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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-08-21

did. He has helped people to get
along. but has never gone out and ex-
has maintained his demeanor as a
mar OF dignity n he still stands
ready to help any citizen help make of
Richmond the real town on the map.
When Mr.. ace first ran for the
office OF City Treasurer he was OPP
posed by the strongest man the OPP
position could select. He had tho
whole political neId against him. But
his record as a man who had never
turned down a fellow-man. and who
had the broad mind and the liberal
spirit of a patriot. bore him out. and
he practically wiped up the earth with
his opponent, and hat opponent was
one Of the best men in the city Of
holding OF the most important po-
sltions In the gift Of the state-Mator
J. r.. Wood. superintendent OF thu
penitentiary.
II is generally conceded that Mr..
Pace can hold the oalce Of city Treas
urer as long as he wishes to DO so.
He is popular with the people. and
may have what the people wish 1t
any time.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-04-12
THE USE OF THE INCENSE.

The use of incense often puzzles
and even repels nom Catholics. Yet it
is full of deep and holy meaning.
When the priest and his attendants
enter the sanctuary at the opening of
"Benediction," you may notice that
the little procession is headed by a
server called "a thurifer" (incense-
bearer), vested in cassock and sur
plice, who carries or swings, CEN
ser or "thurible" The latter is an
ornamental metal-boX fitted with a
movable lid, and suspended from the
thurifer's hand by several long chains.
1t contains lighted charcoal. Twice
during the ordinary Benediction serv-
ice the priest will rise from his knees,
and will drop some grains of incense
upon the coal, and, after kneeling
down once more before the altar and
bowling low, will swing the thurible
upwards towards the Throne" on
which the Blessed Sacrament reposes.
What does all this mean? If you are
familiar with your Bible you will
easily understand it. Let my prayer
be guided like incense in thy sight"
Cps. cxl. Douay; Ps. cxli. 2 A. W
1t is we'll for directors to the use of
incense in the services of the Catholic
church to remember that it's use was
first prescribed by Almighty God Him
self (Exod. xxx. l, q, "a; Luke I, 9,
lO).
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AN EASTER GREETING

you are an American, Califor-
MAN, and you come now to Mexico?
A month hence, or month ago, it
would not matter; but now! How
ever, no American is in danger. You
say your brother is on the Herald?
What? You are Senior Tom Ma
CURES sister? o, that is good"
He spoke gently, even gladly, the
President of Mexico, his clear, dark
eyes smiling a little sadly at the up
lifted face of a jauntily dressed girl,
who with camera dangling from her
shoulder and violets filling her hands,
stood with other friends that Febru-
airy morning, awaiting his departure
from the castle of Chapultepec, five
miles from the capital where mutiny
was fast being accomplished.
AS she reached a hand to the
President a purple mass of bloom
fell, sending up wealth of fra
GRANGE.
ooh, surely you will not go to the
city!" she exclaimed, her tones as
cultured as his own.
"Why?" a tinge of haughtiness. cit
is where I of all men belong. We
can reach the Zocala in less than an
hour. This brief delay is caused by
one of my loyal men who worked so
hard for his country that oversleep
may be pardoned."
Then, as though drawing mental
breath, he said abruptly:
'Then, since you are Senior Toms
sister you have just come to us from
California! The very name brings
sunlight to me! Sixteen years ago
was a student in California. One
never forgets."
NO. she answered enthusiast.
cally. "I thought during the Christ
mas vacation when, coming out
through the dusk around the marble
columns of the library into the twi
light where sunsets afterglow from
the Golden Gate shone crimson
through the trees, the spot was 9
chalice Of loneliness worthy the an
gels"
ct remember" he smiled, speaking
rapidly. "The acacias are blooming
now. How their yellow must glow
against those white walls. There
formerly was only red brick"
"And Newman Hall, the Catholic
Club, you have not seen. It is the
most artistic building in Berkeley
and is accomplishing wonders in thu
way of religious culture.
"Ah, you are Catholic, Of counsel
Was the sadness the tone Of regre
still deeper in his voice?
I Yes. These violets cannot plac'
upon the altar in Lent, but alread.
the priest has granted me permission
to put a bowl Of them each morning
before the statue Of the Sacret
Heart, and today, they win be al
Offering for the bravest man know
you who go to fight your way to-
ITO what, Miss Maguire?"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-04-12
A SAINT FOR THE WEEK.
BLESSED HERMAN JOSEPH OF
STEINFELD.

Herman from his earliest years was
a devoted client of the Mother of
God. AS a little child he used to
spend all his play-time in the Church
at Cologne before an image of Mary,
where he received many favors. Once
Our Lady stretched out her hand, and
took an apple which the boy offered
her in pledge of his love- Another
time he saw her high up in the trib-
une, with the Holy Child and st.
John; he longed to join them, but
saw no way of doing so; suddenly he
found himself placed by their side,
and holding sweet converse with the
Infant Jesus. At the age of twelve he
entered the Premonstratensian house
at Steinfeld, and there led an angelic
life of purity and prayer. His fellow
novices, seeing what graces he re
ceived from Mary, called him Joseph;
and when he shrank from so high an
honour, Our Lady in a vision took him
as her spouse, and bade him bear the
name. jealousy she reproved the
smallest faults in her betrothed, and
once appeared to him as an old
woman to upbraid him for some slight
want of devotion AS her dowry, she
conferred on him the most cruel sui
ferings of mind and body, which were
especially severe on the great feasts
of the Church. But with the cross
Mary brought him the grace to bear il
bravely, and thus his heart was
weaned from earthly things, and he
was made ready for his early and
sanity death, which took place about
the year 1880.
One bitter winter day, as little Her
man was coming barefooted into
church, his heavenly Mother, appear
ing to him, asked him lovingly why
his feet were bare in such cold. "Alas
dear Lady," he said, lit is because
my parents are so poor" She pointed
to stone, telling him to look beneath
it; there he found four silver pieces
wherewith to buy shoes. He did no
forget to return and thank her. Sh'
enjoined him to go to the same spo
| in all his wants, and disappeared
Never did the supply fail him; bu
his comrades, moved by differen
spirit, could find nothing.
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heart beating with love for the heav-
emily food which is served out to us.
And when you have communicated
realize your dignity, understand your
power, make use of your rights. Open
your souls as wide as you can, dilate
your hearts, so that God may fill them
with His presence. Give evidence of
an Unsuitable hunger, excite your ap-
petite and put no end to your desires.
You who groan under the weight of
your spiritual inf1rmities, of your re-
iterated falls, of lukeWarmness
which paralyzes you; you who are the
slaves of sinful habits, go to Jesus, if
you have recovered the state of grace
and wish to do better. He will heal
you, close up your wounds, put balm
on your sores, strengthen you, and
break your letters and the ties of your
bondage.
You who are depressed, discouraged
and hopeless, go to Jesus. He will
raise and cheer you up, and give you
back the confidence and trust you have
lost.
You who are loaded with debts, be-
cause of the number of your past sins,
and are without merits, because you
have done little good and have not
done it we'll, go to Jesus. He will
pay up your debts, fill your souls
with merits, graces and supernatural
goods.
You who are in doubt as to de-
cision to reach, an advice to give, an
initiative to take, duty to know, go
to Jesus. He will enlighten, console
and cure you.
The Eucharistic mama, which you
will receive in Holy Communion, will,
as it finds it's way into the soul of
everyone, diversity it's taste and
favors; it will become all to all by
adapting itself to the needs and state
of all.
Young maidens and adolescents will
find in it obedience and respect, purity
and modesty, as well as true piety.
Married persons will find in it faith
fitness, gentleness, kindness and de-
votion.
Fathers and mothers will find in it
firmness and patience, together with
the act, so difficult, of properly educat-
ing and morally forming children.
The wealthy will learn to despise
riches near Him Who, while master of
all things, did not find stone upon
which to rest His head.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-04-12
LEGEND OF THE LILY.

Here is a legend of long ago,
Breathing tale of the risen Christ;
Told when the lilies of Easter blow,
Touched to life in the morning mist
By magic kiss from the dewy mouth
Of the spirit hid in the wind from the
South.
Easter eve and the wind was high,
No hint of spring in the woodlands
bare,
And trooping into the western sky.
Gray clouds, grim pilgrims of upper
air,
In the night were lost, when the her
NIT poor,
In his rough garb, knocked at. the
abby door.
The porter opened to him who stood
Trembling with cold in the wintry
blast,
And he begged him to eat of their
.ho1ne1y food,
For it was not written the weak
should fast.
"Nay, nay!" said the hermit, Il touch
not meat
Till my sins be shriven at Jesus feet.
For yester-night as kept my watch,
And my sins stood, hooking, about
my bed,
There came a knocking upon the
thatch,
'And a mystic voice in the darkness
said:
Go thou to the Abbey of Ercilthorne,
Awaiting a sign in the Easter morn.
Here am 1 come, and the duty mine
Earthly pleasures and joys to for
swear;
So I pray thee lead to the chapel
shrine,
For 1 need no comfort save that of
prayer"
And so to the dim of the altar light
He led the hermit and babe good
night"
When the wind of dawn shook the
udpp1Ou Io0I
And it's days were oped to the Day
of Days,
They that followed the white-haired
priest
To the matin service of prayer and
praise
Found the hermit prone at the altar
dead.
Pale in the light that the tapers shed
On a craven cross on the granite floor
Over the tomb of saint he lay,
With arms outstretched as the Christ
of yore
Hung on the Cross of Calvary;
And out of those lips, made sweet by
prayer,
Grew a wondrous flower, divinely fair
This is the legend of long ago,
Breathing the love of the riser
Christ:
Mystical tale of the buds that blow
At the holy season of Easter, kis
To life anew by the dewy mouth
Of the spirit hid in the wind from thu
South
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STANDARD and Times.
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full realities of an endless immortality
beyond the grave. No, the dead tell
no tales. The dark and impenetrable
secrets of the tomb are never dis
closed. The mountains and the val
legs, the rivers and the sea, the air
and the sky, all have their voices and
echo, their glad, their cheerful and
their warning sounds for this life of
motion, and trial, and change, and for
living and breathing man; but all is
darkness how deep, and silent how
profound" throughout the still, vast
empire of the dead!
There is an interval of painful and
awful suspense accompanying the clos
ing moments of life, when all around
is silence and solemnity, when some
sit and others stand about the bedside
of a departing relative and friend,
watching with mute agony and
baffled hope, the Pickering and expir-
ing rays of life.
We feel that the dread presence of
death is with us in the chamber. We
are powerless, but he is allpowerful,
and we see that he is surely and unre-
sistingly removing the props and snap
ping asunder the brittle ties of our
earthly love. Life and the grave, time
and eternity, seem to touch and join
| together. We have sighed deeply and
often, but have not yet bitterly wept.
We would not disturb with loud grief
the hallowed sanctity of that conse-
Grated hour and place. 1t is not until
death has accomplished his merciless
mission, until the last expiring strug-
gle of nature gives the signal of sor-
row, when hope hovers DER the couch
no more, and then the appalling words
strike upon our ears and hearts with
stunning effect that the dear object
of our devotion and attachment has
Ifallen-fallen-and is no more!
Then is the voice of lamentation
lifted up, and tears flow, and wailing
is heard for the grieved and agonized
souls, and witness those scenes on
earth upon which angelic spirits in
heaven look down with pity and COM
miseration for the sufferings and Attic
ton of man! o, man, these are the
woes and penalties of thy life! These
are the dark and foreboding avenues
which must be passed in order to un-
lock the gates of paradise and gain
the quenchless light which is above
u.s.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-04-12
THE ANNUNcIATIoN.

The Feast that means so much to
the Catholic heart, says the Boston
Pilot. that is enshrined in Catholic de-
votion, and glorified in Christian art,
recurs generally in the very midst or
the Lenten season 1t is as a flash OF
bright color amidst the gloom that
comes from the consideration of death,
and prepares for the approaching dark
ness of Holy Week, but this year it
has come amid the glorious joys of
the Paschal season.
The figure of one of Gods most
brilliant ambassadors kneels before
the timid maiden of Galilee. 1t is
an historic scene, for that moment
changed the whole trend of human
history. AS for Mary herself, it be-
speaks her great treasure of grace
that made it possible to single her
out of all women as the one fit to be
the Mother of the Incarnate God.
Maidens in Israel for centuries had
been dreaming of being the mother
of the great King; but it was to one
into whose soul the thought had
spoken.
Behold the handmade of the
Lord" is a sentence that utters her
whole character even more than that
great hymn of triumph, the Magnif1-
cat: for it shows her in her humility
and resignation to Gods. will. And
out of that message of the Angel, and
A. IN
been born all those beautiful prayers
and hymns that follow after our de-
votion to God. The Hail Mary re-
peats words of the Angel; the Ange-
lus tells the whole story three times
a day, at morning, noon and evening
in the midst of the city's hustle as
we'll as in the quiet of the country
fields. Art, too, has poured out the
wealth of color, and poetry has set
it's paraphrases to music and song.
1t is an inspiration to young maid
hood which sees the gentle girlhood
of that Holy Virgin honored in the
Temples sacred shelter. 1t is an in
sees the most glorious of mothers
looking only to God as her hope and
her refuge. 1t is an inspiration to
all mankind to feel one little throb
of pride amidst the consciousness of
universal humiliation when it looks
upon her who has merited to be
called "Our tainted natures solitary
boast"
And thus in the glorious days OF
the spring time the picture comes
once more, and we kneel little apart
and look, and as we look we uncon
sciously pray, for we feel that she
who has consented to be the Mother
Of God has by her elevation become
our Mother also.
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4The palace" hastily lowering her


eyes.
that word, voice was ever
quickening with his desire to speak
and anxiety to be away. Like me
you are dreamer, and we dreamers
see beyond. | live but for Mexico.
They call me philanthropist and a
philosopher. l desire to be remem-
bered as a soldier and statesman.
If have shown mercy, it is because
Mexico has reached that stage of en-
lightenment where oppression and
tyranny have no part. During these
two years and half the people have
lived better, been better fed and
clothed, and are higher in the scale
of humanity than ever before. With
so much accomplished there can be
no concentrated desire for admins
trative change. Only the personal
ambition of individuals has aroused
this new, this senseless and aimless
rebellion 1t will vanish when they
see me. The people freely elected me,
welcoming my entrance with roses;
so why doubt them now? Of what
are you thinking with that rapt sad
ness, Senorita?"
"Of you, Senior Preidente"
mo, no, the other thought, the
vision you see across those hills"
he demanded. For, with all his gen.
tleness he was imperious, and the
American girl who had risked the
perils of Mexico's troubled state to
reach the side of her brother was
no coward. Her face, with it's child
like radiance and sweet intellectual
ity had so attracted him that, ignor-
ing the others, her alone he still adj
dressed.
81 see waving palms." she an
swered quietly.
Plainly discernable to the least
observant! he laughed; and then
But you see beyond-what?"
Suddenly she lifted her eyes to his,
agony of entreaty replacing the
childlike radiance.
20 Senior Presidente, do not go
to the City of Mexico today" she
pleaded with startling eloquence.
"The people are so tickle, so weak!
You cannot trust them! On such a
day nineteen centuries ago King,
though not of this world, entered
Jerusalem. The people received Him
as once they received you. He left
it few days later with no Hosannahs.
The world has not changed except
where he reigns,-and he does not
reign in Mexico"
The President paled. He trembled
slightly. She had put more forcibly
that which friends and relatives had
only limited to him, that which his
own keen imagination wildly, per-
sistently, pictured. But his rare
courage came to his aid against the
mysticism of his nature.
Il have promised universal free
dom. Is not that His reign? But,
Miss Mcguire, offer your flowers for
me now as at Easter"
Continued on Page6)
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THIRD SUNDAY AFTER
EASTER.

EPlSTLE: Be ye subject
therefore to every human crea-
ture for Gods sake; whether 1t
be to the king as exceIIing, or
to governors as sent by him for
the punishment Of evil doors
and for the praise OF the good;
for so is the will of God, that
by doing we'll you may put to
silence the Ignorance of foolish
men; as free, and not as making
liberty a cloak for malice, but
as the servants of God.
GOSPEL: At that time,
Jesus said to his disciples, A
little while, and now you shall
not see me; and again little
while, and you shall see me;
because go to the Father.
Then some of his disciples said
one to another, what is this
that he saith to us, A little
while, and you shall not see me;
and because go to the Father?
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-04-12
THE DEAD TELL NO TALES.
An Interesting Story of the Last
Days.

Oh, if they did. how would they be
listened to; what mighty secrets and
mysteries would be revealed of the last
eventful hours in this world, and of
the first momentous ones in the next.
They who have departed in peace, sur
rounded by kindred and friends, en-
braced by the tender and endearing
arms of affection over which mingled
tears of sympathy and sorrow, and
who whispered their last sad farewell
encircled with fondest demonstrations
of regret and love; they who, lonely,
forsaken and destitute, have welcomed
death as the last and only friend that
they have looked for on earth, and
who had no eye to weep and no heart
to grieve for them; they who swai
lowed up in the yawning jaws of the
quaking earth; or they who, having
wrestled with the storm, sunk in the
dark, dreadful abyss Of waters, amidst
bowling winds and tempestuous waves
in the far vast deep, or were rudely
dashed upon a rocky and destructive
shore; they who were taken by the
pestilence or by the sword, by the
slow march of lingering disease, or by
one sudden and remorseless blow fell
quickly into the appalling chasm Of
death; they who died with blasphe
nous curses on their lips, and the
righteous who breathed out their last
breath in the sweet and holy accents
of prayer; they who were hastily
called from the banqueting hall to the
hall of Judgment; or the wretcheC
who persisted "by self-slaughter ant
an erring mind" as well as they whose
blood was poured forth by the relent
less knife of the assassin; AL thes'
would have their tales to tell, and al
would speak Of the unavailing miser,
OF man and the unlimited mercy o
God, and would balance the painful
evils Of transit life against the bliss
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GO TO JESUS.

Take, therefore, the firm resolution
to go to Communion as often as you
can, to approach as frequently as pos
sible the Eucharistic Table, the only
one in the world at which one does
not sit, but where one knee1s with
down-cast eyes, joined hands, and a
The Lamar register., 1913-04-09
NOTICE OF PROBATE
Probate Of VIII

state of Colorado.
County Of Prowers. 80
In the County Court
In the Matter OF the
Estate OF Hattie l. NOTICE
Hall. Deceased.
to Harry IL. Han and Clarence Z.
Hall of Mountain View. California, Ray
". Hall OF Hanford. California; Jesse
Al. Hall OF Emeryviiie. California. A.
Earl Hail OF Mt Vernon. Ohio and Mel
lie Al Hall and Pearl l. Hall minors.
and Anna Hall. their guardian OF Grays-
vile. Tennessee. and Ida Pearl Arm
itage OF Lamar. Colorado. heirs at law.
legatees and devisees of Hattie L.
Hall. Deceased.
You and each Of you are hereby not
to be the last wnI and Testament Of
Hattie l. Hall. deceased. who resided
in the City of Lamar. County OF Prov
ers and State OF Colorado. and depart
ed this life or about the 18th day
OF January. A ID. 1913. was. on the
z1th day OF January. A. u 1913. pre-
scented to the County Court Of the Coun
" of Prowers and State of Colorado
Tor probate and record. the true last
WIN and Testament OF the said Hattie
L. Hall. deceased. said WIN having
v yssa p mentioned in said instTS s
ment. and according to the said al
legged VIII the said Hattie l.. Han.
deceased. devised and bequeathed her
lows. to-wft:
I'm case OF my death my desire Is
that my claim shall be given to my
five brothers each to share equally.
THE portion of my fathers estate
which is coming to me to be equally
shared by my two half sisters
~ name my brother Harry as Exc
cutor OF the whole
My land In New Mexico. also house.
mold furniture, horses and whatever
notes or monies are in bank or coming
TO me separately or us jointly, wish
given entirely to my partner. Miss Arm
Itage. she to assume immediate control
of same and use said notes and money
as same as her own. half of SAID mon
ey and notes and outstanding bills being
hers anyhow. Out of same she WIN pay
funeral expenses.
HATTIE L. HALL.
witnesses: Mrs Manella Bourne"
You and each OF you are. therefore.
hereby notified to be and appear before
the County Court OF Prowers County In
the State of Colorado. at the Court
| House in Lamar. on the 2Sth day OF
April. A. ID. 1913. at the hour of ten
o'clock in the forenoon of said day.
then and there to attend the hearing
upon the probate Of said Win before
said Court, to show cause. II any you
can or may have. why said instrument
should not be admitted to probate and
record as the true last VIII and Tesla
ment of the said deceased. and Let
tiers Testamentary or Of Administra-
ton issued thereon accordingly. and fur