The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-01-21
BRET nARrE's NEW BOOK.
A COLLECTION oil Fables.

Mr.. Bret Harte has gone to the author
whom that popular lecturer, Rev. Jackson
Wray, APPLY describes as "Rare old .Esop,"
and has produced a new book OF fables
whose chief fault is that it is so small. The
letter press and illustrations only occupy
fifty.four pages, but, though the volume is
thin, the fun is not so, by any means. We
open the book at the first page and read
the following II London EchO.J
TIE GOOD SAMARITAN.
A certain man went from Jerusalem to
Jericho and fell among thieves, who beat
him and stripped him and left him for
dead. A good Samaritan, seeing this,
clapped spurs to his assand galloped away,
lest be should be sent 10 the house of de.
tention as witness while the robbers were
released on bail.
Moral,-The perceiver is worse than the
thief.
It would have been impossible for any
Londoner to have written more appro-
pirate fable than this, even il he had been
reporter at the Clerkenwell police court, in
the constant habit OF listening to the pearls
Of ministerial wisdom that fell from the
lips OF Mr.. Barstow. Mr.. Bret Harte, in
deed seems to have either the giftof preset.
ence or Of ubiquity. When we read the
following fable We can almost suppose that
he had been accustomed 10 sit at the table
OF the London school board and listen TO
the debates on the conduct OF the man.
ayers Of the St. Paul's Industrial school.
THE KlSD'HEARTEn sHE-RLErIANT.
Akind.hearted shc.elephaut, while walk
ing through the jungle where the spicy
breezes blow soft Ger Ceylon's Isle, heed.
1essly set foot upon partridge, which she
crushed to death within few inches OF
the nest containing its callow brood. "Poor
little things" said the generous mammoth.
81 have been mother myself, and nv
affection shall atone for the fatal conse.
quenCes OF my neglect" So saving, she sat
down upon the orphaned birds.
Moral-The above teaches us what home
is without mother; also, that it is not
every person who should be intrusted with
the care Of IN orphan asylum.
Swindling advertisements, and especially
those OF that heartless class OF swindlers
who prey upon simple people that have
little money and no employment, appear 10
be Us common in America us in England.
Those whose necessities make them over
confident would do well to read the follow
ing
THE PHILOSOPHER AND TIE sMrLEroN.
A simpieton, having had occasion TO seat
himself, sat down on q pin, whereupon he
made IN ,outcrY unto Jupiter. A philoso-
pher, who happened TO be holding up n
hitching post in the vicinity, rebuked him,
saying: ~ can tell you how to avoid hurt.
ing yourself by sitting down on pins, and
will, il You will set them mp" The simple-
ton eagerly accepting the offer, the philoso-
pher swallowed four fingers Of the rum
which perisheth, and replied, "Never sit
down" He subsequently acquired q vast
fortune by advertising for agents, 10 whom
he guaranteed E3 a week for light and easy
employment at their homes.
Morat-The wise man saith: "Thero- il
n niger in the fence" but the fool sendeth
on twenty stamps for sample, and is taken
in,
1t is often possible TO convey great
moral in such way that truth embodied
in tale may enter in at lowly door"
eyOn where truth in closest words may
fail" Many years ago Arthur Hugh Clough
wrote:
The WIse man waits; II the foolish haste;
And while the scenes Rre In the SlllGS would nlRy
And while the Instrumental are tuning, dance.
Ho much more effective Is the lesson
conveyed in Bret Hartes fable OF "The
Prudent Tiger"
TIE PRUDENT TIGER.
A prudent tiger having observed a bro.
cession bearing the remains Of sainted
Bnhmin to the tomb, communicated the
intelligence to his wife, who said: ''My
dear, we are almost out Of meat, and though
the deceased, from the austerities Of his
his pious life, was in poor condition, /
make no doubt but that among his sur
vivinH friends we may encounter others
more succuleat." Miserable Tireress, !"
exclaimed her lord, cannot you see that
II We permit the deceased to be canonized
will be instituted 10 his tomb,
and the producer and consumer will be
brought together in accordance with the