PLATTSAtOQ'fH WEEKLY JJElJALl), THURSDAY, MAY .. INs'
Bit. TADIAGE'S SERMON.
ELOQUENT DISCOURSE CONCERNING
COOD AND BAD LITERATURE.
"Many f Tliom AImo 'Which Osetl Caurl
oiih Art Iiroiilit Tliolr ISouka To
gether, mul Humeri Tliem JJefore All
Men."
Brooklyn, May 1. At tlio talx-TimcIo tbia
morning tlio justor, the Itcv. T. Do Witt
Tahnapfc, D. I)., expounded wine of tlio Pro
verbs of Solomon. Tlio congregation sang
With magnificent effect tholiymn beginning:
Arm of tins I.ont, awake! awake!
1'iit on tliy strength, tlio nutioiis pliako.
Dr. Talinagu took for his text Acts xix, 19:
"Many of them also which used curious
orts brought their books together, and burned
thciu licforo all men: and they counted tho
price of ""tliem, and found it 5(),()(X) pieces of
tilver."
I'aul had been stirring tip Ephosus with
nomo lively sermons nhout tho sins of that
place. Among tho more important results was
tho fact that tho citizens brought out their
bad books, and ia a public place niado a bon
fire of them. I tteo tho pplo coming out
with their arms full of Epli";i-in literature,
and tossing it into tlio (lames. I hear an
economist standing by and saying: "Stop this
waste. Hero are 7,00 wort h of books do
you propose to burn them all up? If 3-ou don't
want to read them yourselves, sell them, and
let somebody else reud them." "Xo," said the
Ieople, "if theso books aro not good enough
for us, they are not good for anybody else,
find we shall stand and watch until tho last
leaf has turned to ashes. They have done us
a world of harm, and they shall never do
others harm." Hear the flames crackle and
roar!
Well, my friends, one of the wants of tho
cities of this country is a great bonfire of bud
books and nesvspajiers. We have enough fuel
to make a blaze feet high. Many of tho
publishing houses would do well to throw into
the blaze their entire stock of goods, llring
forth the insufferable trash and put it intotha
fire, and let it Ikj known, in tlio presence of
God, and angels, and men, that 3-011 are going
to rid your homes of the overtopping anil
underlying curse of profligate literature.
The printing press is the mightiest agency
on tho earth for good and for evil. The min
ister of the Gospel, standing in a pulpit, has a
responsible position; but I do not think it is
as responsible as the position of an editor or a
publisher. At what distant point of time, at
w hat far out cycle of eternity wiil cease tho
influence of a Henry J. Raymond, or a Horace
Greeley, or a James Gordon Bennett, or a
Watson Webb, or an Erastus Brooks, or
a Thomas Kinsella? Take the simplo fact
that our New York dailies now have a circu
lation of about 850,000 per da-, and add to
it tho fact that three of our weekly period
icals have an aggregate circulation of about
1,XX),000, and then cipher, if 3 011 can, how
far up, and how far down and how far out
reach the influences of the American printing
press, (treat God, what is to bo the issue, of
fill this? I believe the Lord intends the print
ing press to be the chief means for tho world's
rescue and evangel izat ion, and I think that
tho great last battle of the world will not lie
fought with swords and guns, but with typos
and presses a purified and Gospel literature
triumphing over, trampling down and crush
ing out forever that which is depraved. The
only way to overcome unclean literature is
by scattering abroad that which is healthful.
May God sped tho C3'lindei-s of an honest, in
telligent, aggressive, Christian printing pre.-ss.
I have to tell you this morning that the
greatest blessing that ever came to this nation
is that of nil elevated literature, and tho
greatest scourge has been that of unclean
literature. This last has its victims in all oc
cupations and departments. It has helped to
fill insane asylums,, and penitentiaries, and
alms bouses and dens of shame. The bodies of
this infection lie in the hospitals and in the
graves, while their souls are being tossed over
into a lost eternity, an avalanche of horror
and despair!
Tho London plague was nothing to it. That
counted its victims by thousands, but this
modern est has already shoveled its million?
into the charnel house of the morally dead
The longest rail train that ever ran over thJ
Erie or Hudson tracks was not long enough
or large enough to carry the beastliness and
the putrefaction which have been gathered
up in bad books and newspapers of this land
in the last twenty years.
2sow, it is amid such circumstances that I
put this morning a question of overmaster
ing importance to you and your families.
What books and newspapers shall wo read?
You see I group them together. A news
paper is only a book in a swifter and more
portable shape, and the same rules which
will applj' to book reading will apply to
newspaper re-iding. What shall we read?
Bhall our minds le the receptacle of every
thing that an author has mind to write? Shall
there lie 110 distinction between the tree of
life and the tree of death? Shall we stoop
down and drink out of the trough which the
wickedness of men has filled with pollution
afid shame? Shall we mire in impurity and
chase fantastic will o' the wisps across the
swamps when we might walk in the bloom
ing gardens of God ? Oh, no ! For the sake of
our present and everlasting welfare we must
make an intelligent Christian choice. Stand
ing as we do chin deep in fictitious literature,
the first question that many of the young
people are asking me is: Shall we read
novels?" I reply: There are novels that are
pure, good, Christian, elevating to the heart
and ennohliug to the life. But I have still
further to say that I believe that ninety-nine
out of 100 novels in this day are baleful and
destructive to the last degree. A pure work
of fiction is history and poetry combined. It
is a history of things around us with the
licenses and the assumed names of poetry.
The world can never pay the debt which it
owes to such fiction writers as Hawthorne
and McKenzie, and Landon and Hunt, and
Arthur and Marion Horland, and others
whose names are familiar to all. The follies
of high life were never better exposed than
by Miss Edgeworth. The memories of the
past were never more faithfully embalmed
than in the writings of Walter Scott.
Cooper's novels are healthfully redolent with
the breath of the seaweed and tho air of the
American forest. Charles Kingsley has
smitten the morbidity of the world, and led
a great many to appreciate the poetry of
sound health, strong muscles and fresh air.
Thackeray did a grand work in caricaturing
- the pretenders to gentility and high blood.
Dickens has built his own monument in bis
books, j-fciuch are an everlasting plea for the
poor ".. -e anathema of injustice. 2ow,Isay,
bo""' hese, read at right times, and read
i and witl.-ri" i :.h other books; cannot
1 purifying; but, alas--re
literature that
j in the sliape of
'mi ig ell the
i Eetise! They
t celebrated
. ,rf. . TLzy are
joS soma cf our
, I' n votir cer.4. r
' fl'- ii
reception room. You see a light in your
child's room hito at night. You suddenly go
in ami say: '"What are you doing?'' "I am
reading." "What aro you rending?" "A
book-."' You look at tho book; it is a bad
book. ''Wheio ilid you get it?" "I bor
rowed it." Alas, there are always those
abroad who would liko to loan your son or
daughter a bad book. Everywhere, every
where nn unclean literatnro. I charge uion
it the destruction of 10,000 immortal souls,
and I bid 3-011 t his morning wako up to tho
magnitude of tho t heme. I shall tako all tho
world's literature gxl novels and bad,
travels true and false, histories .faithful and
incorrect, legends leautiful and monstrous,
all tracts, all chronicles, all epilogues, all
family, cit3, state and national libraries and
pile them up in a pyramid of literature and
then I shall bring to bear upon it some grand,
glorious, infallible, unmistakable Christian
principles. God help mo to seak with refer
ence to my last account and God help you to
listen.
I charge you, in the first place, to stand
ti loof from nil books that give false pictures
of human life. Life is neither a tragedy nor
a farce. Men aro not all either knaves or
heroes. Women are neither ungels nor furies.
Ami -et, if 3-011 depended upon much of t lie
literature of tho day you would get tho idea
that life, instead of being something earnest,
something practical, is a, fitful ami fantas
tic ami extravagant thing. How poorly
prepared are that .young man and woman
for the duties of to-day who sjient bust niht
wading through brilliant passages descriptive
of magnificent knavery and wickedness! Tho
man will bo looking all day long for his hero
ine in tho tin shop, by the forge, in tho
factory, in tho counting room, and ho will not
find her, and he will bo dissatisfied. A man
who gives himself up to tho indiscriminate
reading of novels will bo nerveless, inane and
a nuisance. Ho will be fit neither for tho
store, nor the shop, nor tho field. A woman
who gives herself up to the indiscriminate
reading of novels will be unfitted for tho
duties of wife, mother, sister, daughter. There
she is, hair dishevelled, countenance vacant,
cheeks pale, hands trembling, bursting into
tears at midnight over the fate of some un
fortunate lover; in the day time, when she
ought to be bus-, staring by tho half
hour at nothing, biting her finger nails
into tho quick. Tho carpet, that was plain
before, will be plainer after having wandered
through a romance all night long in tessel
nted halls of castles. And 3-our industrious
companion will be more unattractive than
ever now that 3-011 have walked in the ro
mance through parks with plumed princesses
or lounged in tho arbor with the polished des
perado. Oh, theso connrmod novel readers!
They are unfitted for this life, which is a
tremendous discipline. They know not how
to go through the furnaces of trial through
which they must pass, and t he3' are unfitted
for a world where everything we gain we
achieve by hard, long continuing and ex
haustive work.
Again: Abstain from all those books
which, while U103- have' some good things
aliout them, have also an admixture of evil.
You have read books that had two elements
in them the good and tho bad. Which stuck
to 3011? The bad! The heart of mix-t people
is like a sieve, which lets tho small particles
of gold fall through, but keeps tho great
cinders. Once in a while there is a mind like
a loadstone, which, plunged amid steel and
brass filings, gathers up tho steel and repels
the brass. But it is generally just the oppo
site. If 3'ou attempt to plunge through a
hedge of burrs to get one blackberry, 3'ou
will get more burrs than blackberries. You
cannot afford to read a bad book, how
ever good 3-ou are. You say: "The influence
is insignificant.'' I tell 3'ou that the scratch
of a pin has sometimes produced tho lockjaw.
Alas, if through curiosity, ns main' do, 3-ou
pry into un evil book, 3-our curiosity is as
dangerous as that of ihe man who would take
n torch into a gunpowder mill merely to see
whether it would realty blow up or not. In
a menagerie in New York a man put his arm
through tho bars of a black leopard's cage.
The animal's hide looked so sleek, and blight,
and beautiful. lie just stroked it once. Tho
monster seized him, and he drew forth a baud
torn, and mangled, and bleeding. Oh, touch
not evil, even with the faintest stroke!
Though it may be glossr and beautiful, touch
it not, lest 3'ou pull forth 3-our soul torn and
bleeding under the clutch of the black
leopard. "But," 3-ou say, "how can I find
out whether a book is good or bad without
reading it?" There is always something sus
picions about a bad book. I never knew an
exception something suspicious in the index
or style of illustration. This venomous rep
tile almost always carries a warning rattle.
Again: I charge j-ou to stand off from all
those books which corrupt the imagination
and inflame the passions. I do not refer now
to that kind of a book which the villain has
under his coat waiting for the school to get
out and then, looking both ways to see that
there is no policeman around the block,
offers the book to your son on his way home.
I do not speak of that kind of literature, but
that which evades the law and comes out in
polished style, and with acute plot sounds the
tocsin that rouses up all the baser passions of
the soul. To-day, under the nostrils of this
land, there is fetid, reelring, unwashed litera
ture enough to poison all the fountains of
public virtue and smite 3-our sous and daugh
ters as with the wing of a destroying angel,
and it is time that the ministers of the Gospel
blew the trumjK't and rallied the forces of
righteousness, all armed to the teeth, in this
great battle against a depraved literature.
Again, abstain from those books which are
apologetic of crime. It is a sad thing that
some of the best and mast beautiful book
bindery, and some of the finest rhetoric, have
been brought to make sin attractive. Vice is
a horrible thing, anyhow. It is bom in
shame and it dies howling in the darkness.
In this world it is scourged with a whip cf
scorpions, but afterward the thunders of
God's wrath pursue it across a boundless
desert, beating it with ruin and woe. When
you come to paint carnality, do not paint it
as looking from behind embroidered curtains
or through lattice of royal seraglio, but as
writhing in the agonies of a city hospital.
Cursed be the books that try to make im
purity decent and crime attractive and
hypocris3r noble. Cursed be the books that
swarm with libertines and desperadoes, who
make the brain of the 3-oung people whirl
with villainy. Ye authors who write them,
ye publishers who print them, 3-e booksellers
who distribute them shall be cut to pieces, if
not by an aroused community, then at last by
the hail of Divine vengeance, which shall
sweep to the lowest pit of perdition all
ye murderers of souls. 1 tell you, though
you may escape in this world, you will
be ground ati last under the hoof of eternal
calamiti :-s, and you will be chained to the
rock, an d u will have the vultures of des
pair cl ' -1 3-our soul, and those whom
you t yed -will come around to tor
ment ; ' 5 pour, hotter coals of fury
upon 2 ', i ad rejoice eternally in tho
outcry "... -; in and the howl of your
damnatic.u "-'xL shall wound the hairy
scalp of him that gooth oaia his trespasses."
The clock strikes midnight. A fair form
l ends over a ron-in The eyes flash fire.
t Tc-3 breath is
siom-"7 r'
cj:d irrc-rular. CJcca-
"s to the cheek, and
" 'i-bli? as though
"' ako tho
at its own sound. Tho sweat on her brow is
the spray dashed up from the river of death.
The clock strikes '"four," and tho ro-y dawn
soon after begins totlook through tho lattice
uj)on tho palo form that looks like a detained
specter of the night. Soon in a mail house s'.m
will mistake her ringlets for curling seriK-nts,
and thrust her while hand through thob;.rsof
tho prison, and smile, her head, rubbing it
back as though to push the scalp from tho
skull, shrieking: "My brain 1 my brain!" Oh,
Eland oir from that! Why will 3-011 go sound
ing 3our way amid tho reefs and warning
buoys when there is such a vast ocean in
which you ina3 vo3"age, all sail set?
There is one other thing I shall say this
morning beforo I leave 3'ou, whether 3011
want to hear it or not. That is, that I con
sider the lascivious pictorial literature of th
day as most tremendous for ruin. There is
no oiib who can like good pictures better than
I do. The quickest and most condensed way
of impressing the public mind is by picture.
What the painter does by his brush for a few
favorites the engraver does by his kuil'-j
for the million. What tho author accom
plishes by fifty pages tho artist does by a
flash. The best part of a painting that costs
$10,000 3ou may buy for ten cents. Fine
paintings belong to the aristocracy of art.
Engravings belong to tho democracy of ai t.
You do well to gather good pictures in 3-our
homes. Spread them beforo 3'our children
after tho tea hour is p;ist and the evening
circle is gathered. Throw them on tho in
valid's couch. Strew them through tho rail
train to cheer the traveler 011 his journey.
Tack them on tho wall of the nursery.
Gather them in albums and portfolios. God
speed tho good pictures on their wa3r with
ministries of knowledge and mercy!
But what shall I say of tho prostitution of
this art to purposes of iniquit3'. These death
warrants of the soul are at every street
corner. They smite the vision of tho 3-oung
man with pollution. Many a young man
buying a copy has bought his eternal dis
comfiture. There may bo enough poison in
one bad picture to poison one soul, and that
soul may poison ten, and ten fifty, and the
fifty hundreds, and the hundreds thousands,
until nothing but tlio measuring lino of
eternity can tell the height, and depth, and
ghastliness, and horror of tho great undoing.
Tho work of death that tho wicked author
does in a whole book tho bad engraver may
do on a half side of a pictorial. Under tho
guise of pure mirth, the j-oung man buys one
of these sheets. He unrolls it before his com
rades amid roars of laughter, but long afl-T
the paper is gone the result may perhaps be
seen in the blasted imaginations of thoso who
saw it. The queen of death holds a banquet
every night, and these periodicals are the
printed invitation to her guests. Ala3 that
the fair brow of American ait should be
blotched with this plague spot, and that
philanthropists, bothering themselves about
smaller evils, should lift up no united and
vehement voice against this great calamity!
Young man, buy not this moral strychnine
for 3'our soul! Pick not up this nest of
coiled adders for 3-our pocket! Patronize no
news stand that keeps them! Have your
room bright with good engravings; but for
these outrageous pictorials have not one wail,
not one bureau, not one pocket. A man is no
better than the picture he loves to look at.
If 3-our eyes are not pure your heart cannot
be. At a news stand one can guess the char
acter of a man by the kind of pic torial he
purchases. Whn tho devil fails to got a
man to read a bad book he sometimes suc
ceeds in getting him to look at a bad picture.
When satan goes a fishing he does not care
whether it is a long line or a short line, if he
01113- draws his victim in. Beware of lascivi
ous pictorials, young man in the name of Al
mighty God I charge 3011.
If I have this morning successfully laid
down any principles by which you may judge
in regard to books and liewspajiers, then I
have done something of which I shall not be
ashamed on the day which shall try ovcry
man's work of what sort it is.
Cherish good books and newspapers. Be
ware of the bad ones. One column
may save 3-our soul; one paragraph may
ruin it. Benjamin Franklin said that tho
reading of Cotton Mather's "Essay on Doing
Good" molded his entire life. The assassin cf
Lord Russell declared that he was led into
crime by reading one vivid romance. The
consecrated John Angell James, than whom
England never produced a better man, de
clared in his old days that ho had never yet
got over the evil effects of having for fifteen
minutes oneo read a bad book. But I need
not go so far off. I could come near homo
and tell you of something that occurred in
my collego days. I could tell 3-ou of a com
rade who was great hearted, noble and gen
erous. He was stud3i:ig for an honorable
profession, but he had an infidel book in his
trunk, and he said to me one day: "Do Witt,
would you liko to read it?" I said: "Yes, 1
would." I took tho book and read it for 011)3
a few minutes. I was really startled with
what I saw there, and i handed the book
back to him and said: "You had better de
stroy that book." Ko, ho kept it. IIo read
it. He reread it. After a while he gave up
religion as a myth. He gave up God
as a nonentity. He gave up the
Bible as a fable. He gave up the
church of Christ as a useless insti
tution. He gave up good morals as being
unnecessarily stringent. I have heard of
him but twice in many 3-ears. The time
before the last I heard of him he was a con
firmed inebriate. The last I heard of him he
was coining out of an insane asylum in
body, mind and soul an awful wreck. I be
lieve that one infidel book killed him for two
worlds.
Go home to-day and look through - j-our
library, and then, having looked through
your library, look on the stand where you
keep 3-our pictorials and uewspajiers, and
apply the Christian principles I have laid
down this morning. If there is anj-thing in
your home that cannot stand the test, do not
give it away, for it might spoil an immortal
soul ; do not sell it, for the money 3-ou get
would be the price of blood, but rather kindle
a fire on your kitchen hearth or in 3-our back
yard and then drop the poison in it, and keep
btirring the blaze until from preface to ap
lendix there shall not be a single paragraph
left, and the bonfire in Brooklyn shall be as
consuming as that one in the streets of
Ephesus.
Historian and Librarian.
Mr. Bancroft wiil not be seen on horseback
this summer. H- ' ' Ws tall, gaunt bv
he rode so of to? " 1
Spofford. Tt
quaint Germc
riding, and ta
constitutional.
rides alone. A
dusty coat and
the world like a
ing out a sermo
makes as he rid
stractedly ahead .
animal walks, ttc'-s
ton Letter.
A Lady T6ae:
A teacher's life hi A I
described by a comm' : :
on eastern friend : " L s t .
thing just as pleasant est"
mind work. She t'' ' '
went - t1-"
D.n.IViNG THROUGH 7HG SKY.'
A Woii'tei-rul Mirr.jc: ren in a City at
DescricS"- a cnrl..ns il!:t Ion ..!-fr.vl mo
night I-:-.', nn-:: ia ? !::! .h.s, TV'::;., .-. writer
in Tho A vf !a. 1 -he tr- ;: 1 l. -.-r. d a 1: ,;-;e r. j if
(iipHUnf li- i s wi n! cou.i:!;; up li.c street
with son. e snrt. i.f elii ! . i ihoubt it wnsi
u hack CjI;)'!'" :'.i l.iicr, un .1 I lnv 1 A t !;.- i i::r; of
bells, ai:d then cwnrh.'-d ti-.it it 1:::; t n.
f-tivi t car, but up'!! l'k:::g at i.iy v, i!.!i I
Kiw that it v.'.'.s r,!hcr hd-j f.rr. car lobe cut.
An ins'.i;;.. before I had hi'ard a ruu:b!;:ig
liui. e as ii a t r.-.i'i el' ci 1 s v. i 1 e pacing over
a brid n; r.i:d w l.i :i I loo!;', d up I s:;.w, i.'.o:,!;
lifts" feet, up i. 1 tii'1 :i;r .:; 'pa: cut ! y oirly
1k) yard. fr..;:i us, a :-; .:" horse.., i.n !'.,:. '1
ing tails fin.l I1.1t lie- ;e;.l r::ov'i:g c.'ong at a
rapid j ;.ci. The shapis of th- jii.iiua!..; were
as clearly d' Imsm' in v i : i m-... j here if -.:0
had seen them hit'!. d t't a vsl. i le 0:1 the
ground. Tli" whole pi-' s:e was there only
an instant befme it pa-s i mi! of 1 S -at, but
follow in;; th'.: horsi s c.'.iii.' a .street; car. hke
one of t li. Ke i';"'l on tl:e Ma .:. -on st re. t !::;. s.
Yotl could see !'' ;!.;' f J;;s utld the l!.i:i:! gsi
j round tl 'i:i. The fon-U'- of the cur and th'i
t el.'lS COM MeC: ill ' it '.'. it !l t I." h'.;-; S Y. i'l'. Ilfc
of it. svere .-'1 graphic".!!" pmi raved, r.n I tlio
windows ai.d cwo shaped roof were per
fect li" lVl.i'ee. Kte.l.
The mirage was i rs ii:g up Main toward
the north, and in tiia1 c'.cct ion re; it laovci
along wo could liea r li i.i net !y the s liii.k of
the horse's hoofs mi the ( obble stores and the
rumble of the wheels jdong tlio rails. Tho
jiii--e grew less and Je.--s distinct every mo
ment after the mystcri-v.k, vehicle had pa.'.s.-l
out of sight, and at List, when nil had qui. ! "I
down, we could h- .u nothing. The ap
parition was undoubtedly no thing but the
reflect;.-.:! of ui real st i eL car, running along
a neighboring .street, np'ai the ! -lid j of dust
w hich Idled tii" air.
Tu JIu cli lira i:i Worlt.
The sul -i.i.. ,f !,i. P.'.neiihow: r at Art
nap, .lis t! . o.ker day i; believed by iiieno';
here to bas e b-en f'uvt f.u-ige-.ted to id.; d; ;
ea.-e.l mind hy he d-atli cf his near fr:-: d,
Lieut. Robert W. Oalewood, who cot. inn. : d
sui'-ide on f!;.. Norfolk b--.at a week This
n.akis the f.-urili 1 a e ia th' last two y :,rs
v. here 3 .ung naval a cad my g:-;..d:;:;t t s ha. o
killed t hen -Ives. The oiin r t -,s v. uvtli. v
of Cadet ischoek, of JVunsyh-ai.!."., v. ho 0:1
Ihe eve of grt.ii.i.it io-.i at !:.. J'oyal college, ia
Greens i.'h. i-kl-Jand. shot !.i:n.-e!;!, and ( I
I". ( '. Kidder, v. ho blew hi.; brains out while
taking the pri set i'.- d two year.-;' com-" in tho
I'mtc.l Mates :.t-:: i.K-r Hv.alara. Ia a f- '.v
more days S- h'.i '; wt.a.ld hav-- become ;.'i as
f iViauL naval con- ; rne, .. noi h- in - 'aneo
may lie cited wl.t.re an overs 01 k-.-i brain
has I .eel the in in :".!; a! c cans.- of de:tf ii in : hat
of 3-oung I- ..:eai:, of St uih t 'aro! in.:, i .0 ,k
was a po. -r t ; 11 e.v ho svorla d on a farm
ni-.-.r Annapolis at .' in a ::. :::: to -ay i:i:i
entrance fee. Jl" int'ivi in 1'::y, '' Weil
0:1 th. - pra ;! ice c:s:i: i . sva f-.iind !.-;.. ". nt
in siudi. s .".1 the f .'t-.whtg s-ei;.i-ann,::d s
aniinat ions. 31" had i:nti! Jan-to n:al;e up
the deficiency, but brv.in !' vu- s. f. in and
death mn the ro.-::f.f. York M;n.
. tl Aho'if CaTico.
J.I rs. Leon ( ! .vers -tys in :-t: Travel hi
India" that "in the yeur h:''-, j.-sf f ai months
Mul t wo days ai't.-r -air.; tho port r.f Li -bon,
Isasco da Gaina Ian.'." ! r.i the c.-asf of
:.:a!abar at Ci.ii-iil, c-y more prot.erlv K::i.
Rh.vht. 'City oft a- iila'i: Gc.u.I C:.:;.-ut
was at that pes iod ir t 01:13 v-r3" -.'. :.t
seaport hu. ! exl.en-ivo t -rri'.or-. which,
st retching along the we tern i o.it 1 I ;.ou:!.-ni
India, reached from ! Joint .ay a;al the ad
jacent islands to Cape Coinorin. I: sva.s at an
early period so famous for its v.ea vim- and
dyeii'g of cotton cloth thai, its name b r.uvs
id'entilicil with the manufactured fahri.-,
whence the name calico. Jt i now ;-( i'.ijly
admit ted that this ingenious art oi-I.iii.jit. d in
India in v. -ry ri-motj age-i, ami i ro:a that
country found its way into Egypt, it was
not until t'i'.vard (ho midde; of the seven
teenth century that ali- o printing wa-iintro-duee-.l
into Europ: Kansas CVy Times.
lloo;i for the f ':!: f tit-en.
TJie plain v.o.t.le:i hoor. is nil the go now.
The ii-oti ho. p i ret cr.'lr l for. Granvilp-.,
JJass., turnr.ciit td.:-.nt tJ'iii.ca-) this 3-0:1 r and
l'inhi'h !;!;: -i ah--;-1 t wo-thirds :s niaay. They
are made of b-s-.-h or ash. The wood is cut
into narrow- s; :i; 5 and .-:.a:u d. The heat
carls the f'rip and th-- end nra tacked to
gether, ll'se s with 1 el!--, ft-! -S and other
ornr.monJs nre mad-.- in Thi'a h-t; !.ia. Pew
ero sold. Th -y a too much and tvaia!! " go
to amuse si'-': chh ":vn svho hav ; i.-.'t a lu-ty
j-air of legs. Tii" hoop tra "a still r.-fl'-h
2,r),Xtl tii". - year. JCo c ro vil! ;. t v.-eVithv
out of this. The mar.-in i , t.-. s-taai! on ac
count of tho a.r-"-t e--.::,:, thian. C.'-:v : f-kc-H
by the mnmuu lar. :s th: i a koopis ta t ii.jh
ftron-j ci.ong'i t; ;'oi. ;-r. The mure
hoojts iiio';e:i hi ;la .. -0 j th.- Hv :. j.s ;h.
trade. Tin4 n-f -Is s the v.-i'st vitli roll
ing stock of this kind. Iesv York Sun.
I'atii'i Two Hour Drive.
Mine. r.".t i takes a two hour drive through
the iur': and on tiio road dallv. -"icnor
INier.iini .nn-.ank-j. he r :;!:':" t hivariaLly.
The haj : y pair u-n a Ity -. a.;- a r . - -1 car-rlr-ge,
but o-:- day this week iht-y ventured
forth in open y hhl". Mme. IV.t'.i n;..l ;;;:n:or
J-Ticoliui sit bolt i:;-i'igiit, ! ck straight l.-efore
them, and are never --en to c -av.-r.-e. Tho
prima donna, h.-..v;.-v. r, !av:rs cwaka v.-lien in
Signer J-iicoliui's coiopatty. A friend v ho
bowed to Ivr one il.iy v. i:c:i she was t --cortc-d
by her pretty ni-' e, CV.;!in.. was STirpri.cl at
ftrst -when his .-alutr- s-.-;.s not retuni'.d. Ap
proaching li'T c-ri i:i-.e a saco:: 1 time, ho dis
covered that I'-Itne. I'. tti was n.-l: ep, or so
deeply p!::v.-.-e.l in tho;r;ht that noboly
wouid have kn jwn the di.Ten'nce botv. i. n a
Si ngtrec i:i"' utatiOil
Jew York San.
1 Lei
shaaotr.-
V,a in tlxti TCclt'oe.
One nftc-ir.ot-a recently a P.-.l-xi man found
bis keyheie s;.-o:..'.'d with wax when ho wont
Lome in the a''tvr::oo:i. T'u-2 jiciice wore a.:k' d
to try to cal.-h the parties who La, ! taken tho
impression cf the lock. The oiaoc-rs seer--ted
theiiist-lves in the Louse ami prepared for a
night's watch for the thi .".-.--, v.i svere e-x-pected
to d.'.-ci-::d ir.voa the pi e. Ur.t early
in the tveuing it was explahisd that tho
governess, who lias a sweet t't!i, is in the
habitof carr3"iug caramels in the fame pocket
with her door ker, and some cf the swet
"icats stuck to the key. Hhe ued it during
- day, and the waxy apixtaring rubstauco
tne scrcped from the key and remained
iksi. j
TJie lilite Ciitsj Theorj-.
of Biida;epo-!-ts unmarried -tvonaen is
) b.? a sti-or.g J.f liever bi tbe- I luo r'nss
-. Slie 'Jwses i: blue kCIt, -weal's Una
s, vats oil blue s'a-? disli:-, lives hi a
v. ':-s.e v.iml.jsTs ara of blue glas.s-, Las
"t this rooia for more t!ir.it ten miuatc-s
e far eiht 5"e;irs, during -r.bich she
!:o5 not LaJ s.n acba cr a pain.
ll.ir- to Catch Iluts
- ic4Jr iljriw-ea'.acr, C-a.,'
i n, riloil a ca'ar-jn si.h
-!i;.Ido4a thick 1-iyer ft
' t'lA-fithr brJt. TLo
' c ih'o'.s'ia .' ia:
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i ti I.m ii'OT is a Dirk Kay puer, !")! li.unls high, weighing 1.200
noils. i 1 :s di-c, .-mi at : f'"i m an. I not'd leputition for eml u lance inn kes him
on.- ol the !". -I bora s ,,f tl,t; .1 i . lie lias.:! recoiil of J: 2d. i, ml paced t he li f h
beat of i iac :,t ( inn,!, ie. I'.jo. in 2:2 "i. lie was l.rc.l in Kent inky, sired bv
Goii'l llino.r, via.s T'(!i!!ise!i. lie has alrcaiiy r,t one colt in the
'J.h'O li-t a lua. a ioti : , , i::g I'm- a liol.-c V.ith liis (inaiicis ami st:ilii:s Itiia tin
u::e of the fojeuio-t l,a;a-, s in the land.
Tin- oid .aciiie Pilot blocl is what made Maud S., .lay '.c See, ami others of
1 "'-' " trot, 'li.c sac, r nine Jhili v'rctl more fiott. rs in the :;:;( li.-t (Inin any
other ln..-c in the s.oibl. : . i i . 1 tluir ni t Value far exceed- nil lioi.-es in Cms colintv.
Sja-e.l ami bottom in io: a e. if i.ot s.antil for spoitino pin i.-( s. ale st ill of in'i
in: :is" bcni hi in :-; vin-r time and labor i every occupation in whii li t he lioisc is
cinploycil. It is an old s.i- ine; thai "he v.lm 'u:i.-es two blades of .:ias to rnW
v.'n n: only op..-- o,:cw before i- a He l.cncla, !,.r;" shs less a benefactor ii-n ho
i r.idiiccs a 1ml: .-. -.. hii h. v. illi sa:n a: c and expense, will with ease travel '.utblo
the di-fancc, or do issic - iiic -,vi,t!; of an rdinaiy liursc. It costs no more to feed
and care to raise a "food !:! t'aui a poor on". Tin- oood arc always in demand,
ami ii' sold brin.-a; l,:i,!.!c or t j- !.! the pr'n i- of th" common lioi.-.c.
SIIAK F.U 1U )'i' svil! : t and tin- omiii'.f sca--oii in ( 'ass count v. at the following
pl ic. s and time-: V. M u tdni-1 's -table at ?.Iu: :av. Monday ami Tin sday o?
cadi w -i k. Owner's s!.. '! . on-- mi!" ea-l of Kilit .Mil.- Grove, Vt'ednendiiv anil
Tl,r,r:-;!ay. I.oiti-, Korr. Il"s. at tlic toot of Main slrct, I'lat t'-umtil h. who 'hns n
splendid ;i;id coil vi ii'u :it stab!" iitia'd up for the occaision. I'riday uml Saturday.
To insure ii-,:.!-,. v.., jVd. slu.f'ii. if paid for before fouling, mid if io.I, -fl'kOO.
fare ill be taken to pra ,-i'nt :i cid. ids, but will not be i cj innsi blc, i f any occur.
Any one selling ni.trc will be ln-ld responsible for fees of service.
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You cainnt fa.il to Unit v.l. at yon want at
cl.-ewb-r. , at tin; 'iohkng- Ihiiltiino
Sign cflho ladlock, ,0,t-
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I'OKK PACKERS and Di.M.iats i.s JJUTTKR AND UJCS.
?T?T7 ai
-Tin-: 1 ; est ti::; ?rAiu:i;T afkokds always ox han.'
Sugar Cured Meals. Hams, Bacon, Lard, &c, &c..'
ot our orn make. T!;e l-.-t brands of OYSTEHS. in cans and bulk, tit
A ilOl.ESALK AND liKTAIL.
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Having snov d into or.r new raid clc:.i.t , oon,s in Union Mock. v(. eord -. ; n.vite
those wuiitinif the la-t of every kind of Meat to cl.11 on ns. A c:;n ,. v you
Mullen, Pork, Veal Beef, Ham Bacon,
FISH- ALL KIIWS OF GAME IN SEASON.
AvA ev(-iyt!.:i:jr -2ko tl.at is u-:u:illy olt:iijable sit a
PIPuST CLASS iBAT MABKET.
com: a si a iv
One door south cf V. 0. Fiickc o: (,,.,. f ,
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