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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-03-09
MEMORIES OF THE PAST.

Although there was little talk OF
Pestalozzi's theories, and Montessori
was undreamed of at that time, yet
the authors of the textbooks of the
early part of the last century COM
bined mathematics and humor most
successfully. Can't you imagine great
grandfather giggling with delight over
published in 1849?
"A landed man two daughters had
And both were very fair;
To each he gave piece of land,
One round, the other square.
AT forty dollars the acre just
Each piece it's value had;
The dollars which encompassed each
For each exactly paid.
If cross a dollar be an inch
And just half inch more,
Which did the better portion have,
That had the round or square,"
Here is one that may shed some
light upon the source of great-grand-
mothers dainty complexion.
Il placed bowl into the storm
To catch the drops of rain;
A half globe was just its form
Two feet across the same.
The storm was DER, the tempest past,
to the bowl repaired,
Six inches deep the water stood,
1t being measured fair.
VT
Suppose cylinder whose base
Two feet across. within
Had stood exactly in that place,
What would the depth have been?"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-03-09
THE CHILDREN'S HOUR.
FARMER BOY.
written for The Catholic Bulletin by
DR.. James Henderson.)

Farmer boy, farmer boy, where have
you gone?
Here's where the robin first listened
your song;
Here's where the blackbird first fol-
lowed your feet,
Your hand to the plow and the fur
row so sweet
With the freshness of spring, the
posies abloom;
Farmer boy, farmer boy come you
back soon?
See, meath the fence-rail the brown
grass for nest;
Long you not now for the wind from
the west,
Full with the sweetness and lush of
the spring?
There's no humming of bees where
the sky scrapers swing;
There's no rest at the end of the fur
row and SO, ...
On, on to your dwelling toll must you
go. .--
Come back! come back, for the fur
row is sweet,
The blackbird once more shall walk
after your feet;
The brook still will purl in the mea-
dow below
And your ear will be loving to listen
we know;
The hay cock will greet you, the
wheat shock will joy,
And the old creaking vane it will
know you my" boy.
Come back; there's the hush of the
noon in the fields,
The lowing of cattle at eve, and the
wheel Is
That rattle beyond as the farmer
from town
With lifting Of song thrO' the
naples drives down,
And l know, ah know you will never
more stray
Where the fierce engines chug all the
wearisome day.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-03-09
MONSTER HAYsTAcKs.

On the first approach to Rouman-
ian village one is startled by the larg-
est haystack that the American will
probably ever have seen. Rod upon
rod this monster stretches upon the
horizon. The explanation is a simple
one. Hay is one of the largest articles
of production in Roumania. Landed
proprietors and peasants, one and all,
raise it and depend upon it for their
support. When, however, a peasant
feels grievances intolerable, it is a
matter of no great difficulty to set
the proprietor's hay afire-and no
peasant in the district would think
of assisting in the detection of the
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-03-09
TESTING AERO ENGINES.

In testing an aeroplane engine of
200 horsepower a Detroit company
mounted it upon heavy motor truck,
and the aerial propeller sent the truck
flying along a boulevard at the rate of
over forty miles an hour, says the
Popular Mechanics Magazine This
was a speed that the truck could not
begin to develop under it's own motor
power, and the method furnished a
better practical test of the twelve
cylinder aeroplane engine than was
possible in the testing laboratory or
in any stationary trial on blocks. AS
an additional test the rear wheels Of
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-03-09
"THY WILL BE DONE"

Father, my boy has left me alone,
My boy has answered his countrys
call,
Will he return to me again?
Or will he in the battle fall?.
Sad, Oh sad, am | tonight
Thinking of one more dear than
life,
Thinking of my darling one,
Dying perhaps in that bloody strife.
Father my heart is rent with pain,
AS Thy mothers was for her only
Son,
Pity, my God, oh pity me
And bring me back my precious one,
Father, forgive if | loved too well,
He was my king-my boy SO sweet
Teach me to say "Thy will be DONE
AS weeping / kiss Thy nail-pierced
feet.
~ Duff.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-03-09
THE REST is UP TO YOU

We have heard our country calling
And have shouldered each our arms,
When the bugles rang out wildly
From the hillside and the farms,
We are fighting to a finish,
We are going to see it through,
We will give our lives in battle
But the rest is up to you.
We have donned the khaki breaches,
We have picked up belt and gun,
IL the cause of right and freedom
Well no tyrant fear or shun.
We must leave you for season,
While we teach the Hun who's who;
Leave our homes and friends and
loved one
And that's where it's up to you.
There1l be hearts all torn and broken
With the anguish and the pain,
For the loved ones lost forever,
For the boys in battle slain.
For we Sammies will be fighting
Far across the ocean blue,
Well need food, clothes, arms, mu
That's the work that's up to you.
Watch the Stacker, watch the traitor
Who would stab us in the back,
For our hands are surely busy
Setting William off the track
| We've a great big job before us
That is everybody's view.
Stand behind us in this struggle,
Is the thing we ask of you.
SO put strikes and strifes far iron
you,
Join with willing heart and hand,
| Till again the gentle peace dove
Shall wing forth DER every land
Let your efforts be unceasing,
For. the cause is grand and true;
Then We'll not be disappointed
With the jobs we left for you.
Corporal S1fzno.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-03-09
AUDUBON.

There is a society called the Audu-
bon Society, the object of which is
to take care of the birds, and it was
named for John James Audubon, who
was born in the last year of the Revo-
luton, down near New Orleans.
When he was quite young his father
took him to France and there he be-
gan to be interested in birds and
painting and all things beautiful. His
father wanted him to be soldier,
but he did not want to kill even a
bird, let alone man, so his father
care of his farm.
After a while he got married and
came out to Missouri, and even
stopped at st. Louis, but he could not
make any money, because he was al
ways looking at the birds, learning
their notes and making pictures Of
them Finally he had a big book
written, but not money enough to
publish it, His wife believed in him,
and she taught school and saved the
money that he might go to England
and publish the book, and he taught
painting and made crayon drawings
of people in exchange for sacks of
-four and other things to eat Finally
his book was published, and he be-
came a rich man. But whenever you
see that big book, Birds of Amer.
ica," beautifully illustrated, it ought
to remind you of the hard work that
was required to make it and of the
perseverance of the man and the faith
of his wife in the face of all opposi
| ton.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-03-09

incendiary. So the law permits the
proprietor to force all the peasants
in the district to place their hay with
his, record of the weight of each
mans contribution being kept by
both sides. In the event of fire-and
it now behooves both sides to guard
against all this-all contributors suf-
fer in proportion.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-03-09
REMOVING RUST FROM NICKEL.

First smear the rusted place with
self will frequently remove a great
deal of the rust. Allow the grease to
remain for several hours and then
remove it with rag which has been
dipped in ammonia. This usually will
remove all traces of the rust. IT,
however, a stubborn spot or two re-
mains, wipe it with a little diluted
hydrochloric acid. The acid should
be used very quickly and with care,
otherwise it will remove the nickel
as well as the rust. When all the
rust has disappeared wash thorough
ly with clean water and then use a
metal polish.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-03-09
AN UNPOPULAR LAD.

He is a .'good locker as his class
mates say-a bright, active lad, in
telligent, energetic" but. When a
person says "but" in that tone you
begin to wonder what is wrong. I'm
Gle Jack found out for himself about
Robert
One afternoon, when the coasting
was good, Robert harnessed Prince,
his dog. to d sled and put the baby
in box on the sled to give her a
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-03-09

the two ton truck were locked, so
that they could not revolve, and in
this condition it was driven across
ball park by the aeroplane engine
and propeller through heavy drifts of
snow and over ice. The motor weighs
500 pounds and develops power suffi-
cient to drive a twelve passenger
aeroplane at forty miles an hour.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-03-09
WET WASH LAUNDRY

What country is sometimes called
the dairy-farm of Great Britain?-Hol
land.
most important city?-Australia.
What is the chief city of the Philip
pine Islands ?-Manila.
On what river is Mt. Vernon, the
home of ington?-Potomac
The Robesonian., 1918-08-15

1t is natural that there should be
some objection to reducing the draft
are for military service to eirhteor,
ouu l1 Will not be as bad as some peo-
pie imagine. In the first place, hoys
Of eighteen who are required to reg
lister will be given a years training
before seeing service at the front, so
that they will be nineteen before they
have to do any fighting; and then
whether they see any actual fighting
or not, the military training they
will get will be fine training that will
make men out of many youths who
otherwise would fall by the wayside
and be physical wrecks. Lots worse
things happen every year to 18-year-
old boys by the hundreds of thousands
than being required to undergo mill
tary training
The Robesonian., 1918-08-15
GALLOWAY-HALL.

Two Robson county boys have Civ
en- their lives in the great war foc
world freedcm-George Galloway of
Fairmont. whose death was recorded
some months ago. s1d Charles Hall
of Red Springs, who was killed in ac-
tion on July X. as mentioned in Mon
days Robesonian.
None may know. save those who
have suffered even as they suffer
how deep the waters through which
the parents of these heroes PASS, how
piercing the grief, how appalling tie
loneliness IF waiting for the boy who
will never return They have the pro
found sympathy of every patriot, and
in the night that covers them there i:
the blessed consciousness that then
boy gave his life in the noblest eau se
that can engage the efforts of manly
men-a clean fight for home an;
country and everything that is de
cent. They have reflected honor up
on their homes, their county, thei
State, their country, and their name
will be cherished as long as men hon
or those who Law their lives down fc
The Robesonian., 1918-08-15
Amazing Doings in Moscow Par
tally Revealed.

Official dispatches yesterday from
American Consul General Poole in
" H"'~ : tAc o-,r-oi~> for mo-
ment on what has been gong on IN
Moscow and revealed an amazing train
of events, states Washington dis
patch.
Consul General Poole, after witness
ing the violation Of the French and
British consulates and the arrests of
the consuls-general and their stats,
destroyed his code book and papers
and turned the affairs of the American
consulate over to the Swedish consul,
at the same time demanding safe con-
duct from the country for himself and
his assistants.
French and British citizens have
been arrested and the Bolsheviki have
announced they would hold them as
Hostages because Of the attack on the
soviet government by British and the
French troops at Archangel.
Members Of the French and British
military missions stationed in Moscow
we're refused permission to leave he
country in spite Of a previous pror Sc
of safe conduct.
1t is possible that since the sending
Of Consul General Poole's telegram
, which began on July 20 and continued
until August 6, the situation may have
changed, because it is reported that
Lenine and Trotzky. the Bolshevist
leaders, have fled and the soviet gov
ernment in Moscow may have been
overthrown. In that event. Mr.. Poole
and the Entente missions may find
themselves in & better situation.
/ But should the situation be unchang-
ed, the American consul generals az.
ton in turning his Office over to Swed.
en- will not effect the status of other
American consulates in Russia as they
! have been working with the local gov
! errments throughout Russia where
pro-ally feeling is strong. =
The Robesonian., 1918-08-15
TOBACCO MARKET RE-
PORT BY E. ]. DAVIS &
SONS, FARMONT, NC.

This has been another good week
for all the farmers who have sold their
tobacco on the Fairmont market since
our last report. For the week ending
Wednesday, August Ia, our house has
sold 2f;4 900 mounds for S80.O42, the
general average for everything sold,
including scrap, being $39.1o the hnn-
dred.
If you take into consideration the
offerings being higher up the stalk
and off in color, with a lot Of dark
tips on each and every sale, we b.
lieve you will agree with us that this
is a splendid average and cart be
beaten by any market or set Of ware
housemen anywhere.
A great many farmers have sold up
into the 50-cent mark this week, with
Mr.. A. O. Barnes making the highest
sale of 492 pounds at SIS cents. -.
We expect to see good prices pre-
veil throughout the crop. All of our
buyers are with US yet and will remain
throughout this month. However, we
will keep our warehouse open this
year as long as the farmers have any
tobacco Of any consequence to sell
Yet we would advise you to market
all your tobacco that you possibly can
this month. as, prices will be better.
Our sales days for next week will
be as follows:
Monday, 3rd; Thursday, End: Wed
nesday, 1st; Thursday, 3rd; Friday
End. ...
We invite you to sell your tobacco
with us, first or last sale, and we will
see that each and every load of your
tobacco shall bring you the highest
market price.
Hoping to sell your tobacco wher
you come to town and thanking you
for your many past favors.
Your friends truly,
E. J. DAVIS & SONS,
Fairmont, N. C.
The Robesonian., 1918-08-15
A CRY FOR AID.

The Robesonian is publishing an ap-
peal today for aid for suffering Jew
Three million Jews in the war zone
In Europe are on the verge Of stta,vs-
ton and are crying for aid. Their
late has aroused the sympathy IF the
world and their appeal is to the
hearts of all men, without regard tc
race or creed. Governor Beckett has
set apart August 19, as Jewish Re.
let Day, when Statewide campaign
to continue three days, will be launch.
ca. Robson county people always
respond literally to calls for aid fol
the suffering and we doubt not tha-
their response will be liberal for this
most worthy cause.
The Robesonian., 1918-08-15

William Randolph Hearst, former
German Ambassador Count Won
Bernstorff and Bolo Pasha, the last
named recently executed by France
for treason-that is a trio of sweet.
The Robesonian., 1918-08-15

bed .ogether at Hearst's home in New
York.
The Robesonian., 1918-08-15
TRICKING THE SUB.

Any method of fighting the devil
is fair. We read in dispatch from
London that the British have employ
ed successfully in fighting the sub
marine some smart tricks. One cap
tain placed a haystack aboard his
vessel, an ancient-looking craft. When
in due course this captain was sum-
moned to surrender by U-boat and
ordered to prepare to sink his ship,
boats were slung out and apparently
preparations were being made to COM
ply with the order, when the U boat
commander received the surprise Of
his life, broadside striking his craft
from the haystack. There is another
story of boat which in the guise of a
seaworn tramp was limping along IN
the North sea when a submarine or
dered the crew to abandon the ship.
It looked so much like taking cardy
from a baby that the Germans brought
NO on deck the bombs with which they
intended to sink the ships and placeI
them around the coming tower. The
commander of the tramp, by skilful
maneuvering which seemed to denote
helpless and panic-stricken movement,
got the submarine within range of the
co~oo~i>I ,,~-~-'-r- -~l 1-- . ci~~'o
shell touched off the bombs in the
coming tower and blew the U-boat cut
of the water. But the best story Of
all: On one occasion when the sum-.
mons came from the U-boat to sur
render it was enforced by few shells
one of which carried away the ships
galley boats, which were lowered and
pulled off, leaving on board only q
woman, who, with baby" in hel
arms, ran shrieking up and dowr
,he deck. The Germans were tolc
that the captain had been killed ant
his wife had gore mad, refusing tx
leave the ship. AS the U-boat drew
alongside the "mad"woman rushed t,
the side of the vessel, hurled he
"baby" into the open hatch of the sub
marines coming tower and threw
herself overheard on the opposite side
Before the Germans had time to thin
the 'baby" had blown out the bottor
of their craft and in due course til
"woman" appeared at Buckingham
palace to receive the V. c. as a rewar
for his skilfully- planned feat.
The Robesonian., 1918-08-15
$ICO Reward, Sl0O

The readers Of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there lis at least
one dreaded disease that science has
been able to cure in all its stages, and
that is catarrh. Catarrh being greatly
in"EcE I'd IL ccrG ','icnal Coneiititrs
requires constitutional treatment
Halls Catarrh Cure is tak en- internal Y
and acts thru the Blood on the Mucous
surfaces of the System thereby de.
st'cN'ng the four 1atior If t'e 1:seese
si1ng the patient strength Ly building
UP the constitution and assisting ma
lure in doing it's work The proprie-
TORS nave SO much faith in the curative
powers OF Halls Catarrh Cure that
iney offer One Hundred Dollars for any
OF testimonials. 0'
Address: F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo.
Ooio, Sold by all Druggists, 75c.
The Robesonian., 1918-08-15

You can't always sometimes tell.
A while ago any number of people
would tell you, and with reason, that
the corn crop was ruined, that even
if the rains came they would be too
late to save corn. But behold, the
rains descended in time and corn has
come out so marvelously that erst-
while blue farmers have been made
TO rejoice at the prospects of a good
corn crop. One is reminded Of the
ever-memorable year 1911, when eve
rybody thought, in June, that there
would be absolutely no cotton made
in Robson. 1t is a well-known fact
that that same year the cotton crop
in Robson was the largest ever
grown. About $4,000 bales were mar
keted from that crop and any num-
ber Of people said at least 5000 bales
had to be left in the fields unpicked.
When everything seems to have gone
to the demnition bow-wows it is not
bad plan to hold a stiff upper lip
and be cheerful.
The Robesonian., 1918-08-15

e. s. Food Administration.
Baking powder biscuits COR
bread, mullins, brown bread. grid
ale cakes en- waffles is wot dew
call 'quick breads" W.
You all makes 'em wild one cun
er wheat flour ter two cups er
substitute flour to save ali d
wheat dat kin be saved fer de
soJers. Some folks kin git er'lone
wldout any wheat at all and ara
slad to do it ter help win de war
Dat amt bad medicine to take
70 who's gwine tu'n up his nose
1lapjacksI .'S g
The Robesonian., 1918-08-15

Jennings beach, hard by North
Lumberton, is a popular resort these
not afternoons. For discovering the
possibilities there and making the
place popular, Manager Rancke de-
serves the thanks of the community.
II a cable cord were stretched across
the river and vehicles were required to
use one Of the two roads going to the
beach and the other returning, it
would add greatly to the pleasure and
safety of those who freoeunt the
place.
The Robesonian., 1918-08-15
Series of Meetings in Colored Bap
tist Church at Fairmcnt.

Correspondence Of The Robesonian
Fairmont, Aug. 14-Rev. c.. E.
Askew, pastor of-the First Baptist
church, colored, Raleigh, is ASSISTING
Rev. J. D. Harrell in a series of meet.
ings at Pleasant Hill Baptist church
colored, here this week. Large crowds
ere attending the services.
The Robesonian., 1918-08-15

Don't use harsh physics. The reac-
tion weakens the bowels, Leads to
chronic constipation. Get Doan's
Regulets. They operate easily. soc
at all stores.
The Robesonian., 1918-08-15
MOST NOBLE AND BRAVE.

Sinking a lightship is pie for the
Hun. His chief delight is in making
war upon helpless creatures in think
ing UP hellish ways of making every
place unsafe for women and children
The New York World sizes it up as
follows:
"In Smelling and sinking The Dia-
mond Shoals lightship off Hatteras,
some German U-boat commander has
splendidly served the cause of Nit
teleuropean civilization against the
barbarism Of the New World In some
ways a fishing smack is an ideal marx
for Teutonic gentleman armed only
with five-inch gun and a few torpe-
does. But he has way of moving
doesn't run; to know where it is you
have only to look at your chart. In
fog it moos its whereabouts with d
hrooding, melancholy horn; by night
its lights makes it an easy mark. It
is manned by few old shellbacks,
who, since their work is one of mer-
cy, have not until now been supposed
to need defensive arms. 1t is its cr-
rand of mercy, in fact, that makes
sinking a lightship especially crafty
ing. It warns vessels from the lurk-
ing sands and saves non-combatant
lives-women and babies asleep in
their berths-and that places it in the
r"-''o ""+c ~"--- Will ';h~"~'ns, so~,;~o-
ries, cathedrals, Red Cross detach-
ments, field dressing stations and hos
pital ships. The good old German
Gott' of the kaiser laughs at it's de-
struction. All who admire that sort
of thing will applaud the sort Of thing
they admire. Germany has slipped a
cog in her sover-all' programme, but
Kultur has new college yell. All
together now: Deutschland ubel
Lightships!"
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-01-03
POISONED r. c. BANDAGES
Hun Spy Smeared S,4OO Surgical
Dressings With Deadly
Poison

Cleveland, Ohio, Dec. PA plot to
poison Red Cross bandages and
spread wholesale death among the
soldiers of America and her Allies
has been exposed and frustrated here.
Revelations of the conspiracy were
made yesterday when it became
known department of justice agents
were hunting the perpetrators of the
deed. Three thousand four hundred
surgical dressings, rolled by patriotic
women in Toledo were infected with
mysterious grecnish poison while in
transit between Toledo and Cleveland.
Immediately every one of the 3,40O
bandages were burned. They were
destroyed secretly in the rear Of the
Red Cross warehouse here. Officials
of the lake division of the Red Cross
refused to discuss the poisoned band
ages, but the authoritative informa-
ton was that the bandages had been
destroyed and that government
agents, aided by only slender clews,
were trying to solve the mystery.
The box of bandages arrived here
from the Toledo chapter last week
and was taken to the warehouse.
While women We're examining the
huge quantity of surgical dressings
as to specifications, a dark greenish
substance was noticed on one of them.
Investigation showed that all Of the
bandages in the box had been treated
with poison.