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Show f . rs 9 cometh the universal, sp- the Penitent. My bands are empty, Master, and 'tis Night! Beyond that farthest star my Youth haj flown. And all along the way my hopes are Ftrown. 13 y 3roams allured, and deeming lite oVrlnng, 1 courted visions and-pursued a sons-1 sons-1 sowed the barren seed with jest and lau?fc The harvest of my years is worthless chaff. The streams T heaped In youth teem rivers wide. And mountains steep the hills I climbed in pride. By Time undone, in humbleness I pray: "Throughout the darkness lead me unto Day." Mv hands are empty, Master, and 'Us Nipht! Charles S. Ross, in Boston Transcript, A Jesuit on Cremation. At the late mass in the Church of .the Immaculate Conception, Boston, recently. re-cently. Rev. Thomas 1. Gasscn, S. J.t discussed the attitude of the Catholic church toward the cremation movement. move-ment. Father Gasson showed that Pope Leo XIII by a decree of May 19, 186, had forbidden Catholics to adopt, under ordinary circumstances, this method of disposing of the dead. "It must be borne in mind," said Father Fa-ther Gaeson, ;that this decree IS not one of faith, but simply of discipline, that is, the church, for wise reasons, , judges it ill-advised and contrary to Christian tradition, to thrust the body of the departed into a crematory. "If experience should show that public pub-lic health demands cremation there is no doubt that the church will accommodate accom-modate her legislation so as to sanction any reverent manner of caring for the bodies of the deceased. "To say that cremation would interfere inter-fere with the resurrection of the body is a puerile statement. Is it any more of a miracle to resurrect the body from the ashes which are the result re-sult of cremation, than to resurrect the body from the ashes which are the result re-sult of burial? Both are equally possible possi-ble to divine omnipotence. "The church's objection is based upon the fact that burial is the practice which she received from the Jewish church, to which she is the successor. Burial, too, was the method chosen for the disposition of the Savior's dead body a method naturally followed by all fervent Christians. Burial, likewise, appears to be the more consonant to human nature. The body is the temple In which the principle of human life dwells: it itself is destined, according to a Christian teaching, for an endless life, at the close of the world's soul-stirring soul-stirring tragedy. "Even when deprived of the spirit which thrilled it and made it pulse with 0 life, the body does not become an object of terror or of horror, but rather a precious relic, to be reverently and lovingly dealt with. The old painting even, when the colors have lost their glow and the face has lost its expression, expres-sion, and only a vague outline remains . to tell us of the one it portrays, is not thrown ruthlessly into the fire, but Ftill remains in an honored position among the household treasures." 1 Divorce. For 1,800 years the church withstood .divorce and upheld the indissolubility of marriage. The "Reformers' first divorced di-vorced Christ from his church, and then man from his wife. Now. if there is any occasion when the church's glory hone out with greater brightness than anolher; it was the stand she took, and the sacrifices she made, rather than change this apoFtolic doctrine. Germany, Ger-many, with almost the entire of northern north-ern Kurope, was wrenched from her communion. Half Switzerland was gone, and France was grievously imperiled. im-periled. Every day brought tidings of j fresh disaster to the Vatican; the tide of revolt was rolling onward, and no man might mark its limit. The papacy i was hard pressed, and it seemed as if Catholic Christendom was breaking up on every side. In her hour of anguish there was one nation to which the church might look for help, one power capable of staying the onward roll of destruction England. Henry VIII was, perhaps, the most powerful monarch that ever sat on an English throne. His father left him uncounted un-counted wealth. Not a spark of disaffection: dis-affection: the shadow of no claimant disturbed his repose. Parliament was at his feet, and the nobles that might thwart his plans had perished in the Rose wars. Feudalism was in its last gasp, and the pow ers of modern democracy democ-racy had not received birth. The friendship and assistance of such a king was incalculable. They might be purchased if the church recognized his divorce from Catherine; If she abandoned aban-doned one item of apostolic teaching. 8he could not if it were to gain the whole earth. She was commissioned to teach all things whatsoever Christ commanded her. and amongst these "all things" certainly divorce could not be found, but rather. "What God hath joined let no man separate." Her lips could not hold a lie, for the spirit of truth was with her "Behold I am with you all days." In her hour of darkness and gloom she dashed aside the proffered prof-fered hand, when it could be only purchased pur-chased by the abandonment of apostoli,c teaching. Rev. M. Phelan, S. J., in the Monitor. Memorial Church to Cardinal Newman, On Feb. 21, 1?03, had he lived as long, Cardinal Newman would have attained the age of 102. Born in 1801, he died on Aug. 11, 1890, full of years and merit. But though twelve years have passed by since he went to his reward, re-ward, no fitting memorial of his great work as yet exists. Yet his name is held in veneration in the hearts of millions, mil-lions, who, it is presumed, would be glad to give some outward proof of their appreciation of his life and writings. writ-ings. The church at the Oratory in Birm-Inham, Birm-Inham, where the cardinal lived and labored, is no longer safe, and is too small to accommodate the ever increasing increas-ing number that seek admission within its walls. Hence the Superior of the Oratorians issued an appeal a year ago for funds to erect a new and suitable church, which should worthily carry out the original design of Cardinal Newman, when he founded the Oratory. Ora-tory. It is an enterprise that concerns the honor of a name which is a glory to the church of our age. and in reply the Catholics of England have so far contributed C2.500, or half of what is rde to complete the memorial Church. , .. But the Catholics of America also Cardinal Newman a debt of grati-tuae, grati-tuae, which they are not slow to recognize. recog-nize. Both clergy and laity spak his name with love and reverence, and appreciate ap-preciate w"hat. by God's grace, he has accomplished for the church. Many, too, on these shores owe the light of me true Faith to his writings and example. ex-ample. Will these now lend a helping hand toward this most deserving object? If every lover of "Lead, kindly light" were to send an offering, no matter now 6mall, this much-needed and well-deserved well-deserved memorial church would soon be raised, and the Catholics of Ameri-uld Ameri-uld have the lion's share in the j enterprise. The claims upon us are many, but let room be found for this one also. Father Robert Eaton of the Birmingham Birm-ingham Oratory has lately been sent to this country to enlist the sympathy of all American Catholics and secure their generous help in this work, which deserves a world-wide recognition. He is the guept of the Paulist Fathers, 413 West Fifty-ninth street. New York City, and to him all offerings should be sent. He will gratefully receive and duly acknowledge the smallest contribution. contri-bution. "Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, Lead thou me on: The night is dark, and I am far from home, Lead thou me on. Catholics and Business. (Pittsburg Catholic.) Should Catholics trade with Catholics, Catho-lics, should the priest in every instante give the parochial business to Catholics?? Catho-lics?? are questions some time put. That we should aid and encourage our own whenever opportunity presents is creditable and just. It does not follow, however, that we are to permit inrposi-tion, inrposi-tion, disguised under the cloak of religion. re-ligion. All things being equal is the rule. Business .is business is. a trite way of. putting it, but" it is a good and safe rule. Because a man is a Catholic Cath-olic he -is "a poor stick," who expects to succeed by living off his brethren. He may expect their "trade, honorably solicit it, but he has to gain it to measure meas-ure his business by business principles. His religion is not to be the meed of his success, except in its exemplification exemplifica-tion of honestly and justice to all who trade with him. It would be well for grumbling Catholics, who mak the plea of their religion as a basis for trade to remember that their brothers in re-; liglon, having earned their money, have i the right to spend it where they like. It is the bounden duty of the priest in making his contracts to place them where they will be well executed, and at the lowest price conformable to such execution. Nor should any blame be attached to him if in the pursuit of this duty he goes elsewhere. That is no good reason to urge that "I support the church," and "I am only asking back what I have given," as if something some-thing has been given the church it has no right to. Some people imagine that because the church is to be kept going by collections the priest is a sort of charity boy. Let Catholics be reasonable reason-able and businesslike, and everything being equal, in prices, detail, workmanship work-manship and value, they will have no excuse to ask the questions herein mentioned. The Church in Ireland. About the Catholic church in Ireland these interesting statistics are given by Father Hull. S. J., of Dublin, in a letter let-ter to the Glasgow Observer: "The total to-tal population of Ireland is, roughly, about 4,500,000. From the Propaganda report of 1901. the Catholic noDulation is about 3.500,000. The Catholic Direct tory of 1901 shows that there are in Ireland 28 Bishops, 1,090 parishes, 1,010 parish priests. 1,869 administrators, curates and other priests; 557 priests of the regular clergy (total of priests, 3,438): parochial and district churches, 2,434; houses of religious priests, 84; of monks, 122: of nuns, 341. From these figures, taken in round numbers, the following rough result seems to follow: One church for every 1,400 of the Catholic Cath-olic population, one parish priest for every 3,500 of the Catholic population; one parish priest and one or two curates cu-rates for every 3,500 of the Catholic population; one priest, for every 1,700 of the Catholic population: one priest, j secular or religious, for every 1,000 of the Catholic population; one male religious re-ligious house for every 17,000 of the Catholic population: one convent of nuns for every 10.000 of the Catholic population. And all this great religious relig-ious establishment is maintained by the voluntary contributions of a people among the poorest in the world." Catholic Reading Is Indispensable. (Ave Maria.) For Advent Bishop Hedley of Newport, New-port, Wales, gives sadly needed instruction in-struction on the importance of Catholic Cath-olic reading. His Lordship does not hesitate to say that at the present time it is virtually impossible for a Catholic to keep the faith firmly and to practice it satisfactorily without the assistance of reading. A strong statement, state-ment, in support -of which the Bishop says: "Every one reads now. The non-Catholic non-Catholic press, which covers the whole country, does harm to the Catholic religion re-ligion in two ways: sometimes it attacks at-tacks the faith, and at all times it occupies oc-cupies people's time and attention so as to push religion into the background. back-ground. On both these accounts Catholic reading is indispensable. If we read things that are written against our holy religion, we are bound to read the statements and explanations which will enable us to know what is the truth, and to be ready to give information informa-tion to others. And since we give up so much of our time to the news, the paragraphs, the sporting intelligence and the amusing or thrilling stories that pour from the press day by day, it is certain that God and Jesus Christ, the Gospel, the Church and the sacra ments, must to a great extent fade and shrink in our thoughts unless we have also some kind of reading that will effectually keep them before the eyes of the mind." ' Tribute to Archbishop Ryan. (The Casket.) We have heard much of the amiable character of Archbishop Ryan, but the following words from the Christian Register, the leading Unitarian paper of the United States, are the strongest testimony we have ever met to his sweetness of disposition: "If personality person-ality alone could draw one into the Church of Rome the Archbishop of Philadelphia would fill his. fold from the fold of heretics." The Adeste Tidelis. There is no Catholic in America who has a voice for singing, but could hum the melody of the Christmas hymn, "Adeste Fidelis." This hymn will be sung as offertory in almost all the Catholic churches in the land on Christmas morning, and we are taking for granted that you who know and love the carol for it is an old carol sung probably during the performance of the mediaeval Mystery Plays would like to know something of its origin. Concerning the authorship of the j words, there is nothing positive known. ! It has been ascribed to St. Bonaven-ture. Bonaven-ture. who died in the early part of the thirteenth century, but it is found in no collected edition of his writings. In the Mechlin "Thesaurus Animae Chris-tianae," Chris-tianae," it is given as a second sequence se-quence for Christmas and is said to have been used as such by the Cistercians Cister-cians and perhaps written by some mem ber of their order. It is not properly prop-erly an offertory piece, in fact it' first appeared in England and America as a Benedictine hymn for Yuletide. It does not appear in either the official Roman gradual or the Vesperal. It is found in the chant books of the Parisian Pari-sian rite, set to the melody now in use. The melody was first sung in England Eng-land about the close of the last century. cen-tury. As early as 1797 the hymn was sung at the chapel of the Portuguese embassy, of which Vincent Novello was organist. Hr. Novello (who had arranged ar-ranged the best known version) believes the present tune to have been written by John Reading, organist of Winchester Winches-ter from 1676 to 1681. The scale on j which the melody is based would indicate in-dicate that it is not nearly so ancient as the text. Catholic Citizen. "And a Little Child Shall Lead Them." "One day," said a priest whose labors la-bors covered a period of more than forty years, "I observed a strange little lamb among my flock when I came to hear the catechism. He was not entirely en-tirely unknown to me, however; I recognized rec-ognized him as the son of a neighboring neighbor-ing politician a man noted for his violent vio-lent and extravagant opinions, famous as a club orator, a denouncer of priests and so on. When I had finished with my class, I went over to the child sitting sit-ting alone on one of the back benches. He arose politely with cap in hand. His eyes looked sad, his cheeks pale, his clothes though of good quality and well made, were put on carelessly and were very much soiled. One could see at once that this poor boy lacked a mother's care." "You go to school?" I inquired. "Yes, Father. I do." "But not to the sisters?" "No Father. Papa does not like the sisters or the brothers." "You have come here, I suppose, to learn something of your religion." The child looked at me as though not exactly understanding. "You wish to hear about the good God ?" He made a gesture of Indifference. "Why then do you come here?" I asked, "if you are not desirous of learning something of God and His Holy Mother the Blessed Virgin?" Suddenly his face became animated the sad eyes sparkled. "Yes, Father," he said almost in a whisper. "Some one told me that the catechism children all had a mother the Holy Virgin. That whether they had one at home or not, it made no difference, they would find one hero. I was glad when I heard that, and so I came. Two large tears rolled .iown his cheeks as he added: "Oh, Father, I need a mother so very, very much." The cry of that sorrowful, young heart touched me deeply. "Wait tiH the other children have been dismissed and then I will speak with you again." I said. When they had gone I returned to the little stranger. "Come," I said, "I am going to taka you to your mother." He gazed at mo again as though not comprehending. "To her," I continued, "who will take the place of your mother." I joi-ducted joi-ducted hi mto the Chanel, which the children of Mary had but that morning adorned for the feast of her Nativity. When the boy raised his eyes to the beautiful white marble statue crowned by a diadem of gold, and standing in the midst of the loveliest offerings of the garden, he exclaimed: "Oh, how grand! how beautiful! Do you think she will really take me for her little boy? She has one already in her arms a dear little baby! Perhaps Per-haps she does not need me; but, oh, I have so longed for a mother, and now that I am ill I want one more than ever." "You are ill, then?" I said. "I remarked re-marked that your face was very pale.." "Oh, yes. I am ill," he replied. "I have something here in my side which hurts me very much. The doctor says I may not go to school any more." "How old are you?" I inquired. "I am nearly 9," he said. vl . "And you can read?" "Oh, yes, I can read very well. I have gone c to school since I was !. Papa thought it was better, so that I should not be so lonely at home. The I cook told me that If papa would only ! let me come here I should find a kind I mother. So I ran away this afternoon and came here." "My child," I said, "you should not have done that. Your father may be displeased." - "If you think so, I shall not tell him. He might not let me come again." "Oh no. you must not do that. It would not be right to deceive him. Tell him that you have been here, and. before be-fore you go I will give you a little catechism and lesson to study. If you wish the Holy Virgin to be your mother moth-er you must learn all about her anr the Infant Jesus." "Who is the Infant Jesus?" he asked. "The child you see In her arms. He is God." "Oh, well, give me the book, if you please, I will learn it." I gave him the catechism. He came back next day. His father was away from home, he said, and he had not been able to tell him. He knew the three questions I had given him to learn very well. The next day I gave him four, the next five. On the following fol-lowing afternoon he did not come. Every Ev-ery time I had seen him he appeared paler, more exhausted, and had a perceptible per-ceptible difficulty in breathing. So a 'week passed and he came no more. At the risk of incurring the displeasure of his father, I resolved to pay a visit to my little friend who. I felt certain, must be ill. The servant ushered me into his room immediately. He was lying on a couch near the open window, looking very ill. "Oh, I am so glad you have come, father," he said, extending both his thin little hands. His catechism was lying on the pillow beside him. "Now you can hear my lesson," he said. "I have taken a new one every day, and papa has helped me with it." "Is it possible, dear child," I said. 'How did that happen?" "I am so weak, you know, I can hardly see any more. The day before yesterday I could not read at all. And then papa came home and I told him about it. He was not cross at all. He said he wanted to do everything that pleased me, and I told him you said that if I wanted to have the Blessed Virgin for my mother. I must learn about God and religion." ; "What did your father say to that, my boy ?" - "He said that that was right if I liked it. He took the book then and repeated re-peated the words over and over again until I knew them by- heart." , "I am pleased to hear that, my boy," said I. "Father," said the child, "I know now what religion means, and I know, too. that my father does not believe in it. That is why my mamma was so unhappy before she died two years ago.- And I know that I am going to die; I shall have two mothers in heaven my own and the Blessed Virgin." I heard a heavy sigh behind us. The father had entered quietly, and now-stood now-stood looking down at the sick boy. He received me very politely. When I left he accompanied me to the door and asked me to come again. "The child is dying." he said. "There is no hone for him let him have what consolation he wishes. His mother would have liked it." I went to see him daily after that. In a month he was ready for his first communion and death for him Wag ready also. The day before he received his Lord for the first and last time his father said: "Edmund, yours ig a good innocent soul: you have faith. Ask the Blessed Virgin in whom vou believe to cure you and I promise that I, too, will become a Christian.':. ' ., , The boy looked at him intently.,' "Noi """"" """" ' U ' tmwm papa," he answered, "I do not want to be cured. I do not like to leave you, but I am longing to see my two mothers in heaven, if I lived I might grow up to be a bad man." "Like your father." said the sorrowing sorrow-ing parent, bitterly. "No, papa," answered tht child. "I do not think you are a bad man, but you have told me that once you were a little boy like me, saying your prayers every night and morning and loving the Blessed Virgin. How can I tel! thi I would not do the same if I should grow ud to be a man?" "You are right. Ldmund. It might all happen as you say." "But. papa," the boy went on. "I will do this: I will ask the Blessed Virgin when I get to heaven to change your heart and make . it like a little boy's again. And I am so sure she will do that, papa, that I am in a hurry to die, so that it may come to pass." The father said nothing, but as he turned away from the couch I could see how hard and unyielding was the look that overspread his countenance. When the final hour came the child passed quietly away in his sleep. The grief of the father was intense. Throwing Throw-ing himself upon the dead body of his son, he uttered the most awful imprecations, impre-cations, defying a God, who he declared de-clared did not exist, and objurgating in the most outrageous manner the Mother whom his dead boy had so tenderly loved. At the end of a fortnight he came to me transformed. Something had impelled im-pelled him, he said. He had fought against it, but vainly, and now, with j the deepest sentiments of penitence, he asked to be reconciled to the God he had long abandoned. "The little boy in heaven has not been idle," he said. "Nor his mother, since he went." His conversion was completf he became be-came as eloquent and influential for the good cause as he had been for the bad, and from that time till the day of his death was an instrument for the spiritual and temporal benefit of his fellow parishioners. To what can such a change be attributed save to Mary Immaculate, through the prayers of an innocent child?" The Rosary Magazine. Maga-zine. ' l Granddaughter of Chief Justice Is a Convert. Recently in the chapel of the Ursu-line Ursu-line convent In Toledo, O., Miss Mary Waite was baptized into the Catholic church by the Rev. J. T. O'Connell, pastor of St. Francis de Sales' church. Miss Waite was formerly a member of the Episcopal church, but has for a number of years been contemplating the step which she has taken. The ceremony was witnessed by a number of the friends of the young lady, who is a member of one of Toledo's oldest and most prominent families. She is a daughter of the late Edward T. Waite, and granddaughter of the late Chief Justice Waite.- Charms of St. Patrick's Bells. The bells of St. Patrick's cathedral make welcome music in upper Fifth avenue on certain afternoons in the week. They play between 5 and 6 o'clock, the time when there is the most going on in the street, the most carriages, the most stir, and the greatest great-est number of people out. But the sound is impressive and people stop to listen. On a Wednesday afternoon recently, juast as the street was in royal procession, proces-sion, the chimes struck up the "Wedding "Wed-ding March," sounding out clear and tuneful above the hub-bub. The message mes-sage was so inviting that a party of strollers, evidently strangers to the town, turned back in their walk to listen. Then, when the march had died away, the bells played a simple old song a song of the sort in which words and music are wedded together with never a possibility of separation. "01).! how beautiful!" the elderly woman wo-man who listened exclaimed to her friends. "That air carries me far back in the long ago to school girl associations. associa-tions. I can't recall the name, but the refrain is: " 'We gather shells from youth to age And then we leave them like a child.' "If I were to hear that air in the remotest re-motest country of the globe I should feel at home at once. And to think of hearing it played here on Fifth avenue in -the most up-to-date; part of New-York. New-York. It will have-a new association for me now," And the ; trio passed 'slowly along, listening to the old familiar air played over three times, as is the rule with the chimes, while the lights on the avenue ave-nue showed out one after another and there came on that degree of darkness which emphasizes most strongly the difference- between the mellow gas lamps and the high, white electric lights showing against the dark mass of buildings. New York Sun. RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. The bishop of Shrewsbury has Issued a vigorous warning against the use of unauthorized prayers to St. Joseph now flooding some of the parishes. Priests are openly commanded to suppress everything ev-erything of the kind coming under their notice. Thirty years ago the Catholics of New Soutn Wales numbered only 147,- 267, now they number 347,286, an increase; in-crease; of over 135 per cent. Mgr. Anatole, spiritual director of the St. Paul seminary, St. Paul, Minn-has Minn-has been appointed vicar general of the archdiocese to succeed Rt. Rev. John Stariha, who was censecrated bishop of Lead, S. D.. a month ago. -J- Andrew Carnegie has presented $1,-500 $1,-500 to the Catholic church at Ga-lishiels, Ga-lishiels, Scotland, for a new organ, on condition that the parishioners raise a similar sum. Information under date of Nov. 13 has reached San Francisco to the effect that Brother Rochus of the Baldwin home, Leper settlement, was drowned while taking a sea bath. The Chicago correspondent of the1 Popular Educator, Boston, for December Decem-ber reports that out of 100 candidates either for admission to the normal school or as cadets, sixty-two passed, of whom forty-five were graduates of the parochial schools. "When one comes to think of it," says the writer, "the Catholics of Chicago are doing a great deal for tncity-" The Rev. Arthur Napier Morgan, B. A., of St. Paul's, Reading. Eng., has entered the Catholic church, and intends in-tends to go to Rome to study for the priesthood. 4w- Twenty-five years ago Mother Veronica Ver-onica of the Order of Poor Clares-Mho Clares-Mho in Germany was Countess of,fl;im-endorf of,fl;im-endorf went to Cleveland, and with four other members of the order founded the convent on Perry street. They came from Dusseldorf, Germany. The silver jubilee was celebrated last week. -S- Rev. Edward Hannin, pastor of S Patrick's church, Toledo, O., for the past forty years, died last Sunday afternoon. aft-ernoon. He was 76 years old and in April last dedicated a $140,000 church which he himself designed, and 'the building of whichjsuperintended. The new Catholic orphanage in Philadelphia, Phila-delphia, Pa., will soon be opened The property was purchased by Archbishop Ryan at a cost of $150,000. It was formerly for-merly the Asylum for the Blind. After all repairs have been completed the new asylum will comfortably accommodate accom-modate 500 children. It will be under the charge of the Sisters of Charity now connected with St. Vincent's home. Hon. Wv Bourke Cockran will deliver the principal address at the celebration 6f the' one hundredth anniversary of the foundation of the Hibernian society on next St. Patrick's day in Baltimore. 4 The new altars of purest Carrara marble in St. Elizabeth's church, Chicago, Chi-cago, were completed and used for the first time on Christmas day. They are counted among the very grandest in the country. A bronze memorial to Commodore John Barryfi "the Father of the American Amer-ican Navy," will soon be erected in Washington. At a recent meeting of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, Judge O'Gorman, the president, appointed a committee of seven to communicate with affiliated societies with that purpose pur-pose in view. Dr. Eugene O. Houck, a nephew of the chancellor of the Cleveland diocese, dio-cese, has been appointed deputy coroner coro-ner of that city. - j Prairie du Chien, Wis., is mourning I the death of its Catholic mayor, Hon. i Charles Grelle. Mt'or Grelle was -crying his twelfth year, and during that time had put Prairie du Chien upon a sound financial basis. After presiding at the special meeting of the city council coun-cil held to accept the new water system sys-tem he walked home, and on removing his overcoat he fall to the floor dead. .- The Swiss Catholic university of Fri-bourg Fri-bourg has 477 students, thirteen of whom are Americans. Fribourg is an absolutely free university; the student's stu-dent's only expenses are his board and lodging; the whole education is gratis. St. Joseph's church at Krebs, Indian Territory, with the pastoral residence, were totally destroyed by fire on Dec. 13, and the pastor, the Rev. M. Bernard Murphy, O. S. R., received painful injuries in-juries in trying to save the property. The Catholic students at Yale university uni-versity are about to organize a Catholic club, which is expected in a short time to eclipse a similar organization at Harvard college. |