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Some Facts about Newspapers,

BY some unaccountable misapprehen-
sion OF facts, there is large class of peo-
pie IN the world who think that it costs
little or nothing to run newspaper, and
II they buy copy occasionally they are
regular patrons and entitled to unlimited
tavors. Men ask for copy of news
paper for nothing, who would never
dream OF begging pocket handkerchief
from dry goods store, or piece Of
candy from confectioner, even upon
the plea of having done business with
them once before. One paper is not
much, but thirty or forty at each issue
will mont to something in the course
OF time. But this is a small drain COM
pared with the free advertising a news
paper is expected to do. Some people
when they once pay for an advertise
ment think they are stockholders in the
establishment for eternity. Without
being represented in its advertising
columns we have had people request us
to gratultously insert this notice, or draw
attention to this article, with the slight
suggestion that cit will not cost Won
anything to put this in, - which is lust as
ridiculous as to ask man to grind your
axe on his grindstone, and graciously tell
him 1t won't cost him a cent. Tt takes
money to run newspaper as we'll as any
other business; no paper can succeed
financially that carries dead head syg
tenn. ANY mention of peoples affairs
that they are anxious to see in print is
worth paying for, and when printed is
generally worth as much as any other
Investment of the same amount.
The newspaper business is very ex-
acting on all connected with it, and the
pay Is comparatively small; the proprie-
tors risk more money for smaller profits.
and the editors, reporters, and printers
work harder and cheaper than the same
number OF men IN any other profession
requiring the given amount of intelli-
gence, training, and drudgery. The life
has It's charms and pleasant associations.
scarcely known to the outside world but
1t has its earnest work and anxietieg
and hours of exhaustion, which also are
not known to those who think the bust
ness all fun. The idea that newspaper
dom Is charmed circle, where the
favored members live a life of ease
and tree from care, is an idea which
should be exploded. Business is bust
ness, and the journal that succeeds is the
one that Is run on a square business foot
ing the same as banking, building bridges
or keeping hotel s. Economist
anal Dry Goods Reporter.
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Conversion Work.

We have been reading with great in
terest the biographical sketch of the Rev.
DR.. lchabod S. Spencer, in the series of
sermons of which new edition has lust
been issued by our Board of Publication.
DIR. Spencer was, we suppose, one of the
most successful pastors our church has
had. In the guidance Of inquirers he
was unexcelled. His ministry was fruit
full in conversions 1t may be, therefore,
that table which is given in his bio
graphical sketch will be surprise to
those who have not seen it before. It
gives the number of admissions to the
church on profession, in each year of his
ministry. In the three years and a half
of his pastorate in NORTHAMPTON. the
numbers were /, 10, % 144, the last
named year being one Of wonderful
awakening. Then in Brooklyn from 1882
to 1854, the numbers in the successive
years were "a, IL, 20, %, 18, Is. Ga. q .
%, 20, %, 49, Is, 9, 9, II, 26, A. Q. 40,
%, II, u. The total in the twentv-two
years was 48l, an average Of % a year.
Perhaps the smallness Of the number in
several Of the years will be revelation
to many. There is one year which is
particularly noticeable. An extract is
published from his New Year Sermon of
1852. lie mentioned that in the year
1851 he had preached 200 sermons, made
AL pastoral visits to families, 121 visits
to the sick and dying, had 259 private
conversations on salvation with persons
who were not church members, attended
46 prayer meetings, and 60 other re-
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-04-05
Recent Publications.

THE CATHOLIC PEEsBYTERIAS Tor MARCH
Contents
l Dean Stanley's Latest Views, by Prof. A.
A. Hodge, d. d., Princeton New Jersey. =.
Science q Foundation Stone of Christianity. by
the Editor. s. Theologians OF the Day-Blshop
Iightfoot, D. D., by Rev. Prof. Glib, M: A,
Iondon. 4. Denominational Thought Its Pub
LEGATION and Preservation, by Rev. w. Z. Breed,
ID. D., Philadelphia 5. Alexander Comrie ::
His Conflict and its Results, by Prof. Kuyper,
D. D., Amsterdam. 6. Recent Books. Notes
of the Day. s. American Notes. g. General
Survey. TO- Open Council.
Published by Arson D.. F. Randolph Co.,
New York.
THE PRESBYTERIAN REVIEW for April is re.
ceived and offers the following table of arti-
Giles:
The Messianic Kingdom The Homiletcal
Value of WORDSWORTH Poetry John Mitchell
Mason; The Majesty Of God as Revealed by
Modern Stellar Astronomy Is Total Abstinence
True Temperance? The Greek Testament of
Westcott and Hort; The Critical Theories of
Julius Wellhausen; Reviews of Recent Theo
logical Literature.
A. D. F. Randolph & Company, Broadway,
New York.
SOUTHERN HISTORICAL SOCIETY PAPERS for
March. Rev. j. William Jones, d. D., Sec
rotary, Richmond, Va. Subscription, So per
year.
THE EARNEST WORKER for April. Published
by Whittet & Shepperson, Richmond, Va.
LIrrEIL's LIVING AGE for the week ending
April 5th
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ligious meetings, oficiated at "a fun
erals; over 800 visits, to say nothing of
other items. Certainly, he was in that
year " In labors more abundant" What
was the result in the conversion of souls
and additions to the church? Their
number was only ten: How suggestive
this is of the sovereignty of the Spirit of
God In giving or Withholding his grace
And let not the hard working pastor
be disheartened or chide himself if ne
cannot always report numerous visible
fruits Nor, when there is a dearth of
conversions should the blame necessarily
be laid at the door of the pastor Pres
byte7la7a Journal
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-04-05

The claims of this unpretending but
most useful little Mission at Sermon
lane have often been advocated In these
pages. With it's various ingenious APP
pliances for doing good, it may be termed
indeed mandatory of happiness; and
your readers may send their contribu-
tons to it with the certainty of their be-
ing very well bestowed. The expenses
OF the above entertainment, we may add,
were betrayed by few friends, and did
not trench on the regular funds of the
Mission, which at present require re-
plenishing. Christian.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-04-05
A Cornish Cobbler's Sermon

{" He first fndeth his own brother,
Simon Now'I am sure tbs good plan
to go looking after one Soul. Every soul
In the world belongs to our Lord. He
made EN-, every one, and He bought
EN-, every one, with His precious blood.
They's His every way, and the devil is a
thief. I've often thought what poor
master the devils servants have got.
Why, when he came up to tempt our
mother Eve in paradise, he hadn't got
any bit O a little for to bride her with,
an all he could do was to tempt her to
steal her Masters apples. He haven
got anything at all Of his own.
Andrew didn't say, I'll try to do all the
good | can, and then do nothing, be-
cause he couldn't find any to do; but he
says, There's Simon; III go and catch
him. That's the way; pick out one
soul, and set your heart pom it; begin to
pray for that one, and go on trying till
you've got it; and then try for another.
We might do good deal O good in the
world, if we didn't try to do so much.
I've heard folks a singin', an meanin' it.,
too:
We're the whole realm of nature mine
That were present far too small.
An because the realm O. nature wasn't
theirs, they didn't give anything at all p
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Rev. DR.. Pressense writes from Paris
to the Christian World in London.
that great effort is being made to get
up vast petition against the holding Of
gaming tables at Monaco. The petition
mas been drawn up at Nice by a man of
m !G influence and talent connected
with the Free Church, and it will bro
IDaoly be warmly supported in the Cham
Ders' May we hope that it will prove
victorious over the base interests that
will struggle for the maintenance Of tbo
gaming-houses Of Monaco, which mako .
little hell within little heaven. Man
a time the bodies Of those who have. cone
out and hanged Themselves have Been
seen suspended from the orange-trees Of
Monte Carlo among the golden fruit"
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-04-05
DR.. Herrick Johnson and the
Theatres

Manager McVicker, of Chicago, chal-
lenged DR.. Herrick johnson to make the
charges against his theatre that he made
In general terms, saying that he would
sue him for libel if he did so, and has in
dulged in similar vaporings from time to
time In the daily papers. On last Satur-
day morning he received his answer, and
dreadful answer it is. No less than
thirteen plays that have been put upon
the boards of that theatre are analysed
and briefly described. AS MoVicker's
Theatre is claimed to be, and probably
is, the cleanest and most talented of the
Chicago theatres, the revelations made
by DR.. Johnson's analysis of those plays
are appalling, and will greatly deepen
the already profound impression which
this discussion has made upon the pub
lie mind. DR.. Johnson's thus concludes
the EXPOSURE
Fathers and mothers, whose truer in
stincts can yet be trusted to keep Jealous
guard about your children, what do YOU
think of a school like this for lessons in
virtue? Husbands and wives, who still
believe In the sanctities of wedlock, your
Judgment on these plays? Are they a
murderous assault on everything the
family holds sacred? If they are, then,
beyond a question, patronage of an in
stltution that will thus make sport and
mock of marriage is inconsistent with a
sacred regard for nuptials that have on
them the seal Of God. Young men of
this city, can you look into the face of
purity, and then go unblushingly and
without sense Of selfdegradation to such
scenes as these plays furnish? Can you
take purity with you, and expect it to be
unsolled by the uncleanness Good
citizens, can we afford to patronze and
sanction at all, even on clean nights, an
institution that thus and so often allows
and encourages the production of plays
that are simply satanic attempts to tear
down every sacred shield about our
homes and hearts? Doesn't it seem an
awful puerility to be noisily criticising
the "indelicacy of speech" in the attack
on this foulness of filth, when speech
should be burning with a righteous in
dlgnation against the foulness itself 4?
Doesn't it seem a miserable and wicked
cant Of culture" to be pratine of not
thinking evil" when that culture can see
no imPurity in the playhouse compare
bic with the impurity that same culture
thinks" into the literary style of the
arraigner of the play house l-Interior.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-04-05

The progress" in theology, which is
50 much spoken Of, may be illustrated by
the latest deliverance of Mr.. Henry
Ward Beecher. He says, in spite Of St
Paul, that man " did not become sinful
through his relation to Adam"-tbat is
that in Adam all did not die" His
thought IS that all men are created at
zero; Then the question comes, why
do all men start at zero?' God made
man upright, and uprghtness is many
degrees above zero. How did the race
run down the scale so fast and so far ?
Mr.. Beecher's slashing theology does not
get rid Of the difficulties of the case.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-04-05

If those that profess religion, adorn
their profession by eminent civility and
seryiceableness TO all, they shall find it
will rebound to their own comfort and
advantage, as well as to the glory Of
God,
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-04-05

Says DR.. James w. Alexander: COB
serve the families which have made this
passage from ancient strictness to fash
lonable Christianity and you will find
their children, one by one, sliding away
to looser forms Of religion, if not to utter
carelessness. More than ever" con
tinues he, " do feel that our families
must stand in a kind, but determined
opposition to the fashions of the world,
breasting the waves, like the Eddystone
Light House"
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-04-05

There is one Thing Certain, However
can 1t malaria or what you may, and it general.
~ comes without calling, where lI health does
exist Simmons Liver Regulator Will restore il.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1882-07-29
SUING FOR PEACE

Last night'R cable news from Egpyt
will be tom Il decidedly intcrc-tinv,
matters there having assumed Il novel
and somewhat unexpected turn.
After all his honsts o' being "lnst
ditchcr" ready to fight to the death,
Arab Bcy now proposes pcac.., coupled
with certain advantageous Elrrms to
himself rcncr hr can undoubtedly
get # he is willing to surrender,
although It n exceedingly qu,sti, unbl,
II the British will bee willing to accord
hm the exceptionally happy conditions
hc wants The murders aud harburuu-
treatment uf Europeans ard other
Chrl tlan- ut Alexandria and other
points H. Egypt nrc directly clHrgcablc
to Aran, and he Ia consider.
ed as having placed himself outside the
pulo of civilized warfare. Ca these nc.
counts 1t IL doubtful # Grcut Britain
will consent To- lIstcn to anything bnt
hls unconditional surrender. At tins
writing we have no information an to
the temper of the British government ON
the question of Arabi@ surrender Re.
Wondering Engauds general rlum ot
dealing with those who succumh To- her
arms II If measurahly safe 10 assume
that Arnbl will hnrdly be vested with
his rauk, Ms pockets filled
IN ney md told to take his hHrrm, 20 i'm
peace and sin 40 more. Egypt needs
peace, though. The country has been
cursed with burdeus and Disturbance
FOR years, mud Tor the SAX Of the people
It If 10 be hoped the war will ccnse and
the ancient hand winch eSctes the sym
pathy Of the world because Of lts history,
its tradition and it, lore be given uu
opportunity to recuperate
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1882-07-29
INIInIrINILS HASTE

The ENAMINfu desires to Join the
Austin Salesman IN deprocutiou of the
immediate line u policy snii to hive
been decided ou by .hc university rc.
gents, with reference 20 the establish.
meut OF the institution With mraEcr
and certainly inadequate provision FOR
It's support We are told that he uuiyel-
-ity is to be thrown open Tor students
~ January ncxt-orencd IN ronted
room, because II hHs no buildings nor
IAN 1t have nuy worth mentioning, iur
some tim, t. cumc-uutil legislative
generosity is test Il. The board, we are
further informed, - to- meet rarly IN
August to elect IL faculty professors
who will bee expected to enter upUu their
duties at the proposed January opening
We cannot believe that the real friends
ut the university will commend ,hls
hast. The university Ito be- is
all nncquipped with the means
" suppor md 1t Is to be- feared iis use.
iuiucss must be- materially n not perma.
neutiy impaired by indiscretiou at the
outset WY NOT wait until the lcgl--
laturc meets and ,-crrtala what IT VII.
do ion the university, A poor start i-
worse than none AT all Aud us 20 he
Tia" professors What class u tnlrnL
prny, does 'n, board expect to -ccur. at
tins season Of the yeur or even IN Jan.
uAry, Every professor OF capacity, WHO
II able To- work or care to- do so, is en-
gagged Tor at lcHst u your ahead Profcs-
surs vino are filling chairs in hr-tca4s
educational institutions cannot be in
ducod To- break their engagements ~
mid winter 10 eutcr Tins experimental,
weHkly bautliuR that the l"Sas uuiycrity
viii undoubtedly ne 10 opened with the
new year The result will be
that mediocre men, make shifts,
will secure the places and
the institution enter upon existence
handicaj ped by incomretency III its
chairs The experiment If hazardous
impolitie aud premature. Til" regents
should wait for the siuews ct war at the
hands o' the Legislature. The faculty
should not he made up IN hhstr. II the
state Is able to pny them and they can
be induced to come, We want the ablest
professors IN tie nation. A W" under
stand IT, this is To- be- Il uuivrrsity--o'
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1882-07-29

One Of the congressional DISTRICTS
the eleventh-has concluded that 1t can
get along without holding a nominating
convention Mr. c. X Bell, Of fIauil.
ton, the chairman Of the democratic ex-
ecutIye committee Tor the district, an.
nouuces that he has conferred with
majority Of the county chalrmen and
they nre ayerse to district convention.
The race will be free fur-Hli, go-as you
please contest. The eleventh district
commences at Parker and Hood coun.
ties on the east as far sonth "a,
Coryell; takes III tue Panhandle couu.
try; skirts the ludHu territory, New
Mexico and some Of old Mexico having
vi Paso AZ it's western limit, In 1850 It
polled u total vote Of 1926, Of WHICH
the democratic vote Was over 1900 1t
will undoubtedly elect democrat this
time.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1882-07-29

The Galveston News states that with
the hrce.cents.a.mils law, which goes
into effect the 18th of next month, the
railroads nl over the state propose TO
introduce pennies Tor the purpose Of
making change, Tie schedule Of rates
will be based strictly upon the law three
cents per mile being charged for travel,
and the exact fare TO be demanded. In
making change, agents will use pcnr les
and nlckels, giving and taking them as
any other currency, The Santa Fc nud
Galveston, Houston and Henderson
have each ordered supply of pennies,
and as soon US the Law goes into effect
will begin giving them out Objections
will be made OF course to this class OF
coin, but the railroads are determined
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1882-07-29

Governor st John, Of Kansas, expects
to be renominnted and re- elected ON the
temperance issue. Beyond seeing to it
that prohibition is firmly aud irrryoca-
bly, established IN Kansas, he asserts
that he has no political ambition The
people of Kansas, he contends, arc thor.
oughly satisfied with the policy Of pro
hlbilon. Every temperance man" he
says, "is encouraged. Railroa + are
selling twice aT much land IA at any
time for live years. Our school lands,
with the choicest taken mp yeurs ago,
are now selling ut the rate ot 22O acres
per day, while in 1850 the rutc WAS hut
l5l acres per day"
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1882-07-29

The Texas Matrimonial Association,
OF Austin, gotten mp 10y strangers from
other states, offered Il charter for film
Tim sday, The required Zee for regis.
tration was s25, but the cash assets Of
the coucon being only 80, II was wi h.
drawn. L is officially known at Austin
that -cvernl yonng men who have here
fore been engaged IN tn busiucss IN
other stats, are the originaDors and
managers Of several such associations in
IeHhR
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1882-07-29

What Is political orthodoxy in one sec.
tion il heresy in another The Peuusyl.
vanis democrats declare outright tor a
protective tariff In Ohio the tarin plank
IN the democratic platform was plauod
aown to the following PROPORTIONS:
We favor a tariff levied to meet actual
needs, and 80 adjusted III its details,witl
o.. q, view OF equality in public burdens, as
10 encourage productive industries and
Isn M aford labor Just compensation without
+, " III ii,eHting mouopolies.
tsrm;n. Texas it reads. I'VE are opposed
legitima protective tsrin, and favor tariff
the enteevenue only" Many men Of many
,saily { ~ N, The party had as well nominate
sooJ main sncock again IN 1854 for he was
Incerned, hen he said the tariff is mere
public any iue. The democracy, as a un.
nuslhess t1 , h.rty, has no direct policy ou the
1rinting VII. As consequence it eau never
Jest, aud whontrol the revision Of the tariff
o afford tlunited in sentiment.
q
of any class
lot expect pal
nd short Of il
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1882-07-29

woman primitive beauty and vigor,
which have been lost ctn be restored and
retained by the action OF certain consti
iutional agents. These agents nrce- sarily
regulate, build up, iorliiy and antagon2e
all existing female irregul riies and eN-
cesscs or distractions which produce the
III health The remedy must unlold the
locked up sccreli0nS, add iron to blood,
strength to system and vitality To nerves.
such remedy is found in the use ot
English Female Bitters. ll0l&wlm
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1882-07-29

From English sources we learn that
the fsyorite amusement Of Egyptian
women Just now is to catch Christian.
open his bowels, tue one end OF his Wis
cera around a dog, throw coal oil over
both, set them on fire aud laugh at the
subsequent proceedings Wciuirr from
TINS thai war correspondents Of greatly
enlarged calibrr constitute an impor.
tant part OF the British military equip
ment in Egypt.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1882-07-29

II cost the city Of Mlddotown, Conn,
III legal and unicinl fees. $50 to seize half
pint Of illicit whisky and So more to
destroy IT as required 10y law. The local
press wants to know what chance the
town will have ~ cscarlnR bankruptcy
should it become necessary to coniiscntr
few barrels of liquor.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1882-07-29

English Female Btturs ~ intended
for young girls as well as married ladies,
who have had some exposure. become
irregular, pale and feeble, with head
ACNE, leucufNua, pHii in side and bHck,
or eNccsses. Its use strengthens and
tones the stomach, iuyiEurutc- the
nerves, gives iron to the blood, currocts
irregular uterine Hctiuu and removes
unnatural ohstructiuus 7Hlm,
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1882-07-29

The Khedlye Is still trying to dis
charge Arab, but the hitter refuses 10
20 OFT Mes cngers carrying the of-
cial announcement oi Anbl4 dccapitu-
tion seem to lose their own heads before
they reach his camp.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1882-07-29

upon their course. aud those who do the
ob!ectug will simply have to mile aud
benr the annoyance, a. If will for time
be called In due course, however, IT Is
believed that the prejudice against the
coppcrs will be overcom. and they will
be considered decided convenience.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1882-07-29

During his recent VISIT to New Or
leans, Bart Moore made arrangements
for a continual supply OF pure refined
cotton seed oil, which is declared by all
who have used 1t, superior to lard for
ooklng purposes. Families supplied
nd s6tisf action guaranteed. 03Oitf
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1882-07-29

Barnes, the evangelist converted 100
kentuckinns III three weeks. In order
to have accomplished this, the Chicago
Hera Il thinks he must have pictured
the New Jerusalcm as having gold
paved racc track, with an adjunct IN the
shape Of IA silver-pluted dis illcry from
which gnShcs u neycr,tHiinR fountain
OF pure bourbon.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1882-07-29
Notice.

All parties in arrears to me are Tespec
fully but urgently requested 10 call and
settle MS have waited patiently and they
must now be closed up or | will hc COM
pell,d to place a claims in the hand, OF
an attorney tor collection.
O7u73w SNNFoEp JOHNSON.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1882-07-29

Judge lrcland'- probable MINORITY il
estimated all the way from 25.OOO mp
to 75,W@ The cool heads usc the for
mer aud the rnthuslast- the latter fig.
uIes. Just so 1t Is MINORITY VIII
suffice. Big mnioritios are unhealthy.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1882-07-29

Those contemplating a summer trip
would do well to look at the very large
as Ortmcnt OF tinG travelling trunks and
valiscs ot the nehest improved styles at
B. uabcr's 's.-G25tc