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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-08-16

From time to time during the
past few years announcements APP
peared in the public press that the
Right Reverend Francis Aidan
Gasquet, Abbot-President Of the
English Benedictines, intended to
make lecture tour in the United
States.
These announcements were pre-
mature. Owing to circumstances,
the Abbot Gasquet found it
impossible to leave his official
duties for any great length of
time. Now, however, we are in a
position to state that he will give
series of lectures in the larger
cities of the United States, during
the course of the autumn.
His lecture tour will be under
the auspices Of the Knights of Co
lumbus. At the meeting Of the
National Board held in Boston on
the eve of last weeks national
convention, a special representa-
tive Of the Abbot Gasquet-the
Reverend Michael Michel, O. S. B.,
of Farmingdale, N. Y.-appeared
before the Supreme Officers and
Directors and asked that the
Knights of Columbus, as an organ
ization, allow the Abbot Gasquet
to give his lectures under
its auspices-a proposal to which
the board very readily assented,
in view of the personal worth of
the distinguished prelate, no less
than his scholarly attainments and
the character of the work in which
he is engaged. A conference will
soon be held between the Abbot
Gasquet and the representatives
of the Knights of Columbus at
which final arrangements will be
made for the series of lectures to
be given under the auspices of the
Order.
The Abbot Gasquet, as is gen
orally known, is the head of the
Benedictine Order in England.
When His Holiness, Pope Plus X,
determined to undertake the stu
pendous task Of revising the Latin
Bible, he asked the Benedictlnes
to take charge of the work, which
they readily consented to do. In
1907 the Abbot Gasquet was cnos-
en- head of the commission which
was entrusted with the task OF re-
vising the Vulgate. The initial
expense Of this great undertaking
was borne by Pope Plus X; but in
order that an opportunity might
be given to Catholics everywhere
to participate in this work, His
Holiness commissioned the Abbot
Gasquet to appeal to the gener-
osity of the children Of the Church
and others throughout the wtrld.
So far the contributions Of the
faithful, particularly in America,
have enabled him to find the
money requisite to carry on the
work of revision, and the lecture
tour which he is about to un1er-
take in America is for the purpose
of adding substantially to the
funds required for the completion
OF the project.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-08-16
ALCOHOL AND DIGESTION.

Many of you have assured me, says
Norman Kerr, M. D., that your diges-
ton is SO weak, that nothing but the
little quantity of alcohol you take
keeps you up and enables you to
digest your food. So far from beer,
wine and ardent spirits aiding diges-
ton, they have exactly the opposite
effect. They alter the state Of the
digestive fluid of the stomach, and
thereby impair digestion. When you
have overloaded your stomach, the re-
lief from pain you feel after a glass
of spirits is nothing but the deaden-
ing of the nerves of sensation. The
narcotic SO blunts the feeling as does
chloroform, that you no longer feel
oppressed or panied, but the overdose
of food is still there, and can not be
digested till your stomach is freed
from the alcohol Three-fourths OF
the cases of indigestion which 1 see
arise from drinking. Strong drink Of
every kind is, therefore, not a neces-
sary nor useful article of diet. It is
not needed, and it 10 no good for
health.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-08-16

In letter to the Toledo Record,
Protestant reader Of that paper
says, anent the A. P. A. revival :
professionalism is a great plat
form, whereon all churches
agnostics and infdels, too-can
stand without division in abusing
the Catholic Church, and join
hands and sing psalms to anything
that looks favorable to curbing its
progress. 1t is the lofty position
occupied by the Catholic Church
of holding itself far above SANDER
ers, vilifers and blackguards,
that appeals to the heart Of the
Protestant of higher standing
There is much truth in this as
any right-thinking Protestant will
admit. When there is a question
of opposing the Catholic Church
all the sects are a unit. Whatever
petty grievances they may, at
other times, cherish against one
another, are forgotten when the
call to arms against the common
foe is sounded.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-08-16

tators, in America, or England
but assuredly, the principle Of toll
Grafton would be stretched to it's
Limit (48, u. If the most en-
Heightened and tolerant nations
would have taken this view of
Ferrer's teaching, we are justified
in concluding that it was of that
bad kind which is worse than
none. Moreover, these general
statements of Archer do not ex-
hibit with sufficient defniteness
the utter virulence and depravity
of the sentiments which Ferrer
diffused in his schools and text
books. Here are few specimens.
The first is from his Compendio
de Historic Universal: This
sweet Saviour is devoid of filial
sentiment, and let's pass no oppor-
tunity to repulse His mother %.
49,. The following appears in
his Third Reader, entitled, Patrio-
tismo y Colonization: Don't get
excited about the flag, which is
only three yards Of cotton stuck
on the end Of pole Up. 15),
Property has been established by
spoilation, cunning, trickery, by
rapacity and deception under the
name of commerce and industry
(p. 24). The words, country
flag, family, arouse in me no more
than hypothetical echoes Of wind
and sound Up. 80). Here is a
simple but comprehensive state
ment of his views about political
authority; it is taken from his
Historic de Espana (p. 1917 Gov
eminent, usurpation, tyranny "a
question Of words; not only all
government, more or less legiti-
mate, but all power is tyranny.
No wonder Mr.. Percival Gibbon
refused to believe that teaching of
this sort was any more possible
in Barcelona than in Philadelphia
Mcclure s, Oct, 1910, 7O3, p.
have borrowed three extracts and
references from Villaescusa S La
Revolution de Julio en- Barcelona
(l9O9). I have no reason to doubt
their genuineness.
Clearly, it were better for the
children who frequented Ferrer's
schools that they had never seen
him nor his text books, even
though they might have remained
ignorant Of some natural science
which he taught them in pervert-
ed perspective, and with false in
terpretations and conclusions. Not
as an educator was Ferrer a mar
tyr of progress. :"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-08-16
K. OF G. WILL MEET IN ST
PAUL.

The next National Convention
of the Knights Of Columbus will
be held in st. Paul in August,
1914. For many years the Knights
of Columbus have been anxious to
hold a national convention in this
city; but the members of st. Paul
Council felt that they could not
entertain them in a knightly style
until their magnificent new home
was completed. AS soon as it be-
came known that st. Paul had a
Knights of Columbus building I'M
surpassed by any on the continent,
it was a foregone conclusion that
the Knights from all parts of the
country would be so anxious to
see it that nothing could prevent
their coming to st. Paul on the
year following it's dedication.
Now it behooves st. Paul Council
to bestir itself and lose no time in
mapping out, in a general way, at
least, program for the entertain
ment Of the hundreds of delegates
and the thousands of visitors who
will take possession Of the city
during convention week. No doubt
the Knights of Columbus of Min
neapolis, as well as those of the
State and Of the Northwest, will
show a knightly spirit of co-opera-
ton, in order that next years. con-
vention may not be surpassed by
any heretofore held.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-08-16
AN IMPERATIVE CALL.

A man staggering down the rail-
road that passes a couple of saloons,
writes Father Landing in the Pitts
burg Observer, escaped the locomotive
of the oncoming train, but lost his
balance and fell under the passing
cars, which cut off both his hands and
his head. 1t was not pleasant task
for saloonkeeper to acknowledge,
when telephoning for the priest, that
the unfortunate man was drunk. But,
of course, he had not got his drink in
the saloon. Saloons are not licensed
to sell to men of Incorporate habits
in fact, the license law forbids them
to do so-and they are VIGOROUSLY
law-abiding, as everyone knows And
there are no speakeasies in the neigh
borhood where the accident occurred.
1t did not lessen the shock much for
the priest to find out that the
wretehed victim did not belong to his
congregation. He had told his peo-
pie just the day before that an in
temperate Catholic did more harm to
the Catholics of a community than
all the 'Menaces" that could be cir
culated in it, and more harm to the
cause of Christ; for he was right
there and his conduct could not be
denied nor explained away. But the
bell in the poor fellows church did
not toll for prayers for his soul after
the Angelus, as is the custom; that
would have been too scandalous. So
would it be to have the usual pro-
cession from the dead-house to the
church and Requiem on the occa-
sion of his funeral. But it was not
considered scandal for members of
the congregation to sign petitions
for licenses for these saloons instead
OF trying, as the Church directs, to
induce them to withdraw from the
dangerous business and betake them
selves to a more becoming way of
making living. Comment would be
useless; facts should speak with more
persuasion than words. But to rise.
to answer such a call, from reading
an account of one of a party of three
drinking men being burned to death
when a burning lamp set off a can of
powder is pretty shocking even to
the hardened nerves of an old pastor.
Is there not an imperative call for
something more being done to check
the ruthless march of soul-destroying
alcoholic drink? Have you done your
whole duty in the matter?
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-08-16

The venerable editor of the
Western Waterman states in the
current issue that Archbishop
Glennon has resigned the Supreme
Chaplaincy of the Knights of Co.
lumbus. F." Evidently, this is a case
of Homer nodding. Archbishop
Glennon as never Supreme Chap
lain of the Knights Of Columbus.
The Rev. P. J. Mckinney of Mid
dletown, Conn, brother of the
Rev. M. j. Mckinney, who founded
the Knights of Columbus, has been
Supreme Chaplain Of the order for
many years, and, no doubt, will
continue to occupy that position
as long as he wishes to retain it.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-08-16
RETREAT FOR THE DIOCESAN
CLERGY.

Next week the reverend clergy
of the Archdiocese of st. Paul will
make their annual retreat at the
st. Paul Seminary. For four days
they will devote themselves exclu-
Sively to considerations effecting
their own spiritual welfare. For
this purpose they will withdraw
from their ordinary duties entire
~, turn a deaf ear to the daily
calls of pastoral life, and shut out
as far as possible the distractions
incident to the work of the minis
try. During the retreat they will
give themselves over to meditation
on the great truths of religion, in
order to re-attune their souls to
the music of the spiritual life. I'm
der the direction Of an expert
enced retreat master, they will
60 into the DESERT where, with
the ceaseless din of the world no
longer reSounding in their ears,
they will be the better prepared to
cast an retrospective glance on
their own souls, and view their
spiritual condition in the clearer
light that comes from more init
mate communing with God.
The coming week, therefore,
will be a time of personal spiritual
refreshment for the priests, who,
during the rest of the year, are
busy sabout many things. = At
other times, they must, perforce,
be content to snatch, as il were, a
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-08-16

Although the time for gaining
the Jubilee indulgence does not
end until December 8, it is not ad-
visable to postpone this salutary
work until the eleventh hour. It
should be borne in mind that the
Jubilee indulgence, which is ap-
plicable to the souls in Purgatory,
can be gained as often as the pre-
scribed works are performed. This
is a concession which the faithful
should not be slow to take advan-
tage of.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-08-16
CATHOLIC SOCIAL
ACTION IN ENG Lam D

The Catholic social movement is
still only very young in England,
writes Henry Somerville, the Central
Blatt and Social Justice. It may be
said to have begun with the founding
of the Catholic Social Guild in 1909.
Of course, long before that time a
vast amount of social work was being
performed by Catholics. There was a
long list of bodies, religious and lay,
which devoted themselves to the sue
cor of the many forms of human need.
In the later decades of the nineteenth
century Catholic Democracy had a
representative in the person of Car
dinal Manning. But at this time it
could not be said that Catholics as a
body possessed a real social consci-
BUSINESS. Though they performed he
roic work in attacking particular evils
they did not think of the social
problems as a whole. They did not
conceive of the larger aim of social
reconstruction, though they were
ahead of all others in remedial work
such as orphanages, rescue work, visi-
tation of the poor in their homes,
hotels for the aged and the sick and
other corporal works of mercy.
The truth is that the Church in Eng
land, since emancipation was grant
ed in 1919, has been for the most
part engrossed in providing for imme-
date needs and had no leisure for a
thorough study of social science in
the wide sense. Catholic energies
were wanted first and foremost to get
bricks and mortar necessary for build
ing schools and churches. From this
building stage" the Catholic Church
in England is just emerging and hew
tasks are being undertaken. One of
the most important of these is the
study of the social question with a
view to the application of Catholic
principles in the reform of existing
conditions Hence the formation of
the Catholic Social Guild at the Annual
Catholic Conference held in Manthes-
ter in 1909.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-08-16
RUM AND RACE SUICIDE.

For every child Of total abstainers
that dies under two years of age, five
children Of drinking parents die, says
DR.. J. H. Kellogg. If this percentage
holds good throughout the United
States, then we are confronted with
the fact that since the dawn OF the
twentieth century to the first Of jan
uary, 1912, one million babies under
two years Of age died as the results
Of the drink habit Of their parents.
This ~ race suicide on colossal
scale.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-08-16
LEARN FROM THE ENEMY.

L'Asino, a vile sheet published
in Rome, bristling with insult to
the Church and stepped in antag-
onism to the Papacy, now issues a
Special North American Edition,
which can be procured from at
least one newsdealer in ST. Paul.
This publication, which is printed
in Italian, makes an appeal to the
same class of readers as that to
which the Menace and other anti
Catholic papers cater. No self
respecting person will deign to
read its inane drivel, and no in
telligent person, whatever his re-
ligious convictions, will be infu-
enced by its puerile attacks on the
Church of Ages.
This widespread distribution of
l. Asino is another evidence of the
energy displayed by the enemies
of the Church in their campaign
of calumny and misrepresenta-
ton. L'Asino cannot have very
large circle of readers in this
country; and yet the publishers
evidently believe that the demand
for it justifes their making a spe-
cial effort to place it within reach
of all who care to read it. If
there is not a great demand for
this sheet at present, it's promoters
are doing all they can to create
one.
The sleepless activity of the enc
mics of the Church in the propa-
cation of bigotry through the me-
dunn of printers ink, conveys a
much-needed lesson to apathetic
Catholics who fail to realize not
only the necessity of fortifying
themselves with good Catholic lit
erature, but also of doing some
thing to bring about a wider diff
fusion of truth regarding the
Church, in order that they and
their fellow Catholics may be pre-
pared to refute the insinuations
and false statements made in this
country concerning the tenets and
practices Of the Catholic Church.
The most effective way of combat
ing error is by means of truth.
Let the light shine into the dark
ness and soon the darkness will be
dispelled. The greater the educa-
ton and enlightenment of our
Catholic people, the less effective
will be the shafts Of bigotry hurled
against that which they hold most
sacred by those who love the dark
ness rather than the light. The
most effective weapon which
Catholics can employ to beat back
the advancing hordes of bigotry,
is the Catholic press. The widest
possible diffusion should be given
to Catholic newspapers, period
Gals and books, in order that no
child of the Church may be left
unprovided with ammunition to
carry on the fight on behalf of re-
ligion. The cooperation of all is
necessary for success, If the enc
mics of the Church would be put
to fight. No more effective wea-
pons can be used than those which
have been turned against the
truth itself. The success of every
movement depends largely on the
amount of printers ink poured out
In the cause. Let us show forth
the truth and beauty of the Cath
Ole Church by a more widespread
and effective distribution of Cath
Ole literature and the new era Of
enlightenment which will dawn
will drive bigotry and error from
the sun-kissed heights into the
dark caverns where they can do
no harm to an intelligent people.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-08-16

The Assumption of the Blessed
Virgin Mary into heaven was the
Saviour's tribute to her immacu-
late purity. The devout clients of
Mary who copy her projections
will never experience the moral
corruption that follows in the
wake of unrepented sin.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-08-16
SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 1918.

An indulgence of three hundred
days can be gained by the faithful
every time they raise their hats in
passing church as a mark of rev.
erence for the Blessed Sacrament.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-08-16
Catholic Social Guild.

AS already said, the object o. the
Guild was to apply Catholic principles
to the reform of social conditions, to
bring all social and economic institu-
tions and relationships into harmony
with the will of God. From the out
set the Guild realized that it's first
requisite for the performance d the
work was knowledge knoWledke of
the abstract general principles and of
the particular, concrete conditions to
which they are to be applied. AID as
the first need was knowledge thu first
task was study. Accordingly the
activities Of the Guild since is in
ception have been mainly educafona
such as the production and circulation
of Catholic social literature ami the
organization and direction of study
clubs.
In every respect these efforts have
been conspicuously successful Df the
publications of the Guild I ned not
say much as the readers of thik jour-
nal can read them and Judge tn km for
themselves. The circulation of these
works has been nearly as grtat as
their quality merits. They haze all
been issued at popular prices anets
at Is Cd per 100; penny pamphlets;
sixpenny manuals and year bodzs and
q textbook Of social science atE1s Sd.
The questions dealt with are Why va
ried, but they are all Tive" QUESTIONS
of the day like Socialism, Eusenics,
Femfnism, The Abolition of Iestitu-
ton. Housing Reform, Remedks for
Sweating. etc, etc.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-08-16

To think kindly of each other is
good, to speak kindly Of each other is
better, but to act kindly towards each
other il best OF all.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-08-16

Entered as second-class matter, jan
1ary IL IL 1911. at the post ONCE, st.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-08-16

Rev. JAMES M. REARDoN, Editor.
B. P. KOLEsKY, Advertising Manager.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-03-07
AVERTING A MUTINY
By HOWARD BROWN.MOORE

snowtiakes one person was discover
able.
At the wheel stood helmsman. The
ship scudded across our course not Il
hundred yards i'll advance of us, and
only the one man was to be seen. He
was mOtionleSs except for the rolling
of the ship. | hailed. but he neither
answered nor turned even to look at
us. He was not plainly visible and
only so for Il few moments, for no
sooner did he reach the nearest point
to US than snow squall hid both him
and his ship, and when it th;nned the
vessel WAS but Il few indiStinct lines.
Sailors are the most superstitiOuS
people in the world. and my crew was
Of the lowest and most superstitious
type of sailors. | could see by their
appearance that they considered the
passing vessel a phantom and the
WhCelman q ghost.
Here was my opportunity. Drawing
my revolver and motioning White
more to follow me, walked b:iSily
forward. On reaching the forecaStle
[ covered Billings with my revolver
and ordered him to walk aft. He look
ed at the men for help. but saw that
they were cOWed and Obeyed the or
der, | marched him down the gang
way, and in few minutes my mates
had him diSarmed and in irons. Then
went again on deck and told the
crew that if they wished to escape Il
hanging when we reached port they
had better return to duty at once.
Most OF them obeyed with a!acrtty
Those who showed signs of giving fur
Their trouble l had put in irons by the
very men they had been influencing to
mutiny.
The wind howled that night, and the
next day we got an observation. Find
ing that | was far out of my course
put her off considerably. sailing in the
direction Of the phantom. In another
day we Overhauled her. As we came
up aStern of her we saw her name, the
Aida of Tacoma. Wash. There was
the man still at the wheel, but not an
other person in sight. | drew up be-
side her as near as | deared. and. ex-
amining the helmsman through a glass,
saw that he was stone dead.
| sent a boats crew aboard, who
found that the ship had been dismast-
ed in a gale and deserted by her crew.
The man at the wheel was her cap
tain, who had undoubtedly refused to
abandon his ship. Finding his strength
failing, he had dashed himself to the
wheel steered his vessel for hundreds
of miles through icy storms and had
frozen at his post
The only good his heroism and suf-
ferings accomplished was the saving of
my life.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-03-07
A SQUIRRELS Emotion.

A physician who lives near a public
park in which there are number
of squirrels had an especial inter
est in a particular pair which made
their home in tree within sight or
his house. One day he noticed that
one of this pair was running up ana
down u tree in the park, chattering i'll
the greatest excitement. Finally the
little fellow appeared on branch,
holding between his paws the severed
head of his mate, over which he was
moaning and whining pitifully. ON
investigation it appeared that the
dead squirrel had been caught ana
actually decapitated by a limb split
off from the tree by Il storm the night
before. The grief stricken mate would
not abandon the body all that day and
mourned over the severed head with
an intensity and absorption which
seemed almost human. - London EN-
press.