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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-09-15
TRIBUTE TO A SISTER OF
CHARITY.

The following is taken from report
of Board of Administration of Charity
Hospital, New Orleans, La:
ION Saturday, the 28th of October,
1916, (Sister Agnes) Catherine SlaVin,
on her seventy-ninth birthday, passed
to her eternal reward" Hers was
life of such uncommon devotion and
extraordinary self-sacrifice in the
service of suffering humanity that
even her innate modesty could not
keep hidden from the world her num-
berless acts of mercy.
This noble-hearted woman was in
deed the very personification OF that
spirit of sweet charity which knows
no bounds and which ministers to the
wants of others with utter forgetful-
ness of self.
To the poor and humble, to the
weak and distressed of all creeds, hers
was the singular mission of acting the
part of Mother, Sister, Friend. She
touched the life of this great city at
so many and varied angles that she
radiated everywhere an influence at
once helpful and uplifting, beneficent
and inspiring. Hers was a household
name throughout our Southland.
Neither the glowing canvas, nor
sculptured marble, nor the majestic
music of immortal verse will be need
ed to perpetuate the memory OF this
| remarkable and sainted woman. Her
| name and her deeds will ever remain
! lovingly enshrined on the hearts of
countless thousands, who in remem-
brance of her, will thank God for hav.
ing enrichedtthe world with such an
"Angel of Mercy"
Activities Manifold.
To chronicle the activities of this
gifted woman would be like recoloring
the rainbow, reburnishing royal gold
adding perfume to the rose, for the
fruits of her life-work will endure as
an imperishable monument to he1
qualities of mind and heart.
To this Board of Administrators
! however, the occasion of her death
naturally invites retrospection OF
those acts of her life which are woven
| into the very fabric of the Charity
Hospital. So as to insure it's preserva
| ton in the annals of local history, ours
| is the gracious task to re-emphasize
that from the year 1871 to 1909, a
/ span of nearly 40 years, Sister Agnes
had active charge of the household
! management and nursing of this great
State institution. With infinite tact
/ and unerring hand, with administra
tive ability of the highest order and
without fear in the performance OF
duty, she guided the working forces
of her department.
In stress and storm she was pillar
of confidence and hope. We need but
recall how the calamities of the Civil
War left the Hospital treasury de-
pleted, and that it was Sister Agnes
who personally collected the supplies
to replenish the commissary. She
tided over a most pressing emergency
until the State could again meet its
obligations.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-09-15
BUILT UPON THE ROCK OF PETER

- . $ = - I
Here is what the Calvinistic paper
s'De Heraut," published in Holland,
has to say in favor Of the Catholic
Church:
Whilst the war has broken asunder
all ties of social life, as well as those
of science and arts, the Catholic
Church, and she alone, she preserved
her international unity absolutely in
tact; she has thus given brilliant
proof of the solidity of her organic
life. In contrast, consider how Social
ism, of which one of the essential dog
mas is the international solidarity OF
the toilers of the world, has been shat
tered by the war, while not a stone
of the worldwide Church has been in
the least degree loosened.
The outcome of it all is the fact that
Catholicity stands forth as World.
Church, and Professionalism as a set OF
national churches. Protes
tantism at it's very beginning made
the awful blunder of reducing the one
| World Church into many national
churches, standing apart from one an
other, and with no bond Of union
among them; each having it's inalien
| able national character, each tying
itself indissolubly to racial state
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-09-15
THE WHITE PLAGUE IN JAPAN.

The Sisters of ST. Paul de Chatres
conduct hospital in the city of Vat
sushiro, Japan, and the Superior, Sis
ter Eulalia of the Cross, has this to
say regarding health conditions in the
district:
'Leprosy is, of course, the greatest
scourge of the Orient, and, while we
do not permanently keep victims OF
the disease, we treat fifty or more
such patients every year. In great
distress, the poor creatures knock at
our door, and in charity we admit
them, dress their sores, and let them
rest for few days, after which they
go on their way little comforted
Next to leprosy comes the plague
of consumption or tuberculosis. 1t is
very prevalent in Japan, and so much
feared that if school child dies of it,
no other occupant for the seat can be
found 1t must remain empty.
Tuberculosis is easily spread here,
and one cannot wonder at this fact
when one considers the Japanese
houses. and the manner in which the
poor live. Huddled in thinly-built
dwellings of only one room, the
families are frightfully crowded. A
few straw mats on the floor are the
only furnishing, and on these mats
the people eat, sleep and work.
Germs are easily hidden in the un-
sanitary mats, and if one member OF
the family contracts consumption the
rest soon catch it. l have in mind a
family of nine persons, six of whom
are already dead and two dying. This
wholesale slaughter could have been
prevented by isolating the first pa
tient; but, alas! our hospitals are in
adequate to the great demands made
upon them, and so our poor people
| perish
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-09-15
FIGHTING A COMPANY OF APES.


Rev. Father Francis Lacoursiere, a
missionary at Masinda, Uganda, re-
Gently had the odd experience of bat
Ting with apes. In Africa one must
always be ready to protect house and
lands from some jungle denizen.
"One morning crowd of excited
children came to tell me that apes
were in the potato field. Taking my
gun, | rushed out, followed by four
strong negroes armed with spears.
1--WE soon came in sight of about
twenty apes, as large as heifer year
ling. At our approach, the mothers,
carrying their little ones on their
backs, fed as fast as their feet would
carry them. Not so, however, with
the enormous males = they never
stirred. | advanced toward them, but
not until 1 came within range did
they make any attempt at flight
One of them, whose mission seemed
to be to cover the retreat of the
others, turned back from time to time
When we stopped, so did he, face tC
the enemy. Resting my arm on the
branch of a bush, | sent him a charge
full in the face. He made a sudden
abrupt motion, and fell stone-dead
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-09-15

who suggested to the donor the cry
ing need for such gift.
These are the large, conspicuous
and known accomplishments of this
remarkable woman in behalf of the
Charity Hospital; these are the foot
prints which she leaves ION the sands
of Time!"
Whereas, The INDECENT sick commit
ted to the care of the State have been,
and will continue to be, the benefici-
aries of the altruistic life of one
whose spirit has passed into the Eter-
nal presence of its maker;
Be 1t Resolved, That the Board of
Administrators of the Charity Hospi-
tai feel that in the death of Sister
Agnes, our Institution has suffered an
| irreparable loss.
Be 1t Resolved, That we extend to
the Sisters of Charity, who for eighty
four years, with Incompatible devo
ton and heroic self-sacrifice, have
assisted the State in caring for its
poor and afflicted, our deepest sym
pathy in the loss of their valiant and
] devoted leader.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-09-15
scHooLMATE OF ARCHBISHOP.

When a boy, Bishop Chatron, who
died recently at Nagasaki, studied at
the same school with Archbishop Ire.
land, of st. Paul, Mimi. He went to
the mission field of Japan in 1873,
forty-four years ago. At that time the
country was still closed, and religious
persecution was raging fiercely. He
spent his first years at Nagasaki,
where he had many narrow escapes
from the enemy during the frequent
sick calls that he made at night to
the faithful Christians scattered
throughout the villages around the
city. On one occasion his escorts
We're obliged to hide him in the quag.
mire of a rice field, where he had to
lie PROSTATE and as silent as mouse
until the patrol finished their inspec.
ton and continued on their way.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-09-15
AFRlcA's HOPE.

'The privations of the missionaries,
and of the faithful" says Bishop
Sweens, w. F., writing from Bukaba,
Victoria, Nyanza, shave produced
their effect. The number following
the catechism classes is larger than
ever before. But poverty presses,
and we are obliged to exercise strict
economy in the use of flour and wine,
in order not to be prevented from say
ing Mass.
"a word must be spoken about our
'seminaries. In the Grand Seminary
we have fifteen Students; in the Petit
sixty pupils. Among the former there
are four sub-deacons, one minor and
five who have received the tonsure.
This outlook is hopeful, and we may
plan on seeing a number of native
clergy here in the course of time,
though the work must be slow. With
twenty-five churches and thirty char
table institutions in this vicariate,
we need all the help we can get
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-09-15
CONTINUED RECOGNITION COMES
FROM THE BISHOPS.

Mgr. Gramigna, o. M. Cap, Bishop
of Allahabad, B. E. India, writes in ac-
acknowledgement of an offering sent and
also in regard to the multitude of
works necessary to be undertaken in
his large diocese:
Il have my hands full, while my
Golfers are almost empty. Our help
from France is greatly diminished, as
needs must unhappily be, and other
sources, in the shape Of small
stipend for Masses, are closed to us.
Yet my unfailing trust in Providence
will, am sure, get me out of these
difficulties, or help me to tide over
Them till better times. aMay Provi-
dence reward you and the benefactors
for your noble work, and grant you
all a great share in the reward of
the missionary"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-09-15
AN IMPORTANT CONSIDERATION

1t is an undeniable fact that the
Catholics of the United States make
many and great sacrifices to provide
and support parish schools in which
their children maya receive a thor
oughly Christian education. The
generosity and the loyalty of Catho-
lies in this respect is most commend
able. They want the best and are
satisfied with nothing less. The
teachers in our parish schools, I'M
bued with the spirit of Jesus Christ,
labor unselfishly and untiringly to
promote the temporal and the spir-
itual welfare of the children en-
trusted to their care. But there is a
phase of Catholic education which has
not always received the consideration
if deserves; and that is the question
of text books, notes the Sacred Heart
Review.
Now there are two subjects taught
in our schools (reading and history
which need special attention. The
text books for these subjects should
be thoroughly Catholic; and today
there is no excuse for any teacner,
principal, or pastor to introduce other
than Catholic readers or histories in
our parish schools.
In the past, some of the Catholic
text books, it must be admitted, were
far below par. They were at best
dry compilations which usually dis
gusted the pupils and the teacher.
But today, thank God, that state OF
affairs no longer exists. We have
Catholic readers and histories which
will bear comparison with the best on
the market.
Speaking about this important sub
ject the Rev. Augustine F. Mickey, s.
T. L., supervisor of schools in the
Archdiocese of Boston, truly says:
There is crying need OF texts
thoroughly Catholic. Writing Catholic
across the cover and front page, scat
tering a few religious pictures through
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-09-15
A BRAVE MOTHER.

Father Laurence Mulder, o. P, who
passed to his reward lately, on one of
the smallest islands of the West In
dies, was known as ''The Man on the
Rock" For more than twenty-five
years he labored on his little island,
which was hardly more than huge
boulder. Every Sunday morning he
said Mass and preached a sermon in
the church on the top of the rock,
and then made a seven-hour journey
down the steep cliff to perform the
same duties in the chapel on the
beach.
During his forty-five years in the
West Indies, Father Mulder never re-
turned to his own country, Holland.
His mother, though longing to see the
absent one, used to say: IF I felt
that a single soul would be lost
through his return, should not wish
to see him."
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-09-15
GOVERNOR LAUDS FEALTY OF
CATHOLICS.

In answer to letter of inquiry
from the Catholic Northwest Prog
ress of Seattle, Governor Alexander of
Idaho answered as follows in regard
to the high standard of Catholic Citi-
zenship:
Dear Sir-I am in receipt of your
letter of April goth making inquiry
as to the loyalty of the Catholic
population of my State and inquiring
as to the morality of the converts and
the ministers of said Church. 4
Catholics are no different than
other denominations and they per-
sonify the same high-class citizen
ship that other denominations do.
Can you tell a Catholic from Jew,
from Methodist or from any other
denomination? If you can, can
not.
/ am not a Catholic and I know
very little about the Catholic re-
| ligion, but | can tell you that I live
across the street from Catholic
| school for girls in Boise and 800 feet
from Catholic hospital, both institu-i
! lions being in charge of Catholic
Order of Sisters, and they are the
4 best neighbors I have ever had, and
| have backed UP my belief in the
Sisters by sending my own children
to their school, for believe their
teaching and example inspire the
highest ideals of womanhood of any
schools in our land.
I have personally known Right
Reverend Bishop Glorieux of this
| State for the past twenty-five years,
and I have known the ministers of
the same denomination who have
been in Boise for that length of time,
and each and everyone of them is the
highest type of citizen that anyone
could come in contact with. They
are just as loyal and as good as any
people on the face of the earth.
So far as the Sisters are concerned,
they do more work without pay and
impart the highest type of education
and womanly graces into their pupils
that can be found in any other school.
We are proud of the various de-
nominations of our State, the Cath
olics included. We would not do
without them if we could, and if they
were to leave the State, we would
i petition them to return. I think the
time has come when we as American
citizens ought to stand together and
cease to bring up religious controver-
sizes.
i | am speaking from personal
knowledge when I say the Catholics
I, of this State are high-class citizens.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-09-15
ABOUT THE PERPETUAL MEM
BERSHlP.

The following information may be
useful to others besides those who
have written to ask about the condi-
lions of membership: The Offering
for perpetual membership is forty
dollars. 1t entities the individual en-
rolled to all the spiritual privileges OF
the Society for the Propagation of the
Faith in life and death. The plenary
and partial indulgences granted tc
benefactors are many. More than fiji
teen thousand Masses are annually
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-09-15

Liberty means responsibility.
Some young people want liberty in the
mistaken idea that it means freedom
from everything in the nature of obi
cation. But that is lieence, not lib
erty. Liberty always fulfills, and re-
spects, and exalts law. 1t shoulders
burdens and marches against evil.
Eternal vigilance is it's price, and
those unworthy of it cannot keep it a
day.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-09-15
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The others fed to the forest, uttering
piercing cries.
Our band returned with songs oil
triumph; was the hero of the day
because l had delivered the country
around from these terrible marauders
Their custom is to withdraw fol
months after one of their number has
been killed.
"These are but commonplace event;
in the life of the missionary. The
real combat is with that great Ape
who, from the beginning, has sough
to destroy the souls of men,"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-09-15
Department Catholic

celebrated for the living and deceased
members of the Society.
The offering for perpetual mem
bership may be made at one time or
should, otherwise, be made within one
year, at the convenience of the donor.
This is the best investment that can
be made, because it insures for life
and eternity.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-09-15
Economic Administration.

Especially noteworthy was her eco
nomic management of the household
department, by which the State be-
came her debtor, for she with the help
of the Sisters of Charity, saved it
thousands Of dollars.
With larger vision, she looked way
beyond the precincts of her own i'm
portant department, and it is no ex-
aggeration to record that the build
ings which have clustered around the
one original building came into ex-
istence, many through her own active
efforts, and others through her timely
advice and direct suggestion.
With the keenest insight and with a
well-nigh prophetic vision, Sister
Agnes saw that the trained nurse had
indeed come to stay. In the face OF
criticism and opposition, she launched
the School of Nurses and even entered
her own Sisters of Charity in the
ranks of the very first class organ
lied in the new school.
The splendid home for trained
nurses is the fruitage of her personal
appeal to the philanthropic A. 9.
Hutchinson, whose generosity made
possible this indispensable agency in
the future success of the institution.
The Milliken Memorial, whose am
Pile accommodations have been SO in
strumental III saving child-life, was
the happy inspiration q Sister Agnes,
The Pensacola journal., 1917-08-16
HAIG'S FORCES ARE
WORRYING GERMANS

London, Aug. 15.-Field Marshal
Sir Douglas Haig's forces attacked
the German positions along a wide
front early this morning from Lens
to the northeast of Loos. The official
statement says the British are max
ing progress satisfactorily.
General Haig reports that the Brit
ish troops have carried the German
first line at all points on the front at
tack.
The statement reads: 1--WE at
tackled early this morning on a wide
front from the northwestern out
skirts of Lens to the Bois Hugo, north
east of Loos. Our troops have car
ried the German first lines of defense
at all points and are making salts
factory progress.
"a hostile attack east of the Cite
St. Emile was completely crushed.
"Our allies gained further ground
during the night northwest of BiXs-
choote.
Hostile raiding parties attacked
our new positions last night east OF
Klein Zillebeke, but were completely
repulsed leaving ii prisoners in oul
hands.
"The stormy weather continues
Heavy rain has again fallen"
The Pensacola journal., 1917-08-16
CHILDREN HATE
PILLS, CALOMEL
AND CASTOR OIL
GIVE FRUIT LAXATIVE WHEN
CROSS, BILIOUS, FEVERlSH
OR CONSTIPATED.
CALIFORNIA SYRUP OF FIGS"
CAN'T HARM TENDER STOM-
ACH, LIVER, BOWELS.

Look back at your childhood days.
Remember the "dose" mother insisted
on-castor oil, calomel, cathartics.
How you hated them, how you fought
against taking them.
With our children it's different.
Mothers who cling to the old form OF
physic simply don't realize what they
do. The children's revolt is ws-
founded. Their tender little "insides"
are injured by them.
If your child's stomach, liver and
bowels need cleansing, give only deli
cious california Syrup of Figs" Its
action is positive, but gentle. Millions
Of mothers keep this harmless fruit
laxative" handy; they know children
love to take it; that it never fails to
clean the liver and bowels sweeten
the stomach, and that a teaspoonfuI
given today saves a sick child tomor-
row
Ask your druggist for 50-cent
bottle of California Syrup of Figs
which has full directions for babies
children of all ages and for grown
ups plainly on each bottle. Beware
of counterfeits sold here. See that i
is made by California Fig SyraT
Company Refuse any other kint
with contempt ADV.
The Pensacola journal., 1917-08-16
RULES GOVERN
LOCAL BOARDS
OF EXEMPTION
the particular enterprise?

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NEED OF SURGICAL
DRESSINGS BRINGS
IN EARNEST APPEAL

In order to meet the increasing de-
mand for surgical dressings an ap-
peal for which was recently sent out
by Surgeon General William G. Brai
stead, the American Red Cross has
called upon the ten largest chapters
to furnish supplies for 1873 destroyers
and battleships. Smaller chapters, in
cluding the Pensacola unit, are busily
engaged in the work and are helping
in supplying the demand.
Women qualified in the various
chapters to make surgical dressings
are working night and day for the
rapid completion of the work. Only
women who have taken the Red Cross
course in the making of these baDz
dages are eligible to engage in the
work.
With the declaration of war there
has been a rapid increase in the num-
Der of women taking the Red Cross
surgical dressing courses. In June
4,144 certificates were issued to wo-
men who had taken the course of
eight lessons of three hours each,
and in the first ten days of July, 1879
certificates were issued.
Each chapter will supply the bat
tleship named after that particular
state and others in which they might
have a geographical interest. Thus
the Chicago chapter will supply the
Chicago and the Illinois. New York
will supply the New York and the
Albany. These boxes as completed
will be shipped by chapters direct tc
the Bush Terminal at New York fol
distribution to the ships.
The Pensacola journal., 1917-08-16

with the intent to evade the perform
ance of military duty.
The Pensacola journal., 1917-08-16
ALABAMA SHERIFF
IS HOT ON TRAIL
Of THIS FUGITIVE

Sheriff John L. Moon, of Lee coun-
ty, Ala, has evidently missed his call
ing by taking the office of sheriff,
even in Alabama The other day he
penned desire, which he circularized
and sent broadcast, asking assistance
of all officers to assist him in locat-
ing and arresting man whose name
was given as Turner, but who has
many aliases, according to Sheriff
Moon. This is how the circular
reads:
Il Want Him $100 WORTH
Anywhere on earth Except in
Germany Robert Turner, alias B. F.
Martin, alias anything else. He's as
crooked as a barrel of snakes. Two
charges, grand larceny, and one for
breaking Jail.
Description: Age "a to q, 5 feet
10 inches, weight 145 to 1876 pounds,
blue eyes, sandy hair, reddish COM
plexion, roman nose. Left here about
one a. m. July 81, wearing blue over
all suit, had two Palm Beach suits
with him, pair tan shoes and pair ten
mis- shoes, broad brim black hat and
| cap.
"Will take anything that is not red
hot and nailed down. Will take a
Panama hat or a Palm Beach suit in
| the winter time, or an overcoat or g
suit of wool underwear in the sum.
mer time. Will let a horse take ur
with him, will swipe a billy goat, OF
hook COW. He can drive any kinc
of car, and he actually tried to stea
my Ford when he escaped, and if he
had ever got that l would have of
fered 5000 for him.
ARREST and wire me and | will
come with the dough, which has al,
ready been made up"