Widnes Examiner. — 1905-06-10 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

LADIES' BEST GLACE BOOTS AND SHOES, UNDER TII E CLOCK. B RID a E-STREET . —Advt. A Shocking Warrington Home. At the Warrington Police Court yesterday (Friday), Bodelia Garrity, Peers Court, was charged on remand with neglecting her child. —Air. Browne prosecuted on behalf of the N.S.P.C.C. and stated that the child was in a terrible condition through neglect and was in the workhouse. The defendants house was in a filthy condition and had since been closed as being unfit for habitation. Defendant was sent to gaol for one month with hard labour.  The Boating Fatalities. At the Parish Church on Sunday evening, a special service was held in memory of Mr. J. J. Dennett, his son John Dennett (8), and Mr. Arthur Tomlinson (23), all of whom resided in Egerton-street, and who lost their lives while boating on the Mersey onSaturday week There was a large congregation. Members of the Order of Foresters with which society the late Mr. Dennett was connected met in the Market-place at about six o'clock and walked in procession to the Parish Church. The Rector preached and took for his text the words " And ye now, therefore, have sorrow but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy. no man taketh from you" I—St. John xvi. 22. Such cironmstances as those of the terrible accident by which the deceased had lost their lives, he said caused them distress,but good often came out of sorrow, and it might be a warning to many " that in the midst of life we are in death." The life of the deceased man 'Dennett would probably be an example to many, for he had heard from the secretary that the brother they had lost was a good man, a good father, and that he was respected by all. They ought so to live that their lives might be an example to all around them. At the conclusion of the service Mr. Darby played the Dead March in" Saul." "PREMIER" CYCLES at 12 guineas with change speed gear itc., unequalled.—J. S. GARLAND, 51 to 55, Bridge st.,Warrington.—Advt. "The Revival of Gaelic." An interesting and able essay on the above subject has just been pubiished by Mr. H. P. Hughes, of Stockton Heath. It is obviously the result of Much careful research and the author advances valuable practical suggestions for building up a reformed alphabet and orthography, to bring modern Gaelic into line with Welsh-Keltic. Mr. Hughes well points out that in their enthusiasm for the revival of Gaelic, some of its advocates are apt to overlook collateral issues that may have a weighty hearing or influence npon the rising and future generations of Ireland. " For instance, he says, 'much •of the benefit which English capital and the English language have undoubtedly conferred upon Ireland and the Irish people could easily be lost, or, ,at least, depreciated in value, unless the new movement is very discreetly handled. From his study on the subject, Mr. Ilughes is convinced that a considerable proportion of the people of Ireland greatly doubt whether the benefits to be derived, or to be anticipated, from the teaching of Gaelic will at all, be commensurate with the risk of educatiohal and political degeneracy .whieh may accompany it. AS a second language —lust as Welsh is - Mr. Hughes is heartily in sympathy with the Gaelic movement, but, he adds " We Kelts cannot turn back the 'clock of time, nor ought we to permit any man, or section of men, by playing upon our religious, patriotic or political weaknesses, to decoy us into cutting of our nose to spite our face '—that is to say, in plain English to persuade us, by specious arguments, into taking the risk of committing business and commercial (and possibly even national) suicide." Mr. Hughes deals exhaustively with the difficult problems which form themselves round the serious discussion of the movement for restoring the Gaelic 'Language, and his essay may be regarded as a valuable contribution on the subject.