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The times., 1898-08-14
uRestw

Ny feet are wearied, and my hands are tired,
Ny soul opposed
And desire what I have long desired
Rest-only rest.
'Tis hard TO toll when toll IS almost vain,
In barren ways;
'Tis hard TO sow-and never garner grain,
In harvest days.
The burden OF my days Is hard 10 bear,
But Gcd knows best;
And ! have prayed-but vain has been my prayer,
For rest-sweet rest
'Tis hard to plant in Spring and never reap
The Autumn yield;
'Tis hard 10 till, and when it's titled, TO weep
Ger fruitless field
And so / cry. weak and human cry,
So heaTt-oppressed;
And so | sigh. weak and human sigh,
For rest-for rest.
Nv way has wound across the desert years,
And cares infest
Ny path. and through the flowing Of hot tears
l pine for rest.
Twas always so; when but child laid
On mothers breast
Ny wearied little head, cen then | prayed
As now-for rest.
And am restless still; twill soon be DER;
For. down the West,
Life's sun is setting. and see the shore,
Where | shall rest
Father Ryan.
The times., 1898-08-14
Rich British Humor.

The London Punch, which a breezy
American once asserted that he read for
two years without ever finding out that
IL was a comic paper, sees something
funny in the future of this country con-
seouent upon the war with Spain. In
one of its recent issues 1t gives extracts
from supposititious New York newspapers
of the year 1928. 1t begins with the re-
port Of the grand reunion Of sur
viyors of the battle of Manila. held in
Madison Square Garden, on May 2, 1928.
1t says that despite the ravages of time.
there were 1000 survivors in attendance,
and that in addition TO letters of regret
read from the President Of the United
States and from the governors of Penn
Eylvania. New York, Cuba, and Porto
Rico, eloquent addresses were delivered
by Rev. George Dewey FitZgibbons, Hon.
Dewey Manila Brown, Hon. Cavite G.
Jones, Hon. Philippine Olympia Green,
and Wee President Raleigh Concord
Tubbs.
Extracts from the New York papers OF
the same year read as follows:
The Patriotic Order Of the Sons Of Cuban Lib
ertv gave an entertainment their hall, No. 1874
Bowery last evening, the receipts Of which are
70 go toward building monument TO the memory
of the Cubans who lost their lives in the late
war A fair attendance was present and the
musical numbers were well rendered by Mrs. San
tiago Cortez Coogan, Cienfuegos Murphy, Am
phitrite Cook and Matanzas johnson Mr. Habana
O'Donoghue made quite a hit with his recitation
OF ''When Gomez Marched to Dinner" Quite
neat little sum was realized.
From Sampson, Ky, comes dispatch which
says that John X. Littleiohn, gunner's mate
on the Nashville in the late with Spain, and
who claims TO have fired the first hostile shot OF
the war, died in that town on Wednesday. We
have no wish 10 doubt the yeracity of the Sampson
Bugle but, at the same time, Mr.. Littlelohn IS
the txenty-thrd man TO die since the war was
ended claiming the honor of having fired the hrst
hostile shot Isn't this rather OVERRIDING it2
Schley J. O'Brien, twenty-eight years OF age,
was picked up by Officer Good Bleecker Street
last night. in an intoxicated condition. Before
Judge Cooley this morning 0Brien claimed that
his condition was the result Of discussing the
war with Spain in the Maine saloon yesterday
evening with two crones, Bill Dewey Nanghton
and Bagley Terror O'RouTke. Judge Cooley de-
cided that in view of the circumstances, the
prisoner was lucky 10 offend by a mere PLAIN
drunk and Mr.. O'Brien was released.
A youth giving his name as Augustus Cuba LII
bre Lightfoot was arrested yesterday while acting
In a suspicious manner on Broadway. Lightfoot Is
thought TO be an alias Of Hot Shot Smith, a
noted sneak thief, who has Of late been operating
successfully in the neighborhood Of Fifth Avenue
and Thirty-eighth Street. The prisoner claims
20 have been the first child born Cuban soil
OF American parents after the capitulation OF Ha-
FRna- He is still in custody.
The times., 1898-08-14
The GalIeons OF Spain

King Philip had vaunted his claims;
lie had sworn for year that he would sack US;
With an army OF heathenish names
He was coming 10 fagot and stack us;
Like the thieves Of the sea he would track US,
And shatter our ships the main;
But we had bold Neptune 10 back US
And where are the galleons Of Spain2
His caracks were christened of DANES
To the kirtles whereof he would tack Us
With his saints and his gilded steTn-frames
He had thought like egg shell to crack u.s.;
Now Howard NAV get to his Flaecus,
And Drake to his Devon again,
And Hawkins bowl rubbers 10 Bacchus-
For where are the galleons Of Spain?
Let His Majesty hang to ST. James
The AK that he whetted 10 hack Us;
He must play at some lustier games
Or at sea he can hope 10 out thwaek US;
To his mines Of Peru he would pack US,
To tug at his bullet and chain;
Alas! that his greatness should lack US
But where the galleons of Spain?
The times., 1898-08-14
CURRENT VERSE.
A Lay of Laugh

u
Here i am, perched at my open easement,
Enjoying the laugh of some unseen miss
That comes ripping up from some room in the
basement
Just below this
Morning, noon and night I can hear her
Babbling away with her chatter and chaf,
And it seems as IL all creation near her
Was just a-laugh.
Picture her! Isn't her face just made for it
Crinkled and curved for the laughing fit?
Could she be solemn, dye think, if paid for II?
Divil biti
I can fancy the dimples her cheeks imprinting,
And see the mouth corners upward glinting,
Brimful of fun.
She must be pretty to laugh so prettily-
Such laugh couldn't belong to a trump;
Humorous, too, to see things wittily-
Probably plump.
There. now. she's of again. Pearl upon pearl
OF it,
Clear a carlton, soft as bell
Why, it's infectious, I'm catching the feel of it,!
Chuckling as well.
What Was ! dreaming? That musical melody
Trips up the scale, arpeggio.
So like voice that hushed-ah, well-a-
day
Long, long ago.
Heigh no! To think of what little straws tickle
Just girls laugh-and my laughing one lies
Silent. and I-wen. now, this is ridiculous
Tears in my eyes.
Pail Mall Gazette.
The times., 1898-08-14
The Women Who Wait

He went to the war in the morning
The roll OF the drums could be heard.
But he paused at the gate with ms mother,
For kiss and a comforting word,
He was full of the dreams and ambitions
That youth is so ready 20 weave,
And proud OF the clang OF his saber
And the ehevrons OF gold on his sleeve.
He came from the war in the evening
The meadows were sprinkled with snow,
The drums and the bugleS were silent,
And the steps of the soldiers were slow,
He was wrapped in the flag Of his country
When they laid him away in the mold.
With the giittering stars OF captain
Replacing the chevrons Of gold.
With the heroes who sleep on the hillside
He lies with a flag at his head,
But. blind with the years of her weeping,
His mother yet mourns for her dead.
The soldiers who fall in the battle
May feel but q moment of pain.
But the women who wait in the homesteads
Must dwell with the ghosts of the slain.
The Criterion
The times., 1898-08-14
If / Were n Voice

II | were a voice, persuasive voice,
That would travel the wide world through,
/ would fly on the beams of the morning light,
And speak to with gentle might,
And tell them 10 be true;
/ would fly, would fly over land and sea
Wherever a human heart might be,
Telling tale or singing song,
In praise of the right-in blame of the wrong
l would fly. would fly, / would fly over land
and sea-
If i were a voice, a consoling voice,
I'd fly on the wings OF the air;
The homes of sorrow and guilt I'd seek,
And calm and truthful words I'd speak
To save them from despair.
| would fiy | would fly Ger the crowded town,
And drop like the happy sunlight, down
Into the hearts of suffering
And teach them to look up again
would fly, l would fly, l would fly DER the
crowded town.
were a voice, a convincing voice,
I'd travel with the wind.
And wherever i saw the nations torn
BY warfare. jealousy spite or scorn,
Or hatred OF their kind,
/ would fly would fly the thunder crash,
And into their blinded bosoms fash;
Then, with their evil thoughts subdued,
I'd teach them Christian brotherhood
| would hy, | would ty, | would fy on the
thunder crash
were a voice, an immortal voice,
i would fly the earth around;
and wherever man 10 his idols bowed,
I'd publish in notes both long and loud
The Gospels joyful sound;
would fly, would fly on the wings OF day
Proclaning peace my worldwide way,
Bidding the saddened earth rejoice
II were a voice, an immortal voice,
Il B. Woodbury..
The times., 1898-08-14
Departing Days.

There are lonely hearts to cherish,
While the days are going by;
There are weary souls who perish.
While the days are going by;
II a smile we can renew,
As our journey we pursue,
Oh, the good we all may do
While the days are going by.
All the loving links that bind US,
While the days are going by;
One by one we leave behind us,
While the days are going by;
But the seeds OF good We sow
Both in shade and shine will grow,
And will keep our hearts aglow,
While the days are going by.
-Whitelaw Reid, in the New York Tribune
The times., 1898-08-14

The Open Court Publishing Company.
Chicago. has in press three works Of
unique interest They are "A History OF
the People of Israel from the earliest
times to the destruction of Jerusalem by
the Romans. by Carl Heinrich Cornell
professor of Old Testament history N
the University of Konigsberg, Germany,
translated from the original German
manuscript by Prof. w. II. carruth, Of
the University of Kansas: 1.-The Gospel
According to Darwin" by Prof. Woods
Hutchinson. of the University of Buff
faIo and a new edition of The Travels
in Tartary, Thibet and China" by Messrs.
Hue and Gabe,,z translated from the
French by ". HazIett. This fine old work
has long been "out of print" in either
French or English.
The times., 1898-08-14

Harper & Brothers, New York, have
nearly ready for publication new work
by Henry d. Lloyd, of Chicago, entitled
Labor Copartnership," being notes of
visits to cooperative workshops, fac
tories, and farms in Great Britain and
Ireland Also 1.-THE Paternal State in
France and Germany" by Henry Gaull-
ieur, a study of what are known as pop
ulistic" theories and the results of put
ting them to the test of practice. They
promise also '.The moral Imbeciles," a
novel by Sarah p Mel. Greene, author of
''vestry of the Basins; Sketch Books, :"
by M, A. Titmarsh, and Early Letters
of George William Curtis to John S.
Dwight, Brook Farm and Concord" edit
ed by George Willis Cooke.
The times., 1898-08-14
HIS motto was to do or die,
Despite the forts and mines;
He did-not died--and that is why
The ghost OF Philip pines,
]. Gordon coogler could not excel that.

Since the death of Gladstone innumer-
able stories of him have come TO light
and many of them have to do with his
literary tastes. As everyone knows. the
bookish side of his character was quite
as prominent during his whole life as
his craftsmanship: and the bookman in
him was emphatically a religious man.
This is illustrated by a story which is
told of him in connection with Renan:
We once discussing Renan '.His Vie de
Jesus is a dull book" said Mr.. Gladstone The
remark fairly astounded those who heard IT. OF
all the criticisms that book, none like this
had ever before been known Ii NAV be any
thing else-irreligious nfdel, irnpious what YOU
wlil-but the man who could find il dull must
be man to whom all literature is dull and
Mr. Gladstone is certainly not that man But
he declared that he had tried to read it and
could not. The same thought came into the
minds Of all of He dared not finish IL He
shrank from the chance of finding fixed beliefs
unsetiled-Teligious beliefs perhaps historical be-
lIefs certainly. But he saw he had gone 100 far
In conversation, as in oratory he expected 10
carry his audience with him. and he could meas
ure the effect of his words Just as accurately
about a dinner table as from platform. He took
one Of those sharp curves which long practice
made easy 10 him.
II don't mean to say that Renan is always
uuIl, or that he has not great merits. His works
on the Semitic philoiogy have high value.''
We kept as grave faces as we could. Mr.
Gladstones sense of humor was never very strong
But even Mr. Gladstone. had ANYBODY but him
self SAID 1t, might have been expected per-
ceiye an incongruity in the view 10 which the
Life Of Jesus was dull. and the ''Histoire Gen
erale des Langues SeInitiques' an entertaining
volume.
The times., 1898-08-14

When and for what reason wss the name Of
butcher first applied TO news agents on pas
senger trains? TB.B
The term Is Of very recent application.
and we have not heard the reason for It.
Candy peddlers travelling with circuses
are known as candy butchers. Perhaps
this is the source
The times., 1898-08-14
Sleepine-WakinE

Ny loved one sleeps
While through the lattice creeps
The early glory OF the Summer day,
kissing the closed white lids and parted lips
Touching the little snowy, dirnpled hands,
To rest al last upon the golden hair
And lose itself amid the brightness there.
Come slowly mOrn-hold back thy burning crest,
For sweet and peaceful as a babe at rest
Ny loved one sleeps.
The times., 1898-08-14
ENyoI.

Gloriana the don may attack US
Whenever his stomach he fain;
He must reach US before he can rack US
And where are the galleons OF Spain?
Austin DobsOn.
The times., 1898-08-14

Are acknowledgements TO real estate deeds taxed
under the new internal revenue laws, and il so,
how much7 FN
There seems TO be difference of opinion
on this subject; as we read the law, ac-
knoWiedgements are not TO be stamped
Leases require stamps. but after they are
stamped the acknowledgment goes free.
The times., 1898-08-14
NOTES AND QUERIES.

Are districts Of the national census fixed per-
or are they changed with each census?
They are fixed for each census.
The times., 1898-08-14

A perusal of foreign periodicals makes
1t plain that the size of this country is
thing not easily understood Dy foreign
ers- They do not realize that in a coun-
try which embraces half a continent
there cannot be a homogeneous popuIa-
ton with the same maners and customs
Hence some striking types of American
life are accepted as universal There was
an instance of this miscomprehension
some time ago in the German periodical.
"Ueber Land und Meer," which is beau
tifuily printed and illustrated. and appar-
emily journal of about the grade of our
best illustrated weeklies. 1t printed what
purported to be "a story OF American
life the scene of which was laid in
Washington. 1t opened with the state
ment that the heroine-a typical Ameri-
can girl, of course-had just laid her pis-
tol down on the table after driving off a
premises. From a sketch of this young
lady's life, it appeared that she had once
in fit of impulsive generosity, cut off
her hair and sold 1t to save the ancestral
home from passing out of the family and
had also gone without her breakfast for
the sake of giving it to some poor chill
dren. In the course of the story this
maiden falls in love with a young man.
and saves him from drowning-in the
Potomac-and after dragging him ashore
she saunters up TO the Indian camp and
proceeds to smoke the peace pipe with
the bravesi
The times., 1898-08-14
Ny loved one wakes

And o'er her dear face breaks
A light more glowing than the Summer day,
The white lids open wide-the red lips smile,
The little hands push back the golden hair,
While from the lustrous depths of her brown
eyes
There comes look of happy, sweet surprise,
Haste quickly. morn-put on thy best array,
For to the JOYS of yet another day
Ny loved one wakes.
Henry Sinclair, in Boston Transcript.
The times., 1898-08-14
The chicago chronicle remarks:

The recent absorption of the publishing house
of Little Brown Co, Boston. brought out a
short sketch OF the history of the latter veteran
house. which is peculiarly interesting and pc
culiarly Bostonian. Little, Brown & Co. is the
straight and legitimate descendant of a book
house established in Boston $50 years ago, and
they occupy the same house today which they
have occupied for sixty-fve years. Can any other
American city show anything like this? In New
York, if the house had held together for sixty
five years. its business would have travelled up
town" four or five miles.
The times., 1898-08-14

A new book of stories Of children IS
given readers who found so much charm
In Mr.. Kenneth Graham's Golden Age.
This last is by Mrs. Murray Hickson,
newcomer in this department of htera-
ture. and her work as evinced IN the dam
" volume entitled Concerning Teddy
published by NJ. f. Mansfield K Co,
comes dangerously near that of Mr. Gra-
ham.
The times., 1898-08-14

what IS the pay of priyates and non-eemrfs-
sioned officers in the army now-volunteers. es-
peelaiiyf C.
All persons in the army. whether regu-
lars or volunteers, draw war paw an
ADVANCE OF ~ per cent over regular
peace pay An ordinary private gets
1880 month; a corporal gets SIS: a SER
geant S21.60. Men in the engineers ger
rather more than those of the line sery-
ices"
The times., 1898-08-14

: A. T. Quiller-Couch is said to be meeting
with great success in his new venture,
the Cornish Magazine. 1t Is said to have
circulation of upward of 15,o0o copies.
The times., 1898-08-14

Edward Everett Hale's James Russell
Lowell and His Friends" in the July
magazine number of the Outlook, takes
up Lowell's experience as an editor Dr.
Hale says: Let me say word about any
presumption that Lowell was a mere fig
urehead, and that some one else did the
work. Trust me. for I know. I have
worked under many editors, good and
bad Not one of them understood his
business better than Lowell. or worked at
its details more faithfully"
The times., 1898-08-14

It is said there are only five artists in
the world who have succeeded in drawing
good pictures of cats. They are the Jap
anese Hokusai, the Swiss Mind, the Eng
lish Burbank the French Lambert and
the Dutch Nine Ronner. yellow Beau
ty." cat story published by Laird & Lee,
Chicago. is Illustrated from pictures by
Nine. Ronner The new edition is said 10
be most delightful as a gift book for
children.
The times., 1898-08-14

thorough than in the public schools of
England, where the student Is required
to compose Latin verse, and begins the
study at most tender age, it is an ex-
ceptional student who can read page of
Virgil off-hand, five years after leaving
even college, much less a nigh school
A little meditation over the yellow tones
in the Congressional Library, however,
recalls the fact that two hundred or even
one hundred years ago, many books of
great interest to the student were only
printed in Latin, that being sort OF
common tongue for wise men of all ma
tions During the dark ages of literature
the circle of students was much smaller
than it is now, and it was more necessary
for scholars of different nations to keep
in touch through common medium. So
they all learned Latin, and all wrote
their scientific books or books of travel
in Latin, and much trouble was saved.
Thus it was absolutely necessary for the
young man who aspired to an education
to begin with learning Latin, and the ira
dition has not yet departed from our
schools. To be sure, there is some intel
lectual drill in the study, as in any hard
mental work; and there is some fine lit
erature written in it; but one need only
reflect on the comparative beauty of
Latin and Greek literature, and the COM
paratiye number of students who become
Yersed in the one or the other language.
to see that it is not mental drill nor the
literature which has settled this question.
Latin is simply fetch.
IL seems as if the spirit of Eugene
fleld were stiH alive in the person of his
brother Roswell NJ. Field, of the Lights
and Shadows column in the Chicago
Post. Mr.. Field has lately given himself
TO delicious piece of guying which the
departed poet would have loved as pick
anlnny loves watermelon He de-
scribes collection of up-to-date ballads
OF the war which will shortly be pub
hshed by the eminent poets. Mr.. Pegasus
Shelley and Mr.. Tinglevein, and which.
the authors hope, will be accepted as a
Textbook in the public schools and will
take the place of Lockhart's Ancient
Spanish Ballads, and Southey's Chron-
icle of the Cid. One of the ballads is
called "A Sabbath at Manila" and the
way it ends is this:
His motto was to do or die
Despite the forts and mines
He did-not died-and that is why
The ghost OF Philip pines.
The times., 1898-08-14

Longmans. Green & Co., New York,
have in press Sir benjamin Collins Bro
die" by DR.. Timothy Holmes, being an
addition 10 their Masters of Medicine"
series. They announce also new book
by Andrew Lang, entitled, THE Compan-
ion of Pickle-Being a Sequel to Pickle
the Spy" a work brought out by Ger
tain criticisms of the earlier work. They
have Just published Problems of Modern
Industry" collection of essays on most
timely themes, by Mr.. and Mrs. Sidney
Webb.
The times., 1898-08-14

Weathersby Chesney is the pen name of
a well-known writer, whose books under
his own name have placed him in the
front rank of modern novelists. He now
gives US, as relaxation possibly, a series
of chapters under the inclusive title,
'.Tales of a Civil Engineer" being eX-
periences which he had while engaged in
scientific Investigations. (New York: NJ.
f. Mansfield & Coz
The times., 1898-08-14

Mrs. Ritchie tells US in her introduce
ton to ''Pendennis'' how Laura. Bell
came to receive her name and whose face
it was from which Thackeray drew that
of Pen. In those days writes the
great noyelists daughter. there was 3
little girl living in Brighton. Charming
little girl, with dark eyes and curly brown
hair; and l have often heard the story
how she came running into the room
and said her name was Laura, and how
my father then and there made her god
mother to his new heroine. She was the
youngest of three daughters of Horace
Smith, of the Rejected Addresses.
Little Laura married Mr.. John Round.
and died still young, still dark-eyed. CAV
and charming.
''Nor must 1 forget to mention a Wis
ttor who used to come to Kensington in
the very early days of Pendennis He
was rather short, good-looking young
man, with a fair, placid face. 1t was
Summer time, and we dined at some
early hour. and one day after dinner, by
daylight still. my father pulled out his
sketchbook and began to make draw
ing of his guest. This was a young lit
erary man. just beginning his career: his
name was Charles Lamb Kenny, and we
were told that he was to be the hero of
the new book, or. rather, that the hero
was to look like Mr.. Kenny"
This passage in Mr. G. II. Perris' book,
LEO Tolstoi, the Grand Moujik," is
quoted by the London News as character
istic of the authors style:
There is no rest, no shirking, in their brute
toll. I see nothing of the large independence
Of the London decker, none of the self-respecta-
blity inculcated by the egregious Mr.. Smiles
only an inexhaustible willingness, and an inde-
scribable something that reminds one Of Hays
"Christ Before Plate in the Tretiakoff Gallery.
All! country of the scared face and giants heart;
what ages of penury and slave service have taught
this utter devotion to the reanest taskl What
sufferings, harder than Jobs, pass daily within
these wooden cabins OF under this coldly smiling
sky! What unutterable pathos sobs itself out in
the low, lifting chant of the Yolga gangsmen! It
is the vesper hymn of the temple OF eternal toll,
the unphrased magnifcat of endlessly patient
wrestling with the life-givng earth under the free
winds of heaven.
n,,fllar Copoh fc cai1 m he meeting