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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-03-14
OBLA7E PROVINCIAL DEAD
FATHER LEFEBVRE OF LOWELL
WAS HEAD OF THE AMERICAN
PROVINCE OF HIS ORDER SINCE
1893.

Rev. Joseph Lefebvre, o. M. l., for
mer Provincial of the Oblate Order OF
the United States, died at the rectory
of st. Joseph's Church, Lowell, Mass.
on March 4, in the seventy-ninth year
of his age.
Rev. Joseph Lefebvre, o. M. l., was
born in Constant, Que, April Is, 1885
He was educated in the Seminary OF
ST. Sulpice in Montreal, entering the
Oblate Order in 1854 upon the com
pletion of his studies there. His theo
logical studies were finished in St
Joseph's College of the Oblate Order
in Ottawa. He was ordained in June
1853.
In 1873 he became provincial pur
veyor for the Canadian province. Fol
the next twenty-five years he was on
duty in st. Peters Church, the largest
Church of the Oblate Order in Mon
treal
In 1898 he was appointed Provincial
of the American province, which then
comprised the whole of the United
States.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-03-14
FATHER LORENTE HONORED
APPOINTED VISlTAToR GENERAL
FOR THE DOMlNIcANS IN
LATIN AMERICA AND CUBA.

Very Rev. Thomas Lorente, o. P,
rector of st. Anthony's Church, New
Orleans, has been appointed Visitator
General for the Dominican Order for
Mexico, Central America, Cuba and
Porto Rico.
Father Lorente is Vicar of the
Dominicans of the Holy Rosary in the
United States, and was at one time
professor of Canon Law in ST. Thomas
University, Manila, P. l. In 1899 he
was appointed private secretary to
Archbishop Chappelle. Later he was
made pastor of st. Anthony's Church,
and since his appointment he has
established fine seminary at Rosary
vile, La. He will visit the Dominican
converts in Latin America and Cuba,
and send report to Rome
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-03-14
BEAD ROLL OF CONVERTS
PROMINENT WRITERS WHO HAVE
BEEN RECEIVED INTO THE
CHURCH.

Anti-Catholic preachers and publica-
tions fairly revel in telling of the
Church's attempt to foster ignorance
among her people. In doing SO big
otry merely exposes it's own ignor-
ance, says the Catholic Record of Lon
don, Ont.
Among men and women well known
in our literary life the following are
converts to the Church: Miss B.
Anderson ("White Avis"), John Ays-
cough" Rev. F. Aveling; &c. M. An
thony," Miss E. Austice Baker, Anita
Bartle, Madam Belize, Dudley Baxter,
David Bearne, S. j., Egerton Beck,
Edmund Bishop, James Britten, X. S.
G., Miss Bradley and Miss Cooper
("Michael Field'), Montgomery Car
michael, Madame Cecilia, Cecil Ches-
terton, Rev. J. Copus, S. j., Mrs. v.
M. Crawford, Isabel Clarke, Felicia
Curtis, Mary Angela Dickens, Herbert
Dean, Louisa E. Dobree, Mrs. East
wich (''Pleydell North"), Ruth Eyer
ton, F. Y. Eccles, Rev. G.. A. Ellington,
%. P, Margaret Fletcher, Robert
Francillion, Mrs. Hugh Fraser, Rev. r.
Garrole, S. j., S. T. Gatty, F. s. A.,
Rev. T. ]. Gerard, e. Gilliat Smith,
Emily Hickey, Margaret Hewitt, Rev.
E. R. Hull, S. j., Mrs. Arthur w. Hut
ton, Wentworth Huyshe, Genevieve
Irons, Frances Jackson, Mrs. Coulson
Kernahan, Mrs. Hamilton King, Mrs.
Leggatt, Shane Leslie, w. s. Lilly, T.
Longueville ("The Prig"), Miss NJ.
Mallock, Lucas Malet," J. Hobson
Matthews, Mrs. William Maude, Will
fred Meynell, Mrs. Meynell. Rev. P.
NJ Northcote, w. Vance Packman,
May Pemberton, Mrs. Hungerford Pol
len, Mrs. Raymond Barker, Robert
Ross, ]. F. Scholield, Aimee Sewell,
Alice Shield, Rev. s. F. Smith, s. j,
Hugh Spender, Miss F. M. Steele, Ida
Taylor, Leslie Toke, Rev. Vassail-
Phillips, c. IS. r. Canon We're, Mary
Alice Walls, E. Vincent Wareing,
Maude Valerie White, G. c. Williams
son, Mrs. Yorke Smith, Rev B. Zim-
norman.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-03-14
THE NEW CATHE ORAL
GIVES NOTE OF DISTINCTION TO
ST. PAUL-WILL ATTRACT
VISITORS.

"Girard,' who conducts brilliant
column on Topics of the Town" in
the Public Ledger of Philadelphia,
says the ST. Paul Dispatch, bewails
the fact that the City of Brotherly
Love, like most American cities, has
no church of outstanding architectural
distinction, although in theaters, pub
lie buildings and the like Philadelphia
can vie successfully with the best Eu-
rope or the United States has to offer.
1--WE have handsome churches, as
churches go in this country, but not
one great church. In this respect
Philadelphia differs from no other
American city, except, possibly, two
where beautiful cathedrals are now
building. Considered solely as an edu-
cational object every big city should
have at least one overmastering re-
ligious edifice.''
Girard no doubt has st. Paul in
mind as one of the two American
cities where beautiful Cathedrals are
now building" and the Cathedral, like
the state capitol, will in the future be
one of the show places of the city. In
this connection Girard says: "Since
countless Americans travel thousands
of miles every year to see European
Cathedrals, it would seem like COM
mon sense to have a few at home"
Unquestionably the Cathedral now
building here will attract visitors from
far and wide, and constitute one more
argument why tourists en- route to one
or the other coast should include st.
Paul in their itinerary
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-03-14
AUSTRALIANS PIONEER PRIEST
FATHER DIXON WAS TRANSPORT
ED AFTER THE REBELLION OF
'9s AND SPENT TEN YEARS ON
THE AUSTRALIAN MISSION
DIED IN IRELAND IN 184o.

When Father Dixon's remains were
recently transferred from the old
churchyard of Crossabeg, County Wex-
ford, Ireland, to the plot reserved for
priests in the new church, a tragedy
of the troubled times" of '9S was
vividly recalled.
In those days when Wexford flung
her little army of pikemen against
the strength of English guns and
bayonets, Rev. James Dixon was a
priest in this little parish near New
Ross. Because his sympathies were
all with his afflicted people, he soon
became marked man, and was ar
rested and transported to Australia.
1t is recorded that on that terrible trip
to the Antipodes on the convict ship
Father Dixon was chained to the
corpse of black man and was left
attached thus till the rats had almost
carried away the corpse bit by bit.
Only one destined for greater service
could have held to life and reason
through such an ordeal. Father Dixon
was the pioneer priest of Australia
and his name is still reverenced there.
After ten years ministry at the ends
of the earth, he returned to Ireland
and served as priest in his native
parish of Castlebridge His death oc-
Cured in 1910, and he was buried in
the old churchyard plot of Crossabeg.
After seventy-four years his remains
have been transferred to a new place
of rest "The Mills of God'' have been
working steadily since Father Dixon
was first laid away under the sod of
Wexford and new day has dawned
for his people. He was only one
among many Irish priests who suffered
not alone torture and Imprisonment
for their faith and country, but the
long, slow martyrdom of watching the
decimation of their people in those
trying times gone by.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-03-14

Last week the trustees of the Col
lege of st. Thomas approved the plans
drawn by Butler Bros, for a new
building which will serve as COM
bination armory and club house. The
contract for it's erection was let to
Butler Bros, tor more than $4,000.
The new building will house both
parts under the same roof. The front
portion of the structure will serve as
a club house, the first floor being de-
voted exclusively to this purpose. The
second floor will be used as an audi
torium with a seating capacity of
nine hundred. 1t will serve for all
sorts of reunions, lectures, etc., as
web as for the commencement exer-
cises. In the basement will be placed
lockers and baths and shooting gal
lery for indoor target practice which
constitutes an important part of the
winter military work of the cadets.
The front portion of the building
containing the club house and audi
torium will be 100 feet in length and
So feet in breadth. The armory prop
er will extend 172 feet back from the
club house and will be 100 feet wide.
1t will be the largest hall in the Twin
Cities with the exception of the St
Paul Auditorium. The walls will be Is
feet high and an arched roof, spanned
by trusses, will be 2S feet above the
floor at it's highest point. A portion
of the floor space will be reserved for
gymnasium, but it will be so arranged
that the whole floor will be available
at a moments notice for drills, tour
naments, athletic competitions and
the like.
The building will be of red pressed
brick, the club house section being
two stories high with basement. The
lower part of the armory Will
also be of red pressed brick, while the
upper part will be arched. The build
ing will face toward Cleveland ave
nue. and lie parallel to Summit and
the rear part of the armory proper
will practically reach the east wall OF
the athletic field.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-03-14
DIVORCE STATISTICS
TWO MILLION DIVORCES IN
AMERICA IN FIFTY YEARS.

The Secretary of an international
Congress on Marriage and Divorce,
Dr. Moody of San Francisco has COM
piled statistics of divorce in the
United States for some fifty years
past. He told the State Commission
of California the other day that the
total rises to 100000.
The worst feature, perhaps, is the
increasing ratio of late years. With
only 100000 married women in the
country, 10000 divorces are reported
during the year just closed-a greater
number than ever before. More than
100000 children" DR.. Moody says,
have been needlessly deprived of one
or both parents by the divorce court.
The result has been an increase in the
attendance at reform schools, orphan
ages and I'm some instances at the rate
of from 33 per cent to 100 per cent"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-03-14
THE OPENING OF PARLIAMENT

was moment of silence as the pro-
cession passed through the Horse
Guards, and then, while the Irish
Guards band crashed into the Nation
al Anthem, the procession itself came,
as brilliant as ever and losing none
of it's charm or picturesqueness from
familiarity. First the glittering Life
Guards, then the Royal carriages,
then more Life Guards, then the old
State coach in all its barbaric splen-
dour, and again Life Guards.
A Royal Pageant.
The procession moved at a foot's
pace in the bright sunlight all scar
let and white and gold, black horses
and bay and cream, with the trample
of hoofs and tossing of plumes, while
the air rocked with the music and
cheering. The pageant looked very
stately as it moved deliberately down
the broad road to Parliament square
where in every direction again the
crowd was dense.
Both the King and Queen looked
well as they bowed to right and left
in acknowledgment of their welcome
AS soon as they had arrived at the en-
trance to the House of Lords the thun-
der of the first of the Al guns was
heard from st. James Park, where,
to the terror and confusion of the
waterfowl, they were fired from in
side the ratings of the Park pointing
westward over the ornamental water
Most of the spectators remained
along the route to see the return of
the procession, which was slightly
earlier than had been expected. The
State coach had re-entered the Palace
gates and the troops were filing away
by o'clock. Ten minutes later the
sky became overcast and the late af-
ternoon was grey and chill. 1t was as
if the Kings weather had come to
do honour to the occasion.
Continued on Page8)
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-03-14
THE ANGELIC DOCTOR

ST. THOMAS is THE PATRON OF
CATHOLIC SCHOOLS, THE MOD.
Ell OF TEACHERS AND PUPILS
EXTRACT FROM A SERMON
PREACHED BY FATHER GILLEN
ON THE PATRoNAL FEAST OF
THE COLLEGE OF ST. THOMAS.
The patronal Feast of the College
of st. Thomas was commemorated on
Thursday, March IL, by solemn relig-
iouS services at which the faculty and
student body of the College and of st.
Paul Seminary, as we'll as a number
of priests from the Twin Cities and
elsewhere, were present. The Solemn
High Mass was celebrated by the
Rev. Philip B. Gordon, graduate of
the College, and the sermon was
preached by the Rev. Matthias Gillen
of the teaching staff.
The Sermon.
After a brief introduction, Father
Gillen gave historical sketch of the
life and labors of St. Thomas and
made practical application of the les
sons to be drawn from his sanctity
and learning to the present duties and
future activity of the student body.
He said in part:
Descended from an imperial family,
endowed with more imperial mind,
by genius, an Italian, by race, of min
.gled Suabian and Norman blood, heir
to all the thought and feeling of
twelve centuries of Christianity wiser
with the wisdom of eXperience,-w
equipped was St. Thomas, prepared, it
would seem, by singular Providence,
for the task of making a vast and
final synthesis of world-knowledge,
such as was possible to the thirteenth
century.
Surveying the whole field of knoWl-
edge, welcoming truth from whence
soever it might come, he gathered his
material from every quarter. He real
lied at a glance that since God is the
author of all truth, divine truth must
be in perfect accord with the truths
which nature and reason had taught
him; that each separate created thing
reflects, in a certain measure, the wis
dom and power and beauty of God.
He enlisted in the service of faith the
sound reason of him whom he had
loved to call "the philosopher" care
fully sitting the wheat from the chaff,
cautiously separ51tihg trtstll FROM CT
ror Then, throwing the whole force
of his constructive power and lucidity
of exposition into one vast effort, he
reared his monumental structure. He
gave to the world for all time, as the
fruit of well-nigh half century OF
humble communing with God, his mas
terpiece, the Sum of the Science OF
God, the most perfect exposition OF
Christian Doctrine, system "clad in
a panoply that is proof against the
blow of the hereto and the thrust of
the unbeliever."
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-03-14
Honor the Saint.

Our meeting is not, however, to dis
cuss the subtle philosopher or the
consummate theologian, but to honor
the Saint There is tendency to dis
parage the commonplace, a desire to
look for the novel in ideas, and yet
there are times when We all need to
hear again counsels, not new but ever
true And | choose rather to impress
on the hearts of those who have not
yet borne the burden of the day and
the heat, for their inspiration and en-
ulation, few of the lessons which the
master has taught us.
Singularly- gifted minds always COM
mand our admiration. With his depth
of mind, and subtlity and clearness,
and irresistible logic, st. Thomas is,
indeed a genius to be admired. But
he is more; he is a model to be imi-
tated. His work is his life. AS the
one is the model of synthetic perfec-
tion, so is the other a perfect synthe-
sis In the mind of ST. Thomas, as we
CLEAN from his writings, we find the
most perfect blending of the natural
and supernatural. In his soul, the hu-
man qualities which spontaneously in
spire respect and admiration blend
harmoniously with heroic virtue, so
that he stands forth as one of the
most sanity of scholars and the most
scholarly of saints; and for this rea-
son was he chosen the ideal patron of
Catholic schools, the especial model
of Catholic teachers and Catholic stu
dents.
A Model for Students.
To him we look for intellectual light
and leading. From first to last he
was the most diligent of students who
in the search for knowledge and truth
scorned delights and lived laborious
days, and became an intellectual
giant Yet he was not puffed up by
his triumph; not arrogant, because OF
his superiority; not impatient with
the dull, nor severe towards the medi
ocre. Though he loved study, and be-
came possessed of all the learning oi
his day, he cared nothing for intellec
tual power except in so far as it pro
NOTED the interests of the Church ot
Christ Would that this example oil
unselfish devotion inspired you this
morning to dedicate to the service OF
the Church and the furtherance of di
vine truth, every fibre of your mind
and heart! Whether as layman OF
priest, a few years hence, . on are al
called to one and the same Apostle
ship, the promotion of the interests
of holy religion. You are now laying
the foundation. Men are but boys o1
larger growth. AS you are today
| fashioned in mind and heart, while a
this nursery of religion and learning
so you will be as men tomorrow
Yield, therefore, to the gentle mould
ing that is going on, perhaps imper
ceptibly, from day to day, and do no
shrink sluggishly from the labor anC
[Continued on Page8.l
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-03-14
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA
$4,000 SUBJECTS IN ONE GREAT
WoRK-INDEx VOLUME WILL
APPEAR ON MARCH 20.

The editors of The Catholic Ency-
ume will be ready for delivery on
March 20. This is just nine years
from the time of their organization as
a board of editors and seven years
from the appearance of Volume 1.
Some estimate of the amount of
labor required in the compilation of
this index volume may be formed
from the fact that it has taken one
year and four months after the COM
pletion of the fifteen volumes of the
encyclopedia proper, although it had
been in preparation four years before
that time.
Again, from the contents of the in
dex itself some estimate may be had
of the value Of the encyclopedia: Here
is information on every point in
which the intelligent Catholic can be
interested; here is an answer to every
question that can be raised about the
doctrine and practices of the Church
ments of it's members; here is a so
luton of every problem or difficulty
and settlement of every controversy
that has to do with the Christian re-
ligion or with the activity and in
fiuence of the Catholic Church and of
the religious bodies that have sepa-
rated from it; here is suggestion of
numberless lines of most useful read
ing. Finally here also is a revela-
tion of the marvellous and beneficent
operations and influence of the Church
in every sphere, in civilization and
progress, in material and economic de-
velopments, in art, literature, science,
education, sociology, as well as in the
various fields of ecclesiastical learn
ing.
Now that the Catholic Encyclopedia
is an accomplished fact, the editors
and all connected with the enterprise
are bent on making it an instrument
of sound knowledge and of good in
f1uence everywhere.
With view to putting it within the
reach of every Catholic, even of the
most moderate means, the publishers
have brought out several new editions
at prices to suit every purse, and they
have begun an active propaganda to
bring the work to the attention of
Catholics everywhere and of non
Catholics also.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-03-14
CHRISTIAN BROTHERS H0NORED
AUSTRIAN EMPEROR RECOGNIZES
THEIR DISTINGUISHED
SERVICES.

Three Christian Brothers recently
received distinguished honors in Aus
tria. Rev. Brother Gerhard, Pro-
vincial, has been named Imperial
Counsellor by His Majesty, the EN-
peror Francis Joseph. Brother Euche-
rius, Assistant Provincial, has re-
ceived the Cross of Knighthood of the
Order of Francis Joseph. In return
for services rendered by the Brothers
to destitute inhabitants of Scutari.
Albania, during the siege of that
town, Brother Celestinus, Director of
the Christian Brothers School there.
has been decorated with the gold
Cross and Crown given for distin-
guished service.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-03-14
AUSTRALIAN BISHOP DEAD
VICAR APOSTOLIC MURRAY OF
QUEENSLAND WAS A MEMBER
OF THE AUGUSTINIAN ORDER.

The Right Reverend Dominic J.
Murray, Titular Bishop of Issus, and
Vicar Apostolic Of Northern Queens
land, Australia, died last week. He
was born in West Ireland, and joined
the Augustinians in 1874. He finished
his theological course in Rome and
was ordained in 1880. In 1898, he
was made Vicar Apostolic of Northern
Queensland, and resided at Cooks
town. His vicariate has Catholic
population of seven thousand.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-03-14
LOST ROSES
written for The Catholic Bulletin by
James c. Nolan.)

cannot smell your roses when I'm
dead,
Nor see their petaled depths that hold
the dew;
Though banked in masses all about my
head,
No sense of mine can unto them pierce
through.
To me they must be as if they were
not;
Their all-transcending loVeliness be
lost.
Why bring them when cannot know
them? What
Shall quit your conscience of the
wasteful cost?
My catafalque be draped in somber
black
With lighted tapers at the feet and
head;
For so our fathers through the ages
back
Deemed fitting when they prayed be-
side their dead.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-03-14
APPOINTED GRAND CHAPLAIN

Kaiser Wilhelm has appointed by
royal decree Father Joppen, first
chaplain of the garrison of Breslau,
as Grand Chaplain of the German
Army and Navy. The Holy Father
has already appointed him Titular
Bishop and his episcopal consecra-
tion will take place on March % in
the parish church of the garrison at
Berlin
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-03-14
COLLEGE OF ST. THOMAS

Work on the building will begin
at once and the opening of the school
year next September will see St.
Thomas College provided with facili-
ties for athletics and military drill un-
equalled by any institution in the
Northwest.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-03-14
WRITER 4 CONvER7 I

The London Tablet announces the
recent reception into the Church of
Crawford Fitch, a brilliant writer,
whose "a Little Journey in Spain, /"
has lately appeared.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-03-14
CONTRACT LET FOR ARMoRY

LET FOR ARMoRY
AND CLUB HOUSE TO COST $7o,-
ooo-STRUcTURE WILL BE 23o
FEET LONG AND 100 WIDE
AUDITORIUM WILL SEAT 600
ARMORY WILL BE LARGEST IN
TWIN CITIES EXCEPT ST. PAUL
TORIUM-READY FOR OC-
CUPANCY NEXT SEPTEMBER.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1914-10-23
New York.
NEW YORK, Oct. IL, 1914

NEW ORk, OcC. IL, 1914.
The leaf market is still being held
under the spell of Wisconsin boom.
Transactions in Wisconsin during the
week were plentiful and in considerable
quantities. Almost everybody who has
got the cash or credit is piling up this
favorite binder. leaf to last them for at
least year or longer. Prices are will
ingly paid as long as the clean goods
can be had from reliable houses. Under
the present rush it will of course not
take long before the best and most de-
sirable packings will be disposed of,
and then the price is surely to advance
on the leftover grades. The lively de-
mand for the Sumatra is also holding
out. From the condition of the Euro
pean war it is being now generally sur
missed that the hostilities are likely to
continue during the next year. And if
so there is no prospect of the resump-
tion off the inscriptions next year.
Manufacturers who realize the situa-
tion are therefore hurrying to put in a
years supply of Sumatra frsm the
stock on hand. In other types the mar
ket was steady but did not show any
signs of absorbing activity. journal.