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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-11-29
PERSONAL.

Miss Evelyn Pitts of l40 Elliot street
is i'll with tonsilitis.
Mr.. and Mrs. Scion Richmond spent
yesterday with relatives in Greenfield
Emerson Dunklec, who is in the navy
At Newport, II. l., is visiting at his
home on Clark street.
Mrs. +. E. Phillips of West Dunn,
mcrston was guest Thanksgiving of
her daughter. Mrs. 0. F. Stevens
Thomas Tier, clerk in the retail de.
partment of the Durham Brothers com.
pany, was in Dummerston yesterday.
Miss Ethel and Miss Julia Millington
went Wednesday TO their home in vii
mington TO remain over Thanksgiving.
Leon Whiddcn, who is in the navy
NJ Newport, r. L., is spending a short
furlough here with Mrs Lawrence
Cushman.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph j. Eldridge and
son, Ralph, visited yesterday at Mr..
Eldridge S former home in Shelburnc
Falls, Mass
Mrs w. W. harrington of Spring
field, Mass, is guest of Mr.. and Mrs.
Herbert c. Shaw She will return to
Springfield tomorrow
Mr. and Mrs. c. II. Turner and son.
Leslie, of East Dover and Miss Mary
Turner of Putney visited yesterday at
Walter c. Halliday 5.
II. Verne Adams, who is in the avia-
ton corps at New York. is here on a
short furlough, visiting his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Wales f. Adams
Miss Florence Allen, teacher in the
high school in Greenfield, is spending
a few days vacation with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. c. +. Allen.
Mr.. and Mrs Harold Webster and
Mrs. Oscar Whitney returned last
night from Hinsdale, where they visit
ed Mrs. Ida Higgins over the holiday.
Miss Dorothy Hubbard was dis
charged Wednesday from the Brattle-
boro Memorial hospital, where she had
been for an operation for appendicitis.
Stewart Stearns, Roger Sherman. Guy
Bctterlcy, John Kennedy, Lewis Brown.
and Arthur Manley Of Dartmouth col,
lege visited yesterday at their homes in
town.
Miss Eunicc Heath. who has n posi-.
ton in the brooks House pharmacy.
returned this morning from her home
in Townshend, where she went for
Thanksgiving.
Miss Esther Perry and Miss Annie
Ahern, students in the Brattleboro
business Institute, are spending the
Thanksgiving recess at their homes in
Charlestown, n. H.
Mr.. and Mrs Carl w. Cushing and
son, Coburn, Mrs. f. + White and Mr..
and Mrs. Ernest White went Yesterday
TO South Newfane to be guests of Mr.
and Mrs. NJ. H. Cheney.
Fred Spaulding, sr., and daughter.
Hiss May5elle, went Wednesday 10
titchhurg. Mass, TO visit Mr.. and Mrs
Fred Spaulding. jr Mrs. Spaulding
had been there since Sunday.
Miss Ruth Blanchard has finished her
course al the Brattleloro business In.
stitutc and returned 10 her home in
ClarcEout. She was accompanied by
Der sister, Miss Doris Blanchard. who
had been her guest here several DAYS
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-11-29

various activities of the organization.
The pictures were taken especially to IL
lustrate DR.. Wirt's lecture, and range
from scenes on the front line trenches to
illustrations of home service. A thread
of story runs through the pictures, in
which appear Jane Vance, Jack Harland,
Gloria Goodwin and Betty Clarke.
lr. Writ has been interested deeply in
Red Cross activities many years and is
familiar with the various phases of the
work from close range observation at
home and abroad He has made several
trips overseas and visited various battle
fronts with Secretary of War Baker.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-11-29
DR.. LINCOLN WRIT
TO GIVE ADDRESS
Accompanied Secretary of War to Eu
rope and Will Show Moving Pic
lures IN Auditorium.

Arrangements were made by telephone
this morning for DR.. Lincoln Writ, who
accompanied Secretary Of War Baker on
his recent European trip. to give an ad-
dress on the Red Cross in the Auditorium
Wednesday evening, Dec. T, at o'clock.
The address will be accompanied bt
moving pictures which will trace the his
tory of the Rcd Cross from Is inception
10 the present time and dealing with the
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-11-29
PERSONAL.

Private Paine Oscarson of New York
is a visitor at his home at "a Crosby
street over Thanksgiving.
Mr.. and Mrs Charles Palmer re-
turned today from Grafton, where they
visited yesterday at his former home
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-11-29
ARE you READY

for any and all emergencies! No pro
visions for the protection of family or
d.. ondents are complete that do not
'nrlude Income life insurance. National
Life lns. CO Of Vt Mutual. FABLE
s. KINST,EY. General AGENT, Rutland,
Va
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-11-29
BRATTLEBORO LOCAL.

Rev. Richard Fl. Clapp will conduct the
Sunday afternoon services at the Home
for the Aged during the month of Deem
Der.
Ninety couples attended the Thanks
giving dance last evening in Centerville.
Music was furnished by Miss Bcdaw of
kcene, piano; Mr.. Messer of Keenc. vio-
lin; William Lyman of Hinsdale, cornet
Bert Leitsinger of Brattleboro, drums
Brattleboro chapter Daughters of the
American Revolution, will meet Monday
afternoon. Dec. ,. at 3 o'clock instead of
Tuesday, at the home of Mrs. g.. B.
White on Western avenue. Rev. Richard
III. Clapp will address the chapter on the
subject, Making America American The
annual dues are payable at this meeting.
! will open a sale tomorrow of kitch-
en- and fancy aprons. boudoir caps, ex-
ira line of bags, Christmas novelties
and post cards. Miss Susan Houghton,
40 Prospect Street ADV 231 -233*
Plenty of flowers for Thanksgiving
carnations, roses, chrysanthemums,
pansics, etc. Bond, the Florist. Tel.
O21- y-A1y 900 o20
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-09-14
SANTA MARIA MAGGloRE.

Santa Maria Maggiore, one of the
five patriarchal Roman basilicas, and
called also the Liberian Basilica, occu-
pies a commanding position on the
crown of the Esquilian Hill, sur
rounded by an open square. 1t is
the third in Importance of the Roman
churches. The original structure of
the fourth century is SO encrusted by
modern classical additions that moth
ing of its early character is visible ex-
ternally. The apse was remodeled
either late in the twelfth or early in
the thirteenth century. Giuliano San
gallo added the cOffered ceiling to the
nave, gilded, it is said, with the first
gold brought from South America
Fontana was the architect of the Sis
tine chapel, that opens out of the
right hand aisle at the altar end &C.
1889, and Flaminio Ponzo that of
Paul V, called also the BOrghese chap
ell, later in the same century. The
baptistery was added from the designs
of Fuga, in 1908, and Giacomo della
Porta finished the chapel of the Sfor-
zas-now the winter choir of the can
ons-which had been begun by Mich
ael Angelo; the rear facade was added
under Clement X, between 1670-76, by
Rainaldi, and the great entrance ia
cade and portico for Benedict XIV
towards the middle of the eighteenth
century. With these dates before us
we may proceed to examine the bas-
ilica, whose whole interior effect,
though wonderfully striking from it's
size and grand proportions, is not
quite satisfactory, the detail and Or
namentation being almost exclusively
Renaissance of the time of Gregory
XIII &c. 1879.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-09-14
THE OFFICE OF A BISHOP.

Consider briefly what the bishops
office means to his clergy and his peo-
pie, says Bishop Shahan His very
cathedral is SO called from the Ca
thedra," or chair, set up in it from
apostolic days and signifying his right
to teach with authority the religion of
Jesus Christ and his duty to defend
it from error and calumny. 1t exhib-
it's the pattern of religious worship
for all the diocese, and Is the source
of Catholic devotions and of Catholic
religious life
His seminary is the place where he
forms your sons to the honor and the
burdens of the priesthood, the source
therefore of your sacramento life, of
your parochial administration. Your
Catholic schools represent his obliga-
ton to teach the people the elements
of their religion and to confirm them
in it's practice.
Your parishes, as they grow, repre-
sent his obligation to provide all his
people with the means of attending
divine service and receiving the Sac
raments. His control of the parochial
properties represents his immemorial
right of administering the temporal
goods donated by the faithful, of pre-
venting waste and dilapidation and
loss.
All the Sacramento are administer
ed in his name and by his authority,
1,o1v ordorc ond Ton f. rY,o a tinY, IN, l,iy,,
self alone. The Sacrament of Mar
riage, by reason of it's social nature
and consequences, calls for his con-
slant supervision of the ecclesiastical
law in its respect.
Without his authorization no priest
may hear confessions in his diocese,
and in the earliest times Baptism and
Holy Communion could be received
only at his hands.
The administration of Catholic
charity, no less than of Catholic edu-
cation, is entirely within his province;
every kind. The poor of Christ are
his particular patrimony, and Holy
Church herself has imposed on him,
where possible, touching symbol of
his Christlike privilege in their re
gard, the public washing of the feet
of twelve poor men on Holy Thurs
day.
The more solemn ceremonies of our
religious life are reserved to him--the
blessing OF chalices. of altar stones, Of
bells, of cemeteries, the reception Of
Sisters and Brothers, and their sol
emn dedication of their holy calling.
He is the immediate bond Of all
unity, for he is the proper channel of
all our relations with the See Of Peter,
ne IL 10 ~, fho hial,f,n t1.o4 41,x 11r1x, CO
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applicable march to Russia and the
queer burning of Moscow and his
grave on ST. Helena-all these, in the
language of Strauss, are only myth
cal garlands," woven around the brave
general by the unintentional poetic
imagination" of the French people.
These myths are only true in as far
as they are 1.-The expression of real
idea," the idea of the French insatia-
BILE glory
All this is, of course, ridiculous to
every sane man, but it is the method
of the nationalist as applied to the
Gospel narrative.
In hoary and prehistoric antiquity
legends and myths could thrive, but
not in the sunlight of historic times.
Napoleon is no myth, neither is
Christ.
rawlings like those of Bebel, the
Socialist leader who attributes to
Christ the mythical existence of the
Egyptian sun god Osiris, may be put
in the same category with his political
visions and prophesies.
For the consolation of those weak
minds who still had a little venera-
ton for Christ, David Strauss gave a
goodly quantity of incense into the
bargain when he called Christ "the
indispensable genius" and graciously
granted Him prominent place in
the temple of fame" But at the end
of his life he regretted even this con-
cession, and it veKed him that people
still prayed to Him (Christy and
made Him the center of their worship
and year in and year out preached
about his deeds, life and sayings
Strauss imagined that he had
finally abolished the old faith" and
he heartily rejoiced in his work Der
alte und der neue Glaube-The Old
and the New Faith" over the then new
Kulturkampf and it's chase after
black game" (the clergy. In the
same work he acknowledged himself
a complete atheist and pantheist.
He died in 1874 in the hope that
there soon would be an end to CHRIS
tianity The old fool!
Twenty-Five years later the then
mighty German emperor stood at the
tomb of the Saviour of the world and
solemnly confessed his belief in the
divinity of Christ, His miracles and
His resurrection. And the Catholic
world prepared itself for grand cele-
bration at the end of the old and the
beginning of the new century. That
is the irony Of history!
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-09-14
LARGEST CROSS IN THE NEW
WORLD,

Those who pass st. Peters Gene
terry, Poughkeepsie, n. Y, may see
the largest cross in the Western Hem
isphere. There are many great
crosses in Europe, but Poughkeepsie
has the first one in America.
The Poughkeepsie cross resem bles a
Celtic cross. 1t has a halo, slopes
towards the top and has panelled
sides, but it differs from all Celtic
crosses by having the base, top and
ends of the arms square 1t is built
of granita-concrete blocks fastened to
steel frame. The steel frame was
Embedded in concrete foundation
10 feet square and 10 feet deep. The
cross is "a feet high above the ground.
The base is 6 feet inches square, the
top and ends of the arms are 5 feet
square. The four pieces forming the
halo weigh five TONS William J.
Beardsley of Poughkeepsie was the
architect.
Poughkeepsie's chief of police, Chas.
]. McCable, who is also a trustee of
st. Peters Church and Cemetery,
made the selection of the material.
the color and finish of the cross. He
chose granite-concrete on account of
the prohibftive cost of granite and
marble. He had the granite-concrete
blocks hammered after they were
cast to give them rough appear
ance.
The cross seems both small and
large. Those who come close to it
think that it is not more than twenty
feet high and is of just the right pro
portions for the small hill on which it
stands, but, seen from distance,
there is no doubt that it is big.
The cross was blessed by Cardinal
Farley when he visited PoughkeeDsie.
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next day fresh horse was brought
out and the traveller went his way.
He usually carried with him blanket,
hair rope to stake his horse, and a
RATA or lasso; and in bag, tied to
his saddle, small supply of pinola
Ca nourishing food popcorn, parched
and ground on stone).'
Such picture of bygone days is
full of charm. 1t reflects light on the
faith which developed in the people of
Spanish blood those virtues which
found their expression in such habits
and traits of character. A change to
the worse came, says Nordhoff, with
the coming of the railroad. But it
was not so much the railroad as other
influences which estranged the peo-
pie from their inherited philosophy Of
life and thus also from their former
ways.
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surmount difficulties, then the fabric
will manifest itself which was woven
at home between childhood and ma
turer years.
One of the paramount concerns of
parents should be the timely prepare
ton of the daughters for the simple
household tasks. Parents should give
serious thought to this matter at an
early period. Household tasks tend
to direct the mentality of a girl into
the proper channels and to create
happiness in the performance of USE
full service, happiness in a quiet home
OF her own; such activities are safe
guard of her sense of order and her
modesty, and enable the girl to look
calmly into the future.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-09-14
MICHAEL ANGELO AND RAPHAEL

Among the sculptors there were
scores of men who distinguished them
selves with the chisel and whose
works make them immortal but the
greatest of them was Michael Angelo,
who enjoyed the friendships of Popes
Leo X, Julius II, Hadrian vi, Clement
VII, Paul III, Marcellus II and Paul Y,
all of whom he survived. 1t was at
the command of Julius ii that Michael
Angelo undertook to decorate the Sis.
tine chapel, though his preference was
always for the chisel rather than for
the brush, says q writer in Extension
Magazine. He was seventy-two years
old when Paul III entrusted him with
the direction and supervision of the
new St. Peters, and with his own
hands he fashioned the model for the
wonderful dome.
Raphael painted his first note
worthy picture when he was only sew
enteen years old. 1t was about this
time that he saw and was deeply
impressed with the works of Michael
Angelo and Leonardo da Vinci. In
1903 Julius II called Raphael~to Rome
and commissioned him to decorate the
various rooms and halls in the Vati-
can with large mural paintings. Dur
ing the twelve years following he
worked necessarily, producing paint
ings which rank among the master
pieces of the world. But he was pre-
eminently the painter of the Blessed
Virgin and his many beautiful Ma
donna pictures clearly show that she
was his favorite subject. Raphael
years old, but his distinctive works
outnumber his years of life.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-09-14
RELIGION AND EDUCATION.

Religion, that holy teacher which
spreads out before the childs gaze the
highest and purest truths: the great
fact of creation and the sovereignty
of the Creator-the great fact of re-
demption and the love of the Saviour;
religion, sublime authority which COM
mands the rational being to know and
love his God, infinitely great and per-
feet and lovable; religion, mysterious
inspirer, which gives grace to do
good courage to accomplish the hard
est tasks and makes the faithful heart
a garden of virtues; religion, the help
full power, the prop of childhood, the
comforter of age, which points out the
pitfalls, lifts up the unwary one from
his abasement and plants in the soul
the beginning of wisdom, which is the
filial fear of COD; religion, essential
relation of man with God, the sole end
of divine creation and of human life
must be the supreme object of true
education, says Rev. ]. H. Sherry, O.
M. l.
But it is also an infallible, all-pow-
erful means of education. And why?
because to it belongs in special way
the formation of the heart and the
conscience of the child. Education
forms the intelligence by instruction.
1t directs and restraints the will by
discipline, and that would be sufficient
for this mundane sphere.
But man has higher destiny which
puts him in touch with things divine,
shows him that which is par excel
lence good and true and right, and
makes him love moral and religious
perfection. In this higher order, it is
the intelligence and the will of duty
that hold first place in the human
conscience, and duty, stern daughter
Of the voice of Cod" is pointed out
by religion.
The instruction of religion is light
revealing to man by faith the supreme,
supernatural destiny which is the final
object of his life: the discipline of
religion is the law and authority pre-
scribing for man what he must do to
reach that object; and thus it forms
conscience bv affording him the Ger.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-09-14
THE LEGEND OF ST. DARA.

Still they tell it in the twilight on the
sod of old Kildare
Tell you of another twilight-when
young Dara wandered there!
Sweet, blind Dara! She was fairest of
the maidens come to bde
When the Abbess Brigid tarried, far
from courtly pomp and pride.
Gentle Dara! Abbess Brigid loving
all that virgin band,
Loved her best who bore the impress
of the Masters Christening hand
Sinless Dara! not in anger had He
dealt to her the stroke!
Never whittier soul found shelter in the
cells beneath the oak!
Pleaded oft the tender Abbess for the
lifting of the cross
Heart of her was sorely burdened
with the sense of Dara's loss
Never once to see the setting of the
golden, glowing sun!
Never once to see their coming
white stars filling one by one!
Not to know the purpled beauty of the
stately Irish hills!
Nor the green of Irish pastures or the
sheen of Irish rills.
Loving God as Dara loved Him, how
her spirit would rejoice
In the beauty He had fashioned! there
were tears in Brigid's voice,
As beside her sightless sister, meath
the oak of old Kildare,
She awaited in the twilight, convent
call TO evening prayer.
Sudden came an inspiration and the
Abbess raised her hand
Touched the downdropt lids of Dara-
spake a word of soft command
Lo! the waxen curtains lifted and the
eyes of Irish blue
Showed, as show the April violets
thro' a mist of morning dew
God be praised! His earth is beaute
ous'-Dara's voice the stiffness
broke;
Never word of graduation the ex
pectant Abbess spoke
Only watched the blue eyes roaming
from the green of oak and sod
To the silvered heavens above them
20, my Mother, great is God.
/ have looked upon His wonders ,anC
l thank Him for the sight;
Now, | pray thee, loving Mother, give
me back my 'customed night,
For this world of yours distracts me!
ah! when earthly eyes unclose
Fainter far feel it, Mother! spiritua
vision grows!'
Brigid's hand, again uplifted, touched
the clear unshrinking eyes
Closed the yelling lids above them
never more on earth to rise
Once again twas sweet, blind Oars
stood beside her Abbess there
Where today they tell her story in the
twilight of Kildare!
-M0TOaret NJ HdyDeD
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-09-14

directs it's communications with the
Catholic people.
Through the bishop the people of
each diocese are in communion of
prayers and merits with the people of
all other Catholic dioceses. All preach
ing is primarily his right and duty,
and is done in every parish by his
authority.
st. Paul says to every bishop in his
second epistle to Timothy Gv, 1-2): Il
charge thee, before God and Jesus
Christ, who shall Judge the living and
the dead by His coming and his king
dom, preach the Word; be instant in
season; out of season reprove, en-
treat, rebuke, in all patience and doe
trine."
1t is the bishop who is responsible
for the solemn public prayer of the
Church.