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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-10
STORY OF HIS CAPTIVITY IN IRELAND
TENDING SWINE IN THE MOUNTAIN
FORESTS AND OF HIS CONVERSION

He was, for the pleasant exercise with
"poipe," born. unfortunately. a thousand
years too soon. He died in 493, and Is
piously believed to have attained his hun
dred and twentieth year of age and USE
fulness. If so, the year 373 saw him
husky, crying baby in his Brto- Roman
home in the British municipal town of
Nemthor or Ail-Cluade. Perhaps 1t was due
to the wars that ragged continuously in that
part of Britain and Scotland over and with
In the Roman walls, incursions of Picts and
Scots and marches of defending Romans,
that the temper of the boy was turbulent.
that his energy was fierce and that the
spirit of enterprise in him was dominant
His father, he tells us, was Calpurnius,
deacon. who was the son of Patitus, a priest.
The discipline of the church in that dis
tant day was not so universally perfected
as to have established an unmarried clergy.
What his mother tongue was Is difficult to
establish for although his family are as
sumed to have been Britons with the privi-
lege of Roman citizenship, the Roman Ian
guage was the oficial language Of the upper
classes. He himself apologies for the rude
ness of his Latinity. and 1t is well under
stood that he knew four languages, British,
Irish, French and Latin. In each he seems
to have been proficient.
STANDING In his chariot says one OF his
biographers, "he preached to the people.
He raised his right hand in blessing and
his left in 'cursing and in both his prayer
was visibly efiicacious.
The mother OF st. Patrick was native
of Gaul. It appears she was a sister or near
relation of the great st. Martin of Tours
The legend is that Conchessa. or Concess,
in its Irish form, was a maiden Of striking
beauty and elegant manners, who, with her
elder sister, was carried of a captive to
the northern extremity of Britain and there
sold as a slave to the father of Calpurnius.
The young man. fascinated by her beauty,
took the slave girl to be his welded wife,
and her sister, married to another citizen.
assisted In bringing up the son of the
French beauty. The probability is that
Calpurnius served in France as a Roman
soldier and there met Conchessa, whom he
carried home to his native city the
banks of the Clyde when his term of for
eign service was over.
The wealth and slaves and handmaidens
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TEMPTATION OF THE SAINT UPON REX
OF CRUACF1AN AIGLE AND HISVICTORY
OVER DEVILS WITH HIS SACRED BELL.

after travelling over practically the whole
of the country, enduring every kind of per-
secution, he triumphed and established his
see at Armagh. Then it was that ireland
became famed for faith.
At one time, according to one of the
many legends that have centered about
the marvellous preacher, the saint spent the
whole Lent of forty days and nights on
Cruachan Aigle, a beautiful con!cal hill that
rises over the sea on the southern shore of
Chew bay. There in much discomfort, with
out drink and food, he prayed from Shrove
Saturday to Holy Saturday. Rain, wind
and sun beat upon him, four stones only
formed his shelter
Then came the devils to tempt him. They
covered the whole mountain top In the form
of vast f,ocks of hideous black birds so
dense that Patrick could not see sky nor
earth nor sea. He chanted maledictive
psalms against them, he raised his left arm
In cursing. He groaned in spirit; bitter
tears wet his priestly chasuble, but prayers
and tears were in vain. The devils fled
not. Then he rang his sacred bell and they
gave way, and Patrick in enthusiasm
threw the changing, blaring bell at them
and they fed headlong down the side of the
mountain and were swallowed up in the
great deeps Of the seas beyond Achill and
Clare. But the bell. Clipped in its contact
with the mountain side. was brought back
by an angel 1t is an old story symbolic of
the supernatural power Of Patrick's spir-
itual authority. In that sense the voice of
Patrick's bell is still crying cut from the
reek of Ireland, where II has sounded
through all the ages.
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folks at the Capitol call it-and must be
charged to the expenditure account for the
period in question.
But a billion of dollars!-a thousand Of
millions! The figures mean so very little
to most people. The average mind isn't of
a caliber that can reach out and mentally
surround the idea of a billion of anything
Even the genial head of the house of
Rockefeller confesses to possessions aggre-
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Contrary to the wishes OF his friends and
relatives whom he CHANGED to meet once
more the Irish mission was undertaken. He
was ordained bishop, received the papal
benediction OF the great Pope Leo and went
over to his lifelong field of labor about 4S2.
His work in Ireland seems to have been
tireless and complete. Over $50 churches
were founded. and their bishops installed.
Every little Irish tribe and kinglet had to
have It's special see, and in their wake mon
asteries and schools sprang up everywhere.
st. Patrick baptized an incredible number
of converts with his own hands and or
dained a great number of priests. Finally,
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stroyed the men servants and maid serv-
ants of my fathers house?"

Stroyed the men servants ana maid SerV-
ants of my fathers house?"
X
He was carried off to Ireland. landed near
Larne. and sold to the King of North Dali
arabia. His sisters were sold farther south
in Conaille Muirtheume land he and his
sisters knew nothing of each other
He tells that his daily occupation during
his captivity was to feed swine and sheep,
large numbers of which fed in the woods
on the slopes OF the mountains. Robbers
and wolves had to be kept off by the swine
herd and his dogs: and while in winter the
flock was driven home to the heighborhOod
of the masters roof for protection, day and
night, at home and in the forest the young
captive was responsible for the safety Of
his flock
For a boy of SIXTEEN Of noble parentage,
accustomed to the comforts of civilized
Roman villa it was hard lot. Yet it was
this hard life Of slave that made Patrick
a saint. He and his fellow-captives while
at home as he says himself, had forgotten
God. and their sins have brought on him
and his companions the anger of God; and
He chastised them in His Justice and mercy.
making them slaves In foreign land"
At the end Of six years he made his es-
cape to France where after study and fast
ing, in accordance with the plans Of his
exile, he became a monk. For some time
he lived in st. Martins Abbey at Tours and
afterward in the monastery Of LAWNS.
Constantly, as in Ireland, after his CONVEX
sion or awakening. he was moved by Wis
ions These ghostiy admonitions more and
more demanded that he should undertake
the conversion of the pagan Irish.
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Cheap Recreation.

n O. Hsvemeyer. the head of the Amer
lean sugar industry, said of a undertaking
magazine article:
Articles such az this don't impress one
with their sincerity or their justice. Read
ing them, one is reminded of the rich old
woman vino said to her daughter:
- Isn't u duh and stupid
Dull and stupid is no word for it, the
daughter answered 1 am bored to death
The T-r.hcr yawned.
Fin for the cook she said. Wen
give her a regular good scolding-just to
kill time"
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day in the year, he couldn't possibly finish
the journey before some time in 1922.
1t would take even the fastest railroad
train. running sixty miles an hour. twenty
four hours a day, nearly three months
continuous speeding to pass from one end
of the green band to the other.
These same billion bills, IL piled one on
the other, would reach, as thin as they
are. to a height of nearly six miles. Joined
at all four edges. the resulting area would
be almost big enough to carpet every
square foot of ground embraced within the
boundaries of the city of Washington.
-
Just suppose. for instance, that any one
man had a billion dollars, drawing no in
terest at all. and that he decided to get
rid of the principal before he died. Spend
ing at the rate of $1,000 a day-and there
are not a great many men VINO spend any
more, year in and year out-he would have
to postpone his demise for 2il1 years In
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BILLION dollars-s1 600, 600. 600.

A BILLION dollars-$1 600 600. 600!
~ Very nearly this much was APP
"A propriated by the Congress of the
n United States at the session just
ended for the running expenses of
the government during the fiscal year 1898
OF course not all of this generous allow
ance will be spent in the twelvemonth, but
the appropriation constitutes, nevertheless
a charge upon the revenues-as the wise
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view the fabulous heap. and live. his next
vote of the kind would be wrung from him
and would hurt most outrageously in the
giving. He would have more idea then of
what a million really means.
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HR . DE BltOlH, as GOQ Is
$$A ~ my judge, said st. Patrick,
rising to the uttermOst OF
his limited height. his right
hand lifted over the people
and his countenance striking awe in the
hearts of the kinglets and their tribes about
him.
bally good saint it was who made the
affirmation of his TRUTH good to look at ana
TO listen to- A small but strong man with
a countenance that inspired not only with
it's dignity of gracious manhood, but the
radiance of his great spirit. II was the
strong face OF strong man. He couid
walk, and did walk. from county end to
county end, and made use OF his chariot
only when older. And to a man working on
In his hundred and twentieth year In
country of mountains. Dogs and flooded
rivers. a chariot is thought even by the
aescetic to be somewhat permissible And
these same streams and rivers sometimes
caused trouble. The little man with the
towering spirit, to get on with his preach
ing and conversions and warfare upon the
idols of Erin, could not wait the subsiding
of a stream. He calls himself in that Con-
fession OF his which in a way likens him
to Paul. the apostle of the Gentiles. homun-
clio, a little man. This is said surely not in
n modest metaphor of his spiritual state,
but literally because with him, as is well
known. on his Journeys went MacCartan of
Clogher, his strong man, to carry him over
the rivers.
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Notwithstanding the shop window display
which today in some mysterious manner
Is intended to indicate or symbolic the
saint, these cooked hats shamrocks, clay
pipes, harps that once rang in Tara's halls.
green nags and greener serpents, all these
were not of the bishop of Armagh's own
choosing. In his own day he wore sandals
and not shoes. and over his short tunic
white or gray habit of undyed wool, with
the usual hood used by monks. and, from
all accounts of his abstemious life, he
never enjoyed the comfort of even a sub
stitute of the weed for the pipe that COM
forts and Gains.
in fact, 1t is just well TO recall when
buying neat little pipes as favors for ST.
Patrick celebrations that the large and
genial-hearted missionary to the Irish
never saw his aspirations go up in smoke
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Too Much Proof.

District AttOrI ey Jerome. at dinner in
New \ ork. told story about honesty.
There was a man" he said. who applied
for a position in dry goods house. His ap-
pearsnce WASN'T prepossessing. and refer
ences wee demanded. After some hesita-
ton, he gave the name of driver In the
hrmS employ. This driver. he thought,
would vouch To- him.
"A clerk sought out the driver. and asked
him II the applicant was honest
Honest? the driver said Why. his
honesty been proved again and again.
To my certain knowledge he's been arrested
nine times for stealing. and every time he
was acquitted
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-10

DR.. Austin Flint. the alienst. said at the
Century club IN Eew York, aPr"pOS of a
will contest that had been tried last year:
THE plaintiff lost. and no wonder. His
case W4s - difficult a one as that of the
young man who appeared unduly depressed
after the death OF his rich aunt
Why are y"I so sad an acquaintance
said TO the yours mau. You never appeared
TO care much for your aunt.
g" 4 didn't said the youth dolefuily. but
/ was the means of keeping her in an in
sane asylum the last five years of her life.
and now that she has left me all her
money I've got to go to court and prove
that she o. sound mind 4" ,
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Anecdotes Concerning
We'll Known People
An Easter Supplement.

This proposition" said Rudolph Boxer
of Indianapolis during a shareholders
meeting. reminds me OF one that a wife
made to her sband the other day.
James she began. you know how
have been scra ping and saving all the year
for my Easter custume?'
Eyes. said the man. L know.
Wei she vent on. I've decided on 1t
now. 1t is empire gown of pale green
broadcloth. and il is TO cost $3.50. l want
to ask you 10 l.. - me a little
How much do you need" the husband
inquired.
I've got all but $l2I.' She replied
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1907-10-29
Mr.. RICE ACCEPTS
PLACE or STATE BOARD
Will Serve the State From Stand
point of Duty-Never Sought
the Office.

The State.
Aiken. Oct. 24.-,l1r. Hayne F.
Rice, who was recently appointed a
! member of the state board of educa-
tion, has accepted the appointment
and received his commission today.
MI. lice Was seen hv your CORES
pondent and made the following
statement:
E'I retci:eG my commission Eester-
dar and / expert - serve: Under the
;sw it is tne duly "f tie "cvel?or %
appoint one person frcm every con-
crc<sicnal district in the state, whom,
ntocether with the state supeuntend-
Fert cf education and the governor:
shall constitute the state board OF
hedueation. The governor alone IS
Responsible to the people of the state
/ for the fitness Of his appointees to
discharge the duties devolving upon
them. If, in appointing me from this
district Gov. Ansel did not see fit to
consult the superintendent of educa-
tion, that is a personal matter be-
tween The two for which I do not
deem myself in any manner RESPONSE
BILE. Mr.. Martins attempted filings
at mvself. of whom he knew nothing
whatever. were 50 manifestly unjust
and his purpose so evident, that 1 did
not consider them worthy of reply.
"The superintendent construes e1-
Gov. Sheppard's refusal to serve on
Ene board as an endorsement OF his
contention against the governor. 1
have neither part nor parcel in any
controversy between Superintendent
Martin and Gov. Ansel, but since Mr..
Martins Last published letter to the
governor I cam not refuse to serve
and thereby cast discredit upon our
1chief executive. This appointment
was not solicited by me, nor by any
Lone for me, so far as I am informed,
It under all the circumstances 1
Geel it my duty, not only to our chlet
executive, but to the whole people Of
the state, to accept it and serve to
the best of my ability"
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1907-10-29
STATE BOARD REVERSES
CHESTERFIELD BODY.
Declares Against the Sale of Liquor
in Chesterfield County-List of
Members Present.
The State.

The State.
\ meeting Of the state board of
canvasserS. which convened early last
afternoon. late toni iyht decided to re-
verse the county board Of Chester
field, declaring against the sale of
liquor in Chesterfield county.
The members OF the board are
MessrS. R. H. Jennings, state treas
urer; r. N. McCown. secretary of
stale; J. c. Boyd adjutant general
- II. Ie!dci:; 7. Fraser Lyon. al
torney general. and \. ". jones
comptroller general. Mr. Jones was
absent. being called out Of the city
on business.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1907-10-29
Good Enough For Him.

There is a colored preacher in No
bile who has no sympathy with the
modern doctrines of some of his
white brethren.
One Sunday evening, after preach
ing long sermon bearing upon the
"good old fashioned religious ideas,"
the divine paid his compliments to
the "newfangled religion" in no IN
certain terms. Finally, ne pounded the
oul;'it and wound up with:
"An' breddren, I wish to say that
wien all is said and done the hell of
-. "....h:"rs is GOOD enough for me-
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1907-10-29
The Editor.

How dear to my heart is the steady
subscriber,
Who pays in advance at the birth
Of the year;
Who lays down his money, and does 1t
quite gladly,
An casts round the Office a halo OIL
cheer.
He never says: "'Stop it, I cannot
afford it,
Nor "I'm getting more papers than
now I can read,'
But always says, 'Send it, the family
enjoy it;
In fact, we all think it real house
hold need.'
How welcome ne is, when he steps In
the sanctum;
How he makes our heart throb; how
he makes our heart dance.
We outwardly thank him, we inward
ly bless him
The steady subscriber VINO pays in
advance.
But, may the Lord give us action, on
i. the side show attraction,
VINO takes out our paper, for year
after year,
And then when we meet him, and
kindly entreat him,
/ To give us our money, he gets on
his ear.
1And tells us to stop it, and never more
drop it
In the post office box, with the rest
of his mail;
And refuses to pay US and dares TO
array US
With svindlers and "con' men,
VINO should be in jail.
Nes. lord, make US able, by turn OF
the table,
To get what is due US, from tnls
slick old, hoo-doo;
And we'll stay on the "level," IN
spite Of the devil;
And pay all our bills before they
are due. Cotton Journal
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1907-10-29
A Log to A Car.

RAYMOND correspondence Portland'
Oregon.
-Four fir logs, all cut from the same
tree and containing more than 42.ooo
feet, were shipped to this place the
first of the week from near Raymond.
IEst:Eh~ Iac occupied car. Inc larger
}og was 1ol inches in diameter at its
small end and was SO feet in length
lcont aiming 1900 feet. The stump
from which the tree vSs cut measnr-
Id 10 feet s inches in diameter. At
s10.50 per thousand. which is tne
price paid on this harbor for h'@h
rade fir. the four logs would bring
% hore than S423.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1907-10-29
THE NOTABLE EVENT OF 1907.
THE NOTABLE EVENT OF 1907.
THE SECOND ANNUAL
GEORGIA-CAROLINA
F AIR
The great Two States Exhibition at tAugusta, Ga
NOVEMBER 40

Agricultural and IndustralCounV Club and individual
Exhibits of the resources Of Georgia and South Carolina
Over 81 00O in Premiums Exhibition OF the newest
and most advanced Farming and Agricultural Machinery
For the first time the South the great aborsang Cotton
Picking Machine will be in operation daily during the Fair
Magnificent Display Of Poultry and Pet Sock-the creates
ever exhibited in the Southland.
Great Cotton Farade-S5OO in Special Przes
Splendid display OF Cattle and Live Stock.
Attractions and Amusernents-Firs United States Artillery
Band the finest in the engaged especially for this oc
casion at cost of over S. $780,
Fine Running Trotng and Pacing Races for large Purses
Over S4 900 in Purses
The greatest Football Game Of the Season University o.
Georgia VS. Clemson College. Specia! Trains.
A variety of Free Amusements, including dare Devi
Dohery."
Free Balloon Ascensons-Twice Daily.
The Largest and Finest Midway ever brought South
Remember the Dates, November %.
Low Rates From All Points.
For Further Information applyto
FRANK E. BEANIE, Secretary, Augusta, Ca
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1907-10-29
SENSIBLE WOMAN WANTED.
Prefers Guardian for Child Who Does
not Mix Daisies and Violets, or
Call China Crockery.

In Baltimore, where It is claimed
literary effusions are as marketable
as white elephants, an unusual ad-
vertisement appeared in one Of the
papers. As it was in its proper adver-
tising columns great number Of
people saw it and Immediately began
to acquire a taste for reading. It
was the plant Of business man who
wanted teacher far his little daugh-
ter, and who understood what he
wanted and expressed his desires,
''and darn the expense.
He does not wish the usual ere
fired lady," but a "woman" of COM
mon sense and good breeding. He
does not ask that the applicant have
college education and insists that
she be not academic, but wants a wo-
man who speaks good English.
His advertisement follows:
HELP WANTED - FEMAUE-I
desire to secure the services Of a wo-
man-not the usual type of ''refined
lady" who is constantly on the hunt
for a job-but a masterful, dignifed
woman Of character, common sense
and good breeding, who is qualified
by temperament and education to
take charge Of my twelva-year-old
daughter.
The religious convlctlons of appli-
cants are of no concern to the 'adver-
tiser, nor need applicants possess an
academic or university degree, but
their English must be sound-gram-
mar perfect. I would not care to SER
iously consider engaging woman who
combined daisies and violets on her
winter bonnet, or one who referred to
crockery as ''porcelains,' or one
whose elegant repose Of manner is
mere vacuity, or one who bids for
sympathy by frequently recurring in
soreness Of spirit, to her ''past rever-
ses which are responsible for my pres
ent anomalous and unfortunate cir
cumstances.' or one who EFFORTS re-
luctant CLEANS of pleasure only from
melancholy pangs of grief, or one who
reflours her face with the incessant
call de poudre, or one who, in man.
ner, may be likened unto hurricane
To a woman with high ideals and
a low voice I can offer comfortable
home, where no mental tasks will be
expected Of her; courteous considera-
tion and liberal salary.
It is but fair for applicants to be
told that my little girl IS no papa's
ansel-faced dearie. She is very hu-
man, flesh and blood sort Of coltisl
maiden, with an expressive counter
ance and copper-colored name, and
about as difficult to subdue as a Mex
lean broncho. At present, she is at
boarding school. and, resenting its or
ganized discipline and rebelling
against the one-bath-a-week regime
and the monotony of stewed prunes
and stewed mutton, she promises to be
as "good as gold and as "sweet as
pie" if I let her return home. The
woman who attempts to bride her
must have tact, patience, determina-
tion and mental force. T want the
ehild's spirit directed, not broken.
She may need all her will power some
day. In the proper hands she will
be docile and obedient, but at first
she's sure to buck. She realizes the
melting qualities Of my simulated
sternness. so very little aid can be ex-
pected Of me.
1t B. NJ. D. 356.