Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 137, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1916 — Page 2

FROM THE UOLO SOO

A bit of historu about Shane O'Neill, the great Irish Chief who lived and died fighting "Redshanks”

varr 1 HEN Elizabeth, queen and mM/ virgin, ruled in England ant * Shane O’Neill, hereditary chieftain, ruled in UlL V y ster, the Irish historical w arena presented the aspects of a Homeric condiet. On the one side the chivalrous old Gaelic warriors, with their fighting IY ' ranks interspersed with bards and brehons, struggling to save the landmarks of the native civilization. On the other hand were the astute Tudor diplomatists with their deputies and sheriffs, striving to cast the imperial net about the fair hill: and wooded morasses of Ulster. For both sides the times were critical and each fought for its very existence in Ireland. One defeat in battle was always liable to throw the native or the castle cause out of reckoning for a generation. The appearance of Shane O’Neill in history was in opposition to Mathew, the teon of the earl of Tyrone, whom the government had nominated to rule Ulster. In those days there were Castle chiefs just as in latter days there were castle bishops. There was “the queen’s O’Reilly’’ and the royal candidate for the O’Neillship—the supreme of all Irish titles. Shane claimed it on his merits as a free man of the ruling house and the clan rallied round hfm. Upon the sacred stone of his race at Tullyoge in the County Tyrone (it is now an Orange hamlet and the stone of inauguration has been hammered into fragments) Shane was solemnly declared to be the O’Neill par excellence. The O’Hagan, his brehon, read out his claim and title, while the O’Kane, his inaugurator, placed a white wand In his hand as the scepter of O’Neillland.

So firmly was Shane settled in popular support and military strength that Sidney the deputy was unwilling to adventure an attack. For the time Shane was left to fortify his castles at Dungannon and Ardglass and to recruit his clansmen. In the following year Sussex was made deputy with directions to restore Mathew O’Neill and to compel obedience from Shane “either by fair means or foul.” Sussex had not the troops to venture on an Ulster campaign, which in those days was a combination of forest and guerrilla warfare. Ulster was England’s Mexico. There was a rivalry of chiefs and English policy was to recognize one against the other. Sussex endeavored to rouse the O’Reilly and the O’Donnell against O’Neill. Shane was not unprepared He crushed O'Reilly with the help of Scotch mercenaries or “Redshanks,” as they were called (doubtless they wore kilts and showed raw, wind-bitten knees). O’Donnell he carried off with his wife into captivity. The deputy had no course left but to essay a military adventure himself. The effect was disastrous. His dispatch from the field is still extant in the state pape-s and has a quality of the frank and personal note not discoverable in the ambiguous dispatches of modern warfare.

“Never before,” wrote Sussex, “durst Scot or Irish look an Englishman in the face in plain or wood, and now Shane hath with 120 horses, and a few Scots and gallowglass charged one whole army—the fame of the English army, so hardly gotten is now “vanished' and I wrecked and dishonored by other men’s deeds.” The deputy’s next step was to dishonor himself even more signally by his own deed. He bribed Shane’s, messenger to slay his lord, but the plan miscarried. The fidelity of the clan stood like a burnished cuirass between the O’Neill and the enemies of O’Neill, foreign or native. By this time, the “Annals of the Four Masters” tell us, Shane had “assumed the sovereign command of all Ulster from Drogheda to the Erne, so that be might be called the provisional king of Ulster.” Elizwar bound totreat him as an equal and when he suggested a parley in London, a safe-conduct was forwarded under the royal sign-manual. Shane set forth with his retinue of bard, brehoff, and gallowglass and entered the English capital in semiregal state, much to the wonder of Clan London. He was perfectly willing to recognize Elizabeth as sovereign of Jreland, but he would not be pestered by her deputies and he insisted on being recognized himself as the O'Neill in all privileges and tributes thereto appertaining. The courtiers made great play of his pretensions and dubbed him "O’Neill the

Education Not Worth While.

“You can’t make me believe q college education gits you anything,” said the young man who had won two medals for fox trotting. “Still I always thought college fellows was awful swell/’ replied the girl. “Nothin’ doin'! We got one of them in our office that always says ‘whom’ and ■‘notwithstandln’, and say, I heard the ■boss callin’ him down today the worst I ever seen. What’s the use knowin' them kind of words if you can’t talk f>ack?"— Judge - 1

Great, cousin to St. Patrick, friend to the queen of England, enemy to all the world beside.” Shane was excessively busy in London. He plotted cheerfully with the Spanish ambassador, which threw the foreign ministry into alarm, and he so impressed the queen that she was willing he should remain “O’Neill,” though she continued to retain her own candidate up her sleeve. On his return to Ireland Shane set about invading Tirconnell as tributary to the O’Neill. As a matter of fact the O’Donnell had been declared exempt' from his levies, but Shane could not keep his hands out of the hereditary feud between Cinel-Connal and Cinel Owen. It was a feud so permanent and intense in Irish history that the Senachies declared Owen and Connal had been born at grips with one another. It vas a feud that was to lose Shane the O’Neillship and to lose Ireland Ulster. For the time indeed Sussex was glad to keep the peace and bide his time. The name of “O’Neill” was confirmed to Shane “until the queen should decorate him by another more honorable name.” To consolidate the peace and to celebrate the agreement, Sussex sent a cask of wine to Dungannon, from which Shane most unwisely essayed to drink the queen’s health. As a result he and his chief gentlemen found themselves temporarily poisoned; Shane remonstrated with some indignation, but it was the carrier of the wine and not Sussex who was imprisoned for the offense. Meanwhile, Shane continued to rule Ulster, but not by any means as a successful bandit rules the valleys from his throne upon the mountains. Poets and men of literature were supported under his patronage.

Shane’s undoing proceeded not from the castle, but from himself. In an evil hour he remembered he had once promised to treat the mercenary Scots as though they were his own enemies. His promise to the queen, coupled with some annoyance at the position of the MacDonnells had acquired in Antrim, brought him into action. At Glenftesk he routed the Redshanks and slew Angas and Shemus Mac Donnell. Carried away by his own success, he .proceeded to sweep Ulster as with a broom. The earl of Kildare he thrust out of Dundrum and Bagenal out of Newry. Sidney, who was once more deputy, made some effort to parley, but Shane’s pride spoke out in historic utterance. Never was a saner or more honorable or prouder speech made by an aaserter of Irish freedom. It well befitted one whom the annalists called ‘Shane an Diomas, the proud.” "I care not to be made an earl, unless I may be higher and better than an earl; for I am in blood and power better than the best of them, and I, will give place to none but my cousin Of Kildare, for that he is of my house. You have made a wise man of McCarty More. I confess I keep as good a man as he. For the queen I confess she is my sovereign, but I never made peace with her but at her own seeking. Whom am I to trust? When I came unto the earl of Sussex upon

Work Toward Desired End.

The life which hasn’t a goal toward which every day’s effort is carrying it' is very empty. It could not be otherwise. To be happy and content—to feel a keen zest in living —one must work toward some end. —Selected.

Beating the Undertaker.

Seme men think they are living when they are but chunks of meat walking around beating some honest, hard-working undertaker out of a Job, —Pea Ridge Pod.

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safe-conduct, he offered me the courtesy of a handlock. When I was with the queen, she said to me herself that I had safe-conduct to come and go, but it was not said when I might go. They kept me there until I had agreed to things against my honor and profit. That made me make war, and if it were to do again, I would do it. My ancestors were kings of Ulster and Ulster is mine, and shall be mine. O’Donnell shall never come- into his own country nor Bagenal into Newry, nor Kildare into Lecale. They are now mine. With the .sword I won them, with the sword I will keep them.” But Shane’s last hour was on the scales of destiny. His overbearing ways had won him more serious foes in Ulster itself than in England. Geraldines, Maguires, and O’Donnells hemmed him in on every side. He was compelled to retreat to his last fortress on the banks of Lough Neagh —the sacred lake of the O'Neills. This foirtress he genially christened Fuath na Gall (hate of the foreigners)! In his extremity he was compelled to make alliance with his old enemies the Redshanks. Before they could come to his assistance he had been routed by the avenging O’Donnells. The Four Masters’ record the last battle of Shane O’Neill —called the Proud: "However, the Cinel-Owen (O’Neills) were at length defeated by dint of fighting and forced to abandon the field, and retreat by the way they had come. It was not easy, for the tide had flowed into the Fearsad, but the fierceness of the people who were In pursuit of them compelled them to face it. Eagerly they plunged into the swollen sea and a countless number were drowned in the deep full tide. O’Donnelly, O’Neill’s own foster brother, and the person most faithful and dear to him, was slain, and Brian O’Neill and his brother and Mac Donnell, O’Neill’s constable.” It was a disastrous day for Ireland, for O’Donnell’s victory was England’s. O’Neill fled across Ulster to Cushen dun, ■ where he met the MacDonnells, who had come at his summons out of Scotland. The MacDonnells prepared him a banquet. But high words arose between his followers and the Scots, and Shane was cut down by claymfores as he left the table. The greatest danger to England’s rule in Ireland had been obviated by an accidental brawl. The body of Shane, covered only by a kern’s shirt, was flung into the old church hard by. A frenzy of joy * swept across the Channel at the news of his death. An act of parliament was passed proclaiming the blood of O’Neill to be “corrupt and disabled forever.” All the rights and tributes and jurisdictions of the O'Neill were swept aside. O’Neill land passed into the queen’s gift and was conferred on Turlough O’Neill as the nominee of the crown. Such had been the terror of Shane’s name and such the power of his red hand that the old geographers solemnly marked on the Ordnance survgy of the time in the northeast comer of Ireland: ’ , “Here Shane O’Nial was slayhe.”

Murderous.

Mrs. Newmarrie (sorrowfully, after departure of her husband's rich uncle) —“lt’s too bad the dinner was a failure, dear.” Mr. Newmarrie—“But it wasn’t a failure, darling. It took at least a year froin uncle’s life."

Superlative Goodness.

To love the public, to study univen. sal good, and to promote the interests of the whole world, as far as lies within our power, is the height of goodness, and makes that temper which we call divine.—Shaftesbury- v

FOR A SMALL HALL

ARTICLE TO TAKE PLACE OF DISCARDED HAT RACK. Mirror, With Small Table and Chairs, Clock and Writing Materials Is the Proper Thing for the Modern Residence. Sometimes the little problems about some furnishing are as difficult to solve as the large oneß, and like most petty annoyances they are more vexatious. “How shall we furnish the front hall?” is as frequently asked, as “how shall we furnish the living room?”

Narrow Table With Bench Beneath, Mirror Above, Sole Furnishing of a Small Hall.

and the question is often harder to answer because of the limitations of space, light, etc. Once in a while a thoroughly convenient article of furnitagapasses into disuse. Everyone it. It is jeered at and derided and utterly condemned with the exclamation: “Why, I didn’t know anyone ever used that nowadays.-” Presto! Vanishes the offending object, only perhaps to reappear with gusto fifty years hence.

DAINTY HOME-MADE BLOUSE

Of Filipino Embroidery and Lace, It May Easily Be Fashioned in Half a Day.

Everybody admires a dainty blouse and nearly every woman is able to make one for herself if she can get just the right sort of material. But for the busy woman, at any rate, there must be some inducement to warrant the time and work that go to the making of even the simplest waist. Filipino hand embroidered blouse patterns can now be got for $3.50, or, with elaborately embroidered collars, for $5.50. With the addition of 1% yards of mercerized batiste at 75 cents a yard, 4 yards of insertion at 18 cents, and 1% yards of lace edging at 25 cents a yard, materials for a lovely blouse can be got together. A little blouse of this sort, made by a girl who is in an office.all day, was edged up and down the front and around the square turnover collar with inch and a half Calais val lace. The back was made in batiste panels alternating with lace insertion. The narrow embroidered strip which came with the pattern Intended for a collar was used as the central panel of the back and the cuff pieces were let into the sleeves lengthwise and -bordered by insertion to make deep cuffs. This blouse was finished by hemstitching ground the tops of the sleeves, to outline the collar and cuffs and down the front. This added a dollar to the cost, but was just the necessary touch needed to make it complete. The girl spent about five hours of her evening time at cutting out, whipping on the lace and sewing up, and the entire cost-was .$6.75. There will he a good six months

MADE DRESS FROM OLD COAT

Economical Woman Tells How She Constructed Pretty Garment for Her Small Daughter. How I made a dress for my little girl from a suit coat of my own: I first ripped, washed and pressed the goods carefully. Using the least worn parts ■of an old flannel night gown, I cut a fitted fining. The coat from which the dress was made was one made with a seam from the center of the shoulder seam at front and back; thus the back was made of three sections and each front of two. Placing toe center back on the center back at lining and each back side gore at each side so as to cover lining at arm’s eye, and placing fronts on each front lining in like manner, it left a small portion of lining exposed between the gores. Over these-1 fitted a box plait of material, allowing to lap enough to stitch a half-inch from edge all around and ending just below the top of the belt three inches wide, cut from one of toe front facings. The coat was long enough to make toe whole dress, and was gathered into the belt, at toe hips, one end o.f belt lapping over the other at the

S. L.

The hall piece that is now banished by fashion is the hat rack—the poor old thing! Think of being banished after years of such faithful service! And by some sort of reactionary principle the piece that is reclaimed from iniquitous desuetude is the wardrobe. Not only movable hat racks but the built-in type of thing, the looking glass with hooks at each side and arms extended in embracing curves to support wilty wet umbrellas —old familiars, that seemed downright essential to all well-regulated halls a year or so ago—are irrevocably doomed. The sad fact must be faced: “They have gone out of style!”

In conformity with the general trend toward better taste in home furnishing, nothing Is allowable that has an untidy air, and certainly nothing was ever more untidy in appearance than the hat rack burdened with a miscellaneous lot of hats and wraps hanging in dejected folds, and not only exposed to view but, what was ever more lamentable, exposed to dust. Unsightly and unhygienic was the verdict at the post-mortem.

If furnishings are elaborate throughout, the hall pieces are, of ctAirse, correspondingly so. Simple taste often calls for the most expensive materials. A hall may boast nothing more than a good piece of tapestry, a fine gothic chest, and a pair of torchienes, a paneled wall and mosaic floor, with a fine pelt thrown down on it —all this is simple enough—only one piece of furniture really—yet its cost would completely furnish the average home. We can always strike a happy medium. Instead of a genuine tapestry we can use an attractive little mirror, one that will conform to the style in which our furnishing is done. Below this may be a table, with a chair at either side, or, if space forbids, a chair on one side only. It is a great convenience to have a small clock, preferably an inexpensive little eight-day clock, on the hall table. Here must also rest the maid’s little silver card receiver, and it is quite necessary that the table should have a drawer and that pen and ink, pencil and pad should be kept in this drawer, so that signing of receipts at the door for parcels and notes, etc., can be attended to without the confusion of having to run around and look for writing mar terials while a messenger waits.

more of wear in a blouse like this than a ready-made waist will give and its very daintiness demands hand washing, a trifling exertion which only adds to the economy.

CREPE DE CHINE NEGLIGEE

Negligee of pale pink crepe de chine with plaited skirt. The entire negligee is trimmed with silver beading fringe.

front, where the dress opened. The belt was placed over material, not cutting it away. furnished sleeves again. The neck was finished with a sailor collar which, with the box plaits, were cut from small pieces which I had remaining when the suit was made. The dress buttoned down the front to the belt, which was made loose enough to slip over the head. I finished with new smoked pearl buttons, these being all the expense of a stylish-looking little dress.-“-Mrs. A. M. In Baltimore American.

Smart Gray Frock.

Rather dark gray taffeta in the new shade called slate is used for a charming spring tailleur, which shows the close fitting %aist and full flaring skirt silhouette of the moment. In addition tp a facing of resilient lining in the hem, the skirt is distended by a cord. The foot of the tunic is also faced with stiffening, and tunic and cuffs are embroidered with sliver and gold threads. The coat has a featherboned lining, so that it makes the waistline trim, and the draped collar is particularly chic.

DAIRYING IN WESTERN CANADA

Accompanying Industries Also Prove Highly Profitable.

The cheese industry throughout western Canada today Is in a highly flourishing condition and is bound in a vpry short time to become much more important. The war has created a great demand for that article, and its use abroad has given it a lot of useful advertising. The article known as Canadian cheese 1b now Bought .not only by the soldier in the trenches, but by the ordinary civilian consumer, who, having used it, is quick to appreciate its value. This means that alter the war there will be a demand created for it that would not otherwise have been. Up to the present the war needs have limited the local supply, but with the increased effort that is now being put forth it is hoped that this will be met. As a matter of course the prices are high, and the farmers who contribute to the cheese factories are making money. The cheese season is now fully open and there is every prospect of an excellent year because the high price which obtained last year will undoubtedly be maintained this season. Western Canada has all the natural resources for the making of cheese, the feed and the cool nights, two things essential, and in time it is bound to become one of the finest cheese countries of the continent. The lower foothills of Alberta, used only at the present time as ranges or for no purpose, will in time produce cheese in great quantities, and doubtless will soon equal the famous uplands of Denmark. The cool nights mean the better keeping of milk and cream and cheese, and that is a great thing for the industry, especially when combined with possibilities of cattle feed such as exist on the long slopes from the Rockies eastward. The hog market, which may be classed as an adjunct of farming, la an exceedingly good one, and the low cost at which the feed can be produced, coupled with the high prices realized, make this industry very profitable

One of the first thoughts that occur to the mind of the average prospective settler is the likelihood of suitable markets. In this connection the following table will be illuminating. It is supplied by the P. Burns company, packers and exporters, of Calgary, and Bhows the average monthly price paid for hogs for the six years 1910 to 1915 inclusive. When one considers the low initial cost of the land and the small overhead cost of maintenance and feed, these prices challenge comparison. ' .

1910 19111912 1913 1914 1915 January. . 7% 8 8 7% $6.71 Feb 7% 8% 8% 8 6.96 March. • 7% 8 By a 7% 7.16 April .... 7% 8% 8% 7% 8.06 May 7% 9 8% 7 8.26 June 7 8% 8 6.85 8.30 July 7% 8% 8 8 8.12 August ..8 8 8% 8% 8% 7.93 Sept 8 9% 9 8% 7% 8.86 Oct 8 8% 8% 7% 6 9.02 tfov. .....7% 9 8% 7 6Mi 8.36 Dec 7% 8% B*4 7% 6% 8.70% A farmer of Monarch, Alberta, claims the distinction of being the first in the province to sell a carload of hogs at the high price of eleven cents a pound, live weight. The sale was made a short time ago at Calgary, and at that time was a record, although prices have since gone as high as $11.12% P er hundredweight. With such prices available for hogs the farmer has a market for everything his farm produces, as there is practically no farm product which cannot be converted into good hog flesh. The uncertainty of results which attends train farming even under most favorable conditions is removed when the settler goes in for raising hogs, beef and dairy products. With Western Canada’s cheap lands, heavy crops, and climate free from diseases of stock, the stock farmer is as sure of success as anyone can be.^—Advertisement.

Rule of a Higher Court.

“Do von realize. John Hays, that you are guilty of contempt of court, air, and -that you may be sent to the chain gang for six months for refusing to go home quietly? I will permit you to Join -your family, if your court conduct shows you worthy of parole. Once again, . . . will you go directly home from here?" The judge was plainly Indignant. But Hays merely shivered and stubbornly shook his head, “No, sir.” “Am I to understand you prefer Jail to home?” his honor demanded. "Have you no conscience?" “It ain’t my conscience, Judge," Hays replied sadly, “it’s my mother-in-law. She dared me to come back.” ■—Case and Comment. ——

Lazy Officer.

Sergeant (at drill) —Company! two paces forward, march! Old Countrywoman (looking on) — That’s Just like them officers! Couldn’t he take two paces farrard ’isself, instead o’ moving the whole regiment? —London Opinion.

A girl’s ideal young man is a novel hero who probably couldn't earn Sough in real life to feed a canary