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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-07-09

Matthew Paris refers u specifically 20
A. u. 1855. Such an incident IS also
the subject Of the Prioress's narrative
in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales Here
the victim was
This gemme % chas,itc. this smsrsude.
And exc Of martirdom the ruby bright.
whose throat was cut by false Jewes,
and who was then cast into PIT from
the depth of which there came his
chant in honor Of
This welle Of mercy, Christes moder sweet
Chaucer. though ne refers to Sit
Hugh Of Lincoln, docs not make Eng
land tho scene Of the crime. but says Il
occurred an Asye, in a great citee.
The burden Of the ballad versions OF
the story is the victims longing FOR
Christian burial an element which has
been wholly lost sight OF, as has the
original motive Of the crime, IN the
versions which have been recovered IN
the United States. Sough. for by his
mother, Sir Hugh calls Vut from the
pit, or we'll, into which his body has
been thrown. asks for winding sheet
candles. prayer books, ETC., which
being brought next morning, the
funeral rites are properly performed
and the child IS az rest. How rag
mentary the ritualistic feature = be
come will appear when the American
variants are presently discussed.
The ballad which s the third in
Bishop Percy's "Reliques' "a Scottish
and it's first stanza, WITH the tune "a
which IL is additionally sung, IS pre-
sented elsewhere on this page. The
poem is obviously fragment. Bishop
Percy himself observes that its con
clusion appears 70 be wanting, and re-
fers his readers TO Chaucer for the end
Of the tale. Here is the substance OF
the ffty-eight lines Of the ballad: II
rains in Maryland town Merry Lin
colin, where the boys are playing ball
Out Of her house comes the Jew:
daughter and invites one Of the lads
in 10 dine. On his declining unless ne
is accompanied by his nine playfellow'
she entices him into the house with a
red and white apple. There she takes
his life with little penknife,' lays
him on a dressing dresses him
"like a swine" and mockingly tells him
to 60 now and play with his "swei'
play feres nine" Then she rolls hin
in cake" Of lead and throws hin
I into a well that is fifty fatnoms deep
/ The lads mother misses him afel
mass. and. drawing her mantle abou
/ her, she goes TO seek her child, running
/ in 70 the Jews castle while all arr
asleep.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-07-09
THE SUPERSTITION OF XII Al VI hDEh

Out came the Jewish lady
All dressed in silk and green
Come in. my little boy" she said.
"You shall have your bail again
II won't come in. shan't come in
Without my playmates. too.
For I've often heard who would come in
Should never come out again.
At first she showed him rosy red apple
And then again gold ring,
And then cherry red as blood
To entice the little boy in.
She led him in the parlor,
And then into the hall.
And then into the dining room
Where no one would hear his call.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-07-09

In one respect all collectors seem 10
have the same experience. Ii is ire
quently difficult 70 get singer to sing
the songs one wants to hear, and some
times equally difficult to make the
singer stop. Nj Sharp, in his book on
English folksong, which is as delight-
full as it is scholarly, tells of the de-
vices resorted to to get a folksinger
started who has been persuaded by the
young life about HIM that there Is
something mira digpi' tenn in singing
the songs which were popular when
be was lad. The old-fashioned songs
would make him appear ridiculous. Lit
lie by little, and by dint of insinuating
suggc o-, could the shamefacedness
be- overcome and memories that had
gone TO a bashful sleep be awakened.
But once started the singer might go
on FOR days and even weeks. Miss Nc
Gin writes me: zone OF the difficulties
Of collecting is, of course, that those
who sing at all seem TO have such eX-
tensive repertories mot being confined
to few selections, as are many of u.s.
that IT is often hard to work around to
what one would most like TO hear. In
the case Of The Greenwood Side !
found but one person who knew H. and
it was only after several visits to her
that she surprised me by unearthlng It
from her memory. Once their recoi-
leetions' become active IT is quite IKE
ly that singers who at first can re
member nothing but meeting mouse
songs will bring forth some Jewel oil
an old ballad that warns the cookies OF
collectors heart"
No doubt scores and hundreds OF
Aro-American folksongs, especially OF
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-07-09
Civic Orchestral Programme.

Programme for the Civic Orchestral
Society symphony concert A. Madison
square Garden on Tuesday evening.
July II:
F-rsa March ,rd lynn 20 Losry ~ - Nsaa
s.rrlary No 90 minor n,nshsi'
s-futN
Concerto DO minor 'or Violin 80 - Mencs ssoan
Absr sgains
ltaIal Caprcci' op Is rschs.sosss5
"Hiere,u' rGrsf.l snd warren" Lo'
Sprns Gree
Pa--4e - MDlsfslA.sn 4 >uFVn0srs ~sEa
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-07-09
American Version Of The
Two Brothers,

Miss McGnl sends % ne ballad
from Kentucky which she calls John
and William but which Is d version.
with significant changes. OF the old
Scottish "Twa Brothers" Child who
numbers it 40 in his collection. says
that all the Scottish versions were oO-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-07-09
AMERICAN VERSIONS OF THE BALLAD.

fails). the draw-well, the mothers
search and the chld's speech from the
pit. Mr.. c. Alphonso Smith prints in
the magazine already quoted version
given to him by student az the Uni
versity OF Virginia who had learned It
from his negro nurse on plantation IN
Alabama In this, a fragment Of i've
stanzas, the story is told in the first
person:
Ny ball few over in Jews garden.
Where no one dared to 90:
| saw Jew lady in a green silk dress
A-standing by the do.
The lady takes the lad "by her lily
white hand leads him into the
kitchen. sets him down on golden
chair, feeds him sugar and rice, lays
him down on a golden plank and stabs
him like a sheep. Two versions printed
in THE Journal of American Folk
Lore" for October December, 1906, were
collected i'm Clinton County, Missouri,
the contributor of one having learned
it in Kentucky. As yet have received
no copy from that state. The first
version bears strong resemblance 70
the Berks County song; the second Is
widely divergent. In the latter it is a
lad drawer than his playmates who vol
unteers 10 20 into the Jews garden 10
get the ball
lie climbed IL W, he climbed il down
He climbed it ard got in;
But. alas. alas for the brave little boy
He never came back again
Ny bonuy Sir Hew. my pretty Sir How.
/ pray thee 20 me spk
lady. rim 10 the dep draw-well
Gin re zour zonne AVID SEEK.
Lady Helen ran to the deip draw-we
And knelt upon her knc:
Ny bonny Sir Hew. and re be here
pray thee to me speik.
The lead is wondrous heavy. mithsr,
The well is wondrous deip:
A keen pen-knife sticks IN my bert.
A word / dounse spek.
Gae hame. gae hame, my mither DER.
Fetch me my winding sheet
And at the back Of Mirri-land toun
It's THAR we twa sail meet.
Here the poem breaks off abruptly,
but we know the denouement from
other versions of the ballad. The
mother brings the articles essential 20
Christian burial to the place OF APP
pointment the next morning, the son
meets her. the funeral rites are per
formed by angels and that day all the
books in Mirri-land town are read
without tongues and all the bells toll
without hands.
They" pinned a napkin around his
neck. called for tin basin 70 catch his
lfeblood in. dug his grave wide and
deep by a juniper tree, placed a marble
slab at mis- head and his ball at his
feet. Mr. Smith does not give US the
text to the tunes which he prints from
Campbell and Rockingham counties in
Virginia. The version from Pomfret,
Conn, came TO me from the lady who
communicated a version Of Lord Ran
dal" described in The Tribune last
Sunday It's melody IS the prettiest
that have yet seen associated with
the ballad. The holds over the words
ball so. low" are an Interpretation Of
my informant's description OF how her
mother sang the song. Her note on
the manuscript reads: THE three notes
which I have marked must be sung
very slowly. remember very well
that this was the place where the
sleepy came in"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-07-09

tanned in the first third Of the nines
teenlh century. since which time no
other versions have been heard Of. He
had, however two American variants,
which Ir. Newell took down from the
singing Of a beyy OF little girls who
were going 20 a picnic in South Boston
and child in New York. The ballad
has also been collected since in Ken
lucky. Missouri and Virginia. Pro-
fessor Child has one version from
Sharpe's Ballad Book" three versions
from Nothervelps Ms, one from
MotherwelPs "Minstrelsy," one from
Jamieson's Popular Ballads" and one
from Buchan's Ms. All OF these YER
sions save one make the killing acct
dental. The brothers are en-
gagged in friendly bout at
wrestling, and a knife in the pouch or
pocket Of one stsbs he other as they
fall together. The exception is that
in the Motherwell Ms, collected in
1926: The boys are goirY TO school;
they see three brothers playing at ball
and ladies "dansing hey" One lad
asks the other whether he viii play
ball "or else throw az the stone" the
game which in Ohio half century ago
We called Duck and Drake. probsbly);
the boy answers that he is TOO lttls
and TOO young. and begs 70 be let
alone, but the other
Re pulled out Me prnknfs
That was bath AarD and .ma;
lie gave HE brothey\ deadly wound
That was deep. lo and ,air
As the little girls NSouth Boston
sang the ballad. the kilNsV was DELHI.
crate and Intentional:
So John took out Of MS poke
A knife both long and sharp,
And stuck it through his brother\ heart
And the blood came pouring -
So, too, in the version Of theSrev
York child. Child mentions sonSNn-
troduced in a St. Georges play anA
ally played in a village near Chest&
which mas elements Of thought sndJ
form in common with the ballad Of
Edward" in which the motive for the
killing is given;
And it's what did'st thou Kill thy poor
brother for, my son.
Come tell il unto me
Because he killed two pretty little birds
Which flew from tree 70 tree.
Jealousy as a motive for the fratri-
eide seems unique in the Kentucky ver-
sion. A parallel for the excessive
mourning over the dead youth is found
in version written down at Ayr:
She ran distraught she wept. she sieht.
She wept t-- sma birds frae the tree
She wept the starrs abound frae the lft.
She Uept the hsh out o. the sea.
Miss McGll is puzzled by the second
line Of the first stsnza: TO view the
iron band" She writes: in The
Turkish Lady the knight is reminded
of the lady who freed him from the
cold iron band Would the iron band
of The Two Brothers be some place OF
punishment situated, as was the plllorN
for the public confusion Of the eulprN
or accused? This solution may De
wide enough Of the mark, but 1t is tho
best my Imagination can con)ute'
Some versions of the Lord BatemAn
or Turkish Lady" story have the nero
chained by the middle 70 tree, as for
instance. in song collected by MI
Percy Granger in Lincolnshire IN
1904; but as a rule his shoulders are
bored through and he Is yoked' MISE
McGills speculation seems ts''
fetched. but nothing better presen"
itself 70 me just now.
e
The Prescott daily news., 1916-11-24
Local News

New Novelties in solid gold Jew elry at Hesterly Drug Store.
 Call PAP or PA and get December issue of the Ladies Home Journal.
 Mahdeen Hair Tonic at Hesterly Drug Store.
 Some men grow up in office" says President Wilson, "and others swell up." Still there are others who go busted and never get into office.- Nashville Banner.
 Prescott Daily News 10 cents 8 week.
 Everybody's Candy Shop High class goods at low prices, Webb Va riety Store, Prescott, Ark. If
 Why not fire truck? Had you ever stopped to consider that Prescott is city, on level with Philadelphia, where a splendid truck has just been installed and the people of Arkadel- phia now have a means of fighting fire effectively and the fire boys are not handicapped by having to pull a little old hand hose cart to each fire. Makes no difference where it may be, if the fire is at your home or place of business, you expect the boys to be Johnny on the spot; but did you ever stop to consider how they got there? Arkadelphia has an up-to- date fire truck; why not Prescott? It means a lower insurance rate and a much better fire protection.
The Prescott daily news., 1916-11-24
.O0fQgp!gta1lCe
 Q lotsS :s
CONSUMPTION OF WHISKY.

Because the report of the internal revenue commissioner shows an ln- crease in the revenue from distilled spirits the liquor interests are using it to bolster mp their pet argument, Prohibition does not prohibit"
 The reason for this increase is found, not in the greater consumption of whisky by the people of the United States, but in various changing condi- tions here and abroad. One of these is set forth by the secretary of the treasury in the following statement:
 Notwithstanding the spread of pro- hibition, collections on distilled spirits for the first ten months of the fiscal year showed an increase over the cor responding period of a year ago. This is due in great measure to the etlec- tive enforcement of the internal rev enue tax on distilled spirits. It is estimated that through the campaigns of the treasury department against undergauging, equalizing and hlOckad- ing in distilleries. the revenue of the government has been increased by probably $5,000,000 annuallly'
 further explanation is that the large quantity of spirits shipped from this country to Africa to take the place of the British product now barred from shipment because of the European war, Is counted in the ''in- creased consumption" During the year ending June 30, 1915, exports amounted to 1,663,000 gallons during the nine months. July, 1915, to March, 1916, 5,S50,OO0 gallons were exported.
 Then again there has been steady decrease in the supply of imported liquors due to difficulties of transpor- tation. Some of the foreign distillers have opened branches in this country, and the taxes on their output are now added to the internal revenue of the United States.
 Other reasons might he given, but these suffice to show how alert the liQu1riteS are to seize upon any appar- ent advantage furnished by figures and how prone the public is to arrive at nasty conclusions. It is not within the province of the internal revenue department to interpret Its report or to explain where or how the tax-paid liquor Is actually used
 If the brewers and diStilers believe what they are loudly claiming, that the internal revenue reports prove that more liquor Is sold under prohibit ton than under license, we shall find them this fall lining up with the drys; we shall find them during the anti election campaign working and spend ing their millions to make six more states and the territory of Alaska dry.
The Prescott daily news., 1916-11-24
WHISKY THE HANDICAP

A woman visitor was lately in large hospital. where many soldiers were patients. She noticed especially two men wounded in almost exactly the same way; but while one of them-a small Scotchman-was rapidly recov. ering. the other, great brawny man. was not doing so well. As she and the doctor stood between the two beds the big man asked why he was not getting on as well as his comrade. 'Ah!" said the doctor, I'm afraid it's the whisky, Mac; you see the wee chap is an abetainer."
The Prescott daily news., 1916-11-24
PROGRESSIVE MUSIC CLUB

The Progressive Music Club will hold it's first meeting tomorrow after noon at three o'clock with Miss Birva Hit as hostess. The following is the program to be rendered:
 Roll call, Distinguished Musicians. Sketch of Beethoven's Life, Jean ette Burns.
 Piano solo, Esther Wood.
 When the Lights Are Low. Marie Reeder.
 Piano duet, Hazel Litton and Mil dred Walthall
 How Beethoven Practiced. Dollie Sharp.
 Piano solo, Mabel Burns.
 Au Matin, Birva Hit
 Ten Foundation Stones of Practice. Miss Mae Duke.
The Prescott daily news., 1916-11-24
HePHPt Pfps% of e.h the , .Conditio. nf rikST STATE RAN,a., of

Prescott, Nevada Co.,. A A,S close 0f business mess Nov. l7th, ai isis af the
 RESOURCES i5lo.
The Prescott daily news., 1916-11-24
EPWORTH LEAGUE PROGRAM

Subject, The Grace of Gratitude. Leader, Leila Andrews Opening Song. Prayer.
 Scripture lesson, leader Solo, Sarah Cummins. Talk by leader. The Root of Ingratitude and Effect Ethel Steele
 What Ingratitude Means, Mrs. w K Gresham
 Gratitude and Debt, C. C. Calhoun Closing Song.
 League Benedction.
The Prescott daily news., 1916-11-24
THE WEATHER

NOTICE-All those indebted to w. T. Hart will find him at the Citizens Bank building until January 1st If
 Paper is now so high that people are beginning to understand why the ancients inscribed their messages on clay or stone tablets.-Chicago News.
 Strike Anywhere Matches" large size boxes three for ten cents. Webb Variety Store. If
 At the Park Hotel: w. Taylor, R. (. Gore, P. L. Holtz, B. Levite, St. Louis; B. F. Alexander, Nashville; r. E. Weece, Oklahoma City; C. E. Me Alister, Camden; w. 0. Beene, Blev- ins; J. C. Fox, Peoria; J. L. Lawless, Nashville; R. E. Gordon, Ft Worth; Henry Givins, Dalark; S. S. Taylor, Malvern.
The Prescott daily news., 1916-11-24
. SUNDAY AT THE
 METHODIST CHURCH

9 a. m., Teacher Training Class. This growing class now has 70 mem bers on roll. We need you. 10 a. m., Sunday school. II a. m., Sermon by Rev. w. NJ. Hays.
 6 p. m., Epwrth League, everybody invited.
 z p. m., sermon by Rev. Hays, clos ing out the conference year. and his fourth year as presiding elder of this district
 Monday.
 7;3O p. m, Fourth Quarterly Con- ference, all officers requested to b. present.
The Prescott daily news., 1916-11-24
UNION PACIFIC DRY.

Throughout It's entire length the Union Pacific railroad has barred the sale of liquor No alcoholc bever. .ges will be sold in it's diners even in wet territory. The system comprises the Union Pacific, the o. w. R. & N. and the oregon Short line The states .raverse1 by these lines are Oregon, Washington. Idaho, Montana, Wyo- uipg and hebrasks.
The Prescott daily news., 1916-11-24
RIGHT!

What is the plural of man. John n.y." asked the teacher of small pupil.
 "Men," promptly answered Johnny. Correct" said the teacher. And what is the plural of 'baby?'"
 "Twins," was the unexpected reply. Exchange.
The Prescott daily news., 1916-11-24
SCARED HIM INTO IT.

Young Widow-Did you have any trouble getting Jack to propose?
 Girl Friend-No, dear; told him you were after hm.-Boston Tran script.
The Prescott daily news., 1916-11-24
Report of the Condition of BANK OF PRESCOTT
Prescott, Nevada Co.,, at the close of business Nov. 17th, 1916
 RESOURCES

Prescott, Nevada Co.,, at the close of
 business Nov. 17th, 1916.
 RESOURCES Loans and Discounts .... .S226, ,42S.12 Loans on Real Estate. .... 4S,10S.03 Loans on Cotton. ........ 483.G6 Overdrafts, Secured and Unsecured ............ 244.39 Other Bonds and Securities including State Warrants, County and City Scrip. 69,451.60 Furniture and Fixtures. 8,153.50 Banking House ..... 100000 Due from Banks not Re serve Agents .......... llO,2lZ.62 Cash Items ........... 123.05 Banks .,............. 298, 8,997.31 Other Resources as follows 516.30
  Total ...........S7 S762, ,719.34
 LIABILITIES Capital Stock, Paid Ups 75,000.00 Surplus Fund, Certified. .. 100000 Undivided Profits, Net.... 1C,590.28 Savings Accounts ....... 106, 6,746.90 Individual Deposits, h. cluding Public Funds. .. 4G1 ,593.20 Due to Banks, not Reserve Agents .............. G6O Time Certificates of De- posit ............ 31,669.5 .52 Cashiers Checks ...... 2,112.S4 Total .............. .$762, ,719.3l State of Arkansas, County of Ne vada, ss.-We Thos. c. McRae. Presi- dent, and Thos C. McRae, Jr., Cashier of the above named Bank, do solemn ly swear that the above statement is true to the best of our knowledge and belief.
 THOS. C. McRAE. President.
 THOS. C. McRAE, Jr., Cashier Attest:
 W. V. TOMPKINS,
 D. L. McRAE,
 SAM T. WHITE,
 Directors. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 21st day of November, 1916. My Commission expires March 23d, 1917.
 ,SEAL) WREN SCOTT,
 Notary Public.
The Prescott daily news., 1916-11-24

White Lily Flour is the flour that has been handled by W. T. Hart for the past 20 years without a single complaint. E. L. Cox X Go. now have the agency for this famous flour. 9tf
 For automobile service call 13S- Whites Cafe. Byron Franks. If
The Prescott daily news., 1916-11-24
Little Rock Conference, M. E. Church South, Malvern. Ark, November 29th to December 5th, 1916.

For this occasion the St. L. I. NJ. X s. Ky. will sell tickets Prescott to Malvern and return for S2.60 Tickets on sale November 25th to 30th and bear final return limit to reach orig. inal starting point prior to midnight of December 9th, 1916.
 G. A. HAYS, Agent
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1916-04-05
Hbout
Wedded
Bliss

The old fashioned diagnosis of rheu-
matism is coming into disfavor Too
many distinctly different types of all
ments have been classed under rheu
matism.
The old fashioned verdict of incom
patibility is bound. too. In fine. tc
come into disfavor Too much Of mar
ital infelicity that Is caused by selfish
ness or unrest or unpreparcdness foi
marriage or unpropitious circumstances
In marriage is laid at the door Of in
compatibility.
OF course incompatibility exists. 1t
is present in every marriage In great
er or lesser degree. 1t is an inevitable
concomitant Of every marriage. But
unless Ii IS pronounced. as In some
cases where man and woman marry
In haste. without any community OF
thought and interest, II does not cause
serious trouble
The average couple are attracted be
fore marriage not only by the call of
sex. but by many attributes of mental
and spiritual affinity. After marriage
1t is apparent that they are not as
completely in unison as they were be-
fore marriage. Traits that We're hid
den by the glamour of courtship come
into the foreground. For husband and
wife are each the product Of dissimilar
environment and heredity. and. being
so, many OF their ideas. tastes and
habits are bound to clash. Then. too,
as they are man and woman. their in
clinations and emotional natures are
fundamentally different Thus 1t is to
be expected that at times the unlike
natures OF man and wife should cause
discord.
The couple who are idlers or one OF
whom is an idler find incompatibility
a bugbear in their lives. With real
work-with something serious to think
about aud something worth while to
do--they would find little time to wor-
ry about their discrepancies in opinion
and taste.
To those who are unready for mar
riase. who are bad tempered. eccen-
tric and saiftless in habit and man.
agement-to this type of people incom-
pati1ility is a scapegoat for all their
misdeineanors.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1916-04-05
conyentionality.

Woman is much less conventional
than man. She does all the conven
tional things and attacks other women
savagely for breaches Of convention.
But you will generally find that where
a man may with impunity break con
vention he will not do SO, while II Sc
crecy is guaranteed a woman will
please herself first and repent only II
necessary. 1t follows that a man Is
conventional because he respects con.
vention. women conventional because
she Is afraid Of what may happen n
she does not obey convention. The
typical Englishman Of the world wreck.
ed upon desert island would get into
his evening clothes as long as his shirts
lasted; his wife alone in such circum-
stances would wear a low cut dress to
take her meal of cocoanuts, even II her
frock did up In front-Atlantic.