The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-10-21


Howard r.. Smith, head Of the ami
NAL husbandry department at the Uni
versity Of Nebraska, has accepted an
offer to become head of the animal
husbandry division of the Minnesota
Agricultural College and will take his
new post January /.
The cost of living in the United
States has been going down during
the last five or six weeks, according
to figures compiled by the mercantile
agencies in New York. Declines were
most noticeable in hogs and all the.
things which originate in pork; in
mackerel, textile products and metals,
Advances were scored by cereals,
beef, milk, eggs, butter, cheese, coffee,
sugar, tea and rice. Thirty-seven arti-
Giles were dearer, twenty-six were
cheaper and forty-three showed no
change.
In an unmarked grave at Pembina,
N. D., lies the body of the man who,
over half century ago, saved the
capital of Minnesota to the city of st.
Paul-Joe Rolette. His grave is in a
secluded spot in prairie cemetery
not far from where the Pembina river
joins the Red river. The Pembina
Pioneer Press appeals to the citizens
of ST. Paul to mark properly the rest
ing place of this pioneer.
The first actual work of the Panama
Pacific international exposition to be
held in 1915 was begun on October IA,
when President Taft turned the first
spadeful of earth at the fair site. The
ships of the Pacific fleet riding at an
Choir in the harbor joined in the cele-
bration and the line of march of the
military parade was thronged by en-
thusiastic thousands. The ground
breaking took place at the stadium in
Golden Gate park, which occupies a
part of the site of the fair. Many
thousands of soldiers and militia and
the crews of the warships in the bay
led the way from the presidents hotel
to the park.
Associate Justice John M. Harlan,
the oldest member of the Supreme
Court of the United States, for years
conspicuous in Kentucky politics, once
candidate for the Republican nomina-
ton for Vice President of the United
States, a foremost constitutional au-
thority and prominent in the councils
of the Presbyterian church, died at his
home in Washington, D. G., on Octo-
Der A. He was seventy-eight years
old last June. He had been i'll with
acute bronchitis less than week.
The funeral of the late Justice John
Marshall Harlan of the United States
Supreme Court was held last Tuesday
afternoon from the New York Avenue
Presbyterian church, with which he
had been identified. The pastor, Rev.
DR.. Wallace Radcliffe, OBLIGATED and
the pallbearers we're the eight mem
bers of the United States Supreme
Court Burial was in Rock Greek
cemetery.
Dr. J. A. Macdonald, editor of the
Toronto Globe, in discussing the RE-
cent defeat in Canada Of the recipro-
city pact, said that the annexation
"bugaboo' brought it about. Dr. Mac
Donald said the special interests spent
much money to defeat the measure,
and there is much resentment in the
| Dominion because of methods used.
During the year $157, 325,16O was
paid as pensions by the United States,
a decrease of $3,49S, 154 from last year.
| making the total amount paid in PEN
sions since the foundation of the
government $4,230,381, $50. There were
55,185 names dropped from the roll
and 26,200 added, leaving a net loss OF
1885 pensioners. The total number
at the end of the year was 892,098, the
smallest since 1892 Methods of econ
omy resulted in decrease of the cost
of administration of $140,504, the total
cost being $2,517,127, the lowest since
1882.
A saving, estimated at $1,000,000 an
nually to the pensioners of the United
States and eventually about s1S0,0O0
/ year W Tic SOVOIuuGAL Is COAI0ul'
plated by simplifed plan for the pay
ment of pensions without vouchers
which Commissioner of Pensions J. L.
Davenport submitted to the Secretary
of the Interior in his annual report
made public today. His plan, devised
at the request of Congress, will re
quire the passage of law and will
greatly simplify the methods of pay.
ing pensions. 1t will result in the
mailing of pension checks on the date
upon which the pension falls due, elm.
mate the cost to the pensioners in a
large majority of cases of the execu
ton of pension vouchers, which varies
from 81 to So yearly; decrease to a
considerable extent the work in draw
ing and mailing of pension checks and
eliminates the sending of 1900, 900 let
tiers yearly through the mail, saving
about $500 thereby