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Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-22
Myrtle H. Custer and Mrs. F. S.
Hickman
Tea for Miss Doane.

Miss Martha Noble entertained at
an informal tea this afternoon in
honor of Miss Lois Doane Of San
Diego, Cal, the guest of Miss Doro-
thy Wright. Miss Doane is ehroute
home from Oberlin college, where
she was graduated this year and is a
college friend OF Miss Mobiles.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-22

Meeting Postponed.
George Crook Woman's Relief
corps will not meet until the second
Friday in July because of Red Cross
work.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-22

OMAHA BRIDE IN NEW YORK
Widow of the late Arthur D.
Brandeis is now Mrs. Joseph Helf-
man. Photo taken for The Bee
on her last visit to Omaha.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-22

Bee Wants-Ads Produce Results.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-22

n tuliC nat " llidtIl Wdo u iillliCu
with pink rosebuds. She carried law
ender sweet peas.
Mr.. Flavel Robertson of Kansas
City was best man and Mr.. John Ray
ley and Mr.. Earle Allen were ush-
ers. Immediately after the ceremony
wedding supper was served to the
bridal party at the Blackstone. Mr..
and Mrs. Bozel1 left for Chicago and
will be at home after short we'd
ding trip in Omaha.
Stirling o. 'Connor.
The fourth bride of s o'clock
Wednesday night was Miss Lulu Lu-
cille O'Connor, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Joseph O'Connor, whose mar
riage to Mr.. Lee H. Stirling was SOL
emnized at the North Side Christian
church by Rev. G. L. Peters. White
and pink roses and peonies were COM
bined with palms and ferns in the
decoration OF the church. Three lit
tie girls, Misses Helen Rose, Lois
Curtis and Helen Burton, dressed in
white frocks with pink sashes. acted
as ushers. Misses Frances Wiles and
Elizabeth Youngman in similar frocks
stretched ribbons for the bridal
party.
The bride wore a gown of ivory
satin combined with chiffon and
trimmed with pearls. Her cap veil
was held in place with a bandeau
of pearls. She carried a shower of
bridal roses and white sweet peas.
Little Miss Dorothy O'Connor was
ring bearer and flower girl. She was
dressed in white with pink sash and
ribbons and carried the ring in
lily buried in basket of rose petals.
Miss Nellie O'Connor was maid OF
honor. She wore old rose crepe de
chine and carried red roses. Miss
Pauline Nesbit wore yellow chiffon
and carried yellow roses and Miss
Lillian O'Connor wore pink georgette
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-03-17
DUBUQUE TRAPPIST
MONASTERY
IOWA COMMUNITY OF SILENT
BROTHE OOD MAY BE
MERGED WITH TUCkY
BRANCH OF ORDER.

The recent death of Right Rev.
Alberto Dunlea, O. c. R., Abbot, which
took place at New Melleray Trappist
Abbey, about twelve miles from Du-
buque, removed from the scene of his
labors a most interesting character.
The death of the venerable monk fol
lowed brief illness due to the in
firmities of age.
1t is thought by some that the death
Of Abbot Alberto may possibly result
in the dissolution of the Trappist mon
astery of New Melleray and it's coali.
tion with some other branch of the
Cistercian Order, possibly that OF
Gethsemane in Kentucky. The mon.
astery was founded in 1S48, through
the instrumentality of Bishop Loras
who donated the property on which
the Abbey stands, but there are only
about twenty-five members in the com.
munity at present.
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REV. THOMAS P. HAYES
ASSISTANT PASTOR OF THE
CHURCH OF ST. JAMES DIED
THIS WEEk-THE FUNERAL
WAS HELD ON WEDNESDAY,,

Rev. Thomas P. Hayes, assistant
pastor of the Church of st. James, OF
this city, and chaplain at the City Hos
pital, died last Sunday night at ST.
Joseph's Hospital st. Paul, following
an operation for appendicitis and gall
stones. He had been ill for the past
| two or three weeks.
The funeral was held Wednesday
morning, March IA, at ten o'clock,
from the Church of st. James, A
large number of the clergy of the dio-
cese said the Office for the Dead at
half past nine O'Clock preceding the
Mass. The Solern nm Mass of Requiem
was sung by the Rev. jeremiah O'Con-
nor, pastor of the church. The deacon
was Rev. Edmund O'Connor, and the
subdeacon, Rev. Father Barry. Mas
ter of ceremonies, Rev. James Moyni-
han. The acolytes were Mr. Casey
and Mr.. Pilger, of the st. Paul Sem
mary, and the thurifer, Rev. John
O'Neill. Rev. F. X. Bajec was in
charge of the priests choir. The pail
bearers were former classmates of
Father Hayes. A touching eulogy on
the work and character of Father
Hayes was delivered by the Very Rev.
James c. Byrne, V. g., who also pro-
nounced the absolution. Burial was
in Calvary cemetery.
Rev. Thomas P. Hayes was born in
Hayesville, Killmallock, County Linn
erick, Ireland, on February 19, 1887
He completed his classical studies in
Rockwell College, Cashel County Tip
perary. He pursued his studies in phil
osophy in st. Patrick's College at
Carlow, and was ordained on June s,
1915. Immediately. after his ordina-
tion he was appointed assistant at st.
James Church and was also assigned
as Chaplain to the City Hospital, st.
Paul.
During the short period of his priest
hood, Father Hayes gave great prom
ise of future excellent work in the
service of God. His zeal and SINGER
ity, as well as his untiring work and
ceaseless efforts for the good of souls,
EElarked him as really man of God.
His cheerful disposition and affable
character endeared him to all, and
his loss will be deeply regretted and
keenly felt by all those who enjoyed
either his friendship or his priestly
ministrations.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-03-17
A SOCIALIST EFFORT
FRENCH PRIESTS FORCED INTO
ACTIVE MILITARY SERVICE.

Rome follows with great interest
anything which touches the politico
religious situation in France just now
and last weeks incident in the cham.
Der there has caused some disgust
though not much surprise, as it only
confirms the view of the situation
already held there. 1t seems that a
Socialist deputy proposed the aboli-
tion of the partial exemption of the
clergy from active service. Priests
are given the opportunity when pos
sible to serve in hospitals and other
auxiliary services, but as matter of
fact hundreds, if not thousands, have
already lost their lives in the firing
line and all France admires sincere
ly the self-sacrifice and heroism of
the clergy and is more than grateful
for it's moral effect. All France, it
seems, except a few politicians. A
Catholic deputy protested strongly,
en- passant that no less
than 12O of the 600 Jesuits enrolled
had lost their lives. Still the pro-
posal was carried, 337 to 152.
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SEARCHING FOR THE MISSING

lie chaplain always present, in the
hope that some of the lost soldiers
comrades may see the name and offer
some clue that will lead to his loca-
ton. Several thousands of such lists
have been printed. There are one
hundred and ten lists, each contain
ing two hundred names, for the Ital-
ian Army alone, making thus a total
of twenty-five thousand lost Italian
soldiers. Aside from this, the depart
ment has copies of the official army
prisoner lists, arranged by nations,
and it Immediately searches these
lists carefully for the name of the lost
soldier
Despite the difficulties of the task,
the department has SO far been able
to find more than ten thousand lost
soldiers, and the Pope has received
a treasured collection of letters of
thanks from families, often from little
children, who address him as Mister
or who give him the title-names OF
popes dead many hundreds of years.
"The correspondent of the Associ-
ment saw bundle of letters that had
been just sent by the Pope, possibly
seventy-five in number, and on the
envelope of each one in his own hand
writing were written directions con-
cerning its disposition. Among the
heap was letter from his sister, the
Countess Persico della Chiesa, of
Genoa, the Pope's home city, asking
that search be made for certain
soldier of Genoa. The Countess begs
attention again. the Pope had writ
ten on the letter. Another one of the
letters was one of thanks from
French family whose son, Jean
Laforgue, had been for two years in
| the Orient without being able to send
news to his family of himself, but the
| Pope had been able to discover this
lost son at Samsam, in distant
Turkey"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-03-17
EDUCATION In HOLLAND
NUMBER OF CATHOLIC PUPILS is
INCREASING.

Official information states that the
number of pupils in the Catholic
schools of Holland is notably increas-
ing. During the school years of 1916
1916, the increase was more than 5000.
The total number of schools is 1867,
with $3.50 teachers, and 84,734 boys,
133,337 girls; an increase in the past
twelve months of twenty-three schools
and seventy-five teachers. Plainly the
perilous position of Holland during the
war has not dampened Catholic zeal
for the training of children. 1t is con.
fidently hoped that some changes in
the national school law will soon be
made, materially lessening the finan-
cial burdens of Catholic education.
Meanwhile there is good provision of
Catholic high schools, and the next
step is to be the founding of a Catho-
lie University.
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Annuario Ecclesiastical
LAST OF CHANGES IN DlPLo-
MATIc CORPS FOLLOWING CON-
SISToRY SENDS NEW SALEsIAN
NUNCIO TO AMERICA.

The last of the changes in diplo-
matte representation consequent on
the Consistory has now been made.
Mgr. Marenco had been named In
ternuncio to Costa Rico, Nicaragua
and Honduras. This is the position
held by Cardinal Cagliero, and the new
Internuncio is also Salesian, the ira
dition and the spirit thus remaining
unchanged, doubtless to the great joy
of the faithful there. There is a diff
ference, however, now. In the old days
this used to be an Apostolic Delega-
ton; it has now changed with the
others, on the principle put in force By
Pope Benedict XIV that all Papal repre-
sentatives to any state shall come un-
der the category of nuncios or inter-
nuncios, the Apostolic Delegates being
purely religious representatives of the
Pope. So, in the new "Annuario Ec-
clesiastico" there is an increase in
the first category and a decrease in
the second. There are nuncios to
Spain and Austria (these of the first
class), of the second to the Argentine,
Bavaria, Belgium, Brazil (its status
raised), Chile (similarly), while Bo-
livia has no name. Internuncios are
listed to Colombia, Costa Rico, Mica
ragua and Honduras, Haiti, Holland,
Peru, Venezuela, while San Domingo,
Ecuador, San Salvador, Switzerland,
Uruguay and Paraguay have no names.
France remains on the book, but with
out name, and Portugal, too, but with
an Auditor of Nunciature.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-03-17
SEMINARY IS DESTROYED
EUDlST FATHERS IN CANADA SUS-
TAIN SEVERE LOSS.

On Tuesday morning, March 6, fire
destroyed the magnificent seminary
of the Eudist< Fathers situated at
West Bathurst in the Diocese of
Chatham, Province of Halifax, Canada.
This loss is a particularly hard blow
in view of the fact that last year the
college building at Caraquet was de-
stroyed by fire. The loss by Tues
days fire is estimated at $15O,O00, with
insurance Of only $4,000. Since the
destruction of the college last year the
seminary has been used by the Eudist
Fathers as college, and at the time
of the fire had one hundred and fifty
students on the roll. The students all
made their escape, but lost all their
belongings. :
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-03-17
SOME FAMOUS IRISH MUSICIANS

to obtain faithful copy of the Gre
gorian Antiphonarium. Moengal, an
Irish monk, was made headmaster of
the Music School of ST. Gall in the
year $40, and under this rule it be-
came the wonder and delight of
Europe" The copying of music be-
came such a feature of the work done
at st. Calls that the scribes of this
monastery provided all Germany with
MSS. books Of Gregorian chant, all
beautifully illuminated. At Moengal's S
death he was succeeded by his Irish
disciple Tuathal, Latinized Tutilo,
who became even more famous than
his master
About the year 653, st. Gertrude of
Brabant, abbess Of Nivelle, in Brabant,
sent for two brothers, St Foillan and
st. Ultan to teach psalmody to her
nuns. The two Irish monks complied
with her request and built an adjoin-
ing monastery at Fosse, near Liege
All northern Europe must acknowl-
edge it's Indebtedness to Ireland more
or less, for wherever the Irish monks
went they brought the science of
music with them. The learned Kes-
sci, writing of our early ecclesiastics,
says: Every province in Germany
proclaims this race as it's benefactor.
Austria celebrates st. Colman, ST. Vir-
gilius, st. Modestus and others. To
whom but the ancient Scots 0rish)
was due the famous 'Schottenkloster'
of Vienna? Salisbury, Ratisbon and
all Bavaria honor ST. Virgilius as their
apostle. Burgundy, Alsace, Helvetia,
Suevia with one voice proclaim the
glory of Columbanus, Gall, Fridolin,
Arbogast, Florentius, Trudpert, who
first preached the true religion
amongst them. Who were the found
ers of the monasteries of st. Thomas
at Strasburg and of st. Nicholas at
Memmingen, but these same Scots.
The Saxons and the tribes of northern
Germany are indebted to them to an
extent that may be Judged by the fact
that the first ten Bishops who occu-
pied the See of Verden belonged to
that race
The first to introduce the Roman
chant in Cologne was the Irish ST.
Helias, native of the Co. Monaghan
who was elected Abbot of Cologne, in
Germany in 1915. 1t was to him that
Berno of Reichenau dedicated his cele
brated work, "The Laws of Symphony
and Tone"
One of the greatest musical theor
lists of the thirteenth century was
John Garland, of the Co. Louth. He
went to France, studied in Paris an6
taught in Toulouse, where he wrote
| his famous treatise on De Musica
| Mensurabili Positio The street in
! which he taught in Paris was named
in his honor, the Clos de Garlande.
The tlrst treatise on music written
in the English language is credited tc
Lionel Power. native of Waterford
and can now be found among the Lans
downe MSS. in the British Museum
He established the use of sixths anc
thirds, prohibited consecutive unisons
fifths and octaves and was the in
ventor of figured bass. Many of his
compositions are still extant. Hi.
treatise was written about the yea,
| 1890.
Continued on page So
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-03-17
THERE ARE NOW 25,436, 6,136 CATH
OLlcS UNDER THE AMERICAN
FLAG-1s,es3 PRIESTS IN THE
UNITED STATES-1,537,644 cHlL.
DREN IN PAROCHlAL SCHOOLS.

With the appearance of the 1917 edi
tion of The Official Catholic Direc
tory" published and copyrighted b,
P. j. Kennedy & Sons of A Barclay
street, New York, attention ought tc
be called to the fact that one hundred
years have elapsed since the issuance
of the first directory, for in 1917 1.-THE
Laity's Directory to the Church Serv
ice' was published and sold in New
York by Matthew Field.
According to the Centenary Edition
of "The Official Catholic Directory
there are 17,022,S79 Catholics in the
United States (not including our Is
land possessions). With sixty-four
archdioceses and doceses reporting in
creases, four showing decreases, thir.
ty-three archdioceses and dioceses
making no change in the population
figure the increase in the number OF
Catholics during the year 1916 is
shown to be 45S,770. 1t must be re-
membered in this connection, however,
that the great archdioceses, such as
New York, Chicago and Boston do not
take a new census each year.
According to Joseph H. Meier, the
directory compiler, the figure 17,O22,-
S79 is very conservative, including, as
it does, only the figures submitted by
the Chancery Officials Taking into
consideration the floating" Catholic
population and the fact that some i'm
portant archdioceses and dioceses take
up census only at intervals of ten
years, Mr.. Meier feels that he is
safe in saying that the Catholic popu-
lation of the United States is at pres
ent nearly 100000.
island Possessions.
Looking over that section of ''The
Official Catholic Directory which con-
tains the data for our Island posses
sions one finds that there are 7,342,-
262 Catholics in the Philippines and
adding to these Philippine Catholics
the number reported for Alaska, the
Canal Zone, Guam, our possessions in
Samoa, the Hawaiian Islands and Por-
to Rico the total number amounts to
8,413,257. This figure does not include
the Catholics of the three recently ac-
quired Danish West Indies.
There are, therefore, under the
United States flag 25,436,136 Catholics
divided as follows: Continental Unit
ed States 17,O22,S79; foreign posses
sions of the United States, 8,413,257.
The Centenary Edition of "The Of
fetal Catholic Directory" bristles with
facts and figures showing the prog
ress of the Catholic Church. Accord
ing to the 1917 volume there are four
teen Archbishops, ninety-six Bishops
and 1888 Catholic clergymen in con-
tinental United States. Of these 49,
9S3 clergymen 14,G02 are secular
priests and 5,3S1 are priests of re-
ligious orders. Comparing the 1917
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-03-17
Many Catholic Diplomats
SEVERAL MEMBERS OF CHURCH
REPRESENT UNITED STATES
FOREIGN COUNTRIES.

If the United States should sever
diplomatic relations with the other
Central Powers, the following Catho.
lie diplomats will return to America
Frederic Courtland Penfield, U. s.
Ambassador to Austria-Hungary.
Charles ]. Vopicka, U. S. Minister
to the Balkan States Gncluding Bull
garia).
Dominic l. Murphy, formerly editor
of The New Century, Washington
Consul-General at Sofia, Bulgaria.
Julius Garesche Lay, Consul General
at Berlin, who accompanied Ambas
sador Gerard back to this country, is
also a Catholic.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-03-17
CATHOLICS in THE LEAD
TWO CATHOLIC COLLEGE STU
DENTS SECURE HIGHEST AVER
AGE IN NAVY EXAMINATION.

Two boys from st. John Preparatory
School, Danvers, Mass, won the ap-
pointments for the Naval Academy at
Annapolis, receiving the two highest
places in the competitive examinations
for appointment. The examinations
were conducted by the Civil Service
Board in the Post Office building in
Boston.
Francis J. Riley, Roxbury, Mass, fin
ished first with ranking of 91.6 per
cent, and Louis G.. McGlone, also of
Roxbury, finished second with the fine
average of 906 per cent. The third
rating was 75.5 per cent, or a margin
of over Is per cent between the Sec
ond and third.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-03-17
ILLUSTRICUS NAMES IN THE
WORLD OF MUSIC.

The worlds musical debt to Ireland
is greater than can ever be estimated
While there are eXtant enough histori-
cal facts to prove the value Of the
achievements of the musicians Of the
Land of Song" still there can be no
doubt that much valuable data has
been lost in the troublous centuries
intervening between the early ages
and the present day. The Norsemen
destroyed thousands of valuable
manuscripts in their raids on the
monasteries and churches, and, later
on, the Anglo-Normans added to the
destruction.
Historians are agreed on the fact
that previous to the coming of st.
Patrick the Irish bards had COM
plete system of musical notation, and
some musical authorities, among them
DR.. William H. Cummings, one of the
most eminent of English musicians,
declare that the bards had the dia-
tonic scale as we have it today.
Father Bewerunge, Professor of Mu-
sical Chant in Maynooth College, in
sistS that the Irish melodies belong
to a stage of musical development
very much anterior to that of Gre
gorian chant. He claims that being
based fundamentally on a pentatonic
scale, they reach back to a period al
together previous to the dawn of mu-
sical history.
Sedulius, the Irish poet, musician
and theologian, who fiourished in
Rome in the fifth century was, per-
haps, the first Irish churchman to
achieve distinction outside of his own
country His Carmen Paschale has
been called the first great Christian
epic worthy OF the name. DR.. Flood,
in his History of Irish Music says:
From a musical point of view, the
beautiful Introit of the Mass of the
Blessed Virgin-'Salve Sancta Parenf
enixa Puerpera Regem' which is still
sung throughout the western church
is the most glowing tribute to the es
timation in which this worthy Irish
mans compositions were held by the
compilers of the Roman Missal ant
Gradual. Again in the Roman Liturgy
we find our Irish composers abcedirer
hymn commencing "A Soils ortus
cardine'; and as Dr.. Healy writes
Several other expressions in the Di
vine Office are borrowed from the
Carmen Paschale of Sedulius.'
Germany owes its music to the Irisl
monks, for musical science was utter
" unknown in that country until the
founding of the monastery of st. Gal
in the year 612 by the Irish saint
Cellach, whose name has been Latin
lied Gallus or Gall Cellach came
from the college at Bangor, Co. Down
and was the friend and disciple o.
ST. Columbanus, the founder of the
monastery at Bobbio, Italy. Durins
Cellach's lifetime the monastery O
st. Gall became famous for its music
and later on, in the end of the eight
century, Pope Adrian sent two famous
Roman singers, Peter and Romanu
tauthors of the Romanian notation)
to the Irish monastery at st. CALI
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HOW THE POPE TRACES LOST
SoLDIERS-HE TAKES A PER-
soNAL INTEREST IN THE MANY
CASES.

The Literary Digest reminds us that
every day the Pope receives about
two hundred letters from distracted
parents, wives, and sweethearts in
all of the belligerent nations, plead
ing that he use his good offices to
learn whether their loved ones, about
whom they are unable to learn any
thing, are dead, wounded, sick or
prisoners" And, as we learn from an
Associated Press dispatch from Rome
printed in The Intermountain Catho-
lie (Salt Lake City,, he reads every
one of the letters himself. Of course,
he cannot investigate every case per-
sonally. But after reading an appeal,
he makes memorandum on its en-
velope and sends it to the department
of lost soldiers, which has been
established in the Vatican, and en-
ploys some thirty clerks under the
supervision of one Father Huisman.
The work of this Office is described
as follows:
''The department has access to off,
cial records transmitted by the Prus-
sian Minister of War to the Holy See
at Lugano, Switzerland, and has
offices at Paris, Constantinople.
Vienna, Brussels, and Padeborn, West
phalia, Germany, with several minor
branches in other countries.
''The department has become one
of the most highly organized of any
in the Vatican. 1t writes several
hundred letters day. and to date
such letters have run up to tota1
Of more than five million. As the de
partment returns all money enclosed
in letters of appeal, and as a person
writing from England can not vel
enclose Italian stamps for inter
national correspondence, the staml
bill alone of the department has beer
upward of two hundred thousant
dollars.
after making an official demand
on the Government of the countr,
where the lost soldier is supposed t,
be, the department causes each ney
name to be posted up in the militar.
prison camps, by the aid Of a Cathc
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-03-17
THE NEW ACE
MASONS ISSUE AN ANTI-CATHO-
Lie MAGAZINE.

The New Age is a monthly maga-
zine conducted from the headquarters
of Free Masonry in Washington, D. C.
One of the late numbers is equal to
the Missouri viper in bitterness to-
wards Catholics. 1t has an article de-
nouncing the friars who conducted the
old Franciscan missions to the Indians
in California. 1t represents the Indians
as slaves forced to toll, and the
priests reaping the fruit of their
labors. 1t has other strongly anti
Catholic articles. Yet Masons tell us
that Masonry is not anti-Catholic and
has nothing to do with religion. Let
any one read that publication, issued
by authority of the supreme officials
of Masonry, and decide, according to
the axiom that actions speak louder
than words.