The San Francisco call., 1898-04-17
Only Telling That Americans Should Remember the Child
 of "Old IrOnsides.
SYMPATHY OF THE CELTS
They Are With Uncle Sam in the Pending Controversy, and Per-
 haps War, With Spain.
By J. J. CLANCY.

DUBLIN, April Mrs. Parnell, the
 mother of the great Irish leader, was
 buried yesterday in the same plot as
 contains the remains of her son in Glasnevin Cemetery on the northern outskirts of this city. The venerable lady died at the ancestral home of the Parnell family in Avondale, County Wicklow. early in the past week, of heart disease consequent on injuries by burning. She was sitting at the fire in the study, when some cinders flew on her clothes and set them afiame, and being somewhat feeble she was unable either to extricate herself or call for help in time. The result was her death after couple of days suf- ferlng. As a matter of course, the event has excited in Ireland considera- ble feeling, and the funeral yesterday, accordingly, was attended by a very large cOncourse of citizens of Dublin and of people from the country.
 It will be of special interest to amer jeans to know that among the floral tributes of respect paid to the deceased was a wreath placed on the coffin by the American Consul in Dublin at the request of Colonel John Hay, the United States Ambassador in London. The explanation, of course, of this act of courtesy lies in the fact that Mrs. Parnells father was Commodore Stew art, or, as he was called, "Old Iron sides" of the American navy It was after this grandfather. I may add, that Charles Stewart Parnell was called. Mrs Parnell herself lived a considera- I States, and did not live there alto- gether a private life. She was a very intelligent and active minded woman, and it was from her undoubtedly that her most distinguished son derived his intellectual qualities The Parnell fam fly have certainly not been very for tunate. In addition to the premature death of Charles Stewart Parnell and the somewhat tragic death of his mother, the family estates are, I regret to say, graVely, if not hOpelessly, in- cumbered, and even the family man. sion at AvOndale seems in danger of passing into the hands of strangers. Yet there has scarcely ever been a family which deserved better of their COuntrymen.
 Charles Stewart Parnell was only the last of it's members who were dis tinguished as patriots. Sir John Par nell, Chancellor of the Irish Ex- chequer, was one of these members of the Irish Parliament who resisted all sorts of bribes and intimidation to make him vote for the Union in 1S0O William Parnell. one of the members for Wicklow, was one of the most prominent advocates of Catholic eman- cipatiOn in the early years of the cen tury, and the role he filled was taken up with even greater effect later on by Sir Henry Parnell, one of the members for Queens County. It would, assur- edly, be pity if such a stock were to be heard of no more in the history of Ireland, though, indeed, the fate of Charles Stewart Parnell is not one cal culated to induce those belonging to it to follow in his footsteps.
 Another very prominent parsonage in Irish life has passed away this week in the person of Sir John Arnott. That gentleman was not, however an Irish man at all but Scotchman who came to and settled in Ireland many years ago, and not only made a vast fortune but spent it liberally in the country of his adoption. Commerce was lis line. and he founded and continued till his death to own a considerable interest in drapery houses in Dublin and Cork But he did not confine himself to commerce, popularly so called. He pur- chased several years ago the Dublin newspaper hIONIl eiS lliC LII llIlleS, which under his ownership has ad- vanced to the front rank among Irish newspaper enterprises. In his later life he aSpired to the position of an Irish country gentleman, and bought the Bandon County Cork) estates of the Duke of Devonshire for a sum amount ing almost to a quarter of million sterling. His popularity, especially in Cork, was great, and it was the more ,.Iyo ha differed in nOljfiOS from the majority of the Irish people. But he was a conservative of a very unaggressive and unoffending type, and his public benefactions were always on a very liberal scale.
 He was for short time a member of Parliament as representative of the small borough of Kinsale, and while at Westminster he linked his name with at least one considerable and most ben eficial reform-that of the boarding out of pauper children. Up to this time tNe children of the poor in the 1riS1 work houses were brought up with their p-i ents in those institutions and were treated very badly. Owing to his ex- ertions an act of Parliament was passed, owing to which ever since they have been boarded out at the public expense with such farmers In the coun- try as have been willing to take them. | and the result has been most beneficial. This was not the only proof of his prac- tical solicitude for the poor. At one time he kept his ship building wards in Cork open for considerable time at a | dead loss for the benefit of his em- ployes, who would otherwise. with tbair families, have been left penniless and homeless He was the first also to nro- pose and set about carrying into eve cution plan for the better housing of the Irish poor. About fifteen vears ooa he bought large tracts of land in tbe neighborhood of Dublin in which he built hundreds of comfortable bouas for artisans. About the same tirna ho 1 offered to cleanse the River Liffev free | of cost to the citizens of Dublin. tbouoh nothing came of the proposal He was also an enthusiastic sportsman and won the first ocean yacht race" be-