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Show Father Tom Burke and the Orphans. I had been removed from Ireland and was living in London, and Father Burke had been invited to preach both in the morning and the evening. There were hundreds of Dominican fathers present from all parts of the world, and the clergy, regular and secular, were also present in great numbers. When I saw Father Tom entering into the pulpit I hardly recognized him. His voice1 ns at "first o wak that It was scarcely audible, but after a while he revived and continued until the end in somewhat of his old style of eloquence. When the mass was over we were all requested to go into the yard outside and be photographed. The Dominicans were arranged on one side, and all the other clergy werp facing them. The photographer being pome time arranging arrang-ing his machine I crossed the space be- twgen the two bodies of the clergy, to ppeak to my old friend. It was for the last time. First of all he gaid to me. ' To think that we should Mneet here in thin great Babylon." I then asked him' how hs was, and he replied that he was just dying on his foet and he begged me to pray for him, I was not present at his evening discourse, but I was told that his voice seemed a little lit-tle stronger than it had beem nt the high mass in the forenoon. On tho foN lewing day h returned to Dublin and went straight out to Tallaght, the novitiate no-vitiate of th Dominicans. He retired to his bed and was very ill, suffering Intensely from cancer in the stomach. Two days later while he was still in bed a deputation came out from Dublin to see him. A popular preacher had promised to plead tha cause of soma orphans, but' from one cause or an. other had failed to keep his word. Whom else ehould they ask but Father Burke? To whom else should they 8ppeal but to him who had so often f.nd so eloquently pleaded for the widow and the orphan. They found him Jn bed. It is true, but they were rot aware how ill he really was, He could not refuse them, so he got up. dressed himself, and returned to Dublin with them. After that he went back to Tallaght and to his bed there. Within a few hours. his Master came to call hjm.-"Rev. L. C. Fox in Donohue's. Bishop Horstmann Settles Strike, Through the efforts of Bishop Horstmann Horst-mann of Cleveland, the strike of 800 ein- I p!6ye3 of the Kelly Island Lime & j Transportation company was settled I last week. The men had only been out J a few days. Bishop Horstmann went to Marblehead. O., on Thanksgiving to dedicate a, new Slovak church. In his address to the people on that occasion, many of whom were the men on strike, the bishop after counseling them to preserve perfect peace and order i-.sk.ed them to send a committee of six lo meet him in th'i afternoon of j Thanksgiving day. The bishop spent the whole afternoon in conference with that committee and two committeemen j who had come with the Slovaks from I Kelley island. He formulated for them i i. compromise which they all accepted. The conditions of the compromise were presented by the bishop to the president presi-dent of the transport company, and an agreement on the main questions was reached by Monday morning. The men ! v'ent to work the next day. The company com-pany and all concerned feel much indebted in-debted to the bishop for his efforts on behalf of the settlement. TlonegaJ Men, in Greenock. A dispatch from Greenock on Tues day says: The natives of Donegal and their friends resident in Greenock and district held their fifth annual reunion in the Irish National institute tonight. Dcaplte the inclemency of the weather, the hall was crowded - In every part. Rev. Father Alphonsus C. Ward, administrator, ad-ministrator, Carrick, Cpunty Donegal, presided, and was supported on the platform by Rev. Fr. Stephens, P. p., Ardafav County Donegal; Rev. Fr. Me-Dald,GrefenocR; Me-Dald,GrefenocR; ' Rev. Fr. O'Leary, Rev. Fr'.' Sweeney.; etc.; Messrs. M. De-yjne, De-yjne, president.;, J... Kerr, -vice -presi dent; James Docherty, treasurer; John ' Nelis and Daniel O'Dontell, secreta-' secreta-' ries; N. Boyle, Neil Haughey, J. Ellis. - etc. The reverend chairman, in the course of an ahle address, said there was hardly anything In the social life of : the Irish people in Scotland that he admired more than the spirit ,.that brought them together -in these- annual reunions, as they renewed old friend- ships, cemented old social and family ties and made for the twin cause of ; faith and fatherland, and proved to . friends and foe that exile had not dimmed the brightness of their love of i the brave old land or tht. dear old home ; of their fathers (cheers). Having re- i ferred. at length to the evil emigration had done Ireland, he said the marvel was that there should be any Celte left in Ireland at all; but, thank God, the I Celtic race and the Celtic spirit were very much alive in Ireland today j (cheers). Never was there greater ' union among Irishment, and never had j Ireland greater er better-founded hopes of attaining her national independence. inde-pendence. "In union is strength," and , no possible combination of English po- i lltlcal forces could long withstand the j voice of a united Ireland demanding her right to. govern her own children on her own soil (eheon). An address was" also delivered by Rev, Father Stephens,. Ardaxs- An enjoyable concert programme having beep gone through, the usual vote of thanks and the pinging of "God Savw Jrland" terminated the proceedings, rrr- . ju. U c un..... |