Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-12-19

prettiest things in the collection ia the
little poem entitled "Enchantment," with
which her book opens as follows:
The sails we see on the ocean
Are as white as white can be;
But never one in the barber,
AS white as the sails at sea.
The clouds that crown the mountains
with purple and golden light,
Turn to cold gray mist and vapor
Ere ever we reach the height.
The mountains were crowns of glory,
only when seen afar:
And the sails lose all OF their whiteness
Inside of the harbor bar
Oh, Distance, thou dear enchanter,
Still hold in thy magic veil,
The glory of far-off mountains
The gleam of the far-off saili
Hide In thy robes of splendor
mountain cold and grayl
sail IN thy snowy whiteness
Come not into port, pray.
This is one of those graceful and simple
little pOems which the verse writer rarely
succeeds in producing There is a fasci-
nation about it that will dwell in the mem
ory of the reader. The theme is not new
distance lending encbantment to the
view is old apd hackneyed-but the
treatment of it is such as to make it as
fresh as if il had never been touched up
on before. Miss Perry is also very sue
cessful in her management. of the more
elaborate form OF verse, the sonnet
Watertown will not sit complacently
by and hear The Sentinel lay claim to
Miss Perry in such way as to indicate
that she wholly belongs to Milwaukee.
Miss Perry lived in Watertown quite a
portion os her life, for while teacher
of our "young ideas,'' and is here at the
present time with the intention of passing
the winter among u.s.
Gov.-Elect Hoard's Ancestry
The question as to the exact ancestry
of Gov.-elect Hoard seemed to be lost
sight of during the campaign, but it is
now fortunately up for discussion, and,
happily, is likely to be settled definitely
just before bis inauguration as chief-ex-
ecutive OF the state. Our townsman, DR..
Whyte, renders solution of the matter
in the following letter to The Milwaukee
Sentinel:
WATERFOWL, Dec. 12.
Editor Sentinel: In this mornings
Sentinel the article on Gov. Hoard's an
cestry contains curious blunder, to which
[ would like to call your attention. You
say that Hoard's grandmother married
q Scotchman named Whyte who was
descended from the Whytes, who were
descended from the Spaniards of the Ar
mada.'' Now, nearly all the Scottish
Whytes are originally from Buckhaven, on
the east coast of Scotland, and according
to family tradition, are descended from
German pirates, who settled on the coast
and became fishermen. About 800 years
ago the earl of Morton brought several
Whytes from Buckhaven TO Kimoss-shire
to fish Loeb Leven. Their numerous de-
scendants are scattered all over the world,
and it is probable that Hoard is one of
them. 1t is highly improbable that suf-
hcient number of the unfortunates of the
Armada, who landed Oh the Scotch and
Irish coasts, survived to transmit their
physical pecnliarities to posterity. The
historian Green says that ''the wreckers of
the Orkneys and the Faroes, the clansmen
of the Scottish isles the Kernes of Done
gal and Galway, all had their part in the
work of robbery and plunder. Eight
thousand Spaniards persisted between the
Giants Causeway and the Baskets" Our
excellent governor-elect will have to ac-
count for his leanness, length and angu-
larity in some other way. At any rate,
all the Whytes I have ever seen have
shown by their appearance unmistakable
evidence of Teutouic ancestry.
WM. F. WHITE, M. D.,
A Kimoss-shire Whyte.