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The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1903-12-12
Finch Party.

Miss Alice G. Cole entertained a finch
party at her home on the Avenue Tues
/ day night. The games were very inter
esting and exciting After the games re-
| treatments were served.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1903-12-12
DEDICATED ey MISS GOULD
Exercises at Opening Of Y. M c A.
Building at Fort Monroe,

Interesting exercises marked the dedl
cation of the Young Mems Christian
Association building at Fort Monroe,
presented TO the United States Army ny
Miss Helen NJ. Gould. William Sloane
Of New York, made an address. Gene rs
Bird. u. s. A., retired, and ]. Taylor ELY
son. OF Richmond, also spoke.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1903-12-12

Conneetions at Fredericksburg wish NJ
o r. And Weems Steamboat Co Az
0vanae vIth southern 4 and Chesapeake a
Ohio r. X. ,,-,,,. .,a
wilderness Battlehelds.
Az VIII. RICHARDS. Gen. Manager.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1903-12-12
nn DAMN on HANOVER sTREEI

sn,te Of two desirable rooms, with
zoe ~ bath. Furnished OF unfurnisn-
al Suitable for gentleman and VIE
Apply Lance Office. ~
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1903-12-12
liu. stock Markets.

Union stock Yards, Pittsb.9Trg, Pa "a.
nac ni iIiLCattle slow; choice, sS aWEs sn
prime ,s7Gg a,t0s beaT lsir; 4scS 40 20
mra S5i S415Q $50; heavy . hSSksalss AZ.
s4i5Gt5Oi light Workers. r6erSs $50 sCSgI2s
pigs, s4.40@44S; r rogss: sSssGs,
sheep . S,S" common, Sl.2602s eheieess
eua,sS ass s0G5.4O; veal calves s1e'
1177S per 100 pounds.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1903-12-12
Snow.

Snow commenced falling here little
after ak O'Clock I thursday and continued
until late into the night, and reached q
denth of about three inches.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1903-12-12
NOTICE TO HuNTsMEN.

All huntsmen are prohibited from
hnnting on the "AmaFet Farm" and
whitewater Mills property under
the penalty of the law.
WV Charles II. Burkamp,
7. b. Ficklen, Manager.
n14s-fl1m
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1903-12-12
JOB PRINTING.

For neatness and prompt delivery al
WAYS bring your job work TO the Free
Lance-Star Printing and Publishing
COMPANY. All kinds Of job printing done
At the most reasonable prices.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1903-12-12
Charter for Prince William Horse
men

TIE corporationco con mission has grant
I'd a charter TO the Prince William Horse
mems Association, at Manassas. TIT
incoruoratofs are j. B. Thornton, J
Jenkyn Davies, W. n. Lipscomb, j, I
/. achman, West " ood Huteheson aud J
y Herrell.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1903-12-12
NOTICE.

Hunting and trespsssing strictly for
hidden on all lands belonging to th'
nndersigned, In Stafford county. Hunt
ara and trespassers viii be prosecuted Il
INC '''' FIG. BAILEY,
A. O. MAYS.
,o.a,m MAX W. DUEI.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1903-12-12
THE MARTIN CASE.
The Verdict Reversed and Rsmandea
For q New Trial.

In the Court Of Appeela OF Richmond
in the case OF Martin, administrator,
against the Richmond, Fredericksburg
and Potomac Railroad. from Stafford
Circuit Court, the verdict WAS reversed
and the case remanded for a new hearing.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1903-12-12

TO CURE COLD IN ONE DAY
Take Laxative Bromo- Quinine Tab
,ots This signature 4. w. Grove on
very box, sSe' &T&su,sp
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-01-10
Catholic Reading Is Indispensable.


For Advent Bishop Hedley of New
port, Wales, gives sadly needed in
struction on the Importance of Cath
olic reading. His Lordshfp does not
hesitate to say that at the present
time it is virtually impossible for a
Catholic to keep the faith firmly and
to practice it satisfactorily without the
assistance of reading. A strong state
ment, in support of which the Bishop
says:
Every one reads-now. The nom
Catholic press, which covers the whole
country, does harm to the Catholic re-
ligion in two ways: sometimes it at
tacks the faith. and at all times it oc-
cupies peoples time and attention so
as to push religion into the back
ground. On both these accounts
Catholic reading is indispensable. If
we read things that are written against
our holy religion. we are bound to read
the statements and explanations which
will enable us to know what is the
truth, and to be ready to give informa-
ton to others. And since we give up
so much of our time to the news, the
paragraphs, the sporting intelligence
and the amusing or thrilling stories
that pour from the press day by day,
il is certain that God and Jesus Christ,
the Gospel, the Church and the sacra-
ments. must to a great extent fade and
shrink in our thoughts unless we have
also some kind of reading that will
effectually keep them before the eyes
of the mind"
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-01-10
The Church in Ireland.

About the Catholic church in Ireland
these interesting statistics are given by
Father Hull, S. J., of Dublin, in a let
ter to the Glasgow Observer: "The to-
tai population of Ireland is, roughly,
about 100000. From the Propaganda
report of 1901, the Catholic population
is about 100000 The Catholic Direc-
tory of 1901 shows that there are in
Ireland 2S Bishops 1,O90 parishes, 1,01O
parish priests, 1859 administrators,
curates and other priests; 557 priests
of the regular clergy (total of priests,
3,43S); parochial and district churches
2,434; houses of religious priests "a; of
monks, 122; of nuns, 341. From these
figures, taken in round numbers the
following rough result seems to follow:
One church for every 1.4o0 of the Cath
olic population, one parish priest for
every $500 of the Catholic population;
one parish priest and one or two Gu
rates for every $500 of the Catholic
population; one priest, for every LOO
of the Catholic population; one priest,
secular or religious, for every 1000 of
the Catholic population; one male re-
ligious house for every 1900 of the
Catholic population; one convent of
nuns for every 10000 of the Catholic
population. And all this great relig-
ious establishment is maintained by
the voluntary contributions of a people
among the poorest in the world"
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-01-10
Divorce.

For 1880 years the church withstood
divorce and upheld the indissolubility
of marriage. The "Reformers" first di-
vorced Christ from his church, and
then man from his wife. Now, if there
is any occasion when the church's glory
shone out with greater brightness than
another: il was the stand she took, and
the sacrifices she made, rather than
change this apostolic doctrine. Ger
many with almost the entire of north
ern Europe, was wrenched from her
communion. Half Switzerland was
gone, and France was grievously i'm
periled. Every day brought tidings of
fresh disaster to the vatican; the tide
of revolt was rolling onward, and no
man might mark its limit. The papacy
was hard pressed. and it seemed as if
Catholic Christendom was breaking up
on every side. In her hour Of anguish
there was one nation to which the
church might look for help, one power
capable of staying the onward roll of
estruction-England
Henry VIII was, perhaps, the most
powerful monarch that ever sat on an
English throne. His father left him un-
counted wealth. Not a spark of dis
affection: the shadow of no claimant
disturbed his repose. Parliament was
at his feet, and the mobiles that might
thwart his plans had perished in the
Rose wars Feudalism was in its last
gasp, and the powers of modern democ-
racy had not received birth. The
friendship and assistance of such a
king was incalculable. They might be
purchased if the church recognized his
divorce from Catherine; If she aban-
doned one item of apostolic teaching.
She could not if it were to gain the
whole earth. She was commissioned to
teach all things whatsoever Christ
commanded her, and amongst these ''all
things" certainly divorce could not be
found. but rather What God hath
Joined let no man separate" Her lips
could not hold lie, for the spirit of
truth was with her-"Behold am with
you all days" In her hour of darkness
and gloom she dashed aside the prof
fered hand, when it could be only pur-
chased by the abandonment of apostolic
teaching.-Rev. NJ. Phelan, S. J., in the
Monitor
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-01-10

papa" he answered, II do not want to
| be cured. / do not like to leave you,
| but am longing to see my two mothers
| in heaven. If | lived / might grow up
| to be a bad man"
Like your father" said the sorrow
| ing parent, bitterly.
l'No, papa" answered the chlld.
do not think you are bad man, out
you have told me that once you were
a little boy like me- saying your prayers
every night and morning and loving
the Blessed Virgin. How can tell ths-
] would not do the same if l should
grow 10 to be man."
You are right, Edmund. 1t might
all happen as you say
But, papa" the boy went on. Il
will do this: l will ask the Blessed
Virgin when | get to heaven to change
your heart and make it like little
boys again. And / am so sure she will
do that, papa, that 1 am in hurry
to die, so that it may come to pass.
The father said nothing, but as he
turned away from the couch I could
see how hard and unyielding was the
look that overspread his countenance.
When the final hour came the child
passed quietly away in his sleep. The
grief of the father was intense. Throw
ing himself upon the dead body of his
son, he uttered the most awful impre-
cations, defying Cod who he de-
clared did not exist, and objurgating
in the most outrageous manner the
Mother whom his dead boy had so
tenderly loved.
At the end of fortnight he came
to me-transformed. Something had inn
PEELED him, he said. He had fought
against it, but vainly, and now, with
the deepest sentiments of penitence he
asked to be reconciled to the God he
had long abandoned.
THE little boy in heaven has not
been idle he said. Nor his mother,
since he went"
His conversion was complete he be-
came as eloquent and infuent for
the good cause as he had been for the
bad, and from that time till the day
of his death was an instrument for the
spiritual and temporal benefit of his
fellow parishioners. To what can such
a change be attributed save to Mary
Immaculate. through the prayers of an
innocent chi1d?"-The Rosary Maga
zine.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-01-10
Charms of St. Patrick's Bells.

The bells of st. Patricks cathedral
make welcome music in upper Fifth
avenue on certain afternoons in the
week. They play between 5 and {
o'clock, the time when there is the
most going on in the street, the most
carriages, the most stir, and the great
est number of people out. But the
sound is impressive and people stop to
listen.
On a Wednesday afternoon recently
just as the street was in royal process
sion, the chimes struck up the WED
ding March, sounding out clear and
tuneful above the hub-bub. The mes
sage was so inviting that a party of
strollers, evidently strangers to the
town, turned back in their walk TO
listen. Then, when the march had died
away, the bells played simple old
song-a song of the sort in which words
and music are welded together with
never possibility of separation.
oh. how beautiful" the elderly wo-
man who listened exclaimed to her
friends. THAT air carries me far back
in the long ago to school girl associa-
tlonS. | can't recall the name, but the
refrain is:
We gather shells from youth to age
And then we leave them like child.
IL were 10 near that air In the re-
motest country of the globe should
feel at home at once. And to think Of
hearing it played here on Fifth avenue
IN the most up-to-date part of New
York. 1t will have new association
for me now
And the trio passed slowly along,
listening to the old familiar air played
over three times, as is the rule with
the chimes, while the lights on the ave-
nue. showed out one after another and
there came on that degree of darkness
which emphasizes most strongly the
difference between the mellow gas
lamps and the high, white electric
lights showing against the dark mass
of buildings.-New York Sun.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-01-10
The Adeste Fidelis.

There is no Catholic in America who
has voice for singing, but could hum
the melody of the Christmas hymn,
"Adeste Fidelis.'' This hymn will be
sung as offertory in almost all the
Catholic churches in the land on
Christmas morning, and we are taking
for granted that you who know and
love the carol-for it is an old carol
sung probably during the performance
of the medieval Mystery Plays
would like to know something of it's
origin.
Concerning the authorship of the
words. there is nothing positive known
1t has been ascribed to st. Bonaven-
ture. who died in the early part of the
thirteenth century, but it is found in
no collected edition of his writings. In
the Mechlin "Thesaurus Animae Chris
tianae," if is given as a second Sc
quence for Christmas and is said to
have been used as such by the Cister-
clans and perhaps written by some
mem Der of their ORDER 1t is not prop-
erly annoffertory piece, in fact it first
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-01-10

appeared in England and America as
a Benedictine hymn for Yuletide. 1t
does not appear in either the official
Roman gradual or the Vesperal. 1t
is found in the chant books of the Pari-
sian rite, set to the melody now in
use.
The melody was first sung in Eng
land about the close of the last CEN
tury. AS early as 1897 the hymn was
sung at the chapel of the Portuguese
embassy, of which Vincent Novello was
organist. Hr Novello (who had ar
ranged the best known version) believes
the present tune to have been written
by John Reading. organist of Winches-
ter from 1876 to 1881. The scale on
which the melody is based would in
dicate that it is not nearly so ancient
as the teXt.-Catholic Citizen.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-01-10
Memorial Church to Cardinal
Newman

On Feb. q, 1903, had he lived as long,
Cardinal Newman would have attained
the age of 102. Born in 1901, he died on
Aug. IL, 1890, full of years and
merit But though twelve years have
passed by since he went to his re-
ward, no fitting memorial of his great
work as yet exists. Yet his name is
held in veneration in the hearts of mil
lions, who, it is presumed, would be
glad to give some outward proof of
their appreciation Of his life and writ
ings.
The church at the Oratory in Birm-
inham, where the cardinal lived and
labored is no longer safe, and is too
small TO accommodate the ever increas-
ing number that seek admission within
its walls. Hence the Superior of the
Oratorians issued an appeal a year ago
for funds to erect a new and suitable
church, which should worthily carry
out the original design of Cardinal
Newman, when he founded the Ora
tory. 1t is an enterprise that concerns
the honor of a name which is a glory
to the church Of our age. and in reply
the Catholics of England have so far
contributed Il, 500, or half of what is
headed 10 complete the memorial
caurch
But the Catholics of America also
awe Cardinal Newman q debt of graft
ruGe, which they are not slow to recog-
ssze. Both clergy and laity speak his
name with love and reverence, and ap-
preciate what, by Gods grace, he has
accomplished for the church. Many.
too, on these shores owe the light of
che true Faith to his writings and ex-
ample.
Will these now lend a helping hand
toward this most deserving object? If
every lover of Lead, kindly light
We're TO send an offering, no matter
now small, this much-needed and we'll
deserved memorial church would soon
be raised, and the Catholics of Ameri-
Gon1d have the lions share in the
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-01-10
A Jesuit on Cremation.

AT the late mass in the Church of the
Immaculate Conception, Boston, re-
Gently, Rev. Thomas /. Gasscn, S. j.,
discussed the attitude of the Catholic
church toward the cremation move
ment. Father Gasson showed that
Pope Leo XIII by a degree of May 10,
1886, had forbidden Catholics to adopt,
under ordinary circumstances, this
method of disposing of the dead.
1T must be borne in mind said Fa-
ther Gasson, that this decree is not
one of faith, but simply of discipline,
that is, the church, for wise reasons,
judges it ill-advised and contrary to
Christian tradition, to thrust the body
Of the departed into a crematory.
IF experience should show that pub
lie health demands cremation there is
no doubt that the church will accom-
modate her legislation so as to sanction
any reverent manner of caring for the
bodies of the deceased,
ITO say that cremation would inter
fere with the resurrection of the
body is a puerile statement. Is it any
more of a miracle to resurrect the
body from the ashes which are the re-
suit of cremation, than to resurrect the
body from the ashes which are the re-
suit of burial? Both are equally possi-
BILE to divine omnipotence.
The cnurcn s oD1ecClon is DaSeQ upon
the fact that burial is the practice
which she received from the Jewish
church, to which she is the successor.
Burial too, was the method chosen for
the disposition Of the Savior's dead.
body-a method naturally followed by
all fervent Christians. Burial, likewise,
appears to be the more consonant to
human nature. The body is the temple
in which the principle of human life
dwells it itself is destined, according
to a Christian teaching, for an endless
life, at the close of the worlds soul
stirring tragedy.
Even when deprived of the spirit
which thrilled it and made it pulse with
life, the body does not become an object
of terror or of horror, but rather a
precious relic, to be reverently and
lovingly dealt with. The old painting
even, when the colors have lost their
glow and the face has lost its express
sion, and only a vague outline remains
to tell us of the one it portrays, is not
thrown ruthlessly into the fire, but
still remains in an honored position
among the household treasures
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-01-10
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

| The bishop of Shrewsbury has issued
a vigorous warning against the use of
unauthorized prayers to st. Joseph now
| flooding some of the parishes. Priests
are openly commanded to suppress ev-
erything of the kind coming under
| their notice.
Thirty years ago the Catholics of
New South Wales numbered only 147,-
267, now they number 347, ,2S6, an in
crease of over 1S5 per cent.
Mgr. Anatole, spiritual director of
the st. Paul seminary, st. Paul, Mimi,
has been appointed vicar general of
I the archdiocese to succeed Rt. Rev.
John Stariha, who was cCnsecrated
bishop of Lead, S. D., month ago.
Andrew Carnegie has presented ST.
800 to the Catholic church at Ga
lishiels, Scotland, for a new organ, on
condition that the parishioners raise a
similar sum.
Information under date of Nov. 13 has
reached San Francisco to the effect that
Brother Rochus of the Baldwin home.
Leper settlement, was drowned while
taking a sea bath
The Chicago correspondent of the
Popular Educator. Boston, for Decem-
Der reports that out of 100 candidates
either for admission to the normal
school or as cadets, sixty-two passed.
OF whom forty-five were graduates of
the parochial schools ''When one
comes to think of it, says the writer,
the Catholics of Chicago are doing a
great deal for the city,
The Rev. Arthur Napier Morgan. r
A.. of ST Paul's, Reading, Eng. has
entered the Catholic church, and in
tends to go to Rome to study for the
priesthood.
twenty-five years ago Mother Ver-
oniea of the Order of Poor Clares-
who in Germany was Countess of Him
endorf-went to Cleveland, and with
four other members of the order
founded the convent on Perry street.
Ihey came from Dusseldorf, Germany.
The silver jubilee was celebrated last
week.
Rev. Edward Hannin, pastor of ST
Patrick's church, Toledo, O.. for the
past forty years, died last Sunday aft
ernoon. He was 76 years old and in
April last dedicated a $4,000 churcn
which he himself designed and the
building of which he superintended.
o
The new Catholic orphanage in Phila-
oelpnla, Pa, will soon be opened. The
property was purchased by Archbishon
Ryan at a cost of s15O,OO0. 1t was for
merly the Asylum for the Blind. After
all repairs have been completed the
new asylum will comfortably accom-
modate 500 children. 1t will be under
the charge Of the Sisters of Charity
now connected with ST. vincent's home
-
Hon, w. Bourke Cochran will deliver
the principal address at the celebration
OF the one hundredth anniversary of
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-01-10
Catholics and Business.
(Pittsburg Catholic.l

CPittSburg Catholic.)
Should Catholics trade with Catho-
lies, should the priest in every instance
give the parochial business to Catho-
lics?? are questions some time put.
That we should aid and encourage our
own whenever opportunity presents is
creditable and just. 1t does not follow,
however, that we are to permit imposi-
ton, disguised under the cloak of re-
ligion. All things being equal is the
rule. Business is business is a trite
way of putting it, but it is good and
safe rule. Because a man is a Cath
olic he is "a poor stick" who expects
to succeed by living off his brethren.
He may expect their trade, honorably
solicit it, but he has to gain it to meas
ure his business by business principles.
His religion is not to be the need of
his success, except in its eXemplifica-
ton of honestly and justice to all who
trade with him. 1t would be well for
grumbling Catholics, who max the plea
of their religion as a basis for trade TO
remember that their brothers in re-
ligion, having earned their money, have
the right to spend it where they like.
1t is the bounden duty of the priest in
making his contracts to place them
where they will be we'll executed, and
at the lowest price conformable to such
execution. Nor should any blame be
attached to him If in the pursuit of this
duty he goes elsewhere. That is no
good reason to urge that "I support
the church," and 'I am only asking
back what I have given" as if some
thing has been given the church it has
no right to. Some people imagine that
because the church is to be kept going
nv collections the nriest is q sort of
charity boy. Let Catholics be reason
able and businesslike, and everything
being equal. in prices, detail. work
manship and value, they will have no
excuse to ask the questions herein
mentioned
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-01-10
Tne Penitent.

My hands are empty, Master, and It's
Night!
Beyond that farthest star my Youth has
flown,
And all along the way my hopes are
StrOWn.
BY dreams allured and deeming life
O'erlong,
l courted visions and pursued a song.
l sowed the barren seed with jest and
laugh
The harvest of my years is worthless
chaff
The streams I heaped in youth seem
rivers wide,
And mountains steep the hills 1 climbed
in pride.
BY Time undone, in humbleness l pray:
Throughout the darkness lead me unto
Day"
My hands are empty, Master, and It's
Night
-Charles S. Ross. in Boston Transcript.