The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1899-12-09

THE CATHOLIC WORLD. J



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 en-
pire. Noble generosity, indeed!
.
Archb. shop Ireland was given a gran1
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 Episcopal city.
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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 Watch
man. About 1 o'clock this good man
begins damning Archbishop Ireland AT
> he turns on the ex-rector of the Cath
Ollie University. When thoroughly
warmed to his work at 8 he goes for the
editor of this paper. 1t is said that
priests who miss their calling gener-
ally return to the vices of their youth.
If this is so in the case of Father En-
sselberger he must have ben a rascallv
little liar in his earlier DAYS.
Commenting upon a recent happen
ing, the Antagonist Casket lis remind
ed of the words of that splendid Cath
Ollie, Chief Justice fancy 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 pres
ert: Not Chief Justice here, Father;
only the prisoner at the bar "
Nicholas O'Connor is England's am
bassador to Turkey. He was formerly
minister to China, later minister to
Russia. He was born in County Ros-
common, Ireland. Since he was 10
years old he represented England in
foreign lands.
Richard Croker of New York, who
sailed for Europe Tuesday, said: Il
want to say before my departure for
Europe that William ]. Bryan will be
the standard-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 fight. Tam
many Hall will give him it's heartiest
support, you may rest assured of that" "
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Port Elizabeth in South Africa is a
very irish city, with Catholic popula-
ton, mostly Sons of st. Patrick, num-
bering $1,000 In 1910 the Catholics of
the town numbered about 40; in the
sixties they had reached 1,2OO; in 1874
they were 1,SOO; the government census
in 1892 declares them numbering 2,456,
and at the present day 5000.
Here is devout invocationlby Church
Progress: God bless Father McKinnon
for the good work he did in Manila;
and God spare and strengthen him for
greater labors; and God forgive him for
some &C his lectures and interviews
While in this country.
An elderly Irishwomar 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 one
occasion an old woman who came to
see Her Majesty called out to her: Call
your next son Patrick and ould Ire
land viii die. for vel" And the Queen
named her next son Arthur Patrick, as
a compliment to the Irish
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It is gratifying to find that the at
tempts to excite Catholic feeling
against the Beers by representing them
as kind of intensified Orangemen has
had no effect upon Catholic opinion
anywhere. A monster demonstration Ct
the students of LouVain University has
just been held by the Students Union
in support of the Boer cause and to
further the organization of an 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 Cath
Ollie people who know Holland as no
other foreign nation knows it the tes-
timony of friendliness is significant
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