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The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1916-07-08
Planned. but Nsv.r Written.

PLANNED, but Nsver Written.
Among literary works planned. but
never written, have been q Life Of
Hazlitt" BY Stevenson; History Of
the Wars In Flanders" BY Sir Rich
ard Steele; Life Of Talleyrand." by
Thackeray. and "A History Of Our
vssnacular Literature" by Isaac Dis
rasli.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1916-07-08

What do you Think Her husband
has valet to wait on him hand and
foot.'
That's nothing. SO has mine"
81 didn't know that"
"He's had one ever since we've been
married. and I'm IT, Detroit Free
Press
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1916-07-08

Els your husband an optimism
SWELL" replied the tired looking wo-
nan. hes an optimist in hoping fos
ths best. bat good deal Of pessimist
II working for it."-washington Star.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1916-07-08

Prosperity tries the heart with keen
er temptations. for harlships may be
endured. whereas We are spoiled BY
Buccess.-Tacitus.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1916-07-08

Judss-why did you commit q &c.
oud theft after you. had just been &C.
Quilted u the dst ouef Prisoner-I
had TO- pay my lawyer. your honor
Bostea transcript
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1916-07-08

AlyceAI'm learning to paint on chi.
ma. Grayce-Don't you find 1t hard to
become accustomed to such hard sur
face2-lndianapoiis Star.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1916-07-08

A bad beginning may be retrieved
and good endink achieved No b.
ginning, no endingi
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1916-07-08

William =. Gladstone. when he was
British premier. once made q speech
b Birmingham. the opening sentence
81 whecA contained 176 words.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1916-07-08

Nobse blood b an accident of fortune.
Nshis actions charaetsstae ths great
9sadoai.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1916-07-08

Failures are but the pillars Of sue
cess.-Old Proyerb.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1916-07-08

Idleness wastes a fortune in half the
time TINT industry makes it.-samuel
Smiles.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1916-07-08

Mamic-she is trying to keep he,
marriage secret.
Maud-How do you know3
'.She told me so.'
The Irish standard., 1916-02-12
AN IRISH BookLCVER.

The valuable and extensive library
of the late Canon Jeremiah Murphy
of Macroom, who died last August,
came under the hammer at Messrs.
Woodward's mart in Cork on Decem
Der 7th, 9Th and 9th. The catalogue
OF so pages, printed by Guy and Co.,
Cork, enumerates over 1900 lots,
these lots including 8, 10 or more
volumes. The purely Irish portion
runs to 900 lots, occupying twenty
pages of the catalogue. The names
of many valuable books that Canon
Murphy was known to possess do
not appear in the catalogue. They
will probably be disposed of by pri-
vate sale. The Tribes and Customs
of lily Many sold for e5 15s. OHan-
lan's Lives of The Irish Saints, G3 Is
Cd; Smiths Kerry. G2 Is; The Book
of Leinster (1SSO) c5; The Book OF
Ballymote uSsO. e3 15s; Leabhar
Breac. 2 vols. (1S76), CO 15s; O'Cur-
rvs Manners and Customs, 3 vols, G3;
Gilbert's History of the Confederation,
G6; The Ancient Laws of Ireland, E5
15s; Calendar of Irish State Papers, 81
VOLS, c12: six volumes of The Nation
1S42-1S4S), CA los; The Journals of
the Irish House of Commons u661-
115D, GA. There were also six Irish
manuscripts.
The Irish standard., 1916-02-12
HOW THE ROMAN cURlA is COM
POSED.
manuscripts

The Roman Curia, in it's strict sense
is the ensemble of the department es.
tablished to assist the Pope in the
government of the Church. These are
comprised of (a) the Roman Congre.
cations, (b) the Tribunals, Co the
Offices of the Curia.
The Congregations. which constitute
the highest and most extensive depart
ment of the government, are thirteen
in number, named as follows: The
Congregation of the Holy Office, of the
Consistory, OF the Sacraments, of the
Council, of Religious. of the Propa-
ganda. of the Index, of Rites of Cere-
monies. of Extraordinary Ecclesias-
tical Affairs, of STUDIES, OF Loreto, of
the Fabric of st. Peters.
The Tribunals of the Curia are
three: The Sacred Penitentiaria. the
Sacred Roman Rota, and the Apos-
tolic Signature.
The offices of the Curia are five:
The Apostolic Chancery, the Apostolic
Rotaria, the Apostolic Camera, the
Secretariate of State, and the Secre-
tariate of Briefs.
The Irish standard., 1916-02-12
FATHER vAUGHAN's REPLY TO
AN ANGLICAN BISHOPS
STATEN ENTS,

Rev. Bernard Vaughan, s. j., speak
ing in the East End of London re-
Gently. said that some of his nom
Catholic friends in the North wanted
to know what he thought of the Prot
estant Bishop of Carlisle's statement
that Catholics paid for absolutions re-
ceived in the confessional.
Father Vaughan said he presumed
the Bishop knew what he was talking
about; but If his lordship's assertion
was true, then he (Father Vaughan)
had good deal of money owing to
him. He had been hearing confess
sions ever since the year 1881, and in
many countries, and on many CONT
nents, but up to date he had received
not even so much as a trumpery
shekel for all the thousands of alb
solutions which he had pronounced.
1t was too bad, the eloquent Jesuit
continued. Some of his brother
priests heard more than 10000 confes.
sions during the year, and ought in
consequence to be nearly as wealthy
as the Bishop himself, but they were
not. Being only Catholic priests and
not cabinet ministers they could not
cry out: 1T is part of my salary. and
l mean to stick to it,"
Father Vaughan said he had often
given to his penitents for their pen.
ance indulgenced prayers to say, but
In spite of the Bishops contention not
a single one of them had as yet paid
him any fees for the indulgences gain.
ed. Why did they not hurry up?
Il rather fancy" continued Father
Vaughan, that the ladies and gentle
man who pleaded with tears for his
lordship's money with which to pur
chase the coveted indulgences went
and spent it on plenary indulgence
in the taproom nearest the episcopal
palace. Clearly his lordship of Car
Isle was as simple minded as he was
kind hearted. The Bishop" conclud
ed Father Vaughan. has yet to learn
it was not his money but his sins that
the penitent left in the confessional
The Irish standard., 1916-02-12

Rev. Patrick O'Kane, who has charge
of the Catholic Church at Georgetown,
CAL, and its outlying missions at Col
oma and Kelsey, will shortly observe
his golden jubilee in the holy priest
hood. He is one of the few remaining
veterans of the heroic band of pioneer
missionary priests who planted the
seed of our holy Faith in the mining
fields of Northern California and Ne
vada in the early and perilous days of
the gold rush.
The Irish standard., 1916-02-12
iRELAND's OPPORTUNITY.

For years "England's difficulty is
1reland's opportunity" has been an
axiom with Irish Nationalists. But
such strange tricks does destiny play
with peoples that when the opportuni-
ty came-and came with a vengeance
-Ireland's political leaders seized it
in way that would have greatly as
tonished the men whose shoes they fill,
and on the strength of whose watch
words they have led the nation. To
the Nationalist leaders of today Eng
lands difficulty has been not an op-
portunity to insist upon freedom for
Ireland but an opportunity to be more
British than the British, to talk foolish
ness about "Prussian militarism," and
to send thousands upon thousands of
the young men of Ireland into the
trenches, to suffer and die for-what?
Sacred Heart Review.
The Irish standard., 1916-02-12

day as it did in the days of her heroic
sons.
THE Poles have been true to the
great traditions Of their race. They
have been true, above all, to the faith
of their fathers. Persecution, the
Punishment of priests, the banning of
religious observance, the confiscation
of the property of the Catholic popu-
lation, have failed to shake the fidelity
of Poland to the fold of Christ.
Paints Poland's War Ruin.
Subsequently, unfortunate Poland
became victim of the rapacity of her
greedy neighbors, who despoiled her
and cut her into three parts. Today
the unhappy nation lies PROSTATE in
extreme agony. During the last six.
teen months her PROSTATE body has
been overrun four times by the tide
of battle and has suffered in all it's
parts from the conflict of the con.
tending forces.
''The very houses that sheltered
the people were leveled and burned
Houseless and foodless, the distress
has been keen, and while their fam.
lilies are in this dire extremity the
male population has been forced to
fight in the ranks of the armies OF
three empires-Pole is compelled to
fight Pole"
The slender resources of the bulk
of the Catholic population of Ireland
and the many calls upon them to re
lieve suffering at home and abroad
arising out of the war, like the Bel
gian relief Red Cross appeals to the
different nations, to which support
was given with no niggardly hand, the
appeal in behalf of Poland has not
been allowed to suffer by their gener
GUS response to the earlier appeals.
Irish View to Be Heard.
OF all the peoples of Europe the
Italian and the Irish are the best in
formed on the Polish question and
their sympathies are the strongest
And let no one think that Ireland's
sympathies are merely platonic.
The Irish standard., 1916-02-12
WRITE TO MOTHER,

Boys, some of you who read this are
absent from home. You are attending
school, learning trade, or engaged
in some kind of employment that has.
called you away. There is mother at.
home who longs to hear from YOU
often. Do you give her that privilege.
or are you willing to let her WATCH.
day after day, until the thought comes:
forcing its way into her heart that you
have forgotten her, or care more for
the new associates around you? Do
you realize that her thoughts are with
you oftener, and linger much longer
with you, than yours with her?
You are young, and are out in
world which she knows is full of
snares and temptations. And while
her confidence in your strength of
character may be great, yet she can
not keep back the anxious thoughts
that come unbidden, especially when
she has not heard from you for a
long time.
She knows that this is an important
period OF your life. A great change is
going on. You are developing into
something. Can you suppose her to-
have aught but the deepest solicitude
in knowing what that something shall
be? She has forgone much pleasure
for your sake, and has conferred MANY
hopes In you. She cannot help feel
ing deep interest in watching the
result of her years of labor in your
behalf.
l know boy who, during a years
absence, wrote but two letters to his
mother. At the close Of the year he
was summoned hastily home to look
on that mothers face for the last time.
He found the two letters he had writ
ten carefully laid away in a drawer
which she kept a few things that were
highly priced. When he learned how
many times his mother had read these
letters, even after every word they
contained had been committed to mem
DRY, he felt as though he would give
the world if he could only live that
year over again, that he might swell
tne number to a hundred instead of
two.
Write to your mother, and write
often. Answer the many questions
found In her letter to you. Do not
miss single one. Tell her all about
yourself, tell her all about your stud
ies' your work, or whatever you NAV
be engaged in. Tell her all about
your associates; and such as you can.
not tell her about do not hesitate to
drop at once. Boys, write to vour
mothers.
The Irish standard., 1916-02-12
The GoodlSt. Valentine Was.a
Venerable Bishop Of Rome

goes the celebration of a feast day of
love that even the musty old porers
over the mud tablets of ancient Baby
Ion have not been able to get at the
root of the matter An old belief pre-.
vailed at one time that the birds
chose their mates on ST. Valentine S
day; but whether there is or is not a
grain of truth in the matter, it is quite
certain that human sweethearts for.
merly used this day to signify their
devotion to each other.
The custom of composing verses
appropriate to this day dates far back
indeed, and we learn that a certain
tome of 1440, the work of monk of
Bury, contained reference to st. Val
entine's day. There is a saying that
one can not love without giving. Per.
haps this is the reason why the giving
of gifts has always been part of good
st. Valentines day. Before the time
of manufactured valentines the love
lorn swain or maid was compelled to
make as best he or she could a valen.
tine for the dear one. Some of these
are of the quaintest and crudest de.
signs imaginable.
The heather had love feast of
their own, which was celebrated on
February Is, in honor of the goddess
Juno. When the world began to be.
come Christianized the survival Of the
practices that had prevailed in heath.
en- times distressed the good fathers
of the church. On the festival of Juno
for instance it was the custom for the
girls of pagan Rome to write their
names on slips of paper, which were
thrown into large urn in the mar
ket place, later to be drawn by the
youths of the city. Each boy looked
upon the maid whose name he drew as
his sweetheart for the time.
Innocent as this custom seems, the
fact that it was of pagan origin was
enough to decide the early fathers of
the church to decide that it must go.
One of the most inventive of the holy
men finally hit upon the expedient of
substituting for the name of the maids
the names of martyrs and saints and
by this means put an end to the OBJ
jectionahle custom at once.
This is all that we really know con-
corning the origin Of the day to which
the youths and maids of hundreds of
years ago looked forward as eagerly
as we have every reason to believe
the youths and maidens of hundreds of
years to come will look.
The Irish standard., 1916-02-12

An important and interesting judg
ment has been made by the Supreme
Court of Massachusetts which held
that religious rights could not be en-
forced In the civil courts of that State
The ruling was in the suit of Mrs
Efie A. Carter, of Wayland, who al.
leges that she had been excluded from
the Protestant Episcopal church by a
constable who had been posted by the
pastor, and that she was refused the
right to take part in the communion
service. The decision was concurred
III by the full bench.
The Irish standard., 1916-02-12
1.-THE MARY OF THE GAEL"
February Is the Month Of St. Brgd Patroness Of Ireland

double line of Abbot-Bishops and Alb
Bosses of Kildare.
St. Brigid became recognized as
the Superior General of the converts
of Ireland. She was not only great
religious, but was also the patroness
of students and art, and from the
great institution at Kildare came the
wondrous book of the Gospels, known
as the Book of Kildare" This splen
did work Of learning and of art is
rightly regarded as one Of the won
ders of the age in which it was pro
duced. Its pages are gorgeously IL
Illuminated, its penmanship is perfec'
ton, and concerning 1t one great
writer, speaking of the exquisite in
terlacing and the harmony of the
colors, described 1t as "a work of the
angels" When she died she left q
cathedral and an institution of learn
ing that became famous all over Eu
rope, and in her honor st. Ultan
wrote a hymn in which the follow.
ing words occur in the melodious old
Gaelic language: I'm our island OF
Hibernia, Christ was made known to
man through the great miracles which
He performed through the happy vir.
gin, Brigid of celestial life, famous
for her merits through the whole
world"
Brigid was inferred to the right OF
the high altar of the Cathedral OF
Kildare. and in after years her shrine
was the object of the veneration OF
pilgrims, especially on her feast, Feb
ruary LIST. About the year 1913. owing
to the devastations made by the
Danes, her remains were removed tc
Downpatrick where they were in
tered in the tomb of St. Patrick and
Columbcille, a fact embalmed by the
old Irish ballad in the lines:
Three glorious saints one grave
doth fill;
Patrick, Brigid and Columbcille."
Her hand is preserved as a holy
relic at LUMBAR, near Lisbon, Portu
gal, and another relic is at St. Mar
tins. Cologne. In Ireland. today, aft
err the lapse of 1900 years, the mem
DRY of Brigid, "The Mary of the Gael,
is as dear and truly venerated as ii
those misty ages long ago when she
lighted the lamp of religion and learn
ing at "Kildare's holy fame" The
daughters Of Erin are named in hel
honor, and Irishmen and Irishwomer
celebrate her feast day at home ant
abroad.
The Irish standard., 1916-02-12

An ivory and mother-of-pearl fan
which is said to have formerly be-
longed to the mother of Pope Plus TX,
and is more than 400 years old, was
recovered by the police of Evansville,
Ind, last week among loot from num-
Der of Evansville homes, which was
located following the arrest of an al
legged housebreaker. The fan was
given to Miss Minnie Heinrich by her
mother, who had received it from her
cousin, Rev. Mother Mary Magdalena,
formerly connected with the family of
Pope Plus TX.
The Irish standard., 1916-02-12
THE MARTYRED ARCHBISHOP OF
ARMAGH

Oliver Plunkett, Archbishop Of Ar
magh, born at Loughereen, Meath
County. 1929, he was sent to Rome
in 1916. under the care of the Papal
Legate, Father Scarampe, and entered
the Irish College, where he remained
eight years. He was ordained in 1854,
and some years later was appointed
Professor in the College of the Prop
uganda, which position he continued
to fill until 1863, when he was chosen
Archbishop of Armagh, and came
home to perform the duties of his
office.
He had to encounter great difficult
ties in caring for the spiritual re-
quirements of his large flock, and had
sometimes to assume disguise in
order to escape the notice Of the per-
secutors of his Faith In 1914 the
Irish clergy were obliged to fly to the
woods and mountains for refuge from
their enemies, and the Archbishop
found it necessary to burn all his
foreign letters and even the brief Of
his conservation. He was arrested
in July, 1879. and absurdly charged
with having obtained money from the
Irish clergy to maintain French in
vading army of 10000 men.
The year following he was brought
to England and was tried" on June
8, 1851, before the Court of Kings
Bench, London, when the jury, after
70 minutes "deliberation," found HIM
guilty, and he was sentenced to be
hanged, drawn and quartered. He was
executed and mutilated In accordance
with the sentence on July l follow
ing. His head is preserved in shrine
in St. GATHERINGS Convent, Drogheda.
The body after resting in the church
yard of St. Giles-In-The-Fields until
1863, was removed to Handspring, Ger
many. Fox says that Charles II did
not think it worth while to save the
Archbishop's life, though no doubt
could be entertained of his innocence.
The Irish standard., 1916-02-12
IRELAND SHARES POLAND'S SORROWS.
PARALLELS OF HISTORY SHOW
COUNTRIES SYMPATHETIC
ALLY UNITED

The parallel in the history of Ire
land and Of Poland has been the
theme in much of the writings of
both countries. Invincible spirit, the
aspiration Of nationhood. fidelity to the
Church and mistaken faith in the fu-
ture are the elements in the character
Of both the Irish and the Polish people
that have drawn those races together
and excited mutual sympathy.
That the Irish sympathy for Poland
is not hollow but genuine and sin
cere the people OF Ireland have but
recently given ample proof.
ireland Prays for Poland.
When the Holy Father last Septem-
Der encouraged the Bishops of all Pc
land-Russian, Austrian and German
Poland-to appeal to the Catholic
world for the relief of their afflicted
people the Bishops of Ireland unani.
mously decided to make the appeal to
the Catholics of Ireland. They ap.
pointed Nov. 81, previously fixed by
the Bishops of Poland, to be observed
in every parish of Ireland as a day
of special prayer and collection on
behalf of Poland in her calamities.
The following excerpt from one OF
the sermons shows that the Irish
priests are we'll acquainted not only
with the conditions in Poland at pres
ent, but also with the history of Pc.
land:
ireland has always sympathized
with Poland in her sufferings. Her
struggles rank among the greatest in
the world in defense of race and ma
tionhood, and deeds of heroism will
preserve her name forever in history
Poland, under the policy begun by
Frederic of Prussia and carried to
completion in the first half of the last
century, has ceased to be a geograph
ical entity; but in spite of the parti
ton of the kingdom, and of persecu
ton, schemes of colonization and laws
of appropriation to forcibly GUST the
Poles from the land of their fathers
the national spirit lives as strong to
The Irish standard., 1916-02-12

The latest thing in religion is the
"non-sectarian" religion which is to
be sponsored and nourished under the
direction of the Wisconsin Federation
of Churches. The six leading churches
in the movement are Methodist, Con-
gregationalist, Presbyterian, Baptist,
Lutheran and Episcopalian, and it is
proposed to erect college for mon
sectarian" religion at cost of $780,
600.
The Irish standard., 1916-02-12
COLUMBUS BOOK AT NorRE
DAME,

A rare book, once the property of
Christopher Columbus, over four cen
turtles old and bound in the skin of
Moorish chieftain, has just been
acquired from Senior Sebastian Car
roll Braganza de la Corralla, of Mata-
gorda Bay, Texas, by Rev. Paul Folk,
librarian at Notre Dame University,
Notre Dame, Ind.
The Irish standard., 1916-02-12
THERE'S LUCK IN ODD NUMBERS
SAID RORY o'MoRE,

SAID RORY o'MoRE.
(This ballad, famous the world over,-
was composed by Samuel Lover, 4
Dublin man, nearly century ago.
Young Rory OMore courted Kathleen.
bawn,
He was bold as hawk-and she soft.
as the dawn;
He wished in his heart pretty Kath.
leen to please,
And he thought the best way to do.
that was to tease;
Nov, Rory, be aisy," sweet Kathleen
would cry
Repreof on her lip, but smile In her
eye;
With your tricks, don't know, in
troth, what I'm about;
Faith, you've teased me till I've pat on.
my cloak inside OUT;
Och, jewel" says Rory, that same is,
the way
You've thrated my heart for this many
day,
And it's plased that am, and why not.
to be sure?
For it's all for good luck" says bold
Rory O'More.
Indeed, them" says Kathleen, don't
think of the like
ing Mike;
The ground that walk on, he loves
I'll be bound"
Faith" says Rory, nd rather love
you than the ground"
Nov Rory, I'll cry if you don't let
me go;
Sure I dhrame every night that I'm
hating you So"
"Och," says Rory, that same I'm de-
lighted to hear,
For dhrames always go by contraries,-
my dear;
So, jewel, keep dhramin' that same
till you die
And bright mornin' will give dirty
night the black lie;
And tits plased that 1 am, and why
not, to be sure?
Since tits all for good luck" saye,
bold Rory O'More.
"Arrah, Kathleen, my darlint, you've.
leased me enough,
And I've thrashed for your sake Dinny
Cranes and James Dun,
And I've made myself, drinkin' your
health, quite a beast,
So think, after that, may talk to.
the priest"
Then Rory, the rogue, stole his arm
round her neck,
So soft and so white, without freckle.
or speck,
And he looked in her eyes that we're
beaming with light,
And he kissed her sweet lips-don't
you think he was right!
"Now, Rory, leave off, sir; you'll hug.
me no more;
That's eight times today that you've
kissed me BEFORE"
"Then here goes another" says he, ito
make sure,
For there's luck in odd numbers" says
Rory O'More.
The Irish standard., 1916-02-12

A campaign of great bitterness is
being conducted by a section of the
Toxic press against the Anglo-Jap-
anese alliance. While the attacks re-
fleet in some degree the pro-German
sympathies which exist in certain quar-
ters in Japan, they are mainly inspired
by the feeling that England stands in
the way of the complete extension Of
Japan's policy toward China.
The Irish standard., 1916-02-12

The Rev. Julius Schaad. rector of St
John Evangelist parish, the largest
Protestant Episcopal parish in St
Paul, Mimi, has resigned his charge
because certain influential parishion.
ers objected to his stand in vigorously
criticizing the decision of the Epis.
copal Board of Missions to send dele.
gates to the Panama Protestant Con.
gress.