The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-02-18
over the body of Julius Caesar, when he
said, according to Shakespeare:
iou all did sec, that On the Lupercal.
hriee presented him q kingly crown.

4 ONCf lAlC DbIl vi Nc1SAAs HAsNl ~
said, according to Shakespeare:
..Yoq all did see. tina: On the Lupercal.
| thrice presented him kinglv crown,
| Whi.h he did thrice refuse Z"
We have heard much, in these years
| of modern CSesarism, and have also
seen, though on different date crown
thrice offered, which was not refused.
| At this festival, goat was sacrificed To
| Pan, To which dog was added, because
as god of shepherds he protected the
sheepfold from the devouring wolf |
am strongly in favor of the adoption of
this latter custom by the Kansas wool
growers, except that the sacrifice be made
daily instead of yearly one. 1t
would undoubtedly prove more bsneii-
| cial to their interests than the imposition
of dog tax, and by such vigorous re,
| turn to duty they might appease the di-
yinity, offended ut their long neglect,
and regain his protection against the
rayenous wolf as we'll.
Pales, however, was the true Roman
divinity of flocks and shepherds, of
whom Dwight gives the following ac-
count: "Pales IS described by some as
a male divinity, and by others as fe-
male. Hence some modern writers have
inferred that Paies was combination of
both sexes; but this is altogether foreign
to the religion of the Romans. Some of
the rights performed at the Palilia, the
festival of Pales, would seem to indi-
cate that the divinity was female char
acter, but there are other reasons for be-
lieving that Pales was male divinity"
This vexed question should be definite
ly and finally settled at the next wool
growers convention. The female side
of the house will without doubt carry
the day
"The name seems to be connected with
Palatinus, the center of all the earliest
legends of Rome, and the god himself
was with the Romans the embodiment of
the same idea as the Pan among the
Greeks
brated on the 21st of April, and was re-
garded as the day on which Rome was
founded. The shepherds, on the Pail
liza, Illustrated their flocks by burning
sulpher and making fires of olive, pine
and other substances.
Milk, with cakes made of millet, was
the sacrifice offered to Pales. Prayers
were made TO him to avert diseases from
the cattle, and to bless them with feeun-
dity and abundance OF food. Fires of
straw were kindled in row, and the
rustics leaped thrice through them; the
blood Of a horse, the ashes of a calf, and
bean stalks were used for publication"
The poet Virgil, when he enters upon
the subject OF sheep, in the third book
of his Georges, invokes Paies, and com
mences thus, as translated by Dryden:
.'Now. sacred Palesi in a lofty strain.
sing the rursl honors of thy reign.
First. with assiduous care from winter keep,
Wen fOddered in their stalls, thy tender
Sheeps
Then spread with straw the bedding OF thy
fold,
With fern beneath. to 'fend the bitter cold:
That free from gou's thou mayest preserve
And clear from scabs, produced by freezing
air.
He then proceeds to give directions
regarding feeding and caring for the
flocks in winter, spring and summer, the
growth of wool, etc.
1.-THE causes and the signs will next he told,
OF every sickness that infects the fold''
GOOD shepherds. after shearing, breach
their sheep"
In fact, the whole of these Georges is
most delightful and instructive read
ing.
Although we have in Kansas many
thoroughbred mcrino rams, bearing fine,
rich fieeces, which are yearly changed
into gold, whose descent can be traced
back through the centuries in an I'M
broken line, to ancestors who had their
being in the same mystic age, we have
none to compare with the one which
carried Phrixos and Helle in their flight
to ColchIs, with the Golden Fleece"
which Jason and his Argonauts re-
covered after so many tremendous adj
ventures.
Let US conclude with an extract from
Shakespeare: The scene between CORN
and Touchstone, Act. Sd, of "As Your
Like IT.
Says Corin-'And how like you this
shepherds life, master Touchstone?
Truly, shepherd, IN re-
spect of itself, it IS good life; but in
respect that it is 8 shepherds
life, it is naught. In respect
that it is solitary, 1 like it
very WELL but in respect that it is
private, it is a very vile life Now, in
respect it is in the fields, it pleaseth me
we'll; but IN respect it is not in the
court, it is tedious. AS it is spare life,
look you, il fits my humor we'll; but as
there is no more plenty in it, it goes
much against my stomach. Hast any
philosophy in thee, shepherd:
Corin.-No more, but that know the
more one sickens, the worse at ease he
is; and that he that wants money, means
and content, is without three good
friends; that the property of rain is to
wet, and fire to burn; that good pasture
makes tat sheep, and that great cause
of the night is lack of the sun; that he
that hath learned no wit by nature or
art, may complain of good breeding, or
comes Of very dull kindred"
G.. w. TOWNSEND.