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The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-08-29

Mrs. j. L. McKinnon of Sawyer, N.
D., who has been the guest at the
home OF Mrs. ]. L. McKinnon of
Mapleton returned to her home last
evening.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-08-29

Mrs. Charles S. Lund and children,
Rhea and James. of Valley City, are
guests at the home of Mrs. Lund's
mother, Mrs. James McKinnon at
Mapleton.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-08-29

Miss Mona Davis, 90S Fourth ave.
nue. south, entertained a company OF
seven little folks this afternoon, in
honor of Frances MacKerracher, who
Is moving from the neighborhood.
Games and other sports , were the
pastimes of the afternoon and there
was a service of light refreshments.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-08-29

MIR. ana Mrs. j. s. Byington. who
have been spending the GUNNER at
Darlington, where Mr.. Byington has
Telephone, Co. are expected to come
TO Fargo, the first OF the. month. and
win make their home here. SIR
Byington will be connected with the
ofiices IN this city. Mrs. Byington
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-08-29

Miss Nellie Hubbell and Miss
Margaret Freeman, who had intend
ed leaving for Blackfoot, Ida, to take
positions in the high school of that
city, have changed their plans and
will not go to that city this year.
Miss Hubbell has accepted a position
as an instructor in mathematics at
Fargo college and Miss Freeman will
be the instructor in expression and
English in the Valley City high
school.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-08-29

Miss Gertie Lobben, 500 Eighth
street north. has issued invitations
for an informal gathering to take
place at her home, Thursday after
noon in compliment to Miss Cora
Kroshuf and Miss Mabel Eggen OF
Moorhead. Miss Kroshuff will leave
the city about the middle Of next
month for Chicago to resume her
studies at the Gertrude House Kin
dergarten school. and Miss Eggen
leaves next week for Los Angeles,
Cal, where she is to spend the win
ter.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-03-31
A PATHETIC INCIDENT
CHOIR SINGS AT BEDSIDE or
CRIPPLE.

A pathetic incident occurred in
Pittsburg one day last week. Nellie
Fluer, little cripple girl in the In
dustrial Home for Crippled Children
on the verge of death, made a request
that the boys choir of st. Paul s
Cathedral come to her bedside and
sing TO her. Her wish was granted,
and for the first time in it's history
the choir sang outside of the church.
Little Nellie had been an inmate Of
the home, for the past ten years and
when she was able to get about was
taken to the church on Sundays, where
she delighted in listening to the choir.
So, when on her deathbed she wished
to hear the choir boys again. When
the wish was made it was forwarded
to Rev. DR.. Thomas F. Coakley, of
the Cathedral, and to Thomas Often,
director of the choir. Friends fur
nished automobiles for the choir,
which went to the home to grant the
last wish of the dying girl
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-03-31
Catholic Historical Society
ARE AMERICAN CATHOLICS IN
DIFFERENT TO THEIR
HISTORY?

At the annual meeting of the Amer
lean Catholic Historical Society, New
York, on March Z, Stephen Farrelly
was elected president. Reverend r.
H. Tierney, S. j., delivered an eloquent
lecture.
Father Tierney's address on
American Catholic History and Re
ligion'' was an interesting and pro-
found discussion of history as an in
strument of education. Religion, he
said, is protected and nourished by
emotions, and the Catholic history OF
the United States is fountain of
emotions.
Concluding his lecture Father Tier
ney said:
American Catholic history is a
noble record, apt to fill the memory
of our people with heroic names and
deeds, to exercise their intellects in
high thoughts, to fire their magma
lions with sublime pictures, to spur
their will to lofty aspirations, to make
them love the faith and hence to live
it. In other words, American Catholic
history because of it's educative and
emotional value will conserve and
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-03-31

conspicuous. Well, 1892 of these
births were legitimate and $50 illegiti-
mate--a proportion of only 5.53 per
cent. Thanks be to God and our
efforts says the writer, I'VE are very
far from the percentage of illegiti-
mate births in large European cities,
where they ascend to rs, 80 and even
sc per cent. We are very far from
the fourth part, as the Protestant
preachers affirmed, fifth of this
fourth part--so they have to admit
that they were calumnious. In sub
stance, this is true of all the dioceses
of Brazil. In presence of the facts
and statistics, what is the value of
the statements made by the members
of the congress at Panama City con-
corning the reputation of South
American women and the paganism
of the inhabitants of the continent.
They are gratuitous insults! We ap-
peal to North American Catholics,
thoroughly convinced that they will
do us justice publicly, as they have
long done in their hearts," Follow
ing this article is another describing
what the Catholic Church is doing
in Brazil.
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spread the faith. He, therefore, who
promotes the study of this subject is
more than a scholar he is an apostle
Il have naught but words of
praise for this association it has
done noble work. But despite its
labors the average American Catho-
lie is Indifferent to history and ig-
norant of it. Make test if you will.
Go to the colleges and schools of
this city and ask the pupils to refute
the ridiculous calumny against Arch
bishop Hughes uttered by writer
in The Brooklyn Eagle. The story
was crude distortion of great his
torical fact, yet l venture to say that
not half-dozen pupils could belle
that calumny intelligently. And, gen.
tlemen, Archbishop Hughes made his
tory.
more serious still is the neglect
of documents. Why was Washing
toms letter to Archbishop Carroll
lost? Why were so many documents
bearing on the Church in the Mis-
sissippi Valley allowed to disappear?
Where are our very old baptismal
and marriage records? Gone, all,
never to be replaced.
Contrast this spirit with that of
others. Go to Boston, to Lexington,
to Concord, and note the tablets, the
pictures, the manuscripts. Stay here
at home. The house in which Morse
worked bears tablet, so, too, does
the house in which William Lloyd
Garrison died, and so on. Go down
to Maryland. Blackstone Island, the
place where the first Mass was cele-
brated is barren of mark and tradi-
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-03-31
When Roses Bloom in Erin
written for The Catholic Bulletin by
DR.. James Henderson.

When the roses bloom in Erin
Sure each petal seems to smile
AS if to say, ito spread my wings
Were truly worth the WHILE
And the glorious suns that kiss them,
And the skies so smiling sweet
With the blue of heavens making
Oh the picture so completed!
When the roses bloom in Erin
Well we know they come to cheer,
For in every vale there's sorrow,
But they tell us JOY is near;
With their fragrant, spreading petals
Seeming like an Irish prayer
Rising on it's wings at even
When the Irish rose is there.
No wonder Colleens love it, =
And no wonder lads adore,
Filling with the little shamrock
Such place in Irish lore;
'Tis no wonder grey heads bless it,
Clasping closely to their breast,
And full tenderly we place it
And above them when at rest.
0 there's many a rose that's growing
In the little church-yard green
On some lonely Irish hillside,
While the pillows roll between.
Near the slab that marks their resting,
On the spot where they repose-
'Tis with tender hands we planted
Their own little Irish rose.
1t will bloom thro' all the summers,
1t will keep the evens sweet
In the green and grassy church-yard,
There in reverence at their feet
When the roses bloom in Ireland,
'Tis then memory's golden chain
Brings us back, to Irish hillsides
And the olden scenes again.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-03-31
RITES AND CEREMONIES APPRo-
PIRATE TO THIS SEASON-THE
TENEERAE-ALTAR OF REPoSE
MASS OF THE PREsANcTI-
FREDERICKSBURG OF THE FIRE,
PAscHAL CANDLE, HOLY OILS,
AND BAPTlsMAL FONT.


The seven days in which the
.Chureh commentaries in an especial
manner Christ's death and burial
nave come to be known as Holy
Week. The observance of this period
dates back, according TO many writ
ers, to Apostolic times. Holy Week,
properly speaking, begins on the
Monday after Palm Sunday, and the
chief object of the devotions Of the
week is to commemorate the Passion
of Christ. Following is a brief ex-
PLANTATION OF the principal ceremonies
Of Holy Week as proposed to us by
the best authors:
The Tenebrae.
This is the name given to the
Mathis and Lauds of the Divine Office
for the following day, which usually
are sung on the evening of Wednes-
day, Thursday and Friday of Holy
Week The Gloria Patri' at the end
of the Psalms and in the responsor-
les, the hymns, antiphons of the
Blessed Virgin, etc, are omitted in
sign OF sorrow. The Lamentations
OF Jeremias are sung. At the be-
ginning of the Office thirteen lighted
candles are placed on triangular
candelabrum, and at the end of each
psalm one light is put out until only
single candle is left lighted at the
top OF the triangle. During the sing
ing of the Benedictus the candles on
the high altar are eXtinguished, and
at the end of the Benedictus the
single candle left lighted is hidden at
the Epistle corner of the altar. This
extinction of lights (whence the name
Tenebrae, or darkness) figures the
growing darkness at the time when
Christ, the light of the world, was
taken. The clapping made at the end
of the Office is said to symbolic the
confusion consequent on Christs
death.
Holy Thursday.
On this day only one Mass is said
in the same church and it is a public
one. AS an indication of mourning
the bells which ring at the Gloria do
not sound again until the Mass on
Holy Saturday. The celebrant conse-
crates an additional Host which is
placed in chalice and borne in pro-
cession to the altar of repose which
is decked with flowers and lights.
Afterwards the affairs are stripped,
reminding Christians of the way in
which Christ was stripped of his gar
ments. In some churches stripping
of the affairs is followed by the cere-
mony of the washing of the feet.
In Rome the Pope washes the feet
of thirteen poor persons.
Since the seventh century the Holy
Oils, formerly consecrated at any
time, have been blessed by the bishop
in the Mass of this day. Twelve
priests and seven deacons. assist as
witnesses of the ceremony.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-03-31
PEWS
AN INTERESTING REFLECTION BY
A NoN-cATHoLlc.

The following racy bit of writing
on the part of an Episcopalian YES
tryman is, says ."The Lamp" taken
from "The Living Church and al
though it was intended wholly for
Anglican consumption it might be
probably reflected upon in Catholic
circles supported by passage on the
same subject to be found in the Cath
Ollie Epistle of st. James the Apostle:
What lovely thing is pew!
Especially a pew with a little door
to it! One enters into his pew as
into his own castle, closes the door
upon the multitude, and is alone with
his religiOn-of the world, but not in
it. A pew is an especially grateful
possession if church happens to be
crowded One may sail in, fashion
ably late, scatter the crowd of
strangers-for pew-holders in the
House OF. God are wont to talk much
about 'strangers'-and seat himself,
conscious of the divine right confer
red by a paid-up pew-rent. If
oti oA6Cio o Will COIu0 10 .CluFCQ, AICC
them stand, or take an inferior seat.
They have paid no pew-rent."
The Passage from st. James.
II there shall come into your as
sembly a man having a gold ring, in
fine apparel, and there shall come in
a poor man in mean attire, and you
have respect to him that is clothed
with the fine apparel, and shall say
to him: sit thou here WE'LL" but say
to the poor man: Stand thou there,
or sit under my footstool: do you
not Judge within yourselves, and are
become judges of unjust thoughts?
Hearken, my dearest brethren, hath
not God chosen the poor of this
world, rich in faith, and. heirs of the
Kingdom which God hath promised
to them that love Him. 4. : If then
thou fulfill the royal law, according
to the Scriptures, Thou shalt love
thy neighbor as myself, you do we'll;
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-03-31

course, that they fulfill the other con-
ditions enjoined The fact that the
Church specifies confession once in
eight days as sufficiently frequent, to
receive these indulgences, indicates,
as we conclude, that the Church
wishes us to confess thus often.
When confessing frequently it is well
to mention some sin from ones past
life. This will enliyen contrition and
give ones confessor matter for alb
solution. BY doing this voluntarily
time will be saved and perhaps also
as those outside the box
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-03-31

that is enjoyable, means added pleas
ure when shared by congenlal
friend When perplexities or sorrows
or any of the varied troubles OF life
come, the understanding friend brings
aid, advice and comfort not to be
found elsewhere. False friends and
flatterers vanish when adversities
come All is never lost if one still
keeps friend. Joy is never complete
unless shared by a friend.
If you have friend, bind him to you
with hoops Of steel, that he may
never be lost to you. The blessed
memory of what he has been becomes
sacred consolation as memory lasts.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-03-31

ton. The site of the first chapel at
st. Marys City is in Protestant
Keeping; the city itself is Protestant
in tone and movement A few years
hence a great celebration will take
place there; it bids fair to be entire
ly in the hands of Professionals"
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Continued from page ID
{ Conditions in South America

gymnasium, directed by the Marist
Brothers, where a great number of
children receive instruction and edu-
cation. There are 352 religious build
ings, viz: SO churches, 120 chapels,
with resident priests, and 1876 without
resident pastors. About Is mother
churches are in active construction
that there is in course of construction
a large and splendid cathedral of
Gothic style, which will be the most
magnificent in South America. ct
WILL" says the writer, ''be opened, we
hope, in 1922, the centenary Of the
proclamation Of our national indie
pendence." There are in the arch
diocese 63 establishments for instruc-
ton, distributed into IS colleges, "a
schools, and II asylums. Thousands
of students receive gratuitous educa-
ton there. Moreover there are Is
charitable institutions, viz: II hospi-
tails, asylums for the poor, and a
preventive sanatarium for children of
tuberculous parents.
Moral Conditions.
What are the practical results of
the benef1cent activities mentioned
in the foregoing? The best, index to
them is, of course, the condition of
family life. The number of Catholic
baptisms and marriages almost
annals +bo MN, how ~ l,;rtIc M -, n ',
riages recorded in the civil registers.
In examining the civil statistics, we
learn that in the year 1912 the record
of births was 29,S46, and the number
of baptisms 26,449 X Even this slight
difference disappears when we con-
slider that the parishes within the
limits of the archdiocese of San
Paulo, with those of Campinas, Tau
bate and Botucatu, do not coincide
with the respective civil divisions.
In fact, the number of unbaptized
children is not above 5 per cent. 1t
is the same in regard to religious
marriages and those registered in
civil records. In regard to this mat
ter the sectarian preachers assembled
in Panama City declared that from
one-fourth to one-half of tho popula-
ton is egitimate-that is, the Off
spring of illicit unions. In order to
refute this calnmny, we need only
examine the civil statistics OF San
Paulo. In the year 1913, 1882 births
We're registered in the large city
of San Paulo, wherel the modern and
the old agents of decentralization are
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Continued from page 1.)
Paganism in Catholic Homes

luAuIlcS anu IllOuGTH VdHlIleS we 1Olu
that this is an impossibility. The
custom Of Catholic men raising their
hats to the Blessed Sacrament as they
pass q Catholic Church, is. about the
only evidence of catholic atmos-
phere" that we find in our public life
in the United States. The laws and
prejudices Of a portion Of the people
of the United States of America have
SO regulated the manners and customs
of Catholics that it is not considered
good form for the latter to project
their religious ideas on the former by
any public display AS result all
customs and practices which create a
distinctly Catholic atmosphere are
confined mostly to the home.
The Catholic Home.
A generation ago the visitor could
tell Catholic home Immediately
upon entering. A crucifiX, statue of
the Blessed Virgin, or a picture of
favorite saint, adorned the walls; but
now these articles of devotion are
relegated TO the bed chambers, if in
deed they are permitted even there,
American paganism has penetrated
into Catholic homes to such an ex-
tent that the crucifix has been super
seeded by the golf trophy, and the
image Of the Blessed Virgin by a
kewpie.
The Old Fashioned Homestead.
Catholic atmosphere is being dis
sipated by the fetid odor of modern
materialism, save for the distinguish
ed Catholic, who, by tagging a medal
of st. Christopher, the patron of
travels, on his automobile, thinks
thereby to save himself the expense
of a smashup.
Catholic atmosphere is perhaps
more frequently found in country
places and in small towns than in our
larger cities. The bustling life of the
city gives little thought to the redec-
Grating of five-room fiat. 1t is only
in the old homestead that Catholic at
mosphere may be found.
One must boast of "alien ances-
tors" in order to recall the beautiful
May evenings when the family gath
cred before the crucifiX or the picture
Of the Blessed Virgin, in order to re-
cite the rosary. 1t is a pious prac-
tice that is kept up in some Catholic
homes even now, and which gives a
Catholic atmosphere that is unmistak-
able.
Just as those who continue this
practice in their homes were i'm
pressed in their youth, so their chill
dren's minds will be influenced, and
years of Indifference that might fol-
low cannot destroy the effects
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-03-31
FRIENDSHIP lI.||
1T is LIFE's GREATEST WEALTH

There is no joy in the world equal
to that one has in the love of friend,
observes an exchange. Wealth, lux
uries cannot bring it. The beauty of
nature, fine pictures, books, anything
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-03-31
Holy Saturday.

The ceremonies begin early in the
morning with the blessing of the new
fire struck from the flint. With this
fire a candle with three stems, and
placed on reed, is lighted and car
ried up the church. The Paschal
candle, also, is blessed and five grains
Of blessed incense are fixed in it.
The Paschal candle is then lighted
from the candle on the reed. In the
act of blessing the candle the deacon
sings the triumphant hymn of praise
called the "EXultet."
The blessing of the candle is fol-
lowed by the twelve prophecies, and
the priest then goes in procession to
bless the font. The water in the
font is scattered towards the four
quarters of the, world to indicate the
Catholicity of the Church and the
worldwide efficacy of her sacraments.
The priest breathes on the water in
the form of cross, plunges the
Paschal candle three times into the
water, and pours a few drops of the
oil of catechumens and of the chrism
into it. After this blessing the
Litanes of the Saints are sung, the
altar is decked with flowers, and the
Mass is begun. During the Mass the
organ sounds, bells are rung, and the
joyful strains CT the Alleluia are
heard. The Vespers Of the day are
inserted in the Mass after the Com
munion
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-03-31

but if you have respect to persons,
you commit sin, being reproved by
the law as transgressOrs.
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SERVICES OF HOLY WEEK
Good Friday.

This day is devoted chiefly to COM
Hence it is the most sad and solemn
of all the days in Holy Week. The
officiating clergy, clad in black vest
ments, PROSTATE themselves before
the altar. The candles are not
lighted. The altar is then covered
with white cloths and passages of the
Old Testament, followed by the his
tory of the Passion from st. John,
are read. Next the Church prays sol
EMMY for all classes and conditions
of men, including Jews, heretics, and
pagans. At the end of the prayers
the cross is exposed to view and
Venerated by clergy and people.
During the Veneration of the Cross
the ''Improperia," or ''reproaches,'
are addressed in dramatic form by
Christ to the Jewish people They
begin with the touching words, my
people, what have | done to thee,
wherein have | vexed thee? Answer
me-"
Then follows the Mass of the Pre-
sanctified. The Blessed Sacrament
is borne in procession from the chapel
where it was placed the day before,
while the choir sings the hymn
"VeXilla Regis" The priest places
the Host on the altar, and the can
dies are lighted. The Blessed Sacra-
ment is adored, and is divided into
three parts, one of which is put into
a chalice containing wine and water.
The priest receives the portions of
the Host which remain on the paten,
and then takes the wine with the
third portion of the Host. Holy Com
munion is not given to the faithful
on Good Friday except in case of sick
ness.
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The world never neglects the man
who can do things-and does them.
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