Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1915-02-03
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Tho Irish Agitator and AnqeIa.

mo irish A9ltator and Angela.
NAlTH. there's no man says
II more and knows less than yer
Il self, I'm thinkin'."
About Ireland, yer river
ence?"
And everything else, Mr.. O'Con-
nell"
is that criticism or just temper. IA
ther?"
Its both. Mr.. O'Connell"
"Sure it's the good judge We must be
of ignorance, Father Cahill."
And what might that mane?'
"le live so much with it, father"
I'm lookin' at it and listenin' to 1t
now, Frank O'Connell."
'"Then it's miracle has happened,
father. TO see and hear oneself at
the same time is indade a miracle"
Don't provoke the man of God"
Not for the Wurrld.' replied the 9th
err meekly. 'bein' mesef child Of Sa-
tan"
"And that's what We are. And yed
have others like yerself. But ye won't
u IL
Sthrong stick in me hand
O'Connell looked at him with a mis-
chievOus twinkle in his bue-gray eyes:
Yer eloquence seems to made some
thin to back it up I'm think in"
Father Cahill Dreatheu hard. He
was splendid type Of the Irish parish
priest Of the old school. Gifted with
vivid power Of eloquence rs a preach
er and heart as tender as a womans
toward the poor and the Wretched, he
had been for many years idolized by
the whole community of the village Of
NJ. in County Glare. But of late there
was growing feeling of discomfort
among the younger generation. They
lacked the respect their elders so will
ingly gave. They asked questions in
stead of answering them. They be-
gan to throw themselves. against Fa-
Their CahilIs express wishes and COM
mands, into the fight for home rule
under the mastery craftsmanship of
Charles Stuart Parnell. Already more
than one prominent speaker had come
into the little village and sown the
seeds Of temporal and spiritual unrest.
Father Cahill opposed these men to
the utmost of his power. He saw, as
so many farsighted priests did, the
legacy Of bloodshed and desolation
that would follow any direct action by
the Irish against the British govern
ment. Though the blood Of the patriot
beat in Father Cahills veins, the well
being of the people who had grown up
with him was near to his heart. He
was their priest. and he could not bear
to thin!; Of men be had known as chill.
lrcn being beaten and MANNED by con-
stabulary and sent to prison afterward
In the hght for self government.
To his horror that day he met Frank
Owen O'Connell, one of the best
known Of all the younger agitators, in
the main street Of the little village.
O'Connelrs backsliding had been one
Of Father Cahill's bitterest regrets.
He had closed O'Connell's fathers
eyes in death and had taken care of
the boy as we'll as he could. But at
the age of fifteen the youth left the
village that had SO many wretched
memories of hardship and struggle and
worked his way to Dublin. 1t was
many years before Father Cahill heard
Of him again. He had developed
meanwhile into one of the most daring
Of all the fervid speakers in the sacred
cause Of Irish liberty.
And Father Cahill was going to heal
from Frank Owen O'Connell again
though little did he reckon on the i'm
por.ance that the present young an(
comparatively untutcred reforme
would achieve.
Wilbareorce kinrsucrtn, wealthy
impcricas Engl'shmn1 'cft three chill
dren-Nathaniel, who in large meas
ure inherited much Of his father!
dominant will and hard headedness
Monica, the elder daughter, and Ange
Ia, the younger.
Nathaniel was the old mans favor
tie. While still youth he inculcate(
into the boy all the tenets of business
morality and politics that had made
Wilberforce prosperous.
Pride in his name, a sturdy grasp o
life. an unbending attitude toward
those beneath him and an abiding rev
erence for law and order and feulty tt
the throne-these were the foundation!
on which the father built Nathanier'