The Sauk Centre Herald (Sauk Centre, Minnesota), 1868-04-30

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SAUK CENTBE, MINNESOTA, THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1868.
NUMBER 47.
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St. Cloud Jan. 30.1808.	
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DWARD DREBLOW.,
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SAUK CENTRE, MINN
BY E. M. SPENCER.
Two suitors came for Susan's hand,
Appealing to her sire:
Spoke of their loves ana breadth of land,
Before a hickory fire;
The old man heard them long and well,
In his old-fashioned way.
And looking where the ashes fell,
Thought "What would Susan say? "
The one he told of large estate,
Of fields and acres wide,
And Susan was the bright eyed mate
He would claim for his bride.
The old man eyed the suppliant vain,
With gems of brightest ray,
And looking in the fire again,
Thought ,rWhat will Susan say ? "
His sinews showed no signs of toll,
Nor of the wealth acquired.
No proof that from the teeming soil
Or labor else attired;
*" Wealth might take wings, and doing so
Might speedy fly away."
And the old man gazing in the glow
Thought " What will Susan say ? "
The other had but his good heart,
The stout arms at his side,
And setting all things else apart,
Claimed Susan for his bride;
The old man feared that these might tire,
Life was a life long way,
And looking in the hickory Are,
Thought" What will Susan say t"
Yet there was work for all to do,
And more homes yet must grow,
And men should their own fortunes hew,
While struggling here below;
He'd built the roof above his head,
'Twas many a year away,
Thought of the dear wife long since dead,
And" What would Susan say?"   ;
The old man rubbed his shriveled hands,
And conned the matter o'er,
The suitor with his spacious lands—
The other poor—no more;
He dreamed the love of years aback,
Long ere his locks were gray;
Traces! In the Are his weary track
■   And—"What wouldgusan say?"
So Susan came and stood beside
This sire of many years;
She was his care and love and pride, .
For her his hopes and fears;
And by the hearth upon whose stone
Her life grew bright and gay,
He took her hand, and in low tone.
Asked—4' What does Susan say ? "
And Susan then, amid them all, .
Her suitors and her-sire,
There made her choice without recall,
As they gazed In the fire;
-  'Twas for the one whose highest aim
Was but to work his way.
And the answer with a welcome came,
To "What does Susan say?"
PALESTINE
AS    SEEN
TWAIN.
BY   MARK
Tbe Noble Arabs ot tbe Desert—Tbe
Home Ot Jezebel—Story or Jezreel—
Strength and Tactics of Gideon's
Band—Samaria.
fpiMrttnm).
REMEMBER   ME.
From the Buffalo Gazette.
There are no other two words in the
language that call back a more fruitful
train ofUpast remembrances of friendship than these. Look through your
library, and" when you cast your eye
upon a volume that contains the name
of an old companion, it will say—Remember me. Have you any ancient album—the repository of the mementos
of early affection ? Turn over its leaves,
stained by the finger of time—sit down
and ponder upon the names enrolled
on them; each says, Remember me. Go
into the crowded church yard, among
the marble tombs—read the simple and
brief inscriptions, that perpetuate the
memory of departed ones; they too
have a voice that speaks to the hearts
of the living, and it says, Remember me.
Walk, in the hour of evening twilight,
amid the scenes of your early rambles:
the well-known paths, the winding
streams, the overspreading trees, the
green and gehtly sloping banks, will
recall the dreams of juvenile pleasure,
and the recollections of youthful companions ; they too bear the treasured
injunction, Rejiember me.
And this is all that is left at last of
the wide circle of our early friends.
Scattered by fortune, or called away by
death, or thrown without our band by
the changes of circumstance or of char-'
aether—in time, we find ourselves left
alone with the recollection of what they
were. Some were our benefactors, and
won ns by. their favors: others were
kind, and amiable and affectionate, and
for this we esteemed them; others
again, were models of virtue, and shared
our praise and admiration. It was thus
a little while, and then the changes of
the world broke in upon the delightful
intercourse; it ceased.-Yet still, we
do all we can to discharge the one sacred and honest and honorable debt—
Remember them.
The tribute, too, of remembrance
whioh we delight to pay to others, we
desire for ourselves. The wish for applause ; the thirst for fame ; the desire
that our names should shine dowa to
future posterity in *the glory of recorded deeds; is a feverish, unhappy passion, compared with the unambitious
desire to retain, even beyond the span
of life, the affections of the warm-hearted few who shared our joys and sorrows in the world. I once read the
brief inscription—"remember me," on
a tomb stone, in a country churchyard,
with a tear that the grave of Bonaparte
would not have called forth.
But whom do we always remember
with affection ? The virtuous, the kind,
the warm-hearted ; those who have endeared themselves to us by the amia-
bleness of their characters. It is the
mind, the disposition, the habits, the
feelings of our friends, which attach us
to them most strongly; which form
the only lasting band of affections;
which alone can secure our affectionate
remembrance.
Then, if we would be remembered
with the kindliest feelings; if we would
be embalmed in the memory of those
we love; if we desire that when fortune
or fate shall separate us from friends,'
they may long think of us, we must
possess, ourselves the same eharaoter
we love in others. Never was a more
noble line written in the history of
ma"n than this : " The first emotion of
pain he ever caused, was caused by his
departure."
Correspondence ofthe Alta Callfornlan.
THE " FREE SONS OP   THE DESERT."
As we trotted across the Plain of Jez-
red, we met half a dozen Digger Indians (Bedouins), with very long spears
in their hands, cavorting around on
old crowbait horses, and spearing imaginary enemies; whooping and flutter-
.tering their rags in the wind, and carrying on in every respect like a pack of
hopeless lunatics. At last, here were
the '" wild, free sons of the desert,
speeding over the plain like the wind,
on their beautiful Arabian mares" we
had read so much about and longed so
much to see ! Here were the " picturesque costumes I " This was the "gallant spectacle I " Tatterdemalion vagrants—pitiful braggadocia—" Arabian
mares" spined and necked like the
lythyosaurus in the museum, and
humped and cornered like- a dromedary I To glance at the genuine son of
the desert is to take the romance out
of him forever—to behold his steed is
to long in charity to strip his harness
off and let him fall to pieces. • -?>.;"•
Thus, one by one, the splendid attractions of Palestine are passing away—
gradually, but surely, the paint and the
gilding are peeling from its cheap theatrical scenery and exposing the unsightly' boards beneath.
JEZREEL OR  LOGANSPORT.
Presently we came to a ruinous old
buzzard-roost on a hill, the same being
the ancient Jezreel of Bible fame. I
am sorry your readers are not acquainted with the history of this place, for
then it would not be necessary for toe
to relate it.
Ahab, King of Samaria, (this was a
very vast kingdom for those days, andi
was very nearly as large as an ordinary
county in the States), dwelt in the city
of Jezreel, which was his capital. Near
him lived a - man by the name of Na-
both—no first name given—John W.
Naboth will answer as well as any-—
and this man had a vineyard. The
King asked him for it, and when he
would not give it, offered to trade for
it or even buy it at thirty days. But Naboth declined. In these days it was
considered a sort of crime to part with
one's inheritance at any priee, and
even if a man did part with it, it reverted to himself or his heirs again at
the next jubilee year. So this spoiled
child of a King went and pouted over
it, and lay down on the bed with his
face to the wall, and would not take
his regular squills.
The Queen, a notorious character in
those days, and whose name is a byword and a reproach even in these days;
came in and asked him wherefore he'
had renigged, and he told her. Jezebel said that-if that was all, she peuld
fix it; and she .went forth and forged
letters to the nobles and wise men, in
the King's name,.and ordered them to
proclaim a fast and set Naboth on high
before, the people, and suborn two witnesses to swear that he hath blasphemed. They did it, and the people stoned
the accused by the city wall, and he
died. Then Jezebel came and told the
King,, and said, Behold,' defendant is
no more—rise up and confiscate the
vineyard. So Ahab confiscated the
vineyard, and went into it to possess it.
But the Prophet Elijah came to him
there and read his fate to him, and the
fate of Jezebel; and said that in the
place where dogs licked the blood of
Naboth, dogs should also lick his blood
-—and he said likewise, the dogs shall
eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel. In
the course of time, the King was killed
in battle, and when his chariot was
washed in the pool of Samaria, the
dbgs licked the blood. In after years,
a gentleman by the name of Jehu, who
was King of Israel, marched down
against Jezreel, by order of one of the
Prophets, and administered one of
those mild rebukes so common among
the chosen, the highly favored Israel
ites,,to-wit, he finished up a gang of
kings and other 'people, and as he
came along he saw Jezebel, painted and
tricked out in her finery, looking out
of a window, and ordered that she be
thrown down to him. An obliging servant did it, and Jehu's horse trampled
her under foot. Then Jehu went in
and sat dovyn to dinner, and presently
he said, Go and bury this cursed, woman, for she is a King's daughter. The
spirit of politeness came upon him too
late, however, for the prophecy had already been fulfilled-—the dogs had eaten her, and th§y " found no more of
her than the skull, and feet, and the
palms of her hands." They were such
nice, cheerful people, those Israelites.
Ahab the King, had left a helpless family behind him—not a large one for
those days, but still enough to adorn a
fireside—and Jehu, the King, waltzed
into that nursery and scalped seventy
of those orphans, and otherwise made
an end of them. Then he killed all
the relatives, and teachers, and servants, and friends of the family, and
rested from his labors, until he was
come near to Samaria, where he met
forty-two persons and asked them who
they were ; they said they were broth-
ers,of the. King of Judah. To speak
after the manner of the vulgar, that let
them out. When he got to Samaria,
he said he would show his zeal for the
•Lord ; so he gathered all the priests
and people together that worshipped
Baal, pretending that he was going
join the church and offer up a great
sucrifice; and when they were all
shut up where they could not de
fend    themselves,    he    caused every
person of them to be slain. It was
better than a circus—much better.
Then Jehu, the missionary, rested from
his labors once more, fie knew how
to discourage opposition to the* true religion.
"if you belong to Gideon's band."
We went back to the valley, and rode
to the Fouutain of Ain Jeliid, or Jacksonville, whichever you like best. They
call it the Fountain of Jezreel usually.
It is a pond about one hundred feet
square and two feet deep, with a stream
of Water trickling into it from under an
everhangihg ledge of rocks. It is in the
midst of a great solitude. Here Gideon
pitched his *amp in the old times; behind Shunem lay the " Midianites, the
Amalekites, and the Children of the
East," who were "as grasshoppers for
multidude; both they and their camels
were without number, as the sand by
the sea-side for multidude." Which
means that there were. 135,000 men,
and that they had transportation service accordingly.
Gideon had only thirty-two thousand
"men, mostly Home Guard material, no
doubt, because ' when he proclaimed
that those who were cowardly and wanted to go home might go, twenty-two
thousand packed their trunks and left.
Gideon, was instructed that even a further sifting would help the army in the
same way, and he made his remaining
ten thousand step up to the pool and
drink. He had a keen eye for a man
without enterprise, and every one that
got down on his knees to drink he
paid off and discharged. Those that
dipped up the water with their hands
he retained. This reduced his army to
three hundred men I He-judged that
it was not best to go on sifting any more.
[The present inhabitants of the country
must be a more soldierly style of people than their ancestors, for they always scoop up* the water in their paws
and "lap itjike a dog."]
Then at dead of night Gideon" placed
a trumpet in each man's right hand,
and a pitcher with a lamp in his left,
and dividing the little army into three
companies of a hundred men each,
went softly and surrounded the vast
camp 'of the Children of the East. It is
likely that they would have to. stand
pretty wide apart to do it. At a • given
signal every man broke his pitcher and
tooted his horn; sleeping army, the
flash of the exposed lamps dazzled and
bewildered them, the chorus of the
trumpets made them think a great host
had surprised them (they kept no
scouts, perhaps, and did not' know
whether there were armies in the neighborhood or not,) and in the excitement
ofthe time they fell to work and
slaughtered each other, while Gideon's
band stood still, and said never a word.
And 120,000 of ihe enemy perished on
the field, and Gideon chased the other
15,000 but of the country. Your readers 'Will regard these statements as extravagant, but they are attested in the
reports of the battle.
Of all the unheard-of military stratagems ever invented, this of Gideon's
was probably the wildest the world has
any knowledge of. Considering the astonishing success which distinguished
it, it is amazing that no general has ever been shrewd enough to try it since.
The commonest sagacity, it would seem,
ought to have caused it to be adopted
into all codes of military' tactics long
ago.
SAMARIA.
We camped at Jenin before night,
and got up and started again at one
o'clock in the morning. Somewhere
toward daylight we passed the locality
where the best authenticated tradition
locates the pit into which Joseph's
brethern threw him and about noon,
after passing over a succession of mountain tops, clad with groves of fig and
olive trees, with the Mediterranean in
stght, some forty miles away, and going by many ancient Biblical cities,
whose inhabitants glowered savagely
upon our Christian procession, and
were inclined to practice on it with
stones we came to the singularly terraced and unliyely hills that betrayed
that we were out of 'Galilee, and into
Samaria at last.
We climbed a high hill to visit the
city of Samaria where the woman may
have hailed from who conversed with
Christ at Jacob's Well. And Jirom
whence, no doubt, came also, the celebrated Good Samaritan, who was . probably the only good Samaritan  the pro-
Samaria stood a heavy siege, once in
the days of Elisha, at the hands of the
King of Syria. Provisions reached such
a figure that "an ass' head was sold for
eighty pieces of silver, and the fourth
part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces
of silver."
Anincidentrecordedofthat heavy time
will give one a very good idea of the
distress that prevailed within these
crumbling walls. As the King was
walking upon the battlements one day,
a woman cried out, saying, "Help, my
Lord, O King. And the King said,
what aileth thee ? and answered: This
woman said unto me, give thy son,
that we may eat him to-day, and we
will eat my son to-morrow. So we
boiled my son and did eat him; and I
said unto her' on the next day, .give
thy son that we may eat him, and
she hath hid her son."
Maternal love, that sentiment that
clings to its object through joy and sorrow, from the cradle even unto the
grave, was proof against the claims of
justice, and at the critical moment
scorned the sacred rites of hospitality.
This love rose up before the fond, sad
mother, and she would not boil her
son.
The prophet Elisha declared . that
within four and twenty hours the market rates for provisions should go down
to nothing almost,"and fled. From some
cause or other, the famine was relieved
from without, and many a shoddy
speculator in dove's dundg and ass' meat
was ruined. But I can't go on finding
out things and telling them to your
subscribes all night.
We were glad to leave the hot and
dusty old village and hurry on. At
two o'clook we stopped to lunch and
rest at ancient Shechem, between the
historic Mounts Gerizim and Ebal,
where in the olden times the books ;of
the law, the curses and the blessings,
were read from the hights to the Jewish
multitudes below,    Amen.
HARK TWAIH.
vince ever produced. Herod the Great
is said to have made a magnificent city
of this villainous place, and a lot of
"coarse, ugly limestone columns, twenty
feet high and two feet through, thaj;
are guiltless of all architectural grace of
shape and ornament, are exultingly
pointed out by many authors as evidence of the fact. They would not have
been considered worthy to build chicken coops of in ancient Greece. They
are gay for Isrsel, though.
The inhabitants of this camp are particularly vicious, and stoned two parties of pilgrims a day or two ago, who
brought about the difficulty by; showing
their revolvers when they did not intend to use them—a thing which is
deemed bad judgment   in California.
There was nothing to doN here but
buy handfuls of old, Roman coins at a
cent a grab, and look at a dilapidated
church of the Crusaders and a vault in
it which once contained the body of
John the Baptist. This relic was long
ago carried away; and we had seen
fragments of it many times before, more
particularly in Genoa, where they have
secured a commanding interest of the
Saint, and keep the same in a chapel
in the church of the Annunciation—a
sanctum which women are allowed to
visit only once a year, because it was
to please one of the sex that John was
-beheaded.
Beecher writes in the New York
Ledger:
When I am Pope, I propose to promulgate some new articles of faith:
1. Every man shall be married by
the age of 25, or show good cause for
neglect of duty.
2. Every man shall annually tax
himself one-tenth of his income, until
the sum reaches the amount of ,
to procure books, journals and newspapers.
-3. Wedding gifts shall never. consist of luxuries, jewels, plate, etc.—but
of books ; and with the birth of every
child, ten volumes shall be put into the
library in his name.:
4. It shall be the duty of every
young married man to read aloud to
his wife,- at least one hour a day ; for
the first ten years after his marriage.
But this must not be construed to the
prejudice of the wife's right to read,
speak, lecture, etc.
5. All men who lie by the books in
a self-indulgent and hidden manner,
absorbing knowledge without benefit to
their fellows, shall be treated as bees
are, that hide their nests—smoked out
and their nests broken np 1
However I will not tell you what other laws I shall promulgate, for fear I
shall lose votes and fail of becoming
PCpe.
The Fatal Kiss.-^4.s a contribution
to the curiosities of suicide, an incident
may be related which shows that Dutchmen can be as romantic in their attachments as less phelgmatic people,
and a great deal more faithful. Cfernel-
ius Vega, the celebrated Dutch painter,
is the hero. His mistress being seized
with the plague at the time it raged ' in
Harlem in 1664, was conveyed, in spite
of her lover's desperate opposition, to
the common pesthouse, where none but
the guardians were suffered on pain of
death to penetrate. Vega got information as to the position of the bed on
which his mistress lay, wrestling with
death, and coming to an open window
near it, thrust in his maulstick, having
previously deposited a fervent kiss on
its extremity, and contrived to reach
and touch with it the lips of the agonized lady. His kiss was returned, and
having pressed once more the instrument now impregnated with the plague
poison to his own lips, the evening of
that day found him a corpse. The subject may be commended to the attention of any painter who is bold enough
to wade through horror to pathos.
—Civility is a fortune itself, for a
courteous man always succeeds well in
life, and that when persons of ability
sometimes fail. The famous Duke of
Marlhorough is a case in point. It was
said of him by one contemporary, that
his agreeable manners often converted
an enemy into a friend; and by another, that it was more pleasing to be
denfed a favor by his grace, than to re-,
ceive one from any other man. The
gracious manner of Charles James Fox
preserved him from dislike, even at a
time when he was, politically, the most
unpopular man in the kingdom. The
world's history is full of such examples
of success obtained by civility. The experience of eveiy man furnishes, if we
recall the past frequent instance where
conciliatory maimer have made the fortunes of physicians, lawyers, divines,po-
liticians, merchants, and, indeed, individuals of all pursuits, To men, civility
is what beauty is to women—it is ' a
general passport to favor—a letter, of
introduction, written in language that
every one understands.—Buffalo Gazejte.
 "When ever I marry," says masculine Ann, "I must really insist upon
wedding a man I'' But what if the main
(for men are but human) should be
equally nice about weddifag a  woman."
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