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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA 13 BEYOND OUR BORDERS. Arthur C. Monoghan, lately of the United States Bureau of Education, has been appointed Director of the Educational Bureau of the National Catholic Wel fare Council, of which Archbishop Dowling, of St. Paul, is chairman. Msgr. Ilsley, Archbishop of Birmingham, England, 83 years of age and an intimate friend of Cardinal Newman, has resigned his See, thus leaving three Metropolitan Sees in England vacant. The two others are Cardiff and Glasgow. Dr. Charles Eliot, President Emeritus of Harvard University, in a recent address before the English Educational Conference in Boston, remarking the suc cess of the Catholic Church in teaching music, said: “I think it fundamental that we have new methods of instruction, new methods of discipline, new methods of learning.” Col. E. H. R. Green, son of the late Hettie Green, although not a Catholic, has given $10,000 to the Fordham University fund. Sixty-four French army officers entered the Sem inary of Paris last year to study for the priesthood. Among them were four captains and a major. Many other candidates were rejected for lack of room. Sixty converts to the Church were among the 80 confirmed in Washington, D. C., February 10th, by His Excellency, Most Rev. John Bonzano, Apostolic Delegate. Cardinal O’Connell, of Boston, Archbishop Hayes, of New York, Bishop Shahan, of the Catholic Uni versity at Washington, and Bishop O’Connell, of Rich mond, Va.,'were among the signers of a recent protest against the Anti-Semitic propaganda which has cir culated throughout the country for the past several months. In the detention camp at Ballykinclar, County Down, Ireland, are more than 1,000 political prison ers. One of their first acts on being interned was to establish a Conference of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, of which many of the prisoners, before their arrest, were active members. On Christmas morn ing 900 of them received communion in a body. Rt. Rev. John F. Farrelly, Bishop of Cleveland, Ohio, died Saturday afternoon, February 12th, at Knoxville, Tenn., where he was taken ill returning from a visit to Bishop Byron, of Nashville. Prior to his consecration as bishop in 1909, he had been spiritual director of the American College at Rome for 25 years. The Associated Press reports that Most. Rev. Den nis Dougherty, Archbishop of Philadelphia, has been named Cardinal to succeed the late Cardinal Farley, of New York. HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF THE PARISH OF ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST, SAVANNAH, GA. (Continued from Page Four) upon the breast-works of Savannah on the 9th of October, when he gave his life for the cause he had so generously espoused. In the midst of the heaviest fighting at Springhill Redoubt, with the approval of General Lincoln, Pu laski attempted, with 200 cavalrymen, to force a passage between the British batteries. His last com mand, uttered as he fell from his horse in this famous charge, was ‘‘Follow my lancers, to whom I have given the order to attack.” Pulaski was taken from the bloody field and, it is said, after the fight was over he was conveyed on board the United States brig, ‘‘Wasp,” to go to Charleston. The ship was delayed several days in the Savannah River, and although attended by the most skillful surgeons of the French fleet, it was found impossible to save his life. As the “Wasp” was leav ing the river we are told that Pulaski breathed his last, and Colonel Bentalou, his officer in attendance, ‘‘was compelled, though reluctantly, to consign to a watery grave, all that was now left upon earth of his beloved and honored commander.” This is the story generally accepted as the true one. But the other tradition, coming down to us direct from Revolutionary days, is so circumstantial that it is deserving of equal credence. Which one is correct we do not venture to say. The tradition, pre served in the Bowen family, is as follows: Count D’Estaing and Count Pulaski, with other wounded officers, were taken from the battlefield to Greenwich, near Bonaventure, on the St. Augustine Creek—then a plantation owned by Samuel Bowen. Count D’Estaing and the other wounded were ten derly nursed by the family and servants of the house hold until they were able to join the French fleet. Pulaski was placed in a room adjoining that of Mrs. Bowen and her daughter. He lived but a few hours and died during the night, his comrades exclaiming in mournful tones, ‘‘Pulaski, the beloved Pulaski, is no more!” Being anxious to join the fleet, an imme diate burial was decided upon. At the dead of night the remains were buried by the light of torches in a garden about 200 yards from the Bowen mansion, where a large palmetto and a holly tree marked the place of burial. Lafayette, at the time of his visit to Savannah in 1825, laid the cornerstone for a monument to Count Pulaski in Chippewa Square. The site was afterwards changed to Monterey Square and the first cornerstone was removed to the new location and placed along side of the new one in 1 853. In the same year the supposed burial place at Greenwich was excavated and the remains disinterred. After an examination by the Medical Society, it was decided by the Com missioners in charge to inter the remains beneath the monument in Monterey Square. Whether or not the body of Count Pulaski actually reposes beneath the monument in Savannah matters little after all. His memory will ever remain and his name will ever stand for patriotism and loyalty to the cause of freedom. The monument to the memory of Pulaski in Savan nah—erected by a grateful people to one who was ar