The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-02-27
The Citrate

erence.
Look heret Am not always
telling you thar sick calls should be
sent in in the morning, that there
should be method about everything,
even eating your dinner? But it's the
way with you all. You let what L say
i'm on one ear and out on the other. I'll
never ger TO teach you TO do anything
right. You have my heart broken care
less, devil may care, come a day, go a
day. God send Sunday. Oh, by the
way. what's your nance"
tDOol b., from the mill, yer reverence.
Sure. ytAl know Mickey Doolin. Yeh
attnde6 him last Aester whin he was
bad VIVID the inf1uenzah. an said TO
Biddy tirat an angil walked in on me
drre wbhl I saw yeh. Sure we all know
yeh an we're the best curate we ever
had
so yoIt are Doolin. Tn glad TO meet
YOU for you have saved me the goin'
TO see vow Doolin. and the speaker
seized his visitor by the shoulder. Why
arc your children not regular at the
SCHOOL,
TN tell yer reverence, iv yeh only
give me time. Mary. troth yeh know
Mary. she's me youngest an has her
catechism be heart, she got a touch ov
the cowld an l was afraid ov newmo-
niah, so kept her at home; an Jimcen,
yen know him, too, he's in the sixth
book. an as sharp as a needle, an the
mistress said he'd die ov cleVerless iy
he didn't go aisty. / have him picllin'
pratics. an Neoden, OH. God help me,
wud the same Nedeen twas only yis-
terday he tore his new breechos climb
ing after crows nests. So what a poor
man 10 do -yud the whole lot ov them ?'
And what am / to do with the whole
lot of you. Since I came to the parish
il is the same old story. / set my heart
on making you better, more industrious,
an
And well. you're succeeded, yer riv-
erence You've made CRATE improve
ments. sartinly. Ecgaql'S mill is grind
in male as it never ground afore. She
min Murphy, that was not at his duty
for fifteen lonS years, has recaved. Soul
~ that was curSin' night. noon and
mornin'. has given it up, an now it is
glory be to God wud him. Cooney, that
couldn't keep his head out ov a pint ov
Guinness. drinks now only peppermint
an limonade. Shure, praises be to the
saints above, we've worked wonders, an
I never heard yer equal at praichin,
barTin' Father Tom Burke, an he's
dead, God rest his sowl. Yes, yer river
incc, the parish am me is proud ov yer,
an
Stop. for goodness sake, stop. Go
and tell the boy to saddle my horse. I
suppose I'll have to go on the sick call,
but. DOolin. send the children to school
next Monday. Father Denis, the Gu
rate, was all energy. He was a medi-
Un-Sized man, with fine broad Shout
deTs, We'll knit frame and not one ounce
OF suDerflUous flesh Oh him. The face
was thoroughly Irish, always lit up
with q kind. sympathetic smile. a face
which bore on every line of it truth
honor and goodness. His heart was
stuck in the people. Educated at May
noOth, and belonging TO the new school
of priests, whose motto is, make your
people thoroughly religious first. and
then make Ireland Irish. Teach the
people industry, thrift and the necessity
or supporting home manufacture above
all crush out the baneful evil of intem-
Ierance from their midst by every
means i'm your power In a word. tell
Them that they should be independent
end that their social making is in their
own hands Father Denis devoted all
MS energies to the carrying out of these
principles Since he came to the parish
he was continually moving amongst the
people, preaching to them the needs of
sanitation. the proper way TO till the
land and the crops that brought in the
most money. He introduced spraying
machines, modern implements of agri
culture and employed teachers to give
lessons on farming, cattle breeding and
poultry raising. BE Irish first: don't
ape after English manners and customs.
be sober and Industrious, and trust to
your own powers for social advance
ment," was his constant cry. At first
The people did not understand him
Anyone who knows the Irish really well |
knows how difficult it is to make them
depart from the old way of doing,
things. NJ father afore me had wan |
COW an kept two pigs an always sowed |
black oats in the two-acre field beside |
The boreen. an sure l must do the
same was their way of reasoning. |
And so Father Denis theories came as
shock to them.
The curate afore him preached a |
good sarmin an taught the cathecfsm.
qua ne never tould us TO tile our flures
an clane an raise our windows an
crane an gravel our streets. He never
cared wan buttin where we bought orr
CLONES. an, he never was dictatin' To |
US on the evils Ov black tay an half
baked bread. Why, this wan. iv he |
only sees wisp ov hay loose. a waste |
headland or the stacks not matched. |
ne u be down on yeh afore yeh feel !
Nud his 'untidyness and waste an
i
likes, an troth there must be uuare |
professors where he got his schoolin' |
Bud I'm thinkin' Father Tom won't !
stand the Curste's actin long. for I
heard yesterday that Bryan Casey. the |
shoemaker, complained to him about |
what the curate said because poor.
Bryan had a dung hape too near the |
-dure. Bud the worst ov ali is that now
the taicber ev the school must have
basins oV water an soap an towels to |
wash the childrers' face an hands: the |
same as iv We cudn't do that. Troth. IL /
the bishop knew his action he'd SUSPEND |
him. " he's not changed, he'll kill !
Father Tom wud his dure mats an hall |
bells an linen bonnets for the house !
keepers head such were the com I
mentS Of the people when Father Denis |
came to the parish. But as constant |
drops Of water wear stone Father |
Denis constant denunciation of the old |
way OF doing things by degrees had a |
great effect upon the people. They saw
he was deeply in earnest. and that his
constant thought was for their welfare,
and they began 10 appreciate and COM
ply with his efforts. But one act of his
won them more than all. The village
had the misfortune to have a bad land