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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-02-14
DON'T LET LITTLE lRRlTATIONS
SPOIL YOUR LIFE.

There is a certain home where IN
DERIVING every act is the spirit Of un-
selfshness. The mother worships her
children, the children adore their
mother. Much trouble has come to
them, and they have sacrificed much.
All the big things they have fought
bravery, but the little things of life
they have not known how to meet
In that home there is constant fric-
ton. Perhaps it starts in the morning,
when the elder daughter is getting
ready for business. She cannot find
some article of wearing apparel and
she makes a fuss about it, and pres
emily she finds it just where she laid
it herself the night before, but in the
meanwhile she has spoken piece Of
her mind to the whole family.
Or, it may be that the coffee is not
strong enough to meet the approval of
the son, and there are hot words about
that Or. perhaps it may be the
younger daughter is late in getting up
and knows she will miss a car, and
bitter words follow
To one going into this home and
not understanding these people they
seemed utterly selfish. And yet they
are not There is not one member
who would not make any big sacrifice
for the other. In every reverse that
has come to them, and there have
been many, they have been wonder
Int
got into the bad habit of letting the
little troubles make them unhappy.
When there is so much that is beau
| tiful in life, so much that is ennobling,
| it seems pity to let these futile, fret
| ting pin pricks ruin ones day. IL
deed, it appears sometimes as if most
| lives are wrecked by the little things,
not by the big things that come as
| part of life's lessons.
A woman whose first years had
been strangely free from real trouble
| of any kind, but who had seen much
of tragedy after she was 80, said:
THE thing cannot understand, and
perhaps never will, is why l was not
| happier when | had the chance.
There was hardly anything to make
me unhappy, yet l was a most misera
| BILE person until real trouble came
along | can look back and remember
days when | went abort wrapped in
| tragedy because my gown had not
| been sent home from the dressmaker,
at just the time I wanted it, or be-
cause | had not received an invitation
| | had counted on, Or because my hus-
| band had forgotten that it was my
| birthday.
Il could always find something to
fret about in those days, something to
| grumble over, something to darken
| the horizon.
"Now that real sorrow has come to
| me the things that used to fret me
are as nothing. l have come to the
! conclusion that some people just like
to be miserable"
| Certain it is that people Go make
much misery for themselves, when
(, they might have happiness. 1t is so
useless-such waste of time--to fret
about trifles 1t is fault which can
and should be remedied.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-02-14
THE PESSIMIS

Our Uncle Dan was a mournful man
Designed on a dark and dismal plan
He counted grin kind Of sin,
And the world a place to be gloomy
in.
If days were fine. it was just a sign
That storms were brewing the most
malign,
If storms did come, he was just as
glum,
And said. There are worse in store,
by gum"
I've heard it said that the gloom
would spread
Like fog wherever he turned his
tread;
That the sun grew dim at the sign of
him,
And even the song birds lost their
vim.
He was old and gray when he passed
away
In his fOrtieth year one somber day.
Twas mean, | hold, that the clouds
unrolled
And the sun beamed out as his knell
was tolled
But still, I'd swear, when he climbed
the stair
And waited his turn at the wicket
there, -......-
That he scratched the date on the
Golden Gate
To see if the gold was merely plate
-E1rDey'S Ma00sine
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-02-14
INSIGNIA OF ANCIENT ORDER.

The caduceus, which was intro
duced in 1902 by Col. John Van R.
Hoff, M. c., u S. A, editor Of the
Military Surgeon, as part of the med
ical officers insignia, dates back 1000
years, according to F. H. Garrison,
NJ D., u S. A, writing in the Journal
of the American Medical Association.
For a number of reasons the serpent
was always the symbol of medicine
in antiquity. The Babylonians' ca
duceus, which as the insignia shows
today-two snakes entwined with
wings at the top of the staff-occurs
in Hittite remains 1t stands for an
actual serpent god, Ningishzida, who
as the special messenger of lShtar
was the awakener of life in the
springtime, and the Mesopotamian
prototype of the Greek Hermes. The
Romans had special functionary,
the caduceator, who was sort OF
peace commissioner. The caduceus
was used on the title pages of books
published by the famous medical
printer, Frobenius, in 1850 to 1927
The wand of Mercury" as it is some
called, was also carried by merchant
traders in ancient times, on excur:
sions where peaceful negotiations
were desired and they wanted to be
known as neutrals.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-02-14
SOME CELEBRATED MEMBERS OF
THE BAR

Joseph T. Brady C1S15-69). was
called the Curran of the New York
bar. Born an American, he was more
of a New Yorker than a Celt. He
| is said to have defended, during his
thirty-four years of practice. fifty cap
ital offenders, and saved all of his
clients. For the last twenty years of
his professional life he was inter
ested in nearly every big New York
| case, says a writer in the Catholic
| Citizen
John McSweeney GS24-90), of Ohio
was sometimes referred to as a
nephew Of O'Connell. He, was edu
Gated, as an orphan, at St. Xaviers
Cincinnati. About the close of the
Civil War he had acquired national
fame as a criminal lawyer. Of mag
nificent physique, six feet two inches
in height, with a resonant voice and
magnetic manner, his appearance in
the court room was always a local
event. Senator Brice Of Ohio, who
had heard Choate, Ingersoll and other
great orators, declared that none Of
them equalled McSweeney. Wendell
Phillips, also an admirer, cOmpi-
mented the legal strength of his argu
| ment. On one occasion, while he was
defending a woman at night session
of the court, the audience in the adj
| joining opera house deserted the play
to listen to McSweeney. His practice
made him the wealthiest lawyer in
his section of Ohio.
Soon after John F. Dillon ceased
to be chief justice of the Supreme
Court of Iowa, Edward G. Ryan be-
came chief justice of the Supreme
| Court Of Wisconsin. Ryan acquired
a reputation all over the west as
a keen lawyer and a master of in
vective in the Hubbeli and Booth
trials. Dillon's municipal Corpora
| tions" was styled by Judge Bradley
| of the U. S. Supreme Court, "a legal
classic" He left the bench to engage
in corporation law business, in which
he made fortune dying in 1910.
But, of course, the greatest of all
Irish-American lawyers was Charles
| O'Conor (1804-S4, whom some have
ranked as the ablest practitioner at
the American bar, and whose stand
ing certainly is on a par with Web
ster, Choate and Evarts.
Judge Curtis of the U. S. Supreme
Court, referring to the way Charles
O'Conor conducted the Forrest di-
yorce case, said that it was the most
remarkable exhibition of professional
skill ever witnessed in this country
And he had seen the performances of
Webster and Choate. At the memo
rial meeting of the New York bar,
held some time after Charles
O'Conor's death (1S84), leading
speaker said: Il believe it would be
the deliberate judgment of those who
had enjoyed close acquaintance with
Mr. O'Conor that he was, all
things considered, the profoundest
and best equipped lawyer that has
ever appeared at this bar, and that
he would not suffer in comparison
with the greatest lawyers of any ma
ton at any time"
This was spoken of the son of an
Irish immigrant who left his native
land because his race was deemed in
competent for the task of self-govern
ment
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-02-14
NEW DECALOGUE FOR MONEY
WORSHIPPERS.

A new Lords Prayer for gold pur
suing New Workers, two idols for
their devotional convenience and ten
commandments" prescribed by Nam
mon, were voiced by the Rev. John
Roach Straton on Sunday night, Jan
IS, in New York at the Calvary Bap.
fist church.
Here are Mammon's ten com
mandments":
Il. Thou shalt have no other gods
before me, for l have brought them
out from the Egypt of poverty and
want. l am a jealous god, and de
mand the first and best of your devo
ton and effort.
go Thou shalt not make unto thee
any craven image of any other god
Z +
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-02-14

ULSTER NOT RICHEST PROVINCE"
Rateable value per head Q9lD
1einster ......................... 90 Shlings
Ulster neutrality-suspicious.. 81 ShIings
Ulster is the portion above the heavy line No;n
che large Republican territory. -
GOD Irrevocably Fixed TIE Boundaries Of
IRELAND
. Those of Poland, Czecho-Slavia, Jugo-Slavia.
Serbia, Rounania, etc, have ueen fixed temporarily
by politicians
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-02-14
HOW FEBRUARY WAS NAMED.

February was one of the two months
(Janaury being the other) introduced
into the Roman calendar by Numa
Pompilius, when he extended the year
into II of these periods It's name
arose from the practice of religious
expiration and publication which took
place among the Romans at the be-
ginning of this month, and comes from
februare, to expiate or to purify
Among our Saxon ancestors the month
got the name of Sproutkale on account
of the sprouting of cabbage at this un.
genial season. The name of Sol-Eon.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-02-14
OLD IRISH WEATHER SIGNS.

Moonlight nights have the heaviest
frOSts
The higher the clouds the finer the
weather.
The farther the sight the nearer the
rain.
Dew is an indication of fine weather.
When stars flicker in a dark back
ground rain or snow follows soon.
Expect strong wind with stormy
weather when smoke from chimney
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-11-03
SHELLEY

Miss Goldie White spent Sunday
in Firth.
Miss Elsie Malcolm is now work
ing in Ben's bakery.
Andy Nicholson and family spent
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-11-03
SASKATCHEWAN LEADS IN THE
NUMBER OF AUTOS IN CANADA

(By International News Service)
REGINA, Sask.-Saskatchewan
has long bosted that it has as many
telephones per capita as the United
States. 1t now has the right to boast
that it has as many automobiles per
capita.
The number of automobile licenses
issued in the province from the first
of the year to September 1 was 3d.
e, o.. This is one automobile to every
fourteen inhabitants, "and that is
the number of persons" said Gov
eminent official, who would have to
ride in each automobile in the United
States if the entire nation started out
duck shooting on the same morning"
Saskatchewan is considerably
ahead Of Canada as whole and the
other principal countries Of the world
as shown by the following statement
of the number of persons to each
automobile in each: Canada 81, Cuba
81, Great Britain 1870, Austria 1856,
France 1913, Switzerland, 262, Swe-
den $50, Belgium 625, Germany 866,
Mexico $50, Italy 985, Spain 1880,
Russia $4,000. Japan $4,000.
Assuming that the average value
of the cars is $1,000, Saskatchewan
investment in automobiles is $780,
100000. OF all the machines in the
province, 81 per cent are owned by
farmers
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-11-03
Improved Aluminium.

A curious new form of aluminium
has been attracting attention in
France. When the pure metal is heat
ed in a vacuum, 81 per cent of it is
slowly volatilized in 70 hours at about
LOO degrees Centigrade; and the
whole is volatilized in 80 hours at
1900 degrees centigrade. A small por-
ton always proves less volatile than
the rest. Quite often kind Of frac-
tiOnal distillation yields an aluminium
residue that has increased affinity for
oxygen, and within a month this is
completely changed into bulky gray
ish-white mixture of alumina and
aluminium. One suggestion is that i'm
purities Of iron or silicon impart this
popularity. But analysis shows only
four per cent Of iron and five per cent
Of silicon, and the form Of metal so
readily oxidized proves, therefore, to
be purer than the aluminium used for
kitchen utensils and various other pur-
poses with no tendency to become oxi-
died. 1t is concluded that the easily
oxidized metal is an allotropic form
Of aluminium.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-11-03
MONTANA MAKES RULING ON
CHILDREN in DIVORCE CASES

(By International News Service)
HELENA, Mont.-That parties ia
divorce actions may not remove
children from the state during the
time the case is pending was the de-
cision handed down here by the
Montana supreme court.
The decision was rendered in the
case of William A. Cash, who is SUI
ing his wife for divorce. The couple
have three children who have been
the object at various times of sensa-
tional kidnappings.
While living in Los Angeles with
her three children Mrs. Cash permit
ted the father to take them to a
movie" The next news from them
that the mother received was the in
formation that the father was speed
ing to Montana with his three off
spring. Later Mrs. Cash attempted
to escape from the state with a
daughter. She was apprehended in
Salt Lake City and returned to
Helena.
After legal battle fraught with
examinations and recriminations on
both sides, the supreme court decided
that offspring of couples seeking
separation must remain within the
state boundaries until final decree
has been rendered in divorce pro-
ceedings.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-11-03
WHEAT STOCKS SHOW
DECREASE; OVER LAST YEAR

Stocks of wheat in the United
States on October 1 totaled 6O8,-
100000 bushels, according to esti-
mates Of the United States depart
ment of agriculture. This amount
represents 100000 bushels held
by farmers, 100000 bushels held
at country mills and elevators, and
29,000,O00 bushels held at points of
accumulation on that date.
On October 1, 1919, stocks Of
wheat in the United States totaled
747,000,000 bushels, representing
515, 100000 bushels held on the
farms, 142, 100000 held at country
mills and elevators, and 10000, 900
bushels held at points of accumula-
ton.
During the first quarter of the
present season-from July 1 to Oc-
tober 1.-THE farmers marketed 321,-
100000 bushels as compared with
450, 100000 bushels marketed in the
corresponding period of 1913 re-
duction of nearly 20 per cent. The
crop this year, plus the carry-over
bushels, or about II per cent less
than last year. These figures indicate
that farm marketings during the
first quarter have been relatively, as
well as absolutely, smaller than in
any similar period last year.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-11-03
FREE TRADE IS
/ BACK IN FORM
Democratic Tariff Law
Disastrous to u. S.
Industry

WASHlNGTON.-( Especial cores
pondence. Press dispatches from
Kansas City convey the information
that importations of mutton and
lamb from New Zealand, Australia
and Argentine nave depressed the
trade in sheep and lambs in the stock
yards of our western cities. Thus does
the removal of economic barriers
and freedom of transit get in its
destructive work on the American
farm. Under the Republican tariff
law fresh meat paid duty Of u
cents a pound but the Democratic
tariff law put that commodity on
the free list. Live sheep paid a duty
of Is cents to $1.00 head, accord
ing to age, under the Republican law
and the Democrats removed the bar
rier entirely.
This placing of sheep, lambs and
mutton on the free list was for the
avowed purpose of reducing the cost
of living. Many other commodities
were placed on the free list for the
same purpose. But the records of the
government show that the removal of
the protective duty had no such eff
feet. The cost of living steadily rose
even before the war brought it's
scarcity of food and it's inflated
prices.
To the short-sighted statesman or
citizen, the argument for the remov-
al of a protective import duty on
food products is appealing. 1t is a
natural conclusion that If we charge
an import duty of rs cents per head
on the Importation of lambs, and
later remove that duty, the price of
lambs will fall rs cents per head.
But the theory does not work out
in practice. The real result is that the
! foreign producer ships in his lambs
free, adds IS cents more to his pro-
fits, and, by flooding the American
market with foreign stock, drives
| the American producer out Of bust
ness. With the American industry
ruined, the foreigner is in position
to name his own price, and his price
advances beyond what it was when
the American producer was supply
ing the home market.
We had an impressive demonstra-
ton of this in the case of tin. For
many years America depended upon
| foreign countries, chiefly Wales,
for tin plate. The Mckinley act of
1890 put an import duty on tin plate,
over the protests of Democrats who
argued that the duty would be added
to the price the consumer must pay.
The theory did not work, for, with
protection assured, American tin fac
tories were erected and such lively
competition created that the price of
tin went steadily down.
The best way to get cheap meat
in America is to build up large do
nestle meat industry. The farmer
must be assured of his home market
and the dealer must learn that he
cannot buy abroad unless he pays a
price which includes an import duty
or which leaves the foreign producer
to pay the duty. The dispatches from
Kansas City declare that Feeding
of lambs and sheep is being reduced
sharply in the western states, but
the trade does not manifest any bull
ishness over prices. The reason for
this is the feeling that any deficiency
in feeding in the west will be more
than offset by offerings of frozen
lamb and mutton from foreign coun-
| tries.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-11-03
BEST FOEh or WIND MOTOR
Machine That Will Work in Perfecf
Calm Is Recent Invention of
Swedish Manufacturer.

For decades attempts at construct
ing wind motor that works so stead
fly as to be used protitably for gen
Grating electricity failed because wind
motor and generator were directly
connected by rod, and the quantity
of electric current was in direct pro-
portion to the power developed by the
motor.
A Stockholm (Sweden) manufacture
err succeeded recently in construct
ing satisfactory wind motor. While
the wind is strong only part of the
motors power is utilized to drive the
generator, while the surplus power
lifts heavy weight attached to an
endless chain. When the wind is not
strong enough to furnish sufficient mo-
tor power, or ceases wholly, the gen.
orator is kept in motion by the force
Of the slowly falling weight.
The famous Swedish engineer, Jan
son, figures that the generator is kept
working at full capacity even if abso-
lutte calm prevail for three days.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-11-03
GAVE NEW IDEA TO WORLD
Architect Admits He Owes to Lucky
Dream Structural Scheme Which
Makes Him Famous.

Wren the new three-story Bahai
temple, which is to cost several million
dollars, is erected in Chicago. dream
that Louis BOurgeOise of New York
city struggled with for II years to put
into plans and designs will have ma
terialized.
More than q years ago Bourgeoise
sat on the sea shore one night tracing
out lines he found in the study of the
movement of the stars. A wave rush
ed in over his markings on the sands,
and they were lost. Just II years ago
he heard Of the competition for the
Bahai temple. He mOrtgaged his home,
and bought a small confectionery
store which his wife. an artist ran
while he worked. BAHIA o 'llah,
founder Of Bahaism, had adopted nine
as the symbolic number of his re-
ligiOus movement. and said his temples
should have nine sides, with as many
equal gates for the nine great world
religions he wished to unite in one
temple.
Bourgeoise sketched the idea; but
he had to put it in plaster, as he did
not know how to carve. So one Sun
day friend taught him. And then
re carved the three stories one by one.
designing the second only after the
first was completed. and the third only
when details of the second were final.
His model took first prize. And it is
probable that Abul Bahai present
cagO to live.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-11-03
Prepared for Tourists,

Tourists flocking to the war zone
are finding novel hotel arrangements
and conditions more comfortable than
expected in view of the fact that hard
ly hotel was left habitable when the
Germans retreated eighteen months
ago. The latest innovation Of French
tourist agencies is hotel opened in
Arras, where series of ordinary rail-
road coaches are arranged in a square
with tent roof over the center, form
ing reception and dining rooms. The
Arras train hotels have eighty rooms,
each coach providing four compart-
ments large enough to accommodate
the most fastidious customers. Bunga-
low hotels are being erected, especial
~ in the Argonne, where the she'll
torn trees are being RACED to provide
timber for Canadian style cottages.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-11-03
FORGOTTEN Distances.

Americans who have forgotten the
geography lessons of their school days
will be surprised by statements made
in an article on Chinese trade pub
lished in Shipping. Manila, it says,
which is an American insular possess
sion, is closer to China than is Toxic
the capital Of Japan. The Alaskan
coast is within so miles of Siberia.
Therefore. the article concludes, it
would seem that America should be
more interested in Asiatic than in Eu-
rOpean trade.-FrOm the Outlook.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-11-03

Sunday visiting at the home of their
daughter, Mrs. Thomas Nelson, OF
Firth.
Miss Blanche Bennett of Black
foot spent the weekend at the home
Of Miss Irma Robinson.
A fine crowd attended the Hallow-
cen dance given Saturday night.
Miss Irma Robinson gave Hal
lowe'en party Sunday night.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-11-03
TO MAKE SCOTLAND DRY

LONDON.-Scotland, long noted
for the quality of her whiskey, faces
a drought similar to that in the
United States if prediction comes
true which was made tonight by
William H. (Pussyfoot) Johnson, the
noted dry worker, who has been at
the head of the prohibition cam
paign in the British Isles. An elec-
ton with prohibition as the issue will
be held in Scotland on Tuesday. Mr..
johnson made the following pro-
phecy:
"A great big part Of Scotland ID
going dry next week. can tell the
world that for q positive TACT"
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-11-03
New Idea for Garage.

The newest public garage has a fea-
ture saving the automobile owner lot
Of annoyance which he invariably ex-
periences in getting his car into a
space assigned to him at public gar
age. The new idea is to run it on a
transfer truck which carries the car
to the desired place and the automO-
bile ID run of the track into Its place.
This arrangement also conserves 1nee
race.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-11-03
TO ERECT MONUMENT
FOR MEXICAN CHIEFTAIN

(By International News Service)
MEXICO CITY, Mexico.-Admirers
of General Zapata are arranging to
erect monument in his honor. "a
pata while a rebel chief cut off the
hands and ears of civilian prisoners
who were caught repairing damage
his band had done. Hundreds Of
these unfortunate men and boys are
begging throughout Mexico.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-11-03

Campaign orators seldom accept
invitations to ride with the engineer
like the candidates do. It is pre-
sumed that the orators don't like to
get that close to an air-breap -
Detroit News.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-11-03
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

(By International News Service)
MEDFORD, Mass.-As proper
punishment for profiteering landlords
a six months Jail sentence and fine
of 500 we're advocated for those
found guilty on unfair dealings with
tenants by Wilbur Drew, president
of the Medford Hillside and South
Medford Tenants League, at meet
ing of that organization.