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Show Diocese of Helena, ANACONDA. Irish. Youth Given Chance to Learn Language of the Fathers. Anaconda, March 2S. Mr. Thomas Devine contributes the following letter to the Miner in regard to the Rocky mountain branch of the Gaelic league, in this city: "The school opened under the auspices au-spices of the Gaelic league at Hibernia hall during the past winter and has proved a great success, as was demon-onstrated demon-onstrated in the late examination held. "Miss Boland, the teacher, deserves great praise for the patriotic spirit she has shown and is to be congratulated on her success as a teacher. "In the work of instruction the officers of-ficers of the league, Messrs. M. Duff, president; C. C. McHugh, vice president, pres-ident, and Owen McHackin. secretary, have rendered valuable assistance. "A large number of children are attending at-tending the school and are being taiieht to read and snenk the ancient and beautiful language of their ancestors. ances-tors. The progress of the pupils has been beyond the most sanguine expectations. expec-tations. Not only the Irish children alone have shown themselves specially capable in this respect, but a number of French children attending the school have shown an equal facility in acquiring ac-quiring the language. "The people of Irish descent in Anaconda Ana-conda should take a lively interest in the efforts that are being made, both in Ireland and in the large cities of the United States, to revive the ancient an-cient language and impart to their children a knowVdge of Ireland's literature, liter-ature, poetry and song. "The Irish language is second to none in powers of expression. In fact, there Is none so capable of expressing endearment en-dearment or the emotions. Its grammatical gram-matical construction is almost perfect, scarcely second to the Greek. Besides, it is the oldest spoken language in Europe. Eu-rope. "A knowledge of the Irish language is invaluable to the archeologist, antiquarian an-tiquarian and philogi-st, which accounts for the great interest the German savants sa-vants have taken in the study of -it. There is scarcely an ancient university or library in Europe that does not possess pos-sess numbers of ancient Irish manuscripts manu-scripts dating from the sixth and seventh and up to the sixteenth century. cen-tury. Many of these are now being transcribed and translated into the modern languages of Europe. Their contents are very interesting to the antiquarian. "Some of the ancient Irish masterpieces master-pieces bring to view a system of pen- msnchln i.-Viieh In n nf tho livosent acA appears quite marvelous, from the manner in which the first letters beginning be-ginning the pages are ornamented. In some manuscripts the margins are also beautifully ornamented. This' is called illumining. It displays a taste for artistic ar-tistic design that is remarkable for that early age. "There are many celebrated books, as the Book of Armagh, Book of Kells, Book of Ballymote and others, whose beautiful lettering excites our highest admiration. "I have had the pleasure of seeing in the museums of the Royal Irish academy, acad-emy, Dublin, the Catach. of Battle Book, written by Columbkill about the year 550. In it are contained the gospels. gos-pels. It was used by the princes of Tyrconnel as a standard when in battle bat-tle for over a thousand years. "In Trinity college, Dublin, the Bodleian Bod-leian library, Oxford, and at the university uni-versity are contained the Gospels. It was used Rheims. Salamanca, Valla-dolid Valla-dolid and at the Vatican are found numerous nu-merous manuscripts whose contents will prove very valuable and interesting interest-ing to those of an antiquarian turn of mind. "Thus we see there are many incentives incen-tives that should stimulate the Irish youth to study the language of their fathers. There is an opportunity afforded af-forded at present in Anaconda to those who desire to acquire such knowledge that should not be neglected. There are competent teachers who are only to anxious to give them every assistance assist-ance in their power. Miss Boland as an educator has very few compeers within the state of Montana, having for a number of years been engaged in teaching in some of the best educational educa-tional establishments in the country. I I She is a thorough German, French and j Latin scholar, and no doubt her fa- miliarity with these languages has been a, great help in teaching Irish. "Messrs. Duff. McHugh and Mc-Mackin. Mc-Mackin. in conjunction vith Miss Boland, Bo-land, deserve the greatest credit for their patriotic efforts in the movement for reviving the language of their country." Anaconda, March 30. The Rocky Mountain branch of the Gaelic league gave an interesting literary and musical musi-cal programme at Hibernia hall, which was listened to by a large audience. A number of the songs and recitations given were rendered in the Gaelic language. lan-guage. - Following is the programme; "God Save All. Here" ' . Miss Bridget O'Donnelll "Pat's Critcism" "The Cockney".. Miss Charlotte Lappin ."A Boy's Appeal''.. Master John Walsh V A Good Advice".. .Miss Agnes. Walsh "A Lost Pa; '. .. .4Master James Devine "Song of the League" .......Miss Lizzie Darcy "Gaelicson" By the class "The Unwritten Epitaph" "Give Me Three Grains of Corn, Mother" . Ora Walsh "Bill Mason's Bride".. Miss Bride Darcy "Ida's Good Night" Kittie Devine "The Shamrock From the Irish Shore" Miss Irene Scully "When We Exiles Go Back" Ella Hannigan Song Miss Katie Brown Song Miss Ruby Delaney i "6t. Patrick's Night". Miss Nora Sugrue j "The Star-Spangled Banner" The Irish Class After the completion of the programme pro-gramme refreshments were served and a few hours spent in social enjoyment. Thomas Scallon post. Society of the Spanish-American War Veterans, at a recent meeting elected officers for the ensuing year as follows: commander Major Halloran. Senior Vice-commander Mike Fitzgerald. Fitz-gerald. Junior Vice-commander J. L. Shiftman. Shift-man. Adjutant Joseph Jette. Quartermaster A. Laist. Chaplain John Alexander. Officer of the Guard George Spies. Officer of the Day Captain Greenan. Trustee Larry Keenan. Anaconda. March 31. At. St. Paul's Catholic church yesterday the pastor. Rev. Father Coopman, was assisted in the Easter services by Rev. Father Mulconry, a visiting missionary. Father Mulconry delivered an able address and sprung something novel upon his hearers in the shape of an "anti-treat" pledge. Father Mulconry believes temperance is a good thing for people to practice, yet he does not believe that straight-out straight-out total abstinence pledges are productive prod-uctive of so much good. People who sign them, too often break them and not unfrequently does it happen that they are caused to do it through a supposed sup-posed friend offering to treat them; some not having. the will powers to resist re-sist the temptation. j The father expects to labor in Ana- j conda for several weeks and while doing do-ing so will spread among his congregations congrega-tions and among the people he comes in enntnef irVi rarils fn- tha cio-noti.no of persons who are willing to attach their names to pledges to refrain from "treating or being treated" for a period of one year. Father Mulconry has seen much good results from his work in this direction in the past and indications are that the plan will take well here. He looks upon the practice of treating of others to imbibe liquor is a pernicious pernic-ious habit and is one of the weaknesses of American civilization. Much money would be saved, he thinks, for the use of needy families if the treating habit were abolished. Anaconda, April 1. The funeral of Bernard Dolan. who died at St. Ann's hospital last Friday, occurred at St. Paul's church at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon, Father Coopman conducting the services. The' members of the Mill & Smelters' union, to which order the deceased belonged, were present in considerable con-siderable numbers and acted as an escort. es-cort. The body was buried in the Catholic Cath-olic cemetery. Herbert Dolan, a brother, broth-er, and Mrs. Captain Kelly, & si3Tor, are the only living relatives f the deceased de-ceased living in this city: Pat Corrigan, who died of pneumonia at St. Ann's hospital Friday, was a!s-o buried in the Catholic cemetery yer-terday. yer-terday. The funeral took place at St. Peter's church at 10 o'clock, wher-2 mass was celebrated by Father Plernot. Members of the local lodge of Woodmen Wood-men of the World acted as nn eseo-t The. deceased -has been a resident of Anaconda for a number of years. Jle leaves a wife and eight children, resid- BUTTE CITY. ;.". .- - "ml- Mrs. John W. Cooney, who died last week, was 58 years old and leaves, besides be-sides a husband, four sons, Percy, Frank, Howard and Byron, and one daughter, Florence, to mourn her loss. Mrs. Cooney had , been a resident of Butte for about six, years, and was an active member of the Woman's club. HELENA. Helena, March 31 Reverend Father O'Connor, a Jesuit priest of St. Louis, will tomorrow, open a retreat for the Catholic students of Saint Vincent's academy. The retreat will be conducted conduct-ed for one week. |