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VICTIMS OF. SUPERSTTIoUS
PRACTICES.

Some weeks ago young negro
knocked at our door, writes a Sister
in the Negro Child. He was carrying
a little boy. Good morning" he. said
and nothing more. / noticed that the
little boy was covered with wounds,
SO l asked the young man if he want
ed some medicine for him. mo,
thank YOU he said, "but you must
take the child" Without saying an
other word or waiting for my answer,
he gave me the poor little creature
and off he went. Poor child,
said to the little one, welcome to
your new home!" @
We washed the little quasi-orphan
and dressed him; for he had not a
stitch of clothing, poor child! After
some time, our girls noticed to their
great horror that the child had only
one tooth. Now they understood why
his mother had cast him off. Accord
ing to the heather idea q am speak
ing in particular of the tribe of the
Wazigni) children, who get their up
per teeth first or their lower ones ir-
regularly, are to be regarded as out
casts. They are not allowed to- grow
up but are murdered, lest the whole
tribe perish. Their superstition has
already caused many q mother to kill
her own child. They generally drown
or SURROGATE these poor little crea-
lures. Since more white people have
come to this country the natives dare
no longer perpetrate these crimes in
public; for the government has strict
ly interdicted child-murder But how
many children are still secretly cast
off by their mothers!
To rescue these innocent victims is
one of the many charities for which
the Sodality of ST. Peter Claver is
working. These little ones must be
provided for; $12 will support child
for one year at the Mission School.
Any aims, however small, sent to So
dality Headquarters, Fullerton Bldg,
st. Louis, Mo-, will be gratefully re
ceiVed
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THERAPEUTICS IN THE ARCTIC.

Whenever our Eskimos get sick"
writes one of our missionaries, "imme.
diately they come to us and always
with unbounded faith in our medical
skill There was one old villager who
came so often to the mission and
stayed SO long that / named him the
Blister Generally he wore a long
and used to she'd so many feathers
during his visits that he became a
veritable nuisance. One day the
Blister fell sick and his poor wife
dragged him over to the mission ON a
small sled called kammegatik.
was appointed to act as doctor. Our
stock of medicine consisted of one
large bottle of pills and can Of
castor oil. L gave the Blister six pills
and explained how to take them. How
ever, he proved an unruly patient and
would not swallow them. He just
chewed the pills one by one, pro-
nounced them very good and then
asked for moreh Twas badly scared,
was afraid had given him too many
pills and really felt uneasy till the
next day when his wife again dragged
him over It was the only time was
ever glad to see the Blister. In my
exuberance at finding him still alive
L gave him a cupful of castor oil.
thought, after this dose, he would
never .tgain ask for more medicine.
ITO my dismay, he drank the oil
slowly smackings his lips like a con-
noisseur slipping some rare vintage,
and then said, fauna Ashertook'
That is splendid. He lost no time in
telling the other villagers about the
delicious foreign cordial that the
Agiyulerta (priest) has RECALLED him
with, whereupon there was an cpl
demic in the village"
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A REvERlE.

"As l stand on the porch looking
westward into the broad valley, | see
on the right the monastery with its
tan walls, round towers, blue slate
roof and its secluded setting of tall,
green trees. 1t suggests men engaged
in an orderly life Of self-sacrifce, OF
mysticism, of intercession, of cell
prayer and quiet.
ION the left is the big city and I
see church spires on which the flick
ering sunlight plays like white fingers
stunning the Weatherworn keyboard
of an ancient organ. The spires rise
above the numberless crowded build
ings that hum with the hustle and
activity of a compact, seethinS life.
1t suggests men serving without reg
ularity of life, without sufficient rec
reation, without time for reflection
and study; with busy programs, dis
turbed nights, important institutions
and thousands of souls needing direc-
ton and care.
And l pray Gods blessing upon
the men of the cowl and corded gown
who heed the regular toll of the mon
astery bell and constantly pray for
the peace of Jerusalem. I pray also
for those priests robed in the garb
of the street, with bright, earnest
eyes and careworn brows, whose feet,
weary in well-doing, but whose hearts
never tire.
There are diversities of gifts and
of methods, but the same. Spirit"
ID. r. C. in the Liufng Church, LP. e.
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God and His religion. Naturally, he
forgot the lessons learned in his
youth.
Later on, four of his daughters at
tended ST. Elizabeth's school at Pur-,
cell, and for number of years his
only son, Martin, attended the Sacred
Heart College. In a recent issue of
the Sentinel mention was made of the
death of his Youngest daughter,
Elizabeth, Familiarity known among
her relatives as "Sammie,'r a great
faEorite of the Sisters and the pupils,
who was last year buried from her
convent school,
For the past two years Charles
Jacoway was in declining health.
Everything was done for him that
medical skill could fbestow, but to no
avail. Realizing he had not long to
live, he called to his side his faithful
wife, Amanda, and asked that the
priest come and pray for him. Father
Van Wees, pastor of Our Lady of
Victory Church, Purcell, visited him
oObO1d1 IllI1S0 duu III ctI1 Al1uO VI
weather. Martin Jacoway acted as
interpreter for his father, thus helping
the priest to prepare his parents soul
for the end that was drawing near.
The dying man made his Confession
with every mark of fervor and devo-
ton, and received Holy Viaticum and
Extreme Unction, after which he babe
his son tell Father Van Wees that he
now was happy and could die in peace,
and he expressed the wish to be, buried
beside his baby girl, Sammie. The
funeral took place from the Church of
Our Lady of Victory, where Solemn
Mass of Requiem was celebrated by
the pastor, and Charles Jacoway was
laid to rest in Hillside cemetery be-
side the grave of his little daughter.
God is wonderful in His saints and
in His creatures. The souls of the
just are in His hands; in the sight of
the unwise they seem to die, but they
are in peace. Wis, III.
The Indian Sentinel
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..What, Mr.. stanley?e she exclaimed,

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What, Mr.. stanley2' she exclaimed,
marry you?"
Eyes, Miss Morrison; / have not
much to offer, for | know now how
little you value money when offered
to you by the hand of man such as
/ have been. But | assure you if I
every marry, | must marry a girl like
YOU
And I assure you, Mr.. Stanley, if
every marry, | must marry a man
whom | can love, a man who can re-
spect a woman and whose life has
been pure and bright
l knew she meant what she said.
But she had taught me lesson which
began to work at once and soon pro-
duced results in the form of sale
of paintings by the modern masters.
Departing upon my recovery, she left
behind her a little book called ''The
Faith of Our Fathers" Though | was
enlightened by the perusal of. this
volume and understood it's teachings
something seemed lacking; could
not believe. / had not the gift OF
Faith. Finally determined to go to
the Catholic priest down town, and
lay open my state OF mind told
the good man my story, and explained
my difficulty. I soon found that, like
everything else which this world OF
sense can not touch, my darkness was
lifted my ferVent prayer.
Did ever meet the nurse again;
Do you see those three paintings over
there? The one in the center is oul
Blessed Lady, looking down on hel
newly,born Babe. The one on the lef
is a painting of my mother; and the
| one on the right, the beautiful lady
with big brown eyes and a wealth O
| dark brown hair is-the nurse. Al
you notice they all three have thu
same inscription: Madonna Mia.
| That's the name of endearment Nv,
taught our children to call her, AM
she seems to like it. | do.
| -. II. Strdtford. in Eternal Light
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recently. In spite of the society
rule his remarks were frequently tenn
pered with applause as well as laugh
ter.
You cannot commercialize art
though we have been making every
effort to do so. In this age of gal
vanized iron much of our best art has
disappeared, but you cannot perma-
nently separate art and poetry from
religion, which is, in fact, the source
Of it all.
81 was, myself, brought up on Bob
IngersoH and Tom Paine, but my art
experience has led me to regard them
as very poor critics of life. | want to
pay a tribute to the Catholic Church
as most successful in giving joy to its
people. 1t has recognized the close
relation Of religion and art and has
always maintained it. In the older
days good artists were assured of a
life income. Now we let them take
their chances, with the result that
we crush out the finer side of life.
GU Cd1 IuIn OuI LlOuCIh Ol1eSiA %
by machinery in millions, but what
is the use if the chairs fall apart as
soon as the varnish has worn off? All
true art makes an appeal to the sense
of the beautiful, and it must rest Ill
timately upon the skill and care of
the individual artist. st. Gaudens,
peer of any European artist, told me
it was pitiable, in our commercial
times, how much effort he must give
to such tasks as Peter Cooper's trou-
sers.
Nevertheless, there is some hope
ahead of us. We are just beginning
to recognize in this country the beau
ty of pageantry. Speaking as an
artist l advise you all to follow your
ideals. If we get to- work toward our
ideals, have always found that there
is an overruling Power that will show
us the right way to work them out,
and this l regard as the religion of
art
-Pl,iiddeiphid Record.
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BABY LEPERs.

What sad thing it must be to see
infants afflicted from the moment of
their birth with leprosy! Rev. Henry
McGlinchey, a Jesuit, who on his
way to India stopped at Sheklung,
China, says:
"Oh, it is pitiful to see the little
baby lepers at Sheklung. Some of them
are darlings, SO pretty and attractive,
but there on their tiny faces you can
see a small circle which marks the
beginning of the deadly disease that
has baffled medical skill from the
earliest ages
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THE CATHOLIC LADDER.

Father Blanchet, the pioneer, ex-
perienced some difficulty IN communi-
eating his Christian doctrines and his
tory to his dusky flock. They could
neither read nor write; nor, indeed,
could they converse with the mission
aries. He, therefore, invented novel
contrivance to instruct them, and this
device, better known as the ~Catholic
Ladder" or the 'Sah-ka-lee Stick" be-
came a potent assistant in the evan
gelization of the Indians of the Pacific
Northwest. He used a long stick, on
which he cut forty short parallel lines,
or notches, giving the appearance of a
ladder sometimes called the Ladder
to Heaven) Each line or notch repre-
scented century, and the whole forty
represented the traditional 1000 years
of the worlds history prior to the adj
vent of Christ. These lines were fo.-
lowed by thirty-three points or dots
and three crosses, to show the years
of Christ's life and the manner of His
DEATH A church and twelve perpen-
dicular marks denoted the beginning
of the Church, at the death Of Christ.
through the twelve Apostles. Eighteen
further horizontal lines or marks
teach century, and thirty-nine points
teach a year, Indicated the lapse Of
time since the death Of the Saviour.
also, is fixed the date of
the institution Of the device as 1889.
The ladder and its lessons held the
attention Of the Indians wonderfully.
They themselves made and took home
copies Of the stick, and some Of them
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Tl CATHOLIC INDIANS.

A full-blood Mississippi Choctaw,
Charles Silwees Jacoway, man of
splendid and unusual character, died
October 13, 1917, at his home, near
Purcell, Oklahoma. Born in April,
1919, in Newton County, Mississippi,
where he was baptized by the Jealous
missionary, Father Bekkers, Charles
Jacoway migrated with his family to
Oklahoma, where in 1903 he engaged
in farming, twenty miles east of Prir-
cell While young man in Missis-
sippi lie acquired a knowledge OF
medicine that enabled him to do much
good among the Indians, by whom he
was held in great esteem. Today his
name is revered bys them as that of a
loved friend and benefactor. He had
made his First Communion when d
boy. On coming to Oklahoma, where
at that time there was no priest %
speak bis language, he heard little Of
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81 -
tory with the ancient one on which lii
Godfrey de Bouillon triumphantly
bore the Cross into the Holy Land.
The birthplace of Our Lord, Beth
.1ehem, which signifies "house of
bread is about six miles from Jeru-
salem, and will come under similar
rule. It's population is about eight
thousand souls.
The taking of this sacred territory
by Christian troops will bring joy to
the missionaries who have suffered a
real martyrdom there during the past
three years. The Franciscans, who
are the custodians of the Holy
Sepulchre and other shrines, are most
numerously represented in the Holy
Land.
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THE CONVERSION OF "KING
GRIFFITH"

Contributors to ST. Peter Claver So
ciety for Africans Missions, national
headquarters Of which are in the Full
lerton Building, ST. Louis, under Rev
J. P. Donovan, c. NJ, have heard OF
substantial fruits Of their benevolenceS
in the conversion of the King OF
Basutoland, Africa, whose Anglicizeo
name is King Griffith. A French
priest-missionary, Rev. c, Valat, who
is King Grifith's confessor, has writ
ten to ST. Louis, telling Of the remark,
able change in the character of the
Paramount Chief" as the Basutoland
subjects call their king.
1.-The king got converted by a
miracle" writes Father Valat. HE
was polygamist and drunkard IN
til he was 40 years of age. When he
was 40, abandoned to debauchery and
to vice, being like a beast according
to his words to mel, drinking brandy
day and night, and eating nothing at
all, he was in the night time tortured
by a thought of becoming a Catholic.
The thought made progress, and be-
came an obsession.
Opposed Conversion.
''His first wife, who had great power
over him, would not consent to his be-
coming a Catholic. She said, / must
die before you can do this Five days
after she said these words the rain fell
in the country. She went out of the
house on an errand, and, falling, broke
her arm. The doctor operated, taking
out some of the bone, and she died
under the influence of chloroform God
had heard her prayer, and the time
for the conversion of King Griffith had
coTle. 1t was miracle.
The paramount chief paid for "a
church which is called the Church OF
st. Louis, on account of the king being
converted, recalling ST. Louis OF
France. We would like very much il
American friends could send a statue
of st. Louis of France for this church.
The paramount chief is not only a
Catholic but a saint. He has put away
his concubines, and his whole family
is converted His wifes name is
Veronica, his three daughters, Anaclet,
Pascalina, Celestina; his two sons,
Constantine and Simeon"
The work of st. Peter CIaver Society
is known throughout this country and
Europe. One of its favorite methods of
collection is through little children,
who save tinfoil and cancelled postage
stamps.
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even vet cherish the precious relics.
Almost all of the pioneers and his
torians of the Pacific Northwest,
whether of Catholic, Protestant, or
other faith, refer to this unique and
successful device.
-chos. NJ. buchanan. inIndfon Sentinel.
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Citation Elk. of Guardians Account.

STATE OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY OF
Ramsey, IS. In Probate Court.
In the Matter of the Guardianship of
William NJ. Vaughan and Margaret
A. Vaughan, Wards.
The State of Minnesota to All Whom
1t May Concern:
On reading and fling the petition of
the representative of said ward, pray
ing that the Court fix a time and place
for examining, adjusting and allowing
his Annual Account as such guardian
1t Is Ordered, That said petition be
heard and that all persons interested
in said matter be and hereby are cited
and required TO appear before this
Court, on Monday, the 25th day of Feb
ruary, 1918, at 10 o'clock in the fore
noon, or as soon thereafter as said
matter can be heard, at the Probate
Court Room. in the Court House in the
City of st. Paul, in said County, and
show cause, if any they have, why said
petition should not be granted and that
this citation be served by the publica-
tion thereof in The Catholic Bulletin
according to law.
Witness the Judge of said Court this
25th day Of January, A. D. 1918.
E. w. BAZILLE,
Judge of Probate.
CSeal of Probate Court.)
Attest: F. W. GoseWiSch,
Clerk of Probate.
Hurley & Hurley, Attys.
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REJOICING IN JERUSALEM.

! Il is now a matter of common
knowledge that on December s, the
city OF Jerusalem passed from the
rule of the Turks to that of the Chris
tians The date will go down in his
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NO OTHER CHURCH GIVES SUCH
JOY TO HER PEOPLE.

George de Forest Busch, the emf
nent painter, held the attention of
large audience at the Ethical Society
exercises in the Broad Street theater
New-York tribune., 1918-06-30

"Can there have been discrimination.
conscious, unconscious and sub, in the book
ing of achievement?
HAS it happened that it was made easy
for men to get on the record with their
great thoughts and great deeds, and was it
made stressful for women?
HAS that practice in itself worked "a an
inhibition in woman's case?
And has she, in spite of the inhibition.
just possibly achieved little more than
has gotten into the books?
ut isn't necessary to maintain that she
has achieved as much as man, or that she
could have done SO with mans chance.
"The mere admission that she NAV have
been achieving and that the achieving has
somehow failed Of comprehensive record
opens up field Of research which inevi-
tably has to be explored"
The encyclopaedia is to be prepared
under the direction of DR.. Isidor Singer.
editor of "The Jewish Encyclopedia" He
is assembling an editorial board of men
and women from many lands to serve in
advisory capacity. He announces that
the admiral of the flagship" will be a
woman of international reputation. AS
for himself-well, he is simply "chiaf
engineer in the firing room."
New-York tribune., 1918-06-30
Keeping Up ON the MAGAZINES

people. Our back and shoulder muscles,
upon which a largo percentage of our hit
ting power is dependent are made up Of
the sinews of railroads and the thews of
factories. Our upper arm is built of ships
and our fist is the army in the line. What,
then, Of the striking forearm of this fight
er? That forearm, spanning the distance
from the base ports of France to the fist on
the Western front, is, in military anatomy,
the S. o. S.
Passing through a maze Of motor trucks,
switch engines and freight cars to one end
of dangerous French ammunition shop, we
IND Americans busy assembling American
engines. And here point about transpor-
tation. 1t will ultimately take in the neigh
borhood Of $4,000 railroad men to operate
our lines in France and cooperate with the
French in the use Of their lines. Our roads
at home are driven to capacity and using all
their available men. The French roads are
operated effectively and to capacity-God
knows how-by women and military non
electives. French trains look like bits of
comlc-opera scenery to an American rail-
road man, but somehow they operate! Some
how they keep the army at the front prop
erly supplied and distributed, and when one
reckons the French railroads in terms Of
accomplishment rather than appearance
there is no cause for laughter. Experienced
railroad men who know the situation hero
say that we have something to teach the
French about railroad operation and a great
deal to learn from them as we'll.
Il may not go into detailed testimony Of
the extent and success Of our railroad trans
portation effort along the s. O. S. in France,
can give this impression: It is developing
gradually and reasonably we'll in the face Of
multiplicity of difficulties that stun the
lay mind. In its ultimate plan it is capable
OF supplying real American army on the
line satisfactorily. 1t is being developed by
big, patient, tactful American railroad men
who are willing to learn as we'll as teach.
Their work is beginning to show.
Another point along the line of the S. o.
s.: A great classification and storage yard
akin in size and purpose to the one at a
base port above described, but with added
features. Here, for one thing, is an enpi-
neers' depot where machinery for the army's
use is assembled, and here we may get some
idea OF the manifold needs of our army in
France Some days as high as 800 cars de-
post their freight. Here in one great nile
are 10000 shovels-a very mountain of
backache! Wherever there is room to store
New-York tribune., 1918-06-30

ton into the winning of the war, crowding
out every other industry not absolutely es-
sential to war purposes, piling prodigious
taxes upon incomes and profits and doing
all this without the preparation that other
nations are making for the reconstructiye
work that must follow the war.
"Ex-Controller Of the Currency A. Barton
Hepburn, of the Chase National Bank, in
recent striking paper on Financing the
War; says: The Congressional idea and
the popular idea that this is a country Of
unlimited wealth, that we can finance other
nations without stint and spend billions by
the score annually and obtain these vast
sums at will, by taxation and borrowing is
a mischievous idea
"a united nation pledging all its strength
OF men and money to the winning of the
war will win it. A nation divided either as
to the raising Of men or of money will be
on the losing side Lawmakers, publicists
and editors who fail to realize this fact are
on dangerous ground-as dangerous to the
welfare of the country as the Bosheviki of
Russia have been to that unfortunate land
New-York tribune., 1918-06-30
Japanese Military Inter-
vention

1~HE arguments against Japanese military
~ intervention are completely exploded
by the appeal issued by the famous Russian
revolutionary, M. Vladimir Burtseff, who
says:
1--WE are on the edge of an abyss. To-
morrow Germany will find enormous re-
sources in our country. Shall we succeed in
defending them by our own efforts, No.
The remedy is an appeal to our allies. We
declare to you, Come and govern US. Come
as friends, and help ns to drive out the
traitors who are clutching our throats. Re-
store order and liberty to our country.
Whether our allies come via Vladivostok.
Kola+ or Archangel they will be hailed as
comrades and faithful associates in the
struggle against the common enemy. Let
them help US to form an army, and we will