Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-05-22
HERE AND THERE.

When men, women and children begin to
lie around here from "axidental drowen "
md from cosaS ouuon," according to crow.
ler's quest law, is ii a matter for the concern
VI the board of health or the board Of educa-
tiouH
| heard group OF gentlemen recently |
with one accord hardle the INrELIIGsN GER
for printing, rs news proper for public intcr-
nation, some facts about the money at inter
est of some heavy taxpayers in town and
country, taken from the books in the court
house, open TO the inspection of all r"mers.
Such information, it was vigorously declared,
the public had no right to and then these
critics of the press calmly proceeded to dis.
cuss the clothes and character of every |
woman who passed up and down the streets.
Great is Diana of the Ephesians
am glad to hear there Is some prospect Of
a movement To finish the incomplete ulonu-
ment near Ephrata to the soldiers of ter.
mautown aud Brandywine who died in the
cloiNter hospitals ot that quiet, religious COM
munity over a hundred years ago 1t has
been more than forty years since the corner.
stone Of the structure was laid that was to
rise sixty feet high in the enclosure whose
gateway was marked with the terse in
sTiption 4: " Hlrr Rtlhru ilc Gr5eiHc l'cilcy
SOiintcr." ltnever got above six feet high,
but hundreds of blocks of the hewn red
sandstone with which to build it were lying
there, all over grown with hriars and hidden
10y bushes, when | last visited the spot.
| The completion Of this Job is one Of the
many things n Lancaster county historical
| society might do and it is to be hoped that
| in this rich county no such baby act will lie
| pleaded as Z" lack ct a government appropri-
| atom
| Gen. Logan, who i a lawyer, as well "a an
| author and statesman, tells a story of how
| his knowledge OF medicine served him in
| the early part of his career at the har, 1t
| seems he WAS medical student before Ia
| studied law. lie came to the defense of a
| rather brutal fellow charged with kicking a
| child to death, and there was no defense but
| a technical one. 1t was testified very freely
| by some erudite country doctor that the
| child had been kicked in the spleen bat
when Logan asked ESculapius to explain
what the function OF the spleen was he hung
down his head, looked sheepish' ana the
more the question was pressed the dumher
he seemed. Logan took advantage OF il, de-
| riied his professional ignorance and raised
such doubts in the minds OF the jury about
the function OF the spleen that his man got
| oil. And yet, since the world began, ] am
told by the doctors, nobody has discovered
| what the spleen was put in for. The West
| ern physicians were not so stupid As Logan
| made them out but neither they nor the
| lawyers on the other side were smart enOug h
| to know it. Logan did, and won his case.
Mahlon Mercer, of Leaman Place, shows
me a forty-ycar-old Cotiee-colored check roll
of labor and services performed in the mo,
tive power department, employed by +. F.
-,
adel phia railroad during the month of May
ISi6. q. ". Bsrrack aud Henry kreuson
ran the Fast Line then, and made - day
per month at - per day John Wilhelm and
| John Mutt were engineers Ot the night line
| and made the same time and wages ; f.. \
| Howard and Hayes Smith ran the sCCommO
datiOn train. The freight engineers got thu
same wages, bat made less time, averaging
about $50 per month. The names on TIN
roll are Isaac Finkborne Il. NJ. Davis, Edw
Kautz, Samuel White, NJ. II. Mercer, Johl
Franciscus, Augustus Pelen, Nicholas Sprin
ger, Michael Mathen, William Berkley, II
= Hamill, John Pelen, George Petit, Rob
\. Sprats, William AppOId (who made hi
| mark and J. \. Shean signed for him), job
! | Slack, James q. Sample, Joseph Amos an
g Samuel White The total payroll Ot the eT
. | gineers for the month was Sl,3ll ; the fir,
. men got 81 - per day, and their wages foote
g up SSS6 - Edwin Jeffries kept the time.
II Most notable fact The name of the la,
n firemen receiptiug on th, roll for > day
; $3.50, is William r, LOckard.
q Ota still older but IN other respects sim
= lar check roll Tor May, 1873, J. b. NIoorhea
, was superintendent, and among the name
!, ! of the firemen are to be found a number {
+ those who appear later "a engineers. Mos
Of the engineers, however are the same a
1 those who appear on the later roll.
, c,,,I f,i.rI ,,.I,, la. II bo ,laIirbtr,I f.-I
/ ion of doing good things, losses into my la
, Frederic Harrison's "The Choice of Book
, and Other Literary Pieces" in paper cove
fresh from the press of Macmillan n Co
. | London. ! wish il were Otherwise, but W
I may as we'll admit that these English max
4 books better than our American publisher
: This one like nearly all you come across,
i soft and silky to the touch, paper like cream
: type 50 clear and binding 50 flexible that
= is no aftectatlon or augiO-mauia at all to pr
2 fer it. But it is for the contents OF a goo,
| strong, healthy, breezy book like this thi
], you most appreciate It Let me quote sou
random extracts ot very general application
and by no means all nor even the best
point the title and adorn the text:
, For what can a book be more than the ma
| who wrote il" The br ightest genius seldnr
/ | puts the hest Of his own soul into his printe
| page and some famous men have cer
/ taiuly put the worst of theirs Yet are a
, | men desirable companions, much less teach
| ers able To give rs advice, even of those W h
get reputation and COmTand a hearing ? Il
, | put out of the question that writing which /
, positively bad, are we not, amidst the multi
, plicity of books and of writer's, in cOntinua
danger of being drawn oil by what is stimU
lating rather than sOlid by curiosity afte
something accidentally notorious by whs
has no intelligible thing t0 recommend il
except that ii i new ?
| As | look back and think OF those cata
racts OF printed stuff which honest compost
tors set up, meaning, let me trust, no harm
and which at least found them in daily
bread-printed stun which and the rest o
US, to our infinitely small profit have con
sumed with our eyes, not even making al
| honest living OF it, but much impairing on
substance could almost reckon the print
ing press As among the ScOurges OF mankind
| am grown wiser and a saider man, i'm
| Fortunate, like that Ancient Mariner, To tel
each blithe wedding guest the tale of hi,
shipwreCk on the infinite sea of printers ink
as one escaped by mercy aud grace IRON the
region where there IL water, water every
where, and not drop To drink.
| For the art OF printing has not been Git
| wholly unmlNed with evils il must be used
wisely II II Is to be "A boon to man at all il
entails on us heavy responsibilities, resOlu,
tlon to use it with judgment and self control
and the will to resist its temptations and its
perils. Indeed, we may easily so act that We
may make IL "A clog on the progress OF the
human mind, a real curse ana not boon.
The power Of dying AT will through space
would Pre- badly eXtlnguish civilization and
society, tor II would release us from the
wholesome bondage of place and rest. The