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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-12-10

interest is the psalms. On their OWL
merit they exist Like sweet grapes
they cluster about the Temple worship.
Like rich wine they refresh us whether
1t tic poetry or religion our hearts are
thirsty for. Prophecy and history in
them are net together. There are eie-
gies and marriage hymns. Devotion and
nature kiss each other.
The twenty ninth psalm is song OF
the Thunders torn. Ii is constructed up
on the envelope figure: the opening and
closing quatrains are subjective, first
as the signs OF the coming storm move
the poet to the thoughts of grandeur,
the last enyeloned in the peace of God 5
protection. The intervening triplets de-
scribe thunderstorm, the rushing
waters the majesty OF sound and ma
ture refreshened, the food of the furI-
eFss teInltest, and the voice of the Lord.
Their view " nature was religious
Thunder was to them the expression OF
the eternal King Storms in Palestine
are FAR more severe than storms here.
tbs IS q psalm of the Penfeoosf. The
angels are Summoned to render their
fsfagie of praise:
.Giye INTO the Lord. O We sons Of the
mighty.
Give uE.o the Lord glory and strength.
Give uEto the Lord the glory due n1to
his name;
Worship the Lord in the beauty Of holi-
hess.
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Harbor of Nod-a-Bye Town.

Twilight comes down, twilight comes
down,
Ho. for the harbor of Nod-aBye town!
Drifting away ON the pillows of Dusk.
Wafted by winds which are drowsy with
musk,
4 dear little mariner glides from the
quay
or the Here and floats out on the meas.
ureless sea
or the Somewhere-'ti tbs known as tho
ocean of Rest,
And the quay OF the Here is warm
loving breast;
And the cables which slip at Il sallilg
like this
Are knotted with love and loosened vita
n kiss.
Twilight comes down, twilight comes
down
Ho! for the harbor Of Nod-a-Bye towa.
o beautiful harbor of Nod-aBye town,
Your lights glimmer brightly as twilight
comes down;
They twinkle and CLEAN through the
gathering dark
Bright eyes, keeping watch for each
sleep-drifted bark:
Your shores stretch away to the oloo'n-
covered hills,
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had much to do with the authorship OF
the psalm since they had other important
things to look after. So did David.
His creative work was welding the
tribes Of Israel into a nation with q
capital city compacted together. lie
thrashed the tribes into obedience, made
them pay taxes, and found for wan
dering Israel national consciousness.
In the State divine. religion was a
public matter. SO worship was Il mat
ter of legislation. superintendent by
the King 1t was very natural then
that the psalms. some of them, were
dedicated to David for the temple wor-
ship. Then it is natural to suppose
that the national hymn book had a
natural sort of growth.
Every creative period has its litera-
ture, and around every creator, as a
centre. clusters poetry and romance like
grapes cling to the parent stem. The
The penteteuch has for his centre
Moses: look at the literature of the
Charlemagre period; the Had and
Odyssey and Virgil cluster about the
war of Troy; about King Arthur there
revolves the Holy Grail, and a maze
Of song and story; Christ is the centre
of the New Testament but he never
wrote a word.
But all this cannot tell us who wrote
the psalms The authorship is still
a matter OF conjecture. The point or
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SONGS OF PRAISE.
Sallie w. Stockard.


The prayer book of the Bible is the
book of Psalms Here Lyric poetry
found its perfection. Poetry is the
beautiful language of passion therefore
in it religion has its best expression;
for religion is matter of feeling. The
lyric is that poetry nearest feeling.
Sharp contracts and metaphors, natural
to both Lyric and religion bring out depth
of feeling All this is found III the
Psalms.
Something in regard to their structure
helps to a better appreciation of them.
Paralleism is the kind of measure most
frequently found in them. The strain
and the triplet are their units of measure.
AS primitive religions combine rhythum
of motion with their chaming so the in
triCate executions of the dance is re-
fiected in corresponding miracles of
verse. The psalms have strophe and
antitrophe structure, like the Greek
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The Lord will bless His people with
peace"
Note after the storm calm. after The
thunder peace.
The songs of the ascenfs are to the
psalms what the Lyrics Of Burns are
to English literature. These songs q
the going up are one hundred and
twenty to one hundred and thirty-louf
inclusive. They are full of pathoS'
longing for home, rich imagery and lyfi-
cal loyeliness. Hundred and twenty
six as a song cf deliverance from Baby
lonian captivity. The exiles are wait
ing for their glorious seedtime of re-
turn. The rivulets of those returning
will swell like the streams in the south
when SHOWS melt.
when the Lord turned again the cap
tivity of Zion.
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BILL APPS LETTER.

How euhemeral is fame. This word
Is of Greek origin and literally means
for day" and was applied to the lives
Of certain insects. Its meaning has
broadened aud now II is applied to life
or fame On wealth or happiness or any
thing Chat is OF brief or uncertain dura-
ton. | was r1uinating about this be
cause ! have been down to Ba1ncsyille
and Ihomaston, two prosperous towns,
enc iu Pike and tine other in Epson
county. | inquired Of several good citi-
zcns who Mr. Epson was and they could
not tell. Finally an old gentleman said
that he was member Of the Legislature
from Ogleihorpe county and was a very
great and good imam and died early, and
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In Spalding county 1T was admitted that
negroes carried the day and killed the
much wanted reform If the mothers
and wives and sisters could have voted
the majority for prohibition woTlld have
been overwhelming. Who doubts it..
Ii it is not considered proper for women
TO vote in political matters surely they
can be trusted in moral measures that
affect the welfare of their husbands and
sons and brothers, and also in all eluca-
tional organizations why does not
some member of the legislature with
a great big heart and brain champion
this reform? The people are ready for
it and will say Daniel has come to
Judgment
Our Thanksgiving is oyer-we had a
turkey that had been stabilized, but my
wife and I were invited to a good kind
neighbours and the girls to another
neighbor's, and our turkey has been
respited. He has been gobbling all the
day, but hears no response from neigh
boring coops would be sorry f,lr tur-
keys if they were sorry for themselves.
We had union Thanksgiving service
in our town and large congregation
listened to Mr. Dealers eloquent dis
course from the 147th Psalm: God hath
not dealt so with any other nation.
He sketched our country from Column
ssu!ssoIq aBql sn psAAoqs pun uMop snq
and love had followed us for 400 years.
1t was grand sermon, BILL ARP.
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We were like unto them that dream.
Then was our mouth filed with
laughter
And our tongue with singing:
Then said they among the nations,
The Lord hath done great things for
them.
The Lord hath done great things for
IFS:
Whereof we are glad.
Turn again our captivity, o Lord,
As the streams in the south.
They that sow in tears
Shall reap in JOY.
Though he goeth on his way weep
inv
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Bearing forth the seed;
He shall come again with joy,
Bearing his sheaves with him"
A fitting to close the selection is the
family song Of labor and domestic life
that give peace.
4 song OF TOLL AND HOME
Except the lord build the house,
They labor in vain that build it;
Except the Lord keep the city,
The Waterman waketh but in vain.
1T is vain for you that We rise up early,
And so hate take rest,
And eat the bread of toll
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the legislature of which he was a menr
Ter made new county and manned it
for him. But now there is not one man
in hundred in that county that knows
anything about him. | did not find any
body VINO knew what Mr.. Thomas the
toWa Was named for. just so | did not
trd anyone at GAINESVILLE who knew
what Mr. Pike chat county was named
for. So / had to wait till got home
and examined my books and | learned
that Zebulon Pike was a great soldier
in the war of 1S12-that before that he
explored the far West, and was the
first man TO discover and ascend that
very high mountain which has ever since
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-12-10

been called pixies Peak"
The town Of Zebulcn took his Chris
tian name or rather his Jewish name.
for Zebulon was the sixth sen of Jacob
and his descendants became sailors. No
body could tell me who GAINESVILLE was
named for. Nobody cares very much
who any town or county was manned
for. The present seems to be all that
concerns us, and the historic part will
soon pass into oblivion for the old men
arc nearly all dead Not long ago /
read how an Englishman was walking
about the beautiful cemetery of Gettys-
burg and met onfelcratc veteran
There and said to him: These grand
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-12-10

So He giyeth unto His beloved sleep.
10, are the heritage of the Lord:
The fruit of the womb is his reward.
As arrows in the hand of mighty
man,
So are the children of youth.
Happy i the man that hath his culver
full OF them:
They shall not be ashamed, when they
speak with their enemies in the
gate"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-12-10

! think a woman who paints or pow
ders. wears loud clothes. talks loudly or
wears wrapper at breakfast in "a hotel
is not lady Mrs. Mary Jansen Hunt
in THE Haight separation case before
Justice Giegerich.
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monuments and gravestones will for
ever perpetuate the memories of the
brave men who fell. but fear your
Confederate dead will soon pass into
Oblivion unless You give them ce1nete-
ries and monuments like Theses" mo"
said the veteran, ''0urs will last as long
as these for every stranger who comes
here win naturally ask the same ques-
tion that yon did: Who killed all these
people who are buried here9"
AS / travel over the South can tell
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of dear ones will be grasped, life Will
be heaven and heaven will be life.
The soul is hungry for this food end
God will soon give it to us with His
own bounteous hand.
GEORGE III. HEPWORTH.
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AGUINALDO WOULD THROW
AWAY HIS GOLD WHISTLE

Ii he could catch glimpse Of our sill
yer novelties. watches and jewelry. He
would stop his blowing for while,
and admire something else than his own
abilities. He might be induced to swap
his chances Of securing the dictatorship
of the Philippines for the privilege of
selecting a present for his best girl from
the stock which we recently bought in
our Christmas preparations.
But these things are not for Aggie.
They are too nice for the Tagal leader.
We secured them for our friends and
would be pleased to have you call and
see them before making your selections
for Xmas presents.
Respectfully,
b. X. JOLLY.
12S Fayetteville st.
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shelters you here
May you find i'll these arms while the
tears trickle down,
AS of old, the fair harbor VT Nod-a-
Bye town.
-DETROIT FREE PRESS.
Arizona republican., 1899-08-29

mitted the great resemblance between
E5terhazy's handwriting and that CT
'.he bordereau. Yet it was on his
handwriting that Dreyfus was con-
victed. But Gonse was thoroughly
discredited long ago, and it is no won
der that he found it impossible to re-
habi,ttate himself. He began by au-
'horizing Picquart's inquiries and
then drew back in fright when he saw
the way they were tending. His own
letters which have been published are
his own condemnation.
These men are not all who have bs-
come involved in this mOnstrcus COT
spiracy to commit a national wrong
against an innocent man, and against
all the principles CT truth and Justice
Whether some Of them were the or
:ginal traitors for whose protection
Dreyfus was put up as a man of straw,
some of them were the Gull
pr:ts who had been selling their coun-
try, or whether it was some c.thcr one
Or more Of great rank and influence.
is the mystery Of the Dreyfus case as
yet unsolved
Arizona republican., 1899-08-29
HETEROGENEOUS EFFORT.

Mr.. Spurgson used to ',5ll Il good
story about one of his divinity stu
dents 1t wJs his custom, in order 70
test the. powers az the young men for
speaking, to give thsm as they were
about tC ascend The pulpit text to
discourse about on their own plan and
in their own words. This, of course.
was net before an audience, but sim
ply among themselves for practice. On
the occasion referred to he gave to
young man who as yet had not trito
the ordeal the simple word 'Zacch
aeus The young man, trembling
from head % foot said:
II will divide ny subject into three
TlT'3. First. we read that Z2cch3euS
was small CT stature, and 1 never felt
smaller than at the present moment;
second, we read that ZacclG3eGs climb
ed a tree, which reminds me of my
ascer.s into this pulpit; third. we read
tnat Zaccnaeus made haste 10 come
down, which occcrd,rgly l will now
do
Whether tbs man ever became y
great preacher or nct We are not told,
but he certainly ehicw=1 that h Pos
se..ed r:ady wit,- Rams H?rn.
Arizona republican., 1899-08-29
THE QUEENS STOCKING.

Her Majesty was recently walking in
Il Roman suburb Wlleal She rUticed n
PHEASANT faced little girl and spoke to
her. There WAS Il Il1,ie conversation.
and the queen asked the child what she
could do lin the way Of neejilework.
4 can knit stockings, stgnona." replied
the girl. do you knew who l ann"
colitinued fale queen. Yes. signo:a.
YOU are the queen wei. then,
make me Il pair of stockings and send
them 10 the palace" A few days
afte1'wald the stockings arrived. amd
Queen dargherita in return for the
gIot SSH the child Beautiful pair of
rose cClocod stockings. the one filled
with swt SIS. the Other with money.
Next day The queen received u letter
from her little friegd couched in the
following words: ''S.gnOra. your gift
has caused me no end of tears Ny
father collared the mooney, my e.Sler
brother grabbed The sweets and as to
the stockings. why mother pUt them OH
hcrself.-LondOn Chronicle.
Arizona republican., 1899-08-29

1 lake a man with me and a guardian
on the box seat. 1t IS monstrous. All
who have seen me here have promised
70 take up my defense, and no one as
yet kept his premise. You will do the
same protested, and we were about
to part He accompanied me to the
door. 1 gave him my hand and was
about to cross she threshold, when l
uttered a cry of indignation. He had
just poured ove2 me a big bucket of
cold winter, 6TencIing me from head
to feet. I turned round fu.tously. He
looked at me with a quiet, affectionate
air. I have just done you,' he said,
an immense service. Your head is too
big for your body. You nu-'S be made
to grow by violent longitudinal wash
ing down, for that eng hers cut the
nerves from the feet upward. Your
statue will increase by six inches and
you will come bhck to thank me- NJ.
Quesnay de Beaurel5rire belongs to
this o:ass. His DreyfrB inquiry is the
bucket of We,.sr of my Cr1d friend. It
tetrays the monCmaria in the corner
eff the brain. PARIS Letter to London
Tines
Arizona republican., 1899-08-29
HORSE FLESH IN PARIS.
It Is Eaten in Grec.s Quantities and
Often Unawares.

A veterinary surgeon of TIoyes, NJ.
Morot by name, has Issued pamphlet
in which he deals with the consErnp-
ton OF horse flesh in France. lit seems
that the number of horses killed annu-
ally for purposes of food has been
steadily on the increase Cor years past:
though whether this increase is due
10 any real development of the pOpu-
Ear taste for horse flesh IS an article OF
d ct or merely to clandestine and I'M
Cpeakable maneuverS On the Far5 OF
butchers and restaurant prOprie-ors
does not appear with all the clearness
that might be desired.
The sale of horse flesh for food was
first publicly carried on in Fur:s in
1866 This novel meat YVES viewed, to
begin with, with extreme suspicion,
but the enforced eating of horse flesh
during the siege seems to have done
much to remove the prejudices CT Par
isians, for the consumption has since
gone up without intermission- From
5,034 in 1872, the number Of horses
slaughtered rose to 10,608 in 1877, TO
12,776 in 1888. 70 1896 in 1885, to TO-
S89 in 1890, and to %, 1856 in 1S94-the
most recent figures given.
They include, 1T may be added, don
keys and mules, Tor which there IS also
a ce:tatn demand. Special slaughter
houses exist for the purpose under the
control of a special staff of inspectors.
ard there are now quite a number Of
butchers who admittedly sell nc'.hInS
whatever but horse fash. There is
even a society for the promotion of
eating horse flesh, to which the mem
beers of the body ascribe special by
Cleric virtues ,3s well as eminent gas
tronCntc qualities. NJ. MoEot himself
is loud in his praise of horse flesh, but
he complains th1I. the animals con-
verted into joints are habitually too
thin and generally the worse fer wear.
He advocates the preliminary fatten-
ing of the horses that are to serve as
food He states tha,s two or three
weeks of the process is sufficient, and
that the superior quality and greater
we GIT of meat Obtained amply recoup
the expense. The meat CT horses treat
ed in this way is ind.stin guishab2e, M
Moro affirms, from prime beef Il
this be the case, it is ,7n too probable
that Parisians not infrequenty revel
in horse flesh unawares.-Pal Mali
Gazette.
Arizona republican., 1899-08-29
FRUIT FOR The LIQUOR HABIT.

writer in a European temperance
journal calls atteE'iOn to the value or
fruit as an antidote to the craving for
liquor. He says: In Germany, a ma
ton greatly in advance of other coun-
tries in matters relating to hygiene,
alcoholic disease has been successful
ly coped with by the adoption of pure
diet and natural curative agencies. l
have said that the use of fresh fruit is
an antidote for the drink craving, and
this is true. 1 have met workingmen
who have told me that fruit has often
taken away the craving for drink; l
met a clergyman recently who assured
me that a diet consisting largely OF
fruit had taken entirely away an he
reditary craving that had troubled h1m
for years. 1t may be asked, how can
fruit and pure diet do. all this? The
explanation is simple. Fruit may be
called natures medicine. Every apple.
every orange, every plum and every
grape is a bottle of medicine. An or
ange is three parts water-distilled in
natures laboratory-but this water is
rich in pecG5iar fruit acids medicinal
" balanced, which are specially cool
ing tc the thirst of the drunkard, and
soothing to the diseased state of his
stomach An apple or an orange eaten
when the desire for "a glass arises
would generally take it away, and
every victory would make less strong
each recurring temptation The func-
ton of fresh fruit and succulent vege-
tables is net so much to provide solid
nourishment as to supply the needful
acids and salines for the publication
of the blood Once get the blood pure,
every time its pure nutrient stream
battles the several tissues of the body
it will bring away some impurity, and
leave behind an atom of healthy It's
sue, until, in time, the drunkard shall
stand up purified-in his right mind
New Orleans Times-Damocrat.
Arizona republican., 1899-08-29
SUFFICIENT REASON.

The Instructor at lie normal insti-
tl,tc being held at La Cygne addressed
Ehe pupils the other Cay uGd sad: Il
don't see why it IS that people do not
enjoy the fresh. air more than they do.
Take, for example, the case of a young
man calling on a ycCng lady. The
irsls thing size does ig to invite the
young man into hot and stuffy par
TOR. New, why net 81 on the front
porch, or, batter slrH. in comfortable
tt3nlnocks?" Al this point there o2me
in a small voice frcm a large. man sit
ting in the Gear Of the room the reply:
Because there mint any blinds. -
Kansas City Journal
Arizona republican., 1899-08-29
TO PREVENT ELECTROLYSIS.
A Possible Me.h0d OF Rendering Va
grant Electric CUE ents Harmless.

The amoqTn,t of damage done to wtuter.
and gas pipes by electricity that has es-
capped frCGm trolley lines On It's way
back to the power house IS almost IN
caleuGaole. The evil is not so serious
nowadays as Ia Wis several years ago.
Modern mGtuods for providing for tie
RETURN of tn current have lessemad is
yaSlgu-tt disposition Nevertheless
tile trouble contributes to come eXteLH.
a suggestion lhs.i5 bears on the siu.)-
jecd WAS made Ky the Engineering
News a few days ago. In St. JOHN.
y. B., it has bacu the practice for nulr
ly half century to close the joints III
city water pipes, not with melted lead.
as III, most other places, bE1 with pine
plugs. line experiment. was tried in
1871, and again in 1857. Cn both o.
c;ISiiOus it worked 20 we'll that the
Sln5 policy wais pursued two Years ago.
The object in view was merely to s.
cue CGCC1Jny. But merit ION of the
fact reminds the Engineering News OF
the I-Da-,-Ii-g qUiill:tzS of wood, and
OF the proposition made last year by
HanJ-d j. Brown that TWO or more
lengths OF wooden pipe he introduced
INTO The MAINS In every district where
tI0UG.s. Was TO be anticipated . Elec-
t.ic.ty'uLdI e1bt eIJ,er. al Line Of pipe if it
cannot get out again. An obstacle
which would prove effectuaI al any
gwen T10:tit H'icrlg "a system of metallic
conductors would dissuade a cur
rent fem going into it iii
the first place. Hence, if the
w3cden Plugs inte1fered with the
OF the pipes. ii is EurI to
see why they would not protect them
from 1nvds.bn And If the curren 5
would I'ct Gcittlmrt to travel along the
pipe at all. no eIectrOlyFJis or corrosiOn
would ensiue.-New York Tribune.
Arizona republican., 1899-08-29
VOICE OF THE PEOPLE.

Harper's weekly says shat 'the PEG
PIE are behind the presidents deter
minatiCn to conquer this insur: ection,
and the anti-imperialist who favors
surrender is not likely to meet with
much sympathy or to advance his
oaUce." How discour3ging must be
this observation from a recognized ex-
poDent of sober sentiment for those
vigilant recorders Of public opinion
who have found that the people have
sat their faces against this unholy
war!-New York Commercial Adver-
+iser.
Arizona republican., 1899-08-29

Well, Thcnas B. Reed has handed
his resignation as member OF the
house Of representatives to She gov
ernor of Maine, to take effect on Sep
TENDER 4. May the sturdy statesman
find profit ard satisfaction in the prac-
tice of his profession in the closing
days Of his life. He has served the
people well and faithfully and he is
right in deciding to work a little for
himself now
Arizona republican., 1899-08-29

Every man who has demonstrated
that he IVES a brave and efficient SOL
dier when in action is willing to admit
that he wos scared when he first heard
firing Now here is Governor Roose-
welt telling new regiment at Platts-
burg that ..he first time they get into
a battle they VIE "be a little scared
and sick at the stomach no matter
how brave they may. be. The governor
no doubt speaks from experience.