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of Iri eh Xarional deve loprnenr; alo~i:; Irsh above it., indivcduals r nd ;n.-i,,'s upon go- lanes, without it even being necessary to in;! its own w~.y. It mav not be exactly provide the cap to set it burning. tho" .. ht or rea~::;n that decides the course of events, but th=J'e is a Xational as well . ~~~

teers are the nation; they are the' Lone and thews and sinews of the nation. \Yhalever success has come to us in the past hlas come because Ireland demanded I it and because Irish opinion 'was behind as an individual instinct that is often hct. n reacon , 1.lavJt1 . 6 n. s roots ¥ t d e,eper!I the clem.md, because the manhood- of Irerer t n-i land was ready to make any sacrifice for into the :\.at:on.al chr ractertsrics and be-!

Aln(ld.,-.a h1nnc.l"e:á! I[houi'ar.)l Eng'li"h the reco'Very of its rights, To-da~' that m o- In closer touch wi.h );:.\(Ional neces1, I' , .1 ~ I,,~,~op.e are :; tudde.rin-r in anticipation of opinion is stronger than ever, the demand s.t ies. Sa the instinct of tbe nation de. . ~ wha; 11'1],] happen lJl Ireland If they are more inflexible and the manhood, of Irecided to volunteer. In this {,lster proved . " not then the melodramatic ,thn'l1s proviland better equipped to see that its sacrithe legitimacy of its brotherhood with the Jed by che special commissioner of an Eng-. fices will not be in vain. The leaders of other provinces, only being a Idle lish Tory organ are all wasted. A myththe Irish people carl now speak on behalf .muddled in its fraternal relationship. Ire'ca! Irish gentleman standing upon an i111of a nation of soldiers, of a nanon that land as a whole has been out so often a'ginary "crandall in Dunleary read for has finally decided, come what may, they to fight John Bull in the past tha; i,'s r ehim an article on war out of "The wi il not be denied'.

Clining efforts were becoming i-rther Volunteer." There '.'. us 11'0 necessity to mcnotonouÇ, nru.il t:L'~-er :O;3.rn~ :1 new W::~' read much evidentv, for the conun:sof fighting h;111, with the aid his own sioner was in such ~, reá::;e[A\áe meed that weapons and his O\\"U money, ;1.I:~ Ireone phra=e : "In war it is better aim ICiIr" The land has followed the tactical example.

-opened before his psyhic vision all the S,') here we are to-day with close on horrors that are about to be loosed upon The appeal of tli,e Pro-visional Commit200,000 mel1:-200,000 of the best fightIreland, all through the iniquity of the tee for funds in America has met with a il1g material in tbe world with 3, fairly Government in introducing a Home Rule h.¬ )a.rt}~ response and the result practit~+ train!,ng'. demanding our /)'.-\'n the message from Mr Bi ll. The -only mistcke made in the re- of John again. room to doub: ctation of the allegory was thar poetical Redmond has left no justice would have demanded the IP':-ov;. the generosity of the exiled Gaels. But sion of a 'slpecia] Hades for the Liberals, here again English Tories are shocked at while Iarnel y enough the commissioner tho idea of Amerrcon dollars coming for makes all the evil fall on Ireland.

But rifles for Ireland. '''hen an appeal for when some Tories try a compound of funds for Sir Edward Carson was hawked around! the world and a little group of It is largely the irony incidental to such Munnchausen and Annanir.s it is .hard to "die hards' contrihuted.> expect that the resu lt will be quite Iilare-'Y. Canadian Xational upheavals that ,places Uls.er on :t was "splendid patriotism," the other side, \\'hicl~ other side she 'I ~~ hut when the spontaneous genon is still difficult to discovet-, for l'],-t~T erosity of a great democracy sends i s admittedly gcing to figbt John Ilu ll What The the sinews of 'war to fight tyranny no to he allcsved to remain his handmaid. word is capable of express'nj- its evil.

But, at any 'ral~,e, the politicians ill Ulster Another Tory organ is equally wroth Amer-ica has helped ere now with money ,ay [0', 'cnd it must be r ight. They soy \11',h :11-2 Irish \'ollU~teel's. ~t is shocked I. for load and money for breed, and ",.'1.1 ''.1~ ~:U1. ',t J1a:\,le ,:\ anional Indopendecce, aud pained áat \\}ll ,t li suggeo S 1S the gro'-j help, is helping again, end if the need --<:>-The Volunteers say we must have it, and tesque combino ticn of the arm- of Ire- arises will help with more than money. .'f they threaten, an English Liberal Ccv- land with the brains of Ireland, and with ernment with what will happen if I1.hey the wonder-stare of the mus.c hall come~~ ,grant it, the Ir,,~h Volunteers will pm- dian asserts that the "smcggled rifle may phecy 'b:,;sger things to happen any COyWe Mus! Have speaj, next."

The "commissioner,' or crnrr emt that \\ ill deny it.

Of course whatever other fancy name he is aCCOTSo nHv.:h has been said, so much written of the Volunteer movement that it <ince the Irish Volu.nteers were started ded , gá:::es on to trace the lj)!edigree of the 'Ye must have rifles. '''hether tbe Proc--.....

To- movements to resist Home Rule with an lamation is torn UIp or not l:he rifles musk seems almost stra.nge that anything new ,:Qm:? English gent]emen-Troglod.'te is ,1eEt to say, The very idea of an aTJJ18d "i25 someone described them-who before ingeruvty that would' do credit to the her- come, There;., not enough rifles in the Ireland .struck the imagmation so fore-I coul.l Y see Ci..Vil rwa.r ,if ever the Home alds who built the family tree of some Icoun~ry and thousands of tra.ined men ibly that lJ_::oets and polit'cians have alike Rule Bill were passed, .b:\\'e now ellS- of .he Tcrv :áncbilit~á" who are' subscrib- are ready for them. All the. rest, unispread themselves, to use an American- covered that there is room for co nversa- ing SQ genercuslv to the guu-srnuggliug form, equipment, standards, could be disism, to do justice to the resurrected 11:\- ,I ticns and that a measure of Xational In- cf the Xorth , and add'S an lie.r or two pensed with, but the rifle is the soldier's tionn,1i:S of Ireland: And cer:ainly dependence for lre.hnd need not 11~C"5- with :1. JYl'e~:ci~nce that would a couple of arm. Art; the rate things are going it will untee ring IS a bIg idea, the Diggest tb.at 1 ronly be accompajed loy the bloodshed hundred ye3r:; d.~c hnve give.n hin) a, re- take years to provide rifles for the men ~!ani~y hcs instilled in-tv National pol.tics ,.-hat was before regarded as au inevitable ~I:x:ctab~e reputation i n the prophecy bus'i- '\"J'.~ could 111l1ke efficient use of them, for generations. it was :50 practical and; ccnvequence cf the passing of the Biil. ness. lIe asks if it came to serous ,fitiht- CJ1d the country is gr')wifl'g .irnpatient at . . b I . , looked. so much 1 1'1{e accornpI'IS ) Hng ItS 0 . ; And when the Vclursteers ;;1'6 e<JUlppe(], ing wh at could rhe forces of the Crown the deb}'. "~e are being taunted with ject tbnt at the outset many good people' when a h'lmd'reu thousand rifles are in the do ,,~a.inst Ulster. A \'01')' >:~ertinent ques- our poverty in being una'hle to procure dcu'bted its potentialities, and it was so hands of d'ril.led Volunteers, new avenues tion whose full force can be better rea- sufficient, fund'S to, make gun-runmng reasonable thnt '(he same people thcught ' of esco.pe Irom civ"! war will present lised if we substitute "Ireland" for Ul- feasible. but it is not poverty is in the it absurd. Its existence cndeed WPoáS apo-: themselves." Tt is an old military trick to ster. ,. way.

Ireland is so 10aU1 to 'break the logised for and palliated hy "you::hful look through :J. r-ifle barrel to e;-timal':e disJaws of the Constitution tbat the absoenthusi asm . end all the ocher set lphrases t'Ir.-Ce,;" and political distances and hl~e necessity of Ibrea.king them that the itlog ical apply to those who en- '.:'-ff"n':á.:es 'H!Jmit themselves to and prccuri u.g arms is not "I)-1.eavollr to he logical and practical. ::~,c .':: .:e: 1:(\\.

"TI,~ 1;)\."llin:; infl,10ucc yet re:lli:-ecl, and when it i" the a'rll1'S lV,ill ).t the out~,et j;: g:ct enough pa~rcnflge of cr gilnl~::rá.n;:rá' will L0 (1e\'0~eJ 1:-tn!f'1)" Bur .aE ihis i~ n1:Jre or ]es.' by (1~:, '.';,1),. come. Therefore, e\'er_'" Yoluntef)' fá,1.I,ouhl a sort to havE' killed it but for -the fad I in the future to level "uch Tc'I')' hum- The, icle:\ the \'oltl'nteers rllt:S! set before make it clear alway~ and e\'erywhere, tllat that on: great occasions I(he nation rises mocks asá ...may I\tand in the way them ,1s: Full steam ahead, Jhe \'olun. now ris the time for the rifle.

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to W~i:h our modern socialists are slowly blundering back, was being gradu- ~ ally evolved, when the blatant forces of : Don't Forget a crude feudalism stopped its natural ~~ U ~i!; s s.» growth and poisoned its roots.

Mrs Green, in her little book entitled "Irish Nationality;" the distribution of which i"};'TiL~" !"~U}.q..Jt. fJtHi~~ among the dissentients from the national ¥ ~.... ~ ~ faith would in itself restore them to their natural place in the land, speaks in these terms of the ancient Gaelic civilisation in : CHANDLERY, TOBFiCCO, Ireland, in contradistincton to the feudal ¥ CIGARETTES, etc. system under which the rest of Europe ¥ Irish Goods a Speciality. groaned: "The law with them was the law of the people.

They never lost their trust in it. Hence ~hey never exalted a ~ central authority, for their law needed no such sanction. While the code was one for the whole race, the administration on A the other hand was divided into the widest possible range of self-governing communities, \\'hich were -bound together in a willing federation.

The forces of union 1{4 1{4 ¥ FO:l. ¥ were not material but s-piritual, and the life of the people consisted not in its military cohesion but in its joint spiritual inheritance-in the union of those who shared the same tradition, the same glorious memory of heroes, the same unquestioned law, the same pride of literature.

Irish history can only be understood by realising this intense national life with its sure basis on the broad selfgovernment of the people."

The old Irish civilisation was, in truth, .~ i a civilisation based on brotherhood, on comradeship. The Irish Volunteer movement has restored comradeship to three' th f.L Are made III Ireland. They e process 0 or ¥ . fourths of Ireland, an d ill aU Ireland to that old ~ are unsurpassed m tl.e realms time it will restore gospel, which some modern intellectuals of Cycledom, and tl:ey ccst no try to use~ azainst the idea of the nation more than foreigne rs, 0 , ~

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Ireland is pre-eminently the land of lezends. These fall into two olassifications-c-those which she herself has evolved out of the exhaustless mines of her fancy and imagination, and those which her enemies "'have evolved out of their bitterness and malignity. The _first belong to Ireland herself and redound to her credit and honour; the secon.d are the inventions of those who seek her discredit and even destruction, and they masquerade under .the imposing name of History. :\Iost of the fiction known as Irish history has been written by those out of sympathy with the ideals and aims of the great mass of the Irish people, and the result is that it is a distorted mirror in ,;hi(:h the personalities and happenings of Ireland's past assume shapes and moveruents altogether at variance w-ith the known facts of Irish life and character.

In part this distortion of Irish history Was doubtless, due to rooted and fundamental prejudice, but there is abundant evidence to show that it was even more largely the outcome of a deliberate and sustained effort to destroy that national pride which is of the very es~nce of nationhood. Great achievement IS as truly the child of national pride as great abasemerit is of national self-distrust. Make a people ashamed of its past and you have already mortgaged its future.

Make a people proud of its past and the future already belongs to it.

"Irish" history was one of the many engines forged to destroy that pride, and not the least- popnlar of the legends in which the historians revelled was the legend of Ireland's pre~ernatl1r::t1tendency to disunion and fratricidal strife. So effectively has this legend been propagated by many of our "historians" that even in our own more lucid days it is still current coin not nly but amonz some Irisht among s rangers 0 men themselves. A legend has, of course, peculiar vitality once it receives impetus, but this particular legend appea"\ to be shle to survive all the battalions of facts which can be marshalled against it, whether drawn from history or fromá the experience of our own times. A very recent illustration of Irish unity maintained in cireurnetanccs of great difficulty should, however, have dealt a vital blow at the hoary legend of Irish querulousness, and the future is likely to afford even more striking evidene of the underlying unity of the Irish people.

The astonishing lack of proportion displayed by English publicists in their dealings with Irish affairs must have strusk 1110St [air-minded observers.

Ireland is inv-ited to conform to a standard of national unity which, if applied to civilised courrti ics gE:l1crally, and to England itself, would show them to be in the last stages 'If r1.isintegration.

Internecine quarrels there have been in Ireland just as there have been in all robust countries reaching out to new. horizons, but the sin of disunion is not the monopoly 6£ Irish human nature any more than of English human nature.

France had its Saint Bartholomew's Day, its Venduan wars, its holocaust of the gllllotinG; but the essen-

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tial unity of France asserted itself when the "Little Corporal" faced the banded might of Europe. England had, its Jack Cade, its Wars of the Roses, its Commonwealth, its Peterloo, and yet no one doubts that in the face of a common national danger England would achieve an instinctive- unity.

Germany was a cong,::ries of warring states not lcng before it flung down the gauntlet to the military pride of France, and was solidified -under the Iron Chancellor. The United States of America fought out bitter issues in the most merciless of modern wars, but all Americans to-clay yield willing homage to the victors both of Fredricksburg and Gett.rshuTg, ancl no memories, old or young, of civil strife would prevent Americans from rallying to the flag in a moment big with destiny.

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Dane "Comrades aJl,". is the motto, and with and Korman were eventually absorbed in that motto Ireland can march confidently the Celt, but even the presence of Dane to meet her destiny. and Norman in Ireland was used 5UCC¬ 3HUGH A. MacCARTAN. ~ sively to Ireland's detriment. In the "spacious days of great Elizabeth" it was hi . f A the custom to detach the c eftains rom

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So, in onr own day, al). artificial barrier' of misunderstanding and distrust has kept away from the national allegiance a body of our countrymen who on at least two occasions in the eighteenth century wece in the van of Irish liberty, and it only needs the withdrawal of the forces interested in the maintenance of that misunderstanding and distrust to restore complete national unity to Ireland. Even a careully fostered prejudice cannot long survi ve the inexorable pressure of time and nature, .and both these elements are on the side of the essential unity of Ire- D laud expressed in an Irish nation.

Those who talk giibJy of Irish dissension ust take cognisance of these facts, and historically they must remember that in the dark days of civilisation, when all Europe was a shambles and anarchy reigned supreme, it was Ireland that kept the flames of learning and religion burning amid the wreck of culture and faith.

There were fewer wars and forays in that ancient Ireland than in any country in Europe, and a sweet and human civilisation, based on an equality of rights and

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Each practice should be carried O\1t pause, and each movement with a strict r~gaárd. to time, In the regular army the movements o~ the recruit are sometimes regulated by drum-beat. And this serves to inculcate swiftness and percision of action, the most necessary attribute a soldier can, possess.

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The object of physical drill ':s to deve1a.:_:; the muscles, to increase the activity or the young soldier, and eucble him to withstand prolonged bodily exertion.

The Volunteer recruit, whose daily occupation is manual labour, has little need for such drill, save to inculcate swiftness and precision of movements.

B-ut for the young man whose profession or employment requires only mental exertion, a strict form of physical training is absolu tely . necessary.

From the second position swing the rifle to the first position, reaching well out to the front.

Dring (be rifle to the ready by bending arms.

"Order-arms": Bring the left heel to the right, land at the same time raise the muzzle of the rifle to the right side with the left hand, seizing it at the lower band with the right .

Place the butt quietly on the ground, and cut S;1\1llY the left hand: to the side.

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Physical dr::i should be c:-rrlcd out so thct the g;'CE_?S of muscles used in one

FrQl:l the "Re.-d.)"," swing the rifle sidewaY3 to the right to a horizontal posi. no muscle in the body is either neglected ton and- parallel with the shoulder above It} Session: August 3rd-29th. or unduly fatgued. the head, with the arm and wrists (t lH /1 ben) ceot, SpOl11:; i .t-ol1)ne.of .onn, The instructor should bear in mind that straight, bcdy turned to the right, knees Excellent ?p~ortuniti~s f?r Rifle \\\ what the men under his charge requirÇ 'braced back, rising well upon the left toe, (i Practice III the District.

W is the development and consequent the right foot flat on the ground.

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X a hecter form of physical training can be practised by the Volunteer recruit From the "Ready," as in first practice, than swingi ug the rifle.

Physical dril: except that the heels are to be kept close together. with arms it is usually celled in the rcguá lar army.From the horizontal position in front of the body, draw the rifle nvith a quick For this exercise recruits are formed in two ranks, with arms at the '(Order':' movement close to the breast elbows close to the sides; 'Sling the rifle up,Yhen the squad has numbered as usual wards, forcing the chest well out and "he 'command is giv en : "Full interval keeping the elbows down. from the left. Right close-c-Xl arch ."

Next throw the r:fle out to the front, All except the left file will close as 01'arms straight, backs of the hands up and dered, Each man of the front runk will in line with the shoulders, sling to the raise his left ann, pa-lm of the hand downfrout. wards, tips of the fingers touching the shoulders of the next man, and take up Bring the rifle to the breast, as before, -his dressng, The rear rank will cover and make a partial tum to the right on ~Q~~~~~$~~~~~~~~~~$~~ accord-ingly. the heels.

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"For physical drill prepare :" Ou this I command being given, the rear rank steps back two paces.

"March": Odcli numbers of the front rank "rill take four paces forward and the even numbers of the rear rank will step back foul' paces.

IOn completion of the ordered number of p,,'ces, evch man will look to his left and take np his dress-in-g. .

Ou resuming original position, facing directly to the Iront, rifle dose to the

At the t, Ready, " incline the muzzle slightly forward and se.ze the rifle with the left hand back of the hand to the

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Keepng the knees braced back and the arms straight, bend quickly down until the ri ftc touches the toes.

Spring; quickly to an upright position, 5;',-ingin'3 the rifle above the head, arms and 'knees straight, and the head well thrown back.

Next bend the rrms and pull the rjfle down behind the shoulders, forcing the chesc well forward, eyes directed to the Iront.

Resume the sqcond pos, tion smartly.

What cares she now for loud: threats <l'ng war weapons, Clanging of armour or battle array.

Long hath she 'bent 'neath the reign t~t now threatens'~'or blanched 'neath its terr'rs, nor sanK 'neath its swayLong hath she bent 'neath wrong1 felt its oppression, strong; Its efforts to break her o'er conqueror's knee, But still with matchless- might Str~ve she for Truth and Right ........

Strove she and strained, until now she Is free, So from the ranks of her true sons, Up. rising,

Keeping the left Ioct flat on the ground and the .left leg straight, lunge to the right about 36 inches, the right leg from the knee downwards to be perpendicular, body turned to the r-ight and heel upright, and at the same t:me for the rifle out as before.

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And her sons o'er the land, Make loud echo, and stand Head}' to guard for her Freedom's brighl down, Even though war and strife Threaten thei L' limbs and life

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'Vitbdnul\' the rifle to the breast, face to the front, and resume sman.Iy the posijtion ':Read~1.á' "'Order-Arms," (% usual.'

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J n the diff-erent motions in ,swinging the rifle, the muscles of the arms, l~gs, back, chest and sides are all brought II1to play, but in order to obtain the fnIl henefit the positions described should be rigidly maintain-ed.

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The Companies in a district shall elect from their number a representative who, with similar representatives from other Companies shall form the District Collection Committee, which shall supervise -<>-generally the work of c-ollection in the disOF IRISH VOLUNTEERS. trict, and shall appoint two Treasurers for BELFAST. each district to act jointly; and who shall I undertake at their appontment to forward OFFICIAL SCHEME. to Headquatrers within one week of the Owing to slight mistakes in the ixo--0-closing of the Fund in the County, the 4ramme for the organisation of J rish Ist W'est Battalion.

Volunteers as already pubkshed it was moneys lodged with them, and a correct DIRECTION TO SECRETARIES. These have now All Companies parade in .Shaun's Park said to be unofficial. return thereof en the forms supplied from been corrected and the follow1ng is pub.on Monday, at 8.

Keep in touch with Headquarters.

Re- Headquarters. lished for information.-Eoin Mac Neill, 2nd West Battalion.

Laurence J. Kettle, IIon. Sees. ports and fixtures for átbis- column must be All Companies parade in Shaun's Park l.- Till-- distributed in Battalions the orreceived at the offices, 206 Great Brunsganisation of the Volunteers of each Company Treasurers shall forward (with on Thursday, at 8. wick street, not later than Friday morncounty will be administered by a District Trr-aBoard consisting of one delegate from ~g. Official report Iorrn-, can be obtained the moneys collected) to Korth Battalion. each Company.

The' companies are surcrs , retnr ns on Official Forms. on application. now invited to send immediately re_-\ Company-c-Xorfh Queen-street, 'Wedpresentatives to a County Committee, nesday and Friday at 8. and to arrange between themselves a date and place of meeting. If these ---<>~B Company-Ardoyne, on Friday, at 8, Secretaries of Companies shall at once cannot be agreed on, the selection C Company.LXorth Queen street, Monwill be made by Headquarters, but communicate to Headquarters particulr-rs In any case a week's notice of any day and Thursday, at 8, Headquarters desire secretaries to ad- of the formation of District Collect' on such meeting must be sent to Dublin,.

D áCompany-Korth Queen street, Mondress all orders for Membership Cards, Committees and names and addresses of and a Secretary will be appointed at day and Thursday, at 8. ~ection Books, Company Books, Enrol- Treasurers. the first meeting, and his name communicated to Headquarters for conE Cornpany-c-.X otified during week. ment Forms, etc, to the Volunteer Printfirmatiou.

A scheme will be drawn I-' C_o,npnay-(Sacred Headt) , North ing Works, 65 ::\I;didle Abbey Street, Dubup by the Secretary as soon as posQueen street, on Friday, at 8. ain. Merubershipu Cards, Bs Gd per 100; sible for the organisation of BattaIndividual Volunteers are to be encourlions in their respectjve baronies.

Enrolment Forms, Is per 100; Section South and Eeast Battalions in St )1ary's After the formation of such a County ']3ooks, twopence -each ~ Company Books, aged, where they can afford it, to sub- Hall on Wednesday night at 8.

Committee, the Secretary appointed shall be the medium of communica(s each. 1\11 post free":" Cash with order. scribe the price of their own rifles to the Ambulance Section in St. Mary's Hall tion 'between the Companies and Company Rifle Fnnds. on Sunday at 3 and Wednesday at 8.

Headquarters, and all communications will be sent through him.

General Parade in Shaun's Park on 2.-When a Company has been in proper Saturday, at J 0 'Clock sharp. working order for at least two months The moneys collected for the Defence of and is fairly proficient in squad and Ireland Fnnd shall defray the expense of company drill" it may be presumed that the members will have formed providing n rms for those who cannot subsome opinions as to the qualifications scribe in full the price of their own equipof those who appear suitable ~or ~e Programme for week euding 12th Jul.". position- of officers.

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1914should then select (at a meeting conht BATTALJO:\f. vened for the purpose, and of which Dear Sir, there should be at least a week's Company _\-Gth July, Blackhall st. notice) a Company Commander and Arms and arnl11ll'll:tion cannot be pur.

COI1lI._:anj' B-Gnl July, ,n Parnell sq.

The Defence of Ireland Fund will two half-company Commanders, It chased on advantageous terms except in Company ('-91]1 July, Fairview, will be well that the opinion of the ~ opened in every district on Sunday, drill instructor be obtained as to the Company D-llth July, B],rckh~lJ st.

28th June, and will be continued fcr four large quantities. A standard weapon can most competent men. The CommanCompany E-12át-lJ, J'uly, 2 Parnell hq. weeks following, and will conclude on be procured only throngh a central authorder will in turn appoint four Section Commanders, but a test of military ity Company 1-'-9,h Jl!l~:. Fairview.

Sunday, 26th July. efficiency shall be applied; this is The money subscribed to this Fund I ~ already done in the Dublin City and 2nd BATTALIO:\. ~ill be directed solely to the PURCHASE County Corps.

In the election of Company 11-7th Jul.v, Richmond road. officers no man shall be eligible to OF AR1IS A:\D A::.nH':\fITIO::,\ FOn That the collection in all districts may Company C-8th July, 25 Parnell sq. vote,.or to be elected unless he has Company D-Do, do.

'THE VOLU:\TEERS. (:\.B.-The equip- start at the same time. the Company Colattended seventy-five per cent. of the drills during the two months prior to ment so purchased will be distributed lection Committees shall be formed on or Company E-7!]} July, Richmond road. (he election.

C0m~,an~' F-9th July, do. _ among the various Volunteer Con~panies before 21st of June and the District 0013.- The Commander will be responsible in proportion to the amount tbe}~ have llection Committees on or before 28th of Company G-IOth .Iuly Glasnevin. for the good conduct, discipline, and efficiency of the officers and men of roUeded ors nbscribedj.

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All-11th July, Farv iew. his company. This business part of In order to gi v,e everyone an opporthe company work will be arranged Srd BATTALIOK.

By Order, {unity of subscribing, house-to-house colby the Commander and the two offiCOI1li?:L11Y A-9th July, Sandymount. cers in conjunction with the Secr.etary lections are to be undertaken by the vari- I Company B-7th July,. do.

PROVI,SIO:\ AI. CO\DiITTEE. and Treasurer elected by the Comcus Companies, and, with the permission pany.

Company C-9th Jltl~', do. of the local clergy, collections are to be 4.-As soon as practicable all the ComCompany E-6th Jllly, +l York !'i.. panies in one barony will be formed oragnised at the church doors.

Company F-7th .IulÇ, 4l York st. into one or more Battalinos, the numThe various Companies are, therefore, ber of Companies in each Battalion Company G-9th Jllly, .J.1 Yor k ;:1.

Notice to Secretaries ~: to be not less than four or more than directed to take immediate steps to have eight. The officers of each Battalion this decision cf the Provisional Ccmruit-! h B.HTAlO;\'. will choose one Commandant and one lee put into effect.

The members of ~ OFFICIAL ~IE::'JBERSHIP CARDS ~o-mpany A-Gth Jttl~', Kim mage, Major and one Adjutant. These three appointments must be sanctioned bv your Company shall nonunate five memo 3s. 6d. per 100. ~ Company J3--7th July, do.

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The Commandant will bers of the Company (to be called the Company C-9th July, do. be responsible for the efficiency, conCom.pany Collection Committee), whose Enrolment Forms Is. per 100. ~~ Copany D-10th J lily, do. duct and discipline of the officers and men of his Battalion. duty shall be 0 arrange for the ~ Company Books .. , 15. each. :~ Company E-8th Juiy, j crnes street.

5.-The period of appointment of all Company Collection and appoint Section Books '" Is. per half-doz.

Sig!lalling Section=-Sth and Ll th July, officers for their first term of office will be six months. This will be a I f rom amongst t 1 lená, number) a ..~~ ~ Orders supplied per return post. +1'" airvrew. probationary period during which they Company Treasurer, who shall receive ~ ALL POST FREE. A'~'.O.-8'.h, Larkfield .

JOih, Rathshould make themselves thoroughly all moneys collected by the Company, and ~ .¥ mines Park, acquainted with their duties as officers Terms: Cash with Order. who shall forthwith forward all moneys .L ¥ Rathfar nham ('omp'~I1\'-9,th, Bl.dlyh(J- 6,-In each County there will be a Countv T --.... ~ "Board consisting of nine members for so received to the Treasurer of the Dis! "." oi. I den. the management of the affairs of the trict Collection Committees to be appoin- "~..

Irish Vo'unteer Printing ..~ I Black rock Compan;es-8t County Battalions, so as to co-ordinate and 10',h, and bring them into harmony with "T .... ted as herenafter mentioned. The local "..'< v~ k S, .. i Park one another, and to arrange for meetings, sports, combined drills, etc.

Companies, by arrnngement amongst themc:> ~lidd!e Abbey Street, DUBLIN. ~ D::n::'J_ u.m Companies=-Windc Arbour, This Board will take the place of the selves, shall collect in any adjoining dis- ~ 7th; Coatstown, 8th. before mentioned provisional County tricts in which no Oompanies as yet exist, Dunleary Battal-ion-'ith, 9th and 12th.

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--0-The Ii :Jiin Organisation Committee is at present consider-ing the feasibi l of running a training canlp for the next three months.

A site convenient to the city is under con.sderc tion , and arrangem:nt5 are being' PUished th'rough rapidly.

Volunteers could not find ~ better way of spending their holidays than in camp.

A weekly tariff wil be fixed, and Volunteers can select their period of training at a time to suit their holiday arrangements, So that the COI11!11li'b!ee in charge may be able to conclude definite crrangemerits.

Volunteers wishing to join are requested to communicate wit h Headquarters, Detai.cd iu lorma' ion will l.e seut to th~m at the -carliest ipossib!e ;á111)á ment.

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Arms Proclamation ,

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Bandoliers, Is. 11d. each.

Tan /Haversacks, 10~d. each.

Leather ]Jelts, Is. 3d. each, \\'ebb Belt" 10~d.

Waterbottles, felt covered, Is. each,

Aluminium Bottles, Is. 10d. each.

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1,; nifonns, approved design; Irisfi writes:manufacture, 25s. Gd. ';T:here is a great outcry against .he .\r111S 3d.

Caps, Officers' Haversacks, etc, l'roclalllation,' but is it not a fact that we Volunteers should be extremely' thankCASH WITH ORDER. fu 1 tb at, up to now, it has 'been in existence?

Without it there would have been a grave danger thea we would have Ltd. 63 and 6lf Quay, become little better than an armed mob; WATERFORD, with it things have been forced to follow ~~~~~~ in their proper sequence. Drill, discipline and organisation are absolutely eson in the past by the Privy senv al, but, at the same time, there is a. trampled good deal of drudgery about all these, Cormci l , aided and abetted by a corrupt and there would be (he grc'-'.(es, danger and venal jud ir iarv, reel u ited fl'C111 the BUY E~ IJf them being neglected if the counter- supporters Of. Brit.sh polItical parries and fl'Jd for their hosrility to popular liberattraction of rifle shooting W:.iS avni lable.

THIRD (DCBLI:\,) BATTALlO1\-.

Speaking as a soldier, I would say that ties by elevation to tbe bench. The Eng- I'II1111i12""'W-~""-"''''''''''''_=-------'------lish :\Iinistries of the day have largely no Vol'n nteer should be allowed to use a CO~Il'A1\Y C. acted on the advice of these hireling5."

The members of this Company in ac- rifle until he has been passed as a fullycordance with notice given the previous trained man. ~ week assembled last Thursday at 41 York street for the elecu'on officers. Sean Mac Giob-win, del:eg\1.te from the Provision.al Tomas 0 h Eauighthe, Loriga, suggests .

CQmmittee, who presided, -proposed the honorary instructor of the company, Mr The first grc,"t task that lies before the that a gra.nd 'Petition be dr awn .: and Cahill. who wag a subscriber to the move- Volunteer Executive is the placing of the presented to the Prime ~linistcr of Engment and had from the beginning placed movement on sorue efficient mi lz ary land to have the Proclamation withd riwn, ¥ his military experience at the disposal of basis.

It is irmperative that regimental He .lo;bo eri'dorscs L ~b,:; Lccab as npá ,:he Company as Company Commander. organisation, mode and scheme of train- peal for the language and protes.ts agains: The proposition was seconded by ~rr Ross ing, the status of officers and the quali- Ph i li p :II Hurray's attitude. and carred unanimously. For the posi- fications essential to the various rank, ~ tion of Right Half-Company Commander, be determined and standardiscd r s soon CATAi..OGU ES. :\1 r D Byrne proposed and )fr T J Cul- as possible. )1 ay I suggest then that the ESTIMATES AND SAMP!.ES FREE. len, )1 R I A I, seconded! the appoint- Executive, n"ith, of coudse, the assistMONUMENT HOUS~.

AND ment of Sean ~Ia:; Giobuin.

The pro- ance and advice of those commissioned LONDON. It'osition 'VRS carried -unanimously, as was officers 'VI10 have given so far a nd so genWIREs:-BANcs,DuBli N. PHONE-2388. l Iow many steps do you take to the also that of á:llir E. Byrne for Left Half- erously their aid ;10 the movement, should mile?

If you think a moment you will decide after what army our organisation Company Commander, and i.\lr E l{ i.\I'O Dix, solicitor, for hon. treasurer, and :lIr is to be modelled? I presume, for rea- probably reply, "Seyenteen hundred and sons which perhr-ps will be 'come appar- sixty," but what we take leave to doubt.

R Doyle. for hon. secretary. ent as I further develop the suggestion, You are a volunteer and possibly haven't Shoul dyouhavebeen the United States Army would 'be so cho- gone into this yet. sen. Four officers-or a'S many as might in infantryman of the British a~my your TOOTI,\fG. _\ CO,:lIP_-\:\,L be deemed best-s-holding brigade rank in pace would be the longest of any in fantryrnan in the world.

The Russian pace Th is Company turned out in great the army determined upon, should then is the shortest, being only twenty-seven strength on Sunday morning" the meet- be selected from such of its officers as and a half inches; the French Italian and ing place being Amen Corner. Proceeded might be willing to undertake the service, Austrian soldiers manage twenty-nine to the drill ball, which is rented hy the and they, with those officers already in inches; the Germans do thirty-one inches Thomas Davis Club. After an hour and the movement, be formed into an advis- and the British thirty-one and one-half a half's drill the Company was dismissed .. or~7 board to dra IV 'ulP a schen~e of orgum- inches. nut your own pace, what 'of it? sation .and to carry i,t through to comC; reat Ip'rogress has been made in a short Til" bllowing are the Irish Party noIt depends upon whether you are a "highpletion.

If necessary a central fund should tme, owing, no doubt, to the number of miuation., for t hc Proviisonal Committee brow" or not. Put a,stick across your cáx-army unen as i ustructors and in tbe be formed and devoted to this object and eyebrows and see how long the piece 'of ~l'ight l~e\' :<-fgr. _" Ryan, P P, V G., ranks. _-\11 were warned to Le .at the to the remuneration of those engaged in string i, which reaches [rom that level to Tjpperary , Very Rev Canon )Iurphy, the work.

IIleeting place, Amen Corner, next Sunl' P, :\!acrool11: Verv Rev J ?oI'Cafferty, the floor. Half the length of this string is LAURESCE KEEHA:\.

Dundá:lk. day and every Sunday until further DORev J F' 0' Hare, the length of your pace,' and that length AC-lll. Letterkennv : (ice at 11.15 a.m, Those who have not you will find to he between thirty-one C C, Newry , \\. 11 K Redmond, 1\£ P; us yet joined; are requested to attend at inches and thirty-two inches, so that be- Joseph Dev.in, :\1 1'; T J Condon, ?I.l1 P; the d'ri.ll ground c nd send in their name tween 2,000 and 2,100 paces are needed the Lord ~Iu.)'or ,nf Dublin, the Mayor of and address to Eamonn C. O'Kerwin.

S:i'go, )[ichael Coverner Chairman Co to wall; a mile.

Counc.l , Car low - ,J Cl:eec~ iHeredith 'B L : I'\'erac" rwr ites in the course of an in~~~~~~~~~!"!"~~~~~~~ ,..., . , ., Herbert 'place, Dublin' John D Nuzent teres.ing letter-"There is no roubt but t.: IN VIEW OF CERTAIN STATE- T (', 1 )Ioll.ntjoy .sqll~re, Dublin; Johl~ that the Dublin Castle gang will endeavour to ,ra:d Natio n al.ist house', for arms MENTS IX THE PRESS WHICH ARE l' Donovan> 13 L, 39 Upper O'Connell in the Dear future. Centuries of dlegal- CALOULATED TO LEAD TO GRAVE street, Dublin; John P Gaynor, B L, Fin. AT THIS JU:NCTURE, glas road, Dublin; r )Iurphy, solicitor, 'OL'C :\TE-ERS, we ask your support ity c,re behind these ruffians. and it is DISCORD when starting Bagpipe or other time tha.t freemen should once for all ['lUSH VOLU?\TEERS ,"YILL ABIDE \\áaterford.; T l' Curley, 18 De Conrey Bands. We are actual makers in Ireland ¥

BY THE PIUKáCIPLES OF I square, C-I' .rasnev-n , J oseph Hutchinson, IP.01icÛilian has the STRICTLY an dean give you better and cheaper In- understand that 1)0 dwelling or THEIR O[{GAXISATION AKD WILL i Hollyb'lnlc road, Drumcondra , C J Kenny, struments than those who are merely im- right to enter any private porters, ANY AOTI01\ J 1', 81 Lower Dorset street, Dublin; tenement unle-s he bas a search wrirrant. DISCOU?\TENAXCE Best Iu ll-size Warpipes from 63s pcr set.

TO INTRODUCE 1)J5-1 Slq)ht:11 S rl and, 83 Aughrim street, The TENDIKG 1 "illean Bagpipes always in stock. And ('\1.;5 he must first produce.

Chanter, Bag and Bellows, 75s. nett. phrase, "Every Englishman's house is SENSION IN THEIR HANKS, WHIC.~"-' D:'blin; J J Scannell, J 1', 4 Bachelor'e Wholesale Agent for all publications by his ensile' is just as applicable to Ireland IN THE WORDS OF THE MANIFEsr6.j walk, Dublin; J' F Dalton, J P, 8 UpCar! Hardeberk. Write for lists.

OF ,THE IRISH VOLUNTEERS, "ARE ,::~r .St. Columba's ro~d, Drumc~ndra; PI; to Eng land , as all in these i'slands passess an inalienable right to the full en- OPEN TO ALL AULE-BOD1ED IRISH- ll,nrhn J Burke, solicitor, 53 Warino- st, OF.li Dclfast ; J F Small, J P, Clones; G:Orge joyment and protection of the Dritish MEN WITHOUT DISTINCTION ~-ruSICAL W A:REI-IOUSE, POLITICS, OR SOCIAL Doyle, 25 Creggan street, Derry; Dt: T Constitution. Our lawful rights-s-guaran- CREED, 8 UOWAIW STREET, BELFAST. . ] :.\lad<den, Kiltimugh, Co, ~Iayo. tced under the Act of t' nion-s-have been GRADE."

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wards several voices spoke loudly as if from a room near the door. Presently an upper window was opened, and 1 was Cush!ough. reconnoitred from above.

After a long interval the bolt was withdrawn, and I I had drawn the collar of my military was admitted by a stout fellow in frieze, overcoat well up to my throat to hide the who appeared to be half drunk. tleur de lys on my badge. It was nearly A light stream-ed into the large dark night, and a mist was rising from the hal! from a-n open door on the left; and lake that spread on my right to the south. on go;ng into this apartment I saw the ~Ly arrival -in Ireland had been, so far, four men, hatted and cloaked just as they without adventure. A French smuggling had come out of the boat, standing with lugger had landed me at a place called glasses in their hands, They eyed me in The Killeries, and a horse I had hired silence as I bowed, and asked for Padraig there carried me to within a few miles of Lynch. Then a รกburly and sommon-lookmy destination, when, the animal falling ing young man, who was regarding me lame, 1 had continued my journey on foot. with a peculiarly offensive gaze, stepped It was my first visit to the country since forward.

I had left it a lad of six, with my father, "He is dead," he said," in a surly twenty years before. tone. "You can give me the message.

My granduncle's house stood some- I am master of Cushlough, Peter Lynch, where near the Lough, I knew, grandnephew and heir 01 the old buck! but I had only a dim "recol- And now, sir, who are you?" lection of the place.

Trees and I had never beard my father speak of water, a sleighted castle, and a large any ncar relation, except his uncle Padgrey house, 'were the objects that stood raig , but it was possible that there'll-ere out clearest in my memory. I had been cousins of whom I knew nothing. I told following - the rock-strewn shore for some him I was a ~Ir Dillon (o:iving him my time, and was just beginning to fear I was mother's name), who had been travelling on the wrong side of the Lough, when I abroad, and had there met a Captain saw :the house standing out from a group Lynch of the Irish Brigade in the French of trees a few yards off. The windows service, who had been anxious to hear ot were closed, but a ray of light showed his .grand-uncle. thorugh a chink in one of the shutters.

He replied that it was well that his I hardly remembered my grand-uncle, cousin had not returned to Ireland or he' but a recruit from Cushlough, who had would have been hung, "Take a bumjoined the regiment of Clare, had told me per of whiskey,รก sir," he added, loudly, that he was still alive, He was a great "and theft I must request you to leave age, I knew-ninety, certainly.

He had the house, as we are going on a journey not conformed to the State religion, and ours-elves to-night." had, kept his property through the conniThe latter remark appeared to amuse vance of a Protestant neighbour, who pre- his friends, for they broke into loud laugh tended to own the estate till such time as ] ter. One of them flung his glass of wine the severity of the laws might relax. on the floor, so close to me' that it seemed I lo.oked with interest at the house' which as if the fellow's intention had been to had been built by my great-grandfather hit my body. He and his companions eviseventy, years before, in the year Charles dently belonged to the class of squireens or II. was brought back into England. One small landowners, ill-bred persons, I have of the walls abutted on the castle; some heard, given to every low dissipation. of ille panes were broken, grass grew up I asked Peter Lynch if there was anto the door, and there was a general air other house in the neighbourhood where of neglect about the building. But for the I could obtain shelter. The question light I should have thought the place de- seemed to awake some thought in his serted. \ mind, for, without replying, he beckoned In the midst of my reflections I heard to his friends, and walked to the. other the sound of oars on the lake, and, draw- end of the room.

They spoke in Irish, ing back by a rock, saw a boat approach which, I suppose, they thought I did not the shore. Four men got out, and two or understand.

From the few words I them lifted a burden from the bottom, caught, it appeared that the party were which they bore' to the house.

They !.expecting with interest the arrival of some must have been seen from some chink, for person. the door was opened as they crossed the 1'.5' they stood apart an old man came grass, As soon as the men disappeared, into ~,e room in ragged and threadbare I went forward and knocked.

A man's clothes, with a frieze cloak over his vo-ice asked in Irish if I were Shemus all shoulders ..

Half-bald and white-haired, Sogart (Seurnas an Sagart), and I he advanced with a timid and hesitating answered that I had Come from abroad air, leanin.g on his stick, and looking with news for the owner of Cu )1.lough. about as if seeking someone. On seeing This person went away, aad soon af!~t:. him, Peter Ly'n~h dropped all o~t!_ll and,

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leaving the group, shook h is fist in his face "What brought YO'u here, Shawn fada ?" (long) he said, savagely.

Then, looking at 111e fixedly, as the old man turned away, he added, "A half-witted servant, and a burden on my charity; old Padraig's servant."

The old man paused. "Not servant," he said quickly; "not servant," and went, muttering, to the door. But he did not go out, and sank trembling on a chair. ~Iy cousin's manner and tone changed. "~Ir Dillon," he said, with, an effort al civility, "you can pass the night here if you are 110t afraid of an empty house.

'Tis said old Padraig walks.

These gentlemen and I are about to set out on a journey.

Fill your glass, sir, and I will pledge your health and that of your friend Captain Lynch."

There was something sinister in the invitation, but I filled my glass, and, his friends joining us, the conversation ran on duels huntiug and tales of wild orgies I was questioned about my adventures, which I made tame enough.

My cousin asked me what his relation, Captain Lynch, was like, and I told him briefly that he W:J.S a young man of military appearance.

He the'h said the laws were very stringent about those Irishmen who served France, and that one officer who had been discovered in the country a month ago had been hung.

He eyed me 90 closely when he said this that 1 began to suspect that he knew who I was. Just then the old man rose from his chair.and carne towards where I stood.

"Donagh's son," he said, his dim gaze on my face. ..

It was my grandfather whom he had hI y father had told me that he bad been a tall, fair man, whom he was said to resemble.

The men broke into whooping, drunken laughter at his words but Peter Lynch stopped suddenly, as if arrested by a thought, and fixed a look lip on me such as I have seen in the eyes of a bull about to charge.

The next second he glared at the old man, who, dropping his stick, lifted his trembling hands. "A blessing coming in and a blessing going out," named.

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terfered to prevent our fighting. lie drew, or, rather, dragged Peter Lynch to the other end of the room where the rest of the ..men joined them. Presently Lynch calmed down, and went to the door, and asked in Irish if Shemus an Sogarth had come, OR receiving an answer in the negative from the man in frieze, he cursed the absent person, then walked up to me and offered a half-surly apology.

I accepted it .in as curt a tone; whereupon the friend who had drawn him aside seized my hand, said I was a fine fellow for a joke, and offered to find me the best horse in Ireland, which he vowed he could get for a trifling sum. The two other friends then drew near, and entreated to be allowed to procure me various hunters and racers; but their sudden and strange interest- in providing- me with a stable was cut short by Peter Lynch declaring that he must start on his journey at once.

Turning to me he asked shortly if I would like to retire to my room. 1 replied I should, glad to leave their company.

The man in frieze was then summoned, and ordered to take me to the "old master's" apartment.

This was a r00111, I fonnd, at the other end of the house. I was led up a stair, and down a long passage, cut off from the stair by a swing door, to a large chamber, the dimensions of which the guttering candle scarcely showed. There was a big bed with dark, torn hangings, and a second door that I took to be that of a cupboard.

As I looked about me, the swing door opened with a sharp creak, and two men, judging by the footsteps, came down the passage, There was the clink of bottles, and Lynch's voice called out in Ir ish to the servant, The man put down the candle, and went out. 1 heard Lynch say something in a low tone to him. Then another voice spoke, that of his bleated-faced friend.

"Vou fool! he said, his tone raised, "don't be saying that to your master.

The gentleman is not one of the Wild Geese."

I-Ie is an officer from Tuain or Galway." "If that is so," said the man, "what will your honours do?" The voices fell again, and after a few minutes the servant returned to the room, bearing a couple of .bottles.

He put them on a table, and, 3aying his master had sent them, gave me a dark glance, and went out.

I heard the steps soon afterwards go up the passage, and the swing door creak.

Then 1 examined the door of the bedroom, and found it locked.

At the same mement a sound within the room made me turn, and I saw the old man standing near the bed. He had assumed an air almost of command, and held himself erect. The filmy, absent gaze had left his eyes, and they showed now fire and purpose. His dress, too, was changed; he was better clothed, and wore a dark gr,een silk coat, the front embroidered in pink and white.

The suspicion that my grand-uncle was net dead, hut stood before me became a certainty as I gazed. I was about to address him, when with a gesture, as if to bid me follow, he crossed the room to the door I took for that of a cupboard. As I obeyed, the light went out in the swiftness of my movement. I groped my way to one of the windows, and, removing the shutter, was enabled to see the door. ~Iy grand-uncle had disappeared, but the door was ajar Pas.l:ing- through, my hands touched shelves and books; then one of the latter turned under my grasp, and a second door was revealed. Beyond .was a small landing, and then a stair

The yells of laughter broke out afresh, and, confused he began to look about for his stick.

As I gave it to him he caught my arm.

"Diarmuid, have you come from France?" he asked.

"1 am not Diarrnuid ," I replied, knowing that he had taken me for my father, He put his face close to mine with a troubled, baffled'<gaze, "Then who are you young man," he asked, "with the eyes and air of our race?" .As I was about to answer that I was a friend of Diarmuid's son, Peter Lynch, with an outburst of foul language, forced him from the room.

Disgusted at this violence, I asked the bully what the old man had done to offend him, and showed what I thought of his conduct in my tone and air.

He answered with meeting brows that he would not brook interference from strangers from abroad, speaking in a voice so threatening and insolent, and drawing his pistol that I unbuttoned my cloak to get my own weapon.

But our encounter was arrested bv the action of one of his friends, a bloated-fared fellow with a week's growth of hair on jaws and chin.

Fixing his eyes on my body, he whispered in' my cousin's ear.

Then in a flash I knew that he had caught a "The name !!i_~,en to the recruits glimpse of my uniform. '\'e wear in smuggled out of -Ireland in the eighteenth Clare's regiment a scarlet coat with broad century for the Irishc.Brigade in the seryellow facings, green turnbacks, and sil. vice of France, ver epaulettes.

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THE WILD GEESE CONTINUED FROM PAGE 6, which led down to the ruined castle.

Through a great gap in the wall I saw the new moon swimming among light clouds, and, kneeling by what seemed a grave, was the figure of my grand-uncle.

He turned his head towards me, and rose feebly to his feet. As I helped him to rise, I noticed that he had lost the dignity and air of command he had shown in the room. The weakness of extreme old age had fallen upon him again. Bent and tremhling, he laid a shaking hand en my' sleeve.

"Bury him, Diarrnuid," hi' whispered, and pointed to the heap of stones; "bury him with his fathers."

Almost at the same moment I was conscious of a surprise. I ran my hand over his coat, then bent and examined the texture.

It was not silk, but the coarse frez e I had first seen him wear.

"The banshee has caoined there tonight," he went on, pointing to a broken doorway near. ";\10 bron! (my grief) I have heard her twice," and sinking again on his knees, he began to pray: "Are you Padraig Lynch?" I said, Shawn Iada ?"

He' raised his head and looked at me. "l'adraig is dead," he said.

"Shawn fada have I been called, yet I have Lynch b100d too," I questioned him again, but he only moaned. I then went through the doorway and found myself among nettles and weeds, and surrounded by broken, ivy-clad walls.

Overhead the branches of the trees abou t the castle took the place of the fallen roof. Examining the ground, I saw that the grass and nettles were trampled right up to a low door, secured by a rope. I was about to cut the latter, when, hearing footsteps behind, I turned, expecting to see l'eter Lynch or one of his accomplices. I beheld, instead, a short, stout man, whose riding cloak swung out as he advanced hastily through the doorway, "_\;-e you Lynch ?" he said) huskily, in Irish. "",u'1 old man I met told me not to go to the house, as I should find you here. ))

..r answered that was my name It .. flashed across me that this was the person ' my cousin expected, and for whom his journey had been delayed, a hanging matter," he continued, "and I must se,e my gold to-night. Holy Church has turned me out, and I may swing, too."

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ITe repeated that it was, and that 1 knew it was; but that he was willing to run the risk if I paid him well.

For Teply I said I would give him any sum he asked, but he must be more expl ic.t.

He gave a wh:;ezy laugh, and slapped me en the shoulder.

"You are a more generous fo i low than I have heard," he said, . 'and a handsomer, too. I believe you will win her heart.

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The question . was so unexpected that for a moment I was silent. "Have you got hcr ?' he! asked testily; "or have yon brought me here for nothing?"

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that 1 bad my bride ..uder lock and key, and went straight to the door, where, cutting the rope, I entered what appeared to have been a pantry, or some small office of the castle. It was unshadowed by the trees, so that the stars and moonlight cast a pale light within. The figure of a girl knelt by the wall at the end; a quantity of fair hair hung over her shoulders. Her wrists were bound, and I suspected that her feet were also secured.

As she turned her face I saw she had considerable beauty; but my thoughts dwelt less on this fact that' on the fear that she would, by some exclamation, let Shemus an Sogarth knOIV that I was not her abductor. He followed so fast on my heels that he left me no time to warn her to ~e silent, and had opened his book as I put out my hand to raise her to her feet.

She shrank from my touch, fixing a look of horror and aversion on my face.

I freed her wrists, and she at once struck me with two small fists. "::\1y father will hang you yet!" she said, "you base-born wretch !,' I caught her hands again, and looked in her eyes. She had either .never seen my cousin, or mistook me for him in the uncertain light.

This was a stroke of luck of which I meant to make the most.

"Come, come, wench; don't be a fool," said Shemus an Sogarth.

"If PeterLynch's grandfather is an illegitimate Lynch, as the countryside knows, Peter Lynch is himself a man of substance, and can dress you as well as any man in Connacht.

You must be his wife for your own sake. You will have no name in the country if j'ou don't marry him.

Just see what a handsome young fellow he is, too, faith !-with the air of a soldier. Keep still, like a good cailin, and' I'll make you Mrs Peter Lynch in a minute."

"Oh, God help me !" cried the girl; "I'll die first."

The scoundrel peered into bis book, and repeated some lines from Ovid. Then he asked me for the ring. I freed her hands, and she struck me again. "I am not your wife! I will never be your wife!" she exclaimed.

There was not a moment to be lost.

Peter Lynch or his friends might come into the castle, and then I would have three at the least to fight. I dragged a . f fi d it t Sh rIng rom my nger, an gave 1 0 emus an Sogarth.

He mumbled some words, and returned it.

Then I caught the little hands, and, while the girl tried to take them from my grasp, forced the ring on her wedding finger.

I held it there while the villian repeated more lines from Ovid.

Then, addressing us with mock gra-vity, he said: "Peter Lynch, you are now one flesh and blood with Mary Bingham.

Mary Lynch, you see your husband. Be a good and obedient wife."

The girl's voice rose to a wail. "Husband! . That wretch!"

Her .crr was so piercing that I was sure th e men would hear her, I saw a man's cloak on the o-round, evidently lhe same " her when they carried that had covered her from the boat. Seizing it, I wound it about her, biding her face. It was im. possible to be as gentle as I wished, for she. strnggl.ed violently : but presently I got her in my arms, and held her fast,

than kf nl that she was so small and slight, T felt a keen desire to kill Shemus all Sog~;,át~,who had watched me with an odious gri;!. lie asked for his money, and I gave priest had teen summoned for a sacra-I him a louis dor.

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And BANDOLIERS: they hear he! screams.

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Delivery v The fellow started and swore, "That ¥ 1'/1. GA,'TNeTT, Gunmaker, ¥ is bad news," he said, suddenly lowering ~ 25 Essex Quay, DUBLIN ~ his tone. "I tied my horse to a tree, and will be off. But, wait!

Why not take the wench+-as you~ messeng,er told me you intended-to G1asilaun, an island good for potheen and devilry. I'll meet you there at dawn, and you can give me the rest of the money.

He pulled his cloak hurriedly round him, and went out, as if in fear. I heard him curse the old man as he passed by.

I followed, holding the girl, who was now still.

Old Shawn looked up from h.s prayer. "It was not the Lough that took his life, Diarrnuid," he moaned. "::\0 water drowned him.

He"-he glanced over his' shoulder with an air of terror-"drunk, and full of the devilstruck him-my grief! my grief."

There was no time to ask rum what he meant, and, hastening on, I left the ruins.

In front, the ground lay clear before me to the edge of the lake. The mist had dissolved, and the ripples on the surface had here and there a silvery gleam.

I could see the dark form of the boat that had brought the men to the shore, and heard the lapping of the water by the keel. Making, for it, I laid the girl along the bottom of the boat, pushed out, and, taking' the oars, rowed away from .Cushlough.

I thought I saw the old man leave the ruin, and stand upon the strand. 0 Then, as I looked towards the light com- ~ ing through the chink of the shutter, it AT wa~ hidden for a moment as if crossed by a shadow. Every second I expected to l1d., 15. Sd" 25. Sd. see the door open, and 'Peter Lynch and 35. 8d. HA TS. 105. Sd. BOOTS his friends rush out.

The Lough, I knew, had _numerous isALL ONE PRICE.' lands, for my father had often told me about them. If I could get round one that stood not far from tn.e shore, the boat would be hidden Irom the men. I 77 T ALBO r ST., rowed fast, though afraid the scoundrels would hear the sound of the oars. ~DUBLIN On turning the point of rock I paused near some bushes, and, raising the girl, unwound the cloth, and placed her in the stern. There she sat stiff and silent, her ey.es fixed upon me, and her fair hair crowning her little white face. I knew HAWKES now to what family she belonged.

The Binghams were of the, Ascendancy party, IS THE the foes of such as 1. for Suddenly she found speech, speaking in a small, silvery voice.

"You, sir." She spoke in a tone of mingled fear and indignation.

"You, sir, who have forced your name upon me !

Send a message to my father's house! A message from me."

"To what place shall I send the messagáe?" I answered, "To Kneokgrein Castle," she saId 21/"0, fool I was to leave, and stay with false friends!"

I Then I knew that I carri.ed the daughter of Sir John Bingham in the boat.

(Bass) " 56i, Resting 00 the oars I looked closer at her. Had she never seen the ruffian, " 3/4 Peter Lynch, that she took me for him.

Do you think I am Peter Lynch?" I asked.

"Yes, she said, with scorn; "and Special Terms to Volunteers. though you have an evil name, you do not look the man to have committed this outrage. Oh, I shall hate you "ell wife! You shall see!" j" "What message sball I send Denman Street, "The message"-she began suddenly to sob-"that I say to my father since this Piccadilly Circus, LONDON, ,j

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The manhood of Ireland is solid in the ranks uf the Volunteers. D:fferences of c lass and .party have been thrown aaide aod shoulder to shoulder the united Xationalists of Ireland march towards the goal.

At last the men and women of Ireland realise their individual .and collcct ivc reo'I:~ol1,;i'bijities,and thc result is the greatest Xatio ua l a-rgapis;!tion that the country has ever bu:lt up.

never flinch, never allow any departure from the principle of national unity.

Don't Play-The Enemy's Game.

The anti-Irish party in England im.. ,to a o'med until a few months a 0'0 that It was o "have a errand policy to foment and finance a "" . . physical force movement an Ireland. We can hardly he SLUe whether we are awak, or dreaming in these times. Is it a fact, or did we only dream it, that all our lives, 'until a couple of years ago, we Irishmen were told by both British parties that the employment of Physical force in our politics was a b orrrble crime?

[5 it a fact that,' for merely advocating the use of Physical For0¬ to redress the undoubted wrongs of our country, Irishmen of the highest character and ability have been tried as felons and sent to penal servitude?

The words Physical Force, in regard of IriSiimen, like the word Agrarian, were supposed to mean something desperately criminal, something far worse than burglary or even murder. The mention of an Irish l'h~'si("~l Force party caused a shuddcr in all grades from the statesman to the rag-picker.

The high tone of morality on this point set up a corresponding vibration in our '. inferior national con-, science, and Physical 1- orce became a word of e vi I omen in Irelat:d. .1~eoPle g~t a confused nuxtu re of notions 111tO their heads, and identified Physical Force with secret societies and revolution and, a.I1archy. :\0 respectable person could have anything to do with Physical Force.

You might as well ask .him to become 3.

What > must we then swallow veery insult and tolerate every outrageous performance, directed perhaps against our most sacred feelings? ~ ow there is a way of dealing with such provocation.

But, if we wish to keep the chain rivetted on our country, to postpone the day of freedom, to gladden the malicious hearts of those

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J .. .¥ repay insult \\ ith \ insult and provocation the milk WIth the mouse In Jt norá . . . t!

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WIth provocation.

The anti-Irish party )e mt (l\'1t the mouse taken out of Jt... _ " .

So now they have O'ot up a new cry that wi Il then say, Look at those Irish bar Ireland is held. by two hostile arm~.

It barians, that want self-government. See would be all right If Ireland was held by how they hate each other and are ready, only one hostile army. to destroy each' other. In the name of Two hostile armies=-the wish is father oivilisation, we must keep a .grip on them to the thought! ::\othing oould better and keep the peace between them." And please the anti-Irish statesmen in England the rest of the world will say "Quite than to see Ireland's two armies fi.g,ltting right !" each other. He .is always ready to hold Christianity and patriotism dictate the the coats, and to take charge of whatever same lesson to Irishmen, the lesson of mav happen to be in the pockets. forbearance and ,goodwill.

Since the Irish Volunteers began to But suppose tbat the m1nority go so far show themselves 'in Ulster, the anti-Irish one of these days as to establish their Press in England has not allowed a week "Provisi-ona~_ Government" in Ulster? to pass without printing some lying re- "-ell, suppose they do. "Are we going port about hostilities between the two to submit to such a thing?' :\ly friend, forces in LIster.

Owing to th e ir sensa- keep your head cool .and keep it clear. tional charatcer, these reports are repub- What are you submitting to at present? lished in the Irish newspapers. The Irish What have rou and yours been submitting Volunteers arc always re-presented as the to since the Aet of Union? To a govern.aggressors.

At one time .they are sup- ment imposed on you by violence and posed to have arrested and disarmed a corruption, to goverruTIent from London, member of the Ulster Volunteer force. At to a government administered by men of anotb.c: time a despatch-rider, (the story another nation, the very ,best of whom goes), 1:; stopped and searched. Then au admit that they do not at all understand arms depot is raid~~ in. force and the you. Is not áthe great object of Irish naarms carried off.

I'here IS even an ac- tional effort to get rid of this govern.ment count, with circumstances, of a whole from outside and of its ,evil effects? Do marching party surrounded and disarmed, we not all say with O'Connell that, much In not a single instapce has any such re- as we desire equal rights for all, we port .been confirmed, but the fact that the would rather go back to Protestant Ascenreports are always cropping up in the. dancv than remain under the Union, un"-by then anti-Irish Press shows that, if these occur- der English Ascendancy? rences do not take place, it is not because should we trouble ourselves about the Rather the those who invent the lies would not rather "Provisional Government?" real questions is, whether we prefer to have facts of the kind to go upon.

Any acts of hostility on the part of the have the "P'rovisional Government" for a Irish Volunteers towards the Ulster Vol- week or two, or the Union Government unteers, indeed any acts of 'hostility on for perhaps another century. We do not the part of Irish Xatoinalists towards know whether the "Provisional Government" will ever 'be set up. It does not Irish Unionists, would be appear to .be a hopeful project, for it Playing the Anti-Irish Game would paralyse the commerce and industo perfection. A United Ir.eland is one of tries of the very people who .are supposed the principal articles of the !l\,ational to Ibe in favour of it. creed, and Irish unity comprises all IrishStick to the Irish Volunteer organisamen, even those who for the time being tion, do not let it be dissolved or disnuay be enemies of unity. It is entirely banded; do not allow its members or their unpatriotic, it is playing the anti-Irish friends to be provoked into any sort of game, to indulge in hostilities. Hold your ground until your

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K ecessity, nevertheless, is the mother of ,áh~F'. Despite the extraord inary progrÛ35 of the movement, which sees an ac- invention, and political difficulties have cession of thousands each '\I'eel, to the a peculiar power of enlightenment. The ranks, the organisers have yet been able most respectable people in England, into devote much time to the necessary work eluding the Hereditary Grand Marshal of England, his Crace the Duke of 1\orfolk, oi perfecting tbe organ isction. and the Chief Whip of the Unionist party, Lord Edmund Talbot, and others of high rank in court and politics, arrived at a new discovery.

They discovered that Iu l 'Ister the .Irish Volunteers have Physicnl Force might lawfully and cernsprung up all' over the province and in mendably be used in Ireland to the exorganisation are as perfect as they very tent 01 resisting the Imperial Government, well could be ;11 the limited time that has the law of the land, and the operation of Cc"ap32u since the idea was first intro- the Constitution. No wonder that Susan duccd. I n another coluru II wi ll be found Mitchell says in her prophetic ballad on details 'of field operations ca-rried o et un- the death of S'r Edward Carson: "The lIt'r the directions of Capt. "'hite which first in Heaven to gr:J.sp his hand were Any Form of Hostility ~.'áe "mbiticus enough for veteran troops. Mitchell a.nd Wolfe Tone."

The result of the operation proved that 'Ie must remember however that, with- towards a dissentient minority, of our out the cordial support of highly respect- fellow-countrymen.

This does not me.an well officered the people of l-reland abte Englishmen, Sir Edward was not that we should put ourselves under their more initiaove and ahi lity likely to reach the distinction of com- feet, or that we should let them get their the people .of most nations. radesbip with Tone and Mitchell.

We own way in public elecions and affairs of Irishmen have a great respect for re- that kind. On the contrary every Naspe:t.alJility. It took nearly two years ~o t~onalist citizen should exer~ise his 'IJ\1'D convince us tbat the respectable people In ng!.ts and allow the other SIde to exerThe gre,;t question now is to arm the England were quite sincere, that 'they cise theirs. This he can easily- do withIorr e that has spontaneously come into really believed Irish Physical Force to be lout -g'l\-ing insult or provocation or the existence. It is not as difficult as it might respectable. and that they recanted their least ground of offence.

SeC", 1",!ld with the llnit~, of the country former doctrine according to which Irish :\0 insult, no provocation, no violence, en the question of Ieadershi p should be Physical Force was on the felonious and dis- 110 interfere~ce with liberty-but cOlll':~"r"ti\'ely easy. At home and abroad reputable. And noll' the grand result is contrary every mauifestation of g-oodwill th=re are reserves of wealth th ait would that the Duke of :\' or folk and his frielfds and a desire to live in peace and amity '1,.:1.1. a quarter 01 a iuIlion men in two have converted all Ireland to the ortho- with our dissentient fellow-countrymen, a years without drawing unduly on the dox helief in Physical Force. and sincere invitation It is the constant, cordial, geucros.ty of anyone. ,Y:hen the collec- one point of policy upon which, all Irish- to them to unite with us on the common i ion is 1~ing made it will be found that ground of Irish nationality-that is the men are agreed. the- people of Ireland realise the need of Yet, strange to s~.y, the English apostles true patriotism.

Every true Ij ishrnan the nation and will respond to the ap- of the Physical ' Force doctrine, orators I should uphold that doctrine, practice it peal with more thau their characteristic and, journalists, do not seem to like us; himself, and spread it among his neighthe better for our conversion. It is hard hours and acquaintances.

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organisation is complete, fully disciplined and fully equipped. Do not try to tush things, do not expect impossibilities. Do not give 'up because you oannot have all at once. Be firm,. be patient, keep together, keep up your patience, obey all orders, build up the organisation, pledge yourselves never to abandon it, to get it armed and never afterwards disarmed, Let this be your constant purposc, Jet young and old understand it and resolve to achieve it-and with the help of God Ireland will win through this time.

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Mr lit J Judge, an indefatigable worker in the movement s'nce its inception, has been elected unanimously to the command' of Company 0, Dmhlin Lst Battalion. A better choice could not have been made, as ~lr Judge hr-s been more energetic in "'.orkin-I!; of the Volunteer movement than perhaps a~y other mau in Ireland.

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THE RISE OF THE VOLU.t\TEER MOVEMENT. ~

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heard the sound of marching men, I heard them from afar, I heard the tramp of countless 1"( n , Of men prepared for war.

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CITY REGI-, A Nation's Volunteers=-tu mk (;';j M]<'~1, RED. Old Ireland dreams no mor s, From every blade of her green sod Upsprings a warrior corps.

N. B. VARIOliS BATTALlQ,XS AND COMl'A~IES I);IS~OWE~ R£CT., BLUE,

The following is the' scheme of operation fur the Xor tliern Field Day and the idea might with advantage he copied in other districts: GE:\ERAL IDEA. A Blue force has landed inT'ollan Bay with the intention of advancing on Derry.

A Red force arrives by train at B,allyliffan Station just as the landing of the first part of Blue force is compl- ted: Reds object is to pre~Biue<s advance on Derry, and if possible cut, off the J3Jue force and drive it back-to i: ships.

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By the arrival of the Red force at Ballyliffan the Blue force f.nds its passage into Derry by the main road, passing Hallyliffan and' Clonmany, blocked.

The . .. object of the Blue force,_ . which IS drawn up in the 'Sand Hills on the shore of PolIan Bay, is therefore to reach the other road passing through Rashenny and Carndonagh to Derry before the Reds can stop them. The first stage of operations thus becomes something in the nature of a race between the Blue force from the Sand Hills and the Red force from Ballyliffan Station for possession of the road in the vicinity of Rashenny Station. It must be understood, however, that ,both forces leave a large proportion of their full strength behind-the Blues to guard their boats in Pollan Bay and the Reds to guard the passage to Derry via Ballyliffan Station. Both Red and Blue forces therefore who are racing to get possession of the road near Rashenny are under rifle and artillery fire during their advance on Rashenny, ea~ from the portion of the other force which is left behind.

The Red force has most natural advantages, as their advance on Rashenny can be largely carried out under cover.

They will also be in a position to oeeupy the higher ground when the two forces come into contact around Rashenny.

The Blue force have .a fine opportunity [or carrying out an advance in extended order across the Ballyliffan plain, and will be judged by their manner of carrying out this, allowance being made for the disad vantage of the ground against them. they will, however, make every effort to secure possession of the road near Rashermy in spite of disadvantages, The Dine force are warned that there is a ditch, impassable in many places, run]1in:.-( in a rough semi-circle between them and Rashenny Station from the Doagh Island Road to Trawbreaglia Bay. II the Red force are judged to have gained possession of the road in advance of the Blue force the Umpire will hold up a Red flag. If the Blue force wins at this point, a Blue flag.

If tbe Reds win the Blues will be obliged to retire back on the Sand Hills.

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(There will be an interval of at least quarter of an hour).

He will be given orders to leave a small guard at Rashenny, and with the rest of his force to co-operate with the Ballyliffan Red force (a small guard being left to hold the road at Ballyliffan also) in a general attack on theá Blue force, having for its object to capture the Blue force or drive it back into the sea. The Blue force w ill now have a defensive position and the (lover of the Sand lIills against the Reds attacking in the open. It may deliver a counter attack, endeavour to surround .the Red force, or remain on the deIensive, as its Commander thinks best.

Should the Blues be adjudged to have . d th e (ay I galHc a t l'__c a s h,enny, th Ie R ed force W]'11 bbl' rc 0 II3'e d :.) re tiIre. B U t th e en sui uing

::-Ir Chairman, ladies and gemlemen-> The subject of my lecture to-night is one that at the present moment specio lly 2.ppeals to the manhood of Ireland" to the boyhood of Ire:land-Iaye, even to the womanhood of Ireland. A new spirit is at work-a new awakening and love for libel'~y has come upon our people, and this dear old land of ours will be saved by lier u_:Jatriot sons in the Irish V olu nteer movement, "-'by is ;it necessary to establish this Volunteer movement at all? The answer is a very oE,implc one-n°.JJ]e!~-, to obey- the first bá.r of nature--:ác!fápreserV3";Oll'.

The f..:á,;t duty of a Ci':il C:O\'('TIl. merit is to protect the lives ar.d ,á;á')pe:".y of its su'ojects, and if the Covermncnt i~ 'unable or unwilling to protect i',~ sub. jccts, then i.t is the <l'llt,\' of the ct.zcn to defend himself. \\,hile we have no de. sire' to criticise the present Government, as they-ere supposed to be friendly to Ireland, we must look Inct s in the Iace, and if we find that Ccvernmen: in any way slack; or not l~lJle to protect us; we must bluntly say so, In fact, it is eUI- cut~, as citizens to do so. .vnd what are the facts »re ¥ have to consirler> "-e hoa- ,"\ gre.aá~ dca'l at present ro~ard:ng a "Provsionn: Government." about 10 be established in Ulster. Th e term is not a new one, but th0. h~ W 5fCII:!; t o be altered snce (he days of E,]]lU{;t. _\l.h::lU<;h, on )caki;~16 over .he .i~a~i,;j:ts, I C;Ul trace no change wh.itever. Be tl-nt ;.l it n:ay, ullrin;.>; the tr;;1,l of Em 'net, on ;\Ionday, 1 ~th S'-l:J-telll bel', 1803, Lord Xo rbury, one of the presiding Judges, ,á"id. to Emmet: "You have endeavoured to estahli-h a wicked and bloody Prcvisicu-I Coverumcm.' Fer en-

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action will ba largely the same, though for different rca sons, as that above described, in the event of the Reds winning at Rashenny. ]:'01' if the Blues win there they will have gouc a long way to make good their passage by the Carndonagh road into Derry, and the only course left to e ...::ablis.b such ::'! Govern. to the Reds will be an attack on the Blue deavcuring force remaining in the Sand Hills to guard men; Funmet paid the penalrv of h's brave the boats.

This attack will be delivered young iife, and so seriOl'::; was the very as described above, except that the Red lh:Jught of ~\il~h a Covernmenr, in the force at Rashenny, if beaten, will have to cpinion of our E:u:;lish ru.crs, that, not disentangle itself from the victorious alone W2.S Emmet hanged, but he was Illues before it can re-form, and will pro- afterwards 'Jeheaded, and his head held ably 1J.e unable to spare many men to join aloft as a, wnrni ng to others O! the penin the attack on the Sand Hills, as it a.lty for a(tempti,ng to Establish no Proviwill have to take up a position to prevent sional Covernmen« (Sousa.ion.) For over the Blues at Rashenny from taking the thi rt~á years we h::;,,',e been knoC!<ing; at Reds from Ballyliffan in flank as they ad- the door of "-e=,:nlillSter, humbly asking vance.

The Blues at Rashenny must re- on ccnstitutonnl Lines .justce for Ireland. member that if the Red attack on the .An'J. how have these honourahle demands Sand Hills succeeds they will be in a_ very been met' By ir-sults, h~' cortumely, by critical position, cut alL from their main eers and scoff-i ; and yet me have borne body and their ships, Tt must be left to ,",IL these taunts with a patience which no the discretion of the Blue Commander at otlier people on God',; ea rth could show Rashenny, according to how formidable he a tithe. of and not adopt aggressive meathinks the Red attack on his main body sures.c--From an address delivered by T whether he remain there or not. .

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IN () ~, k.2ná married by force to you, that I wish "Thank God !" he exclaimed. "Thank 'l;) "''''"'''''-''''=''''.. ",p"" .. ~. .~. . \\ '\\ _,. .. r;,.' ,.~ \ '\ him to come and bless me, and thenGad she has been saved!"

He paused 0 .. P~lt:':"~,,¬ --,~\ 't and then, to challenge and kill you." mom en t "o~ his Tace reddened ~ 'Sweet child, I will send the messageagalll with anger.

My fnend, the I-:hgh 7~ -=-=-.""'_-=-----=-= ~ -Ie", 'á;.;,-,~./.,:5:;:?;j ~ \;l -_~,.~_ . '., ':"~"'i".':.;'-::i"~ __ ",_. "'-'''~ and do more: r will take you myself to Sh-eriff is here," he added; "and a war- Po) "'0. ~_~~;.-[ii;-t<átf~;_:¥ ~ r; c w:~~!l''''''' :~~:.:~:s Knockgr-ein Castle." rant s-hall be Issued at once, and the ~~ Ev£rythir.g to EqUip an anil~f ;j. ~1 'I II e t urn ed and ~ _..

'I". ",~. A t1 "0-, I am glad," she said; "al!d then he scounare arr e s tad" - . . ,,) fo"1 the ltisl: ....~ .,,/ '(I ... ~ ~ ~ I,., J'"f",ld .;..J. _"oJ' .II ~ called his daughter, who came slowly, l'! tv will pistol you."

I heard voices shouting on the shore, her eyes on the ground. ~' VOWlHEER flf1ATERiM.5 and seizing the oars, pulled out into the "~1ary '" he cried, and took her hand, J1d by "ad niece " suit or -7':-:;;::;::;"";. .: _~. ~ . . .

S ¥ Y J Y ....... ,,' .,~,.-~. ..ta, lal,e. As I glanced across my shoulder caressingly.

CC;\!ary, It was no marriage, ~ "fFDR.. /~0;'t,~~;:v.:;~ .~f'1';;'-~':.;j;,.T.$<,,:;1,?.,.~<.\,.'.~'~";'~"";' ~'i.:,,~~.Y'''' ,':;"._.)., f',."",..,...~" "t'J!:y 1 saw the black water spreading away, and and Peter Lynch, the infamous villian , is ' Un ' i>i/,. __ ¥ _. ~7 (I' .' .,- ..'!i""_~ ~~ .. . the d ark outline of an island here and not Your husband. "'e shall arrest lrim, ~?,:/,;.)":'.,:;;::,Y 1;:-:.f?,:-~,,-,,!;~""1~.')''''''''~f'á~. ~, "'~_'~:~::r:'~.C=.";.¢:'''' ,,' , there.

The stars and the crescent moon and give him h.is due!" ~ MILL PRICE TO TRADE ~ll.~ . "';%:f~r--:" --.~ A look crossed her face that I could not W shone clear of vapour in the deep blue sky, The shouts faded off in the distance interpret; her blue ey_:s met mine with a -SamBronrn FeU with Superior Fiftingsfoi' ~ ". and " e went over the Lough with the sudden fire. "Yes, hang- him!" she cried, '" iM .;'" T'á~" IUl.o'e"-'''' Price Or ..... ~i' t ,T..; VI, WI iI I ~.;llt;; d ~ LiS' ,I "... er ¥ . silence broken alone by the lapping of "sii1ce he has played this dastard's trick." water, and the sound of the oars. And As I stood silent, one of the horsemen '::i ~ r" h.

1 a~ J l'lla > oyer, as I looked sternward, the fair head left the group, and, trotting up to where ,. seemed to be crowned with. stars, and the we stood, dislllo~nted, and spoke to. S~r ~ 'Yorks-3S STAFFORD ST.; and at NEW YORK, U.S_\. ~ starry eyes in the young face filled with JOWl, Then ~e bowed oyer the ~J~l s ~J~:0 ~,~ ~ID ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~'h~ a light that kindled a fire in my soul. So hand, :111<1 raised to hIS lips. "I rejoice ~ I let t he fancy linger for a minute that you have been rescued, queen of hearts!" we had. been bound soul to soul, till I he said. took the hand. and blossom between both \ or my regiment, of the fame of the Bri. "Rescued! Yes, thank God!" cried Sir of mine. thougbt of the ribald brute, and felt hot i gade. So I thanked him for his goodwill, Ior her sake at the insult done. After a J ohn. "It was this gentleman,. Kirwan, "If I am searched;' I said, "a dozen and said that there were no terms that he time we drew near an island with crags who saved her.

He brought her from ','oune" men \\'i11 be arrested, perhaps' and his friends could offer. that I mizht I o and wood, and heard a cry like a cur- Cushlough, out of the hands of the seoun- hung." accept with honour. I told him then of lew's, yet human, too. I saw her try to drel and his gan.g, by a clever ruse." He "Gi'.--e me the paper," she answered. I my suspicion that my granduncle bad 1'; se, then sink ba.ck on the seat, wsnt on to tell how I had accomplished I tcok the blossom, kissed it, and put teen murdered, and repeated what old "It is Glasilaun," she said, "not Knock the rescue, and when I glanoed again at it under P.1Y coat against my breast. Then j Shawn had said, Ue promised that the grein, you are. taking me to!"

Marv Bingham, she was bending to pick I .gaye her my notebook. ruins .of Cushlough should be examined, I p~ll1ed wide of the omnious shore. a heather bell, bending so low that a long A minute later I turned, and saw that and that if Padraig Lynch's bones were "It is to Knockgrein I will take you," I tress of yellow hair fell forward and hid her father was coming towards us alone .. found, they should be honourably interher face, replied.

The High Sheriff had got into the saddle, red in the burial place of his family. He I gayc her my knife to cut the bonds Sir John's friend, a man with freshly- and was riding back -to the other hors-e- i then renewed his offer of a horse, which Irorn her feet, and we went on in silence, powdered hair and . th.in lips, eyed me men. Sir John's face was grave.

I refus-ed.

Finally, he shook my hand T rowj:1g south till the grey dawn carne, <.:10;'01)-. listening in silence to the story. . "Captain Lynch," he said, ":1 warrant \\'arml;)', wished me farewell, and, drawand 1 saw the yellow strand, and the lIe ,LI nct speak as Sir John turned to far your arrest wi ll be issued twenty-four ing II's daughter's arm through his, led heather spreading beyond. Then I ran me. hours hence. I have persuaded Mr Kir-, her towards where his horse was wanderthe be-at ashore, and, taking her in my {:S:r, yon are a ga1!ant yonng man," wan to give you that grace. This I have ',ing free. arms .carried her across the sand to the the latter exclaimed; "and I am your dane, sir, because you have saved my I watched them, the girl's figure lookfirmer ground.

Looking west, I beheld debtor Ior life. You must be my guest at ch.ld. And as one under a load of gratiiDg so small and slender in the widea number of horsemen, armed and eager, Knockgrein, where Lady Bingham will tude to you I urge you to leave Ireland spxcading purple moorland, her hair shinridiu, across the moor. The girl gave a thank and bless you, as only a mother at once. It is known you have come to ing in 'the newly-risen sun.

She was cry of recognition, and went towards. can, whose child 11 as' been haved.

Connacht to enlist recruits for the Irish eager to return home; she had no time them with hands outstretched, stumbling, I replied, thanking him, but said that Brigade in the service of France.

And to give me, I thought.

I walked back to in her haste, in the heather. One of the my engagements would prevent m+ ac- early this morning a man brought the riders leapt from his horse, a tall, thin, cepting his invitation. 1Ir adventure had Eig.h Sheriff a louis d'or, which he swore the edge of the Lough, and traced my steps in the sand. In my arms, by my g;rey-hairoo man.

He ran to meet her, brought me amongst those who were op- you had ,given him .' heart, I had held her then.

Now our and took her in his arms, a light on his posed to my plans; but it was not of my I stood silent, my eyes on the ¥ baround. paths had parted, never to meet again. . face. I heard her sob. "I am married! own danger that I thought at the mo- Then, lookinrr up, I met 1Iary Bingham's j L; , rL' 1 hi' h it t O-C 1o0 Uu sn .. oug . SInce t ere 1 was I Kill him!" and then, "N-o, no L not that! ment. g::1.ZC. had met this blue-eyed flower of the Do not kill him!"

"Fatherl'--she drew close to Sir jehu's s t raccers :I As Sir John was about to speak again, The man answered, "By God! if the Lynch has told me that ~!r Kirwan interrupted him, "Sir,". he srde-"Captain low ruffian has forced you to marry him, and saw her running he is about to return to France at once.

Then I turned, said, coldly, addressing ~e, "you appear

by Gcd ! I wilJ kill him! Is it Peter and went to The colour ran all f' back across the heather, to be an officer. I must ask you for your Is it not sa, sir?"

Lynch P" over her face. meet her. She stopped short, her face n.arue. " Her voice broke into passionate sobI bowed. aglow, I saw the girl's hand pause among the bing. "1 was blindfolded, and dragged.

"That is well," her lather answered. heather bells.

Then I looked the High 'T '1' h d h I "Sir, mv father sent me with this f rom the carriage !-and they took me e p you . " ..

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1 Il:1g, she said. across the Lcugh+-and it is Peter Lynch one had betrayed me.

In every wJ.Y that may be consistent wit 1 á 1á Ki G ~ " It \','C:S the one cursed by Shemus an who f nrr-ed a ring on my finger."

"I am the SOD of the late Colonel I my 1 O} a tj to ,,-mg eorge. _', 1_ ¥ _. ¥ " r \'nri_ C us hl OUah ?" I sked I Scgarth.

I too" it, and threw i t into the::ir _loh,) looked towards where I stood. Lynch,' ) I replied. v' as .. '" h]' h' C<\[ Iri . l' tl itl xLough. For a moment we looked at each Then, taking his daughter's arms from lh t e 'rene arU1Y, sir ?" ~ .. Y nenos are nG!ng m rer.

1'0 h is I:: ck, he drew his sword, and come ." "Of t hee Tri h P tT' rish Brig::lCle." I looked coolly doubt you are aware t at e er .yncn other. s; rjdi.ág across the heather. His friends Into his eyes. has no ;'ight, by birth, to the place. HIS I "Sh2,11 I send you a new one, a gohl k\cl h alted in the background, their gaze .. ,,~,.

111e vcry D1(1n I thougllt,;) he said gran dfi atther-e-oled S'nav. 'n f aca, as. h'e 15 II r:ng, t.:0l11 France?" I asked. upon the scene. icily. "1 have been warned of your pre- c<1l_led--is the if legimitate brother of your I She trembled, and did not reply at Su'~'!cllly he paused, and hls fierce eyes ~e,nc~ in the country. Sir John, I must gl ~nd:u~~cie, . Padraig _~ynch, who \\'~s ac-i once. ".It may not be,"_ s~e answered. under their 'grey, shaggy brows, took a á'PC.J.h to you alone." cidcntally drowned two years ago In the "Ltist rughi \':as a dr-ca~TI. mnst forl'uzzJ...d, arrested look.

1_ rClllm-ed my The t,yO gentle!UCll walked apart, Sir h](e, :J.nd whose body ,,;as never found. I get it." hat, ::md went towards him.

John first L.'1rowing me a glance disturbed Th~ s:otlncl~'cl Lynch c:m£ormed to the Sir John's voice raf'!g acrOS3 the hea"\"';'0 are you w110:n I find alone with and surprised. I looked at his daughter, l'ro~e5tal;t 1'2.ito, and took the estate. ! t1,0'" he ,\-as biddin~ her return. my &,;]~hter, .sir?" he s.aic:l-sternly. "You :md drew nearer.

"If I was rough Captain L),!lch"-Sir John paused-!

"-', "T, 's for'e-ro11 " she sa).'d "F"rewell'" lo.ok C\ gentleman. 'Yhere is the villian, ma-lam, fOl'giYe me," I said; and forgive, "sh8'llld .leu l~c:\'e the French service, L" "~" ¥ ~ ¥ Pekr Lynch?" me that I carried on the decepti.on 30 and retUr:1 tCl Ire1:tl,d, affairs might be so A'ld I knew it 'was farewel1 for eyer.

I a"s\\'ered that Lynch was at Cush- :~~-:..:: I; see~led a visIon,. a glamour of ~r;:ang-<d Lir you. tb:::t C!..:shlough oou1<..l So I toak her f:-tce bct"\l.-ecn my hands, anj lough. that ~fiss Dingham "'as unharmed, _1;~~..;.i.:::, tn.ere In the bcat-;slth you." :/:! pl;:!;('cd ii.1 yOl~r hands."

1 }:i~:.c;J Le!- liltS há ... ~{~'á3; ~nd sl1e went haclc <lad t)\;,t the marriage had been pre,áentcd.

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In response to a meeting called Icr Mountbellew at the Town Hall at 5 p.m. on Sunday, 21st inst., to form a corps of the Irish Volunteers, a large number of people attended from i\lountbellew and the neighbouring districts, .particu larly Moylough.

The people were most enthusiastic ~\bout forming 'aá corps and on the motion of Verv Rev. Canon Fallon, P.P., seconded by Brecher Joseph Daly, Superior of the 'Monastery, Mountbellew, }Ia:j.o~ Sir H. Grattan TIellew, J.P., D.L., was moved to the chair. Correspondence was read from J. B. Concannon, Esq., exp,'eC'd!1'£; 'sympathy with the Irnovement, and hoping that all classes would cooperate in oJU:lkingit a success, and from BALLYCOXXEJ.J ..

Capt .. J. J. Chevers, J.1' .. D.L., who stated that he regretted he could n-ot atBallyconriel] Corps had a busy day 0 .. tend as he was engaged that day attendSunday, 2l:;t J~me. Paraded at half-prist ing to the di-illing of the Volunteers in nine and afterwards marched through the hi, district. The Chairman addressed the town to the Town Hall, where the usual meeting and explained the object and duweekly meeting was held. At 5.30 p.m. ties of .the Volunteers, and exhorted every they assembled for a route march, over man, young ::mel old, to join and give part.cipating, and travelled over 8 the movement the.r support and to enlist miles on different .roads through the COUllthe sympathies and co-operation of their átry. A good many new recruits were lady friend-s also. Rev. Canon Fallon in enrolled-c-T. A. Hussey, Sec. 311 eloquent speech called on his parishioriers to gi\'e the movement their wholehearted support, stating that it had the Du1\'DRuM, CO. DUBLIN,. approval of IIis Grace the Most Rev. Dr. Thi~ Corps, which now numbers 200, Healy, Archbishop of Tucrn, and the supá promises to become one of the most effiport of the priests of the -,,,!-rchbishopric.

Colonel Grattan Esmonde then addressed cient in the country. The men are most the l1l~et' ng, reviewing the wo~k of th.e ~;u*_ ': ~~nd :a~~. "c"y, cl-te~ti"e to Irish \ olunteers of 1782, and impressed aut)'. A local provisional committee has upon the meeting that when the Volun- 'been formed for the purpose of providing Hon, teers were f./"" .ormed they were to remain as equipment for both companes a permanent force in Ireland and never President, Mr Martin Fitzgerald; OhairCo.C.; Viceto allow themselves to be disbanded, man, Mr. James Collins, Chairman, Dr. Waters , Treasurer, Mr. thereby preventing the error that was L. Xugent ; Seqretary , J. Cunningham; made by disbanding the Volunteers, of '82.

He was followed by Michael Carr, Esq., assistant Secretary, i\Ir. Richard S, Duff.

J.P, Lakeview', :Uoylough, who in a speech Oomrn.ttee=Xlessrs Garrett O'Reilly, B. which roused the whole meeting, urged Rogan, J. Cosgrave, A E Traynor, J. the necessicy of supporting the movement O''Connor , T. Kennedy, M. Dwyer, \Y. by every means in iher power.

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Al !, an ,{.::~ lecture, explained the pr inc iples AUT~OSS MS. C~R~FUilY como.

2á) x j!;_ W'e-.:.iz>? frr,m photor raphs even if Iaded ; 1 I~~SN, Cm!Tl~fnH~t, FI1E ~f:H As!) CEraMAH. of the Vol u nteer 1110Yelnent. Adhering to i ~hr;:1, ,. b-: t- r 1 h,.. chc-toarÇ 1';1 ~ l-e better the en largeI m."';~t; ck;;'t de-lav: sei.d phct f,r~:JJ\ P) tal order, those .principles, the corps has made splen.~ 13 3J. a .. a a ivcrtisemc at. did progress and under a very capable Dep 88 Come to your drills as if yo'! were go- drill instructor is rapidly becoming effiHarcourt St. DUBLfN, j ing to see your bes] girl) Çlean ¤:Q.aveg_ .(l.ll,d cient ill the various !1lihary j!;ery!~e~.

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The Corps are getting, along splendidly aud a national spirit of the rght sort pervades the ranks. The meb are ,un:dously prepal'ing for the organising and inspection work to be made on the 19th July by Seagan-: M::cDermott and Liam Me110":s, of the Provisional Committee.

There is expected also to be a sluagh of the Fianna formed for the boys of the locality, a great many of whom are in the Volunteer Corps.

~ WIGA...N. With 20,000 of an Irish population, Wigan expects to have a I~J'ge force enrolled by the end of this month. .A very capable instructor in the person of C:1.pt.

Han-Bon has Leen appointed and 50 other ex-army men, some of them first prize ambulance men. The committee consists of the following: }Ir. }I. Ryan, Co.C., J,P. ; 1\ld John ´'Qu-aid, Counc.llor John Gorman, }Iessl's J p. }luIEg~n, O'GarJ., .J l' :.\[annion, P CrIlagher , J \I'Gal'!'\', J :,['1~ou.c1bliu, :'licbael Xolan, T Phelan John H'Derll1ott, A M'Chrystal, H. Hal,pdn, P. Murphy, M. Fitzpatrick, Owen Lavin, John: MlIrphy, T P Keigher,

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r:áven,f.; are rapidly shaping thcrr.selvcs ] of d~~ C_IltL1.i Corum.v ee should tie into and the Volunteer Corps in t hcir re~l:;,~cti\'edistric;s, and h-::!\'in6 ,'he spite of the many natural obstacles which co-operation of fixe frcrn the districts in have presented themselves arc now wel] question, (these being representative men) past the experimental stage r.nd can com- form a 'committee of .n.ine to take charge pare very favou nably w.:th the best in of each district. This is quite a tentaIn the important matIreland. Work is .prcceediug apace, and tive arrangement. ter of finance the local districts wi ll have little time is lost in getting 111e organisation developed in such a manner that plenary powers and jurisdiction in their it will embrace eyer)' able-bodied Irish- respective districts.

The orgamisers from the Provosional man in London. 0'11 Moudav , .Iune 22ml, (iomn'\ltq~ \'11'-e ia'5 tdJows: -?\orth :a, l1leetin3 \Y,-S held of the "-est London Division of the London Branch.

There :'I[essrs J Keating, }[ Sheehan, and J. were present i'll, addiition to the foul' cen- Keams. South: )r.essrs \\' J\I'Carthy, P. tral ropresentar ives (vlessrs Il ealv, Col- Colli-~, T Conway, LL 1); Qualey, and lins, Hurlev and :ná(;uire). }[essrs P. Scanlan. East: Messrs F II Ford, SulWest : Messrs ,~I. Finn, Cris Cnllen, ::'["Cauley, ?I. H. livan, and :,Iurplty.

Gallion'S, C Cullen, ,J Dease)" Hurley, P O'Connor, J O'Connor, and J O'Dea. I The fir.,t discussicrr centred round the E ~l',C.;uire, and C F lIe8 :,,,..

The d.iill hall at I'ancras road was hall. It was proposed to take Blechyn-: n:-.cked again on Thursday and drill proden JIall i.f suitable terms could he arranged.

It will be interesting to note ceeded as usual. The efficiency of those that the lIa l! has 'been procu red for two vrho attend regnlarly (99.9 p::r cent) is in London,

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.nighá~.5 weekly rnd drilling win sto rt on Fniday 2nd July. This IIall will serve as ;1, tentative arrangement for the who.le of the "-est Division; within a short time it is proposed to have a hall for the £':,1'ther "Test, which includes Brentford, Acton, Ohiswick, etc. Here the question of instructors arose. An appeal is made to those instrucrors who live in the 'Ycst London area to send in their names to the secretcry, 17 Ladbroke Crescent, Ladbroke, (;ra\'e, \\-.

The di scussion of financial proposals "".::5 deferred until the decision of the Central Committee be known. _\ meeting cf the South Loudon Division was held at St. Ccorgcs Hall, '.\'estminster. s.w. Col. Lynch, :II. 1'., was 'in the chair. At the opeain~ of the meetin;;- he spoke with great verve, and his elucidative address was punctuated by olt=,pro"in3cheer's. There were preserx in addition=-Xlessrs ::'J'C;;;rthy, P Collns, T Cbnway, LL D; l' ::-1'Guire, "nd Ald. Brogan.

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The drill m.ig'ht has been changed and v/Il be Sanurdays at Gle same piace and at the same 'home for the four Saturdays beginning with the 4th July. It is hoped thr.t the members rwill continue to attend i n such grand array until they take their places in their own divisions.c- C F Healy, Secretary.

Muster of Tralee Corps.

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l.-n]]ollnded enlhu:;iasl11 marked the pmccecJings. It was dp-cided to at once orgu!!~ ise, l.lr.d steps weree taken .to provide a suitable ba~J. J'ndging by the response t:) "the call to aTl113," the Hall \,,ám needs b" a huge one. There were llpwards of 200 \'ohm~eer.~ enrolled. ,on 'l'u-csda-y, 23rd June, a meeting of t1:1e Proy;s'.:ml1 COlllmittee \\4a5 held at the Four J'rm'incÛ>3 CllJb, A'delphi, W.C. \f_r :ll'-Guire \\-as in the chair.

Betnre the bu:;iness proper was begun a resolution ",;15 unarull10tlsly accepted th:\t the co:nmittce in vietw 01 the recent dc-.-dopmcnts should be the Provisional OOll1mitl<:e of the London \'olun';eer;;.

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The Tralee carrp'; turned out in force 2]\S ga\'e }lr Pearse and: ;\lr Sheehan, ,,,á1:0 accrrmpa.uied hi 111, a cordial reception. The Volunteers met in the drill hall at noon, c.ni were sllppl.elllcnl~ed:by the Ardfer( COilp,_,. The dj'fferent COL11;polie-s fell into l,i!Je at the Drill Ha'll, and headed by the Stran:.l Street B'~D,d, marched through the town ta the Sports Field, where the inspection rtook place. The turnáout n'Ll:mbared á150, including a hody of Bo~Saout" the laUer in ft:ll uniform. .All the Vol'Url:~lce'rs carri?::l bandoliers andá harers~icks, and di!;played a di~ciplined and so1c1~er1y b~aJ.áánf:; \l.;ibii::.:h CITE.~.ted a \'ery favon

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AdIc'l'Û.s:s by :'.f1'. Pearse :Jlr Pearse U1ade a critical jnspec~ioll of tl,," a~seil1bled forces, after \\ hich he deliverácd a .spirited address, wh_Ieh W2:3 pun,:tuate:i with er:i"ln,lSiast;c cheering.

He co:ugr~'(i!h,tÛD the Volunteers, Y'1thor COlllllltindcr, their Cf')J11á Brennan. ',l,,:ir

VOLUNTFER. phn)' commanders and .nstructors, and he thought he could congratulate the whole town and cliistrict of Tlralee 0011 having such a splendid corps of Irish \'01á unteers (cheers). He noted their splendid physique, their soldierly bearing, the military precision and accuracy of their movements, and he would like to add that he was favourably impressed w.th their 5ple/D1:l1'~1 turn-out.

At the railway station lr-st night these silent, soldierly ranks every man all straight and as steady as a spear in the Iiands of a, warr-ior, was a far more impressing demonstration than the rnost enthusiastic, cheering crowd.

They in Ireland to-day were again learning the nobility and drgnity of military discipline and military service. It seemed almost hike a. dream coming true-they had at long last an Irish army.

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Jencr.J.tion to realise the dream of the genera.ions i.hat went tjefoJe them-the dream of Irish patriots for the last hundred years. The)' were creating on Irish sed again an Irish army. It was the most pcrtentious thing' in recent Irish history, and wou/ld be remembered in history to the credit of the men of this gen,eratio.n that they had the sigbt to see their opportunnity and the courage to seize that opportunity.

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XE'YRY. ::'Iuch progress is 'being made by the :\ewry Corps.

There has been a. good deal of fluctuation ;n the ranks recently owing to some hundreds of military reserve men being 'Obliged to "go up" for their annual training, blllt with their return the ranks will become steady, while efficiency will be much increased.

The instructors (who Ne all ex-m.Tit ary men) have made the performance of their duties ,3, labour of love, 'and they deserve to lie heartily congratulated on the results of 1heir efforts.

A committee has been elected! from the ranks, and half a dozen; sympathetic outsiders, who cannot serve in the ranks, have 'been coá opted , Rev F J O'Hara, C.C., is chairman, and with characteristic zeal he is len r ing no stone 'l:nturnEd to promote the iu.' ere-; cf the COr,jJ3. _\ s'~;h.;':rápti(m Ii,;t .has been opened for the purpose of procuring arms and the .pecple of the town are responding most generously to the committee's appeal.

Following the example of the Newry Urban Council and other local bodies, a resolution has been passed bv the committee calling for the withdrawal of the Arms Proclamation. The spirit of John j)Jj,tchell .still moves the hearts of the Frontier Town.

_\ Tory Taunt Refu/ ed.

He asked them to recall what had occurred in Ireland within the p.-st year 01 t,,áo. A certain :;e:Jt.':m of our countryBum, urged on by a political 'rl'lrty in Englaud, had taken up arms a,gainst Jrish freedom. \\'e are taurs.ed with not want ing Irish freedom. It was stated that the passionate desire for freedom had died ill Irdsh her.rts and that there was no men in Ireland to arm for Irish freedom. The reply we made was the c.ndy reply that could be made. The rE~l?l.v (hat our manhood im itated that of ?\orth - East Ul ster armed against Tr'sh freedom. The Volunteers were -he most important rr.en in Ireland to-:' .'.y, and cou rr.ed more in the presenr; p; 'itic ¥.l cris-is and in the future hi "tory of t'~ ',.-nd than all tbe political parties, ,::'d ihe IPoldicians, and all the newspapers C'_ mbined (cheers), and it was no exaggeraton to say that the isaue of the present crisis depended upon the Irish Volunteers (i enewed cheering).

The Iuture ,r. T;~!::'lld was in the hands of the Volunteers to be moulded as they wished.

The) were determined to ann the Yoluntecrs, and that done it would be i::l!POS. ,ible l~lor ::!lny 'P'fhcicn ~o fj)J'Ce u pon them anv solution of (he Irish question which they di.d not w.sh to accept. \\'hen they bad an Irish Parliament in College Green the work of the Irish Volunteers wou!d 1:e only then commencing.

It would be a na,tional defence force which was net.; going to be disbanded at the bidding of any politicians in Irehud or in Engb.J.1~ (cheers).

Grol\\áth of ~J.ovell1Cnt. He referred to the marvellolJs g"owth and ~t'cc,cs.s of the mo\'ement whfch had sweopt tlHoll',;h the country spontnneously a.nd grown -to such enorJl1()'l}S proportions in such a brief period of time, which ,:howed ~Jlat the mo\'ement appe.aled to cveryth,ing that was straigh.t and! best an,d rnanlieit ill the Irish heart. It was only when the :\l>1.tiollal\'oJunteers spT:lng; into exi;.;tet!.ce thJ.:~ the importation of arms \\'2:3 proc1"imed'. "'ell Ulster was able 10 gd .anns in sli te of tlH~ P,ocla.lllation, and wha:t Ulster did the men of Irel:l:1ld could and \\'ould do (loud cheers).

ROSSLARE. At a meeting hÛ19 in Rosslare Harbour on Sunday, for the purpose of starting a Volunteer corps there was a fairly large attendance. On the motion of j)Ir White, seconded by ~lr Duggan, ~fr T Ryan was moved to the chai;r~nd in the course of a patriotic speech e~lallled the objects and constitution of the Volunteers and boped that Rosslare Harbour would fall into line with the rest of Ireland and establish a corps there. An enthusiastic discussion then took place, and Mr Moroney proposed,. seconded by ~lr Smith, that a corps of the Irish -Volunteers be formed, which was passed with acclamation. The following were unanimously elected as a committee to deal with the forwarding of the movement and its affairs here, viz=-Xlr F Ryan, chairman; j)Ir E V \Vhite, secretary; :lfr :If Moroney, ~Ir A Brocklebank, )Ir M Heffernan, ::'IIr J Sinnott, :lIr D Callaghan, Mr W Dug. gan.

It was decided that each member pay Gd per week for. the first 2 weeks and 2d per week afterwards.

l\L\.l~ vue 1{0n~H. - The fl1';] (,ulil.p:t.ny 'turned out to the Feis and Volunteer parade held in Porta,rlingto'll Sunday week equipped with ban,~)!icr anu h:t\'e:,sack and acclnlJf.'1nie:.l by the Trade .:tnd Labour Fife and Drulll, the Pipers, and th.e Brass and Reed Bands of the town. A meetin.g o[ the Volunteer COl1lmittee was held in St. Patrick's -IáLálll on Friday evening. On the motion of the Cha"l'JDall., second,ed by )[r F l' Ilarckham, it was una.n.'!hously uecided to hohl a review and mi].it:)ry fete (under the auspices of, the ~r-3'ryborough Corps) in the (~.A.¥\. Grounds, )laryborS~(urda.y, the 15th August, ou.gh} on 1914, and !llM a ,ilvcr cup 'be presented for ,the best drill display 'by companie1J and a Jlledal to the comlllander of the wipning company. That ali corp~ of the Yolunteers i I} Lei" and adjoining couná ties be inyited to compete. Entries close on the 12tb AugIlSt.-J L :lreehan, Secl'etu)',

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The Drumquin Corps of the Irish Vol1l,n,leers, although only establ-ished a month, are making rapid progress, and the movement llJ?s been entered upon very enthusiastically by the men and instructors. Dr111 meetings .are held in various centres in the surrounding parishes on Tuesday and Friday evenings, and a geqCr<11 mobilization of the various cornpar,itá, in Drumquin on Sunday. The companies are under. .the (r,aining of proficient 3lllsiruiotors.

Over 250 members have already been enrolled.

On Sunday evening in St. Patrick's Hall, Drumquin, a meeting of Nationali.,;5 of the parish of Langfield was held to consider the present political s-tuntion.

The meeting was composed of over 200 In.sh Volunteers and sympathisers.

Father Gormley, C.C., who presided, explained the object of the meeting and said th,'l>t certain resolutions would be put. l.efore them for their consideration, It was a matter of urgent necessity that some such resolne'ons should be adopted by the :\,aJ:ionali's-ts of Ulster and by every \'01umteer Corps throughout' Ireland.

The T'nionists ')flnted the exclusion of six counties; ~he-se six included Tyrone and Ferrnanagh ; to such an exclusion no true :\ atic.nalist cculd ever agree.

Resolutions were proposed by ~lr. J. )hguire, seconded by )11' Jas. Haughey, and passed, tendering to ~Ir. Redmond and the Irish Panty expression of apprec.' at ion of the ability and success with "'hieh .t'hey. guarded the interests of a united Ireland; reluctantly z.ssentiog to the .proposal to allow any county cf Ulster the option of excluding itself temporarily from the operations of the [lome 'Rule Parr ament : absolutely declining to agree to any fur-ther concessions; and appealingto the Nationalists and. Volunteers- of Leinster, '~unster and Connaught for support.

KILT.ESHA:\DRA. The members of above corps held: their parade on Sunday to the Cornafean-BelV olunceers. tUirbet noo\'ball rmtch and subsequently to even i n-g devotions in St. Brigid's church.

They were headed by the local GLEXFAR:\E. A 0 II band, which discoursed Xational On Sunday last the first parade of the airs. The rnerr l11Q:de a fine di s.;<;Jl[c~-, their "IIidhael's 'section of the Glenfa~e manly bearin.g and regular stepping beVolunteers took place on the Square ",t ing greatly admired Munak'Il House. Over 60 members took meeting on same evening arcin\~elnents part in the drill. were made for sending a capable iustructor to l~J.asto\\'n section.

Preliminarv steps were taken for l',rrang-ing :J. public ~[EE1T\-r; AT IIOLy\YEfJ .. meeting at on early date and (he 'secreRev Eugene ?\'lac_\fahon, P.P., UHh- tary directed to make inquir-ies rc speakmall of the South Fermauagh Di visiorial ers for the occasion. Drill wH be carExecutive U I L, .addressed a huge and ried _on on Thursday and 81lnlG)' evenenthusiastic meeting at Holywell , County ings as usual, and any member absentFerrnanagh, on Sunday, called' for the irrg himself from more thnn two consecnpurpose of inaugura~ing a ccnps of the rive drills w i t h out gi\'ing a ~1~I!sfactot'y exNational Volunteers the third Pormed in planation will he severely dealt with IJY the historic Iparis-h of Cleensh. He said tbe committee.

Owing 10 the ind ispos,. he felt that ths m ilitary movement would tion of our respected and ipatr iotic P. P., make their people more selfrespecting.

Father Clarke, the election of officers has sober and useful citizens. been postponed f.or some time. Date of MO:\EA. Over one hundred members have been enrolled in the ':\[iQnea Corps of the Irish

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public meeting will be announced.Reilly and Prior, IIon. Sees, pro tem.

The drill practices were held on Tuesday and Thursday evenings, there being oyer 300 present and further enrolment.

0f~ }IR. JOH:\ 1'. S)lALJ., J.P, C'LONES. )Jr John P Small, J 1', :II R C V S, whom the Clones Volunteers have elected their commander, h3S seen scrne military service, having been on the Army Veterinary Staff in South Africa .duriug the Boer War,

,On Sunday week in 'connection with the Ballinal11o:e tournament a: 'F(lrade of the Volumteers brought people from. d'stant places to witness it.

At 1 oclock ',he Aughnasheelc n Fife and' DruID Band arrived and headed the Baltinamore \'01unteers out the Aughoo road to meet a from th at di strict.

Botch company FER:'I[A,\,AGII COU:\,T\.á OH(;ANISmarched to tile railway .station, where, IS1:\G. on the arrival of the train from Dromod, Formanagh County Committee met on they were joined by a .large contingent Tuesday for the purpose of dividing the from Bornacoola end:'foHdl with the county into battalion districts for the (Eslin) )[ohiLl Brass Band.

The propunpose of organisation. Ther was " la.ge I cession man-ched through the town to the attendance of delegates.

It was ;: ur d I football field. Fenagh A 0 H Band next that over 4,000 men are enrolled ;n the arrdved. followed by upwards of 200 Volcounty up to the present, and after dis- unteers, who made a fine display. "'áames cussion it was decided to divide the C,:lUIIty of members of Aughnasheelau Fife and into e:ght baUaJion districts a's fOl]0WS~ Drum. Band-s-Messrs )i[ l\l'Ta-gue (band:\0. l-Enniskillen, Boho, Carrignns, mrster}, T Tubman, J Kellegher, J MulCava nacross Coa. :\0. 2-Ke".::loW!lál_tllt- vey, _\ :'1.'\Yeaney. T Stritton, 13 Dolan, ler , Currin, Lisnaskea. :\0. 3-Coonien, P M'Taguc, 0 Rorke, P ~I'IYeaney,'J P Brookeboro, )taguil'esbridge, Tempo. No S.nith, P Dolan, :\01 Roddy, P Moran, .J -J.~ .-\~badm1l1sce, ",Ro.lea'. So. 5-DerryC:l;;sid~',,J ,\1'Keon, l' Xlor an , J Dolan, Ii". :\0. G-Cleenish, Kinawley , Kille- J Str itton, sher. ;';0.

7--Garrison, Beleek , Devenna:~linadnc!re On Friday e,ening the i.,ll (comprising Monea and DerrygonCorp assembled at Market square for n elly.t. No, 8-Kesh, Ed erney , Irvinesdrill practice. After an hour's pr-actice town, Pettgo. they marched through the town, and on ~ their rebur,n were addressed by Very Rev E:\:\,ISILl.E:\.

C Flynn, 1'.1'., \'.1'., Ballinamore, who Over 250 members of the Enniskillen sad he WR,: very pleased to see such a Ccrps of the Irish Volunteers assembled fine body of young men organising for in the Connty Hall Grounds on Wednes- the defence 01 their country ar d their day night last and were drilled in sections. rights. He considered it was high time for Stich a: movement, as their Unionist friend:" h a d set them the example, and it \'0';15 but right tlic.: thev (the Xal ionnono.

But O"e1' 200 n.lembers attended the parade ,. alists) should be 'uL:l [2.nd doing. of lhe ,Irish Yolunteers at Boho (Co, Fer- above all tll:ngs let there be no dissension. !-Ie wished the Volunteers success.

Illana-gh) on Sund-a,y.

ward march, and before disbandment a meeting; was held in the Assembly Rooms.

51. 1'< tr:ck's Hall, for the purpose of ~electjng a repi-eserrt ai ive to attend the Icrt hcorni ng convencion, :'Il.r D Lynn being elected.

J)uring the já~.-ie\\' Capt. ""hite was accompanied by Commander John :\lu1henry and Piper á)V'K,eegan, whIe 1), Lynn acted as Adjutant.

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WEST ARDSTJUW. This cczps is 111lcaking stÛadá;\-~ progre ss j depots ~,re established a,~ Dolallght and Ca.stlebone A ,0 11 meeting places.

The corps is WIder the d:rection of a compe tent dr il l imtrllctor; drills three E"eQin", each \\áeek.

RICOCHETS )Jr J nOll rke-Thanks for article and footnote. \\-e are quite safe that way. :\Iay be able to deal with it later.

Padraig O'HickeY-JIany th~nks. Later.

"Bi:!. "-Thanks.

It is goodc F ]) Byrne-Thanks for letter.

Had seen the adticle and was rather "urpr~ásed.

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Waterside Review.

A review of the was carued out on Sunday on the grounds of the Waterside Hurling Club at COl'rody. The [b"t'a;lion formed into line at St. Patrick's Hall, 'Waterside, a little before 2 p.nn., and follov v-ing the lead of their splendid band (St. Patrick's) under the ccnductorship of Bandmaster Dillon, proceeded at a brisk pace for the review grounds.

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The men having been quickly formed .in review order lines, gave the saluce to Captain White, D.-s.O., who arrived about 3 o'clock, cfter which the following evolutions were g.one through in the order given: Forming into linc; quarter column and sections; extended advance in line and in sect.ons , preparing to take cover frcnn cava lrv ; signalling; marchpas: in extended column liue ; review order.

At the terrn.nation of the xcv,iew Capt.

White co.ngratulated the men upon their fine, soldierly bearing, which pleased him exceedingly.

They hrd, he said, attained a marked deg.ree of proficiency already, and he exhorted them to aim at perfection.

He said they bad come to the very brink of a great crisis which might possibly be tided over, 1\0 man more than he would desire to avoid war-e-if peace could be had without dishonour , but jf peace without dtshonour may.not be, then he thouight he could dopend en them (cheer sj.

He had no,', assumed the command of the Derry Ç.nd Innishoweu Regiments=a force numbering from six thousand to seven thousand rnen, and he thought it just possible thr)[t that force would he called upon to play an -important part in any crisis that might be forced upon them ..

'He asked for their confidence, and. when 'I the time for taking any action which can be taken cr-me. he assured them it wil! , . , be taken, but that must 'be lett to the leaders, and he was sure the force he had under hs command conld lJC depcnde-I on (cheers).

Three cheers were theu called for Capl.

IVhite and heartily gi\'en.

The battalion )hen formed for the homeá

Sea Bird-We only review purely military works. Thanks for songs. p 1 J :'I[urray-That is the right spir-it.

Yon will do better later.

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A nything of interest to the coups wi ll always find a corner.

John O'Hagan-'We nrc gett'ng ready to kill all poets.

D J Egan-Later, perhaps.

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How he smiled at their taunts !-and his answer: he reared his race in pride; And his gallant wife to his great heart dung, and by him in battle died.

"But he was O' More, bad rights inherited from afar, nigh 2,000 years old. these he would uphold against all men, and rather be rolled into his grave than surrender, " Standish O'Grady.

011, swift for this was his vengeance, hotter than fires of Hell, And the English shook with his furious blows and pause from their tales a spell, For their hate and their wrath of his scourging sword could but feebly dare to tell.

The 'Ballad of Rory

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one who fears to breathe his name some daring feat recalrs : And one, who would boast, with a toss of his head cried scorn of the Rapparee, Till one spoke up who had seen him in state as a chieftain proud and free.

A man from the Court in a hush intense

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ernment would put them down. While we must think first of putting riflcs into the hands of the men in Ireland, we must not lose this chance of binding together At a large and enthus astic meeting ,to Irishmen in these ,parts, so that j,n the enrol Volunteers held at S1. George' event of any attempt against Irish Ircerllall, London, the chc.ir was taken by ties being made, a strong force here in Col. Arthur Lynch, ;\1 I'., supported 'by En~]Qnd would h::ve to be dealt with.

Oouncillor Brogan, Messrs \\'m. Mac~Ir P E }'I'Guire, Chairman of the LontloOTh Volunteer Committee, made a strong Martin, P J Quigley, J A O'Leary, P D o 'Hart, P C Sullivan, and J s;/i""I.l,lyrne. practical speech, dealing' with the necesThe hall was crowded by men from every sity of organisation, d/scipline and unity.

Mr. W111. M'Carthy said that he had Irish organisation, a living testimony to too unity of feeling which the Ir-ish Vol- the honour 10 have belonged 10 an organisation mceiy years ago nvhose one unteers have evoked, Col. Lyncl;', in tile course of a strrring object was the freeing of Ireland, and he speech, paid tribute to the earnestness of felt that same idea in the minds of that There were no the young 111en in the rnovernenr, on great 'gathering to-day.

Wh0111 hd Ia.len the mantle of the old Dukes and Lords pttying Icr ~ll..:= 2.r1US cf Fenians and fighters in the land wars. the l\ahonal Army .. 'The 111C!:CY C<1lT:E'.

"A vote and a gun is the right of every . out of the packets of the rnen who drillcd freeman," he said. ""Ie have got the as it c.lways had come; but they were men-we must get the rifles-and we will being equipped none the less. get them. We think of the davs of '98 Dr, Conway sad that the Irish Volunwith a thrill of enchantment, when arms leers were an answer to Carson's drilling poured into our' country, and wish for and arming, and they would prove an efsuch opportunites to-day. ]3.(]'t there is fective support to the Government in r cas much spirit and imaginction in our sistang the demand for concessions. own d<I,Y, and future generations may look I An appeal for funds was handsome;), back on 1914 in history as the year of responded to by the meeti-ng, and over Home Rule and the springing up cf the a hundred names were bonded up for enVolunteers.

There is scope to-day for rclment in the local corps, including sevethe smugglers of old, and some means ral ex-army ncn-corn. officers and men. ",'<ill probably be found {or again landing Drilling was announced to take place rifles on Irish shores." every Friday for the t.me tc;ng, ani A Voice : '''áhat about tb e Arms Proc- other centres will be rapidly opened (1D Iamation ?

I by the South London Disr rict Oom:m;.ac~ cei. Lynch L.We will tear up the Proc-, (Secretary, Yrr D O'Leary, 11 Tremadoc lamation, or drive a coach and four road, Clapham), -who are getting ind o

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i'Rory is out," and gallant Leix leaps op Rory and fame and freedom! and his arm with a shout and a langh , will never tire; "Rory is out," and the English scribes But the thought. 9f the great beloved were writing his epitaph! dead is writ in the lurid fire NbW ye of the Pale with fury and terror Of his war implacable; and he sets a line and hate shall be pale, for his race, For Rory has vowed he will smash your To never yield a foot to the foe till their power, and Rory will never fail. arms at last efface The blight of their touch from Irish . ,,\,;i:o bated breath there is whispering earth and leave of them never a trace. behind the English. walls, 1\S

SATURDAY,

And he wrote his will in deeds of fire across his native land, Till in his final fight his sword dropped from his conquering hand; But the English paused in their shout of joy-from Wicklow slipping free The bravest son' of Rory's race springs to his destiny:

he fold his breathless tale, lIo\v Rory rode with his retinue to over- And Roryts spirit rides the wind while aweá the Pale: still roll on the wars, JIe came to the Viceroy's Palace, strode And the old hope is high and proud, fixed as the morning stars. through with the mien of a king, And the Vioeroy's minions bent their And when the banner and the sword, that heads and their hearts -went fluttering. he 50 bravely bore, Rory and fame and freedom! Let one of Burn in their final victory, they'll light up the days of yore: Rory's men Tell of the treacheries in fair guise the And who shall stand in the track of the sun? Our Rory Ogue O',More.

English played again.

Terence J MacSwiney. through it, or ,perhap.s. a fast yacht.

We t ~O~~h . Wit~' a.II the branches of the Irish Away with the tale, but Rory swore do not want to be bloodthirsty, and we uov,etles 111 the southern district. fiercely to Heaven's height, will not ann 10 force a conflict.

The . ~ i, 'Tis a fool will parley with the dogs," ~WANTED! .~ Volunteers hold a watchnrr brief but I ( and his great sword leapt to light; l\10\J)TTRATII. <0 believe in the motto of C~onl'Ne;l, "Pm! And he vowed, till he'd won his native your trust in God, but keep your powder O.n Sunday, 21st J'une, several com:To buy Loughlin's Irish Trade Mark: sod, it never should know the sheath, ~ Outflitt ings. dry !"

Trust in Providence, but tckr panics of thÛ.

Mountrath Volnutcers, hea For he'd clear his land of the English Irish Outfitting Hea dquart e rs ~ 19 PAkLIAlI-ENT SfREET. DUBLIN ~ care tbat your i-ifles are loaded. A con- ded by the Brass and Reed Band, marbrood or himself be rolled in death. f!I)ct in Ireland would be a terrible cala- ched. to Castlerown , About a mile from With the blaze of a lightning-flash he mity, and I am confident that we can the town. they were joined by a company swept straight on the hated horde, win pver our fellow-countrymen of the from Castletown, also headed by a hrass And their tales were dark with the wrath North to realise that their interests are panics of the Mcuntrath Volunteers, heaof his soul and the play of his terrible : for all occasions designed and made at: identical to' ours. I have watched the rr'es in the presence of a large &ltd inter . sword; ¥ Lowest Prices, ~ Volunteers drilling in. Ireland, .and I 'saw ested crowd of spectators dri llej' on the But a cloud passed over his glory, and, ~)\iI' Cah1!I Co ., Parliament St. -(> In Clare magnificent bodies of men of gr,een. They then. lined up and marched ~lVl. u DUBLIN. ~ eager, they cried "he is fled'~9++á~~<$-~¢~~~O.~~~ ¥¥ ~~ fine physique, bearing and efficiency. p,~stthe Mounrnrh Band and. started for ;\lany, stuck to the earth with fear, prayed The Ir.shman has all the qualities of the home. This for the first display in pU1Jdeep in their hearts he was dead. soldier.

Unity in the ranks is a great I lie was very geed an_d reflects great ereessential, and the elimination of ;1~1 dif- dit on the various drill masters.

The Yet out of the cloud and out of eclipse Ierences between a' 111an belonging to one Mountrath COXIPS is about ..100 strong arid as from [re ll-black night, a star, section of politics and a man of another. al] attend the drill ,praotices punctually Stood Rory clear in the light again, and What might have been a serious split hi)'; , and regularly. Dri!1 ]1i1hts are on \Ycdstripped for the truceless war; just been avoided by mutual Iorbearr nce, nesday and Friday evenings at 8.30 r nd And his foes at a breath of his fury were the s'nkin.g of differences, and, I might on Sundays at G.30. caught in a new dismay, Gz North Circular Road, say, SO.Il1e sacrifice. The coining of I-Ic111e ~ -=:a~sr~ In their visions from air, from sea and Dublia from earth he storms in his fierce Rule and the Irish 'Volunteers marks the I W'ANTTED <:: t 0 f U'l1JOn 13 {1.q'P1PCS: . ..;e The Only Genuine IRISH array: dawn of a uew era: of freedom and pros- J secondhand, in good order j quote SHOPFITTERS perity for Ireland (gre3.t applause). price. and full pc.rticulars , Knuck, offce A vampire breathing destruction on the _ ,of thiS paper. .

CHURCH and SCHOOL mane of the swiftest wind; ~~~ Furniture fllaJ1ufacturers An ocean tempest in curbless power to eyery mercy blind; As fixed as a rock to assail' for their a-e an Iri~h ~irm ar.d ~ : legions .issuing forth; : ._.. ..... employ none but Irish labour {i.

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They brought their stories black to glut Dd, and Is. each.

-Belts, Is. Is. 6d., 2s. each. the ears of the trembling Pale, Waterbottles, Is. 3d.; Putties, But there's joy in Leix, and the happy wP +~ 6*~ '""OC Is. 3d. each. ~ child leaps up on his mother's arm; Bull Dog Revolvers, 7s. 6d. each. : (Cash Tailoring Co.) Lists Free Postage extra.

And the maidens are singing-when Rory ; And 50 UPPER GEORGES ST., DUNLEARY. JOHN NELIGAN, Proprietor, : is (lout," their hearts arc free of JOHN LAWLER & sor~, 2 Fcwncs's St alarm, ()[f D'rm : St.) DUBLlX.

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THE iRiSH VOLUNTEER.'

. The 'Spirit of To-Day Improved Field ~ Service Equipment

Steady, Volunteers.

Suggested Ly Liam de Roiste '5 art'clc in last week's C'Irjsh YoIun teer;" c:Steady" is the watchword, Stand you firm and true; Know to-day, rny comrades, There is work to do.

Whatsoeer betide you In the COining years Let no foes divide you, Steady, Volunteers!

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Keep your ranks unbroken Till you face the foe, \\'ho would breed dissension, Let the traitor ga.

Though 'in kind we differ, 'To our ar111S we'Ii stand, \Ve are one in fealty To our native land.

You have sworn to lift up Banb2,'s regal throne; Soldiers of your country, -'t ou are hers alone.

Onward to the sunlight On to Frecdc i's crown You have reared the banner, See it not hauled down!

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Two paths lie before Jan: Choose 'iL\veen death and life; -; Union leads to freedom, Lose it not in strife.

By the blood of martyrs, By the faith of years, K-eep yomá ransk unbroken, S~eady, Volunteers !

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thought the .!;'Q1ir.it, it was dead That leapt [n other yea]'(;The courage wet with n.ar: . . - -, And steeped in orphan's fears, Captain D E Henderson, Aunsbrock, The hope that made the hearts of men Clontarf, lias been granted provisional To glory in the strife, protection for an improved Field Service That promised freedom to the land Equipment for army use: The object is They loved above their life. to provide means for carrying a number BUlt no, mo, no, to-day we show of_rounds, say 230, of ammunition; The spirit still is here.L haversack, waterbottle, bayonet or sword, and revolver, in such a manner that the The sword ~s grasped, for Ireland's sake By the Irish Volunteer I art ioles can he removed from the "D" The gallant Volunteers, Hurrah! clips on the waist-belt and attached to The Irish Volunteers t-, those on the saddle as may be required, the -invcntion moreover enabling the lYe boast of heroes dead aud gone, w ho le equipment to he eased] taken off But that is only right l and put on again with Çrcat rapidity lYe boast of victories long since won, while on the march. The invention comAnd many a gallant fight. prises two bandoliers and a waist-belt, But yet, alas! we sometimes say i one of the bandoliers going under the left Those victories were in vain; arm and over the right shoulder, and the Those heroes died and left our lant.! other under the right arm and over the Still writhing in her pain. left shoulder. The bandoliers are detachOh let us now; no 1110re bestow ably attached to each other where they Such thoughts of regrec here~ cross the wearer's chest by a stud and The sword 'is grasped, [or Irelr r'iJ '0 ,ah socket fastener or by some other conveniBy the Irish Volunteer! ent means, and the bandoliers are connecThe gallant Volunteers, Hurrah I ted .to the waist-belt by straps with stud The Jr'sh Yolunteers : Iastoner , which pass through Ds on the bandoliers so thgt the parts can be let out Let us no more ,weep Sarsfield's fate, or taken in for comfortably adjusting the IIis spirit from above weight of the accoutrements. The waist- :\Iust look with triumph on the hn.nd belt is provided with six or some other That's raised to guard his lov~ convenient number of pouches and with The land for which, he pined to die, the necessary number of "D" clips to And many brave as he, hold the sword or bayonet frog and.

Who only wished a soldier's death, water bottle at the left side and the RevelSo their loved la-nd was free. ver Holster and Haversack at the right We'll never more their fate deplore side, 'When dismounted, the Blanket or ¥ They've left their spirits hereCoat can be carried at the back.

Four The sword vs ,graspecl, for Ir clands sake pouches are provided on the front of each n, the Irish I'olunteer! bandolier, an d four on one, and five on.

The galhnt Volunteers, Hurrah! 'the other of the backs of the bandoliers, 111e Irish Volunteers : the space of the pouch being allowed for the crossing of the bandoliers. The com- But, oh ~ if in the ranks were seen, bination which cornrpises the invention As III se'7~nieen-eight.r-t\':O! may he made of leather, webbing or other The Orange with the Irish Creen , materials used alone or together. By this And ali to Ireland true! invention the weights can he evenly dis- But-c-vain regrets \\fe'U- never Inal~c,tributed and any part can be detached and ]\0, no, at duty's call worn separately and by attaching them In Ireland' ranks our áplace we'll take together there will be 110 fear of Josing For freedom stand or fall. ,. them Oil active service.

The soldiers of our glorious land Their spirits still are hereThe sword is grasped, for Irclcnds sake By the Irish Volunteer!

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Classification of Earthworks.s=Earthworks may be classed under two headsRedoubts and Trenches, Different Kinds 'of Trenr-hes-c-There are a large variety of Trenches, varying fro those made during . a regular siege of a fortress, which ha-v-s.. : b-een constructed by, or under, the direc: t.ion of the Roynl Engineers, to rough fire ,trf'ncll(,s, such as might be construted 'round a cavalry detached post. Utilisa! tion of Existing Cover.t--En order to save ,, l)olh labour and time in all entrenchments tvery effort should be made to utilize and . improve exisung CO\,Û1'. For instance, in ":1 couu.ry like England ,most fields have h"rl~e and ditch. The hedge gives con: cea lment , and the ditch can be rapidly rf improved into a trench.

Requirements i:i when choosing Position of Trench.v--Jn choosing a position Ior a trench the most u important requirements are :-(1) A clear field of fire. This is of paramount imp or,tance, and should not be sacrificed to any I other oonsideration whatever.

(2) Con'cealment from the enemy's fire, and more I particularly fram his artillery. (3) Should '.there be any men in -support who are not l'Occupying the fire trenches, the ground I'should be chosen so that they can remain illuder cover n nti l called on to reinforce th e firing line, 1-0 which they should be I' able to advance under cover. Advantages I of a Position just below a Ridge.i-=Should, ; for instance, a cavalry post lJC occupying a hill or a shoulder of a hill, the sky-line ! or lc)P cf .a prominent ridge should not be I (:hO,",ell for the position of a trench, belá(.;au.;e, nlrho ugh a good field of fire and I suit able ground for the reserve might be t : obtained .it would be impossible to conC.'e.al the trench, and all the fire w~i.oh thei enemy could muster would quickly be brought. to. ~ea~ o~ it. \\,ith all ent.renchirylents, invisibi'lity IS of tbe utmost irnpor;.;j ,bne<>, and is of almost as much value as k-the coyer itself. On {he other hand, ~)lOuld a trench be placed somewhat bei hind th e sky-line, it would leave a ,great ': deal of dead ground in front of' it, and a gocd field of fire 'would not be obtained.

If, however, the position consists of a ftat-topied hill, the summit of which is a plateau, even if only 50 yards across, it might be advisable to place the trench on the rear edge of the plateau, because a good though somewhat short field of fire WQuld thus be obtained. ~Ioreover, the trench would be wel l concealed and the supports would be under cover on the reverse side of the hill close to the trench.

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In places \Vhe're concealment is essential, the front of the loophole should be masked, until it is required, with branches or sods or pieces of canvas hung behind it. Shell-proof Shelters.-If it is desired' to secure the interior of any portion of the trench against shrapnel bullets, or. spl inters of shell, 'it may be covered with branches, corrugated iron, canvas, or any other available material, with about 12 inches of earth piled on the top.

Precautions against Enfilade Fire.-Trenches

whch may be exposed to artillery fire corning obliquely, or to an enfilading ; The most suitable place for a cavalry de- rifle fire, must be either-c-t l ) More or less ; icchcd post is usually just below t~e in th -' form of a semi-circle; (2) Ziz-zag ;

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TOURNAMEN1 AND ~IILlTARY FETE

(Under the auspices of the Castlebar Batt .

Will be held in THE

ASYLUM SPORTS GROUND, CASTDEBAR,

On SUNDAY, 12th JULY,

1914.

VALUABLE PRIZES FOR ALL EVENT~

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PROGRA.~ME : DRILLING: 1. Best Drill Display by Sections.

2. Best Drill Display by Half-Companies 3. Best Drill Display by Companies (one company each corps), 4. Competition for best Section Commander (ex-military men excluded), 5. Best Section Comander [open to all).

6. Best Display of Physical Drill to music (not less than 30 men).

7, Best Display by Boy Scouts,

ATHLETICS AND CYCLING: 11. 220 yards handicap (boys under 16 years) 12. 100 yards handicap (girls under 16 years).

13. 220 yards for Members of Volunteer Battalions.

14. One mile Bicycle race (boys under 16 y,ears).

15. Half-mile Bicycle race (girls under 16 years). , 10. 440 yards Bicycle race, open. (Last man wins prize).

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ARMY SIGNALLING.

'poslioJ1, speaking !1.'enerally, and taking : ::dl considerations into account, the best : place felT the firing 1;11'3 is at, or ncar to, ,:he f,,~)t of a slope, so as to obtain a ' .

-' '. :;l'az:uJ fire. In such a case, the artillery might occupy thÛ high ground behind.

Best Form of Fire Trench.e=The best form , of fire trench must depend 011 the time, I abour , and tools available, but the followin,:;; points should be borne in mind:tIl :rh~ bank of earth in front must be bullet-proof at the top i.e. two feet six inches to three feet.

(2) The trench , should be as invisible and narrow: as posI 51ibl e, ta ki átng _.in t 0 cons,ideratiion th e ftá ac ' .,' that, unless .there is a step, It must be wide enough for men to sit in it.

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Oome and see. Ireland's Sons: in theirI I merriest mood. Come and enloy a rea i Irish day. ___, In Events Nos 1 to 7 (inclusive) entries close 0thn6th July, AU other entries close " on 10 July. _

~ PVi\FTH !\TIO~: OF _\. RIFLE ,. . .

BtTLLET, _ ~ At point- blank range, the following . . f are proo f against t I ie penetration 0 a modern rifle bLlllet:-Sno\\', about 8 feet; SPECIAL TRAINS FROM ALL PARTS. soft wood, across the grain, 48 inches; -__ . (f ree f rom Admission 6d.

Stand 6d. I unrammec dId earth or san I' h to Grounds ti 1 f extra. 'urt er par lCU ars rom stones), 3 fcet; sand between boards, 18 A. RYAN, 'in,:::hes; coal, 15 inches; good 'brickwork, Secretary, Castlebar, [) inches; wrought iron or steel, according (0 har<l;ness, to t j.ncb; _.

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GYMKHANA: 17. Egg, Pipe and Spoon race '''arm flushes h3T cheek, rose red are her 18. Wheelbarrow race Fps ; .

19. Sack race 20. Siamese Twins race, or three-legged O'er her loved harp o::nc"",ing her l,'gb~ race finger strays, 21. Obstacle race 'iYal;ing softly the chords of an anthem of 22. 100 yards Band race (Each competitor must play instrument d~rin!5 race). I iPr:tise.

23. Boot race. (Each competitor's boots I will be numbered and placed. in a sack; Sad and lone was her vigil through slow, each competitor runs 50 yar.ds to sack, gets his own boots on, and finishes at 100 \'leal'Y years, yards mark.)

Deep, deep was her sorrow and hitter her 24. Bell the Cat tears ; 25. Tilting the Bucket l' 26. Mop Fight But he-r spi rit, unconquered, by travail 27. Cross of the Legion of Honour race 0]" dree, (similar. to Victoria Cross race.

Three, Now gloriol1s .and procious her guerdon men from each corps).

28. Pillow Fight .' ~hall be.

29. Tug of War (10 men from each I ~.lajc<;tjc she sil,:s, wiih her sword at her corps.)

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PRESENTATION OF COLOURS CAST~EDAR BATTALION.

Traverses are shoulders of earth or other mnternls interpose.i in it trench, and 5t~ctL:'1jng right across it every few feet..

These traverses 11111st be of sufficient thick .' , ness co be bullet-proof.

A traverse should '02 ecnstructed between every two -or three men.

Traverses which are merely intended to localise the burst of a shell mav be constructed of two walls of bruá.-hwood wit h about one foot of -earth between the. m. In order to pass r.ollnd a traverse and so mOH~ along a trench, a S!T':::J passage two feet wide and ofJ th~ sarr.e depth as the trench should be. cut h'l""J the traverse Recesses -Heces~es.

- .. . . . . , ' ::3 ',he name implies, are recesses simply cut irr.o tl,~ Lank of c','\rlh in front, "I;r~e' ~l1(:.J~;1 to hold one or two men ~ach ..

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9. Reel and Jig (juniors under 16 yearsl boys or girls.

10. Best Selection o-n Irish Warpipes.

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ping ,1Xl11ets is t,h~s obtained. If ~Ile soil d~ep~nillg a Trench when digging it.IS ~Oit, It should DC reverted, that is, kept \\ h cn construcung a trench round a post, up by hurdles, 'gauions, or some other each man should first di,,{ out the whole form of revetment.

(4) The inte~jor of of his allotted portion !o a uniform s~althe trench should as far as_possible be 10\\' depth, and then gradually deepen it. protected from enfilade fire, i.e., from bul- It should not be dug out the proper lets 'which sweep the trench lengthways. depth in one pl ace and the rest left un(51 Drainage must be provided for, or af- touched, because if the post is attacked in ter heavy rain the men will probably be the' meantime, so 'much protection would up to their waists in water. In entrench- not Le obtained as if it were shaltow in~ an isolated position, such as a. de- throughout.

Earth should not be ramtached post, the tr(ánch~s must be con- nwd.-An.v earth thrown up in entrenchstruct ed so (hat fir" can he hrought on the ments should not be rammed. Three feet flanks and renr, as well as on the front. . of unr amme d earth will stop a bullet even Advanrages and (9rm of Head Cover in at point blank range, whereas, if the Trenches.s--Jt is important for fhe .hetter earth 1S r arnrned , it will require considerprotection of the m-en that head cover ably mare.

Advantage of a "Dummy" should be constructed, either of sandbag EnJ:bankm-ent.-If th-ere is sufficient time or stone loopholes, or simply of small it is we ll to construct a dummy embanknothces in the bank of earth for each man ment, as if for a trench, in some prominto put hi, rifle in. Another form of' loop-I ent position such as on the sky-line. This hole is a slit rnnning all along the trench, may very likely draw the enemy's fire. except Ior the supports of the material Cover up Xewly Turned Earth.c--Xewly above. Th i-, form of loophole has the ad- turned earth, which is often conspicuous . vantage of giving a wide field of view all at considerable distances, particularly if it round, is less likely to leave any ground is of a light colour, should be hidden by uncovered by the fire of several men, is making it as like its' surroundings as is easier to, make, and is in addition more practicable.

The Russians suffere~ coneconomical of material. One disadvantsiderably during the late war owing to age of head cover is that it tend" to dim- their neglect of this precaution, inish the number of rifles that can be put ill the firing Iine, besides reducing the field of view as well as of fire. In constructing head cover it requires careful arrangement to obviate these advantages.

Form of Loopholes.v=Loopholes made with turf or sandbags may have the Iar- )iaje,.,tic sJJ(.' "it~ with her sword at 11;:]' ger opening either inide or outside.

If side, the larger opening is inside, the loophole Regnl still, as of old, in her 'ueauty and is very much less conspicuous, which is 'Fride; Sá:l:11Cát;D1ES "- point of great importance.

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Tf the larger OPening is outside, a defenwinged now, der can fire with much greater facility, Comes with Liberty's crown for her dear since h2 can cover the whole arc without hallowed brow.

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