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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-08-25
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the league to reach children who
would otherwise be deprived of the
opportunity to be instructed in their
religion. The Rev. Father Lyons,
s. j., of Chicago, who is the general
director of the league, estimates that
throughout this country less than one
half of the Catholic children are in
Catholic schools. Many fail to attend
Sunday school The league aims to
give instruction on Sunday and at
stated periods during the week after
school hours.
Civil War Observation-Disclosures Cos
mos, G.. S. c., the last but two of the
surviving brothers of the Notre Dame
G. A. R., Post No. $50, died of old age
ailments in the community house of
the Congregation of the Holy Cross
Notre Dame, Ind, recently. Brother
Cosmos had lived in the community
house for many years and had been
confined to his bed for about two
months previous to his death. He
was born in Galway, Ireland, in
1887, and his worldly name was
Nicholas Bath He received the
habit at Notre Dame in 1877. and was
protested member of the Congrega-
ton of the Holy Cross in 1879.
Brother Raphael, C. S. c., and Brother
John Chrysostom, C. S. c.. are now
the only remaining brothers of the
Notre Dame G.. A. R. Post.
Fruits of Missions.-Bishop Choulet
P. F. NJ, writing from Moukden
Manchuria, says that things are not
going too badly in his district, in
spite of the difficulties that have been
named so often since the beginning
| of the war that they cannot bear repe.
tition. The fears of the missionaries
soon gave way to an almost sublime
confidence in Divine Mercy, and this
| has, to some extent, been rewarded
Last years harvest of souls, accord
| ing to the Bishops report, was ex
ceedingly good, especially in the mat
ter of baptism of adults, and it is ex
Ipected that this years showing will
be equally satisfactory. Misery leads
many a person to the priests door il
| districts periodically afflicted with
| famine, but it has not been proved
that those thus gathered into the folG
do not make satisfactory Christians.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-08-25

The best, Father" came the proud
reply. Twas only yesterday he
wrote. But however it is, whether the
old eyes are giving out in me, or
whether what they do be telling me is
the truth and big lot of learning
makes the handwriting bad to read,
anyways, | believe you'd make a bet
ter show of finding the sense of it
than l do myself
He took the letter from her, and
her hands lay idle as he read what
| her son had written You might have
| thought it was the first time she had
| heard it read, were it not that when
| the priest even hesitated, she prompt
ed him unconsciously. Bad to read
though it might have been, she had
conned its words by heart already, yet
| the pleasure of hearing it once again
| had suggested to- her the little ruse,
which touched and amused the parish
| priest.
| With pride and joy the widow Nc
Rory had seen and encouraged her
sons desire to be priest, and scrap
ing and striving, term by term, to
keep him at the county college. He
had done well at his books, and his
hard won scholarships had eked out
the proceeds of the mountain farm,
where, when vacation-time came
round, he spent long, happy days with
his mother for his only company
l 40 v;ei+ Of f1o ,icI,
priest were joyful events to Mrs. Nc
Rory. He understood both the pride
and the pain of having a son away at
college. He knew better than any, the
dignity and beauty of the priesthood
Yet once on a time he, too, had had
TO leave his mother, somewhere away
up the country, to pride and loneli
ness just like her own. But the world
had changed since Father Connaugh.
toms curate days, when months, al
most years, had gone by, in the great
struggling western diocese, between
the visits he had been able to pay his
mother. Now Mrs. Mullarkey, in the
town, whose son was a curate in the
next county, had him coming to see
her, goodness knows how often
thanks to his having motor-bicycle
And Mrs. McRory had half-bred coli
up there on the mountain, that, with
luck. would pay for just such another
machine for John.
During the long days of his college
term these were the hopes that kept
the widow happy. She could hardly
think, so proud was she, OF the day
when she would first see him at the
altar Deep down in her heart there
was thankfulness for that, but hel
mind ran busily on less sacred things
I'm here my lone," often she would
say to herself, AYE, an If | am itself
haven't I him always and ever my
own? If he had stopped along with
me this while, wouldn't he have been
for getting married before long, an
then whose would he have been ever
after, mine. or his wife's? Eth, but
look at it as you will, it's the lucky
mother | am, thanks be to God
1t was during the holidays after he
had received the tonsure, that the first
<Continued on page 3D.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-08-25
OLD WORLD NEWS

Souls in Pureatory.-In Birming-
ham, England, new Sacred Heart
church is to be erected in honor of the
souls in purgatory as a war memorial
Chinese Priests.-The Bishop of
Saigon, in China, has been able to re-
place his European priests who re-
turned to Europe because of the war
by ninety-four native Annamite
priests.
Prisoners Thank Pope.-The Pope
has received the cordial thanks of the
English prisoners interned at Casta-
monni in Asia for the gifts of clothing
and musical instruments sent through
Monsignor Dolci, Apostolic Delegate at
Constantinople
War Memorial.-The Royal Spanish
Church of st. James in London has
been completed by the addition of a
chapel surrounded by collonnade
whose IA arches will contain the
stations of the Cross in memory of
the fallen in the war;
Count de Sails Son.-The report of
the death, on the field of battle, of
the son of Count De Sails, the British
minister to the Holy See, is unbound
ed. He has been wounded in Elan
ders, but is recovering satisfactorily.
Catholic Chaplain Killed At the
Front.-English Catholic exchanges
report the death in action at Messines
of Major the Rev. James Macmena-
men, the senior Catholic chaplain with
the New Zealand forces. Father Mac
menamen was native of New Zea-
land, and belonged to the diocese of
Wellington. He had been with the
troops in Egypt, Gallipoli and France,
and was greatly esteemed by both
officers and men.
Get No FurIough.-Replying to Mr..
Byrne, NJ. p, in the House of Com
mons a few days ago, the British I'M
der secretary of war admitted that
the Irishmen serving at the front in
the English army have not been al
lowed single holiday since the start
of the war. Englishmen, however,
have received their regular furloughs
from time to time.
Germany Thanks the Pope.-His
Holiness has received letter from
Herr Won Bethmann-H ollweg of
the ex-Chancellor's last acts before re-
signing, thanking him, on behalf of
the German Government, for all his
humanitarian efforts on behalf OF
prisoners, and alluding specially to the
| recently accomplished exchange for
internment in Switzerland of prison.
ers, fathers of families.
| Conservation of Bishop Esser.-T The
ESTEEM entertained i'm Rome for the
| Right Rev. DR.. Esser, the well-known
Dominican, was shown on recent
Sunday by the number of those who
| attended his episcopal conservation
| as Titular Bishop of Sinide at the
hands of Cardinal Fruhwirth, who be-
| longs to the same Order. The cocoon
secrating prefates were the Most Rev
Archbishop Sill, Titular of Caesarea
| -Camerlengo of the Holy Roman
Church, and the Right Rev. Bishop
Sinabaldi, Titular of Tiberias, Secre.
tary of the Sacred Congregation for
Universities and Seminaries.
Causes of Beatification.Th The agenda
list laid before the Sacred Congrega.
| ton of Rites at its recent meeting in
the Vatican contained the following
Items: |. The Process prepared in
the Vicariate Apostolic of North Ny
ANA concerning the nartyrdom Of and
the miracles ascribed to the Veneer
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28
STRANGELY VICIOUS GHOST"
HURLS MISSILES AT PAIR
Woman Has Crick In Neck from Dodg-
ing Flatirons and Things

Stsnislaus Lyssj, who has developed
an unconscious habit OF warding of an
imaginary blow. and his wife, who says
she has a crick in her neck from do6g-
ing household utensils, complained TO
the Newark police yesterday against
ghost who they claim has come TO
their home at 46 Tyler Street.
Mrs. Lyssj described how recently
the pictures have taken to Topping
down from the wall, and Jumping from
their places on the mantel. A few
nights ago, she said, a stove litter
hoped from the stove lid and clattered
to the floor, and when she went TO pick
1t up smoothing iron sailed through
tho air and struck her between the
shoulder blades.
Lysaj told how a bag of salt leaped
from the pantry shelf and assaulted him
in the back of the neck, and how a
chair. suddenly addicted to the waltz
craze, shunted him of on the floor.
Eight priests have been called in by
the Lysajs to drive away the ghost"
The first two, who are said to have
witnessed some of the uncanny pro-
ceedings, yesterday declared they could
not explain just ersctly what they had
seen.
Neighbors, who are organizing q
"spook hunt club" told the police that
Mrs. Lysaj bad quarrelled with her sis
ter, who died recently, and that the sis
ter, before her death, had vowed that
she would return to svenge herself.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28
u. S. GRAND JURY
MDICTS REFORM
MAYOR OF SEATTLE
Hiram Gill and Twelve Others
Charged with Taking Brides
from Liquor Man

Seattle, Jan. 27.--IIirsm G. Gill, Seat
Ties much elected and much recalled
reform" Mayor; Chief of Police
Charles L. Rockingham and former
Sheriff Robert T. Hodge were indicted
to-day by the Federal grand jury,
charged with violation of the Federal
liquor laws. Similar indictments were
also returned against former city de-
tcctives and former policeman.
There are thirteen defendants in all,
charged Jointly with conspiracy in one
indictment, with the exception Of the
former policeman, who is accused
singly. Mayor Gill, Chief Rockingham
and Hodge, with the four city de-
tectives, arc charged with plotting TO
ship quantities of whiskey into Seattle
under organized official and police pro-
lection.
Mayor Gill is accused Of having &C
cepted a $4,000 bride from Logan and
Billingsley at the time the alleged con-
spiracy began. Several instances where
Chief Rockingham took substantial
brides from Billingsley, and in which,
il is charged, he aided them to steal
LIQUOR consigned to other persons, are
alleged by the Federal authorities. In
dicted December %, 1916, for con-
spiracy TO violate the Federal liquor
laws. Logan and Fred Billingsley
entered pleas of guilty in the United
States District Court, and became wit
nesses for the government.
Bench warrants for the arrest of the
defendants were issued to-day by Judge
Jeremiah Neterer, of the Federal court,
Immediately following return of the in
e.r
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28
BRIDES
DIARY TELLS OF
POKER AND RAID
Wanted to Teach Husband a
Lesson, Entry in Little Book,
Evidence in Divorce

Chief witness for Mrs. Bernard Cole,
wife OF a Harlem druggist, in the
counter divorce suits which she and
her husband are bringing in the Su-
premc Court Is little leather bound
volume.
This contains her matrimonial MS
tory. both actual and spiritual. In It
since her marriage, in 1913, she has
written an account Of the events which
have driven her and her husband
farther and farther apart, and also the
vague, indefinite yesrnings of bride
who "is dreadfully lonesome in her
beautiful home," and who at last con-
cludes that she ais married to store
instead OF a man."
For the little book testifies that the
woman seldom had Collie to herself.
He was busy at his store, it says, and
even when he had an evening free he
spent IL at his club.
"He told me that ii was q vice TO be
affectionate," the wife wrote; that he
detested the clinging vine sort OF
woman, and that slick, shrewd woman
was the kind he admired"
The volume tells of poker games
which Mrs. Collie played TO smuse her
self, and also Of how detectives broke
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28
BROTHERSBATTLE
FOR LIFE, lSHOT
Spectacle Case Stops One
Bullet as Architects Fight
Armed Builder

Henry +. IIaugaard and his brother
William s., architects. fought for their
lives Yesterday in their Office in the
Hillside Bank Building, Richmond MILL
Queens, while a crowd gathered in ia
maica Avenue below to listen for more
shots and speculate az to whether pans
.ohhsrs were at work. Henry L. Hau-
ard is in the Jamaica Hospital, a
ao,;o,a bullet wound in his right sac
lie brothers. thanks to q spee'aei.
caso in his waistcoat pocket, escaped
with a bruise ovs= his heart.
Herbert n. Newcombe, sixty yea's
old Of 115 Herald Avenue, Ricnmo ,ho
Hill. il under arrest charged WIN VI
shooting and carrying a conced'edd
weapon. Newcombe, builder, mas nay
grievance against the haugss,,
brothcrs for months. asserting t ua
they had ruined him and driven MI"
out OF business. Gro in
lie was seen walking TO and ITO III
front of the building for an hour "
fore he entered about 10 oclocA'
followed the brothers into their on.e
and without word to either IL -
charged. lcvelled his revolver and hreu
straight at William Haugsards spec
Henry Haugsard leaped at the IN
truder. and another shot, tred wnen ne
was within arms length and taxing
effect in his chest, failed 70 stop nm,
He prappled with Newcombe and wa
Joined by his brother. The three men
wrestled furiously for possession OF OF
the revolver, upsetting furniture ano
scattering papers. ,,s.v
Henry Haugaard was thrust halfway
through a closed window during Inv
struggle. His left hand was cut. 70,
licemen seeking the cause OF the crow
that stalled street cars found the Inre'
men still fighting. ia, -.
Newcombe pleaded not guilty IN po'
lice court and was held for examina..
tion tomorrow. News of his arres'
was kept from his wife, who was taken
home Yesterday after serious opera,
tion. Henry Haugaard lives at 10
Waterbury Avenue and William at
washington and Brandon Avenues
Richmond Hill.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28
George B. Ellis Celebrates
Rescue Here from Life
of Crime
HYMN SAVED HIM
FROM DEATH HOUSE
Left Whitley Lewis's Side
to Enter Theatre, Where
He Was Converted

Down in Chinatown, where the
streets are still as crooked as the
dwellers there used to ne, and where
religion comes straight and unadorned'
there appeared last night an evangelist
who. despite the fact that he Is barely
thirty-three, can look back over ca
reer of crime as varied as that OF one
Of Sing Sings lifers.
He is George h. Ellis. and he spoke
at the Rescue Society Mission, wnlcn
occupies the old Chinese Ihestre III
Doyers Street, Just seven years sev
to the day he passed the mission win
Whitley Lewis. the gunman VINO was
olectrocuted for the murder OF herman
Rosenthal. and heard the STRAIN OF
hymn flowing through tho open door =,
Lets 90 in and see what lts ali
about. Whitley" he suggested.
whats the user the gunman
piled.
On the threshold of the mission the
two friends parted-Lewis TO foliVW
the high road that ended beyond tne
little green door in the death house,
Ellis to tread his way through the am
cloisters of churches, the narrow eisies
of prison chapels and across the I'M
even floors of missions In the Sums.
Celebrates Night of Rescue
He is a singing evangelist to-day,
friend If churchmen and of bishops.
On the 9th of each January he comes
back to the old theatre in Chinatown
10 celebrate the night when he and
Whitley Lewis parted, and to try to
reach down a hand to help some crlnlI
nal who stalks forth from the shadows
of the lower East Side.
81 was Just nine years old when l
began my career of crime he told the
motley throng that pressed INTO INC
mission last night. u had peen a cnolr
bow in the All Saints Church, but some
irresistible power drew me into the
heart of Chinatown, where my path
crossed that of Red Goss, one OF the
worlds most famous criminals.
"He took me under his tutelage ana
spread before my eyes the primer OF
crime. At the age Of ten ] was skill
full pickpocket. At fourteen | was
burglar and safe cracker; at sixteen
7 was a professional gunman. Az sew
enteen New York was too small 1oI
my operations. With Red Goss always
az nv side. tramped the highways oil
tho world. met the most famous crlm-
mails and never left one of them with
out learning something new about my
complex trade: p.1
was murdered in Chicago. | was at
his side at the time, but escaped to
Mexico, where I ran foul of the ponce.
and was sentenced to be hanged. FINAL,
" managed to have myself deported
as an undesirable alien.
Fixed Price for Imprisonment
T came back to New York IN 1908,
Since 7 had first fallen in With Red
Goss my operations had melted me an
average Of $4,000 a year. But | az
ways gambled and was always out OF
funds.
helped me slip out Of the, clutches OF
the New York police failed me. ! was
arrested and sent to Elmira for three
years. At the end of eighteen months
/ was paroled, but left vowfng that
society would pay me s25 day for
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28

into an apartment and found her alone
with another man.
~ wanted to teach Mr.. Collie how .
woman feels when her husband stays
at the club all night and comes home
at 4 o'clock in the morning" the book
reads. and, in another place:
az do so long for love and affection:
All my life it has been .enied me, and
I thought when | married / would be
hsppy.'
The diary contains copy OF a letter
written to her husband year before
she was married to him.
81 could not pay board and clothe
myself" the dresry little confession
reads, Eat the munificent salary Of -
a week that was offered me. SO one OIL
chose well-spoken Washers was well
coined by me. Now ! am only twenty
one years of age, considered pretty
and, oh, how ! would like to become
domestic, sensible, home-loving
woman"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28
ANTIQUE CHINESE CARPET
BRINGS S1,70O AT SALE
lockwood Screen. Panclled with En-
neror's Verses, Sells for Sl,600

Teakwood Screen, Panclled with En-
peror's Verses, Sells for sl,6oO
An antique Chinese carpet of the
K'ang-hsi period, having short, nm
nile. Of silky surface and square
feld Of apricot brown, brought Sl,foV
Yesterday. the top price, at the hnal
session OF the Yamanska sale at the
American Art Galleries. The pur-
chasers we're the +. S. Baliozia Broth
ors. An imperial teakwood screen, ten
fold. from the palace at Picking, brought
inc second best price 500. On eacn
recessed panel is poem by the En-
peror, celebrating the plants with
which the panels are ornamented.
Mrs. L. p. d. Lee gave 5 800 Tor
Chinese velvet hanging OF golden
yellow, carrying an ornamentatlon IN
terwoven in gold thread representing
the Taoist paradise. The same price
was paid by Miss r. u: Lorenz, a:
agent. for an antique Chinese rug OF
the Ming period. The 1872 lots brought
total OF s3s ,44O, making the total Tor
the sale Sl15,S25.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28
FIRE RECORD

A Vt -, -
l:45-lt9 West 2fth -. Ploncef hrhd MANU- s''ui
iur 70 unknown.
Alq-,; Roosevelt 81 . Tony Russo: trihing
j:2O-2si ~ Nicholas ave. lho'na' Do"hhs
aiicy unknown.
g45-300 Wet 1854 ST. George Mainard: trfng.
9 gJ-7sa Fasf 12sth S.. The BronN. Louisa Va
resc. trfug. ~
9.25-5i West Houston st.. Harm krsin: $4,000
10 .l0-Third ave. and I2Sih g., truck, Flnhein
Matthews: damage unknown.
II .35-eIg7 Madison ave, Oscar NILS. trthins.
p NJ ,
.35-300i Heath ave, Inc bT"t' d"eph Soout'
damage slight
2.I0-Rost0n Road and l73d ST.. unknown trhing.
2.40-llT Yves, SD ST.. John Nelson. trifing
9.iS29i East 1Njth st. Freda Jacobson: tn1ing
3.25-542 Westchestsr ave- H. Bloom: tnhng.
sI5-Greenvich and liberty Sic. y. Mastronandi
a Co trihing
S.55-i East 18th St. Joseph Freeman: trihtng
4.OO-237th ST. and Arlington ave, The Bronx
automobile McNuu; trihins.
G.5O--SiO Broadway. Yohsen ostrich Feather Go.
unknown.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28

the dogs kept so close on his heels
that neither Costello nor ! could get
shot at him for fear Of hitting the dogs.
Finally we thought the dogs had got
him, but when we came up 20 them
there was Mr.. Fox perched in the fork
of a tree about thirty feet from the
ground. They say foxes can't climb:
and how he got up there don't know
Chief Lee brought home the fox.
weighing twenty-four pounds, and
offered TO take any or all disbelievers
TO the Lewisohn estate and point out
the very tree.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28
Women's Tailleur
SUITS, COATS & CAPES

Introducing new sihouettcs and style themes taeur
suits of silk ykhonc. silk jersey, satn wool Jersey, two
tone Jersey, velvet coats with white gabardnc skirts, silk
Jersey combined with bolivia white satin and crepe meteor
suits and suits of Burrea Gunnbur and rock crepe.
Also collection of mannish suits in strictly tailored types.
COATS CAPES for travel, day and evening
wear of the usual Bonwit Teller & Co. originality.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28
Hoover to See Wilson

Washington, Jan. 27.-Hcrbert c.
Hoover, chairman Of the Belgian Relief
Commission, who returned TO this coun-
try recently, will confer with President
Wilson next Wednesday. The subject
of Belgian deportstions is expected to
be taken up.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28
H. L. Wilson Quits Peace League

Indianapolis, Jan. 26.-Henry Lane
Wilson. former Ambassador to Mexico,
i'm letter 70 William Howard Taft,
president Of the National Association
Of the League 70 Enforce Peace. to-day
announced his resignation as president
Of the Indiana branch. Mr.. Wilson
stated that his retirement was due to
the belief that some of the leaders
we're trying to divert it from its orig
inal purpose and adopt Presidents Will
sons plan for world alliance.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28

every one OF the $40 days had spent
in prison.
"And the very next day set out to
collect this sI3,b00 by robbery. was
within s25 of the amount that night
seven years ago. when Whitley Lewis
and walked through Doyers Street
and when turned into the mission"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28
CLIMBING FOX" TREED
BY D0BBS FERRY HOUND
To Prove He's Not Nature Fsker, Fire
Chief Will Show Tree

Daisy, Dobbs Ferry's community
hound, is silent on the subject, but
Fire Chief Thomas J. Lee and Joseph
Costello, brother Of Police Captain Pat
rick Costello, have issued a challenge
to all corners to prove that the I'M
seemly behavior of a silver fox near
the estate of Adolph Lewisohn, back OF
is a nature fake.
"Daisy and my dog. Bill, jumped the
fox near the Lcwisohn estate and ran
him for more than an hour" said Chief
Lee. "They circled this way and that
and the fox doubled several times, but
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28
Women's FROCKS & GOWNS

Original and unusual sihouettes and fabric combination,
in sports and pasmc ocks, beach gowns. afternoon and
evening gowns. Frocks of wool jersey in aiIeur
broidery effects wool Jersey combined with satin, Geor
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decoetage focks for the formal dinner social function.