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The Irish standard., 1915-10-30

acquire their present intellectual
status and influence, but there can be
no doubt that in mucn less time our
own Catholic University will equal and
even outshine them, in proportion as
our beloved country is called on to
render to humanity new and glorious
services.
More than ever am l convinced, as
the result of very long life in the
ministry of Holy Church, that Catho-
lie University is indispensable for the
perfect formation of her priesthood
and for all the higher needs of our
Catholic religious life. l believe firm
| ly, as said on previous occasion, that
such strong and independent center
of the best studies will be an incom-
parable benefit to all sections of the
country, providing as it will profess
sors, courses, libraries, laboratories,
collections, and varied opportunities
which local generosity could with diff
ficulty bring together and utilize in
the most efficient way. Our Catholic
University is the natural place where
our young priests should obtain that
superior training which enables them
to become profound students of Divine
Revelation, powerful and eloquent
preachers of the Word of God, eff
cient helpers in the diocesan admin
istration, professors in our ecclesias-
teal seminaries, superintendent Of
our parochial schools, writer's and
journalists of the best reputation, fin
ished scholars in every branch of
learning. 1t is impossible to overes-
innate the services which Univer-
sity, free from partisan or sectarian
bias and guided by the spirit of our
immemorial Catholic faith, can render
the cause of true religion, by training
its ministers in every form of intel
lectual excellence, and thereby prov
ing by facts that our holy religion well
comes and encourages all the gifts
and conquests of reason. Similarly,
our young lay students, enjoying the
advantages of the highest education
under the guidance of the Catholic
Church, will love and respect her from
their tender youth, will see in her the
leader of peoples and nations in the
way of real progress and true civiliza-
ton, will behold in their Catholic pro-
fessors men of the highest attain
ments and noblest character, and will
one day themselves rank among the
foremost opponents and defenders of
our American life and institutions.
Truer today than ever are the IA
nous prophetic words of Archbishop
Spalding pronounced in presence of
the Third Plenary Council of Balti-
more:
'In whatsoever direction we turn
our thoughts arguments rush in to
show the pressing need for us of a
center of life and light such as a
Catholic university would be. With.
out this we can have no hope of en-
tering as determining force into the
living controversies of the age; with
out this we shall lack point of union
to gather up, harmonic and intensity
our scattered forces; without this our
bishops must remain separated and
continue to work in random ways;
without this the noblest souls will
look in vain for something larger and
broader than local charity to make
appeal to their generous hearts; with.
out this we shall be able to offer but
feeble resistance to the false theories
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MOTHER MACHREE
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when he said that, but t'wasn't al.
ways a joke with him when he
laughed"
"And did any of your sons ever go
back there. Mrs. Lacy?" the governor
said to me then.
"The day came, sir" l said, when
the three sons you've named stood on
that cliff and cast the wild flowers
that they had gathered from between
the rocks down on the sea at the foot
of the cliff where their grandfather
was lost. And one after the other
they went to lay a blue flower or a red
one 1t might be, on the grave of their
! brother Gerald; and they would have
taken up the grave and all was in 1t
and brought it to be laid in a grave
here, but said no. Let the lovely
body of him fall to dry dust said,
beside the sea where his fathers
father gave up his life for others. IT'S
there he was born and tits there he
should lie,' told them, in the place
where people believe in the power of
holy wells, and where children up to
ten years of age do walk to the high
hill to see the fairy queen on Christ.
mas eve.'
mo. SIR" said to the governor,
seven sons and four daughters do
call me mother, and no day but their
children, one or more of them, do
come in loving-kindness to my knee
Not all of my eleven living children
may have great gift, but as my
father, God love his memory, would
say: You can spend your gift and
never any one have it again, or you
can cherish 1t to pass it on, in greater
strength it may be, to some one to
come after you. And who knows, SIR "
/ said, that many another the world
will never hear of may not be passing
the gift along to some one that will
make fuller use of it? No, no, sir,
seven good sons and four good daugh-
tiers I have living, and not one would
place before the other. Still less
would I put any one of them all be-
fore the poor lad that's now within
the prison walls"
It was two mornings ago when I
saw the governor, and this morning
before the coffin left the house for the
church Jerome came to me from the
prison.
Jerome avick let me see you in
the free light of the sun for free you
are to be all the days of your life, the
governor said" And he stood before
me; and his hair, that used to be
black as shining black rock under a
running tide. 1t was white as the same
tide running white before the gale;
and his face, that was one time brown
as the brown sail of his fathers yawl,
twas gray as gray rock now, and
thin like the two sides of fish dried
In the sun-oh, old and worn he was
beyond his years-never again would
he be the rowing soldier, but it wasn't
for his mother to tell him that.
Jerome" said, they will soon be
taking the body of your father to
where the solemn mass will be said
for him by holy priest o. God his
own son. And his voice rolling out
the terrible lamentations from the high
altar will fill the minds and hearts
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Of all there with the wonder of death
and judgment, and they will be giving
him great praise for it, when 'tisn't
him they should be praising priest O.
God though he is-'tis never his own
voice it will be, but the voice of his
people dead and gone before him
chanting up through him from the
depths of the deep, black sea, in sor:
row from a grave that heard never a
mass or prayer when in it they were
laid.
| And then down from the high al.
tar he will come, Jerome" said, land
say the blessed prayer for the dead
above his coffin, and twill be full of
the pain of death, but never a culver
of fear for it he will be feeling the
while he is saying them, for tits in his
blood to feel death but never to fear
it. And after it will come the holy
sprinkling water.
"And away from the altar-rail the
black undertaken will roll the bier and
the coffin on it, and then twill be you,
Jerome, and myself beside you, will
follow after"
And tbs then, MOTHER" says Je-
rome, that they will whisper all over
the church: is it the black murderer
she is choosing to walk behind her
dead husband?'"
mo, JEROME" said, but tits then
that they will whisper all through the
church: Otis the eldest son she has
chosen to be with her, and herself as
proud of him as woman may be that
walks behind her husbands coffin /"
And so it was-six tall sons and
four good daughters-and their grown
children after them-to follow his bier
out the middle AISLE but before them
all was Jerome; and twas Jerome
was by my side when down into the
black earth the coffin was lowered.
And twas then, when the first sod was
thrown on his body, l needed him.
Twas like something striking me a
blow inside, the sound of that first sod
on the coffin.
Mother machree" he said, "'tis
worn and torn your heart is for love of
us ALL"
jerome avick," said to that, "'tis
worn and torn the hearts of mothers
were before me and will be again
God help their children if they're not.
l go to no more funerals, Jerome, till
go to my own-stay by me you till
then"
"Tis myself, mother" he says, will
lay you down in the earth with my
own hands,"
And so he will, though his heart will
burst apart the while he will be do.
ing it. And seven sons and four
daughters I have, and not one would
| set before the other in the eyes of
the world, but in Jerome is the gift l
chose, the best gift of all for him be-
fore ever he was born.
Father in heaven" l prayed be-
fore he came to me, make him one
will feel for others pain the longest
day he lives!" And that He did; so
prison or no prison it's my own boy
he isl. B. Connolly in Scribner's
Magazine.
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BELLE PLANE.

Miss Angela Weibeler. daughter of
w. H. Weibeler, and Mr.. John Dur
renberger Of St. Paul were united in
marriage at SITS. Peter and Paul's
church Wednesday, Oct. 20, Rev. FIR.
Curry officiating.
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CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY.
Continued from Page ~

privileged to observe this large and
noble Catholic educational life. Ok
ford and Cambridge took centuries to
The sun., 1915-05-16
FRANCE MAY GIVE UP COLONY.
MiqueIOn Archipelago May ne Part
Of Newt fou dland.

ST. JoHN's, N. F.. May l5---The pos
sibility that the Miquclon Archipelago.
the last North American possession of
France. may he annexed to Sewfound-
land at tte close OF the European war
is receiving serious consideration in this
colony.
The little islands OF st, Pierre.
Miquclon and Langlade. short dis
lance off the south coast OF New
foundland, have formed for two GEN.
turtles the advance base for the French
cod fishery on the Grand Banks. In
recent years the prosperity of the tiny
colony las steadily diminished and all
possibility OF industrial progress for
some time TO rome was destroyed when
the French Government In February
last summoned all the able bodied men
In the island to the colors.
The town OF st, Pierre. where most
of the colonists live, Is now inhabited
only by aged men, women and chill
drcn. II is considered probable that
such of tie conscripts as survive the
war will he reluctant to return to a
struggling existence In the colony and
will seek wider opportunities In France.
Since bait fishing by the French has
been largely supplanted by steam
trawlers tire usefulness Of the fisheries
outpost has become slight 1t is the
opinion OF many Newfoundland
therefore, trat France will find II to her
advantage to turn the Islands over "a
| Newfoundland, in return for fishing
facilities In these waters.
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u dealt and bid no trumps. having a
solid suit and reentry. A said two
hearts, passed and a bid two royals.
This drove 10 four clubs. the full
strength OF his hand. a was able to
overcall this for a trick less. three roy
ais went Ave Clubs and 3 to four
royals
As II was the rubber game z bid a
grand Slam in clubs, figuring that II his
partner had a trick anywhere the most
he could be set for would be 200 A.
who could ruff the clubs. bid Ave royals.
two tricks less than rs offer. and II was
impossible for Y or z to go further.
On the play Y made two diamonds
and club and then went through the
hearts, so that A and Il were set for two
tricks, but saved the rubber. Had n
been allowed to overcall AS Ave royals
with six clubs he would either have won
the rubber or set for 400. which Is
more than a rubber game is worth. Y
can make a little slam In clubs, as one
spade Is the only trick for A and b.
This In a case in which the dealer
would have lost nothing, even II he was
doubled, as tho 90 for little slam and
81 honors would leave him to the
good. Here is another case, In which
the players with the higher declaration
are badly stung. but they save the rub
ber and on the next deal they won II
The sun., 1915-05-16
POULTRY NOTES

air, pure water, wholesome food. plenty
OF exercise and sanitary surroundings.
Most Of the commercial feeds are very
good. In buying tfem avoid those with
too much ,-;.llet or other hard shelled
grains t,rit should ne fed separately.
BE absolutely sure that all foods are
free from mould or mould dust.
One can afford to pay good price
for some sour skim milk or buttermilk to
Use for the first two weeks, not only
n account of its food value but as
,onic and aid to digestion and a pre-
ventivc of airy troubles.
A summary of general essentials for
growing )oinx stock:
I. Chicks well hatcl.ed from strong,
vigorous parents.
2. Reared In brooders large enough
so they can stay In them till moved
to the laying pen In the fall.
Q. A good brooder should be roomy.
have plenty Of fresh air under good
cover. the air to be uniform and sum-
ciently warm.
L. \ good range on clean, uncon-
taminated soil with plenty Of green
food to pick.
5. Sufficient shade for hot days.
g. Plenty OF pure water at all times:
Z. Good food, free from mould ana
properly fed.
8. Make the surrounding conditions
absolutely sanitary.
Endeavor to prevent troubles rather
than to cure them. as the most
profitable fowls are those that have
been grown normally.
The sun., 1915-05-16
NEW RECORDS MADE
AT STORRS COLLEGE
Second Half Year Begins in
Connecticut Egg Laying
Contest.

SroRRs. Conn. May 1.-THE hens In
tho laying contest at storr began the
second half year by laying thirty eggs
more than In the twenty-sixth week.
or a total for all pens Of %,24<. more esgs
than they have yielded in any one week
since the contest opened in November.
Ono pan Of Rhode Island Reds yielded
forty eggs with only seven birds laying.
A pen Of Salmon Faveroiles produced
forty-onc eggs with only seven laying.
four Of these hons, all in the same pen,
laying seven eggs each during the week
A pen Of Barred Rocks with only nine
birds working turned out SO eggs. and
pen Of Leghorns with one bird In the
pen shut into a broody cage yielded 81
eggs for the week.
In the thirteenth week the wyandottes
made a clean sweep Of flrst, second and
third places. No other breed has been
able to duplicate this performance unell
now when the White I.eghorns made n
clean sweep in the twenty-seventh week
Tom Barron's pen from England and
Happich q Danks's pen from North
Branch. N. Y. tied for nrst Win 50
eggs each. The Storrs Stations sous
milk pen and Braes,de Poultry Farm.
Stroudsburg. Pa. and Dictograph Poul-
try Farm. West Nyack, N. Y, all tieA
for second with 56 eggs each. Three
Connecticut pens. namely. F. NJ. Peaslsy
Cheshire, Branford Farm. Groton. and
Albert s. Sonderegger, South Coventry.
all tied for third with 55 eggs each. All
the winners for the week got by with
only a very small margin; four other
pens laid 50 eggs each. three pens lad
53 eggs each. three pens laid So eggs
each, and four pens laid 81 eggs each
The monthly awards for April have
been announced as follows Blue ribbon
or hrst prize was won by Barron's
English LeshornA that laid 222 eggs
during the month. Branford Farms
White Leghorns from Groton and ]. v.
Thomas's pen OF the same breed from
Ballston Lake. N. r. tied for second
with 221 eggs each. The third prize
Cheshire, Conn. whose Leghorns laid
2lS eggs. Thus II will be noted that
the Leghorns seem to have gone the
wyandottes one better. They not only
made clean sweep In the twenty
seventh week but they also captured
all OF the monthly Awards for April.
The ten leading pens to date are as
follows:
Ed Cam, HoGhton. near Preston. Eng
Hiiiview Poultry Farm: St. AiSan.,
VI. Rhode Island Reds. s......,.....I.o< .o<s
England, White wyandott.,, - 80. /, oal
A. p. Robinson. Calverton, y. Y,
White Leghorns. ................... ~
+. N. Peasley, Cheshire, Conn. White
LcknoIns So1
Pinecreet Orchards, 0rotsn, Mass
Rhode Island Reds. ds................ OeS
Tom Barron. Catforth. England, whns
colonial Farm. Temple. II. H., RRihicd: ~ "
Merritt NJ. Clark Brooineid Center. "'
Conn, Barred Rocks. A;I
Spr'ngdale Poultry Farm Durham,
Conn, Rhode Island Reds ........ SIS
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As they play duplicate under the old
Jules at the Knickerbocker games n
bids a spade and A doubled. Y passed
and II bid royal, upon which went
two hearts and eventually got the con-
tract, winning four by cards and the
game by a diamond finesse after the
trumps were taken out.
Take this hand under the no bid rule,
and Y will pass. giving no opportunity
to double a spade. will pass and 80
will B. as he would he foolish TO reopen
the bidding with only one sure trick in
his hand, so the deal would be thrown
out although it is a game hand for Y
and Y.
How are we going TO manage such
deals In duplicatae matches? We must
either revise the whole system of bid
ding and go back to the old style
gamble of bidding on your ewn hand
and letting your partner guess what
YOU have. or We must allow second
round OF bids.
The example just given shows a player
with game hand but without con-
vcntionally sound bid as dealer, the
weakness of bidding heart being evil
dent II we transposc either AS or RS
cards for Y's. II we are to have second
bids at duplicate why not at straight
bridge? II we are forced to revolu-
tionize the bidding in one game it will
XIII all Interest in the other.
Here Is an example in which II Is
not the dealer hut the opponents thai
miss a great chance IL the deal Is
played under the no bid rule. The situ
alton actually came up in duplicate
match and led 10 some tine bidding. Al
straight bridge the deal would probably
have been thrown ont.
The sun., 1915-05-16
PET HORSE KILLS OWNER.
Falls Doing Tricks Master Had
Taught Him.

SAN Francisco. Cal. May lj.--For
twenty-five years George &. Smart a re-
tired dairyman~has devoted a part Of
each day to teaching Dandy. a pet
horse, "A number of tricks. The one
trick which was the pride Of Smart
and hc star accomplishment of Dandy
resulted in the death of the dairyman
\ number of friends had been in
vited to witness the performance IN the
rear Of the Smart home. First Dandy
told numbers, then at the word OF COM
mand lay down ana rolled over. The
climax was to come when Dandy raised
himself on his hind legs and followed his
master about the yard.
The first part OF the programme was
successful, and the accident came when
Dandy raised III tho air, Smart was
standing in front OF the horse when
the animals legs gave way. The heavy
body Of the horse fell on his master,
crushing him to the ground.
Smart recovered consciousness Ions
enough before his death to say. "Dandy
could not help It,"
The sun., 1915-05-16
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z dealt and bid q diamond. A no
trump. two diamonds and r two
royals. When u went on with the dia-
monds. A went back TO no trumps, TO
aeny the royals. and Y went fve da-
monds, which prevented b from showing
the hears, but A could overcall for a
trick less. and bid four no trumps.
afterward overcSl.ing six diamonds with
Ave no trumps, sti1l trick less. but
making II impossible for Y or z to bid
a grand slam. even II either were will
Ing to do so.
II z could have got the bid Il seven
diamonds. he would have made the
little slam, as A would have tried 20
make his ace OF hearts after winning
the trump trick. and z would get
spade discard on tho heart king Even
II doubled u would have lost only -
points oil the balance.
II z were allowed to overcall As
FIVE no trumps with six clubs. he would
have made IL. or forced A to six no
trumps and set him for 400. because
all A can make is eight tricks. As II
was, A was set for $50 only, which
was cheap to save q rubber game. es-
pecially against a little slam hand.
With regard to the other matter, al
lowing a second round Of bids instead
OF throwing up the deal when all pass
the first time. THE SUN would like
players to try II out and see what they
think OF II. Here Is an example OF
what happens every day. The deal was
No IN one OF 'he duplicate matches
at the Knicerbock,- this winter:
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club, are trumps and z IL IN the lead.
Y and z want six tricks against any
defence.
Unfortunately for she reputation OF
the composer Of this problem. whoever
10 wss. there are two opening leads that
win lead up to the same situation at the
fourth trick. which Is the point at which
the decisive discard Is forced from AS
hand.
Very fsw sent In both openings. and
she majority favored the one that is
brobably the more obvious as II gets
z N . position to use his small trump.
II seems . pity that so many OF these
otherwise exueVant probloms can be
solved by differeH openings. although
the winning position srrived at Ii the
same In both cases after Few moves.
Tho favorite solution il for . to start
with the ace of diamonds. to which
all follow suit with small cards. Y Hen
leads his smallest spade and trumps
II. small diamond from Y's hand
allows z TO trump with the smaller or
his two trumps. both A and B following
suit. Then the queen OF trumps picks
,fp rs ten and Is forced to discard.
The obvious discard for A is the dia-
n,ond, as b can still protect that suit.
but at the same time II deprfves or
the power to lead a diamond to b be-
cause z at once throws A into the lead
with the heart. and A has to lead up to
rs major tenace in spades. losing the
last two tricks.
II A discards the spade so as to keep
D. diamond, u can win two spade tricks
at once and then give A the last trick
Of all with the ace OF hearts. IL A dis
cards the heart, and u make seven
tricks, because after z makes his top
spade he will lead the heart to Y, who
will make both jack and ten.
The alternative solution is for 10
start with the smallest spade. allowing
z to trump It, Y returns small dia-
mond. putting z back in the lead. This
enables Y to pick up BIS ten OF trumps
forcing the first discard from \.
This discard does not inconvenience
A any more than the second round OF
diamonds did in the first solution; but
when z follows with the four OF trumps
A Is placed in the same difficulties with
regard to protecting two suits that he
was in the main variation.
Correct solutions from
Helen c. Lucas, II. Perry, d. A. w.
r. C. Mankowski, II. Rosenthal. Key
stone. Lillian Bennet Weller, o, II. Bos-
ton, II. X. Tkaw. George B. Glover
Henry Andersen, ]. b. Morse. :. r
johnson. Charles NJ. Root, J. w. Wortz
w. +. w, James f. Cox, f.. NJ Frost
L. s. Hart, Jr, A. !. Sirasburger
Walker McMartin and John II. Whiting
They say that a person seldom for
gets any one who has got the better o
him in a test >of skill at his favorit'
game. so there are probably a number o.
SUN readers who still have a vivid recol
lection OF a composer who knocked then
out Of the honor list about two year
ago but who has kept under cover eve
since.
THE sun takes great pleasure in an
nouncing his return to the arena. read.
for another tilt with the cracks. This l
one Of several problems that will be OF
fered for their analysis in the nea
future.
BRIDGE PROBLEM NO. 327.
Nv r. c. Mankowski
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ing the erroneous bid without correcting

II.
1t Ia not often. OF course, that there
Ia any injustice done under tho present
system by shutting out a legitimate bid,
yet the writer has noted number OF
such cases during the past season. II
certainly seems unfair that player
who Is willing 10 bid the full value of
his hand should not he allowed to do so
simply because another player has Of
fered a much lower contract In another
suit.
Here Is a hand played at the Knick-
erbocker last week in which the dealer
was perfectly willing to take sting Of
200 to save the rubber, but was not
allowed 20 do so. as an opponent APP
propriated the sting on a much lower
contract.