The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-03
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
I would much like to see the poem
The Tapestry Weavers." the authorship
Of which 10 attributed I 0 Arson q. Ches-
ter. I do not know whether his poems
have been published. but I have one OF
them in M scrapbook There Are
BROOKS In The Way psalm 10. y,
written 1874.
] think his correct title was the Rev.
DR.. Arson q. Chester. lie preached w
Corning, N. Y. and I am quite sure In
the Presbyterian Church. In the '70s,
and ] listened to him as often as |
could make II convenient to be in Corn
Ing on Sunday. J. J. wAsHBuRN.
The verses are as follows:
THE TAPESTRY wEAvERs.
Let us take to our hearts q lesson
No lesson can Drawer be
From the ways OF the tapestry weavers,
On the other side OF the sea.
Above their heads the pattern hangs.
They study II with care.
The while their fingers deftiy work.
Their eyes are fastened there.
They tell this curious thing. besides.
or the patient and piodding weaver.
He works on the wrong side
nut works Tor the r'sht SIDE ever
1t IL only when the waving stops.
N"u inc wen ~ ioosed ana turned
That he sees his real handiwork-
ihai MS marvellous ski1 Is learned
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VI. 'ne s'knt OF i's delicate beauty
How 1t pays him for all his cost.
Ne rarer. daintier work than his
Was ever lone by the frost.
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I.t ao.,n ,,om ~. n,.s. -, ~.
whsrein W.. a.. x.ayin. s,r.v.
TIL the my.,io web a done.
weayinr b,ind,v I'M, u.,y,n, .urelv
Each for himself nj. fate.
| We NAV no, see how the r,sh, aid. looks.
We can only weeye and wait.
Hut. looking sboy. for the pa,,ern.
~ wesNer neeu nave rear
Tn. n.r,.c, n,i,ern I. there.
II he keeps the face Of Our Saviour
forever ana siNsSs IN sish''
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And when his task IL ended.
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I, shau say :, him wei, dome"
And the white winged angels OF heaven
yea MN t"snee shsh CONE aow"'
Not coin. bu, . Golden cyown.
Arson G. CHESTER.
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WIZ you kindly INFORM me wnetne
| prepa ration by all indian tribes or /
this meal was made by a Connccticu
Indian woman by the method traditional
In her tribe. which was to grind tn
psrched kernels in a mortar made from
the followed out stump OF a tree, b,
means OF a heavy wooden pestle. sus
pended from a sapling. she said tina
for the neal NJ Wills
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this ouer, I, IN. article ON yokeay #
the ..Handbook OF tho Ipdians, ,Ru,ea,
OF American Ethnolosy Washington
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,Yokeae-A corru,iion of peouo,
Mohesan yok 'hix an abbreviatIon n
vok'hiean .,what Is, mad. soft parcbe
corn reduced TO n very ane powder an
sometimes mixed with mamie .uear |
is s,i,l prepared nv the I,eouot. Moh.pan
Of the Indian reservation, on the Thame
River. Connecticut. md is .one,i,ne
sold by them 10 their white reichbor,
who eat Il, with milk AMI somet.mes wit
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tory OF the Monument in the Creek
II /. located in some part OF Williams
orluse ana " "v'neh.IS intended 10 rep
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JEROME KAUFMAN.
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writes.
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