The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1882-11-04

Loubatsrsuit for reinstatement in the
Union Club, which was to have come up
last weok Mr.. Loubat, it will be re-
membored became the hero Of duel
that whs to, but did not take place, with
Nj. Trumbull. Mr.. Loubat, rs the
story goes, made some dispsraging re-
marks about lady which Mr. Trumbull
resented. A challenge to duel followed,
the matter got into the papers, the club
became laughing-stock for the public,
and in pure self-defence, and because q
victim to appeoso the wrath of the gods
was needed, elected Mr.. Loubat, He
brought suit, some time ago. Tue ans
wer of the club was to have been present
ed lastsThursday. 1t wss actually filed,
but stbus far the newspapers have not
been able to get hold of it. Both part
les nro anxious to keep its contents pri-
vatS, all tho moro so, a. the document
contains the name Of The lady about
whom Mr.. Loubat remarked" and
which has thus far not got out. am
assured, however, that it is Mrs. Paran
Stevens, The well-known and very popu-
lar society lady. 1t is very likely, from
wha. those who, know Mr.. Loubat aud
the officers Of the club say, that the suit
will be compromised.
| Journalism. ever since its inception has
had but few friends, and the power and
influence which il now possesses a.
public tribunal, or to 60 even further, as
public censor, was gained only after
continuous struggles against the hatred
| of those offenders whom il lashed, and
the jealousy Of the persons from whose
weak hands it wrested power which
they were too indolent to use for the best.
But Of all the silly TRADES that have ever
been launched against this power OF the
Nineteenth Century, the ebullition OF one
Rev. George T. Rider in the current
number of tho "North American Re-
Wow, seems to be tho most remarkable.
The reason why it has attained to tie
dignity!of printssin this Review, which
processes tolbe one of the foremost oriti-
cal periodicals in .hescountry, is ipscrut-
able, unless the editor indslged in ma
licious desire 10 give his Reverend con-
trlbutor "plonty of rope to bsng him.
SELF" TIE announcement Of the pub
fishers that Mr.. Rider had tie privilege
Of prsfxing Rev" to his nane was
hardly necegsary, for the bitterness OF
bis invectiYe against profession which
probably did him no harm save that il
was not painstsking enough to discover
the blushing of tine unseen flower Of hi.
genius, fully indicates that. Strauge Of
it may seem, no set Of men can indulge
, in harshsr thought, feeling ard leuguage
: than those whcae profession il il to in.
culcate the sublime teachings Of the gsa
tie Saviour. DIR. Rider in his article or
Tho Pretensions Of Journalism, show
an ignorance of the workings and tn,
methods Of modern practical journalism
which almost deserve to bs put on leye
: with q French noVelist's lack of knowl
;, edge Of English social customs, or Arn0ri
:, can geography. In his hours of raaco
= against sn unkind fate which has pre-
vented him from eclipsipg the BeercSsr
and the TalmAges Of ths day, be sssra
> to havo evolved some grim morstsr whis'
:, he hssidubbed journalism, and which b
attacks with allsthe energy which ths
ID distinguished his.orisal parsonage, Do
y Qui1ste wasted on the equally histori
windmill But as Seneca once sal
there is no literary work so utterly ba
' that there is not at lehst somo coed i
= it," Thus, the Rev. Mr.. Rider in hi
~ indiscriminate assault, somehow stumble
- against an abuse in magazine litersturt
y which is deserving Of severe Language
- But, as this does not come until near Il
- end of the article the severity Of the Pee
~ has told on th9 author, and the lang uas
:" is quite mild. Tho abuse referred to
the mania of publishers to sacrafics IL
j" literary value Of an article to its a1sp
- ability for illustration. Within tho la
- two or three years meriticiousnsss b;
~ manifested itself in all domains Of ar
- which cannot fail 10 Tcsoil in the end {
'' its authors. In music it has given ri
A. to Wagnerism, in painting to Maksrtisr
u on the stage to the spectacular dram
with It's lack Of plot, literary constructit
and fiaish, and tho total disregard f
the first dramatic principles; in archite
turo to bizarre combinations of all sor
Of styles; ana in light literature to an i
sane desire to publish anything that CT
~ be illustrated in telling manner v
n take up any of the leading magazine
&C. and how little can be found to satisfy t
he tastes of cultured mind. One wou
,is think that publishers had conceived t
a idea that the world had gone back to
of second childhood and treated it as sue