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The Irish standard., 1916-06-10
REMARKABLE
CAREER OF AN
IRISH COUNTESS
Disagreement Follows With Her
Family on Sinn Fein.

The Countess Markievicz, who has
been sentenced to life Imprisonment
for her share in the Irish revolt,
(whOsc maiden name was Miss Con-
stance Gore-Booth) has had a most
remarkable career. AS a girl of eigh-
teen she was singularly beautiful and
as n dcbutante and for q number of
seasons she was exceedingly popular.
Her sister, Miss Eva Gore Booth, the
poet, in Il letter to the London Daily
News" after stating that she does not
agree with all her Sim Fcin views,
says:
She has always been the most gen.
erous and high-spirited of people and
q favorite in any society in which she
might happen to be. But the qualities
one would have thought that people
must recognize in her are her utter
sincerity and her amazing universal
kindness to anyone in any kind of diff
fculty or trouble, an unfailing kind
ness to which hundreds of people in
all classes can testify. AS to her work
for the poor, in the time Of the strike
she fed 600 children every day for six
months, and worked day and night to
alleviate the terrible distress. Any
one who knows the bitterness with
which labor troubles are met by the
well-to-do in Ireland will easily under
stand that this work of hers made her
very unpopular with many of her old
friends, and that she should have ad-
mitted this unpopularity is surely not
to her discredit. She has all her life
had passionate and romantic love
for Ireland. Even in her childhood she
read and brooded over tales of '98 and
the tragedy of the past struggles of
Ireland for independence"
The Irish standard., 1916-06-10

Westport, Mayo, May 2O.-The
MAYO NEWS has been suppressed by
the military and the editor, P. ]. Doris
arrested. His brother is member OF
Parliament. Some 80 prisoners were
taken to Balaghaderreen, several sen
fenced to penal servitude. ]. P. Gaff
ney, Professor of Chemistry, has been
arrested at Ballinasloe.
Limerick, May 19.- Suspected
houses are raided nightly. The leaders
of the Gaelic League in County Lin
erick towns are under arrest. Squads
of cavalrymen passed through Liner
ick last night bound for the west to
bring prisoners away. Cornelius Col
bert, shot by court martial, was a
nephew of the late Justice Colbert OF
Gale View, Athen, leading family
City Treasurer O'Toole has been re-
leased.
The Irish standard., 1916-06-10

cess from all parts of the country, the
east, west, north and south, as any
other city that could be selected. Pic
turesquely located on the Mississippi
River, directly across from the great
arsenal on Government Island, it will
have an enchanting attraction for the
visitors. Even at this early date hun
dreds Of letters asking for reserva-
tions have been received and record.
breaking attendance is assured.
The Irish standard., 1916-06-10

Enniscorthy, May 2O.-Thirty-siz
more prisoners have been taken here
and conveyed abroad. Houses are
raided at night, much suffering pre-
walls among the families of the reb
els. The 12O local members of the
Gaelic League are in prison, among
them c. ]. Irwin, owner of THE
ECHO, P. Kehoe, author, and a mum
Der of county officials and government
clerks,
The Irish standard., 1916-06-10
THE MAKING OF MARTYRS.

In the official organ of Archbishop
Mundelein, of Chicago, the New World,
the Rev. Father Shannon, the gifted
editor, has the following in leading
editorial in the current issue:
"The carnival OF massacre that is
now being carried ont in English pris-
ons is true, in the historic form, to
all English dealings with Ireland.
The disjointed times have tied the
tongues of justice and no one utters
cry of outraged mercy. What heart
less process is crushing daring spirits
we do not know, nor does it matter
much. Death was The portion of the
intrepid ones, and they did not stop to
calculate how or when 1t would come
1t is no straining Of possibility to i'm
pute to them the thought that the re
! lentless repression that was sure to
follow their rebellion would join hands
with death to make two effective com
panicns in the new crusade for Irish
liberty.
"Retribution has always been more
costly to England than to Ireland. 1T
fruits may not be Of today or tomor
row, but they are sure to come. Al
the weeks go by the returning courag
of Ireland will add another dozen t
her precious martyrology. The rive
of blood will flood her fields to nul
ture again the seeds Of liberty. 1t ha
often been charged that England doe
not know what to do with the Irisf
Happily, this is not true. She has a
!: ways known how to make them ma
tyrs,"
The Irish standard., 1916-06-10

New York, May 29.-Cardinal Far
ley of New York is announced as
Honorary President of the Irish Re-
lief Fund. Cardinal O'Connell of Bos-
ton and Cardinal Gibbons of Balti-
more are Vice Presidents. Archbishop
Walsh of Dublin has consented to act
as Vice President and help distribute
the fund. Contributions should be
sent to Thomas Hughes Kelly, Treas,
urer, S Beekman st., New York.
The Irish standard., 1916-06-10
''GLAD TO Die
FOR IRELAND"
So Says Pearse, President of the osate lat Capitol ;t
Irish Republic, in a Letter
Written To Mother

He remember all you have so bravely
suffered. l hope soon to see papa, in
little while we shall be all together
again. l have not words to tell you
of my love for you and how my heart
yearns to you all. l will call to you
in my heart at the last moment. Your
son, PAT,
The Irish standard., 1916-06-10

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The Irish standard., 1916-06-10

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New Britain herald., 1916-12-19
A Collar Button Suggestion.
Providence Journal.)

In keeping with the general uplift of prices the cost of detachable collar buttons has now gone up. We can avoid getting hot under the collar on that account. A suggestion is offered here which if adopted by all men would cut down. the consumption of this particular commodity by nearly 8fty per cent. Here Is the idea Neither more nor less, in all it's simpli- city, than using no button to fasten the ordinary Troy collar of commerce to the back of the common or garden collarless shirt.
 Next time you lose your back collar button, just try the experiment of dis pensing with it altogether. Better still leave it out anyhow for an hour or two and you will find that there never was any earthly reason for it's exist ence except as provocative of profan- ity. After you have foresworn it about a week, and have found that the collar does not climb because of it's absence, you will decide that the back collar button and the two holes which 1t connects on the neck of an army of unenlightened souls are among the most unnecessary things in human life.
 Down with the high cost of collar of your neck.
New Britain herald., 1916-12-19
Kingdom of Arabia
 Holds Nany Deserts

Yambu. Both Heiaz and Yemen are vilayets of the Turkish empire and are governed by officials sent out from Constantinople. Asir is the home of X a war-lille, mountainous tribe which, has successfully opposed numerous at tempts of the Turks to subJugate Its members. Asir lies between HeJaz and Yemen and its valleys are among the most fertile in Arabia.
 Several important political diva+ sions of Arabia doubtless will be un- molested by the Grand Shereef Among these are the Sinaitic benin sula, a dependency of Egypt which extends into the Red sea, between the Gulf of Suez on the west and the: Gulf of Akaba on the east; the Brit ish protectorate of Alden, occupyiRe the most southerly extremity of Ara bia and extending along the Gulf of Alden, its area being about 9,0OO square miles, and the independent State of Oman with a coast line ot
 nearly 1000 miles along the Persian
 gulf and the Gulf of Oman, and em- bracing an area of S2,000 square miles
 "The provinces of Heiaz and Yemen have a combined area about equal to. ] the States of New York, Pennsylvania, | Ohio and Indiana, but with popn- 1 lation scarcely exceeding a mlllion,t l whereas the equivalent American area supports more than 24,000,000 inhab- 1 itants.
 "In those restricted sections of Ara 1 bia, near the mountains, where the, ] torrents bring down sufficient sup 1 ply of water the soil yields abundant i crops of wheat, barley, tobacco, su- 1 gar indigo, cotton, and coffee, while ] the date palm and the banana flourish 1 luxuriantly. The flocks of sheep, ana goats, and the famous Arabian horses ! are the chief resources of the country, while from Oman come the highly i prized Oman dromedaries, noted Tor 1 their speed and strength. The miner 1 al wealth of the new kingdom is
 somewhat doubtful, although iron, l copper, basalt, lead, coal and asphalt
 um are known to exist, while the pre- cious stones include emeralds, onyx, carnelian and agate. The pearl fish
 cries of the Persian gulf are among
 the richest in the world, and these wa ters also yield quantities of sponges
 "Travelers ascribe to the Arabs l many virtues. They are proud, and earnest people, sharp -witted, courag- 1 eous, temperate and hospitable, but 1 when wronged are bloodthirsty and ! vengeful One of their most striking characteristics is their great love Tor l poetry. The children of the nomads
 as we'll as the offspring of the fellahs l are early taught to read, write and l calculate, as might be expected of the l descendants of that race which gave 1 us our Ara bic numerals"
New Britain herald., 1916-12-19

Washington, D. C., Dec 1s.-"The
 announcement of the formation of
 the new kingdom of Arabia not long
 ago failed to elicit in America the in
 terest which the vast extent of terri
 tory involved would seem to warrant"
 according to a war geography bulle-
 tin issued by the National Geographic
 society from it's Washington head
 quarters. "The area of the Arabian
 peninsula, including that region
 known as Arabia Petraea and the Sy-
 rian desert, is about equal to the area
 of all the United States east of the
 Mississippi river plus Texas con-
 tinues the bulletin, "and 1t extends
 through more than twenty-one de-
 grees of latitude, so that if transposed
 to this continent it's northern bound
 ary would coincide with the northern
 part of Arkansas, while its southern
 tip would reach far beyond the north
 ern border of Nicaragua in Central
 America.
 Having maximum length equal
 to the distance between Montreal and
 the southern extremity of Florida, and
 a maximum breadth corresponding to
 the airline distance between New
 York city and Omaha, Neb., this great southwestern extremity of the contin- ent of Asia is very sparsely settled.
 the estimates of it's population varying
 more than 100 per cent. One author 1ty places the number at 7,500, 900, which Is conceded to be excessive, l while an ultra conservative figure Is 3,5O0,OOO
 Fully one-third of the Arabian peninsula is a waste of sand, the three most extensive of the barren l regions being the Great Nafud or Red Desert the Syrian Desert, and the Dahna Desert. And in addition to this 1 wholely hopeless area there is a cast 1 extent of territory where the supply 1 of water is so sporadic that the land
 cannot support a settled population. | The inhabitants are divided into two
 great classes-the nomadic Bedouins, 1 who move from place to place as pas l turage for their f1ocks of sheep and | goats and their herds of horses and | camels is exhausted and the Fellahs 1 who follow agricultural pursuits in the 1 small fertile areas and Ewhere wells 1 and cisterns are relied upon to store l up the rain water of the wet season. While the early despatches from l Mecca, the capital of the newly l formed kingdom, were silent on the | subject, it is probable that the Granc l Shereef Hussein Ben Ali is building his hope of empire chiefly on the 1 three provinces of Hejaz, Asir, anC 1 Yemen, which extend from the Sina l peninsula along the northeast shore 1 of the Red sea to the British protec 1 torate of Alden. Tn these provinces l are the largest cities of the peninsula Mecca, Jidda, Modeida, Medina, ana
New Britain herald., 1916-12-19
RIFLE PRACTICE IN THE NAVY.
 (Arns and the Man.)

In it's report on small arms prac- tice the navy department is sounding a new note in giving publicity to rifle practice, so far as the government is concerned. Instead of confining itself to making blanket statements as to how many men in the service quail fled as marksmen or better, this branch of the regular establishment is doing its best to inject human inter- est into it's reports, to the end of giv- ing credit to each individual for the work accomplished during the year,
 Thus, in the pages of the annual report on small-arms firing, the achievement of no man in the fleet is too small to warrant mention together with the score made, and the docu- ment, in addition, contains @ list of the relative standing of every ship in matters of target practice, commen- datory letters written to various men in response to worthy achievem ents with the rifle, and other matters of in terest to the Sailar-ma rksmen of the government.
 The edition Of the report, too, Is large enough to permit of supplying every one of the 50,0O0 sailors of the United States with a copy, thus fos- tering among the men a personal in- terest in the pamphlet.
 In compiling it's regulations to gov ern small-arm work, the navy has also shown itself progressive. Those in charge of target pra actice are willing to accept ideas which are worthy whether they emanate from a past master of marksmanship or whether they come from an unknown blue jacket.
 As Q, result the navy has forged to the front rapidly during the past few years, and among the sailors of the different fleets there are today marks men who need take the count from the rifemen of no other branch of the service.
New Britain herald., 1916-12-19
What Everyone Knows
(Kansas City Star)


 That Eden was divided into three parts, Adam, Eve ana an outgoing turn-style.
 That Alexander ran out of worlds.
 That Achilles was shot in the heel
 That Jonathan divided his apple with his friend, David.
 That Dido was quite a charming hostess.
 That Diogenes was the first railroad rakeman.
 That Caesar burned his bridges be- hind him.
 That by succeeding in his chosen profession Demosthenes set a bad ex- ample.
 That Milton employed the first stenographer
 That Cotton Mather and Eli Whit ney were not quite contemporaries, but near enough to be confusing
 That Macauley was dry reading, but necessary for a diploma.
 That Johnson is dead, but Boswells are more numerous than ever
 That Richelieu was the basis of 8 good show.
 That Horace Mann built a great many schoolhouses.
 That Henry James died an English man.
New Britain herald., 1916-12-19
CANADIAN FARMERS ORGANIZE,
Impressive Example of Economic
 Cooperation.
(TOrOntO GlObe.).

This is the title of the new organ ization of western Canadian farmers, which has been formed by the organic union of four provincial associations that have all been in operation suf- fciently long to have acquired each considerable amount of corporate Influence. The amalgamating com panies are the grain growers grain company, the united farmers of AL berta, the Alberta farmers elevator company and the grain growers as soclat1on. The resulting organization should be a strong one. for it has all ready announced it's. purpose to in- crease it's capital from S2,0OO, 900 to $5,000,O00.
 The fundamental idea of each of the separate associations was CO., operation in the various stages of the marketing of grain, and especially of wheat. Under it's climatic conditions the West needs all the advantage it can secure from fictitious devices, and especially from economic co-op- eration. Already the farmers have fought the elevator issue to finish and won, and1 this is by no means all they have. accomplished. Obviously it will be to their advantage to: ignore provincial boundaries and to regard the whole ."pfairie'f region as it's un- divided: area, of operation. ''-: ..
 Nothing in the published reports of the consolidation proceedings in- dicates any purpose to work for the improvement of agricultural methods, but no doubt much good along this line will: result from the widening of the individual farmers industrial horizon by discussions at the meet ings of the whole body. The prob lem of securing pure seed is per- haps the most important of those now to be grappled with It Is. In ct, very difficult to over-state it's importance, and yet it is easy to see that very much may be accomplished in lessening the weed seed evil by an interchange of widespread exper- fences and eXperim enta tion in new localities with well-tested remedies
New Britain herald., 1916-12-19
A Startling Rumor.
(New Haven Journal Cour

(New Haven Journal Courier.)
 The mysterious rumor has gained headway that it is the intention of the county commissioners of the state, we
 presume the twenty -four of them, to ask for an increase in salary. There is also said to be some talk of increas- ing the pay of the state officials but 1t is with the county commissioners that we have to do upon this occa- sion.
 The moment the motion Is made, if it be made, to increase their salaries,
 an amendme ent should be offered ap- pointing a commission to investigate and report upon the best manner of abandoning the county form of gov ernment. We suggest a state commits sion of investigation because the dis tribution ot the duties of the commis- sions should proceed in an orderly manner. There is nothing complicat- ed about the job. The duties can be easily disposed of, but the general as- sembly should not be formally asked to abolish the county form of govern ment until all the facts are before 1t. There would be involved, for example, the transfer to a state excise commits sion the power of issuing liquor H. censes, the transfer to the state of the care of the county. jails, county courts and county homess These are serious and major duties of the county gov ernment which could be better done by the state than by the county. In addition to the improvement that would follow in the administration of the county. then merged into the state, there would be removed from the political life of the state an ar chaic instrument of government in itself objectionable as such, and a purely partisan machine which Is practically superior to all authority and removable by none.
 It is purely incidental to the situa- ton that the present commissioners are all members of the republican party. The situation would be inn proved in no degree whatever by making them democrats. The fault is in the system and not in the commissioners. New Haven county might have elected a majority of democrats to represent it in the halls of legislation, but, so long as the leg islature remained in the control of the republican party, the recommen- dation of the New Haven county leg islative caucus would avail nothing. The general situation would be more tolerable If the commissioners were elected by the people and made re- spOnsble to the people, but the ut ter absence of any necessity for the county form of government offers a good reason for its abolition. The thought of its continuance under in creased salaries is intolerable.
New Britain herald., 1916-12-19
(Meriden Record.)
Why Die?

You don't have to die if you don't want to. All you need is to educate yourself up to. perpetual health. So says D. w Starrett in a recent book. Some believers in faith cures and m ental headings have been known to say that before. But they put the en- phasis on simple faith. If you just believed hard enough, they argued, you could make yourself live forever. Mrs. Eddy, for instance, put off dy- ing to a ripe old age, beating David's record of four score years ten by nearly a score. But she couldn't quite make immortality on this planet. Chauncey Derew, who also thinks people die just because David told them they were going to, is now thirteen years ahead so for. He bids fair to beat Mrs. Eddy's record, but we don't believe he'll live forever either.
 But then. MT. Starrett doesn't be- lieve any individual can begin at any minute in his career and reach thiS~ supposedly desirable result. What he does firmly believe and steadily preach is that by careful education in laws of health the race may one day attain his ideal. It's not by faith alone that the result is obtained, but by rung by rung, on the ladder to- wards immortality. @
 When death stops, childbirth will stop also-it is but temporary expe- dient
 What Malthus would say to all this would be interesting to hear. Tho believers In reincarnation might also have entertaining matter to add i. to the discussion.
 But this much, in all seriousness. x Is true. By believing firmly in long life, by building ones bodily and mentally strength carefully with that end in view, years may be added to life on earth. Not decrepit, toothless miserable years, but joyful productive ones.
 Most of us want to die at some time or other. out of sheer curiosity as to the world beyond. But this world is full of a number of things why die before ones time if good sense and cheerfulness can prevent it
New Britain herald., 1916-12-19
LACK OF HOSPITALITY
Ihat Appears When Unexpected Guests Arrive.
 1ric I

Hospitality seems to be almost a lost art in the present age. The days when the unexpected stranger at the door was bldden in to eat and sleep are past. In some parts of the west. however, one still finds that open hearted hospitality in homes where the host and his wife are always glad to welcome any traveller who happens to come to their door. But the mod ern housewife of the East is almost unacquainted with impromptu enter talnlng. She must be forewarned Tn plenty of time before she will even at tempt to dine a friend.
 1t is rather a pity that this highest form of hospitality should be allowed to die out After all, it is not much or tax on ones hospitality to enter tain a friend or two at dinner or lunch when the invitation has been given a week or so in advance. Any woman can do that kind of entertaining with ample time for preparation.
 But ones true metal as a hostess is shown when a friend arrives unex- pectedly for lunch or when the man of the house turns up with business acquaintance or two for dinner. That is a sort of a situation which tests the real Value or ones hospitality, and un- fortunately very few housewives rise to such occasions at all successfully.
 Don't let impromptu hospitality die out in your home. Encourage your husband to bring his friends home for dinner and your daughter to bring her girl chums to lunch. Keep stock of canned goods always ready on your shelves and a supply of clean table linen in your linen closet for such occasions.
New Britain herald., 1916-12-19
How OIdo
(BOStOn Post.


 The value of ''young blood" in the strenuous competition of industry and commerce is unquestioned; but at what point shall be drawn the divid- ing line between the competency of youth and the decadence of age?
 The common acceptance of the limit of forty-five years is perhaps based upon the schedule for entrance upon military service but even thus we see that under the stress of con- ditions on the other side of the world this has been extended to sixty years, as by the recent edict in Germany.
 Tn the absence of any such sharp necessity hereabouts, it is interesting and significant that the merchants of Chicago are frankly advertising en- ployment for men between the ages of forty-five and sixty-five years Ap- plications In response have come in at the rate of 500 @ day.
 Here is encoura cement for a great many-in Chicago the census shows there are 10000 of them. And to those everywhere who at forty-five step forward upon the path which they unwillingly accept as that of advancing age, it is permitted to brace up with confidence that they have not yet left behind them youth and it's energies.