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SOCIAL VICE IN LONDON. The Female Outcasts of the Metropolis, and Where They Come From, j . The Great Worlcaliops as Sources of Supply— The Crimes of Employers—A Great Evil Parading la Open Gay, Correspondence of the Indianapolis Journal. London, Nov. 24. —“ Where do they all come from?” This question was put to Mr. John Christien, with reference to the fallen women of this metropolis, as I stood with him one evening in Waterloo road and watched his efforts to lead one an another of this class into an adjacent mission hall, where refreshments and good advice awaited them. The organizing secretary of the Midnight Meeting movement, and a man who has spent thirty years in this kind of service, I naturally thought him well qualified to answer such a question, and the result showed that I was not mistaken. Now and again our conversation was interrupted by my companion shooting away from me to present his invitation of mercy to some passing girl, but this will not be observed in my report of the interview, and I shall give, not his exact words, but simply the substance of wliat lie said. He spoke first of the evil effects of celibacy. Tiie cost of living, be remarked, kept large numbers of people from marrying, and thus deprived them of those guards'and comlonU of the domestic circle which a wise Creator knew they would need, and which experience had shown to he the best helps to virtue. Parents, he thought, were very much to blame fn so generally opposing early marriages on the part Os their childrsn. He would have all the young felks bound together in wedlock, if it could be done legally and decently, before they were out of their teens, and he did not care if at the first they had a hard struggle to support themselves, for better struggle against want, he said, than be doomed to an unequal and mostly unsuccessful strife with youthful passions. In speaking of matrimony and the blessings of family life, and of how the growing indifference to the connubial state on the part of so many men placed female innocence in peril and helped to an alarming extent to swell the proportions of the social evil in London, the old veteran grew really eloquent, and few, lam sure, could have listened without feeling that there was a good basis for his remarks, both in facts and in philosophy. FACTORY RIFE EVILS. The evils of factory life came next nnder review. These great hives of industry which feed the markets of the world were, he said, by sad mistakes of management, wholly unintentional on the part of the proprietors, manufacturing articles of an entirely different kind from those charged tocustomers on their books. In a word, many of them were, unwittingly, nurseries of social vice, and yearly turned into the streets scores of ruined girls. This was inevitable, Mr. Christien said, from the association together of so many young people of the opposite sexes during wdrk and meal hours, for a few’ badly depraved ones could, under shell circumstances, contaminate the whole lot, and the employes at such places fell an easy prey to temptation, lie added, by reason of their defective training and of the doubtful influences surrounding many of them in their miserable homes. One establishment was referred to where as many as fifteen hundred j’Crang girls, and nearly as many young men and boys, are employed. The proprietor, who is something of a philanthropist, supplies his hands With a daily dinner on the premises, and exercises an almost paternal watch and care over their social life outside. Ail, however, to comparatively little purpose, it appears, for I hear from others, besides Mr. Christien, that the establishment shelters a fearful amount of depravity, and that, notwithstanding all that is done to protect them, very many of the young women go to the bad.

My informant’s next statement rather startled me. "You would be surprised.” he said, “to know how many servant girls in London are ruined by their masters;” and as he went on to tell the tale I was both surprised and shocked. Conversations with thousands of poor girls who have told hint the story of their downfall qualify this gentleman to speak knowingly on this subject, and his manner was so earnest and emphatic that I could not fora moment doubt th full truth of his statement. “There are scores of men in London,” he declared, “who make it a practice to ruin every girl that enters their service.” Such girls, iriettdlessin a great city, coming generally. as they do, from the country places, do hot fee! equal lo a prosecution, and they are AWare that even if they Went before the courts, their testimony, unsupported, as it must be, would not count for much against the influence of wealth and position. So they drift into a life of sin and are lost. “But do not such cases result in the divorce from ♦he lecherous husband of tlie outraged wifef’tl innocently asked. “Very seldom.” said Mr. Christien. “The offense is usually condoned for the sake of the children. Besides,” he added, “divorces are excessively costly here, and exceedingly unfashionable.” So they are, and I suspect that this, rather than anv superior regard for connubial vows, is the chief reason why Greatßrilain appears to make a So much better showing in this matter than tlie United States. Very indignant was Mr. 0. during ottr conversation on this point, expressing himself in favor of a law which should put every employer of domestic servants under heavy bonds to preserve their chastity. STREET LIFE OF PROSTITUTES. Mr. Christien next referred to the street life of the gay girls of London as tending greatly to swell their ranks. Prostitution does not hide itself from public gaze here as it does, happily, to a large extent, in the cities of America. On the contrary, it is nlways bn parade. You see the Scarlet woman everywhere you go; everybody sees her. She makes the sidewalk her place of business. Here she flaunts her shame; here ghe displays her dress and what charms of face and form she may have; here she seeks and finds her prey. I was told by a policeman at Charing Cross that for that part of the Strand there are two gangs. One lot takes possession at 9 o’clook in the morning, and ply their traffic till 6 in the evening, retiring then fora rest, when the night gang comes out to canvass the thoroughfare until 2 the next morning. In Picadilly and Kegent street it is the same, not to speak of familiar haunts of a lower class in the east end. On the Streets these wretched creatures are Seen, of course, at their best. The aching heart and horror of despair are concealed, like

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their complexions, under a deceitful mask. Gayetv is the order now, for business depends upon it. Where nature fails to supply this false air of cheerfulness wine and whisky are resorted to, and you may be sure there are few who do not need these stimulants. Most of the girls in the thoroughfares I have named are tastefully dressed and appear to be in good condition physically. There are exceptions, it is true, as, for instance, that besotted, drink-soaked hag standing in front of the corner public, waiting for a treat really, but serving at the same time as a sign of warning to the passer-by to shun such places and to loathe the vicioifc life she lias led. Occasionally, too, you see a delicate, pallid face, set on a frail body, which is convulsed ever and anon by a deep, hoarse cough, and yon know that in that case dissipation and exposure to the biting air of night have brought on consumption, and that it will not be long ere one poor outcast more will have found refuge in the grave. But Only the mature and experienced see these exceptional cases; the young, the frivolous and the pleasureseeking notice but the gilded aspects of this evil—the girls that are well kept, well attired, and seemingly happy. Wliat the effect of all this is, j’our correspondent did not need to be informed, as the reader will not, by Mr. Christien or anybody else. That gentleman assured me, however, that this street parade of vice in its most attractive forms ruins more young men, and entices to evil courses more young women—the poor shop and factory girls, who work hard for starving wages, and ou their way home, weary and wretchedly clad, see nightly these exhibitions of the profitableness of a life of easy virtue—than any other two causes together. The gentleman regretted the closing by the authorities some years ago, of the infamous Argyll rooms and other like places for centers of vice as they were. These resorts, he explained, by keeping the social evil largely within doors, served at least one good purpose, and indirectly saved many from temptation. My informant further admitted tome that the ranks of the fallen in London were recruited to a considerable extent from the young women who serve as bar maids in the public houses. An honest, intelligent, hard-working and virtuous class of girls they are for the most part, and in almost any other position they would be well able to take care of themselves. But their calling exposes them to peculiar temptations. They are not looked down upon by society as girls occupying asimilar position would be in the United States. The English bar maid is an institution as old as the English inn, and she ranks socially quite up to the respectable girls who stand behind the counters in an ordinary store. But her surroundings are very different. She makes the acquaintance of large numbers of men, and in her public capacity is necessarily on terms of familiarity with them. This most publicans require from their bar-maids in order to draw and hold custom. Acquaintances made over the flowing bowl are often far from honorable and tiie poor girl is the sufferer. A walk, a drive, or a visit to the theater with someone she knows only as a patron of the house, is usually the first step in the patii of indiscretion, and the final result frequently, though not always, is ruin and a life of shame.

LACK OF PBOFEU TRAINING. But of all the Causes of prostitution in this great and wicked city the most prolific, as Mr. Christien declared, and as all who have studied the subject will know, is the vicious training to which so many thousands of the poorer children of the metropolis are doomed. “The temptations to vice in the East End,” says the Daily Telegraph, “are simply appalling. It is said that vice must always exist as the condition of a iiigh state of civilization; that it cannot be suppressed and bad better be ignored. But how about the increasing number of children and young girls whom we are quietly pushing i..to perdition by our supineness and lack of moral courage. 'What are the lives of thousands of young girls in the East End?’ Sprung from parents, a greater portion of whom are immoral women and thieves, iving in one room with the rest of the family tinder conditions which preclude all possibility of decency and innocence, they grow up naturally vicious. Once grown up they must live and earn their bread. The factories then become their chief resource, and, as the supply is greater than tlio demand, thousands of girls must compete for the small pay and the hard work. Arid now, remembering this side of the picture, let us look at the other. Any girl who likes can earn plenty Os money by leading a bad life. And this choice between luxury and idleness, or slavish, hopeless toil, is offered to girls of fourteen, fifteen and sixteen. In the lan-' guage of one who spends her life freely among these outcast girls, trying to raise them to an idea of better things, 'the London streets have been their cradle and their nursery; the streets are the fields which they find ready to their hand to till; on the streets they scatter seed of the only crops they know; from the streets they reap their bitter harvest, nnd in the streets at lust they find a grave. They know it; they dread it; they shudder as they speak of it. But to them, with their grossness, their ignorance and their wants, there seems no escape from the fate which hems them in.’ ” Into the conditions of life in which so many poor children of this city pass their early life a glimpse more sickening even than thatgiven above is afforded by a pamphlet.just issued, and which is creating an immense stir, called “The Bitter Cry of Outcast London.” “In these districts,” it says, "marriage as an institution is unfashionable. Ask if tbe man and woman living together are united in wedlock, and your simplicity will cause a smile. Nobody knows. Nobody cares. Nobody expects that they, are. In exceptional eases only could your question be answered in the affirmative. Incest is common, and no form of vice or sensuality causes surprise or attracts attention. The vilest practices are looked upon witlthe most matter-ot-fact indifference. Entire courts are filled w ill) thieves, prostitutes and liberated convicts. In one street are thirty-five houses, thirty-two of which are known to be brothels. In another district are forty-three of these houses and 428 fallen women and girls, many of them not more than twelve years of age. Os the moral degradation of the people some idea may be formed from the following incident: A missionary rescued a young girl from an immoral life and procured her a situation with a family who were going abroad. Oil his next visit to the place lie was Violently abused by the girl’s grandmother, who had the sympathy of her neighoors, for having taken away from a poor old woman her only means of subsistence.” H. T. Mr. Jones’s Big Dog. Elmira Advertiser. H. F. Jones, of De Ruyter. N. Y,, is the owner of a dog of the St. Bernard breed which is remarkable in many respects. He is considered to be the largest dog in the State, and perhaps in the United States. JJ; S weight is 204 pounds; height. 34 inches; face, from ton of head to tip of nose, 13J£ inches’; girth, 47 inched, and when lie is Standing lie stands i'A inches higher than an ordinary table. Tlie dog is but three years old, and is still growing. Mr. Jones has refused $l5O for him. He can be sent on errands by placing articles or packages in his basket, and lie never eats liis meals at the house, but carries them to the store, where he remains a good share of the time. The dog has formed a great attachment for Lena, the lit tie four-vear-old daughter of Mr. Jones. His owner has jlist had a very fine Portland cutter made for him, with anew harness, and, by the lines, he can beas easily guided by the llttlegirl ascouldapbny to any part of the village. All this the dog seems to enjoy as much as the little girl.

STATE EXCHANGE TABLE. Opinions of tlio County Press Upon Matters of Public Interest. How the Election of Crlisle Is Regarded— Blaine's Scheme Dtfferingly Viewed— The Silly Gush Over Criminals. A Vicious Doctrine. New Castle Courier. It is a vicious doctrine td preach, utterly unworthy the reputation of Mr. Blaine. Shrewd politicians were not slow to detect In the letter a bid for the popularity among the masses to be built upon human avarice and greed, and as such sure to be productive of evil. * * Mr. Blaine’s plan proposes that non consumers shall share in the profits wrenched from the drunken husband, heart-broken wife and starving children. A pretty doctrine indeed! One that all Christendom will spurn with contempt. The Democratic Nominations. Lawrenceburg Register. The present Congress will be looked to by the Democracy of the country for great results, and not until this body closes its session will there be an}- positive shaping of political issues. Till then there can be no harm come to the party by a proper contest for individual success in the nominations. No man, however, has the right to claim that the party owes him a nomination, and it is the privilege of any to seek its preferment. Effect of the Rial ne Scheme. Vincennes News. Blaine’s scheme is as wild as his South American diplomacy. It is designed to bolster up the tariff taxes and at the same time meet the popular demand for ttie retention of the tax on whislcy and tobacco. If the Blaine plan should become law, we should shortly witness such a saturnalia of extravagance, corruption and debauchery as we never conceived in our wildest imaginings. But it will never become law. Rid the Country of Polygamy. Lafayette Journal. Congress should address itself with the least possible delay to the work of ridding the country of this blot upon our national honor. The country will indorse any measure, however severe, that may be found necessary to this end. The hour has struck when the work of the extirpation of polygamy should begin, and only the "stoutest weapons of constitutional legislation” should be employed to beat it down. The National Banking System. Kokomo Gazette. While it is true that the national banking system is the safest one tiiat has ever been devised in this country, nevertheless the propriety of creating a debt upon which to base the system is doubtful. So long as a debt exists the system can, with better reason, be based upon it; bnt when surplus revenue has accumulated to pay the debt upon which the system subsists, other means should be devised. Gosh Over Criminals. Martinsville Republican. Leniency toward criminals is not philanthropy; it is not. humanity; and all the gush about moral laws and moral suasion regarding the average criminal is the extremest bosh. What we want is the rigid and certain enforcement of the laws without unnecessary delay, and if the present laws are not stringent enough, let us enact those that will be. A Square Free-Trade Platform. Clay County Enterprise. The result pins the Democratic party square down to a free-trade platform iti the next campaign, and proves that the Northern doughfaces in the Democratic party areas easily led by the nose now by the Southern slaveocrats as before the rebellion. The result in the selection of Speaker is the first Republican victory for 1884. Republican Relief in a Tariff. Goshen fimee. The Republican party believes in a tariff levied for the two-fold purpose of sufiicient protection to enable our own industries to compete with those Os foreign nations, ahdfor sufficient revenue to meet the expenditures of the government; and in so adjusting the customs duties on foreign goods as tosecurs both these objects at the same time.

Tlie Postal Telegraphy. Evansville Tribune-News. We think that Judge Gresham places too much stress on the objections constantly being put forward bv the president of the Western Union Telegraph Company. So far as our observation goes elections are not. run by telegraph, and the practice of using patronage by a party to perpetuate its power is almost out of date. The Mormons Must Submit. Fort Wayne Gazette. The Mormons will have to submit to the laws or seek tie homes outside tlie jurisdiction of this country. Tills Country can never allow a large community to set at naught the laws of the land, and to acknowledge their allegiance to another power, which is inrealsty hostile to the government. That would be suicide. The Bu!hler-Up of Democracy. Hartford City News, If the reformers are benton destroying the Republican party and consequently lifting up the Democrats, we can advise nothing that would be an improvement on their present course. But then their own elevation to power would be more hopelessly in the distance than ever, Thinkint? Men Will Pause. North Manchester Journal. Thinking men will pause before endorsing a policy that may destroy tlie business interests of the country, that lias worked so harmoniously ior the general good; but of eourse when a sold South asserts its prerogative, as it has in this case, nothing is left but for their allies to submit. Indianapolis Should Have tlie Cunveutlon. Anderson Ilera’d. Indianapolis should have the national Republican convention by all means. It would be a good thing if some of our Eastern friends could see the native State of such men as Ben. Harrison, Governor Porter and other Republican politicians of note and integrity. A Refreshing Thought. Charleston (.111.; Plulndealer. There is something refreshing in tbe thought that the Democratic party will quit, dodging issues and take the aggressive. Will the managers come to the point of defending the methods by which the South bus been made and kept solid for that party? Will Not Hear Analysis, Gtcpfteastla Banner. Mr. Blaine is out with a lengthy letter regarding his scheme to distribute the national revenue to the States. * * * It will not bear analysis, nor will it meet with the favor of the country. A Solid North Will Meet the South. Vever Reveille. The solid Norlli will meet the solid South on the tariff question, a‘nd this means the election of a Republican President by an overwhelming majority. In Opposition to American Workingmen. Huntington Herald. The defeat of Randall is due solely to the fact that lie believes in tbe protection of American workingmen us against the pauper

labor of Europe. As the Democratic leaders have allied themselves ill direct opposition to the workingmen of America, they felt called upon to place in the Speaker’s chair, a person who would attempt to carry out their plans and behests. No Independence for Democratic Voters. Richmond Palladium. The rule of Democracy will be, if permitted, only the rule of the South with all its hate toward Northern interests and institutions. The independence of the Democratic voter, inside the Democratic party, has again become an impossibility. Tiie Warm End of the Issue. Princeton Clarion. The election of Carlisle for Speaker gives tiie Democrats an issue for 1884, something they have been hunting for a tong time. T : only trouble is 'that they appear to have got hold of the hot end of tiie issue in this instance. Forewarned la Forearmed* Wabash Commercial. A party that can deny to another a ballot and choke them down when they attempt to exercise it, is asking tiie people to intrust them with the management of the government. The wise man will consider that forewarned is forearmed. The Blaine Plan with the Whisky Tax. Columbus Republican. It may be that the plan is better on paper than it would be in practice, but there is no question that it strikes the mass of the people favorably, and they would indorse it by an overwhelming majority if given an opportunity. Mr. Blaine’* Hindsight, Mich lean City Enterprise. If Blaine had known as much a day or two before he wrote his new financial policy as he did a day or two after, the country would never have known anything about it, and been just as well off. CURRENT PUBLICATIONS. New Rooks. Hygienic Cookery By Basauna W. Dodds, M. D. Fowler <fc Wells, Now York; Bowen, Stewart & Cos., Indianapolis. Price, $2. While this is a health-in-the-household book, it is not without practical merit, and the fact that it containsforty-six recipes for as many kinds of pie shows that its author is not oblivious to the good things of life. For obvious reasons there is no mention made of mines pie, hut this defect can easily be supplied from other accessible sources. There are seventy-five pudding recipes and others innumerable for various dishes. Tiie fact that these originate from brown bread diet sources certainly must commend them to str-;iachs that eat by rule and digest according to mathematical calculations. It would be gross heresy for any unwholesome dish to find utterance here. The book is a good one and should be given a place in every well-regulated cuisine. St. Nicholas. Illustrated. Two parts. Charles Bert liber’s Sons, New York; Bowen, Stewart <fc Cos., Indianapolis. It is an attempt to paint the lily whenone essays to praise the St. Nicholas. It speaks Its own praises to all who look through the treasures of its pages. Rich in illustration, a constant delignt in its well-prepared stories, and sketches and poems, and puzzles and games, and wliat not, it is a veritable magazine of pleasure to every juvenile in the land, and few nowadays get so old as not to epjoy a trip through the bright pages of this brightest of all young folks’ publications. As a holiday gift it is unsurpassed. THE Century Magazine. May to October, 1883. The Century Company, Now York; Bowen, Stewart & Cos., Indianapolis. A handsome volume, bound in gold cloth, and containing the numbers of the Century forming the twenty-sixth volume. No words of commendation are needed. A handsome annual gift-book that will commend itself to all who see it. Earlier Victorian Ammons. Edited by William Shepard. G. P Putnam's Sons, New York; Bowen, Stewart & Cos., Indianapolis. Price, *1.25. A realistic sketch of such writers as Bulwer, Disraeli, Macauley, Charlotte Bronte, Washington Irving and Poe. A valuable book for any one’s perusal. Qceens of England. Young Folks’ History. By Rosalie Kaufman. Illustrated. Estes Lanrlat, Boston; Bowen, Stewart & Cos., Indianapolis. Three volumes. Price, *4.50. A suitable history for young people; adopted and continued from Strickland’s “Queens of England,” Yocno Folks’ History of the Civil War. By Mrs. C. Emma Cheney. Ittimnaied. Estes & Lanriat. Boston: Bowen,Stewart & Cos., Indianapolis. Price, $1.50. An entertaining history of the leading incidents of t’ra rebellion; written in a style to engage the attention of youthful readers. Songs and Scenes vr-'v fai-*>t. Designs hy Mayer and Lilanz t-,a -,v i.<n ■i • , Boston; Bowen, Stewart A Cn, 0,.,. inn,.. Price $1.70. A souvenir brochure of Gwtlie’s famous Faust; a beautiful holiday present

Holiday .Souvenir,. 8. E. Carino A Cos., of Boston, have issued three of tlie most elegant brochures of the season. The first is Bryant’s poem, “1.0, the Fringed Gentian," richly illustrated in colors by Lambert Ilotlis. "The Coming of the Birds.” by Elaine Goodale, is similarly treated, and poems of flowers of ttie sea by various authors are beautifully illustrated with life-like copies of the several vaneties of sea weed, mosses, etc. The three are, artistically, as fine as any yet produced, and will attract admiring eyes everywhere. For sale by Bowen, Stewart <S Cos. I’rice, $1.50 euch. The Chicago Cigar Troubles Still Imsettled. Chicago, Dec. 7.—Tlie lockout by the manufacturers of cigars against about 250 members of tlie International Cigar-makers’ Union, because they refused to work with the Progressive union, was thought to he in a fair W3V forsettlemont to-day, as a joint committee of the union and cigar manufacturers agreed on a settlement of the disputes hv joint arbitration committees. The matter was presented to the manufacturers for ratification this afternoon, when the agreement was so changed as to admit the Progressive Union also to arbitration. At a meeting tonight the International Union rejected the compromise, and resolved to light the matter out. Tlie trouble is now likely to extend to all International members—about 1,200. A Profitable Business. Boston, Dec. 7. —Tiie police are investigating the doings of a New Bedford firm which, it is alleged, manufactures organs in the cheapest manner, and by means of circulars sent broadcast sells them at exorbitant prices to the uninitiated. It is believed tlie firm disposed of 25.000 organs last year at a profit of one hundred and fifty to two hundred and fifty thouaand dollars. A Fir,*Ea|ic Burglar. Chicago, Dec, 7.— Joseph Lindsey was arrested to-day while descending by a fireescape from a large wholesale house. The police ussert Hint he has burglarized a largo number of stores in this way, but, as he was unable to carry anything heavy, his gains at each place were comparatively small.

LETTERS TO THE —rTlip lira"" Battery. Tr> the FMitor of tiie Indianapolis Juuraab You reprint from tire Troy Times a very pretty little story about General Bragg and his old battery in the Third artillery, which reads well. It states that Bragg’s old battery was with Thomas, and retained ttie guidons, etc., which distinguished it; that Bragg recognized it and said he would rather be its captain than lieutenant-general in the confederate army, and that up to the time of his death in Carolina, etc. The story is incorrect in some minor particulars. The Bragg battery did not do service under General Thomas. General Bragg died in Galveston, Tex., in 1878, on the day that lie received appointment as custodian of the United States military property. Whatever may he left, of this story after withdrawing these facts may be true. J. H. Woodard. Griimlilinas at Eve. To the Editor of ttie Indianapolis Journal: A custom is gradually gaining ground in Indianapolis which is not only foolish but dangerous, and awakens nervous apprehensions in the minds of evening pedestrians through our streets. I refer to the custom of leaving, at night, the window-shutters, inside or out, unclosed, and the curtains drawn back or op, so that, in each case, the interior of the house so disclosed is an open secret to every curious gazer. In many instances beautiful parlors and attractive firesides are thus exhibited, but it is a mystery which an ordinary mind cannot fathom why tiie members of any household should wish to take the whole world, as it were, into their private life in this style. It is contrary to the canons of good taste and common sense. It is calculated to inspire tramps and rowdies with a malicious desire to shy bowlders through the window; and gives the enterprising burglar excellent insight into the internal arrangement of the houses so exposed. Every man’s house is or ought to be his castle, and it is a very ridiculous kind of castle which lets down the drawbridge at night, and sets student lamps behind its fortifications. If the handsome interior decorations and elegant household goods must be exposed to the public gaze, for heaven’s sake, let eacli family inspired with the exhibition fever, take a niiiil day, and put its choicest pictures and bric-a-brac on tiie front porch or in the yard for a reasonable length of time. Let us have another art loan exhibition of this then forever after pull down the biinds. Ttie wayfaring man will be satisfied if “in happy homes he sees tiie light” shining out from over the lower inside shutters, or glimmering around the sides of sensibly drawn curtains, Ghowlehl Dr. MunTiatl and ttie Charity Organization. To flie Editor of ttie Indianan, Its Journal: I ant just home after an absence of three weeks, and my attention has be.en called to the following statements made by Rev. Myron W. Reed in an interview in your issue of the 28th ult,: “I have understood the original suggestion came from Lea Munhall, secretary of the Y. M. C. A. Mr. Munhall lias probably gone South now—with the birds. His strawberry season lasts eight months.’’ Mr. Reed may “have understood tiie original suggestion came from” me, but if he did, lie “understood” what was not true, and any attempt to injure me by making it appear that lam responsible for whatever of opposition exists to the present status of the associated board of charities is wholly unwarranted and unkind, to say the least." As to my opinion of the policy of this board, it is of very tittle consequence to the community, as lam only a private citizen. But, since my name lias been brought into ttiis matter, I will say this: I have been personally interested in the benevolent work in this city for more than twenty years. Asa Christian, I atu in sympathy with any and all efforts to aid tiie destitute. I may question the wisdom of methods without being the enemy of the work. May I not? Ido not believe it is wise to locale the offices of the charity board under the roof of Plymouth Church, so long as the pastor is president. My reason for thus believing is my certain knowledge that the management will not receive flie hearty sympathy and support of many of the orthodox churchs and pastors if they are so located. Rev. Dr. Mabie expressed the right views of the matter, in my judgment. Ero. Reed is mistaken about my strawberry Season lasting eight months. It lasts twelve months. According to the report of Mr. T. P. Haugney, chairman of the committee having direction of mv work, made to our last State convention, during thq year ending Sept. 30. 1883, I delivered 2G lectures, 319 addresses, 201 sermons and 100 Bible-readings, or nearly two public addresses for each day of tiie year; wrote 1,398 letters, 413 postals and 57 telegrams: prepared and sent out 1,490 circular letters and 7,944 printed documents, besides scattering about 127,000 tracts, slips, dodgers, ets. About 1,760 persons professed saving faith in the Lord Jesus Christ in meetings I conducted during the year, nearly half of whom were young men, and over 1,200 of whom united with the church. My committee gave me one month for vacation and rest. I took one week. I thank the Lord from the depths Os my soul for opportunity and strength to labor for Him who gave His life for us all. Bro. Reed’s remarks were in bad temper and most unkind, because intended to impress the supporters of our work with the idea that I am having an easy time under good pay. L. W. Munhall.

Morse Thieve, Captured and Hung. Omaha, Dec. 7.—A band of horse thieves which lias been operating in north Nebraska and southern Dakota for several mouths, was broken up last, week by Brown county (Nebraska) vigilantes, who captured anil Lung several near Ainsworth. The sheriff of Brown county arrested three of the gang art-1 brought them down to Fremont and jailed t)r‘n to prevent execution by tiie vigilantes. They will be brought to Omaha to-morrow and lodged ;u jail for safe keeping. NEW FRENCH pEI 80AF. Clothes washed with this soap look whiter and smell sweeter than when washed with any other soap. No boiling required, and consequently no steam or disagreeable smell in the house. The saving in fuel pays for the soap. Grocers will be supplied by A. B. GATES & CO., Noe. 31 ami 33 E. Maryland Street. IMITATIONS ACCUMULATING. Bermmi’a Cu peine Porous Piasters nave liie word Caperne cat iu tlie center* Don’t he deceived. 25c.

ORANGES AND FLORIDA. Bettor th*=tn Breezes and Blossoms — Under a New Flag. the balmy air and ora ere groves of Flor iila fail to keep its people foil of happiness and comfort. Art must help nature evertwhere— in the tropics as anions the tours of the North. “And, chief anionir the blessimrs winch are adapted to ull zones,” writes Dr. J. (J. Wallace, of Fort Dade, Fla . "is Parker’s Tonic. It seems to have Tim world for u li*dd, and most.of file current,diseases yield to ha action. I have used it in the itiiNu of a delicate ami dyspeptic young lady with the itio-j gratifying results. ft, seemed to accomplish with ease whaf. rite usual prescriptions and treaiment for that miserable malady failed wholly to brimr about. Jam also triad to state that, ihe Tome has greatly relieved me personally of a troublesome atonic condition of t lie stomach of lon*f standing. It is the ideal purifier and invigorant.” Messrs. Hiscox & Cos. call esneetal attention to tiie fact that after April 16, the name ami style of this preparation will hereafter lie. simply Parker’s Tonic. Tiie word "Ginger” is dropped, for the reason that unprincipled dealers are constantly, deceiving: their patrons by substituting inferior preparations under the n une of Ginger. and as ginger is an unimportant flavoring ingredient. in cur Tonic, we are euro that our friends will agree with us as to the propriety of tne chance. I here will lie no chance, however, in tin? preparation itself, and all bottles remaining in the hand* of dealers, wrapped under the name of ‘ Porker’s Ginger Tome,” contain the genuine medicine if the signature of Hiscox Cos. is at the not tom of outside wrapper. f\ j|j IRON jiff PIPE dUfo FITTINGS. Selling agents for National Til he Works Cos. i Globe Valves, stop Cocks, (4p| f z ; .Engine Trimmin..3, PIPE iJP IMS V H ’JONGS. (UTTERS. VISES, \ 1 Taps. Stocks ami Dies, tgr! Wrenches, Steam Traps Effi 1 Dumps. Sinks. HOSE, BISLTHgfl HR I I NO, BABBITT MKTALB NsS t§* 125-pound boxes. Cotton Es|j| Wiping Waste, white and Era# Vg colored (100-ponnd bales), E&J ig end all other supplies used in connection witli STEAM* 3T fj |£* WATER and GAS. In JOB or tr* RETAIL LOTS. Do a retru. @1 ts- ,nr Meanest ting business. S3 k Estimate and contract to p* heat Mills, Shops, Factories !£• arid Lumber Dry Houses jff_j I with live or exhaust steam. pine cut to oilier by steauo* I. | KNIGHT & JILLSON, rj 75 ar.d 77 8. Penn. St.

INDIANAPOLIS Machine and Bolt Works. Manufacturers of Heavr and LI if ht Machinery. Small Steam Engines. Punches. un<l Dies, Planing ami Mouidine Lirs. Machine, Bridge. It oof. Plow, and Elevator liolts, Lag Screws, Nuts au 1 asners. Taps arid Dies. Works. 79 to 85 S. PounsjTvanla street CHURCH SERVICES. Baptist. FTRST BAPTIST CHURCH NORTHEAST cornei* of New York ami Peimßvl vania streets. Rev. H. C. Mtthie, D I).. will preach to-morrow at 10:30 a. ni. and 7:30 p. in. Sabbat h-school at 2n. m. All arc cordially invited to these services, Congrecrationnl, ]>LY MOUTII CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH Oscar C. McCulloch, minister. Services held in Dickson’s Grand Opera-house. Moi Ding service at 10:30. Sub) *ct: “Hie kingdom ami patience of Jesus t'htist.” Evening service at 7:30. Subject: “Memory.” Tlie people are invited. Lutheran. THIRST ENGLISH LUTHERAN (TIURCHJU corner Pennsylvania ami Walnut streets. Preaching to-morrow at 10:30 a. in. by Rev. John Baltzly. Sunday-school at *2:15 p in. Thursday evening meeting at 7:30 p. in. Methodist Episcopal. /CENTRAL AVENUE M. E. CHURCH—COR\j tier of Central avenue and Butler street. Rev. A.Marine, D. I)., paster Preaching: tomorrow, by the pastor, at 10:30 a. in. and 7:30 p. in. Class meeting at 9:30 a. in Sntiday<lay school at. 2.15 j>. m. 'Lyceum social Monday evening. Strangers cordially invited. Meridian street m. e. church—cohTner of New York ana Meridian streets Rev. Jno. Alabaster, 1). 1)., pastor. Lovt-feast at 3a. in. Preaching at 10:30 a. m. Sacrament of the Lord’s supper administered at. the dose of the sermon. Sunday-school at 2 p. in. Preaching at 7:30 p. in. by the pastor. Regular services during the week. You are invited to ah the services. 1 ROBERTS PARK 51. E. CHURCH CORN!JR Vof Delaware aud Vermont streets. Rev. Ross C. Houghton. P. D., oast or. Classet at 9a. m. and 0:30 p. in. Preaching at 10:3C a. ui. and 7:30 p. in., by the paster. Sundayschool ut 2:15 p m. Young people’s meeting oo Monday at 7:30 p. m. Prayer meeting Thursday at 7:30 p. in. All invited. Presbyterian. IT'IRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-SOUTH-n west corner of PeuuavT vania and New York streets. Preaching in the morning by the pastor, Rev. Myron VV. Reed. Subject, in the evening: “Jesus Christ and Nannleoii.” Muhlc in charge of Prof, l 'at* 1 Barns. The people invited to all the services of tins church. SECOND PRESBYTE RIAN < HU BOH—CORm*r or Pennsylvania and Vermout street* llev. James McLeod, D. 1).. pastor. Preaching at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. in., by the pastor. Prayer meeting Sunday morning at 9:30 aim Thursday evening at 7:30. Sahbaf h-senool and at 2:15 p. i. Ml are invited. ISOUKTH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH—COR--1 uerPcimsvlVituia and Pratt sts. Rev. A. 11. Carrier, pastor. Moriuug'somce at 10:30. Sun-day-school at 2:15 p. in. Evening service ut 7:30. Subject; * 4 The decrees of God.” Memorial Presbyterian church—- . corner of Christian avenue and Ash stiver. Rev. H. A. Ed son I>. D.. pastor. Preaching at 10:30 a. in. Sunday-school at 2:30 p. in Prayer meeting on Thursday night. The public Tricorne. fpAßLit>.‘c ll cm Ren 1 Illinois and C“*io streets. Rev. 8., L. Bowman, I) D.. will prom ** u*-uiorrow morning at 10:30 aud evening at 7:30. aud Bible c.liisNeH will meet at 2 o’clock. Tim public cordially invited. The sittings in this church are entirely tree. SO CIE T Y NO T ICES. A U. MEMBERS OP THE COMMKR< M J\ Travelers’ Association are requested t.o urnet at 91 South Meridian street, on haturday, at *3 o’clock j. in„ sharp, to attend the funeral of Cltas. C. Wehrle. W. F. HENLEY, IWt D. W. coi fin* See’y. FO P. S A. JL E NIGS CLEAN OLD PAPERS AT mis Journal Counting Room AT fifty c;: vi'4 uusuiiisj

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