ST. JOSEPH'S ACADEMY James F. Murphy, EMMITSBURG, MD. GENERAL Conducted by the Sisters of Charity INSURANCE AGENT, BEAUTIFULLY SITUATED AMONG THE BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS Classical and Scientific Courses. Specially Organized Departments of Music and Art. Well Equipped Library and Laboratory. Steam Heat and Electric Light. : : : : : : : COACH CO. LTD Niagara Falls, N. Y We have, at great expense, establish ed a coach system in connection with our Omnibus and Baggage business, a new departure in this line, and con Terms, $250.00 per Academic Year. ducted upon a business basis. We so REFINISH YOUR FIXTURES Before they get too Black. They will look like New. Church Work a Specialty. 135 Seneca St., BUFFALO, N. Y. conduct our business that it will not meet with adverse criticism and the public shall have no opportunity of questioning the manner or motives of our employees. Our prices are moderate and uniform, Our agents, in uniform, are on all trains and at the railroad stations. They will inform persons as to the time required and the cost of visiting all Points of Interest about the Falls and Whirlpool. Do not fail to give us a call. EUROPEAN HOTEL RIVERWAY, Niagara Falls, N. Y. Directly opposite North Entrance to Prospect Park. Frank Nassoy, Proprietor. LATOUR, MERCHANT TAILOR, NIAGARA FALLS. (Canadian Side.) A F. MARTY & CO. Syracuse, N. Y. Bleachers and Refiners of Beeswax and Manufacturers of HIGH-GRADE ALTAR ·BEESWAX CANDLES. Our Beeswax Candles are the best made. Send for Samples and Prices. C. N. OWEN, PROP., The "New Porter Hotel" having been connected with the Imperial makes it one of the largest and most modern hotels at the Falls. Rates, $250 to $4.00. THIS INSTITUTION is beautifully situated on a high and healthy location, overlooking the Falls on the Car adian side, and cannot be equalled for the sublime and extensive view which it afforis of the Falls, Rapids, and Islands in the vicinity. Pupils from ail parts of the "Western World" have borne testimony to the fact that after some time feasting on the life-giving air and enchanting beauty of this scenery, they have returned to their homes renewed in life and vigor, as well as cultivated in mind and soul. TERMS, $200 per annum. Extras moderate. E. MURPHY, Che Niagara Electric Co. DEALER IN Telephone 226 A. H. C. BLAKE, FRESH, SALT, SMOKED CONSTRUCTION AND SUPPLIES. CIGARS & TOBACCOS, -AND CORNED MEATS. Address all mail orders to J. J. LUCAS, YOUR SHOES AT Institution Salesman. LOUIS F. MAYLE, President. ARTHUR 10 ELLKOPF, NIAGARA FALLS BREW. CO., LAGER BEER. FLYNN'S 2009 Main St., Niagara Falls. THE STUDENTS' OLD RELIABLE 18 Falls Street, NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y. JOHN C. KING, Dealer in FURNITURE, CARPETS, 111 East Main St., Rochester, N. Y. BURLESON HARDWARE CO. Hardware and Stoves, Plumbing and Steam Fitting. Agents for Lime, Cement, Sewer Pipe -GAS FIXTURES. SUSPENSION BRIDGE, NEW YORK Conducted by the Priests of the Congregation of the Mission CHI HIS INSTITUTION, founded November 21, 1856, and chartered by Act of Legislature, April 20, 1863, with powers to confer Degrees, is located in the midst of the enchanting scenery of the famous Niagara Falls. It affords every facility for obtaining a thorough Classical, Scientific, Commercial, or Ecclesiastical Course. Situated on the most elevated point of "MONT-EAGLE RIDGE," it receives the full benefit of the healthful and invigorating breezes that sweep over the country from the lake. In sublimity of scenery it is unrivalled. Southward, it commands a magnificent view of the Seminary Rapids. Whirlpool, and Great Cataract; northward, it looks over the beauties of Niagara's tortuous banks, and the wide expanse of Lake Ontario dotted with sail. The bui'dings are large and well furnished. No pains are spared to secure the comfort of the students. The scholastic year consists of two terms: the first ends on the first of February, and the second on the last Wednesday of June. TERMS: Board, Tuition, Washing and Mending of Articles Washed, per term, $100. Vacation, if spent at the Seminary, $40. EXTRA CHARGES: Piano, Organ, Violin, Flute, Clarionet or Guitar, with use of instrument, $40 per annum. For further particulars address the President, VERY REV. P. McHALE. C. M. A. J. Casey, D.D.S. DENTIST OFFICE 2ND FLOOR VORWERK & LAURIER, Druggist. 2132 Main Street, NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y. UNION HOUSE, 2202 Main St., Niagara Falls, N. Y This house has the latest improvements H. G. OCHS, PROP. TERMS, $2.00 Restaurant Supplies. JAMES KAVANAGH, Plumbing, Gas. and Steam Fitting, Tin 80 ELLICOTT ST., BUFFALO, N. Y. Colonnade Hotel Strictly First-Class. Niagara Street, Electric Bells, Steam Heat. Carriages in Connection. Props. Three blocks from Falls. Terms, $1.50, $2.00. @eo. A. Chandler, FINE CONFECTIONERY, CHOCOLATES, BON-BONS, ICE CREAM. ICES, AND FANCY PASTRY. Lunches Served and Put up for Travelers MEALS 25 CENTS 123 Falls St., Niagara Falls, N. Y. ANGLERS RETREAT Philip F. Pitz, Prop LEWISTON, N. Y. First class accommodations for gueste They make and trim every garment St Joseph's Retreat, right. Will guarantee them to fit and be Black Worsted Suits (any style of Silberberg Block, Niagara Falle ANDERSON & LOGAN of St Vincent de Paul, DEARBORN, MICH VOL. XXXII. NIAGARA UNIVERSITY, N. Y., APRIL 1, 1900. SIX and an eighth hat and a number eleven shoe are accepted exponents of a mental horizon not much enlarged beyond the circumference of a thimble. On the other hand, a hatband as wide as Daniel Webster's, with a shoe-last as proportioned as by the law of compensation may be required, and yet the wearer may be a philosopher only in the decayed sense of the Greek word "scholasticos." The width or narrowness of head, together with shoela-t, may be left out of present speculation, since these elements are too materialistic for our specific purpose, and inquiry may be made on some other more satisfactory basis why some people insist on narrowness of view in spite of the mental expansiveness around them. In the first place, it ought to be understood that expansiveness is out of the question where principle stares us in the face as rigidly as a signpost on a moonlit highway. To yield in firmness, to expand into platitudes, is to be illogical and weak, to give evidence of disturbed self-control whenever the aphorism is imperative Let justice be done though the heaveus fall." But one ought to be sure that it is principle, conviction founded in fact, and not mere opinion, which exerts imperious sway, before assuming a stiffness of neck unbreakable by any of the laws of logic, persuasion, or even a good-sized club. The ten commandments, the foundations of revealed religion, the positive laws governing society, are fonts from which unalterable principles are derived, or rather they are in themselves immutable, with possible exceptions to the last mentioned. Conscience, which makes cowards of us all," should likewise make us heroes; and the one who goes against his conscience is indeed fit for "treasons, stratagems and spoils." However, not every whim conceived should necessarily be permitted to serve as an undisturbed No. 13. foundation for what men are sometimes pleased to term their conscience. There is such a thing as common sense, and it will be found, when rightly applied, to act as the philosopher's stone, or the crucible, or the chemist's alembic. Conscience with more than a few is nothing but a conceit, hedged in by a morbid fancy and guarded by that basest Cerberus, stubbornness. More crimes are committed in the name of conscience, so-called, than in the name of Liberty, and the latter has been so woefully prostituted that she no longer seems to recognize the letters of her own name. But let us leave the realm of conscience, more or less sacred after all, at least in the realms of the ideal, if not in the arena of fact, and study one or another of the causes which contribute to narrowness of view in circumstances where expansiveness should have legitimate scope. Half knowledge, or "ignorant information," is accountable for much of the contraction discernible in the mental horizon of the neighbor. Prejudice is another adverse element, as is also sympathy, each of which allows the fatal error of conclusion in a given premise before reason has had an opportunity to discriminate between the plausible, the pleasing and the true. Half knowledge is accountable for raising mere opinion from its native element of uncertainty to a position oftentimes as impregnable as that of divine revelation. The half informed mind is a narrow mind, mistaking stubbornness for enlightened determination, combatting opposite views with blind prejudice, instead of examining them according to the laws of evidence. Conceit, self-worship, incense to personal views, a pitying smile for the contradictory views of others, are prevalent where the real nature of opinion is misunderstood, and the mental vision is as circumscribed as a mousetrap. A distinction, though substantial enough to determine the value of a point in dispute, has not as much weight with these persons as a wren's feather has in the ponderous scale of creation. They speak of "my opinion" as though the printer, for example, were in duty bound to display the words in big caps before the gaze of an unenlightened world. The only check, perhaps, exercised over their impetuons espousal of a mere opinion is that which self-control suggests, or etiquette prescribes, or the prudence of the flesh makes imperative. But even these brakes are broken at times to the detriment of charity, politeness, natural or artificial logic, and even of every-day commercial common sense. Lord Macaulay in one of his letters calls somebody a semi-Solomon because "he half knows everything from the cedars of Libanus to the hyssop on the wall." This hemiapprehension of any given subject leaves the lord's semi-Solomon nothing but a semi |