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municati»ms to THE IRISH STANDARD
Minneapolis, Minn.
If some women were willing to
treat, babies the way they treat (logs
there would be more sunshine in their
homes.
Already the question of who will be
Ihe successor to the late Archbishop
Ryan is being discussed. Among the
Reverend Thomas J. Conaty,
of Monterey and Los Angeles.
The Catholic children of Philadel-
',
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•11, to January, 1911. and MO on. the debate over the veto question,
DISCONTINUANCES. youthful member made a decidedly
THE IRISH STANDARD will be sent
jo every subscriber until all arrearages lavorable impression on a critical as
1*%^ £*& °uVlan Bembly, and gained hearty applause
back dues.
Through an oversight an editorial
ilom from the Catholic Columbian
appeared in these columns last week! 'vou'1' ')e embodied in opposition to
without credit.
names mentioned is that ol the Right ..ft
Phia to the number of live ihousand' 1l'°aC"Rtl
gathered in the Cathedral of that, citv
now until Easier Sunday. No prayer
be good for us lo gel. Putt, it we pray
sincerely C.od will grant our petition
in some unexpected way.
Commenting on the death of Arch-'make il public.
bishop Ryan, the Outlook says: "Arch
bishop Ryan had not been in Philadel-1
phia a fortnight before the town was'
We are so used to bearing Ireland
spoken of as a poor island that it
seems queer to think that in case of
a German-English war, Ireland would
y!.£. be better off than- England, says the
l&Aa'-tikc i( 1.
Catholic Messenger (Worcester,
Mass.) For Ireland raises more food
stuffs, that is, in value, than she con
sumes, while England is dependent
upon foreign countries for her daily
bread. Any foreign power that could
110
Mr. John IS. Redmond's son, age 22,.
is one of the new Irish M. P.'s and he
means"that your "sub- delivered his maiden speech last week
All resolutions, cards ot thanks, etc., following ll!is distinguished father's
published in THE IRISH STANDARD
is paid matter, and will be charged for nibtoiic speech uccopl.liig Mr. As*
at the rate of 10 cents per line. tpiith's proposition of a Home Kule
CHANGE OF ADDRESS. I
When a change of address is desired, scheme as a final settlement, says the
Iddr^s1Sfoie'nSw"
b°th
'h° °'d ^tholie Standard and Times. The
Remittances may be. made at our risk The present writer heard the voting
addressed to THE IRISH STAND
In any other way is at the risk of the Ml. KCdmoiul
person sending it.
RENEWALS.
'-he close. It runs in the blood.
grandfather, William
Antient Concert Rooms, Dublin, in
1N70, or thereabouts. It. is little more
than 40 years since the cry was first
heard, and now the cry has won. And
a Redmond was found giving if out
and ably sustaining it at every stage
since it began to be heard. This sure
ly is a remarkable family record.
NOT AS DARK AS PAINTED.
The Missionary Review, a non
Catholic publication, after stating
that. "Rome has alienated the respect
and eonfideneo of the clergy in
France," goes on to say that, many
priests are endeavoring to organize
an anli-church in which "principles
tll(
of S(. Paul was the guest of honor at: 1 reads:
a reception and banquet given by the "A moral crisis is on in France.
Hibernians of Worcester, Mass., on The majority of the people are wait
Washington's birthday. ing—not ready to accept pupal inl'alti
liility or Protestantism or agnosti-
A vole taken in I he Senate ednes- i-ism. They are looking for the time
day resulted in Lorimer favor by a| to luiild up a new temple of faith,
margin ol six. And thus the seal ol great opportunity for the
approval is put on one of the mus' preaching of the Gospel of Christ."
disgiacetul election episodes in ouri This is certainly a gloomy picture
history.
teachings of the papacy." That
sounds ridiculous enough, but just
National President .Tames .T. Regan1 listen (o the closing paragraph. It
0f
Catholic France. Hut the gloom
after all is not in the picture. Jt is
just a little spray injected between
js S1.„at
Bishop I
onos
must have presented a piciure emi-!
nently pleasing to Him who, while on
earth, asked that I hey might be .per
milled to come into I lis presence.
is a great opportunity for
preaching of the Gospel of Christ
says the writer. 1-Jow glorious it, will
1,11
Lent. is a season or penance. Thej'1)los
to say an ox Ira prayer each day from I
purple garments worn by the priest progressive Catholic countries in
during Ibis season signify (hat. Ev- Europe." Evidently the writer has a
cry Catholic should make a resolution1
•\rehier Redmond, M. T*. for Wexford,
deliver a speech in support of Isaac need most is fundamental principles
Unit's Home Rule movement in
Ihe reader and the real France by the|1i()n
writer in the Missionary Review.
when the (!os|,Pl (,t (,hriBl is
in
l"'1,n'°!
lmd our
"Gospel of Christ" up their sleeves
'«H'olica
is
no'-
of a sincere heart will ever be lost.! dards of the people. He might well
What wo waul most may not always!
hilV0 llu
The present House of Commons is
composed as follows: England has in
all 465 members. Of those are
Liberals, are Unionists, :tn are
Laborites, and the remaining one is a
Nationalist. Scotland is represented
by 72 members, "iS or whom are Lib-! Methodist Episcopal Sunday school
erals, 11 Unionists and 3 Laborites.' representatives at Spokane, Rev. I)r.
Wales has a total of 30 members, com- Itlake of Chicago declared that each
posed of 23 Liberals. 3 Unionists and convert cost that denomination an
4 Laborites. Ireland has 103 mem- expenditure of $1,000 and a property
bers made up of 1 Liberal, 19 Union-' investment of $7,000. The expense
ists, 75 Nationalists and 8 Indepen-: of making converts in Catholic coun
aent Nationalists. I tries would be so many times greater
that our friends would not care to
him a ready-witted, agreeable Irish- sity of repeating things, the last
man who was equal to any challenge word of advice would have been ut
of the dinner table or public meeting,
and was not a man to be suddenly
waked up by those who, with ill taste,
bait the clergy. No man did it twice
with him. He noiselessly
and efficiently settled labor disputes
before the public had beard of them.
He was in a very real sense the I seen them before. Perhaps we nev
Archbishop of a great city, not only
ruling his diocese with a firm, wise
band, but leading all men to know
better bis Master."
in those countries, lie
"ware of the high moral stan-
searchlight which he
elude that they have heard the last
word on the subject of penance, or
if they have not, their pastors are to
blame.
Perhaps there won'l be anything
shut England off from the sea could of sin and the necessity or being ever which I presented to the country on
starve he:* out in
exports each year $1T".000.000 worth unce and seeking Divine aid to lead at. the last general election—that we
of food, while she imports only .$120.-j a better life. Perhaps the mercy and can only arrive, at a satisfactory solu
000,000 worth, thus sending to for- justice of our Blessed Savior will not tion of this standing problem by
eign markets 000,000 more goods be portrayed more elegantly nor His creating in Ireland an Irish Parlia
than she had to buy herself, for Ire- suffering and death on the cross more ment and an Irish executive respon
land sends ils products, the best in pathetically. Perhaps wo have en- sible to that Parliament to deal with
the world, to the fastidious of the j-tercd this Lenten season intending to! purely Irish affairs, subject always
various nations, and buys back the observe the regulations in a perfunc-to the condition which Mr. Gladstone
simplest, fare for herself. In case of
war, should she be cut off from the
cheap food supply she could consume
her own more expensive fare.
good to accrue to lis. If that is our
attitude we should stop and think.
It may be that circumstances during
the year luive caused us to take a new
viewpoint, it may be that the lessons
we heard repeatedly will have a per
sonal application for us now. Sick
ness, failure or success may give the
old lessons a new meaning and even
if the advice that has fallen on our
ears so many times does not come in
any new and striking form it may,
nevertheless, awaken in us thoughts
that, it never awakened before.
The Lenten season is a time for
serious thought. The great trouble
with most of us is that we do not do
our own thinking. We accept factory
made conclusions and do not inquire
for the why or wherefore. What we
the and these we cannot get without
thought. If people had a clear concep
tion of what is right and a. definite
aim in life iheie would be much more
happiness in the world. They would
During Lent is a good time not only
to do penance but. to think of the fu
ture as well. It is a good lime to
determine by what principles our fu
ture acts will be governed and Lenten
discourses will furnish ample mate
rial for our guidance.
THE LORIMER DISGRACE.
I ho elect ion or" senators by a direct
vote of the people after all that has
been said in connection with the dis
graceful Lorimer case, all that can
be said is that it is impossible to
sliame them into conforming to pop
ular demands. For many years past
a. majority of the states have been
willing to have Ihe constitution
amended so that popular election of
senators would be possible, but Con
gress has persistently refused to act
in the matter. In some states meth
ods are used which practically enable
the people to participate in the elec-
ol'
()f
opportunity for the direct election of senators the Lor-
,s nol:
K°od
to assist at the Mass offered up for th. Christianizing France sooner? Yes.
repose of the soul of llicir l„-l,,ev,l hlVO
Archbishop. Surely the lifllo
,0°
)rio,,,ls rtirt not think of
People
of France were groping in Ihe dark.
The same paper states that great
things are in sigiit. as a result of the
revolution ill Portugal and the trou-
slain,
I'»'i-,'1
,he
"the most bigoted, un-
knowledge of Ihe condition of
uses
in his quest for truth intensified by
a few thousand candle power.
And then if our good brethren were
only wise, they would pause a mo
ment before undertaking to preach
(he Gospel to l'allen-away Catholics.
Experience has shown again and
again that a. bad Catholic invariably
makes a worse Protestant.
Not long ago at convention of
WE NEED REMINDING.
If it were not for our propensity
talking of apt replies which showed to forget aul the consequent neces-'Mr. Asquith regarding the scope of
tered long ago. As it is there is sel
dom anything now in advice. The old
things are repeated over and over
again in new ways. Sometimes?, how
ever, they are presented lo us ill such
er paid any attention to them. But
now they have a personal interest
for us and we find ourselves uncon
sciously influenced to nobler thought
and action. During the present Lent
many people will go to the regular
Lenten services not expecting to hear
anything new. They will think to
themselves of the number of Lenten
services they have attended and con-
I.
inter case would never have been pos
sible, for then such men as Lorimer
would not attempt to get lo the Sen
ate.
an unexpected and striking form that management of purely Irish affairs,
we do not remember of ever having
site.
reallv new said about the prevalence tanee, and I believe—it is the policy
time. Ireland on the alert or the need of doing pen-i behalf of my friends and supporters
torv way and not expecting much laid down, and which every supporter
not then be deploring their acts be-1 religious intolerance against the mass
cause of the criticism of thoughtless
friends. There would be less despon
dency, less suicides.
II there are any senators ol! the
United Stales who do not believe in country, there are still men—some, in-
senators. IT the Constitution
the United States provided for the
Lorimer has been a powerful politi-
all of the people any of the time
and even with the prestige of his po
sition as a political dictator, Lorimer
would have found it a hopeless task
to buy his way to the United States
Senate it he had to deal with all the
people instead of having to influence
a bare majority of Ihe votes in the
Illinois legislature.
There is no mistaking the methods
by which Lorimer managed his elec
tion. The evidence furnished by the
confessions of the participants in the
election is conclusive. That it was
money used unlawfully that did it the
country is thoroughly convinced. Yet
by means of senatorial red tape the
contest to unseat Lorimer goes on in
Ihe Senate. Unless there are grave
reasons for thinking that lie may pos
sibly be innocent, quick action ought
to bo taken to oust him from mem
bership in that body. It. would be a
valuable lesson to that class of poli
ticians with submerged morals who
are responsible for most of the ills
of government.
AGREEMENT ON HOME RULE.
The discussions in Parliament, on
the occasion of the introduction of
the Veto bill are interesting as show
ing (lie striking concurrence of opin
ion on the part of Mr. Redmond and
an Irish Home Rule bill. Mr. Red
mond gives this definition of Home
Rule:
"We mean by Home Rule an Irish
Parliament, with an executive respon
sible to it, created bv act of the Im
perial Parliament, charged with the
leaving to the Imperial Parliament,
in which Ireland would probably con
tinue to be represented, but in small
er numbers, the management, as at
present, of all imperial affairs, the
Imperial Parliament also, of course,
retaining overriding supreme author
ity, just as it does today over every
Parliament in the Empire."
With this compare Prime Minister
Asquith's view as expressed during
the course of the debate in the House
cal boss in Chicago fdr a number ol ije once. If secrecy is imposed the
years. Hut. political Dosses, while parties mutually understand that they
lliey may handle a few people all t.ho will both tell it to others under the
time, find it pretty difficult to handle
THE IRISH STANDARD, SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 1911
of Commons on the Veto bill. Mr.
Asquith says:
"T have always said, and I repeat,
that the ease of Ireland is a case
paramount in urgency and impor-
of Home Rule has laid down up to
this time, that the indefeasible supre
macy of the Imperial Parliament must
be maintained. That is our policy,
and it is a very simple policy."
Here we find a striking similarity
in the conceptions which these two
men have of the meaning of Home
Kule. The inevitable conclusipn
which follows is that as soon as the
Veto bill is passed the matter of
drawing up and securing the passage
of the Irish Home Rule bill will be
comparatively easy. The uniformity
which exists regarding the measure
should have the effect of forestalling
long involved debate on the provi
sions it will embody.
In the course of his speech on the
Veto bill, Mr. Redmond took occasion
to refute again the statements and
allay the fears of those who are fight
ing Home Rule on the irrational
ground of Irish intolerance.
"No man who knows the history of
Ireland can bring a fair charge of
of the people," said Mr. Redmond.
"What has been the history of the
last hundred years? Why, the most
trusted and respected men, idolized by
the Irish people, have been Protes
tants, and I say there is no Catholic
Irishman sitting on these benches who
would accept a settlement, of the
Home Rule question under which it
would be possible for oppression or
injustice to be done to Protestants.
mnst
()j
Silnie
admit that, although knowledge
Ireland :s spreading rapidly in this
deed, not unfriendly to Ireland—who
honestly entertain that fear."
There ars no good reasons for op
posing Home Rule on the ground of
intolerance. The history of succes
sive elections in Ireland shows that
religion and politics are as separate
and distinct in Ireland as in any coun
try in the world.
EVIL OF GOSSIPING.
One of the hardest tasks which
anyone can undertake to perform is
lo be silent at the right time. For
most people—and by most we mean
tile overwhelming majority—it is al
most. impossible to keep fresh gossip.
Whatever vitally concerns a neighbor,
whether it is entirely good or entire
ly bad, must be told to someone be
fore someone else tells it. Perhaps
it is whispered in "strictest confi
dence," but at any rate told it must
requirement of the secrecy that
takes the whole world into its con
fidence. The evil report poured into
the ear demands to be transmitted
and to restrain the tendency requires
more will power than most, of us
dream of unlil we have tried it.
Gossiping is an evil habit and one
that cannot be too highly deprecated.
By means of il, stories, innocent in
themselves, are started and gradually
distorted until they become destroy
ers of reputations and the cause of
endless distress. The little unkind
remark, prompted in a moment of an
ger, can never be recalled once it is
sent on its mission of evil doing. And
how often the guilty person wishes
that ho might have power to recall
it! But no: once started on its
course, like a bullet from a gun, it
cannot be overtaken by the one who
has sent it on its way, nor will it
stop until it. lias spent its force. Is
it not better to endure humiliation
than to lake such risks?
Gossiping is a vile, unwholesome,
un-Christian practice. It is easy to
fall into the habit of telling all one
knows about, his neighbors when less
would do. The old, old advice can
not be improved upon: "Rehearse
not again a wicked and harsh word
and thou shnlt not fare the worse."
And again: "llast thou heard a word
against thy neighbor? Let it die
within thee, trusting that it will not
burst thee.'"
PREDICAMENT OF THE LORDS.
The National Review (London) for
February takes a determined stand
against the passage of the Veto bill.
It sees in (he abolition of the Veto
nothing less than a preliminary step
to the abolition of the House of Lords.
Commenting on the bill, it says: "It.
is (he plain duty of the Upper House
to lix the entire odium and ridicule
of this grotesque measure upon the
Government by insisting on the cre
ation of the five-hundredth Cocoa cor
onet before it becomes law and if
from the outset it is made clear that
such is the attitude of the Lords, from
which nothing will deflect them, in
the shape of bluster, menace, intrigue
or falsehood, we have a shrewd sus
picion that nothing resembling the
Parliament Bill will ever find its way
to the Statute Book."
Evidently the "Review" is of the
opinion that the only weapons which
(lie Liberal and Irish parties have at
their command are bluster, menace,
intrigue and falsehood. In their pres
ent position the Liberal and Irish
Nationalist, parties have the synipa
lilies of the people behind them so
that they need not. resort to anything
but straight, politics, and if the Lords
should get stubborn and insist on the
creation of the "five-hundredth Cocoa
coronet," iliey, not the Government,
would have to suffer humiliating con
sequences. The people properly in
formed arc not likely in the long run 1
to make a serious mistake. The Irish
Nationalists, the Laborites and the
Liberal parties represent such an
overwhelming majority of the English
electorate that if, after the promises
made during the pre-election cam
paigns of efforts to secure the passage
of the Veto Bill, they failed to carry
the measure, even though it should
eventually cost the creation of five
hundred "Cocoa coronets," they
would be recreant to their trusts.
Tlie Lords are not likely to take
the position suggested by the "Na
tional Reviewr." There is too much
determination in the Lower House to
make eucli a course advisable.
Every book that is written is an
analysis of the author's character.
Hence the advisability of knowing
something about the personality of
the writer. Such knowledge fur
nishes a basis for the interpretation
of the views put forth. The reader
who is thus informed is not so liable
to be misled.
At the Auditorium on the evening
of March 7, Rev. W. ,B. Riley of the
First Baptist church, former Mayor
W. H. Eustis, Rev. S. M. Dick of Wes
ley M. E. church, and W. L. Harris
will engage in a joint debate on the
proposed change of the closing hour
of saloons and the granting of liquor
license to certain hotels that are not
within the present patrol limits. It
is to be hoped that the participants
will not forget the rule of temperance
and moderation in other things than
the use of liquor.
VIEWS OF OTHERS
Politics and Religion Should be Kept
Entirely Separate.
The following- communication from
an old subscriber to this journal, a
Californian, deals with an important
subject and is well worthy of atten
tion:
Watsonville, Cal., Fob. 21, 1911.
Editor Irish Standard,
Minneapolis, Minn.:
Dear Sir—That prejudice against
Catholics as such holding public of
lice in this country is dying out and
may be treated as a negligible quan
tity is so self-evident a fact that no
one familiar with present political
conditions will dispute it.
How is it, then, that whenever a man
who happens to be a Catholic is chosen
to any important public position those
who put themselves forward as lead
ers of the Catholic body immediately
execute a war dance and make a great
ado as though a very extraordinary
event had transpired? The elevation of
Judge AVliite to the office of chief jus
tice of the United States is a case in
point. Now if President Taft ap
pointed Judge White because he is a
Catholic or if the question of religion
entered at all into his motives in mak
ing the appointment, he is guilty of in
troducing a pernicious principle into
public affairs.
That some of our Catholic politic
ians, chicily clerical, have been quite
active ot late is shown by several re
ocnt happenings: for instance, the
cdUo/ of a loading Catholic journal of
St. Louis proclaimed that out of grati
tude to the Catholic voters of Mis
souri for their support, President Taft
should appoint Richard Kerns of Mis
souri to be United States minister to
Austria again we behold a bishop
"butting in" to the senatorial contest
in New York by stating over his own
signature that the opposition to Shee
han is due to religious prejudice, a
statement that he evidently has no
proof of whatever and to cap the
climax, we have accompanied with all
this fuss and feathers about the ap
pointment of Judge White, a plan set
on foot to organize all the graduates
of the Jesuit colleges with Justice
White at their head!
Is it not evident that neither the vir
tue of prudence nor even common
sense is guiding those who propose
such a plan as the one last mentioned
which cannot fall to stir up the pre
judices and fears of ignorant Protes
tants to a dangerous pitch?
If those Jesuit college graduaves
wish to establish a fraternal organi
zation why don't they do so in quiet,
gentlemanly way without seeking to
drag the office of chief justice of the
United States into their plans and thus
engender the suspicion that they are
trying to build up a quasi-political or
ganization?
All signs in the political world at
the present time clearly point to an
early resumption of power in this coun
try by the Democratic party when a
great many members of the Catholic
Church will doubtless in the natural
course of events be appointed to of
lic-e, not because they are Catholics,
but because of the great number
of Catholic citizens who adhere to
the party and are prominent in
its councils in such case let us hope
that this pestiferous activity on the
part of our Catholic politicians, both
lay and clerical, but chiefly clerical,
will not have the effect of stirring up
another A. P. A. agitation such a re
sult will certainly be but the natural
outcome of this injection of religious
issues into political appointments.
In times gone by, when religious in
tolerance was rife, for Catholics as
such to stand by each other in poli
tical life was a mere matter of self
defense but this elimination of re
ligious prejudice from public affairs
is a new departure, and it is up to us
of the Catholic body to meet this gen
erous, liberal, and broad-minded spirit
of toleration at least half way, which
will doubtless be done for the great
body of our Catholic people have no
interest in doing othewise for in
stance, what does it matter to them
whether Richard Kerns or Richard Roe
be appointed minister to Austria? Such
a question can only be of interest to
some Catholic who is trying to build
up a political following the only mat
ter of geenral concern is—not what re
ligion does the aspirant for an office
profess—but whether he will be hon
est, upright, and efficient in perform
ing his duties the profession of ad
herence to the Catholic Church is no
guarantee of either efficiency or avail
ibility neither, unfortunately is it a
guarantee of honesty or good morals
hence the good old American doctrine
of keeping politics and religion entir
ely separate should be rigidly en
forced and politico-religious politicians
ignominiously squelched.
Very respectfully yours,
P. J. M.
HOW O'CONNELL
Started Arohbishop Ryan Upon a
Career Crowned With Honors.
Archbishop Rvan got his ambition
to be somebody in the world from a
pat on the head end a few words said
to him by Daniel O'Connell. the Eman
cipator.
In 1S44 he was .lli and a student ir»
Carlow College, Ireland. In that year
O'Connell visited the college and the
students were called upon to declaim
for his entertainment.
Ho sat through the speeches, appar
ently paying no attention to them, so
far as outward sign waa concerned,
until a lad, marked chiefly toy a thick
shock of fiery hair, mounted the ros
trum and began to speak. Then Mr.
O'Connell came out of his shell, his
whole attitude changed and he gave
earnest ear to what tiie boy had to
say from beginning to end.
He did more. As the student was
starting to step down from the plat
form the great orator, in an exccss of
enthusiasm, walked over to him,
placed his hand on the shock of red
hair ana said:
"My boy, your tongue will some day
make you famous. Don't neglect it, it
is your talent.".
That was all, but it stuck to young
Ryan's mind, l.ike other boys of the
time he had made a hero of O'Connell,
and he could not get away from the
prophecy. So at last he told himself
that, although he was set aside by his
family to be a priest, he would still
try to be what O'Connell said he could
be if he only would—an orator.
Three years later, just a few months
before O'Connell's death in Genoa, he
was billed to Kptak in a town near
Thurles. young Ryan's birthplace
When the doors were thrown open a
red-headed boy presented himself and
started to walk through.
"Hey!" yelled the doorkeeper, "you
can't get in without a ticket."
"But I want to hear Daniel O'Con
nell." protested the lad.
"Then buy a ticket," said the man.
"I haven't any money," confessed
the lad.
The man laughed.
"Then," he said, "you'll not hear
Daniel O'Connell speak this night."
But the boy would not be discour
aged. He sought out the stage en
trance.
"I want you to tell Mr. O'Connell
that Patrick Ryan would like to speak
to him," he said to the attendant.
"And who's Patrick Ryan?" asked
the attendant.
"I am," replied the boy, "and I want
you to take my name in to him and
tell him I'd like to speak with him for
a moment."
This man laughed just as heartily
as the other one had. He also said
much about the hoy's audacity in
thinking he could gain audience witn
such a distinguished person as the
Emancipator, and he did not neglect
to make other personal remarks about
what Cardinal Gibbons has called
"Archbishop Ryan's red hat that na
ture gave to him."
But young Ryan would not be
laughed down. He had a tongue Dan
iel O'Connell said it was his talent he
wanted to see Daniel O'Connell and
he talked and argued and joked and
bantered with the man until finally
the fellow, becoming impressed with
the pleader's earnestness, took in his
name.
A few minutes later Daniel O'Con
nell stood before the boy.
"Well?" he said.
"Mr. O'Connell," asked the youth,
"don't you remember me?"
The Emancipator took a good look.
"Why, bless me!" ho said, "you're
the boy whom I praised at Carlow Col
lege for speaking so well. What are
you doing here?"
The boy told him.
"So you want to hear me speak?"
said O'Connell. "Well, you shall. But
first tell me what you are doing now."
"I am studyirg to be a priest," was
the reply.
"Good," answered the agitator.
"Keep it up, and don't neglect your
tongue. You will make your mark
with it when you have entered the
Church. Come."
And so Patrick J. Ryan heard his
idol from an advantageous seat on the
stage the great man once again
prophesied that the lad would make his
mark as an orator and the boy's am
bition, awakened three years before,
had received fresh impetus.
St. Patrick's Church in Rome.
For more than a year the Church
of St. Patrick in Rome has been ris
ing silently, but quickly and majesti
cally from its foundations in the Via
Ludovisi—so quickly that it will be
ready for opening on next St. Pat
rick's Day and so majestically that
the new temple more than promises
to be another gem of ecclasiastical
architecture added to the treasures of
Rome. The architect is the Cheva
lier Aristide Leonori, already famous
for the many beautiful churches erect
ed by him not only in Rome but in
the world. The facade is mainly of
Tivoli travertine an ample portal,
rich in pilasters and columns, sur
mounted by a mosaic representing St.
Patrick receiving his mission from the
Pope, and flanked by two niches des
tined to contain the statues of St.
Bridget and St. Columkille, gives en
trance to the church, which is ap
proached by eight steps from tln
street. Over the portal and running
across the whole front is a large frieze
of carved arabesques, and upon this
rests a portico of nine arches, in tin
center of which is to be seen th coat
of-arms of the reigning Pontiff, and
above this again rises the large cen
tral window. The facade is crowned
by a cornice supported by fifteen
arches with pillars,'and in the middle,
over the great window, is a mosaic
representing St. Patrick in the act of
blessing. Above the tympanum and
crowning the whole edifice rises an
Irish cross in carved stone. The
length of the church, including the
ample vestibule, is about 175 feet and
the breadth about 78 feet. It is divided
into three naves, by large columns
of granite of Baveno with interposed
pilasters the central nave terminates
in an apse containing the high altar,
and small apses with altars also close
the minor naves the roof is flat and
decorated with inlaid woodwork.—
Rome.
interesting Booklets.
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ern Pacific Railway Company, No. 19
Nicollet House Block.
A pretty story of the great Napol
eon—or the Corsican tyrant,' as many
prefer to call him—is recalled by Mrs.
Hugh Eraser in her new work. "A
Diplomatist's Wife in Many Lands,"
says Ave Maria. It concerns a very
holy lady who was attended on her
death bed by a certain bishop. IL
was deeply impressed by her profound
knowledge of religion, and much edified
by the way in which she had made
her life conform to its teachings.
"Where did you learn your faith, my
daughter?" he inquired. "Ah," she re
plied when I was a little child I lived
at St. Helena. The Emperor spoke
to me one day and asked me what 1
knew of my catechism. He was not
satisfied with my answers, and he
said that he would instruct me him
self. For years he made me come to
him every day, and he patiently taught
me—for hours at a time. I owe my
knowledge of religion, all my faith
and joy in it, to him."
Some years of Mrs. Fraser's young
life were passed in this country and
the happiest of them, she tells us were
those spent at Bordentown, N. J., the
old home of the American Bonapartes.
There, at first hand, one might almost
say, she learned many stories and
traditions of Napoleon. His mother.
Madame Mere, was a sincerely relig
ious woman, and her early lessons
were remembered in those closing
years of solitude and humiliation at
St. Helena. "His efforts to make
amends, so far as his rigorous captiv
ity permitted, for the injuries he in
flicted on the Church and the Vicar of
Christ, were touching in their thor
oughness."