The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-04-10
EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS.

| WHATEVER is Just, beautiful or true, divine
authority never fails to sancti(y, nor human
authority TO profane.
| The whole force Of first-cIass temperance
pressure is at work against "Old Rye" in the
City of Louisville Where could it possibly
work TO better purpose or find more to DO?
PROMISES are golden, glded or gilt-edged
as they accord with the sense Of integrity, the
degree of good faith, or the measure Of good
will, from which they are cast.
In Massachusetts only they are permitted
to vote who can read the English language,
can write their names, and who pay taxes
Some Of it in the South might have a healthy
| effect on the morals of Office.
THE public mind loves to regale itself with
an occasional man who is famous; whether a
famous eater or faster, talker or walker, or
other phenomenon does not matter. The
| fascination seems TO consist in making 4 sur
| prise. Now, Governor Crittenden, of Mis-
| souri,, has become famous as wrestler with the
| Jesse James complications, and by submitting
himself for trial as accessory TO the act Of
murder, will qualify the public mind to waste
| its Partially upon him. But Governor Crit
tenden can not become a hero without incur
| ing the risk of not surviving his greatness, he
must run the gauntlet Of the gbbet.
If you are going to live in furnished rooms
| do not fail to see that there is 4 parrot. We
have friend who has the enjoyment of a par
rot without extra charge. He is somewha,
ascetC and did not like it at first. Here is
what was at first the matter.
"My GIRL" he cried, 81 thought you were
going TO bring me some towels. have been
waiting for half an hour with my eyes shut for
something to wipe my face on
Parrot-"Cross man wants towels
Servant didn't know you wanted towels,
sir.
Lodger-Thats strange, when you answered
me eyes, right away"
Servant-It must have been the parrot, sir.
Parrot-Yes, it was, you bet!
THE Revised New Testament has encoun-
tered the disapproval of the public censor of
| Russia There is large element of the pub
| lie opinion of the world represented in this
| Judgment, which is matter Of plain practical
| sense more than of religion. The rooted hold
of the popular miad was upon the book that
was sacred to us when the heavens lay near
us, in our child days. The touch that pro-
famed it by revision was Dissertation. Its
landmarks are revised out OF recognition,
scenes and chapters transposed, translations
from the original, in words as unfamiliar as
the Greek, substituted for those that memory
held as in vice, and, tenacious of its grip as
if it were life itself, will hold. 1t is well for
Russia. Let other governments who keep
public censors do likewise; then, at last, the
church will come TO the rescue and the old
book will be brought out of the furnace, in its
pristine vigor.
ACCORDING to the St. Louis Republican
there is an era of advanced civilization afoot
IN Alaska, no less pronounced than that Of the
seventeenth century, when it was the fashion
of New England to burn and drown her witch
es. 1t is allegedby Presbyterian missionary
stationed at Fort Wrangel, that there have
recently been several families Of old men and
young children, ages from four to seventy,
tortured 10 death for the alleged crime of
witchCrah. They are regularly tried and SEN
fenced. In one instance the grandmother, an
old woman of 70 was tied to tree ond left TO
starve, but was afterward hacked to death
with knives. The children escaped into
dark wOok and some were saved. A little
girl of five years named George resided with
an aunt who was taken sick and accused the
child of bewitching her. The poor child was
locked up in a room, and for three days
starved Id numerically whipped, but at the
end of that time was rescued and conducted