The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-15

true loyal subjects, with gay display
decorated their fine building. But
hoating high O'erhead all else they dis
played the signal that indicates "Ship
in dire Distress" Some think they
were innocent victims Of waggish
adviser. Some think they signaled so
in sad sincerity. The latter, hope.
Mr.. George Moore, the novelist, lost
his religion as a result of the previous
visit to Dublin of England's king. In
man of Mr.. Moore's intense and we'll
known religiosity this would have been
serious had he not been able to find
and comfort himself with new re-
ligion-which, luckily, was the case
Because Archbishop Walsh, of Dublin.
attended the royal levee in Dublin
castle last year. Mr.. Moore in disgust
renounced Catholicism, and embraced
the Protestant religion. Through some
unexplainable neglect the Protestants
OF ireland failed to rend the skies with
their huzzas. Perhaps they were only
observing the old saw, Don't haIloo
TIL you are clear Of the moor" If so.
wise men they.
irish dramatic art will be very well
represented at the ST. Louis worlds
fair by the plays and the body of
young actors which the Lunann- Ma
Gael National Theater society have
sent out to represent them there. It
should be understood that this society
IS ~d1Stlnct from the society of which
Mr.. w. B.. Yeats, the poet, is presi-
dent. By both societies the dramatic
art OF the present day Of Ireland is
being advanced. In both societies the
actors are amateurs drawn almost en-
nrely from the Dublin artisan class
The body just gone to St. Louis will
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plays (both in Irish and in English)
written by the school of young Irish
dramatists that the needs of the hour
have called forth.
The great land biIl-under the aegis
of which peace was with some gentle
persuasionl to fold her white wings
and rest, in this islands having some
remarkable results that the leader
writer's forgot to prophesy for us
what time the air was filled with these
glad visions of the lion and the lamb
beneath the same bedquilt. Capt. Dom
aldson, M. P, was one whose hand Cor
was 1t his tongue?) helped to procure
for us the magic bill. The other day at
Middleton, County Cork. a bold. bad
landlord refusing to aid in the fulfill
ment of the Journalistic prophecies,
seized for rent, and sold at public
auction the cattle of Capt Donaldson.
M. p, and those Of several of the cap
tain's neighbors. They had had the
temerity to offer to- purchase their
farms at reasonable rate, and they
had had the wicked rashness of de-
manding in the first place a reduction
In their rents. Capt. Donaldson is GO
ing to vote early and often upon the
land act amendment bill which the
irish members have already found it
necessary to draft and propose.
The Westmeath grand jury have for
the third successive season presented
the judge with white gloves-tfe usual
acknowledgment Of the crimeIessless
which leaves Othello lacking occupa-
ton. Irish jails have been driving a
rather depressing business of late
years, and one by one. they are taking
down their signs and putting UP their
shutters. The number of closed jails
IN Ireland today is far in excess OF
the number in which the wheels are
still turning. This, though one of the
most remarkable, is one of the least
remarked features of Irish social prog
ress. 1t is, of course, not to be forgot
ten that oftentimes in the past the
Irish jails were crammed with people
of stainless character-but this alone
did not account for all the now dfsused
establishments.
Soon, NaEy soon, the American tour
ist" will ~ with us and invading the
shops where the Hibernian. whose
forefathers moved softly out of Jeru-
salem the night before their rent was
due, offers them Irish photographs
perpetrated at Munich, and Irish shiI-
lelaghs that sprang and flourished ON
Alpine slopes. l have known enlight-
ened Americans bring home with them
under the innocent delusion that they
had got the genuine article-yile carl
catures styled photographs of Irish
Life" which are about as like Irish
life as Theodore Roosevelt is like
Chuck Connors. And / have known
Americans who waxed vain on their
astuteness, notifies -on-me-sir Yankees,
carry home and suspend by green
ribbon in their parlers. and fetch their
friends to see a horrible bludgeon that
they purchased for "a genuine Irish
shillelagh, begob, sir" which I be-
leyed could not have been palnled
upon farmer who never adventured
over the bounds of Posie county, In
diana Oh, great tourist men from