The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-10-28

course the best, afotha Proverbs OF Solomon.
And how sadly iasonpisss we're the sep
lures without ihis tookl Surely il thsW bs
MAn--rather, II ths Holy Spirit took ssueh
pains to instruct this olass - an early period,
We cannot mistake the duty Of tho good, and
especially Of religious teachers, at this time.
The Grsoians, IN their best days, made
much OF this method Of instfoeslon, And
this, with Amsricans, has long bean favor
ito educational method. Nor 10 il likely to
be laid aside. Sabbath evening discourses
70 this olsss are nov keps up IN oil the prin-
uipal cities Of ths Union. And tho lecture
syatem, 80 dessrvediy popular in this oouD-
Try, Is really N outerowth Of this practice.
Upon the general question Of lsetnrss, the
Springfield tMAss.) RpabAcon has sons
very Just rsnarks. II says: s sa 49,
II 10 curious to notice the ohangss thsA
hsvs taken place In the popular tAsss within
the last twenty years. Twenty years ago,
there Was nothing % popular - the scientific
lecture. That wAs before the universal In
Production OF the natural soisncss into the
common schools. Avery ssupid lecturer mp
on anatomy and physiology was .abls then to
attract crowds to hear him. Now, the peo-
pie having learned something Of snatomy
and Psychology in schools, periodicals and
books, none but man with tho rarsst talent
for popular address, and ! very Ingenious
and happy way of Illustrating bis subject, can
draw bakers dozen to hear him. The
mannikens have nearly disappeared. Prof.
Mitchell, who 10 full OF the poetry OF astron-
omy and full Of enthusiasm, will now draw
crowd anywhere; but where 10 thsre another
man who csn do il? Prof. Yeomans dslights
everybody IN HE lectures on light, but be hiss
no competitor. Pref. Masfa talks ensefsain~
ingly Of the physical geography Of the sea,
derstood, be will be without auditors. His
subject 10 new, and therefore attractive. W
From the scientific and the historical leo
ture, there VAS, about ton years ago, dsci-
ded reaction, and then the people wanted 10
be amused. The man who could say the fun
nisst things ia the funniest way Was the man
for them. Than puuning ~ss 10 IL glory, ,
and wit was ct > premium. Far and near
the man was sent for who could mako the
points that would bring down the house. At
last, people got tired Of this. One BY one
those who came to make fun for the people
were dropped on from the lecture lists. II
was evident 10 the people themselves, and
became evident TO the lecturers, that amnsa-s
mont Was not all that was wanted. From
that time the tone OF the lecture room has
improved, until it 10 apparent that he sue
,oeeds best who ID most eArnest, md who deals,
the most interestingly with subjects thai con-
Germ tho life OF those whom be addresses. II
10 amusement still, but amusement Of very
much higher grade--amusement, or thorough
interest, which il but On incident OF valuable
discussion. Food for thought and discussion
10 wanted, and be does best who sends away
his audiences earnestly thinking and talking.
The Democracy Gene 10 Protest.
The Hauksys says: ja
The leaders Of tho Democratic party en-.
ployed the half knave and half fool Schady
to dog the steps of R0sch and turn his cam
vass into ridicule. Schady carried out tho
programme faithfully, spsaking up TO the
day Of election, and then drew upon the
Chairman Of the Democratic Central Com
mittse 1t Des Moines, Mr.. Cassidy, for his
pay, $500, through Democratic Banker at
Dubuque, who advanced the money. But
Mr.. Cassidy refused to pay and tho draft
went to protest. Schady has the money and
will keep it. The Dubuque Banker 10 minus
$500. The Democratic Central COMMITTEES,
when they employ such man, ought TO pay
him. s.
Az the Republicans derived oil tbs benefit
from Schady's canvass, it may be that the
Democratic Committee propose TO 6ls bill
in equity to compel US to pay him. They
have ample grounds Of the same character
to charge the Republicans with the expenses
OF Will Tomlinson, Clay Dean, and others
OF like stripe.
Geasac mAd Go rman Gonius.
The Irish News quotes from Brownson's
Quarterly Review the following paragraph.
A portion OF il ID rather severe upon the
Celts, coming ~ does from = high Catholic
source
The German genius and temperament, it
seems 20 Us, are naturally Far less Averse to
Catholicity than the SOL called Celtic. An
lrishman or Frenehman by the grace Of
God becomes and remains : gotd Catholic,
mono better bat bis nature 10 always un-
Catholic, 90 oil nature 10, since Catholicity 10
supernatural, but anti Catholic. French and
Irish literature, whenever il 10 not formally
religious, dogmagtic or ascetic-- Whenever II
falls back into the natural order, ID not more
" bslow Catholicity, but II opposed 70 Il. :
: We fad with the French, and
even the Irish, far more Catholic pissJ or
sentiment than Catholic principle, and :
greater horror with the latter Of eating meat
on Friday than Of lyingor stealing, and with
the former q nisplacing : gennasosion than
Of rejecting ! dogma. With both their
.Catholicity seems to DO embraced, retained,
and submitted to in spite Of their natural
repugnsnce TO II, 10 tho very face and eyes
Of nssrze, cot By ito aid, nr in accordance
with it, dictates. We ind
in German and English popular htsratsrs,
for instance, far moro than 10 in accordance
With 0khOlic principle, though not with
Catholic dogma, than 10 the popular liters-
turs Of notions said TO be Celtic. The most
corrnpting and lisontious poetry in our lam
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