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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-12-27
GIFT TO CARDINAL
MINNESOTA ALUMNAE OF CATHO-
Lie FEDERATION ACTIVE IN
RAISING FUND FOR BELGIAN
PRlMATE.

One of the gifts to Cardinal MERCER
from this country will be Christmas
Offering, participated in by the mem.
i'bers OF the International Federation
of Catholic Alumnae.
/ Local women, as well as women
throughout the state, who are mem
bers of the alumnae association of
the various Catholic colleges and
academies affiliated with the Fedora
ton, are taking an active part in the
fund raising movement.
Among the Twin City organizations
interested in the Christmas gift are
st. Margaret's academy, Minneapolis,
with Miss Lillian Taafe. as president;
St Joseph's academy alumnae, Mrs.
0. T. Straiter, ST. Paul; St. Gather
ines College alumnae, Miss Helen
Dore, St. Paul, and Visitation Convent
alumnae, Mrs. J. P. Melady, st. Paul.
Detailed plans for the proposed
by Mrs. Carlton F. McNally of this
city, vice governor for Minnesota, fol-
lowing the receipt of same from Mrs.
James J. Sheeran of New York, presi-
dent of the International Federation.
Laud's Cardinal MERCER.
The following extract was taken
from Mrs. Sheeran's letter:
Cardinal MERCER typifies the soul
of unconquerable Belgium, that soy.
ereign country whose defiant chal-
lenge to the foe was the first clear
clarion call to the new democracy of
Europe. The material wants of that
sorely stricken and devastated land
have aroused the generous and SYM
pathetic response of the civilized
world. The international federation
will be among the first benefactors
of the spiritual life of Belgium by
their initiative in helping restore the
ruined splendors and shattered
architectural beauty of her famous
Cathedral
Facsimiles of autographed copies of
Cardinal Mercier's photograph have
been received by st. Paul and Mime
apolis alumnae members in recogni-
ton of the interest manifested in the
upbuilding of his Cathedral
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-12-27
THE PRIEST OF MENDOZA
Continued from page 1.

Indeed, when, a few years ago, he
was transferred to another part of the
diocese, he pleaded SO earnestly to SO
back to Mendoza that his request was
granted, and just six years ago, on
Christmas eve, he made his happy and
welcome return to the old church high
on the hill
It's beautiful church; beautiful in
its simplicity, and in the enduring
qualities of the stone from which it is
built. It somehow typifies the stern
patient lives of the missionary priests
who fought so hard to establish it and
the other outposts of the Faith; and
who must have been very, very tired
when they finally lay down to rest
But one feels that there is not one
of them who would not gladly sur.
render the fortunes and traditions OF
st. Peters into the hands of the man
who guides them now, and who keeps
alive so faithfully with such single
minded devotion, the flame that they
kindled..
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-12-27
Citation for Hearing ON Petition fol-
Admins tratiOn.

STATE OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY OF
| Ramsey, SIS. In Probate Court.
| In the Matter of the Estate of Anna
Kathrine Leslie, Decedent.
The State of Minnesota to All Whom
1t May Concern.
The petition of Thomas Louis Leslie
having been filed in this Court, rep
resenting that Anna Kathrine Leslie
then a resident of the County of Ram
sey, State of Minnesota, died intestate
on the 9th day of November, 1919
and praying that letters of administra-
as Louis Leslie
1t is ordered, that said petition be
heard and that all persons interested
in said matter be and hereby are cited
and required to appear before this Court
on Monday, the 5th day Of January,
1920 at 10 O'Clock in the forenoon or
as soon thereafter as said matter can
be heard, at the Probate Court Room,
in the Court House in the City of ST.
Paul, in said County, and show cause,
should not be granted and that this
citation be served by the publication
thereof in The Catholic Bulletin, ac-
cording to law, and by mailing a copy
said day Of hearing to each of the
heirs of said decedent whose names and
addresses are known and appear from
the files Of this Court.
Witness the Judge Of said Court, this
9TH day Of December, A. D. 1919.
(Seal of Probate Court.)
e. w. BAZILIE,
Judge of Probate.
Attest: 80 -,
F. w. Gosewisch,
Clerk of Probate
JOSEPH j. JOYCE, ...
Attorney for Petitioner,
1915 -'iOneer Building, st. Paul. Mimi.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-12-27
Order for Creditors to Present Claims
Etc,

Order for Creditors to Present Claims,
STATE OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY OF
Ramsey-ss. Probate Court.
In the Matter. of the Estate of Mar
garet Schmelz, Deceased.
Letters Testamentary on the estate
of Margaret SchmelZ, Deceased, late of
the County of Ramsey and State of
Minnesota being granted to Anna
It Is Ordered, That six months be
and the same is hereby allowed from
and after the date of this Order, in
which all persons having claims or
demands against the said deceased, are
required to file the same in the Probate
Court of said County. for examination
and allowance, or be forever barred.
ond Monday in July, 1920, at 10 o'clock
A. NJ, at General Term of said Pro-
bate Court, to be held at the Court
House, in the City of ST. Paul, in said
County, be and the same hereby. is
appointed as the time and place when
examine and adjust said claims and
And 1t Is Further Ordered, That
notice Of such hearing be given to all
creditors and persons interested in
said Estate, by. forthwith publishing
successive weeks in The CATHOLIC
Bulletin, a legal newspaper printed
and published in said County.
Dated at ST. Paul this 18th day of
December, 1919.
e. w. BAZILLE,
Judge of Probate.
(Seal of Probate Court.)
DOUGLAS, KENNEDY & KENNEDY,
Attorneys. St. Paul, MINI.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-12-27
"GARDEN OF EDEN
ASSYRiAN WOMAN PLEADS FOR
RESCUE OF HISTORIC COUNTRY
-ANc EMIT CUSTOM MAIN
TANNED.

There is a woman in London
around whose story the minstrels Of
old would have woven many a ballad,
says the Daily News.
She is the Lady Surma di Bith Mar
Shimun, sister of the ruling patriarch
of the Assyrians, the present-day
remnant of the once powerful nomadic
tribes which inhabited Mesopotamia
before the incursions of the Arabs
The country whence she comes has
been identified by some with the Gar
den of Eden.
Travelling by steamer, by train and
on horseback, she has come altogether
some 5000 miles from town so miles
beyond Bagdad to plead, as the agent
OF her people, for the restoration of
lands lost by, them when they took
arms in behalf of the Allies against
the Turks and Kurds.
Driven. further and further into
their mountain Businesses by repeated
invasions and massacres, the surviv-
ing $4,000 of her people have been
gathered together at Bakuba, where
they are living under the protection
of the British civil and military au-
thorities
Il came to England much against
my will" said the Lady Surma, who
speaks English perfectly, II have
never been to Europe before. But
there was no one else to come. My
brother, the late ruling patriarch, was
killed by Kurd treachery; my younger
brother, who succeeded him, is i'll, and
another brother is serving The PEG.
pie would trust nobdy else.
1T may seem strange to you that a
woman should be chosen for such a
difficult task, but it has been the tradi,
ton of our nation that the sister OF
the heir should. take the vow Of cell.
bacy and act as her brothers. helper
during his reign"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-12-27
COLLEGE IS ENLARGED
KANSAS INSTITUTION PUR-
CHASES TRACT AND BUILD
iNGS.

The Midland Nutheran) college
properties, consisting of twenty-three
acres of land, and seven buildings rep
resenting an original investment of
several hundred thousand dollars, were
decided to st. Benedict's college, Atch-
inson, Kan, on December IS.
The preparatory or grade students
of st. Benedict's will be transferred
to the new plant. ..............
By the purchase of the Midland
properties the crowded condition at
st. Benedict'sF will be relieved This
acquisition, together with the Manley
tract of fifty acres purchased last year,
very much increase the future pos
sibilities of st. Benedict's.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-12-27
LONDON ELECTIONS
MANY CATHOLICS HAVE BEEN
CHOSEN FOR OFFICE,

The result of the London Borough
Council elections shows that very
satisfactory percentage of Catholic
candidates have been returned to Of
flee in the municipalities throughout
the country. A remarkably large. num-
Der of labor candidates have been
elected, and in d number of cases
the Catholic candidates were elected
on the labor tickets
In Stepney, one of the. crowded
boroughs, in the East End Of London,
some fifteen Catholic candidates were
elected, forming Is per cent of the
entire. council, among them Father
Irwin, senior, -curate of the great Irish
church in Stepney. In the borough
of. Bcfmondsey six Catholic candidates
were elected, one of them Father
Monk Battersca has. also returned
five Catholic councillors to ONCE u
In the provinces Catholic candidates
have also been returned in satisfac-
tory numbers. At Manchester six
Catholics came forward for election,
and of these. five; were successful
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-12-27
Citation for Hearing VIII.

STATE OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY OF
Ramsey, IS. In Probate Court.
In the Matter of Proving the Alleged
Last. Will and Testament of Angus
Macdonald. Decedent.
The State of Minnesota to All Whom 1t
May Concern:
Whereas, Mary Christine Macdonald
of the City of st. Paul and State of
Minnesota has delivered to the Probate
Court of the County of Ramsey, an in
strument in writing purporting to. be
the II / Last WIN and Testament Of Angus
Minnesota, decedept, and filed herewith
her petition to said Probate Court,
praying that the said instrument may
that Letters Testamentary be granted
!. 1t is. ordered that said petition be
heard and that all persons interested
In id matter be cited and required to
appear before this Court, on Monday,
the 10Th day of December, 1919. at 10
o'clock "A. NJ, or as soon thereafter as
said matter can be heard, at the Pro-
bate Court Rooms, in the Court House
in the City of st. Paul, in said County,
and show cause, if any they have, why
said petition should not be granted and
said will admitted to probate and that
ton thereof in The Catholic Bulletin
according to law, and by mailing a
copy Of this citation at least IA days
before said day of hearing, to each OF
decedent whose names and addresses
are known and appear from the files OF
this Court
Witness the Judge of said Court, this
25th day of November. A. D. 1919. i.
(seal Of Probate Courtl
| Attest:
F. w. Gosewisch,
! Clerk of Probate.
| SAMUEL WHALEY. Atty.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-12-27
Why cannot priests marry?

Because celibacy is enjoined upon
priests of the Western Church by one
of the disciplinary regulations of the
Church.
Is young man Justified in leaving
home to study for the priesthood
against the wish of his parents?
A vocation is a special grace urging
one to give up home and relatives and
devote oneself to the cause of religion.
We are bound under pain Of sin to OBJ
serve the ten commandments and the
six precepts of the Church. but the
needing Of the special grace of vo-
cation is a very personal matter.
In accepting his Divine call one may
reasonably presume that God does not
wish to disregard the claims Of the nat
ural law. There is an instinct placed
in the heart of every man to provide
for needy and aged parents. If a
young man is needed for the comfort
and well being of the home, he should
respect the wishes of his parents. If
his support is not needed or there is
place, the opposition of his parents
becomes selfish and un-Christian. In
this latter case the man would act
more wisely in following the call to
higher life. God comes before man.
The opposition on the part of parents
proves a very heavy cross to bear in
the case Of young man following a
religious vocation. The unhappiness
thereby resulting is due to the mys-
FERROUS selfshness of the parents.
Are the works of Oscar Wilde pro-
hibtCed By the Index?
The works of Oscar Wilde have not
been formally condemned by the
Church.
There is the Congregation of the
Index" at Rome, whose duty is to SUI
pervise the publication of new books
and to condemn those that attack
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-12-27
new M|SSAL

There has just been issued from
the Vatican press t"Tipografa Poll
glotta Vaticana'l new edition of the
Missal for Masses for the Dead, with
the formal approval of the Sacred
Congregation of Rites, dated July 25,
1918. Not only does it contain as
was to be expected, the new Preface
pro Defunctis and the three Masses
for All Souls Day printed in full. but
there are also several Important in.
noyatiQns,
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-12-27
FOR SERVICE MEN

The Committee on War Activities
of the Knights of Columbus has au-
thorized the establishment in Denver
of school for ex-serVice men. This
school is to be absolutely free. The
knights will pay for books. tuition,
teachers, etc. The only qualification
Tor admission is an honorable dis
charge from the army OF navy,
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-12-27
MEMORY Of SIEGE

+ The stained glass in the Church of
st. Gervais, which was removed for
safety during the German long-range
bombardment of Paris, has been re-
placed. The Church was struck by
shells from Big Bertha" on Good
Friday, 1918.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-12-27

| faith OF, are dangerous to morals
| Approaching the gigantic character of
this task, the Congregation issues
some general rules. The General De.
crees prohibit the following publica-
tions: Books defending heresies, j. e.,
doctrines contrary to divine revela.
ton; books derogatory to God, the
Blessed Virgin, the Saints; books viii
flying the Sacraments, the clerical or
religious state, the hierarchy, the
Church.; books professedly treating
OF, narrating or, teaching lewdness
and obscenity; books teaching OF. rec
ommending secrecy, spiritism, Chris
tan Science, or other superstitions;
books defending as lawful or harmless
Free Masonry, divorce, Socialism,
suicide, dueling
Oscar Wilde was an exponent of
frivolity rather than lewdness. One
Of his critics styles him the master
Of the paradox, and laments at the
same time the sad paradox of his life.
How any one SO deeply interested in
art and presuming to have such aes-
thetic taste could fall victim to
denominations which command silence
is difficult to understand. 1t may be
readily surmised that his writings can
not be freely recommended
How can you say spirit has no
shape when the Bible speaks of spir.
it's appearing?
When an angel appears to us, it
must assume material body. This
body is not really part of it, but
can be moved by it. You cannot see
the spirit itself, any more than you
can see a thought.
Is there any hope at all of salvation
for Catholic living in marriage for
hidden by the Church?
Absolutely not any, without repent
ance and giving up the false marriage
A person persisting in such life is
certain of going to eternal hell.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-12-27
new CATHOLIC PAPER

The Catholic Publishing Company
of Manila, P. L.. which aims to publish
a paper in the interests of the Cath
olic Church, has filed incorporation
papers authorizing capital of $780,
non
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-12-27

.WANTED-Young men to travel
with crew managers. Expenses paid,
Call 9 to- s. The Catholic Bulletin, 212
Globe Bldg. st, Paul.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-12-27

WAN T E D. - Housekeeper for a
priest, a woman of Polish or German
parentage, who also knows something
about church music. Address: A. p,
CO The Catholic Bulletin
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-12-27

Because celibacy is enjoined upon
priests of the Western Church by one
of the disciplinary regulations of the
Church.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-12-27
The Irish Sigisbertus.

What is. however, considered to be
the most famous place of worship in
the canton of the Grisons is the old
Monastery Of r'seEtie, founded in GA
A. d. by the Irish apostle Saint Sieis-
hertus, and later richly endowed by
Arizona republican., 1919-12-03
The Girl AIaskay at the Hip.

Offering the opportunity to see the first and only photoplay ever made on Alaskan soil, "The Girl Alaska" comes to the Hip for two days stay begin ming this morning.
 The story is told amid the wealth of beautiful Alaskan scenery introduced in the film. Wonderful snow scenes, snow slides, great glaciers-real Alas kan dance halls, realistic fights, the gold rush, are all incorporated in this picture of the far north. The little heroine of the story is girl who has been brought up to young womanhood in the belief that her father, who years before sought his fortune on the Yu- kon, has died and that she is an or phan. Abused by the family who keeps her, she reads of the opportuni- ties for young men in the Alaskan country, and disguising herself as a boy, she steals passage as a stow away" She is discovered in mid ocean but rescued from her predicament by a young man who is travelling to Alas ka, and who sees in the boy" a won derful pal. They decide to throw their lot togethe rand brave the terrors of the ice-bound country on "a fifty-fifty basis. The girl succeeds in Keeping the fact that she is a girl a secret until she finds her old father in the W1lds of Alaska-the reunion of father and daughter, and the beginning ot
Arizona republican., 1919-12-03
MERCHANT IF VENICE IS TO BE GIVEN AGAIN AT THE ELKS TONIGHT

In The Merchant of Venice" which the eminent actor, John E. Kellerd, IS to present at Elks tonight, this distin- gulshed actor finds in the character of Shylock one of the most notable oppor- tunltles for the display of talents which have won him foremost rank among the company of the master delineators of Shakespeare. It will be remembered that Richard Burbadge was the orig inal impersonator of Shylock and when Burbadge died in Lent, the 18th of March, 16lS his funeral elegy con- tained the following reference to his playing:
 Heart broke Philaster and Amintas too,
 Are lost forever; with the red haired Jew,
 Which sought the bankrupt merchants S pound of flesh, By woman lawyer caught in his mesh; What a wide world was in that little
 space,
 Thyself a world-the Globe thy fittest
 place"
 This is interesting as it recalls the fact that the early players always made Shylock red haired Jew and em- phasized the comedy character of the role. In MT. Kellerd's able hands the central character of "The Merchant of Venice" is sheerly tragic figure, as it should be-, though Heinrich Heine writes: When I saw this play at Drury Lane there stood behind me in the box a plain, fair Britton, who at the end of the fourth act fell a-weep- ing passionately, several times ex- claiming The poor man is wronged ' When I think of those tears I have to rank The Merchant of Venice with tragedies .. and the poet meant the play for a comedy"
 It is no comedy in John E. Kellerd s hands, but a grim and unrelenting tragedy; full of the fire of true poetry and with the fine lines of Shakespeare brought out in all the fullness of their beauty.
Arizona republican., 1919-12-03

cent. IL tells with the frenetic can
 dor of the camera the tale of q child of the London slums who, beaten by
 her pugilistic father. falls into the chaste arms of a dreamy, romantic Chinaman. It is a poetic photograph of one of the Limehouse nights ob served by MT. Burke, a London re-
 porter. The filth, the hunger. the de- spair, the cruelty of the Englishman
 of the docks is put in eloquent con trast with the quiet, brave, good | looking, adorable Chink wko is the hero. Her father beats her to death
 and the Chinaman shoots him.
 | People of almost uncanny depend i ability have been put into the cast. i The littlest Gish, Lillian. brings an acute gift for childish sympathy and
 simplicity to the part of the earth i bruised wipped and tortured child of i the story. Her dramatic instinct has
 lent itself with unerring truth and delicacy to the directors aims. She
 is all throbbing emotion and misery
 pulses in the very air about her.
 As for the braggart swine of mag ! nificent torso and agile scrapping fists, no actor, not even Lyn Harding. could so impudently materialize the brute as Donald Grip. And, by the
 way, there is such dandy prize fight
 put up by Grip and Kid McCoy-the
 real Kid Mccoy of the days of yore-
 that if the Beckett Carpenter fuss is half as mighty, there will be some | going in the ring Thursday. The
 rich bestiality of the cowardly bruiser,
 the child beater and bully, comes out so obstreperously in MT Grips reve- l lations that shooting oy the little al- mond-eyed Chink with his tattered
 soul in blind revolt seems a whole
 lot too good for the battling one.''
Arizona republican., 1919-12-03
VALLEY IF GIANTS"
 WITH WALLACE REID
 AT THE STRAND TODAY

Wallace Reid. appearing in the Para mount-Artcraft super presentation of Paptain Peter B. Kyne's widely read story "The Valley of the Giants" comes to the Strand for a three days engage ment beginning with the matinee this afternoon.
 A story, built amid the vastness of the redwood giants-tingling with the lure of adventure; radiant with the thrills of intense action; scintillating with situations that make the blood run red, "The Valley of the Giants" has come to be known as Peter B.. Kyne's most beloved story. It offers wonderfully human theme, built around the love of a son for his moth CTS memory; his sacred reverence for the big forests-her valley of the giants''-and of his fight to preserve them against the onslaught of pioneers of the big interests" who look with greedy eyes on the goodly amount of lumber, and see in the forests only lumber" The climaxes come thick and fast, reaching the realm of intense realism when the very tree that has stood as a guardian to his mother s grave, is ruthlessly felled that it might be used in making a table top for the man who would rum ms 1atner. It IS then that the audience fairly gasps for there is not a, reviewer present that does not feel the keen pang of the pull at the heart strings when the boy vows vengeance, and every person in the audience follows breathlessly the mo- ment of the meeting between the son and the man who felled the tree. It is here that the big fight of the picture f is staged, and it is here that the out come of the romance between this 1 fearless battler and the niece of the man who seeks possession of the red woods can be foreseen
 This master picture will be screened amid the assured atmosphere furnished by the Strand ten-piece full symphony
Arizona republican., 1919-12-03
Fred Stone at the Lamara.

Fred Stone-he of Wizard of Oz" fame, and an acrobatic comedian with out an equal on the silver sheet, con- tinues to romp through his joyous role in his Aircraft triumph Johnny Get Your Gun" which is the Lamara's offering for today and tomorrow.
 Fred Stone appears as a movie actor who has done western" until he is an adept with the lasso and a cracker jack with the six gun. His pal learns that his aunt is scheming to marry his sister off to fortune hunting title holder from lover there" The pal is sick and unable to interfere in the deal, and so Johnny (Fred Stone) takes up the task. and Journeys east. He finds things much to his liking, for he takes particular pride in manhan- ding the count" What he lacks in fistic prowess, he makes up for with his rope, and many and ridiculous are the stunts he employs to send the count on his way. Suffice it to say that sister is spared, and also suf- flee it to say that Johnny finds him self hopelessly in love-but not with the sister, that's the surprise part of the story-but with the girl you never would dream of as being the lady who stole his heart.
 Johnny Get Your Gun" is augment ed by Burton Holmes travelogue.