Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1891 — In Spite of Them. [ARTICLE]

In Spite of Them.

In a publisher’s office: Visitor (to publisher)—This novel was very successful, wasn’t it ? Publisher—Yes, and in spite of the newspapers. Visitor—Did they condemn it? Publisher—Oh, no, they praised it ? —Arkansaw Traveler. Conscience is doubtless sufficient to conduct the coldest character into the road of virtue; but enthusiasm is to conscience what honor is to duty; there is in us a superfluity of soul, which it is sweet to consecrate to the beautiful when the good has been accomplished. —Madame de Staci. At Montichiari batteries of artillery using smokeless powder kept un a fire for half an hour without their positions being discovered.