The Delaware City news. (Delaware City, Del.) 188?-18??, 1889-03-07
A BROKEN PROVERB.
you CAN'T TEACH AN OLD DOC
NEW TRlCKS.r

Their Stock OF Knowladge-The Behind
the-rimes People.
"You can't teach an old dog new tricks"
That's what you say at the age of 40 or so,
or So, when you think that the bloom is
about all off the eye of life, that it's nearly
all up with you, and that about all the OBJ
iect you have in living is to prepare for
dying, and shuttle in your old thoes out Of
life as quietly as possible-possibly to the
content and satisfaction of your nearest Of
kim who love you well, and the dollars you
will leave them better.
But, sir, you have no business to call your
self ian old dog" of any sex or persuasion
You should be ashamed to term yourself a
dog" You are man, or a fragment Of
one, and being q man, you are, Of course, but
little lower than an angel, or at least little
lower, we will say, than second hand
angel; worse luck to your
You are saying now to yourself, and you
are saying it every day, that the time is over
for you to learn anything new or do any
thing new, and for that matter think Or en-
joy anything new, save the last neighbor-
hood or village tattle and gossip, which you
do enjoy as well as any other old woman.
Your boundary of your own life in your
mind is to hobble down every morning to the
town or village tattle center, and in summer
sun yourself on a dry goods box and in win
ter warm yourself by the grocery stove, or
somebody's stove, aud there rake and scrape
over and gnaw at all the old bones of con-
versation and gossip that you have gnawed
over for the last five, ten or twenty years,
dating from the time when you thought il
the proper thing to commence becoming an
old man, and make 1t your principal business
to sniff and snuff and fipd fault with the new
tangled ways of the rising generation, VINO
are learning nev tricks and don't suit you at
all, because they do not dress or dance or
travel in all respects in the same Tut you did
when you were what you called yourself a
young man, although then you had com
menced to fossilize, as so many men and wo-
men do whose bodies are % years old, if, in
deed, they were not partially fossils and rem
nants of, say the Miocene period, when they
were born.
OLD DOGS STILL LEARNING.
Sir, you are dog If you insist on calling
yourself SUCH who can learn new tricks
Gladstone is over 20, and rules England be
cause he is always learning tricks. Bismarck
is over 20, and rules Germany, and today is
learning new tricks. De Lesseps, who bosses
the canalisn of this planet, is over 20, and
never lets up in devices for cutting through
rock or sand from ocean to ocean. Ericsson
is 50, if not over, and is by no means through
with new ways and means for making little
ships overcome big ones, on the principle that
wasp may sting All OK nearly TO death, and
two wasps, or iron scows, freighted with
guns powerful enough and having their shot
sent to the right place, can sink the biggest
OK of a ship in thu world overloaded with
men and overweighted with eleven inch iron
armor Beecher, sir, never let up until over
10, and he might have been in Plymouth
church pulpit yet had he learned few new
tricks in the art of keeping young, which
thousands are in the future to learn.
You see, sir, that some old dogs can learn
new tricks, and keep on learning them, 50
long as they recognize the fact that to keep
the mind young is to keep the body young;
and as proof of this fact you may see any
fine afternoon on Broadway men of so or &c
who look as young and are as young, fresh,
active and vigorous in body and mind, and
even more so, than you were at 30, when
you really commenced to grow old, because
you thought you were at or near the down
hill side of life; and, being of what the world
calls "middle age" is was about time to com.
mence preparations for sliding down the vale
Of years and tobogganing your coffin into the
grave.
It's not the young dogs, sir, who always
learn new tricks Indeed it's theyyoung ones
who are generally inclined to learn the ole
tricks practiced by the old dogs and learned
by these old dogs from dogs still older be
longing to a generation before you were con
tracted for, planned out and manufactured.
a CHANGE OF CROPS
Like your old farmer, who farms Just a.
his. father formed before him, only hecaus,
bis father farmed that way and thereby lef
him as legacy an over worked, farmed out
over titled soil, which obstinately and in {
righteous sort of way wouldn't raise wheat
and will raise only weeds, because natur,
needs what you call ''weedsn or a change O
rops for time in order to restore to the sol
what it needs to raise wheat.
Or, like your uninspired, unimprOved la,
behind the times old dog doctor, who insist
on hanging on to the blue pill, forty hors
power heroic treatment kill or cure stom
ach cleansing, bowel straining process COM
mon forty years ago, when mon and womel
thought an energetic cleansing Of the diges
tive apparatus as necessary every spring a
Il
ing-your old dog doctor who scorns tn
milder methods of the new schools, whic
about every fifteen years gives new names I
old complaints, and administers for the sam
inexpensive and harmless bread pills wit
! even better results and also higher cl nc
per visit, provided the bread pill is accom-
panied by a stylish doctors buggy, with
black boy in buttons to hold the reins Will
the doctor with new tricks is prescribing.
not flirting with the sick lady inside, VIII
lmaginss she Is sick If there's yoHng an
: good locking medicine man within a mile I
her house, and who manages to live and ei
dure life by means Of his assistance, added 1
that Of tive handsome and recently calle
young bachelor minister, who with spiritu,
consolation alternates with the wheaton mn
terra medica in keeping her alive
Sir, these are some new tricks These al
fhe advantages learning and praeticin
, them, and all the new ones are not yet O.
. hausted. There are lots more coming
Prentice Milford In San Francisco Chronicl
Expressing the League.
DUBLIN, Sept. 9l.-The Dublin Gaset
publishes the government proclamation au
pressing the National league and ali
branches in County Glare and baronit
County Leitrim; Loughrea, in Galway; Cor
aguiney, in Kerry; Ccndons. Clangibbo
Dunhallow and Muskerry, In County Cor
and Shelbourne, in Wexford. The proclal
alton is signed by Gen. Prince Edward
Saxe-Weimer, commanding the forces in Il
land, Lord Ashbourne, lord chancellor
Ireland, Mr. Balfour, Irish chief secretar
and other crown officers. The proclamati
makes 10 criminal to convoke, hold or pu
lish meetings or do anything in connscti
with the league The branches OF the leag
were not prepared for the proclamation, .
expecting 1t so soon. The Nationalist lead,
are hurriedly consulting as to what measui
0 shall be taken.
Z The Telegraph says that this means IL