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The Irish standard., 1917-02-10

listed between priest and peasant in
the dark days of the penal laws. There
Is body of verse in the language
dealing with these relations; and one
of the best and kindliest, with a hui
NOR and swing that are infectious, is
Father O'Flynn," written by Percival
Graves, son of the Protestant Bishop
of Limerick; and the Bishops of Linn
erick in these days seem pretty good
kelts. 1t is worth reproducing.
Father O'Flynn.
OF priests we can offer charmin'
variety,
Far renowned for larnin' and piety;
Still, I'd advance We without impro.
priety,
Father O'Flynn is the flow'r of them
all.
| Here's health to you Father O'F1ynn,
Clainthe, and slainthe, and slainthe
agin;
Powerfullest preacher, and tenderest
teacher,
And kindliest creature in ould Don.
egal.
Don't talk to your Provost and Eel.
| lows of Trinity,
Famous for ever at Greek and Latin.
ity,
Faix, and the divil and all at Divin.
ity,
Father O'Flynn d make hares of
them all.
Come, l venture to give We my word
Never the likes of his logic was
heard,
Down from Mythology into Thayol
Ogy,
Troth, and Conchology, if he'd the
call
Och, Father O'Flynn, you've a won
derful way wild you,
All the ould sinners are wishful tc
pray wild you.
All the young childer are wild for tc
play wild you,
You've such way wild you, Father
avick.
Still for all you've so gentle soul,
Cad, you've your flock in the grand
est control;
Checking the crazy ones, coaxing on
aisy ones,
Lifting the lazy ones on with a
tick.
.,aaS.-5.;,-l ,,''.-=
And though quite avoidin' all foolish
frivolity,
Still, at all seasons of innocent jol
ity.
Where was the play-boy could claim
an equality
At comicality, Father, wild you?
Once the Bishop looked grave at your
jest,
Till this remark set him off wild the
rest:
rs 1t lave gaiety all to the laity?
Cannot the clargy be Irishmen, too?'
Returning to our strange product, the
Orangeman, here is the story of his
origin as told by serious and vera
cious Irish "Jarvey" to me, as 1 ride
on his car in Phoenix Park, during
the only visit l have been able to
make to my old home since 1 left the
old land years ago.
The Orangeman is it? Well, your
honor, but the Divil himself, the Faith.
er O Lies, and the friend O. the Sax.
on, could have made him. 1 had the
story from Wise Woman, who hid
1t from thin that had it in secula
seculorum, from the day long ago whin
holy man that lived around Banthry
Bay larned 1t, saint and marthyr,
no less, that knew st. Patrick and the
Dfvil both, as we'll as Lord Waterford
knows the hobs O. He'll. Whin the
holy saint huished all the snakes out
OF Ireland and down into Kerry and
out of there into the sea, the Dfvil was
out in the wather COLLINS his horns
and tail an watchin' Saint Patrick,
so his Reverence is dhrivin' me sar.
pints out of the country is he? bad
cess to him. Well, I'll be even with
him begobs:' and with that, behold
you, the Divil dove down to the bot
tom O. the. say and came up with a
big bag; and as fast as the varmin
Topped into the wather the Dvil caught
thin and put thin in the bag. Well,
sir, the Saint stood there by Banthry
Bay wipin' the sweat off his holy face
sayin' to himself, Pom me sowl, it's
The Irish standard., 1917-02-10

man.
The parish priest has always been
the guide, philosopher and friend Of
the Irish peasant; no wedding, chris
tening, pattern. fun or frolic, was COM
plete without his presence: yet many
joke has become traditional at the
expense of the priest and Bishop just
as many a laugh has been raised, not
at but Of the subject of religion. The
humbug and hypocrite get small
mercy from Irish tongues. A volume
of amusing stories might be told COW
ering these and kindred subjects did
space permit.
The controversies and animosftfes
of religion have added to the lore Of
Irish humor; and that strange and alb
normal product of ignorance, bad man.
ners, credulity and religious hatred
the Orangeman-has contributed his
share. The Irish as a rule have no
objection to the official religion Of
the Orangeman, but they despise his
lack Of patriotism, his enmity to his
native land, and his constant efforts
to injure the interests and thwart the
hopea7, of his own country; there is
nothing just like him in the world,
though he has a close second in pat
riotic obliquity in the American An
glo.mantac.
And the ability by the average irish
man to look through the skin and
into the very marrow of the man they
call humbug, gives the "shoneen
Cawtholic" an unpleasant spot in the
contempt and ridicule of his fellows:
That tender old Irish poem. "sog-
garth Aroon"-O well.beloved priest
speaks volumes for the love. conn.
dsnos md religious relations that ex-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-06
Anerica Answers the Call

America yesterday her to the enemes of democ racy great of patriotism swept the country from coast and from the great lakes the gulf while the nations young manhood registered for service in the world 
 It indeed day in the history of the United States There be further doubt that united n the which American honor has been pledged The sponses made throughout the country indicated the late dispatches last night fully satisfied all expectations The sackers few compared the millions of who regis tered Antra agitation senced forever when the spirit of America made manifest in practically every and city of sze where public exercises held to Registration Day Men, and children joined in demonstration the like of which has before been in this any other land It triumphant democracy assert ing itself and showing the world that the citizens of America ready whenever and wherever needednot only those who registered but the entire czenshpthat rights of humanity may be secured and the freedom of all nations per peuaed.
 Birmingham made a splendid showing The number of regis raons here exceeded the estimates prevou made The city
 proud of her patriotic who needed urging do their duty Their loyalty questioned The thousands who registered upheld the traditions of the south which has been ready to fight for principle believed to be right
 In honoring her young yesterday Birmingham also paid her respects distinguished guest Gen Leonard A. Wood The parade which General Wood led impressive only of the many thousands who took part it and made of the greatest pageants in the souh but also because revealed the depth of patriotism felt in Br mingham, in Alabama and throughout the United States
 And when that mighty flag raised the of its staff in Capitol park there fitting conclusion day which marked the apotheoss of the Stars and Stripes
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-06
NO FOOD FAMINE FEARED

the south, the west and the Pacific coast are awaiting development. The need is for water and irrigation is providing it. Dairy farming is also do- ing good work, especially in Texas. Ranches on the dry section that could have been bought 10 or 20 years ago at s2 an acre are now being cut up into farms selling at from s15 to s30 per acre. I heard man boosting on the train as we left Dallas that in the little town of MidlandA Tex, there were 30 millionaires-with fortunes mostly made in ranching.
 What Is the matter with Texas? It's cities have had marvellous growth Twenty years ago when I made a tour of the state, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston and San Antonio were just beginning to act like cities. Now they have full-blown metropolitan airs, the finest hotels, skyscrapers schools, any city might be proud, and cham bers of commerce that are doing mora for Texas in a year than all the poli- ticians have done since the close of the civil war. The trouble with Texas and the whole south has been too much politics. The fight of the ag'- tators has been for office. The fight of the chamber of commerce is for bus
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-06
nm you KNOW

From 'Ttaly al War and the Allies in
 (Scribner's).
 That the Italian front is longer than the French, British and Belgian fronts combined?
 That some of the Italian positions can only be reached in baskets slung from wires?
 That Italian railway trains have been shelled by submarines?
 That some of the most famous churches in Venice have been de- stroyed by Austrian airplanes, which have raided that city more than 100 times?
 That in six days the Italians mob ilized and equipped and transported to the front an army of half mil lion men?
 That the French have built 5e- centimeter gun which fires shell weighing one and one-half tons?
 That the French have in commits sion 1000 airplanes?
 That tear-producing shells are more effective and more generally used than asphyxiating gas?
 That in places the Austrian and Ital- ian trenches are only six feet aparto
 That on the western front men have heen drowned In the mud?
 That infantry charges are now led by officers in airplanes?
 That the British have organized a salvage corps to save everything on the battlefield: that even the rags are collected and sold?
 That the traffic on the roads be- hind the British front is denser than the traffic on Fifth avenue and that it is controlled by traffic policemen?
 That the French have organized a corps of scene painters to paint scenery to deceive the German air. men?
 That in heavy bombardment the springs of field gun wear out in two days?
 That soldiers whose faces have been blown away have been given new faces by American surgeons?
 That there is Russian army fight ing in France?
 That an American woman is giving phonograph concerts in the Belgian first-line trenches?
 That in one day the French fired $l,600,000 worth of shells at Arras. that in one week the Germans fired 240 trainloads of shells at Verdun: that in one month the British fired D. o0O.000 shells on the Somme?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-06
A sTORY-TELLER OF THE SOUTH

A sTORY-TELLER OF THE SOUTH From the Philadelphia Public Ledger. Holding a comparatively modest place among American writers of fic- tion, making no pretensions to more than a faithful chronicling of a life she knew well, Mrs. Ruth McEnery Stuart who has just died in New York. achieved a delicate and subtle art which made everything she wrote worth while. For the first 30 years of her life she lived in New Orleans, near which city she was born. Five years after her husbands death, when she
 was 2s, her first attractive sketch of negro life appeared It would be too
 much to say that she set the fashion for dialect tales which so long pre- vailed. but hers were among the best of very large number of these. She | had an intimate perception and under standing of the negro character and an affection for the negro race which erners. Her white people were por- ltrayed With equal felicity to touch. She
 had the gift of pathos as well as of humor, and a sense of style too seldom 1 found in the briefer fiction of our time.
 Her readers always felt the influence | of her personality, and they will mourn with regret for the woman no less than ] the writer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-06
LUKE M'LUkE SAYS

It often happens that all the world loves a lover except the girl he is In love with.
 Some men can't stand prosperity. And some never get chance to find out whether they can or not.
 Some men ought to die in real hot weather when they do die, because 1t won't be such change. When folks get married nowadays they take each other for better or worse, but they do not always take each other for good
 man can sleep soundly when his wife groans, But he IS mighty restless if his dog acts as if there is something wrong with it.
 Maybe a woman changes her mind because she doesn't like the looks of It after she has made it up. If prices keep on going up some homes that never knew race suicide will face race starvation. Sometimes a man gets so mad at the porch climbing combinations that are keeping him poor that he has to buy about $6 worth of drinks to re- lieve his feelings.
 It doesn't make a man any cooler in
 June to get a bill for his last winter , overcoat from his taller. Any time you meet man who is
 100 liberal with his advice 1t Is sfgn that he needs some himself Every town has a lot of houses that need painting. But the girls in town never look that way What has become of the old-fash- toned man who sucked peppermint lozenges and who always carried d bunch of them in his pocket? It always makes us laugh to hear 3 married man who is wearing Tiled egg hat and a Racket store tie that ms wife bought for him hollering about
 this being the land of the free anu the home of the brave Just because fellow doesn't mino his expenses before marriage giri gets the idea that he won't mind hers after marriage
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-06
Enlisting Just in Time

Would a person deserve honorable mention by enlisting in the army the day before registration day?' asks Milton r. Hood, known in Birmingham as Boise who came up from Montgomery Monday afternoon and became a member of the quartermaster department. MT. Hood is the son of Horace Hood, Sr., editor of the Montgomery Journal.
 T have been making an effort to get into the army in order that I might escape being drafted said he, and Monday when I came to Birming ham they examined and accepted me. I just didn't like the idea of being drafted into service"
 Mr Hood will go back to Montgom- cry where he will remain until called into service.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-06
John A. sleicher in Leslie's.

s.5 's T'ss''' "9S ,as s'i orsi', sis
 S without population--it is desert" said the late J. J. Hill to Lord Grey. Take trip across the continent and see how true this is.
 War or no war we shall not face starvation in the United States. We enough to feed our people and suffi- cient to relieve the pressing wants of
 others if we cultivate our idle acres. We have the only integrated country
 of the first rank-excepting Russia
 which can yield the products of every
 climate from the frozen north to the
 semi tropics of the south and the Pa
 cific coast. This does not mean that
 we should be imprudent But it is the
 truth.
 The whole south, under the stimu-
 Jus of the extraordinary prices of food
 products and the call to patriotic duty, is not only planting an unusual acre
 age in cotton but Is putting under cultivation for diversified crops an enormous area of fallow lands. The awakening of the south to the need
 of the diversification of crops is sur prising Let the west follow its eX ample Two hundred and forty million acres of unallotted public lands in the western states still remain unoccupied, and homesteads of 160 acres can be had from Uncle Sam by any citizen who has not already located one; 700, 900 acres within the fertile reclaimed and irrigated districts. capable of sup porting 10000 families and producing $1 s, ,O00,000 worth of food a year, have still to be put under cultivation by | their owners. Go west or south, young man!
 The tremendous advance in the cost of living has put new life into the farmers of every section. In Florida I heard Of men who paid for a farm
 with the proceeds of years crop of
 cabbage. Secretary Shell of the Charleston (S. O. Chamber of Com
 merce took me out a few miles from that Atlantic seaboard city and showed me the broad acres on which garden truck is being raised for the northern
 market. He lamented that untimely frost had just destroyed cabbage crop valued at over s10o,000.
 A Florida man boasted on the train that from one avocado tree he had
 sold $500 worth of fruit or vegetable
 whichever it may be. In the imperial valley of California, suddenly trans formed by the water of the Colorado river from "a burning desert to land
 of milk and honey. I was told of
 Japanese who had sold his onion crop this year for 5000, three times what
 he paid for his land. In the orange
 district around Los Angeles 5000 was being paid per acre for oranges on the trees They can't do this every year. or these producing orchards would sell at higher price than $12o0 to $500 per acre.
 I have spoken of the redemption of the Imperial valley. near the Mexican border by irrigation. It raises the earl lest vegetables and fruits. It sends carloads of cantaloupes in spring to the eastern markets. It is raising 100 900 bales of the finest cotton. Let the cotton states of the south take notice
 of what these irrigated lands In the hot, dry section. of the great region beyond the Rockies are doing Make no mistake about our future. Millions of acres of the best soil in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-06
THE PASSING OF DE REszKE

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
 Little more than the shadow of
 great name to the operagoers of today,
 time was when the two De Reszke
 brothers, Jean the first tenor of his day and Edouard, the older, the great basso,
 easily led in fame their brilliant asso-
 ciates for the vocal quality, histrionic ability and the wide range of their work,
 Whether it was Italian opera or French
 or German, they seemed equally at home
 to the delight of all who heard them.
 That Edouard should die in comparative poverty is one of the grim incidents of
 the fortunes of war, and is one of the
 depressing tragedies of the artistic ca- reer. Feted and honored, enjoying the
 largest money rewards of the early
 both brothers came to more moderate
 days nancially even before the war; but that the IerrlDle bosom or rlVal armies sweeping over Poland should take all
 that the older brother had left is most regrettable. Like Sembrich and Pader-
 ewski, De Reszke was an ardent patriot
 and his memory will be kept green for
 this among his own, just as it will be re- membered among American operagoers whenever such roles are recalled as Mar
 eel, in the "Huguenots;" Leporello. in
 Don Viovanni;'t Hans Sachs, in Die
 Meistersinger;" the king, in 'Lohen-
 grim Mephistopheles, in Faust" the High Priest. in Aida to mention but a few characters. Indeed for nearly de- cade the interpretations of Marcel and
 Mephistopheles standardized for America
 these roles so dominant were the crea-
 tions, and while the other brother nat urally never enjoyed the tremendous reputation of his brother, the tenor. they together held their own as the best types
 of the foreign artist that ever came to America, revealing high ideals as to their art and serious attitude toward art ana Ille lOSctHcI. Iucy Co-oPVidlcu many revivals and in first performances and in the great gala casts of the middle nineties which did so much to make opera mean all that it does to the great cities of the country today, they were easily first, Jean. who survives, leading in mind and method. but Edouard the basso. taking no inconsiderable part,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-06

Considering the figure he cuts in the eye of the world, S2o,000 a year is not great deal for movie star to spend. He must live as befits one who stands on dizzy pinnacle. His manly form must be clothed in suit able apparel at all times, whether be- fore the screen or strutting about where his feminine admirers may wor- ship him in person.
 It would be interesting to know how much some of the best known movie queens spend in the course of year, but for obvious reasons the figures are not available. But whether a male or female idol, the movie star is prob ably like great many other persons who are compelled to live up to their position in the world. There isn't much left after the annual expenses are paid.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-06

". But I passed from tears and signing To where I heard the tread Of all the hosts of Liberty, Where Freedoms Flag was spread For I knew the starry emblem of Freedom. overhead!
 V. And haid These hosts are marching To Freedoms later day, To give to earth new glory Where tyrant-swords hold sway To make a dead world leap to life- To strike its chains away
 VI. What wonder that I wakened From still dreams meath the sod To see the world made over From battle-crimsoned clod? To hall the hosts Of Liberty, That are the hosts of God!''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-06
THE GHOS1LY VISITOR

Frank l.. stanton, in the Atlanta Con stitution T came from dreaming clove., A place with daisies spread, To see the world made over, The ghosliv Spirit sad; For I dreanes that Life was calling To the longtime dead.
 II fin my dreams l heard dim echoes Of thunder OCT the sea, From battlefields I knew not Where my battles used to be; To the dead the dying crying: Rise and make room for mel And l said: Is this the story Of all the newborn years? And this the crown of glory The gray world wears? Forever must the sunlight Fall on world Tn tears2 F
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-06
Purely Patriotic Display

"A feature of the parade which inn pressed me most favorably," said R, theatre, was the almost total ab- sence of advertisement. It was a pure ly patriotic display with every ves- tige of selfishness and selfish interest in the backs ground.
 Many of our parades in the past have been spoiled by advertising schemes. The Registration Day parade will long be remembered for the spon- taniety of the genuine patriotism shown"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-06

Interviewed by newspaper woman the mayor of Montgomery said his dog was his best friend. Still, the boys who cast the votes put his honor in office.
 At any rate, the Prince of Udine can't blame the American banquet for illness The aforesaid banquet hasn't had time yet to get in it's work
 With the biggest flag and the high est flag pole in the south, Birming ham gives concrete evidence of her patriotism
 Another Spanish ship has been sunk by a U-boat without warning. How much longer will spains patience en- dure?
 Norway lost 49 steamers in May. The Norwegian brand of neutrality seems able to stand any amount of wear and tear. The mere fact that Emma Goldman was cheered in New York doesn't mean that patriotism in America is al a low ebb.
 * * *
 A shortage of June brides is re- ported in some quarters where palpi- tating grooms are marrying little ones
 < *
 MT. Root has tackled a mans size job in Russia and he won't be able to work at his leisure
 The youngster who invests his saw ings in liberty bond has made a good start in life
 Old John Barleycorn never dream ed that war would become his most dead ly foe.
 Yesterday in America was a bad day for the Kaiser.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-06
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

THE SUMMONS. Men, your country's calling you, Battles rage across the sea, Prussian arms are menacing Human rights and liberty. Stricken peoples cry for aid Hear their voices of despair; Can you take your ease at home When you know you're needed there?
 AN OUTRAGE. "In never patronize that druggist again"
 'Why, not, my dear?" T asked him to sell me a 2-cent stamp and he pointed to vending machine that charges cent commission on a nicSel's worth"
 A DIsEMBoDIED SPIRIT. DO you think you can pull me through, doctor2" "Yes, but you will have to get behind yourself and push"
 SKEPTICAL. T just now heard a man say he would rather see an Ibsen play than girl show"
 Was anybody else present when he made that remark" Why do you ask?" T thought he might have been talking for his wifes benefit"
 BLIGHTED HOPES. Watch me, I will a garden make" He spoke with most determined air. Misfortunes did his spirit break, He's now picture of despair. Invading fowls the seed scratched up, He cannot cope with weeds alone And havoc was wrought by his pup Which thriftily inferred a bone.
 SOME INDICTMENT Would you kiss girl against her pro test?"
 'Yes, if the protest took the form of opposing her lips to mine"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-06
HOTEL LOBBIES
Atlanta Man Takes Notice

Birmingham caused an Atlanta man to sit up and take notice,' said Mir. De- Jarnette. My friend over here from the Gate City was greatly impressed by the Magic City with it's 100000 pay roll and went back home to tell the Atlantians to wake up or Birmingham would forge ahead of his home town.