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FOUR GREAT GENERALS.
Why Sherman and Sheridan Acknowledged
Grants Leadership.
Montreal Gazette.

Grants Leadership.
Montreal Gazette
The four greatest generals produced by the
great civil war on the national side were Grant,
Mcpherson, Sherman and Sheridan. One of the
most pleasant memories of American history is
and will forever be, the fact that between these
four great commanders there was never the
shadow of jealousy or envy. It is the highest
honor that Grant ever received from mems judg-
ment or admiration that these three able cap
tains all willingly and always looked up to him
as their superior Mcpherson fell in battle be-
fore the splendor of his abilities could attract
the worlds attention, but in his death Grant, as
he declared, lost one of the greatest-perhaps
the very greatest-of his lieutenants. Sheridan,
as in right of his Irish blood, had the fercest
spirit in battle; Sherman the greatest invention
in council, while Mcpherson could fight with
the one and plan with the other but they all
admitted, because they knew and felt that 'the
silent gray-eyed man. was greater than they
'Why," asked General Sherman once. ibid
you and Sheridan always acknowledge Grant to
be your leaderV' Because he responded, in
his quick, idionatic manner, while could map
out dozen plans for a campaign, every of
which Sheridan would swear hs could fight out
to victory, neither he nor could tell which OF
the plans was the best one; but Grant, who
simply sat and listened and smoked
while we had been talking over the maps, would
at the end of our talking tells us which was the
best plan. and in adozen or two words the reason
of his decision, and then it would all be so clear
to US that he was right, that Sheridan and !
would look at each other and wonder why we
hadn't seen the advantage of it ourselves. II
tell you." ne continued, after moments pause,
''Grant is not appreciated yet. The military
critics of Europe are too ignorant of American
geography to appreciate the conditions Of his
campaigns. What is it to march an
army from Berlin to Pars9 Look at the
shortness of the distance. eLook at the multi
tude of roads. Look at the facilities of trans
portation. Consider how many times the same
ground has been fought over by successive com
manders. Is not every point of vantage known2
What commander can bunder where all the con-
ditions lie open to his eyeg But 1 have seen
Grant plan campaigns for half million of
troops along front line $500 miles in length
and send them marching to their objective
points, through sections where the surveyors
chain was never drawn, and where the commits
sariat necessities alone would havesbroken down
any transportation system of Europe; and three
months later have seen those armies standing
where he said they should be. and what he
planned accomplished. Aud give it as my mil
itary opinion that General Grant is the greatest
commander of modern times, and with him only
three others can stand-Napoleon, Wellington
and Moltken
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Miss WIZARDS Revelation.


To the Editor of the INDIANAPOLIS Journal
A recent number of the Journal helped to cir
culate the absurd rumor that Miss Frances e.
Willard, claiming divine revelation, had ad-
dressed the Alton Presbytery, lately IN session
at Hillsboro, ILL.,, urging them to make work for
woman suffrage part of their rlans Miss
Wizards secretary writes me that Miss Willard
has claimed no revelation; has communicated
with no presbytery. The telegram is false in
every particular
Whether the object of the person who sent
the telegram was to impose upon the presby-
terry or to injure and annoy Miss Willard, jus
tice to both parties requires that papers which
have unwittingly given publicity to the report
should make the amende honorable at once by
making public this denial of the rumor.
Permit me, through your columns, to ask the
same favor of other Indiana editors.
LoDIE E. REED, Cor. Sec Ind w. C. T. U.
The Journal denied the report some days
ago. and we print the above card not as an
amende, but to aid in quieting the absurd rus
NOR 81
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LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.
Women as Teacherk.

women as Ie&CnGfks
TO the Editor Of the Indianapolis J~rnal.
Through the columns Of your paper would
like to- ask the members of our most excellent
school board to read and carefully consider the
editorial on Women as Teachers in your last
Sundays Journal 1t is practical and in the right
direction
We have at the head of our normal woman
who for many years has not only labored hard
for finished education for herself, but has,
thirk, done more to inspire and help others in
the same pursuit than any other person in the
city. feel as though she would join with the
board in making success of such an under
taking SIS is spoken of in your editorial, and we
nave superintendent who for many years has
seen failure after failure due to the overtaxing
OF the physical strength in the first few years Of
teaching
think Mr.. Jones would aid in that which
would give to our schools teachers better fitted
for the work and women better fitted to take
hold of any other work, provided they found
teaching distasteful or overtaxing.
My sympasllies are with the young teachers.
know what it is to be well prepared for any
business in life, and TOO manyso OF our young
teachers, anxious to stand at the head overlook
keep at the head
suggest that some of the members of the
class soon to graduate-at least those that are
not physically strong-be asked to try half a
DAY Tor the first year, and then some way be
provided for instruction of the other MALT. The
graduates, have no doubt will not thank me
for this suggestion now, but in ten years from
now they will wonder at the great wisdom of
Yours truly, PHYSICIAN
April. d 1895
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Doctors Object to Pay Advertising, but Are
Always Ready for Free Puffs.


Texas siftings.
A Chicago medical society recently amputated
member Ii was very good member they cut
of. and was not diseased at all. In fact, the
member that was cut of was the only sound,
healthy member that the medical society could
boast of. But, dropping all nonsense a. medical
association expelled one of its members. They
expelled him, not because he had prescribed
arsenic instead of quinine, or because he had
committed some of his homicides while in an in
toxicated condition. Nobody ever heard of a
medical society amputating member for any
such triviality as that
Now, for what does the reader suppose those
saw bones cut off the offending members For
nothing in the world except that he had put his
business card In newspaper and paid for it. 1t
is contrary to medical ethics for Chicago doctor
TO advertise in a newspaper Why there should
be any more objections to doctor putting his
card in a newspaper than there is in lacking his
professional single on his Office door, is more
than we can comprehend without some operation
having been previously performed on our journ-
alistic brain. We utterly fail to discover why it
is more unprofessional in doctor to advertise
in a newspaper than it is for lawyer, or a
banker to do So
This is peculiarly singular feature of medi-
cal ethics, when it is taken into consideration
that otherwise there is no profession that is
fonder of newspaper notoriety. Ii son of
Esculapius does some fine work in repairing
rickety liver, or putting in order some other
unhlnged, we have never preceived any wild,
frenzied opposition on the part of the doctor to
having tho fact mentioned in fiattering terms in
the local paper. There is nothing in that that
interferes with the therapeutic, chirurgical,
sanitary, analeptic, prophylactic, or any other
kind of medical ethics.
Again. it will be remembered that every once
in while the doctors hold kind of ecumenical
council. We have never observed any attempt
to prevent the press from publishing the sicken-
ing details. Usually one Of the doctors is deliv-
cred of a long. salutiferous, balsamc kind of
pastoral address, full of Latin names and less in
telligible English, about materia medica,
or dietetics, of pharmaeology, after which
his one object in life seems to be to
infiict it, as a kind of mental porous plaster, on
the reading public, through the medium of the
local press. There seems to be nothing in med
ical ethics against running an entire issue of a
newspaper with that kind of a free cyclopean
advertisement of personal and professional ego
tism; yet when any other doctor puts in two
inch ad. that he is authorized by law to take
human life, the entire medical profession sits up
on its hind legs and bowls about ethics, which
goes TO show that the medical profession is as
badly afflicted with the humbuggery as is the
Ology.
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THE SATURDAY JOURNAL.

THE JOURNAL has made arrangements
for series of original stories for publication
in the SATURDAY EDITION. from such
writer's as Hjalmar Ell. Boyesen, w. d How
ellis, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Sarah Orne
Jewett, and others This special feature will
continue through the year 1885 iii the SAT-
URDAY JOURNAL. Subscriptions are re-
reivedl for this edition exclusively at Two
DoLLARsA YEAR. The SATURDAY JOUR-
MALLS a twelve-page paper, and is filed with
the choicest reading.
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A SAD CASE.
The Evils Of Sabbath Breaking-Doins III |
that Good May Come.

The Evils OF Neutrality-suspicious. Ill
that Good May Come.
New York Times.
The Rev. Mr.. Wh;tescarver may be in many
respects most estimable man, but he has APP
parently adopted the detestable principle that it
is lawful to do evil that good may come. In a
contribution to recent number Of the Rich
mond Religious Herald he relates the following
conversation held by him with sister in his de-
noninational Israel: fought we to let our hens
lay on Sundayq" asked the sister, to which MIR.
Whitescarver replied, YES but you ought to
give the Sunday eggs to Missions How Mr..
Whatsoever can justify this advice, except on
the plea that the end justifies the MEANS it is
difficult to see.
The utter want of respect for Sunday which is
evinced by domestic fowls is very painful to
right-minded people. Hens not only Law eggs on
Sunday, but they afterward cackla over the fact
in noisy and grossly irreverent manner, and
then spend the rest Of the day in the serviie
noconscience and no respect for the convictions
of her owner. She would as soon lay an egg on
Sunday as on Saturday, and reproof and remon-
STRANGE have effect upon her.
In these circumstances what ought the isis
ter mentioned by Mr. Whitescarver to do2 OBJ
viously it is her duty to see to it that her hens
do not Law eggs on Sunday. To permit the hens
to 60 on in their wicked course is manifestlv to
give countenanee to wickedness. She cannot
clear herself of completely with the hens by Civ
ing the eggs to missions. As well might the
owner Of lottery try to atone for his violation
of the lottery law by giving part of his profits
to missionaries. If it is wrong for hens to Law
eggs on Sunday it is the duty of the SISTER to
keep them from laying. If she listens to the
crafty and immoral advice of Mr.. Whitescarver
she will hardly be less guilty than her hens
The proper course for the sister to pursue is
to tie strings to the legs of all her hens on Sat
urday night, and to compel them to swing head
downward all day Sunday No hen would ven
ture to lay an egg while in such q position nor
would she have spirit enough to cackle. A SOL
emn silence would reign in the hennery from
morning till night and the hens would be taught
Mr. Whtesearver a safe guide he would have
told the sister" how to protect Sunday from
secularization on the part of hens; but, alas! he
has chosen instead to encourage the .'sister'ss
hens in evildoing in order that missions may
profit thereby.
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When we throw aside the flannel and the worn and
leaky gum,
And the croakng of the bufrog tells that spring al
last has come
When the plumber and the gas-msn seek their man
sions In the West
And we feel that we're entitled now to have little
rest,
Then there comes the cheeky huckster and up the
street he goes
Loud he yelleth from his wagon: Here's your nice
sweet berriose!a
Then mouths are sure to water as we conjure up
adream
its cream;
And in haste trade our dueats for the sour-drops
filed with sand
Only to repent at leisure as each puckered face is
scanned;
And our youngest hopeful tells us while our cup of
o'erhows:
That's the Teller that once sold us them bananas
what was froze!'
-Boice in pittsburg Telegraph.
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A Hard-Hearted Judge.

Owenshoro tKy.1 Messenger.
Judge Reinhardt, the circuit judge at Rock
port is stern. hard hearted judge. Last Sat
urday a number of witnesses from Chrisney, in
the Adams trial, arrived several hours late,
owing to belated train. When they filed into
the courtroom he summoned them before him
and fined each of them $40
but, Judge" protested one of the witnesses,
'the train was late and we could not possibly
get here earlier"
mo matter" peremptorily replied the judge
''you should have walked The State of Indiana
has lost 500 by the delay in this case and you
may choose between stepping up to the clerk
desk and paving your fines, or having your prep
erty levied on"
Such judge in Kentucky would not have a
ghost of a show for re elections:
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-24

WHILE there is life there is hope. Let not
the poor sufferer from kidney disease lose heart
but cling to the anchor that Mishlers Herb Bit
tiers shows to them. Joseph Laciar, druggist,
of Mauch Chunk, Pa, speaks from his own ex-
perence He says: II recommended Mishler's
Herb Bitter as tonic and appetizer, and have
found it particularly valuable in affection of the
kidnevsn
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Female Economy.

Texas Siftngs.
Mrs. Peterby, Of Dallas, is . woman with .
head for business.
tJust see here. i have bought beautiful
roeking-ehar at auction worth 49, and only
paid So for it, so you see have 81 clear profit
Don't tell me after this that women have no bus
mess sense"
''Do you need the rockingehairfa asked Mr..
Peterby.
mo"
''Then what did you buy it forl7
ITO save money of course. How could /
have saved that dollar if / hadn't bought it,
stupid2"
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Pittsbure Chronicle Telegraph.

\.
A compulsory voting law. requiring all having
the right OF suffrage to cast their ballots at all
elections. whether primary or regular, seems to
be about the only method of getting a certain
class Of citizens to the polls. They claim to be
the better class toe, on account of their stand
ing IN business and society: but it seems to us
snat man who habitually neelects what should
gen cannot rightfully be said to belong to the
better class ~ Wv
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There Were Two Sad Hearts.
Boston Gazette.

A young man who has-or rather who had
tremendous affection for a certain fair one whom
he fondly hoped TO make Mrs-we will say Jones
was visiting her the other evening Conver-
sation tagged, when presently he asked her If
she would not sing for him. Her aequiescence
was very cheerful, and she seated herself at the
piano and sang, with much feeling. and fervo
and expression, Would he were here, for my
heart is sad" Then the young man remem bered
he bad another visit to pay, and thoughfully de-
parted. never to return
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The Indianapolis Journal.
F O r 1 8 8 8.
T@hostPopala, Most Widely Circulated and Most
Comprehensive Newspaper in indiana

THE JOURNAL collects the news from
all parts of the world, regardless of expense,
and prints it in an attractive and intelligent
manner.
THE JOURNAL adheres politically to the
Republican party, because it believes that the
principles of that party are right, and that
twenty -four years Of successful and honorable
administration entitle it to the respect and
confidence of the people.
THE JOURNAL has special correspond
emit at Washington, who will send the fullest
reports of news from the National Capital
THE JOURNAL has special correspondents
in all the principal towns and cities of the
State and country at large, and prints every
morning the completest news columns of any
paper in the State.
THE JOURNAL of Monday willycontain
the reports of the sermon preached by Rev.
DR.. Talmage, in the Brooklyn Tabernacle, the
Sunday before
THE JOURNAL always contains the COM
pletest and freshest railway news.
THE JOURNAL prints complete and sc
eurate Financial and Market reports-not only
of indianapolis, but of all the principal mar
kets of the country.
THE JOURNAL is the only paper in Indi-
ana that prints the full reports of the Western
Associated Press, supplemented by special re-
ports from all the principal towns and citiesof
the State and the country generally These
reports embrace the whole world, and cover
every important event.
THE JOURNAL is newspaper and as
such commends itself to the people of ali
classes, parties and conditions.
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Ph3Iadelpbla Press
Vice-president Hendricks asserts that there il
no truth 10 the rnmor that ne is going abroad
the Democratic party restored to power.s that
st is important TO get things in good running
ORDER and that 1.-THE Presidents idea IN 10 bnild
up . sort Of r~juvenated Democratic party. :
With such an elaborate programme on the bills.
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Two of q Kind.

Philadelphia inquirer
Two spirits met in No-man's land. Said one:
What was your vocation while on earthl"
II took pleasure in making men miserable
while they were helpless" replied the other.
$50 did /. brother was dentist. And your
II was barber. Shake, brother"
And they shook for fear that some of their
former victims were believers in spirit rapping
and would club them if they got the ghost of a
chance
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THE. SUNDAY JOURNAL

Is twelve page paper, and Is sold in every
town and city of the State Of Indiana and sur
rounding territory. The price Of the paper is
FIVE CENTS. The columns of the SUM-
DAY JOURNAL are fun of che best litera-
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the world. All of the best writer's Of Indiana
contribute to its columns. We have also
arranged for the Sunday Journal for series
of original stories from the pens of the most
noted writers in the world. We have already
printed stories written by s'Ouida' and Will
lam Black, and the next is one entitled
4'Oliver's Bride by Mrs. Oliphant This
feature viii continue in the SUNDAY JOUR-
NAL throughout the year 1885.
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Is the best Weekly in Indiana FOX the farmers
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Thomas Carlyle,

the great Scotch author suffered all his life with
dyspepsia which made his own life miserable
and caused his best and truest friends not q little
pain becauseof his fretfulness Dyspepsia gen
orally arises from disease of the liver and as DIR.
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery" cures all
diseases of this great gland it follows that, while
all cannot be Carlylcs, even with dyspepsia, all
can be free from them lady. while emulating his
virtuea
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Rink Notes.
Texas Siftings.


The skating rink craze has reached Texas
The following conversation took place in a Dali
las school: Teacher-"I have explained to you
all about the paths Of virtue Now what is
the name of the opposite virtue. What is that
slippery path called which leadeth to destruc-
ton, which frivolous people travel On the down.
ward road to ruin and which ultimately causes
them to fallg' Skating rink. exclaimed lit
tie boy ut the foot of the class. whose pa doesn't
belieyeTn Kinks.
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HUM0R OF THE DAY.


When smiling Spring with winklirg feet.
Through mead and woodland gayIy dances,
The happy birds with carols SWEET
a Salute the maid as she advances;
Then verdure decks again the vale.
And early flowers are found In lunches,
And men resort to beer and ale,
And give up drinking whisky punches.
Benton Courier.
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in fact three rings to one circus, Mr.. Hendricks
doesn't intend to be away from the tent engaged
in such small business as hob nobbing among the
crowned heads of Europe. If he cannot be
Jumbo or the Write elephant he may be able
to take the part of the baby elephant. He pro-
poses to be in one Of the rings, anyhow
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Didn't Want Home yictuaIs.

New York Times.
.'we can give you stewed terrapin," suggested
the waiter to countryman who, with his bride,
was seated in the dining-room of an uptown ho-
tel mo-" said the countryman, bring us roast
turkey, raw oysters, ice-cream and pie. This is
a weddin' tower, mister, and while it lasts there
amt goin' to be any stewed dinners, nor billed
dinners, nuther. We kin git them at home.'
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Amiable Wish from the Oil Regions.
Pittsburg Times.
1t is fondly and selishly hoped that il there
must be war across the deep the British will pro-
coed, at their earliest convenience. 10 stuff mp
the Russian petroleum wellA
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Afghan Names.
Pali Mail Gazette,

GAZETTE.
Cabul 10 pronounced Kawble; Merv Ia pro-
nounced Mahriv; Herat is pronounced Heraht;
Kurrachee is pronounced K'rahchy; Peshawrr is
pronounced Peshower The accent on Afghanis-
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These WCuerl.

The San Franciscan.
The other day very recent mother over the
bay said to her accomplice
"Oh, William, nurse says that baby weighs
only six pounds. I'm so gladm
why are you glad2' growled the husband,
disguised at having received so little for his
money
Because the fashion papers say that light kids
are all the rage again.
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tan is on the second syllable. In gucl1 words as
Bolan kobat etc, the accent is on the second
syllable, and the "a" La pronounced bread, like
"ah.r