Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-05-08
HERE AND THERE.

Mr. John l.. Masterson, OF Master sonville
read in some newspaper of old almauacs
aud he has brought down some that are bosr
with age and venerable in all appearances,
Here - "Der Hhch neutsch Amerik an ishcr
Calendar, auf d,S Nahr l7sl" Ii was pub.
ltshed Ivy John Dunlap, on Market street,
Philadelphia, and Mr MasterSoI has several
ISSUES of later years They contain the
familiar funny picture OF the disembow led
man, with all the signs of the zodiac pointed
| at him, which Judge Black once cited ~ an
| Illustration in a famous legal argument and
| a. early as acentury ago the public depended
| on the almsnacs to keep the court dates
Alright OF even earlier date IN, are some OF
| Mr.. Mssterson's collection, having quaint
interest for their woodcut illustrations and
some special litersry features
A cane that Rev. J. Max Hsrk carries is a
very remarkable stick of its Kind. 1t is
made of South America snake-wooi from
the Moravian mission station in Suriuam,
! Dutch Guinea Its head is an ivory portrait
bust oil Bishop Spangenberg, carved 10y an
eminent artist OF Leist, aud il a remarkably
true lIkehes aud fine piece OF work. The
cane was specially made as a unique gift To
tue late Rev. j. +. Frueautl while he WAS a
member OF the governing board of the
American Moravian church, soon after his
retirement from the priucipalship OF Linden
hall, Lititz. After his death his aged widow
| kept the cane until about two months ago
"heh she sent 1t as mark OF appreciation To
| Its present owner whom, though personally
| unacquainted with him. she knew from his
| writings and addresses to be a great admirer
| OF Spangenhe berg, and VINO she believed woulI
| appreciate 1t more than anyone else lie
| prizes the cane more especially, also, a. a
memorial OF the greatest bishop most emf
nent scholar and ablest man without ex-
| ception the Moravian church ever produced,
ana oil the man who was the true founder of
Moravianism in Lancaster, the church hero
oeing organized while Spapgenberg presided
| over the famous " PENNSYLVANIA SYNOD"
| held in the old court house here in l745.
| -.
| MI hark has also another rather interest
| ing cane 1t Is so-calIed ZiegeHhuiHcr, such
| as German students are wont TO carry IL is
ot peculiarly hard and heavy laurel wood,
the Kind that grows on the Carpathian
mountains, where Mr.. Hark's father cut
this nearly half century ago on a vacation
| tour with some fellow students ON il arc
| carved the names of his college class. mates
| ana friends, several of whom have since
inscribed their names still more indelibly on
| the scroll OF European political and literary
history.
| -.
| 1T Is almost painful to sea a newspaper
| like the New York Independent which
| from its literary character and intelligent
constituency ought he expected to take a
broad view of public questions and lead
| popular sentiment Alright, get of an editorial
| screed like this
In the name OF eiigion-'. which ia first
| pure -ot Justice, OF good order, of sound
| morality, and of the best interests of the
| whole civilized world, we demand that the
ioulr stenchtnl, beaStly, and monumental
| leprosy of Mprmonism he Immediately y OK
terminated, root and branch-at the point
OF the bayonet, ii necessarv-uo matter
| What george TlcknOr Curtis or anv other
ia"yef Tor lee, may say to the contrary
| 10 Tolerate TINS abOmInatiOn "A Single dan is
| 10 perpetuate our national disgrace and rro
woke the righteous judgment of Heaven.
Ii Is Just such talk AS this from pulpit rant
ers ana so called religious" editors that
creates sympathy for Mormonism and gives
an excuse to demand their legal rights and
possibly toget little more in a land OF free
thought, free speech and religious liberty.
| ltit knows anything the IHdependeEt knows
that "Mormonism" can no more be extermi.
| mated "root and branch" sat the point az
| the bayonet' than Lutheranism, Methodism,
| Catholicism or Paganism no more than nv
| PupSiI'Si uecclt, lying, drunkenness and
| other vices and tnat the very moment
| this government sets out to eNterminateJ ,,
| q relIglous hith because it il repugnant TO
| the great majority OF its people il tumbles
our "hoie superstructure to the ground For
| the vices OF the MOrmOns, like the yices nf
the Gentlles, practised in defiance of public
ofder anu IN contravention OF law, the law
must ma remedy and punishment and the
Ia" oihcers ought to he protected in its en-.
iorcement, even with bayOnets, If necessary
FOR polygamy in Utah, as for prostitution In
Boston, Righteousness in New York. adui
tery In Philadelphia, public drunkenness in
Lancaster, and gambling in Bungtown,
there should be legal inhibition and Iegai
punishment, but for a faith howeyer f,fsI
religion however vile, belief however, an
tagonistic to Christian civilization our Iaws
AFFORD no punishment and our government
furnishes no hayOnetS. The preacher and
editor who does not know This oupbt to
learn and he whe knows it and teaches
snch constitutional immortality as the Tude-
pendent Is worse than a Mormon with seven
Teen wives or lives.
A good many Lancaster people have heen
dowh TO Philadelphia this week to see the
great dramatic combination of Booth and |
Sdivinl play " Othello, the Moor of Venice ~ |
that Is, they went TO see tho combination
but they only saw Salvini's OtheUo and |
anybody who has ever seen that on a limited |
stage, with the proper theatrical accessories
mas seen and heard better entertainment |
than this polyglot performance and donbIe
attraction With SaiUiHi on the stage there
Is no room at all for Booth in this pIay, nj.
Deit fdgo Is the greater creation of the dram
aust lhe American actor seems to shrink
INTO lnsignihcance beside the superior gsnius
anu herce intensity of the Italian. | saw |
Booth year ago i'll :" The FOOLS Reyenpe -
aud the intellectually of his conception and
rendition OF that character were so maryeIIous |
That regret seeing him where it seems To |
hs his powers are dwarfed The hast |