The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-03-01

The obituary hint Of the conm.
the preterlte suggests apology "a =,
good Gael, whose conjueation ~ meV
verb ito live" is as yet happily NM. .s
pleted.
While Yeats. the dignihed W. r .,
to-day, is in these pages a s,m..,o.
unsettled sort of young person ~
and Miss lyman were together a, ~ ~
house of some folks devoted IN en-. e
ualism, and the host. "a little fair baI.
gentle looking man with spoctao,.7u,
but very determined on having his %
way, insisted on seance: O"a
was quite determined TO he in on,,.,.,
to the whole thing. to disbelIeve in 4, ,'oh
disapprovc OF IL playing win sne
OF life and death Presently tn tai, "ts
up slowly: the host was psychic T ZOO
were prescnces. the presences had c,,,,, us
cations to make and struggled 60 maxi, ,t ,-Dl'
Presently the spirits vera otI. "
speak. There was some one in tho ~.
who was hindering them. ~"
Indicated me, and | was asked o., vnh4.-'
which I did cheerfully. Tho lst nj.
saw Willie Yeats banging his ha,1
the table.
Yeats explained afterward tina, o..
| spirits were evil. To keep them MI IA.
had been saying the nearest approach !,
a prayer he could remember: The on,ss
ing lines of paradise Lost"
In the later sos astral bodies and -.
hatmas engaged the attention ~ N.
coterie Of youthful Irish geniuses m,
children of Johnston Of Ba.Iykilbey
that Orange fire eater" were leaders !,
Intellectual freakishness. John o1eary',
house was the favorte piav tlaca.
OLeary, the revolutionist ideal.sl ha,re
just back after five years in Portlan9
| prison and fifteen years of exile In par,.
He used to tell people they were "fau,,.
lessly ignorant of everything under IA.
SUM-" and eXclaim in the heat Of arv,,.
ment: Good God. man, what the dew
! do you know about it?" but hn waa 4.
! splendid, heroic old man and everyhody
loved him. His sister was equally heroic
equally admired. Their home was IN,
meeting place for little circle OF poet,
politicians, painters. makers Of All
sorts" and he was their mentor.
! He once mistook John Redmond "a,
Mr.. Willie Redmond. You're all right
he said; you're all right. I've no,hlp,
against you. But. good God in heaven
what does that brother of yours mean
by making such an ass OF himself?"
"Mr. O'Leary." said Redmond. -ars
you not mistaking me for my brother
Willie?"
"oh. 7 was. 7 was" exclaimed o'Lear
unabashed. what the devil do YOU
mean by being so like your brother"
| O'Leary, man Of the purest morals
/ was extremely tolerant toward ,hs
morals OF Others: 81 remember when
the days of the Parnell divorce case and
the debac,e came John O'Learv's com.
ment: You can't depose a man for gal.
! lantry,' using the word in It's French
SENSE" And again: "'Good God IN
| heaven he would say, while he was
running the morals of the country they
were all with him. Now that II is only
question of his own morals they sr-
all against him."
Charlie Johnston made a hobby o
/ theosophy IA his sister did Of yegeta
! rianism. She ran a restaurant and he ;
cult. Cupid broke It up finally. III
! most considerable recruit WIS Geore
/ w. Russell. "A. f." Another william
Blake" Miss lyman noted in her d!a-
when she first met him; and her 81
! thusiasm has not dulled with the year.
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