The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-03-15

was prominent figure at the national
convention of the Federation of Cath.
Ollie Societies in Louisville, KY, last
August He led the great parade on
Sunday afternoon and delivered an ad.
dress at one of the meetings. He is
one of the mainstays of the Jesuit
mission at Rosebud, S. D.
A Modern Crusade.-The Holy
Name Society of st. Mary's parish
Lawrence, Mass, has begun an unique
advertising crusade against profanity
and obscene language. Among the ad
vertisements in the street cars ap.
pears the card bearing the words
Profanity Is No Sign of Intelligence,
with the announcement that the ST.
Mary Holy Name Society is respon.
sible for the advertisement Similar
signs are distributed in stores and
other public places. The campaign is
proving effective and is universally
commended.
Iowa Pastor Formerly a Methodist
Rev. A. J. Zaiser, pastor of st. 10.
seph's parish, Fort Madison, Ia, is the
son of a Methodist minister and
studied for the ministry of the Meth
odist church himself for three years
Convert from Episcopal Church.
Mrs G. A. White, of Forest avenue
Fond du Lac, has been received into
the Church. Mrs. White has been a
generous contributor to the Episcopal
cathedral of Fond du Lac, Of which
she was formerly member, and was
prominent for years in all the social
and charitable work of the EPISCOPAL
church Mrs. Whites daughter has
also been received.
Nuns Residence at Prairie du CHEN,
The ST. Gabriel parish, Prairie du
Chen, has decided to erect $4,000
residence for the Notre Dame Sis
tiers. Work will commence as soon
as the frost is out of the ground. The
site north of st. GabrieTs school has
been purchased.
Denver Priests Lodging House.
Father Burke's lodge or mission in
Denver, Col, is in the Inter-Ocean
hotel. The basement of this land
mark of Denver, on the corner of 18th
and Blake, has been turned over to
Father Burke for the mission purpose
by Mr.. Mccormack, who but recently
purchased the building. The room
50x70 will be fitted up with tables and
chairs, and reading matter furnished
the workingmen who are to make use
of them. There will be no red tape
No membership require
ments 1t will furnish place to spend
the day and evening-open to all. 1t
is Father Burke's idea to gather the
magazines and old clothes
from the Catholics of Denver for the
use of the mission patrons.
Home for Milwaukee Work Girls
is to have a new non-sec-
tartan home for working girls, to eX-
tend the work now being carried on by
st. GATHERINGS Home for Girls, 1131
Sycamore street, if plans formulated
by charitable workers succeed. The
home will cost about $4,000,
and will accommodate from 100 to 100
girls. The present building on Syca-
more street, can accommodate only
twenty-five girls.
DR.. Carrel on Darwinism.-A few
days ago DR.. Carrel, in an interview
in New York paper, thus paid his
to what is called the Darwin
ian theory: Recent discoveries in
science tend to refute the Darwinian
theory rather than to confirm it. Physi-
illogical and anthropological science
regards the formation and similarity
of the various tissues and glands,
their natural longevity of life, and
their ability to thrive when trans
ferred to the opposite being as the
basis for comparison.
This being accepted as the true STAN
dard for reasoning, then, most as
suredly man never had an ape or an
as a prehistoric ances-
tor"
Priest Physician Dead.-Rev. Mat
thew J. Mcdonald, S. j., who had been
for several years a chaplain of the city
Institutions on the islands in Boston
harbor, died recently of pneumonia
He was native of Boston, and before
becoming priest was a doctor, a
graduate of the Harvard Medical
School.
Will Enlarge Southern College
Ground has been broken for the cree
ton of two wings to the main building
of Holy Cross College, New Orleans.
Modern requirements and the steady
increase in the number of pupils have
made it imperative to enlarge the IA
cilities of the institution, which is in
charge of the Fathers of the Holy
Cross, of Notre Dame, Ind. The addi-
ton will cost about fifty thousand dol
lars.
Flourishing Catholic Association
The Young Mems Catholic Association
of Boston was started three years ago
under the leadership of Timothy j.
with the modest quota of fifty
last year had an enrolment of five