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MEW WORLD ITEMS. Campion College Reunion.—The sum of $6,413.70 has been contributed so far to the new chapel for Campion college. Prairie du Chien, Wis. Sun day, May 31, and Monday, June 1, have been determined as the dates for the reunion of Campion Alumni. Fox River League.—A league of all the Holy Name societies in the Fox River valley, Wis., may result from the agitation which has been started for a big joint meeting of all mem bers of these societies in the cities of the valley. It has been proposed that the joint meeting be held in one of the valley cities next summer. This may include all societies from Green Bay to Oshkosh, or may ex tend to Pond du Lac. There is a Holy Name society affiliated with al most every Catholic parish in each of the Pox River valley cities. Federation Stops Play.—Upon com plaint of the St. Louis Branch of the American Federation of Catholic So cieties. "The Lure," an indecent play was stopped by the police, on Tues day, March 24. Nun Die® at Poet.—Sister Mary Jerome, Order of Mercy, superin tendent of St. Robert hospital for contagious diseases, in Davenport, la., died Saturday morning, March 21, at Mercy hospital after a three days' ill ness resulting from a severe cold. Sister Mary Jerome was known and honored in many Davenport homes. For nearly twelve years she had la bored at one of the most dangerous and arduous posts of duty which could come by assignment to the self-sacri ficing Sisters of Mercy. She had cared with patience and devotion for hun dreds stricken down by contagion. She was born in Ireland in 1855 and became a nun in 1878. Bishop Davis attended the funeral and pronounced the absolutios. Wild Rumor# of Priest's Fortune.— The estate of the late Reverend Mau rice J. Dorney of Chicago, "the king of the stock yards," has been estima ted at from $500,000 to $750,000. The estimates are literally wild in view of the fact that this charitable priest's possessions at his death amounted to about $2,000. Built Up Texas Parish.—William Kemjer, who died at Chicago, March 18, had donated ninety per cent of the parochial possessions, to the church of the Assumption at Kerrville, Texas, where his son, Reverend H. M. Kemper, Ph. D., is pastor. With in the past thuee years his benefac tions exceeded $25,000. Two years ago he founded the Notre Dame in stitute, where more than half of the hundred students now attending are non-Catholics. Mr. Kemper was buried from St. Michael's Church, Chicago, March. 23. "Sacramentine" Novitiate Begun.— The actual inception of the "Sacra mentine" novitiate, the ordef for per petual adoration which has come from France to Yonkers, N. Y., began Sun day afternoon, March 29, when the first English speaking recruits for the order received the habit. Nora Cun ningham from Ohio and Mary Power from Galway, Ireland, are the first novices in the American novitiate of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament Princeton Students Flout Religion. —On a recent Sunday the Rev. W. G. Thayer was preaching a sermon to the Princeton students. The preacher had scarcely begun to speak when coughing was heard in every part of the chapel. It continued uninterrupt edly till the voice of the speaker was rendered inaudible by it. Finally the clergyman was obliged to stop and leave the pulpit before conclud ing his sermon. Then the students filed out of the chapel, chuckling over their success in putting an qnd to the religious services. Bishop Gives University Lecture The Right Rev. J. T. McNally, Bishop of Calgary, Alberta, spoke in the Pub lic Library recently in the University of Calgary's lecture course on social service. The subject of the Bishop's address was "Moral Expedients and Their Value." He argued against the proposed taxation of church property. "No New Pale."—More than 2,000 daughters of Erin and half as many sons of the Emerald Tsle attended in Carnegie Hall Monday, March 23, a meeting of protest against the parti tion of their native land. It was under the auspices of the United Irish Wo men of New York. The women adopt ed resolutions of protest which have been forwarded to the old country and announced that their slogan is to be "Ireland, one and indivisible— no new pale!" A Distinguished Southerner.—Mr. Thomas Ignatius Semmes, a member of one of the most distinguished fam ilies of the South, died in New Or leans on Saturday, March 21. Mr. Semmes was the oldest son of Thomas J. Semmes who represented Louisiana in the Confederate Senate at Rich mond, and who in 1868 at an appeal from Archbishop Odin for a Catholic journal in the far South, turned all his energies toward the founding of the Morning Star. A cousin of the deceased was Admiral Semmes, the famous Catholic leader of the Con federate navy. Knights in Alaska.—Very Reverend Joseph R. Crimont, S. J., Prefect Apostolic of Alaska Reverend Joseph Bruckert, S. J., and Reverend Anthony R. Drathman, S. J., were present with about seventy laymen at a meeting held March 10 in Douglas, Alaska, to forward the organization of a Knights of Columbus Council in Juneau. A letter was read from Mr. Ward of New York stating that the matter of LANDS granting a charter for the Juneau council would be taken up April 5. Expenses of Mission Society.—The spirit of the Society for the Propaga tion of the Faith is clearly demon strated by the figures of its expenses. Out of the total amount collected, less than two per cent is spent for the man agement of the Society, and a trifle over five per cent for the publication of seventeen editions of the Annals in thirteen languages. Mgr. Benson at State University.— Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson lec tured in Houston Hall, University of Pennsylvania, on Tuesday afternoon, March 24, at 4 o'clock under the aus pices of the organization committee of the Catholic students subject, 'The Modern English Novel." Manual Training for Catholics.—The board of education in Everett, Wash., two weeks ago adopted a resolution permitting pupils of St. Dominic's academy, to receive the benefit of the vocational department of the Everett public schools. The resolution as adopted is of a general nature and contains no reference to St. Dominic's pupils, stating merely that any pupil of legal school age residing in this district is eligible to register in part time vocational work. Plans for Kansas Hospital.—Plans will be finished April 15 for the $30,000 addition to the St. Francis Hospital, Wichita, Kansas. The build ing will have 115 feet of frontage on Emporia Avenue and will extend back 91 feet to the main building. It will contain seventy-five rooms. A Challenge Accepted.—"Why I am Not a Roman Catholic" was the title of a series of lectures given by Rev erend Morton Miller, pastor of the M. E. church at Goodland, Kansas. His reasons took the form of slanders against the Church and in the local press he issued a challenge to any one to contradict his statements. When Reverend T. F. Tuite of Norton, Kansas accepted the challenge, Mr. Miller pleaded sickness. Father Tuite, nevertheless, secured the opera house for the appointed evening and an overflow crowd came to hear him. The Goodland Republic, the local paper, gave a long account of the lecture stating that Father Tuite spoke over two hours and held the closest attention of his audience to the last." A Priest with Base Ball Men.—An interesting bit of base-ball biography was revealed a few days ago at Stone ham, Texas, when the New York "Giants" played a benefit game for St. Joseph's church. On the day be fore the game Father Campbell, while talking to several of the players, re called that twenty-two years ago he had preached a sermon in Alleghany N. Y., and added: "I remember well that Hughey Jennings, now manager of the Detroit club, was one of the singers in the choir that day." "Yes," and I pumped the organ," said a voice in Father Campbell's ear, and he turned to shake hands with John McGraw. It appears that Mc Graw, Father Campbell and Jennings were schoolmates in the long ago. Redmond Aids Finerty Monument —John Redmond last month sent a draft for $100 for the monument to John F. Finerty soon to be erected in Chicago. Mass for a Hundred Years.—The will of the Rev. Cyprian Eisele, rector of St. Joseph's Church in Astoria, I., provides that the rectors of the Church in Unterstadion, Wurtemberg, Germany, shall sing a Requiem Mass annually for 100 years for the repose of the souls of Father Eisele, Veron ica Schlegel and Juliana Schlegel This duty is required in consideration of the bequest to the church by Father Eisele of an estate he inherited from Veronica Schlegel. The will also leaves considerable property to St. Jo seph's Church and its societies. New York Staats-Verband.—The Staats-Verband of New York will hold its nineteenth annual convention, at Rochester, May 31, Jurfe 1 and 2, Memorial in Carroll Home.—A mar ble altar railing will be erected in the chapel of Doughoregan Manor the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Carroll of Carrollton, Md., in com memoration of the wedding of their son, Charles Bancroft Carroll, and Miss Anita Hack, which will take place April 20. The rail which was bought in Italy, is now being erected and will probably be completed by the time the wedding takes place. A Generous Contribution.—The Mount St. Rose Hospital "campaign, in St. Louis, which set out to raise a $300,000 fund, closed with $118,592 51. The largest individual contribu tor was Mrs. Lillie Busch, who gave $5,000. Father Scanlan, S. J., Dead.—The funeral of Rev. William J. Scanlan S. J., of St. Mary's Church, Boston one of the oldest members of' the Jesuit Order t8bk place Thursday, March 26. Father Scanlan was horn in Ireland in 1839. A few years later his family settled in America. While he was studying in the Jesuit novitiate at Frederick, Md., the Civil War began and at the battles which occurred in the vicinity, young Scan lan, with the other students and priests, labored for the benefit of the wounded soldiers of both armies. Two of his brothers fought in the war with the old Ninth Regiment of Mas sachusetts. One of them rose to the rank of major and served with dis tinction throughout the struggle, while the other, Joseph Scanlan, was severe ly wounded in one of the early battles. Brooklyn's Orphan Asylum.—The Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum Socie- ty of Brooklyn held its annual meet ing on Wednesday evening, March 25, at St. John's Home. The financial re port for the year 1913 showed that the receipts for the year were $317, 812.86 disbursements, $286,555.69. Twenty thousand dollars was paid oft the principal of the mortgage on the Orphan Asylum Society property, which now stands at $160,000. Portland Catholic Federation.— Members of the various Catholic so cieties of Portland, Oregon, met March 19, at the Cathedral Hall for the purpose of forming a federation of Catholic societies. Sixteen societies were represented. A temporary or ganization was formed with M. J. Mal ley as chairman and B. F. Jones as secretary. The committee will meet again April 19 to complete the organi zation. The societies are planning a state federation which will later be affiliated with the national organiza tion. The Church and Socialism.—This year the annual lecture given under the auspices of the Laymen's League for Retreats and Social Studies for the benefit of the House of Retreats, 'Mt. Manresa," will be held on Sunday evening, April 19, at the Academy of Music, Brooklyn, N. Y., at 8 p. m. The lecturer will be the Rev. T. J. Shealy, S. J., and the subject of the lecture, 'The Church and Socialism." Irish History in Schools.—In eight of the Catholic schools of San Francisco Irish history is included in the regular curriculum. Missions for Mexicans.—At the in vitation of Rt. Rev. J. J. Hennessy, Bishop of Wichita, Kan., Rev. Rafael Serrano, C. M. F., spent nearly six weeks in that diocese giving missions to the Mexicans at Hutchinson, Flor ence, Augusta, Winfield, Harper, Pratt and Kansas City, Kansas. Jersey City Home for Blind.—A cam paign to raise $100,000 for the benefit of St. Joseph's Home for the Blind, Jersey City, started on March 13. At the close of the first day, $15,165 had been subscribed. Headquarters have been established in the Fourth Regi ment Armory. American at Tong-King.—Tang-King, China, is associated with the scene of Blessed Theophane Venard's martyr dom and it is of interest to record that the priest who first extended hos pitality to the new American Seminary for Foreign Missions, the Very Rev. Bertrand Cothonay, O. P., then of Haw thorne, N. Y., has lately been made Prefect Apostolic of Lang-Son and Cao Bang in Northern Tong-King. Home-Rule Courtesies Exchanged.— The German-American Alliance of the United States has given its formal en dorsement to the home-rule movement in Ireland. Noting this, the Irish Fel lowship Club of Chicago has adopted resolutions thanking the society for its sympathy. These were signed by the present and the former presidents, among whom were Governor Edward F. Dunne and Judge Marcus Kava naugh. Brooklyn's Orphan Asylum.—The Catholic Orphan Asylum Society of Brooklyn was incorporated eighty eight years ago. The first orphan asy lum was a small house on Jay street, which lias since been superseded by three magnificent structures in Kings County and a country home at Hicks ville, in which about 2,000 children are cared for. Franciscan Architect Dead.—The death of Rev. Brother Adrian, O. F. M., one of the best known and most ven erable members of the Franciscan Or der in America'occurred at St. Joseph's Hospital, San Francisco, March 15. Brother Adrian, in the world Anthony Wever, was born at Hasewrinkel, Dio cese of Munster, Germany, April 14, 1836. He was received into the Fran ciscan Order July 14, 1860, in his 24th year made his simple vows July 17, 1864. Soon after came to America. He was an architect of the highest order, and for over fifty years he gave his talents unreservedly to church archi tecture. The buildings he designed are scattered broadcast over the whole United States. Cheap Religious Education.—At the Philadelphia conference of the Meth odist Church, Rev. Clarence Wilson, of Topeka, Kan., deplored the fact that the Methodist Church paid only forty eight cents for the religious education of each pupil in its fold. He also re ferred to the sacrifices made by the Catholic Church in this direction. Vincent Astor Contributes.—At the close of the ten-day campaign to raise $75,000 for St. Francis Hospital in Poughkeepsie, recently, announcement was made that Mr. Vincent Astor had contributed $2,500 to the fund. This is the largest individual amount con tributed and completed the fund. St. Patrick's Missionary Burse.—A fund to establish a burse of $5,000 in honor of St. Patrick at the Foreign Missionary Seminary, Maryknoll, N. Y., has been started. At the beginning of March there was $510.50 in the fund. OLD WORLD NEWS. Inventor of the Watch.—Peter Hein lein, the inventor of the pocket watch, was accused of witchcraft when he withdrew from his companions to work on his invention. Finally he was cast into prison, where the watch was perfected. After some time he retired to a monastery, where he continued manufacturing watches, giving the pro ceeds to the order. He died in 1540. At Nuremburg, the scene of his trou bles and successes, a monument has been erected to him. Pope Provides Church for Slum.— One of the finest sites in Rome has become a new parish. Monteverde, till lately the vine-clad hill beyond the Ponte Garibaldi, which has now a slum population of its own, has been hither to only an outlying dependency of Santa Maria-in-Trastevere. But the paternal solicitude of the Holy Father THE CATHOLIC BULLETIN, APRIL 11, 1914. ed, and he4 has enlisted the services of the Consistori&l Congregation in an nexing a site for a churcoT Chart res' Protest.—The authorities of Chartres, who recently sent a form al complaint to Rome regarding the articles written and published by MM. Leclercq and Cabrol, attacking the ven erable traditions of their Cathedral—a complaint in which the whole diocese joined—have received ample satisfac tion. On behalf of the Sacred Consis torial Congregation, Cardinal de Lai has promised that both author and publisher shall be severely admonished for hazarding such temerarious criti cisms as the result of scientific re searches. And following on this has come a most sympathetic letter from Cardinal Merry del Val, conveying the congratulations of the Pontiff on the stand the Chartres Chapter has made, as well as his Apostolic Blessing. Pope Aids Palestrina Monument.— Hearing of the project on foot to estab lish in August next a worthy monu ment to the great composer Giovanni Palestrina, the Holy Father has sent to Don Luigi Barberini, Prince of Palestrina, a contribution of $400. Indian Schools Burned.—The pride of the mission at Golla, Bengal, India, was the beautiful schools for girls and boys which, together with the church, were destroyed by fire on January 11. The schools were the highest of their class in the district and accommodated 161 girls and 145 boys. A native, to satisfy his devotion, placed a lighted candle near the crib in the church and set fire to it. The wind carried the flames to the adjoining schools and the result was a total loss. Bequests to Limerick Charities.— The late Mr. Wm. Lloyd, Old Church, Limerick, left personal estate valued at near $207,000. Of this he left a little more than $17,000 in charitable bequests. His will gives $5,000 to Most Rev. Dr. O'Dwyer for the maintenance of St. John's Hospital, Limerick, and another $5,000 for the building and furnishing for the proposed new Cath olic Church of St. Munchin. Besides these he made nearly twenty smaller bequests to various charitable and re ligious purposes, amounting in all to $7,250. Income of Gaelic League.—Dr Douglas Hyde asserts that the Gaelic League has an annual income not ex ceeding $25,000. He pleads for greater co-operation among individuals and so cieties whose objects are similar to those of the league. English Saint's Centenary.—April 12, 1914, is the twelfth centenary of the death of St. Guthlac, founder of Crowland Abbey of Spalding, England He is also known as the St. Anthony of the West. A pilgrimage has been organized by the Catholics of Spalding, which will visit Crowland Abbey to morrow. A Convert Officer.—Lieutenant Ralph Fane Gladwin, of Seven Springs, Cheltenham, England, has been re ceived into the Church by Father Se bastian Bowden at the London Ora tory. Mr. Gladwin is an officer in the Scots Guards, and in 1911 was married at Broughty Ferry to Isabel, second daughter of Colonel Douglas Dick of Pitkerro. Mr. Gladwin's sister and younger brother, Frank, are also con verts, the latter taking the step only a few weeks ago. Doctors at Lourdes.—The following indicates the scientific scrutiny to which the miracles at Lourdes are submitted before being admitted authentic by the Church. In 1896 twenty-seven doctors went to Lourdes to investigate the cases. In 1900 there were 216 doctors in 1908, there were 624 and in 1913, there were 670 Dr. Boisarrie, the president of the Medical Bureau at Lourdes, waited fourteen years before deciding in favor of the miraculous character of a cer tain cure. The Medical Bureau never uses the word miracle. It confines itself to declaring that such cure either by its nature or manner, can not be accounted for by purely natural causes. Commune Will Replace Tower.—The French Chamber of Deputies has set tied the question of the old church tower of St. Paterne at Orleans, which is about to be removed. The Minister of the Interior has stated that, though by the Law of 1905 congregations are bound to bear themselves the expenses of a new edifice when an old one is secularized by the State, in this case the commune should contribute to wards the erection of a new tower, it being understood that the contribution would be simply compensation and not a subsidy to the Church from the State. English Catholic Libraries.—There are now Catholic Reading Guild libra ries at St. Teresa's, Irlam, Manches ter, and at Derby. This brings the total in England up to twenty-two, and arrangements are now being made to place libraries at St. Hugh's, Liver pool, and at Mortlake, besides several other places which are still under con sideration. for this neglected suburb has sot fail- gether by monastic or religions vows, An Aged Convert—The death occur red last month in his eighty-first year, at his residence, Oak Villa, Erdington, Birmingham, of Mr. John Morris, one of the oldest residents in Erdington. A few days before his death Mr. Mor ris sent to Erdington Abbey for one of the Fathers to yisit him. Father Maternus, O. S. B., immediately went, and Mr. Morris begged to be received into the Church. He recounted how nearly seventy years ago he was un der the instruction of Rev. Henry P. Henager, who served the then hamlet of Erdington from Oscott. Franciscans Win Bequest.—In the Chancery Division of the English courts, March 17, Justice Joyce gave judgment in the dispute over a $90,000 bequest left to the Franciscan Friars of Clevedon, Somerset, by the will of the late Mr. Erasmus Bright-Smith, who lived at Clevedon during part of his lifetime. The next-of-kin contend ed that the gift was void under the Catholic Emancipation Act of 1830, as it was made to a society or institution the members of which were bound to- and that such societies were absolute ly illegal in England. Justice Joyce in disposing of this contention said: "These anti-monastic sections, taken in their widest possible' sense, do not place the offender, even if and when convicted, in the position of an out law or disqualify him from taking, conveyance or assignment inter vivos or by will, or from holding any proper ty, even real estate, in this country Even a felon, who by the way cannot be treated as such before conviction, is not now so disqualified and at n time in the history of this country did the circumstance that a person ha committed, or was supposed to be con mitting, a misdemeanor, disqualify hiri s from taking or holding property of any kind here nor do I understand how anyone could be treated as bein guilty of a criminal offence unless o until he had been convicted." To Honor Joan of Arc.—The Nation al Joan of Arc Committee has sent circulars the French deans and the priests under their jurisdiction, to organize a fitting Joan of Arc celebra tion. Sketch of Aged Jesuit.—Reverend J. A. Downey, S. J., who recently at tained his sixtieth year as a member of the Society of Jesus, was once con demned to death. He was sent to France to continue his studies and while he was there the religious per secution was raging. Fr.. Downey was arraigned before the tribunal and con demned to death for being a Jesuit. Finding out that Father Downey was an American citizen, the judge re voked the sentence of death, but the priest was banished from France. Milan's Missionary Seminary.—The Foreign Mission Seminary of Milan, now in charge of Reverend Joseph Ar manasco, who succeeded Bishop Viga no, reports gratifying progress. The past year it sent out eleven new mis sioners and has thirty-two theological students at' present. It has also a preparatory school at a place called Monza. For Mission Doctors in India.—Arch bishop Aelen of Madras, India, writes that there is a great demand in the foreign field for medical missioners and he thinks it would be an excellent thing to start a Catholic medical mis sion propaganda among American phy sicians. "Above all," he writes, "let me beg of you most earnestly to train medical women, whom we need so very much in India. The influence of the American Protestant missionaries is mainly due to the medical women who are in charge of hospitals and have access to the Gosha women time of sickness. Hospital Nuns in Japan.—During the year 1913 the Sisters of St. Paul of Chartres have tended 100 patientB in their hospital at Yatsushiro, Japan, of whom forty-five were lepers. They have visited 2,900 sick persons in their homes. Of those who came to the hospital for help 190 were bap tized. Three young men, members of noble families, have been received into the Church and give promise of developing into zealous and devoted Catholics. Polish Seminary Perverted.—The magnificent Polish University, sup pressed in 1832, is to be revived by the Minister of Public Instruction, but while previously it was Catholic it is now suggested it should be dedicated to the work of educating clergy of the Russian Orthodox Church. Gift to Senator Bisho?.—Mgr. Pe laez, the new Archbishop of Tarrago na, Spain, has been presented by the Spanish National Association of No taries Public with a silver crozier, a ring and pectoral cross of gold, with amethysts and brilliants and a gold pen with his initials set with brilliants, in recognition of his great service to them when he was in the Senate. Spanish Cardinal's Jubilee.—Santi ago, in Spain, has celebrated the jubi lee of its Archbishop, Cardinal Herrera. Great rejoicings have taken place in the town and solemn services in the Cathedral. The clergy have offered their Archbishop a magnificent cross The civil and military authorities pre sented their congratulations and good wishes, and for several evenings the public buildings and houses of well known Catholics have been illumi nated in honor of the jubilarian. A Nun Seventy Years.—A great re ligious passed away in her ninety-sec ond year at Castenet, Toulouse, in the person of Sister Gervais, of the Con gregation of St. Vincent de Paul, Su perior of the Hospital of St. Orens She entered the congregation at twen ty-two years of age, and served with distinction all through the Crimean War with the ambulances of France At Constantinople she converted the niece of Abdul Kadar, Marie Ismael who is today a Sister of St. Vincent, working for the poor in the capital of the Turk. At Rio de Janeiro, whither she was sent in later years, Sister Ger vais founded the Hospital for "Enfants Trouves" and baptized with her own hands 24,000 abandoned children. 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