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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-05-20

restored to their original Importance
in our land, it is gratifying to contem-
plate that in many of our churches
these feasts are observed with High
Masses and evening Benediction, says
the Freeman's Journal.
To secure uniformity of holy days
in the United States the Bishops at
the Plenary Council in Baltimore, 1884,
designated these six fixed festivals,
Circumcision, Ascension, Assumption,
All Saints, Immaculate Conception,
and Christmas, dropping the three
days indicated above. In Redemptorist
and Capuchin edifices there is hardly
any change of olden piety, judging
from the sung Masses, Benediction,
and Vespers in some of these deeply
hallowed shrines.
Turning to Ireland we learn that
there are ten Church Feasts of obliga-
ton, namely, Circumcision, Epiphany,
Saint Patrick's Day, Annunciation,
Ascension, Corpus Christi, Saints Peter
and Paups June 29), Assumption, All
Saints, and Christmas. In Scotland
|
Annunciation and Saint Patrick's, but
with the addition of Saint Andrews,
November 10th, great Scotch holy
day. ,.
In England these are the eight eccle-
siastical feasts of command: January
first and sixth, Ascension, Corpus
Christi, Saints Peter and Paul with
fast on the eve), Assumption, All
Saints, and Christmas. France, Bel
GUM, and parts of Germany have four
feast days for absolute attendance at
the Divine Sacrifice Christmas, AS
cension, Assumption, and All Saints,
Canadians keep six: January first and
sixth, Ascension, All Saints, and De-
cember eighth and twenty-fifth.
Far away in the antipodes our good
Ascension, Assumption and All Saints.
A reminder of the ages of faith is the
astonishing number Cat least to COM
mercial Americans), of holydays still
maintained throughout Italy, Spain,
and other European countries, the
Australian brethren rigidly celebrate
five days: Christmas, Circumcision,
twenty-five obligatory festivals being
January first and sixth, Candlemas
(Feb. p, Saint Joseph's Day, Annun.
citation, of Holy Cross MAY 81, Ascen.
sion, Corpus Christi, Birthday of Saint
John the Baptist June 24), Saints Pc.
ter and Paul, Assumption, Nativity OF
Our Lady (September 81, Michaelmas
All Saints, and December 9Th and 25th
Easter Monday and Tuesday, Whit.
Monday and Tuesday, and Saint Ste
phen's Day.
Former rigid Church days in these
Dioceses were the feasts of the Twelve
Apostles, Saint AIMS, that of Saint
Lawrence and of the Holy Innocents,
and Saint Sylvester's (Dec. 81, total
of thirty-eight days on which the faith.
full were bound to hear Mass, or incur
the penalty for disobeying the com
mandment of the Church.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-05-20
THE FEAST OF THE ASCENSION.

The Feast of the Ascension occurs
on the fortieth day after Easter Sun
day. 1t commentaries the elevation
of our Lord into heaven by His own
power in presence of His disciples. 1t
is narrated in ST. Mark, xvi, 10, st.
Luke, xiv, 81, and in the first chap
ter of the Acts of the Apostles. Al
though the place of the Ascension is
not distinctly stated, it would appear
from the Acts that it was Mount Oil
vet, since after the Ascension the dis
ciples are described as returning to
Jerusalem from the Mount that is
called Olivet, which is nigh Jerusa-
lem, within a Sabbath days journey.
Tradition has consecrated this site as
the Mount of Ascension and Christian
piety has memorialized the event by
erecting over the site basilica. st.
Helena built the first memorial, which
was detroyed by the Persians in Ga,
rebuilt in the eighth century, to be de-
stroyed again, but rebuilt a second
time by the crusaders. This the Mo-
hammedans also destroyed, leaving
only the octagonal structure which en-
closes the stone said to bear the i'm
print of the feet of Christ, that is now
used as an oratOry. Not only is the
fact of the Ascension related in the
passage of Scripture cited above, but
it is also elsewhere predicted and
spoken of as an established TACT.
Thus, in st. John, vi, Sc, Christ asks
the Jews: eff then you shall see the
Son of Man ascend up where He was
before?" and Xxx, II, He says to Mary
Magdalen: edo not touch Me, for
am not yet assembled to My Father,
but go to My brethren, and say to
them: I ascend to My Father and to
your Father, to My God and to your
God" Again, in Ephesians, lv, S-lO
and I Timothy, iii. 16, the Ascension
of Christ is spoken of as an accepted
fact. The language used by the Evan
gelists to describe the Ascension must
be interpreted according to usage. TIC
say that He was taken up, or that He
assembled, does not necessarily imply
that they locate heaven directly above
the earth; no more than the words
"sitteth on the right hand of God
mean that this is His actual posture
In disappearing from their view "He
was raised up and a cloud received
Him out of their sight" (Acts, I, 81
and entering into glory He dwells
with the Father in the honor and pow
er denoted by the Scripture phrase.
The Catholic Encyclopedia.
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THE FULNESS OF MARY'S PRIV
LEGES.

He who loves bestows his gifts on
the object of his affection with no
niggard hand. This applies to God
in His dealing with the most holy
Virgin. So many privileges and so
many treasures has He bestowed on
her that their only measure is the love
He bore her.
What, in fact, has He not conferred
on this incompatible creature? From
eternity, He singled her out to be the
Mother of His only begotten Son; He
elected her from all flesh; He fore
ordained her to the enjoyment of the
highest degree of glory; to the con,
dition under which all the other chill
dren of Adam are begotten He made
her solitary exception, by singularly
preserving her from the stain of orig1
nal sin; from eternity He wished her
to be in the first instant of her concep
ton all immaculate, all pure, and all
holy. He filed her with grace, and
confirmed her in that fitness. He
wished such super-abundance of this
grace to dwell in her, that already, al
the beginning of her existence, she
was richer in graces than is any other
saint at the close of his career He
wished that in her should be united
virginity and motherhood; but united
so that she should have the fruit oil
motherhood, while remaining a vir
gin; also, that she should enjoy the
honor accorded to virginity without
the fruitlessness which is virginity'
concomitant He desired that she
should be honored and revered in
heaven as its queen; He desired thai
she should be honored and invoked
on earth as the refuge of the miser
able and the comfort of the afflicted
Gifts of body and mind He impaired
to her in measure so overfowing thai
all those which He conferred on Other
beloved souls would not equal those
with which she was endowed. "Many
daughters have gathered together
riches; thou hast surpassed them all.
Prov. xxi. 20. On some person Goo
bestowed such shining gifts, that the
recipients, even during their earthly
life, excited universal establishment
Call to mind, for example, Bernard
of Clairvaux, Philip Neri, a Francis
of Sales, Francis Xavier, Teresa O.
Jesus, a Stanislaus Kostka, Heart:
were won by the heavenly counter
ance. of saints such as these, so emf
nently shone forth in them the gift
F.. of the Lord. But Mary was incom
parably more lovely, incomparabl,
more richly endowed than they. Ssh.
outstripped," says st. Bonaventure
Gin natural gifts all daughters; sh,
outstripped them all in grace like
wise; she outstripped in glory al
daughters, that is to say, all human
souls and all angelic spirits.'
From 'Medftdtfons on the Blessed Virgin.
bp Bishop Mcdonald.
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FIFTH SUNDAY AFTER
EASTER.


EPISTLE: And If any man
think himself to be religious, not
bridling his tongue, but deceiv-
ing his own heart, this mans
religion is vain.
GOSPEL: Amen, amen, say
to you, if you ask the Father
anything in My name, He will
give it you. Hitherto you have
not asked anything in My name;
ask, and you shall receive, that
your joy may be full.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-05-20
Holy DAYS OF OBLIGATION.

Since the discontinuance in this
country as days Of precept to hear
Mass, of the festivals of the Epiphany,
Annunciation and Corpus Christi.
which many of the faithful hope to see
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-23
WOMAN. WoNDRoUs WOMAN.

That murder will finally out is a
truism. And it seems that the time
has arrived at last when men will have
to go little slow in proclaiming their
superiority over women in all things.
If they continue to do so, nothing but
ridicule will be their portion. They
haven't a peg of any kind on which to
hang such claims. Indeed, the weaker
sex" turns out to be the stronger in
all human attributes that are worth
while.
DR.. A. H. Stewart of Lawton, Ok,
is the individual who has dug up the
proofs of these facts. 1t must have
been a rather bitter pill for him to
manufacture. But the fact that a rep
resentative of the genus man has made
the declarations along this line will
give them more force than had they
come from a woman. Were the latter
the case, the men would have re-
ceived the news with smiles, their
chest would have been expanded a lit
tie further, and they would have in
sisted that the women. through cho-
sen representative, were indulging in
a little more nature taking.
New York medical association put
DR.. Stewart to work on his investiga-
tons. He has been Analysing the CEN
sus returns and other statistics about
the human race. 1t seems hard on the
men that publicity has been given to
findings They are in the first place
that women live longer than men. They
require less oxygen. They endure more
heat. They stand more rarified air.
They suffer less from anaesthetics.
And, sad to relate from the mems
standpoint, they ARE more likely to
survive hanging" Men die suddenly
more often than women. Men suffer
from badness more frequently. There
are more variations from the normal
among men than women.
Only one small straw of comfort is
held out to the men. Geniuses, includ-
ing mathematical prodigies. are more
frequent among men. But there is
slight consolation for the men in this
because, on the other hand. idiots and
cranks are less frequent among women
And 1t is well known fact that the
line of demarcation between genius and
idiocy is so fine that 1t is difficult tc
distinguish.
Yet there are some people who in
sist that women are not entitled tc
equal rights in all things with the men
Maybe after they have absorbed just
few of the facts that DR. Stewart
has dug up they will change their tune
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the chicago News.1

IFrom the Chicago News.1
The most effective takers say the
least.
The last will and testament is a dead
give away.
The most glaring faults Of others oft
resemble our own.
There are men who would probably
be wiser if they knew less.
It's a safe bet that a man is what he
suspects others of being.
Many a girl with the hammock habit
has mother with the washtub habit.
The wounds of love are quickest
healed by another dart from Cupid's
arrow.
The more you talk to a man about
himself the more brains he will think
you have.
A young man may be in love with Il
girl and still draw the line at marry
ing her family.
It's difficult to believe that practice
makes perfect after listening to the
chap who practices on cornet.
A magazine poet refers to a baby in
the house as a wellspring of pleasure.
According to his theory triplets would
be a deluge.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-23
JAYHAWKER JOTS

Mr.. Noah is now living at South
Morlan. Rocks county.
A search has been started by the
| Great Bend Tribune for the women
who piece the log cabin and wild goose
quilts.
! As the Leavenworth Labor Chronicle
says. many a man sets a pace with his
| love letters that he is never able to
keep uD afterwards.
1t is said, remarks the Great Bend
| Tribune, that the men who do the
most kicking over Easter hats are the
men who spend the most money for
cigars.
A Leavenworth man has q rooster
! just four months old which crows a
shrill falsetto and has a big red comb.
Can anyone beat it :? proudly asks the
Leavenworth Post.
A Salina man called to his wife to
come to him and because she would
mt he took carbolic acid, and now, ac-
cording to the orthodox belief, he has
gone where she will never go to him if
| she is as good as she ought to be-
Hiawatha World.
| An Indian was once tod by white
man that feathers made a soft bed.
The Indian took one feather and laid
on it all night. The next morning he
said: white man heap liar. Feather
no good for bed That is the way
with a good many merchants. They
put one little ad in the paper and
them rich they condemn advertising as
being no good.-Beloit Call.
| Under the heading, "a Good Joke"
the Beaver Valley Booster tells of this
! incident: A chicken raiser In town the
other day visited the barn of neigh
| Dor and finding hen setting on a nest
| of eggs carried her home and chopped
l 1 - 4 49, H., til
was one of his hens gone astray. The
next day the owner of the barn inform
ed the party that he had killed the
wrong chicken, it being one he had pur-
chased and was buying eggs for her to
set on. How often We are prosecuted
! through mistake or misunderstanding.
The 81 Told You Club" in Cherry
vale has received an awful blow, says
the Cherryvale Journal. A young
man recently visited here who was Is
years old. He "sassed' his folks
smoked cigarettes and even made his
mother crease his trousers. The par
ents sent him to school and he came
home and lorded it over them worse
| than ever. They paid his bills and
waited. The neighbors predicted a
bad end. The boy finally got good
| position in Kansas City, has straight
| ened out and the last time he visited
here gave his mother 5000 to apply on
the mortgage put on the house to pay
for his schooling.
''This paper meant to make a claim
for distinction because it had not men
toned the Hyde case" says the HOr-
ton Headlight but the writer has just
discovered that Horton is in intimate
touch with the affair, after this man
ner: A Horton woman has a sister who
lives in Kansas City alongside anoth Ter
woman who has an intimate friend
who resides next door to the Hydes
Therefore the Horton woman is pre-
pairing for trip to the city and has
written her sister to be careful to for
get nothing the woman-who hasa
| frien living next-to- he-Hydes says.
And when the Horton woman returns
home she promises herself to be in
possession of the Real Facts"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-23
ASSOCIATE .FARNIS2

Associate farms are beginning to at
tract attention, writes G B. H. in the
Kansas Industrialist. An associate
farm might be planned by several col
lege graduates. For instance, if four
graduates of the Kansas State Agri-
cultural college would unite and obtain
a section of land, far more could be
accomplished in proportion than could
be done by only one man. If there
were two graduates in animal hus-
bandry they could do more work along
those lines, giving grain raising to two
graduates in agronomy. This would
be true scientific farming, each man
operating his special branch This
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would correspond to the plan of oper-
ating cities by commission govern
ment.
OF course. the work would be divid-
ed equally, and at times the animal
husbandry specialists would be COM
PEELED to work the pillow and binder,
yet the direction of this work would
not be their share.
BY such an associated plan one set
of improvements could do for four
farms. Several distinct farm indus
tries could be carried on scientifically,
while otherwise only one could be
done SO successfully. The net income
would be either placed back on the
farm. in improvements, used in pur-
chasing more land, or prerated among
the n embers. Such a plan would do
away, to a marked degree, with the
labor problem. Fol-- men could tend
section far easie" than one could
operate quarter section.
In controlling tuberculosis, one
farmer could take care of the diseased
cows of his neighbors, at his place,
giving the others his cows to keep.
Thus the we'll cows would be protected
against infection.
1t is not only the graduates of an
agricultural college who can make the
associated farm a success. If the farm
and easier farm management. an asso-
citation could be formed giving to
every man the growing of one crop.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-23

Look here, you two," interrupted
Miss Susie as she came up switching
branch of the blossom, you want To
cut pa and ma out of this thing and
get down to business. Ronald. did you
swear at Kitty %
mo. not at her. I'd been to the
doctors and he had told me that the
would probably develop into a car
buncle. 1t was the doctor was swear
| ing at!''
But you kicked a footstool."
Ihat was because there was no
dog to kick
But you said you wished you had
never got married"
Because knew that a carbuncle on
my neck would make me cranky for a
month, and pitied Kitty
But you didn't come and say you
was sorry
IT was just on my way today"
There you are, sister Kitty, and
there you are" said Miss Susie. 'sIt
was case of misunderstanding all the
way through. Ronald, If you ever
swear at doctors in her hearing again,
she can smash dishes, can't she %
ITO be sure
And Kitty"
Miss Susie had turned her back to
the pair. She heard suspicious sounds
behind her, but she held her position
for a few minutes. Then she faced
them and said:
You two go home in the auto, and
I'll jog back with the pony. Pa and
ma will want to know all about it, and
I'll just say that if there are any more
idiots in our family they sit at the
head and foot of the table at meal
times. "-(Copyright. 1911, by Associ-
ated Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-23
GLOBE SIGHTS.

From the Atchison GIobe.1
Even a coward has nerve enough at
times to brag about his courage.
No man ever sold old clothes for as
much as he thought they were really
worth.
Some people are so inconsiderate that
when you jump them they jump you
right back.
However, Doc Robinson can not be
charged with the crime Of living beyond
his means.
You often hear how well fed the SOL
diers are, but you don't hear it from
the soldiers.
1t is said of a Kuhledge girl that she
ought to take lessons in modesty from
a circus poster.
Our idea of hard luck is the fate Of
the vegetarian when there is fried
chicken on the table.
You are dangerously near the end of
your string when given another chance
to make good
Never mind the knockers. Some peo-
pie are so mean that they point out
mistakes in dictionaries.
Tastes differ, but it is our notion that
kid is no kind of a pet name for &
man to call his sweetheart.
1t is horrible thing to have the
automobile fever, and not have money
enough to buy a 1911 model antidote-
The fool who drinks whisky because
he thinks it is smart, is one fool who is
pretty apt to change his minds.
In picking blackberries and looking
for your fortune you are very apt to
expect too much and pass by the best
bushes.
Any one who contends dried fruit is
as good as the canned variety is apt to
be tight wad in other particulars
When men go on a picnic by them
selves, the refreshments are quite diff
ferent than they are when women are
invited.
Many people are more willing to pay
large price for doctors advice than
they are to follow it when they get it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-23
CELEBRATING THE FoURTH.

| It's a good thing, push it along. In
fact, no suggestion has been projected
in Topeka In many a day which should
meet with more hearty response from
the people than the one that has been
put forward by Mayor Billiard and the
city commissioners for big public
Fourth of July celebration at the fair
grounds. This contemplates an elab-
| crate display of fireworks that will be
enjoyed by old and young alike. The
city, out of its slender funds available,
has agreed to give 500 to the fund
that will be needed to defray the ex-
penses of such an undertaking. 1t is
hoped to make this fund total $1,000,
and that the generous folk of Topeka
will supply the balance in short order
is almost a surety. In making out the
budget for next year when more
money will be at the disposal of the
commissioners they may Sea their way
clear to appropriate sum that will
be sufficient to pay all the expenses of
such a celebration. other cities. es-
pecially in the eastern section of the
country, and many that are no larger
than Topeka, spend two and three
times thousand dollars each year on
Fourth of July celebrations. And it is
public money we'll spent.
Some such celebration as this is
more necessary in Topeka this year,
and will be in the years to come, than
it has been in the past because of the
ban which has been placed on sale and
use of practically all kinds of noise
producers and fireworks on the Fourth
of July. 1t is a great patriotic occa-
sion, that should always be kept before
the minds of the growing generations.
1t is right to prohibit them from using
the dangerous powder-crackers and
other explosives which had begun to
turn this day into a carnival of car
mage among children. But they should
be provided with substitute. No bet
ter one can be found than in big
public display of fireworks on the
evening of the Fourth.
1t might not be a bad plan, either,
to supplement this evening celebration
with a sport tournament for the
youngster in the afternoon. Athletics
are on the boom and growing more
popular all the time among the
youngsters of Topeka. But the excel
lent activities in this line have been
COHuueQ III lII0 " lnOCC SAlIIuA C1A
attending the schools. There are many
young boys and girls in Topeka, from
fourteen years of age up. whom nee
essity compels to work. Naturally they
are denied participation in these school
athletic meets. On a holiday, such as
the Fourth, they would be able to
take part in such events, and would
probably be keen to do so. If a free
for-all athletic meet, with suitable and
desirable prizes, could be established
as an annual feature of the Fourth of
July celebrations, it would surely be
the means of stimulating the interest
of many youngsters in athletics who
now pay no attention to them That
would be a good thing for the
youngsters and good thing for the
town. 1t would provide them with the
Drawn and muscle to make them
sturdier citizens.