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The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1883-03-24

pocket got TO leaking and the rest
ofthe water run down the grocery
mans trousers leg, and he gave it
up in disgust, and handed it back
to the boy. "IIow was it that
your pa lad to be carried home
from the sociablc in Il hack the
other night asked the grocery
man as he stood close TO the stove
so his pants leg would dry, "lle
has not got to drinking again, has
hc!'
80, no." said the boy, As he fill
cd the bulb with vinegar, to prac-
tice on his chum. ut was this
bouquet that got pa into the trouble.
You see. | rot pa to smell Of it.,
and | Just filled him chuck full Of
water. He got mad and called me
all kinds of names, and said | was
no good on earth, and | would fetch
up III states prison, and then he
wanted to borrow 1t to wear to the
sociable. He said he would have
more fun than YOU could shake Il
stick at. and | asked him if he
didn't think he would fetch up in
s:atc's prison, and he said it was
different with a man. He said
when a man played Il joke there
wac a certain dignity about it that
was lacking in a boy. SO | lent it
to HIM, and we all went to the
sociabIe in the basement Of the
church. | never see pa more kit
teny than he was that night. He
filled the bulb with ice water, and
tie first one he got to smell of his
%button-hole bouquet was an old
maid who thinks pa is Il heather,
but she likes to be made something
of by anybody that ears pants,
and when pa sidled up to her and
began talking about what a great
work the Christian wi!nmcn Of the
land were doing i'll educating the
heather, she felt real good, and
then She noticed pas posy in his
button-hOle and she touched it, and
then reached over her beak to
smell OF it. Pa he squeezed the
bulb, and about half tca-cup full
Of water struck her right in the
nose, and some Of it went into her
stranglc place, and, O, my, didn't
She yell. The sisters gathered
around her, and they said her face
was all Precipitation, and the paint
was coming of, and they took her
in the kitchen, and she told them
pa had slapped her with a dish OF
ice cream, and the wimmcn told
the minister and the deacons, and
they went to pa for Il explanation,
ana pa told them it was not So,
and the minister got interested and
got neur pa, and pa let the water
20 at him, and hit MIN on the eye,
and then q deacon got Il dose, and
pa laughed, and then the minister,
who used to 60 to college and be a
haZer, and box, he got mad and
squared off and hit pa three times
right by the eye, and one OF the
dcacons he kicked pa, and pa got
mad and said he could clean out
the whole Shcbang, and began to
pull off his coat, when they bun
died him out doors, and ma got
mad to see IA abused, and she left
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1883-03-24
NEGRO HYMNS.
The African'p Love of Melody.

first strikes the visitor is the music.
The negro sings at his work and in
his play, when he is happy and
when he is miserable. The Afri-
can is indeed the most musical in
I'm elementary, rudimcntal way of
all the races of men. Whether
this musical talent is one that will
bear culture and survive the tests
Of scientific development remains
TO be proven. The great lyrical
gift Of the negro at present Is man
Tested in the religious direction,
in the department OF hymnology.
Much has been written ON this sub
iect, and it would seem that there
is little new to be discovered. A
writer in the valley OF the lower
Mississippi contributes some items
which may find Il place in the gen
eral history of the subject yet to be
compiled. He traces most OF the
negro hymns to their original in
the tune-books Of the Baptist and
Methodist churches, but he ia in
clincd to attribute a considerable
portion of them to the negroes
themselves. lie says in his inter
esting article contributed to the
Evening Post: How these tunes
have reached their present form is
q mystery.
d,o, "!iTL" -, Ii.os Il, i'iiis e'oi
,,,I an;,.un,i -.
CIV N''P!''" Ite'"tS0' H"t Nv"
n thea is found Il with Il NOR
al tone. like the following. aimed
at the religious backslider:
Como i,ir l. ch,ro, 70 n,, r.,,.
Unti dc day Of rrace is spent;
Sunday come its Christian grace,
H mc ddnH come ,lat Gcy l9 , u,r ia,thl .
Der religion comes ont and gin to leave,
Ole man adam has ncbbcr been out,
When guilt condemns dem dey git up and
out.
Still another class of hymns
blends the secular and religious
sentiment. y trltilng and utterly
nonSensical set OF lines is closed
with some religious exclamation
which appears to be the only sane
ton for the use OF the queer medley
III worship:
P PS uIc ni'GA man Nom Aind &c IoS'
"e0' SL;IoLi . SSILia3 ~ UPoN u Noo'
A better illustration il the fol.
lowing:
Good. by. cberybody:
Idon't care what yer call mc,
Yer may call me long tongueIi"r,
% 5?4"s 20 Aio"' i''illioo'
.i iooilsu VI 'Ic il'SiV Io'
t"ii' az i"~''"PiioI' why" l navy
nlNa It4o ~ 49, -. . ~
tHc'e lc''cIo, - cloScu also Ill tnclr
hymns:
Tboro : nood u.,i.h C.;. ,
madc 80 ""'
With heavenly ~trcstles the rails is laid;
I'm goin' on dat line. Ilallcloo!
SONIC Oh THESE hymns are spun
Vul ~ elloIiilou9 IcIl6'l, particulars
~ those set to a popular melody.
have often heard n siurlo hvmn
suur roridlv witLou+ ~ro,0ot+;,%% ~
n stanza for half an Nom. On.
...:; IT, ~
SS'iHP"'l'rTll l"o " ot"4lN" IOI cdcll
letter OF the alphabet:
B for Babylon. dat wicked place.
She was 'stroycd in forty DAYS.
ANA SO on through ali the let
tiers OF the alphabet. OF course
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1883-03-24
AID YER
Notice of Forfeiture.

To All WHOM THIS NAY CONCERN
Notice is hereby given that J. Gilbert
Glass has expended the sum of one hun
drcd dollars t$1O0) in labor and improve
ments, on each of the lodcs known rs the
" Little lIomcstake and Wheel Of For
tune situated in White Oaks mining
district, Lincoln county, \. NJ, as will
appear by certificates filed in the office OF
the Recorder of said county, in order TO
hold said premises uudcr The provisions
Of Section 1924 Revised Statutes L. S. be
ing the amount required TO hold The same
for the year ending December 31st 1882,
and if within ninety 900 days after the
publication Of this notice. You or either Of
you fail or refuse to contribute your por.
ton of such expenditure as owner or CO.
owners, your interest in said claim or
claims will become the property of rhe
undersigned, under said Section 1924.
J. GILBERT GLASS.
White Oaks. n. NJ, Feb, 18th 1883.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1883-03-24

As [ was wuIkin out one day,
o Lord! Yes.
| saw them grapes a hangiu' high.
L0-dl Yrs.
/ pluckcd dem grapes and sucked de Juice,
O Lord Yes.
De Juice was sweet as honey meat,
OLord' Yes.
CHORUS
See me here, believe me; see me here;
All round de- alter, see me here.
Low Kill my Savior
one day fore | know;
Bury Him in scpulcrce,
Ouc day fore | know.
One hymn that glows through
ont with iervid negro imagery
opens:
When DC star from the clcmunts il fallin',
Aud dc sun and dc moon dip ia blood,
Siuuah. sinuah. Who're viii VI stan?
Bat ! secs my Jesus comm
Wild a rainbow OH Iii shoulder.
According 20 white authority
here, the religious song first pub
lished years ago hy Mr.. Harris,
the "Uncle Rcmus' of the At
lanta Constitution, and entitled
Uncle Rcmus' Revival Hymn"
is largely derived from actual lines
sung by the negroes and ~clcvcrly
united. 1t differs from all the
other negro hymns | have heard in
having variations OF the chorus.
As perhaps the best negro hymn
ever printed, two or three Of its
characteristic stanzas, given rough
~ from memory, may fifty close
these selections:
o, what will We be when de great DAY
comes,
Wild De tootin of de trumpsts an dc rollin'
Of dc drums.
Full many a poor 7inuah will be cotcLed
out late
An I'm no latch to de golden gate.
CHONUS.
Den come slong. sinnah if yer comm,
Ole Satan is loose and hHiAmin';
Sin is sharp ~ u bamboo brier;
o, Lord, fetch dc mouruers up higher.
o, de song Of salvation is a mighty sweet
An dc paradise wind blow swift and blow
strong
An Abrams buzzom, It's deep an ii.
wide.
An right dafc's dc spot dat dc darkey
ought to hide.
CRUKCs.
Den don't be a stoppin' an alookin'
Ii yerioOl wild ole Satan yell! get took in;
Yen hang Ger dc brink and get shook in
So don'tbc a stoppin an loOkin'.
Hymn books are, Of course, dis
pensed with By a congregation OF
whom not one in twenty can read
and if the hymn is unfamiliar The
OBLIGATION elder or his assistant in
tones two lines at a time, and the
hymn is thus sung by sections.
The deacons and sub-dcaconS, how.
ever, almost always con the hymn
books assiduously, turning the
leaves in rapid succession, but tho
white employer Of these dcacons,
will tell you that scarcely one Of
them can read a word.
The Indianapolis journal., 1883-07-26

minent danger of which need not be pointed
out All these in civilized America. And
now, in one of the popular resorts for polite
society crowd gathers to witness what can
scarcely be called less than deliberate suicide.
1t was suicide or success with Captain Webb.
To gain the latter he invited the former.
But for those on the bank, out of harm's way,
gathered there out of curiosity, if possible,
to see him drown, he would not have gone
into the water at all. The crowd should be
placed under arrest, just as the shoulder
hitters are who attend prize-fghts, or fights
between animals or fowls The offense in
the case of the drowning at Niagara is much
graver than the Others, and the punishment
should be correspondingly greater. By al
lowing such crimes to go unrebuked reck-
lessness is encouraged, true heroism is placed
at discount, and the youth of the land are
led into vicious ways through seeing notori-
ETY. rated above honest worth
The Indianapolis journal., 1883-07-26

stances have not reached here until the next
morning. The telegraph situation is
not improving, and that is the long
and short of it. Everybody knows
it, business men and others, and that is the
explanation OF resolutions by boards of
trade, and the filing of suits in the prin-
cipal centers of business. Business cannot be
transacted with the slightest certainty,
A prominent business man, handling large
and important interest, said, yesterday, that
business had not been so PROSTATE for five
years, collections had not been so hard, and
matters had not been so generally unsettled.
He attributed the state of affairs almost en-
tirely to the strike. General business, en-
tirely unconnected with telegraphy, sympa-
thizes with the disturbance and suffers be-
cause of it. How long shall it continue?
The Indianapolis journal., 1883-07-26

The Chicago Board of Trade passed a reso-
luton promising that without any attempt
to decide upon the merits of the controversy,
it respectfully suggested to the telegraph
companies that the controversy being
proper one for arbitration, it be submitted
to disinterested parties for compro-
mise" The New York Produce Ex-
change, and other bodies Of similar nature,
passed like resolutions and yesterday the
Indianapolis Board of Trade spoke in favor
of arbitration. In the Chicago papers of
yesterday General Superintendent Clowry
is reported to have said:
Il am safe in saying that the Western
Union is able to transact its own business,
and needs no outside interference from any
one. The suggestion of the board of trade
that we present our troubles to board for
arbitration, if acted on, would he an acknowl-
edgement that we have troubles, which we
are very far from admitting We are now
getting along as nicely as we can expect and
if the board of trade suffers from delay in
the delivery of messages we are protected as
long as we keep up the notice to the effect
that messages are subject to delay. We ac-
knowledge that we are more or less embar
rassed, but we will be able to get out of it in
day or so anyhow. We will probably take
no more notice of the resolution than respect
and courtesy for the board demands"
Colonel Clowry talks like anything but a
sensible man. The Western Union Tele-
graph Company is having trouble, whether
Colonel Clowry recognizes it or not. The
people who have business with the company
recognize it. and will probably find some
nize the same fact 1t is such colossal non
sense as this of Colonel Clowrys that is
standing in the way of a prompt and hon.
orable adjustment.
The Indianapolis journal., 1883-07-26
TIE present and future interests of general

THE present and future interests of general
business are wrapped up in speedy and
honorable adjustment of the present tele-
graph strike. The demands of the tele-
graphists, which are exorbitant cannot be
acceded to without detriment, neither can
the autocratic and unfair attitude of the
companies be indorsed and maintained with
out danger. In either direction there is the
germ of future trouble. The interests of
business do not permit OF strikes becoming
a regular part of business machinery and
the way to avert and avoid them is to have
these important disagreements when they
arise, amicably adjusted by arbitration. To
this complexion must it come at last, and
why not now, except for mulishness on the
one side or the other.
The Indianapolis journal., 1883-07-26

THAT skeleton of the South-Jeff Davis
in his letter regretting his inability to attend
the Lexington reunion of "Morgans men,"
takes occasion to say his old story over to
the effect that it would be very gratifying to
him 40 exchange salutations with the sur
vivors of the gallant Kentuckians who left
their homes to maintain, at every hazard
the principles embalmed in the early history
Of their State by the resolutions of 1893
The name of your association is eloquently
commemorative of daring deeds performed,
of dire sufferings borne, and barbarous in
dignities inflicted on men who had bravely
struggled in unequal combat to vndicate the
rights their fathers left them" That Jeffer-
son Davis is a chronic and incurable crank
no sane man will deny. 1t is gratifying to
know that such gibberish as he INDUCES in
periodically about Southern principles" as
distinct from loyalty is notso popular among
the better classes of those who once fought to
establish them. Mr.. Davis can easily be
spared.
The Indianapolis journal., 1883-07-26
ABOUT PEOPLE.
correct.

THE brain of q man lately dead, who was con-
nected with a circus, weighed ffty-six ounces.
He must have been the lemonade man.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY will return from Europe
next month and begin work at once on the third
volume of the woman suffrage history.
MRS ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS is living al
most the life of recluse at West Gloucester,
Mass, and working diligently a new story.
PRINCE HoHENLoHE LUNGENBURG, it appears,
is about to favor us with his company. "Ho-
henlohe" is easy enough, and Lungenburg must
mean "Jack and the game"
Miss BLAKE says that the telegraph girl opera
tors table may be known by its neatness-gen-
orally flowers upon 1t. A mans table is
known by the spittoon and half-smoked cigar.
IT is strange fact, but nevertheless it is
fact, that there is portrait of Charlotte
Bronte in existence That affixed to the first
edition of her life by Mrs. Gaskell was a mere
fancy sketch.
LEE CHILD a nephew of General Robert E.
Lee, has fallen heir to the estate of the late
Baroness de Triquety. whose niece lie married
a few years ago. Mr.. Chide has been living in
Paris for several years.
ARCHBISHOP BOURGET, who is now completing
his forty-sixth year in charge of the see of Mon
treal, is ninety years old and still strong and
vigorous. He is the oldest wearer Of the nitre
in America, and has only two seniors in the
world.
GENERAL SHERIDAN's Washington house, just
presented 10 him 10y a number of his friends,
was built five years ago by Judge o. Olds. IL
stands in a fine position a corner. and is OF
brick, two stories high, surmOunted by man.
sard roof and attic. The interior woodwork is
of ash.
IT is announced In foreign papers that the
President of the United States is to receive at
the end of July a present of true forunor-
Observation-Disclosures, a splendid steel shield, In
old Northern style, with Runic inscription. 1t
is the gift of the American consul at Ottenburg.
Sydney W. Cooper.
BY the recent death of his mother, General
Grant gets back his old West Point drawings and
water colors, and they being "much ad-
mired" at Long Branch just now by aesthetic wis.,
itors who forget that he could not escape little
art at West Point If he would.
VERY pretty little story is being printed in
some of the newspapers, telling that General
Jubal Early picked up from the field of Manar-
sas a tiny blue-eyed girl baby, whose parents
had both been killed in trying TO escape from
their house during the progress of the fight, and
that this "waif of the battlefield" is now the sole
support of General Early's two aged sisters, who
cared for her and brought her up There is not
a word of truth In the romantic story, General
Early says.
THAT was quite picture at Windsor Castle
recently, when the Queen, still unable to stand,
received those ladies who were to be decorated
with the Red Cross; and some of those humble
minded but great-hesrted women, whose lives
are devoted to nursing, were ushered into the
royal presence and knelt to Kiss hands after the
badge had been pinned on by her Majesty. Each
nurse wore her distinctive nursing uniform, and
The Indianapolis journal., 1883-07-26

A New YORK paper congratulates itself on
the superior morality of society there as in
stanced by the fact that three brilliant but
notorious women welcomed in society
abroad have achieved marked professional
success in this country but have not been
admitted under respectable New York
lady's roof, This is we'll enough as far as it
goes; but the paper neglects to say anything
about the titled foreigners of the masculine
persuasion who associate with the notorious
women abroad, and are anxiously anged for
by these same exclusive New York ladies.
The Indianapolis journal., 1883-07-26
A Long Feather In It's Cap.
Richmond Independent.

KlchmOnd Inaepenuent.
The Indianapolis Journal has just put a
gorgeously long and splendid plume in its
hat by its editorial on Equal pay for
Women" 1t talks squarely without fear or
favor, and talks logically and sensibly. 1t
knocks the stingy philosophy out of the em-
ployers who would save money by hiring
women to work for less wages than men. 1t
takes the fiimsy romance out OF those who
think that women should never enter the
the Journal upon having said the truth in a
most acceptable fashion.
The Indianapolis journal., 1883-07-26

THE Washington Evening Star charges the
Western Union Company with systematical-
ly deceiving the public by its claims that
business is being done as we'll as before the
strike. That has been the policy everywhere
and is yet continued. The market reports for
the Board of Trade in this city, which should
be here at II o'clock A. NJ, straggle in during
he afternoon sometime, and in some in
The Indianapolis journal., 1883-07-26

AT the last session of Congress Senator Ed
munds gave notice that at the beginning of
the winter he should propose bill to estab-
lish a government postal telegraph, and he
took pains to announce that he had no idea
of buying the property OF any existing line
of telegraph. If the country could be con-
WINGED that there was no job in the scheme
it would be likely to find warm advocacy.
The Indianapolis journal., 1883-07-26

PRESIDENT ARTHUR will go from Louisville
to Chicago on the I'd of August proximo,
Thursday next, via the Louisville, New Al
bsny & Chicago road. A stop will be made
at Monon Junction. and special train from
this city to Monon will be run over the Air
line to meet the presidential party.
The Indianapolis journal., 1883-07-26

SUITS have been entered against the West
ern Union Telegraph Company in Boston
sages for transmission, without stamping
them Subject to delay or mailing en- route"
which are the only terms upon which the
company now does business
The Indianapolis journal., 1883-07-26

ACCORDING to the report of the Christian
Commission, which holds its annual reunion
at Asbury Park this week, eleven million
religious papers were distributed among the
soldiers during the war. This would give
the soldiers several copies each and the fact
accounts, perhaps, for the notable piety of
the veterans
The Indianapolis journal., 1883-07-26

THE world at large hangs incidents at
watering places, and the public ravenously de-
YOURS every little squio from those places The
latest sensation reported through the Associated
Press dispatches, is mishap to a certain young
lady bather 1t appears that in diving from a
buoy she ran afoul of guy, and skinned her
n0a
The Indianapolis journal., 1883-07-26
controversy.

REPORTS from Delaware state that the
peach crop this year will reach an aggregate
OF 5000, 900 baskets. The public will under
stand whether this is a large crop or not
when it learns where the bottoms of the
baskets are this year.
The Indianapolis journal., 1883-07-26

THE first duty of newspaper is to tell the
truth in its news. There are a few papers
which are not only not doing this with re-
spect to the telegraph strike, but are telling
that which they know to be absolutely un-
true. But the number of these, fortunately,
IL vary few
The Indianapolis journal., 1883-07-26
Men Worth More than Money.



Corporations should treat the communica.
tions and petitions of their employees with
respect, and give them careful considera-
ton. Men are worth more than money,
and human flesh and blood should not be
ground to the lowest notch by organized cap
ital
The Indianapolis journal., 1883-07-26

THE business men of the country do not
agree with the managers of the telegraph
company, in the assertion that business is
being handled as we'll as before the strike.
The Indianapolis journal., 1883-07-26
All Signs of Republican Victory.


There will be TO room for Democratic
crops are good the people are prosperous;
want is almost unknown. There will be no
croaking, and therefore no disaffecton in
Republican ranks
The Indianapolis journal., 1883-07-26

THE officers of the Rapid Transit Telegraph
Company have compromised with their en-
ployes, and their operators go to work this
morning. This will undoubtedly have con-
siderable influence in determining the whole
The Indianapolis journal., 1883-07-26
The Demands of Business.


The Western Union monopoly may pre-
tend to ignore the demands OF the strikers,
but the demands made by large business
concerns throughout the country are likely
to be deferred to in the course of time
The Indianapolis journal., 1883-07-26

"LABoUcHERE, of the London Truth, works
only from 10 III the morning to In the after
nOon."-Ex
No editor who works longer than that should
be expected to tell the truth. Most editors work
from 10 A. NJ. to L A. NJ.
The Indianapolis journal., 1883-07-26
May Be His own Successor.
Madison Star.

Madison Star.
Arthur NAV be his own successor If he
choose He has been fair i'll his adminstra-
ton, judicious in his cabinet appointments,
modest in his demeanor.
The Indianapolis journal., 1883-07-26
England and Its Paupers.


Louisville Commercial.
Free-trade England is the only country in
the world with so many paupers that the
government is obliged to transport them to
be relieved OF the burden of maintaining
them.
The Indianapolis journal., 1883-07-26
A Fair Challenge.

Richmond Independent.
Not one woman In a thousand knows where
her diaphragm is.-Indanapolis Journal.
Oh. nonsense! You just tell us where your
occiput is, and we'll reward you by some
knowledge of our diaphragm.
The Indianapolis journal., 1883-07-26

lamities. Let US have the benefit of sugges-
tioDs on the subject from all quarters, then
let those which are most feasible be adopted
and practiced
The Indianapolis journal., 1883-07-26

Atlanta Constitution.

Atlanta Constitution.
The New York papers are calling upon Jay
Gould to exercise little liberality. This IS
in the nature of genuine enterprise.
The Indianapolis journal., 1883-07-26
An Encouraging Straw.
Cincinnati Enquirer.

Cincinnati Enquirer.
A vote on a railroad train gives Hoadly
nice majority Nothing could be more en-
couraging. seeing that Democrats usually
walk.