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with Justus II. Rathbone, who had al
ready conceived the idea Of building up
a large fraternal order on the story of
Damon and Pythias. The evening of
February Is. 1864. Rathbone. after obi
eating David l.. and William II. Burnett.
F.. 5. kimball and Robert l. Champion
on IA Bible which was presented to him
by his motherhood to them the ritual
he had prepared and they at once ap
proved the same. February 10, 1854,
Washington Lodge, No l. was organized.
and David l.. Burnett was chosen as it's
first secretary.
Thus was formed what is now one of
the largest fraternal organizations in the
world, the knights of PythiaS.
In Choir for Thirty Years.
Mr.. Burnett and his brother were both
tenor singers and he had been a men,
Der of the choir of the First Congrega-
tional Church for more than thirty years.
He was life member of Dawson Lodge,
No. 49, F. A. \. NJ; member of Wash
ington Chapter, No. 2, Royal Arch Ma
sons; of Columbia Commandery. No. =.
Knights Templar, and of Calanthe Lodge,
knights of Pythias. He is survived by
his widow. Julia Grey Burnett, a promi-
nent charity worker, and daughter,
Mrs. Frank b. Curtis, both Of this city.
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C. F. STEELE ASPHYXIATED.
Found Dead in Bed, With Gas
Turned Partly On.

Charles F. Steele, for more than forty
years a clerk in the warrant division of
the Treasury Department, was found
dead in bed in his room "a l06 Indiana
avenue yesterday morning. A partly
opened gas jet. from which a small flow
Of gas was escaping, showed the cause
of death. although the door was open
when the discovery of the accident was
made and comparatively little gas was
in the room.
Willis SiilebrOWn, another rOomer in the
house. detected the odor of gas yester-
day morning, and traced it to Mr.. Steele's
room. investigation showed that in turn
ing off one gas jet, another jet close by
had been partly opened. The flow of es-
Gaping gas was small. but owing to the
tat that Mr.. Steele had suffered for
many years from heart trouble it was
enough to cause death.
Prior to Mr.. Steeles appointment to a
government clerkship forty years or more
ago he was newspaper correspondent in
Washington. He was a great-grandson
of Chief Justice Chase and a grandson of
Commodore Barney. He is survived by
his wife and three daughters, Mrs Ina
Colson, Mrs. HOLSTER Sturgis and Miss
Mary Chase Steele, all of this city Burial
will be at HerndOn, Va, Tuesday after
noon.
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bon. NJ. p. and the Rt. Rev. Patrick
ODonnell. ID. d., trustees of the Irish
parliamentary fund. have received the
following letter. accompanying a check
for $1OO0O. from Thomas b. Fitzpatrick,
national treasurer OF the United Irish
League of America:
''Inclosed please find check for $l0.Ow
i'm aid of the Irish home rule fund, which
We are Very pleased to send you from
the treasury of the United Irish League
i'm this country. Half OF this amount
S5,o00-came from the good people OF
Montreal Canada, as their tribute In aid
of the great cause for representative gov
eminent, which you are serving.
"A cause which enlists such universal
sympathy and Endorsement cannot fail to
have a successful and glorious ending
however many obstacles selfish and de-
signing men may be disposed to place I'm
its way. 1t will win because IL is right,
and the right will prevail. In all prob
ability We will send you another $1,000
next week.
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HAS GREAT CONFIDENCE
IN FUTURE Of RUSSIA
N. Kokovtsoff, Minister Presi-
dent, Shows Economic Con-
diti0ns Are Good.
Foreign Correspondence of The Star.

ST. PETERSBURG, November 20. 1912.
NJ. Kokovtsoff, minister president. has
published an open letter expressing great
confidence in the future of he Muscovtte
empire. The minister bases his conclu-
sion on a comparison Of the economic
conditions Of his country six years ago
with what it is today. and points out that
in place of the exhaustion following the
war, internal disorders. commercial de-
preston, dislocation Of the railway and
postal services and financial chaos. Rus
STA now has a rapidly expanding revenue,
a foreign trade that is increasing by leaps
and bounds, both in imports and exports,
and a fourishing domestic industry
which is prevented from taking full adj
vantage of its opportunities by the mo-
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Meddling.
by DIR. FRANK CRANE.

After all said and done perhaps the
one crime that causes more trouble than
any other is the crime of meddling with
other peoples affairs. The objectionable
sin against man is interference with his
personality.
l will back the meddler in the trouble
producing field against all corners. The
thief, robber. liar, adulterer and MUIR
derer are children beside him-or her.
The disposition to regulate, dictate to
and control others is a consuming fire.
1t has broken up more homes than
darkest, the most hideous pages in
church history; for the medieval hereto
rooster was simply the fine flower of the
meddlinS spirit. 1t has, more than
parental cruelty and neglect, embittered
the lives OF children. 1t has driven hus-
bands to drink and wives to infidelity.
No other spirit, in or out of hell, has
done more to darken the lives of men of
genius, break their hearts and discour-
age their efforts. When You say you will
not read such and such an author be-
cause he drank to excess quarreled
bring up a writer's private life to affect
his works, You are simply indecent.
There are privacies to which each soul
is entitled Whoever invades and ex-
poses them or loves 10 see dQOtner DO
50 is simply a lOw-minded cad.
| do not even like to hear a man
praised for the purity of his private life,
for it implies the right of the public to
blame the next man for his sins.
With that strange twistedness of hui
man nature whereby we can by custom
learn 20 call black white, We have even
tortured Christianity into authority over
mems manners and judgment on their
motives; while the ringing note of our
Iii IONS 1Av.
alone! Mind your own business Let
the tares grow along with the wheat
Judge not Who made ME a divider
over you? What is that to thee? Follow
thou Me-.
Meddling is the poison of government.
The best government is that which inter-
feres least with the free action of its
subjects. The horror of Russia is not
SO much its cruelty as it's thrusting the
nose OF authority into every mans bust
ness.
What made the Puritan intolerable
was not his morals. but his meddling
with the morals OF everybody else.
MeddlinS is the bane of school teach
ing. The whole modern movement In
education is merely an effort to induce
school teachers to help children grow
their own way instead of forcing them
to grow according to the notion Of some
body else.
We are. in this twentieth century.
just beginning to learn that what man.
kind needs is not to be governed but to
be let alone.
The millennium will come not when we
have whipped the last maynard soul to
obedience to some authority. but when
We shall have left of governing. punish
ing. rewarding and altogether managing
men and doing them good.' and shall
have learned to trust men, not because
they have come under the yoke of our
notions, but because they have lived out
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WIDOW WINS DAMAGE SUIT.
Husband Killed While Operating
Moving Picture Machine.
of The Star.

Foreign Correspondence Of The Star.
PARIS. December 5. 1912.
The courts here were called upon this
week to try a claim for damages by the
widow of cinematograph operator
named Fiere, who two years ago was
sent out by a film company to Central
Africa with a German hunting party.
One day Lieut.. Gratz. the head Of the
expedition, wounded a buffalo while the
operator was Keeling off a scene. AS the
beast charged the officer. M. Fiere left
the apparatus and went to his rescue. He
fired and wounded the animal again,
which then turned on its second assailant
and killed him. The widow claimed from
the film company-which in turn called
upon an insurance company-two annui-
ties, one for herself and one for her three
children.
After hearing long arguments the court
admitted the claim, and awarded an an
nuity of $l25 to the widow and $215 to
the children.
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DAVID |. BURNETT DEAD:
HELPED T0FOUND ORDER
An Organizer of Knights of
Pythias and Treasury
Clerk Since 1862.

David L. Burnett, one of the five found
ers of the order of the knights of
Pythias and an employe in the Treas
ury Department since 1852 died last
night from heart disease just after he
had left the supper table at his home,
olI I street northwest
Funeral services will be conducted at
2:4o o'clock tomorrow afternoon at his
late residence. Rev. DR.. Samuel H. Wood
row. pastor Of the First Congregational
Church. will officiate. Interment will be
In Rock Creek cemetery.
Mr.. Burnett was born in highland coun-
ty, Ohio. January 4. 1887. While he was
a small boy his parents moved to Mount
Pleasant. Iowa. His father, Hiram Bur-
nett was one of the first Baptist preach
ers In that part of the state.
Came Here in 1862.
to accept an appointment in the Treas
ury Department, and had been continu-
ously employed in that department ever
since-his service covering a period of
half a century. For many years. and
at the time of his death, he was en-
ployed in the Office of the auditor for the
Post Office Department, commonly called
the sixth auditors Office.
Soon after coming to this city Mr.. Bur-
nett and his brother, William III. Burnett,
who died last July, became acquainted
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DUPED SHOPKEEPERS.
Paris Police Arrest Woman Who
Worked in Motor Cars.
oreign Correspondence Of The Star.

Foreign Correspondence Of The Star.
PARIS. December Z, 1912
An extraordinary woman of seventy,
who calls herself Nine Aquatita, but
whose real name is Helene Boismacl, was
arrested this morning by the Paris police
She has been an invalid for years, and
has driven about Paris in motor cars, and,
before motor cars were invented, in car
riages. obtaining small sums Of money by
false pretenses, and working eight hours
every day at the business.
Nine. Aquatita has been a criminal for
fifty-two years. Her method was to drive
up to small shops in different corners Of
the town make a small purchase and,
instead of paying, borrow as much money
as she thought she could get because
she had come out without her purse"
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mentary impossibility Of supplying it with
the full measure of its requirements OF
raw materials.
Holdings of Peasants.

Special stress is laid on the work OF
the State Land Bank, through whose
agency the aggregate area OF peasants
holdings has been increased since 1906 by
some twelve million acres. OF which half
was formerly in the hands of big estate
owners. In conclusion, the minister
says:
Russia has 165 100000 efficient and in
dustrious inhabitants; she has every va
riety of climate, from the arctic to the
subtropical: her natural resources are
unreasonable, and just as immeasuraole
is her citizens capacity for work. In
these circumstances lies the key to an
apparently insoluble puzzle. II peace:
both foreign and domestic, is assured, IL
the population is afforded an opportunity
of exploiting its powers Of labor In tran
uuillity and independence, II II is thereby
assisted by information and a good ad-
ministration, my view will assurediy be
accepted, that every one who loves Russia
and believes in her future must, like my
self, be a convinced advocate of economic
optimism
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BIGGEST DAM IN GERMANY.
Will Hold Back the Waters of the
Bober, a Tributary of the Oder.
,ondence Of The Star.

Foreign correspondence OF Inc STAT
BERLIN. December 3, 1912
The new dam built II Mauer. about
eight miles below Hirschberg, in Prus-
sian Silesia. across the valley of the
Bober. a tributary of the Oder, of which
the foundation stone was laid in 1905
has been formally opened in the pres
ence of Emperor William. a short
speech was made by the Duke of Rati-
Dor. who recalled the disastrous floods Of
1907 and his majesty's advice to build a
dam.
The dam is built TO hold back $1,000 600
cubic meters of water and is the largest
I'm Germany. 1t is $50 meters long, 50
meters high, J0.3 meters thick at the
base, and - meters thick at the top.
The cost of construction was over 81, 800 :
OO and tho cost of the land was about
100000 The Prussian treasury bears
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CRUSHED ARM BENEFITED.
Nelson r. Smith Slowly Recovering
From Effects of Accident.

Following an operation and treatment
Of his right arm. which was crushed last
July while he was working in an ice
plant. Nelson r. Smith of Oil 9th street
southeast. is now able to move the
fingers of his right hand
When Mr. Smith was taken to Emer-
gency Hospital last summer his arm
was badly crushed that for a time
ii was feared amputation would be neces-
sary. Dr. Harry Lewis. superintendent
of the hospital. however. performed an
operation upon the arm with hope of
saving l.. That the operation was sue
cessful is shown. now that Mr.. Smith is
able to move his fingers. 1t will. how
ever. be considerable time, it is stated
before he will again have free use Of his
hand and arm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-16
The Navy.
From the Baltimore Sun.

The observation-disclosures construc-
ton program instituted by Mr.. Roose-
Welt is not Expansion" in the true sense.
but little more than enough to keep up
the effectiveness OF our feet on its pres.
ent basis replacing with modern battle
ships the smaller vessels as they become
obsolete. II only one battleship q year is
granted, or construction suspended for a
single year. il will mean the hating OF
naval progress. IL not q deplorable re-
cession. A strong navy IL q sure defense
and the best of peacemakers
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GET $4,000 FROM AMERICA.
Irish Home Rule Champions Also
Receive Encouragement.

Foreign Correspondence Of The Star.
LONDON, December 5. 1912.
John Redmond, n. p: John Fitz-Gib-
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four-fifths of the cost. A power station
built close by at a cost of $625.U0 Will
supply a wide district in lower Siesia-
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1912-02-24

way west, at Michilimakinac, he se-
cured the services Of a Jesuit mission
airy. Father Messenger, who accom-
panied him and his band to Fort st.
Charles, where a little church was
built within the enclosure. In the
following spring Father Messenger re-
turned to Montreal and later on Veren-
drye himself had to make the journey
in order to secure the continued finan-
cial support Of his partners who had
begun to doubt about the success of
his mission. On his return to the west
in September, 1875, he brought with
him new missionary, Father Aulneau,
ST. In the month of June following
Father Aulneau. accompanied by the
son of La Verendrye and nineteen
Frenchmen, left Fort st. Charles for
Michilimakinac in order to bring de-
layed supplies, and on the way they
were murdered by the Indians ON
what is now called Massacre Island.
The bodies of the nineteen French
men were buried on the island and
those Of Father Aulneau and of young
La Verendrye, COgeLner with the heads
of the others, were removed to Fort
st. Charles and buried underneath the
chapel.
The exact site of this fort was for
a long time the subject of investiga.
ton. In 1902 an expedition was fitted
out by the Most Reverend Archbishop
I,angeyin. of ST Roniface Manitoba
in an effort to discover the burial place
of Father Aulneau and his compan,
ions. 1t was unsuccessful. A second
attempt was made in 1905 with similar
results. Finally, in 1908, the search.
ing party succeeded in discovering the
remains of Father Aulneau and his
murdered companions and thus located
Fort st. Charles on the southern shore
of Northwest Angle Inlet, an arm OF
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little chapel the City of st. Paul de-
rives its name. The story OF it's erec-
ton and the principal events In it's
history have been often told. It
served as the first Cathedral Of the
Diocese of st. Paul. Within its sane
tuary the Right Reverend Joseph Gre
tin, d. D., was installed as first Bishop
Of this frontier See. Around it the
pioneer Catholic families clustered;
and from it the missionary activity
of the early priests radiated. Long
before the frontier village gave place
to the capital city, the old log chapel,
yielding to the needs of the nascent
church, was replaced by more pre-
tentious Cathedral on the corner Of
Wabasha and Sixth Streets which af-
forded the necessary accommodation
for the increasing Catholic population.
The Fifth Chapel. .
In April, 1910, the Rev. Lucien Gal
tier left Dubuque for the upper waters
of the Mississippi River at the request
of the Right Reverend Matthias Loras,
ID. D., first Bishop of that See. He
fixed his abode at st. Peter (now
Mendota) and administered to the
spiritual needs of the Catholics in it's
vicinity. After brief residence in the
house of Mr.. Campbell, the Indian in
terpreter, Father Galtier obtained a
separate room for himself which he
used also as a chapel. Here he re-
sided for over year. At the end of
that time Mr.. Faribault offered him
small house which he fitted up as
residence and chapel. The breaking
of the main beam forced him to erect
what he calls the first church of ST.
Peter" which was blessed on October
2, 1912. In the order of time, there
fore, this was the fifth church in Min
nesota.
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stage in journey which, it was fondly
hoped, would ultimately lead to the
western ocean. Along these water
ways explorers journeyed to the Mis-
sissippi River and entered the confines
of the present State of Minnesota.
In May, 1866, two French travellers,
Groseilliers and Radisson, arrived at
Prairie Island after journey from
Montreal by way of the st. Lawrence
and Ottawa Rivers, through Lake
Nibissing and Georgian Bay, and
thence across the country to the Mis-
sissippi River up which they sailed
to Prairie Island. Here they found a
number of Huron refugees driven by
the Iroquois from their country in the
vicinity of Georgian Bay and Lake
Huron.
Groseilliers and Radisson remained
on the island for more than year and
during that time they built "a church
Or a chapel, in which very likely they
impaired religious instruction to the
children as we'll as to the grown peo-
pie, and held prayer meetings; posi-
bly, they administered therein the
Sacrament of Baptism whenever feast
ble." In word, they performed the
duties of lay missionaries. The records
made no mention of priest being a
member of their party and, conse
quently, we infer that the Holy Sacri
fee of the Mass was not offered uI
during their residence on the island
This primitive chapel was in point Of
time the first to cast it's benefcent
shadow on the soil of Minnesota, the
pioneer in that series of log churches
which, in later years, gave place tt
more pretentious structures until al
present they are rapidly approaching
the zenith of architectural splendol
and magnificence in the new Cathedra
of st. Paul.
The Second Chapel.
The second log chapel in Minnesot;
of which there is any authentic recort
: was erected at Fort Beauharnois OF
the shore of Lake Pepin near From
tenac, almost three-quarters of cen
fury after that in which the indians
of Isle Pelee heard the Gospel story.
In the year 1920 the Government o
France was asked to establish trad
ing post among the Sioux Indians o
the western plain. A few years late
| Governor Beauharnois of New Canada
: was authorized to send an expedition
in charge of commanding officer an,
accompanied by two Jesuit missionar
les to that distant land. On June 16
, 1927, Rene Boucher, Sieur de la Per
) riere, and Fathers Michael Guigna
and Nicholas De Conner set out, il
company with others, on journe,
which led them by way of Green Bay
the Fox River and the Wisconsin t
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FIRST CHAPEL BUILT IN 1856
THE SECOND IN 1727-THE
THIRD IN 1732-THE FOURTH
IN 1a41-THE FIFTH IN 1872
LOG CHAPEL FoRERUNNERs OF
MAGNIFICENT CATHEDRAL.

The history of the Catholic Church
in what is now the State of Mime
sofa carries us back to the days when
adventurous spirits sought a passage
to the western ocean by way of the
Great Lakes and the Mississippi River
through the heart of this vast contin-
ent. It had it's beginning when French
traders and voyageurs, fascinated by
the glitter of gold and lured by love
of adventure, established posts in this
western country for the purpose of
carrying on trade with the aboriginal
inhabitants. These posts were forti-
fed enclosures at which the Indians
bartered furs for whatever the traders
had to offer and in which the repre-
sentatives of the company found pro-
lection against the attacks of hostile
tribes.
These outposts on the frontier of
civilization were, likewise, centers of
missionary activity. The traders were
usually accompanied by a priest who,
in addition to ministering to their
spiritual needs, endeavored to bring
the Redmen under the benign influ-
ence of the Gospel. Rude chapels
were built within these stockades
and from them as centers the message
of Christianity was preached to the
Indians. 1t was upon the primitive
altar of one of these log chapels that
the sacrifice of the Mass was first
celebrated within the confines of the
State of Minnesota.
The First Chapel.
There is not wanting evidence that
as early as the middle of the seven
teenth century, the first chapel in Min
nesota was erected on what was then
or subsequently, called Isle Pelee, nov
known as Prairie Island, situated il
the Mississippi River a few miles
below the present town of Hastings
The story of it's establishment is no
devoid of interest
The discovery of Hudson Bay il
1910 enkindled in the breasts of navi
gators and Adventures the hope O
finding water route across the con
tinent to the Pacific Ocean; and dur
ing succeeding years many attempts
were made to reach that goal. TIL.
Great Lakes and their connections of
fered natural and inviting avenue fo
entering the heart of the great un
known land. They formed the frs