ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

New Zealand Tablet, 14 August 1919, Page 17

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

G.R. (Greymouth). —Sorry to hear you suffer from heart seizures. We only prescribe for chilblains. One remedy for a weak heart is strychnine, but ask another doctor. No, the chilblains never came back. The remedy was suggested by the principle," Cane scoftato non- mole aqua cal da, which is a more, forcible way of saying that a burned child dreads the fire.

J.G. (do.). —Yes, you have the faith. Moc an cailiwf

Sing a song o’ sixpence, A pocketful o’ rye; ■ Redmond once believed John Bull, Rut never vou or I.

Virgil was thinking of future schemes for the better

government of Ireland when he said, Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes. . ,

Ciiunder.— -No, the Man from Seacliff has not yet been caught. Probably Ave will hear from him again. There is a rumor that he has gone to Washington to represent New Zealand at the first session of the League of Nations. We do know that a certain farmer in Ballinagaunoge is doing a .roaring trade in blackthorns in preparation for it. They are going over daily in the ships in which English traders used to send coal to the Germans in wartime.

H.W.Telepathy is a different thing altogether from spiritism. It-cannot lie denied that there are wellauthenticated cases of telepathy. Indeed, there are lew people that have not had some experience of it some time or other. Read the article in the Catholic Enc.//dopedla. Spiritism is always dan-

gerous. Father Benson’s novel, The Necromancers, deals with it. The “revelations” made through mediums are anti-Christian in many instances. As for fortune-tellers, they are usually quacks that thrive on fools. When you consult them again, remember in what relation you stand to one another.

Stella. —There is certainly an American saint. Did you never hear of St. Rose of Lima South American if you like, but still American. All the saints are not -canonised, of course. One of those days we shall be celebrating the canonisation of a man who was murdered by the English Government for being a Catholic. We refer to Oliver Plunket, the martyred Archbishop of Armagh, who was hanged at Tyburn by the English. Joan of Arc was another of their victims. In olden times there was no formal process of canonisation. The esteem ■ of the people and favors obtained through intercession after a life of extraordinary sanctity used to supply. 0

Sport.— We know of one case in which a medium told the winner of the Liverpool Grand National. This person was asked the question one evening in Limerick, and replied “Glenside.” The horse men- . tioned was unknown to moat of the people present —even in Limerick, where they bred Galtee More, o Ard Patrick, and Kirkland ! But when the race was run all the horses fell but a rank outsider named Glenside. It was a good guess and nothing more. If spiritists could “pick winners” do you think they would- be wasting their time trying to coax sixpennies out of your pockets Wo don’t, anyhow. Not even the devil can foretell with certainty future events which depend on contingencies. Of course, ho knows a lot, and he is fai cleverer than you or we. Considering that his business is to trap you and me, lie uses his wits in many ways that we do not suspect.