The San Francisco call., 1910-03-07

Inc DOQd 0Oe, HuIHOCAOO
rived in America in 1850. II was
accompanied by the lad who wrote IT,
Patrick Henry Mccarthy, aged TO- late
of New Castle, Kennary West, county
Limerick. Ireland Was it an untrled
and aimless sort of uplift! NOT ON
your down trodden existence. That up
lift had been tried out in Ireland anu
had never missed a goal. 1t was brought
to America for the purpose OF pettefAls
conditions in this benighted land IL
has been working steadily ever SINCE
the sprightiiest little old uplltt ever
backed up to a job of boosting
That does not mean that that up
lift has been permitted to run around
loose doing promiscuous upl1rlng.
Most every time 1T pulled off a BOOST
Patrick Henry Mccarthy was sitting
: on the south side of the fulcrum. where
any subsequent sagging would not al
feet his personal altitude or the hang
of his well tailored garments
Patrick Henry Mccarthy was born
46 years ago. Careful readers will at
once guess that Patrick Henry was
born at Castle Kennary. County Linz
erick etc Careful readers are correct.
Patrick Henry Mccarthy might have
called himself Patrick Howe Mccarthy.
His mother was member of the Howe
family which is not without fame and
distinguished members in Ireland as
well as in America. But Howe was
no name for lad who had an out
lander Patrick Henry hanging 20 the
ropes when it came to a distance bout
at oratory. The difficulty was COM
promised after Patrick Henry or Pat
rick Howe came to America
p. H was an orphan at 10 years of
age, an orator years and S64 days
prior to that. Father Carrick, parish
priest at Palace Kennary, recognized
latent greatness in little Patrick Henry
or Patrick Howe, since P. H. Father
Carrick and an older brother pondered
the future of P. H.
P. H. had been doing some pondering
himself. between speeches. That fu-
ture business was one in which he eX-
pected to be personally interested.
The law" said Father Carrick; I'VE
wilrm a great barrister of the lad.
THE law" echoed the older brother;
..he will be great" In the course of
couple of years the good father screwed
his courage up to the point of telling
p. H. that he was to be educated for
the bar.
That's no uplifting business" said
little P. H. shaking another reef out
of his oratoricaI sail. Sir" he con-
tinued "the present speaker is hip
to the fact that you have him in your
power 1t is true that you can do
anything you wish with me now. but.
believe me, the time will come when
shall leave the confines of this castle
and country and be it known that then
the present speaker will do as he
pleases, and he pleases to be carpen-
ter 1 want to be carpenter. L do
not want to be anything else, and be-
sides all that 1 am going to be a car
penter."
.Oh, very WELL" said Father Carrick-
"Of course, you will understand that l
had not been advised of your decision
in the matter. May 1 consider my
apology sufficient excuse for offering
to assist as next friend, in the matter
of your indenture to the trade which
you purpose to elevate?"
Score / for the uplift. AT the ad
vanced age of IL P. H. was apprenticed
to the best builder in Ireland In two
years the uplift. reinforced with
modest determination to get his while
the getting was good. had boosted the
apprentice hoy to the post of subfore-
man and the dignity of bossing real
journeymen-
Then came the incident to which
America is indebted indirectly for its
progress and which convinced P. H.
and his employer that the Mccarthy
i al Ia
ground space than Ireland afforded.
(Please note that other apprentice
bows had masters; P. H. had an en-
ployer. Never has he known mastery
The prentice boy subforeman was
sent with other bosses and crew into
an adjoining parish to build church
Father Shannahan and the coadjutor.
Father Ryan, had fixed the day for the
opening of the edifce. Time went
apace The organ loft looked like a
good start but bum finish. Boss
Lehney decided that the carpenters
must work nights He counted with
out his uplift.
Out stepped P. H., miterbox in hand.
His young face radiated the scintillat--
ing light of an inspiration to save his
off time and lift a lot of unemployed men
into jobs. In carefully modulated tones
which, however, left no excuse for mis-
understanding, P. H. announced that
the uplift was in action and wished
peace to the souls of any who might
get in its way.
Il have a date to relieve Michael
Monohan of his weeks wage and the
hunch that he has a scientific ac-
quaintance with the national diversion
of forty-fives," cried little P. H. This
night work is the bunk. There is no
necessity for it. If any sen of a
jack plane wants to work O. nights.
leave him do so. AS for the present
speaker, let it be known to every soul
within the sound of my voice-aye.
even to the confines of the boundary