All kinds of telegrams are being published about the destitu-
tion to which Mrs. Parnell, the mother of the agitator, has been reduced in America, the inference drawn being that Mr. Parnell is a person upon whom natural obligations have no hold. Why, it is asked, does he not provide for his mother out of that £40,000 P Poisoned weapons of that kind should be left to the Society journals and the lower Parnellite organs. A man may be a rebel, or even one who condones the action of secret societies for the sake of their help, and yet be capable of domestic feeling. The explanation made on Mr. Parnell's behalf is that he has assisted his mother repeatedly, once to a large amount, but that the old lady cannot keep money, and will not return to Ireland, where she could be carefully tended. That sounds entirely probable, and occurs in half the families of the country, though the unmanageable individual is usually a wife, a son, or a brother, and not a mother. Anyhow, Mr. Parnell is assailed for domestic management, which is in no way the business of newspapers.
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