The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-09-23
lands are engaged just now in curl
GUS war with the Galway council and
the local government board.

The islanders have long been COM
planning Of the wretched sanitary con-
dition of their islands. caused by an
insufficient water supply, and some
time ago they, acting on the advice
Of the Rev. Father Murtagh Farra-
CHER. their parish priest, refused to
pay any more taxes to the county
council until the water supply was
improved. The county council tried
to levy on their goods for rates, but
the bailiffs to land on their territory,
and Father Farragher wrote to the
county council that he would do all
he could to support his parishioners
in their attitude until the county
council made some attempt to treat
them as civilized human beings" Now
the county council has enlisted the
aid of the local government board.
Some time ago it was decided that
the government should hear the
greater part of the cost of improving
the pier accommodation at Klmurry,
one of the islands, but on the COM
plant Of the county council the local
government board has decided that it
will do nothing until the islanders
pay their taxes. The islanders have
replied that they will do without their
pier If necessary, but they won't pay
any taxes until they get a proper
water supply.
Strenuous Debate.
| Up in Donegal the county council
| lors have been quarreling among
| themselves. There have been a num-
hny nf 0f 1,S~
sial nature before the council lately,
and feeling has been running very
high. The meetings are held at Lif-
ford. the county town, which is sit
uated on the extreme border of the
county, and most of the councillors
have to travel by train to and from
the meetings. The last meeting was
a very excited one, and number of
the councillors who were returning
from it continued the debate on the
train. Matters became SO warm that
the train had to be stopped several
times while the conductor and brake
men sorted out the contending coun-
cillors and finally the trainmen solv-
ell the problem by giving each coun-
cillor a compartment to himself and
locking him in. One of the combatant
councillors was rather badly hurt dur
ing the debate and had to be taken to
the hospital when he arrived at Let
terkenny.
Royalty Gardener.
! We are accustomed to hearing
queer things about the castle govern
ment, but surely the very queerest is
the charge which has just been made
in one of the Dublin papers that the
viceroy, Lord Oberdeen, who is a
thrifty Scotsman, has been selling
vegetables grown in the viceregal gar
dens to suburban green grocers for
his own profit. The viceregal gardens
are very extensive and are one of the
show places of Dublin. They are
kept up at the public expense, the
wages of the gardeners being paid by
the board of works, and it is consid-
cred nothing short of scandal that
the lord lieutenant, who is supposed
to represent the king of Ireland
should demean his Office by becoming
a market gardener. There is a tradi-
t1on that former viceroy once be-
came a milkman. selling the milk of
the board of works cows, which are
part of the viceregal establishment,
but in this case the money was turn
ed over to the public funds. Even
then it was felt that the position was
hardly a dignified one, and the milk
business was dropped.
Lady Aberdeen Opposed.
There Is good deal of dissatisfac-
tion with the methods adopted by
Lady Aberdeen in her crusade against
consumption in Ireland. No doubt
her efforts are we'll meant, and no one
can deny that Herself" as Lady Abb
erdeen is called in Dublin, has done
a lot of good in the way of educating
the country people in elementary
rygiene, but she has also done a lot
of harm to Irish industries by in
judiciously spreading the impression
that ireland is a hotbed of consump-
tlon. AS matter of fact it is moth
ing of the kind, the death rate being
nothing abnormal, but there has been
SO much talk about Lady Aberdeen S
we'll meant crusade that people
abroad have got the idea that it is
dangerous to use Irish goods-par-
ticularly laces, hand-woven damasks
and other goods made by the peasant
ry In their homes. 1t is said that
the nuns of one convent, famous for
its lace. have nearly $4,000 worth OF
beautiful lace on their hands, which
they are unable to sell because people
are afraid Of infection. Some large
firms, which collect the work from
country people and distribute 1t to the
retailers abroad, have been forced in
self-protection to disinfect all the
stuff they handle, and the process of
disinfection does not benefit delicate
laces and embroideries. OF course
the scare is quite groundless, and it is
hoped that American purchasers OF
Irish goods will not be influenced by
1t. Ireland's industries are too few
as 1t is. and she can not afford to
have any of them killed even by mis-.
taken philanthropy.
Another method of injuring Irish
industries which has nothing philan.
thropic about 1t has just been dis.
covered by agents of the Irish agri.
cultural and Industrial department al
the Irish section of the imperial in.
dustrial exhibition in London. This
section has nothing to do with the