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Show UNDER THE BAN. Authors of Reply to Recent Encyclical Ency-clical of Pius Excommunicated. Rome, Oct. 30. The virtual excommunication excommuni-cation of the Rev. Father Tyrell. the English Jesuit, who severely criticized the pope's recent encyclical on modernism, modern-ism, will, it is said, probably be followed by the adoption of similar measures against German, Italian and French modernists. mod-ernists. The retirement of Mgr. Lacrox. bishop of Tarenaise. France, who favored the acceptance ac-ceptance by the clergy of the church and state separation law, is considered to be primarily due to the prelate's lack of sympathy with the recent ultramontaine policy of the Vatican. The reason given for the bishop's retirement, however, was ill-health. The pope has excommunicated the authors au-thors of the reply to his recent encyclical on "Modernism" and has instructed the various bishops to forbid the reading of this reply in their dioceses. In their reply the Modernists argued that the church had always and should now adapt itself to the exigencies of the age, and insisted upon the right to discuss dis-cuss the Bible and other sacred writings, which they held to be human productions. The Crow. (Benzige'rs Magazine.) Poets, for poetic reasons, despise the crow. In the Celestial empire, and many other places not so far afield, he is a bird of ill omen, and to the poets he is one of ill repute. There is a hearty song sung in hla praise; "He loves the fat meadow, his taste is low; He loves the fat worms, and he dines ' In a row, .With fifty fine cousins all black as a loe;" which, with gusto, concludes "It's a comfort to feel like a great black crow." It is said in ordinary phraseology. "straight as the crow flies," or "as the crow flies," but the crow does not fly so straight as supposed. It knows better, bet-ter, and wings its way hither . and thither in a good flight of inspection, "blown about the skies," as Tennyson says. The crow is a bird of all weathers, is ever on the alert and wide awake, and never wastes its time. It Is the most prosaic bird, and deserves a good word from prosaic mortals. It is the farmer's friend, as the worms and grubs could testify if their voices could be heard, and -it is the embodiment of what a good horticulturist should be; its eyes are ever on the fields. Its flight is tireless, and confidence is heard in its chattering voice. No other bird is so sociable in habits, and none is so conservative. con-servative. Where once it nests, it forever for-ever nests. It weds for life; and it is almost alone in the bird world in knowing know-ing no law of separation. But it Is the bircrs attachment to one spot that should apeal to ordinary mortahj. No landscape is complete wifnout a line of crows. Look around you everywhere every-where in the country, be it flatland cr the hilly slope, you will find the black line winging the homeward flight when all other birds are silent, or pillaging In a stubble field, or following the plough in dark dots. Crows are everywhere. every-where. They are birds of rainy weather, and every wet day you are almost certain, cer-tain, in the country, to see them on the move and hear their wings slowly napping, heavy with rain, and to notice no-tice how their dull voices harmonize with the gray sky. They are the field preachers, and preach one sermon from different texts, and the sermon consists of the repetition repeti-tion of one word, "Work, Avork, work;" the letters, on being transposed, spell the bird's name. Individually the crow may not possess a sweet voice, but collectively they produce musically engaging en-gaging sounds. It Is music to be heard only in the plains or fields; for the crows follow the ploughshare and seldom sel-dom haunt mountains or hills where deer run wild, and man cannot live. Th rb-'-ro ester was not wide of the mark when he sang of the .comfortable feeling of the big black cro.v. The crow, except in frosty weather, is always al-ways well to do and comfortable. |