The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1886-05-13
WIT AND HUNIOR.

This is specimen of photography in
letter received from an applicant for
office in Boston,: 81 hop thee Bord will
bee kinder nuff to xk,lze missteaks." !
Tommy asked his father the name of
large building which they were pass
ing. THAT is blind asylum" said
the father. Then said Tommy,
'what's the use of-putting windows in
it?'-Pdris Figaro.
1t is quite likely that some one will
ask you the difference between jerome
Park and the natives of the Figi Islands.
If so, you can answer that one is race
course and the other a coarse race
Shoe and Leather Reporter.
''Mr. Smith, asked the Professor Of
Natural History, (which animal exhib-
its the greatest susceptibility for attach
ing itself to the human racer" Smith
reflects: "Ah-er-r-rer-I think the
leech, Professor. .''-NeW York Nail.
Sir Dgby (going round to the news,
finds his new coachman's children play
ing about, and introduces HIMSELF
'.Well, my little man. and do you know
who l am?" Boy-'Yes. you're the man
as rides in fathers carriage. ."-Harper's
BdzGr.
Young Hobson-'.What beastly stuff
this isr' Uncle John-"They say on the
bill of fare it is their own importation,
from the Box & Cox Company Qimited),
wine merchants to his Hi ghness the
Prince of Wales" Young Hobson-
-.Bah JoFe, let's have another bottle"
-Nelo York Life.
Wife-"John, dear, notice that your
brother James never makes n friendly
call upon us unless he is intoxicated. I"
Husband-"No, my dear, he doesn't
James reminds me of the moon" w
Reminds you of the moon?" H
YES. dear; he never gets round till he's
full. ."-Nelv York World.
The Importance of Moral Agencies.
The death of John b. Cough has led
several prominent journals TO speak Of
his work and.,his methods as q tenn
perance reformer. All of them agree
that no man had done more than he to
arouse public attention to the myriad
evils of intemperance, and to create
public opinion n favor of temperance
and sobriety. Buring the twenty-five
years which followed his appearance as
an advocate of total abstinence, no one
man exerted so powerful an influence IN
that direction as he. Tens of thousands
heard his lectures, tens Of thousands
more heard of them, and his early life
was known in every community. At
the same time the sentiment of total alb
stinence and the evils of drink were in
, culcated by an army of sincere advo-
Gates who appealed to the intelligence
and the conscience of the public. There
were few villages in New England in
which there was not an active and Wig
orous temperance society which main
tanned public meeting. At this period
moral forces were relied upon to carry
on the work of temperance. The rapid
growth Of temperance sentiment during
that period proves the efficacy OF moral
and Intellectual agencies. In time the
reformers found their work impeded by
the traffic, and they appealed to law.
Law was useful auxiliary when sus-
tanned by public sentiment. When it is
not, or when any community is so in
different abRt the evils which law is
designed to eradicate that it will not
sustain its enforcement, it is hind
rance rather than 4 help. BY degrees,
moral agencies came to be more or less
neglected by those who are leaders in
the temperance movement. instead OF
presenting arguments and appeals TO
the head and the conscience, and of de-
picting the evils, the burdens and the
wretchedness which the drink traffic
entails upon the community, the neces-
sitv OF law as the means of stopping the
trade is more prominent. The reasons
In favor of temperance and against in
temperance are not given rs formerly,
the assumption being that everybody Is
familiar with them. The demand Is for
laws which public opinion will not en-
force (for after all, public opinion un-
der our form of government entorces
the laws, and if legislators do not
deem ii TO be wise to enact such laws,
they are denounced instead OF the Owl.
boston J0ilrledt.
Lord Tenryson has again recorded a
public protest against the episto!ary
persecution from which he has suffered
even more than most eminent men, lht
pertinacitv of these unweicome cores
nouden:s is the less eNcusablc. as thc
. laureate has never made secret of hi;
short and summary way OF treating
thrin. All letters from the legion ot
lord Tcnnyson's unauthorized cores
l,ondan,s become dead letters. They
i,o. onlv die, but are buried out of sight
and out of mind forever. The poe
himself does not open one of the thous
an,;s Of such letters which the post an
rraIy discharges athis door. nor doe
he ever read IiGe Of their contents
The documents are 1T once destroyed.