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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-16
GREAT TRIALS OF HISTORY
TRIAL OF THE SALEM WITCHES

children were tortured whenever the s.e&
cuse6 looked at them. During the
months of April and May, 1902, Justices
Hawthorne and Corwin, with Marshal
George Herrick, were busy getting the
witches into JAIL and the good PEOPLE
were startled, astounGed and terror
stricken at the number who were seized
Bridget Bishop, who had been accused
of witchcraft 20 years before, was the
first to be brought to trial. So, as there
was no doubt about her, she was quickly
condemned and was hung on June 10 ia
the presence of a crowd of sad and fright
eped people.
The new governor, Phips, who had just
arrived, fell in with the prevailing fear
and a new bench of special judges was
sworn in. On June 80, Sarah Good, Re-
beka Nurse, Susannah Martin, Elizabeth
Few and Sarah Wilder We're brought To
trial; all were found guilty, except
Nurse, who, being a church member, was
acquitted by the jury.
In her first trial Tituba, the slave,
confessed that under thu eats from satan,
who had most often appeared to her as
g man in black, accompanied by a yellow
bird, she had tortured the girls, and
named as her accomplices the two women
Good and Osborn, Tituba was sent to the
Boston Jail, where she remained until thQf
dolusion was over She was then sold to-
pay the expenses of her Imprisonment and
Is lost to history.
Within a few months several hundred
people in Salem, and nearby places, wers
thrown into JAIL On August a new
batch was hailed before the court. They
were all quickly convicted and sentenced
and were hanged on Gallows Hill. 1t
vas not long before the jals were full.
One hundred and fifty prisoners awaited
trial; 200 more were accused or suspected
Finally, on the second Wednesday in Oc.
tober 1892 about a fortnight after the
last hanging of eight in Salem, the rep
resentatives of the colonies assembled, and
Tic people of Andover, their minister join
ing with them, appeared with their re-
monstrance against the doings of the
witch tribunals. A reversal came at last
Al the following trials the juries changed
sooner than the judges, and they sooner.
than the clergy. At the January SESSION.
OF the court in 1893 only three were e9H..
vieted, and they were reprieved and IN
the spring. Governor Phips being about TO
leave the country, pardone6 all who were
condemned, and the jails We're delivered.
The excitement subsidized as rapidly as It
had arisen, but the evil work was done
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-16

HHE people of Massachusetts, in the
seventeenth century, like all other
4 Christian people at that time, at
least, with extremely rare individual ex-
ceptions. believed In the reality of
hideous crime called "witchcraft' In
few instances witches were believed to
have appeared in New England in the
earlier years, but the cases had been /spor-
adic. With three or four exceptions no
person appears to have been punished fer
witchcraft in Massachusetts, nor convict.
ed OF it. for more than 8 years after the
settlement.
The first real show OF the witehcraft
spirit came in 1892, in February, when the
daughter of Samuel Paris, the minister
Of Salem village, and a niece, began to
have strange caprices. The former was
child of Q and the latter II. In the family
of the minister were two slaves, John and
Tituba, whom he had brought from the
West Indies. The two children startled
the neighborhood by their unaccountable
performances, creeping under tables, as
suming strange and painful attitudes, and
uttering inartculate cries. This went on
for some time, when the 12-year-old
daughter of a neighbor also began to act
strangely. The families became DIS
tressed and the neighbors alarmed.
These children would fall into convui-
sons and utter piercing shrieks. At other
times they would force their limbs into
grctesoue postures, and become incap-
able of speech and motion. At length 1t
was declared that nothing short OF
witchery was the trouble. The physicians
were perplexed and baffled, and natural
ly encouraged by the verdict of phys-
clan and ministers, countenanced by Mr..
Parris and the church members, these
afflicted Children as they and some
other girls and women similarly afflicted
in the village were now called, began
their accusations.
The first persons mentioned were IL
tuba, the Indian slave: Goody Osborn,
bedridden woman whose mind was affect
ed by many troubles physical and mem
tai, and Sarah Good, Il friendless, for
lorn creature, who was looked upon as
vagrant.
In March, 1892, the ilrst examinations
were held in the meeting house in Salem
village. John Hawthorne, ancestor OF the
novelist. and Jonathan Corwin, acting as
ma g;strates, the three accused having
previously been remanded to jail. The
victims did not receive fair treatment.
for their guilt was assumed from the
first and no counsel was allowed.
AT the trial it was brought out that the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-16
Great Britain's Serious Predicament

Our Admiral Mahan was at one time
a recognized naval authority by the
late King Edward VII of England,
and he has recently expressed some
very clear sentiments relative to
Great Britain's ability to maintain a
fleet in the Mediterranean.
He declares that the British gov
ernment by such a maintenance would
be taxed beyond her powers of endu-
rance and disaster would be the in
evitable result. On the other hand he
declares that the same government
cannot afford to relinquish her naval
authority upon that sea, and by such
abrogation of power acknowledge the
supremacy of another nation.
This puts the English government in
the predicament Of the man holding
onto the tail of the runaway bull
it is death to hold on and equally fatal
to let got.
The highways of the seas are to
Great Britain what the highways of
the land were to, Rome-the sustain
ing force of her prestige and the very
salvation of her national existence,
The Roman highways were contiguous
and confluent and the British searoads
must be of the same character.
To abandon the Mediterranean
would be to destroy this character and
to divide the entire system.
Great Britain is at present seriously
concerned as to a possible sea attack
by the navy of Germany and to safe
guard this is concentrating her fleet
at home. This leaves her searoads un-
guarded and her position abroad most
perilous.
The trouble with England seems to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-16
Prospects for a Festival

Birmingham should have a real
musical festival this spring-a festival
with a large mixed chorus as we'll
as soloists and symphony orchestra.
Festivals of that sort We're held here
in former years; but for two or three
seasons past Birmingham has had
only symphonic concerts in the spring
time.
The mixed chorus made up of the
Treble Clef club and the Arion So
ciety, which sang the Messiah" last
Sunday week, was in excellent form
and suggested at once the possibilities
of a great festival. That chorus num-
bered about rs voices. Let the num-
Der be doubled and let us have at the
festival at least one evening of grand
chorus music.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-16
TURKEYS EXPENSIVE TOY

From the Springfield Republican.
The report that Turkey is about to BUY
for $l5,000,000 a Brazilian super-dread-
nought, which has been building in a
British yard, is interesting but hardly
ominous of fresh outbreak to the ex-
tent it might have been two months ago
Since that time things have quieted down
in the near east; it is necessary also to
bear in mind that the sale of warships
from one nation to another has long been
a fertile theme for unfounded rumor. But
the Brazilian craft seems to be one of the
largest and most powerful yet projected
for any fleet, and the situation which
would follow it's addition to Turkeys sea
forces deserves attention. Turkey would
then have on paper at least an over
whelming naval superiority as compared
with Greece. For the Turkish battleship
Reshadieh, of $4,000 tons, just completed
or nearing completion in England, is su-
perior to any of the commissioned ves-
sells of the Mediterranean powers. with
the possible exception of the most recent
French uper-dreadnoughts.
The most important Greek vessel would
be the battle cruiser Salamis of 1900 TONS
which has been building in German
yard. But even the memories associated
with the name would not equip the Sa-
lamis to cope with both of the more
powerful Turkish craft if either of them
were as well handled as was the little
Turkish cruiser Hamidieh during the late
war. But the wonder of the transaction
will be where Turkey gets the $l5,000,0OO
to pay the bill As for Brazil, hard hit
uc 1n ie h1r ha fol In ha Of H.
Der, she will be well rid of an unneces-
sarily extrayagant toy
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-16

Passengers entering New York harbor
on the steamer Prinz Joachim a few DAYS
ago were treated to a rare sight-a mirage
or Manhattan upside down In the east
eTn section of this country such phe-
ncmena are quite rare, 5u; in Alaska and
sometimes northern Washington there ex-
lists an almost perpetual mirage of a city
the identity of which has not yet been
established. 1t is presumed that the To-
cality thus mirrored in the atmosphere
is situated in eastern Siberia or possibly
Northeastern China, but nothing is def
mite in the premises. So sharp sometimes
are the lines of demarcation in the picture
that even the silhouettes 6f the church
spires may be detected, but the architec-
ture is too indistinct to afford a recogni-
ton of its character.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-16
DOG MILK FOR RABIES

Paris Correspondents New York Amer
lean.
That babies can be fed by dogs
is the declaration made today by Prof.
Armand Gautier, an eminent member of
the Institute of France.
Gautier vouches for the assertion that
recently the baby of "A Paris fruiterer
thrived nightly on dogs milk. The pro-
fessor is now making further experiments
on the same lines.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-16
OUR TRAvELsCOPE.

Florence, January 6.-Florence is sit
uated on the Arno. We wanted to fish
for trout in the river, but someone said
there are no trout in the -Arno. Ma went
to see Botticellis Spring" but as I was
Someone showed us where Dante used to
live and we did not notice one odor of
birthstone, but later we learned that he
was not married at that time. In the
galleries | saw the Madonna of the
Harps and Canova's Venice. 1 also saw
Michelangelo's David; the old sculptors
certainly had tall children.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-16
QUAKER QUIPS
from the Philadelphia Record.

From the Philadelphia Record
The seeker after truth has life job.
Weeping for joy is the quintessence of
pessimism.
Every woman has shed enough tears to
float a more worthy ambition.
The devil has given many woman a
diamond tiara to take the place of a pros.
pective halo.
Many big man has just as small
thoughts as the elephant whose mind is
centered on a peanut.
Beating the devil around the stump il
apt to give one vertigo OF the morals.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-16
TROUBADOUR AND JESTER
IN PARIS.

When We once lived in Paris
On Boulevard Raspan,
In briquette-heaGed etage.
Happy We're you and |.
Each morn we went to market
Our appetites to quench;
You to do the bartering.
| translate your French.
And as the great museums
We wandered slowly through,
l linger'd by each canvas,
But none so fair as you.
Or in the domed cathedrals
With misty light divine.
! paused by each Madonna.
Yet none so pure as mine.
And in the sun-lit gardens,
On soft blue afternoons,
Tuilleries or Luxembourg,
A happy pair of spoons,
We sat and heard the music.
Life shone with rosiest hue;
oh, but to live in Paris,
Sweetheart, again with you.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-16

quette or abrogating international
procedure.
This could readily be done by the
creation of the rank of vice admiral
and in the eyes of the people such
creation appears to be the proper step
to relieve the situation and prevent
the recurrence of similar one.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-16

Verify the power of money is more po-
tential than the appeal of humanity. Moth
ing has SO stirred the powers anent the
Mexican situation as the announcement
os the suspension of payment of interest
on the Mexican national debt. The situa-
ton is now so acute that immediate de-
velopments must ensue
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-16

The farmers attending a rural institute
in Ohio voted that the bathtub surpassed
the automobile as an uplift. The latter,
they declared, thrives on fire, smoke and
ckening fumes. This Is just what onions
do, yet who could do without onions?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-16

A big meteor in western France re-
Gently broke many windows by the de-
tonation of its explosions. The meteor
wss headed for England and may have
been in search of Mrs. Parllhurst.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-16

The National Geographic society has
just received a report advising it that
the United States has now exactly 5000
islands populated with more than 100000
people. Thus our present insular census
exceeds that of the entire country a CEN
tCry ago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-16

Vera Maxwell, the tangoist, has insured
her feet for $4,000, or just $4,000 for each
tee. She says she is afraid OF New York
ccbble stones, and yet New York claims
TO be metropolitan city.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-16
THE AWAKENING

Aloysius Coll in February Smart Set.
Specter in the solitude,
Shadow of the shower,
Bramble bush and tanglewood,
Sorrow for an hour;
Terror of the thunder,
Deeper than the sea;
A dream, a doubt, a fear. q blunder,
Love o'ershadowed me.
Comrade in a wilderness
Sunlight on flower.
Brother for the brothcriess
Crisis of an hour:
Music Of the thunder
Grandeur of the sea;
A risk, dare, joy, q wonder
Love enfolded me!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-16
STAGE FRIGHT.

He was a "sub' and his lines were:
There is time for jesting, but jest not
now Dramatically he drew himself up
and said: There is a time for jesting
but not jest now"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-16

Even a fungus may sometimes be con-
vcrted into a friend of suffering human
ity Doctors have now discovered that
the achya musearis will destroy diph-
iberia germs by thrusting 1t down, the
throat of the patient, The name may be
little nauseating, but surely not worse
thar nux vomica
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-16

given conditions. 1t is reported that a
very decided increase in actual new bust
ness is prevailing in almost al finished
lines and prices beyond the second quar-
ter are higher''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-16

The farmers of Illinois are bottling To-
Gusts by the hundred. The tendency to
bottle something seems to linger in the
human makeup, even in territory of pro-
hbiton proclivities.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-16
DIFFICULTY.

With one stone two little birds
Tis hard to kill, 1 own;
Neither can you catch two girls
The same time with one stone.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-16
IN THE FUTURE.

Dobbs: Il see that Tomplzins is going to
make flying trip to Europe"
Hobbs: so I noticed: going in an.
aeroplane."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-16

Modistes are contending for greater in
diviouality in womans dress. That's the
trouble now-two much of the individual
and too little of the dress.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-16
GIVE 1T Up.

Pray tell us why 1t is
That all nien have agreed
TO call what men eat food
And what beasts swallow "feed?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-16
STRANGE.

car what an interest some people take in =
the landscape just about the time the
conductor comes along.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-16
THE GRAvYBoAT.

The Chinese fleet is coming here.
To show us China's navy.
Whoever saw a china boat
Except one made for gravy?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-16
DISCONSOLATE-

Sad Bride: II might just as we'll have
married moon."
Sympathetic Friend: "Why so?''
Sad Bride: ''John is full half of the
his first and last quarters"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-16
IDIosYNCRAcY.s

lD1OSY NCRAC4.
'Tis strange how all the family
VIII fight to poke the fire
And yet to tend the furnace
No one has a desire.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-16

aeroplane.'
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-12-05

tian doctrine. The expression ito be
blamed" or ''blameworthy" used by st.
Paul in reference to ST. Peter (GaL
ID, may also be rendered "He was
blamed" or The stood condemned" that
is, he was blamed and condemned by
the converts, Jewish or Gentle, who
could not understand his conduct
Error of judgment about a matter of
the kind, an affair of practical prud-
ence, and even culpable weakness,
have nothing to do with the infallf-
bility of a Pope or an inspired APOSTLE
Professionals who read the Epistles of
st. Peter as the inspired word of God
have to make their own minds clear
about this point. st. Peter warns
them that st. Paul wrote in his Epistles
many things hard to be under
stood, which the ignorant and the I'M
steadfast, wrest, as they do also the
other scriptures, to their own destruc-
ton" e Pet. III, 15). From the days
of st. Paul himself down to the days
of Harnack, they have "wrested'' and
twisted the Epistle to the Galatians.
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CARDINAL WRITES
MEXICAN PR.ELATE
ON BEHALF OF THE HIERARCHY,
CARDINAL GIBBONS EXTENDS
SYMPATHY TO ARCHBISHOP
MORA OF MEXICO CITY

Deploring the hostility to the Cath
olic Church in Mexico and hoping for
an era of political and ecclesiastical
peace there, Cardinal Gibbons has
directed a letter to Archbishop Jose
Mora, of Mexico City. The letter was
written by the Cardinal after he had
been authorized to do so by the hier-
archy of the United States.
"Your Grace-The deplorable con
ditions, which for some time have pre-
vailed in Mexico and which apparently
become more intolerable with each
attempt to remedy them, are the
source of the deepest concern to the
Bishops of the United States. They
realize the difficulty of the position,
in which Your Grace and the other
members of your hierarchy are placed
by such adverse circumstances, and
they share your solicitude for the well
fare of the Church and the true inter
ests of your country. In their name
as we'll as my own beg you to accept
the assurance of our profound sym
pathy and our earnest desire for the
restoration of peace on sound and
lasting basis.
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AN OLD BREVIARY

A Catholic breviary, which was
printed in Antwerp, Belgium, in 1929,
was recently found by Mrs. Bridget
Kelly, of New Albany, Ind, who pre-
sented it to Daniel Walsh, Jr., who is
a student for the priesthood.
The breviary is divided into four
books according to the seasons, and
it was the autumn volume which
Mrs. Kelly found. The book had been
in the family for many years, but
some time ago it disappeared. 1t was
recovered when an old attic was be
ing ransacked. The pictures all are
handmade wood cuts and the letters
IS" and e. are almost similar.
Father Neyron, who was mis-
sionary in Southern Indiana about a
century ago, owned the book. AT
that time Mrs. Kelly's father, the late
James Kennedy, lived on the old
New Albany and Vincennes road a
short distance from New Albany
where he operated stone quarry,
and Father Neyron, who was physi
clan as well as priest, often was
summoned to the quarry to attend
Injured men. While on one of these
visits he left the breviary at Mr. Ken
inedy's home and never returned
for it.
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Sacred Rights Violated.

with all intelligent and right
minded citizens of this country we can
appreciate the efforts of a people to
remove the evils, from which they
suffer, and to secure the blessings OF
good government; but these aims can
not be furthered by strife of parties,
in which the essential requisites of
And while we would rejoice at the
advance of your country in political
and material prosperity, we cannot
endure that in the name of freedom
and progress the most sacred rights
should be violated.
"The Catholic Church. under whose
auspices Christianity and civilization
came to your shores, not only claims
the loyalty of your people in respect
of things spiritual, but also provides
in her teaching and discipline for the
safety Of your political organization.
1t is in the recognition of authority
and in obedience to law, not in mere
clamor for reform, that lies the real
foundation of a nations liberties and
especially of republican institutions
They swhO antagonize the Church,
whether of their own initiative or be-
cause of instigation from foreign
sources, show but too plainly that their
display of patriotism is simply dis
guise for other purposes, and that they
have at best only crude idea of
popular government.
Freedom of Religion Here.
ON the United States constitutional
provisions safeguard both the stability
of government and the liberties of the
individual not by hampering religion,
but by allowing it the fullest freedom,
or rather by protecting it in the en-
joyment of that freedom, which it has
by right. The American people, there
fore, can not consistently favor any
movement that would interfere with
the liberty of the Church in Mexico
any more than they could accede to
the demand of another nation for the
abolition of their own constitutional
rights. They will not, am sure, de-
liberately assent to the establishment
on their borders of system of mis-
rule based on the worst of tyrannies
the tyranny of the State over soul
and conscience.
''In these present trials, Your Grace,
we discern the helplessness of human
wisdom in dealing with problems that
are of the gravest import for mans
temporal and eternal welfare. We
turn, then, the more readily to that
Wisdom and Power, whenca all right
is derived, and we join our prayers
with yours in beseeching Almighty
God to bring about speedily aAhappier
condition in your country, SO that the
people of Mexico, under the guidance
of their pastors, may be strengthened
by the Divine assistance alike in the
defense of their rights and in the full
fillment of their duties.
Hopes for New Era.
I'VE look forward with con adence
to the opening of new era for Mex
leo, in which your citizens. by develop
ing their country's resources. shall
attain to greater prosperity. nd by
uniting their moral. religious and
political agencies, shall enjoy the
blessings of tranquility based on JUS
tice. And we sincerely trust that be-
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A friend may we'll be reckoned the
masterpiece Of nature.