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Catholic Union and Times. IS THE VICTORY WHICH OVERCOMETH THE WORLD- -OUR FAITH." -I John, Chapter V. rains; ESTABLISHED 1872 No. BUFFALO, N. THURSDAY, 1899 82.00 PER YEAR mote VOLUME MAY.

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a. First Quarterly Statement of 1899. As the time allowing representation at the biennial convention of July next terminated with the ending of the last year, it was thought probable that the increase in membership would be less marked than preceding quarter and that also a falling off in the granting of charters would naturally follow; in a word, that the proverbial would succeed the phenomenal rush recorded in the last months, especially of 1898. Contrary, however, to expectations there has been a steady growth aggregating 2,471, or an average monthly of 824 members, while the percentage of death-rate is about .0016, decrease through all sources but .003. These three items are of immense significance and form a basis of reckoning with the legal heads of the insurance department of the country, and in view of former reports from this department there is every reason to suppose the Association will occupy a still more elevated position than previously voted, although satisfactory and indeed flattering results have followed each official examination.

The financial conditions are no less gratifying; the various funds have been considerably augmented, and balances that speak for themselves are prominent features in the official report presented at the meeting of the Supreme Board. with great pleasure lates that we place within reach of every member the Supreme recorder's quarterly report in full and bespeak for it the careful consideration it deserves at this time, and a comparison with previous reckonings from the same source as well as with reports of other organizations. We feel that every member of the L. C. B.

A. is to be congratulated upon existing conditions and bright prospects that the future presents at the closing of the fifth term. Blessings innumerable have been showered upon the Association, each quarter seeming to surpass its predecessor in the harvests of good. That it may continue to deserve Divine favor should be the prayer of every member. Erie, May 1, 1899.

To the Supreme Trustees L. C. B. A. Sisters -The following is the report of the business of the Association, as shown by the records in my office, for the term ending April 30, 1899.

BENEFICIARY FUND. DR. Bal. on hand Jan. 1, 1899...

12.422.11 Collected from Jan. 1 to April 1, '99 61.878.79 Total $74,300.90 Paid warrants Nos. 860 to 932 8 70.500.00 Bal. on hand April 1, '99. 3.800.90 Total Benefic'y collected to date 878.543.50 Paid acct.

deceased 874,742.60 RESERVE FUND. Amount as per report Jan. 1, Collected Jan. 1 to April 1, 3.157.93 $49,198.04 GENERAL FUND. CR.

Bal. on hand Jan. 1, $11.366.45 Collected Jan. 1 to April 1, 20.685.93 Total $32.052.38 CR. Paid orders Nos.

1701 to 1809 5,153.19 Bal. on hand April 1, 26,899.19 MEMBERSHIP STATEMENT. Number Admitted members Jan. 1, '99. .......43,346 Jan.

1 to April 1, 2.471 Total .45,817 DECREASE. Died 76. resigned 27, expelled 34...... 137 Number of members April 7. Ten branches have been admitted during the quarter; 4 in New York, 3 in New Jersey, 2 in Pennsylvania, and 1-in Massachusetts.

Petitions have been granted to No. 512, which gives us seven branches in process of formation. Fraternally yours, J. A. ROYER, Supreme Recorder.

Assessment No. 110 Recording Deaths 980 to 1002. Official notice of the May assessment left the Supreme office on the 10th, and being but a single call is to be adjusted by branches before the last day of the month. Of the claims represented all except the last will be paid by surplus, or $19,500, and only members admitted prior to April 24th are called upon for payment. All matters considered, the report is a vast improvement upon even its immediate predecessor, which was by no means excessive.

Financial secretaries are requested to issue individual notices to their members at once, and therefore hasten payment locally as in some localities a local delay has been allowed to interfere with general adjustment. It must be borne in mind that in convention years the books of the Supreme Council are closed June 1st, and every dollar of beneficiary money for which payment has been levied during interim of sessions must be accounted for upon the biennial statement. The withholding of branch until the limit is about reached throws the burden of examination, verifying, upon the few days preceding the general balance. With a view to obviating this unusual and it would seem unnecessary rush, branches are requested to send statement of assessment No. 110 and money to the Supreme office as early as possible after receipt of notice.

It is learned that in some branches the full amount is collected from members before forwarding, which is altogether unnecessary inasmuch as the advance assessment on hand after previous collection is held that personal delay may not interfere, and this amount should be remitted at once and replaced within the time prescribed. Supreme Recorder's Financial Statement for Month Ending April 30th, 1899, DR. Rec'd acct. Beneficiary $20,877.87 Ree'd acct. Reserve 1,073.71 Rec'd acct.

General 3,689.83 Bal. Beneficiary last 3,800.90 Bal. General Fund last 26,899.19 Bal. Reserve Fund last 49,198,04 CR. Benefiolary paid warrants 933 to 968.

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1. ng but if he ER. tism, Pints ole or rou. 0. at NE a feels not, when the spring once more, Who o'er winter's grave forlorn Stepping winged feet, retreads the shore With -of-widowed earth, his bosom burn? OUR LADY'S MONTH.

ordered, flower succeeds to flower, As May, the ladder of her sweets And Ascends, advancing hour by hour scale to scale, what heart but From beats? presence veiled in fields and graves, Some mingles raptures with buried joy beside us moves, Some thrills the soul with much disAnd course. they. perchance, that wondering pair As Who to Emmaus bent their way, Hearing, heard not. Like them our prayer We make: "The night is near us- With paschal chants the churches ring; Their echoes strike along the tombs; The binds their hallelujahs sing: Each flower with floral Incense fumes, Our long-lost Eden seems restored; As on we move with tearful eve We feel through all the Illumined sward Some upward working 1 paradise. -Aubrey De Vere.

LONDON LETTER. Catholic University Agitation -Many Conversioas--Newspaper Difficulties -Work of the Jesuit Fathers. (From our own correspondent.) London, April 26. Sunday last witnessed the opening gathering of the season of the Guild of Our Lady of Ransom at St. Patrick's, Soho Square.

The notices had been issued that it was intended as a commemoration of St. George's Day, but the sudden transferrence of this festival to the 16th of June somewhat altered the program. There was a splendid audience and the master, Father Fletcher (formerly a clergyman in the Church of England), gave an interesting address in which he referred in pointed manner to the present ritualistic troubles in the Established Church. St. George's Day was observed in 1 fitting manner in the dioceses, excepting, as stated, that of Westminster.

Pontifical high mass was sung at St. George's Cathedral and sermons, morning and evening, in honor of the EngIsh saint, were preached by two Irishmen. Father Donnelly, S. and Dom Gilbert Higgins, C. R.

In consequence of the statement of the Duke of 1 Devonshire that the gorernment will not this year do anything with regard to the Catholic University of Ireland question, the agitation for such erection has dereloped in a most marked manner. Not only are the various Catholic associations all over the country taking up the matter vigorously, but open-minded Protestants, who see that an injustice is being done to an already much persecuted nation are bringing the matter forward. This evening at a club dinner in the West End of London, Mr. T. W.

Russell is opening a debate on the subject. Captain Donelan, M. has also today intimated his intention of submitting, on an early day, a resolution affirming that it is the duty of the government to propose legislation without further delay, with a view to placing Iris! Catholics upon a tooting of equality with their fellow countrymen of other religious denominations in all matters It connected with university education. is understood that Captain, action is taken with the approval of Donelan's the Irish bishops. One undoubted result of disturbed the present state of the English Church is the number, and a very large one, of its followers who are being led to enquire into the doctrines of the Catholic Church.

The priests at the missions in- London say that never before, to their knowledge, has there been such a large army of people Her tustruction with a view to becom ing Catholics. A London priest standing of high is at the present time giving told me this morning that he instruction weekly to thirty converts from the High Church section lished of the Estabwards stated, Church, as though, as he afterto "instruction." in the they commonly accepted sense of the term, require pone. He finds that their the Catholics, is absolutely on a par with knowledge with the exception that is they do not clearly understand what meant by the Pope's Supremacy. Monsignor Provost Barry, Westminster, Vicar-General of the archdiocese of is very ill. Next month the brating the golden jubilee Oratorians of are their cele- enof May, London.

It was on the trance into house in 1849, King when they opened their afterwards the site William of Toole's street, Theatre, Strand, but ises. now In 1852 converted into business erty known as they purchased the prop ton, taking full Blewell possession House, of ly-built church and house in the 1854. AdAnglican have been made since then. vances The church vicar of Brompton (whose curates adjoins Oratory) and his to prevent the memorialized Lord Palmerston to notice was taken "Popish of invasion," but They then petitioned Lord their John request. sell with a like result.

April 29th. versary Thursday of the was the seventieth anniEmancipation Act, passing though of the the Catholic only the event societies were to take any notice of Ransom and the the Guild of Our Lady Cross. These two united League of the stration at Shoreditch in a Town demon- Hall to be entertained a concert, to Cathette tion by Rev. H. J.

Grosch, and to witness a presentation to Major Kelly as a slight acknowledgment of the services which the Guards of the League of the Cross had rendered to the Ransomers in their outdoor processions. Some Protestant papers have been busily engaged circulating a rumor that the Earl of Dumtries, eldest son and heir of the Marquess of Bute, was abbut to secede from the Catholic Church. An authoritative, unqualified denial is given to the rumor, though not before some of the High Church papers had indulged in laudatory leaderettes on the subject. Cardinal Gibbons has, I understand, consented to preach the first sermon in the new Westminster Cathedral. All speculation as to whether this cathedral would be completed in time for the celebration of the jubilee or the restoration of the English hierarchy is now put to an end.

The building is fast approaching completion and there is nOW little or no anxiety felt as to the Anancial side of the question. The feeling against the Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail in issuing a Sunday edition of their papers is rapidly growing; and now that Cardinal Vaughan has spoken SO strongly against the innovation, it is being takep up the Catholics. Were it not for the fact that such departure would be followed by many other newspaper proprietors, perhaps the evil would not have been so great, but it was hardly to be expected that other newspaper owners would sit calmly down and watch their opponents reap an andue advantage over them. We are pow threatened with a new evening journal which will appear on all seven days of the week. People engaged in the production of London newspapers and, especially the journalists, have to work at such high pressure that it becomes imperative that one day's rest in the seven should be secured to them.

fortunately, the factory acts do not apply professions, and journalists, unlike the tradesmen, cannot get relief under that heading. The Hon. Miss Currie, daughter of Lord Currie, British ambassador to Rome, has been received into the Catholic Church. The Catholic social work in the East End of London is rapidly spreading. thanks to the energy of Canon Akers and his staff of clergy, Lady Edmund Talbot and her band of devoted lay workers.

One of the last acts of Canon Akers before his recent departure to Rome with Cardinal Vaughan (where I hear he has, unfortunately, been seized with illness) was to secure a shelter in Cable street, close to the famous Ratcliffe Highway, which it is proposed to utilize for a men's club. This shelter was formerly one of the depots of Dr. Barnardo, who has made himself so notorious as a Protestant advocate and proselytizer. The deaths during the week include Father Edgecome, S. and Brother Michael of the Brothers of Mercy (in the world, John Thomas Dwyer).

Father Peter Gallwey, S. one of the oldest priests in London, being now nearly ninety years of age, is very ill. He is at present staying at St. Leonard's on Sea. Last year the Jesuit Fathers instituted at Wimbledon first annual gathering of the Associates of the Apostleship of Prayer.

The second of such gatherings will take place on the 15th of June next. After an address and benediction in the chapel there will be a visit to the shrine of the Sacred Heart Pleading, and a reception in the grounds, tea and refreshments being served. The proceedings will also partake of the nature of an informal conterence and questions and difficulties in regard to the work of the Apostleship answered and dealt with by the director. The proceeds, after payment of expenses, are to be devoted equally between the shrine of the Sacred Heart Pleading and the Apostleship work for Catholic bluejackets. Contrary to expectation, Archbishop Ireland has not yet paid his promised visit to England, DUDLEY WRIGHT.

ARCHBISHOP OF SANTIAGO. Native of Cuba Has Been Appointed by 0 the Holy Father. Archbishop Chapelle, Apostolic Delegate to Cuba, received from Cardinal Rampolla the following cablegram: "Rome, April 26. Chapelle, New Orleans: "The Holy Father, having accepted the resignation of Archbishop Saenz, names as Archbishop of Santiago the clergyman recommended by you. "CARDINAL RAMPOLLA." The clergyman recommended by Archbishop Chapelle as the successor to Archbishop Saenz is Very Rev.

F. Barnada, Canon of Santiago Cathedral Chapter and acting administrator of the archdiocese of Santiago. He was educated at Salamanca, and is considered the most distinguished native clergyman of Cuba. He speaks English well and is a great admirer of American institutions. The Pope and the Sisters of Charity.

The Sisters of Charity are celebrating the centennary of the foundation of their order, which was established at Besancon by Jeanne Thouret, and which now reckons no less than 346 homses -in Prance, Switzerland and Italy. The foundress died at Naples in 1836, and it is hoped that the cause of her beatification may soon be entered upon. The mother house is in Rome, and the present Superior General is Sour Leontine Vandel, to whose initiative the celebration is due. In response to a letter announcing the celebration his Holiness has returned a letter of hearty congratulation assuring the orof the favor of the Holy See, and the Apostolic MATTERS METROPOLITAN. Collapse of a Fraternal Organization- New Armory for the Sixty-ninth Regiment- -Large Number of Novices Received Into Sisterhoods.

May 7th. The collapse of the Order of United Friends has given a good many people something to think about. It's not something pleasant either for most of the members who have stuck to the society up to its present stage have paid into its treasury nearly all their heirs would have received at their death, two or three thousand dollars in most cases. All this is a dead loss and very few of the members can afford it, either. One of the largest branches in this city is made up entirely of elevated railway employes.

The order went into the hands of a receiver last week and it is said its assets amount to scarcely twenty-five cents on the dollar. Its failure oddly enough seems due to no one's dishonesty. It is the fault of circumstances and the plan on which the lar societies which came existence United Friends and a good many, simiduring the craze for insurance and endowment societies prevalent a couple of decades ago, were organized. It was an assessment society which levied monthly assessments according to the demands on the treasury. At first these assessments were light, fifty or sixty cents, but as the members aged and ill, drew benefits or many the levy grew heavier.

If the membership had continued to grow rapidly all would have been well, but for some reason it didn't, with the result of the past week, that the order was obliged to wind up its affairs. The collapse of the United Friends is about the worst since the failure of the Iron Hall, about ten years ago. Old St. Joseph's parochial school has received a lift by the will of James Sinclair, one of St. Joseph's parishioners, who died recently.

Out of his estate of $8,000 he left $1,000 to the school and $2.500 to the pastor, the Rev. Dennis P. Flynn, who is requested to say certain masses and prayers for the deceased. Mr. Sinclair was a Scotchman who came to this country about twenty years ago and left no near relatives.

Miss Swift's Future. The question of the future work of converts, especially when they have been particularly prominent in other religious fields, is always an interesting one. Miss Susie Swift, whose conversion caused quite a ripple of excitement, seems to have found her vocation in a Dominican sisterhood. Before becoming Catholic she had been prominent for several years as a worker in the Salvation Army. Her literary gifts and a small private fortune made her especially valuable in the publication department of the Army.

Shortly after entering the Church Miss Swift became a postulant at the Convent of St. Catherine de Ricci of the Third Order of St. Dominic, at Albany. Last Sunday she took the white veil. St.

Catherine de Ricci's convent has especial interest for New Yorkers, having been founded about twenty years ago by Lucy Eaton Smith, daughter of the late Edwin Smith, a distinguished civil engineer of this city. In religion Miss Swift will be known as Sister Imelda Theresa. Archbishop Corrigan has again shown his hearty approval of the work of the Paulist Fathers by presenting Father Doyle, as treasurer of the Catholic Missionary Union, with $100 to be applied to the support of missionaries to non-Catholics. Sixty-ninth's Affairs. There has been talk of a new armory for the Sixty-ninth Regiment for some time, but the new building is very slow about materializing.

The old armory opposite Cooper Union is an extremely shabby affair and not at all an ornament to the neighborhood, not to mention its inadequacy as headquarters for the regiment. Some time ago the Ar mory Board selected the site of the old city college as the best available spot on which to locate the Sixty-ninth. Col. Duffy and the other officers, however, protested that the space was insufficient for a proper drill room. Col.

Duffy then received permission to pick out a new site and he has selected the block between Lexington and Fourth avenues and Twenty-fifth and Twentysixth streets. This site will be recommended to the Armory Board and is probable the armory will be erected. there. Two of the companies of the -ninth were mustered out last week. They were only temporarily enlisted In the National Guard to bring the regiment up to the twelve company rule for regiments in the regular service.

These are the days when the enthusiastic postulant, having survived her two years of probation, receives the white veil and feels that her life work is settled for her. Despite the enlarged sphere of woman's work and the many new occupations that beckon her on, there is no decrease in the number of women who feel that they have vocations to devote themselves to works of mercy as members of a religious sisterhood. Indeed, there seems to be a marked increase of late, particularly in the orders devoting themselves to active work among the sick and poor or to teaching. Within a fortnight in Brooklyn Borough alone, sixty-three young women have received the white veil. At the mother house of the Sisters of St.

Joseph at Flushing last week twenty-one novices were received. At Amityville, on Wednesday last, twentyeight young women entered the Order of St. Dominic and on Saturday twelve novices were received into the Order of the Little Sisters of the Poor. Last Sunday two novices were received at the Monastery of the Precious Blood into the cloistered branch of the Dominicans. I Mess in Ludlow Street.

For the first time in its history mass was celebrated in Ludlow street jail last Thursday. Rev. William Smith, S. P. recently appointed official fire chaplain, was the Arrangements have been made between the prison officials and the Archbishop which provide for frequent celebrations of the mass in the future.

Father Smith has been visiting the prison for some time and the officials have recently assured him that' the good effects of his ministrations are noticeable. The divorce question has become an active one among the four hundred, apparently, although it seems rather late now to protest against receiving a divorcee into society when a dozen or two of the charmed exclusive circle already have extra living husbands wives. mont, Mrs. rather, Sloane, seems or to Mrs. have Perry been ticularly ungrateful to the New York courts, which put themselves out most extraordinarily favor her.

After denying tearfully the scandalous suggestion of the newspapers that she intended to marry the co-respondent in the case, she went up to Connecticut within a few hours after the divorce was granted and was married to Mr. Belmont. Still more shocking to the sensitive was the fact that arrangements for the marriage were made before the divorce given. Altogether it is a fearful commentary on the morals of the highest society, and the example can scarcely be anything but demoralizing. It is hardly surprising that the I Protestant clergy of all denominations in New York should have suddenly waked up and preached scathing sermons against the evil they have winked at so long.

ROCHESTER LETTER. Death of Mrs. Edward Hanna, Mother of Rev. Dr. Hanna.

Mrs. Anna Clark Hanna died on Saturday afternoon at her residence on Brown street. Mrs. Hanna suffered from an attack of the grip about Christmas is time from which she had not fully recovered when her sickness culminated in acute pneumonia, which proved fatal. Mrs.

Hanna was born in Ireland in 1835 and came to this country with her parents when a small child. Her family settled in Rochester where she received her early education and training. In 1859 she was married to Edward Hanna, who carried on an extensive cooperage business in this city. Mrs. Hanna was almost a lifelong member of the Cathedral parish, actively and earnestly connected with all its charitable and benevolent associations.

She was especially devoted to the hospital and aid societies and gave largely towards their maintenance. While of a retiring unassuming nature, she was a woman of rare judgment and indomitable will, exerting a strong influence in the community for good. She had a gentle disposition and such a true, sympathetic heart that she ever commanded the love, and respect of all who had the privilege of knowing her. She lived a noble, earnest life, surrounded by her children; an ideal Ohristian woman whose constant endeavor was to assist and uplift her fellowbeings. The deceased was blessed with five children, Dr.

Edward J. Hanna, professor of dogmatic theology in St. Bernard's Seminary: Madame Anna Hanna, a religious of the order of the Sacred Heart of Providence. R. Mrs.

William Bassett of this city. Frank and James, well-known business men of Rochester. Hers was truly a noble life, made glad by the honorable and prosperous career of her children, and she carries to her "rest today the of many a fellow being whom she delighted in comforting, for no one ever applied to her in vain. May her soul rest in peace! Funeral of Mrs. Edward Hanna.

The funeral of Mrs. Anna Clark Hanna was beid from St. Patrick's Cathedral ou Monday morning. Long before the hour appointed the sacred edifice was crowded with friends of the deceased, anxious to pay their last tribute to her memory. The celebrant of the mass was her son, Bernard's Rev.

Edward J. with Hanna, Rev. of 8t. Seminary, Thomas F. Hickey, rector of the Cathedral as deacon, and Rev.

Andrew Breed, D. The of St. Bernard's Seminary, as subdeacon. chancellor of the diocese Mgr. De Regge was master of ceremonies.

Within the sanctuary were many priests from Rochester and throughout the diocese Solemn and beautiful music was rendered by the Cathedral choir during the ceremonies. Bishop MoQuaid gave the last blessing Burial was private and the interment was in the cometery of the Holy sepulchre. Mr. Joseph Murray, who has been in Cuba, is visiting his parents on Alexander street. Mr.

Murray went west on a business trip and went with the Illinois regiment to Cuba. Prayers were offered in St. Bridget's Church on Sunday for Miss Mary Bucklev an honored member of the tion, who lies dangerously ill at. her home on North St. Paul street.

The May party that the Young Men's Seeiety of St. Bridget's Church was to (have on 11th will be held on 12th. May 2d at St. Joseph's Church occurred the marriage of Miss Jennie Lick and Mr. Charles Drees, Father Rauber officiating.

The bride was attended by Misses Amelia Lick, and Mr. Gus Drees was best Miss Anna Drees acted as flower girl. The ushers were Albert Ehrmentraut and Lees. Mr. and Mrs.

Drees will make their home in Brooklyn, On Sunday morning a class of children will receive their first communion at St. Mary's. The Cardinal Newman Reading Circle postponed the lecture that was to have been given Monday evening until May 22d, when they will have the pleasure of listening to a lecture by Rev. Thomas okey. Rev.

John Hogan of South Dakota, formerly of this city, is visiting his father on Hudson street. Father Hogan celebrated the high mass at St. Bridget's Church on Sunday. Dr. and Mrs.

Leo Connelly are receivIng congratulations on the birth of a son. Tomorrow evening the drama, Useful will be presented by the alumni of the Immaculate street. Conception School in its hall on Edinburgh A large class of children of St. Patrick's school will receive first communion on Ascension Day. Before a large number of friends, May 3d, at St.

Joseph's Church, Mr. George L. Schlitzer and Miss Barbara Wiesner were married. The bride was attended by Misses Rose Wiener, Millie Schlitzer, May Stephans, May Henricus, Martha Vogel and Millie Gilliard. Frank Hahn, Leo Schlitzer, Philip Schubmehl and Frank Biel acted as ushers.

After the ceremony an elaborate breakfast was served at the bride's home on Andrews street. Mr. and Mrs. Schlitzer have gone on an extended tour east. On May 29th the Knights of St.

Michael Commandery 48 will give a May Kondolf, party. The funeral of Charles H. who died Thursday, was held Sunday morning from S8. Peter and Paul's Chureh. There was a large number of friends present and the floral offerings were many and beautiful.

Mr. Kondolf was cashier at the postoffice. The Forty 'Hours' devotion was held this week at the Immaculate Conception Church. Sunday evening Father Payne of Charlotte delivered the sermon, which was very practical and helpful. On Sunday, the feast of 8t.

Monica was celebrated by suitable services at St. Monica's Church. In the morning Bishop McQuaid administered communion class of about forty boys and girls. During this mass Miss Katherine Moran sang Salutaris:" Misses Anna and Alice Brophy sang Lord, I am not Worthy' during communion: Mr. Alexander Mills sang Jesu After mass the entire congregation sang the Te Deum.

At 10.30 0 o'clock high mass was celebrated by Rev. Charles Fischer of St. Andrew's Seminary. A beautiful sermon on the life of St. Monica was preached by the Rt.

Rev. Bishop. There was present in the sanctuary Rev. Monsignor De Regge, Very Rev. James P.

Klernan, V. Rev. A. J. Meehan of St.

Bernard's Seminary, and Rev. J. P. Brophy, pastor of the church. At 7.30 o'clock the children who made their first communion in the morning renewed their baptismal vows.

Father Brophy spoke on the "Christian of the Nineteenth Century." The choir was assisted by J. P. Sweeney. ERIE LETTER. The beautiful and impressive service of the Forty Hours' devotion was inaugurated at St.

Peter's Cathedral after the high mass on Sunday last and closed on Wedfilled nesday while morning. the Blessed The. church Sacrament was well exposed, and many persons received communion. The priests of the city assisted the rector and his assistant in hearing confessions. The parade of the Catholic societies on Sunday morning next promises to be one of 'the largest ever seen in Erie.

The occasion will be the dedication of the new Sacred Heart Church on West Twentysixth street, Father Bender, pastor. sociaties will assemble at corner of Tenth and Sassafras streets at nine o'clock to escort Bishop Fitzmaurice to the handsome new church Mrs. J. A. Royer, Supreme Recorder of the L.

C. B. attended a meeting of the trustees in New York City last week. The details for the convention to be bel1 at Asbury Park were arranged, the only drawback being the excessive railroad rate which will be charged delegates. The delegates will be well entertained at the beautiful summer resort.

The convention will be the largest and most important ever held and many matters of grave importance will be acted upon. It is expected that Mrs. Royer will be reelected by almost a unanimous vote. as the members realize that no better recorder could be selected. R.

L. Graves left for Kansas City on Sunday last to attend the meeting of the Supreme Council of the C. K. of A. He is one of the delegates chosen by the Grand Council and is recognized a's one of the hustlers of the order.

Mrs. Graves accompanied her husband. Col. H. J.

Fries has accepted the invitation extended to the Knights of St. John to participate in the Memorial Day parade in Erie. The Grand Army veterans are under lasting obligations to the knights for the kindness shown in accepting the invitation. The mission will be inaugurated at St. Ann's Church next Sunday and will continue throughout the week.

Two eloquent Vincentian missionary fathers will conduct the mission. On the following Sunday a mission will be opened at St. Andrew's Church by the same missioners, who come to Erie from Germantown, near Philadelphia. On the evenings of the 24th, 25th and 26th of this month a fair will be held at Gabel's Hall for the benefit of St. Ann's new parochial residence.

Many beautiful prizes will be raffled off, including the beautiful pearl and shell boxes presented to. Father McCloskey by the inmates of the Pennsylvania Soldiers' and Sailors' Home. On the last night the interesting contest between Col. James Carney and Mr. John Spetz, for the historic cane will be decided.

The trustees of St. Vincent's Hospital have awarded the contract for the completion of the new St. Vincent's Hospital. The hospital, which will be in charge of the Sisters of St. Joseph, will be one of the most complete in the state.

The Erie members of the C. M. B. A. were pleased to learn of the appointment of Joseph Cameron of the New York Grand Council to the position of Supreme Recorder.

He will be a worthy successor to the lamented C. J. Hickey. The charters of all the Erie branches have been draped in mourning as a tribute of respect to deceased. The C.

M. B. A. Advisory Council will meet one week from next Sunday, when the constitution and by-laws will be adopted. The new body will do much toward upbuilding the order in Erie.

A retreat for the young ladies of St. Mary's parish will be held next Monday and Tuesday at the church. The circulating library at St. Mary's Church, which was closed while improvements were being made, will be opened next Sunday. Mr.

John J. Hurley of Painesville, 0., was married to Miss Mayme Fratus at St. Andrew's Church on Wednesday morning. The church was filled with the friends of the young couple. The following officers of Carroll Commandery Knights of St.

John of Oil City were installed by Colonel Fries of Erie on Wednesday last: Edwin Hennessey: 1st vice, John McCarty: 2d vice, Henry O'Flaherty: J. G. McGurn: fin. Daniel Harvey; cor. and rec.

T. W. Wallace: trustees, G. W. Eckert.

A. McGreal, T. P. Martin, T. W.

Geary, E. B. Barrett: captain, E. J. Wagner: first lieutenant, T.

W. Geary; second, W. G. Eckert; third, E. B.

Barrett. The installation was followed by a social session and Colonel Fries made an address well calculated to advance the interests of the order and to keep up the enthusiasm of the members. The commandery is in a flourcondition Thomas L. one of Bradford's most highly respected citizens, died last week. He was buried from.

St. Bernard's Church. Mr. Florence Delkey of St. Mary's, wals married to Miss Mathilda Stark of Erie by Father Decker.

FATHER MALONE'S SEVENTYEIGHTH BIRTHDAY. Venerable Priest Thinks that Christianity Is Gaining in the World. The Rev. Sylvester Malone, Regent of the University and for more than half a century the rector of the Church of Saints Peter and Paul in Wythe avenue, Williamsburg, N. was seventyeight years old on May 8th.

He celebrated mass in the morning and before the close of the service he made a brief address from the altar. Speaking later he said: "I believe Christianity is gaining in the world. I think that on our side there were in the past strong prejudices and a great deal of unfitness for American civilization. I think this unfitness has disappeared as has disappeared the strong anti-Catholic prejudice among the people at large." A patriotic birthday celebration in honor of the venerable priest was held in the Henry McCaddin Memorial in the evening. It was under the auspices of the Sisters of St.

Joseph. The performers were all children and the characters they assumed represented men and women who gained renown during the war with Spain. A regiment of rough riders with a boy who represented Gov. Roosevelt led a charge up San Juan Hill. The boys had been trained by Sergt.

Bernstein of the United States Navy. Many Catholic priests and Protestant ministers were present. Paid Gen. Fund orders $1,389.42 Trans. to Sup.

Trustees, Res. 1,073.71 Bal. In Beneficiary Fund at 1,678.77 Bal. in General Fund 29,199.60 Total Reserve Fund to 50.271.75 Total Beneficiary collected 899.421.37 Total paid to date 897.742.60 New York opens the new quarter's record, sending in a petition from Limestone and receiving No. 513.

The Catholic population is extensive in this locality and undoubtedly a branch of large proportions will be entered soon. The preliminary meetings have been well attended and much enthusiasm manifested, an important factor a desirable formation. Miss Bessie Matthews, one of the Supreme Deputies for eastern New York, recently made an official visit to Newburgh and makes a very gratifying report of affairs in Br. 59. A fine corps of officials manage the local business and the members are united and interested in the work.

Miss Matthews expressed herself pleased with the manner of keeping the books. A general fund of considerable amount places the branch also upon a safe financial basis. Br. 433 of Boulder assisted by its legion of friends gave an entertainment a short time since that emphasized the popularity of the Association in the west and the cultivation of its members. A program of great artistic merit was finely rendered, at the conclusion of which a silken robe was awarded to the holder of No.

165, Miss Stone. This robe was the handiwork of the members and the sale of tickets netted the branch one hundred dollars. No. 433 is certainly one of the most creditable branches in the Association and has the best wishes of the Supreme Council upon its entrance into another year. Reserve order ninety-five is now making the rounds for signatures of Supreme Trustees.

The amount, $1,073.71, is a percentage of $21,474.20, or a slight addition to the amount of the pending beneficiary call. No. 511, the last Buffalo formation, was instituted the past week with a good sized charter list. A full report will appear next week. Attention of branch finance committees is directed to the section specifying their duties and the advisability of a thorough examination before report state of finance is suggested, even though officers responsible are averse to an inspection of their books.

CR. Treasurers are also reminded that no bills are to be paid unless warrants for the same are signed by the president of. a branch as well as the recorder. Evi-. dently officers in certain quarters: might make a study of the branch constitution with benefit-to all concerned.

SWEATSHOP WORK. Man, Wife and Child Receive $12 for Making a $75 Suit in a Week--No Eight-Hour Day. Washington, D. May White, secretary of the National Garment Workers' Association, testified before the Industrial Commission today concerning the methods employed in the sweatshops in New York, where he lives. He asserted that the best class of clothing was made in these workshops.

"A suit of clothes to cost the wearer $75 will be sent to one of the shops from a handsome store on Fifth avenue," he said, "and man, wife and child work on it for a week for from fourteen to sixteen hours a day, and get $12 for it. The best stores in the city send their clothes to the sweatshops to be manufactured." Mr. White described the system of sub-contracting for clothing, as carried on in New York, as "an infernal co-operative system by which subcontractor divided his misery with his workmen." "These sub-contractors," he continued, "are really not contractors in the sense that that word is usually understood. They have no plant. They are simply petty bosses, whose small amount of machinery is bought on the installment plan The sub-contractors are ground down in the prices they receive, and, in turn, they have to get the work done cheaper.

They are' as much to be pitied as are the workmen under POPE LEO'S PROCLAMATION. Sacred Year of Universal Jubilee Beginning December 25th-Indulgence, to Pilgrims. London, May special dispatch from Rome announces that the Pope has proclaimed a sacred year of wntversal jubilee, beginning on Dec. 25th. His Holiness accords plenary indulgence to pilgrims to Rome and other recognized shrines of the Church throughout the world during 1900.

Heroic Priests and Nuns. We have not all the priest and nun heroes in the United States, says the Midland Review. La Revista Catolica records that, for the space of seven months, during the recent smallpox pest at Valencia, in Venezuela, Rev. Beguetti and a number of Salesian Sisters confined themselves within the walls of the Lazaretto, ministering to the sick and dying. At the conclusion of their work the priest and the Sisters returned to their respective houses.

On their entrance to the city they were met by a great concourse of people the civil officers, priests and sisters of various communities, who took this means of testifying to their Christian heroism; the band of the Salesian College played a triumphal march, and afterward assisted at a great Te Deum in gratitude for their deliverance from the pest. It is no wonder Catholte countries remain Catholic..