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Blessed Virgin, for the space of one
year from this date"
This appears to be rather severe
remuneration of the drink habit, but
surprising as it may seem, more than
three hundred signers were secured
in a single locality. The people who
signed promised further to be mu-
tually helpful to one another at thresh-
ings, sowing matches and the like
and to feel that they are bound as
well not to accept drink as not to offer
it to others.
The humorous part of it is that
in the locality there were five heads of
families who refused to sign the
pledge or cooperate in the work.
These dissenters are now in a rather
precarious position as the whole
neighborhood is ready to boycott them
in the event that they use their inf1u-
ence to induce the others to break their
pledges. Should it come to such a
pass the nonconformists would be
compelled to seek wetter quarters.
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Dublin in Ancient Times.

Dublin is an ancient city indeed, and
was written and spoken of by Ptolemy,
the celebrated mathematician, astron
omer and geographer; in the second
century of the Christian era, as Eb-
lana, or Deblana Civitas, which means
"the City Of the Black Channel" from
which we are led to infer that the Lif-
fey was infinitely blacker than it is
today and of about the same hue that
it was some so years ago, before the
sanitary means We're introduced to rid
it of it's traditional foulness. For the
explanation given to his passengers
by the jaunting car driver away back
in the SOS, to the effect that 1.-THE smell
of the Liffey is one of the sights Of
Dublin" has now lost it's point.
The first people to erect castle at
Dublin were the Norwegians, who COL
onized there in the ninth century and
who built a fortress on the site of the
present castle. This castle was be-
sieged and then seized by the Danes
and held by them with varying sue
cess until 1866, when the English
formed an alliance with Rory O'Con-
nor, King of Leinster, and took the
castle, driving out the Danish COVER
nor, Skull MacTurkill, the last Morse
ruler of Dublin.
In 1172. Henry II, arrived and WIN
tered at Dublin. entertaining there
the Irish kings and princess, with
whose assistance he had crushed and
driven out the Danes. He held his
court there in a pavilion of wicker
work made according to custom of
the country. We are informed that the
Irish chieftans were entertained with
great pomp and alliances entered into
with them, "the plenty of the English
table and the goodly courtesy of the
attendants" having done much to rec
oncile them to their new allies.
In the following year, however.
Henry II. granted "his city of Dublin
to his subjects of Bristol to inhabit
and to hold of him and his heirs for
ever with all the liberties and free
customs which his subjects at Bristol
then enjoyed at Bristol and through
all England" This charter of the
foundation of the libertien "f the city
Of Dublin. were afterwards enlarged
and confirmed by King John, without,
however, removing the status of the
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ninety-five per cent of the seniors at
Harvard are addicted to liquor in
some degree; forty-five per cent "go
on two or three sprees a year." thir-
ty-five per cent are heavy drinkers,
and fifteen per cent leave the insti-
tuition habitual drunkards and ruined
for life. Princeton, Columbia and
other we'll known universities come in
for similar treatment in Mr.. Cranes
report. Chancellor Samuel Avery of
the University of Nebraska agrees
with Mr.. Crane regarding intemper-
ance in universities. President Taft,
while not agreeing that intemperance
prevails to the extent stated by Mr..
Crane, believes, nevertheless, that
there is room for improvement. All
agree that the evil exists. 1t is only
question of what is the extent. This
should be a warning to parents who
have children to educate. Better let
them remain ignorant and honest than
throw them into the maelstrom of de-
moralzing influences unless their
character has been sufficiently devel-
oped by previous training to warrant
the risk.
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NO CHANGE TO CRITICIZE.

The action of Cardinal Gibbons in
requesting the city council of Balti-
more not to carry out it's plan of de-
claring Monday, October is. munic-
ipal holiday in his honor, deserves the
highest commentator. The resolution
could have been carried and would
have been carried, despite the fact that
there was some opposition among the
churches and some others who felt
that the city council was carrying it's
desire to honor the Cardinal too far,
if the latter had not interposed his
wish to let the matter drop.
In explaining his, reason for not
wishing to have the proposed honor
conferred on him the Cardinal said
that it was not his desire to disor-
ganize the public school system or to
deprive the thousands of laborers of
the city of an opportunity Of earning
a days wages. Furthermore, he
added, he could never express the
gratitude he felt towards the city and
state authorities for the tribute they
paid him at the civic celebration held
in his honor last June, and since the
celebration which will be held next
week is purely religious, he did not
consider it either necessary or desir-
able that such action be taken by the
city council.
BY interposing as he has done, Car
dinal Gibbons has shown himself not
To be seeking public laudation. And
he has incidentally deprived few
would-be critics of the pleasure of ex-
ploding. No doubt there We're some
disgrunted persons who could see ev-
cry imaginable calamity to the well
fare of the country foreshadoWed in
such recognition of Cardinal Glib
bons as the Baltimore city council had
proposed. But now that the Cardinal
himself has been the one to forestall
the carrying out of the plan they
must be content to swallow the venom
that had been accommodating on their
own tongues. Besides harmony and
good will all round is desirable even
at a sacrifice, so long as it is not a
sacrifice of principle.
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r-ta
Governor Foss, protesting against the
appointment and calling him "polit-
ical acrobat" for catering to Catholic
patronage by appointing Catholic
judge to the Supreme bench.
The reply of Governor Foss' secre-
tary to the protest shows how SUI
premely ridiculous was the position
taken by this critic. He says:
Nearly sixty-five per cent of the
population of Massachusetts, is of the
Roman Catholic faith, and they are
entitled to a fair representation IN
the bench, as we'll as on the other
State commissions This I think YOU
will admit.
"On the other hand, no appointment
has been made by the Governor SIM
ply because a man was of any par
tlcuiar nationality or creed. His sole
test in his appointment to office has
been that the man must measure Up
to the requirements of the position in
every way, and then he has appointed
the man best fitted regardless of his
race, his creed or his political affilia-
ton; but the Governor, while having
the appointing power in this Com
monWealth, is obliged to submit the
names of his appointees to the Gov
ernor's Council, composed of eight
members. The Governor himself is a
Democrat; seven out of the eight men,
bers of the Council are Republicans,
any they have passed upon every an
polntment that the Governor has
made. and those which you criticized
particularly. Consequently they must
share the responsibilities with the
Governor because all appointments
are made by the Governor with advice
and consent of the Council. Just how
the Governor would be called "a polit-
ical acrobat under these circum-
stances it is very difficult to see, for,
unlike Mr.. Roosevelt whom YOU cite
as an example, Governor Foss has had
an adverse Council, a Council polit-
lcally opposed to him, while Mr.
Roosevelt's appointments were passed
upon by Senate absolutely controlled
by the members of his own political
party
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WILL NOT INDULGE.

The spirit of temperance has worked
out in a peculiar way in one locality
in Ireland. In Carrickmacross a
pledge was circulated for the people
to sign which bound them not to use
or permit to be used intoxicating IL
Quors on the various occasions when
custom has ordained that they shall
be INDUCED in freely, as, for example,
at wakes, funerals, sowing matches,
etc. The pledge which the people
were asked to sign reads as follows:
81, the undersigned, hereby declare
and promise, for the honor of God,
for the sake of the Sacred Thirst of
Jesus Christ on the Cross, and for the
sake of cur beloved country, that I
will not give, nor allow any one in my
house or on my premises, any in
toxicating drinks at harvest gather
ing. dressings, plcughing or sowing
matches, road repairing, wakes or
funerals Cor weddings to the extent
hitherto practiced at this latter, and
sincerely promise to prevent as far
as in my power, the semblance Of
what can be termed "porter sprees"
in my house or on my premises.
81 bind myself to fulfill the above,
with the help of Gods holy grace,
through the merits of Jesus Christ.
and through the intercession of the
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HoIv Name Parade in Pittsburq.

The Holy Name Society procession
in Pittsburg on Oct. will be the
largest religious gathering ever wit.
messed in Pennsylvania. It is expect,
ed that fully 10000 Catholic men will
march from the downtown section to
st. Paul's Cathedral. The procession
will consist of three divisions. The
first division will include all branch
societies attached to churches in the
territory lying between the Allegheny
and Monongahela rivers, but extend
ing as far east as Blairsville. The
second division embraces all societies
south of the Monongahela and Ohio
rivers, and the third division all that
territory north and west of the Ohio
and Allegheny rivers.
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BRITAlN'S RIVAL.

At the present time Germany is the
third naval power in the world. Eng
land is still mistress of the seas with
the United States second in rank. But
there is probability that in the
course OF few years Germany will
rank second and the United States
third. BY Germany's navy act of 1900
the German fleet will in 1912 number
thirteen battleships of the Dread
naught type and an armed cruiser
She is adding to her navy much more
rapidly than the United States and
unless she changes her present policy
or the United States undertakes to
expend more money on the navy, which
is not probable, Germany will in the
course Of few years outstrip us with
navy second only to Englands.
When it is considered that only a
score of years ago Germany was
scarcely recognized as naval power,
the tremendous strides she has made
can be imagined. Time was when the
German army was the all-important
consideration. The navy was only an
incident This was natural enough
owing to Germany's geographical posi-
ton. But William II saw fit to re-
verse that policy until now he is being
criticized by some OF his own sub
jects for expanding so much money on
the navy that it is impossible to main
tain the army at the strength demand
ed by the nations geographical loca-
ton. This consideration will, no
doubt ultimately determine the limit
Of the naval expenditures.
But why is Germany so anxious to
enlarge her navy? NJ Lockroy, at
one time French minister of marine,
gives it as his opinion that the naval
policies Of Great Britain and Germany
will ultimately lead to a conflict be-
tween those two nations. What" he
writes, twill be the issue? 1t is i'm
possible to say. What is certain is
that, in order that she may be vic
torious, Germany will have done
everything that human foresight can
imagine, and all that the patience and
energy of a people can achieve"
In the meantime England recognizes
her European rival in Germany. She
recognizes, too, that Germany has
greater resources and is better able
to maintain the rivalry in navy build
ing. No wonder that England favors
a policy of peace.
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CARDINALS VIEWS
Does Not Approve Of Referendum and
Recall of Judiciary,

Recall OF Judiciary.
During the course of his sermon in
the cathedral of Baltimore last Sun
day, Cardinal Gibbons expressed him
self as opposed to the election of
United States senators by popular
vote, the referendum and the recall
of the judiciary.
cat the present moment" he said,
there are three political problems
which are engaging the serious at
tention of our public men.
Election of senators by votes of
the people involves destruction of a
strong bulwark against dangerous
popular encroachments. The reason
given for the contemplated change is
that many of our state legislatures
are charged with being venal, and
that it is easier to corrupt the legis-
lature than the whole people. I have
sufficient confidence in the moral in
tegrity of our legislatures to be con-
WINGED that the great majority of them
have never bent the knee to Man,
mon.
"To give to the masses the right of
annul1ing acts of the legislature, is to
substitute mob law for established law
"To recall a Judge because his de-
cisions do not meet with popular ap-
prevail is an insult to the dignity, in
dependence and self-respect of our
judiciary. Far less menacing to the
commonwealth is an occasional cor
rupt incompetent judge, than one who
would be the habitual slave of ca.
PRECIOUS multitude, who has always his
ear to the ground trying to find out
the verdict Of the people.
"rrhc constitution of the United
States is the palladium of our liberties
and our landmark in our march of
progress. That instrument has been
framed by the anxious cares and en-
lightened zeal of the fathers of the
republic. What has been good enough
Tor our fathers ought to be good
enough for us. Every change, either
in the political or religious world, is
not reformation.
Better to bear the ills we know
than fly to those We know not Of Do
not disturb the political landmarks of
the republic
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CONAN DOYLE A HOME RULER

When the Unionists of Belfast were
preparing for their anti-Home Rule
demonstration last month, they asked
Sir A. Conan Doyle to favor them
with an article in support of their
cause. Imagine what surprise it
was when at the opening meeting of
their campaign letter from Conan
Doyle was read in which he asserted
that his views had changed and he
was now an Irish Home Ruler. In
his letter Conan Doyle says:
Il have twice contested Parliament
tary seats as a Unionist, but on each
occasion carefully defined my own po-
sition, that Home Rule would only be
safe with an altered economic condi-
ton and gentler temper among the
people, and, above all, after the local
representative institutions already Civ,
en- them had been adequately tested
IL seems to me these conditions are
now fairly well complied with.
from a period of absolute anarchy, is
not in position to criticise Ireland
There are other and more general
considerations which have profoundly
altered the whole Irish question. One
Is the apparently complete success OF
Home Rule in South Africa. This has
had a great influence upon my mind
for the animosities in Ireland are
tepid compared with the boiling racial
passion which existed only ten years
ago in Africa.
II think a solid, loyal Ireland is the
one thing the empire needs to make
il impregnable, and 1 believe that the
men of the north will have patriotism
Sc broad and enlightened that they
will understand this and will sacrifice
for the moment their racial and reli-
gious feelings in the conviction that
they are truly serving the empire.
There may be an element of risk
in Home Rule, but we ran the risk in
Canada and Africa, so surely we need
not fear after two successes to try II
once again. l believe that after an
experience of united, friendly Ireland
nothing would induce the north to &C
back to the old conditions
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THE PRESIDENT ON DIVORCE.

President Taft has given expression
to his opinion on what is beyond a
doubt the most vital question affect
ing the welfare of this nation today
namely the divorce question. In a
speech in Kansas lately he said:
You say we ought not to keep un-
happy people together. Who brought
them together? We did not. If they
got together under a contract, why
shouldn't they be bound by the con-
tract unless one or the other does
something which, in the eyes of all
men, ought to permit or require at
least a separation, il not a divorce?
1.-THE trouble is not that in individ-
ual cases decentralization follows be-
cause they are separated; the trouble
is that when man or woman feels it
Is only a question of option whether
she will live with her husband or he
with his wife, they often conduct
themselves in such a way as neces-
sarily to lead to q breach.
~ 10 lLC CpllllS W SCI ttLu lIlc pI OS-
pect of getting a divorce that Gemor-
Allies. We ought to have a general
uniform law to make sacred the mar
riage tie. agree that 1t is not pos
sible at this stage and under present
conditions to make marriage abso-
lutely indissoluble, but it is possible
,nly 4
cannot be obtained by collision, but
only when one party or the other shall
have done something that all men re-
gard as necessarily affecting the OBJ
legation of the marriage tie"
MIR. Taft must be given credit for
his views on this vital question. He
Il; right in condemning the ease with
which divorce may be secured. When
he says that he thinks it is not pos
sible at this stage to make marriage
absolutely indissoluble, he, of course,
misuses language. 1t is not we who
make marriage indissoluble. God has
done that by withholding from man
the right to dissolve it. Hence, though
court may grant a decree of separ-
alton, it does not thereby dissolve the
union OF husband and wife. What
President Taft means is that he does
not think it possible to prevent the
granting of divorces at the present
time. And here again we have the
assurance Of fifteen millions of Cath
olics in the United States who not
only believe it is possible but demon
strate their belief by their lives.
However, some advance in the right
direction is better than none and Mr..
Taft's views are to be commended as
far as they go.
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THE scouReE OF THE TONGUE

THE SCOURGE OF THE TONGUE.
A writer in the Examiner" Bonn
bay, deals in a lengthy but very in
teresting article with the subject,
when Marriage Seems Failure"
He enumerates faults that are COM
mon to both sexes and then proceeds
to show that there are certain faults
which are distinctly characteristic of
man and others that are character
istic of woman. The besetting sins Of
man, he says, are laziness, morose
irritability and the vices Of drink,
gambling and lust. Women, accord
ing to this writer, are not character
istically lazy. Though they may neg
lect their serious work they will,
nevertheless, be energetic over some
thing else.
Up to this point in the discussion
the women seem to be the most favor
ed. But when it comes to describing
the scourge of the tongue it Is then
that her failing is painted most hid
eously. Here are few paragraphs
from his description:
GAS Pope Plus X defined modern
ism to be "the synthesis of all here.
sies," so We might define a woman's
tongue let loose as "the synthsis of
all vices" and veritable scourge
of all who come within it's range.
"If 1t is a question of hand to hand
or rather tongue-to-tongue-en
counter, no man can ever hope to get
the best of 1t.
He is just like a yoke1 with club
entering into combat with a trained
master of the rapier. BY one and the
same movement she lightly evades all
his clumsy blows, and pierces him
through in his most vulnerable point
1T is the prerogative of the sex
ito have the last word," and against
that prerogative no power of reason
or eloquence can prevail"
From this it would seem that a
woman's tongue is dangerous weap-
on. But what of the mans tongue
that profanes the name of God and is
given to voicing language that is not
fit to be spoken? And what Of the
great army of noble women who are
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FROM THE CAPITAL

The Ramsey County Board Ladies'
Auxiliary, A. O. H., entertained the
Hennepin county board Friday even
Ing at Hibernian hall. The follow
ing program was rendered.: Address
OF welcome, Mrs. c. J. Conroy, county
president; piano selection, Miss Doyle,
Div L; vocal selection Miss Margaret
Clarke, accompanied at the piano by
Miss Marie Clarke of Div. 2; "The
Catholic Church and the Order" Rev.
L. ]. Gleason, chaplain of the order;
vocal selection, Miss Rose Charlton
neau, accompanied by Miss Florence
McGrath, Div. 4; the choral club of
Div. 3 rendered several selections;
vocal selection by Mrs. Rooney, of
Div. s; Irish step dancing by the
children of Div. 5; quartette, Misses
Gle, accompanied by Miss Marooney
OF Div. 9; vocal selection by Miss
Heinz, accompanied by Miss O'Brien,
of Div. Z; vocal duet by Miss Walsh
and Mr.. White, Div. g.; T. ]. Doyle,
county president, spoke on the in
surance feature of the order; Miss
Boylan, county president of Hennepin
county and Miss Ella Heating, state
secretary, made remarks A banquet
was served in the dining hall.
On Tuesday evening Mr.. W. Eng.
lish was very pleasantly surprised al
his home, 80 Litchfield avenue by a
number of his former schoolmates.
Mr.. English left St. Paul Thursday
evening to assume a position as
steAographer, in the employ OF the U.
S. government at Bremerton, Wash
| ington. He will be sorely missed by
his host of friends in this city, with
whom he was very popular. Since
| his graduation from St. Thomas COL
lege in 1909, he has been in the en-
ploy Of the Great Northern Ry. Co.,
as stenographer, but resigned October
list to assume his new duties.
A linen shower was recently given
in honor of Miss Grace Scott by Mrs.
G. Kumrow, Mrs. F. r. Raasch, Mrs.
A. r. Reberk, and, Miss Lydia Kun.
row at The home of Mrs. Kumrow,
south Robert street. The rooms were
decorated with cupids, hearts and ar
| rows. Prizes were won by Miss B.
Dwyer, Miss Hazel Fountain, Mrs. J.
! Malloy and Miss Marie Josney.
Mr.. Henry Gunhagen, aged go years.
died at Fort Wayne, Ind, Tuesday
after short illness. The funeral
took place from the family residence,
100 Brainerd ave-, Saturday at 9:15
o'clock. Services were held at the
Assumption church at 10 O'Clock. In.
terment at Calvary cemetery.
Mrs. Elizabeth Flaherty, aged 52
years, died at the city hospital Fri
day after long illness. The funeral
took place from the undertaking rooms
of j. J. Hurley's Monday at 9:15 a. m.
Services were held at st. Michaels
church at $3.50 am. Interment at
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Agricultural Ireland.

Ireland is an agricultural country
and an important dairying country.
England is mainly industrial, says the
Weekly Freeman (Dublin). Fifty per
cent Of the population that is occu-
pied in Ireland are engaged in agri-
culture; in England, the agricultural
workers are only Is per cent. The
British government claims to be a
paternal government in Ireland. A
Danish law has been passed respect
ing trade in butter and foreign agri-
cultural products. Denmark is the
principal cource of foreign butter in
England. The new law affects Brit
ish and Irish interests so much that
the Board of Trade have had it trans
lated into English, and they announce
that it comes into force in its COM
plete form on the 10th of December
next, but that certain of it's provisions
are already in force. The paternal
government issues notices stating
that the translation of the new law
may be seen, not in agricultural Ire
land, but at 70 Basinghall street, Lon
don The butter producers of Kerry,
or the butter merchants of Cork, and
creamery managers all over the coun-
try are invited to go to London in
order to study this important docu
ment and see how it affects their in
terests.