The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-09

l A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind.'
 1 now about AZ years of age. Mrs. Nell son says that the countess was never
 quite normal-always constant source of trouble and anxiety to her people, owing to her eccentricity. She declines to believe that she is good shot, as
 has been stated in the papers, as she has alawyS suffered from defective vision and is very short sighted. Mrs. Nelson married and went a-soldiering with her husband and in this way lost sight of the countess for many years, but she had often seen her recently, and sometimes in such shabby attire as would almost cause one to offer her charity.
 The countess. Mrs. Nelson states, was always peculiar about her religion and was student of occult science. In her early youth she went in for spirit wrap ping and table turning. and later is said to have had a room for her spirit ual exercises. the shelves of which con- tained many human skulls
 Although connected with some of the noblest families in England, she ap- pears to have cut herself completely adrift and to have consorted with a class of persons of a kind very differ ent from those with whom she was associated in early youth.
 One of the families with which she was connected was that of the late George Wyndham. chief secretary for Ireland, under Arthur Balfour at that time prime minister.
 Saddest among many sad cases is that of young Irish girl, Miss Grace Clifford, and her sister. The husbands Of both were executed Miss Grace Clifford. who married Joseph PIunkett In cell only an hour or so before he was shot. is a woman of talent and beauty William Orpen, the famous Irish painter, did her portrait and called it Young Ireland" Miss Clifford contributed to reviews and was some thing of caricaturist herself Joseph Plunkett the man she married under such painfully romantic circumstances, was the eldest son of Count and Countess Plunkett The count who is under arrest, is literary man, an Irish archaeologist and keeper of the nation- al musemum in Dublin. Miss Grace Ginord's sister married Thomas Me. Donagh three years ago. MeDonagb was executed at the same time as Plunkett
 The tragedy of the P1unkett- Clifford family recalls that of Robert E,mmet and Sarah Curran. Emmets name lives as the martyr of Irish liberty and the SSOAJ VI HIS DelrOlneQ mas been maQS immortal, not only in the minds of the far-flung Irish people in all the lands oI the earth. but in song by Thomas, Moore in his "She Is Far From the Land Where Her Young Hero Sleeps and in beautiful prose by Washington Irving, Tn the exquisite essay called "The Broken Heart"
 Another woman who takes an unfor. tunate place in the revolt is Mrs Sheehy SkeHlngton. whose husband was sum marily executed without trial. The case caused a great sensation and the responsible officer is being courtmar- t1aled. Mrs. Skeffington has the sym pathy of every one in Dublin, for it is not believed that her husband was talk ing part in the revolt On the contrary 1t Is claimed that when arrested he was engaged in an effort to induce the peo- pie to stop footing.
 I have mentioned the part played bv the women who achieved greatest prominence in the revolt. There were others however. without title, unre- lated to great families. and unknown by name. who were most courageous and heroic. Not all were Sim Fein- CTS; on the contrary, there were many Red Cross workers who were often un- der fire. who were not. These looked after the wounded of both sides, as. truth to tell. did some of the Sim Fein nurses. These Sim Fen nurses were not mere volunteers with no ex- perence. Some had gone through a regular Red Cross course and held cer- tif1cates of efficiency
 On the Wednesday following Easter Monday the Sherwood Foresters marched from Kingston to Dublin, into what has been described as a veritable death trap. Into this death trap the lady superintendent and nurses of St. Patrick Duns nursing home came fortrt at about in the afternoon. They car ried quilts and blankets to serve as stretchers. With the aid of the resi- dential medical staff they carried 79 wounded men, soldiers and insurra,- tionists. into the home. The ladies Of the Red Cross branches of the city and county of Dublin also did fine work. Some of them put their houses at the disposal of the wounded and thus q large number of beds were provided. One of the curious incidents of the re- volt occurred when lady volunteer and doctor went into a burning house to warn the occupants to leave. They Mound only a maidservant who refused
 to depart because of valuable jewelry of which she had charge The doctor broke open the cabinet containing the 1 jewelry and carried it on a stretcher to another house. l The stretcher bearers of the city of Dublin branch of the Red Cross were all women and from time to time they
 made a tour of the city to find if their services were requird. Both unrses and doctors acted with great courage, | constantly risking their lives in the