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Douglas Island news., 1919-03-14

The Rcbckah lodge, which will celebrate .ts twentieth birthday on the sixteenth has been leader in the community during the years it has been i'm existence. lt is hoped the years that are yet to come will see the order increase in strength and usefulness
Douglas Island news., 1919-03-14

By the way bills are rolling into the Territorial legislature it would seem that he people will get their mony's worth of new laws this session at least. After all iS said and done, it is quality and not quantity that counts in most things and this would be good rule to followiu legislation.
Douglas Island news., 1919-03-14

It is said that in order to secure accom- modatious to come to Alaska from Seattle these days would-bc passengers must buy hci,tickcts about four boats ahead. There is a lot of room to spread out in in Alaska, but there is such a thing as overdoing a .ood thing. A month from now would be a lot better time to come to Alaska.
Douglas Island news., 1919-03-14

some of the people in this ncighborhood who at one time thought they would make 3 fortune in the halibut fishing business hey will tell you that the halibut needs mo protection and that he can we'll take are of himself
 Bv the way bills are rolling into the Territorial legislature it would seem that he people will get their mony's worth of new laws this session at least After all iS said and done. it is quality and not quantity that counts in most things, and this would be good rule to followiu lcgislation
 It is said that in order to secure accom- modations to come to Alaska from Seattle these days would-bc passengers must buy Ihcu,tickctS about four boats ahead There is lot of room to spread out in in Alaska, but there is such a thing as overdoing a ood thing. A month from now would be a lot better time to come to Alaska.
 The Rcbckah lodge, which will celebrate ,s twentieth birthday on the sixteenth has been leader in the community during the years it has been in existence. It is hoped the wears that are yet to come will see the order increase in strength and usefulness.
 Jack Johnson now comes forth with the statement that he was paid to lose the fight with Jess Willard in Havana for the heavy weight championship in 1915. Jack jug les with the truth SD much that the true tory of that fight will perhaps never be old
 The kaiser wants to go to Rivera or to Egypt for his health and will ask pcrmis- sion of the peace conference to go to one of these places. There is a much warmer 1lacc he can go to without asking any mc's permission.
 The Victory Loan campaign will open u April 2l and close May lOth. This will .c perhaps the last war loan floatcd by the government among the general public md citizens can show their joy over the .udmg of the war by buying bonds
 The government cable to Alaska has 1ccn down again. Probably broke this time on account of being overloaded with mes ,agcs sent bv Alaskan business men to the wholesale houses because there is mo mail service to speak of up here any more.
 The weather of the past several days has been rather severe. The wind has been blowing fierccly and the thermometer has been down within a few degrees of zero. Let us hope that this spell is old king win ter's dcspairmg kick.
 Have you registered! If you haven't YOU had better do it now. The city election is coming and everyone should vote to show that they take an interest in the govern mcnt of the community in which they live.
 Next Monday is St. Patricks Day and the day on which the Irish and their friends celebrate in honor of the patron saint of the Emerald Isle.
 It has been discovered that the Myrtle II. which was shipwrecked near Cordova, was loaded with booze There must be a singular attraction there for such boat, as this is the second of that kind that we know of that has piled up there
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-03-08
SAN FRANCISCO SETTLED BY
TWO, FRIARs.

The first settlement on the site of
San Francisco a a mission estab-
lished in 1776 by Francis Poalon and
Benito Cambron, W. friars, and
known as the Mission Dolores. Grad
ually q village grew up about the
Mission, and the little community of
pioneers was known as Yerba Buena
until, se~Fenty-two years ago, the Al
calde officially changed the name to
San Francisco.
During that year the first school
was opened, the first Hotel was built,
by Jasper O'Farreli. Two years
after the birth Of San Francisco the
rush OF 40 increased it's population
ten-fold. The first steamship Of the
Pacific Mail arrived in 1849, and in
the same year the Oregon brought the
first United States mail and the first
postmaster, John w. Geary. The first
steamship between San Francisco and
Sacramento began plying that year,
and the city had it's great fire.
Geary, the first postmaster, became
the first mayor, following the incor-
poration Of the city in 1850. The first
of the famous vigilance committees
began it's work in 1851. The first
panic afflicted the city in 1855. The
year 1850 was a notable one for the
Golden Gate City, for in that year the
first pony express arrived, nine days
from st. Joseph, Mo-, and the city
was connected with New York by
telegraph.
San Francisco's first great exhibi-
ton was held in 1894, but it was a
small affair compared with the Great
Panama-Pacific Exposition held a few
years ago.
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A IN A

A little group of people went into a
restaurant-one of these modern self
serve affairs. There was mother, ia
Their, a soldier son, and two smaller
children.
The family took its place in the long
food is served, and moved along grad
ually, making its selection. When the
members reached the cashiers desk,
and each had upon his plate the food
he or she had selected, the father
paused and the family bowed their
heads. There in the public place with
busy people all around, the father re-
turned thanks to the Creator for the
food of which they were about to par
take, audibly, with a firm voice, with
great faith, with humility and thank
fulness in his tone.
But the little family were not the
only ones who bowed their heads.
The long line of busy people paused
in their snatching; each bowed his or
her head, and waited the end of the
blessing. There was never a smile of
derision, never a murmur of disgust.
sInstead, there were smiles of appre-
citation, and everybody in the long
line felt better. Each felt that there
was something in the thanks offered
up that helped wonderfully in this
prOsy old world.
Returning thanks before partaking
of the daily food is going out of style,
it seems, but it ought not to go out of
style. It ought to be practiced in
every home. We are getting away
from too many Of the sacred things
of the earlier days. We are too prone
to give up the little sentiments that
mean SO much in this material age.
Columbus Dispatch.
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I have forgotten you both and ne
elected you all these years. | know
you are in heaven, but no thanks to
me for that. | have done nothing for
you. l know the money and reputa-
ton | have gained would be worth
nothing in your good honest eyes
without the other things. | have been
dreaming like a fool about what |
could have done to please you had
you lived. | should have known all
along that there was only n thing
that would count in your eyes-and
| tomorrow is All Souls. | will go to
Mass, and there we will be reunited
once again. And | promise you never
to be unfaithful again-to you and to
God
AS through his tears he looked up
at the picture, he fancied he felt their
benediction coming down upon him
from heaven-the benediction of his
mother and dad.
Joseph Cdrep. in The Boston Pilot.
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RESPONSIBILITY OF PARENT
HOOD.

There can be no question that m
of the gravest responsibilities as
sumed by Catholics who enter the
holy state of matrimony is the re-
ligious training of the children with
whom it may please Almighty God
to bless them. Unfortunately, too,
there is little doubt that the respon-
sibllity is one which a great many
incur without due thoughtfulness, and
which in consequence they are in
clined to minimize, if not practically
to shirk altogether.
first breaks upon the childish mind.
Catholic mothers as a rule are faith
full in sewing the seeds of elementary
religious truths in the hearts of their
little ones. The children are taught
to make the Sign of the Cross, to re-
cite short prayers; to speak and think
with reverence of God the Father, our
Divine Lord, and the Blessed Virgin;
to distinguish the broad lines of right
and wrong. Once the child has grown
old enough to be sent to school, how
ever, too many parents apparently
think that the responsibility of his
religious education is shifted from
their shoulders to those of his teach
erS or of the parish priest.
This is a radical mistake. Home
training in the theory and practice
OF Christian doctrine a not be
superseded by the instruction of even
the most conscientious teachers or the
most jealous priests. The lesson i'm
parted by a pious and loving mother
and a conscientious father makes a
far more vivid and lasting impression
than can be given by any other human
agency whatever.
Even where the boys and girls at
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returned after the hours vigil He
found His disciple-priests asleep.
What! could you not watch one hour
with Me-" Matt. 26, 400
The purpose of the Holy Hour is to
render to Our Eucharistic King fitting
homage. Jesus in the Blessed Saera-
ment is King. He is there a living
King. Give Him then a royal wor-
ship" Though Christ is King, never
theless He is a Prisoner. For nine
teen hundred years He has resided in
His tabernacle prison patiently await
ing to draw all things unto Him
self. Naturally we lOathe a prison to
sustain a conversation with a prisoner
even for an hour is repellant to u
feelings. But surely an hours col
loquy with u Prisoner-King ought
not to prove tiresome. Thy CONVEX
sation hath no bitterness, nor Thy
company any ~tediousness, but joy and
g%ladness." CWisd. 8, 16.) For this
tiny act of homage God will bless US.
Having established the Eucharistic
Kingdom in our own hearts, we turn
to III neighbor, instructing him by
word and example unto justice. Christ
cannot leave His tabernacle-prison to
awaken His disciples as He did dur
ing the Holy Hour in Gethsemani-
the mission He confides to His guard
of honor.
Sentinel ofths Blessed Sacrament.
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BENEFITS OF THE HOLY HOUR.

The spiritual values of the Holy
Hour are countless. Living in an age
of Indifference and materialism, the
Holy Hour will serve to draw u
thoughts from worldly cares and
anXieties and set them on that more
lasting city where we shall dwell in
endless alteration Of the Most High.
In becoming an adorer of Jesus
Hostia, the faithful Catholic is per-
mitted to be enrolled among Jesus
friends. What greater gift than a
friend? But to have God for our
friend! Who can fathom this immeas-
urable prodigality! You are no more
strangers and foreigners; but you are
fellow citizens with the saints, and
the domestics of God" (Eph. 2, 49,
The fruits derived from an hours
communion with Jesus in the Blessed
Sacrament are numerous. Just as we
cannot be near a fire without feeling
its warmth, so when near the altar we
receive an increase in faith, hope and
charity and all the graces and gifts
which are necessary for our spiritual
life. A few considerations on that
period of alteration, more Familiarity
known as the Holy Hour, will form
the burden of this article.
To seek the origin of this devotion,
one must look back through the vista
of nineteen centuries and picture four
men climbing up the heights of Olivet
which lay over against the city of
Jerusalem. Christ has just consum-
mated the first Mass. He, the first
priest of the New Law, has just dis
tributed to the faithful eleven, and,
alas, to that faithless one, the Holy
Communion. Arriving at Gethsemani's
olive-garden, Christ opens the first
Holy Hour with prayer and asks
Peter, James and John to join with
Him: watch and pray with Me-"
Surely, they will watch with Christ
for He seems to have chosen them adj
visedly to comfort Him in His hour
of anguish. They had been with Him
at the TRANSPORTATION; are they I'M
mindful of the generous outburst Of
enthusiasm: Lord, it is good for us
to be here?" Have they broken their
promise: s'Rabboni, let us make a
tabernacle for Thee?" On Tabor
Peter, James and John beheld Christ
in His glory Luke 8, 29);; but on
Mount Olivet they beheld Christ in
His agony. Alas! too soon the three
disciples forgot the scene of Mount
Tabor in GaliIee, for when the Master
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THE CATHOLIC BULLETIN, MARCH 8, 1919

tend parochial schools, in which.
catechism forms one Of the regular
textbooks, the ffreside instruction can
not safely be dispensed with. Much
less can it be neglected in the case Of
the thousands of our Catholic children
who perforce attend the public schools
in which religion is tabooed. To
imagine that the religious training of
such children is sufficiently provided
for by their attendance at the weekly
Sunday school is to cherish a fallacy
that is patiently absurd. And it is
questionable whether the Sunday
school session a even do the mega
tive work Of quite neutralizing the
baneful influence Of the non-Catholic
atmosphere to which the children are
habitually exposed; it certainly can
not do very much more.
The only parents who may hope to
have rid themselves, in a very large
measure, of their personal response
bility for the effective religious train
ing Of their sons and daughters, are
they who have confided the education
Of those sons and daughters to Catho-
lie colleges and converts. The au-
thorities Of such institutions really
assume parental obligations toward
those committed to their charge, and
hence relieve the fathers and mothers
to a great extent Of one Of their most
essential duties to their offspring.
The overwhelming majority of Cath
olics in this country, however, are
precluded by circumstances from send
ing their children to college or con
vent, SO their personal accountability
for the Catholic training Of those chill
dren can not be shirked.
Children who attend the public
schools manifestly need peculiar at
tention. The supernatural being to-
tally excluded from their minds dur
ling school hours, it becomes impera-
tive that, at home, God and the soul,
grace and prayer, penance and good
works, sin and death and judgment
should be the subject of frequent
conversation. Family prayer, the
Rosary in common, for instance, can
in such cases scarcely be considered
a negligible act; and no pains should
be spared in forming these children
to other devotional practices. It is
elementary that their parents are
strictly bound in conscience to see
that they also attend the Sunday
school lesson with due diligence.
For Catholic children attending
the public schools good reading is al
most a necessity. Periodicals and
books should be provided for them as
soon as they have acquired a taste
for reading. Catholic literature is
now so abundant and cheap that
! there can be no excuse whatever for
| failure to provide it.
-NeWark Monitor.
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NEE.

God moves in a mysterious way
His wonders to perform;
He plants His footsteps in the sea
And rides upon the storm.
Deep in unfathomable mines
Of never failing skill,
He treasures up His bright designs,
And works His sovereign will.
Ye fearful saints fresh courage take
The clouds We so much dread
Are big with mercy, and shall break
In blessings on your head.
Judge not the Lord by feeble sense,
But trust Him for His grace,
Behind a frowning Providence
He hides a smiling face.
His purposes will ripen fast,
Unfolding every hour;
The bud may have a bitter taste
But sweet will be the flower.
Blind unbelief is sure to err,
And scan His work in vain;
God is His own interpreter,
And He will make it plain.
William CoUper.
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Now only stones and mortar
And in the dust, your face.

Now only stones and mortar
And in the dust, your face.
You were the happy prison
That Loves great Captive chose
To have among His children
His house and His repose,
Where all the saints, like lilies,
Bloomed round the Mystic Rose.
0 sundered bars, o broken cage,
o God that was your Bird,
No more within His secret bower
The Doves low voice is heard;
The rain falls through your open roof
And you are all unstirred.
o lonely little villages
Where never God comes by,
No nearer than the heavens,
The far and fearful sky
Who used to dwell within you,
The Apple of your Eye.
l speak not of c~athedrals
Whose ruin robs the arts,
But little village churches
And broken village hearts
Where living faith and love abide
Though hope almost departs.
Almost, but they are minded
OF deeper than the gloom,
The age-long hours of anguish
And the dead Bridegroom,
And all in a sunny morning
An invincible tomb.
Dear Christ, these little churches,
You were their only pride;
l crawl into their ruins
AS into Your wounded side,
And know that in The Church, Lord,
You evermOre abide.
-Pep. C.. L. O'DonneK.
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MARY'S LULLABY.

Peacefully slumber, my Treasure, my
Son;
Mother arms fold Thee, my Heavenly
One,
Art dreaming of Heaven, with glory
a-glow.
Thou didst leave to descend to Thy
people below?
Dost hear once again the angelic re-
frain,
That foated afar over valley and
plain?
Or hast Thou a vision Of days yet to
The weary, the sinful a-hast'ning to
Thee,
To kneel meath Thy lamp, all their
sorrows to tell,
For in a pure Host Thou art destined
to dwell?
Though Thy beauteous Face by my
Mother lips kissed,
Yelled from view shall be hid in the
white Eucharist
Men shall hail Thee as God, bowling
low at Thy feet,
Like the Magi who sought Thee
through Bethlehem's street;
Then slumber, my Prince from the
heavenly realm,
Floods of joy and Of rapture my DO
som o'erwhelm;
One day Thou wilt lisp the word
Mother to me
Lo. I am not worthy Thy handmade
to be!
Catherine RoDeS.
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USE OF STATUES.

Oftentimes our separated brethren
scott at our use of statues. The mem
bers of the Russian Orthodox Church,
and other Schismatics, who use the
cross and ikons, come in for as great
a share of criticism. The people who
scott forget that every nation has
monuments and that every family pre-
photographs, and that religious
statues fulfill exactly the same pnr-
pose in the Church. Images are of
direct use in arousing feelings of piety
in all Catholics. Mercy hospital. Den
yer, a few weeks ago, furnished a
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-03-08
A UNIQUE SODALiTY ENTERTAIN
MENT.

Socialists are delighted with their
not think Of them sooner. Reports
have reached It's of a novel and most
interesting entertainment, held re-
Gently by the members of the Young
Ladies' Sodality of st. Martins par
ish, West End, Pittsburg, says the
Observer. -f
Every socialist was urged to attend
and to bring other young ladies of the
parish along. AS they entered the
hall each young lady was presented
with a band of paper bearing the fol-
lowing print in large letters: Let us
become acquainted. l am Miss -"
One of the officers inserted the name
with black crayon. This was then
fastened about the forehead and hair
of the socialist and was worn all even
ing. 1t completely did away with
formal intrOductiOns and embarrassing
questions, and before the evening was
over girls were on the f~riendliest
terms with one another, though for
years they had been meeting and pass
ing each other, going and coming to
church, with hardly as much as a
salute. How many girls remain stran-
gers in a parish for years for want of
a gathering Of this kind? The ven
ing was most enjoyably spent in
| games, song, music and comic recita-
tons, after which a little refreshment
was served. All went home rejoicing
that they had come. The amount Of
| good that such gatherings do will con-
tinue to manifest itself in all sodality
work for the future.
Such acquaintance and friendships
cannot possibly be formed at the gen
eral communions and conferences,
where seriousness, piety, devotion and
silence must reign.
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striking example of this. Two mem
bers Of the Russian Church were dy-
ing there. They could not make them
selves understood. The only way their
attention could be called to senti-
ments of faith and repentance was by
showing them the Crucifx. The fer
vent prayers which that sight pro-
duced made every witness realize
what a help to the soul is the exterior
cult of the Church.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-03-08
AFTER MARRIAGE.

After marriage it is better to keep
house. Do not be dependent on your
parents, or be a burden to them. You
should rather assist them when it is
necessary. Husband and wife should
be industrious. Idleness and sloth
within your means and TO save some
thing every week or month. If you
cannot pay for a thing, do without it
until you have the price. Rent a pew
in your parish church. This is an
act, not OF charity, but Of justice. Be
civil and obliging to the relatives Of
your husband and wife.
Live in peace with your neighbors.
You should always treat each other
with great reverence. Woe to you
sacred end of marriage, the genera
ton of children; you must share in
each other joys and sorrows. Crosses
and trials are inseparable from any
state of life. Before marriage You
saw only each others good qualities;
after marriage your defects cannot
long remain concealed. You need,
therefore, great meekness, kindness
and mutual forbearance.
Above all, help each other to save
your souls. Perform your religious
duties together. Say, at least, your
night prayers together. Go to church
together. Go together to confession
and keep always side by side. Thus
you will experience in this life a fore,
taste of heaven. If, after marriage.
you find that you have made a mis-.
take your only remedy is to bear
patiently your self-imposed cross. II
you do so it will %sanctify you.
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THE VILLAGE CHURCHES.
BY Rev. chas. l.. o'DonneII, c. S. c.,
u. S. Army.

God help you, little churches,
That were the help of God,
A broken-hearted host that War
Shattered, and spurned, and trod-
You are the saddest ruins left
Above the saddest sod
A hundred years, a thousand,
You were the holy place,
An ocean and a river
: OF the white tides of grace,
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