Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1881-08-11

titled . Erin" from which stanza is
quoted be.ow:
Arm Of Erin, prove strong; but Ice gentle
a. brave,
And. uplfted to strike, still be ready to
] save:
Nor one feeling of vengeance presume to
/ deiile
The cause. or tn men. of the Emerald Isle s.
To the words Emerald Isle" DR..
brennan has added the following note:
1T may be puerile to lay claim to i
priority of application in the use of an
epithet; but poets. like bees. have a
very strong sense of proprictv, and
both are OF that irritable kind us to be
extremely jealous of any one who robs
them of their boarded sweets. The
sublime epithei which Milton used in
his poem on the Nativity, written al
fifteen years OF age. His thunder-ciasp-
ing hand would have been claimed by
him as his own even after he had fin
ished Paradise Lost And GRAY would
prosecute. as a literary poacher, the
daring hand that would presume 10
break into his orchard and appropriate
a single epithet in that line. the most
beautifully descriptive which ever was
written:
"Thc breezy call of incensc-brcarhing morn
Peters Pence. '-Ofia. Saxon
Prince. Ia ingratiate himself in fayoi
of the sovereign PontifT, engaged 10
pay him a yearly donation for the sup
port of an English college at Rome;
and, in order to raise the sum, he i'm.
posed n tax of a penny on each house
possessed of thirty pence year This
imposition, being afterward levied on
all England, was commonly denominat-
ed Peter Pence"
True Blue. The first assumption
of this phrase was led by the Covenant
crs. in opposition 10 the scarlet badge
of Charles l., and hence il was taken
up by the troops of Leslie and Montrose
in 1889. The adoption of the color was
one of those religious pedantries into
/ which the Covenan,ers. in a pharisaical
observance of the scriptural letter and
| the usage OF the Hebrews distinguished
4 themselves. And thus they named
their children HabaSkuk and Zerub-
babel, and their chapels Zian and Eben-
ezer. They decorated their persons
with ribbons. because the following
suinptuarv precept was given in the
law of Moses: Speak TO the children
of Israel. and tell them TO make to
/ themselves fringes on the borders OF
their garments, putting in them ribbons
of blue Numbers XIV. IS.
"Old Harry. The popular attri-
/ butes of the evil one were human
/ form. With horns. tail, and a cloven
foot. These are very probably derived
| from the Grecian fables. and from the
representations of the Greek satyrs and
Roman fauns gods OF the mount
iains and groves; and it is also probable
that "0ld Harry was originally .Oid
Hurry The satyrs were said 10 have
hair like goats. "Shock'' is head of
rough hair a rough-haired dog. So
there is doubtless an affinity between
"old Harry or "Old Hairy and
"Old Shock" the English name given
to the demon supposed to haunt road
sides and wild pathways. The Lord
Harry may aliude TO the scrip;ural
terms, 1.-The god OF the world the
prince of the powers OF darkness.
Just the Cheese. This familiar
vulgarism. used in commentator OF a
thing, is mere orienialism, meaning
lust the thing" from cheez. Hindo-
stance for "a thing
Gone to Pot.-The phrase comes
from tailor in Samarcand, who, living
near a cemetery, had an earthen vessel
ON his counter into which he east peb-
BILE whenever corpse was carried past,
and thus KEEP. count OF the daily inter-
ments. At last. his own time came,
and his neighbors on inquiry after him
answered. HE has gone TO pot, also"
TO 30 the Whole Hog General
/ " set down As an Amerieanism, but
undoubtedly OF Irish origin. Previous
: 10 the year 1925. when the Irish metal
lie currency was completely assimilated
To the English, the silver shilling circu-
lated in Ireland was equivalent TO thir-
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