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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-04-14
MISSION FIELDS.
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by the pound and go back to the
paper mills to be made into pulp
They bring, usually, three dollars a
hundred pounds. You will find that
it takes many thousand stamps to
make up pound, and you will realize
the need of gathering from many into
some local center in order to make
the collections as economically as pos
sible.
Out of every hundred pounds Of
ordinary stamps the man who picks
them over finds about half pound of
more valuable material such as SOC,
Use and $1.00 parcel post or postage
stamps, and sometimes a rare issue
or very old stamp. These are set
aside, removed from the envelopes
carefully so that the colors will not
run and sold to collectors all over
the world.
The profit from the sale of stamps
has been used to buy babies in China
as well as for other charitable pur-
poses, but we doubt if poor parents
so by the offer of cancelled stamps.
We may add, however, that the indus
trious Chinese do like to use old
stamps to decorate cards, vases and
the walls of rooms.
To those, then, who are gathering,
or would gather, for Maryknoll can
celled stamps we give the following
advice:
Cut all stamps with a quarter-inch
margin of paper around them.
Do not soak the stamps off the en-
velopes. The stamp buyers prefer
to do this themselves as the least
damage to a stamp renders it worth
less.
Keep foreign and rare stamps separ.
ate as they bring a better price.
Ship small quantities by parcel
post, larger amounts by express, and
over three hundred pounds (don't get
frightened) by freight.
The Field Afdr.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-04-14
OUR OWN NEGROES.

The German Missionary Society of
the Divine Word conducts missions
for the Negro in the southern dis
tricts of the United States. The col
ored man is thought by some to be
of little value as a convert to the
Faith, but the apostles who seek their
salvation do not say this, and their
success is growing more marked each
year.
Rev. J. ]. Steinhauer writes from
Vicksburg, Miss, that he needs larger
quarters for his flock. Here is "a
portion of his letter:
1--WE have just had a mission for
non-Catholics given by Rev. Father
Dorsey, the well-known colored Cath
olic priest. Several joined the in
struction class and are approaching
Baptism. Last year | had seventy
four baptisms, mostly adults. At
present the congregation numbers
over three hundred I cannot accom-
modate the people in my small church,
which consists of two school-rooms.
Very often the good Sisters have to
go out of their seats to make room for
the congregation. We are afraid the
congregation, mostly converts, will
get tired and not come back any more,
if they will not get a seat. I appre-
ciate the Sisters good spirit of sacri-
flee, but these few seats are not sufi-
cient to make room far all the faith
full. We need church.
"The people are very poor here
and wages low. Washerwomen make
about three dollars a week. Laborers
from seven to eight dollars. But in
spite of this dire poverty the people
are very liberal when it comes to con-
tribute towards the church and work
for the church. However, their most
is only a very little compared with
the amount needed to give them a
suitable place of worship
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-04-14
THE VALUE OF THE WRITTEN
WORD.

From time to time appeals are made
to interested friends of the missions
that they may send their magazines
and papers, after reading, to the mis-
sions where Catholic literature is
highly valued.
Bishop Ferdinand Terrien Of Lagos,
w. Africa, is one of the grateful re-
cipients of several good reviews, and
he says:
Through the Propagation of the
Faith office l thank all those who
have been so generous to me and to
our young men who are simply de-
lighted to have abundant reading
matter. Please ask those good Chris
tians to go on with the same gen.
crosby in the future.
1--WE also want some good popular
apologetics and if friends see their
way to send some easy books of the
kind we shall be very grateful.
after the war I intend to have a
little review published here to de-
fend our Faith and win our present
antagonists: Wesleyans, Baptist,
Bethels, Salvation Army, all that you
have in America. Lagos, am afraid,
is a small New York. 1 am sure
American Catholics will again encour.
age us with their gifts to make this
review success"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-04-14
THE CATHOLIC BULLETIN, APRIL Il, 1917

little more than a month. We are
architects and builders at small cost
here.
I'VE had some unwelcome visitors in
our new abode. First, it was the rats.
The first night these tenants were sat
isfied with venturing peep from the
top of the roof; then they walked on
the walls for closer view; soon they
descended to the ground, climbing on
the poor couch which serves us for a
bed, roaming over our heads and faces,
and pulling at our boards and hair.
Finally, wishing to assure themselves
that we were flesh and bone, they
directed their attention to our toes,
sucking them timidly at first; then,
without doubt liking the taste they
bit them in earnest. We were then
aroused and angry, but to no pur-
pose. The next night it began again"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-04-14
MORE ABOUT THE Lam SON.

Writing this winter from Tonkin
where he pursues somewhat difficult
apostolate, FIR. Cothonay, o. p, de-
scribes the manner in which the Ian
Son celebrate the coming of the new
year.
The feasts connected with the
Annamite new year last three days
and take place on the twenty-third,
twenty-fourth and twenty-ifth Of jan
uary, instead of on the first days of
the month.
'They are periods of great rejoic-
ing, family reunions and general feast
ing. Being extremely poor, the people
begin to economic long time ahead,
and sell every available object that
can bring price, making many sac
rifices to this end. Many, however,
are so poverty-stricken that they have
nothing to sell. In such a pass, the
INSCRIPTIONS ones do not hesitate to
steal a few articles possessing a mar
ket value. I, myself, this year con-
tributed mot voluntarily some chick
ems and my good horse. The thief
came in the night and robbed me
most successfully.
But money for new years joy must
be procured somehow if one would
not be an object of utter scorn in the
community. After the feasting the
wretched creatures must return again
to dire poverty, and life of wretch
edness.
"The pagans, at this time, indulge
in many sacrifices to their gods and
to their ancestors. They also gamble,
smoke opium, fire muskets and deco
rate their houses with red paper, bear
ing inscriptions, and cabalistic designs.
The missionary has not little diff
Guilty in keeping his converts from
joining in rites to which they have
been accustomed all their lives, and
to turn them toward purely Christian
forms of entertainment"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-04-14
NOT JUST THE PLACE FOR A
NERVOUS PERSON.

The white ants are fearful pest in
Africa, eating everything not made of
stout metal. But the missionaries
have other visitors in the various
abodes they dignity by the name of
presbyteries.
Relating some of his experiences, FIR.
Gabelles writes in African Missions:
ITO build our house, we set UP poles
twelve feet apart. These were as large
around as two arms and fifteen feet
high. Between these poles, we wove a
hedge of reed covered entirely with
mud both inside and out. At long
distances from each other, we left
openings for doors and windows, and
the whole was topped by slanting
straw roof. We are thus the proprie-
tors of a rectangular dwelling, CON
tanning chapel, a refectory and sew.
eral rooms, The work was finished in
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-04-14
THEY TEACH SCHOOL IN SHAN.
TUNG FOR TWENTY DOL
LARS A YEAR.

How happy | would be-" writes
Father Matthew Santini, o. +. NJ, IF
could find some one willing to fur
nSh the salaries of two or three cate
chists. /. They do not demand much
our poor catechists-and benefactors
need have no fear that their money
would be squandered. Twenty-four
dollars supports a catechist for year
and a school teacher can be got for
twenty dollars. Surely we make a lit
tie money accomplish a great deal of
good.
My district of Showkwang is COM
posed of new Christians. The oldest
have not been converted more than
fifteen years and many have just &C
cepted the Faith. They need constant
instruction for a long time yet, in cr-
der to make them thoroughly under
stand the doctrines of Catholicity.
Only the school teachers and the cate
chists can do this, which is my ex-
cuse for demanding more helpers"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-04-14
FROM METRoDlSM TO CATH
OLtCISM.

A few years ago when | was living
in Grand Rapids, Mich, l was accus-
toned to sit on my porch on SUNDAY
mornings reading the Sunday paper.
Hundreds of Catholics used to pass on
their way to o'clock Mass at the
Cathedral in all kinds of weather and
| often wondered what held them to
their Faith. | had been brought up
under Methodist influence, but had al
ways had doubts, and had wondered
at the variance of belief among Prot
estants, especially regarding the es-
sentials of Christian doctrine. My
people never talked as | can remem-
Der, against the Catholics, but when
ever | talked about them they would
say: THAT doctrine smacks OF Cath
olicism." | had become Indifferent
and often stayed at home from
church. looking at it more as a dress
parade than a religious service; but
finally my little girl, not quite years
OF age, became Interested. Across the
street lived Catholic family con-
sisting OF father, mother, two sons
and two daughters. The mother was
an invalid and my little girl used to
90 over every day to visit her. See
ing the holy pictures and crucifiX in
her room, and being inquisitiVe, the
child asked questions. Then it was
that she heard the story of the Cross
for the first time, and from Catholic
lips. 1t made a deep impression on
her mind, which she confded at once
to her mother, asking her many ques-
tions. After that she took over
flowers to the sick lady daily. Soon
the other was able to be out and
naturally the relations between the
two families became very friendly.
While sitting on our porch one sum-
mer evening our neighbor said she
did not want me to think she was
trying to make a Catholic of my
little girl, but that she was so SYM
pathetic and took such an interest in
the Catholic religion that she felt
obliged to explain it to her. | replied
that I did not care if she did. The
next day she sent me a book, Points
on Controversy" written by a good
Catholic priest When l had finished
reading it l made up my mind to find
out what the Catholics believed.
The next Sunday 1 went to the
Cathedral. As I had never been in
side Of a Catholic church l was nat
urally somewhat embarrassed. One
of this lady's daughters, however,
meeting me at the entrance, asked if
l intended going in. When I said
yes" she promptly invited me to sit
in their pew. I was deeply impressed
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-04-14
A REMINDER ABOUT THE PER
PETUAL MEMBERSHIP.

The following information may be
useful to others besides those who
have written to ask about the condi-
tons 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 lifes and death. The
plenary and partial indulgences
granted to the benefactors are many.
More than fifteen thousand Masses
are annually celebrated for the living
and deceased members Of the So
ciety.
The Offering for a perpetual men,
bership may be made at one time or
should otherwise be made within one
year, at the convenience of the donor.
This is an excellent investment as it
insures for life and for eternity.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-04-14
HARDSHIPS OF AN INDIAN MIS-
sIoNARY IN FORMER DAYS.
Bishop Baraga writes as follows:

Bishop Baraga writes as follows:
In this connection l will explain
how a missionary has to travel during
winter in this Indian country. In
winter a person cannot travel other
wise than on foot. AS the snow is
generally deep and there are no trav-
eled roads the only way to travel is
on snow-shoes. These snowshoes are
from four to five feet long and one
foot wide and are tied te ones feet.
With them a man can travel even in
the deepest snow without sinking in
very much. But this style of walking
is very tiresome, especially for Euro
peans, who are not accustomed to it.
When a person must walk upon such
snowshoes all day long and that for
many days in succession, especially
in these trackless North American
forests, he cannot travel without eX-
IRENE fatigue and almost exhaustion.
Another hardship is the sleeping
in the open air in q Northern winter
for there are no huts in which to stay
over night Generally speaking, man
may travel four or five days in this
extensive and thinly settled country
before coming to another Indian set
tlement. 1t is true large fire is
made, but this soon goes out for the
Indian guide who accompanies us
sleeps the whole night as if he were
in a feather bed and then person
suffers much from the cold. 1t is
hard especially to pass the night in
such a way when it storms and SHOWS
all night and in the morning person
is covered all over with snow. But
all these hardships the missionary
ioyfully endures if thereby he can
through Gods help and grace, save
even but one soul.
Il have to make this winter a far
longer journey, that is, from L'Anse
(Michigan) to La Pointe and Fond du
Lac (Wisconsin) and return, a dis
lance of about 600 miles. l will be
gin this journey, please God, on the
fourth of February and hope to be
back here again before the end OF
March,.
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Continued from page 20
AN lawful" BOY.

And when his sister wasn't around
to overhear he would anxiously ask
his mother if she thought the pins
would maybe kill his little sister. And
although Mrs. Miller told him repeat
eddy that the doctor thought nothing
serious would result, Gabriel con-
tinued to worry exceedingly.
However, Josephine never after ex-
perienced any injury from the pins
she had swallowed and by degrees
Gabriels happy light-heartedness re
turned. Before long in his jocose way
he was heard to call his sister by the
expressive names of "Pinhead' or
"Pineater.' Then Josephine knew
that her funny brother was himself
again and she felt very glad.
One night Gabriel had great sport
when he dressed up in some of Jo-
sephine's clothing and went over to
his grandmother's. She thought he
was his sister and called him 10
sephine" and asked for Gabriel, and
wondered that the little girl wasn't
afraid to come out by herself. But
she didn't find out the deception, for
Gabriel and Josephine looked very
much alike and even their voices
were quite similar. His folks thought
the boy had gone to call on a chum,
who he said had asked him to come
to his house that evening. 1t was true
that he had been invited by his friend
but instead of accepting the invita-
ton he had donned Josephine's attire
and stolen out of the house to, his
grandmother's as already described.
Several times he could hardly re-
frain from laughing outright, and
once in particular when his grand
mother remarked that she thought ne
was getting to, look more like Gabriel
every day. She had almost insisted
upon his taking off his hat and coat,
but he refused most emphatically.
knowing that removing Josephine's
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-04-14
THE LEPERS HAVE A NEW
CHURCH IN AFRICA.

A church at Pretoria, for lepers,
was dedicated recently by Right Rev.
DR.. Cox, Bishop of the Transvaal
The church is of the Romanesque
style and is lighted by twenty-five
windows, twenty of which were given
by the Trappists of Pinetown, Natal.
Other windows were donated by the
Monks of Galley and Mr.. Hardman
of London. Frank BrangWyn, the dis
tinguished artist, has promised to
give the Stations OF the Cross, four
teen large paintings. Father de
How're, o. NJ. l., composed the music
of the Mass, and trained choir of
the iepers.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-04-14
THE CANCELLED STAMP.

AS long as we can remember (and
that is no mean space of years. we
have been trying to find out what is
done with cancelled stamps. The
usual answer They buy babies
in China with them"-gave no light
because the question would come
s'What do the Chinese do with the
stamps?" We have now dicovered
something definite on the subject.
Perhaps it will discourage you, and
then again perhaps it will stimulate
YOU to greater activity:
Ordinary cancelled stamps, such
ne the current one and two-cent
issues In the United States, are sold
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-04-14
MISSION NOTES.

While tempests have ravaged West
India, the bubonic plague has been
raging in Mysore, South India, for
months. Rain always fosters the
pest and of late, although it is not the
rainy season, veritable torrents have
poured down upon the unfortunate
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-04-14
Mgr. VidaL S. NJ Bishop of Fiji.

FIR. J. Tour says the barriers of
Buddhism in Siam are high and
thick, but through the agency of the
Catholic schools, the weapon of the
apostle, the future promises numerous
conversions. In point of native
clergy, Siam has already done very
well considering her great poverty
and lack OF European priests.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-04-14

Providence still watches over the
missionaries and furnishes us with
the necessities of life, and we are
sure it, will continue to protect us.
So far we have not been obliged to
close any of our stations"
Nor. Vidal s. NJ, Bishop of Fiji
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-04-14

district. People are dying by hum
dreds all around us" writes Mother
st. Ignatius, but, thanks be to God,
the innocent prayers of our little
orphans must have been heard, for as
yet our house and all it's inmates
nave been almost miraculously
spared. y
Ionkln must still be kept in the
foreground as a country needing
aims. The famine for which our as
-slstance was asked has not yet
wholly abated 1t is true the rice crop
was this year harvested, but it almost
all went to repay those who had given
assistance during the hard times. If
weather conditions permit the plant
ing and raising Of potatoes, then the
people may have something to keep
soul and body together. Until then
Bishop Eloy requests offerings for his
afflicted people. -..
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-12-27
COM MERCIAL NE w s
COPPER
EAGERLY SOUGHT

The spirited bidding for Engels Cop
per, and the continued trading in Olaa
at s. featured the session OF the Homo
lulu Stock and Bond Exchange this
morning OIaa held firm at the s.
mark; I2J shares selling on the ses-
sion, and 29n going between boards.
Engels in the unlisted securities re-
NAMED at 81. there being plenty Of
bidding and no selling. The recent
optimistic reports of local men return
ing from the mainland are believed to
nave caused the stock to strengthen.
On the quiet there has been a great
deal of buying in Montana-Bingham.
1860 shares going at 81 cents be-
tween boards and l40o selling at the
same price on the session. MADEIRA TO
the extent of 700 shares brought 81
cents between sessions, while 5000
Mineral Products sold at 9 cents on
the board
In the sugar stocks % shares OF Eva
brought $685., which was a quarter
Of a dollar less than the last reported
sale, while "a Waialua sold at $3.50 i
quarter of a dollar above the last sell
ing price Hawaiian Sugar shares to
the number of 20 passed at $3l, SELL
ing figure $3.50 below the last trade.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-12-27
Nj EXCUSE FOR
LACK OF SUGAR
SAYSLOUISIANAN
Representative Martin Wants
Congress to Probe Situation;
Cars Only Needed
10y c. s. ALBERTO
star Bullettr Correspondence


WASHINGTON, y. c., Dec. IL
Representative Whitmell P. Martin,
Progressive Protectionist, OF Louisl'
ana, will urge congress to appoint
committee at once TO investigate the
sugar shortage. He believes the
chances are good for the committee
to be named, and Is prepared to lay
before it information showing to the
country that the sugar shortage is IN
excusable He has just returned from
Louisiana where the producers OF
sugar are wrought up because they
are unable to get their product to the
market. Mr.. Martin declared that not
only is there no excuse for Louisiana
sugar being held up, but for sugar
from the western part OF the country
being withheld.
This country has plenty OF sugar
to supply all its needs" he declared.
The only difficulty is about getting
the cars to deliver 1t and they could
be secured by a proper distribution
OF freight.
I'VE are told that car shortage is
the main reason 1t cannot be carried.
WANT 10 huO" why II 10 lual 80 Val
loads shipped over a month ago to
Washington have not been allowed to
arrive. The Interstate Commerce
Commission informed me that it had
sent tracers after them, that appar'
emily they were lost somewhere be-
tween Louisiana and their Washing
ton destination.
''In Louisiana there are hundreds of
tons OF sugar awaiting shipment. The
people there have a supply sufficient
TO run the country for long time.
Then there is sugar in the West that
is being held up in the same way. If
It all could be distributed this coun-
try would not know any shortage.
The trouble could be remedied by
the shipment Of more ocean going
freight to New Orleans or some other
southern point. That would make a
lot OF 'empties' available returning to
the north and west, and the problem
would be solved. understand this
plan is being considered 1t would
hold good If put in practise also to
and from the West.
THE sugar is accommodating in
Louisiana 1t is discouraging to have
1T there and not be able to get it to
the market. The people ought to know
what the facts are, and l propose to
bring them out If an investigation is
allowed"
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-12-27
WALDRON CO. TO
Open in. HILO
tspecial stsr:Bulletin correspon6enna1

HILO, Dec. 24.-With the beginning
of the new year, or rather about the
middle of January, a firm new to Hilo
will open up for business. Fred l..
Waldron, Ltd, the well-known Homo
lulu firm of commission agents, ship
ping men and importers, will start
business in this city.
The firm has been established for
many years in Honolulu and Mr.. Wal
dron is one of the best known men in
the territory. He originally was with
T. H. Davies & Co., and then started
In business for himself. Some years
ago he formed the present company,
and since then has forged ahead.
The exact location of the new bust.
ness house in Hilo cannot be at pres!
emit mentioned, but enough Is known
to be able to say that the office and
warehouse will be in a central posi-.
ton.
The Hilo office will be in charge OF
F. Lamb, who has been for "a long
time with the firm. r. B. Booth, the
manager of the company, will arrive in
Hilo on Jan. in order to open up the
business and arrange other matters.