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Show Irish Catholic Faith. Had any of our readers been at the 7 o'clock Mass in the Paulist church, Chicago, Chi-cago, on the "First Friday" of October, when the Blessed Sacrament is exposed, he would rave seen a short, sturdily-built sturdily-built gentleman with a large head devoutly de-voutly kneoir'ng at the altar rail, and receiving the Holy Communion. When Mass was over the same gentleman gen-tleman could be seen ,goin to the picture, pic-ture, of the Sacred Heart, before which l;e burned several candles. He then knelt before the statue of Our Lady of Lourdes, drark the. water in the little fountain and left the church. The stranger was John Fitzgibbon, chairman of the Roscommon county council, and one of the bravest men who are fighting Ireland's battle outside out-side of parliament. Ho charmed tho business men of Chicago to whom he was introduced, by the relish with which he entered into some of the details de-tails of some of the very largest concerns con-cerns in the city. Mr. Fitzgibbon is a dry goods merchant in his home town, employing fifty clerks, which is quite an extensive establishment for an Irish country town. Like all level-headed Irishmen, he is devoted to John E. Redmond Red-mond and has absolute confidence in his ability to win home rule. |