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Show I LATEST IRISH NEWS. 1 From The Pilot. i Armagh.. The death took place at Armagh on Sept. 1, with suddenness, of Harry Lee.' M. A., piano and rrrupioal instrument dealer. Mr. Lee as an accomplished musician and entertainer. Cork. There passed away a few days ago, after a brief illness, one of the Castletown Castle-town here's moat popular and useful public men in the person of Mr. Daniel Moriarity. He was for many years a member of the local district council and board of guardians. Roche, the Irish champion, made a new Irish record on Sunday. Sept. 1. at the Queenstown athletic and cycling Fpcrts, winning the 100 yards in the fast time of lOjpeconds. Deny. : The death took place somewhat sud denly on Sept. 3 from heart disease of James McCaul. aged 70, an engineer, of Derry City. He was one of the few remaining: links between the present and the past of Derry, when there was a fair shipbuilding: trade done In that city. Donegal. Mr. John Redmond. M. P., paid a visit to the grrave of Isaac Butt before he left Stranorlar a few days ago. The irrave has been well kent bv tender and ; devoted care. Butt had his desire ful filled that he should be buried In Irish t soil, and in the very spot which he him self had chosen. In this he was more fortunate than Grattan, who, despite his strongly-expressed wish to be buried bu-ried in the churchyard at Moyanna, in the Queen's county, rests in Westmin-ter Westmin-ter Abbey, within a few paces, indeed, of Fox and of Gladstone, but likewise In close proximity to Castlereag-h, the wrecked of Grattan's lifework and the assassin of the Irish parliament, Kerry. The death is announced of Mr. J. Mc-fweeney, Mc-fweeney, of Annamore House, Castle-island. Castle-island. He was a prominent member of the Killarney board of g-uardlans and local president of the National League. At the recent entrance scholarship examination, held at St. Brendan's seminary, sem-inary, Killarney, the following candidates candi-dates succeeded in obtaining scholarships: scholar-ships: Michael Mangran, W. Murphy, C. O'Leary, Michael O'Sullivan, Daniel Mannix, Francis Mang-an, C. J. Murphy, Mur-phy, Nicholas Tangney, Michael J. O'Leary, Denis J. Murphy, "William Nesdale, Joseph Morley and Edmond Roche. Longford. The Right Rev. Dr. Hoare, bishop of Ardagh, pened a bazaar at Ballyma-hon Ballyma-hon In aid of the new church of St. Matthew, Ballymahon, on Sept. 3. Heath. The interment of the late Rev. Father Meade, P. P., Kilclom, Dunshaughlin, took place recently in Batterstown cemetery, after office and high mass In Kilcloon parish church, at which a large number of clergy attended. 1 Roscommon. I On Sept 1 two constables named Hen ry, of Boyle, and Kilcoyne, of Grevisk, a station in Boyle, were cycling- to their homes, which are near Tubbercurry, when Constable Kilcoyne suddenly took ill and died almost immediately from heart failure. Constable Kilcoyne had been six years stationed at Grevisk and was well and favorably known about Boyle and popular with his colleagues. Tipperary. John Bourke of Greenrath, Tipperary: Tippera-ry: James Hourigan, of Cloughaleigh, Gilden, and Thomas Bourke, B. L.. of Kilemnee, Cahir, have been appointed to the commission of the peace. John Bourke is vice president of th South Tipperary executive of the United Irish League, and was one of those who took a leading part in the Smith-Barry struggle of 'S3 and '90 in Tipperary. Mr. Hourlgan was one of the Cloughaleigh evicted tenants in the Lang League days, who are now the owners of their holdings. Thomas Bourke is a son of the late Samuel Bourke, and brother of the popular master of the Tipperary foxhounds. Waterford. Mr. Michael F. Quigley has purchased by private treaty the well Known Victoria Vic-toria hotel, "Waterford, lately held by Miss Annie Meade. SOME FAMOUS ATHLETES OF FORMER DAYS. Hale and Hearty In Old Age as a Result Re-sult of Exercise. "When Eiihu Root contributed to the news of the hour the other day by going up to William Muldoon's "farm" at "White Plains to be put Into better physical trim by that "restorer" of Jaded men, he inadvertently paid a compliment to athletic training and its beneficent results that might not have been apparent at a first glance to the casual reader of the story of Root's doings at the "farm," says the New Tork Press. The man the secretary of state sought counsel of was no youth in years, but a well fed. hale and hearty athlete who is just 62 years old, and who even at that age can outrun, outride, out-ride, outbox and outlast generally any of the much younger men who come to him to be retsored to physical health. Muldoon is only one of many men In this section of the country who are living examples of the benefits of athletic ath-letic training and the outdoor life when intelligently pursued the year round. Few persons would think of him being an old man, yet so far as mere years go he is at a time of life j when strenuous physical exercise is not considered as much of a part of a man's daily routine. He is nearly a score of years older than Fitzsimmons, and yet the latter is usually alluded to as an "old man" by sporting writers, a phrase which shows how soon a man ages in the estimation of professional sport. Owing to the conspicuous nature of Muldoon's business, he is thrust into the light of publicity more often than many other athletes of quite as great an age. Yet he is no more striking illustrations of the benefits of athletics than are such men as Harry E. Beur-myer, Beur-myer, "Jim" O'Rourke, "Mike" Donovan Dono-van or Professor George Goldie of Princeton University. Harry E. Beurmyer. whose name is known the length and breadth of the land as an amateur athlete of nearly forty years' standing, is quite as remarkable re-markable an illustration of the wholesome whole-some benefits of a life devoted to athletics ath-letics and outdoor life, as a pastime, as - any one man in this country since William Wil-liam B. Curtis died. Beurmyer, who lives in Brooklyn, is 68 years old, and he goes up to the Kew Tork Athletic club several times ' ' '" ' ' " " " ' " f " " " "' " ' ' 'y a week to swim, box and indulge in other athletic "stunts," at which he( can generally beat the average athletic youngster. In a long distance tramp out in the road there are few men who can survive the long swinging stride and pace he sets, and at the end of any of his efforts he never is strained nor short of breath, for he comes of a school of training that differs materially material-ly from the style of the present day. Proof of this is furnished by his record rec-ord in the years from 1S6S to 1873, when he wan one of the members of the New Tork Athletic club's championship cham-pionship team, the virtual champions of the United States. He made his championship marks as a sprinter, shot-putter, boxer, in swimming, at the tug-of-war, putting up dumb-bells and handlifting, a combination of powers that is not shown today. James E. Sullivan Is of the opinion that in Beurmyer wejiave the greatest living example of the wholesome results re-sults of indoor and track athletics, while as a specimen of what working outdoors does for a man he thinks "Jim" O'Rourke is well able to hold his own. O'Rourke has been playing baseball base-ball steadily for thirty-three years. He now is the owner of a team, and acts as catcher. His son plays first base. Like Beurmyer, "Jim" O'Rourke is well able to hold his end up with any of the youngsters, and this in spite of the fact that he is on the downhill side of 50. How important a figure "Mike" Donovan, Don-ovan, the trainer of the New Tork Athletic club, is in the athletic world is a matter of common knowledge, since he is Boxer-in-Ordlnary to President Roosevelt. There are few men who frequent the New Tork club's gymnasium who can outbox "Mike" or outlast him in any form of indoor athletics, and yet Donovan Dono-van is 60 years old if he is a day. So far as professional sport is concerned, con-cerned, he is the most striking illustration illus-tration of the benefits toward a hearty old ago of persistent and intelligent devotion to athletic training we have in this city. It is a too general assumption that a lifelong devotion to any one sport is apt to make a man either one-sided or to weaken his physique. A. G. Spalding, who now is at least 55 years old, was one of the finest ball players in the country in 1S76 and 1S7T. Now he is an ardent devotee of tennis and golf, at both of which games he Is still among the top-notchers. top-notchers. George Wright of Boston, who was a magnificent ball player in the early '70s, now is a particularly well preserved pre-served man, who does not begin to show his 60 years. He is one of the few among the older athletes of the country coun-try who have handed the torch down to the next generation. The mere mention of his son, Beals C. Wright, the tennis champion, is sufficient to show that the name of Wright is still to be counted on as a force Tn the world of outdoor sports. A lifelong devotion to athletics has been rewarded amply, both in its financial finan-cial and physical effects, in the instances in-stances of such men as Professor George Goldie of Princeton, Dr. Sargent Sar-gent of Harvard, Charles Couraney of Cornell, Ellis Ward and Dr. Hitchcock of Amherst. Professor Goldie is nearly 70 years old, and as the physical director direct-or of old Nassau he still can go into the gymnasium and do "stunts" with any freshman. Dr. Sargent Is known as one of the foremost authorities on physical training train-ing in this country, is still an active man In his work at Cambridge and yet he is 58 years old. Courtney's work at Cornell is known the world over, and although both he and Ellis Ward are on the verge of old manhood, so far as years are concerned, con-cerned, no one who has ever seen either of them directing the crews at work would ever think of them as anything but the most active of men. As for Dr. Hitchcock, the physical director at Amherst, there are few men who can remember when he did not hold that post, so many years has he been there. And yet the doctor is a spry and vigorous man in spite of hi3 burden of many, many yeaps. King Solomon's Mines. For half a century the search for the Biblical gold land of Ophir has gone on, and modern scholarship, as represented in the archaeological and historical researches of Karl Peters, has at last settled upon South Africa, particularly along the Zambesi country, coun-try, as the site of the mines whence Solomon and Hiram secured their precious pre-cious metals, says the .Washington Herald. Old ruins, and the remains of mines discovered in Rhodesia, did much to settle the claim. But now there comes a new investigator, investi-gator, Dr. David Maclver, who, in his book, "Mediaeval Rhodesia," declares that In Rhodesia he finds nothing of Semetic of Egyptian origin. He thinks the ruined mines in Rhodesia must be the product of the middle ages. He declares that in these parts, during the middle ages, there must have existed natives of Africa vastly superior in culture and cultivation to any found in later times. This new line of investigation has been taken up by the Germans, who support Dr. Maclver's theory with enthusiasm, en-thusiasm, and think previous investigators investi-gators all wrong. The result is that King Solomon's mines seem no nearer discovery than when Rider Haggard wrote fiction about them. Miss Redmond to Be Married. The engagement of Dr. William T. Power of New Tork, a former resident of Kingston, to Miss Esther E. Redmond, Red-mond, the present brilliant leader of the Irish National party, has been announced an-nounced from London, England. Dn Power Is the son of Mr. Patrick Power, Pow-er, who resided on Clergy street, this city, and who removed to Detroit some years ago. He graduated from the Detroit De-troit college in 1898 and from the Detroit De-troit College of Medicine, after -tfhich he commenced practice in the city of New Tork, where he has an elder brother, Dr. J. F. Power, and it was while In the latter city that he met the charming daughter of the Irish leader. Dr. Power and his fiancee are being right royally entertained in London and at Augavanagh, Wicklow county, the summer nome of the Redmonds. Kingstonian's will be more than Interested Inter-ested in the above announcement on account of the groom being a native of the old Limestone city. A German Irish Saint. A very important Catholic congress has just been held In the city of Wurz-burg, Wurz-burg, in Bavaria. The people of the place, as well as those gathered here in congress, are fervent Catholics, active in good works. They have sent addresses ad-dresses of adhesion to the pope, and have drawn up plans of action for the progress of Catholic expansion in the future. They also sent a very loyal and enthusiastic telegram to the ruler of the state. One characteristic of Wurzburg is the strong faith that prevails in it, and when it Is considered that Christianity V was preached there by Irish missionaries mission-aries that condition of things is what would naturally be expected. Surmounting Sur-mounting a grandiose fountain in the great square between the station and the city, is a colossal bronze statue of the Irish missionary St. Kilian, arrayed ar-rayed in the robes of a bishop, with mitre and staff, crowning this splendid fountain. Within the city itself a series se-ries of memorials of him and of his companions Saints Colonan and Tol-nan Tol-nan are frequently to be seen, and in one of the great churches their bodies are shrined in a magnificent tomb. The people, too, have adopted the names of these saints, especially of St. Kilian, as Christian names, and this is common enough throughout Bavaria. When an Irishman sees such evidences of the work achieved by Irish missionaries in foreign lands, and the honor paid to them, he is likely to be affected with pessimism. And the thought is borne in upon one's mind today that, in all probability, the warmth of Christian devotion and the strength of faith may be largely attributed to the fact that the foundations of the faith were laid in this district, around the wide-flivw-ing Main, by Irish saints. They were martyred, in the cause of Christianity; but here, as in so many other lands, the blood of the martyrs became the seed of the church. And reading now of the devotion of the Wurtzburgers to the church, and of their devotion to the see of Peter, as evidenced by the pronouncements pro-nouncements of the great Catholic congress con-gress just closed, it is but natural to think that this is derived from the Irish martyrs who planted here the faith of St. Patrick. |