the feat which has just been performed
by Sister Cipriani, who has just traversed the same weary, arid waste on
foot, accompanied by a single Arab attendant. Gordon's name will live
forever in story, side by side with the great knights, historical and
legendary, of the olden time. The labors of the noble and heroic Sister
Cipriani, though attended with as much personal danger, and performed in
a higher sphere, will, perhaps, meet with little earthly recognition. Be
it so. She wants no fleeting fame. Sufficient for her is the
consciousness that she has done her duty by those whom she was sent to
soothe and comfort by her gentle and devoted ministrations.

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The _Catholic Citizen_, Milwaukee, Wis., has entered upon its sixteenth
year. We are pleased to see it is well sustained, as it deserves to be.
Long life to the _Citizen_.

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RIGHT REV. DR. SULLIVAN, recently consecrated Bishop of Mobile, declined
to accept a purse of one thousand dollars from his late congregation in
Washington, advising them to present it to his successor for the benefit
of the church. He said he came among them with nothing, and preferred to
take nothing away with him. Such admirable unselfishness shows what a
devoted pastor the parishioners of St. Peter's, Washington, have lost
and the Diocese of Mobile has gained.

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CATHOLIC "SOCIETY."--Some of our people, especially among those who are
rich in worldly goods and deal in worldly literature, are heard to
complain that there is no "society" among Catholics. Well, every one
knows that most of our people are poor, and have not time or occasion to
study the laws of etiquette or the language of diplomacy. Those good
people who seek society elsewhere, however, would do well to lend their
fellow-Catholics the light of their example and shine by the contrast
they create. Better far than cutting a very poor figure in Protestant
society will they find it to teach their own co-religionists the
amenities of social life. They had better be first with their own than a
poor second with strangers; honored among the faithful than despised by
the dissenter. Ah! this aping after society, besides being pitiful and
ridiculous, soon takes the faith out of our people. Their children
marry outside the household of faith, and, with their children's
children, are lost to the Church. What does it pr