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The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1903-12-26

Corbett, of Syracuse, whom President
U. S. Grant thought the finest orator
he had ever heard, next to Sumner;
the present mayor of Boston and re-
nowned wit, Gen. Patrick A. Collins;
the eloquent former senator, Thomas
G. O'Sullivan, of New York; Mr. Chris
topher Gallagher, of Milwaukee; Judge
O'Neill Ryan, of st. Louis; Justice o.
German, Of New York; the charming
senator Victor Bowling, of the metrop-
oils; John Fitzgerald, former con-
gresham Fitzgerald of Boston; and
many, many others, whose names I do
not recall at the moment
We do not find tile name of Christie
pher Gallagher in the Milwaukee city
directory. The average reader will un-
doubtedly miss many names that
ought to be included in Mr.. McGuire's
list, says the Milwaukee Catholic Citi-
zen.
Drawing attention to this last para
graph, the Christopher Gallagher re-
ferred to by our esteemed Milwaukee
contemporary is evidently Chris. A.
Gallagher, of Minneapolis. AS to the
main question, Mr.. McGuire's judg.
ment, however sound, will not be &C.
cepted as final by many who have had
the same opportunities of judging as
himself.
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Unsound words.

A book published in New York has
this title: 'tChrist the First Pope and
Peter His First Successor" says the
Dolphin. To speak of Peter or any
other pope as the successor of Christ
is offensive. The words vicar and sue
cessor are mutually exclusive. One
who has successor in Office has ceas-
ed altogether to WELD the powers be-
longing to that Office. Christ has not
so ceased. He is always the living
and energiZing Head of the Church.
Mr.. Roosevelt is not the vicar of
Washington, the first president, be.
cause he is the successor of Washing
ton. Peter is not the successor of
Christ, because he is the vicar of
Christ. The governor of the Philip
pines may be vicar Of the president,
not successor. 1t is not right to
speak of Christ as the first of a line of
rulers extending back nineteen centur-
les. He is not thus distant from us.
Plus x. is as near to Him officially
as any predecessor. Christ is the ever.
present King in His Kingdom. He
came on earth to take possession of
"the Throne of David His father"
He took possession of it and then
placed upon it His viceroy or vicar,
through whom "He shall reign in the
House of Jacob forever" Through the
pope, not merely by the appointment
of Peter, but also by continual use of
His power among men, Christ makes
His Headship an abiding reality to us.
To compare this vital and continual
relationship of Christ to His vicar with
that of a first ruler to his successor in
office is more than misleading-it de-
grades our Lord. AS He is priest
forever, and therefore has no success
sor in His priesthood, though many
are ordained priests to minister to
Him in the abiding act of Offering I'D
1.-THE Lamb as it We're slain" and thus
make the offering visible to men; so,
in like manner, is He Il King forever.
and therefore has no successor in His
kingship, though there are many ap-
pointed to minister to Him in the
work of ruling the Church, one of
these being in the viceregal office spe-
cially instituted to make Christ's
Headship visible to men.
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A New Catholic Church.

Reynolds, N. D.-The new Catholic
church at Thompson, N. D., is finished
and last Sunday was the first time
that mass was said in it. Thompson
is mission of Rev. Father Geraghty,
Of Reynolds. The new church is
40xS0 and cost nearly $4,000, with all
the latest Improvements. 1t is GER
tainly one of the incest little churches
of it's size in North Dakota. Thomp-
son parish can never repay their
pastor, Rev. Father Geraghty for
what he has done for them. The fair
that was held proved success, nearly
$500 being realized. The contest be-
tween Miss Engelberg and Miss Less
man for the diamond ring was won
by Miss Engelberg. The gold rosary
was won by Mrs. Donovan, the gold
bracelet by Miss Griggs, the doll by
Miss Curtis and the sweater by Miss
Hall. Rev. Father Geraghty had two
very good fairs this year. The one
at Reynolds month ago was one Of
the best they ever had. Located in
one Of the best sections Of the state,
many Catholics are settling in this
community and evidences of bright
future are on every hand.
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Face-DefiIinq Women.

When Edmund Burke returned tc
London from Paris and Versailles
where he saw the court frequently, h,
was asked what he thought Of it.
beauties. II am not a judge of paint
ings," was his answer. The annual
horse shows have brought back the
face-smearing fashion which prevails
in the opposite planes of society, says
the Chicago Chronicle. 1t is practiced
by Fiji island bellies and vulger per-
sons protesting to be paragons Of
fashion in swelldom. What is done
in the upper plane Of society is sure of
imitation i'll the descending planes
Men is of various nations" jocundIy
observes the sailor jester, "but women
is all one" All the women who are
one with the Fiji bellies and their in
feriors, the horse show advertisers of
innate or acquired vulgarity, will
promptly take to the revived fad of
painting the face with bright pig.
ments. For long time this fad has
been the allegiance. a painted face has
passed of late years for confession
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The Greatest lrist-American Orator. !.

Touching the question as to who is
the greatest Irish-American orator, ex-
Mayor James X. Mcclure of Syracuse,
N. Y, man Of wide acquaintance,
has this to say:
Gin my judgment, Col. John T. Fin
erty, formerly member of Congress
from the city of Chicago, is at the
present time the foremost orator in
this country on Irish subjects, histori-
cal, biography, polemical, economic,
political and narrative. And opportun-
ity has been afforded me, through
travelling principally, of listening to
the leading Irish-American speakers of
the United States - among whom I
might mention the eloquent and ven
cradle Archbishop Ryan, of Philadel-
phia; Bishop Conaty, of Los Angeles;
Bishop McFaul, of Trenton; Bishop
McQuaid, of Rochester; the peerless
orator on American political subjects,
Mr.. w. Bourke Cochran; Former AS
sistant Secretary of the Navy William
McAdoo; Hon. Thomas Francis Grady,
of New York; the late Thomas G. Ec-
clesine, of New York; the late Patrick
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the Ave Maria. A point to which one
correspondent recently called atten.
ton Is, however, worth noting: '"The
high percentage Of alleged believers
among the prison population, as
against unbelievers (agnostics, infidels,
and so forth) is an old gag among Sec
ularists, but there's nothing in it."
The explanation offered for this state
ment is that the profession of religious
belief among prisoners, and more es-
pecially those serving a second or
third term, is very often a mere mat
ter of business. Attendance at re-
ligious services is an agreeable break
in the deadly monotony of convict life;
and the profession of piety is likely to
result in occasional privileges, in Sc
curing the interest of chaplains, gov.
errors and other officials, and in pos
sible remission Of portion of the con-
victng Judges sentence. A reverend
friend Of ours who has had some ex-
pertence as prison chaplain tells us
that 1t is a very common occurrence
for the inf1del or nottingham of the
dock to become Catholic or Episco-
palian in the cell. The routine of the
convict's existence is wearisome
enough at best, and no criminal will
deprive himself of the distraction af-
forded by attractive services regularly
held in the prison chapel through any
scruple about protesting a creed that
he never really held.
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The public school histories Of the
country make bare mention of Eat1,e.

The public school histories Of the
country make bare mention of Father
Marquette and are entirely silent upon
many important events in which
Catholics figured. This is perhaps in
the nature of an Improvement over the
treatment the Catholic missionaries re-
ceived in their own days. 1t should be
born in mind that the difficulties they
encountered among the Indian tribes
were insignificant in comparison with
the obstacles thrown in their way by
the Protestant fanatics. Ever coun-
sellers of peace, liberation, and har-
mony, we see them with their focks
in the English colonies pursued for a
hundred years by the bloodhounds of
insatiate fanaticism, victims of penal
laws that did not crafty the whole
venom of their inventors, although
they left the unhappy. Catholic aught
but life itself. Two charges are still
frequently made, the utter mendacity
Of which it may not be amiss to no.
tice. The first charge is that the
Catholic missionaries baptized the In
dams and received them into the
church without instruction. As one
elegant writer expresses it, contrasting
Catholic and Protestant missionaries:
while the former contented them
selves with sprinkling a few drops Of
water upon the forehead of the war.
like proselyte, the latter sought to
wean him from his barbarism, and
penetrate his savage heart with the
truths of Christianity" Another
charge is that the French missionaries
taught the Indians that they would
assure them eternal happiness by kill
ing the English heretics. Bancroft,
Parkman and others who have investi-
gated these charges have found and
pronounced them as being without any
foundation. This feeling against
Catholic missionaries had it's climax
in New England. Books like the
Simple Cobler of Aggawan," by
Ward, and sermons by other New
England divines, TEEN with matter in
tended to arouse the hatred of the peo-
pie against Catholics personally. In
fact more specimens of this spirit can
be found in six New Eengland tracts
than in all Canadian literature. Such
were the experiences of early mission
aries, but the time seems to be at
hand when their real worth will be
recognized more generally, and their
true place in history conceded to them
without question. The acceptance by
congress Of the Marquette statue will
undoubtedly be a step in this direc-
ton.
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J: iwAsHING1oN LETTER.

Washington, Dec. 22-The celebra-
ton of the Louisiana purchase at st.
Louis next year will naturally revive
memories of the men who by discov-
cry and colonization opened up to the
white man the vast domain that was
afterwards acquired by the United
States for song. These men were
mainly French missionaries. The
scene of their labors. and trials. and
sufrerings, and martyrdom extends
from the Gulf of Mexico to the
great lakes. The early histories of
New Orleans, Mobile, Natchez, st.
Louis, Sandusky, Detroit. Sault Sainte
Marie, Green Bay, Quebec, and many
other cities are incomplete without the
story of their triumphs. The his
torical exhibits at the ST. Louis fair
will bring into the lime light the heroic
deeds of these devoted missionaries,
and give the people of this country
fuller realization of the mighty work
Of the Catholic Church on the Ameri-
can continent. There is grave danger,
however, that a dark blot will mar the
festive and happy occasion next year.
Father Marquette, who discovered the
Mississippi river on June II, 1878, has
always been recognized as one of the
foremost pioneers Of North America.
A few years ago the grateful and ap-
preciative people of Wisconsin,
through their legislature presented to
the congress of the United States an
exquisite statue of the great discov-
erer and missionary. At that most
inopportune time the country was agi-
tated by the effervescent activity of
the leaders Of the American Protective
association. Violent objection was
urged against the acceptance of the
statue by congress, because Father
Marquette was represented in his
priestly robe. Congress became timid,
hesitated, and finally referred the reso-
luton Of acceptance to a committee
from which it was never reported.
This is. Of course, ancient history, but
the time has come when little mod
ern history may safely be injected in
to the situation by tile passage of a
resolution accepting this gift to the
nation from the state of Wisconsin.
To neglect this In the face of the COM
ing COMMEMORATIVE festivities would
be an exhibition Of gross bigotry.
l. eZth1 sennerefs WIN YieM this
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of debasement. No intelligent woman
will stoop to fad so obvious and so
equivocal. Its physical danger is ma
terial. Nature has prescribed the To-
ton which gives the only veritable
brightness to the face. 1t is water or
oil, nutritious food, normal sleep, plen
ty of fresh air with ample exercise
and an amiable disposition. All the
indictments of the cosmetic counter
cannot match the color thus impaired
to cheeks, lips and eyes. Everv pther
prescription contains ingredients
bound to deaden the skin, and some
include poisons calculated to corrupt
the blood and bring on chronic malad-
les. The woman with painted face
ought to be an object of compassion
among the compassionate. She Is
more likely to be generally an object
of repugnance, contempt or derision.
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Mayor Collins and His Achievements.

Mayor Collins unprecedented vic
tory of last Tuesday may be regarded
us Il personal triumph and as an au-
curry OF what the Celtic strain in
American life can accomplish. says the
Boston Republic. Tho first aspect has
been discussed at great length. The
magnitude of the victory indicates that
the citizens of Boston are convinced
that he has met and accomplished a
formidable task with Il fidelity and
wisdom that will insure the per-
mancncc of his fame as an earnest and
careful administrator. Amid all the
poison and splendor of exalted official
station, Mr.. Collins has lighted up in
practice the theory that public office
ice. He has discharged the tasks conf
mitted to him with insight, grasp of
detail, and Il poised and levcl-visioned
justice. Mayor Collins owes no small
Part Of his influence to his character
No man has ever questioned his in
tegrity or his transparent honesty. He
belongs to that small group of men
who in each recurring generation have
rendered high service to Boston. And
this little cOterie of tested characters
have by quality of mind and breadth
and wholesomeness of character in i'm
portant crises in the highest degree
illustrated the great fundamental New
England qualities of honesty, courage
and civic illumination. During his ell
tire administration he has commanded
the confidence of the adherents of all
parties, however they might differ
with him on details of programs and
politics. Mayor Collins greatest
achievement. however, is the stimulus
his example supplies aspiring and am
bitious youths of Irish birth or an
cestry. The past half-century has
seen bewildering changes in the re.
lation of the Irish element in this
community to the main current of
civic life. A prejudice, flaming at
times into intense hostility-witness
the burning of the convent in Charles.
town, the disbanding of militia com.
pany because it was Irish in compost.
ton, the Broad street riot-was in the
air. The Puritan haughtily wrapped
his garments about him and enclosed
himself in the sacred circle Of his ira
.05ditions: these traditions were too
7hes Touched 81 profane hands.
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ular ovations all the way, as to mar
tyr of liberty, he returned to congress.

ular ovations all the way, as to mar
tyr of liberty, he returned to congress-
Lyon rendered his adopted country an
other signal service in defeating Aaron
Burr, when the tie vote between the
latter and Jefferson cast the presiden-
tial election into the house and the
passions and intrigues of politics
brought the country to the verge Of
civil war. 1t is true that Thomas A.
Bayard has claimed for his grandpa
Their, James A. Bayard, the credit of
Jeffersons election, but the evidence,
as Mr.. Mclaughlin clearly shows, is
against this claim. Bayard voted
thirty-five times for Burr and cast
blank on the thirty sixth ballot. The
four Maryland Federalists also cast
blank votes. But Lyon cast the vote
of Vermont for Jefferson, thus giving
him the necessary ninth state-a fact
further attested by F. s. Drake in his
Dictionary Of American Biography"
and by Charles Lanman in his "Dic-
tionary of Congress-" Once again the
incorruptible Lyon thwarted Burr's
ambition by warning Jackson of Burr's
evidently premeditated treason. Lyon
founded the towns Of Fair Haven, in
Vermont and Of Eddyville, in Ken
lucky, identifying himself with the
political life of both sides. He ended
his days as United States factor to the
Cherokee nation in the Territory of
Arkansas in 1922, and as second dele
gate-elect (for he did not live to take
his seat to the congress of the United
States. So passed away one Of the
noblest American patriots of peace and
war that Ireland has given to the Uni
ted States, ranked forever in history
with two of the greatest of our Presi-
dents, Jefferson and Jackson. ,a..
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,lendor of soul, and an ideal Of per.

,lendor of soul, and an ideal Of per-
NAL righteousness that the alien Irish
ere unable to understand? Had he
1t, also, built up a civilization In
'hich books and music and the arts
lat grace life We're the main agencies
nd Instruments? Above all, had he
Il founded IL city Queenly in beauty
I'd presided over by the ideal Of
.htcouSncss, that would be to the
lodern world what Athens was to
reece--;, grunary of ideas. Il nurs-
~ of beauty. radiating point OF
ivilization! He resented marked de-
ariorations in character. energy, thrift
nd morality The original strain was
cen to be evaporating to CHASTITY
hinness through the departure of it's
est equipped youths-the flower of
he community-to the West. The
ask of sustaining the venerable, glory
irt traditions of the commonwealth
ested upon the Irish infiltration. The
tone, rejected of the builders, had
ound it's true place! Men like John
'oyle O'Reilly, clear-seeing, swift to
mite and to heal, with songs on their
Ups, blazed pathway for their fellow
'ountrymen. And Americans of all
aces owe Patrick Collins a debt of
;ratitude. He has shown just,
hough suspicious people, that the
blood flowing in the veins of what the
New Englander nurtured in splendid,
'hough sometimes narrowing tradi-
tons, called rather contemptuously,
the Irish Masses" was the blood Of
a race swift to learn and master the
processes of modern civilization. For
this he deserves public triumph, in
the Roman manner. And in stating
these obvious facts, The Republic is
simply voicing the most widely diff
fused public opinion.
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A BEAUTIFUL CUSTOM.
Offerings of Masses in Place of
-t,,,..a Flowers for the DEPARTED.

Has no one ever experienced the
shut-out feeling which these words,
Omit flowers" cause when on the
death of some dear friend natural
desire arises to show sympathy or
give testimony of an undying affec-
ton? The flowers we would send are
but evanescent, we know. They will
droop before the body is laid to rest
Before the week is passed they will
be heaped in the road at the cemetery
to be carted away. No good will
they do to the departed friend, and
little If ony to the bereaved survivors,
Yet one wishes to do something, and
the only something that presents it.
self is to offer these dying tokens,
which may be regarded rs anything
but an appropriate symbol of the last
ing affection we wish to express. The
notice "omit flowers deprives one of
even this poor medium Of expressing
coincidence and testifying love.
10 meet this want would propose
beautiful custom which is in vogue
in Canada and some countries of Eu-
rope. 1t possesses the advantage of
identifying the dead in the most eff
cacious manner. while at the same
time atfording consolation to the sor-
rowing survivors. When a friend or
relative dies it is the custom in these
countries for those who would wish
to manifest their affection or offer
coincidence to obtain beautifully en-
graved or printed card suitable to the
occasion. On one side of the card are
the words, I'm NIemoriam." On the
other side are written or printed the
words explaining the purpose Of the
sender. For instance, "Ten Masses
will be offered for the repose Of the
soul of my dear friend, etc., u
1t is then signed by the sender.
Another form is as follows:
Received from the offer.
ing for -- Masses for the repose
of the soul of
(Signed) Rev. --."
The card is then sent to the family
Of the deceased.
The cards may be very handsomely
gotten up by the engraver and printer,
or they may be very simple, according
to the desire of the sender.
Samples of such cards will be found
at the offices Of our Catholic publish.
ers. would invite you to inspect
them.
Such custom should appeal to our
Catholic sentiment as appropriately
expressing ones coincidence and al
the same time helping the souls who
need not flowers, but prayer, says the
Cathedral Monthly.
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The BIameless Priest.
In a cloister hushed and dim,
Candles at his feet and head,
With the seal of death on him.

In a cloister hushed and dim,
Candles at his feet and head,
With the seal of death on him,
Lies he on his carven bed.
He, pure and sanity priest
OF the order Carmelite,
Stricter, as the years increased,
Grew he unto VOW and rite.
Stricter, purer, year by year,
Pure in heart and pure in life,
Walked he straightly without fear,
Walked he meekly without strife.
Walked he Whitley, where SCOT clings
Unto vestures far more fine,
Walked unframed through venom
stings,
Scatheless in his peace divine.
SANDER, scofting acrid spleen
All which common men dismay,
Passed he as they had not been,
Passed unmoved on his way.
Now he lieth still and white,
In his cloister hushed and dim,
Needless of both VOW and rite,
With the peace Of God on him.
Marcille Greene in the Pilot
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WIT AND WISDOM.

The Christmas present that cost $50
is much more likely to have the price
tag left on it than the one that made
the purchaser spend 80 cents.
"Your daughter seems to be highly
educated" said the casual caller.
"You bet she is" replied the self
made man. "Her education cost me
$4,000, all right all right"
81 am told" said the personally con-
Quoted tourist, "that Kansas is full of
cranks."
Don't you believe it, stranger" re-
piled the native. "Theres lots of un-
occupied land in the Sunf1ower State"
Bucolicus - Well, any way, you'll
have to admit that most of the people
who amount to anything come from
the country.
City One-That's right, old man.
That's the reason l don't like it. I'd
hate to have to live with the bunch
that's left.
IT see you have new bonnet" said
the president of the Ladies' Literary
Club to the secretary of the same.
eyes, cooed the secretary; "don't
you think it poem?'
"Hump11!' shifted the president. eff
I am to judge by the materials used,
and the general style Of the plot, I
should say it was historical novel;"
And then they glared and glared
and glared.
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How to Tell Any One, AGE,

Would you like to know how to be
able to tell any ones age? 1t is a
useful accomplishment, and saves di-
rect questioning, and the method
which l am about to eXpound to you is
really very ingenious. Let the one
whose age is to be discovered do all
the figuring, and proceed thus: Sup
pose, to be on the safe side, that your
subject is a young man, say, of twenty,
and that he was born in August. Let
him put down the number of the
month in which he was born, and pro-