The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-06-20

self to the forest ana Cnop wood, put his days of "log rolling" are gone.
 Precise young lady to her little broth CT: "Willie, don't do that way. Don't kick the ankle of the table, you disturb me"
 The ladies of Richmond, Virginia, re- fused to cover a murderer with roses. This is surely strange freak, an unac- countable action.
 Rev. pr. Winfield. of the Methodist Epis- copal church, recently in charge of congre- gation at Hot Springs, Ark, has been ap- pointed chaplain of the Arkansaw peniten- tiary. The reverend gentleman will no doubt find the change to Purer and more moral air decidedly beneficial. The Arkansaw pen itentary is a paradise compared with that va!!ey of clouded titles and still more oh- scure reputa,ion.-Fs. Wsrth Ter) LhaH.
 This is an unkind stab. Everyone knows that Hot Springs is city of brotherly love. Why, some of the hotel keepers of that town, when they hear that stranger is coming, go out to meet him and assure him that he shall have special rates. He gets the rates-oh, yes, he gets them, but ever afterwards he begs for full rates. Very few men can stand the special rates of Hot Springs hotel. Thus few men injure the repu- tation of a good town.
 Some writers claim that fiction is stead fly improving. That it is improving in moral tone, thefe cannot be introou oueed a well-founded doubt, but it cannot be suc- cessfully urged that it is improving iu art. The modern novel, while it may be clear and vigorous in the delineation of char acter, lacks that great force of imagina- ton so conspicuous in the novels pro- duced during the first half of the present century. Even though it be the aim of a writer to work a reform, to abolish certain abuses, he must, to be successful, give to his work an interest not to be found in a mere treatise, mere comment on such abuses. He must, in fact, mislead the reader. A lesson unconsciously learned becomes deep-set principle. The man who has been taught, fancies that the idea sprang up within himself, and with the resolution of self-pride he urges it. No great reform novel has ever appeared in America, not because we have never had any great reformers, but probably because we have never had writer who knew how te successfully blend great object with great interest. However, there is an abundance of material and the new school of fiction producers may, after awhile, make astonishing revelations.
 The man who desires to become noted revivalist should not cultivate his mind but should cultivate the habit of making rough remarks. Sam Jones' success seems to lie in his lack of learning. He has vigorous way of telling people that if they do not do as he says-do not be- lieve as he does, they will certainly drop into the bosom of the awful lake. With an uncompromising advocacy of this idea, he has drawn many people ts his sup port. Why cultivated people throw aside all attempt at thought and willingly sur render to such an arbitrary man is some thing we cannot understand. Divest the man of a certain kind of blunt and not particularly refined humor, and there re- mains nothing calculated to hold an au- dience. He is kind of evangelical para grapher who never fails to make semi- humorous comment on every idea which he considers absurd. Revise his sermons that is, take hell from them and noth- ing but skeletons remain. fla woman dances, she is a candidate for hell If a man goes to theatre, he is in league with the devil. With him, Shakespea,e's name is the synonym of evil, because the greatest of all poets wrote for the stage. By this time, in such an age as the pres- ent people should be too intelligent to seriously consider the rantings of fa- natic. The hell doctrine is an injury to true religion. It raises the hair of a crouching child, but a man should know better. It is doctrine of cruelty instead sf doctrine of love. It fosters fear rath- CT than inspires confidence. It only has one great accomplishment: It makes Mir. Jones famous.