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Shelbyville, Ind, Sept. 10.
Stick to the Main Point.

To the Editor of the indianapolis Journal
Present indications that the Method
list Iaymen's convention which meets at In
danapolis Sept. Is and 16 is going to
be largely attended. a large number of
women have been chosen delegates from
various parts of the State. This augurs
we'll for the success Of the movement
Women should not. be kept out of the Gen
eral Conference simply because they are
women Talent should rule, not sex Let
the laymen and let the convention stick to
All other issues are side issues in COMPARE
son to the one great question, that of equal
rights and equal representation. The other
minor issues can be settled after we get
this one reform. j. G. CONDO.
Alexandria, Ind, Sept 49,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-14
Pretty Creatures.
Philadelphia Telegraph

Women are by no means wholly alone in
their devotion to dress. There are men
in plenty who give their minds to this sub
ject to a hardly less extent. Just now there
is discussion of the important question:
Who is the best-dressed man in New York?
but the opinion seems to be that. however
clear the leadership may have been at va
riouS times there are now so many we'll
dressed men as to make a definite choice
impracticable. Pretty creatures all, but
they must no longer make sport of the Ia
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thing they may say. especially when the
saying it is such an exhibition of bad taste
The worst of 1t is that this is probably but
a beginning of this feature in journalism.
and that hereafter people OF enough promi-
hence to be mentioned in the papers when
they marry will be requested to tell the
newspapers why they did it, AS such people
are numerous the possibilities of this fea-
ture are practically limitless. The thought
creates that tired feeling.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-14

1t is doubted if any of those enthusiastic
persons who continue to demand the re-
election of Mr.. Taggarr will bind them
selves 70 pay any sums of money from
the second year of the Taggart administra-
ton, for current expenses, not be 10 per
cent. greater than they were the last year
of the Denny administration And yet the
Sentinel affirmed the extravaganza of the
latter In columns of black-faced type.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-14
A recent newspaper article contained the
following.

A recent newspaper article contained the
following:
nations no one IS more significant than this
that suicide on the battlefield is unknown
where the armies Of civilized nations con-
front each other In our civil war or in
the Franco German war the prisoners knew
we'll that no tortures awaited them.
In reply to this a correspondent of the
New York Sun says that a man who served
in the Union army during the civil war told
him that throughout his time of service he
carried concealed phial of prussic acid, TO
be used should there arise a probability Of
his being captured and consigned to Ander-
sonville, and that many of his comrades
were similarly equipped against similar
DOssibiIity
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-14

If Mayor Taggart had been half as anx-
ious to protect the taxpayers against big
interest account as he was to have a big
park labor fund available for campaign
purposes he would not have increased the
city debt by issuing $35OoOO of park bonds
long before they were needed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-14
AIexandria,S DeIegates.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
ALEXANDRIA, Ind, Sept. 13.-The fol-
lowing delegates were elected by the
M. e. Church of Alexandria to attend
the state convention of laymen at Indianap-
oils, Sept. 10 and 16. Delegates elected by the
Quarterly Conference: J. c. Condo, H. c.
Binkley, p. p. Painter r. H. Hannah.
Elected by the Sunday school: II. NJ Jud-
son, T. N. French, Mrs. p. z. Painter, Mrs.
G.. G. Phillips
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-14

In distributing the moral responsibility
for the recent deplorable shooting of min
ers in Pennsylvania a share should be APP
portioned to the operators who q few years
ago imported Hungarians and Czechs to
take the places of American miners who
had struck to better their condition. Self
ishness and greed are at the bottom of all
labor troubles.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-14
EvnngeIicnI Lnfhernn Svnod.

ASBURY PARK, N. J., Sept. 10. - The
National Evangelical Lutheran Synod to-
day began a session in the Auditorium
here, which will continue for a week
There are about $50 delegates present from
all parts of the. country The session to-
work of the synod for the remaining days
was mapped out
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-14
Has No Merits.

Philadelphia Inquirer
1t is useless to discuss the merits of the
sweat-shop system from an economic stand
point" as certain magazine writers are do
ing. The sweat-shop system has no merits.
When Benjamin Harrison said that cheap
coat-that is, a coat made by underpaid la
Dor in an unfit shop-makes a cheap man
he voiced a great truth. The sweat-shop
system must go.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-14

So long as three times as much silver
can be mined at so cents an ounce as was
consumed prior to 1870 by the world, it is
useless to talk of the restoration of silver
to value represented by sixteen of silver
foA one of gold by coinage when the market
value is nearer thirty-five of silver for one
of eold
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-14
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL

Can be found at the following places:
NEW 4ORk-Windsor Hotel and Astor House.
CHIcAGo-Palmer House and p. o. News Co.
~ Dearborn street
ClNCINNATI-J. r. Hawley & Co.. 154 Vine
LOUISVILLE-C. 7. Deering. northwest corner
Ok Ihlrd and Jefferson streets, and Louisville
Book Co.. 256 Fourth avenue.
WASHINGTON. d. C.-Riggs House, Ebbitt
House, Wizards Hotel and the Washington
News Exchange, Fourteenth street, between
Penn. avenue and street.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-14
Pendleton. Ind. Sept. Is.
A Plea for Moderation.

n Hle9 Tor MOuer0IIOns
To the Editor Of the indianapolis Journal:
Having been a member of the Methodist
Church over seventy years, and feeling an
increased interest in its welfare. L hope I
shall not be considered out of place if I
express the hope that the laymen's con-
vention to be held in Indianapolis on the
18th will be conducted in manner credit
able to the noble organization whose gov
eminent it desires to modify. In some pre-
liminary meetings, 1 regret to say, ex-
pressions have been used which, to say the
least. were unnecessarily severe, if not
unjust Those expressions prefer not to
repeat thinking no good would thereby be
produced. In all discussions about the
church we should remember the vast
amount of good it has accomplished the
world over Candid, intelligent writer's not
Methodist have spoken in terms Of the
Myers, in his General History for Col
leges and High Schools" says: The great
religious movement known as Methodism,
during the latter part of the eighteenth
and the beginning of the nineteenth CEN
fury, revoiutioniZed the religious life of
England. Chambers, in his Encyclopedia
says: THE history of Methodism is for
many years the history of Christian effort
to eVangelize the neglected masses of Eng
land. The laborS of Wesley and of those
whom he inspired to initiate his example
We're of the noblest description and met
Will TeLldThdDIe success. Inc TelOIHldllOn
of life which his preaching produced, for
example, among the Kingswood golfers
and the Cornwall wreckers is testimony
to the power of religion which cannot be
too highly estimated. The zeal which has
inspired the body in regard to foreign mis-
sions, although in the highest degree hon
orable. is only the logical development
of their efforts at home, for they Originally
regarded their society in England as sim
ply vast home mission"
The movement in the United States has
been the same as in England, and these
movements have been conducted principal
ly by the ministers; and if the government
under which they have accomplished
much good has not been in accordance with
the opinions of some, surely any modih-
cation ought to be most respectfully pro-
posed and the great clerical workers
spoken of in the most courteous language.
T. HARRISON.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-14

The State Board of Charities warmly
commends Sheriff Shufelton in the current
issue of the Indiana Bulletin for putting
the women prisoners in the Marion county
Jail under the control of a matron- Under
Sheriff Shufelton's rule no man, not even
an officer of the Jail, can visit the women s
department without the presence of the
&,.o,,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-14

A St. Louis paper asked General Long
street to explain why he married a young
woman. and Mrs. Longstreet why she mar
ried an old man. The sensational press calls
such Inquiries enterprise" but plain peo-
pie who still cherish a notion that there
is such thing as right to privacy where
their personal affairs are concerned will re-
gard the questions as the sheerest impu-
dence The wonder, however. is not that
the questions were asked. for there is no
room for surprise at anything the new
journalism will do; it is that the persons
so Intercepted made reply and gave their
reasons at length The public has heard a
great deal first and last. about Southern
chivalry, refinement, etc, and in such
case as this would naturally expect the
gentleman concerned to regard the queries
as an inexcusable impertinence and to go
cunning for his interlocutors Instead of
treating this bit of journalistic enterprise
with silent contempt or with fitting rebuke,
both General and Mrs. Longstreet write let
tiers taking the public into their confidence
as TO the nature OF their feelings for each
other, a matter in which the public has
little interest and which is none of its bus
mess. Whatever opinions they may have
had as to the marriage OF a young woman
to a man old enough 20 be her grand
father can be in no wise altered By any
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-14

most responsible Office in the ministery of
the church in the field in which he moves.
lie Is the representative in the counsels
of the bishop of both ministers and lay
men He, and his brethren virtually make
all the appointments. He stands in the
place OF every minister and every laymen.
before the bishop and his advisors. The
larger his district the more grave his work.
he has no favorte; he has no Partially,
and cannot escape responsibility for re-
suits. He must be courageous 1t is
peculiarly a ministerial Office and one, /
am free to say. that no layman can more
than advise, however wise and wealthy he
may be. and that only regarding his own
pastor and his own church, and if he is
not loyal to the polity of the church and
its results and in harmony with it's spiritual
life he is untitled for these duties.
After forty years in the ministry of the
church and being honored with an ac-
quaintance with many of its grandest and
best laymen let me advise both ministers
and laymen to have 1.-The mind that was
in Christ" and all will go we'll.
M. 4. LEAGUE.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-14

The gold Democrats of Kentucky, Ohio.
Massachusetts and other States have
strengthened their organization and placed
or are getting ready to place state tickets
in the field Those of Indiana seem to have
dropped out of the fight
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-14

The silyerites are beginning to see what
a humbug the Endorsement of the is to
heresy by the Taggart convention was, now
that ali the men who stand nearest the
mayor are gold Democrats.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-14
Atlanta Elects Lnymen DeIegates.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
ATLANTA, Ind, Sept. 13.-Methodist peo-
pie here are taking a deep interest in the
coming laymen's convention, to be held at
Indianapolis this week. AT the close of the
services yesterday the following were
elected delegates to the convention: Dr. L.
c. McFatridge, Harry Gibbon, Miss Sarah
Stakes and Miss Nellie McFatridge.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-14

Special to the indianapolis Journal
NEW ALBANY, Ind, Sept. 13.-Rev. ].
w. Huber, pastor of the German Methodist
Church in this city for the past five years,
has been transferred to Seymour by the
conference in session at Columbus, Q. Rev.
William Schruff of Portsmouth, o. has
been appointed to succeed him. Mr.. Huber
will preach his first sermon at Seymour
Sunday, Sept. 26.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-14
Latest Version.

The Queen Of Hearts, she made some tarts,
All on a summers day;
And then she found. with grief profound,
Them stolen all away.
The Knave of Hearts, who'd swiped those
tarts
Said: why your temper rufie?
1t may be hard. but, by the card,
They got lost in the shuttle"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-14

New York Mail and Express.
No one has yet ventured to ask MIR.
Croker how ne likes America. There seems
to be a general feeling that he ought TO be
permitted to look it over before expressing
an opinion.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-14

PlttSDurg ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
A CAV young man from Crawford county
has been arrested for selling whisky u
ointment at a picnic in Venango county
The preparation became quite popular for
inside application.
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| Kansas City Journal
The fate of the Indiana young men who
| engaged in a pil-eating contest shows that
! swallowing drugs without the advice of a
| physician is even more dangerous than
| swallowing them when he prescribes them.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-14

Senator Chambers letter should not elate
or depress any one, when 1t is remembered
that the senator talks one way and votes
the other.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-14
PrecOcity.

Mrs Figg-Tommy swore to-day.
Mr.. Figg-Where is he? I'll fix him.
There's time enough for him to begin swear
ing when he is grown up and married.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-14

Good crops alone would not have created
prosperity. A good tariff law and assur-
ance Of sound money were necessary to
restore confidence
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-14
woman's Ingratitude

New York Press.
Why is it Ella Wheeler Wilcox is per-
petually prosecuting the poor bachelors?
They always treated her right. Why, one
of them even married her
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-14

Populists who are clamoring for money
to move crops should follow the old recipe
first get your crops.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-14

Either Senator Hanna or Senator Foraker
could have opened the Ohio campaign
alone, but together they have thrown it
wide open.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-14

Kansas CITY Journal.

hdIISdb CITY JUuIIIttI
Mr.. Lease says he takes no stock in the
report that Mrs. Lease is going TO KlondilSe
in the spring. Mr.. Lease seems to be con-
siderable OF pessimist.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-14

Mayor Taggart runs with the free-silver
hare and barks with the gold-bug hounds.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-14
BUBBLES IN THE AIR.
Rusiness Transnction.

Yabsley-See here, Nudge, why haven't
YOU paid that $40 as you promised?
NUDGE heard you were going to leave
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-14

1t was inevitable that the Anarchists,
Socialist Democrats and certain class of
miscalled labor leaders would seize upon
the Hazleton ARRAY to illuminate incendlary
speeches and vicious doctrines. Under our
laws such utterances cannot be wholly pre-
vented, but they will meet with no response
or sympathy, except from a very limited
circle. The great mass of the American
people believe in justice and right in good
laws firmly enforced and in the protection
of the lives and property of all classes of
citizens They do not believe in the savage
cutlery against capital any more than they
do in the oppression of labor, and they will
not co1ntenance organized opposition to
law any more than they will brutal exer-
else of official authority in its enforcement.
Liberty protected by law, with equal and
exact justice for all, is the American idea.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-14

dramatic attempts at century last week
that ever was pulled off.
Walker-What was dramatic about 1t?
Wheeler had to walk back
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-14
ANDlANAFOG JOOhN AZ,
indianapolis, Ind.

Persons sending the Journal through the mails
IN the = lted states should put on an elght-page
PAPER q ONE-GENT postage stamp; twelve
oI SiXteen-page paper a 1WO-CENT postage
rates.
All communications intended for publication in
TINS paper must. in order to receive attention, be
ass.oiiipanled by the and address OF the
Rilter II II is desired that rejected manuscripts
De returned, postage must in all cases be Enclosed
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-14

wheeIer-well, l made one Of the mo
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-14

Her lips would for carnations stand;
Her brow is like the lily;
Her cheeks are blooming roses, and
Her ears would knock pinks silly.
Yet tbs but natures symmetry
That all these gifts I've chorused
Belong to her, because, you see,
Her father is a florist.
New Orleans Time-Democrat.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1897-11-12
BUG
Medical Brief.

| Medical Brief.
The latest discovery by the 'bug
| cranks' is said to be the germ Of In.
sanity. Where will all this nonsense
end? 1t is really very strange that
supposedly intelligent people should
allow themselves to be repeatedly de-
luded by sensatiOnalists. Why not
believe in ghosts, witches, hObg0blins,
fairies and all the other superstitious
inventions Of the sixteenth century:
What was then the lively imagin-
ings OF credulons, unenlightened
minds Is now the determined exploit
ations Of cxperimenters. Bacteriol-
IOgiSts are not scientists. They have
not discovered a single natural law;
made ii single valuable observation, or
| added a single useful fact to our meC.
ical knowledge since they started ont
to explore the realm Of mystery.
Their practice continually discredits
their professions. They claim that
| the world teens with disease produ.
cling germs, and yet spend their lives
shut up in laboratories with these
same germs.
The late Pasteur, on one occasion,
carefully washed his grapes to remove
bacteria, and then absent-mindedly
drank the waSh.water. PettunkOffer
drank aglass OF water containing q
choice collection OF virulent germs,
and another member Of the profess
sion has had germs Of various malig-
nant aud Infectious diseases injected
into his body without results.
1t Is notorious, moreover, that ply.
| sicians and nurses, who arc continual.
ly exposed to such sources OF cnnta-
giUn, seldom or never contract dis
ease.
Notwithstanding these facts, the
superstitious fear cngendered by bac.
te%riolOgists, aided by sensational
newspaper reports, is developing into
an instrument Of power and possible
oppression which Health Boards
know but too well how to manipulate
Absurd and irrational as are the
claims ot the microbe crankS, II no
one rises to challenge or contradict
them, they will increase and spread
until the profession aud people are
shared in a web 50 light, so fine, and
yet so strong II would require no
mean effort to cast it of. There is
no tyranny so great as that which is
backed by an intangible force. A
something which cannot be affirmed
or denied with certainty, and which
yet has the weight Of crcdcnce and
custom.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1897-11-12

bOri0us business, but he Is blessed
with an incxhaustiblc stock OF pa
thence and perseverance, and turns
of as much work MS any country edi-
tor IN the United States. His misfor-
tune has not sOured his disposition;
on the contrary, he is an Optimist.
He takes life philosOphically, and
counts himself fortunate in the pos
session Of a good pair OF eyes, which
enable him to carry on his work.
''Ile is an indefatigablc student,
and is thoroughly posted in languages,
history, and general literature. lie is
an 'all.round man. with u variety Of
fads, hut not confined to the pursuit
OF any n OF them, He has never
mastered the bicycle, but his friends
declare they would not be surprised
To see him learn to ride one almost
any day, and they declare that II
Smith starts in to conquer the silent
stced he will succeed. lie plays GRO
quct, ball, football, and many other
games, but, as his participation In
these amusemcnts always attracts 50
much unwelcomc attention, he does
not often engage in them. He also
plays on the guitar and piano. His
wife Is Director OF Art in the schools
at Mount Pleasant, and is also Of
great assistance to Mr.. Smith In his
newspaper work. They have a beauti.
full little girl, who is symmetrically
developed and unusually bright"
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1897-11-12
TIE STATE PENITENTIARY.

Hon. Edgar S. Wilson tells us in the
Picayune that the State pcnitentiary
Is In a wretched condition and all that
a prisoner need to escape is an ordin.
airy knife and minor acrobatlc talent.
This Is what he says:
The old pc%nitentiary should be
moved out Of the city. 1t is a menace
to health and an eye-s0re to Mississip-
plans who visit the capital Of their
State and see the unsightly old walls
and building standing right in the
residence heart Of their capital city.
When the site was selected Jackson
was a small place, and the present
prison gate was a celebrated beer
stand. The forest had to be felied
before the foundation could he laid
for the buildings and walls. Besides
In times like these, when an epidemic
Is threatened the cOnvicts must be
moved at great cost to Taxpayers to a
safer place. The ground on which
prison standS-somc eight or ten the
acres forming two beautiful squares
c0uld be converted into residence lots,
at good profit to the State. Then the
time Is not far of when a new prison
to keep prisoners will have to be built
as a safety precaution. A caseknife
and a few hours, as vas shown by
Brooks Story twenty years ago, Is all
that II needed to dig out Of a cell, and
once In the yard, 1t is no trick at all
to scale the walls, AS was done by
Story and Redwood. The old prison
has not a modern thing about It. Any
0tlier State but Mississippi would
have condemned II ten years ago aud
have built o new me-.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1897-11-12

Here Is an English recipe for lemon
butter, said tn be fine. The juice and
grated rind Of three Lemons, three
eggs well beaten. one pound OF sugar,
M small cup OF watcr, one level tea
spoonful Of hutter. Beat well to-
gcthcr and boil five minutes until
thick. Put In covered Jelly glasses.