Judge — February 16, 1889 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE MEN WE HAVE MET. EDWARD A. MAHER, MAYOR OF ALBANY, HISTORY does not record the fact that there were no Mahers on board the yacht Half Afoon which bore Henry Hud- son on a voyage of discovery up the North river, but the fact cannot be questioned. The crew was as Dutch as its commander, and no Dutchman of those or later times ever spelled his name as the mayor of Albany describes his with a pen, The Dutch were great discoverers in the days of Hudson, and perhaps they have not lost their reputation in this respect. But they did not in the early days seem to know what to do with a river, or a town site, after they had found it; and their descendants, on the whole, seem perfectly willing to let things remain as their fathers, their grand- fathers, their great-grandfathers, and the fathers of their great-grandfathers left them, To put it in another way, the highest ambition of the Dutch has ever SO ENGLISH, YOU KNOW. seemed to be to discover something, cry ‘Hallo, De Masher! where have you kept your- “Eureka!” or its equivalent in Dutch, and then lie down fora nap. And the average Dutchman, self all this time? I haven't seen you at the Hoff- after he has done this, seems satisfied if upon awakening he finds that the thing he has discovered 4 {690 age (7 K ¢ MAS languidly)—"* | have not—er—kept has not got away. 2 anywhere, In fact —er—don'tcher- If there had been a Maher among the crew of the /alf Moon, and he had settled in Albany don't keep myself, I—er—live with the and perpetuated his name, it is not probable that the present Maher would now be mayor of the capital city, because Edward A, Maher and his race belong to a more active people than those who sailed lazily up theriver with Hudson, ‘The Mahers came on railroad trains, or on steamboats ; and this particular member of the family typifies the speed which those modern means of conveyance describe, ‘That is to say, he, one of the descendants of a nineteenth century settler in Albany, has got ahead of many descendants of seventeenth century settlers, though the forefathers of the latter descendants had something like two centuries the start. Edward A. Maher, when,a lad—he was born in the Fourth ward of Albany, May 20, 1846—was one of a class of active young Irishmen who still occasionally make Canal street of that city a miniature Donnybrook fair. He used to watch “de cops,” as such boys always do when on deviltry bent; was as ready and able to rally and fight as he still is to eat; and on the whole lived that hustling, self-dependent, self-reliant life that develops so many successful politicians. He is now regarded as the coming boss of local Democratic politics. HER SOUVENIR. © Twas looking over my desk last night,” Regrets and thoughts that we might have done Too true," I said ; " saddest tears are spent She sighed, and twisted a sparkling ring More wisely—better in every way— Over rhymes and love-letters.” “Ob, my dear, On her slender hand. “It is foolish quite If we'd had the knowledge we since have won; I didn’t mean these things. T only meant To keep past records. They only bring But yesterday never can be to-day.” ‘The bills for the dresses I bought last year.” ™ AN ELEMENT NOT COUNTED ON. Dune (courageously 0 himself )—"*Aw—ol course the vulga’ people will guy me new bell crown, but we thoroughbweds will wear a thing in spite of pub- tive snowball lic opinion, when it’s so beastly stylish, don'tcherknow.” But he cannot brave the opinion of ye wee bit of a boy aint his fes- comicbooks.com