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Evening journal., 1918-02-19
cFcuVoN BRIDGE CLOSED.

MIDDLETOWN. Del, Feb. 49, The
Ions bridge over the Bohemia river, be
tween Cecilton and Elkion, was closed
TO travel yesterday, when The support
ing piling of one of the spans was car
ried away by the ice Hoes The bridge
has been condemned more than 1--WE
years.
plans have been drawn and am appro-
priation has been made for "a new con
crete bridge TO replace ihe old wooden
one. but it is doubtful If 10 can bee built
mis- year. owing TO the labor scarcity
due TO the war
Evening journal., 1918-02-19
nuRAL PRoPERTY TRANsFEns.

Transfers of real estate In rnral
New Castle county are reported as fol-
lows. From Hanlove McFarlin, eXecu-
tor of Robert McFarlin deceased TO the
Delaware Railroad Company, 1--WE and
500 One-lhousandths acres of land in New
Castle hundred, on The line of the rail
road near mile post no. 3; also farm
crossing on passageway over tracks of
railroad near Peaches farm
Evening journal., 1918-02-19
Physicians Recommend Castoria

YOU real human doctors right around your nghbohO
the flesh and blood like the doctors with souls and
hearts, who responding your call in the dead of night readily
as daylight they ready tell the good that Ftches
Coa done doing and will d. from their experience and their love
for children
Fohers Coria nothing We not asking you expert
ment We Just the Importance buying Fhs
Your physician will tell you this he knows there number limitations
on the Market and particularly interested in the welfare your baby
Evening journal., 1918-02-19
wouAN TANGLED IN MACHINERY

FELTON,. Del. Feb. 80 Standing too
close TO q lathe IN a FELTON, garage, The
clothinr Of Mrs Allan HASTINGS was
caught in the machinery and The
woman's arm drawn into The belt. AM
hrose Killem threw tho control lever in
time 40 save her life. Her arm was not
broken. but so badly wrenched and
briused that she is i'm a serious condi-
tim
Evening journal., 1918-02-19
Wan rAT RITEs TIME.

DAGSB0Ru, DEL Feb. When a pet
cat went mad Mrs Name Sieen Miss
Ida Steen and Mrs Vernon Steen We're
bitten and Infected The cat was killed
and an examination showed hydro
phobia. All three ai once submitted TO
the Pasteur treatment and are now cog
sidered out of danger
Evening journal., 1918-02-19

Clerks and bookkcepers. sfenograph-
ers and accountants viii be sought by
TIE Want Ads This coming month.
Evening journal., 1918-02-19

Search the Want Ads for new husi-
ness. opportunities and through them
you will connect with the work best
sdsptnd 70 your abilities.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-12-14
Students Offer Services
DENVER SEMINARIANS READY TO
HELP IN EPIDEMIC.

The students of ST.. Thomas sem.
mary, Denver, Col, have sent the fol-
lowing communication to the Rt. Rev.
J. Henry Then, d. D., Bishop of Den
yer.
Right Reverend and dear Bishop
III view Of the present extreme con.
ditions caused by the epidemic prev
alent Il Denver, and the urgent need
that exists for nurses in the hospitals
of our city, and in accordance with the
splendid example given by the priests
and seminarians, as we'll as the good
Sisters, in other parts of the country
in meeting the exigencies of the time
we wish to place our services at
your disposal, and we shall hold our
selves in readiness to act in any ca
pacity that the public welfare may
demand.
With an earnest prayer that good
health and Gods abundant blessings
may continue to be yours, and asking
an humble place in your prayers, we
beg to remain,
Obediently yours in Christ,
YOUR LORDSHIP'S STUDENTS,
The Bishop was much pleased with
the spirit that prompted the sending
OF this communication, and he in
formed the students that he would
offer their services in case necessity
or public welfare demanded it.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-12-14
CATHOLIC COOPERATION WITH
THE AMERICAN RED CROSS
SISTERS AND PRIESTS IN BEL
GUM, ITALY AND FRANCE,
HELP AND ARE HELPED IN
GREAT RELIEF WORK.

Wherever human misery has
stalked in war-torn France and Italy
where hunger and sorrow and pain
have brought anguish, there the Ro-
man Catholic nuns and Sisters and
priests, cooperating with the Ameri-
can Red Cross have brought solace
and sympathy, expressed in practical
way. 1t has been wonderful work,
this uplift of stricken humanity-this
succoring the weary--this helping
where help was needed. 1t has not
been a labor-just work of love and
human sympathy, tenderly expressed,
that wars wounds might be healed
and hallowed, says writer.
1t has not been a question of creed
or religion, just one of humanity. Suf-
fering human beings needed help and
help was forthcoming. Seconding the
work OF the American Red Cross the
Sisterhoods of France, the priests of
that country and of Italy, have done
noble work, often at great personal
risk. At LIE Chaux, near Lyons, the
Red Cross operates hospital under
the auspices of the Sisters of ST. JOS
eph. Sister Julie is there. On her
breast she wears the medal of the
Legion of Honor-the highest deco
ration France could bestow upon her.
How did Sister Julie earn this dis
tinction? BY sticking to her post of
duty, looking after crowd of fright
ened women and children, the while
German shells and bullets whizzed
about-the while the brave men of
France bled and died to protect her
and her charges. And when finally
the French were forced back, Sister
Julie was the last civilian to leave.
So it has been everywhere in France
and Italy. Wherever the Red Cross
had brought succor, there the Sisters
and priests have been. When the
Piave drive crushed Italy for the time
being, hundreds and thousands of ter
ror-stricken refugees poured from the
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-12-14
VINCENTIAN MEETING
PARISH CONFERENCE OF MINNIE.
APoLIs WILL MEET WITH PAR
TIcULAR COUNCIL NEXT
SUNDAY.

The annual meeting of the Particu-
lar Council, and of the Parish Con-
ferences, of the ST. Vincent de Paul
Society for the City of Minneapolis
will be held in the Pro-Cathedral.
school hall on Sunday. afternoon, Dec
ember Is, at o'clock The members.
Of all the Conferences in the city and
their friends are urged to attend this
meeting.
The following appeal has been is
sued by the secretary.
Seeretary's Letter.
The Particular Council of st. Vim
cent de Paul Society of the city of
Minneapolis again calls to your atten-
ton it's serious need Of funds to carry
on the work it. commenced about three
years ago.
You are likely aware that the Socie-
ty aids the City Missionary, Rev. Will
liam Driscoll, In his work and endeay-
ors to supply him with funds SO that
the Mission headquarters on Cedar
avenue may be- successfully main
tanned. 1t also meets the expense in
Cured by the City Missionary in his
Juvenile Court work, in sending chill.
dren to the country, and at times in
providing the necessary clothing so
that they may appear properly when
presented for Confirmation.
This year it is hoped we will have
sufficient funds to make the Mission
headquarters attractive even in a
modest way so that the boys and girls
who visit it will have at least some
simple things for enjoyment.
If you are friend of the poor and
the destitute and especially of these
delinquent children you will respond
to this appeal. 1t would seem that
every charitably inclined Catholic
should be willing to contribute so that
at least the sum of $4,000 may be
available for the work.
The Society therefore appeals to
you and asks that at the Christmas
Season you help to bring joy into the
homes of some of the poor that come
under our care
Kindly send your donation to the
Treasurer, Mr.. John NJ Gleasoni III
South 9th Street, or to your pastor.
PETER CARTER,
Secretary.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-12-14
Confined from page H.
RELIGION ENERGIZING DEMOc-
CRAZY.

through the ages the religion of Christ,
as personified by the Church, has ever
been the champion and the advocate
of the cause of the people.
| need not recall the early Chris
tan Church, whose democratic spirit
has passed into proverb. l need not
tell the story of the organizations for
relief that under the leadership of the
Bishops lifted the awful burden of
hunger and sickness from the poor in
The time of Constantine and during
the reign of the Emperors that follow
ed him.
Did not Julian, the bitterest of foes
eXhort his pagan priests to emulate
the Christian clergy in the field OF
popular action? And when the en-
pire fell and the feudal lords began
their sway, the Catholic Church con-
timed to advocate the claims of the
Masses: and in the laws Of Charlie
magne her impress is marked to a
high degree Did not the Crusades. in
which mon fought for God and not for
gold. bring in an era of democratic
feeling such as was never known be-
fore?
The great Franciscan movement is
democratic surely. and the guilds of
medieval Europe, under the guidance
and leadership of the Church, taught
the people the power of organized eff
fort, and taught them, toe, that they
oo,,Id uoip fo,. tboTncolvoc yo,ab oroot
er advantage than they could hope for
from kings and princes, who promised
much and did so little. And the high
est places in the gifts of the Church
went to the men who rose from the
poorest and lowliest of places, while
her theologians. from Thomas to SUI
arez, spoke with uncommon clearness
of the Unborn rights of the people,
even in an age when the privileges of
caste we're not questioned.
Surely, too, the monasteries in all
time have been the center of demo-
cratic action, and on Friday last the
Church celebrated the deeds and the
prowess Of one who with organized
effort did more to help the social fab
ric did more to champion the cause
of the poor, than any man since the
days of Christ-and his spirit today
marches triumphant through the land.
Nor was the interest in the peoples.
cause ever asserted with stronger EN-.
phasis than in the great Leo whose
pronouncements on democracy, and on
the rights and duties of states and
of peoples, form the Greater Charter
of all our modern Christian sociology.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-12-14
RED CROSS in IRELAND
REMARKABLE co OPERATION
SHOWN WITH RELIEF SOCIETY
IN SPITE OF WAR CONDITIONS
IRELAND'S EFFORT PRAISE
WORTHY.

In estimating Ireland's voluntary
civilian effort. by gift and by service
and by ireland here we mean only
Munster, Leinster, and Connaught,
since in Red Cross and other civilian
effort Ulster elects to act independent
ly-account must be taken of the pop
ulation and wealth.
There are in the three Provinces
only 1,338,700 persons between the
ages of twenty and sixty, or less than
half the total of the whole population
of the island. The population of Great
Britain exceeds 41,OO0.00o. If the fig.
ures used by the Inland Revenue Com
missioners are to be the guide, the
relative potentiality of Ireland and
Great Britain in civilian war effort, is,
in respect Of personal service, in the
ratio of one to Is and in respect of
wealth of one to %.
If account were taken of income, the
disparity would be much more marked,
and the ratio, at the lowest estimate
would be one to 80. Few persons en-
JOY large incomes from commerce
alone in Ireland The result clearly
demonstrates that Ireland's contribu-
ton to the war is astonishingly great.
For instance, the total sum contri-
buted by England and Wales on Our
Day" last year amounted to G341 ,631.
The wealth of England and Wales is,
as shown, at least % times that of
Ireland. Hence Ireland's proportion
ate Offering would have been e13,665.
1t actually amounted to 262,60O.
Contributions from Ireland repre-
sent all social grades of the people
and all religious denominations.
Catholic and Protestant, Nationalist
and Unionist, rich and poor, have
shown in the most practical manner
their loyalty. to the Red Cross and
to other war funds. When the Red
Cross Pageant paraded the streets of
Dublin the political leaders of every
school expressed by word and by act
ion their respect for the Geneva Con-
vention. The Irish medical and nurs-
ing professions have shown outstand-
ing loyalty and self-sacrifice. Emil
nent physicians and surgeons have sur
rendered valuable practices for work
at home and at the front; the trained
hospital nurses from irish hospitals
have not been behindhand.
q
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-12-14
Monsignor Kelley
slGNALLY HoNoRED ON THE &C.
cASIoN OF HIS JUBILEE.

A gift of $4,000 from his own par
ish and cable of congratulation were
special features which marked the re-
cent celebration of the silver jubilee
of the ordination to the priesthood of
the Rt. Rev. Mgr. Francis G. Kelley,
founder and president of the Catholic
Church Extension Society, and pastor
of st. Francis Church, Wilmette, H.
Among the visiting guests were
Archbishop Ruiz and Bishop Orozco
of Mexico, who paid tribute to the
special work of Mgr Kelley in be-
half of the Catholics of Mexico dur.
ing the recent troublesome times. in
that country; Bishop Takoni of China,
the Rt. Rev. r. W. Heating, Bishop of
Northampton, England, Mgr. Arthur
Stapleton Barnes of Oxford, and 9TH
'er notahles.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-12-14
IN IRELAND'S CAUSE
MEETING HELD LAST MONDAY
EVENING IN MINNEAPOLIS TO
ADVANCE CAUSE OF IRELAND
AT COMING PEACE CONFER
ENcE.

Two thousand people packed the
general assembly hall and crowded
the neighboring corridors of the Min
.neapolis court house last Monday
evening when the meeting to petition
for the freedom of Ireland was held
der of Hibernians of Hennepin county.
The meeting was called by F. B.
Feeney, county president of the Order,
and the Reverend P. R. Cunningham,
pastor of the Church. Of the Holy
Name, was chosen chairman of the
assembly. Reverend Thomas E.
Cullen, pastor of the Pro-Cathe-
dral, was the first speaker. His
words were followed with closest at
tention and with occasional outbursts
of enthusiastic applause. He sketch
ed the history Of the ancient race,
dwelling particularly on the debt of
gratitude which every Christian ma
ition owes to Ireland 1t is because of
her ancient and distinct nationality,
said the speaker, and because too of
all that Ireland has done for civiliza-
ton that she has unimpeachable claim
to- self-deternination. Gratitude for
the uncomfortable faith and spiritual
force of the Irish. race, as well as JUS
tice to Ireland as distinct nation
place her claims -eminently among
the first of the smaller nations enti-
tied to self-determination.
The Reverend j. Harrington, pastor
of the Church of the Ascension, en-
phasized two points often forgotten or
ignored. First that IS per cent of Ire
land s. fighting population took part in
the war for democracy as compared
with Seotlands 40 per cent. The Unit
ed States would have to supply 4,000,-
600 soldiers to the battle fronts of Eu-
rope to equal. lreland'S percentage.
The second point emphasized by the
speaker was that Ireland has never
conceded England's right to rule her
or conscript her people. The first of
these facts, the Irish soldiers in the
ranks of the allies shows her unselfish
love of freedom for others, the second
S1IOWS lHe ullConqucIdulc spirit VI d us
tinct nationality. D. w. Lawler of st.
Paul was greeted with outbursts of ap-
plause. when he spoke of the Kettle
blood in President Wilson and hailed
him as the champion of freedom for
Ireland John H. Nightingale read
resolutions addressed to the President,
praying that he use his good Offices
at the peace conference to obtain
freedom for Ireland. The resolutions
were similar to those adopted recent
ly in the st. Paul meeting. The mu-
steal numbers on the program were
we'll received. Irish airs and the
American anthem we're sung with
equal spirit by the entire assemblage.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-12-14
CATHOLICS In CHINA
IMMENSE WORK OF CONVERSION
FACES MEAGER CATHOLIC
FORCES.

Some very interesting details re-
garding the Catholic missions in
China are offered by Rev. Peter Chan,
S. j., a native Chinese priest, who has
just completed his studies in Europe,
and is conVersant with French, Span
ish, Portuguese and English. China
with it's 43O.000,000 inhabitants, is at
present supplied with only 2,267
priests, while Protestant missionaries
number more than $4,000. The total
Catholic population is about 1000, 900,
and there are about 100000 Protestant
Chinese. The time for reaping a rich
harvest of souls is now at hand, and
the total number of conversions to the
Catholic Church during the past year
was 100000. There is need only of
priests, nuns and the necessary finan-
cial aid. Father Chan thus describes
his own special mission field.
In the year 1912 new mission
was established in the south of China,
with headquarters in the town of
Shutting, seventy miles from the
SACdL SlIy VI SduCU1l. LII Itl1S tulSlFiCL
the pagans number 100000, and the
Catholics 1900 only, with three hum
dred catechumens preparing for bap-
tis,n. The mission is the work of Por-
tuguese Jesuits, exiled from their ma
tive country, and illustrates the truth
that persecution results in spreading
the Faith to other lands. There are
five Jesuit Fathers and one secular
priest, and six native Chinese scho-
Iasties of the Society of Jesus There
are also six nuns, Franciscan mission
aries of Mary. two being Irish, who
carry on a school for girls and house
of the Society of the Holy Childhood
for the rescue and education of aban-
doned children. Up to the present
time, in this territory of 100000 in
habitants, there is no church worthy
of the name, but only two poor and
very small chapels.''
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-12-14
St. Joseph's Academy Leads

The Victory Girls of st. Paul have
completed their campaign, having
raised the amount of $6,2T5 OF this
sum the Victory Girls of the Catholic
schools collected, in 635 pledges, the
amount of $1,646.50, which is about
one-fourth of the grand total The
record of best achievement for the
high schools of the city belongs to
the girls of st. Joseph's Academy.
Through their energy and resource
fulness these young ladies gathered in
$746, which is more than twice as
much as the next highest school.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-12-14
Children OF The Crusade

Frightened and pitiful, they walk
apart,
Through the familiar village street,
grown strange,
Hand clasped in hand, they hear weird
echoes start
From ruined homes. Fear dumbs
each small, child heart.
No tears rain down like dew to ease
their woe
Horror has dried the wells from which
they sprang,
Like wee crusaders of the long ago,
Their phantom banners in the breeZes
blow
If one should call out follow" they
would run,
Crime of the highway on their tiny
feet,
Needless alike of dust and blazing
sun,
Forget, as dreams, the horrors that
were zone.
None calls; weary they rest within
the shade,
The ruined church, where once they
learned to pray,
Long years before the war had come,
and laid
Their homes in ruins. made their
hearts afraid.
Before the Holy Mother. low they
bow,
Perhaps she hears and soon will bring
them aid,
1t must be she whose voice is calling
now,
For see the cross is shining on her
brow.
The light around her head, a nimbus
CLEANS,
A Red Cross worker, not from Heaven
they know!
Yet Mary heard and sent her here ii
seems,
To lead them home to shelter and to
dreams.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-12-14
Sioux Falls Cathedral

Last Sunday morning, Right Rev.
erned Bishop O'Gorman sang Pontifi-
cal High Mass for the first time in his
new Cathedral at Sioux Falls, South
Dakota. The solemn dedication,
which was to have been held last
month, was postponed on account of
the prevailing epidemic. This cere-
mony will take place on a date to be
announced next spring.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-12-14
RED CROSS AND CATHOLICS

battle zone into the district to the
rear Treviso, Venice and Padua were
emptied of their population. In the
midst of all this untold misery it was
the parish priests who stood out as
towers of strength. They were in
constant cooperation with the Red
Cross, and they constituted the most
sympathetic medium of the people
for they knew intimately the wants
and troubles of their charges.
At Creepy, abandoned before the
German advance, the Red Cross has
re.established Catholic school and
nursery, defraying all expenses and
furnishing needed food supplies.
Some two and one-half miles west
of Versailles, at st. Cyr (where is
located also the famous military
school bearing that name) the Red
Cross took over the property of La
Chaux. One hundred and fifty French
children are happy there, under the
care of the Sisters of st. Joseph
At Etretat is an orphans colony of
350-again in charge of Sisters. An
other, caring for 500, is at Saint-Jean
Cap Ferrat.
At Rosay is a colony for Belgian
boys. The Convent of the Hospice st.
Simon is utilized by travelling dis
pensary of the Red Cross, and there
hundreds of French mothers and chill
dren are treated.
The American Red Cross hopes to
do still more for the sufferers abroad,
for it's work will be doubled when
peace comes-for the repatriation and
reconstruction will fall on it's broadly
sympathetic shoulders. But, in order
to continue it's labors for humanity,
the Red Cross must have the active
cooperation of the American people.
With that view in sight, the Red
Cross will hold it's Second Annual
CHRISTMAS ROLL CALL during the
week of December 16 to Is, when it is
hoped that every American man,
woman and child will renew the ma
tion-wide pledge of last year, to up
hold the Flag, that the peoples of the
world may enjoy liberty, peace and
consequent happiness. Last year
100000 adults and 100000 chill
dren responded to the call and affixed
their signatures to the roster of the
Red Cross.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-12-14

dinal to succeed Leo XIII. One of the
first official acts of Pope Plus X was
to absolutely abolish the veto power.
Any Cardinal who would present the
protest of a Catholic sovereign at. a
conclave called for the election Of a
Pope would by that very fact put him.
self under ecclesiastical eensure.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-12-14

Wilson To Visit Pope

According to a dispatch, Thomas
Nelson Page, the American ambassa
der to- Italy, visited the Vatican last
Monday He. announced that Presi
dent Wilson would pay an official visit
to Pope Benedict and Cardinal Gas
parri, the papal secretary Of state, or
December 20.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-12-14
To Restore Belgian Town

G. A. Aerts, Belgian Consul, has re-
ceiyed a $1,000 check from Mrs, Bel
lamy Storer, President of the Cincin-
natl Catholic Women's Association,
and wife of the former ambassador to
Austria-Hungary, for the rebuilding of
Hastieres. Belgium This is the town
Cincinnatians have adopted as the
result of Mgr. M. Carton de WARTS
recent visit.