The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-05-03

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curing its commission with money.
Then they demoralize the community
by the public parade of their mean
ness
! The sooner laws are made to con-
form to natural inclinations so that
they can be enforced without danger.
the better for the world. The sooner
public officials are held to rigid ac-
countability for the enforcement of
the law, the better for the public.
| And the sooner amateurs and out
siders are excluded from interference
in matters that do not concern them,
the better it will be for the cause of
good order and morality.
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Mr.. Joseph A Dear's Anniversary.
We take off our hat to Mr.. Joseph
A. Dear's modest anniversary effort
of yesterday. There were many in
teresting things in it. We say so
with assurance, because we thought
them interesting when we used them
in our own columns week or so ago.
1t cannot be said that, like good wine,
they have improved with age. But
some of them-as, for instance. that
ST. Paups Church rebuilding-have
an intrinsic value which cannot be
destroyed by mildew.
The most marked sign of the festive
occasion which we observed in the
paper, however, was the confusion as
to the day OF the week which marked
the editorial page. 1t is not unusual
for the Journal to be day behind
time, but the frank proclamation OF the
fact, and that the Majors own page. is
a sign of topsy-turveydom which we
are at some loss to account for. Taken
in connection with the Journals jubi-
iation over its advanced age. this de-
liberate Inversion OF ideas brings to
our mind a certain touching stanza
which occurs, to the best of our recol-
lection, in sAlice in Wonderland in
the course of Alice's conversation with
the Caterpillar. 1t runs thus -
'sYeu are old, Father William, y the young man
said
Sand your hair has become very white;
And yet you inces san .iy stand on your head
Do you think at your age, it is right:
in my youth, Father William replied to his
son.
Il feared il might fniure the brain;
But now that I'm perfectly sure have none,
Why do It and do it again"
frb<. ain fhaco haonfsF,,I 4; -
brings to our mind their continue
tion. and we find an application for
these also in the columns OF the
modest anniversary effort. Here are
the verses -
you are old, y said the youth, "as l mention ed
And have grown most uncommonly fat;
Yet you turned back somersault in at the
door
Pray what is the reason of THAR"
"In my youth, said the sage, as he shook his
grey locks,
Il kept all my limbs very supple
BY the use of this oinLment-one shilli the
box
Allow me to sell you couple
We find the application of these
verses in the back-somersault on the
subject of Elder Sterling's remarks
which graces the news columns of the
anniversary sheet. 1t is couched in
the following delicate terms
In yesterdays Journal Mr.. Sterling of No. 1O5
Sussex street was reported as having said at the
reception given Pastor Krantz OF Trinity NJ E
Church, Thursday evening, that the congrega-
ton had been for long time in want OF a minis
ter whom it could love and he thought it had Sc
cured one The journal thought it strange
fIa1 lima
Sterling and now announces that the reporter
was in error.
Perhaps this apology might leave
some room for explanation dis to s. What
it means. For instance, what did the
Journal consider strange about Elder
Sterling's remarks9 But at least il
leaves nothing to be derived on the
score of thoroughness. The paper
swallows its own statements with such
capacity of appetite and aeuteness
Of relish that we are compelled to fall
back once more on our poetic recollec-
tions for an expression of our wonder
and admiration. Continuing in the
same strain we launched out in above,
we address the following respectful
enquiry to Major Pangborn:-
Youare old. said the youth, .'and your jaws
too weak
For anything tougher than suet;
the beak:
Pray how did you manage to do itsf
Father zebina'sn reply will doubt
less be found in the Journal of tomor-
row afternoon.