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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1912-11-23
COME LATE AND GO EARLY.

Referring to the late-comers to Mass,
who are also most likely to be the
early-goers from the Holy Sacrifice,
the Paulist Calendar says: zone rea-
son why some people are late is be-
cause they are so lazy on the Lords
Day They are always on time at
their work on week days, because they
fear an earthly master. How about
the services we owe our heavenly
Master? Again, some are late because
they do not prepare things on Satur-
day night-result is that on Sunday
morning it is a scramble and hustle
to find things, and so much time is
lost, and the members of the family
are late for Mass. Put everything in
order on Saturday night. Another
thing we do not like to see, and 1t is
an abuse that is growing. 1t is the
grand rush that so many make for the
doors before the priest leaves the
altar. That is very bad form. 1t
means that you get out about three
seconds sooner. Can you afford these
few seconds out of respect to the
priest who has just offered the Holy
Sacrifice for you and yours? Now be
resolved to be in your seats when the
priest enters the sanctuary, and do
not leave till he leaves the sanctuary.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1912-11-23
MORNING PRAYER AND MEDfTA'
TON.

The efficacy of prayer, the very ele-
ment of our life which works and
earns. is in our mind too often con-
fined to the prayer of petition, writes
Father Walter Elliott, G. S. P, in the
Missionary. Whereas the most mat
ter-of-fact and business-like prayer is
that which sets us down calmly at
that rich mans door who is the rich
est and most bountiful ever known,
and to whom no ulcered beggar ever
so much as longed and looked in vain.
Christ will have no Lazaruses at His
gate whose sores shall not be healed,
and to whom not the crumbs but the
very dainties of the divine table shall
not be plentifully ministered.
The time of this prayer OF waiting
and longing and bordering in Gods
sight is the capital hour of every true
day. Says the inspired sage: We'll
doth he rise early that seeketh good
things" prov XII. 27). Presence at
the offering of Christ crucified to His
Father for the sins of the world-the
hearing of holy Mass-reigns supreme
in the profits of good mans day.
That done, his meditation becomes the
great event. Those two are the in
spiration of his external activity,
especially such as bears directly upon
his fellow men. And his thoughts are
the storehouse of his moments of recol-
lection, the refreshment to which he
resorts in trouble and fatigue. Espe-
cially does this religious Gaping OF
busy day safeguard soul from dan
ger. For, as St. John Baptist de Rossi
says, 'sHe that goeth not to meditation,
goeth to temptation"
An established custom of thus open
ing the daily course of existence with
Mass and meditation cultivates a gen
eral habit of diligence. OF our Lord
it is said: "And rising up very early,
going out He went into desert place,
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and there He prayed" mark i. 35).
Here is our model for instant response
to the alarm clock. It is the best
morning offering. The generous bene-
factor whose riches are all heavenly
will heed the lightest wish of one who
springs up and goes right forward at
the signal for early morning prayer.
1t is an act of obedience to the primary
law: Thou shalt love the Lord thy
God" mark xii 28), which is also the
first article of faith. And no article
of faith is so lovely as this article of
love, the foremost article of our re-
ligion. 1t is fulfilled primarily by
prayer. Of the dying man ST. James
says that the prayer of faith shall
save him Games v. 15). Of the dying
and the living man the morning pray
or of faith and of love is the strongest
hope and the surest salvation How
ever hopelessly insolvent my soul may
be in it's dealings with God, I can can
eel all debts by one easy COMA pray
er of love. For whatever I or any
other man may say of his restitution,
one inalienable and priceless asset we
possess; we have a heart that can
love.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1912-11-23
A SAINT FOR THE WEEK.
ST. ELIZABETH OF HUNGARY

Elizabeth was the daughter of a
King of Hungary, and niece of st.
HedWige. She was betrothed in in
fancy to Louis, Landgrave of Thurin-
gla, and brought UP in his fathers
court In her fourth year she began
to spend her time in prayer, and gave
all she had to the poor; and growing
up she Increased in piety and humil-
lty, undeterred by the reproaches and
ridicule of her husbands family and
courtiers. She never left her husband
without necessity, and in his absence
laid aside her royal robes and lived
in retirement. She was the first in
Germany to join the Third Order of
st. Francis. Not content with receiving
daily numbers of poor in her palace,
and relieving all in distress, she built
several hospitals, where she served
the sick, dressing the most repulsive
sores with her own hands. God re-
Warded her charity with many mir
acles. Once, on her way to banquet,
she gave her ducal mantle to poor
man, and an angel restored it to her.
Another time, being simply dressed,
she appeared before her fathers am
bassadors in purple robe en-
broidered with gold and precious
stones. On her husbands death she
was cruelty driven from her palace,
and forced to wander through the
streets with her little children, a prey
to hunger and cold; but she welcomed
all her sufferings and continued to be
the mother of the poor, converting
many by her holy life. She died in
1881, at the age of twenty-four.
Once as st. Elizabeth was descend
ing by a very steep and rough path
from her castle to the town, carrying
in the folds of her mantle bread, meat.
eggs and other provisions for the poor,
she met her husband returning from
the chase. Astonished to see her bend
ing under the weight of her burden,
he opened the mantle which she kept
pressed against her, and found in it
nothing but the most beautiful white
and red roses he had ever seen, al
though it was not the season for flow
ers. He also saw over her head a
luminous image, in the form of a
crucifix. Bidding her pursue her way
he took one of the marvellous roses,
and kept it all his life.
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where ii is very hard to get even a
dollar or two at a time to supply our
most pressing needs. But, then, who
am to object? Your lordship has
the inspirations of your Office"
II need not tell you, you who have
given up your life to the cause" the
Bishop added, as his fine face glowed
with enthusiasm, Ito think of the souls
that may be saved here on this very
spot, and of those that are being lost
here under our eyes. Once the church
is built you will see transformation
Goodness and Indifference will begin
to melt like mists before the sun.
Those who have strayed from the
Faith will, please God, come back, or
at least we may get the children, while
those to whom religion is but name
will see continually before them a
glowing center, a hearthstone upon
which the sacred flame burns bright
ly."
The splendid optimism of this
veteran hunter of souls was contagi-
GUS. 1t was as a spark kindling the
flame of the missionary's ardent char
ity.
ooh, shall begin at once" he said,
though / have not a dollar"
Il should like you to secure, in the
first place. the Bishop suggested, "a
picture of the Sacred Heart"
A smile Illuminated the old priests
face.
Il know; yes" he said. There is
the promise, I will help them in all
their undertakings :"
Precisely" replied the Bishop.
''And you are going to build here in
the heart of the wilderness the Church
of the Sacred Heart"
The good old priest obeyed those
instructions literally The Bishop be-
fore departing had definitely installed
him as first pastor of a church as yet
unbuilt, and had announced his pro-
ject for construction to congregation
many, of whom listened in consterna-
ton and inwardly groaned at the bur-
den that was thus being placed upon
them. But there were generous souls
there, few of those that shall shine
brightly in the kingdom of the Father
hereafter, who took fire instantly at
the episcopal suggestion.
1t was group of these-and there
were Irish and French and Belgian
amongst them-who crowded about
their new pastor with offers of what
services they could give. All of them
were poor; some of them were al
most ragged. But it was touching to
see, and it moved the priest to tears,
how they produced from their little
store some offering, however small,
for the projected work. More over,
they offered their labor as soon as
there should be anything to be done
IT will tell you, my friends" said
the priest, that have not one dollar
of money which I can give. But have
something else"
Continued page g.
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In the Heart of the
Wilderness.

The place, which of late had been
little more than a clearing in the
forest, where groups of rude dwellings
had arisen, inhabited, at first entirely
by half breeds, but whittier had gradu-
ally come white men in connection
with a railway, and emigrants who had
drifted thither from various centers
of the Old World, was now populous,
if struggling, settlement 1t babe fair
to become, with the rapid growth of
the West, a prosperous town. But
around it was the wilderness, over
jected their shadows, and deep, 81
lent gorges heard only the trickling
of mountain streams.
At first in those regions there had
been no Mass at all, no religious serv-
ice of any kind. Then a missionary
priest had begun to come thither once
or twice year, and finally once a
month, until that time when the Bish-
op had been invited to give Confirma-
ton to a handful of children. That
ceremony, like all the others, took
place in barn, with temporary altar
rudely constructed, with only the bar
est necessaries in the way of altar
furnishings, and with poverty of the
direst description dominating things.
And yet as the Bishop strolled about
with the missionary after the fatigues
of the day, enjoying the calmness of
the starshine, he said to him: ga
Their, this is getting to be quite place.
The time has come when it should
have a resident priest. l have made
up my mind to appoint you to the
Office"
Appoint a poor old man like mel
exclaimed the priest.
The Bishop stopped and looked at
him. They were, in fact, both men
of the same type, who had grown from
| their apostolic youth to age in tolls
and privations. struggling against diff
| ficulties with heroism of which the
world has no conception.
"You have many good working years
before you yet" he said, "and you
cannot work harder than you are do
ing now"
His eyes filed with tears as he re-
garded the worn, care-lined face and
the stopped and toil-worn frame, and
thought of the weary miles on foot or
horseback, over almost impossible
roads, Drawing cold and hunger and
insult and injury, and dangers of vari-
GUS kinds.
NO." continued the prelate, .tyou
will never have to work harder, for
that would be impossible
The old priest looked up at his
| superior.
81 was not thinking of the work,
my lord" he said simply, "but of how
much more a brave, young priest
could do here where there is so much
to be DONE"
.sIt needs, I think, man of ex-
perience," the Bishop declared, "es-
pecially to make the. start" He did
not add of saintliness, but that was
what he was thinking. You will have
to begin the building of a church"
.'The building of a church," the
priest cried involuntarily. Here
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1912-11-23
PERSONAL PURITY.

Cardinal Newman says that all Cath
olic teaching and practice is calcu-
lated to give to personal purity most
striking preponderance among the vir-
tues, says Register Extension. The
Holy Scriptures tell us, and the COM
mon consent of mankind has always
confirmed it, that the man who has
conquered his impure passions during
life is the noblest and stoutest and
most heroic fighter in the world, just
as the people who have led pure and
clean lives during many generations
are physically the fittest to win in any
sort of a fight.
Consequently the Church has always
jealousy guarded the purity of her
children. She surrounds them with all
imaginable safeguards, and she forever
keeps before their eyes the superemi-
nent excellence of this great virtue, by
teaching them to reverence all purity
in man and woman. She compares the
impure man to the leper whose disease
is the foulest and most horrible of all
the ills that flesh is heir to, and who
is to be Stunned absolutely lest he
communicate it to others. Catholic
fathers and Catholic mothers send
their boys to Catholic colleges and
schools, not so much for the secular
education they get there. In the
majority of cases they might have this
education at their very doors, and with
less cost. But they are willing to I'M
dergo the expense and inconvenience,
and oftentimes the hardship it in
wolves, for the sake of saving their
children from the foulness and the
contagion of the impurities with which
they know them to be surrounded in
other places. Secular educationists
themselves are becoming awake to
this latter fact. In one of his really
Illuminating articles in the daily press
of late THE Khan" remarks:
Aunt Lucy has been beating the
Basket Baby again for nasty things
which the child has learned at school,
The only way | can COW Aunt Lucy
is by threatening to send the Basket
Baby to convent. That's my winning
card. With that up my sleeve I can
order her up any old time. But never
theless if my Basket Baby comes home
again with any vermin on her, I'll flu
migate her ladyship, put her in a box
and ship to the nearest nunnery and
IOAA SAO A4oIO1o W hCOp AC1 I'LL 0AO .
big enough to know better. Then I'll
sleep in peace. There are only two
places where little girl is safe nova
days-in the tomb or chained to nice
little num-
Catholic parents are convinced that
if they can save their sons in youth
from the contagion of impurity, they
have to moral certainty given their
boys success in life and have put at
their disposal the power to be honest,
sober, Industrious, just and upright
men.
Let Catholic boys and girls there
fore make no mistake about this:
! Their fathers and mothers will not
worry about them or fret so much
about their marks or certificates if
they can assure themselves that they
are safe from the rampant corruption
and impurity of the world. And moth
ing on earth could shame them so
much, or bow their heads or break
their hearts more than the knowledge
that their boy or girl was foul or I'M
clean in mind or body, in speech or in
action.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1912-11-23
APPEAL FOR THE POOR SOULS.

The following verses were found.
after his death, among the papers of
the late Father James Murphy, S. j.,
and in his handwriting. They are
printed in the current Irish MESSENGER:
Miseremini, miseremini mel, saltem
vos amici mei.-Job xix. 81.
In the Morning.
When the pure air comes unbreathed
and the fresh fields lie untrod.
When the lark's song rises upward
and the wet flowers deck the
sod;
In the time of early praying, in the
hushed and holy morn,
Hear those voices softly pleading, hear
those low words interceding,
From the green graves lonesome
lying,
Ever more in sad tones crying;
Have pity! you at least have pity,
you, my friends
In the Noontide
When the hot earth almost slumbers
and the tree-top scarcely stirs,
When the bee sleeps on the lily and
the hare pants by the furze,
When the stream breeze softly cools
you and the grateful shade in
vites,
While the hot skies far are glowing,
think of pain, no respite know
ing,
And those prison fires appalling,
And those piteous voices calling:
Have pity! you at least have pity,
you, my friends"
In the Evening.
When the long days cares are ended
and the house group soon shall
meet,
When the silent twilight deepens and
comes rest for weary feet,
In the time of sad remembrance give
prayer to old friends gone,
Some regret, some feelings tender, to
past days and scenes surrender,
Let your heart with mournful greet
ing
Hear the sad refrain repeating:
Have pity! you at least have pity,
you, my friends
In the Nighttime.
When the stars are set in ether and
the white moon in a cloud,
When the children's hands are folded
and the golden heads are bowed
Tell them of that fearful burning, of
those souls in torture dire,
Let their sinless hearts adoring
reach Christ's throne in sweet
imploring;
BY those faces lost forever,
By those smiles to greet thee never,
By the memories of past days,
And the kindness of old ways,
BY the love in life you bore them,
And the tears in death shed DER
them,
BY their words and looks in dying,
Hear their plaintive voices crying:
Have pity! you at least have pity
you, my friends"
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TWENTY-FouRTH, OR LAST
SUNDAY AFTER PENTE-
COST.

EPlSTLE: Brethren, we cease
not to pray for you, and to beg
that you may be filled with the
knowledge of the will OF God, in
all wisdom and spiritual under
standing; that you may walk
worthy of God, in all things
pleasing, being fruitful in every
good work, and increasing in the
knowledge of God.
GOSPEL: Amen, say to you,
that this generation shall not
pass till all these things be done.
Heaven and earth shall pass
away, but my word shall not pass
away.
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Never, never wait for post-mortem
praise. Speak the kind words which
love prompts, and remember that
words of ving-kindness are the best
possible tonic which can be given,
even to the happiest of the mortals.
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FELT BAD
ALL THE Time
SheIIhorn Lady Suffered q Great
Deal. But Is All Right Now.


Shelihorn. Ala.--In letter from this
place. Mrs. Carrie May says: "A. short
time ago, I Commenced to have weak
spells and headaches. I felt bad all
the time. and soon grew 30 bad I
couldn't stay up, Thought I would die.
At last my husband got me bottle
Of Cardui. and II helped me; so he got
some moro. After had taken tho
second bottle. was entirely we'll.
wish every lady. suffering from
womanly trouble, would try Cardul.
II IL the best medicine know Of. II
did me more good than ANYTHING ever
used" trcf ii
.Cardui n . womnns tonic-A
strengthening medicine for women.
made from ingredients that act spa,
officially on the womanly organs, and
thus help to build up tho womanly con-
stitution to glowing good health.
Az remedy for woman's Ills. 4 has
q successful record Of over 80 years.
Your druggist sells II. pleaas try Il.
Nh Write 10: ladiss' Adviscv Dsek. Chssia.
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MILIrIA. wouLp Gkr sl4s.lll

Washington, August 5--A total
OF l.sil citlIana Of Kentucky. com
posing the SfAta's militia as shown
by the last annual inspection. will "a
put on the Fedaral .pay-rolls II tho
militia pay. bin. which has JUS, bean
fayorably reported by the House
Committee on Military Affairs. be-
comes law. and there is every in
dication that II win In due course
OF time.
The last inspection gave the
strength OF the Kentucky organized
militia as follows; Officers. i42; en-
listed men. I,7ss. This was loss Of
eighteen officers and 1888 enlisted
men. as compared with the previous
annual inspection
The total amount which the Ken
lucky militia would draw annually
from the Federal treasury. II la
strength remained in statu quo and
all of It's members conformed to ths
requirements as to attendance. par
tIcipation In drills. ETC.. would Dc
lsI45.41&
The pay granted by the Govern
ment ia militia officers. under the
bill, varies from five 10 fifteen pei
cent OF the pay received by Officers
OF similar rank in the regular army
A militia Colonel gets five per cent
OF the pay OF regular army Colo
mel This amounts to 500 per year
Regimental quartermasters and ad
jutants receive fifteen per cent OF
the pay OF similar officers In tho
regular service. which is, equiyalenl
to $3.50 per annum.
All ellsted men are to be paid
twenty-five per cent. or one-fourth
OF che pay OF enlisted men in the
same branches OF the regular army
service, This varies from s45 tc
$22J per year. Master signal cleo
tricians and chief musicians in regi
mental bands will receive the high
est amount awarded enlisted men
1926 per annum. The private In j
band will get $72 per annum. th'
private In the hospital corps s4s
the private of artillery s45. etc
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AUxIER.

The Auxier and Prestonsburg ball
teams played ball at Auxier Sunday.
The birthday party given by Miss
Bertha Fugate was quite success.
School began at this place to-day
Aug 5th, with J. p May and Mat
Hall teachers.
Matte Daniel entertained quite a
number Of her friends Friday even
Ing.
Bessie Daniel. Of Prestonsburg
was visiting home folks Sunday.
Elmer Hester was calling on NAL
Ia Daniel Sunday night.
Geo. w. Daniel. who Is Visiting
his son and daughter at Auxier will
return to his home at Whitehouse
In the morning. ft
Miss Laura Leek, of Auxier was
visiting home folks at East Point
Saturday and Sunday.
There was foot washing at
East Point Aug. IL.
CHOCOLATE CANDY.
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chesapeake q Ohio Ry,

Effective juno =, 1919.
Local tralns leave Louisa. south
bound, 1855 n m. week days, and
.b;24 p. m, daily.
North bound. leave Louina s:2s
n. m. daily, 3;54 p. m. week days
Arrive Ashland 1885 :. m. daily.
$40 pm. week days
To Lexington, louisville and West.
Leave falkland i:eB ,. M. $40
A. m. daily. Local, week days 70
Lexington. 1870 n. m.
To Cinsinnati and West.
Leave Catlettsburg. cypress.
daily. t:o2 n m. s;ia a m. i2.sa
y. m. Locale, 5;ts .. m. veek days.
1870 .. m, daily.
Leave Ashland. express. daily,
t;17 a. m, e;23 .. m. 100 D. m.
Locals e;o5 a m..veek days i2;l2
D. m. daily.
Eaa1boanh. Main Line.
Leave Ashland. express. daily.
3;39 .. m. 1o:es'p. m. f2.3s a. m.
Local. daily to Huntington. i1.40 D.
m: runs to Hinton week days.
Local. week days. 10 Huntington.
S:45 p, m.,4:s2 am. daily virrlnian
Railway points via DcepWatar,
=. D. JUSTICE. Agt., L,ouisa. Ky.
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Effective June n. 1911.
w. Fort Gay tcentrAl Time. }

~ Apfe way NSoutfh limo.j
, 1915 a m. Daily--For Kenova,
Ironton, Portsmouth. Cincinnati.
Columbus. Pullman Shoppers 70
Cineinaati and Columbus. connec-
tlon via Chicago and 81 Louis for
the West and Northwest.
1904 p IN. Daily --ror Columbus.
Cincinnati and intermediates stations.
Pullman Sleeper. Cafe Car 70 Col
umbns. Connects at Cincinnati and
Columbus for points West
Ly. 2.O2 a IN. Daily For will
hanson. weleh. Bluefield. Roanoke.
Lynchburg. Norfolk. Richmond. Puil-
man Sleepers, Cafe Car.
2;00, D. m. Daily-For William
son. weloh, Bluefield. Roanoke.
Norfolk. Riehmoad. Pullman Sleeper
to Norfolk. Cafe Car
Train leaves Kenova e;1B a m.
Daily for Williamson, VIA Wayne.
and leaves ksnova for Portsmouth
and local stations 5:4T D. m. Daily.
and leaves ksnoya 500 4. m, Daily
for Columbus and local stations.
For fail Information apply 10
W. n. nEvII.l.. q. r. A.
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