The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-06-30
Some ViequS ~ -
~ ~ and ReUieqvS.

The news comes from England that Mr..
Hall Calne Is stirred 70 deepest Indlgna.
ton by the announcement that the pope,
having read his Eternal City" prcnounces
his Italians TO be anglo saxons"
The verdict Of the Holy Father win be
sustained by the ialty. as Mr. Cnine win
discover by and by. The men and women
In his latest story are truly without coun-
try, In that they appcrtaln 10 none espe-
cially. We have MIR. Gaines own word for
II that they are Italians and must rest
content With that.
air. Whittier possessed one distinctive
characteristics which seems not to have
appertained especially to any other Ameri-
can poet. The events aud the individuals
he celebrates are frequently OF doubtful
authenticity and subjects for endless argu-
ment. II Is said the people of Marble
head have never forgiven the ballad re-
latine the desertion by skipper Ireson. or a
sinking ship and her crew, and the barbar-
Gus punishment inflicted upon him by the
women OF the town. Both these incidents
have been denied, and the statement made
I
was tarred and feathered and ridden In a
cart by the women Of Marblehead," In
reality rescued the crew Of the aforesaid
sinking ship.
Then came Barbara Fritchie and her
remarkable gymnastie performance in de-
fancc OF the army OF Northern Virginia.
which had no existence save in the poet's
too fervid Imagination. Now we are con
fronted by a controversy concerning the
authenticity and identity OF Mol Pitcher.
| The evidence regarding her Is conflicting.
1 hut the citizens Of Carlisle. Pennsylvania,
/ claim the honor Of being her tOwnsmen,
and In proof thereof, nearly twenty years
since erected a monument TO her by public
subscription. That she really existed is
proved by the fact OF her maintenance by
the government at Carlisle barracks, where
she died In 1888 The Pennsylvania legls.
| lature also granted her an annuity by spe-
! cial act for services during the revolu-
( tionary war. The inscription upon her
( monument Is as follows;
| Molly McCauley
Remembered in History as Mol Pitcher.
The Heroine OF Monmouth,
Died January, 1888.
Aged 70 Years
Erected by the Citizens Of
Cumberland County,
July 4. 1876"
~
| The sultan's typewriter and the kaisers
tongue have furnished opportunity for much
discussion at home ana abroad Of late. The
former, whose latest prouait book like
"the counterfeit presentment' OF the author
of Evil, considers typewrters as essential.
ly dssemiuators OF treason strategems
nud spells, and therefore lnterdicts them
within the limits of his dominion The pic
| ture recently drawn Of this medieval des-
/ pot. who delights TO pose as one OF the
| progressive and enlightened rulers Of to
/ day, may be accepted as authentic. since
1t Is from the pen of Georges Doris, a
| Journalist well known in Paris. He is a
Turkish subject of Greek descent and
I knows whereof he writes His book is said
10 have made n genuine sensation in Eu-
/ rope. II Is a thought worthy Of the brain
OF Abdul tiamid, that the suppression of a
machine can stine the protests OF an op
pressed and downtrodden people,
The other party 10 the act of suppress
4 sion is the emperor of Germany; it is the
/ press upon which the weight Of his dis
| pleasure falls, as is made manifest by his
recent edict that no reporters shall in fu-
ture be present when he delivers his
speeches How unfortunate it is thar the
saving graccs Of common sense and hamoI
are not royal prerogatives Long ago, when
the empress then the unheralded princess
OF an Insignificant German state, married
the emperor, she lnaugurwed the practice
of keeping a diary, In which was 10 he
preserved all Of his august utterances
These pearls of vision were carefully In
scribcd in large volume secured with a
paddock ana key, which IN turn reposed in
an iron safe. Doubtless by this time, the
volume has multiplied into an edition and
the safe has an annex.
Unhappily for themselves and their sub
6ects neither OF this pair of Twentieth cen
tury rulers Is so constituted as TO appreciate
Dr.. Johnson's remarks to Boswell, on one
OF those numerous occasions when the lat
ter enjoyed the pains Of martyrdom at tn,
hands OF his adored patron. sir" sale
DR.. Johnson. your attitude on this ques
ton Is as ridiculous as anything you hay,
said tonight, and 10 say SO much, sir, Is, Lei
me tell you, to say a good deal"
r. ~ Pollard.
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