The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-19
MINOR MENTION.
SUNDAY is a good day

SUNDAY IL gOCO uay-
To be clean quiet, and contented
To rest recuperate, and rejoice
To get closer to your wife and little ones.
To think of getting wife, if you have not al
ready secured one
To recall the Golden Rule and practice it in
all your communications with your fellow-man.
TO have a full appreciation of the benefits of
Sunday and of Christian civilization. upon which
latter your freedom and the safety of all you
have are founded.
To be glad that you were born in America.
where the fullest political and religious freedom
is enjoyed, and where statehood is builded on
manhood.
To rejoice that no war, foreign or domestic,
threatens the peace and quiet Of this happy and
prosperous people.
To realize that if you are not successful in
life it is probably your own fault, and to search
out that fault and resolve to correct it.
To acknowledge that you cannot smoke. chew,
drink and swear, and continue to be physically
and morally clean.
To realize that if you are poor you can never
get rich by squandering money and wasting your
time in saloons or elsewhere.
To reflect that there is twice as much money
in honest labor as in politics, and incidentally
more money in raising wheat than in gambling
in margins
To know that it is more respectable to be poor
and honest than to have accumulated by means
that will not bear the dearest Sunday inspec-
ton; and that you are better off with callous
hands and a bit in the cupboard than to be Ferdi-
nand Ward or James D. Fish
THE stealing of house by citizen of Dakota
church was stolen in Rhode Island and carried
seven miles. The structure was built in 1907, at
at McSparren Hill, where it remained until 1900.
Meanwhile the village of McSparren Hill had
made no progress, while Wexford, seven miles
away, grew apace so that it came about that
much the larger portion Of the congregation
came from Wexford. In course of time the
Wexford people began to move for a removal Of
the church to their town, which, as might
have been expected, provoked general feeling of
righteous indignation in McSparren Hill. Not
to be put out, however, the Wickfordites got to-
gether all the OK teams of the region, and one
night quietly proceeded to mount the house on
wheels, a task easy of performance. since so many
was down hill all the way. This was taken into
consideration by the conspiritors, who argued
that it could never be moved back When day
light came the Episcopal people of Nc
Sparren Hill rubbed their eyes and
pinched their bodies to convince them
selves that they were awake, for, 10,
the church that had stood in their
village for nearly a century was nowhere to be
seen. and only the foundation remained. Rightly
conjecturing that the Wexford members were
''at the bottom of it, they went to that wicked,
but enterprising town, and found the inhabitants
busy setting the house on its new foundation,
where it has since remained, the oldest Episcopal
church in the United States
PENNSYLVANIA, envious of Georgia in the line
of tough and improbable stories, comes forward
with one which, ON account Of its venerable age,
is calculated to compel respect, if not credence
The author of it laid it so far away and so many
years back that he doubtless expected it to pass
muster. as probably it will. 1t is to the effect
that Col. Andrew Ellicott, of Pennsylvania di-
rectly after the purchase of Louisiana, was sent
to survey the boundary line between the new
territory and Mexico. While proceeding with
the work, his company, 100 in number,
were captured by Blackfeet Indians. A
half-breed interpreter, with his party, said
that it was the intention of the Indians to mas
sacre all the whites. This awful fate was averted
by the interpreter. VINO explained to the chiefs
that his master was great medicine-man, who
could do many wonderful things, among them
being his ability to kill man or any living
thing at distance Of l5o yards, while the object