, 1872-12-28
scFibner's, tho Galaxy, Kansas Magazine,
Ll'ing Ase. Eclectic, and Chicago
Illustrated Journal.
New Ways in the Old Doninion-..Eow
Stanley Found Livingstone.
On the Beading Of Eez1Epapsrs>-The
Transition Period in Poetry.
Earl Russell.-.French Customs and Char.
&cters..-Language..-The Law Of
Probability in Mental
Exerticn.


Scribncr,s.
Sc7ibncr has some ve-y beautiful illustrations
In the opening article, Part l., of
NEW WAYS IN THE OLD DOMINION
which will, it is hoped. faniiarize Northern peo-
PIE with the wonderful scenery Of tho mountain
ranges, the rivers. nnd tho valleys Of Virginia.
which repay the tourist rs richly cs those of
New Englani,-eyen moro richly. if he be Of
sportsnanlike bent, end seek uso for rod and
gun On the route Of the Chesapeake l. Ohio
tallroad, which this article is mainly written to
bf1ns into notice, is ono of the greatest natural
curloslties OF the Eastern States, the New River
Canon:
Through the mountains for railroad. It looks at
st 4ke most unpsomieine passage; bui did it not
1T many Sea1s to co1ne have been run across the two
s1rgm1as tc connect tie Atlantic Ocean with the
Ohio. The caaon is one o. the most remarkable nat
ufal wonders in the Eastern States,
It Is, N fact-so geologists aGir-a deep crack in
The Garth hundred miles long, 1aile vide at the
summit from 500 20 1,5oo feet deep and bearing at It's
bottom noisy turbuen. stream, dangerous as vel as
6aieut at to navigate, and to the first LOOK, useless
na6le- It opened them passage through the nos1u-
tains which they could never have made by art CT
soGee and gase them cay grades where bat for Its
u an 1npract1cabe manner been forced to attempt
grades which are not commercially practical.
eac:hc1acl, along eheif blasted out Of The perpen
dcular, rocky side OF the eanon. and whirls you
tnssply around corners and past rapids and roaring
waters, should remember that ycu travelling
8: the general level OF the surrounding country bnt
oifen hundreds Of feet below it. III. canon is cs
dee er one Of the Colorado River. You approach it
knd enter it on the train n such way that you can
steep dec!viy, # YOU stood there. you would see BE-
-ore you great bread spacious piain stretching away
Ga ooh eldes IN which the canon would appear what
1t really i6-a mere c2rth-cIaca-
Tho natural wealth Of the country through
which this road passes is wonderful. Given the
country road cuts through coal-bede; opposite
Charleston, in the Kanawha Valley, you may see
tno little ferry-boat tied up to the river bank,
and the deck-hand shorelling conl from the vein
atse!f into the steamboats, coal-bunker; eyery
farmhouse has its coal heap-just as further
west they have q woodpile near the house; and
almost every farmer has somewhere on his land
an outcropping coal-vein, from which lie sup
plies himself"
England is said to owe her wonderful doytl-
opneIt to the fortunate presence of coal and
IRON together Here both lio On the very sur
-ace OF the ground, in profuoion that would be-
E!uer IN English ron-master. att ig an un-
doubted fact, established by careful calculations,
fhat the rich iron orcs lying telnptingly near
t1e surface and near the railroad, in Virginia,
east Of the WEito Sulphur, can be brought by
-a1 to the coal aud limestone in the New River,
and there reduced so chcaply that the iron-1nas-
ter can sell his pig iron for from SIS to $40 per
ton"
All through this region General Washington
passed when surveying, and he SO well under
stood its natural wealth that to-day, on the old
survey maps, the best lands are found to have
been entered by him or in his name
Edwa1d King tells
HOW STANLEY FOUND Lr1SGsIoSE,"-
not unfamiliar tale:
dr Stanley resolucly refuses 10 tako to himself tie
the contrary, he has told you all how sudden tee-
gram called him from Madrid to Paris, aud how whca
ho n1 To
oag and ardnous series Of travels BY penetrating to
C2ntfal Africa and iindins Livingstone. Even the
noon:cneut Of Mr.. Stanley that Burton and Spcke's
I Rs not dees hs
"Tcu, we'll tell you what you vii do. Draw q
thousand pounds now, and when you have gone
through tbet draw another thousand, and that
spent draw another thousand and when you have fin
!sEed that draw another thousand. and 60 on but ind
LirtnGstonc !"
Mr.. Stanley did not hesitate His previous educa-
Ton and training in the school Of journalism had
custoraed him to rigorous obedicuces; mud he had
done when the elder Bennett give him minutes in
which to consider whether not he would accept the
mission to Abyssini. So nqw be simply drew long
EfeAtn. anu agreed TO End living
1ugsones bones dead.
With the rest OF tho story the pu5lic is &C.
quaintcd.
Anguste Contc used to avoid newspapers as
teetotaller cschows hard drink. he avoided the
conversation of ordinary people for the same
reason. He thought books to be injurious to the
perfect exercise OF his wonderful gifts. But Mr.
Phillip 6. Hamcrtoa does not think this good
example. He writes letter,
''oS THE READING OF SEwsPAPERs,"
to FRIEND highly cultivated, WHO plumed him
self on his neglect of them. lie says:
The time which you haro hitherto gwen to ncwspa-
gers, and which may be roughly estimated at about
300 hours year, is heneeforth valuable timencome
to be applied to Whatever purposes your best wisdom
may select When intellectual person has ccntryed
by the force Of simple resolution to effect fine
economy this, it is naurnl that he should con-
graduate himself. Your feelings must be like those
closing great leak in the Treasury-H my economy
possible IN the finances of State could ever relative
= equal that splendid stroke Of t1me-thrf which yoM1
hours which arc now your own, you may acquire 3
science, obtain more perfect command of
uent Of FOUR intellectual labors which haa hitherto
fecty cultivated henccforh bc orderly nnd
fruitful as q well-kept garden.
In addition to this, much OF the newspaper
matter Of the day ie useless in our culture.
The newspapers cost ns much tin1o which, if
employed for great Intellectual purposes, would
csr1y us very far. They give disproportionate
views Of things by the emphasis they givo to
novelty, and false views by the unfairness which
belongs to party; and newspaper writors give
erch preponderance to politics. not to political
phllosophs, but to everyday work OF politicians,
That intellectual culture is thrown into the back
ground"
But, granting all this pursues Mr.. Hamerton
your resolution is unwise. Newspapers are to
The whole civilized world what the daily houeo-
talk is to tie members OF household They
keep up our daily interest in each other, they
cave us from the evils OF isolation. To live as 9
member Of the great whito race of meu-the
racs that Las flied Europe srd America, aud
colonizod o. conquered whatever other terri
tories it las been pleased to occuny-to share
from day to day it's cares it's thoughts, its aspira
tions. it is necessary that every man should
read his daily newspaper"
What the results Of doing without newspapers
may be, can be seen from the condition Of the
French peasantry, who are bewildered and at
eea, out OF place in the modern world, at fault in
the multiple1 rotations of these days, the easy
prey Of plebiscite, and knowing no political
safety but that of inactivity. Although scattered
over territory fourteen times Us large tho
citizens of tho United States arc capable of q
quick appreciation Of the shifting problems Of
each da7, and OF ready aud concerted action
m them y-hifh in hevDnd the reach of inert.