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Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1907-06-21
Unclaimed Letters.

Following is list of unclaimed let
tiers remaining in the postoffice, Mar
,tinsburg w. Va, June II, 1907.
HIT. Arnold, Mandy Baugh. r. B.
Barr, Lawrence Brown, Wilborn Cur
tbs, Minnie Carpenter, A. w. Fairfax,
Henry M. Fout, b. e. Forman, Daniel
H. Green, Clarence Hill, Mrs. Florence
Hodges, Hunter Harris, r. l.. Kent,
8. d. Laurmor, Mrs. Nan N. Lemas-
ter, William Lieklider, Belle Landers,
Mrs. Rosy E. Morrys Mrs. Fannie
Piper, Mrs. William Padian, Johna
Shanha' tier, Jacob Shanholtzer, G. g.
Strictly. E. G. Swope, Ella Thompson,
George Washington, Mrs. c. T. Whit
ting, Mrs. MalInda Ward.
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1907-06-21
ChiHdren's Day Service.

The Presbyterian Sabbath School al
Bunker Hill held a Children's Day
Service on Sunday evening June l6
which was well attended, many per
sons being unable to gain an entrance
The music was rendered by the school
and the church choir, accompanied by
Miss Bruce Clendening upon the organ
and Mr.. ,Galen Swimley upon the VIC
lin. The program rendered was as fol
lows:
PROGRAM.
l. Hym mn: "Hosanna. be the children
song.n Tune coronation" Hymn
al, 1876.
2. Responsive Scripture Reading.
3. Prayer by the Pastor.
4. Song: "The call of 81 ring, School
5. Missionary Creed.
g. Song: "Glory Song,n School.
7. Recitation: "Your Own,p
Primary Scholars,
:. Song: "Who VIII Our Pilot Be?''
Primary Department.
8. Recitation.sMy Gift For Missions, .
Harry Payne
10, Song: aHere Am I, School.
II. Recitation: GA Cry for Light
Johnny Lamon.
II. Recitation: "Be Lovely Within, y
Love Peery.
49, Hymn: Glowing Savior, Lord of
Missions" Tune ''Rex Gioriae,'
Hymnal, ITO.
IA. Recitation: Missionary Fruit"
Five Primary Scholars.
10. Duet: "Shine All the Day.
Love and Lille Peery.
IS. The Children's Covenant.
II. Solo: "Tell Me Your Song,n
Lille Pecry.
IS. Recitation: son the Other Slde,"
Lille Dehaven
80. Responsive Reading.
20. Duet: "Tarry With Me-
Miss Ida Hoffman,
Mr.. S. B. Cunningham,
81. Recitation: esThe Old Church."
Miss Cornelia McKown.
%. Address by the Pastor.
%. Offeratory: "The Shepherd Boy"
Violin and Organ
"a. Anthem: Summers Call to Praise, y
Choir.
%. Response: 1--WE Give Thee But
Thine Own"
26. Benediction.
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1907-06-21
ElkS.

Inc local Lodge Of Elks had big
'iihe Wednesday. They initiated 8
member of candidates and after the
ceremony an orchestra rendered music
ana refreshments were served.
Ihose who entered are: Messrs. Rob-
CIV Il. Kimmel, Piedmont; E. J..
y hrien, Il. e. Hesskit, w. 7. Jenk-
ius' John Harmon, Joseph A. Ham
lioh, all of Piedmont; Messrs. E. l..
crane and G. P. Miller, of Charles
Town; Mr.. w. II. Griffith, Keyser,
anu W. Il. Gordon, Martinsbu re-.
hr' Harry Imbauch has been made
manager of the Oriental Rug campany
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1907-06-21
WEST LIBERTY

Lorain Fortney, principal.
A D. Kenamond, first assistant.
Martha Hughes, Alice Gotshall, An
ME Austin, Virginia Saunders, assist
ants.
Helen Tafts, music.
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1907-06-21
MANY Fishes

Mr.. A NJ. Graham, of Gerardstown,
who was employed by the United
States Fish Commission during the
season just closed at Haver de Grace,
fish hatchery is home and has kindly
handed us few statistics that are sur
prising. He says that the shad is dis
tinctly a salt water fish and only
comes up into the shallow fresh water
TO spawn and that as soon as the little
fellows are Matched out they start for
the deep salt water and stay there I'M
til they are grown.
Capt. J. J. dlennin, an eminent
scientist is in charge of the works at
Hayer de Grace and has kindly fur
llished these statistics,
During the past season Battery Sta.
ton Havre deGrace hatchery took and
hate he'd as follows:
Yellow Perch eggs taken 1877, 275, 0CO
No of fry Matched 149, 955 600
White Perch eggs taken 391 ,775, 900
No. of fry Matched 251 900
Shad eggs taken 20,596, 300
No. of fry Matched S,774,00o
The cold weather and winds kept
the shad Off the spawning grounds
and the season was an unfavorable
one.
But the White Perch season has
been exceptionally fine. The White
Perch is a fish of medium size,is a fine
food fish and even superior to the shad.
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1907-06-21
Helen Tafts, music.
SHEPHERDSTOWN

J. G. Multi, principal; ]. d. Null
doom, first assistant; Laura Lewis,
Mabel Henshaw Gardner, Mabel Mod
erwell, Willis hart Butcher, Louisa
LSmith ,assistants. Eva Wright, music.
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1907-06-21
Estrayed

Lett the premises of the undersign ed
ABOUT the last of May, IL ewes having
several different ear marks, AID a spot
VI red paint on the rump of each. Bells
On three of them and two of them have
H. q. painted on their left sides, hav-
ing with them II lambs. The eve
'amos and one of the buck lambs are
ocked.
a liberal reward will be given for in
formation leading to their recovery.
Henry s. Butts,
Martinsburg, w. Va,
r. r. 6
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1907-06-21
To Weigh The Mails.

An order has been issued to post
master to weigh all mails going out or
coming into their offices for the period
of six months. Hitherto the custom
has been to weigh for thirty days only.
This weighing Of the mails is for. the
purpose Of getting statistics upon
which to base contracts with railroads
SO. for carrying mails.
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1907-06-21

Postmaster Clohan announces that
the saleries of clerk Kitchen of his
force has been increased from $500 to
$1,000 and Janitor Kaufman from $500
to 5000. The salaries of all the rural
carriers increase with July /, from s720
to $500 per year.
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1907-06-21
NormaI School Teachers.

The DOaTu VI AS5CAb' VI wy $3.50
Norc,al schools last week made tie
commitments of teachers for the COM
,ng years. There have been many and
sweeping changes and we fail to see
tho sense of some of them. For in
stande Miss Stalnaker is sent to Fair
mont and Miss Fleming is sent to
shenberdstown, and Miss Curtis from
West Liberty to Athens. These teach
ers are all sent away from home. If
thew are capable of teaching away
from home why are they not capable
attaching at home. The following
are the appointments,
FATRMoNT NORMAL
n 6. Rohrbaugh, first assistant
Latin and Greek
2. r. Mercer, Mathematics.
Mrs. N. r. Morrow, history and
English.
Elizabeth M. Stalnaker, French and
German.
Mollie Virginia Smith, assistant in
English and matron of dormitory.
Ida Abbott, assistant in history.
Mary George, assistant in education
Amy Ridgeley, teacher of art
Maynie Ware, teacher of expression.
Mrs. Lulu Billingslea, teacher ST in
4r,,,, a,+ al ,,,,sio
Principal, head of department of elo-
cution, and science teacher will be
chosen later.
MARSHALL COLLEGE,
III. Corbly,principal.
Mrs. Naomi Everett, dean of women
and professor of French.
Anna s Cummings, head of depart
ment of education.
Harriet d. Johnson, professor of
Greek.
Lillian Hackney, professor Of math-
ematics.
Dr. c. Haworth, professor Of Eng
fish.
J, A. Fitzgerald, history.
Ollie Stevenson, German.
h. J. Largent, assistant in Latin.
Flora Pope, assistant in education.
w. II. Franklin, assistant in Eng
fish.
Ada Colbert, assistant IN English.
E. e. Myers, teacher of art.
Florence White, teacher of express
sion.
Flora Hays, teacher of music.
Professor of Latin, biology and geol-
ogy, physics and chemistry, and assis-
tant in mathematics will be appoint
edlster.
WEST LIBERTY
Lorain Fortney, principal.
A D. Kenamond, first assistant.
Martha Hughes, Alice Gotshall, An
ME Austin, Virginia Saunders, assist
ants.
Helen Tafts, music.
SHEPHERDSTOWN
J. G. Multi, principal; j. d. Mul
doom, first assistant; Laura Lewis
Mabel Henshaw Gardner, Mabel Mod
erwell, Willis Hart Butcher, Louis;
LSmith ,assistants. Eva Wright, music
CHENILLE
John G. Shaw, principal.
Walter Barnes, first assistant,
Mary l.. Yeager, Harriet T. Stall a
ker, Phrania link, Walter M. Parker
Mary M. Woods, assistants.
ATHENS
+. A. Forester, first assistant.
Blanche Bitner, J. f. Holroyd
Sarah f. Mere dith, Callie Curtis
haude jefferson, assistants.
Principal to be chosen.
EStrayed
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1907-06-21

If you daily why the especially
it costs than poor paper.
F1E SUN all the markets the
foreign and with the
all the local good get
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-06-27

~~NN~~~~~~9
must stigmatize the "great plateau"
as merely "broad (which would In
dicate only width-while "great plat
eau" expresses all the illimitable
grandeur Of those vast plains where
earth and sky seem to meet-whare
you realize infnity and eternity
like the ocean in immensity, like the
sky in ininity, like the desert in sol
emn grandeur.
But Mr.. Rauch says he objects to
descriptive parts. So he chooses
to make these lines as non-descriptive
as possible of what they are obvi-
Ously intended to describe. His gen
ius, however, reaches its climax in
the suppression of the four last lines
of this same verse (than which moth
ing finer was ever conceived by poet),
and the substitution of the following,
which, by comparison, is the merest
doggerel:
Our heroes felt the shock and leapt
To meet it on the plain,
And long the pitying sky hath wept
Above our gallant slain.
Shade of O'Hara! "Our heroes
felt the shock and leapt!"
Leapt!" And this is to be called
poetry! And such desecration is to
be permitted! And this travesty of
the grandest lyric of all ages is to be
accepted as 0 'Hara s work, "author-
itatively fixed in form and word for
future readers"
Fixed" indeed! This poor,
weak, ludicrous absurdity, this libel
which smacks of the rhyming die
tlOnary, is enough to make Theodore
O'Hara rise from his grave and his
sheeted corpse pursue with avenging
wrath the iconoclast who would so
deface his great work and elevate
this wretched absurdity upon its
ruins. Ten thousand Ranches could
never make me (nor any other friend
of 0 O'Hara) believe that he would,
in his right mind, have ever author
lied such stuff as this to take the
place of his own beautiful inspira-
ton. Had he, in moment of delir-
ium, done this thing-and he could
never have done it otherwise-it
would have become the duty of his
friends to protect his great creation
and preserve it intact, in all its in
tegrity and perfection.
AS O'Hara wrote them, those first
four lines of the fifth verse give the
most vivid impression Of the foe as
they sweep down the mountain pass
in all the fierce grandeur of battle
array, marching with proud step to
the martial music, sure of conquest,
eager for the fight, burning with hat
red and revenge; while the last four
express with equal vividness the stern
resolve Of the handful of men await
ing them to conquer or to die. Is
there anything "weak" in these
hnes9 And shall they be banished at
Mr.. Rauch's dictum and because he
has not enough vim to appreciate
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-06-27

mended Mr.. Rauch's work, a publ
cation In the Southern History As5O-
citation even stating Of it that "the
most widely quoted martial elegy III
the English language has at last re-
,ceived fitting treatment, and been an
thoritatively fixed in form and word
for future readers. " Which reminIs
one of Caesar Borgia s exclamation:
" Defend me from my friends, and
will take care of my enemies myself. >
Mr.. Hall Caine is accused Of "na-
tional bias,' because he "will not ad-
nit that The Bivouac' is the equal
of British lyrics of like kind, though
he warmly applauds the work of Mr..
Rauch. /" Having seen only Mr..
Rauch s version. Mr.. Hall Caine re-
quired no national bias" to influence
his decision.
In truth, there is no British or
American lyric equal to O 'Hara's s, nor
is there one like it. 1t stands out
alone, perfect in its beauty, its gran
deur, its harmony, its sublime pathos,
its exquisite and mournful tenderness,
its glory of immortal light. 1t is
in words what the great "Siegfried" |"
funeral march is in music.
The version gwen below is copied
from The Louisville Courier-Journal,
which paper published it as a part
of the funeral ceremonies of the day,
when Colonel O'Hara, General Cary
w. Fry, and Adjutant George M.
Cardwell, whose bodies had been
brought home for burial by order Of
the legislature, were re-interred in
the beautiful cemetery at Frankfort,
in the autumn of 1874. The poem was
read by Major Henry L. Stanton,
himself poet, and there can be no
doubt as to its being the true version
OF this noble lyric.
Mr. Rauch s first desecration Of
it occurs in that exquisite fourth line
of the first verse, which has a special
significance and peculiar beauty, not
only as denoting those noble and gal
liant spirits whom the poet knew and
loved, but conveying in its full mean
ing both the sadness and the gran
deus of thei rdeath. The substitute
for this noble and touching line, ac-
cording to Mr.. Rauch s version, is:
"The brave and daring few.'
What destruction of the pathos,
the sublimity, the tragedy, which be-
long to the original!
There are many other changes
which mar not only the melody, but
the meaning, of the verse, such as
"steed" for "troop," "trumpet" in
place of "bugle," both of which are
untrue to the reality of a cavalry
charge, which is usually made with a
"troop' of horse, while the bugle
call is the one used, as 1 am informed,
for cavalry.
But Mr.. Ranch seems to have re-
served the fifth, sixth and seventh
verses for the extremest exercise of
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-06-27

In the issue of The New York
Times Saturday Review, Of August
11th last, Mrs. Susan Bullitt Dixon.
of Louisville, KY, warmly protests
against certain changes which George
w. Rauch, of Lexington, KY, has re-
Gently seen fit to make in the text of
Theodore O'Hara s famous poem,
"The Bivouac Of the Dead" About
year ago Mr. Rauch edited vol
ume of O'Hara' s poems; and when
"The Bivouac Of the Dead" was
read it was observed to differ in
many respects from the original as
given above. Says Mrs. Dixon:
Mr.. Rauch claims that Colonel
O'Hara himself authorized these al
terations, which statement to one fa-
miliar with the poem as it first APP
peared seems incredible. If it were
so, then O'Hara acted under a de.u-
sion, and did what no man has q
right to do-deface the beauty Of his
own work or mar it's perfection. The
"Bivouac of the Dead" was Cod
given inspiration; it was the inspir-
alton of lifetime, a perfect crea-
ton, complete harmony-as when
the morning stars sang together, and
all the sons of God shouted for joy"
1t was first published in The
Frankfort Yeoman in 1850, and was
inscribed: "Lines Written at the
Tomb of the Kentuckians Who Fell
at Buena Vista, Buried in the Gem
etery at Frankfort. Since thae
time it has been published and re-
published In parts or in whole
sometimes called 'EKentucky's Dead"
but has now acquired the perma-
nent and beautiful title of "The Brv-
ouac of the Dead. +" It's fame is world
wide, and it has been appropriated
by the whole world wherever the
English language is spoken.
Many different versions of it have
appeared, but not one so unjust as
the one given in Mr. Rauch s book.
The worst of it is, that this motley
version, in which the sublime and
strong verses of the poet have beea
displaced by the weak and even ll-
dicrous substitutes of Mr.. Rauch s
choosing, the connection between the
parts broken and the harmony en-
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-06-27
THEODORE O'HARA'S MINOR
TAI POEM.

Blvouac OF the Dead. !"
Original Text.)
The muffled drum IS sad roll has beat
The soldiers last tattoo;
No more on Life's parade shall meet
That brave and fallen few.
On Fame's eternal camping ground
Their silent tents are spread,
And Glory guards, with solemn round,
The bivouac of the dead.
No rumor of the foes advance
Now swells upon the wind;
No troubled thought at midnight
hannts
Of loved ones left behind;
No vision Of the morrow s strife
The warriors dream alarms;
No braying horn, no screaming fife,
At dawn shall call to arms.
Their shivered swords are red with
rust,
Their plumed heads are bowed;
Their naughty banner traile din dust
Is now their martial shroud-
And plenteous funeral tears have
washed
The red stains from each brow,
And the proud forms by battle
gashed
Are free from anguish now.
The neighing troop, the flashing
blade,
The bugle's stirring blast,
The charge, the dreadful cannonade,
The din and shout are past
Nor Wars wild note nor Glory's peal,
Shall thrill with fierce delight
Those breasts that nevermore may
feel
The rapture of the fight.
Like the fierce northern hurricane
That sweeps his great plateau
Flushed with the triumph yet to gain,
Came down the serried foe
Who heard the thunder OF the fray
Break Ger the field beneath,
Knew well the watchword of that day
Was "Victory or Death!"
Full many a norther's breath has
swept
O'er Angustura s plain,
And long the pitying sky has Wept
Above its moldered slain.
The raven s scream or eagle fight,
Or shepherd S pensive lay,
Alone now wake each solemn height
That frowned Per that dread fray
Sons Of the Dark and Bloody Ground,
Ye must not slumber there,
Where stranger steps and tongues re-
sound
Along the needless air.
Your own proud lands heroic soil
Shall be your fitter grave;
: She claims from War his richest
spoil
The ashes of her brave.
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-06-27

SOME PAGES FROJ1 NY SCRAP BOOK

On many a bloody shield.
The sunshine of their native sky
Smiles sadly on them here,
And kindred eyes and hearts watch
by
The heroes sepulchre.
Rest on, embalmed and sainted dead |!
Dear as the blood you gave!
No impious footstep here shall tread
The herbage of your grave;
Nor shall your glory be forgot
While Fame her record keeps,
Or Honor points the hallowed spot
Where valor proudly sleeps.
Yon marble minstrel s voiceless stone
In deathless song shall tell,
When many a vanished year hath
flown
The story how we fell.
Nor wreck, nor change, nor winter IS
blight
Nor Times s remorseless doom,
Can dim one ray of holy light
That gilds your glorious tomb.
THEODORE OHARA.
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1907-11-23
TRUTH

from these figures. He lays the
blame for the trouble on the enter
prise of "ambulancc-ch chasing" and an
nounces that in the future the com
pany twill contest in the courts every
claim for damages which it considers
is not a Just one" But an acute fin
anciere whose attention is once fixed
upon the subject can hardly fail to
see that if there were no ambulance
calls there would be no ambulance
chasers, and that If there were no just
claims, unjust ones would have little
standing before juries. The two mil
lions it had to pay in damages for a
single tunnel accident convinced the
New York Central that it had been
mistaken in thinking it could not cleo
trify its terminal, and when traction
companies throughout the country
are compelled to choose between kill
lings and dividends, they will find
ways to prevent the killings.
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1907-11-23

from the earth. The nearest point
is more than 100000 nearer-quitc
an item even for interplanetary space
and the furthcrest distance more
than double the figure stated, which is
g. still bigger item. The Warder the
DRY, that not light and heat but cleo
trio rays proceed from the sun, is
referred to approvingiy, which is all
right; but if the sun does not radiate
light, how does it happen that the
moon, which has no atmosphere, IS
made beautifully bright wherever its
face is turned to the sun and wher-
ever such light does not reach the
moon, as in caverns or behind cliffs,
the most intense darkness prevails?
Also, how about the shadow of our
earth, which the moon is observed
to enter at distance (roundly) OF
100000 miles in an eclipse? Electric
rays uniting with an atmosphere may
produce light and heat, but they don't
transmit the former any such dist
ance as that.
A study of Mars, or of astronomy
as to any of its phases, is most fasci-
mating. 1t may be entirely true, as
suggested, that the people of Mars
are more enlightened and progressive
than those of the earth; if so, it is
cashier checks against rusty nails
that there is no American" party
there.
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1907-11-23

the banker has displayed, of the most
tolerant people in the world can pre-
vent the humiliation of not only the
banks, but the suspension Of some of
the ringleaders fguratively, at the
end Of rope for their treachery.
The end is not yet We are but
approaching the beginning.
The federal bank not only of issue
but deposit is the solution alone that
will meet the approval of the masses
and the elimination, root and branch,
of any preferred class of business.
"All for one and one for all, must pre-
vail and surely will when the re-
awakening from this solar plexuls
sets in and the people will have
more and the Stillmans and the
Morgans less to do and say as to
the plan to be adopted to preserve
and best conserve the rights of a
free people"
That kind and overseeing provid-
ence that takes care of drunken men
and children is certainly to be thank
ed and praised that this has come
about with "Teddy" still at the helm.
1t is noticeable that at this writing
he has not expressed himself. When
he does there will be room for new
martial in his cabinet and he will not
be slow about getting into action
when he fully sizes up the situation
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thor.)
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1907-11-23
STUDYING THE STARS.

Goodwin's Weekly can and does
say a clever thing now and then,
showing that when it gets off on
It's methods it is most likely to be
an indication of perverseness OF
lapse of memory. 1t has so long
lamtasted with altogether Intellectual
vigor all things and all persons whose
methods were not exactly attuned
to the Goodwinian refrain, that it
must find it matter requiring some
considerable care to properly treat
a subject wherein that style of Ian
guage is not possible; and possibly
the chatting occasioned thereby pro-
duces forgetfulness and temporary
oversight.
In the last number of the weakly
was a fairly we'll written article on
the planet Mars. Getting so far
away from the American" party a.
one bound must have produced
kind of mental alteration, for some
of the statements are as far OFT as
though the campaign were still in tuli
blast and TIE editor thought he was
after some incorrigible democrat or
republican who persisted in staying
with his party. Perhaps Ito begin
WITH "Schiarelli," as it appeared in
print, was a typographical error, a
syllable being omitted, although we
admit the name is quite long enough
without it; it should be Schiaparell'.
The article then advises us that the
lanet is seen 10 much better advan-
tage in the Southern than in the
Northern hemisphere, which may BE-
true; but the next sentence says both
ways, saying that the planets orbit
is from SO, 100000 to 6o,ooo,ooo miles