———— REY. DR. TALMAGE. The Eminent Washington Divine's Sunday Sermon. Subject: “Newspapers and Their Influence,” Texrs: “And the wheels were)full of eyes, ~BErokiol x., 12. “For all the Athenians and strangers which wore there spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing.''— Acts xvil,, 21. What is a preacher to do when he finds two texts equally good and suggestive? erplexity 1 take both, Wheels full of hat but the wheels of a ing press? Other wheels are roll on, pulling or crushing. The manufac. turer's wheel—how it grinds the operator with fatigues and rolls over nerve and mus- ele and bone and heart, not kaowing what it does, The sewing machine wheel sees not the aches snd pains fastenad to it—tighter than the band that moves it, sharper than the needle which it plies, Every moment of every hour of avery day of avery month of uvary year there are hundreds of thousands of wheels of mechanism, wheels of enterprise, eyes? blind, They eyaless, Not go the wheels of the Their entire husiness isto look printing and report. of by eyes, near up. They They tak pmariphery, They are like those spoken sgakiel as fail eyes. Bharp sighted, far sighted, They look look down. Thney look tar away. inthe next street and the next hemispheres, Byes of eriticism, eyes of investigation, eyes that twinkle with mirth, eyes glowering with fadignation, tender with love, eyes of suspicion, biue eyes, blaek eyes, green eves, h eyes, poli | eyes, relimious thing. ‘And the Bat in my seco the newspaj peopls in Atl in gathering the especially in Ath teiligent people bee tive they are great th . The question tl question now 1 is the news? To answer t ory for the newspaper th their wits to work first suceeaded apd has at Pekin printed every we silk. R Acta D eves eyes of hope, ns W ~-0ot 1enliy asked, What is the text Tel 1 ¢ Ie suee irna, WS of it land succeed first publishis armada, an enterprise, n fought, deciding give it one-third ¢ Morning Chr REWSPRPEOTS « Amerien saeco weekly ghed 1 dilly, The Ame in Ph:ladeiphin i The newspaj ’ There is hates as a Great Brit and heil 1 the hande wilitieal : i anendesnee sepenaen of In choose betw BPO OF § Ap» fF shonid prafer the lat base fabrication come 10 Wr rinting pres EP An jn spenk of the or, per of utter the a small riot commas, and we come the blundering printing paper filled with div scandal, we spe rinting press; or, ses wribery, whee to the other eorrupt print the empirici of the printing 205 t Snow onasubin ty never hened eimmeasurable and everinat. ing blessing of wi newspaper. Thaok God for the wi Thank God that we do not have, Hike the Athenians, to gO about to gather up and relate the tidings of the day, sine / does both blessing that God sontury i= the preas, 4 hnve owl ey s the nmnivor for us, The grandest temporal bas given to the nineteenth ewsoa: We would have better appreciation blessing if we ay of this exasperations, the anxieties, the wear and tear of heartstrings, involved in the produe- tion of a good newspaper. Under the im- pression that almost anyboly ean make a newspaper, scores of inexperienced capitals ists every vear enter the lists, and conse. quently during the last few years a news- paper has died almost every day. The dis. ease is epidemic, The lar ‘er papersswallow the smaller ones, the whale taking cown fifty minnows at one swallow. With . and Canada, thers are but thirty-six a hail eantury old. Newspapers do not average more than five years’ existence, The most of them Aif of cholern infantum, It ie hich time tha: the people found ont that the most successful way to sink money and keep it punk is to stare a newspaper. There comes 8 time when almost every ons issmitten with the newspaper mania and starts one, or have stock in one he must or die, The course of procedure is about this: A Hterary man has an agricultural or scientific or political or religions idea which he wants to ventilate. He has no money of his own literary men seldom have. Bat he talks of bis ideas among confidential friends until become inflamed with the idea, and forthwith they buy type and press and rent composing room and gather a corps of edie tors, and with a prospectus that proposes to eure everything the fiest copy is ey ofi the attention of an admiring world, After awhile one of the plain stockholders finds that no great revolution has been effected this daily or weekly publication; that neither sun Bes mows SE 8 still; Jhat 2h world goes on lying an eating stealing just as ft did before the first issue, Fret ro matter of fact stockholddr wants to sell out his stock, but nobody wants to buy, and other stockholders get infected and slok of newspaperdom, and an enormous bill at the paper factory rolls into an avalanche, and the printers refuse to work until back wiges are paid up, and the compositor bows to the ‘managing editor, and the managing editor bows to the editor-in-chief, and the editor. in<chiof bows to the directors, and the direc. ‘tors bow to the world at large, and all the subsoribers 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 you have the afore sald agricultural or sefentifio or religious or { political idea to ventilate, you had better charge upon the world through the columns already established, It is folly for any ono who cannot succeed at anything else to try newspaperdom. If you cannot elimb 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 vigilance, the strategy of a commander-in-chief. To edit a newspaper requires that one be a | statesman, an essayist, a geographer, a | statisticinn, and in acquisition encyeclopediac, | To man, to govern, to propel a newspaper | until it shall be a fixed institation, a Na. { tional fact, demand 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, throw. | ing your pocketbook into your wife's lap, ! start for some insane asylum before you do | something desperate, Meanwhile, as the | dead newspapers, week by week, are carried out to the burial, all the living newspapers I'he be stick paper, say, | were boru and when they died, ri ink should give at least hat of epitaph, If it was a good “Peace to the ¢ | I the epitaph written Chartreuse: ‘‘Here continueth to rot i.body of Franeis Chartreuse, who, with an nflexible coustaney and uniformity of life | persisted in the practice of every hum vice, excepting prodig and hypoeris His insatiable avarice ex ted him the first, bis matchless im ond.” 1s iis been know that a good, healthy, lon ived, HOE NOWEDARDHr 18 1 Disssing, yas vhat somes to , rs one S11 Ost for Francis antlers an CARY ut ugh the fire, First of al fWs] Apors out i us Nn- £4 Ong Dean newspaper will always re potent, » If a rided aganist . hat piotars honesty presentation. ties of only the and victus of s That family is bes wane + od for svil, thedu knowing is good, Keep children impression that all i= fair and world, and when into it will be poorly prepared to struggie with iid who is th the 1 Atlantie lsarn how Our on is when sin tive an v dail, when vies with great headings and good are put in ire corners ip in great primer and righteousness in nonpariel, Bin is loathsome; make it loath ne, Virtue is beautiful; make 't the under the in the they rieht they go ont 4 itasao f the ia fe attra fainted {oe yas £7 papers—raligious, p foal, literary id for the most part drop their tonality. This would do better justice to newspaper writers, | aad best writers of the country live and die unknown and are denied their just fame, The vast publie never Jearns who they are, and after awhile their hand ning, and they are without resources, loft to die. Why not, at least, have his initial at. tached to his most important work? | ways gave additional foree to when yon oveasionally saw added to significant article in the old New York Courier and Enquirer J. W, W,, or in The Tribune H. G., or in Toe Herald J, G. B., inThe Timea H. J. R.. or in { Post W,C. B., E. B While this arrangement would be a fair end just thing for newspeper writers, it would be a defenses for the puolie, It Is sometimes true that things damaging to private charac. ter are sald, Who is responsible? [tis the | “we” of the editorial or reportorial columns, | Every man in evety profession or occupation ought to be respousible for what he does, | No honorable man will ever writethat which i he would be afraid to sign. But thousands of persons have suffered from the imperson- ality of newspapers. What can ons private eitizen wronged in his repatation do in a contest with misrepresentation multiplied into twenty or fifty thousand copies? An injustice done in priat {8 {llimitably worse thaa an injustice done in private life. Dur. ing loss of tempor a man may say that for which he will be sorry in ten minutes, but a newspaper injustice has first to be written, sot tp in type, then the proof taker. off and read and corrected, and then for six or ten hotirs ths presses are busy running off the issue, Plenty of time to correct, leaty of time to cool off. Pleaty of time to repent. But all that is hidden in the impersonality of u newspaper, It will be a long step for- ward when all is changed, and newspaper writers get credit for the good and are held 4 pg for theavii nother step forward for newapaperdom will be when in our colleges pr univer. sities we opportunities for gandidans oF Jhe odnorish chair, n su nstitut madionl law departments. Why not pe Pres oe ise ments? Do the I and healing professions demand more culture ani caveful t than the editorial or I know Dar arial I soma ace cident Into a Lowspaper office as they may or in The Evening Express © have tumble into other occupations, but it woul be an inealcnlable advantage if those pra posing a newspaper life had an institution to which they might go to leaga the qualifl- entions, the responsibilities, the trials, the tomptations, the dangers, the magnificent opportunities of newspapar life, Let thers be a lectureship in which there shall appear the leading editors of the United Btatey tolling the story of thelr struggles, their victories, thelr mistakes, how they worked and what they found out to he the best winy of working, There will be strong men who will climb up without such aid into editorial power and eflicienay, Bo do men climb up to success In othar bran shes by sheer grit, fut if we want learned insti. tutions to make iawyoers and artists and doe. tors and ministers, we much more nead learned institutions to make editors, who occupy a position of influence n hundredfold greater. I do not put the truth too strongly when I say the most potent influence for good on earth is no good editor and the most potent influence for evil is a bad one, The best way to re-enforeoandimprove the news. papersis to endow editorial professorntes, Whan will Princeton or Harvard or Yale Rochester lead the way? Another blessing of the newspapsr is the foundation it lays for ncearate history of the time in which we live, Wao for the most part blindly guess about the ages that antedate the newspaper and are dependent upon the prejudices of this or that historian, But after a hundred or two years what a splen- or did opportunity the historian will have to teach the people the lesson of this day. ancrofte got from the early nev this eountry, from the Boston New York Gasgette, and The Rag Bag, and Royal Gazetteer and Inde dent Chronlele, and Massachusetts Sy the Philadelphia Aurora, acoounts of vietory, and Hamilton's duel, and death, and Bostor { tax rhor into a teapot ht ride, an reign turned Boston and Paul Revere's mid Island rebel fleati f the great > rod ures and sas he volume I DAY s world's redeem: Jesus shall peig: Does hia sgoomssiy His kis strete sedom 1 Till suns shall rise and so MILEY rue, y from shore { no more, el et MUST PICK BY HAND, A Taw That Huckleberries Mast Not lle Vicked Mechanically. The House of Awembly of the New Jersey Legislature, in session at Trenton, has passed a Bill which prohibits the nse of shinery in the harvesting of the whortieberry, known more popularly as the buckleberry., The tl men have within late ad the price of the is ma Uw a most as great a using a sort of luxury as “scrapple,” by scoop In stripping the The same apparaius is also used in the gathering of cranberries, a considerable in. Iy by this process, and the bogmen are all return to the old system of band fears the violation by an- other of any hand-picking agreement that may be entered into; hence the appeal to the Legislature by the associated bogmen. fine and imprisonment, to pursue the huek- eberry, or the emanberry in its native bog by the aid of any mechanical device whatso- ever, IN HONOR OF FRANKLIN, Memorial Tablet Unveiled in France to the Author of “Voor Richard.” Several hundred persons from Paris at- tended the unveiling of a memorial tablet that has been erected on the site of the vilia at Passy, Franee, oecupied by Benjamin Franklin from 1777 to 1785. It was at this vilia that Franklin erected his first lightniog conductor, The dramatist, M. Manuel, President of the Pasay Historical Society, presented the tablet. M. Fayey, a member of the French Academy, spoke of Fraoklin's seleatific re. searches, The Hon. J. B. Eustis, the American Am- bassalor, meknowisdgeld the tablet, M, Roubley, director of the Society of Fine Arts; Moncure Conwny, Henry Bacon, the artist; Meredith Head and many ladies were pressnt at the ceremony. The Squirrel Pest, A prize of 8250 for a method of inoculating squirrels with some contagious fatal disease is offered by the Commercial Association of Pendleton, Oregon, and it Is believed the county authorities and various farmers’ organizations will add to the sum offered. Tie farmers of that region are at Hoty wits’ end as to how to mitigate the ie of squire rele, Tons of strychnine he Plague — in the effort to exterminate the squirrels by poisoning them, but little relief is had from this or any other method heretofors used, The Cosopah voleanoss, seventy-five miles southwest of Yuma, Arizona, ors in violent eru a weak or 80 since, The larger ones Jers sihiiiing Aregt volumes of i | i TH FIVE-FINCERED ORANGE, One of the Rarest Plants in the World, and It Wears Cloves. One of the rarest plants in the world the five-tingered The Jap- well people of specialty of cultivating in Oring anese who, ns 8k the China, mnkes a in the vegetable of value it accordingly. ornamental curiosities world, consider this one the most re markable, and But a single plant, which has been pus chased and brought to San Franc iRCO, where {t now Is, ins, is believed, ever left Japan, The nary nitric the It ish tree, which when fully grown does than five that extraordi of dwarf. plant bears the fruit vegetable Kingdom, iN nn eo member in Ai Hot average more at most Ol ix feet In height and Is crooked enough to have been planted in the garden of the crooked man spoken of by Mother Goose: “Who walked a crooked mile, And found a « n crooked stile rooked sixpence, Against He hou ORAZe OTMMNges, of Curious Cuban he most invulnerable at all the a letter in the forts erected in thi "3:41, Phils old six RAYE are made of am every factory of any age had a bout number of worn out boilers which been th 1 thirty feet i eter, and made of steel 5-8 to “hese rown aside Each was mg and feet in diam Hix 34 of an were taken in hand and inch thick. 7 braces heads were Knocked out and a doorway They were then carted to the top of knolls and set up on end and braced in place with railroad iron. Three floors were put in each, and a ladder was hung against the inside of the shell as a means of communication from top to bottom. These novel forts are so secure when the steel door ig once closed upon the garrizson that some of the planters have lost confidence in them for outposts, They believe that the men of their garrisons feel such confidence that they go to sleep as soon as they get inside. New Orleans Pleayune, a A Polar Storehouse In the Polar regions seal oil {8 buried in the ground in bags of skin. Meat is heaped upon platforms built among the trees, which are peeled of bark, In order to keep bears from climbing up them. Little sticks with sharp points upward are butted in the ice to distract the attention of the bears from the pro- visions overhead, Another kind of a storehouse is in the shape of a strong pen, the main supports of which are standing trees, with brush and logs piled on top to keep out wild animals. 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