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THE PLEASURES OF READING.
They Differ in Many Ways From the Pleas
ures of Literature. X

They Differ In Many Ways From the Pleas
ures of Literature. Il
1t is quite common mistake on the
part of young people to suppose that
the pleasures of literature correspond
with the pleasures of reading They
are so busy absorbing stories and poetic
thoughts that they have no time for
reflection, recollection, or anything
more than eulogistic expressions of
opinion. But the pleasures of literature
are among the most enduring and varied
that .Ihai rs permitted to have. my
mind to inesa abingdon Isl is said to
have been written. by. Sir Walter RAJ
leigh when he was in Jail, with no hope
of release His mind was a Kingdom
because it was stored with learning of
all kinds, and because, also, he had a
clear conscience. He could live within
himself. Even the casual reader of to-
day who, in the multitude of literature
offered to him, can have no set line of
study, gains something more than inn
mediate enjoyment. He becomes in
sensibly charged with facts and fancies
which, living in his memory, win be re-
vived in after years and renew the
pleasures they now afford. But, the
pleasures of literature are not confined
to those derived directly from reading
or from recollection, Literature stimu-
lates original thought and leads to an
other field of pleasure of writing
for the instruction or enjoyment of
young people to map out line of con-
duct for Interior enjoyments based on the
experience of their forefathers. They
must actin the living present and leave
the future, in large measure, to take
care of itself But they should at least
recognize that literature has in store
for them many pleasures besides those
to be derived at once from the reading
of interesting stories or graceful poems.
They should be encouraged to form lit
erary societies, to seek associates who
enjoy intellectual recreation, and thus
to lay the foundations for after enjoy
ment of their early readings. Literary
societies. as "a rule, are short lived.
The varied business and family and So
cial duties Of members drift them apart
after few years Of regular association,
but such societies seldom altogether die
out. They may not hold regular meet
ings ar keep record of their proceed
ings, but the members, or some of them,
get together ON occasions and live over
again the old life, contrasting it with
the present There are disadvantages
arising from an extended literature of
an ephemeral kind, A greater number
The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1892-06-16
PARAGRAPHIc POINTERS.

President Harrison doesn't want
denomination unless it's forced upon
him, and he means to have it forced
upon him if he has to write every fourth
class postmaster in the country warn
ing letter Chicago Times.
The republicans have employed
novelist to write story in which the
value Of the protective tariff shall be
shown. There is nothing novel in tho
protective arguments, but great deal
that will make excellent fiction.-Kan-
sas City Times.
Pension Commissioner Raum Is
now in a chronic state Of having mo
information" to give to the committee
which is investigating him. II his name
were Dennis. Secretary Foster might
perhaps describe him as ''clam-
mouthed."-St. Louis Republic.
The Ohio republican state com
mittee does not think that the man who
was big enough to devise the Mckinley
bill and to be elected governor is big
enough to fill the position of temporary
chairman of the state convention. OF
eonrse this only means that Foraker OF
the poisoned hand has got in his work
with the committee. If the republicans
Of Ohio like that sort of committee it is
nobody else's business. N. Y. World.
Rhode Island republicans arc as
sured that they can have all the money
wanted in running the campaign now
under way. No one doubts this, but
the intelligent masses are grasping the
fact that this same corruption fund is
blood money, taken from them by leg
islation, whichswealth secures, made by
Legislators whom wealth places in pow
er and in the interest of that centralized
wealth which supplies the sinews OF
war to the g. o. p. It has hired all the
halls in the little commonwealth, but
many glorious victory has been won
on the stumps and the cart tails. Mon
ey in politics will not talk so loudly as
usual this year. Brains are pitted
against boodle.-Detroit Free Press.
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Dignined Modssty.

Elijah" said the president, looking
up from his newspaper. II see that Gull
lom says that he withdraws from the
presidential contest"
"Yes, SIR"
$50 far as Alger is concerned, he's
q goner after that war record business,
and, Of course, Blair doesn't count. SO
don't see that there is anybody in IT but
me-"
You've got it all your own way, your
excellancy."
Then, suppose, Life, that we do :
little digni6ed and stately posing You
might casually remark in the presence
Of few correspondents that I believe
the Office should seek the man, and that
] will not engage in any unseemly
scramble for nomination II the con.
vention wants me 1t must ask me hum
bly--and between us, Life, It's fixed 90
there isn't anybody else Il can ask.
Now's the time, Mr.. Halford, for us TO
strike orr gait as retiring and digni-
ned statesman who only responds to tho
peoples call when it comes with no dis
cordant ypes Chicago Times.
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SOME CURIOUS LOSING PLACES.


AggravatinG Franks That Trinkets Have
Played Upon Too Confident Owners.
All the rings in a country house had
been cleaned and laid out in the sun on
q bright July day. They had been laid
on bank, as has been the habit of
some jewel lovers ever since Lothian"
was informed that sunlight was the
elixir for pearls; and the precious
freight had been carried inside, when
one--a half-hoop diamond ring-was
found to be missing Lamentation pre-
vailed, but, to cut a long story short, 1t
was pulled up the following day on the
root of a nasturtium, over bed of
which the bearer of the jewel tray had
passed. There having been season of
drought, the root was half in and half
out of the loose, dusty soil; but a foot
presumably that of the tray bearer
had actually pressed 1t beneath and out
OF sight. A nursery maid, however,
thinking the SPRAYING ANIMALS looked
untidy, began pulling them up next
day, and there was the lost valuablel
Do not believe it; should have done so
on hearsay myself; but still say, as do
all others who saw, it was SO.
The frill around q woman's skirt will
catch and hold fast a precious morsel in
q manner almost Uncomfortable. A dia-
mond ring lagain diamond ring; the
species is bewitched) had flown of
the finger Of a lady player at lawn
tennis. Up and down that velvet
lawn all through the long summer
afternoon did patient searchers
pace, and finally poor pussy cat
who had been licking It's paws in the
vicinity came under suspicion. Pussy
was observed to be going through vari-
GUS and horrible contortions; it arched
its back, stretched its neck, gulped,
and, in short, behaved exactly as II an
cmetic had been recently administered.
Every moment 1t was expected that evil
dence Of guilt would be produced, and
must say / never could have supposed
the sight Of a sick cat would produce
such profound sensation as 1t did on
that memorable occasion And, after
all, no ring was there. 1t was brought
| to its owner the following morning by
| the abigail who had been mending the
| fiouncc of the thin muslin robe torn in
| the lawn tennis fray; and the energetic
competitor was very energetic
must have played, bounding and spring
| Ing about, with this diamond ring in
| the heading Of the fiounce-a spot
which had no sort Of security during
four Of FIVE hours, Judging from the
| time It was lost,
remember seeing an old lady and
her maid hunting every nook and peep
| ing into every corner In search Of an
/ other and handsomer set Of brilliants,
which eventually the latter ral<ed out
from among the ashes in the huge, old
| fashioned fireplace. How it got there
4 no one ever knew; no sound had been
/ heard, and the owner never put on her
own w3pl tnvcoals. The Queen.
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RHODE ISLANDS VICTORY.
Tho Little State Is Bravely Working Out
Her Salvation.

Tho Little State Is Bravely Working Out
Her Salvation.
The emancipation of Rhode Island
from aristocratic and plutocratic rule
has been but partially effected. There
is chance this year to complete the
regeneration, and the democrats of
that state mean to improve the oppor-
tunity.
The odds against which they are
fighting do not discourage them. They
have met republican money and repub-
lican tricks before and overcome them.
The exposure by the World of the fact
that the republican nomination for
governor was sold for fifteen thousand
dollars, and that the bleeding of other
candidates has raised the corruption
fund from this source alone to sixty
eight Thousand dollars, which will be
increased to any needed amount by
the benefciaries of protection, shows
the sort Of campaign which the demo-
Gratis have to meet.
The time has gone by, however,
when money can prevail over men In
Rhode Island. The removal of the
property qualification was great gain.
The secret ballot was another. If the
democrats continue and complete the
campaign in the spirit in which they are
now working they will establish firmly
their supremacy in the state. And the
eminent national democrats who have
volunteered to help them will have the
satisfaction of contributing to this re-
suit and Of securing the electoral vote
for democratic president.
The first gun Of the campaign will
be heard throughout the union.--N. Y.
World
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over : Pinch.
Secretary Foster. formerlyya calico
trader IN Ohio and now repudiator In
ordinary for the federal administration,
scouts the proposition that the national
. success Is Z negative statesman, but
he fails when attempting 10 Justify
facts with assertions made for party
advantage. He knows that the con.
ditiou of the treasury eince the adjourn.
ment of the billion-dollar congress has
been such as to call for serious advice
from men and journals supposed to be
especially fitted for the task. He knows
that for nearly year he has been "a,
vised by prominent organs OF his party
that he could tide over q pinch" In the
treasury by lust such practices as are
now proved against him and denied. He
WAS told TO postpone payment Of claims
by the device of DELAYING the auditing
of bills and tricks that in the business
world always subject the pcrpetrator e
the suspicion of bankruptcy.
But the secretary believed he had !
better plan. He laughed IT the propo.
sition that he could have difficulty in
meeting the demands on the treasury
while there remained in il vaults any
part of the 500, 900, 900 of gold held foI
MANY years as a basis for the green
back circulation. He know that his
party had made the precedent of using
trust funds for ordinary purposes with.
out regard to the law under which they
had been deposited in the treasury.
For the first time in the history of the
government there had been q specific
fund covered into the treasury and not
accounted a liability. If such things
could be done by MISREPRESENTATION the
calico dealer would not hesitate to
agance by using the gold basis for the
paper whenever. empty
vaults made such 1 course necessary.
RELYING on this plan, the secretary
has allowed his cash balance to run
low, and the departments have been en-
couraged to use all the money at hand
in the furtherancc of schemes which
might have been postponed without
detriment. The pressure Is now great
from all sides. The Cramps are not
democrats making war upon the adj
ministration. They are patriotic ship.
builders engaged In the loyal effort to
upbuild The American navy and ,nci-
dentally in making money thereby.
They are Philadelphians and fellow cit.
liens OF the patriots QUAY and Wana.
maker. They are republicans in whom
there il no guile. In their hearts no
irnoble sentiment is cherished. They
are always for the old hay and an APP
preparation. But If that appropriation
be delayed by even so much as day
their patriotism finds vent in denuncia-
ton Of the scoundrel in the treasury
department who violates the public
The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1892-06-16
A strategist.

Mrs. Yeger-Do you know, Mrs. Peter
by, that your husband tells everybody
that you are dreadful scold.
Mrs. Peterby-I know all about it
but he don't really mean it. He calls
me Xanthippe, hoping that some one
will call him Socrates, but nobody has
done it yet.-Texas Siftings.
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--Czar Reed thinks the democratic
party has no promise of advance in any
direction. The gentleman from Maine
forgets that . large proportion Of his
own party have deserted their colors
and gone over to the opposition. This
betokens an advance in one direction.
These disguised republicans favored re-
forms promised BY both parties and
only sincerely sought by democrats.
They have forsaken their own political
affiliations not from . change Of heart
but because they saw promise Of prog
ress toward a needed reform impossible
outside the democratic party Chicago
Times
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4 sorHeasoME BUSINESS.

oh, this being in love Is bothersome busi-
rt1ust Keeps one in torment from morning tin
night
Tho quarrel with Jack every minute I'm with
him,
I'm wretched whenever he's out Of my sight.
His name. Tho prosaic, it has but to be men
And my heart gives jump, and--rd perish
would own up to limit stands still while /
listen =
r For his step on the walk or his ring at the
/ door.
can settle TO nothfng-to reading nor sewing.
Just for thinking Of Jack. I don't .f1iyt any
Not because II is wrong. but because the plain
truth is
What once was a pastime is now but bore.
For the rest Of mankind, tho they all were
Apollos,
live no eyes and no ears, for, alas and alackt
When woman's in love the whole universe
eenters
In some commonplace fellow like honest old
Jack.
Forts faet=zand ! know tt=that Jack Is no
He's about as unlike all the knights Of 70
nance
Thai I've read Of or dreamed Of as any man go,
ing.
How twas that he came my girls soul to en-
trance
! can't tell; Tsuppose, tho, that shy rascal Gu.
pd
Just for spite pulls the wool over each wom-
EMS eyes
AT least once in her life, and an ev'ryday mortal
Looks TO her-for awhile-like a god in dis
tguise.
The last man in the world to set up for an idol,
You'd say, was my Jack. How 1t all came
about
Is marvel 10 me, who at love and at lovers
Have so long found 1t easy to fleet and TO
lout
I pretend to tc cold, and I'm high and I'm
mighty
" oaer=.I lack, whensat heart I'm as meek
Us teeye;==a - 5zzszssz#55ss
but OH dces IT most glaeden, or sadden, or
maddea
proud woman to find that at last she's in
love!
Boston Globe.
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oF GENERAL lNrgREsr.

Snuff has been made from very
early period, first and most largely BY
the Spanish. who prepared 1t with care
and scented It with various materials.
Next the low countries, Scotland and
England extended and popnlarized the
use Of snuff.
The American colonies prior to the
revolution used the currency Of Great
Britain mainly. Only some subsidiary
coins were minted in the colonies, and
these were all Of copper, excepting in
Massachusetts,, where silver shillings
were coined for several years.
Barton Turner, . man found In
Peelxskill BY the New York census tax
ers, gave the names of seven wives
whom he had. married in his time. They
had survived marriage with him periods
ranging from two weeks TO twenty-nine
years He is now eighty-one years old,
Coffee bleaches and improves with
age, but old coffees, which used to be
highly esteemed, are now no longer OBJ
tainable, as the prices of coffee have
been so high that the planters have hur-
ried their product to market instead of
keeping it, as was often the custom in
the olden time.
What's in name? "A very great
deal n Won barnen to Ia born l.
Maine. One Maine man has afiicted
his offspring with such names as
Fauoht. Orlando. Theopevander. Ser
meta Salonic and Serena While n
Maine girl has for a full name Carrie
Annie Mary Lou;se Nellie Pooler.
Some ~ tha Na,v yor,x bota,s pro-
v;ae chansro,s Gov tsn,Ia o,,.sts ,,pac.
nua;nted with tbe c;tv 4 shonn;nv
tour nndar tba or;aanca ~ one nf
ther, soor f.n,;l;ar;zes : stra,,rar ,v;th
tbe c;tv Manv ladies And tbis occpna-
49,, vI..s.rt and ra,,,,ravst;,,a srha
charge for their SERVICES is A. 5) n dav.
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enter zoooloo;cal % r,fens ana come 40
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were snottea leopards byenas one
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The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1892-06-16

"A post Office In Kane,s Is named
Zero. It was probably 50 named on 10
count Of the postmaster's Ealary.
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Some time ago a tight-fisted and i'll

tempered man in Penobscot county,
Maine, used his wife so badly that she
was forced to leave him and become q
town charge. Recently he consulted q
lawyer about a divorce, and was adj
vised to ask his wife to come home, and
when she refused, as it was expected
she would, to begin proceedings for a
separation on the ground Of desertion.
The scheme didn't work very well,
however, for the town authorities heard
of it and bundled the poor old creature
back to her husbands house, where she
died, and now he must pay for the
whole expense of town support, sick
ness and burial.
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MoNG o tn e r
things l have
taught school.
: 1t would be
d im c ult in
these days of
advanced Ideas
md increased
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"DETH no COMPETITION.

Twelve-pairs has never come back and
Katrina is a maiden heiress Of the tan
merry still. "-Peck's Sun,
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EARLY the newt morning the body OF
Collar button and pair of socks was
found on the rad with cheese knife
hidden in the cold, cold breast except
the handle. On the handle was hung
the following card, formerly on wire
figure in front Of the Art Gallery:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-02-05

To strike out the words "of ridicule' from
the Oates bin would relieve IL Of its most pre-
posterous and injurious feature. But docs
Congress think il advisable. making that elimi-
nation, to leave in the measure the provision
concerning revenge? The effect OF the new
law would Re to define and punish as black
mail the making. threatening or attempting to
make any injurious disclosure % for the pur-
pose of obtaining money or other bepe ft, or
CD for the purpose of revenge. The first
species Of blzckmail, as thus defined, is the
ordinary variety, involving the idea of e1-
tortion through intimidation Of some sort. The
second species is something new and extra
ordinary. Is its creation necessary or de-
sirable for the District? The actual max
ing of an injurious disclosure concerning
another for the purpose of revenge" is now
punishable in the District under the libel law.
which protects against criminal proceedings
one who publishes defamatory truth only
when he does so with good motives and for JUS
tifable ends Is it desirable to enlarge the local
law Of libel by defining and Furnishing as black
mail the mere attempt or threat to commit
libel? What will constitute an attempt to
make an injurious disclosure, oral or written or
by publication? Will not the attempt provis-
ion be found either so vague as to be meaning
less and 1nenforciOle. or so broad as to punish
at hard labor trivial acts which have no GRIM
inal feature whatsoever about them? Is it not
sufficient to punish at hard labor the actual
blackmailer and &C lock up the act
ual hbeler? The District ought not to
be made an experiment field for creating and
testing new offenses- The local libel law, with
its heritage OF unamended common law princi-
Piles. is already widely at variance with public
sentiment If any change in this law is made
ID should be in tie direction of harmonizing
the statutes and public opinion by recognizing
the alteration in the relations Of the press to
the people which has characterized the prog
ress and development of the last hundred
years in Euglish-speaking countries. 1t is
surely enough to treat q criminal one who
makes an injurious and revengeful disclosure
concerning another. Who in this 10th century
wants to punish at hare labor the man who
opens his mouth to make such disclosure
but does not. or who sends q written diselo-
sure to another but withdravs it before it has
been read by the person addressed?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-02-05

The congressional eulogy is not appreciated
outside OF Congress, but the intensity of its
appreciation there makes up amply for the Lack
elsewhere Yesterday in the adoption of the
new House rules opportunity was presented for
reform in the eulogy business. But as the eulo-
gists and the expectanss of eulogy could lct be
made to see any necessity for reform it was not
surprising that no reform was made. The
eulogy Is evidently sacred to its abuses. As
long as Congress stands the eulogist will ealo-
gize and the fond hope that he will eulogize
mildly, sparing the laeerated heart of the poet
and the sensibilities Of palmer people. is now
recognized as utterly abortive- But for this
obvious fact The STAR would suggest that on
memorial occasions the delegation to which the
deceased belonged should pick out some one
man in the House to make the funeral grafton
and that the address should be heard in a
special ey ening session.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-02-05

Negatively speaking at least, the Maryland
House Of Representatives is for Cleveland s
sort Of tariff reform 1t has refused to refer
to q hostile committee a strong resolution in
dorsing the late Presidents message as the
pattern Of such things, and now, if it does not
change its apparent mind, the adoption Of tho
measure may show one of two things: Either
that Mr.. German is a Saul among the Cleveland
prophets or is a prophet Of another sort not
without honor save in his own country and his
own household.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-02-05

The sentence Of the men arrested for partici-
patton in the baltimore incident" just pro-
nounced by the crimes judge at Valparaiso and
subject 10 review BY the court Of appeals, is
nos excessive from any standpoint. The longest
term Of imprisonment for the murderers is go
days, and the death Of BoatswaIn's Mate Rig
gin Is ascribed TO some unknown person.
Damages are to be collected by civil suit in the
Chilean courts by the families of Turnbul and
Riggin, the murdered men.