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New Zealand Tablet, 17 March 1910, Page 422

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Newman on St. Patrick ‘ The glorious St. Patrick,’ says Cardinal Newman, ‘ did a work so great that he could not have a successor in it, the sanctity and learning and zeal and charity which followed on his death being but the result of the one impulse which he gave.’ Truly a comprehensive and striking eulogy. The Three C’s Father Bernard Vaughan, at a meeting in London of the . ‘ Guild of Costers and Working Men,’ of which he is president, laid emphasis on the duty of going to the poll and voting for the right man. In the election, he. said, the right man would be. the man who would' go straight when the education question came to the front. .The.three: R’s were all very well in their right place, but they should

come after .the .three C’s Catholi- schools for Catholic childfen under Catholic teachers. These three C’s, Father Vaughan ’ urged, should be rubbed like embrocation into the heads: of every, candidate for Parliament. * The Dear Little Shamrock * 1 . Andrew Cherry, the author of this well-known song, was the so if-of a printer and bookseller in Limerick.' He was born in 1762, and apprenticed in Dublin to his father’s trade; but, becoming ‘stage-struck,’ joined a company of strollers at Naas. After enduring' for some time all the wretched vicissitudes of a stroller’s life, he ‘ returned to reason and the shop,’ and remained as his father’s assistant for three or four years, when he again determined to follow the stage as a profession, and ultimately achieved considerable success. - « That Andrew Cherry was a humorist is evident from the laconic note which he addressed to the manager of . the Dublin Theatre, whose breach of faith had occasioned Cherry’s leaving the irish stage. In answer to an application from this manager, after his success at Drury Lane, to enter into an engagement, Cherry wrote: I have been bitten once by you, and I will never give you an opportunity of making two bites of ‘ A. Cherry.’ .fV S " What the Germans Say -Later German speeches strikingly and strongly confirm the view, as to possible war, expressed in the utterances cited by us last week. According to the London Tablet , the well-known General Keim recently addressed the local branch of the German Navy League at Jena on the need of more strenuous diplomacy and of preparedness for war. It was, he declared, no use trying, to get through the world in felt slippers. *An energetic note,’ Said the General, ‘ must again be sounded. Anyone who maintains that there will be no more wars in the future is ready for the madhouse. A defeat in a future war would mean for us “ Jims Germania,” for we should then have ' the whole world against us.’ * * War,’ he continued, ‘ will be the result of opposing economic interests, for all the wars of modern times have originated in questions of an economic nature, and England, our/rival'in the economic domain, will conduct this war. I fear that our old military superiority is disappearing. The strength of the Army and of the Navy does not alone determine the victory. This is done chiefly by ethical and moral factors.’ Only a day or two before this speech was made, Herr Harden, in a lecture at Posen, declared that what Germany most needed was ‘ strong Ministers who would have the courage to tackle England.’ The German people, he said , (according to the Vorwarts), should leave all internal questions for the moment : and direct their energies against England. ‘ We!’ are not a poor weak nation; we have no need to be so anxious, and have no need to fight shy of settling matters with sucH ; .a Great- Power as England.’ n *