The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1899-10-19
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
A Fathers RENOR5E.
written for the 1ntermountain Cath

, FloWers, six for a nickel, roses tie
: for quarter" was heard near tn
Carrollton Hotel at Baltimore TIL
vender was a girl 10 or u years ole
She had once been beautiful, and nigh
be SO again; but she now had a pal
care-drawn face, and a look as of on
poorly fed. There were indications o.
her cheek that she had been struck
one thought it likely that her home wa
one of quarrels, probably of intern
perance. Still, her sweet voice pipe
up a little ditty she had composed, ant
which pleased her
'Pinks and roses
Make pretty posies.
ITO smell with our noses broke il
a merry newsboy near by, who though
1t fair game to tease her by piecing ou
her composition. There are some
Jacuqes." exclaimed a lady to her hus
band land we might get them now
to take to the Church as a little offer
ing to the Sacred Heart, and we car
patrondze this little miss. Yes, they
are just the thing; nothing like jacque-
minGts for the altar, they keep so We'll
| Do you have many of these roses, lit
tie girl?" No. lady; 1 can't generally
afford to get them. But somehow, 1
sold a lot of pinks, and boy came
along with bunch of these, and he
sold them to me cheap" Glad you
did. Here IS your money. Let US
take all she has left, Cecilia" "All
right Little Agnes Noonan watched
them with a smile as they turned
beyond the corner to the Church OF
Saint Alphonsus. But she looked wear
lily at the great bunch of pinks, and
wondered if she could ever sell them
before they would wither.
An hour had passed without another
sale; in sheer desperation, she planned
to go to the stores to dispose of them.
She passed a saloon. one man in the
doorway bought a dimes worth. and
called out to the bartender that few
flowers would make more attractive
counter. The bartender seemed to
think so and bought some, giving the
pale-faced child two dimes and a nickel.
The nickel had hole in it as if pierced
with a punch. she bought couple
of bananas, a penny bun, and Johnnie
Tracy a newsboy, treated her. to a
2-cent cup of coffee.
Il say, Jake" Jacob A. Hagarman,
who was a bachelor said Mr.. William
p. Farrell a married man, Cloth of
these gentlemen were staunCh Catho-
licS), don it stir up something in your
heart to see that poor girl dressed In
that way? See, her two shoes are diff
ferent; and such a hat! 1t is too bad
to put the weeds of ugliness on young |
girl. | say old boy, I'll buy her shoes
and a hat, if you'll buy dress for her; |
what do you say" I'D do it as quick |
as wink" said Jake, the man appealed |
TO, but it would do no good; her father |
is not an ornament to society, as he |
used to be; and he would strip her of |
those very clothes we might buy for !
her, to buy liquor. How l hate the de- |
mon drink! How it transformed Tom |
NoOnani Time was when he was bet
ter than the average. Why he was at |
one time good practical Catholic and !
moved in the best Catholic society but |
rink has made him a brute. The only |
way we could help sissy is to give her
he can't take away"
They agreed and arranged for her
timers for two weeks at a restaurant
near by, and made the arrangement {
plain to her. She had good fortune for
his day, and her half-drunken father
gloated over the handful of coin the
girl brought home, mentally wonder
ng how many drinks he could get out
# it, Suddenly he stopped. His look
vas on the bored nickel. Here, you
-oung one!" he shouted, where did you
ret that nickel with the hole in ito"
I don't remember, papa; somebody
ave it to me" said the frightened child
Come here, 1 say! How dare you, I'll
each you to steal out of my pockets
nd then lie to me-you''- And the
rembling girl full in the face, not the
rSt, but the hardest blow he had ever
truck her. The mother ran to the
alled child. ooh, you'll encourage the
rat in stealing and lying!" shouted the
IAN to his wife. 1t needed only the
lance of one in her senses to see what
ad inflicted The seal of the fathers I
ing had struck and torn the child's
We. Tom Noonan walked up to the bar
lat night and called for drink From
is andful of coin he picked out two
ickels, one OF them the bored nickel,
" two reasons; first, because it was
second, because he did not
rel like keeping it; he was half !
shamed of that blow on his child, ,
Tough he laughed at his wife's cry {
lat he had cut the child's eye out. +
da"' said the bartender bad penny /
on returns. That's quick work, any !
ay What do you mean, Hanley?" +
Why, l gave that bored nickel to lit {
2 flower girl today for some pinks. See, r
re they are" You did?' gasped the \
Their. ''Sure's you're a sinner" said q
e bartender. The father set down the q
Iuor and rushed out. A cry escaped a
m; a mighty anguish was upon him. y
remorse he rushed along, straight =
, until he came to st. Vincent's r
lurch, where a mission was going on o
by the Redemptorist Fathers f
ID a Father Stuhl was just preaching W
intemperance Tom Noonan was so b
sected that after Benediction of the d
ost Blessed Sacrament he called to s.
: one of the fathers and said: II want n
take the pledge He asked the Father a
pray for him and his family An Q.
UT and a half later Tom Noonan. in V
guish as he bent over his child again q
d again kissed her, moaning: ooh, II
child! my child! have, this even w
: at st. Vincent's church. given nv
)mise to God and man never to drink
lntoXicants as long as 1 live. Little
mes in her terrible pain chung about 4,
neck and said, never mind nv eve
I've got my father back" And more sc
IN once during the following drearv .oI
eks to the fathers remorseful, pitfful OF
ling. Agnes would say: AN eye isn't tr
much to give to God to have nv
her back again. ne
he good wife and her child Agnes al
7er omitted a single day in giving of
INKS to God for restoring the father ed
the fold of. the Church; they recited tn
Rosary every day in Thanksgiving be
Int CdCFeu heart OF Jesus and His III
Their. the Queen of the Most Holy Ro fir
y. These We're the roses they placed sc
the feet of the Holy Family.
VIII here state that Mr. Tom Non BIZ
attended all the sermons of the I'M
sion in progress at st. Vincents its
arch, he made a good confession be
. from that time, became a good ne
holic, good husband and a good ed
1er%. This is a true story of the as
&c OF God. sn
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