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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-07-17
THE PRECIOUS BLOOD.

Riven hands in love extended
Wounded feet and sword-rent side
For We pour in torrents blended,
Mercy's bright, baptismal tide.
Hail, sweet stream forever flowing!
Hail, o blest and boundless flood!
Fount with life eternal glowing
+, Loves own pure and Precious Blood
Downward from the mystic mountain
Feet, and hands, and opened side.
Poured their bright baptismal foun
tain,
Poured their clear and cleansing
tide.
Crimsoned Cross, so brightly glowing
With that blest, redeeming flood,
Still we hail, with hearts o'erflowing
Thy sweet stains of Precious Blood
Ransomed saints, in garments whit
ened
BY the life-blood of the Lamb,
Pilgrims with your burdens lightened
Martyrs, crowned with purple palm
Let us join your songs of gladness.
Let us hail redemption flood;
Christians, cleansed from sin and sad
ness,
Praise. o praise the Precious Blood
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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-07-17
FOUNDING A MISSION IN THE
SHADE OF THE TREES.

Very Rev. Plus Lyons is Vicar Gen
eral of the Archdiocese of Simla, In
dia He has sent to the National Of
flee of the S. P. F., very good letter
in that it shows the true spirit of
the missionary and the pioneer He
is establishing mission in a new dis
trict under conditions that are excep-
tional even in the mission world.
81 am going to place European
priest among these pagans, but at
present there is nothing beyond the
shade of a few trees in the way of
shelter.
Every imprudent,' some may say,
you ought to have a tent or a roof
of some kind
But l don't think American Catho-
lies with their memories of pioneer
settlements in America will object.
1--WE had to take what we could get,
and that at once, for American Prot
estants are very active in India and
they were trying their best to obtain
what we have fortunately secured
There is hard work and much expense
ahead of us, but the cheering prospect
is that with Gods blessing in a few
years we shall have thousands OF
Catholic cultivators in flourishing
settlement made up of well laid out
villages with their chapels, schools
and converts. l am going to plead for
financial help. We are in great need
| of it."
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-07-17
THE TEACHER.

Dear Teacher, patient with our chill
dish ways,
Teach us the common things of COM
mon days;
While careless hands the dog-eared
pages turn,
Teach us the easy things, so hard to
learn.
The Truth-that needs no learning to
declare, a.-.. -. n
Pure, white-souled Truth, than noon
day sun more fair;
And Faith-that midst all doubts and
fears and woes,
Sings on the children's lips-"well-
Teacher knows!"
And love-that hath ten million times
been told;
Love-that is older than the world is
old; ~.
Love-that will live when all the
worlds are dead.
When these great little lessons have
been said,
Then heaven and earth in one great
school will meet
Learning old lessons at the Teachers
feet.
Robert y. Burdstte,
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-07-17
SOME BOY.

Is not twenty-seven dollars a for
tune to a twelve-year-older? Well
say it is. Imagine having check for
that amount handed you on your birth
day. Imagine planning to buy about
all the goodies in the world and then
imagine signing the check in a big
manly way and sending it off to mis-
sionary.
Not every one could rise to such
heights let alone a boy, but a little
chap in Keewatin, a district pretty
well up near the North Pole, decided
|. to help Bishop Charlebois rebuild a
school house rather than keep his
wealth himself. The school house
was at lie la Crosse and had been
burned to the ground, which was a
great disaster for the poor mission
The Bishop made an appeal for help,
and not in vain as we see.
The good priest who sent the story
says:
"To deprive oneself voluntarily of
the means of great enjoyment which
one holds already in ones hand, and
which. ones imagination paints in
golden colors-ah, that is real hero
ism, and the person capable of the act
a hero!" Which means In plain Unit.
ed States that he Is "some boy"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-07-17
"MODERN" WOMAN AN OBJECT
OF DREAD.

The socalled modern woman" with
advanced" ideas, was scored by Mgr.
IT. J. O'Connell, when he addressed
the graduating class of st. Ursula's
Academy, Toledo, Ohio, recently. In
holding up to them the Christian ideal
of womanhood, Mgr. O'Connell de-
nounced the so-called "emancipated''
women laundering after nOtOriety:
1--WE have but to scan, shamefacedly
woman's amusements, her ventures
and her associations to know what
frivolity, vanity and unworthy trust
have made her, not a being to be
revered, but an object of contemptu
GUS dread
Poor Mary Pickford, who delighted
young and old, and told beautiful
stories of honesty and purity in thou
sand places at the same time, ex
changed fame for notoriety, sacrificed
! religion and gave blow to honor and
decency that the world shall not soon
! forget, by entering into meaningless
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-07-17
SIMPLE WAYS OF RETAINING THE
AFFECTION OF YOUR HUSBAND.

How shall wife make her home
pleasant and herself attractive? This
is short question, but book could
be written to answer it adequately.
We have space to mention only few
points.
In the first place, woman should
not indulge in fault-finding. If man
has learned to expect that he will in
variably be found! fault with by his
wife, on his return home, and that
the burden of her words will be COM
plant, he has absolutely no pleasure
to anticipate and none. to enjoy.
There is but one alternative for a
husband in such a case; either to
steel himself against complaints, or
be narrowed up by them and made
fquarrelsome. They never produce a
good effect, under any circumstances
whatever. There should always be
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-07-17

The church, however, would not
solve all the difficulties of the Catho-
lies of this mission; they need mis-
sionaries. One of the Europeans said
to Father Waller:
Mass can always be said, even if
on veranda or under a tree, provid-
ed there are priests to say it. But
most of us live remote in the country;
we may fall seriously sick and need
the ministration of the Sacramento.
Who is going to attend us at such
moments, if there are no Fathers to
care for our needs?" -.
The Syrians and Europeans have
shown themselves good Catholics and
deserve to have better facilities to
practice their religion.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-07-17
THE ANGELUS BELL.

Softly the sound of the angelus bell
Falls from the tower DER village and
dell,
Gently it touches a something within
And offers a refuge from sorrow and
sin.
Appealing to hearts that are tepid or
cold,
Calling the stray ones again to the
fold,
Telling to all that an hour is here,
Pleading with sinners in tones sweet
and clear.
Prompting the heart in the hour of
prayer,
Soothing the life that is weary with
care,
Sounds floating over me seem to in
Bow in submission to Gods holy
will"
Ringing to all, to the lonely, the sad
Ringing to all, to the happy, the glad
Soundings of sorrow and soundings
Of joy
Telling that much of the world is
alloy.
AS softly the sound of the angelus
bell
Falls from the tower DER village anC
dell,
flushed in its music, it's music divine
A soul going home at the angelus
time.
Ringing DER mountains, DER valley
and sea,
Ringing to weary and fettered ant
e free,
Softest of music, awake me, to tell
OF life everlasting, Sweet Angelu!
Bell!
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-07-17

"a pleasant word and look ready for
him who returns from the tolls of
the day, wearied with earning the
.necessaries of the family. If pretty
pair. of slippers lie before the fire,
ready for his feet, so much the bet
ter
Then, again, the desire to be pleas
ing in person should never leave
wife for a day. The husband who
comes home at night, and finds his
wife dressed to receive him,-dressed
neatly and tastefully, because she
wishes to be pleasant to his eye, can
not, unless he be brute, neglect her,
or slight her graceful pains-taking.
1t is a compliment to him. It dis
plays a desire to maintain the charms
which first attracted him, and to keep
intact the silken bonds which her
tasteful girlhood had fastened to his
fancy.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-07-17

such as has been reported in Russia.
1t was realized that in matters of
work the members of the organiza
ton must make their power felt by
efficiency in their work. In joining
the organization they promised first
to be good and courageous Catholics
faithful to their religious duties, and
then to be the most exact, charitable
disciplined and conscientious Of rail
way servants. -
At the present time there are also
groups of Catholic "metallurgists" ir
seven parishes of the Paris suburbs
and others were recently being pre-
pared. -.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-07-17
1T is NATURAL TO BELIEVE WHAT
WE CANNOT UNDERSTAND.

The mass of mankind believes what
it cannot understand simply because
it is natural and reasonable to man
to believe many things even though
they are beyond his comprehension,
says Rev. DR.. Coakley. Is it not, for
instance, the most natural thing in
law of gravitation, and yet you do
not understand it. No one does. And
is it not the most reasonable thing
in the world to believe in the constant
never varying operation of the law of
gravitation, even though you do not
understand it?
Do not confuse the reasonableness
of thing with your own inability
to understand it. Facts are facts, in
dependent of your understanding of
them. Almighty God is not going to
change neither are the laws of ma
ture to be altered, because you can
not understand them. A thing may
be cOnfOrmable to all the laws of
human reason, and yet be utterly be-
yond your ability to understand it.
1t is reasonable so long as it does not
violate any dictate of human reason.
For example, you do not understand
how the sun rises every morning, and
yet you do not think it unreasonable
that it does rise.
The mere incident of your inabil-
ity to know the why and the
wherefore" does not make a thing
unreasonable. Many things were
deemed unreasonable generation
ago that are matters of every day
routine in this present tumultuous
age. Who ever dreamed rs years ago
aeroplanes, and using wireless tele-
phones, while annihiliating space at
the rate of IT'S miles an hour?
Hence the oft-repeated experience
of daily life should teach us to be ex.
tremely cautious in assailing as I'm.
reasonable such facts as our own linn
| tied intellectual capacity fails to com.
prehend. This warning is all the more
necessary when dealing with religious
matters, known to us by Faith, where
God is the object of our knowledge
The very mysteriousness of God, His
Infinite attributes, such as His Eter.
nifty, His Omnipotence, His Omnis.
cience, are things that, we cannot full
ly understand, yet they do not at all
contradict human reason. On the
contrary human reason tells us abso.
lutely, and with force and a direct
ness we'll nigh overpowering, that
God mas all these qualities, even
though we do not know how he has
| them.
Hence it is the rational man who
assents to truths that he cannot un
derstand. And whenever you find &
man who refuses to admit facts thai
he cannot comprehend, or who de
mands that his own puny intellect be
/ the measure of all things in HEAVIER
above, the earth below, and the wat
ers underneath, you may set hin
down at once as unreasonable
In a word, the man who believe:
is the man with brains. 1t is thu
brainless chaps VINO have no faith.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-07-17
AMERICAN SAINT FOUNDED THE
FIRST AMERICAN SEMINARY.

To be an American Saint is great
distinction, and entities one to high
place in the esteem of Americans OF
the Catholic faith. To have ac-
complished wonderful things in the
active Catholic life as we'll as in the
domain of personal holiness adds
new interest for Americans in an
American Saint.
Such is the distinction of st. Tur-
ibius, an inspiring figure in the his
tory of the Church in South America,
saws a writer in The Pilot. He it
was who founded the first American
seminary-at Lima, Peru, in 1891. He
was a great worker among the native
Indians, and this itself should entitle
him to high place in the interest of
Americans.
The fact that he was not born in
America does not detract from his
claim to American interest. He was
a Spaniard by birth. He was born
Nov. 16, 1888, at Castle MograbejO in
The future Saint was educated at the
Universities of Valladolid and Sala-
manca. He later became professor
of laws at the University of Sala-
manca, and president of Granada.
Piety, charity and purity were prom
inent in st. Turibius' early life. 1t is
recorded that daily he recited the
Rosary and the Little Office of the
Blessed Virgin. He also tasted every
Saturday in her honor
Later in life came the call for him
to take up definitely as vocation the
life of religious activity for which
he is noted. When the archiepiscOpal
see of Lima, Peru, was vacant, the
King wanted Turibius to take it. He
refused. He declared himself unfit
and pointed to the fact that he was
only a layman.
The King insisted, however. Tur.
ibius recOnsidered the matter at his
request He observed the usual in.
tervals, was ordained Priest, and
later was cOnsecrated Bishop. He
sailed for Peru to take up his new
duties.
One of the interesting features OF
Turibius' life is that such figures as
St. Rose of Lima, st. Francis Solano
Blessed Martin of PORES and Blessed
Masias were ministered to by him
Another is that, despite his sanity
conduct he went to confession daily
On his last visitation he contracted
tropical fever. He insisted on con
tinuing his work, however. In pro
viding for his death, he bequeathed
his clothing and furniture to his
servants and the rest of his property
to the poor.
AS the hour of death approached
he asked to be carried to church tC
receive Viaticum. After Extreme
Unction he died, saying: Into Thy
hands, O Lord I commend my spirit
: Some years later. when his body was
transferred from Santes to Lima, nc
sign Of corruption was visible in it
He was beatified in 1879, and Pope
Benedict XIII, in 1926. canonized him
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-07-17
FRENCH CATHOLIC RAILWAY
MEMS ORGANIZATION A HELP
TO FAITH.

Great work is being done in France
by a Catholic railway mems organi-
cation, which is bringing forth not
able fruit not only in the cause of
the Church, but in the matter of ef-
ficiency in work.
The magnitude of the railway
mems society perhaps dwarfs the
prominence of one or two similar
organizations of other workers which
have recently sprung up. The move
ment seems to have strengthened
greatly the religious welfare of many
workers. Indeed, a former anti
clerical anarchist who repented of his
also stated that he intended to try to
bring to the union as many recruits
as he formerly gained for the revo-
lutionary party.
The aim of the railway mems Or
ganization has been to unite Catho-
lie railway workers. The practice of
their religion is often a difficult thing
on account of the nature of their
work. Again, it has been found that
an organization of this type can be a
source of great benefit to Catholic
workingmen who are rather unfamiliar
with than wilfully hostile to matters
of religion.
Canon Reymann founded the rail
way mems organization in 1898. He
had done parochial work near the big
difficulties of Catholic railway work.
ers in the matter of keeping in touch
with the Church. He decided to help
them by organization. They had for
J merly been isolated.
Some of his first recruits spent a
| night in alteration at Montmartre
Next morning they received Holy
Communion. The organization grew
| The railway mems association has be-
come one of the leading Catholic or
CARNATIONS of the nation. They have
been approved by Popes Leo XIII
Plus X, and Benedict XIV. They have
even been encouraged by the French
| government.
| Their banner, which represents ar
engine going at full speed, and carries
motto, has become conspicuous al
various gatherings. They have strong
4, ly opposed revolutionary activities il
which they saw q menace TO France
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-07-17
EUROPEANS AND SYRIANS IN
AFRICA.

Shendam is in northern Nigeria,
West Africa, and one Of the priests
there, Rev. O. Waller, P. AT. M,
writes that beside the blacks he has
in his parish a number of European
and Syrian merchants who very much
desire new church and will help in
building it to the best of their ability.
But Shendam is place of some size
and the Government regulations re-
quire brick building with metal roof
SO that a considerable sum will be
required to erect such church.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-07-17
CHANG ED.

It is when the babes are sleeping
In their cozy little beds,
And | tiptoe to leave kisses
On their tousled golden heads,
That l get to thinking serious,
And I'm scared as I'm glad
tell you it's responsible,
This job O. bein' dad. g.
When I tiptoe in beside 'em,
And I'm beindin' down above
AS careful as I can be,
Sos to give 'em both a love,
I'm a-buildin' castles for 'em,
Big an grand as they can be,
An you bet that I'm a-feelin'
My responsibility.
Beats all how a fellow changes!
Days l used to hope and plan
For to get myself fortune
'Gainst the time come a man.
Now myself's obliterated,
| And I'm mighty proud an glad
To be plannin' an a-toilin'
For the babes that call me dad:
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eve cannot but look with alarm on
the systematic publicity that would
install a woman on the rostrum while
robbing the home and destroying chill
dren, who are the hope of a coming
age; that would belittle marriage as
if it were slavery and degradation to
wives, and it's bonds a fetter to be
broken whenever whim or self-indul
gence could be made to masquerade
as independence or assertion OF
woman's rights
The Pascagoula chronicle., 1920-04-02
GRAND OPERA CONCERT.


Four members of the New Orleans
Grand Opera company enter .ained q
large audience OF Pascagoula, mukic
lovers Monday night in a concert at
the Warfield theatre. The artists
were Miles. Ladd, Besnier and Billiard
and George S. Kanony, on tour Of
the gulf cities. The duet from "Rigo-
letto" was sung by Mile. Besnier and
M. Kanony, and Mile. Morgot Ladd,
formerly of the Paris Opera Com
i1ue, in varied and well diversfe l
program, exhibited grace and rhythm
in the "ChansoE Bohemienne' from
Carmen" and Greek Hoop Dance"
Nevin's Rosary" Coming Through
the Rye" and several other songs in
English were sung, as also LA Mar
seillaise." Mile. Billiard was the accom-
panist. This was the first instance of
an operate program being presented
In Pascagoula. The concert was given
under the patronage Of the local lodge
o: Elks.
The Pascagoula chronicle., 1920-04-02

Splendid papers were contributed by
Madams c. w. Jackson and j. Bounds.
Following the program, it was unani-
mously voted to federalize the Fort
nightly Clu,;, and delegate to the
Federation of Women's Clubs, which
will hold three-day session in Gulf
port in April, was appointed, Mrs. X.
w. Burnham having been chosen, with
Mrs. c. A. Graham as alternate. Later
a delicious salad course with Spanish
tea was daintily served by Misses
Margaret Coulson and Alice Walsh.
The last number of the Lyceum
Course Friday evening brought to a
close the series of five entertainments
given at the Central High School. The
Lyceum came here in the interest OF
the Parent-Teacher Association and il
was hoped that neat sum would
be turned into the treasury. On the
contrary the sixteen guarantors are
something like thirty-eight dollars, Oh
81. so each in the hole. The members
of the Parent-Teacher Association arr
unwilling that they should have thi!
TO pay. so are planning to give an en-
tertainment, whereby the amount car
be secured and the guarantors REIN
bursed.
The Pascagoula chronicle., 1920-04-02
STATE TAX LEVY FIXED
AT NINE MILL FIGURE

| Jackson, Miss, March 29.--The gen
eral appropriation bill carrying sal
aries of state officers was finally
passed IN the two houses this morning
conference committee reports on tho
disagreement over the salary of the
state factory inspector being ratified
in the two houses.
The bill is not yet out Of trouble
however, for when it reaches Governor
Russell Tuesday he will veto that
item carrying $4,000 to pay for an al.
legged deficit in the salary of the as.
sistant director of the department of
archives and history from J)16 ito
1920.
The 1916 and 1918 sessions failed
to make provisions for pay of all as
sstant In this department, and the
governor holds that the position WAS
therefore by implication abolished.
The place is held by Mrs. Dunbar Ro-
land, wife of the director of the de-
partment.
Both houses were engaged today in
winding up the appropriation bills,
working on Saturdays calendar in or
der to get the measures to Governor
Russell within the five-day limit be-
fore Anal adjournment.
Only 100 members OF the house were
present this morning.
With only one dissenting vote the
senate Monday afternoon passed the
Kyle bill fixing the state levy at mills
per annum. The dissenting vote was
cast by Mr.. Stockstill, who had en-
deavored to get an amendment adopt
ed fixing the levy at 7 mills.
While the debate was in progress,
Representative Stone of Washington,
chairman of the house committee on
ways and means, who has directed the
general trend of financial legislation
at this session, strolied into the SEN
ate chamber and was invited by the
body to take the floor and express
his opinion on the question.
Representative Stone, quoting fig
ures to show that nothing less than a
9-mill levy will be sufficient to meet
the expenditures authorized at this
session, which now total SIS 1000
and will grow somewhat in excess of
that figure when the few remaining
bills on the calendars are disposed Of.
The Pascagoula chronicle., 1920-04-02
BASEBALL PRACTICE.


Coach Howell requests all baseball
players of this city, who would try for
a place on the Marine & Field Club
team, to report at international Park
Saturday afternoon at o'clock for
practice.
The curtailment of the force at the
shipyard necessitated the release Of
several professionals, who had been
engaged for the season. However,
Slater, Delcomyn, the two Ros boys
and two or three others Of last years
team are still here as q nucleus to
build to, and 1t is believed that there
is enough amateur talent in town to
make pretty fair team.
The Pascagoula chronicle., 1920-04-02
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

The Chamber of Commerce held a
largely attended meeting at the court
house Tuesday evening, when a num-
ber of questions of vital importance
to the port were discussed, chief of
which was the continuance yof the
fight for the freight rates recently
granted by the Interstate Commerce
Commission. Additional funds must
be forthcoming at once to assure the
putting on by the railroads of the rates
ordered by the commission.
The secretary also reported that he
had recently had conference with
Mr. Peck, president of the Mississippi
Central Railway, who assured him
that that road had by no means
abandoned it's plan of making Pasca-
goula its gulf terminal and that Mr..
Peck stated that he would visit the
port at an early date, probably in May,
to take the matter up with our people.
The Mississippi Central now runs
from NatcheZ to Hattiesburg.