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LD I FAVORITES I r-H- Over the River. Oyer the river they beckon to me Loved oriel who've passed to the far ther ide; The gleam of their snowy robes I see. But their voices sre drowned in the rushing tide. There' oua with ringlets of jiinny gnl j And eyes the reflection of heaven's own blue; lie crossed in the twilight (fray snd cold And the pale mist hid him from mortal view; We ssw not the angels who met him there, ice gate or tuo city we could not See Over the river, over the river, ' My brother si nod waiting to welcome me! Over the river the boatman pale , Carried another, the household net; Her brown curls waved in the gentle gale Darling Minnie! I see her yet. She crossed on her bosom her dimpled hands, And fearlessly entered the phantom bark; We watched It glide from the silver sands, And all our sunshine grew strangely dark; ,We know she is safe on the farther side, Where all the ransomed and angel be Over the river, the mystic river, My childhood's idol is waiting for me For none return from those quiet shores. Who cross with the boatman cold and pale; We hear the dip of the golden oars, And catch a gleam of the snowy sail; 'And lo! they have passed from our yearning heart; They cross the stream and are gone for i aye; We may not sunder the veil apart That bides from our vision the gates i of day; We only know that their barks no more May sail with u o er me stormy ; sea 3Tet, somewhere, I know, on the unseen shore. They watch, and beckon, and wait for for me. And I sit and think, when the sunset's gold Is flushing river, and hill, and shore, I shall one day stand by the water cold ' And list for the sound of the boatman's oar; X shall watch for a gleam of the, flapping &ail, I shall hear the boat a It gains the i strand: shall pass from sight, with the boatman pale, I To the better shore of the spirit land. J (ball know the loved who have gone before. And joyfully sweet will the meeting be, -When over the river, the peaceful river, The Angel of Death shall carry me. .-Nancy Priest Wakefield. Oft in the Stilly Night. Oft In the stilly night. Ere slumber's chain has bound me, Foiid Memory brings the light Of other days around rue: The smile, the tears, Of boyhood' years, The words of love then spokeu; , The eyes that (hone, Now dimmed and gone, The cheerful hearts uow broken. Thus In the stilly night, Ere slumber's chain has bound me. Sad Memory brings the light Of other days around me. When I remember all The friends so linked together I've seen around rne fall, . Like leaves in wintry weather, I feel like one Who treads alone Some banquet hall deserted, Whose lights are fled, Whose garlands dead, And all but he departed. Thus in the si illy night. Ere slumber's chain has bound me. Had .Memory brill); the light Of other'days around me. Thomas Moore, TRIALS OF THE A8PH ALT. GANG. The Foreman Ho Uurd Work to Keep Public Off the Haft Pavement. i Said tlfo foreman of a repair gang working on Eighth avenue: "People have an Idea that a foreman lias an easy time; that all he ban to do Is to tand around with Ills hand In bis pocket and swear lit the men at regular Intervals. Ankle from tin? fart that a foreman superintends the Job and In therefore responsible for any mistake, he baa the duty of polking the strip of asphalt being; laid down that Is, of keeping pedestrians and vehicle from running over It before If bard. The gang know bow to do II work without being; eternally cussed at. I could go to slei-ji, and while they might loaf a Jlttle the work would be Jmt as well !dono. Hut If 1 should go away for half an hour I'd find when I came hack thai half the population had either walked vr driven over the new patch. "You'd suppose that citizen who are forever complaining alwmt tho condl jtton of the street would at least not delay the work; yet they're like chil dren who want to imkp their finger or ,'tholr fei't Into everything; that looks 'oft. Once In a while a man will come up to the edge of a fresh strip and dig but tM Into It to see how soft It Is, I nip poM. Then he'll try to sinooth the Im prMrton away, but you can't do that with Mpha.lt make a hole In It and you've got to poor In nVire stuff to level it off. ji "TIM Inquisitive map Isn't the only troublesome one. FrWably the man wbo'a lu a hurry and f ean't like to go oat of bis way la the t. When we are working at ctossO where thou sands of Deoole D4 very hour It would take a 'fire line to keep them off, They cut right through the middle with the air of a small boy with a chip on hlH shoulder. Women are the hardest creature to manage. Only a day or two ago I caught a shopper attempting to break past me. I spoke to her, as I thought, very quietly and respectfully. She Jumped a If a horse had suddenly stuck hlH nose In her fuce. The tongue lashlng she pave me before au amused crowd would have made a grease tqot of any man less hardened than 1 am. ''Don't you speak to rne don't you dare speak to me,' she cried. 'You have no right to frighten people, out of their senses. Vou wouldn't durJtQ lalk 1 my husband like that.' "It doesn't do much good to put up barriers of barrels and planks. I've seen a few lunatics crawl right under them or vault over them In order to kep In the straight linn in which they were going. Of course after we have laid rt stretch, we always put a fence up, and take 1t away biter when the asphalt has thoroughly hardened. Then' tie) time when he merry truck driver gets In bis fine work: he whips big horses up and catches one of the barrels or boxes' with the hub of his wheel, and down tumbles the whole business. This la his Joy and especial care, for, If his truck bo big enough and heavy enough, he owns the streets. "Our troubled are not always with laying asphalt. Sometimes when we're chopping out old asphalt we clash with the 'mini In the street.' Then little chips bmrlstllng all over with sharp points fly In every direction, and tht citizen who feels the sharp sting of an asphalt crystal seems to lose all control of his temper. His Hue of reasoning, II he reasons at all, Is that we are In ten. tlonally throwing things at him. Bui be takea It all out In talk and fist shsk- Ings, and goes off vowing to report tht matter. "As a sort of dumping ground for thi bad tempera of people," concluded tht foreman, according to the New York Times, "we certainly deserve to bt given a place with the unotorrnan and the conductor." SCHOOLBOY IN ANCIENT TIMES. How Roman Pupil of 2,000 Years Ago Bet Uow ii His Day's Doing;. Something quite new In the form ol an exercise book for budding Greek scholars has made Its appearance la Germany. Into this "Greek Reader" have been packed all sors of delightful and almost unknown specimens of tht literature of ancient Greece, such at fables, fairy tales, stories, etc., adapted for young people. There are also exam ples of the work done by the pupils ol the Graeco-Roman schools some twen ty centuries ago. The following, for In stance, Is the account of his dally rou tine work by a Roman schoolboy. lit writes: "I wake vp before sunrise, leave mj bed, sit down with my straps and shoet and put on my shoes. Then water foi washing Is brought to me. I wash first my bands, then my face, take oft my nightcap, put on my undergarment, anoint and comb my hulr, arrange my neck cloth, put on a white upper gar ment and a wrapper. Then I leave my bedroom, together wllh my tutor and my maid, salute my father and mother, and leave the houHe." The mixture ot Spnrtan abstinence In leaving boms without a breakfnst and of the alto gether tin-Spartan luxury of an attend ant tutor and maid Is suggestive. The youth goes on to explain, with a dellclously pedantic air: "I reach th school, enter and say 'Good-morning, my teacher. Ho returns the salutation. My slave hands slates, penbox and pen cil to me. I sit down 'In my place am) write, and then I crs out what I hn,v written. I write from a copy mid show It to the teacher. lie corrects and crosses out what Is bad. Then he makes me reail aloud. Meanwhile the small boys have to learn their letters and spell out syllables. One of the bigger boys reads to them. Others writ verses and I go In for a spelling coinpc tltion. Then I decline and analyze some, verses. When I have done all thlt I go home to breakfast. I change my clothes nud then I eat white bread and olives, cheese, (Igs and nuts and drink some cold water. After breakfast I go back to school. I I1nd the teacher rend' lug aloud, and he sHys, 'Xow we will begin at the beginning.' " This schoolboy performance, says the Westminster Gazette, goes a long way to show once more that there Is noth lug new under the sun, not even the trivial round of the modern schoolboy An Absent-Minded I'uinicr. An authore.-s of note was In Naples and very much tdeslred to know Mo- rein, the famous painter, but could iiihi lio one lo net its Intermediary. At Ills) she resolved to Introduce herself. When she paid her visit she found tho studio door open, and, pushing a cur. tain to one side, stood before the art ist at work, who. looking at her ab sent-mindedly, said: "These lines scon! to be all right, what do you think?'1 And to her murmured response wen on; "lint the eyes or tne nuns lo no suit me; piny sit down n moment- yours are Just the thing!" With Im ward delight the lady sat down and in ted as model for an hour ami a half, during which time the writer ami tho artist tallied as though they had been friends all their lives, (suddenly Mo relll stopped, took off his glasses, and peered nt his handsome- model. "Hut, cxci! me, who are you?" he asked. Tho vital question of to-day, accord ing to the women's journals, Is this: When I a garment a gown and when ta It a dress? Those who want to keep abreast of the times should read the women's Journal. A critic l, flrst of all, a Mar. Ha does not hesitate to tell an untruth tr make a food point Hall Calne's "The Eternal City" has reached a sale of 325,000 copies . Funk & Wagnnlls Company an nounces the publication of "The Social ist ?od tin;. Jti;.jj.cC .by.. Mrs-. Fremont Older. It Is a novel of Californian life during the anti-Chinese labor agitation. The new novel with which Ltn-a Malet Is to follow her success with "'The History of Sir Richard Ciilmady" bus been completed and will soon be published both In England and this country. The monumental "Dictionary of Slang" upon which W. K. Henley and John E. Farmer have been working for some years past Is nlmost finished, and the final volumes are to be pub lished at au early date. E. P. Duttou & Co. have Just pub lished "The Truth and Error of Chris tian Science," by M. Carta Sturge, a Cambridge graduate, with a preface by Canon Scott Holland. The author has given the matter very serious study. The Century Company Is about to is sue a book of Action dealing with the Slighter phase of life at a girls' college, by Jean Webster, a recent recruit to jthe ranks of story writers. The Uls tlnetive quality of her work Is Its spon tanelty and humor. Herbert 8. Stone & Co. announce for early publication a story by a new writer, called "Brewster's Millions." The hero Is a New York fellow of good parts who, to save an Inheritance of $10,000,000, starts out to spend a for tune of $1,000,000 In a year. A nature book of some moments Is soon to bo Issued by Charles Scrlbner'a Sons. It Is to be upon "Trees, Shrubs land Vines of the Northeastern United fetates," and Its author, II. K. Park hurst, will give therein a general ac count and botanical details of the sub ject, aiming especially to Interest those readers who have never made a study ot botany. The University of Chicago Press publishes a volume entitled "Assyria n and Itubylonlan Letters," by Robert Francis Harper, professor of Semitic languages and literature In the Univer sity of Chicago. They cast much light upon the administrative methods of the Assyrian government and upon the practical workings of the state re liglon, and furnish valuable informa tion concerning Assyrian and Babylo nian life and customs. ' Mrs. Ruth McEnery Stuart Is one of those sincere and unpretentious people .whose work is often undervalued be cause It Is left to make Its own place and select Its readers without blowing of trumpets and beating of gongs, snyj the Outlook. In the little group of writers who deal with real Uilncrs In n Irenl way In this country she holds a pecure place. She has various gifts- skill In characterization, feeling Cor bet background, a good sense which shines In well-phrased reflections; but hei most original gift Is humor unforced, spontaneous, kindly, full of human tenderness. The story of Napoleon Jackson, aptly described In the sub title as The Gentleman of the Plush Rocker, Is, in Its way, a little master piece. It Is a bit of life reproduced with contagious mirthfulness, with genuine skill, and with a keenness ol Insight Into character which commands our respect while It compels our laugh ter. A more beguiling story has nol appeared this season, nor a more real me. Unique Geographical Globe. In the Academy of Sciences at Tsars, koe Selo may be seen one of the mosl Inteiestlng relics lu the world. It l! a geographical globe eleven feet Id dltin eter, made of copper. It was com menced In the year K5.VI and was com pleted ten years later, during tht reign of Duke Frederick of Holstelu. Th.i outside represents the earth find the Interior thp celestial spheres. Thort Is a door giving access to the interim of the globe, and In the center Is a roiiud tnble, which Is so large lhat twelve persons can easily sit around It. By means of old fashioned but trustworthy mechanism the globe can be made to revolve upon Its axis. Thli curious relic weighs about three am: n half tons. Ever since It was mad It has been regarded as entirely unique In Its way. and, though Its value foi geographical purposes Is not sow very yrcat. It Is still prized by scientists a n, str.'king evidence of the lutercst which was taken In geographical mat (era t'vo and n half centuries ngo. Tho King' Perquisites. There are many perquisites to tht crown of England. The King Is en titled, for Instance, to every sturgeon brought to hind In the United King dom. One of them, caught In tin.' Thames, was on the table at Queen Victoria's wedding banquet. The King should receive too every year from diver persons a tablecloth worth three shilling, two white doves, two whltt hares, a catapult, a pound of cumin sed, a horse and a halter, a pair of scarlet hose, a currycomb, a pair ol tongs, a crossbar, a coat of gray fur a nightcap, a falcon, two knives, i lance worth eight shilling, and a sil ver needle from hi tailor, Malls In China. China has decided to establish a gen eral poatofflce and to turn over thr administration of It to the marine cua to ma service, uodtr Sir Robert Hart 18 Emtomails OPINIONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS Shall We fly by 1904 T HE United States Commissioner that in his opinion one of the progress to be dealt with In aerial navigation. Experience, onstrated Its practicability;" prediction that when the dillictilries way are overcome, American brains will This assumption may be rather far be confessed that the greatest advance tion has not been scored by a citizen of the United States, but by a young Brazilian, Santos-Dumont. But the head of the Patent Office doubtless has In inind the numerous applications for patents for flying devices which have been made by Yankee Inventors, and it may be that sooner or later, the nation which has done so much to forward use ful Invention will succeed In solving this problem also. At any rate, a generation which Atlantic messages exchanged without should not be unduly skeptical regardiug future achieve ments. Whether really useful flying machines are de vised by Americans or foreigners Is a possibility that within the next twelve months some ma terial advance may be made toward their construction Is one of the phases which promises to add to the interest of life during that period. Philadelphia When Should a Man OT, When should a young man or a middle-aged man ical edition of man marry? but, When should a man marry? Marriage presumes youth. The bride particularly is never may have white hair, but, bless violet undor the snow that tells the with six children who Is going to marry the widow with five may seem mentally superannuated, Matrimony despises calendars and age distinctions. All people about to marry are young and that ends the flrst part of the discussion. Now the second part is more prosaic. General Corbln still pleads that army officers should not marry too early. Ixive, he Intimates, cannot thrive on a lieutenant's pay. A bishop stands before a conference in the South and says preachers should avoid early marriages. In four recent articles we have read rich men advise the Juniors to go Blow on the matrimonial market. So It runs. Some of these, advice-givers married early, and when brought to book by that fact, think they save themselves by declaring that conditions nowadays are different. But It Is a million to a cancelled stamp that If they had It to do over again under modern conditions they would be ahead of their flrst records. When should a man marry? About half past after he falls In love. Baltimore Herald. The Proper Use of Leisure. T; I ME, as somebody has said, Is made of, and we ought to count of how we spend It. the leisure time of most should not be wasted In Idleness, but should be turned to use: Every man and woman ought to read some good book for an hour or two hours each day. Hav ing resolved to do this, a man ought to make It a aolemn duty, as It were a religious office, to stick to his resolution. SHE KNEW HISTORY. How aa Indiana Girl Surprised Young Man in Chicago. At the athletic club the other night this was George Ado's contribution to the stories that went around the table: "Dear papa struck a gas well down On the Indiana farm," said he, "and Maybelle and mother came to Chicago to see life. The first night dear May- belle went Into society she made good with a young fellow who was home from college for the holidays. His father owned four or Ave banks and a w railroads, and he was the catch of the season. He had his name down on Maybellc's dance card so often that all the other girls began to talk about her. About the time they began to call for carriages Archibald said he wanted to call at her hotel the follow ing night. ' I must ask mamma first,' said she. Mamma said she was foolish to grab him and hold him tight. Wise mamma had sized him up as a catch. Maybelle had u scheme, though, and told him he mustn't call for two days. "Then Maybelle hunted up her dear st Indiana friend, and asked what she ought to do to make herself solid with Archibald. Maybelle was a little shy on polite conversation and she wanted pointers. " 'He's a college man, and I must be areft.l what 1 talk about," she de l.ircd. "'History Is always a good topic,' said her friend. 'I'nt In all vour time from now until to-morrow night read lug some history. English history is a cinch. ".Maybelle got an English history and never let loose of It for two days and must of both nights, and by the time Archibald was due she could tell the date of everything from the rclgu of Alfred the (J rent to the Boer war and back again, "Well, Mr. Archibald called. May belle was n trllle disappointed when, in stead ff putting on a lot of dog, he seized Iht hand and shook It like any ordinary person, without assuming the expected abstracted air and running his fingers through his hair. In fact, he started right In giving Maybelle her own bunch of talk about what a pretty dress she had on, and how he liked her dancing, and regretted that she did not have him call the previous night us well, and a lot of the regular line that she would have enjoyad down home. "Hut Maybelle had not read English history without an object, and she never budged even whan the atranfflt uold got Archibald' conversation for a minute. Hut Archibald got bis aec uiit wind pretty quick and continued he hot air until suddenly be was all in. ? of Patents declares chief problems in the coming years Is he asserts, has "dem and he ventures the that stand in the do the work. - fetched, for it must made In this direc has Just seen trans- the medium of wires T: minor matter. The Bulletin. Marry? man or an old or any astronom old. The groom your soul, It's the season. The widower but who can soy? cases therefore bacteriologlcally the stuff that life is keep a strict ac more probable of The evening is men, and leisure powder, a six per Lancet. "Then came Maybclle's chance. She had listened for twelve and a half mln utes to Archibald's commonplace, and now she was going to show him that she knew a thing or two. So In the middle of a painful silence she gazed eonquerlngly at Archibald and ex claimed: "Wasn't that awful about Mary, Queen of Scots?' "Archibald started, stared, and stam mered: "'Why! What about her?' " 'My goodness! - Didn't you know that the poor thing had her bead cut oft'' asked Maybelle proudly. "And then Archibald asked for Ice water." Chicago Inter Ocean. THE PLANTATION MULE. He I Sagacious and Quick-Witted in Manv Hespects. "The plantation mule has a curious and interesting way of calling out the time of day," said a man from Mis slppi to the New Orleans Times-Democrat, "and wltli men who have spent any considerable length of time on a big plantation in any section of this country south of Mason and Dixon's line I suppose the observation is very common. Mules are wonderfully saga cious and quick-witted In some re spects. They are particularly apt In aiming things which have to do with bodily comfort; such things, for In stance, as relates to feed time, water ing time, and so forth. But the par ticular thing I had In mind was the habit of mules along about turning in time at the noon hour, and In the evening. They have a way of tell ing the time, and when more than one mule Is to be found In the field, they have a way of calling out to each other. They bray at each other. (ne curious fact In connection wllh the habit Is that they are never be hind time with their braying. At the noon hour they never wait until the time for the dinner horn to sound. They call out to each other, and In n short while you will be certain to hear the horn blow. As a rule they nre only a few minutes ahead of time with their braying, which shows how accurately they reason with respect to the time of tho day. This habit furnishes a pari of the music of the big plantation, and It may be said lhat the mule Is the leader of the farm orchestra, for the negroes Invariably follow the first call of the mule with a halloo pe culiar to the negro farm hand, and the sound Is taken up again and again un til every mule and every negro on tho place has Joined In the strange orches tration. You can Imagine what thla means on a plantation containing thou sands of seres, and where many mules and many nagroM are sea tiered over a vast cultivated plateau. It la an in Nothing should be permitted to Interfere with his reading If, on any day, he must be otherwise employed during, his reading hour, let him make it up at some other time in the same day. And if he cannot read the full time to day, let him make up for it to-morrow. Perseverance will make reading a habit and a pleasure. The keenest pleas, ures of life are drawn from books, and a man that has the reading hubit would rather have it than fifty thousand dollars. . . . The expression "killing time," la abhor, rent. Why should we wish to kill time? Time is given us for a purpose. We ought to make the most of it The man who says he has nothing to do is Ignorant or negligent of his duty to himself the duty of making himself a better, wiser, broader-minded man day by day. Killing time is Intellectual and moral suicide. Moments are precious. They are not to be thrown away. There is always some thing to do. San Francisco Bulletin. Co-Education. HE University of Chicago will hardly regret its decision to separate the sexes in their pur suit of their studies. They have hitherto min gled In tliis great Western institution of learn. Ing, but with Jan. 1 the "segregation" system went into operation, and women students henceforth will ba guaranteed freedom to enjoy all the privileges of the uni versity. The new plan will, it Is said, permit co-Instruction only in those courses offered to Junior college students for which the registration Is not sufficiently large to warrant division on an economical basis. For example, at the present time one-third of all the courses offered to Junior college students, roughly speaking, will be offered to men, , one-third to women, and one-third will be open to both men and women. As students Increase, the number ot courses retained as co-Instructional will be diminished. The plan makes necessary the provision of separate classrooms and laboratories, and Implies that officers of Instruction shall divide their time with approximate equality between men and women. This seems like a sensible reform. Co. Instruction Is all right, probably, In kindergartens and pri mary academies, but when young men and women have attained the age and the habit of thought of university students it looks like an axiomatic proposition that each sex will give the curriculum better attention when ths other sex Is not around. Pittsburg Press. The Risks of Shaving. N spite of the fact that those who use the razor frequent ly cut themselves yet It is rarely that anything more se rious than a cut follows, the slight wound generally heall ing quickly, and tho risk of septicaemia arising In thi. way would seem to be almost nil. In the majority of it is clear that the razor blade must b4 clean I. e., free from septic matter which' may be attributed to the fact that probably It is dipped into hot or sterilized water before its use, or else that thff soap lather Is antiseptic. The latter explanation seems thtf the two. The amount of soap rubbed on the skin Is considerable if the shaving is to be In any degree comfortable, and soap has considerable antiseptlJ cent solution being sufficient to destroy the typhoid bacillus. ... In a word, soap in the opera tion of shaving not only facilitates the process but playd the same valuable role when the shaver is unlucky enough to cut himself as does the antiseptic in surgery. London spiring sort of thing to the man no( familiar with plantation life, but a, man long accustomed to it become! dead to the sounds, and scarcely noi tices them. The point I had in mind) however, was the shrewdness, and good sound sense of the .mule with respect to matters immediately con. ccniing his welfare and comfort Ha is a wond'T in some respects and is not to be judged by the dullness of his appearance." Indian Smoke Signals. The traveler on the American plaitu, soon learned the significance of the spires of smoke that he sometimes saw rising from a distant ridge or hill, and that he might see answered from q different direction. It was the signal, talk of the Indians across miles of in. tervening ground a signal used Iq rallying the warriors for an attack, ot warning them for a retreat If that seemed advisable. The Indian had a way of sending up the smoke in rings or puffs, knowing that such a smoke column would at once be noticed and understood os n signal, and not mls taken for the smoke of some camp- lire. He made the rings by repeatedly covering the little lire with his blan ket. The column of ascending amoks rings said to every Indian within thir ty miles. "Look out, there Is an enemy near!" Three columns close toeethet meant danger. One column merely meant attention.' Two meant "Oamn at this place." To any one who has traveled the plains the usefulness of this long-distance telephone Is at once apparent. Sometimes at night the seltler or the traveler saw flcry lines crossing the sky, shooting up and fall. Ing. He might gues (hat thees were signals of the Indians, but unless he were experienced ho might not ba able to Interpret tho signals. One firs nrrow, an arrow prepared by treating the head of the shaft with gunpowder, and flue bark, meant the same as the column of smoke puffs-"An enemy la near." Two arrows meant "Danger." Three arrows said Imperatively, "Thla danger Is great." Several arrows said, "The enemy are too many for us." Her Idea of It. "Mr. Geezer Intends to have a nunv her of literary evening," said Mrs. Teimpot to Mrs. Ilojack. "What Is her Idea of literary STen Ing?" "Well, she' to give a Ben-Hnr pro gressive euchre followed by a Long fellow ping pong." Detroit Free Preaav, The story writers have much ta say about "rebelllou curia" escaplaf frem the pins and combs a girl was ta hold them. Out of the books, when a carl escapes, It meana It la a tmngiat ea and that tt fell off. 1 t.' N -"v