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Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-01-09
The Story of a Child.

Hear the story of a child, which
went forth into the mountain ravine.
While the child was wandering there,
he called aloud to break the lOneli-
ness, and heard a voice which called
to him in the same tone. He called
again and, as he thought, the voice
again Knocked him. Flushed with
anger, he rushed to find the boy who
had insulted him, but could find none.
He then called out to him in anger, and
with all abusive epithets-au of which
were faithfully returned to hi2.
Choking with rage the child ran to
his mother and complained that a boy
in the woods had abused and insulted
him with many vile words. But the
mother took her child by the hand
and said:
"My child, these names We're but
the echoes of thine own voice. What
ever thou didst call was returned to
thee from the hillside. Hadst thou
called out pleasant words, pleasant
words had returned to thee. Let this
Oe thy lesson through life. The word
will be the echo of thine own spirit.
Treat thy fellows with unkindness,
and they will answer with unkind-
ness; with love, and thou shalt have
love. Send forth sunshine from thy
spirit, and thou shalt never have a
cl0uded day; carry above a vindictive
spirit, and even in the flowers shall
Turk curses. Thou shalt receive ever
what thou givest, and that alone"
Always, said the speaker, is that
child in the mountain passes-and
every ma and woman is that child.
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Effects Of Literary Labor.

The m%ortuary statistics Of literary
men show that excessive brain labor
has little or no. destructive influence
upon the health or the mind, that on
the contrary it helps to prolong life.
Burton, who in Ms Anatomy Of
Melancholy" has so skiIlfulIy ana
lyzed the malady by which he was
nearly overcome, was, he tells US,
forced to literary labor TO save him
self from mental decadence, and he
lived to be sixty-four. Byron felt a
similar necessity-and his earlier
death may certainly not be attributed
TO literary excess. History is replete
with accounts Of literary men who
were ripe in learning and in age.
Xenophen and Diogenes died at nine
ty. Thucydide5 at eighty, and Plato
at eighty-One, some of whom had nat
uralIy weak constitutions. And COM
ing nearer to Il own day we find no
less conclusive combinations of this
fact. The learned Scaliger died at
seventy; Hobbies, the philosopher, at
ninety-One; Roger Bacon, at seventy
eight; Lord Bacon, at sixty-fve; Gal
lileO, at seventy-eight; the eminent
NSWUOHy db elSHIy-ADui htut, d.
eighty; Goethe, at eighty-two; Jere-
my Bentham, at eighty-hve. The
ages of some other men, eminent in
literature and intellectual pursuits,
are as follows: Lord mansfield, eighty
eight; John Wesley, Lightweight;
Titan, ninety-six; Franklin, eighty
five; DR.. Chalmers, eighty-three; DR..
johnson, seyenty-fve; Hersehel,
eighty-four; Laplace, seyenty-seven;
hLiltoBy blind and holding an impor-
tant political Office during a period of
the revolution, sixty-six; Voltaire,
fighting this world and the next,
eighty-ionr; Lord Coke. eighty-hve;
Michael Angelo, ninety-six; Haydn,
seventy-seven; Handel, seventy-hve.
These are a few names from a list
which might be definitely enlarged.
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Fschter, The Tragedlan.

Mr.. Charles Fechter, the tragedian,
arrived in New York on Friday, By
the German steamer Marie. He was
accompanied by Miss Leclereq, a Lon
don actress of established reputation.
Mr.. Fechter will make his debut in.
America at NibiO's Garden on the 10th
inst, and will play an engagement of
one hundred nights. During the ca
son +" Hamlet will be produced, and
the New York public will be enabled
to compare his famous PRESERVATION of
the leading role with that of our most
popular American tragedian. Two
great HamleEs-BOOth's and Fechter's
at the same time, viii create a real
sensation in the theatrical world Of
New York.
AS Fechter is destined to be the SEN
satiOn of the next few months, we
cOndense from the New York World
a sketch Of him. He is about forty
five years Of age; was born in Lon
don, Of German and French parents,
but was taken to the continent in early
childhood. he was brought up as q
sculptor. He made his theatrical de-
but in LIE Wdri de la You're, at the
Sale Moliere, Paris-a dingy and
tawdry hole indeed. Before he was
twenty-five years old, he had held
leading positions in more than one of
the irst-class Paris theaterS, and had
especially distinguished himself by
the creation of several light comedy
at the vaudeville. His ear
Hest popularity was gained by the per-
formance Of parts like The Bachelor
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Of Arts. After varied but still in
~creasing success, he went to London
IN 1860, where he first appeared as
RHy Bias.
Ills first performance marked the
beginning Of a revolution in English
theatrical taste. The HGHalsts and
lagos OF the day were Overlaid with
the long accumulated rubbish of the
greenTOOm and property.OOm-mere
bundles OF habits handed down from
generation to generation of players.
1t can readily be G then that Mr..
Fechter's advent created the most
profound interest, for he brought with
him the bOldest innovations. That a
Frenchman should presume to i'm
astounding in itself. But improve
conservative England, and only be-
cause he chose to play it as he under
stood 1t and not as habit prescribed it.
His very entrance in the part created
an entirely new impression, for he in
dicated HqmtefS Scandinavian na-
tiOnality by haxen hair, and carried
to perfection an assumption of dreamy
meditation, which it was hardly pos
oADAc 70 dccoEltLe Win 4 udAh GUILE
plexiOn. He showed at once that he
deemed the meditative element in
HdmtetS character essential. His an
seemed to come from a man
continually and UnWillingly awakened
from an abstraction, into which he
was as continually relapsing. This
predOminance given TO the medita-
tive element, invested the soliIOquies
with a remarkable character. The
mere fact of playing Hamlet in a yell
low wig vas a dissertation in their
eyes, and the delivery o-fShakspeare's
text in a cOllOquiai manner. instead Of
with a vast amount of stilted mouth
ing and eneTgumenetic rant, an equal
~ objectionable sin. And then
in the graveyard scene, instead
Of lecturing HOrGtiO bolt upright and
skull in hand, Ikea professor of an
atOmy, he actually sat down, careless
~ and naturally, upon q tombstone.
His leading characters are Hamlet,
IdgO, Claude MelROue. ObeareiQer in
s. No ThorOughfare, and Ruy Bias.
is in this last character that he
makes his first appearance in America.
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The Japanese.

SIN neatuess'' SAYS Professor Pum-
pelly, 81 do not believe the Japanese
are surpassed by any people: and. if
cleanliness is next to g0dliness. GER
tainly the daily parbOiling TO which
every One OF the population subjects
himself may 90 tar towards absOlving
them from other sins. Every house
has its bath-a simple tub, large
enough to allow one to sit down with
the knees doubled, y copper tube
passing through the water ut one end,
and having the bottom perforated for
a draught, contains "a little burning
charcoal, which soon heats the bath.
Towards evening this is warmed, and
the household, beginning with the
master and ending with the servants,
take their turns.
although every house has its cub,
the towns abound in public baths,
where, for a triffe, a more luxurious
scrubbing can be had. And these pub
lie places are an institution Of the
country quite as remarkable as any
other. There is a door marked for
men, and one for women but this
distinction ends after crossing the
threshold, for, on entering, men, wO-
men and children are seen scrubb:ne
each other, enjoying cold and hot
douches, and making a perfect babel
Ofthe room with their loud chattering
and laughter.
"This custom, shocking as It seems
to a European, appears TO be perfectly
compatible with japanese ideas OF
mOdesty and prOpriety, and a Japan
csc lady of undOubted virtue finds no.
thing wrong in the practice. l shall
long remember an instance which con-
WINGED me of the truth of this state
ment. During my stay at one of the
mines on 1eSsO, where there is a hot
spring, l went n evening with one
OF the officers of our staff TO take a
bath. The small spring-hOUse had an
outer Don for servants and miners,
and an inner compartment for the
officers and their families; but this
division was only above the water,
which ran from the spring into q box
about three feet deep and eight feet
long. As we entered the inner COM Z
partment we found the wife of the
chief officer bathing with herchildren.
Before L had time to withdraw, the
lady came out, and, politely offering
US the bath, remarked that as there
would not be room enough for ali of
US she would go with the children to
the other compartment. The whole
thing was done so gracefully, and
without the slightest embarrassment
on her part, that / began to wonder
from what direction would come the
next shock to -precOnceived ideas Of
prOp4ety. H0li soft qG mai u peRSe
is perhaps as applicable in a Japanese
public bath as in the galleries ofsculp-
ture in the Vatican"
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A Curious Bull in Robinson CrusOe.

Mr.. VIM. Lee, in his recently pub
lished work on " Defoe, his life and
recently discovered Writings (LOl-
don, Hotten, 1862 thus notices a sin
gular oversight which DefOe allowed
to pass in his few editions of " Robin
son CFusoe," but which his enemies
were quick enough to discover and
ridicule;
81 must here notice, as shortly as
possible, a controversy into which De-
foe was drawn by the London Journal,
on a matter of CrItiing moment, but
which seems to have irTitated him
considerably. Charles GiidOn had, in
his pamphlet against Robinson CRU
soc, pointed outthe inconsistency that
CrusOe was made to pull off his
Clothes swim from the island TO the
wreck, and then fill his pockets with
biscuit AT that time four editions of
the first volume of CrusOe had been
published, and no reply, that 1 know
of, was made to GildOn, but in sub
sequent editions the text was cor
reGted. In some it stands, l rolled
up part OF my clothes on my back;
but in the other the only alteration is
the substitution of the word hands
instead of pockets In the London
Journal of the 4th of September, I725,
at which time that paper is believed
to have been written by the Bishop
BenjminHoadley, there was an arti,
Gle on the dearth of news, and the X
pediency of reSOrting to fiction, how
ever eXtravagant, TO satisfy the era
wings of the multitude; and the writer
says that books Of voyages and travels,
filled with mGnstrOus and incredible
stories, have become popular, because
they satisfied this morbid appetite.
goes On as follows: We may e
member that we have been, most of
us, when children, wonderfully pleased
with the achievements OfTOm Thumb,
Jack the Giant Killer, Don Bellianis
of Greece, The Seven Champions Of
Christendom and such like extraOr-
binary heroes; and many of Us in our
more advanced age, are little less de-
lighted with such books as The Life
and Adventures of Robinson CrusOe,
which seems to have that uncommon
Run of the Town for Years past, for
no other Reason that it is a most pal
pablo Lye; from Beginning to End;
and | doubt not that the famous Pas
sage of his Swimming to the Shore,
Naked, with his pockets full Of Bis
tho a most notorious Blunder
in the Author, has passed for a very
good Jest, and been received with
abundance Of Pleasure by many of his
Readers.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-01-09

IT IS pleasing 10 see that our friends
ofthe AralancH6 are SO happy in spite
Of all seeming cslsmities. As they
put up no rooster on Friday morning,
We supposed they did not think the
Mayors election much Of a victory.
But it seems from yesterday morn
ing paper that they have come to a
different conclusion, affirming now
that their policy has been sustained.
Their policy having been to Get the
people rule, the people did Il, and
therefore the 4rGlCncbe Democratic
policy is sustained. We admire our
neighbours pluck. May his shadow
never grow less.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-01-09
Who Crushed the RehelIiOn1

Who was the man with the iron
mask? seems not to be q harder cues
ton to answer than who crushed the
rebellion? First, we had the assur-
ance Of Gen. Grant that the rebellion
was an egg, whose shell was broken
by Sherman, and we gave honor TO
Sherman; but quickly we were in
formed that Mr.. Lincoln laid the
plans, and that to him was all the
glory due. No sooner, however, did
Gen. Grant deveur his conservative
words and actions, and 90 body and
soul over to the Radicals, than we
were called upon to sing our peans to
his name as the crusher of the great
rebellion. And now comes the Rev.
DR.. Beeeher, who is great authority
upon all matters, save those connected
with his calling and profession, and
says the whole honor, glory, and credit
were due to the departed Stanton,
We give it up.
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LAST WORDS.

Let the sweet air receive my dying moan,
Now that the setting sun inspires its breath
And though the white moon n thee, love,
alone,
Remember where my spirit VANDERBILT.
Yield me 10 Death.
Look not upon the shadow at thy feet,
The blighted. fretted witness of my woe:
Turn from il, and forget the struggling beat
OF the worn heart thou hast loved so,
D., let me go!
Do not recall the dropping Of mine eye,
When my last glance has tainted on thy
brow:
Do not recall the culver Of the sigh,
Which from my parting agony must grow,
., kiss me now!
Only I bid thee hold my quiet hand
Till all is over; for / ana afraid
be quite lonely on that bOrder-land
Whence earth is mist, anu the Beyond q
shade.
o, let me fadei
I know thee near, but cannot feel thy touch;
Thick gloom defeats my sight, nor hear l
thee.
Farewell! Remember that Flowed thee much;
Pray for one CLEAN Of light 10 set me free
q, free! o, free!
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-01-09
Zip Van Wrinkle.

The Chisago Post, of the 4th inst.
says:
A bill has been fled in the United
States District Court by Mr.. JOseDb
Jefferson, the celebrated actor. against
&. ID. Hess and L. II. Crosby, TO re-
strain defendants from producing the
play of "Trip Van Wrinkle" and to re-
cOver damages for the unauthorized
presentation Of the play at the Opera
House in October last.
1t Is alleged that there has been in
print for twenty years a DIav entitled
Grip Van Winkle," founded up01
Washington Irving's sketch. and
known as Hackett's, or Burke's erin
Van WinkIe.n In 1850 Mr. Jefferson
became dissatisfied with that play and
wrote q new one of the same maine,
but differing materially from the Oh
one. This he presented until 1868
making many alterations and gmend-
ments. On this he obtained no cow
right.
In 1865 Mr.. jefferson concluded to
write another. version, and being in
London obtained the aid of Dion
B~oucicault, and they together wrote
a play essentially different from any
other me-. On this Mr.. Jefferson OBJ
tanned a copyright.
After the copyright was secured Mr.
JEFFERSON performed the pIay, which
was very remunerative, in London
and IN the principal cities of America.
The play was kept in manuscript, or
IN detached printed slips prepared for
the use of actors who take the various
roles, and which were always under
his control. No cOpN has ever been
given away, and if one has been OBJ
tanned it has been byfraudulent means.
Mr.. Jefferson has paid Mr.. BOuci-
cault $4,000 for his interest in the
play, and has always had the excl u
sive right 20 present the play.
The bill charges that Hess & Co.
represented the play ten times in DC
tOber last, at the Opera HousewithOut
any license, and from a copy sur
reptitiOusly obtained, aDdtO cloak the
wrongful representation some of the
characters were changed. Complain
ant prays for an Injunction and
damages of 800 for the first, and $50
ion each subsequent representation,
and the surrender Of all the copies Of
the play in their hands.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-01-09

o. the subject Of the return Of Dem
ocratic asceudancy in New York the
Albany Argus, the Democratic State
paper, has the following. 1t may fur
nish hints for our own section:
After an -interregnUm Of more than
twenty years the Democracy resume
power in the State. During these
wears the standard of public morality
has been greatly lowered, the expenses
Of the government vastly increased,
legislation has been tainted with We
n6lity, and the authority OF the State
has supplaDued the right Of cOmmuni-
ties 10 selEgOyernment, and interfered
grossly with the franchises Of citizens.
While the quality Of law has thus been
lowered its quantity has immensely
increased. II is easy TO trace the pro-
gress Of Radicalism, not only by the
Partially and prOdigality which have
characterized legislation, but by the
increasing volume Of the annual stat
ute books. A glance at the shelves Of
q law library detects at once these
signs, which, like ''the increasing
belly and decreasing leg" Of Falstah,
shows swollen corruption and the
grossness that attends decay.
Viii the coming Legislature remedy
these things? Not 1t once The
stream does not rise higher than the
fountain, and public opinion must re-
sume It's tone before We can hope to
see ii reflected in the representative
BODY. How much can be done? Gov.
Holman has indfcated how the vol
ume Of special legislation may be di-
minished by a revision Of and extern
sion ofgeneral ects, and by the relega-
ton Of powers to the Boards Of Super
visors. Special legislation out Of the
way, the lobby loses the object
OF It's existence. We can have ashOrt
session, comparative freedom from
iobs and combinations and a chance TO
economic the public money if the
legislature viii confine itself to the
consideration of general laws.
Let the Legislature Of $50 give US a
b~~iefsessOn.a moderate volume Oflaws
and a reduced tax levy, and We viii
look Forward to restoration Of the good
Old times when Democracy ruled, and
honesty was one Of the tests OF Office,
and just and equal legislation the OBJ
jet Ol law makers.
IL Iuc lAdt III hdulcal pdpcto We
read n 8rtful combinations and YiO-
lent struggles for supremacy in the
Legislature. But these things are fig
ments nom the fertile imaginations of
partisan editors, and area part Of that
conspiracy Of defamation and detrac-
ton by which enemies hope to
destroy the confidence OF the people
in the Democratic party. We have
no fear from such combination, using
such weapons. We have Hoffman in
the Executive Office, practical, frmin
his purpose to protect the public in
terest, We have both Houses, assem-
bled under the pressure Of public SEN
ument, calling for reform Of abuses
and the restoration of popular liber-
ties. Let them be true to their cause,
and the people viii be true to taem.
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Coming, the cold, dark winter;
Coming, the driving sleeti
Coming. the shawltess shoulders;
Coming, the sheeiess feet.
Coming. the dreary hail-storm,
Coming, the dripping rain;
Coming. wild hunters sorrow,
Coming. heart-freezlng pain.
Coming. the wsntry bowling;
Coming, the drifting snow:
Coming, the winds sharp piercing
Coming, unuttered woel
Homeless houseless aud friendless-
Fulhin the Christians eye
] gather my rags around me,
And lay me down to diet
Better to yield the battle,
Better to end the STRIFE,
Better to die while living
Than 10 live a dying life.
Warming thy Christian graces
At the glowing. c-oal-heaped CRATE,
Canst thou forget the wretched
Who hover near thy gate?
When at night thy head is pillowed,
When slumbers WOO U1ee sweet,
O. canst thou forget the sinner
Whose bed is in the street,
O, pity the friendless starving,
Who wander the dismal street,
No place TO pillow aching heads,
To rest their weary feet.
Uncared for, despised, unpitied,
Fun in the Christians eye,
draw my rags around me,
And lay me down 10 diel
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-01-09

WI are much obliged to Messrs.
JUN DONOVAN and SAACL. WALKER
for their kindness in withdrawing
their application for injunctiOn against
the Mayor elect, which was doubtless
sought for in consequence Of Sc much
over zeal in the public service. It is
fortunate that self-sacrifcing indivi-
duals live smOng Us TO look 50 closely
afJer the ciJy's interest. WehOpe Mr..
Donovan viii be appointed pro
secut0r-gsneral ofau cases Ofvagrancy,
mad d5ggery and petty larceny, with
8 salary Of fifty cents a year and costs.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-01-09

THE following sensible and we'll
timed suggestion is from the report Of
Judge N. r. CULLEN, the sole dele
cate from St. Louis to the National
BOARD Of Trade, held at Richmond.
Va. 49,, I'd, Sd, 4th and 9TH Of Deem
Der, 1863:
a. BEFORE entering upon a report of
a. National Board of Trade, permit
YOUR delegate at this point 70 make
; suggestion to sou N respect 70 the
selection OF your Delegates, winch he
rom SUs 80 sOe.
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With him in it. He thinks. after de-
iloerate reflection, that it win advance
YOUR Interests, and thereby, of course,
he material welfare of the country, if
hereafter you viii send as delegates
10 your Commercial Conventions
only mercantile gentlemen. He saw
such were capable OF making more
concise and acceptable arguments
than lawyers. Only three LAWYERS
were members Of that able body, and
while great respect was shown by the
Board to all they uttered, yet it was
easily observable that arguments adj
vanced by purely mercantile dele
gates We're accepted as being more
Nelghty, carrying with them the idea
ina they were suggested by expert
enced and practical minds, and were
not put forth by the mere advocates
IF measures or theories. Besides,
YOUR delegate is convinced by the ex-
-%raOrdinary capacity displayed in de-
oate by the representatives of mer-
chants that you cannot procure as able
opponents of your interests and views
IS is TO be secured by gentlemen Sc
lected from your own class. Your
delegate has never heard so much ex-
ceilent speaking and well directed in
%1ellectual blows, each cleaving to the
center Of the subject; such terse, clear
and memorable logic as the mercantile
members of the National Board
aVinced in The discussion of mercan-
ile propositions. Then why send
lawyers to attempt that which you
alone can accomplish"
In the Convention held here, we OBJ
served the same thing. It is a plain
case that merchants and other bust
ness men, rather than professional
politicians and town-talkers, should
be selected for Commercial COnven-
lions. Practical men viii understand
their own wants. And they viii al
ways have light enough, when dealing
with business matters, and do talking
enough, too, even if ell the gas-ma-
are shut up.
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WOULDN'T YOU LIKE TO KNOW ?

know a girl with teeth Of pearl,
And shoulders white as snow;
She lives-ahl well,
Unjust not tell
Wouldn't you like 20 know9
Her sunny hair is wondrous fair,
And wavy in its flow;
Who made il less
one little treSs-
Wouldn't you like TO know?
Her eyes are blue celestial huen
And dazzling in their glow;
On whom they beam
with melting CLEAN
wouldn't you ike TO know
Her lips are red and finely wed,
Like roses ere they blow;
What lover sips
These dewy lips
Wouldn't you like TO lnOwS
Her fingers are like lilies fair,
When lilies fairest grow;
Whose hand they press
With fond caress-
Wouldn't you like 20 know?
Her foot is small, and has a fall
Like snoW-hakes on the snow;
But where IL goes
Beneath the rose
Wouldn't you like to know
She has "A name-the sweetest name
That language can beStOw;
'rwould break the spell
If 1 should tell
Wouldn't you like to know?
John o. Saze.