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Show j j J)Ul4Cl) tbe victor 1 ' I T- '1 which oyer- j y universal. CHURCH CALENDAP.. 15. S. 3d of Lent St. Longinus E. Ephes. v. 1-9; G. Luke xi 14-28115,210 for work, means. 16. M. St. Abraham 166,407 for the clergy. j 17. T. St. Patrick 308,395 for re- I liciov.K. IS. W. St. Gabriel 86,305 for seminarists, semi-narists, novices. 19. Xh. St. Joseph 374,236 for vocations. voca-tions. 20. F. St. Cyril 706,107 for parishes. 21. S. St. Benedict 127,231 for schools. ST PATRICK JZev. Francis A. Gaffney, O. P., in the Rosary Hagazine. Arostle, patron saint cf Innisfail! j Akin to Moses, leader of the clans I Of God's own people, with uplifted 3 Obtain swift vicfry for the struggling J Gael! . 1 In Erin quench the heathen fires of I Baal. I Implore the God of might, that Celtic bands May thrall of tyrant base and his com mands O'erthrow, and with thy love Hibernia e'cr regale. Thine are our swelling hearts and thine our praise, And thine the gleaming isle of emer-anld emer-anld sheen "Where faith ne'er dies nor dastart craven cra-ven lives. Oh thou Comforter! that hours, and days, And years of woe may change to cycles, e'en Of fullest joy, that Christ-like suffer-1 suffer-1 ing gives. The Sign of the Cross. Did ydu ever pay attention to the way in which a very large number of Catholics Cath-olics make the sign of the cross? I do not believe anyone, unacquainted with the ceremony, would suspect that the motions made were intended to signify the signing with the cross. There is a wiggling with the fingers, but nothing that can be traced into a signing of the cross. Of course I know that the j disposition with which the sign is made ! is the important part. God knows what is intended, and if the intention is right that is vastly more important . me ouiwara sign. : But does the I carelessness in execution necessarily I imviy the right disposition? Carelessly Careless-ly ness in execution tends to heedlessness 1 in intention. The sign of the cross u h!miich- can do 80 mch that It ought to be .made with due rever- JemFis -te,Is us what the css means. jn the cross Is salvation, in the cross is life, in the cross is protection protec-tion from our enemies, in the cross is infusion of celestial sweetness, in the f K Jl f mInd' in the crow hP Z,feif7ht of.vrtue. in the cross is I thf refection of sanctity. There is no salvation for the soul, nor hope or eternal life, but in the cross." Whv I I Where to Go. ! Troubled, anxious soul, needing di- lZTn 00ki vainly about you! too I wUmv"ins to seek counsel i o? rof hleHrf "0t being understood I whi,-), , he ; m'dst of circumstances Imn Virif t0 ncoPss you like an .VJ rcIe - dually narrowing and Miffing your forces! Perhans it i matter on which your temporal future vonrn?nvayd Particulary the future of your loved ones a calumny adroitly iabricated. under the weight of which you feel yourself crushed, a TelleTous i vocation thwarted by obstacles human! nSUrm0u?tabIe' an Spending hu-Sur hu-Sur life. 'VhlCh thl'eatens t0 K al2?aieirtr1ll-may be' 50 vou the hand- "n d ttakinS,your soul in your i iiands. so tp speak, present it tn tii Sacred Heart of Jesus as Vou would present a suffering little one to the I ?ht !ff' and -ay t0 Him- "Master ZoV?'' And' I . tbin?Vou Mass in Many Rites. iA leiter received from Rome states that the feast of the Epiphany wis nllVnd- aS USUa1' by Te1 fun" tions m many of the Oriental rites la? S?CSf strikin testimony of the i l ht thohcity of the church. Dur ing the octave of that great festival I aeT.eSSv;rMCe3ebrated ln the lowing Syrfa'r S"0"' e' Greeo-Ruthenian, bjnac, Chaldean, Greek and Armenian! I PRAISE OP A PRIEST. Protestant Tribute to a West Indian I Father. Mvh?hleS A' Skinner' author of wsKion, andt Legends of ur Pos-Yl?s' Pos-Yl?s' etc- contributes to the ew oi k independent this charming sketch -Plosion" ? ntle When tle'ter rib e I . :lAi0? of .the Soufriere volcano oc- -".u last ay this clergyman was at Kingstown, at the southern end of he asIand. beyond the zone of devas- rgasby Srm ana mud Wister-,ri Wister-,ri ilany were kied in that for Pfrnn' m Only to SUf- Jcr from burns and blows of fallinc tones, while hundreds were mad! homeless and driven to distant seUle! nents for shelter and food, their cab-n cab-n burned, their little gardens bliglit-,6 bliglit-,6 ru, f cal"K. sulphurous ihl e miIIs and Piantations where they had worked buried under a mil! lion tons of dust and scoria. The poor blacks were dazed with grief and pain. I l ny trein BOrry need- The ana' "vf"ed'h tbe cr-v of th children ' Father Pu a quiet, mod-mnifU mod-mnifU "T J'0 ls Pastor of so small a church that he has a task to i I Iveep his people together. The money! he received for his service was little for, like all of the Antilles, St. Vincent is poor, the people in few instances yarning more than a quarter of a. dollar dol-lar a day for .mechanic labor and but ten or fifteen cents for work In the Holds, let he had managed to save a penny here and twopence there because be-cause it was the hope of his life 'to eo back to Gerra-ny; his old home, and Jus friends and kin before he died II He had bten separated from them for years, and as the pennies Increased to sellings and the shillings at awesome intervals grew to pounds, he began to dream .glad dreams of the day when he would actually set sail for the old country. His joy was near, for he had I enough now for his steamer passage and lacking a few shillings for the ex- I penses of 'the trip. In a few weeks he I would be in Germany; he would sit at I meat with old friends; he would hear his native speech; he would see smiles of welcome on remembered fa'es- he would breathe an air of frwdomj he ! would throw care aside and for the first time in years he would have rest 'In the day of shaking and thunder and darkness he learned that 1,500 of the natives of the island had ben Klain, that' the northern third of St """" Vincent was a smoking desert that ? i """"" thousands of survivors, some barely able to move or be moved, were re-treatinir re-treatinir across the hills, a hunerrv. frightened army. Father Putz went to the bank, drew out every penny of his savings and placed the sum in the hands of the officials. 'Give this to the people who need ' said he. "The ship that had so often taken him to Germany in his imagination slipped away in the night. The sun that should have risen among the lindens lin-dens still rose above the palms. It was only the silent birds of the tropics that stirred the leaves, not the singing larks and flute-throated 'starlings. Instead In-stead of happy days, days of friendliness friendli-ness and cheer, the priest saw before him months of duty, months bf hardships, hard-ships, years, perhaps a lifetime, of imprisonment im-prisonment in his exile, the final, cruel disappointment of his hope. But there was no repining, no compalint. He went about his work with a smiling face. In the greater suffering of the people he forgot his own. His dreams had faded, the clouds had fallen, but a ray from heaven pierced the darkness on that day and lighted a halo on the head of Father Putz." God's Own. It was at Mentonville that I first met Dr. Erlwood. We had been spending three months in New York, but when Jack's leave was over and the Mayflower Mayflow-er had sailed away out of reach even of letters for a span of eight or ten weeks, 1 took my little Ralph, who in the con-I con-I finement of the city had become pale and ailing, to that quiet spot on the coast, where I hoped the sea breezes would bring back his roses once again. But on the very night of our arrival he fell ill, and the time that, followed was the most agonizing time that I had ever lived through. I knew no nnp in all the town; I had no-near relative who could come to me; I was alon.e young, inexperienced, and my baby boy was very, very ill. There was only one other inmate at that time in the boarding house,- and, providentialy for us, that one was Dr. Erlwood. He was a young man who, like ourselves, had come down to Mer-tonville Mer-tonville to recruit after some illness caught attending a case in the slums of New York. His practice was still to make, and he could spare the time that he now ungrudgingly devoted to this little patient who had come by chance into his hands. For four long weeks this big, rough-voiced, rough-voiced, gentle-handed stranger devoted himself absolutely to the tiny morsel of suffering humanity whose life,, under God, he held in his grasp. For a whole month, he as well as I, seemed to live only for that feeble, flickering life that might at any moment be quenched before be-fore our eyes. Day and night, except for the necessary hours of rest, we spent at the side of my baby's cot, and only once in all that time did he spealc to me as though I were anything but a machine to carry out his . orders. It was when th'e first crisis of the fever was going on, and there was but little hope. ."Is there no one you could send for?" he asked abruptly. I shook my head. He glanced at the wee white face on the pillow, then down to my black gown. "No one at all?" he repated, more gently. "No," I answered sadly,, thinking of Jack so far. away, and of my father who had loved the boy so dearly, and whoSe home we had shared until death nad called him a short year before. Dr. El wood said no more; and it was ?i?V?r days aftGr that 1 learned what that 'No" had conveyed to him. i,Atclast an evening came when for the first time for. such a weary lengtk my little Ralph fell into a peaceful wP,tnd 1 at last beean to remember that there was a world still moving onward outside the sick room "He'll do now," said Dr. Erlwood, stepping after me onto the terrace that ran along under the windows, where I had gone for the few minutes' fresh air that even when the child was at its worst I had not been allowed to forego I turned toward him impulsively, and stretched out both my hands. The re- "e'aer sTu,ch a strain was almost more than I knew how to bear "Thanks to your care!" I cried How can I ever thank you how can Lthetrtd ha,f' a tlUarter of what i ought to prove my gratitude'" t Aeid my hands and 00kei town at me for a moment without speakintr tnnio tUld'" hG Said' and hiS VOice Tat0,ne new t0 mr ears. "Some of this55" come baek and remind yu tLTI? mistake his meaning. " vn- J b ,lucam to me what that -o of mine had meant to him and it was characteristic of the man that he had never spoken of me to the laSd-of laSd-of Jackh W0UM SUre,y have t0'd h"m h,',SIn ihat 'e,can ever' do-my Tii V. v mue lia'Ph himself-will himself-will ever be enough" despite mvspif my voice was hardly steady y He dropped my hands a rustle the I .me t0 return to the little bedside, bed-side, but. not before I had s"en th depth of feeling in those deep-set eyes It struck me to the heart. Oh misery of such a mistake What a M UI" r aVhat he had done for My only comfort lay in the fact that no one but Jack neod i... that cret " ins se- Three days later, as soon as Ralnh as really convalescent, the doctor lJ ?;rtnvl"e-' and hen on the re urn of SankmTno' JaCk,SUSht hi 2 to Jjnno u 0nce asain for what he had done he was on the eve of departure for the western states; and for five years we did not see him. However the anniversary of Ralph's recovery al ways brought some token of 4mem oh frm t0 the Child' S3 he" though grown to be a school boy now never let a night pass without praj for the man whose care had savS his It was during the beginning of th I had come to New York- -l? Jack, wh0 h d a TewXonshor? The heat was intense; men wolTJ 1 children dropped in th? st'ree?s fike "o many flif heat prostration Us Gth rule. and the death rate amongst the" IZ rZ&Z aPPaII1r.s; hut the mortality was highest of a.i amongst the babies of the tenements. es A society was formed for the relief of this distress, called the New York Fo d's Free Doctor association; and Dr Erlwood Is name was on the list of l to VI . -v..t,cia ne Daaiy needed-and needed-and the evening before Jack sailed we both wen down to the office of the association, as-sociation, and I enrolled myself Tn Dr Erlwood's branch. " He was changed by the passing of the years since we had parted; he seemed higger. rougher, harder, one might call it, until one saw his tenderness with those babies. Besides this, I now found what I had feared all along-that the doctor was avowedly an atheist vpt I withal the most charitable person 1 1 have ever met , In and out through the mazes of slurndom we workers went with the lEh0- SaVe the babies!" The sights, the sounds, the scenes that t encountered! It was awful But he little good that I could do was in some sort a thank-offering to God for ha ing. spared my own baby to me. Many and many a time when I felt that I could bear nomore, .when "the longing for Ralph, and rest and, the pure, sweet country air was almost too strong to be withstood, the sight of Dr: Erlwobl, patient, tireless, kept me at my post. Never,-never shall I forget those babies ba-bies in charge of ignorant and incompetent incom-petent mothers,, suffering torments untold un-told from heat and thirst, gasping for -breath on the scorching pavements; pain-racked, weazened caricatures of humanity, to whom death' would have come as a blessed relief. Sadder still were those cases where the mothers, heart-broken and exhausted, helpless, suffered over again the pains of their little ones. But the faith, the piety, the wonderful, beautiful resignation of the Catholic ' mothers Irish, German, Italian! IJ was a continual revelation, i a sublime lesson in itself, that surely! could pot fail to open the eyes, of the doctor, blinded though they were to the truth, to the very existence of God. As I went about my work the prayer was ever in my heart and on my lips that thus might his. charity be rewarded. . One day he called me to him in the upper room of a huge tenement. A mite of Jewish parentage lay in his arms. - Its tongue, parched, . shriveled, blackened, protruded from its mouth. It was slowly dying of thirst, its eyes were in an indescribable state from disease dis-ease and dirt; a swarm of flies hovered near ready to torture it as soon as we were gone. "Get me some cacked ice quick!" cried the doctor. Our store was exhausted, owing to the enormous dfmand for it; and the water in the tenement was unfit for drinking purposes. But so peremptory a command could not be disobeyed, and I hurried down into the shadowless streets, where I found a wagonload of the precious stuff driving slowly along. With difficulty I persuaded the man to sell me a small block, which, panting and exhausted, I bore in triumph back to the tenement. I took the baby from the doctor's arms whilst he cracked the ice and put tiny fragments between its lips. After a moment it actually smiled! I had seen many sad things, but the saddest, the most heart-rending of all was that parody of a baby's smile. It was gone in an instant; the ice had momentarily relieved the child's sufferings, suf-ferings, but a merciful death .was at hand. I saw it in the drawn, haggard lines about that baby mouth, felt it in the quiver of those attentuated baby limbs; and the thought that it had not been baptized made me turn .suddenly .sud-denly to Dr. Erlwood. The mother in a sort of stupor seemed careless , of what we did; but he, atheist, unbeliever, unbe-liever, yet man of charity , if ever one has been he had been, before me. . Laying a cracked basin half full of tepid water on the table, he took the baby from me again. "There!" he said, pointing to the water. "I baptize thee in the name of the Father, the Son and of the Holy Ghost." I spoke the words hardly above my breath, and equally low I heard hfs voice as he bent over the newly-made Christian and his eyes, I saw, were wet saying, "God's own." After the hot spell was over I left the city and went out near by Ralph's school, where I meant to make my home for time to come; and here the next news of Dr. Erlwood reached me. We were firm friends now, and his letter let-ter came as no surprise, only as a deep and holy joy. I had' been longing, praying, pray-ing, hoping with a sure and certain : hope for it. . . "I think' you knew or guess at what was going on in my mind," he wrote. "Any debt of gratitude that you may have thought you owed me has been repaid a thousandfold. After seeing you. and, through your eyes, those Catholic mothers during all that time, I should be a fool or a knave to remain re-main any .longer in the senseless path where I had stocd too lon'g.V Thank God, my eyes were opened to truth, and in a few weeks I, too, shall be a member of the one true Church." Both Jack and I were with him when the great day came. I could not have believed that a work-worn man could ever wear the look of innocence, of awe, and joy that was on Dr. Erlwood's countenance that day. Truly, as he turned from the altar rails after .receiving .re-ceiving the Master whose existence he had so long ignored, the words that he himself had used over another newly-baptized rose spontaneously to my lips 'Gods own." Ave Maria. n EMMET. A century of sleep beneath the stone Unnamed, unmemoried by shrine or cross. Deep in the generous soil of Erin's heart The lesson of his martyrdom hath grown. Till now the fruitage of the seeming loss - Bjds Hope awaken and Despair depart. de-part. Since every tenet for which Emmet died A thousand fold hath bloomed v and fructified. Thus in the ' wise, inscrutable decree de-cree -Of Him to whom a cycle is but a breath The fancied failure the unthinking see. Is but the sowlig that is like to death; The quickened seed anon will bud and bloom, When God shall smile away the win-. win-. ter gloom. M. E. O'Connor in. the Pilot. Self-love is at once the most del'-cate del'-cate and the mpst vigorous of our defects; a nothing wounds it. but nothing kills it. , . 3 The abstinence of meats availeth not so much as the mortification bf vices. St. Jerome, A word of kindneTis sledom spoken in vain. It is a seed which, even when dropped by chance, springs up a flower. flow-er. . A conscientious person should beware be-ware of getting into a passion, for ev-ery ev-ery -sharp word one speaks lodges in one's own heart, and such slivers hurt us worse than anyone else. Come, and let us go up to the mountain moun-tain of the Lord, and He will teach us His ways, and we will walk in His paths. In St. Peters atltome there are many tombs in which death is symbolized in its traditional form as a skeleton with the fateful hour-glass and the fearful scythe. Death is the rude reaper who cruelly cuts off life and all the' joys of life. But there is one tomb on which Death Is sculptured as a sweet, gentle-motherly gentle-motherly woman, who takes her. wearied wear-ied child home to safer and surer keep-" keep-" -s a truer thoght than the other. Death is a minister of God doing His pleasure and doing us good! Hugh Black. RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. It is expected that his eminence Cardinal Car-dinal Gibbons, will officiate at the open ing of the World's fair. Archbishop Quigtey- will leave Buf-fa Buf-fa o, N. Y., for Chicago on March 8, to take up his new charge. The Very Revefnd John A. Zahn. provincial of - the Order of the Holy Cross of Fort Wayne. Ind.. has purchased pur-chased m Rome several thousand books, which will be added to the library li-brary of the University of Notre Dame. The purchase includes a number of editions edi-tions of Dante's works, which will give Notre Dame 4,000 volumes of Dante StatesageSt conection. in the United ' ' " v. .'" The Reverend Alexander P. Doyle, one of thefPaulist fathers f the Church of St.' Paul the Apostle, Sixtieth street and Columbus avenue,' New York, is beginning be-ginning the task of raising-$250,000 with v.-hich. to build the Paulist Mission house on grounds adjacent to the Catholic Cath-olic university in Washington. For the past ten years he has been general secretary sec-retary of the CathoU Total Abstinence ! union. He resigned recently. The new : mission house is to be for the training , of priests for mission work. The Reverend Eugene .McDonald of I Red Bank, N. J., has received permls- sion from Bishop O'Connor to accept an appointment as chaplain in the navy. He has been assigned to the United States training' ship Franklin, now at , the Norfolk navy yard. The majority of the men on board are Catholics. I Mrs. Annie E. Donahoe, widow of Patrick Donahoe, the well-known Irish-American Irish-American publisher, is reported very scik at her home, 330 Shawmut avenue, i Boston, and the family fear that the j end is near.' There has been a general breaking down in Mrs. Donahoe's . health as a result of old age. Her four children, Joseph V.,'! Patrick M., J. i Frank and Genevieve, reside in Boston. Cardinal Serafino Vannutelli, the sub-deacon sub-deacon of the Sacred College in Rome, gave a dinner March 1 in honor of the j Reverend Dennis R. O'Connell, the new rector-of the Catholic university at Washington. The guests included Cardinal Car-dinal Satolli, Cardinal Vincent Vannutelli, Van-nutelli, the Very Reverend J. A. Zahm of Notre Dame, Ind., and a number of other distinguished priests. Father O'Connell expects to' assume his duties at. Washington in the middle of March. Father Freman Besset, the French priest who came to the United States to establish a branch of the Assumpt-ionists Assumpt-ionists in New York, has left that order and will affiliate with the secular priests of Archbishop Farley's province. He has been assigned to St. Matthew's parish, under Father Maughran, but he cannot be adopted by the province for at least three years. He came here when the Assumptionists were expelled from France. The special work of the order is to care for deserted children. He 'began his work in Eighty-third street, but later moved to Fourteenth street between '' Seventh- and Eighth avenues. There he did much good. He) was the superior of the order. Mrs. Roebling, wife of Colonel Washington Wash-ington A. Roebling of Trenton, N. J., who died last Saturday, was a prominent promi-nent member of the Georgetown Alumni Alum-ni association, in which she always took an active part. Mrs. Roebling was a Daughter of the American Revolution Revo-lution and an earnest worker in all good causes. On St. Patrick's day next the Saint Patrick's society of Ottawa, Canada, purpose giving a fine entertainment in honor of Ireland's national saint. Among the attractions will be Miss Josephine Jo-sephine Sullivan, the well-known harp- jci. miss oumvan is a aaugnier or me late Mr. A. M. Sullivan, Irish Nationalist National-ist M. P., and one time editor of the Dublin Nation.,, He is also well known as the author of the "Story of Ireland." Ire-land." Mr. T. D. Sullivan, who composed com-posed the ballad "God Save Ireland," which words were first uttered by Captain Cap-tain O'Meagher Condon, and repeated by his fellow , patriots (Allen, .Larkin and O'Brien) when sentence qf death was pronounced upon them, is her uncle. The St. Patrick's society of Ottawa Ot-tawa and the Irish of that city are honored hon-ored in having such a. minstrel with them on Ireland's day. - .. .. The Pope received during his jubilee year 32,000 gifts, valued at a low estimate esti-mate at $2,000,000. One thousand of the gifts are very costly. Among them is the emperor of .Austria's present, a statue of.aolid gold, nearly seven feet nigh, representing, the good Shepherd. It is jiow in the Pope's private library. At the Christmas. and New Year's receptions re-ceptions the Pontiff received a splendid splen-did gold snuff box, incrusted with diamonds, dia-monds, together with a purse of gold, from the .Noble Guard. Other valuable valu-able gifts came from the College of Cardinals, the Swiss guard and the Roman Ro-man nobility. - When quite full the Sacred College of Cardinals numbers seventy members. The death of Cardinal Parocchl has re- j duced the actual inumber of members to - fifty-eight, and leaves only one, Cardinal Oreglia. who was raised to the dignity of the purple by Pope Pius IX. The first prelate appointed cardinal by Leo XIII. was the patriarch at Lisbon, who received the hat on March 24, 1884. The oldest cardinal in years is Cardinal Celesia, who was eighty-nine on the 13th ult. There are now thirty-five Italian and twenty-three foreign cardinals. car-dinals. One hundred and forty-four cardinals have died during the pontificate ponti-ficate of Leo XIII. " , |