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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-07-22
DOES THIS GUARDIAN
GUARD?

Under this heading "The
Hutchinson LEADER" of Hutchin-
son, Mimi, in it's issue of July IA,
pays its respects to an anti-Catho-
lie lecturer who tried to foment
sectarian bigotry in that city last
week. The Leader" refused to
print handbills for him and excor-
lated him and his efforts to de-
stroy the religious peace and har-
mony which prevails among the
people of that city. We quote the
editorial:
" A young man claiming to be a
minister Of the gospel and whose
only visible employment is lolling
around town smoking good cigars
daytimes land working his mouth
overtime nights has been stopping
in Hutchinson and issuing frantic
warnings to crowds in public
places Of the calamities threaten
ing our beloved country at the
hands Of certain religious Or
ganization. He claims to be a
Guardian of Liberty or a mem
Der Of some such organization and
is making it his holy mission to
arouse the stupid people Of Hutch
inson to consciousness of what
may happen to them if they don t
sit up and take notice. There are
vast potentialities for trouble
from even a young hair-brain like
this. People here Of all and Of no
religious beliefs have lived togeth-
er in peace and friendship for fiji
ty years, affiliated in business and
society and sympathizing with
each other in their trials and mis-
fortunes. But history will cease
to repeat itself if such disturb
er fails to arouse hatred and sus-
picion and make enemies OF life
long friends. Is that for the GOOD
Of a community? AS to his allie
cations of misdeeds and vaultlng
ambition on the part of the relig
ious organization which is the tar
get for his attacks, concede ii you
choose, that they are true wholly
or in part, there is still the out
standing fact that from this or
ganization have come some OF thu
country's greatest soldiers, states
men, patriots and philanthropist'
and some Of this community s bes
citizens. There are said to bt
some thirteen million members o.
the organization in the United
States out of a population OF ovel
one hundred million. After thu
| thirteen million have grabbed al
of the offices and massacred all O
| the professionals and free thinker
-some IS million-we shall be
| gin to think that the young rev
erend" with the cigar sticking
out of his face is an IL cara
prophet and we'll regret that W
didn't sit up and take notice TO
well be among the massacreo
| Lord help us.
L
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-07-22

The Rev. Thomas O'Donnell,
for some months Acting President
of the Catholic Church Extension
Society of Canada, with head
quarters at Toronto, Ontario, has
been appointed President of the
Society by His Holiness Pope
Benedict XIV, for the term of five
years following the next meeting
of the Board of Governors. The
letter of Cardinal De Lai convey
ing to Father Q2Donnell the an
nouncement Of his appointment, is
dated June Is. Father O'Donnell
succeeds the Right Reverend Mgr.
A. E.Burke, LIB, who resigned
last August to accept the position
of Visiting Chaplain in charge of
the spiritual welfare of the Cana
dian overseas troops stationed in
England or actively engaged. at
the front.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-07-22
GRAPHICALLY TOLD.

Under the title Of pictures
That Tell a Story" the Society
of the Divine Word of Techny,
ILL.,, has issued a leafet containing
a pictorial presentation of the
comparative amounts spent annu-
ally by the people Of the United
States for what may not inappro-
priately be called the luxuries of
life. The comparison is interest
ing and instructive in more ways
than one.
Here are a few of our more not
able expenditures: Alcoholic
drinks, $2,OOO,OOO,OOO; tobacco,
81 200, 100000; jewelry, $8O0,O00,-
600; automobiles, $500,00O,000;
candy, $200,000,000; soft drinks,
$12O,O00,000; coffee and tea, $780,
100000; hats, $90,000,000; medi-
cines, $60,000,000; chewing gum,
$13, 100000. Side by side with
these are placed the $250,000,000
expended for new church build
ings, and the $12,00O,000 contrib
uted for the support of foreign
mission work.
Commenting on this the leafet
goes on to say: "These pictures
show how Americans spend the
greater part of their money. The
figures represent only the expen-
ditures of one year. We spend
about twenty times as much on
candy as for foreign missions and
one million dollars more on chew
ing gum than for the spread OF
Christ's kingdom. Of the twelve
millions spent for foreign missions
less than one million was con
tributed bytAmerican Catholics.
As we have already pointed out
on several occasions there is a
reason why Catholic contributions
for foreign mission work have not
been as generous In the past as
one would expect from people
who possess the glorious gift OF
the one true faith, and it is this
/ Up to the present in this country
the Church has been passing
through the developmental stage
of its existence, SO to speak. New
missions were being founded, new
parishes organized, new diocese'
erected to accommodate the in
/ creasing Catholic population
| This necessitated the collecting
OF immense sums Of money from
| Catholics for the building o.
leathedrals, churches, educationa
and charitable institutions, for TIL
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-07-22
FRIENDLY RIVALRY.

In this issue we publish a list
OF recent contributions to the fund
for the completion Of st. Patrick s
Chapel in the new Cathedral
They are the result Of special eff
forts to reach the sum required
for the work and of a new appeal
which has been sent to the chill
dren, of the Gael throughout the
Archdiocese who profess the faith
preached by st. Patrick to their
ancestors in the olden days.
For many months we have
heard very little about st. Pat
rick S Chapel The work of col
lecting funds for embellishing it
has been going on very quietly for
over year and considerable
progress has been made. The COM
mittee of priests in charge of the
work are anxious to complete the
fund as soon as possible. They
are lmbued with the laudable am
bition OF making st. Patrick s
Chapel the first national shrine to
reflect its artistic loneliness on the
great sanctuary of the new Cathe-
dral and it will be strange indeed
if the Irish Catholics of Minneso-
ia are not numerous and generous
enough to realize this ambition of
their leaders before many months
have passed by.
st. Patrick s Chapel will hence
forth take it's place beside Our
Lady's Chapel in the special ap-
peal which it's promoters are MAX
ing for funds to complete it.
Those who have the project in
hand will be rivals = friendly
but determined-of the Catholic
women who have taken to them
selves the honor of providing
funds for the adornment of the
Blessed Virgins shrine. And
while the children of st. Patrick
are required to raise only $4,000
to complete their work as COM
pared with the $4,000 needed for
Our Lady's Chapel, nevertheless,
at the present time, the amount
which each has on hand is such
that about $4,000 more is re-
CURED to complete the respective
funds. For st. Patrick's Chapel
there is on hand about $500
while for Our Lady's Chapel the
promoters have about $1,000.
The race is now on; the rivalry
is keen. The sons of st. Patrick
are pitted against the daughters
of the Blessed Virgin. Nc
quarter will be asked by either
party-unless from those who can
not spare a dollar for such 9
worthy cause. Many to whom
the appeals will be made acknowl
edge spiritual allegiance to both
the Blessed Virgin Mary and st
Patrick. In the generosity of thei1
Irish Catholic hearts they vii
not do less for the glorious patron
of their race than they are will
ing to do for the we'll beloved
Mother of their Saviour.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-07-22


general up-keep of religion, for a.
thousand and one purposes more
or less closely associated with the
work OF the, Church in her efforts
to sanctify souls. To all Of these
projects the Catholics of the Unit
ed States have contributed gener-
ously and while helping to lay the
foundation of the Church in their
own land and insure it's future
growth they have not been un-
mindful of the needs Of religion
in other lands; and when every
thing is taken into consideration,
1t is not too much to say that they
have been quite generous in their
gifts for missionary purposes.
Now that the brick-and-mortar
era in the history of the Ameri-
can Church is drawing to close,
in the older parts of the country,
at least, we may not unreasonably
expect that the generous contribu-
lions OF Catholics for religion will
be turned into other channels and
that the missionary needs, both
IN the less favored parts of the
United States and in foreign
lands, will receive more considera-
ton than in the past. From now
on we may expect that Catholic
contributions for the propagation
of the faith will be in some mea-
sure commensurate with the
needs Of the situation and the
comparative wealth Of our people.
Appeals for this purpose are bet
ter systematized and placed on a
more satisfactory working basis.
The needs Of the missions are be-
ing brought home to our people
through the medium Of Catholic
publications Of all kinds and the
increased interest shown. in the
work of propagating the true Cos
pei Of Christ, augurs well for the
future. The Catholics who have
built up the Church in the United
States under the guidance of their
devoted pastors and leaders will
not see the mission work Of the
Church suffer for want Of fnan.
cial support.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-07-22

The good old Catholic custom
Of meeting the priest at the door
with a light when he comes ON a
sick call bearing the Blessed Sac
rament should not be allowed to
court oblivion. 1t is a mark of
homage inspired by faith; and
wherever the custom is observed
it is indicative of all intelligent
and devout appreciation of the
presence of our Lord in the sacra-
ment of His love, and of the
blessing He brings to the family
by coming to take up His abode in
the bosom of one of it's afflicted
members. On such occasions the
head of the household should meet
the priest with lighted candle
and all present should kneel in
reverent alteration, realizing that,
for the time being, their home has
been transformed into the dwell
ing-place Of the Most High.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-07-22
THE PATRIOTS" AND PRO
HIBITION.

The Rev. George N. Zurcher, of
North Evans, New York, is the
only priest-delegate to the Nation
al Prohibition Convention in st.
Paul this week. He is delegate
from the State of New York. He
is editor of a publication entitled,
Catholics and Prohibition" and
has been an active worker in the
cause for many years. At the
mass meeting held last Tuesday
evening in the Auditorium he said
the opening prayer despite the
protest made by the leaders Of the
American Federation Of Patriotic
Societies against his appearance
on the platform. When the pro-
test was laid before those in
charge of the meeting, some fear
ed that a disturbance might take
place if Father Zurcher were al
lowed to give the invocation; but,
to their credit be it said, no
change was made in the program
and the threatened disturbance
failed to materialize. In this, as
in other cases, the patriots "
thought discretion the better part
of, valor and deemed it wise not
to call attention to themselves in
too public manner.
During the day the Federation
distributed handbills containing a
picture of former Governor Sui
yer and copious references to
Rum and Romanism. +" This act
ed as, boomerang for, at the
tevening meeting, one Of the dele
gates, Daniel r. Sheen Of Illinois
condemned the Federation in nc
uncertain terms. After reading
some of the anti Catholic state.
ments from the paper he said with
emphasis: " | am not a. Catholic
but3I want to tell you that I an
ashamed of such articles. This
statement was greeted with {
storm of applause by the audi
ence. He added that what The
Prohibition party needs as mucf
as anything for it's future success
| is to rid itself of fool friends. -
Il There are many sincere believ
ers in prohibition among Catho
lies many more than one is in
clined to think. The Church ha
made no official statement in thi
connection; but many of her lead
ers believe that, under presen
conditions, prohibition is. the bes
remedy for the evils of the liquo
! traffic. If the Prohibition part.
: Wishes to secure their cooperation
and the active assistance of tn
. rank and file Of Catholics VIII
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-07-22
IRIS H MANUSCRIPT
DONATED TO THE LIBRARY OF
THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY.

An Irish manuscript containing
several thousand lines of Ossianic
poetry in modern Irish has been pre-
scented to the University Library by
Rev. John J. O'Gorman, chaplain in
the Canadian Expeditionary Force.
Father O'Gorman, who, in time Of
peace, is parish priest of the Blessed
Sacrament Church, Ottawa, Canada,
received the manuscript, in 1907,
from Mr.. Michael Behen, an octo-
genarian farmer of Harmon, near
Kilrush, County Clare, whose favor
tie book it was.
The manuscript is of paper, TX by
1925 inches, 102 pages, and con-
tains the dialogue entitled Oisin agas
Pattruig (sic) and related poems. 1t
was written by Concubhar ma Maille,
or, as he puts his name in English,
Cornelius O'Maley, of Kilkee, who
was. schoolmaster in Clare in the
middle of the last century. The upper
half of the title page and of the table
of contents is missing. The writing
is in an excellent and uniform hand
throughout, but there are several
photographed peculiarities. The
short preface of five pages, dealing
with the Ossianic ballads, Finn Mac
Cumaill, the Fenians, inter ALA, is
dated "Cillchaoiidh an tiara la do
mhiothamh atsamhradh sa mblia-
CHAIN d'ais an tiagherna 1872" that
is "At Kilkee, the second day of
June, in the year of Our Lord 1842."
The colophon bears the same date,
and, on page 80, the writer asks a
"beanocht De ar ann an tie sgribh e
SEQ, agas ar an tie guidhefuig sin do
Concubhar ua Maille, 1872" that is,
''the blessing of God on the soul of
him who wrote this, and on him who
will make this prayer for Cornelius
O'Maley, 1872"
The manuscript was probably
placed in its present cloth cover late
in the year 1874, to judge by the
date, October 3, 1874, of pieces of
'.The Irish Times" which serve as
padding for the cover. There are a
couple of words in the ogham alpha
bet in the margins and one page is
taken up with a rude ink drawing in
colors Of Firms shield.
~
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-07-22

AS we go to press we learn that
Governor Sulzer of New York is
reported to be ON his way to st.
Paul to fight for the nomination
for President ON the Prohibition
ticket. With the overwhelming
majority of the delegates from
his own State opposed to him, his
chances Of success are zero. Sui
ger has the active support of the
American Federation of Patriotic
Societies, an ti-Catholic organ
ization of which D. J. Reynolds Of
Minneapolis is National Presi-
dent, and as he has not repudiat-
ed them, we presume that he is in
sympathy with their efforts and
will accept their support. Sulzer
blames Tammany for his impeach-
ment when he was Governor of
New York and has no love for the
organization. Unfortunately he
confounds Tammany with the
Catholic Church and this ac-
counts for his alignment with the
bigots.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-07-22

The richest woman in America
died a few weeks ago. In many
respects she was the poorest.
Money was her god and her miser-
ly soul never felt the throb of
true charity. She laid up trea-
sures on earth which fell from her
palsied hand at the moment of
death and she went before her
Maker poor indeed, without hav-
ing used any of her millions for
God and the things of God.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-07-22

A lot Of mawkish sentimental
ity was injected into some of the
newspaper accounts of the death
of Dan Patch and his owner last
week. When horse and man are
put on the same level in the here
after it is time to call halt and
allow sane reason to assert itself.
Dan Patch was a wonderful
PAGER; but he was only horse.
When he died, that was the last
of him. For man there is new
day and death ushers in it's end
less hours.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-07-22

How true it is that the inor-
dinate quest for money drys up
the fountains Of charity. Those
who wait until they are rich to
aid the cause of religion or char
ity seldom become wealthy enough
to fulfil the promise of early days.
Let us not wait until we get rich
to help Gods poor. For the most
of us that time will never come.
Now is the acceptable day. In
the scales of the Eternal the
widows mite oft outweighs an
endowment.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-07-22

The New York "Sun" has
passed into the hands of Frank
Munsey and has been combined
with the "Press" which he owns.
The name, however, and all the
distinctive features Of the "Sun''
will be retained, as we'll as the
chief workers on it's staff. AL
though the "Sun" has lost much
of the standing in the journalistic
world which it enjoyed under the
editorship of its founder, Charles
A. Dana, it is still regarded as
one of the leading dailies of the
country.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-07-22

The Sacred Congregation Of the
Holy Office has decreed, with the
approval of the Sovereign Pontiff,
that it is not sufficient to bless the
first medal substituted for the
scapular, but that a blessing is
needed for each subsequent medal
which takes the place of one lost
or worn out.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-07-22

Among the miraculous cures
reported to have taken place at
the shrine of st. Anne de Beaupre
in Canada during the current
month is that of seventeen year
old girl, Reatha Brine, of Bots
ford Portage, N. B., who was deaf
and dumb for the past twelve
years. During the procession at
the close of the pilgrimage she
turned to her mother and said :
81 hear singing; st. Anne has
cured mel" Among the other
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-07-22

Make Christ your heir by leav-
ing something to His little ones in
your last will and testament.
The needs of Christ's poor are
urgent and there are many ways
in which they can be helped by
well-tO-dO Catholics. The will
that makes no mention of God
among it's beneticiaries is not a
Christian, much less Catholic,
will.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-07-22

Some one has beautifully said
that the only things we can hold
in our cold hands at the moment
of death are the things we have
given away. How true this is
when Christian charity inspires
the gift.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-07-22

sympathize, at least, with the
movement, it must rid itself of
the excretion known as the Amer
lean Federation of Patriotic Soci-
cites.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-07-22
SATURDAY, JULY %, 1916.

Many Catholic who would not
think of missing Mass on Sunday
is never seen at the altar rail.
There is a reason.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-07-22

cures reported was that of a wom-
an who had been blind for ten
years, her sight being completely
restored.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-07-22
Rev. James M. Reardon, Editor.

Entered as second-class matter. jan
uary 10, 1911, at the post office, st
Paul, Mimi, under Act of March 3. 1879
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THE CATHOLIC BULLETIN,
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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-07-22
OUR LADY's CHAPEL
ADDITIONS TO THE FUND
THROUGH THE CATHOLIC Bull
LETIN.

This weeks contributions, through
this Office, to the fund for the COM
pletion of the chapel Of the Blessed
Virgin in the new Cathedral of ST.
Paul are as follows:
Already acknowledged. $l,O22.f5
Mrs. VIM. Keefe, Minneapolis LOO
Mary Wernerus, Rockville,
Wis. so
4Fp
Total ....ss1,O24.25
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-07-22

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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-11-04
PERILS OF The CITY
LITTLE TOT LOSES LEGS WHILE
PICKING COAL TO COOK THE
FAMILY MEAL.

Sioux City Journal: Little Anna
Nuremberg last evening set out at her
mothers bidding from her home at
2002 Floyd River road TO CLEAN in
the Omaha railroad yards a few
Jumps of coal with which TO cook the
meal that Mrs. f. Nuremberg had go.
together.
often before she had done il. and
had found il difficult enough TO find
sufficient TO fill her sack.
This time luck seemed with her.
Under a string of boxcars was such q
lavish pile as seldom she had found
enough for the cooking of ever so
many of the Nuremberg family meals.
Crawling between the rails Anna be
gan to fill her sack.
Then came a humping and clank-
ing and a shivering of the string of
cars beneath which she crouched.
The cars began TO move, and Anna
crawled for safety. She was too
late. The rumbling of the railroad
yards rose above her scream The
switching string passed on, and 10
year-old Anna lay quiet. both her
legs cut off cleanly above the knees.
Switchmen found her and she was
taken to the st. Joseph hospital.
There ii was said early this morning
that her condition was very critical.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-11-04
MAY CROSS BORDER
SOUTH DAKOTA TROOPS MAY
SEE SERVICE ON MEN
ICAN SOIL.

Mitchell. Nov. 4-That the ma
tional guardsmen and troops on the
Mexican border will be sent over the
line when the turbulence of the gen
eral election subsidies is the belief of
the men, according to w. A. Morris,
adjutant general of South Dakota.
In Mitchell today on his way home
from a trip of inspection to the camp
OF the South Dakotans at San Benito.
Tex, Gen. Morris declared that the
~guardsmen believed they would be
sent across the border within the
next few weeks. a course which has
been postponed because of political
conditions in the United States. The
general did not vouchsafe his person
al opinion in the matter. He de
clared there was no immediate pros
pect Of the return of the troops. The
mess tents are being boarded up, APP
parently in preparation for a winters
stay. He declared that conditions in
the san Benito camp were excellent.
only one man of the Fourth regiment
being in the hospital at the time OF
his visit.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-11-04
SCHOOLS and SKUNKS
TEACHERS COMPLAIN OF THE
DOOR OF THE BOY PUPIL
AND THE ANIMAL.

Pierre, Nov. 4.-The skunk issue
appears TO be one OF importance in
some school districts of the state.
Recently the state superintendent
department received a letter from a
teacher in one of the southern coun-
ties of the state where the teacher
claimed that two boys of the school
were trapping skunks. and did not al
ways take the trouble TO properly de-
odorize themselves before coming TO
school, and she wanted TO know what
could be done. This week the u
ty superintendent of this county re-
ceived a s. o. s. call from a teacher
in the eastern part of the county who
wanted a nest Of skunks under the
schoolhouse abated as a nuisance in
short order time.