The Newtown bee., 1906-02-16
EDITORIAL INK DROPS.

A mighty interesting man was Pat
 rick McCool, who for 20 years repre-
 sented the mission of Our Lady of the
 Rosary at the immigration station in
 New York. MT McCool, who died last
 week, had during a score of years as-
 sisted at the landing of 6l5,0 Irish
 immigrants, more than 100000 of
 whom were unmarried Irish women,
 and his special charges. He gracious
 ly assisted the Irish immigrant girls.
 He advised them, helped them to their
 destination, and aided them to get
 work. The relations between MT Mo-
 Cool and the other missionaries at the
 immigration station. were of the most
 cordial and friendly character. He
 and Miss Alma Matthews represent
 ing the woman's home missionary so.
 ciety of the Methodist church, many
 years ago agreed that if they were to
 achieve their full measure of useful
 ness 1t must be in the line of practical
 assistance to arriving immigrants.
 They were to be safeguarded on arrival
 and aided on their way. Tracts and
 moral lectures were subordinated to
 this end. Religion came before and
 afterwards, but not at the moment of
 landing. If ship arriving late at
 night found Miss Matthews at the
 station, and MT McCool was not there,
 it was no unusual thing to see her take
 with her to her mission home a party
 of Irish Catholic girls, who were given
 a clean bed and good supper, and in
 the morning sent to Father Henry's
 mission next door. If MT McCool was
 there and Miss Matthews was not, the same thing happened. Due mainly to
 the influence of these two earnest
 workers, the immigrant missionaries forgot their creeds, and Jew and Chris
 tian united in the work of helping materially all the souls temporarily in need of their care. When MT McCool went back to visit Ireland, after an absence of 20 years, he came back strongly impressed with the idea that Irish immigration to the United States should be discouraged, as he felt that the prospects of intending corners were better at home. MT McCool was man who for 20 years devoted every minute of his waking hours to Gods work, without ostentation or parade, with out any ambition save for the welfare of his charges. He never wronged a man or woman in his life, and was as pure in mind as child. It would be difficult, indeed, to estimate the num- Der of girls that MT McCool has helped personally during these 20 years, but it would be safe to say that there are few places in the United States where some one will not remember him with gratitude and affection and the sorrow at his death will be more universal and sincere than that which would be felt for most of the great rulers and potentates of the earth. He was true hero of peace.
 Gov Vardman of Mississippi has been severely criticised by the news papers throughout the North for cer- tain utterances in regard to Roosevelt. but his action in putting down lynch ing in his own commonwealth com mends him heartily to every lover of law and order. It appears that in Covington county (Miss.) a negro named Fifer had assaulted a white man in a quarrel. Sheriff J. E. Robertson { went to Fifer's house that night to arrest him. As Fifer jumped through 8 window. his son-in-law killed the sheriff, both negroes escaping into the ( woods. A mob was quickly In pursuit of them, and Fifer was soon caught by ( Sheriff McInnis of a neigbboring coun- { ty. The murder was not committed by Fifer, but the mob had it's ideas of justice and determined to lynch him. The governor, at Jackson, was notified by telegraph that unless he could aid l Sheriff McInnis, Fifer would be hanged forthwith. The aid was promptly I given, and so skillfully that the gov- ( srnor of Mississippi seems to deserve to be called the leading anti-mob ex- a pert of America. How the mob was ] oatfled is told in Jackson dispatch to a he New Orleans Times Democrat: o The governor advised McInnis to put s he negro on horse and take to the [ woods, and he would meet him on r pecial train. The governor immedi- il tely ordered a special and had the ,cal military company put under arms. b With six special policemen and accom- n anied by AdjL-Gen Fridge, he left on tt Gulf and Ship Island train for Men, b