Page 1 Advertisements Column 2

Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 57, 12 April 1912, Page 1

How the tobacco habit is spreading. Even horses smoke after a hard nil. Wo have no time to sport away the •hours. All must be earnest in a world like ours. * * # "Good fellows" generally have bad habits. * * * With the death of Father BurlsoH last Sunday (says ''The Public"" of February o) there passed out of this world the last of the four Americana who iignwd most prominently in an ecclesiastical attempt a quartor ;J a century ayo to rulo New York politics from the Catholic Cathedral. Tlio political figure in the centre of it all was lfSnry George, and the American priest of the Catholic Church whoso support of George as tho Labor candidate for Mayor of .Now Yerk was treated as an ecclesiastical offence was Father McGlynn. Archbishop Corripan was the American priest of superior degree at the. Cathedral who drove McCilynn out of his parish and ri.fc- of tflio priesthood. All these have loiift sineo ixono. And now the last io £<> is Dr. Uurtsell, who defended Dr. M<Gfytm, and in consofiueno* was by the same ArehbishvW transferred from his city parish to a strange parish in the coamIry by way of pnnishimcnt. Bnth McCiiynn and Burtsell came, to their own before they diixl. ATcGlynn was restored to his priesthood over tlio head of tho Archbishop who deposit him, and Uurtsell was made a prelate of tho Pope's household. These two names aro linked affectionately together in the recollections of many Ci»>'>oli'- -mark-ing-men of New Y<y.-'» .v art many who are not Catholics. Neither can be forgotton whilo a memory <«vives oi Henry George, , to whose teachings both were devoted.