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Arizona republican., 1917-06-06
HAVE YOU YOUR
 S10,00l) BILL 1!

Few persons except bankers ever get an opportunity to inspect a S10i090
 dollar bill, yet there are SS,327 of them in existence, according to the last monthly statement of the treasurer of the United States. Most of tifem are held in the reserve of banks. All except ore are gold certificates. There is one S10.0OG- dollar "2.eenbacix." F'ive-thou.;-
Arizona republican., 1917-06-06

9 recent examination designed to test the amount of general informant ton pos sessed by the students:
 What was the Sistine Madonna? 4 sewer in Paris. The wife of the pope.
 What is an octogenarian? The eighth generation from a negro. An animal s,nlcn bears It's young in eights. An S-legged animal One born in October. One who feeds octopuses
 What is the motto of the United States? W2tchful waiting. Give me lib erty or give me death-From Bostonia.
Arizona republican., 1917-06-06

and-dollar bills are not often carried around, though there are 4, 937 of them in use.
 Nearly third of all the paper~cur- rency is in denominations of $500 or above
 The amounts of paper currency of 1 each denomination on December S0, :, lg16. are here shown.
Arizona republican., 1917-06-06

g distinct compliment to him In rili tary circles it is believed that Colonel Glenn's new and important assignment will eventually lead to his promotion to brISadier general.
Arizona republican., 1917-06-06
BUY A LIBERTY BOND!

Help build your country's first line of defense. Create for yourself last line Of defense that will hold when all else fails. See any bank for details.
Arizona republican., 1917-06-06
GENERAL TRANSFORMATION

A graduate of the College of Liberal Arts who is teaching in a New England high school sends us the following an wers which were actually handed in at
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-11-03
THE PIRATES PLAYMATEs.

: r.
when Joseph Jefferson visited
England to play Rip Van Wrinkle in
London, he stayed at our house in
Kensington, writes Mr.. E. HI. Soth-
ern in 'aThe Melancholy Tale of Me"
You who remember the sweet and
gentle Jefferson will smile to know
that my parent told his children that
a famous pirate chief was coming to
hide from the officers of the law.
Shortly Jefferson arrived, wrapped up
in very large great coat and ac-
companied by his son Charles, who
had met with an accident on ship
board. Charles was carried carefully
into a room on the ground floor and
Jefferson and my father were closet
ed for while, making Charles COM
Portable in bed When my father
came out, | and my brothers were
peering through the banisters at the
door of the pirate.
.Hush!' said my father There
has been terrible battle on the high
seas. The pirate chief will be hang
ed If anybody speaks and his first
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-11-03

mate is full of cannon balls. There
is only one thing to do, and that is
to give up eating and to stand on
one leg. Quick! There is no time
to lose. Hush and he left us.
Shortly Mr.. Jefferson came out of
the room and found three little boys
standing on one leg on the staircase.
Don't shoot said my elder
brother. Bang! shouted Mr.. Jeffer-
son, and the three small lads fed in
dismay.
1T did not take long for us to
make friends with this terror of the
seas We we're soon taken to see
Rip ourselves, assisted by Joe JEFF
ferson. In those days we played
many plays. The rookery in our gar
den very readily became weird spot
in the Catskill Mountains, Sleepy
Hollow and the Village of Falling
Water materialized with the swift
magic of childhood's thought, which
can make one a gnome, or giant,
or flea, or an elephant within the
twinkling of an eye. Rip was great
play for us. My brother Sam was a
gnome and had to crawl about on
all tours. He, however, was very
mutinous, and no matter what char
acter we cast him for he would insist
on introducing the climatic speech
from my fathers performance OF
'Rosedale,' where the hero cries: Up,
guards, and at 'em!"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-11-03
GET THAT HABIT.


Get the habit of early rising.
Get the habit of retiring early.
Get the habit of going to Mass daily.
Get the habit of eating slowly.
Get the habit of being grateful.
Get the habit of being punctual.
Get the habit of fearing nothing.
Get the habit of speaking kindly.
Get the habit of seeking the sun
shine daily.
Get the habit of speaking correctly
Get the habit of closing doors
gently.
Get the habit of neatness in ap.
pearance.
Get the habit of relying on self
always
Get the habit of a forgiving spirit
Get the habit of being Industrious
Get the habit of always being pro
gressive.
Get the habit of always paying as
you go.
! Get the habit of quiescent con
centration.
Get the habit of daily physical ex
ercise.
Get the habit of being accommo
dating.
Get the habit of economy, MOI
Get the habit of hoping on and
hoping ever.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-11-03
A QUEER GOBLIN.

Once upon time in the good old
days when fairies were found in. every
buttercup and the little birds and
the wild creatures of the woods were
the friends of the good and true, there
lived in England wise and great
king, who was said himself to be king
of the fairies.
1t was known that a wise enchanter
was his friend and often gave him
advice about his kingdom.
And, though this king was so wise
that his name is still known in Eng
land as that of the most wonderful
king who ever ruled the Britons, he
sometimes made mistakes. His name,
| may as well tell you, was Arthur.
Arthur was the strongest man and
the most skillful fighter in the coun-
try. Some persons said there was no
one in the world like him.
But one day the great Merlin, who
was his adviser, or prime minister,
thought he would teach King Arthur
lesson So by means of the magic
in which he was skilled Merlin made
a queer creature, all heads and arms,
appear before King Arthur and dare
him to a wrestling match.
Arthur smiled when he saw the fig
ure. Perhaps his friend Merlin was
in the habit of playing tricks like this
on the king, for his majesty did not
seem to be in the least surprised and
%rso ~ clio odd fp
scare persons, unused to such visitors,
out of years growth.
'Oh, yes; I'll wrestle with you
sometime the king said. But not
today. I'm very busy, you see.'
| The next day the figure came again.
but Arthur had another reason for
putting it off. Arthur thought then
but he wasn't sure, that the figure
looked little larger than on the day
| before.
The next day it came back and the
next and the next. Always the king
| had some excuse why he had not time
to wrestle with the goblin, and each
day it grew bigger and bigger until
Il DIT last II USCdIuC VI ouCA OH
| ly large size that the king felt that il
| would not be safe to put off the match
minute longer.
So Arthur rose, and the goblin and
the king wrestled long and furiously
At first it looked as though the goblin
| might win, but Arthur would not give
up. At last he had the goblin dowr
and ready to say it was beaten.
AS the goblin rose to his feet il
said:
Never put off a task till tomorrow
that can be done as well today
Then the goblin vanished and was
never seen more.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-11-03

The arms which Washington used
are heraldically described as follows:
Argent (silver), two bar gules (red),
in chief three mullets (stars) of the
second, gules (red). The crest: A
raven with wings addorsed, sable
(black), issuing out of ducal coronet,
or (gold).
Although these arms were used by
Washington, the arms of the family
in Yorkshire are materially different,
bearing lion and being surmounted
by a crest with an eagle, not raven.
The Yorkshire arms were the original
arms according to Albert Welles,
whose Pedigree and History of the
Washington Family" gives with edify-
ing detail the descent of the Father of
His country from Odin, first king of
Scandinavia. Fifty-five generations
were required to evolve George Wash
ington from Odin.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-11-03

and details, would easily pass for So
cialistic literature pretending to de-
scribe conditions in the United States
This matter is intended to catch the
trust" haters and corporation bait
ers, and the violent anti-Catholics
| Thus all prejudices are excited and
the baser passions aroused; and the
average reader is unable to determine
| that the writer's of these pamphlets
| utterly ignore, or are utterly ignorant
of the history of Mexico. Some of
these writer's are Mexican and some
are American and some discreetly an
onymous, but all are socialistic to an
extreme degree.
A fair example of the dishonesty of
this Liberal propaganda is the
pamphlet headed Charges Against
the Diaz Government by Francisco
Bulnes. Twenty-six charges are CIV
en- without any introduction or ex-
PLANTATION; the evident purpose being
to impress the reader that Francisco
Bulnes is author of the charges"
and favorable to the revolution. Ref
erence to Mr.. Bulnes book, "The
Whole Truth About Mexico" shows,
chapter one, part second, headed: "a
Boxer Revolution Protected by the
United States Government" and in
this chapter, on page 121, we discov-
er the following statement of Mr..
Bulnes regarding the twenty-six
charges:
Il am going to give a list of the
charges which the real revolutionists,
led by Gen. Bernardo Reyes, prepared
for the consideration of the Mexican
people. | should like, however, to say
| that l do not hold myself responsible
for the accuracy of these charges.
For the present, | neither approve
nor contest; l limit myself to say
| ing that some are false; others SIM
ply absurd; others grossly exagger-
ated; others demonstrate wrong in
depreciation from lack of proper I'M
derstanding; some are true
Another pamphlet, written by Mary
Austin, repeats the old romance about
| the Church marriage fees She says:
WHSH me young poOH WISHES 10
marry now he is confronted by two
alternatives; he can have a civil mar
riage which his Church has taught
him to regard as no marriage at all;
or Church wedding, for which the
fee is practically prohibitive If scru-
| pie is stronger in him than impulse,
| he bOrrows the money from his en-
ployer, pays the priest, and enters
upon a condition of debt which
amounts to slavery. How many of
our young working people, obliged to
legitimatize their marriage at such a
price, would decide to dispense with
, any ceremony whatever"
The statement made by Mary Aus
tin is absolutely false; no such con-
dition existed. The Mexican 'Liber-
ais outlawed the religious marriage
ceremony. What would Americans
say if the Washington administration
were to decree that all marriages per-
formed by ministers of religion were
| invalid?
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-11-03

jects at a distance of hundred miles.
The distance of hundred miles at
which an object upon the surface of
the earth is visible is equal to the
square foot of one and one-half times
the height of the observer in feet
above sea level.
Some allowance has to be made
for the effect of atmospheric refrac-
ton, but as the refraction varies at
different heights and is affected by
the various states of the weather, no
precisely accurate figures for general
purposes can be given. Probably from
one-fourteenth to one-tenth of the dis
lance given by the formula would have
to be deducted owing to the refrac-
tion of the atmosphere.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-11-03
THE CHILDREN'S HOUR.
THE WAY OF A GENTLEMAN.

Cardinal Newman's description of
a gentleman may be read with profit
by every Catholic boy:
ut is almost a definition of a gen.
tleman to say" the illustrious Car
dinal writes The is one who never
inf1icts pain. A gentleman is mainly
occupied in merely removing the OBJ
stacles which hinder the free and
unembarrassed action of those about
him, and he concurs with their move
ments rather than takes the initiative
himself. The true gentleman care
collision of feeling, all restraint, or
suspicion, or gloom, or resentment,
his great concern being to make every
one at his ease and at home. He has
his eyes on all his company. He is
tender toward the bashful, gentle
toward the distant and merciful to-
ward the absurd He can recollect to
whom he is=espeaking; he guards
against unreasonable illusions or
topics which may irritate. He is sell
dom prominent in conversation, and
never wearisome.
He makes light of favors while
he does them, and seems to be re-
ceiving when he is comforting. He
never speaks of himself except when
compelled; never defends himself
by a. mere retort; has no ears for
SANDER or gossip; is. scrupulous not
to impute motives to those who in
terfere with him, and interprets every.
thing for the best He is never mean
or little in his disputes; never takes
unfair advantage, never mistakes per
sonalities or sharp sayings for argu
ments or insinuates evil which he
dare not say out. From long
sighted prudence, he observes the
maxim of the ancient sage that we
should ever conduct ourselves toward
our enemy as il he were one day to
be our friend. He has too much good
sense to be affronted at insult; he is
too busy to remember injuries, and toe
indolent to bear malice.
"He is patient, forbearing and re
SlSu6u OII,- philosophical pllAClplCo
He submits to pain because it is in
evitable, to bereavement because il
is irreparable, and to death because
it is his destiny Ii he engages in
controversy of any kind, his disci
plined intellect preserves him from
the laundering discourtesy of better
though less educated minds, that
like blunt weapons, tear and hack
instead of cutting clean, and mistake
the point in argument, waste Their
strength on trifes, misconceive theil
adversary and leave the question
more involved than they find it. He
may be right or wrong in his opinion
but he is too clear-headed to be un
just. He is as simple as he is forci
BILE, and as brief as he is decisive
Nowhere shall we find greater candor
consideration, indulgence. He throws
himself into the minds of his OPP
ponents; he accounts for their mis-
takes. He knows the weakness O.
human reason as we'll as it's strength
its province and it's limits.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-11-03
THE INCAPABLE.

The pathos of the world is in his eyes,
Within his brain abortive SCREENINGS
roll,
His nerveless hand in impotency lies
With palm held open for the pau
per's dole.
The burden of all Intellectual things
Is in his gait, his countenance, his
mien;
While round his harassed brow for
ever clings
The hooking ghost of what he might
have been.
Here, where men toll and eat the fruit
of toll,
He idly stands apart the whole day
through;
Here, in land of ceaseless work and
MOL,
His hand and brain can find him
naught to do.
No sweat of manly effort damps his
brow
In workshop, field or mart he hath
no place,
To earn his daily bread he knows not
how,
Or scornful, counts the offered
means-disgrace
Too proud to dig, yet not too proud
IN
The bread of strangers to his face
and name;
Homeless he wanders with uncertain
feet,
Of thrift the scorn, of fate the idle
game.
What though he wear the hall mark
of the schools,
A Weakling in the world, he stands
confessed;
For lack of will to use the humber
tools,
He walks the earth a byword and a
jest.
The precious promise of his youthful
years,
All unfulfilled, upon him manhood
waits.
He wakens to his shame with bitter
tears
And knows himself to be the thing
he hates.
Incapablei His destiny we spell
In logic of memorable fact;
At naught may his untutOred hand
excel;
The curse of Reuben blasts his every
act.
The ploughman whistles blithely as he
goes
And turns upon the world no coward
face,
In joy he reaps that which in hope he
sows,
Nor bows his head to aught but
heavens grace.
The craftsman, too, rejoices in the
thing
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-11-03
SEVEN WISE MEN.

Most people have heard of the
Seven Wise Men of Greece Pittacus
Bias, Scion, Thales, Chilon, Cleobulus
and Pariander says Ave Maria
Here is their story, and the moral OF
it is worth remembering, if the names
are not.
As some Coans were fishing, GER
tain strangers from Miletus bought
whatever should be in the nets with
out seeing it. When the nets were
brought in they were found to con
tain a golden tripod. A dispute arose
among the fishermen and the
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-11-03
THE BEES REvEILLE.

Some of us have to be called in the
morning SO as not to oVersleep our
selves. Perhaps you have heard the
story of the donkey that regularly
woke it's master at four, so that he
might go and milk the cows. A most
interesting story of how the bees are
reused from their sweet slumbers in
the early morning is told in Our
Agreeable Friends If you live any
where near barracks you will know
the reveille (Which is French for wax
ing) sounded on the bugles. The bees
have their bugler also, one of the num-
Der buZzing a peculiar note which
brings all the rest out to start the
days work, for these busy and in
dustrious insects cannot afford to lie
in bed after the sun rises. This was
discovered by a naturalist named Hof-
fer He watched his bees very care
fully, and he heard one of them sound
ing the peculiar note every morning
about four. One morning, wishing to
see what would happen if the reveille
were not sounded, he managed to
catch this particular bee in a net and
kept it prisoner As he expected,
the hive oversight next morning,
though about ten minutes later an
other bee took the place of the alb
sent one and woke them up with the
same note. So, you see, long before
alarms were invented or bells rung
to call the factory hands to early
work, the bees learnt the comfort of
deputing one of their number, doubt
less taking it in turn, to wake them
up, so that the rest could sleep on
till the last moment.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-11-03

To fashion which his cunning hand
was taught;
Of want he feels nor fears the bitter
sting.
In manhood's strength his destiny is
wrought.
But this one-futile, hopeless, crushed
to earth,
A prey forever to forebodings grim,
Well may he curse the day that gave
him birth,
And summon God and Man to pity
him.
Hamilton Schuyler.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-11-03
ARMS OF WASHINGTON.

Hamilton Schuyler
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-11-03

strangers as to whom it belonged, and
as they could not agree, they took
it to the Temple of Apollo and con-
suited the priestess there. She said
it must be given to the wisest man
in Greece, and it was accordingly sent
to Bias, who declared that Thales was
wiser, and sent it to him. Thales sent
it to another one, and SO on until it
had passed through the hands of all
the Seven Wise Men; and as each
one claimed that the other was wiser
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-11-03
SEEING DISTANCES.
: w. III. S

About 200 miles in every direction is
the distance man can see when
standing on a clear day on the peak
of the highest mountain say at a
height of 26,668 feet or little over
five miles above the level of the sea.
An observer must be at height of
6.667 feet above sea level to see OBJ
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-11-03

than he, it was finally sent to the
Temple of Apollo, where it long re-
NAMED to teach the lesson that the
wisest are the most distrustful of their
wisdom.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1917-03-28
NOT WITHOUT BIAS.

Here is list of President Wilson 8
ppointees to the 'non-partisan' tar.
# commission: G
Frank w. Taussig,, college professor
nd free trader '.'' ."h .-''f f"@;f" &-'
Daniel c.. Roper, democratic office.
holder. .' nv w.. 81.
David ]. Lewis, ex-democratic con.
gressman.
VIM. Kent eN-congressman, free
trader and chairman OF the Wilson
Independent league.
VIM. S. Culbertson, officeholder un.
er the democratic administration, but
epresented as republican.
Edward p. Costigan. progressive and
Importer Of Wilson in the recent cam.
paign.
This is not 'non-partisan" nor bi.
partisan commission; neither is it a
business commission. 1t will begin
is work under a tremendous handicap
because of the lack of public conf.
dence either in its ability or it's readi,
ness to study the tariff question from
an unbiased viewpoint. "
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1917-03-28
BUCK GROVE ITEMS
+ j. j. j. !. + + j. 4 !. j. !. I

Emil Weise proved to be the popular
young bachelor for whom the we'd
ing bells rang Saturday, March II.
He and Louisa Stahl were quietly
rarried in Denison and will live on a
arm south of Buck Grove where Emil
has been at work for a couple OF
ears getting the cage ready for the
bird. These young people are we'll
sad favorably known being raised to
n anhcod and womanhood in this vic:
ifest IF s II send
+ cd wishes with them into their new
life.
Joe Hellar and wife are rejoicing
ever the safe arrival of a II pound
hoy born Monday. .,...
| Mr.. and Mrs. c. H. Weise gave
t'ncing party at their home last
Thursday evening in honor Of their
son, Emil, and his bride. OF course
everybody had good time.
| The post office lately has been filled
with many letters addressed to Nation
s Mail Order Co., Brokers, Exchange,
Globe Building, Minneapolis, MINI. All
etters so addressed are returned as
ar as possible to the writer marked
fraudulent. There is no such an ad
dress and nobody giving away silk
etticoats, so don't write any more
etters to this firm which doesn't exist
only on paper.
Mr.. John Kepford left Friday to at
end the funeral of his sister, Mrs.
Tom Tranter, who died at her home
j. Iowa City. Mrs. Tranter. frequently
listed here and her many friends
will sympathize with her brother and
lsband in her loss.
Mrs. Marx Gloe, of Del Rapids S. D.
s visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
ohm kepford for few days.
Our barber shop and pool hall has
hanged hands the past week, Hillly
!ewman bought out Louie Arndt and
fter lapse of years is again citizen
our town.
Mrs, Jasper Hahn has sold her home
roperty to Mr.. George Frey She
Intends to go to Dalton, Nebraska, to
live.
Louie Arndt and wife (the latter is
daughter Of Mrs. Hahn will also go
o Nebraska with her. They will go
here Mr. and Mrs. Bronstiel and Mr..
nd Mrs. Bran lseminger are already
ocated and will form quite Hams
olony as these ladies are also daugh-
ers of Mrs. Hahn. Dean Hahn will
8 so go with them and SO Buck Grove
will lose one of its oldest families !
lere. The only one in town left will
he Frank Hahn, and in the country,
Mrs. Bert Walworth and dame rumor
ays the latter family expects to fol-
ow in the spring. Verify this is a
~ orld Of changes.
Miss Genevieve Goettsch, of Denison
visited friends in Buck Grove Sunday.
Quite number of young folks from
1Ianilla spent Sunday afternoon here.
They seem to enjoy themselves in our
] tile town.