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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-08-14
A POWERFUL FACTOR.

That literature is to become a. much
larger factor. in the spread of. Chris
tianity than has been the case in
past years is the verdict of {, many.
missionaries. The printing press is "a.
valuable adjunct to the work. of, our
apostles, especially in those countries
where the natives possess certain
amount of education, and are kept
supplied with books and pamphlets
by ministers of Protestant sects.
India is one of, these lands, China
another, and Japan is especially in
tellectual. In fact, Japan claims a
literacy of ninety-eight per cent,
practically the whole nation being a
great reading public. This public, SO
far as the masses are concerned, is
fed on secular papers and magazines,
often anti-C Christian in tone; while
the educated classes betake them
selves to materialistic works on
science and sociology. n.
The Chinese have always been a
literary people. In that country the
scholars. have ruled, and the three
most sacred objects are the pen, the
inkstand and the writing table,
Catholic missionaries are modestly
entering the newspaper field, and
find appreciative readers . among
Christians and even pagan Chinese
and Japanese.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-08-14
FEMININE EMANCIPATION IN
AFRICA. II


The old custom of disposing of
young girls in marriage as if they
were chattels has been attacked by
the missionaries in all pagan coun-
tries. Their efforts are being fruitful
even in Africa, where any form of
slavery dies hard. But the women
themselves are taking a hand in their
own emancipation with marked eff
feet. ~
From the French Soudan, FIR. Bazin,
a White Father, writes: ''a
4 eve have noted this year among
the young girl catechumens great en-
ergy when it is a question of defend
ing their liberty against their pagan
parents who wish to force them to
marry old pelygamists. Several,
rather than be forced into this step,
have gone themselves to the Admin
istrator, telling him they wished to
marry such. and such a Christian and
that they would not consent to being
given to anyone else. They gained
the day; but there is much indigna-
ton on the part. of the parents, who
accuse the Christian religion of put
ting in the feminine heads ideas of
emancipation hitherto unknown"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-08-14
CoMPENS ATIoN.

God arranges everything and His
hand is over every condition. HUI
manly speaking it would seem as if
the war was to work incalculable
damage to the Church, but what she
is losing in Europe she is gaining in
Asia. Take the following figures for
example. Father Cyprien Aroud has
five priests associated with him in
the district work at Wenchow, China
He sends the following report:
. ''From July, 1913, to July, 1914, we
have baptized more than three thou
sand converts from paganism. Bishop
Reynaud was here for two weeks and
confirmed 1,240 Christians, and bap-
tized $50 catechumens. Our neophytes
now number 10000. We have more
than two hundred chapels and about
siXty-five catechists. / say about be-
cause the number varies as we have
the money or not. In our schools we
have 1000 pupils and they will make
fine staunch Catholics and do great
good in the conversion of this dis
trict
1--WE need two more chapels costing
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-08-14
TRIBUTE TO NUNS.

A splendid tribute to the business
ability of Catholic nuns was paid on a
recent Sunday by Werner 2. Reed, the
millionaire non-Catholic, who was
speaking before a large assemblage at
Mount st. Vincent's Orphanage, Den
yer, Colo. Rev. T. H. Malone, who
preceded Mr.. Reed on the program,
had said that this eminent business
man would be able to give excellent
advice about financial matters to the
institution.
Instead of my giving advice" said
Mr. Reed, 81 wish the Sisters would
advise me in a business way. They
can do more with dollar than you
and l can with five. 1t is remark
able how they are able to erect and
sustain such large institutions with sc
little money. l wish l could get some
of them to assist me in my business
affairs"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-08-14
MANCHURIA.

? Manchuria offers many difficulties
to the apostle, and Father Isidore
Lacquois, P. F. M, has encountered
some of them in Hardin, in the north
eastern part of the Province of Ghirni.
This region, three times as large as
Belgium, was left entirely d unculti-
waited until the last dozen years; then
the Chinese Government opened it up
to agriculture, and crowds of colon
lists, driven by poverty from their own
country, came to take up land for
farming.
Among them are many Catholics,
who work for pagan masters, and are
scattered here and there. The first
task of Father Lacquois was to locate
these Christians, and the numerous
journeys meant large. expenditure
from poorly supplied purse. The
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speak of as the Arts to the service of
God, and studies the examples of age
after age, bearing their testimony to
the devotion of the artisans in such
glorious results, one cannot help but
be astounded when one discovers
that one does not merely admire this
or that as art but the whole as one
grand symphony of harmony, up
lifting and devout. The art does not
drive it's examples home to one as the
prominent influence, but the result is
the whole, made. up of the examples
of all the arts. This cannot help but
have constant and ever helpful In
fIuence upon those who enter such a
church to worship."
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CRAVEN IMAGES.

1t is a far cry from the iconoclastic
reformers who split the first COM
mandment in two to give color to
their opposition to religious art, to
the present day. In a recent issue of
The Lutheran, Rev. Paul c. Strodach
wrote:
Just when the Christians began to
decorate their churches or their
places of worship because there are
traces of decorations in places that
we're not churches, but which were
used for worship)--is difficult to de-
teal nature, and coming from the
very earlist period, are found in the
Catacombs. Story and historic report
tell of some of the wonders of art
layished unstintingly and devotedly
in the decoration of the wonderful
building still remaining in Constan-
tinople, now a, mosque but built as
the Church of the Holy Wisdom Is.
Sophia). If the time ever comes that
: this church is restored to the use of
Christian worship, and restored to
its original beauty by the removal of
the dissertations of Mohammedanism
and if the result reveals but part
of all that story tells, it still will be
a monument to this wonderful spirit
of devotion, coming from very, very
far away past. This is the rule in
every age, the opposite is the excep.
ton; and these latter appear every
now and then, revealing. an interpre-
tation of religion as bleak and aus.
tere as their churches.
"And yet, as one views this appli
cation of the beautiful in what we
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-08-14

next was to choose a central location
where mission post might be
erected. A presbytery, and school
cost money. not to mention a little
chapel which. is to be dedicated to
st. Anthony; vet these must all be
forthcoming if the mission is to sue
coed.
The district is desperately poor, and
only outside help will sustain Father
Lacquois and permit this sterile field
to be cultivated, spiritually as well
as materially.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-08-14
ST. JOHNS. UNIVERSITY
CoLLEGEVILLE, MINI.


Muenster
OF
DEPARTMENT
4E~s4 VERY Held, o. q Rector.
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s1z 9as5ff AAll(Z-41lseeze
NSa4$S9AMIS5ION FIELDSA

about $1,000 each Our Christians in
these places have been begging us for
the past, two years to build them
chapel, but we have not been able to
respond. l hope that they will have
their wish this year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-07-04
By SEWELL FORD

bounder himself? Besides, for the last
few years she'd been living quietly
abroad, and would have stayed there
very likely if she hadn't been routed out.
But when ones villa is made a field
headquarters by one of the Kaiser's divis-
ion commanders, and ones vineyards and
rose gardens are cluttered up with Taubes
and masked batteries, what is one to do?
Mrs. Duntley-kipp had skittered back
to New York with seven trunks, two
maids and her pet Pomeranian. She
wasn't trying to break in again, not
formally. But one does want rubber of
bridge now and then, and cup of tea
with old friends.
SHE was lonesome, that's all. And the
- poor soul didn't have the plague, or
anything like that you know. Besides, she
was clever, deucedly clever, and, with her
prematurely gray hair, perfectly stunning.
If it hadn't been for that stupid tale about
the orchids, which Il female lady journal
list had nvented-absolutely might
have slipped back in without attracting
any attention. But that Orchid Bride
tag wouldn't wear off, and folks who'd
had affairs of their own were repeating
the story gleeful and givin' her the cold
shoulder.
$50 Geraldine's taken her up" con-
cludes Pinckney.
"Im glad she has" says Sadie. "And
we'll 60"
That's Sadie, all right. Show her
where it's case of the under dog, and
she's with you every time.
"Are you includin' me too?' says l.
"Say. you amt goin' to expose anybody
as susceptible us me to"
al shall be there to keep an eye on
you," laughs Sadie.
"Huh!" says l. "You're takin'
chance, that's ALL"
It's an old joke between us: so we
know it's good one. Even Pinckney is
trained so he works up smile when it's
trotted out.
an chaperon you. Shorty" says he.
"And suppose we start about ten Satur-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-07-04

day morning? I'll send the car in for
Mrs. Duntley-kipp, and we'll pick you
up as we come through"
WELL, that's how it was. And, say,
printed of her at the time. Some star,
Ell? And believe me she amt gone to
seed any. I've seen fossy grass widows,
but none that had anything on her.
When she trips out of the limousine here
the other morning and insists on SEEM
little Sully and the baby before we leaves,
just stands one side and gawps. Why,
she's even kept her dimples and pink and
white complexion, and with her wells
down she'd easy pass for chicken!
One of the slim, graceful, willow-wand
kind, you know. A sparklin' converser
too. Say, to hear her and Pinckney pass
it back and forth was as good as listenin'
to one of these DRAWN room Granville
once. The lady even has me swappin' u
line Of polite josh with her before we'd
been ridin' half an hour together. Yes,
l got to admit that Mrs. Duntley-Kipp
is some charmer.
was able to keep from gettin' dizzy in
the head at that, though. Some of this
froth was natural, | expect, and then
some of it might have just been thrown
in because she was grateful. Anyway.
we was way up above Bridgeport almost
before we knew it. Then we branched
off to the north on new pike, and went
boomin' through lot of cute pie-belt
Mt
Duntley-kipp gets her eyes on sign.
"'Seavers Falls, two miles," she reads.
"Oh, Seavers Falls-I do wish we were
going through there!"
"Why not?" says Pinckney, pushin the
buzzer
The chauffeur slows up.
81 say, Emil he goes on, "can't you
take us through this Falls place and get
back to the main road somehow"
Emil shrugs his shoulders and touches
his cap. 81 know not, sir" says he. al
will discover"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-07-04

@Oh, thank you, says the lady. "You
see, once l spent summer at the Falls
oh, when l was quite a girl,-a delight
fully silly summer, and-and I've never
been there since"
"Ho, then. for Seavers Falls and silly
summer once-upon-a-time!' says Pinck-
ney. "You shall show us the very spot.
Did he have roguish blue hair and curly
eyes?"
Mrs. Duntley-Kipp runs her tongue out
at him. Brown eyes, says she, 4big and
serious,-oh, very serious,-and dark,
wavy hair, rather long
Il see, says Pinckney. "You sat to-
gether in Irvine hammock and read
Browning
Nothing of the Sort" says she. @We
fished for bullheads below the Falls, and
picked blueberries on Cleft Mountain,
and padded up the river in leaky old
punt, all through two wonderful summer
months. All, that August moon! There's
never been one like it since"
"And about Labor Day, suppose"
adds Pinckney, "you both went back to
town-and forgot?"
"He lived here says she. Il believe
He Sstlu He was SoHS W WORN Ill HIS IatueF
single mill Fancy! l wonder if he's
still making shingles?'
Perhaps says Pinckney. when one
gets the shingle-making habit
"Oh, there it ISL breaks in Mrs Dunt-
ley-Kipp. "Cleft Mountain! Why, it
isn't nearly so high as it used to be. See
the bare brown spot near the top? Sweet
fern! You roll it in thin birch bark and
smoke it. He showed me. 1t makes your
eyes smart; but it's great fun. burned
a big hole in my pink challis. We patched
it with court plaster so it didn't show.
Around the next turn now should be the
old blacksmith shop, with tall elm on
each side. Yes, yes! See?'
"The sign says Gasoline, 10 cents"
says l.
THAT is what happens to all the dear
old blacksmith Shops" says she. @pre-
tending they're garages. Now we're get
ting into town. There's the feed store!
And Masonic Hall. What! A moving
picture show in Masonic Hall? How hor-
rid! We went to a church social there
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-07-04
Back a Ways with Certie

" UST for the Weekend Them urges
Pinckney. "Do come and see my
ten-acre front lawn with dozen
~ peacocks strutting over it. Most
absurd sight in the whole State of Con-
necticut-really!"
"Peacocks!" says l. "Raisin' tail fea-
theirs for the market, are you? Or are
they just pets?'
"Peacocks amuse me-" says Pinckney.
"They're feathered satires, Natures
comic relief to the tragedy of the poultry
yard. Peacock Lodge, call my place,
you know. And you simply must see
the shack I've put up there!'
I'D love to- says Sadie; "but there's
baby sister"
"Pooh!" says Pinckney. GAS though
Mother Whaley wasn't in full charge of
her! Come, only three days. Well
motor up, all four of u.s.
(which four?" says l. al thought
that"
"Yes, Geraldine is up there now,' says
Pinckney. "The fourth will be Mrs.
Duntley-Kipp.'
"Wha-a-at!" says |, staring. "The Busy
Bride?"
AS for Sadie, she just lifts her eyebrows.
"Some more of Geraldine's welfare
work." says Pinckney "She has under
taken to champion Mrs. Duntley-kipp
against cold and cruel world"
"That's some contract" says |.
"Isn't it?' agrees Pinckney.
NOT that his set is gettin' finicky about
unburied pasts, or is DRAWN the line
at statutory DEGREES; but when it comes
to practisin' matrimony as free and
casual as she had-three divorces in half
dozen years, and one Of the trials in
cludin' such entertainin episodes as that
about the bunch of orchids-well, that's
almost stretchin' the limit.
Pinckney proceeds, though, to state
the case for the defense. Maybe Mrs.
Duntley-Kipp had been bit frolicsome
in her early twenties. But as for old
Duntley, it had served him right. Didn't
he as much as buy her outright from
young Shipley, who'd married her at
nineteen? And wasn't Reggie Kipp a
Copyright, 1915. by sewel Ford All rights reserved.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1915-07-08
.,Orn1e.

Sbeci9f 10 The W<zvs.
PRAYER meeting is moving on nicely
In our little town of Orme.
Willie Webb is banging his hat at
Uncle Houston Gilliam's. Now, look
out, Willie.
Mrs. Mary Thompson gave a supper
Friday night. Those present were
Mrs. John Kilgore and family, s. A.
Haigis and family. Henry Yokely and
family. and T. d. Smith, OF South
Pittsburg. Tenn.
Tom Gillian and wife. Henry Yoke
ly and family, and Daddy" Bates
and best girl spent the day at Rankie
Rolling's Sunday, and saw that five
hundred bushel bean crop.
We are glad to see DIR. Freeze back
In town.
Lookout, Willie Webb. Sam Payne is
living at OEdre. Poor While may get
beat yet.
HDaddy" Bates was seen going to
Sam Collins Sunday.
r. d. Smith, the hustling picture
man Of South Pittsburg, was In town
Friday and Saturday.
Bob Cheek was seen looking around
Sunday. Come again. Bobby.
r. M. Ingleburger, of South Pitts
burg, was ia Orme Thursday.
Geo. Chuck, the noted egg peddler,
was In town Saturday.
Henry Yokely visited Mrs. 3; A.
Hargis Saturday, Blue Eyes
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1915-07-08
Looneys' Creek.

Special 10 The Nea0s.
Visiting and going to Whitwell
seems to be the order Of the day.
Mrs. Joe league called on her sis
ter, Mrs. Helen Hall, Sunday after
noon.
Gus Hatfield called at Pickett
Sunday evening.
Mrs. Edith Griffith and children at
tended church at Sulphur Spring Sum
day.
Leonard Richards passed thru our
burg one day last week.
Bud Foster called on his uncle, Jim
Foster, Monday morning.
Houston Powell attended the sing
ing Saturday night.
Miss jamie Foster called on Florence
Foster one day last week.
Bud Foster called on Mr.. and Mrs
Riley Foster Sunday.
A certain girl said Marshall Powell
sure did look cute in her eye Satul-
day night.
Oscar and Bee Thomas called on
Lum Thomas Sunday.
Hattie Foster looked pleased .Satur
day night.
John White passed thru our burg
one day last week.
1--WE are still having singing every
Wednesday night.
Come on, "Jolly Boy" Of Sulphur
Spring, for I think / know you; also
tApple Blossom, of Caroline Chapel,
for l like to read your pieces.
Blue.eyed Girl.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1915-07-08
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Sequachee. Tenn
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1915-07-08
Caroline Chapel.

Sp<eiaIfO the We70S.
Quilting seems to be the order OF the
day. -.
There wasn't any church at this
place Sunday on account of rain.
Quite a large crowd attended the
singing Friday night
Miss Lille McNabb gave a party
Saturday night. Those present were
Misses Josephine and Sallie Harris,
Mary Joseph, Henry Ellen Harris
Lettie Spangler and Ethel Privett,
Messrs. Alvin Spears, Hoyle Ross,
Hodge Lewis, Henry and Joe harris,
Andrew and Festus Lewis, Clarence,
Burklin, John. Milo and Wiley Span.
gler, Pearl Parker, Walter K. Privett
and Jasper Pitman. All seemed to
enjoy themselves.
viii Ross visited home folks Satur-
day and Sunday.
w. J. Rogers and family spent Sat-
urday night and Sunday with J. II.
Privett and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. T. Jones were Wis
iting homefolks last week.
Mr.. and Mrs Marion Parker at
tended singing Friday night.
Scott and Albert Jordan called on
their best girls Saturday and Sunday,
near Shellmound.
Misses Bertha G. and BERTHE X. Lew
is called on Miss Ethel Privett Mon
day afternoon.
Mrs. S. E. Rogers is visiting her
sister, Mrs. 81 E. Evans, of Dunlap.
If you want to see Walter Privett
and Festus Lewis smile. ask them how
they enjoyed themselves-.singing Fri
day night.
Joe Harris looked sad Friday night.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. J. Evans visited
home folks Saturday and Sunday.
Come on all of you writers.
Azalea.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1915-07-08
AppisOn. Team.

Specialize 10 Ire Nszg5.
Well. lovers of the SeQuachee NaIley
News, here l come with the Appison
looking glass
The farmers have a smile on te eli
faces that reach ali over the cotton
fields, and the cotton just keeps on
growing and the farmers keep moving.
Woriey Swisher Just keeps piling the
mail out on Route No. just the same
az If there was no war going on.
We have two good doctors, one ne-
puty sheriff and one Justice OF the
peace, one gin, one grist mill, si1
stores, autos by the dozens and plenty
to eat, but no schools, no roads, RAD
bits or squirrels.
Adam was the first man,
Eve was de udder,
Cain was de wicked man,
Kase he killed his brudder.
Jonah was de fisherman
Dat swallowed down de shark;
Noah was de strong man
Dat built him mp an ark.
Then they all sing. Yah, yah, yam,
de gal from the south, neI hair CURED
SO very tight she could not shut 81
mouf.
There are more bills up here than
ANYTHING else. Bill Smith, Bill Jones,
Bill Ellis and hundreds Of store bills,
doctor bills, etc. DIR. Bruce will never
turn you lose until he eases the pair
or comes again.
The third Sunday in August our
Baptist meeting at Prospect begins.
Come up everybody and take part II
it
It sure did rain here Thursday.
Peddlers are as thick up here as nd
oilers In Georgia.
The 4th Of July was celebrated il
Appison with big picnic by the P
o. s. of A. They realized $87 90.
There was a nice crowd, no drinking
nor fussing. They also had flag
raising. The P. o. S. of A. gave the
public school $4.50 flag.
MY cornfield is on the road and r
d. Longley's cow was going along tht
road near 1t, when storm blew biz
stalk across her back and broke 1t
Now I will have to pay for her.
A new way to scald chicken II
make its skin yellow is to put Arbuck
lie coffee in the kettle and scald the
chicken. Strain the water and settle
the coffee by drinking it.
Everybody up here attends to theil
own business and tries to help other
attend to theirs. Oh, we are goot
neighbors here. Come to see us ant
bring the bacon, we have the beans
am improving and my cancer il
better. / hope to be able to come Il
see my old friends in August.
Cold Wave
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1915-07-08
CarOIiae Chapel.

See<isI 10 1h< NSzgs.
Wheat threshing and picking black
berries is the order of the day.
Sam Floyd entertained quite a
crowd with his graphophone at the
Knox school house Saturday night.
Everyone seemed to enjoy themselves
Several attended the county meeting
at Looney's Greek Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs L. l.. Billingsley
spent from Friday until Monday with
the latter's parents. Mr.. and Mrs. ).
A. Privett, of Dunlap.
Mr. and Mrs. o. 81. Francis attend
ed the county meeting at Looney' g
Creek Saturday.
ii. q. Evans. Of Dunlap, spent
Wednesday night with j. 81. Privett,
and returned home Thursday, accom-
panied by Mrs. S. E. Rogers, who IS
going to spend the summer months
with her sister.
If you want to see Joe Harris smile,
ask him how he enjoyed listening to
the graphophone Saturday night.
Miss May Turner visited the Misses
Lewis Sunday.
Misses Jennie Gates and leila Ross
called on Miss. Ethel Privett Saturday
HlbcLuOOus
Misses Lon and Bertha Lewis spent
Monday night with Miss Lettie Spaug-
Ter.
Miss Mary Joseph was all smiles
Friday night. -
Pearl Parker called on Miss Lille
McNabb Sunday.
Miss BERTHE Lewis looked sad Friday
night Guess she didn't see her best
fellow.
Sallie and Mayme Privett called on
Edna and Ruth Lewis one day last
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. J. Evans visited
home folks Saturday and Sunday.
Miss Jennie Gates visited Miss leila
Ross one day last week.
Hodge Lewis attended Sunday school
Sunday.
Clarence Burklin called on W. K.
Pirvett Saturday.
Come on, all Of you writers from
this place with another piece, as l like
TO read your pieces. think ! know
You. AppleBlossom.