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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-11-13

he says: 81 AS to devotion to the Bless
ed Virgin, I proposed the forming Of
Confraternitfes Of the Rosary, and
while Sunday should be the general
day for the devotion, would have
different congregations fix on differ
ent days, so that each day the power
full fntercession of the Blessed Virgin
might be invoked upon us and upon
our labors. One Of my reasons for.
preferring the Rosary, both for myself
and English Catholics, is what ordinar-
lily forms an objection to it. Pride,
when we come to pray, is our most
dangerous enemy, and I think no bet
ter security can be given against it
than'to pray as the poor and ignorant
do. Do we, then, wish that God should
judge us by the standard of the wise
who know their duty, or by that Of
the poor little ones? If by the latter,
why spurn the prayers instituted for
them, and say, We will not use them
but the prayers better suited to the
learned?' The Our Father was ap-
pointed and drawn up for men who
said, Lord, teach us how to pray
1t is a prayer for the ignorant, as is
the Rosary
In Catholic families where family
prayers is the custom the Rosary is
said every night, and in common.
There may be other prayers, and there
may be not; night prayers may be
said individually or in common, but
the Rosary is always there. The fam
lily Rosary, it would seem, has risen
to be an intergral part of Catholic
tradition.
We see signs of better things for
the Church in America, the awaken
| ing of the missionary spirit; the
meeting Of the Bishops. now prac-
tically an annual affair; and other
signs that are potent to the attentive
observer. We are rapidly leaving the
building-up stage The pioneer period
is now almost wholly a thing of the
past. Shall we rise to the dignity and
| fullness of Catholic life as shown by
its foremost opponents? If we wish
to do so, the family Rosary every
| evening is practically a necessity.
The tradition in it's favor is too strong
| to be lightly disregarded.
The prayerless home-that is one
| danger in this age of worldliness and
materialism. The family prayer at a
! fixed hour in the evening at which all
the members of the family are bound
to be present, is our safeguard. The
little ones will hear the Rosary before
they understand what it is: it was
in the house before they were born, be
fore they realized what it meant
They in their turn will teach it tt
their children. Thus the tradition is
formed. BY adhering to the tradition
of the evening Rosary, or by creating
it where it does not exist, we shall
fall in line, we shall assimilate our
selves to the foremost opponents o.
traditional Catholic life.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-11-13
THE NEW: HISTORY.

l useter Learnt allus thought
1t was with England that we fought,
But naow it seems the men were
crooks
Who made the old-time history books.
Well, maybe not so bad as that,
They didn't mean to lie so fiat,
But German propaganda made
Them say those things, Pm much
afraid
While naow, historians are free
To write things as they RELY be.
No propaganda naow misleads
Our writer's as to England's deeds.
And so old fogies like myself
Must place our old books on the shelf,
An learn how England saved us
then
An how she's ready to, again!
Denis A. Mccarfhp
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-11-13

NAMING THE CHILDREN.

When the time comes to chrfsten
the children, in the name of all the
noble and the great of ireland, don't
plaster them with meaningless names.
Don't glue to your child name with
just as much character as squeezed
dishrag. The name by which your
child will be known through life, and
which will be carved on the tomb.
stone for other generations to read,
is symbol of the sense or the folly
of the, parents. When the son of Irish
parents is called Percy" and the
daughter "Gwendoline," there (. is
either some softening of the cerebel.
lum through oyer-indulgence in Eng.
lish novels or wandering in the
paths of aliens. The generation that
will come after you has some rights
that ought to be respected. Among
these rights is that the parents should
teach the children the way they should
go. Give boy good name, and. he
will go far because he has a fair start
Call a girl by name that has a
sweet Irish meaning, and her spirit
will bend toward the virtues of her
mother, enhancing her own happiness
as wife and mother, and adding
years of joy to the happiness of her
husband and her children. Call boy
Patrick" and he will inevitably dis
cover, as he advances through the
years, that people expect him to stand
in his place because his name is a
badge of his race. Use the old
names. They have been made glori
GUS on field and camp, court and par
lament, on sea and land, at work OF
play, and they are as worthy to be
borne by the sons and daughters OF
the race today as when they blazed
forth in Immortality in the dawn. OF
Irish history.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-11-13
AN AUTUMN EVENING.

4. iii (By Nina)
Giant sunflowers are bowling,
To the cosmos over the way;
Distant cattle are lowing
The ivy in brightest array.
There's a rustic in, the trees,
Where the bluebirds used to dwell
And a little fall of leaves
Reveal the nest they hid so WELL
Sweet peas with blushing faces,
Are creeping over. the wall,
And in most secluded places,
Are hid sweet violets small.
To his mate in the meadow,
! A seagull softly calls,
Then silence-the sum sinks low,
And darkness gently falls.
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REMEM BRANCE.
Especial by A. W. To

Especial by A. w. To
Oh, tell me friend, if in the coming
days,
When far away amid strange scenes
you'll be.
And life will lead you through SO many
ways, ......... ...-.
oh, tell me, will you ever think of ME?
oh, tell me friend, could any distant
cline
Or the laundering roar of restless
angry sea,
Make you forget our youths sweet
summertime, -.
And have no thought, not even one
of me?
When you shall pass through glen or
shady nook,
Or rest beneath some lovely bloom
ing tree;
Or while you turn the pages of some
treasured book,
viii all these blot out every thought
of me?
For. as the rainbow is true God
given pledge,
Never to destroy by flood, His coun-
terpart,
So has Love written with golden
edge
Your name, and carved it deep upon
my heart.
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INVENTOR OF THE LETTER-Box

The inventor of the letter-box was
Anthony Trollope, the novelist, who
was surveyor of the post office, in
England, from 1S41 to his retirement
from the service in 1867. One sure
way of arousing Trollope's ire was to
suggest that he neglected his post
Office work for the sake of his novels.
He took, as matter of fact, an in
tense pride in his official work, Or, as
he put it, he had passion for letters.
In his autobiography he enumerated
various benefits for which the public
had cause to be grateful to him. First
came the arrangement by which the
people living in little villages could
buy postage stamps; secondly, the free
and early rural delivery, and the put
ting up of pillar or letter.collecting
boxes. Of that accommodation he
says: "In the streets and ways OF
England was the originator, having,
however, got the authority for the
erection of the first at St. Heller, in
jersey"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-11-13
THE OTHER FELLOW AND YOU.

Have you ever noticed? When the
other fellow acts that way, he is ill
tempered; when you do it, it's
nerves" When the other fellow is
set in his ways, he's Obstinate;
when you are, it is just "firmness." Il
\ When the other fellow doesn't like
your friends, he's "prejudiced';
when you don't like his, you are sim
ply showing that you are good Judge
of human nature.
|, When the other fellow tries to treat
someone especially well, he is "toady-
ing; when you try the same thing,
you are using tact"
When the other fellow takes time
to do things, he is dead slow; when
you do it, you are deliberate
When the other fellow spends lot,
he is a "spendthrift"; when you do,
you are generous.
When the other fellow holds too
tight to his money, he is CLOSE;
when you do, you are prudent.
When the other fellow dresses ex'
ira we'll, he's dandy" when you
do, "a duty one owes to society,"
When the other fellow runs great
risks in business, he is "foolhardy";;
when you do, you are great finan
cier."
When the other fellow says what
he thinks, he is "spiteful'; when you
do, you are frank"
When the other fellow goes in fol
music and pictures and literature, he
is "effeminate"; when you do, you are
artistic
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-11-13
Order to Present Claims Within Three
NuNrs

Order to Present Claims within Three
Months.
STATE 3 !, I,E OF MININESoTA. COUNTY OF
In the Matter of the Estate of Mary
4 Molitor. Deceased III,
Letters. oftAdministration on the Es-
tate OF Mary Molftor. deceased late Of
the Township of Mounds View. in the
County of Ramsey and State of Mime
sofa, being granted to George Molitol
II ATpearlng on proper proof by affit
filed herein, as, provided by law, thai
there are no debts against the estati
of said deceased:
1t Is Ordered, That three months II
and the same is hereby allowed fro'f
and after the date of this Order. II
which all PRISONS having claims or d,s
mands against the said deceased.
any az y there e be. are required to file tlI
for examination and allowance. or "A
forever barred. &C., n
IT Is Further Ordered, That the frE
A. M. at a General Term Of said PRO-
bate Court, to be- held at the ~CouW
House in the 'Citv of ST Paul in san
county be and the same hereby is all
pointed as the time and the place wheW
and where the said Probate Court win
mands. '-H'' ahu "
And 1t Is Further ordered rhat
tice, Of such hearing be given. III q II
creditors and persons interested IN 90 "A
Estate Eslate by forthwith publishing tn
order once r. each week for tilHee SUD
iegs nsMspaper e pF hilaSIie an npil e,,h
lished in said County, .s - s. ~ puoE
N5 iDafeS 81 s St Paul this sth day Of
5ss by thel Court: I'M az 81. .
Seal Of Probate Conrt.J n 1rosate.
RFleF = HNFley, AIRS
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A DOMESTIC CHAPEL.

A domestic chapel in England, dat
never been used for Protestant wor-
ship, is brought into special prom
inence for Catholics by the recent pub
LEGATION of old time letters and papers
of the Stonors of OXfordshire. This
event in connection with the publica-
ton of private correspondence OF Eng
lishmen during the late Middle Ages
is of special interest to Catholics.
The domestic chapel at Stonor,
where the Blessed Sacrament is now
reserved, dates from the year 1349,
and the fact that it has never been
used for Protestant services gives it
an unusual place among such relics
of the old days. a.
: The letters and papers now present
ed bear witness to the unity of the
faith which existed through the land
in the days to which they refer. They
point to some interesting features of
Catholic history in England.
Stonor Park still belongs to the
descendants of Sir John de Stonor,
who was Chief Justice of Common
Pleas, 1329-1354. The estate of the
manor of Stonor was in the occupa-
ton of Blessed Adrian Fortescue,
Knight of Malta, who was, beheaded on
Tower Hill in 1889 He was the SON.
in-law of Sir William Stonor.
CO. 1T No,
pion came to Stonor at one time is
enough of itself to thrill Catholics who
know the history of Catholicism in
England in the stormy days of the re-
ligious disturbances. It was there, in
the lodge of Dame Cecilia Stonor, that
the printing of his famous "Decem
Rationes" was superintendent, a few
months before he was taken and exc
cuted. @
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-11-13
THE Low COST OF RETAINING
HEALTH.

The Toronto Health Bulletin" has
a very interesting article on THE Low
Cost of HEALTH" which is copied be-
low: X
'It is gratifying to know when we
have forced upon us at every turn the
high cost of living, that 1t has not az
fected many of the necessaries in con-
nection with the cost of health. Many
of the most important things in con-
nection with maintaining good health
can be had for nothing.
1T does not cost anything to secure
an ample amount of fresh air In your
home. -
1T does not cost anything to take a
walk in the open air, breathe prop
erly. keeping the body in an erect
posture.
at does not cost anything to take a
few simple exercises every morning.
1T does not cost anything to chew
or masticate your food thoroughly.
1T does not cost anything to select
the food best suited to your body re
quirements.
1T does not cost anything to clean
the teeth twice day.
1T does not cost you anything to
stop using patent medicines.
And lastly, it does not cost you any
thing to have a cheerful, happy dis
position, stop worrying and cut out
your grouches.
The foregoing are the essentials
for good health. 1t is not only fact
that they cost nothing, but they will
aid in reducing the cost of living by
reducing your doctors bill and your
medicine bill"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-11-13
GET THE FIGHTING SPIRIT.

"Oh, tell you, if every boy here
could only get this fighting spirit into
his soul right now, there would be a
powerful group of men in the world
in just a few years. says the Cave
Scout in Boys Life, the Boy Scout
Magazine, for March. But, if we are
going to get this fighting spirit we
must be very careful of little things.
DO any of you ever go into the
basement on Saturday morning say
ing to yourselves: Now I'll carry out
that whole pile of ashes before noon?
Well, you carry out couple of cans
and then somebody whistles down the
alley. 'Shucks,' you say to yourself,
I can just as well finish this up after
dinner And when you drop the ash
can and run out to meet your pal, that
old fighting spirit gets an awful wal
lop
Maybe the next day you run into
tough set of problems in arithmetic.
You plug at them for a while and
don't get any results, and then chuck
the book on the table, saying to your
self: '"Oh, I'll have plenty of time to
do those problems before class to-
morrow Bingo, another wallop for
your fighting spirit.
This thing soon gets to be habit
and every day it becomes harder for
you to finish up any job you may un-
dertake.
'Ten years from now you'll be cut
in the world working for yourselves.
Some day your boss will say to you:
Tom, will you prove up this set of
books today, please?' You say, Yes,
sir and begin, but there is mean
tangle in them somewhere, and after
plugging along for while your old
habits asserts itself and you say to
yourself: I'll have plenty of time to
finish these up after dinner But aft
er dinner comes and the job is bigger
than you thought, and the work isn't
done when the boss comes arounds and
the next day Bill gets the position
just ahead that you have been hoping
to land.
Maybe that sounds kind of far
fetched, but it's true as truth, as thou
sands of men who have failed to
achieve much success in life will tes-
4tify.'
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NO FUN FOR ROSE.

The anxious mother rings UP what
she thinks is the day nursery to ask
for some advice as to her child. She
asks the central for the nursery, and
is given. Mr.. Gottfried Gluber. the
florist and tree-dealer. The following
conversation ensues:
Il called up the nursery. Is this
the nursery?"e
Eyes, a'am."
Il am so worried about my little
Rose"
"Vat seems to be der madder?"
"Oh! not SO very much, perhaps,
but just general listlessness and
lack of life
"Ain'd growing rigid, eh?'
mo, sir"
We'll. l dell you vat you do. You
dake der scissors und cut off apoud
two inches vrom der limbs, und''-
"Wha-a-at!"
Il say, dake der scissors und cut
off apoud two inches vrom der limbs,
und den turn der. garten-hose on for
apoud four hours in der morning.
s. e
"Wha-a-at?"
Turn der garten-hose on for apoud
four hours in der morning, und den
pile a lot of plack dirt all around, md
shprinkle NIT insegt-powter all ofer
der top
: "Sir-r-r!"
"Shprinkle nit insegt-powter all
offer der top. You know usually i'd is
holdings but pugs dot
How dare you? What do you mean
by such language 2"
holdings but pugs dot chenerally
causes der troubles; und den yon want
TO wash der rose NIT a liquid brepara-
tons / haf for sale
Who in the world are you, any
way"
"Gottfried Gluber, der florist"
"o-o-ohi" weaklg, Goodbye
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-11-13
SURE THAT ANIMALS DREAM.

Aristotlessa history of animals de.
clares that horses, oxen, sheep, goats,
dogs and all ayiviparous quadrupeds
dream. Pliny, in his natural history
specifies the same animals. Button
describes the dreams Of animals. Mac
nish calls attention to the fact that
horses neigh and rear in their sleep,
and affirms that cows and sheep, es-
pecially at the period of rearing their
young, dream.
Darwin, in the Descent Of Man.
says that dogs, cats, horses and
probably all the higher animals, even
birds. as IS stated on good authority,
have vivid dreams. and this is shown
by their movements and voice
George John Romanes, in his MEN
tai Evolution in Animals.' says that
the fact that dogs dream Ii proven
bial, and quotes Seneca and Isicretius,
and furnishes proof from Dr. Lauder
Lindsay an eminent authority, that
horses dream. Bechstein holds .fhat
the pullanch dreams. and siEss 4 Gaze
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-11-13
LEssENED BlRTHRATE IN, GER.
MANY A CAUSE OF. CONCERN.
(By N. c. w. C. service).

The sudden and violent political
changes which have swept over
Europe. and especially Germany, have
In some measure served to distract
national leaders from what is prob
ably the most serious problem the
continent has to- consider, that of the
lessened birthrate. The following
statistics present an alarming picture:
In 1851-1S60 thereawere in Germany
35 to 81 births per 1000. II
From 1871-1S75 the numbers rose to
Al births per 1000:
In 1887 the birthrate decreased to
37.6 per 1000.
In 1SS0-lS9o it decreased to 1858 per
1000.
From 1890 to 1900 there was a still
further drop to 36.1, and beginning
with 1901 the decline was still more
precipitate, the period lsO1-1910 show
Ing q rate or only $40.
i In 1913 the alarming decline had
brought the rate down to ~ per 1000.
r decrease Of S,2 from TIE 1901 rate.
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In Austria inR the. same period the
decrease was "a; Switzerland, 5;
England AZ; Netherlands, AZ; Scot.
land, A; Sweden, 80; France 80; Den
mark, 81; Spain. 80; Hungary, Is;
Italy, 0.S.
The lowest birthrate tabulated was
that in police district Of Berlin,
which showed figures Of 1884 per 1000
In 1913. 81
8 1t Is notable that in Catholic prov.
inces and states the decrease is
much less than in Protestant parts of
the Republic. Protestant statisticians
declare that the Catholic institution
of Confession exerts a favorable in
fluence on the birthrate. Furthermore,
the entire Catholic viewpoint of life,
which looks upon this world merely
as a preparation for the hereafter,
and which has it's basis in firm re-
lance in future state, furnishes an
unusually strong protection against
the vices in smaterialism.
These ominOus facts of the down
ward curve in the German birthrate
have been well established in a recent
book by Herr Mssbender, a Catholic
member of the Reichstag, called ''The
Determination of the German People
to Live" (Horder, Fribourg).
This book does not restrict itself to
the question of how to increase the
birth rate, but forms compendium of
most invaluable information on life
statistics. Catholics of Germany have
been pleased to call it the most com.
prehensive national and popular work
on vital statistics from an economic,
social and moral, viewpoint that has
appeared in Germany.
Two prominent non-Catholic author
tiles on the subject have praised the
book highly. Councillor Seeberg OF
Berlin University, well known evan
gelistic theologian, declares in his
work THE Reformation" that it is
the best work on such statistics that
Germany possesses, and DR.. Christians
does not hesitate to say, in periodi
cal of the Central Institute for Ma
tionaI Welfare, that the work of Fass
bender is not only to be considered as
a sign of the times, but must be wei
coined as a portent of new era
Many German bishops have recon-
mended Herr Fassbender's work, not
only for parish libraries, but as an ex
cellent treatise to be used in priests
conferences.
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CHILD WHO CAUSED A WAR.

The discovery that Mary Winches-
ter, who when only six years of age,
was the cause of the Lushais war, is
still alive, has aroused the greatest
interest.
She was abducted by the natives of
northern Assam, and when the fight
ing. was over it was found that the
chiefs of the Lushais had almost del
fed her, and they pleaded with the
British officers to be allowed to keep
her to become the head of the tribe.
Mary's father was native of Elgin,
and belonged to one of the leading
county families in Morayshire. When
the story of the Lushai outrage reach
ed Elgin it caused great CONSERVATION,
and the M. P. for Moray and Nairn
raised the matter in the house of COM
mons and took it further-even to
Queen Victoria herself. So it came
about that the punitive force was sent
against the Lushais. On receipt of
the news that Mary Winchester had
been rescued and was alive and we'll,
Elgin gave itself up to riot of re.
joicing, and later still, on her arrival
at her grandparents home, the whole
town made holiday to welcome her.
Prior to travelling north Mary had
the honor of being received by Queen
Victoria. The little maid, despite the
fact that she had changed her native
dress for European attire, was then
and for some considerable time after
ward of a dark almond color wher-
ever her skin had been exposed to the
tropical sun Of Assam.
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BEES swIFTER THAN PIGEONS.

There is story to the effect that
farmer in Westphalia laid a wager
that IL bees of his, released at a dis
lance of three miles from their hives,
would travel as rapidly as a like num-
Der Of pigeons over the same course
The first bee, properly powdered for
purposes of identification, did, as a
matter of fact, arrive at it's hive a
quarter of a minute before the com.
ing OF the first pigeon to it's cote; and
there were three other bees that came
in before the second pigeon arrived.
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JOHN RUskiN's TRIBUTE TO THE
IRISH PEOPLE,.

/. In a letter written to London
paper, a few years before his death,
the late John Ruskin said
In your recent articles. on the
Irish question, you have taken no
notice of certain peculiarities of the
Irish race which, imagine, you know
as well as | do. and yet, by unlucky
chance, you hitherto, ignore them.
Would it not be well to take some
account of the following ineradicable
virtues of theirs in our schemes for
their management?
First, they are an artistic people,
and can design beautiful things, and
execute them with indefatigable In
dustry.
Secondly, they are a witty people,
and can by no means be governed
by aewitless one.
Thirdly, they are an affectionate
people and can by no. means be gov
'erned on scientific principles by
heartless persons