Mar. 28.
Fifty-one years ago, a Bantryborn Irish ex-railway clerk whose proficiency in shorthand obtained for him the post of secretary to Charles Stewart Parnell, stood as_a Home Ruler for Wexford and won. It was the election which" became famous for Gladstone's Bidlothan campaign. Tile Member for Wexford, whose education had been gained at 2 primary school, devoted himself to the Bar and succeeded in combining practice with assiduous attendance in the House of Commons. This was Timothy Michael Healy. "As a lawyer, dealing with argument in which close-reasoning was required, he was not a success, Where human emotions could be stirred or the exercise of discretion evoked he was brilliant. His wit and pungent humour won him nts, although, if the choice, were left to lawyers, they would pass him by, In the House of ominous and on the platform, hho shone:
jay and gloomy by turns, he gave free vent to his loves' and his hatreds; he was elemental, scratching and clawing at. those who opposed him, bitterly, recklessly and sometimes un: scrupulously; he could never retrain from burning the house for! the sake of roasting the pig."
That description of him by an eminent Irish judge and statesman,-Sir James O'Connor, youls his strength and
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.