The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1900-01-30

GlIneS edcn week. Ills earnings are 1lZ,
600 each week, and before he leaves
this country he will have received over
5000, 600 from his American managers.
The people of Ohio have distinct
recollection of Mrs. Anna E. George,
who was tried and acquitted of the
murder of the Presidents brother-in-
law. She was going to lecture, but
public sentiment stopped that infamy
very peremptorily. So she took to
earning her living in more becoming
way. She is now model in cloak
store in New York City, and it is to be
hoped that she is model in more ways
than one.
There is wicked significance in the
following cablegram, which came from
Paris last week. 1t said: 'Despite
well-organized and general protest, un-
der the leadership of Senator Beren-
ger and the Duchess d'Uzes, against
Midway excesses at the coming ex-
position, the show is evidently destined
to outdo all the previous indecencies
that have been given licences. In an
interview explaining the management's
position in this matter, Director Pi-
card today said: People coming to the
Worlds Fair don't expect Sunday
school atmosphere.
eve are inclined to think" says the
Critic, ''that novels have larger sale
than any other class of literature.
This is great mistake. Religion
sells to much greater extent. No
novel ever written has reached the
sale of The Imitation of Christ. or in
later days of DIR. Sheldon's "In His
Steps," 1t is said that of Mr.. Spurgeon's
sermons one hundred million copies
were sold. Quite double that number
have been circulated in newspapers
and other ways" A writer in the
| London Puritan says: SIT may seem in
credible, but l believe it is quite true,
that the number of Mr.. Surgeons SER
mons sold since 1855 exceeds the num-
ber of Bibles circulated since the be-
ginning of the century," When it is
borne in mind that the British Foreign
Bible society prints five tons of Bibles
every day. it will be understood what
this means. Messrs. Passmore & Ala
baster publish nothing else. They sell
twenty thousand copies of Mr.. Spur
geon's books and sermons every week.
Over half million volumes have been
sold in the United States.-Interior.
A woman who entertains a great
deal tells me that she is heart, brain,
nerve, and soul weary of clever people,
and she longs to know somebody who
neither writes, sings, recites, toots, fid.
ldles, nor even has ideas. She even
proposes toast to the stupid people
who do not intrude, and to those who
while not stupid, often pretend they
are, for the sake of the quiet and peace
they know you will appreciate. Clev
erness runs in families nowadays
Even the household baby is hauled ou
at deadly night hours to do his little
turn, and the grandmother of the fam
lily is clever. All, rare and satisfy
ing person to meet is the family woman
who is not clever; who makes no pre-
tensions to cleverness; who has no
prepared paper on any of the burn
sake of the workers in the great worl(
down town, let me quaff the cup to the
health of the woman who is satisfied t.
stay at home and mend the stockings
and make pie and doughnuts and jelly
cake-make anything, in fact, pro
vided she is contented while she is do
ing it. Probably she doesn't talk {
great deal, and doesn't mind if you d.
not, and doesn't cherish it up agains
you if you do not hear what she is sa.
ing, even if you seem to be listenin:
and are looking right at her. What
dear restful soul she is! She know
good old tried-and-true remedies fo
ailments, and she doesn't even .asl
whether you want specifics for your i'll
or not, but she just claps them on, O
pours them in, and bustles around ant
hangs up things, and tells you that yo1
, will be better in the morning, and sur
/ enough you are, dear unselfish prophe
that she is.-Harper's Bazaar.