The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-09-03
Guinness Stout Pays
Usual Fine Fat
Divvy.
AN AMUSING POLICE MIDDLE.
The Jersey Lily Is Getting
Quite Gay With the Name
Of the Prince of Wales.

They have electric trolley cars in
Dublin and they appear to be appre-
ciated by the populace as a great i'm
provement on the old-style horse cars
or tram cars. The citizens, however,
do not appear to be quite educated up
to the idea that trolley poles and troll
ley wires are very vexatious and eccen-
trio contrivances, and that either or
both, is liable at any moment (gener-
ally the most inopportune) to indulge
in very peculiar frolics. Here is an ex-
tract from a Dublin daily, dealing with
street car accident in that city re-
Gently
Yet another electric tram accident in
Dublin. On Tuesday evening the same
old trolley rod struck the same old
guard wire in precisely the same old
fashion, and car man (cabman) was
Knocked senseless from his car by one
OF the falling wires, which, making a,
circuit with the metal rails continued
Missing, writing and splitting blue fire
over all the immediate vicinity. From
a pyrotechnical standpoint the specta-
Gle was all that could be desired, but
the element of danger is too obvious in
such exhibitions to make them attain
TO anything like popularity. Then,
people who take an electric tram for
the purpose of getting across town in a
hurry to keep an important engage
ment, perhaps or to catch a train can
not be expected to take any very keen
interest in such electrical erraticisms.
1t is really time that the tramway
company set about providing some
means of obviating accidents of so dis
agreeable character, which may, in
deed, one of these days be attended
with fatal results. Surely, it cannot be
so difficult matter to keep the trolley
rod from making periodic ascents into
regions which it has no business what
ever to enter. Under existing condi-
tons the rod is liable at any time to
slip from its gearing with the inevitable
| results with which we are becoming so
Interestingly familiar. The united
wisdom Of the electrical staff in the
company's employ ought to be able to
devise some simple controlling arrange
ment by which the trolley rod could
never get so high as the guard wire"
Our Dublin friend might take heart
OF grace. One of these days some Yam
kee inventive genius will present him
| With device that will cure those frol-
les of the trolley rod" and put an end
to its periodic ascents into regions
which it has no business whatever tc
enter" He might also find some con.
ISOLATION in the thought that trolley rods
in other cities have an ugly way of
striking the guard wire at awkward
| periods leading to results equally as ex-
| citing as those he so graphically de-
scribes. The only Thing for those of his
readers who get stalled when CRYING
70 get across town in a hurry, to keeI
| an Important engagement oruto catch
a train Is to be as resigned and philo-
sophical as possible Inder the trying
circumstances and to thank their stars
tbs no worse.
Eminent Gaelic scholars are actively
| interested in movement to revive gen
eral interest in the Irish language, in
the hope that the awakening may lead
to a systematic and serious study of the
almost departed tongue. Those enthusi-
astic men insist that the Irish contains
wealth of literary lore into which no
scholar should neglect to delve, and it
is in the hope of getting such delivers
to work that the movement referred to
finds its activity.
At r. recent meeting of the Gaelic
league Cardinal Logue said: "There is
no European language better worth pre-
serving than the Irish language. 1t is
a magnificent language. the most per-
feet medium for either oratory or poetry
that has ever dropped from the lips of
man. 1t comes down from the earliest
ages, and for that reason, if for no
other, the grand old tongue is worthy of
being preserved, and worthy of all the
labor bestowed on 1T today by the ladies
and gentlemen who are endeavoring to
preserve 1t. We have a strong proof of
what can be done to preserve a Ian
guage in the case of Wales The Irish
| language was never so far gone in Ire
land as the Welsh in Wales; and now 1t
is universally spoken throughout the
prfncipality. They have a magnificent
| literature in Welsh and they have their
newspapers and their magazines and
their music. All this the people of Wales
did by throwing themselves into the
struggle to save their mother tongue in
/ the true spirit of nationality. BY exer-
cising a little zeal and a great deal of
| labor they brought their rational Ian
! guage to the splendid position which it
occupes today.
Perhaps the most enthusiastic leader
of the movement is DR.. Douglas Hyde,
who is untiring in his efforts to get the
people of Ireland interested in the re-
yival of their language. In a lecture
at Galway, he declared that ireland
would some day have a living literature
| in the Irish language, and then they
would be able to say that they had the
longest literary history of any coun-
| try in Europe, except Greece. Their
lyric poetry had begun long before
| Chaucer, who founded English liter
allure, and it had had an unbroken his
tory right down almost to the present
time"
DR.. Hyde and those associated with
him are, of course, to be commended for
the efforts they are putting forth to
bring about a revival of the Celtic
| tongue; but their followers, it must be
| feared. will be confined to the enthusi-
astic and to the intellectual few. They
will never be able to muster their adj
herents among the masses by very
many big battalions. There is reason
why this should be so. The Irish
people, like the English and the
Scotch, are a colonizing people. They
see that every day the English language
is becoming more and more the Ian
guage of the world, especially the newer
portions Of it, and II will be an impossi-
Bile task to get them to handicap them
selves in the struggle by the use of q
| Language peculiarly their own, how
ever beautiful or classic 1t may be-
To do so would be to ostracize them
|