The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1889-08-17

Dwyer Gray, bv whom
HE WAS SENT TO ALGIERs
on one occasion to recruit his health.
But Mr.. O'Brlen could never find pa
thence to devote any long time to efforts
at restoration OF health. His intentions
in that direction have been we'll meant,
but his nervous temperament and de-
sire for active work and excitement
have interfered with projected holidays,
aud not even the company of friends
could restrain him from returning to
Ireland when his thoughts began to
centre there. After his arrest near
Cork. about the first of last month, and
when it was thought ne was still some
where in Ireland after his preliminary
examination and admittance to bail, he
suddenly appeared in London It was
necessary that should see him, as I
had commission to execute in which
he was one of the interested principals,
and during chat with Mr.. Davitt /
asked him how long Mr.. O'Brien in
tended remaining in ireland. ''He is
here in London, - answered Mr.. Davitt
HE arrived last night and he was
about to return to Ireland TO night, but
I told him Mr.. Parnell wished to see
him on important business, and I
asked him to remain over till morning;
SO if you call at the House of Commons
tonight you will surely see him. Lest
he should not remember the name,
here's line on one of mv cards that
will most surely bring him out. Give
the card to any one of the Irish mem
bers and he+Wil] deliver it to O'Brien." !"
Mr.. Davitt's card bad the desired effect.
1T was handed to Mr.. O'Brien by Mr..
Cox, M. f., who has since been put in
jail for being present at a tenants meet
ing, and Mr., O'Brien, accompanied by
Mr.. Carew, came out Of the House to
meet me. These are the two men who
put the prison garb regulations to the
test last February, in different Irish
jalls, and carried their point in the
matter Of persisting in wearing their
own clothes. For small man Mr..
O'Brien has grasp like the grip of a
vice, and his earnest shake of the hand
is accompanied bv an earnest look and
friendly salutation. During pleas
ant and interesting conversation, and
having In mind an experience in trying
to reach him IN Ireland, [ suggested
that he was difficult man to reach.
eyes, yes,'' he said, II ann continu-
ally on the move from place to place."
''But you were regularly located when
tried 10 get to ycu," I remarked.
"Oh, to be sure,' he continued,
laughing heartily as he saw the point of
the remark. Il was in Jail. But you
muse remember that
IRISH JAILERs HAVEN'T POPULATIONS
for being the most agreeable or obllging
people in the world" delivered to
Mr.. O'Brien on the evening of the an
niversary of American independence
the diploma voted him by the Charita-
BILE Irish Society of Boston. He ex-
pressed, in well-chosen language, his
deepest thanks for the honor conferred
while he was undergoing the rigors OF
prison discipline, and said he considered
the action of his New England friends
of the society as no empty honor.
Many of the gentlemen connected with
the society are almost as we'll known in
Ireland as they are in America, he said,
and the history of the society itself is
one of honor and credit. He was proud
to be enrolled upon its books. Later in
the evening, and after MIR. O'Brlen had
read the history OF the society from
1887, he addressed letter to me for
mally accepting membership in the So
ciety. And now he is once more in
charge of the prison keepers for his out
spoken utterances in the cause OF Irish
rights.
With the lapse of years and expert
ence in the outer world the second of
the three great leaders, Michael Davitt,
has ACQUIRED conservatism-in far less
degree, to be sure, than Mr. Parnell -
but still a conservatism when the
Michael Davitt of ten or fifteen years
ago is brought to mind. He has de-
veloped more rapidly than any one man
III the Irish party, and is almost az
popular among the working classes OF
England. Scotland and Wales as Viii.
ham o 'Brien is among the peasantry OF
Ireland. Davitt's early experience IN
the mills Of England; the cruel loss OF
one of his arms while doing compulsory
work at a mans labor at the looms
while he was still less than IL years old,
and his. constant efforts to ameliorate
the condition of wage earners in the
the United Kingdom have made hosts
Of friends for him, and, at the same
time, brought over tens of thousands Of
adherente TO the one great cause which
is always uppermost in his mind.