The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1908-01-18
WRITES IN PRISON.
GinnelI, M. Py in kiImainham Jail,
Connected With Cattle Drivjnu.


Mr.. GinnelI, NJ. P, who is spending
six months in kiln,ainham Jail for
contempt of court in connection with
his cattle-driving agitation. will have
a better time than the Irish patriots
who We're confined there in the lays
of Parnell, writes T.. X. Cullen from
Dublin
These men were treated as criminals
hut as Mr.. Ginnell's offense is tech
nical only and consists in displaying
contempt for the Court Of Chanccry,
he is not treated as a criminal He
is allowed to wear his own Clothes, to
have his own food sent in from out
side the pail and to receive a limited
number of visitors every day. Hc is
also supplied with writing materials
and books. and he announces that he
is going to occupy his time writing a
book. The cell he has been assigned
to is spacious and we'll lighted and he
has been allowed to add several arti-
cles Of furniture, SO that, on the whole,
he will be fairly comfortable during
his enforced secluson.
Mr.. Ginnell, by the way, displayed
Il keen sense of humor in his dealings
with the police just before his arrest.
After his sentence had been pro-
nounced he went to his fathers house
in County Westmeath, secure in the
knowledge that the Intelligent con-.
stabulary would never think Of look
/ ing for him there, and there lie re.
manned for three days while tho police
secured Ireland and England for him.
Then he appeared at a meeting to well
come some discharged prisoners who
had been serving Il sentence for cat
tie driving, and before the police
could recover from their astonishment
he was off again and back to his
fathers house, where some more than
usually intelligent policeman found
him twenty-four hours later
Mr.. Ginncll does not place much
faith in the bargain which it is al
legged Mr. Brrcll has made to break up
the grass lands if cattle driving were
stopped, and he has advised the peo-
pie to lay up their hazel wands for
only {; month or two and give Mr.. Br-
rel the opportunity Of proving his
good faith. If the grass lands are
not broken up and the grazing leases
arc renewed, Mr.. Ginncll advises the
people to take down the l1azels and
take to cattle driving again.
I Almost everyone who has lived In
Ireland is familiar with the official en-
velopes bearing the legend "On His
Majesty's Service" in which tho un-
fortunate taxpayer receives his no.
tices, and in which nearly all official
documents are sent out. The North
Dublin Union has given the lead to
the Irish local authorities which really
represent the national government Of
| Ireland. by adopting an envelope for
all it's official business inscribed II
! Seribhis no h-Eireann" con the serv-
ice Of Ireland") and recommending it's
use to all other local authorities. The
arms Of Dublin and the above inscrip-
tion will be the only insignia appearing
on the official stationery
James Nolan, an agricultural labor
er Of Celbrdge, County Kildare, has
just been notified that he is the heir
to s150.000 left by his cousin, Mr..
Patrick White, Of Brooklyn, N. Y,
who died in May, 1906. Nolan. who Is
about to start for America to take
possession of his new-found fortune.
is 81 years old and for several years