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If you pitch your tent near that When you come to an Arab's en of an Arab and become good friends campment he does not ask you with him, he will alter his tent pegs whether you are rich or lowly horn. Is Once you are within the neighbour hood of his tent he expects you to be his guest, and while you are with him he will do everything he can to protect you from your enemies.
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A Kindly People. These kindly people, who alway live in tents, have a habit of using very long tent-ropes for the support of their tents, and these stretch out some distance on to the plain around their encampment.
"This is done in order that any stranger passing near will find him- self within the Arab's tent-ropes, "which means that he must come and be his guest. The Arab expects you to stay with him for about five
that they come within the line of your own and the tent ropes cross each other. This, again, is a secret sign which means that he and those who live in his tent are for ever friends with you and any who are living with you.
Arabe are honourable fellows, and may be trusted to stick to such an understanding.
Be Kind to Animals!
THE NEW VATICAN AWFUL RENTS."
INDEX.
3,000 AUTHOR'S BANNED.
CARDINAL ON BIBLE READING.
The new edition of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, the official catalogue of books forbidden to Roman Catholics by the Holy Office of the Roman Catholic Church, is now on sale in different Italian towna Isued by the Papal Prese of the Vatican State, the first copy was presented to Pius XI. by Cardinal Merry del Val, who opens the volume with an Italian profmos. To those who contend that the con- demnation of harmful books is a violation of liberty, diminishes the light of truth, and retards the progress of letters and science, the
Cardinal answers:-m
First of all it is manifest that no one is better fitted than the Catholic Church to teach that the Creator has endowed man with liberty, and no one has done more than the Church to defend this Praestantissimum donum. Dei against all who have dared to deny it or circumscribe it in any way. Only those infected by the moral plague that goes by the rams of liberalism can consider the exercise of free will to be in- jured by certain restraints placed by legitimate authority on liber- tinism; as if man, because he is master of his own' acts, has a right invariably to follow his own will.
The actual founder of the Index
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L.C.C. TENANT'S THEFT TO FULFIL GARDEN RULE.
Strong remarks about high Lon- dan rents were made by the Mary lebone magistrato last month. SHe had before him a case in which a was re man charged with theft vealed to have had a desperate Prisoner, fight for existence Henry Richard Hall, 25, goods por- ter at Marylebone, and living with his wife and two children in Melli- tus-street, on the new L.C.C. estato at Old Oak, East Acton, pleaded guilty to stealing vegetable seeds and seed potatoes, value da from a parcel at the goods station.
is Pope delasius, as the earliest known instance of a list of proscrib- It is a carious thing that animalsed books in the " Notitia Librorum and children both seem to recognise Apocryphorum issued by this a good man when they meet him, "Pope in 494. With the invention of and are at once friendly with him; printing, one of the chief fanctions and I have always found that the of the Inquisition was to exercise a bravest men are in their turn kind rigid censorship over bocks and to children and animals.
authors; as printing-presses in ereased, so did the severity of the Church Church organisation was fully prepared to meet the assaulte of the Reformation. Roman Index, in the modern ecclesiastical use of the term, whe published by Pope Paul IV. io 1557, and ten years later Pius V. ia stituted a permanent Congregation of Cardinala to draw up the list of prohibited books.
In the great European War both the soldiers at the front and the men in the Fleet all used to have their pet animals and mascots, and when I was in France during the war I used, on many occasions, to notice our men playing with the daya, during which time he feeds little French children among their you, houses you, are proteata you, ruined homes close up to the firing- and he expects no kind of payment line. when you depart. ··
The Arabe of the desert are the finest scouts in the world.
One of his first acts when you come into his camp is to offer you water. This is partly in order that you may refresh yourself, but it is also a secret sign meaning that he will not betray you.
It is considered bad form to de- cline hospitality offered in this way, and even if you are in a burry you must suppress your own desire to get forward in order to be courteous to the man who wishes to be your host.
The Insult of a Reward.
They were all the best of friends,
although they knew scarcely a word
of each other's language.
In the same way, as a Knight, or a Boy Scout, is chivalrous to weak er folk, so also he is chivalrous and kind to animals.
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The continuity of principle in the Roman Catholic Church is striking-
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Det. Leach stated Hall had been at Marylebone 19 years. His ex- Planation of the theft was that he
a condition of his tenancy was that rented a three-roomed house, and CHURCH NOTICES. he was to cultivate his front gar den. He took the seeds, thinking they were, flower seeds. He paid 148. Id. a week rent, and his wages were £26.
Mr. Hay Halkett: There is not much margin then. The trouble ja that he is paying too much rent don't think he ought to be paying 14s a week.
Hall: We were forced to move owing to s Marylebone clearance scheme. Before that I used to pay
s. a week.
Magistrats: These L.C.C. de luze houses are too dear for peo- ple with small wages
Inhabited By Gurates, Prisoner's wife"noid`abe told the
Council when they came round that the rent was far too much, and asked if they could not find some- thing much cheaper. They replied that this was the cheapest they could offer..
"Yes," remarked the magistrate, they are such expansive places. There is probably a loss on them already to the ratepayers At Be- thnal Green years ago they turned people qut, but probably not one of these folks went to the new build.
curates. ings. They were inhabited by
Prisoner's wife: We pay our rent regularly, and have to go short- in other ways to do it. We only had one room in the other hous to furnish, but we have three to fill up here, and we are doing it on the hire purchase system, which costa 7s. 6d. a week.
"It is simply hopeless," com mented the magistrate, "So you have to keep four people.
a week. It cannot done. 256.
Mr Hall: But we do it, sir, small and cheap."
Magistrate: Are you in debt1° Mrs. Hall: Of course we are. There was the cost of moving. We had to, pawn clothing to raise the money. Then there was the debt for the furniture. She added that they had previously paid only 48. a week rent as they were · living with her husband's mother. were then just living a hand to mouth existence.
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the faithful. It should be remem bered that, whether expressly man- Animals are weaker folk than tioned in the Index or not, certain ourselves in the matter of mind and categories of books are understood, understanding, but they can be very ineo facto, to be condemned by the
Church. This includes certain ver- Mr. Boswell, missionary, said ho affectionate and faithful where they sions of the Holy Scriptures pub felt very sorry for prisoner, have learned that the human being, lished by non-Catholics, and books cause, as a working man, ha wha though strong enough to hurt them, of any kind prepagating heresy and paying too high a rent.
schism; under this heading the Mr. Hay Halkett: It is not only is kind and gentle. They are quick Book of Common Prayer was ban-the working man. Everybody is
ayer was to show that they appreciate such ned in 1714.
paying too high a rent. It is a con- kindness. You know how your own that the Rofoan Curia has ever
Cardinal Merry del Val denies dition of living in the motropalia. dog half curls himself round with prevented Catholics from reading Mrs. Hall said that, in addition,
The rents are perfectly awful wagging his tail and grins with the Bible. He says: "It was only her husband had to pay 8s. 6d. a pleasure when he sees you; and how after the abuses of the heretics, quarter for railway fares.
especially the Waldensians, Al Magistrate: He has no vices f your horse nozries you all over to bigoases, and Wickliffites, and of "No," replied Mrs. Hall, he find the sugar that he knows you Protestants in general (who en- does not drink, he does not smoke, are going to give him.
deavoured by sacrilegious mutila he does not do anything" of that tions and arbitrary interpretations | kind. He can't afford to.”... to find in the Bible a support The magistrate said it was per- denied them by history) that Popes fectly certain the family could not and Councils were obliged to re- keep their heads above water with gulate and sometimes to prevent the all that rent to pay. Why didn't divulgation of the Bible in the they go elsewhere where it was valgar tongue."
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Det. Leach remarked there were make 8250 to 81,000 per month.*
Write him to-day. W. Critch- cheaper places, but they were very low, 1938 C st., Wheaton, Ill. difficult to find, because, naturally, U.S.A. the tenants paying sa to 10s. week- ly stuck to them.
So give animals all the kindness you can, and make their lives happy.
Boys-more than girls-are in clined to be cruel, simply because they don't think. They are not yet manly enough."
But a Scout who is manly and chivalrous towards people will at The Arabs have a saying None all times be the same towards but the base and ungrateful refuge i animals,
'SEX EQUALITY: IS
ABSURD."
COMMENT OF JUDGE IN A BREACH OF PROMISE SUIT.
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Mr Justice Humphreys, in the High Court recently disputed Buggestion by counsel that in these daye men and women, ought to be regarded sa equal. He said:
"It is absurd to say to day, just as it would have been to say. 50 years ago, that men and women
Valentine Welch, aged 23, of Cam- bridge-avenue, New Malden, Bur-
Why Wietzsche and Tolstoy
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The magistrate said he was very sorry for the accused, who had now lost his job. It was a very hard case. He had been trying to do the impossible. He placed Hall on probation and suggested that the missionary should try to get him
It is not generally known that Holy Office when they are express books are only examined by the ly brought to the notice of the tribugal.
This accounts for the fact that authors such as Schopen bauer, Nietzsche, Tolstoy, Hegel, and Carducci are not found on the black list, and that the number of proscribed writers-about 5,000 another place comparatively small. Sometimes a author's life work is condemned
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*KING BORIS' BROKEN ROMANCE.
VATICAN VETOES HIS.
A-BETROTHALZ:
Although King Boris of Bulgaria went to Rome for the wedding of Princess Marie José of Belgium to Orown Prince Umberto, there is no truth in the rumours that his presence in Rome means more than that of any other royal wedding
He said the jury might think that if the parties had married the wholesale, as in the case of Macter-Virtue Rewarded". Laurence marriage would have been an un-linck. The "fabulae amatoriae" Sterne's Sentimental Journey" happy one. It might be that as a of George Band, Dumas (père et Gibbon's "Decline and Fall"; and single woman, fres to marry some file), Zola, Anatole France, and Hallam's historical works. Few gucet.
It was hoped at one time that our clse. Miss Laters was better of Guido da Verona, Italy's best women writers are on the Index, than if she had married this teller, are also totally banned. One probably because the bulk of con- an alliance might be arranged be. of the latest decrces, in 1829, was demnations belong to the period tween King Boris and Princess young Lothario."
It did no harm to a man to lays a fresh and sweeping condemnation preceding the latter half of the Giovanna. The king showed s keen an engagement broken off. Nobody of all D'Annunrio's works, as fides nineteenth century, when a desire to make her his bride, and thought any the worse of him. But et modum offensive. This coin- thoresses were neither so numerous the smiled on his suit, but the everybody knew that a girl who cided with the announcement of amor so daring as they are to-day Vatican stepped on the budding had been engaged to be married. special national edition of the Lady Morgan's Journal of a romance and vetoed the alliance. and had received the congratula poet' works, published under the Residence in Italy,"
doubt due to the fact that the re- ligion of Bulgaris is Greek Ortho- dox, not Roman Catholic
Princess Giovanna, in whose veins runs Balkan blood, through her Montenegrin mother, Queen Elena, would have made a charming Queen of Bulgaria, and Bulgaria, it is an open secret, was Girions to have her as queen
should be treated in the same waytions of the friends was wounded aegis of the Fascint Government. banned in 1822, ver van The Vatican's objection is no
"They are not the same, and in her feelings if a man without Many of the best writers of the A distinction is made in the neither an Act of Parliament nor reason, altered his mind and said Italian Risorgimento are on the anything else will ever make them he was not going to marry her.
Index for all or part of their work. the same." MA BLAN
The jury returned a verdict for Among English standard works Miss Litera for a farthing damages, in the Index are the following: Bir and £s special damages in respect Thomas Browne's "Religio Medici
(decree dated 1045); Richardson's of her troussean.
Judgment was entered for Miss Pamels, in spite of its sub-title, Litera with costs.
(Continued at foot of next solums).
Mr. Justice Humphreys was sum. ming-up in a breach of promise ac tion brought by Miss Lucy Litera, aged 29, of Aslett-stract, Wands worth, B.W., against Mr. Richard
Index between books wholly pro- hibited (Inden, Expurgatorius) and those only prohibited until certain offensive passages have been chang ed or removed (Indez, Probi
prius). In the former case the works are marked by a cross, in the latter by 5 star