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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1885-10-24


or rolling waters in the sea,
| stand, and think, and long to be,
Beyond the rough long road of toll,
Away where yonder sailors coil
The snowy sails about the spars
And masts that rise to meet the stars.
O, love of life and pain of love!
o, angry eagle, kindly dove!
Thou bird of Madness bird of joy,
o, happy, happy, sailor boy!
Take life and love and pain of all,
Take from my heart its bitter thrall,
And | shall sail beyond the sea,
Beyond the lonely Pleiade
Unto the vast eternity,
Where struggles end ami toilings cease
Where chains that bound in fragments fall
And all is peace immortal peace
1t was natural that such work as this
should bring Phineas Owens certain
degree of that pleasant notoriety the
generous American heart always so
freely accords its aspiring children /;
especially if they are young and ardent
in the pursuit not alone of present
practical realities but of future posi-
bilities, as certainly was the case with
Phineas during that period of his life
the above were written. With what he
had already been supplied he sought
more, aimed higher and planned life
of work for the coming years indeed
wonderful for one so young. Ever
questioning fate, circumstance, and
the inevitable DEGREES of such, his
ideal if it could have been realized
would have marked the century with a
meteor Of unexampled brilliancy. What
the realization of those dreams would
have been none can now know. Whe-
Their he would have became a Shaks-
peare or a Milton, a Bacon or a Car
lyle, a Dickens or a Hawthorne, is a
knowledge as deeply yelled from Benny
and and all the rest as every mans
destiny is yelled from mortal insight by
the unsolved riddle of life. He saw
the ends of others great and high, his
vertureSome nature babe him believe
such an end would be his:
'The lover, all as frantic,
Sees Helen's beauty in brow of Egypt;
The poets eye, in fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to earth, from
earth to heaven
And, as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poets pen
Turns them to shape, and gives to airy
nothing
A local habitation and name"
So many such lives are lived about
us, here and everywhere. Fair boy
souls early inhabited with the resist
less music of ambition,-voiceless
and still before the swelling harmony
can be made complete and perfect.
Sturdy manly spirits eager to solve
the great problem that shrouds
the fate of humanity, dead before
their time with the labyrinth still I'M
wound. To the sunlight of the
earth they are appropriate and fit
ting shadows. and who knows, as
Benny and | contend, but that the
very darkness that surrounds them
to another's eyes only cloaks the
sparkles of an infinite cheer ano
brightness shed inwardly. There
was Joy in Phineas Ovens life il
the little Office of his paper, | know
Joy in his contemplation of the grea
scene spread around him,-Life':
Field of the Cloth of Gold, vergeo
by the blue sea and cloudless sky
the well-springs Of human associa
ton flowing from and towards him
eternal foundations for the poetry
and philosophy that had become the
iewelled texture Of his dream.
CONTINUED
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1885-10-24
THE ENGLISH LAUREATE-A STUDY.

Poets are made for the times that
bear them. The nature of the bard is
consistent with the cline and country
and the conditions and events of the
cline and country which he inhabts.
Such lands as the dreamful islands of
the Hebrides and such climates as in
fest the mellow meadowlands of New
England, have their mild and gentle
Whittier whilst such lands as the tu-
multuous rugged England and such
climates as surroud the murky foggy
regions of London, have their vivid,
flashing, penetrating, Tennyson. The
nature of the mellow New England
meadowlands is the nature OF sweet
calm Whittier the nature Of the tu-
multuous rugged England is the nature
of that skylark voice of wars and knight
hood-Alfred Tennyson. Yet, in the
nature of the latter rest traits consistent
with the varied nature of the globe,
making him the poet not alone of one
cline and people but of universal
cline and people. England can read
him and find him all for England, yet
the world can read him, too, and find
him more than England, more than the
world, all of both, and all of earth and
air and sea and sky; including them
all in the emanatlons of brain that
has embraced humanity from its sweet
est smallest song to its loudest grandest
philosophy. 1t is most difficult part
of critical writing to eulogize man be-
fore he is dead. 1t is impossible to
give such a paper satisfying and
rounded character, when it is written
ere the final fruits have fallen from the
fallen branches and been gathered up
and devoured by the watchers and
walters. Yet, in the case of Tennyson,
SO much good and perfect fruit has al
ready come to earth that it may be
taken as matter of impossibllity for
any to follow that will mar the delicacy
and lusciousness and grandeur of what
has now been yielded. Such aspecimen
as In memorian" is enough to estab-
fish forever the reputation of the tree
that bears such treasures, nor can its
completeness ever be marred by con-
trast with smaller, knottier, less sweet
and tempting products. Add to it
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1885-10-24
TO 4 FALLING STAR.


Whittier, whittier. falling star
From the regions nebular
Goest thou and what home
Seek you when you swiftly roam
From thy haven in the sky
In dark oblivion to die?
oh, the mystery of thy being
Far beyond our mortal seeing,
So we fall and SO are lost
Earthly glory, earthly dross.
Sometime, wandering with tired feet
On golden paved street,
Through celestial thoroughfares,
We may happen unawares
On the heights you now are seeking
Dazed and longing without speaking,
Wondering how the arm of God
So can WELD the kingly rod
That, passing DER thy radiant fire,
Sees all thy brilliant light expire
And you descending rapidly
Into the dread Eternity
Somewhere, sometime, perhaps To shine
Within the risen soul of mine;
So, young and aged droop and die
AS stars far-tumhiiug from the sky;
Through mortal day and mortal night
Far-climbing to immortal hight.
oh, falling star. thy lessons teach
a mystery beyond our reach,
A great, grave, solemn, mystery,
InfathOmed till the unfathomed sea
Shall, surging by the Sepucher,
Reveal the crowned Philosopher
And quick and dead together see
Who bore the pain Of Calvery.
oh symboled star oh fading light
OF one fair face that clad the night
With its celestial drapery
And beams of kindly charity;
Men glorilied by earthly fame
Fall too as you fall and the sans
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1885-10-24
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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1885-10-24

"Josh Billings" says the Boston Her.
aid with the true, silvery ring of news
paper epigram, twas a Philosopher in
spite of bad spelling, and humorist be-
cause of it,"
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1885-10-24

The London Standard says: SIN many
circles the death of Josh Billings will
cause more unaffected regret than would
the loss of more eminent instructor of
the people.'
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1885-10-24
THE AUGUST SEA.

haunt the woods and the Silly places,
lay full length in the strong tall grass;
My eyes burn deep TO the hearts through
the faces
OF the grave death shadows that by me pass.
The sea rolls in with its mighty tuml lie
OF shattered sparkle and sun-kissed wave;
With a voice like the startled shock and
rumble
OF muskets fired at a patriots grave.
So, in the month that comes ere the glory
OF August drops down like a mist of dreams
To wrap with Il halo of splendor hoary
Bout the windy hills and the sluggish
streams;
Then far is vanished the surge and the token,
The invisible pain and the noise of strife;
Then by the brothers of Christ is broken
The bread ofcommunion, the healing of life
Oh, Sea in the month when the dog stars
burning,
And the Sun-God traleth his robes through
the land;
When the slow long year has reached its
turning
And the white moon pencils the yellow
strand,
haunt the woods and the Silly places
No more till the June bursts forth in bloom;
lay full length where the sea embraces
Tie crumpled sands, where the soul has
room.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1885-10-24
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William u. Howells says no woman
can live IN the same house with genius.
Still there is nothing of that sort to in
terfere with the domestic harmony of
Mrs. Howells' life.
Josh Billings wore his hair long and
now that he is dead harsh critics have
forgiven him for this as we'll as for many
other oddities of manner. 1t is queer
world, in which many must die in order
to win recognition of their virtues.
Mr.. Stedman's forthcoming book on
the Poets of America will be compan-
ion volume to his Victorian Poets. Both
works will be issued also in special
edition of luxurious form, illustrated
with portraits of the authors treated.
Bryant and His Friends is the title of
| a work, by General James Grant Wilson,
on the early writers of New York. 1t is
said to consist of much hitherto unpub-
lished matter of interest, such as per-
sonal recollections, letters, and poems,
accompanied by portraits and manuscript
fac SMILES.
The paper on United States history,
written by Colonel Higginson for Hdr-
pers Mnga=ine during the last few years,
will soon be published in book form.
Some additional matter will be included,
and the whole entitled A Larger History
of the United States.
The October Book Ne1rs states that
IAN effort is being made in England to
obtain a subscription fund for the benefit
of Walt Whitman, who has signified his
willingness to accept the aid thus prof
fered. His income from the sale of his
two volumes of poems during this last
half year was 500 o." If the folks who
make these statements pretend to be
friends of the good gray poet they should
be wise enough to know that it is not
pleasant, even to a bard, to have his
name continually before the public in
connection with pecuniary troubles.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1885-10-24

Miss Cleveland's book is to be transla-
ted into Russian with all the ofskys and
sneezes. If it survives this treatment no
one will ever charge in with being a
weak work
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1885-10-24

Horatio Alger, Jr., the story writer, is
so fond of boys, that he adopts waits and
starts them in business.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1885-10-24

Edward Eggleston, the author, is with
his family in Switzerland. somewhat i'm
proved in health, but unable to do much
work.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1885-10-24

Sad heart l stand on heights alone,
Where sea gulEs skim and billowI moan
| stand alone on heights afar
Beneath the light of one pale star,
One Plead sister, mild as love
Or voice of angel souls above
That sing the holy hymns that swell
In tumult DER the brink of hell.
| stand and look far down the deep
Dark waters of the world that creep
And crawl to lick with angry lips
The shelving rocks and plows of ships.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1885-10-24

William ID. Howells says no woman
can live IN the same house with a genius.
Still there is nothing of that sort to in
terfere with the domestic harmony of
Mrs. Howells' life.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1885-10-24

FAIR GREEK. ELKToN. October, 1855.
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Iit''''p and Scientific A'''s.

CONTINUED
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-08-14
A Travelling Thief.

Yesterday afternoon vagabond ap>
peared on the Streets whose appearance
and mode of acting aroused the suspicious
of Marshal Eckhart, who put Officer
Brennan on the track of the stranger
The eagle eyes of the officer followed the
suspect the rest of the day, and about
o'clock last evening he was seen to go
into Nadlers drug store, corner of
Fourth avenue and Twenny,third street.
The officer from the outside saw him
walk to the counter, take something there's
from and quickly emerge with parcel
under his arm. He was Immediately ar
rested and lodged in the city prison. This
morning he was held in bonds Of $500 by
Justice Bennett for larceny, and this af>
ternoon he went before Judge Adams
and entered plea of guilty. He was
fined 81 and costs and sentenced to thirty
days in the county jail. He gave his
name as William Harlon, and is evidently
penitentiary bird, as he bears clothes
very similar to those given the cOnvicts
upon their release from Joliet
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-08-14
Omar journalism.

Supervisor E. II. Bowman, of Andalu-
STA, has written a communication under
his own signature to the Union, but in
violation to all rules of journalism that
newspaper % has refused to give it pubs
LEGATION, ssmply because it reflects some
what-and Justly 100, most likely, upon
the editor of the Rock Islander, who
we all know is "chum-p"
of the editor of the morning sheet. We
are surprised that Supervisor Bowman,
knowing as he does the two men, should
have entertained the idea that a CONS
munication from his pen would be given
publicity in the columns of the Union,
unless the sentiments expressed were
agreeable to the editors of that concern.
The ARGUS. however, aiming as it does to
be medium for the discussion of all
topics, will assume to promise the
public the contents of the communication
which has been refused publication in the
Union. "Peppery personalities" have no
bearing with newspaper, where the cor.
respondent signs his name to the commu-
nication, and in so doing relieves the
paper publishing the communication
from all blame and responsibility.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-08-14
Wheelmen Coming.

There will arrive in the city on the train
from Peoria at p. m. tomorrw, the Peo-
ria Bicycle club. They will be met at
the depot by the wheelmen of the three
city and escorted to the KeatOr house at
Moline, where the night will be spent.
Sunday will be put in in exploring DAYS.
export and Rock Island, and Monday
morning the Government island will be
visited. In the afternoon steamer
will be boarded here for st. Paul Their
tour embraces Lake Minnetonka and the
principal lakes in Michigan, the lakes at
Madison, Wis. and thence to Milwaukee
and Chicago. where they disperse.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-08-14
RASMUSSEN'S CARD,

In calling attention the fact that we have refed and eco
making only the complete but decidedly the a
this vicinity We also wish to call attention to dispav
Photographic work. all recently produced and containing many nov
pleasing positions and effects of light and shadow varying size
up 6x20 inches We have been assured by and
critics that is by far the finest display made cv
artistic largely the fact that make greater az
undese and bring aid such experience AZ
gathered from II of continuous service avng begun P
graphic boy in 1857 since which time NOT G
months either by sickness vacaion our long experience enables
appreciate importance of effects in Photo or
with of consisting wall
ustra and rustic bridges and fences boat rocks pond
lilies arways and variety of backgrounds
chairs table statues the Chicago saws
equaed gallery in this vicinity, butWe plainly say (and
easily demonsate that gallery in this contains half
of Instruments don't boast that they
sale and used by predecessors for 20 On CONTRARY
instruments of the latest improved makes containing among
Voigaender Enyscope and Dmeyer Instantaneous Lenses
CELEBRATED LENSES GALLERY
pleased patron the best advertisement strive IA
the advertisement by the excellence of work In order better
satisfactory show of four
tves different positions and all of these proofs shown o
improvements suggest themselves resngs will gladly be m
charge Gallery 18th and end Rock Island
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-08-14
That Ditch.

Messrs. f. d. Sweeney ana VIM. Me-
Inery went up to Osborn station un the
Sterling train this morning to look at the
lay of the land that has caused the suit of
the town of Canoe Creek VS. John Me-
Inery, ct al. 1t seems that McInery dug
a ditch to drain his land during wet
season, and as result the public high
way was overlooked The case has been
continued for two terms, and will come
up for trial again next month. NJ. NJ.
Sturgeon is counsel for the corporation,
and Sweeney, Walker and Jackson for
the defense. Today Sweeney intends to
take dispositions and other damaging tes-
timony calculated to knock the pins
from under the town of Canoe Greek
The case promises to assume the compli>
cations and bitterness of the now cele.
brated Coe school district fight, before
the Ratchet is buried.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-08-14
Briefs.


Nice large water melons, at Lamps.
Mr.. 7. J. Rodman. of Chicago, is in
the city
Money to Ioan-92S Main street. Dav-
export, Iowa,
G. L. Walker Esq left for Chicago
this morning on a business trip.
DR.. J W Stark, Dentist, l722 Second
avenue dlvr.
Frank Fox and Lula f. Terry were
married by Squire Cooke this afternoon.
Advertise in the half .ceut>a>word-c co.'s
umn of the ARGUS. 1t will pay you.
California pears and grapes at Lamps.
Tomorrow will be pay day on the Rock
Island Il Mercer county road, and of the
Coal Valley Mining office
DR. Mclean dlcss, dentist. corner laird
avenue and Twentieth street. If
Somewhat autumn like early this morn>
ing, \ fnrewarnug to farmers aud gar
deners to beware Of frost.
Get your awnings, tents, wagon COW
crs, etc, Of e. II. Young III Main st,
.savepport, Iowa. apll5dtf
Closing ont sale of boots, shoes and
slippers at and below cost, ut Krull II
| Pfoh's, No 319 Seventeenth street. dim
Steward Robertson,o the poor farm,
was in the city today, accompanied by
his little daughter
EN>Supervisor Weathcrhead, of Hamp-
ton, smiled at his frerds in this city un-
der large straw hat today.
! Wanted Twenty boys and girls from
10 to % years of age, ofpleasanl address;
can make mems wages. Apply at once
at 1917 Fourth ave.
Mosenfelder ~ Kohn, the popular
clothiers, are rearranginS their BOYS de-
partment preparatory to their fall and
winter trade
p. II. Houlahan, train dispatcher, and
W C. Brown, superintendent of this dis
vision of the c., b Il Q road, were in
the city today.
The Central shoe store of G. L. Il s
n. Wynes is constantly receiving new
Goods of the latest and most popular
styles, which the public are cordially in
vited to inspect
Jerome Woodn has been appointed
superintendent of the wood department
at the Rock Island plow works in Mr.
ONeirs stead
Special inducements in trunks and
satchels TO save freight, preparatory to
removing from the city, at II. Regens-
burgers.
Mr.. Ken L. Bailey, of Indianapolis,
touched flesh with his numerous friends
today. Ken has commenced to look like
a regular HOosier, hut he wears his usual
smile.
Judge Adams started little craft down
the stream of life this morning with a
captain and a mate aboard. John Swan
son and Miss Mary johnson were the
names of the contracting parties
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-08-14
A Picnic.

Several of our silver tongued barristers
had picnic on a small scale at Big Isl
and, yesterday afternoon. An excellent
supper was d;shed up in the smoke and
musquitos. One of the limbs of the law
got Tired" of the proceedings along to-
wards dusk, and confscated one of the
party's horse and buggy and started for
home. -Four persons had gone out in the
same buggy, and in order to return they
had to go to Milan and hire a livery rig.
1t is needless to say that the owner of
the horse and buggy was ready to fight a
duel when he ascertained the state of
affairs. #
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-08-14

tice 26, graduated from college of Physi-
clans and Surgeons, Keokuk, Feb. II,
1876.
p. L. McKinnie, regular, Moline; age
40; born in Ohio; number of years in
practice II; graduated from Rush Medical
college, Chicago.
Samuel Craig Plummer; regular. Rock
Island; age Ga; American, number of
years in practice 40. in Illinois 81; gradu-
ated from Western Reserve college, Ohio,
March /, 1854.
C. Piper, regular; Moline; age 43; born
in Norway; number of years in practice
%, in Illinois IS.
W A. Paul, homeopathic; Rock Island;
age 30; American; number of years in
practice 8; graduated from Hahnemanu
Medical college, Feb. "a, 1881.
Anna NJ Pelham. homeopathic; Rock
Island; age 81; American graduated from
Hahnemann Medical college. Feb. 23,
1882.
E. E, Rogers, regular; Port Byron; age
81; born in Ohio; number of years IN
practice SO. in Illinois "a.
John Relter, homeopathic: Rock Island
age So; born in Pennsylvania; number OF
pears in practice "A, in Illinois IS.
Jacob Stewart. homeopathic; Moline;
| age 60; born in Pennsylvania; number OF
years in practice 35, in Illinois 10; grad
mated from Eclectic Medical Institute,
Cincinnati, Feb. %, 1849
James II. Seyler, regular; Presumption;
age ~; born in Pennsylvania; number of
years in practice 49, in Illinois a. gradu
ated from university of Pennsylvania.
Oh. Smith, regular; Edgngton; agc
80; born in Wisconsin; graduated from
Columbus Medical college, Ohio, Feb "a
1882.
W. NJ Twigg, regular; Illinois City; agC
40; born in Ohio; number of years in
practice % in Illinois 20.
Calvin Truesdale, regular; Rock Island
age SO; born in OhIo; number of years il
practice 40, in Illinois 81; graduated from
Western Reserve college, Ohio, 1S45.
?, H. Vessel homeopathic; Moline
age 46: born in Germany; number o
years in practice 16!, in Rock Island IS
graduated from ST. Louis college of Ho
meopathic Physicians and Surgeons
March I, 1871.