The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1915-03-25
CHAPTER. l,

Tho Irish Asitator and Angela.
"TAITH. there's 10 man says
- more and knows less than yer.
self. I'm thinkin'."
About Ireland. yer river
ence:"
And everything else. Mr.. O'Con-
nell"
is that criticism or just temper. fa.
ther?"
Its both. Mr.. O'ConneH''
Sure it's the good judge ye must be
OF ignorance Father Cahill."
And what might that maney
"Ye 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 Gotl.
Not for the wurrld." replied the 9th
er meekly. "bein' mesef child OF ,Sa-
tam"
And that's what ye are. And ye'd
have others like yerself. But ye won't
while I've tongue in me head and
sthrong stick in me hand"
O'Connell looked at him with Il mis-
chievous twinkle in his blue gray eyes
Yer eloquence seems to made some
thin to back it up I'm thinkin'''
Father Cahill brcathed hard He
was splendid type of the Irish parish
priest of the old school. Gifted with
a vivid power of eloquence as a preach
er and a heart as tender us woman's =
toward the poor and the wretched. he
had been for many years idolized by
| the whole community of the village OF
NJ. in County Clare But of late there
was a 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
| ther Cahill's 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 tt
the utmost of his power. He saw. IL
so many farsighted priests did. th'
legacy of bloodslled and dissolution
that would follow any direct action b,
the Irish against the British govern
ment. Though the blood OF the patrio
beat in Father CahilIs veins. the wei
being of the people who had grown vi
with him was near to his heart Ill
was their priest. and he could not bea
to think of men he had known as chill
dren being beaten and manned by con
stabulary and sent to prison afterwar
In the fight for self government.
To his horror that day he met Fran
Owen O'Connell, one OF the Des
known of all the younger agitators, i
the main street of the little village
O'Connelrs backsIiding had been ON
of Father Cahilfs bitterest regret:
He had closed O'Connell's father
eyes in death and had taken care
the boy rs well as he could. But
; the age of fifteen the youth left tn
!. village that had 50 many wretche
!. memories of hardship and struggle an
t worked his way to Dublin tt va
many years before Father Cahili hear
of him again he had develope
meanwhile into one of the most DARN
/ of all the fervid speakers in the sacre
II cause of Irish liberty.
i And Father Cahill was going to hef
from Frank Owen O'Connell asai
though, little did he reckon on the IN
aortance that the present young ar
comparatively untutored reform
would achieve.
; Wnberforce Kingsnorth, wealth
mperious Englishman. left three ch