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Show j ; burcb Universal It Isn't Luck. t ,ick when a man succeeds; I' lf.i.n-t Uck when he wins the game. iTnver the list of his noble deeds, 411(1 'nU'" fi!ld thUt earned his right to fame. !.,,., t ?fini to you but a happy turn Oil tl'ie wheel of fate and a man climbs i in unistance that he had to earn. 0r ,!,,. t wipe 'twould have passed him by. K icn ' :l ffU'tr n man's success, lioii'cli the little goddess gives favors (Hit t)l(l ;n:i!i who is brave when he's in "' 'digress. Tho "f strength and of courage fV'MX. p,-t In nnst toil in the face of woe, r, hear adversity 'long with pluck; last, when his fortune smiles Ah, y,,,, ...tii'iot say that he wins "by luck. Detroit Free Press. Lent. rhP Ansrl.i-Paxon name for the month i f March was Lenet-Monat (Length Month), ft""111 tne rapid lengthening of ' the ii'V! " March. The word Lent is a I (n!!tr;icti.n of the name ot the month, i The f'Tty days' fast now so-called was jri?;i!'Jt,li by r'pe Telesphorus, A. D. ; ' Now a Monsignor. The rope has appointed Rev. J. Hen- Z flrick of ( vid. N. Y.. brother of the late I Hisliop T. A. Hendrick, bishop of Cebu, I a di.n.cstic prolate, which carries with I it tu. title of monsignor. The brief an- f imuncinK the appointment describes jior.sisnor Hendrick's church work, es- jwiallv (n the Philippines. 'a The Noblest in All Religion. j jiov. Melbourne P. Boynton, pastor of I the Lex ins tn Avenue Baptist church, ' c'hiccP;1- is reported to have said in a 3 scrmiin recently: "Restore the cross to a our spires, our jewelry and our relig- I jPUe books. It is lamentable that we have allowed it to become the symbol S f the Catholics (alone). It ought to typify the whole body of God's follow- frs; it makes my blood boil, when Cath- - 0j(i; are criticized for displaying the cress as conspicuously as tney do. Instead In-stead of j 'sting about this, we should emulate the Catholic in this respect. The cross is the noblest symbol in all religion re-ligion and should be found above every church." First Church for the Yaquis. : The first place of worship ever erect ed for th Yaqui Indians has just been dedicated in the village of Pitahaya, near (Juayamas, Mexico, .flight Rev. Icnatio Villespino, bishop of Sonora, officiated, and Governor Torres, a num ber of army officers and all the Yaqui i chiefs were present. When the peace acreunent with the Yaquis was made a year ago it was provided that a place of worship for the exclusive use of the In dians should be provided. The dedica-1 dedica-1 tioii of the church took place on the first t anniversary of the signing of the peace : pact. Eminent Jesuit. Father Hernn.rd Vaughan in a recent address in London on the Catholic press pave advice which might well be turned t'i account in America as In England. Here are a few of the good things he ; I Fa id: I The Catholic press! It is our great i -weapon, if we but knew it. The present i Pope knows it. Pius X once took the I stylosraph out of the hands of a Cath- ! olie journalist kneeling at his feet and j blessed it with these words: j "I tdess the symbol of your office, j My predecessors used to consecrate the s Hvords and armor ot Christian warriors. J 1 am happy to draw down blessings on ; the pen of a Christian journalist." A French archbishop not long ago told his flock that had they expended on the pn ss a tenth part of the money which they had spent on pious and i charitable institutions, those same insti- I tutions would not have been confis- i catd. ! He loyal to your press, and your press w ill be loyal to you. Show your best side to your press, and your press i will show your best side to the world. Our Catholic side is this best side. Let your support of the Catholic press take a practical shape. Buy, sub-! sub-! ccribe to Catholic newspapers, and urge f ethers to do the same. Advertise in j them. Regard the promotion of their f circulation as a form of Catholic Apos- ) tolate. as in fact it is. They are helping j to dissipate religious errors and preju- j dices, they are diffusing Catholic ideas. They s rve to counteract the fraudulent j foodstuffs of mind and heart which are j dnied out so plentifully by much non- I Catholic literature. H"W much of the "fraudulent food- jf stuffs" in tho form of "yellow" journals and "yellow" books of fiction is con- : sunied in America by Catnoilcs? If the quantity wore not large the yellow lit J '-rat ure would not prosper as it does. .'!.?. r cr. f Decadence in France. S '.( diamy Storrer contributes to j the F.-hruary North American Review j : irtiele on the "Decadence of s Fra:, ( . jrc. storer points out as one Slcn df t!,( decadence of France the ex- ! lu-:.,n i.f all religious sentiment from the school.; and the text-books. The ar- t" !- "Mi'oiudcs wuh; 'n: (France) is Indeed fallen. Noth-,ri-" can lift her up again to her place i tiT .i : the great world powers except a united ffort to throw off the bondage of (clinus tyranny. . . . We shall s- tin- s.-.ivation of France only on the 'eiy when we may behold her snatched from degradation and once more upheld w the two great pillars Religion and Just i ! Poles Will Protest. The poN.,s of America do not take Jcndiy to the plan adopted by the eensirs our-iu to have them designated in the c'xi federal census as Germans. Rus- !' !s and Austrians instead of Poles. h's plan is to be followed in accord- with the decision of congress to ' nie;, ,,,,, ,!)(, p0jticai instead of the ra- ' '' '-visions from which America's new otize' . an- being recruited. ''it the Poles by no means are pre-1 pre-1 ;iv"l t" have their racial character in ::,,,'fi'-:i obliterated, and mass meet-" meet-" cs will he called by the Polish National Na-tional Alliance to formulate a protest to o' forwarded to congress, the action of j which, ,hoV declare, is a slight to a Pr"'t people. h a classification as that proposed J nuid be misleading and result in con-, con-, fusion, The Pole is not sprung from ' rniari stock, and as for being an Aus trian. u,d, there Is no such thing as an Austrian.- save possibly the present em-P'ror. em-P'ror. The Pole, like the Russian, is a ' la. hut he is not a Russian for all "l:t, and he resents the imputation. ! Furthermore, the partition of Poland anio:ls Prussia. Russia and Austria, far r"in depressing the racial vigor of the fjUhj(.f.t pvnp!e, really has augmented it. i !lr Poles of today are giving to the orid famous scholars, poets, dramat-,Pts. dramat-,Pts. scientists: these leaders of thought f'prent what is truly the Polish spirit snd r.o other. Their work and the strong faith of j I ' the people in the future of Poland has KfT V,ie natial spirit and the belief that Poland will some day regain her political as she has always retained her racial unity. New Bishop of Hartford. Rev. John J. Nilan, for the past eighteen eight-een years irremovable rector of St. Joseph Jo-seph s church, Amesburg, Mass., has been appointed bishop of Hartford, conn., to succeed the late Bishop Tier-ney. Tier-ney. " Bishop-elect Nilan is a native of Newburyport. Mass., and was born on August 1, 1855. He pursued his college col-lege course In St. Raphael's college. Nicolet, Quebec, and his theological studies in St. Joseph's seminary, Trov, He was ordained on December 21, 18(8. He served as curate at St. Ste-P"?"'8 Ste-P"?"'8 thurch. South Framingham; St. Bridget's Abington, and St. James'. Boston. He was appointed permanent rector of St. Joseph's church, Amesbury. on June 1, 1892, in succession to the late Bishop Brady. Among his notable works There was the erection of a magnificent mag-nificent marble altar in the church at a cost of $5,000, and new Stations of the Cross, and the building of the Church of the Star of the Sea, Sales-bury Sales-bury Beach, a mission of the parish. The See of Hartford has been vacant since the death of lit. Rev. Bishop Tier-ney, Tier-ney, in October, 1908. Since then the affairs af-fairs of the diocese have been in charge of the administrator, the Rt. Rev. Msgr. John Synnott. There are 370,000 Catholics in the diocese dio-cese of Hartford. There are 345 priests and 1,274 sisters. The Catholic directory just issued credits the diocese with 16S churches with resident priests and fifty without resident priests. Eighty-three parishes have parochial schools, giving instruction to 35,576 children. Last year there were 15.246 baptisms and 3,835 marriages. The non-Catholic population of Connecticut is 675,000. Descendant of Wm. Penn, a Catholic William H. Penn, direct descendant of William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania, Penn-sylvania, died on Wednesday, February 16, at his home in Newark, N. J., at the age of forty. He was the seventh generation gen-eration of the historic Penn family. He is survived by his father and mother, the former being William Penn 6th, and by his wife, two daughters and a son, William Penn 8th. Mr. Penn was born in Elizabeth and was educated in the public schools there. He went to Newark twenty years ago, where he had since lived. He established estab-lished the William Penn Lamp company, com-pany, of which he was head at the time of his death. He was converted to the Catholic faith about two years ago and was a member of the Holy Name society of St. James' church. The Catacombs. Many ancient testimonials are extant to prove that the burial of every member mem-ber of the church was always, both in times of persecution and in the time of peace, accompanied by religious acts, the pryers of the church and the presence pres-ence of the priest. It was always regarded re-garded as one of the most tender and precious duties of Christian affection and we know with what reverential care the bodies of the martyrs, each relic and drop of their blood were gathered from the arena where they fell, and how the faithful exposed their own lives to collect col-lect it. The poet, Prudentius, describes the eager crowd that pressed around the body of the martyr Vincent, to dip linen napkins in his blood, and carry them home as precious treasures. The body was accompanied by the rela tions, and by their brethern in the faith, to the chant of psalms and canticles, in procession wfth tapers and torches, "and great triumphs" as we read of the burial of St. Cyprian In Carthage, although al-though the persecution raged; the legislation legis-lation and the Romans' respect for the dead repressing their hatred of the living, liv-ing, and preventing its violent manifestation. mani-festation. A similar pomp of triumph accompanied the remains of St. Agnes from the Forum to her parents' villa on the Nomentan Way. The "pious office of-fice of Deposition," or burial was performed per-formed in one of the chambers of the cemetery. Before the body was laid in its niche the sacrifice "pro dormitione," for repose, as St. Cyprian calls it, or an earlier witness, Tertullian, "obatio pro defunctis," the oblation for the departed, depart-ed, was offered; the body meanwhile resting before the tomb it was to occupy. oc-cupy. This is what St. Augustine tells us was done at the funeral of his mother, Monica, "when the sacrifice of our Redemption was offered for her, with her body laid out before her grave, according to the custom." The immense number of cubicula makes it probable that it was in them that the oblations for the dead were offered on the day of deposition, and the third, the seventh, sev-enth, the thirtieth, and the anniversary day. These private offices were distinct dis-tinct from the solemn synaxis, which was offered In the full assembly of the faithful, in a church, or, in times of danger, in the larger chambers of the catacombs. The body was then placed, without coffin of any sort, in the grave, laid face upward, with the hands composed com-posed by the sides, wrapped in linen covered with a thin stratum of lime, other linen and more lime. Flowers and green leaves were scattered over it, the niche was closed, and aromatic liquids sprinkled on the marble. Length of Life Among Animals. i The maximum length of life of some of the best known animals is as follows: fol-lows: The horse lives to a maximum of 35 years and the donkey a like period; pe-riod; the dog does not exceed 25 years, the rabbit from 8 to 10, the goose 30, the duck, the hen and tjie turkey a dozen years. Among the animals having hav-ing the best established reputation for longevity are: The crow, which lives 100 j-ears; the parrot and the elephant, which attain an age of 150 years. Carp, on the other hand, appear to have usurped their reputation, which was based on ill-understood facts from Chantilly and Fontainebleau. They rarely become centenarians. The tortoise" tor-toise" appears to be the animal that lives the longest. Vulgarization Scien-tifique. Hospital for Chicago's Sick Poor. During the recent visit to Chicago o? Mother Frances Cabrini, foundress of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart, arrangements were made for the erection of a large hospital for the special spe-cial benefit of Chicago's sick poor. Leper Hospital In Quito. Writing for the "Northeastern Cnrt-tian Cnrt-tian Advocate," Mrs. A. J. Sampson, wife of the United States minister it Ecuador, gives the following impressions impres-sions of a visit to the leper hospital at Quito: "Among these different classes of unfortunates un-fortunates are twelve resident Sisters of Charity, who are here, there and everywhere. Clothed in white, with kind, placid faces they minister to the suffering and speak cheerful words to each. The mother superior, who told me she had been in charge twelve years, had a face only in a thousand, strong and resolute, with a light upon it that spoke for the spirit within. "We asked her how she could endure to spend her life among such scenes. We were about leaving, and, without a word, she took my hand in hers and led mc to a tiny chapel hung in white. The altar was strewn with flowers; on one side hung a picture of Our Mothers ! of Sorrows, and near it hung one of the ; Good Shepherd, to which she pointed, and our question was answered. "We stood by her side a moment, looking into the face of the Good Shepherd, Shep-herd, and the contrast with all we had seen and felt during the two hours before be-fore was such that a hush fell upon us, and, in thoughts, we were transformed trans-formed beyond the clouds. A moment later the great doors banged behind us; we passed into the fresh air and sunshine sun-shine in silence and with thankful hearts for the blessings which crowned our own lives, while each felt that within was the greatest aggregation of misery we had ever seen, which was relieved only by the self denial and patient endurance of a handful of women who had consecrated their lives to a willing service for others, and who never turn back, but go calmly on in their chosen work until, from age or weakness they are forced to give it Into other hands." Twenty-Eight Married. A picturesque marriage ceremony, in which twenty-eight couples went to the altar, took place on January 29, at Plougastel, in Brittany, France. It is the custom in the district for all couples engaged during the year to be married on the same day. In the Holy Land. The Franciscans of the custody of the Holy Land have nine large monasteries mon-asteries and forty-seven small monasteries mon-asteries or hospices, in which there are altogether 509 Franciscans 253 Fathers, 34 fratres and 223 lay brothers tertiaries. They attend fifty-one parishes par-ishes or auxiliaries with 102.039 Latin Catholics and 1.100 Catholics of the Oriental rite, to whom they preach the gospel in twelve different lauguages. Besides they have forty-six churches and forty-six chapels. Fifty-eight sanctuaries sanc-tuaries are under their guardianship, and they maintain 496 almshouses. They have fifty-nine schools, with 4,020 pupils, under their direction, besides the large college in Aleppo and ten industrial in-dustrial schools. The orphans under their care number 144. They distribute food and clothing to 9,676 poor families. fami-lies. They have also several free dispensaries dis-pensaries and nine pilgrim houses. Don't Force Vocations. . It is appalling to thing of the great number of boys that come to naught as men, and all through the want of parental pa-rental prudence or thought. Do not laugh at your boy because of his desire to do something in no way kindred to your work; your sneer may beget despair de-spair in a useful soul. How many great ones in history fled from pursuance of which they won renown? Nature has her inspirations that no ill-usage will stifle. Encourage your boy to follow his own promptings, and perfect his aptitude for some particular role in life. You can not and ought not straight-jacket honest and honorable honor-able desire. Do not condemn him as dreaming! Even so "the dreamer lives forever," as dreams prove often the fountain-source of thought. You can not recast w-hat is inborn; you might as well attempt to make the boy's head fit in your shoe; to attempt it is brutal as the Chinese custom of compressing feet. Let him alone! Permit him to show his proper wish in the choice of a state of life, and then with counsel and prayer direct him. Do not make him a lawyer, .a doctor, a priestv You can not make over Nature. You con not force God's special purpose in your child's creation. If you do you will spoil his destiny and interfere with heaven's decree. Be careful and prayerful prayer-ful in touching the vocation of your child, for heaven's voice heard in the heart's precincts is more forceful than parental authority. It is a terrible thing to misdirect, it is loss here and maybe eternal loss. Words of Wisdom. Never put a sword in a mad man's hand. Never speak ill of those whose bread you eat. Never show your teeth unless you can bite. Never take a hammer to break an egg. Never tell your foe when your foot sleeps. Nobility without ability is like pudding pud-ding without suet. Malice is ever mindful. Maidens should be mild and meek, quick to hear and slow to speak. Lock your door, that you may keep your neighbors honest. He's well worthy of sorrow who buys it. He that counts all cost will never put a plow in the ground. Use the means and God will give the blessing. Search others for their virtues, thyself thy-self for faults. The greatest wealth is contentment with little. The handsomest flower is not the sweetest. The hotter the war the sooner the peace. The last suitor wins the maid. The lion's skin is never cheap. A mill can not grind with the water that is past. A mob has many heads bit no brains.. An offender never pardons. The path of virtue is the path of peace. The truest jests sourd worst in guilty ears. They need much whom nothing will content. The Shivering Diplomat. The Catholic Press of Sydney, N. S. W., protests in this fashion against the weak-kneed Catholic who is ashamed to stand by his colors: "If you speak of a Catholic grievance to a Catholic member of the parliament of New South Wales, he turns pale, his knees shake, and he looks as if he had suddenly remembered an appointment at his dentist's. 'Better say nothing about it, old man,' he advises nervously. If you persist, he talks of his wife and children, and the broad-minded Protestants Protest-ants who vote for him and whom he mustn't offend. He probably advises you to go to a Protestant member and state the case. 'It will come better from him, he ; says, with a degraded wink. Thus it Is that we generally find Protestant members speaking up for our hospitals and defending our orphan asylums on the rare occasions when defense is needed. Naturally, they are not very strong on these occasions, for they have not these particular interests at heart; nor are they fully in possession posses-sion of the facts. Moreover, they think it strange that the Catholic members are not up and doing for themselves." Death of General Mulholland. General St. Clair A. Mulholland died at his home in Philadelphia last Thursday Thurs-day night after a brief illness. His death was due to a nervous breakdown. He was 71 years old. General Mulholland had been United States pension agent in Philadelphia since 1894. He served in the Union army throughout the civil war. Early in his career he joined the local militia and after the outbreak of the civil war was active in recruiting the 116Th Volunteers, Vol-unteers, with whom he marched to the front as lieutenant colonel. Joining General Meagher's Irish Brigade in the Army of the Potomac, he soon had opportunity op-portunity to show his bravery when, at the battle of Chancellorsville, Colonel Heenan was disabled by a shell. The 23-year-old lieutenant colonel held the command valorously until himself wounded. At Gettysburg he led' his troops and throughout the Wilderness campaign. ' In 1895 congress granted him a medal of hon'or for his valor at Chancellorsville. Where Peace and Concord Are. We recently witnessed a beautiful and edifying sight in a local church. A young man and his wife were reading from the same prayer book. When he was ready to turn the page he would look the question to his partner and she would signify by a slight inclination of the head -whether she had finished the page or not. The thought presented it-seld it-seld to our minds, how pleased must God be to see husband and wife thus praying in unison, with child-like simplicity sim-plicity reading the same prayer book. What a beautiful argument in behalf of Catholic marriages! How inspiring to see husband and wife come like little children to the feet of our divine Lord to ask His blessings on all their undertakings under-takings during the coming week! Certainly Cer-tainly God's sacred shadow should and does hover over this household and in such a home should one expect to find true peace and Christian concord. Exchange. Ex-change. Paris Floods. Fast on the tidings a few weeks ago that the flood in Paris had grown to disastrous proportions, came the news that the Holy Father, first of all sovereigns sov-ereigns or heads of states, had forwarded, forward-ed, out of his poverty, a large sum of money for the victims of the Seine's uprising. up-rising. To the thoughts and sentiments which such news irresistibly suggested to many minds, Rome gives this expression: expres-sion: There is something especially striking in the situation which has produced this prompt proof of the Holy Father's charity. char-ity. Paris calls itself "the brain of the world"; Paris is the most typical center cen-ter of the latest phase of civilization; Paris, through its chamber of deputies, has banished God from the public life of the country, from the minds of the rising ris-ing generation; Paris has proclaimed that it has put out the lights of heaven, because human reason is good enough and strong enough for all its purposes; Paris has turned the homes and charitable charita-ble institutions of the religious congregations congre-gations to lay purposes, and 'seized on what it called "the milliard of the congregations." con-gregations." That has all happened within a few years. And now suddenly "this brain of the world" has burst a water vessel and become paralyzed. It cannot light even its electric rushlights, although it thought it had put out the lights of heaven; its great men, whose reason was enough to cope with all emergencies, stand impotent, with their arms folded, in the face of disaster. The real milliard of the flood has taken the place of the fantastic milliard of tho congregations; the laicized houses have to be again turned to the shelter of the homeless and afflicted; and the Father of all Catholics, who was proclaimed a "foreigner" in Paris, is the first to come to the relief of the victims! Excellent points for a mediation by the volatile majority in France's capital; cap-ital; but it is improbable more's the pity! that the meditation will be made. Ave Maria.. An Exploded Theory. "Do you believe there is anything in mental suggestion?" "Not a thing." "Don't you think it is possible if one persons keeps his mind steadily fixed on a certain thing which he wishes another to do that the other will be influenced .so that he will eventually do it?" "No; I don't believe in the theory at all. I've been wishing for a week that you'd pay me what you owe me without with-out making it necessary for me to ask you for it." The Clean Mouth. A distinguished author says: "I resolved re-solved when a child never to use a word which I could not pronounce before my mother." He kept his resolution, and became a pure-minded, noble, honored gentleman. His rule and example are worthy of imitation by every boy. Boys really learn a class of low, vulgar vul-gar words and expressions which are never heard in respectable circles. Of course, we cannot imagine a decent girl using words she would not utter before her father, or her teacher, or most esteemed es-teemed friend. Such vulgarity is thought by some boys to be "smart," the next thing to "swearing," and yet "not so wicked." But it is a habit which leads to profanity, pro-fanity, and fills the mind with evil thoughts. It vulgarizes and degrades the soul, and prepares the way for many of the gross and fearful sins which now corrupt society. Priest Addresses Ministers. Rev. Francis W. Howard, pastor of Holy Rosary parish, Columbus, appeared ap-peared before the Protestant Ministers' council of Ohio Monday morning at the Y. M. C. A., and delivered an address on "The Catholic Position in Education." Educa-tion." The address was heard with great interest. Father Howard is secretary secre-tary general of the Catholic Educational Education-al association and has long been identified identi-fied with the management of the parochial paro-chial school system in the Columbus diocese. Portugal's Queen-Elect. The marriage of King Manuel of Portugal and Princess Victoria Patricia, youngest daughter of the Duke of Con-naught, Con-naught, will be solemnized in May. Announcement An-nouncement to this effect will be communicated com-municated officially to the foreign courts soon. Thomas Francis Meagher. When the battle of Fredericksburg was at its height, on December 13, 1862, the Irish Brigade, under the command of General Thomas Francis Meigher, was ordered to make a dash from the town and attack Marye's Heights. Towering immediately before them roue the heights held by the confederate troops, their batteries directing a raking rak-ing deadly fire on the Union lines. Literally Lit-erally into the jaws of death the Irishmen Irish-men charged, following their intrepid leader. A war correspondent on the scene, whose business it was to keep cool and write To his newspaper of what he saw, said of the advance on Marye's Heights that day. by Meagher's men: "Neither at Fonterioy nor at Waterloo was such courage seen as was displayed today by those sons of Erin in their six frantic dashes against the almost impregnable position held by the confederates. Within forty yards of Colonel Walton's batteries the bodies of the men in blue were piled in masses, showing what manner of men they were." Meagher led 1,200 men into action at Fredericksburg. Fredericks-burg. Next morning 2so anwerd to their names at roll call. Thomas Francis Meagher, Irish Nationalist orator, whose speech on "The Swords" will ever live in literature, and brigadier general in the army of the United States, was born in the city of Waterford, August 3, 1823. His father was a merchant of Importance. The son was given all the advantasies of a liberal education. He was trained in the Jesuit colleges of Clongowes Wood in Ireland and Stoney-hurst Stoney-hurst in England. When his student days were over he entered upon the battle bat-tle of life rarely equipped as a scholar and a public speaker. It was not long before he was marked for official distinction dis-tinction at the hands of the British government. gov-ernment. He was arrested and tried for high treason in 1848. and on October 23 of that year, in common with other good Irishmen, was sentenced to be "hanged, drawn and quartered." This sentence was later changed to penal servitude for life, and in 1849 Meagher was sent in a convict ship to Tasmania, from where he escaped in 1852 and made his way to New York, where he was given enthusiastic welcome. He was admitted to the bar and soon was in the enjoyment of good court practice, from which he diverted for some months to go on an exploring expedition to Central Cen-tral America. In 1S61, when the southern south-ern states receded, he became an ardent ar-dent supporter of the Union. He traveled trav-eled through the northern cities and towns, making eloquent addresses to his brother Irishmen to rally to the support of the Stars and Stripes. In November, '61, he reported in Washington Washing-ton at the head of his Irish Brigade o which President Lincoln made hira brigadier general in February, '61. With his command he fought with distinction at Fair Oaks, Antietam, in the seven day' tight near Richmond, and in Tne charge of Marye's Heights at Fredericksburg. Freder-icksburg. In 165 General Meagher was appointed acting governor of Montana, then a territory. He was accidentally drowned in the Missouri river July 1, 1S67. Catholic Messenger. The Town of Nogood. My friends, have you heard of the town of Nogood, On the banks of the River Slow, Where bloom? the Waitawhile flower, ! fair. And the Sometimeorother scents the air, And the soft Goeasys grow? It lies in the valley of Whatstheuse, In the province of Lethcrslide, That tired feeling is native there, It's the home of the reckless Idontcare, Where the Giveitups abide. j The town is as old as the human And it grows with the flight of years. It is wrapped in the flag of idlers' dreams. Its streets are paved with discarded schemes. And sprinkled with useless tears. The College-bread fool, and the Rich-man's Rich-man's heir Are plentiful there, r.o doubt. The rest of the crowd are a motley crew. With every glass except one in view The Foolkiller is barred out. My friend from the dead-alive town Nogood If you would keep away, Just follow your duty through good and ill. Take this for your mojto: "I can! I will!" And live up to it each day. W. E. Penney in New Haven Register. Regis-ter. The Art of Dying Well. Speaking at the first noonday Lenten service in the Old Cathedral, St. Louis, Archbishop Glennon discoursed on "The art of dying well." "The art of dying well," said his grace, "is the art of living well. There are three things that business people never like to do to make their wills, to settle their spiritual account and to die. Consequently, the last days of the business man's or the worldly woman's life are very pathetic. They have learned many things, but not the art of dying well. "It is a very important thing for you to learn the art of dying well. How will you learn it? By flattering yourself that Mother Church will send you a priest when you are dying, that Mother Church will guard you from the evil one. Is that the art of dying well? No. "There are those who follow these tactics, tac-tics, not out of regard for the church power to undo the past, but because it suits better their way of living. "The art of dying well is not a mechanical me-chanical art. It is not a question of the mere surroundings of a death bed. It is not a question of sending for a priest when your life is finished. Who knows but that the priest may have speeded many a soul to punishment instead of reward? The priest may say, 'Depart, Christian soul, to the God that created you.' "The soul may depart. But not to mercy, but to judgment. "The art of dying well is not a system of check and counter check, whereby you say, 'Well, now I am going to die; I commend my soul to God. I haven't thought of Him, nor of faith, during mj life, but God is merciful; He will take me back.' "You may not be sure that such an opportunity is given you. What is the art of dying well? The art of dying well is defined in this way. It is the art of living well. Remember, as you have lived so you will die. The fate that is ahead of you depends on your life work and on your duty here. Do not apply for extenuation. You cannot play tricks. To live for God means to die with God. Remember death not as a gruesome tragedy that terminates this existence, but as a sequel to a life well lived." Two Cardinals Coming. Dispatches from Rome and Baltimore state that the Pope has formally appointed ap-pointed Cardinal Vannutelli his legate to the Eucharistic congress at Montreal in September, and that the cardinal archbishop of Baltimore has formally signified his intention to be present at the congress, notwithstanding his years and engagements. Canada will warmly welcome these princes of the church. Cardinal Vincent Vannutelli is one of the six cardinal bishops of the hierarchy, hier-archy, reduced to five the other day by the death of Cardinal S.-tfolli. His brother Seraphin is also of this order of cardinals. The legate was born at Genazzano, Palestrina diocese, in 1836, and is consequently in his 74th year. He wes made a cardinal in 1889. He has been the Pope's legate to all the Eucharistic Eu-charistic congresses these late years. He is a man of great physique and commanding presence. Cardinal Jam?s Gibbons is archbishop of Baltimore. He was born at Baltimore Balti-more in 1834, and is consequently 76 years old. He was made cardinal in 1886. He is of the Order of Cardinal Priests. For the last fifty years Cardinal Car-dinal Gibbons has been a prominent figure fig-ure in American church history. War on the Pope Stopped. A special cable to the New York Sun says that the attempt recently made by Italian anti-clericals to mttiate an open war against the Pope and the Vatican with the object of forcing the Pope to leave Rome, has failed. Naturally it was realized at the beginning that the undertaking was difficult of realization. Still, the anti-clericals determined to wage war on the Vatican even at the risk of revolution. What deterred them from the attempt at present is the fear of international complications and possibly armed foreign for-eign intervention in defense of the Papacy. Signor Ettore Ferrari, grand master of the Italian Freemasons, dissuaded dis-suaded the anti-clericals lest Austria rush in to aid the Vatican and seek a pretext for a war asainst Italy. Other anti-clerical leaders share the same view. They allude to war with Austria as the inevitable result of a campaign against the Vatican. Antonio Maffi fears a civil war. Luigi Mainiori opposes the expulsion of the Pope. He says it is better to watch your enemies at close quarters. The scheme fell ! through, Umberto Votari. its initiator, admitting that it was useless and dangerous. dan-gerous. The Active Mind. The active mind is never lonely: It Is 1 self-sufficient. The students and the thinker revel in solitude. However, ; very few. of us want solitude all the time. We all need good friends, the ties ' of family life, and give and catch con- t versations of the neighbor. But it is when we are quite alone that we turn matters over in our minds, when we get a big. broad view of life, when we lay plans, direct our work, dwell upon the tenderness of those we love and those who love us. A few moments of profitable, profit-able, restful solitude, fifteen minutes with a good book, fifteen minutes with good music these ore moments spent in self-culture and education. When you grow so interesting that you like to be by yourself you will be so interesting inter-esting that everybody will want to be with you. Japanese Bishop to Rome. The Most Rev. Xavier Mugabure, archbishop of Tokio, is going to Rome to present to Pius X an account of the position of Catholics in the Land of the Rising Sun. No country in the far east looks so hopeful to the Catholic missionary mis-sionary as does the empire of the Mikado. Mi-kado. Eulogy on Washington. Following are the closing parargaphs of the oration of Gen. Henry Lee "Light Horse Harry" delivered in Congress after the death of Washington: Washing-ton: "Who is here that has forgotten tho vales of Brandy wine, the fiMs of Gtr-mantown Gtr-mantown or the plains of Monmouth? Everywhere presctr, wants of every kind, obstructing, numerous an! valiant vali-ant armies encoiuiterm:?, himself a host, he assuaged oi:r sufferings, limited lim-ited our privations acid upheH our tottering tot-tering republic. Shall I display to you the spread of the fir.: hisj soul by rehearsing the pruises f tho hero of Saratoga and his much lived compeer of the Carolines? No; ow Washington Washing-ton wears not borrowed glory. To Gates to Greene, he icave without ic-scrve ic-scrve the applause due to their eminent emi-nent merit: and long mov the chiefs of Saratoga and ot KutAw receive the grateful respect of a grateful people! "Moving in his own orbit, he impaited heat and light to his most distant satellites; and, combining the physTiul and moral force of pll within his sphere, with irresistible weight he took his course, commiserating folly, disdaining dis-daining vice, dism lying treason and invigorating despondency, until the auspicious hour arrived, when, united with the intrepid force of a potent and magnanimous ally, he brought to submission Conwallis, since the conqueror con-queror of India, thus finishing his long career of military glory with a lustre corresponding to his great name, and in this his last act of war, affixing the seal of fate to our nation's birth. "First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen, he was second to none in the humble and endearing scenes of private life. Pious, just, humane, temperate, sincere, uniform, uni-form, dignified and commanding, his example was edifying to all around i him, as -were the effects of that example ex-ample lasting. "To his equals, he was friendly; to his inferiors, kind; and to the dear object ob-ject of his affections, exemplarily fonder. fon-der. Correct throughout, vice shuddered shud-dered in his presence and virtue always al-ways felt his fostering hand; the purity of his private character gave effulgence effulg-ence to his public virtues. "His last scene comported with the whole tenor of his life. Although in extreme pain, not a sigh, not a groan, escaped him; and with undisturbed serenity se-renity he closed his well-spent life." Saying Good-Bye. There are many persons who avoid saying good-bye when parting with friends. There is something so akin to actual pain about it that many persons per-sons steer clear of the formal mode of leave-taking. The summer vacation means the reuniting of friends or families fami-lies and half its pleasure is lost for a while when the poignant fact that a separation is necessary must be faced. Parents and children are again separated, sepa-rated, sweethearts, friends, acquaintances, acquaint-ances, relatives and one kindred tie severed from another. It was Bulwer who said that the pain is saying goodbye good-bye is the thought of what the circumstances circum-stances will be under which we meet again. The chances are there will be many meetings, but no one can expect circumstances to be always the same and the cycle of time brings about its various changes and moves friends farther apart and knowing this, we reluctantly re-luctantly depart from those who have first claim upon human affection. Ashland Press. For Cleaning Wall Taper. Where the, paper is smoked or otherwise other-wise soiled, but still in good condition, this is recommended for cleaning: Take one quart of flour, one heaping tea-spoonful tea-spoonful of salt, one tablespoonful of cooking soda, three tablespoonfuls of common household ammonia, and one pint of rainwater. Mix well and steam for half an hour, in a greased pan, then cut into pieces to handle while still hot and kned thoroughly as you would dough until perfectly smooth; keep- in an air-tight jar until ready to use; make only as wanted, and rub the paper with the dough, finishing one space before beginning another. Another way is to use a mitten of turklsh toweling, or canton flannel, dipping in bran, fine oatmeal, or flour; or even cornmeal, and rubbing as you would scour a floor, changing the bran or flour as often as it gets soiled. Men who possess opinions and a will. Men who see the. divine in the common. com-mon. Men who "would rather be right than be president." Men who will not lose their individu Men who will not think anything profitable prof-itable that is dishonest. Men who will be honest in small things as well as in great things. Men who will make no compromise with questionable things. Men whose ambitions are not confined con-fined to their own selfish desires, chances: who are afraid of failure. Men of courage, who are not cowards In any part of their natures. Men who are larger than their business; busi-ness; who overtop their vocation. Men who will give thirty-six inches for a yard, and thirty-two quarts for a bushel. . j Men who are willing to sacrifice private pri-vate interests for the public good. Men who are not afraid to take other for private life, honesty for business purposes and an- All Correct. The professional point of view is rarely rare-ly that of the humanitarian. A passenger pas-senger on a London omnibus calls out to the conductor: "Ere, there! Whoa! There's an old chap fallen off the 'bus!" "All right," responds the conductor, cheerfully. '"E's paid his fare!" London Lon-don Sketch. The Happy Medium. "Father," said little Rollo, "what is a happy medium?" "I suppose, my son, that it Is one who can earn several hundred dollars a day by making tables and chairs move around the room." Washington Star. Lucky Eagle. "The American eagle," said the orator, ora-tor, "knows no fear." "Yes," replied Mr. SIrius Barker, "the American eagle is mighty lucky. Any bird that isn't good enough to eat has a right to congratulate itself these 3ays." Washington Star. Can Science Affect Dogma? ! ' j : The dogmas of the Catholic faith are , f ' as unchangeable as the Divine Truth; i . 1 . : . the Catholic church is the guardian of j . them and Is fully responsible for them. . ':.!;' But it is different with other tenets, j .'. I ' large in number, which are believed !,.'..:,.. and held as revealed, to some extent, !."'; at least, by God. These are not, or at i ' " least they are not as yet, dogmas of j j . -: faith. They may be changed. After . j . . j'- . more thorough investigation it may be found out that they were never re- ; ' ' , r vealed by God, or at least that th i j . ' : special meaning heretofore attached to ' ' i them was not revealed truth. If the j 1 r; object of such a tenet is within tlw i . . j ". ' range of some natural science, the tes- (' tirnony of that science will be received j ' , . , with due deference. Since the Catholic ! ' ' i church proclaims that truth is one, that there cennot be conflict between ' ' natural and supernatural truth, between be-tween science and faith, it is en- ' tirely consistent to admit that any fact ' or opinion disproved by science has not . been revealed by God; that the pre- ' ' J vious probability of its being revealed ' i " : is brought to naught by the verdict of science. ; ' I We speak of real science, the data .! . ' ,' i of which are positive, unquestionable, '. ! definite, and not of hypotheses, the- " j ories. ephemeral systems of philosophy, j to which their authors could not war- I rant even a few years' continued and worthy life. Between the data of scl- i ence and the real dogmas of faith there : ; : ' ? ' was never any conflict, nor can there . ' . be. The reason of this is that there Is ' ' t . . hardly any common ground upon which j both can come into serious conflict; or ' at least the regions vhere the super- s , . i natural object of faith and the natural ..' object of science meet, are too abstract, i too far removed from all experimental .. . '. verification, to allow human science ' any claim of certainty in his specula- i tions. Alexander Mercier. O. P., in tha r ! October Catholic World. r I ' Practices for Lent. ; . Praj" much. , . He-ar mass every day, and high mass ! and vespers on Sundays. j j ' Attend all the sermons and instruo- ; k ; . , tions you can. ; ' Ilei.1. 'it least one good spiritual book, i ' ; through Go to confession and holy communion ; frequently during the holy season. ! Regard Lent as the most beautiful ; j and useful period of the year. . ' Don't grumble at it nor wish it over. ' ' ' Practice voluntarily some mortifica- . j tion beyond what you are strictly bound to; for example, abstinence from alcoholic alco-holic stimulants, from tobacco, from ' . sweets. i Increase your love for everybody, awl expel all rancor from your hearts. , ' j ; Develop character the ability to do ; the things you want to 0o. j i Cultivate tender and constantly in- ' creasing devotion to the blessed sacra- : ment and to the passion of Our Lord. j Experience. There are two kinds of experience ; in the world. One is the continued round of repeated actions and events. j a mere mechanical reiteration of joy ; ; and sorrow, ups and downs, successes . and failures a kind of chapter of ac- ' cidents which leave no very definite ; ; impression after they have passed I v away, and produce no very marked ef- feet upon the life they thus chequer. The other is that which is woven into ' ' I the very web of existence, giving it j ; tone, color, texture, and strength. Tha j j one, barren to its owner. Is necessarily ' J barren to another generation; the other, striking down deep roots into the be- ; ing of him who sustains it, as surely . ' i . grows and bears fruit in those who ' come after him. j I Alarming. ; j Alarmed Motorist (after collision ! ' . Are you hurt? ; ' i . Butcher's Boy Where's my kidneys? j Punch. : ' ' ' i i ; |