Cheyenne Transporter. (Darlington, Indian Terr.), Vol. 3, No. 3, Ed. 1, Saturday, September 24, 1881 Page: 3 of 10
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Mumam'jMjmuu
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LITERATURE AS A BUSINESS
Past and Present Examples and the
Part Journalism Has Played.
London Dally News.
Tho stories of Otway Chatterton
and Savage prove that tho misery of
oven distinguished men of letters was
something more than a myth suggest-
ed by Pope's hatred of Grub street.
The vast increase in the number of
readers has raised literature from the
gutter and oven enabled her to share
the crumbs that fall from civic tables.
Chatterton and Otway and oven Sav-
age could scarcely manage to starve
in our time. To be sure if they had
insisted on writing pootry and noth
ing but poetry they might have made
acquaintance with hunger bankrupt-
cy and the work-house. But the
times would have taught thorn wisdom.
There is only one recorded instance of
a poet who refused to write even an
ordinary letter in prose and ho was a
Frenchman of 1830. In Chatterton's
days the most degraded failures in lit-
eraturo tho poets whose lines would
neither scan nor rhyme turned "gazet-
teers." Pope describes them as num-
berless and nameless as blind puppies
drowned beforo they can see. Doubt-
less Chatterton and Otway would have
stooped to this rather than have starved
or begged.
But if tho modern appetite for pe
riodical literature boundless and in-
satiate as it is has rescued literature
from hunger it is not certain that lit-
erature has been thereby elevated as an
art. It as well as journalism has be-
come a profession and a profession of
which tho members are apt to bo rath-
er hurried in their work. Even in the
middle of tho last century literature
was turning in this direction. John-
son's greatest pieces were done as reg-
ular jobs tor the booksellers. Gold-
smith was generally paid in advance
for his "copy" and was constantly in
arrears. A certain haste and porfunc-
toriness a certain laxity of style are
apt to be the defects of a literature
which is turned out as a piece of busi-
ness to meet a given demand. Litera-
ture which has much of this defect can
hardly become classical and live.
Fortunately there will always be men
of letters so gifted by nature with
style and so truly artists that even
their hack work will bo well done. Of
theso men were Johnson and Gold-
smith in England Poe in America and
Gautier in France though the nature
of his vocations and the hurry in which
he plied his trade often caused Gautier
to want ideal worthy of his beautiful
workmanship. All men of letters in
an ago when letters are a profession
are apt as Thackery said to exhaust
tho soil of their minds to till and re-
till a field into which they could afford
to put no new material of reading and
of thinking. Excellent literary work
can scarcely bo obtained for any length
of time from men who have taken ear-
ly and by choice to their profession
'their time i3 so much occupied by
writing it is so necessary for them to
bo always producing that they have
no chance of acquiring and digesting
new stories of knowledge. Even in
fiction when the weaving of ro-
mance becomes a handicraft the same
difiiculty makes itself felt. Lien can
only write fiction out of their experi-
ence; they must study character and
make acquaintances with many social
ranks with many now places and new
faces if they are to write with fresh-
ness and vigor.
Some Egyptian Discoveries.
Such discoveries have been made in
Egypt says tho St. James Gazette as
must thrill with rapture every histor-
ical every archaeological mind in the
civilized world. Tho more we hear of
them the more dolightful they appear.
Thirty royal mummies with what wo
find described as "all the mortuary ap-
pendages and inscriptions" of as many
royal personages. Among them tho
bodies of Thutmes III. and llamses
II. the samo Thutmes who set up
the obelisk that now stands on tho
Thames whoso titles and honors are
also inscribed on that monument and
now that their mummies are found
"even tho (lowers and garlands which
were placed in their cofiins may bo
seen encircling the ransks which cover
tho faces of tho deceased just as they
wero left by tho mourners over 3000
years ago." Think of a gallery 200
feet long "filled with relics of the
Theban dynasties" sacred relics re-
moved from their appropriate places
in tombs and temples and concealed in
this secret subterranean gallery by the
priests to preserve them from destruc-
tion by some foreign invader. Among
theso treasures aro 3700 mortuary
statues bearing royal cartouches and
inscriptions fifteen enormous wigs
and above ail a vast leathern tent "in a
truly wonderful state of preservation."
It is covered with hieroglyphs most
carefully embroidered in red green and
yellow leather; tho colors aro quite
fresh and bright and the whole work-
manship is described as beautiful. But
neither tho mummies nor the wigs nor
tho tent; nor any of these things can
bo compared with the "find" of papyri
or so wo may anticipate though they
have not yet been unrolled. Four
were found in tho secret gallery which
was hewn in tho solid rock of the
cliiTs of tho Lybian mountains. All
tho papyri are in perfect state of pres-
ervation the largest (which is about
sixteen inches wide) and when unrolled
will probably measure from one hun-
urea 10 one nunureu ana lorty leec in
length) being beautifully adorned with
illuminations in color. What theso an-
cient screeds may reveal the world will
now bo impatient to learn; and since
tho savants aro naturally more impa-
tient than anybody else the world will
not have to wait long probably.
The Harvest in England.
Air. James Caird tho eminent agri-
cultural authority writes to tho Lon-
don Times as follows: "But for the
lato rains and diminished temperature
the harvest would havo proved equal
to nearly tho average of years preced-
ing 1874 but mildew has appeared and
will affect tho quality of tho yield of
tho later crops. On two-thirds of the
wheat land an average crop will be
made up by fineness of quality. On
the remaining third even with that aid
it will bo ton per cent below tho old
average. Heavy crops aro rare. Most
of them are thin but well headed and
there is a too common evidence shown
throughout the country of tho dimin-
ished capital of farmers by the lower
scale of farming. "Wo begin the har-
vest year very bare of old stock wheat
in the country. Our annual require-
ments are from 24000000 to 25000-
000 quarters. When the last harvest
year is completed we shall have im-
ported over 16000000 quarters. Our
own crop this year will probably yield
9500000 quarters so that if we can
reckon on a foreign supply equal to
that of 1880 and at not much over tho
samo price we shall bo safe. There is
said to bo an abundant harvest in Rus
sia. In France tho wheat crop is be-
lieved to bo scanty. Our barley is the
best corn crop of the year but it has
not ripened equally. Oats aro extreme-
ly deficient especially in the southern
counties. Hay is fifty per cent defic-
ient but was generally got in fine con-
dition Mangolds and green crops are
rapidly improving and promise a toler-
able crop. One of tho best features
of the season has been fine weather
for cleansing the ground in the spring
and early summer enabling farmers to
rid much of their land of tho accumu-
lated weeds of previous wet years but
they havo been heavily hit by bad sea-
sons and losses of stock and sheep.
Tho stock in Great Britain during tho
laso two years has been diminished by
more than twelve per cent. there being
a decline of 2000000 sheep and 1000-
000 lambs since 1879."
A sexton mid his enemy fought in a
church-yard nt Millsboro Dol. and the
sexton was thrown into a freshly-dug
grave. Then the other undertook to bury
him alive and had almost completed the
job when help came.
ITEMS Of 1HTEJIEST
Selma Ala. has no less than fifty
five overflowing artesian wells.
Tho silkworms of Italy have yielded
a very largo crop of cocoons this sea-
son. Fifty cents a bu3hol is what the
Augusta (Ga.) boys get for peach
kernels
Tho peach crop in Massachusetts tho
present season will be larger than foi
many years past.
Disastrous cloud-bursts appear to be
frequent in tho southwestern part of
Arizona territory.
Tho scuppernong crop of Talbot
county Georgia is immense and much
wine will be made.
Sharks are numerous in lied river
Louisiana. One recently shot meas-
ured twelve feet in length.
One hundred and fifty thousand
cocoanuts have been planted in Mon
roe county Florida this season.
A man on Cumberland mountain
Tennessee is shipping wild ferns to
tho north and realizing a good profit.
Four members of ono family two sons
and two daughters were married at
the same time in Montreal the other
day.
Twenty or thirty alligators in a
drove went up the Cumberland as far
as Nashville lately an unheard of in-
cident. Bogus silver dollars are in circula-
tion in San Francisco. They are of a
darker color than the genuine and
somewhat less in weight.
A census agent estimates that 7000-
000 people are interested in the United
States fisheries and that tho annual
product is worth about $100000000.
The vineyards in Gabriel valley
Los Angeles county California some
of tho vines of which are nearly 100
years old are yet very prolific bear-
ers. On the Colorado desert a species f
tortoise grows to a weight of twenty-
(ivo pounds and tho meat of this is
considered a great delicacy among the
Indians.
A water monster is said to inhabit
tho Mokelumne river above Jackson
Cal. The Chinese aro in mortal terror
over it and say that tho creature has
killed one of their number.
A $10000 fountain has been pre-
sented by P. T. Barnuin to the town
of Bethel Conn. his native place. It
stands fifteen feet high is of bron'
and was executed in Germany.
Recently a number of tho
little shell fish called "Pnrtuii
of-war" tiautUushiivo ueen
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There are 4318301 bushels more grain
In storo in Chicago than there were a year
ago. The increase is mainly in wheat and
oats.
'n-.tuUful
ih'.so men-
blown
ashoro on tho Ventura bench Califor-
nia to the great delight of amateur
collectors.
There was a heavy f ro3fc at Liwiston
Trinity county California lately tho
thermometer standing at 42 degrees
early in tho morning. At Weaver-
ville it stood 50 and 52 degrees in the
morning and GO and G2 in the after-
noon. The last few days havo witnessed a
great exodus from Saratoga but still
the largo hotels by no means have a
deserted appearance. With tho excep-
tion of the Grand Union all the car
avansaries will remain open until
October.l.
In Nevada tho cattle owners nearly
kill their critters by numerous brands
and tho loss in the value of hides by so
much branding is estimated at $100-
000 a year. An old brand spoils a
hide four-bits' worth and a new one
$1. Some bands of cattle aro so mudi
marked and branded as to make their
hides worthless.
A New York woman at the United
States hotel at Saratoga ia credited
with having brought three hundred
dresses with her and six maids to take
care of them. Sho wears three differ-
ent dresses every day and never while
at the place is seen to wear the samo
ono twice. Her diamonds are numer-
ous and gorgeous and sho keeps a
woman constantly employed embroid-
ering her stockings as well as dresses
and parasols
Watchmakers
and
Jewelers
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Eaton, W. A. Cheyenne Transporter. (Darlington, Indian Terr.), Vol. 3, No. 3, Ed. 1, Saturday, September 24, 1881, newspaper, September 24, 1881; Darlington, Indian Territory. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc70522/m1/3/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.