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Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1916-11-23

we're Estelline visitors Wednesday
Mr.. Ferguson Was introducing Mr.
Eckenbrack to this territory as they
have formed a partnership.-Estelline
Journal.
Henry Andrews spent Saturday and
Sunday at Watertown. DR.. and Mrs,
J. B. Vaughan were visitors in Water.
town Thursday afternoon. Mrs.
VIM. Struble was a Watertown shop,
per Monday, between trains. Miss
Pfffer, of Watertown, spent a few
days here last week, organizing a
class in %elocution. Mesdames James
Preston, Harry Madden and little
daughter, Clyde Cunningham and
daughters and Seth Bucklen were
shopping in Watertown Wednesday,
making the trip by auto. Among
those from here attending the cele-
bration in Watertown Friday evening
in honor Of the reelection of Presi-
dent Wilson We're: DR.. and Mrs,
Vaughan, Mr.. and Mrs. w. S. Madden,
Mr.. and Mrs. Rubie Ellefson, DR.. and
Mrs. VIM. Struble and Mrs. Vivian
Walton.-Castlewood Correspondence
Norden Enterprise.
Mrs. Pun, Of Watertown, was a Wis
itor at the home of Mrs. Matilda
Kuehn from Saturday until Tuesday
evening of this week. Mrs. Forest
Marvin returned to her home at Wa
Lertown last Friday evening after a.
days visit with her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. F. H. Busick, easr OF the
city. Miss Mollie Colwell of Water
town, is a guest at the home Of Mrs.
Tuesday. ltssafiBrnodw Ssle d
J. Meaghan. She came down on
Tuesday. The lady is a first class
iressmaker and we believe she would
be able TO find plenty of employment
n that line should she locate in Es-
Levi Baufencamp was at
Watertown the first of the week and
home Tuesday with a bunch of
steel traps which he will use for
trapping fur bearing animals the com
ing season. Hides Of all kinds are
high priced and Levi is evidently go
ing after them right. November Is
was the day when the season opened.
Tribune.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1916-11-23

Miss Ayleen Goepfert, OF Water
town. arrived Friday and has sine.
been q guest OF Miss Carleton sher
wood. of State College. Mrs. s. j
Shelsta, who had been here VISITING
her aunt, Miss Della Gullick, Y
Sunday, returned Monday evening t
her home at WATERFOWL. Mr.. mad
Mrs. Sam Cornell, Mrs. !. 4. Bafrey
Mrs. Ed. Sorenson, Mrs. Chas. Sever
SON Mrs. 81. q. Fox, Mrs. S. Marvin,
Mrs, Geo. r Thayer, Hrs Florence
Jensen and Mrs. Ray Thayer went "a
Arlington Tuesday evening to attend
q district convention Of the u. OF iii
The Grand Chief of Honor, Mrs. Reg.
~ Fitzgerald, OF Watertown, waa
present, Work was sxempfffed ana q
splendid banquet followed. The An
iington people Governed themselves
with glory by the hsspftahle manner
~ which they took care az the visit.
orxBrookings Re6ister.
Mss Mable Edsrton uas u wa.
tert0wn SstNTday. Msns r.. II.
Spruat. Mrs N u Moo<e and ron.
Harold. were at Msfsrto~n. Fridsz.
j q. BruWnwsnt IL Watertown Wed.
nesdsy mornillg - expeeted to bring
hissrn0ther hons ths ssnne ayssning.
MrlAsks Esnsnil4 Dtxnn retnfned Saturday
rum WaiNrtoNn Whese ahe has been
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1916-11-23
trip 70 Watertown Wednesday. FroDli
there he will 60 to Redfeld. returning

trip TO Waterfowl Wednesday. FroD
there he will go to Redf1eld. returning
Saturday. Ole Worry and s. o
S~egerdson of Minneota were in The
city on business TUESDAY. From here
they went to Watertown. 6. p. Holt
went to Luther hospital at Watertown
Friday to receive some special treat.
naent and care He has been failing
81 late and thought best to spend a
lev weeks under special treatment
and 1T 8 hoped he may improve.
e1ear Lake Advocate.
Russell Jensen came down from
Watertown Saturday morning to at
tend the am and visit friends. !.
Miss C1elIa Meadows, Of WATERFOWL,
was the guest Of her aunt, Mrs. j. Il.
Tree, between trains. Saturday.
Frank Neill came down from Water
town Saturday morning to visit home
folks and participate ID Hobo Dag fun.
lfrs. Russell Jensen and the Misses
Teresa Lamm and Ruth Case arrived
Friday morning ~ auto nom water.
s4eWh To attend the football game
shob0 Day and visit friends. They
MI guests sat tie home III Nj and
Notwithstanding Home
Ienger.
4 nNSaru rat,.rnoa NnnAn4
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-04-29

dignity on the most ordinary offices of
life and an accessible familiarity on
the virtues of hero and a martyr
which silences every suspicion that his
excellencies were rnagnified. He thus
simply performed great acts and ut
tered great thoughts because they
were. familiar to his great soul. The
charm of his Unborn and home-bred
character seems as. if it would have
been taken off by polish. 1t is this
household character which relieves our
notion OF him of va gleness and di-
vests perfection Of that generality and
coldness to which the attempt to paint
a perfect man is table, $50 $50
1T will naturally and very strongly
excite the regret of the good in every
age that the life of this best ofamen
should have been in the power Of one
who has been rarely surpassed in
wickedness.N But the execrable Henry
was the means of drawing forth the
magnanimity, the fortitude and the
meekness of More. Had Henry sbeen
"a just and merciful monarch we should
not have known the degree of excel
lence to which human nature is
capable or ascending" C''Life of Sir
Thomas More" in "The Miscellaneous
Works of the Right Honorable Sir
James Macintosh" New York, 1858,
reprint. p. 80) III
That Protestant of MackintSsh's
age and country should speak off the
great Chancellor as he did is asfact
worthy of note. 1t is a splendid Tefec-
ton on the beautiful, CHEEKY andsspot-
less character of this great Catholic
layman, who loved his faith teAfold
more than the honors which his sabili-
ties had won. Of him the great EN-
peror Charles V. of Germany rightly
said to the Ambassador of England
when he heard of More's death: "If
we had been the master of such a
servant we should rather have lost the
best city in our dominions than have
lost such worthy counsellor. &C. B.
of C. V.
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FIRST CHRISTIANS 70 PENE-
1';o TRATE CHINA, ~

The first to preach the Gospel in the
Chinese Empire were the HISTORIAN
heretics of Syria, who as early. as the
fifth 1eentury.. had already sent their
missionaries to Messopotanfia, Persia,
India and Thibet, and they penetrated
the so-called middle kingdom, about
the beginning of the sixth century
HISTORIAN preachers under the guild
ance of the monk Olopun arrived, in
the. year 635 at Si-ngan-fu, and there
they were favorably received by the
Emperor Taitsung. In a short time
they converted many to Christianity
!. Later, however, the HISTORIAN
Church gradually disappeared, and for
centuries there have. been no Nestori-
ans in China. .. si,. ~. il
# They have not left a trace amongst
the Inhabitants of the great, empire, to
facilitate the work of missionaries in
union. with the true Church These
were the courageous sons of St., Fran.
els, of Assist, of St. Dominic, of st:
lgnatius Loyola, and 80 many others,
who prosecuted the: great, work of the
Christian apostolate through, periods
Of federation and of persecution, and
who sealed the faith with their blood.
.
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BLESSED THOMAS MORE.

July 6, 1915, was the 380th ami
versary of the execution of Sir Thomas
More, the Lord Chancellor of England,
who gave up his life at the zenith of
his power rather than sacrifice his
faith or acknowledge the vicious
Henry VIII. as head of the Church. A
great jurist, who was long after re-
membered for the impartiality of his
decisions and the dispatch with which
he disposed of litigation, an extensive
writer and clear thinker. More stands
out as one of the great men of the
age in which he lived. But these
abilities and the success which came
TO him could in no way detach him
from the religious principles to which
he firmly held. After seven years
study he told the representatives of
Henry he could find no color for hold
ing that layman could be head of
the Church" His stand caused his
fall from the highest place in the
kingdom and his death; Leo XIII
placed his name among the Blessed.
More's nobility Of character has ex-
cited the praise of more than one non
Catholic writer. Sir James Mackin-
tosh, the well-known British essayist,
is among these. Although he misun-
derstands some of Mores ideas, par
ticularly his views on celibacy, he
cannot restrain his admiration for the
whole life of the Chancellor and his
courageous stand for the right. In
speaking of More's character he says:
"Of all men nearly perfect, Sir
Thomas More had, perhaps, the clear
est marks Of individual character. His
pecuharities, though distinguishing
him from all others, were vet with
held from growing into moral faults.
1t is not enough to say of him that
he was unaffected, that he was nat
ural, that he was simple; so the larger
part of truly great men have been.
But there is something homespun in
More which is common to him with
scarcely any other, and which gives
to all his faculties and qualities the
appearance of being the native growth
of the soil. The LONELINESS of his
pleasantly purifies it from show. He
walks on the scaffold clad only in his
household goodness. The unrefined
benignity with which he ruled his pa
triarchal dwelling at Chelsea enabled
him to look on the axe without his
being disturbed by feeling hatred for
the tyrant. This quality bound to-
gether his genius and learning, his
eloquence and fame, with his homely
and daily misunderstanding a genu-
lneness on all his good qualities,
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Now she was twenty-four. She was a
Woodworking girl. Unlike her native
character, she kept at her work to
within few days of her death, teach.
ing; good girl, she deprived herself
OF her home, and her friends, and her
own body of food for the sake of the
Church's cause and for the school.
Thus she offered her young life to. God
in the flower of her age. ~
Just before she died had got a
rupture which learned afterwards re-
CURED an operation. When she was
quietly laid to rest, l made arrange
ments to go to the hospital for the
operation, which was performed by an
American doctor on April Is.
1t was expected that l would be out
of the hospital in three weeks, but
got an infection somehow and bad
one, too.
| suffered very much, indeed, first
from the infection, then from other all
ments that came on, let alone the daily
medication, which only those who have
through it, know. 7r a
j The doctor tried to cure the infec.
ton by disinfectants, and by another
small operation. But after two months,
he said another operation was necess
sary, and so on June 81, i was once
more put on the table, and got a ter
rible cutting, so much had the infec!
ton spread. $50
But even this did not proceed as it
ought to have done, the stitches had
to be taken out after two days, and
anybody who is acquainted with these
things will know how fearfully long
it takes for big wound to heal up by
granulation, and tile pain of it! Thus
fingered on. All this, while there
was no priest in my parish. The peo-
pie were practically abandoned. 1.-THE
harvest, indeed, is great, but the la
borers are few" comes out very prom
inently here.
fingered on until August, and at
length was freed from hospital. /
went back to my parish. and lay into
work, but / was hardly fortnight
back, when was attacked with ty-
phoid fever. which nearly brought me
to my grave, and by Aug 20 + was
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-04-29
WHAT THE CHURCH. WAS INETHE
MIDDLE AGES.
(Canon Farrar in "The Victories OF
Christianity" p. 1852

From the fifth to the thirteenth
century the Church was engaged i'll
celebrating the most splendid organ
ization the world has ever seen.
Starting with the separation af the
spiritual from the temporal power, and
the mutual independence each in
it's own. sphere, Catholicism worked
hand in hand with feudalism for the
amelioration of mankind. Under the
influence of feudalism, slavery became
serfdom, and aggression was modified
into defensive war. Under the influ-
ence of Catholicism the monasteries
preserved learning and maintained the
sense of the unity of Christendom.
Under the combined influence Of both
grew up the lovely ideal of chiyalry,
molding generous instincts into gal
liant institutions, making the body Wig.
orous and the soul pure, and wedding
the Christian virtues Of humility and
tenderness into the natural grace of
courage and strength. ~.
During this period the Church was
the one mighty witness for light in an
age of darkness, for order in an age
of lawlessness, for personal holiness
in an epoch of licentious rage"
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This state of affairs, Is one that
SHOULD bring the blush of, shame to our
American Catholics. The Protestant
mission boards are SO well supplied
with funds that they are able,to erect
chapels in any part of the Philippine
Islands for our Catholic people, while
our Catholic !, missionary priests are
spending. their life. energy to provide
decent little chapels for our own Cath
olic brethren in the islands, and often
times they are unsuccessful,
Father Vaudeville is trying to main
tain school. He is not sparing him
SELF, nor are his companion priests
spaging 2 themselves. The greatest
worry upon their souls is that per-
haps in spite of all the hardships that
the, Philippine mission can deal out to
them, the school will have to, go. If
it does go Protestant school win be
erected there, and, as the Protestant
schools are never short for funds, it
will most likely stay. The result Will
be that the children of that mission
will lose their Faith; they will be lost
to the Church.
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ONE YEAR OF A MISSIONARIES
LIFE 1915-1916.

am in charge Of a parish called
Maasin, which is situated in the Prov
1nce of Yloilo on the Island of Panay
IN the Philippine Islands. 1t is back
In the mountains of the said island,
and numbers 1000 souls.
This story covers only one year. The
year 1915 opened finding me run down.
The school had been exceptionally
heavy during the last three months
and never felt so low physically. |
was suffering from very shattered
nerves and prostration with constant
headaches. was very harassed by
the pains of indigestion, and my nights
were sleepless on account of the fight.
ing for breath and coughing attendant
on asthma. l was in a very good con-
dltlon for contracting tuberculosis, of
which the Philippines is full.
The condition of prostration was
brought on by lack of nourishment
and the indigestion, by too much head
work, and by lack of teeth. These lat
ter had been in a very bad condition
- - ASAAS5 dlt IlOW udu DG'
come useless. 1t was necessary to at,
tend to them. But to get to the near
est dentist it was necessary to make a
sea voyage. This was expensive. Ii
meant | would not get back home for
at least two weeks. Rather long for
simply getting teeth drawn, for that
must be the first operation, then a
long wait until the gums should settle
and then the same journey once more.
Think of the expense of this Journey
ing for poor man.,
| made the journey, and by the time
! got back / found that one of my
teachers, who was suffering from
tuberculosis, contracted through un-
der-feeding and overwork in the serv-
ice of the school was approaching
death. That didn't help me on in my
low state of health.
She died on the Feast of st. Patrick
and was buried on the Feast of st.
Uoseph, She had been in the service
hi the geAeel since she was sixteen.
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FoRTY.FlVE THOUSAND coMMuN.
4 ions DISTRIBUTED IN PHILIP
PINE MlssloNARYss FIELD. s.

- y * IL
We closed the year with ! total of
$4,000 Holy Communions having been
distributed during the year. writes
Father o. VanderWalle, Philippine
missionary to the Catholic Churelly Ex-
tension Society That makes $4,000
more than in 1908. ,fquad, 81
his rs good news for the greatest
delight of missioner's heart is to aid
IN the extension of the Eucharistic
Kingdom of Christ, but there lis sad,
news also. There is station in my
vast mission field where /, intend to
build a chapel and 1 learn. that the
Protestants are going TO build. one
there also. The town numbers a fhbu,
sand inhabitants and the people do not
want ~ Protestant cchureh=but they
are going. to get it.sa0a A as i
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HOW CATHOLICS FACE DEATH.

oliver Wendell Holmes was once
asked his opinion, as a physician, on
the effect Of beliefs on the minds of
those approaching death. He replied:
80 far as | have observed per-
sons nearing the end of life, tthe
Roman Catholics understand the
business of dying better than others.
have seen a good many Roman
Catholics on their death-beds, and it
always appeared to me that they
accepted the inevitable with COM
posture which showed that their be-
lief, whether or not the best to live
by, was a better one to die by than
most Of the harder ones that have
replaced it"
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s.: CONFESSIONS OF A WIFE ::

AFTER left the Office OF the theatri.
cal manager, went out into the park
and sat down for little while.
You see, Margie." said Paula. ~
wanted to think. and l knew ! could
not think in that awful hall bedroom.
But here In the park, a balmy wind
Yves blowing ali the rrayness and mis-.
way. and leaving the sky an indescrib-
able blue with great punches Of white
fleece floating over It.
81 distinctly remember that day as
the one I first saw the REAL SKY,
and ] maryeled at the bare wonder
of 1T
Il wanted to get away from that aw.
full atmosphere where l had met the
theatrical manager. laughed q little
OF my vanity In imagining he had re-
membered me!
That tnsolent boys wink meant he
understood the whole episode, and
thought did as well.
II was the first time in my life,
Margie. that ! had the feeling my sex
was q thing with which 70 barter. Lit.
lie Sctinkly cold shudders ran up and
down my backbone.
AT college we had talked Of love
IN abstract fashion. We accepted at.
tentions from young men IS our right.
= stepped out Of the world Of giv.
ing into the world Of trade.
You must pay!'-ah, Margie, for
The FIRST time I realized that.
TO my horror, ] found myse.r WOE,
daring II could endure q few tamil.
tGrities for the sake Of getting on the
stage. I felt myself blushing-and
once more I preached the Crystalline
air.
son the way to my boarding house
I met my little friend Jsne, With Al.
a:What did you do todayr asked
Fl did not want to ten Of my visi.
to the theatrical manager before the
ether girl but both looked expectant.
" atme. 90 Itold them.
The Old pig! exclaimed James
friend whose name! was Maggie. Why
didn't you slap HIS face7'
Now Maggies.you kuoH. you hsye
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Dor appeared at the kitchen door and
sauntered out with magazine 10 a
lawn swing under a cher. tree not
ten feet GNay from the line.
There was nothing 10 do but wait
And waiting only brought increased
dismay, for the maid returned and
gathered IN the clothes with her waist
among them.
Several courses Of action suggested
themselves to her. She might lay the
shirt under the bush when night came;
they would ind II in the morning and
thin: It had blown of the line. But
that would not account for her shirt
waist in the basket next door.
Everything she thought Of seemed
disconcerning. for the girl would be
sure 10 talk and tell her friends all
around the neighborhood. And when
Mrs. Gold returned she would recog.
ME the waist and wonder what It was
doing there! MaTtha's modification
was torturins her beyond endurance.
Get the waist she nust-someway.
So that evening, when the dishes were
done and the street was sitting out in
front, she saw the professor 20 out
with some books under his arm. and,
later. Hattie, in Haunting pink. depart.
ed with beau for movie. The house
next door was dark I'D deserted. So
far. so good! But even II the back
door had been left unlocked, which she
was sure 1t had not, her courage re-
fused 10 ascend 10 the point OF execu.
ton.
But finally she reused herself with
an effort, and tiptoed across the back
lawns to the other house. She tried
the door softly. Locked! She knew
it would be. But q window opened on
10 the porch and nothing stood be-
tween her and the coveted interior but
rickety screen. She pushed and Il
gave. The sill was low and she was
soon inside the black kitchen cropping
for the laundry basket.
Then her hand touched Il. Thank
heaven, and right on top was her
waist. She could tell 1t BY the lace
collar she had made herself. The shirt
was quickly substituted for It and she
was retreating toward the dim rec.
tangle Of the window when Light was
switched on suddenly and the protes.
sor stood in the dining room door.
Martha looked at him an instant
with wide-open eyes and then promptly
and quietly tainted.
She revived almost Immediately and
saw the agitated professor bending oy.
er her. Then. with fresh realization
Of what had happened, she shuddered
and closed her eyes again. Sic wanted
TO die! But he had one Of her hands
in his and didn't let 80. As she com.
pretended that fact, her cheeks went
from deathly white to vivid red, and
then the tears started, Il only she
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distinctly nav and attractive. N
Wood. the assistant commissioner Of
health. viii be present supply need
ed Information on ali matters pertain
Ing TO the public health. There viii
be some features which may b SUI
pristng revelations TO NJ. Everybody
going 10 the fair should particularly
look for the health exhibit
The health exhibit Is intended prin-
arily 70 teach people how % keen from
getting sick. Il also points out scms
OF the greatest needs Of Our com.
munity showing what can be Fdons 70
bring the greatest returns. The!pa
ed placa7ds show how to obtain pure
water: how to construct safe sewer
age conditions! how 70 prevent con
sumption and how TO cure 4: how 70
avoid typhoid; how tTaehoma may bs
escaped: how to Judge q clean MIX:
what kind OF q grocery store 20 patron
Ire; how to determine II the fcods
you buy are good; how TO keep ths
baby vein during the summer and
many other important points.
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Training Children.

Do not be afraid Of letting your chi.
dren enjoy themselves. Make them
Just as happy as you possibly can, even
II they do break piece Of furniture or
q little bric-a-brac once in a while. It
Is Infinitely more important to train
children to cultivate a happy temper.
ament to Try to establish in them the
hopeful. cheerful, optimistic habit, than
to give them a college education or
leave them fortune. It is infinitely
more important TO show them how to
face Life hero!cslly, eheerfuHy, serene.
y. than how to make money or to at.
tain fane-The Mothers Magazine
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Biggest Natural Bridges.

The biggest natural bridges In the
world are to be found In the United
States, according to the National Geo
graphic Magazine. The largest Of
these, the Rainbow, aos feet high.
would span the dome Of the United
States capitol. with room to spare, and
Is nearly as high as the Flatiror
building. in New York. Its span Is
SIX times as great as that Of the Nat.
ural Bridge Of Virginia. Utah alone
has three natural bridges that are
higher and Of greater span than any
other natural bridge In the world.