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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-01-12

neither trouble or fright. But at once
thirty lances pierced his body. And
he fell, the prayer of lifetime an
swered: that he might die for the love
of Jesus Christ. Rushing back to the
town, the assassins dragged Father
F1orent to the scene of the tragedy,
and there completed the day of hor-
ror by last martyrdom.
Mausoleum of Martyrs.
Today a beautiful mausoleum
stands on the banks of the Blue river.
Within lie the remains of Bishop Yer
haeghen, of his brother, FIR. Fred
erick, and of his friend, FIR. Florent.
Silent it stands. But what won
derful sermon it breaches to the world
which will not listen. 1t cries out
with the Wiseman of old: In the
sight of the unwise they seemed to
die and their departure was taken
for misery. And their going away
from us for utter destruction; but
they are in peace. And though in the
sight of men they suffered torments
their hope lis full of Immortality.
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Pope Remembers Prisoners
NUNCIo VISITS WAR PRISONERS
GIFTS FOR ALL-MEDALs AND
BLESSING OF HOLY FATHER.

The Papal Nuncio at Munich, Ba-
varia, Mgr. Pacelli, has just paid a
most interesting and welcome visit to
the camps of the prisoners of war at
Pucheim and Ingolstadt. The former
camp contains nearly six hundred
French prisoners and thousand Rus
slams, all privates or non-commission-
ed officers. Mgr. Pacelli brought
every prisoner a parcel sent by the
Pope, with his blessing. These par
cells, which were wrapped in the pa
pers bearing the papal arms, and were
presented to each man by the nuncio
in person, contained chocolate, bis
cults, cigarettes, soap, tea and sugar;
and each one had an inscription:
"The Holy Father offers you this
blessing"
The nuncio, who is an excellent
linguist, addressed the prisoners col
lectiyely first, in their own language,
telling them how glad he was to be
among them, and to assure them of
the affectionate solicitude and sympa-
thy of the Holy Father in all their
trials. He then conversed with the
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Vatican Not Implicated
CHARGE DENIED THAT VATICAN
OFFICIALS HELD CONFERENCE
WITH Ex-PREMlER cAILLAUx
OF FRANCE.

Efforts to implicate the Vatican in
France, who is charged with treason
able dealings with the enemy, have
been met by unequivocal denials of
completely or knowledge on the part
Of the Osseryatore Romano.
Former Premier Joseph Caillaux is
supposed to have favored a concilia-
tory policy toward Germany before
the war, and during later stages of
the war is said ito have engaged in a
peace propaganda which took him to
Italy. In Italy, it rs alleged, that in
order to prove that the continuation
of the war could only result in butch
cry without decision, he exhibited
photographs of the German lines of
defense at the Somme River, point
ing out that the Germans could never
be decisively defeated. The manner
in which Cailiaux got possession of
these photographs has caused consid-
cradle speculation.
A certain M. lie Prestre, said to be
IN American, is supposed to have
given to the French Embassy an &C
count of conversation between Gail
laux and two Monsignori of the Vati-
can. Nine. Caillaux, the wife of the
former premier, is also said to have
been implicated in the propaganda
In the French Chamber, Deputy Pro
lini openly charged that Vatican rep
resentatives had conferred with Nine.
Caillaux.
The Osservatore Romano, the Vati-
can organ, published denial on Sat
urday of the statement of Deputy
Pirolini in the Chamber of Deputies,
that Mgr. Tedeschini, Under Secre-
tary of State at the Vatican, had at
tended a reception at the home of
Mgr. Pacelli, Papal Nuncio to Mu-
Mich. Deputy Pirolini stated that
Nine. Caillaux, wife of the former
Premier of France, was present at
the reception, and that Mgr. Won
Gerlach, who has been convicted by
default as an Austrian spy, was also
guest there.
The newspaper added that the Vat
lean has never been in conflict, di-
rect or indirect, with M. Caillaux
either under his own name or that of
Monsieur Renouard."
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Religious Weekly Papers
JOURNALS OF THIS CLASS SHOW
A NOTABLE INCREASE IN
CIRCULATION.

1t is comforting to note that, ac-
cording to the statistics published by
a well-known and. reliable "Newspa.
per Annual for 1917, the religious
weeklies of this country have larger
total circulation than the secular
weeklies ,488,OOO and 1882 900
copies, respectively. The classified.
ton religious weeklies" includes
Catholic and Jewish publications as
well as Protestant The total of
copies issued in the year 1917 of
monthly magazines, weeklies, women's
publications, Sunday magazines and
mail-order publications is 1,2S4,S64,-
900; of religious publications, ILL.,
100000. The increase of the relig-
ious publications in 1917 over 1915
was 70,492,000 copies. In the same
period the secular publications showed
a decrease of approximately $780,
900 copies.
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POPES AND MEDICINE
FAMOUS NAMES AMONG THE
PAPAL PHYSlClANS-GRE
CONNECTED BY ANY BOND IN
HISTORY OF MEDICINE.

If the Church had done nothing else
except, through the Popes, invite the
magnificent group of physicians, who
became papal physicians, to take
charge of the health of the head of
the Church, that alone would have
been very great boon to medicine,
writes Dr. James J. Walsh in Exten-
sion Magazine. The list of the papal
physicians is the greatest list of
names connected by any bond in the
whole history of medicine. 1t includes
some of the greatest names in the
whole history of the medical science.
Among them are Columbus, who
discovered the circulation of the blood
in the lungs; Eustachius, the great
anatomistJ after whom the tube is
named; Varolius, after whom the pons
varolii in the brain receives its name;
Cesalpinus, who gave the first descrip-
tive explanation of the circulation of
the bloods Lancisi, great man in
the history of medicine; Morgagni
the father of modern pathology; NAL
pighi, whose name is attached to more
structures in the human body, which
he first described, than any other.
There are a host of others. They
were all Invited to Rome and given
the prestige of this world-known posi-
tion as an appreciation of their dis
tinguished scientific attachments.
Nothing could have lifted true medi-
cal science more in the estimation of
the people of the world than this
recognition of genuine merit in scien-
tific work by the Popes.
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HAVE OWN MAGAZINES
CATHOLIC HISTORICAL SOCIETIES
ARE DOING GOOD WoRK-AcTA
EFT DIcTA PUBLISHED BY CATH
oLIc SOCIETY OF ST. PAUL,
MINI.

Waldo G. Leland, Secretary of the
American Historical Association, in
an article Concerning Catholic His
torical Societies" in The Catholic His
torical Review says:
There are more historical societies
in the United States than in any other
country. They are devoted for the
most part to the history of various
territorial areas, but there are some
that occupy themselves with other
fields. Of such probably none have
greater possibilities of usefulness than
those which are concerned mainly
with church and religious history.
There are not many of these-the
American Baptist Historical Society
of Philadelphia, the New England
Baptist Historical Society of Boston,
the Presbyterian Historical Society of
Philadelphia and the Unitarian and
Universalist Historical Societies, both
naturally of Massachusetts,, are the
only societies devoted to the history
of the non-Catholic denominations
that find mentions in a report made
some years ago to the American His
torical Association.
The Catholic Church is better rep
resented, especially by the strong and
active American Catholic Historical
Society of Philadelphia, founded in
1884, by the younger Catholic Histori-
cal Society of ST. Paul, and by such
other organizations as the United
States Catholic Historical Society of
New York, the Maine Catholic His
torical Society and others. Some of
these societies have really notable col
lections of books and manuscripts.
One of them has for over twenty
five years published with much credit
to itself the quarterly Records of the
American Catholic Historical Society;
the st. Paul Society is engaged in
putting out an annual collection of
Acta ct Dicta; while the United States
Catholic Historical Society. which for
FIVE years (1887-1892) brought out The
Catholic Historical Magazine, now
publishes an annual volume Of His
t0rical Records and Studies. During
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Continued from page IL
THE DIVORCE MENACE

lima, shas divorce laws. The other
forty-seven, and all our territories,
grant divorces for various causes.
The grounds of statutory causes in
each Estate usually number from six
to fourteen-some of them very trivial
besides giving to the judges a wide
latitude and discretion as to the suff1-
cheney of the causes. The laws of
some states are laxer than others, and
judges are said to deliberately let
down the legal bars still farther to
attract temporary residents and bust
ness to their towns, and lawyers and
the press advertise the advantages of
certain places for easy divorce, there
by establishing divorce colonies, =
which become gay and rich with lux
ury and alimony.
In thirty-four years, from 1857 to
1901, only sixty-nine divorces were
granted in all Canada. During the
same period, over 100000 were grant
ed in the United States, and that was
when our divorce mill was only begin
ming to grind We legally produced
over a thousand wrecked homes to
every one of our neighbors just be-
yond an imaginary line.
Since then, we have had a toll of
100000 in sixteen years. AS far
back as 1899, Missouri, the hospita lie
state in which we meet, judicially
smashed over 1900 marriages in one
year, while Canada wrecked only four.
Lately a census has been taken of
the number of marriages that end in
the divorce courts in our larger cen
tiers of population, and the name of
our fair Lost. Kansas City, like that
of A.ou Ben Adhem lied all the
rest" with a pagan record of one di-
vorce suit for every four marriage
licenses it issued, outstripping even
Chicago, which DEGREES one divorce
for every six marriages it solemnizes.
In the year 1900, England, Scotland
and Wales had only TAB divorces, the
United States had over $4,000 that
year, and Ireland had only one, and
that couple probably afterwards
made up" again, believing, with true
Irish wisdom and faith, that it is bet
ter to quarrel with each other than
to quarrel with God. o Ireland, pure
as the dew on your shamrocks, true
to your Faith as the virgin martyrs,
small wonder that you are enshrined
in song as "a little bit of heaven; ;
small wonder that the world loves
and praises you, for God has crowned
your chaste colleens with diadems of
purity and glorified them as blessed
among Women!"
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Holy Father Protests

The Holy Father, according to the
Osservatore Romano, in addition to
sending an expression Of regret and
sympathy to the Bishops of Padua and
Treviso, Italy, has drawn the attention
of the governments of the Central En-
pires to the raids over those cities
The Pope exhorted them to refrain in
the future from such acts which, while
attaining no military end, make inno-
cent victims, and damage church and
art treasures, and consequently are
unjustifiable by international law.
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THE ROMAN QUESTION
HOW ROME FELL INTO OTHER
DS-GARlBALDl AND THE
POPE-DlFFlCULTY MAY ARISE
WITH REGARD TO PAPAL
POWER.

In the year 1860, Garibaldi and his
followers succeeded in conquering
Sicily and Naples An interested by
stander was Sardinia, ruled by King
Victor Emanuel and his chief minister
Cavour. The latter, while pretending
to be opposed to Garibaldi's expedi-
ton, was actually abetting it. When
Garibaldi's successes we're assured,
the crafty Sandman statesman, dis
carded his mask and sent the Sar-
dinian army to the scene to dominate
the situation, notes The Echo. In
May, 1851, Victor Emanuel made him
self King of Italy, reigning over the
whole peninsula except Venetia and
the city of Rome with small terri
tory around it, Austria ceded Venetia
to United Italy after her war with
Prussia in 1866. Four years after the
Italian Government perpetrated one of
the greatest crimes of history.
On September 20, the small army of
Papal guards was forced to surrender
to the Italian troops who had entered
the city of Rome through breach in
the Porta Pia The ambitious Victor
Emanuel forcefully annexed the Papal
States to his kingdom and Rome
became the capital of Italy The tenn
poraI power of the Pope, established
in 755s had come to an end. Since
then the Pope, the former ruler of
Rome has hnan 5 aria.f4ayll n1iQpna4, III
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great fame; monks f1ocked from all
parts of England and Ireland and from
distant parts of the continent; bishops
and kings travelled to consult this
learned and humble nun. Caedom,
the earliest Anglo-Saxon poet of note,
was a monk at this monastery of
Whitby and wrote under the guidance
of st. Hilda. For many years there
was great and universal devotion
to the saint in England and numerous
churches were erected in her honor.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-01-12
Minister Joins Catholic
Church

The Rev. John B. Diman of New
port, r. l., until year ago head mas
ter of st. Georges School, and now
on duty with the naval force of the
Second Naval District, has become a
convert to the Catholic religion. He
joined st. Joseph's Church, Newport,
the pastor of which, the Rev. Edward
A. Higney, officiated at his confrma-
ton recently. The Rev. Mr. Diman
is a graduate of Harvard and Brown
universities.
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Continued from page ~
Won Glorious Crown Of
Martyrdom

are impossible and the mountains al
most impossible.
Falls from horse, plunges to the
bottom of ditch, of a stream or of
a torrent are common incidents of a
missionary's life. Yet in spite of
these difficulties he founded six new
communities to the south, in the
opium district, and one to the north,
where a missionary had never been
before. For three years he labored
thus, never resting, literally consumed
with most wonderful thirst for souls.
Sent to Ma-tcha-pin.
In 1898 Bishop Christians ordered
Father Theotime to Ma-tcha-pin, one
of the communities he had estab-
lished to the south, there to take up
his residence with the ultimate pur-
pose of opening up Chelan, the CEN
ter of the district. The population in
this place was very unsympathetic.
Yet he succeeded in TRIPPING the num-
Der of Christians, and was able to
enter Che-lan within four months.
Since the year 1896, trouble had
been brewing for the Christians. The
mandarins were hostile; and the Sc
cret societies were making use of this.
At times the situation had become
tense, but had quieted down again.
But in 1898 the storm broke with ter
rible violence. Armed bands ranged
the country, tearing down, burning,
killing everything and anything Chris
tan. A price was put on Father
Theotime's head.
Two hundred Chinese of the envir-
onment enrolled themselves into a
secret society with the avowed pur-
pose Of killing him. Father Victor
Delbronk, in the neighboring parish,
was killed after the most horrible and
brutal tortures. But Father Theotime
remained quietly at Ma-tcha-pin.
Plans we're completed for an attack
on the villages and general mas
sacre of the Christians on January
9. On the day before the imperial
forces were set in motion, and the
movement was quelled for the time.
But Father Theotime was the only
priest left in the west of the Vicariate
And as a consequence he had to care
for all the Christians in a rude and
roadless country, extending more than
hundred miles from end to end.
consecrated as Bishop.
In 1900, Mgr. Christians, his health
absolutely wrecked, resigned his vi
cariate. On the 10Th Of April, Father
Theotime, then only thirty-three years
Of age, was chosen unanimously to
succeed him. He bowed his head
humbly 70 this most severe and heavy
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GENERAL PERSHING
APPRECIATION OF x. OF c. WORK
EVIDENCED BY CALLED GREET
INGS FROM AMERICAN ExPEDI-
TIONARY HEAD. .

Walter N. Herman, the Knights Of
Columbus Overseas Commissioner,
who has just returned from France to
effect an organization to return with
him to carry out the plans for the re
lief work of the order, which have
been approved by General Pershing
and his general staff, received the fol-
lowing New Years greeting by cable
from General Pershing:
Herman, Utica-Please accept for
the members of your organization my
most cordial holiday greetings. Let
us enter the new year with full con-
fidence of the righteousness of our
cause and the success of our arms.
"PERsHING."
Mr. Herman cabled the following re-
ply:
General Pershing, American Elk
peditionary Forces, France-The
knights of Columbus deeply appreci-
ate and sincerely thank you for your
message With heartiest New Year
greetings and best wishes to you and
the troops under your command &C
cept the assurance that each member
of the order pledges his individual
sacrifice and effort to aid and support
you, to the end that the new year will
see complete fulfillment of your con-
fidence of the victory of our arms in
the cause of democracy, thereby Sc
curing to the world just and endur-
ing peace. HERMAN"
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the last two years there has appeared,
from the Catholic University of Amer
lea, The Catholic Historical Review,
which has received most favorable no
tice from the historical profession in
general and which promises to be-
come the recognized organ of all
American Catholic historical activity.
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CATHOLIC NURSE-Wants perma-
nent position. Travelling or local in
valid cases. Experienced traveller.
Best of references. Address C. N,
care of The Catholic Bulletin
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WANTED-Place to work on a
farm (for a good Catholic family by
a boy II years of age. Some expert
ence. References given. Address 139
Western Ave-, st. Paul, MINI.
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Is there St. FlIIda? Kindly give
a brief sketch of her life.
The feast of ST.. Hilda is celebrated
on November II. The dates Of her
birth and death are assigned as GA
and $50. She was related to the kings
of Northumbria, in what we now call
England, and was converted to the
Catholic faith in early life. She
devoted herself to religion and
became a nun in France. Upon her
return home, she undertook the ref
ormation Of a large monastery in 4
town later called Whitby. Under
her direction, the monastery acquired
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1918-02-21
RED CROSS NOTES.

This column of Red Cross notes
will hereafter be weekly feature
of The County Record. All commit
tees of the local chapter, as we'll as
the auxiliaries and branches through
out the county, are invited to send
news items to Mrs L w Gilland, pub
licity chairman, not later than Tues
day of each week, and it is hoped
that all those who have news to con-
tribute will respond to this request.
Time was, though it was never
true, when folks might say that the
Red Cross represented only a certain
class of the American public. That
is. that it was representative of bank
ers and the moneyed interest of the
so-called society types of our towns
and cities. But what can be the atti-
tude today, when twenty million of
our American people have volunta-
rily enrolled under the banner of
the American Red Cross? This great
multitude of people represents more
than 20 per cent of our population.
1t represents the lawyer, the doctor
and all the other professions. 1t rep.
resents those in the business walks
of life. Big business? Yes, and little
business, too. 1t represents the mill
worker, the clerk behind the count
err the fashionably dressed purchaser
in sealskin furs. And now, with this
great army of patriotic American
citizens, back of this greatest of all
single movements in the world to-
day, with program rich in the va
riety of opportunities for service
which it offers, the American Red
Cross-your Red Cross, our Red
Cross-will make advances absolute
" inconceivable short time ago.
Let US bear in mind, there rests
tremendous responsibility. 1t is a re-
sponsibility of measuring up to the
opportunity of playing a real part in
this world war. While the Red
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1918-02-21

horse and buggy, Chief of Police
Wilson received a telegram from
Kingstree advising him of the theft
and requesting the officer here to be
on the look out for the men and to
arrest them. As soon as Chief Will
son received the telegram he got
busy and in a short while located
the two men, but not before they
had disposed of the stolen goods.
Of course. they were promptly ar
rested and the sixty-five dollars in
cash which Mr. johnson had paid for
the mule, together with the check
for fifty dollars given by MIR Weed
in payment for the horse and bug
gy were both recovered by the chief
of police. The two pen were
promptly locked up and the authori-
ties in Kingstree notified Of the ar
rest. Sunday morning Chief of Po-
lice Epps, of Kingstree, came to the
city and the two men were turned
over ty him to be taken back to St
Charles to answer for their mis-.
eds.-Georgetoaon Times.
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A Card from w r Funk.

Ii has come to my attention that
there has been circulated in Kings
tree and Williamsburg county, ru'
mors to the effect that | am now, OF
have been, a German sympathizer.
Such a rumor is serious matter
with me and my friends, and | take
this, my first opportunity to do so
publicly since it came to my atteE-
ton, to denounce it as untrue and
without foundation of fact.
| have been resident of this COM
munity for thirty years and consid-
er myself as true to the principles
of South Carolina as any man who
claims it as his native home.
Very sincerely,
W R FUNK.
Kingstree, February 16, 1918.
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Juvenile Missionary Society Meets

The Juvenile Missionary Society
of the Methodist church held it's reg
ular meeting on the evening of Mon
day, February IL. The subject was
the coal mines. Some very interest
ing letters from deaconesses were
read, telling of the great work that
is being done for the people out
there. Each member answered the
rell call with the name of a deaconess.
The following officers have been
elected for 1918: managers, Miss Os-
sic Epps and Miss Mae Stoll; presi-
dent, Dollie McFadden; first vice
president, Madge Blakely; second
vice-president, Annie Frierson; cor
responding secretary. Mary Gather
inc Epps; recording secretary. Vir-
ginia Harmon; treasurer, Hubert
Speigner; superintendent study and
publicity, Jack Meadors; superinten-
dent of social service, Vardell Mes
NTH.