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ST, PATRICK'S DAY By CATHERINE ALBERPSON 1 . ricture portals bearing ' repre- Irish harp, and of Faddy, himself with his clay pipe and happy-go-1 lucky grin, have for the past week been displayed iu the shop win: dows, reminding; the pnssers-Dy that the seventeenth of ' Alaicn St Patrick' Day is close at hand. . In the Unifled Htates this day V is observed almost as univerally V as in the Emerald :."f Isle itself . . Warmly sympathising ; with the ' Irish in the many wrongs they , have suffered at the, ' hando : of their English, landlords and law' ' paters, ourcouritry has " ever ac corded a hearty welcomcr-to the , itnmigrant from herhoivs. And this latent sympathy and good will finds expression on, St. Pat rick's Day, in the sprig of green; , emblem of Ould Ireland, which men,, women and children don on . the seventeenth of March. ; ( 1 As for the good Saint himself though hailed for many centum ies as the patron Kaiut . of ? Ire land, he wa3 not a native (of that western island. - History does not i state'' decidedly whether he , was . of ' British or of Latin origin. lie was born in Hcotland near the present town' of Kirkpatrick, midway between (llasgow and Dumbarton, somewhere near the close' of the fourth or the begin- , ning of the fifth century, A. D. Scotland then jtfas a Koman pro vince, and Calphurnius, the fath er of St. Patrick whose original name was' Sutvat,' signifying! the "strong , in war", held ; the rank of deciirion in the Koman army.. But whether he tyas a native of Valentia, as that part of Scotland was then called, or was of Rom an birth is uncertain. 1 , But certain it is th'at the par ents of St.' Patrick were chris tians,- his grandfather, Fotitus, being an ordained priest, and his father, Calphurnius, a deacon. So from his earliest years, Sue cat,; or Patricius his Koman name by which the Saint is .best 'known,' had been instructed in the truths of the christian faith Nothing is known of his early youth until the beginning of his sixteenth, year, when his history ' becomes interwoven with that of Ireland. The - Scottish coasts were at that time subject to ma rand in jr expeditions from the wild ' Irish chieftains, who landing on its shores scoured the adjacent country, burning ' and; pillaging the homes, and carrying into cap tivity the inhabitants whom .Jhey captured .. ' - I ' r : ; ' On' one of these occasions the home of Caipuurmus tutt miut. ed, ana 'buccal, JUni 'mo ut sisters una a uuiuoer ot uis couo. .tiynieq were captured uuU ciu rieu to tne ona of irelauu, , where they wei-e sold ior slaves. A cluettain named Jiicliul wuo dwelt iu the country of Antrim purchased tlie lad ttoiu h;s tap- . tor, 'and set him to'vatchiiig ,hs Docks and herds. For six years ' the hoy wandered' over, the Meat moors of Autriui, exposed to ram aud sun aud. frost, luithfully car ing for ihe duhib beasts over whom he was given charge. But one day, opportunity for escaping from his master presented itself. ' lie made his way to the seashore, and finding n ship just about' to set sail for Scottish shores, lie em " barked upon her ; and 'after a stormy voyage, reached home in Urcat was the rejoicing iu the faniily of Oalphuruius; but the joy was short-lived, for a second band of piratical Irish rovers de scended upon the coast, aud Sue cat was again - carried off into bondage, to the Irish shores. Af ter a brief captivity he again i'eff .ected his escape, . arid 'returned !o his home., But during his stay in Irejand be had'Vjinin so'much of the degradation andmisery of the,, natives, that Iiis heart .was touched with P't for,' their , lie; nighted conditon, and filled with a burning desire , to dispel the, darkness of their heatbbn state, and carrv -them the light' of the gosi. t ..;;. s One . night . 'nhortly... after his second cetum ;to ' his father's house, he heard, in a - dream jx voice i from over the western f ea, calling to him to - retnrn to the jieople among whom his six years ' of bondage ' bad ' been spent, and imploring him to lead them out .of their darkness into light, v r -V- Bo, holding the call, which he never doubted was impressed by Heaven, Succat, or Patricius as he was ever afterwards called, bade farewell ' to .home and friends who ridiculed his quixo tic resolve, , he set , out for the south ofjjrance; where1 he intend ed, entering a monastery to pre pare himself for,, the work of preaching the Gospel in the land of his captivity; ; : . After some years of, study and preparation he was ordained dea con, then priest, and finally at tained to the episcopate. Then, feeling competent for' the mission nry work upon which lie bad, set his heart,," at the south-west ex tenuity of ; Strangford Ixnigh, Ibey advanced into the interior. but had not gone far'before they met an Irish chieftain at the head of his clan.- The chieftain whose name was Dicher think ing that St. Patrick and his fol lowers M-ero one of the many. pi rate crews which often descend ed upon the ctaist, was about to fall ution the little band and put them to , death . ' But struck by St. Pat rick's appearance, 'and perceiving that the little compa ny; was unarmed, . he hospitably opened the doors of his home to the Invaders. In a short , while Dichu .and all his household nc cepted the faith taught by the nw comers; and lie and. his fain ilv were baptized.; Anxious to aid in the work of spreading the glad tidings brought by St. Pat-, rick Diclut liestoweci , upon the missionaries a tract of land, on which the5 firsts christian temple in Ii-eland was erected. The ra ins .'of this building may still be seen in the little town called Saul, near the villagft of Don Patrick on the- western coast of Ireland. , , ... .' 1 . : '-. . Having made this encouraging beginning,; St. Patrick x now tie termined to seek out his old mas ter and preach to vhini the doc trines of Christianity. But Mi fhiel ; haughtily rcfuseil- to re ceive on equal terms one who had lieen his slave - and ' obstinately clung- to .the pagan belief of his forefathers. So'StI Patrick and his comrades journeyed into; the interior 'of Ireland ; to the sacred hill of Tara the-r very 'stronghold of Druid ison where( the. king of that region, Iaogh aire, was about to. hold a gi-eat, religious festival, in tlie presence of his chieftains, bards and Druid.prigsts. ..;,'; It was Easter Even when St. Patrick and bis comrades came in sight of the sacred Hill,' where Laoghaire and his court were as sembled; and the good Monk re solved that he would celebrate the great festival of the church with , fitting ceremonies and preach, to 'the assembled ; chief tains ,the doctrine of the-Resurrection. So, the little company halted and erected their tent, and .made ready, for the evening mal . . As the smoke ascended towards the sky, the Druids in the king's tent sawitvand gwnt was , the consternation ; among them. For deadly sacrilege it was to licht a fire before the kinj had lit thesacred flame in the palace of Tara. ' The Druids rushed to the kinc, and pointing out flie smoke' ascending from the tents (if the fnonks, they warned Laoghaire - that unless th6 strangers' fire was extinguish ed the sceptre would depart fron" his hands,, and a new king ami new gods rule in Ireland, ' . ... Laoghairo sent messengers to find. out who .the (Taring new coiners were, and to rder them to appear before him. Thic was hist what-St. Patrick .and . his" brethren desired. Appearing be fore, the king, .the good Bishop whose years of. captivity in Ire land, -had given him command. of the-language, told simply but dearly and , f orriblyt the , story of th Savior; of .the world. The. wild Irish chieftains. , and even the scowling Drnids were struck with admjratiop for the courage of these unarmed strangers. and listened quietly" nnd atten tively to the strange, new tidings And King Laoghaire though not accepting at once the new faith gave St. Patrick, permission to speak again the next day. ' For a week the ' christian priests re mained at Tara, at; the end of which time '. many converts had been made, and the king's young er brother had been baptized From ; that time on, except from , the Druids who sought his life atod would feign have ' put the whole baud of missionaries to death, St. Patrick and hi comrades jnet with little opposi tion and the Word preached ' by them was eagerly received ,by the warm hearted, impulsive Irish. Soon, so fast had the great truths spread and so quickly had the seeds of Christianity taken root the Bishop and his monks had in duced the natives of the island to allow themt to "-- destroy the great idol Crom-(vruach, whose image had ; for untold centuries stood in the county of Cavan. And the kings of Ulster, of Con naught and of all the provinces through 'which the good monks trawled had accepted . t he new faith. -',;;; '.';; " ., ;,: '; ' (At last St. Patrick arrived in the district of Machia, and there he : was cordially received by Dai re,' a wealthy chieftain, who bestowed, upon the holy man pleasant piece of - laud .called "The Hill of the Willows.-'.' There the Saint decided 't6, - build a church, and ; by degrees there a roso;around it the city of Armagh where the good man spent the re mainder of . his'life" leaving it only on brief visits to Saul, the scene of his earliest labors. While on one of his visits to this little town, St. Patrick- fell ill and died on the lTtlf of March, 400 A.'.D. He was buried at 1 )own pa trick in the province of Ulster. St. Patrick has justly been chosen as Ireland's patron saint for he was first of the christian missionaries to bring to the lit tle western island the knowledge of the christian faith,' apd to vid the land of the cruel and super stitious practices; of the Drnid priests. ; To his earoest ,al in building churches and monaster-, ies iu the country is due the fact that for inanv;. rears while the barbarians from the North were over-running Western Lurope. while the Angles. Saxons and -Tutes were destroying every ves tige of civilization and of Chris tianity in England, Ireland ex empt ' from these invasions, pre served her religions; and educa tional institutions; and , latpr through her mvdonnry monks scattered the seedA of-christian-Ilv and civilization . throughout tfie western world. ELECTRICITY FOR , . TnE BEDROOM ...Very little care and attention is given 'to the placing of elec tricity. in ' the bedroom. Appar ently ' the " contractor just sticks a wall nxture in wnerever u is most convenient and the oct-npant of the rom has tii make the best of a bad Job.' Just as often as riot thd electric, light is located up ' against the wall 'J where it ous;ht not to lie. , : ' Not only is it important that the electric liglit for tliebedrooin be located where it is .most' -on- venient, and where the entire ef flciency of the mnt- is available but other , outlets should- be pro vided in case an .extra lamp is desirable during sickness," or for reading puriwseg . Now and then auxiliary electric devices,' such a the small electric iron,'' the elec tric fan,; the electric shaving mug the electric luminous 'radiator, nre desired and where onlyioneout let is provided, the' lamp has to be taken out whenever anything else is used. Of course this is a great incoiiveiweiice during the hours of darkness -. y ; An' electric 's'haviniir muz .is very servjceable iu homes :where hot wateiyis not alWays-on tap. and iu connection with-the shav ing mirror if is ouite liandy fo have1 an electric light that may be adjusted, to render its best service.- The electric '-curling iron and the electric hair dryer appeaf yery strongly to the la .dies of the house, the former 'hav in'g distinct 'advantages ovejr the. curling Iron which has to be heat ed by gas with the accompanying soot and danger' 6f excessively hiffh temperature. The eleetrh vibrator is another apparatus which may be nsed in'tbe bed-' room. Fans, ozonators, radia- toi-s - and other common devices may also be wanted in this part of the house. To many persons a reading lamp which . can, be placed in a convenient ' position at the bedside is also a comfort and convenience. ' The provision of a number of outlets is just as desirable in the bedroom . as in anjj other portion of a residencer and if the greatest use is to be made of electric current the con tractor or designer of an instal lation should bear all " these points in , mind when laying out his wiring scheme.' ' ' '' - ' : , V The steam shovel is lieing re placed by, the electric shovel iu New York city, where it is de sirable to excavate without the dirt; and noise of a steam shovel. The city of San Diego, Califor nia has an electric fountain in it "largest park. The effect is prodnced with color lights and an( automatic flasher placed be hind the water jets. ; :v , NATURE'S WARNING Elizabeth 'City people Jllust Itce- ' ' oynize and Heed it. . f: Kidney ills come mysteriously. But "nature, generally i warns yon. - Notice the kidney setretions. 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