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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-05-15

ing the oasis towns where the plague
is at its worst.
The plague has not affected the
adult population to the same extent
as it has the children as yet, but it
is feared with the approach of the hot
months the disease will become even
more widespread. The filth of the
oasis towns and the uncovered camel
markets breed countless millions of
flies even during the winter months,
and these are believed to carry the
germs of the granular trachoma with
which the Arabian children are in
The work of the White Fathers and
the White Sisters in Africa has in
creased greatly in extent since the for
mer order was founded under the pat
ronage of Cardinal Lavigerie in 1858
for the immediate purpose of taking
care of the Arabian children left
orphans by the famine of 1857 and for
the wider purpose of educating and
Christianizing the children of the
Northern Africa districts. In 1909 the
order had 1875, 900 neophytes in all it's
vicariates and there were ISL ,4S0 pre-
pairing for baptism.
The White Fathers have associated
with them a lay brotherhood, which
devotes it's attention to teaching agri-
culture and trades to the young blacks
The White Sisters came into exis-
tence at the instance of Cardinal La
vigerie and are formally designated
as the Missionary Sisters of Our Lady
of Africa The general character of
their work is related by a young New
York girl who joined their number, as
follows:
Here in Northern Africa we cannot
openly teach our holy religion, but
we labor on in spite of many difficult
ties, endeavoring to improve the girls
and women who willingly frequent our
workrooms. We teach them plain
sewing, carpet weaving, embroidery
and lacework. Thus they are enabled
to earn small sum every week, the
salary varying according to their abil-
ity.
Many of our Sisters have returned
from France where they had been en-
gagged as Red Cross nurses during the
war We hope to open new stations
if we can get the means. If the bene-
factors would like to spread the Cos
pei amongst our negroes they can do
so quite easily by adopting a Sister Of
Our Lady of Africa or by contribut-
ing to establish mission stations
Sister Mary Xaverinc, the writer of
the letter, is an rishAmcrican, but
many French-Canadian young ladies
have joined the order, since a Postl-
late was first opened in Canada fiji
teen years ago.
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THROUGH THE BODY TO THE
SOUL.

Bishop Chapuis, P. F. NJ, of the Do
cese of Kumbakonam says of the ac-
companying letter:
Il recommend with all my heart the
work undertaken by Rev. J. Ligeon.
The good done will surely be very
great. Therefore the enterprise is
worth being encouraged and helped
Father Ligeon writes: In India
alone there are more than three hun.
dred millions that do not know our
dear Lord. In the district of Attur. d
vast field is open to the zeal of the
Catholic missionary. | am lost as it
were in the midst of 100000 pagans
with my little flock of 1000 Catholics
who are scattered in the many villages
in one of the largest districts of the
Kumbakonam mission.
For the past six years ! have often
sighed over the unhappy lot of the
heathens whose endless prejudices
ligion and who live and die without
giving thought to the true God and
the kingdom He has prepared for them
l would get to their souls through their
bodies and win them by kindness anG
charity. But l find myself sadly handi
| capped by the prejudices of caste and
the aversion that Indians feel for Eu
| ropeans, so that l can meet only few
directly.
Dear friends, you can take me tC
the hearts of those thousands of pa
gans by short and easy road. Al
| one blow you can destroy their preju
dices, gain their good will, hasten
their conversion and secure for your
self rich heavenly reward. Help me
in founding in my district a dispens
airy under the care of two or three
Jealous Sisters of the Order of the
Missionary Catechists of Mary I'm
| maculate.
'These good Sisters will care for al
patients who present themselves. viii
distribute, free of charge, medicines
| etc. At this dispensary they will meet
the mothers of ailing children and in
this way will be enabled to administer
baptism to many a little soul at the
point of DEATH
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IF YOU CAN'T GIVE FIVE THOU.
SAND DOLLARS GIVE ONE
DOLLAR.

Chefoo is in Shantung, China, and
one of the missionaries in a district
there, Father Marcel Cormerais, states
that about five thousand dollars would
be required to put his post in good
practical working order. He has not
the slightest hope or expectation OF
getting this amount, so he humbly
begs for even the smallest aims.
What the mission needs:
Chapel.
School
Catechumenate.
Priests residence.
The Father has lived so long in a
wretched native hut that his health is
failing. The other poor hut that
serves as chapel cannot hold half the
Christians, so they stay at home. OF
course nothing can be done for the chill
dren without school. So there is
Father Cormerais' case in nutshell
He ends his letter with this quantity
worded message to possible benefac-
tors:
"May God inspire them to relieve
my distress. They shall receive for it
the hundredfold, and perform their
own salvation surely. He indeed who
saves the soul of his brother, will not
lose his own"
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Protestant church and ask who is the
greatest man of America they would
point to the fine, the noble gentle
man we know as the greatest of men
in America, Cardinal Gibbons; and
were to ask you who were the finest,
the sweetest of women you would an
swer the Sisters of Charity and the
Sisters of Mercy. They showed no
regard to creed or color when doing
their kind deeds. They awaited no
reward but only the recognition that
they are doing Gods work in Gods
way. And so today it gives me pleas
ure to come among you and to say
word in commentator of this institu-
ton and this splendid affair. We owe
debt to these men who did so noble
a service in our behalf. When the
war started one of the greatest tasks
we had to do was to teach the peo-
pie that it is better to give than it is
to receive, and it was more blessed to
give than to receive, and now these
boys were ready to give up their lives
and ask for nothing in return. But
we demand of you that you stand to-
gether and do your little bit in some
material way to show your apprecia-
ton for their actions.
'In this clubhouse, constituted of
seven councils and a women's auXil-
larry of over 500, l am sure that each
and every one of you are going to
thank yourselves that you have had
the opportunity of showing this ap-
probation by helping and making this
bazaar one grand success. | wish you
Godspeed in your undertaking"
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tracks. She hurried down the track
until she heard the train behind her
Standing beside the rails, in snow to
her ankles, she saw the locomotive
rush by, with it's glare of light it's
shrek, its sparks. Then she took the
track again. The aching spread to
her knees, then her hips: finally it
ceased, leaving her feet like wooden
crutches. She knew about frozen feet
people sometimes lose a foot from
being out in the cold. But she did not
think, them of her own feet.
Then the train whistled at Wood
| dale and let Off two passengers. Janet
had reached the edge of the village;
she pushed her way. on her queer
wooden feet, across a vacant lot, climb,
ed some steps and pushed open the
door of the hotel.
Take the baby" she cried. for her
knees doubled under her. Get doc,
tor-its her foot
The landlady screamed Some one
ran to wake a doctor in the hotel
They hurried Janet to the parlOr sofa
| and fell to rubbing her feet with snow
You surely do favor your grand
| MAJ. exclaimed the landlady, as she
| rubbed.
"Why, isn't She Janet began, and
just then the Haydens ran downstairs
"Therc's not thing wrong with the
baby's foot Mr.. Hayden called
You must have put iodine on it in
stead of arnica, Janet; that's why il
turned dark"
You blessed child. / hope you
haven't frozen your own feet" Mrs
Hayden exclaimed.
"They aren't frozen - but it's a
close call for EN-"
The landlady retired, with her par
of snow; and Janet curled her feet
under her skirt Then, bending over
she drew on the dry stocking to hide
| the left foot.
"You love the baby too much" sale
| Mrs. Hayden.
why, so | dol do love Dorothy
| said Janet with a smile.
| Mrs. Hayden had perched on the
| arm OF the sofa. Janet" she whis
| nered, Il went to the city TODAY t.
make sure-did you guess, that
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-05-15
WHITE SISTERS OF SAHARA DIES.
ERT SAVING CHILDREN.

Heroic efforts are being made by
the White Sisters of the Sahara to
save their little charges among the
Arabian children from a plague of
blindness that is sweeping the oasis
towns of the Sahara desert. Already
thousands have lost their sight.
Eight out of ten children are being
affected, and with the services of
the French military doctors required
to prevent the spread of the disease
among the French colonial troops, the
burden of the fight to save the chill.
dren has fallen upon the White Sis
tiers.
With Biskra, the Garden of Allah
oasis, as their headquarters, the Sis
ters tour the desert on camels, visit
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could have you. And when | took
Dorothy--though | do not love her,
really meant to have you BOTH
sob, listen. I've never been sure
the little blue-eyed baby they found
was really Louise's own. Today
have been asking about you. And
even father thinks that maybe I'm
right.
you were a flood baby, too" she
went on, land the laundreSs of the
hotel asked for you at first, but
afterwards had to send you to
home" She paused. Il didn't look
up that laundrcss," she owned Mrs
Hayden did not really believe her
own fairy story, but she wanted to
believe it-and so she had been
afraid to question the laundress.
Janet lifted shining eyes. 1t was
too wonderful that the big thing had
come at last,
Put on my glass SLIPPERS Janet"
said the old lady. They were blue
slippers, trimmed Indian fashion, with
beads, that looked like glass. But |
don't suppose you can get them on
she added. Our folks have odd feet"
look of establishment came into
her face. why, child, they fit like
gloves." She caught the stocking
from Janet's left foot.
ooh, don't" the girl implored. Was
that foot to change everything sec
ond time? 'Don't-plcase."
Mrs. Hayden screamed. She had
seen the instep. Smiling family, Janet
drew her poor foot away.
Child, that's a Barker FOOT"
Il didn't know Janet said shakily,
that it was called that"
81 mean that foot runs in the Barker
family-my family. l have it, Louise
had it."
Mrs. Hayden turned, Father, I'm
not afraid any longer to find that
laundress. Go, now, and telephone the
detectives"
The lawyers claimed all the credit
afterwards for finding that the girl
was the Hayden's own flesh and blood.
But her grandmother used to say, with
a little. wry face: where would they
have been without the Barker foot
and my glass slipper
-Ma. lam Gaus, IN Pastu 9 OBS, Yve,.
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LAYING IN SUPPLIES.

Just about this time, Father de LIE
zey, who has charge of the Leper Asy-
lum at Gotemba, Japan, must lay in
supplies for the year. The provisions
consist chiefly of rice, but that does
not make buying any easier because
the rice is over four times dearer than
formerly and his income, alas, not four
times greater.
Who will help pay for the three hun
dred sacks of rice needed to feed the
helpless lepers of Gotemba, the out
casts of mankind? FIR. de Lezey writes
that he feels assured great blessings
will fall on those who remember these
helpless creatures already so afflicted
and spare them the pangs of hunger
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whispering to him. And a wild hope
caught at her heart.
But, my DEAR" he murmured, you
couldn't adopt a girl as old as that
Janet, the head nurse said,
abruptly, please go and get Dorothy.
Dorothy was beautiful year-anda-
half-old girl, with hair the color of
dandelions. She gurgled and crowed
and laughed her way into every heart.
And it was not strange that Louise's
mother found that she could love one
strange baby-at least.
The first papers were taken out that
day. and Dorothy was bundled off in
hired automobile to the Hayden
cottage in the mountains, a mile from
village called Wooddale. And be-
cause she was used to caring for Dor
othy, Janet went with them-to stay
until they returned to the east for
the winter.
1t was lovely fall weather, and
Janet had never seen the mountains
before. For few days she was very
happy. Then came a Rocky Noun.
tain snowstorm.
This cottage is too thin for cold
weather; we must start east at once
Mr.. Hayden said.
And while Janet listened, they fell
to talking about their home. 1t is al
ways hard to hear people talk of a
Journey that you are not to take. The
old man pinched his wife's cheek.
Glow does it feel to be going home
with d granddaughter
+ 81
Something rose in Janets throat
and choked her. Her cheeks burned,
and then she looked into her heart
and it frightened her.
Did she really hate Dorothy? Was
she wicked enough to hate that sweet
white, laughing baby? Trembling
hard-she took Dorothy from Mrs
Haydens arms and held her close and
tried to love her as she had always
loved babies! But she could not.
Mrs. Hayden was starting for the
city to do some shopping before their
journey. "Good-by, JANET"
Janet could have cried out, Don't
kiss me-"
Pit Hrc. Hrvaen did kiss h"r GOOD,
:, Two toardrops, large and
fought their way between Janet 5
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thick eyelashes, and chung like dew
She bent her bead over Dorothy.
you don't think, Janet there's any
inflammation about that dear little
foot? | noticed that it was swollen
but it doesn't seem red
Janet shook her head
Take good care of her, dear. Well
get into Wooddale on the night train
and stay in the hotel till morning.
All day Janet watched over the baby
and tried to keep from thinking wick
ed thoughts At dark she bathed the
child's wee, hurt foot with some stuff
from a bottle and tucked her into hcl
crib. The house was very still-Janet
could hear the cook, sound asleep, in
the next room. At last she grew
drowsy and slept; but awakened sud
denly. After all, had she taken good
care of Dorothy? She had not exam
med the little foot: she had merely
bathed it with arnica. Lighting the
lamp, she turned down the crib blank
cts. The little foot had turned quite
dark. Standing still, Janet tried tt
think what to do. She ought to have
got doctor hours before! There was
no telephone, no neighbor. She threw
on some clothing, but could find nc
buttonhook, and so slipped her feet
into her rubbers. Then she knocked
on the wall.
MRS. O'Hagan.' she shouted, 81 an
going to carry Dorothy into Wooddale
to the doctor--her foot is all black"
The cook would have gone with her
but she was old and stout and could
not walk fast. Janet lost no time
Wrapping Dorothy in blankets, she rar
out into the night. Just beyond theil
cottage was the level place where
Janet had been teaching Dorothy tc
walk alone the day thorn ran through
the little white-kid slipper
at was all my fault. Poor little foot
darling little FOOT"
And now, as Dorothy lay in hel
arms, all her love for the child rushed
back. How Dorothy's sweet underliI
had quivered when the thorn went in
Janet kissed her through the blankets
Dorothy seemed fast asleep in hel
"".r - nc"hnns she was in (
Janet took fresh alarm. anC
. l4eu down the last hill to the railway
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THE GLASS SLIPPER

Twice .Janet's foot changed her.
whole life. The first time she was
eight years old, slender child with
a pointed chin and thick, brown
black braids that hung to her
waist.
Nice hair remarked the visit
ing lady.
Janet's heart pounded stormily; for
to be adopted was the big. beautiful
thing for which all little girls at the
home were longing.
she looks delicate"
Janet trembled. Once before she had
been rejected because she "looke j
delicate.'
But I'd say" resumed the Wis
itor, "she might have tempera-
ment"
Janet could bear no more. She
crept nearer and whispered: Il
haven't got temperament; you can
| try wiz a Thermometer"
And suddenly she understood that
| the lady had decided to take her
| on trial. Joy clutched at her heart
and made her dance about the
| home and sing-and at the same
| time almost hurt, SO afraid was she
| of losing it.
| But as she was changing her fiat
uniform shoes for others, the lady
| saw her foot. 1t was a pretty little
| foot, as nimble as a squirrels, but
one instep was little different from
the other. The lady could not say
why she minded-but she did not
like Janet's foot.
| So Janet stayed on at the home
In all the years afterwards she
never let anyone see that odd little
| foot.
Now she was seventeen, and in q
year they would send her out as q
housemaid. She was clever and d
| great reader-thc head nurse said
that it was pity she could not be
educated. She was too old to be
adopted, she thought. But one day
the big thing came near again. The
visiting lady was small and slight
with pointed chin and white hair
Janet heard her whisper to hel
husband.
Notice that girl. She looks like
| Louise!"
| Louise was our daughter he
told the nurse. "You remember the
| flood that swept this region years
ago? Louise was in the ruins oil
| n hot n1-Uyifh IoI u,
girl" " ..=
Janet went on polishing the
woodwork.
eve hadn't spoken with her il
years. he added sadly. And We
had never seen her baby girl. They
were all three sent to us-after
| wards"
Janet felt a thrill, for she could
guess the story. Louise had mar
ried against their wishes.
Ever since Louise-died," softly
resumed the lady, 1--WE meant tc
adopt baby girl"
shes visited dozens of homes
but they can't suit her, put in the
old man.
81 know it's my wicked heart
But 1 just keep craving my owr
flesh and blood, and can't love E
strange baby enough"
He laughed with a gruff tender
ness. "You have to tell us abou
your wicked heart-we'd neve
know
Then-Janet saw the old lad,
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STARVATION AND MISERY IN
PERSIA.

With this letter from Father Frans-
sen, C. NJ, of Tauris, Persia, comes a
photograph showing group of sad
faced children, survivors of the ter
rible massacres. The innocent vic
tins appeal to the beholder and we
know they have witnessed horrors al
most beyond belief The letter:
1.-THE picture sent is of orphans for
the most part found by our Sisters of
Charity after the massacre Of 1918.
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Never shall we know Gods adorable
goodness till we contrast it with our
own contemplate meanness-Fathey
Elliott, c. S. p.
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Without God man is nothingness
and loses sight of the good in the
sinner.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-09-20

increased efficiency of operation in
o number of them; he told how 1t
operates in the matter Of managing
the newsboys and distributing the
papers. et Z
Under present conditions the three
newspapers have three sets Of news
boys to distribute the papers over
town. There is one certain set of
subscribers scattered all over town
that take one paper, but do not take
the other and the newsboys have to
know those places and find them.
There is set of subscribers scat
tered all over town who take the
second paper, but do not take the
first one and that set of newsboys
has to find those places and make
deliveries. Among the three sets of
newsboys in their deliveries, some
thing is delivered wrong all the
time, somebody is being missed, prac-
tically every day, and there is the
constant annoyance and trouble
about it by both the publisher, the
time, somebody is being missed prac-
tically everybody in the town takes
one paper or the other and If the
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-09-20

one who prevented the consolida ton
Of the three would thereby stand in
the way of the community having
the morning daily on the improved
plan contemplated by the promoters
of consolidation. The consolidators,
he said, would not undertake the
larger venture, unless they had the
endorsement Of the plan by the adj
vertisers and their agreements to
concentrate their advertising on the
consolidation paper, for year and
quarter, and that any loophole
which provided the opportunity for
a competitor to cut in and split the
business within the first year and
quarter, would cripple the enter
prise, and without Such assurance in
the form of advertising contracts
from the advertisers of the town,
they would not take the risk of the
larger venture.
MIR. Biethan Speaks II
E Mr.. Biethan asked why it would
not be we'll to apply the same princi-
pies to all other lines. He was deal
ing in furniture himself, and he
would be very well pleased to have
people contract to use a certain
amount Of furniture and to agree
to buy it OF the consolidation, IL he
and his competitors consolidated. II
it was GOOD thing, why should not
the furniture men consolidate and
have orders signed up by the people
agreeing to take certain amount
of goods in certain length of time.
He did not see any difference in the
two propositions.
Continued next issue)
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-09-20

proposed to adopt the advertising
schedule Of prices that has already
been agreed upon and adopted by the
national association OF advertisers
and the national association of con-
sumers Of advertising, rate emin-
emily fair because adopted by both
sides of the market. He said that If
anybody came along with a sound
proposition offering to sell them
merchandise Of little better quality
than they are getting, and deliver il
to them at the time they want it and
at about half the cost they have been
paying, he believed they would all
be interested. He said that advertis-
ing in the small towns and many oil
the large towns and cities had never
been put on an efficient basis as mer.
chandising and manufacturing and
people do not really realize what
they are missing by having the com.
,petitive operations among the news
Npers. He read a list of the thirty.
nine different kinds of expenditures
that are being wasted under the
present condition and as an example
Of what the saving would be, and the
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-09-20
MERCHANTS TALK
CONSOLIDATION
One Man Opposes An
other Ridicules
Proposition

At the meeting of te retail mer-
chants association on Thursday
evening, Mr.. Trego addressed the
meeting on the subject of consolida-
ton Of newspapers. He said that
advertising was one of the commod-
tiles which they buy either in retail
or in wholesale and that Aif- the
Blackfoot newspapers consolidated,
they would be able to buy their ad-
vertising at about half the cost they
are now paying. A unit Of advertis-
ing which now costs them 80 cents
can be obtained, under the consolida-
ton, at a price ranging somewhere
from 40 to As cents. He said they