MOST REV. JAMES E. QUIGLEY A rcltbishop of Chit.ago, a patron of learning and a clzamjion of Catlzolic

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A NEIW YEAR.

7Tr 0 the new student at St. V iatcur's. there is much for admira~ W t~o? The massive, s~one buildings with thei_r sentinel pillars, . nsmg to stalw art ne1ght; the vast sweep of open court with its boulevard bo rders and the extensive campus with its equipment are obj.ects that afford a treat to the eye longing f9r beauty apd_ grandeur. T o. tl~ e old st udent these obj ects awakened a feelino of

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gratification ra~her t han of wonder fo r he has se~n their growth day after clay and h~ has been partake r in the sacrifice and labor

. that rh ade their existence possible. T 'hey a re more than g raceful piles of stot1e oi avenues of sp lendor , t hey a re enduring monuments t o one he learn ed to love , to Fat he1: l\1arsile.

The arduous duties of p resident for twenty-seven . y ears wrought their claims upoi1 t he health of Father Marsile and sev-eral times had h e tendered his resignat ion before it could be ac-

.. ~ep~ed . When F'ather Marsile Game to Bourb ~;mnais manhood's ~ ~tmmer w as sti ll ~unny in hrs cheeks and no storms of care had

.: .sw .. epL his t) l a.c iG::i~llfrow. A ll the t alents of a gifted m ind, every ' ' s in'ew h a vjgo~~ous body h e at once devoted to the nursling that

now stands fu ll g row n on old L~vasseur hill. .There was no nook or corner-of the campus that did not ) en ow

1his hallowed' foot pri nt , no hall t hat did not .echo the music of his t opgue,,and. no :asseh i.bly that did riot feel t he thri l,l of his _inspiring p rese11"de. , .N'bne }VlJO h i.ve attended St. Viatew:'s can forget the

. fr a'g.ran1ce.9 ( sanctity t hat fe ll from. F ath er l\;farsile in t he discharge of h is pdestly fu nctions ; but it is .as a potent t eacher t hat he -w ill be chiefly r emem.hered. Conversant w ith t he doctrines of t heology, philosophy , and th e sciences, ve rsed in the erudition of th e saints he was ably fitted to expound the truths of Christianity and lead the young along the resplendent ways of righteousness. Manifoli as his presidentid and priestly duties were they did not rob him of his favorite pursuit, the study of literature. When the colleo-e curfew proclaimed the restful slumbers of the students Father M,;r-

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sile would retire to the illumined chambers of. the classics and far into the night he could be found a companion to the great in .rnind and soul. From this frequent converse with masters he gatnered

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VERY REV. M. J. MARSILE, C. S. V. For twenty-sev~1t years the President of St. Viateur's

the material for his plays which have delighted cultured theatre goers in Chiaago and the large cities ot Canada.

But the noble work of this whole-souled man, this affectionate father, this unselfi_sh priest does not cease for it will be carried along

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THE VIATORIAN 3 by the one on whom hi mantle of office h_a fallen, Father o~Mahoney . .. There i a singular paralleli m in the live of Father Mar-sile and his succe or. Both were about the same age when the .appointment of president wa a igned to them and both had dis-tinguished them elves i the studie of philo ophy and theology. They were alike in their love of the clas ics and while fJJather Man- sile was profess-o.r of l~terature in French, Father O'M-.ahoney wa~ .acting as , instructor in the same branch in Engli h. To. F athe'r . O'Mahoney belongs the credit of having brought the college cur-' riculum . to its present degree of excellence and under his supervi-

. sion as prefect of studies th~ classes were resumed almost . immedi-.ately after the fire and continued in all their vigor with graduation iil: the different departments of cia ses yet to be . surpassed. The new pre ident was born in Annascaul Co., Kerry, Ireland, in !877. Shortly aftet, his parents can~e to America and at an early age he entered St. Viateur's Normal In. titnte at Chicago. In I90I he re-ceived his degree of bachelor of arts at St. Viateur's College, . wip-ning the gold medal for the high est honors in the department of philosophy. In 1903 the degree of Master of Arts was conferred upon him in recognit1m1 oi his success in the field of letters and in April IC/04 he w2.s elevated to the priesthood.. -

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M. J. Boland. i7f EDIOUS has been the labor and long the search of sages for \:1 ~he discovery of the science tin~ would convert ba_se metal

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is because of the splendid m:arch of their rhythmic lines; or when he seems loathe to leave aside his Ed und . Burke it is because of the splendor of his logic and hi-s diction. Now I claim for the man . in whom this principle of honor is found, in whom there breathes this spirit of fidelity to duty a splendor far surpassing any .. creation of pen or brush. There is scarcely any one .of us who has .nqt at some time or other beheld deeds that elicited our admiration. His-tory t eems with,. them; the annals of every nation are replete with them, the chronicler of almcst every hamlet has .recorded them. kt this Vf4-y h our there is a sun in the eastern sky, a sun of dazzling splendor, :a sun to which .all Christen4om looks for light and hope, a su1~ i;11 ... w'hose glow the Churth seems set with all the brilliancy

. of oriental grandeur, a sun that is rising to its zerl.ith and in its zenith will stay until every cloud of despotism. breaks and vanishes into airy . vapors and that sun is . P:ius X. ~ All the intrigues of dever .diplomats, aJl the broadsides of denunciations d,ealt him from the . government stronghold of. France; all the volleys of repudia-tion sen.t hiq1 from infidel . infantry the world over have left him unscathed ancl U11 SCa~-red with not a crevice in his SeFene brow for he is firm )n hi.s purpose, true to his position and he stands like a,n-other Gibraltar defi.ant to roar of wind or splash of wave.

It is only one who is ;in close touch with the nature of the pres-ent Pontiff's position, ont who has felt the mighty pulsation of every heart beat impelling him in the dinection of love and his reason and duty in another direction, it is only such a one who can fully appreciate the sublime firmness of the Pontiff. In the king-dom of France, just a step from the threshold o.f his own native land he sees a mass of we::tlth slipping away from the hands of those who earned it and which he could restore with a word; he sees his children evicted from their homes, he sees their piteous eyes turned towards him for relief, h~ hears their heartrending la-mentations for bread which he could procure for them w ith a sim-p1e wafture of his sceptre but his duty is in the way. He would welCome th e gloom of prison walls, he would sacrifice life itself fQr his children bnt he c::innot sacrifice his duty.

Besides the element of splendor there is another note1 in honor no less attractive; that of glory, but here we must make a distinc-tion. Glory is of two kinds, external and internal. One is a Pa-gan, the ot her a Christian heritage; one is known by the blasts of trumpets the other the secret voices of the heart. The life of Alex-ander presents us a good example of the first. To have the world beneath his sway; to step1 to martial strains in the midst of gorge-ous pageants was his glory and ambition but bo'th passed with his death. But the glory that belongs to honor is an internal one; it is the testim ony of one's own conscience that he has been faithful to

THE VIATORIAN 5 his. trust and no matter what the obstacles wer-e no matter what ~hn_sequen ces follow there is a tranquil satisfacti~n in the thought that one has doric his duty. T11is 'Yas the glory of the martyrS! and it was an inqoluble problem to the Pagans how the Christians could be peaceful and serene under persecutions. The Lives of the Saint~ is a variegated garden in wh ich we could cull exam:ple after ex-ampfe, from the full blown flower to the tender bu_d j_ust opening its slen'der petals to the sunshine of life, of the peace and joy arising from fidelity to duty. Time and ~p

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power of.wealth, when com~ared with honor? Away with the pomp_ a nd parade of s~

THE VLA.TORIAN 7 readily coriceded by all that -Frank M'cQuin was Tilly's sup~rior, in every thing that c-cilled for knowledge, 'reason. or ability. In a

~ word, Frank was appreciated by all, and especially by Tilly, as the sort of a _ fellow . to fall in with, while Tilly, though admired by some, was more particularly pointed out for his short comings, and principal among these were_ a fiery temper and his long continu~d habit of partaking to excess, certain favorite beverages. The great contrast between .the habits and characteristics of the two' asso-

- dates gave rise to rnuch. discussidn and COffiim.ent among the Sny B-ottom gossipers . . Reproaches V\i'ere often hurled at Frank for keeping company with a character of such a low; caliber, 'Yhile friends were wont to aclvi_se -Tilly to turn over a new leaf and be more like McQui.n. . .

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Hnwever,. Tilly could not see things that way, probably be-cause he_ was better acquainted vvith the true relation between him-self and Frank. At any rate, no im.provem.ent did Tilly give signs

of, and one day . the neighborhood was thrown into astonishment - by .the. report that up along. the Levee McQuin and Tilly were

seen, "both drunk." Then to their great chagrin, the many ad- . mirers of Frank saw that i~stead of his turning Tilly, as they_ had hoped, Tilly had influenced him.. .

Sny Bottom h;td centered its. fondest hopes in Frank and awaited in eag1er expectation for the day when Success should open1 her golden gates and. bid him enter. But that fond .hope was shattered, and disappointment loomed up in its pla.ce. To all it was p.Jain that Frank w'as fast getting the habit and that ere long, like Tilly, the habit would fast have him. However, while this news was yet battling with the hearer's dis.belief, there occurred an accident that severed the association of Frank with . John, and put a climax to the disgusts and disappointments of tormer friends.

(fhe M;ississippi was high and the Levee was nobly doing its work. M:cQuin and Tilly were walking down the Levee on their

return~ from Clarkshill- where evidently both had gone through those preliminaries wh~ch generall.y are. followed by -a _ "_g?od drunk." Of the two, Tllly /as dec1dedly 111 the worse cond1hon. -They were walking side by side, Tilly next to the river's edge. A watchman, attracted hy their talk, hid to await their coming . .

) : ~when opposite the ' watchman, Frank exclaiin~d, "How _long and how well has this old levee kept the water out!" '

aM'ethinks. it keeps the water in," blurted out Tilly .. _ .. '~All depends f.rom :vhich side y~u_Iook at th~ qu.~stion, but 'tis

platn that a levee 1s bmlt to keeP' the water ou.t, satd Frank. . . . . . uAnd 'tis: :nP less plain, it is to keep the ~ater in," shouted

!lilly, as his inteq~st .arose to excitement -over the matter.

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. "An_y _fopl knows that this levee was built to ~eep the. wat~r out," persisted Frank.

. ~xcitemerit ~axed stron&" on bqth. sides of the argument and especially was this true of Tllly, who m accordance with his dis-

. position, became furiously angry and after pulling something out of his coat pocket, . he ordered, "Look here, take this bottle of

Sun~( Bro_ok. Is. that cork V!~.;,e . to .keep: the whiskey in or ott~ ?" . . But a cork IS not a levee, shouted Frank, who was gettmg disgusted about the matter. '

Tilly lost aJl self 'control, and diving into his po~ket h.e brought out his knife and , turni:ng qui'ckly, drove it deeplyX into his old pal's

side, who fell, untoriscious, to the ground . With a. malicious smile . Tilly viewed the gushing blood as it form,ed a little poo( near the

fallen body. ''There's a cut in your side, maybe you'd better tie it up to keep the blood in, or out, w:hichever you think. Lay there and think it over," said he, and he turned to move on; In. another I11loment he was in the watchman's grasp. Frank was taken home and another -month found ,him slowly recovering from the wound, while Tilly, vowing vengeance, was speeding ori a train for a ten years' stay in the "pen." '

During his recovery Frank realized the ra?h step that he had taken and shortly after he got well he was even more keenly im-pressed regarding his error, when by thel bedside of his dying fath,.. er he received his father 's bkssing and heard his earmest prayer that in the futur e his sori might bel as a man.

L et it suffice to say that Frank was a changed man and that after his father 's departure from. this world he again arose in the esteem of former frie.nds. As, when the river was high, the L evee protected his home, . so too, when temptation was near .did he guard his honor. . For eleven years he did this without_ interruption. But eieven years creates a: new scene. Again we find the water m:Qunt-ed high on the Levee's side. From various sources danger is im-minent, so Frank IvicQuin now guards along t~e Levee.

The moon is shining brightly. on the river's broad expanse and silvery rays 'reflect from every little ripple as they travel to

. the shore. A br.eeze breaks through the willow~ and cools the sultry night. The frogs down in the marshes, the crickets in .the

trees, the lonely hoot of the distant owl, with now and then a fl.op-ping fish, are all that! break the silence of .the night . The river still is rising and to the guard it seems , that every little ;.'ro:Uing w ave splashes nearer to liis feet. . E.re one mor~ sun . has -dtsap-peared behind th~ pistant hi'lls, he fancies. all Sny Bottom sunk he-neath the floodi~g water.s. Long anxiot~s hour,s thus he spen_ds

.. and though danger threatens near, he g~ards the Leyee, . ~-atches closely, listens for the softest step, but th_ough no: .sound breaks. _on

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d~ftly h1dtng, yva1tmg hke the crouching tiger, ere he springs upon h1s prey. -

. . As the w.atchman lingered at the crossing on the Levee, a niuffled voice ordering ~' Hands up," struck terror to his heart. But in hi_s hand he held his weapon, and though apparently he was peedily. obeying the command, he found it convenient to let fire into the dense shade of the willows, whence the sound came;

- A fla_sh of a rifle, groans and .a crash told . bini that he had made a It.!cky shot and instantly he rushed for shelter, but he felt aj twinge of pain ih his shoulder and stumbled to the ground on the river's 8icle of th e Levee. Another lucky shot had b een made. 1 Two men rushed out of the shadow , bent ove r the form of their companion, then over the wounded watchman, and then hastened down the

Levee. T en-minutes later F rank opened his eyes upon a kneeling

'form above him. H e gave a sudden start as the thought . of duty fla ~d1 ecl through him , but a keen pain in his shoulder made him s ink back with a g roan. Then h e said, "Closer str.anger., list en , then though you must defy danger -and face death , for the sake of y our home, for th e love of cl ear ones, at honor 's p ri ce and duty's bidding, act. L evee cutters are at work, 1nost likely below th e cr oss in g. ]\fake has t e, for even nQw it may be late."

T l1 e stranger t ar r ied, and the w atchman , exhausted, closed h is e)' E'S. T he E-t ranger asked a quest ion , bu t th e wat chman faint-ing away, heard on ly these las t few words, "To keep th e wat er in or cut?" H e p laced his hand t o the bleeding wo1-~n d and faintly r ep lied, aln. " It was sufficient. T he stranger did his bidding. Th e two men stood bes ide th e levee cut , wat ching the w ater rush throug h. I n t en minutes more nothing could stop it. Two quick, a

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him , he faintly w hts p-ered , It must have be.en J ohn. '' . ~ . Later w hen h e w as t old all , h e smil ed an'd said,- ''No one el e

could have cl one it so well." . . , ' Today, Frank M cQuin _and J Ol}n Ti lly are fast friends . In the

eyes of each other they are brothers. In the eyes of Sny Bottom t h ey are heroes. F rank is the sam.e as of old, b u t Tilly has changed. F or eleven years the fire of r evenge w as kindl ed and fl ouri sed in h is h eart , only t o b ~ cooled an d extinguished by a t ear w hich g ush ed from th e .fount ain of love.

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-S. McMirhon, 'og . . ~ A I_LY obsef vati:)n in t he g re.at .center_- of American civilization lJ;I bn ngs befo r e our eyes magm ficent ed tfices, erected for th,e wor-. ship of God,. models of ~rchitectural art, interiorly adorned with sp len did paintings, marble altars and l:ichly-carved furnishings; we also see imposing schools an d co ll eges, consecrated to the inculca-t ion of Catholic doctrin e at1@ t he pi incip les of Chr istian living and again do we v iew beaut iftll pa rsonages and convents, the homes of th e minist ers of God ancl th e t each ers of H is divine wor d. These ex-1 erw~. 1 e,ricle 11 ces of t he ti1a.ter ial prosperity an cl success of the Cath-o li.c Church in thi ~ country a re befit ting t he sover eig n majesty of her Div it

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with the .. s ituation. :~g-ain, the : people are too .poot , and they,::'a.re -. not comp~act ly_ ~nough ' Ae-ttled . to .warranLthem in under.taking the constructiOn o~ churcheS: .and chapels, not .t o speak of schools 'and

co~leges for the Catholic haining of the young .. Hence it , is that ch1ldren! go. for lon~ periods of time without the; regenerating wat-ers. of baptlsl'n., the1r parents are not offered an . opportunity of as~ sisting at the holy sacrifice of the mass, and the sick arid infirm _ma-ny times di.e without the consolation of-the last sacraments and are buried witho.ut the solemn and impressive rites of the Church. It is people, circumstanced such as these and especia'lly their off-spring who fall easy ppey to the proselytizing efforts of Protestant _ religious societies. U nable themselves to provide the sui~able ac- . companiments of Catholicity, th e pr~est and the chapel, many of them lose the fa ith or tL1rn to that creed which offers them a church and r.-=lig ious service,. hav in g been previously allured to its folds through entertainm ents,. and in many instances, through financial assistance. Despite opinions to the con t rary, it has be,en asserted and maintained that th e Am.eri can people are of a religious .t em-perament and that deprived of the mini trations of one church, they . will turn to another. This saying seems to bave been sufficiently ve rifi ed in different parts of the United States, where the. Catholic serv ice and th e inst ruction of the people have been neglected . through th eir po\'e'rty or through some other apparently .good rea-son. He1:e they have affiliated themselves to other creed for the spiritual solace th ey seek, and hence it is that we now have not a few families w hose fathers on ly a generation q.r two back were good Catholics at th e prese11t day enrolled on the parish sheets of . lVIethoclist, Baptist, Episcopalian congregations. The evil has been . clone and it is very .ha rd to repair it espec ia lly among the children of such fami lies who have been brought up in the tenets of Protes-tantism and entirely ignorant of the truths and principles of the Catholi c fa ith.

For many" yea rs w.e have been sending missionaries into the jungles of Africa and I ndia, into the hills of China and Japan, to convert the h eathen and the Pagan to Christianity. l\1 uch money has been spent in procuring literature and articles of religiou ' ig-nification, to carry instruct ions to these misguided people, and many aintly men .have laid down their live~ to preach the tt:ue gospel to them. It is truly a great work and one de erving of every commendation, but although granting that the preaching of the gospel to the heathen and Pagan is one of great m'erit, till it eems to me that it would be a better policy for; the Church in America to exert her fullest endeavors to the r etention of her own children,.' to the preservation of the Catholic faith to the Catholic people cat-tercel in spar ely settled portions of our O\vn country, and who have

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_ own be'f.or-ct ' streh:ning 6ut '.fo.f thaF of otWers>Wt!rr o!tcbire1:l rtchari'ty.' 'begirts at hon'le~ '' Agaih \h~ ,p ";rb6-r'e'~s of th~ t~itn; i W: ' ~dfp'irtW' of 3th is"

' ' ' b . , . . . ' (,:0Ui1tty is . tetatde&' by the practice pf-'assisl~n:g ca.tfilol'ics : of S6rtte, E~r~pean COU~1'tries 'to erect fnagriificent ' cath'eddd~': and, 'c61'leges~Qften rriore :~nagnificent ' a.nd co-stly' than -bttr 6;wr1. : T'he rriori,e.y which is ani1t1a1ly contributed by the faithful in the United States

fo~ this purpose could be applied mo:re 'beneficially in the building of small mission chapels here at home in towns and villages where none exist.

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The leading Protestant denori11~1ati;~s ,.have fo1~ l'nany years conducted , in addition to their Foreign lVIission Societies, Church Extension Boards, whose functi on it i,s to look after the. . spread of the respective cr'eeds in this country.'' The l\l[ethodist Board has a standing off-er of two hundred and fifty dollars .to aiel in the erection of a church of their denomination in any of the frontier states. Ac-cording to th@ annual report o this Board we learn that to the close of the year 1904, it had assisted thirteen thousand nine ' hun-dred and fourteen churches, and that in 1904 from various sources -collections, bequests and individual contributions, etc., this board had received for the ',york o.f extension alone the sum of $429,150.81. Pause a moment and consider the work this religious society is doing with a sttength numerically several times inferior to ours in this country and cease to wonder why it is be.coming strong. Think . what an-immense amount of good, how many churches and chapels en"cted, how many poor congregations assisted , and how' mariy worthy priests enabled to push on in their struggle for the eternal salvation of souls if a sum equal to this were at the disposal of a sim.ilc:rly constituted board for the work of Ca~holic ext1e.nsion, and ask y< 1urselves if it is not time that the Catholics of this country bfcame conscious of their duty in this respect. Yes, the time has arrived \V hen the Catholics of this country shall make an effort to cope in an adequate manner w ith the situation, a11cl moreover, the work. has aheady been commenced, for twi

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poorly settled portions of the .lan'd and ,particularly to the~ gr-e~t Wlest and Southwe5t. They realize ft11ly the duty of -Catholics to cla-im this vast territory for Catholicism and they energetically set about to accomplish it. In the words of the constitution of the society its purpose is set forth, "To assist in the .erection of parish buildings for poor and needy places; to support priests for the poverty stricken districts; to send the comfort of religion to pion-eer localities; in a word to preserve the faith of J esus Christ to thousands of scattered Catholics in every portion of our land, es ... pecially in the country districts and amongst immigrants."

These men r ealized the necessity of counteracting the mission ... ary work being done by: Protestant denominations amongst Cath-olics ; of abating the great evil which arises from our permitting the children of Catholic parents to g row up in ignorance of the faith of their fathers, or to fa ll into the -hands of the - zealots of Protestantism. 1\!Ioreover, they observed the danger of immi-grants from Catholic coun tries being drawn into the folds of these r eligions societ ies and they resolved to take steps tor prevent it.

The society has received t he approval of highest ecclesiastical authority. The heirarchy of the United States has sanctioned it, and in fact, several of the Ardibishops are very actively engaged in assisting the society. Rec e:v-t ly it has been favored in a sign'al way with t he earnest approbation of the Sovereign Pointiff, Pbpe Pius X. The Holy Father, in a letter to Archbishop Quigley says: "We also see that th e work is most opportun e in a country where owing to the multitude of imn1igrants of various pationalities, a great and extended field lies open for the upbuilding of the King-dom of God, -and more so as the endeavors of associations hostile to the Catholic na1ne are so active and so effective and so wide-spread . This hostile influence, unless coped with unceasingly and prudeutly, w ill .dQ_ no li ttle harm, especially among the simple folk of rural districts." As a further stamp of his approval and as an encouragement to the Catholics to actively co-operate with the society, His Holiness has decreed numerous . and rich indulgences to all w ho assist in the work, and he has designated St. Philip N eri, the A postlc of Rome, to. be the sp-ecial patron of the So-c iety. Sanctioned by such authority and supported by the active co-operation of the leading archbishop , bishops and Catholic laymen of the country the Catholic Church Ebcten ion Society seems to rest on a solid ' foundation and to be destined for great things. Its affairs are in charge of men who are knowt]- to be thorough busi-

ne~s men. The management of affairs is entrusted to a Board of Governors t he chairman of which is the 1\1ost Rev. James E. Quigley, A rchbishop of Chicago, a prime mover ?~ the or~ni~ation, a churchman fnlly conver ant with the cond1t10n which the

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business . ma,n~ arid tlje executive work of-the society is ;.in the hands of the Rev. Francis C. K:elley, who has -studied conditions in 'the neglected parts of the Lord's vineyard in this . country Q.nd knows n'0w ~o best adval).ce the interests of Catholicity in these localities.

Thus far in its short career the Catholic Extension Society has accomplished wo,nders! It has. erected chapiels and churches and assisted priests of needy parishes and has responded to nine- -tenths of the worthy applications received. Within the past few months through its agency a chapel car, tpe finest of its kind, do-nated _by Mr. Ambrose Petry, a founder o.f the society, has been dispatched on its mission of Christian zeal. This car is fitted out with chapel, confessionals, library, liv ing rooms for the priest in. charge and his assistants. It was dedicated in Chicago on June 16th, of the present year, by Archbishop Quigley, and was imm.e-diately sent to Kansas , w here, under the direction of ~.i shop Hen-'nessy, it has traveled through the Wichita Diocese, stopping every Sunday at some place remote from a Catholic church. Mass is celebrated; the sacraments administered , and Catholic literature disseminated. The society intends in a short time to equip an:oth- er car of this. kind and w hen the need arises, others. A nother fea-ture of the means employed by the society t o furth er th e cause of the church extension i the publication of a monthly magazine, "Extension,' ' enterta iningly w ritten and treating of th e principal subjects of Catholic interest unde r present day discussion. Th.e proceeds of the magazine over a~1d above expenses is turned into the treasury of the society to further the general purposes of its organization.

Churcb extensioN is something which should enlist the hearty support of every Catholic in the. United States, for it is a practical work, the n ecessity of w hich every true son and daughter of the church must admit, and now since the movement of church ex-tension has been started, let J.1 S render it a.ll assistance. Let us not in the prosperity of the church in our own Diocese or Province be-guile ourselves into the belief that the church is equally prosper-ous in all parts of the co:untry, or from our ptesent s,urroundings , lull ourselves into a fals-e sense of securi ty, begotten in ignorance of conditions not within our immediate vision. But rather, let us look .things square in the face, r-.ealize the danger of our brethren less fortunately situated than we, losing the faith , and by our sup-port, moral and financial , lend encouragem,ent and impetus to the grand and noble work so auspiciously undertaken by th e Catholic Church Ext1ension Society of the United States "for the greater glory o Go-d.''

- Ediftor in Chief-. J. DOUGHER'L'Y, '08. Exchanges---E. CONWAY, '08. Athlet~cs-G. KILEY, . 'll. So-cieties-A. 'SAVARY, '09. Person.ais-.-D. BOYLE, '10 .

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Entered at the Bourbonnais Pos't Office as second-class matter All correspondence 7Jtust, b~ addressed "Th.e Viatorian," Bo~rbonnais , Illinois ~ Subscription prire One Dollar per year, payable in advance. All business co1nmunit;ations should be addressed . Rev, J . .r: Ryan, St. Via~ teur~s College, Bourbonnais, Illinois.

:@DITO,RIAL. Once more there has been g iven to us opportunities unlini.it-

ed by the opening of a new scholastic yr:=ar. Possibilities and op ~ portunitie.s undreamt of now loom up before us and clairn our at-tention ai1cl they are fraught with too weighty con?equences to be s1::orned or sc-offed at. T'he road to failure is well paved with un-seized opportunities that presented themsdves not on ly once but which returned with each succeeding year.

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His first orders wnz fe~ shore, and the next thing I knew he'd raced up ter the house an come down agin with a big paper bag.

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."Ben: Hedges/' sez he handii1 the. bag to me . . uYou now have . in your hands1 the f~tnous:..to-be Perkins Fish Elnsnarer." Well Sir, I adrnit I nad ter laug;: when I opened t!Iat there bag, it wa.s nothing .bul dried 13.ppies straight froni the kitchen1 ,

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As I said before, I l3:ughed, butS~ only looked grand like ~ncl quoted something bout laughin lc\.st. N'ow, I never }]earn, . t~ll of dried apples fer b;ait; but it being -~i 's l eacl I reaches fer the poles an

Starts 'fer the boat, but there' s . where I makes my m.istake. "Put fhei11 . poles dovviT;" sez Si, "an get inter this boat." W 'e ll sir, I wuz

thu'nclerstruck, the' idee of )ishin 'thout poles. B!ut I obeys an Si after rowin a bit, drops the oars, an reaches fer that bag an then starts throw in . them dried apples overboard.

When they W:ere all in-the water, he turns to me and takin out his watch sez in a superior ~vay "Well Ben, in five minutes we'll begin takin i11 the catch." I really felt so rry or Si then , hoys, for it s ure looked: like he was cra.ckecl. But would you believe it, in five minutes J h~arn a splash, then another, and ariother an ~l purty soon the water all round us wuz cover ed with the members of the finny tribe ftoatin o!1 their backs . AJ l there wuz left to do then wuz to etch 'en) in, which; same we did."

. "B ut Ur1cle Ben,''someone asked, "what maclle the fish act that way?" '

"Why y,er see" ans\:verc~ the old man, "when the poor cusses , et th e dried apples, th ey gulped some water in at the same titne and the water swdlin the dried apples they eventttally burst " and with this explanation , we all turned 111. , ]. G. K.

When the R v. P . .l\1[. }~lannigan died the parish of St. Anne, Chicago, suffered a lamentabl-e loss but with the promotion of Rev. Edward Kelley as his successor there cam.e a prompt and whole-sam'-:; consolation. Like hi s p1:edecessor the! present pastor is a man whose work has l.eft its impress on the Catho lic fold of th e state's metropolis. The hi story of the Church's growth in Chicago is the history of the life of it!:' p_a~tor~ anc! _ thi ~ is especially so in the par-ishes of St. . Ann.e . and St. Cecelia. These m en have clone the pioneer's work in t~e reli g ious fi-eld. They have cleared a wilaer-ness irrioatecl a .barren land .. ancl made it a wholesome oas is of " ' b . C9:tholi c truth . . O nr .. congratulations to the parishioners o_f St. Anne's and our best wishes to their pastor .

.,. .. "Greater St. Viateur' ~' is $Grpething n1.ore than 11'ominal t? th.e . :Rev. H. D't1 rkin of Rantoul , IlL When, the doors of the_ new mst1-

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!utio~ were opened in September, Father Durkin brought for reg ... tstratwn a large group of boys from his parish. Dnselfish interest in his boys is one of Father Durkin's admirable traits and it is a .source of much pleasure to him- as well as to St. Viateur's that 'Bishop Spaulding's choice for R ome fell upon .. one of his boys, Mr. _ ~-Frank Walsh '07.

The :Viatotian .extends its best wishes to Messr~. Marcotte ~nd ~Lambert who have taken up the h~rdware business of the Fraser . ~Hardware Co.

Although the v isit of Father Fitzpatrick of Elmwood and -Father White of Cullom wc..s brief it was pleasant and we will ex-~pect a longer stay from them soon.

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Announcements are made of the coming nuptials of Dr. E. A. ~ach of St. Bernard's hospital Chicago and M"iss Mary Boyle --whose brothers have been students at the college for several years.

Mr. Murphy of Chicago paid his son .of the Junior department -a pleasant visit Sunday, Sept. 29th.

M r. John Rainey of Chicago spent a few pleasant hours with . his brother, Frank, Sept. 29.

Rev. Father Vaughan, of oratorical fame, treated Kankakee to .some of his e loquence in the presentation of his favorite of the Shakesperian dramas, "The Merchant of Venice." The occasion was the anniversary of the dedication of St., Patrick's church. We hope that the tim e is not distant when we can again hear tli.e

:famous orator. Mr. Frank vV.:,lsh 'o7, Mr. Henry Fitzgerald 'o7 and Mr.

H 'enry Webber '07, were called upon to con:plete their studies in "Rome, at the A1nerican college. They sailed from New York October 1oth. The faculty and student body extend their heartfelt

wishes for a pleasant voyage and success in their new situation. Mr. D. Boyle of

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Sorrow thre\V its mottrnful garb over St . . Viatet'tr.'s when re-ports ca~e /ortp that Harold Palgin ' a Ii.te stud,ent of the c6Uege, had crossed the l.astearthly 1threshold. Harold was a graduate of the Valparajso. hjgh school and caine lo Saint , V~at~ur's w~'ith bright hopes of finishing q; college cot:lfse._ A short tim'e fLf1er: his arrival' he was stricken with' a spdden. illnes's '"'which ~ai-fi~4 :ihim aw(ly quite unexpectedly. Be was the only son of 'M:r. and~ M:J:S .. ;.Pa-gin of Val-paraiso, both of \V'hom came to IZ:ankakee when apprised of the ser- ious condition of their boy. His rem1airts were. t 'aken to Valparaiso

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At last 'the m~ori1e.nt, which for some tirhe. we ha\re fearf~tliy _ y~t eargerly awaited, has arrived;' at list the 6pp.ottui1ity 'is befoie us, when ' pen in hand and shro:.tded . in 'the powed\tl . garl~ of critic, our fervid brain aglow. with the enthusiasri1 . arud possti-bilities .of the _pro-fession, and conscious of ot1r .dut'ies to:Wards our brethr'ert of the editorial woi-ld, we may peruse with critical_ eye the efforts of our . contemporaries and with unlimiN~ d rn~gnanim'ity and justit~, pro-cla'it11 to _.the eager arid expectant m.ultitud~ oqr ~ppreciation o.t con-

. demnati~n . of their productions;; . Fq'r S\1\e:~y. t() :~he young a~4 in-, experienced ex-m1an the wodd can no:t app~ar p;th~r th~n exp_ectanL With his boundless . energy : and , zea) , h_e "f~hply .- imagi,n~s ~hft his words produce . wouderf,ul effeCts ; and _are ".W~ igltt;d ' anc1 COlJS~qered with great respect in the- world ~f. tholig~:f; _-and .. :v~ ':'~II ~e so

.. cruel as . to dispel these fond fanCies;? Let hnn F,e'J:9'Ce .1h l;ns ex-; pectations for it is in such enthusiasr:rt that th~ germs ;Qf .: strcce~s~.are

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and unwilling to his winter quarters, the question of football's re- . ception .naturally arises. The Athletic A.ssodation met, and_ after

. ~ature deliber'a!iol! and discussion decided to put the rough gentle-man on the berich for this season. In 0ther words, the College will

. have no ,representative varsity eleven. Of course ~the boys may do a few fa.n.cy ..stunts on the gridiron against local teams, merely to ward off ennui but in the w'ords of the new manager, "We will not undertake any games with College or . Un,iv;ersity teams that are" really in our cb.ss" and the association gives maryy reasons for this step,. In the fir!lt place the material on hand for even a passable

s~quad is decidedly poor; secondly, new equipment is need'ed and football togs make- great rents in funds-of course w.e very seldom alloW pecuniary reasons to influence our decisions, yet we can't

help but feel that with football on the shelf the association treas-urer would strongly resemble a Pittsburg millionaire; thirdly many of our football ' players are also bq.seball men and-well we're not taking _ any chances 011 . their getting hurt. Baseball has always been our long suit and as the coming nine promises to be a world beating aggregation, :\vhy not save men and money for big games in the spring.

Basket-ball will soon be cl~im.ing1 our attention and as I sit here tapping my teeth with my pen I can't help feeling that a "classy'1 five will wear . the gold stockings this year. The outlook certainly appears good frol.n her,e. The correct basket-hall "dope" however will, no doubt, be rendered by "Steve" in the near future so we will 'content our?elves with hoping our expec"tations are realized.

, It m.ay be merely an idle rumor but th,ere has been some talk rOf going inl strongly for indoor baseball this winter. To the old fellows who have seen some rather fancy games in fhe days of the league thi-s' sounds good. They know we have the g:entlemen who

1 tan handle the padded baseball to .perfection, and feel that if the . league is again! organized with St .. Viateur's on the list the season .

will bring out some interesting games. L_et us hope then that the talk materializes .and that indoor joins basket-ball in robbing the winter. m1onths of their dreariness.

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Again-the simple life.

Roy Hall has its "400"-A real high set too. Sick relatives may have their drawbacks but they come in

mighty handy duritrg the post season series. Football retired early but as usual left a mark of it affection

after it-This ti~1~ on Jiin's collar.,.bone. "Philosophers are all right as Philosophers but they can't p1ay

ltall"'"-Manager Bergin. Doick-"Gee, I'll bet that new Singer building in New York is a hummer."

"Turkey" was overheard humming the follow-ing: Th "N 1:-~d" e ew .t'-1 .

His heart has -one unchanging theme One thought away from books,

H ,e wanders 'round as in a drean1 With melancholy looks.

' In vain we try with lively air To coax his mind to roam,

That voice of other times is there And echoes-Home sweet hom~.

D~nny-"Why do stock farmers like a lot of stair climbing?',. Group (in chorus )~"What's the answer?" Dinny-"It develops the calves." (Exit Dinny.)

Lost~Two rooms, one , in Chicago, the other in the village. Finder please return to ''Gus and Jerry." S. V. C.

- Poetry Teacher-"What are feet essentials of?" Eclgar-'' \ ,Y alkin or rurinin." "Do yon take Saltus and Levi?" Bert-"Whither goe'st thou 'Davis ?' " F. L ynch W. S. (White Sox)-"To Detroit, to represent the

Athletic Association." .. Dancing classes to be organized in gymnasium. Apply to Prof.

Morgan. Vi itor (passing room 324)-"Is that music I hear?" Eddy-''Yes, 'Turkey in the traw.' It' Culleton snoring."

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The Freshmai1 dass Is a_ real fresh class,

I have no doubt at all --~But" the Caesar class

Is the b.anner class, When it comes to downright Gaul.

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, : o'clpck th~~-- class president appeared and amid the plaudits of his~ --~fdlow.\;clq,'ssmen, placed a tiny gr~ssb.opp-er on the gym floor and-' -

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'L~ttle Bear-. "I shure do-want some mo Worn Kinks." Of all the sad words of tongue or pen, 1 The saddest are-these, "I've flunked again."

j A . ._Wy~wqn-:-;Wh~n -~2s this. chick~n killed? ~ ' ('' -~( c:t:. ,. Waiter~ \f\Ze ~dpn't fbrnish elates with. chickens. Just the gravy._

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Freshie-Faci~ - . f?-J:~re, feci, fake it: Ckh! said Stad,,. I'lYtrever. be q.ble to. put these . shoes

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- POet-Have you read my "Descent to Hades?" Editor-. "No; but I'd like to see it." The-fellow. w-ho -brags of his . college And all his great learning 's;a bore,

The man.-_who is proud of his knowledge Is baclly in need of som.e more.

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