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Show . J i f. ' ; I Eatest irisft Hews i j : . ' j UISTEE. I The death occurred recently at her 1 ; residence. Lisdruinchor, Whitecross. i and is deeply regretted, of Mrs. P. Mc-' Mc-' , I Sherry, aunt of the Most Kev. Dr. Mc-'.-. ' i . V Sherry. South Alrlca, and of thf Very 4 ' Kev. Joseph McSherry, Provincial. O. , j' M. I. ' ' ' I At a recent meeting of the East Ty- !: rone Executive of the United Irish i Leau-f, Mr. VV. J. Harbison presiding. . , . 1 a resolution was adopted cordially ap- i 'j proving- of the policy of Mr. John Red- mond and the IriPh party in the present 1 political crisis. , ' i According to the returns made to the i Sheriff by the election agents, the ex- ; iH-r.ses of the different candidates in ' the Parliamentary elections for North i and South Mnnagham were as follows: '' North Monaghan M. E. Knight. 399 ' t 4s 13d; Jas C. P.. Lardner. 262 0s lOd: J South Monaghan John McKean, 252 6s 4d; Chas. Laverty. 252 19s. . The Downpatrick Rural District j Council has received the sanction of the ; Local Government Board for a loan of i 35,R9fi for the Council's fourth im- - provement scheme under the Laborers' Acts. ! MUNSTEE. f. On the vote in the House of Com- mons on March 1, for the Department Mr. William Kedmond congratulated the Government on the fact that they had made an excellent appointment to the Congested restricts Board when they selected the Rev. Father P. P. , Carrigaholt, Clare. A new male national school for Mountmellick has been erected and a loner-felt want has been supplied. This pr hool has cost 600. Of this a grant has been obtained from the treasury and th remainder was by local subscription. sub-scription. A farm of land containing forty Irish acres, belonging to Mr. McCord, Corboy, was sold by auction on March 2 at the high price of 1.500. Mr. Allen was the purchaser. The land is of good quality and a beautiful residence has been erected on it. Tattle Freke, the historic mansion of the Carbory family, situated near Clo-" Clo-" nakilty, was destriyed by fire on March 4, the damage being estimated at 25,-000. 25,-000. LEINSTER. Sir Ralph Cusack, for 38 years chair-- chair-- man of the Midland Great Western Railway company, died on March 3. The Secretary of the Harbor Board ' reported to that body that during the year 1909 4-18 vessels with a registered Tonnage of 165. 56K tons, entered the port. That compared very favorably with previous years. The interest and principal prin-cipal on loans had been paid with strict punctuality. ' The Lord Chief Justice in the City Crown Court, Limerick, was presented with white gloves, the emblem of , ' peacefulness. The town of Mohill will soon be lighted light-ed by electricity. Almost all the busi-1 busi-1 ness premises and private residences will have the electric plant installed ' after a short time. CONNAUGHT. As a result of heavy floods, an extensive ex-tensive bog. about three miles from Castlerea, was set in motion and the . ' inhabitants of the district were great- 1 ly alarmed, but Mr. John Fitzglbbon and two engineers of the Congested Districts Board took prompt measures to avert the disaster which threatened the countryside. ' ' The Esker bog, which had been threatening to move for a week, assumed as-sumed a dangerous aspect on March 4 and a mass, about 100 yards long by 50 yards wide, slided gently. The appointments to the magistracy for Co. Mayo are announced of Thomas Roughneen, Kiltmagh and John M. Conry, Ballyhaunls. Dr. T. Walsh, D. Ph.. Galway. has been appointed an Assistant Registrar of the Galwav University College to Professor Edward Townsend. ' The British Crisis. Lord Roseberry has introduced his resolutions into the House of Ixrds. They lay down as principles of reform the necessity of a strong second cham-, cham-, ber. that this is to be best obtained by a reform of the House of Lords and ; that a necessary preliminary to such " reform is to declare the mere peerage is no longer to entitle one to sit and vote. The Government has developed i its plan of action. Until supplies have 1 been granted It is always necessary to obtain a temporary vote for current expenditure. ex-penditure. It asks for a vote for six weeks only from the end of March, which will carry it on to the middle of May. By that time it will have sub-! sub-! , mitted the budgrt to the Commons and sent, up its reform resolutions to the House of Lords. The rejection of either eith-er will enable it to resign and leave a Unionist Government without the means or carrying on the public service. . The Id. " that the fear of such a disast- . compel the Commons to pass the budget and the peers to accept the resolutions, or, should they fail to do so, to force the King to j-leld in the matter of the creation of the large number of peers necessary to out-vote them. Should the Unionists, the peers and the King remain firm, the Liberals and their allies will refuse even temporary tempo-rary supplies, and will oblige the Unionist Union-ist Government to dissolve Parliament and enter in a gener il election with the country's affairs in t'tter confuEion. Moreover, seme of the extreme Radical newspapers inform the King, that by siding with the Peers, by which they mean, refusing to swamp them with new crcatlors. he will share in their ruin. The Unionists are almost in dismay, dis-may, and say that the times of Charles I have come again. Sir Walter Foster, returned at the late election for the Ilkeston Ilk-eston Division, Derbyshire, retired to make a place for Colonel Seely, one of the chief Liberals of the last Parliament, Parlia-ment, defeated in his own constituency. The Unionists contested the scat and in a total poll of 17,075. differing from that of the general election by only 11 votes, reduced the Liberal majority from 4,200 to 3.333 On March 21, Mr. Asquith introduced his resolutions on the House of Lords and Parliamentary reform. The first recommends the abolition abo-lition of all power of the Lords over a money-bill; the second, that any bill passing the House of Commons in three sessions shall become law without the concurrence of the Upper House, provided pro-vided t wo years have Intervened be- j tween Its introduction and its third passage; the third, that Parliaments shall last for only five years. America. The Colored Supplement. Enraged over something the local newspaper had printed about him, a subscriber burst into the editor's office in search of the responsible reporter: "Who are you?" he demanded, glaring at the editor, who was also the main stockholder. "I'm the newspaper," was the calm reply. "And who are you?" he next inquired, in-quired, turning his resentful gaze on the chocolate-colored office devil clearing clear-ing out the waste-basket. "Me " rejoined the darkey, grinning from car to ear. "Ah guess ah's de cul'ud supplement." Seventy Years a Nun. Seventy years a nun is the record of an inmate of the Ursullne convent, at Quebec, of the Rev. Mother St. Croix, who celebrated . the anniversary last Wednesday at the age of 93 years. Her maiden name was Susan Holmes, and she was born in New England. A brother is Abbe-Holmes, one of tho founders of Laval University. Mother St. Croix Is the author of a history of the Ursulines. Irish Monks and Learning. Lecturing in Regent House. Trinity college, on Friday last, Professor Cul-verwell Cul-verwell said that about the sixth century cen-tury Irish Monks, carrying with them Greek learning, passed over to France and the rest of Europe, and were as welcome through their scholarship as through their sanctity. They founded many famous schools, such as that oS St. Gall in Switzerland, which some persons claimed to have been almost the equivalent of a University. Equally important was their work northward. As St. Columban went to France, St. Columbia went to Scotland, and through him Greek learning was spread over the North cf England. The Venerable Bede, at Wearmouth, was said to have the finest Greek library in Europe; when the Danes ravaged Northumberland it was passed on to ioric. Alcuin, educational advicer to Charlemagne, Char-lemagne, the most influential leader in the first renaissance, was by intellectual intellec-tual descent an Irishman, as were the great majority of those who worked for the same end. His successor. John Sco-tus Sco-tus Erigena. a native Irishman, was admittedly the greatest mind of the eighth and ninth centuries. Sleeping Sickness. King Albert of Belgium is making a grant of $200,000 for the purpose of combating com-bating the sleeping sickness. Stations for the study of the sickness will be established, the number of doctor will be doubled, and missionaries will be trained in its treatment at,Leopoldville. The king will also give $100,000 for the building of hospitals for the natives. As You Go Along. 'Twill do your soul a word of good To lift a fallen brother From troubles towering mountain-high. Through one cause or another. Perhaps the very thing he needs Is but a cordial greeting! To turn his darkened sky to blue. With all Us storm-clouds fleeting. The World's Railway Mileage. A table prepared for the Archives of Eisenbahnwesen states that at the commencement com-mencement of 190S the total railway mileage of the world was 594,842 miles, divided as follows: America, 302,928; Europe. 199,346; Asia 56,2S4; Africa, 18,-518, 18,-518, and Australia, 17,766. The cost of construction per mile has been highest in Great Britain and Ireland, where it averaged $271,000 per mile. In Belgium the cost was $179,900; France, $122,000; Germany, $108,500; Italy, $125,300; Russia, Rus-sia, $79,600 per mile. In the United States the average cost has been $68,800; in Canada. $58,000; in New Zealand. $60,-300. $60,-300. and in Queensland, Australia, it is as low as $34,200. English King. Hitherto the Record Office in London has not had an autograph of an English Eng-lish sovereign earlier than Richard II. A member of Its staff has now found in the Vatican archives a letter of Edward Ed-ward III to Pope John XXII, dated 1330. Part of the letter is written In the King's hand. Would Form Irish Colony in West. A unique plan has been adopted and is under way to irrigate 30,000 acres of fruit and vegetable lands near North-port, North-port, ninety miles north of Spokane. Wash. A mining man of Spokane, who is backed by a syndicate of local capitalists, capital-ists, has been sent to Ireland to organize or-ganize a colony of 5,000 families to make their homes along the Columbia and Kettle rivers in Stevens and Ferry counties. The plan now under consideration is to have tho Irish immigrants work the land on shares until they are familiar with modern tillage, when they will be permitted to buy the acreage at actual cost. An Incident of Land League Days Recalled. The prominence of home rule and the Irish party in the dispatches of late weeks has reminded the Catholic Register Reg-ister of Toronto, Canada, of the following fol-lowing Incident In the land league war or a quarter or a century ago: Sir Henry Norman, in the "eighties" of the last century, was in Ireland as the representative of an English newspaper, news-paper, to give his impressions of the land league agitation, which was then In its full strength. He was present at the evictions at Rodyke, on the O'Callaghan estate. County Clare. On seeing the constabulary deliberatelv breaking the furniture in the cabins, he felt it hard to remain passive; but when a constable gave a violent blow to a girl, who was not resisting the evictors, Sir Henry Norman, who is of powerful physique, forgot himself and felled the ruffian to the ground. Ho was immediately placed under arrest, but after some hours he was liberated by the "authorities." Sir Henry Norman Nor-man keeps among his treasures a little lit-tle ornament for his watch chain presented pre-sented to him by the people with' whose sufferings he sympathized. Bishop of Winona. Rome, March 5. Following the recommendation rec-ommendation of the consistorial congregation, con-gregation, the pontiff today appointed the Very Rev. P. R. Heffron, rector of the St. Paul seminary, to be bishop of Cotter. The bishop-elect was born in New York city in I860 and went west when a young man. The pope has accepted the views of the bishops of the province of St. Boniface, Boni-face, Canada, and created a new diocese dio-cese at Regina and an apostolic vicariate vicari-ate at Keewatin. Reform Plan for Lords. London. The London Times professes to give an outline of the government's intended bill for the reform of the House of Lords. It says that If the ministers are able to secure the abolition aboli-tion of the lords' veto of finance and legislation they will introduce a bill to reconstitute the upper house on a democratic demo-cratic elective basis. The new chamber cham-ber would be a small one, having no veto power on financial bills, but when a deadlock of the two chambers arose over ordinary legislation the two houses would sit and vote together. Thus any government having a respectable majority ma-jority in the Housa of Commons would be in a position to carry its legislative proposals. A Reminder of the Act of Union. The intended sale by auction of Whaley Abbey, Rathdrum, the country residence of Thomas Whaley, known in the Union period as "Buck" Whaley, a noted eccentric, and a brother-in-law of "Black Jack" FitzGibbon, Earl of Clare, the Lord Chancellor who was, after Castlereagh, the principal machin-ator machin-ator in Ireland of the Union, will recall to recollection that the notorious "Buck" owed one of his soubriquets to the name of his residence, which was known not only as Whaley Abbey, but as Chapel Whaley. He was known as "Burn Chapel Whaley" from the incendiarism in-cendiarism of the Yeomanry under his command in 1798, who signalized their loyalty by setting fire to Catholic churches in Wicklow arid Wexford. Whaley's Dublin residence was the mansion, 86 St. Stephen s Green, now University College, which afterwards became the residence of a personage of a far different character, Justice Barton, whom Curran had met in London, Lon-don, engaged as a law clerk, and perceiving per-ceiving his abilities, had brought to Ireland, when he became a distinguished member of the, judiciary. Judge Barton, Bar-ton, on the trial of a case in which the father of the late Lord Justice FitzGibbon Fitz-Gibbon was a witness as principal clerk in a commercial business, advised him to go to the bar, reiterated the advice in private, which was taken, with the result that he became a leader at the bar and a master in chancery, and lived to see his son a member of the Court of Appeal. Irish" World. Ireland's Linen Trade With the.U. S. Dublin At the convention of the Irish Linen Manufacturers' association official of-ficial reports show that linens figure largely in the remarkable increase in Ireland's export trade with the United States. The figures for the year ending end-ing June 31, 1908, reveal that this trade amounted to $17,585,000, compared with $9,100,000 ten years ago. A greater portion por-tion of the trade was in linens, this item alone accounting for $10,000,000 Judging by the latest available returns, the year 1909 probably exceeded the best previous record of Irish exports to America. The Old Oregon Trail in '49. Hundreds of men who left homes In nits eitsi ana even in Europe on their way tothe gold fields passed over the old trail, never to be heard of again by waiting relatives or sweethearts. Of the thousands who followed It, many hundreds made record of their journey on a big sandstone bluff which begins two miles west of Fort Laramie and runs three miles or more along the trail. This wall, sometimes rising to a height of fifty feet, at others dropping to a dozen, presents today a singular appearance. ap-pearance. Scratched over almost its entire en-tire length are the names of argonauts and westward bound travelers. Some were cut with a knife, while others almost al-most weathered off, were made with the point of a nail, or daubed on witli a mixture of axle grease and ashes Most of the latter. exceDt where an overhanging wall has prevented weathering weath-ering by the storms of more than half a century, are already gone; but the incised names remain like the hieroglyphics hiero-glyphics of the aborigines in various parts of the west. Of the host that passed over the Old Oregon Trail a considerable proportion carved their names on the sandstone rock, where at least five thousand names are legible today. Very few recent cuttings are discernible. The present day trail passes a hundred yards from the part of the wall where photographs were taken in the summer of 1907. An enterprising modern artist has gone to great pains and risked much danger in carving thirty feet up the face of the cliff, an excellent figure of a horse. Robert Fletcher in Putnam's. Cardinal McCloskey's Centenary. At a meeting of the consulters of the Archdiocese of New York held at the Archepiscopal residence of Archbishop Farley, it was decided to postpone the celebration of the centenary of the birth of Cardinal McCloskey, which falls on March 10, until next, October. This was decided upon at Archbishop Farley's suggestion. It Is planned to have an observance which will far surpass any Catholic function in the history of this country, even of the centenary of the diocese two years ago. Two reasons for the postponement were stated. The first was that St. Patrick's cathedral could be consecrated at the same time, and the other that dignitaries of the church. Including four cardinals, might be enabled to attend. In the fall the twenty-first international interna-tional eucharistic congress will be held at Montreal for the first time on this continent in the thirty years of its history. Prelates from every country on the globe will be present. Many members will be able to return by way of New York, and Archbishop Farley and his consulter feel confident that they will accept invitations to remain over for the Cardinal McCloskey celebration. cele-bration. Three of the four members of the Sacred College who may be expected ex-pected In this city next October are Cardinals Vincent Vannutelli. Logue and Gibbons. The fourth probably will be another Itaiian prelate. It Is also expected ex-pected that Archbishop Diomede Fal-conio, Fal-conio, the Apostolic Delegate at Washington, Wash-ington, will be present, together with many archbishops and bishops from Europe and America. A Younf Hero. "Oh, how cold!" escaped my lips as I stumbled through the door of a miserable miser-able attic tenement, says a writer in the Watchman. The mother was out, but her boy, who was about 12 years old, was mounted guard over the other children as they played about the poorly poor-ly furnished room. I shivered as the wind whistled through the broken window win-dow panes, causing me to pull my overcoat over my ears. The boy was in his shirt sleeeves, but I refrained from asking questions as to the whereabouts of his coat, in case its absence ab-sence might have been the means of i f - ' . providing a crust of bread for the fatherless fath-erless family. "Are you not cold, my boy " I asked him. "No," he said. "Not very." Yet I noticed how his pretty, pearly white teeth chattered. I waited a while and spoke to him. Tl n I took a look into the cradle, where, sleeping quietly and comfortably, the baby lay covered with the boy's coat. Talk about the bravery of the men who face cannon. In the heat of passion they will do anything. But here was a hero on a bitter cold day, in his shirt sloeves because be-cause he wanted to shield his lllttle brother from the biting effect of a'cold February wind. Men say that the age of heroism is past. It is false! So long as the nation na-tion raises toys like this one she has within herself the germs of a boyhood that will keep her forever in the very forefront of the world's history. Home as It Ought to Be. Among the writings of Helen Hunt Jackson there is a picture of a home as it ought to be, drawn In such fair and graceful lines that it deserves to be hung in every home where all may see and heed its lesson. Here is the picture: "Tho most perfect little home I ever eaW was n little house into the sweet Incense of whose fires went no costly things. A thousand dollars went as a year's living liv-ing for father, mother and three children. But the mother vas thn creator of a home; her relations with the children were the most beautiful I have ever seen; every inmate of the house involutarily looked into her face for the keynote cf the day, and it always rang clear. From the rosebud rose-bud of cloverleaf, which In spite of her hard housework she always found time to put beside our plates at breakfast, break-fast, down to the story she had on hand to read in the evening, there was no intermission of her influence. She has always been, and always will be, my ideal of a mother, wife and home-maker." home-maker." A Thought. Picture earth and arid desert. Robbed of bird and flower and tree, Robbed of babbling brook and river, And of weird and wondrous sea. Picture sky without the sunshine, With no glittering star-gems fair. Picture life with love extinguished, Picture darkness everywhere. Can you see the dreary picture? Well, 'tis thus my soul would be, Without Jesus on the altar, Without Jesus there for me. More than life and love and beauty, More than sun and stars and sea. More than babbling brook and river. More than bird and flower and tree, i Jesus hidden on the altar, More than all things to me. Had I all things without Jesus, Earth a dreary waste would be. S. M. R. No Carnegie Medal for Him. The park policeman, seeing a youngster standing on the brink of one of the ponds in his domain, accosted the youth. "What's the matter, Tommy?" he queried. The youngster pointed to a boy's hat, which was bobbing up and down in the middle of the pond. "My bruvver " he sobbed. But the brave cop waited to hear no more. In a flash he had divested himself of his coat, and waded into the ice-cold water. He reached the hat ana dived. He came up at last, but with the hat only. "Can't find him," he gasped. "Where was he standing when he fell In?" The boy gasped. "He ain't fell in," he said. "He's over there. I was going to tell you he threwed my hat intw the pond, but you wouldn't lemme finish." The Ocean. Oceans occupy three-fourths of the earth's surface. At tha depth of 3,500 feet waves are not felt. The temperature tem-perature Is the same, varying only a trifle from the poles to the burning sun of the equator. A mile down lae water has a presswre of a ton on every square inch. If a box six feet deep vere filled with salt water and allowed to evaporate, evapo-rate, there would be two inch-38 of salt left on the bottom of the box. Taking the average depth of the oceans of the world to be three miles, there would be a layer of salt 230 feet thick over the entire bed should th water evaporate. The water of the ocean Is colder at the bottom than at the surface. In many places, especially In the bays on the coast of Norway, the water freezes at the bottom before It does above. Waves are very deceptive. To look at them in a 6form one would think the whole water traveled. The water stays in the same place, but the motion goe3 on. Sometimes in storms these -waves are forty feet high and tiavel fifty miles per heir nearly twice as fast as the fleetest steamship. The base of a wave the distance from valley to valley on either side at the bottom is generally reckoned at being fifteen times tiie height, therefore an average wave, say one twenty-five feet high, has a base extending over 375 feet. The force of waves breaking on the shores is said to be seventeen tons to the square yard. Folly of Christian Science. There was no mincing of words in an address on the error and folly of Christian Chris-tian Science, delivered by the Rev. Henry Day, S. J., at a recent meeting of the Manchester (England) Catholic Federation. He spoke of the new cult as a double misnomer, opposed equally to revealed religion ana rational-science. rational-science. It was a criminal folly. What it stood for was neither Christianity or science, but a crude and Iniquitous travesty of the former, and an absurd distortion of the latter. The religion of Christian Science was a degrading parody, and was not only non-Christian but was anti-Christian and opposed to fundamental Chrsitian truth. The basic and most absurd error of Christian Science was in regard to matter, which it declared to be non-existent. This dogmatic assertion of the nothingness of matter was in direct antagonism to all rational and modern science. It contradicted con-tradicted the testimony of the senses and undermined all knowledge of truth. Health and sickness were accordingly ac-cordingly a delusion. The teaching of Christian Science regarding physiology, the speaker declared, was ridiculous balderdash and absurd rodomontade. Ave Maria. Quick Wit. Wendell Phillips has been written about and featured in many ways, but Dr. Sears has lately published a very fine biography of the great orator and original abolitionist, which makes exceedingly ex-ceedingly interesting reading on account ac-count of the many anecdotes, scattered here and there through the book. The great orator was on one occasion lectur ing in Ohio, and while on a railroad journey, going to keep one of his appointments, ap-pointments, he met in the car a crowd of clergy, returning from some sort of convention. One of the ministers felt called upon to approach Mr. Phillips and asked him: "Are you trying to free the niggers?" Yes, sir; I am an abolitionist." aboli-tionist." "Well, why do you preach your doctrines up here? Wrhy don't you go over In Kentucky?" "Excuse me, arc you a preacher?" "I am, sir." "Are you trying to save souls from hell?" "Yes, sir; that's my business." "Well, why don't you go there?" The assailant hurried hur-ried into the smoker amid a roar of un-sanctified un-sanctified laughter. R. C. Gleaner In Catholic Columbian. |