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Norwich bulletin., 1913-12-18
Department Out for Cellar Rubbish
 Eire

fire alarm was sent in from box 16 at the corner of Prospect street and Mansfeld avenue, about half past three Wednesday afternoon for a fire in the cellar of the story and a half house owned by Merrill Jones and occupied by Frank Cheney andl his family As soon as Engineer F. W. Gerricl1 arrived and saw the extent of the blaze he rang in the recall, and many of the fremen and bystauders were of the opinion that a false alarm had been ruDg, as the fire, which was in some kindling wood and was quick ly .eXtinguished by the use of garden hose, showed no trace of it's existence. All the companies had made good time and were in close proximity by the time the recall was sounded.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-12-18

A Third Case of Small Pox develop ed in Hartford yesterday, Michael Grady being taken to the isolation hos pitaI
Norwich bulletin., 1913-12-18
Brief Mention.

Mrs. Alice sevigny is in Boston for a brief visit.
 Mrs. Patrick Keenan is in Provi- dence visiting relatives.
 Homer Neil of. South Wilmington was in this city Wednesday on his way to New Britain.
 Miss Mary Larra bee arrived in this city Wednesday from Waterbury to spend the holidays.
 Supt. Fred A. Verplank of South Manchester and Mrs. Verplanl1, were Wilhmantic visitors Wednesday.
 Miss Lucille TTarroun. who teaches in Farmington, arrived home Tuesday evening to spend the Christmas re- cess with ner parents, Principal and Mrs J. l.. Harroun Miss Harroun's school is closed earlier than was ex- Dected on account of scarlet fever in F'arminGton
 Those who went to Hartford from this city Wednesday were. Mrs. Vera AcDonaId, Mrs. R. Jones. Dr. A. Cau- thier, Mrs Leon Dunham Mrs Wfl- liam Elliott. C. T. Hoxie Miss Emma Evans. Mrs. G. o. Strong, Mrs. F z. Sullivan, Mrs. Thomas Sullivan Mrs c. K Anderson, Mrs. R. C. White, Mrs E. T. Savory, Miss M R. Savory, Miss c. Anderson.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-12-18
REMOVAL

I have removed my business from I2 Jackson Place to 521 Jackson Street, where I will pay the highest market prices for Cattle, Poultry. Veal, etc.
 Send postal card Telephone con- Eectton-
 LYMAN CHASEN. Wnlimantic ct
Norwich bulletin., 1913-12-18

Colds CRune Headache and Grip.
 Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets re- move cause There is only one '-Bromo CuinIue" It has signature Of E. W. l, OWE on box. 25c.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-12-18

According to 9 report recently issued the total value of our agricultural pro ducts in 1913 will be $5,0e0, .0O0, oJ $2g6, 900, BOO more than 1912.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-12-18

Concrete Water Tanks. Work has been begun on two large
Norwich bulletin., 1913-12-18
B. A. Officers.

R. A. Officers. The following officers have been elected by Willimantic council, No. FPS,
Norwich bulletin., 1913-12-18
OFFERED TO GET BILL CHANGED

tence, which was imposed by the court Court adjourned until Dec. 29.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-12-18

The number of deaths was high-17 and the number of marriages re- duced in Putnam during November, ac- cording to the figures in the scurrent bulletin of the state board of health, the reversal of averages being due at least in part to the restrictive effects of the new marriage law that became effective Aug 1, shutting out many couples from other states, for numbers of such have been in the habit of com
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-12-20
LooTING IN MEXICO.

The latest dispatches from
Mexico bring news which must be
embarrassing to the President and
his advisers in view Of their un.
disguised sympathy for the rebels
1t seems that the army Of Gen
eral Villa, one of the active sup
porters of Carranza, the rebel
leader, was guilty of wholesale
looting on its entrance into Chi.
huahua, and that Villa, through
his agents, demanded of the peo-
pie large sums of money for the
revolutionary cause.
According to the story told by
refugees from Mexico who arrived
in FL Paso, Texas, on December
Is, the rebel army, after taking
possession of Chihuahua, looted
the Cathedral, churches, and con
vents, robbed them of their gold
and silver ornaments, jewelled
chalices, and sacred vestments,
confscated the property of the
Spanish priests and nuns and de-
manded from them exorbitant
sums, amounting In many cases to
$4,000, In return for which they
were to receive worthless consti-
nationalist currency.
The poor priests could not meet
these outrageous demands and
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-12-20
CAVAN NJ MAST ERY
SAID TO SHELTER THE REMAINS
OF BISHOP O'REILLY, OWEN ROE
o'NEILL AND MYLES THE
SLASHER.

The Friary of Cavan was first estab-
lished in the year 1900 by Gelasius
Rufus O'Reilly as Convent of Minor
lists, and in 1902 was given to the
Minorists of the Observance, says the
Anglo-Celt In 1863, this friary and
the O'Reilly's Castle, Ballyreilly, were
burnt by the English under Lord
Deputy Tiptott, Earl of Worcester;
but the Friary appears to have been
restored previous to the year 1899,
when it was occupied by Franciscans
of the Strict Observance.
1t was again reformed by John, son
of Cahal O'Reilly, in 1902, and Pro-
vinciaI Chapters of this Order of
Franciscans were held in it in 1921,
1889 and 1856
All that now remains of the Abbey
is the Old Tower and a small building
at the side.
Thirty years ago very old man
of ninety stated that his father, who
had also attained to great age, dis
tinctly remembered to have seen
three graves in this small building,
one having cut in the stone on it a
Bishops mitre He said it was always
believed that Owen Roe 'O'Neill, Myles
the Slasher and Bishop O'Reilly were
inferred there.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-12-20
DOES NOT EXIST.

Let us waste no words in the DOS
sible or ideal saloon. 1t will be time
enough to discuss it when it will be
discovered. The saloon as it exists
today trades in and battens upon in
temperance, and at its door must be
laid all the dire evils which accom-
pany or follow from intemperance.
Over saloonkeeping hangs heavy
cloud Of social and religious disgrace.
The Church frowns upon it in anger
and sorrow. Mr.. London regrets that
drink is SO accessible and believes
that it is dangerous to society for the
saloon to be the legal, convenient
meeting place that it is. 81 regret"
he says, that John Barleycorn -four
ished everywhere in the society in
which / was born, else l should not
have made his acquaintance, and /
was long trained in his acquaintance.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-12-20
DOMAIN OF TEMPERANCE.
JOHN BARLEYcoRN.


In a story Of his personal expert
ences, entitled "Jno. Barleycorn," Mr.
London, not unknown to readers of
fiction, gives us record of his deal
ings with intoxicating liquors from
the age of five to the present time.
His experiences range from low
water front saloons to great cities.
He describes his bouts with liquor in
company with oyster pirates and his
solitary combats of recent years with
drink. In a passage instinct with
sincerity he writes:
ITO the imaginative man John Bar
leycorn sends the pitiless spectral
syllogisms of the white logic. He
looks upon life and its affairs with
the jaundiced eyes of the German
philosopher. Wife, children, friends,
in the clear white light of his logic,
they are exposed as frauds and shams.
All of which is not good for man
who is made to live to love and be
loved. Yet suicide, quick or slow,
sudden spill or gradual oozing away
through the years is the price Jno.
Barleycorn exacts. No friend of his
ever escapes making the just due
payment"
Our readers; says the Catholic Rec
ord of London, Ont, will not find
fault with this passage. We have too
many proofs round about us. The
progress for the majority from mod
crate to excessive drinking may be
slow but very sure A man may be
a moderate" drinker for years, and
ne may develop in a very short time
into the finished product of the saloon.
He may go through his day with be-
mussed brain, exhilarated and extoll-
ing his own sobriety, or he may be
the bleary-eyed, shuffling, shambling
figure that is turned out by alcohol.
He may scorn the extremists and laugh
at the teetotaler, or he may simply
live to have what sends him into the
kingdom of swine. But alcohol takes
OF the edge of the intellect and makes
even the moderate drinker less eff
cient and less resourceful. 1t plays
havoc with his nerves and burdens
WIN craving that is pftiless and
Unsuitable. He has always some lex
cuse" for selfindulgence, but down
in his heart he knows that drink is
his worst enemy and that, free from
its shackles, he would be of more
service to his community and would
give example that might guard others.
Of the excessive drinker we need not
say much. He is dead in world of
living men. He is compassionated or
reviled. He knows in his lucid mo-
ments that the wages of sin is
death" He has parted company with
self-respect to be "waII-fiower' in
saloon and to give the bartender.
who needs neither brain nor Drawn
for his avocation, the money that he
CLEANS here and there.
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were forced to turn over to Villa 8
agents all their worldly possess
'sions, except their personal be-
longings, and were then driven
out of the country with other
Spaniards. The Sisters were
forced to give up everything but
their personal effects and were
sent into exile with the others.
This shows Villas idea Of civ
ilized warfare footing churches,
robbing defenceless priests and
sisters and expelling loyal citizens
from their homes. And yet,
this is the man whose superior,
Carranza, has been in consulta-
ton with Mr.. Hale, the personal
envoy of President Wilson. The
United States authorities have
taken the side Of the rebels
against Provisional President
Huerta and his followers. The
rebel leaders, relying on the moral
encouragement which this country
is giving them, feel that they can
brush aside the recognized prin-
ciples of civilized warfare and rely
upon the American Government
to escape the penalty Of their un-
justifiable tactics.
We would suggest that Presi-
dent Wilson and his advisers, in
stead of viewing the Mexican
situation through the eyes Of Mr.
Hale, whose attitude towards the
Catholic Church and her followers
is too well known to have escaped
their attention, would endeavor to
take common sense view of the
situation, and allow the Mexicans
to settle their internal affairs as
best they can without outside in
reference. The American gov
eminent can find no justification
in the canons of international
diplomacy for it's unwarranted
interference in the affairs Of the
Mexican Republic.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-12-20
THE WHITE ESKIMOs
MAY BE DESCENDANTS OF ST.
BRENDAN's IRISH SETTLERS.

Rev. C. F. OLeary, pastor of the
Church of Notre Dame de Lourdes,
st. Louis, Mo-, who recently returned
from a visit to Ireland, is convinced
that the white Eskimos, of whom
their discoverer, Vi1hjalmar Stefans-
son, is writing in current numbers of
a weekly magazine, are in reality
descendants of early Irish settlers.
1T is my belief, said Father
OLeary, that st. Brendan and his
companions settled in America in the
9Th century. Many historians believe
this. Brendan was a great mariner,
as well as a great student, and with
him missionaries we're going out by
the score from Ireland to Germany,
italy, France and other countries. The
Norwegians formerly called America
the Lesser Ireland, and we have the
evidence OF Brendan's discoveries I'm
the sea which long was named after
him, Mare Brendanicum.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-12-20
THE LESS THE BETTER.

The less alcohol used in a company
the better its health, says a Leafiet
issued by the War Department Of
Saxony. The finding and publications
of the most eminent medical men
land they are in perfect agreement
with experience) unanimously affirm
that the organism is sounder and
more capable Of resistance the more
free it is kept from alcohol, Accord
'ingly those divisions with abstinent
officers and men are most favorably
situated in the matter of health. With
progressive enlightenment the soldier
who lives absolutely abstinent will no
longer be judged peculiar or ridiculed.
Rather will the knowledge that abb
stinence contributes extraordinarily to
the strengthening of character and to
the heightening OF the indiyiduaps
capacity and value for the regiment
gain ground
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-12-20
ABBOT GAsQUET's VISIT.

The Right Reverend Abbot
Gasquet, 0. S. B., head Of the Com.
mission of Biblical scholars
charged with the revision Of the
Vulgate, has been obliged to give
up his lecture tour in America on
account of ill-health. Some months
ago he came to the United States
for the purpose Of lecturing, un-
der the auspices Of the Knights OF
Columbus, on the work Of the
Biblical Commission, in order to
interest the people Of America in
this great undertaking and pro-
cure funds for carrying it to a
successful completion.
Tt was his intention to make an
extended tour throughout the
United States and Canada, but a
breakdown in health consequent
upon his arduous labors, has
made it necessary for him to can
eel his engagements. He will not
come to the West as he intended.
After a few weeks rest in the
East he will return to Rome, prob
ably about the end Of January
His official duties require his
presence in the Eternal City at
that time and the intervening
weeks will be spent in recruiting
his strength for the carrying on of
the gigantic task assigned him
and his co-laborers.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-12-20
THE REVISED BREv1ARY.

The dispensation granted to the
Reverend Clergy of the Province
of st. Paul permitting them to use
the old Breviary in the recitation
Of the Divine Office will expire at
the end of the current year.
Thereafter, the obligation to recite
the Breviary according to the re-
vised method will be binding
upon all.
With the beginning Of the year,
therefore, all priests must con-
form to the requirements of the
new rubrics in the recitation of
the daily office. This change will
not offer any special difficulty.
With the aid Of the Ordo and the
revised Psalter which can be OBJ
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-12-20

His Eminence Cardinal Serafno
Vannutelli is now Acting Dean of
the Sacred College of Cardinals.
He was sub-Dean during the life
of the late Cardinal Oreglia.
The Dean of the College of Car
dinals is always one of the Car
dinal-Bishops who occupy the
suburban Sees in the immediate
vicinity of Rome, of which there
are six. On the death of
the Dean, the oldest Cardinal
Bishop can choose the office of
Dean of the Sacred College, and,
on doing so, becomes Bishop of
Ostia, since, according to ancient
custom, the Dean of the Sacred
College is always Bishop of Ostia.
Cardinal Serafno Vannutelli is
now the ranking Cardinal-Bishop
having been proclaimed by Pope
Leo XIII at the Consistory held
on March IA, 1887.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-12-20

tanned at any Catholic bookstore,
the old Breviary can still be used.
A new edition of the Breviary
containing the latest rubrical
changes and notifications will not
be ready before the middle of next
year at the earliest.
The E. M. Lohmann Co., of st.
Paul, has been in correspondence
with the chief publishing houses
of Europe and have been assured
by them that the revised Breviary
compiled in accordance with the
requirements of the Apostolic
Constitution "Divino Afflatu
and the recent DEGREES Of the
Sacred Congregation of Rites, can
not possibly be issued from the
press before March, 1914. The
binding, ETC., will require an
additional month or two and
at the earliest, copies OF
this official edition, thoroughly
revised, cannot be obtained much
before the middle of the year, il
then. The publishers hoped to be
in position to furnish copies OF
the Revised Breviary before the
beginning of the year, 1914, but
this is now impossible, owing to
the additional changes necessi-
tated by the decree of October %
1913.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-12-20

The disgraceful affair which
took place at Williston, N. D., un-
der cover of darkness last Tues
day morning, and which culmina-
ted in the lynching of a murderer
sentenced to life Imprisonment by
due process of law, merits the re-
probation of every citizen of that
State. Nothing should be left I'M
done to bring to justice the per-
petrators of this dastardly crime
against law and order. The men
who participated in the lynching
deserve the severest punishment
which the laws of the State can
infict on cold-blooded murderers.
North Dakota has been dishonOred
and disgraced by this cowardly
act and the sooner full reparation
is made, the better. Nothing less
than this will satisfy the require
ments of the case.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-12-20

For the first time in the history
of Minneapolis the retail stores
have agreed to close early on
Christmas eve-some Of them at
half-past six and the others at
seven o'clock-to enable the
clerks to spend the evening at
home.
st. Paul is a pioneer in this
cOmmendable move. For many
years the retail stores have closed
at half-past six o'clock on Christ
mas eve, and this year will be no
exception. This is mark of con-
sideration which is appreciated
not only by their employees but
by everyone-ex except the person
who fails to do his Christmas
shopping early.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-12-20
THE HABITUAL DRINKER.

We commend this warning from the
editorial columns of the New York
Sun" to the man who drinks mod
erately but habitually. 1t may cause
him to open his eyes to a danger he
did not sufficiently realize. Disease
is the sure portion of the man who
drinks regularly, even though moder-
ately The moderate" habit NAV
soothe his conscience and save his
responsibility, but it will ruin his
stomach and hasten his death.
1t says:
1t is the habitual indulgence in
alcohol which is prone to lead to GER
tain well-known degenerations, espe-
cially when it is imbibed before meals.
1t is important, therefore, not only
to differentiate between moderate and
immoderate, but chiefly between it's
moderate and habitual use. The hu-
man organism is capable of resisting
the effects of deleterious agents oc-
casionally introduced; but it becomes
incompetent to eliminate them when
the intake is habitual and constant.
The average man who takes an eve
opener every morning is almost GER
tain to have nutmeg liver that will
eventually take him to the grave with
dropsy, ETC.! the man who does not
enjoy his dinner without the preced-
ing cocktail is menacing equally his
future comfort and his wife. 1t is
only a question of time with the
average individual and a question of
idiosyncrasy with others. A recent
statement made by a physician of
half century's experience confirms
this view, although he is himself a
very moderate drinker."
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-12-20
FAMOUS BELLS
THAT GIVE DISTINCTION TO a
LITTLE KNOWN CALIFORNIAN
COLLECTION.

The enthusiasm of the collector ex-
Ponds itself on subjects of many
kinds; but few collections are so in
teresting as that of Mr.. Frank Miller,
of Riverside, California, who has
spent great many years and great
deal of energy in getting together his
remarkable collection of over 300
bells.
Every quarter of the globe, every
oddity of shape and material, almost
every historical era is represented.
There are bells from the United
States, Mexico, England, Scotland
Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, Italy
Greece, France, Spain, Germany, Hol.
land, Belgium, Turkey, Egypt, Arabia,
India, Ceylon, Thibet, Borneo, Burma,
China, Manchuria, Japan, the Philip
pines, Alaska, and the Hawaiian
Islands.
There is .cowbell with the name
and family arms of Pope Paul III
who accommodated Henry VIII. II
was used on the bell cow of the Vati.
can herd that day. A huge bell from
| Avignon was once part of the city
clock in the town of the Popes A
ships bell once tolled the watches on
one of the vessels that carried the un
happy Acadians from their homes, as
Longfellow's poem of "Evangeline'
tells.
There is an iron bell from the tenn
pie in Mukden, taken by Japanese sol
diers in the Russian war. The very
bell which hung in the chapel of Mo
lokai. where Father Damien ministered
to the lepers, is there. One bell comes
from monastery near Lhassa, and
another is a Chinese stone bell, proba
bly, over 1000 years old.
Perhaps the most interesting of all
is one that was cast for church in
Valencia, Spain, in 1887. At that time
King James of Aragon had just added
Valencia to his dominions, and was
establishing Christian churches all
over the province. The inscription
cast on the bells bears the names OF
the Blessed Virgin, to whom the
church was dedicated, of Jesus, Of the
King of Aragon, and of the bell found
ers, Quintana and Salvador, as we'll as
the year in which the bell was cast.
The special value of this bell lies
in the fact that it is the oldest dated
bell in existence. Until Mr.. Miller
found it in the scrap-heap in London
bell-founder's shop, that distinction
was held by bell in Fribourg, Ger.
many, which bears the date of 1858
How this fine old bell got to London
can only be conjectured. 1t may have
got there as ships bell on one of the
Inflated Armada, or as a Papal pres
ant to an English monastery, or as
booty from some of the daring raids of
Sir Francis Drake on the coast cities
of Spain.
However it got there, no one sus-
pected it's value, or indeed it's exist
ence, until Mr.. Miller unearthed it.
Once found, it was not so easily got
out of England, for the British Mu-
scum learned of the discovery and
made every effort to prevent it's be-
ing carried to America But Mr..
Miller had bought and paid for it, and
after negotiations that lasted almost
a year, he was permitted to take it
home with him.
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RES GRAFTON OF
METZ CATHEDRAL
GERMAN GOVERNMENT WILL DE
FRAY THE cosT-WoRK WILL
BEGIN SOON.

It il more than year since the ex.
perts engaged to report on the con.
dition of the Cathedral of Metz and
its restoration issued a report de
claring that 100000 marks would be
required for the work. The German
government has at last made an ap-
preparation for this purpose. Plans
are to be sent in at once. They will
be examined during the month of De
cember and the work of restoration
must then 60 forward without further
delay. The AIsacians are grateful
that their beautiful Cathedral il to be
protected from the hand Of time.