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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-06-02
Eleanor Donnelly's Will.
CHARITABLE AND RELIGIOUS Be
QUESTS OF BELOVED POETEsS
SHE LEAVES AN ESTATE OF
100000.

The will of the late Eleanor c. Don
nelly, the Catholic poetess, who died
on April 80, was recently admitted to
probate. 1t was thoroughly Catholic
throughout, beginning with the words ::
''In the name Of the Father and of the
Son and Of the Holy Ghost"
She bequeathed $1,000 for Masses
for the repose of the souls Of her
sister and herself, and specified the
following: Sufficient sum be eX-
pended for free scholarship at the
Seminary of st. Charles Borromeo,
Overlook, to be known as the Eleanor
c. Donnelly burse; the establishment
and maintenance of free bed in some
Catholic hospital, to be known as the
Donnelly Sisters free bed; $4,000 to
the Dominican College, Washington,
ID. c., for a free scholarships; $1,000
each to the following institutions: st.
Benedict Convent, Washington, D. c.;
the Home of the Aged; the House of
Good Shepherd the Society Of St
Vincent de Paul for the poor of the
city of Philadelphia; the Society for
the Propagation of the Faith, and the
Apostolic Mission House, Washington,
D. c., to aid in the spread of the Cath
Ollie faith in the southern states OF
the United States" The sum of $500
is given to the Society of the Helpers
OF the Holy Souls, New York City.
Private instruction directing that
suitable sums be given the Villa
Maria Academy at Frazer, the st. Ed
mond Home for Crippled Children, the
Rev. Francis x. Wasti for charitable
purposes, to Right Rev. Neyin T.
Fisher for st. John the Evangelist day
nursery, to the Italian mission work
for the preservation of the faith of the
Italians, and for perpetual life mem
berships in various Catholic societies
for herself and sisters.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-06-02
Two Clever Catholic Sisters
ELIZABETH THOMPSON (LADY
BUTLER), ALICE THOMPSON
(MRs. MEYNELL).

Writing on the art of these two
talented women, Booktaster, in the
Canadian Extension, says:
Elizabeth and Alice Thompson are
the two clever and distinguished
daughters of the late Mr. and Mrs
Thompson, English converts to the
Church, who spent the early years
of their married life in Switzerland
and Italy.
When the family returned to Lon.
don in the early seventies, the two
young sisters were lionized. Eliza.
beth, the elder sister, had won fame
as an artist, and her famous picture
the Roll Calf hung in the Royal
Academy Exhibition of 1877. In the
same year Alice Thompson pub.
lished "Preludes," slender young
volume of verse. which the elect OF
the world had been quick to recog-
nize as a thing with the authentic
air.
Elizabeth Thompson continued to
paint, and few of her great sue
cesses are Remnants of the Army
now in the Tate Gallery; "Quatre
Bras in the National Gallery, Mel.
bourne; Steady the Drums and
Flies" is in the possession of the
regiment whose bravery it commend.
rates, the die Hards," of the Pen.
insular War;" "Rorke's Drift" and
the Roll Calf were purchased by
the late Queen Victoria-the former
is at Windsor and the latter at
Buckingham Palace.
Soon after her success with "Prel
udes,'' Alice Thompson married a
young literary man, Wilfred Meynell
who had fallen in love with the
author of my Heart Shall Be Thy
Garden" Mr. Meynell was a recent
convert to the Church, and they
started out very happily on a career
of letters. In the recent edition oil
| the Collected Poems of Mrs. Mey
nell, "Preludes" take their place fit
tingly with the fifty or more other
poems which make up the sheaf OF
Mrs. Meynelrs years of marriage
motherhood, friendship, etc.
Writing on the cart of Mrs. Mey
nell' in a recent volume of Men Of
| Letters" Dixon Scott says: Il an
soberly convinced that the prose Of
| Alice Meynell is absolutely the mos
| perfect produced in our language fol
at least the last twenty years
She writes on many subjects in hel
book, s'The Collected Prose of Mrs
Meynell' sleep and laughter ant
dress, on toys and flowers and books
and cities, and always her phrase:
keep their footing SO fastidiously
Mrs. Meynell has no successors
among the writer's Of today; sht
seems for the moment to be the las
of her line.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-06-02
FORTUNE TO CHARITY
MANY LARGE SUMS BEQUEATHED
TO CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS
BY CATHOLIC WOMEN.

The will of the late Susanna Amer
Mead, who died in Philadelphia re-
Gently, specifies the following charit-
able requests: $4,000 for Masses to
be celebrated in local churches for
the repose of her soul; $500 each to
the Holy Ghost Apostolic College,
Cornwells, and the Augustinian Col
lege, Villanova; 5000 to St. Vincents
Seminary, Germantown; all gold
settings from diamonds and ornaments
to be given to the Tabernacle Society
and utilized in the making of chalices
to be distributed as the gifts of Will
liam J. and Susanna Amer Mead;
$4,000 to the Seminary of st. Charles
Borromeo, Overlook, for the educa-
ton and maintenance of two students
studying for the priesthood; $4,000 to
the Little Sisters of the Poor; $1,000
to the Tabernacle Society; $4,000 for
| free hospital for cOnsumptiVes under
the auspices Of the st. Vincent de
Paul Society and League of the Sa-
cred Heart of Joseph Church; $4,000
TO each of the following: st. John
| Orphan Asylum, st. Vincent Home, st.
Vincent Home and Maternity Hospital,
Catholic Home for Destitute Children,
st. Joseph Home for Homeless and
Industrious Boys. st. Joseph Orphan
Asylum, st. Joseph Church, Ameri-
can Society for Visiting Catholic Pris-
oners, the House of Good Shepherd
and st. Joseph College, $4,000 to the
st. Vincent de Paul Society for
churches in Philadelphia.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-06-02
The Music Of Bells.
written for The Catholic Bulletin by
DR.. James Henderson.)

Palpitant, sonorous, glad with their
pealing,
Come the mad revel of caroling
bells;
Beating and throbbing as joyfully
stealing,
Stirring the wood with their wonder
full spells:
Mad with their measure of militant
meaning,
Waking the hills as it passes along;
Wave-crest of hope, where meadows
lie greening,
Rapt, in allanah of mystical song!
Tremulous, rhythmical, echo on echo
BilloWing down till if lost in some
sea;
Warbling, sweet as the babble OF
waters
Hieing to ocean, in Summer-lit sea
Christmas bells; bells of the New
Year;
Bells that are calling, enthralling
to prayer;
Breathing their soul in mellifiuen,
rhythm
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-06-02
Continued from page ~
THE SOUL OF FRANCE

fore the irresistible German advance
which preceded their retreat of the
Marine, seventy priests in their sol
dier clothes stood or sat on the floor,
hearing confessions of endless lines Of
soldiers all night long, preparing for
battle.
The latest word Of it is found in the
blood stained diary of Nine. Cheron's
grandson, who was not out of the
seminary during the battle of the
Marine, who went to the front with the
class of 1917, still student for the
priesthood Ga slender, timid youth we
all knew welD, and was killed on
March of this year.
Picking UP wounded within sixty
yards of German trenches" runs the
last entry. Blood and groans! How
shall we have force to drag them all
so far? Mysterious grace of God
which surrounds me! The trips are
long. In stops to rest | pull out my
crucifix; they want to kiss it. They
squeeze my arm with their bloody
hands. One boy is murmuring con-
tinually, Mamma! Mammal
Stupidity, sobbed along the road. A
priest hurried up, the Able c. of
Anglers. You are carrying my
BROTHER he said. When we stopped
in the woods the brothers talked.
'Adieu,' the wounded one was saying.
You will tell them When he died
the Able c. continued giving alb
solutions. | went with his brothers
body
You wanted the soul of France
You've got it.
1917
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-06-02
CoRTEs AN AUDAclOUs CON-
QUERoR-VlCTORI READ LIKE
FlcTIoN-SPAIN A CENTER OF
POWER AND CULTURE-lNDIAN
INSTRUCTED IN THE FAITH.
By Eber Cole Byam)
PART ".

For sheer audacity no adventure in
the annals of men can equal the bold
enterprise of Cortes and his followers
in the Conquest of Mexico. The con-
quering Alexander set forth to find
victory for himself alone, acknoWledg-
ing allegiance to none. His trained
and disciplined forces penetrated re-
gains not unknown, and subdued peo-
pie not greatly dissimilar to them
selves. Caesar cared little about the
powers of his home government as he
led his invincible legions over Gaul;
their strength lay in the severe drill
and discipline of the Roman military
organization, and the tribes which they
conquered we're much like their own.
Cortes, on the other hand, had always
hanging over his head the threaten
ing power of the Spanish monarch, to
whom all owed strict allegiance, and
to whom none failed to report every
act in which jealousy could find pre-
text for complaint
Cortes landed upon the Mexican
coast as upon another planet, unknoW-
ing and unknown. That the land
might hold warlike millions made him
only the more determined as he de-
stroyed his ships that they might not
be means of escape for the faint
hearted To increase the difficulties
of his position, some Of the friends Of
his enemy, the Governor OF Cuba, were
ever in the midst of his camp plot
ting his ruin. Yet he plunged boldly
into the unknown and his courage and
his wisdom served to carry him
through, ever snatching victory from
defeat, until by his nerve, his wit and
his good sword, he laid the glittering
prize at the feet of his sovereign mas
ter. Of all the heroes of fiction, for
bravery, sound sense-and mistakes,
he is nearest approached by that
deathless creation Of Dumas-the
fearless D'Artagnan. And it may be
said with truth that no tale of fiction
has ever equalled the story Of the Con-
quest of Mexico.
How the Conquest Was Effected.
Had the Mexican Indians possessed
the faintest conception Of q national
spirit, the Spanish Conquest would
have been remotely postponed, if not
made impossible altogether. AS it
was, the fighting abilities of the Span
iards challenged the admiration OF the
war-Worshipping natives, and they
eagerly joined them against the Az
tees for purposes of robbery and re,
venge The siege and capture Of the
island pueblo of the AZtecs was re,
peated at intervals, on smaller scale
throughout the country, and in this
work the native tribes continued to as
sist, so it may be said that the Con
quest was continued and concluded as
| it had been begun.
Following closely upon the fall OF
| the Aztec stronghold, the Spaniards
scattered through the interior, il
| bands, under leaders now trained te
ways of Indian fighting, and with the
large bodies Of Indian auXiliaries, their
success was assured. Their primary
purpose was booty, of which they
found pitifully little, for the abOrigineE
did not produce much beyond Wha'
| was necessary for their own subsis
tence and to permit them to war upor
their neighbors. The sack OF towns
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-06-02
COMP ARATIVE FIGURES
IMMENSE SUMS EXPENDED BY
PROTEsTANTS FOR PENSIONS
AND BY CATHOLICS FOR EDU-
CATION.

One of the momentous achieve
ments OF the year just past is the
reaching of the billion dollar mark in
expenditures for education in the
United States. The commissioner of
education is confident that at least as
much as that was spent in educational
work. There are today more than 20
100000 children in the public schools
of the United States. This is costing
the nation annually more than $780,
100000, observes the True Voice.
Compare these figures with those of
our Catholic schools where there are
about 100000 pupils. The cost per
pupils in the public schools is forty
dollars year In our Catholic
schools it is about twelve dollars. This
is borne by parents who also con-
tribute their share towards the sup
port Of the public schools. Were we
to estimate the cost on the public
school basis per capita we could claim
to save about $5O,000,O00 year to
the country by our Catholic schools.
AS it is we actually tax ourselves
about $15,O00,000 per year to maintain
them.
The papers informed us the other
day that the Episcopal Church mem
bers have already subscribed $4,000.
600 of a $5,000,000 fund for the pen.
siOning af retired ministers. The
Methodists have raised fund of S..
100000 for the same purpose. These
items appear large, and they are
deemed notable enough for publica.
ton by the daily papers, Taken to.
gether they do not equal the amount
contributed for education by Catho-
lies each year. The pension funds are
to be raised only once; the support of
Catholics schools goes on year after
year. The buildings and equipment
reach figure that would make Prot
estant endowments seem small in
deed. This speaks we'll indeed for the
generosity of American Catholics
Few equal them in the sacrifices they
make for their religion.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-06-02
Press Suffers From War.
CATHOLIC NEWSPAPERS STOP
PUBLICATION.

1t is reported that "The Catholic
Herald" series Of newspapers has had
to stop publication owing to de-
pletion of staff and scarcity of paper.
THE Catholic Herald" circulated all
over England with special local edi-
tions, in some places taking the name
of "The Catholic News" and "The
Monitor" A few years ago it was the
most widely circulated of English
Catholic newspapers, but owing to it's
extreme political views and intemper-
ate language it lost many friends.
Their was an affiliated series of news
papers in Scotland, formerly in the
same ownership, but apparently the
Scottish series are still being pub
lished.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-06-02
FUTURE OF PALESTINE
QUESTION MUST BE SETTLED
DEFINITELY AT END OF TIE
WAR.

Plans for the future Of the Holy
Land are discussed by journalists in
the Entente countries. The proposal
to the effect that the country should
be given to the Sionist Jews has a
considerable number of advocates, but
in various quarters that solution of
the problem is not considered salts
factory. A French contemporary, the
"Eclair," contends that France has an
exceptional right to rule Palestine.
The Capitulations arranged in 1886
between Soliman and Francis | gave
her, with other advantages in the
Levant, the protectorate Of the Syrians
and the guardianship of the Holy
Places. These rights have been rec
ognized many times since then.
They have been exercised tactfully,
and in many ways, especially through
the good work of French missionaries,
the people of Palestine have benefited
by French influence. eve do not
hesitate to assert" says the "Eclair, "
that all the inhabitants would like
to see the French in permanent
possession" Unquestionably Pales-
tine must be under the control Of a
Power which will be able to defend it
in case of attack and to ensure justice
in times of peace to the members of
the different races and creeds who in
habit it. But the time has not yet
arrived for settling the question of the
country's future, government. When
it does come the statesmen and dip1o.
matists whose business it will be to
decide, will, we feel sure, have no
serious difficulty in concluding an
agreement.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-06-02
CONTINUED from page IL
MILITARY TOURNAMENT

movement with applause. A camp
scene added a touch of realism to the
tournament Two companies in heavy
marching order entered, pitched their
shelter tents, lighted their camp fire
around which they crowded, singing
snatches of songs until taps sounded,
lights out" and the lights literally
went out, for the Auditorium was left
almost in gloom. After the young sol
diers had gone to their tents ana
sentinels had been set, suddenly in
the darkness and stiffness a shot rang
out and this was followed by sharp
VOlley; q night attack was launched.
For q few minutes, the Auditorium re-
verberated with the volleying; then
when the attack died down and the
lamps again blazed out, the stars and
stripes came fiuttering down from the
ceiling, cleaning in shaft Of light
that played on it. The companies OF
cadets mustered quickly beneath its
folds: the band burst into the notes
of the Star Spangled Banner" and
cadets and audience caught up the
strain, bringing memorable spectacle
to close with living picture that
touched and thrilled all who took part
in it.
For nearly three hours the great
Auditorium of st. Paul had been a
kaleidoscope in which squads and
battalions and companies in white and
gray flashed out in rapid succession,
disappearing amid thunders OF APP
plause from an appreciatiVe and en-
chanted audience.
Following is copy of the address
presented by the Citizens Auxiliary
to the College of st. Thomas.
Whereas, The Minneapolis and st.
Paul Civilians Auxiliary, having been
organized to lend aid to our Nation in
the present crisis, and
Whereas, it was deemed necessary
to the success Of the organization that
it should have military training to pre-.
pare it's members for duty in case the
necessity should arise, and
Whereas, our organization would
have had no facilities for such train
ing had not the st. Thomas College
equipment been offered for the pur
pose, therefore, be it
Resolved: That in appreciation OF
the generosity and patriotism in plac
| ing the same at our disposal and fol
| the many other courtesies in assisting
in every. way in the organizing anC
training of the Auxiliary, a vote o.
| thanks of The Minneapolis and st
| Paul Civilians Auxiliary, be, and is
hereby rendered to the Very Reverend
Humphrey Moynihan and the Faculty
Of the College, and also to the mem
bers of the Cadet Corps for their able
| instruction and assistance, and be i
| further
Resolved: That copy of these
resolutions be sent to the Very Rev
erend Humphrey Moynihan and to the
daily papers of Minneapolis and st
| Paul.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-06-02

December 100, was a martyr in Per
STA. She suffered martyrdom with her
brother, Beenan, about the year 400.
But the best known Saint of that
name is the Biblical Sarah, wife of
Abraham, called the Mother of the
Faithful, and praised by st. Paul in his
letter to the Hebrews xxi, 11-16) for
her faith. Feast is September 1.
Is TheIma the name Of Saint?
There is no Saint of that name. Nor
do we know of any noteworthy per-
son in history having that name. The
name was used by Marie Corelli for
the heroine of one of her novels.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-06-02
Women Aid Liberty Loan

The Catholic Women's Benevolent
Legion at the national convention at
Scranton, Penn, last week, subscribed
$4,000 of the treasury funds for the
United States Liberty Loan bonds.
They also donated $4,000 to be raised
by the councils throughout the coun-
try to the Harry Knoll School, at Os-
SHINING, N. Y, an institution chat edu-
Gates priests for work in foreign mis-
sionary fields.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-06-02
f4The Home or GOOD Clothes"

Out from the steeple, untrammelled
on air!
Dirges and distance and memories
olden,
Come as sad plant thro' the missal
of years;
Read from the turrets in melodies
golden,
Waking to pathos of eloquent tears
Joy-bells and weddings and voices
that mingled
Long since, in .cadences, sweet as
thy knells;
God! Could, that joy-notes from sad
ones be singled
But ring! o, ring ever thou carol.
ling bells!
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-06-02
Orphans Join Red Cross.

The orphans of st. Mary's Training
School, Desplaines, H., were anxious
to have share in Red Cross work.
For this purpose, Most Rev. Arch
bishop Mundelein, of Chicago, sent a
check for one thousand dollars to the
Red Cross to enroll the orphans in
the society.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-06-02
Vice-Gerent Of Rome

Mgr. Giuseppe Palica has been
nominated Vice-Gerent of Rome and
Titular Archbishop of Philippi. He is
a member of several I,oman Congrega-
lions, and Secretary Of the segnatura.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-06-02
Catholic Officers Dead

In the Catholic who's Who" 1917,
of England, is the record of 7O2 Cath
olic officers who have given their
lives during this war, for their coun-
try.
Evening journal., 1917-04-13
s'BREAD TICKETS FORGED
ON SHOCKING SCALE."

The Cologne zeitung publishes a
speech delivered in the Prussian diet
by Food Commissioner Michaelis in
which he declares:
There has been widespread abuse
CT food tickets, which entails the most
serious consequences as regards our
stocks.
Bread tickets have been forged and
illegally used on so shocking a scale
tha, the entire reserves have been
used up"
DEAD BODIES USED IN
MAKING MUNITIONS.
The Chemicher Zeitung chemical
Tribune) publishes this ad:
ION account OF the departure Of our
manager, we require an engineer free
from military obligation to direct,
technically and commercially. our
factory for destruction of dead bodies
--Thermochemiche Vern Eckbolsheim
Etrassburg."
The name OF this industry indicates
It is not merely a crematory. but that
chemical use is made of the bodies
burned
WOMEN TYRANNOUS ON
BERLIN STREET CARS.
Berlin Yorwaerts publishes a long
article complaining of women's alleged
tyranny in such positions as street car
conductresses.
The other day a man who. owing
10 the conductress' refusal to stop,
was taken distance past his desina-
ton' complained that he was forced
to walk back long way in a torren-
tial downpour,' says this paper. The
conductress instead Of apologizing.
remarked: 1t may do you good. Per-
haps you need a bath
Evening journal., 1917-04-13
MONEY UNDER new LAW
TO repair RIVER BANKS

Members OF Council, in session last
night, had their attention called to
the conditions prevailing along the
Causeway last week by the breaking
of the banks of the Chrlstiana river.
President Downward stated that he
had visited the flooded section with
cher city officials, and they had found
the roadway in bad condition. Mr..
Downward explained that he under
stood Governor Townsend was TO
sign the measure passed by the Legis-
lature appointing a Board OF Port
Commissioners, who would have
charge OF such affairs.
This board, he said, when II took
over the matters relating 10 the har-
Dor front. would take such steps as
were necessary to prevent breaks
that would permit flooding Of the
low land, and it did not seem desir-
able for the Council at this time TO
do anything inasmuch as the entire
matter would be taken care of in a
short time in proper manner.
Mr.. Downward said he thought a
good road should be built along the
Christiana. with possibly stalls for the
New Jersey marketers.
Evening journal., 1917-04-13
Combing Won't Rid
Hair of Dandruff

The only sure way 90 get rid Of dand-
ruff is to dissolve It, then you destroy il en-
tirely. To do this. get bout four ounces Of
ordinary liquid arvon; apply II at night when
retiring use enough TO moisten the scalp and
rub it in gently with the finger tips
Do this tonight. and by morning. most
If not all Of your dandruff viii be gone. and
three or four more applications will com.
pletely dissolve and entirely destroy every
single sign and trace Of it. no matter how
much dandruff you may have.
You will find. too that all itching and
digging Of the scalp will stop at once. and
your hair will be fluffy. lustrous, glossy
silky and soft, and look and feel hun.
bred times better.
You can get liquid arvon at any drug
store. 1t is inexpensive and never fails to
do the work.