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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-05-18
CURE WROUGHT BY THE
BLESSED MOTHER.

Brother Frederick, o. F. NJ, writes
in the interest of st. Elizabeths dis
pensary at Chez Foo, Shantung, and
also encloses the photograph of a
small Chinese boy who is placing a
crown upon the head of statue of
the Blessed Mother. This act is vo-
tive offering, so to speak, for the child
was cured in a miraculous manner.
Here is the story as told by the Sis
ter:
"A poor little pagan, suffering from
a painful and repulsive skin disease,
came to us for medical care. What
could we do! His youth, his frail con-
stitution made it impossible for him to
undergo the necessary treatment, and
moreover, I am far from being the
good St. Elizabeth who could Danish
ailments by the touch of her hands.
Il had recourse to the Blessed Vir-
gin, and asked her to cure the tiny
sufferer, promising, if the favor were
vouchsafed, to ask the father of the
child, rich jeweler of the town, to
give beautiful crown for her statue
out of gratitude.
What happened, may be guessed
from the picture. The boy received a
complete cure, and most gladly the
father carried out his part. Surely
the essed Virgin will in due time
bring the child and all his family into
the fold of the Church"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-05-18
LAYING THE BLAME ON THE
SPIRITS.

The ways of pagans are sometimes
amusing, but more often sad. For in
stance, in the eyes of our Chinese,
plague, like other great calamities, is
the result of the vengeance of an evil
spirit, says Father Patuel, of Tonkin
This spirit has been angered, how no
one knows, but proof of it is the pres
ence of the disease, and the people at
once set to work to appease the angry
one.
The old men of the community de-
eide upon the day of the sacrificial
offering and upon the nature of the
offering ITSELF In many places frail
boat is fashioned from bamboo and
adorned with bright colored papers
and ornaments 1t is then carried in
procession by a troop of young people
dressed in their best and accompanied
by band.
If there is stream of water near
by the boat is placed upon it's surface
and the people gather on the banks
awaiting a favorable wind. The spirit
OF the plague, attracted to the spot
by all these signs of festivity, is en-
ticed to enter the boat. At given
signal the little craft is set adrift
amidst the cheers and laughter of
the people, who, in their simplicity,
believe that in this way they have
beguiled the evil one to depart from
their village. The farther away the
boat drifts the louder the cheering
becomes, especially if it is seen to
touch the shore of a hostile village.
If there is no stream in the vicinity
the boat is placed upon a hillock in
the open country, and when the wind
blows away from the village they set
fire to it, which obliges the spirit to
take flight, the wind bearing him far
away.
And yet, in spite of all these sacri-
fetal offerings, the plague continues it's
ravages.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-05-18
Citation for Hearing VIII.

STATE OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY OF
Ramsey-ss. In Probate Court.
In the Matter of Proving the Alleged
Last viii and Testament of Bernard
The State of Minnesota to All Whom 1t
May Concern:
Whereas, Christine Tauer, of the
Township of Centreville and State of
bate Court of the County of Ramsey,
an instrument in writing purporting to
be the Last Will and Testament of Ber-
nard Molitor, late of Ramsey County,
Minnesota, decedent and filed herewith
her petition to said Probate Court, pray
ing that the said instrument may be
proved and admitted to probate and
that Letters Testamentary be granted
thereon to Christine Tauer
1t Is Ordered, That said petition be
in said matter be cited and required to
appear before this Court on Monday,
the 10th day of June, 1918, at 10
o'clock a. m, or as soon thereafter as
pate Court Rooms, 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
said Win admitted to probate and that
this citation be served by the publica-
ton thereof in The Catholic Bulletin
according to law, and by mailing copy
of this citation at least IA days before
said day of hearing to each of the heirs,
devisees, legatees of said decedent
and appear from the files of this Court.
Witness the Judge of said Court, this
18th day of May, A. d. 1918.
(Seal of Probate Court)
E. w. BAZILLE,
Judge of Probate.
Attest: F. w. Gosewisch,
Clerk of Probate.
HURLEY & HURLEY, Attys.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-05-18
VoLTAIRE ON THE JESUiTS.

In his letter dated February 7, 1746,
Voltaire wrote of the Jesuits:
During the seven years that l lived
in college of the Jesuits, what have
seen there? Lives the most labori-
Gus and the most frugal, the hours of
the day divided between their care
of us and the exercises of their
austere profession. 1 call as wit
nesses the thousands of men educated
as l was. Therefore it is that l am
lost in establishment at any one dar-
ing to accuse them of teaching re-
Taxed or corrupt morality.
make no scruple in proclaiming that
there is nothing more Ubiquitous, more
contradictory, more shameful to hui
mainly, than to accuse of relaxed NOR
atty men who live in Europe the
severest lives, and who go seeking the
most cruel deaths to the eXtremities
of Asia and America"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-05-18
RABBI TELLS OF HARMONY.

DR.. Morris Newfield rabbi of Con-
gregation Emanuel, who for several
weeks has been doing special work
among the troops at Camp Mcclellan,
has returned home and is again in
civilian clothes.
Il cannot tell you how much l en-
joyed the work among the boys at the
camp" said DR.. Newfield recently.
And l want to take this opportunity
to pay tribute to the cordial treatment
accorded me by w. S. Graham, who is
in charge of the Young Mems Chris
tan Association work there, and Mr..
Cummings, who is directing the
knights of Columbus work in the
camp.
THE most gratifying feature of the
whole thing to me is the manner in
which the religious workers are CO.
operating. They all have but one OBJ
ject in view, the promotion of democ-
racy and humanity, and the spirit
among the various boys in the camp
is the finest thing l have ever seen.
Last Friday night l addressed an
audience of more than 500 men, and
the majority of them were Gentiles.
On the platform with me were the
Protestant chaplain and the Roman
Catholic chaplain. The spirit of the
occasion made remarkable impress
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-05-18
THE CATHOLIC SOLDIER OF
WORCESTER.

In its issue of Sunday, August Is,
1897, the Springfield (Mass.) Republi-
can, had the following in it's column
devoted to BAY State Politics Topics"
When Senator Hoar recalled the
death of O'Neil, "the young Catholic
soldier of Worcester" and what he
said in his death hour on the field, he
said: 81 have very little respect for
Americanism that is not moved and
stirred by such a story" How much
that meant is now told by a fellow
soldier of O'Neil, Captain J. Waldo
Denny, editor of the Chelsea Evening
Record, who also went to the war
from Worcester. Thomas O'Neil was
captain in the 25th Massachusetts
regiment; he was the son of an Off
Ger under Wellington at Waterloo, "a
gallant, handsome fellow" says Mr..
Denny, 'twenty-four years old" 1t
was on the third day of June, 1864,
in the horrible fight of Cold HarbOr
that O'Neil met his death in charge
wherein there we're 229 men lost out
of 300, and twenty officers who fol-
lowed Colonel (afterward GeneraD
Pickett, only three came out unhurt.
Writes the editor of the Chelsea
Record:
The battle was at an end. AS we
were passing by a clump of bushes we
heard a voice call Cap 1t sounded
familiar, and going through the
bushes we saw one we loved, Captain
Tom O'Neil, being borne from the
field. The stretcher was placed upon
the ground, and kneeling by his side
he made to us his nuncupatiVe will,
which was afterwards probated in the
probate court of Worcester. Then,
when we expressed to him our regret
at seeing him so fatally wounded, both
knowing he must die, he used the
words stated by Senator Hoar: Tell
my dear mother / die for my country,
and wish had another life to give for
the cause"
If the Apiaists can read that, and
not see that there is something radi-
cally wrong about their attitude in
respect to our Roman Catholic fellow
citizens, we certainly do not envy
them their Americanism. We shall
have to agree by preference with Mr..
Hoar and Captain Denny, O'Neips
brother-in-arms, who says:
And we saw thousands of just such
gallant fellows of Irish descent, of
German descent, and of English de-
scent, fighting to the death for our
dear old flag, and then and there we
said that old Glory waves for all,
and under it's starry folds men of all
climes shall be protected in life and
property, and the right to worship
God or not, according to the dictates
of conscience and the faith that is in
them. And that is our Americanism
that defends religious freedom, free
education, the liberty of the people
and the greatest good of the greatest
number, under the folds of a flag
broad enough to cover ALL"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-05-18
THEY HUNGER AND THIRST
AFTER RIGHTEOUSNESS.

Let us not think that the Word as
preached by the missionaries falls on
stony ground. They have, as a rule,
very little cause for encouragement as
far as the good will of the pagans is
concerned. A contemporary tells the
following touching incident, illustra-
tive of this good will:
1T was at the end of a long dis
course on the Passion in jungle vii
lage of India that an old man ap-
preached the missionary and asked:
How long have you known about the
Sahib Christi All my life,' was the
prompt reply. With loud cry while
the tears rolled down his cheeks, the
man who had grown old in the wor-
ship of false gods said Why didn't
you, tell us of this Great Man sooner
and 1 would have served Him night
and day like a slave.'"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-05-18

STATE OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY OF
Ramsey-ss. In Probate Court
In the Matter of Proving the Alleged
Last Will and Testament of Thomas
Geraghty, Decedent
The State of Minnesota to All Whom 1t
May Concern:
Whereas, Rev. James NJ. Reardon and
Charles J. p. Young, of the City of Saint
cred to the Probate Court of the COun-
ty of Ramsey, an instrument in writing
purporting to be the Last Will and Tes-
lament, also Codicil to said viii, Of
Thomas Geraghty, late of Ramsey
County, Minnesota. decedent and filed
herewith their petition to said Probate
may be proved and admitted to probate
and that Letters Testamentary be
granted thereon to Rev. James NJ. Rear
don and Charles J. p. Young.
1t Is Ordered, That said petition be
heard and that all persons interested
in said matter be cited and required to
the 10th day of June, 1918, at 10 o'clock
a. m, or as soon thereafter as said mat
ter can be heard, at the Pro bate Court
Rooms, in the Court House in the City
cause, If any they have, why said pc
tition should not be granted and said
viii admitted to probate and that this
citation be served by the publication
thereof in The Catholic Bulletin accord
ing to law, and by mailing a copy of
this citation at least II days before said
udy VI nedflnS,. 10 edcn Oh the nelrSs
deViseeS, legatees of said decedent
whose names and addresses are known
and appear from the files of this Court.
Witness the Judge of said Court, this
18th day of May, A. d. 1918.
(Seal of Probate Court)
e. w. BAZILLE,
Judge of Probate.
Attest: r. w. Gosewisch,
Clerk of Probate.
DOUGLAS, KENNEDY & KENNEDY,
Attorneys for Petitioners.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-05-18
GOOD HOME MAKERS.

The Franciscan Missionaries of
Mary conduct very successful work
rooms in Sianfu, Shensi, and the
young girls have reached high prof
cheney in the embroidery, so dear to
the Chinese heart, painting on satin
and dress making, if the term may be
applied to the garments of Oriental
ladies. In fact the education of the
pupils in the convent school is con-
sidered so valuable that it procures
them plenty of suitors. More than
two hundred maidens have already
contracted good Christian marriages
and show themselves able to make
home happy. Their children are care
fully brought up in the Faith, and the
Catholicity is thus given an impetus
in the community.
The Sisters have also more than a
thousand babies in their care.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-05-18
Professionalism HAS FAILED.

Ascribing the strength of the
it's close-knit organization and to
what he called it's imperialism"
Charles Reynolds Brown, dean of the
Yale School of Religion, who lectured
at Goucher College recently on -Four
Hundred Years of Professionalism" de-
clared that Professionalism had not
fulfilled it's promise because it was not
brave enough to eXalt and insist upon
the imperialism of Christ's spirit"
Whereas the Catholic Church,
with it's seven sacraments, the lee
turer said, touches life at every point,
the Protestant Church has not been
willing to make an honest effort to
reach human needs. He complained
bitterly of the sectarianism that di-
vides the body of Professionalism and
which makes of the Church not a
strong cable about humanity, but has
frayed it into many strands, each Of
which is not strong enough to sustain
the whole. There is nowhere a great
Protestant Church, he declared, equal
to the great Catholic Church.
The war, Dr. Brown maintained, is
the greatest challenge to Protestant
ism since the days of Luther, but if
the Church is to rally herself now, he
argued, she needs most of all great
leader, a man of the temper of Lin
coin, with malice toward none"
whose broad and catholic temper
could sweep together the antagonistic
elements into a reunited Church.
Baltimore NsUs.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-05-18
FIFTY DOLLARS RAISED THROUGH
TINFOIL.

The sixth grade of the parish school
of the Catholic Church of Perpetual
Help, of st. Louis, has just raised $50
for the support of a missionary
catechist in America, under st. Peter
Claver Sodality, the American Head
quarters Of which are in ST. Louis.
The sum raised, which establishes a
record in Catholic schoolrooms, is
$40 in excess of what is annually
needed for the catechist, and this ex-
ira sum will be devoted to two bap-
tismal offerings for two little African
negroes. The money was raised by
these children in two and one-half
months, largely by collecting tinfoil.
There are f1fty-three children in the
room, under the School Sisters of
Notre Dame.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-05-18
THE SAME EVERYWHERE.

Father w. Kinold, o. F. M, of the
Sapporo mission, says: Il suppose
my experiences are the same as that
of every other head of mission-the
price of coal, food and clothing about
four times greater than what it was
before the war, and the income about
four times less. Any aims that
reaches me now purchases it's full
value, and I may add that an offering
of $500 received lately from the
National Office of the Propagation of
the Faith in New York was the larg-
est for many years. May our good
friends continue to prospect"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-05-18
SWALLOWS EARTHQUAKE.

Bishop Rayssac has sent some
photographs showing the great dam
age done to the City of Swatow. The
earthquake is worse than we first re-
ported and is unprecedented in the
history of China.
Hardly a house remains habitable
and the people are mostly living in
the surrounding districts in tents and
shacks. 1t is estimated that quite a
thousand lives have been lost, prob
ably all Chinese. although there is a
report Of one European being injured.
The hospitals are full Of patients,
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-05-18

Revolution, and sets forth the good
and the evil in these movements.
Were the author still here, he might
point out in what measure the war
has justified his views. Readers will
not miss this consideration and will
join him in the hope, expressed in his
ferVent peroration, that there may
come a new spiritual resurrection
throughout human society.
Mgr. Day deserves thanks and con-
graduation upon the publication of
this volume in English, and upon his
success in the translation. The vol
umes deserves the widest circulation.
1t may be obtained from the Lob
mann Company, st. Paul.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-05-18
NATIVE VOCATloNS.

The Project Apostolic of Matadi, in
the Lower Congo, is Very Rev. T.
Heintz, c. SIS. R., and he writes that
it is with regret that he must admit
that the Blacks of his difficult dis
trict have not yet given any young
men to the priesthood. The natives
of the Lower Congo are not so easily
brought to higher standards as those
of the Upper Congo, and the mission
aries must be content with making
conversions, only, for the present.
To redeem these people from saw
agery is in itself a great and difficult
task.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-05-18

sion upon me. The only question
those boys ask about each other is,
Is he MANI I had my office in the
Y. M. C. A. building and my room in
the K. of c. building. 1t was an in
spiration to me to be identified with
cooperation of this kind, and I cannot
help feeling that this spirit among the
boys now in the army will be- i'm
mensely helpful to the nation in the
years to come"
-A0e-Rsrold, Birmin0h0m. AI0.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-05-18
5zr7 K %ez3EzAzkll l2-l4Aez&
kNM1SSs9&zAMIS FIELD5:A

small and is threatening to fall in.
But His Grace had to tell them that
the project of building a new church
had yet to be put off to a remote fu-
ture, as there were no means at hand.
For his kind visit to Dibombari and
all the work and care connected with
it he was rewarded with two days
fever.
Who will send an aims, be it what
you can afford, to help build humble
little church at Dibombari? Sodality
of st. Peter Claver, for the. African
Missions, Fullerton Bldg, st. Louis,
Mo.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-05-18
Order to Present Claims Within Three
Months,

Order to Present Claims Within Three
Months.
STATE OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY OF
Ramsey. SIS. Probate Court. /
In the Matter of the Estate of Kath-
arina Bastian, Deceased.
Letters Testamentary on the Estate
of Katharine Bastian, deceased, late of
Ramsey and State of Minnesota, being
granted to Elizabeth Mealey.
1t Appearing on proper proof by affi-
davit made and filed herein, as provided
the estate of said deceased.
1t Is Ordered, That three months be
and the same is hereby allowed from
and after the date of this Order, in
mands against the said deceased, if any
there be, are required to file the same
in Probate Court of said County, for
examination and allowance, or be for
ever barred.
1t Is Further Ordered, That the sec
ond Monday in September, 1913, at 10
o'clock A. M, at a General Term of
said Probate Court, to be held at the
Court House in the City of St. Paul, in
said County be and the same hereby
is appointed as the time and the place
when and where the said Probate Court
will examine and adjust said claims
and demands.
And 1t Is Further Ordered, That no
tice of such hearing be given to all
creditors and persons interested in said
Estate, by forthwith publishing this
Order once in each week for three sue
cessive weeks in The Catholic Bulletin,
lished in said County.
Dated at st. Paul this 18th day of
May, 1918.
Judge of Probate.
(seal of Probate Court)
T. j. Doyle, Atty.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-05-18

many of whom have sustained fright
full injuries. The earthquake shocks
seem to have been felt all along the
coast, but the report of tidal wave
and heavy damage at Annoy and
Foochow are denied. Both places ex-
perienced the tremors, but the dam
age was but slight. Swallow seems
to have been the center of the dis
turbance and has suffered most.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-05-18
A QUESTION AND IT'S ANSWER.

Why does the Church grow so slow
ly?
Our answer:
What are you doing to make it
grow? Are you always giving good
example to your mono Catholic neigh
Dor?
Are you praying for his conversion?
Are you doing what you can to
bring it about?
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-05-18

Are you contributing to the support
of those who work for that end.
If all Catholics could answer these
questions in the affirmative the
Church would grow more rapidly.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-05-18
THREE SCHOOLS ADOPT BLACK
cATEcHIsTs.

The parish school of st. Anthony's
Catholic Church, Meramec Street and
Compton Avenue, St. Louis. has adopt
ed a black catechist named Bernard,
at Abanga Lake, near Ndiole, in
Africa. He has charge of thirty little
negroes, whom he clothes and feeds,
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1918-08-08

are a great many people who do not
use the automobile purely as pleas
ure vehicle, but these people reside
almost exclusively in the towns. To
the farmer the automobile has be-
come almost necessity. 1t not only
saves his horses, but it enables him
to make trips to town in case OF
needed repairs which would stop all
farm operations for whole day if
he did not have the automobile. In
these times of high priced labor and
high priced everything else, that
means far more than it ever did be-
fore. 1t may mean the difference be-
tween the saving of valuable crop
and the losing it. The trouble is that
the men at Washington who have the
say about fixing war taxes, do not
the situation. There
would be just as much justice in plac-
ng special tax on the farmers
horses or his farm wagon as on his
or on the gasoline he must
Use not only in his automobile, but
n his farm tractor as well.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1918-08-08
CURRENT COMMENT.

TT is safe to say that the tide of vic
tory has definitely turned in favor
of the allies. On no front are the
Huns winning. On every front they
are on the defensive. Just how great
a victory the French and Americans
have been able to gain is being made
public, and it is news that thrill ev-
cry American heart. AS usual the
German government is lying to the
German people and telling them that
the German armies are winning vic
tories instead of suffering defeats.
Nevertheless, the more intelligent
people of Germany are laboring under
no delusion concerning what is going
on ct the Bourse in Berlin. The prices
of stocks fell rapidly when the news
came from the West front and are
still going down as this is written.
The German dealers in stocks and
bonds see the hand of fate writing
the words Of doom on the wall The
spirit of panic is certain to spread
to the masses of the people. The
truth cannot be kept always from
them and the time is nearly at hand
when they will know how they have
been sacrificed on the altar of pow
er-mad rulers ambition. When this
war is over and we have moved far
enough away from it to get proper
perspective, history will record the
verdict that the ruler of Germany
was the most stupid as well as the
most wicked monarch who ever sat
upon a throne. By peaceful means
Germany was apparently conquering
the markets of the world. In 40 years
German trade might have controlled
the business of nearly every nation
on the globe. All this golden pros
pect and opportunity was thrown
away at the dictation of an ambition
to rule the world by force. The Ger
man government has committed sui
eide How soon the end will come we
no not know; that depends on how
long the masses of the German peo-
pie will consent TO be sacrificed. The
end may come soon and with sud
lenness that will surprise the world. !
Il may be prolonged, but it is almost
n sight.