The Exeter Advocate, 1896-4-9, Page 3•••
EYES IN WHEELS.
SUCH ARE THE WHEELS OF THE
PRINTING PRESS.
A leihnagian Discourse on Journalism --
The Immeasurable and Everlasting Blew
beg of a Good Newspaper—Despotism
Pears and Rates a Printing Press.
• Washington, March 29.—Newspaper
row, as it is called here in Weehington,
the ton row of offices connected with
prominent journals throughout the land,
pays so much attention to Dr. Tal-
mage they may be glad to hear what he
thinks of them weile he discusses a
eubject in which the whole country is
fitepeeted. His texts to -day; wore And
the wheels wore full of eyes," (Ezekiel
,12); "Fur all the A hemiaos and
strtngers which were there spent their
time in nothing else but either to tell
or to bear sonic new thing."—(Acts
zx vii , 21.)
Wimp is a preacher to do when he
finds two texts equally good and sug-
gestive? in that perplexity I take both,
✓ and they are without resources, loft to
1 awhile their hand bergets its °tinning,
die, Why not at least have his' initial at-
a tabbed to his most important work? It
✓ always gave additional force to an artiele
e ' when you occasionally saw added to some
✓ significant article in the old New Yeti(
e Courier and Enquirer J. W. W, or in the
.: Tribune H. G , or in the Herald J. G.
e B., or in the Times H. J. B. or in the
t Evening Post W. C. B., or in the Even-
t ing Express E. B.
a i While this arrangement would be a fair
; I and just thing for newspaper writers it
s ' would be n defense for the public. It is
0 sometimes true that beings damaging to
s private character are said. Who is respon-
sible? it Is the "we" of the editorial or
e ' reportorial uolumns. Every man in every
e profession or occupation tought to be re-
sponsible for what he does. No honora-
t hie man will ever write that which he
would be afraid to sign. But thousands
t of persons have suffered from the imper-
sonality of newspapers. What. can one
. private citizen wronged in his reputation
o do In a contest with misrepresentation
i multiplied into 20,000 or 50,000 copies.
f An injustice done in print is illimitably
:
worse than an injustice done in private
life. During less of temper a man may
'
God has given to the nineteenth century
is the newspaper: We Would have, bet to
appreciation of his blessing if we knew
the money, the braid, the losses, th
exasperationk the anxieties, the wee
and tear of heartstringe involved in th
production of a ,good. newepapete; Unde
the Impieesion that almost anybody ca
make a newspaper, Scores of inexpert
eneed capitalists every year enter th
lists, and consequently during the las
few years a newspaper has died almos
every day. The disease is epidemic,. Th
larger papers swallow the smaller ones
the whale taking down fifty minnow
at one swallow. With more than 7,00
dailies and weeklies in the United State
and Canada, there are but 36 a half can
tury old. Newspapers do not averag
more than five years' existence, Th
most of them die of cholera infantum
It is high time that the people found on
that the most successful way to sink
money and keep it sunk is to start
newspaper. There comes a time when
almost everyone is smitten with news
paper mania and starts one, or hay
stook in one he must or die.
The course of procedure is about this
A literary man has an agricultural Or
scientific or political or religious idea
11 heels full of eyes? What but the which he wants to ventilate. He has
wheels of a newspaper piecing press? no money of his own—literary men mai-
°titer wheels are blind. They roll on, dem have—but he .talks of his ideas
pulling or cruselog. The manufaetur- among confidential friends until they be-
er's wheel—Low is grinds the operator come Inflamed with the idea, and forth-
with fatigue and rolla over nerve and with they buy typo and press and rent
composing rooms and gather a corps of
muscle and bone and heart, nut know-
ing what its does. Inc sewing uusonine editors, and with a prospectus that pro -
wheel sues not the achee and pains fast-
ened to it—tighter than the band that
moves it, shasper man' the needle
which iv plias. Every moment of every
hour of every day of every mon h of
every year teere are hundreds of thous-
ands of wheels of moot:wise), wheels
or enterprise, wheels of hard .work, in
motion, but they are eyeless.
Not :es the wheels of the printing
press. Tneir entire business Is to look
and report. They ard full of optic
nerves from axle to periphery. They are
lieu those spoken of by Ezalciel a; full
of eyek Sherp eyes, nearsignted, far-
sighted. Tbey loot: up. Tuay look down.
They toot; far away. They take in the
next street and the next hemisphere.
Eyes of criticism, eyes of investigation,
eyes that twinkle with mirth, eyes
glowering with iudiguation, eyes ten-
der with love, oyes of suspicion, eyes of
hope, blue eyes, blaoe eyes, green eyes,
• htry eyes, evil eyes, sore eyes, political
eyes, literary eyes, hittorical eyes, re-
ligious eyes, eyes that see everything.
"And the wheels mare mull of eyes.'
But in my second text is the world's
cry for the newspaper. Paul describes a
class of people in Athens who spun..
their time either in get hering the news
or holing it. \thy especially in Athens?
Beceuss die more iotedtaens peo pie be-
come the 111.1,01aquisitive they are—not
about small things, but great timings.
Tao question then muse frequently is
the question new Meat fregnently asked,
Want is the news? Tu aliswer that cry
in the text Joh the licWimper the centur-
ies have put their wits to wore. China
first bum:wined, nun has at Pekin a
newspaper that has been printed ONery
week for 1,U00 years, priu-ed silt..
Home sutteeteleti by pulaisiung the Acca
Ls urea, in the same memo patting
fires, murders, marl...ages tempuets.
France tuceueued by a physician writing
out Me DON'S of the day for lime patients.
England succeeded under Questa Blaze -
bete in first puoliseing the news of the
Spanish armada and going on until she
had enough enteri rice, wnen the battle
of Waterloo was funient, deoiding the
deathly of Europe, to give lo eue-.1nrd
of a column in the Loudon Morniog
Chrouicle, about as mutat as the news-
paper or our day gives of a small
America eucodeuta lieejamie alarrie'
first weakly paper, calle Public theme -
nieces, publisleal in Bestun MOO, and
by the lire. Willy, the American Adver-
tiser, penile:mil Pniladmpuia, 1.4
The newspaper did not sudeenty spring
upon time world, but came grad eully.
The genealogical line of the new paper
Is tine: The Adam of the race was a
circular or Dews letter eroattet by divioe
impulse in Lumen nature, anti the cir-
meter begat., 11413 pewee let, and the
pamphlet begat the quareirty, and the
quarterly Lege!, the weekly, and the
weekly begat the soini-weeety, and the
temi-oreekly begat t110 daily. nut, alas,
by what struggle came to its present
develepineat I No sowier had its power
been demonstrated than tyranny ape su-
persti.lon shackled it. There is nothing
that despotism so aura and hates as a
printing press. It has too many eyes in
Its wheels. A great writer declared that
$he king of Naples made it unsafe for
him to write of anyching but naturist
history. Austria could not endure ii0e-
muth's journalistic pen pleading for the
vedemption hungart. Napoleon I.,
, trying to keep his iron heel on the
necks of the nations, tumid, "Editors are
the regents of,sovereigns and the tutors
of nations and are only fit for prison."
tint the battle for the freedom of the
press was fought in, the court rooms of
England and Ameriee and decided be-
fore this century began by Hamilton's
eloquent plea for J. Po6er Zing wt.' Ga-
zette in America, and Erskine's advo-
cacy of the freedom of publication in nations. Knowledge on the rhelt is of
E tgland. These were the hiferathon and little worth Is is knowledge afoot,
Thermopylae in Which the f rotation:1%ot knOwledge harnessed, knowledge in rev:t-
ides press was established in the United lotion, knowledge winged,. knowledge
projected, knOWledgeohunder-boltud.
States and Great Britain and all thefar from being ep nearly ,
he
powers of earth and boll will never again
be able to put on the handcuffs and hop- best minds anti hearts have their hands
pies of literary and pendant despotism. on the printing press to -day and have
It is notable that Thoinas Jefferson, who had since it got emanoipataid;
Again, a good newspaper is a useful I
wrote the Declaration of American Inde- mirror of Life as it is. It is sometimes
,pendeuce, wrote alSO,"It had to choose complained that newspapers report the ,
between government without news- evilwhen t oughton y to moult the
papors or newspapers without n govern- good, They must report the evil as well
inebt, I should prefer the latter." Stung as the good or how shall we know what IS
by some base fabricatiou coming to us to to he reformed, What guarded against, '
prinr, We come to write or sl calm of the what fought down? . A newspaper time
Unbridled printing press, or, our newvirtue
book ground up by on unjust critic, we
.0ollie to write or speak of the unfairnese
of the printing preseoor perhaps through
our own iedistinetnese of utterance we,
at reported as flaying just the opposite
:of what we did say, and there is a small
riot of: semi -militate, hyphens and Own•:
nails, and we come to. spank or write of
, the blundering printing press, or, Seeing
poses to cure everything the first copy is
flung on the atteAtion of an admiring
world. After a while one of the plain
stockholders finds that no great revolu-
tion has been effected by this daily or
weekly publication; thatneither sun or
moon stands still; that the wield goes
on lying and cheating and sleeting just
as it did before the first issue. The afore-
said matter of foot stockholder wants to
sell out his stock, but nobody wants to
buy, and other stockholders get infected
and sick of newspaperdom, and an enor-
3130118 bill at the paper factory rolls into
an avalanche, and the printers refuse to
work until back wages are paid up, and
the compositor bows to the managing ed-
itor, and the managing editor bows to
the editor in -thief, and the editor -int
chief bows to the directors, and the direct
tors bow to the world at large, and all
the subscribers wonder why their paper
doesn't come. The world will have to
learn that a newspaper is as much of
an institution as the Bank of England
or Yale college and is not an enterprise.
If yotf have the aforesaid agricultural or
scientific or religious or political idea to
ventilate, you bad better charge upon the
world through the columns already estab-
lished, if you cannot climb the hill back
of your house, It is folly to try the sides
of the Matterhorn.
To publish a newspaper requires the
skill, the precision, the boldness, the vig•
Bence, the strategy of a oommancler-in.
thief. To edit a newspaper requires that
one be a statesman, an essayist, a geog-
rapher, a statistician, and, in acquisition,
encyclopediao. To anon, to govern, to
propel a newspaper until it shall be a
tired institution, a national fact, do -
mantis more qualities than any business
on earth, if you feel like starting any
newspaper, secular or religious, under-
stand that you are being threatened with
softening of the brain, or lunacy, and
throwing your pocketbook into your
wife's lap start for some insane asylum
before you do something. desperate.
Meanwhile as the dead newspapers week
after week are carried out to burial all
the living newspapers give respectful
obituary, telling when they were born
and when they died, The best printer's
ink should give at least one stickful of
epitaph, If it was a good paper, say
"Peace to its ashes." if it was a bad pa-
per, I suggest the epitaph written for
Francis Chartreuse: "Here con tinueth
to rot the hotly of Francis Chartreuse,
who, With an inflexible constancy and
uniformity of life, persisted in the prate
thee of every human vice excepting prodi-
ga.ity and hypocrisy. His insatiable avar-
ice exteupted him froin the first, his
matchless impudence from the second."
1 say this because 1 want you to know
that a good, healthy, long-lived, enter-
taining eetespaper is not an easy bless-
ing, hat one that comes to us through
the fire.
First of all, newspapers make knowl-
edge democratic and for the multitude. S
The putthe library is a haymow so high
up that few can reach it, while the news-
paper throws down the forage to our feet.
Publio libraries tire the great reservoirs
where the great floods are stored high up
and away Off. The newspaper is the tun-
nel that brings Mom down to the pitch-
ers of all "the la ople The chief use of
great libraries is to maze newspapers out
of. Great norm es matte a few men and
women wry wise. New ,papers lift whole
nations into the simile; e Better have
50,000.000 people moderately intelligent
than 100,000 setting.
A false impression in abroad that news-
paper knowledge 18 ephemeral because
periodicals are thrown aside, and not one
nut of 10,000 people flies them for future
reference. Such know ledge so far from
being ephemeral, goes into the vary
structure of the world s heart and brats
and decides the destiny of churches and
society is a misrepresentation, That fain-
tly he best prepared for the duties of life
welch, knowing the evil, is • taught to
Solect the good. Keep children under the
impression that ail is fair and bright in
the world and when they go out into it •
they will be es. poorly prepared to stetig-
pie with it as a child who is thrown into
the middle of the, Atlantic and void to
n paper filled with divorce eases or social tarn tow w r on Y uniIP al" la
soandal, we speak and write of tee filthy when sill is made attractive and 'morality
printing press. or, seei rig a jot/real doll, when vice is painted with great k
hrouttli bribery wheel round from one headlines and good deeds are put in oh -
p
Ioll Lica' side to tit* other in one night., setae corners, iniquity sou op In great e
re speak of the corrupt printing press, primer min righteousness In nonpareil.
nd many (alk- abo 1 1110 la el pee 0017, S. ta Is 10t1 th some; make it I Oa thee 0. t
mid thm
Limo empiricism, cu
, and the sans lldt • Virtue io beitatiful; make it beautiful.
rm of the printing press. is would work a, Vilt3t 1111provertiont If .
But I discourse now on a subjeet, you all our rtipers—religions. political, liter -
ave never heard—the imineasurt ri area—soot:Id for the meet part orup their 1-
• everlasting blattldg hi a good f.owspaper. ifeportonahey. • 'Thin would do bettor jus- suns shall rise and Set no more.
Thank God for the NN' u,,,1 lull u 0),o. I tici, to new wrileee. ny the
Thank God that we do not have etrotme esti u writege of the country The cross will be found heavy we try
the Athenians, to go fa boot to tea lela's'up live end die nnisilown and are denied to lift it with elle hatitii
say that tor which he will be sorry in
ten minutes, but a newspaper injustice
has first to be written, set up in type,
then the proof taken oil and read and cor-
rected, mid then fur six pr ten hours the
presses are busy running off the issue.
Plenty of time to correct; plenty of time.
to cool off; plenty of time to repent. But
all that is hidden in the impersonality of
a newspaper. It will he a long step for-
ward when all is chunged and newspaper
vtretere get credit for the good and are
held respunsible for the evil.
Another step forward tor newspaper -
dem will be when in our colleges and
Universities we open opportunities for pre-
paring candidates for rueeditorial chair,
We have in such institutions medical de-
partments, law departments. Why not
editorial departments? Do the legal and
healing professions demand more culture
and careful training than the editorial
or reportorial professions, 1 know men
may tumble by whet seems mere acci-
dent into a newspaper office as they may
tumble into other occupations, but it
would be an incalculable advantage if
those proposing a newspaper life had an
institution to which they might go to
learn the qualifications, the rueposibille
ties, the trials, the temptations, the dan-
gers, the magnificent opportunities, of
newspaper life. Let there be a lecture-
sh p in which there shall appear the lead-
ing editors of the United atates telling
the stories of their struggles, their victor -
Ms, their mistakes, how they worked and
what they found out to be the best way
of working. There will be strong .men
who will climb up without a. oh aid Into
; editorial power and efficiency. So do
men climb up to success in other
branches by sheer grit. But if we want
learned institutions to make lawyers and
artists and doctors and ministers, we
much more need learned institutions to
make editors, who occupy a position of
influence a hundrediold greater. I do not
put the truth too strongly when 1 say the
most potent influence for good on earth is
a good editor and the meet potent influ-
ence for evil is a bad one. The best way
to re -enforce and improve the newtpaper
I is to endow editorial professoriates. When
'will Princeton or Harvard or Yale or
Rochester lead the way?
Another blessing of the newspaper is
the foundation it lays for accurate history
of the time in which we live. We for the
most pert blindly guess about the ages
that anteaute the newspaper and mire de-
pendent upon time prejudices of this or
that historian. But after 100 or 200 years
what a splendid opportunity the histor-
ian will have to teach the people the les-
son of the day. Our Bancrofts got from
the early newspapers of this country,
from the Boston NewsaLettsr. the New
York Gazette, and the American Bag
Bag and Boyal Gazetteer anti Independ-
ent Chronicle and Massachusetts Spy and
Philadelphia Aurora recounts of Perry's
victory aim Hamilton s duel and Wash.
ingtun's death and Boston massacre and
the oppressive foreign tee on luxuries
pndwhich turned Boston harbor into a tea-
pot and and Paul Revere's midnight ride a
Rhode Island rebellion and South Caro -
Oita nudilication But whet a field for
the chronieler of the great future when
he opens the tiles of IOU standard Antall-
can newspapers, giving the minutiae of
nil timings occurring under social, pOlith
eeeleteastical, international headings!
Five hundred years front now, if the
world lasts so long, the student looking
for stirring, decisive history will pass by
the misty corridors of cola r centuries
and set, to the libraries," Find me the vol-
umes that give the century In welch the
American presidents were assassInated, '
the civil war enacted, and the cotton gin, •
the steam locomotive and telegraph, and ;
electric pen and telephone and cylinder
presses were invented,"
(Mee more I remark teat a good news-
paper is a blessing as an evangelistic in-
fluence. You know there is a great
change in our day taking place. All the
secular newspapers of the alig—for I am
not speaking now of time religious news-
papers—nil the secular newSpapers of the
day discuss all the questions of God,
eternity and the deail, and all the ques-
tions of the past, present and future.
There is net a single doctrine of theology
but hes been discussed In the last ten
years by the secular newspapers of the
country. They gather up all the news of
all the earthbearing on religious sub-
jects, and then they scatter the news
abroad again: When A see the printing
press standing with the electric telegraph
on the one side gathering tip material
and the lightning express train on the
other side waiting tor the tons of folded
theme of newspapers,I pronounce it the
mightiest force In Our civilization. Sc I
command you to pray fur , all those who
melange the newspapers of the lend, for
all typesetters, for ail reporters, for all
editors; for all publishers that sitting or
mantling in positions of such great influ-
ence they may give all that influence for
God and the betterment of the huntema
race. An miged woman muck -lag her living
by knitting unwonnd t he yarn from the ;
ball until she found in the caner of the
ball there was an old piece of newspaper.
She opened it and read an advertisement a
vhieh announced that she had become
helmets to a large property and th•tr. frit • I
CITY OF MAGDEBURG.• to beer and wine, the Great; National lievs •
erage. Otte le a dose. I had made a Palpas
ble error in taking' two,
The antiquities are mostly old statues
the first is that of the Emperor Otho Who
formed a Benedictinemonastery here in
the Tenth century. The Most interesting
relic is the Dom Cathedral. There some
statues of kings, that are interesting
mainly in showing what ars awful time
they must have hail with their crowns,
headpieces that were about as dainty as
the tops of wrought -iron fence posts.
This Is the first place that I have been
where incandescent electric lights were
not looked upon as woof iii extravagance
—something In the precious line, to be
doled out in the most minute doses.
in London Ibad a room as big as a
young barn. It was furnished with great
disregard for cost or comfort. The room
was about eleven feet high, and near
eanhand was a measly electric bulb not
much larger than a peanut. When I
walled to read anything smaller than the
hotel rules, which sore in long primer,
Pa have to ring for a step -ladder or light
the tallow candle on the mantel piece
That was an English sample. In Ham-
burg there wore also two little incandes-
cents in the room, a spacious, profusely
decorated and sumptutusly furnishetl
aptirtment, in a hotel conceited to be the
hest in the town and overlooking the wa-
ter park Mailed the Binnenalstera in the
heart of the city. But even there only one
incandescent could be need at a time. By
an arrangement, ingeaions,. If parsi-
I1101.11011S, the affair was so fixed that
when one light was turned on the other
was switched off. Luckily one bulb was
low down, end afforded light to read by
If one happened to be in bed.
These are teirlea, to be sure; but when
there are a thousand of such trifles even
a cast•iron saint, If lie happened to be an
American, would kick—aye, though he
were surrounded by the grandeur of the
shadow of the magnificent past—1 found
that in a guide•boolt to -day. In Magde-
burg it is different. The hotel where
mini stopping has the finest rooms, the
most lavish supply of electric light, the
most sumptuous furnishings, the finest
cuisine, and the best arrangement of any
I have yet come across on this side of the
water; and I have invariably tried to
.tip at the best in town. The prices
tere are not meth over half of thoee in
Bamberg; but there isn't enongh of in-
terest to attract tourists, and the !total is
eeldom more than half full. There is
nothing low-down or tnean in 013 town.
l'ni only sorry it isn't as big as London
A city as nice s this as big as London
would be simply out of sight.
As I think I intimated once before, the
officials in England and Germany, how-
ever stupid and adhesive on themselves
they may be, are never at heart, quite
so savage as Lair facial expressions, scup -
plena en tad by warlike uniforms and drag -
g ng swords, would indicate. I have
with fear and trepidation approached an
official with a mien as terror -inspiring as
Una of a middle weight champion, and
found him the possessor of a lamblike
disposition, with a mild craving for
strong drink and tips. It is so here in
, Magneburg, where there Is a whole army
ofirps quartered, and quite naturally a
strong military spirit prevails'. It is a
place where most of the male population
try to look as if they had murder in their
hearts; yet they are Infantile, almost, in
ONE OF THE CLEANEST CITIES
OF GERMANY.
'Women Poreed to Bear Burdens Pit Only
for Camels—United States Consul the
Solitary Axnerican " There—Absence of
Street Beggars.
Madgeburg, February 1.—Imagine, if
you can, without the aid of a glass, being
In a civilized city of over 200,000 inhabl-
tantelive ones, and not another Yankee -
man in town. The nearest thing in the
Yankee line is Mr. Muth, the United
States Consul, who is a naturalized citi-
zen of the States and a credit both to his
adopted country anti to the Government
that sent him here—why, only the States
Delatirtment and Mr. Muth know.
net the reasons are good and suffi-
cient I doubt not, Mr. Muth explained
it all to me, but the explanations were
like the wonderful machinery for making
the great guns at Krupp's branch midi-
lishment at Bakau, a suburb of this city.
The machinery is on a very grand scale
and probably answers the purposes to
which it 13 applied quite well, but it is
Inn intricate fur my very Ihnited uteolum-
teal ondortanding. Some of my friends
still like to remind me of the time when
I tried to "fake" up a realistic picture of
an engine, ano put the smoke stack in
She center of an obtrusive boiler. Well,
Mr. Muth's being here has something to
do with our tariff. The Consul might
have made his explanation for his offi-
cial existence more clear to me, but I
didn't care to appear as one either ignor-
ant or prying. Ile is the lone foreign rep-
th-g Ed
LIAIMESSED,
resentative in Magfiebnrg. Possibly -other
countries don't hage our kind of tariff.
Conan] it is, other Governments manage
to matey along without a consulate in
Mateleberg. There used to be a Porto
pis consul hcre,but something haptened,
lie aidn't get his little stipend very regu-
larly, I understand, and at last the ghost
refused to promenade altogether. 'Then
time Partugese took a third-class train out
of town. It was something like that. At
any rate Mr. Muth is time only consul in
town, and the welcome he gave Inc was
conspicuous by its cordiality. He isn't
actually overrun with visitors from the
land of the stars and stripes and trusts.
My visit was the first he had received
from tin American since early in July.
The .7uly man wantea to introduce cash
registers lute town, but he was emi-
nently unsuccessful. The storekeepers
prefer a peculiar check system of their
own. I aro not clever tut examining
things of this order, but as near as I
could figure it out, the system consists
of a box with two slots, one for the slips
of paper showing the amounts of the pur-
chases, the other for the coin presented in
payment and a erecter howl full of small
change. When the change gives cut busi-
ness is temperarily suspentled, the store
closed for a few hours, and all hands ex-
cept the proprietor go home for some-
thing to eat and drink, while the boss
goes to the hank for more change. This
statement may reasonably be contra-
dicted, but I amply tell how the auto-
matic cashier system of Magdeburg ap-
peared to me after casual inspection . As
to the closing of the stures at intervals
during the day, there can be, of cnurse,
no denial. It is almost a national cus-
tom, anti a very good one, everything
considered.
Magdeburg deserves its reputation of
being a slow -going, prosperous old town,
whim little of interest except a few re-
markable and antiquated onurehes, sup-
plentented by a haw old gates anti build-
ings in no ifspair to spate of. and a taw
memorials to a jct.) lot of Emperors,
Eings and Dukes It is in addition one
of the clean() t cities in Germany, and as
far as its municipal affairs are concerned
possibly alma t of any other 00111211unity
of its size. It has no floating population
to boast of except these who float around
OD the queer -looking boats on the
but its citizens are polite to newcomers
anti evince no desire to "do' • the stranger
within their gates.
'there are no beggars on the streets;
there are only one or two street stands;
and of course such miner nuisances as
bill bciara advertising, ash barrels and to-
hacco spitting, are unknown anywhere in
Germany. In fact, there is scarcely any-
thing to offend the senses. Everything is
cleau and orders, and there are plenty of
places of amusement, but not enough to
enable it to vie with Berlin (which is
only a few hours' distant), and thus at-
tract the American tourist and his dollar
—the Almighty Dollar which all for-
eigners are so fond of sneering at. And
yet they sit up .nights try.ng to evolve
tchemes for extracting it from the pock-
ets of the transatlantic visitor,
the Magdeburgers were very polite to
me; as polite as they are to each other.
The German custom is for men to duff
their hats to their acquaintances. Bore
the wee take off their hats to about
every one they have ever seen before, and
the result is that the male portion of the
population might as well go about bare-
headed for all the good their hats are to
them Thay've all met each other before.
If some local notable happens) to pass
along the street, every man in sight, with
one accord ratios oft his hat and bows
with great obsequiousness. Only yester•
lay I was in front of the betel talking to
the manager, a German' who, like so
early one meets everywhere, speaks Eng -
lab doently, when 1 notioeu a great how -
ng and screping as an old gantleman of
peculiar appearance approached. Time
tattlers and policemen, naturally made
nerely the impressive military swum.
The man did not look like a great per-
onage. Be bad a cleft on top of his bald
aid; his Dose was t like a radish anti his
teams had a wisted effect. Yet every no
muted him with the utmost 'deference,
couldn't be on filament of his huge
ipe, for that was certainly a most tits -
uenteof a newspaper lifted her from pan-
perisin to affluence. 'Anil I an not know aP
mut as the thread of time unrolls and un-
winds a little farther, through the silent
el speak-lagnewspaper ,may be found the
est inheritance of the world's redernp- '
P
Iia
Ii
Ii
aputable affair, and not even unigne tie
1 asked the hotel manager to ted me who
vas who,
a
Teens shall reign where'er the sun
Does his successive journeys run,
YORED,
disposition, and as honest as the day is
how: Especially do the pollee officers try
to assume an expression of hatred for all
humanity than would make - Bowery
barkeeper hide his diminished head.
A German policeman, so I am credibly
informed, never arrests anyone 'pokes he
has absolute assurance that he has a legal
Hata to do eo. He may no more overstep
t law than the humblest subject.
h
Wat's the good of being a policeman in
Germany? And as for using s sword, he
would never dream of doing such a thing
except in selfelefense, and as a very last
resort. The sword in German officialdom
Is a mere badge—mi barbaric one indeed,
yet a badge of office rather than a weapon.
This splendid city which has so little
that is picturesque to recommend it to
the traveler, hieing hillier and thither
"strange places for to see" is more cele-
brated for the domesticity and all-around
goodness than for the beauty of its wom-
en. .rho ahsence of comeliness is only an
effect. Bard labor and homeliness go
hand in hand, The women of Megdeburg
don't all wear heavy wooden yokes; they
don't all stagger under great highladen
baskets strapped to their backs, or drag
with the aid of the dogs cumbrous hand -
wagons. No, not even a majority of
thein; but thousands of them do these
very things, and a pitiable sight it is. It
may not be fair to single out tlagdeburg.
The same conditions, as 1 judge from
what I have seen and have been told, ex-
ist, in nearly every part of the Continent.
But as this part of Prussia, a province
conquered from the kingdom of atixony,
has to a large degree beuome an isolated
country, so far as Intermarriage with the
other districts is concerned, the influence
of extra -laborious occupations on the part
of women is apparent me unusually
poinful degree. In faciethe effect of inces-
sant labor is seen in the physique of the
general •community.
The menual exertion that is undergone
by the common people of this district
may produce brawn-, but it doesn't
evolve the lines of beauty to rummy alarm -
lug extent. Time men and women have
strong faces, features full of character,
but they look as if molded from iron--
In 'Magdeburg the women do work
that In America would prcivoke strikes
a shore •• That '' tend b I I ei ne tl
e . , While
Sohlummer, the inventor of the Qublit i the men are yoked as horses might be If
ir mor Pnneetn" there tvere no societies for the peevention
I understand at last, It watt more plain Of cruelty to animals . in the United
to mite than tee tariff anti the consulate or States, What is the cause of all this?
,
'Hand relate time !Whigs of' ;heeee, thoir:jUSt fit110, .Z.113 vast public never • Tile only knowledge that, will keep as
tut !rho grandeet temporal '.1deeetee't else etimpatateriet emelt Wootton and .after edge of Orarielcoese
'
the cideiverells newepaper ho:,„ for leavis who :hey aro. Most of them are on from sin in the Midst of sin is the kuowl•
-
the Krupp niaohinery. I had inveles
two Schlemmer punches inn) my system One feels at his ease only when he
the evening before. This pined' is, next' lcnovss that he is in his proper piece.
,
FROM THE AWFUL SUFFEItINGS
OF RHEUMATISM.
Tim Vette of B. P. Robbins, of Weiland ---A
Sufferer for Seventeen Years.—Itis Case
Resisted the Treatment of the Best Hos.
pitale and He Bad Become a Physical
Wreck --ills Wonderful Release.
From the Welland Telegraph.
The world to -day is both commercially
ant', scientifically inclined towards system,
and news like everything else is gathered
systematically. Every neWspaper has
its staff of reporters to observe and collect
the news of its particular district.
For some time past a reporter of the
Welland Telegraph has been watching
the development of a treatment for a ser-
ious ease of rheumatism on one of the
employees of that ,institution, A.baue
eighteen years ago, Mr. E. P. Robbins,
while at work in the Telegraph printing
office, was suddenly seized with sharp
pains all over the body, accompanied by
extreme swellings. He reached home, but
a snort distance from the office, with difil-
oulty, and on the doctor being called he
pronottoced it Difitinimatory rheumas
tiem. For seven weeks he lay in bed
tinder the care of the best physician, and
at the end of that time he was again able
to resume his duties. During the next
few years he wits subject to frequent
slight attacks, and finally thought a
caunge of location might be beneficial,
nith this idea Mr. Robbins visited the
different American cities, sometimes in
good health and again unable to get out
of bed, until in 1888 he finally settled in
New York. Here, for about two years,
he followed h's commation with compara-
tively little sickness, when he suffered a
severe attack which left him, until a few
months ago, a martyr to that kaleido-
scopic disease. Mr. Robbins recovered
somewhat after weeks of idleness and
went hack to the types, but again and
again he wee laid up, working only about
six days a month. Gradnally he grew
worse, and almost discouraged entered
the Sisters' hospital. After spending
many weary months within its walls ho
was discharged with the awful verdict
"incurable," More from a sense of duty
than with hope he tried other hospitals in
the city, but with the same result, and
resigned to his fate he left for his old
home. where he arrived in February, 1898,
a crippled resemblance of his former self,
and was passed unrecognized by his
former friends. Here In the house of his.
father, James W. Robbins, he was bed-
ridden until the summer, and then dur-
ing the warm days he was able to walk
about with the aid of a spiked cane for a
few minutes at a time. When the cold
weather approached, however*, he was
again confined to the house. Pink Pills
were frequently recommended to Mr.
'Robbins, ana in December last he started
to take thorn, The first box was unno-
ticeable, but the second produced a slight
change for the better. More were then
taken and the improvement was daily
hailed with joy by his friends. The rheu-
matism slowly but surely left and has.
not since returned. In March lea Mr.
Bobbins was once more at work and bas
not loeu a day since; the cane has long
611300 been discarded and "Ed" is one of
the happiest, jollic•st employees in the
race. Mr. Bobbins is well known in the
county and indeed throughout time whole
district, and although, as be says, he has
net got the strength of lierenlee yet.
Pink Pine have given him for a trifling,
cost the relief he spent hundreds of dol-
lars in vain trying to secure. He consid-
ers the aisease completely out of his sys-
tem and can eat and sleep well, two es-
sential points to good health. Mr. Rob-
bins strongly recommends this wonder-
ful medicine ro other sufferers.
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills etrike at the
root of the disease, driving it from the
system and restoring the patient to
hsalth and strength, in cases of paralysis,
spinal troubles, locomotor ataxia, sci-
atica, rheumatism, erysipelas, sorofolous
troubles, etc., these are superior to all
other treatment. They are also a specific
for the troubles which make the lives of
so mummy women a burden, And speedily
restore time rich glow of health to sallow
cheeks, Men broken down by overwork,
worry or excess, will find in Pink Pills
a certain cure,
gold by all dealers or sent by mail,
post paid, at 50 cents a box, or' six boxes
for 92.50. by addressing the Dr. Williams'
Medicine Company, Brookville. Ont., or
Schein:eta:1y, N. Y. Beware of 11111tatiODS
and subetitutes alleged to be 'tjtist as
geed."
The llird Panc:er Game,
A new game, called the "Bird Fen -
vier," will be found to be full of the jolli-
est sort of sport. First you must oreange
In the center of the room a eage at ehairs;
then a number of pieces of paper are out,
a piece for eaoh phis em. On half the num-
ber of slips the 'name of a bird is written.
Those are placed 031 a trey and passed
around. Whoever .fitaws a bird must walk
into the cage. Those who draw blanks
remnin seated.
Next a merchant is chosen, who places
hinistaff in the center et the cage, and all
the birds must lteep their eyes fastened
Upon him if a bird is discovered lookieg
away, he must pay a forfeit. The outside
players walk about the ouge, doing every-
thing in their potver to attract tbe
tion of the birds.
The meranant meanwhile is crying:
"Here is a flume, fat partridge, who will
buy?" Or, "Here Is a canary, who will
bile?"
"I will; describe your birds."
- This the trader most do, calling theme
by Demi) anti telling of any peculiar
traits, and right hero is where a great
deal of fee nooses in.
Once the bird is sold he or she ie re-
leased from the cage, The.birds who are
net chosen must pay a. forfeit. The peso
ing or forfeits adds., zest end life tha
game,anti lire to be imposed , b'y the neer-
Whoever Sits down to wait for lovelies
to corree his way, will need a thick tush- • •
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