The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-24

had the trade pretty much all to himself, bat the
confectioners soon got to selling their surplus
ice to customers that called for it, and then fol-
lowed Pitts in taking it to their customers And
thus the ice trade started and grew till it now
employs thousand or more men and hundreds
OF teams in the cutting season. and a large num-
Der of distributing wagons, Transfers and other
hands all through the warm months. and
aggregates probably 15O, 900 tons of trade in a
year. amounting to half million Of dollars in
value.
MISS Phoebe CoUzENs in explaining seeming
cessation Of activity in the woman suffrage
movement. tells st. Louis reporter that the
suffrage feeling" comes in waves, and does not
continue steadily. We receive this information,
which may be called official. with gratitude and
sense Of great relief. The position Of the
Journal as friend of the movement is well un-
derstood. The Journal has always advocated
the cause of woman in distress, and has fire.
quentlv spoken in favor of allowing her any
privileges, political or otherwise, that she may
see fit to demand It is on this account that the
apathy, not to say indifference. in regard
to the absorbing question Of woman's
shadow the Office of late has caused
CONSERVATION among the attaches. The burn
ing enthusiasm which once animated their souls
when the subject was mentioned, has been sup
planted by languid carelessness painful to con-
template. Staff consultations have been hold to
devise means for reviving this important matter,
but hitherto with no practical result Phebe's
explanation however, lifts the cloud. The Jour
nal is not to blame for the apathy it is the wave.
The suffrage tide is out and the wave is setting
at present in the other direction. The Journal
places its confidence in Phoebe and the tide, and
resumes its wonted tranquility. secure in the
belief that presently suffrage wave will come
booming along and fill it full Of feeling" for the
cause.
THE starving islanders on the west coast Of
Ireland ''are living largely on seaweed says the
report Of Mr.. Bass, the commissioner of the
Cable News Association. This is bad enough,
but not SO bad as it seems. The sea.weed used
as food is usually the ''carrageen moss" OF
'Irish moss" which contains no irconsiderable
amount Of nutritive matter, and is consumed in
greater or less quantities by the coast and fishing
population of more countries than Ireland. 1t
is readily boiled down into jelly and made into
'blanc NANCE" in which condition. says a
medical author, st is pleasant article of food,
nutritious and easy of digestion" It's medicinal
value was first discovered some fifty years ago.
when it was found to have an emollient effect,
and to be an excellent relief in cases of consump-
ton. The trouble with the destitute fishermen
of Achiil and Innisbofin is that they can't get
enough Of it When q community has to live on
such food as that, eked out with seed potatoes,
that must leave no crop for next year. it looks
as If better use could be made of part of the
money raised for home rule by providing these
sufferers with food and clothing enough to Keep
life in them, than by paying the expenses of big
| meetings and supporting ambitious politicians.
THE announcement of the fatal illness, at h g
home in Canada, of John Humphrey Noyes
| founder Of the Oneida Community is accompa-
MED by the statement that he was driven cut of
that institution by force of the outraged moral
sense Of the people Of central New York This
is denied by an Albany paper, which declares
| that the people Of that region, 80 far from re-
voting against this free-love community, quiet
ly resisted attacks upon it for the reason,
among others, that it employed much
outside help. and in that way kept
local business lively. The transformation
of the institution into a moral, law-abiding
body of citizens was brought about, the Albany
writer declares, by revolution within the or
| ganization itself, Noyes choosing to go away
| rather than to remain and witness the overthrow
Of his plans The people of central New York,
who are asanxious as any other part of the Chris
tan world for the obliteration of polygamy, can,
perhaps. out of the depths of their own conscious
ness, explain an Indifference towards the Nor
mon evil, observable among certain Western
''gentiles," and which has puzzled many persons
lacking such personal experiences.
"OUT Of work and no vittles" was the colored
mans plea when arraigned for theft a few days
ago. It told the whole story, and being verified
and reinforced by evidences of good moral char
| acter, the mayor did right in discharging the &C.
cused. The world cannot be hard on the honest
man who when "out of work and no vittles, I"
gives way to temptation. The genteel thief who
steals as profession, or because he lis too lazy
| or too mean to work, has no conception of the
responsibility of him who. under the impulse
of hunger that he cannot satisfy and the distress
| of wife and children suffering with him and in
tensifying his own distress. gives way to the
| pressure and takes that which is not his own.
Yet. unfortunately for human wisdom and char
ty it is too often the case that he who steals to
add to luxury escapes punishment while he
who, driven by necessity. steals food. is convict
| ed. 1t remains, of course, that many of the
most contemplate thieves are petty Ones but
there are. undoubtedly, honest meE who, under
| stress of hard luck, are tempted to appropriate
what is not their own. They deserve sympathy
| and help.
DECATUR, Ga. is hot with righteous indigna-
ton the Dissertation of its cemetery, it hav-
| ing been discovered that the sexton had been
trading with body-snatchers Investigation