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Arizona republican., 1892-11-22
TWO DIALECT POETS.
THE LITERARY WORK OF J. W. RILEY
 AND S. w. TOSS.

Each Has Gained Fame and Both Are of
 National Reputation-Reasons Why the
 HumorIst's Work Is Not Sure of Per
 manent Place in Literature.
 Of all forms of literature the humor- Ous is notably evanescent. And it makes the admirers of James Whitcomb Riley and s. W. Foss-the men now de- lighting us-grieve to add that of hu- morous poetry the dialect kind is usual ly the most evanescent. It is impossi- ble for the spirit of one age to be repro duced in the next, and he who is not in the spirit misses the subtlety of the humor It is only the very finest that will even bear transplanting, for in an- other country the jokes must be ex- plained, and humor that requires foot notes is dead already. Instance Hing ston's English edition of Artemus Ward. To an American the explanations are almost as funny as the text.
 Yet how rich in suggestion som. of the lines of Riley are; how delicately suggestive are the sly allusions of Fossl But "lndian summer" is a season un- known in England, and so Britons can but wonder at American enthusiasm over those richly suggestive lines;
 When the frost is on the pumpkin and tho
 folders in the shock.
 In England there is no "husky rustic of the tossels on the corn;" no ''raspin of the tangled leaves, as golden as the morn;" no forest hues that mo painter
Arizona republican., 1892-11-22

His poetry is best described as serio- comic, but it goes. The reader must not consider his Sebastian Morey's Poem" as in any sense his own experi- ence. In it he says: The 'Lartic, an The Century, an Lppincotts
 an Harper's,
 scribner, an all the rest of 'em, is all set CT
 sharpers.
 Wen they fin a son CT genius in reg'lar ten
 stroke poet
 An a colecshun CT the muses they don't know
 enough to know 1t. ] writ a roarin poem an sent it to tho 'Lantic, An then, wen it come back next mail, it near
 ly driv me frantic. l sent 1t then to all the rest to see how they
 would find it,
 But they, with their durned printed slips, "re-
 spectfully declined it."
 There is a ring of Hosea Bigelow and Bird O Freedom Sawin in this, and in MT. Foss' most humorous poetry there is a marked tendency to the use of long words terminating long lines, which combines the sublime and ridiculous in 8 style irresistibly funny. Riley and Foss--the dialect poets of the day more than sustain our national reputa. ton in that line.
Arizona republican., 1892-11-22

has the colorin to mock" and while there's frost enough, alas! there is no "fodder in the shock" Sc, incredible as it may seem, this poem an English man can appreciate little more than the labored jokes in Punch smuse us.
 Mir. Riley is but thirty-nme years old, yet he has been poet of local note for twenty years and of national fame nearly as long. Ho got t. his experience early, and got it fresh from man and nature. Boru in Greenisld, Hancock county, Ind, and designed by his well to do father for business or professional man, he good naturedly kicked over the traces while still in school and took up the trade of a travelling sign painter. In this line he acquired aR the phrases of the streets, the woods and the fields. He started in literature fine master of two languages-English and "Hoosier."
 Perhaps the most elaborate joke he ever perpetrated was poem in imita- tion of Edgar A. Poe, which went the rounds as & newly discovered produc- ton of that poet, and deceiTed as cute a critic as William Cullen Bryant. It was in 1S75-s that his pieces began to at- tract attention in the papers, and he has since 1880 been recognized as the lead ing dialect poet of the country.
 Mir. s. W. Foss, The Yankee Blade man, as he is called, is admittedly the foremost rival of MT. Riley m the line of dialect poetry His biography is as yet brief. He was born in Candid, N. H., June 10, 1858, and was graduated from Brown university in 1SS2, stand ing, as he says, "verynear the end of the class" He was also class poet. While editing the Lynn (Mass.) Union he was compelled to get up a humorous column in great hurry one day, and to his as- tonishment, as much as any other mans, it "took." He became editor of The Yankee Blade in 1887.
Arizona republican., 1892-11-22
Miscellaneous.

ENoR sAAE-Light, two-sested, canopy top IT buggy, sl00.0O. California Nursery Co.,, CorteZ St.
Arizona republican., 1892-11-22
Annual Meeting.

JNo THE STOCKHOLDERS OF THE ARI meeting of the stockholders of the Arizona Trust Company will be held at the office of the corporation, in the City o' Phoenix, Arizona Territory, on the first Wednesday, to-wit, the seventh @ day of Dece Der, 1S92 at ten o'clock a. m, for the purpose of electing a board oi directors for the ensuing year, and transacting such other business as may properly come be. fore the mee ting.
 ation will be closed on the sixteenth u6J day of November, 1892, ard those then appearing thereby Co be stockholders of said corporation will be entitled to vote and participate in said meeting.
 Dated Phpnix Arizona,
 November 3rd, 1892.
 BENJ. W. THOMPSON, President. C.P. SILL0WAY, Secretary.
Arizona republican., 1892-11-22
Punapkiu Pie,

When melancholy days come round and leaves get brown and red, When corn is shocked, and when you add a blanket to your bed, When apples. pared and quartered, are set in the sun to dry, This is the time you smack your lips and think of pumpkin pie. This pumpkin pies tempting dish to almost any fellow, So sweet and tender, luscious tyunD and then withal, so yellow. You stir up eggs and milk and spice and sugar oh, my eyel- And then you add the pumpkin, and tha' makes the pumpkin pie.
 Brandon Banner.
Arizona republican., 1892-11-22
THE POET LAUREATE.
An Ofice Which Has Been Held by AT
 Sorts of Rhymsters.


 Sorts of Rhymsters.
 All American readers of Tennyson know that he was poet laureate, and that Premier Gladstone will probably name his successor, but for the most part they have very hazy ideas of what a poet laureate is. Nor is it easy to ex- plain It, because the laureateship is so many kinds of an institution.
 First of all, it is huge joke. Great poets have held it, it is true, but as lau- reates they have done their poorest work, while the worst poets in like cases have succeeded in sinking far below them selves. In short much of the laureate poetry, as the western phrase goes, is so bad that it is good. When lot of choice spirits assemble and some one says in effect, "Go to, let us be funny" there is usually a very dull half hour to follow. So when the poet feels that all the world is looking to him for something sublime, just fitted to the case, he is dumb.
 In its beginning the position was made glorious by Ben Jonson, Davenant and Dryden. Later it has again been made glorious by Southey, Wordsworth and Tennyson. Tho interval was filled by middling poets, or even worse. There is a tradition that when Petrarch received at Rome the crown of bays Edward Ill at once bestowed like honors on Chau- cer, with certain perQuisites of money and wine; also that his successors were John Scogan, John Kay, Andrew Der nard, John Skelton, Edmund Spenser and Michael Drayton.
 Historically, however, the office began in 1916, when James l bestowed it on Ben Jonson, with an annual salary of 100 marks. Charles I, on March 5, 1887, reappointed Ben, with salary of e100 instead of marks, and made the office continuous. When Jonson died in 1880 the choice fell on William 'Davenant, who was then spoken of as an illegiti- mate son of Shakespeare, and was rather pleased with the gossip. The civil war
Arizona republican., 1892-11-22

suspended the office, and in 1870 it was revived and bestowed on John Dryden. with whose removal by William III the glTy of the place ended for many a year.
 Thomas Shadwell succeeded and made the place so ridiculous that all the critics said it could not be worse; but his suc- csssor, Nahum Tate, proved that it could be. Nicholas Rowe next held the 0fhcefor three years. In Westminster nb. bey the visitor admires handsome me- mmial of him, in which his widow poet ically declares her "inconsolable grief" |" She soon married again, however, and the story is that she married the man who composed the epitaph. The next incumbent, Rev. Lawrence Gusden, died in a drunken bout. Then came Colley Cibber, and after him, William White head, the former the victim of this epi- gram on him and tlse duke who ap- pointed him.
 Tell me, if you can, which did the worse.
 Caligula or Grafton's gracef
 That made a consul of horse
 And this laureate of an ass.
 Thomas Warton then redeemed the place slightly till l790, and next Henry James Pye sunk it to the lowest place Then came Southey and Wordsworth. and in 1850 Tennyson. For his success sor the English common people clam cred for one of two msn--William Mor- ris and Algernon c. Swinburne. But both are revolutionists and radicals-the former socialist and the latter an az nostic; both have indulged in unsparing ridicule of the court and royal family. and the queen detests them both.
Arizona republican., 1892-11-22

Anna Head, famous beauty of San Francisco, and only daughter of the millionaire, Colonel A. E. Head.
 A year ago Stanley and his wife made the tour of California, and Lieutenant Jephson was with them. In San Fran cisco he saw, loved and almost won Miss Head, but it was in London that the matter was completely arranged and the engagement announced. Miss Head is twenty-three years old, beautiful, highly accomplished and very rich. Lieuten- ant Jephson is brave, handsome and dis tinguished. Little wonder that the en- gagement is "all the talk in London so- ciety."
Arizona republican., 1892-11-22
Legal.

TNo THE STOCKHOLDERS OF THE RIG \ Verde Canal Company. The regular an nual meeting of the stockholders of the Rio Verde Canal Company will be held at the office of the corporation, in the City of Phoenix, Ari zona Territory, on the first Tuesday, to-wit, the sixth t6th) day of December, 1892, at 10 o'clock a. m., for the purpose of electing board of di rectors for the ensuing year, and transactinp such other business as may lawfully come be for the meeting. The stock and transfer regis ter of the corporation will be closed on the fifteenth Q5th) day of November 1892, and those then appearing thereby to be stockholders of said corporation will be entitled to vote and participate in said me eting.
 A. c. SHELDON, President
 J. K. OOOLITTLE, Secretsry. Dated Phoenix. Arizona,
 November lst, 1892
Arizona republican., 1892-11-22

tenay Jephson. He was the pro tege of the Count ess de Noailles, who outftted q him for the ,ex- petition. He had the honor to first find Emin, and he has written a book on his ad ventures which is highly praised. And now he has further dis tingllished him self by winning .1
Arizona republican., 1892-11-22
Real Estate For sal C.

vINHESE LOTS and acres must be sold und sr
 l value for want of cash, ton transportA- tiOn.) 2 lots at 500 each ? lots at s2J0 each, 2 lots at SJo9 each, lots at si00 each, 2l3 acres and house S2,500, 26-100 acr es $500, 6l2 acres s75o I3 acres sl 800 29l7 acres 5000, SO acres ss,0O0, l50 acres slS,7j0 Address owner, 20. Box l42, City.
Arizona republican., 1892-11-22
Love Is Blind.

A marriage of more than ordinary in- terest took place in Golden City. The parties were both blind and their TO- mantle engagement extended over a pe- riod of seven years before their patient hopes were realized. City Jour nal.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1892-12-29
slammed The Miracles

The tomb of Saint Etienne de Muret
canonized in 1888, in the Abbey of
Grandmond, was so great an offender
on account of the number of miracles
that the religious were completely worn
out by the rush of votaries. The prior
devised, however, a very simple but eff
fective remedy for this grievance. Be-
taking himself to the tomb, he spake as
follows: Servant of God, you preached
to us the delights of solitude and yet
you assemble in our retreat as many
people as if it were market or fair
We are sufficiently persuaded of your
sanctity not to be curious about your
miracles. If, then, you will not leave
off working them, we protest and declare
ON high, in virtue of the obedience we
have promised you, that we will un-
earth your bones and throw them into
the river As might be expected, the
threat was sufficient, and Saint Etienne
de Muret did no more miracles. ALI the
Year Round.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1892-12-29
London,s Fntnl For..

The fog that enshrouded the town
from November, 1879, 20 the beginning
of 1880 had serious results. The deaths
from bronchitis increased TO 83l per
cent. above the average; those from
whooping cough TO 23l per cent. Dur
ing the fog of 1912 mortality increased
almost as much. The particles prevent
the perfect aeration of the blood. In
terfering with the interdiffusion of
gases in the lungs, they impede the oxi-
dation of the carbon, and in weak or
ganisms they cause a loss of vital heat
that frequently ends in death. The eff
feet of smoke fog ON vegetables may be
properly taken ms an index of its effect
ON animals.
Horticulturists in and around London
tell us that whenever the fog appears
buds drop and many flowers are de-
stroyed. Country hcrticulturists, ON the
other hand, say that the white fogs do
not injure even conservatory plants.
The fogs of 1890, 1891 and 1892 were un-
usually serious in their Effects ON flow
ers and foliage. During recent years
the blight caused by London fog extend
ed to Maidstone, thirty miles away. 1t
would seem, then, that the area of the
smoke fog is sixty miles in diameter
National Review.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1892-12-29

The smallest detail is submitted 10 the
shah and is not decided except upon his
authority. His ministers disavow all
initiative and tremble at any executive
responsibility. lmperious, diligent and
fairly just, the shah is in his own per-
son the sole arbiter of Persia's for
tunes. All policy emanates from him.
He supervises every department with a
curiosity that requires TO be constantly
appeased, and his attention, both TO for
eign and domestic politics, is constant
and unremitting. There is a consensus
Of opinion that he is the most competent
man in the country and the best ruler
that it can produce.
Nor will any one deny him the pos
session of patriotism and Of a genuine
interest in the welfare of the nation. 1t
is no mean criterion of the strength and
also Of the general popularity of the
shah that he is the first Persian mon
arch who has ventured TO leave his do
minions and travel in foreign and infidel
lands, not as a conqueror at the head of
an army, but as a friendly visitor, if not
as volunteer tourist" Persia and the
Persian Question"
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1892-12-29
A acharnctern in FRANCE.

Recently a French gentleman, reply
ing to an inquiry by lady concerning
the character and qualifications of a
woman who had applied to her for the
position of cook, and who had lately
been in the gentleman's service, said that
he could not recommend the applicant;
that she was ''extravagant, impertinent
and somewhat given TO drink" The lady
gave the letter TO the applicant for the
cooks position, who Immediately brought
suit for damages against the writer
The case was decided against the writ
er of the letter, who was fined and ad-
monished that he had no right to give
circulation to injurious statements con-
corning another person, even if the
charges were true.
In order to evade the responsibility
thus introduced in French law house
keepers have taken to issuing such s'rec-
concentrations" as this:
'"This certifies that Mime. Hortense,
late nurse to my son, aged one year, did
not leave him on bench at the Jardin
des Plantes and go away and forget him
on the Goth of August last"
The certificate is intended to be taken
in contrary sense, and serves its pur-
pose without laying the writer open to a
suit for damages. Youths Companion.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1892-12-29
ANNAPOLIS. MD. THURSDAY EVENING DECEMBER 60 1899
CARING FoR 1ne eoop eook.


How the Scriptures Were Preserved Pre-
viOus 20 Their Translation.
The books of the law were the first
books of the Bible to be collected by the
priests and leaders Of the Israelites; after
the law came the written history of the
people, in the Fifth century b. c., the
collection of the prophets by Nehemiah;
and from his time onward the collection
of hagiographa, the Psalms, Proverbs,
Job, Canticles. All of these had been
preserved by the priests, copied and re-
copied as occasion required, and circu-
lated in manuscripts, as of course all
writings We're circulated in those days.
The dispersion of the Hebrews and
their acquisition of other languages and
loss of the Hebrew language. necessitat-
ed the translation of the Scriptures into
other than the Hebrew, and previous TO
the Second century b. &. what we know
as the Septuagint translation-the LXX
was completed in Greek, designed es-
pecially for the Hebrews living in Alex
andria and other parts of Egypt. The
Septuagint comes from tradition that
seventy scholars-seventy-tw actually
made the translation. Translasions and
recensions into the Aramaic were also
made, and these translations We're copied
from time TO time, so that the oldest
manuscript of the Old Testament now
extant is only about /, 400 years old.
The case is the same with the New
Testament. 1t was written again and
again, until now there are upward of
1000 manuscripts for the Gospels and as
many more for the rest of the New Tes-
lament. The oldest manuscripts are the
Codex Sinaiticus and the Codex Vatica-
nus, which date from the Fourth century
A. ID. So the books of the Bible We're
handed down, the old copies always be-
ing renewed before they wore out, the
language being Hebrew, Greek and after
A. d. 300, Latin. The latter, in the trans
lation adopted by the Roman church, and
known as the Vulgate, because COM
monty used in the Christian churches,
was the first book printed, in 1450-5.
As far back as the Seventh century
portions of the Vulgate were translated
into English, and the early versions by
Wyclif and his predecessors, by Pur-
vey and others, were translations from
the Vulgate. Tyndale used Luther's
German translation of the Greek Bible.
The authorized version of King James
was made by forty-seven scholars and
finished in 1911; the manuscripts, so far
as accessible, were consulted, the trans
lators not restricting themselves TO the
Vulgate, but going to the Hebrew and
Greek whenever they uld.-Pittsburg
Dispatch.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1892-12-29

Who is this senior for whom the throng
makes way reverentially-he with lean,
wrinkled face, set mouth, yet with some
thing Of half smile on it, ever with
downcast distracted eye and stopping
shoulder, with hands clasped behind his
back and with listless gait-this flesh
less, tough looking man with the bushy
eyebrows and the long, lean throat?
He is worth looking at, for he is the
greatest strategist of the age and has
been the ruling soul of the victorious
campaign. Moltke, for it is he, has been
with the emperor and is probably on his
way home TO finish Miss Braddon's latest
novel, for when he is not devising STRAIT
egy he is reading sensational novels, and
his abstraction, as like as not, is caused
by speculation as TO which of the two
aspirants to her hand the heroine is ul-
timately TO marry.-Archibald Forbes
in Scribner's.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1892-12-29

A useful patrol wagon has been de-
vised for electric railroaders. 1t is con
structed very much like police wagon,
but has square tower rising out of it
which is mounted by ladder. The
tower is raised or lowered by means of a
crank and pulley, and when elevated to
its full extent it is fifteen feet high. The
consequence is that the lineman can
drive under the wire to be repaired and
be Immediately placed by the raising of
the tower on level with his work The
patrol wagon is great improvement on
the old method of repairing, without its
risks. Exchange.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1892-12-29
PRICE ONE CENT


why don't you stop that hiccough-
ingF said gentleman 10 friend who
for some moments had been subjected to
the annoying convulsive movement of
the diaphragm.
Il wish l could gasped the victim,
"but it's no go. A fellow tried to scare
me-said my coat was on fire-knew it
wasn't-swallowed nine times nine swal-
lows of water--no go--feel like washed
out hand engine" he calculated angrily,
having told his woes in disjointed utter
ances and between coughs.
well, you are a chump," remarked
the first speaker. Come with me.n And
he led his friend into an adjoining saloon.
mo, not here, said the other; s'people
will surely think I've been drinking"
But his protests were in vain. His
friend led him TO the bar and ordered q
heaping spoonful of powdered sugar.
''Come," he said, swallow this all at
once" The victim did SO slowly, and
found 10 his intense surprise and relief
when the operation was completed that
the hiccoughs had vanished.
"Now," remarked the first gentleman,
"for teaching you that remedy I'll take
Just one with you. 1t is not part of the
process, but it's worth the price, isn't itg
As for the sugar, have never known it
to fail to cure even the most stubborn
case of hiccoughs. New York Herald.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1892-12-29

Having two American friends stop
ping with MS, we brought nice Welsh
girl from Dolgelly one evening to sing
to them the national songs. Miss Madge
Roberts, a sweet, pretty young lady and
excellent singer. went over an immense
repertory of Welsh music, and Miss S..
who is a very scientific musician, made
many remarks on the peculiarities of
the Welsh scale, etc. Suddenly she ex-
claimed; 81 cannot think what music
il is that | know that these Welsh tunes
so much resemble. Stay, it is Basquer'
and she proceeded to hum three or four
typical Basque songs. Miss Roberts
and all of us instantly recognized the
similarity Of these with the Welsh, es-
pecially the oldest Welsh, songs which
she had been singing.
Miss S. was very much surprised when
| told her that Professor Boyd Dawkins
believed in the original identity of the
Basque and pre-Celtic Welsh, theory
,of which she was quite ignorant, SO that
her testimony TO the similarity of the
national music was entirely spontaneous.
am not musical, and my opinion is
of no value, but there does appear to me
to be in the old Welsh music, as in a
great deal of the Welsh character, dis
tinctly non-Aryan. spritelike character
irreducible to the order so dear TO the
Saxon soul. The music goes ON for a
few bars with even, exaggerated en-
phasis on time as in a soldiers march;
then suddenly, as if tired Of it, bounds
off among the bushes, hop, skip and
jump and never comes backl-London
Academy.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1892-12-29
shakespeare,s Autograph worth 8 ioo. 600

shakespeare's Autograph Worth siOO. 900
THE most valuable autograph in the
world is that of Shakespeare, said a
dealer. There are only three genuine
autographs of Shakespeare in existence,
and those are altogether out of the mar
ket. Bring me genuine Shakespeare
and I'll undertake to pay you $50, 900,
yes, 100000, for it within a year. 1t
might not sell Immediately for very
large sum, but it would be sure to do SO
as soon as collectors were satisfied as to
its genuineness and became properly ex-
cited about it. Collector.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1892-12-29
THE LAST DECADE.


When murky clouds that pail summer day
DO. ere its close. dissolve and drift away.
what Joyous smiles break DER the sunIif plain,
How stirs the dormant pulse Of life ag.aini
And in the Afierglow OF fading light
There hreathes a promise OF a morrow bright;
50 at this century's eventide-whose years
Vain hopes bave wrought 10 merge in darken-
ing fears
Doth ipan rejoice. for from rffted west
Assuring rays beam cross his weary quest,
Dull. ieaden skies now change TO gladdenfnc
hues.
The waiting heart its cherished song renews;
That song divfnel-not less its power than
when
Twas hrst Peace on earth. good will
10 men,"
Gilbert S. Fletcher in New Nation.