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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVI, Issue 30, 16 November 1888, Page 31

It is a very strong argument in favour of the claims of the Catholic Church to be the only true Church established by Christ, that so many convicts, in view of the speedy approach of an eternity into which they are to be plunged, prefer the ministry of the Catholic priests to th.it of the representative of the numerous denominations. The approach of death to us sharpens the reasoning powers. The Philadelphia Record describes the quarters of the Hungarians* Poles, Italians and Swedes at Pencoyd, Pa., where 1,300 men make iron tor a bounty of 68 percent., which is paid to the millionaires. Eighteen workmen live in one house, with five beds in one room ten feet square. On the lower floor bags of straw are the beds, which are piled up during the day to give room for the kitchen. Fifty-two men live in two small houses. Thete contract labourers arc gradually supplanting all ihe native workers. "I suggested," writes a visitor to the modest quarters of the Sisters of St. Joseph, who are nursing the yellow fever sufferers at Jacksonville, Fla ,'• that I would like to offer &prie-dieu to them for their "cha; el," but the nun who w^s escorting him said, with a sad srtiile : " We would not have time to use it, but we say our prayers while we are attending to the sick." She epitomised the practical spirit of Catholic piety. Ever since the plague broke out in Jacksonville, Father Williim J. Kenny and the good Sisters above named, who came on from St. Augustine, have been unwearied in their devotion to the sufferers. But that, af ier all, is what Catholic priests and religious arc for Twenty-four priests and forty-nine religious women died serving the sick in the yellow-fever epidemic of 1878. An interesting account of these martyrs of charily is contained in '• Heroes and Heroines of Memphis," by the Rev. D. A. Qiunn, of Providence, R.I. WOMAN'S WISDOM. '• She insists that it is more importance that her family shall be kept ia full health, than that she should have all the fashionable dresses and st\les of the times. She therefore sees to it that each member of hei family is supplied with enough of Dr. Soule's American Hop Bitteis at ihe first appearance of any symptoms of ill-healtb, to pr vent a fit i f ■ Lkr cs with its attendant expense, care and anxiety. All women shoal 1 t.v icisc their wisdom in this way ." " New Haven Palladinc'