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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-10-23
YOUR MISSION.

If you cannot ON the ocean
Sail among the swiftest fleet,
Rocking on the highest pillows,
Laughing at the storms you meet
You can stand among the sailors
Anchored yet within the bay,
You can lend hand to help them
AS they launch their boats away.
If you are too weak to journey
Up the mountains steep and high
You can stand within the valley
While the multitude go by;
You can chant a happy measure
AS they slowly pass along
Though they may forget the singer,
They may not forget the song.
If you cannot in the conflict
Prove yourself a soldier true,
If where smoke and fire are thickest
There's no work for you to do;
When the battlefield is silent,
You can go with careful tread
You can bear away the wounded,
You can cover up the dead.
Do not, then, stand idly waiting
For some greater work to do,
Fortune is a tickle goddess,
She will never come to you.
Go and toll in any vineyard
Do not fear to do and dare,
If you want a field of labor,
You can find it anywhere.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-10-23
The CHILDREN'S HOUR.
A BOYS CURIOSITY.

Boys and girls and little people are
often responsible for great results,
and maybe you do not know that the
discovery of that important instru-
ment, the telescope, may be traced to
the curiosity of little boy, and this
is how it came about:
The little boy was the son of an
optician who lived in Holland. He
and his sisters loved to play about
their fathers work bench, and often
they amused themselves by looking at
the sea through the little smooth con-
cave glasses which their father used
in his work. Now one day it hap
pened that the boy, while playing
with two of those glasses, CHANGED to
hold them before his eyes in such a
way that the face of the Cathedral
clock seemed very near. This sur
prised him, for the clock was so far
away that he could scarcely see the
hands with his naked eye. He stared
at the clock, and then at the glasses,
each of which he tried in turn; but
the clock was as far away as ever,
and so it remained, turn them as he
would, until by chance he held both
up together, when 10! as if by magic,
the clock stood beside him. "Oh, l
know, l know!" he cried aloud; sits
the two together" Then in great joy
he ran to his father, and told him of
his remarkable discovery. The father
tried the glasses in turn, and found
that the boy had spoken the truth
when he said he could bring the great
church clock nearer.
So this was the way people learned
that putting a concave and a convex
glass together in just the right posi-
ton would make distant objects seem
near. Without this knowledge we
should have never had the telescope,
and without the telescope we should
have known little of the sun, moon
or stars.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-10-23

All he gets is notation on the score
sheet. The other man scores the run.
Baseball isn't the only game where
the score stands on a sacrifice. When
you see a woman wearing 2-year-
old hat while her daughter goes fairly
we'll clothed to school, remember that
girl is being advanced base by a
sacrifice hit. When father stays home
from vacation trip which he needs
badly in order that some new COM
fort can be added to the home or that
the boy can graduate with his class,
or half a hundred other reasons, he
lays down a bunt which advances the
boy toward chance to score. In one
way and another the sacrifice" is be-
ing worked all through the big game
which is going on about us. Some
times it is son or a daughter, usual
ly father or a mother, or both, who
die at first on a sacrifice.
1t is good play. 1t wins games,
but bunt needs an alert runner
ahead of it. A sacrifice" with a
careless man or bonehead on isn't
worth much. The object is to adj
vance the runner. If he is slow or
lazy or careless it means a double play
and two men out, and the sacrifice
was worse than useless.
Say, you boy, whose parents are
sacrificing for you, get up on your
toes and stay there! Take a lead!
Go down with his arm! Slide, you
tarrier, slide! Why do you suppose
a strong batter is voluntarily throw
ing life away at first, throwing away
his personal chance, except to put you
on second, whence a hit would bring
you home? Suppose you did skin your
leg? Get up on that base and
watch for a chance to take third!
Ginger, blame you, ginger! Get
pep" in your play and watch the
pitcher. Justify the sacrifice"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-10-23
MOTHERS AT FAULT.

'.'The number of young women who
are totally unable to manage home, /"
says a writer in the Baltimore Sun,
''has increased rapidly, especially in
the great cities. Their unitness to
become home-makers and housekeep-
ers must be recognized as a factor of
instability in home life and therefore,
in the life of the nation
Who is to blame for this unfortunate
condition of things? Whether they are
at fault or not, no good result is. OBJ
tanned by berating these unhappily I'M
skilful young women. Surely the re-
sponsibility must be traced to the
mothers who have been foolish enough
to rate their daughters proficiency in
dancing and music more highly than
skill in sewing and cooking. A New
York paper remarks that a trip up
Broadway by night makes one wonder
what mothers are for. Il does. and so
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-10-23

The missionary of the Iroquois was
the Jesuit, Isaac Jogues, and the
Jesuits are Catholics.
The first missionary OF the Hurons
was John de Breboeuf, Jesuit.
The first Governor and Chief Justice
of Maryland was Leonard Calvert, a
Catholic.
The first missionary in Maryland
was Andrew White, Jesuit.
The discoverer of the Upper Missis-
sippi and the apostle of the valley of
that river was the Jesuit, James Mar
quette.
The Ohio River was first discovered
by De la Sale, Catholic.
The first Catholic Governor Of New
York was Thomas Cogan, an Irish
man. His commission bears date of
September 80, 1852.
The founder of San Francisco was
the Catholic missionary, Junipero
Sierra, Franciscan.
The founder of the American navy
was John Barry, Catholic.
uO Va LAlO Cavalry III
the Revolutionary War was Stephen
Moylan, Catholic.
The first newspaper in America
that gave accurate reports of the
legislative debates was established by
Matthew Carey, Catholic.
Thos. Fitzsimmons, Pennsylvania S
signer of the Declaration of Independ.
ence, was Catholic.
Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, whose
signature on the same document be.
speaks sterling courage and unselfish
patriotism, was Catholic.
General James Shields, who OBJ.
tanned the first charter for the city
of Chicago, was a Catholic.
General Sheridan died a Catholic
and his eulogy was delivered by
Cardinal Gibbons. Nom Nor,d
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-10-23
HISTORICAL CATHOLICS.

Catholic school children will be in
terested to know how many familiar
personages in American history pro
fessed the same faith as they do.
Christopher Columbus, a Catholic
is the marvellous link in the chain OF
time which connects the history OF
the Old World with the New.
John de Ia Cosa, Catholic, was a
famous companion of Columbus. He
acted as his pilot.
Americas Vespucci, from whom
America accidentally received her
name, was a Catholic.
The discoverer of the Pacific Ocean
was a Catholic, the renowned VascO
de Balboa.
The discoVerer of Florida, John
Ponce de Leon, was a member of the
same church.
The admiral of the fleet that first
sailed around the world, and the dis.
coverer of the straits which bear his
name, was a Catholic, Ferdinand
Magellan.
The discoverer of the Atlantic
States of this Republic was John de
yerrazani, Catholic. He coasted
along the shore from point not far
from Wilmington, in North Carolina
as far north as Newfoundland.
The disceverer of California and
conquerer of Mexico was a Catholic,
Fernando Cortez.
De Soto, a Catholic, conquered
Florida and discovered the Lower
Mississippi.
The discoverer of Lower Canada
and the River st. Lawrence was
James Cartier, a Catholic.
The discoyerer of the mainland of
North America were the Catholics,
John and Sebastian Cabot
The founder of the oldest city in
the United States ST. Augustine,
F'lorida-was Peter Menandez, Cath
Ole.
The Catholic, Sir George Calvert
Gefd Baltimorel, was the founder of
Maryland.
The discoverer of Lake Huron was
the Catholic monk, Joseph LIE Caron,
o. s. F.
The founder of Quebec and discover
err of Lakes Champlain and Ontario
was the Catholic, Samuel de Cham
plain.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-10-23
ANGRY LETTERS.

This at least should be rule
through the letter-writing world-that
no angry letter be posted till four-and-
twenty hours shall have elapsed since
it was written. We all know how alb
surd is that other rule of saying the
alphabet when you are angry. Trash.
Sit down and write your letter; write
it with all the venom in your power;
spit on your spleen at the fullest;
twill do you good. You think you
have been injured; say all that you
can say with all your poisoned elo-
quence, and crafty yourself by read
ing it while your temper is still hot.
Then put it in your desk, and, as a
matter of course, burn it before break
fast the following morning. Believe
me, that you will then have double
qualification. -A1tonu Trouope.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-10-23
KEEPING PROMISES.

We all admire the man who can
keep an appointment on time, the
man who, when he says he will be in
a certain place at certain time, will
be there, rain or shine; the man who,
when he says he will do something
for a friend, can be thoroughly relied
on to do it. The thing we admire
about him is his ability to keep a
promise Unfortunately, how many
people, treat their promises in an
easy going sort of way, keeping them
when it is easy to do so and neglect
ing them when they please. There
is double loss in this way of deal
ing-the loss of the actual keeping of
the promise itself for the one who
expected it, and-what is good deal
more serious-the loss of that sense
of reliance in the one of whom the
fulfillment was expected. The ideal
for all to copy is the man whose
words and deeds coincide, the man
whose word is as good as his bond.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-10-23
SACRIFICE HITS IN LIFE.

A sacrifice hit is good baseball.
Given man on first base, say the
batter lays down slow, teasing hunt.
1t takes the third baseman all his time
to get it and throw it to first in time
to nip the batter. But when the play
is over the runner on first is safe on
second, where a good, clean hit will
score his run. The sacrifice hit is one
Of the biggest, headiest things in base
ball. But il retires the batter at first.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-10-23

Life is but short and possession un-
sure,
Religion may teach us that we should
endure;
But oh! there are moments when
feeling will speak,
When nature is mighty and reason is
weak,
When selfishly sinking our bosoms
will mourn
Ger joys that are gone and can never
return,
And whisper in ignorance, fearful and
drear,
Where now are the joys that have
left us?-oh, where?
-GerGzd Griffin.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-10-23

does trip to the Juvenile Court, and
even our small towns have
a Broadway and Juvenile Court. 1t
is time, in the words of a Chicago
Juvenile Court Judge, that the parents
get back on the job"
The Spectator., 1915-05-18
HER BABY" IS NOW PAST 70
Mrs. Breaux. aged no, Believed to Be Oldest Mother in the
 South.

Thibodaux, La-Lafourche Parish is boasting of the oldest mother in the South. She is Mrs. Paul Breaux, one hundred and ten years old. She has children. grandchildren. great-grand- children and great-great grandchil- dren. Her descendants in the direct line are so far estimated at from five to six generations and exceed 1000. scattered over the entire state.
 Her youngest child is in his seven ties, and one of her children still liv- ing is more than ninety.
 The oldest mother still gets about her premises unassisted, and while her eyesight had been bad. it is now sufficiently good to permit the thread ing of needle. She finds pleasure in getting out in her yard and feeding the chickens and poultry. She was married when thirteen.
The Spectator., 1915-05-18
The Herojnes of NovelA

If l were his satanic majesty, and a novelist came to me for judgment, I should beetle my brows in horrible manner and quiz him thus:
 Did you ever make your heroine eighteen years old? Did you ever en- dow a maiden with the repartee of Pinero, the intuition of Blavatsky, the carriage of Garden, the hauteur of the Medici, the beauty of Aphrodite and the wisdom of Athene-all at the age of eighteen years?'
 If the novelist answered me Ger tainly not!" should say: ITO heaven with you!" But if he answered.; .Sure I did," I would blast him where ka stood
 For. of all the iniquitous, fallacioHs, unfair and dangerous doctrines. this takes the icing of the cake-that tho female species reaches her apogee at the immature age of eighteen.-Fron Balm for Lovers" by George Weston in the Saturday Evening Post
The Spectator., 1915-05-18
A QujbbIe.

John B. Stanchfield, the lawyer, was discussing in an interview in New York the case of his client. Harry Thaw.
 But objections like that said Ar. Stanchfeld, "are mere bubbles. They have no real bearing on the case. Like the farmers wife, they only confuse and embroil matters
 "A sickly farmer said to his husky wife one spring morning:
 CT see by the papers that a woman down Paint Rock way goes out every morning and hoes with her husband.
 Well, what of it?' the wife an swered. She could do it easily enough if he's as thin as you are. I've often thought of using you to peel potatoes with "
The Spectator., 1915-05-18
RIGHT MAN FOR THE POSITION
CoIored Citizen Knew His QuaIifica. tons and the Job Was His as
 Matter of Course.

Oliver O. Agler, lately deceased, had occasion to go to hardwood lumber yard at Cairo, where he and Fred w. Upham were in business. The floods had caused some annoyance by depos- iting mud from the Ohio and Missis- sippi rivers on the blanks in storage.
 Mir Agler was not long in compil- ing a crew of negroes to wash the soiled stock Various ones were as signed to hold the blanks and there was a job for one man to hold the hose.
 Who is going to take charge of the hose?" asked the proprietor.
 A long black man uncoiled himself "Ah reckon Ans de washinest niggah aroun' here,' he said-and he quail fled
The Spectator., 1915-05-18

plentifully supplied with food More oyer the number of prisoners is being augmented daily, whereas there is small opportunity for replenishing the food supply before the harvest sea son
 The greatest danger in prison camps is the spread of contagious diseases. For this reason the Austrian govern ment has provided large force of physicians for each camp, and every prisoner has been vaccinated against cholera and typhoid fever.
 One of the newest prison camps is that near Linz. in upper Austria, IF miles west of Vienna. Work on this camp was begun late in February, after victories in the Carpathians filled the hands of the Austrians with Russian prisoners.
 It is composed of 400 wooden houses in regular rows, with the streets lighted by electric arc lamps. It was found much cheaper to provide electric light than petroleum lamps, with which the camps were equipped at first. These houses were built by Austrian carpenters, more than 1000 being employed to complete them in haste.
The Spectator., 1915-05-18
Brothers in Misfortune.

The first baseman had just been carried off the diamond with a sprained wrist and dislocated shoul- der.
 On the way to the hospital the am bulance stopped to pick up janitor who had fallen downstairs.
 ''We meet quite by accident" said the ball player. "I am a first base man."
 And I.' said the ianitor. am first basement man."
The Spectator., 1915-05-18
8Year-OId Cow a Wonder.

Marysville, Kan.-James Billingsby, farmer residing near Axtell. has a Red Polled COW that has made a rec ord in raising calves. The animal, though only eight years old. has given birth to eight calves. four of which were born within a period of thirteen months. A year ago she gave birth to twin Hereford bull calves and recently she gave birth to another set of twins, Holstein heifer calves.
The Spectator., 1915-05-18
SKELETONS OF GIANTS FOUND
Petrified Bones of Man and Woman Discovered by Pennsylvania
 Quarryman.

Pittsburgh, Pa.-Two petrified skeletons-one of man of giant stat. ure and the other of woman some what smaller--were found in cavern siasted out of solid blue rock in Hull ton hillside by quarrymen. A crevice led into cavern about six feet high and fifteen feet square. Geologists say they evidently belong to prehis- toric age.
The Spectator., 1915-05-18
Whenever You Need a General Tonic
 Take Groves

The Old Standard Groves Tasteless chill Tonic is equally valuable as a Gen. known tonic properties of QUININE and IRON. It acts on the Liver. Drives out Malaria. Enriches the Blood and Builds up the Whole System. SO cents. - Adv.
The Spectator., 1915-05-18

DON'T VISIT THE CALIFORNIA Ex- POSITIONS Without supply of Aliens Foot Ease. the antiseptic powder to be shaken into tho Shoes, or dissolved in the foot-bath, The Standard Remedy for the feet for 25 years. IL gives instant relief to tired. aching feet and prevents swollen
 hot feet One lady writes CT enjoyed every mnmto of my stay at the Expostons thanks to Aliens Foot-Ease in my shoes. Get ii TODAY. Adv.
The Spectator., 1915-05-18
A Difference.

'<1ello. old man. I haven't seen you since we went to school together. I hope Fortune has smiled on you"
 You might call 1t that. She's given me the horse laugh many a time"
The Spectator., 1915-05-18
Couldn't Tell.

Why did you help the defendant in the fight, if that's the case?" asked the examining counsel
 MT. Cassidy looked at the lawyer with contempt, and answered in a tone of blighting scorn: For the ra'son that at that toime Oi had no means of knowing which O thim would be the defendant"
The Spectator., 1915-05-18
He Should Worry

How do you account for Nero fid- ding during the burning of Rome?" asked the professor
 T suppose he had the place heavily insured" suggested the senior who was specializing in finance
The Spectator., 1915-05-18
Satisfaction in Work.

All thinking men and women get the main satisfactions of life. aside from the domestic joys. out of the productive work they do.--Charles w. Eliot
The Spectator., 1915-05-18
Different.

Dudley makes me tired. He's al ways Dragging about his ancestors"
 "Oh, we'll, there's one consolation His descendants will never brag about him."
The Spectator., 1915-05-18
Stupid.

Jack Slowboy - May-I--er-kis you?
 The Girl-What do you want, writ ten permission
The Spectator., 1915-05-18
Odd.

What caused the coolnes between you and Jones?"
 "A heated argument"
The Spectator., 1915-05-18
VieWpoiut,

Viewpoint. You shouldn't be dissatisfied. Look at all you have" Yes, but look at all I haven't
The Spectator., 1915-05-18
THE OAKS MESSAGE
By DONALD ALLEN.

Copyright, 1915. by the Mcclure Newspa-
 per Syndicate)
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-05-05
Home Rule for the Cities.

An amendment has been introduced in the Con-
stutional Convention OF New lork which If
adopted will prohibit the legislature from passing
special laws affecting particular municipalities.
This is the beginning OF the fight Tor home rule
by the cities OF New York and especially the city
OF New York, whose residents complain that they
will have to pay So per cent OF the direct tax OF
$4,000 900 authorized by the legislature Mayor
Mitchell who is on his way to Wyoming, says
that he is going into training for the home rule
fight. and that New York City intends to control
its affairs il it has to fight for the privilege
The METROPOLITAN district Of Greater New York
has nearly two-thrds of the population OF the
State but it is not permitted under the present
constitution equal representation with the
other parts OF the State and is subject contin-
ua interference by the legislature in making laws
and regulations for the city at the dctation OF
the rural communities. 1t is an old complaint
which is shared by many other large cities in the
United States. When most of the State consti-
tutions were adopted the rural population the
dominant part OF the State, and there were also
many people in the cities who believed the legis-
lature would be frcer from corrupt and selfish
political manipulation than the city councils
That view has largely changed, especially with
the development OF industrial communities and
to the rural statesmen to bleed the rich munich
palities. In the ordinary taxation the larger part
of the revenues come from the cities, and it is
easy for the rural communities to persuade them
selves that the people in the cities are toll takers
from the farmers and, therefore. should be com
PEELED to pay the cost of not only their own gov
ernment but also that of the State.
The growth of the urban population in the
last twenty years has been greater than that o
the rural population, and in all the large indus
trial States it is the dominant population. II
New York it is four to compared will
the rural population, and if the people in thu
cities demand home rule and fair representation
in the legislature they can have it. The onl,
question will be their indifference and division
when it comes to voting the report of tn,
Constitutional Convention. This is not onl,
the condition in New York. but in Massachu
sets, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Illinois. In al