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Show I A Message From the Emerald Isle. A message from the Emerald Isle, Her envoys to us bring. A message that is full of hope, A message with a ring: To cheer each Irish son To fcirive to do and dare, To make the dear old Motherland A Nation young and fair. A message from old Erin's Isle! ' y( slumbering sons,, awake! Tlx people own again the soil, T!i dawn begins to break! A Parliament in College Green iicr faithful sons demand, . A Parliament! no idle dream! A Nation free and grand! A message from the Emerald Isle! Tlie lulJ lnat ave us birth! T.i us the dearest, sweetest spot lpon this big round earth. hat memories it opens up Acmss the span of years, Tin- glry of her saintly sons, Tlw martyrdom and tears! Glad Freedom! may thy bold light, I!;u:ninate her way; rsi- 1 the darkness of the past, Mrhiu forth the perfect day! Win n justice, peace and happiness, Atid plenty reign once more, Aad 1-Yeeedom's flag in triumph i lives fi'er Krin's lovely shore. P. H. CONCANNON. ;,!t!iam, Mass. The Church and Evils of Socialism. The social problem is the most re-,!, re-,!, ml. table enigma that faces the generations gen-erations of the future, writes Eticnne Lit my in Le Correspondant (Paris). The rich and the poor form two ! hestiie armies facing each other, to wit. the army of fear and that of hate. Th.- rich set.k to preserve their riches fp.ni plundir, and the poor hold it ' jinw fur dogma that all riches owe their oviirhi t plunder. The famous Ency- I di al mi Socialism given to the world in by th? late Pope Leo XIII ad-J ad-J nhUe.i tne justice of the claims of the i imiinr orders, and in his monumental j issay lie laid down the principle that i the so. ial war could only be avoided ,y a so -ial peace in which the classes sl'miil !. rt cognize actively the rights of t;;t masses. Tin- triple remedy he prescribed in velved. lirst, a personal sacrifice; secondly, sec-ondly, the formation of Catholic societies socie-ties which should control political sit-' nations and bring home to the people the injustice of social conditions, and finally benevolent action on the part ,,f the state itself. The tendency of the state nowadays, nowa-days, says M. Laipy, is to break up the sm ial scheme rather than to govern gov-ern it. Al! the governments of the world are becoming gradually, and unknown to themselves, socialized. Th'' regime of Socialism has actually ' hi nun in Franco. The annexing of the property of the religious orders was really the first tep towards confiscating con-fiscating the wealth of private persons. per-sons. The tax on wealth and legates is really an act of expropriation. The rich are being slowly ' relieved of their superfluity and the industrial socialism social-ism has gradually led to the upsetting af tlie social hierachic system. France, then, by eliminating Christianity Chris-tianity from her public administration, I has given the enemy its greatest op-pi.rtuity, op-pi.rtuity, and a revolution is now ir, process that is none the less fear-seme fear-seme that it is operating silently. The state has found out too late that it cannot accomplish its task un'yss it possesses a philosophy which shall I'M in; 'tie the highest ideals among ltn citizens. That philosophy was assuredly assur-edly found in the teachings of the Catholic Church. Four a nturies of Consordats had tss'ieiatcd the Church in France with th- national government, and at least eider. sav in the revolutionary peri-e.ls peri-e.ls was the normal result. But with t!i- advep.t of the new socialism pub-1: pub-1: bitterness and hatreds and class extinctions have become the rule. Politics, literature, history, journalismevery journal-ismevery manner of mental expression expres-sion is caught up in the general topsy-1 topsy-1 ;'!'vi;ics:; and a reign of chaos is the fi;:t.l result. Governments are simply "inpi omists: politicians are offiee-s'-kei's, full of promise and empty I performance. Tlie wondrous rearms re-arms that socialism promised in the ("tidition of mankind are not on the evidence of the present likely to be fulfilled ill the future. Order is the first rule of government. It is the fitst t. declare itself in all rule that insists and that is conceived in in-teilip.jK-o. France today has de-f de-f tr. .y.-i the best and surest guardians s! had against the advance of athe istic socialism, and the wiser sp'rits 1" -ginning to see the blunder of the '"a.bes ministry. A Strange History. No picture, perhaps, has had so e.mantic an adventure or so won-drmis won-drmis an escape as Raphael's "Christ I: - -: h m tn cross." It was ordered I : th.- fraternity of Mt. Olivet at I'ai.-riiin: vhe brothers wishing to lie..- h specimen of the celebrated Mi.liiin painters work hangilg in 1'n ir monastery. Raphael painted it in Home, and the picture was carefully care-fully i moke. an(i dispatched by sea t" :..-iIy. During the voyage e. storm ! . and the vessel was wrecked, "be dew jip.d passengers perished, : 1 re. trace of the ship or her cargo w.s ,.,. ;tgain. save the picture, v.-hi.-h was washed ashore, and dis-' dis-' v. i-. .i by the expectant monks. When i' .-use was opened it was found thaf I-, - a wat.-r had in no way injured t: beauty of the painting: and it was ' a y n',) at Palermo, amid great rejoic-"l- ;:n,i thanksgiving for its oxtraord- Progress of Languages. progress of language spoken '' -i o'- rent nations is said to be as .as: English, which at the com-n. com-n. tneiit of the last century was j !!"!.!! by onlv 20.000,000 of people, is I v. spoken bv 100.000,000. Russian is -i.oken by 60.000,000, against 30.- at the same period. In 1801 'i 'rran was spoken bv only 35,000,-""' 35,000,-""' ;- "p!e; today over 70,000,000 talk in ih. ;im language that William a.i.eror does. Spanish is now by H.eno.OOO of people, against in isoo: Italian by 32,000,000, ;i-b ..o of i,,0(in.(tO; Portuguese by 13.-' 13.-' '' instead of S.000.000. In the case ' ' Fn in h the increase has been from .'"in i,, 40.ooo.000, or 36 per cent. An Indian Chapel. A s . tic from tbo mission days will "11 be ,.ri!1cted in real life by the In-, 'jaais ,,f s.ib.. bus, near San Jacinto. Rt. ' v. Hisivm Cnnatv has called Rev. W illiam llu;-hc-s, missionary to the So-'' So-'' 'i is. into conference concerning the ,r'ti .n of a mission style adobe chap-It chap-It win replace the present frame '''dlding and the adobes, or sun-baked K"''-ks. v. m he made by the Indians '!":n.s( Ives. They learned the art from 1!" Franciscan padres and have pre-stvci pre-stvci it in their more pretentious '"iddjnas ever since. The devotion of !ae Soboba Indians to the Catholic 'iambi is proverbial among those who ;!r'- -at all acouai nted with the recent history of the Mission -Indians. The r,)-pei win be in keeping with i-Pfovements i-Pfovements lecently completed at So- a',u These improvements include schoolhouse, office and residence of the hfc-hes ofntat tripl,e- Th Pumpln "0 f- J? Prevlsly arid but now high- n arSp1','6 ianL This great in"ease Snhnho I4"3 WU1 lnSUFe the thrifty Sobobas a better living than heretofore The Rosary in the Family. durinehf0' in the famlly' especially J"Lt e sean of nt, is the great hnmf al Practlce which makes the home resemble the church. There are homes where the Rosary is the constat llr?B ?rayer- We have read of a sfon fv!eSt Wh0 set out uPn h'8 mis- fimn? wt"idwt snr ,nothe hm. u ew to thls he made a vear , h?se visitation. After two whiol thls special effort a parish even r S,n?d for lts carelessness and een for lawlessness became a center of order and loyal Catholicity. Oive me a good, honest Rosary without with-out trimmings, without additional pray-er, pray-er, 8f012eone used to say. A short, thl rfmn Sary' after supper- while all Jm i y ar3 tother. would have untold un-told effect in creating a true spirit among the members of that family. :-hitny 0f,us remember the old days IS toufathers. true Christian men. eSmn? SP,rlt 0f faith' and whose i " pcePts kePt the faith in It to gather their ltitle ones together to-gether at nightfall and say the Rosary. thoirhiM beau,ful custom for which their children will bless them long after 1 reone away' Tnere ,s no rea- a y 6 custoni ould be abandoned aban-doned now; in fact, now, when without n? lrace and the kindly help of His Blessed Mother, it is practically imp"" "'""w out unscathed from the m -ere ls more need than ever of this gentle prayer. Boston Pilot. Spunk at Last. T trL ls a socialistic town in Italy called by the papers Montsefilice, near r,Ua; soclalistic in the sense that there is a large number of cross-eyed and cross-minded people who effervesce nery now and then and go about the streets insulting law-abiding and Chris-t Chris-t an people. These pests determined to run the town their own way recently, and as a starter got up a celebration in ncnor of sonr? one they supposed would irritate their decent-minded fellow townsmen. The individual they selected select-ed was Giordano Bruno, whose statue was erected in Rome in order to annoy the atican-but it doesnt. Some thousands thou-sands of Catholics from neighboring yiHares flocked into the city to see that the churches would be respected, and incidentally informed the socialist disturbers dis-turbers that if they did not conduct themselves properly they would get a good dose of their own medicine in the shape of broken heads. This new prescription pre-scription was not expected, and caused some consternation. The very idea that Catholics would not permit themselves to be kicked about was preposterous. Such a contingency never happened in Italy before, and it must be a bluff. Then the Catholics threatened to burn the town, and the socialists "hiked for the tall timber." If these Catholics near Padua would innoculate the rest of Italy with the microbes mi-crobes which they are cultivating, the laud mouths that are causing disturbances disturb-ances would be closed and a very desirable de-sirable form of lockjaw would prevail. Advance, Wichita. Not Humility, But Indifference. In a notice of a book treating of frequent fre-quent and daily Communion, the Examiner Ex-aminer (Bombay) remarks: What keeps the generality of Catholics Catho-lics from "frequent communion with Our Lord" are not vain fears but ignorance; ignor-ance; indifference, pre-occupation, or pure and simple habit. When people plead that they "do not come to the Sacraments oftener because they are not good enough," this generally does not mean that they wish to come but feel unworthy, but that they are not sufficiently good to wish to come. Quite true; and be it added, says the Ave Maria, that the pastor who, as the immediate representative of the teaching teach-ing Church, desires in our day to be thoroughly orthodox, makes the burden of his exhortation about frequenting the Sacraments not so much, "My dear brethern be holy in order that you may-become may-become holy." So far, as the laiety are frequently and even daily," as "My dear brethren, go to Communion frequently and even daily, in order that you may become holy." So far, as the loity are concerned, the recent legislation of the Church, touching the frequency with which it is desirable that the Eucharis-tic Eucharis-tic banquet should be partaken of ought at least to draw all of them to the Holy Table once a month, if not once a fortnight, or once a week. .Handsome Monument to Polish Hero. Work has been started on the erection erec-tion of the pedestal for the statue of Kosciusko, the Polish patriot at Washington. The pedestal will be the largest of any portrait" statue in Washington. It is twenty-three feet one inch long and seventy-three feet nine inches wide. It weighs 115 tons. Kosciusko is represened as the hero of two hemispheres. The front of the pedestal shows a map of America, with an eagle guarding its liberty. In the rear is another hemisphere, representing Europe, and held in the grasp of a snake, which is being attacked at-tacked by an eagle. Above stands Kosciusko with one hand on his sword and the other holding a scroll showing West Point and other fortifications. fortifi-cations. The monument cost $50,000. Our Presidents. Twenty of the Presidents, including Rooseveit. have been lawyers. Two, Washington and Harrison, were farmers, farm-ers, but their elevation was mainly due to their achievements in war. Only two professional soldiers, however, have ever filled the presidential chair Taylor Tay-lor and Grant. Johnson was a tailor before he became a statesman. Sixteen of the Presidents were college col-lege graduates. Washington, Jackson, Van Buren, Taylor, Filmore, Lincoln, Johnson, Cleveland and McKinley did not have the advantages of college training, but some of these graduated at the law. Mother Theodore to Be Canonized. A dispatch from Terre Haute, Ind., states that word has been received from Rome at the beginning of the process pro-cess for the canonization of Mother Theodore, who founded the Order of the Sisters of Providence in the United States in 1840. When the remains of Mother Theodore were removed some time ago to the marble chapel at St. Mary's-of-the-Wood, it was discovered that the brain was still soft and pliable, plia-ble, although the body had been dead for fifty years. Argentina's Crucifix. The Palace of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague has received re-ceived a fine present from the government govern-ment of the Argentine Republic. It is a large crucifix for the main hail of the palace, andis an exact copy of the monument erected on one of the highest high-est peaks of the Andes in memory of the treaty of peace between Chile and Argentine. The idea of this gift originated with the Peace Society of Buenos Ayres, which received 56,000 from the Argentine Argen-tine government for the purpose. |