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The Sunday Light.
SUNDAY APRIL 17 1898.
THE PICKET GUARD.
••All quiet along the Potomac” they
say. '
“Except now and then a stray pick-
et
Is shot as he walks-on his beat to and
fro.
By a rifleman hid in the thicket.
'Tis nothing; a private or two now
and then
Will not count in the news of the
battle;
Not an officer killed—only one of the
men
Moaning out all alone the death
rattle.”
All quiet along the Potomac tonight.
Where the soldiers lie peacefully
dreaming;
Their tents in the rays of the clear
autumn moon *
Or the light of the watch fires are
gleaming.
A tremulous sound of the gentle
night wind
Through the forest leaves softly Is
creeping;
While stars up above with their glit-
tering eyes.
Keep guard—for the army is sleep-
ing.
There’s univ the sound of the lone
sentry’s tread.
As he tramps from the rock to the
fountain.
As he thinks of the two in the low
trundle bed
Far away on the cot In the mountain.
I
His musket falls slack; his face dark
and grim.
Grows gentle with memories tender
As he mutters a prayer for the child-
ren asleep.
For their mother —may Heaven de-
fend her.
The moon seems to shine jus: as
brightly as then —
The night when the love yet un-
spoken.
Leaped up to his lips—when low mur-
mured vows
Were pledges to be ever unbroken.
Then drawing his sleeve roughly over
his eyes.
He dashes oft tears that are well-
ing
And gathers his gun closer up to Its
place
As if to keep down his heart swell-
ing.
He passes the fountain the blasted
pine tree—
The footstep is lagging and weary;
Yet onward he goes through the broad
belt of light.
Toward the shade of the forest so
dreary.
Hark! was it the nigh twlnd that rus-
tled the leaves?
Was it the moonlight so wondrous-
ly flashing?
It looked like a rifle. ‘‘Ha! Mary
good-by!”
And the life blood was ebbing and
plashing.
All quiet along the Potomac tonight-
No sound save the rush of the river;
While soft falls the dew on the face
of the dead—
The picket’s oft duty forever.
TO CURE COLD IN ONE DAY
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine. Tab.
lets. AH druggists refund the money
if it faite to cure. 25 cents. The gen-
uine has L. D. Q. on each tablet.
NEEDED NO HELP.
The Bath (Me.) Independent tells of
two small boys in the Shipping City
who were confined to the house one
stormy day recently. Toward even-
ing Sammie’s pent-up energy mani-
fested itself in a series of demonsta-
tions that called down upon his head
the violent admonitions of his stern
parent and left him in an apparently
humiliated stated of mind. Sam and
Willie shared the same bed.and as was
their custom knelt that night on eith-
er side to say their prayers. Willie
was the first to offer his sentiments
and at the end put in ‘‘and Lord
please make Sammie a better boy.”
No sooner had the words escaped than
Sammie looked across at his too so-
litious brother and remarked ‘‘You
shut up Willie I can pray for my-
self.”
“I feel it 1-y duty to give you a
truthful statement of what Chamber-
lain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea
Remedy did” writes J. S. Collins of
Moore S. C. “I had a child about two
years old that had the diarrhoea for
two months. I tried all the best
known remedies but none gave the
least relief. When this remedy came
to hand I gave it as directed and in
two days the child was completely
cured.” Sold by all druggists.
WHAT RUDYARD KIPLING SAYS
OF ENGLAND’S NAVAL WAR.
We have fed our sea for a thousand
years.
And she hails us still unfed;
There's never a wave of all her waves
But marks our English dead.
We have strewn our best to the weed s
unrest.
To the shark and the sheering gull;
If blood be the price of admiralty
Good God we have paid it full!
There’s never a flood goes shoreward
now
But lifts a keel we manned;
There’s never an ebb goes seaward
now
But drops our dead on the sand for-
lorn
From the Ducles to the Swin;
If blood be the price of admiralty
Good God we have paid it in!
We must feed our sea for a thousand
> ears.
For that is our doom and pride.
As It was when they sailed with the
Golden Hind
Or the wreck that struck last tide;
Or the wreck that lies on the spouting
reef
Where the ghastly blue lights flare;
If blood be the price of admiralty.
Good God we have bougth it fair!
—Advertise In the Sunday Light.
GOVERNMENT FOR CUBA.
The Democratic contention for re-
cognizing the republic of Cuba can
scarcely be inspired by anything more
than a desire to And some point of
difference from the other party and
to lay a predicate for possible criti-
cism at the end of the war. There is
bound to be some trouble some con-
fusion some clashing of interests in
setting Cuba firmly upon a base of her
own and in that adjustment Demo-
cratic campaigners will doubtless be
able to argue plausibly that recogni-
tion at the outset would have brought
this or that better result. Hindsight
is so much cleaner than foresight that
it is easy at the end of any compli-
cation to say how much wiser other
course of procedure would have been.
But at the present time intervention
without recognition appears to be emi-
nently the more prudent course and
for several reasons.
In the first place the present Cuban
is little if any better than an ideality.
Consul General Lee says it exists only
on paper. In the sense of recognition
real sovereignty in the sense that Tex-
as was recognized or that tlhe Hawa-
iian republic is recognized there is
nothing in Cuba to recognize. There-
fore the proposed recognition is only
a subterfuge to be adopted or put
aside on the grounds of expediency in
attaining the end of Cuban independ-
ence.
To recognize independence would be
to accord to the present republic sov-
‘ereignty equal to that of the United
States. Therefore any effort by this
country to expel Spaain would needs
be as Cuba’s ally subject in the main
to her direction. At least after the
attainment of peace the United States
would be logically eliminated from any
participation in the terms thereof and
would be morally and internationally
stopped from insisting upon such
guarantees to the life and property of
foreign residents in Cuba as will most
likely be required. The insurgents are
a fiery set. It is easily conceivable
that their victory unrestrained by the
stronger hand of the United States
would witness a carnival of execution
and confiscation approaching the hor-
rors of the French revolution. It
would be an appaling condition if hav-
ing driven from Cuba the property
protection of the Spanish government
the United States should be unable in
the ethics of relation to the pre-ac-
knowledged Cuban republic to stay
the hand of a hot temepered untrained
and unforgiving Cuban populace.
Nor is that all. There are commer-
cial treaties to be made possible debts
to be guaranteed and numerous other
things to be done affecting the well-
fare of this country as well as of Cu-
ba which can be best adjusted by
holding the reins of government in Cu-
ba until such time as the people of
the island may be able calmly to erect
■their own government.
It is a big job the United States has
voluntarily assumed but the best way
to dispose of it creditably and satis-
factorily is to take it with all its de-
tails from the first to the final act
and not to turn It over until it is fin-
ished to our own liking and to our own
good repute. —Galveston Tribune.
(Dem).
JUST RECEIVED.
Carload of screen doors both Fancy
and plain also window screens at Ed.
Steves & Sons. 3-31-tf
THE COPYRIGHT LAW.
The New York Herald since with-
drawing is suit against the "Chroni-
cle” for alleged infringement of copy-
righted news has published an an-
nouncement that it does not object to
the reproduction of its news dispatch-
es on rhe following day provided due
credit is given to the Herald but it
protests against their publication in
any paper on the same morning in
which they appear in the Herald.
From this we infer that our New York
contemporary has been investigating
matter of copyrighting facts and has
come to the conclusion that its posi-
tion is not so strong as it at first im-
agined it was. The permission to
print on Che ensuing day is in the
nature of an admission that it is a
manifest absurdity to assume that be-
cause a newspapei - gains knowledge of
a fact in advance of its contempora-
ries or by some means or other se-
cures possession of an important doc-
ument by paying a dollar as a copy-
right fee it can enjoy the exclusive
privilege of disseminating the infor-
mation it has acquired for the period
of twenty-eight years.
Our contemporary after a little fur-
ther investigation will find that its po-
sition is made no stronger by its pro-
posal to allow papers to print its copy-
righted facts after itlhe lapse of a day.
If the law does not give it a monop-
oly for twenty-eight years it does not
do so for twenty-four hours. As a
matter of fact it does not afford pro-
tection for twenty minutes the law-
makers never having designed to ex-
tend the privilege of the copyright law
to publishers to enable them to enjoy
a monopoly of the dissemination of the
news. The copyright law is what it
purports to be on its face; it is merely
a protection to that sort of property
which may be properly termed a pro-
duct of the intellect. It is not intend-
ed to cover news. There can be no
ownership in a fact once made public.
The instant a piece of news is related
it ceases to have property value.
Nor can ft be urged by the Herald
that it suffers an injury by the repub-
lication of a piece of news In a paper
printed at a distance of over .three
thousand miles from its sphere of cir-
culation. A newspaper on the Pacific
Coast does the Herald no more harm
in repoducing one of its news items
than our New York contemporary does
harm to the London Paris Berlin
Viennese. Roman and other European
publications when it draws news from
them as it does every day in the week.
It is the business of newspapers to
take facts where they find them and
pass them along. It is a business
the Herald has followed for years by
copying from European papers which
it is enabled to do because the differ-
ence in time is in its favor and its at-
tempt to prevent other papers exercis-
ing a similar privilege is not likely
to succeed—San Francisco Chronicle.
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When the south was boldly fighting
For what it thought was right
A Lee was at the head of it.
And led the gallant fight.
In Cuba's Isle another Lee
Most bravely made a stand
To save our people from the grip
Of Spanish tyrant hand.
o o o o
When I was in the City of Mexico I
had the pleasure of meeting the then
Consul General Crittenden daily and
there was no firmer friend of Cuba.
Perhaps this was natural for his broth-
er Col. W. L. Crittenden was murdered
by the Spanish. Col. Crittenden grad-
uated at West Point in 1845 and served
under General Zachary Taylor in the
Mexican war. At its close he retired
and went to New Orleans. Soon af-
ter he met General Lopez who after-
wards attempted to free Cuba and he
and several hundreds of other Ameri-
cans left with Lopez on his mission
to liberate Cuba. After varying suc-
cess in which Col. Crittenden acquitted
himself nobly it was found that all
was lost and he and 51 companions were
returning by a sailing vessel to the
United States when the ship was over-
hauled by the Spanish ship “Hevanero.”
Crittenden and his fifty-one companions
were arrested and taken to Fort Atares.
Here they had a farcical trial and were
condemned to death. They were taken
out one by one and shot to death. When
It came to Crittenden’s ’turn he was or-
dered to kneel as is the custom. Crit-
tenden stood erect and said. “An
American kneels only to God and faces
his enemy” and he was killed standing.
The Spaniards were not satisfied with
the death of these men. After death
their bodies were robbed of their
clothes trampled on and mutilated by
cutting off the arms and legs. Other
brutal indignities were heaped on the
defenseless dead. No wonder that
General Crittenden has a hatred for
Spain and would like to avenge the out-
rage upon his dead brother.
Writing of Havana I am reminded
that when I was there in 1881 on my
way to the United States I saw some-
thing that opened my eyes. That was
there were then in the harbor many
“American tobacco ships” I. e ships
sent from the United States ladened
with tobacco consigned to Havana.
This tobacco was manufactured in Ha-
vana into cigars and placed in boxes.
Of course these 'boxes bore the Havana
revenue stamp and were then shipped
to the United States where they natur-
ally received the import s(amp. And
there you are! The cigars were really
domestic cigars and should be so class-
ed but by this slick dodge they became
"genuine Havana cigars” and
were so classed and charg-
ed. It was a profitable game for the
firms that worked the racket but it was
a fraud upon the public who paid for
Havana cigars and got nothing more
nor less than an American cigar that
made here would have cost about a
third of the price charged. I was as-
sured upon good authority that not one
half of the “Havana cigars” sold in this
country and whose genuineness was at-
tested by the “double stamp" are made
of Havana tobacco. What is more the
tobacco grown in Havana could not
pretend to furnish a quarter of the
world with really genuine Havana ci-
gars.
Writing of cigars let me say that
Mexican cigars are in my opinion a fair
rival for the famous Havana in all
things excepting price. The average
cent cigar in Mexico will beat any
nickel cigar here and you can hardly
duplicate the quality of a five-cent Mex-
ican cigar in the city. The Mexican
tobacco is the nearest approach to Ha-
vana tobacco and oftentimes it equals
it. Texas tobacco in certain parts is a
fair rival of the Mexican and some day
we shall smoke Texas cigars that will
outclass all the cigars that we now im-
port from other states.
o o o o
‘Til woo thee love by moonlight."
Sang a lover to his lass
And her father cried “please do it—
It's cheaper far than gas'."
o o o o
Many people know what a "Welsh
rabbit” means and they usually write
it rare-bit instead of rabbit. All know
that the succulent dish of cheese can-
not literally be a rabbit though it is a
rare-bit and naturally we are disposed
'to call it a Welsh rarebit as is often
done in England but the fact remains
that the technical name of the dish is
"Welsh rabbit.” Such instances are
not uncommon in England where the
name originated. There a "Fieldame
duck” is a baked sheep head; a “two-
eyed steak” is a red herring; “Irish ap-
ples” are potatoes; "Gravesend sweet-
meats” are shrimps and so on the
name by no means corresponding with
the article.
The Spiritualits have been celebrating
the 50th anniversary of the discovery or
foundation of Spiritualism. Of course
in a free country like ours every one
has a right to believe what he pleases
and act up to his belief provided it is
not opposed to public policy or inter-
ests. Spiritualism takes its rise from
Margaret and Katherine Fox who
claimed in 1848 to have discovered the
means of communicating with departed
spirits by means of knocks. The sys-
tem was exposed by various conjurers
who produced the same results and in
1889 Margaret Fox admitted the frauds.
On this Spiritualism has its basis and
now celebrates the introduction of Spir-
itualism by the Fox sisters. It seems
natural to suppose that when the source
of the river is corrupt the river will it-
self be polirted.
Some years ago I was at a dark Spir-
itualistic seance in which the medium
produced a materialised spirit. For a
time this was regarded as super-natural
and the medium—a lady—was famous.
It mystified ail until a doubting Thomas
of the Investigator sprang a light sud-
denly on the scene and exposed the me-
dium. in dishabile impersonating the
spirit with mask guaze etc. I have
read many other instances of a like
character and have seen conjurers for
instance Maskelyne & Cook produce
such artificial spiritualistic manifesta-
tions and some that no spiritualistic
medium could duplicate. D. D. Home
one of the greatest of mediums used his
powers to induce a widow to believe
that her dead 'husband appeared and
desired her to give him (Home) a
fortune. She did so but on recovering
her senses got restitution in a court of
law.
o o o o
"I’m saddest when I sing
Sang ancient Miss Caruthers.
And Tom remarked “Indeed that’s so
And so are many others.”
*oo o o
If America should have war with
Spain the almanac prophets* such as
"Old Moore.” “Zadkiel” “Orion” "Al-
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manac Strassburg” “Agenda—PMln”
"Almanac de Mars” "Kalendar Hel-
singfors” will receive a back set for
none of these predict any trouble be-
tween the United States Spain or Cuba.
The only trouble of that kind in store
for us.that they predict is between Can-
ada and he United States but they can-
no agree as to date. One says Februa-
ry—and there has been no trouble —an-
other says April and a third says Octo-
ber. Perhaps this is an off year for
•the prophets but it will tell against
them all the same.
The diamond as an engagement ring
has been supplanted by the ruby. Dame
Fashion has said so and society natural-
ly obeys. This is simply a revival of a
old custom for many of the oldest be-
trothal rings were set with rubies and
not with diamonds. The ruby has the
credit of being a lucky stone and there
is a legend that says that Noah had one
of these gems of remarkable brilliance
on the ark that gave a roseate light in
the ark when it was needed. The ruby
is a pretty and valuable stone and its
blood-like lustre makes it all the more
romantic.
o o o o
“Man wants but little here below.”
'Was once a poet's song
The times were differ’nt in his day
Or else that poet’s wrong.
Just now the man that's up to date
Will tighten up his girth
And is confounded mad if he
Can’t grab 'the whole of earth!
o o o o
"The fact that man in falling on their
heads or getting a blow of the eyes sees
stars Is easily explained” said a local
doctor to me. “It is caused by the op-
tic nerve whose function is to convey
to the brain the impressions of light.
It recognizes nothing else and is sus-
ceptible of no other impression. If
acted upon by another impression it
communicates the presence of that
agent by sending flashes of light only
to the brain. The pain of a blow on the
eye or fall on the head is realized
through the nerves of sensation but in-
susceptible ot pain or other feeling the
optic nerve sends to the brain a report
of the shock by flashes and it is then
the injured man sees stars as he calls
them.” I remember years ago I got a
baseball in my eye instead of in the
hand and I honestly believe I saw more
fireworks in a second than was ever
discharged on a fourth of July fete.
George Johns of the St. Louis Re-
public is a new aspirant for dramatic
honors and has written a play that has
been much commended. He is the
brother of A. C. Johns formerly of the
firm of Gauss & Johns who resides at
West End.
o o o o
The Easter cermonies of the Roman
Catholic churches were very grand and
Interesting. The musical part of the
services were artistic and effective and
most acceptable to the congregation. As
a result the faithful were pleased and
the crowd drawn by the cervices was
satisfied. Ordinarily there are many
vacant seats In churches. On Easter
Sunday all seats were filled and in
some instances it was difficult to obtain
standing roomwhere men could see and
hear the beautiful celebration. The ex-
perience of this Easter is not much dif
ferent to that of other years which
ought to have taught pastors this les-
I son long ago: Make your churches com-
fortable and your services attractive
I and the people will fill the churches.
It is very well to talk of Christ and ot
heeding the lesson he taught
but people naturally get tired of
the same old repetition of
forms week by week through the
year and their sense of weariness is
increased by the prosy sermons upon
matters that the people know as well
as the pastors. This may be heterodox
but It is true. Men enjoy a good story
are delighted with an exciting play or
enchanted with a beautiful song but be
these ever so good and congenial to their
tastes to repeat either even once a
week for a year would be nauseating in
the extreme.
If pastors desire to fill their churches
and extend their usefulness let them
leave off “thrashing old straw” and
give their congregation good grist. The
pastor to be popular and successful
must be up to date and progressive.
He must deal with questions of the day
not ancient history and apply to them
the teachings of Christianity. Such a
pastor will find fewer vacant seats and
an Interested instead of a sleepy and
apathetic congregation. Christ ser-
mons were of that character as were
also those of St. Paul and the secret of
the success of Beecher Talmage Sam
Jones Moody Spurgeon and other not-
ed divines lies in the fact that they
adopted the course here indicated.
Music is very properly the hand maid
of religion and an effective adjunct of
religious service but church music ex-
cept that of the highest order has been
prosaic. The hymns of our fathers
were of the old hundredth hymn style
that were of such a soporific character
that there was an excuse for a congre-
gation falling asleep in singing them.
Sankey of Moody and Sankey fame
deserves the best monument that Chris-
tians can give for he has done the great-
est service to Christianity by introduc-
ing lively hymns of merit that are in-
dicative of the joy Christianity should
give to its followers. The ordinary
hymns of the churches have since im-
proved and are more aceptable but we
have too little of the better music such
as anthems and selections from ora-
torios and the higher sacred music that
in the hands of a good soloist or choir
are grand and effective. I have been in
churches in Mexico—Catholic churches
of course —and have heard the most
beautiful music rendered in an artis-
tic way either as a vocal solo or concert-
ed pieces with band accompaniment.
The words were Spanish and my under-
standing of them “muy poco” but the
seraphic strains seemed to seize my soul
and carry it even to the gates ot para-
dise. It has been said
• • * * • *Fair music sweet
In action holds control
The words of song we may not know
But music enters soul.
o o o o
A strong and reverent musical pro-
gram would add to the interest and ef-
fect of any religious service and there
is no excuse for such not being used
here. In no part of the world is there
proportionately more singers or more
who understand music and these are
liberal in giving their services for a
good object. If proper efforts were
made there would be no difficulty in or-
ganizing and maintaining a good choir
to render the master pieces of sacred
music and to make religious service ac-
ceptable to the multitude who believe
and abstain from going: to church be-
cause the service falls to Interest them.
lam an ardent advocate for good
church music and I believe with Row-
land Hill that “the devil should not
have the monopoly of good music.” The
Salvation Army are evidently of the
same opinion but go far further. They
adapt the airs ot all the popular songs
of the day and wed them to religious
words. This livens their service and
makes it more popular with the masses.
o o o o
There are various reasons that cause
people to go to church other than than
to pray make thanksgiving and wor-
ship God as is supposed to be the pri-
mary object. An old writer has said
this in the following verse which I ven-
ture to quote:
“Some go to church 'tis fashion so.
Some go because they have a woe
Some go to church to take a walk.
Some vainly go to flirt and talk.
Some simply go to laugh and play.
Some go to while the hour away.
Some go alas! a sin to cover
Some they go to met a lover.
Some go that God an hope may bless.
Some go to show their handsome dress
Some go it seems to dose and nod.
But few go there to worship God.”
I fear this is true and 'tis a pity it
is true. I have a respect tor the honest
infidel but I can only depsise and con-
demn the religious hypocrit.
o o o o
“Some men” said a local druggist
“are always after a bargain and they
will even seek it in the face of death.
I had an instance of that last week. An
old German came in and taking me to
aside said "I vos dired ov mine life.
Git me some bolsons.” I thought the
man was either drunk or insane.though
he did not seem so so I promptly an-
swered “Certainly.” What will you
have ? Arsenic strychnia or morphine?
He thought a few moments and then
said “Are dose sure killers?” “Yes”
I answered. Again he thought and
then inquired “vlch vos der scheepest?”
"Morphine” I replied. He did some
more thinking then some more bar-
gaining and purchased 15 cents worth
of morphine. Of course I was not go-
ing to help him to commit suicide so I
quietly substituted prepared chalk. He
went away perfectly satisfied. In the
morning he was at the store early. He
was pale as death and his face bore a
most anxious look. Taking me aside
he said confidentally “Dot bo!S«yj > ha'
nod worked yed und I haf a h —-
a dime mit my gonschence last nighd.”V
‘That's all right” I said gaily "I can
see by your face it’s working and you’ll
soon be as dead as a door nail but
please go home” I added "I don't wan't
you to die here.” The old man’s face
was now even more serious than it was
before and then he added pathetically.
“I don'd vond to die half so bad as I tit
lat night und I vould lit vor Ivos no
vorse dander resd of der beobles dot
suffers und lite vos so schweet ven you
vos lose him. Say doctor hav you no
andidote dot vould safe me? I bays
you veils more veils for fifing dan
der dying aind It?” To carry out ths
joke I gave him an emetic and then as-
sured him of his safety and he went
home. Next day the old man was all
right again and you can bet your life
he will never again want to commi t sul-
cide. Strange to sax a spell of bad luck
he had. was broken by his securing a
good position and the old man passes
daily with the geniality that is char-
acteristic of a good natured German.
HENXJZ.
—Advertise In the Sunday Uirht.
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