The National tribune., 1890-05-15

ouida, preferring " Castloman" and Ellis" File
| J.. Berry, Oakley, Kan. takes delight in Longfeow,
| Burns, Scott, and Dickens. A member who forgets
her signature makes plea for historic stories and
! comments that wonderful story, Romona,' by
! Helen Hunt Jackson SnIlie Stanhcrry Rocky
! Ridge, o., read " Don Quixoe," upon Clio Har-
| pcrs recommendation last Spring. II was hard
work 10 get interested, but she felt well paid for
! her trouble rs she found many familiar quota
lions and gems OF classic thought. Lizzie Mat
| thews Trenton Junction, N. j., came across a
! queer story, entitled "A Very Strange Family
aud found IL strangely dismal reading. Gilbert NJ.
| Edmondson disaGrecs with Mrs SCOTS views OF
Looking Back ward" lie would like 10 see Mr..
Bollamys theories tested In the light OF civil
izaiton, and believes that while some might fail,
others would prove n remedy for many ills.
Martha Il. Robson, Bloomsbury, Pa, makes a
plea for American authors and thinks Miss Alcott 8
Lille, Letters and Journals" more interesting than
any novel. Besides Stowe and Rowe, she recon-
mends Cables Creole stories; Frank X. Stock
tons amusing tnes; Eggleston's " Hoosier School
master" and The Graysons," the latter intro
ducing Abraham Lincoln; Howell's stories, with
.h , realistic misunderstanding and tho
iRnSy" books for young readers This, TO say
nothing Of such writer's "a Irving, Hawthorne, and
Cooper. The advice is good. There are things
worth considering in the following:
We can train our thoughts into u high or low
channel Our conversation may be pleasure to
company or the reverse, owing TO what we feed
our minds. Avoid careless reading. and read that
| which suggests thought, that which contains In
struction; absorb what you read aud take time TO
draw out all points of value; then think, retain
and profit thereby. History, biography, science,
Pilgrims Progress, and all works of like mature are
OF high esteem, and incite minds To higher and
nobler purposes, but books read that are OF no in
trlnsc value IL time wasted, of which we will have
TO give an account to God. The Bible, the greatest
history, biography, tho foundation Of all true
science and the book of the greatest value one Tint
will do the most good H. as n general thing, the
least read and understood, because our taste for
reading has been trained into wrong channei and
| our minds poisoned, our understanding dRreened,
SO that cannot comprehend sound reading.-F.
j. Rice, Appleton City, Mo.
G. g. FRIENDS: Secure Looking Backward"
read IT, and get your hearts right this subject III
u hnds favor only with the weak minded, M CO.
has said, then why do we find such men aud
women as Frances Il. Willard Mary a. LiveTmoTo,
Edward Everett Hale and Col. Higginson advocat-
ing ttH The tendency Of society to press onward
and upward, you believe. You not "a pcsaRniist.
You believe the world grows better instead of
worse Then 20 through some parts of our cities
to-day. IL that as near the good rs mankind can
Ret7 Are those dreadful scenes to be changed7
You lhlnE they are. Then, IN the name ot all
that's good don't sit and criticize and ridicue and
condemn every effort Of earnest, anxious men and
women who nTo trying to bring about that change,
but get up and do what you he 10 ever so little,
| To help In the movement, aud you md tho world
! will he better for it.-rennie Wiar, Armour. S. ID.
would ask IL you have read the Camp
! fire and Memorial Day Poems" by Kate Brownlce
Sherwood. our good and patriotic Editor of the
| g. C.? think every loyal American should read
| them. They within the easy reach of all. Tho
Outbreak of Rebellion" by John q. NicolAy,
Private Secretary of martyr Lincoln. Is another
| good book for the O. G. TO pcruse. SO Is The
| of Shakspere, Losgfcllow, Holmes and Roe
Julius w. Gogarn, Camp 16s, s. Nv, Hallstown,
| Mich.
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Burgess Robinson. ILL.,: Harry Dunlap vs., and
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N. Y, aud Eaton Rapids Mich.
Tho Curious Corner.
ANSWERS 90 questions will not be published with
In two or three weeks aftcr questions appear. So
all will have phance to send replies aud receive
honorable mention with the number answered.
Thebes, Egypt. had hundred gates
There are several theories to tlie derivation Of
our word tariff: |. From "arhfa, To know, TO tn-
form. 2 From TariR. town In Spain. where du-
ties were collected. 3. From Tariff or Tariff n
pirate. who cNnctcd tolls from tho merchantmen
passing the Straits OF Gibraltar equal TO half the
value Of their cargo
The first steel pens were made in 1903 known as
Nises barrel pen. In 1890 Joseph elliott aud
others made pens ut birmingham. England. In
1880 steel pens supplantcd The quill pens in general
Use.
/. What Is the Pons Asnorum. and who discov-
cred u y-S. ID. HIM. Indian Orchard, Mass.
2. Who was called Light Horse Harry Nv.
II. Haynes, Jefferson, N. Y.
g. When was sngar-oAno first cultivated In tho
United States7-Daisy A. Cromack, Elm Grove,
Mass
4. Who invented the irouclad vessel, the Mont
tor1-Josie A. Bruno, The Daics. Ore.
8. When the arzt election held under the
Constitution Carl Walker.
BIBLE BRIGADE
The Bible rule for temperance In found tn Ro-
mans, u: 81; 1t 10 good neither to rnt fash nor
10 drink wine, nor anything whereby thy brother
Giuuibieth, or - offended, or 10 made weak >"
Zwingii originated tho Hrst Baptist Church ia
Gsrmnny, 1871. and Wesley tho Grst Methodist
Church In London century later.
a rpft answer turueth away wrath.
The Golden Rule l. the royal law.
j. When was Babel butg-tarl Walker.
2 What Bible children had no grandparents or
other primogebitors 7-RoIATd r. Payne, Mullia
Ky.
3 Who was the lad That carried Eve barley loaves
md two small fishes, spoken Of by John I'D. If.
bFu6y. Arkansas City. Kan.
4 Whom did Abraham bind to nm altar Of wood
and for what puFpose7-Etta NJ. Crawford, Valley
Junction, Wis.
8. What flowers are called the keys Of heaven
and by whom NINA iIAlOu.