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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-04-01
DON'T coDDLE YOURSELF.

The human body is very obedf-
ent servant, if we hold the control,
or it is very disagreeable task
master if we let it dominate us.
Don't think too much about it, and
don't coddle yourself for fear youth
catch cold or have the fever or some
other i'll. Take good care of the
body, however, and give it an oppor-
tunity to be well. Don't overeat.
Don't get overheated in the warm
season. Sleep with windows open.
Battle frequently. Take few exer-
cises every morning. Get plenty of
sleep. Breathe deeply and fast once
in al while. See that the body elm
mates properly. These are easy rules
to observe if you make them
habit The body should be kept in
as good condition as the operator
keeps machinery. Let us take proper
care of it, for that means making it
hardy and strong, not weak and deli
cate by too much coddling-Wom-
ans National Daily.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-04-01
THE VICE OF PETTlNEss.

It is a sorry sight to behold what
sinister work man animated by pet
tiness and jealousy can descend to.
A little man, like little vessel, can
hold only his measure; even when the
contents are of good quality they are
always small. He can never see big
project or feel big interest. 1t is
beyond his measure. But there are
little men who nevertheless through
goodness of heart manage to supply by
continuity what they lack in capacity.
And their pettiness is never noticed in
the general measure of good they do.
But when little measure is filed
only with prussic acid, it's capacity
for evil is very much greater than
the mere size of the vessel itself. And
when a little mans mind is filed
only with pettiness and spite he can
be the instrument of great disturb
ance, at least until he is caught. And
oftentimes the little man, seeing how
little good he can do with the little
greatness of which his mental size Is
capable-greatness of harm. He can
never make a road-he can try to
block it. He can never move a great
cause-he can strive by spiteful means
to stop it. He can never gain a great
career-he can only grin and chatter
at those who do. We have all seen
the little monkey who runs chattering
for peanut, while the big chap sim
ply reaches out his hand and gets it..
What a showing Of teeth, and what a
vicious chatter goes on from the roost
where the little monkey has taken
refuge in his puny spite.
The poor little victim of his own
jealousy thinks he can spoil at least
the taste of the peanut. But the big
fellow calmly enjoys not only the nut
he has captured, but the discontinue
of the little monkey as well.
Moral-If you cannot be big, at
least don't call attention to your pet
tiness by spiteful chatter. For If you
do, you will only be laughed at.-West-
ern Waterman.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-04-01
BEING A NEIGHBoR.

Being neighbor is fine art.
There are fine lines of distinction to
be made and observed. A readiness to
help on the part of one should be gra-
ciously accepted but never imposed
upon: sympathy is not to be expected
for every trifie; friendliness does not
mean intimacy; candour and sincerity
do not necessitate condolences or the
revelation of private matters; nor does
proximity give one the right to com
ment upon others affairs to speak
her mind" on all occasions Every
woman of sense and Judgment knows
the need of a fine reserve
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-04-01
THE CHILDREN'S HOUR.
THE SECRET OF SUCCESS.

One day in huckleberry time, when
little Johnny Flails
And half dozen other boys were
starting with their pals,
To gather berries, Johny's pa, in
talking with him said
That he. could tell, him how to pick SO
he'd come out ahead.
First, find your BUSH" said Johnny's
pa, and then stick to it till
You've picked it clean. Let those go
chasing all about who will
In search of better bushes, but it's
picking tells, my son;
To look at fifty bushes, doesn't count
like picking one"
And Johnny did as he was told, and
sure enough, he found
BY sticking to his bush while all the
others chased around
In search of better picking, twas as
his father said,
For while the others looked he
worked, so came out ahead.
And Johnny recollected this when he
became man,
And first of all he laid out we'll
determined plan.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-04-01
THE CHRISTIAN LIFE.

How can you look so pleasant to-
night?" man asked his friend. you
have had score of Interruptions this
afternoon, when you had hoped to do
a lot of work" That's all right" was
the answer. Every morning give my
day to Christ, then I take what He
sends. These Interruptions come in
the way of duty. Why should | COM
plain about the service He has ap-
pointed?" It was very wise and
trustfuI saying. SO many of us offer
a partial conservation, and therefore
the interruptions are regarded as
breaking the purpose of the day. The
only way il to dedicate all our time,
and then to take every action as
prompted by God. 1t is amazing how
the moments are sanctified when they
are thus accepted as the ordination OF
grace.
But it is this want of full consecra-
ton that mars and breaks our daily
life. 1t is not all of piece. We
sanctify moment, but not day. We
dedicate an inch, but not mile. We
hold certain things sacred, and others
come to be regarded as profane. We
need conservation which offers every
thing to the King. We need dedica-
tion which makes a holy Sabbath OF
every day of the week. which trans
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-04-01
PUTTING OFF.

What made you stop right in the
middle of your sentence, and then start
talking about something entirely diff
ferent?" The questioner laughed, and
her friend joined in as she replied to
the puzzled query.
never to say today the mean thing that
can be put off until tomorrow" she ex-
planned. "By tomorrow it is out of
date, and does not get said at ALL
Which goes to prove that putting
off-of a certain SORTS not always
the bad habit we have used to believe
it. How about the falsehood that
tempts? Put off until quiet moment,
it is easily banished forever, and one
can be honestly glad that he did not
"do it now" What of the doubtful
amusement? Put aside until one has
time to investigate or think it over,
it loses it's lure. Whoever repented of
the dishonest deed put off until later
reflection or great courage came to
conquer it?
o, yes, putting of-of certain sort
lis pretty good thing. Some things
there are that must be settled on the
spot. Others there are which can be
most easily put off-and killed later
on with mustered strength and cour.
age, which, perhaps, were lacking at
the earlier moment
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-04-01

she bought two dollars worth of seed.
AT this point the boys showed much
concern. They knew that land needed
enriching, some one had said SO, and
they couldn't afford to have it done
1t would cost too much. The boys
hauled manure for days, after school
hours, until the whole 100 feet had a
fairly satisfactory covering.
Then in the spring they planted the
seed and through the long vacation, in
the hottest weather, they toiled like
men, wedding and cultivating and ped
ding their surplus vegetables from the
wagon.
When the farmers institute of Clyde
met, John and Frank loaded the wagon
with choice samples from their garden
and went to the meeting. The farm
ers were surprised. No provision had
been arranged for such an exhibit, but
the officers of the institution gave the
boys silver dollar and their appro-
baton, and told them how proud they
were to have two little boys in Clyde
that weren't afraid of work.
The boys put $12 in the bank, the
result of their peddling and they sup
piled the family table all summer and
far into the fall. Besides, the Brown
family cellar contained for winter use;
one and one-half bushels of popcorn,
one bushel of beets, three-fourths
bushel carrots, two bushels of pota-
toes, twelve or fifteen pumpkins, and
lot of cabbages. There we're enough
canned tomatoes to keep the family
supplied for months.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-04-01
COPYING CHRIST.

A humble artist sat before the paint
ing of great one, day after day, faith
fully copying the masterpiece before
him. His own work came far from the
perfection of the other and greater
man; yet he worked on bravely, cheer
fully, determinedly, striving to make
his own copy as near like the original
as he could.
His example was one worth follow
ing in other matters.
We are all artists of life, working
out day after day the reality of our
dreams, our ideals, our hopes and as
pirations There are on the pages of
history, and in the world of today as
we'll, many noble lives worthy of imi-
tation. 1t may be that right in your
own circle of acquaintance is one to
whom you look up with admiration,
and resolve to take pattern for your
own life.
But far above all others is one mas
terpiece of life, for example, for love,
for imitation. One Life was lived as
no other ever has been. There is the
model most worth copying-the life
of Jesus above men. No matter how
poor and blurred the life picture may
seem, If it is copied after that match.
less one, and in our best effort, it will
have in it the elements that can make
us glad partakers and sharers of the
triumphant, 1--WE shall be like Him."
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-04-01

figures common work into holy and
hallowed worship.
This was Gladstone's way. ANY one
who reads Morley's Life Of Glad
stone" will see how his life was made
all of piece by consistent consecra-
ton. No mans life was ever more
greatly varied, and yet one spirit ran
through all I went through big
building the other day containing a
great many departments, and / was
told that one heating apparatus warm
ed the entire pile. And so it is in
the Christian life. The holy fire of
conservation should illumine every
room, and every part be bright and
genial, rendering the entire life holy
unto the Lord.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-04-01
THE HELPFUL WAY.

It'll be just the most fun" Bertha
said to herself, skipping about in pure
delight, as she watched cook filing the
dainty little lunch basket. It was not
every day that mamma would let her
take her lunch to the pretty woods
beyond the river.
Il hope Nan can CO." she said to
herself. II guess she can, though"
And she started out joyfully. But dis
appointment was waiting for her, for
Mans face fell when Bertha showed
her the pretty lunch basket and asked
if she could go to the woods.
II can't go, Bertha" she said for
lornly. Mamma had to go to Mrs.
B1ake's this afternoon, cause she's
sick, you know. And grandpa wrote
that maybe he'd come this afternoon,
and so have to stay at home"
Bertha was dreadfully disappointed.
She sat down on the top step, with a
most woebegone face. II was so sure
you could go, Man," she said, II never
thought there'd be anything like this.
Isn't there any way you could fix it so
you could go?''
Nan looked thoughtful, but she
shook her head. ''We're not positive
that grandpa will come today" she
said, "and maybe if I left the key
where he could get it, could go; but
I'm sure mamma wouldn't like to have
me do that"
ooh, please" was on Bertha's lips,
but the words were not spoken, for
she had suddenly remembered how
hard she found it to refuse one day
when the girls were teasing her to do
something she knew mamma would
not like. And so, instead, she found
herself saying, well, I'm not going to
tease, Nan, because I wouldn't want to
go that way, either"
Maybe Grace would co." Nan sug-
gested unsel1shly, but Bertha had
made up her mind
"I'm not going today, Man," she an
nounced. tI'll have this for my lunch
at home, and then We'll wait till some
day when we can both CO."
And so she not only gave up her
own pleasure, but also helped Nan to
do what was right
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-04-01
TWO GARDENERS.

Here is the garden story of two little
boys at Clyde, Kan, and the crop they
raised on plot of ground 100 by 40
feet
John and Frank Brown are eight
and ten years old Their father is a
travelling salesman. Mr.. and Mrs.
Brown and the boys became interested
summer before last in garden stories.
The boys attended the meetings of the
farmers institute arranged by the
Kansas State Agricultural College
through it's agricultural extension de
partment, and they listened to every
suggestion.
Mrs. Brown encouraged the boys in
every way when they announced one
day their intention of cultivating the
lot upon which their house stood and
the one adjoining it. She hired man
to pIow and harrow the ground and
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-04-01
THE LAST COMMUNION DAY.

Will you go to the door, alanna,
And watch if the priest is near?
It's weary the hours are dragging
Till the time he'll be coming here.
Sure, / never have slept the night long,
But just to lie here and pray,
To think that the Lord is coming
To my humble home this day.
I've counted the years, aIanna,
From my first Communion morn,
When I was bit of colleen
In the land where I was born.
That's seventy years this summer,
And often my heart was sore,
But the monthly Duty blessed me,
And soothed the grief bore.
Thank God for that faith, alanna!
What mattered the work and strife.
When there at the altar-railing
could eat of the Bread of Life?
These seventy years, alanna,
I went to Him faithfully,
Seventy years, alanna,
And at last He's coming to me.
Look out of the window, daughter;
He's coming at last, you say?
Long life to the darling soggarth,
That brings me my God this day!
Rev. Hugh f. Blunt.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-05
Want Some OF
The BLACK SHELLS

When you say that to your dealer you'll
see him smile, for he'll know there's another
member in the "Sure-Shot Club another
customer for him who knows good ammuni-
ton. Oh, they are all joining, for one by one
they are giving the BLACK SHELLS trial
and are learning for themselves what these
better shells will do for their scores.
The success of the BLACK SHELLS
didn't 'just happen" There are reasons why
they give the men who try them the best shoot
ing they've ever known. Here are few of
the reasons-look 'em over:
The primer used in the BLACK SHELLS
contains no mercury and no ground glass.
The results are quickness and uniformity =
better scores and bigger bags. You doubt it,
Try it.
Fractions of second count when you are
after bird on the wing that's why we make
the Flash Passage 1.-THE hole in the head through
which the fame from the primer reaches the
charge) 1907 larger than in ordinary shells.
There's no chance for hang fire there. BLACK
SHELLS have solid head and are really water
proof. Even ducking won't hurt them.
There are three classes of BLACK SHELLS:
ROMAX, black powder shell with u.s.
inch base.
CLIMAX, the most popular smokeless
(both dense and bulky shell made. Has one
half-inch base.
AJAX is the highest grade smokeless (both
dense and bulky shell made. Has long one
inch brass base.
Send for book about Shells If you enclose
10 cents we will send beautiful eolored
poster: COX 80 inches. called October
Days" Sure to please every shooter.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1911-04-07
M<NT0N

Frank Mccoy has sold his milk route.
Court Lyman elected officers on Tuesday
evening.
{. l.. Holden had lot Of hens stolen
recently.
Otto Koehler has taken position in J.
J. Hughes store.
The Manton Fire Co. is taking on a
new lease Of life.
Miss Ambrose Higgins is confined 70
her home by illness.
James Richardson has gone into the
produce business
T. +. Greenwood has removed 20 his new
house on KillIngly Avenue.
Ezra Mowry has taken position with a
Providence automobile firm.
John Remington has taken position IN
the dye house of the Manton Mill.
Court Lyman will hold minstrel s1ow
on the evenings Of April z7th and 28th.
MIR. and Mrs. J. Lesion Nickerson Of
St. Johnsbury, W., are visiting relatives
here.
Rev. w. fl. Bowen ID. ID. Of Providence,
was the speaker at the Baptist Church
last Sunday.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1911-04-07
THORN TON

The Thornton schools resumed their
seasons on Monday.
George Hudson and family, have remov-
ed TO Simmonsville.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jonas Gill are entertain
ing friends from England.
The Pocasset Social Club will give a
minstrel show late this spring.
The Ladies' Club hold a social in Calers
Hall on the evening Of the I7th.
The Johnston Financial Town meeting
will be held at IL o'clock tomorrow.
A regular meeting of the Johnston Town
Council will be held on Friday Of next
week,
"The Shadow Of Great Rock " wa
the subject of Rev. G. A. Burgess sermon
last Sunday evening.
The Young Thorntons defeated TIA,
Centerdale team at foot ball here Saturday
by score of 10 o.
The base ball season opens here on Sat
urday of next week. when the Thornton
play the Olneyyilles.
The Johnston Town Council met OF
Monday, and canvassed the voting list
for the financial town meeting, which take
place Saturday.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1911-04-07
STILLWATEk

Mrs. A. a. Mabach, daughter of the
late A. B."Capron has returned to West
Point
Miss Bertha {. a. Andrews returned on
Monday. She has been visiting with her
friend, Miss ". +. Carey Of Blackstone.
The business meeting f the w. w. 7.
AS wa> he'd with Katharine Maroney,
Wednesday evening. The club pins were
distributed 10 the members BY the conn
miitee on supplies.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1911-04-07
IiARmOEY

Master Lloyd G. Place, entertained hia
school mates aud teacher a. his home yes
terday afternoon, In recognition Of bis
eighth birthday. The little ones lost no
time in participating in various games,
stories were read and musical selections
rendered. A collation. was served. Mas
ter Place was the recipient Of several birth
day gifts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-16

tcuar that by any mischance they find their way to
the Dead Letter Office they destroyed instead of
being returned to the senders AS measure of econo
N.Y. the fourth assistant Postmaster General has
commended that the cost of transporting these cards to
the department and the work incident thereto should
be discontinued, and postmasters directed to make
final disposition of such in their respective Offices
under regulations prescribed by the Postmaster Gen
eral."
Such change if instituted would in the case of the
picture cards that form the larger part of the mail
matter affected, result in the Governments selling
thousands and thousands of onecent stamps yearly for
which it would not have to render whatever
the cards to which they attached would never
leave the postoffice in which they originally de-
posted.
showing as to cards Of the unavailable alone an
age OF fifteen thousand come there every day. New
York city has sent in many hundred and five
thousand dead cards of all Sorts the harvest of
week in the busy season. Chicago following close with
ninety eight thousand. Even these figures give only
rough suggestion of the extent of the business done
cards. both by dealers and by the Government. 1t is
interesting to know that average of only letter
out of every thousand mailed drifts the Dead Letter
Office. Applying this percentage to cards. and knowing
that eleven million dead cards reach Washington every
year, the estimate of the number of cards passing
nualy through the American mails reaches the appalling
total of eleven thousand million AS matter of fact,
approximate calculation puts the total of cards
mailed at less than two thousand million moments
reflection will show why the proportion of dead to live
cards is much higher than the corresponding ratio
between letters. For reason, most persons who
write letters take pains with them than those who
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BY ELLEE FRANCIS

amounting to twenty-sx cents thousand and finally
for the transportation of the finished product the
various offices along with the other supplies, and then
sells the card to the people for cent The postcard
is manufactured and sold by private companies
simple article of trade; but whoever sends through
the mail has to pay the Government cent carry
it. The stamp costs the Government only two
hundredths of to make, and another inniteSimal
fraction to transport leaving well nigh the entire cent
clear profit.
Like the postal card the postcard is of foreign origin,
and transpanted to shores about 1898 We
made its acquaintance through the enterprise of Euro
pean photographers, who discovered that American trav
eers specially fond of sending home photographs
of buildings and statuary landscapes and street scenes
to show their friends what had int ested them their
foreign wanderings. These men conceived plan for
making pictures cheaper than photographs, but for
general purposes equally effective, which could be
mailed without inclosure in envelops.
Presently Governments abroad granted the
privilege of putting little writing card with
picture. 1t not long before what started local
money making scheme developed into great industry
and spread all over the world. The Universal Postal
Union adopted rules that permitted the transmission of
picture postcards through the international nails and
in due course Congress followed the example by
welcoming them to the domestic mails.
AS first class matter, both postcards and postal cards
enjoy the supreme right of way that letters do.
They differ from letters however, in the important par
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-16

EORTY-SEVEN THOUSAND picture postcards
mailed in one day last summer at small
seaside pleasure resort not a hundred miles from
New York city Picture cards, mark you, quite apart
from, and in addition to, all the letters and ordinary
postal cards that passed through that Office The pic
cards. it true carried messages like the others;
but these ranged from Hello" "Yours truly
up to "Al we'll thus far trip" or Having the
time of Our lives, and all send love-"
These illustrations cited arbitrarily; for there
records to draw The presumption is safe, how
ever that not more that fifty in that whole lot carried
any communication of such consequence that it would
have been hurt by delay and that nobody would have
suffered inconvenience if most of them had been left off
altogether
That is the common with these cards. They are
vehicles of correspondence in the srcter sense.
They sent account of their pictures, and,
for the sentimental qualification of being remembered,
the recipients generally find in the pictures their chief
value. And yet the number mailed in office
day will give idea of the important part played by
the picture card in the postal service of the United
States ustyng the assertion that in the matter of net
profit the Government it outranks all other forms of
mail.
The postcard is often mistakenly confused in the
popular mind with the postal card actually, that diff
ference of syllable marks the distinction between
public convenience and private privilege The postal
card issued by the Government, which pays for the
cardboard, the dies and the printing, estimated
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-16

IIIYAH HiyaM Hi-yuM
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How life the weah that the odgere
How it brings the chilly air!
the that silent sit and stare!
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T4I-YAH Hi-yaM HiyaM
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By the reaching the BonehuteS mystic whine,
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That shall reach the
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HI VA HI Hi-yaM Hi aM
IL How peoples every with flmy restless Ghos
How brings the sweatead watch the hake
How the Evil make
For reaches deep and deeper
Into unknown mystic things
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