The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-15

appetite. Now ii Is the center of re-
spectability in the eyes Of the commun-
ity and one of the greatest moral So
cial powers than can be introduced
into a community. And we have non
Catholics working along these same
lines. now, putting us to shame by
their efforts and successes in many
Instances.
WHO THE HERO is.
Emerson defines a hero, tritely, when
he says he does what others fear to
do. Some men hold that they ought to
use intoxicants for fear they may be
thought to be weak -willed or reformed
drunkards If they totally abstain from
drinking. In this regard the total alb
| stainer is hero, and by inducing oth-
ers to abstain he creates herosm.
There are good men who drink, but
no one says they are better men for it.
Great and noble men may have drank,
| but they We're never canonized for it.
1t may not have been a bar to canon
! izatlon, while there have been those
who were canonzed for the abstenton.
| Temperance is a virtue. total abstin-
ence Is the extreme practice of that
| virtue
lated the society on it's anniversary
and the parish in having such a So
ciety in it's midst, and closed by advis-
Ing the society to persevere in its laud-
able endeavors that it might double
the causes for jubilation when the time
of its golden jubilee rolled around.
| Tonight the jubilee celebration will
| assume a sociable form. The exercises
Will nt ~ ,t,itl lo, n,
| in st. David's hall, at which covers
| will be laid for 400, and to which have
been invited as guests many prominent
| Scrantonians, of the clergy and laity
Catholic and non-Catholic. Following
the banquet there will be short socia
session in the rooms of st. Leos bat.
talon, which are underneath the hal
| and when this is concluded there viii
be a ball in the banquet hall. ]. C
Gallagher, president of the society
will preside at the banquet, and NJ. s
Lavelle will be chairman of the socia
session. Prominent local speakers will
be heard at both events and at the
social session there will be a number
| of musical selections and declamations
FIVE PRESIDENTS LIVING.
OF the nineteen presidents who have
| occupied the chair during the quarter
of a century of the society's existence
five of them are participating in the
present festivities. They are NJ. S. La
velle, John McTiernan, James H
| Brown, John H. McNulty and j. c
Gallagher. Through the Fathel
Mathews 2,791 men have taken tht
pledge direct from it's presidents ant
as many more possibly have become
total abstainers through the influence
of societies it has helped to organize
such as the st. Pauls, St. LeO's
Knights of Father Mathew St. Johns
of Pine Brook, and ST. Johns, of th'
South Side.
The Hyde Park Father Mathew so
ciety itself was organized through th'
ST. Mary society of Providence, repre-
sented by a delegation consisting o
John Willis, John Comerford, Jame
Sunny and John Flynn. Rev. N.
| McManus, of Providence, then con
nected with the cathedral, was its frs
| spiritual director. Rev. p. T. Roche
deceased, was its second, and Rev. j
| b. Whelan, the present spiritual di
rector is the third. The society nov
has 175 members on it's rolls and i
| financially also one of the stronges
societies in the Diocesan union.