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Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-01-19
An Innocuous Bird.

Young Lady-That parrot you sold
me last week doesn't talk at all.
Dealer-Yes you said you want
ed one that wouldn't be nuisance TO
the neighbors.-N. Y Weekly.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-01-19
HIGH SCORES AT UTOPIA.

High scores at the Utopia alleys
last night were: H. Wilson, 100; c.
Jaycox, $50, IT'S; f. Martin, 176
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-01-19
Safety In Silence.

Mrs, Gaymon-Yes, auntie, now that
am Herbert's wife, he is another
man.
Aunt Martha-Well, don't you go
telling people you're another mans
wife or you'll be getting tried for
bigamv Life
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-01-19
The Man and the Prica

Hixon-I dropped a penny in front
Of blind beggar this morning. Just
to see what would happen.
Dixon-Did he pick it up?
Hixon-No. He said. Make it a
dime, boss, an III forget that I'm
blind" Chicago Daily News.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-01-19
More Frenzied FINANCE.

Brown just made four dollars.
Green-How did you do it?
Brown-Short wanted TO borrow
live and finally compromised by lend
ing him cne.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-01-19
ALlttIe o, the Same.

You say you were In the saloon at
the time of the assault referred to in
the complaint" questioned the law
yer.
Il was, sol" replied the witness.
did you take cognizance of the
barkeeper at the time?"
81 don't know what he called it.
sor, but l took what the rest did,
Milwaukee Sentinel.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-01-19
AT KIRBY,s LAST NIGHT.

H. Neal rolled 1913 and 1874, and
]. Dolan, 1874 last night on Kirby's
alleys.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-01-19
211 IN TOTTENyILLE.

Andrew Barnes rolled 211 last
night on the Aquahonga alleys at
Tottenville.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-01-19

DeWitt's Little Early Risers, reliable
little pills. Recommended by G. A.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-01-19

Maud-Do you think man can
marry on $1,000 a year?
Ethel-Yes. dear, he can marry on
it, but he can't live on it.-Chicago
Journal.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-01-19
Dust Protectors.

Gunner-That is very polite porter
they have ON this train.
Guyer-So?
Gunner-Yes; before he begins to
brush you down he hands you pair
of automobile goggles.-Chicago Daily
News.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-18

us visit those churches in Dublin, the new ones and the old. We enter Christ Church and in it's erypts we see the sar- cophogi of bishops and prelates who min istered at it's shrine centuries ago. The stone carved effigies decorating the panels and standing in the inches attest the high degree to which art had reached in those ancient times. Mail-clad warriors whose death followed closely on their return from the eiusades are here at rest The baptlsmal fonts from which the water was poured on the heads of heirs to princedoms still stand in the apse. and in the aisles are those reccsses into which the penitents retired when seeking absolu- ton. As 1t Is in Christ Church so also in Saint Patricks, Saint Audeons. and scores of others. These were originally Roman Catholic churches, but are so no more. con1scated during the reigns of Henry the Eighth and Queen Elizabeth they remain a permanent and imperish- able evidence of the prosecutions and op- precision which their builders suffered, and which the descendants of those build CTS endure to this day. Thus answers history to the enquiry for the reason of this strange anomoly in church and con gregations.
 But such anomalous conditions are cer-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-18
BY SEWELL HAGGARD.

of the county for 1S49, and 1t Is quite probable that he left Moravia under compulsion.
 At all events. about 1850. he again moved his family, which now consisted of his wife and five children, to Owego, N. The family remained In Owego but three years and then moved to Strongsvlle, O., twelve or fifteen miles southwest of Cleveland. year later they left Strongsville for a county set clement, about seven miles south of Cleveland, called Parma. and from here they went, in 1857, to Cleveland, nov Ing into a comfortable brick house, which William A. Rockefeller had built for tn em.
 Tn the Ohio communities whe he lived the legends of old Bil' as he is popularly spoken of today by his for mer acquaintances. are identical with those in Richford Morayla and Owego They all remember him as a man svh O came home but rarely, who was sup cancer doctor is the opinion of one. n 'quack doctor of another, and there are tn ose who declare he was a gam bier. In Ohio. as in New York he al- ways created a profound impression on his visits home by his clothes, his good horse and his crack shooting. He was a rippin' good one old associate In Parma declares. How he would sh oot-bang -e- tee bang-you'd thought there was whole army aroundr There are many sly winks at the occupations and morals of William A. Rockefeller by his old neighbors, but there is a universal verdict that he was good fellow jolly generous and kindly"
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est of the old ones more than seven cen turies old. But what at first only at tracted his attention becomes d subject of inquiry when he finds the services of the old religion being celebrated in the new churches and those Of the new religion in the old churches. That is the inquiry the historian must answer.
 History is the handmaid of travel. With out history to shed light on the objects met in travel a person knows no more of the country through which he passes, the people he meets nor the conditions as they exist than he would know the depth of the ocean by taking a dive into it. What is the Coliseum but a heap of ruins to the man who doesn't know the history of Rome under the reign of Decoletian and Nero? To the tourists who gazes on the field of Waterloo without a knowl- edge of it's history nothing appears but very good farm land. broken arch or a fertile plain are not objects worth travelling far to see, and they are all that remains to be seen if Clio Is not at hand to lift the curtain and not only show but explain the mystery which perpleXes us and point out the lesson these things teach.
 With history then as our companion let
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and rampant enclosed a large tract of country known as the pale inside Of which none but the pure, unadulterated English in race and religion were per mitted to enter. Outside of this ditch certain class of people, adventurers and raiders was allowed to locate to act as a buffer between the insurgent Irish and the English dwellera inside the pale. How these same English. in course of time changed their nature may be guess ed from the fact that they were accused of becoming more Irish than the Irish themselves, and the truth of the accu- sation is borne out by the history of later times when the names of many of these same Englshmen are found among the list of those who gave up their lives in the cause of Irish liberty.
 A little distance from the center or the city of Dublin, a street car ride of four miles, Is the suburban town of Clontarf. beautifully situated on the very edge of the bay. It was here tn @ great battle was fought in 1011 be- tween the Danes and the Irish. King Brian Boru, then In his eightieth year, put himself at the head of the Irish forces and met the Danes as they land ed from their ships. The battle ragged from early morning till nearly sun set at which time the Irish were victorious
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-18
BY LADY HENRY SOMERSET.

the field where her representative walked by the river. The beauty of Amy Rob sarts funeral, the splendor of Eliza beth's progress the enry of King James and the sad martyr Charles, were ep- sodes in the pageant which left lasting memories Personally, I rejoice in that holiday in Oxford and at Bury St. Ed munds, not only because they were beau tiful and interesting, but because once again into our midst is coming some thing of that dramatic spirit by which alone we understand history, and imagi- nation is revived in the dull and the pro- sais mind of this utilitarian age.
 It is a triumph for the Lowell Observa- tory that to them has fallen the honor of establishing almost beyond proof the ex- istence of artificial canals in the planet Mars If, therefore. the planet Mars Is inhabited by beings who can create great waterways In order to irrigate their land, how much shall we know in the fu- ture as to their existence? At any rate we may be glad that we are born in an other sphere, for, according to Professor Ayardn we see in Mars a race of vast antiquity and supreme wisdom clinging desperately to the place of its birth and hoarding~ up every drop of its precious water. but doomed in the compara tive ly near future to face lingering death on a dying world. So the Martians will move or as we do and all creation moves. into those Beyonds and Beyonds known only to the Creator Himself.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-18
MARX 7WALN IN LONDON

the cheers which greeted him. The chan cellor addressed him as Most Venerable Sir. passionate advocate of the dregs of the people and the submerged tenth, and General and leader of the Salvation Army And then (how times changedD, would have hooted and hoWled him down as an ignorant fanatic; but now the shouts came "England's Grandest Old Man." When Mark Twains time came to receive like honor, the chancellor ad- dressed him as Most Amiable and Charming Sir, you shake the sides of the whole world with your merriment."
 Later in the day when Mark Twain stalked about the lawns in his doctors robes, he confessed to reported that he was suffering from a bad attack of modesty."
 Mark Twain was again greeted with much enthusiasm when he entered the royal enclosure at the Oxford pageant, and he probably in common with most who were present at that brilliant as- sembly is not likely to forget the scene in Magdalen fields. Gloomy and dark as was the weather, the color pictures lost nothing of their endless variety and beauty, and the opening scene of Law renee Housmanns, in which St. Frides- wide and her madens come by the little stream, was exquisite in its beauty and it's simplicity Few in that great as- sembly probably remembered that the dust of the real Friedswide lies close 10
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-18
DAYS THAT ARE NO MORE

By F. B. T. Money ey-Coutts The torpid night has filled the languid air With breath of roses lulled with dew to
 sleep. The murmurous bees are housed in hon.
 eyed lair, And nothing wakes except the hearts
 that weep. days that are no more. seen down long
 aisles And avenues of time, where trembling
 light Dlmpes the world with universal smiles. In home, In childhood, when all care was slight o days that are no more, come yet again! Come with your snowy drapery and
 your dreami Wait me the fragrance of your summer
 rain, Bring me your flowers, unven your
 morning be1m Come yet again. But there shall
 never be Such days again. for these no sweet
 ness store. These do not come with happiness to me. These are not like the days that are no
 morel
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-18
THE MOUNTAINS.

Bl Bayard Taylor. Howe CT the wheels of Time go round We cannot wholly be discrowned We bind, In form. and hue and height, The Finite to the Infinite. And. lifted on our shoulders bare, The races breathe an ample air. The arms that clasped, the lips that
 kissed
 Have vanished from the morning mist: The dainty shapes that flashed and passed In spray the plunging torrent east, Or danced through woven gleam and
 shade,
 The vapors of the sunbeams braid, Grow thin and pale; such holy haunt Of gods or spirits ministrant Hath something lost of ancient awe; Yet from the stopping heavens we draw beauty, mystery. and might. Time cannot change nor worship slight, The gold of dawn and sunset sheds Unearthy glory on our heads; The secret of the skies we keep And whispers. round each lonely sleep Allure and promise, yet withhold. What bard and prophet never told While mans slow ages come and go Our dateless chronicles of snow Their changeless old inscriptions show. And men therein forever see The unread speech of Deity.
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tain to be attended with unfortunate cir cumstances So long as the possessor Of ill-gotten goods retains them so long will the rightful owner claim them. Who can patiently or peacefully abide the sight of his dwelling sheltering his enc my while he himself is exposed to the tempest? Who will tamely submit to con fscation of all he holds most dear and not chafe under the injustice? Yet these are the daily sights which confront the Catholic, not only in Dublin, but all through Ireland, and these sights keep the wounds open and help to prevent re- eoncilation between that country and England. At a meeting once held in Dub lin a certain man offered to spend large sum of money to restore one CT those old churches which was suffering from decay. A voice in the hall suggested that he restore it to its original owners
 that voice expressed the sentiments Of more than 3.000.OOo people in Ireland.
 The story of Ireland in her relations with England may be read in the streets of the city of Dublin. The monuments which stand in the public places and inside private enclosures are those of men who. for good or ill., made and left their impress on the country. At one time the city of Dublin was as thor oughly English as Oxford. A wide ditch
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-18
BY J. C. HIDEN, D. D.

erous help was given to a poor. unfor tunate fellow man, who was a hereditar. enemy, and belonged to q race which t the Samaritan was the most detested un der heaven. l do not wonder that tht broadest minded religious Teacher that th' world has ever known closed His parable with the exhortation: "Go and do thot likewise" Indeed, if I had absolutely ns other evidence on the subject, the para ble of the good Samaritan would be to inS mind a very powerful moral proof of tho Divinity of Christ. The story is superhu. manly good. John Stuart Mill was un' consciously striking a fatal blow againsi his own agnostic skeptiesm when he said that there was not virtue enough among the apostles to invent either the charactei or the teachings of Jesus. The same fa' nous reasoner was astonlshed at the profound originality and the immense value of that saying of Jesus which teaches that the greatest men are the mes who do the most service.
 I have here barely skinned the suhjeoi of proverbs. and have left what ara called "The Proverbs of Solomon for treatment in future paper.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-18

says How do you carry yourself?' The Englishman, careful about the essence of things. says: How are you?" The en- ergetic American. full of the ideas of ac- tlvity and progress. says: How do you do?" The Roman sald Hall" or in a longer form, Health to you" The Greek said: Rejoice" The Hebrew said: Peace" The Chlnaman says: Have you eaten your rlce?" in which saluta- ton he assumes that if you can eat, you must be reasonably well.
 The immensely popular proverb; Char lty begins at home" is one of the most stupid as well as one of the most utterly false sayings that has ever gained cur rency among people who had any sense. I have had 1t quoted to me trlumphantly as n text from the Bible when the Bible Is one long protest against the narrow ness. the selhshness and the stupidity in- volved in the saying. Was the good Sa- maritan at home when he helped the half dead Jew, whom the robbers had wounded and pillaged on that robber- haunted road from Jerusalem to Jericho? No; he was on a journey in what he re- garded as foreign land, and his gen
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-18
POPULAR PROVERBS AND PHRASES

mess all the folks has got thar" He went accordingly, met an old friend, took couple of drinks with him, became of tended at some remark made by d stranger, got into a isticuf, gloriously whipped his man, was sued for assault and battery and then had business in court the rest of his life. He probably came to believe that the Chinese proyerb was wise one.
 How and when certain proverbs orig mated is often an obscure and sometimes an insoluble problem. For many years the Query" columns of the literary mag azines have from time to time revived the question: Who originated the say ing, consistency is a jewel, or as it is sometimes written. 'Oh consistency, thou art a jewel ?' Thus far it seems that the author has never been discovered Whether this proverb is wise or foolish is a question It all depends upon the meaning which you attach to the word consistency" If 1t means standing by your established principles then the proverb is wise in proportion to the wis dom of those principles. But if con sistency" means always following the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-18

same course, regardless of all changes of circumstances, or of relations, then the proverb is an extremely stupid one. It may be perfectly proper for you to do today what it would nave been crime to do yestei day. The law may have been altered by competent authority; or circumstances, or personal relations may have been so changed as to change the moral, as well as the legal character of the act.
 N hat is meant by the oft-quoted prov erb: "Ridicule is the test of truth?' l do not know the author of this proverb, but suspect he was some lght-minded skeptic, who had a great opinion of ridicule and little regard for truth. The frivolous Voltaire rdiculed Shakespeare. Worth less rakes ridcued John Milton Herod and his minlons ridiculed Jesus Christ. The most blatant blasphemer that has lived since Tom Paine rldiculed God All mighty. If the proverb "Ridicule is the test of truth" really has any meaning, l suspect that its meaning is both stupid and wicked.
 Proverbs of equal weight, that is to say. of no weight at all, may be quoted on
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measures; in the fields of literature, art and science they have been co-laborers; but upon the political platform they have been and are today as hostile as Indians.
 No observer, however superficial, can fail to notice this condition, but it is only the student of history who knows why it exists.
 History records the fact that no na- tion on the earth accepted the doctrine of Christianity more eagerly or held to 1t more tenaciously than the Irish. One man, Saint Patrick, Christianized that people. He landed on the shores of a pagan coun- try where the name of Christ was un- known, as his eyes closed in death he saw not the sprouting seed he had sown, but the full grown crop. Princes and peasants, chieftains and kerns had ac- cepted the Word from him and keep it to this day The retention of that gift in the form he gave 1t to them cost its pos sessors oceans of blood, and that blood served to fertilize the field In which the seed was sown.
 The first thing to attract the attention of the visitor to Dublin is to see the num- Der of new churches and the number of old churches in the city; the oldest of the new ones less than a century old. the new
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to 1S61 which went through numerous editions. was translated into divers lan= guages and brought the author into great and immediate popularity must have de served something very different from con- tempt.
 Proverbial sayings have been popular during many ages and among all sorts of people. The Chinese have an old prov erb to the effect that Going to law is giving a COW to recover cat Be sure to remember, too, that you may unwisely get a deal of legal business upon your hands without intending it. Old man Per- kins was a quiet soul, who stayed at home and attended to his farm. His home was on the public road to the court house, and every fourth Monday he saw long lines of horsemen pass his gate on their way to court. He had never been to court in his life. and when he asked his neighbors why they went, they all ways said, "on business"
 So one fourth Monday in August he said to his wife: Well. Melinda, as the crap is laid by, I believe I'll have the old gray mare saddled and ride down to the cote house today jest to see what sort O bus
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about 1887 William A. Rock efeller feller settlement as his wife. and here three children were born, the second of whom-the record of his birth Is dated July 8. 1839--was named John Davidson
 "In 1S4s William A. Rockefeller moved his family to q farm near Mo ravia, Cayuga county. The reputation he had built up in Richford as sport Ing man was duplicated in Moravia.
 He soon became the leader of all that was reckless and wild in the com munity and was classed by the re- spectable and steadygoing as a danger ous character on whom no doubt much was fastened that did not belong. Tt may be for this reason as well as because of his frequent long and unaccounted-for absences that he Is still classed popularly in Moravia as one of the gang who operated the under ground horse railroad and ran off try.
 There Is absolutely no proof Of this, but the conviction and sentence to the state prison in 1850 of three of his closest pals for horsestealing, coupled with his bad reputation, made many of his disappearing neighbors fix the crime equally on him, and today old men in Morayla nod their heads sagely and say. He was too smart to be caught
 There Is an indictment against Will
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-18

either side of almost any question. Mind how you pull up stakes and move to Texas" says some wiseacre, and then with countenance as wise as Lord Thur lows he will quote: "A rolling stone gathers no moss" But another sage ad- wiser comes and with equal gravity tells you that A setting hen does not get fat You may always make 1t point to discount the proverbial sayings of any man wno looKs extremely wise when he is uttering his proverbs. Of Lord Thurlow himself, though he dominated parliament and became Lord Chancellor in Lord North's ministry, some English wit Is understood to have said: T am con vlnced that he is fraud" Astonished to hear such a man so characterized, his friend asked: What upon earth makes you think SOP" Because" rejoined the wit, mo human being can be as wise as Thurlow looks"
 The different forms of speech with which people of different races and na- tions give the ordinary salutation upon meeting each other are interesting and characteristic. The Frenchman, so care ful as to his manners and his style,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-18

"EE name of the Reverend Joel Ty-
 illustrious in literature. He wrote
 Ter Headley can hardly be called and published divers books, none of which ever made any appeal to my curiosity in- deed, Poes scathingy cohtemptuous crit icism of Headleys Sacred Mountains" has probably had some influence in the way of deterring me from reading the works of an author whom Poe emphat- ically pronounces "the prince of all the quacks," and yet it may be shrewdly sus- peeted that Headley made more money out of his Letters From Italy" "rhe Alps and the Rhine" Napoleon and His Marshals' and Washington and Ills Generals than Poe ever made out of all his splendid works in prose and in poetry.
 Martin Farquhar Tupper has been often contemptuously criticised as the author of ''Proverbial Philosophy, a Book of Thoughts and Arguments Originally Treated" and while I cannot commend the modesty of the title 1 will say that a work whose publication ran from 1888
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A LIFE 70 BE DESIRED

mind which clothed each hough of the tree. leaf and flower of the field with T poem, and made living fragrant with the thought of the eternal God.
 After all, if one wishes to live the con- tented life he does not have to read the sermons from books to find the principles, but just look over the field and forest where every tree and shrub sweeps in green undulations before the wind, and every blade of grass, under the watchful eye of It's Creator, springs Into life force ful, useful peaceful. Learn that every feathered songster has but one industry, one institution, not even an untried note in song, but all have one end in view, the building and making of home. Here is domestic peace, here is matched and started the next generation and sent out on the wing.
 This changeless thought gives them the great economy not yet obtained by mnn If there are bickerings among them, they