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The Catholic bulletin., 1915-10-30
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he got tired of it before he reached
the end, for he never finished it,"
The clock in the hall struck five and
Father Dolan rose instantly, saying
that he must hurry home. Mrs. Lee
went with him as far as the door, and
resting her hand on the knob looked
up at him with tears in her dim old
eyes. You'll say prayer, won't you,
rather, thatllahe go first? He would
be so. lonely without me-
God will take care, of you both! 9
he answered so fervently that her
heart was comforted. ah
It was hardly eight o'clock the next
morning when he reached the house.
Mrs. Lee awaited him in the parlor,
where all was in readiness for the
coming of the Lord. Mr.. Lee, she eX-
planned apologetically, had oversight
and was stilltin bed, but another table
had been prepared in his room.
Father Dolan gave her Holy Com
munion and went directly to Mr.. Lees
room, wondering little that he had
not arisen.
Mr.. Lees door stood aiar and a
faint voice bade the priest enter. The
old man lay gasping on his pillows,
his face distorted with pain. I'm
afraid it has come-the end, / mean
but don't call her. / can at least spare
her the sight of -this-and it's aw-
full"
Father Dolan gave his absolution; !;
he became a little easier and was able
to receive Holy Communion, and then,
seeing that the end was at hand, the
priest began to recite the prayers for
the dying. For five minutes the agony
lasted; it passed, and Mr.. Lee, look
ing up with a, little sigh, said family,
Il had hoped she. would go first and
be spared all this. She'll be lonely
Gods will be done!"
The pain came again, sharper than
ever before, but only for a minute;
all was over, then, and eternity be.
gan.
Sick at heart, Father Dolan crept
down the stairs Mrs. Lee must be
told; how, he could not imagine.
Praying with all his strength, he slip
ped into the parlor She was still
kneeling where he had left her, but
was bowed lower, he thought, over the
chair against which she leaned. He
touched her on the shoulder. She did
The Catholic bulletin., 1915-10-30
TEASING.

Do you foster the habit of teasing
in your family? If you do, begin to-
day to stamp it out. 1t is fruitful
source of unhappiness in the home.
Good-natured jesting, given and taken
in all kindness, is very well in its
place, but there are times when even
the humorist must realizeIthat word
of encouragement and sympathetic in
terest is much more needed. The
practice of picking" at a member of
the family known to be irritable not
infreQuently results in lifelong dislike
between brother and sister; yes, even
between parent and child. The back
ward boy or girl is too often the butt
of the quick-witted. Even little chill
dren "guy" one another, and, having
less control of their feelings than old
er folks, they often pass from funny
moods to fits of rage.
The fault of the home and school is
the fault constantly in evidence in Of
fee and shop and factory. Teasing,
translated into slang, means ''jollying,"
and now and again a dreadful trag-
edy is traced to ill-natured jests and
gibes that the victim had not the
mental or physical endurance to
stand. A word of sensible advice,
of kindly sympathy and encourage
ment might have helped him to con-
quer the dangerous mood. 1t may
be said that no well-balanced person
will be affected by jest or joke, no
matter how brutal or ill-timed it may
be, and yet how many Intellectually
brilliant men and women have shown
their susceptibility to the shafts of
ridicule? The act of the cartOOnist
who made ''hit' by portraying the
defect in General Buffers eyes
caused keen suffering to the famous
jurist. Such hits betray the saw
age in the individual, and savagery
is too often evident in the words and
acts of the irrepressible tease or
joker. He makes life unbearable for
the thin-skinned, and the nervous,
and has it in his power to annoy
even the normal Apparently he en-.
joys the moment when his victim
has the least power of resistance.
No one knows just how heavy is
the burden that another may be
bearing -ill-health, silently endured
mental depression, home troubles, un
congenial employment, heart-breaking
discouragements and disappointment
the list is endless. Do not add to il
the heartless jest or the teasing act
that may draw unwelcome attention
Even very good people err this way
occasionally through lack of tact ant
perception, it may be. Perhaps yor
remember the prayer of the child who
asked God to make all the bad people
good, and then added in her artless
way, "and make all the good people
all the good people nice.''
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KEEPING AT IT.

There is a very old but very good
story about boy who was engaged
one winter day in putting ton of
coal into cellar. His only imple-
ment was small fire shovel. Motto
ing this, benevolent old gentleman
expressed his surprise and commits
seration. f'My son" said the old gen.
tleman, "you surely do not expect to
put in all that coal with that little
shovel?" IS.
ooh, yes ! do replied the boy
cheerfully, "all l have to do is to
keep at it"
There is a lesson in this story for
young and old, and it is exemplified
in the lives of the great men of the
world. 1t is a mistake to suppose
that the best work of all the world
is done by people of great strength
and many opportunities. Keeping at
it" is the secret of success.
Never be in too great haste. Too
many boys spoil a lifetime by not
having patience. They work at trade
until they. see about one-half of its
mysteries, and then strike for higher
wages. Such men are botches and
slouches.
When learning trade, my boy
don't move. like a, rusty wrench. Act
as if your interest and the interest
of your employer were the same
Employers will not willingly lose
good employees. Be honest and faith
full. There is the secret of success
my boy, and that is the thing lack
ing with too many.
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aluminium awaiting the coming of the
man with initiative to convert it into
wealth.
Arthur D. Little, great chemist OF
Boston, asserts that two-thirds OF
every tree that is cut for the sawmill
goes to waste. Twenty gallons of So
per cent ethyl alcohol may be pro-
duced from cord of yellow pine saw
dust, such as is dumped out to rot at
every sawmill in the South. Prof.
Little predicts that the time is near
when the production of lumber will
be a mere incident in the business OF
numbering; the greater profit will be
made from utilization of the waste for
the manufacture of by-products.
The young man of today is heir to
all of these opportunities and to thous.
ands of others that will bring for.
tune as the reward of initiative.
The Catholic bulletin., 1915-10-30
OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUNG
MEN.

If a young man is bemoaning the
lack of opportunity for success, the
first thing he should do is to see
fault. The opportunity may be at
hand, but he may be failing to take
advantage of it, says the Kansas City
Star.
In little town in Missouri a man
stood looking at huge mount of corn
cobs thrown out to rot. The idea
came to him that good tobacco pipe
might be made of corncob. He did
not stop with just thinking out the
idea, but he carried it out; he made
one pipe, it was good, and then he put
up a small factory and went into the
business. The one idea made him a
fortune, and Missouri manufactured
2S,0O0,0O0 corncob pipes last year.
Until few years ago cotton seed
was thought to have no value. Great
piles of it were thrown out to waste
beside every cotton gin throughout the
South. A man with that peculiar in
sight and foresight we call initiative
saw there was oil in the seed and he
rugged up a press to squeeze it out.
That idea has added value of from
$12 to $14 to every bale of cotton and
has added to the wealth of the South
$200,0O0,000 a year.
In Louisiana great beds of sulphur
were thought to be valueless because
they lay beneath 500 feet of quick
sands, and could not be mined. Many
men went there to study the problem
and gave it up. Then came Frasch,
the man with initiative, and he solved
it by driving an iron pipe down to
the sulphur. Down this he forced
superheated water which melted the
sulphur and it was then pumped up
through an inner tube. This simple
idea made him wealthy and gave to
Louisiana one-half the sulphur mar
kets of the world.
Another man with initiative saw an
opportunity to save the by-products of
burning coal that went to waste in the
smoke of coke ovens. AS one result
of his idea the British government re-
Gently made $6,00O,000 contract with
a big American steel mill for just one
by-product of the coke oven smoke.
In Canton, S. c., is factory that
makes an extract from chips of the
chestnut tree. The used chips were
burned. A man with initiative got the
idea of boiling those chips in caustic
soda and making paper of them. Now
the paper mill of that company makes
more profit than the extract factory.
In every part of this country oppor-
tuRities await the man with initiative
to convert wasted materials into prof
liable industries.
1t is estimated that not more than
one-half the zinc that is mined reaches
the smelter. 1t is wasted in crude
ways of handling. There is a chance
for some man with initiative to make
a few million dollars.
For every ton of coal mined one-half
ton is wasted. In Oklahoma alone
$4,000, 100000 cubic feet of natural gas
is wasted each year, and yet in each
cubic foot of it are valuable materials
which some man with initiative will
some day take out and save.
In every state of this Union are
great banks Of clay that are full Of
The Catholic bulletin., 1915-10-30
A PERSONAL INVENTORY.

A wise merchant does not carry over
old stock, a good soldier is not bur-
dened with unnecessary impedimenta,
the aim of all mechanical improve
ment is to reduce weight and bulk, to
dispense with useless gear. Men are
always letting go the unnecessary
things IN everything except the con-
duct of their own lives. There they
weigh themselves down with old bur-
dens, making the simple business Of
existence so complicated that they
lose themselves in it's maZes. They
multiply their needs, magnify their am.
bitions, eXaggerate out of all proper
ton the Importance of possessions
they could lose without ever missing.
# existence were in itself as intri-
cate as we make it, if we were forced
to the labor of accumulation we vol
UNFAIRLY assume, we would denounce
life as a tyranny, says the Cleveland
Universe.
Few things are indispensable, and ii
is only when life is stripped of the
non-essentials that we are able to view
it clearly, to understand it's relations
and duties. 1t is always strange that
our last and least concern is the one
thing in life that is longer than life
1t is hardly less strange that a race
seeking happiness should seem tc
overlook the age-long truth that those
who attain the best of it, even here
are those who have relinquished the
conventional methods of pursuing it
That man has most who gives uI
most. If we took stock of life as
shrewdly as we take stock of mer
chandise, there would be some sweep
ing reductions in the values of things
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not stir, and in an instant he realized
with deep thankfulness that she, too,
was dead.
"For fifty years-and now forever!"
he whispered. THY ways are sweet,
20 Lordt'
Florence Gilmore. in The MaOnifcat.
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THE FIRST TO GO.

munion frequently during the autumn
and winter.
Mr.. Lee called him back after he
had left the room. "And, Father,
won't you say little prayer that she
will go first? She'll be terribly lone
ly if leave her. It's fifty-five years,
Father"
With tears in his eyes Father Dolan
promised.
AS he descended the stairs he won
dered if he would find her where they
had left her, and at the foot almost
ran into her in the ,semi-darkness. She
had been waiting, in the hall for him,
determined that he should not escape
her.
Father" she whispered, will you
come with me into the parlor? /
shall not detain you long" She gave
him the. biggest chair and, slipping
into little one near it., faced him, her
hands tight-clasped, her eyes bright
and eager.
Il can't tell yoii' how glad am that
you came today. b For weeks l have
wanted to see you and didn't know
how to manage without arousing Mr.
Lees suspicious. d III am going to
die, Father. The doctor says the end
tmay come, at any time. You can't
imagine how weak / am. can hardly
get about the house. But. Tom must
not suspect anything. Nothing mat
tiers compared to that. You see
Father, he is4old, too, and hope will
fgo first and never need to know about
me-" ~rfs
Then her face became troubled
''But he does seem wonderfully strong
You should see how much he eats!
More and more all the time, it seems
to me-" 80
HE depends on you, and needs you
does hep Father Dolan asked, very,
very gently.
"Oh, so much, Father! He imag.
ines that he is independent and self.
reliant, and j huInor him in the no
tion; l always have; but he is like a
child in a hundred ways. You know
how helpless men are! And, Father
we've walked hand in hand, uphill
and down, for more than fifty years
couldn't bear to have him worried
about me now. Besides, he may go
first" And she went on to ask him
to hear her confession, and, when he
had done so, he promised often to
bring her Holy Communion.
"You and Mr.. Lee are both too old
to go to Mass in the bad weather. j
told him few minutes ago that he
must not attempt it all winter. I'll
bring you both Holy Communion to-
morrow. It won't make Mr.. Lee sus-
pect that you are ill-for he will be do
ing the same himself"
Mrs. Lee was silent a little. before
she said, with a faint smile: Some.
times rye had hard time to keep
my secret. The day before yesterday
was bright and sunshiny, and for
years, whenever the weather was fit
we have taken walk in the afternoon.
felt miserable and wondered how ]
could possibly go, if he proposed it.
Several times / lay down for little
while, trying to make myself feel
stronger, and it did no good; but,
Father, the good God was on my side!
Mr.. Lee began to read a book that has
lain here for months without being
opened He read hour after hour,
never stopping except once or twice
to say he found it SO interesting that
he could not bear to put it down. But
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valley, framed in brown wood, which
matched it perfectly. 1t is Phoebe's
most cherished souvenir of that de-
lightful summer not SO much for it,
self. as because it helped to make
clear a truth very important from
Phoebe's standpoint, that the suspi-
cious are quite as likely to be mis-
taken as the trustful.
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alone question of forgiveness; that
may be full and complete. 1t is the
hurt in the heart that will not read
lily heal and the confidence that will
not fully come back!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-26

and IS resting easily. At an early honr this morning the hospital authorities held out little hope for Quattebaums recov- cry he being shot in the abdomen.
 Both of the wounded men are special agents for the Louisville and Nashville railroad. and had been Investigating the theft of large quantity of brass in the vicinity of Riley station According to statements made by officers Jones and Propst, who were detailed to make an in- vestiga ton of the shooting, 1t seems that the two special agents had been search ing for the robbers of the cars on the Louisville and Nashville tracks, and hav- ing failed to locate the parties they want ed, started to come back to town
 They had reached Riley station, on tho South Bessemer car line, when they saw q negro approaching with sack under his arm Thinking that the man might have some of the stolen goods they halt ed the negro and commenced to question him. Without warning the negro backed off and began firing at the officers Both Quattlebaum and Fano returned the fire, tui it Is not thought that any of their shots were effective. As Fano started to pursue the desperado, he turned and saw his partner lying on the ground with bullet through his abdomen He turned back and started for Powdery station, as- slsting Quattlebaum as much as possible. Upon their arrival there Johns ambulance
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-26
RUSH ORDER FROM SUBMARINE ZONE It Was Censored and Came From Orkney Islands.
 Quick Shipment
 Followed

From the edge of the submarine zone maintained by Germany around the English Isles, an order has been received at Houston. Tex, for a rush shipment of vitalitas It came from Kirkwall, Orkney Islands, just north of the English coast, and the order in dicated that it had been censored by the Kings harbor master at Kirkwali
 Previous to last August when the war hurricane burst forth. shipments of Vitalitas were being made to va rious parts of the old world
 Few products of na ature have ever become as quickly famous as Vitalitas, Tor the reason that it is accomplish ing wonders in the relief and cure of many forms of chronic ills. The fact that it is a natural product. wholesome, 1ree of any harmful ingredient and not contaminated by alcohol narcotics or dopes of any character has served to bring it into general use among the people of the southern states.
 As tonic and general corrective vi- talitas Is without an equal for indiges- tion, rheumatism, biliousness, catarrh, nervous debility, and in fact. ills gen orally of stomach, liver. kidneys. bow els and blood and it is quickly effective. A teaspoonful in half glass of either hot or cold water is dose, four times daily. Sample Vitalitas at Averyt's 8 drug store. 109-111 Twentieth street or write there for information. Also for sale by Pegram-Patton Drug company, Bessemer, Ala.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-26
ROMANTIC STORY OF THE INVENTION OF
 FIRST TYPEWRITER BY ALBANIAN

gan work on it about the year ls57. ana by 1859 he had completed a model that convinced him that his device was both feasible and practical. On account of the then troubled conditions of the country and lack of funds, he was for several years unable to progress farther with his invention, and for reasons above stafed finally forced to take his invention t,, England to have 1t patented. In England he had further trouble and delay, in get ting hearing before the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences, but finally. after inc exhibit of his model, it met with the at. proval and indorsement of this society and he was at once made member of the so- ciety and remained a member of the same until his death in 1905.
 With the approval of the Royal society. he had no more trouble in obtaining his patent in England, but being without funds sufficient to manufacture machines and being unable to procure the same in England. he in 1868 returned to America with his patent
 The south was then devastated. and he with most other southerners, impoverished by the war. He saw that others had seized his ideas and preparing to manu- facture machines. He realized that with out money and a government then un- friendly to southerners he could not sue cessfully fight an Infringement of his patent rlRntS ana mat II ne was to receive any compensation for his labors and lfe's work, that he would be forced to sel his patent to someone that was able and could make use of it. Hence he sold his patent to James B. Hammond of New York for a small cash consideration. with a royalty on all machines. which he received from the Hammond company until his death
 Therefore, it is apparent that the first practical. present day typewriter (now with many new Improvements was not an English invention, but an invention by an Alabamian, conceived and perfected in Alabama. It is also apparent that the Shoales invention in 1888 was modelled after the Pratt 'Pterotype" perfected in Alabama in 1859 and patented in England in 1866, and the author of your clipping would have had no trouble in placing the credit of the origin of the typewriter had he not been biased toward a citizen of his own state. or had more thoroughly investigated the facts. Respectfully (Mrs) MARIE PRATT SMYER. (Mrs) R. B. SMYER.
 Birmingham, May "A. 1915.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-26
BAY ANNETTE

Bay Minette, May 25.-- -(special)-Fu- neral services over the remains of Mrs. John B. Lawrence of Dyas. who died Sat urday were conducted at Dyas Sunday under the local order of the Ella D. Chambers chapter of Eastern Star A large number of citizens from here att tended the services. Mrs. Lawrence was the wife of the president of the Home Gardens Land company and came frorn Chicago some years ago.
 The contractors in charge of the install lation of the local city waterworks, sew craze and electric light plant have ar- ally turn over to the town the plants. They report that the entire contract will have been compiled with by that time and that the tests will be in order sn that day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-26

and was soon engaged as tutor to the two daughters, Ina Marie and JuIia Soon Il romance developed between the young teacher and his pupil, Miss Julia. A mae- riage followed. but the lessons went on afterward for many years, as the ambi- tious young lawyer and afterward inven- tor, wanted an intelligent as well as a young and charming wife for his iife's companion. After his marriage to his girl wife, whose first long dress was her we'd ding dress, John Pratt removed to the Pratt homestead at Pine Knoll near Centre, Cherokee county. Ina Marie was soon sent over to keep the girl bride com pany and to prevent her from being homeslck, ostensibly, however, to pursue her studies At that time the young hus band was beginning to experiment with a mechanical device for writing letters. The work was done in den at the top of the house and no one but the little wife was allowed to enter the sacred and mysteri- ous precinct One day the pair of sisters went together to the awful place of the great secret and as the adorng wife lifted the cover from the table where the inver- ton was in progress. the sister-in-law of the inventor stood silently by her hands behind her, looking and listening with in credulous wonder as she heard in stolen whispers the story of how the typewriter was nearly finished and was to be the greatest thing ever invented in the wide, wide world.
 This model that these young women watched grow from an idea, with suc- cessful experiment, is now in the British museum, in London, under a glass case and inscribed with these words The first model of a typewriter patented in the world, by the inventor, John Pratt. of Alabama
 .'The story of how he secured his pat ent is deeply interesting, as gleaned from the pages of Mrs. Ockenden's Memoir How he finished the machine and coull not patent it in Washington, D. C., be- cause of his southern sentiments: how he ran the blockade and exhibited it before the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in London, in 1863; how he obtained patents in Europe before it was patented in the United States, is a thrilling part of the life and love story of one of America s notable, though unhonored inventors
 The John Pratt referred to above by Mrs. Ockenden and Mrs. owen. was my uncle, my fathers only brother He con- ceived the idea of the typewriter and be-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-26
Penn Resigns Craftsmanship

Lyerly, Ga, May 25- Especially having served chattooga county for many years as chairman of the county board ot roads and revenue. w. II. Penn, one of the influential citizens of Summervills and Chattooga county, has rendered his resignation to Gov. J. NJ. Saton. J H. llill, prominent business man of Lyerly and member of the board of roads and revenue has been appointed chairman pro tenn to i'll the unexpired term of MT. Penn, whose resignation was caused. 1t is said, by his advanced age.