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The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1916-03-10

may be all right as a brain exerciser,
but we believe a few hard ticks to-
ward actual work would produce
more lasting benefits for this town.
W. have enough jaw exercise to keep
us on the front page for eternity.
What we need is a little classified eff
fort along practical lines. Little
things ~embodying real work will pro-
duce more results than all the yawn-
ing in the world. The officers of the
German army may sharpen their in
t~ellects by yawning exercises, but il
is a noticeable fact that they aren't
idle with their hands in the mean
time.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1916-03-10
THE WAY TO ALFALFA SUCCESS

Alfalfa cannot be grown success
fully on acid soil. Test the soil to see
if it is acid. At present this can
most easily be done by the use of
blue litmus paper, secured at almost
any drug store.
A small quantity of soil thorough
ly moistened is placed upon the lit
mus paper. If the paper turns pink
or red the soil is acid. Lime must
then be applied to correct the ,acidity,
says A. L. Stone in Farm and Home.
If the paper turns entirely red and
almost Immediately upon coming in
contact with the soil it will probably
require from two to four tons ground
lime rock or air-slaked lime per acre.
If air-slaked lime is used care must
be taken to see that it is thoroughly
slaked or it will burn the vegetable
mold or humus out Of the soil.
The soil must be fertile. Success
with alfalfa depends upon giving it a
good start and this cannot be done on
a poor soil. If the soil is low in fer
tility apply barnyard manure at the
rate of 20 loads an acre before plow-
ing and preparing the seed bed.
Unless the soil has already been
inoculated by the production of al
falfa or sweet clover on the field
some form of incubation must be
provided. Soil from an old alfalfa
field or from some spot where sweet
clover is growing may be applied at
the rate of a load an acre. In some
instances satisfactory results have
been secured by mixing the inoculated
soil with the seed, but care must
be taken to finely %pulverize the soil
so that it will not clog the seeder.
Alfalfa will not grow with wet
feet. Good drainage is essential. If
the water table comes to within four
feet of the surface, alfalfa is prac-
tically sure to fail.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1916-03-10
TRUST THAT HEN.

Full oft we hear somebody say
:"Oh drat those measly chickens! The
squawking 'idgits' will not lay,
though eating like the dickens. We've
fed them forty sacks of wheat, a cost
ly ton of milo. And, too, the corn
the Burgers eat would fill a mighty
silo; but we have yet an egg to get
from all that hungry hundred-I've
never seer the beat. You bet, I'm
done with hens, by thunder"
Of course we hear this now and
then; it fills our hearts with sorrow.
The thing to do is, trust that hen
perhaps she'll lay tomorrow. You
should be glad she lays at all. Sup
pose she was a striker? She'd make
the trusts and combines all seem
naught but humble pikers. We all
eat eggs, in gay cafe, hotel, home or
beanery. Old Biddy has things her
own way-she owns the egg machin-
cry. We can but praise the trusty
hen and speak good words about her,
cen though she lays but now and
then, we could not do without her.
She's cheerful, gay and then again,
she's faithful, true and steady. We've
simply got to trust that hen-she
won't lay until she is ready.
Now, III tell you just how to do to
make hens lay real quickly. This dope
of mine is strictly new; I'll spread it
on quite thickly. Just mix some corn
and oats and bran with wheat, to
make them rustic. Mix all the COM
mon sense you can, with lots of hump
and hustle, and oyster shells and
something green, and milo, grit and
water, with lots of work to keep
things clean, which mighty nearly
oughter make .'em lay an egg each
day and keep in fine condition. Takes
lots of work to make it pay-yor
| don't get much by wishin'.. So keer
them fed, with houses neat, they'll
sure lay now or later-Just trust
! that hen, she can't be beat-she ha:
no imitator.-Farm and Home.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1916-03-10
YAWNING,

German scientists claim that yawn-
ing is extremely beneficial, as it
stretches the muscles of the brain,
send the blood to the jaws, and
sharpens appetite and intellect. The
remedy is so cheap that it is being
used extensively in,"this,. town, to
judge by some of the hard working
chaps who hang around the corner
stores exercising their jaws anc
stretching their muscles. Yawnine
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1916-03-10

Hotel Radisson, Minneapolis, has
recently opened an addition of fifty
moderate priced rooms.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1916-03-10

"Villa reported cornered," says a
headline. Again or yet?
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-10-21
A SAINT FOR THE WEEK.
SIS. nonosus AND MAMMALIAN.

Bonosus and Macmillan were Off
GERS in the "Herculean' troops, and
seem to have been intrusted with the
charge of the standard. In the year
363 they were ordered, in accordance
with decree of Julian the Apostate,
to remove the sign of the Cross which
Constantine had set upon the imperial
standard, and to put the symbol Of
idolatory in its place: but this they
would not do. Accordingly, their re-
fusal was treated as an act of rebel
lion, and Julian, uncle to the apostate
tribunal. 1t was in vain that sCount
Julian tried to terrify them by threats,
and when he passed from words to
deeds they bore the scourge, laden
though it was with balls of lead, like
men dead to pain. The cruelty of
their judge did not stop here; but God
stayed his hand, and showed how He
knows those who honor the Cross.
They were plunged into a cauldron of
boiling pitch, but the pitch grew cold
as they entered it, and left them I'M
harmed They were shut up for days
in a dungeon, with nothing to eat
except bread stamped with idolatrous
symbols; but when the prison doors
were opened, the bread was I'M
touched, and the martyrs, still strong
and vigorous, were praising and
thanking God. The miracles were at
tributed to magic, and Count Julian
ordered the Saints to be beheaded.
They received the sentence gladly,
and died as they had lived, faithful
to the Cross of Christ.
+ Constantine set the Cross with the
name of Christ on the imperial stand
ards, and under this sign led his
armies to victory, till the Roman
world bowed before the faith of
Christ. Julian the Apostate undid the
work of Constantine, and re-estab-
lished idolatry. But the Christians
knew we'll that the triumphs @of the
Cross do not cease when men cease
to honor it, and counted every martyr
dom a victory of Christ's Cross,
When Bonosus and Macmillan went
forth to die, Meletius, the Bishop of
Antioch, with other bishops and with
troops, of Christians, accompanied
them in triumphal procession, and the
whole city exulted in the glory of the
martyrs.
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THE OUR FATHER.

In the ninth chapter of st. Luke it
is related that one of His disciples
said to Our Lord, Lord, teach us how
to pray, as John also taught his dis
ciples." And He said to them, when
YOU pray, say, Our Father, etc"
The Lords prayer was at that mo-
ment composed and recited for the
first time by the Son of God Himself.
In it's origin, therefore, it is divine.
1t was conceived in the mind OF
Jesus Christ: spoken by. the lips and
tongue of Our Blessed Redeemer: its
words are every one the words of none
Other than God. 1t is for this reason
that the Our Father is pre-eminently
the great prayer of the Christian. No
other petition, whether of man or
angel, approaches it in sacred sub
Unity. Men have been taught how
to pray, have even been given the
form and words of proper prayer by
their divine Teacher and Saviour.
We may divide the Lords prayer
into eight distinct parts. The first
part serves as an introduction which
enables us to present ourselves, in
spirit, before Gods celestial throne,
bowling down in alteration before Him,
acknowledging His absolute dominion
over the world and all things earthly
Then follow seven separate petitions,
ithe first three of which relate to Gods
greater glory, and the last four to our
own needs and necessities. Thus the
prayer of all prayers, by its form, i'm
presses upon us the one great truth,
which is above all others in impor-
lance and vital necessity for ourselves,
i. e., that God must always hold first
place in our thoughts, words and &C
tions; that we must first seek 1.-The
s.kingdom of God and His justice" 1t
brings home to us the lesson that the
world about us refuses, through malice
or indifference, to learn, i. e., that
Gods greater glory explains every
thing in life. 1t was for the greater
glory of God that the earth, and all
things therein, were created. 1t was
for Gods greater glory that we were
made. 1t is for Gods greater glory
that the world is divinely preserved.
1t is for Gods greater glory that the
sun shines, the rain falls, the flowers
bloom, the birds sing: that created
nature is beautiful, and blessed by
the hand of the Creator. And unless
we exercise our highest gift of intelli-'
sence to render Gods external glory
greater, by reasonable love and serv-
ice, We are failing to fulfill the first
and greatest purpose of our having
been put in the world. All other con-
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-10-21
WHAT THIRTY DOLLARS Is SUP
POSED TO DO.

We know that funds are short in
the mission world, and that many
apostles are at their wits end trying
to keep things going. One of their
number is Father Sfivestri, Fran
ciscan Friar, who has done much good
work in his district. His letter is as
follows: sss
i. In the entire territory assigned to
me, writes Father Silvestri, %. f. NJ,
which is Fsonle seventy miles in
length and thickly populated, have.
only three schools. Il had fond hopes
of opening a fourth school, but when
I put the matter before the Vicar
APOSTOLIC, this is. the reply I received:
Far sfrpm opening a new school, we
may have to- give up one or two or
even all three of the schools already
opened in your district. The funds
of the ;Vicariate.are simply not suffi-
Gent to continue the existing works
of the mission much less start new
enterprises. 80
That reply almost broke my heart,
but | might as well face the situation
as it really is. The Vicar Apostolic
has put into, my hands just $40 for.
the coming year. and with this i must
support a dispensary, three schools,
three teachers and catechists for my
numerous stations Not possessing
the gift Of nitacles To place OF multi.
plying the loayes, ]. must diminish the
number aof mouths 4il other words
put an end e . great paft oE, the good
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cltatIon Ex. Of rinal Account.

STATE OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY OF
Ramsey. SIS. In Probate Court.
In the Matter. of the Estate Of William
Gormally, Decedent.
The State of Minnesota to All Whom 1t
May Concern:
On reading and filing the petition of
the representative of said estate, pray
ing that the Court fix time and place
for examining, adjusting and allowing
his ilHal account, and for the assign
ment of tho residue OF said estate to the
persons thereto entitled;
1t Is Ordered, That said petition he
heard and that all persons interested In
said matter he cited and1rcquired to ap-
pear before this Court on Monday. the
18th day OF November. 1916, at 10
o'clock a. M. or as soon thereafter as
said matter can be heard. at the Pro-
bate Court Rooms in the Court House
and slow cause, if any they have, why
said petition should not be granted and
that this citation be served by publ
cation thereof in The Catholic Bulletin,
according to law, and by mailing copy
of this citation ut least ii days before
said day of hearing. to each of the
heirs, devisees and legatees of said de-
eedent whose names and addresses APP
pear from the files of this Court.
!. Witness the Judge of said Court, this
18th day of October, A. ID. 1916.
Z. w. BAZILLE.
y 'sS- 81 '@4'' Judge of Probate
(Seal of Probate Court)
Attest: II. w. GoseWisch.
Clerk of Probate.
T.. j. Doyle, Atty.
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AA>SQ0II0NSl14a
JbocfRiNAE se aSaHi9sg lfTVReicAL.l
z5s5ssSIFa

siderations are secondary. Our health,
our talent, our position in society
must be suhservient to the increasing
of the glory of our Maker, else We
shall mar the beauty and harmony OF
the plan OF creation.
The introduction to the Lord
Prayer is the petitioners acknowledge
ing of the eternal majesty and power
of the Almighty And yet it is an
acknowledgment prompted by love and
confidence rather than by awe and
fear. For Our Saviour taught and
urged His disciples to have recourse
to5their God as Father and not as
tyrant. We address the Omnipo-
tent not as our King, our Judge, but
as Our Father, and this realization
of the benefcent Fatherhood of God
is the consoling and encouraging idea
of our religion.
All the care, solicitude, tender SYM
pathy and paternal feeling that are
found in the human father are to be
found q thousand times increased in
Our Heavenly Father. We present
ourselves to Him as children, not as
slaves. He is ready to listen to us
as a Father, not as a vengeful ruler.
We are not His slaves, but His chill
dren, weak, vacillating in our piety,
quick to prove ourselves forgetful and
mgrateful. He is not our Master,
we are not His slaves. 1t is affection
and confidence Christ would inspire
in us by these first words of the most
excellent of all prayers. Even as the
little child trusts and relies upon his
human father for relief and assistance
in all troubles, anXieties, needs and
necessities, so we as~children of God
are to throw ourselves upon the divine
compassion, tolerance and paternal af-
lection of Our Father Who is in
Heaven.
The wonderful lesson that is taught
us by the Introductory words of the
Lords prayer is lesson of absolute
confidence in Gods love for us. Hum
BILE, yet not cringing or awestruck, we
are to depend upon Him Who clothes
the lilies of the fields and numbers
even the insignificant sparroWs, not
one of which falls to the ground with
out the Creators knowledge. Surely
our prayer should never lack reliance
upon Gods care for us, if we but re-
member the address taught us by the
Son of God Himself: when you
pray, say, Our Father"
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FIGURES AND CONTRASTS.


The grace Of God can get man
into heaven, but the grace of God can
not, without the help of the man, get
heaven into man. This is why the
Church making all allowances for hui
man nature insists that we must help
one another. Some of the "kill joys"
have been saying that we could not
afford to give generously to foreign
missions, because there was so much
to be done at home. In one of the
Protestant magazines this item. APP
pears and it. has its lesson for us. 1t
reads: 1857 ,,a &,
I'VE have been saying that we. could
not afford to give $18,000,000 a year to
foreign missions or to send 1000 men
abroad. Yet, today, Great Britain,
with less than half our population, is
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-10-21
BABIES BAPTIZED.

Our friends will be interested, we
are sure, in the following letter. from
Sister Agnes. 1t will give rs a slight
idea of the vast work being accom-
plished by the Sisters Of Charity in
the mission of Nfng-po.
"Very many thanks writes Sister
Agnes, 4for your kind offering of
1880 for rice. May God bless all
your good people for this great char
|Gity in remembering these poor, for
saken little children in this far-off
la 1.,sI am sure / don't know what
would have, become of us if our good
Mother had not raised us up helpers
in faroff America. a@ .s@ !.
1T will, I am sure, please you to
know that 336 babies were saved
last winter and, over 500 dying babies
baptized in one daily dispensary; of
orphans in the convent, we, have 400
and $50 babies out to nurse; this num-
Der is. daily increasing, so We j. are
really crowded out. SIS IL
II have now very little time for
letter writing. The warm weather is
here and we have begun our long ex-
cursions in search of dying babies, and
it takes up lot of our time. We go
far away, into the mountains, where
the pagan villages are densely popll-
lated and where during the great heat
the babies die off like flies. Last
month. on one afternoon had the
happiness of baptizing' fifty. But
when we go OUT several Sisters at a
time, each with Chinese woman,
into all the villages clustering round
the, mountains, we always return with
over 100 in day. But this is very
hard work with the great heat. So
please pray for me to keep strong
enough to go out often this summer
and will baptize several little
pagans in, your name, and also for our
good benefactors.' .
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Z POPULAR APoLoGETIcs.
Adapted from the German of Rev.
Peter Mikes, S. j., by Rev.
James Watcher.
XVII. Haeckers Authority.

Objection: But Prof. IIaeckel is
such an authority in natural science
that his name alone suffices to believe
him.
Answer: Something like God with
us, suppose. We are not guilty of
such idolatry. But your idol HaeckeI
is a queer authority; for
- He has been found guilty of
evident falsifications of many illustra-
tions in his History of Creation" and
"Anthropogenie" production or orr
gin of mani. For example, to prove
the similarity of certain stages of de-
velopment of man, the ape and the
dog he used three times the same
stcreotype-plate or cut. Later on he
admitted the forgery himself and
called it "a most imprudent folly"
(Apologetic appendix to the latest edi-
tons of his Anthropogenie)
q Haeckel is not satisfied with
exact investigation, he also uses in a
high degree his imagination, and
quotes in his defense in his Anthro-
pOSSIllC NlGCluLS 1oJ IlIC LOlIONl4Aeo NtiC
tum of another investigator: The
imagination is an indispensable thing;
for by it new combinations are pro-
duced as an occasion for new discOv-
cries"
- There clings to the name of
Haeckel the immortal disgrace which
the infidel investigators have expert
enced with their Rathybius HaeckeIii
tlife in the deep. In 1868 Huxley dis
covered kind Of Shiny substance on
the bottom of the sea at great depths
and called u in honor of Haeckel,
Bathybius Haeckelii., This was to ex-
plain the origin of life; there, they
claimed, life originated from non
living matter; the greatest riddle, the
very vital question of materialism was
now solved. Haeckel wrote triumph
antly: "Now we are able to trace
back the wonder of life's origin to this
substance; we have at last proven
the infinitely manifold and compli-
Gated physical and chemical proper
ties of albumen as the real cause of
the phenomena Of life"
Too bad for the learned professor
that this Shiny substance later proved
to be mere gypsum, which was preci-
plated in a jelly.like form, hence is
inorganic and cannot form a bridge
between the lifeless and the living
world.
A. Haeckel is a zoologist and de-
serves credit for many things in that
branch of science, but he has been
given to fbbing so much that the
infideI Berlin professor Du Bois-Rey-
mond calls his history of the origin
of man a romance, and Prof. HES
denies him the right to be classed
with serious investigators.
Prof. HES says: Il have been
raised in the belief that of all quail
fications of naturalist reliability and
unconditional respect for actual truth
is the only one that cannot be dis
pensed with. Let others, there
fore, honor Prof. Haeckel as the &C.
tive and inconsiderate party-leader
according to my judgment he has by
his manner of (scientific) contest re-
bounced the right to be numbered as
an equal among earnest investigators. .
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CATHOLICS AND OFFERINGS FOR
MASSES.

"Why are Catholics obliged to make
an offering for Masses? Since so
many Catholics insist that we have to
pay for them, would it not be better
not to have any money in connection
with them?" asks a correspondent of
the editor of Truth. The editor gives
the following answer, which is pub
lished in the September number of
Truth:
We are not obliged to have the
Masses said, nor is the priest obliged
to say them; at least he is not obliged
to say them for our intention. The
priest is obliged to give the people
the opportunity of attending Mass on
Sundays and holy days of obligation.
He feels it to be his duty also, his
priestly duty, to say Mass every day,
in so far as may be possible, and to
say Mass at an hour convenient for
some people to attend. His own love
and devotion to the Blessed Sacra-
ment are sufficient reasons why he
will try to be always faithful to the
doAAy MASS Ing 1ONC d1lu UcNOItOu vi
the pious members of the congrega-
ton who can find the leisure moments
for attending daily Mass will be added
to his own priestly motives. But even
when his piety and devotion lead him
to say Mass, there is nothing to bind
him to the saying of that Mass for
this or that particular person. So
some one asks him to say Mass to-
morrow for my intention and offers
him not pay, because no pay can be
given for spiritual things or benefits,
but what the Church calls an aims.
If he accepts this, then he is obliged
to offer Mass for the person or for
the intention of the person who makes
the offering.
1t might be better to have no money
offered at the celebration of a Mass,
at a baptism, or at a marriage, but
what may be better in theory is not
always better in practise. There is,
on the other hand, "a disposition
among most Catholics to make an of
fering to the priest on these occa-
sions. But all should understand and
know that ip case Of poverty, no one.
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Order to Present Claims Within Three
Months

STATE OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY or
Ramsey. SIS. Probate Court.
In the Matter of the Estate of Mar
garct Gleason, Deceased.
Letters Testamentary on the Estate
of Margaret Gleason. deceased. late OF
the City of ST. Paul, in the County or
Ramsey and State of Minnesota, being
granted TO Frank Gleason.
1t Appearing on proper proof by affi-
daVit Of Frank Glea son, made and filed
herein, as provided by law. that there
are no debts against the estate of said
deceased:
1t is ordered, That three months be
and the same is hereby allowed from
and after the date of this Order,< in
which all persons having claims or de-
mands against the said deceased, If any
there be, are required TO Tile the same
in Probate Court Of said County, for
examination and allowance, or be for
ever barred.
1t Is Further Ordered. That the first
Monday in February. 1917, at 10 o'clock
bate Court, to be held at the Court
House in the City of St Paul, in said
County, be and the same hereby is APP
pointed as the time and the place when
and where the said Probate Court will
examine and adjust said claims and de-
mands.
And 1t Is Further Ordered, That no.
tice of such hearing be given to all
creditors and persons interested in said
Estate, by forthwith publishing this
cessiye weeks in The Catholic Bulletin,
legal newspaper printed and publish
ed in said County.
Dated at St. Paul, this 18th day of
October, 1916.
BY the Court: e. w. BAZILLE,
Judge of Probate.
(Seal of Probate Court)
Douglas. Kennedy d Kennedy, AttyS.