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The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-01-23
THE DOCTORS FAILED.
Them Jerks >:Hdied Up Els own
ISisrpsc and cured situ>"st.

From the royi5eace, Il, l., Blu letin.
Th re are but iew III eases that puzzle
physicians more than rheumatism. here
are Il great mauyt ories n, TO lis cause,
snd the b So means of curing it. most o.
wnl,h are absurd
One the . on est sufferers o! rheu-
rlatism known N he anna o. medicine
is ohm G. enks OF Il V rsiGe Il. |. lie
became the victim OF rheumatism whle
in the array. and the disease seems to
haveg ven him tas e OF all its srious
10 tures hysi IanS ami medicines
failed to give Ii IN any relic until AZ last
he affected his own De iverance from the
bonds OF pa n.
1.-The niatism'' sa d Mr. jerks to a ro-
porte wlo wen. TO h carr story. We'll.
/ should say do know something about
il all learned Cy actual Q perience. too.
ii st Contracted rheumatism III thu
army. ami hS L j al every varl ~ of
the al lotion since. an. have suffer ii
such agony with i that at times Geath
was pleasant thought to dwell upon.
TaSe medicine fnouGh to sto drug
store and none Of it did me any OF.
1hsn began to stu ythe III ease M self.
nsde up my III nj to get n pu. inc
W tn the enemy and hight it on di erent
lines. had theor' OF my own aud
began tn look arOlnt for remedy tn t
WAS calcu a ed to have the g ire O iect.
Oua after another as tired until at last
] hit III on Ia Xii er which / p pl
freely. Almost with me iri ppli 4, ON
came relief. KEEP; o. us ing and he
rheumatism was soon knocked out
Neither have l HAD any return OF the
trouble.
'Ial.o use rain-Kller internally for
the ag e another ~ Al relic. It uid VIVA,
pounds OF uninN couldn t do.
''iain Killer keeps ard in my house
against II ills and it has never yet siop
at its post of duty
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rhc presiden, Couac,nucd.

INDIANAPOLIS, January pa
resolution was presented to the
Legislature to day coudemning the
Hawaiian policy of President Cleye.
lands administration in Its every
phase, denouncing the pulling down
OF the flag, urging the speedy
annexation OF the islands and recon-.
mending that waIship be kept at
Honolulu III order to prevent any
other nation from gaining foot.
hold there. 1t passed by strict
party vote.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-01-23
THE OLD NORTH STATE.
Small Items of Newsy and Per-
sonal Character.
Special DispNtch to Tho vir6inian.

sonal Character.
Special Dispatch to The virsiuian.
RALEIGH, N. q. January ga
The Secretary of State is now ex-
oificio Insurance Commissioner. A
fusion Senator has introduced bill
to create the Office of Insurance
Commissioner, to receive the fees
now received by the Secretary of
State.
This evening, in the handsome
dining room of the Marlboro House,
ball was given under the patron
age of number OF prominent Raj.
eigh society people, in aid of the
Confederate monument which is now
in course of erection here, 1t was a
masked ball aud was quite an ele.
CANT affair. Thore yet rem aims to
be- raised of the monume Mt fund
some 81, 600.
United States Marshal o. J. Gar.
roll is to day advised that while
Deputy Floyd, of Roheson county,
was carrying eight prisoners from
Lumberton to Wilmington two
made their escape. The deputy failed
himself to report the escape, AMI it
was heard Of from other PERSONS.
The Marshal will make an investiga.
ton.
Deputy revenue Collector Smell
burn reports the seizure of 100
gallon illicit still and 1000 gallons of
beer at Flat river. The owner, jas.
Weaver, escaped.
Fire at Warrenton Sunday night
burned the old structure which was
for many years the hotel. Two or
three small buildings we're burned
before the tiremen stopped the fire.
Mrs. Nj. b. Brown, of Washing.
ton, n. c., presented the Kings
Daughters of this State her hone.
The place IS handsome Que. The
The Legislature is to he asked to
appropriate $4,000 annually for the
maintenance of King Daughters
orphanage for imbeclle children.
OF these there are 1000.
Saturday night at Concord anoth.
er attempt was made to burn the
jail. The prisoners had In some
way gotten matches and powder
aud tried to blow mp part of the
jail. The prime mover in this SAYS
he will burn the Jail if he has to
perish with it.
MIR, Ii. Il. Sanderson, of Ashe.
vile, is going to establish in Char
lotte Junior Order OF American
Mechanics. About twenty have
already given their names for mem
bership.
The record OF G. u. French is one
occupying much OF the State paess.
He has been written up and not to
his honor and glory either,
Evangelist Pearsvn is holding
very enthusiastic meetings in the
university chapel at Chapel Hill.
Services will be held here for about
ten days.
Judge 0Statbuok yesterday ap.
pointed Joseph Jacobs receiver for
Hinshaw aud Medearia Company.
Mr. Jacobs says the assets of the
company will more than cover the
liabilities.
Olando Kirkman was arrested and
jailed IN Greensboro yesterday for
passing counterfeit nickels.
DIR. ELLIS, OF Wilkesboro, in NOV
ing some plumber recently, found
has old sword that he used in the
war. He bought it from Lieut..
League. of Alexander county, who
says he cut 1t from the dead body of
Yankee officer. -. Mera Moss"
is on the hilt. DR.. Ellis will return
1t to the family of the young lien.
tenant, who was from PENNSYLVANIA
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The Rench-Legged Fyce.


To Master Charlie Iemperly, Of Cleveland.
Speakin' of dorgs, my bench-legged fyce
He'd most o the virtues an nary vice.
Some folks called him Sooner a name that
From his predisposition TO chronic repose;
But. rouse his ambition. he couldn't be
beat
Yer bet yer he got thar on all MS -FOUR
feeti
Mos dorgs has some forte-like huntin' an
But the sports o. the field didn't bother
him much:
wuz jest a plain dorg an contented TO be
on peaceable terms with the neighbors an
me:
Used to fiddle an sauirm. and grunt "oh.
how NICE
When ! tickled the back of that bench
legged fyce!
He wuz long in the barl like fyce
His color wuz yaller as ever YOU see;
His tail. curlin' upward, WIZ long, loose
an slim
When he didn't wag it why. the tail it
His legs wuz 50 crooked. my bench-legged
wuz as tall sittin' down as he wuz stand
in up!
He'd lie by the stove Of a night an regret
The various vittles an things he had ct
When a stranger, most likely a tramp,
come along.
He'd lift UP his voice in significant song
You wondered. by gum! how there ever
In that bosom o his'n to hold so much
bass,
OF davtimes he'd sneak to the road an lie
down,
An tackle the country dorgs COMM to
town:
BY common consent he was boss in St.
Joe.
For what he took hold of he never let go.
An dude that came courtin' our girl left
OF his white flannel suit with our bench
legged fyee!
He WIZ good 70 US kids-when we pulled
or twisted his tail he would never demur;
He seemed to enjoy all our play an our
For his tongue ud hang out and he'd laff
An once when the Hobart boy fell through
He wuz drug clean ashore by that bench
legged fyce!
We all hev our choice. an you. like the
Allow that the dorg which you've got is
wouldn't give much for the boy at
with no friendship subsistin' tween him
an pup
When feiler gifts old tell you it's nice
fyce!
To think Of the springtime way back in
OF the peach trees ablooom an the daisies
To think OF the play in the medder an
When little legs wrestled an little hans
To think Of the loyalty. valor an truth
or the friendships that hallow the season
of youth,
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SEITGENE FIELDS LIFE And WORKS


the entertainment Subsequently. while
&ye was en- route 70 the railway station.
he was set upon and egged ~ q turbulent
crowd % young men. II there was provo
cation for this assault. II must have been
bitter. u there vas not strong provoca-
ton. the assault was a. brutal as could
well be- conceived Of. in either case. We
think. Paterson viii have the worst OF y
IN the long run. for demonstrations Of this
character are By no means approved b.
people possessed Of any sense OF peace and
dignity.
We see in one OF the dispatches from
New York that the chars Of drunkenness
has been made against Mr. Nye, and that
II has been specified that be was inebriated
when be made his public appearance IN
Chickeriug hall Nye denies the accusa-
ton. and We are free 20 say that We do
not believe IL at al. A somewhat intimate
acquaintance with Nye for the period Of
fifteen years enables us 10 testify that IL
there j. one temperate man on our plat
form today II is Bill Nye.
From one quarter it has been suggested
that sickness may have been responsible
for some apparent indiscFetion which
served 20 excite the Indignation OF the
Paterson audience. Ten years ago Nye
was in shocking bad health. and at one
time there were fears that he would be
nm invalid for the rest OF his life His
maiady az that time was meningitis:
never since his two years affliction with
that insidi0iIs and destructive disease has
Nye been robust man. Only the ut
n4ost caution ana the most scrupulous
observance OF the rules laid down by his
physician have enabled Nye 20 20 ahead
with his work This work In Itself has
been arduOus; if there Is anything more
vexatious or more wearing than travelling
about the country in all kinds of weather
and at the mercy Of railway trains and
lecture bureaus and horel-keepers, We do
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Nv pIavnatcS.

The wind comes whispering 70 ne OF the
country green and cool 500.
OF redwing biackbirds chatteTlhS beside
reedF pool.
Il brings r0e soothing faucleS OF the nome
stead or the hin.
The robins morning trim.
So 7 fan 10 thinking tenceTlN OK Ih9se L
used 10 know
Where the SaSsafras and snakeroot ana
What has become az Ezra Marsh. who
lived m Faker-S hiilP
And what's become ~ noble Pratt. n hose
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Horace to Phyllis.

Come. Phyllis. I've cask Of wine
That fairly reeks with precious juices,
And in your tresses you shall Irvine
The loveliest flower this vale produces.
Nv cottage wears gracious smile
The altar decked in floral glory,
Iearns for the lamb which beats the
while
AS though it pinned for honors CORY.
Hither our neighbors nimbly fare
The boys agog, the maidens snickering;
And savory smells possess the air
As skyward kitchen flames are Pickering.
You ask what means this grand display,
This festive throng, and goodly diet?
Well. since your bound TO have your way,
| don't mind telling, on the quiet.
IT'S April &c. as you know
day and month devote to Venus
WhereOn was born, some years ago,
My very worthy friend Mecenas.
Nay, pay no heed to Telephus-
Your friends agree he doesn't love you;
The way he flirts cOnvinCes us
lie really is not worthy of you!
Auroras son, unhappy lad
You know the fate that overlook him?
And Pegasus a rider had
j say he had before Be shook him
Hac docet las you must agree:
'Tis meet that Phyllis should discover
y wisdom in preferring me
And mittening every other lover
So come o Phyllis. last and best
or loves with which this hearts been
smitten-
Come. sing my jealous fears to rest,
And let your songs be those I've written.
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Pan I.fveth

They told ne once that Pan was dead,
And so, in s0oth. | thought MN
Through fiowerv nneads I sought him
Nor IN his dewy pasture bed
Nor in the grove l caught him
TELL me- twas so my clamor ran
Tell me. on. where Is ran
But. once. as on my pipe played
A requiem sad and tender.
Lo. thirner came a shepherd-Tna1d-
Full comely she and slender
/ were indeed a churlish blade
WITH waillngs TO offend err 49,,
For surely wooing's sweeter IMAM
a mourning over Pan,
So. presently. whites I did scan
That shepherd-naiden. pretty,
And heard her accents. I began
To pipe a cheerful ditty
And 50. befiues. forgot old Pan
Whose death had walked my pity:
$3.50 did Love undo the man
Who sought and pinned for Fan!
He was not dead l found him there
The Pan that / was after!
Caught in that maiden's tanshng hair,
Drunk with her song ana IauSHteF'
/ doubt if there be otherwhere
4 n1errier god or dafter-
Nay. nor a mortal kindher than
Is this same dear old Fan!
Beside me- as my pipe l play,
My shepherdess is lying,
While here and there her lambkins stray
AS sunny hours 60 flying;
Thew look Ike me-those lambs-they say,
And that I'm not denying.
And for that sturdy. romping clan
All glory be to Pam
Pan is not dead. O sweetheart mine.
1t is 10 hear his voices
In every note and every line
Wherein the heart reioices,
He Iiveth In that sacred shrine
That Loves first hottest choice is'
So pipe. my pipe, while stln YOU can,
Sweet SONGS in praise Of Pan.
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Dedication for q Book of Tales.

Brother Of mine. have YOU forgot
Those pleasant incoming times OF old.
How in quiet. shady spot
We sat and heard quaint stories told?
How sweet IL was when tired of play
or vexcd with discipline at school,
To while that morning hour away
With romance in the shade ana cool'
Brother Of mine. our noon is high
Come let us rest q little space.
And let Us twain reviVifV
Our ar}or with that boyhood grace!
These little tales IL is 70 tell
Some folks may wonder why they re
told.
Yet shall thew serve their purpose wen
II they recall the days Of old;
II they recall our bovhood Joys,
And those far distant scenes retrace;
II they bring back 70 us two boys
\ visi39of the dear old place
The homestead and the pickerel pond,
The maple trees. the pasture lot,
The Pelham 1iiis away beyond
Brother Of mine. have You forget?
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Martha Glow.

l cannot eat my porridge.
| weary OF my play;
No longer can | sleep at night,
No longer romp by day!
Though forty pounds was once my weigh
I'm shy OF thirty now:
l pine. | wither and / fade
Through love of Martha Glow.
As she rolled by this morning
| heard her nurse girl say:
she weighs just twenty-seven pounds
And she's one year old today"
1 threw a kiss that nestled
In the curls upon her brow,
But she never turned 10 thank me-
That bouncing Martha Glow!
She ought to know + love her,
For I've told her that | do:
And We brought her nuts and apples,
And sometimes candy. too,
I'd drag her in my little cart
If her mother would allow
That delicate attention
To her daughter, Martha Glow.
Oh, Martial pretty Martha,
VIII YOU always be so cold?
VIII YOU always be as cruel
As you are at one-year-Oid?
Must YOUR twp-Near-o.d admirer
Pine as hopelessly as now
For a fond reciprOCation
OF his love for Martha Glow?
You smile on Bernard Rogers
And on little Harry Knott:
You play with them az peek-a-boo
All in the Waller Lot,
Wildly / gnaSh my neW-cut teeth
And beat nv thrObbinE brow,
When / behold the c1quetry
or heartless Martha Glow!
! cannot eat my porrldge,
Nor for my play care /
Upon the floor and porch and lawn
My toys neglected lie:
But on the ar of Halsted street
/ breathe this solemn vow:
Though she he false. | VIII be true
To pretty Martha Clown
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The Ride to BumpviIie.

Play that my knee was calico mare
Saddled and bridled for Bumpville:
Leap 10 the back of this steed if you dare.
And gallop away to Bumpville!
l hope you'll be sure to sit fast In your
seat
For this calico mare is prodgiously fleet.
And many adventures your likely TO meet
AS you journey along to Bumpville.
This calico mare both gallops and trots.
While whisking you off to Bumpville:
She PAGES, she SHES, and she stumbles, in
spots.
In the tortuous road to Bumpville;
And sometimes this strangely mercurial
steed
VIII suddenly stop and refuse TO proceed,
Which. all will admit. is veXatious indeed.
When one is en- route to Bumpville!
She's scared of the cars when the engine
goes "Tootr'
Down by the crossing at BumpviIle:
You'd better look out for that treaeherous
Bearing you off to BumpviIe!
With snort she rears mp on her hinder
And executes igs and Virginia reefs
Words fail to explain how embarrassed one
Dancing so wildly to Bumpville!
It's humptybump and jiggytijog.
Journeying on TO BUmpville;
It's over the hilltop and down through the
bog
You ride on your way to Bumpvile:
It's rattletybang over howlder and stump.
There are rivers to ford, there are fences
10 jump,
And the corduroy road il goes bumpyty-
bump,
Mile after mile to Bumpville!
Perhaps you'll observe it's no easy thing
Making the journey to Bumpville,
So | think on the whole, 1t were prudent
TO bring
An end to this ride 10 Bumpville:
For, though she has uttered no protest or
plant,
The calico mare must be blowing and
faint
What's more TO the point, I'm bowed If
ANTI
So play we have got 10 Bumpville.
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But all she'd reply 20 the love he pTofossed
Were these plaintivc words which per
hsrs YOU have guessed.
Mammal Mamma
Her mother-a sweet little lady 81 five
NouchSafed her parental protection,
And although stockinet
Wasn't hlue-biooded. Yet
She really could make no objection.
So soldier and dolly We're welded one day.
And moment ago. as l Journeyed that
way.
I'm sure that I heard a weak voice say:
Mamma, Mamma =
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OF that iollv little human. the bOw-Ieg

OF that jolly little human. the bow-leS
hoy
The cute little hoy,
The funny little boy.
The dear little how-leg boy!
II the doctor man comes my way
with his wonderful box and his two-wheel
shay.
I'll ask for the treasure Ia fam possess
Now. honest Iniun, can't you guess
Why. a cute little boy
a funny little boy
a dear little bow-ieEhoy.
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The Dnll,s Nyoninc.

TIE Ht,le French doll was d dear little
doll
Tricked oat in the sweetest Of dresses.
Her eyes we're Of hue
4 most delicate blue
And dark a. the p. ght were her tressas
Ter dear Httle mouth was futed and red
And this little French doll was so very
That whenever accoste5 her little mouth
Mamma Mamma
The stockiuet don. with one arm ard one
Lex.
Hal 0rre been 2 handsome Young fellow:
Bat now ne appeared
Rather froWsy and bleared
In his torn reEimeutals u yellow.
Yet his heart gave . curious thlmp as IL
IN th4 iittls toy cart near the window one
And neara the swee, voice OF that French
Mamma. Mamma
He listened 50 long and be listened 50
hard
That anon he grew ever 50 tender,
For It's eyeryw here known
That IRE feminine tone
Gets away with All masculine gender.
lie uu and he Wooea aer with s2i4iegiy
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The Ebb and Flow of Go,a

-" ! OK WcekIV.
business Afan 0n the bosom ~ tf1 ~,
iiy1-Ihe crops Of this country are album
dant those Of Europe have failed. and
the stream Of gold which mas been low-
ing across the Atlantic viii soon DO re-
turning. You bet I'm get my share Of il.
''auS ateF-I hats Just splendid Then
sgen4 H.
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old Friends i'm yelIum.

Old Friends in eitufn.
Though care and strife
Elsewhere be rife,
Upon my word, | DO not heed en-;
With books hard by,
And with increasing zest reao en-.
Propped up in bed
So much I've read
or n1usty torres that I've a headful
OF tales and rhymes
OF ancient times.
Which. wife declares. are simply dread
fur
They give me joy
Without alloy:
And isn't that what books are mace for!
And yet-and yet
(Ah, vain regreto
l would TO God they al were paid for.
No festooned cup
Filled foaming up
Can lure me elsewhere to confound me;
S0-eefsr than wine
This love Of mine
For these old books see around mel
\ plague. / say.
On nlatdens gay
I'll weave no compliments to tell EN-!
Vain fool ! were,
Did / prefer
Those dolls to these old friends of vellum,
At dead of night
Nv chambers bright,
Not only with the gas that's burning,
But with the glow
OF long ago
OF beauty back from old returning.
Fair women's looks
I see in books,
! see them. and | hear their laughter
Proud, high-born maids,
Uni Ike the iadeS
Which menfolk now go chasing afteri
Herein again
Speak valiant men
OF all natiyities and ages;
| hear and smile
With rapture while
L turn these musty, magic pages.
The sword, the lance,
The morris dance,
The highland song, the green wood ditty.
OF these | read
Or. when the need,
My Miller grinds me grist that's gritty!
When of such stuff
We've had enough,
Why. there be other friends to greet US:
Well moralize
In solemn wise
With Plato or with Ep.ctetus.
Sheer as you may,
I'm proud TO say
That l. for one. am very grateful
To heaven. that sends
These genial friends
To Danish other friendships hatefuli
And when I'm done.
I'd have no son
Pounce on these treasures like vulture;
Nay. give them half
My epitaph,
And let them share in my sepulture.
Then. when the crack
OF doom rolls back
The marble and the earth that hide me,
I'll smuggle home
Each precious tome,
Without a fear my wife shall chide me!
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Oh. trees and hills and brooks, ana lanes.
and uea dows. do you know
Where I shall find my little friends OF
forty years ago2
You see I'm old and weary. and I've traV-
eled long and far
/ am looking for my playmateS--i WONDER
where they are.
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THE FIELD COAT-pF-ARMS.
not know it. We are ready to believe that
oVerwork has induced return OF NYes
old trouble and that Nye is a sick man.
But We do not believe. and We shall not
believe upon the testimony SO far pre-
scented. that Nye has been guilty OF any
irreglilarity warrauting a diminution OF
public confidence In him. and least CT all.
justifying the unseemly outrage COM
mitted at Paterson last Wednesday.
We join with the Tribune in the predic
ton that Miss Tarbelis Life of Abraham
Lincoln" begun in the current number of
McClure's Magazine, promises to be
highly interesting and very valuable per-
Torrance.
The chances are that Buck Hinrichsen
would have slept right through it all II
he had thought it was Ben Gable instead
of the earthquake.
As for the Inter ocean. il Is always to
be found on the other side. II never
forms an opinion until it finds out which
way its contemporaries have turned II
would rathe- be wrong than TO be collec-
tor.
IN this column Of "sharps and Flats
appeared his poems. mixed in with Jokes
laout the Browning Society and Buck
Hinrichsen. Occasionally he would sign
some ones else name TO a poem, rs when
he attached the name % Helena ModJesk3,
his friend. 20 the verses beginning Upon
A mountain top. TAR from the sea" He
hated shan humbug and false pretenses.
and never tired OF pokng fun Al the chi
ciEo literary people" who knew nothing
about literature. and at The "Markeesy III
Pullman ana others who sought 20 im'-
iasc the NOBILITY OF Europe. lie himself
drew cost-of-srms for the Field family,
ln which sheaves OF wheat had con-
z.f..Iufia nllrp.
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. ven there's baby n the house and a
Isl Weary Wanderer Wei Tir,r,y-
az hos7 does K taste3 i'--'-5'
~ second Weary Wardere- On ecstars.l-
~. .Cou speaE ter re, Tom, IL takes me bs-k
--'tL years fFa4is asleep grooming =.
"S--d 49, BOY agiH."-I iran