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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-12-20
AN ANEcDoTE APPLIED.

There was one time a farmer who
had a great orchard of all manner of
trees; he became a Catholic, and
somebody said: Many are the ways
of conversion to the Catholic Church;
let us hear how you became a Catho-
lie"
Well" he said, Il had in my or
chard some very good trees; there
was one tree that was particularly
good; it bore the most tempting, lus-
cious apples, and l noticed that at the
foot Of that tree every autumn there
was an accumulation of sticks and
stones, showing that the boys knew
what was best. Looking around me
noticed that the Church that got the
most sticks and stones thrown at it
was the Catholic Church and I began
to say that it must be the best
Church"
Archbishop Dougherty told this
story at a recent college commence
ment and applied it as follows:
Now, within the Catholic Church,
what organization has had thrown at
it the most sticks and stones? The
Jesuits. They cannot be paid in bet
ter compliment. If | were. a Jesuit, l
would feel solemn pride of the fact
that whenever an enemy of the Cath
Ollie Church begins to assault it they
start with the Jesuits
Where is the organization in the
whole world from the beginning that
has had so glorious history as the
Jesuits? Take it from the literary
side only. According to their own au-
thor, Father Sommervogle, they have
produced not less than 100000 att
thors. Remember that they were not
mediOcrities; JesuitS have stood in
the forefront Of science and learning
They have been incompatible as ex-
plorers and missionaries. Who can
be compared with ST. Francis Xavier?
Who explored the lakes and rivers and
mountains of the United States in the
early days? The Jesuits. Who pene-
trated into the interior of China? The
Jesuits. 80.
And yet, although they promote
learning and science with their whole
minds and their whole hearts, learn
ing is only by-product with the Jes-
uits. They are first and foremost
priests and apostles of Christ; hence
it is that no religious Order has had a
greater Or more illustrious history
than the sons of st. Ignatius.
They have produced thirteen can
onized saints; among them st. Igna-
thus, st. Francis Xavier, ST. Aloysius,
st. Stanislaus and st. Peter Clavei'.
Besides their thirteen canonized
saints, they have produced no less
than tifty-two Blessed and fifty-three
who are decorated with the title of
Venerable.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-12-20
ooh. Father, that's fine,,,


He was ON his knees to thank me
tears were in his eyes. He. wished to
receive Our Lord into his little inno-
cent heart as soon as possible.
This happiness was never to be his.
I had asked his parents to send me
word in case he grew worse, and a
few days laterI was told that the sick
boy had passed from this world. His
death was sudden.
Later on learned that, in his last
moments, his parents, seeing his
struggles and his painful agony,
wished to take off his scapular, be-
cause they thought that it might be
the cause of his srfferings-they were
still pagans--but Francis remained
firm; with his weak hands he clasped
the seapular close to his breast, and
with his dying breath he repeated:
please let me have it. I would
rather die than give UP my scapular. -
His parents yielded Then he be-
came calm, smiled gratefully as if to
thank them, and died with the soap.
ular of the Blessed Virgin close tc
his heart.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-12-20
WALKING, WITH EDGAR.

THE reason like to walk with Ed
gar John told hisasister, ''is that he
goes along at a. good brisk pace.
There's nothing l hate more than to
drag along, as if l had weights tied to
|my feet. 1t really tires me more to
walk slowly than to run. Walking
with Aunt Caroline, for instance, is
simply dreadful"
About the same time John was thus
expressing himself, Aunt Caroline was
contrasting her two nephews. Il en-
joy a. walk with Edgar because he
doesn't hurry me. II I go as fast as
tco street car with John, I'm all out
CT breath. But Edgar likes to stroll
along and take things easy. What
is the use of going out for pleasure,
and then acting as if you were taking
part in a walking match?'''
These comments, taken together,
go to show that Edgar possesses a
gift not very common. He knows
how. to adapt himself to his compan.
ion. He walks, briskly when out with
John, and John assumes that that is
his customary gait. And he strolls
along in leisurely fashion with Aunt
Caroline, and does not give her the
impression that she is holding him
back because she is getting elderly
and feeble.
Sometimes very little things ARE a
.searchlight on character and the way
Edgar changes his gait according to
his company, proves that he has one
of the characteristics which is a big
factor in success, the power to adapt
himself to others, without, letting
them know it.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-12-20
MADONNA OF SORROWS.

Hail Mary! Queen of gentle mien,
Of Towering beauty and of grace;
The moon-blown lilies of the night
Are living symbols of thy face.
Thy lips that kissed the sword of pain,
Thine eyes that saw each darkened
morrow,
Were made more beautiful through
grief,
o gentle Queen of Sorrow!
Hail Mother blest, thy patient breast
Thou madst a citadel of love;
For thirty years thou sheltered Him,
While, angels watched thee from
above
Thine arms, though frail, bore heavy
loss,
0 Blessed Lady, let me borrow
Cne trembling tear to wash my sin
Beneath thy cross of sorrow.
Hail Mother sweet, thy faithful feet
The cruel path of duty trod;
Thou, too, didst go the way Of death,
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-12-20
THE CHILDREN'S HOUR.
LITTLE FRANCIS.

Kian-Kin-Sen. With what pleasure
1 recall this interesting 12-year-old
lad He was good and deyout, studi-
Gus and gentle, and frank, and withal
somewhat timid.
He did not return at the opening of
school this year. I sent messenger
to VA Men," where his father works,
to inquire about the boy, and learned
that he was sick. l could not believe
it; it seemed like an excuse made up
for the occasion.
Shortly afterwards learned for Ger.
tain that Kian-Kin was very sick with
consumption I went to see him i'm
mediately.
What a change! 1 could scarcely
recognize him. He was so pale and
thin that he seemed like a ghost.
gave him at once the necessary in
structions in preparation for the sac
rament of baptism. He was brought
to the church the next day, and
poured the baptismal water on his in
nocent head and placed him under the
protection of the Blessed Virgin by
putting upon him the scapular of Car.
mel. His pale face was bright with
joy, he was like an angel.
Tell me now, my little Francis,
(the same I had given to Kian-Kin in
baptism), ARE you happy now"
Yes, Father
"Why?"
Because I have been baptized, and
because l am wearing the scapular OF
the Blessed Virgin
But are you not afraid to die?'
''Oh, no, Father"
Even though, when you die, you
are under the ground and can play and
eat no more
Yes, you mean our body, Father
our soul goes to Paradise"
That is very good / am satisfied
and believe that in a few days you
will be able to make your first Com
munion if you continue to study youl
catechism. Does that suit you?"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-12-20
DANGER OF BIGoTRY.

Bishop Sanford Olmstead said re-
Gently in Denver: Bigotry, even in
it's mildest form, makes me smile, for
it calls up the story about the old
lady. An old lady and John, her
coachman, were so bigoted that no
recognized church service suited them,
and so they used to worship together
every Sunday in the drawing-room of
the mansion. A friend demonstrated
with the old lady one day. DO you
really think that you and your coach
man. she said, are the only true
members of the only true church on
earth?' Well said the bigoted old
lady, thoughtfully, I'm none too sure
about john"
Tho Arm
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-12-20
PETE HAD oBEYED ORDERS.

There is a certain young officer
who, according to his own story. is
thanking his stars that General
Pershing had sense of humor.
Some of my men We're Polish. and
better soldiers never lived, but I guess
in Poland life has been one long, sad
story, . said the officer. Anyway. /
never ran across a bunch who took
things SO literally. One night the
Germans sent out a three-inch shell
that landed square in the trench. In
the morning l told one of my men,
Pete, we called him, to take it away.
:" Where shall take ito he asked.
= oh, anywhere l answered peev-
ishly. put it to bed in Pershing's
tent. ~.....
"A little later a brother officer came
along and said: The old man wants
you. and there's something doing
L couldn't imagine what was up I'M
til l stood before the chief. He eyed
me sternly and then pointed to his
bunk, and would you believe it, there
was that blamed shell. Pete sure had
obeyed orders. Well, thought. was
in for it, but Pershing suddenly began
TO smile. He said: I just want to
caution you not to order Pete to cap
ture Berlin until the rest of us are
ready to go with him. He might go
and do it, you know
-Rohobofh Sundop Herald.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-12-20

o Mother of the Son of God.
The peaceful stars thy beauty sing
Year after year and each tomorrow
| pledge my humble cup of song
To thee, o Queen of Sorrow.
j. Corson Miller
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-12-20

. When I see the night aglow with
stars / say-Praise be to God. God
was thinking of our pleasure when He
decked the skies in gold and the earth
in the colors of the opal columbia
{ O'Donnell,
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-12-20

In proportion as we pray for the
souls in Purgatory, will they remem-
Der us, and by thinking of them fire.
quently, we will not be SO likely to
forget that one day we shall be num-
bered among them, and we will have
taken fixed habit to keep them ever
in our hearts, and in our minds.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-12-20
THE ELF. AND THE DoRMousE


Under a toadstool
Crept a wee Elf,
Out OF the rain
To shelter himself.
Under the toadstool,
Fast asleep,
Sat a big Dormouse
All in heap.
Trembled the wee Elf.
Frightened and yet
Fearing to fly away
Lest he get wet.
To the next shelter
Maybe a mile!
Sudden the wee Elf
Smiled a wee smile.
Tugged till the toadstool
Toppled in two,
Holding it over him,
Gayly he flew.
Soon he was safe home,
Dry as he could be.
Soon woke the Dormouse-
Good gracious me.
Where is my toadstool?"
Loud he lamented.
And that's how umbrellas
First were invented.
-OHDer Herfayd.
Graham guardian., 1919-02-07
Gettysburg Speech
Called Marvel of
Poetic Splendor

Llncoln's undying Gettysburg address
has been put into the new poetic style
by DR.. Marion Mills Miller, who finds
that 1.-The speech is as perfect poem
as ever was written, and even In the
minor qualities of artistic language
rhythm and cadence. phonetic euphony,
rhetorical symbolism. and that subtle
"reminiscences Of great literary and
spiritual Inheritance, the Bible. which
stands to US as Homer did to the
ancients-it excels the finest gem to be
found in poetic cabinets from the Greek
anthology downward" DR., Miller's ht.
teresting "poetic" presentation Of the
address follows:
Sourscore and seven years ago
Our fathers brought forth or this continent
A new nation,
Conceived In liberty,
And dedicated to the proposition
That all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war,
Testing whether that nation,
Or any nation so conceived ands so dedicated,
Can long endure.
We are met on great battlefield Of that war.
We have como to dedicate portion OF thai
field
As final resting-place
For those who here gave their lives
That that nation might live.
I is altogether fitting and proper
That we should do this.
But. in larger sense,
We can not dedicate
We can not consecrate-
We can not hallow--
This ground.
The brave men, living and dead,
Who struggled here
Have conseorated 1t far above cur poor
power
To add or deract
The world will little note nor long remember
What We say here,
But il can never forget
What they did here.
II Is for US, the living, rather
To be dedicated here to the unfinished work
Which they who fought here have 20 nobly
advanced.
II Is rather for Us TO be here dedicated
To the great task remaining before us
That from these honorcd dead
We take increased devotion to that cause
For which they gave the last full measure
Of DEVOTION
That we here highly resolve
! That these dead shall not have died in vain;
That this nation, under God,
Shall have new birth Of freedom;
And that government Of the people,
BY the people, and for the people
Snail not perish from the earth.
Graham guardian., 1919-02-07
WOMEN LOVED BY LINCOLN
Loss OF One Of Them In Early Youth
Cast a Lifelong Shadow Across
His Heart.

There was a wild rose slip Of girl
In a blue sunbonnet, with whom he
walked the lanes Of his homespun
days. There was clever, cultured
woman, whose brilliant intellect
lighted his ascending way in the Illi-
nois legislature. And there was the
belle Of the gay social set at Spring.
field, who fiuttered across his pathway
as it led to Washington. One he
loved, and one he tried to, and one
he married. These were the women
that he courted. They loved Lincoln.
To them the greatest American was
far nearer than lofty figure on a
high pedestal. They heard his heart
beat!
These were the women that loved
Lincoln. One of them today lies near
the banks of the Sangamon where he
loved her. To the last there was with
him the long. long sorrow Of her loss
that cast its shadow across his heart
in youth. As late as 1864 he pushed
aside state papers in the executive
mansion Mt Washington to talk Of her
late in the night to a friend who had
come from back home. One rests
peacefully In little cemetery al
Pleasant Ridge, III. The mother Of
five children, her tombstone reads:
"Mary Owens Vineyard" One lies
at his side In the great mausoleum in
Springfield, where the state keeps her
bier and his heaped with fresh. fra
grant flowers. When an nssassin's bul.
let took his life, the American peo-
pie mourned great president. She
moprned great Observation-Disclosures.
Graham guardian., 1919-02-07

just debts. Then we may have
to extend credit to our almost ex-
hausted allies. we may have to
invest many millions of dollars
with our present and future GUS
toners in Europe. But as sane,
far. seeing business men let us
do it, and do it gladly. We work
not alone for the moment, but
for the future, that future which
holds out to US the promise of
every good thing spiritual and
material, that future which is to
make our people the master
builders of the worlds destinies.
We have fought, bled and died
for the right to establish peace,
democracy, material prosperity,
on a worldwide basis. All these
things are now within our grasp.
Shall we draw back and weaken
because one uore effort is re-
quired?
From the grave comes a voice
''To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; b. yours to hold il high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders Fields. 1"
Graham guardian., 1919-02-07
The Way for a young man
to rise is to improve himself
every way he can, neuer sus-
pecting that anybody wtshes
TO hinder him.-Lincoln.
Election Incident.

Lincoln was clever politician and
never hesitated when president to play
trumps In crisis.
Colonel A. X. Mcclure said that he
told Lincoln he couldn't carry Pennsyl-
vania in 1854 on the home vote unless
he furloughed 10000 Pennsylvania SOL
diers and sent them back here to vote.
Lincoln hesitated only moment and
then requested both Meade and Sher-
idan to send 5000 troops into Pennsyl-
vania for the election, which was done.
McClure's prediction was evidently
correct, as Lincoln, even with the
10000 troops voting here, carried
Pennsylvania by only SIP. To this
plurality was added some 14,000 as the
result Of Pennsylvania soldiers voting
In the field.--Philadelphi Ledger.
Graham guardian., 1919-02-07
| WISH YOU GOD SPEED

Theodore Roosevelt, in send
ing the American Committee for
Relief in the Near East check
for 1000 covering his contri-
button from the Nobel Peace
Prize FUND.-, said:
1T was a great pleasure to
hear you speak at Christ Church.
The plight of your countrymen-
t .e Assyrian Christians and the
Armenians-and the high devo-
tion and gallantry shown by the
Assyrian Christians and the Ar
menians, have commanded the
deepest sympathy and the most
unqualified admiration of the
American people. AS | listened
to your account of the dreadful
situation of your people, my
heart was so moved that wished
it were possible for all our nation
to have vividly brought home to
them the facts that you pre-
sented. With all my heart |
wish you God Speed in the work
of relief you have undertaken
for the Christians in Western
Asia. And particularly do l wish
you success in your effort to raise
$50, 600, 900 for the maintenance
of the tens of thousands of Christ
ians, and the other refugees and
sufferers, wherever found in the
Caucasus, in Persia, behind the
British lines. or in the interior
of Turkey"
With all my heart | wish you
God Speed in the work of relief
you have undertaken for the
Christians of Western Asia. "
And with that wish in his heart
a former president of the United
States sent his check for 81, 900.
Words, then DEEDS. "By their
works ye shall know them. ="
What are you going to give?-
By DAVID HENsHAW.
Graham guardian., 1919-02-07
llncoIn's Stories.

II seems probable that some Of Lin
coins stories, genuine though we may
believe them to he, were current before
his time; for instance, the one with
the Kentucky flavor referring to the
brand OF whisky which General
Grants enemies protested he used
with too much freedom. Lincoln dis.
claimed this story In my hearing,
stating that King George III. Of Eng.
land was said to have remarked,
when he was told that General Wolfe,
then in command Of the English army
In Canada, wns mad, that he wished
Wolfe 'foul6 bite some Of his other
generais.-From Lincoln in the Tele-
graph Office"
Graham guardian., 1919-02-07
LlNCOLN'S GOOD OLD FRIEND
Perfect Courtesy Of Americas Great
Son Shown in His Treatment Of
"Aunt Sally"

After Lincoln's election to the presi-
dency an old woman, whom he called
"Aunt Sally" came from New Salem
to say good-by to "Abe" before he
"went to Washington to be president"
The presideRt-elect was standing in
the room placed at his disposal in the
old state capitol talking with two
men Of national renown when the old
woman entered, shy and embarrassed.
He saw her at once and walked across
the room to meet his old friend. TAX
ing both her hands In his, he led her
to the seat of honor and presented his
distinguished visitors to her, putting
her quite at ease by saying:
Gentlemen, this is good old friend
Of mine. She can make the best flap
Jacks you ever tasted, for she has
baked them for me many a time"
Graham guardian., 1919-02-07
FASTENED TO INFORM WIFE
"Mary, We Are Elected" Was Lin.
coins Form Of Telling Help meet
the Good News.

Perhaps one Of the most character
istic Of the Lincoln anecdotes may he
revived with timeliness. On the night
Of his first election the little frame"
home Of the Lincolns In Springfield.
ILL.,, was thronged with eager neigh
bors and friends. Reports for while
came in early and favorably. Then
they were less promising. The crowd
dwindled. Then came the news that
Lincoln had carried the country. The
rest Of the story will better be told
by that great man himself. "When
there was no longer any doubt, or
reason for doubt" he related after
ward, II went up to my bedroom and
found my wife asleep. I gently touch
ed her shoulder and said, "Maryv She
made no answer. 4 spoke again a lit.
tie louder, saying, Mary! Mary! we
are electedv"
Graham guardian., 1919-02-07
We MUST NOT FAIL In OUR DUTY

The following communication
from DR.. Samuel Dutton, Chair
man ofthe Executive Committee
of the Near East Relief, will give
the people of Graham county an
insight into the diabolical cruel
ties perpetrated by the Turkish
government upon the unfortu-
nate people of the Near East.
The people of Graham county
have never failed in their duty to
relieve the distressed, either at
home or abroad, and we feel that
when they learn of the horrible
practices upon a defenseless peo-
pie by the unspeakable Turk,
who was aided and abetted in
these cruelties by the Hun gov
ernment, there will be a ready
response to the appeal to put our
county again lover the top" in
a good cause.
We are asked to subscribe
Sc, 500 as our quota in the United
Drive for Relief in the Near East.
Let us all contribute as far as
we are able, willingly and gladly
to this fund, when the workers
solicit us during the drive, Feb
ruary 10th to 18th.
DR.. Dutton's letter follows.
"Cruelties more diabolical than
any in history have been perpe-
trated by the Ottoman govern
ment. and have been reported
by absolutely trustworthy eye
witnesses at the American En-
bassy in Constantinople. The un-
reality of such persecution to an
American, as well as the thou
sands of miles between us and
this greatest crime of civiliza-
ton, has kept many Americans,
so far, from feeling this demand
upon their humanity and justice,
keenly.
Regarding the present actual
state of the peoples of the Near
East, DR.. Dutton said: "Starv-
alton has become so common in
these lands that one Of our work
Graham guardian., 1919-02-07

in her history, because it is
Americas part in this frightful
cataclysm. 1t is to these people
that we owe in part the debt of
our untouched homes, our un-
violated families, and our almost
normally conducted industries.
For these things are S45, 600, 900
an adequate return? When the
American people come to realize
the situation in the Near East as
1t actually is, ] think not,
Graham guardian., 1919-02-07
A Few Facts About Lincoln.

He knew the value Of merry Jest
and n hearty laugh.
He was simple In manner, dress and
bearing, but was big Of heart and
brain.
He was too great nature to care
one way or another about his ances-
try. The living generation was Of vital
Importance to him.
He did not advocate war for his own
glorir cation. but to llberate human
beings from slavery. All men were his
brothers and his equals before his
Creator.
Graham guardian., 1919-02-07
PATH0s IN THIS DOCUMENT
Soldiers Leave Of Thirty Days,
Granted by Lincoln, Was Also
His Allotted Time.

Here is a photograph of memo
randum signed by Abraham Lincoln.
It is dated March Is, 1865 lin his own
handwriting), and, likewise in his own
hand, says, "Allow this man thirty
days time"
The Endorsement is of an applica-
tion by soldier for thirty days leave.
But the most striking point about 1t
is that 1t exactly named the time that,
as the event showed, was left for Mr..
Lincoln himself to remain on earth.
He was assassinated just thirty days
later.
Graham guardian., 1919-02-07

las the president is trying to
lead the nation to a just peace,
50 he desires that America shall
lead the world in this supreme
effort to save and rehabilitate
the Christian peoples who, be-
cause they have clung to their
faith, have been compelled to
pass through the surprising
travail of the war. ="
Graham guardian., 1919-02-07

ers sent the following report,
Heroic men and women who
have strained every energy to
save lives, now have the un-
thinkable task of picking out
those who shall perish. This is
the human pressure that is back
of the slogan, They shall not
perish, being used in the cam
paign for $45, 600, OOO." He adds:
Americas money is going out
OF her pockets faster than ever