Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 29, Number 18, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 May 1881 — Page 6

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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. WEDNESDAY. MAY 18. 1881.

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Uf throb with tide that ebb and flow, With thins that come, and things that go. The mills that rise when mora ia fair, That rise and float, then melt In air. Are not taora transient in tfieir stay Than are the hours that sped away, J or often life teems like a dreamSo quickly flash with glance and gleam, A thousand things that come and go. And caoae the tide to ebb and flow. A tad sweet strain that' borne along By breath ol wind: a bit of song, A few fond words when dear friends meet; The music at laugh that' sweet: The sympathy that prompt a sigh; A winsome face that parses by; Brief Joys, that stay their little while, A kindly glance, a loring smile. These ever come, and erer go. And like the tide they ebb an flow. A lorely landscape, fair and bright. One moment seen, then lost to sight. The gorgeous cloud at set of son That crown the day when it ia Hone, The frosty pictures on the pane That fade, and come, and lad; ?sJn; The curling smoke that floats away; A snow wreath on a winter' day; All these like wares that ebb And flow, W ith ceaseless throb still come and go. New York Tribune. CONCERNING WOMEN. The Educational Influence of the Ballot Upen Woman. Virginia A. Betta la Woman at Work.l It is not my purpose to discuss woman as . politician, nor the ballot as the matrjc wand that is to dissipate all her evils. Sat to claim for her social recognition as one of the business elements of the world, and like opportunities with man, for gaining a living. The removal of that sex monopoly which opens to him all occupations, while interdicting almost all to her. That the ballot would accomplish this, I doubt not, and that it will bo the result of our present enlarged system of education, especially coeducation. But as the hungry soldiers used to say during the war, when they came to us for bread with the promise of a week's rations ahead. "The provisions may be coming, but we have to live in the meantime." The comparative difference of this to man and woman, I can best illustrate by bringing before you a sample of it, which came under my observation not long since. I had gone into a 6hop to make a purchase, and seeing one of the clerks, a delicate young girl, looking unusually ill, inquired the cause. She put a cold nervous hand into mine, and said, I will have to give up my place, I can not bear the constant standing in a cold room." The door stood open and the stove was in the back part of the house, 44 What did you get?" I asked. "Eight dollars a month without board. I was sick two weeks and had $15 doctor's bill to pay.'' I'had just heard of the election of a young gentleman to the clerkship of the Senate with a salary of $4 a day, which, leaving out the Sundays, counts up $108 per month made comfortably seated in a warm room. A sum it would have taken that girl thirteen months and a-half to earn, on her feet all the time. Think of it, ye philanthropists, who give your dollars to a foreign mission t Yet we hear that this a prosperous country. A land of freedom! The South was prosperous, when slavery wound its hideous coils in among the roses of the land! The kingdom of Louis XVI. was prosperous, when the streets of Paris ran blood and the gleaming blade of the guillotine fell upon the beauty of France! Kngland was prosperous, when the innocent feet of Charles II. ascended the scaffold! And ours is a prosperous country, with more than half it3 people unemployed and unprovided for. lU wives, mothers, and daughters, ranking politically with thieves, murderers and convicts. These, I believe, are the only other disfranchised inhabitants. Even the slaves bore a certain congressional representation as property. But the female commodity sinks below goods and chattels." Still, we are told that our women are c ntent. 31 any of them, I fear, are. I said to a beautiful girl learning to draw Dy chart at a dressmaker's counter: "What" a pity it is, that the same occupations are not open to men and women alike ' Shu looked up quickly and asked, ''Do you think. they ought to vote?" I replied, "I am disloyal enough to believe that an intelligent American woman has almost as good aright to a voice in the affairs of the Nation as the old negro who saws her wood, and says dis and dat, and don't know the difference between turf and tarill. Not that I mean to speak contemptuously of the colored race. They have done their best for themselves and others, both as slaves and freemen, and they have my respect." She did not vouchsafe me an ar.swer, and her beautiful hands went rapidly over the lines of the chart with a grace and power full of expression ; character in their movements as in the whole of some women. Just the girl, I had like to have said, to make a thorough business man. AU her resources fully at her command, a mind made up for every occasion. I ran over mentally a few of the occupations that would bring such a woman a handsome living; not mere temporary subsistence, bat an opulent and cultivated old age, and I grieved in my very soul to think of her being wasted. Again we are t eld that our women are cultivated enough to make good members of society, and American husbands are proud of their wives. In reference to thia last, we are constrained to ask, if man, created in the image of God, can give himself as wholly as he does, to this weak, doubting uncertain creature, that centuries of conventional servitude have made, what might be his feelings toward a genuine heart and soul woman, a thoroughly developed, reasoning, thinking being, whose love is the fruit of discriminating knowledge, whose marriage the genuine gift of a heart to the one preferred above all others. Not blind loyalty to a husband as an institution, nor sordid subservience to a means of support. And need he love her less, if she knew enough of jurisprudence to administer upon his estate, or of medical science, not to physic a child's stomach for disease in the throat? In point of morals a few such marriages would take a fee out of divorce statistics, police courts, orphan asylums, and foundling hospitals. We are aware that even the best of men are of the opinion that it renders a woman course and unfeminine to come in contact with the world in business relationships But our own experience of those who know the world through this medium is, that they know both it and themselves, better than other women do, and that the friction of daily toil rubs off the superfluities of mind and character, leaving a sweetened and deeper toned woman behind. Said a good and noble woman who had eaten the bread of her own hands: "It is not the girls who work for a living that spend their time idly. And they have none ofthat greed of show so disgraceful to our women. Looking at this subject from as many points as we can command, it seems that the idea for our generation is not to exclude women from public place, but to refine them up to her standard. And under this head comes the examination of the occupations most suitable tor the sex. Setting aside the absence of precedent, üd 1 turning a deaf ear to social ureiudicc. "ifc-J ministry prwnut itsel. for woman, as iff man, the first of all pro fessions. Exc'ded from wordlyiauences tinder the vf-y shadow of God's ving, the weakest, thi saddest, the wisest, may find ' here both shelter and sustenence, and living not unto themselves alone, reach forth in the inspiration of Divine Love, a hand of lender helpfulness to all mankind. Xiext

to the pulpit comes literature. Teachln in all it brauche, profeaorhip in College, music, art, engraving, and designing in all their depaetmrnts, clerkships in stores and offices, tl e Lecture room, horticulture, bird raisin, the care of char

itable institutions, thö guardianship of orphans, including the management of their estates. Nor are they lees needed in our Male Colleges, where the poor boys clothes arebuttonless, their stomachs sinned against, their beds unaired, and baths neglected. Here, they should also have charge of the Libraries. We can scarcely pass by this question of Work for V omen, without some notice of the extent to which stage playing prevails as a pre fession - for both sexes, society having placed a premium upon it, in its absence of condemnation, and its lucrative pay. The cry of unfeminine which asails on of our sex who goes into a Pst Office or Medical College, to earn br-al for her children, reaches not the be&uiiiul actress above the foot-lights, held in the embrace of quasi Iorer, who will a hall hour alter De reeling along the streets drunk. Not that we whould discourage dramatic art, in the hands of true genius capable of making it a moral and ' intellectual force second to none, although regarding is as highly demoralizing to the average man and woman. Occasionally the social embargo upon women, presents itself in a ludicrous aspect. Not long since, a lady, mother of five daughters, said to me, "I don't know what I shall do with two of my girls they can never teach or sew." I was tempted to reply "Make a grave for them at once, madam! Don't burden the world with any more useless women, they will be far less trouble to you under the ground than on top of it, and society always approves a funeral.' The next specimen wasrather a more pathetic one. A weak, delicate man straggling to support a family of six, mother and daughters,, and reminding one of a lean little horse drawing a wagonload of people, who looked as if they ought to have gotten out and carried hini. One, Krhaps two, of these women, might have en considered as earning their living, by attention to domestic affairs; the otheis had mothing in all the world to do, not even to walk out and catch a beau, that redoubtable individual being engaged within his own doors supporting his six indigent females. Thus the toil-worn father struggled on until the last particle of savor dropped out of life; it never entering into his head that ho possessed the means of comfort and opulence in the representatives of half a dozen differ ent professions. But had he one son he would have it a solemn duty to give him a business education, a"d require him to make a support. Would I had the grace to portray the infinite good to both sexes of working alike and together in the same field of action! When I remember the boy friends of my childhood, the manlier ones of later days, the frankness, intelligence, and straightforwardness of the good faitb existing between us, I grieve to see so little friendship between men and women. John Burroughs, tells us in his delightful "Mellow England," that in the Mother Coud try, woman is more of a sister than here. lie found no place set apart for either sex, where one went the other went. The Hotels had no "Ladies' Entrance." All passed in and out at the same door, and met and mingled in the same room. At the Hotel in London three comely daughters of the landlord did the business of the office One sitting there with her needle-work, receiving visitors, ringing for a chamber-maid to take their luggage, and see them to their rooms. And you might leave hat or umbrella on the rack certain ot finding them a week hence. A sweet domestic atmosphere pervaded everything owing to this influence of woman. But it is time we proceed to examine the most current objections to disfranchisement of women. First, and flimsiest of all. ''The polls is not a fit place for ladies to go to; there is too much tobacco chewing, smoking and drinking there." We grant that soma of our poor women have enough of these at home. But why not establish a separate ballot or allow them to send their votes? Grave dishonour to our men that they have any places their women can not go to. 'Let us see, what are the others? The gambling-house, the drinking saloon, the livery stable, and one other. And the polls. lhe nerve of Liberty, the crown of the Nation! Well! I did not know the Goddess of Liberty had so many kinsfolk. I thought she stood alone upon the heights of Time, wrapt in the mantle of her purity. I am quite sure that our feminine voters would do their best to disinherit three sisters of the Nation. Though I think they would leave the stables. They do so love to ride! The dear creatures I But even here I doubt not they would throw in a good bit of moral suasion, in tha shape of tracts, so serviceable to the boys' for cigarettes. Our next objection is that woman would become a politician, desire office, and even aspire to the Presidency. Differing from father, brother, son and husband in political faith, thereby engendering family strife and discord. Ho! genuine thorn of Old Adam I Drop thou into the bottomless pit at once, or consign thyself to the ninth article of Litany, ''Froin plague, pestilence, and famine, Good Lord delivo us!" Now, for the woman who would be President. Like the fisherman's wife who would be Pope, would she not always find some wise flounder ready to drop her back into the little hut beside the sea? But why should not America have its President andPresidentess, as well as England her King and Queen? .Is good Mrs. Hayes who went into the camps and worked for the soldiers, and into the high places of the Nation and set anjcxample of Christian worth for all womanhood, a whit less deserving the highest honors the nation can b8tow, than the officers who faced the bullets? But we have still untouched one objection, namely: The ballot if given the white woman must be also shared by the colored, thereby throwing upon the hands of Government a mass of uneducated material. This reminds me of a little dog I have, who refuses to eat his dinner for fear the cat will get a crumb. That half the virtues and intelligence of a country should remain in a state resembling that of a cripple, for fear ignorance and degradation should attempt to complete with it, and make itself a chance to rise. Its intellectual blindness so great, humanity so narrow, that we scarce know where to meet it? , We leave this valuable subject realizing how poor and unworthy our best efforts. But feeling as the old lady said about the young girl's dress, that it pulled up high enough in the neck, would bo too short at at the ankles. "It was all wrong every, where, and I thought if I could piece it top or bottom it would do some good." Huntsville, Ala. Miss Phoebe Cozzens is called the prettiest of strong-minded. Mrs. Garfield, Mrs. Blaine, and Mrs. Windom were school teachers in early life. "Our sister-in-law'' is what the lawyers of Washington say when speaking of Belva Lockwood, the woman layer in that city. Theodore Parker said of the fine percep tion of character of Mrs. Parker: "I think I have some knowledge of human nature, but my feeling of character compared to hers is like the clumsy hoof of and ox to the delicate sense of the human finge:,

LINCOLN

Wot Into the Grocery Business and How it Terminated. Lincoln's Lack of Business Qualities and How He Was Worried Over' a $400 Note. The Wrestle With Sam Thompson at Rock Island, nd Lincoln's Proposition Afterward. : a Correipondenca of later .Ocean. "How did Lincoln ever come to go into that grocery at Salem?" I inquired of Mr. Ureen, 'He and a man bv the name of Berrv bought it out," replied Mr. Green, thinking they were getting a great bargain; and they were, had they known anything about busi -ness. But Lincoln was no financier, and Berry was an unreliable sort of fellow, and the result was not very encouraging." "Who did they buy of?" "Of me!" "You!" ''Yea. You see, it was this way. A man by the name of Katford came from the South and started a grocery at Salem. His wife's sister lived near here, and they wanted to be together. It was the fashion then to keep liquor in the groceries, . and once in a while a crowd from one of the surrounding settlements would gather at Salem, get to drinking, and make things lively for a while. Just above us here there was such a crowd, and those composing it used to bo called the 'Clary Grove set.' Ratford s brother-in-law knew them pretty well, and the first time he went down to Salem ho told the former that he was afraid he would have trouble with them. "Why, I'll fight any one of 'em," said Ratford. TIGHTIXO THE "CLARY GROVE SET." "That won't do any good," said his brother-in-law. "If one can't lick you, two will try, and if two can't do it the whole crowd will jump on you. The best way is to wait quietly till they come and then try to make friends with them. Don't give them too much whisky, and maybe you can do it." So Ratford sat down to wait. A week, two weeks, three weeks passed, and the dreaded gangdidxot come. Fin ally, his wife wishing very much to visit her sister, they concluded to leave a younger brother in charge of the store and go up and spend Tuesday with her. They went, and that very evening the Clary Grove set rode into town. They wanted a drink, and tbey got it. Then they wanted another, and get that. When they called for a third, the young man in charsre told them they had enough and he could not sell them any more. 'You won't!" said the leader. "Bovs!" he yelled, "he ain't goin' to sell us no more pir.en! Oh, no, of course ho won't !'' and a yell of derision went up. lhe boys tenderly lifted the little weights from the counter and merrily began plugging the glass jars on the shelves. Remonstrance was useless, and in ten minutes the floor was strewn with copperas, alum, spice, ginger, sulpher, nutmegs, etc., etc., ankle deep. inentney tapped the whisky Darrel, and, filling themselves full of benzine, rode out of town yelling like A BAND OF IXDIAKS. ''The homes of the "set" were in the neighborhood of Ratford's brother-in-law's and about 3 o'clock in the morning the yelping of dogs, the clatter of cow-bells and the whoops of the "set" returning home aroused Ratford and the household. "That," said the brother-in-law, is the Clary Grove set. Ratford, they've been to Salem, and I'm afraid the grocery is gone up." "Rtford was very much excited, and going to the stables mounted a horse and started away for Salem. ''It happened that the same morning, I, then a boy still in my teens, had started on horseback with a grist for the mill at Salem. The mill was a small affair, and unless one was early on the ground he had to wait a long time for his grinding. I was riding into Salem about daylight when Rtfra dashed by me, his horse covered with foam, and reined up at the door of his grocery. There was a small window at one end, and as he got off and stood in the door I rode alongside of the window AND LOOKED IX. ''You see that picture on the wall there." said Mr. Green. Well, that is a rough drawing of the grocery, and of myself and Kauoid, and the town as it was that moraine. As I was wonderinc at the ruin inside, Ratford, almost bursting with anger, struck his fists together and cried "1 11 sell the grocery to the first man that makes an offer for it." "Looking in at the window I sang out, I'll give vou $400 for it,' " All right, you can have it,' said he. "1 didn't know what I was buying, but it looked to me as if it was still worth twice that. I told him who I was, that I didn't have the money, but would give my note, and there and then the trade was made. I was still standing amid the broken jam, hardly .knowing what I had done, when Lincoln came across from his boardinghouse and looked in. 'What's up, Bill?' said he. "I told him . what I had done, and he laughed till he nearly cried. It looked so funny, he said, to see me standing there in the copperas and sulphur a newly-fledged merchant, You must have AX INVENTORY right away,' said he. I remember that was the first time I had ever heard the word inventory.and I had a kind of a dim sort of notion that it meant another smash-up; so I said, 'Much obliged, Lincoln, but I don't want any more inventories here.' Then he laughed and explained, and pretty soon came over and helped me to take an account of stock. We found when we got through that there were about $1,200 worth of goods, and I felt pretty well over my bargain. Then Berry came around. He talked to Lincoln and finally they offered to take up my not to Ratford, give me a horse, saddle and bridle, and $2-30 cash for my bargain, and I accepted it. The money was all in silver, and that night I started home (I had sent the grist back during the day) feeling pretty proud. "It was rather late when I got to the house, and when I opened th door, father, who slept in the room, gruflly cried out, Who's there?' "It's me," said I. "Oh, it's THE MERCHANT," he exclaimed, derisively, "Who you goin' to get to clark for you? You back off to bed now, mighty quick. I'll give you 'store in the morning.'' He was very mad, but instead of going to bed I throw some kindling on the fire, and it blazed up, making a bright light. I took a handful of silver out and threw it on the table. "What's that?' said father. . "I've sold the store," I replied. "O, you hev," said he. "And how much did you make?" -I dpn't know," said I, "I want to get it

out of mr clothes." arid I began tossing the

silver in all directions, drawing it out of every pocket. 1'retty soon he raised up on his elbow and looked at me. "I guess 111 take A CHAW TKRBACKER, aid he. Still I went on until he opened his eyes in amazement, and then I told him what 1 had done. Here, Lizzie,' he cried to mother as I got through. "Get up and get this boy a good supper. He's had a hard day's work." "It was all right thenT" "Well the result was that Ratford wouldn't give me up my note and take Lincoln and Berry's, but let it remain as it was, and it afterward gave Lincoln and mvself infinite trouble. The war broke out and things went wrong with the new firm. The note went into the hands of Peter Vaubergen, still living in Sprin field, and we renewed it several times at 23 per cent. Finally it reached $600, and Lincoln, while dolefully discussing the slim prospect of ever paying it, used to call it the National debt, A few yars later I went into Kentucky to teach school, and Lincoln, removing to Springfield, began to earn something at the law, and between us we at last paid it. It was several years, though,, before he got ahead enough to pay me for my share, but he did it at" last, and that was the end of the grocery business.' "Did Lincoln feel bad over hi failure?" 'Well, he felt bad at his inability to pay the note, which he had agreed to pay, but he became satisfied that he was not cut out for a business man. Douglas told me after his famous campaign with Lincoln that he thought one day he would give the latter a rap over the SALOON BUSINESS, as he called it, and so he tauntingly referred to the fact that he knew his tall opponent when he practiced behind the bar at Salem, and did it with much grace if not with remarkable success. "Lincoln received the taunt good-naturedly, and, replying, said that though he did not achieve wealth or distinction while engaged on his side of the bar at Salem, he was able to testify to the constancy and assiduity with which Judge Douglas practiced oa the other side during that era of grocery -keeping. The audience yelled and Douglas frankly acknowledged that his tall antagonist had the better of him." Were you with Lincoln during the Black Hawk War?" rfYes. It was not much of a war, but dur ing our term out many amusing incidents occurred. I remember at Rock Island there was A BIO FELLOW named Sam Thompsoa, who was being backed by his company as the champion wrestler of the camp. Finally we put Lin coln against him and bet every dime we couid scrape together. They took hold, but Thompson got the crotch lock on Lincoln and threw him flat. They took hold again, and Lincoln told me afterward that he knew Thompson could throw him, but he thought he'd lut the boys down as easy as possible, so he dallied around and put off the fall as long as possible. After some minutes Thompson took the crotch lock on him again, and they came down, but it was not so fair a fall as the first, and our boys claimed it was a 'dog fall.' The other crowd demanded their money, and in about a minute there were 200 coats off and a prospect of a free fight. Lincoln's influence was then shown. Brushing the sand from his clothes he cried: 'Give up your money boys! If he didn't throw me fair, he can. I'm willing to admit that.' In a moment the ANORT WORDS WERE HVSIIED, coats were put on, and with an 'all right, Abe, if you say so,' the crowd quietly dispersed. A year or so after Lincoln's election I was sitting with him one day at the White House when he suddenly broke out with, "What's become ofthat man Thompson, Bill?" "What man Tompson?" I inquired. 'Why, that fellow that threw me in the camp at Rock Island during the Black Hawk war?" said he. "I don't know. I haven't thought of him for twenty years. Why?'' "Oh, nothing," said Lincoln. "Only I thought if you knew where he was I'd give him a little 'appintment' just to show him that I didn't bear him any malice." I don't believe he found Thompson, and if the latter is alive, I don't know where he is. I inquired of Mr. Green about Lincoln's father. but he never saw him except once. That was after the elder Lincoln had married his second wife. 'I was going to Kentucky,' said Mr. Green, ''and Lincoln insisted that I should stop and see his father, as it was 'just a little out of the way.' lie gave me a letter to him, and I stopped, though I found that the 'just a little' was very near fourteen miles. I found his father living in a little cabin that cost perhaps $15, and with many evidences of poverty about him. I was disp ised to apologize for ray coming, and go away as soon as possible, but I found that though Lincoln was poor he was mighty hospitable, and a very entertaining host in spite of hU burround:ngs. He insisted on my staying all night, and when I wondered where I would put my horse, he took the animal, hitched him to a rough shed and pointing to a kettle that stood there, said there never was its equal for a horsotrcugh. It was a manger which would hold grain, hay, and water, and Lincoln seemed to regard it in his droll way with a good deal of pride ai.d satisfaction. He was a capital story-teller better than his son, if possible and kept me laughing a great deal. He took me out of the cabin, and pointing to a corner where the logs ran through each other, some of them long and some short, ex plained in a serious way that he had studied convenience in the erection of that house, and that it was really something to be proud of. Here,' said he, pointing to the end of a log that projected through a good ways and was high up, 'here is where we hang a dear to skin it,' 'That, pointing to a shorter one, 'is for a calf, and that,' pointing to a still shorter one, 'is where wo hang a hog or sheep. It cost me time, but it's worth it.' The old man could not read, and when I handed him the letter from Abe he pasted it over to his wife, who read it for him. He asked how his son was getting on, and said he hoped the boy wouldn't disgrace himself. 1 left the old man with a very warm opinion of him. "I am told," said I, as Mr. Green paused in his recital, "that you were present when Lincoln SHOULDERED THE BARREL OF WHISKY and drank out of the bung-hole. How is that?" "Well, he didn't exactly drink," said Mr. Green, "for Lincoln never drank liquor, but he took a swallow in his mouth and then spit it out again. It was done to win a bet. You see, a man by the name of Eastep, who lived near Salem, was a great fellow to be always betting with the boys, and winning from them, on his own tricks. Ha had beaten me a great many times, and after he had done so one day, Lincoln told me I ought to stop betting with him. 'He'll always beat you,' said Lincoln, 'and he knows it or he wouldn't bet. Now, if you'll agree to stop it, 111 tell you how to get even with him.' I promised, and Lincoln told me to bet Eastep. the next time he came to town, that he (Lincoln) could take up a barrel of

whisky and drink out of the bunghole. 1 hardly believed he could do it, but he showed me how easy it wa, by getting the barrel on his knees, to do it, and so the next opportunity I tackled Eastep for a bet, He was eager to do it, but when I wanted to bet a 1 hat Via lrvlrk1 lirtla aumriasvl TTnw-

ever, he took the bet, and the crowd gathered round to see the fun. Lincoln tilted thn barrel rn an an A triAn nntt Ilia VnAAa - . vu - , then rolled it slowly up till he had it in the rigai position, wnen me Dung was tax en out, and he took the swallow as agreed. Estep looked on in blank amazement, but bought the'hat and left. I never knew him to bet again after that bet," RELIGIOUS NOTKS AND INCIDENTS). Dr. McCoeh make the statement that of over 1,000 students who have graduated under his care from Princeton College, only four were sceptics, and three of these are now preachers. In response to a call of the Methodist Church tor money to build 520 meeting houses this year, one gentleman says: "You may count on me for twenty Churches." And twenty is scored for that brother. Heredity, rightly taken advantage of, is a stepping stone to the salvation of the world. But it must be considered rationally, in the the light of the future. We-must cease from complainingof our heritage of evil, or limitation, of weakness, and see to it that we give the future something better. Northern Christian Advocate. A Summer School of Christian Philosophy will be opened on the 12th of July at Warwick Wood'ands, Greenwood Lake, New York State. The lecturers already engaged are President Porter, of Yale" College; Chancellor Crosby, of the New YorkLniversity; President Bascom, of Wisconsin Uuivenity; Professor Bowne, of Boston University, and Professor Winchell, of Michigan University. A layman has guaranteed the financial success of the undertaking. The subject of exclusion of members of secret societies from the Church of the United Brethren in Christ will come again J Before the General Conference of that body, which meets in May. The discipline of the body declares that secret societies are evil j in nature and tendency, and that when any preacher or communicant become a member of one of them he shall be considered as having withdrawn from the Church. No secret society man can be received into membership. Dr. Fulton, the "Brooklyn Newman," according to the New York Sun, has been talking pretty plainly about wealthy men. In a recent sermon he dwelt largely upon the receptions he had met with when calling upon rich men to solicit subscriptions to pay the Church debt. Often, he said, per sons overburdened with wealth were so miserly, so arrogant and bo mean that it was hard not to experience a sense of relief at the reflection that he should not meet them in Heaven. "What a happy thought it is," he said, 'that Heaven will be peopled with ladies and gentlemen. Republican Iniquity. fBoston Post A short time since Mr. Tilden was reported as saying "the Democrats will need to have a two-thirds majority of the whole people before they will be permitted to take control of the Government." Recent events tend to show that the veteran statesman was not far from right. Within the past two months Legislatures have been in session in a majority of the States, and wherever the Republicans have had sufficient strength they have passed apportionment bills of the most iniquitous character. While crying with a loud voice against the alleged frauds upon the ballot in the South, these Republican saints have gone deliberately to work to practically disfranchise voters in the North. In Maine the gerrymandering was so monstrously wicked that few even of the hi de-bound Republican organs made vigorous protest when the Governor vetoed it. In Wisconsin the Democrats were set off into a few selected reservations, and so anxious were the Republicans that a Democrat should be kept out of the Legislature that they actually dropped hu town entirely, making no provision for it at all The trick was discovered, but not until the bill passed both House and Senate, and the Governor vetoed the whole bill. In Minnesota lhe gerrymandering is such as to give the entire Congressional Delegation to the Republicans, providing the people vote about as they have been accustomed to of late years. In order to make this so one of the Districts was made to run diagonally across the whole length of that great State. In California the Republicans have attempted to pass an apportionment bill as wicked and unjust to their opponents as any of those before referred to. Where such bills have been passed, the Republicans may be temporary gainers, but they should bear in mind that curses, like chickens, come home to roost. How to Get Well. Thousands of persons are constantly troubled with a combination of diseases. Diseased kidneys and costive bowels are their tormentors. They should know that Kidney Wort acts on these organs at the same time, causing them to throw off the poisons that have cipgjrod them, and so renewing the whole man. Hundreds testify to this. Pittsburg Post, Dr. JAMES' Xocfc Hospital, 204 Washington St., Cor. Franklin, CHICAGO, Chartered by the State of I llinois for the express purj ' pusc oi giving immcuiacc 'relief in allrnvnf nrivare jr chronic and urinary dis eases, in all their complicated forms. It is well known Lr. J ames has stood at the head of the profession Tor the past thirty years. Age and experience are all important. Seminal weakness, night losses by di earns, pimples on the face, lost manhood, can positively be cured. Ladies wanting the most delicate attention, call or write. Pleasant home for patients. 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Page; that they are necessary pa ties to the above entitled action, which is an action In relation to real estate situate in Marl ri County, Indiana: and that said defendants are not resident of the State of Indiana; and, whereas, ..i(l plaintiff having byindorsement on said complaint required said defendant to appear in said Court and answer or demur thereto, on the llHh day of June, PM Now. therefore, by order of said Court, said defendants last above named are heeby notified of the riling and pendency of said complaint against them, and that unless they apjx-ar and answer or demur thereto, at the calliutr of said cause on the 20th davof June, 1M. the same being the thirteenth judicial day of a term of said Court, to be bejrnn and held at the Court House, in the city of Indianapolis, on the first Monday in June. lsl, said complaint, and the matters and things therein contained and alleged, will be heard and determined In their absence. DANIEL M. RANSDELL, Clerk. IL D. Logan, Attorney for I'laintlfC STATE OF INDIANA. Marion County, ss: In the Superior Court of Marion County, in the State of Indiana. No. 27,870. In Room No. 1. Complaint for divorce. Mary A. Middleton vs. John Miidleton. Be it known, that on the 2d day of May. 1SS1, the above named plaintiff, by her attorney, filed in the office of the tlera of the Superior Court of Marion County, in the State of Indiana, her complaint agninst the above named defendant; and the said plaintiff havme also on May 2, 1N"1, tiled In said Clerk's office the affidavit of a comietent person, showing that said defendant, John Middleton, is not a resident of the State of Indi-ana-.and whereas said plaintiff having by indorsement on said complaint required said defendant to appear in said Court and answer or demur thereto on the 27th day of June, 181 Now. therefore, by order of said Court, said defendant last above named is hereby notified of the tiling and pendency of said complaint against him, and that unless he appears and answers or demurs thereto, at the calling of said cause on the 27th day of June. 18M. the same being the nineteenth judicial dav of a term of said Court, to De ucpuii and held at the Court House in the city of Indianapolis, on the first Monday in June. LsKl said complaint and the matters and things therein contained and alleged, will be heard and determined in his absence. DAN. M. RANSDELL, may4-3w Clerk. TxTOTICE is hereby given to the citizens of IN the Twenty-fourth Ward, in thecitvof Indianapolis. Center Township, Marion County. In diana. that I. L. Mussmann. a male inhabitant of said Ward, over the age of twenty-one years, will applv to the Board of County Commissioners of said County, at their June meeting, for a license to sell for one year, spirituous, vinous and malt liquors, in a less quantity than a quart at a time, with the privilege of allowing the same to be drank on my premises. The precise location of the premises whereon I desire to sell said liquors. Is described as follows: Lot No. 15, outlot No. 120, McCarty's subdivision, and known as No. 544 South Meridian street, in the city of Indianapolis, Center Township. Marion Cohnty, Indiana. may4-w3w D. MUSSMANN. MISCCLiLiArTjSOTJS. 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