The Bryan Daily Eagle. (Bryan, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 91, Ed. 1 Friday, March 18, 1898 Page: 2 of 4
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MB. BGSENOYS FATEJ
AST Susday. when
I st to t my
lie)
rric&O M. howiiot i
who la usually tb
tj gayest and beat of
company I found
blm looking ao de-
pressed and melan-
rboly that I ii-
ilalmod "What on earth
la the matter with
Jou' Have yon had a misfortune
"Not exactly. but I've wltnssed ml-
fortune. I'm glad you ramr to aee me
today tor I want to talk. Do yoa be-
Mere In fate?"
I waa aurprlaed at the questlos am)
before I could ana wer be continued. "I
Man ds yoa believe that one person
is panned by a bad fate through life
while another aeema under the gui I
aace of aome kind spirit who wards off
very unhapptneaa. or do yoa think
things are mora evenly divided up. and
very man haa a share of both?"
My friend appeared perfectly serious
though he aeldom indulged In auch
aober talk.
"Well." I replied. "I believe la an
ssldcky fat for myself aad a luiy
oae for everybody else."
"Do not complain." aald he. "Dad
aa your fate may be It la not a circum-
stance to that of an unfortunate man I
kaow of. Do you remember the last
time I saw yoa that I said I waa going
that evealag to Holaaoa'af"
"Tea to apend several days with a
friend."
"With my old friend Doumard. one
of the beat and I may aay the luckiest
of mortals. He haa euoreeded la sat-
isfying every one of his desires. He Is
married to a good aad beautiful worn-
aa. whom he loves and who lovea him.
They hav two sons who have never
given them a moment's worry. He Is
respertci and rles FIbbbti whisk w
Bever sought have rorae to blm thick
aad fast. You see. fate has been kind
to him. And In contrast to his life of
access and happiness stands that of
distant cousin of his a U. Davtllieri.
to whom fate haa been perversely
cruel"
"la It thla man who haa depressed
yoa so?" I asked.
"It la thla man's history. Do yon
care to bear It? It may make a fatal-
lst of you."
"Ill listen' said I. lighting a cigar-
ette "He waa a son of a captain of the
Chasseurs d'Afrlque." began M. Roe-
aon. "and waa not more than 10 years
old when his father died. The mother
tost no time In marrying again and
chose a worthless fellow who squan-
dered her money and made life so
wretched for her that ahe Anally killed
herself.
"The child waa abandoned by the
Stepfather and adopted by his uncle
the father of my friend Itoumard. The
aaan waa kind hearted but governed
rather by Intellect than sentiment. In-
stead of putting the boy In school he
found a position for him In a book-
store Work h a good thing both from
moral and physical point of view but
KEEP YOt'R MONEY.
It Is possible to begin It too early.
Childhood and youth should hare lhe'.r
Joys and distractions but this- boy
knew nothing of them. He srorkel
sarly and late and supported himself
on the small compensation bis labors
brought.
Time passed and little by little the
small sums saved out of the monthly
97 grew Into quite a respectable
amount. He bought an Interest In the
bookstore and by the time he waa Jo
was fairly well established. You see.
for twenty years he had denied himself
everything even the companionship a
nan needs and in return he had
acfctovsd a decidedly moderate surreal
He fell In love at that time and his
love waa returned. He married and
at laat happlneas was within his reach.
At least be thought ao. He bought .a
aa Investment a small vineyard In
Auierrola and moved there with bla
wrife. He wss constantly thanking
fata for the change in his Ills
"Well a son was born to them and
4ke price paid waa the mother's life.
Ton can Imagine Dsvllller'i sorrow.
He shut himself up with his son. and
for years saw no one. He Idolised the
boy; all the yearning love of a lonely
life waa faatened on little Paul. The
rblld waa named fur his mother who
waa Pauline.
"When Paul was 14 years old he
amused himself one day by hiding In
oae of the large vats which they use In
preparing the grapes. The men ut
wart did not see him. and poured boil-
ing wster Into the tank where he Isy.
After three days of terrible suffering
the boy died
"Dsvllllers gave up everything and
simply spent his time looking his mis-
fortunes la the face. His place went
to rain nnd he made no effort in keep
It together. He was swindled out of
nil little fortune until nothing at till
remained to him. Then his cousin
Houmard. asked him to live with blm
which he did for awhile. But he w is
restless and finally left thla hone and
with a little money given blm. estab-
lished himself at Hureenea near Paris.
"That la what I learned from Bou-
manl. but It I not the end. It seem
that a relative had died and nut of his
fortune had left Davllliera 10.000 francs.
Houmard aaked me. In my rapacity n
lawyer to take charge of the affair
sad pay the man his money. I waa
witling and aa I wanted to see the tin
fortunate being decided to take It per
sonallv Bouinard gave me hit address
sad the money snd I act out. At flu-
rasoei I Inquired for M Davlllleri an 1
-"-k
JZ
1wm beautiful the diitanr abort
ao fit ruck out across country on foot.
determined to and my roan and dellr-
r hi legacy.
"Oace I sat dowa on tht bang of tb
Seine to rest Aa I aat drinking In the
beauty of the country 1 heard a step
beside me and 1 started up la some
little alarm. You will remember that
1 carried the money ia notes in my
: porketfaook. and at the moment I had
: the pocketbook In my hand. I had
looked to be sure that the roll waa
there and had not put It bark In my
pocket. I saw beside me I nan mean
and poor and shabby and I Jumped io
my feet thrusting the pocketbook out
of sight. The sight of him was not at
all reassuring and I started off Imme
diately. I had taken but a few etrpe
when the man spoke:
'Monsieur monsieur you had bet-
ter wait a moment la your hurry te
be rid of me you have dropped your
pocketbook.' and be came up to me.
"I thanked him profusely feeling
ashamed of my ois'rust and suspicion.
" 'Let me give yoa something aa wit- !
nee of my gratitude' 1 aaid. holding
out a IO-franc piece.
" 'Keep your money; I have no need
of It.' he answered bitterly and turned
aad left me.
"I waa intensely surprised that a
creature so evidently poverty stricken
should after giving up 10.000 francs
refuse a 30 franc piece. Still thinking
over the Interview. 1 reached Puteaui
and learned that JT Davllliera lodged j . .. . im rok theme and awakening national enthu-
oa the Rue Halnt-Oermaln kh. . . . . 7? - hih -n .k. n.
" 'He haa gone away' said the land-
lady m answer to my Inquiry 1 think
to Parts.' "
" 'That Is most unfortunate' said !
'If he cornea back will you tell him that
M. lloaenon would like to see blm on
matter of business connected with s
smsll legacy which has come to blm"
Tell him to look me up In Paris and
I will look for him in the meantime.'
" 'I think he will com back soon.'
h replied 'snd I happen to know that
a little money would be very welcome
to blm Just st present.'
"Well I csme back to Psrls. snd for
two daya heard nothing though 1 sent
a letter In Puteaui.
"Yesterday morning my servant
came to roe and said a gentlem&n wish-
ed to see me.
" Who la ttr 1 asked.
" 'I do not know but he say h
comes from Puteaux.'
"I was sure It was M. Dsvllllers st
Isst and had the man brought Into the
room. Hut I was mistaken.
" Monsieur.' said the visitor. 'I have
come to ask you to appear at the In-
quest of M. Davllllers. HU body was
found In the River Seine yesterday. It
Is known that you were inquiring for
blm. and your presence at the Inquest
Is desired.'
"I was horrified.
'"Ia It suicide?' I asked.
" 'Undoubtedly. He wss Tery poor
and owed considerable money. No on
In the town would truit blm until
h paid what he already owed. This
Is supposed to be the cause of bis
death though It Is known that he had
suffered some terrible misfortune dur-
ing hla lite'
" 'It la fate which has pnrsued this
man' I thought but It waa not until I
arrived at the morgue that I realm. I
the full extent of fate's Ironical power
There I recognised In the body of M.
Devalllera the man who on the banks
of the Seine had returned to me the
10000 francs which were really his
own. It must have been Just after
our Interview that he took the flnil
tep In his unhappy career. While I
searched for him to give blm money he
hud killed himself for want of It.
"And that." concluded Rosenon "Is
the cause of my unusual depression of
spirits today. The thought of that
man Is with me conatantly. Du you
believe In fate"
And I answered. "Yes."
trrrra af nlorrd -ri.
Whin the negroes were gej free at
the end of the rebellion there were bo I
poorer people In modern civilization
Neverthtitsts. they have since then ac-
quirer! wealth. Professor Jones of
Wheeling. W. Vs. lately said: in
a generation the colore! people have
accumulated and pay taxes on $40o.-
000. 000 of real estate. We own and
ojiernte a street car railway in Ar-
kansas. We own $603000 worth of
shipping. $105000 worth of wharfage
five banks with a capital of $3.000 .ooo.
and 200 dally and weekly newspapers.''
Menial surpasses material acquisition.
"In a quarter ol a century." he con-
tinued "over three and a half ratllk.na
of our race have learned to read am!
write. We have acquired and control
1 colleges. 34 academies and high i
schools and seminaries. Wr have more
than 30.000 teacher In the public
schools 33 painters of merited reputa-
tion. 1 sculptors. MM physicians.
dentists. 3.000 lawyers. I'.soo ministers. 1
540 telegraph operators. 30000 skilled
workmen of sll sorts und conditions '
1. tiiti engineers l.tiOO captains and pi-
lots of vessels 3.970 bookkeepers and
stenographers and 8.000 prtnlors."
The Bag aiot mi nf 11 ..
ine use or misuse of alcoholic li-
quors Is one of the deadliest evils of
the times. Consumption In the I'nlted 1
States in the fiscal year H96 was of
1.170.379.44b gallons or 1H.42 gallons
per head of the entire population. One
gallon per head yearly Ii of distilled
spirits. In 123 the quantity waa seven
and a haif gallons per head. Four
hundred thousand confirmed drunkards
were In the land and million more
were in the making Moral sentiment
will not tolerate intoxication In good
society business circles or responsible
posts of duty. "Not a tithe of Intem-
perance." Dr. Dorchester declares
"exists as compared with fifty yean
aud inure ago."
Artamua Want I rltlr.
"This picture is u great work of art.
It Is AS old Minting done in petro-
leum. It is done by the Old Jlastera.
It was the last thing they did before
they expired. Some of the greatest
artists In liundon cme here every
morning Mora tgj ght with lanterns
to look at it. They say thev never
saw anything like It before and they
hope tbey never shall again."
It Is an undisputed fart that the
morocco-bound encyclopedia Ii leas
Welthtv than th nlsln -ll.im..i
H.boot j
A POET OFTHK PEOPLE
A MONUMENT TO HER GREAT-
EST BARD.
ssaaaMas iain. u gssasaai .
tloaal l.llaratare-l.ik llamas. Use
lllooj I In.rt in HU Vrlaa A
l.osrr af Liberty.
(Special Latter.)
M ILK France
ha
n : -I
noble
monument to Aix-
snder Dumas pare.
H.M'i.i ba- r 1 1 I
one to Alexander
Sergyeerltrb Push-
kin. In the veins
of these two Alex-
anders. Illustrious
the one in romance
and the other In
: poetry the dark Mood of African pro-
genltors mingled with the royalty of
j Frace aad Russia. Ask France to des-
ignate her favorite writer of romance
and from among her brilliant living
I sons she will turn to those of the past
j wbowe stars yet shine above the horizon
of national thought and reluctantly
paaslng both Hugo and llslxar. she
she will point her finaer to that brown
giant with the habitual smile and face
lines showing universal sympathy and
boundless optimism. Ask Russia to
name him who made the very language
I nt hla miint.. .h.Ani.i H..i
- ui ii rm ii uar u-tiaaaii ism I it nis
own country which every continents!
literature was striving to do; who. tak-
lag up the folk lore snd legends of old
Scythls. dignified in immortal song the
ancient deeds and tradltlona of the
rountry and with his deep-toned lyre
touched the heart of Slav and Finn.
Calmurk and Tungus. and all the sav-
age wanderers of the Steppe ami Ru-
sla will aay "Alexander Pushkin is the
man."
It waa reserved to Robert Hums not
only to touch the heart of man as none
TI1K MONTMEXT.
other except Shakespeare haa done; but
to demonstrate that genius can reach
the world In u naked patois or dialect
as forcibly aa with the Greek or French
tongues. Hums made classical the dW
alect of his race. Alexander Pushkin
made classical a language which the
educated classes of his country spoke
only with contempt giving it virility
grare and epigrammatic force where
Kartimzln. tin historian and .hukbov-
sky the poet had failed.
A glance at the family history of this
remarkable colored man reveals that an
Afrlran boy named Hannibal waa cup-
lured on the shores of Africa und Kent
at a slave to Constantinople where he
was bought by the Russian ambassa-
dor and sent to Peter the Great.
Years after when Hannibal's brother
came to St. Petersburg to rausom him
the great czar refused to part with his
trusty friend and sent him to France
to be educated. lHn his return to
Russia be was constantly by the side
of Peter acting In various confldenilal
offices and w is finally knighted by
the generous czur
banlahed to Siberia
reign of the KmprcHs Aunu through the
machinations of an enemy named Ill-
run a favorite of the impress but
escaped und secretly returned and hid
himself on his estate until Elibabetb ac-
sajjsjl to the throne. His son Push-
kin's grandfather was a distinguished
grnernl of Katherlne II.
Although three generations of blood-
mingling wiih Russia had taken much
of the pigmentation from the poet hli
blue eyes and light hair were accom-
panied by lips and other physlognoml
cal lines which Incontestably disclosed
bla negro blood Ills father. Inherit-
ing the military Instinct from hu
grandfather had aDo gained dlstln-tlon
In the nrmy of the znr I'pon retiring
from sctlve military service he settled
In gay Moscow amidst the endless
rounds of social ainmrmenti. which
i hararterlzed the galllcizcd Russians
of his time.
French was the Inngv.igc af the fam-
ily ss of every educated! family of Rus-
sia; anil had young Pushkin possessed
less originality and native independ-
ence and more of receptivity. he would
have become under his French tutor
a slave to the mock classicism of the
period and Russia would havo lost in-
calculable llterarv treasures.
Discarding with disdain the Fn-m h
school of pedantry at an early age he
amazed his literary critics by writing
poems and amateur plays In the hither-
to neglected language or hit unlive
country. At the age of 12 he entered
the Lyceum of Tzarsko Se'o ( win
administration of which Institution en-
aeavored ta develop originality snd in-
dependence of thought la tb youths
rslned therein. Ia 1S1&. at a public
examination he recited si urtg nai
poem which elicited marked eatk al-
asrn fjaBi the people and attracted the
attenMa of the aged poet of the old
s hocM Ikrrhavln. who nretllrted fir
raat him scares i fill lire Hla mastery of
1 poetic forms soon attracted the atten-
tion of literary people. The great va-
I rlety of subjects th ease and grac
with which he yielded to varying m-
lltlcal moods snd the delicacy with
which be Imitate I poetical forms ar
the Important points of hla poetry at
thla epoch.
Heforr- he left the Ireeiim "Ruslan
nnd I.lndmlla" came from his pen. and
narked the first time in the history of
Russian poetry where strictly national
themes were treated on native soli; ex-
ffraaaad In a natural free and narrative
style utterly In opposition to the pre-
vailing rhetorical school. Young Push-
kin had been fond of popular tales
which his maternal grandmother had
told him. and "Kuslan and Llndmlla"
waa the first frwts. which brought
consternation Into the camp of the
critics and when published In 1829 It
was received by the people with great
1 '"'hinlBBBj.
' A" remH of his wsnderlngs
i through Russia came The Gypsies.
"The Fountain of liaktrhiaaral." "The
Nereid." "The Prisoner of the Caura
sus." and his chef d'oeuvre. "Kvegcnb
Onveeln " all ilraltn? with natlnn.-i!
- - - . . . - . . . . u n( -
lustrloua l.omononoff had failed to 00
j Hl of writing became widely eel
ehrated as "the I'ushkln style" utterly
different from anMhlug In Rutalan lit-
erature. Writing an epigrammatic satire
agalnat Count Varontzhoff. under whom
he was employed In the foreign office
at Odessa he was banished by the au-
thorities to the isolated eatate of Mlk
halovskoe. which was owned by hla
: parenta. His enforced sblltude her
i was fruitful and from his .'onflnement
he poured forth upon Russia lrlca
songs and dramatic writings of great
excellence aud power. Here he wat
watched over by Arlua Hodlonovna. IBM
old Russian nurse and from her folk
tales he became moic imbued with thi
spirit of his native land mure asJotM
In his study of it. more 1st sadism Hi in
the artistic prosecution of bis true vo-
cation. IssM Haprood. b f'harle.t Diidlev
Warner's library of literature says ol
him: "Harmony of tersltlcition. which
has never since been :ppronched ex
eept in a mensur by l-ermuntoff. vivid
delineation of character; simple but
wonderfully truthful description of ev-
ery day life which all Russian writers
liad scorned down io that time such un-
Pushkin's indestructible claims to Im-
mortality." A signed article In the Encyclopedia
Ilrltannlca. from which I quote a few-
Important paragraphs ays:
"Pushkin remains as yet the greatest
port whom Ruasla has produced; the
roost lelebrated names before him
Hannibal was were those of Lomonosoff and Derz-
turlng the brief j havln; the former was n romposer of
merely scholastic verses ami the attai
ALEXANDER ri Pl'SHKIN.
In spite of great merits was too much
wedded to the pedantries of the classi-
cal school."
Kurly In IM Pushkin married Natal-
ya Xlkolnevna Gontucharoff. of royal
MooS His family wns loaded with Im-
perial favors pensions nnd honors. On
January 29 1837 he died in a duel
fought with George liekkeren Itanles.
on of the minister from Holland. Th
emperor of Russia gave laO.oOO ruble
to his family for the settlement of hli
debts the publlcstlon of his works snd
bestowed a generous pension on his
family.
T. II Reginald Clark
'TALM AGE'S SERMON
HI PREACHES TO THE NEWS-
PAPER PROFESSION.
Anil larMeatall Tells thaw th llood
ri-r is ikr awaaaaj t aad
It Ira. an. I Ihe Hit SSI faurr. of llir
tirealrr no.
Express rail train and telegraphic
communication ate suggested If feot
foretold in this text snd from It I
start to preach a sermon in gratitude
to God and the newspaper press for
the fart that I have had the opportuni-
ty of delivering through the newspi.pe.-
preaa two thousand sermuns or religi-
ous addresses so that I have for many-
year been allowed the privilege of
preaching the gospel every week to ev-
ery neighborhood In Christendom and
In many lands outside of Christendom
Many have wondered at the process br
which It hss come to past and for
the first time in public place 1 Hate
the three causes. Many years ago. a
young man who haa since become emi-
nent In hi profession was then study-
ing Isw In a dlstsnt city. He csme to
me and laid that for lack of funds he
muat stop his studying unless through
stenography I would give him sketrhs
of sermons that he might by the sale
of then secure means for the comple-
tion of his education. I positively de-
clined because It seemed to m an
impossibility hut sfter some months
had passed and I had reflected upon
the great aadnea.: for such a brilliant
young man to be defeated in his am-
bition for the legal profeslon. 1 under-
took to lerve him; of course free of
charge Within three weeks there
came a request for those strnogrsphlc
report from many part of the con-
tinent. Time parsed on. and I SM
gentlemen of my own profession evl
dently thinking that there waa hard -room
for them and for myself In this
continent began to assail me. and be-
came so violent In their assault that
th chief newspapers of America put
peclal correspondents In my church
Sabbath by Sabhith to take down iuch
reply as I might make. I never made
reply exrept once for about three min-
utes but those correspondents could
not waste their time and so they tele-
graphed the sermons to their psrtlcu-
lar paper. After awhile. Dr Unit
Kloparh of Xew York systemlzed the
work Into a syndicate until th-ourh
that and other ryndirates he has put
the discourses week by week before
more than twenty million people on
both sides of the sea. There have bren
so muny guesses on this subject many
of them Inaccurate that I now tell the
true story. I have not Improved the
opportunity a I ought but I feel th
time haa rome when as a matter of
common Justice to the newspiper press
that I should make this statement In
a sermon commemorative of the two
thousandth full publlcatlna of sermon'
and religious sddresses. saying no-
thing a fragmentary report whlrh
would run t:p Into many thousands
more.
There was one Incident that I might
mention In this connection showing
how one Insignificant event might In-
fluence lis for a lifetime. Many Mfl
ago on Sabbath mnmlng .in my way
to church In Hrooklyn a representa-
tive of a prominent newspaper met me
and said: "Are you going to give us
any point 4 today-' I -aid -What .
you mean by 'points?' " He replied.
"Anything we can remember." I said
to myself. "We ought to be making
points' all the time in our pulpit and
not deal In platitudes and inanities"
That one Interrogation put to me that
morning started In me the desire of
making point all the time and nothing
but points
And now. how ran I more appmpr!-
atly commemorate the two thouiandtb
publication than by speaking of the
newspaper press ai an ally of the pul-
pit and mentioning some of the trials
of newspaper men.
The newspaper is ibe great educator
of the nineteenth century There Is no
force compared with It. It is book
pulpit platform forum all In one. And
there Is not an Intrreat religious lit-
erary commercial scientific agricul-
tural or mechanical that ! not within
Its grp. All our churches and srbooU
and colleges and asylums and art gnl-
lerle feel the quaking of the printing
press.
The Institution of ne-.vspaperi arose
In Italy. In Venice the first newspaper
wss published and monthly during
th time Venice wss warring against
Solyman the Second In Palmatla it
was printed for the purpose of giving
military and commercial Information
to the Venltlans. The first uewspa
per published In England was In i:.i
and called the English Mercury. Who
ran estimate the political scientific
commercial and religious revolution
roused up In England for many yean
past by the press?
The first attempt at this Institution
In Frnnie was in K31 by a physician
who published the News for the amuse
inent and health of hi patients The
Frnch nation understood fully hov
to nppreclate this power So early as
In 1820 there was In Paris Htt Journal-
Dut In the I'nlted State the newspa
per haa rome to unlimited sway
Though In 177S there were hut thirty-
seven In the whole country the num
ber of published journal ia now count
ed by thousands; and today we may as
well acknowledge it as not- the re
llglous and secular newspapers are the
great educator of the country.
Hut alas' through what itruggle the
newspaper has come to It present dr.
velopment. Just ss soon as It began
io demonstrate Its power superstition
and tyrnnny shackled It. There no-
thing that despotism so much fears and
hates as the printing press. A great
writer in the south nf Europe declare I
that the King of Naples had made it
unsafe for him to write on any subject
save natural history. Austria could
not bear Kossuth's Journalistic pen
leading for the redemption of Hungary
Napoleon I wanting to keep his Iron
heel on the nerk of. nations laid that
the newspaper was the regent of kings
and the only safe place to keep an
editor was i prison. Hut the great
battle for the freedom of the press wai
fought In the court rooms of England
and the 1'nltotl State before this cen-
tury began when Hamilton made hi
great speech in behalf of the freedom
nf 1 Peter Tenser s Gasettr In Mncr!
ca. and when Ersklne mad his rrt
speech in behslf of the freedom to pub-
lish Palne's "Rights of Man" In Wj
land. Those were the Mara' boa B
the Thermopylae where the ba'
fought which derided the freedom M
the press in England and America sB'
all the powers of earth and hell wt
Bever sgain b sble to put upon the
printing preis the handcuff en1
hoppl r- of literary and political !
potlsm It Is remarkable that Thomas
Jelenoa. who wrote the Declaration
of Independence also wrote these
words: "If I had to choose lietween
a government without nwpap'' aD
newspapers without a govern ent
would prefer the latter." Stung MJ
rome new fabrication In print we come
I to write or speak about an "'i''r '' '
1 printing press." Our new book ground
up In unjust criticism we come to writ
or pc.ik about the unfair printing
press." Perhaps through our own in
! distinctness of utterance we are report-
' ed aa raying Just the opposite of what
we did say. aad there Is a small n'-
of semicolons and hyphens and com
mas. and we come to write or talk
' about the "blundering printing press.'
or we take up a newspaper full of so-
cial scandal and of cases of divorce
and we write or talk about a "filthy
scurrilous printing pre" N"1 nl
morning 1 k you to conlder the im-
measurable and everlasting blrstlag of
a good newrprper.
I find no dlfr.u'.ty In accounting far
the world's advance. What has mad.
the charve Took." you say X"
lr! The vast majority of cltllrni SB
not read book Tak this audience
or any other promiscuous Hemb!age.
and how many histories hate they
read? How many treatises on con-
stitutional law. or political economy. or
works of science' How many elab-
orate poems or books of travel? Not
many. In the t'nited States the people
would not average one such Ixtok a
year for each Individual' Whence
then this Intelligence this capacity to
talk about all themes secular and re-
ligious this srquslntsnce with iclence
snd rt: this power to appreciate the
beautiful and grand? Next to the :
ble. the newspaper swift-winged and
everywhere present flying oyer th
fenre shoved under the door tossed
into the counting house laid on th
work bench hawked through the cars'
All read it: white and black OsffMI
Irishman. Swiss. Spaniards. American
old and young good and bad. sick and
well before breakfast und after tea.
Monday morning. Saturday night.
Sunday and week day. I now declare
that I consider the newspaper to be the
grand agency by which the gospel is
to be preached. Ignorance cast out op-
pression dethroned crime extirpated
the world raised beaten rejoice. I. and
God glorified. In the clanking of the
printing pres. as the sheets fly out. I
hear the voice of the I.ord Almighty
proclaiming to all the dead nation ef
the earth. "Ijixarus. come forth'" an I
to the retreating surges of darkness
"lt there Ih light!" In many of our
city newipaper. professing no more
th.-.n secular information there hare
appeared during the past thirty yeirs
same of the grandest appeal in behalf
of religion and some of the most ef-
fective interpretation of God's govern-
ment among the nations.
One uf the great trials of the news-
paper profession is the f..ct that tary
are rWSSsUMl to e more of the shams
of the world than any other profession.
Through every new pup. i cffl.e. day by
day. go the weakness of the world the
vanities that want to be puffed the
revenges that want to lie wreaked
all the mistakes that want to be cor-
rected all the dull speakers who want
to he thought eloquent all the mean-
ness that wants to get Its wares notio i
gratis In the editorial loiumns in order
to lave the tax of the advertising col-
umn all the men who want to be set
right who never were right all the
crack-brained philosophers with itory
aa lonrt as their hair and as gloomy at
their flnger-nalls. all the itinerant
bores who come to Btsi flve minutes
and stop nn hunr From the editorial
and repcrtorlal rooms all the follle
and iham of the world are seen day
by day and the temptation I to he-
lleve neither In God mn. nor woman.
It I no surpr'.re to me that in vour pro.
fesslon there are some skeptical men
1 only wonder that yon lielleve any-
thing. I'nless an editor or a reporter
has In hln present or in his early home
a mode) of earnest character or he
throw himself upon the upholdlne
grare of tlod he
and eternal shlpwi
Another great tr
profession Is the i
unhealthy Intelllge
make t. niporal
You hi
newipaper press for giving such prom
Inence to murders and scandal. Do
you suppose that so many papers would
give prominence to these things If the
people dM net drm.md them' If I
Into the meat market of a foreign city
and I find that the ; . her hang up nn
the mod conspicuous hook meat that
li tainted while th. meat that Is fresh
and savory I p aW. mixhm nny
special care 1 COSM to the 1.
that the peopl. of th .t city love tainted
meat. You know very well that If the
great miss of people m this country get
hold of a newspaper and there are In
It no runaway matches. n.. broken-up
families no defamation of me in high
poaltlon. they pronounce the paper
ln.lpld. They say. "I shockingly
lull tonight ' I believe It U one of he
trial of the newspaper press that the
people of this country demand moral
slush Instead of health) .1 Intellectu-
al food Now. yon are a respectable
tnnn. an Intelligent man. and a paper
comes Into your hand You open it
ind there nre three columni of splen-
didly written editorial recommending
some moral sentiment or evolving
ome scientific theory. In the next col-
umn there Is a miserable contemptible
divorce case. Which do you read first?
You dip Into the editorial long enough
to say. "Well that's very ably writ-
ten." and you read the divorce case
from the "long primer" type nt the top
to the "nonpareil" type at the bottom
und then you ask your wlfs If ate
has read It! Oh It Is only a ca.'e of
mipply and demand! Newspnper men
nre not fool. They know what you
want and they give It to you. I lie-
lleve that If the church and the world
bought nothing but pure honest
healthful newspapers nothing but
pure honest and n.sllhful newspapers
would be published. If you should
gather all th editor aad the reporters
of this country In one great .utn-
tion and ssk of them what kind of a
paper they would prefer to publish. I
belkvc tfcry would BaslBtoaaly aay
W would prefer to publish aa elevat-
!ng paper " So long as there Is an In-
urinous demand there l be as bx.
.qultous supply- 1 make no apolagy
for a debauched newspaper but I am
saying these 'blngs In order to divide
the reiponslblllty between those who
print and thoie who read.
Another trial ol thi profeailos ta the
fSi t no one reems to care for their
souls. They te1 bitterly aboot II.
though they laugh. People rjtse times
laugh the loudest whrn tbey feel the
worst They are expe . I to gather op
rellglcus proceeding snd to discus
religloui doctrine In the editorial col-
umni. but who expects them to b
raved by th sermons they tenograph.
or by the doctrine they discuss Is the
editorial columns? The world looks up-
on 'tern as professional Who preach-
es to reporter nnd editors? Some of
them cam- from religious homes and
when they left the parental roof who-
ever regarded or dliregarded. they
came off with a father's benediction
snd a mothers prayer. They never
think of those good old times bat tears
come Into their eye and they mov
tht ugh these great cities homesick.
Oh. If they only knew what a helpful
thing It is for a m :n to put his weary
head down on the bosom of a sympa-
thetic Christ! He knows how nervou
snd tired you are He has s hear'
Urge rnough to take In all your In-
terests for thi world and the next
oh. men of the newipaper press you
sometimes get sick of this world. It
seems so hollow and unsatisfying. If
there are any people In all th earth
that need God. you are the men. and
yea shall have him. If only tali day yoa
Implore h's merry.
A man was found at the foot of Ca-
nal street New York A tbey picked
him up frost the water aod brought
him to thr morgue they saw by tb
contour of hU forehead that b had
great meutal capacity. He had catered
ilon He had yn
BOWS IB health. He took to artificial
stimulus He weot down further and
further until one summer day hot and
hungry and sick and in despair he
last himself off the dock. They found
in his pocket a reporter's pad a lead
pencil a photograph of some one who
had loved him long sgo. Death aa
sometimes it will smoothed out all tb
wrinkle that had gathered premature-
ly on his brow and aa he lay there bis
fare was a fair a when saves years
fnre. he left hi country some sad
they bade him good-bye forever. The
world looked through the window of
the morgue and said. "It's BOthlag hot
an outcast." bat God said it was a gi-
gantic tooj that perished because the
world rtave blm no chance.
l.e' me ask all men connected with
the printing press tbat they help as
more and more In the effort to make
the world better I charge yoa 1b the
name of God iiefore whom yes mast
lOeSStM for the tremendous influence
you hold in th! country to consecrate
yourselves t
hla
endeavor Y'ou
J k this Intsslon
Lift up yosr
nrr the men to
of corrupt lit
right hand and
the cause of ph
And when at
Plains of Judgt
nt.
landing on the
mi look out upon
the unnambered throngs over whoa
you have had influence may It be found
that you were amongst the mightiest
energies that lifted men upon the eg-
alted pathway that leads to the fsows
f heaven Ilettrr than to have .at la
the editorial chair from which with
he finger of type you derided the des-
tinies of empire;. hsj derided them
wrong that you had been some dun-
geoned exile who. by tb light of wis-
dow Iron grated on scraps of a New
Testament leaf picked up from the
earth spelled out the story of Him who
tiketh away th ln nf th world. Is
eternity. Dives is th Beggar' Well
my friends we will all toon get through
-tilting and printing and proof-reading
tad publishing. What then? Our life
Is a book. Our year are the chapter.
0or month are thr paragraphs Oar
dsyj are the sentence Our tlSwMl
.ire the Interrogation point Our Iml-
I atlas of others the quotation marhs.
Our attempts at display a dash.
Heath the period. Eternity the perora-
tion. O God. where will wr sperd It?
i Iim . ntoii i r mi lliinrs.
P' hope uhaticr's mother. Joana. waa a
singular woman with whom he was
perpetually at war. She was lively be
was grim. She was a sentimentalist
he detested sentiment. She wa de-
voted to society to gosllp to the con-
venances of life. He lived for Ides
and. with an almost savage muroseness
pound scorn on the round of "at
homes" and aesthetic tea parties. Iloth
were selfish and quarrelsome We may
Judge therefore that Schopenhauer
took his notions of women partly from
his mother. It goes without saying
that these notions were violent In the
extreme yet not wlthou iom aspects
of truth. The "new woman" would
ruve at hi satire on her pretentions;
and yet It would do her good to read
what Schopenhauer ha to say with a
much calmness as she can mmatid.
Woman I here depicted ns emphatical-
ly "a lesser man" Indeed as far be-
low man aa to be fit only for the role
of the old fashioned German hausfrau
Self-Culture.
Mlrrra IrBSBS Africa..
Th settlement of Sierra IsMM at
one time consisted only of the penin-
sula terminating hj Cape Sierra 1wne.
with an area of alumt 300 sq;iare
miles. The rolony with Its protector-
ate now Includes s large extent of
country est I muled st 4000 iquare
mile. The capital Freetown po-
sesses the liest harbor In Weat Africa.
The scenerv id Sierra leune Is said to
be very similar to that of the West
Indies. The soli Is fertile and there I
an uluiiidiiiice of pure fresh water.
Tropical Hull grow luxuriantly.
Pineapples especially are produced
very abundantly while bananas plan-
tain avocado pears mangoes lime
and oranges are not only consumed lo-
cally but nre also exported to Gauibrla
(ioree und Senegal.
A thinking man I tb worst enemy
the Prince of Darkne can hav. Car-
lyl. Truth and facts always agree. Er-
ror aad lies sr sssocMtss.
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Carnes, Malcom. The Bryan Daily Eagle. (Bryan, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 91, Ed. 1 Friday, March 18, 1898, newspaper, March 18, 1898; Bryan, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth319830/m1/2/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .