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Show ! THE CATHOLIC WORLD Many devout persons knelt barehead- ' ci in the mud at Twenty-second street ' and Second avenue. New York, while a priest from the Church of the Epiphany administered the last sacrament to a mangled street sweeper who had been struck by an electric car. ! . The battle of Glencoe in South Africa was not quite so decisive a victory as that of Glencoe in Scotland, 200 years ago, when Kins William's soldiers at-; at-; tacked the sleeping Highlanders, who had given them hospitality for weeks, and killed them all. men, women and I j, children, says the Koston Pilot. That M I noble feat of arms is- still commemo rated in the song', "The Campbells are Coming." I The Dewey triumphal arch in New ."; York is one and one-third larger than ? the largest triumphal arch of which there is a. record in the annals of art Of the twenty-seven artists who con- j tributed their services, nineteen are Catholics. The chairman of the. board is a famous catholic whose works adorn many of our finest churches. A reception in the Hyperion theatre. New Haven. Conn, was on Oct. 7, ten- do red to four Irish political prisoners released from English dungeons. They i were Patrick A. Henahan. alias Henry I Kurton of New Haven: James J. Clark, alias Henry "H". Wilson of New-York; 'l James H. O'Connor, alias Henry Dalton ! of New York, and Kdmond O'Brien j I Kennedy, alias Timothy Featherstone ' . , of New York. J We are surprised and grieved to note a Catholic Kishop. the Right -Hew An- I thony Gaughrnn, D. D., of Kimberley, I South Africa, on the side of England I against the Boers, says the Boston Pi- I lot. Dr. Ganchran. in a letter tn m rela. tlve in Boston extracts from which are given in the Boston Herald de- dares that England has seldom had. a i more just cause of war. This is the 0 . first word against the Boers from a jf Catholic uf Irish -blood. Against it, we may set the contrary .opinion of a 1 number of other Irish missionaries in South Africa, who testify not only to ? their conviction of the righteousness of 'I the cause of the Boers, but what will f surprise' many to their very fair treat- mem accorded to Catholics in the Transvaal. William Moore Stack, of Tralee, one of the best known Nationalists in Ireland, Ire-land, died on the 5th inst., aged about Oo years. Mr. Stack in his eariy days was prominently identified with the Fenian movement, and in 'fifi, with olher Fenian leaders, he was sentenced to penal servitude, and sent to Woking prison in England, whence he was discharged, dis-charged, like so many of his compatriots, compatri-ots, completely shattered in health, in '&). But the tortures of prison life did nt)t extinguish in Mr. Stack his love of country and he threw himself into the Eland agitation as viciously as he did into the physical force movement and ! in 'SI was a victim of the Foster re- - S'-me, having been imprisoned as a sus. I pect. The sufferings endured in the I English prison told on Mr. Stack's for- 3 ... merly robust frame, and the effects of ' that barbarous treatment were present to the very last. P.ev. Peter C. York, the brilliant , young chancellor of the archdiocese of San Franeisvo, and editor of the Mon- it or, is on his way home to San Fran cisco from a year's sojourn in Home and Ireland. To Father York more th in any oilier man belongs the honor and credit of breaking up that band of bigots, the A. P. A.'s, that Infested San Francisco and the coast. He is a i "scrapper", from away back. The Jn- ' tormountain Catholic gives him the j glad hand on his return home. Mr. Moffat, solicitor, Enniscorthy, Wexford, told the local magistrates last week that an Irish-American named Martin Kearnes had shouted, "To h with the Orangemen," when he saw him in the street. Kearnes was lined j 10 shillings and costs, and became so boisterous in the court that the police ! had to interfere. j A dinner was given to Hew William H. I. Beany, chaplain of the Olympia. j on Wednesday, Oct. IS. at the Catholic club in New York, 173 people being present. President John A. Sullivan j spoke a few -words of welcome, to which j Father Beany modestly and briefly re- r)uniu. i in; w ncuiiie iiccorcieu lo ine ' young priest was most enthusiastic, and every mention of Dewey and his "men behind the guns" was the signal for wild cheering. Letters of regret were received from Admirals Dewey, Sampson and Schley. Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishops Martinolli. Corrigan and . Byan, Bishop McDonnell. Governor Iioosevelt, Secretaries Long and Boot, Mayor Van Wyck and others. Bev. Sylvester Malono, rector of the Church of SS. Peter. and Paul, member of the state board of regents, and an I ac tive and patriotic citizen of Brook- I lyn for more than half, a century, is ! seriously ill. A nurse and doctor are in constant attendance. His illness is thought to be simply a breaking down of the system due to his advanced years. t The Alumnae association of St. Mary's Academy, Notre Dame, held its biennial reunion in that well known institution in-stitution of learning recently. The graduates returned to their. alma mater, as one writer well expressed it, slori- ing in the fact that St. Mary's had been their school home; that its instructions, refinements and accomplishments had fallen to their lot. and each furnishing furnish-ing a living encomium of St. Mary's as a refining and an instructing factor in their lives. The Sisters had left naught undone to make the event one of rare pleasure to those who came from near and far to renew their school days and to revive those friendships than which life seldom furnishes a dearer. A'he first graduating class, that of I860, was represented by Ellen Eddy of South Bend, and classes all through those intervening in-tervening nearly two score of years pent their pilgrim to the alumnae mecca, Maud Gonne. the Irish heroine, is going go-ing to the Transvaal. England, of which the girl ia a tireless foe and France, where she resides and where she is universally beloved, are just now discussing1 the announcement. In the United States, too. she has friends wjtnout number, who will watch with profound interest the effect produced by the appearance of "The Tall Goddess God-dess of Blonde Flesh and Auburn Hair" upon the Boers, whose cause she is going to espouse and inspire. In Italy last year, at the time of the riots of Milan, she once addressed, in English, a crowd of the rtalian laborers. labor-ers. The audience grew deliriously enthusiastic. en-thusiastic. They -carried her in triumph through the streets, and from that moment mo-ment c!:d blindly all that she desired them to do. Patrick Eagaa. .minis-ter to Chile under un-der the Harrison administration, in a letter to John It. McLean of Ohio, says; "I regard the entire administration policy in the Philippines as one of per-lidy per-lidy and piracy against our former loyal allies, a cold-blooded, cruel, po litical and mercenary war, under which all the horrors of carnage and sacrilege sacri-lege are being wantonly inflicted upon a people. From the part that I have taken in battling pgainst British oppression op-pression in Ireland, as well as from my exDerience.s among the people of the southern hemisphere, I can clearly see that this McKinley policy and this Mt-Kinley war. under the canting pretense pre-tense cf civilization, Christianity and benevolent assimilation, have already laid the solid foundation and built ud an imperishable structure of race hatred which will make it utterly impossible im-possible that American rule in the Philippines can ever, within the next hundred voars, rest uwn the consent of the governed; and as a loyal American Amer-ican I deeply deplore seeing our glorious glor-ious fla used to lead on the brave youns manhood of our country in an unneeessam uncalled for and ur.iust war;' for the subjugation of a gallant Heople who, for over a century, have monfulli' battled for their national independence." in-dependence." There are in the five boroughs composing com-posing Greater New York 175 Catholic parochial schools, with an attendance of 70,877. According to the statistics of . the board of education, the cost of educating edu-cating every child attending the public schools is about S3U. Based on this average, the city is saved about 52,- OCC ftfA ,, 1, w.V, .,-.,,1,1 K 1 .,, nor. I essary to be appropriated for the education edu-cation of the 70.S77 children attending Catholic schools. To this may also be added the cost of the school buildings, pome of which are model educational institutions, and cost for construction from $10,000 to over $100,000, without the price paid for the ground on which they are built. An average of about 20,000 would place the value of the buildings at about 4.000.000. This added to the cost of education as fixed by the local board, would amount to over 56,000,000, money that comes out of the pockets of about one-third of the population, and is. saved by the city-treasury. city-treasury. Word has been received from Los Angeles, Cal., that Father Eugene O'Growney, who had been living at Prescott and Tucson, Ariz., for the past three years for the benefit of his health, is dead. Father O'Growney was born in the County Leitrim, Ireland, thirty-seven thirty-seven years ago. While at Mavnooth he joined the movement for the preservation preser-vation and extension of the Irish language, lan-guage, and at once began the study of it, although not a word of it was spoken in the neighborhood in which he was born. When he was ordained he was recognized as probably the best master o, spoken Irish next to D.r. Douglas Hyde. He became editor of the Gaelic Journal, succeeding John Fleming. Under his-guidanee the movement move-ment which had up to this time been cf a scholastic nature, became a national na-tional one. He was made professor of Irisli in Maynooth college, and this branch of the college grew to such j proportions that - today every priest j leaving this school must carry with i him a certificate showing that he is qualified to take charge of an Irish-' speaking community. Text books were scarce, and he wrote his "Easy Lessons In Irish." Four years ago he broke clown and came to this country' in : search of health. He organized more j than -50 branches of the Gaelic society j to carrv on the work in this country ! and in Ireland. He worked up to the time of his death, in sDite of his sickness, sick-ness, and the other day Major Edward McCrystal. president of the Gaelic society so-ciety in New York City, received a letter from him in which he spoke enthusiastically en-thusiastically of the' progress of the movement and taid That he had just translated "The Star-Spangled Banner" into metrical Irish. ; - |