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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-08-21
DIOCESE OF SIOUX FALLS

Yankton Indian Agency: At the
recent celebration in honor of Father
De Smet at Greenwood on the Reser-
walton, the Right Reverend Bishop
O'Gorman of Sioux Falls officiated at
the dedication of st. PauTs Church,
and the unwilling of tablet in honor
of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the
coming of Father De Smet as a mis-
sionary among the indians. The Mass
was celebrated by the Rev. Philip
Gordon, an Indian priest connected
with the Catholic Indian Bureau, and
the Bishop confirmed class of two
hundred Indians. Among the speak
ers on the occasion were the Right
Reverend Bishop O'Gorman; Right
Reverend Abbot Bernard Murphy, O..
S. B., of Sacred Heart Abbey, Okla
homa, who has devoted his life to
Indian mission work; Rev. w. H.
Ketcham, director of the Catholic In
dian Bureau at Washington, and Mr..
Henry Heide of New York, who
donated the chapel at Greenwood in
honor of Father De Smet. Dozens of
priests and hundreds of white people
attended the celebration.
FIandreau: Father Kelley has been
appointed pastor of the Church of S..
Simon and Jude in succession to the
late Father Bonneterre, who died last
June. Father Kelley has been in
charge of the parish since last March.
He has taken up the project of build
ing new church for which consid-
cradle sum has already been con-
tributed by the parishioners.
Woonsocket: The new Church of
st. Wilfred, which is under the direc-
ton of the Eudist Fathers, is nearing
completion, and will be ready for
occupancy before the end of the year.
The parochial school which is in
charge of the Prestentatoin Nune will
open the fall term with an increased
attendance.
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League of Catholic Women: Mrs.
s. H. Chute will give a reception and
musical at her home, 1924 University
avenue Southeast, Minneapolis, on
Wednesday afternoon, August %,
from three o'clock to five. A select
program of readings and music has
been prepared. The proceeds of the
reception will be devoted to the build
ing of the Italian settlement house
which the League of Catholic Women
is erecting in Northeast Minneapolis.
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I

our warriors had to push them over
says the sprightly able. There were
also the Saxons. who become intelIi-
gent when forty years old; the
suabians. with such loud voices
that nobody else could be heard, whence
our Alsatians came to call all Germans
by the Gaulish name of 'Schwob.'" and
the Borussians (Prussians), whose
leader wore a bull's-head, with the
horns, for a helmet"
So he jollied them in the reichstag.
We continued along the picture gal
lery.
Here is julius Caesar beating back
the hordes on the plain of Belfort. Here,
the arts and civilization of Alsace I'M
der the Roman peace. Then new bar
barian invasions. stronger and stronger
always seeking wine, omelets and
white bread'-pictures of burning and
pillage, ruins and despair.
The hordes passed." says the able.
They did not settle among us. Berlin
professors pretend that we were Ger
manized' by few thousand poor devils
who Joined the Roman legion and swore
to protect us against their brothers
over the Rhine. They were proud to be
dressed, fed and paid. They were soon
'assimilated' Their children spoke
Gaulish. and called all other Germans
'Schwobe' who arrived week later
than their own parents"
Alsace picked up the German Ian
guage under the Franks-a very differ
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Dornach Calling the Burghers of Null
house to Arms"
The free cities and local mobiles kept
Independent.
"Tyrant Won Hagenbach Beheaded at
Vieua- Brisach," THE Peasant Revolu-
tion," THE Reitres of Germany Burning
the Towns of the Sundgau.''
The able slaps his chest.
"Alsatians," he exclaims, "disun'on
made these ruins! Be united, or beware
the kaiserlich."
How did Alsace become French again?
The wars of the reformation ended in
a great peace. All Europe had been
fighting; and France helped the Germans
Of the north.
ION that very same Lugenfeld. between
Thanh and Cernay. the French army Of
Richelieu, commanded by Bernard Of
Sake eimar, crushed the Austrians, and
saved north Germany-more's the PITY"
murmurs the able.
to France in the great peace.
"A scrap of paper" smiles the able.
"Thirty-five years later the Germans
irrupted into Alsace, in first attempt
to win back their lost brothers. as they
put it. The great French captain.
Turenne. smashed them at Turkheim; and
all Alsace venerates his name.'
Thirty-five years French. and already
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Mo1AI[2DoN
@pTnssT GGDpt

saved and bought oil stock; SO did a
number of the operators and other en-
ployes of the office, but Edison did not
THE manager of the Office heard in a
day or two that we were specializing in
oil stock, and he went down to the
manager of the Glasgow Oil Company s
Office and said:
81 want to know the name of every
employee of the Western Union Office
who has been buying stock here since
the price went up from 81 to $10.'
"'What do you want to know that
for? inquired the oil. man.
"T want to discharge every one of
them for holding up that message and
taking advantage of office information.
They should not have taken advantage
Of you in that way. and / will not stand
for It,
"'Oh. don't worry about that said
the oil man. The poor fellows will
have hard time paying their friends
back the money they borrowed to buy
stock. even If they hold their jobs. Most
of them told me they borrowed the
money to buy. 1t is again selling at 81:
we were mistaken about striking oil
just then. but we expect to strike 1t
rich some day. That dispatch which the
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would go into another part of the Of
flee and send over the wire a message
that the chief train dispatcher of the
Louisville and Nashville railroad want
ed to hire a telegraph operator right
away, and if there was one idle to send
him out. When the tramp operator
would hasten out to the train dis
patcher's office. only to be told that no
operator was wanted. and that no such
message had been sent, the tramp was
disposed to dispute the assertion that
no such message had been sent, for
hadn't he taken the message himself?
When the tramp would return footsore
to the Office Edison would have a good
laugh, but he would always give the
tramp a stake to hold him over for a
day or So Edison delighted in selling
fellows in this and in other ways.
"In those days men sometimes stood
on the street corners and coined money
by operating electric battery machines.
representing that a shock from the ma
chine would cure rheumatism, govt,
neuralgia, etc, and would benefit the
entire nervous system. The one to be
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warriors in gold spectacles. the skins
of beasts, the Death Hussar kolbeck
and "Wotan NIT uns!" on copper breast
pins threaten the cultivated plain and
smiling cities of Alsace.
The German schoolmastes which
they forced on Alsace tried to teach our
children that Germany extended origi-
nally to the Vosges mountains" he
laughs. THE children recited the les
son-and winked at each other"
His laugh is gay.
river. with swamps on either side. Dur
ing 1000 years 1t formed the nat
ural frontier between the farms
and vineyards Of Gaul and the Ger
manic forests. Sometimes, in great
summer heat, when the Rhine was low.
or in unusual winter cold. when it froze.
the hordes would make a raid into
Alsace to burn and pillage. Our first
history describes these Germanic lin
vasions. The A1amans (present Baden
popuIation) led the way. They made
straight for our hen-coops, to gather
all the eggs and make colossal omelets
80 great and in such a hurry that
they broke the eggs with their feet.
From which. Alsatian peasants call the
men of Baden to this day 'gal1esla,
which is Gaulish for 'yellowfeet.'
With those bad Baden-Badens came
the Boiens (modern Bavarians), "whose
feet were so big that they continued
standing upright when killed, so that
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boys got was intended for circulation.
1t helped us nightly. For the Lords
sake, don't discharge any of them
"If they ever struck oil at Glasgow"
sighed Mr.. Underwood. 'it was not the
company that I took stock in. That oil
investment cured me of specializing.
when Edison heard of the way his
fellow-o operators were sold he just
laughed" says Mr. Underwood. I'VE
had lots of chances to make money on
the side in those days. as it was the
time of fluctuations in the price of gold
We could also have made a lot of money
in holding up messages about horse
racing, and, sometimes. l am frank
enough to say, we took advantage of it,
1t was. customary in telegraph offices
to do so at that time"
Reverting to Edison's peculiarities
and habits while a resident of Louis
Vile, Mr.. Underwood says:
edison. although nearly all the time
absorbed in thought while at work or
at leisure, was never too busy to joke
or to play pranks upon his fellow
operators or upon others. He had a
sense of dry humor which / can hardly
explain. For instance, he would tell a
tramp operator to sit down at his in
strument for few minutes. and he
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% be 'dary,' and they gave his theories

to be 'daffy,' and they gave his theories
very little attention.
THE manager of the Office caught
him one time experimenting, Just be-
in the morning. with all of the instru-
ments out on the floor. Although Edi-
son placed the instruments back in their
proper places within a wonderfully
short time. the manager informed him
that he did not want the instruments
disturbed thereafter. and instructed him
not to remove them on penalty of being
discharged. This was when Edison
struck me for that 500. He wanted to
buy instruments and apparatus OF his
own in order to carry on his expert
ments. He had a little money of his
own, but he did not have enough. Tele-
graph apparatus in those days cost
great deal more than at present.
4 Il
THE telegraph business. too. was con-
Quoted on different lines from what it
is at the present time. At that time
there were two companies running lines
into Louisville. The Southwestern Tele-
graph Company operated from New Or
leans to Louisville. and the Western
Union from Louisville to the east. A
message from New Orleans. for instance,
intended for New York or Pittsburgh,
had to be taken down in Louisville and
resent from Louisville to its eastern
destination. This, of course, made it
much more expensive to use the tele-
graph and. besides. more than one mes
sage could not be sent over the same
wire. Edison was trying at the time
he worked here to do away with all of
this. and he has succeeded. We were in
no hurry about delivering messages in
those days. and messenger boys <as
well as operators. sometimes stood a
chance of making a few extra dollars
by taking advantage of the informa-
ton which came to them over the
wires.
Il recall one incident which happen
ed while Edison worked in the office"
continued Mr.. Underwood, "and after
1t happened I recall that for the mo-
ment 1t made me wish that had given
that 500 to Edison when he asked me
for the loan OF 1t. Down in Glasgow,
KY. they had organized a company to
bore for oil. and the men promoting 1t
were selling the stock in Louisville for
~ share. the face value Of the stock
certificates being SO. One morning
telegram came from Glasgow to the
selling agent in Louisville reading:
We have struck oil. Advance the
price from 81 to $40 a share tomorrow
Every operator in the Office. includ-
ing Edison. knew about this telegram
In short time after it was received.
! happened to be the messenger who
was to deliver 1t, but / did not rush
down to the ONCE of the agent of the
Glasgow Oil Company with the mes
sage Instead. ! rushed down home and
told my mother to borrow all the money
she could raise and scrape together and
to buy Glasgow oil stock with it. as 1t
was going up from So to $40 In the
morning. 1 got all the money / could
scrape up besides that which ] had
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be Wetterle The Voice Of Alsace" i'm Reichstal

in love. How different from the thirty,
five years after 1907" says the abbe.
Berlin professors roll their eyes .'hen
speaking of the rape Of Aisace. by the
18th Louis; but the best witness Is the
Freiherr Won Schmittau, Prusstan am
bassador to the court OF Louis XIV. He
was pangermanist. and begged hts
master to 'reconquer' Alsace. but not
alone-he ought to take north France:
Brabant and Flanders with 1t. Because.
wrote Won Schmittau, 1t Is notorious
that the Alsatians are more French than
the Parisians themselves. so that In con.
quering Alsace alone, you will take Q
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FROM AN ORIGINAL

dead land covering a volcano Of French
Lover"
CHE was laxative, Won Schmittau."
adds the abbe.)
For 200 years Alsace remained French,
prosperous and brilliant. Mulhouse in
vented calico-printing Wissenbourg in
vented popular colored pictures. Hague
nau invented popular decorated crockery.
with roses. tulips and ROSTERS. All sweet
1.-THE French never forced their mayors
from Berlin-I mean Paris--on our Al
satan towns says the able They did
not infest us with functionaries from
Paris. to insult our wives in the street TOR
speaking French mean German. They
did not make us pay for their canals.
or send their sons to college,
His eyes twinkle.
1.-The Marseillaise' was composed and
first sung at Strassburg And when the
French revolution broke out, our Alsatian
ancestors put up signboard in the mid
die Of the old Kehl bridge, across the
Rhine. The men Of Baden came half
way across, to read the signboard:
Here begins the land of liberty
l ask him what they did then.
Turned round and walked back" re-
plies the able, grinning.
STERLING HELLO.
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Bad Strategy.

zen HUGH L. SCOTT was talking
VI in Salt Lake City about strategy.
TOO many strategists," he said.
Jump at conclusions. They are TOO
hasty. They begin a now movement
before the old one is finished. Hencs.
all manner of errors.
These strategists are like the moor
walker whom a married man, having
got separated from his wife In the
crowd, approached and said:
Excuse me. but I've lost my
wife
"Cofiins,' said the floor walker, ninth
noor, back. Gents mourning. eleventh
door 'front.'"
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made a brusqued attack on P-lgium-
I mean Alsace-breaking his -ath and
trenching his army WELL 1t was not a
scrap Of paper in those rude days. but
an act of horror. So the place was
called the Lugenfeld, the field OF per-
jury"
"Alsace became a German land, but
only geographically" he continues. THE
Rhine separated its people from the Ger
mans. the only bridge being at Stras-
burg. And the emperor was far away.
We pass before the pictures.
THE Chevalers of Zorn and Mullen
helm fighting in the Street Of Strasburg.
THE Tocsin of Colmar." 'Ulrich OF
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"ALsACE AFTER 1870.

ent people, who had become civilized in
north France. He pointed to picture
of good King Dagobert putting his
trousers on wrong-side front.
That historic event happened at
Rouffach, in Alsace," he says. And
here is sweet Sainte Odile. praying for
her father in a Carlovingian chapel.
And here the crime of the Lugenfeld'
The picture shows two kings swear
ing an oath. with a third king standing
by. 1t happened between Thanh and
Cernay, when the son and heir of
Charlemagne was beaten and jailed by
his three sons. Louis of Germany.
Charles of France and Lothian, who
took a neutral strip of kingdom be-
tween them.
AT the last moment" says the able,
Louis of Germany declared that he
needed vineyards All right said the
easy-going Charles, what do you ask?'
The slopes of Alsace,' said Louis of
Germany. 1t made Charles and Lothair
laugh-a third of Lothairs kingdom.
But no. they said. that wine would go
to your head. And it did," concludes
the able.
He pauses solemnly.
1.-The wine of Alsace went to Germany's
head. A few years later Lothian died.
Charles of France being busy fighting
Norman pirates, his brother of Germany
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sensation. They smiled at his biting
sallies-because he spared nobody, not
even the great ones of the empire; and
the Gallo "boutades' of the witty AL
satan were sure of long success. Many
envied his free speech. and repeated
his Words" which they would not have
dared originate of themselves.
So. the Able Wetterle enjoyed a par
ticular kind of notoriety and vogue in
the reichstag. He was the "enfant ter
rible," reproved vet tolerated. and Sc
cretly admired. Some, even, may have
sympathized with him. because there
are hearts everywhere. And he, en-
couraged by this kind of SUGGESTIVE
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only sort of success he sought-amused
himself with endless bravado.
~
He affected always to speak French.
in a high voice. and ostentatiously
gathered round him groups of French
newspaper correspondents.
Other protesting deputies. Poles and
Alsatians. were encouraged by his sue
cess. And the Germans. always prac-
teal, remained always in contact with
the sprightly. lonely man. in whose
keen wit and artistic simplicity they
saw the Gaulish race reflected. He
saved them the trouble of reading the
French newspapers
Personally, his influence was great
Politically, 1t was limited. The Ger
mans knew him to have the solid pub
lie of Alsace. but pretended to believe
his backing not really widespread. His
brethren. the other Alsatian deputies
Of the reichstag, never disavowed him
openly, but prudently refrained from
following him as leader. And it may
be that, truly, they dreaded his impul-
sive character. the vivacity of his Ian
guage. and the apparent irrefection of
certain of his acts. He, sustained by
laughed at their timidity. This, open
1y. Who knows what were their secret
counsels?
He was the voice" One voice.
You see, from the German point of
view. this straight-from- the shoulder
opposition Of Wetterle's was not SUI
flciently shaded to obtain favors for
Alsace. Against the great empire he
made frontal attacks-and frontal at
tacks only. He never worked bias. to
obtain practical ameliorations. That
he left to his brother Alsatians. He
never gave way step So, from Ger
many, he scarcely obtained deputy's
results for his district. He did not
seek them. nor did Ribeauville nor AL
SAGE expect them. He was the voice"
He was the voice crying in the will
derness.
He was. at once, pessimist and opti-
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LIBERTY -
man reichstag He was the famous
deputy of Ribeauville. but he was the
voice of all. The other Alsatian depu-
ties left him the role. Two voices"
would have been silenced-
Today he is deputy of all Alsace to
Paris" preparing speeches and arti-
cles on 1.-The durable peace" advertised
in great posters: IF you want a dura-
BILE peace" and signed in gil
gantic letters. "Abbe wetterle."
Every one knows what the durable
peace Is.
In a quiet street beside the Madeleine
he works for the future of Alsace-Lor-
raine.
1t is a cheaply furnished fat The walls
of his study are bright with water
color designs of his friend Hansi-
amusing scenes of Alsatian life under
the German regime. On his table.
great map of Germany,
And while he says: I've had my
hearts desire on EARTH" a very differ
the majestic Suggesting Of the reich
stag, the vast rotunda with the statue
of Kaiser Wilhelm /, the grandiose
halls of white marble, on whose thick
red carpets footsteps make no sound. l
see the little active figure of the Able
Wetterle. going, coming, gesticulating.
tireless. back and forth in the vast
red corridors.
Prussia and Germany regarded him as
an open enemy.
He had almost as many enemies as
fellow members in the reichstag, yet he
was not isolated or powerless. Every
body knew him. and he was greeted by
ALL Admirably well posted on all facts
of German polit cs-par,icularly of
side issues-and Of witty and flowing
speech, "causeur." as the French say,
whose conversation becomes mono
logue because everybody listens. the
German colleagues round him.
They listened indulgently. with
amusement. conscious Of more solid
gifts. Many spared him tenderly, all
hung round him ticklishly. as around a
dangerous precipice, obtaining a strong
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respondence Of The Star.

PARIS, October 1, 1915.
>n0 HAVE had my hearts desire
OSI on EARTH" he says
He does not explain what.
q Everybody knows.
He is the Able Wetterle, most ia
NOUS of AlsatianS.
For twenty years he was the voice
of Alsace. crying aloud the hope of
the return to France.
AS such the Alsatian district Of Ri
beauville sent him solidly to the Ger