People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVII, Issue 12, 25 March 1909, Page 468

People We Hear About

The Hon. Richard Campbell, who has been appointed a Supreme Court judge in Manila, was born near Belfast, and welit to the United States in his early youth. He . became a newspaper reporter in New York, Philadelphia, and Washington. He studied for the law in Georgetown University. He was appointed by President Roosevelt as assistant to the Attorney-General of the Philippines in 1902 ; served four years in the Department of Justice, and was promoted in 1906 to be District Attorney of tho Moro Province and a member of the Legislative Council. . Mr. Campbell is thirty-six years- old, .is a Catholic, and takes a keen interest in things Catholic in the Philippine Islands. Ex-President Roosevelt, _ who discovered Mr. Campbell, has often praised his work in the Philippines. Mr. Campbell is a member of the University Club, the Catholic Club of New .York, and the Knights of Columbus. The Most Rev. Dr. Q'Donnell, #he patriotic Bishop of Raphoe, is a prelate of remarkable zeal and energy. He will fix a day for visitation of some churches of his diocese. He will rise at 6, drive twenty miles, say Mass at 8, and speak to the people; then breakfast, drive another fifteen miles or so, and be present at the 12 o'clock Mass, and* again address the- people. Then he will go another twenty miles, have dinner with the local clergy, preside and preach at the * evening devotions, and the same evening will return to Letterkenny. He is wonderfully beloved by his clergy and people, and justlpr * §Oj for it wpu}s be difficult to find a more kind-hearted and fatherly -man. He lives for his people, and spends himself and is spent for their spiritual and temporal welfare. He is a man of great scholarly attainments, and distinguished himself long ago, both as a student and professor in Maynooth College. In the course of an article on the centenary of Sir John Moore, the London Daily Neivs said : ' The English are a nation" of captains.' This statement excited the ire of Lieutenant-Colonel Warburton, who wrote as follows : ' There has not been an English General since Marlborough. Wellington was born"~ot Dangan Castle, Meath, of an old Irish family called Wesley, and christened in Dublin. Wolfe was born at Ferneaux Abbey, Kildare, and christened at Westerham, nearly in the same case as the Brontes (Bruney). His grandfather defended Limerick against William 111. Sir John Moore and the Napiers were Scotsmen ; so was Abercr~ombie (Egypt) ; so were Napier, of Magdala, Crawford, and Clyde. Wolseley and Roberts • are" Irish. So was Gough. The generals and statesmen who saved India to Great Britain were Neill Nicholson," the two Lawrences (Irish), Edwards (Welsh), and Rose (Scotch). I know of Wolfe because my great-grandfather served under him at Quebec. I don't know whether Scotsmen like to be called English, but certainly Irishmen do not. Is it worth while, however, to feed the enormous selfishness jnf Englishmen, which you in your own columns have been -known to condemn, by claiming as such the genius of other nationalities?' Poetry does not evidently pay in the United States, ~ as a contemporary draws attention the fact that nearly all the Catholic writers in that country, are engaged in other occupations for a living. Necessity compels them to be busy workers. With the exception of, perhaps, Miss Eleanor C. Donnelly, we doubt if there is a single- Catholic poet in America who is not forced to rely upon some trade or profession for a livelihood. Miss Louise Imogen Guiney was, until recently, a town postmistress; James Riley, author of ' Songs of Two People,' is an employee of the Post Office Department ; William J. Fischer, a Canadian, is a country doctor; Thomas A. Daly, whose poems are. quoted everywhere, is the manager of a Catholic newspaper; Denis A. McCarthy, author of two volumes of poetry, is assistant editor of a Catholic newspaper; Helen Hughes, whose poems appear monthly in Donahoe's Magazine, is a woman country doctor at Mankato, Minnesota; Mary Curtin Shepherd is a clerk in the Marshall Field Store at Chicago; Daniel J. Donahoe, author of nine volumes of genuine poetry, is a hard-worked lawyer at Middletown, Connecticut; Charles Hanson Towne is a sort of under editor on the Smart Set; Thomas Walsh, whose work is found in the Century, Harper's, Atlantic, and simi- . lar; from month to month, is a general writer who knows what hack work is ; James Jeffrey Roche was editor^ of the Boston Pilot. Finally — for one might continue this enumeration through a page — Father John B. Tabb was until recently a teacher of English literature at St. Charles's College, Ellicott City, Maryland. '