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. Ah, Magdalen! The world doth weep .with thee, .Tears of ren10rse and grief in hope distilled,

, Our t:ardy tribute wit~h repentance :filled Before His Tmnb, a, 'vell of sympa,thy.

Yet list, a rapturous word of ecstacy-· "Ma,ry," ah sweetest greeting ever borne,

bur love has risen on this Easter rp.orn. Flow on, oh joyful tears of victory­

Our sighs to gladsome alleluias rise, • vVith angel choirs a.nd souls redeen1ed to blend

In hymns _of praise through glory without end, Rejoice! The Cro,vn of Grace for man is1 won

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That day Father Burns called-Father Burns of the parish church, St. Gabriel's. :Mrs. Hiley had sent for him to speak to her son, Gerald, who, I mn sorry to say, was becoming an atheist in his views. On his (Father Burn~s) arrival, Gerald was upstairs reading a lJook l'Y the latest atheistic writer. " 'hen told that Father Burns desired to see hi1n, he came slowly llown UlHl entered the luxurious sitting room where Father Burns was patiently waiting his coming. He was extre1nely polite to the priest, but when that person broached the subject of atheisnt his cheeks flushed ~lightl_y with anger. But he saill quietly: "]i'ather, I have considered this subject of the existence of a God thoroughly, and it is impossible for me to form the opinion you would desire; my rt>ason rebels against the consideration of a Divine Crea.tor. As I said before, Father, it is impossible for me to believe otherwise and if :ron-would talk for all eternity it

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would not alter my decision in the least." Father Burns was PX-tremely gentle \vith Q0ralct, whom he had known from his child­hood, an<l endeavored in every way in1aginable to bring this waywa.rd lamb hack into the fold. He was in truth, a. shepherd leav.ing his floek in search of a lost sheep. But all the reasons a-nd in~lneement.s of the zealous priest \Yere nnavailing. Gerald's heart remained steel~d ag-ah1st all high sentiment and his eon­viet ions seemed inexorably settled in the wrong direction~ At last. thP priest left, promising to rome haek again in a few days. Cteral(l wf"nt to his mother, who, upon the arrival of the priest, had left the room, and said to her: ":Mother, I know what you would have me do; but, dear 1nother, it is not consistent with n1y reason, and I am sure you would not haYe n1e liYe a lie by joining a ehurch whose funda1nenta.l doctrines I cannot believe.' Raying this he left her. Some days after Gerald's departure, his 1nother calletl upon Father Burns, to ask him what she shonlfl do in the case of her obdurate son, who was so discourag­ingly fixed in his unbelief. "Pray," sa.id Father Burns, "keep on praing for his conversion. The sweet unction of heaven descended grace alone can mollify the hardness you complain of

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in Gerald. You need not be disheartened. Augustine was a 'vorse youth than Gerald, and you know that St. ~fouica, his

, mother, never ceased during many many ye~rs to pray for his conver·sion. Besiege heaven with your prayers. Count upon 1uy own hun1ble ones. Really your afflictions afflicts Ine. · But I am <.:onfident that your trial• will end soon and that your patience ,.viii he rewarded." The \Voma.n went a''"a.y conlforted

' lJut only to 1ne:et a\10ther sorrow, fo·r Ecl,\·a,rd, 'her youngest son, ' now took sick and ·was soon at death's door. \'\Then .little

Edwa,rd, Gerald's brother, beca1ne ill, Gerald was in New York dty~ On hearing o.f Ed's extreme 'danger he hastened ho~ne, reaching there just four hours qefore the poor lad's death. His · mother rn~eting hiin at the door, silently wept in his a.rms.·

"Hqw is Ed, n1o•tber?'" said Gerald, in anxious. tones; anq :Jirs. Rilry, in the accents of her deep and pitiful grief, answer­ed him thus: ' '(Jerald, your brother is dying." Gerald hasten­ed at once with his mother to Ed's romn and there g:azed upon the still fair features of his young bro·ther on which death was slowly writing its fateful decree. He ·looked up ·when Gerald entered and Gera.ld then noticed the sunken eyes·, the cold s'veat thai had gathered around the lad's beating temples and his sliglltly flushed cheeks. I-Ie noticed too that the light o.f.lov~e ibat sprang fr01n .N eel's eyes, as they rested on him, had instant­ly given pla.ce to oneof pain and a low n1oan involuntary escap­ed frmn Ed's mouth . . "Gerald,"' breathed Ed, and a .tender light · :-~pread over hi s features. Gerald sa.id not a wor4, but falling on his .kne·es by the bedside, he wept as if his h~art would break. Ed,soon after this lost consciousness and did not regain it untilJ an hour before hjs death. He the!f said: "Gerald, a.re: jrou here?'' ''Yes," replied Gerald. "Gerald, is mother he:re?" "No, Ed,"

' said Gerald,'' but jf you want her I will c~U her." "No, Getald, I want to see you alone. Gerald, I want you t9 grant 1ne o·he· tJing before I die~now don't say 'I can't,' Gerald, just to 1nake nH~ feel good--I . know I a1n going away fast . . And, Gerald, if you don't change that belief of yours·, ~fainma. vdll not be long in following Ine. Oh, I know all about tha.t thing, Gerald;­~hout you ~eaving the Chp.rch and believing iu no Gqd ~nd·· aH

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by an All-knowing G(H], he "·as as geutle and resigned as any · one could be; taken away to that far off land on the wings of angels to the bl issfnl land of the pure. The mother'H grief was inconsolable; Gerald took the blow in wlwt appeared calm ue­spair. Not once did he shed a t(lar, but the people who saw him instin<!tivelv knew hoY\' extremelY lH• suffered. On the da.v of

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Two days after this sau ocenrrence, Gerald was forced to go to qhieago, to represent the firm of Carnby and Company, of which he \YHS treasurer in a suit for damag·es. Arri-ring in that city Gerald at uirected Ids steps to an hotel at which he always put up while in the town. To reach his destination, it was necessary for him to traverse a long- dark street, whose reputa­tion was not of the best kind. Tltongh Gera.ld had ne,·er been molested \Yhile walking through it, yet eaeh time he did so it was with some feeling of uneasine~s. The night of his arriYal \Yas dismal otw. X o moDn wns there to pour her colu refle<:ted light upon the chnl\:ened eatth. The night was stilL Not even a slight breeze \ronl<l drive a way the heat whieh the steady sun and shed during the duy, wllile dark threatening clouds filled the

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sky . . This eYening certainly did not hrig~\ten Gerald's spirits 'in the least. He haQ. crossed an alley between the blocks: and was / ·

, , proceeding, v;rheri he was. \struck with. some. heavy ; instrument froin behind with a fore~ tlJ-a.t seb.t hin1 to his. knees. I twas with no little difficulty 11e a.rose only to find hin1self ~n the clutches of two fierce looking thugs. "For God's: sake let me, breat~e," he 1nanaged to gasp, as one of th~.Jn was proceeding to strangle him. a\'Vhat did he say," asked the other. "Oh; lre'd

, have yo'n let ,<iJn breathe for Oo(Ps .sake! but we a.re not in this busines~, f()r God's sake, are \Ve Billy? I-Ia! ha! ha- \IV e 'uns 'ave

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· from the effects of the blow he i·eceived and began to fight off his. 'assailants. "Give'him the but of your gun, .Jack,'_ said l\1r. Billy, "this is, too rich a bird to let . loose, we'll have to clip ,his wings.'' Then the 1nan called Jack struck ·Getald a blow that put him hoTs de co1n ba·t. After relieving Gerald of his va.luaJ)•les ' the robbers fled leaving him senseless upon the ground. The policeman can1e, as po1icerrne:n usually come, after the deed was. eon1n1ittecl and ' the perpetrators had 1nacle good their escape. Ori searching Gerald for identification, he found the · na:t;rre of

· .John ~1orrison, .a friend of his ,in the wounded 1nan's carcl case. lie at once had Gerald ren1oved to :Mr. Morrison's house. When Gerald .at last r ega.ined consciousness, it was to find hin1self in a well furnished l;ed roon1, snrronnded by a 1 doctor~ h,is friend · .John and J ohn's mother. Gerald s1niled gravely as he held out his hand to his friend who grasped it wa·rinly. l-Ie a.sked John

· all about the circumstances o.f his unhappy accident and! the cause of his being in ~John's house. rrhe doctor put a stop to· J\Ir; Morrison's a.nswe:r by administering some n~ecli~ine to . Geral{l ·wbich soon ·had the effect of putting him in a sound slumber. One week after his sad experience he was well ,enough to sit up~

On that day, while reading the papers he \Vas pained to len :on tl1a.t a friend 'of his (\vhom ''re will not na~ne) had en1bezzl<>d

. ·· $50,000 front a ba.nk and was now in jail. In the paper was also . a. statement made by hin1 ecm·cerning the crime. "On being asked ·by our correspondent," ·said t!H~ paper, "the motive for the

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offence the prisoner saiu: "I believe that if I can do an act that will in any way benefit me, whether lawful or not, I may do it. I have long since ceased to believe that there is any moral power eapuble of restraining a man from accomplishing " ·hatever nature has. endowed him w.ith the power to accomplish. )!an is responsible to no chureh, to no God, and to no n1an but himsfllf. etc. ect."

During the period of his recoverJ Gerald read -rery much. On{~ time while searching for reading material he happened to pick up one of the 1nany Catholic papers to which John was a subscriber. Glancing a.t the na.me he found it to beth~

New Yor_k Freeman's Journal. He sat down and glanced at first ca.relessly over its pages. Then ·with more attention he began to read. He was so interested in the editorials of tha t and the other Catholic papers ,John had collected that he read them all. Once again, while he and John were :;tlone in the library, Gerald saw works in the book case which he knew would interest him very much. They were Fr. Lambert's "Note:-; on Ingersoll,'' "Tactics of Infidels," and "Famous Answers.'~

''\Yhat ar-e these?' queried Gerald, holding up one of the b-ooks in his hand. "\Vhy, that is something whi~h will amuse you very much, I am sure.. Our college professor often recommended those works to us as the best speehnens of argumentati-n~ writ­ing we could rea(l. I loye the1n all and certainly think they are strong refutations of infidelity.'' Gerald read the hooks very !lt­tenti,/ely and many things hard before for him to understand, were now clenr a.s day. Belief was slowly dawning upon Gerald. On Frid!ly evening· John was surprised and delighted to meet an old frieU<l of his and his father's, Father Dooley. This vener­able priest had been a. missionary for full thirty_ ye-~rs and was now teaching theology -in a Catholic college in the ·west. As a missionary, Father Dooley had achieved great · success and in that capacity had seen the greater part of the Great \Vild \Yest. Gerald was surprised to find that, as the priest walked, his right le.g would squeak. He was gazing askance at that member of the Father's anatomy when the priest happened to look at hhn. He colored; Father Dooley smiled, but said nothing.

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After the good Father had gone John related to hin1 the cause: of the priest's affliction. Fifteen years before, Father Dooley had been on ' missionary work in l\finnesota. One clay during the intensely cold winter of these northern regions, Father Dooley ln~d ueen called to ad111inister the last sacraJnents to an aged Indian 1vho, w·as dying in a. distant camp. vVell provided he 1:1tarted out on his long journey through the bleak prairie arid the thick \Yoods. lie wa.s. successful in · finding the hut of the dying .Indian wl~oni he comforted both spiritually anu physica.I­ly, leaving hhn his ovvn provisi0ns. On hiS' return hon1eward he was overtaken by a. blin.ding sno"·storJn, that would not per~ . n1it his horse to proceed. So,on the beast. overco1ne with cold, lay do_\Yn in the snow, never to rise again; njght can1e on the p l'iest sought to rrwke of the horses body ~ · ran1part against the eoid. But in spite of Lis skillful use of the dead b:east, the peiest found in 'the morning that his right leg, ll10re exposed tlian the other, 'yas frozen. He· could not 1nove. There was. not a living Leing in sight, though the storm had .abated. Having · given away his last crumb to the poor Indian, he was1 cornpe:le:cl to cut a pieee of flesh from, the horses haunch in order to keep hi:t:n~elf

alive. Finally, the second day, he succeeded in attracting the attention of . sonw Indians, who had ventured out after gaJ.ne, and was Tescued by then1 and brought home where a. doctor inl:­mediately cut off his leg. Father Dooley remarking Inerely that he was liappy the 'ill accidel.rt did not happen while he. was on \Yas on his way to tlw Indian village, for then he would not have been able to help the poor Indian's soul. The loss o{the leg he thought of very little; it was a means of sending a soul to hea.ven.

. It \Yas Suwla.)', and l\1r. :Morrison a.nd his mother were pre­paring for ehnn:h. Gerald went with them. During the two weeks of his. s ickness a great change ha.d con1e over Gerald. He \'.·ns trying in every wny possible to believe in God and God's re·

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priest aseenLlecl the pulpit aiH] clelivered an eloquent sermon. U:od, on His 6ootlu(·s~, His .Justi<'e, and Hi~ love. " He showed His goothw~s,~' said tlw prie~t in His forgiveness of our greatest offences, Hii-3 Justite iu not hesitating to punish the wiek<:<d, His loYe uy uyiug on the ('l'OSS for lHll' salvation." I~ was a grand sermon a mo~t conducing one. It \Yas the ultimate deter­miuant of Uerahl's l'UllYetsiou. After ntass was finish(->cl and the people had ~one Geral<l llUlllP ~nmp PXC'use to Juhn a.nd his mother and stayPll in the church.

TTe tl10nght of his dying brother, hiR promise to him and of the rontinnal prnyPr of his mothrr that lw m igbt sre thP error of his wayR. lfp I'PcnllPd<'<l tlw story of the ol(l priPRt, of the crimP his former fdP.nd had r·mHmittPl1. Thf'n eame to his mind ·with dazzling clrarness the fahdty nf the infidt->1 position 'a.s ::::bo_,Yn by Father I.ambett. It is elr>arly untenable. He thought of the ruined lives of 1nany of tho~e wlw have no lJelief or hope::; of an aftf•r life and he resolYed once again to be a, member of the t1·ue Church. That night he went to confession to the parish priest, an<l at once left for llb; lwnw. The suit had ueen decided' in faYor of the- Company during his illness. On his \Yay home he thought of the holy joy he \Y<mld cause his motller by accom­panying her to chur(·h Easter Sunday, just one week away. ~\.rriving in ~ ew York he took the train on the next n1orning for B---------------, where he liYed. In due course he reached hi!5 home. llushing up the stairs to hiH mother~s room, he clm;ped her in his arms and kissetllter tenderly. Then he ~aid, '·~Iother I haYe broug-ht with me a little Easter g-ift for you. It iR my ol<l self, dear. I ~un on(·(~ m<H'l' a Clni:;;;tian in my helief. It iH your prayets, mother, and dear ELl's tllat haYe with JaC'k's aid let llle see my erro1·. ''

Easter Sunday \Yas a beautiful day. ~othin~ seemed to mnr the happiness. of anyone. The sky was clear. 'r11e sun was not once hill b;v douds. Nature was once more bededdng herself in the YelYet g-rt'('Il the winter llat1 stolen. On this morning Gera.ld and :Jirs. Riley went together to the little Yillage church and together communicated. As the DiYine Bread was placed op Gerald's ton~ue fl:Pd s~p.t its h.ealing balm to hjs heart an

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COLLE9E ATHLETICS.

... There is, nothing which affects. man more vitally than right

education. It einbraces his ·whole being, physical, intellectual and moral. It mal{eS for the hamonious development of all the tatent capabilities of his nature. No system of training which is. les.s comprehensive than this in its s'cope, deserves the name of complete education. This is the ideal 'vhich all great educa­tors seek to realize, so that n1an Ina.y attain the beautiful syme­try, the Ina.jestic proportion, the adequate perfection of which his nature is capable. The subject is so vast, so comprehensive, s:o many-sided that. it were little short of folly to attempt to embrace in its whole extension in the con1pass of a brief oration. We will therefore confine o'ur attention to a single phase of the subjcet. Ours shall be the htimble task of determining the part athletics should occupy in college education.

For several years athletic sports have been coming more and more into prominence an1ong the students of A1nerican col-

·. leges and universities, until at the present time they are even competing for the place of highest importance upon the college role of honor. 'Vhen kept in their proper relation to the work of the school, athletics· should be discouraged in no way, but, when the 'man who can ·kick the highest, or that one who can jump the farthest on field day is considered worthy of t hf' highest honor in the power of the institution to bestow, then I ass.ert that these sports are transgressing their proper limH~ and should be brought within their own scope. So long as tlleir is u:ppermost the idea that they are the means to be used and valued, only so long as they contribute to the development of the physical powers, thereby lending support to and rea.lly aid­ing the mental faculties, and then to he cast aside, the practice

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of them is highly beneficial. Yes, I had almost said necessary. Brown is good in its proper place, but it is no substitute for brain.

_In our efforts to reach the ideal: ":Mens sana in corpore sano," is not the American boy or student in danger of going to the extreme? A very natural tendency will be to care for physical at the expense of mental devlopment. Strength of physique with weakness of n1ind is no more to be desired than is mental power with bodily feebleness. Strength of body should be valued only in the degree in which it conduces to intellectual activity. On the whole few of us are slow to acknowledge the fact that the man of highest bodily development is not the typi­cal man. - The body is but an instrument which ministers to the mind. The end a student has in attending a school of learn­ing is the dignHying of mind, the development of the body is the means. It behooves every student to keep this distinction in clear view.

vVhen a student whose work keeps hhn confined in his room for from twelve to sixteen hours each of the five school days of the week, gets a few illoments of leisure in some way should he not employ them in judicious physical exercise? An overtaxing of the mental powers to the neglect of physical exercise, is in the end severely injurious. Strength of intellect is conditioned upon health of body and steadiness of the nel"Vous system. A sound nervous system is in a. measure dependent upon the condi­tion of the bodily organs. Ho'v important it is, then, that every one take the proper care of his physical powers. Believing that a certain amount of such exercise is necessary for students, a gymnasium has been fitted up for the purpose of affording all ample opportunities to obtain it. This gymnasium is open to all students and its advantages should be availed of by all.

\V"~'hile we are awa.re tbat it is very easy to waste time in athletic sports, yet we know that many of our fellow-students do not take even the necessary amount of physical exercise. I do not mean that they should enter the various games which necessarily entail a loss of energy, if abused, and then become by this loss Qf energy, incapacitated to persue their mental .

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of their classes, must have a determination to succeed, a~com·

panied with the praise-worthy ambition to lead their class­mates, so also, the physical contests ,,·ill teach and develope in the athlete these grand qualities. He must be regular in his practices, careful in his training. Throughout the contffit he has the determination to lead, not to be out-done by any player, he enters the eont.eRt with the idea that to win the prize is a laudable ambition, and that all other emnpetitors are to be van­quished, all pre-rions recor<l~ to lw bt)aten. This is the spirit with whirh every athlete should enter any contest whether physical or nwntal. It is hy acquiring these splendid qualities, which help; to form the cllarader ;it is by the development of the bodily organs which conduces to intellectual activity that athletes at­tain the end for which manly sports are practiced. "A soun<l mind in a sound body!" strikes nearer than any other condition to our eonceptjon of an ideal man. ~ othing so strongly appeals to our notion of the fitness of things as to see a perfect equipoise in the strength of body and mind. A harmonious de~ velopment of both is the condition that con1es nearest towards affording the perfection of our higher and better nature.

The attitude of those who are \\·ont to disparage athletic sports is· called to the following facts which I have read in tsome daily paper sometime ago. Of tlle six Yale seniors who last year received the highest literary honors, one was captain of the foot-ball team, another the captain of the base-ball team, two rowed in the <.:lass crew, one was a strong corppetitor in a dual meet, and the sixth was a good athlete. Again another daily reported that a1uong the contestants who represented their respective Alma l\Iater, :Michigan, \Visconsin, Chicago and other \V'estern Universities, and participated in the inter-collegiate debate, were some athletes of \YoriO. wide fame. But why go so far for fa:cts '? Here in this very institution among the student body, are not the leaders of classes and the champions in the debating rooms, also the leaders on the gridiron and the diamond? These facts are certainly strong arguments in favor of physical training. They conelusi-rely prove that the highest mental achie-reme:pts are to be found wllere there is the highest ·

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' .·physical development. If athleties benefit the students: of oth'er · institutions, they .will benefit us also. Therefo·re athletics should· ··" not be discouraged, sp,ecially when they do not usurp the pla.ce o.f mental pursuits. . . . .

'"' e would like to see, now mor~ than ever bef?re, a . gre~ter animation and true college spirit manifested among our student . 1

body. Let each one substantially help the good caq.s~, by belong:- ; . . . .,, . ;, ing to th~ various associations, and paying his jus't due~, a,nd hy, participating earnestly in the different feats of skill, strength and . endurance. · . In doing so each student will. contribute his share in making college life a cheerful Qne, by breaking. ·the . : · monoto:ny of the long "conge" days. ' ' '

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THE GLORIOUS 17th OF MARCH.

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In S1triking contrast with. the atmospheric depression and . glo01n that prevailed outside on .the 17th of ~Ia.rch . thiH year were the cherry joy and exultation that radia.ted within1 our college halls as well as in the. hea~rts. of aU. ElahQ·rat.e pro­grains had been prepared for the superb celebration of this. great day, which is one of the two traditional red-lett'er d~~s in yearly calendar of festivities at St. Via1teur's. College. ·En­thusiasm seemed contagious. The ()'lder students,, 'vho kne"' . from· experience how wei~ the Viat10rians can I organize a feast and how successfully they ever carry it out, were delighted at

1 the part they had 'to take in the celebration and a~t the oppor- , tunity they had of entertaining their fellow-students and tlwii· guests. · The new students could not help i~ their own delight to wonder, at the ease and perfection with which every ;number of this long, complica.ted and well orde.~ed' celebration wa,s exe-

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cuted by all those who had been assigned parts i~ the different programs that filled the day.

THE RELIGOUS CERBMONIES. Several of our much travelled guests, who have witne&3ed

the grandeurs of Catholic worship in the most splendid churches of the world, observed that one would have to travel many leagues to see a. more beautiful religious service and to hear more beautiful music a,nd more persuasive eloquence than were heard and seen in our cha.pel St. Patrick's day.

T.1oving hands had enshrined the grand statute of St. Pat­rick in a veritable niche of greenery and flowers amid which ~.cintillated scores of tiny lights. The grand marble altar was in festal garb and resplendent with lights as the procession of Racred ministers entered the sanctuary to the majestic strains of the organ. Solemn Pontifical ~fass was eelebrated by the Rt. Rev. l\Igr. G. l\1. Legris, D. D., assisted by Rev. W. J. Bergin. C. S. V., as deacon; l\lr. J. ~IcCarthy, as sub-deacon; and Rev. 0. Paquin, 0. S. V., as master of ceremonies. Some sixteen altar boys serving in different capacities were decked in white cas­sock and lace suplice and added much to the impressive grand­eur of ihe divine service by their pious grace.

The music of the mass 'vas almost exclusively choral and was rendered by a choir of eighty well trajned voices. The fol­luwing wa.s the progra1n of sacred music ably executed unde~ the {lirection o;f Brother L. Goulette and Brother A. St. Aubin: Kyrie, La Hache's Pro Pace; Gloria, Mozart's Twelfth ;Sanctus Gounod·~, ~\[esse BrcYe; Ag·nns Dei, La Hache ; Veni Creator, :Millard; Ave ::\la1·ia, :;\Iillard; sung by ::Mr. D. Feely; dosing Hymn to St. Patrick was sung by 250 students and was one of the many musical successes of that tuneful morning.

The sermon, which was a warm tribute to St. Patrick, was delivered by Rev. C. Quille, of Chicago, whose \Oice sounded familiar to many ears in St. Viateur's chapel. Father Quille said in part: "Every nation has its fag and its heroes wb()Se mere mention fills every heart with enthusiasm. What true Frenchman rmna.ins unn1oved on hearing the name of Napo­leon? How the heart of every American thrills at the name of

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our immo·rtal W a.shington! We are, however, not gathered here today 'to celebrate the n1en1ory of any martial or pol~tica1 hero, but to contemplate aud honor a hero of the , faith. St. Viatuer's1 has: ever been foremo~t in honoring the 1nemocy of Patrick and .hence we h~ve again toda~ as:s:embled to join ·with ' cO<untle·s~s others whoon this day .sing his praises. All over the earth priests,· today recite his office, in every land hyn1ns and prayers. of petition, . of thanksgiving, a.re wafted heruven:ward in his honor. · .

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·At all times nations have been conquered, . however, not · ,without much bloodshed and great loss of life.

Patrick not only conquered, 1buf he entirely transfo~med

that stu:rdy Irish race; he instilled into thefr hearts · tha,t. in­vincjble firmness of faith, which ~ven centuries of persecution · could not shake, and which in every age has distinguished· the

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Irish as1 illust.rious;ly loyal children o,f Holy ~fother Church; and Patrick achieve:d this great mission 1vithout shedding a drop of blood, without the least. vio-lence.

But let us not content ourselves with 1nerely a biographical . sketch. of this eminent Saint's life, but let us look do~wn into the heairt of Patrick. How did Patrick acc01nplish this s1tupendous work. Was it, by greait intellectual applica.tion? No, it. wa,Sl hy the exercise, of austerities1 and the practice of pray,er. Nor did his austeritfe,sl and ptayers ceas-e with the end of day; he co'Il:­tinu~d them even through the night, praying for' the conver'S1ion of his people. ·How could the Almighty other than crown such heroic effort with success'? Though Pa~trick's. Gordly life .diss~m­inated the sweet ar01na of every virtue, it was chiefly his sur­passing humility that diffused the brightest ius.tre. His: great humility was clearly Yis.ible in his liberality, in his love and

· dW'otion to his' flock, in his every action. It is only by imit,at­ing Patrick's hu1nility that we shall succeed in our und.erta:k· ings. Tioday Ireland looks to the young for the rea.liza,tion . of her lofty hopes, for the transmission and perpe.tuation of her ever high and noble ideals. Will .you he t.rue to your de:s.t.iny, or ~vil1 you betray the caus·e? If you confor1n with the prinei­ples in€Ulcated by St. Patrick you must alwa;ys be loyal Oat)!,q~ ;: . . ·. ' ' .: ' ' . ' f

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lies. The great influence which the Irish exercise not onlv in "'

political and social but also in intellectual circles, during the present epoch, has attracted the gaze and consideration of all

· peoples aud the preponderance of the Irish element in every sphere is being rapidly established. But it is only by imitat­ing the example of St. Patrick that our success shall be com· plete, that our succes.'5 shall be- permanent."

THE DHILLS.

The echoe:o; of the closing choral hymn to St. Patrick had scarcely died a\ray when we were indteti by the Llowing of trumpets and the nr•rvous beating of drums to repair to the gym na.sium to 'dtuess a rar~ (¥Xhibition of military drilling. The marching nnd counter-marching of the la.rge battalion, the neat appearance o.f every officer a.n<l private in the ranks, the almost perfect execution of tlle whole manna! of movements by such a large number could but win the admiration and the warm ap­plause of the astonished beholders. The St. Viatuer's battalion C()nsists of four companies and is o.fficered as follows:

Colonel, ,Y. J. l\Iaher; :Major, " "· J. Burke; Adjutant, J. B. Shiel; Aid de Camp, 'Valter .JicGuy; Commissar~T ' J.Spra.tt; Captain Co. A., J. B. Shiel; First Lieutenant, F. l\Iiller ;Seconu Lieutenant, F. ~Iunseh; Captain Co. B., B. A. Kelley; First l-ieutenant, F. Shippy; Second Lieutenant, R. Foley;, Captain Co. C., " .. · :McKenna; First Lieutenant, ,V. Foley; Second Lieutenant, R. Cunningham; Captain Co. D., D. YV. Keefe; First Lieutenant, ,V. N ourri; Second Lieutenant, F. Katzen­burg. ,

"\"Yithout doubt the most surprising as well as the most ple~sing of the military mano€nYres witness St. Patrick's day was· the exhibition given by the .Jiinims' sword squad. Every­thing <~bout these little fellows i::; attractive, their neat and tasty uniform, their natural grae~, their elastic step, thcir per­fect execution of o1·er a. lnindred different commands which would seem to require a militar.r forn1ation far higher than could be expected from such mere children. Howe-rer, the form­ation of crosses, of letters, and of a, score of very complicated

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and a.nerwards engaging in mo·rta.l duels seemed to t:h~m :rea1ly ,i · child's ·play. Their instructor, Rev. A. , St . .Aubin, G. S. V., ·· · eeJtainly des-erve-S credit for the really w.onderful proficiency . 'vhich he has nJra.de these boy- soldiers acquire. This:_ s'quad, · ·which d~rills, excJusively with _s,vords. a.nd is known · as. th~ Golu1nhian Guards; .is composed of the following bfficers and members; Captain, Albert Birren; First Lieut, Elmer Russell; Second Lieut., Ha-rvey. :Filstrup. Swordmen in -line: J\tlast ers Albert Gundelack, \Villian1 Carrol~ Arthur Dandurand, Fred Smith, Edwin Robinson, Joseph I{elly, H9ht. Ais,quith, Geo['ge 'Barret, Arthur· Lowenthal, Fred Anderson, Maurice Lamarche, Ro-wan Delaney, Lambert Geoga.n, Joseph McDevitt, Frank Lynch, Thomas Harrison,_ Peter Lynch, George Beck, · l\1a.thew l\1cDevitt, and Orion F ord.

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Captain, ,¥ . ~T. :Maher; Inemhers.: \V. Bnrke, E. Burke., J. · Spratt, E. K elly, P. vVahl, J. H ayden, ,iV. l\!Jcl{enna, A. K elly, B. Shiel, ·vv. I(eefe, H .. Foley, J. l\1onahan, F. :Munsch, F ., Ship~ .

py, C. Carden, l\1. H ayden.

Im.mediat ely after the drills dh1ner wa.s: s.e:rved to gues:t:s and stude,nts who ~.II agreed that this nun1ber of the program 'v.as not nfe:rior i:o its way to those which preceded a.ud follow­ed.

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THE PLAY MACBETH.

At 2 p. m. The T1JCspians, under the able di_rection of V. Rev. l\'1. J. ~farsile, C. S. V., presented Shakespeare's grand tragedy, ~lac beth .. It is not necessary to be a. dramatic gonrrnet ()r to have free comn1and of all the critical technicalities, a la O'Donnell Bennett, in order to be able to ooy how and why we appreciated this performance. Perhaps we cannot give the young actors a higher and better deserved conipliment than by saying that they succeeded in clearly interpreting to us that strong play and in leaving upon our minds the lofty moral it is calculated to impart. 'fhey really showed us and made us feel that this dran1a is a grand object lesson of the success and the failure of ambition. The bloody proceedings of this an1bitious pa.ir, Macbeth and I.ady !\fa.cbeth, were clearly "!-lnraYelled t.e­fore our eyes and were made to work so wonderfully well as to

·form a bloody ladder leading to the eminence of the throne, but a ladder whose rungs were so many cruel murders. To main­tain themselves on thtir ill-gotten throne the usurpers must continue to mow down lives, nor do they llesitate to deluge the country with blood. Soon, however, nature asserts itself. The constant upbraidings of their crime-haunted conscience rob them of both peace and happiness, until death in the throes of despair frees them frOiu the tortures of an existence which the consciousn_ess of their guilt makes unendurable. The at first suppressed horror of their _ ill-used subjects soDn breaks into open and well planned r evolt which "speedily precipitates the usurper from his throne, and peace and justice again reign i_n Scotland. Swift and just and really Shakespearean retribution this.

Mr. vV. Cleary showed us plainly that ~fa.cbeth was a proper subject through whom a strong, fierce and determined woman might successfully work her eYil designs. He forcibly represented that type of 1nan which we have every reason to be­lieve Shakespeare meant his )lac beth to oo, a 111~n full of potentiality for evil-doing, a n1an in whose eye float visions of covet~ honor, yet whose power to act asserts .itself only whe~

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acted upon by son1e e..~te:rna1 force. Thus throughout is his arrn ,, ,nerved to kill by the taunt.ings and caressings: of Lady J\1acbeth. When she disappears he s'inks into utter despondency. M'ac~ beth, the tha.ne and King, as thus interpre,te:d, was faithfully / portra.yed in every word and gesture: of Nlr. Clea~ry, who, horw- . · .. eve:r, n1ade his n1ost impressive histrionic effort in the ba.nqtiet · '. Srcene, wherein he really acted as the man whose _ghost-hannted visio:o.s rack his conscience e:venin the n1ids:t of n1ock festivity: That scene was str:ong a.nd awful. ·

l\ir. \V. ~iaher, ' as Lady lVIa,cbeth, · was' indeed a success from beginning to encl. Frmn th.e 1non1ent she invokes', "the

· spirits tJ:la.t tend 6n 1nortal · thoughts," while she . insidiously pours into the soul of her spouse the S'ubtle poison of her bane­ful influence, to her last somniloquous revery, there wa·s not a s~ngle laspe from the1 high and well susta,ined strain · of violent emotions which constantly agitated · this u:usexed woman. J\fr .

. :Maher's most finely dra.matiOo nwment, we think, was his well­felt rendition of the sublin1e:ly a.vdul sleep-walking scene.

In l\llr. 'Vuerst's :Macduff we had the vibrant voice and the throbbing hea,rt of true ~Scotch loyalty. This horror stricken patriot gave vent to :fine out-bursts of indig'nation at the murder of King· Duncan, and upon hearing the sla,ug;hter of his family his tear-bedewed pain traduced .itself in his weeping voic,e and demeanor.

Another true personification of staunch fidelity to the · . Scotish King was l\1r. T. Cosgrove?s· · Banquo. The honest Bai:tquo flung far fron1 him the alluring promis·e: of the weird sisters because its fulfillment n1ust entail clis,loyalty. With his clear eye upon the events tlJ.at were transpiring 'in the kingdom Ba:nquo's indisl::>Osition to truckle with am_bition nlade him an obstacle that n1us,t be removed. It wa.s with regret we saw JVIr., Cosgrove as Banquo ren1ove!Cl fr01n the scene.

A new actor to us, though evidently no novice on the stage; was' :Mr. Flanagan,who, in his bnpe'rs·onation of Ross, attract~ the notice and applause of all lovers of dra.matic ·finish. By his dignified a,ppea,rance, hi,s voice, his gestures, which a;ll S'o

well expr~ss~ecl how deeply he felt the sadness of the heart-brea;k

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All the cast did rem~rkably well, especially when one takes into account the fact that this difficult drama '"as_prepared in less than three weeks. There were none of those awkward hitches that so frequently n1ar the performances of amateurs when many actors are taking part. The banquet scene, in which the attractive and vivacious court ladies appeared was especially well rendered. The stage scenery was all that could be desired to assist the action of the play. \Ye regret not to be able to present a fe'v photographs of the many striking scenes .of this grand drama as staged here. Between the acts. we were treated to several n1usical selections by the orchestra, which elicited warm applause, especially the well played Irish airs. Rev. C. J. Qnille, the able orator of the morning, and the gener­al favorite, ~laster M. De Sousa, regaled us with -vocal selec­tions twice and three times recaHed. The following are the principal actors who took part in the play: Duncan, King of Sc:)tland .................... J. P. " 1ahl :Macbeth . . . . . . . . . . . .-. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .......... ,V. Cleary Lady :Macbeth .................... . ................ W. :Maher Banq uo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ........... T'. Cosgrove l\'facduff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ............... R. Wuerst Ross . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . ........ J. FlaiL£<tgan

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DON'T ALL SPEAK AT ONCE.

As Ann has gone into obscurity, Shorty offers this: How much 'vood would a wood-chuck chuck,, if a wood-chuck

would chuchk wood? , _, And how much wood \Yould a 'vood-c~uck chuck, if a wood

-chuck only could? If a wood-chuck could n1ade good and would, ·but t-here ain't no

reason \vhy he should. . B1.1t how much wood w,ould a ,,vood chuck chuck, if a wood chuck would chuck wood.

Alex's receipt fo-r Ribbon Gak~T'ake four yards, or, s-ay, four yards ·and a half, -of narrow gTe:en ribbon and a yard of light or:ange ribhon. Place these in a chopping bowl and n1ince

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into fine shreads. Add a sp6-o1 of sewing silk and a paper of needles. ~1:ix thoro-u:gl1Iy a.nd spread bet\veen la.yerH of well ·pounded cake.

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· pretty much o-f a 'q.ead letter in Utah a.t pres•ent. It will not do to s:ay that th~re is no n1ore immorta.lity in Utah than. in any other state of the union. One crime, publicly connived at by , a sovereign state, is a gre:a.ter scandal to the christian conscience than ten -thousand heinous offences pe:rpetra.ted in s;pite of the larw. If we cannot insure morality, we should safe gua1rd it~

principles. -vVesterrr Wa1tchman.

St. Patrick~s Literary and DelJa.tjng Society, which ha.s. en­joyed so 'many delightful progra.ms during its cours:e of winter ses·sions under the direction of R-ev. JYL Breen, C. S. V., had· its closing 1neeting l\1arch 23, on which occasion excellent music al numbers were rendered by 1\Ies.srs. J. B. Shiel and J. Flana­gan, -and appropriate addresses ·were 1nade by 1'Ies,s1rs. 1\f. Hay­den, C. Sa.vage, W. :Maher a.nd Uev. ;1\i, Breen, 0. S. V.

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THE VIA TORIAN. Edited by the students of St. Viateur's College, Bourbonnais, Ill.

AU correspondence must be addressed: THE VIA TORIAN, Bourbo.nnais, Ill. Subscription price, one dollar per year, payable in advance. Entered at the Bourbonnais P. 0. as second class matter.

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BOARD OF EDITORS.

W. MAHKR,• 8. SULLIVAN, W. McKENNA. A:. LECUYER,

J. LoNERGAN, J. HAYDEN.

EDITORIAL.

.The icy bonds of winter have at length relaxed as though to allow even nature to awaken from her long wintry sleep and spring fron1 out her ice-sealed and snow-palled grave into new and prorniseful life. Oh! hopeful resurrection time! Ever joy­ous Eastertide! IJet the birds of the sky greet in their most tuneful lays the conqueror of death and the victory of life! 'Vith their accents be the songs of men attuned! As each blade of grass breaks from its dark recess into the genial sunlight of larger life, a.s each timid flower opens the bud to smile to the sun, so too on the glorious Easter n1orn does each human soul come forth from out the dark shell of self, and, looking up as far as stretch the gleaming rays issuing from that glorious sepulchre, it gladly vie,--rs in the illumined realms above that rich · dower of unending life,-immortaHty. Unless Easter maens this assurance of new and larger and better li fe to us mortals there were no consistent reason why we should sing alleluias of gladness.

ANENT THE SCHOOLS.

The teachers of the public schools are Yery good men and ·women, competently learned, regularly trained in pedagogics, and eager to improye those committed to their charge; the children of the schools are good children, pliant still to the exi· gencies of raeosnable order, wide-awake, inquisitive, intelligent i

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the parents of these children are also good pe.ople, natu'rally in­terested in giving to their offspring those advantages that will promote their success in life. But the teachers, the children

·the pa.rents are all victhns of·a law, a constitutional enactment, which forbids the parents alike to ask more and the teachers to teach more than the law allo\Y.S. Parents would like to have 1·eligion taught to their children in the schools; tea.chers are neither incapable nor unwilling to -teach the religion which· parents desire and which children need. But the law says: "No." In this country the people 1nake and unmake the law, because the people a.re supreme. Let us then change the law so as to make it say, "yes" instead of "no" to the religious demands of parents, the religious needs of pupils, and the religious zeal of teachers. This cannot be done? Nobody wants this? Then let the law stand. But let us know · that while the law is law, it • is supreme as is the sovereign peop1e; let us be prepared to

' . abide by .its exactions; no n1atter how ga.lling its yoke, be we American enough not to seek exemptions and favors,. Here every citizen is equal before the law, and to seek to estahlisl~

privileges for any class is in .so fa.r to seek to establish the rule of lawlessness. Religiously inclined people may say that the present law fa.vors the agnostic. Perha,ps it does .. Bttt law it is for all that, and good American law, made by the majority; and here the agnostic s~.ems to be the vast majority. We are not surprised, however, a.t the occasional, not to say frequent, at­tempts made in different localities, for instance in Brookville, Ky., in :Mmnence, Ill., and in scores of other towns in Illinois, New York and other states to teach the school children to sing church hyn1ns, to say the Our Father and to listen to readings from the Bible. These efforts, while they are actually lawless, prove how frets the religious conscience hene:ath the agnostic law. They also procla.in1 how many people firmly be­lieve that the school is one of the three places

· in which children should be taught religious duty; these efforts also, in their way, prove how un~

natural anq. violent is the law-enforced divorce of religion and,, education. But until we have been instructed b.y our own grow-

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ing dangers, until we have learned from still Christian Germany a.nd not yet wholly dechristianized England, how to modify our American law so as to allow religion to enter the · school, we must, if we would be law-abl.ding~ hush our hyn1ns in school nor

''speak of the ten comma.ndments,of the Our Father or the Ser­Sermon on the :Mountain except perhaps as. literary curiosities. monon the 1\lountain except perhaps as of literary curiosites·.

EXCHANGES.

Now that King Sol has made his way into that section of the universe which lies north o.f the vernal equinox, now that joyous spring has come ag-ain, now that the little birds will sweet-ly sing, the trees bud, the flowers bloom, and the murmur­ing brooks ripple on their way, now that a.ll these beautiful and poetic things are here (or almost here) to gladden the tearful vale of our mortal existence, we uemn it quite proper and chari­table to make a few brief, 1nore or less pertinent observations, not altogether dis~ordant with the senso.n. Pirst of all, let us all try to avoid the spring fever as we \vould a pestilence; let us keep in mind the not discouraging fa.ct that it (the work) will be all a thing of the past in a few months, and then everybody can get the spring and sumn1.e:r fever to his or her heart's, con­tent, (that is, if parental solicitude for your temporal welfare and slight pecuniary en1barrassn1ents don't make it necessary for yo:u to get out a,nd look for a dear little job to while away the sun1merm onths). Seriously though, tis true, spring is here, and is it not pre-eminently fitting· and in unjson with the fitness of things, that every student should harken and answer to the call of the spring? Let your dreamy-eyed dreamers, in­dolent knaves and so1disant students neglect their studies, wruste their precious ti1ne, and think of nothing but the blue sky, the birds and flowers trala-lala. (as Georgetown says),their baseball games and three squares a day, but let every one who goes to college for a purpose and is determined to make use of every ava.ilable 1neans to in1prove himself intellectually and mo·rally keep his wagon hitched to the same old bright and true

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st:ar during the three months of wo~~k that temain, and let n~t ~ · ; the spring fever, not even a. touch of. l:t, hinder him from being '· faithful to his guiding lights, an:d theii .pnly shall he harve :heard and heeded the call of the spring, which is a summons t.o newer brighter, higher and more beantiful ·life.

· Yes~ we· know it "\vasn't nece1ssary to "\Vax thus eloquent ( ?} · on that inspiring theme, the S•pring f~ver; but really · wha:t we have stUid is well-n1ea.nt, and we give it for what it's: worth.

Spring and athletics a:re almost correlat.ives; you ca.n ha.rd­Jy conceive one vvith out the other,-. at least such is the case in the college world. N chY, \\e are co11vincec1 aJlcl ha;ve been fo;r ,a

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number of years, that. athletics are h1dispensahle and most bene fic.ia.l feature of college life, and vi·e are for thmn, heart · and soul. But in our indefatigable efforts to become a second Lajoie or Duffey, it "\vere \veil to keep a.hvays in mind tha:t

·. athletics are s,jinpl:y a means to an end and should he indulged in acco1~dingly. · In speaking of athletics, we ' would r emark by way of digression, t hat a, certai.n exman, our mutual friend, . Busy Izzy B.e:e, if ~Ye rnistake not, ha'SJ taken to physica.l culture stunts of all kinds, and finds the strennouR Ufe of the ·a;thlete perfec.:~ly agreeable to him, just the thing lw needs, a very pa,na.­ee.a.' for : all physical and jntellectual ills. If the track records of Duffey, Long, :Jfalone.y, Uffend e:ll, Powers: and Kranzlein are jgnonnuinously l<Ywc:re<l h1 the near · future, the ex1na.n of the Bee did it. If the lJase ball feats of K elly, J encnings, ': Bwing

· nnd Lajoie, arc far .surpassed, l\1r. Bee: . did it.,· ' Vhy, said' ~Ir. Bee, actually believes a severe physjcal culture. cours1e will cure forever a, vitiated literary tas·te. A ceTtain '04 Tnan writing in ' the S. \~. C. Index, and guilty of a heroine of the. "Pats•y Bro,vn' type, is advised to hie him to the gym, and cure his literary "softness" by work ou the trapeze. The exma.n of t he Bee Inight ha:vc: advised the gentleman who concluded his article on New York City (a.ppcaring in the sa.me Index) with 'we were glad to get ba.ek t'o dear old Chicago, for we · love her still,' to

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article in the mnorous and romantic way we have just indi­eated.

We are free to admit that we were eompletely ignorant of the power and influence athletics execise over bad taste and other such purely intellectual de:ficiences. And we probably won't be accused of high treason i~ saying that we still have a sneaking suspicion that physkal culture has very, Yery little to do ,,dth such things, which are dear ont:-.:ide its sphere.

The March number of the Bee is a vPry readabh~ and in­structive edition of that model journal. A "Reverie/~ the opening poen1 deser.ves to be highly commended for the beauty and tenderness of its ideas; in fact, the conception is, in our hu1nble opinion, 1nuch superior to the exeeution, which laek~

that exquisite musical quality and perfect ease of expre~sion which the thoughts see1n to call for. The "Songs of Ireland" i~ an ably written and striking article on Erin's national musie, certainly good eno11gh to be of greater length. Having :finished readin,g a "Strange Story,'' we were gratified to see the initials of an ~07 man appended, and we would have been simply delig·ht ed beyond all expression if the author had been a 1900 a.ncl '8teen nian. 'J'he tale in question is positively puerile, improb­able, in plot, deficient in execution, uninteresting, imparts no moral, and in its entirety impressess us as an exceedingly weak effort at :fiction. In the introduction we are wearied with the description of a beautiful afternoon, then a steely-blue sky, then a beautiful Yalley, of virgin-green, then a glean1in~, ribbon like brook, then a. ridge of mountains, then of refreshme-nts at &

way-side inn and other things, all of which, we assure you, dear reader, have practically if not absolutely, nothing to do . ·with th'e Strange Story. The tale of the haunted house \vhicb is the "Strange St'ory," is improbable and some of the incidents are extravagant, for ins~'1nce, the manner in which tlte little girl accidenta1lv met death, and the deaths of Somers and his men. The style h~cks Yi"vidness, and, is in places, obseure. To be brief and to pass on to more delectable reflections, the story in· ques­tion, it s€ems to us, has no excuse for being. The essay on "Irish

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Cha,raeteristlcs'' is far and away the hes1t thing in the March . Beey· in fact, the y~ry best e~say ·we have seen in our lasrt month's ex.changes. The . writer i~ t.horoughiy ar:qua:inted with his .

· subject and handles it admirably. Catholicity, coura,ge and· patriotisin .are sho\vn to be the cha.raeteris:tic virtues of the Irish ra.ce,\vhich enable then1 to be; found in the ''vringua:rd re- · pelling national · enen1ies ;·in timew of pea.ce, advocating the inauguration of wise legiSilation; a.nd in do1nes:tic life, a living vindication, if such were needed, of the faith which .they loving~ ly cherish." Earnestness, . strength. and maturity of judgment are in evidence throughout the essay, the style isr not only good and excellently adapted to the subject treated, but,. at times, reany elO:que11t. , The editorials of the B ee are second·'to none

· in the college w.orld, and' the exn1an, is., to be sure, a stellar ' Ught, except in those instances when his a,thletic tendencies and all-consuming desire. to make other .p.eople happy, do not get the best of him. Let's call it off, lVIr. Bee, a:r;td be as friendly as of . yore.

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PERSONALS.

T'he venerable superior general of the com1nunity of St. Via.teur, V. Rev. P. D. Lajoie, C. S. V., who, like many other victhns of the Combes ministry, was· exiled from France over a year ago and found a, friendly refuge in Catholic Belgium, in-

. tends visiting the American provinceS' of his comn1unity during the sun1mer. The Very Reverend Father recently left Aerschot, Belgimn, for Ro1ne, whenc.e he \Ytll sa:il for America. In a letter recently addressed to the Inembers of the province of Chicago·, Pa.ther Lajoie prodaims the n1any virtues and merits · of the recently deceased 'and much regretted Father Corcoran, C. S. V., and announces that the appointment of a new provin­cial superior for Chicago, '':ill he deferred until be a.rr'ives here. For many reasons. the . n1emhers of his community a.nd the students' of St. Viatenr's college eagerly a\vait. the coming of the

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venerable exile, and, '''hile praying him a prosperous voyage, prepare him a he.arty welcome.

We congratulate tile Rev. James Cusack, of Brooksville, l{y., for the firrn and thoroughly American common-sense stand he has taken in the defense of the rights of Catholic parents and children against the sectarian aggressiveness of the local

· public schools. ln the "Brief for Apellant/' presented by Attorney 'Ym. A. Byrne, in the Court of Appeals of Ke:q.tucky, 've know not "\Yldch to ad1nire most, the consistent and g-entle­manly testiinony of Father Cusack or the scholarly presenta­tion of evidence by hif:: able attorney. If the sense of fair play is not dead in Kentucky the case is clearlJr won, and the Bible "\yHl no longer be rea.d in the state schools of Brookville.

A letter fron1 the artistic hand of ~Ir. Addison Pusch, re­cently told of his prosperous business life in the millinery and fancy goods line h1 the now wide-awake \Yorhrs Fair town. ~ ay suecess continue friendly to our quondam companion.

In one o.f its recently issues the daily Presse, of :Montreal, publishes an illustrated biogTaphical sketch of the V. Hev. A. c ·orcora.n, C. S. 1l., in which it recalls the eminent ser-rices he rendered the cause of higher education in Canada. His succ_ess as an ~lura tor the Presse attributes to his large h•arning and to the charm of his manners, which won him the respect, confi­dence and affection of his pupils. Although his mind was well stored with the acquired knowledge of nu1ny years of' patient labor he nevertheless remained e-rer a.n actiYe searcher and an indefatiga.ble student. The Presse corroborates our O\Yn im­pression:"\ of Father Corcoran as a preacher and speaks of sever al of ·his oratorical successes as veritable triumphs of sacred eloquence, mentioning ·in particular his splendid panegyric of St. Asellus in Joliette, and his fervid eulog:y of St. Aloysius in the Imlll!1culte Conception church of tile (Jesuit Fathers, l1on­treal.

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·Rev. 0.1 :McCabe had the happiness of seeing the fi'nishing touches put on the .beautiful interior ''of his new 'St. Charles' church at Otterbein. The last pieces 6f'~1~t introduced into the church were tl1e elaborate side altars do·nate.d· by his generous parishioners and blessed hy Father :McCabe Sunday, :March 13. 'Ve .congra.tulate Father :McCabe on his good work, and tGt.ke the liberty of publishing the follovv·ing conunent of the Otterbein N e·\YS, which we are sure ·will be of interest to our reaeders:

The interior of St. Charles' church, \Yith its stained glass windo•\vs, its costly pe\vs, its lovely ·frescoing and its superb altars, that rise 'n1a]e:stically above all, presents a scene mos~t pleasing to· the eye; aud inrnatter of haromny and beauty is· not surpassed by any church jn this part of the state.

A decided compliruent to St. Charles' eongre:gation and to the comrnunity at large, has been recently paid by the Wabash Church and School Furniture company, whose headqua.rters are in New York City. This. well known firn1 has in preparation an elaborate souvenir which \Vill contajn photographs of all the principal churches of all denmninations ' throughout the United States, in vdtich they placed their best grade of church furniture. The firn1 ha.s infonned Rev. Fa.ther ~McCabe that its representa.tive artist \vill shortiy visited Otterbein a.nd prepare photographs of tbe exterior and intei·ior of the church in order that the same rnay lJe pla.ced in theN ational Souvenir, which . will be on exhibition during the Purchase Exposition at, St. , Louis.

"Les Cloches de St. Boniface," oJ M:anita.ba, has been pub­lishing an interesting detailed account o.f the visit of His Gra.ce · :Most Rev. A. Langevin, in Chicqgo, and in several of the in1-portant centres of F1rench Canadian population in Northern Illinois. T'his modest publican is right when it deelares1 that tlle Archbishop's sermon produced a lively ilnpres.sion upon the Canadians of Chicago. But we are sure that both tliose who heard that masterpiece of sa.cred eloque.nce, and es.pecially those who only heard nhout it, will feel disappointed in not being . afforded the advantage of reading the text of the entit'e ora-

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tion. We respectfully suggest to the editors of "Les Cloches" that they desist not from their efforts in this direction until they have supplied their many readers with the Yerbatim text or at least a long resume of that stirring ser1non. " 1e are de­lighted, of course, at the praise which this paper besto·w-s upon our worthy President, whon1 it rightly calls a distinguished French scholar; we are happy to konw that his several French works, "Epines et Fleurs," "Lionel'' and ''Levis," are so well known a.nd so deservedly ad1nired hy the Canadians of ~Ianita­ha. Aft'er stating that the French languag·e is still ta.nght in this institution over which Father ~Iarsile has ruled for now a quarter of a century, "Les Cloches" cmwltuh""s its r emarks with the following timely advice to those · whom it concerns: "If our compatriots a.re desirous of' endowing their children with the advantages of a superior education, if they wish to perpet­uate that long and honora.ble line of distinguished priests, lawyerS', physicians, bankers, Inerchants, and agriculturists, who have issued from the classic halls of St. Yiateur's college at Bourbonnais, they must send thHher larger numbers of students and thus practically demand tllat the teaching of the beautiful French language continue to oceupy a place of honor in that institution.'·'

:Mr. CharlesSchneider, who is conducting a Gent's Furnish­ing and J ewelry store with gratifying success in Highland Park Chica.go, was a welcome visitor at the college ~Iarclt 12.

Rt. Rev. ~Igr. G. l\l. Legris, D. D., assisted at the month's mind of R ev. Father Cregan's mother, celeurated at St. Edward's church, Chicago, ~larch 14.

Rev. Louis Kroscho, .. dtz was ordained priest by His Grace, Archbishop J. E. Quigley, ~farch 19. IIe c-elebrated llis first mass in St. Joseph's church, ~Joliet, Sunday, ~larch 2T. Father Kroschowitz was immediately appointed to the pastorate of St. Stephen's Sclavonian church Chicago. \Ve heartily wish suc­e~s to the young priest:

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Rev. P. J. 0'1\lahoney, 0. S. V., Rev. J. Armstrong, Rev. J. · Kleinsorg, and Rev. E. Barnes received deaconship at the hands ofArchbishop Quigley 1\!fa,rch 18. Mr. J. McMullen re~ceived

tonsure and minor o·rd ers. Tio all we offer our resp~ctfnl con­gratulations~

. _,__ __ Rev.E. G. Grirffin, who is recovering from a severe a;ttad{ <:>f ..

pneumonia., has left Chicago for a n1ilcler clhnate. 1\Iay Fp,th~r Griffin be soon r,estorecl to perfect health.

v~ Rev. ::M. J .. :Marsile, C. S. V., went to Butte, Mont., to . preach 1nissions in Rev. J, O'Ca.Ilaghan's church of the Sacred Hea,rt.

Rev. Dr. J. E. Laberge assisted Rev. F. T'inan at Pullman, Rev. vV. J. Bergin, 0. S. V,, assisted Rev. J. Solon at DeKalb, Rev .. Dr. E .. L. R.ivard, C. S. V., assisted Rev. 1\f. A. Dooling ~t

. Clinton, during Holy Week and Easter Sunday. · ·

Eggs. · T'it---Bits. Lemonade. \:V urz burger.

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Is Shortj a senior? Rah, rah, hullabaloo!

· Did you R~ee the rang outang? 0 joy! 0 j'oy! . Spring is~ here! He is just too waffle for anything!

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The Oriole suits are made of white Swiss n1usUn frock, with green ribbons:, and a pale pink chiffon made up over green'' ta:ffets.

Base-ball players wantin.g exercise will find a pitcher pn, the table.

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Students will not be allowed to tip the waiters, as it is liable to cause them to break the dishes.

Don't talk so loud, the fishes carry tales. John-vVhat is the cool{ doing in the ice house? Kelly-Oh! just getting a few cakes. Bill -Why _do the Juniors call the new student "sponge?'' Fred-Because he is all the time soaked. !\Iike refused a green orange on the 17th. Two Juniors had to write five hundred lines for climbing in

the cocoanut tree. A certain Senior wrote horne a few days ago and addressed

his epistle as follo·ws: Dear Father: Roses are red, violets are blue. Send me ten dollars and I \Yill O\Ye you. The poor boy is \Vaiting with impatience.

Charley-"'Vha.t are you carrying that shutter around the gymnasium for?"

'Villie-"Just for a blind." People are getting very strong nowa,days. I saw a junior

and minim go uut in a boat and pull up the Kankakee river. Prefect-"You should think of the future." Student-"! can't. It's my · brother's birthday and I'm

thinking of the present.'·· A smile in the gymnasium is worth seven in the Greek class. ~Iike-"I know a student who says he can't sit down and he

can't stand up.' Alex-"'Vell, if he tells the truth, he lies." All men who wish to try' for the Orioles base ball team, re­

_port in the cage on Easter Sunday. "·hen Ale.x. slipped he was heard to exclaim, "liully gee!

Ice isn·'t 'Yhat it's cracked up to be.'·' . Hooray! They're \yearing straw hats in Bourbonnais. "yas it a parody on )Ir. Dooley? Ask Bedelia.

People seem more disposed nowadays to disagree like gen- · tle.men if they cannot dwell togeth.er as brethren; and this is better than hating and ostracizing one another for the love of God.-Ave M ari.(l·.

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1.,he Indoor team is to be evngratulntcd on the work done during the pu~t ttwo month~. The nwn hnvelnborc.d faithfully, to lanc.l the pPntutnt, lol-ling but one game out of twelve playoo sinee DPt'Ptnlwt', nnd thi~ aftt>r ten innin~~ or the faste~t kind of pla~·in~. Capt. Burkl' lrntls the lengue n~ a slnh artist, being n hly su ppnrtf"(l hy ~lnjil, whose work behind the bat is exception. nlly hrillant. KPlle~·, ~\. Burke and fJ. Ha.nh·n have carried off tbe fielding honors whilst Burns at the initial corner has the Jeafl on~r all the leaguers in that po.~ition. The fellows deserve grent praise for haYing secured fir~t place and if they can suc­eeed in winning the fin a 1 contest on )!arch 28, from the 20th Century club tlwir fanw will long lw presernxl at St. Viateur's. A fu11 record of tbe 8flason wHI lw gin•n in the ne.~t issue.

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The baseball ~qnad has been unable to do much outside work to date, but it (]()(ls not take veterans very long to knock off tl1e rough edges, and the previous experience of the majority of the candidates will offset the effects of t11e prolonged winter season. In case spring arrives with Easter the team will play a series of practice games early in April and open the season about the sixteenth. The \rheaton, "Cni. of Illinois F'rf'shmen anc' Northwestern )Iilitary academy games have not been uefi~ nitely decided in view of this fact. The remainder of the schedule is as follows:

April 30, St. Cyril in Chicago. :i\Iay 4, )!organ Park in Chicago. May 7, ~forgan Park at College. May 1-1, St. Cyril at College.

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It is with 1nuch regret that we annonnee the untimely death of Father Doran, who after a short servire on the missions in Peoria dio~ese, had gone to Arizona in (llH~t of health. He died on his way ba-ck fro1n the " rest a.nd was buried in his h01ne

• cemetery at Kikapoo, Ill., :March 29. J\Iay his soul rest in peace.

Rev. L. Kraschowitz, recently ordained, has the h•artfelt sympathy of all his preceptors and fellow students for the sad d.eath of his father, who was buried in Kankakee March 26, the eve of Father Kraschowitz's fiygt mass. ~lay our pra.yers win peace for the departed soul and the assurance of our sincere condolence bring solace to the l>ere.aTed family.

Take away the scenery and the 1nusic of most of the dramas represented on the modern stage and we have what Shakespeare aptly terms

"Sound and fury signifying nothing." -The ~Iountaineer,

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