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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-28
Soft Coal rs Cents Cheaper

New price lists issued Friday
by several coal companies having
distributing yards in ST. Louis
make a reduction of 25 cents per s
ton on standard grades of soft
coal to ST. Louis consumers.
These grades of coal are there
fore now selling to householders
and others at Is cents per
bushel, or $3.75 per ton.
Above is clipped from the St
Louis Post-Dispatch of May q.
Coal dealers are charging Keokuk
consumers 26 cents per bushel, OF
$3.50 per ton for same grades of COAL
while additional freight charges from
the mines to Keokuk do not exceed
s1.OO per, ton over the ST Louis
tariff. Thus it will be seen Keokuk
is paying SITE per ton more for coal
than st. Louis, with additional
freight charges added. Certainly
something out Of gear at Keokuk.
CONSUMER.
Keokuk, Iowa, May %, 1917.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-28
Continued IN Health.

limited Press Leased Wire, servicel
NEW YORK, May 2s.-Continued
i'll health is believed to have been
the cause of Beulah Watson's suicide
by gas in Fort Lee hotel today.
Miss Watson had some success in ma
Tor roles on, Broadway. Her husband
il a. movie actor in California.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-28
Voice Of the People

1.-THE Gate City does not assume re
sponsibility for views expressed by
correspondents. Writer'S of communi.
cations must furnish their names
not necessarily for publication. but
for the information OF the editor.l
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-28
TWO SECRETARIES Z
OF WAR GIVEN BY 4
KEOKUK TO u. s. 4

keokuk men VINO are
= MA chosen by selective
. 7VSA conscription for the 4
. 81 new armies Of the Z
= United States, must not forget Z
. that their home town is a city y
= of patriots and must live up to =
. the traditions of the years gone =
= by. Keokuk furnished two Sec =
. retaries of war, and several =
. generals ana colonels to the =
. cause of the rebellion. and the =
. years following. .
. General w. w. Belknap was .
. secretary of war under Grant in .
. 1869 and George w. McCrary .
. was secretary of war under =
. Hayes in 1877. =
, OF the fighting men, General =
. Curtis, General Noble, Colonel .
, Terrence, Colonel Chapman and .
. many others are among the .
heroes of Keokuk.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-28

by Ielnale tToupieS
so I was unable to
do my house work.
l took treatments
for it but received
no help whatever.
Then some of my
friends asked why
! did not try Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound. l
did so and my back
ache soon disap-
reared and / felt
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-28
BACKACHE SOON
DISAPPEARED
Could Not Do Housework
Till Lydia E. Pinkhan's
Vegetable Compound
Removed Cause.

Fort Fairfield, Maine. -"For many
months l suffered from backache caused
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-28

War.
Russell-Justice In Wartime.
Russ ell-Why Men Fight: a meth
cd of abolishing the international
duel.
Swope-1nside the German Empire,
1916.
Talbot-Submarines their mechan-
ism and operation.
Talbot-The War Of Democracy:
the allies statement
Wells-Italy, Franco and Britain at
War.
Winslow-With ths French Flying
Corps.
Wood-Our Military History; It's
facts and fallacies.
Beith-First Hundred Thousand.
Davis-With the Allies.
Hall--litchener's Mob: the adven-
tlre Of an American in the British
army.
Huard-My Home in the Field OF
Honour.
Parker-World in the Crucible.
Powell-Fighting in Flanders.
Hamilton-First Seven Divisions.
Wells-What is Coming? A Europ-
can forecast.
Wells-Mr. Britling Sees it Through.
observation-disclosures of England.
Observation-Disclosures No. 10.
Buswell-Friepds Of France.
Van Vorst-War Letters of an
American Woman.
Beveridge-What is Back of the
War?
Observation-Disclosures Of the U-202.
Bang-Hurrah and Hallelujah.
Agitation for household economy
caused a decided slump in Chicago's
garbage can. A reduction of one
half in garbage haulage attests great
er care, less wastage and conserva-
ton in desirable direction. 1t
means a substantial saving at the
household purse.
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Can you point to the fact that six
generations of your family have lived
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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-05-12

eral, Madame Olympiade, under whose
successor, Madame Flora, a strong
English colony was founded at Croy-
don by Madame Cecilia, who also
founded in 1883 the Scarborough con-
vent, where she died on September
%, 1910. Madame Felicie, her sue
cessor at Croydon, shaped the des-
TIMES of Coloma, with strange coin
cidence dying at Croydon on Septem-
Der "a, as the superior at Scarborough
died on the 23rd, one year after
founding st. Anne's College, Sander
stead, South Croydon. The present
superior at Coloma is Madame Con-
stance, who was the first superior at
Sanderstead, and who is now not only
superior at Croydon, but English Pro
vincial, which in fact means that she
is superintendent, and the whole
community resolves itself into an
English institute now that the Bel
gian houses have been closed. The
last Superintendent died at Malines
last year.
II was 81 pIONl u6uJldl .lOI6SlSuI, DIS
events have proved, that transplanted
strong colony to English soil at an
carly period in the history of the in
stitute, to take deep root and develop
from the center at Croydon, where it
has grown and expanded contempt
raneously with the Catholic commu-
nifty of the town. Coloma is today a
integral part of the educational ma
chinery of Croydon and of the larger
educational life of Catholicity. With
manned rites the Ladies of Mary cele-
brate their centenary, but their works
proclaim their praises-the training
college, boarding school, secondary
day school recognized by the Board
Of Education), kindergarten, novitiate,
branch houses (the latest founded last
year at Sydenham), and their place
as a center of university local ex-
aminations.
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The Oldest Stone Image
EDIFICE FOUND TO CONTAIN
CURIOUS COLLECTION.

An ancient and ownerless edifice,
standing in village called Shikishima
III Shiki district, Nara Prefecture, has
been found, says the Herald of Asia.
10 contain a number of rare artistic
treasures in the shape of antique
Buddhist images. The discovery of
these rarities, one of which is believ-
ed to be the Oldest of the kind in
japan, is due to Mr.. Sekino, doctor Of
engineering; Mr. Matano, chief of the
imperial museum at Toxic, and Mr..
Nllno, of the Nara Art Gallery. They
are OF opinion that the tottering edi-
ice is none other than a temple called
the Seki-iji, which was built in the
Nara period (710-794 A. d. The stone
image, the central figure, as it were,
OF the edifice, represents the Cakushi
Buddha, and is four feet in height,
more than three feet in breadth, and
3-5 to ITO of foot in thickness. 1t
was probably made some 2,100 years
ago, in the era of Hakuho, and is the
Oldest stone image in Japan, says a
report from Nichi-nichi corresponds
.ent. The head-man of the district is
now trying to have it included among
the national treasures. There are
also in the edifice wooden image of
the Buddha and several other figures
.of antique appearance.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-05-12
Priests in French Army
STRIKING TESTIMONIALS OF.
THEIR VALUE ARE CONTAINED
IN CITATIONS OF TIE LEGION
OF HONOR AND ARMY ORDERS
AND OFFICIAL JOURNALS.

In 1902 the lesser priesthood of
France was described by. the leader of
the Anti-Clerical party in the Chamber
CT Deputies as parasitic, bigoted and
unpatriotic." At that time, frequent
accusation brought against the, priest
was moral and physical cowardice.
Although the conduct of the priests
since July, 1914, has caused these
charges to be abandoned an impress
sion still prevails, chiefly abroad, that
the priests have no real hold on the
army and that their presence is mere
ly tolerated by the commanding Off
GERS and soldiers.
The $4,000 priests who are serv-
ing in the army come within three
categories, namely:
l. The 800 regular chaplains or au-
moniers of division. These are given
the grade of captain and receive a
captains pay, which is $40 francs a
month. They may be called upon to
perform (besides church services,
Masses and burials, comforting the
sick and wounded and administering
to the dying) any duty in the field
which an officer may undertake..
2. In this category come the OH
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-05-12
THE "LADIES OF MARY
CELEBRATE THE CENTENARY OF
THEIR INSTITUTE.

The Ladies' of Mary at Coloma,
Croydon, England, have just CONNIE
morated the centennial anniversary Of
their institute, which was formally es-
tablished on March 6, 1917, by the
ceremonial opening, at Alost, Bel
GUM, of their first foundation.
1t was in the troublous epoch i'm
mediately following the Napoleonic
wars, out of the ruins of which I'M
happy Belgium was undergoing the
reconstruction of its broken national
life; and the Ladies of Mary were
called upon to play their part by de
voting their lives and their resources
to the work of primary and secondary
education. A patriot priest, Canon
van Combrugghe, who was to take a
notable part as a member of the coun-
Gil which declared the independence
of Belgium in 1880, gave the Ladies
the constitution of their institute, and
obtained for it the authorization and
blessing Of the Sovereign Pontiff.
The motherhouse was established at
Malines under the first superior-gen-
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-05-12
RUTHENIAN CATHOLICS
a LARGE NUMBER OF THESE ORR.
ENTAILS ARE FOUND IN THE
UNITED STATES.

The Ruthenian Catholic Church
seems to many American Catholics as
something new in their midst. Now
the fact is that the Ruthenian Catho-
lie Church is identical in faith and
dogma with what people in America
call the Roman Catholic Church, but
the trouble with many English-speak-
ing Catholics is that they confuse the
Roman or Western patriarchate
(Which is of the Latin rite), with the
Universal Church. The Ruthenian
Catholic Church is in union with Rome
and acknowledges the Successor of
st. Peter in the Roman See as SUI
preme Pontiff, but Catholics of the
Ruthenian rite do not use the Roman
or Latin liturgy. Their liturgical
tongue is old Church Slavonic. The first
Ruthenian Catholic Bishop sent to the
United States was the Rt Rev. Ste
phen Softer Ortynsky, D. D., who was
consecrated May Il, 1907. The Ruth
enian Catholic diocese was estab-
lished, and the Ruthenian Bishop
granted plenary jurisdiction by the
Holy See, independently of the Latin
Bishops, on May Is, 1913. Bishop
Ortynsky died on March "a, 1916, and
the Very Rev. Peter Poniatishin, of
Newark, n. j., is the present Admin
istrator of the Ruthenian Catholic do
ceSe.
These people come largely from
Go1inio onH nd nt hor MOI ri
of Austria. Besides, there are over
30,000000 Of these people in the
southern part of Russia, in the Uk-
raine, and hence they are known ma
tionally as Ukrainians. The Ruthen-
ianS are the largest body of Oriental
Christians in union with Rome, who
adhere to their Eastern customs and
ritual, and are not permitted by the
Holy See to change their rite: in fact,
the late Pope Leo XIII by, his bull
"Orientalium dignitas ecclesiarum"
fOrbids, under penalty of suspension,
any Latin priest or missionary, to
bring these Catholics Of the Ruthenian
rite over to the Latin rite. They them
selves resist any attempt to latinize
them, and, therefore, consistently say,
they are not Roman Catholics, for they
consider Latin and Roman" to be
synonymous. The loyalty of these
Ruthenian Catholics to the Roman
Pontiff and their numerical strength
caused Pope Clement VIII to predict
that through them the whole Orient
would be converted to the Unity of
the Faith.
Now, that freedom of religious wor-
ship has been proclaimed by the Rus
sian Provisional government, let Cath
olics, the world over, of every Cath
Ollie rite, fervently pray that the
prophecy of Pope Clement may be full
filled!
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War Priest Meets Pope
TELLS OF BEING STRUCK BY
SHELL WHILE OFFERING HOLY
SACRIFICE IN WAR ZONE.

King Albert of Belgium has just
decorated another heroic priest, in the
person of FIR L. Martin, whom he has
appointed Chevalier of the Order of
Leopold II, and has decorated with the
Cross of War. This devoted and cour-
.ageous brancandier was seriously
wounded in the first line, while carry
ing in the injured and amounting the
dying under heavy fire. He is now,
unfortunately, suffering from a grave
affection caused by his wound.
A heroic French priest was only this
week received in audience by Benedict
XIV, amongst other pilgrims. When the
Pope saw the French uniform he
paused before the Able Joseph Guerin,
and asked him why he was no longer
at the front. The young priest replied
that he had been invalided, owing to
wounds received in the Church of st.
Catherine-lez-Arra while celebrating
the Holy Sacrifice. A bursting shell
had struck him on the head and arm
and killed his captain, who was serv-
ing his ''poilus' Mass. When the Holy
Father asked if they expected the pos
sibility of the church being struck, the
Able answered that it was the third
shell which had taken effect. The
Holy Father looked at him with pa
ternal tenderness and said: Il bless
you with all my heart" and at the
priests request extended that blessing
to the venerable pastor of his parish
and to the director and members of the
Patronage of Good Counsel.
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FAMOUS IRISH BRIGADE, ALL
CATHOLICS, SERVED HERoIcAL-
" IN WAR OF AMERICAN REVO-
LUTON UNDER COUNT DILLON,
THEIR COMMANDER.

The Governor and the mayor of Indi-
ana issued proclamations for the cele-
bration of Lafayette Day" on Monday,
the seventh day of May, calling on all
citizens to pay proper tribute to the
anniversary of the landing of General
Lafayette and the French army that
gallantly came to this country in 1777
to help Americans win their independ-
ence from the British.
Celebrations were called for in all
the schools in honor of Lafayette and
his compatriots, writes j. p. O'Mahony
in the Indiana Catholic.
Lafayette's army was by no means
composed exclusively of Frenchmen,
According to the best authorities, 1t
was one-half Irish; that is, one-half
the men who came here from France
to help the cause of American liberty
were of the famous French-Irish bri-
gade commanded by Count Arthur Dill
Ion. This brigade made special re-
quest for service in America against
the British, and four regiments desig-
mated as Dillon s." "Walsh's, Roche
Fermoy" and the Berwick Irish" COM
posed the command that came to
America, making up over one-half of
the whole contingent.
Count Arthur Dillon was second in
command under Count D'Estaing at
the siege of Savannah in 1879. In the
attacks of the Americans and French
on Savannah, three in number, Count
Dillon'played leading part, and Lieu
tenant-Colonel Luke Brown led
Walsh's regiment, the commander
having been killed. Brown twice
planted the French flag on the ram
parts, and in the third attempt was
killed
The list of the killed and wounded
officers presents the names of Brown,
Moran, O'Neill, Roche, Taafe and Bar
tholomew Dillon. This refers to the
officers killed in the Savannah attack
alone, and as may be seen the names
are not French but Irish.
AT the surrender of Lord CORVALLIS
among the distinguished French Off
records, were: Count Arthur Dillon,
Colonel Bernard Dillon,
Major James O'Moran, all of Rocham-
beau's army, and Major M. Lynch, Of
the D'Estaing command.
All these facts and more to be found
in the story of the French expedition
to America render the Lafayette cele-
bration of great interest to Catholics,
and especially to those of Irish eXtrac-
ton That eminent Catholic writer
and publicist, William J. Onahan,
of Chicago, who was made a
knight of st. Gregory the Great by
the Pope many years ago, in 1882
wrote extensively for the Irish-Ameri-
can Almanac, showing the part played
by the Irish brigade of the French ex-
petition. His article will be found in
Haltigan's elaborate work, THE Irish
in the American Revolution" on page
COS.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-05-12
LAFAYETTE AND THE IRISH
Onahan's Testimony.

Mr.. Onahan, writing on. this subject
at that time, said:
THE significant fact in the services
of the French-Irish troops in the war
OF the Revolution is that they were
sent to America at their own request,
to fight the British The Irish regi-
ments in the French army, and more
particularly the brigade commanded
by Count Dillon, addressed a petition
to the French War Office, asking to be
sent to America to fight the English.
This request was willingly and quickly
granted"
This valorous Franco-lrish brigade
that came from France had long
served on the battlefields of Europe.
From the capitulatiOn OF Limerick to
the British in 1851 down almost to the
period of the French Revolution, a
hundred years later, Ireland supplied
an enormous contingent to the French
armies, the Irish troops being privi-
legged to maintain their distinctive or
ganization, and being allowed even eX-
ira pay over and above the French
soldiers.
The old poem tells their story:
ION far foreign fields from Dunkirk
to Belgrade
Lie the soldiers and chiefs of the
Irish brigade
Supplied with. men from time to
time from the green isle of the ocean,
they kept up their organization in
France, and when Lafayette called for
aid for America, they were ready to
respond, and they did. Among their
commanders were men like Count Dill
lon, representing the great Dillon fam
lily OF Mayo, Ireland. They were the
right arm of Lafayette in the great
fight for American freedom. In re-
Numbering the noted Frenchman, they
should not be forgotten in the celebra
lions.
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l. &
or wounded, when 1t can be done with
out prejudice to their strictly military
duties.
Numerous documents relating to
them and their conduct in the field
have been officially filed. The most
striking testimony to their military
value is contained in the citations of
the Legion of Honor and Army Orders
and Official Journals.
In the military archives, dealing
with the fighting in Champagne, for
the single month of November, 1915,
these are 156 dossiers of priests and
seminarists who persisted in action In
the Verdun fighting the numbers are
even greater. There exist many hun
dred citations for the Croix de Guerre,
for the Medaille Militaire and the
Legion d'Honneur
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GERS and soldiers, some twelve thou.
sand, who in civil life follow the
priestly calling.
3. The remaining group are those
employed in the medical service as
hospital orderlies, observation-disclosures
and SO forth. !
The ages of the priests and ecclesi-
astical students i'll the army range
from 10 to G5 years, and they hail from
every department and every diocese
in France. Although the number of
regular aumoniers is sInall-one to a
dlvision-the functions of chaplain are
performed widely by the priest-sol-
diers. The colonel of regiment has
power to authorize in each battalion a
priest to perform religious service.
This honorary chaplain wears no dis
tinctive dress and enjoys no special
prerogative; he attends 10 his military
duties with the rank and file of those
of his grade if he is an officer or non
commissioned officer (N.C.O) but often
for these reasons he can fulfill his re-
ligious functions more effectively than
the titular chaplain. The latter, being
Immediately attached to Il section of
divisional stretcher-bearers (brancar-
diers) often finds it difficult to keep in
| direct and constant touch with so nu-
merous and widely dispersed a body;
the former, commonly attached to the
brancardiers of the battalion, circu-
lates in the front-line trenches and
lives on the most intimate terms with
his fellows.
Occasionally, these are able to cele.
brate Mass, or to minister to the sick
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government in Avignon, This term
of years, however, was his longest alb
sence from Peters city and has been
compared With the seventy years of
exile of the Hebrew people in Babylon.
What is meant by Baptism by
proxy?
We have heard Of persons being
married by PROXY and Of sponsors as
suming their ohhSauonS OF godfather
but, ii would be quite impossible for
one to receive the sacrament Of bap-
tism by proxy,
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Sllcll "Oulu nave OSSh DlOuShI
against him.
1t is well known fact that Father
Hennepin was in need of publisher
He tried to obtain one in Amsterdam,
but without success. At this time he
was being prosecuted by the French
Government as he claimed to LaSalle.
He gained the friendship of William
III, of England, and was DESTROYS of
returning to America as a missionary
under English auspices. VIM. Broeac-
let, of Utrecht, agreed to publish his
works. Hennepin knew little of the
pitfalls of an author and the tricks of
the publishing trade, and probably,
with a good sum of money advanced
by the publisher, he signed contract
no doubt drawn in favor of the party
of the first part.
The book shows that the manuscript
was tempered with. This is done even
in our own times. Personally, | know
of two instances where publishers so
distorted facts, dates, events, that
when the public received the publica-
ton not one word was printed as writ
ten by the author and the author did
not recognize his supposed own work,
but his name was signed to it. Thus
are writer's at the mercy of editors
and publishers. 1t is more than likely
that this was done to Hennepin's work,
at least it was done to one of his edi-
tions.
Father Hennepin passed through
many trials and tribulations. His
name stands in American history as
one of the great priest explorers, dis
coverers and annalists of the New
World.
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A man is tested by what he cannot
live without Some men cannot live
without soft beds and luxurious houses
and expensive food and the applause
of men. Some men cannot live with
out doing kindnesses and fighting evil
and serving God in act and word.
This is a test that each can apply to
himself-and learn something thereby.
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The narrower ones view of life, the
less generous and inspiring will be
the principles of action deriving from
it. The dogmas of the Christian re-
ligion are an addition to the sum of
human knowledge, and incentives to
conduct in keeping with them.-Rev.
Dr. e. T. ShdpGhGn.
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Continued from page II
FATHER HENNEPIN
AND NIAGARA FALLS

that this so-called vision was nothin2
more than that Father Dallion beheld
the great falls in the moonlight. But
this could not have been, as he was
more than twenty miles from that
place.
In 1869 Fathers de CasSon and de
Galinee, with La Sale, arrived in the
region. While in this district they
met Joliet. Had Joliet not feared the
Indians of this section, he probably
would have been the discoyerer of the
falls, but he changed his plans and ar
rived in the Niagara region from diff
ferent direction than he at first intend
ed