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January 8; 1916.
t the tip of the Gallipoli Pen-
ey Allied warships, without ef-
some rather
iss There bas been
fect igghting at points. along the
seven Front between the Belgia
wee the Swiss
kes 8p
ra yoards, but little progress on
field of action, the chief interest be-
ee still in the Balkans. and Asia Minor
and toward the Suez Canal,
The principal Tealeation that im-
portant events are preparing in that
t of the war zone {s that the rail-
par!
ween Central Europe
way service bet
ward and som
westward, Special jassenger traffic
d pres
treacherous intentions towards Greece
f the Allies. Of what is
ieft of the Servian army, that part
which entered Albania has been dealt
with as it deserved by the Albanians
and Russian intrigue, King
Nistolas of Montenegro being indispos-
harbor his assassin son-in-law,
peer
many reasons the events im-
pending in Asta Minor will be of special
d the Suez
The Turko- e to C
the East has already compelled ‘ng. ‘Harbors of the United States,
land’ to alter the whole disposition of
its own, the Co!
part of her ow
Umperial domain, with the result that
neutral trafic is practically ‘halted or
an only be carried on with her con-
It.
S
It is the liberation of this highway
from alienation by Great Britain from
its original purpose and to restore it to
the service of the whole world, that the
Turks acting with the Germans have
to the task, while their success in Meso-
potamia is giving a stimulus to the
antiRussian anti-British revolt in Per-
sia and to the unrest in India which is
nearing the boiling point. The latest
news from there tells of the complete
failure of the. Congress of the India
Moslem League, an organization got up
yy that unsavory individual and parti-
zan of India’s British oppressors, the
Agha Khan who was exposed by Tue
Gariic American some months ago.
The efforts of the reactionary Tories
Bri check; and the
cu ‘ue on the Morgan attempt to
ust asis for England’s finan-
cial ‘tperations indicate a wholesome
change of mind among the people of the
United | States. nd’s announce-
ment that ghe t go on indefinitely
financing her Allies. and furnishing
them with munitions and fight at the
same time, lifts the veil covering the
perfidy of her intentions toward them,
nd should do more than anything else
to cause them to make a separate peace
with Germany and leave her to her own
devices and to face the contempt ot an
outraged world.
BRITISH HYDROGRAPHERS AT WORK.
tention of. the
ments at Washington and the Coast De-
, ferice Section of the wa Department
tion concerning the
“THE NIGHT OF THE BIG WIND.
‘The “Night of the Big Wind” is an
event in Irish story that has served as
a chronological index in domestic tra-
ition for generations.
before . daylight morning of
“Little Christmas,” January 6, 1839, and
spread desolation over a great part of
Ireland during that day, causing heavy
loss of life and propert;
In Dublin the River Litey rose many
feet, overflowing t
The destruction of property in
Dublin alone was estimated at $350,000.
‘The Irish writer, T. 0” Nein R
experienced the “Big Win
its
“There vere a few inches of snow
coming through the thick,
Motionless clouds that over the
jete absence
hi
e, and was at
ind did not come in gusts with
Pauses Between, but was one steady
blow tor 0
forget it,
whe rear of the wind, without a a tlt
ise, drowned the hui te
pletely,
oe
too
ta
ne on house and not a soul in it would
heard a single shot. This is no
exaggeration. No one who did not hear
horrible sound—somet ‘ing between
@ how! and a roar—that the wind made
on that night, can form even a rem
iuea wt its unutterable awfulness.
‘as hardly to be wondered at that al-
moet vyersone thought the end of the
tld had come. Those who had prob-
ably never felt real fear in all their
previous lives were like babies, and
wept like tl
“The Breat ‘storm of 888 mes fet a
and
25
Bs
in the extreme North and extreme
land, and is not remembered
‘and does not form such an
it does in those parts lying
Wex-
In the part
Games and t
the foundation of their city, the people
Olymp ic
days reckoned events from
f the force of the
the thousands.
four miles from ‘Atiione ‘sone, which
there is what {s there called a ‘screen’
of trees, and it ig a fact that I heard
stated o, several reliable men who
lived on that road, that the day after
seen on it.”
several reliable men have stated, and
hich, extraordinat it 4s, there
ems, to doubt, namely. thi
Tel was in the demesne of
gentleman ree ae moo lived at
, in Westmeath, It
SOG TS:
LEANOR Rocens Cox.
With all fair titles worshipful and high,
Our souls salute thee, and our lips
salute,
Lady of all our being absolute,
Our star, tchword and our
trumpet-ery.
Lo, where within this battle-shaken
lawn,
Upon the New Year's threshold thou
dost stan
Thy sword of ancient valor in thine
Within thine eyes a high, imperial
scorn
For those who dared to cast the le
abroad,
That false to honor, to thyself, to all,
Who died to save thy soul from Saxon
thrall,
Yea, false forever to thy truth to God,
hundred miles trom where the bia was
found. Th is te vell known
“There is r curious at un-
doubted fact selating | to the great storm:
it is that showers of salt water fell in
many places. ve heard this stated
by many persons who were out on the
night of tue norm, and among them
Was one brothers. The
showers would never last but for a few
econds, ard rexerabled small water-
spouts more than showers. They fell
ii h torrents that « one was wet
instantaneously by
e ‘douches’ some of
ach the mouth,
was west-southwest,
ed from that point
as long as it lasted, the salt water must,
like the stormy petrel, have been car-
ried more than a hundred miles from
ute Atlantic to reach to nearly the cen-
tre of Westmeath
“The aopearance of the country the
day after was as awful as
it was “xrardinay Almost every
hedge: s of hay and stra
that bad been blown into it by the force
of the wind, for, alas! there is not one
grown in Trela nd now for
e in it the
ner
tnmediately aft
that did not occur after
1839. Not a
after it least
‘m was, however,
the old. men, of }
s
a
3
3
=
3
&
”
3
8
&
&
with @ good. ‘teal
ein Tre
‘and in the yea potatoes were
in 1947, the year of the famine.”
—_++>—
THE ANGLO-SAXON CRUSADE
By Joun Kenn,
Let the Saxon guard hi
Save his King and crown and throne,
If be can or if b
Let him overcome his fright,
t him muster pluck to fight
For his booty or his right,
f be can and if he dare.
Let him dupe the valiant Gaul,
k and Ruman wildly call
“Too proud to fet" —-perbape afraid.
Not a thranyeen do we care—
’Tis a family affair—
This great “anglo-Sax con Tace
of each weakling state,
God-ordi
All the peoples on n Earth's face.
Guardians they, of all that’s good;
For the right they've always st stood—
Knight-errants brave from Kew,
» All endowed amie Gortstian grace;
Gurkhas from the Himalayas,
Maoris, Papuans, Malay
‘wild men from Borneo;
Cenntbats from mild Fiji,
, too, from Barbary,
Plrates from the Chinese Sea,
Yellow men from Tokio;
Cossacks flerce from Muscovy—
d & 8
Threatening Euro
Bandits of the "Golden Horde;”
Kalmucks from the swamps of Obi,
Mongols from the sands of Gobi,
Tungus from Am
Bushmen from
a
Fill the kateldecople Tanke.
‘Then on hand to save the
IRELAND--NEW YEAR, 1916
The Seelac Amenrcan:
sesese
That, ‘hou a inet as one with Eng-
That aon a vee thy proud head down
had bent,
And willingly thine own shame's sacra-
Had anak from. Britain's hand and
called it
Nay, never eg the Ireland of our
The etna ot our hopes and pride
There we no craiior-weakness in thine
heart,
No cloud obscures thy soul's effulgent
eams:
No brand of ownership is on thy brow,
Upon thy regal spirit is no chain,
pon thy hand there is no belot etal,
No colouy of England art
Frieh renegades damfoot $5
Delu 0 dread the Pope,
Ne’ endow wells Who've lost all hope,
Prison-birds escaped the rope—
nd’s mercenary tools;
All engaged in hol;
Ejghting like the devi it “tor
f the race
saree’ ‘champions —Culture’s shield—
fet on Armageddon's
Sworn to die but never pied
Till the Teuton they effac
Sight sublime! ! across the sea
d in amit:
Preachers, ranters—Godly crew,
‘Sunday _ichoolmarma— Pru ude and
sl .
Chatter, ‘reandal, frowns and smiles;
Venal press—conscience sold—
Bulging pockets, English sold,
id business, gain and
Murder trusts—-philanthropby,
Laden shins “neutrallty,
Peace pow-wows—hypoctisy—
Fair in word but fou! in decd.
greed,
Here and there a noisy Mick
English agents deem ue brogue
Fits the Irish 4
Better still his part Oo play.
Onward with the Grand Crusade
Heaven-inspired, English paid—
id
1g
That dear “
And the “Bond of Saxot
Supersede Got's “Patherhood
id the “Brotherhood of Man.”
TRAFFIC IN LIVES.
“England’s Motherhood”.
yn blood”
By Victor Wicker.
It was a beautiful summer day;
“the sunshine ded the ocean gay;
ap ‘s proud, and the crew was
Pro
But paow in the hold, was a fettered
ft human wretches! To worse than
raves
‘The beautiful ship was carrying slaves.
The crew a English, and English the
And Eagisnmen wielded the cruel
They ua Te since, and they did it be-
On every ocean, on every sl
But the slaver's Geetinavion to.
‘Was the land of the brave and the home
of the free.
.
American countrymen! Slavery’s stain
Has sullied our honor for damnable
gain.
‘The years have come and the years
jave fled,
Since rivers of blood by our people were
shed,
To cleanse our name, but eternally
With us shall linger the memory.
And when from its slumber our coun-
try awoke,
When the genius of Lincoln trium-
phantly bro!
The chains of the slave and the idols of
gold,
Who aided the foe? My brothers be-
It was enetane
try’s
Is nardest, ‘ne drops her friendship’s
Whenever our coun-
And now on many a summer day, ‘
When one sunenine again ‘makes the
gay,
Again ‘the al ps are a frelght,
Which will bring us profits and we
earned hate,
For as sure as the sunshine is followed
by rain,
While we sowed with greed, we shall
reap with pain.
For the freight is powder and poisoned
shell, .
Aud the profits come from the mouth of
ell,
And though with English hypocelay
We pray for peace on our bended knee,
We know in our hearts, as we did of old
We are trading in Hives for the lust of
gold.
The ships are English and English
And is England's
BY REY. FATHER
Writing from the parochial residence
of St. Augustine's Parish, 220 Thirty-
Seventh St.,
Rolf, 0,
“Pather Jobn’s |
John's Medicine too much.
have also used it and
greatest benefits from it"
Rev. Agatho Rolf, 0. M. Cap.
received the
(Signed)
| gerous
Pittsburg, Pa, Rev. Agatho | John’s Medicine ts a safe medicine for
ays, all the family.:
AGATHO ROLF
Capuchin Father of St. Augustine’s
Parish, Pittsburg, ‘Tells of Benefits
Received from Father John’s Medi-
cine==-Safe for Colds.
Because of its freedom from dan-
drugs in any form, Father
It ig pure and whole-
Medicine fe so effective in lung troubles
and in butiding up of run. iowa consti- | S0me food nourishment for those who
tutions, that 1am glad to help whom 1/8f weak and run down, Jt has bad
tan by giving thete a bottle, Myc own | more than 50 years of success in we
sister Is much Improved after taking | treatment of colds and throat and lun
the medicine, not praise Father: troubles. Not a patent medicine nt °
Our fathers! doctor's
watts Mass,
the rn
from whom the medicine got its name
d by whom {t was recommended.
A book of rebe
BY PETER
Order now.
Care The Gaelic American, 1
THE “VOICE OF IRELAND”
The most National poems since Young Ireland
One Dollar per copy.
| trish poetry
GOLDEN
From the Author
65 William St., New York
But the horrible freight is American
made
(Let a spade for ever be called a spade)
To nothing our pitiful prayers fmoun
Our only God is our bank a
‘tae world has dreamed, and the world
And the’ foes of freedom exultingly joke,
For its (Rampion fell, and its ideals
fai
And the ‘ove of the golden calf pre-
vaile’
And a hope of tae world is laid in a
In the home of the free, in the land
of the brave, .
DR, JOSEPH J, O'CONNELL,
HEALTH OFFICER, DIES,
The death of Dr. Joseph J. O'Connell,
Health Officer of the Port of New York,
which occurred last Saturda
Francls College and. of the Long Island
College, from which
medical degree.
New York
College Hospital, a visiting physician
of several local hospitals, and a mem-
er of a number of medical associations.
In addition to membership in social
clubs he was also a member of. the
Emerald Club and the St. Patrick's So-
fety of Brooklyn.
anpetntea Health Officer
ew York in 1912 by Governor Dix.
JOE MURPHY, PLAYER, DEAD
WILMINGTON, Del. 2.—The
death of John Guthrie occurred at his
home in this city on Sunday, December
Mr. rie was
Wilmington and
wrens business, in which
je was very su
oO tering polities he was twice
elected Council: whan for the Ward in
whi ed and then City Treasur-
record as City Trensurer as
er. His
said to be the best of any official
over held that office in Wilmington. “ne
afterwards appointed Superinten-
dent of the State. corpitel, ue post
tion he held Te
mained m power in
Mr. was a consistent and life-
long Trish Nationalist.
Cc Gael from
organization that temporarily succeed-
ed the Fenian Brotherhood in Wilming-
ton.
own request, he was buried in
sth, a nati ‘ork, & prominent
Fenian and the only Delawarean to enter
the Union Ar nd be
of
action, having met his death at the Bat-
tle of Chancellorsville,
JOHN GUTHRIE DEAD.
Joe Murphy, the comedian who made
his reputation ey his Impersonations in
oth
<erry Trish
lays, died last oFritay “in New York
City. He was eighty-three years old
and had accumulated a fortune esti-
mated at several millfon otters, His
greatest hit le of the
Slackemith In. “The Kerry
which the main feature was ‘he shoe.
ing of a horse on the stage. wt
Murphy was born in
Funeral services were held last Monday,
+++
saris organizations of Springheld,
will hold a carnival on Febru:
TO WOULD-BE CIVIL SERVANTS:
Before taking the Werd of anybody
that he is an expert or a teacher inguire
10. he comes to be either,
nm you will come to
CONWAY" S SCHOOL,
20 East 42nd Street,
u are wise.
Uasses for ail branches of Civil Ser
vice. Out of 34 pupils of the Con
School who entered the examination for
Police Captain 31 a:. on the Ist
fens the first ten names note Con-
way's :
Rona E. Enright.....No
as
Swomocwn
»
Candidates for Police Sergeant and Fire
Lieutenant should give attention.
Classes for these now running at
0 “MAST 42ND STREET
THE CRIME AGAINST Lead
By SIR ROGER CASEME}
The man who foretold the war.
TWENTY-FIVE CENTS.
The Crna His History of the
3
riers cers
rite PADRAIC LAGAN,
Philadelphia, Pa.
726 Spruce St.
M. A. O’Gonnor,
General Job Printer,
IS NOW LOCATED AT
62 DUANE STREET.
NEW YORK CITY.
Telephone Spring 411
O'SULLIVAN & DUGAN
Funeral Directors and
balmers
m
249 HUDSON STREET, NEW YORK
TURN DOWN WINBORNE,
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favor ot Tecruiting, | should come over
to Ireland and a it.
“The Ch ina They would be
cused of dictation
“Mr. Connell— here _re nO young
men in we countr;
“Mr, Wilknsonet ‘thin Kk
young shopkeepers and
they should f you go to Dub-
lin and want a pair of gloves or a tie
you will be served by a young man.
That class should be appealed to more
than the | mers”
it fs the
their assistants
Is at ‘the farmers’ sons
the -asthortiee ore hittin;
—The place to look
for veal is in the big English factories.
“Mr. ane —The young fellows
doing w women oe do should
be ashamed ot “theniselve
“Mr. Dunne—It may that
will all have toe fe as ihe: Germans can.
not me allowed
e Cler ret “thought you would be
gone ven ago.
“Mr. Dunne—I am waiting for Mr.
Meehan.
“Eventually a resolution was passed
epproving | of the voluntary system,
whic! o successful, and stating
that owing to the large numbers of met
who had enlisted from the cistriet fur.
ther efforts would be unavailin:
+e
The jobs vacated by the British Post
of the Defence of Tre.
lay
When the motley troops “give way”
thetr destination
trand,
2 De and 4in aid
land Fund.
Office Rifles are now held by the Post
Office riflers.
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