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]. PIERPONT MORGAN'S ORGANIZING ABILITY

become rich if one is at all careful in
his investments" Thus, according to
the Sage theory, Morgan's great fortune
does not necessarily show any proof of
marked ability on his part.
Even as early as 1890 railroad enter
prises in the United States represent
ing a capitalization of more than $780,,
100000 were largely under the control
of Morgan, and since then his control
has grown in proportion. AS an in
stance, he has added to the enterprises
whose destinies ne practically sways
the great steel trust, with it's capital
of $1,000 0000 900. All the outlets to the
sea from the northwest and west are
practically under the direction of Nor
gan, who thus holds in the palm of his
hand this entire section of country and
its populace by being able to regulate
the price of coal. No car, emperor or
king enjoys his power. Personally, he
lives life of luxury. His yacht, the
Corsair, is one of the finest in the n.
Y. Y. c. fleet, and is a veritable floating
palace. His home is palatial. There
have been many speculations made as
to what disposition he will make of his
wealth. but no indication of the Morgan
will has ever reached the public ear.
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Plus KS APPROVAL.
Brief to Cardinal Gibbons Endorses
Catholic University.


The following is a translation of a
papal brief issued TO his eninence.
Cardinal Gibbons. commencing the
Catholic university. Washington. D. C.
ITO Our Beloved Son, James. Cardf-
nal Gibbons, Cardinal Priest of the
Hoiy Roman Church, with the Title of
Santa Maria in Trastevere: Archbishop
81 Baltimore and Chancellor of the
catholic University al WASHINGTON:
My Beloved Son: Health and apos-
tolic benediction: The condition of the
university at Washington has enlisted
our deepest sympathy and concern. in
asmuch as the report recently sub
mitted by your eminence deposes that
its affairs are not altogether so encour-
aging as we could wish 1t is meet
that we should follow the example of
our predecessor in the furtherance of
noble projects, more especially such as
are Of great moment and hold out the
promise of large advantage. In this
spirit we are pleased 10 continue and.
as far as may be, to increase the exer-
else Of the apostolic office the interest
which we have ever cherished toward
this distinguished American fonda
ton
Wherefore. we learn with genuine
satisfaction that the bishops charged
with the approval of all others interest
ed in its welfare that a collection be
taken up in all the churches throughout
the United States annually for ten
years, on the first Sunday of Advent or
the first convenient Sunday thereafter
with view Of enhancing the dignity
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The Pope's Golden Jubilee.

All sorts of reports as to new de-
partures at the vatican are now appear
ing in the continental papers. The lat
est story about Pope Plus Y is that he
has observed quite privately the golden
jubilee of his priesthood. The Frank
furter Zeitung remarks: The report
comes to us from Rome that on the 18th
of September Pope Plus X has allowed
the golden jubilee Of his priesthood to
pass without ceremony. There was no
official maSs-no official function. The
pontiff celebrated the event by mod
est dinner, to which he invited his sis
tiers. who have arrived in Rome. AS
the Italie says, the news that the pope
commemorated a noteworthy event in
his life was first learned through a tel
egram from Turin" The Frankfurter
Zeitung should have ascertained the
exact date of the popes ordination be-
fore it published this paragraph. Plus
X received holy orders on the 18th of
September, 1S5S-not in 1853, as the lei
tung has assumed. The golden jubilee
of his priesthood will. therefore, occur
in 1908. and we feel sure the pope, what
ever his own wishes may be, will be
unable, when the time comes, to resist
the desire of the Catholic world for a
celebration worthy of the OCCASION
London Catholic Times
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A schmismatic Dignitary Praises the
Papacv


The ex-patriarch of Jerusalem, Nico-
demus, one of the highest dignitaries
| of the Schismatic Greek church, VINO
was forced to quit his see because the
Greek party were constantly accusing
him of favoring Russian designs in the
Holy Land, is favorable to the papacy.
In an interview which has been pub
lished in some of our European eX-
changes, he is reported as saying: In
telligent Greeks do not at all desire the
ruin or decadence of the papacy. From
the bottom of their hearts they beseech
heaven so to order events that the
unique and most invincible bulwark Of
Christianity may resist the attacks Of
all enemies of the Christian name. If
the papacy were to be vanquished all
Christian confessions will soon disap-
pear in the gulf of impiety; the defeat
of Catholicism would also be the death
of Orthodoxy Professionalism is crum-
bling more and more, and the gnawing
worm of liberalism is weakening its en-
ergy. AS to Orthodoxy, it too is be-
coming divided into national churches.
There is no compact mass save Cath
olicism. and 1t is owing to the existence
Of the papacy that this union is posi-
BILE. The papacy is, then. the unique
vital force of Christianity, and those
who desire its ruin desire the gates Of
hell TO triumph over the Church of
Jesus Christ" Whereupon the Ave
Maria:
Since the eX-patTiarCh has arrived at
so thorough an understanding of the
necessity Of the papacy, it is not pre-
sumptuous to hope that he may, ere
his death, come to recognize the need
OF his personal submission to the in
fallible vicar of Christ. Such submits
sion would be only the logical out
come of his present beliefs.
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Death of Rev. mother Augustine.

Rev. Mother Augustine, provincial
superior of the order Of the Sisters of
the Holy Names, died at St Mary's
hospital, San Francisco. on Wednesday
of last week, after a short illness. Her
death was the result of an operation.
During the years she had been at the
head of the convent Mother Augustine
had made a multitude of friends. and
since she was i'll many OF her former
pupils called to see her Although she
knew that death was NOT far off. the
mother superior greeted them with the
same tenderness and love that they
knew when they were under her care
at the convent.
Rev. Mother Augustine was born in
Montreal in 1S49 and entered the Order
of the Sisters of the Holy Names when
IA years of age. She came to California
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gatbcIie Opinion.

King Edward has evicted the statue
erected by Queen Victoria at Balmoral
TO her Highland gillie, John Brown.
Brown was the power behind the
throne in his time. He had as much to
do with the great achievements of the
last reign as had Victoria herself.
which, to tell the truth, was nothing
at all; but his royal mistress was
deeply attached to him. He appreciated
her poetry as nobody else did, and
advised her not to print it. He was a
strong Conservative in his politics and
dlsliked Americans, but would occas-
lonally unbend to congeniaI souls like
George w. Smalley. Edward, as Prince
of Wales, always chafed under Mr.
Browns rule; but it is rather small
business to cart away the gillie's
statue, without even selling it as a
sign for some enterprising tobacconist.
The late queen would not have been so
wasteful.-Boston Pilot.
A lady soloist was requested the
other evening to stop singing the Ave
Maria in Presbyterian church of Ra-
cine by the pastor because he consid-
cred it inappropriate for Protestant
church. The pastor was right; a Prot
estant church is no place for the Ave
Maria. But if he stopped all the music
which has been appropriated from
Catholic writers there would be little
music left to sing.-Church Progress.
=
The offensive rebel emblem of an
American Eagle on the western gable
OF the Old State House was removed
on Thursday of last week, and will not
be put back TO offend the sensibilities
of the loyal authorities who keep the
English coat of arms on the other end
of that now truly British relic. The
visit of the Honorable Artillery COM
pany of London, has made the city
property ashamed of its sneaking con-
stderation of Revolutionary sentiment.
The "bloomin, Yankee" will no longer
boast of Boston as rebel city" says
the triumphant Britain.-Boston Pilot
AdelinaPatti's repertoire for her com
ing tour in the United States includes
three Ave Marias-one from Bach
Gounod. another from Schubert and a
third from Santley. Evidently the
Blessed among Women"-as the angel
proclaimed her-has not yet ceased to
inspire music, as indeed she has ever
inspired all Christian art-Catholic
Union and Times
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in the fall of 1868 and entered the Con
vent of Our Lady Of the Sacred Heart
as teacher She was directress of
the boarding school for fourteen years,
and for two years was local superio"
Of the Order of the Sisters of the Holy
Names. a short time ago she was
elected provincial superior of the order
and her term had not expired at the
time of her death. Mother Augustine
has been identified with the Convent
OF Our Lady for the past thirty-five
years.-Monitor.
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Archbishop Harty on the Church in
the Philippines.


The conviction is strong in America
that the Catholic church VIII be q
mighty factor in the pacification and
reconstruction of the Philippines; and
the creation by Pope Leo XIII of a
distinctly American episcopate for
these islands was hailed with general
satisfaction.
On the appointment of the Rev. j. j.
Harry TO be archbishop of Manila, the
Boston Transcript procured from the
Rev. d. S. Phelan, LII. D.. of st. Louis,
4 detailed sketch of the life and work
of the predestined pioneer of the new
order; and since Archbishop Harty's
conservation our esteemed Protestant
contemporary, the Independent, has
had an interview with him, which it
publishes with his approval
Those who were worried over either
the retention or the dismissal of the
religious orders may be at peace. The
religious orders will stay, of course,
and will be on the same footing as
their brethren are in America. Every
priest now in the Philippines is badly
needed. and many more besides. And
the first care of the reorganized
church viii be to develop a strong ma
tive priesthood.
The Filipinos. it is true. are many
shades darker than our Americans of
European descent, and they have,
doubtless, their own peculiar faults and
fraities. But the church is not afraid
tC trust them, as she trusted our far
less cultivated predecessors in the faith
many centuries ago. and Archbishop
Harry notes with pleasure the great in
tellectual ability manifested by the
Filipino students now in many Ameri-
can institutions of learning.
The archbishop believes that the Fill
rinos are becoming reconciled tC the
American government and are making
fair progress towards self-government.
AS to his policy. he says that he can
not outline it until he gets to his future
fock-to whom he goes in November
and finds out from themselves what !
they want and need.
We are likely in future to get full |
reports of religious affairs in the Phil |
ippines from the resident bishops. and !
we believe that the priests and the |
people in those islands. as well as the |
American Catholic clergy and laity, are |
well satisfied TO leave the task of re- |
and representation in their |
faithful and competent hands.-Boston |
Pilot.
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MEMORY.
Why We Remember Some Things and
Forget Others.
Notes and Queries.)

1
| This is a subject regarding which a
! good deal of nonsense is habitually
! talked. We often hear people say that
| they have good memory for certain
| things, but a bad one for other things.
| This l believe to be a delusion. A mans
memory may be good or it may be bad,
| but it cannot well be good for one thing
and bad for another thing 1t might as
well be said that a bottle is good for
holding brandy. but bad for holding
whisky. In the case of a feeble intellect
all its faculties will. be feeble-memory,
judgment and Ill the rest-but they will
not be feeble for one purpose and VigOr-
Gus for another purpose. The fact is that
our memory is in itself equally powerful
or feeble for all purposes but we remem-
Der best those things which interest us
most, and so say that we have good mem
cries for such things; while we forget
those things which do not interest us,
and we say. accordingly, that we have
bad memories for those things.
Horace Walpole used to say that his
memory was all-retentive as to the names
of persons and of places, but that it was
absolutely impotent in regard to dates.
1t has been said of him-by Macaulay. l
of the grandaunt of King Ethelwald, but
that he could not tell you whether she
lived in the year 800 or in the year 1900.
The truth was that he took an interest
in name; and genealogies, but none in
dates. Similarly. in his Introduction to
''Anne of Geierstein." Scott aptly says:
Il have through life been entitled to
adopt old Beattie of Mikledales answer
to his parish minister when the latter
was eulogiZing him with respect to the
same faculty: No. doctor said the hon
est border laird, L have no command of
my memory; it retains only what hap
pens to hit my fancy; and like enough
sir, if you were to preach to me for a
couple of hours on end, l might be I'M
able at tie close of the discourse to re-
member one word of it. Perhaps there
are few men whose memory serves them
classes of subjects, but 1 am sorry to say
that while mine has rarely failed me as
to any snatch of verse or trait of char
acter that had once interested my fancy,
it has generally been a frail support not
only as to names and dates and other
minute technicali-ias of history, but as to
many more important things
No. it is pretty certain that we have
not got good memories for this and bad
memories for that in any other sense
than that we remember that which inter-
ests us and forget that which interests
us not.
I will not insult readers of IN. & O."
ty reproducing here the good old chest
nut as to Dugald Stewards contribution
friends VINO were comparing notes as to
their earliest reoollactions But it may
be lawful to recall Fred Lockers capital
verse rendering of it:
/ recollect nurse called Ann
Who carried me about the grass;
And one fine day a fine young man
Came up and kissed the pretty lass.
She did net nal Ike the least objection:
Thinks I. aha.
When | can talk I'll tell mamma.
And that's my earliest recollection.
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His Methods Have Revolutionized
the World of Finance.

NOTHING in ancient or modern his
~ tory can surpass, or even ap-
proach, the power that in the last
few years has gathered and grown Of
itself around the throne of the world s
giant financier. ]. P Morgan.
His power is felt not alone in the
busy world of the bulls and bears, but
is so far-reaching that by a turn of his
finger he can make his name felt in
the furthest corners of the globe.
Apart from his landed enterprises, he
is now practically in command of the
Atlantic ocean and the ships that sail
thereon.
His personality is very marked. 1t is
recorded that priest who went to visit
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CHURCH CALENDAR.

Sunday. 25-Twenty-frst after Pente-
cost Gospel, ST. HIATT. xviii, $3.50:
The Kings Account Blessed Mary
AlacoQue V.
NEenday. 2G-Et Eyaristus, p. NJ.
Tuesday. sf-St- l'fImentius, B. c.
Wednesday, 2S-SS. Simon and jude
APP.
Thursday, 29-St. Narcissus, b.
Friday. 3O-St. Alphonsus Rodriguez, Z.
Saturday. Sl-St Wolfgang, b. c.
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Church
Universal

and charging the influence of this noble
seat of learning.
This plan, the result of their joint
deliberations, We consider most bene-
fetal. 1t is, therefore, our earnest wish
and prayer that all the bishops of the
country, as well as the faithful who
have at heart the progress Of learning
and religion, should labor strenuously
for the good of the university.
THAT God may be pleased graciously
to help this undertaking by his grace,
We lovingly impart to you and the
faithful committed to your care, the
apostolic benediction.
Given in Rome at st. Peters on the
9th day of September. 1903, the first
year Of our Dontificate.
Plus P. P. X.'
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RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

The twenty fifth anniversary of the
dedication of st. Joseph's Cathedral in
Columbus Ohio, was celebrated on
Sunday, Oct. is.
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The fiftieth anniversary of the found
ing of the diocese of San Francisco was
celebrated in st. Mary's Cathedral of
that city on Sunday, Oct. Is, with APP
propriate ceremonies.
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rho Cb,rcl, of Franoe ie

The Church of France is threatened
Sith a dire blow. NJ Berand, Senator
for Vancluse will demand the with
drawal of authorization from the
Brothers of Christian Schools Should
NJ. Combes consent, 100000 children
would be deprived of religious educa-
toni
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MI. Morgan on behalf of the coal min
ers during the last big strike, returned
to his home and said: 81 saw many
wonderful sights in New York, but Mir.
Morgan is the most wonderful thing
ever saw in my life anywhere"
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To be humble to superiors is duty. to
equals is courtesy, to interiors is no.
bleness. and to all safety.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-10-24

When you are old you will realize
that most of us have more memories
than are good for us.
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In reply to an address from the first
General Congress of Swiss Catholics
the Holy Father, through Mgr. Merry
del Val, sent his blessing to the gather
ing and expressed the hope that it
would prove most successful.
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TAMMANY HALL HUMoR.
About As Good AS a Show at Weber
Sz Fields

According to the New York World,
these pleasant incidents occurred during
the Democratic city convention that nom
mated Mcclellan:
The Hon. Ike Hill of Ohio and the uni
verse was an interested spectator at the
Tammany convention.
This chap Grout." said Ike reminds
me of the remark of an old chap ! used
to know in my state. He liked to play
poker and he was a philosopher about it,
one night he accumulated about all the
chlns there were on the table. and then
began TO dribble them in until he didn't
have a white one left
Hard luck l said.
. 'Pish, tush" said Bill. Amt you
learned vet that poker chips amt got no
regular habitat?' "
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Handicapped by $4,000, 900.

The power of the personal j. P. Nor
gan never has been fully realized by
the public. To begin with, he is a liv-
ing example of the foolishness of the
Platitude that holds it great handicap
70. be born rich. Morgan inherited his
banking concern and a little more than
$lV'UOo, goo from his father, j. s. Morgan,
VINO IN ms early years was a farm
hahd. The fact that j. P. Morgan's
private fortune today is conservatively
fixed at S15O,OO0,OOO shows that he has
managed to succeed in life despite his
early handicap in having s1O,O0O,O0O
Ieft to him. Russell Sage once told the
Writer that the hardest part of the bat
o oie Tor riches was to get the first 81, 00O,-
oVV. once you make your first 81, OOO-
wv SAID he, 1t is an easy matter to
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-10-24

II understand there is chance that
Coler will be on the ticket" said a
BROOKLYN man to Paradise Jimmy Oh
liver.
Oliver looked wise. Perhaps he
said Il can tell you. confidentially. that
they have been making overthrows to
him"
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The Bishop of Waterford, Most Rev
DR.. Sheehan, presided at a Feis held
under the auspices of the Gaelic League
in the High School of the Christian
Brothers, Clonmel, and delivered a
vigorous address in support of the Gaze
lie revival.
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Much annoyance has been caused by
the Vatican authorities by a practical
joker. A few days before the first en-
cyclical letter of the new Pope was ex-
pected an apochryphal encyclical was
issued in the same type and form as
the usual Vatican publications and dis
tributed through the mails to all the
cardinals and nuncios abroad. This
letter, addressed to all the bishops of
the world, was filed with numerous
texts from the scriptures and was so
wei edited in elegant Latin as to de-
ceiVe MANY
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hot and cold whiskers was present in an
advisory capacity
Great chance for the fusion people TO
execute 4 COUP" said Cunningham. '.AlI
the ticket and nominate Tammanv man
for mavor in his place. Opportunity for
strategy, l tell you.
What want to know said a perspir-
ing delegate from Tammany lis where
this man Mclaughlin comes in. He's
around here debating what shall be done.
Who is Mclaughlin? Why. he hasn't
worked for forty years.
Forget it,, said the man in the next
seat His friends are good to him.