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ST. VIATEUR.

Tha,t we could shape our course~, Like: thine, 0 sa1intly one~

And marshal all our forces Until sa.lva.tion'·s won!

By 'l~heba.id:'s waste surrounded, In palm tree's scanty s:hade,

The ~.epths of truth thou~srt soundfld vVHh virtue as thine aid.

In n1any climes and reg·ions Rise walls where knowledge dwell~,

\Vhere tea;cher to his legions Thy name a:nd virtue tells.

And 1nay we spread thy glory, 'VVberever -we may roam,

By telling thy life~s story In ·every hea;rth and home.

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C. MAHONEY,-Sef.ond Rh0t6r46.

WHENCE THE SOUL?

Of all <]Uestions· that. interest thinking men, none are of suc:h vit.a.l import.a1nee a,ndJ of sucl1 a biding inten-..8t as questions ahoirfj the human soul. PirRt, is there a, soul? Then, whence i~ it, what is its nnturc:>, IYllat is its destiny? T'hesH a.ra ~ome of tlu:• great · question~~ tl1ait 1nen havE> einy)loyed the best aff.ort.s of the,ir gc~nius to clncidaif:e.

\Y<.> ha;re often listened. to learned and eloquent' tlisquh;i­i ionR on the nature and di0s.tiny o-f. the ::-;oul, but .there i~ a.n equally g:ra.Ye S'ubject of di-scussion, one (Wen 1nore necesRary to ~PiJ l r properly-onE>, '\Vhich if pl'~~ope'rly defined and' proved, clrarR the way to the d:e1nonstration of otl1t:.-r points a.s to tlte ~o-nl-and thisi aU-im.portant 8uhj(•ct is the o1ri.gin of the rmuJ. 1 ~ tlw ~oul tJH'!; offspring of n1a.ttcr, or' is it. from atb:ovo? If not horu of Jl1R.:tter~ but detscend(lld from the s1des, is it a spirit expulsBd, fr·om E<len lJo\Ye'l'H .f<Yr p;ome CI~aving

nfter ea.rthly delights'? Is .it n, part. of Goers substance, 01~ is it a bright new creation thai comes fr0sh a.nd fah'1 from God's c:rea.ti-re ha~nd, and take8 its, 'CI " <)lllng pla~ce in tlH~ body?

'f1o settle these and' such · q1wst.ions is my present theme. No.,,. lot u.s· pr·o:eeed hy \Yay of elimination a.nd briefly reject tlw wrong ,solut.ions, .a,s to the origin of the :-;nul-then it will be cl<:~a:rly evi<l'ent, that. "\Ve rnn~t aerrpt tlw on ly one tha,t remains a:ncl which nl'llst. bo the right oTw·.

'VheneE'i then is the sonl, tl.1e li-ring pdnciple in ·man? All philos-ophers· tha,t art~ worthy of notirf:'t adn1H. a soul, a principle cf life, of n1otion, sense and thoug;ht wit.hi n us. But wha1t tha~t

s·on} is and "·hence it cmnes', this· is the ques.t.ion of questions. 'l'he nwte-da1i.sts sa.y, "\Vhy! its nof far to find-i8 not mat'ter t<l]X1.ble: of g-i-ring. birth ta .~soul'? T..~ook ancl ~Pe llmv infinite and complira,t.ecl a:re comhinations of matter! Sre how from out this wonderful alchemy of matter is ck tilled the cl ear, bright oul

1vhich thinks and ' 'vi ll s ?"

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a~ns·wer to make. I say: "No gentlemen, it's not so!" I would ask them. with ~qual blandness: "Oan you gather oil from tl1 <~

rocks!, .sunshine fr'om· t.he rrta.ntle of night? or figB fr'om. thistlt'S '! OAN you now? No! Vfell, neither can I, nor can God, nor

• nature anv n1ore n1a;ke a soul ont of rnatter or out of a.nv com-. ., ,]

hinart.ions of HJ.atter. "'\tVhy? s iln ply because the s·oul has opern­tions which are independent of and which far transcend all the properties and powers o,f orga.nic matter, \vhich, :you know very \Veil, is the Inos.t perfect sort of rna.tter." _

~rhe ra:tionai fa.c:ult ies: of the soul are such that thev d e· t)

nrancl a prindple, .a sonl, which is of other parentage than that of rnatter. God, himself, coultl not haYe ttudowed matter with the properties of tlwught aJld rational. voJition, since these . a;re dia;metricall:r opposed to all the. known properties: of matter, such as extension, size, figures, weight ::n.t(l m_o~tion ~ 1nuch les:-; could: uw~tter have ellllO\Yed itself with a. soul-giving power. The soul is, therefore, not an evolution or an outgr'owth of matteT. Let us: say, however, to the er'rclit of a ceTtain class. of les~ ra.bid evolutionis.ts, that they trace· at least the firBt, human soul to the jntervention of God. It is also the verdict of the most enlight­ened scientists that; Jna:tter cannot give birth to any kind of life, n1nch less can it l1e tl)et parent· of the principle of human life. '

Frmu this, then, it is a.ppa.rent that the soul'S! origin is not to be sought. for in matter. !{nock a,s loud as you please at the door of m.a.tter, it can give you no answer as to whence the soul cmneK Let us then address ourselves elsewhe1""e. ~la,to', who1 iR distinctly a' spiritual philosopher, and not a 1na.teriaiist, teaches that the rational soul in HHI.Jl i~ p1•odu:ced by God' in sorne mys­tericus. \v.ay, out o·:f \Vha.t he: calls! the· "identical and the differ­ent." Plato)s: lnunan soul s are spiritual ancl humortal. They Inust ha.ve been n1.aue, it i:-; true, out of smuet.hing pre-existing. N 01 pa.gan philosopher ha:d a u idea; of creation. 'Anyway these souls were In~Jde a long tirn.e hefor:e they, ever carne to dwell in bodies. 'Phey led a happy life -in the celestial spheres; amc1 for ~ome cm 1 ~e or <:ri111r nnkuown to nB, 'vere: placed jn t he hody.

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This is ca.lled the theory of pre-existence, which cann<>t he admitted, because the human souls were not created before the bodie•s·; fo1~ certainly a natural a;pt.itude to unite with the body 1nu:st be admitted in the so,ul.

No.w, if tlte soul be created before it is joined with the body, it must he said th~t. it is created. by God in such a 1nanner that it is devoid of its na.tur~J perfection, amd hence be considered as something out.side its natutal state. But this . is ab"'urd, ·for whatterver is immediately pr()("luced by God' is produced in its naturally perfect state. Therefore, the soul is not trPntPd he­fore it is· joined with the body.

But· since thof;.e. who admi t the pre-existence of souls deny the. natural union of the soul with the body, we must refute them by another reason. If the sonl could naturally begin to exist without the body, some caus.e must be assigned on a.ccount of whieh it is united with the body, and thi.s cause must be soug·ht either from the will of the soul Ol" from some extrinsic p,rinciple. But neither can be granted. The first cannot be gi."anted because, if the soul ha.s no natural aptitude to unite with the body, eer-tainly it cannot desire a body, beca.u e it does not need the body, on the contrary, the body will only rau.se the soul to for~et all its previous, bright and ha.ppy knowledge, a:s Plato, himse1f, holds is the ca:se. Hence there is no reason why it should desire to be united with a body. Neither the second rea son can be granted,for the union nf the soul and boclv,which pro-­reeds neither frnm the nature nor from the will of the soul, but from S{)lme extrinsic' cause, ntust be said to occur through som·e violence ; a.nd since every violence is opposed to nature, this union, then, must be rega.r~·e:d aS' something contrary to nature, and, therefore, man, 'vho1 is com'Posed of bDth body and soul, is something unnat ural, which is manifestly ahsurd . Like .. wise, it i' most fa lse that. the sou'l is t.hrust into the body in punishment fo r smne fault; fo-r as the Angelic Doctor . ays: "Punishment is adverse to the good of na.ture. and is called evil. If, therefore, the union of the soul a.nd th·e body is a. eerta.in punishment, it i not t1H~ good of nature. But thi ." 1... impossible, becat.1 .. e, tbi.

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very union is' intended by nature, for na:tura1l genera.tion termi­nates in this union. Furthel'lnore, it would follow tha,t the ex­is.tence of man would not he good according to nature, but would be funda1nentally and essentially evil, and this; is repug­nant to common sense. Revelation tells us that after the crea­tion of ma,n "God sa.w all things which He m~atde, and they were exceedingly good.

Consider for a moment, the absurd moral conclusions that would necessarily follow the admission that the soul's union with the body is a penal union. 'Vhat are these effects.? Why, no prince could justly punish criminals. '\Vhy? because he would only be setting them free. Listen to the sharp 'vord.s of St. Cyril of Alexandria., on this subject, ·who says: "If the soul sinned before it was irrtprisoned in the body, and if it was in punishment of this sin that it w.as thus incarcerated in flesh, why,t.elline,would thelawpermit~ thecrin1inals t,(). be put todeath

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and the innocent tio live? It would be even b:etter to· com pel those guilty of mos-t degraded crimes to remain for a lo·ng time in the body so that they n1a.y be m1ore s.eve:re,ly punished, and it should be our duty to free the innocent frOJn their hodies b,y killing them. But alwa.ys a: homicide is punished with d~ath;

· while on the contrary the just 1nan is· allowed to live." Such is the common and 1nos~t sensible judgment of n1ankind.

Therefore, the soul is not pla.ced in the body for punishment. Lastly it will nort do to build up a theory in such a, manner that one of its nece:sshry effects· will be to make God a mons.ter of un­wisdom and injustice. But, now, this is precisely what would happen if this idea of penal union were admitted. For reason demands that he, who is affected by punishment, knows for what offense he is punished, especiaHy if punishment is inflict-

. ed fo~r the correction of the culprit. But in the hypothesis· of our adversraries the soul, jo,ined with the body, forgets, the knowl­edge of all things· which it had before. But with ail its previous knowledge all rememherance of any crime is oblitera,ted fr0·m the soul and therefore any punishment for such forgotten crime would he aa: UliiGleli' as it; would be unjust. For these several

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reasons 'n: l'eject 1 'lato·' · explanation of the odgin of the soul, ftlthoug·h this theory ,·ecms fa.r less objectionable than that of the materialists.

No·w, let us briefly examine other solutions. Aristotle shl'ewdly enough does not commit himself on thi point. He s.ay.s the soul is pro<luced by God a.nd is. distinct from God; how? this. he does not say. He rejects. Plato's myth as to the pre-E>xistence of souls. :Most of the pagan philosophers and all mediaeval and modern pantheists have taught that the same sonl arises by ema:nation from Divine subst3Dlee. In beginning to overthro•w thi.s, I . ay the soul is not a part of the Divine sub­st.an('e; a.nd offer the following proof in support of this state­ment.

If diverse human souls be constituted out of Divine sub· stance, it is 1nanifest tha.t. this could not ha.ppen by a division of this Divine substance, for tl1is substance being absolutely f:jmplc is abso·lutely indivisible, it would ha.ve to be sa.id then i-11.a.t. the soul of every man is efformed from the whole Divine snhstance, and since Divine substance is essentially one, one soul would ha.ve to be admitted for all men. But. one soul c.a.n­not be a:dn1itted for all men. And: whv could we not admit tha.t • v

there is but one soul for humanity? The reason is as simple as it is firm andi soEd.

Is. it not a.n admitted prindple in philosophy that tha.t which gives being to a thing, al.so gives to tha.t thing onenes·s and in­dividuality? Now, jt is unquestiona,bly the soul wp.ich give·s m·a.n his being .a.nd consequently it is the soul which makes man one in himself and distinct, from all other m·en. But, since there ru.~e many men, it is absolutely necessa,ry tO' admit that there are as 1nany numerically distinct souls or princiP'les by which these several men are constituted in unity amd individ­ua.l oneness. Hence,it follo'\'\rs that there cannot be but one soul for nw.ny men,as would have to be the ca·se if the soul were an en1una.tion from out of the Divine sub tance.

The Siune conclusion is but strengthened when we consider tlJe imm-:nta.l:>ility of God a.nd conttast this with the cha;ng.eful

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and: capricious moods of the lnuna.n soul. Therefore, itl is absurd that the human soul be constit'nt'ed frmn o·nt. the substance of God.

Besides the theory of en1aa.m.tion, there is another which js equally erroneous and consequently u:ntenahle; namely: That the soul con1es> fr01n th~ body and' soul of tJ1e: pa:rent:s, -eit:her nledia,tely or immedia:tely. It cannot come' 1nediately-because "no .active power .wets. beyond its: genus.~' But the rational soul is a; fornr entirely sp)ritua.l not comnnndc<:t.ting with the hody in it:~ o"•n clistinctjve operation, and is far outs.ide the genus of' any and all tlte generative powers: of ctn··poreal subs,tance. '_Pherefore, the ~~ou l cannot. Le propag.a.tc·{l Dlcdiately; nor im­mediately, as the follO:wing~ reaS{)llS \Yill slw w·. The s!oul of tbe chHd ca11no.t be produced by t11e ahscir::-::·.d.nn of ~t part fr'on1 off the soul of the pa.rent; beca.u.se the soul of the parent i~ siu1ple and indivisibl~; hence, it Tvouldl he neeessa.ry tD s-ay thatJ the s;oul of the child is produced by the propc1• a:ction of' the parent soul. But tl1is. m.anner of <~xplaining the origin o.f the soul is opposed to tl1e imn1aterial.iiy of the soul. l:1ow? Beca'f!-SC, since the efficient power of the parent soul cannot extend so far

as to1 pr'oduee the sou~ of a . child- out of nothing, this; being a ci'eative a~t, the child soul would have to he educed' from: eer-

. tain pi'e-exi·sting nlatter .a:nd thus the soul would' be consider'ed :ts som.e compound of 1natter and forn1, or as a Jna.te,riaJ. fo1~n1. But the soul is neither ru cornpound of matter and for1n no1r is it a: material< fonn. It is sim.ply ru form and a. .spiritual form. Thereforr·e the soul of .a; child cannot he produced either nledi;atc­Jy oi" iln:n1e.dia.tely by the parent,~ .

N 0'\\-, apa-rt altogether fronT the va rions theories just: dis­approved I maintain on th .e grounds of pure reason that the

Boul comes. from God through creation. The a:cceptance of thi.s t.hesi~ is a: logical consequence of theJ !"ejection of the p~evious

views. A.n.d heT.;e, let: IU(~ he ns brief as a clear statement of proofs wHl per1nit. How convincing are the wo1~ds of St. A\1gu.stine: "Did the ~orul com.e fro1n matter?" he asks. "No. Did it com e: <ln exi le fm?nl the sldes? "No.'' Is, it

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part of the Divine substance? By no mean it prod by the parents'? Impossible. Yet it exifirt . It i not elf-made; nor made by an.v cre~ted agent; it mu t then ha a b n r .... ., .•. IU"'IJ

by God Him elf! This is the only re1naining alU!rna.ti e." · o , mark well the s~ml. Does it not exercise its own di tinctive op· erations of intellection and -volition independently of material organfJ? If the soul iti inde1Jendent of matter in it operation it is likewise free from matter in its nature, for such as a.re the opera tion.s of a. thing, so is its nature. This is why we call the soul a subsisting form. Dut now let us come a little closer to the solution of the question in hand. It is a. t·eN)gni~ed principle in met,a.phJsics that such a" we find a thing in its ex­istence, so, toO', must the thing ha.ve been in its origin or in its production. ~ow, since in its existence, the must likewise haYe been free from matter it follows, that it must I ikewise ha ye b.een free from matter when it was brought into existence; that is, since the soul ha a "per se" existence,it. must haYe had a 'per se'' mode of produc· tion. Oertainlyitcouldnothave been made out of pre-existing 1natter, for then it would be 1naterial; nor could it be made out of some spiritual su tance, for spiritual substance is indi­visible and immutable. It mu t then have been made out of nothing. But this is what we call creation, and creation b& long. to God alone. Therefor , the human soul i and must be produced through creation by God. Who, a the cripture re­lates, "formed man of the lime of the earth; a~nd brea~hed into his face the br a.th of life, and man became a living soul,» or as Dante beautifully relat . : ' Forth from Hi pia tic hand, who, charm'd, behold her image ere ~he yet exi t, the oul come like a. babe that wanton portively, weeping a.nd laughing in its ' raywa,Nl mood ; a aJ1-l and a. ignorant of aught sa:ve that her maker being one who dwell , with gladness ever, willingly "'h e turn to whatc'er yield her joy. '

ln the our e of the e rt~marks you have been hown by proofs: 1 ·t that the oul do not com-e from matter but that it i immaterial ince it h immaterial faculti a.nd ope:r

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' tions. 2nd·, that the soul did .not frull from the skies. 3rd, it is not a part of Divine substance. 4th, that the soul comes neither from the body nor from the soul of the parents. 5th, and last­ly, it has been proven and testified by quotation from Scripture that the human soul comes from God through creation.

I need not here enter into the subject of the moral effects of this doctrine. Let me conclude by saying that as everything bas a purpose, so likewise this doctrine has UJ purpose, and this is,to make us think highly of our soul,since it is God's master­piece, and to make us a~ct so as to proclaim our kinship with God, to manifest our gratitude for a soul endowed with such excellent intellectual, aesthetic, and moral facult~es, for a, soul whose noble instincts and religious emotions proclaim alike its het11venly origin and its heavenly destiny!

L. JYL K.-'04.

REFLEXIONS ON FIRST CANTO OF CHILDE HAROLD.

For the benefit of thos:e who caJre for books and reading a.nd who delight in the search for the actuating principle of the things which they read there has been formulated the dictum, that "style is the man." Look through the written pa:ge, read between the lines, attend closely the turns of speech and the niceties of langnag~; in short, read intelligently, and gradually the "man" will evolve. But it is attention to the thought that will tell us what kind of a rna.n we a,re beholding through t~e written words. Style of diction is not nearly so safe nor so comprehensive an index to the man as style of thought, though both are valuable and included under the generic term "style."

In reading "Childe Harold" we can s·ee Byron in every line.. We can say, not simply with the conviction begotten of the knowledge th.at it is Childe Harold and not some other work that we are reading, but with the assurance that even ordinary observation will fuxnish, that this or thart. line is Byronic. But

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it is when \\' e come to examine the thought , the paJ. .. ticular lllalt­ter sele·eted for tr•entment, when \Ye note carefully the strong, unmiJS!taika~hle "subjective element:' that we le.arrr not only who the writer was-namely, Lord. George Gord.on· Byron, but the vastly more important lesson of what he was. And the know I-. edge O'f what he '\vas, should be of more importa.nce to U'S than the knowledge of who, in relation to all other men and writers, B.yron was. Because such as he wa:s, and such then as h-e inevit­a~bly reveals himself, such will his influence tend to be.

In Ohilde Harold, the identity of Byron with his hero is \J too patent or SlOn. ere ~1··-only such observations A a:s his m:amner of describing himself n1ay suggest. There is a re­puls·iye boa stfulness, a.I.so m fBUrprising lack of 1nodesty, in t his se1f-revelation. T0 think that a man might defy all sociaJ con­ventions wha.tever, willfully a.ntagonize everything that S'Pells morality, fina!lly thro,Igh sheer fa•tigue, att.ain to a1 morbid sat iety, a.nd then make little-nay, indeed--nothing, of the morn.l a1spect of his tramgressions, is to consider that ma;n as approxima.ting (legeneracy. 1~ere is. no morality in the fore.~t tire which ceruses t>O burn only when there is nothing left to de­vour, neither is there a1ny 1n0ra.Ut.y in the forces that brought Byron to the ·end of "sin's long llllbyrith." "Vice should be HlO·re modest" and' this thought im~pressed so eminen~ a critic a s Sir vVa~ter Scott, who, though he admired the m·e:lody of Byron's verse could find in the misanthropic lines of Ohilde Hai"old no good sym1ptoms of 1nind: and hea1·t.

.The introductory stanzas reveal to us the sated knight who has no apology to make for the causes of his· la:menta.l,}le condi­tion, "worse than a.dversity." He simply states• that such is, the ~~H~'e but has the go~d sense to note that

" Nor aU tbat heralds rake from conffin'd cla~y, N o•r florid' prose, np·r honied lines of rhyme

Ca.n hla.zon evil de·ed.s, or consecrate aJ crime." ln obser-ving char"acteristics then it soon becomes pla.in that

we ar'e t:o r ead the words o·f a very brazenlibe:rtine, wb() poss-ess· oes great genius in the cra~ft of us.ing wOTds.

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By way or giving scope to his inclina~tion,Byron jntroduces a few agreeable variations of the Spencerian stanza in which th e "Pilgrimage" is written. The first variation of construction occurs in the "Adieu," which the Childe take:-; of his nUJtive la,nd. The chief m~e:l'it of the "1\_;die.u~' is Jts e:a:sy gra:ce. There is a1 rythn1 about it tha1t is, char1ning au:d E'ntirely a: part of the poet's a;rt. There are times. also when he exhibits a sort of sympathy, but it is sympathy of the "fiaf' order: he doesn 't mean it. Had Byron lived to a sane (mark sane) old age, there are verses in this passage that would undoubtedly cause him to be ashamed of himself. It is bard t o forgiv e him for some of these lines and all his !.!;enius, all his other sentimental, extra;va,gant: and ~etilnes even the:c'ttrical e:fforts cannot efface the insult that in the eighth sta,nz.a.,he flings in the :t'a:ce of all wo1naJnkind. By •.nt,;y of co:mforting ( ?) thP WlTowing yemuari (and it is here that lY e: ohser"Ve his, counterfeit sympathy) w.ho was "tl1inking on an ahs·ent w·ife," he ca;uses Child'e Harold t~)l say:

" For who would trust the se-eudng sighs or wife or para,mcnlr?

Fresh feres will dry the bright blue eyes

,\. c late sa'v ~treaming o'er." So to· juxta,pose "wife an<l par.a:m•ouT" a,nd to ilnpute to

w01nen, without qualification of any SDrf, the depravity that Jna1rks o~nl,y such as Byron l1imself, and his stripe, is wha:t?-fo·r the lack of sornething UlOJ:e da111ning, let us. call it just pla.in put rid ity- it s, stench offends: the high heaven::;-it is the offal o.f a. dise1arsecl fancy. It is not enough that the "Adieu" has ;.~howu Byron to be insincere, incapa1ble of fatith in woman, but i ( 1nust perfm~ce show him to lJe unpatriotic,-an ahominati<m in an E ng lishman , surely. H e leaves England regretting only that he l ea,""ire:s. nothing to r egret; he '\V"ishes to g,o any place but no-b a:ga,i1r t o his own country, and all b€cause be has spent hinl­self there in orgies. He ha;s 11ot .even the patriotisn1 of instinct. It is a~ tribute to Byron's! g·e~nins as a versifiett•' th~t Scott', who n~~ked : · ·

.. .. ~"\. " L]ves there a. Inau wit-h soul so dead.

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\Vho unto himself ha.th not said 'fhis is my own nly native land?"

should still have .any admiration for him. '\Ve ha:ve eon~ented to be guided by the Childe now so we

sail with hhn soutlnvards·, and ente.r S:pain, pa,ss.ing through Portngal. vVe can agree with the errant wight in condemning dirt when he finds it and we enjoy his felic-itous stroke when he does so; but he is. unnecessarily severe with these Latins. Dirt is not their characteristic as a: people a nd he has been blind, stubbornly so, to many good, even great qualities:. He reveals the proud nature of the Spania.rd and represents him a;s crafty and revengeful. He learves a tinge of the romantic· in tl1e portra.it,however,but still fails tn exercise the fine dis,cern­ment of which be is ea,sily capable.

Byron's admiration of Spanish women is characteristic of him in his role of the blase "man of the world." He looked upon them a:s superior plaything,s, by rea:son of mere physical ·beauty, but fails utterly to reailize and to appreciate what is best and most womanly in them. A formal gallantry induces him to spend words of praise on the maid of Sa.ragoss.a, who stalked "with Minerva's step where M[\:rS might quake to tread.'' It has heen said thart thes·e a:re the best inspired and mo1st happily exe-­t-uted verses orf the Canto, yet there is la:ek of high motive . . The maid of Sa.ragossa fights in her dead lor"\-.. er's stead from a person­al motive, "to a.ppeas·e the ghost" of her slain s'weethe-a;rt. 'l'here a;r-e 3, thousamd deeds indicative of intrinsic nobility i~ W()lllen in Spanish history but Byron ha1s inconsistently pa;ssed them by without stopping. He has uttered a, gross libel a.ga.in ~t the purity of Spa1nish womanhoo<I in totaJ in the same stanz~ in which he caustically refers to theil-- devotion to the Blessed Virgin and calls them "saint adorers." Still, while we read this we recall tha.t elsewhere Byron ha:s eul()gized the devotion to the Virgin. Here is an opportunity to note his inconsist. ency and peevish bigotry. Given a propery s·ertimenta.l mood, twiljght shadows a-nd a geneTally aippropriate stage setting and '-rorship of the Vh•gin is not so~ obnoxions to him. He hates

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Ca:tholicity,just as he hates any and all authority and restraint, -not as a· matter of principle.

1\{ecbanica.lly viewed, Byron does not leave much to be de­sired. E~xcept in things tha,t come direct from the heart, he was

the first poet of his time. For example, l;lis descriptions: are de­lightfully written. In its; descriptive portions "Ohilde Ha~old"

is "like traveling." Notice:

" The horned crag by toppling convent crowned _The cork-trees hoar that clothe the shaggy st eep

The mountain-rnos·s by sco~rching skies en1brownoo, The sunken glen, whose senseless shrubs must weep

The tender a~zu re of the unruffled deep, T'he orange tints that gild the greenest bough

The torrents that frmn (:liff to valley leap T'he vine on hjgh, the willow branch belo1w

:Y.lix:d in one mighty scene, with varied beauty glow."

If Byron can describe natural scenery he is certainly a not less delightful limner of n1oving events. In Spain the bull fight's the thing and most travelers thither have some~thing to

. 8ay of this national pastime. Byron touches upon it iru about eight stanzas, which for striking effect, vividness and brilliance :.l!re unsurpassed of their kind. The '.'featly" prancing steedS', "light limbed matadors," the mighty brute "with threa,tening front/' "angry tail" and "eyes dila,ted glow," the disgusting sight of the "unseamecl charger," and the "crim·son to1rrent clear~· all flash on us and startle into life tha~t lingering element of barbarity, that never dies, but only sleeps-and we could al­most wish ourselves Spaniards for the nonce. "Sweet sight for vulgar eyes" surely, but who among us shan ' cast the first stone? We'd proba1bly be very much interested if the oppor­tunity of seeing a bull-fight should present itself. Restricted to its own cla~ss, this des:cription is quite unrivalled. Brought into proximity, for instance, with the description of the fig-ht between Ursus and the bull in Quo Va:dis, to whic·h it

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boar~ a. so1t of failt~ily resemblauee, iii suffers. But it suffers for tllat it lacks high motive a~d pa1·ticula:r eventsofrealhuman interest, ·which 1night be sy1nbolica.l of something greater than the description itself. Whether 01r not it. suffers in point of exe­cution, must be determined hy the indivjdual reader's prefer­ence for prose or poetry.

'rhere is a braard differ·euce of conception in the two con­flicts and the · difference is vastly in favor of Sienkiewicz. T o begin, then, a~the beginning, let us look at the respective motives. Sienkiewicz \vrote in commemoration of the triumph o·f Christianity over Paganism, and strove t01 show that the help of God is ever with the faithful :-a1 great purpose :-he intro·­duce~ us t o living people; he tells1 us1 a story o.f h-eart interest; he plu,ces before us a suhli!J-1€. tra:gedy; he. _brings us to a1 loft.y clintax by a strong ancl well sustained flight; he exhibits; inven­tivenE-SS'; he pa.int.s a terribly realistic picture; we s-ee N e.:ro, Petronius, Vinicius, Urstt-S', Lyg.ia,-living, breat hing persons and we· ate held brea.thles·s until the: :tina,! curtain.

" 'hat is. Byron's. purpose in his· description o.f t he bull­fight. The application of a little local color. I.s t a g reat pur-po:s·e '? No, it isi commendable and a. not bad literary condiment but it is not great. '"\iVho are tl1e actors jn this bull-fight? Oer­taJn dumb brutes: a.nd the hired members of a p·rofession which has performed· and still perfo·rms· the same exploits d-aily. Is there any hea.rt interes-t? Only such as would interest the so­ciety for the prevention of cruelty. Is this a traged•y? Yes-for the bull. Have we read1ed a. clhna.x here? Not a.t a ll, it is merely "n1ention~·d in passing.:' Does this bull fight stand for am~thing? No, it has no- relation to any great principle, it is only a n.a,tiona~l cus·tom, the playing of a; rra.tiorna.l gattne; fortJun­at:ely only national. Are those who a.re a~ctually engaged rea.l persons? Do we. know any of tllem? No, they a:re t he m·erest of puppets; they have no word to sa.y and nothing to enact but fea:t.s of physica.l dexterity. All accounts of travels in Spain ha.ve the conventional adjunet of a description of a, bull :fight. Byron des·cribes his rather better than most other traveler.~, in

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·fa;ct, it se:mns .a.s graphic and ani1ua.tecl as verse could be made ; but there is: no invention diseovera.b1e. It touches us. but in one way; it excit€s jus.t such sentinu~nts as things purely physical and earthly are caleulated to Jno.ve in us a.ud it has no intrinsic quality that nutkes :for eve;n a slight moral eJeva,tion. On the contrary, the con1bat in Quo Yadis affects .ns. variously and a l­ways has inherent possibiliUes fo;r elevat ing u~. \Ye are dis­gusted with Nero and the popula:ce. 'Ve applaud the unswerv­Ing loyalty, the simple faith, the leonic courage of Ursu.s-, our hearts a:re touched by the plight of the majde·n queen and as· to Vinidus, why, all the \Vorld loves a1 lover,cYen the blood-mad H.oma.n:s. But a.ho:vc all else, is; the Ua,use. 'r1lat fa.ct alone suf­fices for ou,r considerjng1 th e Childe Harold bull :fight a,s un­worthy of comparison with th<tt viri le stroke of Sienkjewicz

Hut we C<l:nnot conclude from~ a pal'ticular ins.tance that Byron suffers abr:;:olutely a.ncl a.lways front this. inferiority o·f coi1ception. To hoist Sienkewic?. over Byron were not only

· beside the purpose, but foo lhardy in the face of tradition and

superior judgi.nent. Had Byron wr~tten prose undoubtedly it vvould have been better prose than that. of Sienkiewicz. But personally, in vjew of the fa~t that Byron shows himself '(and here history concurs) to he ndsa.nthropic, unpatriotic, ins1incere, i

a. pleasure drugged but bra.zen libertine, a s:coffer, as inc:o,nsist-eut in his views of life as in hiS! love affairs, an impeacher of womanly virtu e, (in thjs ui1forgivable), when we consider that

almo~t without qualifying the r enmrk 've may set him down arsa moral pervert, we ca.n feel honest, if not finely discriminative, ju saying that, ha,ving- looked behind' the words, having learned to an ext€nt "wha.t'' Byron is, we prefer the \vrit.ing of Sienkie-wicz or of any otl1er .sane writer with clean hands, to tha;b of the brHlia.nt bard of Newstead Abbey. J. F.-'06.

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-----Peaceful sl um.berers were a'vakened with a start; unearth­

ly sounds ech00d and re-echoed . throughout the gloomy corri­dors; l1ea:vy missih.~s ·were hurled about with little di~crimina.­

tion ; door a.fter door was throvvn open, from whence issued g·hot~ t ly figures in more or l ess complete a.rmor, ea.ch bfl'_aring a lig-htffi cand}e jn one hand, and ru choice assortn1ent of the moot e:ffeetive modern ammunition in the other.

The scratches and cries slowly receded breaking discordantly upon the &'l.rs of th~ seco:nd floor inhabitants. ·rn hot pur­suit, .followed tl1e valiant third cOTridoT deta.chment, each one adopting his own peculiar wa.y of descending the stairs. Some took the balustrade air line, w·hile others roHed down, but it is not known whether the latter ro'tlte was taken out of prefrorence or under stress of circumstances. T'be rea~ guard consisted of a sedate individual; who, candle in ha1nd, walked gingerly down the chilly steps, uttering as he did so, fierce invectives and threats of direst vengea;nce upon the cause ofthe confusion.

An inquisiUve breeze rustled through the col'l"idor gently extinguished every candle and stole through the flowing robes of ·tlte little company in ru very chilling manner.

There is a rumor going the rounds· am01ng t·he wise onBS, that "'Doc," thinking a 1neteor had fallen, arrived upon the scene in neglige costume, ever on ha:nd in the interest 9f science.

The candles were re-lighted, and the rompailly, strengthen· ec1 by the arrival of re-inforcements frOIJTI t he seco-nd c~rridor bri~~Hle, marched va.lia.ntly in perfect order into the room from which floated the most entrancing hrurmonies.

At. first all tha1t could be discerned were two pllO'SDho·res· cent discs of green fire, but the ire of the purpsuers towards the disturber of their slumber was s:o great as to make them abso• lutely fe.a~less. , and (oh, mercy, did any one hear a. noise?) further investigation proved "the thing behind the he-adlights" to be a very scraggly and misera.hle sp€cimen of feline bea·uty.

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This much persecuted quadruped,having lost its wa.y to the nightly concert on the roof, had, wit.llout any malice, afore­thought, treated the third corridor denizens to a marvelou~5

and rare exhibition of its vocal powers as a solist.

~rhere sat the cause of all the disturbance, awaiting, with the air orf a martyr, its doom, with a ludicrous expressiion of injured innocence upon its whiskered countenance, that would have n1oved a stone to laught,er ·or tears. vVith dignity, becom­ing a. judge, the s;ed_ate party, who had nnt yet a.rrive4. at such a high state of petrification, tenderly flung the sorrowfu! and wondering cat out of the noorest window.

ln its rapid d-ecent the cat lost one of its nine lives, but it arrived upon terra firma, and incidentaHy~ its feet, with eight other lives still intact.

Looking up to the anxious watchers. a.bove with an injured aJ.r, it einitted a1 fa,rewell yowl, and then .stole silently a.wa.y into the night.

After all wa·s quite, the Bourbonnais tire department, a m:ost. prO'lllpt and efficient body o! rustic heroe.s:, arrived upon the ·scene, only to retire in disgust.

The following day the office was literally flooded with orders for ink bottles, books, and shoes. T'he height of presumption was reached when a certain well known individual asked for a wig_, but on being assured that a few gray hairs only served to farther offset the beauty of auburn locks, he depa,rted with a hair-eut ticket.

The same adventurous· feline which .figured so prominent­ly in the above stirring event, has ventured to pro,.,vl about the inho~pitab1e halls of _the in8titution several times since its u~­ceremoni-ous ejection, but has finally sunk into oblivion. The edito.rs of the Via.torian anxiously solicit information as to the present whereabouts of the cat, or who killed the cat? Some p-erscms claim to have seen it amongst the numerous band in that veritable eat's Pa.radise, the barn, but it is only reasonable to assert that a cat which has been the cause of so much trouble, wU.l nefer be aJ.lo!Wed to ente·r the sa:cred precinct• about th,e

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ROSSEAU AND OUR NORMAL SCHOOLS .

.. It has aJ.wa.ys been difficult. for us to understand why Rous­

seau a.nd Emile should ever have been selected and· should be now r·eta,ined a.s al classic in the normal schools1 of the country Perhaps the timely remarks of S. 0. D. in the Chicago Tribune, Oct. 26, will s-et instructors in pedagogy to thinking an.d help them to form a. true estimate of that n1uch overrated "clrussic." T~1e a.nimadversions of the Tribune are timely, because it is needful that " ·e seek by all n1eans to avert socialistic propa.gan­dism. ; and of a, cert.ajnty the normal schools of the nation, those fecund centers which bring forth the educators of the childhood nnd youth of A1uerica, should not be nests of · sociaHs'm and school.s of revolution .a:nd· anarchy. Rosseau and Voltaire and a scon~J of other brilliant Prench1nen 1vere,as the 'fribune calls them, the "]fakers of the French Hevolution," the parents of the ''s·ans-culott.es,n and e.Tacohins of their day .and the grand­p.a·rent,s of nwdern dynamiters .and of all obstreperous rebels ag~:dnst all la\vfull:y constituted authority, human or divine, paJrentrul, ecclesia;stical or civil. '\Vhat inspira,tion {ol'" the rea.r~

ing. up of God-fearing and law abiding generation of . young Americans ea:n our teachers derive from the works· of men whose hrillia.nt genius. was ever en1ployed in attacking, in de­crying, in ridiculing all institution,s human and divine? And in parrticular wha.t profit can be gained frmn reading "Eniile," the work of a man who lacked the first requisite of a; good teacher, vjz: the love of children, "a; work," says the Triibune, "telling p,arents· how to rea.r their' children by a farther who had

. .sent his o\rn five chjldren to the hosp:ita1 for :foundlin;-.s, a ma:n

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·who was immol"~l, ungrateful to his friends, and' who ex~ hibited a detestable deficiency of parental a:ffection," and finally a work, which, because it contained views obnoxious, both to the church and the government, caused its autll01:~ to flee from France to N euehatel? That book tea~hes teachers to tea~h children that all authority is tyranny, and that conse­quently insubordination, inBurrection, rebellion a:re marks of healthy independence. It teaches teachers to tea,ch children a supreme disregard· of religion, to ignore it rubsolutely.

R.ouss,eau taught that the1 demon of property pollute~ what­ever it touehes,wnd the Ia~ter Proudhon was emboldened to de·­clare that all property is theft. Is there not d~nger here as there was in Fra.n.ce in the dissemination of such teachings? Has France e:ver attained the glory of the days of the "grand monarque:'' since the Goddess of Reason was: enthroned upon the a1ta,r of Notre Dame? Has she progressed so wonderfully along the pa!thwa ~ys of higher civilization since her" multitudes 11ave carried in ·their· poekets the gospel of R.osseau? 'Vhat political instability is evidenced in her nwny changes or gov­ernment,! V\Tith two-penny pettifogging lawyers and loud­lTI<?~Uthed infid-els and ubiquitous sociaHstic den1agogues to hood­wink the gullible crowd frmn the hustings and especcially in the pres8· France is rapidly sinking to the rank of a third-class power.· Prance is becoming a. babel of confusion. Atheism. 1s nunpant, religion, the inspirer of those vaJiant Franks who r~lid' the deeds1 of God,is per.secuted,schools .are conducted 1nuch ~n theRousseau plan~ ·with the consequent lowering of national ideals, the damp-ening of patriotis1n, the increase ,of juvenile crime .UJnd the U1rea.tened extinction of t.lle nation thro race ~uicide. The absurd social teachings and the demoralizing· pedagogical doctrines of Rosseau, even tho presented with aU the attractive finish of aJ litera1•y atl~ist, will ultimately land' ~hose who feed upon them in a. state not far removed: fron1 the c riginal sylvan bestiality of the race supposed by Rosseau i•imse1f. Is it not about tiine that our normatl schools select HiDot'her book thrun the "Enlile'' nJs the "Vade mecum.'' of Anwrican schaol tea:chet•s? R.

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(CHAPEL EXERCISES-·--THE PLAY,)

With anticipation, joy, and eager hemrts we all looked for· wa:rd to that da;y of festivity upon which we would conuneJnor'" ate the lofty ideals of virtue of our patronal Saint. To the joy­ous content orf a:ll, this long desired da,y at last ca.me bringing with it, how~ver, an· atmospheric gloom that prevailed thf."U·ugh· o~t the entire da.y; but in spite of this · inclement 1ve.ather, ·a large crowd of distinguished visitors from all par-ts· of the stake had arrived for this glorious event, which began with Pontifical High Mass. Sharply at 8:30 a. m. came from the sacristy, the solemn procession, headed by eight a.colytes: beari:r;tg lighted ta,pers and followed by the celebrant. and his assistants wl1o, ·on: I'eaching the sanctuary, took their respective places·. i':Ia:s.s ·was sung by R.t. Rev. ?\1gr. G. lL Legris, D. D., assisted by H.ev .. 1\f. Dugas., C. S.V., of Bea:verville, as deacon, Hev. 'r. Kelly, of Chi· cago, as sub-de:a,con and R.ev. P. P. Brown, C. S; V., as 1Yia,stm .. of ceremonies. Very Rev. Cyril Ji'~ournier, C. S. V., Provincla!l Superior of the Gleric:s of St. V.ia.teur was present in the sanc­tuary. The beautiful spotless white catssocks worn by the acolytes, the sple:ndjd vestments of the officiating clergy, the magnificent ma.rble altars so aietistically decora,ted and illum­inated, and especially the shrine of St. Viateur to which atten­tive care had been given, showed forth with brilliant effect. As: the celebrant ascended the altar steps at the beginning of mass there came forth froin a. choir of a, hundred voices 3J hea;venly inusic that seemed to carry our very souls to the destination of our prayers. All this remains with ns as sweet rememherances to the mind of a scene that time can not make us forget. 'The manner in which the choir rendered the difficult sacred music reflects great credit ·upon· the zealous director, Rev. L~ . G. Goulette, C. S. V., through whose per.severing efforts the · great snccess was gained.' T1H~ prObYf~l:mmc for the O<!casion wn;s :­Kyrie, Bollman's ~~a~~ in B fJ.at; Gln1·'ia, Farmer's Mass in · B

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fiat; Veni Creator, La Hache; Credo, Bollman's lVIass in B 'flat; Offertory, Gratias Agimus Tebo; Rossini; Sanctus, . ~eethoven's l'Iass in C; Benedictus, Dow; Agnus D·ei, Gounod's Mass of St. Cecilia .

. A.fter the 1\!ass, R.ev. Thomas Kelly, of St. Elizabeth's ehurch,Ghicago,delivered an eloquent sermon in ·which he first pa:id tribute to our patron, extoUing his virtues., great zeal, piety and humility,after which he spoke at length on the forina­tion of Character. He mentioned the three great influences, heredity, environment and education, bringing out in the latter that man is not merely a creature of circum~stances, but that he is molded and polished by education. Fr. Kelly insisted on the necessity of moral as well as men, tal training stating that re­ligion must become a. part of our nature. In conclusion he gave advice to the students, telling them to make the best of the ex­cellent opportunities afforded them here, to strive to acquire an education that would not only . a.id them in gathering dollarR and cents, but one that !Should make them, good, true, mor al Christians, with an aim. in life tha.t is the highest and noblest.

At eleven o'clock the visitors were invited to the gynln~:us ­

ium· to· witness. the exhibition'drill. T11e Battalion first a.ppea.r­ed and the skillful manner in which the members performed -the feats of military art is a result of the . attei'l tive work of Col. J ·. B. Sheil and his ·efficient corps of officers. Major Albert Kel­ly, Adjutant C31ptain Fred Shippy; a1nd Oa.pta.ins Clarence Conway Oo. A; Cornelius ·Mahony Co. B; F. Shippy On. 0; vValter ~fa:guy Co. D.

Next came the lVI inim Squad which entered the hall in so lively a manner and fell to drilling_ .so quickly, a.s to win ap­plause at once. Thes·e little soldiers with their quick movement, fancy steps, ability for building human pyramids, and a ccuracy in every move, won the spectators and received round after round · of hearty applause. The little C~.pt. Orion Ford and his two Lieutenants, Matthew McDevitt and Thomas Harrison, did great justice to their offices. Much credit is due Rev. A. N. St. Aubin, 0. 8. V., whO' devoted so much time a:nd attention to the

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trajining of thi ' little 8(}_uad. Al o deserving of prai ' wa e 'vork of the noted Zoua.Yes, composed of sixteen of the best drill­~ men 'in the college with Col. J . B. Shiel a commander-. The <lTill of this year surpassed that of other yea1· . .cmd 'vas a reiiit • to a.ll ,,.:ho a~sh;ted in making it a succes .

ANATOLE J . DR,OL:B;T- Tltird Hhetotic.

THE PLAY.

' . .c'd :! :30 p. nt. a. large crowd of people a· ·sen1bled 111 the gym-lHts ium to witnes~ the dramru "The ~ialediction,' which was 1 )resented by the T'hcspians under the direction of Very Re • Y . • J. l\iarsi1e, C. S. V. It ,youlcl have been difficult to have found a pla~r more su.ited to the occasion and to the exceptiona.l talent of t hP a,ctGrs. Thi~ work of Leveque brings before our eyes stenes displaying the grandeur of patriotism and fidelity to :faith, and; is a: true 1noraJ lesson. The scene is in Spain a.nd the

1 time the fifteenth century, when the Mohammedan , under their Jead'er, 'l"'a;rik, had overrun entire Spain, and l"eplaced the syrn­l,ol of Ghristia.nity by the c1 escent. Pelagius,the king of Greece, raise d an army to check the adv~nce of these infidel horde and ~-oliclted the aid of aH Cluistia.nK Rcspotl(le.nt to the call Don Ya:-:co de Gomez, a noble Spaniard, a.lready in the autumn of hi~ 1 i f'P, f('al'ing for the . afety of hi · holy religion and his country, <·ul i:-;h'll in tl1e army of Pelagin.:". Alonzo, the '<}n of Gomez, ,,·n~ ]H'('\'ailed upon by .an evil companion to renounce hi al­legian('C to his God· and his country a-nd to ally with the Mo­kunm cdans with the promise of a liberal r eward. Thus it w as tlm1. fa.th(:>l' n.nd on um•rtognized hy r~d1 o her, 1net in 'battl<-, and tlH:' fonne1· with his follower~· wa: defeated antl t aJ,en pri.~oner by 'I at-ik. Brought jnto the jmperial palace of the lVIoor.~ and condemned to death, Gomez recognize hi son A lonzo in the ga.rb of a :Mohammedan, w~u·ing the crown of the king >f .:. fercia. So incensed does th . :father . becom at sight of his .apo'"' ta tc so~ tha.t he utters a cur e upon hin1 a.?Jd· Alonzo be­tomes insane. Some tinie a.ftee, the youth , no long·er u.,efni t,~

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the 1vioors in this demented condition, wandering through the l\t!ountains, meets his father who had escaped from the hands of ':Pa~rik. Gmnez hears the plaintive speech of his afflicted son crying a1loud his allegiance to God and his hatred for the ~Ioors, and i,s so moved to compassion a.s to pray to the Heaven­ly Father tha,t th~ malediction be removed. On . the instant Alonzo recovers his reason, recognizes his father, decla,re.s his fait;h in God and draws his sword in defence o.f his country. 'fhe play ends with the defeat of Ta,rik by Alonzo who is mortal­ly wounded and· dies in his father's a.rm.s, a martyr for his religio~ and his country.

'' The cha,racters for the drama: were well chosen. The diffi-cult role of Alonzo was taken by John J . . ~ionahan, who is a ta.lented a1ctor and interpreted the part of the young Christian in a. n1anner worthy of great prais(~. Especially was M:r. Mona~­

han fine in the part of the insane Alonzo, when he brought forth <tll his skill, placed his whole soul into the work and received f;T'e'a t applause for his m.rusterful efforts.

John J. Flanagan, as Vasco de Gomez was a grand sue-. . res:s: and is worthy of especial mention. He is perfectly at home

on the S·tage and his deep, rich voice and princely a,ppearance, rnade him well fitted for the part of the a,ged Spanish nobleman.

Fred Shippy, as Lopez, showed us clearly the villainy of the Spanish tra.itor, who seduced the youth to betray his coun­try .and renounce hiH God. :Mr. Ship·p~ proved himself to be a 1na:ster elocutionist. . ~

The part of Tarik, the :Mohamm·edan gene'ral, was played hy V.Villiam J. Cleary and could not have heeu bett~er rendered. '\Vith his stately and commanding appearance and resonant J

v~ice, we had in :!VIr. Olea["y a true ima.go of the Turkish chief­t ain.

Throughout the entire play was a vein of humor created by Anatole Drolet in the comic part of Pedrillo, the "happy-go-­lucky" peasant, who was always in trouble. This was :Mr. Drolefs first appearance on the stage at St. Viateur's and he h~.s already become a.n immense favorite. He acted with great

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All the other acto'rs showed great talent for the work in hand and deserve great praise. The success of the: drama, is due to the efforts of :B'ather Marsile and his effiCient hand of per-fonners. 'l'he cast wa.s' : ·

Don Vasco de Gomez ................. ..... , .. John J. Flanagan Don Alonzo .......................... John J. Monahan Don Lopez .• .... , .......... .......... . ......... Fred Shippy 'Parik .. ,. ~ .. ....... , ........................ vVilliam J. Cleary lmbram ..... .. , ..........•• , .•.. ,. .............. Frank Rainey Pedrillo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ., ... · ... Anatole Drolet Pedro· .............. . ..... ................. James Mullaney Fahricio .......................... .... ,. ... ... Jame:s; Long

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J. B. Shiel, John Brankin , John Hickey,

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JOHN P. BRADY, 3rd Rhetoric.

People who month after 1nonth enjoy the a.dvanta.ge of read­ing the Viatorian and immediately forget to Sffild us their sub­

. scription, perhaps fo·rget also that it is not fashiona:ble 'in this country to get something for nothing.

"This pa.y roll is· too hig," exclaimed the manager of the "Hamlet" company. "Can't we get along with less people?"

"You might give up the ghost.'' suggested one of the gr~ve diggers.-Ex . .

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ANATOLE DROLET

J. HAYDEN

T'he rea.! brillia.ney and joyousness of the event•S' clironicled in this number is but feebly reflected in our pages. It i.s diffi­cult to kodak in print the live enthusiasm with which college boys throw themselves into a college feast; it would take a. master word-painter to repicture the glow of their joy-lit faces as they breathed the all prevading aroma of festivity. And to tell of the inward thrills of delight, caused by the mere Inention of a loved name, St. Viateur, by the eulogy of his humble vir­tues, and by the song of sacred rnelocly, would be the ta.sk of one who can peer deep into the s~eeret rece:s;s·es of the soul, whose fin­er and pro,founde;r emotions often re·ma.in unuttered. :l\1uch of the shaping of our future cours.e depends on the sorts of pleasures we have 1nost. relished. This is why those delights which are of the purest and most hracing and ele:vating ltind should form a 1arge part of the education which ho~me

and school impa.rt. A joy less home is a. school of crhninal.s, and a fea.s.Mes.s: school we!re hut a forbidding smithy, where syl­logisms are forged rightly perhaps, hut which, because i.t; has no love fea,st8, no. a.lumni reunio'ns:, no fmnily traditions·, must,

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as an educative factor, fail to ex.:ercise upon youth any strong pOlWer of inspiration to higher life. Its present impressions a;re U~ll of but painful effort-effort to1 go thith-er as. Shakespeare records it, effort to wo·rk there, effort to get aJWaiJ from there a quickly as possible. And it will live in memory as a sombre haunting spectre. All work and no pla1y not only makes a dull boy, hut prepa.res a wicked man. Itisunna.tural. nfanataUstages <)'f life craves for pleasure of the sen.sible ,and of the higher o·rd­er,and work,in itse:lf,alone,is not pleasant. T'o study elocution, to study music; to study philosophy,is all work-but when the:re are days on which the student may hear the patiently learned teachings· of philosophy sounded upon the grea.t organ of elo­quence, or when he mary see the great motive passions set in the artistic motion of a great dran1a, OT' again, days when music will take her ha.rp and gjve expression to what is sa:credest in joy and love, days on which the school will resound with gleeful songs and patriotic exultations over the: glorious deeds of the country's heroes, days on which the class room becomes silent to let the chapel sing joyous praise and thank.s to the bounte­ous Giver of all good gifts, these will be so many exclamation points which punctuate school life with gladness; they a.re so many moments of glorious and inspiring triumph, forw in­stance the triumph of elocution, of philosophy, of music. The youth who has been tra.ined to and in these delights and whose college life ha'S been flavored with other such healthy pleasures will in his orientation towards the future seek such pursuits as will be compatible with those superior enjoyments ·alone which his well t.aught ~orul has b€en trained to revel in.

OBITUARY. After· a short, but severe attack of pneumonia, R-ev. P. Grif­

fin died a.t the Alexia1n hospital, Sept. 26. Rev. J. P. O'Maho­ney, C. S. V., assisted at the funeraL Fa-ther Griffin, wh()l wa's ordained in June '04, had been but on a few week's service at the ca,thedral of Lincoln 1 Neb., \Yhen the fata,l illness which car­ried him away, so untimely knocked. He hastened back to Chi-

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<>.ago, but only to bid1 SJ ha:aty farewell to his br'other aind' friend.s. Tho deprived of the opportunity of amassing merits t.Jlro a lo-ng life of consecra;ted ministry, F3Jther Patrick departed from t.l..ti~ life with fewer of the awful responsibilities of the priest­llood. May his soul rest peacefully in the Lord .

.:\.lthough a long time ha8J ela1psed since the death of R.ev. Loui s Gra.ndcha.m.ps,which occurred last July, still this p·resent i t em rna~ be the 1neaus of a.cquainting his· many friends among our re.aders,witb the sad news of hiS' den.tise,and of winning for his departed soul m.any a1 prayerful rmnemberamee. Father Granucha1np.s \vas in the midst o:f a most successful derical

. c·areer a:s pastor of Crookston, lYiinn., when he was stricken ill ancl taken from hiS! much attached congregation. He was re­mu:rku.ble aU thro his n1inisteriallife, both in Orook.st orn an~

in Duluth, for his zeal in educational work a'nd in preaching the \Yord of God. ~Ia~r he enjoy the reward of those who hruve ~~poken well of HinT.

'Yeclnesda.y,Oct. 26,Hev. Dr. J. E. La:berge celebl~ruted solemn mnss in our chapel in behalf of the departed s'Oul of his mother. 'f'he religious and seminarians and a· l·rurge number of la.y student's received holy eo~mmunion, which they offered for the repose of the so1,1l of this good Christian mot.her.

Character, sa.ys the Nmv Century, (Washington, D. C., ) resLs upon UJ go:od conS'cience, a good reputaticm a.nd self·owner­~,hip as a: foundation. The superstructure is sohriety with <>nergy, modesty with self respect, toleranc:e without timidity, invariable good judgment; in short, something of all the cardi­nal Yirtues, the seven gifts of the Holy Ghost a.nd the other ait­tl.'ibutes o.f true religion. The worship of success is too fre­q_uently th~ neglect of cha,ract~r·building. Purposes na['rorw u:s to their pursuit-occupations 'Warp us t:o their ruts-times a1nd ~~vents Jnould us to their imperfections and prejudices. T'he gO'od judgment of a strong chara.cter does not despise success, does not neglect business, does not live in dreamland or utopia. But neither does virile character sink itself in these affairs and !iiubmit to their moulding a:nd manipulation.

PERSONALS.

Rev. M. I. D·ermody paid the college a pleasant visit Oct. 4, on his wa,y to St. Louis .

~ir. G·erald Barry, . 5402 Dear horn street, Chicago, is ern­ployed in a remunerative clerkship.

Rev. J. F. R~an, C. S. V.~ a~sisted at the ceremonies of the dedication of St Joseph's church in Pekin, Ill, Oct. 12.

Rev. J. Oregan, C. S. V., of St. Edward's, Ohicago, visited the exposition in company of Rev. Father Griffy, of Odell, Ill.

:Mr. Peter Fallen, formerly of Logansport, Ind., is now employed 3JS clerk in the la,rge freight offices of the Illinois Central in Chicago.

:Mr. Henry Pichette, who was studying cla.'3sics here last year, has entered the :Milwaukee :Medical college, corner 9tJl a.nd Wells. streets.

1\1r. J. Va,n Loon, of 133 A:dams Ave., E .. , Det roit, :Mich. , has recently cmnmeneed a. course of Dent-a·l Stn·gery a,t the De-troit Oollege of Medicine. :~

Rev. Father Va.r.hon, 0. nL I., of lVIanitoba, \vas· ~mnong our ma,ny clerical visitors, St. Viateur's da;y and was. delighted with the n1ilitaJ'y a,nd dramatic enterta.inments.

R.ev. J·. I•,. Bennett, of St. Jarla.th's, Ohicago,recently gave a ye,ry interesting illustrated lecture on the Holy Land to the young ladies of St. Clara Oollege, Sinsinawa, vVis.

Hev. Moise Nia,inville, profe~or of Gr~ek and Latin in the ea.rly yea,rs of this institution, visited his many friends in Bour­honna.h; la.s.t n1ontl1. He said mass for the students Oct. 18.

R.erv. H. Durkin, of Rantoul, took a fo't'llight's vaca,tion in the ea.rly partof October. Hev. J. P. O'Mahoney, C. S. V., at­tended R.antoul a1nd Ludlmv during Father Durkin's absence.

l\fr. Charles Gelineau, of I(ankake:e and 1\-Iiss M~ · Oampbell, of Peoria,, were united in the holy bonds of matrimony by· Rev. A. Granger, Oct. 14, in: Pe·oria·. Our congratulations to the youthful sporu~e$. ...

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U:ev. J. Barry was r'ecently h"ainsferr:ed, ·from Poem to Ohadron, Neb. Father Barry bas for many years been a faithful 'vorker in the la,rge Omaiha d.iocese and, his transfer to a larger field is a de.se:rved p:romot.ion.

ReY. J. Ca.Uahan, of Butte, :Mont., recently on a! business trip east, ha:d the plea;~mre of 111eeting seveT·al of his friends in Ohkago, among whmn 'vere the Revds. 'P. J·. lVI·cCormick, 0. S. ·v., T!. :McDevitt a;nd J. F. Ryan, C. S. V.

Rev. Dr. t_T. E:. Laberge was· summoned to Quebec by the death of his n1orther, which occurred Oct .. 13. vV e respectfully tender our sympathy to our learned and devoted pl'lofessor and to all the memher:s of the bere.a~ed family.

Rev. J. D. IAlplante, C. S. V., director of novices at St. Vi21tor's Normal Institute, Irving Park, Chicago, spent several days at the ·college during the last fortnight, visiting his~ ma.ny friends in the institution and in Kankakee.

Bro. Boisvert, C. S. V., wa.s until quite recently conducting the very ·successful work of quarrying stone fron1 the river bed. A large quantity of excellent stone now stands reiady fen· use, whenever circum .. srt:ances will permit the underta1dng of a. nmv building.

Dr. Fr:a.nk l\rioran, 693 Hough ave., Cleveland, Ohio, who has built himself up a la;rge practice in dentistry, promis·es t.o

·contribute a pa:per on the care of the teeth for one of our future numlleTK 'Ve thank Dr. Moran before hand a~nd can assure our readers that his paper will be bofh intm~es.ting and profi.ta.hle.

At a beautiful entertainment given to Ht. Rev . . Bis11op Spalding, Sept .. 28, by the children of the cathedral school the P'iecfJ de -re8ista·nce was the pretty operetta specia.Ily composed . fo,r St. ~1ary'·s school by Rev. 1vi. J. ~f.a.rsile, C. S. V. T:o say, moreover, that the preparation of this piece fo1~ presentation wa.s in the ahle hands of Rev. Father Kelly, explains why it was ~uch a g1•atifying success'.

V. R.ev. P. D. Lajoie, G. S. V., left in the early pal~t of Oc· tober to revisit Oa.nada ere he takes his final leave for Europe. On hiR ·wny he will vis'it friends in Prorvidenee, R. I., and ha,s

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promised a call upon his vet-y ·dear acquaintances in Connecticut, t he relatives of V. Rev. A. Corcoran, C. S. V., late provincial of Chi-cago. \V e wish the venerable father ~nd his companions a bon voyage.

Rev. Father Grenier, pastor of St. Gregoire, in the diocese of N icolette, Canada, paid a \-velcome visit to the college on his return from the St. Louis exposition; Oct. 24. The Rev. father was de­lighted with the chapel, the gymnasium, the largeness, airness and orderliness of dormitories ·and study halls. He was no less pleased ·with the evidences of intellectual work done in the institution ancl g ladly to0k with him a copy of " Levis," a high grade rnetrical dram.a from the poetic pen of Rev. }\f. J. l\,farsile, C. S. V.

vVe l ~arn with pleasure from a correspondent that the generous people of St. lVIary's parish in Derby, Conn. , are erecting a hand­some convent building for the Sisters of l\!Iercy. It _is not many years ago that the same progressive people under the direction of their enlightened pastor, Rev. J. l\!IcElroy, endowed their parish with a splendid parochial school. There is nothing that better as­sur es the stability of virtue and the perfection of culture among u s t han Catholic schools, academies and colleges, whose growth in number and in efficiency ':Ve can hut note with pleasure.

J'vir. and Mrs. F . l\1Iaroux, of Lead, South Dakota, recently vis-ited their son, Fernand, and their friends at the college, thus pleas ­antly spending several clays in Bourbonnais and Kankakee on their return from the world-'s fair. Mr. and Mrs. l\ifarcon returned home by way of Henderson, 1\!Iinn. , vvhere they called on their former pas­tor, Rev. Father Chasse. :

l\1r. August Frazer, w ho is remembered here as professor of g raceful penmanship curves, and who has for several years been in the employ of the mining king; Clark, is now on a few months' va­cation, visiting his brother, Mr. Ben Frazer, of Bourbon\1ais, and his relatives and friends in Kankakee. l\IIr. Frazer has engaged his val­uable services to his uncle, Mrs. J os. Giroux, and will repair to the 1-..J ebraska mines in the early spring. \Ve wish }\,fr. Frazer a pleas­ant sojourn among his eastern friends.

l\1asters Charlie .and Percy Klopp, of Lead , S. D., were delight­fu lly surprised by the recent visit of their moth er and little sister, !"viercedes. .

The Sibley County Indepet1clent , of Henderson, lVIinn., in re­porting Rev. Father Chasse's recent bazaar, caJls it the most suc­cessful church affair held there in recent years, and reports a clear profit of $2,366. Our congratulations to Father Chasse.

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EXCHANOES.

Vol. · I, No. r, The Michigan Intercollegiate bowed its way into the arena last month. The Intercollegiate owns to aspira­tions for broadening the journalistic prospect of Michigan col­lege8 and a,ims at the establishtnent of a community of interest among the several educationaJ institutions of that state. Un­douLtedly its scope a.nd policy will be broad enough and it will contain enough intelligently selected reprint to be a good col­lege paper's paper, regardless of state lines. "The Time Factor in a College Course''selected from the Lombard Bulletin, though not the work of a student, is essentially of value to students. The article is full of unc'OmmO'll coo:nmon sense and gives the theme "learning is growth and growth takes time" a sane and pointed development. The following quotation., thoogh proba­bly not original, with the writer, is peculia,rly apt just now: "When nature makes 3J cabbage she us·es a. few weeks only; when she makes an oak she spends a century." "The study of the Bible in College/' from the Collegian Forense, contains a 'pithy treatment of the literary value of the Inspired Word. It is of in­terest to know that Hall Caine declares the Bible to be the source of his strong situations. It speaks much for the nobility of the arts to say: "That the best in literature, art, music, are from the Bible. The great pictures and the grea,t ora:torios, like the master-pie·ces of literature, a.re based on that wonderful book of books." Also let this question arrest our attent.ion : "We deem ourselves obliged to study Shakespeare and Tennyson and Browning and other great writ-ers; why should we not go back to the very source of their inspiration'?" Will your process of ''natur·al selection" evolve an exchange column, Mr. Intercol­legiate'!

Among the things that we're really sincere about, Mein Herr Spectator, is an unres·erved admiration for that genial classic who erst did guide the destinies of the Spectator that was. Consequently to speak of the Spectator as current is to conjure up a, visita,tion of the · Addiaonia.n afflatus. "0a&till8

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SharlowsH in the Septem'her number of the Rpectator hegiti's in a rather shadowy, '~where-an1-I-at" mainner, that looks · much like uncertainty as to the congruity of the elements employed for illustration. lt ga~thers Inome~ntum as it goes, however, and very ·who-lesomely takes cognizance of the fact that ''not all the colle~ges: and unniversjties ,1'f the eount.ry cast a wholesome s·hadow over their stude·nts-. It often happens that a Christian young man goes to au institution where the Bible is thoroughly 'dissected.' He hea1·s le:arne:d 1nen-ridicule miracles and deny the divine1 ins~piration of the 'Vord and cons-equently he hegins to waver in his faith and finally graduates with a feeling of se­curity in self and in self ability,entirely forgetting his Oreator, of whom he learned in childhood days. The shadow of this graduate will not be for the eternal good.'" "11 usic is an extremely puerile effort for a man with :o6 after his initials. "Just Jokes and Jingles" would be a truer title to the humorous department if "Jerked" were added, because that's how they got there. We can say "we have met before" to m-ost of the jokes hut we must trust to our ~emory to know just whe1re we have met,since the waggish editor doesn't state where he does his culling. We beg leave t.o remind you, friend Spectator, of ''to Caesar the things tha.t are ·Oaesa.r's."

vVhat's the matter, Niagara Index, has "Ichabod" been writ­ten on your portals? Your first October issue will ha:vdly do justice to your reputation. It is editorially vacuous and typo­graphicarlly illegible (sha.ll 've say "also?") The exchange fra- . ternity mus1t needs inves.t in a pair of stronge1~ lenses for Uncle Herun1 if he continues to a.Uow such vers.e a.s the following from "In Autumn vVoods,'' to escape the indigo quietus:

" The very trees where once we played "'·ould fa.in a, message speak,

Of . mirthful hours we one time whiled A-playing hiu-e a.nd seek."

And we could say "et rul." And have you a real excuse fo~

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running thaA) 'June. "C'ommencetnent ~peech" in an October numbe1•?

The short, ·periodic sentence is generally JH'efera.ble to the long involved expression of an idea, but there are times even in oatory, when the short sente.nce can be worked to death. Tbe writer of "T'he Divorce Problem of the United States" in the College Revie-w, has employed this short form with such unre­mitting regularity t.l1at his result is a cramped, monotonouH style . . With laughable gravity this youngster asks "Is the stand

.. of the Episcopal church too icleaJ, when it refuses to re-ma.rl'y (divorced persons)? Is it to our credit thait refusal in one( ?) (the query is ours) church does not me'a!ll refusal in all?" IB the E.piscop~l church the o:ply church tha.t refuses to re-marr·,v divorced part.ies? Indeed, does not the hlpiscopaJ church date its beginning as such back to the time when its founder resisted the authority of the Roma.n Catholic church in the matter of divorce a.nd re-marriage? Ever hear of Hank the E;ighth, son­ny? "Life's Beginning" in verse begins badly, proceeds indiffer-ently and ends not well. "'Therefore an these ugins?"

When the Autun1n's powerful radiance 'Gins the maple leaves to turn,

And the dry weeds from the ga1rde.n Our old ga.rd'ner 'gins to burn;

When the songsters from the tree-tops 'Gin their southward course to fly, _

':Phen it is I turn, with choked voice, Frmn 1ny hom.e and sa,y, ''Good-bye.

"1'hjj :Missionary," the quarterly "Recol'd o·f the progre~R of Christian unity," is on our table. 'f'his is the official organ of the non-Catholic :Mission Mo'Vement, and is deserving of the particular attention of seminaries and Catholic preparatory chool . Its pages tell the story of a great work yet in its in­

fa~ncy. Opportunity may be knoddng at som-e: doors, so let the "JYiissionarv'' be circulated in ot~r Catholic- ]nstitutions of learn­in~·.

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As one of a. series, of valuable pamphlet publications, the A.ve l\tfaria Press ha,s issuecl "Som·e D11ties and ~ponsibilities of Americ.an Catholios," by the Hon. Charles J. Bonaparte. l\lr. Bonaparte, himself a recognized exemplar of aggressively Yi r tuous Catholicity, has handled his· subject tactfully a.nd with

. e~uinent go·od sense. By establishing the exact position of the Church in 1na.tt ers perta~ining to citizenship a~nd by throwing up on Catholics, themselves, as did Brownson, the onus probandi --vvberefore a practical American Catholic is essentially a good citizen, he hais st.ruck hD•me:. "vVhen there shall be no unworthy citizen, who is also in name a OathoUc, the Ga:tholic. church in .A:merica \Vill ha.ve no enemy whom a;ny good man would wish to be her friend.'' Tl1at is pithy and sane. It is also indicative of the general merit of the pamphlet.

Som.e: Duties a.nd Responsibilities of An1erica.n Catholics. By -TJ1e Hon. C1tarles· J. Bona.pa:rte (Ave :M:ar-ia1 Pres.'!!, Notre l);ame, Ind., $ .1 0. )

An orderly, te1npera.te and concentrated effort is the e~s:sa~

on wrhe Function and Bcope of· Philosophy in the Catholic Ool­lcge Course," in the Pittsburg College Bulletin. The sanity of perfecting the m•ent.a.l digestion is mildly, albeit firmly,insisted upon. "'l'o po·ssess a~ living philsophic attitu(le of Inind, to llc able to take a personal look at thing.s to under­stand thes·e a.nd ha.r111oniz·e them" is the desidera~tum in the opinion of the writer. To those who have taken cogniza.nce of the usurpation of the function of philosophy proper by the hist­ory of philo'Sophy in many curricula, this statement will quick­ly appeal. Did one of the stnd-ent edito1~s pen those strong lines anent, "Catholic Public Opinion?" Say "trans-eat" to the question if you will, but cling tD your quill and continue to help in the right molding orf pre·ea.rious public oplnion.

Meow! Ohai)pie. Old Fogy.

VIATORIANA.

Oh! Now, you .stop. vYho took the chicken? Nix, nit and no! Please call me Sid. 'r11anksgiving is near. He hag a mirror in his hat. That lets you out.-,Vhat"? The doDr. Janitor, hea,t if you please . .All aboard for the kick-off. Tom-I hear they arc going to Ya.ccinate the entire police

force of Kankakee. Bert-I don't see \vhnt they want to do tha~t for, a, polkenwn

ueve:r Cfttches anything. R.icha,rd-What ]s the difference het\vern that ten dollars

you owe me and T·ennessee? Shorty-'i\That is the difference? Richard-Te.nncsse I will see. The ten yon owe mt.,. I wi ll

never see. Shorty-Are you going to join tlle deer hunters this fa.ll? Hichard C.-~o I dnn't like stag parties. Senior-So- the I'hotographer told you to look pleasant a.nd

then asked you to pay in advance?

fan.

Junior-Yes; I suppose he wanted to look pleasant, too. Bring hack my crazy quilt ! Piff, paff, pouf. Rndplph-\VeH, I see yon have beem investing- in a.n elect r ic

T'mn-Oh, yes, I thought I'd blow myself. Prof.-Yes., Shorty, there is only one way to ](l'arn, and that

1 to begin at the bottom. · Shorty-How a.bout swimming'? KilUm-D" you think raw oyst-er~ ar& healthy?

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Junior-! never knew one to complain. A swell affair.-Two Se:niors' swollen eyes. Bill-Can you tell me w'ha;t a "s·piritual light" is? John--Yes sir, a spiritual light is an alcohol lamp. Kelly-What does "much cry and little \voo1" refer· t,o? 'l\lorgan-The loud ten flollar suit. Looks like a cat, walks like a cat, cats like a cat, and it

a.in't a cat. 'Vhat is it? It's. a kitt.en. Visitor-There \Vas a terrible accident do-wn at the railroad

the other day . Student-\Vhat wa:s it? Visitol''--A fellow wa,s lying on the

. railroad track; a train came alo1ng aud cut aH of his left side off. The took hirn to the I:J;mergency hospital a.nd he got fixed up. Now he is all right.

Con-!vly hrotl1er swaHo·wed a cigar stump the other day while laughing.

George--The fellow you introduced 1ne to? Con-Yes, but he doesn't regret it. I-Ie is making stump

speeche:S every day.

ST. PATRICK'S SOCIETY. T'he old me1nbers or St. Pa..trick's Litera~ry a.nd De,ba,ting

society ,a,s.sm11bled in an inforn1al rnceting on Oct. 26th, for the pu:rpo•se: of re-organizing and electing officers: for the scho­lastic year 1901-fi. The• meeting was called to order by the Rev. Nioderator, Bro. l\i . . J. Breen, C. S. V., and the following gen.tle­Jnen \V€'1' '0 installed in offic-e: :Messrs. J. Ha~yden, Pres; J. B. Shiel, vice pres; F. l\1iller, see; A. Kelly, treas; W. Keefe, librarian; ,Y. :Ma.g11y, sergt-at.arms. After the election of officers the me·mbers. adjourned to the co,ns.eTvat.ory, where they were entertained with choice 1nusical selections, after which the nwmbers dis handed. There is every indication tha,t the pa.st year's success will be again repeated during the ensuing yea.r. The Rev. l\!fode.ra tor promise~ a full, interesting· program for every nweting a~nd the talent of the ~.oc:iety will be frequently drawn upon for the inBtruction and entert.a,inmeut. o.f the Ine11l-h<:>J'N. F'. M.

ATTENTION. ALL!

CHICAGO, ILL., Nov. 7, 1904 Esteemed a.nd Dea.r Alumnus:

There are no days like the old days and no home like the old home. They are gone from us, but not forever. We can live the'3e days a.gain:in the hearty handclasp of our boyhood friends and the tender embrace of the ever lovi'ng Mother, The opportunity of enjoying both will, w~ hope, be given many in the reunion of the "old boys" at the college Wednesday November ]6th.

You are most cordially invited to join us in making thi:; gathering of '" college boys the greatest and the grandest in college history.

The meeting will be without formality, just like the old days. The ban­quet will be at one P. M., better than ~he old, and we hope the appetites will behalf·as good''as when we were boys.' '

You know so well how muc.h encouragement the coming back of the old students gives the college faculty, and how grea~ the inspiration it gives the pupils.

This consideration, with your desire to be loyal ever to the Alma Mater, good and kind, will impel you to be present and to induce others to share your sentiments and your happiness .

There will be special cars on the I. C. H. R. train leaving ~Jhicago 8:GO A . M. arriving at Bradley 10:30. Heturn to Chicago can be made at 4, 6 and 1 r. M.

Please send your acceptance to Rev. M . J. Marsile before Nov. 12th as preparations must be made for the .banquet.

Trusting that you will make, if necessary, a sacrifice to be with us that day,

\Ve are Eincerely and fraternally yours,

RT. REV. A. J. McGAVICK, D. D. '' •· MGR. LEGRIS.

REV.A.L.BERGER0N. d J. C. LESAGE. 'f C. P. FOSTER. ' ~ F. J. O'REILLY. " P. C. CONWAY. '' H. BOECKEL MAN . '' J. A. BOLLMAN

JAMES SHANNON. '' J. J. O'CALLAGHA1r.

MR. JAMES MAHER. ' ' EDWARD LECOUR.

JAMES CONDON. '' ll'RANKA.1IOO:PY.

ATHLETIC NOTES.

The ·SeYe:ral ait-hletic a,s:soeiations ha:ve re-organized ··· and eh-•rtr1l thA foHo\vh1g officers: for the ensuing ye.ar :

SEiNIOHS. President-J . .. A ... H a.yden, Vice PPesident-J. n. Shiel, Secretary-vV. J. J{eefe, Trca.s11rer-Rev. \V. ~J . Bergin, C. S. V.

JTJ~IORS.

President-.J. :lHalloy, Vice President-A. Sa:vary, Secretary-~. ~fcCart.hy,

'J'reasnT"er-Rev. ~J. Co:rbett, G. S. V. MINTMS.

President-P. Lynch, V ice President-J. C1~onin, Secretary-T. fla.rrisron, 'J're:asurer--R.e\'. A. N. St. Aubin, C. S. V.

Each soc iety report:s a. large 1nen1bership and-the different cmnmitte:c:s a.rP busily .at work orgamizing tea.n1.s and pr~pairing

g-a.nH::s to rob the approachinG \Yinte1· 1nonths of their nTonotony ;:-, nd dulness.

FOO'PBALL. Though there is. no first tea·m this :year a. light team has

been organized to cmnpete with high schools a,nd minorr col­leges. Already sever.al interesting ga;m·e·s ha;ve been pla,yed, in .Paeh of which our hoys have left the field with flying colors, n,mo-ng t11e most importa.nt of these were two gaJne:s with the I(ankake(~ High school. The first game was played· on the col­l~ge grounds and resulted in a vktory f.or t;he h01ne t·eam by the ~co,re. of 17 to 0. In the second game which wa.s played at Ka:n­kakee the score "'inliS 11 to 10 in fa-vor of tl1e coHeg.e. rrlhe lineup in bath games was as follows:

St Viateur's -·Burns r e

Kankakee. Beebe, Senesac ·

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Quille 1 e O'Connor rt Monahan 1 t Kelly r g

Sells Holcomb Kisner Burns

Roach 1 g Iniss Senecal q b Haslett

.J Shiel, Captain rh b Baker 1'. Smith lh b Allen

Velergo f b Smith, Capt Maguy, MaHaney, Substitutes,

r:rhe J·unior foot-hall team has played several jutere:-5 ting games with Kanka·kee teailns and ea,ch time Carpt. Clneker ha:· led his men from the field cro-vvned with the lanrels of Yidon'

INDOOI{ BA'SE. BALL. An indoor base-hall league ha-s lwen for·meu .among the fol-

l o\ving clubs: 20th Century Club. Company L. E. I. H. I. Three I. l{ankakee Athletics Y. l\I. C. A. St. Via,tenr's CnJlege. - ' . The College will be rep1·~srnte'l by the folhY\Ying- i('lllll:

Shiel, Capt. c; Keefe, Manager, r f; Burns, p; Kel1y , r s; ~\Ia.g uy St \:, I b; C. Conway, z b; Berry, 3 b; J. Hayden, l f.

M0nahan, Derry, substitutes.

As most of thesf~ gentlemen h::tve already won ~::t.Ul'C"ls on the indeor dian1ond, \Ye think we are justified in saying that St. Viateur·'R will ma.kr :1 hm~!l rnc:e for 1ir.st place.

BO\'lLI~G, BILLIARDS AND l)OOL. The bowling alleys have been put in first class condition

!lncl judging by the number of players and the high scores bejng made this gaJnc is oecoming quite popula1r a.mong the . tndent.~.

The billiard and pool tables ha;ye been completely remodeled and tJ1e ivories are kept in con t.ant motion.

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ROLL OP ·HONOR FOR OCTOBER, '04.

Tlw Conway ~Medal for t he highest note in the cla.ssical cours~ W<H) 1von 1J:y JanH~ Dougherty.

rnw classical oxcellenee for a note of H5 and above \Vas cquaH;y ·des:er"Y~ed by Louis O'Connor and J OSGIJh nielloy. Dra.\\ 11

by tTo~e.ph 1\Ielloy. ~r1w fir};.ti cla&8ica1 for ._t note bet\Y&~u 93 and H3 ·was won hy

Pra.nk vValsh. The second classical for ~L note between DO apd 93 vtM

equally deserved by "'\iYilliaJn Reynolds, John Goff, A. Drolet, D·. Boyle, tT. Buzick, J. Colleton, A .. I{ell:y, A. O?:Nei1 , A. Savary, DI'a.wn hy A. D1~o1et.

~Phe Guilfoyle Engli~h composition for Hi note ot 95 and a.hovc was; equally deserved by r..,. Or'Gonnor, P. Walsh, 0. Con­wa:y, liJ .. Con wa.y, J. Bl"ady and A. Drolet:. Drawn by A. Drolet.

The ComlllCl'~cial excellence meual \ras 1ron by E:arl Ha:rvey. 'rhe l~irst Comme1•cial 111~lal for n; note het,·~.reen 93 a.nd

U5 was \VOn by A. Klucke1•. rrlw Seco-nd Comn1ercia.1Jnedal for a llO'te between 90 and

H3 wa~~ equally deserved: by A. DellH~r~, H. D'ehuH:~;r, E. Ja£ques, A . . Lowentha l, /L Pepiu, P. Hddy andJ \V. Sdtwautke. Dt>l(twn h.Y A. I.o,venthal.

'l'hQ Conduct Inffial for :1 note of 90 and above was' equally deserved! by tlw following: J. P. Brady, .J. Buzick, \V. e.T. Ca:r­ro1J, P. Colletb~", F. Connors, Gla.renee anw Ennuet't Conwa1y, J. Oorkery, ll. Cunningham, A. Dandutaud, ,;\.. Drolette, l\1. ]}wane, F. Gordon, ~1. Jlayes, A .. I{.elly, J. I{reutzct, J. La~gan, A. I.egriB, H. T1egr·i~, ~T. ?lfalloy, F. ~fm·coux, A. 1\l:ar:cotte, J. ~Iullaney, .\. l\IcChJ.•"bh;y, \V. ~ouri(l, E!. OjBrien, R. O)Oonnell, L. O'Connor, A. O'Neil, C. Pinard, A. Quille, A. Savary, E. S.en­ecal, A. Slattery, W. T 'rainor, L. Tully, F. Allbright, F. Albert, E. Beecher, G. Berry, F. Callaghan, C. Daley, R. Dillon, A. lJeuu:~rs, R. Delaney, B. Harvc:.r, T. lia.rt, lD. Jacque~, . .:\. Lowen­Hwl, .J. Ln~do]plt, 1\f. I.~unnl'ehe .. C. ~fnJl eu , U. j[:n-t.in, ~\. O'Con-

THE VIA TORIAN.

no11, P. Reidy, A.". Rivard, Il. Schanze, 'I'. St. Ja.cque~

erga, II. 'Veavcr. Drawn in the senior d·epa.rtm ~n Daley; ju the junjor depa.rtment b;y A. Losrenthal. ·

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ROLL .OF HONOR MINIM DEPORTMENT.

'l''hc first excellence Ulellal \Yas equally d(':owr·ved hy .Jo,"(~ph

J[cDevitt and. F1··a.nk \VesterJlehl. Drawn by P. ""\Ye. ·tt>rfielrL 'The second excellence mc~tlal w.a.s a,,v.ardetl to Ge'(.H'ge L~ou~;

ncx:t; in merit: L. Barrett', A. Onnderla.ch all<l E. Ronlign~·. Dcpa.rtment 1neclal \Yas C'qnnlly deser-rod hy T. Harl'.iHon,

B. l\-1cE1meel, E. S011ligny, antl F. \Vesterfie](l. Ih·aw11 l>y T. liarrison.

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