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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-31
RY PALNEn 4. rneERTos.
County Faro ADVISOR

NlAt EEHtNaa H5tt r4l-A yes eaAs7E LAG
general farming practice followed.
IN order 20 meet as many Of the
members as possible, and a. soon as
possible, series Of meetings we're
held in tire county. one in every town
ship These meetings we're largely
0ue-aay affairs with a lantern slide
talk al night. They proved entirely
satisfactory and accomplished the
pgrp0so for which they were planned
This extension program, as II might
be called. gave opportunity to discuss
farm questions to take limestone and
seAi orders and best Of all 10 meet
and extend our acquaintance win the
members of the league. Starifag work
% a county in tho late fall Or winter
offers this opportunity for holding
these township meetings, hat other
seasons Of the year do not, and ! am
~ the opinion tbat i I was called
upon TO again organize 5he WORK in
any county, ! would surely use this
method
THE first = months activities have
doubtless meant more TO the adviser
than 20 members Of the league, but
from the standpoint OF the ultimate
good Of the organization, she time
spent In getting acquainted has been
every probably employed Our coming
year then, we nope eWiIl prove Of much
greater value than has the past, for
i. viii be possible because Of our
added knowledge Of local conditions
to render more personal service and
do more efficient work. The executive
committee OF the league has been par
tieularly faithful 10 the matter Of
( holding monthly meetings and con
I ducIing the affairs Of the orgaujza-
/ ton In a creditabIe and business like
manner.
! The equipment provided for the
work has been entirely adequate. 10
tact nothing has been left oat that
would add to our efficiency. Fer the
Office We have the usual furniture
( consisting OF desks, filing cases
. tables, etc. an Edison SELF feeding
mimeograph addressograph and type
writer For the field work We have
ta highly important piece IF equip
ImeHt IN q Ford touring car, a CRATES
Camera, stereOptiC1n soil augUr lime
stone tester. etc
Viewed from ali angles the work Of
. The association for this first year
seems go have met with success and
favor The detailed report Of our var
ious activities follows
Personal Work.
Rock Island county is geographic
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-31

There has been few strictly demon
ztranon meeting for the reason that
demonstration material has been lack
ING Definite plans are under way tina!
@tl take care 81 this feature another
year Among these plans are. ear to
POW and variety tests 81 corn as the
county farm CFbis corn w0rk aas
planned for this wear the samples col
ieeted shellesi sind graded hBt because
ID tAe laieness oE the SESSION Was pest
nonedJ Limestone on clover ara 81
ialia, phosphate % corr oata and
wheaf, iyestoek fesaing etc
, Jane - and So sc conducted two
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-31
Detailed Report.
CITY WARRANTS.

Following is the detailed report OF
tho warrants issued during The past
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-03-10
MAN IN PENlTENTIARY ASKS FOR
MISSION LITERATURE.

The first would-be missionary with
in penitentiary walls has been discov-
cred by Rev. J. p. Donovan, G. NJ, Of
Kenrick Seminary, in promoting the
Sodality of st. Peter Clayer for Afri-
can Missions, of which he is the head
in America. Father Donovan yesterday
received a letter from a Slovak who
is serving a term in the Pittsburgh
Penitentiary and who had in some way
received a copy of the mission publ
cation, Echo from Africa. He desired
to subscribe and pay for it when he
could make the money. The man
could not write in any except the Slo-
yak language, but two students at
Kenrick Seminary translated the let
ter. The same two students agreed
to pay a two-year subscription to the
Echo so the man may receive it at
once This is the first record OF a
convict asking for mission literature.
81. Louis Globe Democrat.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-03-10
BISHOP STREICHER'S GOOD
REPORT.

Bishop Streicher, AT. NJ, expresses
himself as profoundly touched by the
sympathy shown him by American
Catholics. Although hampered by
present conditions, he begs to state
that the work in Uganda is far from
being paralyzed, and his report shows
this conclusively.
During the past year 14,515 baptisms
were registered and more than two
million communions were given to
neophytes. On a pastoral tour of 227
days the Bishop administered 11,014
combinations. The schools are well
attended and the Catholic population
is 227,409 souls, of whom 50,603 are
already baptized.
In short, Uganda having begun to
forge ahead in the right direction,
cannot be seriously affected even by
war, poverty or lack of priests. 1t
has already been called Christian
Uganda" and seems anxious to live
up to its title.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-03-10
REQUESTS FOR CATHOLIC LITER
AZURE.

In the State of Alabama, and in
charge of thirty-nine stations in a
territory approximately eighty by one
hundred and thirty miles, and ever
Whelmingly Protestant, is a Jesuit
Father who is beginning to think that
his fight for souls will be in vain I'M
less he has Catholic literature for free
distribution in his mission districts,
in order that the people may have
a better opportunity of learning
the beauties and truths of the Cath
Ole Church. Preaching will help,
but we feel sure that an hours study
of some Catholic book, in which is
set down in plain language the prin-
ciples of the Catholic Church, will
bring better results and for this rea-
son Father Stage has appealed to us
for Catholic literature that he may
distribute among his people. He
writes: Il feel very much the need
Of instructive literature to spread
among my people, and I have no
money to buy it. If you have no fund
on hand at present to be used for the
purchase Of literature, would you be
SO kind as to file my request?'
The Extension Society has already
sent Father Stage two hundred copies
of the Catholic Church from Without,
and two hundred copies Of the II.
quirers' Guide, gratis, for distribution
among his parishioners.
The book Father Stage is DESTROYS
of securing is called Does 1t Matter
What / Believer" and sells for
twenty cents per copy.
The Catholic Church Extension So
ciety, $50 Mccormick Bldg, Chicago,
H., would be pleased to receive what
ever amount you wish to send for the
purchase of this book for Father
Stage.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-03-10
CHAPEL BUILDING IN CHINA.

Rev. j. Aelen, E. f. M, who is one
OF our regular correspondents, tells
US about the need of chapels in his
district of Nellore. He is candidate
for donations to this end, and eX-
plains why:
1T is impossible to keep our con-
verts unless we have little chapel,
which is for them the center of their
religion. Moreover, on account of the
heat, it is impossible for the priest
to stop for several days in native
hut or in tent. Unless there is a
chapel, it is SO extremely difficult to
visit the villages regularly and to adj
minister the Sacraments. Even in the
smallest village a heather temple is
to be found. 1t may be small and I'M
inspiring, but there it is. And our
Christians are not satisfied till they,
too, have their temple
When we begin work in village,
we usually erect a shed of bamboo
and palmyra leaves. Such chapels
last only a few years, and every year
they have to be repaired, because
often the leaves are blown away by
the breeze. Sometimes we build the
walls of mud, but the difficulty re-
mains, as there is no end to the re-
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-03-10
ANOTHER DISASTROUS MISSION
FIRE.

The missions have suffered much
during the past few months from dis
astrous fires. Several have lost valu-
able property, as well as all their
belongings.
A letter comes from FIR Martin
LuyckX, o. P, who reports that at the
post at Bagamoro, Porto Rico, the
Dominicans have lost their house and
all it's contents except the records,
which were saved at great risk of life.
The town possesses no fire apparatus;
and fires, consequently, spread rapidly.
The Father says:
"Of what we built up at SO heavy
a cost, with sacrifices known only to
our dear Lord, all is lost, except a
debt of $4,000 still remaining. The
good people of Bagamoro and our kind
Dominican Sisters helped us with the
most necessary things, such as bed
ding and clothes. But they cannot
help us IN the money loss we sus-
tanned in this fire"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-03-10
DOLL BABY GETS PASSPORTS.

From Farafangana is far away
Madagascar, where a leper house is
conducted by the Daughters of Char
ity, comes this BIT of stirring adven-
ture. The Sister Superioress writing,
as the Sister concerned dictates,
tells the following incident: Last
Monday Saint Joseph made me a
beautiful present in the village where
[ go to teach catechism every two
weeks. . . Picture to yourselves q
building for all the world like q hen
house, made out of branches and
leaves as are all the houses in the
South Madagascar villages. In this
particular house l was told an infant
lay sick.
Il enter, but my eyes discern no
baby. | spy a mother wearing a head
piece of green leaves-the natives
think this will keep away the wicked
spirits; l see nothing in her lap,
though. She is busy picking the
corns Of an old man and doesn't so
much as turn her head in response to
my question: And where is the sick
child?'
There! | am told. But where?
can discover nothing to indicate in
which direction | am to look In one
corner lies a bundle of dirty clothes.
That is all see. On noticing glances
directed thither I go forward on my
knees and gently lift the abhorrent
rags. And sure enough, wrapped in
an old dirty cloth nestles a midget
ever so small: she felt cold. My God!
L thought, is she dead? No: her fore
head is a little warm and on leaning
over her | think | see her smile,
this veritable doll baby, the smallest
infant [ have ever seen. | ask for
water and calmly baptize her, not
minding that | turned my back to
every one in the room. Then | ar
ranged the tiny mite as she was and
left the hut all of a Jingle. l am not
used to baptizing as the Sisters are
who are regularly occupied in visiting
the villages. Every time l have to
baptize, for some moments after
tremble from head to foot and can't
speak. It's all so simple, so quick;
yet so tremendous"
Address subscriptions for the echo
from Africa soc a year, and the
Negro Child" Csc year; cancelled
stamps of rare denominations 3, 4, 6,
Z, 8, etc, write for directions), tin
foil, old jewelry and other donations
to. American Headquarters of the So
dality of st. Peter Claver for the
African Missions, Fullerton Building,
st. Louis, Mo.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-03-10
DANGEROUS TO BE BORN WITH
TEETH IN TAUGANiKA.

On the shores of Lake Tauganika il
is not well to enter the world with de-
fects.
To he born with teeth or with pro
icctinG upper teeth, is considered OF
evil omen. This unfortunate child is
called Kinkoula. 1t was formerly cast
into the lake or abandoned to the wild
beasts of the forest. If this were not
done. declared the soothsayers, man
would die with every tooth lost later
on by the mOnstrosity. It's existence
was therefore regarded as a public
calamity, and it was for the public
good that it should disappear and per-
ish.
This custom is no longer permitted
in the vicinity of the military authori-
ties of the colony; but in the far-off
villages, or those not yet enlightened
by the visit Of the missionaries, it
would not be surprising to discover
that it is still kept up secretly, so
obstinate are these prejudices.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-03-10

alive spirit. After expressing the
opinion that some of the most zeal
Gus adherents to the plan of world
eyangelization are comparatively lg-
norant of the origin of the modern
missionary movement - he proceeds:
ut is true that Protestant Britain
gave us Zachary Macaulay and David
Livingstone, that our own country has
sent forth a Thorburn, a Bashford and
q Headland to work nightly for the
gospel yet it was Catholic Spain
that gave birth to the first real
modern missionary. This was Igna-
thus Loyola, man with a world
vision" An interesting sketch Of the
conversion of the sanity and militant
founder of the great order of Jesuits
he concludes in this way: His
sanguine military spirit once inf1tl-
enced by the accounts of Christian
martyrs, the erstwhile soldier OF
Spain found himself presently enroll
ed under a far more powerful leader
in the army of the Cross. We have
no reason to believe that at this time
LoyoIa passed through any such per-
iod of self-torture and soul-agony as
that which converted John Bunyan a
century later, but still the conversion
was no less complete. In 1921, at the
age of thirty, Ignatius Loyola re-
nounced the world and entered fairly
into the service of God To st.
Ignatius' sons he pays a merited trib-
ute: 1T was the Jesuit priest who
first broke down the barriers of Seclu-
sion in China and Japan and gave to
a wondering posterity its first authen-
tic news of these distant lands; it
was the Jesuit priest, in the days OF
French dominion in the valleys of the
st. Lawrence and Mississippi, who
bore with him the story Of the Cross
to the Indians and who nurtured the
soul life of the hardy French settlers
in Lower Canada; it was the Jesuit
missionary who first planted educa,
ton among his felioWmen wherever
the armies of Europe planted the flag
of conquest and dominion. We owe
two debts to Ignatius Loyola-the
splendid ideal of universal missionary
enterprise, and the union of a doc
trinal loyalty and an efficient educa
tional scheme" The writer is mis-
taken, however, in regard to the
present condition of the Society OF
Jesus. But" he says, like all SINH
lar undertakings, Jesuitism accom-
plished its work and passed away
It's membership and influence slowly
dwindled," etc. Far from having
passed away" the order is in flour
ishing condition today. 1t has no
fewer than 1900 members, notwith
standing the expulsion of the order
from Germany and France.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-03-10
THE GOLD SEEKERS OF MADRAS.

The Jalagadugu form caste Of gold
finders, who search for gold in drains
and in the sWeepings of goldsmiths
shops. In the city Of Madras gold
washers are everywhere to be found
working in the foul side-drains in front
of jewelers. shops. The title "Jalaga-
dugu' IS derived from iala, water, and
gadugu,, to wash.
The process of. goId-washing is car
rled out by women and the aged at
home, and by men in their spare
hours. The ashes, sWeepings, and
refuse from the goldsmiths' shops are
collected on payment of a small sum,
and are brought in baskets to q con-
venient place alongside their huts,
where they are stored for a variable
time.
The drain Sits from streets where
there are large number Of jewelers.
shops are similarly collected and left
Hndistufbed for a few days or several
months. and this storing way for q
time is said to be necessary to facili-
tate the extraction Of the gold, as any
immediate attempt to wash the stuff
results in great loss in the quantity
obtained
The cleaning process is Ions and ar
duous, but in the end a sufficient guam
tity Of gold dust is obtained to pay
these very poor people for their time
and labor.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-03-10
CATHOLIC SCHOOLS POPULAR IN
y .. JAPAN.

4
Father Walter, of the Bright Star
School, Osaka, is authority for the
statement that Catholic schools are
making progress in Japan, those
TAUGHT by the Brothers being especial
ly we'll attended. In evidence of this
he states that the Tokyo Morning Star
School has $50 pupils, the Osaka
Bright Star School $50, the Star OF
the Sea, Nagasaki, $40, and st.
Joseph's College, Yokohama, $50 stu
dents.
In all these a goodly number OF
pa9an boys attend catechism class,
and in all branches the powers OF the
teachers are taxed to their utmost.
Unfortunately, the number who real
ly. attain baptism is not as large as
the priests would like, being only
about twenty out of $50. Time, how
ever, may bring a greater enlighten-
ment to these young men, who have
so eagerly taken advantage of Chris
tian instruction.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-03-10
WHAT A GREAT PROTESTANT
THOUGHT OF GOOD CATHOLICS.

II would hold consistent Catholics
to be one of the products OF the hu-
man race most worthy OF respect, TO
be the most wonderful OF wonders;
were it not that it would expose me
to be misunderstood | would ven
ture the hyperbole, that he is man
of prayer who is worthy to be prayed
to. What power and what humility,
what Ioftiness and what lowliness,
are united in him! What magical
power the priest possesses! How
divine must he feel himself in the
consciousness of his dignity! what
q blissful faith in the magical Csu-
pernatural is the correct world power
of the priests has the believer in his
dignity! What q soothing influence
he finds in the pious acceptatlon OF
the Oracles Of q Church which he
believes to be infalible! Shall at
tempt to rob him of this blessed faith?
shall | contest or ridicule this faith,
which is capable of bestowing on him
such internal spiritual satisfaction?
Far be it from me. Accused be he
who calls that worship idolatry which
has Christ for its object
After Count Stolbers's entrance in
to the Church, Layater wrote to him
amongst other things:
BE an honor to the Catholic
Church. Practice those virtues that
are impossible TO non-Catholics. Per
form such works as will prove that
your change was for a great object,
and that you are not unfaithful to it.
Become a saint, like Borromeo. You
have saints, I deny it not. We have
none, at least none such as you have.
I honor the Catholic Church as an
ancient, richly adorned, majestic
Gothic edifce, which preserves the
original precious documents. The fall
of this building would be the fall OF
all Christianity"
-L0Udter Prot).
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-03-10
SAVED BY THE BLESSED VIRGIN

Rev. FIR. Raphael has had narrow
escape from injury, or perhaps death,
in his mission in Acharapakam during
the terrible cyclone that recently Wis
tied the district, and of which details
have been given.
The wonderful part is that the
Catholic church in this place was not
swept away All the outhouses of the
mission post were destroyed, but only
tiles were blown from the presbytery
roof, and neither trees nor other OBJ
iects fell into the church. FIR. Rap
hazel, at the time, had crept under a
table, like rat, as he expressed It.
expecting every moment to be his last;
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-03-10
A METHODIST TRIBUTE TO THE
FOUNDER OF THE JEsUITs.

"Ignatius Loyola, the Man with a
Vision" was the title OF a rather not
able article which appeared in a
recent number of the "Pittsburg
Christian Advocate, the organ
of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
and of which the writer is Lane w.
Lancaster. In some places it is
married by the prejudice that might
naturally be expected in such a pro-
duction; but, on the whole, it evinces
a broad, reverent, and keenly aDpreci-
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-03-10
Tile CATHOLIC BULLETIN, MARCH 10. 19l7-
strictions of modern social organiza-

strictions of modern social organiza-
ton.
II he has not a personal acquaint-
ance with you, the Gourounga will
hardly speak to you, even if you
should be a governor-general; but as
soon as he becomes more acquainted
with you, there are salutations with
out end, accompanied by hard thumps
on the thigh. The noisy claps and the
prolonged grunts which punctuate the
exchange of thoughts among people
who think well of one another reminds
one of the believing of a COW calling
her hayward young calf to order.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-03-10

pairing; and. though the outlay is
not SO expensive, it proves to be more
expensive in the long run, on account
OF all these repairs. A chapel built
with stones or brick, and covered with
native tiles will stand for years, and
will relieve me of the necessity of
constant repairs"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-03-10

but, although three neighboring chap
els went before the gale, the Blessed
Virgin protected this spot.
But the ravages Of the storm are
terrible, and help is badly needed to
rebuild homes and feed the suffering
people.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-03-10
SONS OF AFRICA AND THEIR
PECULIARITIEs.

The Gourounga who inhabits part
Of the French Soudan, is an indus
trious but independent type Of negro
who yields with poor grace to the re-
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-03-10

others shrugged their shoulders, some
exalted to the stars the laws Of Japan
that permit a man to have several
wives in Asia and, if he so choose, an
other in Europe; the wise ones re-
NAMED non-committal, entrenched as
they were behind sardonic smile, and
the trite proverb, Time will tell
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-05-03
COLONEL SHOWS
KAISER GIFTS
Got Them When War Lord WAS a White
Man. He Tells Callers

Colonel Theodore Roosevelt entertain
ed the 200 members of the Oy ster Bay
Home Guard at his home recently. He
showed them his trophies. and in speak
ing of his collection, said:
Boys. I've received presents from
every body on the faco of the globe,
from kings TO prizefghters.
With the final word just leaving his
lips, he turned and apologized to two
ministers, VINO he had also invited to be
present and who seemed shocked at the
prizefighter part of the remark. Con-
timing, he said Friends. am going
to tell you secret: have in my col
lection some souvenirs given to me by
the Kaiser At this the crowd laughed.
II would like, he added, ito make
bet that the Kaiser would be tickeleu
to death to get these souvenires back.
Remember boys, | got them when he
was a white man.
The Colonel said his motto was "All
for one and one for all" He said he
was once introduced at meeting as
the poor mans friend" He resented
this remark by telling the Chairman OF
the meeting that he was neither the
poor mans freed nor the rich mans
friend, but the honest mans friend.
When asked by one of his callers about
his plan for raising troops, he said:
IF for a minute thought that this
division am trying to recruit would
not be sent to Europe, but would be
used instead for home defense, I'dquit.
My purpose is to 90 to Europe, to the
trenches. and not stay home and guard.
| don't want petticoat or silk stock
ing aamy."