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Show I Eatest Irisb news I . , : Antrim. I A very pretty marriape took place at I St. Mary's church, Wergrave, Berks, I vhen Miss Kate Rose Hannen, daugh- I ter of Charles Hannen, and niece of the J late Lord Hannen. was married to Dr. I Hugh Moreland McCrea of Belfast, son I of the late Dr. John McCrea. Dr. How- 1 ard Stevenson of elfast was best man. 1 : Carlow. I The death is announced of Miss Mary 1 A. McLaughlin at her residence, Kilree j i 8treet, Ragnalstown. The deceased young lady was well known and highly respected in and around Bagnaistown. j i The remains were removed to St. An drew's church, where mass was celebrated cele-brated by the Rev. Father Donnelly, C. . C. After mass the funeral cortege Flarted for Dunlickney cemetery. A large number of the Presentation con vent teachers and pupils walked in the funeral procession. The chief mourners were Charles McLnughlin (father). Francis, Charles end Patrick McLoughlin (brothers). Cork. On the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel at the mother house of the Sis-I Sis-I Its of St. Francis of Mary, St. Enea, j Perugia, Italy. Miss Mary Merrigan of I , Killeagh, a cousin of Rev. Louis P. f A hern. O. P., Tallaght. County Dub- I lin, known in religion as Sister Mary Francis of the Five Wounds, and Miss I Katie McDonnell of Ballygar, County I Roscommon, known in religion as Sis- I ter Mary Benedict of the Immaculate I "oneertion, were admitted to holy pro- I fesslon. I The death is much regretted of Mrs. I 3'atrlck Fohily. The Arcade. Ballineen, I v lio was very much esteemed. The de- -eased was mother of Rev. J. Fehily, I C. C, Cork, and Dr. Thomas Fehilv. I After requiem office and high mass, the funeral took place to Enniskean. the attendance of the public being extremely extreme-ly large and testifying in a very 1 marked way to the great respect enter- I tained for the family. A number of i beautiful wreaths were supplied by I sympathizing relatives and friends. IMeath. TIip death is announced at the Meath l.ospital, Dublin, after a short illness, of Anthony Madden, P. C, of that city. I The deceased gentleman had been for I s-ome years prominent in corporation I affairs, and a couple of years ago his j occupancy of the office of high sheriff I Mas the cause of considerable contro- ?rsy. Mr. Madden Mas at one time a I leading and active worker in the ranks j of the A. O. H.. and was well known 1 throughout Ulster. I Edenderry. 1 The Rev. J. J. Duffy, Williamstown, Mho has undergone his novitiate in the I Jesuit college, Stonyhurst. England, is Iat present on a brief visit with his family, prior to his ordination to the priesthood, which will shortly take place. I Mayo. IThf death Is announced of Miss Marv Jane (May) O'Hara. which took place at the convent of Notre Dame, Bas-1 togue, Belgium, at the early age of 22 j years. Deceased was a niece of the I Rev. Denis O'Hara. P. P. Kiltimagh, I rnd the Very Rev. Canon O'Hara, Kil- omvec. Ballaghadereen. The profession has taken place at the Convent of Mercy, Ballina, of Miss Monica Lavin. in religion Sister Mary Catherine, fourth daughter of Michael Lavin. Balljhaunis. Most Rev. Dr. I 'onmy performed the ceremony, which !Mas attended by a number of friends of Sister Mary Catherine. Monaghan. - I A marriage has been arranged, and 5 m ill take place shortly, between Dr. j McKenna. J. P., Carrickmaemss. Oonn- 1 ' Monaghan, and Miss Neill McElli- I " ; pott, youngest daughter of Gerald Mc- I Elligott. Esq., Mount Rivers, Listowcl. I , County Kerry. I Tipperary. ! n July 16 a -4-ry pretty wedding was I Folemnized in Clonsrecn church, the I contracting parses being Miss Ellen Khechan and P. J. Condon. Tinnerath. I i Tnf ceremony was celebrated with nup- I ; tia' mass by the Rev. P. J. Sinnott, C. i - ; 'longeon. Miss Mary Haberlin was I bridesmaid and Laurence Evov best 1 I man. Both Mr. and Mrs. Condon are I most deservedly popular in the district. I i Roth are natives of Tipperary, and are I I hpld in the highest esteem bv all who I; know them, j Tyrone. On July 26 an old and respected eiti-r.rn eiti-r.rn of Stewartstown. named Andrew ' Johnston, who resided with his nephew fit Curglasson. died suddenly while on his way to the morning service. When I . ' Hearing the church he became suddenly I "j 111 an3 died in a few minutes. J I Westmeath. I The death is announced of M. A. I Levinge. J. P., which occurred at his residence. Newbany. Athione. The de- ; ceased gentleman had attained the ven- ) era 10 e age of 90 years, and -was a large , landholder in Roscommon and Westmeath. West-meath. !l Wexford, j Ths Mos-t Ttov. Bishop of Ferns has t promoted Rev. Laurence Jones, vicar of Kilmannon and Ballyconnick. to be : rector of Donoughmore, Ardamine. and j the adjoining parishes. Father Jones , belongs to one of the old priestly fami- of North Wexford. Father Jamf-s Fanning, his grand uncle, was long vicar of Kilrane, and died rector of I Kilrush. while his great-granduncle, I , Father Joseph V. Fanning of the Aug- 1 hullan family, Mas vicar of Clonmir.es I and St. Leonard's earely in the nine- i teenth century. The bishop has trans- ferred Rev. Michael Kinsella, vicar of Fethard, to Ardcolm, and Rev. Daniel I J. Lyne, vicar of Ardcolm, to Fethard. I The Most Rev. Dr. Lanihan. bishop I of Auckland. New Zealand, has been on a visit to Wexford, the guest of the I president and professors of St. Peter's I college. The distinguished prelate, M ho I is a Wexford man. Mas accompanied I from Dublin by Father Patterson of the J Passionist Fathers, Mount Argus. I Eleanor Hull. I (By Charles Welsh.) ) There is not a man in the group of I modern laborers in the field of ancient I Irish literature Mho lias done more pro- I found and thorough work, or who has I done more to reveal its treasures to the Ftudent and the scholar, than the wo- Is man whose name and portrait adorn thTs page. She lines up in the front rank with Lady Augusta Gregory and Dr. Douglas Hyde, and her work is. while less popular in form, perhaps I quite as truly educational. From the researches of this illustri- I j ous trio, among others, President 1 i I - - Roosevelt derived his inspiration for his sympathetic and illuminating article on "The Ancient Irish Sagas," published a year and a half ago an article which is remarkable for its instant appreciation apprecia-tion of the high place which women held in the myths and legends of Ireland Ire-land compared with the position they occupied in those of other races. As in the case of many another scholar, schol-ar, biographical details about Miss Eleanor Hull are not easy to find.. She is the daughter of Professor Edward Hull, who for twenty years was the director di-rector of the geological survey of Ireland. Ire-land. She is a prominent and most active ac-tive member of the London Irish Literary Lit-erary society, having practically directed direct-ed its affairs from the beginning, and she is co-secretary of the Irish Texts society. For the rest her works must speak: from them it is evident that she has the true student temperament, and we are told by those M ho know her that she herself discovered the MTay to those studies in Irish sagas, myths and legends le-gends in which she delights, with which she has enlightened and delighted the world, and which have given her so distinguished dis-tinguished a place among Irish scholars. schol-ars. She has helped to place the sagas of Ireland beside the sagas of the north and the epics of medieval Europe, and to assign them their proper rank as pure literature that is to say, the expression ex-pression to the life and the thoughts of a people. And more, she has shown how that life and that thought have influenced in-fluenced the literature, art and science of the western world, by which, of course. I mean Europe, as distinct from the Orient. Miss Eleanor Hull is doing great work in her Epochs of Irish History. No. 1. Pagan Ireland, shows us, as was never shown before, what sort of a place early Ireland was to live in, how the people talked, how they administered justice, how they quarreled and fought, how they treated their women, and how they trained their children. No. 2, Early Christian Ireland, tells in the most fascinating fas-cinating manner of the architecture and art of that period, and she has in the most thorough and painstaking way gone to the sources for her material. Her latest work is a "Text Book of Irish Literature." beginning with the earliest semi-mythical poets, and covering cover-ing the period down to the early years of the sixteenth century. It is written in logical style and with severe and scholarly restraint, in no case claiming for Irish literature more than its lue or than the records justify. Irish Scholarship. In the Sun of June 24 J. F. Healey of Elkins. W. Va pays a tribute to the educational influence of Ireland in the early Middle Ages. The current works on the history of education do scant Justice to Ireland's influence on mediaeval culture throughout Europe. Ireland was the teacher of the proudest proud-est nations of Europe from the fifth to the tenth centuries and laid the foundations foun-dations of modern civilization. The annals an-nals of central and western Europe, the monastic chronicles, the churches, the lives of mediaeval saints, the martyr-ologies, martyr-ologies, inscriptions and local traditions still bear witness that a flood of Irish teachers penetrated into all parts of Europe and were actively engaged in the work of teaching from the fifth to the tenth century. They Mere on the Rhine, the Danube and the Main, on the Swiss lakes, on the sides of the Alps and Apennines, in Gaul, Spain, Belgium. Bavaria. Holland, on the plains of Lombardy, in southern Italy, in the islands of the Northern Seas. Five centuries of noble teaching on the continent stands to Ireland's credit. Thememory of their works is still pre served through the length and breadth of Europe. The schools of Lindisfarne in England. Bohbio in Italy, Verdum in France, Vienna, Ratisbon, Wurzburg, Cologne, Erfurt, in Germany, were founded by Irishmen. The renowned monastic school of Saeckingen on the Rhine was founded by St. Fridolin. St. Columbia taught in the schools of Zurich and Constant, Sigisbert in the school of Dissentis and at Walsort: Wurzburg was made celebrated by Killian, and Salzburg by St. Virgili us. The renowned schools of Liege and Malines in Belgium Mere founded by Irish teachers. John Scotus Erigena, Mho was born in Trplanrl q n-? tra inn1 in ita t-i-V-lc. was the head master of the schools of the French King Charles the Bald. I The Frankish annals of the eighth jand ninth centuries attest that the court of the King of the Franks was filled with Irish philosophers, such as Virgilius, Clement and Dicuil. Henrico of Auxerre tells us that these teachers came over in flocks from Ireland Ire-land to France, at the time that they were at the court of Louis II in Germany, Ger-many, w here the Irishman Manno drew about him the most learned of the Franks. But for the untiring activity of these noble teachers we would not have the Scriptures today. The Irish monks preserved them, copied them unceasingly un-ceasingly and carried them in their book satchels all over Europe. The oldest book of the New Testament, the Muratorian Canon, 'comes down to us from Irish monks of Boblbo in Italy, who transcribed it 1.300 years ago, although al-though it was then 500 years old. It is well known that the Latin Vulgate Vul-gate played an important part in the development of mediaeval Europe. It formed the literary taste and was the instrument of philosophical and theological theo-logical expression. The Greek and Latin classics were preserved and interpreted by Irish teachers. The literary culture of Europe Eu-rope is due in great degree to the conscientious, con-scientious, painstaking labor of these ezalous custodians of the classics. Among the oldest Latin and Greek grammars and dictionaries in our possession pos-session are those produced by Irish authors. Some ancient treatises on surveying, geometry, natural science and medicine are preserved owing to the labors of these great men. The best classical libraries of Europe in the Middle Ages were In the Irish monasteries of Bobbio in Italy and St. Gall in Switzerland. The Irish monks were the most renowned philosophers of the eighth and ninth centuries. They were versed in Plato, Aristotle and Boethlus, the philosophy of the Scriptures Scrip-tures and the history of the world. The literature of the Irish monks shows a high degree of artistic culture and a broad knowledge of the fine arts. To the Irish teachers was accorded the merit of superiority in music, even by Anglo-Norman writers, as late as the twelfth century. The greatest school of music in the ninth century was at St. Gall, in Switzerland, presided over by Marcellus, the most accomplished man of the century. His disciples, Not-ker Not-ker and Tuotillo, were famous musicians, musi-cians, and Tuotilla was, moreover, a painter and sculptor, the Michael An-gelo An-gelo of his day. The Irish developed a national music which is regarded as unsurpassed. Some of the most popular popu-lar airs of more than one great opera are taken from the collection of Irish music of the Middle Ages. r The culture of modern Europe Is due in great measure to the indefatigable activity of these Irish monks who were the pioneers and blazed the way through the pathless wilderness. They opened the first schools for the barbarians barbar-ians in central Europe. They taught the elements of Latin, reading, writing, history, logic, arithmetic, the Church psalms and the essentials of education. educa-tion. They Mere a noble race of teachers who exiled themselves from a charming country and traveled over Europe, became be-came the very pariahs of the world in order to instruct the peoples orthe continent con-tinent who were just emerging from barbarism. The history of their work for culture and Christian civilization is one of the most instructive and inspiring inspir-ing pages in the annals of human history. his-tory. THE HEART THAT t-OVES ME. There is a Face that's beaming With heavenly love for me, There is a voice that's speaking In sweetest tones to me. There is a Heart that's burning, I feel Its genial fires; It tellsme I should love Him With all my heart's desires. His gaze is ever on me, No matter where I be. Hit) words come softly to me, In solemn mystery; For His Heart is ever loving, Consuming with Its love. And with the cords of Adam He is drawing me above. He's drawing me to heaven, Where all is joy and peace. Where His smiles will be eternal AndvHis words will never cease; Those smiles that often cheer me And that voice that's seldom still, Will be mine to know forever, My eternity will fill. Will fill w ith joy and gladness. For time forevermore. And banish all the sadness That marked these days of yore; For there I'll always see Him And love Him evermore. And be loved by Him forever With the Heart I now adore. Bishop Colton. Early Attempts to Fly. (From the Chicago News.) Father Batrholomew Laurent, a Brazilian Bra-zilian priest, described in the London Evening Post of Dec. 20-22, 1709, a flying fly-ing ship of his invention. ' By means of his ship "one may more speedily travel through the air than any other way, either by sea or land, so that one may go 200 miles in twenty-four hours." He also insisted on its military advantages. advan-tages. "Places besieged may be supplied sup-plied with necessaries and succor. Moreover, Me may transport out of such places what we please and the enemy cannot hinder it." This wonderful won-derful vessel was to contain, among other things, "a pair of bellows, which must be blown when there is no wind"; also, "two loadstones, to draw the ship after them"; and "a good number of large amber beads, fastened on a cover made of iron wire, in form of a net. toward which the straw mats that line the ship will be drawn by the sun's heat." Thomas Walker, portrait painter, published at Hull. England, in 1810, "A Treatise Upon the Art of Flying by Mechanical Means." Walker construct-a construct-a flying machine, based uRon his studies stud-ies of the flight of birds. It was a boat-shaped contrivance, with a long, projecting beak, also a long tail behind and a pair of wings worked by levers, controlled by the hands of the sitter. If this machine ever reached the stage of actual experiment no records of results re-sults are now traceable. This prophecy was made in March, 1809. by a certain Sir George Coyley: "I feel perfectly confident that this noble art will soon be brought home to man's general convenience, and that we shall be ableto transport ourselves and families and their goods and chatties chat-ties more securely by air than by w ater, and with a velocity of from seventy to 100 miles an hour." The Price of Friendship. Gold and diamonds must be mined: money must be earned. Why shoulc the treasure of friendship be gained without striving for it? As Ellen Terry, in the current McClure's, sums up her experience in a quotation, "One gets nothing for nothing, and dashed little for sixpence!" A friend must work and serve and wait for friendship, as he serves and works and waits for anything any-thing else worth having in this world. A man Mho had the faculty of making mak-ing and keeping priceless friends believed be-lieved it to be the easiest thing possible pos-sible to knit the threads of desirable acquaintance into the fabric of life-enduring life-enduring friendship. His plan came "easy" to him. certainly, but it would be troublesome business enough to those Mho like to get rewards without working for them. "It doesn't cost mueh'l. to be kind, to be considerate, to be tactful', but it costs more than any selfish egotist M-ill pay, even for the boon of a friend. 1 How can any one pay who lacks the wherewithal? Busybody, in Catholic Standard and Times. Too Soon. Alexander M-as weeping for more worlds to conquer. "Brace up, sire," urged an aide-decamp, "from what Hobson says, I think If you lead an army against Japan you will get a run for your money." "How many centuries do you think I could lead an army across, you idiot," responded the conqueror, and wept afresh. Philadelphia Ledger. A Strange Custom in Spain. A writer in the Pall Mall gazette speaks of the curious custom which is remarked by all tourists In Spain that ! of boys dancing before the altar in the . Cathedral of Seville during the octave of the Feast of the Immaculate Conception Con-ception and on Corpus Christl. The custom prevails nowhere else in the world, and is very obscure in its origin and significance. "The Seville cathedral," says the writer, "is the largest oGthic cathedral In the world. It is lit by no fewer than ninety-three windows, and Is a veritable museum of art, but the crowning glory of this venerable pile is its fifteenth and sixteenth century stained glass, the designing of which Is upon doubtful authority ascribed to Raphael, Titian and Michael Angelo. "The dance is performed by two rows of choristers or seises, numbering ten or twelve (formerly it was six), wearing plumed hats and dressed as pages of the time of Philip III.; the colors of the clothes vary, for the octave of Corpus Christl they are read and white, . while blue and white are worn during the Immaculate Conception. To the slow music of violins this dance (which is a sort of minuet) is solemnly performed, per-formed, devoid of all irreverance and levity. "An interesting legend relates that a certain Archibishop of Seville about 200 years ago wished to suppress this ritual, but the citizens, together with the canons, can-ons, gave such opposition that there was quite a tumult, and the matter was referred to Rome. The Pope of that time, wishing to see the dance, the choristers chor-isters were taken to the Eternal. City, where they performed before the head of. Christendom, who merely laughed, but to please the Archbishop and at the same time to appease the canons, flie said the dancing might continue until the clothes were worn out: to avoid this., the dresses, Mhich are of striped silk, have always been partially restored at a time, and they now bid fair to last forever' |