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West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1890-06-26

Music will be furnished by the Mozart Band Of Kngwood
fee will be charged person to the
grounds proceeds Of which will paying
expense, be applied TO said Bnilding Fund.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-08-03

3, armour. the guilds, the snake
cb,rmers. the coniurors, the men wno
casbcJ their faces with swords were
no ' LONGER 20 be seen. The reason Is not
for to seek. Pilgrims are now person,
aIlv conducted from Suez 10 Jeou"n
and Mecca by pilgrim brokers q.
sovereign head, and they pr
fer the speedy sea voyage ~
tho heat and burden oil may
drys in the desert in company win ,ne
Wshmal. In fact this ceremony mas
become hardly more than snow, II. ~
which the army takes a frs; place ,e, anu
the crowd enjoys a spectacle inV -.
was not n touch of fanaucism about ~
there was almost want OF Icui'!
the peoplc no longer rushed maIIy 70
tonch the fringe Of the Mammal was
in their midst. and they were az
friendly as if | were the staunchese %
the followers Of Mahomet, II was u.s.
coodly show. could not hello tnl n IN
ING of a remark this morning mace oS
nv barber. who is bit OF phlioSo-
nber-"Oh. YOU English Will so 10
Mecca itself one of these days.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-08-03

Sidney Smith cOntemptuous "Who
X ads an American Book stuck in the
craws Of Americans for good many
years; yet most Americans to-day real
lie that 1t conveyed a large measure of
truth, and. indeed, nobody, either at
home or abroad. reads now what was
written by most American authors
seventy-iive years ago. The greater
parton American poets VIII ilourished-
II they may be sand ever to have
Notwithstanding the thirty wears
after Sidney Smith 5 sOeer was uttered
have been forgotten. How many
Americans oi today read the poems OF
Philip Freneau. John rrumbull. Tim
othy Dwight. David Humphreys. joel
Benton, Richard Alsop. Robert Treat
Paine, Washington hlislon. james
kuke Piulding. John PieIpout.
Andrews Norton, Richard III. Dana
Richard Henry Wilde. James A.
Hillhouse. Charles Splague, Charles
Wilcox, John Neal, Maria Brooks.
James Gates Perclyal, s. G.. Goodrich
Isaac Clason, George Washington
Doane, Robert c. Sands, Albert Ii.
Greene. William Leggett. Edward &.
Pinkney, Albert Pike. James Very. or
Albert II. Street. Most Americans will
scarcely recognize their names. and
but Tor the care which Griswold took
TO give each some space in his Poets
ana Poetry Of America they would
nave passed utterly beyond the ken of
all but those Who delye for curiosi.ies
OF literature. Yet they were taken seri
ously In their time, aad il did not oc-
cur 10 their countrymen that these
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-08-03
Religious Notes.

God works with broken reeds. If a
man cOnceils himself to be an iron Iii-
lar, God can DO nothing with or by
him. All the self conceit and conf
dence has to be taken out Of him first.
He has to be brought low before the
Father can use HIM for His purposes.
The lowlands hold the water, and. if
only the sluice is open. tho grayitation
of His grace does all the rest, and car
ries the flood into the depths OF his
lOwly eart.-AleXander Maclaren.
There is not any one creature. but it
is a leaf written all over with the de-
scription of God; his eternal power and
Godhead may be understood BY the
things that are seen. saith the APOSTLE
Obadiah Sedgwick ll660l.'
ITO know the Lord That is a bold
aim for my finite soul, and vet my soul
will be satisfied with nothing less. 1t
is not by searching thou caust find ont
God, it is by following him. Math-
esOn.
1 do not ask Thee. Lord. 90 be explaining
The many mysteries Of my life to me.
] only ask Thee, LDrl. for grace sustaining
TO bear the burden which seems fit 10 Thee.
| am content To trust Thy loving leading.
Ii were not trust, II could trace the WAY
No good thing shall this life OF mine be
needing;
Thou wilt provide the mama day lbs day.
X. NJ. Oford In New York Observer.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-08-03
PULPIT AND PEW.
FROM CURRENT RE
uGlOUS THOUGHT

A M,sappiied Term The o"es''"" "
a.x Study-Jesus rs f'"''"S
and Comment of Interest
to church People
This is a term which Is now'"''''
somewhat too literally applied TO an'
.,,ompts TO criticise public doings' ten
.~nc;ss and conditions. Does the
.oroIis, venture to remark that we i've
foo fast: that as compared with ",'
simnlici,y and frugality of our gra"o
fathers. this is an age of extravaganza
and ostenta.ion; that too great freedo"
~ manners may imply undue re'"N"
ton Of morals: that it is sad to near q
90 many bank cashiers and county urea
s,rers Ascending to Canada; tha' inc
s,re,d Of sensationali,m, of the desire
for mere sotoriety. of the i'o"
for scandalous gossip, Is 70 0
,egretted: that while there may De no
ra1;d objection 10 the rich gro"lps
,;aher II is pity if the poor
al the same time grow p0oioI AL tn
the decay of rural lie ana 'nc : t,',or
extormination of the eastern ie,," .'o
noint 20 a decay of the old CIVIC Si'' ."
If The bone and sinew OF VIC
oommonn ealth: that IT Is un-
Zee in the laboring classes 10
c,owd by tens of thousands i iin
Tho fetid tenemcnts OF great Ci'icS
when they could have purer an anu
for lower rents outside: that materlal
;sm is not the souudest philosophy bu,
,bat il seems TO be becoming more ana
more the modern and American CISSu
that TO limit ones reverence 70 Woiiu'S
success, and to the talents wnich sT'"
,nand If is not TO follow the New les
fament teachings: that an aristocI"oy
90 money is not necessarily the pest
kind: that plain living ana hlsh ll'iuh'
ing. which used to be held III soIhe re,
card. are now out oil Iashio"
and in danger oil disappear
ing altogether; when one say
ANYTHING OF this sort. he Is I'm the IAN
gnaee of the day. liable to condemna'
lion as a "pessimist,n They say 10 MN
in renlv. Have done with this bOorlsh
growing. you are wholly out OF date
This is the best of all possible worids'
since it is the only world we know OF;
I is superior to all previous ages Tor 1t
is the age we live in. The established
order is very good order-for 1t Is es-
tablished, don't you seeF lie WHO
nrates about what has been Is an ldie
rrumbler. futile pralser OF the
cid times; and he who dwells upon
what might be Is a mere visionary al
impractical dreamer. What 40 you
expect to gain by standing on one 'ide
and finding fault with things II IS
the part Of patriotism and plety 10 ap-
plaud our progress, to rejoice IN our IN
yentions. to bow down before our H.
limitable acres and our vast ana IN
creasing population. There never was
a country like this: there never VIII be
another such. so far as you know
This is the nineteenth century ana Tree
America, and if you are not prepared
10 acknowledge the fact. you are IN
worthy of your privileges and had pct
ter retire to a hermitage or order your
coffin. The ChurchmOn.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-08-03

One Of the features that conspcu-
ously appear la the earthly life Of
Christ is the fact that IS a man, con-
sidered with reference to his human
nature. he was often engaged in prayer.
and that this was particularly true Of
him on special occasions. Prayer Ia
him was an exercise that had ITS seat.
its reasons, its necessity, and its pro-
rriety. in ms human nature: and IN
these respects it was essentially what il
Is when bis followers pray. IL was the
man Christ Jesus who prayed. and VINO
prayed a. a man.-fhe Independent.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-08-03

When we speak of David we use a
popular and general form of expression,
which names the whole from the larg-
est or most weighty and most conspicu-
Gus of the parts. The phrase is suf
ficiently shown not to be absolute
and precise by the beautiful one
hundred and thriy-eeyenth Psalm
which describes the condition Of
the Hebrews IN Babylon five
centuries after the death of the MN
strel King. Seventy-three Psalms in
all are ascribed TO him. This is not the
assumption or opinion of conservative
writers only. Bleek, whose work is re-
vised and sanctioned by Williamson,
admits 1t TO be mater of the highest
probability that no incopsIderabl num-
Der of the Psalms are due to his author.
ship. lie also, with others largely ac-
ccpts the Inscriptions which are
prefixed to them. According to
Canon Cook, a judicious and able
writer. it was never held that the en-
tire Psaiter was the work of the King,
and he says that in the time Of the
Maccabees the completion of the book
was ascribed to Nehemiah. lie thinks
that large proportion Of the two clos
lug books tout OF the five books comp0-
sing the Psalter) belong to the period
of or following the Exile. But Of
the three Psalms most pOintedly
referable 10 the Messiah. two
xxi, OK. are Davidic. He shows how
the conclusive objections TO the theory
which refers the Psalms TO the Macca-
bean age are sustained by various adj.
vanced German writers, and Blcck
holds that no Psalm can be shown to be
later than Nehemiah. But the master
idea Of the whole argument is not so
much that such and such Psalms were
produced at such an era. as that the
book at large Ii the product of that in
fluence which stamps it, like the other
books of Holy Scripture. as embodyiug
a divine revelation The Right Hon.
w. T.. Gladstone in Good Words.
would rather have more of the
mind that was in Christ; more of |
meek, quiet, resigned. peaceful and Low.
ing disposition. than TO enjoy the great
sst measure of sensible comfort, il the
las perhaps it would !
should be spiritual pride. self-sulh.
,iency ard want of that tenderness 10
,thers which becomes one who has rea-
ION to style himself THE chief of sin-
hers. John Newton.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-08-03

covered ia 1864 in the State Paper oi,.ce
six letters of DefOc, which show that
while employed on that Tory journal,
which was bitterly opposed to the gov
eminent. he was secretly in tho gov.
ornment's service. He used all his art
to make the Tory organ innocuous. its
proprietor and its patrons all the while
surprising him to be IN full sympathy
with its avOwed principles.
la 17l9. when DefOc was fifty. eight
years old, appeared Robinson CrusOo.
He had great difficulty in finding a
publisher for il, but its success was inn
mediate. II is a great mistake to sup
pose that DefOe s career as writer OF
fiction began with this wonderful story.
He had previously published several
fictitious pieces. one OF which, - True
Relation Of the ApparitiOn of one Mrs.
Veal. the Next Day After Her Death
is a prince of ghost stories, and has IN
1t the same art or arts which make Rob
ins0n Crusoe The success II IS.
CrusOe had many distinguished sue
crssOrs. to ell of which DsfOe gave that
air of yorisimIltude, in Imparting which
he was so great a master. The iictlons
Of Defoe fall into two distinct classes.
The first class comprises novels OF adj
ventures or incidents like Crusoe. One
If these, Captain Singleton. " Mr.. Nc
Queen. quoted in Captain Burton s
Nile BASIN, names a. genuine &C
count Of travels in Central Africa and
seriously mentions Defoe's imaginary
pirate as a claimant fer the discovery
of the sources of the White Nile. In
the commences of another Of tins class,
Capt. CailetOn " DR.. johnson believed.
and is supported in this view b. Lord
Stanhope i'm his War of the Succession
in Spain. OF still another of the same
class. the journal Of the Plague, SIR
Walter Scott said that if Defoe had
mot been the author Of Robinson
Crusoe. he would have deserved I'M
mortality for the genius which ne has
displayed in this work. His prOdig
ious inventive power has caused Mr..
Mimic 20 say uniustly in his Life Of
Defoe.' that me was a great. truly
great liar perhaps the greatest liar that
ever lived. OF his novels IN the sec
ond class OF fiction, such as Mol
Flanders" and the like. it can only be
said that they were forerunners OF that
school of fiction. which has the So
called realism for its Characteristic
aud OF which L )la is chief.
TIE eud o. DefOe 5 life is mysterious.
That be was a fugitive, a homeless
wanderer. in his old age, for the two
years preceding his death, is q familiar
fact. Rut the causes Of this fugitive
and homeless lie are not known. tie
died in London. ON the evening Of Mon
day. April 20, 1881, in the seventy first
year OF mis- age, and like so many OF
the Great Dissontcrs. was buried IN
Bunhiil Fields buryIng ground.-Pres
bvfpri1u Review.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-08-03

F pm W ib'fD pDtt7 AZ ne does On
Emerson and Longfellow. He gave
more space t. roDr Charles fenno Hon.
man than 10 both.
Most OF these poets. and also Uo0
man. Willis, Drake, llalleck, and three
or four whose fame really Survives
were born in the fret decade Of this
century or early in the second. SIX or
eight OF them were born between 1900
and 1910. I'm 1924, when Byron diol
Electrically at Missolonghi. aiding Do
/ Grecian struggle for liberty, these ~.
ture poets were reading poetry. OF
course they hit upon q ron. Doc W.
/ young. handsome. noble. Radical .
/ friend Of struggling Greece and anatIf.
from ungratefui Britain. WHIST mon.
was needed The young men road
/ Byron aud slraightway wrote verso
that hoed his style. Haliecks .RsI
JACKIE" has exactly the liuZ of - D.n
Juan Marco Bozzlris Was doubt.
inspired by Byron s. sclf-deyolou On
Greece. Listen 20 this.
I'm not romantic. nut upon mF aou
There are some moments when D.0 r..
ASH his hearts chords were so slrn.
stirred.
49, things around h.m. i.at .ts 1901. .o.
cnainy
4 Httle music 800 Dos soul si.ii Fingers.
Whene'er it, Ne5 Hfr touched iF u.f.|.
Nugei-.
That 5 Charles Fenno Hoffman nsI
ing about Moonlight on the Hudson.
II might have been Byron wfi..r.
about moonlight anywhere Nos I.r
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-08-03

An iu cresting phas. ot ile modem
development OF the novel. which art
% be- overlooked in current discussion
of realism and ileall-m. Is presented
by the popularity OF ths stpsy cor novel
which deals with Biblical SCENE, aud
characters. a, in tine age of the early
Italian painters. the religious feeling Ut
the people expires .ed itself in art. iu
this epoch of Tine glory of tci0r. saints
ana martyrs are made character nt 90
fictitious romance. The disappearance
of religious ART. often dep.orad. seems
to have been followed by the develop
ment " religions literature. i obi.
substitution may be seen che leryii flifl.
the respect ami love for carly Chris.
tians, and the longing of the Christian
soul, which once were rcpres nt.i bon
popular artistic form. Although tl.
cultivation of religious fiction prove
that the decay 90 religious arr, docs Oh.
necessarily signify decrease of tar,
tiau faith in the world. there may ari-c
wholesome doubts whether aitafail.
the religious novel is "a beneficial fc.lr
in the spread and Strengthening Df
Christianity. The process of maxim
Biblical charac.cr, iutO INC her0e .I
romance both f.milis.iI sand tstraD-
them. Brought into c0mmoupllc. I..
latiOns and made to enter INTO ordinary
conversation they become MmH ar.
while enyclJp,G In the tissue ol o..
titiOus incidents. they lose their ll'I
upon human confidence and belief I..
most successful religious novel is t.4.
in which sacred characters are placed
at remote distance. and age DOL.
given the active, sreaking par lmon-
the thrOng OF hcutious per.olle...
The novels which consist al tneD.DU
cal discussion carried along by OH.
slight thread q romance belong ,0 H
different order Of hctiOn. They mlY
b. useful I'm giving niofmali.u O..
those who could nO- be induced 90 r.al
theological treatise. bat lt sh0uli o.
recognized that their character Is -
periiclal and never impafiil. In Wb.
ever manner the religious novel m' , Ir
regarded, 10 can no, b. )yef'oc k,, a.
an Interesting sign If ., ngl0V f.a.l.
of the age. Once the CtlisO an nation.
expressed their devotion in art anil
architecture; in this prod the cam.
feeling is populariz'd hrou.h tne
novel. The future may Orily an.lh..
form before the world. Boston .J...,.
nal
Il would seem that i.. s.yli.l. .0
English fiction are not now poonlar-.
change since Scott. Thackeray. and
George Eliot. A poll taken bya head
ing London paper merely confirms Che
previous verdict. rendered agiin ana
again by the circulating library in tl's
country As well as in E0ghud. thst
the lighter sort of books have
greater interest tor the o. lsses shan lha
better written ones. Nj Braddon. d.
cording 10 the poll. leads al other, and
Is ten times more popular than Ro0el-
Louis Stevenson. Ga this statement
two questions arise: (ll Have our ma.
tiers IN fiction lost mental power, or .2I
have he readers OF fiction lost arpu
CT ton oi.the best things ltispl,sl0.o
that the true reason for the decaletc'
OF taste is complex one, made uo Ot
the two here suggested aud re- has
others that might be assigned. Wasl-
rg on Sta.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-08-03
THE OPENING SCENE.

The great professions and the harmO'
NOUS working together OF masses Of
people on the Ammergau Stage have cx-
cited the admiration even OF skilled
dramatists. The opening scene Of the
play representing Cnrist's triumphal
entry into Jerusalem. when nearly five
hundred persOns-men, women and
chlldren-Join IN the pageant. strikes
the spectator with amaz 1ment. Such
harmony aud order could not have been
produced by mere theatrical drilling.
The only explanation OF Il is that all the
inhabitants, including the children
have had the opportunity Of doing
the same thing many times during
the year. Such professions take
place on Palm Sunday. Corpus
Christi and other DAYS, and in fact
many other scenes from the Passion
Play are constantly being enacted in
the village churcA. The people Of
Ober- Ammergau are not remarkable
either for extraordinary genius or for
eminent sanctity, as is commonly sup
posed but they consider the play in the
light OF precious heirloom and It's per-
Al tibISt 40 a lNUNt Ni lNNGs lNtN tE-
act similar plays for their own amuse.
ment and Instruction curing the long
winter months. SO when they come to
perform the Passion Play each ten
years they are not entirely ignorant of
stage business, and they know how 10
group themselves in an artistic manner.
SELECTION OE ACTORS.
The selection OF the actors for the va
rious roles is task of great importance
and devolves upon committee Of forty
five householders, together with the
parish priest. During the last week in
December Of the year previous to the
play the election takes place. the !
members first having attended divine |
service. Ii is generally found that the |
principal parts are easily disposed of /
ind require little discussion. But the 1
.he minor characters land there are
hundreds of thoml give rise to much
discussion. There is much material 10
'hoose from, but it is sometimes diff.
'ult to come to.a decision. FromIa major
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-27

every hamlet and town throughout Venange
county.
THE Pittsburg and Western depot at Cy-
clone. IL miles east Of Ravena, O.. was burned
Tuesday night.
CHIEF OF POLICE STACEY, of Alliance,
while boarding a train at Rochester, N. j.,
slipped and fell, breaking his arm.
Mr.. GEORGE l. LAWRENCE manager Of the
Erie Telephone Exchange, has resigned and
will embark in business for himself.
NEWS has been received at Derry. Pa, of the
murder at Coldwater, Kan, some days ago OF
Dudley Murphy, a farmer formerly living at
Derry.
JOHN G. BRANT, coke drawer at the Whit
Works, Greensburg, was struck by lightning
during the heavy storm of last Monday. He
will probably die.
CURTIS HIscooK, an old and respected resi-
dent OF Hiram township, O., was instantly
killed at a point west of Garretsville by the
fast Erie express.
A BUFFALO mining firm is negotiating for
all the mines, eleven in number. along the
Sligo branch of the Allegheny Valley Railroad
in Clarion county.
JOSEPH CRAGo pleaded guilty yesterday to
manslaughter for the killing of his brother at
Empire, o., and has been sentenced to two
years in the penitentiary.
Allentown Pa, City Item, was married at
Tifin last evening to Miss Ella Bacher, promi-
nent young lady teacher.
THE trustees of the ChiIdren's Home, at
Newark, o., investigating the charges made
of cruelty to children by Mrs. Sutton, the ma
tron. required her to resign.
AN attempt was made to burn down the
handsome residence of Milton McLaIn at
Dravosburg, Pa, yesterday, but was oeteateo,
though the guilty ones escaped.
ONE of the largest gas wells ever struck in
the Washington field was brought in Tuesday
night. The pressure will reach any place from
800 to ], 900 pounds to the inch.
THE Canton School Board appointod a COM
mittee to investigate the charges Of imifforal
conduct preferred against Christian VolzefI
janitor of the high school building.
CHARLEY BRIGGS, a timer. while putting
up spout, fell from the roof of a building in
New Lisbon, alighting on his head and fractur-
ing his skull. He cannot possibly recover.
P1TTsBURG and Beaver Falls capitalists have
bought 800 acres of land in one lump in Wayne
township, Laurence county. The purchasers
refused to state what the purchase was made
for.
LICENSES will be granted in Butler county
on March l9. There are % applicants, 20 for
retail and for wholesale, among the number
being that of the Bauerlein Brewing Company,
of Pittsburg.
IT is altogether probable that in the near
future the Cambria Iron Company, Of Johns
town, will require such supply of coal as to
necessitate the reopening Of the old mill mine
in Yoder Hill.
ANOTHER effort is to be made for new trial
for Van B. Baker, the Holiday, W. Va, muir
derer, now serving q life sentence on the
ground that when decision was rendered, IL
the prisoner was not in court, it would not
stand.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-27
TOLD IN A FEW LINES.
Lnte Telegraphic Dispatches BSs!=d Down to
small Paragraphs.


small Paragraphs.
A WOMAN created disturbance in one of
the departments of the House OF Commons
yesterday in Ottawa.
NIB. WRIGHT was renominated for Congress
for the Fifteenth Pennsylvania district, at Sus-
quehanna, yesterday.
JOHN CALDWELL, veteran of 1872, who
died in the Soldiers Home at Kearney, N. j.,
yesterday, was l06 years old.
Mr.. RUSSELL HARRISON, son of President
Harrison, arrived at Havana to-day on the
steamer Mascotte, from Tampa
ALL hope Of the safety OF the schooner La
burnum, which left Halifax on January for
Porto Rico, has been abandoned.
THE Coroner's jury has returned a verdict Of
murder against Dubois. who killed his wife.
mother-in-law and children at st. Alban, Cue.
REV. DR.. ]. A. MCCAULEY, formerly Presi-
dent of Dickinson. College, but now the pastor
of Eutaw Street Episcopal Church. Baltimore,
is dying.
Two highwaymen stopped the Mariposa
stage near Merced, Cal. last evening. The
mails were taken, as was also the Wells, Fargo
express box
AT Scranton Martin Starrow, employed in a
stone quarry, rammed bar into a hole con-
tanning a dynamite cartridge. His body was
blown to pieces.
MRS. ]. M. SMITH yesterday destroyed the
eyesight of Nathan Gordon, a clerk in a jew.
eiry store, at Sedalia, No., by throwing red
pepper in his eyes.
A LANDSLIDE at Washburn Brothers brick
yard, at Glasco, N. Y, yesterday crushed two
houses, and injured Mrs. M. Tracy, aged so
years, Mrs. G. Tracy and Lizzie De Groot
Bob POPE, white man, and his son, II years
old, were shot dead on Monday night while rid
ing from Cummings Mill to their home in
Hampton county, S. c. The murderer is sup
posed to be white man.