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Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-12-03

as Mr. Spencer social in his tastes?"
"His principles are social, / should say,
rather than bis tastes. He is net a society
man like TyDdall, and in the sense that Tyn-
dali is; but his conversation is something re-
mark able. An excellent English authority
once referred 10 him as the finest talker ever
heard But the late Rev. DIR. Bellows, who
judged things by their briliancy, said that
Spencer was stupid. The fact il, Spencer, as
talker, is mighty, rather than brilliant.
When writing his books he dictates every
word TO an smauuensis, and works only three
hours a day. For years he has not worked
longer than that. Then, when the allotted
three hours are spent, anything for diver
sion-particulsrly the opera or the concert,
or billiards, and above all, when he is quite
used up, the country. he is extremely fond
of the country, and in his periods of great
est distress will fly thither and stay until he
picks himself up little. But his life has
been utterly devoid of incident and there
lie, indeed, nothing 10 be written about him
except what he himself has written in
his works. All that can be said is what has
already appeared in Appleton's cyclopedis,
jingled up little-that he was born in 1920;
that his father was teacher; that he was
fond of observing and experimenting with
insects and philosophical apparatus; that he
was proficient in mathematics, devised a
theorem in geometry; that he became q
civil engineer; that he exercised himself as
an inventor; that he tried literary work. in
London, but did not succeed; that, in 1854, he
became convinced that all organized beings
have become what they are by development;
that, in 1860, he published a prospectus
of philosophical system founded upon
| that doctrine, and that he has since been
| engaged in the evolution of that system.
But there are no events in his life. His
distinction is simply that he is thinker.
| Twenty years sgo one of his friends in this
country said that he was destined to be the
| foremost thinker TO stimulate American
thought. That's what he Is to-day. He has
| no family-neither wife nor children, father
mother, sister or brother. He is alone and
| independent. But, Notwithstanding all that
has been written about him, no one has YET
| placed him IS thinker. His exact rank in
the hierarchy of thinkers has not yet beer
defined" -Montclair Letter to NeU York Post
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Mr.. Howells is like EJock" as regards all
mat MI Stevenson prizes-incideni, romsn-
TIC event, and complication; Mr.. Howells is
Tor Inelr total abolition"
we mad occasion last week to refer briefly
to his theory of fiction, but il is worth noting
again. Dit is, after all, what a writer has to
say, rather than what he has 10 tell, that we
care Tor nowadays. In one manner or other
The stories were all told long ago, and now
we want merely TO know what the novelist
THINKS oil persons or situations.S Here, again,
tne personality OF the sentiment ia little puz-
zIing Gees we" imply the school of which Mr..
hoEeiis ls doubtless a distinguished orna-
ment, or does it stand for the great newell
reading public of to-day? On this point Mr..
novels seems himself to be little dubious,
or perhaps does not care 10 corami: himself
10 one side or the other. For, though he
maintains broadly enough that Eve could
DOT sui1er such writers as Thackeray or
DICKENS to-day, and that the new school
stndles human nature much more 10 its
Tonted aspects. and fuds its ethical and
dramallc examples in the operation Of lighter
out not really less vital motives" still he
prefers to put the universal acceptance and
dominion oil that school rather in the form
Oh question: "Will the reader" be asks,
ne content to accept a novel which is an
analytic study rather than a story?" thus
recognizing, or at least allowing for, the ex-
lstence oil another aud not impossible world"
which may not be inclined to rest its soul
forever on the spec acle of ga metaphysical
genius working TO an aesthetic result"
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Rev. James Freeman Clarke in speaking
of this topic admits that the forms Of Chris
tisnity have changed, and will probably
change still more--in the direction OF greater
freedom, elasticity, ressonableness, and prac-
teal morality. II will not offer 10 The race
a creed or ritual, but make its principal
claim upon the moral aud social life Of its
every adherent, proclaIming love as the rule
of duty. Man is q religious being, who
does Dot live by bread alone, but needs to
worship some Unseen power. Religion con-
tinues to be az interesting as ever to the race
Instead Of its being displaced by science, re-
ligious questions largely engage scientific
thought. Tyndsll, Huxley, Clifford, are
much engaged in discussing the questions OF
prayer, miracle, creation, providence, and
freedom. Nothing will take the place Of re-
ligion. Science can no more become a sub
stitute for religion than religion can become
a substitute for science. The deepest power
which moves this world is faith in another
world. Man is so great that, unless he can
lay hold of the infinite, he soon tires Of the
finite. The essentials of Christianity, said
DR.. Clarke, are whatever has been received
by all Christians, everywhere, and at all
times. This definition excludes all special
forms OF creeds and churches, ritual and
worship, for none OF them have been so re-
ceiFed. That which remains is: Faith in
God az a father in man as a brother.
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w.sHawlnorne a splrI,aa,m.aIum,

1t is universally admitted that Mr.. Haw-
thorne, the author, was a man OF genius, and
that nothing from his pen is unworthy of
preservation, consequently the announce
ment that the notes of his partially completed
story, abr. Grimshaw's Secret" would be
published in the Century before Christmas
is fitting complement TO the publication in
the December number of the Atlantic Of the
only other story which Hawthorne left in an
unfinished condition. The Atiantic's story is
titled "The Ancestral Footstep," and resem-
bles "The Scarlet Letter" in the subtle power
with which crime is traced through sue
cessive generations in the changes and retri-
buttons of its manifest destiny. In the
broken outline, so far as it is printed, one
traces the same weird power which charsc-
tefizss Hawthorne's great romances, and
which seemed TO be the spirit that possessed
him whenever he took up his pen. He once
said TO his intimate friend, the Rev. w. III.
Claiming, the Christian idealist, that awhen-
ever he began 10 write be felt this demonisc
[spirii1 power at his elbou, as If another party
controlled him, and that it was impossible for
him TO resist the spell that came upon him"
thus proving that one of his spirit friends,
who could readily get en- rapport with him,
impressed the writer with the ideas he-the
spirit-wished to convey TO the people oil
earth, similar to the method practiced TO- sy
by spirits who desire TO communicate with
mortals through sensitive persons known as
mediums
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A wholesale Purv.xor.

The cable announced few days ago that
a FIRE in William Whiteley's London shops
had caused damage estimated at $500, 900.
Whitley is In extraordinary establishment
Less than twenty years ago Mr.. Whiteley
opened in what was then the extreme north
west of London 3 little shop with two as
sistants. To-day he ia a universal puryeyor,
employing 5000 people aud 800 horses His
buildings cover fourteen acres, and he has,
besides, an immense farm for surprising milk,
garden produce, etc. This remarkable York
shire man is the greatest purveyor in the
world. He undertakes 10. provide every
thing that human being can desire from
earth, air and sea. He is baker, butcher,
milkmau, tailor, furnituremaker, jewelsr,
builder, druggist, cobbler, banker, black
smith, desler in cattle, horses, and wild
beasts, florist, house ageat and draper to all
mankind, and will supply tiger and rose
bud with equal esse and promptness. His
success has been largely due 10 his recogni-
ton OF the fact that there was growing up
around him populous community which,
could he meet its wants, would be gladly
saved the trouble of going further.
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Garaela and Haneoel..

GM6eld's IA her was New York State
boy ''bound out TO service" Gen. Haneock's
father was also bound boy, bound out with
his sister TO Quaker farmers, and Hancock
was born 10 the back part OF roadside
schoolhouse, SIS GaTfsld kept one. The 81.
Louis bellies thought Lieut.. Hancock
was of the direct line OF old Gov. John,
the signature spreader, and he fully looked
il; but his grandfather was an obscure sailor
Of whom so little il known that it is not GER
tain hoy OF where he died, nor of what State
tribe he spraag, bat probably from the
Quaker Hancocks of Southern New Jersey.
Gen. Hsnkcock's mother was a superior wo-
man and made bonnsts as a milliuer in the
very house Harcoek went to lie in after mis-
wounds at Gettysburg. Many is the pretty
sirl whose isce Mrs. Hancock has framed
while the little tacker, Winfield, looked up
wondering whether IL was going 10 be a
three-dollar job or a fye-doilsE one. The
kin OF Gen. Garfield are among ihe Rlainest
people to be found even in pioneer society /;
SO education made both those bound boys
candidates Tor seep err.
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Harper's Magazine.
FOUND DROwNED.

She searches, searches everywhere,
As one would treasure find
Old Susan. vita the wandering eye
And long-bewildered mind
All up and down the shining sands
With eager step she goes;
And speaks with hes1tatfng voice,
Not knowing friends from foes:
"oh; have Aye you seen nm. ny pretty boy.
she left him TO me when she died.
And babe me be his mother
"our mother She frowns out of heaven
On me, as once she smiled;
So go searching, night and day,
Until find her child.
"'Tis few weeks ago''-(alas
She has lost count of yearsi)-
81 laid him on the soft warm sand
Asleep, and had no fears.
ST only went little way,
---;rAaS sat behind that stone,
WIZ" TIT q ~ I;;4.s Beverley,
HE VIII come back an6 marry me,
He says, in two years more;
shall be then but just eighteen,
And he scarce twenty-four.
"But can he marry me 90 she shfieks-
Me that was hanged Imean
They would have hanged me- but perhaps
Somebody told the Queen.
"And she said-what de not know;
think slept or died,
Aud woke up in world of dreams
Most horrible and wide.
81 did not kill the boy" she means;
II only left him here
Forgot him-and the tide flowed in
And ebbed out-no one near.
"Not guilty, oh, my Lord, my Lord,
Not guilty." sobbing wild:
81 only let him float away
And drown-my mothers child
"And so my mother made them shut
On me the prison door,
TIL was dead, yet now, it seems,
arn alive once more.
''I walk along the shining sanus
hear his shout OF Joy;
/ know I'll find him very soon
Ny little darling boy"
So on she goes with cautious tread,
And eager eyes ana Wild
But never, never will she find
The little drowned child.
DINAH MuLOcK en- AK
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-12-03

snake: "One day last week the Eorkmen in
Mr.. Peek's machine factory, in Southipgton,
discovered under one of the work benches
black snake, of the white-tbroat species and
about six inches long, suspended BY the web
of spider. The spider was of the common
house sort and not uncommouly large. When
6rst discovered the little insect had raised
his victim about half foot from the floor
and had him hung by single thread. The
ingenuity and power of the spider were truly
wonderful. Passing rapidly down his line
be would fasten his cordsge round the neck
of the snake, pass back 10 mis- own nest on
the under surface of the bench, then going
again down cast hitch around the tail
and returning to his nest would avail him.
self of the cOntortions of the snake, alter
nately hanging up his lines so as to bring his
game nearer home. 10 this manner he COM
Iinued his labor until evening, leaving The
snake alive, but 50 completely exhausted
and secured TO be safe for the night. 10 the
morning he was desd"-Easton Pa Gdsette.
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A Pretsuder for the Russian Throne

Pretsuder for the Russian Throne.
And now it is said a new horror has come
to the Car, that there is danger that the
Princess Dolgorouki, formerly the mistress
and later the wife of the late car, will sp-
peal to the Russian people in behalf of her
son George, as prelender to the throne.
In book just published, this boy is de-
scribed as the best beloved of the late en-
peror's children, "the child of his private
home and life, finding in him the child OF
that Russian nation to which he had given
so much Affection" Russians are not par.
ticularly sensitive touching the vices of
their rulers. This Princess Dolgorouki is a
wonderfully brilliant woman. Her power
over the late car was absolute; for her he
forgot every thing else, and it is feared that
if she POUNDS claim as the one who
prompted the late emperor 60 commence the
reforms which were instituted in the last
years of the emperor's life, and demands oil
the Russian people the recognition IS its
true prince, of the best loved son of the en-
peror who accomplished so much for his
people, the spark dropped among the incen-
diary classes may make an explosion which
viii siIakr the empire to ita- b. sa-----
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-12-03

Il is a remarkable fact, says the Phisdel-
phia R-ess, that the best actors and actresses
are always dead or retired from the stage.
Old play-goers tell Us that il has been so
from The beginning. There never vas time
when the really of the present was not ip-
signi6cau; compared with the recollection Of
the past. Even Mrs. Drew we only en-
tirely admire in the parts that she had
ceased 10 play. When she played them,
people we're wont TO say that the palmy days
of genteel comedy were past. 1t is but a
very few years since reminiscenses of Helen
Faacit and Ellen Tree were thrown 10 the
face of every young woman who essayed
one of Shsksspeare's younger heroines and
Adelaide Nelson was a vulgar upstart.
eince Adelaide Nelson is dead il is disoov-
cred that she was the only genuine inter-
prefer OF Shakesperian comedy, and all
others are coun,erfeits. kor audybody else
TO attempt "Rosalind" is an outrage. We
won't have it. Fifteen years hence we shall
be saying to young PLAYERS: "Ah, but you
shoBld have seen Mocjeska play 'RosalindP"
This we call criticism
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rne r.etae s..,e- Hi.,erlan.

Hubert II. Bancroft was born at Granville,
o., in 1852 His parents were from New
England. Boys were expected 10 work in
those days-fo work during summer and at
tend school 10 the winter. At the age of
sixteen Mr.. Bancroft entered the bookstore,
in Buffalo, of his broiher-in-law, George Fl.
Derby, who, in 1852, sent him TO California
with a stock of books and stationery with
which to begin business there. Mr.. Darby
died before the goods reached Ban Francisco
buttrue 10 the original purpose, Mr.. Bancroft
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HOW lhe npiaer snnres suahes

Some weeks ago a spider was found under
the settee In Justice Rsbipson's Cffice, with
. snake entwined in his web. Many thought
II a most rtmsrk able feat for the sPldeF TO
accomplish. Well, so il was; bat spiders IN
years past have shown just as much inse-
nuiiy. We lind in the Easton Gaseue OF
1924 the following statement, which was
copied from the Connecticut Mirror. OF case
very similar to that of Justice Robinson s
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ulDOrIauf,

When you Wait or leave New York city
have o aggage ,expreSs4ge and czrrie &c hire, an6
;sop at Grand Union Hotel opposite u rand Gen.
trail depot Four hundred and Nifty elegant 70 omf
fitted up at an expense OF 81 90 600 reduced 10 si
and upwards per day. Elevator Restaurant sup
piled with the best. Horse-cars stages and eie-
waited railroad 10 all depots- Families can live
better for less money at the G rand Union than at
any other hTst-class no tel in the city.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-12-03

CIscIssAII, Dc. mber lat 10 o'clock
tonight, near Falmouth, KY, the south
bound passenger train which left here at
O'Clock pm. cellided with the north-bound
local freight. Engineer Ben Early and Fire
rumored, were more or less injured, bat the
railroad company occupy the wires 60 that
news is not obtainable at this hour. A wreck
ing train went down from Covington TO the
scene Of the disaster. Both trains were badly
smashed.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-12-03

*THE great value of Mrs. Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound for all diseases
of women is demonstrated by everyday ex-
perience. The writer OF this had occasion
10 step into the principal pharmacy of city
of lac, 900 inhabitants, and on inquiry TO
which is the most popular proprietary med
icine OF the time, was answered thar Mrs.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound occupies a
most conspicuous place in the front rank of
all the remedies of this class now before the
public.-J0V4nai
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-12-03
THE CRUELTY OF NATURE.

We are taught that Nature is a living mind,
heart of untold pity. Bot we know
Z hat Nature is the unweary, cruel foe
OF our courageous, suffering humankind;
1t hears no prayer; it is unsouled and blind;
And We resist IL, brave it as we 60.
Until we die like dogs and cast our wo
Into the darkness of the underlined
1t is a beautiful and deadly power
Whose curse is still upon us while II CLEANS
Through the soft balm of tender summer moons;
OH have seen It blast I'm one sad hour
Lives that wers dearer 70 me than my dreams
And worth the glory OF the stars and moons.
With earthquake, lightning. and with SHOWS that
The passion of the heart; with desert heats
And drouth, and flood, and fire; with rains and
s.eets
And glaciers laundering from the polar seas;
With tortures that are as subtle as q breeze
With the quick poison lurking in its sweets,
AID with The CHASTITY terrQEE Of d sease-
This Nature brushes and destroys Us. holds
Our Hives as little precious as the worm
Or as the unspiritual bird of air;
Even when our love like young flower unfolds,
Or when our fragile hope grows high and firm,
II sweeps us into frenzy and despair.
Yet. we have that within us which dehes
The british wrongs of Nature; and we fight
AGAINST them with intrepid will and might,
AID with desperate faith that never dies
With faith that puts a fire into our eyes,
lion-stfengfh into our blood, a light
Into our souls whose melancholy night
Is haunting as the gloom OF boreal skies.
We are like sailors battling with the force
or the tumultuous ocean, breast to breast
With the wild dagger-thrusting of the storm.
Yet, while destruction blackens in their course
fleree with mad ambition TO contest
The winds that kill, and darken, and transform.
G. z. MONTGOMERY.
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Inc following poem written 20 Miss A F.
T., who told the author that she had been in
formed that ne (the author) was once
MONOMA MAC
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1882-11-25

a good story is told of Mod ie ka,
now playing in Boston, by an Eng.
fish correspondent of Washing
ton paper. 1t appears she was re-
Gently asked in fashionable London
drawing room to give a recitation in
her native tongue. AT first she was
unwilling to comply, declaring that
the recitation could scarcely be inter-
esting, as nobody in the room was sup
posed to know Polish. Yielding to
the opportunities of those around her,
she commenced a Polish recitation.
AS she proceeded her eyes seemed to
flash fire, and her audience were al
most spellbound by her impassioncd
delivery. They could, of course,
only imagine what she was saying, but
they presumed she was uttering the
aspirations of her countrymen for free
dom and denouncing the oppressors Of
Poland. When the recitation was
finished, the most enthusiastic plaudits
rewarded Nine. Modieska's effo IS. 1t
looked rather suspicious, however. to
sec her husband and two or three Pol
ISL friends in fits of laughter, as the
company made their way out of the
room. 1t was then explained that she
had been only reciting the ordinary
numbers from to 100.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1882-11-25

A parish with over 5000 inhabit-
ants in southwestern county Of Eng
land has just passed under the spiritual
direction of a reverend gentleman
who has been admitted to priests or
ders only few weeks. The living,
which is worth 81, 100 year, became
vacant four years ago, and as the
younger son for whom it was destined
was then an undergraduate at Cam
bridge, the patron discovered swarm
ing pan" in the shape of clergyman
aged 78, who has now resigned on the
convenient plea Of 'Sncressing infrm-
taea, " receiving retiring allowance
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1882-11-25
BARBED WIRE.
How to Build Fence that Will Stand
for Years.

AVi 1CulSs
The agricultural editor of the Reno
Gazette gives the following advice to
its farmer readers: In building wire
fence the chief requirement is an
immovable end post. Several years
experience has taught that an end post
needs to be set very firmly, to be Of
extra size and length, and so well
braced that there can be no possible
chance for it to be pulled over. The
post had best be set three and half
feet, and the first post ten feet from
it so that it may serve for "foot" for
the brace. In carrying wire over the
cups and downs" OF the land, it is dis
posed to "run," and the fence can be
made much stronger, and also guard
against this by setting every tenth
post three feet, and tamping it with
small stones 50 as to hold it secure.
Then in crossing hollows the tendency
OF the wire is to ''lift," so that in the
lowest places extra care should be
taken to set one or more posts very
deep and secure, SO that they cannot
be affected by the contraction Of the
wire. Galvanized wire is the best.
Its cost is only one per cent. per pound
more than the painted, which is in
reality no protection to the metal, for
it soon peels off, and then to save the
iron from rust it has to be be painted,
and those only who have painted a
barbed wire fence can enter into the
spirit Of recital.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1882-11-25
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