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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-12-18

of Jesus, Himself, said to him, Mar
tin, you have wished to see Me.
Watch the street tomorrow from morn
window. But you must try your best
to recognize Me, for 1 shall not make
Myself known to you"
When he awoke next morning,
Father Martin, convinced that what
ha had dreamed would surely take
place, fastened to put his shop in or
der, lighted his fire, drank his coffee,
and then seated himself at the win
dow to watch the passersby. He had
often seen the picture of Jesus in the
churches, so he felt sure he would
know Him when he went by.
The first person he saw was a poor
street sweeper, who was, trying to
warm himself-for it was bitter cold.
Poor man." said Martin to himself.
"He must be very cold. Suppose l
offer him a cup of coffee
He tapped on the window and called
to the man, who did not have to be
urged to accept the steaming coffee
After watching in vain for an hour
Martin saw young woman, miserably
clothed, carrying baby. She was SO
pale and thin that the heart of the
poor cobbler was touched, and he call
ed to her. You don't look very well, -
he said.
81 am going to the hospital re-
piled the woman. Il hope they will
take me in with my child My hus-
| band is at sea, and I've been expect
| ing him home for three months. I'm
sick and haven't SOU
Poor thing" said the old man.
you must eat some bread while you
are getting warm. No? Well, take a
cup of milk for the little one Come
| warm yourself, and let me take the
baby. Why! You haven't put his
shoes on"
"He hasn't any" sighed the poor
| woman.
Wait a minute. l have pair that
| will just suit"
And the old man brought the shoes
| which he had looked at the evening
| before, and put them on the child's
feet. They fitted perfectly. The
young woman went away full of graft
tude, and Father Martin went back to
his post.
Hour after hour passed by, and al
though many people passed the win
dow, the Master did not come. When
| it grew dark, the old man sadly began
| to prepare his humble supper. at
| was a dream he murmured. well
| did hope. But He has not come"
| After supper he fell asleep in his
| chair. Suddenly the room seemed full
| of the people whom he had aided dur
| ing the day, and each one asked him
| in turn, Have you not seen Me?'
But who are you?' cried the shoe
| maker to all these visions.
Then the little Child pointed to the
| Bible on the table, and His rosy fin
| ger showed the old man this passage
| Il was hungry and ye gave Me meat
was thirsty and we gave Me drink
| was a stranger and ye took me in
| Verify / say unto you, inasmuch as ye
| have done it unto one of the least Of
these my brethren, ye have done il
unto Me-
| From, fhe'FJench of CoDDee.
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IN SANTA CLAUS LAND.

There are no strikes in Santa Claus
Land,
And Christmas will come as of old,
And Christmas trees will glow bright
and grand.
All tinse1led with silver and gold :;
The world may be in tangled skein,
And troubles may pinch and
abound,
But Christmas joys will waken again,
AS old Santa Man makes his round.
Away above where the clouds hang
high,
There's a factory that never stops,
And there amid the bright and blue
sky, 49,.
They are making dollies and tops;
All sorts of fancy and pretty things,
Soon will here be finding the way,
And no matter what Santa Claus
brings,
There is joy ON the Christmas day.
There are no strikes in Santa Claus
Land,
So don't be a'worrying folks,
The Christmas season will be on hand,
With all it's great pleasures and
hopes:
And this old, old, world will be ablaze
With happiness, plenty and cheer,
To brighten our ways and light our
days 81
With those whom we have and hold
dear.
Old Santa never worries for coal,
He has all the heat that he wants
And everywhere from North to South
Pole,
He will come with his same old
pranks.
His RENDERS slick he has laid aside,
And up to the minute in speed,
With his packs and traps he takes his
ride,
And tries to fill every ones need
John G.. Winter.
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last of the unwelcome tasks that his
trip had imposed upon him. Twas
little wonder he refused to stay over.
night at Mrs. Hegartys and suffer
another day here.
He would spend the night at old
Lanty McFadden's, the man from
whom he was to get the necessary
genealogical information-and Mrs.
Hegarty's post-car was to be out to
take him away from there at eight
o'clock in the morning. He had been
pleased to hear from Mrs. Hegarty
that Lanty was still alive-because
no other in the mountain was so well
versed in local genealogy and could
so surely supply him with the infor-
nation he needed. Lanty, more by
the same token, was the paternal
grandfather of Oracle Brennan. Poor
Oracle, he learned, had married Peter
Brennan of the Moor, less than two
months after he left Ireland-and
died, in childbirth, less than year
later.
Looking around as he went, he
saw the country side somber and still
in the faint light of the stars that
studded the clear heavens on this
frosty night. The memory of just
such nights, many, many of them,
came dimly to him. The many lights
that twinkled on the hillside and in
the valley, the lights of the poor
c.fr 70 ri
he had seen them yesterday. Only,
why were there SO many more of
them, and SO vastly brighter than in
the picture which memory conjured
up. But before many minutes the puz-
zle was made plain to him as, the
leaves of his memory gradually un-
folding like rose to the new day,
he remembered the, custom of the
Christmas candle. Yes, yes, on Christ
mas Eve every family commemorative
a pitiful but yet glorious far-off night
in Nazareth, with prayer set light
ed candle in the window, to attract
and guide the steps of any wandering
homeless ones who might otherwise
vainly seek for a place to lay their
head
And this awoke another memory
1t was on beautiful frosty Christ
mas Eve-just such one as this
that, travelling the same mountain
road, the radiant face and witching
dark eyes of Oracle Brennan, Lit up
by the Christmas candle which she
was placing in her mothers window,
had first fascinated him
Well, well. well. That was in an
other life. And to think that nova
hundred years after--it must be
hundred-he should be footing the
same mountain road on apparently
| the same Christmas Eve. and on the
very same kind of night. But with
such different soui In such differ
| emit body! Such a different person
-. 1Contlnue6 On page g.
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THE LEAST OF THESE.

Not long ago there lived in the city
of Marseilles an old shoemaker, loved
and honored by all his neighbors, who
called him Father Martin" One
Christmas Eve, Father Martin, who
had been reading the story of the
three wise men who brought their
gifts to the Infant Jesus, said to him
self:
IF only tomorrow were the first
Christmas day and the Savior were
coming to this world tonight, how
would serve and adore Him. I know
very well what I would give Him."
He arose and took from shelf two
little shoes. Here is what l would
give Him; my finest work. How
pleased His mother would be.
But what am | thinking OFF, he con-
timed, smiling Does the Savior
need my poor shop and my shoes"
But that night Father Martin had
a dream. He thouglt that the voice
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his head to the hills, the queerest kind
and twenty years Git seemed a cen.
tury) that had elapsed since he trod
this road before. sort of fell on him,
and an eerie feeling which he secuted,
but couldn't shake off, gripped him.
His boyhood in ireland was long
closed book to him. He was only
eighteen when he left-but yet big
young man-aye, and handsome.
Oracle Brennan with whom he was
frantically in love and who liked him,
even if she didn't love him, in return,
had sighted him he thought at the big
dance in PARA Mor's-given him the
go-by for her namesake, Peter Bren:
nan, of the head of the glen. He left
the dance and left the country with
out even saying goodbye to Oracle, or
to neighbor or friend He had none
of his own left to say goodbye to. He
landed in Boston, hurried forth to find
some place where there would be no
Irish, settled down in little New
Hampshire town, hired as a general
helper to an old Yankee storekeeper
there, who soon adopted him-and
when he died left him the store and a
little pile, besides And in the twelve
years since his patrons death, Dennis
Kilbride had added to the pile. And
he had finally sold out his concern ad-
vantageously, expecting to begin to en-
joy life.
But alas for the vain expectation
To his evaporation he found that he
couldn't force enjoyment from his
withered soul-if he had a soul left
that is. The dried up Yankee life he
had lived, his roots rudely torn from
the old kindly and congenial soil and
set down in soil all arid, had failed
to provide him with spiritual susie
nance. Now he had money and plen-
ty of it--but nothing more. Boyhood
and it's beautiful memories had gone.
The spirit of his country didn't whis-
per to his soul. His religion was for
twenty years forgotten Since his fit
of madness over Oracle Brennan he
had been woman-hater. and, despite
a manly, handsome figure, was now at
thirty-nine a dried up old bachelor,
without wife or child. or friend or kin.
He found to his utter surprise that in
the market for happiness gold had no
more purchasing power than the with
cred leaves into which it turned in
the old fairy tale. He had pur-
chased Cooks ticket to the famous
places of the. Contine1t-like he had
known other Yankees to do, who were
seeking happiness after-and only aft.
er-they had ceased seeking money.
But oh. he was deadly sick and tired
of going the rounds of famous places
land was now heartily thankful that
it was all over. and that he was finally
on his way to New Hampshire, to-to
to--oh, just to exist, This compal
sorry visit to Ireland and to the old
mountain home was, thank God, ths
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A merry Christmas will be yours
if you give to the Lord in the person
of His poor.
A merry Christmas will be yours if
you bring your best society manners
to the home circle
A merry Christmas will be yours if
you can say, Thy will be DONE" and
mean it.
A merry Christmas will be yours if
you begin the day in the-spirit of the
Sacraments.
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STOCKINGS FOR CHRISTMAS
ONLY.

The Christmas stocking as general
~ known is one taken from the bureau
supply for daily wear. In certain
parts of the country, however, the
Christmas stocking is never in use eX-
cept to be hung from the chimney
with care The New England stock
ing of this kind is usually long in the
leg and knitted from wooden yarn.
There are stockings on Cape Cod
which have been used by four genera,
lions of children. Once emptied of
their treasure on Christmas morning
they are rolled up and marked and
laid away for the next years festivi.
ties.
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THE STABLE AT bethlehem.

There is an old tradition which
speaks of the actual birthplace of our
Lord being a cave in the rocks. st.
Paula, writing to Marcella at Rome,
from Bethlehem, in the fifth century,
says, 1T is in a assure of the rocks
that the Architect of the Firmament
was born, grotto shown in
Bethlehem. This tradition is in &C
cordance with the scripture, for such
caves were and are used as stables in
the East, sometimes with the addition
of doors or a shed in front.
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SONG OF THE SHEPHERDS.
From a Medieval Anthology.

From a Medieval Anthology.
Terly terlow, terly terlow,
So merrily the shepherds began to
blow! -
About the field they piped full right,
1t was the middle of the night;
Adown from Heaven there came a
light.
Terly, terlow.
Angels there came a company
With merry songs and melody;
The shepherds anon gan them aspy.
Terly, terlow.
The shepherds hied them to Bethle-
hem,
To see that Blessed Some Beam;
And there they found the Worlds
Light-stream.
Terly, terlow.
Now pray we to that young meek
Child
And to His mother fair and mild,
Whose maidenhood was ne'er defiled.
Terly, terloW.
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WHAT MAKES A MERRY
CHRISTMAS?

A merry Christmas will be yours if
you forget yourself in service to your
neighbor.
A merry Christmas will be yours if
you keep within your means by not
yielding to love of display in the
giving of gifts.
2 IA merry Christmas win be yours
If You do not live in enmity with your
neighbor, nor gossip about the kinks
in his character. $500.
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SALTS IF BACKACHY
AND KIDNEYS HURT
Stop Eating Meat for a While u
Your Bladder 10 Troubling
You.

When you wake up with backache
and dull misery in the kidney region 1t
generally means you have been eating
too much meat. says n well-known au-
thority. Meat forms uric acid which
overwOrks the kidneys In their effort
to filter 1t from the blood and they be-
come sort of paralyzed and loggy.
When your kidneys get sluggish and
clog you must relieve them, like you
relieve your bowels; removing all the
body's urinous waste, else you have
backache, sick headache, dizzy spells;
your stomach sours, tongue is coated.
and when the weather Is bad you have
rheumatic twinges. The urine Is
cloudy, full of sediment. channels
often get sore, water scalds and you
are obliged to seek relief two or three
times during the night.
Either consult good, reliable physi-
clan ut once or get from your pharma-
cist about four ounces of Jad Salts;
take a tablespoonful in glass OF
water before breakfast for a few
days and your kidneys will then act
fine. This famous salts is made from
the acid of grapes and lemon juice
combined with lithia, and has been
used for generations to clean and
stimulate sluggish kidneys, also to
neutralize acids in the urine so 1t no
longer irritates. thus ending bladder
weakness.
Jad Salts Is life saver for regular
meat eaters. 1t is inexpensive, cannot
injure and makes delightful. effer-
yescent Whitewater drink.-Adv.
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museums department Of vertebrate
paleontology, gives some interesting
information concerning the pterodac-
ty1. He says: "From the standpoint
of dimensions 1t ranks as the largest
flying creature that has ever lived.
The skeleton Just mounted measures
sixteen feet from wing-tip to wing-tip.
and would have stretch Of nearly
twenty-one feet If the wings were pull
ed out straight.
'It is nearly all wings and head.
with little bit of body, slender
hind legs and n mere stump of tail.
G;ae head consists chiefly of long.
pointed beak and an equally long, bony
crest projecting backward.
"The wings were long and narrow
and composed of thin. leathery men,
brane like the wings of bats. But
they were stretched on the long ex-
tended fourth finger only. the other fin
gers being little rudimentary claws,
by which the animal probably hung
when at rest The wings were evil
IDENTIFY adapted to soaring flight like
that of the albatross. In fact, the
along this line that 1t must have been
singularly awkward and ungainly on
the ground Yet 1t must have come to
land at times for egg-laying purposes.
How 1t obtained its food Is something
of n problem. 1t was evidently wide
ranging ocean flyer, for the skeletons
are found in chalk and other marine
formations deposited in the open sea
often far from land"
The specimen just placed on exhi-
bltion, together with other fine speci-
mems. was obtained from the creta-
ceous chalk beds of the Smoky Hill
river of western Kansas. In the life of
the pternnodon this was part of n great
inland sea that stretched from the
Gulf Of Mexico far across the Canadian
border. The nearest shore line was
more than 40 miles to the southeast.
Westwardly the sea stretched across
the region where the Rocky noun
tains were later upheaved to yet
more distant shore. Over this vast
interior sen, deep and clear and
abOunding In marine life, the ptero-
dactyl must have ranged.
A careful investigation or the prob
lem in the light of modern aeronautl-
cal knowledge would yield very inter-
esting results. And, in turn. 1t seems
altogether probable that such re-
search would throw some light on the
more practical problems Of aeronau-
tics. For the pterodactyl. In so far as
we can Judge, approached much nearer
to the airplane in structure and prin-
cipIe of flight than any of the birds.
AS the most specialized and perfected
adaptation for soaring that has been
known, 1t may throw much light on the
principles OF soaring flight. which are
by no means yet fully understood or
agreed on.
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STOMACH TROUBLE and
CONSTIPATION ENDED
Suffered So He Couldn't Work for Q
Year, but Mr.. Mccormick Was
Cured Promptly.

IT had stomach trouble and constipa-
tfon for fve years. One year of this time
I was unable to work, suffering untold
agony. / doctored with some of the best
physicians, also took many proprietary
medicines. but could not find permanent
relief. Finally friend recommended
Milks Emulsion. The first few doses re-
lieved me greatly. and three bottles of It
effected permanent cure."-C. A. Nc
Cormick. Anderson. Ind.
Mr. Mccormick is only one of many
hundreds who have endured torture for
years and then found that Milks Emul-
sion gives blessed relief and real, lasting
benefit. 1t costs nothing to try.
Milks Emulsion is a pleasant. nutritive
food and a corrective medicine. 1t re-
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doing away with all need of pills and
physics. 1t promotes appetite and quickly
puts the digestive organs in shape to as
simulate food. AS a builder of flesh and
strength Milks Emulsion is strongly rec
commended to those whom sickness has
weakened. and Is a powerful aid in re-
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ing diseases. Chronic stomach trouble
and constipation are promptly relieved
usually in one day.
This Is the only solid emulsion made,
and so palatable that 1t is eaten with q
spoon like ice cream. Truly wonderful
for weak, sickly children.
No matter how severe your case. you
are urged to try Milks Emulsion under
this guarantee-Take six bottles homo
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and II not satisfied with the results your
money will be promptly refunded. Price
6Oc and $1.20 per bottle. The Milks Emul-
sion Co., Terre Haute, Ind. Sold by drug
gists everywhere.-Adv
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even the ancestors of all the higher
quadrupeds with which we are familiar
had yet come into being. Save for
those tiny quadrupeds or mammals,
so far as we know. in these marshes
and forests that bordered the great
central sea. Nor were birds, If there
were any at all, common enough to have
left their bones in the great reptilian
cemetery. Crocodiles there were
aplenty. and great turtles; various
sorts of fish and some peculiar kinds
of aquatic reptiles; and an occasional
plesiosaur or great sea-reptile made
its way up the rivers from the ocean.
But the chief inhabitants were dino
saurs, the lords of the swamp and
forest. great long-legged reptiles Of
strange and varied form.
The majority of them were herb
ivorous-brOwsing or grazing creatures
corresponding to the hoofed animals
of the modern world. OF these there
were chief kinds: the Horned Dino
saurs, big rhinoceros-like quadru-
peds; the Armored Dinosaurs, covered
with great bony plates from head to
tail. and the Duck-billed Dinosaurs.
which walked or ran upon the hind
legs and had no horns or armor. but
were excellent swimmers. Then there
were various kinds of carnivorOus
dinosaurs which preyed upon their
vegetarian relatives. All these were
bipeds, using their fore-feet only to
seize and tear their prey. and their
long tail to balance the body in run
ming. Some of these were huge and
powerful, others quite small and
speedy.
1t is only In recent years, and
through the explorations of such rich
fossil fields MS those of the Red Deer
river that we have come to know
much about this world of the Dino
saurs and to realize what 1t was like.
There Is very little in the text books
about these recent discoveries. Many
of them have not yet been published.
But the visitor Mt the Dinosaur hall
of the American museum of natural
history can see there surprising num-
ber and variety of these bizarre and
formidable beast, and will see many
more MS tne eApiofati"hS uhu eAhior
ton work of the museum continue.
The museum has also just placed
on exhibition skeleton of the great
toothless flying reptile pteranodon, an
extinct creature of the class known as
pterodactyls which fiourished In the
age of reptiles. many millions of years
ago. The remains We're found by Han
del T. Martin, curator of the geologi-
cal museum of Kansas university. It
Is believed to be the only mounted
specimen of .pteranodon in any Amer
lean museum. The British museum
also has mounted a.eleton of spec
linen found by Mr.. Martin several
years ago.
DIR. w. d. Matthew, curator of the
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mentioned In the Scriptures. The
Bible is In great part history Of the
family of Abraham and of one rather
contracted corner of the enrth, and
nowhere processes to instruct In de-
tails of chronological or any other sci.
ence except that Of theology. The
world has generally agreed to derive
the black races from Noah's son Ham.
the Mongolinns from Shem. and the
Caucasinns from Japheth and beyond
that (even in that all nr. not agreed)
It is not wise nor is 1t helpful to push
serious investigation
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BAD BREATH
Often Caused by
cid-St0n1ach

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