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Show : i efturcl) Universal - j CHURCH CALENDAR. I c qecond after Epiphany. The I 1V vVme-St. Canute.-E. Rom xii, I J"' GN john, ii, 1-12.-S4G.1B1 for voca- I tinns. Kabian and Sebastian. I l -XM2Jor"enes. 414,669 for schools. 1 II' y SS Vincent and Anastasius. t 1 'Ti v 'l'nr superiors. i . "'fh r Emcrentiana. 402,536 for t "inti retreats. . s Timoths-3i4,231 for socle- ! tK,s, vrkonvf.rs:j0n 0f st Paul. 544,- nf conversions-. I GENERAL INTENTION. (I The Goiden Jubilee of Our Holy j ' Father's Priesthood. 'i T., intention recommended this ; ,'n t lie opening of the New Tear, h o Vravers of The Apostleship, will 1 '0 ,;'., Vith especial force to all our As- iztez Our prayers are requested for ".'Vhl'upP f,f lne Sacred Heart, upon I ,i,p ' ,v father, on the occasion of the ' rnlden Jubilee of his Priesthood. . I vppdlc to say, this request, com- I ,'e from our Holy Father Himself will "L with a ready response in the heart I "Tlvprv i rue child of the Church. How I ,h more so then from every mem Per "J the l.pue of tne Sacred Heart. I 0 0 pjU; x have been committed in a I orttrular manner the interests on earth ! rthe Heart of our Blessed Savior. He l this world the Vicar of Christ. His t ' ;ible Representative among men. To liim have been addressed the words r inpven ion ago on the lakeshore of ?.mpeto Peter: "Feed my sheep, feed I y iamb?." This feeding of the sheep I "I'd the lambs, which devolves upon the Supreme Shepherd of souls upon earth, I ! a work unspeakably dear to, the f upart of our Blessed Lord. It was for 1 ,he feeding of the flock that He was J born in Bethlehem, toiled at Nazareth, ! preached on the hills and in the valleys S ,'f Galilee and died on Golgotha. It was ; J for this that He hung three hours on the and Wed and died in shame. i To rarry on and direct this work for ? whfeh He" gave His life. He has given tf Plus the same commission that He lf.stowed upon Peter. How ready then that Heart will be to grant our prayers that the heart of our Hly Father may lie strong and brave in the work committed com-mitted to his keeping and his doing. i ju this time, too, when the Holy Father Fath-er has so many enemies, not only out-1 out-1 side the Church, but even among His f own children, our prayers are the more needed. We surely should watch and ray more when there are traitors with-f with-f in the camp and deserters in the lines ! of the enemy. Prayers then, both fervent and constant, con-stant, will be the grateful tribute which the loving children of Pius'X will of-fr of-fr their affectionate Father, on the necasion of His feast of joy, His Golden Gold-en Jubilee of the Priesthood. PITTSBURG'S 400,000 CATHOLICS Priests .Baptize 22,756 Children 5,014 Marriage Ceremonies. There are 400,000 people in the Pitts- lurg diocese of the Catholic church, ! Bcvording to the annual report now be- I ing prepared. The report will also f show that 5,014 marriage ceremonies ; were performed by the clergy of the diofesv: that 22,756 children were bap- i tized and that the- number of deaths in Catholic families for 1907 was 8,909. The census of the diocese was taken I in accordance with instructions issued f lv Fishop Glennon of St. Louis through I Bishop .Canevin several months ago. The report will be sent to Bishop Glen- rion of St. Louis, who was appointed 1 by President Roosevelt to secure a cen- ;i ku of the Catholics in the United J States. I Cardinal Manning and the Jesuits. 5 Wilfrid Wilberforce relates a new anecdote of Father Bernard Vaughan, j S. J., and a good one. Father Vaughan 1 had lectured, by request, to a gather- Ilng of Nonconformist ministers, and his subject was, "Why I Am a Jesuit." At the close of the lecture one of them asked him: "How is it. if the Society So-ciety of Jesus is as "you describe it, I that Cardinal Manning disliked it so I much," "Well," replied Father Vaygh- I an, as though sharing the perplexity of I his questioner, "I can only suppose that the explanation is this: Cardinal j Manning belonged once as you do to a Prtestant body and when he was con- I ditionally baptized, that peculiar con- Kituent in his Protestant nature must j have escaped the water." j What Is Patriotism? I J'hat. is patriotism?. Is it a narrow j Section for the spot where a man .j vas born? Are the very clods where 1 e tread entitled to this ardent perfer- ence ,leeause they are greener? 'No, sir. This is not the character .of the I virtue, and it soars higher for its ob- J't. It is an extended self love, min- Mng with all the enjoyments of life and twisting itself with the minutest I filaments of the heart. It is thus we I . obey the laws of society, because they I are the laws of virtue. In their au- I tnonty we see not the array of force I arid terror, but the venerable image I 0; our country's honor. Every good ' iniK-s that honor his own and herishes it not only as precious, but ! ?if M(-r"1- He is willing to risk his I Je 111 'i fen?e and is conscious that I J. pi'-s protection while he gives it. I Aires. Tears and Joy. Under tjts i'ears f joy ""pe Frifdcrici writes to a Berlin hovr. l,,ilt 'I,e custom ' "weeping and w-s "n a" oc''asions of great joy P n,.rai among lne eariy inhabit- tr v, f Am'Tica," and that In many i 'ocs vihum by him in South Amreica I- api'toved form of welcome was v save U'" r- "Tpars of welcome," lie thp ''' :ilso -shod by the natives of - Piou Lari!jl"ian islands and by the I AttT: AlRr""luins and other Xorth J havrUn Indians-; From all that I 1 4 S-' fn' l. jude that in times past I 'Wth-'"1 J"y were inseparable and 1 v J'i ''"'"lion which civilized people I n-)ro'-! ay at parting was once the M"n i,f harty welcome." j M?de It Complete. I i- vr" L"-I,lanche, the famous operat-I operat-I 'oia'eu Wf,K Presented to Queen Vic- I l'ie arti T- "lajf ny' who had hear(1 of I t!lat hi I K,noboy. asked if it was true I hrx" ,1aa a large c-.illection of snuff I HMla,, rfT'lied that It was correct. -36-, nnr for rv,?ry day in the year t Wj"Y7,1"'iPSS' your collection is not ! F!ns n'tp." was the queen's re-J'ear-" d is another for leap " tearson's Weekly. Gotf bcEt is none too good to offer ! i i i JOY IS LIFE'S TREE. The world is sweet and fair, and bright, And joy aboundeth everywhere. The glorious stars crown every night, And thro' the dark of ev'ry care Above us shineth Heaven's light. From the cradle to the grave We reckon all our days and hours; We sure will find they give and gave Much less of thorns and more of flowers. And tho some tears must ever lave. They path we tread, upon them all The light of smiles forever lies, As o'er the rains from clouds that fall, The sun shines sweeter in the skies, Life holdeth more of sweet than gall. For ev'ry one: no matter who Or what their lot or high or low; All hearts have clouds but heaven's blue Wraps robes of bright around each woe; And this is truest of the true. That joy is stronger here than grief Fills more of life, far mure of years And makes the reign of sorrow brief; Gives more of smiles for less of tears, Joy is life's tree grief, but its leaf. Father Ryan. The Misjudged Turk. The rural Turk at home, when not goaded into violence by his corrupt rulers, is the very antipodes of the monster of popular imagination in England. His domestic virtues are at least equal to those of any western population. He is honest, industrious, patient, gentle and of fine natural manners. London Times. Just a Hint. Chapleigh I say, dwuggist, can you aw give J me5 something to aw bwighten me up. doncher know? Druggist Drug-gist You're in the wrong place, young man. This is a drug store, not a night school. Chicago News. They Got Even. A young 'and .bashful professor was-frequently was-frequently ' embarrassed by jokes .his girl pupils would play on him. These jokes were so frequent that he decided to punish the next perpetrators, and the result of this decision was that two girls were detained an hour after school and made to work some difficult problems as punishment. It was the custom to answer the roll call with quotations, so the following morning, when Miss A's name was called, she rose and, looking straight in the professor's eye, repeated, "With all thy faults I love thee still," while Miss B's quotation was, "The hours I spend with thee, dear heart, are as a string of pearls to me." Ladies' Hojne Journal. Ireland Is Quiet. One would be inclined to think from reading the English press nowadays that all Ireland is seething with crime and disorder. The fact is that the country, has never nev-er been so peaceful and free from serious seri-ous crime as at present. It is true that there has been some cattle driving driv-ing but theat has been confined to a few small districts in Roscommon and Galway. Some of the judges have waved semi-hysterical over the refusal of juries to convict. Cattle driving has been condemned by the most thoughtful thought-ful men in the Irish party and it is feared that it will be made the excuse by the whfgs in the present govern-1 ment for refusing to consider the demand de-mand of the Irish people for home rule. THE UNDERTAKER'S BILL. All the neighbor folks who knew her, Poor, unlucky little mite. Came from far and near to view her In her little shroud so white. The remarks of some were bitter, Though it certainly was plain When the flying moter hit her There was not the slightest pain. And. of course, no needless torture, 'Twas a sad occurrence;' still, Dndn't MnRichley Scorcher Pay the undertaker's bill? Once again Ae people flocking To a house of mourning find More disaster, sad and shocking, That a motor leaves behind. Just a bruised and battered creature. Stark and lifeless there but then, There was one consoling feature, He was three-score years and ten.' When a man's that old and feeeble It is merciful' to kill, And moreover, Mr. Scorcher Pays the undertaker's bill. Bells are tplling in the steeple! There's another victim dead. Ah! the sore-afflicted people! Can they not get comforted As they mark the solemn tolling And the rumblings of the bells? Is there not some thought consoling That their monody compels? Sure! They know that motor's busted (Shattered parts of their roaring still), -And the heirs of Richley Scorcher Pay the undertaker's bill. Catholic Standard and Times. WHEN SHOPPERS SHOP. (W. F. Kirk in New York American). How do the shoppers swoop down on the store? Dear lady shoppers, Watched by fly coppers-How coppers-How do the shoppers swoop down on the, store? Worming and squirming And wriggling and giggling . And staring and glaring S, . and sampling and trampling And mussing and fussing (While male clerks are cussing), And tearing their wearing Apparel, not caring So long as their crushing vAnd pushing and rushing And fretting and sweating Result In their getting Ten cents worth 'f ruching. Chattering, 'scattering Down the main aisle With a vigorous battering. Jamming and slamming. Tramming and cramming And squeezing aid wheezing And stumbling and tumbling And mumbling and grumbiiny Until with a dashing And crashing- and smashing They find that their start meant The grocery department, Where each buys her husband Ten cents', worth of lemons. That's how the shoppers swoooped down on the stoie Dear lady shoppers. Watched by fiv coppers, That's how the shoppers swoooped down on tb.3 store. LITERARY MECCA OF ENGLAND. Famous Writers Who Lived in Twickenham. (Westminster Gazette.) The place to which the lover of English Eng-lish literature will soooner or later turn his step is Twickenham. No other small town can boast o having been the residence and beloved abode of so many famous literary lights. With it are associated the immortal names of Pope, Horace Walpole, Swift, Gay. Lady Wortley Montaga, Gibbon, Boswell, Johnson, Tennyson and Dickens. Dick-ens. Surely this is enough to make any place doubly immortal. Twickenham was well nicknamed bv Horace Walpole Wal-pole the Balae or Tivoli of England, for it has truly been to London what Baiae was to ancient Rome indeed, in a far higher degree. The big red brick house in Mont-peher Mont-peher Road where Alfred Tennyson lived for so many years of his earlier married life was the one in which many of his earlier poems were written. writ-ten. Here his son Lionel, tho second Lord Tennyson, was born, and where the author of the "Idyls" entertained many of his literary friends and fc-3-Quaintances. That house should surely be sacred to all lovers of English literature whi .h( saw the dawn of "In Memo-riani," Memo-riani," which witnessed those delightful delight-ful gatherings graced by Tennyson. Hallam and kindred spirits within its walls. It is today called "Tennyson House" and is now without a tenant. THE AMERICAN STANDARD. Smith was a man of .nxlest purse. Who found frugality a curse. A plain, cheap bike so small his hoard Was all he really could afford: So naturally, he bought a motor- cycle. i - Jones should have been confuted The motor-cycle craved by Smith. A motor-cycle came within The limits of his store In tin; But, of course, he bought -a runabout. runa-bout. Brown was a man of slender means. Forbade high-price, high-power machines; ma-chines; . A runabout was just His size; And so he bought, as your surmise, A heavy American t During car, model of 1908. Green could afford a popular High-grade, home-product touring car; But none of that for Mr. Greene; He coveted a French machine. So, of course, he went the limit. Binks was a multi-millionaire, for motor car he didn't care. Besides, his doctor did advise A milder form of exercise. So Binks walked. Binks says that money's not 'so tight. And thinks the country is all right; But Smith et al. in tones intense Complain of "loss of confidence." Puck. Foxy. If it be true, as some are saying, that modern commercialism more i.nd more hardly tolerates any bur. pretty girls in its retinue, is not the problem of problems solved? For what docs this mean less than homely girls will be led by the inevitable logic of circumstances, cir-cumstances, to look with increasing favor upon matrimony, as Hobson's choice, at least, if not the better part? And' can anything be more certain than that homely girlg make tne best wives and mothers? In other words, this rush, on the part of our ' womenkind to butt into gainful pursuits, may et "prove to be only a foxy device by Providence whereby the wheat shall be separated from the tares, and the wheat set to bearing fruit, while the tares no noth ing but wither away? Puck. , , How We Live. Pierced by the Pin Trust. Chilled by the Ice Trust. Roasted by the Coal Trust. Soaked by the Soap Trust. Doped by the Drug Trust. (W)fapped by the Paper Trust. Bullied by the Beef Trust. Lighted by the Oil Trust. Squeezed by the Corset Trust. Soured by the Pickle Trust. Birmingham Birm-ingham Age Herald. . Beware- of Grafters. i . Notwithstanding the strict laws made by the Rt Rev. Bishop : Scanlan in regard to collecting in this diocese, yet occasionally un- der one subterfuge or another these statutes are ' violated. The law is made to protect persons I from being imposed upon. It ia- strictly in conformity with . the Council of Baltimore. Church members should be the first to discourage all such persons, no matter in what garb they appear or what they propose to do. Any appeal for pecuniary aid, whether in the form of collection, or sale of books or religious articles, is strictly prohibited. We refer our readers to Ahe standing notice which appears in our editorial columns. THE FOLDED PAGE. Up in the quaint old attic, as the rain drops pattered down, And I i;at, idly turning a school book dusty-brown n I came to a leaf that was folded, and marked in a childish hand, "The teacher says to leave this now, 'tis hard to understand. What was so hard? I wondered. I opened it with a smile. Only to read at the problem's end: "We learned 'why' after a while." My tears fell thick as the rain drops then, up in the attic old. As I thought of the leaves that are "folded down" till the days of our lives are told. One was folded there with a tender hand to the sound of summer rain; When the dust of years lies thick above, will we open this page And can we write with steady hand, and on .our lips a smile, "At last our Teacher told us 'why,' and we learned it after a while." Elizabeth T. Lloyd. A Bad Case of Nightmare. (Washington Post.) Champ Clark's prediction that Mr. Brvan wduld be elected president seems to "have aroused nothing but the suspicion suspi-cion that Champ has contracted the habit of talking in his slctK Will Make a Warship Out of the Island. Is-land. '(Philadelphia Telegraph.) The British are now. planning a 30.O0U-ton 30.O0U-ton batt!eshipto outdo the Dreadnought. Thev will be putting a couple of smokestacks smoke-stacks on the island next and trying to sail her. . . . : |