a riffs in the clouds of oppression and take
heart.
NEAL Dow, the persistent pioneer of prohibi-
ton is an able-bOdied competitor of Eli Perkins.
He mas laid- himself out in telling rat story in
way that distances half the prevaricatOrs now in
the ring. His house was infested by rats; in bat.
taliGns, and in legions they overran the prem.
ises, until an old remedy was tried. IL was to
indite polite written message TO the rodents,
requesting them 20 leave. THIS was done by Mr.
BOWS eldestdanghter, who not only invited tho
self hidden GUESTS to leave, hut informed them
that sat No. Pearl street was large tine, house
which had never been favored with the resi-
dence fanny of their family, where they would
find ample quarters and a good fat larder.'
lard and placed it where the rats would find it,.
few days later IA young lady from No. Pearl
street called and said her house was Overrun
with rats which recalled the fact that BOWS
house had not produced IL rat since the letter was
written. To clinUh this beautiful story "ir.end
came in and hearing the talk said tnat two even
ings BEFORE in the bright moonlight, he saw sew
eral rats running down Congress street" This
fable teaches hat the men OF Maine are nOIslow
when it comes to telling fish stories.
DRY-GooDs clerks should beware of women
who want to buy scalsSn sacques. In Baltimore
a nice, motherly old lady wearing gold sptcta-
ces and benevolent smile, entered dry-gooAs
establishment, anu, after careful examination,
selected sacq ie costing $40o. The garment
wrapped up and taken to her Car riage,
about which time the MICS old lady discovered
that she had either lost $500 from her purse or
had been robbed Living three miles out of town,
IA she did, 1t would be- very incon venient fur her
TO return that day, but perhaps the young man
would drive out with her aud get the money. The
contiting dry-goods-seore young man did 81 with
her, entered the insane asylum on the way while
she called upon friend in confinement there,
aud ia short time found himself locked behind
iron bars rs n raving mania The motherly old
lady, who had represented him ns her nephew,
drove away In the meantime with tears in her
eyes. few days later the supposed luuati was
rescued by his employers, but the woman with the
sacque cannot he found.
NEAR Athens, Ga, there is a settlement of six
ry people all OF whom are so exemplary that they
have absolutely no cause for slandering each
other, and only find relief from the monotony of
life 10y picking Il TVS In unfortunate outsiders
Not man in this community swears, drinks or
gamblrs Each man, woman and child Is
member of the churcn. No man refuses to pray
when called upon in prayer-mreting, and no man
among them has to hustle around to get security
on his note, for his own name Is good enough.
All this, perhaps. shonld have been written in the
past tense, for serpent has lately entered this
Eden in the form of IL man who chews tobacco.
Uuless he can be erected the reputation of the
settlement for Righteousness viii; be seriously
snrched.
LOUISVILLE is cosmopolitan in her funerals, il
In nothing else. Adrian North, II noted gambler.
died last week. and on Saturday the funeral took
place. A special dispatch says: "The remains
lay in a magnificent metallic easket sir.wn with
rare flowers. People of every rank ami position
were present. Al! the leading gambling houses
were represented, and side by side with the rep
resentativrs sat urn and women of the highest
social and religious positions. the Rev. E. p.
Humphrey, of the Presbyterian Church,
preached the funeral sermon, referring to thu
history OF the family. one Of wealth and cul-
ture."
JOHN O'CoNNER, the pros 'lyte ex-priest, was
mobbed IN IA mild way, at Hamilton depot, o.,
on Saturday night last. IL will be money in his
pocket il he drops lecturing and enters some
other honorable calling. He has an undoubtrd
right to denOunce Cat hocsm if he desires, hut
popular condemnation ought to make 1t nm
prohtable tits in bad taste for n proselyte to
denounce church he has just abandoned. 1t
looks too much like bid for notoriety.
OPINIONS may differ rs to the value of base
burner stoves. A family near Batavia N. Y.
were so overcome by the gas from one that they
slept peacefully from Saturday night until
Monday morning. They thought it was Sunday
until some of the neighbors dropped III. Being
none the worse for the long nap, they were
rat Their pleased to think that sunday was over.
BECAUSE DIR. Blood of New York. neglected to
have revenue stamps affixed to 1000 of his
patent medicine bottles lie Is called upon by the
government to pay the neat SUN OF $4,000, or
$50 bottle. This seems trlfe high. even for
u blood purifier.
ITHURIEL, of the Cincinnati Enquirer, takes
a quarter of column to tell u suspense-burdened
world that he has had the intammatOry rheu-
matism. The saddest feature of his relation is
that he survived the attack.
IT is source of consolation that in all this
whirl Of gastronOmio exoesses no Indiana man
has offered to make a hog of himself on Quas
or in drinking beer.
SINCE the recent wholesale grave robbery in
Philadelphia, thoughtful citizens, who object 10
having their bodies snatched, talk Of building a
crematOry.
SOCIETY was not what it should be at Weeks,
Vile, NJ. r., until last week. when number of
cirizens forhei "A club and hanged sevea fellow
cilizeus VINO had too much leisure that they