Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-06-11

denver your UTSJ comic TALK ana De
killed now than to wait twenty years
and suffer all that time. just do the
best you can, and between whites and
while you are thinking of other comic
thoughts you can wipe the rochefort
cheese off your glasses.
Anything comic should be spontane-
ous. If yeu succeed 1 will get you to
write q lecture for me that would be
comic. l never could. When you said
You would deliver a comic grafton and
then put your trust in me for the ma
terial, Alick, you fumbled the ball
made a bad play-lost a tally and cork
ed yourself.
n. B.-Leave your best suit OF clothes
1T home when delivering a 'cOmic ora
tion." Then you will have something
to wear the mex day.
We next pass on to speak OF another
young man who aspires to more serious
literature. He writes as follows, the
name only having been changed for the
sake OF his little sister and q couple OF
parents who ought to know better than
to bring him to write for the press. l
should be glad to show these pieces II
GU6y VIII bdh0 luO OlOuOlO w Nali az u
Vesey street during my Office hours
there, which are from a. m. In the fore
noon to p. m. in the afternoon. He says:
CoLDwATER, December 19, 1892.
DEAR EDIToR-I have sent my compost
ton of my own composure, WEIGH / wrote
at the age of Il. Desiring you to inform
me whether | will ever make q journalist
or not, l have wrote a large number OF COM
positions Of prose and poetry. have taken
a fancy to writing ever since 10 years old.
please inform me all you can about this
matter. in haste
BEN ALI SMITH.
Then follows the article on Books"
1t g~rleves me to be compelled to sitin
Judgment on such a work, but some one
must do it. l violate no confidence In
saying that he is the Judge Cobb OF lit
erature, and that the great problem OF
atness is with him unsolved. / have en-
deavored to give it more clearness OF
diction, but without success. Here is
the treatise:
BOOKS.
Books are a very useful thing for man
kind. they help cultivate the mind and
| strengthen the memory their chief use is
popular to every cultivated or uncultivated
memory a part Of the chief source Of
knowledge is derived from books.
Suppose for instance your child was SUI
fering from disease and you knew not
what in your power of thought what to
give to relieve her what must be done in
this case why a search for a knowledge
maintainable 10 relieve his or her suffering.
where will that knowledge arise from
why if there is a book treating on disease
and q cure which she can provide by prep
aration for her child the cure will relieve
his or her suffering Where would the
knowledge in that case come froml from a
book.
The ordinary books Of the present day
are divided into two classes, good books
and bad books.
A good book contains that which is pure
and sentimental what will enrich the mind
in full store and a good book pertains to
useful = knowledge that which is a true
event or that which might possibly hap
pen.
While on the other hand a bad book con-
tains unuseful reading that which could do
the mind or character harm. The book
which is lude or profane viii lead a pure
honorable character down to a miserable
downcast untrodden life. OF selecting
books 10 read beware of the false titles on
their covers those which seem good may be
poor and miserable and when the minds
deepest chain of thought is bound to read
them unfasten the CHAIN and free the
mind from reading them. We should select
geod books with a prize TO cultivate the
mind with their useful reading and lay up
in rmind a storehouse of their good. We
should be attached TO good reading human
nature sometimes ~inclines US toward the
| other way, but we should in all cases over
come the strong holds of nature, and by
the help Of a higher power govern them
| towward the right.
We Should enjoy useful reading, because
in some cases we might learn something
we did not know or think OF.
What shall we say in reply to this let
ter?
In thfs division Of books Of course he
has made q mistake. Instead OF divid-
ing books into good and bad books, l
/ should divide them into books which
will or will not elevate a child II used
at table In the proper spirit. Even Jude
books may do this.
Ihad sent me 1t n tIme > large.