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Land Act a Boon-Sir Thomas Upton Gives Offense to
the Irish by Engaging a Scotch Piper-Lady
~ Aberdeen Plans a Unique Party. #
BY F. X. Cullen.
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Dublin, April 25.-For the first time
Gin fifty years many of the migratory la
sborers who go to Scotland and England
for harvesting and other agricultural
work for about six months of the year
will return to their homes at the end of
rfthis@ season with the feeling that their
little savings are their own to be APP
ts2plied to the purchasing of the common
<Tnecessaries Of life, instead of, having to
be handed over to the landlord or his
agent, Immediately they stepped from
ttthe train at their respective destina-
@stions.
a It is estimated that these industrious
gtoilers bring home annually about ST.
100000. every cent of which used to go
tointo the pockets of some absentee land
HAlords, many of whom had never seen
3 their estates nor their wretched tenants.
:arThe plots of lar upon which these lab
@Ssorers lived when at home were so unpro-
,assduetive that they could not yield suffi-
%a,ycient to pay rent and meet other obliga-
s%stions, so the head Of the family was OBJ
= iged to seek employment in Scotland or
England if an eviction scene was to be
avoided. 500.
The land act of 1902 is changing all
this, and now many of the laborers are
: secure in their holdings so long as they
pay the reasonable instruments that are
arranged by the land commissioners.
The thousands of dollars that dutiful
sons and daughters send annually from
America to their parents will no longer
9 be a perquisite of the landlord, but
8 something to brighten the lives Of the
old people in their declining years.
Il Sir Thomas Lipton's ofense.
- Sir Thomas Upton has proclaimed
Ttmore than once shat he was proud of
~ n y 1 ~ o = a~+~ ! ~ l.
ymanding an explanation why he should,
like his friend. Andrew Carnegie, and
fTother Scottish millionaire magnates, in
g stall a Scotch piper at his new residence
- at Ponders End, in Middlesex: If Sir
Thomas were true to his nationality it
e have an Irish piper whom he might cas-
s lily. have secured thru the agency of the
Gaelic league. He need not have come
to Ireland for one, because there is a.
Il band Of Irish pipers in London, from
which the genial baronet might have
X made q. selection. - '@
% Altho the Irish are decidedly sore on
~71the point, there. is no evidence that
There is any desire to boycott Sir Tom IS
bacon or tea: The Irish language is
making such Roadway and is SO univer-
sally employed in some Of the districts
thruout Ireland where the Upton stores
are situated that Sir Thomas has had to
bow to the inevitable n provide Irish
.peaking statesmen, where Scotch and
English assistants were hitherto en-
ployed. The next thing he will be OBJ
=iigsed to do is to sell Irish products, if
She is to keep pace with the. competition
y which is being set up by the Irish in
dustrial revival. It will be, interesting
to. see Chicago pigs talking Irish in Sir
Thomas windows in: Limerick and Gal
~wav.E But Sir Thomas is resourceful.
The nfosneetns for 1exIhiihitors at TIE
has: just been published by the, execu.
tive council, and a very excellent pros.
pectus it is. Altho such a short time
has elapsed since its publication, I am
etold7 the council is inundated with ap.
plications for space in the various sec.
tions. The chief idea in view Is to
bring together the largest collection Of
Irish exhibits ever before displayed
and it is: announced that the most ad.
v~antageous positions will be granted to
those showing native products. For
sHe-1pnce all -creeds and classes are in per.
- - feet unison inyregard to- the enterprise,
= and all are putting their shoulders to
the wheel to help its. success Attic
= it has not yet been officially announced