"Bulls"

Bulls, Ancient and Modern; Bulls and Blunders; and More Bulls and Blunders are three bulky volumes upon which rest the chief claims to distinction of Sir James Campbell Percy, Irish journalist and director of the Central Hotel, Dublin. Last week Sir James spoke at London before a quaint society, the Scroptimists Club. His subject: Bulls. His words, in part:

"I cannot define the term "Bull'; but I can best describe it in the words of grand old Sir Boyle Roche, 'The Father of the Irish Bull.' He used to say, 'Supposing you see three cows standing up in a field and one of them lying down, that one is the bull.'

"Sir Boyle's two choicest Bulls, both delivered before the Irish Parliament, were: 1) 'All along the untrodden pathway of the future I can see the footprints of an unseen hand'; and 2) 'Why should we beggar ourselves to benefit posterity? What has posterity ever done for us?' "

Concluding Sir James named three famed contemporary Britons, quoting a prize Bull made by each.

Ramsay Macdonald, onetime Labor Premier, now visiting the U. S.: "It is with emotion that I behold the empty grave where lie our ruined industries."

Baron Carson, (Rt. Hon. Sir Edward Henry Carson) onetime (1917) First Lord of the Admiralty: "[Lord Oxford and] Asquith is like a drunken man walking along a straight line--the farther he goes the sooner he falls." T. P. O'Connor, "Father of the House of Commons": "[Of the Empress Frederick of Germany I may say that] her breadth of mind was masculine in its depth."