country), that they (the old writers) seldom care
to write 'the slender with the broad, and the broad
with the slender.' [as required by an ancient orth¬
ographical rule]; and that they very rarely put
the aspirate h upon the consonants, as in the cas¬
es of b, c, d, f, etc., and also that they seldom put
the long dash (or accent) over the words (or vow¬
el). Some of the consonants, too, are often writ¬
ten the one for the other, such as c for g, and t
for d. The following are a few specimens of words
by which this will be understood; 'clog' is the
same as 'cloc'; agad is the same as agat; beag is
the same as beac ; codlad is the same as cotlad;
'ard' is the same as 'art,' etc. Very often, too, ae
is written for ao ; ai for aoi ; and oi for aoi. As
an example of this; aedh is often written for aodh,
and cael is the same as caol; and baoi and boi are
the same as bai. E is often written for a in the
(To be continued.)
SENTIMENTS OF OUR SUBS¬
CRIBERS.
Conn — East Berlin, Thos. Hosty — Hartford, C
O'Brien, M Finn — Montville, D Finn; three last
per Mr O'Brien.
Ill — Chicago. Rev. John J Carroll, P Ahearn —
South Downs, L Burns, per D Burns, Guston, Col
(this mistakely credited to Col. in last Gael).
Ia — Burlington, P Sheehy.
Kan — Hartland, J Mulany — Lakin, M A Weber
per Mr Weber.
Me — Portland, John A Egan (Friend Hanrahan
had a hand in this. Why not copy O'Brien ?)
Mich — Montague. John P Whelan.
Minn — St Paul, H MacMahon, Nicholas Walsh,
per Mr MacMahon.
Mo — Pierce City, Rev. D Healy.
Pa — Tobyhana, E T Monahan — Pittsburg, Thos
J Madigan, C Murphy.
R I — Providence, Rev. T E Ryan, J Holland, J
Sullivan, P O'Casey, per Mr O'Casey; Mortimer
O'Donoghue, J Fleming, D Sugrue, M J O'Sulli¬
van, per Mr O'Donoghue.
W Va — Wheeling, Attorney General the Hon. T
D Reily, Counsellor John J Coniff, Joseph Levy,
M Donnelly, P D Carroll, District Attorney John
A Howard, A Lally, per Mr Lally; Dillon J Mc¬
Cormick.
Ireland.
Cork — Knocknagown, D Herlihy, per Revd. D
Healy, Pierce City, Mo.
Dublin — Joseph H Loyd, Esqr., per P O'Brien.
Galway — Seven Churches N School Arran Island
Mrs. Waters, per Miss M J Walsh, St Paul, Minn
Mayo — Achill, Rev. P McLaughlin — Darlough,
R McCarrick, per A Lally, Wheeling, W Va —
Goulawn, Thomas Hunt, per J Hunt, Phila., Pa.
Scotland — Brechin Public Library, James Craigie,
per G P Putnam's Sons, N Y City.
The Rt. Rev. Bishop McCormick presided at the
League meeting in Galway at which Rev. Father
O'Growney delivered the Gaelic address.
The Gael can now be bought off the news stand
in the following places. —
J F Conroy, 167 Main St. Hartford, Conn.
D P Dunne, Main St. Williamantic, do.
G F Connors, 404 Main St. Bridgeport, Conn.
Mrs Dillon, E Main St. Waterbury, Conn.
Mrs Bergen, S Main St. do. do.
M McEvilly, Wilmington, Del.
Mr Calligan, 23 Park Row, N Y City.
W Hanrahan, 84 Weybasset, st. Providence R I.
J H J Reilley, 413 High st. do.
J N Palmer, P O Building, Tomah, Wis.
M J Geraghty, 432 West 12th st. Chicago, Ill.
J Dullaghan, 253 Wabash Av. do.
H Radzinski, 283 N & 2863 Archer Av. do
H Connelly, Cohoes, N Y.
Wm McNab, do.
Mr. Ramy Springfield, Ill.
Mrs Woods, Jacksonville, do.
Mr Gorman, Joliet do.
C. Schrank, 519 South 6th. St. Joseph Mo.
M H Wiltzius & Co. Milwaukee, Wis.
G T Rowlee, 133 Market St. Paterson N J.
Catholic Publishing Co. St. Louis Mo.
E B Clark, 1609 Curtis St. Denver Colo.
John Murphy & Co. Publisher, Baltimore, Md
T N Chappell, 26 Court St. Boston, Mass
Fitzgerald & Co. 196 High st. Holyoke.
Mrs. Hoey, 247 First St. Portland, Or.
Ed. Dekum, 249 Washington st. do.
The Irish element of Brooklyn having ceased to
permit itself to be ruled by the Eagle in city poli¬
tics, that carnivorous filthy fowl halts at no means,
howsoever diabolical, to blacken it. Although
the chairmen of both political parties in the late na¬
tional campaign were Irish American Catholics, it
said in a late issue that the fact of Carter's being
chairman of the Republican Committee tended to
Harrison's defeat as it kept many Republicans from
voting for him. Not at all, you knownothing viper,
the Blaine candidacy of 1884 drove that bigotted
brood of rich thugs — the span of brutishness and
ignorance, as pointed out on another page by their
own historians — into the Democratic party to its
dishonor, and the deplorable ruin of the country.
Harrison was defeated because he catered to the
thugs referred to. And had your owners been per¬
mitted to run the Democratic party, and continue
to enrich themselves at the public expense, as they
used to do, the Irish would be the white-headed
boys, and States prison would not be staring your
owners in the face to-day for robbing the widow
and the orphan by their wreckage of the Commerc¬
ial Bank. You, whose hands are steeped red in
social and political gore, fain to ostracize the Irish,
the most ancient and respectable people in Christ¬
endom. Nay, a few days ago, you suggested the use
of the Indian Club (which means the dagger) to
get shut of those of them in your way.
We would advise you, Republican friends, to be
aware of that brood who seek to rehabilitate them¬
selves on your ruins. Remember that the great ma¬
jority of the people of the country, and particular¬
ly of this city, are democrats and that by demons¬
trating to them that your principles are the real A¬
merican democratic principles only can you enlist
their support and retain it. If you countenance the
thimble-rigging tactic resorted to by the pliant tool
of those who forced you, in your fright, to the verge
of the precipice, for thirty years to come you will
be passive spectators only of the affairs of your ci¬
ty. That reaction has already set in.
