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Vol. III. No. 12 
IRISH SONG. 
The Subject of a Very Interesting 
Lecture in the Manchester Town 
Hall Last Saturday Evening by 
Rev. Wm. F. Powers—Interest- 
ing Programme of “Song Illus- 
trations.” 
It was an interested audience 
that filled the Manchester Town 
hall to overflowing last Saturday 
evening—St. Patrick’s Day—when 
Rev. Wm. F. Powers, pastor of 
the Sacred Heart church, gave a 
lecture on “Irish Song.” Not alone 
to the sons and daughters of Erin, 
and their children, was the lecture 
of interest, but to the student of 
literature and song was it of espe- 
cial interest, for Fr. Powers has 
spent much time in a study of this 
subject and his lecture was the re- 
sult of considerable work. 
At intervals during the lecture 
songs were introduced by soloists 
and choruses, illustrating the vari- 
ous points and thoughts which the 
speaker wished to emphasize, and 
this proved a very interesting fea- 
ture, as there were several of the 
soloists who made their debut on 
this occasion. 
The lecturer said in entering 
upon his subject that the true na- 
ture of a long-established race is 
best analyzed by studying, not its 
commercial progress, nor its ma- 
terial development, but rather its 
folk-love and its songs, for these 
last especially manifest the traits 
that spell character, and especially 
is this so of the Irish race. 
“National enthusiasm, patriotic 
incitation, appreciation of scenic 
beauty, love, wit, purity, remem- 
brance, grief, celestial hope—the 
whole garment of racial and per- 
sonal susceptibility is swept by the 
artistic hand of Irish song. No in- 
fluence has a more potent sway 
over the best that is in the Irish 
exile than the well rendered song 
of the old land. 
“The songs of Ireland, as we 
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WHO IS MY NEIGHBOR? 
BY JOSEPH A. TORREY. 
A traveller journeying long ago 
Down from Jerusalem to Jericho, 
Fell among thieves, who wounded him and 
fled, 
Leaving him stript of raiment and half dead. 
By chance a certain Priest came down that 
way, 
Who looked on him and left him where he 
lay. 
Likewise a Levite, walking in his pride, 
With eyes turned heavenward, passed on 
the other side. 
But a Samaritan, as he journeyed, drew 
Near to the place where lay the wounded 
Jew, 
Who had compassion, and with pious toil, 
Bound up his wounds and poured in wine 
and oil. 
Nor ever from his tender labor ceased 
Till he had borne him on his own good beast, 
Unto the quiet shelter of an inn. 
And on the morrow, faring forth again, 
(Careless alike of trouble or of cost,) 
Took out two pence and gave them to the 
host, 
Saying, “Take care of him. Another day, 
What e’er thou spendest more, I will repay.” 
Whom, thinkest thou, was neighbor to the 
man ?— 
The Priest, the Levite, or Samaritan? 
He that showed pity? Go,and do likewise! 
God loveth mercy more than sacrifice. 
have them today, are, for the most 
part, modern in their wording; but 
the airs, the melodies, are essential- 
ly an heirloom from the days when 
the national faith and the national 
hope had their best expression in 
music. 
“Theodore Roosevelt has public- 
ly and enthusiastically declared 
that the most inspiring tune in the 
world for a cavalry charge is the 
Irish Garryowen. 
“The degeneracy of the _ Irish 
song is very often, not in the song, 
but in the singer. When Thomas 
Moore reopened the long  aban- 
doned mode of Irish minstrelsy he 
found there many a glittering nug- 
get and from his wealth of discov- 
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HISTORIC PAPERS. 
Interesting Documents, Printed 200 
Years Ago, Found in the Attic 
of an Old Farm House in Wen- 
ham. 
In the attic of an old farm house 
at Wenham Neck the other day, 
the house recently bought by Dr. 
‘EP. - Ge Parker of Boston,. and-for 
whom it is now being remodelled 
into a summer home, a_ Breeze 
reader came across some very old 
papers..-So old’ are they, in facet, 
that it is with difficulty they can 
be read and handled. 
One is: “An Act, paffed by the 
Great and General Court or Affem- 
bly of Her Majefties Province of 
Maffachufetts-Bay in New- 
England: Begun and Held at Bof- 
ton upon Wednefday the Thirtieth 
Day of May, 1711.” This bears 
the imprint: 
“BOSTON: Printed by B. 
Green, Printer to his Ex- 
cellency the GOVER- 
NORV Eand) AGU UNG Lis 
wa ee 
and is “AN ACT for Apportioning 
and Affeffing of Three  feveral 
Taxes on Polls and Eftates, Purfu- 
ant to the Funds and Grants made 
to Her Majefty, by the General Af- 
fembly, in the Years 1708 *and 
1709.” 
The “act” goes on to say that in 
the general court, at the several 
sessions of 1708 and 1709, three 
taxes were made, amounting in all 
to 22,000 Pounds, and each town 
and district within the province 
was to be assessed and pay its pro- 
portion of the levy. And.then fol- 
lows a list of the places assessed, 
by counties, with the amount 
levied upon each one. There were 
then in the County of Essex: Sa- 
lem, Ipswich, Newbury, Marble- 
head, Lynn, Andover, Beverly, 
Rowley, Salisbury, Haverhill, 
“Glocester,’ Topsfield, Boxford, 
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