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Show Our Eitcrary Cable 1hen XfM Ffeman of St. John, X. B.. informs us that Rev Father A. B. O'Xeill, C. S. C. for many years prefect of English studies at St. Joseph's university, uni-versity, St. John, has been offered a position as associate asso-ciate editor of the Ave Maria, and has decided to accept. ac-cept. Father O'Neill's superiors in Canada and in France have approved of the change, and he will leave shortly for Notre Dame, Ind., where that excellent excel-lent Catholic magazine, the Ave Maria, is published weekly. For some months the New Freeman readers enjoyed his weekly contributions. As a maker of fine phr !-oS and sonorous sentences he is unexcelled and on --vious questions he is a reliable authoritv. says our cdteemed contemporary. The study of English has been his hobby, and his extensive knowledge. sune-u i rom years -or close study of English, will make his new work a pleasure to himself and a great benefit -to the periodical on which he is to take the Important position of associate editor. ' Besides having hav-ing for years contributed largely to the columns of the Ave Maria, Father O'Neill has written extensively for the Ecclesiastical Review, Donahoe's, the Catholic Cath-olic Worldand the Rosary Magazine. As a poet, he has received his mead of praise. His book of poems. "Between Whiles." published a few years ago, is a well arranged collection of sweet lines. - It is stated that genealogical researches lately conducted con-ducted at Berlin have disclosed the fact that Richard Wagner, the famous composer, was a Jew. 1 There Is something significant in the fact that more than half of the countries represented at the International Inter-national Geographical congress, now in session at Washington, are Catholic countries. And it is equally equal-ly significant that a number of the scientists are of the despised Latin races. Thereat the Catholic Sun of Syracuse ironically remarks that the ramping Anglo-Saxon. Itiferentially, is better at spoiling geography than at making it. It is not generally known, even to members of the profession, that there is a patron saint for lawyers. The recent peculiar advice given by the dean of the law school irt the Minnesota state university recalls the fact to our mind. His name is St. Ives, whose feast was celebrated in the Catholic churches of this and other countries the other day. On his tomb in the little church in Normandy where his remains repose is an inscription in Latin stating that, although the saint was a lawyer, yet he w'as an honest man. Judge Pattee, in his address to several hundred students at the law school of the University of Minnesota, on the eve of their graduation, said to them: "Many of you are too honest to be good lawyers." There is something paradoxical about this phrase, remarks the Pittsburg Observer, which" would have been quite in harmony withr the inscription on the tomb of "Sanctus Ivus. advocatus," if he had left out the word "good." Whate a mine of muse and poetry there may be in many of our convents the world will never know, because be-cause so seldom is it we see Doems from nuns in print. Here is one. composed by Sister Anna Raphael of Notre Dame College. San Jose, Cal., and recited during the' Admission day exercises at the World's fair; St. Louis. Very appropriate and timely. Sister Anna Raphael selected for her theme "California in St. Louis." -..'"'' j Greetings to the Mississippi: ! Greetings from the Sunset Sea! From our golden-chaliced blazon, .To the silvery fleur-de-lis. Greetings from our oaks and olivea, From the cypress and the palms. ' ' From our proud Sequoias powering, - Thro September's hazy calms. - . From our mountains and our valleys, From our northern harp of pines, ; . From our Southland, in the glory ' . Of her orange groves and vines; From the hermit hush of Nature. From the restless, rushing mart, ''"" f rom the domes of starry science, From the homos of Faith dndAnT From the heart of California. Messages of love we bring, From, the City of the S-r-iph . To the City of the Kin- - To Saint Louis, greetings, hmas Fervid as our own starts bnv, 5 Iom the "Native Sons and Daughteta Of our loyal GoiJon West." Greetings quickened fcy tho spWulo'-i And the wonders wn behold Homage tender with thf nv'tnoriea Of the hallowed clays of old. Stirring all our hearts to rantur. Thrills of patriot pride and i.u Lifting all our souls to grateful Homage of the God above; Who thro' years of sternest trial?. And thro' wastes of toils and fci X To the latest Land of Promise L ' Led our noble pioneers, ' Led our Fathers we. their cliildrf - I Reap the harvests that they r;i-. I With their hands of tireless paticr. In the furrows of the past. Oh! th? marvels far surpassing 1 Wildest dreams of human th'ni2 ,t- 1 Lo, from ocean unto ocean What a century has wrought: j How the wilderness has blooni(V i And ho v.- far our banner flies: J It is gladdening hearts that love j- ! Tinier uu earth's ohnnaing ?k;r, f 4 From the sunrise, to the yumt. H From the fiery torrid gliw.. j From the realms beyond the TroT To the wanes of Arctic snow?. 1 It is throbbing forth the welcome ! Of our country's lips todav. Mid the flags of all the nations, ,1 In this wonderful array; : ' AVhere the islands of the oc-fan. i And earth's continents outpour. Hoarded treasures of the ageg, ' From their caskets glittering s-,!f Precious spoils of Time and T.ip:!t, Trophies of the mind and heart, O the miracles of Nature: ' And the prodigies of Art: . Yet .amid the pomp and pageant That 'tis ours to share today. Tender memories of our M. their' Cluster ever 'round our way. As she rises 0n our vision. In this calm September giow. As when first she sprang to Statoiv,,,. Four and fifty years ago': - Golden-crowned and royal vestured. Queenly in her wealth and gr-e With the glory of the future Shining in her radiant face, California: California: Throned beside the Sunset s.'a. All our hearts, like home-sk-k children. Turn with loving thoughts to the;. While the lips that love thee, pledge the In thfir warmest words of praiye. While thy dome-crowned Mission sing? ux Anthems of thy early days; i While thy 'sun-tranced pictures rm'rmr Glimpses of thy bloom nnd grac And tin labors of thy children. Seem as sunbeams from thy face: While amid thy gracious Sisters. North and South and Wsst and East, Joying in Columbia's triumphs. Guests of honor at her feast. Yet our hearts are ever with thee. For we are of thee a part-To part-To thy absent sons and daughters Flash a message from thy heart. SilentJ But we know th3- wishes: Love in deeds. The hope, the crown, And the glory of a nation Is her children's pure renown. ? More to her than lordly acre?. With their harvests' golden stor?. Purple grapes, or orchard treasures. Forest wealth, or glistening ores. More than Music. Art. Song. Science. More than Labor's roudet boast, More than argosies of commerce, More than serried marial host. For the nation's weal is ouilded , Of the living stones of Home. If the walls and pillars crumble. Of our country lives, or die?. t . Fathers, mothers, sons and daughter. Closer bind Love's sacred ties. In her children's lives, the greatness Of our country'3 lives, or dies. Hirher. higher, lift the standard s " . Of the pure, the true, the just: Clasning to our hearts the blazon Of our Fathers: "God our Trust." A. I |