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that the orders were enemies of the
republican administration and that
their rapid strides in attaining
wealth and influence meant future
disaster for the republic.
1.-The cabinet of republican de-
fense," headed by NJ. Waldeck-Rous-
seau, prepared the associations bill,
the aim of which, was to enable the
government to declare null and void
any association which in character,
design and influence was deemed con-
trary to law; to force native associa-
tons to acknowledge the sovereignty
of the state; to compel associations
in France controlled by outside au-
thority to submit to the most search
ing examinations concerning their
object and the manner in which they
did business.
No direct mention was made in the
bill of the religious orders, but
nevertheless they came under the
laws operation. The bill became Il
law July 1, 1901, and the orders were
given six months in which to apply
for authorization; then the time was
twice extended for three months.
Some of the orders complied. others
refused. Against many of the latter
DEGREES We're issued and their schools
We're closed, often with displays cf
violence.
An understanding of this paradox
ical method on the part of govern.
ment (whose officers are Catholic)
against Catholic schools, may per-
haps be partially explained by the
following words of M. Waldeck-Rous-
seau: cit is said that we wish To
suppress the religious orders; but
there is no word in the bill to sug-
gest that they are to be suppressed
or that no new orders can be formed.
Our opponents should tell the truth
and confess that they are protesting
against the orders being subjected.
to the civil law. And if these orders
are essential to the church, how is it
that the concordat did not restore
them or recognize them, instead of
speaking only of the secular clergy?''
From this standpoint the whole
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=
and particularly in the city of Wash
ington, where the great Catholic Uni
versity of America is located. Ger
tain of the orders, as, for example,
the Congregation of the Holy Cross,
already have schools in Washington
that are affiliated with the university,
and these schools may at this time
be of peculiar value.
Other orders are said to have Sc
cured options on land adjacent to the
property of the Catholic university
for the purpose of establishing col
leges representative of their several
organizations, in the growing settle
ment of Catholic colleges at our ma
tional capital. The action of tile
French government in closing the re-
ligious schools will therefore hasten
the projects which may make Wash
ington the worlds most important
Catholic center outside of Rome.
Agents of some of the French orders
are already securing options on adj
ditional land near the university.
The Congregation of the Holy
Cross has completed arrangements
to transfer its principal seat to it's
Washington college. While the order
OF the Sulpicians is not in immediate
danger in France it has always been
"a dream of this order to build at
Washington counterpart of it's fa-
nous seminary at Issy, a suburb of
Paris. Its agents are said to have
options on 100 acres of land just
north of the Washington university.
This is a very famous order and it's
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Oyster Bay in 1899. A little later his
father died, leaving in his will an adj
ditional 100000 to Walter if he
should survive two years. This he
has done, has fought a will confess,
with the rest of his family, has col
lected other inheritances and is now
worth million. So why not a
yacht?
Meanwhile the great starch works
at Glen Cove are closed-a curious
bit of local Development. The fac
tory was placed there years ago, be-
fore the railroads came, because
potatoes We're cheap. There were
millions in it for the Duryea's, and
good money for potato farmers.
Gradually the region filled up with
country homes of wealthy people.
Wheatley Hills, with the homes Of
d. ID. Morgan and w. C. Whitney,
is to the south. Sea Cliff, populous
but fashionless summer village, is u
mile away. Roosevelt's home is
seven miles to the east. Foxhall
Keane and the hunting set much
nearer. 1t is the most conspicuous
country home resort about New
York.
But at every tide the factory re-
leased into the prettiest yachting
water on the north shore a mass
of malodorous potato refuse from
the works. In thunder storm
well! l was once becalmed off the
works in n Schooneri
So when the starch trust was
formed and one of it's first decisions
was to close the Glen Cove works
there was general rejoicing. Queer;
to hurrah when an ancient industry
is extinguished! But rich people
said goodby to the smell with will;
and the farmers are getting rich
selling potatoes in the city-(your
Long Island farmer is something of
plutocrat himsel)-and nobody
mourns-except perhaps the work.
men; and they do not count.
O o O
Sporting Changes in New York.
A few miles south of the deserted
starch works August Belmont is
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CITY ana countr, I;S--

A tendency which is becoming
more marked every year, and one
which should be especially crafty
ing to us as nation, is the incIina-
ton OF our people to drift back 10
the country. Modern invention ax,sg
improvement have done much to bet
ter the condition of the farmer and.
to make life more pleasant on tips.
farm. For many years the country,
people have been fockine to the.
city, and the urban districts have
drawn heavily on the young life OF
the rural communities. Now. hcsv-
ever, this sapping has been checked
to considerable extent, antR the
boys more and more desire to stay-
on the old farm. In commenting ,lay,
this movement the Boston Globe,
says: Certainly no more hopeful
indication We're possible. City life
stands, on the whole, for mental.
moral and physical deterioration.'
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originality in his need than those So
ciety men who have become wine
agents, like Harry Lehr, or insurance
canvassers.
Andrews first marriage was an
nulled with consequent lawsuits. He
then married Myra Fithian, an Ameri-
can nominally, really Partisan She
was a granddaughter of ''Dicll'' Con-
molly, the comptroller of New York
under Tweed. Tweed. the master;
Sweeny, the brains; Hail, the may
or; Connolly the comprehensive
were the 'big four" of the ring.
When New York got too hot for Com
molly he went to Paris, and there his
family have since lived.
When Andrews lost his money!
'Dicli" Connolly's granddaughter got
a divorce from him, and later mar
ried, of all men in the world, Chester
Alan Arthur. son and namesake of
President Arthur. who as republican
leader in New York city, had been
Connolly's opponent in many po-
litical fight.
Fithian, Miss Fithian, Arthur, An
drews' most of the time. They were,
and those who are left, are, promi-
nent members of the american col
ony' there--so-called, perhaps, be-
cause many of it's members have al
most forgotten how to speak English,
and some, at least, have never spent
three months in this country in their
lives.
OWEN LANGDoN.
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school at Issy is regarded as model
in every respect.
Whether the French dominicia1s
will establish themselves at Washing
ton is not known; but the American
order of that name has already pu,'-
chased site at the very door of the
university and will soon build large
convent there. The fact that other
European nations besides the French
have enacted laws that operate as
bars to monastic organizations makes
it even more probable that this cour-
try will be the ultimate home of
many of the disturbed orders.
What are the conditions in France
that make this exodus necessary?
A writer in a recent number of the
North American Review asserts that
orders have, by usurption of power,
become a sort of politico-religious
trust Since France is almost en-
tirely Catholic the supposition that
the present disturbance is an attack
of non-Catholics is declared foolish.
Instead, it is asserted to be an attack
by men who wish to preserve the
power of the republic, upon Il system
they think tends to undermine the
foundations of the republic.
To understand this point of view it
is necessary to know that for 100
years France has been governed in
matters pertaining to church and
state, by the provisions of con
cordat which Napoleon I. negotiated
with Pope Plus VII. This provides
that bishops shall be nominated by
the government, but shall receive
papal approval; that bishops shall
nominate priests, these nominations
to be approved by the French gov
eminent; that bishops shall permit
nothing in their dioceses contrary 20
public order or prejudicial to the
state. and that the bishops and the
clergy under them shall be paid by
the state. No provision is made in
the concordat for the religious or
ders; they have their own constitu-
tions and laws and owe direct al
legiance to the pope.
The order has been swept out of
the country previous to Napolcon's
time, but were readmitted by him
They prospered exceedingly and il
was claimed of them that, with the
coming of wealth and power, they
began to exert political influence.
The education of the youth of the
higher classes of France came 10 he
almost wholly in their control. Their
power began to embarrass the gov
eminent and to brighten those who
believed that the state should be the
sovereign power. Furthermore they
did not submit to the taxation of
their property. Under monarchy and
empire they were less molested than
under the republic. This fact, cou-
pied with the seeming evidence dur
ing the preyfus trial and at other
times, that certain of the orders
favored the cause of the royalists,
led republicans to the conclusion
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contest is matter of main
tanning the sovereignty of the
state over that of the Holy
See. At present the religious
orders owe direct allegiance to the
pope; when they apply for state au-
thorization they come in measure
under the bishops, who are directly
under the control of the govern
! ment.
Pope Leo has left the whole de-
cision of surrender to the law, or
emigration, to the conscience of the
members of each order. However,
he states:
1--WE emphatically reprobate such
laws because they are contrary to the
| natural and evangelical right of the
church to found religious institutions
exclusively subject to it's authority
\ writer, who makes a plea for the
religious orders, refers to this state
ment of NJ. Waldeck-RouSSeau: 'Two
bodies of youth are growing up in
our midst ignorant OF one another,
and so much unlike that they run the
risk of not being able to understand
one another. Little by little, two
sections of society are thus prepared,
one carried by the current of the
revolution further and further in the
direction of democracy, and the 9TH
er more and more deeply imbued
with doctrines which one would have
thought had not survived the great
movement of the eighteenth cen
fury" In reply to this the writer
mentioned says: ut is true that
there are growing up two jeunesscs
in France, and that the manhood of
the nation is being divided between
two hostile camps. 1t is hard for the
Englishman = 4 to understand
by what an unbridgeable gulf the
Catholic and secularist parties are
divided in France. = The I'M
believer in France is essentially a
proselytiser. And precisely because
he knows the schools of the religious
orders, attracting the elite of the
youth to France, are the strongholds
of religion, he is minded to destroy
them by any means in his power.
And there you have the central pur-
pose of the associations law" Speak
ing OF the application of religious
orders for authorization he says:
AS preliminary to an applica-
ton for authorization every religious
order is required to furnish the GOV
eminent not only with detailed,
statement as to its income and ex-
penditure and an inventory of all its
property. real and personal, but also
a list of its members with their
names, ages, nationality, etc Re
ceiving all this, the government is I'M
der no sort Of obligation to grant the
desired authorization. Even if the
authorization be granted the gift
may be only in the nature of a re-
prieve. In word the orders are i'll
vlted to put their heads into a sack
and see what will happen to them"
MILTON MARKS
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known rules of the church require any
noncommunicant, when marrying a
commitment, to promise that chill
dren born of the marriage shall be
brought up as Catholics.
''The duke of Alva is forgotten!"
is society's cynical comment. The
Nanderbilts are the descendants of
those sturdy Dutch burghers who
waged such heroic resistance in the
Netherlands, not so much against
Alva's religion as against his country,
Spain.
'Alva," curiously, was the name of
the senior w. X. Vanderbilts yacht,
which was wrecked off the Massachu-
sets coast. But it was not named
after the famous duke, but after the
then Mrs. Vanderbilt, who had been
Young Willie X. Vanderbilt's wife,
sister of Mrs. Herman Oelrichs and
daughter of "Jim" Fair. the mining
king, is also Catholic. But when
it comes to the money, there is a
difference. Reginald, being the
younger son of numerous family
and having shown less taste for bust
ness than for sport of the green
cloth variety, has but few millions.
Young Willie IL, who has only one
sister and no brother to share the
millions of his father. the present
head of the family, has still one of
the great fortunes of the country to
1ooE forward to Owninu
Miss Nelson is member of a
family whose women are famous for
their beauty. She justifies her de-
scent in this particular.
o o o
A Strange Mixture of Famous Names.
When Clarence Andrews was found
dead in Paris, strange mixture of
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FLOWING UNDER CROPS.
The Value of Green Manuring Not
Fully Appreciated by Many 9th
erwise Bright Farmers.

There are plenty of farmers who
do not believe in or practice green
manuring. They think it a better
and more profitable plan to harvest
crop, whatever it is, and feed it to
animals. They also hold that the
process of soil amelioration by this
means is too slow, and takes alto
gether too long. These and other OBJ
Jectlons to green manuring are plaus-
IDLE and rather hard to refute. Still
the fact remains that favorable re-
suits are often obtained by blowing
under green crops. Sometimes a
farmer has land that is deteriorat-
ing under annual cropping, and he
cannot well put it in a condition to
return a profitable cultivated and
harvested crop. He may have used
all available homemade manure, and
it may not be convenient to purchase
concentrated fertilizers.
In such case, rather than let the
land go fallow, he may find it to his
interest to cover it With some crop
on purpose to pillow it under. One
advantage of this course is it's ex-
IRENE cheapness. 1t costs the farm
er practically nothing but the seed.
the labor of blowing the ground at
the time of sowing, and again when
the crop has made suitable growth.
Something is gained by the improve
ment of the mechanical condition of
the soil, by preventing the growth
of undesirable weeds which would
otherwise have taken possession of
the land, and by increasing soil fer
tility to some extent. The addition
of humus by the decay of the crop
is in some soils of great Importance.
The argument that no fertility is
added to the soil by simply return
ing the crop that grew upon it does
not apply to legumiEous crop. that
is able to draw large part of its
support from the air. If the plan
of green manuring is not followed
under any other circumstances, it
is certainly advisable to sow some
hardy crop ON the removal of a har-
vested crop, to remain through the
winter as cover and be plowed down
in the springs. b. Reach, in n. Y.
Tribune-Farmer
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now by the kind people who used to
pay ceremonial calls from house to
house of their acquaintance. A
ludicrous perversion of the old GUS
tom fingers. On New Years day
practically all saloons keep "open
house" and serve free of charge Gus
toners who turn up not to heavily
loaded to carry more. The result
is that, instead of beginning the
year with good resolutions, large
share of New Workers leave "swear-
ing off" to January 2, along with
the headache and the bromide, while
New Years itself is the most drunk
en- of the year-much worse than
election time, when treating is COM
mon.
Observances tend more toward the
traditional holiday made familiar by
English novelists. The Yule log, the
mistletoe, the roast, the cider, the
boar's head, outdoor sports, singing
OF carols-all must be had. A queer
device for Prolonging festivities un-
til long after most folks are hard at
work again is to celebrate "Old
Christmas" or Twelfth Day." If the
new calendar had not been adopted
Christmas would now fall, as in Rus.
STA 1T does, on the 5th of January.
The Russian embassy in Washington
and the wealthy Russian and Greek
residents celebrate Christmas then
with the best of right. Or rather
they get two Christmases; they can't
disappoint the children in December,
when all their mates are getting
gifts.
O o o
A Million n Year and a Broken Neck.
just because man happens to
have broken neck, is that any
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great property was supposed to be
beyond the reach of city growth for
generation. Now it is being cut
up into building lots, and the racing
industry is returning to the level
plains of Long Island, but ten miles
and more farther to the eastward
than it was in the palmy days Of
Hiram Woodruff and Budd Doble
and the old "Union course"
In other respects the sporting sit
uation has changed, and one index
OF the change is the suspension af-
ter II years of the Spirit of the
Times" the famous racing weekly
SO long edited by Col. S. D. Bruce.
For some time it has not been alive,
but just walking about to save eu-
neral expenses. Of late this has
been wisely judged false economy.
Like so many other publishers of
weeklies Bruce and his brother and
Hamilton Busbey, the ruling ele-
ments in the paper since '65, have
been knocked out by the daily paper.
AS long as the dailies were dignified
sheets, giving only the real news of
the day, there was chance for the
special weekly. But now, with
morning papers publishing sporting
events in full and special evening
editions giving results" in ten min
utes, how can a sporting paper live?
o o o
The "Duke of Alva" Forgotten.
Another considerable slice of the
Vanderbilt fortune is on its peaceful
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Keeling BARBED WIRE.
A Contrivance Which Enables Twn
Men to Take Up Huge Quantities
in q Single Day.

For some time 1 had considerable
difficulty in taking up barbed wire, but
l finally invented a device which an
swered the purpose very nicely. This
fits on the running gears of the wa.
gon and is represented in the accom-,
panying illustration. The frame is
of 2x4's, fastened together by means
of four cross pieces of 1x4 boards. The
notches on the under side of the frame.
fit over the holsters and hold the de-
vice in place. The frame should eS-
tend about six inches beyond the 'front.'.
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TRANspLANTED T..
Filling In About the Roots VI
Is Practice Highly M.
ed by Experts.

1t is rarely the case that
planting of number of tire,
are not lost. Nurserymen inv
answer customers inquiry
point by admitting that few
expected to die. 1t depends
on what kind of tree it is. Som
may be planted with an assuran
no more than one in hundred
die, being of variety easily
planted. There is a good deal
from the planting, whether o:
cess or failure, says Practical Fa
Much has been written of how to
trees, and it is not my intention
to do more than speak of the sol
mediately surrounding the roo
am sure that very many trees die:
a failure of the soil to embrac,
roots closely. Wet soil cannot b
close to them if lumpy. 1t has /
rather dry and fine, to be in the
condition for getting in around
roots. A plan coming into use,
let me say, splendid one, is
in Immediately about the roots WI
pure sand, just sufficient to perfectly
cover all the roots. This will creep
into every crevice, passing close to
every part of the roots; and, as AN
gardeners know, is unsurpassed for
drawing out new roots. 1t would
astonish one who had never tried it.
to make trial and mark the result
And hardly any of the pounding and
ramming of the soil is necessary wheE
sand is used unless it be that required
to have the tree stand firmly in place
Those who know of the use of sand
in this way are delighted with the re-
suit, as hardly a tree fails which has
been so treated. Nurserymen use
heaps of sand for temporary heeEng
of trees. as they keep perfectly in this
way
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THE TEosINTE PLANT.
New Fodder Crop Which Is Now Being
Extensively Cultivated in
Southern States.

Bulletin 1O2 of the Kansas station
says: This is native of Mexico, and
thought by many botanists to be the
original of our Indian corn. 1t is an
annual plant resembling corn or sor-
ghum in general appearance, but, in
stead of producing an ear, there are in
the leaf-aXils several slender jointed
spikes which are separate from each
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Hint for Dairx a1nihx

A farmers daughter, who has milk
ing to do in all sorts of weather.
tells for the benefit of others similar-
ly situated how she manages to keey.
her clothes dry and clean, no matter
how it storms. She took an old wa
terproof cloak, cut five or six inches
from the ground, sewed to it around
the bottom flannel skirt, in the tota
of which is casing in which is rurn
an elastic cord. When put on tae-
elastic is first slipped over the Eusf,s,
up to the waist, then the arms are,
put in the sleeves and the cloak Ksssk-
toned up. Now dress and skirts are
all protected. and with pair of les.-
gings drawn on and rubbers ntry
hood, the worst storm may be b
without danger of cold or sore q
Farm Journal.
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Well-k uOWn Amer
lean names was
called briefly to
mind.
Andrews was a
cipher. He was
born rich butcared
nothing for bust
ness, was robbed
by his lawyer and
died poor, after
trying to make a
living by arrang'-
ing musical par
ties. At least, he
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way into Catholic
hands.
Young Reginald
Vanderbilt is bare
ly past 20 years
old and doubtless
has long to live;
when he dies his
heirs will be of the
Roman church. At
nyrate, Miss Cath
leen Nelson, to
whom he is en-
gagged, belongs to
that demon i n "a
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t II e transfOrma-
ton in Gotham's
t ypi al N e w
Years.
This city was
the birthplace of
the "New Years
Call" a peculiarly
Dutch institution,
which aourished
long, spread to
Philadelphia first
and thence to 9th
er places, and died:
hard.
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shouldn't have any
+ u n I? Certainly
not! Hence Wal
ter Duryea is to
have a new 65-foot
yacht.
Some of the ia
nous d y e a
starch that the
family made must
have found it's
way into Walters
n e c k. At any
rate, he broke it
while diving in
shallow water at
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p ! a n n j II g the
most magnificent
race track in
America.
Tin" Sullivan,
the Il n m IN a n Y
leader, has a huge
new track near
the. same region.
There are seats
for thousands of
spectators. His
track will be pop
ular. Belmont's
will be fashion
able. Tt is ey-