The Washington herald., 1907-09-15

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that for the rast few days rot has SET in both
gardens and fields and that II rain continues ial
for the coming week as 10 has for the past tls
potato crop VIII be completely lost. The rivers are
] now swollen % such an extent that thousands q
acres Of meadow. cut and uncut along their banks
are Lost for good THOS B. KELLY.
Bslliua aug S. 1861.
The forty-ffth report Of the inspector
Of reformatory and industrial schools n
Ireland for the year 1906 shows that there
were five reformatOries and sixty-eight
schools under inspection. In the four
Catholic reformatories there were 40 boys
and 80 girls. and us boys in the Protestant
TeformatOry.
II would appear that the cities Of Dub
lin. Belfast and Cork supplied lib per
cent Of the total number committed 70
reformatories in 1856 In the industrial
schools there were 3,927 boys and 4+5
girls on December 81, 1906 OF which 1884
were Catholics and 9JS PrOtestants The
receipts from the treasury in 1896 were
egs.S5) local rates, e42.0l7, other sources.
ELV5. estimated profits on works, 97,6l4;
total. &lj5,J55. The expenditures were
/ G159,O72
Our witty fellow-CUunTyman George
Bernard Shaw. has abandoned the Labor
party and is about 10 found a new party.
On the subject he has something very in
| teresting and very characteristic 10 say
| in the Clarion. Il have" he says. now
solemnly abandoned the Labor party 7
want 10 get my own class-the disinherit-
| ed poor relations and younger sons
/ progeny Of the pIutocrats and aristOcrats
/ into Parliament and into political array.
4 ] want a party OF socialists who have
( had enough Of being gentlemen. NJ. com
mon workingmau need apply. His dis
satisfaction with genteeI life cannot be
/ sincere, because he has never tried il.
/ Poor people are always objectionable. and
no poor person shall be admitted into my
new party. unless he can prove that his
poverty IS his own fault, and thar his
parents were respectable. All members
( over thirty must be married. or al least
/ Idomesticated. Various tests Of genuIty
VIII be applied. The thing must he kept
= select at al costs. Ee.r Hardie. OBJ
vi0usly the most ingrained gentleman in
1 the House OF Commons. viii be admitted
/ on his renouucing labor, and publicly
apoIogiziug for having worked as q boy
/ in d mine"
/ O. b : does not tell us whether he
Will include the greatest Labor member,
. John Burns, now a cabinet minister. a.
/ though many of his party say that John
has renouuced labor and turned gentle
man-wr7ngfuIIy say So for John is one
Of the finest types Of Labor member. John
/ Burns. by the way, celebrated his silver
wedding. with tea and rcminiscence. on
the terrace Of the House OF Commons re-
/ Gently. The reminisCence is a gem. which
/ comes wortaiIy from the cabinet Il con-
Germs The great mans wedding day he
vas twenty-Oue and she nineteen. ana
they were all bgt peanUess. so
to have a treat on their honey
moon they pswual-the wedding
ring And away they went for the day.
These things happened In the time when
Mr. Burns was stl sound on his own
do,+rlne that "uU man is worth 500
year. He scarcely dreamed that he
would yet De q right honorable. draw
ins four times that But Ie honestly ad-
justed himself o. the irony of fate e!gh-
teen months ago when the consistency
crank heckled him. My ministerial sal
ary, be said, 'ls The trade wage fer the
work, ana for particulars OF It's outlay
! refer you 10 Mrs. Burns"
II has been the custom IN our Irish
country schools that during the winter
I time each little boy and girl shall bring
70 school. with books under one arm, two
turfs lpeatsi under the other arm. rs con-
ubuti0u 10 the sel-0. FIRE. In schools
where the atterdauce is small. tie fire IS,
consequently, small during the winter