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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-06-29
STORY OF GLAUCUS.

Glaucus was a fisherman. He lived
long ago-so long ago that there isn't
any way for me to prove that my story
is really true, SO you can believe it
or not, as you like.
His home was on the seashore and
he was very poor. He caught fish and
sold them to buy food and clothing.
Some people thought Glaucus but an
idle fellow because he loved to sit in
his boat and look at the waves and sky
instead of casting his net into the
ocean and filling it with fish. He would
sometimes seem as pleased with a
pretty shell found on the shore as
with the finest fish that he caught for
the market.
Glaucus loved the sea and all the
beautiful things that grew in it and
the graceful forms that swan through
it's waters. When he caught more fish
than he needed for his days living he
would throw them back into the water
and watch them wistfully as they
swan away, for Glaucus wondered
about the great world under the waters
and longed to see it for himself, with
strange water nymphs and water gods
about whom the country people talked
on chilly evenings beside their fires.
One day Glaucus drew his net out of
the water near an island. The net was
so full of fish that he thought he would
IonH o11H 1Tf1 fhn111 thc chnrn
A strange plant which he had never
seen before grew close to the shores,
and when the young fisherman threw
down his fish those which touched
this plant tapped their fms and before
he could prevent it, jumped back into
the water and went swimming away.
Glaucus looked at the little plant.
He nibbled a bit of it. Then he was
| overcome by great longing to go into
| the water. Without the slightest fear
he leaped in and went swimming after
| the fish.
Soon he reached the palace of the sea
king Oceanus, who sat high on throne
of coral and pearls. The king received
| Glaucus very kindly. When the king
| heard how pleased the fisherman was
with the ocean world and how much
he wished to live there instead of upon
| the earth, Oceanus sent him to magic
fountain and when Glaucus bathed in
| this he was wonderfully changed He
| became a sea green sea god, with
green hair and a fish's tail to swim
with instead of legs to walk on.
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HAVE MANY GOOD REMEDIES.

Writing of a recent decree of the
Chinese government, permitting autop-
sizes on the human body, Millard's
Review (ShanghaD says that it is
only lately that Chinese doctors dis
covered that the bodies of Orientals
had the same internal arrangement as
those of Occidentals. They had been
taught that the organs were arranged
much in the manner of modern Of
flee building with the elevator shaft
as the connecting medium. But it
adds:
1T must be admitted, however, that
the Chinese practitioners, through
long experience and through the Gus
tom of handing down medical secrets
from one generation to another, do
have many excellent native remedies.
One Chinese medical treatise indicates
no less than ninety-eight different
types of pulse, and another form of
treatment is that of puncturing the
body with a needle A chart of the
human body contains 700 spots which
are indicated as the places where it is
safe to insert a needle without injur.
ing a vital organ. Quinine as a medi-
cine has long been known in China
Belief in the sanctity of the human
body in relation to future life has UP
to the last few years prevented the
use and development of surgery
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-06-29
A GOOD ANSW Err.

The late Thomas Bailey Aldrich was
a delightful person, and we know our
readers will enjoy the following let
ter he once wrote to an illegible cor
respondent: There is a singular and
perpetual charm in a letter of yours
it never grows old; it never loses its
novelty. One can say to oneself every
morning, There's that letter OF
Morses; l haven't read it yet. think
I'll take another shy at it today, and
maybe | shall be able in the course OF
a few years to make out what he
means by those It's that look like VS.
and those is that have no eyebrows.
Other letters are read and thrown
away and forgotten, but yours are kept
forever-unreau. One of them will
last reasonable man lifetime. AID
miringly yours, T. B.. Aldrich.'' IL,
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TWO LEGENDS ABOUT RIVER.

The Hassayampa is an Arizona riv-
er which stands for the spirit of his
native desert to the son of Western
Arizona. There are two legends con-
nected with the waters of Hassayam-
pa, one subscribed to by natives and
the other by irreverent aliens. Both
parties agree that the waters of this
desert stream have powers surprising
the normal.
According to the native of Arizona
whosoever shall taste the waters of
Hassayampa is thenceforward bound
to the Arizona desert by ties stronger
than bonds of steel. Drink once of the
magic current and you must inevitably
return to drink again. Wherever you
may wander, in some quiet hour you
will hear the Hassayampa calling, and
whether you are in Cape Town or
Hongkong or Port Said, you will forth
with take ship on the trail of another
drink That is why the Arizonans in
foreign states and lands frequently
band themselves into clubs called Has
sayampa.
A look at the Hassayampa itself will
convince the unprecedented stranger
that some magic power must reside
in the waters. Otherwise nobody
would want a second drink
The other legend of the Hassayam-
pa is more often retailed by aliens,
though occasionally native will admit
it's prevalence and the existence of a
certain amount of corroborative evil
dence. This legend affirms that who
soeyer takes drink of Hassayampa
water is thenceforward utterly and
constitutionally incapable of telling
the truth on any important matter. So
firmly established did this belief be-
come that at one period of Arizona
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-06-29
THE CHILDREN'S HOUR.
THOROUGH WORK.

We knew an old smith who ham,
mered away week after week at ca,
BILE chains. He could make ten more
links day by skimping his work
but each link must be truly wrought
so he hammered on through the long
days until his work was finished. One
of the chains is found upon the deck
of noble vessel, coiled and rusty
round an anchor The passengers
march up and down, spurning il with
their feet as they pass by, for ii
seems to be in their way. But the
day of sunshine goes by; the night
comes on, the wind whistles in grow
ing fury, the mad waves leap like
mountains; the yards snap, the masts
give way, the vessel is driven a wait
on the raging sea, until in the light
of the morning dawn, crested rect
looms before the vessel as she drifts
a hopeless wreck. Stand by, men!
Let go the sheet-anchOr." Out il
falls into the seething surge till the
vessel is brought to bay, when the
chain stands out in the tempest stiff
as an iron bar, so taut it seems tc
ring a song of triumph.
1t is the old blacksmith fighting the
storm as he hammers on far into the
night. 1t is one man against sea, vino
and storm, and the one man prevails
because fidelity is his. The storm
passes by, the skies clear, and the
thousand men gather to sing thanks
giving to God for their deliverance.
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TOO BIG FOR HIS JOB.


On the streets of peighboring city
is a young man without job. He is
steady in his habits. He never en-
tiers a saloon. He does not gamble.
He has never been known to be. late
at work. And he is one of the most
skilled of the younger men in his pro-
fession. But the company had to dis
charge him a week ago, within less
than three months after he had been
given his first promotion with the
company
That promotion, with an increase OF
SIS a week in salary, ruined him. He
thought himself indispensable to the
company. And when man gets to
where he thinks his employers can
not get along without him, he has TAX
en- the first step toward discharge.
This young man, after he was pro.
NOTED, became autocratic. He put on
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-06-29
order TO Present Claims Within Three
Moufhs

order TO Present Claims Within Three
Months.
STATE OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY OF
Ramsey-ss.
In the Matter of the Estate of Bernard
Molitor, Deceased
Letters testamentary on the Estate
of Bernard Molitor deceased, late OF
Mounds View Township in the County
of Ramsey and State of Minnesota be-
ing granted to Christine Tauer.
It Appearing on proper proof by
affidavit made and filed herein, as pro-
vded by law. that there are no debts
against 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
demands against the said deceased, If
any there be, are required to file the
same in Probate Court of said County,
for eXaminat iOn and allowance, Or De
forever barred.
1t Is Further Ordered, That the first
Monday in October, 1918, at 10 o'clock
! A. NJ, at a General Term of said Pro
| 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
notice of such hearing be given to all
| said Estate, by forthwith publishing
| this Order once in each week for three
| successive weeks in The Catholic Bull
! letin, a legal newspaper printed and
| published in said County.
Dated at St. Paul this 10th day of
| June, 1918.
BY the Court: E. w. BAZTLLE,
Judge of Probate.
| (Seal of Probate Court)
Hurley and Hurley. Attorneys.
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fine clothes. He began telling the
other fellows how to do their work.
He criticized them for the way they
did their work. He got to where he
thought he knew more than the men
who had built up the business and
were directing it's affairs. Then they
had to let him go.
Moral; Young men who expect to
make their way in trade or business
must guard against getting too ex-
allied an opinion of their Importance
There is not an employer anywhere
that cannot get along without any one
of his employees.
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EXPERTS PERILoUs TASK.

One of the thrilling and hazardous
duties which sometimes falls to the
lot of game experts. and wardens in
mountainous regions of the West is
to search out eagles nests, rob them
of their eggs, and perhaps take the
young captive, says Popular Mechan-
les Magazine. The perils of the task
are not all passed when, with rope
ladder or by other precariOus means,
he has assembled or descended to the
aerie, for then the intruder must face
the powerful grown birds at close
range, and often when he cannot de-
fend himself to advantage. The
searcher for the lofty nests also finds
that the young fifty or sixty days old.
can become disagreeably aggressive.
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THE MAN WHO STICKS.

The man who sticks has the lesson
learned;
Success doesn't come by chance-it's
earned
By pounding away; for good hard
knocks
Will make stepping stones of the
stumbling blocks.
He knows in his heart that he cannot
fail;
That no i'll fortune can make him
quail,
While his will is strong and his cour
age high,
For he's good for another try:
He doesn't expect by a single stride
To jump to the front; he's satisfied
To do ev'ry day his level best,
rest.
He doesn't believe he's held down by
the boss;
It's work and not favor that gets
across"
SO his motto's this: What another
Has been able to handle, l surely can
For the man who sticks has the sense
to see
He can make himself what he wants
to be-
If he'll off with his coat and pitch
right in,
Why, the man who sticks can't hell
but win!
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scendants have held high positions in.
Russia, one of them being Governor
of Livonia few years ago.
But Peter Lacy was undoubtedly the
greatest Irishman in Russia. He was
born at Killeedy, Limerick, in 1878.
He took to soldering under Sarsfeld
at the mature age of twelve. He serv-
ed in the Irish Brigade in France and
Italy. After the Peace of Ryswick he
entered the Russian service where he
received rapid promotion. In 1920 he
led the Russian army in Sweden and
at the end of the campaign he was
made Governor Of Livonia. In 1923 he
commanded the expedition against Po-
land and entered Warsaw in triumph.
1t was Lacy who in 1742 took part of
Finland from the Swedes. He died in
1851, laden with honors and leaving
a large estate to his children. One
of his descendants was in recent years
Governor of Riga, whilst others held
high positions in Austria.
In contrast to these Irishmen who
rose to distinction as soldiers in Rus,
STA, there was another Dublin man.
John Field, who made his reputation
as a musician. The Century Die
tionary of Names" calls him Brit
ish composer" He was about as
British" as Lacy or O'ROurke. He
was a student of Clement, the Ital
ian pianist and composer, whom he
accompanied to Russia in 1902. He
lived twenty wears in Petrograd and
two in Moscow, when he moved tC
London. This famous British mu
stefan soon shook the dust of London
off his feet and returned to the Con
tinent. He died in Moscow in 1887
He was the originator of the 'Noc
turne," and Chopin is said to owe
much in form and spirit to his com
positions. His son, LeOnoff, became
famous Russian tenor.
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DICK HENDERsoN's LIST.

On the night before Dick Henderson
went away to boarding school he look
ed at his mother with an expression
of mingled amusement and despair. He
was about to enter upon his first eX-
tended absence from home, and for
several days his mother had seized
the opportunity of odd moments to
give him advice. They had just fin
ished little talk.
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MY TURN.

(Meditations of Drafted Man,
Why should | not die
AS others gone before;
Am | in earths great plan
Above them, or needed more?
Ever since the world began
It's always been the other man,
But now mayhap soon comes my turn.
Marks not soon erased
On hearts and lives of men,
In deeds of lasting good,
Had filed ambitions ken;
Life and hope have said | could
While heart and will declared | would,
Pleading hard for life
Are youth and strength and health;
Too bad for one to go
So blessed with natures wealth.
Choice there's none, twas ever so,
Alike with Death the high and low
No other way but take my turn.
Nature breads the plunge,
The step across the line,
To face the great unknown,
The lifeless clay behind;
But my fears have lesser grown,
For now | feel I'm not alone;
With youths untold | take my turn.
Countless mothers weep
And millions grieye and mourn,
Anguish Of mind and heart
The sorrowing ones have borne;
Friends of mine must bear their part
When | receive the cruel dart,
And go with many in my turn.
Others soon would fill
The empty place behind
In hearts and human martS
When | am out of mind;
Earth's great plan ne'er stops nor
starts
With one so tiny of its parts;
What matter though it is my turn?
Breaking through the gloom
That shrOuds the dreaded change,
A light, Divine it's ray,
Now beckons DER the range;
Though my creed be what it may,
I've faith in Him Who knows the way
Nor fear the hour that brings my turn
Thus-sincere request
Let tears DER me be few,
And mourning time be brief;
Help do what | would do,
Break off chains, assuage mans grief
A suffering world must have relief;
| gladly go-'tis but my turn.
"-.* x Arnold L. White.
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ROSCOM MON.
written for Miss CathIeen Rogers,
Worcester, daughter of John j.
Rogers, Adj.-Gen. Hibernian
Rifles.)

| never saw Roscommon but my
daddy came from there
And he says that in all Ireland
there's nowhere half so fair;
From Boyle to Elphin town, he says,
and around and back again
'Tis just bit of Paradise God gave
to Connaughtmen.
"They talk about Killarney and such
places known to fame"
Says he 'and I'll be ownin' that
they're worthy of the claim,
But there's something in Roscommon
creeps inside your heart to stay
Till the Lord sums up your reckon
ing on His mighty judgment
day"
never saw Roscommon, | was born
in Worcester Town,
Where every nationality you're meet
ing up and down,
There everyone is Irish and they're
all good neighbors too,
In Roscommon, says my daddy every
one is kin to you.
He talks of Springs and Summers, of
the games and bonfires too
When the hawthorn was in blossom
and the fields were drenched
with dew.
And it used to make him lonesome
when he'd wake before the
morn
And hear the corncrakes crying in a
nearby field of corn.
My daddy says that Christmas was
the happiest time of all
When wreaths of evergreens were
hung along the kitchen wall,
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tnd lie didn't mind the prickles of
the holly that he set
Above his mothers dresser that he
holds in memory yet.
He tells me bow he chased the wren
through hedges frosty-grey
When all the boys he used to know
went out st. Stephens Day,
And when l cried 20 shame on you
to kill the little thing
He says, "Oh, sure we only pulled a
feather from it's wing
My daddy often tells me of the
.schoolhouse over there
Where a sally rod in readiness was
by the masters chair,
God help the gossoon needing it,
says he and then l know
Because he laughs that daddy often
caught it long ago.
never saw Roscommon, but when
there is peace again
My mother whispers "Cathleen, YOU
will see Roscommon then,
And the hawthorn will be blooming
and the hills be all aglow
AS your daddy tells you Ireland was
in days he used to know
So you see I'm only waiting for the
day to take me there
To my parents country, Ireland, the
fairest of the fair,
And the first place I'll be seeking
when | stand on Irish earth
Is the County of RoscOmmOn where
my daddy had his birth.
Teresa By0Dt0n.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-06-29
MILITARY WATCHES.

The Jews, like the Greeks and Ro-
mans, divided the night into military
watches instead of hours. Each watch
represented the period for which SEN
tinels or pickets remained on duty.
These watches were from sunset to 10
P. NJ, from 10 P. NJ to A. M. and
from 2 A. M. to sunrise. Under Ro-
man supremacy fourth watch was
added, the first terminating at P. NJ,
the second at midnight, the third at
3 A. M. and the last at 6 A. NJ.
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history, instead of applying the short
and ugly term to man, they called
him "Hassayampa,' which is term
certainly long and in the opinion of
some persons beautiful.
Chicago Mems.
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wide Democracy.
Where the fair PotOmac's gently dow
ing seward,
And the grey-leafed willows swaying
low
Where the golden summer shadows
lengthen,
And the sweet-toned songbirds come
and go:
On the hilly crest above that winding
river,
Clothed in the silvery, soft moonlight,
In pensive mode, within the stately
White House,
There, sits a lonely man tonight.
Has he son or has he brother
On the foreign fields of war?
Has he comrades in the trenches?
Are they near or very far?
70 the khaki-clad he is father
Ills sympathy to one and all is sent;
Il brother to the men, low in the
trenches
He is our beloved President
For very long, he steered the rudder,
Safe beyond the zone of war;
Melted out to each and all his meas
ure,
To nations far beyond the barber bar.
AT last the dreaded word was
spoken
How his kindly heart was rent!
"Fatherhood of God! brotherhood of
MAN." his gospel,
We hail with loving pride, our Presi-
dent
Wise and prudent, he has guided
The Ship of State across the treach-
erous shoal;
No indemnity or annexation" he is
quoted
Nor ruling seas from pole to pole.
May God bless you, Woodrow Wilson!
mis- Divine protection daily lend!
Apostle of Peace they aptly termed
Our brave-hearted, clean-souled Presi
dent!
Full three hundred years have onward
sped,
Since Johannes Ga learn'd monk was
Predicted that valiant Eagle White
Would lead the worldwide Democracy
How humane rule of Christian man
Would remake and glorify the war
swept zone;
How the Cross would triumph DER the
Crescent,
And the power of Antichrist be over
thrown.
Noble White Eagle. We justly name
you,
Birdman of high ideals and lofty aim
Bird, without the cruel, crunching
talons,-
Man, above reproach-of spotless
fame!
You, the Moses who shall lead the
way
BY just command and humane might
Armies, like to Knights of Holy Grail
To conquer Land of Luther-black as
night!
Has he son or has he brother
In humanity's ordeal across the
wave?
To every dying lad he is father
In spirit stands beside each new-made
grave.
u, my sons! If there were any Other
Less thOrny path for you to trOd!
Your sweet, clean lives laid on Free
dOm's altar!
Your soldier souls will dwell with
GOd
When our stately ships are safely
sailing
Like white doves across the boundless
sea;
When your God-like aim is granted
Of a Worldwide Democracy
AT her shrine we'll daily worship,
Giving where the praise is DUE
Next to God, our Country's honor,
Woodrow Wilson, rests with you!
Written by
Bright Elizabeth Malone, NJ d., COIumbu
Montana. Isl. Elmo Pines -
rNR~ r~EnHo Ra1Hr 1Iu-H
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FIRST APPENDICITIS OPERATION

There was time when appendicitis
was quite a fashionable disease. In
some parts of Europe it was known
as the american disease" The first
operation for appendicitis was per
formed at st. Lukes hospital, Den
yer, Colo, in January, 1885. A young
woman residing in Davenport, Ia, had
the distinction of being the first per-
son to have the troublesome vermi-
form appendix removed. The opera
ton necessarily was in the nature of
an experiment, and the patient was
so informed but she pluckily declared
her willingness to submit to the knife
as a last resort. 1t was not until
about two years later that another
operation of this kind was performed.
Since then thousands of such opera
tons have been performed in every
hospital in the world.
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He's armed without that's innocent
Within.-POpe.
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OUR PRESIDENT.

Tribute to Woodrow Wilson: He Who
is First in Peace, Last in War;
Great Apostle and Teacher of World
wide Democracy.