National Republican., 1885-11-28

A Mecca whore manhood may kreel without
doubt,
Where truth everlasting Is not mustered out.
Since epublicatlon of "Pecullar Poems"
Col. Joyce has given us another gem, In
spired by his daily meeting the sexton of
Oak Hill Cemetery, which Is nearly opposite
the authors beautiful home on Georgetown
Heights.
THE sExroN's soLILoQuY
I'm sexton old, and my blood runs cold
With the sorrows OF vanished years;
/ delye in the mold for bread and for gold,
And sec many falling tears
That are shed with sghs under clouded skies
While the heart Is ready to r1nd
With trembling moan or a gnsping groan,
For the death OF an only friend.
The good and the great the church and stat
Have come to my mansion of rest;
/ laid them away with the silent clay
AS the sun wens down In the west.
Father and mother, sister aud brother,
have buried beneath the sod,
And matron and maid of every grade
Have Travelled this road TO their God.
Now my steps grow weak and the grave / seek
To hide every sin and sorrow;
With hope in bright bloom TO shine o'er the
tomb,
And bless every Joy of tomorrow.
I've buried the false, I've buried tho true,
Who have fallen on land or sea;
Yet into this urn shall take my turn,
And some hand will bury poor mel
TWO YEARS IN THE JUNGLE. Thel Expe
riences OF n Naturalist In India, CeylOn Ma
lay Peninsula, and Borneo. BY WIT. Hons.
ADAY, Chief Taxldernist in the National
Museum, Washington, ID. Q, New York:
Charles Scribner's Sons.
This is plain, simple story, without fic-
tlon or quotation from other books Of
travel, of the author himself, showing his
experiences among people who arc but
little known to the civilized world. While
the story is not written for the purpose OF
showing the character of the people with
whom he soiourned for the two years that
he hunted and prepared his specimens, still
he gives us good deal OF information
about the peculiarties Of the Dyabs of
Borneo, of whom he speaks quite at length,
and informs the reader of a people who
have no particular form of religion, but who
are honest, chaste, and friendly to foreigners
above many who profess even the religion
| Of the Great Master. His stay with them
while gathering In the orang-outang was
much more satisfactory than his life among
the Hindoos, who profess to be highly re-
| ligious people.
The author shows himself at once a nat
| uralist and q hunter, but, above all, he
| shows himself an author OF no mean talent.
| In reading his book the writer of this notice,
| who In his younger days delighted in hunt
| ing and fishing, was carried along with him
| in bis travels through the iungles, and in
| his imagination stood at his side when he
| shot his first gavial, and could almostossee
the ''upper paw flop up'' as the bullet
| struck the spinal cord at the base Of the
brain, and could see his assistants catch the
huge fellow by the tail to keep him from
| going again into the water. And again how
plainly he makes the story Of the shooting
| at his first elephant. Had Mr.. Hornaday
| dealt In fiction in his writings he would
| hardly have recorded his many failures in
| bringing down his first elephant. What q
sensation 1t must have been for an enthu-
| siastic naturalist and hunter when his first
| elephant succumbed to his rifle. When we
| take into consideration the fact that Mr..
| Hornaday was only 81 years of age when he
started on this specimen hunting IN the
| iungles Of India, Ceylon, the Malay penin-
| sula, and Borneo, we wonder that Prof.
| Ward should have placed such unbounded
| confidence in so young O man, whose eX-
| perience at the best was not great. But
such was fact, and Mr.. Hornaday went
| alone among people whose language was
unknown to him, fought the battle
single-handed, and came out conqueror.
| His story is full Of interest from the preface
to the "fauvell." There is no part of the
book that could well be left out without
spelling the story. 1t appears he made
| friends from the first, and retained them to
the end. He was treated with the utmost
consideration by all with whom he came In
contact, whether Englishmen or natives.
Even the Hindoos, so far as they could
| without losing caste, accepted him and aided
him in his undertaking. Mr.. Hornaday
was blessed with vigorous constitution, on
phich not even the jungle fever could make
ornament inroads, and, as he says, he came
| out rs strong us he went in. His additions
10 the museums OF this country were invalu-
able, and his story, as told by him in his
book, win bc read, long after he shall be
called home, by coming generations with
as much enthusiasm as any book published
during this generation, His dealing
| with his servants show him alert
not easily discouraged, ready at all times to
meet an emergency. When his assistants
| struck at the skinning Of his first elephant
he stripped off his coat and rolled up his
sleeves and went to work with his own SCR
want, and starved his assistants into sub
mission. This he was obliged to do twice
during his stay, but he conquered both
times, and showed the pluck of an Amerl-
can and Yankee. THIS book should be In
the library of every person who pretends to
have one at all, and should be read by every
Yankee boy of spirit aud self-relancc in the
country, and we predict that 1t will have o
large sale.
THE GRIMKE SISTERS. BY CATHARrNE II
BiRNEY. Lee 4 shelhard, Boston, publish
| ers,
This is n tribute to two noble women,
daughters of Judge Jno. Fauchereau Grimke
Of South Carolina, whose ancestors left
France In consequence Of the revoca.
tion of the edict OF Nantes in 1885, the
authoress, Washington lady of well-known
literary attainments, has woven together in O
happy manner. To the sisters Grimke is ac-
corded the credit of first making the woman
question one of reform. When a southern
representative declared In his seat that
slavery was political question with which
women had nothing to do, they answered
1t so fully in their appeal to "Northern
Women" that no doubt could have been
left In the minds OF those who read it, not
only of woman's right, but of her duty tu
interfere in the matter. "The women OF to-
day." said Lucy Stone, "owe more than they
will ever know to the high courage, the
rare insight, and fidelity to principle Of
these women, by whose suffering easy
| paths have been made for them.
|
| Don't Fail to Attend
The great auction sale of fine cigars Friday
Nov. q, at 10 o. M, 2 and p m. VIII be sold
| in lots to suit by Williams Il Co., aucLioneers
corner Tenth street and Pennsylvania avenue
FASHION NOTES.
Hoods on street wraps are popular in Parl;
| Just now