New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-07-07
BEYOND TIE SUNSET.

The road that passed his fathers door
lie thought stretched on fOreveIIDore;
Through fragrant wales Of tangled grass,
Ger many q misty mountain pass
ont into wonder uneXpre-sed
Beyond the clOudlands Of the west,
Through lands aud cities Of renOwn.
10 where the mighty sun goes down.
And so he left his fathers door
And said, II will return no more"
He travelled forth beyond the bridge.
lie climbed the lofty mountain nige'
lie passed the river and the town
70 find ont where the sun went down;
IIut when he sank at close OF day,
The sunset stl was far away.
lie trod through many wind-swept glen:
I'm mighty towns he mixed with men,
The breath Of many an alien breeze
Tossed him DER unfamiliar seas
lie breathed the spicy gale that blows
yrOm southern aPchpelagOes.
And in the quiet Eastern calm
lie sought sweet sleep beneath the palm.
But when he looked at close Of day,
The sunset still was far away.
lie thought to leave his fathers door
And travel on foreverm0re.
withered pilgrim. bent and gray.
Kept on his unfamiliar way.
Deep versed In lands, man Of men,
universal citizen
He crcled all the earth once more
He stood before his fathers door
Though many years his father slept
Upon the mountain side unwept-
He stood there wrinkled, worn ard brown
lie stood there ~ the sun went down,
And in the twilight dim and gray
The sunset was not far away.
out from the many millions hurled
lie sank down weary Of the world,
With all his tired journey DER
To die beside his fathers door.
And said sad smile on his brow,
" pass beyond the sunset now'
Is. W. FOss in Yankee Blade.
aOur readers says "The Plunkvlle Bugle" who
NAV have noticed that our headline over our report OF
the stock market was accidentally rendered Beers on
Tap instead OF bears Top will please bear IN
mind that the entire Office received complimentary
tickets 10 the schuetzen picnic Of the day before
An American Rarbarism.-~Lord Cheapsdes looked
terribly depressed when / met him this morning.
eyes: | had loaned him one OF my Clean sihryS %
fore he discovered that il opened at the BACK
some Of the Democratic papers have been having
some fun az the expense Of Secretary Rusk with regard
TO an alleged mistake in report on mushrooms IS
sued by the Agricultural Department. The illnStra-
tions of edible mushrooms it was said, had ali Deeh
marked rs poisonous and the poisonous mushrooms Is
edible The story. If true, would have suggested
serious rather than divertng consequences But for
tunatey it wasn't true. The mistake never occurred
h,vo of bces syrarned in a corset that had been
hing ont 10 afr i'm North AtchisOn last Week. nc
owner of the corset tried 10 coax tile bees on Dy
beating TN pan But tey S S corset until her Ras
band came home M night ana smoheu tie Hi'"
Of.-(Atchson clone.
on the authority Of The Boston Transcript The
Tribune, the other day. printed paragraph about
Risbop Huntington having been dropped some years
o from the Board Of Trustees of Amherst College be-
oanse he became an EpscOpalian The sprngheh
Inionn declares that there Is truth whatever In the
statement An orthodox Congregational college wouIa
not be likely 10 be annoyed because one Of its alumni
left Unltarlanism to become an Episcopalan'
81 don't know what will do said a sonth Wash
Family trouble asked her neghbor from the next
That's what it is 1t all came Of his keepn out OF
nights" .,,-. -,.,, van,
Well l don't know whether You can or nGi. l9 "a
see about three weeks ago he started QUE Prois eU 70
ana a. socr a. j saw i'm knew there was something
the matter with him."
No. "oi indeed He'd got INTO the society Of some Of
these temperance people and signed the pledge nov
that he's done Il 81 and P tbcS his nerves i've way am
now there amt any Twin with him much les coohin n,
for him deelare fhe h s1G T VET al That MSs 1T to
he trusted away from home half hour at uihe
-(Washington Post.
Probably the only original Continental flag in ex-
stence + that in the possession OF the 'iW Troop Oh
philadelphia 1t was carried by that organization al
through the Revolutionary War. II Is spnau' say
y b pbiladelpbis Record between two large pieces
If Mate glass. and is kept completely airtigho iNe
nrotstilties are that were it removed from TINS c'e
- op,d fall 10 pieces In design il IS somewhat 'ni
IN tbe English Jack. The design was made oS o'iii
mittee. Of which Benjamin Franklin was memoer, III
I776 A few years later the first American standard
Tented Inv Congress was submitted and adopted II
was known as the constellation has' ana was 'iiial
20 the one now in Use, with the exception ol "'
thirteen stars on blue DacHe'o""u'
Prison the uperntendenEy Arrived Sl vd
daata Won have the privilege OF working al any
trade you prefer ,,,, oa,tIo IN Kansas
Another gentleman m the SAINT i9uV"
to he n sailOr-CTeXas SittingS.
RAD YEAR FOR DEMOCRATS.