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October 14,-1916,
The Saelic
Cmenican.
six DAYS OF THE REPUBLIC|®
Book on the “Rebellion of Easter | {@
Week by L. J. Redmond How-
ard, Not an Impartial or Ac-
curate Account of the Battle of
Dublin—A Story of the Taking
* of the Post Office 7 an Eye-|>
Witness,
is a big output on the Irish
week a”
There
Revolution.
sonby, Dublin,
curate or im account of
events of Easter Week. The author,
might be expected, not
a sympathizer with the aims and ideals
Perhaps the
scribes the storing, of the Irish Vot-
‘unteers at the Gener Post Office and
of the atitring svenes thet “named
followed.
A writer 3 the Gor Free Prers, in a
review ot Redmond “Howard's . book,
jointing out its good points and short
comings,
“This en sot “ au a catch penny pub-
lication such its title and the lurid
colors in Which O'Connell Street, in a
blaze of chet, is depicted on the
cover ne lead one to infer. It gives
in pa art a vivid notion of how
it felt o ive through the nightmare in
Dublin, and at, aa is up some
salutary reflections as to how it all
came about, So ‘forth with a good deal
iter who tries
as he is bold,
as impartial
“The little book falls fer short of the
requirements 0: e history of the
Insurrection in the particular of all
which we most, require in-
the actual
the Insurgents and of
themselves in the course o!
e
a vast city studded with’ military bar-
ra
e yet to await ‘also ‘tor some
otable breakdow:
in their plan of campaign, viz., th: ail
ure to gain possession of Dublin Castle
U in
what ne calls the Battle of Mount
“How well he succeeds in making his
readers thrill with his own « cmouiens on
scene may bi by
tracts like the following. “teseribing
without ‘any’ attempt at word painting
pe Best amazing outburst in O'Connell
ston short opposite the
tside the building
eye-witness 0!
Office. I also fe ral
sroseed the Santen, and held revolvers
s. One youth, in-
tesa pale and nervous, put @ revol-
t my breast, and sald, “clear ove? ”
T_ replied, “What's up?” 4,
(Hens ms oF mn iow your heart aut!
Up went my hands, and he backed mi
out to ae sotranee, and within five
had been bundled
e aneeremontous way,
near elson Mounment helpless,
but on ust hi ently have tele
graphed for help, for within a
minutes a small detachment of mount.
ed lancers came riding up. - People
stood breathless - . expectation. The
Insurgents just allowed the first Tine
_to get abreast of ‘the pillar, and then
and at once a couple
a | 8°
of the| Captain
insinuations that they shot at wounded| There i
numbers} g
ace:
|?
a riot
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58
Be
3
8 the respon-
insurgents ete concerned the
g left no stain on their gallantry
iv preter to accept the
Prime Minister's own tribute on this
as more conclusive evidence than
Gwynn’s detestable
soldiers on crutches in mere deviltry,
and id sot at all display a heroism up
stay-at-home soldier politiclan’s
ndard. e remer
red to its eternal,honor that the Sinn
‘ein Tnsurvection “dtd. not produce a
One passage of the
d ‘Ginger’ Wimborne
efore the Herding Commfsetan speaks
volumes on this
“The secret hist “have beon exceed-
ingly well kept?—Ye , very.”
“ey,
ef mp?
:8
ad
‘o be prifited in letters of g
“Mr, Redmond Howard takes, we also
hin! uperficial view in supposing
the Nationalists of Duttin were only
converted to sympathy with the Rebels
atier their leaders had been barbarous:
ly shot. The cause:
that that. The coun
what really ed Irishmen
into admiration of ti Feiners
was the startling proof they gave that
tens of thou of rishmen
ere still found ready to she
their hearts’ blood proudly for Ireland,
no matter mad thefr enterpri
might seem 25 8 mill itary operation.
“It om uithor ad 9 read Canon
Sheehan's “Grav mora” he
at
would “inderstand, that for the most
generdus Irish minds there
ments when self-sacrifice and self-im-
molation, however hopeless for im-
mediate effect, become a country’s best
nm from what Canon
‘putre-
price of
young Irish mind in which ‘the fool
ishness of, the 3’ (it, we.may so] Munster, a decrease of 2.700 acres -in| aud in Connaught 5,236,587.» There is
pola Bhrase it) seemed the only] (5 ae ana 8 decrease of 1,953 acres |. decrease’ of 156,021 in Letnster, while | accept
ing the Nation from its|in Connaugl ere are increases of 50,790 in Mun-
Mallowings “thetore the false gods of the
hunters and the foul ambitions
of the politicians.”
—++
TO COUNTESS MARKIEVICZ,
—— :
By Exeanor Roorrs Cox.
Noble tm name, but thrice-ennobled now
yr that you bear the stigmata divine
of ireland’s woe upon your soul and
row,
And thal henceforth,
hea shin
A bright, ntalling tar that name shall
Whereby the proud, the generous, the
ue, ‘
Shall hold a straighter course to Lib-
Shall for her sake more greatly dare
and do. "
| what bitter gourd unto your Up is
To whet harsh task, your Jatlors
fore
jo brave, o oa to succor the ais
tresse
whet ftnrther captive-doom is for you
ni
This from our sight is hid; but this
we knaw,
As,you your all for Ireland's free-
m
So one with hers in splendor as in
‘Through unseen, shining’ years your
fame will live.
++
COMMUNION.
By Manve CAVANAGH.
Tho’
_ Death,
There is fo silence and no woe,
Between the intervening breadth
For words they spoke a while
Come thundering back across the Ble,
To us they left to tend the Lig!
Our erie their allan tate wonld mar,
‘There is but cause for joy and pride,
Let Ireland's voice send o'er Death’
A pean of thanks to those who ated,
Who , smiling plunged in Freedom's
flood,
And drowned the great Lie in their
blood.
dead; | Too mézed as yet the world to gauge
uniform taking the “young lancer’s
word."
“Mr, mond Howard, we think, at.
hours “when Hooligans might
easily mistaken what was going on for
e full meaning of the Act,
uit Chivalry's white lamp again.
heirs of that inheritance
Trvhose ranks were glorified by Chri,
o| Who watched by Justice in her tra
8, it was,
ou stad no friends ,in the other) ™
‘An “iission which would deserve| ©
old.
are mo-| crease o
‘a8! compared with 26!
in Freedom's| |,
“now our comrades walk . with| inc
“| AGRICULTURE IN IRELAND. | \*
The Total Area Under Tillage
Has Decreased, While the
Number of Live Stock Has In-
ereased—The Area Under Flax
Shows a Small Increase.
According to the annual repart—1915-
1916—of the Department of Agricul-
ture and Techateal Instruction for Tre
land, the total area of corn and gre
crops, including flax and fruit, anion
ed in 1916 to 2,400,356 acres, as cor
pared with 2404281 acres ta 1915, 8
decrease of
an increase & Ulster of 10,280 acres, oF
er ind a decrease oa ‘on-
naught ot? aa acres, or 0.8 per cent.
Wheat—There is * gecrense vot 10,092
In the total
here are decreases
In Leinster, 2,418 acres
Lt
of 6,223 acres {
in Munster, 4,197 acres in Ulster, and
an increase ot 2 2,746 acres in Connaught.
Oats—The1 decrease of 17,071
acres
acres in caster, snd a decrease of 2205
acres in Coni
Barley and. pere—There is an in-
naugl
Ry There is a decrease of 831 acres,
or ah 2 eer cent., in the total area of
peas in 1916 fs 148 acres, as compared
with 180 acres in 1915, a decrease of 32
28,
“Pot tatoes—The total ‘area of potatoes
in 1916 is 586,308 acres, as compared
with 594,487 acres in 1915, a decrease
There
ease of 469 acres in Connaught.
35,122 acres in 1!
decrease of 2,308 acres, or 0.9 per
There is an increase of 359 acres i
in
Lesa, an increase of 1,388 acres in
Mangels nd Beet Root t—The area of
mangels and beet root in 1916 is 80,464
acres, as compared with 82,728 acres in
1915, @ decrease of 2,264 acres, or 2.7
per cent. There is a decrease of 958
acres in Leinster, an increase of 4
acres in Munster, a decrease of 745
In Ulster, and a decrease of 967
in Connaust
he ‘area of cabbage in
ise a 4, 309 actos, as compared with
36,936 acres in 1915, a decrease ot 1,627
rape ey 100 acres.
as are not specified among
ie “fongsing ow & decrease amount:
to 7,289 a
Fermatagh of
ghan of 1,926 acres, and in Tyrone of
5,680 acres.
¥Rorr,
‘The total area of truft is returned in
1916 at 15,567 acres, as com) with
15,885 acres fn 2915, a docrense of 318
acres, or 2.
oliowing “samomary shows the
green crops, flax, and fruit by prov-
ces:
In Leinster the area under
eased .by 7,878 acres. There
is a decrease of 6,223 acres in wheat
and of 7,784 acres in oats, and an in-
crease of 6.046 acres in barley. In
green crops there {a a decrease of 4,267
acres. There is a decrease of 636 acres
In potatoes, an increase of 359 ‘acres in
turnips, a decrease of.958 acres in man-
w and beet root
in barley of 1,378 acres, and a decrease
In rye of 172 acres. In green rol
there is an Inerenss of 738 acres, There
of 2,378 acres in Potatoes,
mi incresee of 1888 acres. in urnips,
an Increase of 406 acres in nangels and
beet root jecrease of 1,223 acres
In cabbage. ‘There ts an incrense of 14
acres § in the area under flax, and a de-
creas of 34 acres in the area ‘under
Con:| The total number ef mutes and jennets
fs an increase of 72 acres
in Scatnster, and there are decreases of |@0 increase in Leinster of 33,209, in
172 acres in Mugster, 310 acres in Ul-|,Munster of 63,159, in Ulster of 23,403,
ster, and 421 acres in Conn Se one or a ae
Beans and Peas—There is a decrease r of sheep is
returned ra “fols 1 3183, 708, being an
{ing a
je
. | iste
je-
‘The area under flax 18 91,454 acres in| 9 the twenty-fifth anniversary of th
founding of the organization are being
1916, as compared with 53,143 acres in| (O07 are being
1915, an Increase of 38,311 acres, oF| tneir ftaraflies and frlends will be en
arotlies 7
crest ot S100" acrea int Arms a ‘or|tertaned, on Saturday evening, Octo
ot tab aces, ta ber 28, 1916, at the club rooms, U. I.
fol
main changes in the area of corn and | hel
ql
on
corn
has dee reased by 11,191 acres. There
crease of 4,191 acres in Wheat, a
decrease of 7,146 acres in oats, an in-
crease of aa acres fn barley, and a de
crease of 310 acre rye. In gre
crops there is a ecreas se of 15,094 acres,
Potatoes decreased by 9,432 8, man:
gles and beetroot by 200 eres, tur-
nips by 745 acres, and cabbage by 207
cn. The aren under fax is returned
in 1916 as 89,306 es, a8 comp pared
with 52,521 acre:
oe oe a acres,
of 220 al
Tn Connaught the area under
has increared by 637 acres. There
in an increase
2 ‘rutt “tuere is a de
crops
is an increase of 2,746 acres in wheat, a
ease of 2,205° in oats, an in-
crease of 519 acres in barley, and a de
creas 21 In green
crops there is a decrease of 3,712 acres.
‘There is a dlocres ase of 469 acres in po-
tatoes, of urnips, of 967
sin man nels and beet root; and an
Increase of 116 acres fn cabbage. Flax
has increased by 78 eres, and frult
39
tal area of hay tn 1916 fs pe
turned a 2.406.247 ae res, as compared
with 2,495,92: in 191 jecrease
of 89, a2 acres, oor. a6 per cent. The
area under bay shas decreased in all
four Provine
The area of ‘pasture, including moun-
tain grazing is returned as 12,439,709
acres in 1916, as compared with 12,
124 acres in 1915, an increase of 86,585
acre:
Horses, Mules, Asses.—The total
ny umber of horses has nereseed by 38
is an increase in Leinster
ot 7.700, ‘tn Munster of 12,705, in Ulster
of 12,405, and in Connaught of 4,872.
as decreased by 571. The number of
asses has increased by 2,591,
Cattle.—The total number of cattle
shows aa increase of 126,646, There is
increase of 163,638 as compared with
are increases amounting
in Leinster, 27,998 in Mun-
oer 21, 833 in Ulster, and 67, 734 in Con- | ¢
ught.
wplgs:—The total number of pigs has
increased by 85,040, There are
creases of 14,807 in Leinster, 38,514 ‘
Munster, 11,237 In Ulster, and 20,482 in
Connaught.
ata—There is an increase of 60,819
“ne bomber of goats. There are in-
creates of 10,711 tn, Leinster, 16131. In
Munster, 15,681 im Ulster, and 8,296 in
Connaught.
Dee number of poultry re
thrned in 1916 amounts to 26,472,753, ai
compared with 26,088,807 in 1915, show:
n increase ot 8 Leinster
the number retui "5,023,743,
Munster 6,156,205, a“ Ulster 10,056,218,
ae, 189, ons in Ulster, and 299,259 in
Connaught
fyi MEN'S NEW OFFICERS.
newly, ‘elected oMcera of the
county Sligo Men's S. & B, Association
were installed on last Sunday atternou
with the usual ceremony. Hopes are
Tuning high that the next will be ae
brilliant gad honorable, if, indeed, they
any previous period in its
The, {totiowing “ts, . lst of the new
board of offices es S. Coen, Pres
(dent; John J. Crofton, | Vice-President;
Joseph Brennan, Treasurer; Luk
Dermott, Financial Secretary; Michael
J. Ro. ers, Reser ing Secretary; Thom-
as P, y, Corresponding Secretary;
John J, Brady, Sergeant-at-Aj
he coming’ monthe ‘wilt be full of
social activities and new
8, U. I, C.
A. Building, nat East Forty- teh Street.
A large gathering of Sligo’s sons and
daughters will surely be -pré
Speeches,
fancin ig will be freely caloyed and re-
freshmenta will be ser
filed
N. Y. STATE GAELIC LEAGUE.
special meeting of the Gaelic
League of the State of New York was
Tuesday, October 3, at 224 East
Sixty-second Street, to consider action
Irish Relief Fund
lam 0"!
vs
Chairman explained at length
the project for which the meeting was
summoned, and asked for an expression
of opinion from the members as to the
adv teatltty ot 8 their taking a booth at
the A general oe
u
sion followed ebich showed tha
members were enthusiastic for toe
ing a boot! unanimously decided
| Sogorainsly
Ac was immediately ap-
pointed to organize and carry ‘out tho
work of the booth. Following are the
names of the ladies and gentlemen ap-
pointed:
M. A. O'Byrne, Pri
urer; William Q'Do'
Devlin, Secretary
ttee—Willlam Lyons, P, Mur-
phy, Mra. P. Moore. B. J. Morrison. Mar
tin Miss Huban, Miss Cloyne,
Miss O'Mahony, Miss’ Teague, Soumas
O'Donnellan, Miss K. O'Byrne, Miss K.
Car mod, Mes wat fam O'Dowd, Miss
dent and Treas-
td, Manager, P.
Ard ever Truth o'er life have ol priced.
Today the task God a asked
Freedom one victory more bas won, .
ral
in Ulster the area under corn cropa
| will be given later.
in|
and sham.
ts
Miss N. Foley, Miss M. Quinn, K. Fitz-
patrick, J. MoCaffrey.
‘A ceilidhe under the auspices of the
Executive will be held on Thanksgiv-
November 29, at Plaza As-
sembly Rooms, of which particulars
IT WOULD BE CHEAPER
For England if the United States
Joined the Allies and Paid All
the Bills.
(From the New Yorker Herold, Oct. 4.)
“When will the United States
come in?”
As usual,
devoutly hoping to keep out, and even
I explained that we were
suggested some of the advantages af
forded to the Allied nations by our neu-
trality,
On, yes,” was her reply, “we get
ammunition from you, but that is bust
ness. You send us ammunition
pay for it. e fvebundred-million.
tion free, and that half a pittion dolars
would be only a
the war expenses. And tl
better for us than neutrality, would it
not?”
Lady Beatty is also one of the many
that intervention has aided in assuring
petory for the Allies. This, they say,
ferheartotnens might make him a too
lentent party in the peace pa:
Hes must dictate
8,” she declared. thus
into nothingnes:
ent bubble of peace intervention w
has so long dazzled American visfon,,
THE NEW INTERPRETATION.
President Willson has deigned to in-
form a waiting and Somewhat aston:
ished public that we have all
wrong meaning into George Washing
ton's celebrated warning against “En-
tangling Alliances.” The President es.
sures us that ington has
quite misunderstood ail this time and
that we havi js statement on al-
Vances far too lit
e enlightened oa y moment by what
President Wilson considers the real in:
terpretation, whic! must of course
thetr own
soothing to Mr, Wilson’s pro-British
soul,
TO FIGHT CONSORIPTION.
DUBLIN, Oct. 4.— Dublin Cor-
poration has adopted a Tesolution prov
Col
nforce com:
pulsory service in Ireland. <{
“BULL” MAINTAINS RECORD
The October number of Bull, thé
sprightly monthly magazine, continues
intain {ts fine: standard. me fairly
reintillater wit re" 18
rT biting nature,
pte the splendid Americaniem wh
preaches is a real welcome political
Monte ‘in the midst of s0 much fraud
m. Bult merits suppor
——+ 2
EIRE AFTER ‘ER THE STORM,
By Marve Cava CAvANAGH.
Debi aun tho’ scarred by War's
passion,
unrepentance Ireland
In evo
Her rune “ear repelling all com
Her proven sword still grssping in her
Failure? Not 80, ze stgh her great
heart troubles,
This day and hence her lust for Free
dom double
wen now she stoops to build up and
Tho’ round her fost her martyred dead
"rise from this,” her
In Fates dsrite she'll fight again and
|| TO IRISH COLLEGE MEN
No tears her brave eyes mar, hope still |
are lying, of
See from their blood her soul new life
som,
HOW THESE MOTHERS
“KEEP THEIR BABIES
~ WELL AND STRONG
READ THEIR, EXPERIENCES TOLD
UK THEN THEIR OWN WORDS
“Both at
dren bave
Father
Medicine witl
good res
ways
bottle of the
medicine in
use for an
emergen:
Signed) Mrs. S,
boon 5 Bailey St La Lawrence, “Mass.
— recom-
mend Father
John's Medicine to
anyone that is run
have
our
little boy, for
we od,
pean cae? its J. ing,
819 t.. Port Huron, Vad
ttle M4:
Mabel. “Eagar, RF, D. No. »!
Shitpine Port, P.
cl ther Sonn ‘5
Medicine when he
hed ble with
d o
cannot recommen
ight 2 oe ed)
ig signe
Mrs. “Anconh Spencer, Mass. =
“Whenever “my
little boy fcels
own or in
poor health, we
¢. him eather
Foi ¥ Medici
it proves
bene every
I have ie
hen ‘it myself with
ood ‘results. (Signed) Mrs, Iona
Eeattey, 5 W, rorst St, New York City.
ged 4, gain:
cellent health by using it” (Si
irs. Jas, Williams, sr Grove KS :
a8
a Beg
g8B4
Raised
08
pa igned) Mrs. ye
ty, No. 15, Groton, N.
Mothers _ sovatalty
value of Father
cause they know it is a pure and whole-
some fi
and strength without
dangerous drugs and ts,
for children as well as older peor!
duat past oF eat “atudent at
Darby, acting sec
Irish Collegiate Club,
Thirty-seventh Street, Newstork
LEGAL NOTICES,
ACKETT, GEORGE E.— In pursuanoe of ax
jer of Hon. John F otulan © Sorpomere
of the County of New York, notice is hereby
fren to all’ eaert having
(Heck ett avo ofthe Counry of New Fork dex
., he same with vouchers there.
tothe ‘ebscr place of transact
business. at the oftceot his attorney, Jobn Nea
jo. # Nassau Street, in the City of New:
York. 900F evant eid y of Febriary nek
Dated, Now fete.
o00 G, Rackott,
John Nicolson, *
Apeer! Tor Admiutsteater.
Seven Birest. Manbattan Boroagh,
on
1 rect thee, ‘precious Jrelang, pleage
of redeeming
Martyt scion deat these “avin wins life
risen
The gottine smile of sacritce shines on
ine upturned faci
T hail thee, oly dreland, unsullied by
Loyal ° “the ‘vel, firm in faith up
ifted over los
May, 1916, Useepin,
1 Cos MARGARET AUGRES.—In purse.
AMERICA TO ATO IRELAND. ance of an order of Hon. Jona ¥ Cobalan, «
Bur te of the County of RSs. ‘ork, notice ‘ta
By ‘Taran \ereby give i FOses acalnet
Rarwerse ue es ( Curley, rate of tl on Sonny of
I see thee, meee Ireland, pure passton's RET ore ceases, © Provent, the same
ila, bis place of ft rere Tanineen ihe pace, of
Born on ie tryst ot bess only Lent Hotere Le Signe
fh Beauty s and before the 300 Tare
Tender ee ardent, uilthe and Save, ines New york ‘be ieth day of September,
truehearted, undefiled. Frank J, Curley,
Robert Administrator 6. t
Rttorter f ey for Adrivistrator o. it
No. 40 Wallstreet. Manbattan,
aie
sorter ot Mon, i
aty of Nor ace ts hee
vail peveone Siri sisi gaint Sriceet
late of the County of New York.
Cost an, BRIDGET.=19, parsu
of the
Eirento fe
TrenesM Mi Coane! Miss. M.
O'sulilvan,. Sites K. ‘Gyan, 3 Arthur,
Move ts thou ‘Sation eruciied to rever-
ence at thy
ceteedy to prosent the carve with vouchers there:
f to the subseriber, at bis place of transacting
Sustnese, Ne roadway: in the City of Ni
York, ot or beiore the idm day of April, oext,
ae yw York, the 2th duy em}
: Corvelius, P. MoLauzhitn.
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