Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1903-1917, 1903-08-29
AS YoU LIKE IT
Some Stray Leaves From a Reporters
Note Book.

Some Stray Leaves From Reporters
Note Book.
One of the leaders of the French
revolution of 1893, the ferocious Gar
rier. so celebrated on account OF the
drownings at Nantes, once said TO
Breton peasant: 1--WE are going to tear
down your belfries and churcnes'
sSThat nav be-" replied the man, put
YOU will have to leave the stars, ana
while that primer is left to US we
shall teach our children to spell from
it the name of God"
Andrew Carnegie intends to donate
s.. 100000 in United States Steel cor
noration bonds to Dunfermline, Scot
land. his birthplace. He stipulates
that the gift must be employed in
keeping UP the estate Of Pittencrieff,
which contains the tower in which
Malcolm Canmore married Princess
Margaret, and which he purchased as
a pleasure ground. The gift is to be
used for the maintenance of theater,
the encouragement of horticulture
among the working classes and the
advancement of technical education IN
the district, which is the center of the
linen industry. The administrators
of the gift are charged with the adj
vancement of the moral and material
interests of the town.
$50
Margaret Bisland, whose name is
not unknown to magazine readers,
discusses some aspects of "race sui
eide" in the July North American Re-
~ si<Nf q
that the decrease in the birth rate and
the growth of the divorce habit are
both due to the so-called "emancipa-
ton of woman-her alienation from
the true aims of her sex" According
to the last census, the increase in di
vorce was two and half times great
er than the increase of population
which is race suicide with a ven
geance. In the Western Reserve of
Ohio, a locality notorious for anti
Catholic prejudice, there is one divorce
to every eleven marriages. THE
prodigious increase in divorces among
Americans of every class and religion"
writes Mrs Bisland. SIS perhaps the
most serious menace to the moral and
physical stability of our race that has
resulted from the non-domestic avoca
L1OuSS ElS average WUAIIdu.
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Sir Thomas Upton got mad the 9TH
er day because the decorator at the
Manhattan Beach dinner hoisted an
Irish flag minus the insignia of Brit
ish supremacy and wouldn't eat bit
until he saw it removed and another
put up in it's place containing the ear
marks of Irish dependency This was
more than King Edward VII did in
his tour drought the Emerald Isle.
The old sunburst with nothing but the
harp andshamrock on beautiful green
background was futtered in his face
and he is said to have raised his hat
and acknowledged the compliment
without pretending to notice the omis-
sion of the crown of gold No one will
say that the king was not sharp
enough to see that it was not there,
and few would say that he did not feel
that it belonged on the banner, but he
was in Ireland to make friends with
the people and was too much of dip
T5mat to fall out with anybody over
such trif1ing matter When an Irish |
man stops to think Of these two Incl |
dents he is almost impelled to say |
hurrah for King Edward and Queen
Alexandra and to the deuce with Sir
Thomas Upton and his Shamrock. 1t |
is the old story of the creature seeking |
to make himself greater than the Gre
ator.
There has been launched at Eufau-
la Indian Territory, the first issue of |
the first daily paper ever printed or
published by an Indian. The editor is
Alexander Posey, known as the
"Creek Bard member of the Creek
tribe of Indians, who already has
achieved distinction in the newspaper
field as editor, poet and humorist. He
is one of the prominent men of the |
creek nation and took an active part in
the convention held at Eufaula recent
ly. called for the purpose of formulat-
ing an Indian plan for statehood. He |
helped frame the famous appeal to the
people for an Indian state, separate |
from Oklahoma, in which no intoxicat-
ing liquors should be sold Although |
known as the Greek Bard Posey is |
only half Greek. as his father was a |
Scotch trader, an early settler in the |
Indian country. He was born near |
Eufaula on August %, 1873, and was
educated at Bacone university. Mus
SoSee' l. L. from WHICH ne was grad
uated seven years ago. After leaving |
school he engaged in educational work |
and was successfully superintendent |
OF the Creek Orphan school, superin- |
tendent of public instruction for the |
Creek nation, and superintendent of
the Eufaula Greek high school. Be
fore entering the newspaper field,
Posey had won a reputation in literary
lines. AS boy he gained some re-
nown as writer of verse, which he |
signed bv the nom de plume of s'Chin- |
hubble Harjo.''