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TRAILING DUDLEY THROUGH A TRANCE
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rocks into the Sound and have me tell Aunty
he died disgraced but happy. Fin'ly,
though, he agrees to wait while go s1euthin
in and find whether Veronica has rushed in
tears to Daddy, or is still curled up on the
davenport bitin' the cushions in rage.
| slips into the living room, where | find
'ern addin' up the scores and talkin' over the
last hand, but otherwise calm and peaceful.
Then | opens the door soft into the next
room, steps in, and shuts the door behind
me- No wild sobs. No broken furniture.
There's Veronica, rockin back and forth
under the readin' light, with book in her
lap.
"Well?' says l, waitin' breathless for the
storm to break.
She gives little jump, glances up quick,
and pinks up like poppy. @Oh!' says she.
dts your"
"Uh-huh," says |. @I-er-I've been Just
been talkin' with Dudley
"Ye-e-es?" says she, rollin' leaf of the
book over her finger nervous and droopin'
her long lashes.
"You see,' says l, fdgetin' some on my
own account, "he--he's goin' home in min
ute or two"
ooh, is he?" says she. @There! And l
meant to ask him if he wouldn't call tomor-
row. Won you do 1T tor me, MT. McCaDe!
How about that for reverse jolt, Ell? |
backs out of the room lookin' foolish. And
Dudley he near collapses when | brings him
the glad news.
AS for Sadie, she couldn't believe me at
all when | tells her Dudley looks like a sure
winner. She had to wait until few days
later when she catches 'em just breakin'
clinch, before she'll admit amt stringin' her.
But shy, diffident fellow like Dudley"
SAYS She Il don't see how he did it.
Whether does Dudley says |. "Guess
it plust have been a case of a guy with the
goods comm across with the swift tackle.
Maybe that's what she'd been waitin' for
all along"
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don't very well see how l could have spent
it with you down at Ashwood.'
"Well, then,7 | reared, "if you didn't,
who in thunder did,
al don't know" grinned Farringate.
"Faxon, l guess. He told me Saturday
night he was going to. Didn't he turn up?'
"Did you give him any points on your
go1fo" I asked somewhat irrelevantly
ayes. | did, said Farringate. Il told
him | could hold you with ease as far as
that beastly water hole, and that there in
variably went to pieces. Why?"
"None of your business said |, with
difficulty getting grip on myself as the
truth suddenly dawned upon me. But,
| added, "I'l tell you one thing: I've
changed my mind about Faxon's powers of
impersonation. He's a corker."
"Iou've seen him again, have you?" said
Farringate.
Eyes" said |. ole gave me private re-
hearsal, and tell you, Farringate, it was SO
good that if | were you I'd change my FACET
TN conclusion, let me say that l bound
Faxon to silence on the subject of his
first visit to Ashwood, SO that Mrs. Jack was
utterly unaware of the test to which he had
put our powers of perception when he ar
rived the second time, which may account
IOI IGI IcIIldIk W IIlC Oh lllc iOiloWAS
day night when we were retiring:
"What a charming man Mr.. Faxon isl
said she. dts very curious, but, do you
know, Jack, have feeling that have met
him before SOMEWHERE
you've probably seen him on the stage,
said l. "He's been acting good many years.
"Did you ever find out about the Burgess
AFFAIR." she went on.
"No, l didn't think it was necessary
said l. II had other evidence of the truth
of the story. know of another case where
he did the same thing" I
Really" cried Mrs. Jack delightedly.
@Where2"
"Here!" said l.
"Here!' she retorted. "When?'
"Iast Sunday, my DEAR said |, with a
laugh. "He made his debut here last Sum
day morning in that roaring farce, "A Week
End with Farringate."
And, strange to say, although both Far
ringate and Faxon have testified to the
same effect in confederation of my affidavit,
Mrs. Jack will not believe it.
ooh, it's impossible!' she says. @You
might fool a mere man like Jack; but women
and children have intuitions that nobody
can deceive
And there the matter has rested to this day.
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he. "You see, we were talking, her lovely
face was very close, her glorious eyes were
shining into mine, when suddenly it
seemed as if | became dizzy, and the next
moment seized her brutally in my arms
and-and-'
"Goodnight.7 says I, gaspin'. "What did
she hit you with?'
al can't say exactly what happened
next, says Dudley. II think dropped her
and ran out here
"Of all the boob plays!' says l. @To take a
Brodie plunge like that, and then do the
fade-away!'
"But what must do nowos groans Dud-
ley. "Oh, what can do?'
as she still in there?' says |.
al suppose so, says he.
well, SO far as | can see,' says l, "you
got to 60 back and apologize"
what! Now?' says he.
Before she has time to sick the old man
on you with a gum says |.
@Yes, yes!' says he. "Not that | am
afraid of that. wish he would shoot mel
/ hope someone does! But | suppose ought
to beg her pardon
With his hand on the knob he balks. ooh,
/ can't!7 says he. Il simply cannot trust
myself. If should try, if should find my
self close to her once more. McCabe, II
might do it all over again
@Say, look here, Dudley says I. "This
amt habit you're breakin' yourself Of you
know: it's just a single slip you've got to
apologize for"
Il know says he; "but you cannot i'm
agine how madly in love with her am"
I'm glad can't, says |.
AND, say, he sticks to it. No, Sir, can't
= push him in there with Veronica again.
| had him out on the front steps for fifteen
minutes, tryin' to argue some sense into him;
but all he wants to do is go jump off the
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-03-29
CANADA'S RELIGIOUS
CENSUS.

In last weeks issue we pub
lished the Catholic population of
the different provinces of the
Dominion of Canada as given in
the returns recently tabled in
the Canadian Senate. According
to this, the total Catholic popula-
ton of the Dominion is 2, 833, 041
AN increase of over 100000,
since the last census. These re-
turns show that the Catholic popu-
lation has increased more than
that of any other denomination.
Next to the Catholics, the most
numerous denomination is the
Presbyterians with LIS, 324. Then
comes the Methodists with 1879
S92, and the Anglicans with 1,O43,-
OFT. These figures show that the
Catholic population is almost as
large as the combined numerical
strength of the other three demon
nations. The Anglicans have
shown greater gains than any
other Protestant sect and this is
due to the large number of Angli-
can immigrants from England who
have settled in Western Canada.
The Jews have increased from
16,4O1 in 1901, to 1864 in 1911,
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Continuing she SAYS

Continuing she says:
"The Jewish people of the coun-
try are great supporters of Y. NJ.
C. A. institutions. They are hber-
al contributors toward their exis-
tence everywhere, and you will
hardly find an organization of
this kind in any city of the Union
where you will not find Jewish
young men taking advantage OF
the privileges granted them as
members of the organization.
Jewish parents generally do not
object that their boys should en-
joy the privileges and influences
of Y. NJ. G. A. They know it
is far better that their boys spend
their leisure hours in developing
their physical and mental facul-
ties in such environments, than
spend their time in pool rooms or
upon the streets. !"
Evidently, this Jewish advo-
cate Of the Y. w. c. A. does not
realize the force Of it's constitu-
ton which excludes Jews from
the privileges to which only the
members of evangelical churches
are entitled, namely, a position on
the board of directors ; and a
voice in the management of the
organization. 1t is difficult to
realize why she should counsel
the Jews to support an Organiza-
ton that solicits their contribu-
tions on the plea of non-sectar-
ianism, and then debars them
from official positions, where they
would have a voice in the direction
Of it's affairs.
For the present, at any rate,
the Y. w. C. A. project is in
allegiance in Winona. Of course,
it's promoters will keep up the
agitation and it is not unlikely
that they will eventually succeed
in establishing a local branch
The movement has had one good
effect. It has placed the Y. w
C. A. in it's proper light before the
public, and if those who are ex-
Guided from the rights and priv,
leges of active membership con-
tribute to its support, they do SC
with a full knowledge Of the cir
cumstances, and should not com,
plain, later on, that they are dis,
eliminated against.
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DOMAIN OF TEMPERANCE.
HELP FOR THE HARD. DalnkER.

The June number of the Century
Magazine gives it's readers an article
by DR.. Charles B. Towns, entitled
Help for the Hard Drinker:" The
article deals with phase of the sub
ject that has received too little at
tention from the medical and scien-
tifical world. The assertion is made
that chronic alcoholism is a disease
and that society is bound to provide
for it's clinical study and to provide
facilities for the care of it's victims.
Speaking of the spiritual and men
tai qualities of the hard drinker,. the
writer says:
"The people of the world in gen
eral, and especially the people of the
United States, are asking some more
questions about the cost of alcohol
not its cost in money, but it's cost in
men. They are questions which sta
tistics cannot answer, which, indeed,
can never be definitely answered;
but we know enough to be assured
that if answers could be given, they
would be appalling. With increasing
unanimity the thinkers of the whole
world are saying that in alcohol is
found the greatest of humanity's
curses. 1t does no good whatever;
it does incalculable harm. A dozen
substitutes may be found for it in
every useful purpose which it serves
in medicines, mechanics, and the
arts; its food value, of which much
has recently been said, is slight or
nil; and it has worked greater havoc
in the aggregate than all the plaques.
If not another drop of it should ever
be distilled, the world would be the
gamer, not the loser, through the
circumstance: Yet the use of alcohol
as beverage is continually increas-
ing.
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and, strange to say, the greatest
increase has been made in the
Province of Quebec.
Commenting on these figures,
the Montreal Tribune says:
Comprising about forty per
cent of the population of Canada,
it is strange that Catholics are not
represented in greater number
among the so-called leading men
of the country. We fear full ad.
vantage of our opportunities is not
taken by Catholic people in many
things, but more particularly in
the matter Of education.
"Our Catholic schools are every
bit as good as the non-Catholic
schools, as far as the subjects
taught in such schools are con
cerned, and infinitely better mas
much as our schools do not di
vorce religion from education
cit must be said, however, that
our non-Catholic friends are wei
organized, and have a strong
active daily press, which, whilst
avowedly non-sectarian, is con
trolled by those who are not fav
orably disposed towards Catholi
cism. There is much to be done
towards unifying our Catholic
people,
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-03-29
A WEEK OF IMPRESSIVE
SERVICES.

During Holy Week the churches
were thronged with devout wor-
shippers who, in obedience to the
promptings of a lively faith, came
to pay their tributes of homage
and prayer to the suffering Saw.
Jour. From Palm Sunday until
Easter, every service was well
attended; and from early morning
until late at night, especially dur
ing the latter part Of the week,
many of the churches were well
filled, even when there was no re-
gular service, with people who
came to watch and pray. Many
were the visits paid to our Blessed
Lord in the Repository during
Holy Thursday, and on Good Fri.
day the devotional exercise of the
Way of the Cross was performed
by many whose fervor and love
consoled the heart of the Man of
Sorrows.
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THE tNTEMPERATE's REFORM.

Since the children of this world are
wiser in their generation than the
children Of light, writes the Rev. M. A.
Landing in the Pittsburg Observer,
they shall answer who are to be re-
formed, or rather who need to be
reformed. A court was quoted a
few years ago as saying that man
was a habitual drunkard who got
drunk once month and an official
of several railroads said a short time
ago that when a person uses beer in
preference to water to Quench his
thirst on hot day, He's there" If
he is not yet there he is well on the
down grade and the brakes should be
applied. If you are sufficiently inter-
ested in person who you believe is
drinking too much, the time to attempt
his salvation is right now. Delay is
dangerous. He will be apt to tell
you that he is all right; but no one is
a competent judge in his own case.
Men will say no one ever saw them
out of the way through drink, when
they are so far gone that they have
to be taken somewhere to straighten
up. "Straighten up" has an ominous
sound. 1t forebodes a falling over
again. Anyhow, just word to you
who may have such a case at hand.
Do not take him to an institution
where drink will be given him, even
if it be a Sisters hospital. You can
get the drink for less money in the
saloon, and it will do just as much
good and no more harm. A gentle
man had sucn case few years ago,
and was paying the bill himself, as the
poor fellow had nothing left. He took
his friend to the hospital and after
some time called to see how he was
getting along. 1--WE have him down to
five drinks a day now" Five drinks a
day!" The gentleman was a member
of the G. T. A. q. do you mean to
tell me, s., that you have been TAX
ing my $40 week for five weeks and
have been giving him whiskey all the
time, and are still giving him five
drinks day? Is that curing him? or
is it honest" The way to stop drink
ing is to-stop. And the way to stop
mans drinking is to-stop 1t, not
give him five WHISTLES day after Eve
weeks stopping"
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tine attacked the problem shows
that in the principles of the Chris
tian religion he found the means
to a ready solution. Family life
was Immediately placed on a new
footing. Without impairing do
nestle authority measures were
enacted which took from the head
of the family the right of exposing
children or Of selling them into
slavery. The father who slew his
son was declared to be guilty of
murder, and no child, without his
own consent, could be adopted
into another family. y y
"Thus the Edict of Milan not
only settled civilization on new
basis, it led to the reform of some
of the most crying abuses of the
old order. Church and State were
separated, the terms of their
future relations, union or separa,
ton, were left to the decision OF
succeeding ages. Slavery lost its
most repulsive features by the re.
instatement of bondmen as moral
beings. This crying evil has van.
ished from the world, at least from
that portion of the world which
accepts the Christian yoke. Two
of the characteristics of society IL
pref Christian times have disap
peared, and men are no longer
the religious nor social chattels Of
a system founded on force anC
held together by the merely ma
terial object of collective welfare
The third evil, that dealing will
economic injustice, is now up fol
adjudication. Two remedies arr
offered. That Of complete soc1a
control, the surrender of the indi
vidual to the community, and tina
of Christianity, conserving thu
rights of the individual in a socie
ty animated by the strictest prin
ciples Of corporate responsible
ity."
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A GERMAN ARMY TOTAL AB-
sTINENcE SOCIETY,".

A total abstinence society has re-
army with full and free cooperation
of army officers high and low. The
idea started among the younger Off
GERS: of the garrison at Mulhausen.
These officers and soldiers of the post
became converted to total abstinence
through the anti-alcohol society of the
place and soon felt a desire to found
a purely military abstinence society
similar to the one already existing
in the German navy.
number of circumstances, but
particularly the Kaiser's speech to the
naval cadets at Murwick, lent encour-
agements to their wish. The higher
officers were quite ready to give as
sistance, and a naval officer helped
draft the constitution which was
promptly approved by the proper au-
thority. On the day of organization
a parade notice was posted inform
ing officers and private of the new
organization, which was called "The
Army Abstinence Society of Mulhau-
sen."
Thus the German army and navy
are giving official encouragement to
movement similar to that which is
credited with having revoIutionized
the morals of the British army and
navy. twenty-five per cent of the
soldiers in the British army are alb,
stainers and it is conservatively esti-
mated that there are $4,000 abstain
ers in the navy
At the London Congress Against
Alcoholism, where demonstrations
were made of the value of temperance
societies in the British civil and mil
itary service, Sir George White gave.
as the principal reasons for the devel-
opment Of temperance sentiment in
the army: The cordial moral support
and liberal financial aid of the British
government and of the officers high in
command, and the fact that the men
understood that it was a distinct eIe-
ment in their favor in promotion and
in details to desirable service if they
were abstainers.
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What a warning for all in the
cyclonic visitation that overlook
Omaha and the surrounding coun-
try last Sunday. Without mo-
ment's notice, hundreds of lives
were snuffed out and hundreds OF
persons were more or less injured
How true it is that death comes
like a thief in the night. When
we least expect his summons, he
bids us appear before the tribunal
of the great Judge and give our
accounting. How necessary, there.
fore, to be always prepared
Blessed is the man whom, wher
the Lord cometh, he shall fnG
watching"
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The heartfelt sympathy of the
whole country goes out to the
sorely-afflicted people of Omaha
and the other places visited by the
destructive elements last Sunday
evening. At the present writing
details are too meagre to give
more than a faint idea Of the ter.
rible havoc wrought by the storm
The property loss, great as it is
is insignificant compared to the
death toll, which reaches into the
hundreds. AS far as we can learn
from the press reports, the Catho.
lie churches and institutions OF
Omaha, with the exception of g
single school, escaped destruction
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1t would be interesting to know
just what the more intelligent OF
our non-Catholic brethren thought
of the great congregations of wor.
shippers that filed our churches
to overlooking during the Holy
Week services. What did it al
signify to them? What lesson, il
any, did it teach? They could not
fail to be impressed with the con
trast between our thronged sane
tuaries and their almost deserted
churches. There is a reason. Nc
other church can marshall hel
children in such numbers, no mat
ter what the occasion or the in
ducement.
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THE EDICT OF MILAN.

The religious celebration in
honor Of the sixteen hundredth
anniversary Of the Edict Of Milan
will begin in Rome next Sunday,
March 30, and during the next
few months the event will be COM
memorated in many parts Of the
Catholic world.
The occasion is one of more
than ordinary Importance to the
Church. Prior to the promulga-
ton Of the Edict of Milan by the
Emperor Constantine, in the year
313, the early Christian Church
was forced to endure the horrors
of ten prosecutions under different
Roman Emperors. Those who
accepted the teaching of the low
ly Nazarine were subjected to
every species of torture in an
effort to make them renounce the
faith which was dearer to them
than life. For three centuries they
endured the most barbarous per-
secution with heroic cOnstancy
and yielded up their lives willing
ly in defence of Christian truth.
Their patient endurance Of the
tortures inflicted upon them by
the Roman authorities won many
pagans to the new religion. With
truth it could be said that "the
blood of martyrs, was the seed of
Christianity
When the Emperor Constantine
triumphed over Maxentius at the
Milvian Bridge, he attributed the
victory to the direct Intervention
of heaven, and he accepted the
portent Of the skies as an indica-
ton that he was thenceforward
to grant peace and protection to
the followers of Him, Whose glori-
Gus symbol had led him to invoke
the aid of the God Of Christians.
In this connection, it is interest
ing to read the decree, known as
the Edict of Milan, addressed by
him and his son-in-law, Licinius,
to all the magistrates of the Rom
an Empire, in the spring Of 313.
The following is translation:
eve have long recognized that
freedom of religion ought not to
be limited in any way, but each
one ought to be permitted to fol-
low in divine matters the dictates
of his own conscience.
Wherefore I, Constantine,
Augustus, and /, Licinius Angus
tus, having happily met in Milan
to treat of all the affairs that
interest public tranquility, believe
that the affair most worthy OF
consideration and to be first of all
decided is that Of the respect due
to the Deity, and that it is fitting
to give to the Christians and to all
men freedom to follow the re.
ligion which each prefers. May
this thought be pleasing to the
Deity In Heaven and render Him
propitious to us and to all oul
subjects.
eve have. therefore, deemed
it salutary and reasonable not to
deny to anyone permission to give
preference to the worship Of
Christians, so that the Supreme
/ Deity, Whose religion we follow
of our own free choice, may grant
us in all things His favor, and His
benevolence,- which He has al
ready abundantly shown us
Know then that it has pleased us
to do away with all the limita
tions that were imposed with re
gard to the Christians in the re-
scripts formerly received by you
CHOW we simply will that each
one of those who desire to follow
the Christian religion may do sc
without fear of being in any way
molested. This is what we have
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At the conservation of the Right
Reverend Bishop-Elect Duffy OF
Kearney, Neb., which takes place
in st. Mary's Cathedral, Chey.
enne, on April 16, the sermon will
be preached by the Right Rever,
end Bishop Bowling of Des
Moines. Archbishop Keane OF
Dubuque will be the consecrating
prelate and Bishop Scannell OF
Omaha and Bishop McGovern OF
Cheyenne will be co-consecrators
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-03-29

Why not carry the penitential
spirit of Lent throughout the
year? The burden is not too great
for the soul that realizes the abso-
lutte necessity of bearing the cross
in imitation of the Saviour.
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No longer does the Church sing
with the Prophet Isaias: Ellis
sepulchre shall be glorious. What
was foretold, has come to pass
and the spiritual joys of Easter
are our portion and our inheri-
lance forevermore.
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Words are little things, but they
strike hard. We utter them so easily
that we are apt to forget their hidden
power. Fifty spoken, they act like the
sunshine, the dew and the fertilizing
rain; but when unftly, like the frost,
the hail, and the devastating temp
ests.
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SATURDAY, MARCH 90. 1918.

The privations of Lent have CIV
en- place to the joys of Easter.
How soul-satisfying the latter are
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Entered as second-class matter, jan
uary IL, 1911, at the post once, st.
Paul, Mimi. under Act Of March 8, 1879.