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Show A Busy Priest. In addition to his duties as pastor of a large parish. Father Dempsey of St. Louis finds time to conduct a hotel for unemployed workers. From January 1, 1907. to January 1. 1509. he accommodated accommo-dated 13,404 guests, gave free lodgings to 15,131, and furnished meals without charge of 6.787 persons. He obtained positions for 1.032, and placed 111 in 1 hospitals. Father Dempsey had thirty-two deaths in his family of unfor- ' tunates, and of this number fourteen were without relatives or friends. He saw that they were given decent Christian burial. In connection with his hotel. Father Dempsey publishes a ; magazine every month, devoted to the noble charitable enterprise in which he Is engaged. |