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Show IEMSH JEALOUS OF TIEJUSNGUAGE Deeply Incensed at Action in Connection With Bursary Fund. DECLINE OF LIVE STOCK EXPORTS GIVES A LESSON Shrinkage Would More Thau Par for Working Land Purchase Act. DUBLIN. NOV. 4-J. J Doylo of Dorry lias Just commenced an agitation regarding re-garding tbe Victoria Bursary fnnl of i hat city. Ho claims that the recent action ac-tion taken In this connection Is about the smallest and tho most jictty thing ever done by tho enemies of tho Irish language. Tho Irish society founded this Bursary fund In honor of tho Jubilee of the lato Queen, and out of it Derry Intermedlato school girls have had for ninny years thjn advnntago of special cholnrshlps. The scholarships are given, two in each grade, to tho two i li.-rry glrll ihM belOW the Inst exhlhl- tloner Up to thin year the scholarships u. i. wen by girls attending Victoria high school and the Strand House school. the two head mistresses of which are members of the scholar hip committee Took Irish as Subject. This year, however, for tho first tline two Kill from the convent school 1 won scholarships In tho Junior grude Both hajroenod to have taken Irish as I their subject for honors. Thai was fatal Bo Miss Margaret MacKlllop, principal of the Victoria high m hod! which in past years has profited by these scholarships, scholar-ships, writes to Sister Teresa of tho con-iranl con-iranl to say that B rule Ihih been passed 1 y tho scholarship committee and confirmed con-firmed by the court of the honorabli Irish society that In the future the Irish language will not be Included In the suh-Jects suh-Jects upon which the Irish society's Victoria Vic-toria Buraaries are allotted. Stock Exports Fall Off The figures of tho live ninrk exports for the current year, which have Just heen puMlshed l.y tho Irish Chttli T raders and Stock Owners' association, show that the serious falllug off In the exports still continues. As tho reports have it the exports of cattle for linn wi re 135.282 less than In the previous year, and vi..s7S less than in 1:VJ I'p to date in the present vent' the exports of cattle as compared with last year's returns are l.;l;l down So that when the returns of the year are completed one must ex-"i ex-"i I .i shrinkage of M.nie nui :, .. , ,,m-pared ,,m-pared with the llgures of a couple of years ago Tho fall extends lo all classes of live stock. The fffll In sheep for tho present year Is 47,iOr, though last year's fxports of sheep were 61fi.!Vfi lower tlian In 1903. Swine are !S,."vr; down for the current year. a6 compared with last .mi. when a decline of 11 per cent following upon a fall of 20 per cent on the figures Of 1SKG was shown. Shrinkage Is Great. In fact, as compared with the exports .-f lM the figures for the present year will show n diminution of nearly 880,000 i piss exported Reckoning all the exports at average prices, the shi.nkiige ol t i , i 1 . for the current year cannot he less In value than som M7..V."i,i'",i "i more than the entire , 1 1 1 ii 1 1 1 1 that would he pavahle oi, the J.oo.i.Ki.iNia ,,i eapllal estimated for working of the iani purchase acl Is Wild Speculation. Lord Dunraven some time ago declared the e.-itth trad.- i" l'i a Here -;pei ilntlon, and even ft wild spec uiatton His de- Herlplloii fit' the present situation At I-ialllnasloe the j -1 e , . r' raltln was down ft pound per head when contrasted with last year's prices. Yet only a few weeks ago all of the chairman and railway chairman were engaged in their cuao-mary cuao-mary role of prosperity prophets. while th Utlon t r. rr.i i r Into which the country Is drifting is scarcely realized rea-lized in any Quarter. League Adopts Resolution. At the regular meeting of the Cross- boyne branch of the United Irish league, the Rev J McBvllly, C Cm presiding, the following resolution was unanimously u.lopted : "Resolved, That we, the members of the Crosaboyne branch of the United Irish League. r hee)V pledge OUTMlVQS to carry out the resolutions of the National Na-tional directory ami to stump out uny attempt at-tempt to disrupt the Parliamentary party." Similar resolutions are being adopted In man of the different sections of ir. land Great Yield of Tobacco. At tho meeting of the Irish Industrial Development association Tt. A CrOodbody of this city stated that, accompanied iv an American expert, hi had visited Ran- dilslown. win-re Col Everard has ten acres of tobacco under process of paving pav-ing and that he had never seen such a yield In any country. Tho American expert ex-pert of the same opinion. Leaves forty-two forty-two Inches long and twenty-two Inches wide could he tccn. a size hitherto Unknown Un-known The yield of the ten acres was treble what was yielded on th" twenty-acre twenty-acre plot last year. The tobacco, which is a little slow In the proceiss of saving. WhlCh I now completed, smokes well In Kings county, owing to the drying weather coming In th" wrong time, the I yield was not s" heavy, but It would well clear the expenses and was satisfactory j foi ai Initial experiment) The leaf was a nice brown one and made a class of tobacco not yet approached In Ireland n Wcxfern, on the other hand, the ex- i pi rlment was an absolute failure, hut Col jSversrd would make, Inoludlng what was allowed by the Government, ISO per acn on his plol i n t without the Governmental Gov-ernmental aid, Mr Ojoodbody was of the opinion that the farmers generally bad hotter keep to the growing of hurley and oats In r'piv in questions as to whether Irish-made tobacco was now being used more lhan formerly, Mr ;oodhod an id that the Industrial Revlvul movement had ein dish manufacturcro great as- ) slstancc Roughly speaking, there were I now ovi r MOO hands employed in the Irish , IhIkhiii fai toii v th largest number yet reached. Ulster Bank's Good Showing'. The Lister bank report, just out. for the year ending August 81, shows that the prosperity of that Institution continues. contin-ues. It has divided $500,000 profits on a capital of 1600,000, appropriated Sivoo to pensions (wldowfl and orphans), und Increased In-creased the carry forward by tw0,000. The deposits amount to over $111,000,000 and the liquid assets to over $lt5,f00,000. or nearly BO per cent of tho deposits. The customers custom-ers of the bank have teen accommodated to the et ni of J28.000.000. It should be understood, however, that the Lister bank Is an Lister hunk no longer, strictly strict-ly speaking Nearly half of ita branches aro outside Ulster and its ih established In Cork, Walei fi.ril and l,lmrnk Support Irish Manufacturers. The Tullamore industrial Development association has tackled the question of the support of Irish manufacturers In King OOUnt In the most business like and Uncompromising sort Of a way. A pamphlet Just Issued showing a list of goods made in tho county makes a remarkable re-markable exhibit. In addition to the list however, the pamphlet gives the names of Irish manufacturers all over the country coun-try who are willing to supply goods at a reasonable price Cardinal lxguo repaid his hospitable i host- of Carrick-on-8hannon by a aeries of addresses to priests and people thai reallj make up a little gosp. I of the dn- til Of Irish citizenship. 1,1 B"v" I emmsnt, on National Government, on education, On the wisdom of unity ami thl folly of division, on the wrongs done to the country by the denial of her rlKhts. tho Cardinal spoke home truths In no mincing or ipialllled wa Ills address will hearten tho countrv and encourage those who are laboring for her welfare, and to win those right that Cardinal Loguc Insists are tho condition of her Welfare to go nil with tie Ir v. ol k Should Stand Up for Rights. The union displayed among bishop, priests and people in f arrlck-on-Shannon bus onlv to be maintained throughout ttu length nnd breadth of Ireland to realise real-ise what Ih.- Cardinal describes as the grand hope and desire of the whole of us. "We should stand up for our rights declares de-clares his Eminence, and make our voices heard and say that If we suffer InJUatlCC we will give a good deal of trouble to those who Inflict the Injustice upon us." |