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Show CATHOLIC C0L05IZATICH SCCIE1Y. The best charity ;s that which puts a man in position to help himself, and that is juit what the Roman Catholic Colcniiition Society, w.ta headquarters in N"ew York, it doing for hundreds of poor people who are unable to do far themselves, Ico dispatches frtqaeutiy mention the meeting of tho society, but linle is gained from ;he telegraphic reports j coocerciog the great amcuat ot good , that is being dene by the tencfolect organization. Jiiit wat it is doing is the picki:; up cf poor Cvihjlica !rom toe strfe'.a and alleys of the large cittte, shipping tLigoi to the broad prairies of the west, putting tbem on farms, lurniebiog them with tools and seed grain, and presiding for their wants until the first crcp can be harvested. The poor people otligate tbemael?e$ to repay the adTances made to tbem, and the debt is a lien upon the land they occupy and the improvements. Ia tome instances the society purchassa larte tracU of land, and et'.ia to iia benedciaires alternate fjreas, thua increasing the value of what it retains by tae improvement im-provement cf that so-d. In other caaea the waris of tne society prefer to takfl aJvantig of our generous homestead Ian a, the aaaUtance the first year being renJred the same as though the farm wis pjrehaied from the society. No Uet'.er system o( providing pro-viding for lue industrious poor couid we'l he devi-td, and it ia working admirer ad-mirer ly. B'sr.op IreUnd, of Mionc-eota, Mionc-eota, at a meeting in New York recently, told of the eiceiieijt results achieved by the colonists sent out by the organization. Small coloniea had been formed in all the newer portions ol his state where land wjs cheap, and lesa than 2 per cent, of the new settle bad left their farms. Ture who remain are prcprioK ficey. Some of them have repiij tbe society for all advance?, and have acquired the perfect title to their farms and Improvements. Tae large majority seem happy arjd contented, and not one in a hundred would exchange bis present mode of li!e for hia former existence io the city, where be gained a precarious living in a aewer trench, a coal yard, a graitl pit, itret cleaning or carrying a bvl. Breatijir.g the free air and winnir 2 , bread from the oil seem lo mko indppei.der.t, thrifty men nut of slaves I and dependent being?. They on ' beccrne f.jll cit'zna in all that the wo:d im(,i!n, and lo-e lli-ir bad habi!, their dt lre f r row and ml, '.n and c'jJKipt p.,i tiire. U'u-it ia even better, their children arti ttitn from (;e Blrcc'.i and ilurris, where they ao-'jn become lirniliar will) ri; and crirr.o, i.d rj.-.eJ in perL-f d law-abiditiK L'iramunilif . Tr,e great city ia no p!dce for many o! the Irish Catholics who come to this country, and it woulJ be well if when lir.dtd from tr,e steamTs lliy were immedi ately trsr.'porkd to the wf stun field. V'ery lew of thrm havf! tradea or piolesionft, and in ther-Uks thpy are obligfd lo take sticii low t rnrjloy-rnfcut rnrjloy-rnfcut us others refine, Ihey are poor, and ci return la ncf a natural 'y drivo them id!o the purlieus and C 1 1 (37 quarters whero poverty and ijiuorurQ dwell. It m raro that one e?er beltra his condition iti life so long a? he remains in the city, Oq lh- otiier I aod, if they aro put upon frtr-r.s they can and do aucoeed, help-iuK help-iuK themif-ivca in evtry way. They arc atrong, healthy and willing lo work, and thoin 'j ialifiualiona nH'Jum frtll altorl of aucccM in the far weal. Ttiero ia plenty of room he-twee he-twee n toe Pjcifio ocean and tho Miimippi river for ail the trioii'tr.di of taniilies niio are s'.rinK in deni of Tilth in the u-nterri cities, Eitry philanthrnpic and rilit mioded pera m will di mro lo aro the Otliolic C jloni, v lion H ici"ly con-linii" con-linii" aod prosper in ita nobis work, until the at pl.ilni of thia western woiM ari tilled and peopled hyan in-d'jglrioii, in-d'jglrioii, thrifty populalion. If (here wer more of such annnibly bnnevo-l-iit ort;ani7,lioria in the caat, (hero would he (nwer callt when winter ti i i, upon too chariUMy djipo'rd to Cjntri'iu'.o lo the aupport of too p'xr; ari l t i'fe would be Ja dntr'a arid 'iff':rifi(( to leport in the ovor-rrow l'.d citiea of Ihe ciaf. i |