The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1882-01-12

nenIa OF nSuar usage our mighty SAINT O1 lHat ap-
pellation scarcely yet known beyond the Helles
pont. Some evil disposed persons, of these later
tures have to the great scandal of truth circulated
the report that the story of ST. George is myth that
his prancing charger was fancy. his spear felton,
and his dragon a fraud. But the church has said that
he veritabe person; that he hoprished during
the half 81 century, that he valorously
encountered and gloriously slew the dragon-and
have all that fearful combat faithfully pic
tured upon ratent medicine labels and the backs of
Almanacs 9-that he maryrized during the regularly
and duly canonized and properly assigned his place
in the army of saints the 18th thereof The num-
bers increased afterward. The time came.
when there Was saint for every day in the and
still a few the Church, with the most rigid
impartiaty, dedicated the first day of November as
the Feast of All Saints which continues to be obscrv
ed unto this day. The boys furnish the cabbage
for the feast, usually, the night before.
The st. George boom struck England about the be-
ginning the 18th Century the precise date not be-
ing material Some insist that he then constructed
his channel between the United Kingdom and Ire
all events the channel is still there. He pro-
ected his enterprise by stalking off the ground from
Hoyhead in Wales to Dublin, ireland. distance of
sixty four miles. and continued his excavation at
| substantially the same width. one hundred miles
south to Wexford. The digging, in many places, was
very hut there is limit to the capacity of
George after he has suffered martyrdom.
The facts touching the origin of the old Saints great
standing. follows:
The Lion hearted Richard engaged in the siege
OF Antioch town OF some importance In ASIA Minor
you msy have heard of it-it is mentioned in the
Scriptures-it the place where the disciples
first called Christians. The inspired penman seems
dt~inclined commit himself he does not state that
| they Christians but simply that it was so al
legged. There many Antnchs in the world. We
have at least in Jackson County where of the
| people are not even called Chrstiansi
| Richard besieging Antioch He mt doing
it all himself; his army helping some. History
is mostly silent the deeds of the army, further
| the wa there.
1t is noticeable that at this day. the great host
| of diggers hewers. drawers, workers. doers.
wept, unanneled and unsung. The vast majority of
are like the individual members of Richards ar
| my. AS to us history win be silent.
But in those grand old days struck each other
| from the front. They hesitated not to brook the
sharpened spear grinded lance Face to face buck
Ter buckler. hroadsword to broadsword they stood
and hewed and sashed, and cut at each other until
humanity was entirely satisfied No Kaisers legs, in
these ancient times, blown to shreds with dy-
Mantle They did MT put poison in the kings mush!
perhaps the king did MT have the mush. And in case
it did that of the ruling magnates
murdered the assassin was never acquitted upon
the plea of emotional insanity. That disorder, like
spectacles was reserved for a later civilization.
King Richard besieging Antioch. 1t has been
remarked above that he was not alone; his army
with him. In those times every well organized
petely finish ed king required to be possessed of
lions heart Richard had one. Just how he became
invested with 1t, is not known. The process of
investiture is numbered the lost arts. 1t is
supposed to be hidden in the whers glows the
final remnant of the Greek fire, guarded by Egyp
tian mummy. 1t may be, that as kings multiplied
lions grew scarcer, and that. by lucky made
by the bears the market for hearts became utterly
broken; at all events kings ceased to possess lions
hearts indeed any other kind having intrinsic
value. Kaiser William since the adventure 'Unter
den Linden, thinks that hearts longer trumps
that process hardening imperial faces "is
more to be desired than fine gold" The old emperor
had, doubtless supposed that forty of tyranny
had made his counenance hinty enough to resist any
thing and yet single charge of bird shot suced to
| render 1t quite speckled.
1t has been already stated that Richard besieg-
ing Antioch 1t is to be added that he at the
same time besiegng thousands of soldiers, crpples,
fakirs juggers, emirs, mules, horses, dogs,
men and children, Indeed all the vermin commonly
inhabiting city of Islam. There many sallies.
mot girls caed-but saies of the garri they
would sally ont, and fight with Richard for while,
and then sally in again. Many people were killed and
Ne siege grew protracted. Things did not progress
entirely to good Dickens satisfaction; the COM
missary department was loosely managed the suffers
cheated the soldiers both in the quantity and quality
of the goods sold them. and the royal purveyor failed
to furnish the kings table with sufficient supply of
fresh Saracenc infancy. Finally, morning after
having vanly endeavored to appease his princes ap-
petite with particularly leprOus specimen of Moslem
babyhood. Richard In disgust went forth from
the royal marque until he came to solitary sand
mound in the desert and there with his back turned
| toward Mecca, he vowed mighty vow, that if ST.
George would aid him in his conflict with the infel
he the saint aforesaid should be made the patron
all England. The good old George felt his ancient
military ichor distend his ethereal arteries and
once closed with the offer. Of against such a
coalition, the heather soldier could make head.
Richard finished the campaign; returned to England
covered with glory. and the offspring of Austrian
prison. He Immediately about carrying his con-
tract into effect; but dying he bequeathsd its
completion to his successors in Office, and such pro-
ceedings were afterwards, to wit, the 23d day of
April, A. D. 1922 had and held in such cause that the
assembled wisdom and piety of the whole country, in
solemn council, at Oxford, declared George be
| thence and forevermore the tutelary Saint of the
realm. Then the boom became fixed, and since that
time, every thing has been done-by George-it has
The white banner of St. George with its blood red
cross has cheered the weared soldier in many a toll
some m"rch, has led him to victory many en-
sanguined field and has oated indiscriminately, over
embattled squadrons of diverse and jarring faiths.
The lips of the priest have voiced his thou
sand bapfsmal FONTS and the redoubtable martyr has
stood father million foster whose lives
have brought additional credit to the great origin
| al sponsor.
And this brings me to my quartette of Georges.
There four of them. Right here permit to
pause long enough to crush out growing disposition
upon the part of portion of this audience
because of SO much reference to England. You have
not considered, would not complain. 1t is just
impossible to discuss the science of names and
land, as it is to play Hamlet without his fathers
ghost to make Bologna sausages at eight cents
| pound and not sacrifice tbs canine race. Consider
| what we owe to England With that grand country
| excluded from the count, where would be our Ply
mouth Rock and Pilgrim Fathers our Bunker Hill,
and Monmouth and Yorktown, and the centennial
The Durham cattle, Southdown Sheep and the Berk-
| shire pigs? Where Chaucer, and SHAKESPEARE, and
Ben johnson, and Goldsmith, and Thackeray, and
| Dickens? Where Tyndal. and Huxley, and Lubbock,
ClibbOn, selection? Where railroads,
steel works. steamers, and international tele
| graphs? Yes, exclude England from the count and
the residue scarcely worth the computation-blot
out the mother country and what would the race
be- assuming that there would be any race! petty,
piebald admixure of fierce, libidinous sensuality-a
wretched quarrelsome disreputable, rebellous Indo
Spanish Franco-lndian like to that of Mexico,
Peru, Chilli in the South, parts of Canada in
the North Remember that England is the foster
mother of the Protestant religion the native home OF
Wicklffe, Whitfield, Wesley and Watts, and there's
quartette of WIS for you; she is the guardian in
of the highest civilization attained by man. and
the parent of the richest literature produced.
We more dispense with old England. her de-
tendencies, and natural off-shoots, than Mexican
can dispense with red pepper.
But to return to the Georges. There were four OF
them. They labeled 1, II, ILL., ", to proven,
confusion Our George came to us i'll this way. The
line of English kings subject to frequent change
In one way or another, the old stock would die out
and family would be brough in, thus proving
the necessity of rotation in crops. Experience has
demonstrated that If particular field be planted
every year with corn the crop grows constantly less
but if alternaed with wheat clover the soil retains
its fertility longer. Hence, rotation in Office has be-
come a fixed principle. The most comfortable way to
rotate is out of one Office in to another.
The royal line of England began with the Saxon.
That family terminated with Harold, who had fool
ish habit of looking upward which caused his death
The people then accepted from beyond sea the Nor
man. This stock scarcely endured until it accli-
mated 1t deteriorated rapidly, that in three or