Morris tribune., 1892-12-21
FACTS AND FANCIES
EDITED BY REV. H. NJ. .HERRlcK.

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EDITED BY REV. H. NJ. HERRlCK.
The ever-new Christmas story il
beautifully told in Longfellow's little
poem"The Three Kings
"Peace on earth; goodwill to men, D
If you believe the angels were in
earnest when they sang these words,
you will help to make peace and
goodwill more common.
After receiving so many of those
gifts you expected, don't you think
you ought to be unusually amiable
for some days after Christmas?
Rise, happy morn, rise, holy morn,
Draw forth the cheerful day from night;
o Father, touch the east, and light
The light that shone when Hope was born.
-Tennyson.
Every nation thinks it has the finest
language in the world. Even those
people Herodotus tells us Of whose
speech he likened to the squeaking of
bats, doubtless were as proud as the
Arabs, who call their language 'the
tongue of the Angels"
[ have lately come across a racy
song in praise of the attempt at a
language spoken in Holland. Here
is the first verse:
Kent gil schooner taal op aarde,
Dan de taa1 van Nederland,
| Ais re in vaderlandsche zangen
! t Vader1andsche hart ontbrandt?
Which is to say
Do you know on earth language
Sweeter than the Dutchman claims,
When it in the songs of Holland
Every Dutchman's heart inf1anes?
X X X
Then follow few stanzas telling
how musically y it tinkles and jingles
on the lips of an orator or lover, and
especially when sung by crowd of
husky Netherlanders before the king.
Here is the chorus:
ia! wat ook de trotsche vreemdling
In zijn onkunde op uns smaap,
Zoet en- krachtig, rijk en- v1oeijend
Is de neder1andsche taa1!
That is
Yes however the proud stranger
On the subject dares to touch,
Strong and rich and sweetly flowing
Is the language of the Dutch!
Let us take their word for it.
Don't be sensitive, even if your an
cestors were sighted by not being in
vited to the Boston Tea Party.
"There's something in this world anliss
Shall be unridd1ed by and by"
X \ X
One man treats religion as an Incl
dent, side issue in life, on the same
grade of Importance as the purchase
of a horse or a journey to Europe.
Another considers religion the most
important business that claims his
attention, because it is the eternal
link between him and his Creator.
Which of the two do you think will
revise his estimate at death?
Thrice happy he that may caress
The ringlets' waving balm
The cushions of whose touch may press |
The maidens tender palm"
From THE Talking Oak"
Him I reckon the most learned
scholar, not who can unearth for me
the buried dynasties of Sesostris and
Ptolemy, but who can unfold the
theory of this particular Wednesday.
Emerson.
X = X
Every time a man takes credit
where he might pay cash, he weakens
his manly independence. The good
old rule "Pay as you go' faithfully
lived by would not only keep many
from poverty, but save many a soul
from fate worse still.
X J: X
" Soft SHOWS that hard winds harden
Till each flake bite,
Fill all the flower1ess garden,
Whose flowers took flight
Long since, when summer ceased,
And men rose up from feast,
And warm west wind grew east, and
warm day, night"
--Swinburne.
Ring happy bells, across the SHOW;
Ring in the Christ that is to be-"
Showed In.
Jno. w. Rowen of Des Moines, la
whiled snow bound at Carroll, Iowa,
through exposure contracted a severe