Critic (Newspaper) - March 21, 1886, Logansport, Indiana VOL II NO 46 LOGANSPORT INDIANA MARCH 21 PRICE 5 CENTS THE SABBATH oft on bright Sunday morning from child hood Through many a year have we hail ml the Appointed fcy to lead us to To manhood of usefulness ou the Where of the light have the Must or Tlie mind to enlighten with wisdom Attracting the saint to Ihe fold oud the pasture Eternal aud where the do shine And augels Shout praise to the Lambl iu ihe temple divine The work of the Sabbath So arrt so imparting such truths us will lend The soul to the will mitigate To on which may feeil message of iu fair Ziou TbG messenger gives to toe sheep ami the lambs As joyful the strains ot her are The minds of the troubled the message uow yo reasoning of man can afford fort As words of the How grand Is the when the assem ble To sing aud to pray the Master adora These scenes thus presented n higher resemble Where stand the redeemed with angels bu fore The throne of our glory exceeding Tlint brother who above prepared Prepared for the paints whom the spirit is lending In pastures delightful and ully shared Tho Satan by cares we ure burdened By behold those bright mansions de clared 1Twas aud silence profound ou Fair mountains was felt The were sad 2for thought they agati their Messiah could be as When them He walked and their were glad Though married by seal and imperial power The Temple The Redeemer appeared That day of all days with its blessing doth shower Believers by love to the To such is the Sabbath the happiest emblem Of peace by which we are cheered LEAVES FROM A DULL MANS DIARY Joe and Brown Potter the Critic The laat of oar social sensations is the notoriety as well as seminudity of Mre i James Brown Potter whoever she may be at Washington It is safe to say that be fore March 1st 183G no one outside of the and nameless people who constituted her ever raw or heard of Mra Brown Potter It seems that when she was last week at Mrs Coal Oil Whit neys reception at Washington these amazing receptions that cost each where terrapins at are served as liberally aa the festive doughnut among mortals at Cleveland thia now famous Mrs Potter read or de to the charitable female dudes there assembled a poem entitled Ostler This poem is given in fall in last Sundays Critic and tells in hexameters how aome hostler m England named Joe married a pretty girl and was blessed with a pleasant home hcd a bright boy baby Along came a swell from London and j Xwas the saa e od wretched that for I birds have suns Twas a woman weak and wanton and a villains tempting tougue n picture deftly painted a creatures eye 3f the wonders and the joy that in them lias Annie listened ami was was tempted aud she fell As tno angels fell from to the blankest depths of hell was promised wealth and splendor life of guilty sloth Yellow gold for child aud husband the woman left i hem both The upshot of the whole matter was that Annie went off to London and be came a second Cora lords and for lovers all of whom at last weaned of her and discarded her and no man coold pay him nay Brown Potters recitation of this By and bye death came along and Anna was out at the elbows and heels and poverty stricken Just before she started off ou her long Ostler Joe deserted husband put iu an appearance and notwithstanding all his wrongs clasped his long lost darling Airs very commonplace and worthless it seems shocked the seminude ladies and their oo feelings made Mrs B Ps reputation The went home and talked about Mrs B P The reporter called upon B P and obtained her photograph which with the low necked within less tban a week of the fortunate accident above described is published in all the Sunday and weekly dailies Mrs Brown Potter from a commonplace society lady has rity Here is the way Sundays Indiana polis Journal in two separata articles puts her clothes into type Mrs looked unusually well in a costume of dark green velvet low necked and shore sleeved The neck was trimmed with wheat and n large yellow patin bow was placed on one side Mrs Potter has an exquisite neck What a pity this ablebodied reporter should not have given an anxious public some facts about Mrs Potters heels The other night she wore a straight dress of cardinal satin embroidered with scat tered lowers The low bodice was finish ed with a guimpe of white mull and there was a blae ribbon with white ends tied her waist etc At this point we leave the gifted reporter meandering the of Mrs B Ps Ronnie scarf or some other that goes rouud the neck with oar printed amazement at the amount of territory and that con stantly increasing that is included in what a fashionable woman is pleased to nail her neck In addition to the nb highly iu ter 65 ting facts above Mrs Potters clothes we are treated to a disquisition upon her and are with the infor mation that she is the daughter of Bishop Drquhart and mece of Mr Stephen Whit ney with the Lord only knows hew many other uncles and aunts of greater or less degree Our papers come to us loaded down with this wretched twaddle day after day and week after week Take the above specimen poetry and all and consider it The poem itself is the height of ihe common place It is unhealthy in senti ment and sensational in conception and a word twaddle of the very worst kind Reduced to plain a wife is seduced by a lord and becomes the mistress of princes who desert her Upon her death bed along comes her dear Joseph smelting of horses and the stables and hugs ner aud eho dies upon his manly bosom repenting and is rewarded with a pair of wings and a harp such an event never has happened nor never will English lords bad as they are dont usually find Cora Pearls in their stables Is it not a little doubtful whether an even though she had repented fully fifteen minutes before her death and been forgiven by her outraged husband would be exactly the sort of com pany that holy angels would take to in the next world Besides all that not ten ont of a thousand of our woman ever step out of virtues path Evil to them that evil think Ninetynine out of a hundred of onr females of all classes of society live and innocent and pure Why should the hundredth who falls be glorified by Mr George A no one ever thinks of glorifying the remaining ninetynine that make the world sweetand happy Bat the worst of all this mass of trum pery is the of those silly socie ty women at Washington who have given this hitherto unknown Mrs Brown Potter a free clothes and al the entire United States Mrs Brown Potter is evidently a firstclass humbug Why should not the ladies of Washington have treated her as ucu and quietly ignored her and let her find her way into the illustrated pers And able editorial letters the bast wa she could Silence would have been thi meat severe punishment they could have inflicted upon her while notoriety is th greatest reward that can be given people of her kind And eo the twaddle goes on It seems to get worse and worse Presiden Arthur who by accident got into the White been manufactured all at once celeb name of wife House set all the geese in the quacking Under his patronage Washing ton became the paradise of snobbery an of the Mrs Brown Potters of society Under Cleveland we hoped to see a chang and at least common sense aud simplicity once more come to the front But twaddl seems to be growing worse and worse The fountains of the great deep of are in full play at our national capitol an Mrs Brown Potters and her satin neck bows and guimpe of white mull shine and sparkle m on Sunday illustrated and unillustrated paper alongside of Joes wifes loves and sorrows and final taking off which piece of twaddle Mr Sims th poet puts thusly In his death founi her lying in hie arms her spirit fled And Ills tears caine down in torrents as he knelt beido her dead STever once his love had faltered her base unhallowed life And the stone above her ashes bears the honored Slush thy spirit ia mighty and still abroad The last vorae of this poem ia a tural cariosity Thats I fain pluck from the above her dust Knt the lily of soulless eln nor the roue lust whito of holy lovo iii one green spot ii of all was patched and hot The trouble with this is that the writer ia botanizing upon the wrong grave If there was any holy in the case it was Ostler Joes and so far as we can discover he is yet alive Why cant we hive au occasional word printed in behalf of the good woman Even a repetition of the chapter of praises which old Solomon kindly pat into his pro verbs would be good reading to a public bored to death with the aud filth that load down oar about the sayings and of the occasional that disgraces womanhood What is there in the that entitles her to the headlines and the printed glories of our newspapers A bad woman or a bad man will make more noise and rattling of type than ten thousand jrood And this halo of notoriety that vice con one of its principal attractions and more to recruit its ranks than any ther single cause It is like the bright flashy furniture and the cheap that draw to the saloons the thought ess youth All is bad enough but ow much worse to have this quasi en of adultery in the snaps of silly recited ot a great swell society arty by a fashionable woman to fashion Suppose Mrs Brown Potter ad repeated Solomons exquisitely bean fal verse in praise of the prudent worra i would ever have put her and her de eased father the Bishop and her low gowns into the public prints Why must we have this endless slop h ye editors Why must a long Buffering aud weekday public be treated to a ia endless gush over good for nothing uman vermin male and female We pleasure that of late years have pretty much quit coddling Callows birds Bnt whenever a vicious dies or a depraved murderer is bung ie or she has the right of way in our pub io prints AU the details or their lives and deaths are hashed cp with notes and often editorial comments Let a good man or a useful woman die and their obituary if any is lly as short as womans ove and if fonod at all ia usually next to patent medicine column In fact most newspapers charge fifty cents apiece for all such uninteresting documents St Patricks Day was observed as usual ay the Irish organizations of the city the religious services being held at St Bridgets church on the Weat side After service ths procession marched to the Holy Angels Academy where the Big Band played Wearing of the Green and St Patricks Day in the two of the old tunes ever com posed Later they serenaded Campion after which tbe procession dia banded This is probably the moei aus St Patricks Day Ireland hus eve known Father Campions Temperance made a nod display in the proces sion on St Patricks Day The Reverend Father has taken a very practical anc thorough mode of temperance work in band of young boys who to total abstinence Wou there were other organizations of kindred nature in town and that every boy could be taught as eoon as they old enough to understand anything the awful disgrace and horror of ance BY NELLIE You Jo not heur Onto me The low And flouting floods the earth nud tky With Lender OUH You ln tin bent the floor of Of feet that tread the flowery street Of heaven M one At morn at at eve it I hear light Aud catch the of snowwhite About my duor Ami on ihe silent nir The voice thut from my world wa That loft comfortless to For Sometimes up from cut flic The bojisti birdlike swoet I turu forgetfully to grout Mv darling fair Sift ripple of the stream beneath the pule beam doth it seem Ami lui not Ah iin you can not hip You no langh uor light footfall I itm his is nil And Hu 11110 said I will not leave thee Ha loosed tlie of fate Auf left ajar hides When a Woman Envies a linn There are just three things for which woman envies a man The first I shant tell what the first is The secon is power to go out at and wherever he the third i his being able to walk in sloppy weathe without damp skirts slapping agains his heels A woman never envies a i his legs excepting rainy days Male leg always look eo comfortable while froi ankle to knee female legs are saturated Petticoats will get wet muddy aud drag temper show ruffles and biase If women would wear the literal of the figurative pants she might keep a as the other they do THE SILVER a silver at t 11 little s cloud ith n paly dove tie sailed reward the west and Umd sbu said Ah joy was bathed me in his beams me in hi and nil day vat a thousand n thousand proves y happy shadow like a K ISP once my lips iny poll id lips K more the blush I knew at moru thou thine about me ere I die re in the of I melt away hile yet she spake hur cloudy changed ud she e n wreath of tire hat did to the evening star ut nb she slowly us she went o wly darkened slowly till she was or the fne ot ben a cold low and breathed oa her he Iii a mist of tears did melt away STOLEN THUN DER Anecdotes and Painted Comment Purloined From Onr Turk Twain ou tha Oll Arp iu Kiss A BALD One of onr respected contemporaries notes from Mr Edmund that Few see the old masters and inti mates that the greater onr effort to com the more difficult it ia for us to rasp the true spirit of these old painters n other words the true inwardness and truly soulful understanding ie only to the him who lectures on art Mark Twains criticism of the 0 Ms light be read by Mr Russell with consid erable Twain gaye With all the Michael Angeles the Raphaels the and other old masters and the sublime history of Rome remains They painted aud Popes and saintly scarecrows enough to people Paradise almost ind these things are all iy did paint Nero fiddling eor bora ing Rome the assassination of the stirring spectacle of a hundred thons and people bending forward with interest in the Coliseum to see two gladiators hacking away each others lives a tiger upon a kneeling martyr these and ft thousand other matters which we read of with a living interest canst be sought for only in the rubbish left by the old masters wh are no more I have the satisfaction o informing the public They did paint am they did carve in marble one and only one And what is it and why did choose in It the Rape of the and they chose i for the legs and CONVINCED BY SIS OWN Arp of the Atlanta Constitution latee the following of a de bating society Ive noticed that a mo can argue on one side until he believes i it When I was a youth we had up th question Which gives us the greates pleasures the pursuit or possession of a object I was then pursuing a maide with great alacrity pleasing proa and was intensely happy in that particular business and as I had been assigned to that side of the question I spread myself a green bay tree to sustain my cause I dwelt upon the eager and fascinating pleasure with a man pursued fame and and how vain and empty he found them when once n his possession I quoted Shakespeare and recited Cardinal soliloquy Ir I had served my God as faithfully ae I have served my etc and I sat down with a modest content for the eyes of the maiden were upon me and I had won her smiles Just then one of those boys who never prepared him self but opened his month and let her talk rose forward Well now suppose Mr President that Brother Arp was a pursuing a pretty girl that he were in love with jast as hard as ha conld v and were for her and dying to j gat her would he keep on pursu j in and and and to the little end of time ot would he catchup with her and hold her in his arms and exclaim shes mine shes mine Ive got her at last and bless the Lord Im gwine to keep her forever and ever amen I say brother Arp upon honor now which would you drather Well of course I blushed and so did the maiden for everybody knew oar secret and everybody cut one eye at me and tha other at her We lost ihe case but I am not yet convinced that I have ever seen happier days than my days and wouldnt being young again and oing through same rapturous experi nce Oue would have thought that the death f Miss Bayard aud Mrs Bayard and the wonld have the effect of down Washington society It as only sent it spinning ou with a mad whirl The people who have been at of power for twentyfour years want o get as much oat of their accession to tlace in the shortest possible time as it ie to get ont of it The ra eclipsing the Old World Think of spent on terrapin for one recep ion It is canvasback duck and cam agne for the crowd and many get ver it Mise Cleveland the mistress of he Hoose iu this new regime of simplicity has fifteen new resses a week If Mrs Garfield or Mrs or Mrs McElroy or Mrs Grant had as many iua year they were deemed ex What an air of elegant and and sensible domesticity there was about the White House while these adies were its occupants They neither lead society or mould fashion They were models of helpmates to the Chief Magistrates of the nation he intensity of his gaze becomes more eo as if he were trying to read the number of ler boots through her eyes he seems to 36 rapidly losing his out stretched arms to close reverently tiis head is bent by the strength of the in ward struggle it seems aa if something were about to burst but it does not The object is drawn closer and closer until daylight is wiped out between the two the fair head drops on his shoulder Mr For jer Robertsons head falls his eyes are they close am ecstatic quiver passed over two frames The contact of souls is perfected aud the lovers break THE KNIGHTS Or LiBOS ASB A VASE Perhaps the Knights of Labor do not care the toe of a copper for Mrs Mor gans peachblow vase and yet it ought o command the respectful attention of all those who make it their particular profession to glorify labor and magnify its value Che workmans touch and the secret of his skill are what caused that won bit of pottery to be higher in the scale of money value than any other similar piece in the of rare clay How much is the material worth Teu cents perhaps far both the clay and the color aud all the rest is for the of the combination the knowledge and art of the common potter of other days If the is lost at least there is left for the thoughtful a thing almost as precious as the striking evi dence of the value of his unconscious efforts may acquire in the world of art THE AND EBSON KISS The dramatic critic of the St Louie Post Dispatch thus and analy zes the kissing operation performed by Robertson Mary Andersons leading mau on the lips of that sweet Love to Mr Robertson is evi dently a prolonged period of mental aud physical agony His interpretation of the tender sentiment would be more fitting for a funeral or a female seminary than for the stage He walked mournfully through situations which appeared to be too overwhelmingly unfortunate ae if he had had a tussle with his own intensity and the intensity had proved too much for him and was riding him down as if his soul had wiped out the poor remnant of his body and was using the shadow as a walkingstick To his nature apparently is a vulgar misfortune and ilesh is an obstruction to affinity He was the embodiment of intensity absolute and of the abstract He belongs to that school which the mind in attempt ing to grasp or define grovels in its own weakness and in a temporary state of in produced from sympathy de scribes as the too utterly His kisses are something unique in the ex pression of tenderness and lave Whether there is physical contact is e matter of small as a means to au end except to famish a bridge for two souls to cross over to meet midway and mingle for one rapturous moment Mr Forbes Robertson does does not kiss impulsively there is no fleshy attrac tion about it It is the meeting of essences He views the object of his af fection meditatively then agonizingly as if something inside of him were striving to get out but could not He approaches the object deliberately as if he were mov ing toward a sacred ehrine after a season of fasting His eyes are fixed intently on hers his arms move slowly in her direction A Woman in the Army There is a remarkable case in the House committee on military affairs It is a to remove the charge of des er tiou from the record of Franklin Thomp son alias Mrs Sarah E E Seeley A woman named Sarah E prompted solely by patriotism served for two years as a soldier iu the federal army At the outbreak of the war she was living at Flint Mich She assumed male attire became a private in Com pany F of the Second Michigan Infantry went to the front was at the battle of Bull Run served all through the Penin sular campaign then under General Pope then with at Fredericksburg and thence vent West with the regiment to Kentucky There the young soldier was prostrated with chills and fever contract ed ou the Peninsula a leave of was refused and that her sex would be discovered she left the army and returning to Oberlin O resumed her womans garb Though participating in over forty battles large and small she never was wounded Opposite the name she bore the word deserter was written on the army records This she seeks to have removed She married ia 1SG7 She is fully identified by members of her own company and regiment She IB cow icg at Fort Scott Kin and the bili pro poses to give her a clean record with back paT and bounty It is asserted that Mrs Seeley is an invalid as the result of her ex aud hardships in the army The committee favors Mrs be cause it cannot ba objected to on the ground that it is likely to set a dangerous precedent This sage remark has a more spicy flavor than anything else in the document Keeping Sunday Meetings were held last week at the Broadway Presbyterian and the Christian churches especially to consider the means of promoting a fitting observance of the Lords Day On Tuesday night Rev James Best spoke on Sabbath as a Divine Institution aud Rev H L Stet son on Why Observe Sunday on Wed night Rev E SScott L R Nor ton and J J Purcell delivered short ad dresses on Sabbath Desecration in Logansport Rev W E Loucks giving his views on Remedy for the evil Rev Mr proposed a Law aud Order League to see the Sunday laws are enforced is in the main an irreligious tovn and the masses of people make no change iu their pur suits on Sunday Buying and selling games lawful and unlawful find all sarts of wickedness are indulged in Law and Order League would be formi dable than the law itself aud such jui in wouldbe of the greatest possi ble m thia rapidly growing town It would cure existing tnC prevent others If people will not decent ly observe Sunday from should be compelled to do
