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Show i ! I fZlmlLMmm '"'1 I Calendar. I j j f. S-'- Giles 1, -S3, 756 for thanksgiv- I j iJVV. St. Stephen 1, 094,876 for those ! I "'tii. 'st. Perapia. 687,303 for the ' ! cj! k ana" liifii'in. i I 4 p. 1'iist Friday. St. Rose. 1,09?.- I ; I . ' -or ,ip;i 1 Associates. ! j ' S. St. Lawrence Justinian. 40S,- f 1,,.';v,r ,., :, comers. i ' h S. Thirteenth After Pent. .St. On n'i"n,'u;---K- Ga'- m- 36- ; G. Luke I jj 31-in. 411.0SS for Directors. !. THi: GENRAT, INTENTION Pfvn'i-.iii'-nilril by His Holiness. Pius X FlUKLlTY TO THE COMMANDS OF GOD. lllo: -sod Lord laid down no surer s!rii f love for I Tim than the keeping ,',f" Law. "If you love me." He ay.. "keep my commandments." "If i v'(ii Kr ;' niy commandments, you shall ylij.it in my Jove." "You arc my frienas -- y"u dn th? things that I command v.n'i " Altogether, it is as if Christ ;vfro saying: "You call me Friend. i;t;r.. then, to my admonitions; if you ,a'l Master, you must do my bid-And bid-And to us He speaks in a special spe-cial way: "You call yourselves my p.-: i. s : pray, then, with all your soul t!i;-t men may more faithfully observe ;)ly La"'." in our day it is the violation of God's .iiusniandnicnts! by new devices that Is ,-ausi! 'S so much unhappiness both of li,:y and soul. The Lord's Day is no Innf'-r sanctified as of old; "Thou i.;i;t ru t kill" is neglected in deplor- ; RM(. and hidden ways; the name of tliirv-ry has been changed with the vain h"P of changing its character. ;.,!! divorce is written in the Bibles of many where before was written, "Thou i ..halt not covet thy neighbor's wife." TIii. then, is the burden of our ' rTViyc'-s d urine this present month: ,!-at God in His goodness may bring rm m a deeper knowledge and love of His Law. If we keep that Law our-cl''f? our-cl''f? wo a-e His true friends: if we hrirc others to keep it we are His true ics. Organ for St. Peter's. A I'ody of French Catholics propose 10 pp sei.t to Pius X a colossal organ :'r.r St. Peter's an organ that shall he powerful enough to fill the largest huiiilirp in the world and' to reach ;, fars of a congregation that somc-ti't:rs somc-ti't:rs reaches 60.T100. At present for :U- c!vat functions in the Basilica a ii:t :novable organ is employed, v.'h;..-'! an hardly be heard half way ,!..'a:i the body of the church and vtv-h sounds like a distant concertina ; a. liatener away up in the dome. ,';t forty years ago a famous French n-gin builder. Cavaille-Coll. presented t' Fiuv IX a complete plan for the insolation of two great organs in St. prror'?. and th idea was favorably re-,Mvr1 re-,Mvr1 at tlm Vatican, but nothing was f!"-p n;;rnig tne remaining years of that p'-ntificate. The project was acain ; j: before Leo XJII. and for a while it Twii ps if a decision to build the i.'i-jMrt organ had been concluded, but v;.!-c..;i died in IS??, and nothing i r.'T' a heard on the subject. N?w Island Being Remade. ? V.'asi.'r.cton. Changes are progress- : v:.z in the faro and form of Bojroslo? ).: -: in the North Pacific ocean. This ic'ar.'1 is about a year and a half old, :--.v:,r.c been cast up in the sea by vol-' vol-' action. Captain F. M. Munger. -winding the Bering sea fleet. ": '.r -V department from Unalaska . ' i :,. loses a number of photographs " ' Viand and the report of Lieu-' Lieu-' ' :. F. A. De Ott, commanding; ' i who visited the island. Perry 1' -:. l.i h had a height of some t . is of feet above the island, has ':.::: iy disappeared. This was shown ly j-.i..-.-.-.craphs made in June of this yar and in October. 15fi7. When Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Do ott landed tne new island ! hvi become cold, except at two points en h.r- southeast side, which were stiil -.'. -k-c. The Printers' Church. The parishioners of St. Andrew's c"'J:'"h. Nov.- York City, including the rrr.f-rr and other nicht workers vho ',r 5v n years have attended mass at -1' '-. m.. in this old church in the ..-: t of t ho city, heard with regret last f'uiKtey that the land on which the edi- ha 1 ph--e. is to be condemned by the j 'y and used for a part of the bridge St. Andrew's is one of the oldest 'hieWjj in the city, and its mstory is i"-':' a!lid with the struggles, wtc ;.n,i success f.f the Catholic '" n-'unior; in the diocese. It was here, 'f li hall, that Archbishop Hughes ilzz-'- ; is oratorical battles against y-n 'lV Nothings in the middle or the nicht mass was instituted by ' ' '!'( J. E'. ers. the rector, who is i la'n at the Tombs. He is now jT- !.; " attend the I'oj-rs golden " St. Andrew 's parish is an Jm-i",'y--r-.i f.ne. Father Evers has three i-s-: v: ;. , ts Fathers Owens and Ufon-'"'r Ufon-'"'r ; r - an Italian priest, who labors 1 : c Ms country pfople, of whom a ' :n her sre communicants. On : .-'V 1.1. this year. FaJier Evers cele-tr,.-. i 1;,r. twenty-fifth anniversary r-f r " : thood. pnr ten ycar be. has ; pastor of Ft. Andrew's. Music has : s u-rn a feature of the 2:30 a. m. ;;;:s. ith Professor M. J. O'Mahoney. j""' r- '-f Edward O'Mahoney, the 7s;-- rrecjriing at the organ. The f ' ' .r ;s composed solely of men. Awed by the Cross. T '.- ."o-:ii.vj;-,lr Ftory of the Custer "'"I -i :'.;;, d was told to the writer by '' , received it from an eye-wit-f t!ie scene described a witness i'-deed. had a fatal interest in the f" J-'n'-o he himself had lort his f; "!r- in ihat last heroic stand of Cus-'fr Cus-'fr :;rr his men. '""o z the soldiers who were en-' en-' tl fighting the Indians, in; the '';::t'.z of which the Custer episode a p.art. were two young Irlsn-p'. Irlsn-p'. v ho had been in the Papal Guard ' ' r:o-.r. nefr.re the left for America xy rv,''e h.td given them his Messing ' .'. resented each of them with a r n Tueifix upon which the mystic r!-f;.-rrjfo r,f hjp prayers had fallen. '"'n of theo young men was with v, lion the general and all his ' ' : s went down before the fero-r)c.. fero-r)c.. ontri,J2.v-iTprs nf tj,o Indians. The ,.r.r ,vrs wj,, 'ompany which, i f's, ' arrive upon the field, n ,r' pr''-n" of the battle was inde-1 inde-1 " ''iy )lr,rrible. The ghastly nude y?""r 'he dead lay about in a ,:;av:'r to skK-en the p. ml. They ha5 'tipped, scalped an mutilal-j. mutilal-j. r, r-r.rding to the custom of the 8"' s- The young Irishman wan-' wan-' "d hop,e;c.cj5jy about in this fearful , H-ri j,ar(i jn dpppafr of finding his i.n' a' once he discovered a .I nhher scalped nor stripped, but its limbs decently composed a I i - - - if by a kindly hand. He recognized it as that of his comrade. n tne quie-breast quie-breast lay the gold crucifix of the Pone attached to the slender chain on which it had always been worn. The squaws engaged in strippinR the bodies had discovered the holv emblem hung about the voun- man's neck, and awed at the sight, of it had feared to wreak their usual horrors upon him. They had straightened his limbs and left him without the difig ui.uj, inarms or tne tomahawk The friend of the dead man took the crucifix and a lock of njs com rade's hair and sent thcin to th" young martyr's mother in Ireland " It was said by those who looked" on tint the- Indians who spared tho corpse because of the crucifix must have been those who had come underlie unde-rlie training of the famous Father De Smet. since he had given the savaee among whom he worked such a deei, though ignorant reverence for the cross that they would never dare to maltreat a body on which it waj Archbishop Denies Report. A report published in the eastern dailies last week stated that Archbishop Arch-bishop Diomede Fa Icon io. the Papal celegate to this country, according ti well-suDported rumor, will be called to Rome within the next six months, to receive re-ceive the cardinal's hat in reward fo-his fo-his successful diplomatic mission from the Vatican to the Catholic church in the United States. Archbishop Falconio denied through his secretary on Sunday that there is -ny authority for the report that lie is to be made cardinal at the approaching ap-proaching consistory cf the chur.-n. "There can be no foundation, in actual fact, for this story, lcau'-e matters of that kind are not given om in advance. The story first was printed print-ed in a Xew York paper. Xothing will be known of the selection of a cardinal car-dinal until next month. The consistory consis-tory will occur in Xovc.iber. and it is customary to notify those selected a couple of months in advance." 60,000 Men to March. One of the largest Catholic paradc? in the history of the country will march in St. Louis on Oct. IS. when the corner stone of the new cathedral will be laid. This was decided at a meeting recently of eighty-three parishes par-ishes in the arcJidiocese of St. Louis and six general societies. In all, more than 400 delegates were present in th Young Men's Sodality hall, at Xo. 15 Xorth Grand avenue, when preliminary prelimi-nary arrangements were made. The meeting was called to order by-Archbishop by-Archbishop Glennon, who presided The secretary was F. X. Ryan. A committee, com-mittee, composed of tnre .nrmoers of each of the eighty-three parishes, will have charge of the general arrangements. From this committee Archbishop Glennon will appoint a sub-committee of fifteen, which will have charge of the details of the corner stone laying. Archbishop Glennon will be chairman of both committees. It is expected that more than 60.000 men will be in line of march, and that all the parishes and Catholic .societies of the city and county will be represented. The Sistine Madonna. The new Father D. S. Phelan of St. Louis, writing from Dresden, says of Raphael's Madonna: "There is one picture pic-ture which has been a mine of wealth for Dresden. I mean the famous 'Sis-tine 'Sis-tine Madonna.' It is safe to say that .-0 per cent' of all tourists are drawn here by a desire to see Raphael's masterpiece. mas-terpiece. It has a room all to itself. Xo copyist is allowed to set up his tripod in that room. He may paint in the room adjoining and make cursory visits to the picture: but direct copying is forbidden. A guard is placed at" the door and his eyes are ever on the pic ture and the company to prevent too srreat familiarity. The Madonna or tne Dresdeners has brought to their city millions of money; but still they love her not. It is a noble picture of the Virgin and Child, originally intended to adom a convent chapel in Piacenza; but it found its way up here in the Protestant north. It is called the 'Sis-tine 'Sis-tine Madonna' because Pope Sixtus kneels on one side of the Mother of God, as St. Barbara does on the other." Daughter of Minister Enters Church. Miss Ida Hitchcock, the accomplished 17-year-old daughter r.r Dr. Hitchcock, for ten years principal of the Hitchcock Military academy of San Rafael, Cal., and an ordained Episcopalian minster, was received into the Catholic church on Monday of last week at St. Ignatius church, San Francisco, the Rev. Father Kenner, S. J., officiating. Miss Hitchcock Hitch-cock had the full consent of her parents, par-ents, who, though stanch Episcopalians, wished their daughter to follow the dictates dic-tates of her conscience. Miss Hitchcock has been a student at Sacred Heart college, Oakland, for four years. The Prisoner of the Vatican. When you are going to St. Peter's if you will look up at the plain walls of the Vatican palace you will see two windows with their shutters open, and these are the windows of the rooms where Pius X lives, a voluntary captive: the closed blinds are those of the rooms where Ieo XIII died, a voluntary captive. Whatever we think of the wisdom or the reason of the Papal protest against the occupation of the states of the church by the Italian ieop!e, these windows, have I their pathos. The pone immures him- I self in the Vatican and taken his walks in tho Vatican gardens whose beauty I could have envied him, if he had not been a prisoner when I caugh q glimpse of them one morning; with the high walls of their privet and laurel alleys blackening in the sun. But otherwise the severest Protestant rould not cherish so unkind a feel-lnc feel-lnc toward the gentle priest whom all men speak wej of for his piety and humility. It is a touching fact of his private life (hat his three maiden slaters sla-ters who wish to be as near him as they can, hsve their simple lodgings over a shop for the sate or holy images In a street opening into the Plaza of St. Peter's. It is well known that they are of a Venet'an family neither rich nor great: and their pride and Joy is solely in him. as it well ! might be. It is said that when they come to hear him in some high fune-Jon fune-Jon at the Sistine chapel their rapture of affection and devotiqn i very evi ent and beautiful. William Dean Howells in the Xew York Sun. The Oblates of Mary Immaculate. The eeneral chapter of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate will be held in Rome. It has been convoked to open on Sept. 16. The capitulants will spend three ays in retreat, and will then, on Sept. 20, proceed to the election of the new, superior general. The various provinces and vicariates will be represented by the superior and a delegate. Delegate Not to Visit Cleveland. Word has been received from the apostolic delegate, the Most Rev. Diomede Dio-mede Falconio, that he will be unable to be in Cleveland for the opening of the convention of the German Catholic Central society on Sept. 20. It had been expected that the delegate would address ad-dress the mass meeting to be held that evening In the Hippodrome. Arrangements Arrange-ments had also been considered to tender ten-der the archbishop a great reception, in which all the Catholics of the city would participate, on the day following. Miss Egan to Be Married. The marriage of Miss Patrice Egan. eldest daughter of Maurice Francis Egan, United States minister to Den-marak, Den-marak, to Klmer Murphy of Los Angeles, An-geles, Cal., will take place next month in Copenhagen. Miss Egan has been her father's secretary and companion for many years. The Flannerys. Build a Church. One family at Guthrie Center, la., has contributed sufficient funds to erect a 510,000 Catholic church. When the mother of the Flannery family died she bequeathed $2,000 toward a structure to be known as St. Mary's Catholic church, and each of her children, 'eight m number, gave $1,000 apiece. John O Connor, a Des Moines architect, is drawing the plans. Charles and James tannery are the sons who will superintend super-intend the erection of the new church. Praise Jesuit Missionaries. During the ter-centenary of Quebec the Canadian Methodist ministers made an address to Lieutenant Governor Govern-or Jette, in the course of which they referred re-ferred to the old Jesuit missionaries in these terms: "In them we have a rich inheritance of Christian devotedness. We recall the glorious motto of these men, to which they were unflinchingly true, 'Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam,' and we unitedly honor their passionate charity and their enthusiastic love for the souls of men." |