The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-08-10
Parnen: By His Brother.

lyman In London Observer.
preston of a fine spirit just ready to es-
cape it's fretted and worn vessel--to mar
vel at the other picture his brother pre-
sents.
"Charley"-there Is a lack Of the sense
Of fitness which so calls Mr.. Parnell all
through the volume-s presented to us
amazingly in his brothers memories of
him a great dancer, a society man,
given to Irritation and falling in love. He
was not able even to persuade the Ameri-
can young lady who Tilted him that he
was anything else but a simple Wicklow
squire. She may have been a person of
very dull perceptions; we may go further,
and say she must have been. Mr. John
Parnel seems to think that If his broth
er had married Miss Woods the future
might have been averted. One doubts it.
1t was probably very fortunate for Miss
Woods that she found an undistinguished
mate. In later life Mr.. Parnell always
gave one the impression Of being an alb
solutely lonely soul. Let it be remem-
bered to Katharine Parnell for righteous
ness that she brought 1t some human
warmth and comfort For the rest-Sun-
day newspapers and the libraries hardly
penetrate the shadowy kingdom.
A very strange family. One of its oddi-
ties-of Mr.. John Parnell's as Of Mrs.
Dieldnson's-is a conviction, very amiable
in his case. that chit-chat about the fam
lily must necessarily be of interest That
tdiosyncrasy In itself Is Interesting be-
cause 1t reveals the strong family affec-
ton which was trait in the Irish chiefs
character IS in that Of the lesser members
of the family. 1t Is attitude of mind
which recalls that Of the Leinster family
In the days of Lord Edward Fitzgerald
towards each other. Widely different as
the personalities were, there was some
thing in the relations between Mr. Par
nell and his sister Anna which recalled
those Of Lord Edward Fitzgerald and his
sister Lady Lucy Anna Parnei was her
bro thar's twin soul. I do not claim for her
that she was his equal In political sapience
or the gift Of leadership; but In courage,
In devotion, in fire, in the clear flame of
patriotism she was as he was They
quarrelled over the Ladies' Land League,
and 1t broke Anna Parnell's heart, driving
her into the desert Of loneliness in which
she was to perish alone.
| Now and again in the undistinguished
flow Of chit-chat comes an Illuminating
anecdote. Not always new. There Is the
Parnell Of the nursery, who, playing at
soldiers with his guileless sisters and
| brothers, glued his soldiers to the floor so
| that by no possible chance could their ad-
versares overthrow them Mr. John Par
nell lays stress on his brothers dominance
and love of power. One likes the story of
how the Parnell boys made a pond and
constructed flat-bottomeG boat. When II
! came to the trial trip Mr.. Parnell insisted
| on sending some of the work boys on the
| trial trip, with the result that the craft
| turned over and the unfortunate substi.
| tutes were buried In the mud
| John Parnell Goes not believe that his
brother derived his natonalism from tho
Fenian movement, telling how they-ths
childreEl-resented the rag-tag and bobtai
| with which the American Mrs. ParneL
| flied the big town house in Upper Temple
street, to which the magic word "Fenian
was an open sesame for every wastrel and
inposter. But no one ever supposed that
Fszian1sm was his genesis John ParneI
has not word about the grim story told
| to the young Parnells by Gaffney, the old
| gate keeper at Avondale, of the ss rebel
| wtas was fogged through the town Of
Rathdrum and back again by orders of
certain Captain Yeo, till he fell, his bow.
| els protruding, crying out "Captain Yeo
Captain Yeo! The Lord deliver ms from
Captain Yeo." That. I have always I'm.
| derstood, made Charles Stewart Parnsu
an Irish REBEL
The book has deal Of pudding to q VERY
few plums. 1t contains little or no revel.
alton Of the man for whom the Ir1ah PEG.
ple-yes, and the Irish priests-are cryins
today. "Oh, for one hour OF Parnell nowi"
The cry 10 his justification, his panegyric
and his revenge.