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The Young Ladies' Club of First Methodist church vii hold their Tea Bazaar and tempting market table al the home of Mrs. Peter Byrd, 617 West Fifth avenue on December '.
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PERSONALS.

Lieutenant John Sorrells of Camp Pike will spend Thanksgiving day with his parents, Judge and Mrs. w. B. Sor- rells.
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Prayer Meeting Postponed.

Postponed.
 The prayer meeting which was to have been held this morning with Mrs Coe, at the residence of Mrs ,L B. Spears, has been postponed un' til next week, on account of Thanks. giving
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Hamilton-Moore Wedding Announcement.

Announcement has been made of ,be engagement and approaching marriage of Miss Elizabeth Edna Hamilton of this city, and Erwin b. Moore, of Hyllsdale, Michigan. The wedding will take place in Detroit, Mich, on Thursday, December 27.
 Miss Hamilton is the superintendent at inc Davis hospital, and has many friends here who are sorry to hear of her departure at such an early date
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SOCIETY s o MISS EUNICE NORRIS
 EDITOR
EDITOR

Items for Society department by phone mail mes personally in engea over No Club notices should ba in writing
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guild of Trinity church, has been postponed until a later date in De- cember. Fancy work will be sold, ana there will also be a market table.
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Lutheran Church ThankSgiying Services

Thanksgiving Services.
 The usual Thanksgiving services of the Lutheran church will be held this evening at 8 o'clock, at the church. This service will be con ducted in English, and every one Is assured of cordial welcome.
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Thanksgiving Services at Trinity Church.
 Thanksgiving services will be held this morning at 10 o'clock, in Trinity Episcopal church.
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MT. and Mrs. Frank Mahle will spend Thanksgiving in Stuttgart
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A fine daughter was born to Mir. and Mrs. T. J. Wilson Tuesday, in their home on Hazel street.
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"Pie Social" a Suncncc

"Pie S0ciar' a
 Success.
 Mrs. Fuckers class of girls of the Ohio Street Baptist church, gave a 'ipie social' iat tie home of the pastor, Rev. w. C. Wood, Eighth and Pennsylvania, Tuesday evening. A good program was given, and many amusing games were played. Re ceipts amounted to about $9, and this money will go for the state missions.
 Miss Mary Wright, will arrive; Mon- day to spend several days here with her mother, ITS. B. w. Wright, and friends. Mi Wright has been at tending school in Natchitoches, La. for the past term, which closed We'd nesday, and she is visiting friends in Natchitoches, and Derry, La., this week.
 Miss Lamar Bernhardt left yester- day for Arkansas City and McGehee where she will instruct several clas- ses in knitting, for the Red Cross,
 MT. anu Mfs. M. L.. Bell and three children of Chicago, will arrive in Pine Bluff today to spend Thanksgiv. ing with Dr. and Mrs. Harry Williams and other relatives in the city. MT Bell will give dinner party at the Pines tonight for his relatives in the city. The guests will be MT. and Mrs R. B. Lee, MT. and Mrs. Collier Lee and Mir. and Mrs. w. A. Lee and children. MT. and Mrs. Bell will be entertained at dinner Friday night at the home of Dr. and Mrs. Harry Williams. They will return to theil home Saturday, accompanied by Mrs Williams who will be their guests for several days, after which she will go to Los Angeles, Cal, to spent months with her mother in that citN
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StilsOn-Pierce Wedding.

The marriage of J. B. Pearce of Hunter, Ark. and Mrs. Alice Stilson of this city, took place yesterday at 6:3O o'clock at the parsonage of Carr Memorial church. The ceremony was said by l.. w. Evans, pastor of the church.
 Mir. Pearce has been living on a plantation at Hunter, and Mrs. Pearce formerly resided with her mother, Mrs. Holsire, in East Eighth. The couple will leave today for their fu- ture home in Hunter.
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Mrs. Jack Bernhardt left yesterday for visits in Arkansas City, and Hel- ena.
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Frank Gould, son of c. P. Gould, surveyor is ill with malaria, at the family residence, 1109 Mulberry.
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Mrs. Bobbie Owens, who was oper- ated on at the Davis hospital several days ago, is improving nicely.
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Mrs. ". M. Eighme and children, are spending Thanksgiving with rela- tives in Roe, Ark.
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Celebrate 35th
 Wedding Anniversary.
 MT. and Mrs. John O'Connell are to- day celebrating the 35th anniversary of their wedding. They were the hon. or guests last evening at a $ o'clock dinner, rendered by pr. and Mrs. w.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-05-26

ship in this Republic confcrs the
right OF protection upon every
man who acknowledges the con-
stltution as the sovereign law, 1t
follows naturally that when the
effectiveness of that protection is
threatened there arises the obllga-
ton upon every citizen to come to
the rescue of his imperilled coun-
try. Thus it is that even those
persons who cannot take an active
part in the military life of the
nation are enabled to do their
equivalent share by purchasing a
War Loan Bond which will, in
measure proportional to it's size.
strengthen the hand and the arm
that is uplifted to extend protec,
ton over all.
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"Tell the Beads for Me"
written for the Catholic BulIetin)

Tell the beads for me, my friend,
when am far away
Sailing DER the Seven Seas, at the
kings behest.
Bent on duty's bidding, we little know
the day
When a saucy submarine comes
upon her quest
Thus he wrote to his true friend, e'er
he went to sea-
when I go where danger waits
tell the beads for me-"
Tell the beads for me, l pray, as the
days go by,
That | walk unfaltering through
life's darksome night.
That, when storms beset me, and
perils round me lie,
I keep the pathway, truly, tC
Heavens golden light.
This the boon 7 ask of you, what
e'er my fortune be,
AS the seasons come and go-tell
the beads for me"
-Condl Cooyndch.
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THE HISTORY OF MEXICO

matter il it were of sufficient inter-
est. This system took the place of
any complicated governmental ma
chinery. The leaders were thus chos-
en- by the entire village, or as many
Of it's residents as cared to take part.
These officials served as long as
they lived, or as long as they gave
satisfaction. An officer could thus be
removed at the pleasure of the vii
lage. The vacant offices were filled by
election and in no case by right of
inheritance. The respect and cere-
mony shown the chief was in honor of
his office. The Mexicans did not hes
late to elect a successor to Monte
yuma as soon as he was made pris-
oner by Cortes, which act appears au-
tomatically to have deprived him of
his office.
Conclusions.
The greater part of the Mexican
aboriginals, therefore, were sedentary
Indians living in communal villages.
War was their avOcation and their
form of government was military
democracy based on the communal
life. Their religion was polytheism
of the grossest idolatry in which their
artistic expression ran to the hideous
and grotesque, and they practiced hui
man sacrifice and cannibalism to a
greater degree of exaggerated horror
than ever known among the races of
men. Each village was little world
unto itself and the people had no
| conception of the principle of abstract
ownership of land. Their implements
were of stone and thus we see that
they were still in the Stone Age, and
doubtless represented Il stage of de-
velopment from which the white man
had emerged at a period extremely re-
mote, thus placing between himself
and the Indian of the American Con-
tinent gulf of separation in mental
and social development measurable
only in millenniums.
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National Conference
of Catholic Charities
ORGANIZATIONS EN- GAGGED IN
VARIOUS FORMS OF SOCIAL OR
RELIEF WORK ARE REQUESTED
TO COLLECT AND PRESERVE
DATA.

|. The National Conference of Catho-
lie Charities is eager to collect records
concerning activities of all Catholic re-
lief organizations during the present
national emergency. Societies and
heads of Institutions which engage in
any form of social work are expected
to do their full share in anticipating
problems of civil and military relief
and to cooperate as circumstances may
require with related efforts in this
field. 1t is important for our history
to assemble records which will show
the patriotic response of Catholic or
CARNATIONS to this call of our country.
Copies of resolutions adopted, and ac-
counts of meetings, addresses and OF
all arrangements made separately or
in conjunction with other civic bodies
should be gathered, classified and pre-
served for the use of the historian.
Officers of organizations and others
interested in social work are urgently
asked to send information to the
National Conference of Catholic Char
tiles, Catholic University OF America,
Washington, D. c., in order that this
may be done. Neglect of this thought,
full service will rob the Church of a
golden opportunity to show to the
world the spirit of her benevolence in
it's Incompatible splendor.
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WAR LOAN BONDS.

Among the minor effects Of the
present war i'll Europe has been
the coming of new phrases and
slogans. England originated the
expression, Let every man do his
bit. This is but another form of
expressing the obligation which
every citizen i'll each country owes
to his respective government. In
cases of public need mans duty
to his country may lie clearly be-
fore him, while at the same time
he may lack definite knowledge
of the specific form which the dis
charge of that duty should take,
The concrete method which the
government places before every
citizen of this country as being
Immediately helpful in the hour
Of peril is the purchase of what is
called War Loan Bond. This is
nothing more or less than a trans
fer Of whatever funds, large or
small, a person may possess from
the ordinary channel Of invest
ment to the great stream which
leads to the United States Treas
ury. 1t is not a donation. much
less Is it cOnfiscatiOn. In buying
suchaa bond the investor retains
control of his money and is given
a negotiable certificate which also
bears a return i'll interest. AS an
investment there is none safer.
for the wealth and power of the
United States government stands
sponsor for the payment Of every
dollar thus loaned.
The above consideration, how
ever, is but secondary, nay, it may
seem almost ,mercenary i'll the
present crisis. The real motive
which should actuate loyal citi.
zen in thus doing his bit for his
government is one of the highest
patriotism. In final analysis, the
needs OF the country, the needs OF
the government, are nothing more
or less than the needs Of the indi-
vidual citizen. 1t is d principle OF
every law, human and divine
that to every right there exists
a corresponding obligation in
cumbent upon the possessor Of the
fright. Hence it is chat il. citizen
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1t is stated that the Young
Men s Christian Association is
making arrangements for the
erection of buildings at the thir-
teen training camps for the pur-
pose OF promoting the social,
physical, intellectual, and moral
welfare Of the enlisted men. a
fund of three million dollars is
being collected to carry on the
work. In view of the fact that Il
large number Of enlisted men will
be of the Catholic faith it is
greatly to be hoped that our
various charitable and social or
CARNATIONS will emulate the
great practical work done by the
Knights of Columbus recently ON
the Mexican border. 1t has been
estimated that a building to serve
such Il purpose can be constructed
for about 5000. 1t could be used
for recreation, instruction, amuse-
ments, or for Catholic services.
The Ladies Auxiliary Of the An
cient Order Of Hibernians, in the
District of Columbia, have
planned to furnish such a build
ing, when completed, for the train
ing camp at Fort Myer, on the
Potomac.
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CATHOLICS IN HONOLULU

the white man, and has greatly degen-
Grated both in morality and integrity.
"The Catholic population of Hawaii
is made up of the defendants of
Anglo-Saxon and Latin races-Poly-
nesians and Orientals Chinese, JAP
anese and Koreans). The Congrega-
tional Church is the predominating re-
ligious influence in Honolulu-stimu-
lating the press and representing the
wealth of the land
But in Hawaii there was not lacking
evidence that many humble natives
arc fervent children of the Church
Whilst there is much Indifference, Miss
West found atonement for it in the
lives and devotion of thousands of zeal
GUS worshippers among the poor and
| the lowly. She continues:
Il often go. to early Mass at one of
the churches in the, district where the
working classes live, purposely to
humble myself and to try and learn
from them true devotion and humility
There, kneeling with those who toll
at hardest labor for their daily bread
feel more keenly the penitent spirit
than | do as one of a fashionable con
gregaton at Cathedral High Mass
AS one of Gods humble and poor (and
most of us stand impoverished in the
Kingdom of Cod, l am deeply i'm
pressed by the sincere devotion OF
those about me. Neither the weather
nor their plain clothes prevents then
from coming out to worship regularly
upon the only day in the week allotted
them for rest and recreation. Once
in church they are not afraid to knee
for fear of bagging their trousers, mo-
are they ashamed of the soiled pray
erbook and inexpensive rosary which
they carry for the purpose of sacret
use, and not for pretense or show"
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WHY BEER is STUPEFYlNG.

Beer derives from hops bitter
tasting, sticky substance which forms
the active element of the Oriental
narcotic-hasheesh. This discovery,
credited to Professor Reinitzer of
the Polytechnic at Graz, is declared
by other European scientists to ac-
count for the 1,undoubted Supplying
effects of beer"
Judge Lang of Zurich says:
Brandy makes man sick, but beer
makes him stupid" and DR.. Del
brueck declares that all civilization
must send forth the slogan, WAR on
Beer ees III n
Hasheesh is narcotic made by
the natives of India, Turkey, and
other countries from the leaves, flow
ers, and stocks of the hemp plant.
Long ago it was the custom of East
ern despots, when assigning to serv!
ants the duty, of assassination, to
intoxicate them with hasheesh, and
from the similar sound we are said
to derive our word, assassin" The
drug has a peculiar, brutalizing effect.
1t pulls in the nerves from the fin
ger tips to the inner recesses as cat
draws in it's claws. The victim is
left unperceptive, unresponsive, and
in time is degraded to the level of
the grunting hog.
Hops is very closely related to
hemp. Says Professor Reinitzer, "In
the female blossom of the Indian
plant as in the female blossom of
the hops we find glands holding a
narcotic, bitter-tasting, sticky sub
stance which forms the active ele-
ment of the hasheesh from Indian
hemp. This is used by the various
Mohammedan people of South and
West Africa, as opium elsewhere for
narcotic purposes.
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DESCRIPTION BY NOTED CON.
VERT = CONGREGATIONS ARE
COSMOPOLITAN.

Irene West, an actress, who became
Catholic in Lakewood, N. j., and
whose fervor in the faith is an inspir-
alton, writes from Honolulu an inter-
esting description of things Catholic in
the Paradise of the Pacific" She is
evidently not impressed by the prac-
tice of their religion by the native Ha-
waiians:
'In Honolulu is to be found Tie most
cosmopolitan congregation imaginable.
On Fridays during Lent, the Stations
of the Cross, and the sermons at all
the Masses throughout the year, are
given in three languages, English, Ha-
waiian and Portuguese. The Portil-
guese population of Hawaii is Catholic
almost to a man. About fifty per cent
of the native Hawaiians are nominal
Catholics, while the remaining fifty per
cent are mostly Mormons. In speak.
ing to one of the priests here, he told
me that it was lamentable fact, that
the average Hawaiian is very tickle in
the matter of faith and has no stabil
ity. While most of them are born Cath
olics, when grown UP they lead lives
which bar them from the Sacramento
of the Church, in consequence of which
they remain away or drift into denomi
nations which are not SO exacting in
the observance of morality. Many are
divorced several times and many more
are living outside the bonds of matri
mony.
1T is to be regretted that the Ha
waiian race has inherited through as
ISOLATION all the deplorable traits OF
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-05-26

1t has been proposed to have a
Worlds Fair in Boston in 1920,
to commemorate the landing Of
the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock.
1t is said the promoters hope that
incidentally the Fair will cele-
brate world peace. Recently at
a loyalty meeting a misguided
preacher invoked the god of
Plymouth Rock. The blasphemy
is apparent when one stops to con-
slider the connection between
Puritanism and it's great proto-
type, Oliver Cromwell, the most
successful and popular imitator of
Nero that the world has witnessed
Evenaam the matter OF World 5
Fairs consistency should be close
ly followed as Il virtue.
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JOAN THE MAID.

On May 80, 1881, the city Of
Rouen, in France, stood aghast at
wondrOus spectacle In a large
public square a huge funeral pyre
had been erected, fire such as was
prepared usually for the punish
ment of desperate criminals. AS
the population of the city surges
about the square in an attempt to
gain sight Of the Desperate, the
victim is led forth. She is young
girl, slight OF build, pure of soul,
noble OF cOuntenance, and indomit-
able Of will. She is accused Of two
crimes: she freed her beloved
France from Il hated enemy, and
she was charged by unworthy
ecclesiastics with the sin of heresy.
For this two-fold reason it was de-
creed that she must die. AS the
flames enkindled by the hatred of
enemies encirclcd her youthful
form, she asked for cross. With
this symbol of redemption before
her eyes and with the name of
Jesus upon her lips, the soul of
Blessed Joan of Arc was gathered
up by the angels of God who alone
were fit companions for so noble a
spirit.
In the words of a non-Catholic
writer, ''The Maid of Orleans had
enthusiasm, and that was con
tagious. AS a psychic wave it hit
each common clod in the detected
French army and each clod became
a brand OF fire. She was the won.
derful inspiration. She was the
courage and the heart of gold
She was willing and brave for the
ordeal by fire. She sent impulses
OF courage and resolution into the
clods which had been clay and
grass in the French army, and d
surglng mass arose to her inspira.
ton and made a craven princeline
king Of France.
In the courage of her actions
and her convictions, Joan stands
shoulder to shoulder with Judith
Ester, and Mathilda of Canossa
In the sublimity other unique mis-.
sion, in the largeness Of faith in
her vision, in the greatness Of hel
achievement, Blessed Joan stands
forth Oh the stage of humanity as
the noble glory of worlanhood
Inspired by the voice Of God and
faithful to the inspiration, the
Maid by her unconquerable de.
termination and abiding belief III
the divine will confronted hel
peril, overcame the most trying
difficulties, surmounted the most
discouraging obstacles, and faced
death itself i'll the discharge OF
duty. Her example will ever re
main Ill the history of the race as
the noblest glory of France, the
triumph of Catholic faith, and the
genuine inspiration to girlhooo
and to W6manhood for all time.
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MEMORIAL DAY.

When the Egyptians laid away
the remains of their deceased
they fondly believed that the
souls Of the departed would re
turn to earth in some other form.
They were devoted to their dead.
When the Greeks and Romans
had performed the last sad rites
for those whom death had sum-
moned, they fancied these silent
brethren as enjoying the pleasur
able beauties of Elysium. They
also were devoted to the dead.
When the early Christian gath
cred the mangled remains Of a
fellow believer from the sands of
the arena, or snatched them lac
Grated from the bloody NAV Of
the deniZens of the African
jungle, he placed them tenderly
and peacefully in a crypt of the
catacombs. On the fresh mortar
covering the niche that enclosed
the remains he inscribed or
scraWled d prayer. He was most
devoted to the dead.
On the broad sea of life each
human soul sltrges forward as a
wave on the vast expanse Of the
mighty deep. Wave jostles wave;
deep calls unto deep. Each little
wavelet rides merrily forward,
pitifully self-conscious i'll it's ri
diculous insignificance. The dis
appearance of one wave is follow
ed Immediately by the accession
of another which obliterates all
memory and trace of it's predeces-
sor. AT intervals, however, the
ocean of Time is rocked and
stirred to it's utmost depths by the
violence of storm and maelstrom.
The mighty forces Of nature are
set to work with such vengeance
that the great ocean of life seems
to tremble in it's hugeness as it
rolls convulsively in the immense
| ty of space. The wavelets disap-
pear. The mighty forces arise
from the deep, huge waves tower
one above another, crush and de-
molish one another, and then sub
side. After the furious vengeance
of Neptune and Nirvana has spent
itself there is a great calm. The
sea is smooth, the ocean is at rest,
and the autumn moon sheds
feeble, fearful beams upon the
quiet scene. Such is War-and
death.
| Once a. year. the whole nation
is commanded BY it's love and re-
spect for the departed to stand at
attention. Once year there
| rise before us, visions ,not only of
the heroes whose life blood en-
riched many a hard fought battle
field, but Of those unhonored and
unsung champions of life who ran
| UllClI lllplC COutI DC Ill a SIldllCI
Isphere. Once a year we are bid
den to pause amid the rushing
perplexities of life and pay a
tribute to those. who have gone
before us, teach in his narrow
cell forever laid. - Once year
the solemnity Of parliaments and
of senates is brushed aside, the
marts of trade are hushed, the
pursuit of power, honor, and pelf
lis stayed, the aims of the am
Ibitieus are halted, the. mirth Of
1.-THE family. circle is stilIed. All
[citizens, irrespective ef1 degree,
lstation, or class stand with UNI
lowered with bowed heads, be-
fore the tomb of some one who to
lthem was honored, was dear, was,
sperhaps, very near in LIE. What