Show THE WAKING DEAD 11 an ali ancient cli cristoni kept in full force borce in ill J CURIOUS SCENES ARE OFTEN ENACTED whisky ciui cluid and dl Di lorder Some sometimes creep in tho the veas uro care of or of it Itin cral Is the Nuon dumber klier of priests who ilbo at toad it C 1 DUBLIS sept 1 1891 1991 the custom of waking tho the lead dead in ireland obtains today to day as green in an I 1 fresh as when tire Fi linegan of letmond ary fama faino sat eat up in his collin and tie handed participation in tile liquid lu luxuries that were so freely flowing As soon as it Is bruited bruised abroad that A L alli von ica has skipp d over to that country fro from tu be bourbo rno no traveler cretul it lit his friends and neighbors noigh bors sea about mk miklos air arrangements to e attend the wake generally speaking I 1 aliu lie wa Is during the duy day by homod of 0 maturo mature years hilo abo night contingent consists con slits of 0 men maidens and gamins gaining the visitor i are dis tribu tell somewhat as follows the women airo seated around tile tho bed where the corpse lei 1 la in pallid state tho the huou are attro scattered through the sitting rooms and kitchen according to co their status for even aa the presence pres of the great coeler dath daab casto caito cibich Is so fo ocar doar to tho hearts of old country people must bo be up bolij and the iho sacred coattails coat cost tails of a carmor or shopkeeper must not dot bo be denied defiled by contact with a laborers fustian xo no sooner has baa tho the taken lis bis seat scat than ko he Is asked what ho he will drink in din nine cases out of ten he bo will not go beyond lili his native nectar whisky beer silo ale and wine wano are ill 11 ver very y well melt in their way but they are ar slow blow in producing that advanced degree of 0 1 I hil ration which hleb according to 0 a culebra celebrated led tidhor liy fly lj Is the bolt best part of life tur TUB alcoholic Aicon ALCOn oLlo OLIC rob POSS Is repeated cd frequently during the night with the ike result that aben the visitors vl illora tavo in tile tho the gatt of many of them lq Is sinuous and uncertain or to put ifft are plainly they aro are unmistakably tho the ancient order of the lag jag it to Is an egregious fallacy falli icy to that such boisterous bolste rons amusements as a dancing and I tako take place at wakes jai in that the din of miscellaneous rises al ai the liquor in the glah fall u UD on fit it oftentimes borders on the bo boisterous s t r but the cantatory cont atory or the salts i 0 or y function Is never indulged to lo drink ill and wasu faia are ai alas ati castru metals with which the ibo hours are beguiled I 1 had almost forgotten the ibo puni gout mood heed tobacco there lias has never yet been a wake where it not boon been conspicuously III evidence it is a sort of incense va latch h continually swung beford ilio ilia cloce deceased med front tho the moment that lie lim lias exhaled his bis lift last aroath until lots bis remains aro are do d la in the spot where the rudo rude foie foe fathers of the hamlet sloop sleep tho the irish wak wallo o lit I 1 as a rule be instinct with fun fua that is as a social function fitnet ion it Is 13 lol to many nany persons preferable toz to a wedding Alili ough ai I 1 above it 1 lacks abo it 0 sait StOry ind coat atory sercios er cios winch och accompany a gla still it has a of luab cosy and snug sociability bat there are am tow foor pro peo plo who have bavo made an aa inroad into the forties that not choose it in ill to tho the more jaous and more hilarious bil arlous merrl Deu with tile marriage boll bell las has from time tima morial boon bracketed chave I 1 hive hearda heard 1 man inin about towo town say A wedding Is all very well la in its way but for or pure unadulterated enjoyment that kind that leaves no feopent biall of eny jealousy CRI onsy or regret lu in tho the inland give mo me a good goodlake goo dwake TUB dr unsex SCENES that occur at rural wakes have long been a disgrace to tho the isline of saints an and d sa the tha efforts ot of tho the clergy to I 1 this regrettable suto state ot of things havo have beon been bootless boot lesis thore there Js Is liol no I 1 a church in the country coti that hits not at ai time or other rung with willi clerical denunciations 0 of this bobial u oil but tho words nords ot of reason have fallen as upon till an arid rock profound as Is tho the respect of the people for their pi tests yet their respect for public opinion lu in this cou coe buc tiou Is still mora profound tho the man 11 mho ho will not bury his hii relation ida da bontly Is la in tho the rural districts ind aed 1 ith tho finger of store scorn and a gerle Ren rous crous of alcoholic favors Is tho the correct interpretation filho of tho toreda cone coney Y to remedy this widespread wide wido spread ovll evil of alcoholic col lolle decess at wakes the lh roman Cat catholic holle hiLr hierarchy archy havu have recently issued a that bristles with penalties to the dead if not to t the th living tile tho bishops have strictly forbid doii deti their hileas to either mass in any wake house liquors liquor have linao been or to attend abe I 1 funeral ar I 1 of tho deceased person however 0 v or o galling a tills this may bo be to the wt self love and 0 ad vanity of the surviving relations it la 13 1 3 fir far and away ro on the poor un oKi of finding aho ho has just botu bilau gathered to his fathers why should hit his into lh the ro alons of bliss bits bo be delayed because of bit bis friends desire to maintain or establish is as tile the cau may bo be a reputation a for decency through the agency of liquor or I 1 ii it not es saying to reform the living al the cp ellsa of tile tho dead doad everybody who LIAR WE willi roman catholic doctrine knows that the iho declares that not only C cau no in soul e ei eilio 1 iio I 0 the purgative process of 7 a state but thit that Is 18 the iho sou soul i that that 1 Is li to undergo such pu purgation r g atio and again that ilant tho the prayers of tho iho and more a especially the sacrifice at 01 the mui US tin cla clous in the release of the th that are ro imprisoned la in purgatory this being lionne so Is not nob the pronouncement of the hierarchy calculated to imperil or delay tho the happi chappiues lieS of the llie honored dead baranco though it way may appear there ther ila IF one large and important section of tile community whom this thunderbolt does docs not affects alan t the This toiler are practically excluded from its it opera alon inasmuch as their slender blender means will not permit of the expenditure rates sir sar to tile tho procurement of the services service of 0 a priest the reader will la in LU probability rub rob lit his eyes yos and read this sentence over again to mak sure lure that lil ill visual organs have hav not been playing liim him it ii practical joke but the fact act to r mains iii ini ebat in this country it la 19 not MOS ilia th custom for or to attend funerals ex copt retained lor for tag purposes the usual fee ce for this attendance Is ts 6 ahe 1 ho under Is conducted seems to warrant some such charge antho in the rural district it Is not unusual to convey the remains of at a dece deceased abed person ton ten fifteen or of twenty miles for burial the irish dying request Is that his bis abbes shall hhall rulo gica with that of at lis hll forefathers aud and AT WHATEVER IN CO of time and distance his wishes are can ried out cut this boing so fat it ft woula hardly bo be fair to ask a clergyman to ride rid a acol a 0 0 of f miles to read tho the burial per or v valcoi I 1 ce vi without 1 phout receiving ample lion and bonce it Is as not considered tin on under the peculiar peo ullar stances of tho the country that a luo foo should bo be charged I 1 iho he measure of tho the respectability of as funeral is ii the number of priests in at 1 ten clance the facility or difficulty of a mans transit from this vale of tours to that high celestial city whose streets taro arc of I trodden gold cold depends in some degree upon hit position in this here below whore where ho be is i sald to lo nant mant but bits little nor to want that little lung long A man loan who IQ in this athla life was pos possessed essed pd of ample means will havo have at least lean halt lb k dodoo clerkies clergies cler gies to a batar wr the tb gates of bftts ith storms dormi of at a well to do farmer will ill pio probably bably ha h two an artisan ono one chih tho ilia humor of wood and drawer of ater ill as as rule go down to the vile dust dual front from whence he bo sprung iiri iDi anil and unsung A curious custom in regard to fulep als obtains in the art abul weste western riat dioceses of ireland before the corpse 19 removed front froni tho walt wale holeso fc 16 table bablo Is placed place 1 I outside the th door tho merry chink chin of rain at once begins to cheer the var old and or pieces tire aro mildly plank down clown until the table literally ninin s with etli money molloy A 41 sort of open competition amoni tho the friends still of the tb dor eased as to who shall bar oil off the lh palm of the largest the th sum gain collected Is plesent presented ed t tt lii it pulju who ationo ate iiI cao ho funeral a ait I 1 ro manora lion lien for ibula bad hereby may allay sneer at the church link per ailts such auca mone customs Lusto ius but Is fa not tile tho laborer we worthy r fly of his hire and hns las it not been m ri a that they who each tho the sall ilia in a by bl tile il rot aul ii sao |