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LETTERS TO Qll|, SAhJA

(tOo late for last week.
 Holly Grove, Ark. Dear Santa claus please bring me a stove and a doll a runk and some fruits. Ihave a
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and the other three. I am 8 yrs old l am in the second grade. my name Eunease cross k. F. D. 3 Box Al. H Edinburg, Ind. Dear Santa. I am a little or than girl 10 years old. I live with my uncle and aunt in Edinberg Ind. I want you to. bring me a Book of the Ar rabian Knight and some candy l wont ask for very much for. there are so many Poor little children and I want you to give to all of them. was born in Brinkley. A. R. Hammon was my papa.
 Martha Alice Hammer
 Wheatley, Ark. Dear Santa Claus.
 am sending you my letter to tell you what 1 want for Xmas 1 want a little pair of red boots Bugle little air gun little train some apples ornges canday nuts that ali I anl, q little Boy 6 year old fam going. to my first school my teacher name is Miss flight. l think lots of her. so Bye Bye Santa From little Woodrow Beasley
 Wheatley, Ark. Dear Santa Claus:
 l want big doll with curly hair and eyes that upen and shut. 1 want a story book with Mother-Goose rhyme in it. And some rubbers bring me some stick candy and put it in my stocking. And a little blue striped rubber-ball. And some tablets, and pencils for school.
 Be sure not forget to come. to my house Xmas eve night. Lovingly to my good Santa Claus hO is so good to me every Xmas eve night. w
 Clara Lee Frank. What my brother wants:
 He wants a train that runs on the track. And some boots a tool-set, and a orange and porple rubber ball. He wants you to bring a .jumping-jack and a long stick of candy and put them in his stocking, and some pretty colored neckties. q story book of animals. And he wants some fire-hos and a tire-engine. And some gloves, He wants som stocking
 Lovingly to Santa Claus From George Landis Frank P. s. He wants a drumb. Dear Santa.
 1 will write you a letter and tell you what I would like to have on Christmas. We want a doll, A. E. c. Book so we can learn our A. B. C's for l will soon be old enough to go to school. We want a set of dish es, and a broom. This is all we. want and oh. Santa some nuts aplpes, candy, oranges and any other things you can bring me. My great grand me lives in the country and be sure not to forget her. Also little children who have no mother or father.
 Your loving friends,
 MaIyloe and Vera Smith
 Zent, Ark. My dear Santa ClauS:--
 Will you please bring m 2 q doll, and doll buggy, nuts and candy, and some dishes and table and chairs?
 I am a lettle girl ten years old. I am going to school in Brinkley. 4.H
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Ask Any Doughboy Who
 Was Over There

and he will tell you that American railroads are the best in the world Aas ss,s 1ss# $ He saw the foreign roads = in England and Franoo, the best in Europe = and in other Con- tincntal countries - and he knows.
 The psrt railroads have played in the develop ment of the United States is beyond measure.
 American railroads have achieved high stand ards of public service by far-sighted and courage ous investment of capital, and by the constant striving of managers and men for rewards for work well done. hxs ss We have the best railroads in the world we must continue to have the best.
 But they mnst grow
 To the 920,00O, ,OO0 900 now invested in our railroads, there will have to be added in the next few years to keep pace with the natiens business, billions more for additional tracks, stations and terminals cars and engines, electric power houses and trains, automatic signals, safety devices, the elimination of grade crossings - and for recon struction and engineering economies that will re- duce the cost of transportation. M sas faa va To attract to the railroadsi in the future the in- vesment funds of many thrifty citizens, the direct ing genius of the most capable builders and man. agers, and the skill and loyalty of the best work men = in competition with other industries bld- ding for capital, managers and men - the railroad industry must hold out fair rewards to capital, to managers and to the men. ssss sfa -A American railroads will continue to set world standards and adequately serve the Nations needs if they continue to be built and operated on the American principle of rewards for work well done Saskatchewan 4 p4btI4kedbyAae sszAaoci1tloa 0f fsRalllOe1 S6rrctfvA
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Tasted suspIcleua. My dear. did you mako this Chris.- mas pudding out Of the cook book" "Ye6 lovs."
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N. B. All parties wishing to pay taxes on real estate will please bring their old tax re- ceipts or proper description of their lands or lots.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-02-15
THE MANNERS OF CHILDREN.

Where the carefully trained child
learns bad manners is a standing
mystery to it's watchful parents" re-
marked a speaker at a meeting of a
parent-teachers' association recently.
These anxious rearers of the young
are often heard propounding this
query, but generally without result.
Once in a while, however, out of the
deep silence comes an Illuminating
answer. Johnny furnished one just
the other day. He had just finished d
particularly toothsome dish of apple
pudding, which he ate to the last
morsel. Then, despite the fact that
there was company at the table, he
deliberately picked up his saucer and
licked it clean. Johnny exclaimed
the mother after a Mortified gasp,
whom did you ever see do thing
like that?' Dogs replied Johnny"
The Ar0onauf.
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"CRlME OF BEING YOUNG"

This expression is attributed to Will
liam Pitt the elder, who became earl
of Chatham 170S-177S). Certain his
torians, however, cast some doubt
upon the authenticity of the speech.
and DR.. Samuel Johnson 1709-17S4O
the great English photographer, who
was supposed to have reported it, in
his later years practically admitted
having made it up. Johnson, no
doubt, formed his composition on
some note or statement of the actual
speech. He said: That speech |
wrote in a garnet in Exeter street y
The famous passage is: The afro
cious crime of being young man,
which the honorable gentleman has
with such spirit and decency charged
upon me, | shall neither attempt to
palliate nor deny; but content myself
with wishing that | may be one of
those whose follies may cease with
their youth. and not of that number
who are ignorant in spite of expert
ence.'
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-02-15
OPPOSITION TO VACCINATION.

The first compulsory vaccination act
was passed in England about sixty
four years ago. Ten years later vac
cinatiOn became obligatory in Scot
land and Ireland. and this means of
protection against smallpox has since
become general in nearly all civilized
countries. There was, of course,
much opposition to the new law in
many quarters, and characterization
societies were formed. These exist
even today in many parts Of the
world. Thirty-three years ago an
characterization riot occurred in Mon
treal. A mob attacked the. city hall
and threatened to burn the newspa-
per offices, but the police succeeded
in quelling the disturbance. Similar
outbreaks, especially among Eastern
peoples, have occurred from time to
time.
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THE REPUBLIC.

Equal and exact justice to all men,
of whatever state or persuasion, re-
ligious or POLITICAL peace, commerce
and honest friendship with all nations
entangling alliances with none; the
support of the state governments in
all their rights, as the most competent
administrations for our domestic con-
Germs and the surest bulwarks against
anti-republican tendencies; the pres
ervation of the general government in
it's whole constitutional vigor, as the
sheet anchor of our peace at home and
safety abroad; freedom of religion;
freedom of person under the protec-
ton of habeas corpus; and trials by
juries impartially selected-these prin-
ciples form the bright constellation
which has gone before us and guided
our steps through an age of revolu-
ton and reformation.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-02-15
ORIGIN OF "GRiNGOES."

The MeXicans call us "Gringoes.'
It's origin dates back some and is
derived from euphonious words of a
song which American soldiers sang
near the border
Green grows the laurel
Soft as the dew,
Sorry am |
To part from you.
But when our next meeting
Our joy will renew,
When we trim the green laurels
With Red, White and Blue"
The first words, green grows"
sounded like "Gringoes," and just as
soon as the song was started, the
Mexicans would say "Gringos. Grin
gos." From the song the name
passed to the Americans,
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-02-15
SELF-SACRIFICING SERVICE.

Leigh Leslie writes as follows, on
dral Chimes:
Ones professions of Christianity
are of value only as one translates
them into Christian deeds. Mere lip
service of itself achieves no good end
it neither helps him who renders it
nor glorifies God.
am quite persuaded that the
churchman who is content to render
this sort of service and nothing more
is a liability rather than an asset to
the Church, which demands OF her
sons not merely that they should sing
praises unto God, however heartily
they may do that; but that they
should take off their coats, and roll
~ their sleeves, and go out into the
world and labor diligently for others
in His name.
The Church gives much, and she
Las right to ask much of those who
accept her gifts; but from most of us
she does not receive much. The
chief thing she asks of us is self-sac-
'rificing service and that is the only
thing that most of us withhold from
her. For one to be genuine Chris,
tan involves infinitely more than for
one merely to say that one is fol
| lower of Christ; it involves ones be-
| ing a doer of Christ-like things. THE
se1fsacrifice of the Christian is al
ways an echo of the self-sacrifice OF
| Christ said Phillip Brooks in one OF
J his great sermons And in his critical
essay on Rousseau and the sentimen
| talists, which | was reading only the
| other day, James Russell Lowell says:
Words, money, all thing else, are
comparatively easy to give away, but
/ when a man makes a gift OF his daily
life and practice, it is plain that the
truth, whatever it may be, has taken
| possession of him."
| The truth has taken possession OF
many men since we entered the great
world war, but it has not yet taken
possession of nearly enough of them
| Never before in the history of the
world has humanity needed the
! Church as it needs her now. Never
before have protesting Christians had
SO glorious an opportunity to serve
God through serving their fellows as
| is presented to them now. These are
times calling for sacrifice, sacrifice OF
| ease, of money. of life itself. If the
| Church shall but stand foursquare tc
the world through this dreadful wal
period, she will emerge from it much
| more potent for good than she ever
| has been before. If she fails to dc
| this, she will emerge from it immeas
| urably weakened.
| The demand for service-fOr genu
i inc service, the sort of service that
! forgets self. is imperative. And il
we churchmen fail to heed this de
| mand, then we should cease calling
ourselves followers of Him Whose
whole life here upon earth was one OF
utter self-abnegation. of utter self-sac
rifice and of tender service to others
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played my piety. Don't forget, either,
the dome of Santa Maria Novella,
quite third of which was at my cost,
nor my hospital outside the walls,
which was built wholly at my ex-
pense."
Fear not, Nicholas Nerli," said the
Archangel; Il will forget nothing"
And with his glorious hands he put
in the lighter scale the dome of Santa
Maria and the hospital with it's sculp-
tured and painted frieze. But the
scale did not descend.
The banker was wildly and poig-
nantly uneasy
Good ST. Michael he said again,
look a little farther yet. You have
not put in the scale my beautiful
holy-water font, nor the pulpit of ST.
Andrews where the Baptism of our
Lord is represented, life-size. That
work cost me much money"
The Archangel put the pulpit and
the holy-water font in the scale; it
did not fall lower!
Nicholas Nerli began to feel his
brow wet with cold sweat.
Good Archangel," he asked, are
you certain your balance is accurate?'
st. Michael answered with smile
that, although his balance was differ
ent from that used by Venetian
money-changers, it was still quite ac-
curate.
WHAT" sobbed out Nicholas Nerli,
pale with dread, this dome. this pull
pit, this holy-water font, this hospital
with all its beds-are they no heavier
than a wisp of straw or handful of
down."
You can see for yourself, Mich
olas," said the Archangel, and so
far the load of your iniquities over
weighs by much the slight load of
your good works.
Then l must go to hell said the
Florentine, and his teeth chartered
with fear.
"One moment" said the heavenly
presence. wait. We have not done
yet. There is still this
And st. Michael took the black
leaves which the rich man that very
evening had thrown to the poor. He
put them in the scale of the good
works, which lowered at once, while
the other scale lifted until both were
level. The beamed leaned neither to
right nor left, and the needle marked
the perfect equipoise of the two
scales.
The banker could not believe his
eyes.
The Archangel said:
You see, Nicholas Nerli, you are
fit neither for heaven nor for hell &C
back to Florence. Multiply in the city
the loaves you gave last night, and
let none know it, and you will be
saved For heaven does not open
merely to the thief who repents. The
mercy of God is infinite; it can save
even the rich! Multiply among the
poor those loaves of which you have
seen the weight in my scales
Nicholas Nerl awoke in his bed
He resolved to follow the counsel O
the Archangel, and to multiply the
| loaves of the poor, that he might en-
ter the Kingdom of Heaven.
| And for three years that he livet
on earth he was charitable to thu
| poor, and great giyer of aims.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-02-15

very thing was done on the Nile in
Egypt long before the birth of Christ
For the ancient Greeks and Romans
In Nero's time, it is true, sugar from
the cane was known, but it was con.
sidered as merely a rare curiosity
from Bengal, where the plant seems
to have originated. Shukkur is the
name by which the sweet substance is
known in that country to this day
Arab traders brought it to Rome and
Athens, but for centuries it was used
in Europe only as medicine.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-02-15
MY OCEAN,.
Written for The Catholic Bulletin by
DR.. James Henderson,

Every year tiny ocean swaps beside
the wooded land
Girt about with forest beauty, and it
knows no pebbled strand
But, it's pillows gently rolling sweep
and spread them in the May
And its gullS are Sportive swallows
winging over every day.
I go to and from my ocean, but tiny
round of field
With deep burrows in the springtime
and, it's thistle patches healed,
And, | fancy ships upon it riding out
of some sweet dawn,
And | see the broad wakes plainly,
yes, where other ships have
gone.
Oh. when tbs full to flowing and the
little grey spheres rise
And fall with every billow in the tor.
rid, hot Julys,
And the mustard bonnets showing as
if corsairs rode the main,
And the anemones a-swaying with
the rolling of the grain,
Minds me of some sweet morning
when the birds are keeping tryst
And the blossoming spreads over like
grey-green gather'd mist
Where the phantom ships are bidder
and, a fairy albatross
Wings it's way above the clearing o'el
my little sea of gloss.
Every year my vagrant ocean will
sway into leafy Junes,
Every April too, it's burrows shall be
seeming sweet lagoons
Where fitting snipes will listen ant
the piping quail explore
And the blackbird cluck warning
and the breezes pull an oar;
The barn-mow will be waiting for i
is its port of dreams
Where the freighted ships of harves
will pour in their COLDER
streams:
And, when in stubbled autumn l shall
walk it's silent bed
| shall hear the Bob White callin,
where the leaves have turned
to red.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-02-15

Sunken shield cut into the marble. In
some convent cemeteries there will
be hundreds of these white tokens of
nations gratitude, and by their 81
lent eloquence inscribing in the noon
day sun another radiant chapter in the
history of the Catholic Church in the
United States.
Mrs. Jolly states that no further APP
peal is necessary to this organization
of Irish Catholic women than the
words Of the national president, Mrs.
McWhorter, who has assumed the
burden of collecting the Monument
Fund. She prays that 1919 may see
Ireland redeemed and the glorification
of the Angels of the Battlefield
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-02-15
FUNERALS IN GREECE.

Many curious customs are observed
when a funeral occurs in Greece. At
the head of the procession walks a
boy carrying the lid of the coffin,
which is decorated with purple gauze,
flowers and tinsel. Then, after a nu-
merous company bearing banners and
candles walks the priest, and after
him is carried the open coffin. The
body is dressed as for a festival
Civilians are dressed for burial in
black clothes and white gloves, Off
GERS of the army and navy in full
dress uniform and ladies in white silk
and flowers, Three years after the
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Thomas Jefferson
NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN.

In 1883 someone constructed a
floating beehouse for voyaging on the
Mississippi river, says Youths Com
panion. 1t was large enough to ac-
commodate 1000 hives and was meant
to be towed up and down the river
from Louisiana to Minnesota, keeping
pace with the blossoming of the flow
ideal" But as a matter of fact that
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To Mark Graves.

In addition to granting the site,
thorized the National Chairman of the
Monument Committee to apply for
official government markers to be
placed upon the graves Of all Sister
War Nurses buried within the limits
of the United States. Those tokens
Of nations gratitude will not be con-
fined to the Sister War Nurses of
the Civil War, but the recognition
has been extended to the Sister War
Nurses of the Spanish-American War.
The National Chairman has submitted
authentic data to the War Department
and has requested Secretary OF War
Baker to further extend the official
recognition by authorizing the placing
of government markers upon the
graves Of the UrSuline nuns of New
Orleans, La, who did service in the
War of 1912, and who, after the siege
of New Orleans, January 5, 1915, one
hundred and four years ago, con-
verified their orphan asylum and class
rooms into hospital wards, in which
they cared for the sick, the wounded,
the dying and the dead soldiers of the
two armies, seeing in friend and foe
the image of Him to whom they had
| consecrated their lives
In submitting data to Secretary
Baker for obtaining markers for the
graves of the Sisters, Mrs. Jolly in
cidentally reminded him that he in a
conversation held with her several
years ago made the statement that
his own father, member of an Ohio
regiment in the Civil War, was nursed
back to life and health by a Sister of
Charity" In response to the appeal
the following letters we're received,
which are self-explanatory
WAR DEPARTMENT,
Washington ID. C., Dec. IS, 1918.
my Dear Mrs. Jolly: Your good
letter dated December 9, addressed to
the Secretary, has been referred to
this office for our best thought and
consideration. You may be very sure
that the War Department desires to
honor the memory of the brave Sisters
who served our country in the Civil
War. Provision is made by law
| whereby the Government markers
may be provided for all who were in
! the military or naval service of the
United States-this includes nurses.
1--WE suggest that you obtain appli-
| cation blanks for those whose graves
you wish marked from the Office of
the Quartermaster General of the
Army. These applications must be
filed out and returned to the Quar-
termaster's Department, who will ship
the markers to any part of the United
States. Sincerely yours, F. P. Keppel,
Third Assistant Secretary
Mrs. jolly applied for and received
/ fifteen hundred applications for mark
ers, which blanks will be filled out and
verified, to comply with the law.
Marble Headstones.
Each marker will be of American
white marble, thirtynine inches high,
twelve inches in width, with a depth
of four inches, and the top will be
gracefully curved The name of each
Sister will be in full relief upon a
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burial the bones are dug up, washed
in wine and preserved in sacks in the
ossuary or bone house." Rows of
these queer sacks can be seen in the
cemetery at Athens, and they are all
numbered and registered for identifi-
cation. The bones of the poor are
thrown into a common charnel house.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-02-15

Mrs. Ellen Ryan Jolly, National
Chairman of the Nuns Monument
Committee, and whose lifelong dream
was that the Ladies' Auxiliary to the
Ancient Order of Hibernians should
erect a Memorial to the Angels of
the Battlefield has appealed to the
members of the Order throughout the
country to complete the fund during
the time set apart by the National
President of the Order. She says, in
part, as follows:
''On this the eve of the Feast of
st. Brigid, the Mary of Erin, and
therefore the beginning of 'Self-Denial
Week. the days set apart by Mrs.
TIary F. McWhorter, the worthy ma
tional president of the Auxiliary, we
are, one and ALL expected to give
PRACTICAL testimony Of loving rever-
cnce, and by our self-sacrifice and
Irish generosity voluntarily create, a
magnificent fund which will enable us
to erect in the city of Washington a
monument to the honor and in the
memory of the Nuns of the Battle
field a monument unique in tie his
tory of the world.
The Kennedy Resolution.
1T will interest the members to
know that during the travel Of the
Kennedy Resolution the hand of God
seemed to guide it's destiny. The
Resolution, after four years Of a bit
ter struggle for existence, was unex-
ectedly called from the Library Com
mittee on the Feast Of st. Brigid 1t
was unanimously and favorably voted
upon in the House of Representative
.cn the legislative feast of ST. Patrick.
The bill was signed by President Will
son on Good Friday afternoon during
the Holy Hour, and the pen with
which the President signed the bill
was presented to the Very Rev. John
Cavanaugh, C. S. c., D. d.. president
of Notre Dame University, Indiana, on
the Feast of Columbkille Therefore
we are happy in believing that under
the shadow Of the Cross the patron
saints OF ireland formed a trinity for
the protection of our beloved monu-
ment
"The site of the monument is one
of the most select in Washington, and
the members of the Arts Commission
have repeatedly assured us of the
heartiest cooperation in our desire to
make the unwilling of the monument
to the Angels of the Battlefield the
most elaborate and most dignified
ceremony ever witnessed in the Ma
tional capital. With the help of every
member Of the Order, this can, and
1 know, will be accomplished,