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The Lambertville record., 1910-10-25
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make into -four they would load 1t into
canoes and go down the river to
Wilkesbarre. more than 100 miles
away; so the year after they settled
there. Maj. William Wynkoop built a
mill; and after that the settlers from
miles away used to come to grind
their wheat.
Now the family spreads pretty well
over the whole country. and, as some
of its members say, there is no mem
ber of whom the others need be
ashamed. 1t seems to be the thing. II
you are a Wynkoop, to be happy. On
some OF the old family plate is en-.
graved this motto: Virtutem Hilantate
Colere, which translated Is: Cultivate
Virtue with Cheerfulness.
The arms are blazoned: In first and
fourth quarters azure a rock arHent
projecting from q sea argent, two five
pointed stars in the first and fourth
quarters, in second and third quar-.
ters azure lion argent with . crown
or.
The Lambertville record., 1910-10-25

whence the family spread to other
parts of the country. There are rec
ords Of the name as early as the four
teenth century in certain deeds and
wills, and from these documents it ap-
pears that the family was already
well-to-do and of good standing. Be-
tween 1901 and 1902 80 wills were
preserved at York alone made by
various Sharps and Sharpes.
One of the earliest members of the
English family to attract attention to
himself was DR.. John Sharp, arch
bishop of York and chaplain of his
majesty, James II.
This old archbishop of York had a
large family, and of course, the Sharps
who came here from England claimed
relationship to him. But as already
The Lambertville record., 1910-10-25
ACorner in Ancestors
Sharp or Sharpe Family
By ELEANOR LEXINGTON
Copyright by Mcclure Syndicate,

Sharp is one of the names that
tai qualities and therefore it is prob
able that the first Sharp, or Sharpe.
wherever he lived, gained his name
because of his business ability and
sharp wit.
Settlers of this name from England,
Scotland, Sweden, Holland and Ireland
E:l arrived early in this country, and
i. is rather difficult to tell who came
first. But the majority of them came
from England, and the family there Is
very old.
The English name is of Anglo-Saxon
origin, and used to be spelled also
Scharpe and Scarpe. Then it became
Sharpe. and since about the sixteenth
century it has been spelled either with
or without the final Sc"
We first hear of the Sharpes in Eng
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-08
Southern Presidential B0omS

'It seems likely" says the Washing ton Evening Star, that the south will appear at the next democratic national convention In better shape and with more power to make itself felt than on any such occasion since the civil war. Texas has declared for MT. Bailey for President, and Georgia for Hoke Smith. If the democrats carry the next House and Champ Clark becomes speaker and oscar Underwood chair man of ways and means, why should not Missouri add the one and Alabama the other to the list of southern pres idential factors?"
 The fippant question of the Star may in part prove suggestive. oscar Un- derwood Is about to discuss in five states the tariff issue. When he talks he brings out the common sense view of a subject, and his long tour in West Virginia, Ohio, Illinois and Missouri may commend him for place on the ticket of 1912. "Gaynor and Under wood" or Harmon and Underwood" is by no means an improbable ticket The tariff will be the great controll- ing issue in 1912 and oscar Underwood would stand for downward revision as few other men would Few other men in the country have studied the sub ject as MT. Underwood has. The Stars suggestion may, therefore in part, come true, for unfortunately no southern man will be placed at the head of the ticket in 1912. This may be done later on, but not in 1912.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-08
Honest Politics Wins Victory

Whichever way the standpatters turn they encounter defeat. The majority of the party in Vermontshas been cut from 29,OO0 two years ago to 1000 this year. In Michigan Julius Caesar Burrows, typ teal standpatter, has been defeated, and the Senate will know him no more after March 8 next. In Wisconsin Robert M. LaFollette's victory over the regulars is nothing short of tidal. This original in- surgent, this famous and indomitable re- form radical leader of Wisconsin. goes back to the Senate with six years added to his service.
 These victories show what is coming in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio and the rest of the states. The Aldrich tariff stands condemned, and so do Aldrichism and Cannonism, and the partnership of trusts and combinations with politics. All these things will be voted down in November Other senators will follow Julius Caesar Burrows. not ably Kean of New Jersey, Depew of New souri, and Henry Cabot Lodge may also fall, too, outside the breastworks, for he is on the ragged edge of the most re- markable upheaval in our history.
 No standpatter is at all secure outside of New England, and the defeat of Cabot Lodge in Massachusetts is widely pre- dicted No tariff in American politics has ever been so sharply and strenuously con- demned as has the one that went into effect last year. An early revision of it will take place. and it will not be a piecemeal revision unless indeed the piecemeal plan is attempted in the pres ent Congress. In the new Congress re- vision once begun will go on until the worst robberies of the Aldrich instrument are eiminated-until a tariff for the peo- pie takes the place of a tariff devised to empty the pockets of the many to fill the pockets of few hundred beneficiaries and campaign subscribers. Glory be! This union of monopoly and politics is to be ! dissolved and better times for, the rank | and file are in sight
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-08
JUMPING FROG OF CALAVERAS

word.' Then he says, 'one-two-three- git!' and him and the feller touched up' the frogs from behind, and the new frog hoped off lively, but Dan1 gave heave, and hysted up his shoulders -so-like a Frenchman, but 1t warn't no use-he couldn't budge; he was planted as solid as church, and he couldn't no more stir than if he was anchored out Smiley was a good deal surprised. and he was disgusted, too, but he didn't have no idea what the matter was, of course.
 The feller took the money and start ed away; and when he was going out at the door, he sorter jerked his thumb over his shoulder-so-at Danl, and says again, very deliberate, We'll he says, I don't see no 'pints about that frog that's any better'n any other frog
 Smiley, he stood scratching his h cad and looking down at Dan'l a long time there ain't something the matter with .him-he pears to look mighty baggy, somehow And he ketched Danl by the nap of the neck and hefted him, and says, Why, blame my cats if he don't weigh five peundsr and turned him up- side down, and he belched out dou- ble handful of shot. And then he see how 1t was, and he was the maddest man-he set the frog down and took out after the feller, but he never ketched him."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-08
sToICAL MoUNTAINEERs

From the Louisville Times.
 For stoical indifference and tacitur nity," said a young man from Knox vile, Tenn, who was visiting in the city a few days ago, T never saw any one that could equal the Kentucky mountaineer.
 Two years ago I was camping dur ing the summer with party of young men and women in the mountains Dur ing our stay there we became ac- quainted with an old mountaineer, whom we called Sam. He always re- ferred to his wife as Maria and Wye fell into the same habit.
 Last year we returned to the same place to camp. As we were going up the mountain path on our first day out we met Sam walking along apparently in a deep study.
 "Hello, sam,' we all called. Where's Maria?'
 She's comin' back there" he said, directing his thumb backward over his sh houlder.
 We went on up the mountain path and a short distance farther came upon a party of mountaineers transporting a dead body in a ricxety wagon. It was a funeral party. Imagine our sur prise. when we were informed that the deceased was Maria. Sam had not thought 1t worth his pains to inform us that Maria was dead when he stated she was 'comin back there."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-08
A HISTORIC FILTRATION

From the New York Mail.
 It seems an awful thing, but here Is the circumstances on record that Lou isa M. Alcott, the sainted author or Little Women" once publicly hirted with Edward VII The fact comes out in Mrs. Belle Moses book, Louisa May Alcott, Dreamer and Worker" There is a passage in the book which contains Miss Alcotts personal account of the incident; it refers to the time when the late King, then Prince of Wales, made his famous visit to this country. q went to Boston," Miss Alcott re- lates, and saw the Prince of Wales trot over the common with his train at review-a yellow haired laddie, very like his mother. Fanny w. and nod ded and waved he passed and he openly winked his boyish eye at us for Fanny with her yellow curls and wild waving looked rather rowdy and the poor little prince wanted some fun We laughed and thought that we had been more distinguished by the saucy wink than by a stately bow. Boys are always jolly-even princes" By the way, this incident occurred in 1860, when the Prince of Wales was 19 years old and consequently quite a broth of a boy, and when Miss Alcott-we blush to record twas 2S
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-08
Mayor GaynOr a Receptive Candidate

The New York Times announces on the authority of several of his close personal and political friends that Mayor Gaynor is a receptive candidate for governor of New York, always provided his health becomes equal to the trials of a warm campaign.
 There need be no doubt about the mayors vigor, for on Monday last he walked six miles under broiling sun, and he reached home, says telegram, ..refreshed" This shows what a life of ample exercise and wholesome refiec- ton is capable of. Even an assassin who fires at close range into his neck cannot kill Mayor Gaynor He will soon regain his old-time vigor. He is still on the sunny side of GO, and it is not easy to keep a man down at that age who has consistently sought the simple life.
 
 when the democratic convention meets at Rochester, be strong enough to lead the democrats of the Emplre state, and not even the ex-President can render his elec- tion doubtful. The times and the man : will have met. Mayor Gaynor is booked to become Governor Gaynor. When he has become thame of Glamis thane of Cowdor will naturally follow, although he is no Macbeth.
 One thing seems reasonably certain, if Mayor Gaynor defeats Theodore Roose- welt for governor. no power on earth humanly speaking, can keep him out of the White House. This is the one thing in the politics of the period that it will do to bet on.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-08
The truth then be thy dover.
 King Lear.
Free Tsxt Books in the Public Schools

The report of Superintendent Phillips, made to the Board of Education, on the methods employed in handling school books Is full of valuable, definite and in teresting information. It deserves care full reading on the part of every citizen of Birmingham.
 pr. Phillips was not at the start a friend of free school books. He admits a prejudice in favor of individual owner ship, but he sees that the free text book system is sweeping over the country that 1t will inevitably be adopted here He therefore on the score of expense recom- mended a system of gradual introduction. He recommends that for the first year text books be supplied to pupils of the three lower grades, or of the four lower grades, and that pupils of one higher grade be included each successive year until all the gfaOeS or the elemeIldry school shall be included. He also recom- mends that the Public Library be made the central depository for the school books and general supplies, the librarian to have general charge of the system of distribution.
 These recommendations have regard for the minimizing of the cost of a system that, says Dr. Phillips, is destined to be adopted soon or late. This plan of grad ual installation seems to be the common sense way for providing free text books in the public schools of this city. The in- itiative expense could be easily borne, and subsequent expenses would come by degrees so that this citys schools would soon swell the increasing number that furnish to all pupils free text books and no one would feel the cost of the change.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-08
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
BuIIding Active In City

Building Is going on at good rate In Greater Birmingham said William Spencer. contractor, yesterday.
 T believe fully 50 per cent of the peo- pie are unaware of the big amount of general building and development in pro- sress and In prospect within the corpo- rate limits. I drive over the city, from Ensley to East Lake, and the construc- ton of new houses certainly indicates good times and better in sight. It takes lot of building work going all the time, though, to keep all the men fin this busi- ness at work for carpenters, painters and contractors from all parts of the country are constantly coming to Birmingham.
 Tt seems to me business feeling Is quite optimistic here-when a man builds a home or builds houses to rent he feels confident of the future I've got about all can look after, and see plenty more business in sight"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-08
Returns to DnlIas

After remaining in Birmingham four weeks and purchasing about 100000 tons of coal for western railroads, B. L. Smith, sales manager of the Dow Coal company of Dallas, Tex, returned tt his home yesterday. The orders for coal in the west have almost ceased and Mir. Smith had no further req of the coal trade and the Birming- ham district he said yesterday:
 "Only on special occasions do we order coal from Birmingham but this season we have been face to face with a strike and that means trouble. We came to the Birmingham field when it was impossible for us to go elsewhere and the merchants here solved our troubles We have only one order out west that is available to this dis trict except on occasions like this strike. That is the order of the South ern Pacific which was given to Bir- mingham. However, if this were not true I believe Birmingham would re ceive a great many new orders from our section.
 q am well pleased with my visit here and shall always remember Bir- mingham and Birmingham people kindly. We have purchased quite a great deal of coal and when we face another strike we will turn to Bir- mingham without question"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-08
Postal Savings Cards

Before this month is ended President Taft and the cabinet will have selected the form of the new postal savings cards. For if the present plans of the Post
 master Generals board of experts be adopted there will be no passbooks in the new banks. Each card will be issued upon . deposit of 10 cents, and upon 1t, when nine 10-cent savings stamps shall have been affixed duplicate punch will con- vert it into certificate for sl. When s10 have been so punched final certifi- cate of $10 may be issued in it's stead
 euch certificates will be in denominations of BIO, s2o and $50. They are not trans ferable, they can be redeemed only at .the postoffice of deposit by the original
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-08
A DOG TRUST

From the New York World
 Must bullpups' pedigrees be brought un- der federal regulation? Or shall deserv- ing dog-owners be left at the mercy Of an oppressive trust in disregard of the principles of common justice?
 In San Francisco a dog-show judge has complained to the United States circuit court that the pedigree business is con trolled by a close monopoly. The fact that he names certain Rockefellers and Belmonts as officers of the trust is enough to start a wave of popular indignation Their wealth may give them the right to control the nations banks, railroads mines and forests, but not it's supply of dogs.
 Every American, rich and poor, is en- titled to the constitutional pursuit or happiness in the form of a dog. In Arkansas, Mark Twain said, every man owned at least one or two dogs ana many were so poor that they owned hali a dozen They were not of the pedi- greed kind, but that does not prove that no trust exists in restraint of trade, as the California man charges.
 The sherman dHtl-tiust aN' uoOS nv SN' anything about dogs in particular. IL does not say how they shall be bred to receive pedigree The Rockefellers and the Belmonts may employ their corpora ton lawyers to beat the case. If they do. Congress may yet be called on to regulate the dog-pedigree business. Ev- erything is being federally regulated now adays and dogs are interstate commerce even if they do travel on their own legs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-08
WHEN WESLEY QUIT TEA

From an ExcnanSe.
 In his younger days John Wesley found it difficult to stop drinking tea. He wrote In 1746: We agreed it would pre- vent great expense. as well as health as of time and money, if the poorer people of our society could be persuaded to leave off drinking of tea. We re- solved ourselves to begin and set the example. I expect some difficulty in breaking off a custom of six and twenty years standing, and, accordingly, the first three days my head ached and I was half asleep from morning to night. The third day my memory failed almost en- tirely. On Thursday my headache was gone, my memory as strong as ever, and have found no inconvenience, but a sen sible benefit in several respects from that day to this" Later in life Wesley re- turned to the use of tea. as his big tea pot preserved in ihis house in London shows
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-08
Seeks Business For Western Pacific

An invasion of Birmingham for freight business and also passengers over the new Western Pacific railroad was made yesterday when J. F. Court ney, general agent at St. Louis, ar rived here. It is planned to link the local lines and shippers as closely with the new railroad as possible. MT. Courtney stated yesterday that a brand new country had been opened by by the Western Pacific absolutely un- rivaled in the entire west and that he hoped for valuable alliances with Bir- mingham 'The new line we have con- structed is the best graded in the west" he said. I've have a 1 per cent grade crossing the Sierra Nevada mountains, which is the greatest en- gineering feat of the new west. We also have the most magnificent scenery on our line in the west With the Dem yer and Rio Grande railroad we have direct connections from Denver to San Francisco and a line of the greatest value to the entire country"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-08
depositor. where he must be properly iden-

depositor where he must be properly iden- tifed.
 It is not generally understood that Con- gress appropriated but s1OO,000 for the in- stallation of the new banks. It is esti- mated that this sum will suffice to install but one bank in each state, or 46 in all. One bank in each state will give the people an opportunity to test the new system, and Congress will no doubt pro- vide for it's rapid extension, It Is per haps best to start slowly in order to ascertain any defects before the expense of extending 1t to all second-class post offices has been incurred.
 President Taft is in favor of a rapid extension of the system, and the country awaits the coming of the new banks with interest. The south is not weI-supplied with savings banks, and no doubt the postal banks will have many depositors. even though they do pay but ? per cent on deposits,
 Presumably the first postal bank In each state will be located in the city of largest population, In Alabama the name of that city win soon be made known by the census bureau,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-08
FEET OF THE THRONG
Judging Human Nature By The Pedal
 Extremities

From the Indianapolis Star.
 Tired, hot and jaded, he sits listening to the splatter of the water in the foun- tain. His hat is drawn over his eyes so that he sees nothing of the passing throngs-nothing but their feet
 A little pair of pink-shod feet. pink stoclxinged and dainty, trip by and just behind them, with somewhat of a less graceful gait, there follows another pair Of feet with black shoes and black stock ings. They are not dainty like the pink feet, though they are small. The feet and their movements lack the dainty grace of the pink ones. So he says that the pink feet are those of pretty >lttle girl and joy" of a little boy.
 More feet come and go. Here is a mother Her feet are much like the feet of other women who pass, but little pair of kid shoes toddle along with her.
 The next are big. rough and uncouth. The shoes are muddy about the heels. Across the toes are dusty white marhs. Around the bottoms of the trousers are marks of white. A baker? No. millerf No Oh, yes.- To be sure, he is hod- carrier
 Quckl Here she is in all her glory! Heels like pair of stilts-say, how in thunderation could any human like to wear such shoes? And holding her skirts out of the water on the sidewalk there is the least bit of thin, little lace of an underskirt showing. But he doesn't look up. He's a notion in his own mind about what she ought to look like
 Here is man. His shoes are polished and, why, he is married He is a young married man. His movements indicate he Is young. So does the pattern of his trousers There are two certain indica- tions that he is married. He Is carrying a parasol. The back of his trousers, at the heels, are frayed just a little. Now, Sherlock, that is enough The-parasol belongs to some woman. Is the woman his wife? Sure! He wouldn't dare be car rying some other girls parasol and if he were not married he would have bet ter trousers-and here comes the veri- fioation He has stopped. She is now even with him and they are walking away together!