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Show 1 THE (ATHOIK WORLD. $ v j f 4 4 4 ,., 4 4 . 4 Mrs. O'Kefe of Kerry has furnished 'seven sons to the British army in South Africa. Queen Victoria heard of it and sent Mrs. O'Keefe a five-pound note in recognition of her loyalty to the empire. em-pire. Noble generosity, indeed! Archb.'shop Ireland wss given a grani reception in St. Paul last week. The principal speaker was the Episcopal Bishop. But the affair was purely civic, and its object was to testify to the esteem in which His Grace of St. Paul is held by all ranks, classes and creeds of his Epis-copal city. The German, Catholic papers of this city have notified Father Enselberger that they cannot insert any more of his . post-prandial productions, says Father Phelan in the Western Watchman. Watch-man. About 1 o'clock this good man begins damning Archbishop Ireland. At 2 he turns on the ex-rector of the Catholic Cath-olic University. When thoroughly warmed to bis work at 3 he goes for the editor of this paper. It is said that priests who miss their calling generally gener-ally return to the vices of their youth. If this. is bo in the case of Father Enselberger, En-selberger, he must nave ben a rascally little liar in his earlier davs. Commenting upon a recent happening, happen-ing, the Antigoniah Casket "is reminded remind-ed of the words of that splendid Catholic, Cath-olic, Chief Justice Taney, who remarked to the priest that had offered to hear his confession out of turn on the ground, that the time of the Chief Justice of the United States was much more valuable than that of the other penitents present: pres-ent: 'Not Chief Justice here. Father; only the prisoner at the bar." Nicholas O'Connor is England's ambassador am-bassador to Turkey. He was --formerly minister to China, later minister to Russia. He was bom in County Roscommon, Ros-common, Ireland. Since he was 19 years old ho represented England in foreisn. lands. Richard Croker of New York, who sailed for Europe Tuesday, said:' -"-I-want to say before my departure for Europe that Williatti J. Bryan will be the 6tandard-bearer of the Democratic party In the next national campaign. The fight will be made against trusts and imperialism, and Mr. Bryan is the only man to lead such a fight. Tammany Tam-many Hall will give him its- heartiest support, you may Test assured of that." Port Elizabeth in South Africa is a very Irisn city, with a Catholic population, popula-tion, mostly Sons of St. Patrick, numbering num-bering 3,000. In 1840 the Catholics of the town numbered about 40; in the j sixties they had reached 1,200; in 1S74 they were 1,800; the government census in 1S92 declares them numbering 2,456, and at the present day 3,000. Here is a devout invocation by Church Progress: God Wesa .Father McKinnon for the good worlC'he did in 'Manila; and God spare and strengthen him' for greater labors; and God forgive him for some of his . lectures and; interviews while in this country. An elderly Irishwoman was probably responsible for the naming of the Duke of Connaught. When Queen Victoria was a young married woman she paid a visit to the Emerald Isle, and on on a occasion an old woman who came to see Her Majesty called out to her: "Call your next son Patrick and ould Ireland Ire-land will die. for ye!" And the Queen named her next son Arthur Patrick,, as a compliment fo the Irish. $ It is gratifying to .find that the attempts at-tempts to excite Catholic feeling against the Boers by representing them as a kind of intensified Orangemen has had no effect upon Catholic opinion anywhere. A monster demonstration r.f the students of Louvain University has just been held by the Students' Union in support of the T5oer cause and to further the organization of an ambulance. ambu-lance. Messages of sympathy were read from -the Catholic students in Brussels and throughout Belgium, and practical steps were taken to assist the ambulance movement. From, a Catholic Cath-olic people who know Holland as no other foreign nation knowrf it the testimony tes-timony of friendliness is significant. Freeman's Journal. . |
