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Died. John Campbell Gordon, 86, First Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, onetime Governor-General of Canada, twice Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland; after a lingering illness; in Tarland, Aberdeen-shire, Scotland...
...March 9 Minton, Balch & Company brought out THE YELLOW BRIAR, by Patrick Slater, an auto-biographical novel with the Ontario countryside as a background. The author and his mother came over from Ireland during the potato famine and settled in Toronto when it was a booming frontier town. While there, he saw its public hangings and followed the plague cart which took his mother's dead body away. Later he went to the bush lands of upper Canada and became a part of the life of those stout-hearted Irish homesteaders...
...inculcated by the heavy rod, that trade was outcast and that the summum bonum of existence was to avoid your neighbor." Miss Gore's mother reared her to believe in poetry, in fantastic superstitions like witches, ghosts and the headless coachman, and in the nobility of the Gores--"if Ireland had her rights each of us would be wearing a coronet." At the age of twenty Miss Gore ran away to the Canadian Northwest and lived for nine months on the horder of a lage Indian reservation...
...Cleveland inaugural Jim Butler struck up an acquaintance with his landlady's son. Patrick J. O'Connor had quit reporting for the New York Herald to work in a grocery store. But he wanted a store of his own. With $2,000, his total savings since leaving Ireland, Jim Butler staked O'Connor. They opened a store on Second Avenue, which O'Connor managed while Jim Butler continued in the hotel business. Next year they opened another. The chain prospered so mightily that Jim Butler finally quit the hotel business, bought out his partner...
When Irishmen speak of the two years of murder, massacre, ambush and reprisal that marked Ireland's last and most successful rebellion (1919-21), they call it, with resigned racial euphemism, "the trouble." Author Conner's novel, without attempting to give a clear picture of what the various troublemakers were after, makes it quite clear that the trouble itself was desperate, often hellish. Shake Hands with the Devil reads like crude melodrama but Author Conner swears his tale is founded on brutal fact, has needed no embellishment...