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The Irish standard., 1910-12-31
DIES IN DULUTH
Mrs. Anna kerst Passes Away at
Villa Sancta SchoIastica.

Mrs. Anna kerst Passes Away at
Villa Sancta SchoIastica.
Mrs. Anna Kerst, widow of the late
A. M. Kerst and one of the most
porminent and highly esteemed
Catholics in the city, died Wednesday
afternoon at 4 o'clock at the Villa
Sancta Scholastica which she has
been interested in founding and
maintaining and where she has made
her home since the death of her hus-
6and II years ago. She was 96 years
Of age and one of the oldest women
in Duluth, says the Duluth News Trib-
une of December 20.
Death was due to her extreme age,
her last hours being peaceful and
apparently without pain. She had
been very weak for some time, but
continued in excellent spirits until
Christmas day when she slowly be-
San sinking and lost consciousness,
passing away with the setting sun
Wednesday. She is survived by two
daughters, both of whom are we'll
known in Duluth for their work along
charitable and educational lines here
for the last rs years. They are the
Rev. Mother Scholastica, mother su-
perior at. the Villa Sanc1a scholastica,
and Sister Alexia, also of the order
of st. Benedict at the Villa. The two
children are the only near relatives
living.
Mrs. Kerst was born in Rhenish,
Germany in 1914 and came to Amer
'ca in 1852 with her husband going
TO st. Paul at once. She was one of
the oldest of the St. Paul settlers.
They came to Duluth from st. Paul
about rs yeats ago and the death Of
Mr.. Kerst occurred at st. Mary's
hospital II years ago, since which
time Mrs. Kerst has resided with her
daughters at Villa Scholastica.
1t was largely through the financial
aid and interest in the Order of St..
oSuCoACL ClLdC IuS SuCCSSS OF The SIS
tiers was established in this city. Both
took a lively interest in both the
educational and charitable work of
the order and Holy Father Pope Leo
XIII gave personal recognition of the
aid given by them to the charities OF
the church and accompanied it by his
apostolic blessing. The present Pope
Plus X also sent similar recognition
of their assistance about year ago.
Since the completion of the Villa
Sancta Scholastica Mrs. Kerst has,
according to her wish, resided with
the Sisters and there she died forti-
fled by the sacraments of the church.
The body will be inferred in the
Gethsemane cemetery of the Villa
Scholastica, according to her last
wish, that she might be buried near
the home of her children. The fu-
neral services took place Friday morn.
ing at 10 o'clock
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.hased by the O'Neill brothers.

chased by The ONelll brothers.
A coincidence in connection With
the sale of the property. which is
known as Rougham Park on account
of its great beauty, is that it was
purchased on Nov. 16, the anniver-
sary of the death of Owen Roe
O'Neill.
The brothers We're born at Dun
cannon, within sight Of the old cas-
tie, and came to Philadelphia more
than thirty years ago. Prosperity
came to them as merchants and man
ufacturers,s and they propose to stay
the remainder of yheir days in this
country, excepting when they visit
Ireland, and then they will make
their stay in Rouglam Park.
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Preferred Second Month.

Pat, wishing to take music lessons
from a noted musician, inquired for
his terms. The answer was:
"Six dollars for the first month and
three dollars for the second month"
"Then,' said Pat. "Tll come the
second month"
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, At Regular Rates.

Poet-Will you accept this poem
at your regular rates?
EditorI guess so-lt appears to
contain nothing Objectionable. Go to
the advertising department and ask
what the rates are. How many times
do you wish it inserted2
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-10

ACCURATE STATENENTS-By J. C. Hide

most lasting beauties Of style.
 Though Johnson includes Swift in "The Lives of the Poets,'' 1t was not al a fact that the dean made his im- mense and well-deserved fame. still, in no language known to me have I ever read a brighter brochure than his Lines on Ny Own Death" l do not except even Horace's fine satire on Bores. nor his trip to Brundusium.
 But in prose. Swift Is the mighty master or English undefiled.
 Dean Swift was a man and a writer of questionable character The sub- stance of what he wrote is not very valuable. He is coarse, vulgar, even obscene to a marvellous degree for an educated preach er-nay for a man who pretended to be decent He was not great scholar. Ills pretensions to po- litical wisdom were absurd. His science was nothing; his morals bad his person disgusting; his manners brutal; his temper intolerable. And yet Dean Swift continues to be read with delight by literary men all over the English- speaking world; and the charm of his style (which really is charming) con- sists to a very large extent In the per- fectly naked and unadorned way he has of saying exactly what he means to say. He has a clear eye; he sees his mark; and his aim Is well nigh unerring. Ther Is d lesson here for those who would seize and hold the attention of their fellow-men. Shall 1t go unheeded?
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tain manipulations of the omnipotent preacher" to be performed at cer- tain "bench" set apart for the purpose.
 It is not my intention to bring re- proach upon what are called anxious seats" I believe that they have tn cir importance, and that, when prudently used, they may be useful. But do pro- test against such looseness and inaccu- racy in the statement of Christian doe urine, as will allow an intelligent pu- pill of 12 years to arrive at conclusions so absurd and so utterly inconsistent with the teachings of the Bible.
 The capacity for accurate statement is highly improvable. Practice in 1t Is perfectly feasible: and this makes loose ness and inaccuracy the more inexcus- able. If one can only be convinced that he is deficient in accuracy (and this Is not always easy), he may set about i'm proving at once. An excellent practice is to think over every statement one makes, and see If it be as accurate as he is capable of making 1t. It may be well occasionally to write it down, and 1t the most accurate form possible. These details may seem to be almost puerile: but our object Is to present in an available form some practical hints for the benefit of any teachers who may wish to improve In their style of teaching their classes.
 Accuracy of statement is not only useful, 1t is one of the greatest and
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THE CAPACITY FOR A

"educated" professional men, whose busi- ness 1t Is to write.
 When l was editor of the Baptist Courier received a communication from the distinguished president of a state institution of learning and corrected 57 errors in the IA lines before putting 1t into the hands of the printer. In a liter ary company I mentioned this circum- stance, when another distinguished pres ident of an university, good-humoredly asked, "Was that my eomposition?" and he was in earnest.
 Blairs Rhetoric has gone out of fash ion, and I seldom hear it mentioned noM- adays; but his lectures-unlversity edi- tion--constitute one of the best treatises that I have ever seen on the subject His divisions alone are worth the whole of an average Rhetoric for Schools '' ''Perspicuity, Unity, Strength, Harmony, Purity, Propriety and Precision about exhaust the subject of "style.'
 Addison's style has gone out; it not "snappy" enough to please this gener- ation; nut, after careful reading of all his published works I do not hesitate to stand by the stuff," and say that he Is d masterly writer of English prose. If any man Is authority on style Dr. Sam Johnson Is the man; and, bigoted Tory as he was he bestows his highest encomiums, upon the style of the Whig, Addison. See the last n1aenificent sen tence of his Essay on Addison, as pub lished in "rhe Lives of the Poets" That
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keenest of English critics. George Wash ington Moon, himself takes pr. Blair's Rhetoric as one of his highest author ities.
 Addison was one of the eorrectest of writers; and Dr. Blair was one of the most elegant of critics; and yet the sentence Gin the "Spectator') upon which Dr. Blair,
 in his Rhetoric, bestows the very highest praise. is sentence which flatly contra diets the statement which Addison in- tended to make, and which Dr. Blair evil dently though he did make
 No teacher of fair capacity accurate observation and reasonable culture, can have failed to discover and to deplore tho inaccuracy of statement in many of our popular textbooks. It pervades the whole range of human learning. It has brought metaphysics into absolute disre- pute. If the definitions and first prin- ciples, as laid down in some of the pop ular textbooks in geometry be accepted, then mathematics itself is anything but an exact science. If l am given to under stand at the outset that line lis length without breadth or thickness" and if, when I get further on. I learn that a hyperbolic paraboloid, which has length,
 breadth and thickness is made up of straight lines, it Is not strange if l begin to doubt the exactness of the science of mathematics.
 This loose and careless way of stating | things Is nowhere more deplorable than | in Sunday school instruction. The aver | age Sunday school pupil has neither the
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@---=--------so.--- WHEN VICIOUS MOOD IS GONE
BlandIy We Deny Passed Madness
 When Sanity Returns

From the New York Evening Sun.
 When a mood has gone the most hon. est of us deny that we ever harbored 1t. Sanity has returned to us and noth- Ing is as improbable as our ever having admired certain type, been angry at a particular person, or gone through any other extremity of sensation We be- gin by not liking the idea of our late mood, and after a weeks discontent With the memory we arrive at a sooth- Ing disbelief of the sensations ever hav- Ing existed in us. Bandly we deny a passed madness, and there is so much to be said for our stand. A prisoner in the dock in all likelihood feels in much the same way. He no longer is in a rage with the person he murdered, which makes him doubt strongly whether he committed the murder at all; so that. owing to his indecision and his suspicion that he Is innocent, he denies all knowl- edge of the crime. It is only when he has heard sufficient evidence to connect his present calm self with the emotional performer in the discussed incident that he breaks down and confesses his guilt. It is in all probability the first time that he has himself believed it.
 On a milder and less tragic scale Ne act in much the same way regarding our own emotional excursions. It is so easy to imagine how a divorced woman, who has married the second time with harmonious results. can look at her first husband and say: "I realize that to other people there Is a certain justice in this mans claim that he was once my husband, but as for me- l can give no weight to bis clearly ridiculous state
 nent for the simple fact that it does not stand to reason. Would l. I ask you. ever have married such a man? Is 1t likely that I, with the discrimina- mo ch ent husband, would ever have had so much as passing fancy for this im- probable, this positively fictitious lock- ing person? You can see for yourself that the facts disproye his absurd state- ments. He may appear to be my former husband bat l. with my knowledge of the past, know him for delusion on the part of the world in general, a per- missible mistake, I admit, but neverthe- less a mere mirage, and nothing more"
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capacity nor the disposition to discrimi- nate between what the teacher says and what he means to say, and he may well be expected under such d system, to get his knowledge of religious truth hopeless ly mixed up with a mass of confused and uninteligible man-made theology.
 We illustrate this point by relating the substance of a conversation which we once had with a rather sprightly boy who was a pupil in one of our city Sunday schools. After learning his age, which was some F or B years, we asked him how long he expected to live He replied that he did not know. Are you ready for death when it shall come?" NO, sir" 'Is there any way of getting ready for it?' we asked. "Yes, sir, must get con- verted,' was the reply. And how are you to be converted?' Just go up to the mourner's bench, sir and let the preacher pray for me" Will this be sure to bring on conversion "Oh, yes, sir" said the boy with the utmost confidence, and in the manner of one who had never en- tertained the slightest doubt of the effi- cacy of this sovereign specific. Upon further conversation with this boy we found him utterly ignorant of his con- dtion as a sinner in the sight of God, and in the light of conscience, and entire ly satisfied with his own manner of life. which he did not seem to think capable of improvement. Conversion with him, was a purely formal affair, and involved nothing more than submitting to cer-
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tion of the problem proposed by the New York Times.
 My business is with the style of the paragraph quoted above. When the Times speaks of an affirmative" an- swer to the question, How will 1t ben eft the negro?' it speaks of what is nonexistent, for there can be no such thing as an affirmative" answer to such a question. If the How" had been left out, then the question, "Will 1t benefit the negro?" could have been answered either affirmatively or nega- lively. but, as the question stands, neither kind of answer is possible This haziness of style recalls the schoolboy's question, Which would you rather do or go a-fishing?" and his companion quizzically answered yes"
 The capacity for accurate statement is one of those rare qualities which Is er- roneously supposed to be common, simply because 1t is so uncommon. The very fact that the great body of speakers, writers and teachers do not state things accurate ly has so accustomed us to inaccuracy of statement that we usually pass it by without notice; and frequently give speaker or a writer credit for sufficient accuracy. when a careful examination of his style would exhibit an astonishing slovenliness, and a carelessness utterly in defensible.
 1 am not referring to the people who have had no opportunities to learn but to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-10

ing memories of your sunny skies and hospitable homes. l shall ever remember your patient suffering and calm hardihood and the noble fortitude with which you have borne your deep sorrows and suffering.
 Colonel Drumgoold left for the north in this month. He was one of three brothers, who practiced law under the firm name of Drumgoold Brothers, and as he said, his brothers had looked after his interests during the war; but he now felt that he should be at home to take up his work where he had left it so long ago. He made several short trips to Eastwood during the fall and winter In the following spring he came with a large number of relatives and friends Eastwood was filled once more with a quiet happiness, and on the anniversary of Aunt Mary's birthday May ?, 1868. they were married. Grandmother was not dressed as handsomely as some of the elegant ladies that came with the Drumgoold party from the north but old Nanny, Uncle Henry, Sarah and Joe said. None ob 'em look so rstocratic an show high quality blood as she did I agreed with them.
 Aunt Mary wrote to us after she had been away two days. and among other things she said, q know the mystery of the freight boxes. l have worried it out of him. Indeed, I suspected it all the time"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-10
ETHICS OF THE DUST-By Rev. Georqe Eaves

has golden heart, has John, and in that golden heart dwell with him two others, a beautiful wife and a little baby girl, for whose welfare and hap plness John has been doing brave deeds these past six years, battling with wolves and staying them. whole packs. in the unconscious, everyday routine of life, or when Fear haunted him, touching him with premonitory chill finger in the dead of night. I must leave to others to estimate the value of Johns golden heart, his beautiful family, his magnificent, heroic cour- age and faithfulness. Quite inestim
 able these to me, as Thomas Carlyle wuold say, and yet not by any means without value even in dollars and cents, since 1t is honest and industrious cit izenship that creates the taxable prop
 erty and all else that makes a city, beyond its crude material. And these high spiritual qualities and resources, the home and all the joy and sanity and Iove of it-shall we roughly dump the whole lot as a bargain at the same price as that at which we es- timated Johns earning capacity, and appraise him, as the hub and center of that small social wheel, at lump som of $50,000? Surely cheap at such a price, clean, gracious American white man! And it is on his lips that the essence of Nose has settled, his tongue that licked in the spores Of Moses highly developed bacteria. and his throat and lungs that the fell dust -demon had already irritated, in preparation of his diabolical culture, and then planted securely there the cunning seed of misery and death.
 Johns blithe American wife Is a Georgia girl, brave and. shrcwd and full of fine economies, but not without dignity. She cannot tell what to think
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ing with dreadful energy into the am- bient atmosphere no less than the es- sence of Nose, of Nose on his fatal istic road to the undertaken, or pos sibly to less costly depot of Nose, Jet us say. gone west, not without eX- pectoration, that he may grow up with the country" in sense, as cab page. But it chanced that among the crowds then moving through those streets was a certain energetic citi- zen on business bent. How could he know that he had come to the fate full parting of the ways? No sign, Beware of Nose" struck his surprised eyes. Indeed they were not surprised, for nothing struck them. Instead the Essence of Nose, sailing unheralded, un- forbidden, settled on the dear mans lips and presto! was in a moment touched by his unsuspecting tongue and drawn into his physical machine.
 That I work not my ina gination herein, but plod along the beaten track of historic verity, let 1t be said that the dear citizen was worth much though he boasted not of his wealth. The only real estate he owned was such as he swallowed, haunted by the ghost of Nose or enriched by other al chemy. His name? We'll, 1t was only Jones-John Jones-and he was born in Swansea, and had travelled far to meet his fate. His wealth? In cash $10 ca month, paid with punctual reg ularity by the grocery firm to which John Jones rendered steadfast and faithful service. It is fair to say that John was worth to his adopted land at least what 1t paid him, with margin of profit. But let us put an economical figure upon him, reckon ing the value of John Jones to Bir- mingham at s25,000. That is the least part of him, so estimable. For he
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cheaper to bury him, though we hesitate to adopt such a philosophy. Instead we have tacit philosophy which l identify With that of a certain Wiltshire village. possibly Frome. where I found an old man whitewashing hurdles. The hurdles were for use certain days for a pig market, ard the authorities, in view of sporadic instances of cholera had ordered the washing with lime. But the old man was hyper-Calvinist
 "Hi doant b'leeve in no sich doins," he said. "Ilf the Almighty wants to kill they thoe1 pigs, Ell kill 'em, whitewashin' CT no whltewas shin'.''
 This. 1 say, Is the silent, uneXpressed philosophy of Let-aone, which lets Nose go on splitting to the edge of the grave and lets John Jones go on breathing the rsrlfied nuclei of Moses essential dis ease. No one of will profess this fatalism. Eut should a professor or lec- .urer on civic betterment come along we 3hall prefer to go to revival services or to the play. We refuse to recognize respon- sbility. leaving the lecturer "a very se- feet audience" and leaving the City Coun- ell in doubt whether we want to wash the streets os the city or make her road ways habitable. It is hyper-C Calvinism minus courage and backbone. Four spriEklng wagons with mules" are to | e added-if we vote the bonds tomorrow. About as many as any self-respecting vil- lage of 10000 souls would keep going all the tmc, and this for Greater Blr- mngham' Evidently John Jones has not died in vain Not In vain does little Maisie long for the touch of a vanished caress.
 But who is to blame? Simply nobody, only lack of system that would never be tolerated In any private business. We die because we have not learned to live. Ty- phold and consumption are inevitable un-
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granted, who should have prevented him from impregnating her dust? Who, seeing that the impregnated. germ bearing dust is largely unavoidable, should have shielded John Jones from it's perils? The answer, alas, is: Blr- mingham.
 This then is the ethic cf the dust Birmingha am, beautiful for situation, ii slaughtering, choking, torturing her children and her strong men. A chief cause of death in 1909 was consump- tion. John Jones was not alone, Null tiply him by 200. Find the value Of those 200 lives sacrificed to preven- tible infection; take off any kind of discount, and consider the final sum of Birmin gham's loss. The dead men lay all over the way" And why? Only because Birmingham has not learned to wash! Other cities flush their cen tral pavements and send the Essence of Nose sluicing down the storm sewer to where the river may some day catch it and bear it to the cleansing tides of the gulf or the ocean. Blrming- ham sprinkles the Essence of Nose and some etceteras, churns them with q rotary brush about the time of clos ing the theatres and sends Moses brother and cousin. with fatalistic ac- curacy, to shovel the mixed product into distributing machines. Other cities allay the dust far and wide out side the well-washed center. Bir- min gham, the city of vast business anc palatial homes, has no money to all lay her dust, though it's flight bears death to her best beloved and destroys as with spiritual acid the veryifounda- tion stones of many and many price, less home.
 Is it then cheaper to bury John Jones than to save him? After infection, on d merely mathematical basis it may be
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|TSo begin with, this is not Ruskin nor Ruskinese; though to ap- \ g fpropriate even so ethical a title land at the same time to repudiate that |soft impeachment may seem unethical |But mol This is the distressing story |of a much pulverized grain of that red |dirt which has brought wealth to our lair city; nay, has even conJured it Into existence as with a minute fairy |wand. But because mems feet by the |th ousands have trampled it, mems wheels have caught and whirled it, |men's horses have churned it, and at Hast mems gasoline engines. rushing at |nigh pressure, have again driven it and let 1t presently drop into the gutter, |that grain of dust hath an ethical sig |nlficance all it's own.
 But still more wh en Nose came along md incontnently spat upon it Nose. |You see, was "jes' plain niggai," and |yet he had most uuhappily a white ln- heritance, the white mans plague"
 no less. And when Nose, with due regard to police regulations, refrained from spitting on the sidewalk but spat rather in the public cuspidor, he was but returning with accrued interest tome part of his debt to the govern Ing race. Did he so reason? Not he. He's not to reason why; he's not to make reply, but he's but to spit and |hie. Exit Nose.
 But the blessed Alabama sunsh inc smote the dust, now most unhappily
 hosaiced and burdened with something E tkin to the law of Sinai. Moreover, the turbulent spring winds careered mp Nineteenth street, to cooperate with that blessed but most unethical sunshine. Behold then, the Alchemisr. Nature, turning the rich grain or wealth Into a subtle demon of the air, bear