Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 34, Number 21, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 June 1888 — Page 8

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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27.1888.

THE PULPIT AND THE PRESS.

BOTH DO GOOD WORK FOR HUMANITY Dr. Talma Bellerea That the Secnlar Press May Be Made a Great Force in the Spreading of Christianity Throughout the 'World. JAVING taken as his text "The children of this world are in their I 1 generation wiser than the children J of light," St. Luke, xvi., 8, Dr. Talmaze said: "A marked illustration of the truth of this maxim is found in the slowness of the Christian religion to take possession of the secular printing press. The opportunity is opened and has been opened, but ecclesiastical courts and churches and ministers of religion for the most part have allowed the golden opportunity to pass unimproved. That the opportunity is opened I prove by the fact that secular newspapers are glad to print all religious facts and statistics. They are grateful for all news in regard to the churches. If there be a wrong done s. Christian church or a Christian institution you may go into the eecular newspaper offices and have tho truth fairly stated. Dedications, ministerial ordinations, pastoral installations, cornerstone laying of churches and charitable institutions in their anniversaries will have reasonable space given in the columns of secular papers if previous notice be afforded. The daily eecular newspapers during the course of the week give as much religious informatioa as do the religious newspapers. If I were suffering ..-rr.is-n;:T?.!v.' y from an injustice I could go into any editorial or reportorlal room in the United States and be set right. And so could any well-known Christian man. "Why then does not our glorious Christianity embrace the opportunity opened? I have before me a subject of first and last, im portance. How shall we secure the secular newspaper prefs in mightier reinforcement for religion and the pulpit? First, by cessation of indiscriminate hostility against newspaperdom. You might as well denounce the legal profession because there are shysters, or the medical profession because there are quacks, or commerce because there are fraudulent bargain makers as to denounce newspapers because there are recreant editors and unfair reporters and unclean columns. Instead of fighting newspapers, if we will lake the length of time so devoted, and the vehemence, and employ them marshaling for help all those influences, we will be as much wiser as tte lean who asks a railroad superintendent for the privilege of fastening his car at the rear of a rail train is wiser than the man who runs up the rail track with a wheelbarrow, proposing to drive back the Chicago limited express. The silliest thing a man ever does is to fight newspapers, for the man may have the floor for utterance one day of the week, while the newspaper has the floor for utterance seven days of the week. Do not Cght newspapers. Attack provokes attack. Wait until the excitement has blown over, and then go in and get justice, and get it you will if you have patience and common sense and equipoise of disposition. It ought to be a mighty sedative that there is an enormous amount of common sense abroad in the world, and every man comes to be taken for just what he is worth, and vou cannot be pulled up and you cannot be run down. If you are the foe of society, the fact will come out, and if you are the friend of good society the fact will come out. I know of what I am speaking, for I can draw a little from my own experience. While all respectable newspapers, eo far as I know, are my friends now, there are persons here who can rejaember the time when I was the most outrageously and meanly and continuously attacked man in this country. For ten years, by the power of the grace of God, I kept silent But the work went on. "What I said was perverted or twisted into just the opposite of what I said. My person wa3 maligned. I was represented as a Gorjron. Persons who had never &een rae described mo as a monstrosity in body, mind and soul. There are millions of people in this country who thought wo had in this pulpit a large sofa, and that while the congregation were singing I va3 accustomed to lie down on the sofa, my feet daneling over the end of it. Lying New York correspondents kept up the misrepresentation year after year, but after a while people" from all parts of Christendom came and they saw with their own eyes and heard with their own ears, and found out the masnitude of the falsehoxis in regard to myself and in regard to this church, and a reaction set in and now we have justice, full justice, more than justice, and as much over praise as once we had under appreciation, and no man that has ever lived naa been so indebted to the newspaper press for the opportunity ef preaching the gospel as I am indebted. Young men in the ministry, young men in thö law, young men in all professions and occupations, wait! You can afford to wait. Justice will after a while be done. Ag;ain, if we would secure the ecular printing press in a mightier reinforcement for religion and the pulpit we must make it more thoroughly the avenue for religious information. I bare no words of admiration with which I can express my appreciation of the religlou newspapers of this country and the work they are doing. While I have the highest appreciation of the religious printing press, suppose you give religious facts and statistics and information to the religious press, the averags of circulation less than ten thousand, what do you do a3 compared with giving the religious facts aod statistics and information to the senior presd whose subscribers are counted by the hundreds of thousands? The world goes so fast now that news a week eld is etile. Give us all the church facta

and all the revival statistics the next morning or the same evening. When mv friends ask. me, as I have often been asked, about the propriety of starting religious newspapers, I always say. "don't, don't; employ the press already established." The biggest financial hole on this continent is the hole into which good men put their money when they start a newspaper. It is almost as quick a way of losin? money as to buy stock in a gold mine of Colorado. Not more newspapers, but better employment of those already established. Again: If we would secure the secular printing press in a mightier reinforcement for religion and tho pulpit we must extend wider and higher Christion courtesies to those who are the representatives of journalism, Give them easy chairs and plenty of room when they come to report occasions. For the most part they are gentlemen of education and refinement, graduates of colleges, men who have families to support with their literarv crcft, many of them weary with the push Oi an occupation so uncertain and so changeable. They are the avenue of intelligence to multitudes of readers, and their impression of services is the impression to be adopted by multitudes outside. They are the connecting links between sermon and prayer and hymn, and that jrreat outside population which tramp up and down these btreets year after year with their sorrows uncomforted and their souls unsaved. Eight hundred thousand people in Brooklyn and vet less than a hundred thousand iii churches, fck) there is more preaching done by thereportersof these cities than by the ministers. Take the newspaper men then in your prayers and into your sermons. If there shall be 100,000 sermons preached in America today, there will not be three sermons preached to journalists. All of the prayers offered nr men in all styles of occupations. Thb prayers offered for' this most potential class will bo very few and assigned to the idiosyncrasy of a preacher. And yet, if this world is "ever brought to God there are to be revivals of religion which will sweep editors and reporters, and pres.smen and newsboyg into the kingdon of Jesus Christ. Have you not enough faith to toil for that and pray for that? Then get out of our circles and fight on the other side for you are among the unbelievers w ho make the wheels of the Lord's chariot drag heavily. The great final battle between" truth and error, the armageddon will not bo fought with guns ami shells and swords, but with pens, quill pens, steel pens, gold pens, fountain pens. But first of all the pens must be converted. "But," says some one, "would you make the Sunday newspapers a reinforcement ?" Most certainly I M ould. I have learned to take things as they are. If I could have my way I would have the old Turitan .Sunday, the scoffed at Puritan Sun.lay, come back again. The modern Sunday will turn out no better men and woman than were your crandfathers and grandmothers under the old style Sunday. Sunday newspapers are killing editors and reporters and typesetters. Every man, wmnen and child is entitled to twenty-four hours every week with nothing to do, absolutely nothing to d, and. though our friends may delegate the work of the newspapers for twenty-four hours to other hands, the responsibilities and the cares will not be lifted from editorial chairs and rtpertorial rooms. These are facts. Literary men are dying fast enough without Any extra killing of the Sunday newspaper. But the Sunday newspaper has come to stay. It will stay longer than any of us stay. Wbat, then, shall we do? Let us implore all those who write for them, and who edit them, and who publish them, and who print to till them with moral and religious information, and with live sermons, and with facts elevating. Let us implore them to drop out all the divorce cases and fill the columns with good advice as to how husbands and wives ought to live lovingly together. Let us as!: them to put iü small type tho behavior of the swindling church member, and put in large jtype the Christian contribution to seaside sanitarium or asylum for feebleminded children. Let us ask them to put all tho meanness on the part of Christian men in type that is called pearl or agate and all generosity and great heart edness on the part of Christian people in type called brevier or bourgeois. If you cannot stop Sunday newspapers let us have the Sunday newspaper converted. The fact is that the Sunday newspaper is a vast improvement upon the Sunday newspaper oi olden times. Oh, what a beastly thing was 'the Sunday newspaper of ";Iiirty years ago. Why, it would destroy a man's reputation for respectability to have tho end of it sticking out of his coat pocket. And who knows but that the Sunday newspaper will yet become a positively through praver and consultation with our literary friends become a religious newspaper, printed on Saturday night and distributed on Sunday as in the churches now we distribute the H'tmlni Sdtol Advocates. Again: If we would make the secular printing press a rnizhtier reinforcement for religion and the pulpit, we must in our pulpits and in our Sunday-schools and in all our religious work be more spirited and more and more interesting, and then the secular printing press will reproduce what is said. About fifteen years ago, on a Sabbath morning on my way to church, a journalist overtook m'e and he said: "Are you going to give us any points to-dav?" I paid: "What do you mean by points?" "Well," he said, "I mean are you going to say anything striking that can be remembered?" Then I bethought myselt, what right have we in pulpits and in reformatory institutions an.i in Sumlay-schoos to take the time of the people if we have not anything to that is memorable? The style of criticism in theological seminaries has a tendency to file oil' the sharp points of young men and send them out into the work without any power of execution. What we want is points, sharp points, memorable points, and less humdrum. Sunday-school teachers, people at toil in reformatory institutions, young ministers, old ministers, what we want is points, and if a thing uttered is dead it is a hundredfold more dead when it is laid out in cold type. Now since every man, woman and child in this assemblage has something to do w ith the newspaper it i3 either issuing it, or purchasing it; it is either printing it, or editing it or reading it, we all have something to do with it I propose this day a solemn treaty, signed June 17, 18-SS ä solemn treaty" between the pulpit and the secular printing press, a treaty that will be ratified by multitudes if it is rightly fashioned, a treaty promising that we will help each other in the great work of trying to better this world and save it. We bv voice, you by pen. We by saying only that which frt worth printing and you by printing that which is fit to speak. Side by side will go these two preat agencies until the judgment day, when we will be scrutinized for our work, helpful or blasting. The two worst off men in that day will be tho minister of religion and the editor if they have wasted their opportunity, for both aro engineers on a long express train of influence, and we

I will take it either into the depot of light or we will tumble over the embankments, I get a iowerful hint fis to the work that reporters are to do in this country and in the world in the way of its salvation. j when I find the fact that Christ and Paul took a reporter along with them and he I reported their speeches and he reported I their acts. Luke was the reporter, and he j wrote not only the Book of Luke, but ; he wrote the Acts of the Apostles; and you j take out of the New Testament the workol i the reporter and you take away a mighty j part of it. When I find that so large a

fart of the bible is the work of a reporter, conclude that that profession of reporting and stenography is to be a mighty and an overmastering power in the great work of this world's salvation. The stenographers and reporters of America aro coming in a solid body into the kingdom of our God yet. Though their Drofession has a tendency fo skepticism, through an earnest, common sense invitation, organized invitation they will come to the very front of Christian endeavor. Ueeclier'a S unday Scheol. Brooklyn Eagle. The members of the three schools connected with Plymouth church are making arrangements to have special "exercises on Sunday, June 24, the anniversary of Henry Ward Beecher's birthday. It is only once in six years that the date falls on a Sunday. It comes this year on the last Sunday cf the quarter when there is no regular lesson and in most all schools there are general exercises. In most of the schools it is the closing session of the season previous to the vacation. So many things centering on this one Sunday makes it an appropriate day for some such celebration. The three schools propose to assemble at the usual time, 3 o'clock in the afternoon, in the church, where there will be appropriate music and a sermon from the Rev. lr. Lyman Abbott and possibly addresses from other speakers. A special and very interesting feature will be the exhibition of Conant's wonderful portrait of Henry Ward Beecher on the pulpit, which will be loaned for the occasion bv the Hon. S. V. White. Contributions will be solicited for a Beecher memorial bed in the home for the consumptives. The collections in Plymouth Sunday school during the month w ill le given, as has been the custom for

years, to the Children's Seaside home at Coney Island. Some Good Advice. Tho Church at Work. The great political conventions, state and national, will soon be over; the candidates selected; the struggle fully on. For months the contest will be waged. Then disappointment will come to nearly one-half the people and the inevitable will le accepted as gracefully as possible. Let us try and conduct ourselves aa Christian people through it all. The issues are not of sufficient importance to justify estrangement between friends; neglect of Christian duty; entrapment into positions inconsistent with Christian fidelity. Tho daily paper must not crowd out the bible; the political meeting must not do away with the prayer meeting. Let us not in the heat and excitement do what we must afterward regret. Ingersoll and Shakspeare. Sew York Observer. Mr. Hall's presentation of the contrast between the mind of Shakspeare and the mind of Ingersoll in respect to God and religion and the bible is impressive and significant. If Ingersoll should become repentant, humble and religious, he might not be much more like Shakspeare than he is now. But he would be less ridiculous than he is now, for he would no loncer be expending his oratorical powers in vilifying the one book which dominates the languages and the literatures of the modern world, which is interwoven with the greatest classics of modern times. Brief Jteligiou Items. A women's Christian association in Oska, Japan, has about 1,000 members. It is stated that over fifty presbyterian ministers in the' United States and Canada were at ne time Roman catholic priests. The Presbyterian says that the magnificent sum of 000,000 for foreign missions last year encourages the assembly to aok for the coming year $l,m )0,0n0. Among the many who rose for prayer in the January meeting at Benita, was a sorceresst rr fietich doctor, Known far and wide, bhe brought the implements of her art and burned them publicly. The total abstinence society in connection with Mr. Spiirgeon's tabernacle in London, obtained 527 pledges last year. Mr. ijpurgeon says that he has never thonght that a man could not be saved without the pled.ee, but he does think that a man might be put in the way of being saved through it. They were contributing toward a fund for the extinguishment of the church debt in a New Jersey town the other evening. "I'll contribute S?0," said one. "I'll go ioO better and make it $50," said another. And then the first contributor, in the excitement of the moment, shouted: "I'll call you; what have you got." $hoe und Leather Review. The new cathedral at Albany promises to be eminent anion? cathedrals for its memorial ohnraeter. Not only will there be ten stained-glass memorial windows, but the twenty-four main pillars, no two of whose capitals will be alike, are to be memorials; smaller pillars are to commemorate dead children; and one hundred stalls, the altar, altar raii; front, lectun, and other parts of the auditorium will be gifts in memoriam. The fact is undeniable that while the demand for the new revisions has been steadily declining, that for the commonly received version has been as steadily advancing. There must be some cause for this. What is it? We have no doubt that it is to be found in the fact that every new revision has only deepened the conviction that the blessed old book, which has been the Christian puide and comforter through eiht generations is, as a whole, a surprisingly faithful version of the word of God. Iht Examiner. Plymouth church contemplates making a bold step this year by revising the roll and striking otf from the list the names of all those persons whose addresses have been unknown for several years. This will reduce the number on the roll to about 1,800 from 2,000. A circular letter is to be issued to the members of the church livine in all parts of the country, asking that they take letters of dismissal to the churches where they are now residing. The desire is to have the membership of the chnrch at the beginning of Dr. Abbott's pastorate bear a closer relation to the actual numbers than it has done for a long time. KIND WORDS FOR MRS. CLEVELAND. The Modest Bravery of Her Womanhood Coram end a Her to the People. Cincinnati Conimeicial-Gazette rep.l We are all pleased with and proud of Mrs. Cleveland, because she illustrates in her very conspicuous and trying position the delightful capacity of the American woman, called to any high place, to meet with her own happy resources and win Ding qualities the requirements of the station. Mrs. Cleveland was a very young woman to become the lady of the White house, and her youth and innocence plead for her not in vain. She has been chivalrously treated by the American people, and she has rewarded their self-respecting courtesy and decorous devotion, by doing her duty with naturalness and the dignity of delicate womanhood. There is a dainty touch in the little letter that so aptly defends her husband, who has been charged with the unpardonable crime of treating her roughly. The few words that have reached the public from her are just enough. Still, 6be should not be exalted as a wonder. She is just one of our good, bright American girls, called suddenly to walk before the world in a role of the greatest distinction, and whose footsteps we regard with the tender interest that we give to our own wives and ßisters and daughters. It is the modest bravery of her womanhood at an elevation where the frivolous grow dizzy and foolith, that commends her to the people. There are thousands and tens of thousands of our countrywomen who, in her situation, would win hearts by simplicity and truthfulness aud the gentleness of native grace as she does; and the best wish all her friends and all are her friends can bestow, is that when the glamour of the adventitious circumstance that had gloritied her is gone when the exciting and perfumed atmosphere in which she has bloomed like a flower has passed away in the harsh and chill winds that waft changes to all she may find those deeper, diviner resources of happiness, that will not fade when the applause of the multitude is hushed. These each heart and brain has to find somewhere in the universe for itself, if they are found at all and it is the loftiest fortune that they survive the indifference of the world, and are nnextinguishable by the ocean of oblivion. IVhen Tilden Was Elected. (Wheeling I agister. "When Samuel J. Tilden was elected president he was a great deal more feeble than the Old Komao.

AN INDIFFERENT SCHOLAR

BEECHER WHEN A VERY LITTLE BOY. XIU Duty as lie Saw It Two Humorous Church Incidents No Favorable Signs Different Systems The Wrong Tilgrim Knotty Problems. 1 AlIEN Henry "Ward leecher, as a 111 very little boy, says Youth' ComV panion, pompously read aloud the sentence, "Two monstrous lions came out" aa two umonstrofalous great lions camo out," he must have made a sensation. Later, when he was placed under the care of his older sister, who was teaching a young ladies' school in Hartford, he had apparently retained the power of creating general diversion. A teacher was one day giving him a private lesson in grammatical definitions, beginning with the following illustrations: "Now, Henry, a is the indefinite article, you sec, and must only be used with a singular noun. You can say a man, but you can't say a mn, can you ?" "Yes, I can say amen" was the ready rejoinder. "Father says it always at the end of his prayers." "Come, Henry, don't joke. Now decline 'he.' Nominativp 'he, possessive 'his,' objective 'him.' You see 'his' is possessive. You can sav 'his book,' but you can't say 'him book.' " "Yes, I do say hymn-book" returned the incorrigible scholar. Each of these sallies made his teacher laugh, and that victory was tho one he sought. "Now, Henry, attend to the active and passive voice. 'I strike' is active, but 'I am struck' is passive, because if you aro struck you don't do anything, do you?" "Yes, I do I strike back again." Sometimes his views of philosophical subjects were gratuitously offered. A class in natural science was one day stumbling through tho theory of tho tides. "I can explain that," said Henry, from his place at his sister's elbow, "ousee. the sun he catches hold of the moon and pulls her, and she catches hold of the sea and pulls that, and this makes the spring tides." "But what makes the neap tides?" "Oh, that's when the sun stops to spit on his hands," was the brisk reply. After 6ix months Henry was returned to his parents' hands, with the reputation of an inveterate joker and an indifferent scholar. His Doty as He Saw It. Roston Times. The editor was much interested recently in a small boy, his opposite in one of the uptown cars. It was hard to decide whether the boy's companion was his mother or elder sister, but presumably the former. At any rate the little fellow was in good company, and the lady, whoever she was, was apparently pleased with her charge. The conversation was about a book, and after they had been talking a little while the lady said to him: "I am sorrv you lent that book of papa's. You Iknow he is very careful of Lis books, and that one camo home in such dreadful condition. You should never lend what is not vour own." "Iknow," said the "little fellow, "but what in the world are you going to do when vou have got to do as vou would be done bv?" Two TJ timorous Church Incidents. Boston Transcript. A little girl who was taken to the episcopal church, for the first time heard tho clergyman read the text : On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. "Grandma," said the little girl after she got home, "do they hang the prophets on the comandments jnst the same as they do presents on the Christmas tree?" It was another little girl who, going to tho episcopal church, and happening to turn around just at the moment when the congregation bow their adoration to the creed, took it into her head that they were bowing to her. And so, as she was a polite little girl, and not inclined to receive a salutation without returning it, she bowed very respectfully, and exclaimed: "Good morning, peop'le !" An Answer by Comparison. Harper's Young Feople.J Harry is one of those favored children who are permitted to sit at table with their parentfs, and being of an investigating turn of mind he has to taste everything that comes on or add wailing to the customary gnashing of teeth. Iiis last exploring expedition was into the mysteries of the" salt-cellar. Having put a spoonful of salt upon his tongue in difiance of his father's warning his expresssions of disappointment were more than ordinarily vociferous. "Well, Harry," asked his father when the uproar häd subsided, "how does it taste?" "Like sugar don't," was the tearful response. The 'Wronsr Pilgrim. Buffalo Express. A bright little youngster had heard her mother read aloud from Banyan's "Pilgrim's Progress," a book which the present pencration seems to hold in liffhtcr 08teera than did our forefathers. The child had become greatly interested, the burden of poor Christian evidently making a deep impression on her mind. One day recentlv, as she stood at the window, a hunchback passed, "Mamma!" she cried, "here's Mr. Christian going by, but" after a moment's inspection "h"is boots are clean, so I guess he hasn't got to the mud slough yet!" Bobby Votes it n Failure. Philadelphia Times. "Bobby," said his mother, 6ternly, "I punished you only last week for running away, and" yet you have done it again today. I don't know what I shall do." "Why not give up punishing me, ma?" suggested Bobby, "it doesn't seem to do any good." Different Systems. Omaha Wo-ld. Irate Father "See here, sir, what does this mean? You said you were at the head of the class, but Mr. Pedagogue says you are at the foot." Little Son "Well, maybe ho counts from the other end." Slow Preaching:. Youth's Companion. our minister bo long to tell him about things." . 2fo Favorable Signs. Life. Mamma "My dear, did you not ask God last night to make you a good boy?" Richard (who has just been throwing stones at the gardener) "Yes, mamma, I asked him to, but it looks as if he wouldn't." Should Have Known Each Other. Babyhood. Maggie (to her stepfather, who is very popular with children) "Oh, I wish yoa tad been here when our other papa was

Child "Poes the Lord take the papers ?" Mother-"No, my child. Whv do you ask ?" Child "Oh. I thought ho ilidn't. it takes

alive. You would have liked each other so much." KNOTTY PROBLEMS.

Our readers sr invited to furnish original edemas, charades, riddles, rebuses, and other "Knotty rrohlem," addressing all communications relatire to this department to LB. Chadbourn, Lewiston, Med No. 2.405 Charade. If we may believe all that we are told, My Firtt was a plate of silver or gold. On the face of which was clearly displayed. Our Savior's imase en the cross portrayed ) 'Twai a merit indeed this plate to kis, A privilege dear few would care to miss. Fernnii A suhstanre tenacious, plastic. Easily moulded, seldom e lastie, In various forms ail over the earth, From various sources it has its birth. Comp we have a stiff cartilazi, strong, Running the sides of quadrupeds abng, Assisting, no doubt, the. head's erection; Readily seen on careful dissection. M. C Woodfokd. No. 2,406. Double Acrostic. My cross words are of letters five. Which here are well doßned; To find prime and last you must contrive Two sirs to bring to mind. 1. 2. A part of a high priest's habit, Select for number one. A sheet of paner folded once And then t ie two is Hrvno 3. A market pl.ice in ancient Rome, Must now be brought to view 4. Jvow listes'snew or tedium For number four will do. 5' rewlsh """"'h write down with care 6. Then fec thu lanube river; 7. Now if vou get this "Mress of voice," You'll have thanks fxoui the giver. Uncle Will. No. 2,407 Missing Letters. What two letters prefixed to each of these words will make other words? Amrht, one, edge, own, use, awl, ought. Portable Electric. Xo. 2,408 A Double Letter Enigma. In "hobgoblins' " wildest muss, In "outrageous" noise and ims, In "revelry" and all its kin, In "pell mell" and boisterous din. In "yearly" carnivals, and sccucs Of Mardi-pras in New Orleans; The word to which I hae aliusion Means tumult, bluster uud confusion. Kelsoxias. No. 2,409. Enigma. Search for me if you will in gilded halls. And find me dwelling lx:twoon cottage walls, In ocean steamer, oi in palace car, In crowded city, or in dc.ert far, In lonely tent on the battle-nVld I keep my plai, though evca death may yield. Time, place, nITr circumstance controls me not, Witnout me dreary is the fairest spot. The happy farmer singing at his t. il Smiles, fur my presence glorities the soil. Without me wealth liestows no welcome boon, With me the poorest fcat but ends too soon. In richest raiment clad, fed dainty fare Upon her marble brow sits moody care. In plainest garments, with me for her guest the smiles at toil, and counts herself as blest. Vainly the burdened one to win me tries, The useless semblance like a shadow flies. With me dull care finds no abiding place, Without me dark despair fast gains the race. Tba.vza. No. 2,410. A Square. I. One who disfigures. 2. To transfer title or property, ä. Kaised an uproar. 4. To withdraw. 5. rower exerted. C. A fish of the carp family. Odell Cyclone. No. 2,411. Anagram. This story is a fact, and few Will daro assert 'tis not true. Once on a time a ship, en roulr, lty wind and waves was tossed about, Until it seemed no power could save Those on the boat from watery grave. The sailors thought they had bu board A man by Deity abhorred, And they resolved upon the spot To find the sinner out by lot. The one discovered by this plan Owned that he was the guilty man, And told them he deserved to be Plunged headlong in the raging sea; And so, to quell the wild commotion. They tossed him in the briny ocean. Thc.u stopped the fury of the gale The man was swallowed by a whale, That bore him safely to the land, And gorged him out upon the strand, lie then, "atoning" for his sin, Kcsolved a new life to begin, And it i. irholr. for me to say That he repented on that d.iy, Aud from that time 'tis understood lie led a life uprght aud good. Nelsoma. .nswrrs, Cloves, cinnamon, salt, mint, mustard, mace, pepper, vanilla, coriander, spice, sage, vinegar, nutmeg, ginger. 2SH1. tiluves. 2W2. 1. Olvsitv lOBOTV 2. Energy (N It G't. 3. Etü-ial (FEG L). 4. Entity (X T T). 5. Excelsior (X I. C V.). 6. Aye-aye (I I). 2l0:t. love.tail. 2:504. "The sun, with all its attendant planets, is hut a small part ot the great machine of the universe." . 2TO3. Pevotionalist. ZVMi. SOCiS AXXA OTTO TOOT OTTO NOON TOOT OTTO OTTO NOON TOOT OTTO NOON ANNA OTTO TOOT 207. Auld Lang Svne. WRONG QUOTATIONS. Some Common Errors Which Are Ilardlr Justifiable. The infirmity of human memory finds no better exemplification than in the matter of quotations, and the changes made bv the quoters are not alwaj-3 for the best. Nothing is more common than to hear: A man convinced against his will Is of the same opinion still. An impossible condition of mind for any person, for no one can be convinced of one opinion and at the same time hold to an opposite one. "What Butler wrote was this: He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion fctill. A very diiferent thing. ifome of tho commonest passages of scripture are often misquoted, even in the pulnit. "lie that is without sin among you let him cast the first stone," is the ordinary way we hear that famous passage, but it is "let him first cast a stone. ' So, too, we hear "The wayfaring man, though a fool, ehall not erf." Vhereaa the prophet said: "The wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err." Sometimes we are told, "Behold how preat a lire a little matter kindleth," as if it had the sanction of Holy Writ, but 8t. James said : "Behold how great a matter a little fire kindleth." come of the common proverbs do not escape mutilation. We often hear that 'IIoll is paved with good intentions," but in pain, where the proverb comes from, it is, "The road to hell is paved with good intentions," a very much more forcible expression. We also hear that "A miss is as good as a mile," which is not comparable in sense and force to the proverb as it should read: "A miss of an inch is as good as a mile." "Look before you leap," should be: "And look before you ere you leap." Next to our happy faculty of misquotation, comes the general easy going way we have of ascribing one man's writing to another. Generally speaking, whatever is written in Hurtibrastic verse is assigned to Butler, and whatever is written in English heroic meter is assigned to Tope. For he who fights anil runs away May live to fight another day ; But he who is in battle slain Can never rise and fight again. Though generally ascribed to Huidbras, these lines are not to be found in that poem. The nearest approach to them is : For those that fly may ficht again. Which he can never do that slain. The verses were written by Goldsmith, and are a paraphrase from some old Latin apothegms. Immodest words admit of no defense l or want of decency is wnnt of sense is usually quoted as by Pope, though it w ould puzzle anyone to find them in his writings. They were w ritten by the earl of Roscommon, who died before Tope was born. "Comparisons are odorous," is sometimes, though not often, put in the mouth of Mrs. Mabiprop instead of Dogberry, "What Mrs. Malaprop said was, "Xo caparisons, Miss . caparisons don't become a youug woman. Franklin has the credit of having formulated the maxim. "Honesty is the best policy," but it may be found in "Don Quixote," and ia of fcpanish origin.

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RED HAIR AND WHITE HORSES. Origin of tho Popular Superstition as to Their Continuity. American Notes and Queries. The popular jest about the necessary contiguity of rca-headcd girls and white horses is by no means modern, though in its recent revival it has swept over the country as a novelty, ome ot us remember that ourrrandfathers used jocularlv to assert it to the wondering ears of youth as a well-attested fact. In all likelihood the saying took its origin in the old English game called sometimes the "game of the road," but more often "ups and downs," which is still a favorite among children and traveling salesmen in Great Britain. One party takes the "up" side of the ttreet or road; the other the "down," counting one for every ordinary object and one for a white horse, a pivbald one counting as white, till a certain number agreed upon carries olf the victory, but a red-headed woman or a donkey wins the game at once. Another explanation refers the phrase to a North of Ireland t-uperstition that the sight of a red-headed girl brings ill-luck to the beholder unless he retrace his steps to the starting point; but if he meets a white horse at any stage on his backward progress the tpell is ipso facto averted. In the midland counties of England, on the other hand, it is ill-luck to meet a white horse without spitting at it. In "Wexford an odd cure for whooping-cough is suggested by current superstition. The patient trudces along the road until he meets a piebald horse, and shouts out to the rider: "Hello, man on the piebald horse, what "is good for the whoopingcough?" and no matter how absurd the remedy suggested he will certainly be cured. In Scotland to dream of a white horse foretells the coming of a letter. The prejudice against red hair is as wide-spread and deep-rooted as it is unaccountable. Tradition assigns red hair to both Absalom and Judas. Thus Rosalind (complaining of her husband's tardiness) pettishly exclaims: "His own hair is of dissembling color!" and is answered bv Cdia : "Somewhat browner than J udas." Mariton, also, in his "Insatiate Countess" Fays: "I ever thought by his red beard be would prove a Judas ; here am I bought and sold.'1 But Leonora de Vinci, it may be noted in passing, paints Judas with black hair in fresco, "The La.st Judgment." He Wan a Dangerous Man. Detroit Free Tress. A hi? man and a little man entered a saloon on Miciiifran-ave., near Third-st., tiie other day and called for drinks. While the little man lingered over his the big man called the barkeeper aside and asked: "Kver see him before?" "No." "That's Texas Dick. He is the man who grahhed a grizzly bear by the car and broke its neck. Don't rile him, for he is on a tear and very dangerous." When the little man received change for a quarter he looked at it in surprise and said: "I pave you $2." "No, sir." "What! Call me a liar! I want the change for my two-dollar bill." The big man winked vigorously at the barkeeper not to engage in a dispute with the dangerous man, and aa a consequence change was made on the new basis and the pair went out to tackle another phicc. They found it not far away, and it was in charge of a consumptive-looking young man. Everything went smoothly until Texas l)ick chimed to have laid down a two-dollar bill. Then the young man lished up a club and went for the two, and they crot out doors so fast that they unhinged the fly-screen. The other saloonist saw them, as they went down the street, neck-nnd-neck, fleeing from the wrath of a ninetypound man, and he kicked himself and muttered: "Twenty years of experience and still a fool! It was a put up job on me!" Ilotation in Insomnia. Providence Journal. Mr. Jay Gould does not sleep. Usually it has been the other fellow. Many women Pyle's Pearline

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