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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-18
A Weu-Advertised Picture.
Paris Letter.

Paris Letter.
The price paid for 1.-THE Angelus' is out
of all reason, but / suppose that the fact
that it did cost so much money will be suf-
ficient to make everybody go to see it when
it is exhibited in New York. Those who
really care for the development of art in
the United States, however, will wish that
THE Angelus" might come among us solely
on its merits, and without the noisy adver-
Using the circumstances attending its ac-
QUESTION by an American firm have given
it. THE Angelus' is one of Mil
let's most beautiful works, it is true,
but it cannot by any means be called
his chef .d'euvre. Mr.. vanderbilt's
work and equally beautiful, whether
considered technically or sentimentally.
The Cleaners" which belongs to NJ.
Bischoffsheim, and is now to be seen at the
Camp de Mars in the Retrospective exhibi-
ton of French art, is a finer work than
either. but it is doubtful if it will ever be
sold tor anything like the money paid for
The Angelus." We may, nevertheless,
congratulate ourselves that THE Angelus'
is to go to our shores, and we may hope
that it may find its way to the MetropOli-
tan Museum-prOvided it can be got there
without somebody buying it for over $780,
600. If there is anybody in New York in
clined to spend that much for the museum
the money can be expended to far better
advantage than by putting it in this one
canvas. and we can do without The
Angelus."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-18
but every one needs his special course of

but every one needs his special course of
sanctiticatiOn.
"Peaceably / am come to sacrifice unto
the Lord" hat is a good motto for every
one that comes to church. The daily news
papers seem to gloat with satisfaction over
every account of hot action inside of the
sacred walls. Not a week elapses but we
hear of factions fighting within the church.
The most reputable, aristocratic and con-
sentative churches can recall a quarrel, of
which the conclusive rounds were fought in
front of the altar itself. One such disgrace
full scene undoes the work of fifty years.
One sure way of creating bowling atheists
is to get mp a church quarrel. have members,
and deacons. and choirs resign in unsab-
batical language, and finally to kick the
pastor out.
Samuel was the interpreter of David to
himself. A man often needs some one else
to touch the hidden spring that sets the
new current in motion. David felt himself
set apart, and his life was fashioned anew.
A thoughtful word may act like a horn of
oil upon some life, and raise it above the
sheepfold into spiritual kingship among
men.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-18
A Great Barrier to Missionary Work.

Private Letter in Springfield Republican.
1t seems to me that there is a great bar
rier in the style in which missionaries live.
The conception of the Chinese scholars as
to what a teacher should be is SO different
from the examples which they see coming
to them from the West that they cannOt
brook their disappointment. 1t was early
told me after my arrival in China that it
did not do to allow literary gentlemen to
come into the m~issionary's house. espe-
cially the apartments which are well fur
nished. for it made them cold. and distant,
and Indifferent to the missionary and his
doctrines ever after. No good reason was
in time that these gentlemen could not
abide the hypocrisy and inconsistency of
pretending to be self-denying lovers of
men, while i was living among the poverty
stricken like a wealthy aristOcrat.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-18
No Music mt a Mixed Marriage.

Cardinal Manning evidently looks with
little favor on the ~intermarrying of Roman
Catholics with ProIestants. A case came
under my immediate notice a few days
since, in which ayoung lady, a member of
the Roman Catholic Church. wished to enter
into the bonds of matrimony with a Young
doctor, who belongs to the established
church. The Cardinal gave permission for
the ceremony to take place. but distinctly
ordered that there should be no music.
Exceptional influence was brought to bear
on him without the slightest effect, and
the function was consequently shorn of
one of its chief attractions.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-18
How to Eat a Watermelon.

Baltimore American.
Eating watermelon is an art, learned
only by experience. AS a desert it is not a
Like a pretty girl. it is best by itself; it
loses half its charm by being mixed in a
crowd. The melon should be cold. 1t
should be ripe. Its flesh should blush like
a graduate. Its heart should glow like a
snn-kissed cloud at close of day, and its
temperature should be as chilly as the
smile of a Boston belle. When you get
such a treasure do not bother with other
food. Open it, gaze on it, bury your face
IN It's sweetness, n let your appreciation
run riot. And afterwards. if you feel that
you have been to appreciative, a little GIN
ger and water will enable you to recover
Your normal condition..
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-18
General Church News.

The average salary of the 600 Protestant
ministers in France is only $500 a year.
: Congregationalism gained five churches
and 209 members last year in Boston. This
makes thirty churches and 9,726 members.
Captain Bundy, of Chicago, has built a
tourof the great lakes. He stops at the
towns along the way to hold religious serv-
ices.
A recent accession to the Methodist
Church at Marking, China. is Mr.. Chang. a
Chinaman. He was formerly connected
and is now in charge of the school for the
study of English at the imperial arsenal at
Marking.
A gospel-wagon at work in Washington
under Baptist auspices is used in connec-
ton with. several. services on Sunday. 1t
is drawn by four horses, and not less than
thirty persons, speakers and singers. are
taken from point to point. 1t draws large
audiences.
There is a little church at Bonita, Africa
where on Sunday mornings a number of
boys and girls are 10 be seen with states in
their hands. taking notes of the sermon;
and some of the elder ones copy their notes
on paper, and give them to other native
Christians, that they may use them at meet
ings they hold in the towns near.
Two Bagdad Jews have bought the entire
site of ancient Babylon. On this lie
Chretien Beige well remarks: us it not n
significant fact that two Israelites should
to-day possess the soil and the ruins of the
immense city where their ancestors were
captives and slaves, and of which their
prophets had announced the utter destruc-
tion?"
AT Harport. on the Euphrates on, little
mission church in less than twelve years,
and at a cost not exceeding the expense of
one modern church edifice, has multiplied
itself into fourteen mission churches with
41S members; eleven native pastors, more
than half of whom are supported by these
native churches; twelve licensed native
preachers, twenty-One native teachers and
f0rty-0ne other helpers.
The American Bible Society is doing n
wonderful work in the states of South
America. No less thar two tons of the
Scriptures were distributed last year in
Bolivia alone. Ecuador is now the only
government in the world which prohibits
the Introduction of the Bible. A good
work is being lone through supplying the
in a continual stream through Buenos
Ayres with the word of God.
Mr.. Moody sends the following to the
religious press: A convention OF eyangell-
cal ministers and laymen is To be held in
Chicago for ten days, commencing about
the 10th of September. the exact dayB of
which will be announced as soon as def
mite replies are received from the speakers
who have been invited from abroad. The
singing. will be led by Ira ID. Sankey. 1t is
hoped this will be one of the greatest reli-
gious movements of the season, and u good
preparation for winter work In all the
churches. The Bible Institute will open
about the 1st Of October. Inform alton
IN the ladies' department may by had by
addressing r. Is. Capron or about the mems
department by addressing L. G.. Ensign, 1A
Madison street Chicago, Ill.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-18
The Quicker the Better.

The Judge.
She came into the room with her silken
robes trailing after her across the marble
floor. Her tawny hair was gathered i'm 70
golden blowse at her neck. Her opaline
eyes cleaned through the mist like the sun
shining through a vermuth cocktail.
She had the hips of an Urquhart and the
shoulders of a Jansen
She was well liked.
Suddenly her eyes fell upon him as he Law,
face down. across the polished Wilderness of
the tiles, his lurid bath-robe wrifhily en-
twining his pajamed limbs. Her hand went
to her Throat. and she was very still. A
cup stood upon the table beside him. and
something like steel cleaned in his clenched
white hand.
Speak to me. Nadrovinei'' she cried in a
hoarse whisper. and fell in a remulous
heap, with the usual thud. winding her
arms convulsively about his seventh-regi-
ment neck.
He turned his face YEARLY toward her.
and there was a great red cash across the
gothic granite of his cheek.
Ills nothing" he said; and then she
knew il all.
lie had been trying to shave himself with
patent safety razor
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-18

Thibet is the only known country on
earth not open to missions. 1t has an area
of 10000 square miles. The greatest length
from east to west is 1,500 miles. and the
the stronghold of Buddhism. Lhassa. the
capital. is the Rome of the Buddhists,
and the Dalai Lama is the Buddhist Pope.
He is supreme in both temporal and spirit
ual things. One monastery has about
5000 Buddhist priests, and there are about
0.000 in the country. Thibet is virgin soil for
missions. The country Is tributary to
China.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-18

Furnishes sinners, is the one great thought
that is inscribed upon the history OF the
Jewish people as given in the Scriptures of
the Old Testament. This thought Is acted
ont and developed in that history by a con-
t%inuous series of object lessOns.-The indie
pendent,
David's peculiar excellence is that of
fidelity to the trust committed to him-a
firm, uncOmprOmising, single-hearted de-
votion to the cause of God, and a burning
virtue is especially illustrated in the early
years OF his life. Having borne this trial
of obedience well, in which Saul bad failed,
then at length he was intrusted with q
sort OF discretionary power to use in his
Masters service.-F. H.. Newman.
The spirit of the Lord came upon him
from that day f~Orward"-not with stormful
gust. like that which swept over the soul
of Saul when he met the children of the
prophets, and which passed speedily away,
but with the gentle silence of the opening
dawn which brightens into perfect day the
Spirit came into David's heart, and soon,
by his secret supernatural suggestions, he
would discover for what purpose the
prophet had emptied his horn of oil upon
his head.-Rev. William NJ. Taylor, d. ID.
We cannot measure joys but by their loss,
When blessings fade away we see them then;
Our richest clusters grow around the cross,
And in the nighttime angels sing to men.
Henry Burton.
Who can look on the earth
And view the varied beauty and the bloom
That fingers still, with Eden loneliness.
Upon the mountain top and on the plain,
And say, There is nc Godl"
David Bates.
God gives us love. Something to love
He lends us; but when love is grown
To ripeness, that on which it throve
Falls of, and love is left alone.
-Tennyson.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-18
Juvenile "Reminiscences.

Puck.
First Small Boy-D'ye remember that day
las week wen we got inter Farmer Hay
seeds orchid?
Second Small Boy Yes; an dye remem.
Der what a lot of apples we gots
Yes; an dye remember how sour they
was"
Yes; an dye remember how the dog got
arter us an tore our clcthes!"
Yes; an dye remember what a lot we
eat wen we got awayf"
Yes; an dye remember how sick we all
vast"
"Yes; didn't we have a bully time,"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-18
Int~ernationaI sundav-Scbool Iessop sor

international Sunday-School Lesson for
Aug. %.
THE AMOUNTING OF DAvID-ISam. xvi, lib.
Golden Text.--Man looketh on the outward ap-
pearance. but the Lord lOoketh on the heart.
Il Sam, XVII, 2.
DAILY HOME READINGS.
Monday Sam, xvi, 1-13. The amounting of
David.
T~uesday-Psalm xviii, 6O-72. Called from
wednesday-Psalm xiv, II. A Psalm of the
king.
Thursday-Psalm lxxxix. 1920. Gods prom
Friday-Isaiah ", I-l3. The Lords thoughts.
saturday-Psalm cxxxix. LIZ. The Lords
sunday-Acts ii, 1886 David's greater Son.
-F.lly ten years before the death of Saul
the Lord directed Samuel in the selection
OF David. the son of Jesse, to be his sue
cessor. Why this was lone so long in ad-
vance is not announced in the Bible. 1t
may have been done to satisfy the natural
anxiety of the prophet and patriot Samuel;
and it may also have been done to prepare
anu satisfy the people who had such conf
dence In the wisdom of Samuel. and that he
was directed of God. in making choice of
the youthful David. who developed under
the eyes OF the nation, during the next ten
years. such royal virtues.
1t is supposed that at this time Samuel
was nearly eighty years of age, and was liv-
Ing at hamah, engaged in collecting, edit
ing and writing up the history of his own
earlier times that we find in Judges,
Ruth and the Books of Samuel. Sanl VAS
about fifty and David nearly twenty years
OF age. During theyears that followed. from
David'ss Amounting. or setting apart. TO tLe
death of Saul. he was being trained and
fitted for his high place.
What The Lesson Teaches.
New York Independent
1t was natural that Samuel should grieve
for him whom he had first anointed ling
and for whom he had sacrificed SO much.
Yet events will not halt for a single indi-
vidual any more than a mighty anthem
with a thousand voices stops because one
has mistaken the pitch. He who is out of
tune with God and His purposes is left be-
hind or crushed to powder as the redemp-
tive march moves Oh. No man dooms n
righteous cause by dissent or fight; he
merely obliterates himself.
Profane history. as well as sacred. Is full
OF instances of great men who were raised
up from the most obscure places. Born in
Ignorance of their fate. 1T has beckoned
Inem on. David was a shepherd. Many a
roman emperor was born remote from the
purple. America is q standing illustration
~ the nigh possibilities OF modest birth.
E.ach one must guard his manhood, his pur-
ny and ms hign ideal. so that ny his fitness
O0u VIII give him a call to do some respon-
sloIe work God calls no one who is not
{pirI,uahy MT to do a great work in His
The habit of sanctiacat;on before an
preaching the Lord was one worthy of n
longer lie. We say our prayers in a per-
funcfory way when the WORT of anger is
Just on our bps. IL is impossible to lay
down rules Tor publication and prepare
uon 70 % practiced before meeting God;
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-18

The schooner Fannie Chase, owned by
Lewis, Chase Il Written, of Portland, Me-.
sailed into port, the other day, with some
thing unusual in its cargo. just outside
the harbOr the lookout saw O peculiar sub
stance floating in the water, and hauled it
on board to get a better view of ii. Then it
bergris. II filled two-thirds of a barrel,
and is worth S25, 900. The owners of the
vessel will take half the prize and the crew,
numbering fifteen, viii divide the other
half.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-18

Peoria Transcfipt.
We notice that Mrs. Helen Cougar is a
convert to the Brown-Sequard elixir of life.
Surely nothing but an implicit faith in the
virtues of the r~eiuyenating fluid could
move her to remark that she expected to
live until st. John was President and she
was sitting In Congress-something that
least
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-18
Jacob Is Skeptical.

Parson Henroost-Uncle Jake. / feel
consarned about you. Den you doan b1ieve
a bald man gwine suffah 'ternal fab foreb-
Der!
Uncle Jake-No, sab; en- de reason fur
why l doan b'lieve 1t are bekase as how
dat no constitution cOuldn' stan il.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-18
A Mercenary Little Wretch.

Texas Siftings.
"Pa. I'll be sorry when you get WE'LL said
a little Austin boy 10 his sick parent.
why, my sonf"
Because | wont get any more empty med
icine bottles to sell. / sell 'em for five cents
apiece to the drug store"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-18
READING FOR THE SABBATH.
Not as / Will.


Blindfolded and alone 1 stand,
With unknown thresholds on each hand;
The darkness deepens as I grope,
An IL to fear. afraid to hope;
Yet this one thing / learn to know
Each day more surely as + go,
That doors are pened, ways are made,
Burdens are lifted or are laid
By some great law unseen aud still
Unfathomed purpose TO fulfil,
mot as / will"
Blindfolded and alone I wait:
Loss seems too bitter. gain TO late;
Too heavy burdens in the load,
And too few helpers on the road;
And joy Is weak and grief Is strong,
And years and days so long, SO longi
Yet this one thing / learn to know
Zach day more surely as l go.
That I am glad the good and ill
BY changeless law are ordered still,
mot as / will"
mo as I will % the sound grows sweet
Each time the words my lips repeat.
Not as L WILL" the darkness feels
More safe than light when this thought steals
Like whispered voice to calm and bless.
All unrest and all loneliness.
Not as / WILL" because the One
Who loved us first and best has gone
Before us on the road, and still
For us must all His love fulfill
mot as we will!'
Helen Hunt jackson.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-18
Under the Electrical Regime.

Prison Warden Ito sanctified condemned,
seated in the electrical killing chair)-ls
there any favor you would like to ask be-
fore | dispatch your soul to heavenf
Sanctified Conference.-The. thanks-only
/ hone you don't send it collect
"Oh, that's all right. Everything's pre-
paid. There's no fear of it coming back on
you; touch the button, Bill"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-18

Lawrence American.

Lawrence American.
McFingle-They say that Widow Brown
is q terrible talker.
McFangle-Yes. Why. when her hus-
band died she had the last word.
McFingle-What do you meanf They
didn't quarrel on the deathbedi
McFangle-No; but she said goodbye last.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-18
Another Hotel q

Munsey's Weekly.
Miss Crimple Ito clerk of the Snake Creek
HouseEWin you please send the porter to
our room, Mr.. Bigstndf
Clerk-Yes. ma'am; anything wrong!
Miss Crimple-Papaju Just shot a mosquito.
and we would like Patrick to carry it out,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-18

Thibet is the only known country not
yet opened to missions. Mr.. and Mrs.
Turner CT the China inland mission have
begun to work in Thibet from the Chinese
side.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-18
Thoughts Tor the Day.

The doctrine of a personal God who sits
In the Heavens and yet rules on earth, who
loves righteousness and bestows his favors
the obedient. and who hates sin and
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-18
A Pertinent Question.

The EPOCH.
II would like to ask you a question" salc
a gentleman to a fellow who was spreading
himself over four seats in a crowded rail-
way car.
What is it?" =.
What brand of nerve food do you uses"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-18
HUMOR OF THE DAY.


The Epoch
Reverend Primrose-You have a. kind
father. little boy. j heard him say 1T was
a shame TO punish children.
Little Johnnie-He only says that when
ma does the licking.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-01-12

salt used in roasting. The salt was
thrown into the Blake crusheI and
went through all the operations of
crushing, drying and sitting until it was
shot into the bin from which it viii be
drawn from time to time = wanted.
The machinery worked to perfection.
Not a hitch, not a break, not even a hot
box. So carefully has the great mill
been constructed that on the first days
trial 1t RAJ as smoothly as if it had seer
six months service. After the salt has
been all ground, the mill will be run on
matte. This will only take about a day
and before the week is ont the regular
crushing Of ore will be begun. Leach
ing will be started by the 18th, and be-
fore the Goth the last doubling Thomas
who hopes the reduction works will sue
coed will have the actual works before
him and will be converted. AS long
ago as October Mr.. Clark expressed the
opinion that the works would start dur
ing the first week in January. His
prediction was fulfilled on Sunday
Pioneer. 8.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-01-12

Rapid having succeeded in capturing
the Deadwood land office, is now re-
ported to be making an effort to gobble
the United States court. Concerning
this grave and important matter, the
Pioneer says: "The old story of a com
bination at the legislative convention to
have the United States court removed
from Deadwood to Rapid, has been
revived, and was generally circulated
yesterday. Little alarm is caused,
though much speculation results as to
what onr neighbor of the valley will
want next. We ask humbly that we be
permitted to retain our name, that our
p~ostofiice and banks be allowed to con
tinue in business, that the reduction
works be left where they are, and that
neither the Bald Mountain. Ruby Basin,
Galena, Carbonate or great mines of the
belt be removed any greater distance
from the metropolis, the hub, the chief
commercial city of the Hills, and OF
southwestern Dakota, than they now
are"
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-01-12

A Washington special of the eth inst.
IN its report accompanying the bill for
the division Of the Sioux reset yation,
says the Sioux Indians are completely
under control. except a few arrogant
and self conceited chiefs. and these are
largely under the control Of the north
ern and western railroad companies, and
a few avaricious white, OF squaw men,
who, with a few chiefs, are reaping large
fortunes from the common property of
their own people. The Northern Pacific
railroad, as we are advised, own large
amounts of real estate is Dakota that
they desire to sell at profitable figures,
and ifthis bill should become a law and
thereby open up II 900, 900 acres TO settle
ment at nominal figures compared with
the prices they ask for theirs, the mark
cts for their lands will be closed for
many years to come, SO they, with all
their powers, oppose the bill. The
Northwestern Railroad company, rum
ming to Pierre on the Missouri river, is
interested, so we are advised, in another
road that runs around this great reser-
walton to the Black Hills, and does all
the carrying trade Of this vast section.
To open up the reservation would not
only compel the Northwestern to com
pIete its line through to the Black Hills
"a thing they do not want to do, but it
forces the Chicago, Milwaukee & st.
Paul and other competing lines through.
Therefore they oppose the measure.
The committee recommends the bill and
asks congress to give the Indians all the
land they can use and teach them that
governments are no created to support
them, but to protect them, and that like
other people they must work"