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A PLANET LIKE OURS.
"God helping me," cried Colnnibua, "thongh fair or feral the breeze,
I will sail and sail till I find the land beyond the western aeaal"
So an eagle might leave its eyrie, bent, though the blue should bar.
To fold its wings on the loftiest peak of an undiscovered start
And into the vast and void abyss he followed the setting sunt
Nor gulfs nor gales could fright his satis tin the wondrous quest was done.
But Oh, the weary vigils, the murmuring, torturing days,
Till the Pinta's gun, and the shout of "Land!" set the black night ablaeel
Till the shore lay fair as Paradise in morning's balm and gold,
And a world was won from the conquered deep, and the tale of the ages toldt
Uplift the starry Bonner! The best age is begun!
We are the heirs of the mariners whose voyage that morn wee done.
Measureless lands Columbus gave and rivers through cones that roll,
But his rarwtt, noblest bounty was a New World for the Sonll
For ho sailed from the Past with it stifling walls, to the Future's open eky.
And the ghosts of gloom and fear were laid as the breath of heaven went by;
And the pedant's pride and the lordling's scorn were lost, in that vital air,
As fovr are lost when sun and wind sweep ocean blue and bare;
And Freedom and larger Knowledge dawned clear, the sky to span.
The birthright, not of priest or king, but of every child of man I
Uplift the New World's Banner to greet the exultant sunt
Let its rosy gleams still follow his beams as swift to west they run,
Till the wide air rings with shont and hymn to welcome it shining high.
And our eagle from lone Eatahdin to Shasta's snow can fly
In the light of its stars as fold on fold is flung to the antumn skji
Uplift it, Youths and Maidens, with songs and loving cheers;
Through triumphs, raptures, it has waved, through agonies and tears.
Columbia looks from sea to sea and thrills with joy to know
Tier myriad sons, as one, would leap to shield it from a foel
Aud you who soon will bo tho State, ami shape each great decree.
Oh, vow to lire and die for it, if glorious death must bet
The brave of all tho centuries gone this starry Flag have wrought;
In dungeons dim, on gory fields, its light and peace were bought;
And yo:i who front the fill nro whose days our dreams fulfill
On Liberty's immort:il height, oh, plant it firmer still!
For it floats for broadest learning; for the soul's supreme relensef
For law disdaining license; for righteousness and peace;
For valor born of justice, and its amplest scope and plan
Makes a queen of every woman, a king of every man!
Wliilo forever, like Columbus, o'er Truth's unfuthomed main
It pilots to tho hidden isles, a grander realm to gain.
Ah! what a mighty trust is ours, the nobleat ever sung,
To keep this dinner spotless its kindred stars among
Our fleets may throng the oceans onr forts the headlands crown
Our mines their treasures lavish for mint and mart and town
Rich fields and flocks and lmy looms bring plenty, far and wide
And statelier tcuiplcs deck the land than Rome's or Athens' pride
And science dare the mysteries of earth and wave and sky
Till none with us in nplendor and strength and skill ean vie;
Yet, should we reckon Liberty and Manhood less than these,
And slight the right of the humblest between our circling seas
Should we be false to our sacred past, our fathers' God forgetting.
This Banner would lose its luster, our sun be nigh his setting)
But the dawn wfll sooner torget tne east, tne naes tneir cod ana nov
Than yon forget our radiant Flag and its matchless gifts forego! ;
Nayt you will keep it high-advanced with ever brightening sway
The Banner whosa light betokens the Lord's diviner day
Leading the nations gloriously in Freedom's holy way!
No cloud on the field of azure no stain on the rosy bars
God bless you, Youths and Maidens, as you guard the Stripes and Stars!
EDNA DEAN PROCTOR.
COLUMBUS DAY.
P
Practical Suggestion! on tho I'ropor Ob
erranco of tho Anniversary.
CTOBER 21 will
be a gala day
from one end to
the other of tho
United States-,
and it is but prop
er that it should
be so, for is it not
Columbus Day,
and will it not
commemorate the discovery of a world
which in the comparatively 6hort time
of four centuries has emerged from the
blackness of the forest and the ignor
ance of the savage into the blazing sun
of prosperity and the noontido of intelli
gence? Now that the official programme for
the uniform popular celebration of Co
lumbus Day has been published, the
question of the participation by this
community in the national exercises be
comes a live issue.
It goes without saying that the people
of this locality will not be backward in
evidencing their patriotism by an appro
priate celebration of the memorable
day, and a few suggestions as to the
best method of executing this com
mendable design may not be amiss at
this time.
In the first place, it should be borne in
mind that it is intended that the school
children should be the principal partici
pants in the exercises. The pupil are
to be at their places in school at 0
o'clock as usual. It is desirable that
business be entirely suspended so that
tho relatives of the pupils may also
be present. Printed programmes should
be provided when possible, and the ex
ercises will of course be subject to the
limitations of the scholars, but every
thing which may be done should tend
to the ccatMl ideas of Columbus'
achievement and the remarkable prog
ress of the country uuiW the impetus of
education. Appropriate patriotiu deco
ratiuns are nttoetuary, and allegorical
tableaux will add u4y to ti effeut
iveness and enjoyment of Umi Mcevdoefl.
Music is also desirKble.
Iu the afternoon comes the citizens'
celobration, but, oa in the morning ex
ercises, the school children should take
the most prominent part. Of course in
the country Uistriot thi will not bo tho
caso. and the afternoon should be de
voted to games for the young people and
social gatherings for their elders, though
every house should bo decorated with
the national colors. Iu the towns the
afternoon should be devoted to some sort
of formal celobration, in which all of
the civio und military organizations
should bo invited to participate.
have reached the' reviewing stand and
saluted the flag will add much to the
"life and color" of tho scene. A mass
meeting of the citizens should follow
during the day, when tho best orators
of the locality, and the most elo
quent of the declaimers among the
children say one from each school
might deliver addresses appropriate to
the occasion. The topics of these
speeches will readily suggest them
selves, but it must be borne in mind
that anything relating to Columbus will
be more interesting than anything else
on such an occasion. The flag salute,
the ode and the patriotic songs should
be executed by the children without a
hitch, and for this reason a great deal
of preliminary work will have to be
done by them.
Upon the school teachers will devolve
the greatest portion of this labor. Each
teacher should at once, if it has not al
ready been done, present the matter of
the celebration of Columbus Day to
his pupils, and it should be laid before
the young people in such a manner that
each will be anxious to contribute as
much as possible to the success of the
fifrfilr. EnthuainjiTn itt whn.t ia WAntnl
! and needed, for without it failure must
, result. Let each teacher select commit
tees on reception, on decorations, on ex
ercises, on printing, on newspapers, on
arrangements and on finance. The
principal must be actually if not nom
inally tho directing spirit of each com
mittee.
At the morning exercises at the schools
the veterans should have charge of the
flag and should also act as guards of
honor to the schools on the march to the
reviewing stand. The peculiar approprt
nteness of the veterans being the special
patrons of the school celebration is nr
pareut. Money and the active co-opera
tion of the citizens at large are absolute'
ly necessary to the success of the cele
bration, and these should and probably
will be promptly forthcoming.
Only the general outlines of exercises
suggested in tho official programme are
here given. These may be enlarged or
contracted to conform to the wishes und
possibilities of the oelebrauta.
Tho Wife of Colutalma.
What about Mrs. Columbns? She
ought to figure somehow in the celobra
tkm, although there is no picture of her
extant. HU was a Miss Palestrello, of
Lisbon, aud became tho wife of Colum
bus in 1470. Her father was a navigator,
and from old Palestrello s charts Colum
bus got his first ideas about a western
passage to the Indies.
Children Cry for
Pitcher's Castorla.
In All Kwcn'lnl lVlntt Mnrt U Btartllnffly
Uko th l:rth.
The first fight of Mars through on
cbsjrvatory telescope is almost terrify
ing, even for a poison of good nerves.
It i as if on a saw the whole earth, with
it icy jo!c., ns a solid globo, floating
overhead. Ouo distiuguishos clearly
the dark blue seas and the brilliant
beaming, many lined dry land and on
thi the dry beds of a multitude of
Uktw, bays, gulfs, streams and canals,
these latter either parallel to ench other
or crossing one another at right angles.
As you continue to look you note tho
variations of color and light shade and
furtliAr that the outlines on ouo edge of
tho dine pass out of right, while on tho
other tho landscape expands ; you seo
that Mar rovolves on its axis and the
enils of the axis are the frozon poles, as
x ith ns. Thur is a further resemblance
iu tho ii'dimitionof the axis, which pro
vides that ou this planet also the son
ro:m follow each other in regular suc
cession. The ice crust at the poles
dii.iini 4ues in summer, affording demon
rtrntion not only that Murs is influenced
by the sun's rays precisely as we are,
but also that the air and water are iden
tical with ours. In fact, the meteorol
ogy of Mars is now being reduced to a
sri miJrt.
Judfring th two plnnets by superfi
cial rluraotcristies, however, ono must
admit a condition implying a higher da-free-of
devohvMneut in Mars. Tho
OD.itiuciits of the earth, seen from a dis
tance, present a very toi-n appearance,
and occupy scarcely third of its snr
f we, wliilu Mars is girdled on both sides
of the equator by one continuous main
land, intersected by a network of canals
and rivers, tho land occupying approxi
mately thruo-fourths of the wholo area
of the planet and the water only one
fourth, as u coiisbquonco of which it may
be tlmt its atmosphere is less clonded
and vapor than onr. Peculiarly
chnracto.-istic is the arrangement in which
tho geological nature of Mars has kid
out the stridulus (canals ?).
All our streams, without exceptions,
are tortuous, and all increase iu width
as they near tho occau. On Mars, ou
the contrary, the streams flow in straight
liuos and are of uniform width from
sourco to mouth. These streams, from
70 to 100 kilometres up nit, have their
banks so well defined as to suggest tho
idea that they are subject to intelligent
regulation. It is hardly possible to
conceive that two parallel canals, inter
sected at right angles by a third, as in
Orphir land can be tho work of ele
mentary .forces of nature. The ques
tion suggests itself again by the two
canals which flow from ocean to ocean
through the Island Hellas, crossing each
other at right angles in the center. Not
less questionable is the origin of the
groat blue Lnko of the Sun in the center
of Keppler land, with its throe retilinear
canals connecting it with the ocean.
JLver and ever the question occurs :
Is it possible that the crust of a planet
wnose demuty is only seven-tenths less
than that of the earth can be so yielding
that the streams at their origin encoun
ter no impediment to their direct coursoj?
Or have they really been regulated by
the inhabitants of Mars an engineering
leat presenting, perhaps, lew serious dif
ficulties f
But what most excites our astonish
ment in connection with these canals is
that almost every one of them is double,
i. a., it has its parallol canal along side
ui it, out visiuio at intervals only.
This has thoroughly perplexed all in
vestigators. The earth has nothing an
alogous to aid us to a solution. On thia
account the return of Mars is looked to
with considerable interest The im
provement in optical instruments within
the past decade may probably help to
solve the riddle, or what is perhaps still
more probable, may present more rid
dles for solution. Wostermann's Mo-nut's-hofte.
TNihjr foe.
About throe miles from town I over
took a woman carrying a heavy bundle
iu her arms, bhe was barefooted, wore
a man's straw hat, and it was easy
enough to identify her as a moun
taineer s wife. I brought my horse to
a walk and offered to take the bundle on
the saddle before me.
It's Baby Sue," she remarked as she
passed it up.
"Ah, a baby I Well, I'll be careful of
her. How old is she ?"
"Going on two years."
' " She is pretty heavy for such a long
walk."
"I've done walked over ten miles
with her already; but I felt I had to do
it. Jim, he's waitiug for her."
'And who is Jim ?"
" My man, sir. They's done got him
in jail for moonshiuing, and the Lord
only knows when he will be free. I
jest kuowed he'd 'bout die if ho couldn't
l.uvo one last look at Sue."
The child was wrapped up in a faded
old shaw l and had a veil over her face.
She lay like a log in my arms, and I
supposed she was fast asleep. I bad
iiai-iod her a mile or more before I
i-airied the veil to get a peep at her face.
One ghmce told me that she was dead.
' Why, woniun, your baby is dead 1"
I crhid, as I made the discovery.
Yes, bir ; dono died last night," the
wom.is re died.
"And you "
"I've got to take her to the jail and
Jot. Jim son hu. Poro ole Jim I He
done lured Baby Sue like his own life,
tie'd mi rr forgivo me if ha didn't see
ii.r afora ttlio was buried."
She wiped tho tears away as sho
w.V.ked beside the horse, lookisg up
iiuw arid then at the bundle in my arms,
n I vu itidn't iipeak again until the jail
a .-.m j-.-avhed. Then tho took the little
J. -Ai iody from my arms, tenderly
ki se I the cold face, and said :
L.ird Mesa ye for your kiudnoss,
i'-i-jiug-.'r '. Jim's ia ht-re, and when he
..iiiy s-uio, I I reckon ha won't
imm '.io lium u l'.tit they do to him. Pore
.v.io ! iVrc old Jim I"
FHILLIPS'.
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