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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-07-22
WHO SHOULD KEEP COMPANY?

Who should keep company? Those
only should keep steady company who
are fairly decided in their vocation to
the marriage state, and who forsee
the possibility of marriage for them,
says the Augustinan. It is unfair for
those who see they cannot get mar
ried to keep company. From company
and girls who are, or ought to be, at
school, all generally before seventeen
years of age. All reasonable people
consider it a foolish shame to see lit
tie skits of girls in short dresses and
boys whose clothes do not fit them
keeping company. They should be kept
at their lessons at school and at home
when not assisting their parents. It
rests with parents and teachers to put
a stop to such sentimental nonsense.
And parents who encourage it even by
teasing are not fulfilling their parental
duty. There is time for everything,
and the time for company keeping for
these young things has not come yet.
1t would be disastrous to their work at
present and injurious to them in the
future. Stop it, all We who can.
Where should one look for company?
Not in the streets, at dances, at
theatres, or at general low Sunday
excursions, among transient travellers,
etc. People found in such places are
not of the best; many are there for
the purpose, and this catch-as-catch-
can company is never permanent or
happy. Street f1irtations are unholy,
and are not carried on by decent peo-
pie. You should find your company at
church, in Catholic societies and
sodalities, and gatherings among your
Catholic acquaintances, in Catholic
homes and at your permanent place of
employment.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-07-22
cULTIvATlNG THE WILL.

The will can be cultivated as well
as the memory or the imagination. A
person can form the habit of yielding
to no inclination of appetite until he
has considered the question: Is it
proper for me to do this. So he is
not swept off his feet by sudden temp
tation. So he is disposed to say No if
the thing does not look right. And
by exercising his will power, over and
over again, aided by grace and direc-
ted by correct principles, he grows
strong in virtue.
The way some persons act, and the
way they speak, too, they would try
to prove that at times it is impossible
to overcome temptations; that we
must follow our impulses, and cannot
overcome overpowering temptations.
Each life has its own besetting temp
tations, it's own share of trials, and is
menaced somewhere by anger.
Strength is got through all this strain.
That is the natural environment for
growth in grace and virtue. It is the
common human experience for the
training of character, for the making
of pure manhood and womanhood. He
who is not tried and who has nothing
to overcome cannot be a soldier. And
there is not one who is exempt from
this battle. whether man or woman.
To refuse to see the moral significance
is to empty life of any meaning at
all. But when we have a glimmering
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-07-22
AN ATTRACTIVE HOME.

Spending all the household allow
ance upon the butcher, the baker and
the candlestick maker and loading the
dining room table with food for the
body is not the best policy for the
homemaker to pursue. She might
much better pinch bit from the din
ing room table to add interest to the
living room or library table, where
spreads for the mind and the heart
are enjoyed just as much as food for
the inner man.
How many men get up from the
dinner table after dining heartily,
sink into a comfortable chair in the
living room and-stare blankly into
space. There is nothing at hand to
divert their mind, from themselves
when the housewife is busy clearing
up and consequently, after several
minutes meditation in which they De-
come bored because of the sluggish
condition of the mind, their fancy
reaches out in search of entertain
ment and hits upon the club, the bill
lizard room or the pool room, the near
est place where congenial souls are
wont to gather.
Now, what might have been the re-
suit if some interesting current liter
allure, magazines, periodicals or books
had been at hand? The eye would
have caught the literature, telegraph
ed the message to the brain, and un-
consciously the desire to be amused
would have urged the man to pick up
something to read. He would be sure
to find articles of interest, and before
he realized the speed with which the
clock travels it would be time to
sound Lights out" The best of it
all is that reading is habit easily
acquired, and once it takes posses
sion of one grows steadily. 1t is a
beneficial habit, too, making it's happy
victim more interesting both in the
role of listener and conversationalist
The table piled with magazines is
a rest and recreation for the busy
housewife who can spend her mo
ments in between duties keeping pace
with the happenings of the world Of
affairs. This practice of filling the
spare moments with items of worldly
interest amounts to storehouse Of
knowledge during the course of g
year.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-07-22
THE KING AND THE LEPER.

Into his private closet, led the king
A loathsome Ieper-a most hideous
thing
Of rags and ulcers-vermin-breeding
sores,
Which reeked with stencil behind the
gilded doors.
With perfumed water, 10! the good
king bathed
The wretch's livid skin; then gently
swathed
His form with fair samite The royal
palm
His sores anointed with delicious
balm;
And last with grace and tenderness
untold,
Cast over all cloak cloth of gold.
Twas thus arrayed the courtiers later
found
The wretch before a mirror, robed and
crown'd.
Pacing with mincing steps from side
to side,
And viewing his reflection, rank with
pride.
"Lo!" spake the king, who noiseless
entered in,
''Thus hath our God dealt with the
slave of sin!
Thus hath He bathed it in His pre-
cious Blood,
Cleansed it and healed it in that gra-
cious Flood,
And, Ger its misery and foulness base,
Hath cast the golden mantle of His
grace!
"Ah! woe betide the soul that render
eth not
The glory to the Giyer. Pride-besot,
Taking complacency in gifts divine,
Claiming the pearls that fall among
the swine.
Thus shall the Master deal with such
as these!"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-07-22
THE CHILDREN'S HOUR.
MY SHADOW.

1 have a little shadow that goes in
and out with me.
And what can be the use Of him Is
more than can see;
He is very, very like me from the
heels up to the head,
And see him jump before me when
/ jump into my bed.
The funniest thing about him is the
way he likes to grow
Not at all like proper children, which
is always very slow;
For he sometimes shoots up taller
like an india rubber ball.
And he sometimes gets so little that
there's none of him at all
He hasn't got notion of how chill
dren ought to play,
And can only make fool of me in
every sort of way.
He stays so close beside me, he's a
coward you can see;
I'd think shame to stick to nursie as
that shadow sticks to me.
One morning very early, before the
sun was up,
rose and found the shining dew on
every buttercup;
But my lazy little shadow, like an
arrant sleepy-head,
Had stayed at home behind me and
was fast asleep in bed.
Robert Louis Stevenson.
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UNCLE DAVID AND THE CROW.

When / was a little girl few things
pleased me better than to be taken to
visit my uncle David, who owned a
large dairy farm in Orange County,
New York.
One day when l was out in the
woods with uncle he caught a young
crow and gave it to me for a pet
A crow, even in it's widest state, is a
sort of half domestic fowl. It is no
trouble at all to tame them, and, aside
from their Unsuitable desire to get
into all manner of mischief, they make
nice pets.
My crow and I were pretty good
friends by the time we got back to
the farmhouse, and ever after that the
bird lost no opportunity to play his
practical jokes on anybody and every
body; but he seemed specially de-
lighted when his victim was Uncle
David.
All of this was accepted in good
part by the dear old man, until one
day the bird-and I am sorry to say
was equally at fault-carried a joke
so far that it came perilously near
being dead crow ever afterward.
Although uncle was rich beyond the
necessity of labor, he believed in
plenty of outdoor exercise, and was
fond of working in his orchard and
kitchen garden. In that same kitchen
garden was beautiful pear tree,
which was always called my tree, be-
cause it was planted the day I was
born. In the shade of my pear tree
the crow used to perch himself and
watch Uncle David sow seeds and set
out young tomato and cabbage plants,
while enjoyed the same sight from
my hammock on the back porch.
That day uncle had stretched a line
some fifty feet long across the garden
that he might make the rows straight.
With pan of young cabbage plants
at his side, with a sharpened stick
uncle would punch little holes in the
soft, rich loan, slip the root of a
young cabbage plant down into this
hole, press the earth compactly about
it, after which he would make another
AOAO q AOOL Va SO 4aIL uS1 dlOuS, lAIO
which he would insert another plant,
and SO on to the end Of the line. SO
intent was he on his task that he never
raised his eyes from his work until he
had the full row finished.
My crow had followed along behind
uncle and quietly pulled up every soli-
tary cabbage plant as fast as the old
man had planted it, after which the
wicked imp of bird had flown into
the pear tree, where he looked as
innocent and solemn as il there was
not cabbage plant within thousand
miles. And /, who had watched the
whole proceeding, pretended to be
asleep in my hammock.
1T is the wind, and not the laughter
of my little skeesicks, that makes that
hammock shake So" said the dear old
man.
Realizing that my sin had found me
out. threw my arms round uncle's
neck and said, Forgive me, won't You,
uncle? know it was awfully mean
of me: but 1t was so funny to see
that crow keep one eye on you all the
time he was at work pulling up those
pianist And then to see him fiy into
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-07-22

The while the courtiers fell upon their
knees
The king in wrath approached the
leper bold,
And, snatching from his back the cloth
of gold,
Left him Gas oft. the sinner, death
disclosed).
In all his naked loathsomeness ex-
posed!
-Elednor G. Donne1ly.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-07-22
A FRIEND.

One of the best definitions of the
word friend is that given by a little
boy in Chicago school lately. The
word met the teachers eye in the
regular lesson of the day and asking
this boy the meaning of it, he very
aptly replied, ga friend is one who
knows you, knows all about you. and
likes you anyway"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-07-22

the pear tree and laugh at you! It
was so FUNNY" and again I laughed
with all my might.
1T was funny. 1t must have been
to you and the crow" said uncle! "but
now suppose you try to look at the
fun from my point Of view, by coming
down into the garden and helping me
reset those cabbage plants"
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1911-02-14
M>M@R@ n0M@M M@ 40 R@ 30 ne g no ne @MoMAM@<

A fine big son came to the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Ira N.
Stump, above town, last Tues
day.
Miss Kate Huffman, clerk in
the Granasvlle post office, visited
relatives in the country q day or
so recently.
We are in receipt Of a copy of
the Wood county News, publish
ed at Williamstown. It's neat
paper and we predict for it a
successful future.
Miss Nettie Stump does cleaning
and pressing With neatncss and
dispatch. She takes pride in
doing the work and her charges
are most reasonable.
Ola Stump, of Steer creek,
was in town several days last
week. He recently closed a very
successful term Of school at
Stumptown, with high honors.
Who ever invented the idea
that it was against "the peace
and dignity" of the town for the
mill to blow whistle at the
noon day hour and at 6 o'clock
The mill or factory whistle is a
sound of industry and the pee
pie like to hear it.
f. ChanoWeth returned from
the upper West Fork country
during the last week, where he
has spent a great deal of the
winter looking after his interest.
He reports several cases of
smallpox at and near Rosedale,
in BraXton county.
The mail services at this place
have not been so unsatisfactory
in the history of the town as
they have been recently. The
mail coming up the river is by
boat when it comes, and from
Snithville it gets in so late at
night that it is very incpnveni-
ent for those who have their
/ business to attend and answer
matters by the out going mails,
such as the banks. A letter
mailed from Glenville on Janu-
airy the oath was received by the
gentleman addressed at this Of
/ flee on Feb 18th, and there is a
daily mail from there TO this
place, too.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1911-02-14
MOrgantOwn Has
Mt. Zion

Railroad Shops
Six Street Car lines.
One Glass Sand Plant.
Two large bottle factories.
Two up 20 dare brick plants.
One large publishing house employ
ing about 60 people.
One Prism Glass factory employing
ing about 60 people
One stopper Glass factory employ
ing $50 people
One Wire Glass factory employing
200 people
One Lamp Chimney factory en-
ploying 2OOpoopic.
Two Window Glass plants employ
ing 475 people.
Three Table Ware factories cmcloy
ing 500 people
One large Tin mill employing SOC
people.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1911-02-14
UNE nAlt0u;l Gbrornfie.
& RANTSVlULE w. VA
TUESDAY, FEB. Il, 1911.
LOCALS AND PERSONALS

Small mattocks 75c; large ones
$i.00 at Hickman's shop.
Mrs. Bud Johnson was shop
ping in town Saturday evening.
Jno. Foglc and little son, were
visitors in town Saturday even
ing.
Mr.. and Mrs J. w. Pell are
visiting in Parkcrsburg this
week.
A baby girl was born to Mr.
and Mrs. John Fink, Wednesday
of last week.
Mrs. En- Ball, below town, has
been very sick, but is improving
nj cely at present.
Dyrc Waldo, son of S. 7. Wal
do has been i'll for several days
with the Lagrippe.
George NJ Eadree, of Pine
creek, was looking after bust
ness in town Friday.
c. j, Thomas, very highly
respected citizen from Big Bend,
vas here Saturday.
Assessor Bob Knots is in
Sherman District this week, dis
charging his duties.
Hagan Francis, a popular
young teacher of Henrietta, was
a visitor in town Saturday.
"Tode" Bennett was at Cam
den-on-Gauley last week on an
important business errand.
J. w. Mason, of Little Row
els run, was a business visitor in
town Friday of last week.
Charles Hodrick, of the Barr
fam, near Brooksvile. was a
business visitor here Saturday
Miss Hattie Francis of Hen
rietta, was visiting fri ends in
town Saturday evening and Sun
day.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1911-02-14
S Vi: & g. 8 R Va;
new dress fabrics

Fine showing of English,
French and German Suit
ings Spring weaves, weight
and color tones.
Plain Mixtures, Novelty
Checks, Novelty Homo
spuns, Line Stripes, Indis-
tinct Plaids, etc.
Price range, $1.25 to $3.50,
including new dark Suitings,
Spring weight-and plain
Diagonals, Matte and Serge.
You are sure to admire these
handsome, cool looking, light
weight substantial materials,
particularly the fabrics for tai
Tor gowns.
The time to get choice things
is when they first come out.
Specify Fabric. Color and
Price when reQesting sam
pies.
Is yOtr name registered for
the Spring CatdlOg? ONLY
mailed on request.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1911-02-14
G. 1. Buck, Well Known In This
County, is Dead.

Ct. L Buck, well known in this
county, died at bis home near
Parkersburg last week. after an ex-
tended illness with scrofula. He is
"a years OF age, and leaves wife
anu four small children. The fun
eral services were held at Creston,
and remains were inferred in the
Creston cemetery,
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1911-02-14

The case of Lucian Wilson, the
prominent Richie county bus
mess man, sentenced to a three
years term at Leavenworth, for
sending obscene letters through
the u. S. mail. will be carried up
to the u. S. Supreme Court.
Through his counsel, Judge
T. A. Brown, Williamson Biz
zard. of this city, and S. A. Hoff,
of Harrisville a writ of certiorari
will be applied for, which, if
granted, will take the case be-
fore the Supreme Court, for a
review of the evidence, a rever-
sal of the verdict rendered in
the lower court and affirmed bv
the Circuit Court of Appeals, this
week, will be asked for. This
would mean a new trial in the
lower court. In the meantime,
Wilson would be held under a
continuation of the bond of $3,-
600 undelwhich he was released
pending apparel Of the case.
This appeal to the court of last
resort will be made on the ground
as of the appeal to the Circuit
Court of Appeals. journal.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1911-02-14
Notice to Tx Payers.

In order to deal with the public
inpartially we hereby notify all de-
linquent tax payers to come in and
take up their tickets by the first o.
April, 1911. We will then, in &c
cordance with our oath, proceed to
collect all that can be collected by
levy and sale, so that we may be
able by the first Of June to return
all tickets that cannot be collected.
We expect to treat everybody alike
so please look after your taxes at
once. Q. A. JARVIS,
Sheriff of Calhoun County.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1911-02-14
g hITGr on cry
FOR FLETChER'S
= n 8 T - RI q,

Cicero Vanhorn is now a res
idcnt of this city, having recently
moved into the property opposite
tie Stump Hotel.
Mr.. Eistcr Cooper, one of the
leading business men of Wash
ington district, was a business
visitor in our town Monday.
Contractor Lou Bickel was in
town Saturday. He will finish
a well on Yellow creek this week
for the hope Natural Gas Co.
Mr.. and MIS-. John Mathews
are the proud parents Of a baby
girl. which made it arrival at
their home OH Saturday morning.
George Pugh, Of Cabots fac
tory, was in town Saturday
We understand Mr. Pugh will
move his family to the South this
spring.
Mrs John Smith and little child
have returned from a visit to
Elizabeth. Mrs Walter Smith
accompanied her home for a
few days visit.
Venerable Absolum Huffman.
of near Enon has been very sick
for the past several days. His
sister Aunt Polly Johnson, has
been with him during his sick
ness.
Mr. West the broom maker,
who has been working in the
Hardman & Gamer broom fac
tory at this place left Saturday
for Aanclds5urg, where he viii
work for G.. j. Gamer
Squire 3. I. Terrell, of White
Pine, q good friend Of ours. and
one q The best political prophets
i'm thal rart OF the country, was
in town Saturday lie is teach
iug good school this winter.
Claude Griogs, of Vadis, Lew
! county, Was iu Grautsvillc z
dag Gsa las week looking az
ter business interests. IIe ba.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1911-02-14

Louis E. Ayers, of Revere,
was here on business during the
last week.
Mrs. w. S. Terrell, Of Big root,
was shopping in our town during
the past week.
Stops itching instantly. Cures plies
eczema, salt rhcum teter, itch, hives.
herpes, scabies Doan' Ointment At any
Grug store
Fred Gamer, son of E. w.
Gamer of White Pine, was in
town Monday,
AID Dobbins was here during
the past week, marketing some
e the produce from his farm.
Group
causes uneasy nights, hut if You will use
DR. Bell, pinc-Tar Honey, i, will relieve
IN a few minutes There is nothing better.
Guaranteed by all dealers
TIE newly elected council for
our city met last Monday eve
ming and transacted some very
important business. Bob"
Hamilton was elected sergeant
and CAMS Wigner Street COM
missioner
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1911-02-14
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
9 a 8 Q RIA

The Fox Chasers Alliance held
an important meeting at Pleas
ant Hill last Thursday evening.
Visiting members from nearby
neighborhoods were in attend
ance. Among them were John
Ferguson, Abe Whipkey, Jake
Whipkey and Jim Martin, and
several others.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1911-02-14

Notice the advertisement of
Chenille Normal school on the
Bird page of this issue. This
schools one of the best in West
Virginia and each term it's en-
rollment is larger than its pre-
vious corresponding term. Prof.
Rohrbough, the principal, is
much of a scholar and exhausts
every effort to make it pleasant
and profitable for his students.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1911-02-14
Sgths:isai' Eagia Eye SalFe,

is thc best eye rcmeGy ever offered the pull.
.ic. Its asnow white ointment, painless,
harmless and absolutely guaranteed to
cure. All dealers, - cents a tube
We would call the attention
of our readers to the advertise
ments of the Globe Realty com
pany of Morgantown, which APP
pears in the Chronicle from time
to time. Those desiring to invest
in real estate could not deal with
a more reliable firm than this,
and the money invested in Nor
gantown property, we would
think, could not be better inves-
ted.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1911-02-14
Rhode Island Reds.

have the famous r. |. Red
chickens and eggs for sale. Call
me on Citizens Phone, or write
for prices etc.
J, M. Wilson,
Mt. Zion.
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Go to the Grants

vile Mill to get your Flour.
They sell Monarch at 60 cents
Hsnest John and Seafoam 50 cents
Other grades in proportion They
buy direct from mills and their
Aours are fresh. They handle all
kinds Of Feeds.