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Show I LATEST IRISH NEWS. ! ' i From The Pilot. Armagh. Mr. Michael Hanratti, one of the oldest old-est school teachers In Ireland, died recently. re-cently. Mr. Hanratti, who resided in Newtownhamilton, was the teacher of Ballymoyer National School for many years, and was highly respected by all who knew him. Kerry. The Right Rev. Dr. Manga n, bishop of Kerry, has been re-elected chairman of the Killarney district lunatic asylum. Clare. The death of Mrs. Stacpoole, Eden-vale, Eden-vale, occurred early on the morning of July 14. The deceased lady belonged 1n the old Clare-Limerick family pf the Westroops, being daughter of the late Mr. John TVestropp of Attydin. She was of the most kindly and considerate consider-ate nature, and was a liberal employer of labor. Deny. On July 21 a notable demonstration was made at the funeral of Mr. "William "Wil-liam McDaid, a prominent member of the Perry A. O. H. board of Erin, now :i very strong organization in Derry. Mr. McDaid, who was a stevedore conducting large employment, wied 1ied with tragic suddenness, passing away after a few minutes' seizure while apparently in the fulness of ie;:hh. The funeral took processional rdfr, and over a thousand men marched in the ranks, bearing the insignia in-signia of the brotherhood or thit of kindred socities, including the quay la- borf-rs. Foresters and Catholic benefit. Queens. Miss Mary R. Moore died at the residence re-sidence of her brother, Mr. Thomas Moore, merchant, Maryborough, on July 22. to the sorrow of the entire district. dis-trict. She was the eldest daughter of the late Mr. John Moore of Clonbon House, Mourtrath. Tipperary. (Miss Helena Sheethan. youngest daughter of Mrs. Sheehan, Summer-liill, Summer-liill, Nenagh. has been most successful nt the recent examinations of the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal College of Musir. London. Miss Sheehan, who is a pupil of the Ursu-line Ursu-line convent. Blackrock, Cork, and previously pre-viously of the St. Mary's convent. Ne-4 Ne-4 rash, passed with high distinction, scoring 130 out of a possible 1150 marks. Waterford. A large number of students have been in attendance at the Irish college in Ring. County Waterford, from Dublin. Dub-lin. Belfast. Carlow, Tipperary and Kilkenny, since the opening of the session, and every day brings fresh arrivals. ar-rivals. The solemn ceremony of profession took place at the Convent of the Sacred Sa-cred Heart of Mary. Ferrybank, Waterford, Wa-terford, on July 16. of Miss Mary Josephine Jo-sephine Murphy (in religion Sister .mary aiqhiu ana miss, alary Anne Howlett tin religion Sister Finbar). Sister Aiden is a daughter of the late Mr. Patrick Murphy, Cloneybyrne, Xewtownbarry, and Sister Finbar is the daughter of Mr. John Howlett, 3 Collacross. Arthurstown. The ceremo ny was performed by Rev. F. Ryan, formerly of Liverpool. Miss Mary Anne An-ne Butler, daughter of Mr. Thomas and Mrs. Jane Butler, Newtown. Ferns. I was also professed a nun . in the con- . vent of. the Sacred Heart, Ferrybank. I Waterford. Her name in religion 'will I be Sister Canica. Westmeath. .' At Moyvere. a few days ago. a man named Patrick Wyse. aged about 84 years, and his wife, 'who was some years younger, were both found dead in their house. The husband was found in a standing position leaning against a table, with his head thrown back, and the wife was dead In led. The wife died from heart disease and the husband from paralysis. Missionaries and Wild Beasts. It has long been a kind of tradition that our Catholic missionaries are rever slain by snakes or wild beasts. Father Dickmann of the Madras mis-i mis-i ions tells us that he has been fre quently asked this question by his friends in Europe, and his answer is: "I have never heard of missionaries i being killed directly by wild beasts, t but certainly of their being so killed Indirectly; 1. e., they have fallen sick through terror inspired by meeting a wild beast or even have gone out of their minds and died in consequence." Father Dickmann's evidence seems to bear out that of a veteran missionary mission-ary of Malaysia, Father Perie, whose thrilling story of Father Connellan's terrible meeting with a Royal Bengal tiger and its tragic consequences is as follows: "So thickly was the Malay peninsula inhabited by these monsters that in the early days of colonization their victims In Singapore average 300 yearly. The natives were accustomed to destroy :them by means of a pit dug on their paths, covered with branches on which they fell. This last accessory, however, how-ever, the government had to forbid as dangerous to human beings after the tragical death of a missionary, who was impaled by falling on one, and only survived long enough to receive the sacraments. i "Father Connellan went one Satur day to pass the night at an Englishman's, English-man's, the head of a large plantation, who lived nearly a mile from Balay-Tulay. Balay-Tulay. He left the house at 6 in the morning to say mass at the station, and had to cross the plantation, traversed trav-ersed through its entire length by par- allel alleys, at intervals of over twen- ty yards. He had been walking for some time in this labyrinth of alleys, when at twenty paces distance he saw an enormous tiger advancing toward liim. Without losing his presence of mind he ran to meet the brute, open- i ing and shutting his umbrella. The brute, taken by surprise and intimidated, intimi-dated, retreated and lay in wait for the father at the next alley. He repeated re-peated the same maneuver, and the tiger fell back, but with a terrible ghire of his eye, for he was hungry. Five times the missionary had to adopt the same tactics and five times the tiger fell back before the startling object, but without desisting from his attack. The father had reached a stream traversing the plantation, with , . a tree growing on its bank. To climb it, was for the missionary, driven to I his last extremity, the work of an instant. in-stant. The tiger followed and sat ' down at ten steps from the tree as though determined to await his prey. The father hurled his breviary; the I tiger did not stir. As a last resource I the poor priest caKed for help, but the I : tiger was in no way disconcerted. He I redoubled his cries and was at last i heard and answered from the planta-f planta-f : tion. At the sound of the voices the I tiger withdrew with lingering steps, ! '( and the father descended from his i - I M perch, but stricken to death. He was able, however, to control himself to say mass, to relate his experience with the tiger and to return to Penang, where he died of tetanus in frightful convulsions." God and. Their Conscience. The Episcopal rector of Grace church of Albany has felt himself called on to announce and explain the conversion of his sister to the Catholic faith, and in doing so he assures his friends and the public at large that the lady took that step without consulting him or her other brother, the rector of Christ church, Cooperstown. We can assure the two disclaiming brother that if they ever choose to follow her example exam-ple they will be privileged to do it without consulting her. When people become Catholics they usually consult no one but God and their conscience. Western Watchman. What Converted Him. A Catholic Irishman (formerly a Protestant). Sir Henry Bellingham of Castlebellingham, County Louth, who has revived the good old Catholic custom cus-tom of setting crosses on the waysides, gives an interesting account of how he was converted to the ancient church. "The personal example and simple faith of the Irish pcor," he says, "were the first things that impressed me. I compared it favorably with the class of Protestants in Ireland amongst whom I mixed, and whose doctrines consisted more In hatred of Rome than in any definite belief. The language they used first irritated and disgusted me. and predisposed me to make enquiries," The Bishop's Conscience. Bishop LeFevre of Detroit, the predecessor pre-decessor of Bishop Borgess, was a good holy man and dearly beloved by his people. He bad a most amiable disposition, dispo-sition, and carried sunshine and gladness glad-ness wherever he went. The bishop was a fine conversationalist, and told many good stories full of wit and humor. hu-mor. When a young man he was very thin and delicate looking, but after he turned forty he fell into flesh very-much, very-much, which he found uncomfortable, for he was always a man of austere and ahsteminous habits. In his early flays in Detroit he formed the acquaintance ac-quaintance of a .all. raw-boned Yankee, Yan-kee, who was in the lumber business, Sam Jenkins by name. Sam failed, and shifted elsewhere, returning to Detroit after an absence of twelve years. The bishop met him on the street one day and stopped, extending his hand cordially to his old friend with the salutation: "Why. Sam, my old friend, how do you do!" Sam shied a little and muttered. "Stranger, you seem to have the advantage ad-vantage of me. ' "Good gracious, Sam, don't you know your old acquaintance, Bishop Lo Fevre ?" , "You Bishop Le Fevie," asked Sain in astonishment. "Why, bishop, how in the name of sense did you get so fat? I would surely never know you." "All the effect of a good conscience," said the bishop, laughing heartily. "Wal, you must excuse me, bishop." retorted Sam, "but you must have had a confounded bad conscience when I knowed you fust." Why I Became a Catholic. Of course I became a Catholic through the grace of God and the faith which He gave me. As an Anglican Ang-lican I had been taught the unity of the church as expressed in the creed, but I sought in vain for unity of faith in Anglicanism. Then I had presented to me the Branen church theory that the Catholic church consisted of three branches, the Roman, the Anglican and the Eastern. But there again I was confronted with the absolute hopelessness hopeless-ness of any sign of real unity in the three. They essentially differed from one another, and therefore, while one of the three might be the Catholic church as instituted by church all three could not form it. Then I saw that if the faith were to be one given by the Divine Founder there must be visible unity in the church, a visible authority and a living witness capable of interpreting revelation necessitating the presence of a visible neid. At tint critical moment there fell into my hands a pamphlet dealing with the supremacy of the Holy See. I began the study of Papal authority, and the more 1 studied the more convinced I became that Scripture confirmed it. history confirmed it, and the fathers and councils were unonimaus upon it. "Ubi Petrusibi Ecclesia," and so I was led to make my submission, a step which, far from ever regretting, I daily thanked God more and more for having taken More and more do I see in these times of rationalism and new theologies the-ologies the .bright light of the truth of Peter's supremacy, like a lighthouse light ever burning steadily and clearly to guide mankind to the haven of eternal eter-nal salvation. Dr. C. W. Marsh, in the London Monitor and New Era. Ireland's Surviving Snakes. ". Matters in Ireland are not going on smoothly as might appear from the reticence of the papers here over the subject. The old curse of division is again in active operation. Besides the secession of the O'Brien Healy faction about six cr seven members in all the Irish party have now lost a couple cou-ple of other members by reason of the Sinn Fein nrnnfls-.inrla Sir Thnmoc Grattan Esmonde being the latest se-ceder. se-ceder. The most anomalous thing ever seen in Irish politics is the action of these Sinn Fein gentlemen. De nounc-ing nounc-ing parliamentary action as useless, they are yet preparing to contest vacant va-cant seats in Longford and Mayno to get their own men ret erred as members mem-bers of parliament, though it i;4 inted-ed inted-ed that if they be successful they shall not take any active j art in parliamentary parlia-mentary proceedings. Almost as contradictory con-tradictory is the appeal they make for foreign sympathy while keeping up the cry "Sinn Fein" "ourselves alonV In an address before the Dublin Young Ireland society a few days ago one of the speakers defended the programme by saying that the retention of the Irish representatives at home will raise Ireland from its present status as a discontented British province to that of a nation deprived by force oP its natural rights. Ireland could then expect ex-pect foreign sympathy, which could not materialize whilst she remains a principal in a domestic quarrel, which is the foreign view of Ireland at the present stage. We fail to perceive how the retention of elected representatives at home could effect any such startling change as this speaker f-vosefs. Cn the contrary, the English members would hail such folly as the very best thing that could happen, for then they could legislate for Ireland just as they, pleased. As for the talk of enlisting foreign sympathy, it is not a very manly thing for Sinn Fein champions to make so abject an appeal all the more abject from its utter uselessness. Do they forget the case of- the Eoers, or the case of the Poles? No people ever before gained eo widespread a f i. sympathy in their patriotic struggles as these, yet what did it avail in the end? It did not save a single household house-hold or a single patriot's life. The most melancholy fact in Ireland's miserable mis-erable story is the Incurable tendency, of the leaders to quarrel. With . all their professions of self-sacrificing zeal, hardly ona of these able men seems to be capable of effacing himself him-self when he is no longer regarded as indispensable ,to the national cause. The situation is certainly serious. It demands the attention of the t'riond.3 of Ireland here, and by taking it up in time much mischief may be averted. Although the Sinn Fein men make much noise, the evidence so far proves that there is little behind it. A meeting meet-ing was arranged to be heH in Ihe Phoenix Park, in Dublin, last Sunday, to advocate the Sinn Fein policy. It was attended by only five hundred persons, per-sons, although the park was crowded with Sunday visitors. At a meeting of the executive committee of the Irish league at Manorchomilton, the center of. Charles J. Dolan's constituency, Mr. Dolan's action in joining the Sinn Fein society was condemned, and resolutions re-solutions were adopted calling upon him to resign his seat in parliament. The porspects of the Sinn Feiners carrying car-rying any constituency except Sir T. Esmonde' in North Wexford, are remote. re-mote. The pretense of the Sinn Feil fac-tior.ists fac-tior.ists that parliamentary action - is incapable of accomplishing any substantive sub-stantive good for Ireland is audacious in Its ignoring of facts. Parliamentary action got a home rule bill twice sent up to the house of lords: it won emancipation of the land; it won decent de-cent homes for Irish laborers who iucd never before dwelt in any place better than a pigsty. It won a soorl many things besides these, and it destine.! to win many more if not crippled and thwarted by factionists, Sinn Fein men and self-concsious men who, believing themselves to be born to lead, are incapable in-capable of ruling their own tempers. The worst curse that can lie uttered in Ireland is "the curse of Cromwell' on you." It was dissension which made Cromwell a possibility, and history may repeat itself if the- country do not sternly rise up and crush the monster out in time. Philadelphia Catholic Standard and Times. |
