The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-06-22

Otherwise let all restraints be removed
so that everybody may be free to defend
himself and his belongings under the old
lex talIonis, and to cry with the Scotch
highland chief:
"Pent in this fortress Of the North.
Thinkst thou We will not sally forth
To spoil the spOilsr as we may.
And from the robber rend his prey"
A civilization which binds the law
abiding hand and foot and frees the law
less by non-enforcement of law) to pillage
and kill is worse than anarchy.
Circumstances are powerful. But man
is stronger than circumstances. American
history in it's most splendid pages is the
proof. How much help from circum-
stances did Ben Franklin have? Heredity
and environment were both against the
late William 5. Marcy when he began life
as a gutter snipe." Lincoln and Garfield
fought and conquered circumstances. In
active life today there are scores OF thou
sands of unillustrious heroes who began
with every disadvantage. They in
herited excessive propensities from their
ancestors. They were not brought up, but
as Charles Lamb said. kicked up. In the
possession of an unhappy constitution,
in an unfortunate surrounding, they new
ertheless addressed themselves. in a life
long struggle, to the work of selfrecupera-
ton. They did battle with those friends
of evil disposition incarnated in their
person; cut off, one after another, the
hydrs-heads OF each monster appetite and
passion; applied cautery of red hot iron
10 the quivering flesh of every wound,
and held it there until the living fiber
was crisped too deep to allow
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again. At last they achieved the
mighty victory. and now stand in majestic
proportions, heroes and conquerors over
that late domain OF sorrow and sin, and
ready to enter upon sublime realms of
beatitude and fit to wing their way up
through spirals of ascension" Such dis
clpline makes men and women.
II the Christians of this city do not feel
able to carry on their work all the year
round, they had better make an assign
ment to he'll and go out of business.
England with less than 100000 900 Of
peopls, drank more alcoholic liquor last
year than the United States with more
than 63,O00.000 people.
Physicians affirm, remarks Col. Higgin-
son, that the physical conditions of chill
dren in the highest and lowest classes i'm
large cities are often curiousy alike, and
from similar causes-improper food, sleep
ing in dark rooms and parental neglect.
Louise Michel, the famous socialist agi-
tator, seems to have tired of her tumultu-
Gus career, and has settled down to teach
ing school in quiet part OF London.
Here are six practical texts, each worthy
Of a sermon, which we find in Good House
keeping:
Be careful. Care prevents many dropped
stitches and bad breaks.
Be prompt Slackness makes sloVenly
homes and weary world wanderers.
Be faithful. "Be thou faithful unto
death, and 1 will give thee a crown of
life"
BE cheerful. Cheerfulness tends to
length OF days that are worth the length
eninG.
Be thoughtful. Thoughtfulness is too
tender plant of blessed fragrance and
beauty to be born to blush unseen"
Be good-humored. Good humor is bet
ter than medicine, no matter how well the
ili-natured pill may be sugar-coated.
The late Mr.. Sturgeon had ready wit.
Some years ago DR.. Cumming wrote a let
ter to the London Times in which he said
that the tabernacle pastor needed more
money. Spurgson said in reply that if DR..
Cumming would send him some of his
money he would send Dr. Cumming in re-
turn some salt. They dealt more in salt
at the tabernacle. Mr.. Beecher once re-
marked that Mr.. Spurgeon owed his popu-
larity no more to his Calyinism than a
camel owed its excellence To its hump.
"Well. replied the London preacher, "the
lump Is store OF fat on which the camel
lives on a long journey, and its value,
therefore, depends entirely upon its
hump" This retort was extremely clever.
One OF the foremost astronomers OF
Great Britain, Sir Robert Ball, after q
careful scientific consideration of the re-
sources of the earth and sun, places the
crack of doom between four and five mill
ions of years in the future.
It's a comfort TO know that we are thus
reprieved, but what do our millenian
friends say to the postponement2
Lowell asks: "What is so rare as day
in June2" TO which we reply, as we mon
our brow, what, indeed, il one wants com.
fortP
When a bill to enfranchise all but mar
ried women is defeated by twenty three
votes only in the British house OF com.
mons. the vote standing I52 to l75,
remarks writer in H1rper'S Bdsdr, and
this with such liberal leaders as Mr.. Glad.
stone and Prof. Brice actively opposing it,
We cannot help seeing the tendency OF the
times 20 Tree woman IRON every limitation
in her career except those which grow
| out of her own nature. That there are
such natural limitations is not denied. but
the claim is justly made, first that these
can only be determined in a condition OF
| freedom; and secondly, that they can only
| be rightly determined by the will OF
women themselves. But as women come
nearer and nearer freedom there is natur.
/ ally An increasing tendency on their part
to discuss in advance these possible Inn
itations, and to debate, with more or less
Of cAndor, at what line they are to be
/ drawn.
The claim that women have not the
leisure for political action. for instance, il
not a very serious one. A woman can in
form herself quite as we'll upon poliuca
questions while rocking her baby's cradle
/ as her husband while tending loom oil