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Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-06-06

She: Did I promise you any kisses ?
Of course you did, daring-great Scott I've
got you mixed up with my other girl.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-06-06

MANY men get q reputation for bust
ness sagacztY, whereas their actual
capital stock is self shnesg.-W biteside
BErde.
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". Y. MORSE 8 CO.,
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MARKS SUBSTITUTE.
A Decoration Day Sketch.

By vELMA CALDWELL MELVILLE.
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Noble. I am going to the war.
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m drafted, Kit. .
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-06-29
IsLITERATURE LUCRATIVE.

A comparison between the profits of
authors in England aud authors in the
United States shows striking differ
ence. When l remember how enor-
nous were the gains of Sir Walter
Scott. how brilliant were the profits of
Charles Dickens; when | recall that
Bulwer received a Hundred thousand
dollars for the privilege of printing a
cheap edition of his novels for ten
years: that George Eliot was paid
thirty-five thousand dollars for "RO-
mola, and made seventy five thousand
dollars out of "Middlemarch,' that
within three months after the publica-
ton of the fourth volume of Macaulay's
History" the Longmaus sent him a
hundred thousand dollars, | wonder in
what fairy-land these things could have
occurred. | do not know what Tenny
sons arrangements are with his pres
ent publishers, bit at one time he
received fixed the sum of twenty-five
thousand dollars "a year for his copy
rights, whether he published anything
rev or not. II would De interesting to
compare these figures with LOngfel-
low 5 yearly receipts. Trollope frankly
tells us just what he received for his
novels, which in many instances was
not less than fifteen thousand dollars
down. 3lr. Roe was the most success
full of recent American nOvelists. and
yet it is doubtful If any of his much
read novels yielded HIM more than half
this amount. Anthony TroilOpe's
prices were not at all exceptional. every
F0glist novelist in the first rank obtain
ing as much. and a few considerable
more. Some single books in this couu-
try, such as Uncle Tom 5 Cabin. "'The
Wide, Wide World, Ben Hur." have
yielded their AUTHORS a large profit: but
know of no author publishing rapidly
book after book whose average receipts
are at all equal to those of the English
authors of corresponding rank. And
if we compare exceptional books, Eng
land still pays much more literally than
we DO. George Eliot, as have already
mentioned. Is said to have made seven
ty-five thousand dollars from Middle.
march. Ben Hur," large as the re-
turns have been, can scarcely equal
this. If disinterested person de1Ired
t. ascertain the comparative literary
activity of two countries, he would
naturally compare the literary journals
of each with the other. Could there
be a surer test? If we place before us
copies of the AtheD@um, the Saturday
Review and the Spectator, we see at
once what Is going on in the English
world of letters. Ii we place by
their side the only three American
periodicals with which comparison can
be made, the Nation. the Critic. the
Literary World. the difference is rather
astonishing. In copy of the Athen-
aum now before me | count thirtysiX
C )lumns of book announcements and
advertisements; in the Nation, OF the
same date, about seven columns, the
columns being of equal length. In
another number of the Althen@um |
find twenty three columns against four
columns IN the Nation OF the CORES
bonding issue. The other American
literary journals exhibit similar dis
proportion in comparison with Euglish
journals. How are we to account for
this remarkable differencey- Publishers
WaaE Iv
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-06-29
NORTHUMBERLAND sorTHEY.

Wordsworth. " Mrs Stanger used to
say, would fling his cloak and things
round him as If he didn't care whether
they fitted him or not, and hardly ever
seemed to give a thought to his dress;
but Southey was prim and spruce and
neat from head to toe-cravat spotless.
and coat. however old, neatly fitting
and carefully brushed; a man Of order
every inch of him.
Once she most amusingly, but quite
good-naturedly. spoke Of the different
way in which the Greta Hall and Ry-
dal Mount breakfast was got through.
Here the poet talked and was waited on
hand and foot as a matter OF course
The toast was spread, the cream was
poured into the tea, the notebook was
near, and tine women, with love and
devotion unparalleled. lowered as II
were in continual attendance-of their
own wants oblivious. There no one
seemed TO think about the bard; he
seemed to think about all-the aunt.
the children, the very tabbies. Was
the milk as they liked it; was the por-
ridge right? And then Mrs. Southey, she
had no appetite, she must be coaXed-
and such coaxlng, it was as pretty as
play-such happy, lover-like ways
This little piece of bread thus toasted.
that cup of tea so sugared. But South
evY On let them send him cup OF
tea up to the great study presently
never mind for him, so that the mother
and the aunts and the BARNS were
breakfasted.
Enthusiastically would Mrs. Stanger
speak of Dorothy and Mrs. Wordsworth,
and always with deepest reverence OF
Wordsworth poems; but the awe OF
the vest-tape days was heavy upon her.
| suspect as child she would no more
have jumped upon Wordsworth S knees
than on the Kings. But on the.genial
knees of Southey, of course, she had
clambered Southey's knees were the
common property of all the children OF
Greta Bank or Greta Hall; and what a
length of knee it was
Dear Sir. Mrs. StaDger would say
with smile, II remember as a little
Girl thinking that Southey when he
rose from the table was never going to
finish getting up The Cornhill
Magazine.
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and lesser number, the contents OF tach
volume have been very considerably
increased. But this printed and re-
printed total. so far rs can be judged
from De Quincey's own assertions, asa
from the observations OF those who
were acquainted with him nobody can
be said 70 have known himl during hrs
later years, must have been but the
smaller part Of what he actually
wrote. He was always writing,
and always leaving deposits OF
his manuscripts in the various
lodgings where il was his habit TO be-
stow himself. The greater part OF De
Quincey's writing was Of a kind almost
as easily written by so full reader and
so logical a thinker as an ordinary
new spaper article by an ordinary man,
and except when he was sleeping. wan
dering about or reading. he was always
writing. It is. of course, true that no
spent great deal of time, especially In
his last years of all. in rewriting and
refashionipg previously executed work.
and arso that illness aud opium made
inroads on his leisure.
But we should imagine that II we had
all that he actually wrote during these
nearly forty years. forty or sixty print
ed volumes would more nearly express
its amount than fourteen or sixteen
Macmillan Magazine.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-06-29
NOTES AND COMMENT.

| wonder many times that ever a
child of God should have sad heart,
considering what the Lord is preparing
for him S. Rutherford.
The day will come when God will
Judge over again all those things that
are judged miss,-Bernard.
He who is most slow in making a
promise is the most faithful in the per-
Torrance of it.-ROusseau.
God has given man two eyes. If he
lose one he hath the other. Bat man
nath only one soul. If he lose that the
loss can never be made up again.
ChrysOstOm.
have had many things in my hands
and have lost them all, but whatever
have been able to place in God s ! still
possess. Luther.
The dull weather, they say, is Il e
best weather for battle, and sorrow is
the best time for seeing through and
conqueIing ones own self. DO
not he afraid, say, of sorrow. All the
clouds in the sky cannot move the sun
foot further off; and all the sorrow
in the world cannot move God any
further off.-Charles Kingsley.
The tissue of every Christians des-
tiny is wrought with threads of mercy,
and mercy impresses her own lovely
characters on every trial! be is called t.
bear.-Dr. Rallies.
When means hold out. it is easy to be
content. Who cannot pray for his
daily bread when he bath 1t in his cup
! board? But when our own provision
/ fails US. then not to distrust the pro-
vision of God is a noble trial of faith -
| Bishop Hall.
The Methodist Episcopal Sunday
schools in India number $50, with AZ :
500 scholars.
The late Mr.. Henry James Campbell
left 81 900 600 to Belfast College for The
education of young ministers.
A young man in Union Theological
Seminary. New York, said he could not
90 to the foreign field. but would pay
$500 year for a substitute.
One of the missionaries of the China
Inland Mission, Scotch gentleman
worth Sl,000.000, is living i'll China
very economically, using all Oh MS DlS
fortune in the work.
A highly valued manuscript copy OF
the Gospels. written in letters of gold,
on purple vellum, dating about the
seventh century, is. as reported, to be
offered for public sale soon in London.
Six years ago it was purchased for the
PTussian Government at sale of man
uscripts belonging to the Duke of Ham
ilton. Five thousand pounds were Of
fered for it by an English bookseller.
1t is said that there are only three OF
four manuscripts of The same kind in
existence.
Why thus longing, thus forever signing,
For the iaT-ofi, unattained. and dim
While the beautiful, ali around thee lying,
Oilers up its low, perpetual hymn?
IL. W. Sewall.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-06-29
FRANCOIS COPPEE.

In the early sixtie- there appeared in
France a set of young poe.s, who un-
dertoOk 10 found new school of poe
try. of which the foundations should
b. the absOlutism of form. the soye-
reignty of style, and art in and for IT.
self. The young fellows made such a
noise about their theory of poetry that
they were first jeered at as Les I'm
pDssibles,n and then sneered at as Lies
ParnassIens. The latter name caught
the ear of the town and became slang
phrase IN Paris. Two cabbies, having
wrangle. exhausted their never shall
low stock Of abuse. The vic r, that he
might give his antagonist final and
mortal stab. left him with supreme
"Parnassien Va !"
One of these Parnassiens was Coppee.
At the time spoken of he bad a small
cleIkship 10 the War Office, receiving a
small salary. by which he kept together
the household thrown upon him by his
father early death. Quiet, self-deny-
lug. pun ctual to distasteful duties, be
sheltered his mother from anxiety, Ia
sters from care. and made for them
al unassuming home Of brightness and
serenity. He won his way and became
librarian Of the Coincide Ffancaise. a
member Of the French Academy. and
the most widely popular of all the con
temporary poets of his country.
Taat his fame should be extensive Ii
not, at first sight, convincing as to III
WORTH. The level of his aspiration II
not high; his ethical sympathy is mar
row; his appreciation of the value OF
life small. He has neither depth of In
sight, nor breadth Of outlook. lie II
without the riches of accumulated
knowledge, or Of creative forethought
He brings no new illumination to the
problems, no keen guesses to the ques
uonings of life. He has the gift
neither of rare surrrise nor of the fas
=. cination that haunts. His subjects arr
often commonplace. his treatmen
sometimes--in literary sepse-mean.
| Yet by distinction in the use o
words. by their justDess of choice ant
spell of effect. by the uniqueness thei
positions achieve, by the pleasure o
his rhymes. their spontaneity an,
change, the engaging suppleness OF hi
measure and its felicitous ease. Cope
eau he III readers of taste. and surmoun
lack Of interest from which many @
his themes suffer. He has the air OF
man in earnest TO express and impres
a conviction. Seidom--I speak OF hIr
at his best there line too many,
lword too much, Or On ornament vi
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-06-29
THAcKERAY.s NOSE.

81 have always believed writes Sir
William Fraser, that Thackeray 8 nose
was broken in fight at Charterhouse,
by Venables, Q. c., lately deceased.
Unless am mistaken. this was told mo
by the person who introduced me To
Thackeray. Mr.. VenaDles Was mem.
Der of the Society OF DiIettanti. and l
often set next 10 him. On at least ono
occasion alluded to the fact. and be
certainly did not deny 1t. However,
this may not have been the case. Ny
informant added that the Dame, as we
called them at Eton, ran UP. aud said
to vensbles: You have spoiled the
best looking boy in the school"
When Thackeray was in America. he
dined one day with Mr.. X. a distin-
guished literary man OF this city, whose
nose made a good second to Thacker-
avs. The ladies had left the room. and
che two gentlemen were sitting over
their wine, when X. proposed that they
should Join the ladies. Upon which
Thackeray asked: What do the ladies
care for two broken-nosed old fellows
like usyn 1t is said that X. had no re-
gard for Thackersy thereafter.-Notes
and Queries.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-06-29
HALF MEASURES

A bridge which is foot two short
fails to reach across the chasm. A race
may be lost by length as well as by a
mile, One leak will sink ship, one
sin destroy a soul.
The Earl of Bath illustrates his views
Of policy which dismissed one minis
ter of the State and retained another
whom he deemed equally Objectionable
by comparing it with the action of the
Lord Chamberlain, who, when sent 10
examine the cellars of the House OF
Commons. returned with the report
that "he found five-and twenty barrels
of gunpowder: that he had removed ten
OF them. and that he hoped the rest
would do no harm.'
The man who thinks to serve God and
mammon, and who divides his time
and energies between the Lord and the
devil. the flesh and the spirit. will be
found to have made grand mistake.
No man can be slave of two masters.
He must have one absolute ruler and
owner. When a man has given himself
to the Lord, he has nothing left for
any body else. The world and the flesh
aud the devil must stand aside, self
must be denied. and Christ must have
all. II would thou vert cold or hot
So. then, because thou art lukewarm.
and neither cold nor hot. will spew thee
out Of my mouth. THE Cnristian.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-06-29
Is THE BIBLE READ AT HoHE9

We hear good deal about the lack of
religious teachings in the schools.
How about the lack of it in the homes
Of protesting OhrIstiansy The parents
who complain most loudly that the
Bible is not read in school, do they
read it at home? Is the household
gathered morning and evening, at the
family altar, TO hear the words of Holy
Scripture and to join in prayer and
praise? In how many cases is the en-
tire religious training of the child
turned over to the Sunday school. with
its one hour week, in which variety
of interests and exercises claim atten-
ton? 10 how few instances do parents
and god-parents neglect their bounden
duty and privilege, while they claim
that the State does not attend to it. BY
all means let us have the Bible in the
school, but, whether it is found there
or not, let us have it in our homes. not
closed upon the shelf. but open and
read daily by the assembled household.
The Living Church.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-06-29
THE KINSHIP or CHRIST.

The foreign missionary work brings
into view the kinsbip OF Christ, and
keeps the millennial ages before the mind
of Christendom. All things converge
towards the final aud not remote vic
tory of the Son of God. Through work
for him among the heather we become
identified with him as we never could
by sacraments, song or sermon. The
work and the person OF Christ were
never so apparent TO the church as they
are to-day. This is due to the Influence
of missions. When the church has be-
come indolent and self seeking the mil
lennial splendors have faded from its
eyes; but work brings nearer and makes
clearer the ultimate ages of serenity.
peace and Christian triumph. We Mt ed
that Christian fatalIsm which is sure
that Christ is to conquer, and that the
coming years Of earth history are az
full of brightness and beauty as The
former ages have been of darkness and
blood. DIR, StOrrs.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-06-29
PLACING DICKENS.

Dickeus-I wrote for a wide pubic
lstylist signs whom | loved reallst
.ighs.l | loved my characters. too.
american signs. they seemed so real
TO me, [r0mancIst signs. and so 1 liked
to leave them happy. | believed want
ed to see the whole world happy. Els
merean signs.
Sir Walter-I also had that ambition.
Thackeray-Do you even find MI.
Pickwick's humor offensive nowadays!
Romancist- treat a character with
humor is to lift him from his pedestal
to the earth.
Elsmereau-We have no patience
with humor. In these days OF anxious
thought humor seems a trivial thing.
The world has grown sadder since your
time. and we novelists of to-day begin
where YOU left off. Were | to write a
continuation of The Pickwick Papers
[ could not treat the subject as Mr..
Dickens did; really could not.
Stylist-Humor is vulgar.
American-Humor. Sir. has been re-
fined and chastened since the infancy OF
fiction, and | am certain that. were my
humorous characters TO meet yours,
mine would be made quite uncomfort'
able. Mr. Pickwick could not possibly
be received in the drawing room OF Sara
n. Finney, and Sam Weller would bt
turned out of her kitchen. / believe
am not oyerstating the case when say
that one can positively laugh at ypui
humor.
Dickens-They used to laugh.
American@Ahl they never laugh al
mine.
nor romancist, nor an Elsmerean. mol
a St
Americin-Oh. we have placed you
In Boston we could not live without
nlaciug everybody and you are ticketet
a caricaturlst. -,
Dickens (sighing)-I liked the old
way best. of being SIMPLY novelist.
American-That was too barbarou
for Boston. We have Analysed you
methods and found them puerile. You
have no subtle insight into character
Won could not have written move
| about a lady's reasons for passing tn
cruet. Nay, more, we find that yo'
never drew lady or gentleman
Your subsidiary characters alone woul'
rule YOU out of court. To US 1t is hare
work to put all we have to say about
lady aud gentleman who agree not U
become engaged into three volumes
Rat YOU never send your hero tweiv
miles IN a coach without adding an
lother half-dozen characters To you
/ list. There is no such lack OF ARTIST
barrenness In our SCHOOL,. III. BARR
in the Contemporary Review.
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showing itself in deeper devotion. more
earnest work and more thorough sepa-
ration from the world. Between these
two there are many others. Which
is precisely the right oneP Pro-
badly il would be hard to tell,
for genuine work varies as conditions
and circumstances are different; but as
a.rule. ii may be agreed that boisterous'
ness and excessive demonstration are
properly liable to suspicion. Even II
1t be granted that they are signs OF real
sincerity and intended earnestness, the
fact remains that exaggerated noise
and show of feeling have too little
knowledge of their foundation to be OF
permanent value. The thoughtful, de-
vout, spiritual earnestness that shows
itself in closer walk with God and
reyerent use of the means of grace, may
always be accepted as religious con-
dition that is born Of the Spirit.-Se-
lpctpd
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relation to present needs or circum

relation to present needs or circum-
stances.
A foreign missionary should always
be an optimist. never pessimist. Hope
courage, faith, are characteristics abso
lutely essential to the best success.
Ability to see the bright side, even il
the brightness be but the faintest glim-
mer of long delayed dawn. will help
one over many hard place. through
many a bitter experience. Few who
have not felt il can realize the pressure
upon the spirits OF hostile govern
ment, hostile people, few and weak
friends, or understand the sense OF
loneliness that comes from the lack Of
that national association which extends
into the remotest country parish or
even home missionary settlement. To
overcome this requires not only relig-
lous faith. but moral and physical cour-
age. And thus we might go on emu
merating one point after another, until
brought up sharp with the remark: Il
do not see but that these same char
acteristics are just as essential
to the home missionary or the pastor
as to the foreign missionary I'm
doubtedly they are. The fact is that
almost any man who will be successful
at home may be so abroad. Why, then.
are so many applicants rejectedI Why
does not every church accept the first
candidate that offersY There are many
men who would never think of CRITICS
ing the action of a church in not ac
cepting them, who feel very much hurt
when told that. in the judgment of a
committee. the foreign field is not best
suited to them. Yet the boards are
obliged to be far more particular than
any church, are compelled to consider
certain things which a church can well
afford to overlook. Undoubtedly they
make mistakes, but no one who knows
the perplexities that attend their action
can help feeling that the wonder is
not, that so many but so few, mistakes
are made Rev. Edwin VI. Bliss, in the
Independent.
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CHANGED TO annoy some young kittens
upon which the rabbi said, Leave
them alone. for it is written. Hi
tender neTcies are over all His works.
and. thereupon, the decree wa'
resciDded. Let up have pity upon
him." was said in Heaven, because
he is pitiful."
Ii is well-known incident that de
vout Roman Catholic was induced to &c
to Rome in the belief that the iniqui
tous conduct practiced there under tue
shadow Of the Papal throne would dis-
gust him with the religion OF when
he was a pure and shining light.
He returned strongly confirmed in his
faith. When asked whether the re-
voting condition of ecclesiastical So
ciety which he had witnessed DID not
convince him of the faleity oil Inc
Romish Church, he answered to the Ell
feet that what he had seen assured MIN
otherwise, since God for such vice
would have extinguished the religion
il it had not been true and derived
from Himself.
RABBI Akiva spoke in the same spirit,
but conveying truth of wider appIica-
ton. When Rabbis Gamaliel, Eleazar,
Judah, and himself heard the reJoic'
ings at an idolatrous festival, the first
three wept. but Akiva laughed.
Wherefore laugh" asked his friends,
these heathens, who worship their
idols, live in peace and are merry, put
as for us, our holy city lies in ruins.
Weep, brother. Do not laugh. For
that very reason laugh and am glad.
replied Akiva, IF Gcd allows those
who transgress 10 live happily on earth
how infinitely great must be the store
of happiness in the world to come Tor
those who observe his commands"
Charity is enforced throughout the
whole Of the Talmud, but nowhere
more strikiDgly than in the sacred le-
gend found in the treatise Sanhedrln'
The distance from Garay to Shilo was
three miles, and the smoke from the
holy altar and that of the incense offer
ed TO the image of Micah used to inter
miugle. Thereupon the administering
angels desired to expel Micah. Nay, "
SAID the Eternal One, "let him alone:
for his bread is supplied to waytarers
The beneiicence of Heaven is familiar
to all in the words of Jesus of Naza-
reth: God sendeth rain on the just
and on the unjust" The Talmudic pc
culiar form OF thought cannot be better
illustrated than by its presentation OF
the same truth: The gift of rain is SO
far better than the identification of the
dead, since the latter benefits only the
righteous, whereas the former benefits
both the righteous and the wicked. -
The Gentleman Is Magazine.