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The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1917-04-13
Children Cry
FOR FLETcnEF'S
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A decided increase I'm the use Of
petroleum as locomotive E-. D. The
aiiroads OF fine United States ia 1915
ie shown by statistics complied under
the supervision of John D NorJhrop
Hnl just published lg lao United
States Geological 3uy,s DEPARTMENT
of the interior
Reports submitted by 1a railroad
companies, prisiug an that oper-
ate oil-burning locomotives In the
United States, show tina. the quantity
OF on fuel SO consumed last year wds
42,126.FfT barrels, gain OF 5.i77,-
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1917-04-13
II. =. L. SELECTED As
\ TRAINING CAMP

Washington, April : Establish.
mcnt OF nine new units OF the re-
serve officers training corps was au-
Hounced by the War Department, TO-
day. They are at Princeton UnFcr-
sity, Northwestern Military and Nav
al Academy, Lake Geneva, WIS
Clemson Agricultural COLLEGE OF
South Carolina; the Harvard School
Of Los Angeles, Cal; University OF
Arizona; University of Kentucky.
Bowdoiu College and Williams coll
rge.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1917-04-13
Farm For sale.

A 100 acre farm 4 miles east OF
Hartford, on the border OF the oil
fields. Good dwelling. barn and 9TH
er necessary outbuildings. Young
orchard, strawberry bed nj other
pleasing features. II 9nAI carry
inter county seat pike WI be near.
See, or write Tinsley & Barnett.
Hartford Ky. for further particu.
lars
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1917-04-13
Why Constipation Injuries.

The bowels are the natural sewer
age system OF the body. When they
become DISTRACTED by constipation a
part OF the poisonous matter which
they should carry oil is ABSORBED into
the system. making you feel dull and
stupid, and interfering with the di-
sestion and assimilation Of food.
This condition is quickly relieved by
Chamberlain's Tablets Obtainablc
everywhere. m
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1917-04-13
Insomnia.

Indigestion nearly always disturbS
the sleep more or less, and is often
the cause OF Insomnia Eat light
supper with little II any meat. and
no milk; also take one OF Chamber
iain's Tablets Immediately after sup
per, and see If YOU do not rest much
better. ObtainabIc everywhere. m
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1917-04-13

During President Lincolns first
visit 10 the Springfield penitenttary
an old inmate looking out through
the bars. remarked.
We'll, Mr.. Lincoln. you and
ought to be well posted ON prisons
We've seen an there are in the
country.
Why, this is the first | ever sis.
tied" replied the chief executive
somewhat astonished.
yes" was the reply, but I've
been in AN the rest. 49, Chicago news
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1917-04-13
W0Ma# SICK
TWO YEARS
Could 10 No Work.
Now Strong az a
Man.

Chicago, ID. "For about two years
suffered from a female trouble 50
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1917-04-13
lSS TITO So M Cn.ta


EIHENA AND SKIN DISEASES
fe'ro- Nonta is an autiseptic salye
the result of forty years practical
cNperiyNce OF O druggist, who has
taken the best ideas from physician
prescriptions ana concentrated his
skin ion this most valuable remedy
Those suffering with discourag.ng
SKIN DISEASES will find Poiro-
Mcntd great blessing :
For sale by Ohio County Drug Go.
Price 25c. l.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1917-04-13

inHeIly Russian Ship,
NHa Cn.uoran WAS formerly a
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1917-04-13

was unable TO walk
on do any of my oy n
work. l read about
LYDIA =. Pinkham 3
Vegetable Com
pound in the news
papers and deter
mined TO try it. lt
brought almost iyn-
mediate relief Mv
80. ..nes7 h. en-
lively disgp' cared
and tue--~l..,ltet .
3 't yn.g,
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-05-26
TELLING 1T IN CONFIDENCE.


eff you have information that you
don't want people to spread around,
keep it to yourself says writer in
the American Magazine.
1.-The trouble with human being
who bears a thing in confidence is of
ten this-he can't remember that he
heard it in confidence He remembers
the item of news, provided it is juicy
enough, but the fact that he heard it
in confidence drops out of mind, and
then he begins to tell it around. Tell
ing a thing in confidence is a little
like handing man a jewel in an
envelope and at the same time warn
ing him to take as good care of the
envelope as he takes of the jewel
Everything goes all right for awhile.
But by and by the envelope wears out
1t is a fiimsy sort of thing anyway
And SO there comes a time when the
envelope, having grown thin and
weak and frayed at the edges, slips
off or is cast off and nothing remains
but the jewel.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-05-26
THE ORDINARY MAN.

Discussing the characteristics of
the average man, America says:
You do not hear a great deal about
him. He is not wealthy, but he is
likely to be happy and generally, he
is very wise. He works hard in an
inconspicuous position, takes an occa-
sional vacation, is good to his wife,
and is regarded by his children as
the best and wisest of men. But the
world does not think enough about
him either to affirm or deny this YER
dict He is merely an ordinary man.
And yet it is on him, the ordinary
man, who day after day plods along
the road of simple humdrum duty,
that the stability of our civilization
depends. The genius is apt to be an
unpleasant neighbor; society, above
whose laws he often places himself,
usually pays a generous price for his
undoubted services. But the ordinary
man is so busy providing for him.
self and for those who depend upon
him, that he has no time to work
out disturbing, unsettling theories of
class-distinctions and social reform.
He is a builder, not destroyer. He
takes the world as he finds it, and
tries to improve that part of it in
which he lives
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-05-26

But when we are very young we
want the world and the fitness there
of. We want everything that any
one else has, and every denial of our
desires, every disappointment, is a
blow under which we are crushed to
the earth. And especially do we want
to dress like our companions.
There is no woman, save the few
darlings of fortune, who cannot re-
call the shame that burned her to
the quick when she had to wear an
old dress to some party at which all
the other girls had new dresses, or
the tears she shed over some other
girls hair ribbon being half an inch
wider than hers, or the passion of
yearning with which she longed for a
pair of silk stockings, such as the
rich girl in her little set wore.
Therefore, women, at least, will
understand how a school girl may be
led to take the false step that will
wreck her whole life just to crafty
her desire to dress as well as her
classmate, and no woman has right
to pray, Lead us not into temptation,
unless she herself has consciously re-
Trained from leading some silly little
girl into wrong doing by dressing her
own daughter so plainly when she
goes to school that she will not be a
temptation to her poor school mates.
Naturally, it will be said that you
cannot put the whole world of women
into a drab uniform to protect the
poor weakling, and that as soon as
she gets out of school, she will face
all the allurements of fashion and find
the devil of pretty things reckoning
to her from every shop window: This
is true, but the girl will be older, and
better able to resist temptation.
Moreover, as general thing, the
poor girl goes to work as soon as
she is out of school and is thus able
to legitimately crafty many of her
longings.
Thoughtful women everywhere are
anxious to help their sex. They can
best do this by teaching women not
to bow down to chiffOns, and by COM
batting the temptation to overdress.
This reform must be started by the
women at the top. They must set
| the example, for they are their Sis
| ters' keepers
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-05-26
DURATION OF AMERICAN WARS

The first American war, that of the
Revolution, dated from April 10, 1775,
to April II, 1888, a period of eight
years; the Northwestern Indian wars,
from September 10, 1890, to August 3,
1895; the war with France, from July
9, 1898, to September 80, 1900; the
war with Tripoli, from June 10, 1901,
to June 4, 1905; the Creek Indian war,
from July q, 1918, to August 9, 1914;
the War of 1872 with Great Britain,
from June IS, 1872, to February II,
1885, the Seminole Indian war, from
November 20, 1917, to October 81,
1918; the Black Hawk Indian war,
from April 81, 1881, to September 80,
1892; the Cherokee disturbance or re-
moyal, from 1886 to 1887; Creek Indi-
an war or disturbance, from May 5,
1886, to September 80, 1897; the Flor
ida Indian war, from December %,
1885, to August IA, 1913; Aroostock
disturbance, 1886 to 1899; the war
with Mexico, April "a, 1916, to July 4,
1S4S; the Apache, Navajo and Utah
war, from 1849 to 1855; the Seminole
war, from 1856 to 1858; the Civil war,
from 1861 to 1865; the Spanish-Ameri-
can war, April 81, 1898, to August u
1898, and the Philippine insurrection
from 1899 to 1900.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-05-26
DOING 1T THE RIGHT WAY.

For every right way to do a thing
there are ninety-nine wrong ways.
Take the apparently single matter
of loading sugar in cars or putting
it in storage houses. The difference
between any one OF the ninety-nine
wrong ways and the one right way
is a sufficient reason for the world S
biggest sugar company to issue a
book about it.
An amateur wouldn't dream there
could be so much science in rolling
$50 barrels of sugar in a box car.
But this little book, filled with dia-
grams, is a school of instruction for
all employees. There they learn to
do it the right way and to avoid the
ninety-nine wrong ones.
The fellow who learns to load
sugar the right way soon finds out
that the thing contains higher mathe-
MATES, chemistry and finance.
The American people eat just about
their own weight in sugar in a year.
and even the tiniest saving on each
pound achieved by this scientific
handling is quite enough to pay all
salaries and leave a snug margin to
boot.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-05-26
THE ORIGIN OF Mr.. AND MRS.

In earlier times the ordinary man
was simply William or John-that is
to say, he had only a Christian name
without any kind of handle before
it or surname after it. ~ Some means
of distinguishing one John or William
from another John or William became
necessary. Nicknames derived from
a mans trade or his dwelling place
or from some personal popularity
were tackled on to his Christian name,
and plain John became John Smith.
AS yet there were no "misterS" in the
land. Some John Smith accumulated
more wealth than the bulk of his fell
lows-became perhaps landed pro-
prietor or an employer of hired labor.
Then he began to be called in the
Norman-French of the day ''maistre'
of this place or that, of these workmen
or of those. In the course of time the
"maistre," or master" as it soon be-
came, got tackled on before his name,
and he became Master Smith. Grad.
ually the sense of possession was lost
sight of, and the title was conferred
upon any kindly mere possession OF
| wealth or holding some position OF
| more or less consideration and i'm
portance.
| -GIobo
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-05-26
THE TALKING TREES.

Once upon time as the little birds
were making their long journey to the
pleasant warm countries where birds
spend the winter a little robin was
left behind. He had lame wing, and
lame winged birds never can fly far
Little robin looked about in the
strange woods where, tired out, he
had to stop. He crept UP to gnarled
old oak tree whose branches scared
a hundred feet into the air.
please let me stay with you all
winter the little bird pleaded
your leaves will shelter me from the
winter winds
But the oak was proud. &c
away" he said. I do not want tramp
birds like you about my branches
The little bird sped to the beech
tree, but the beech tree made believe
not to hear the robin.
THE maple is SO lovely. Perhap:
she is also kind the little bird said
And he went to the maple tree to ash
her for shelter. But the maple tree
was not kind.
He flew to the little stream alonE
which the white birch trees cleaned
but the birches said that they were
not strong enough to take dodgers.
AS, tired and sorrowful, the little
bird started away on his lame wing ;
dark, shaggy tree standing on The hill
slope called to him, Here you ar
welcome to shelter, little wanderer
It was the tall pine tree with thicl
needles which could turn off thu
toughest winter wind.
81, too, have home for you,
called the tall, dark spruce. And tn
stately cedar whispered that if tn
little bird cared to live near tn
dwellings of man not to overlook it
sheltering branches in the garden.
AS for me, called the little juni
per, though I may not be able to OF
fer shelter, my berries will provid
you with food, to which you are we
come as long as you need them"
] And so the little bird stayed wit
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-05-26
KINDNESS.

Don't quarrel. There is no good in
it. 1t is impossible to extract truth
from it. It's philosophy reflects hos,
tility to truth, because it is always
one sided and therefore an effort to
make your side appear the better
which is itself a false attitude. 1t is
quite difficult to get at the truth even
in a serene and philosophical discus
sion simply because the truth is in
accessible to argument. Where is the
road to truth? 1t is the road called
Kindness. One will never reach truth
by any other route. We have seer
men get very mad at each other in
argument, who finally eXtricate6
themselves from their mad spell
spoke gently, shook hands and saw
the truth. Try it and see.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-05-26
Is BLUSH OF SHAME.

Of all the flowers that blow there
are few about which as many stories
are told as the lily, says Gertrude M.
O'Reilly in the Philadelphia Ledger.
From all parts of the world they
come, weaving fair cloak of
romance around the blossom that sur
passeth Solomon in all his glory"
The lilies of Caucasus, for example,
change their color after the rain has
fallen, their white petals blushing rosy
pink at the kiss of the shower, and
the peasants will not fail to give you
the reason, should you ask.
Long, long centuries ago, they will
tell you, there lived a valiant soldier
who had one daughter, Tamara, the
most beautiful maiden the world had
ever seen. Fair as lily was her skin
and bright as gold her long silken
curls, and all who saw her loved her
for her beauty and her charm. War
broke out in a neghboring country,
and her father was called to arms.
Long and bravely he fought and ever
NY LIS SlO0 lOOC 1llo lIlCllu, IIC CllCl
of nearby castle, until one bitter day
an arrow found his comrades heart.
Century-Oid Legend.
When the war was over, he came
home once more, bringing with him
Plini, young lad, the son of his fallen
| comrade. Between Plini and Tamara
1
close friendship grew. She, as was
the custom of the times, had learned
to weave and embroider, but further
learning had she none. SO he delighted
in teaching her the songs of Greece
while he accompanied her on the harp
Day in and day out they wandered to-
gether through the woods and fields
gathering the flowers that grew by the
way, and together singing so that the
very birds hushed their melody to
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-05-26
PLATING

listen. They were only children, and
their merry laughter rang through the
air as they ran and leaped in joy of
heart, but little by little they grew
more silent and as they walked their
hands would seek and find each the
others
Then the nature of their singing
changed and sad, sweet melodies re-
placed the joyous tunes of childhood.
The harp sobbed and sighed with I'M
spoken love and long, strange silences
fell between them. For months they
wandered thus, not understanding the
secret of their hearts, until one day
Tamara was claimed by the great
chief to whom her hand had been long
promised.
Too dutiful to refuse to obey the
commands of her father, too loving to
be untrue to her own heart, she knew
not what to do, so going out into the
mountains she prayed to heaven for
deliverance, and the gods, who hear
the prayers of those who trust,
changed her into tall lily, with petals
white as her fair skin and golden
pistil that shone as had her flowing
treSSeS.
Years passed and Plini wandered
the whole world through, seeking for
his lost love. From every passer-by
he asked, Have you seen Tamara,
the fairest of maidens?" To the wild
winds as they blew he prayed, ooh,
find for me my love-" but no answer
came until home once more in his
own country he found and knew the
| lily. Falling on his knees beside it
he cried, rs it indeed, thee, o
Tamara?" and, like the sigh of the
soft south wind, he heard the flower
whisper, 1T is |, my beloved"
Then, all his years of fruitless
search past, he clasped the blossom
to his heart and wept, and the flower,
feeling the warm tears of love, blush
ed rosy with joy. But what was life
| to him when she who made the sun
shine of his heart was gone? So the
merciful gods changed him to a
shower, which ever and anon falls
| in refreshing rain on the lilies of the
/ Caucasus, and when there is a
drought in the land the maidens
gather the flowers of Tamara and
strew them over the fields, singing
as they go the song of Plini, invoking
his love that once more he may bring
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-05-26
BENEFIcENT SUFFERING.

A touching story appeared in q
which a great-hearted surgeon be-
came profoundly interested in a lit
tie crippled waif.
AS he grew to love the little girl,
he studied her case, and became con-
vinced that she could be cured,
though only after critical and pain
full operation. The operation was
successful. But the child whom he
had adopted as his daughter, and for
whom he had made possible health
and happiness, shrank from him as
ne came near her, and hid her face.
She could not understand the bene-
ficent purpose back of the pain she
had undergone. She did not know
that love and helpfulness, not cruelty,
were responsible for what she en-
dured
4 There is something in this little
story which suggests the blindness of
Gods children where His purposes
are concerned. He finds us poor and
adopts us into His family. He finds
us crippled and restores us to health,
even at the cost of suffering. And
often we lose sight of the blessing
which is to be ours, and think only
of the pain.
This untaught, neglected child who
had never encountered unselfish kind
ness in her young life until she met
the great surgeon, was not to be
blamed if she failed to realize the
love which ordained that she should
suffer in order to be well. But we
should know our Heavenly Father
we'll enough to realize that whatever
| comes from His hand, joy or grief,
toll or ease, is all for our own good.
For in the perfection of strength and
symmetry pain may have as impor-
tant share as happiness. If we
learned to wait without distrust or
bitterness, we would often find that
our hardest experiences have bene-
| ficent purpose, and that the suffer
ing we have endured has made pos
sible some of life's diyinest things.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-05-26
THE CHILDREN'S HOUR.
HOME OF ALGEBRA.

An exchange remarks that al
zebra, that bane of schoolboys, is de-
rived from two Arab words, al jebr.
And it was in Bagdad that Al
Khwarasmi, whilst librarian to the
Calf Al-Mamun-the younger son of
Haroun-al-Raschid and usurper of his
elder brothers (Al-min) throne
wrote the Algebra upon which was
founded most of the early works on
the subject. Al-Khwarasmi was also
author of the first Indian arithmetic
That was just eleven hundred years
ago. e
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-05-26

How did I acquire all this wisdom
on the subject of confidential com
munications? I will tell you. l &C
quired it recently in the school of eX-
told something in strict confidence to
a friend-a man of the highest char.
acter-one who would not injure me
Intentionally for the world. But-and
this is what gave me a jar-he went
and lost the green envelope, for yes
terday he called at my Office, care
fully closed the door, drew his chair
near to mine and in a low voice told
me in 'strictest confidence exactly
the same thing that told him.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-05-26
THE GREATEST TEMPTATION.

Liquor is no more dangerous a
temptation to boy than dress is to
a GIRL" says a writer in the Louis
vile Courier-Journal.
THE greatest weakness in the
feminine character is the love of
dress. The greatest temptation to
women comes from dress. 1t makes
women ruin their husbands with their
extravaganza and work their poor old
fathers to death to supply them with
finery.
above all other causes, it is the
cause that sends women to the
streets. Three-fourths of the girls
who go wrong do not do it for love
of some man, but for love of clothes.
They sell their souls for French
CONNECTION. The one passion that
animates their hearts is the passion
for gewgaws."
"And strange to say" continues
Miss Dix, 1.-The mothers, instead of
trying to eradicate this love of dress
in their daughters breasts and teach,
ing them what a danger it is, cult
vate it. The other day mother told
me with pride that her little girl OF
four refused to put on dress be-
cause it had been bought in depart
ment store instead of a high-priced
baby specially shop. AS well might a
father boast that his little boy in the
kindergarten could distinguish be
tween rye and Scotch whiskey.
Apparently woman is never toe
young or too old to be immune to the
temptation of clothes She feels it in
her very cradle, and one of the most
difficult and terrible, and insoluble
problems presented by our public
schools is the dress problem. Fol
there is hardly a school in the whole
country which does not have every
wear the sordid and pitiful tragedy Of
some foolish little girl who has com
mitted a crime in order to have az
pretty a frock as the other girls have
1.-THE finery temptation comes t.
the school girl at the time of life
when she has least power to resist it
When we grow older we attain Ger
tain philosophy, and an endurance
that enables us to accept the chances
of fate with an even mind, and tt
see people more fortunately place.
than we are without making ourselves
miserable about it. Clothes ais
drop to their real position in tn,
scheme of things.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-05-26
A GOOD MILK GOAT.

The popularity of milk goats in the
west has led the California expert
ment station to conduct an official
test of their milk producing capaci
ties. A two-year-old pure Toggenbure
produced in one year 2,15S pounds
of milk and 1913 pounds of butter
fat. This is about one-siXth the pro
duction of a first class COW and is
more than twice as much as an or
binary milk goat gives. The cost o.
feed per pound of milk was abou
nine-tenths that of dairy COWS in the
station herd.
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MILK AND CREAM

these kind ones, and every morning
and every evening he sang them lit
tie song of gratitude.
Old King Winter heard it one day
and learned the birds story. He said
to one of his widest winds:
Go out into the winds and strip
those unkind trees of the leaves of
which they are so proud, but the trees
that have been kind and willing to
share what they had with the unfor-
tunate shall always wear their green
leaves all winter"