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THECH Ti it "•J S.S NEW WORLD ITEMS A Mountain Orphanage.—The new orphanage for girls at Cresson, Pa., "•near*the summit of the mountains and costing $125,000, has just been com "pleted and opened. Redemptionist College.—The Re demptionist Fathers have acquired a large farm near lirockville, Ontario, where they will, it is understood, establish a college for the education of candidates for their Order.- Parish Histories.—The Catholic Reg ister, Denver, has begun the publica tion of the histories of the various parishes of Colorado. Their compila tion will make an interesting chapter in the story of the Church ill the United States. Mary Pickford.—Mary Pickford. the moving picture actress, who is a Cath olic, has been announced by the Los Angeles Liberty Loan committee as a contributor to the extent of $90,000. Miss Pickford was also a subscriber to the first loan. Priests and Churches.—In 1916 there were 411 priests ordained in the Unit .ed States. The priests dying in the republic averaged more than one every day, and it is stated that on an aver age one new church is built daily. Grand Opera in Church.—One of the greatest musical events that has ever taken place in Ohio occurred Sunday, October 21, in St. Peter's Church, Canton, when the San Carlo Grand Opera Company sang Verdi's Requiem. The entire" company of sixty-nine peo ple, including fifteen principals, a horus of twenty-four voices and an orchestra of thirty instruments, was heard. Dr. Edwin Arthur Kraft of Cleveland presided at the organ. Texas Church Burns.—The Church St. John the Baptist, Amansville, Texas, burned to the ground a few days ago. The cause of the Are, which entailed a loss of $20,000 or more, is unknown. The insurance on vthe 4* edifice amounted to only half that sum. The Rev. J. Kopp is pastor of "the parish, which belongs to the dio cese of San Antonio. Bishop for Liberty Bonds.—The.. Right Reverend J. Henry Tihen of Lincoln, who will arrive within about a month, on a day yet undetermined, "*to become Bishop of Denver, last week sent a letter to the Rev. Hugh L. Mc- Menamin with a $1,000 check enclosed, io be used in the purchase of Liberty Bonds. The bishop designated this "as his first act as a citizen oi^Debver? Eucharistic Army.—Very Reverend Paul James Francis, S. A., superior "general of the Society of the Atone ment, Graymoor, N. Y., and editor of mts organ, The Lamp, has established an army to be known as the "Eucha ristic Volunteers." The members will Holy Communion every day Father Paul is a receive until the war ends. convert from Episcopalianism. A Western Tour.—The Catholic Truth Guild will send its autovan across country to San Francisco, where David Goldstein, the secretary of the guild, accompanied by Sergeant Arthur B. Corbett, will begin three months' work in California on the first of January. Then they will make their way home to Boston over the Lincoln highway, speaking in the leading cities en route. Brought Relic to Kentucky.—Rever end L. G. Clermont, chaplain of St Joseph's Hospital, Lexington, Ky., died recently. His death resulted from pneumonia. Father Clermont was 75 years of age and a native of Quebec. On July 21, 1888, he was made pastor of St. Ann's Church, West Covington. It was he who secured the relic of St. Ann, which now reposes in the church, and established there the shrine of St. Ann. Overflow Masses.—At Camp Sher man, Ohio, it was found necessary to hold "overflow Masses" to accommo date the large number of Catholic sol diers to attend Mass. The officials of the Y. M. C. A., who saw the neces sity for more space, immediately sent word to Father McCloskey, chaplain, that he might use their auditorium building for an "overflow Mass." It was estimated that ten thousand Cath olic officers and men assist^ at the live Masses. In the afternoon several thousand men attempted to gain en trance into the Knights of Columbus main auditorium for the devotions. Suit to Stop Angelus Ringing.—A suit recently brought in the superior court in Calexico, Cal., by City Attor ney Bytcher against the Church of Our Lady of Guadaloupe is expected to come up before Judge Franklin J. Coleman on a hearing to determine whether the daily ringing of the Ange lus shall be made permapent. The church authorities, supported by the diocese of Monterey and Los Angeles, have announced they will fight the issuance of a permanent injunction. Prominent Banker Convert.—Walter C. Stokes of the firm of Walter C. Stokes & Co., bankers and brokers, New York city. has. been received into the Catholic Church. He was bap tized by the Rev. William B. Martin, D. D.,. assistant' pastor of St. Patrick's Cathedral, who for some time has been giving him instruction. His \vife •was the only other person present. Mrs. Stokes, who was Miss Adele .Watson, is not a Catholic. Piety Rewarded.—How moral cour se •won a youth promotion in the army was told to the Denver Knights gt Columbus by John Leo Stack, a •1 RLANDS. member who has been located re cently, in Washington and who is home for a few days. Mr. Stack has been in close touch with the Catholic war activities being handled at the capital. At Camp Meade, Admiral, Md., a little soldier went down night after night on his knees to pray, amid the jeers of fellow soldiers. The cap tain, hearing about the case, investi gated and broke in among the soldiers in the midst of one of their ridicule sessions. In appreciation of the mor al courage that the young rookie had shown, "he had him made a corporal. Praise for Columbus.—At the cele bration of Columbus day by the Knights of Columbus in Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt, assistant sec retary of the navy, was the principal speaker. He paid eloquent tribute to Columbus as explorer, scientist, and man of high ideals and lofty princi ples. He called him the first Ameri can admiral. He stated that it was his own privilege to introduce in the legislature of New York the bill that made October 12 a public holiday in that state, and he declared that he hoped it would soon be a national holiday, like Washington's Birthday and Lincoln's day. Children Find Crosses.—School chil dren playing at the rear of the Flat Rock school, north of Escanaba Trac tion company's dam, Escanaba, Mich., unearthed four ancient silver crosses that were found buried under a large oak tree. The crosses have been iden tified as St. Andrew's double crosses and evidently have been buried for many years. All are solid silver and were badly tarnished when uncovered by the children. The curious shapes attracted attention and the children took the articles to their teacher, who scoured the surfaces and was finally able to identify them. Each cross is oddly inscribed and the engraving on each is of a separate pattern. Noted Priest Astronomer.—The death is reported from Wellington, New Zealand, of the Very Rev. Father Augustine Keogh, S. M., a well-known astronomer. He was born in Dublin about fifty-three years ago, and com pleted his early training for the priest hood in Dundalk, and then proceeded to Lyons, France, where he spent sev eral years in the Marist Seminary. Not long after his ordination he re turned to Dundalk as rector of St. Mary's College. Shortly after the re call from New Zealand of Very Rev. Dr. Watters, S. M., who was acci dentally shot during the* Easter week rebellion in Dublin, Father Keogh was appointed rector of St. Patrick's Col lege, Wellington, a position which he filled^'with 'great success."« Cathedral School Cornerstone Laid. —With the laying of the cornerstone of the Cathedral Latin School Sunday afternoon Catholic Cleveland added its quota to the large group of educa tional institutions in the vicinity of University Circle. The completion of the new building of the Latin school will be one more achievement in the plan of organization of the diocese which Bishop Farrelly has under way to make the work of the Church in his diocese more fruitful. The site of the new school is within view of the large group of buildings of West ern Reserve University, of the Case School of Applied Science, of the Woman's College, the Art Museum and of the city's finest onting place, Wade Park. OLD WORLD NEWS New See Fixed.—Bishop Ward has selected the town of Brentwood, Eng land, as the seat of the new See-re cently established in the County of Essex, and the choice has been ap proved by the Holy See. Many Seminarists Killed.—At the opening of the Italian war with Ger many 120 seminarists were summoned to bear arms from the seminary of Bergamo, North Italy, mostly moun taineers. Ninety of these have fallen in battle. Chaplain Appointed Bishop.-r-RidVei' end Hugh Cameron, a Gael of the Gaels, was serving with the forces as chaplain when his nomination as as sistant to the Bishop of Argyle and the Isles, Scotland, arrived. He has spent his life in the far Hebrides, min istering to the scattered population of the islands, and is beloved by the Highlanders, whQm he thoroughly tin* derstands. Heroic Irish Chaplain.—Reverend W. Devine, B.' A., B. D., Australian Chaplains' department, has been awarded the French Croix de Guerre for gallant conduct and devotion to duty under fire, and has received the congratulations of Major General Sir H. V. Cox, commanding an Australian division, and Lieutenant General Sir William Birdwood. The son of the late George IJevine, J. P., of Castle berg, Ireland, Father Devine went to Melbourne Der$^ diocese fcralr years ago. U Confess to Trees.—Time and again Catholic priests have discovered strange things which prove that it is natural for sinners to wish to confess their misdeeds, but few have made as strange a discovery as Rev/ Bernard Corcoran, now of Annunciation Church Denver, who spent several years in South Africa. Father Corcoran actu ally found people there who confessed their sins to trees: They were Cath olics who had been away from the Church a long time, or else the chil dren of Catholics. Just how they fig ured out that confession to trees would do them any good is difficult to' deter mine, but their practico .adds another yui|y" ''V^'i"^ link to the long chain of evidence that confession is the most natural thing in the world when one has sinned. A Clerical Convert.—The Reverend E. Huntley Gordon. Anglican Vicar of St. Catherine's. Nottingham, England, jjfrom 1909 to 1914, together with Mrs. Gordon, has been received into the Catholic Church in the Transvaal, where they took up their residence pn leaving Nottingham in June, 1914. Writing to his successor at St. Cath erine's, Nottingham, Mr. Gordon states, "I saw the Bishop (of Pretoria), who was most kind and said he did not think that dissatisfaction with the Anglican Church was sufficient justi fication for submission to Rome. I agreed, but said thlat we had got long past mere discontent with Anglican ism to a whole-hearted* acceptance of the Papal claims." Bishop's Son a Convert,—The report which has lately been current, but the accuracy of which was denied in quarters likely to be able to give au thoritative information on the subject, namely, that the Rev. Ronald Arbuth nott Knox, youngest son qf the Angli can Bishop of Manchester, England, has been received into the Catholic Church, is now confirmed on good authority by the Manchester Guard ian. Mr. Knox was a scholar of Bal liol College, won the Gaisford prize in 1908, and was Ireland and Craven scholar in the same year. He was elected a Fellow of Trinity College in 1910, took Anglican orders in the following year, and in 1912 was ap pointed chaplain at Trinity College. The reception took place at Farnbor ough Abbey on Saturday, September 22, the Right Rev. Abbot Cabrol, O. S. B., receiving the converts submis sion. Catholic Procession in Petrograd.— The council of the Russian Church met recently at Moscow, among which there are many laymen, and issued an encyclical to be read on Sunday in all the Russian churches. The coun cil proposes "\o examine soon the question of the re-establishment of the patriarchate abolished by Peter the Great, and of the reunion of the dissenting sects produced in the Orth odox Church since that suppression. For the first time an outdoor proces sion of the Blessed Sacrament has taken place in the streets of Petro grad. Archbishop's Jubilee.—The golden jubilee of the ordination of the Most Rev. Dr. Healy, Archbishop of Tuam, Ireland, was celebrated on September 15 at the Cathedral at Tuam. High Mass was celebrated and at its conclu sion the "Te Deum" was sung. Owing tp the illness of the Archbishop there was no public announcement of his jubilee. The members of the Cath olic Chapter, the Canons of the Arch diocese, and a large number of priests were present, and there was a large assemblage of the laity in the Ca thedral. After the service many of the clergy present called on the Arch bishop, who, although at that time seriously ill, was reported to be grad ually regaining his strength. He is seventy-six years of age. Convert Scottish Bishop.—The news of the appointment of Rev. Henry Gray Graham as Auxiliary Bishop of St. Andrews and Edinburgh, England will gratify many Catholics in this country. The son of a Presbyterian minister, the new Bishop was twenty years ago assistant professor of He brew and Oriental languages in St. Andrews University, of which he is a Master of Arts and Bachelor of Di vinity. In 1903, two years after be coming pastor of a leading Presbyte rian parish, he was received into the Church, and three years later he cbm pleted his studies for the priesthood at the Scots College in Rome and was ordained there. The following year he became curate at Motherwell in Glasgow, where he remained until appointed pastor of Longridden, about two years ago. He is forty-three years old. Cardinal Logue and the Gaelic League.—-In response to a letter from the secretary of the Leinster College of Irish, notifying him Of a meeting to be held in Drogheda to establish a "centre" of the college in that town Cardinal Logue wrote as follows "Carlingford, 12th Sept., 1917. Dear Sir: Owing to my being from home your letter did not reach me in time to write before your meeting on Mon day last. I hope your centre in Drog heda will be a success. The Irish Colleges give the only hope that any thing effectual \lill be done for the Irish language. As' for the Gaelic League, since it has been turned into a political machine I fear it will prove quite barren as far as promoting the revival of Irish is concerned. I am dear sir, yours faithfully, 4- Michael Card. Ldgue." x* Parson Converted "Little Flower." —An Irish lady, residing in France has written to a friend in Dublin as follows: "I was at'the funeral, not long ago, of the ex-parson, Mr. Grant who, it is generally believed, was con verted to Catholicity through the in tercession of the Little Flower some years since. He lived in the-house In which Sister Teresa was born. is always crowded with priests, sol diers' and- men and women of every class. The room in which the holy nun was born is now a chapel. The Requiem office and High Mass for dear old Mr. Grant were held in the Gathedral at Alencon, where Sister Teresa was baptized. His last words were: -'Little Teresa, lead me God.' Mrs. Grant continues to live on in the Maisonfce Soeur Therese. She has just returned from the National Pilgrimage to Lourdes, which was an enormous affair." Readers of the life of the Little Flower are familiar with the story of Mr. Graft's remarkable conversion from Presbyterianism, to the Church. It's, 'fta easy to recall* an unkind word as it is to draw back the builet after firing a gun, s i N THE CATHOLIC BULLETIN, NOVEMBER 3, 1917 The Gregorian Calendar RUSSIA HAS FINALLY ADOPTED OUR CALENDAR —ROMAN ME THOD OF COMPUTATION—THE JULIAN CALENDAR. Russia has at last agreed to agree with the Pope. Having held out for centuries against the calendar changes effected by Pope Gregory and which were gradually accepted for use by the civilized nations of the world —England holding out nearly 2o years—Russia has, since her revolu tion, decided to reckon by the Grego rian calendar. She had by her manner of reckon ing thirteen days to spare. These she took from April, the month of her revolution and so with one stroke brought herself into line with the rest of us. The early Calendar, worked out by the Romans, was based largely on the motions of the moon. As the early number of revolutions of the moon varies, the season and festivals did not keep in place, and the Roman cal endar fell into state of great confu sion. The year consisted of ten months, March being the first and December the tenth and last. Janu ary and February were added later. There were about 29% days in a lunar month, so the months were given 29 and 30 days alternately, be ginning with January. The number of d^ys in the week was probably based upon the number of planets then known, including the sun and moon. In the year 46 B. C., the Roman cal endar was reformed by Julius Caesar, under the advice of Egyptian astrono mers. The Julian Calendar.—The Julian calendar was planned without refer ence to the moon. It made three con secutive years of 365 days each, and the fourth of 366 days. The extra day was added to February, that month then having only 29 days, and the other months having alternately 30 and 31 days. The length of the Julian year was 265.25 days, and since the true year has 365.24 days, the Julian year was .01 of a day, or 11.2 minutes too long. This difference of 11.2 minutes be tween the length of the Julian year and the year now in use amounts to a little more than three days in 400 years. As a consequence, the date of the vernal equinox came continually earlier in the Julian year. In 1582 the vernal equinox occurred on the 11th of March. The Gregorian Calendar.—In that year Pope Gregory XIII directed that ten days be stricken from the calen dar, so that March equinox might oc cur on March 21. A further reform was introduced at this time in order to prevent a similar occurrence. The Pope decreed that the centurial year should not be counted as leap year ex cept when divisible by 400. Thus 1800, 2100, and so forth, are not leap years, but 1600, 2000 and 2400 are leap years. Thfe 'GregoHato Cffffendar is now used in most civilized countries. In England it was not adopted until 1752. Dates of events occurring before the Gregorian calendar was adopted are termed Old Style (O. S.), and those after the adoption New Style (N. S.). Education which dcjes not promote conduct bears within it a moral stain. A v o i Winter Colds and keep yourself and chil dren healthy. A Hygrom eter and Thermometer will do the work. We have a complete line of accurate Thermometers at from $1 to $5.00. QPTiCiAlS M8-3«0 8t. Peter Strfepi, Lowry Building. ^W^KOFGopDV^^ SBUCK *f/ ^Wf tr-?t:v^ It is easier to enrich ourselves with a thousand virtues than to correct our selves of a single fault. 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