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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-18
Missionaries in d


Liz VI bOTh BdWIeHCt.
A small brotherhood of Moravian missionaries
had been stationed for some years at Lahoul, on
the borders of Thibet and about 100 miles from
Simla where the Governor general of India
CLord Lawrence) was then residing. Their iso-
lated position, their extreme poverty and their
s~elf-denying labors amongst a emi-barbarou
people were known only to a few, and when one
of Sir John Lawrence's staff told him how they
were accustomed to work in the fields as common
peasants, to manufacture their own paper, to
make their own clothes, and expressed a wish
that one of the body might be invited for q few
days to "Peterhoff," the Governor generals
house at Simla, a cordial assent was given and
an invitation was sent out by special messenger.
The missionary selected by the brethren walked
the whole distance. His dress was a coarse suit
of brown camel's-hair cloth, which had been
woven in the village and cut out and sewed
by the brotherhood. He had no shoes, only
sandals made of hemp and coarse string, and his
whole luggage consisted of a portable coffee pot
in one pocket and his Bible in the other. = 4 =
in the course of conversation Sir John ELECTED
that the greatest hardship, next after the severe
cold which the missionaries had to endure, was
the want of medicine and their inability to carry
ON the work of translating the Bible during
the long six months of winter, since they had no
lamps or candles. A stock of quiniue and other
medicines was at once obtained from the govern
ment dispensary, and a large quantity of half
burnt wax candles, amounting to several
thousand pieces, which had been accommodating
in the store-room of the government house was
Dfuereu 10 De IuelIOu uOWu III the DdZar ana
formed into candles of a convenient size. These
were the self-appropriated perquisites of a
well-paid native servant who, having no mission
airy proclivities, was indignant at the use to
which the fragments were converted. But the
grateful thanks of the missionary as he depart
ed, with his precious burden strapped on a
mules back, and his last beaming words of Joy,
''You have given us life and health, have never
been forgotten by those who wished him God
speed as he passed out of sight. The story has
never been told till now, but it will doubtless
through the missionary press some day reach
that little band of devoted workers in their far
off solitary station, and as they hold up their
translation of st. Johns gospel roughly litho-
graphed on the coarse paper made by their own
hands, they will be reminded of an episode in
the life of the man at whom the fashionable
world Of Simla may have thought fit to sneer
as the Puritan Governor general of India, but
whom they will always remember with love and
pratitnda
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-18
A Great Depression.

Philadelphia Call,
Farmer-Want any potatoes, corn, butter or
provisions of any kind!
Mechanically wife says we have so much stuff
on hand that it is spelling, and we are getting
the dyspepsia trying to eat it up.
Farmer-Too bad; the same story everywhere.
Never saw such hard times.
Merchant-By the way, don't you want some
dress goods, or clothing, or shoes, Or
Farmer-Naw. Why, things got so cheap that
my wife went out last summer and bought more
goods than W. can wear out in a year. Fact is
we're wearing all our old Sunday clothes every
day now so as to get rid of them.
Merchant-Thats what they all say. Never
saw such hard times.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-18
Religious Notes,

Unless there be in our hearts a secret convic-
ton by the Spirit of God, the gospel itself is a
dead letter.
The Presbyterians of Pennsylvania have 941
churches, 842 ministers, 1884, 15 communicates
and "a p~resbyteries.
Gods love for his redeemed creatures is an I'M
ehangingpove; so, also, his desire that his Great
ures should love him is unchanging.
The right honorable the mayor of London
preached at the reopening of the Brunswick
Wesleyan Chapel, Limehouse, using as his text:
'Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou
shalt be saved"
Since March l nearly 6S, 900 miles have, in the
aggregate, been Travelled by the missionaries of
the American Sunday -school Union in its North
western department, in the prosecution of their
missionary labors.
The directors of the Columbia IS. c. Semi
nary have passed resolutions sustaining Prof.
Woodrow in his recently expressed belief in evo-
tuition, which has caused such a commotion
among the Presbyteriaus of the South.
The Missionary Outlook says that three
fourths of the Bibles shipped from New York to
foreign mission stations 90 to Mexico and South
America. After the Bible has been so long pro-
hibited in these nominally Christian lands, this
is a great triumph.
Father Bilimek, c~oneessor to the Emperor
Macmillan, died recently at the Miramar Castle,
near Trieste, Austria. Father Bilimek accom-
panied MaXimilian on his expedition to Mex
49, 49, 'II@ NN| AANNNg 0NA -
Maximiiian's castle. He was a distinguished
naturalist.
In India the Free Church of Scotland is repre-
scented by 10 native preachers and 1884 commu-
nicants; in Africa, 10 preachers and 3,12l COM
municants; in New Hebrides, ] preacher and 245
communicates; in Lebanon, Syria, / preacher
and IS communicates; total, "a native preachers
and 4 735 communicates.
When the late Bishop of London revisited the
University chapel at Cambridge, after long alb
sence, he found the same verger there whom he
remembered in his college days, and said to him:
"You have much to be grateful for" II have,
indeed. my lord, replied the old man, 'for 1
have heard every sermon that has been preached
in the chapel for fifty years, and, bless the
Lord, l am a Christian still"
The Christian Advocate declares that 'in no
period of the Christian era, and rarely before it,
has the theater been a place of refinement in the
moral sense of the word. At no period in the
Christian era has the class of society possessing
Christian education and culture been found in
the auditorium of a theater. Between the planes
of the two a great gulf is fixed a gulf as wide
as worldliness is from holiness"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-18
FASHIONS FALL FACE.

Gay-plaided skirts and tunics, with bodices or
jerseys of monochrome fabric, are much worn.
Breakfast caps are much worn this year. Net
lace, with edging to match, is the preferred ma
terial.
Velvet ribbon loops and a bunch of feathers
IN front are almost the only trimmings seen on
round hats.
Dark green velvet hats. with wreaths of mas
turtians are at once handsome and stylish for
autumn wear.
Standing collars are usually made of the vest
material, while turn-down collars arc made of
that Of the basque.
Bronze-brown, combined with delicate touches
OF rose pink, form the colors used in some of the
Partisan walking dresses.
Very large pins and earrings are in vogue
abroad. Some of the latter, representing ele-
plants, are over an inch long.
Steel springs at the back of skirts must be put
in very high, so that they will adjust themselves
easily to any change of position.
The waist Innings used by tailors are usually
of twilled silk of a solid color, but may have
gilt lines on ecru grounds or gilt dots on black
sateen.
Very long -wristod gloves of cashmere or Aus
trian wool, with ribbed tops like the Jersey cuff,
appear in all the dark street shades to match the
costume.
Little white frillincs are now put inside the
capote bonnets that are so fashionable. They
are of fine white lace, and are very becoming to
most faces.
English tailors are returning to the Scotch
~tartans, especially those of blue and green
plaids, using them as draperies of blue serge
dresses and as overdresses above red skirts.
The shapes of many Of the new autumn hats
are less stiff than last season, showing more of a
leaning toward the flexible Rembrandt and Tria-
non styles rather than the more recent Henri II
designs, with their severe upright crowns and
straight brims.
Very few dresses are altogether of one mate
rial, combination suits are decidedly in the ma
iority, and women who have old dresses to fix
over have greater opportunities than ever. All
fashion asks is harmony and agreeable contrast
in combining different materials.
The popular waterfall drapery at the back of
the walking costume requires the support of the
tournure of fouuced hair-cloth and reed or steel
to give it the required French effect, that con-
trolling element of the world of fashion having
decidedly settled the question that crinoline, in
the back at least, is an indispensable accessory
for any who aspire to anything like chic or best
form in dress.
With all the reigning carnival of color and
the infinity of shades that pile the shelves and
counters of the large dry goods stores, and the
abundance of figured materials-friese spotted
pave, ETC., plain dark colors and smooth, rich
fabrics are as much worn as ever. Black silk of
some sort, satin, brocade or gros grain, continues
the favorite choice for handsome dresses for all
but very young ladies.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-18
Mrs. Burnett's Boys.
Washington Letter,

" asHIlgIOH EFIIeT,
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett, the we'll kno
authoress, is one of these exceptions, and her
craze for the picturesque extends not only to her
inanimate surroundings, but to her two boys.
A lady, who has recently paid Mrs. Burnett a
long visit, is the authority for the statement
that they are very handsome boys. Their proud
mother is quite aware of their beauty by keep
ing them dressed in a most becoming fashion.
She taught them to pose in an artistic manner.
II the bell rings and a visitor is announced, Mrs.
Burnett turns to her sons and says; Take your
positions Immediately the welltrained boys
fall into the poses best suited to their
dress and beauty. The older one will lean
his elbow on the corner of the mantel-
piece, and rest his head upon his shapely
hand, while the younger will stretch himself in
a graceful attitude on the heavy fur rug in front
of the fire. The visitor enters and cannot fail
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-18
Red 1t Shall BE.

New York Evening Post.
Red, as we long since predicted, judging from
its prominent place in costumes and trimmings
early last season in Paris, has burst out this side
the water, and the CLEAN of this brilliant hue is
seen in every shop-window, frightening every
combination in dress fabrics, and shining out
upon the costumes from the upturned sides of
the hat-brims to the tips of the dainty Turkey
red kid horseshoe. Red triumphant, red abso-
lutte, red a la Pharaoh, in tones and semi-tones,
help largely this season to enliven the dull, dead
appearance of the melancholy days" just upon
us. The new shades of this color are rich and
various, and burst forth e%loriously in velvet and
brocade, or glimmer charmingly through bronze,
mahogany, bismuth- brown, and tan, until the
color, dying Quit in the material itself, breaks out
again in cordings, facings, ribbon garnitures,
panels, and jacket, and wSistcoat adornings
ad infnitum. Pomme d'amour, love-apple, or
tomato, Aurore, a clear, vivid sunset red, shad-
ing to deep wine, Rouge gorge-robin red breast
color-and red vulcain, Sultane infernale. and
Coquelicot are some of the leading Partisan
shades of this color, with endless cross. tints,
which appear in all the seasons high-dyed pro-
ductions.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-18

Four Remarkable Brothers, and the Way
They Keep Young.

New York Letter.
Cyrus W. Field has returned from q tour-or,
rather say, a trip-across tho continent with his
family of twelve, including a brother and chill
dren and grandchildren. What a remarkable
quartet these Field brothers make-David Dud-
ley, the lawyer; Stephen, the judge; Cyrus, the
inventor and Spectator; and Henry, the editor.
They are almost totally unlike in tastes and ten
denotes, having hardly anything in common eX-
cept an unusual affection for each other
and four long noses. like the all,
the noses which Napoleon demanded
on his marshals. After the big dinner in Wash
ington, last spring. in honor Of David Dudley's
seventy ninth birth day, Cyrus exclaimed:
well, 1 must have you next February in New
York, when you will be eighty" Count your
self engaged to me, Dudley, for the ninetieth, !"
cried the Rev. Henry. And when you round
the century," put in Chief Justice Stephen,
"We1l have a spread for you in California" 1t
less than his age. Lawyer Field doesn't look a
day over sixty. Editor Field has been kept
young by racing over the planet; and millionaire
Field, tall. thin, with light-brown hair and
beard, blue-gray eyes and the s~anguine face
of a typical Yankee, seems to-day in the very
prime of life. Cyrus lives at Irvington, and
David Dudley and Henry have summer man
sions on a far-viewing eminence at Stockbridge,
up among the Berkshire hills, one of the pretti-
est spots in this land. The distinguished law
yer's great pets are his three grandsons-chil
to see them harness the old gentleman up with
Irvine and drive him around the lawn, like young
British tyrants, as they are. Lord Musgrave has
been Governor of Newfoundland, British Column
bia, Jamaica and South Australia, and he now
represents his government at Queensland.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-18
They Had Hearts.

Pittsbure Chronicle Telegraph.
1t was at a station in the Burnt Woods dis
trict of Arkansas, where civilization runs an
inch to the mile. The station" was a rough,
shake shanty in which an operator told on the
wire about the movements of the two trains
that daily noticed the dot in the burnt timbers.
When the train came in a frowsy, woe begone,
fried out looking woman, with three children
Juggling at her, was seated on a log near the
rough platform, waiting for something or some
body-the Lord knows what.
'Thar's one on EN-, " said an uncouth Black
river stave splitter to me. ''Thars one on .em.
Half human and half boss. Lives on the fints
up in the hills. Theyes amt got no more edi-
cation than brults. Theyes just like animiles.
They amt got nothin' like Christian c~reeters hes
bout EN-" He spoke in a loud tone. evidently
caring nothing whether he was heard or not. l
saw two big tears rolling Town the faded
woman's cheeks. What are you crying for2p l
asked. ''We'uns hes got hearts, stranger,
wehuns hes, she replied.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-18
a Dress of Rat Skins.

An ingenious inhabitant of Liskeard, Corn.
wall, exhibits himself in a dress composed of rat
skins, whic h he was collecting for three years
and a half. He made the dress entirely himself,
cape, CATERS and shoes. The number of rats
required to complete the suit was go, and the
person, when thus dressed, appears exactly like
one of the Eskimos as described by Ross. The
cape is composed of the pieces of skins immedi-
ateiy around the tails, containing about six hun
dred tails. A lady of Glasgow had a pair Of
shoes of exquisite workmanship the upper parts
of which were made of the skins of rats. The
leather was exceedingly smooth, and soft as the
finest kid, and appeared stout and firm. 1t took
no less than six skins to make the pair of shoes,
as the back of the skin is the only part strong
enough for use.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-18
Curiosities of Mesmerisn.

Popular Science Monthly
The distinguishing feature of the earlier stages
of mesmerism in man is that by slight stimula-
ton any one center can be easily set in violent
activity, and its activity easily stopped, without
the activity spreading to other distant centers.
1t is on this that the mesmeric. phenomena
usually exhibited depends; with most of these
phenomena you are no doubt familiar, SO that l
need mention one or two only.
Complicated ref1exes may be produced in
various ways, just as we have seen in the case
with a frog even when without its cerebral
hemispheres. Thus Braid mentions that on one
occasion an old lady who had never danced, and
who indeed considered it a sinful pastime, when
mesmerised began to dance as soon as a waltz
tune was played.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-18
Prize Winners.
/. No complete list received.
2. May S. Bent; fifty address cards.
Foot Notes.


MAY S. BENT-We are glad to receive the list
of answers. Please call often.
ELBA-Your answers will be credited next
week. We shall expect to hear from you again.
UNCLE THEo-Your work is accepted, and you
are invited to visit US frequently.
ERMINA is with us again this week, with an
other interesting charade.
EVE LINwooD's diamond is splendid. We
thank her.
B.-We make several alterations in your dia-
mond, as your second word was not defined by
Webster.
Flo AND FLORA produce a fine school of fishes;
we doubt that they will prove too shy for our
solvers to catch.
GRACE is thanked for her list of answers. We
wish all would follow Graces example, and send
answers often.
PEARL AND sUBY give us some good behead-
ings. Next week they shall have room again.
s. X. RANK-We shall make use of all of
your work, except the diamond, which reads
only one way. We are very glad to admit you
to our circle. Please call every week,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-18

~ III IAhcbs
We have another adventures in New York
this week who has been running on the diamond
line. Sometimes l get letters from women tell
ing me that l am TO hard on the sex. If the sex
would only indicate clearly what they are about
and what they want we would know where to
place them, but in this age, when there are So
called intellectual women and women of great
common sense, as the papers say, women fit to
rule the country etc, we must necessarily poise
our minds for such persons and results. Then
we find that the great common-sense, clear
headed woman has been giving herself away for
a lot of shining stones to wear on her fingers
around tables and to come into the dining-room
with great big pieces of glass made by nature in
her ears. AS long as women love dress men will
attend to business. No doubt the desire to
adorn the body is a great stimulant to the man
fractures and to art, but we have too much of it
in the United States when no woman can go to
market without a silk dress nor enter her own
kitchen except with a Paris-made robe. l have
much more respect for the girl who went out
and married the hostler for the purpose of null
tiplying her species than for the woman who
swindled half of upper Broadway to get a lot of
diamonds and whose husband is a sort of shyster
Speculator.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-18

to be struck by the picturesque beauty of the
scene, and goes away, her mind full OF admira-
ton for her friends children, and feels almost
ashamed of the general roughness of her own
boys at home, whom she is much more likely to
find gliding down the banisters, sitting on the
fence or playing ball than in poses which would
tudes given above are only those for winter use.
For summer an entirely different set prevail,
but they are all quite as effective, and, indeed,
they are the pride of Mrs. Burnett's heart.
What the result of this novel mode of education
will be is a question which agltates many of the
writer's friends, but they will soon have the
opportunity of seeing, for a boy who can lean
an elbow on the mantelpiece cannot be so very
small.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-18

RATS, and was unable to carry many of the
horses with the army, he ordered all the others
killed. When the first settlers came here, about
one hundred years ago, they found great mounds
of horses skulls piled in the vicinity. These, it
was supposed, were some of the remains of Sui
livan's horses, and that they had been heaped
up IN that way by the Indians. The settlement
was given the name of Households, and when,
in 1887, the village was incorporated and given
the name Of Fairport, the old residents fought
for eight years to have the old name restored.
which was done in 1916. The old native stock
of Households are strongly opposed to the
change and will make n fight against it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-18
Why Women are Church Members.

OelfOAL lilies
Seventy per cent. Of church members are
women. The secret of this excess of outward
piety lies not so much in the greater religious
ness of women as the fact that the church is a
social institution. Men meet each other in that
casual contact which is stimulating without
being a burden, in their business relations, and
the gregarious instinct is abundantly satisfied in
daily life, while to the lives of many women the
church gatherings afford the only large and
varied contact with the world which is open to
them. That this avenue leads h~eavenwardo of course
adds to its attractiveness, for women like the
safe, the reputable, unless exceptionally i'll born
and bred, as is proved by the fact that only two
per cent. of criminals are women. When their
debut into the industrial and political life of the
world is fully accomplished there may be a re
adjustment of these statistics, the per cent. of
church members and criminals may be more
nearly equal between the sexes, for woman's
equality with man means social equilibrium, if it
means anything. When the new regime is full
ly inaugurated we may expect to see at first q
diminuition in the feminine church membership,
perhaps a slight increase in the number
of woman criminals, while society readjusts it's
self to its new relations, but after the pendulum
has ceased to swing and settles to the perpendic-
ular, less crime and more piety for both sexes
will prevail. The church is.a stable institution,
being founded on the rock of the religious in
stinct of humanity, and while variable in form
must always remain intact in essence-the ex-
ponent of mans effort to grasp divine things and
to represent in concrete form his conception of
the higher life and Thought. As such it will al
ways attract religious and spiritually earnest
people in spite of the weakness, blindness, and
willfulness which characterizes much of its policy
and many of it's utteranees.