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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-19

Is nothing unusual to find cook who has been with the same family for twenty years or over The old housekeeper will tell you she was the mistress nurse, and the coachman remembers when the mas ter was born. These people are not mere hirelings, nor are they treated as such. They are as proud of the family as any member of it. and the mistress never thinks of locking up clothes or food from them. The mistress visits the kitchen. not as an inspector, but to express the good relations that exist between those who lve upstairs nd 'ng'n-, 45rs N5iz0n a mistress Of a house tells you that her cook and housekeeper have been with her fifteen or twenty years, and her housemaid or chambermaid or nurse for five or ten years 1t speaks well for all, and this Is the rule. not the exception
 So far these remarks have been made upon Ireland and the Irish people as whole, but no picture of that country or its people would be complete without special portion being devoted to the city of Dublin, one of the oldest, handsomest and gayest cities in the world. As it de- serves a chapter to itself. 1t will have that honor.
 (To be continued.)
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HEART TO HEART TALKS-By Edwin A. Nye

, Margaret North, a pretty 19-year-old school girl of Chicago represented herself as another person and secured a gown in which she could outshine her girl com panions at a party. The girl was afterward arrested and acknowledged in court that her longing for fancy clothes led her to commit the illegal act.
 The judge fined her $25, which was paid by her father.
 According to the fathefs statement the girls humiliation might have been avert ed but for the desire to excel in dress. She wanted to emulate the example of girls whose parents were rich. My daughter has frequently told me-" he said that unless she could be dressed as well as her chums they would not want to associate with her.
 My daughters sad case should be warning to other girls of middle circum- stances who try to emulate girls whose parents are wealthy.'
 Mr. North says his daughter asked him with tears in her eyes for a new gown for the select party. He felt he could not afford to gratify her. On the impulse of the moment she secured the gown by false pretenses and made the misstep which brought her bitter disgrace and her family deep chagrin.
 The lesson is not merely for girls.
 It is for school teachers and parents.
 The public school is or ought to be a pure democracy. Any considerable distinction of the pupils by way of dress defeats the equa''t and frater- nity of the school ana should be drowned upon. Every child should be made to feel entirely at home in the school room.
 Parents should keep the desire for expensive school clothes out of the heads of their girls.
 It matters not if the parents are inan- cialy able to buy fancy clothes. They are out of place in the school room.
 Besides
 Such dressing fosters a trait in girls that needs no encouragement. In- stinctively they desire to wear pretty clothes. but these need not necessarily be expensive clothes There Is plenty of time further on in their lives for elab- crate and costly toilets.
 Poor Margaret North!
 Desire for dress. that craving for beautiful things which has ruined the lives of so many women, has made of her an early victim. She has paid her penalty.
 But
 How many youthful hearts have asked and yearned and suffered-hearts of the myriad children of the poorl
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ries of the most clever deceptlons ever practiced in warfare.
 It is far from easy to fool a Filipino. distrustful, extraordinarily clever, and. as a rule very alert; but on this occasion they were caught mapping.
 The scheme for the capture of the F1l- ipino chieftain originated in the fertile brain of Funston, who was at that time a colonel in the "Fighting Kansas" reg iment of volunteers. This regiment, dur ing their stay in the islands, were always in the thick of the fight and the brilliant record they made for themselves was crowned by this successful coup of their brilliant little commander.
 On February 2S, 1901, Colonel Funston obtained from an officer belonging to the staff of Aguinaldo information that, three weeks later, enabled Funston to bag the big game.
 This confidential officer of Aguinaldo evidently considered the Filipino cause lost, as he surrendered and took the oath of allegiance to the United States gov ernment and gave Funston several let ters that inspired the gallant American officer to attempt the capture that ter minated so successfully.
 Funston had previously secured In the hurriedly abandoned camp of General Lucana, that soldiers private seal. as we'll as several specimens of the latter handwriting As the letters in Funston's 8 possession were written by Aguinaldo himself and addressed to General Lucana, Funston conceived the idea of taking ad- vantage of the opportunity that chance
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 W the writer was stationed in Binan, province of Lagoona, little town on the southern shore of Lagoona de Bay, 60 miles west of Manila, and about five hours journey by steam launch.
 few days after Aguinaldo and his captors arrived in the Philippine metrop- oils I landed in the city with a party Of sick and wounded soldiers, whom l in stalled in the third reserve hospital. After having discharged this duty lost no time in looking up one of the American offi- cers who was a member of the Funston expedition and with whom l was ac- ouainted and from whom I learned tho story of the capture.
 No newspaper men accompanied the party-in fact no one knew that the cap ture of Aguinaldo was to be attempted At this time even Aguinaldo's location was matter of speculation. Many De- lieyed that he had. seeing that his cause was lost, fled to the mainland (China).
 Even after his capture, the only news or that important event that was cabled to the United States from Hong-Kong was that which was prepared under the blue pencil of the censor. At this time many conflicting accounts of this important cap ture that proved to be the breaking or the backbone of the war. were puDllsned 80 even at this late date the true story of the capture, as described by a mem- Der of the expedition, will prove Of ln- terest.
 This capture was accomplished by se-
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land owners enjoyed and which could not be purchased by the difference be- tween rents and interest on bonds. Thus 1t was that the landlord preferred the land to interest bearing stock.
 The government did not propose to buy out the landlords and make the tenants a present of their farms, but by system of very elaborate and intricate legislation the tenants were enabled to purchase their holdings from the government upon the annual payment of sum considerably less than their former rents. The ten- ants are not yet the absolute owners, as there are many years installments to be paid, but such are the terms that unless tenant Is altogether idle and indolent he cannot fail to meet his engagements. Up to the present there have been no such failures, and 1t Is the success of the plan which has encouraged the govern ment to extend its operations.
 The present prices of beef and mutton in Ireland have had a tendency to turn the farmers attention to raising stock rather than crops and this Is shown by the amount of grass land compared with the cultivated land. Indeed, 1t is said
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-19
IRELAND VIEWED AT CLOSE RANGE-By F. Monks

they ask and there is no keen-cutting competition or freezing out known there, Instead of living up to or beyond their means, or sacrificing home comforts, for public appearances, the Irish people, as rule live we'll within their means and would shudder at the thought of buying thing for which they could not pay. and the idea of securing payment by mortgage is something unheard of There are more automobiles in Birmingham to- day than there are in Dublin, with It's city and suburban population of 100000 There would be a greater display of dia- monds and jewelry at high-priced play in a theater in this city than at a vice. regally patronized grand opera in Dublin, and yet take the audience in each place and estimate them dollar for dollar, 1t will be found that Dublin can show 100 to i. This is not meant to be any refiec- tion on an American city, but rather to illustrate the quiet and simple tastes and manners of the Irish capital.
 It would well repay the mistresses of homes and matrons of families to visit the average home In Ireland and learn the relations that exist between the mis. tress there and her cook and maids. It
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that so profitable Is stock raising just now that many of the farmers are them selves renting their farms to stock rais- CTS and are living easily upon the rent which they received If this be true and should such practice extend over any considerable portion of the country 1t would amount to a total defeat of tho plans which Parnell and Davitt had ill view when they set out to abolish land lordism. An acre of ground in the County of Weath will fatten steer or six sheep. AS 4-year old the steer Is worth $10O or $125; the sheep are worth less, but the wool almost makes up the difference. At such prices stock rais- ing is very profitable, especially when done on large scale. and as the ex- penses are merely nominal the grazier can afford to pay a good rent for land which he uses for grazing purposes. This 1t is which accounts for the number of young men, farmers sons, to be seen in the towns and cities walking about dressed in a half-and-half golf suit when they should be employed cultivating their farms and raising crops of wheat or barley It Is well known that an acre of
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convinced. Paul was uttering great philosophical, as well as great religious truth, when he said: "We know in part"
 This scribe is learning to exercise a healthy skeptieism as to sweeping state ments, for the reason that they so sell dom sweep clean. For instance: "All great men have had remarkable moth ers." Now, what do we know of the mother of Socrates, of Pericles, or Alcfb- fades, Or Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, Homer, Virgil, Horace, Julius Caesar, Tacitus? The mother of Richard Savage, Dr. Samuel Johnsons intimate friend, was one of the wickedest and most 1n- human wretches that ever disgraced the history of English literature Lord Byron's mother was remarkable for noth- ing but wicl1edness and worthlessness. Who can give us any trustworthy infor- nation about the mother of Matthew, Of Mark Luke, Peter, Paul? About all that we know of the mother of James and John is that she was unduly ambitious for the worldly distinction of her two sons.
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itating or adulterating, whether it be whisky or porter, woolen or linen goods, 1t is certain to be the pure article. In fact, 1t Is alleged that the great fault in Irish manufactured articles is their strength and this fault, if it be one, applies to the houses in which the peo pie live as well as to the food they eat and drink and the clothes they wear.
 It was the hope of poor Oliver Gold smith, as expressed by him in "The De- serted Village" to return to such scenes as may be found in Ireland today. and there close his years. Tn his garret in London the poet thinks of and longs for the quiet and simplicity of Irish rustic life. He hopes to return there
 "To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep its fame from wasting by re-
 pose,' and if a man who has accumulated a few thousand dollars by strenuous activity wished to end his days in happiness and tranquility, then let him go to Ireland and his years will be heightened and their close softened under the mild and genial influences of climate and people. The Irish people are not moneymad. To be rich or to get rich quick does not ap- peal to them. To have enough Is all
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A LTHOUGH the immense estates
 "A which the absentee landlords 4 owned in Ireland were obtained by their ancestors through confiscation the manner of restoring them to the peo- pie is by compensation. The landlord Is bought out and paid in government stock which yields an annual return equal to, and in many cases even greater than, the rental of the estate. So far as the mone- tary side of the matter is concerned, the landlords are better off, but it was not al- together question of money with the landlords; it was the power, privileges and patronage he enjoyed that more than compensated for the difference between his present and his previous income. It was worth something to be able to hunt and shoot over large tracts of coun- try without fear of interference or pre- vention by a submissive tenantry. To be able to secure the election to parliament of a candidate who only required a seat to obtain office under the government, to have the appointment Of benefices or a voice in the nomination of the local mag istracy were privileges which only large
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else does. and in the second sentence 'awfuy glad" is an abominable mon strosity of which any 15-year-old board ing school miss should be ashamed. It was Dogberry who said that writing comes by nature; and Dogberry was the most ridiculous fool that even Shake speare ever drew. Of course, Dogberry was wrong. A page or a column of first rate English is splendid and rare work of art. Dean Afford was a scholar of no mean reputation. He edited critical Greek Testament, which was a respect able working edition for preachers. Of course, since the publication of Vest colt 6 Hart's splendid edition. Affords is out of date; but 1t was pretty fair work for its time Now, in his book. Strong Notes on the Queens English" the Dean has a paragraph of some 10 lines so care- lessly and clumsly written that Mir. G. ". Moon has mathematcally demon- strated that it is susceptible of 1o,242 inter pretationsl And note that this was in a book written for the purpose of correcting other peoples English.
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Slowly, but surely, the word "obey' Is being eliminated from the marriage ser vice.
 That word belongs to a time when woman was considered mans inferior and was little more than a slave in con- trbuting to his welfare.
 Now woman has found her p1ace-side by side with man.
 Today, in America, woman is on equal terms with man save only as to her right to vote. To put the question of obedience to her at the marriage altar is to ask her to do what she has no serious intention of doing.
 Why ask her to be dishonestf
 Marriage in its best terms is equality. It is or ought to be a full partnership. To ask one of the equal partners to obey the other is to destroy the partnership or make a farce of 1t. Either the word should be cut out of the ceremony or tho bridegroom should be asked to make like promise.
 Back in the stone age a man wooed his wife with a club. Obedience on her part and tyranny on his was the prevailing custom.
 The wife was a mere chattel.
 Something of a like relation still main tains in some European countries Even in our own laws, copied so largely from the common law of England. are rem nants of the old Idea that woman must always be under somebody's tutelage that she is always and forever child and needs legal guardianship.
 The idea is relic of absolutism.
 In America we began by declaring all men equal. We are ending by declaring all women equal to all men,
 !, And everywhere throughout the world, even in such benighted places as India, Persia and Turkey, woman is finding her proper place Once denied education and subordinated as the plaything of man, she is coming to be his equal
 Marriage is the union of equals.
 Instead of handicapping the woman she should be permitted to contract on equal terms Man and wife should not be obed- tent to each other, but obedient to the laws of righteousness and of love.
 If the union Is not union of this kind no idle promise of the wife to obey the husband will ever mend 1t.
 Love and cherish?" Yes.
 ''Obey? No! @
 The wife who slavishly oSeys her hus- band wrongs not only herself, but him. She makes of him a tyrant.
 Bound together in deference, in true and honorable partnership, in willing service and sacrifice in sanctity. until death do you part"-this Is the only true mar Edasa
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CT wholesome lesson. The average child of years of age never heard of ''logic," but he can do some reasoning out of his own head. The parent. if wise, will not assume that a child of that age has not reached that age of accountability" If you hold him to be responsible, why should you imagine that God will not? If he is required to obey you, why should he not be required to obey his Maker2
 The word "conversation," as used in our authorized version of the Bible, offers a study to the curious reader. Creeden's Concordanc gives 20 cases of iN use. Only two of these cases occur in the Old Testament-Psa. 37.14 and Psa. 50:23. In the first case instead of the words, "of upright conversation" the Westmin- ister .revlsers have upright in the way" In the second case they copy the authorized version exactly. He word does not occur in any of the Gospels, nor in Acts "Conversatlon," as used in the Bible, never means talk" It always means conduct" "behaviour." manner
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The mother of David Is unknown. Abra- ham Lincoln's mother, Nancy Hanks, does not figure conspicuously- in history and his birth was so obscure that MT Lincoln himself did not know who his maternal grandfather was. The mother. {, of whom Mir Lincoln used to speak with so much reverence and affection, was his step-mother-a good woman who did much for him. The question of mother" evidently has more than one side.
 The question, at what age does moral accountability begin is not always easy to settle but the following anecdote may be helpful in this connections: A little boy of some 8 years of age is reported to have said to his mother: "I want to be a Christian" The mother, greatly sur prised at his words, replied: "Why, you are too young What has put such a mo- ton into your little head?' "Well, moth er" rejoined the child, q have been walk ing through the cemetery and a good many graves are shorter than I am" ," This reply should have taught that moth-
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the world of letters. could have so clothed hi mwtth the essential and distinct ele- ments of his personality.
 Dickens wrote David Copperfeld" in 1S49. In the first chapter of that really great novel these lines appear: "The evening wind made such a disturbance just now among some tall old elm trees at the bottom of the garden, that neither my mother nor Miss Betsy could forbear glancing that way. As the elms bent to one another, like giants who were whis- pering secrets, and after few seconds of repose they fell Into a violent furry. tossing their wild arms about as if their late condolences were really too wicked for their peace of mind
 I think that is one of the most vivid brief touches to be found anywhere-ex- cept in it's counterpart. in The Scarlet Letter"
 Here Is a very curious thing. The story of David Copperfeld had been published in monthly numbers for long time, and was completed in 1S49. Tn that year flaw thorne began "The Scarlet Letter." finish ing it on February 3, 1850. In the 17th chapter of ''The Scarlet Letter. flaw thorne causes Hester and Arthur Dim imsdale to meet in the deep shadows of the dark forest of giant" trees. They sat, side by sde and hand clasped in hand, on the messy trunk of a fallen tree The forest was obscure around them, and creaked with a blast that was passing through it. The boughs were tossing heavily above their heads; while one solemn old tree groaned dolefully to another, as if telling the sad story of the pair that sat beneath"
 How striking the similarity in the two extracts Dickens trees bend to one an- other Hike giants; previously to the ap- pearance of Hester and Arthur. flaw thorne had spoken of the "giant' trees; Dickens trees are in a "disturbanee.' and 'fe into a violent furry; flaw thorne's trees 'creaked with blast'' Dickens trees were tossing their wild arms about; the boughs of Hawthornes trees were tossing heavily: Dickens trees 'bent to one another like giants whispering secrets and condolences that were really too wicked for their peace of mind''; Hawthorne represents one old tree "as If telling the sad story of the pair that sat beneath"-which story was as wicked as sad.
 Hawthorne's lifelong friend and school mate. Longfellow, was a borrower, either consciously or unconsciously. "Hiawa- tha," in Its meter and other features. is said to have been taken from the old sages of the Morse. The motif was changed in part, but much of similarity remains. Poe was charged with stealing his Raven" and Oliver Wendell Holmes' Last Lear Is said to be an old Japan ese poem but little changed.
 So I end as began. and ask, Who Is original?
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<<H LESsED are the pure in heart"
 It was said of a certain
 A character that his strength was "as the strength of ten because his heart is pure."
 Which declaration contains as much truth as poetry.
 Tho pure man Is the strong man.
 It has been known for centuries that the mind influences the body, but only in recent years has the fact come to be fully understood and appreciated.
 To illustrate:
 Under the influence of fear the blood will leave your face; under the influ- ence of shame 1t will flush your face. When you are amused sufficiently your diapragm moves up and down deeply tho salt drops are shed from your eyes.
 These are every day object lessons in the power of the mind over body.
 But laboratory tests go deeper.
 It Is a scientific fact that the baser passions actually poison the blood. Hatred, for instance, is one of the deadliest poisons. Anger, fear, despair these instill deadly toxins in the blood.
 On the other hand, the higher emo tions, such as hope. affection, good humor, charity are real elxirs of the blood. Pure love makes for strength, hope brightens the eye and increases the circulation, laughter messages the organs and increases flesh.
 And all these emotions go with purity.
 The man whose heart is pure enjoys in the highest measure love, joy, peace, hope and courage.
 Whereas he whose heart is poisoned by revenge, envy, wrath. despair, weak ems himself both soul and body.
 The Master of the human heart knew!
 Would you be successful, vigorous, buoyant. happy?
 Then you must cultivate the pure cause thoughts are things" Pure thoughts that make the pure heart. Be- thoughts nourish pure strength, courage, optimism. Impure thoughts will be the bane of your life. They cause discord Encouragement, pessimism. Impure thoughts sap both mind and body of their virginal powers.
 The strength of him whose heart Is pure is "as the strength of ten'' because pure thoughts are ten times as strong as impure thoughts.
 And remember
 This is no mushy sentiment or thso- logical theory.
 It is scientific truth.
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of life" It was evidently favorite word with the Apostle Peter, who. in his two brief epistles, uses 1t eight times. In Paufs epstles (omitting Hebrews) it oe- CUTS seven times In Hebrews it occurs twice. "Conversation." as used in the New Testament, does not always repre- sent the same word in the original Greek; that is to say, several Greek words are translated conversation. They all. how
 ever, have reference to conduct, be- haviour, manner of life. In Phppians 3;20, Our conversation Is in heaven" the Greek word means state, commonwealth, citnzenship in state. "Our citizenship is in heaven is a noble and inspiring thought to any devout Christian, and it is es- pecially interesting to one who has studied the origin history and literary associations of the Greek word, which Is formed from the same root from which we got our words politics" "polity'' and 'politicd." ]" From Aristotles famous work on "Poli- tics'' the statesman of today may learn valuable lessons. The doctrines taught in