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The Republican journal., 1902-07-31
Cemetery Crudities.

What is more sadly comic or incon-
gruous than the imposing medley of
stone and marble in a great cemetery:
The towering columns loom over the
resting places of such small citizens.
The dove of peace" alights where it
would never have brooded of its free
will. The guardian angel bends over
the viXen's tomb, while mediocre bits
of slate denote the graves of many
sanity and gifted pilgrims.
These awkward blocks and heather
urns and dreadful craven images are
the expression OF living human hearts.
This mournful medley of badly sculp-
tnred marbles is but their pitiful en-
deavor to render final tribute to their
beloved ones, and to insure perpetual
remembrance OF names and dates that
mean so much to them.
The monuments have naught to do
with those that rest beneath them:
they speak not of the travellers gone,
but OF those left behind. These blocks
and columns belong not to the city of
the dead, but are the property of living
architects. They tell us not of the de
parted, but merely something of his
friends. Have they good taste: Much
money: Are they pretentious or sen
tlmental:
So with the epitaphs. We read them
and take note that the remaining rela-
tlyes were fond of scriptural quotations
or poetry. This composition was done
to show the rhymer's skill rather than
to set forth the merits of the dead.
These sorroWing friends dotted ON dec
oratlve scrolls. those upon ornamental
lettering. The owner of this lot does
not forget to bring his individual offer
lng OF potted plants, while the proprie-
tor OF that grand ironfenced Enclosure
leaves the selection of flowers to the
gardener.
Let him who gazes at the innnmerable
monuments of stone and marble fail to
eXclaIm, Behold the city of the deadr
Rather let him muse on this curious de
scrlptlon of the surviving multitude
This lnartistic and conglomerate mass
OF ugly slabs voices their sentiment and
pictures them alone.
These are their crude and primativ c
devices. Some day they Will perchance
look back upon it all and wonder er-The
August Atlantic.
The Republican journal., 1902-07-31
Spider Web.

A slender iilament is yon
Brig hit bit of goSSamer whereon
The sunlit spider swings-what if he fall ::
A couch of grass is all.
A doing architect, he lays
His skillful courses on my ways
But see how idly. For with one light blow
lay his rafters low.
Yet he'll go building still, as |.
Whose castles oft in ruins lie,
Begin and spin anew my tilament
by some vast Being rent.
Mayhap, because | choose to lay
My daring rafters on His way,
He sweeps his veXed forehead with frow1
And strikes my castles down.
james Herbert Morse, in the Atlantic.
The Republican journal., 1902-07-31

The old New England stock farmers
believed in feeding Well" That is a
chOre that comes first OF all. 50 Farmer
Jones sets his lantern on a BEAM pushes
luS forkful after tolkfuI of rusting hay
into the managers. and pours the sweet
busted meal and cracked corn before
the drooling creatures that are snorting
and scuttling i'll hungry anticipation.
Then he sits down i'll the dusky Inter,
brow against the warm flank Of Il COW.
and drums stCaning criSs-crOss streams
into the pail that mother keeps SO spot
lessly shining. \ farmer WhJ enjoys
the companionship ana comfort of his
beasts can get plenty of comfort for
himself out of the contented riot of
teeth along the rows of the stanchions,
as he sits there and milks. There 5
something in the sound that gives him
d relish for his own breakfast that
mother is setting on the table-fried
ham and warmed-over biscuit and
steaming cotfee-Ilolman F. Day, in
August Everybody's Magazine.
The Republican journal., 1902-07-31

Women love clear, healthy complexion.
Pure blood makes it. Burdock Blood Bit
ters makes pure blood.
Pat-Poor Mike is did
Terry-Yis; he niver aven lived to injoy
his life insurance
A wheelman's tool bag isn't complete
without bottle of DR.. Thomas Ecectric
Oil. Heals cuts, bruises, stings, sprains.
Monarch over pain.
''You admit you stole the horse?"
Eyes, your honor, but there are extenuat-
ing circumstances.
"What are they?"
81 stole the horse for my starving family,
your honor"
ones vitals couldn't be much worse than
the tOrtures OF itching piles. Yet there's
cure. Doan's Ointment never fails.
Teacher-For what is the city of Lynn
noted?
Small Boy-For it's great amount of seed.
Teacher-Oh, no.
Small Boy-Then where does linseed come
from?
A boon to travellers. DR.. Fowler's Extract
of Wild Strawberry. Cures dysentery,
diarrhpa, seasickness, nausea. Pleasant to
take. Perfectly harmless.
She-I'm delighted to know you, but
I'm surprised to find you SO tall; your
brother, the poet, is unusually short.
He-I wouldn't say unusually short.
''No?"
"No; he is usually short. t."-Philadel-
phia Record.
The Republican journal., 1902-07-31

"My mother suffered a long time from dis
tressing pains and general ill health due
primarily to indigestion" says l.. W. Spald-
ing, Verona, Mo. "TWo years ago l got
her to try Kodol. She grew better at once
and now, at the age of seventy-six, eats
anything she wants remarking that she
fears no bad effects as she has her bottle of
Kodol handy" Don't waste time doctoring
symptoms Go after the cause. If your
sd' KodoI rests % the stomach and strengthens
the body by digesting your food. it is
natures own tonic.
The Republican journal., 1902-07-31
PROMISES

Once when was very sick.
And doctor thought Id de.
And mother cOuld'n smile at me
But it just turned to cry.
That was the time for promises;
You should have heard them tell
The lots of good things | could have,
If l'd get well.
But when the fever went away.
And began to mend,
And begged to eat the goodies
That Grandma Brown would send,
They SAID beet-tea Vas better
And gave my grapes to Nell.
And laughedand said :"l on re mighty cross
Since you got well"
Augusta kortrecht ia the August Cen
tuTy,
The Republican journal., 1902-07-31
Consul Mt Gundelouue

Colonel Louis H. Ayme. United States
consul to Guadeloupe. who sent the
first news of the st. Pierre disaster.
was first appointed to the consular
service By james G. Blaine. Shortly
The Republican journal., 1902-07-31
Thomas Story For 1t.

BANGOR, july -. F. X. Thomas of
Exeter said today that Frank B. Brown
of South Brewer, who disappeared at
Pushaw lake on July s, was living prob
ably at 26 Winter street, Lawrence,
Mass, with Mrs. Thomas, and that the
couple had eloped Thomas stated
that Browns disappearance was part
of plot to secure $4,000 life insurance
from the Brewer lodge OF the Ancient
Order of United Workmen which he
joined short time ago. A demand for
the amount of the policy has been
made on them by Mrs. George White,
Browns mother Thomas has begun
proceedings for divorce.
The Republican journal., 1902-07-31

The Governors Council has set Aug.
9th for the hearing OF the petition
of John c. Best, the murderer of
George E. Bailey of North Saugus, for
the communication of his sentence.
The Republican journal., 1902-07-31

EAEErTES AND COCKTAILS.
f,,, Ng. the hero of the popular short
n. not eating or drinking, he is
l.. f".'S.lg says Martha Baker Duun in
s-. a gust Atlantic. His chronicler
I'M Wy his pages with tobacco smoke
n p'hctlates them with cocktails.
.' IVY 9f m sorrow, in the most roman
,a ' 'pss than the most commonplace
,r.r ,s.tS, ~ the hero lights another Gig
gpo, Emotion unaccompanied by
ItI,llt tI,lt is something of which he evil
T. ~! mas no conception.
,sfa ID lhe same, too, with the up to
( bo 3oung man in real life. He knows,
ybilo uas been properly trained, that
Jny toothpick should be indulged in
oi2, IA mat spot to which Scripture en-
,rsy lS TO retire when we are about to
y meerschaum pipe is a perfectly
The Republican journal., 1902-07-31
MISCARRIAGE.

MISCARRIAGE.
Way to do some things is to do
.''. IS Iancy founded on fact.
'ntment is the result of limited
sus'iou.
'.9you envies Love, and Love
imitation.
IS not ignorance; it is taste in
d section of experience.
man is made for man to come back
"oyn Wells in the August Cen
The Republican journal., 1902-07-31

Rev. DR.. Henry Van Dyke. the new
moderator of the Presbyterian general
assembly, is one of the most popular
The Republican journal., 1902-07-31

after his Inauguration in March, 1897,
President Mckinley appointed Colonel
Ayme consul to the island of Guade-
loupe, and he has since served in that
fcapacity. Colonel Ayme is linguist.
; He has translated considerably. espe-
cally from the French and the Span
ish
The Republican journal., 1902-07-31

rf THE TNINsTRUCTED.
I'D the echo Of the guns of
.a AWAY, says Martha Baker
august Atlantic, before the
tht howl of the kind
sympathetic, the unstren-
.oII.
Hication. they asked, has
IAN" nation for going to
n ecially in quarrel not
r 10 suit his own purposes,
Mckinley insisted upon war,
not select a country possess
cooperate climate as the
4tlle:
td been given the soldiers to
rmselves with suitable trous-
not this delay have been
'ile government for the man
SaudW iches in readiness for
inches to be served during
on the field of battle?
toiling and much enduring
.At to expect such common
'ecognition of his services
@aner, prepared promptly,
t>rnt? Is the poor soldier"
Mucit when he calls for clean
a opportunity to run up a
the voice Of the people sug-
lv. if we must war, let us see
."uducted regularly and in or
uut bloodshed or confusion.
Oans be provided to feel the
.1jse daily and keep down all
ajy fever in the veins.
4 lappened that while we were
vUr newly acquired heroes
1 their pedestals, and our
r,Is We're quarreling over the
glory, and mothers of vol
o.u~ writing to the newspapers
u that the tastes of their
never been consulted in re
tylug oatmeal for breakfast,
uittees of investigation We're
siuelling at all the army stores
.I4 unused, there were one OF
ol less important facts that
' ~scape general cogniZance.
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,,Ncs FROM THE MAGAZINES



.t. chorus in that tie-up. Runch'
,oueh ana runch and runch.
-uv of honest critters; does me
5r hear en- munich.
... house We wear patcheS-honest
.-...,. though, and neat,
4lher have the patches than to
.h .n what we eat.
and grub to back ye-that's a
I.. wholesome creed
,il, that's my motto-give the
e- uI7 they need.
.. am give We greetin with their
.te HAT
pu up o morning 5, ah, there's
trDrud, in that.
...hIN sometimes noticed. when
.t'- hate man
flat his neighhors size him up
same plan.
..-~s nothin' better than this
understand
... honest critters owe their COM
m, hand.
nay, III Every ybodys Magazine.
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N y ~ tI-fl Ia - ~
h1pni1ess. The New
.r .4s his ms and downs.
srn1,raoenipnts mingled
-s n5odes+ Successes Ike
u he has fines when he
,s iNt is of MI lots most
5rse4 Doomed to unre
.n KNOW he is and thp
fnns ot fine day of labor
Nature is at his heels
,,i+I jronol,t With threat
and AN tIa soi1 Master
as In one rpsprct. in an
man is more 4 Slave than
-+4 tLa+ cIan,ns in +he row
..is n flnmL tJramt fo Mold
--s Nafnrt's : moods mnsf
+4iflfn1iy for her smiles
srp 10 he turnpd TO fine
If rLa h,1sha1dn,an who is
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TION HU NIGER.

is rad no sooner proved, a
5go. that a certain form of
-ae finally evolved type in
Ill the great reading public
urned around and bought
Stand. That does not prove
Island a better story than
ann it proves simply that
o II rise to a brown hackle
o0k at nothing but a white
-,.IoW: and that when the
ne age grew tired of realis-
,t-s somebody yawned and
rt and called on romanti-
ge. one stage Of culture,
aQS for stories as naive. as
mitlve in their stark savag-
'rrlaudic saga; another age,
uod.-uay, the Whim that
each one Of us between
.i evening, chooses stories
~ consciously, artificial as
t.- House of | sher. Both
uMirable each i'll its own
ei both stir tie magma
0t types will come and go,
aI.. but the human hunger
! some soft is never sated.
--oIieal phases of the art
.- closely as one may. there
The Republican journal., 1902-07-31

TO @I a..
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The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-11

thought themselves so wise had to al
nit their mistake. The goat and
took a dislike to each other from the
start. and seeing this, my father said
to me-
"Nigni you must beware of the goat.
She cannot only strike a hard blow
with her feet, but she can smash in the
head of a barrel by butting it. If she
should get in fair blow at you with
her head she would break all your
bones. l have known a goat to knock
a strong man down and do him a great
injury"
1 promised to keep away from her.
but at the same~time / used to go out
TO her when she was tied up and wish
that l was old enough and big enough
to give her a fair fight She would
bleat At me and shake her head in an
ger. and no doubt she was saying that
if she could only break her rope she
would make short work of me. One
day, as my mother went to market and
left me on the doorstep alone, a boy
came along and presented me with a
new tin sword. The cost was only a
penny, but had never had one before.
He was a boy who had always spoken
kindly to me, and he had bought the
sword as a present. l had no sooner
waved it around my head than I be-
gan to feel very brave, and soon after
the boy had left me went out into the
garden and walked up and down be-
fore the goat to show her that l was
not AFRAID. When she shook her head
and stamped her feet I threatened her
with the sword, and shouted:
Il am only a dwarf and four years
old, but my name is Nigni and l am
not afraid of man or animal! Should
you ever break loose and attack me
l will stab you to the heart"
My words seemed to be understood
by the goat and to excite her to anger
and as she tried to reach me her rope
broke and she was free. I was not the
boy to run away after what l had said,
but 1 may tell you that 1 was badly
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-11

some rooms, and other house-spoiling
additions. She besieged all the archi-
tects for plans and inspected all new
buildings in pursuit of ideas for alter
alton. Her family were on thOrns, as
the property being hers. she could do
as she chose with it. The oldest daugh-
ter feigned delicate health as a pre-
text for my presence in the house.
The schemes 1 used to outwit madame's
pranks were never taught me in the
training class.
"A spinster crank I nursed had a
rage for statistics, and for collecting
funds for special projects. Designs for
monuments and their cost was our oc-
cupation, and we travelled miles in
vestigating graveyard data Another
project concerned a fund for overwork-
cd walters. She would represent TO
wealthy acquaintance her sympathy
for the hotel and dining car walters,
whose memory was so constantly taxed
in taking guests orders. Once she for
mulated a scheme for controlling the
trade winds from certain mountain
peak, and globes and geographical mat
tiers were studied indefatigably for
months.
81 have been retained to watch a
crank and show proof as to his candi-
dacy for an asylum and have failed to
find such, though we were subjected
to experiences likely to upset a ra-
tional being. Not all the tasks as
signed to trained nurse are by any
means provided for in the hospital
handbook" Olive F. Gunby.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-11

side. Something told me that now was
my time, and as the goat slowly rose
to her feet, wondering what had hap
pened. 1 seized her long hair and
mounted to her back. AS soon as she
felt me astride of her she began jump
ing up and down like one of those
bucking bronchos you have seen with
a circus, but try as hard as she could,
she could not throw me off. When she
was tired of bucking she began to run
around the yard and to try to rub me
off against the trees and bushes, but
all her efforts were in vain. l not only
kept my place, but when she had tired
herself out l slit her ears with my
sword and made her gallop around
for my pleasure. 1t was my first
horseback ride. and l was very proud
that / could stick on without d saddle
The goat was not only tired out, but
very humble in her mind when 1 slid
off and let her go, and from that day
on as long as l remained at home she
was afraid of me. When my mother
learned what had happened she threw
up her hands and tainted away and
father was so frightened for the mo-
ment that he turned pale and could
not speak 1t did not seem possible to
them that their dwarf had got the bet
ter of a savage goat.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-11

the end the vine-clad railing. "She
certainly has a slight limp at times. |
WISH you would introduce ME if you
Know her well enough. Possibly she
would like change from the law 10
the wool business"
Il can arrange that. I'll have YOU
meet Mrs. Hamilton first. though said
Jane, returning to her story.
Inc subject of their interest trudge i
along through the tangles and grass
Hoppers climbed gingerly over a tum-
nle-doWn stone wall, and finally depos-
lled herself at the base OF a great tree
whose branches dropped nearly across
the long, clear foot, throwing soft shad-
oWS against the wall of moss grown
rock opposite
iEu"lnson adjusting herself comforta-
oIy and using her hat as a fan. "Ill
cool OFF here, though. Pshaw! There's
mosquito the first thing"
DUCK OF her cat bird mewed and
sColued in the thorn bush. Overhead
sn orlole swung and sang; song
spdIroW hoped and made CHEEKY mu-
~ .J nearly at her feet; and a red SPUR
~ scrah bled and chartered in the near
D'IHcnes of a gnarled butternut.
hoy. ana by the girl threw down her
oook. Il can't read, and / don't want
.nInk, she said aloud. How sweet
au IIesttul 1t is here away from the
ple, II there was any sense in it
would would wish that Howard Birdsau
uid come along and talk to me-
A. al impatient sigh made the sparrow
ECross the stream. Il don't blame
~ birdie cried Miss Edwinson
lool OH not good company" She sat up
noNIIS dreamily at the water, rip
sHHg and dancing through bands of
sunshine and shadow.
.1 II impossible" she said YEARLY.
eoo nave settled that with myself for
49, 80 ana all. I'll never marry any
~ ''is On, | couldn't. must go away,
, ne must but it's too bad-too bad.
nIoW he is beginning to care; and
h.. 'il-oh' l am; and it means nothing
w. misery, for 1 never could bear his
desr,iii II. What you'd he think! Oh,
she cried softly for a moment: then
gu up very straight with crimson
orr -. Never!" she exclaimed. mo
NJ. Lllllan, do something and stop
Uls foolishness."
r,oI 90 AIHg out her dress she got UP and
ana "a ABOUT, picking at bits of moss
Inc ne late summer blossoms nest
beTo, ar q the brookside. A great blue
ders SquaWklhg from the al
~ Mercy! What sort of a creature is
ginni,. exclaimed Miss Edwinson. be-
N '-i ing to laugh. "Of all the ungain-
sode Jecls. Frightened by this cpl
the she rambled to the shadows at
across aead Of the pool and looked
ture. a[.q cII!; she burst forth in rap
ms, What a magnificent bunch.
hridr. nave them. Why isn't there a
over3o or something so 1 can get
ly fro,l pig red cluster shone tempting
stres plI rocky cleft close to the
the g,I Miss Edwinson glanced at
few i,,IHolh stones over which only a
the b ZINES Of water gurgled. Below
oval bagtr spread out. making a long
child ism ISM of limpid depths. Here a
M could wade
courss one can possibly see me. OF
ute" ,,!,t Cah do 1t; won't take a min
tons" whispered lillian. peering eau
can gpsI bout. Her shoes and stoekinEs
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-11
MISS EDWIN
SONS TOE.
A Tale of True Love.
By Elliot Walker.

"T have a great mind to take my book
ard depart. 1 can not read here with
that man staring at me-" thought Miss
Edwinson.
She arose and gazed across the pas
4ure-hot and buzzing with the insect
life of late August; the quivering air
-,slnitating in drowsy sound.
1T looks pretty warm, but there is
lovely. cool spot down by the brook.
where the big elm will shade me all the
ofternoon," she unused. Il think Ill
90 Possibly my fisherman will come
along"
smiling a little sadly, she turned into
the wide door of the small summer
hotel and presently emerged with
sbode hat and parasol, fair and dain-
VERY attractive girl, very" observed
Young Lowell as he craned his neck in
admiration. who is she, Jane?"
"Fh'h oh! Miss Edwinson. Yes, she
is quite good looking" answered his
sister. looking up from her magazine
and giving her glasses a twitch. She
came with the Hamiltons a month ago.
4, orphan, l think. Dresses very well.
Fright and pretty, but not very socia-
be"
who is the tall chap that seemed so
devoted last night-the fellow with the
brown mustache and gray eyes,"
you mean Mr.. Birdsell, 1 suppose.
Yes he likes her. Lawyer from some
Mace in York state, 1 believe. 1 don't
know where he is this afternoon
Fishing, I guess. I saw him start
ing off with his traps Just before din
ner. Well, he must like to tramp
around in this heat. Say, Jane, is she
little lame?"
"Why, no. is she?"
Il thought she gave a bit of hitch;
stepped as if her foot bothered her"
tight shoes. perhaps" said Jane
Lowell, laughing. mo, 1 don't believe
so. She rides, COLTS and dances well.
never noticed it,"
''You are not very observing. you
know" smiled her brother, walking to
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-11
QUEER INDIAN NAMES.
Specimens Found on a BIackfoot
Reservation in Montana.
From the Chicago Inter Ocean.

From the Chicago Inter Ocean.
The tenderfoot on an Indian reserva-
ton frequently finds himself on the
verge of Mysteries when called upon to
go through a formal introduction to a
lady bearing so extraordinary a name
as abb Shunk-Cap. or when he shakes
the hand of a copper-colored gentle
man mentioned by a mutual friend as
Many Tall Feathers Coming O. the
Hill"
The Indians themselves see nothing
ludicrous in the names they bear. They
are usually given because of some in
cident which has happened in the life
of the individual. Joe Skunk-Cap at
| one period of his career wore a cap
made of the hide of the polecat. When
his children began to go to the mission
the sisters named them accordingly.
| Thus the little ones became Abbie Will
lie and Rudy Skunk-Cap. AS Skunk
| Caps intermarry with the whites and
go into the world, it is probable they
will wish their ancestor had been
more fastidious in the selection of his
| furs.
The following names were taken from
a "brandbook" belonging to Joseph
| Kipp, who lives on the Blackfoot res
ervation in Northern Montana:
Arrow Top-Knit, After Buffalo, Peter
After Buffalo, Almost Killed, Aims
| Back, Big Head, Bear Child, Black
! Coyote, Bear Chief Bead Woman
Bob-Tail Horse, Bear Medicine, Butter
Fly, Black Striped Woman. Charlie Big
| Nose, Bobtail Man, Black Weasel,
Mike, Berry Child, Bird Rattle. Buffa-
10 Hide, Bull Child Bear Leggins,
| Beaver Eyes, Bad Married, Bad Old
Man, Big Mouth Spring, Buffalo Grow
ing. Elmer Butterfly, Bad Woman, Calf
Woman, Chief Coward. Crow Eyes,
Chief in Front, John Calf Ribs, Grog-
Gut, Cut Finger. Chicken Shoe,
Cleared Up. Catches Edgewater. Frank
Carbon, Calling One-Another, Cold
Feet, Chewing Black Bones, Comes-in-
| Night, Charged on Both Calf
Boss Ribs, Chief-All- Over. Catches-on-
| Top, Dead Tree Dives-Long-W Ways,
Dog Taking-G Go-in-Double. Drags-
His-Robe, Don't-Go-Out, Mike Day.
Rider, Everybody Looks-At, Every
body About, George Four Horns,
Fine Killer, Flat Tail, Found-a-Gem,
! Going to- Move, Goes-in- All-Lodges,
Good Stabbing. His ack-to Him, Her
man Dusty Bull, Hungry. Hits-on-Top
| Kills. cross-t he-Way, Kills-in- the
| Brush, iKlls-Close, John Kicking Wo-
man, Kills-in- Night, Likes Marrow
Bones. Lazy Boy, Long Times Sleeping,
Looking -for-Smoke, Lazy Young Man.
Looks Black Last Coyote, Sam Little
Dog, Mittens, Makes-Cold-W Weather,
Mud Head. Jim No-Chief Charles No
| Coat Short Woman, Fortified,
! George Prairie Chicken, Rushing-in-
Water, Rides Behind, Runs Away,
Stabbing Down, Shooting at-One-An-
other, Stretched Out, Self-Cut-Woman,
Stingy, Split-Ears.