The Irish standard., 1905-08-19

association, as the retailers, would
agree to put the lumber business on !,
the same basis as other retail trade
they should open sawmills on their
own lands and deliver lumber to the
settlers at proper prices.
You can understand the howl that
went up when the proposal was MADE
known to the association. It had at
first declined to accede to the request.
But Dennis told the association that
he was not blufing; that he would
smash the combine or know the reason
why. There was nothing for them to
do but to yield, and the price of lum-
| ber was reduced 50 thousand at the
first crack.
Thus did Celtic ingenuity break
| lumber trust, and incidentally open up
| the possibilities of home to thou
sands who otherwise would have been
! deferred from attempting the difficult
task of BODYBUILDING in an undevel-
oped country.
Another Celt who has done much to
maintain the best traditions of fine,
free and vigorous national life is Re-
corder John w. Goff of New York city.
Readers of the newspapers will recall
a celebrated murder trial that took
place several months ago in New York.
in which the most nauseating details
were brutally held up to the public
gaze. The prosecuting attorney
seemed peculiar illustration of the
law of the survival of the vulgarest.
He chewed gum and used a brand of
language that was as vigorous and un-
washed as raw onion. The defend
ant was a type of the chorus girl who
wears the hair over the left eye and
crowds the Broadway resorts after 10
o'clock. She was travesty of pure
womanhood The spectators were of
the sort that usually ooze into murder
trials-married women whose home
life was too "slow," young girls who
wanted to "know life," and foolish
young men about town.
The only dignifying touch in the
whole proceedings was the presiding
} justice, whose venerable face, and hair
as white as a chiid's first communion
dress, set him apart and above the
! sordid drama surging around him. Re.
, corder Golf maintained the majesty of
the law when the law sadly needed
whatever investituring halo it could
gather together. His charge to the
jury was model of statement-iumi
nous, clear, calmly dispassionate. In
that muck of passion and crime it was
) a man of Celtic birth-who, by the
) way, glories in the fact-who gave the
trial touch of solemnity that re-
, deemed it from utter loathsomeness.
The career of the Hon. John w
Golf, the present recorder of the city
of New York, should be an example
; and an inspiration to every schoolboy
in the land. In his rise to power and
fame are emphasized the splendid OPP
: portunities offered by our republic tc
young men endowed with industry
> zeal, lofty independence and an in
: domitable will, the peculiarly Celtic
: qualities.
Fifty-six years ago he was born ir
the town of Corey, county Wexford
Ireland, and he is as proud of his Irish
> nativity as he is of his American citi
zenship. His parents died when ne
!. was nine years old and he went to live
with an uncle in England. He became
a telegrapher, but moved by the spirit
Of adventure, at the age of IA he bade
adieu to his uncle's family and trav
: eled through England and Scotland
Soon after he took passage for the
United States, and in the summer o1
! 1865 landed in New York
Realizing the great possibilities i1
= store for the deserving, with light
i heart and still lighter purse, the ener
getic youth, at once sought such EN-
!, ployment as would give him the star
in life which he so much desired. I1
o the large dry goods establishment o.
Arnold, Constable & Co. he secured {
= clerkship. This he resigned a couple
Of years later to accept higher posi-
ton in the Broadway house Of A. r
!, Stewart, the merchant prince.
Between Stewards and the house a
|. [ which he boarded stood the great insti
d tute of learning founded by the grea
n lphilanthropist, Peter Cooper. Here
j. Iyoung Goff entered as a student ant
e for several years supplemented hi.
days of hard labor at Stewards by
|. nights of hard study, in science ant
d art, in Cooper Union. Graduating will
|. honor in 1872 he became law studen
J. in the Offices of Hon. Samuel c. Court
t Iney, United States district attorney.
d The modest compensation received
t being insufficient to support him, he
earned enough to meet his expense!
I by reportorial work on one of the grea
j dalies of the metropolis. After foul
e ! years of study by day and of work by
q night he was admitted to the bar, be
p ing one of the four students who re
= ceived honorable mention from the ex