The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-30
NICHOLSON is HORRIFIED
FEARS MARRIAGE is BECOMING LE-
CALLED PROSTITUTION.
Quakers Take Steps to Reform Di-
vOrce Laws Rev. Stout Found
Guilty and Expelled by MethOdists.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
RICHMOND, Ind, Sept. 29.-Several in
teresting questions were before the Indiana
Yearly Meeting of Friends to-day. Hon. S.
E.. Nicholson was present this afternoon
from Western Yearly Meeting, to present
the proposition of that body to work for
changes in the Indiana divorce laws. He
spoke OF the increasing number of divorces
each year and said that marriage was be-
coming little better than legalized prostitu-
ton. This Yearly Meeting will appoint
committee to cooperate with the one ap-
pointed by the Western Meeting
The twenty-seventh annual report of the
temperance committee, taken up this after
noon, deplored the sale of liquor in the Ma
tional Soldiers Homes by order of the gov
eminent, the establishment of the canteen
in the army and the sale of liquor in the
government buildings. DR.. w. c.. Helt of
Indianapolis. superintendent of the Anti
saloon League work in Indiana, scored
President Mckinley for not abolishing the
army canteens, and said that the increas-
ing strength of the saloon element was the
reason it was not done. 1t was unanimously
agreed by the meeting to send a petition to
President Mckinley. asking him to use his
influence in abolishing the canteen. Rev.
Elwood o. Ellis and Mrs. Hannah Lewis
Smith were appointed delegates to the Ma
tional Anti-saloon League convention, to
be held at Cleveland next December.
Rev. Amos Kenworthy, one of the oldest
evangelists in America, led the devotional
meeting this morning. The choice of off,
GERS for the meeting was as follows, all be-
ing reelected: Clerk, Rev. Elwood O. Ellis.
Richmond; assistant clerks, Rev. c. A.
Francisco, Richmond, and Ira c. Johnson,
Lynn; messenger, Clarkson H. Parker,
Carthage announcing clerk, Milo p. Elliott.
The annual report of Whites Institute, at
Wabash, formerly an Indian school. but
now an orphanage, showed that fifty-five
and twenty-three removed to homes and
one died. There are sixty-four now in the
home Many of these children are sent
there by county commissioners, for which
they pay % cents day. The agent of the
State Board of Charities frequently visits
the Institution and finds homes for some of
The report of the committee on Indian
affairs showed that the Indian Aid Society.
started in the wOmen'S meeting last year,
has raised 5000 and sent missionary to the
Otoe Indians and built a house there the
past year. The government gave forty
acres of land to Friends for mission pur-
poses. Mr.. and Mrs. Outland went there in
March last as missionaries. Charles Rep
logic, the returned missionary. from Alaska.
says that out of 900 Indians where he works
3GJ nave been converted and only six have
backslidden. The Friends now have three
MISSIONS III Alaska, one carried on by Cali
fornia Yearly Meeting, one by Oregon and
one by Indiana.
The women's meeting was opened in the
morning with prayer and testimony. The
following officers were chosen: Clerk, Han
nah l.. Smith; assistants, Mary A. Goddard
and Anna e. Woodland; messenger Eliza
Cannaday. This afternoon joint session
was held. The report of the Home Mis-
sionary Society showed that over 1900 per-
sons were visited during the year and many
more helped, ga cottage prayer meetings
were held. twenty-five children's meetings
and ninety-seven gospel meetings.; value of
given $723.S7