The Saint Paul globe., 1904-07-17
Seunlas MaeMarlgs ON GeEtemarians
and the Hum10rs of the British Bar
N MY letter of last week I referred

Il n MY letter of last week I referred
to the startling mortality amongst
centenarians in Ireland Since then at
least one OF them has been showing
that he is not in the melancholy mood
Clogher board of guardians, in the
county or Tyrone. a too lively youth of
105 years of age named McClelIand,
an inmate of the Clogher workhouse
was brought before them charged with
beating with a stick the small boys of
eighty and ninety. his comrades in the
workhouse Mr.. McClelland got Sc
verely reprimanded, and the chair
man very thoughtfully warned him
that If by blow OF his stick he had Sc
verely injured any OF the frail inmates
he would have rendered himself. liable
TO- and the chairman would be pleased
to see him get ten years penal servi-
q tude or longer, and after thar maybe
he would learn TO conduct himself" :"
They are terrible fellows in Ireland,
these lads OF los and so!
Mr.. Sergeant Arabin was a noted
character in the central criminal court
of London and on the bench. a long
time ago now Some of his savings
bar" he once said TO a middIe-aged
man. who. having been convicted on two
or three indictments. pleaded guilty to
several others. Prisoner at the bar
he said. you have been found guilty
on several indictments, and it is in my
power TO subject you 10 transporta-
ton Tor a period very considerably be-
yond the term of your natural life:
but the court. in its mercy, will not
so as far as II lawfully might 60 The
sentence IS that you be transported for
- three terms of seven years each. AT
another time. when Arabin was pass
ing light sentence, he said: Prisoner
at the bar, there are mitigatory cir
p CumSIauceS in this case that induce
me TO take a lenient view of it. and
VIII therefore give you chance Of
redeemlng a character which you have
lTreTieVably lost" The chairman of
the maglsteTial bench at Bangor
County Down, the other day, was
sending TO jail a man who had been
before him repeatedly for drunkenness
and disorder. The chairman said:
You are an abominabIe man. and
people like you should go to some
country where there is no Creator at
all" I wonder where he meant?
Texas?
Because the Protestants of Ireland
held and kept a monopoly of all offices
boards. directors OF railways banks
and Other. companies, as Well as Prot
estant employers generally, excluded
from their employment with seeming
TigOr Catholics. a Catholic association
meant 10 combat this state of things
was started q few years ago, but was
not taken I'D with much heart by the
Irish people. Just now there is a great
eTIOFU being made to make the Catholic
association general. DR.. Hogan. at
gathering of bishops and priests in
Maynooth college, the other day, read
a paper upon the subject. The figures
contained in il. were certainly a ire
mendous Indictment of Protestant ex-
clusiVeness IN Ireland-if not of Prot
estant bigotry-and DR.. Hogan made
sn appeal TO the bishops and the
PRIESTS 10 take the Catholic association
20 their bosoms. Since as things are
presently situated, no Catholic young
man can hope to hold any other than
q menial office in his own country. Dr.
Hogan and some who supported him
put in a plea for Catholic exclusive
dealing in order 10 bring the Protes-
tants TO their senses. The Catholic as
soctation will get q flip, I think now.
but II VIII never get the great support
of the Catholics OF Ireland. A vast
body Of them consider that IT would
be great step backward for our
country. The Irish Parliamentarian
party and their followers do not favor
the Catholic association because 1t
might act as political association
and seriously threaten their power at
any time if need were. The Gaelic
Ieaguers do not like the Catholic as
sOclauOn because they are winning
great numbers OF young Protestants
into their ranks, and while they are
trying To wipe out the last traces of
blgoJry they very naturally fear that
II the Catholic association became
powerful II might unconsciousiv make
blgots again of the multitude
The humorS OF British law are l1n /.
ending here A man in the County of
Dublin has just been solemnly tried