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The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-07-18
BISHOP NINETY YEARS OLD.
Is Patriarch PreIate Of Methodist Epis
copaI Denomination.

The Right Rev. DR.. Thomas Bow
man, senior bishop of the Methodist
Episcopal denomination, of Orange, N.
J.. celebrated his ninetieth birthday
Monday.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-07-18
HEAVY FINE is IMPOSED.

Lumber Company ASSESSED $1,000 for
Infraction Of Peonage Law.
The William Ritter Lumber compa-
ny, charged with peonage and consplr-
acy to avoid the alien labor law, on
trial in the United States court at
Charleston, w. Va, pleaded gully to
10 of % counts in the indictment.
The minimum fine of $1,000 on each
count was imposed by Judge Dayton
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-13
Poet Who Never Married.

While Miss Bray was in school her
portrait was painted by an able artist
of that section. Years afterward, be-
cause Whittier had admired this like
ness, she gave it to him. 1t hung in
his study until after his death. Miss
Bray married another man and sur
vived her poet lover for years.
But more or less authentic history
provides us with still another love af-
fair of this dear old poet, who never
married. After his Haverhill academy
experience in book learning and love-
making he returned to the farm. His
father needed his help in the fields.
But all the while the youth was writ
ing verses diligently. He had COM
posed that extra long piece entitled
"Mogg Megone," an Indian tale in
verse, which was published consider
ably later. His shorter pieces went
the rounds" of the country press and
attracted the attention of George Den
nison Prentice, then editor of the New
England Review at Hartford, Conn.
Prentice was about to go to Kentucky,
where he became famous as editor of
the Louisville Courier-Journal He rec
commended Whittier to succeed him at
Hartford, so the young man became
editor of the Review. Ill health caused
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-13
When to Go Home.

From the Bluffton, Ind. Banner:
when tired out, go home. When you
want consolation, go home. When
you want fun, so home When you
want to show Others that you have
reformed, go home and let Your fam
lily get acquainted with the fact. When
you want to show yourself at your
best go home and do the act there
When You feel like being extra liberal
go home and practice OIL your wife
and children first. When you want to
shine with extra brilliancy go home
and light up the whole household" To
which we would add, when you have
a bad cold go home and take Chamber
lain's Cough Remedy and quick
cure is certain. For sale by all drug
gists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-13
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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-13
BY ROBERTUs LOVE.
wv WHITTIER, the Quaker poet
NM somehow it seems that of all
Wv Americas bardS he Is the

"a HITLER, the Quaker poet
NM somehow il seems that of all
w Americas bards he is the
best beloved. That may be
due to the fact that he, of all our elder
group of poets, kept closest to the
heart of humanity in most of his writ.
tngs. Only fifteen years ago he died.
but it is hundred years Dec. II since
his birth. For well nigh eighty-five
years the poet dwelt in his native New
England, never betakingN himself TO
other parts of the world. and now he
sleeps within the bosom of his own
hdored Massachusetts. The other New
England poets were globe trotters from
time to time. LongfellOw. Emerson,
Lowell, DR.. Holmes, all did the grand
tour of Europe, some of them going
abroad several times. Bryant spent
the greater part of his life an exile
from New England, as a New York
newspaper editor. But John Greenleaf
Whittier was thoroughly Il home man,
despite his lifelong bachelorhood.
1t was in Amesbury, Mass, that
Whittier spent most of his life. He
lived in that town for fifty-six years.
Though several other New England
places claim him as q resident for
briefer periods, Amesbury must be
known always as the poets home, and
it is fitting that the people of that city
should celebrate his centenary by dedi-
eating a Whittier memorial. But that
is only the central piece in the centen-
NAL programme. In Hayerhiil, Mass.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-13

him to give up this post after eighteen
months, and he returned to the farm.
About this time the old family doctor |
looked him over, admonished him to |
take care of himself and said to a
third party:
"Greenleaf Is not long for this world.
He will never pass his forties."
The grass of fifty years was green on
the anxious old doctors grave before
his patient, long a famous poet; lacking
just few months Of eighty-fve years
in this world, passed on.
The Hartford sweetheart was named
Cornelia Russ. She was seventeen and
Whittier twenty-four when they met
and parted. 1t is said that they would
have been married but for the girls
adherence to the stern creed Of Calvin.
This sweetheart died unmarried about
eleven years afterward. Whittier new
er spoke of her nor of his earlier love.
In all his life he wrote but one or two
love poems.,
Whittier worked on the farm until
his fathers death in 1886. when he sold
the place and moved to Amesbury. In
the meantime he assisted in editing the
Haverhill Gazette. He was also for a
| time editor of a periodical called the
Manufacturer, worked for some months
| in New York city as secretary of the
Antislavery society and contributed
| regularly to Philadelphia journal
Laureate of Freedom.
| 1t is almost impossible to believe
that there was period in Whittier's
life when in most parts of the coun-
| try his name was practically "a hiss
ing and byword." This was due to
his antislavery poems at time when
the abolition movement had few sup
| porters. Whittier was vindicated by
events, but even without that vindi-
cation the great bulk of his gentler
verse would have given him universal
esteem. The year before he died
critic wrote:
Whittier is above all the laureate
| of freedom, and il any one group or
division of his poems were to be chosen
as surer than the rest to stand for his
fame against the wastes of time such
triumphant Immortality would proba-
bly, be predicted for those songs on
slavery, at once so fiery in their indig-
nation and scorn. so rich in eloquence,
so thrilling in hopeful aspiration, SO
| sweet in pathos and humanity" =
Lovers of Whittier are entitled to
their own view as to this estimate. 1t
is quite probable, however, that the
average. reader will prefer Maud Null
ler," who raked the meadows sweet
with hay as the judge came riding by,
or Barbara Frietchie," who Haunted
from her window her country's flag
while ''up the street came the rebel
tread, Stonewall Jackson riding
ahead" or a devotional poem like
The Eternal Goodness" with its sim
pie, childlike trust:
/ know not where his islands lift
| Their fronded palms in air.
| / only know cannot drift
| Beyond his love and care.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-13
An American Classic.

"SnoWBound" of course compelS
mention among the immortal few of
Whittier's poems that were not born
to die. This idyl of New England ru-
raj home life stands apart in English
literature. 1t is not stirring epic TO
move nations. but just homely.
heartful record of sane and whole
some phase of life that has departed.
Its appeal is not to the intellect, but
straight to the heart. In these days OF
overgrown cities, changing interurban
trOlleys, farmhouse telephones. auto
mobiles in the barnyard shed or on the
fine turnpike that passes by the gate
this picture Of New England life as it
was lived a hundred years ago, with
the quaint and kindly comments of
the Quaker poet, is just as surely one
of the American classics as is Shelley's
"Adonais." SO different in theme and
treatment, part of the high glory of
English song
1t may startle the student of poetry
to find the name of Shelley mentioned
with that of Whittier even in contrast
Yet between these two poets there was
overlooked. Shelley in his brief time
was the British bard of protest. Cast
ing aside all religious teaching. he
sounded high and piercing note
against human injustice. Whittier.
while retaining his early religious i'm
pressiOns, sounded a note not less high
| and piercing against the one form of
human injustice which in his first pc
riod raised its head for attack.
HE is eminently poet of humane
ty-the champion Of the oppressed, the
leader of the aspiring, the comforter
of the afflicted, the lover of the lowly,"
says the critic quoted earlier. "Above
all, the dominant note in Writers
poetry is that of sweet, simple, re-
ligious faith. No other great poet of
our century has written precisely in
this strain How many a line of his
PUSHES to tie memory, pure and CRATE
full as draft from a mountain spring.
Radiant, sunny, trustfu1 without sup
plication and devout without cant. in
their unaffected grace they sing them
selves into every heart not totally de-
void of susceptibility to the religious
sentiment"
In view of the Quaker poets exem-
piary life and his writings, "trustful
without supplication and devout with
out can't it is interesting to learn that
his publishers announce constantly
increasing demand for hfs works
Whittier. however, was one poet who
was not compelled to wait until after
death for recognition of a pecuniary
sort His poems sold well during his
lifetime. particularly after the publica-
ton of his "Snow-Bound" in 1865. By
wise investments his holdings were in
creased. so that he left a fortune of
nearly quarter of a million dollars.
And yet didn't we just hear the coIr
1 plant that poetry doesn't payf"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-13

books and tuition by making slippers;
also, after the manner of romantic
youths in his day and in ours and in
all days past and yet to be, he fell in
love while at school. Evalena Bray,
poetic first name and unpoetic second
name for poets sweetheart! She
was barely seventeen and Whittier
barely nineteen when they met She
had hazel eyes, soft brown tresses, fair
complexion and rosy cheeks. She lived
in Marblehead, and her family was
well to do. 1t is said that Whittier
twice proposed to Evalena. But Eva
lena was light hearted and gay, while
her lover was a Quaker lad, saying
"thee" and thou" and scorning the
liShtsome follies of this world.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-13

where he was born; in Danvers, where
he dwelt for parts of several years; i'll
Center Harbor, n. H., where he spent
many summers, and elsewhere i'll New
England the hundredth anniversary of
his birth is a day devoted 10 his mem
DRY. Throughout the nation grateful
thousands whose lives have been infiu-
enced for good by the gentle Quaker's
simple rhymes join in the devotions.
Yet Whittier not always was the
gentle poet. There was a considerable
period in his career when lie was a
stern and fiery bard. That was during
the antislavery movement in New
England. For the poems he wrote in
opposition to human slavery Whittier
is destined to be known in our literary
history as the poet of freedom. His
voice was loudest and longest in that
crusade for nearly a generation. Not
only did Whittier write maHy stirring
poems in the cause, but he wrote I'M
counted columns of prose, for during
many years he was Il working newspa-
per editor and general contributor.
Both Lowell and LongfellOw wrote
antislavery poems, but Winters notes
were the keenest and carried theft
protest farthest. Very early Whittier
came under the influence of William
Lloyd Garrison, the Massachusetts,
eompositor who was the head and
front of the abolition movement when
it first took definite shape. In fact,
Garrison discovered" Whittier. This
Is an old story, but one we'll worth
rataIIinp in this connection
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-13

read these treasures. BY them he was
inspired TO be poet himself. From
time to time he tried his hand at versi-
flying. and one day his admiring sister,
feeling that Greenleaf was a genius
and the world should become acquaint-
ed with the interesting fact. surrepti-
tiously sent one of his poems to the
Newburyport Free Press. Greenleaf,
who was still under eighteen, was
startled one day on opening the paper
left by a carrier to find THE EXile's
Departure" his own poem, printed
therein. He was proud lad, but not
too proud to return to his customary
work in the field. Corn must be hoed.
though fame be waiting in the fence
corner.
In a few days Greenleaf was startled
again. This time his hair almost stood
erect upon his head. He was a bash
full boy, shy, diffident country green
horn. We cannot wonder, then, at his
being startled when William Lloyd
Garrison, editor of the paper which
had contained his poem, hoped oyer
the fence and came down the corn
rows to introduce himself to the bare
footed boy in homespun garb, to whom
stranger in store clothes was n phe-
nOmenon and the editor of that par
ticular paper high priest of the Sa-
cred Temple of Awe.
The upshot was that Garrison In
! duced Greenleaf to go about educat-
| ing himself, so that be could write
better poetry. Young Whittier entered
! the Haverhill academy, paying for
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-13
HELPED by His Sister.

The poets father was a poor farmer
near Haverhill. John Greenleaf was
born on the old farm. a barefoot boy,
he worked daily in the fields. His ia
nous poem. 1.-The Barefoot Boy" is au-
tobiographical When he was a lad of
fourteen the master of the country
school which he attended-"Still sits
the schoohouse' by the road"-present-
ed him with copy of the poems of
Robert Burns. The boy read and re-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-13
How piphtheria Is Contracted.

One often hears the expression, my
child caught a severe cold which de-
veloped into diphtheria,'' when the
truth was that the cold had simply left
the little one particularly susceptible
to the wandering diphtheria germ.
VIXEN Chamberlain Cough Remedy is
given it quickly cures the cold and
lessons the danger of diphtheria or
any other germ disease being contract
ed. For sale by all druggists.
All the news all the time-The Argus.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-13
His Aim.

City Editor-How did you happen to
murder the kings English so?
Reporter-Well. | was just trying to
kill space.-kansas City Times.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-13

For any of the ordinary diseases of
the skin Chamberlain's Salve is excel
lent. 1t not only allays the itching
and smarting but effects a cure. For
sale by all druggists.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1907-01-17

in my heart. though. indeed. prstsnd~
cd to father that lad forgotten he exs
lated. But the next Instant Rsski had
dropped down on one knee. taking my
hand aud kissing 1t.
Il am 4 dog. Frauleins" he said sim-
ply. II did not tank Of what spoke
But II il the thing for which | forget
all elss-te meet this man who killed
my son For your father and yourself.
have 40 fear. 1t is | that will ever
watch. You trust me. Frauleiny
Indeed. Reski. do" answered hims
and so We parted.
Ito bs continusd-)
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1907-01-17

Smoking clay pipe. the circus actor
sat In the winter training quarters
Under his supervision a thin boy was
learning to ride erect on quiet horss
with a broad, fat back.
an some towns they won't let Us
show" said the man, unless we have
no camels with us. Camels are a seri-
Gus drawback to shows. Horses are 50
much afraid of them that lots OF towns
won't let camel enter their gates.
"A horse won't go near a piece OF
ground a camel has stood on. The very
smell OF camel In the air viii make
horse tremble and sweat And this
fear isn't only found occasionally In a
horse here and there II Is found In
every horse all over the world. Queer.
isn't 1T often wonder why Ii Is.
Cattle hate dogs In the same way, and
cats hate dogs so, too Here, though.
we can account for the hatrgd- Dogs In
primitive times fed on cattle, no doubt.
and even to-day. here and there, they
kill and feed on kittens.
Horses love dogs. I'm sure don't
know why. Dogs fear no animals but
pumas and leopards. You can take \
dog up to lions or tigers cage and
he win show no fear. but take him up
to the cage Of puma or a leopard and
be will tremble and moan and stink
away out of sight
-All very puzzling, isn't it7"-Phiia-
delphia Bulletin.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1907-01-17
@wO boys they were-one Lowry
and poor. one arlstocratic and

Go wo boys they wsrs-ons iowiy
and poor. one aristocratic and
rfchi
And they were both the only chill
dren Of their parents
Likewise they would each In time
come into the inheritance OF their
fathers
The vicar. old and gray-haired.
preached a sermon one day upon this
self same SUBJECTIVE inheritance OF
their fathers-and tried to impress bis
congregation with the seriousness and
Importance of such succession lie
pictured to them the rich Inheritance
Of an earthly father. who had laid by.
and saved up. that bis son might one
dag come Into the possession OF an In
heritance worthy OF bis name and sire !;
he drew the other picture--that OF
man. wine-blbber and glutton.
spending his days In the pursuit OF
evil. and laying up for his children and
his chlldren's children an Inheritance
of ain and sorrow and SUFFERING
The words fell ON the ready ears OF
q farmer. who was none too well on.
and had some difficulty In making both
ends meet. He silently registered
row that the chnbby-faeed boy lying
In his cradle In the tiled farmhouse
kitchen should never have occasion to
blush for the Inheritance Of his fathers
The opposite side OF the aisle. In his
family pew, the squire Of the parish
sat quietly doing through the old cler-
yman's discourse. What good could
IL possibly do 10 keep him awake while
the vicar iectured on morals TO the
tenants and poorer brethren? They
had need OF such sermons. perhaps
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1907-01-17
MISTAKES OF RUSSIAN POLICE.

Cxar'~ Law oMcers Declared &c H
Extremely stupid.
The Cars whole bureaucracy has fol
all classes of Russians that now In Il
mainly Eilled by the least intelligent o.
the population And OF these the polics
are the worst, says Ernest Poole Ia ths
World To-Day. | myself was ARRESTED
several times as 80 many correspond
snts are. and l found the police in sv
cry instance the most dense OF mortals
From my newspaper friends / heard
scores OF stories about this stupidity
These two are typical:
Some time ago man threw q bomb
at q governor, killed him and escaped
The government sent all over the EN-
pirs placard and two photographs oil
the assassin. his front view and bis
profile. And three weeks later po
liceman In western Siberia telegraphed
~Have captured both criminals and
am bringing them to Petersburg"
At midSssht in Petersburg an limo
cent peaee-loving professor stood on a
bridge staring into the sluggish waters
of the Neva- He was thinking OF rival
professor who had a new theory about
gravitation-
That man. said the professor aloud.
lis the dullest idiot In Russia
Instantly a big policeman pounced
upon him out of. the darkness and with
out word began dragging him of. Ths
poor old professor shock with terror.
why am / arresfed?~ he cried
what La my crimer"
High treason :" growied the police
man.
But whyl whyf"
'Oh. don't try to fool me, You called
bis imperial majesty an IDIOT"
Heavens cried the horrifed pro-
fessor. the spectacles falling from his
nose. why should you think / was
speaking of the Carr
The big policeman stopped and looked
down. puzzled.
The dullest idiot In Russia" he said
slowly. searching his memory. who
else could you have meant1~
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1907-01-17
TO THE SUNSHINE.

I been long a-waitin' de time en- on de tide
better reach dc yuther noes
Fer fImeu heed en- De river mighty "sass
n / got de sunshine In do mswnn'i
/ ben no long de good times up Dc road
I better start meet liftn' my load
Promise des dc b<s You ever knowso
I got ter meet de sunshine In do mswnin'i
Oh dey In Dc shadderlan ter walt
n ketch en- de night Is gitfin iate
| wants ter hear latch clink de haileiuis gate
I wants ter mest 10 sunshine In de mawnanl
ank L. Stanton.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1907-01-17
CHAPTER XIV.

I have been asked By my dear husband
to conclude the story of which he has
placed the greater part before you- |
should have preferred that be had not
tried to recall details which / know he
cannot remember without suffering: but
having once yielded TO the persuasion of
his friends, am ready to take every
share of the burden that be viii yield
to me-
Ny father and /. with Reski, the man
that Sir Henry had summoned from Po-
land, arrived In the Engadine without
any incident that Is worthy Of descrip-
ton. We had engaged rooms In the prin-
cipal hotel under the name of Jackson. as
had been suggested. Ny father stood
the journey very well. But this neces-
sity for giving a false name annoyed
him extremely. 1t was the first time in
bis life that he had done so. he said. and
had some diffculty in persusding him
not to confess the whole circumstances
to the manager on the day after our ar
rival
1t was ON the fourth day Of our visit.
about FIVE In the evening. that we re-
ceiyed q telegram from London. Ii read:
I'VE are coming at once.--Graden.'
As can be lima giDed. we were very
puzzled about 1t. We had sent no mes
sage, and we could not think what was
the reason for their sudden determine
ton Re~ki behaved In a most curious
fashion when told him II might have
been the news Of some great good for
tune that had reached him.
1T Il very well, yery WE'LL" be kept
on repeating In German--a language
which, fortunately. can speak, though
not yery correctly.
what do you meanr' asked him.
ZACH. FrauIelnI IL tbs two English
men are coming, does It not mean that
MarnAc h hereT'
suppose turned rather pale. for the
fear Of that dreadful man was always