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Galveston, Tex., May 27, 1SS7.
There is a vast amount of nonsense in
the newspaper discussion of a statement
sent out from Washington lately to the ef-
fect tbat President Cleveland and Secretary
Fairchild had resolved to make an issue
tipon the tariff question preparatory to the
next piesidential campaign. The tariff
question is already an issue and has been
for many years, and the pronounced demo
cratic policy has all along been to reduce
the tariff duties to a revenue basis. No-
body has known this better than President
Cleveland, and he expressed himself in
favor of such reduction long ago. When
Congress meets he will doubtless renew his
recommendation, but he can not make the
tariff more of a democratic party measure
than it has avowedly been all the time.
Eleven days before the fire at the Opera
Coxniqne the Figaro published a dramatic
fragment by Albert Miliaud based upon tho
idea of precisely such an event. It sail ' a
minister has predicted a fire." It would be
well in all cases to remember that chairs
and stools placed in the aisles o? tha iters
are so msny obstructions to the exit of the
audience in case of fire. This risk should
never be taken.
The agricultural department Wash-
ington is furnishing some valuable infor-
mation on ihe sub ect of forestry devasta-
tion. The recent report issued from thu
department shows that 10,000,000 acres
are demanded annually for fuel, ties, lum-
ber, etc., while fires clear oS as many acres
more. The forest area of the country being
less than -150,000,000 acres, this rapid da
structioii must be regarded as a serious mat
ter. The consumption of forests in supply-
ing railroad ties is enormous and increas
ing, and it is estimated that already an
area as large as the states of Rhode Island
and Connecticut has thus been denuded.
THE ATCHISON SYNDIC A TE AND
TERMINAL FACILITIES.
That was a grand piece of news tele
graphed to The News yesterday from Kau
sas City. If the Kansas City Journal Is
correctly informed it iB the intention of the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Kailroad
company to establish a weekly line of
steamers from Galveston to Liverpool and
a tri weekly line from Galveston to New
York. The Journal says that the Topeka
road had this in mind when it bought the
Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe, and that i
intends to put its dockage in Galveston to
more profitable use. The same authority
intimates that a line from California to
China and Japan is seriously contemplated.
It may be remembered in this connection
that when first the conditions of the sale of
the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe to the
Atchison syndicate were given to the pub
lie the establishment of a coast line of
steajners between Galveston and Now York
was a prominent feature therein. . Subse-
quent arrangements annulled this feature
of the contract of sale, if it ever was eoi
braced in the contract, but notwithstand
ing that there is every reason to
believe that the Atchison syndicate
contemplated the establishment of such a
line of steamers when opportunity and cir
cnmstances warranted its putting on. It
has been intimated in certain quarters that
the Atchison people were looking to the
acquirement of the Mallory line of steam
ships, to be added to as occasion required
However this may be, the information upon
the subject now conveyed from Kansas
City may be taken as something more than
mere hearsay. The Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe Railroad company had little use
for the acquirement of a lino of road lo-
cated as was the Gulf, Colorado and Santa
Fe, except for the terminal position which
ti e latter road had on the gulf of Mexico.
As a draining line out of Texas to the West
it could only have been of nominal value to
Ihe Atchison syndicate, but as an open high-
way from the West, with its multifari-
ous and valuable products to tide water on
the gulf of Mexico, the acquisition of the
Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe was a valuable
ard necessary adjunct. In other words,
the purchase of the Galveston road by the
Atchison sjndicate was mainly valuable to
the latter system because of the city of Gal-
veston being a terminal position on the
gulf. The effect of the absorption of the
Galveston road into the Atchison systam
has not been felt in any perceptible degree
as yet, but the day is not far distant when
great results to Galveston must follow there-
from. Its terminal facilities here must not
be circumscribed by any narrow gauged
ideas of public expansion, but the most lib-
el al policy toward the syndicate should be
pursued by both municipal and private au-
thority. The News has often said that Gal-
veston was a seaport or nothing, and
The News . finds no reason for
changing its expressed belief on this
point. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa
Fe syndicate promises in time te make
Gnlveston a seaport -worthy of it-j location,
and with tho concentrated business ot a
grand railway system such as the Atchison
syndicate represents, what is there to stand
in the way of such a consummation? The
contemplated steamship line by the same
syndicate from California to China and
Japan is but another clinch to the chain that
makes a gtilf outlet indispensable. With
all this in view, is there much reason to
denbt, if the Atchison people need deep
water at Galveston, that they will find
the means to go to deep water if deep
water fails to find them? Not much. The
outlook for Galveston was never better
than at the present time.
THE EXPLANATION OF THE JACOB
SHARPS.
Benjamin F. Butler, who, the New York
World says, "has spent a great part of his
life defending himself and other knaves,"
has turned up again, this time as the charn-
I ion of Jacob Sharp, the Broadway railroad
briber. In an interview with a New York
Tiibune reporter he says:
When he (Sharp] got the railroad on Broad-
way the entire press of the city praised him as
a great public benefactor. They showered
unlimited praise upon Jacob Sharp as the man
who lisd done the city and the public a great
service. There was not a newspaper in New
Yoik at that time which did not know that
Jacob Sharp or his people had been obliged to
pay the board of aldermen to secure tliat
franchise. Yet, knowing all these things, the
newspapers at that time praised Jacob Sharp
imnioderate'y. Now they turn around to as-
sail him and press him to the wall as a briber.
The World denies this, and says that "the
World denounced the Broadway spoliation
from first to last, and never had any words
but those of condemnation for Jacob Sharp
and every one who took part in surrender-
ing the great thoroughfare of the city to
the greedy street railroad grabbers." If
Butler's statement is true as to all or most
of the other New York papers, it is a severe
commentary on the general character of
that press. It forces the conclusion that
Sharp and the bribe taking alderinenare
considered criminals only in having been
so careless as to get into the clutches of tha
law. Had not soma of the weak kneed con-
spirators squealed and given their f allow-
logues away they would still, presumably,
be popular genflemen, as they were imme-
diately after the consummation of tha
ftaud. Is it surprising that the railroad
managers regard the expenditure of money
for "educating" and "explaining" to
public officials as a necessary inci
dent in their system of business?
This could not be the case but for public
toleration. Our political methods invite it.
Men are elected to office without regard to
moral worth or merit, and thus an invita-
tion is extended to the corruptionists to ply
their vocation. Often it is this influence
that determines the selection of public offi
cers. The slimy trails of the Jacob Sharps
are found in party conventions as well as
in municipal councils and legislatures, a ad
the experience ot the past proves that their
influence is exerted with generous impar-
tiality in each of the leading parties. Con-
gress, state legislatures, city councils and
r ominating conventions are made to feel
the presence of this dangarous power.
The ultimate fault is with the people. If
corporations were not allowed to pay their
debts to or make their deals with public
men in conventions or popular or senatorial
elections they would not have occasion or
opportunity to go to the rurther length of
paying them with boodle. Teach the
ambitious to aspire to intelligent
popular favor rather than to the favor
of corporate, class or individual influ-
ences directed to special and selfish ends,
and when parties or politicians are found to
be debauched by such mercenary iutara8t3
let them be crushed under the weight of
popular indignation. With this reform in
public sentiment and political elections
bribe-giving and bribe-taking would not
longer be looked npon as ordinary business
methods, and the Jacob Sharps would not
be legarded as "public benefactors," but
would be blazoned with infamy, even when
successful in escaping the meshes of the
law. _________
THE DEMORALIZING TARIFF L A WS.
A new feature of apprehension among
the protectionists, though affecting their in-
terests unequally, is the alleged increase in
the practice of smuggling. A nation which
consents to have its standards ot right and
wrong confused and the natural standards
subverted by outrageous laws for class rob
bery, must expect its public policy to be
tempered by private judgment of the most
fundamental character. Smuggling is t .e
natural check upon the legalized rapacity
of high tariffs. This is regarded by pro
tectioniets as a sad breach of morals, but
only upon the same principle as that of
the wolt which took offense at the lamb for
drinking at the same stream. As regards
natural morals there is probably nothing
degrading In the thought of the smuggler.
From an artificial standpoint commercial
honor is said to be undermined, but as
the Alta California states the case
for the United States at the present time,
"knowing that his government has useless
millions in its vaults, the citizen is less
inclined to be scrupulous In obeying the
revenue laws, and hence we find smuggling
rampant on all our coasts and border lines,
and evasion of the internal revenue regula-
tions assuming equal proportions in the
interior. After all, it is argued in the court
of conscience, smuggling is wrong only be-
cause it is prohibited, and the act of land-
ing cargoes not being wrong in itself, there
is but very little moral resistance to the
temptation." The same paper goes onto
assert tbat "it is true, too, that smaggling
has come to have less risk of loss than is
apt to occur in legitimate business." This
applies especially to silks, opium and other
expensive articles. From the distinction
between relative cost of transportation for
these articles and others more bulky in
proportion to cost, there arises a situation
In which some importers, such as those in
the iron trade, may still find the protective
tariff to operate as designed, while the Cali-
fornia imports are in the other class, where
the question of the repealed moiety law
is revived. This law was really demor-
alizing in the truer sense of the word. It
created an army of spies with no conscience
but the letter of the law and the hope of per-
son al reward. It was thus as demoralizing
as the spy and informer laws of some pro-
hibition states. By refusing to re-enact tha
moiety law the tariff reformers may bring
to their aid those merchants who do not
smuggle, and who at present feel the effeats
of the competition of smuggled goods.
This is one reason why, in spite of the Cali-
fornia paper's appeal on behalf of "honest
importers" and "legitimate trade" the spy
and informer law should not be again put
upon the statute book. Honesty is impos-
sible under the present tariff. As a senti-
ment the Alta has shown that it exists in
the breast of the smuggler. While it exists
also in the breast of the merchant who
pays and groans under unreasonable duties,
it does not exist in the law which creates
the smtigglei's peculiar form of industry.
The Reformed Presbyterian church has
undertaken to declare a sabbath law above
the law of equal rights under the Ameri-
can constitution. It is this constitution
which guarantees to the Presbyterians and
others their equal rights, but this constitu-
tion was not formed for the purpose of put-
ting all persons under the yoke of obedi-
ence to purely theological standards of
civil right. If there were to be an abso-
lute Sabbatarian rule by national authori-
ty it would be a question whether the Pres-
byterian would not be obliged to knock un-
der to the Jews and Seventh-day Baptists
and Adventists who keep the sabbath, not
Sunday. Whenever the sectarians grasp
at political power for enforcing a uniformi-
ty of observances in matters of religion
and conscience they strike a blow at their
own liberty, for the peaceful maintenance
of which they should ratner be grateful.
There is no practicable rule for a country
like this but freedom for all.
There is no such thing as
"desecration of the sabbath," intended or
implied in the transaction of postal busi-
nf ss on Sunday or the conveyance of mails
on that day. And it would seem most be-
coming for Christians to be strenuous in
maintaining the separation of church and
state in every ^yay. Presbyterians have
been notable protesters and should not be
beguiled into invoking the secular authori-
ty in a matter which properly concerns
church discipline. Judging by numbers
they would not be the favored church if
politics and religion were to be again
mixed.
It is getting to be easy to compile vast
arrays of figures upon almost any topic.
There are so many more people in the civil-
ized countries and they have so much more
machinery that a good deal more is accom-
plished in things good, bad and indifferent.
A Vermont man advertises in the West
River News a good farm in the edge of
Jamaica, tour miles from South London-
derry, with good buildings, barn and sugar-
house, with evaporator, etc., all ready for
sugar-making. Good sugar orchard, good
apple orchaid, with a number of pear trees.
Plenty of running water—for $800 cash.
The Richmond Dispatch says: "That
reads like a Virginia advertisement."
Well, tbat does not look as if the tariff were
a boom to the farming interest.
"Honest" John Sherman—choap John
honesty, eh?—is a bit of a bloody-shirt man
jet, and a bit of almost everything to gat a
presidential nomination. In the classic
and forcible language of Judge Clark, John
Sherman knew that it was not true that the
vote which elected Cleveland was the re-
sult of terrorism. He never heard it from,
any one more reliable than himself.
An exchange with a turn for figures says
that during Queen Victoria's reign Ireland
has been burdened with more grief than
usually falls to the lot of one land. In that
time 1,225,000 of her people have starved to
death; 3,6SS,000 were turned out of their
homes into the bleak world, and 4,186,000
have been forced to find an asylum on other
shores. Does anybody wonder that Ireland
does not join heartily in the great jubilee?
Mr. Whitklaw Keid oraises the New
York legislature on account ot its having
reduced taxes, and says that the supreme
test of the character and ability of such a
body Is its treatment of the public moneys.
Yet Mr. Reid upholds the action of his
party in Congress in resisting all efforts to
reduce taxes to a revenue basis, consider-
ing it all right to extort from the people
annually and pile up in the treasury mill-
ions of dollars in excess of what is needed
for the expenses of government. This is the
genuine article of republican consistency.
The real reason of President Cleveland
for retaining Attorney general Garland has
not been revealed. As an able lawyer and
adviser Garland is all right, but it was also
important and more to the point to show
that democracy is invincibly opposed to
swallow-tailed coats and useless prunk in
general.
Boiler explosions are of frequent occur-
rence. SeeiBg tbat human life Is held so
cheap, the Charleston News and Courier,
which disfavors any more official inspec-
tion as entailing more expense, thinks that
nothing would be so effective as "the hang-
ing of one or two niggardly scoundrels,
who for the sake of saving a few dollars
wilfully hazard the lives of their em-
ployes."
Coffee may go up, but chicory can be
raised and roasted at S cents a pound and
leave a profit. Three cents more must be
allowed for the tariff. Chioory grows well
in Texas. The roots are twice as large as
those grown in Belgium.
The Herald of May 30 says:
New York can be virtuous for three Sun-
days, but not for four. Yesterday was the
tti nw that broke the camel's back. The cur-
tains which have heretofore been drawn up
were conspicuously down. That side door,
w hich on previous occasions had refused to
llHten to the mystic raps of the Initiated,
swung on its cunning hinges and the noble
shin of >-tate floated over the bar on a rather
high tide ol mixed drinks. That Is the record
< f yesterday. Like the weather In April the
seioons were "open and shut" all day. The
friendly and ascetic policemen were numer
ous on the avenue counting the different col-
ors of the ladies' paiasols, all unaware of any-
thing wrong.
In short the saloon keepers were resolved
that their virtue in keeping shut for three
Sundays should be rewarded with a run of
custom, and the chimney saloons on the
roofs should not have a walk-over.
Public entertainments have become a
means of robbery. It Is reported that the
bills for the reception of Queen Kapiolani
in Boston show that "200 gallons of liquor
were consumed by the one hundred guests."
The amount will have to be paid for, to-
gether with over |4000 for flowers. Botne-
body else helped to get away with the liquor
or its money equivalent.
Nearly $1,000,000 have already been lost
in wages by the latest great labor contest
in Chicago. The sum lost to employers
must also have been exceedingly large.
Even the lesson of experience—Bevere, bit-
ter experience—seems unavailing to'teach
wisdom to either side.
The annexation of Canada would furnish
a means of disposing of some of the sur-
plus, provided Uncle Sam would assume
the payment of her debt. That province,
with a population of 4,500,000, has a debt ot
$280,000,000, which is increasing every year,
as her expenditures exceed her Income.
She should be taught economy, however,
before being helped out of her present em-
barrassment.
The suggestion of ex-Governor Hoadley
tbat a southern jurist should be put on the
supreme bench meets with some generous
seconds in the republican press. This
looks like an era of bettor feeling.
Mr. Robert T. Lincoln does not propose
to lend his name as an indorsement of re-
spectability for the republican presidential
ticket. He has declared very decidedly
that he is through with public life and "the
party must look elsewhere for the tail of the
ticket." Since the party can not even get
t£e use of a great name as an issue in the
next campaign it will be in a condition of
bankruptcy to start with.
The recent defeat of Hanlan, the oars-
man, by Gaudaur, was not due to any fall-
ing off in Hanlan's (kill in rowing, as it is
said that he never rowed a better race in
his life, and was beaten only because he
had found one who was more than his
match.
Ben Butlek denies that he secured the
appointment of a lady to a clerkship in one
of the departments at Washington. He ad-
mits that he once asked for the appointment
of a person in one department, but says his
request was refused. It was rather cheeky
in Ben to ask anything of this administra-
tion, but nobody is more capable than he
is of doing cheeky things.
Colonel Jim Anderson, the grape-raiser
and prohibitionist of Waco, was in Austin
the other day and made a speech in favor
of the amendment. Was Hon. Alexander
Watkins Terrell at home?
THE STATE PRESS.
What the Papers Throughout Texas Are
Talking About.
The Times is the title of a new paper pub-
lished simultaneously at the small towns ot
Ogden and Colmesnell. It is devoted to lo-
cal interests. F. H. Robinson, 6ditor.
Every county needs a local paper, whether
it fills the long felt want or not.
The San Antonio Light says:
Fort Worth entertained her press visitors
handsomely, and now that they have re-
turned hmne the editorial acknowledgments
come thick and fast.
Has hilarity like charity blessed both the
receiver and the givev? St. Paul says, "Be
not forgetful to entertain strangers, for
thereby some have entertained angels un-
awares." The people of Fort Worth never
suspected that they were entertaining an-
gels. They thought the editors just a little
lower than the angels; just a little.
The Denison News it a promising paper.
It says:
The paper was somewnat late in reach-
ing the street and the 1600 subscribers
in D»nison who have assisted in starting
the ball, but the difficulties in the way of
issuing the first number are being over-
come, and hereafter, loaded with news, the
paper will be rushed out in the crisp and
early morning to all points of the compass.
The Signal says:
If those seeking a location could only see
the crop prospect in the vicinity of Luling
now we feel assured that they would look
no farther. Located in the center of the
finest farmiDg country in Texas, surround-
ed by thrifty and industrious people, with
no strong rivals to contcnrt with, there is
no reason why men of push and vim should
not prosper here. The fictitious value
placed upon property has given way to
reasonable figures, and men of moderate
means can now locate here with the assur-
ance that they will have a fair chance at
tho trade that belongs to the city. We
have a moral and social people, a maguifi
centsystemof public schools, and alto-
gether we know of no town in this section
that offers more inducements to ltve and
energetic men than Luling.
The Christian Advocate pronounces I'm
Dallas News all but perfect:
The Dallas News gave Its numerous
agents along the Central a reception at
Dallas last Saturday night. The Nbws's
special train took them aboard all along
the line from Denison to Dallas, and at this
end the boys who furnish racv specials wit-
net sed just the manner in which the great
daily is rolled off by the thousands for its
patrons. The force then took the return
train, and each agent, with his bundles of
papers, and each correspondent,with his re-
porters pads and pencils, was delivered at
the respective stations along the route.
The great daily in fact lacks but one ele-
ment of newspaper perfection.
The El Paso Inter-Republics gives a long
account of the fifteen high joints of the
Chinese opium-smokers in that city:
There are fifteen public opium joints in
El Ptiso, patronized by all classes, men and
women, young and old, from the veteran
who walks in at the front door to the timid
clerk contracting the habit on the sly.
There is no pretense at concealment. Peo
pi
lie passing by on the streets can see the
naif stupefied Chinamen lolling on their
bunks, their slant eyes fixed on vacancy
and a bamboo pipe between their lips. As
a rule, Chinamen only are in sight, and at
any hour of the day or night two or three
can be found stretched out on each bunk
and manipulating the massive-looking pipe
in turn. For the use of the customers of
the place, every establishment has from
two to half a dozen private rooms where
the fiends are furnished with the necessary
apparatus, and if they wish, a Chinaman to
manipulate the opium, which is quite a
delicate and difficult operation. It is
of a thick, pitchy consistency at first
and muBt be cooked before it is ready for
use. To do this, a little ball of the druj
must be rolled over and over the surface o
the pipe and repeatedly held above the
flame of a peanut oil lamp, low enough to
get the benefit of the heat and high enough
to avoid catching on fire. It is rather a
hard thing to do, and the novice generally
gets a Chinaman to "roll" for him, the pipe
b6ing passed from mouth to month. It is a
great mistake to suppose that "sports" and
fallen women alone visit these resorts.
Married women, young girls, clerks and
business men meet there on the same plane.
The favorite honrs for smokers are either
early in the evening or from midnight to 3
or 4 o'clock in the morning. At both of
these times the places are so crowded that
smokers have to frequently wait for a
room. The average price paid at a single
visit is 50 cents.
The Bosque Citizen thus describes Wish!
ta canyon, visited by the Texas editors last
week:
It is 130 miles north of Fort Worth, and
the run was made in four hours. The river
level is reached from the south side by a
heavy descending grade, and the excursion-
ists suddenly fonnd themselves walled in
by rugged, cloud-reaching natural mason-
ry. Mountains of jagged peaks lifted their
summits skyward on either side of thp
beautiful river, while the train threaded its
winding way along, close to the water's
edge, on a track hewn from the side of the
solid perpendicular stone wall. The seen
ery here is simply grand. Debouching
from the canyon at Rock creek, two miles
up the river from the bridge, the train
halted and Trainmaster Tillman announced
the end of the journey reached. At this
point connection was made with the Kan-
sas City and Texas link of the Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe. The track had been
connected and construction trains had
passed over the Rock creek bridge, but the
masonry was not quite completed. Regu
lar passenger trains were to run through on
the 1st.
The San Antonio Express speaks of a
tired editor as feeling as if he had put in a
long day setting out potato slips.
The Edna Progress reports the arrest
there of a fugitive from justice through in
formation obtained from The Galveston
News.
The newspapers are not the only parties
who levy taxes on those lights of the world
who volunteer to illuminate public affairs.
The Giddings Advocate says, in speaking
of a place where idlers most do congregate
on a street corner In that town:
The other day as a certain gentleman was
finally and loudly settling a fine point of
theology, the chief cook and bottle washer
of the establishment came out and com-
plained that they were driving away cus-
tomers. "How much are you damaged by
what I have said," said the gentleman, be-
ing vexed at being interrupted in his dis-
quisition. "About 75 cents," was the in-
stant reply. "I will pay it," said the theo-
logian, throwing down a silver dollar with
a fine flourish. What was his surprise
when the c. c. and b. w. handed him back a
quarter and put the dollar in his pocket and
walked away. A severe case of the dry
grins was the result, and theology for the
time being lost its charms.
The Greenville Banner says it waves for
all. It is like the old flag of the nation.
The Banner believes in the old test of pud-
ding. It says:
The way to determine whether the inter-
state commerce law is a good thing or not
is to enforce it for awhile.
The Tyler Tribune says:
There is a great squabble among the lead-
ing New York papers about their circula-
tion. Of course all are lying abont their
own circulation.
Better lie abont themselves than others;
better still not to lie at all. The Bible says
all liars shall have their part in the lake
which burneth with fire and brimstone.
Fort Worth papers should remember it.
The Austin Statesman still glories In its
imitation of the Police Gazette, and says
The News was "fearfully scooped in the
train robbery business." The News has
not disputed the Statesman's claim to say-
ing more, though to less purpose, than its
contemporaries about the "robbery busi-
ness" in its own county. It is still filling
its columns with the matter and boasting
of what it knows aoont it. The paper has
a reputation to make for detective work.
The Houston Herald callB Austin "a safe
field for crime," and describes the assas-
sination of five women there without the
discovery and punishment of the murder-
ers, and says:
The recent train robbery and the escape
of the operators is additional evidence of
the slow processes and inefficiency of the
Austin police system and the favorable
field it affords criminals.
The Austin Evening Dispatch says:
The Statesman could score a fine point
by elevating its city editor, Mr. Ed P.
Graves, to the managing editorship and
consolidating the editorial force into a re-
portorial staff. As things are now our es-
teemed contemporary somewhat resembles
the kangaroo—strongest in the hind parts.
The Statesman has long been a kangaroo
paper—strongest in its lower limbs.
I.OBD LOVELL'8 LAME EXCUSE.
Lord Lovell he stood at his own front door,
Seeking the hole for the key,
His hat was wrecked and his trousers bore
A rent across either knee.
When down came the beauteous Lady Jane
In fair white draperee.
* * * * * * * *
"I am not drunk, Lady Shane," he said,
"And so lata it can not be;
The clock struck one as I enter ed—
I heard It two times or three;
It mnst be the salmon on which I fed
lias been one too many for me."
"Go tell yonr tale, Lord Lovell," she said,
"To the maritime cavalree,
To yonr gi andam of the hoary head-
To any one but me.
The door is not used to be open ed
With a cigarette for a key."
"Billy," our singing canary, continues to
he a perfect delight in the parlor, with his
calls to his mistress, Mary, varying that
call with "Come here, Mary," which he
gives with| perfect distinctness. He has,
within a few days, attempted something
further in the talking line; but it is im-
possible for any one of us (three persons)
as yet to get at what the little fellow is at-
tempting to 6ay. That it is an effort at bird
talk no one who hears him can doubt.
[Brunswick (.Me.) Telegraph.
THE LATEST LITERATURE.
An Interesting Number of the Forum—1The
American Antiquarian-A New No vel
that Will A't as a Soporific.
The Forum for June, published by th»
Forum Publishing company of Naw York,
is unusually replete with articles a pin all
subjects. There seems to be a desira on
the part of the editor of this able magazine
to invite discussions upon the more im-
portant topics of the world from every
writer of recognized ability. But its enter-
prise does not halt here. Writers of canl-
paratively little prominence are also given
space in the columns ot the Forum, so that
a free, liberal, and untrammeled coarse is
pursued throughout. The English used by
the writers of the Forum is, from a tech-
nical view, almost faultless. Tiieir ideas
are expressed in a dlreot and vigorous
manner, and will excite admiration for
this particular feature. And then the va-
riety of subjects forms another attraction.
This number contains articles invested
n it h peculiar interest. Is Andover R o man-
Izing? by Professor Francis L. Patton,
which opens the number, will be sure to
interest theologians ot every sect. Tho
facts presented are terse and logical, and
the inferences drawn very natural, under
ihe peculiar circumstances. The move-
ment in Andover toward Romanism is re-
gai ded by the author as significantly omi-
nous.
It seems that the doctrine of future pro-
bation is the main question which at pres-
ent is agitating the theological sects of
Andover, and a3 there are various forms of
the doctrine under consideration, the au-
thor of the article remarks that it may be
as well to say that it is dealt with her a
under the limitations imposed upon it by
the Andover theologians in the volume en-
titled Progressive Orthodoxy. The author
then proceeds to clearly define what is and
what is not meant by future probation as it
is held by the authors of the volume men-
tioned. The author says that the Andover
professors hold that the work of missions
should be prosecuted under the influence of
a higher motive than belief that the heathen
go to perdition. It would be said, continues
the author, that since men are to have one
opportunity for repentance, it is question-
able whether we are not doing the heathen
harm by offering them the gospel under
ihe unfavorable conditions of the present
life.
The author might have gone further
and drawn a comparison between tha
heathen worship and the christian wor-
ship. Viewed in one light this wholesale
endeavor to disseminate the seeds of so-
called Christianity among the heathen races
is really amusing. They have their religion
and believe in it implicitly; in fact they are
thoroughly impregnated with fanaticism.
The civilized portion of the world is con-
ceited enough to believe that the religion it
observes Is the one irrevocable and
unmistakable faith throughout eternity.
And yet there is no more reason for believ-
ing this to be the proper and universal re-
ligion than that of the wild fanatics.
There is this painful difference between
christians and heathens. The heathens
worship at a shrine which they im-
plicitly have faith in. It may not ae the
right doctrine of salvation, but to their
minds it is perfect. On the other hand the
so called christians set up a profound deity
and worship it under false colors. They
have their religion, but have no faith in it,
or at least two-thirds of the christian
masses are seriously inclined to doubt tha
prescribed divine doctrine, notwithstand-
ing the fact that they are ever
ready to worship it. Under such
circumstances it would seem that tha
heathens are more faithful than ths
civilized races. Bible-bound bigots will,
of course, maintain that the Bible is the
one great stronghold of civilized Christian-
ity ; that we must accept its teachings and
exhortations without a murmur or question;
that how, why or where certain consumma-
tions will be effected is beneath a cloud of
mystery, but notwithstanding this its teach-
ings must be swallowed down in the same
manner that disa greeable food is swal
lowed—hurriedly in order to avoid the
taste. But at best it is a profitless subject
to discuss one way or the other, and only
results in—nothing. The knowledge that
cut Faust more keenly after years of unre-
mitting intellectual toil was in seeing that
there was after all nothing to be known.
And so it is with the human race all over
the world. Tbey all believe, or profess to
believe, in something, and correspondingly
know nothing.
Among other articles in the Forum may
be mentioned Books That Helped Me, by
Andrew Lang; a singularly interesting
article by Professor G. J. Romanes, en-
titled Whatjls theObjectof Life; On Things
Social, by Eliza Lynn Linton; Railway
Passes and the Public, by I. T. Brooks, the
Control of the Pacific, by Commander H. C.
Taylor; and the Form and Speed of Yachts,
by Professor H. C. Thurston.
The American Antiquarian for May will
prove of great service to archaeologists and
all others seeking information of this char-
acter. The present number opens with an
article descriptive of the Serpent Symbol,
especially in regard to its prevalence in tha
Mississippi valley. The origin of the sym-
bol is the especial point discussed, and the
subject of inquiry is whether it was derived
from extraneous sources or was the result
of a natural worship which had its growtn
upon this continent. Illustrations accom-
pany this article, which will serve in some
instances to make the meaning of the
writer clearer. In the correspondence de-
partment of this number the Metals of the
Aztecs is discussed in an interesting and
intelligent manner by Mr. W. W. Blake.
Several other topics of more or less im-
portance are also discussed in this depart-
ment. The number ends with general
notes, etc., all of which are very instructive.
The Cruise of a Woman-hater has lately
been published by Ticknor & Co., New
York. As a novel it can not be said to ba
up to the recognized standard of first-class
literature. The language and plot are ex-
ceedingly crude, while the incidents are
somewhat dragging. It is the story of a
voyage taken across the ocean on a sailing
vessel by an avowed woman-hater, and the
inevitable climax is given in the closing
chapter of how the woman hater was
brought to by a woman whom he ultimately
marries. The narrative is written in the
poorest possible style, the construction is
miserable, and altogether it is not a book
that would do else than put one comfort
ably to sleep. In truth, it is calculated to
serve admirably as a soporidc, and those
who are troubled with insomnia are ad
vised to give it a fair trial. It may prove
more efficacious than all other kuo.va real
edies. The book is for sale by Victor Phil-
lips.
The Comet a Very Small One.
The calculated particulars relative to the
new comet discovered last Thursday by Bar-
nard of Nashville were telegraphed from
the Dudley observatory to the various cen-
ters in this country and in Europe for dis-
tribution to the leading observatories. The
comet turns out to be a very small affair,
though it is relatively near the earth.
Its distance from us is now 40,000,000
miles, and by the latter part of
June this will be reduced to 26,000,000,when
the comet will be three times as bright asi
now. Yet it will not at any time be visible
without the aid of a telescope. The comet
reaches its least distance from the sun near
the last of June, 115,009,000 miles. It is
now 130,000,000 miles from the san and
traveling along outside the earth's orbit ill
a direction approximately parallel with the
ourse of the earth, so that it will remain s
long time in view of the astronomers.
There is no record ot any comet like this,
and it probably visits the solar system n<Jw
for the last time.
>
It is said of the poor whites of North Car-
olina that when tb?y move all they have to
do is to pour a dipper of water on the fire
and call the dogs.
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