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4 THE BOSTON DAILY GLOBE MONDAY, AUGUST 9, 1 8 8 EIGHT exiled, and Fichetrree strangled him through. The fisheries question, again. monnd. surrounded bv a moat. n.
---I- IDOLS OF TflE GREEN ISLE. 0Sf0it 8IoIrt 9, 1886. EIGHTPAGES. in his own way, which will strike the aver-ago observer in this case as not altogether respectful to the representatives of the people. 1 General Butler's yacht made a very pretty appearance in the race on Saturday, but what Colonel Allen of Lowell would like to is whether the general has any othor racing intentions this fall.
Pall Mall Budget (London): A few months ago we stated that a piece of jobbery of a particularly had character was about to be perpetrated in the inland revenue department, namely, that Mr. Adam Younq had resigned and that Viscount St. Ctres, the son of Lord Iddesleioit. was about to be west of Dublin, and there still exists there (we saw it yesterday) the Deserted village, of whose schoolmaster he wrote: And still thev and still tho wonder grew, Jlow one small head could carry all he knew, knew." Poor Goldsmith! "Tho path to glory lay before him, but he had not a guiniain his pocket to pay his travelling It is a rnggestive trio this Ftat.ne ot Goldsmith, the glory of Trinity College; that nameless grave, where Goldsmith lies buried in a littered corner of the Temnle court in London; and for a picture, hot we en tho two. Dr.
Johnson's account: received noto from poor Goldsmith early one morning, saying he was in great straits, and asking rne to come to him at ojico. I sent him a guinea and went to him as soon as I was dressed. I found ho had already changed ni guinea and had a bottle of Madeira on the table, imd was in great excitement, as bin landlady bad arrested bim for debt I put the cork in tlie bottle and asked him calmly to consider what means he had to extricate himself. He said he had a manu-scrip ready for the publisher, but could not dispose of it. I looked nt it, it had merit, took it to a bookseller and disposed of it for sixty oounds." It was "The Vicar of Wakefield." Between the bank and the college.
In the centre of College Groen, stands a large statue of the famous patriot and brilliant preservation and happiness. Another heavy burden from which Germany has long Suffered, arising from her various political divisions, Bnringa from the numerous sovereignties within her territory, each one maintaining a regal establishment at an aggregate expense almost incalculable, all of which must be paid out of the toil of the laboring classes, and from which the country reaps no advantage whatever. All this expense, the fruit of incessant labor, is entirely wasted. What is the remedy for these political diseases Inherited from the post? Ger-many must become a republic and cast oil her effeto political system, together with the worthless princes who form a part 'of it. The severe measures of Bismarck will hasten this result It is hard to believe that he does not realize their ultimate conclusion, but he may be able to put off the catastrophe during his own life time, content to say: "After me the deluge!" was a Republican creation, for it was their treaties and the treaties of their Whig fathers which gave Canada the whip-hand of our fishermen.
And yet, forsooth, because the Democratic party has not been able to clear all these grave matters from the national docket in eighteen months of executive control, and with one session of Congress, the Republi can organs are amazed. Twenty-four years was not long enough for Republicans to 6ettlo these questions, but a year and a half 6trikes them as more than enough time for the Democracy to have to dispose of them all. Tom Reed of Maine is a great success as a jester, but the press of his party should beware of his best sallies. The logic of the laugh is badly against them in this in stance. Because if it is so very funny that a Democratic handcuffed to a Republican Senate, has not solved the tariff, the coinage, the naval and all the other big problems, how much funnier it is that six Republican administrations rosa.
flourished and passed away, leaving all this work for one Democratic session to put through! A GLANCE AT GEEMANY. The recent celebration at Heidelbere of the fifth centennial of its historio univer sity invites our attention to the political and intellectual condition of Germany. Were we to be guided by the cry of "Fatherland" continually brought to our ears, we should be led to believe that the Germans are the only people possessing a genuine national feeling. On the contrary, upon an investigation of the subject, it is found that among civilized countries there is no nation wherein this sentiment is so entirely wanting, and whenever any attempt has been made to animate the German people with a feeling of nationality it has been inspired by a desire for a union of the different states for the purpose of mutual defence against foreign invasion. There is no other people in Europe with so small an amount of real national pride.no other people that looks with so much favor upon everything foreign, no other people whose preference for foreign productions has passed into a proverb.
They possessed no national language until the excitement of the Reformation and the genius of Luther gave them one. Nearly to the end of the seventeenth century, teaching in the schools was conducted in Latin. During the eighteenth century French was the language of the courts and of all polished society. Every educated German with French literature, and admired it to the exclusion of his own. Royalty affected French manners, morals and philosophy, and the better classes followed this example.
Learned Germans despised the German language, and disdained to employ it as the medium of their works, notwithstanding the patriotism and good judgment of stock led him to declare that "no living tongue was worthy to be compared with it" Under the madness of this de- praved preference Voltaire was man king to and from there for everything French invited by a Ger reside at Potsdam he writes in 1750 "Every one speaks our language. German is fit only for soldiers and horses." Imita tion of the most servile kind was the bane of German thought under such an influ ence. and the evil is felt in Germany to this very day. Politically the German Empire was always a chimera, and the several emperors who imagined themselves the legitimate suc cessors of the Caesars, even during the middle ages, the period when their power wasat its zenith, derived whatever imperial authority they possessed from their liered- itary, and not from their electoral, sover eignty, which otherwise would have been a mockery less substantial than the caliphate of Abom Hassan. The territory, geograpb ically.
Germany was politically divided into a large number of sovereigu states and, since the treaty of Hubertusburg, two great European powers, both having extensive possessions beyond the limits of this terri tory. rivals in the empire one striving to continue its quasi-hereditary possession of the imperial crown, and gradually to con vert a confederation of states into national unit; the other continually scheming to prevent this, and finally succeeding in driving tho former entirely out of the confederation. Now there is indeed a new German empire, an emperor more despotic than Charles min ister greater than Richelieu, with the most formidable army in the world under their supreme control, a power never wielded by the Hohenstaufens oir the ILvpsbuegs in their palmiest, Whatever may he said respecting the homogeneous character of the German tribes as first known in history, there have always existed political divisions in Germany which it has never been difficult to maintain. There is but little doubt that these political divisions have awakened rivalries which have contributed to intel lectual development, and led to the found- ing and supporting of so large a number of universities of the highest rank. far beyond other countries of equal extent and population.
The establishment of common schools, attendance at which i3 compulsory; the almost innumerable high schools (gymnasia), where at a cheap rate the best education can be obtained; the special examination required by the State, in addition to the degree conferred by a school or university, before a person can be appointed to office or be allowed to enter any of the learned professions, all con tribute to a wide diffusion of knowledge, and place education upon a very substantial basis. And this general intellectual culture demands and stimulates a high order of literature. There is, however, a reverse side to the picture. The military system of Gery many not only throws upon the people pecuniary expenses too heavy to bo borne with comfort or patience, but the exaction of 6even years, the best years in the life of every male citizen, when he must be taken from the civil pursuits on which his whole lite depends, inflicts a burden upon those who have to bear it which no State will continue to support The army is the chief avenue to distinction, absorbing and virtually wasting the best talent and energy of the land which ought to be directed into more productive channels, unless it is intended to continue the ancient profession of robbery, and at the point of the sword to acquire new territory and more milliards. This concentration of the honors of the country in the army is one of the most prominent causes of the want of material prosperity in Germany compared with England and the United States.
What an inferior part has Germany played in the great discoveries and inventions of the present century, particularly those directed the general comfort and welfare of the people 1 This does not arise from a want of talent, but because the best intellect of the country is invited to military affairs, to the invention and production of instruments for the destruction A human life, instead of lie an to to self in prison, wero republican gen' erais to butler, and a man had no claim for merit save birth (if such be considered a claim) allowed to escnne Badon had violated her neutrality by har- boring treason. Tho neutrality of minor states was little respected when a great power desired to accomplish a certain pur pose, as witness, wnon a year later, Austria invaded tho neutral territory of Bavaria, and atteinnted to take France by surprise. Baden having broken her word of honor to ranee, was at mercy. Ha declared her under his protection, and formed her shortly after under the Confederation of the Rhine, Ion could not have supposed when I sairt "French soil," I in. tended to infer other than tipvlied to th protectorate of Baden.
I rather think you "rish" is a "little too salt" to cat with rel ish. The atmosphere of Uuniney Marsh is not healthy to smaller fry." Gilbert. Chelsea. "Smythe's" Definition. To the Editor of The Globe: Many of the negroes of both North and South America, are direct in decent from an ancestry who came or were brought to this continent long before the fir it inim grant representative of many of the fami lies who now to be exclusively and yet a Murphy or Sinshei mer or a an Dusen may be American became (vide he is white, but George Washington Randolph remains an Aincan because, forsooth, he sis black.
Ihe Esquimau of Northern America, and the red man of both orth and South America, with a native ancestry that ante dates history and tradition, styl. can lay no claim to the title of "American." One is simply a Mongolian and the other an Indian perhaps, becamo neither he nor his ancestors can trace any connec tion with the inhabitants of India If the red man is an Indian, certainly a native of India, whether Caucasian. Mongolian or Malay ian, cannot bean Indian because (again vido the Indian is red. not wnite, yellow or brown The child born in Africa or Australia of English, Dutch, reuch or American parentage is not African or Australian, as the case may be, but continues to bo of the same nationality as his ancestors. Only the United States does the child lose his nationality (provided, oi course, ho is white).
Here he becomes an American by virtue of his birth. I have heretofore thought that the place of a person's birth fixed the question of his or her nationality, and that parentage set- tied tne questiou oi race, but "George smytne" nas at last macie the matter clear, end as he is presumably neither English nor German (this i judge from his of the 4th inst) I suppose we must accept his oeiinition. vv. Frank. Meriden.
August 5. About the Caucasians. To the Editor of The Globe: Never havingseen anything from "George Smythe," outside of tho temperance or prohibition question (let me say, however, as far as 1 can recollect). I am agreeably sur prised to see him turn out today as a first- class etymologist "Tho Indian is a red man, the American white." Now, why doesn't he go on in the string and add The Ethiopian is black, the Mongolian and Malay are yellow, although of different shade; the Australian Hold on! were we get stuck again, vvno are tue Australians? Are they the aborigines of that continent and the Papuas of the Pacific islands, or the present occupants and rulers of the greatest part oi it. tne lingnsn i remaps they say analogically, as "George Smyr.be" says: Tho Papuas are dark brown men, but the Australians are whito.
Now we have all the colors distributed among the races; but now, Mr. Smythe, what have you left lor tne Caucasian racer me uermans and English, whose dehmtions you do not want, belong to that race, as do all but one nation of Europe, who, although nearly assimilated with them for 1400 years, still show a little of their Mongolian descent Give us a little more light as to the Caucasian race, ou do not need, as yon say, tho Germans and English to define these words of common use, but perhaps yon may neod them to define words of common sense, which is a verv different thinsr. and vrm may probably need it in your favorite ques tion also. D. H.
The Abington Mine. 7 the Editor of The Globe; In your edition of July SO, I note men tion of silver ore discovered in Abington, and read with amusement the opinions, one man saying that 0 per cent, silver in ore had been made to pay well, aed the owner of thi3 discovery stating he had had it essayed, and that it was 11 per cent silver and CO per cent. lead. The load part I presume is correct, but instead of percentage on the silver I suppose it means eleven ounces, and that the miner who has Known a per cent to pay means six ounces. Well six ounces silver and do Der rent.
lead would pay if in quantity per cesst. sliver would mean 120 pounds of silver in a ton of ore. Silver is at ninety-five cents per ounce, worth $11 40 per pound or $1368 per ton. The average of our Leadville ores (lead ores) is about 40 per cent lead and twenty ounces silver per ton. Forty per cent, lead means 800 pounds metallic lead, at five r-ents per pound, 40; twenty ounces silver means, at ninetv-live cents, $19 total value, $69.
Now Abington ore, 00 ner cent lead, means 1200 rsouiids metal lic lead, at five cents, $00; eleven ounces silver, at ninety-five cents. $10 45 $70 45. lhis would pay well if in any quantity. New lork. mining Engineer, Origin of Saturday.
To the Editor of The Globe I have seen an article (headed "Some thing for 'Quill' to in which the writer says: "I believe the French 'Samodi' is from baturni uies' and not First, because the French, like the Eng lish, have a distinct word for Sabbath. 'Sabbat'; second. because it is inconceivable iow the 'm could have crept if it came from the same Latin word as'Sab- at' were redenc" of Canibride-n well acquainted with the Celtic languago he would be a much better etvmol ntrist. than he is, and tne conimutabiiity of and would not be inconceivable to him. The mtercnange ot tnose letters is of frequent occurrence all th rou-h Hebrew.
Sftiisnrit and Greek, yet the Celtic alone furnished a good reason lor it. i beg leave to inform reaeric mar tne rrencn hamedi is not from Saturni Dies. The very primitive main roots in tne two words are different. The heathen god Saturn (a deification of time), wnence Saturday is an abbreviation oi iuii-great-iimos. This sat mil.
is in Jann paus. wnence datiate, out rrencn famedi lias its main root in Celtic rain or ban, pronounced Sawv, whether speiled with the m-v or the b-v. aow Saiiu-is an abbreviation of So- ash-vo. pronounced bo-a-vo. and meaning good luck, great or very fortunate.
A pros perous person is saiu to oo in easv circumstances; so Sain or Sawv is the Celtic word. ease, rest, with tne sense extended to pros perous, nappy, care iree, and bain-acht. or Sab-acht, rest, gives the origin of Sab- Datli. Lann ltsen. instead ot he nc tho mother of French.
Spanish and Tta.li.ni i but a sister, being only a very corrupt dialect ui liio itm.iijiiij clj buu-viittiuuiu, t. oinuioniy caneu Celtic. raiLO-CKLTiC, Haxall. To ihe Editor of The Globe: Can any one inform me through the People Column" where the name origi nated and what year the flour, "Haxall flour," was first introduced on tho market A. Snow, An Easy One.
To the Editor of The Globs: Would one of your many intelligent contributors kindly inform nie through the "People's Column," when and where the G. O. Mr. Gladstone, was born? 4 Pompeuiddlespom. Good at Fieures.
To the Editor of The Globe: tn? 1. now muny eius are mere in a cen tury? One hundred are there not? Your illustration of a child's age is correct, but you do not use it correctly. oa say at the end of twelvemonths a child is one year old. J. hen at the end of two years it is 2 years old, and at the end of ten years it i3 10 years old.
Therefore, on December 31 17U9. 17U9 years had passed, and as one hundred years are ft century. 1800 was the last year in the eighteenth century, and January 1, 1801, commences the nineteenth. 1 have heard numerous persons remark the same etloct of "aidella" as "Hun garian acquaintances. sincerely Pty you.
for Zaidella" has hopes of you. Llewdaert. Car Brakes. To the Editor of The Globe: Can any reader tell me why the brake handle on an ordinary horse car is curved instead of straight? Interchange. Dyspepsia and Tobacco.
To th Editor of The Globe I have been a constant reader of The Globe for ten years. I have seen it spoken many times about the cure of dyspepsia. Being a sufferer from that complaint I cannot agree with "Dr. Day" about tho cold water cure, but I rather approve of hot water. I would like to ask can dyspepsia be cured? Was thero ever a case known to nave been cured where amanued tobacco? Brockton, Mass.
Ueokuu W. Young. i a tl or below bears simply the name "O'Connell put that in omte sufficient As the eemeter is upon a bill, the great tower and cross be. come a beacon to be seen from almost point in Dublin or about it. There is another style of monument tin.
fortunately abundant in Ireland, howevn massive manor mansions utterly deserts? with bmken windows and barred dort-i surrounded by broad parks all oversrrnwl: with weeds, and great gates locked wEU wanderlnu: ivv: low. nnrnnfAl tn them mournful hieroglyphic Morip. nfni evictions which took place before ihe tpil antless 1 an moras ueserted their mansions: and great empty War houses, dismal me waae 01 Ireland lies buried- ui mill owners have over-milled them! selves; merchants have over-warehons3 themselves, smlres bave ovpr-casteiwi themselves, rackrents havo killed thni selves, as well as the renters, all becan Ireland has. as yet. failed to be whatever? one feels and knows that she can be.
A )arZ line of army and nayy heroes and liierar? and parliamentary lights Ireland hahVL queathed 'to England, and it is rwondw that England objects to a separation. Rut where in the world did they come from? One can almost credit the fabolous tales of the Irish kings, almost believe the marvelous legends of the more distant wwi in trving to account for th 1 ft vv 1 1 ura 1lffla tho at-Hl 1 turough the misery 01 Ireland. Kerry's nrf.lA and of 0 1 Connell. the wit of hheridan. the brii.
liant and fantastic imagery of Curran. the drollery and pathos of Moore, the forensto vigor of Ersklne. the versatile patience of Miss Edgewortli. the intensity of Plunkett the heroism of Grattan and Emmet, the grace end sarcasm of Burke and Gold, smith, ail have been absorbed to alleviate the misery of Ireland, while Ireland has fallen from ld.OOO.OOOto C.OOO.OOO. and Is more miserable today than ever befors.
ithout any inclination toward politloi one cannot help asking himself "Why?" Henby W. French, THE NAVY YARD'S BEST DAYS. Laylet; the Keel of Farracat's Fleesblj The Merrlmae and Ilynronth. "I guess the Charlestown navy yard has seen its best days," said Edward Miskelley, yesterday afternoon; "I can tell you thtA some of the finest vessels ever in the United States navy were built that yard. There was tho Merrimac and Plymouth and that famous war vessel the Hartford in which Farragut sailed up the Mississippi daring the remarkable nava' engagement of the rebellion, the Boston" Warren and Falmouth.
All were built at the Charlestown yards. I laid the keel of tee Hartford. lor at the time she was construct, ed I was quarterman in the construction department 1 entered the yard as an apprentice? 1825, when Josiah Barker was naval mn. structor. He came from fighting stock, bi grandfather and father serving in the Cob.
tineutal army, both participating in the battle of Bunker Hill. When 1 enten upon my apprenticeship John Quiney Adams was president of the United State I worked in the yard for thirty-six year! Things were not as they are now. Thei? wa3 no politics about the yard, asi no question was ever asked about how an employe voted. Tve heard it said that the administration of President Jack. Bon was proscriptive.
If it was it did not affect the navy yard, for all of the employ with the exception of two were Whigs, add they kept their places. I think it was aoont 1862 when politics beiran to he felt in thm yard, for in that year all the master irork-men were discharged. Since then the politicians have ruled the yard." JACKSON AND VAN BUREN. A. Paper with Their Signatures la Un tenant Thompson' Possession.
Lowell Courier. Lieutenant E. W. Thompson has recently received from a relative an ancient and interesting document in the shape ef a protection paper for an American brig, sail ing from Baltimore in 1.830, during the time of the French revolution. This paper is an original, printed on very heavy parchment, and bears the ainaturen of President Andrew Jackson and Secretary of State Martin Van Ttnren The introductory Hue, "By ihe President of the United States," is very finely executed in scrolls, and the body of the document is nicely printed in script The document is an excellent state of preservation.
The Portions which wero written in with ink are somewhat faded, but the signatures were written with a more lasting ink and stand Out verv clearlv. hfl vino- faelf.it hut lirtlp. Jackson's signature is large and bold aud very plain. Van Bnren's is not so bold, but is quite striking. It is not often that one gets possession of an original document bearing the signatures of two presidents.
The paper is as follows: BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE CXITED 3TATS3 Of AMERICA. Suffer the Brig Charles of Portland. Joseph TKnsinore, master or commander, of the burtheu of Two Hundred Nineteen tons or mounted with so guns, navigated with men. To Pai with her Company, Passengers, Goodt and Merchandise, without any hiuderauer, seizure or molestation, the said Brig appearing br pood testimony to belong to oue or more of the Citizens of the United States, and to him 01 them. only.
Given under my Hand and the Seal of the Xum- Der 37 iniriy-seven, inuea states or Ames-ica, the Fourth day of December in the ye.ii-. of our Lord one thousand eight hundred aus thirty. ANBliEW Hr the president M. Tan BUSEN, Secretary of aSa State of Marvland. District of Countersigned bv tSEAL.1 as.
H. McOcxtocH. Collectow To all persons whom these presents znajcctV Cooke Orcantze for Social Purpose The meat and pastry cooks ofthiscitj bave organized a business and social club, to be known as the New England Culinary Club, with the following officers Presb dent Louis Shauvaud; vice-president John W. O'Reilly; secretary, J. A.
C. Lndemann; treasurer, George Wolff; committee. Henry Bleuler, Lucas Ehrbardt, Marcus Hinius. The next meeting will be on Monday, August 16,, at 8 ale lock p. m.
Three New Papers. Louis Cassier. a bright young aspirant foi journalistic honors, has just started three new papers, the first numbers of which air reared Saturday and yesterday. Their names are the Boston Sunday News, the Brookline News and the Cambridge Gazetta They are very pretty quarto sheets, and should come in for a share of public patronage. The Globe's Portraits.
1 Lowell Times. 1 The Globe's portraits are way ahead of those of any other newspaper. The enterprise of The Globe In printing pictures of the Republican candidates for (rovernor and lieutenant-governor is commendable. Here are the portraits: 9 3. 8PECIAL NOTICES.
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kntno nothing at all que! to Friedrichshall. The LONGER il Jt. is taken the quantity necessary to eject the pur pose." Sir Henry tatl Druaists end Mineral Hater Ptaltru CAPACITY had the Colosseum at Borne, Peter's Milan Cathedral London, 31.000, Cathedral. Antwerp. J5.009.
were these wondrous halls. Oiled and crow they would contain only a small fraction or number of people who gladly testily that for e1 medicinal quality social purpose tb Taylor Bourbon and Rye Whiskey, bottled br GRAVES A SONS. Boston, aud sold CW cers aud Druggists, has never been equalled. 87.000 Daniel O'Connell, Kerry's Pride, Erin's Robert Emmet Still tlie Irish Darling-. Tom Moore and His Harp.
Curran and Shrine: Goldsmith Storied and Groves. Dublin, July 13. Just now, when Ireland's people, like the skies above her, hardly know whother to laugh or cry, there is something almost pathetic in the multitude of suggestions one receives of Ireland's pride in her heroes no moan heroes either immortalized from one end of Dub lin to the other: Brian, O'Moore, Strong- bow, St Lawrence, Goldsmith, Emmet. Wellington. O'Connell, Grattan, and no end of them.
If one rovert to the old principle, "By their fruits ye shall know them," he could hardly agree with England that lre land has not brains enough to be safely set free. The othor day I heard an Irishman singing that favorito Hibernian song: Oh tlie iron grasp and the kindly clatp, And the laughing, so fond and nay, And the roaring board unit the ready sword Were the types ot that vanished day. He was one of, at least, over two million Irishmen who have not tasted meat since lust Christmas, and will not taste it again till they indulge in another Christmas. He Was one of more than half the population of Ireland at this moment sleeping with their pigs and their hens and their donkeys (if they are so fortunate as to own them). on the mud floors of mud huts and under matted straw roofs, to whom the backwoods of Canada, tho provinces of America, the gold fields of Australia whisper "Come!" while starvation and England unite in say ing.
Go!" He was a fair representative of the country that produced some of the greatest generals, the bravest soldiers, the sweetest poets, the shrewdest statesmen, the most brilliant wit3 and graceful writers of the British isles. Begin with today, or look as far bacK as you will, it is quite the same. under the name Eibana, emerges from pre historic mists with a claim to foundation by a Celtic expedition from Spain 1400 years before Christ, led by tho chief Milesius, and to this day romance and poetry have no dearer name than Milesian to apply to the Irish hero. A little later Ptolemy gives an account of Dublin, and in the second century and later Irish universities were attracting students from Brittany and Gaul and sending missionaries through what is now western Europe. Among the forests of Germany, on the shores of the Hebrides, in the camp of Alfred the Great and the court of Charlemawne, charming emperors and scholars, were the wise men of the Emerald Isle.
In the fourth century Brian Boru and Desmond McMurrough were making all the world tremble. What Irishman, even today, has forgotten Brian, the Brave? In the towns on the Mississippi. tho farms of New Zealand and the gold fields of Australia, yes, and in Boston, I have seen his rude eftigy a warrior, with a cross in one hand and a sword in the other. 1 hen a little later Stronebow stood as one of the most celebrated knights of King Henry. His black marble tomb-monument, carved in 1171.
is still preserved in Christ's Church Cathedral in Dublin. STRONGBOW'S HON DM NT. And the more mnrlpm liArnac wnn forcrotten them? Cnme ilnn-n tn'th. of the Liffey. where it cuts Dublin in two.
ee the bridges ten of them. The finest a massive stone structure, in t.lm mntn of the city, is named for the distinguished rish patriot Daniel O'Connell. It connects Trafton street, the Bank of Ireland and nnity College with Sackville st roadest street in Eurntie. Rr.lnw io n.a. Wellington bridge, commemorating the Irish duke; then Grattan bridge.
Kichmond bridge. hitworth aud the rest But the yrmgus are not tno only reminders in Dublin. Just behind us, as we stand on the O'Connell bridge, is tho Bank ot Ireland, a magnificent building, far finer than the Bank of England, in London, finer than Englaud's Koyal Exchange, whose walls have echoed to the renowned eloquence of Curran, Grattan and Plunkett. Flood and O'Connell. It was once tho Irish House of Parliament aud is where O'Connell made that famous speech when he said may be said that I am an unfit person to lead, for.
I must admit, I have often used scathing and violent language. But have I begun the battles? Did I. in the first instance get no provocation? Kather did there ever live a man better abused than I have been? And this I can say, that, however uuxiii, mm.se or 03 aousen. no man can say that he ever found me refusing to bo reconciled, or cherishing an enmity." Among the men that throused about the standard ot Connell, then, were old soldiers who had fought in the PeuinsuH anil stood upon the field of Waterloo, and young men destined to support tho English iia? at Delhi and Cawnpore, and the stars and stripes in the Irish brigade at Antietam and Fredwicksburg, and to turn the tide ot battle for Phil bhcridan at Cedar Creek. Q'l he home of O'Connolt is but a few hundred foet away 011 Merrion sqnaro (Wellington's early home is a few doors from it).
1 O'CONNELL BRIDGE house that is known to everybody in Dub in. A few years ago. when I visited I Oo' U1 83 a WttS 81111 upou Hearten the Xurae "O'Connell." but in the window was a great placard which, instead of announcing a publio meeting on College green, said "to be sold let. I suppose it has found a purchaser, for when I went past the house the other day the door plate and placard were gone, and so wos tl. ncrir.
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The funeral of the late Samuel J. Tildes it as in keeping with the life and character the man a quiet, yet imposing event. The President and his cabinet, the Governor of New York and his staff, and a strong representation of the eminent men of the cation testified by their presence to the high place which the departed statesman held among the foremost of his countrymen. The banners of contending: parties were furled, and representative citizens of both the great political organizations joined to do honor to the memory of a man who, now that he has passed on, is felt to have been a true patriot and a very great American. The life of Samuel J.
Tildes was a long and busy one, and it had many sides. As a lawyer be achieved a first-class reputation, as a business man he showed the highest order of ability, and among the statesmen who have been students, scholars and philosophers as well as statesmen, he will always remain a conspicuous figure. But, above all these titles to remembrance, Samuel J. Tilde has one more that transcends them all. He was called upon to weigh his highest personal ambition, Justly and fairly won, against the peace of his country, and love of country turned the balance.
He sacrificed himself and delivered the land from strife. For that he will be remembered with honor and with gratitude by generations yet unborn. For that lie will bo ranked in our history with Washington. Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln and Grant, and the other great men whose memories are made bright forever-more with the fadeless glory of well-proved patriotism. WHAT WERE THEY ABOUT Republican jj are deeply disap pointed wiUt the, results of the recent session of fruits of Democratic rule are not at all to their taste.
The President has not realized their fond hopes, and the Democratic House has exceeded their worst fears. Tho Republican complaint of the President is that he has not adhered so rigidly to non-partisanship in dealing with the offices as they had been encouraged by his famous letter to Mr. Curtis to behove "that he would. The complaint against Congress is that it has done nothing. Especially severe are the Republican organs upon the Democratic House for not having settled all the great questions right oft.
at its first session. The Republican pirty is amazed that the Democratia House should have failed to dispose of the tariff question, the silver question, the Mormon question, the inter-State commerce question, the fisheries question, the naval question and the labor question in one session. The inore our Republican contemporaries reflect upon the failure of the Democratic Congress to put through these few little matters, the more they become convinced of the utter incompetency of Democrats generally, and of the present Democratic Congress in particular. Hon. Thomas B.
Heed of Maine gave them this cue in a characteristic speech made a few days before Congress adjourned. Tom Reed, as we all know, is a humor ist, first, last and always. He hah spasms of statesmanship, but humor Is steady occupation. His party seems not' toj fully appreciate this fact, and hence has taken Tom's closing joke of the session quite seriously. Those who know the mirthful hahit of the great Maine humorist do not need to le told that when he ambled into the aisle of the House and asked why the Democratic majority had not settled all the vital issues of the period in seven months, he was perpetrating one of his ablest jokes.
But the Republican press misses the point of it altogether, and falls to repeating Tom Reed's funny business with melancholy earnestness. Why, they fiercely ask, didn't you pass a tariff bill? Why did you not pass a silver bill? Why did you not clean out Utah? Wrhy have you not created a navy? WJiy have you failed to do everything at one fell swoop? The merry member from Maftie is no- doubt shaking his sides over the amusing spectacle thus afforded. And yet he must perceive that he has landed his party In an awkward place, and exposed it to an obvious and unanswerable retort. The Republican party was in power twenty-four years, and had ample opportunity and plenty of time to have settled All these questions itself. It elected six presidents, any one of whom might have applied the non-partisan principle to bis appointments in its most rigorous form.
But ton of them ever did. Mr. Cleveland iias gone farther in that direction than any one of jthj six, and yet the Republican party is satisfied. Clearly, they expect that a Democratic president will excel a Republican president in this regard in the ratio of 10 to 1. The tariil, too.
was there to be tackled at any time by Republican president and con-sTresees'J But they never tackled It The currency question was at their disposal, also, but they never got beyond some dis mal job-work at that The Mormon diffl-culty existed when they came into power and was sty 1 there when they went out of 'it Lad grown much greater ta4 harder to settle. As for the navy, we ksA eaa Republicans began their mtricei seign aatf stone when they got to appointed in consequence to a highly-paid position, for which ho had no special aptitude or experience. The howl. which arose at this statement directed of course against us, not against the job would have been appalling if we had not known its character. And what is the news now? That Viscount St.
Ctres has been appointed to the deputy chairmanship of the board of inland revenue, vacant bv the resignation of Mr. Adam Young, C. B. I suncta simplicitasl LADY ELGIN. lAnon.J Up from the poor man's cottage, Forth from the mansion door.
Sweeping across the waters, And echoing along the shore. Caught by the morning breezes, Borne on the evening gale. Little thought she that morning Would change those happy knells. Chorus. Lost on the Lady Elgin, Sleeping to wake no more, Numbering in death three hundred, Who failed to reuch the short Stanch was the noble steamer.
Precious the freight she boret Gayly she left her anchor A few short hours before Gayly she left her harbor. Joyfully rang ter boll; Came with the voice of morning' A sad and solemn tale. Chorus. Oh 'tis the cry of children Children for parents gone-Children who slept at even, Aud orphans woke at dawn; Sisters for brothers weeping. Husbands for missing wives; Thus were the ties all severed Of those three hundred lives.
WHAT PEOPLE TALK ABOUT. The Fditor of THE GLOBE neither printe answers communications that do hot bear the true signatures of the writers. Letters should be written with as few words as possible, and should never contain more than 200 words. Ail letters should be ad dressed, "Editor People's Column." Philosophizes. To the Editor of The Gl-be: Yes.
I'm the dog that barks but never bites. Some one must bo the sauce, we can't all be either the goose or the gan der. I am sorry that you "refrain" from "pork bash," even if it is washed down with a beverage as weak as water. Itron timiitv. however, should elevate it in esti mut.ion.
since Von have been digging from one end of the "Column" to the othor, try- mer to unearth Dre-Adamite specimens. inow that you nave iouna one, you siiouia step np like a little man and mte oil as much as you can conveniently cnew. I like people to tie in periect congrmty witli'theinselves. hen they fall in this 1 net them down as not being sincera quite frequently hit the mark. I have no war with you.
mese are out passing re marks. Horse sense is. in some respects, superior to a college and though it cannot always indulge in lofty flights or enter into the liner conceptions of the whys and wherefores, it is quite sure to have the supports of its pedestal sound, and not eaten awav by theories instead of strengthened by facts. Preaching and practice, to hold their unity, must jibe at some one point. else it were folly to taik of either.
Last w. A. r. Consistency, To the Editor of The Globe: "A voice" says that she is free and inde pendent, that she is better able to expose church fallacies than the ministers are. She repudiates the clergy and takes Christ alone as her authority.
She then refers me toatextinthe Bible that reads: "And no man can say Jesus is Lord, but in the Holy Spirit." Just what this has to do with her assertion that tho antediluvians knew no intoxicating Honors is hard to see. Besides. she is again and again inconsistent tor the words quoted above are of St. Paul, who was a Christian minister. And Christian ministers have transmitted his words to 'A voice.
"A voice" may fancy that fie is directly inspired by God. I do not think she is. As to her love for the trhtn. that is very well, but she will have to make love to him a little while longer before she catches him Perhaps her love is misdirected. 1 will tell her a marK by wnicn she may Know the truth that will set her freo from this twad- dlinir nonsense it is consistency.
"Consistency is a jewel that sparkles onlv on the orow oi truin." ueokge smythe. "SilesiuV is Exact. To the Editor of The Globe: Dear W. It did not occur to me that "soft soap, ether and prosipitated sul phur" were so very indefinite. You have rendered a great service by calling for "full particulars." When I said soft soap" I meant soft soap that is soft, not soft soap that is hard.
When 1 said ether 1 meant plain, every day, ordinary etner. not one unknown outside the laboratory and works on chemistry, not ethyl chloride, which you call "chloric not ethyl sulphate, which you call "sulphuric but ethvl oxide, which everybody calls "ether." The young lady who asks her druggist for "ether" will get the right kind. When said "precipitated sulphur," I did not mean "what is known to the trade and physicians as 'liowors of I meant what is known to pharmacists and to educated physicians as precipitated sulphur. When I said "persist" in the use of the mixture specified, 1 meant that it was to be applied at will as often as convenient. When I said "wash with soft soap." I did not mean tliat your delicate thin skin was to be smeared with soft so-ip and remain so for an indefinite time.
What Ishould have said is that the face should be washed and that soft soap should be used in the process of washing it By all means let us bo exact if it takes a whole column, Edward Silksius. Anxious for a Correction. To the Editor of The Globe: A communication from me on the Eng lish question, published in the "People's Column," August 4. which was signed "Farmer," as printed read "Fassner." Please make the necessary correction. Sharon, August C.
Farmer. Do not get worried. That was hut a small blunder. In looking over today's (Sunday) Globe the editor sees in the head to "Howard's" letter this sentence: "Effects of Kub Weather on Great Men." Now hunt that head, and we know we wrote it, "Effects of Hot Weather," etc. Yet there it is.
and there it will stay; and people who look over the files of The Globe 100 years from now will laugh at that head, and sav hnw greatly The (iLOBK has improved during tho past ninety-eight years. Be patient. i armer." xou'U get used to it soon. The Due d'Enghein. To the Editor of The Globe: Will you kindly allow me to say a word or two to on an apparently prohibited topic, the execution of the Due d'Eng.
hiun. I would havo been willing to have rested my side of the controversy upon the facts" contained in a former letter but for IL's" statement that the original question was a "trap" set for one of his opponents, who declined to drop in, but instead he caught a "fish" from Chelsea. From the nature of the case he could not consistently have called it a "fresh one." Now, it is not necessary to go into the reasons why this young scion of nobility met hisdeath.il is only necessary to prove the justification of it At the outbreaK oi tne roncn revolution the German empire wa8 geographically constructed oi numerous uucines, principalities, mnall states, termed the ten great circles. The sixth or Suabian circle included Bavaria, Wirtenibursr and Baden. Baden in 1804.
at the time of the execution of the Due d'Enghien. was considered a neutral state. 1 be treaty of Citrapo Formio pushed the frontiers of France up to the river Rhine, thus compelling the German states bordering upon the river to side with France or remain neutral, which lnttnr course Baden adopted. Jts neutrality and situation made it the hot-lted of Bourbon conspiracies'. D'Enghien was there: what for? To conspire with Georges, Piehepree, Morean and others to "remove" Nanolann.
iieiHon is known by the couiimnv keeps. Georges was executed, Moreau ot orator, Henry Grattan. Another tine statue of Grattan is in tne City Hall, close at hand, surrounded by Dr. Lmas. Connell and Drummond.
Then the Chapel Koyal within a stone's throw, are tlie busts of Brian Boru, St. Patrick (a rare specimen of an Irish hero who was not an Irishman) and Dean Swift Hardly more than across the street is St. Patrick's Cathedral, forever associated with Dean Swift whose home is just opposite, whence issued some of his most famous writings. o'connell's grave. On the other side of Trinity College stands the familiar form of Tom Moore, the Irish Bums.
His borne is just to the right, on Awngier street, and his song The harp that once through Tara's halls. The soul of music shed. Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls. As If the soul had fled is one of the most popnlar in Ireland. The harp is embroidered in gold upon the green flag of course, and usually the first line of the song embroidered as a motto beneath it, and whoever heard the soft notes of "Oft in the stilly night," "There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet," or "Farewell, farewell to thee, Araby's daughter," and did not appreciate Wentworth's statement that Thomas Moore rould make laugh or cry all Ireland with the point of his pen." Then just before us, as we stand on the O'Connell bridge, is tho superb O'Connell memorial, one of the most prominent monuments of Dublin.
The figure of the statesman is 12 feet in height upon a pedestal 28 feet high. It is draoed in the cloak which is inseparable from thoughts of O'Connell, and about the pedestal are fifty allegorical figures in bronze. th nrlnrinot one being Erin tramnling noon her fetters, while she holds an act of emancipation in one hand and with the other points to O'ConnelL And while he sinks, without one arm to save. The country blossoms, a garden aud a grave. It is the old story over asrain In th nmBnt.
election. The history of Ireland is the sad romance of the imoatient stnure-W nf an impetuous people, generous to a fault, irri- taieu vy a series 01 ignorant and oporessive misgovernments. i ne lour corners of tho monument are guarded by wmzed figures, representing Patriotism.Fidelity.Elouuence ana courage, oust oeyonn 11 rises The Emrnsu Xelaoa Pillar, where the great naval hero stands upon the summit 130 feet high, directly in front of the magnificent post office buildings. Turn a little to the right and you come upon the statue of the brilliant Irish orator Steele, who, when asked at an English dinner to explain the tendency of the Irish to bulls. replied: "I fancy it is all in the contiguity.
If Englishmen were born in Ireland I think they would be just the same." Beyond this the figure of Wolfe appears.in aratneroDscur comer; the Irish man wno wrote, jxot a drum was beard not a innerai note." riis grave is near cork. Wellington's statue is found dozen different places, but the great Wei- THE O'CONNELL MONUMENT. linsrtcn memorial at Phoenix Park. 205 feet high, overshadows everything. Robert Em met, too.
is far from forgotten. I almost said "Poor Emmet," but 1 take it back, for no matter what hissacrifice.no one needs tnai BymDarny who is held as warmly and proudly as Emmet in the hearts of his countrymen. He is the Irish darling stilL Just turn down yonder St. Thomas street, and see the last remnant of a low brick building, sadly dilanidatod. but a shrine where many a prayer is offered still, and many a muyumuruig nreoi reueiiion burns brighter, and many heart beats faster, for it marks the spot where Emmet was imprisoned and AND THE QUAYS.
where he was hangoii. Nor was he the first tho last who suffered there for "Wearing the Given." Then couim up Sackvillo street and over the hill to tho Glasnevin cemetery. It is enclosed by a high stone wall all ivy-grown, and at each corner is a great watch-tower covered-with ivy. At the gate we pass tho grave of Ku thorn. O'Counell's colleague in Parliament; then the tomb of Curran.
modeled alter the sarcophagus of Scipio Barbaileus. Next comes a grave ot note bearing the simple enltaph. "Honest Tom Steele." and tho tomb of 1llia111 Dargan. Most appropriately these ill list lions names leaiLus to the centra! liguro of the Glasnevin Cemetery, the gr Hid monument naered to the memory Daniol O'Connell. It rises like one of the famousold Irish round towers, loo feet high, trray marble, surmounted by an Irish cross.
The luonuiueut rests upon a round i ay II. SAM RANDALL'S SUMMARY. Sam Randall of Pennsylvania is not a bad judge of what Congress ha3 done to deserve the thanks of the people. He sums the 6ession up very pithily as follows We have returned to the public domain millions of acres of public lands sought to be unlawfully kept by Insatiate corporations, teaching 000 acres. We have entered upon the work of constructing a new navy.
We have passed every act that we have been asked to pass for the purpose of bettering the condition of the working people of the United States. We have not In a single in stance, so far as I remember, passed througnthls House a bill in favor of monopolies, we have given to the Senate an opportunity to Join with us in passing an interstate-commerce bill which only forty men on the other side dared to vote agaiust. finally, I say deliberately that the appropria tion bills as thev have passed this House are, so far as I know, freer from suspicious or unneces sary propositions than tliey Lave been in any Congress since the war, whether this remark ap plies to the appropriations reported from the committee over which I have the honor to pre side or those emanatine from the other com mittees having charge of appropriation hills. Whatever may be the result of the next election. I venture to sav we Have done so well that we ought to command, and I belinve will command, the confidence and approval of the American people.
The bill providing for the presidential succession is omitted by Mr. Randall from this summary. Certainly, that, too, was an important and useful piece of work. Take it altogether, the late session compares most favorably with any of its Repub lican predecessors. WHO IS EVERYBODY! "You wouldn't think everybody had left the city to judge by these crowds on the street," said a dudisli-looking young man in i Washington street car who was waiting mpatiently for the blockade to clear tin.
"How can everybody have left tho city when you are still here, young man?" said an eccentric-looking old fellow who sat be side him. and to whom his remark was aDDarently addressed and, moreover, "Who is everybody in this great big country of ours?" The young man had wits enough to see that he had put himself into a very uncomfortable hole by his loud remark, aud as the laugh circulated over the car he escaped the blockade by descending and disappearing among tho crowd of nobodies. Ye3; who is everybody in this great land of the people? Certainly not those whom the mere possession of wealth permits to nail up their doors and retire to the seashore and the mountains. As yet, no class is everybody among us. Every man and every woman who earns an honest living and lives up to his or her best convictions is entitled to a seat among the everv-bodies, even though he or she be found crowding up the busy street on a sweltering day on the way to work, while wealth and fashion recluie in ease at Newport and Saratoga.
This is the land of tho every bodies. If there be nobodies among us they can be none other than such as shirk the duties and responsibilities of life, and refuse to return an equivalent into the common social treasury for value received. Everybody has not left the city, young man, when the factories, the workshops and the stores on every side are musical with tho hum of busy industrial bees. Indeed might everybody seem to have left the city should all these faithful workers depart out of her gates. In this country of professed citizen equality anybody may claim membership in the order of the everyhodies who puts in good honest strokes in the vineyard of production, irrespective of race, nationality, or previous condition of servitude.
The nobodies are those who sit eternally in the shade, while their fellows bear the heat and burden of the day; and whether these be rich or poor, tramps, or idle speculative gamblers on commercial fictions, the di vine injunction is still nailed upon the wall "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eit bread!" EDITORIAL POINTS. The number of yachting accidents lately reported ought to serve as a warning to amateur sailors. Yachting is a safe and de lightful recreation when somebody on board understands the ropes, but otherwise it is risky pleasure. Mr. Tilden was one of the few states men whoso writings were of such strength and quality that they alone will ensure him lasting fame.
His expositions of the funda mental principles which divide parties will be quoted in all time to come. He was truly an intellectual giant. Boston Sunday Budget: With yachts bearing so many noted New England names it is hard for the general reader who is not directly interested in yachting to keep in mind tho relative merits of tho Puritan, the Priscilla and the Mayflower. By the way. what would the Pilgrim Fathers and the early Puritans say to the betting on the yacht races? The Puritan has been beaten, but by another iankee sloop.
It was a splendid race, and now we are ready once more for the Englishman. The Belfast rioters generally begin their festivities by throwing bottles at each other ginger ale bottles, probably. Cheshire, is excited over a tall ghost, whicn dresses in whito and climbs into passing buggies after dark to take a ride. He should be punched for his fare. Matthew Arnold writes to the London Times to say that even in America, "if you weigh instead of count opinions," the bal ance is aeain3t Mr.
Gladstone's Irish policy. Matthew, no doubt, does his weighing with the Tory scales on his eyes. New York yachtsmen know now the dif ference between a sloop that drifts well aud a sloop that sails well. The Saturday Evening Gazette complains that the city pays over $10,000 a year for official report of the City Council pro ceedings ami docs not get what it pays for. The official report is at times badly doctored, that's a fact Members are often ashamed see in print words they are not ashamed use.
New York World: It is reported that the administration has concluded to put the Morrison resolution into practical effect otwithstanding the pocket veto of Thurs day, A call is to le at onco made for 916,. 000,000 bonds, which, it is alleged, is to bo promptly followed by similar calls at monthly intervals. Apparently the Presi dent evinces a preference for doing things A luteal sfl tlLLI I I n-'itiM mhw wa.i tST.il mvmwmitfi.
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