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tributors will kindly bear this in mind.
A cheerful word will often dis
pel the darkest clouds of gloom. Would
you prevent, the sun from shining if
it were in your power to make it
shine?
In Kansas a law was passed recent
ly which, if interpreted literally,
would make the passing around of
election cigars a penitentiary offense.
The voters ought to feel relieved.
A Kansas woman ju8t before her
marriage required her future husband
to sign a thousand dollar note, pay
able in the event that lie should leave
her. Some women would get rich on
a scheme of that kind.
Governor Noel of Mississippi in in
troducing Theodore Roosevelt to an
audience at Jackson, Mississippi, re
ferred to him as the "foremost priv
ate citizen of the world." But then
there isn't any such thing as world
citizenship.
Since the Mexican war scare caus
ed the sending of United States
troops to the border, hundreds of men
are daily sending applications for en
listment to the recruiting stations.
Their patriotism consists mostly in
prospects of a vacation and a trip
with pay.
u-
Rev. Hilary Jordan of the Cathedral
parish St. Paul, addressed the Catho
lic Student, club of the University of
Minnesota on the recent book by Prof.
Albert von Ruville entitled "Back to
Holy Church." Prof, von Ruville is a
German authority on history, whose
ancestors fell away from the Church
at the time of the Reformation. Father
Jordan pointed out. in an interesting
way the doctrines ot the Catholic
Church which proved the turning point
In Prof, von Ruville's career. He
recommended the reading of the book
to his hearers as a means of gaining
practical knowledge of the objections
that are urged against the Church.
The thilrd parliamentary election in
fourteen months is to be held in
North Loiith. In the December elec
tion Mr. Hazelton won over Tim
Healy by a plurality of 488 votes. In
the election prior to that Tim Healy
iiuted Louth by 99 votes. Enraged
by his humiliating defeat in a con
stituency which he represented for
years, Mr. Healy and his friends con
tested the election with the result
that another election has been de
clared for North Louth. Augustine
Roche will be the Nationalist candi
date. From all indications Mr. Heal.v
has only given the electors of the
Louth constituency another chance to
.show him that they are out of sym
pathy with his policy.
Whether it should be so or not iB
a question, but the fact is thut the
significance of a statement does not
depend so much on what is said as
on who said it. If Roosevelt says
that dishonest people, whether Cath
olic or Protestant shoulff be kept out
of politics, or Charles W. Eliot, presi
dent emeritus of Harvard, says men
and women should live up to the
same standard of purity, they are
widely, quoted and commended lor
v'".
vi'.\
WHAT IS SUCCESS?
tired different definitions. So too it
is with the word success. What does
for one person and another, for an-
their sound advice. Yet any man so completely drained by emigration
with right reason who is honest with that there are but a few meager mill
himself cannot possibly arrive at. a ions left and even they are ill-fed,
different conclusion. But if John ill-clothed and, what is at the root Of
Smith were to give utterance to the it all, ill-governed.
above antiquated platitudes no one Not content with their own coun
would pay any attention to it. Wis- try, Irishmen have gone forth to lend
dom is valuable but advertising helps iheir industry, their genius and their
too. skill to the solution of the problems
of other lands. Wherever they have
gone they have succeeded. On the
battle field their records of daring
There are many general terms in
common use winch are but vaguely
defined. Take, ior example, such martiul prowess we have only to men
words as house, bush, man, boy. if
other or some it consists in amass- for jaw
ing a fortune l'or others, in winning
distinction iu a chosen line of work
for others, in winning lame for oth
ers, in winning the admiration of
their fellows and so on. Btu is there
far as each individual is concerned
consists in the attainment ol' the ideal
which the individual chooses for him
self. Now then, it follows that the
individual's success depends on the
nature of llit ideal chosen and the
degree iu which it is been attained,
or, as all will agree, Unit each man's
ideal should be the highest ideal, we
may ask. What is the highest ideal.-
Now the question is resolved into one
which the little child making the ac-
.luaiiitance of the catechism, can an-
swer. Obviously it is to live so as ^urn
to obtain one's own salvaLiou and liel
as many others as possible to live
better and nobler lives.
The young man then who is setting I
out to will his laurels in the struggle
of life should not aim merely to
amaSs a fortune, or to make for him
self a great name. He should stop
and ask himself, How can I best at
tain and help humanity to attain the
things that are worth while? The
pusuit he will follow will depend on
his talents and inclinations. Hut
whatever he follows his aim in the
last analysis should be to help others
to set for themselves high ideals and
to shape his own life so that it will
blend into a glorious eternity.
IRELAND AND ST. PATRICK.
The return of St. Patrick's Day
will cause to be rehearsed again by
millions of tongues and pens the
story of Ireland and Ireland's patron ,|H0 ,t
saint. On that day the minds of the
thirty million irishmen scattered
throughout every habitable country of
the world will be occupied with a
common thought—the thought of the
dear old land that straiten circum
stances have caused them, however,
reluctantly, to Rave behind. There
is no nationality in the world that is
welded together by a common inter
est as the Irish are united by St. Pat
rick. Every true hearted man who
claims the legacy of Irish blood and
knows I he story of Ireland's wrongs,
whether he lives on the old sod it
self, in England, America, Australia,
New Zealand, Cape Colony or in any
other country on the face of the globe,
will on the seventeenth of March re
member that his heart is linked by
ties that time cannot corrode to the
land of the shamrock. St. Patrick
was once a slave in Ireland since
his time Irishmen have been slaves
to the welfare of their Motherland.
The life of St. Patrick is too well
known to Irish people to need re
hearsing here. All know how, after
freed himself from slavery, he
went back to the continent and. hav-
ing prepared himself for his heaven- jjqUOr»
ordained mission, he went to Home
to receive the sanction of the Pope
and how ho then returned to invade
and conquer alone and without a. wea-
pon except (he eiueiflx, and the pray-
erboolt, a barbarous country. The
tremendous moral force he exerted
and the almost miraculous response
of the people to his teaching, are
unique among historical wonders. If
the Irish people were doomed to suf
fer the most notorious wrongs of an
unjust government, God foreordained
that in their suffering they should
have the most potent consolation—
that of the True Faith.
The history of Ireland is a tragedy
written in blood. The violent but fu-
tile attempts of tyrany to conquer a
race that is unconquerable have
wrought havoc and mysery in a land
that might otherwise be a typical
The oppression, however, has left
its mark in present day poverty. Ire
land with an area large enough and
a soil rich enough to support fifteen
refme,j
nothing absolute about it? Let us jlave become the corner stones of so
analyze it and see.
cial stability.
Vv,- may generalize the above con-.
siderations by saying that success, so
JH*
are W).itten hl bloo(1. To rccall Uu,ir
tjon men as
a hundred people were asked to de-j Nolan and Kerwin, military
fine one of them we would get a hun- gcnjuses
sured. wuh
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WOuld
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or sixteen millions of people, is today lost iu too many families. Thc whole
.Meagher, Sheridan,
0f
the Civil War. In the
legislature8 0f
the Ufiited Slates and
Canada aml Australia
success mean.' If all who read this taking an important part. And in
would answer there would be a var- ,|le parliament of England the Irish
icty of answers. It means one thing
religious instinct and regard
aU(j
jXUtilority have made the
sons and daughters of Erin a valu
able force for social uplift in every
community which they have invaded.
They have built churches and schools
alld in their siIenti unobtruslve way
But in the cUangc and stress of
liiejr oxi)e,
they never forget the old
land. Irishmen are nothing if not
loyal. A call tor aid never fails to
awaken a response. Last fall we had
a magnificent illustration of the gen
erosity of our Irish exiles. The en
voys who came to America to solicit
ai(j
And thus the question resolves itseli immes returned with renewed cour
into, What should he a man's ideal?
^Qr flgj,ting Ireland's political
a„e iUUl hope They
„ave
prosperity will re-
St:. Patrick, (lie shamrock and lre
land, what an inseparable trijiity of
names! Irishmen, be proud of them.
Live ao (hat you wil, cngt nQ dlscredit
on them and they wil
on you.
Lari miSH STANDARD, SATURDAY, MAKCH 18, ltfll
irishmen are
Party C0lnman(ls tlle 8|tuauon.
Their
gince mode
iood use of the funds they secured.
Not for many yeanj hgB Home Ru!(,
for
jre]ami occupied such a prominent
a 8
U)day car]y realizafion as.
cast no discredit
THE ARMY CANTEEN.
Since the abolition of the army can
teen iu 1901 not only the privates but
many of the leading officers of the
army have clamored for the repeal of
the law on the ground that its pas
sage in the first place was a serious
mistake. It can be safely said that
many of the good people who used
their influence to have the law pass-
ed had little or no conception of the
results that would follow. Most of
llie people who urged the abolition ot
the canteen concluded that the sol
diers, not being permitted to have
beer iu their own quarters, would not
at all and they WQUld ther(J
fore, be better off. That would be a
desirable solution of the drink evil
in the army but as a trial ot ten
years lias shown, it did not work out
that way. The abolition of the can
teen has not only not prevented the
use of liquor by the soldiers but it
has ciHised innumerable dens of li
quor and vice to infest the territory
immediately surrounding army posts.
The soldiers not only get beer but
they get a poor quality of liquor of
all kinds and those who have not the
strength of character to overcome the
temptations amidBt which they are
thrust, contract diseases that ultimate
ly lead to depravity and ruin.
After the canteen had been abol
ished two years General Grant said,
"It is hardly necessary for me to state
that the prohibition of the sale of
beer in the post exchange has re
sulted in a great increase in the num
ber of saloons, generally of the low
est class in the vicinity of all posts
and a consequent injury to discip
line." Three years later he said, "I
now believe that no less than ninety
per -cent of all the troubles that occur
in
„lc
anny aro due t0 thc use ol-
General Corbin, after stating that if
it were in his power to prevent the
use of liquor by any person or to pre-
vont
([le manufacture of it, says: "It
seem unnecessary to argue to
a fair-minded person the superiority
of thc system which provides a mild
alcoholic beverage at reasonable cost
in moderate quantities, under strict
military control ,to one which results
in luring the soldier away from his
barrack to neighboring dives where
his body and soul are poisoned by vile
liquors, with the accompanying vice
of harlotry, and where his money is
taken from him by gamblers and
thieves." Furthermore, army static
cs ah0w
that the number of hospital
cases due to alcoholism and to dis
eases contracted by improper asso
ciations have vastly increased since
the
abolition of the canteen.
home of prosperity. The crushing obviously the purpose for which the
laws ol inhuman tr.vrants made Ire- canteen was abolished has not been
land a land of slavery and slaughter. realized. Rather the abolition of it
for centuries. The attempt to kill ijas precipitated worse conditions,
thc germ of Catholicity that flour- \vi10n there are only two alternatives,
islied there gave rise to the opprobl- both of which contain evils, the best
us penal code that exhausted the re-
that can be done is to
sources of subtle minds attuned to iesse,._ this case the lesser seems
the work of demons. But as well f0 be the restoration of the army can
might they have attempted to still jeen_
the tides that wash Erin's shores, for
the evasive germ would not be killed.
choose the
HOME PLEASURES.
In a large city where there are num
erous places purporting to furnish
amusement the art of providing home
enjoyment is neglected or entirely
family gets into the habit oi attend
ing the theater and the passion grows
by what it feeds on. Too often the
shows have a bad influence, especial
ly on the young. Salacious farces,
musical comedies and problem plays
of various kinds are attended indis
criminately. The parents whose
characters are formed do not stop to
analyze the situations and calculate
what effect they will have on their
young sons who are getting their tirst
glimpses of the world outside their
own home. They forget that a large
percentage of the shows that are on
the theatrical circuits today are sea
soned with as much obscenity as the
law will allow.
But why depend on the stage en
tirely for enjoyment? The home is
the j)lace where the children's tastes
should be cultivated. It is only in the
family circle where the proper influ
ences for character formation can be
brought to bear on the children with
out the intermixture of other and dan
gerous elements. There ar^, it is
true, shows that children ought to see,
allows that teach a good moral les
son forcibly. To such shows parents
should take their children, pointing
out to them the lessons that are
taught. But shows that children can
be trusted to see with good results
to their characters are extremely
few. They must have other means
of wholesome enjoyment, and these
can best be furnished in the home.
Heading, story telling, playing games
are ways in which children may be
interested and innocently amused.
The art of making home attractive
for the little ones is an art that
should be cultivated.
CONTEST LIVENING UP A BIT.
Last week was an exciting week in
the House of Commons. The Tories,
realizing the hopelessness of their
cause, are resorting to every possible
ruse to hamper the progress of the
government's plans. Every, item in
Lhe veto bill was taken up and dis
cussed at length for the purpose of
exasperating the Liberal members.
The filibustering led to the passing
between the members of the oppos
ing parties sharp, personal retorts.
The contest became so heated that
one.session lasted from three o'clock
on one afternoon to nearly noon the
next day. Notwithstanding all this,
the Veto bill passed its second read
ing with the full government plural ty.
The Tories, as might be expected,
are making the best of their laat
stand. They are helpless to initiate
any legislation and the only alterna
tive open to them is to hinder as far
as they can the progress of the work
undertaken by their opponents in
power. There lfe nothing alarming
about this phase of the situation. It
is a natural consequence of the hope
less failure of the Tories at the last
election and means nothing more than
that the fight will extend over a
longer period of time than the House
normally would require to dispose of
the same amount of business.
At any rate the plan of action is
definitely outlined. There is not like
ly to be any further talk of compro
mise or of reforming the House of
Lords on terms proposed by the
Peers themselves. Neither is there
any reason to think that any of the
proposed substitutes for Home Rule
will be considered. The most the
Tories can do is to retard legislation
They are powerless to check it. Mean
time the ene&ies of Ireland are be
coming reconciled to the inevitable.
When Home Rule comes it will be ac
cepted in a matter-of-fact way as was
the change in the King's Accession
Oath.
NEW AUTO AMBULANCE
City Purchases Rambler Car from
P. J. Downes Co.
The city of Minneapolis has ordered
from the P. J. Downes Company a
new automobile hospital ambulance of
the Rambler make to be put into the
city hospital service under direction
of the police department. The car is
beiuf? .constructed at the Rambler fac
tory, Kenosha, Wis., and will cost
the city $ !,800. The police depart
ment. is now using two patrol cars,
also of the Rambler make. These
sales indicate a strong indorsement
of the Rambler automobiles.
FROM THE CAPITAL
Ed. L. Murphy, member of the
oard of public works, is defendant
in a $5,000 damage suit now being
tried by Judge Lewis of the district
court. Morris Birger, father of 6
year-old Lizzie Birger, who was killed
last September when Mr. Murphy's
automobile, driven by Miss Murphy,
ran into the child at Rice and Viola
streets, is the plaintiff.
On Tuesday the following officials
assumed their duties in their respec
tive offices Dr. Howard Lankester,
commissioner of health, to succeed
Dr. Renz O. H. O'Neill, corporation
attorney, to succeed James C. Mich
ael, and Oscar Claussen, commission
er of public works, to succeed L. W.
Rundlett.
Samuel J. Agnew, long resident of
St. Paul, died Monday evening of last
.week at his apartments in the Fore
paugh block. Mr. Agnew had lived
hire for about twenty-five years. He
wa.s employed by the-Pioneer Press
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company and remained "fii their em
ploy for almost twenty-four years. He
was also a prominent member of the
Knights of Columbus. -Mr. Agnew is
survived by a widow. He was forty
three years old.
Back from Ireland.
P. C. Cashman of the Minneapolis
Tribune staff is back from a six
month's trip to his old home in Ire
land. Mr. Cashman traveled exten
jsively over the Emerald Isle while
away and The Irish Standard hopes
to have an article from his prolific pen
in the near future covering his ob
servations.
President of Loyola College Dead.
Baltimore, March 13.—Rev. Francis
X. Brady, S. J., president of Loyola
college and pastor of St. Ignatius'
Catholic church, was found dead in
his bed at the church rectory today.
Angina pectoris was given as the
cause of death. Father Brady was
one of the best-known Jesuit priests
in the east. He would have cele
I brated the twenty-fifth anniversary of
his ordination to the priesthood in
August.
PRAISES CHURCH
William Winter in World-Herald Pays
Glowing Tribute to Catholic Church.
To think of the Roman Catholic
Church is to think of the oldest, the
most venerable and the most powerful
religious institution existing among
men, writes William Winter, the dis
tinguished critic, in the World-Herald.
I am not a churchman of any kind
that, possibly, is my misfortune but
I am conscious of a profound obliga
tion of gratitude to that wise and aug
ust, austere, yet tenderly human eccle
siastical power, which, self-centered
amid vicissitudes of human affairs
and provident of men of learning, im
agination and sensibility throughout
the world has preserved the literature
and art of all the centuries, has made
architecture the living symbol of ce
lestial aspiration and in poetry and
music has heard and has transmitted
the authentic voice of God.
I say that I am not a churchman
but I would also say that the best
hours of my life have been hours of
meditation passed in the glorious ca
thedrals and among the sublime ec
clesiastical ruins of England. I have
worshipped in Canterbury and York,
in Winchester and Salisbury, in Lin
coln and Durham, in Ely and in Wells.
I have stood in Tintern, when the
green grass and the white daisies
were waving in the summer wind, and
have looked upon the gray and russet
walls and upon those lovely arched
casements—among the most graceful
ever devised by human art—roun,d
which the sheeted ivy drops and
through which the winds of heaven
sing a perpetual requiem.
I have seen the shadows of evening
slowly gather and softly fall over the
gaunt tower, the roofless nave, the
giant pilars and the shattered arcades
of Fountains abbey, in its sequestered
and melancholy solitude, where an
cient Ripon dreams in the spacious and
verdant valleys of the Skell I have
mused upon Netley and Kirkstall and
Newstead and Bolton and Melrose and
Dryburgli and at a midnight hour I
have stood in the grim and gloomy
chancel of St. Columbia's cathedral,
remote in the storm-swept Hebrides,
and looked upward to the cold stars
and heard the voices of the birds of
night mingled with the desolate moan
ing of the sea.
With awe, with reverence, with
many strange and wild thoughts I
have lingered and pondered in those
haunted, holy places, but one remem
brance was always present—the re
I membrance that it was the Roman
Catholic Church that created those
forms of beauty and breathed into
them the breath of a divine life, and
hallowed them forever and thusthink
ing I have felt the unspeakable pathos
of her long exile from the temples that
her passionate devotion prompted and
her loving labor reared.
Federation Urges Divorce Law.
The Massachusetts committee on ju
diciary in the state house recently lis
tened to a discussion upon a bill pre-
sented by a committee of the Federa
tion of Catholic societies of the arch
dioces of Boston. The bill regarded
the divorce laws and read as follows:
"From and after the passage of this
act no divorce from the bond of matri
mony shall be granted In this common
wealth for any cauee whatever."
475 Tons of Mail in a Day.
Chicago's postoffice again has
smashed previous records, for quanti
ties of mail handled in one day. A
report made to Postmaster D. A.
Campbell by Supt. F. H. Galbraith
shows that 475.6 tons were handled
in the postofflce on March 10. exclu
sive of all first class mail. This Is
an increase of 37.1 tons over the previ
ous high record established Aug. 6,
1910. Besides this 3,400,000 pieces of
first class mail matter were handled.
Don't Despair.
At. a St. Patrick's day dinner in
Boston Senator Lodge once said:
"Low as was Ireland's estate then,
there was no cause for despair. No
is ever so low but that it migh
be lower. Like the woodsawyer's case,
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"You need exercise, violent exer
cise, that's what you need,' a doctor
once said to this woodsawyer. 'What
is your business, my man?'
'I'm a woodsawyer, sir.'
'Well," said the doctor, 'suppose
you don't grease your saw for a month
or so.'"
Spanish Catholics Protest.
Upon the return of King Alfonso
from Africa, the citizens of America
presented an address which excelled
in frankness most of such productions.
"We Catholics," they said, among oth
er things, "feel wounded in our dear
est convictions and sentiments at see
ing you accompanied by a prime min
ister who had, and has, to judge by his
words and actions, 'padlocks' with
which to fasten the Catholic Church,
who by her nature is most free. As
much as it pains us to speak these
truths, even so much would it delight
us to see your majesty assisted in the
government of our dear country by
men who fear God more and are less
taken up with the pitiful fleeting glor
ies of this world."
Bishop Heslin Dead.
The death of Bishop Heslin of
Natches, Miss., on Feb. 22, removed
another member of the Catholic
hierarchy from the sphere of his
earthly labor. Bishop Heslin was
born in Ireland. His theological stud
ies were made in this country. He
was ordained a priest, in 1869, an,d
was assigned to the New Orleans
Cathedral, and later to St. PatriCtTs
church and the Church of St. Vin
cent de Paul, in that city, as assist
ant priest. He became pastor of St.
Michael's parish, and remained there
until he was consecrated Bishop oT
Natchez, in 1889.
Charles E. Mitchell Dead.
Charles E. Mitchell died Friday
morning, March 10th, at St. Barnabas
hospital, this city, to which place he
was brought from his home at Broot
en, Minn., to undergo an operation
the hefnia. He appeared to the improv
ing until pneumonia set in with fatal
results. Deceased was 37 years of
age and was born and raised on a
farm near Brooten which he operated
successfully. He leaves a widow and
two children together with a father,
mother, seven brothers and two sis
ters. He was a good citizen, a devout
Catholic and was loved and esteemed
by a great many friends and ac
quaintances. The funeral was held
at. Brooten aud the requiem mass was
largely attended by relatives and
neighbors.
Death of William Nash.
On March 8th, one of the first early
settlers of the Graceville colony
passed away, in the person of Will
iam Nash who came from Lowell,
THE ST. PATRICK'S CROSS.
Come raise me up, Allannah lift me up a litttle more,
And let the sunshine touch my bed and stream upon the floor.
Draw back the curtain further yet—let enter every ray—
And make the people look cheerful, child, for this is Patrick's
Once more I bid it welcome—'tis the last for me, I fear.
I've had a long, long journey, but the end is drawing near.
Thank God, I've seen my share of years but somehow,
child, today
My heart grows warm and youthful, and my thoughts are
far away.
You know my old brown chest, asthore go now and lift the lid.
And find therein a token in the furthest corner hid—
A little colored pasteboard cross 'tis faded, quaint and old,
And yet 1 priz» it dearer far than if 'twere solid gold.
Long years ago I carried it across the rolling sea,
And Time, with all it changes, has not stolen it from me
Just as you read the other day and I believe it true,
That everywhere we Irish go, God's Cross will-follow, too.
And they are twined around it, child, what you can't under
stand—
Old memories of other days, of youth and native land
As dry and withered rose-leaves speak of Summer's past
and gone,
So life's bright, cheery Springtime in this little cross lives
on.
It tells me of the happy time I first wore it, long ago,
Pinned here upon my shoulder. Ah! but, child, you'll never
know
How grand I felt that morning, with my cross and ribbon
green—
God and country bound together I was prouder than a queen.
How light and gay my spirits, as we children climbed the
hill
To seek for four-leaved shamrocks while the dew was spark
ling still
While the blackbird sang his welcome, the primrose show
ed his face,
And violets were nodding from each cozy hiding place.
My little cross! around you, h! how many mem'ries cling!
Old times, old scenes, old faces, to my mind this day you
bring,
Come pin it on my shoulder, child I'll forget my age and
pain—
For Ireland and St. Patrick let me wear it once again!
The weight of years may bend me, but my youthful soul will
pray
May God he with the good old land and bless her honored
day!
And around the cross entwining may the shamrock e'er be
met.
Thus as she bore the burden, she may share the triumph yet!
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Mass., with a number of other fam
ilies from the same place, in the
spring of 1878, and settled on a home
stead about three miles south of Barry
in Big Stone county, Minn., where he
died at the age of seventy-six. The
funeral was held March 11th. The
remains were brought to St. Barnabas
church at Barry, where high mass
was celebrated by Rev. Father Bar
ron of Barry, and the remains were
interred in the Lake Side Catholic
cemetery of Graceville. The large
procession at the funeral showed the
great esteem in which he was held
by all who knew him in Barry, Tokua,
and Graceville. No one knew him
but to respect him as a true type of
manhood, a gentleman in every sense
of the word, he was always conscien
tiously sensitive to the rights of
others, and of those he had business
dealings with. Born in Ireland, he
loved the old land, and was a thor
ough nationalist, and kept well posted
on Irish affairs, always aiding and en
couraging every move for the better
ment of the Irish race. He was sec
retary of the old settler's association
since its organization and was the first
and only town clerk of the Town of
Tokua, being elected when the town
was organized about Thirty years ago,
and continued as such clerk, re-elect
ed every year until his death. He
leaves to mourn his departure his be
loved wife, two sons and one daugh
ter, who have the sincere sympathy
of the whole community. The active
pall bearers were Edward and James
Barry, William Byrnes, Patrick Mul
len and Charles Keeler of Barry, and
M. J. McDonnell of Graceville.
BASKETBALL.
The St. Lawrence Cubs traveled to
Green Isle Saturday where they met
defeat at the hands of the local high
school by a score of 24 to 13. The
game was fast and exciting from
start to finish, the visitors leading by
a score of 9 to 8 at the end of the
first half. In the second, the locals,
by clever team work secured the lead,
and held it until the finish. Myers
played the star game for the locals,
while the playing of the Cubs were on
a par.
The Line-up.
Green Isle— Cubs—
Myers R. Long
Egan L. iLane
Davitt Gorman
Morrin R. Long-Keefe
Corcoran L. Jennings
Goals, Corcoran 3, Myers 5, Davitt
1, Morrin 1, Gorman 1. Keefe 1, Jen
nings 1, Long 1, Lane 1. Fouls, Long
1, Lane 3, Keefe 1, Myers 2.
Green Isle has played 10 games
this season and has won every one.
They expect to play Madison for the
championship of that part of the couu
try in the near futum-
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