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Show IV ; 5 I : f Eatesi irisb news j. l ii.stki:. J ; Tho a-tual aiiHium .ub.scribed hy I ' ', . ; - tli" Nationalists of Belfast at tlvir I mc-tiiij; on August 4. amounted to fi; j " . ! ' ; O.'orf v illi. a ! Ja years, son of Aii'iiow Vint, tailor. Willipm street, i J-rry. was drvtv.d in tiio river F;yle ! ,M al lied, Ausust cl. at Marlborough i I'ro-Cath (i) a!, Dublin. John !i i'o.vlrr. t iller son of Or. Alexander I ' l-'ord. Waterfnrd, t Kilt-en. onlv I ' V daiilr.er of (lie laie Mr. and Mr. 1 . fisarles O'Brien. Luryan. I Anure.v Dnherty. aged 'I'l. a school I u-afln-r of Kdinbnrpr National school, ' , Olonties. was drowned while bathing ' m .N'arin, Donegal, recently. ! . .l; s. H. 'rozier. Rrockaugii. Tempo, who has been serious ailing for the i j past three jears. died on .l-.ily I! During: her long reeidenee in Broe- ' kaugh. she was much esteemed by ail ",' ' " v iii knew her. Ml XSTKIt. '. Dr. '(.'. Jlickey has been elected medical officer of Kilinibill disjiets-' disjiets-' s-ary district. I The tenants on Lord Lisle's prop- ! .'iiy in Kingwilliamstown have juir- I k ; chaseii their holdings on the following 1 terms: First term tenants by the sale 1 will receive a reduction equivalent to f 7s in the pound; non-judicial tenants, j ' bs in the pound; tenants whose rents were fixed by a valuer sent by the , ' landlord. 7p -Jc in the pound, second j t rm tenants, tis in the pound. j ' 1)1 KD August n. Denis Ilanlon. j Bank place. Limerick. August . Mrs. S .Margaret Little, 27 John street. Lim- j .erick. Recently. Cornelius Fogaity, j -Adelaide Cottage. Brupp. August 10, ; -Mrs. Dorothea Frost, .1 Lower Mallow -street. Limerick. Recently, Edward Ryan. Annaholty. ! The death was announced in Lim erick on August S. of Rev. Father Gately. Society of Jesus, who died at Melbourne Australia.. The deceased ; .clergyman was for many years direc-I direc-I j ..tor of the Sodality attached to the I ! ' , Limerick church of the Sacred Heart. . At the monthly meeting of the Tip- -perary branch of the United Irish -League on August 7, Dr. O'Ryan pre-' pre-' " aiding, it was announced that the I b mount of the annual collection to the " parliamentary funds came to over s;.. I 1 Among the recent visitors to the I Tcoumry was General Michael Emmet I Yorrell. a distinguished Irish Amerl- I .can, and a native of Dublin road. Ne- I nagh. who went to the United States ' ; ' ' " at the age of 14 years, and served in I ' the civil war, for which he received a J ' . medal of the order of merit. I I I LKINSTKIi. 1 t . ' , The death occurred on August 6 at 2 , the Sacred Heart convent. Ferrybank. I waterford of .Sister Mary. Martha I - -Prendergast, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. f Prendergast. Craiguenamanagh. and j ister of Father Prendergast, Carlow. j Rev. Joseph Guinan. C. C, Ferbane, has been appointed parish priest of I Bornacoola parish. Joseph Byrne, for many years I teacher in the Rathhangan schools, j was presented with an address and I purse of sovereigns by his friends and I pupils on August 3. M.r. Byrne has taken up his residence in London. - The parliamentary fund was start- ed in Longford on August 8, and the I response the collectors met with far I . -. ' exceeded last year. 9 . m m ICOXXACHT. Galway Rural council has granted the clerk. Robert Mullery, an increase I of 15 per year in salary. The late Very Rev. Canon Flatley, of Aughagower, left all his estate to charity. I DIKD August 7. suddenly. James j Gavahan. Glann. aged 68 years. Aug- l ut, 4, Kathleen Mclntyre, Bridge j ' House. AYestport. aged 3 years. Aug- . ust 1 1. Mrs. John Tuffy, Belcarra. Re- -cently. Mrs. Mary Garvey, Mount ! street, Claremorris. r Two successful brothers. Messrs. I ' "William and Patrick Hoban of Man- nington. W. Va.. sons of the late Wil- ?' '. . ham Hoban of Carramore, Castlereaa. I l have .lust arrived on a visit to the old f sod. The brothers have spent about ' twenty-eight years in the United j ' - states. Married. August H. at the Belana- ! gare. by the Rev. Thomas O'Beirne, ' ! . ,'. .. Bal gar. County Galway (cousin Ii 'f the bride), assi.sted by the Rev. M. ..Keano. c. C James, clerk of the prison, pris-on, Kilkenny, eldest son of John Raf- ' r tery. Castlecole. to Jennie, youngest I daughter of Peter Hanily, Kean's park, I , ' ' county Jioscommon. JIOMi; Rl Li: AND CrJLMAX SCARF. ( Addressing the annual meeting of , th' lOast Cork executive of the United Irish league, at Middleton last evening. even-ing. Capita in Donelan. M. P.. said home rule was progressing by leaps ;;nd bounds in Great Britain. The ouestioiis chiefly discussed at present ; m London were the German scare and Irish home rule. If the German scare s had produced t.o other good result it I : had served to focus the attention of ! tli-- English people- on home rule be- , (ause never before did Great Britain so ardently desire an alliance with the United States if America, and British j siaieymon now clearly recognized that ' i lhr only v.;' to secure that longed- 1 for alliance- was to g'v.r.t self-govern- ' inent to Ireland. He was delighted lo !iae the oppor-t oppor-t tunity of congratulating that impor- ' ;ant meeting of Kast Cork delegates' . upon the very strong position held by j the United Irish league, due to the whole-hearted manner in which Na- j , tionalists had thrown themselves intoj organization work. I Hi: MKAXIXG t)V (. II. S. Have you ever been asked concerning concern-ing the significance of the letters I. Jl. S. V This mysterious monogram is associated with many s;icred articles -of our religion; it is printed on tlje . " -cover of the Holy Bible, and stamped upon the cross of the rosary; it is . worked in golden letters on the vest- t 'monts of the priest, and even chisled .'upon ihe altar itself. Though it is j .familiar to all Catholics, there are ijriany of whom its true meaning i? unknown. Paring the centuries through which , , il has been used by Holy Mother 1 f'hurch three different interpretations I liave been given to this mystical syni- I , Two of them, though believed by 'many today, atid sometimes given in I , ' Lwoks of refere nce are; incorrect. The first of these is. that it stands for the j three words: "In hoc signo" in this sign taken from the luminous cross, miraculously displayed in the heavens before the army of Constantine. The other incorrect interpretation is, that it means: "Jesus Hominum Salvator" Jesus. Savious of Men. These two views, held by the many, are indeed laudable, but not authentic; laudable, because the first reminds us of the i eternal victory that is won by those j who march beneath the standard of I Christ; and the second teaches us that j Jesus Christ died upon the cross to j redeem and to save mankind. Though prafsworthy and pious, these interpretations interpre-tations are not authentic, for they differ dif-fer from the teaching of the first Christians. tn regard to this symbol, the fathers fath-ers of the early Church tell us that it is simply the first three letters of the Greek- word 'His. meaning "Jesus." In time the Greek letters '1HS were i displaced by the Latin characters I. H. S.. but the meaning of the symbol has remained the same, simply the sacred sa-cred word Jesus. i WHIGS. MIJIIKALS. RADICALS. j We do not share that, apprehension. We believe that the leaders of the Liberal party are conscious of the certain cer-tain fact that defection toward the Whig side of politics would rive the party asunder. Indeed ,we would go so far as to say that the defection of j Whigs to Tories and of Liberals to Whigs would merely mean that a clearer line of division would verv soon be drawn between the political forces of this country. It could only result in leaving the stagnant elements on one side and the progressive ele-tnents ele-tnents on the other. Orderly advance in the path of social reform would perhaps per-haps be quicker, but whether ii. uouid be wiser is open to doubt. In a country coun-try like ours no one wants revolution; most will be content with evolution. Our society does not require to be destroyed de-stroyed but improved. Careful and considered advance therefore is impe rative, r-ative, if movements of which none can forsee the end are not to be set on foot and urged forward with breakneck break-neck speed. The direction in which the democracy is determined to go is clear. And if the Whigs are prudent they will see that to cut across the- advance ad-vance of the people is to provoke those very actions which they would gladly delay or prevent. Belweet the Tories and the Liberals there is a world of difference in principle; the difference is not so large in practice. That may be due to the deadweight of the Whigs, If so. they must be dropped or the Liberal party will be dragged down with them to destruction. destruc-tion. Catholic Times. TIIK CIIOLKKA. However introduced, whether by a gang of gipsies from Batum. who stopped at Train, or a party of Russian Rus-sian pilgrims from Odessa, who visited vis-ited the Church of St. Nicholas at Bari. cholera has caused a considerable considera-ble number of deaths in the provinces of Bari and Foggia. in Italy, and this being the case, the local government board is to be commended for bavins: bav-ins: warned the sanitary authorities of British ports to be on their guard against the introduction of the epidemic. epi-demic. Happily the disease does not create such havoc now as it did formerly, for-merly, thanks to improved sanitation and preventive measures, but it is still an affliction to be dreaded, and precautions pre-cautions to ward it off cannot be too carefully taken. About this date lasT year it made its appearance in Rotterdam. Rotter-dam. Some deaths occurred but the authorities entered on a stern struggle strug-gle against its progress. The people were cautioned by proclamation against the use of urifiltered water, the eating of green fruit and excessive indulgen.ee in alcoholic liquors. The result was that by September 11 the epidemic was stamped out, proving that by the adoption of energetic measures it is possible to put an end to it before there is a serious loss of life. But on that occasion as on others it became evident that the danger dan-ger of the communication of the disease dis-ease to foreign countries by the bacilli carrier cannot be easily combated. WOULD .MAKE A GRAXl) TKAM. Mr. William OBrien con'siders that Mr. John Redmond makes a colossal mistake in opposing the veto conference, confer-ence, and he does not think much of Mr. T. P. O'Connor, either. This is too bad and Messrs. Redmond and O'Connor will certainly feel hurt over Mr. O'Brien's opinion of them. The lattej- is now engaged in establishing branches of the "All-for-Ireland" league, but judging from the tactics of O'Brien and his followers, he should have named his new organiastion the "All for England" party, as he is doing do-ing more work against Ireland in the interests of Unionists and Conservatives Conserva-tives than the most ardent enemies of home rule. If the troublesome William Wil-liam would come over and join Mr. Bourassa's Nationalist party, there would be a meeting of two of the greatest political troublers the world has ever seen. THE FATE OF SACRILEGE. Father Phelan .editor of the "Western "West-ern Watchman," on his European tour visited Geneva and describes as follows fol-lows his' visit to the Church of Notre Darnel, which has been in possession of the "Old Catholics" since 1S70. "I went to see the Church of Notre Dame, the scene of sacrilege for forty years. This is ne of the most beautiful beauti-ful churches in Geneva, and its flying buttresses are the delight of the beholder. be-holder. When the- eld Catholic schism was started in Geneva a large number of people who never had re- ligioii before began to profess it bois-! bois-! terously. and in the name of the old ! faith a ul end Catholicity laid claim j to the beautiful Church of Notre I Dame. Then Geneva was very anii-j anii-j Roman. Marmillod was bishop, and for his zeal feir the teachings of the. council of the Vatican was banished from his see. The Church of Notre Dame whs given to the old Catholics. Pere Hyacinthe was called from Paris to fill its pulpit. He came, and with the madam was installed in the commodious com-modious presbytery. The church was the center of fashion for a few years, but then the decline set in. Hyacinthe. Hya-cinthe. with his mass in French, and Docllinger's friend, with his mass in High German, failed to draw as for-! for-! merly. The latter brute died in the gutter here, and Hyacinthe become pensioned by ail the wild-cat missionary mission-ary societies, and went back to the sewers of Paris, where now, a man of S4. he is in the public prints asking the world to consider him sincere. He buried the madam a few months ago, and it would not surprise us if he attempted at-tempted a sensational conversion some of these, days. "Well. 1 visited poor old Notre Dame. It was closed and opened only at special request. The presbytery is now a pension, and the concierge shows the church to strangers. The ten altars are all there, but oh, so neglected. The statue of the Blessed Virgin on her altar looks ready to drop from its place in shame. The other statues share in the humiliation of the Blessed Mother. It is a morgue. T visited the sacristy. There wasin oi l cassock and over it a faded black stole. It seemed that the last sacri bilious bil-ious priest had hurried out in fear. Only one thing that was not faded and worn was a new placard asking for alms. The fate of sacrilege! The church will soon be restored to its rightful owners, but it is so decayed ane'. so far removed from the populous quarters of the city that it is almost superfluous. Catholics look at it with a feeling akin to horror." WHAT IS "THE HOME." Archbishop Glennon, in a speech be-for be-for the Catholic Education Convention Conven-tion in Detroit gives the following answer: "A home is first of all builded of those who dwell there, and its ornaments orna-ments are their love and devotion. The home should be the father and mother and children. These are after all its constituent elements the father protection pro-tection and power, the mother to represent rep-resent sacrifice and devotion, and the children to represent obedience and duty. And in the rounding out of this family circle that which binds them all together and makes for the unity, stability and blessedness of the home is their mutual affection and devotion one for the other. Where there is in the husband and father the prudence, justice and consecration that St. Joseph Jo-seph of old represented, where there is in the mother the goodness, sacrifice, sacri-fice, immaculate purity that Mary represented rep-resented long ago. anel where the children chil-dren grow in wisdom, age and grace before God and men there you find the Christian home." Taking this as the def'miiior! of home, there are few homes in America. Amer-ica. Father O'Rourke gives some startling start-ling statistics. He says: "Statistics of the last census ---how that in Maine for every six mariiages there is one divorce; Indiana for every seven marriages mar-riages one divorce; Massachusetts, fine divorce in every sixteen marriages, showing the predominance of Catholic-teaching Catholic-teaching in this state: in Ohio, for every .eight marriages there is one divorce; di-vorce; in Vermont, one dlven-ce in every ten marriages. One marriage in eve i y tw elve in the United States ends in a divorce, and the present average is eight divorces every hour in the United States." Catholic Journal. ! DON'T GIVE UP. Sorrow come to yon yesterday and emptied your home. Your first impulse im-pulse now is to give up and sit down in despair amid the wrecks of. your hopes. But you dare not do it. You are in the line of battle, and the crisis is at hand. To falter a moment would be to imperil some holy interest. Other lives would be harmed by your pausing. Holy interests would suffer suf-fer should your hands be folded. You must not linger even to indulge your grief. Sorrows are but incidents in. life, and must not interrupt us. We must leave them behind while we press on to the things that are before? Then God has so ordered, too, that in pressing on in duty we shall find the truest, richest comfort for ourselves. our-selves. Sitting down to brood over our sorrows, the darkness deepens about us and creeps into our heart. and our strength changes to weakness. But if we turn away from the gloom, and take up the tasks and duties to which God calls us, the light will come again and we shall grow stronger. When all our hopes are gone, 'Tis well our hands must still keep toiling on For others sake: ' For strength to bear is found in duty done; And he is blest indeed who learns to make The joy of others euro own headache. OLDEST CHINESE DOCUMENT. The oldest Chinese manuscripts in existence have just been shown and explained by Professor Chavanne to the Paris Academie des Inscriptions. They are the wooden tablets found by Dr. Stein on the eastern side of the great Chinese wall and are 2,000 years old. These tablets refer to the system of army commissariat which prevailed at the time when Chinese warriors were stationed at the wall to keep out invading in-vading barbarians. The soldiery, according ac-cording to these recorels, were paid in kind, but state functionaries in cash. At that time, it appears, only two kinds of grain were known in China, rye and millet. Other documents found by Dr. Stein include a Chinese dictionary ,a standard work in universal univer-sal use at the time of the Chan dynasty. dy-nasty. Then there are a collection of doctor's prescriptions, a treatise on prophecies and two calendars, one of C3 B. C, and the other of 59 B. C. From them the price of silk can be seen quoted from time to time. These calendars prove that the Chinese Chi-nese of that period were familiar with the meteoric cycle of the moon and the Pythagorean note system, showing a remarkable similarity between the Chinese and the Greek civilizations. VOLTAIRE IX HIS TRUE LIGHT. A recent writer in the Bellman declares de-clares that despite the generally held belief that Voltaire had a tremendous Influence on French life, his writings being looked upon as one of the causes of the French revolution, the contrary can easily be historically proved. Instead of being a great man wieieting a wide lnuuencc, tins writer says that by nature Voltaire was the acme of self-conceit, and through this unfortunate characteristic he became later an. inveterate critic. He mercilessly merci-lessly criticized Shakespeare, from whom he borrowed, however. "Othello" "Othel-lo" to transform it into his "Zaire;" he wantonly attacked Joan of Act. even in her spotless character of a woman; after having most highly exalted the crown prince of Prussia, he shamelessly shame-lessly ridiculed his former friend, who had become Frederick the Great., 'In brief, at least in his own opinion, there was not in creation any perfection but Voltaire." Sacred Heart Review. PRACTICAL SOCIALISM A FAILURE. FAIL-URE. The daily papers record the failure of another attempt at practical socialism. social-ism. This time it is in Poland. Two or three years ago working-men started start-ed factories on the socialistic princi- pie. One by one they failed, and during dur-ing the past week the last, a glass works near C.entochova. was closed. The trouble was caused more by quarrels quar-rels among the men than by lack of capital. These failures are discrediting discredit-ing socialism among the workingmen. The Tilot. GOOD RESOLUTION'S. Good resolutions are never a slmrt cut to good works. Carefully thought out plans and earnestly made resolves are valuable only as they bring into plain sight the duties that we ought to be doing. They are worse than useless when we let them take the place of duty doing, as we sj often do. A man will, on his way from his house to his office at the beginning begin-ning of the day, make such good plans and resolves for that day by the time he reach.es his otlice he has unconsciously uncon-sciously let himself think that the iifiiihii.iiiMMiwrWi;iMMir?'2Trr&';' hardest part of the work is already done, and then the real doing of it evaporates. It is better for most people peo-ple to spend more of their time on what needs to be done than in planning plan-ning when and how they will do it. An unplanned duty done is better than a this dirt we are sure that small par- THE NATURE OF GFRMS. Ordinary air is by no means air proper, but contains- a number of impurities, im-purities, and Ihe air of all cities always al-ways contains a quantity of almost measurable particles of dirt. With this dirt we are sure that smail par- tides of living matter are associated. I These small bodies, coming into a fluid rich in nutrient matter, grow up i in it and at its expense. To these-, j small bodies it is now the universal custom to attach the name "germs." What these destroyers are we eio not, f of course, know. We only know that I they exist, and chat they commit the I most deadly ravages wherever thev E get the chance. The great problem i of present day science is to learn E more about them, that the ravages S may be reduced, if not eliminated. jj THE FOREIGNER. t The influx of foreigners into our E country is deprecated by not a few. B Their objection might be tenable were the foreigners coming among g us the scum of Europe, its paupers g and criminals. But they are neither t the scum nor the sediment of Euro- E pean sociesty. True, there are bad men among them, but in our Ameri- can-born we have equally if not more of the criminal clas. Ae we view these foreigners working in our streets and highways, building the p railroad and engaged in hard labor f! in so many ways, we wonder what r America would do without them. Certainly our dainty American folk would not calous their hands with these manual labors that upbuild and l develop the country. The prosperity , and greatness of the nation depend f on this labor; a labor that produces wealth, leisure, cultivation and re- f suits higher than mere material pror- perity are secured. If the foreigner!? r coming this country were to remain I an unassimiilated element there f might be danger. But here the for- L eigner begins to lie Americanized as t soon as he sets his fot on our t, shores. Abundant labor is furnished C him. he is surrounded by an intelli- p gent population; lie learns our lan- h gua.ge, our laws, ami the nature of our institutions; ,n time loses his nationality, and his children, having If studied the history which tells of the t greatness of their new country, be- f' come our best and most progressive j citizens. Pittsburg Gazette. t'j AT OIJERAMMERGAU. The Protestant bishop of Southwell l has been visitng Oberammergau and r he gives his impresions of the people and the Pasion in his diocesan maga- P zine. He says: 'For eight hours the C audience of 4.000 were held in silence k as the old. old story was unfolded, but EJ for us that story has now had new j light thrown upon it, and we grasp p somewhat beter the meaning of the $ Passion." jp A PRAYER. Grant us. O Lord, the grace to bear The little prickling throns The hasty word that seems unfair, g The twang of truths well worn; B The jest that riiakes our weakness plain; The darling plan o'erturned; The careles touch upon oud pain; The slight we have not earned: The rasp of care dear Lord today, Lest all these freting things Make needless" grief, O give, we pray. The heart tha trusts and sings. IRELAND AND Til EE. Oh Mary acushla, I find I must leave you, To seek out my fortune far over the sea. The cruel laws imposed on our own native country. Have not much effect in the "land of the free." I'll strive to uphold the good name that is earned. By my countrymen, living in far distant lands. And I hope by success to fully avenge The treatment received at our dark sister's hands. But Mary, my loved one, though far o'er the ocean. Remember your vow and your promise to me. And pray for the health and success of the wand'erer. Whose first and best thought is of Ireland and thee. James Plunkett. THE SHAMROCK. A little spray of shamrock Has brought before my eyes The loveliest seagirt island That rests beneath God's skies. I see its hills and valleys, Its fields of emerald sheen Fair types of Erin's banner. The sunburst on the green! I see the forms of loved ones, I To heart and memory dear; And land and friends and hearthstone, Are framed within a tear. Sister M. Rita. 6 |