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Show jWWJ-m rf'ntfiiitirtiijjjjjjjrt I glwrcb iSnipersal 1 CHURCH CALENDAR. i 8. M. Octave of All Saints. St. Godfrey. God-frey. 1,909,550 for the departed. 9. T. Dedic. Lat. Basilica. St. Theo- Idora. 1,029,274 for perseverance. 10. W. St. Andrew A vellini. 1,671,726 for the young. 11. Th. St. Martin, Bp. 1,177150 for t First Communions. it 12. F. St. Martin, Pope. 1,109,140 for 1 1 parents. 13. S. St. Stanislaus Kostka. 1,087,318 I for reconciliations. if 14 S. 24th after Pentecost. Purity, i B.V.M. E. Col, i, 9-14; G. Matt, xvlv, 15-35. 1,067,838 for families. THE GENERAL INTENTION FOR NOVEMBER. I Recommended by His Holiness, Pius X. I ACCEPTANCE OF SUFFERING. I The presence of suffering on the J earth bepan in Eden. Pain, toil, I death, this was the threefold punish- I ment ser.t by God for the first sin. But I while muttering was inflicted by God as a curse, it may be changed into a I Messing: for though man cannot es- I rape its all-pervading influence, yet he I ran so use life's ills that they will bring him nearer to that God from I whom he turned away by sin. -1 By accepting the pains and disap- I pointment which befall us and by sub- mitting our will to God's Jn all our trials we prove the sincerity of our sorrow j for past offenses. Many of our suffer- I ings are sent as chistisements; we sin j rasily, and lightly forget it. But God f never forgets; and it is because He I loves us that He gives us an opportu- nity to atone. j Besides this power of satisfaction, I acceptance of suffering wins us many srraces. It makes us God's chosen is friends. It protects us from the allure- ii ments of the world and the temptations s which accompany unmixed prosperity. I It detaches our hearts from the things I of earth. Most of all, it makes us like ,f to Christ, the Man of Sorrows. The i shadow of the cross was over His life j from Bethlehem to Calvary, and His J example took from suffering its char- ,' acter of evil, and made it the badge of I His love. It became a grecious gift. J offered most of God's holiest Saints. I And such will it be for us, if we accept J it in union with the sufferings of Jesus, f But to do this is the work of grace, j and needs the help of prayer prayer I that we may have strength to drink j the chalice of suffering with Christ, ! and say "Thy will he done." I Visits to the Blessed Sacrament. j The ways of visiting the Blessed i Sacrament must be as various as the souls of men. Some love to go there j to listen; some to speak; &me to 'J confess to Him as if He were cither priest; some to examine their conscience, con-science, as before their judge; some to do homage to Him as their king; some to study Him as their doctor and prophet; some to find shelter as ; with their Creator. Some rejoice in f His divinity, others in His sacred hu- i. manity, others in the mysteries of the t' seasons. Some visit Him on different days by His different titles, as God, Father, Brother, Shepherd, Head of the Church and the like. Some visit to adore, some -to intercede, some to ; petition, some to return thanks, some I to get consolation, but all visit Him to love, and to all who visit Him in J love. He is a power of hcavendy grace f and a fountain of many goods, no h single one of which the whole created ' universe could either merit or confer. Father Faber. The Family Rosary. One thing we hope for it . is this: I that vherever this calender goes the f beautiful and supremely ranctifying practice will be adopted, if it tloes j not already exist, of !jath'.ring the I entire family together, children, ser vants, and all each evening, at il fixed hour, for the public Tecitation of the Rosary. In season and out of season : we have never, ceased to strongly rec- 1 ommend this practice. Wherever it is adopted you may rest ,ssnrei that peace and happiness will reign witliin the family circle, God's blessing will be on the household, His grace will be in the hearts of all, and such a measure meas-ure of worldly prosperity as He saes to be for the general good will be granted to the home where Mary's Rosary is held in honor. Irish Messenger. Too Many Collectors. It is a pleasure to find one's position endorsed by so able and dignified a Catholic weekly as the stanch True-Voice True-Voice of Omaha, The current issue of that vital journal says: "The Catholic Sun of Syracuse enters emphatic protests against the endless collecting trips of so many clerics to America in behalf -of new churches and other less sanctified enterprises in Ireland. Ire-land. We think it time for such a pro- itest to be filed. There are altogether too many demands on the generosity of our Catholic laity for alien prophets that often have in them more sentiment than religion for a basis. Charity is wide, but the needs of the Church at home should come first." Our platform exactly, western friend. 3 They do not need those churches in Ireland. Every American Catholic will tell you this who has been in that country of recent years. They have i finer parish churches than we have of a cathedrals. Then, besides the great I church the parish priest has his fine house. The first curate has his house, also, and so has the second. Many J American priests are most glad to ' have a roof to cover their heads. Tt Is high time to put a stop to the in-,H in-,H cessant collecting tours in this coun- ;: try. ' It were Just as well, also, to drop a hint to the rapidly increasing horde of lecturers, singers, players and such like. Some of fhose Pushful Seumases t! literally live off the Irish in this country wring the necks of the toilers toil-ers for their cash and then go home and declare that the Irish in America I'k- are all clownish money-grabbers or P worse. We have all heard this charge i - and some of us are growing weary of it The Catholic Sun. I Condemned Chinamen Become-Catholics. Become-Catholics. fFrom the Republic, Boston.) While the three Chinamen convicted as participants in the murder of three of their countrymen in Oxford place, i Boston, on Aug. 2, 1907, were awaitting their fate In the state prison In Charlestown, they entered into them-' them-' selves and thought about the life to come. Then they accepted the ministrations minis-trations of the Catholic chaplain. Rev. Augustine D. Malley or St. Mary's, Charlestown. and by him were duly Instructed and baptized. Previous to their death by electrocution, a little after midnight on Oct. 12. they received re-ceived Holy Communion , and Father Malley stood before every one of the three as he was strapped Into the electric elec-tric chair and repeated the "Our Father," holding up the crucifix before the penitent about to suffer for his crime. The condemned men bore themselves with the fortitude which is a characteristic of their race in sight of even more dismaying forms of execution, exe-cution, and there is no Catholic that not rejoice that they came into the Church at the last. "A rich harvest -- - mm mwmmmmwmm ground of souls" is what a priest preceding pre-ceding Father Malley In the chaplaincy called his charge at the state prison. The devotion of a priest to such cases as those noted above is something which only the Catholic mind can appreciate. ap-preciate. Thank God for Father Malley! Mal-ley! To a Soldier. J Soldier thy voice rang out across the strife, . , A shrill rebuke to laggards in the fray, Or trumpeted My summons to obey. Thrilling the wearied brave with conquering con-quering life. Healer thy whispered lore with health was rife; Thy gentle touch probed to the soul's ; ' decay , And plucked the menace of its dath' away Beneath the sweet, sharp kindness of the knife. , Onward the fight to newer regions rolls; The wounded seek out other charity. Traveling beyond the comfort of thy; word. . My pulpit knight, physician of My souls, Come, thou must let them pass; come now to Me! "Art thou then ready?" "Yea! even so, my Lord." Francis P. Donnelly, S. J., in memory mem-ory of the late Rev. William O'Brien Pardon. S. J. Wins the Prelate's Prize. Archbishop P. J. Ryan of this city, says the Philadelphia Record, owes the children at the orphanage maintained by the Altoon diocese a treat of candy, and they are impatiently waiting for him to return here so he can buy the best. The archbishop, who was there attending at-tending the ruby jubilee of Bishop E. A Garvey, was taken to the orphanage orphan-age at recess by the bishop, and delighted de-lighted the little folks with his famous fa-mous stories. "Why is a stick of candy like a horse?" he suddenly asked. "I know," piped a bit of a lad. : " 'Cause the more you lick the faster H itopr." The joke was on the archbishop, and he graciously promised to send home the candy as soon as he returned homo. Ferrer's Crime and Punishment. (Chicago Daily Inter Oceon. Oct 20.) The execution of a Spanish editor and school teacher named Ferrer has excited ex-cited many persons In this country and practically all the socialists and anarchists an-archists in Europe. The tumult grows from day to day, as many persons are in danger of being fascinated by the mere noise, it seems worth while to inquire in-quire a little into some of the plainer circumstances of the case. Ferrer was what is known as a "philosophical anarchist." For years he had been teaching in his paper and through the schools . he established that all government is oppression, that there ought to be no government as the term is commonly understood, and that all existing governments ought to be swept away, and in time would be. What was the influence of the teach- ings of Ferrer upon those most sub-; ject to them is revealed by the '"act ; that ' his confidential assistant or secretary: sec-retary: was caught in the act of trying to blow up King Alfonso on the lat -ter's wedding day. The assassin had, of course, no personal per-sonal grief or wrong to avenge. He could have none against a mere boy. But in the rlrrle of Fprrpr hp was filled with fanatic fervor for killing a king just because he was a king. Ferrer was easily recognized as one of the creators of the state v of i)-e public mind that resulted in" the recent re-cent Barcelona insurrection. He nad been preaching destruction for years, and when destruction was attempted it was plain that his advice had teen taken. Doubtless Ferrer did not mean that the destruction should take the exact form it did. It is the stock in trade of the intellectual anarchist always to deprecate violence, antl even o be genuinely horrified by bloodshed, while incessantly advancing arguments and spreading ideas that make for violence vio-lence and bloodshed. Ferrer's case seems to have been quite closely parallel with that of certain cer-tain men who were hanged in the Cook county jail some years ago. It was not proved that any of these men threw the Haymarket bomb. It was doubtful if more than one or two of them, if any of them, had any direct knowledge of the bomb-thrower. Bat the conditions .that brought about the bomb-throwing that led some man less careful of his own skin to throw the bomb were precisely the conditions condi-tions they had been laboring to create. They had said repeatedly that all government was wrong, and that any man who put on a police uniform was a foe of humanity, ought to be killed, and if killed would be getting just what he deserved. Peaceable and law-abiding men grey tired of being thus warred apon with the weapons of war, and decided de-cided that the time had come to make a deterrent example. They rightly held that those who advise and incite murder must be held responsible when murder is done on the victims whom they point out in the way which they advise. There are personally respectable and personally benevolent persons who cannot understand, apparently, that under certain circumstances words are weapons that would and kill. Hence, when an anarchist does the deeds of his kind, and there is inquiry for those that inspired his brutality, these persons always protest i against interference with those who1 preach murder though they may do none. We had these protests In behalf of the associates and inspirers of William Wil-liam McKInley's assassin. We have them now because an insplrer of murder mur-der has paid the penalty of his words. Ferrer paid a severe penalty for his crime, but it is still to be proved that he paid an unjust one. Less Ostentation. "The pastors of our church." said Bishop Ludden of Syracuse, the other day. "have consistently urged upon their people the need for less of ostentation osten-tation and outlay at funeral services. It Is a matter, of course, for private decision, but our clergy are emphatically emphatic-ally in sympathy with a more sane and sensible course than is taken by many who, when the funeral expenses of a breadwinner are paid, haven't a cent left for the butcher and baker. He is gone; they are left to live, and living costs. But many of them never think of that till afterward. "Yes, there certainly should be more common sense shown by some people who have a hard enough time to keep the wolf from the door when every- i thing is fair sailing. When somebody dies they will spend every cent, and even go hopelessly in debt for funeral expenses. . "Then there is the man who belongs to one of these orders, which pays a little insurance. He dies. They get out a plumed hearse and a mile of carriages car-riages and a band, and they carry him to the grave in state. The insurance money goes for the funeral expenses. I The widow and orphans? Oh, they'll get along somehow! "Funeral reform? Yes, I think we need 'it a little." Perils of Punctuation. ' Some of the following strange sentences sen-tences show the value of punctuation marks and of correct sentences. Thomas Merrill's property is for sale. It consists of a cottage containing seven rooms and an acre of land. Edward Jones has opened a shoe shop in Front street. Mr. Jones guarantees that anyone can have a fit in his store. The firm of Smith & Thorndyke is once more carrying on busitiess at the old stand. The concern now wants a man to sell on commission. Mrs. Walter Darrell would like to hear of a ood nurse for her child about 30 . years of age, and with good.referr ences. John Bangs who will sail for South Africa on Saturday would like to find a purchaser for his valuable bulldog. The animal is no trouble as it will eat anything and is very fond of children. A touching incident was noted at a railway station yesterday when an aged couple bade each other good-bye. The old lady kissed her. husband fervently several times on the cheek and he kissed her back. Dr. Franklin White has returned from a trip to Switzerland. Speaking of the robust health of its peasantry, the doctor doc-tor says: "The strength of the Swiss woman is remarkable. It is nothing unusual un-usual for her to wash and iron and milk several cows in one day." Guard Your Lips. You are old enough to know what it means to be "guarded in speech." Set a guard upon your lips; keep back the bad words, the angry words, the idle words. Let only words pleasing to God pass the guard. Have you read carefully the prayer which the priest says at mass before he begins the gospel? "Cleanse my heart and my lips, O Almighty God, who didst cleanse the lips of the prophet Isaiah with a burning burn-ing coal; and vouchsafe through Thy gracious mercy, so to purify me, thai I may worthily attend to Thy holy Gospel." Pure thoughts, pure speech and pur acts make pure, holy lives. Our thoughts must be pure and pleasing to God if we wish to lead holy lives. If thoughts of God fill our minds and our hearts burn with ; love for Him, our speech will be ever pleasing to Him. Is Courtesy Declining? "It was not so in my days," we are constantly reminded by our grandmother grand-mother or some other aged relative; and she also reminds us that girls and boys made courtesies and bows to those who were older than themselves. "Yes, ma'am" and "No, sir" were their respectful re-spectful replies when a remark was addressed to them; but though we do not require such overwhelming politeness polite-ness in these days, we think there is much room for improvement in this matter. If we look at the root .of it, it will be found that good sense and consideration consid-eration of others is the soul ,of good manners, while stupidity is the source of bad manners. Realizing this, no one will push her way past her neighbors, neigh-bors, putting them to inconvenience, in order to obtain some supposed advantage ad-vantage for herself, or speak hastily or impolitely to anyone, no matter who they may be. Good manners cost us nothing, but they purchase much. Marian, Philosopher. Marian returned from the picnic limp and bedraggled, but smiling as usual. The party had been caught , in a sudden, sud-den, violent shower, and her dress was ruined. . : .. . , . , ... "Clear again," she called, blithely, to the family,", gathered on the piazza to await her. "I've been, wonderiner for two or three months whether this muslin mus-lin would 4 stand ruin. Now I know; so I don't need to worry." The family, " being well aware that Marian never did worry, showed .'no surprise at , her summary dismissal of the subject. Aunt Rachel, a visitor, who had. the unhappy habit of "borrowing "bor-rowing trouble" and dwelling upon small annoyances, could not quite understand un-derstand Iier,. niece. But some illumina-i illumina-i tion came a, few days later, when the girl and the elderly woman, starting . for the city with . shopping in - view, reached the railway station just in time to miss the train. . "My luck!" Aunt Rachel fretted. "If we'd been a minute earlier we'd have caught it; and now I suppose we'll have to wait for twenty, minutes." "Oh, w-ell, let's be thankful it isn't forty minutes," was Marian's calm rejoinder. re-joinder. "Twenty minutes will give us a chance to go over our shopping lists, and make sure that we haven't left out anything." Then, seating herself comfortably, com-fortably, she prepared to make good use of the time. Aunt Rachel stared . and wondered. She wanted to know whether her niece was merely acting out her temperament, or whether she was following a reasoned reas-oned and planned philosophy. But she did not speak then, and the question she might have asked was answered the next day in her hearing answered, indirectly, for the benefit of a girl who, like Marian, was a senior, in the high school. . ' : . "Oh, Marian!" gushed the other girl. "Aren't you Just distracted for fear the school committee will refuse to engage Lauriat Hall for our graduation exercises?" exer-cises?" "Distracted?" repeated - Marian, the philosopher. "Of course not. Never am. If I should go to worrying it would hurt me, and it wouldn't have the slightest effect on the school committee. commit-tee. So I keep cool and hope for the best, as I always do." ... By that time Aunt Rachel understood and she went away thoughtful recalling, recall-ing, it may- be. days of unhappiness caused by trifles, matters of such slight consequence that,; looking back a week later, she could scarcely have. ; told what it was that had made . her wretched. Yet those small, unnecessary worries were large enough to waste time, weaken the nerves and sap the strength and courage needed for the serious business of life. ! BRIEFS FROM EXCHANGES. . Better Than Riches. ; A man can have no 'more valuable asset than a good name. It is a tower of strength in a time of misfortune. The Cleveland Plain Dealer tells of a man, charged with pocket-picking, who was freed in a Cleveland police court because he happened to have in his pocket a letter certifying that he was trustworthy. The letter was from Sir Thomas Lipton, for whom the accused man had worked for seven years. A Cleveland policeman found . him bending bend-ing over a drunken man on the sidewalk, side-walk, and the policeman claimed that it was a case of attempted ' pocket-picking. pocket-picking. However, the court, after reading Sir Lipton's letter, gave the accused ac-cused man the benefit of the doubt and discharged him. The public prosecutor consented to this disposition of the case. Toledo Record. Columbus Day. That 12th day of October, 1492, is the most memorable date in modern history. his-tory. On that, day the mystery which enshrouded America for centuries was dissipated and the new world was - revealed re-vealed to Europe. One would suppose that no objection would be offered to the making of legal holiday of the anniversary anni-versary of an event whitch was of such transcendant .importance to mankind. Yet in, certain quarters Columbus day is viewed askance. The New York I Times, a pronounced pro-British organ, or-gan, voicing the sentiments of the clique it represents, makes this demand upon the New York legislature: "Columbus "Co-lumbus day is a superfluous holiday. One of the first acts of the legislature of 1910 should be the repeal of the law compelling the conduct of business under un-der difficulties Oct. 12." We can assure our pro-British contemporary that the demand will not be complied with. Those who believe that thS great achievement of Columbus should be duly honored are influential enough to j prevent the repeal of the law making Oct. 12 a legal holiday in this state. The character of the opposition to Columbus Co-lumbus day should strengthen the determination de-termination of all non-"Anglo-Saxons" to prevent the repeal of the law making mak-ing Oct. 12 a legal holiday in this state. New-. York Freeman's Journal. ' ;.: The Ostentatious Funeral. ; Grief will have its way, but where it runs to ostentation and , to extravagance extrava-gance in the matter of expense, wisdom would dictate another course. The plumed hearse, the oaken casket with silver handles, the profusion of flowers in conventional designs', the. long line of. carriages, the wealth of crepe all these levy heavy toll on the stricken family. When; the bills come in oftentimes often-times there is not much left to pay them or to- meet current expenses. Death has laid a burden on . the bereaved be-reaved ones, but vanity and imprudence impru-dence have only increased it, and that needlessly. Going hopelessly into debt while! leaving little or nothing for the butcher, - the baker and the grocery-man grocery-man vis folly indeed. Catholic Transcript. Trans-cript. . . British Admiral's Little Joke. .'.Primarily, as every one knows, remarks re-marks the Boston Republic, commenting com-menting on the recent great Hudson-Fulton Hudson-Fulton festival in New York, the parade pa-rade celebrated the rediscovery of the Hudson by the Dutch explorer, Henry Hudson, 300 years ago, and the sailing of the first steamboat up that river from New York to Albany by the Irish-American, Robert Fulton, 100 years ago. Incidentally, it made room for remembrance of the first discoverer of the Hudson, the Italian, Giovanni da Verrazano, in 1524. and the Portuguese, Estevan Gomez, who navigated it and named it the San Antonia a year later. With these facts it mind, it was rather droll to hear the British representative, repre-sentative, Admiral Seymour, describe the two discoveries as two of the most important events "in the history of the race to which you and I belondg!" In view of the splendid Catholic celebration cele-bration of the event Archbishop Farley, Far-ley, having directed sofemn high masses of thanksgiving in all the churches of the diocese and the observ-ince. observ-ince. in his cathedral being so great and well attended as to attract the special spe-cial notice of the secular press; also the ; several big, celebrations of "the Trlsh-Arnerican societies, all of .Catholic .Cath-olic membership, and the obvious fact that' the Catholics have so numerously secured the best sites on the Hudsor for some of their greatest Institutions that, Thomas F. Meehan, writing in America, in nowise exaggerates wher-he wher-he takes for title "The Catholic Hudsor. River." we can afford to let Admiral Seymour have his little joke. A Word to Catholic Societies. : The Michigan Catholic, now that the winter is approaching and the lecture season opening up, reminds Catholic societies that they should not be so prone as they are to ask lecturers to give, their services for nothing. "Our societies, or many of them, have this bad habit they have had it long, in fact and It is not to their credit," says our esteemed contemporary. "They should, in all Justice, remember that ; people who lecture, or sing, or play, must eat and must wear clothes. They cannot afford to give their talents: tal-ents: for nothing and should not be asked to do so. It takes a good deal of money and much hard work to make a capable lecturer, singer or player. We' Catholics owe it to those gifted people; to support them, not to deprive them of their daily bread. We have no right to assume that when God gave them gifts He did so in order that they might serve us for nothing." Not the Men's Fault. 7 -.. (From the Pilot, Boston.) The Watchman (Baptist) asks the question: "What, in your opinion, is the reason why so few laboring men are found in the churches? Is the fault with the men or the churches?" The questioner may profitably turn to tin-Catholic tin-Catholic churches. There he will find the workingman in full force. Out of 12,000,000 Catholic adults in the United States 49.3 per cent are men, and fully 90 per cent of them worklngmen. That means that the Catholic church has within it the qualities that satisfy the appeal of the workingman. If the conditions con-ditions are the reverse in the non-Cath o!ic churches, it cannot thus be the fault of the laboring men. The cause-must cause-must lie in the other direction. ( Judge Tou are a freeholder?" Talesman Yes, sir, I am. "Married or single?" "Married three years last June." "Have you formed or expressed an opinion?" "Not for three years, your honor." Charles E. Bigelow. the comedian, is bald, except for a rim of hair a few inches above his collar line. "I'm in an awful hurry," he said one day to the Lambs' club barber: "can you cut my hair with my collar on?" "Sure," replied the barber. "I ' can J cut it with your hat on." . i, - |
