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VOLUME XXXVI.
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IRELAND’S PATRON SAINT.
Mouieihing About n Rruinrkable Mau
Who*r Life Im but Little Known.
Few people know more about St.
Patrick, than that he is a person who
is honored by yearly processions, and
I is supposed by the credulous to have
I driven all the snakes out of Ireland,
i 1 et St. Patrick was one of the great
! est missionaries the world has ever
known, and the glimpses that are got
of his life are more fascinating than
, many a book of adventure or ro
mance.
i The legends about St. Patrick are
fairly numberless, and it is only after
various violent controversies and
years of research and investigation
that an accurate account of his life
ihas been secured. The sketch given
i .below is taken from generally accept
. ied authorities.
The patron saint of Ireland was
-.born about the year 387, near what is
Viow the city of Boulogne, in France.
His father held the office of decurion,
(and was of Roman extraction, while
' >his mother, whose name was Con
, ;chessa, came from a Gallic family.
, When Patrick was sixteen years
old, an Irish king, Nial of the Nine
Hostages by name, ravaged the town
of Bonona and carried the future
(saint a captive to Ireland. Here he
f became a slave of one Miliac, a prince,
|Who lived in Dalrhidia. In his writ
rings, which have been preserved, he
pays with great humility that he had
.been very careless about religious
matters as a boy, but that when he
found himself in the misery of sla
very God opened His eyes to behold
the “wondrous things of His law.”
lis occupation was to tend sheep on
; he wild brown bogs ; and amidst all
’ 1 kinds of weather he arose before day
■ ight, that he might have time to
before his work.
After six years of captivity he es
caped to the seashore and, passing
i hrough many privations, reached
his native land.
About the year 418 he began the
study of theology under St. Germain
of Auxerre, and spent some nine
years of retirement on an island.
Once only during this time is it re
corded that he left this seclusion,
and then it was to go to Great Brit
ain with two others. It was prob
ably while on this trip that he learned
of Ireland and its needs.
Some time in the year 432 Patrick
landed al Wicklow, in Ireland, hav
ing been sent there as a missionary
bishop by Celestine of Rome. The
natives proved hostile, and he was
forced to take to his ship and sail
farther down the coast, finally going
ashore at Lecala. Here he was met
by the lord of the district, who at
first prepared to drive him away, but
was finally prevailed upon by Pat
rick’s eloquence, and became bis first
convert.
After staying a few days with his
new converts and instructing them in
the essentials of the Christian faith,
Patrick, with characteristic courage,
decided to visit his some time mas
ter. But Miliac hardened his heart
and refused to receive the missionary.
Finding h’s efforts for the conversion
of Miliac unavailing, he returned to
Dichu and preached the gospel with
great success. He seems to have
converted in a marvelously short
time the entire district over which
Dichu reigned.
It seems that in that part of Ire
land there was a heathen festival in
honor of the sun’s return to its spring
time power and heat. Part of the
ritual of this festival consisted in ev
ery fire being extinguished for some
days previous, that all might be re
lighted from the sacred fire in the
temple of Teraora, which was on Tara
hill. Many people gathered for this
festival, and St. Patrick conceived
that this would be a most excellent
time for conversions.
So he made his way to Tara, and
on Easter eve, which came when all
lights were ordered to be extin
guished, Patrick lighted a Paschal
fire on the plains below the city.
This unheard-of breach of the relig
ious laws created a great commotion,
and the king of Tara, with a vast
multitude, drew near to the fire to
discover its origin. This gave Pat
rick the opportunity he desired, and
advancing boldly to meet them he
began to preach with all his marvel
ous eloquence. It was at this time
that, when explaining the mystery of
the Trinity, he stooped and plucked
a shamrock, exhibiting it as a symbol
of his doctrine. He seems to have
prevailed with many of the host pres
ent, but not with the king, who nev
ertheless entertained him and allowed
him to work among his subjects.
From that time on he seems to
have gone on converting kingdom
after kingdom. At one time, near
Firawley, he preached to an assembly
of seven princes, together with a
great crowd of their people. He con
verted all the princes and 1,200 of
their subjects, baptizing them all.
Authentic incidents might be multi
plied showing his wonderful power
over men. lie was always followed
by a crowd, and experienced great
difficulty in getting rest, so great
was their desire to hear him preach.
He built many churches and
founded several monasteries. The
most important of these works was
the monastery of Armagh, where he
spent all of his remaining life. The
devotion he inspired among his fol
lowers is shown by the following in
cident : One of his disciples was en
gaged in harvest work, and one day
was greatly fatigued because exceed
ingly thirsty, but from fear of break
ing a rule of fasting till vesper time,
toiled on uncomplainingly, and finally
I dropped dead from exhaustion.
It was at Armagh that St. Pat
; rick died, in 465, having Christian
j ized practically the whole of Ireland,
i He was probably one of the greatest
i of preachers. It must be remembered
j that Ireland was inhabited by a war
like people, and that he suffered
many persecutions in accomplishing
his work.
Chief among the legends about St.
Patrick is the story that bis pastoral
staff was the golden rod of Jesus,
given him by a hermit in Gaul, with
which he slew the monster of the
likes and also drove all reptiles out
of Ireland.
It is also peculiar that those who
have been the most incredulous about
him and his works are Boman Catho
lic writers, Prostestants nearly always
writing in his favor.
lie Obeyed Order. Strictly.
An Irish member of the Sixth
regiment of South Carolina infantry
was stationed on the beach of Sulli
van’s Island, with orders to walk
between two specified points, and to
let no one pass without giving the
countersign. He was one of those
soldiers who believed in obeying or
ders to the letter. Two hours after
Dennis had been thus stationed, the
corporal with the relief appeared in
the moonlight, and was astonished to
see Dennis walking to and fro up to
his waist in water. The tide had
come in. “Who goes there?” de
manded the sentry. “Relief.” an
swered the corporal. “Halt, relief !
Advance, corporal, and give the
countersign.” “But I am not com
ing in there to be drowned. Come
out and let me relieve you.” “Niver
a bit,” said Dennis. The liftenant
told me not to leave me post.”
“Well, then,” said the corporal, start
ing to move away, “you may stay
there all night.” “Halt I” thun
dered the sentry. “I’ll put a hole in
ye if you pass without the counter
sign. Them’s me orders from the
liftenant,” and be cocked and levelled
the gun. “Confound you and the
lieutenant!” answered the corporal.
“Everybody will hear it if I bawl it
out to you.” “Yis, me darling, and
the liftenant said it must be given in
a whisper. In with ye :me finger’s
on the trigger.” There was nothing
for the corporal to do but to wade
out where the faithful sentinel stood.
“Be jabbers,” said that worthy. “It’s
well you’ve come! The dbirty tide
has almost drowned me.”
He Had Heard Iler Say So.
That it is only a step from the
sublime to the ridiculous is well illus
trated by the following amusing in
cident that happened a few Sabbaths
ago in a well known church, and
caused no little merriment among
the teachers. The superintendent
was telling the wee small folks of the
custom in certain countries of chain
ing the prisoners’ hands and feet to
gether. “And,” she asked, “don’t
you suppose that if some one came
and released them they would be
very happy and grateful?”
It was unanimously agreed that
they would.
“And,” continued the superintend
ent, coming to her point, “Jesus was
sent to the world to release people
from tbeir sins. Are any of you
here bound with the chains of sin ?”
“No,” piped the 4 year old offspring
of the minister, “I’m not, but my
grandmother is.”
The World’s People.
Seventy-two races inhabit the
world and use 3,004 different tongues.
There are about 1,000 religions.
The number of men and women is
very nearly equal, the average lon
gevity of both sexes being only 38
years. About one-third of the pop
ulation dies before the age of 17.
According to the most careful
computatiou, only 1 person in 100,-
000 of both sexes attains the age of
100 years and 6 to 7 in 100 the age
of 60.
The total population of the earth
is estimated at about 1,200,000,000
souls, of whom 35,214,000 die an
nually, an average of 98,848 a day,
4,020 an hour and 67 a minute.
The annual number of births is
estimated at 36,792,000, an average
of 100,800 a day, 4,200 an hour and
70 a minute.—Science.
The National LawmakriN.
According to the new congressional
directory the house of representatives
of the fifty-fourth congress is com
posed of 223 lawyers, 24 farmers, 18
newspaper men, 16 merchants, 15
manufacturers, 9 physicians, 6 bank
ers, 5 lumbermen, 3 brokers, 4 rail
road men, 3 college professors, 2
clergymen 2 ship owners, 2 miners, 2
builders, 1 printer, 1 architect, 1
druggist, 1 theatrical manager, 1
school teacher, 1 music teacher and
16 who have followed no other bus
iness or profession than politics.
The Senate of the fifty-fourth
Congress contains 60 lawyers, 6
merchants, 3 newspaper men, 3 far
mers, 3 railroad men, 2 clergymen, 2
miners, 1 physician, 1 manufacturer,
1 banker, 1 ship owner, and five men
who have followed politics only.
Some people won’t advertise, but
they put signs over their doors, send
out travelers, print their imprints on
their envelopes and letter-heads and
checks, paint signs on their delivery
wagons, pay for extra large type in
the business directories, and watch
the trade papers for items of personal
mention. A man sometimes snores
in his sleep, but he is unconscious
of it.
It was an Arizona editor who
wrote to an advertising agency in
the east, soliciting an advertisement,
to which the latter replied by asking :
“Where does your paper go?” With
much promptness the Arizona man
answered: “To North and South
America, Asia, Africa, and it’s all I
can do to keep it from going to hell.”
Young Americans who start out
in the world with the idea that it
takes a six-shooter and a big lot of
profanity to get through life safely
and successfully make a great mis
take, and will discover it before they
get very far down the road. Leave
your “cuss-words” and pistols at
home, boys, before starting out in
the world.
The sun sets last to those who
have climbed highest up the moun
tain.
•OO Per Annum in Advance.
Edison’s First Big Check.
“When I came to New York to sell
my first invention,” Mr. Edison said,
“I was doubtful as to its value. 1
knew it was a useful contrivance, but
it was with some diffiidence that I en
tered the presence of the manufac
turer with whom I opened negotia
tions for its disposal. As a boy 1 had
often longed to possess five thousand
dollars, and I had a good mind to hold
out for that much money, though I
felt secretly that I would be doing
well to get two thousand dollars. So
when the manufacturer asked how
much I wanted for the patent rights I
stammered and asked how much he
was willing to pay.”
“ ‘Come around in the morning,’
he said, and I went home to dream
about that five-thousand-dollar for
tune I was going to get—perhaps.
When I saw him in the morning he
said with a take-that-or-take-nothing
air of determination :
“‘We have decided to pay you
forty thousand dollars—uot a cent
more.’
“I almost fainted ; but in less than
five minutes I had stuck my name to
a contract and was out in the street
looking in a halfdazed way at a check
in my hand. ‘Payable to the order of
Thomas A. Edison, forty thousand
dollars (MO,000).’ Then I began to
think, and the forty thousand seemed
like forty millions, and I said to my
self ; ‘Tom you’ve been swindled.
The check is not good.’ And when I
went to the bank—l had never been
inside of one to do any business—and
presented the check, I was not sur
prised when the teller scrutinized it,
glanc< d at me and pushed it back
with a shake of the head and a re
mark that I was too excited to under
stand, but concluded that my fears
were confirmed. So I stuffed it in
my pocket and went to see a friend, to
whom I related my experience.
“‘Let me see ths check,’ he said.
‘Why that’s all right. You must be
identified.’ And we went back to the
bank. The cashier knew my friend,
and the money was soon counted out.
Still I wasn’t sure I was awake until
I began to feel and hear the snap of
the new bank notes. It was a big
bundle of money, and I stuck some of
it in every pocket, so that almost any
where I put my hand I could feel it
bulging out.
“When I went to the hotel that
night do you think I took my clothes
off? Not much. I slept in them, so
I wouldn’t wake up and find it was all
a cruel dream.”
All About Abyssinia.
The chief exports are gold, ivory,
slaves, coffee, butter, honey and wax.
Abyssinia is a very mountainous
country. Many of the peaks are
always covered with snow.
The literature of Abyssinia amounts
to little. What there is deals with
religious matters.
The country is so situated that the
climate is one of the most salubrious
on the face of the globe.
The area of the country is about
200,000 square miles. Its inhabitants
number a little over 4,000,000.
Adowa, where the Italians met de
feat, is the second city in Abyssinia,
having about 7,000 inhabitants.
The people are mostly agricultur
ists. Cotton cloth, leather, parch
ment, iron and brass are manufac
tured.
The majority of the inhabitants of
Abyssinia are of the Caucasian race,
and are well-formed and handsome.
The language of the religion and
literature of the country is the Geez,
which belongs to the Ethiopic class
of languages.
According to the Abyssinians the
queen of Sheba was their ruler and
from her son, Menelek, their kings
are descended.
The Galla race, which came from
the south, constitutes a large part of
the soldiery. They are fierce and
turbulent.
The name Abyssinia is derived
from the Arabic word Habesch, mean
ing mixture, and refers to the mixed
character of the people.
Abyssinia is one of the most an
cient monarchies in the world. Until
recently, however, the king was gen
erally afraid of his chiefs.
The prevailing religion of Abys
sinia is a very corrupted form of
Christianity. It is professed by the
majority of the people and by the
reigning princes.
Senator Tillman reiterates in a let
ter to the Columbia Register that
the South Carolina democracy will
bolt the Chicago convention unless
the convention accepts the populist
financial policy. That being true,
the democracy will have the pleasure
of seeing Tillman gather up his little
faction and get out of the party. He
should have got out long ago.
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A bill has passed the Ohio Legis
lature by which opera house man
agers are liable to $lO fine for per
mitting a patron to have his view of
the stage obstructed by the high hat
or head-gear of any other patron.
That looks like business. The evil
will speedily be corrected.
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The Populists of North Carolina
declare through Marion Butler that
they will not vote for anybody who
is not in favor of the single silver
standard. A great effort is being
made to put the Democratic party of
Georgia in line with the Populists of
North Carolina.
Miss Annie Williams, a young lady
of Philadelphia, is to be married soon.
Thousands of men all over the coun
try are carrying the image of Miss
Williams every day, and are very
much in love with it. Miss Wil
liams posed for the liberty head on
the silver dollar.
A Kansas man has committed sui
cide to escape imprisonment as a
punishment for stealing. His was
what might be called back-action
squeamishness; he did not mind
stealing, but the disgrace of impris
onment was more than his finely
wrought nature could bear.
NUMBER 15
He Collected the Kill.
“When 1 was a youngster of 17,”
said a successful business man, “I
got a job as a collector with a man
who was about as strict a martinet as
I ever saw. He insisted ou every
thing being done just as he said, and
there were times when life was verily
a burden, but I stuck to him for six
months ; then we had a difference.
It was this way : One morning he
called me up and handed me a bill
on a man I knew. He said for me
to take it around and collect it.
“ ‘lt’s one of our standbys,’ he
said, ‘and every collector I ever sent
to him reported him absent or not
findable or something. Now, you go
and don’t come back here till you
see him.
“ ‘Do you mean that ?’ I asked as
two or three clerks looked up.
“ ‘You know me,’ was all he said
in reply, and 1 went out after my
man.
lie wasn’t at home, the people
said, and wouldn’t be for six w’eeks.
So I stuck the bill in my pocket and
went eff up the country for a visit.
The old man sent after me half a
dozen times, but my folks could only
tell I was out of town, and I never
paicT any attention to a letter I got
from the boss, but went on enjoying
myself. Then I came back and had
a visit with some other friends, and
at the end of six weeks I called on
my man again with the bill. I found
him at home and told him what I
had done, and he paralyzed me by
paying the bill, with interest. Two
hours later 1 stepped into the boss’s
office.
“ ‘There,’ I said before he had
time to gather his wits, ‘is the
amount of your bill and interest.
He was out of town for six weeks,
and I couldn’t see him before. You
told me not to come back till I did
see him, and I was obeying your in
structions. I had a rattling good
time, and the house owes me six
week’s salary.”
“The old man gasped, got blue in
the face, and I thought he was going
to explode, but he didn’t. He
gulped it ail down and stuck out his
hand.
“ ‘Young man,’ he said, ‘you ought
to have been a soldier. I am going
to put you in charge of the collection
department and double your salary.’
“And,” concluded the merchant,
when I was 25 I was a partner.”
Vital Puzzled Him.
J. J. Turner, general manager of
the Vandalia line, was making a trip
over the r ad in his special car a few
days ago. When the train stopped
at Terre Haute, he left his car for a
moment and stood on the platform
talking to Conductor Hayes. As he
started to return to his car a bright
faced lad of about 14 approached
Hayes and asked for free transporta
tion to Logansport.
“I have no money,” said the boy,
“and am anxious to get to Logans
port, where I have relatives who will
care for me.”
“I am sorry I cannot carry you, my
boy,” said Hayes; but, struck by the
lad’s deep disappointment, he sug
gested that he repeat his request to
Mr. Turner, who had been an inter
ested listener.
Not in the least abashed, the boy
stated his case to the general mana
ger, and that official not only listened
kindly to the request, but made the
youth inexpressibly happy by bring
ing him to Logansport in his own
private car. Mr. Turner invited his
young guest to take dinner with him
during the trip. No second invita
tion was needed, and soon the gen
eral managei and an almost outcast
boy were seated at the same table in
a special car eating supper in all
good fellowship as the train sped
along at 50 miles an hour.
The young man did justice to all
the dishes except to a plate of corn
bread. How any one could eat such
homely fare when the table was
loaded with delicacies was beyond
his comprehension. Amazement was
plainly depicted upon his countenance
as he observed Mr. Turner eat the
corn bread with evident relish, and
he gave vent to his feelings by saying:
“You’re a brick, Mr. Turner, but
if I was general manager of the
Vandalia I’ll be hanged if I’d eat
corn bread!”
Take Life ax li CoincH,
There is one sin which is every
where, and by everybody is unesti
mated and quite too much overlooked
in valuations of character. It is the
sin of fretting. It is as common as
air, as speech ; so common that unless
it arises above its usual monotone, we
do not even observe it. Watch an
ordinary coming together of people
and we will see how many minutes it
will be before somebody frets—that
is, makes more or less complaining
statement of something or other,
which probably every one in the room
or the car, or on the street corner
knew before, and which probably no
body can help. Why say anything
about it ?
It is cold, it is hot; it is wet, it is
dry; somebody has broken an ap
pointment, ill cooked a meal; stu
pidity or bad faith somewhere has
resulted in discomfort. There are
plenty of things to think about.
It is astonishing how much annoy
ance and discomfort may be found in
the course of every day’s living, even
at the simplest, if only one keeps a
sharp eye on that side of things.
Even holy writ says we are born to
trouble as the sparks fiy upward.
But even to the sparks flying up
wards in the blackest smoke, there is
a blue sky above, and the less time
they waste on the road the sooner
they will reach it. Fretting is all
time wasted on the road.
Not only does fretting worry us
and those around us, but remember
nothing brings the wrinkles more
quickly.
Northern visitors have cut down
and carried off the undergrowth in
the neighborhood of the spot where
Jeff Davis was captured at Irwinville.
Such is the craze for relic hunting.