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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-07-24
WHAT ARE YOU DOING?

eff I believed as you believe" said
a well-known infidel, addressing some
Christians of his acquaintance, Il
would go round the world proclaim
ing the folly of living as you live"
Catholic men and women young and
old, who have SO many opportunities
for doing good, and profit by so few of
them, may well take this reproach to
heart. Alas says Ave Maria, how
little is effected anywhere in COM
parison to what might be accomplish
ed everywhere, if all were imbued with
the spirit of the faith which they pro-
fess with their lips! Think of the
hosts of neglected, ignorant, or ill-in-
structed children in danger of being
lost of the Church; the number of I'M
fortunate, suffering, tempted, home
less, friendless persons in need of aid
and encoura cement, that could so cas-
lily be given; the sick in hospitals, to
whom friendly visit would be as a
ray of hope; the orphaned children,
whose little hearts are hungry for
someone's affection; those languishing
in prisons, who long for a kind word,
to whom good reading would be a
blessing and a joy. In a word, what
a vast amount of good is to be done,
which the laity might do, and which
thew have no valid excuse for not do
ing!
The apathy so often manifested, the
utter neglect of what is not for per-
sonal advantage, saddens the heart of
many a jealous priest. In numerous
instances, the Sisters engaged in
works of mercy receive most sup
port from those not of the household
of the faith. The lively interest which
sectarians take in Sunday schools, and
similar undertakings, is a sad con-
trast to the Indifference of a great
MANY Catholics. Some people seem
to think that they do their full duty
by contributing an aims to promote
any praiseworthy object to which their
attention may be directed; they do
not want to be troubled further. They
will give little money; but they
want all their time for themselves.
And yet in many instances the sue
cess of a good work demands a sac
rifice of time, personal interest, and
preserving effort. How many under
takings languish or fail among us for
lack of organization and support!
Parish priests have right to ex-
pect that their most zeauous co-opera-
tors will be found among those who
have been under the care of religious
teachers. They should be the leaders
in parish work, the life of parish So
cieties-always ready and willing to
engage in any undertaking to promote
the glory of God and the good of souls
But are they?
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-07-24
THE soWER OF THE GOSPEL.

A sower went out to SOW his seed,
The Gospel tells US so.
A portion of it grew and thrived.
The rest was lost, we know.
Some fell upon a travelled road
AS food for birds of air.
Some fell upon the stony ground
In sprouts and withered there.
Some fell among the climbing thorns,
And struggling, came to grief.
The thorns began to choke its life,
A life obscure and brief.
In charity We pity him,
Who sowed his seed in vain.
The reason for his futile work
Is that it did not rain.
If rain had poured upon the road,
The birds would stay away;
The seed would strike it's tiny roots
In sand, or barren clay.
If rain had drizzled on the seed
That fell on stony ground,
And coaxed the seed among the
thOrns,
New strength it would have found.
The sower is Gods anointed Priest,
Gods word, the noble grain.
Oh! let us pray that God may send
His grace, the needed rain.
This noble seed the Precious Blood
OF Jesus Christ has bought.
Containing germs of blissful life;
1t must not go for naught.
o Jesus through Thy Precious Blood
Send fructifying rain,
And help the sewers of the seed,
Immortal souls to gain.
Sister NJ. Laursntfo, C. PIP. S.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-07-24
CATHOLIC TEACHING ON SPIRIT.
ISM.

Father Hull, S. j., of the Bombay
Examiner" writing of Spiritism, sets
down briefly and succinctly the at
titude of the Church on this question :
I'VE cannot say that there is any
Catholic attitude on the subject of
spiritism as regards the point of fact"
he says. "The Catholic Church holds,
on theological grounds, that good and
bad spirits do exist, and that they are
capable of certain kinds of communi-
cation with the living. In the case
Of good spirits this communication will
always be under the positive consent
of God, and will always be good in
subiect-matter and tendency. If evil
spirits communicate, this is at least
under the liberation of God, though
not under His approval. 1t is merely
certain range of liberty which God
allows to the evil spirits, under cover
of which they try and do mischief
which serves for the moral probation
of man: i. e., puts before him the
choice to reject or accept such COM
munications.
Hence Catholic theology leaves
room for a recognition of the reality
of the communications of spiritism;
but the Church does not go futher,
and decide on theological principles
that such communications really take
place in a given class of instances.
That is question to be decided pure
ly and simply by evidence. But since
the evidence does point to the reality
of such communications in certain
cases, the Church adopts, at least n.y.
pothetically, the conclusion of fact
proceeds to issue a condemnation of
those who aim at or entertain such
communications"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-07-24
AMERICAS EARLY TtME-PlECE
MAKER.

The first American clockmaster was
Eli Terry. IF you had been upon a
dusty country road in Connecticut
about the year 1900 you might have
seen plainly dressed young man come
riding with clock strapped to each
side of his saddle and a third fasten-
ed crosswise- behind him." That was
the way Eli Terry sold his clocks, and
some of the original clocks are still
running in the very farmhouses where
they have licked off the minutes of
American history since. the days of
Adams and Jefferson.
Luther Goddard, Massachusetts
preacher, was the first to make watch
es in America, but foreign competition
forced him to retire from the field, and
Luther went back to preaching.
Then for time the art languished
to be revived by Edward Howard,
born in bingham in 1913, who was the
real founder of the American watch
industry.
1t was workman in Towards fac
tory in Roxbury, one p S. Bartlett,
who, when asked what he was doing,
said: II am working for a company
which makes seven complete watches
a day" Great was the merriment at
this reply. Where on earth could
you sell seven watches day. they
shouted
One company alone makes now be-
tween 1000 and 5000 watches day.
Leslie's Magazine.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-07-24
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its prototype. When we insult the
flag we insult the country that it rep
resents. When we honor a sign we
honor the prototype. Any outward
mark of respect or reverence that is
directed towards the sign finds it's
real object in the thing signified. The
sign is nothing more than a visible
direction for our reverence because
the thing that it signifies is not phys
ically present. This principle is ap-
piled in every day life. We salute the
flag; we unveil statue. We do not
salute the cloth of which the flag is
made but the country which it repre-
sents. We do not respect the stone
or bronze of which the statue is form
ed, but the person whom it represents.
In the same manner we pay a relative
worship to the Cross, to the images
of Christ, His Blessed Mother and the
Saints. This principle laid down by
the Council of Nice was repeated by
the Council of Trent which calls at
tention to the fact that the honor and
reverence paid to images is mot that
any divinity or power is thought to
be in them for the sake of which they
may be worshipped, or that anything
can be asked of them, or that any
trust may be put in images, as was
done by the heathens who put their
trust in their idols, but because the
honor showed to them is referred to
the prototypes which they represent
as that by kissing, uncovering to,
kneeling before images we adore
Christ and honor the saints whose
likeness they bear"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-07-24

"IgorOts is a general term applied
to those primitive Malays inhabiting
the mountains from the extreme
northern part of Luzon to the plains
of Pangasinan and Nueva-Ecija. 1t
embraces several groups, speaking
different dialects, and numbering al
together, 1 believe, about six hundred
thousand, nearly all still heather
souls.
"Some of these Igorots have made
advancement in civilization; however,
most of them are still quite wild and
are given to the savage custom of
head-hunting but have nevertheless,
many good qualities. They live in
small houses with chickens, dogs and
pigs. Some of them are skillful in
growing rice, which they water from
the mountain streams, their common
food being sweet potatoes. s. ..
"Of all the Igorot tribes, the best
are the Genguet Igorots. Not being
warriors nor head-hunters, they are
rather of mild and attractive simple
character. They live a satisfactory
family-life as much as it can be ex-
pected from pagan people. These are
the two reasons why they are gener-
ally well disposed towards the rules
of our religion, and why it is possible
to make of them good, docile chill
dren of our heavenly Father. Ameri-
cans or Europeans who come in con-
tact with the Genguet Igorot, are un-
animous in saying that they are at
tractive and sympathetic people and
gifted with the qualities to make them
subjects of true civilization.
"Over then thousand Igorots have
been converted to the Catholic Church
during the American occupation of
these islands,
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-07-24
WHY PROTESTANTS TURN CATH.
OLlC.

One unfounded non-Catholic notion
as to the reason why Protestant is
converted to Catholicism is answered
by Floyd Keller in an article in Am
erica" in which he points out mis-
understanding on the part of non
Catholics with regard to motives for
conversion.
In commenting on the recent sub
mission of Bishop Kinsman of the
Protestant Episcopal Church to Cath
alOcism, the editor of the Living
Church remarked that the quest for
Church Triumphant here on earth
by men and women who tire of the
problems of the Church Militant will
doubtless continue, and the succession
of occasional stragglers from the
known problems of the Anglo-Saxon
to the unknown problems of the Latin
will as certainly be unbroken
Mr.. Keller points out that converts
pecting to find it paradise of angels
and saints without problems. He de-
clares that the position of the con-
vert in Catholicism is more desirable
as far as problems are concerned, and
is such as to make them find the
of Christians.
1t is difficult to understand, he says,
that solution of the problem of the
Eucharist which makes it possible to
hold that Christ is really present
there, and at the same time to hold
the consecrated species. Yet in rep
resentative gatherings of Episcopal
ians may be found men holding each
of these diverging views and acting
accordingly.
1t is difficult also, he points out,
to understand the answer to the ques-
ton What think We of Christ" which
permits one to say that Christ is God,
with all that involves, and allows an
other to teach that He was merely a
great teacher, born of human parents
in the ordinary course of nature, and
in no wise different, except in degree
of illumination, from many another
before and since.
If convert will compare the
saints" of the two churches, it will
do much to solve his difficulties, the
writer suggests. For he will see that
there is something in the holiness of
the true Church which gives power
to it's members and which is, for the
most part, sadly lacking in his old
surroundings.
Summing up the problems" of the
"Anglo-Saxon," he says that the
things which confront the Catholic
minded in Anglicanism are an at
tempt to reconcile the irreconcilable.
to harmonic the contradictory, to
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-07-24
PRESENT-DAY JAPAN.

In the Annals of the Paris Foreign
Mission Society we read this state
ment regarding the spiritual condi-
ton of Japan, and it is to be assumed
that the viewpoint is a correct one.
Our hearts grow sorrowful when
Empire Of Japan, with population Of
more than thirty-six millions, there
are only $4,000 Catholics, and this in
spite of the great trend toward Chris
tianity which took place in the 18th
century. In fact, except for the per-
secutions launched by the Emperor
Hideyoshi, the whole empire would
without doubt have become Catholic
at that period.
For two centuries Japan remained
sealed to the apostle. Then in the
18th century, the Paris Society enter
ed the country. For some years they
preached the Gospel alone, but now
their task is shared by six other Or
ders of men, and similar number
of Congregations of women.
But in spite of the patience and
perserverances of all these laborers,
conversions are not numerous. The
Christian idea is more generally pene-
trating the masses, it is true, but
those who decide individually to en-
brace the severe doctrines of the
Church are all too few.
Here and there however, certain
souls shine forth in great sanctity.
and such souls strengthen the mis-
sionaries in their hope that the jap
anese people, clever and full of ma
tural virtue and ability as they are,
will one day become children of the
Faith
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-07-24
THE FARRARY STAMPS.

-
"What has been called the greatest
collection of postage stamps in the
woodland probably the description is
true-is soon to be sold to the highest
bidders in piecemeal quantities at auc-
ton in Paris" writes Kent B. Stiles,
the Stamp editor of Boys Life in the
June issue Of that magazine. I'm this
collection that are reputed to be 120,-
900 stamps, including some of the
rarest adhesives in existence. 1t is
said to be worth $3,OO0,O00, and the
French Government authorities are
understood to have rejected an offer
of $1,875,000 from an American col
lector
How did the French Government
come into possession of this wonderful
collection? That is wartime story.
Count Philip la Renotiere Won Fer
rary, wealthy European philatelist,
owned the stamps, and when he. died
in Switzerland about two. years ago
he bequeathed them to the Berlin Pos
tai Museum. Had France and Ger
many been at peace, undoubtedly the
stamps would have reached Berlin,
but it SO happened that the collection
at the time was on French soil and
that France and Germany were at war.
Thus France refused to allow this
German-owned property to pass be-
yond French borders.
"The Farrary rarities include some
of the early stamps of the United
States, Hawaii, Austria, Cape of Good
Hope, British Honduras, Bermuda,
Great Britain, Brazil, British Guiana,
New South Wales, Western Australia,
New Brunswick and other countries
X
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-07-24

saying, Il find it SO much of a. con,
.venience in taking home the market
ing. There are: four vest pockets in
a Wescut. In one put 25 cents worth
of sugar; in another, the half of a
potato for the evening meal; in the
third, the markings of liberty fry,
formerly known to fame as hambur-
ger steak; and in the fourth, such
little Injuries as we are able to af-
ford-one day it may be a red onion;
perchance walnut or coupla rails
ms; anon, so cents allowance for
candy for the weekend"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-07-24

make black to be not only white, but
both black and white at the same
time, both Catholic and Protestant at
once. It.is this that makes the "Liv-
ing Church remark that until the
whole Anglican communion is per.
meated by the Catholic perspective
1--WE shall lose to Rome more than we
gain from her. Ultra-P Professionalism
constantly makes converts fol
Rome"
But Mr.. Keller suggests gthat when
Anglicanism becomes such, she will
have entered the fold of Rome her
self
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-07-24
SOMETHING ABOUT THE IGoRoTs

Perhaps oftener than any other ma
tives of the Philippines we hear the
Igorots spoken of, and it will be well
to know just who these people are,
In an article on the work of the Bel.
gian Foreign Mission Society in the
Philippine Islands, Rev. Joseph de
SENDER says:
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-07-24
MARKETING IN HAWAII.

We notice, writes Will Sabin in the
Honolulu Advertiser in his column,
Next to- Pure Reading Matter" that
several family men have taken to
wearing vests-Waistcoats, pronounc-
ed wescuts.
o why" We asked of one, 20 why
wearest thou a wescut in this balmy
climate?" Whereupon he answered
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-07-24

Never say: ''It is nobody's bus
mess but my own what I do with my
life" 1t is not true. Your life is put
others besides yourself. If you use it
we'll it will make many others happy;
if you abuse it, it will harm many
others beside yourself.-Janaes N.
Pullman. u
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1920-06-03
OLD AND PROFITABLE TRADE
Chinese Government Derives a Hand
some Revenue From the Tea Mar
kets of Szechuan Province.

The tea trade\ Of Tatslenlu, in the
Chinese province of Szechuan, near
the Tibetan border, was first started
in the reign of Yung Cheng, some 200
years ago. At that time, Ii Is said,
Tatsienlu did not exist as town, but
tents were pitched in the valley, and
the Tibetans gathered and bartered
on the occasion of religious fairs.
The tea trade is now established
under government control, yielding a
handsome revenue. Licenses are is
sued quarterly, and taken UP by over
100 firms engaged in the trade. Each
license costs one tael in Chinese
money, equivalent to about so cents in
American exchange. The license al
lows the holder 10 import five bales OF
tea into Tatsienlu, more being permit
ted according to requirements.
Tea has become almost Indis-
pensable to the Tibetans. hence they
are naturally drawn to the tea mar
ket, to which they bring their own
products for sale or exchange. One
of the largest firms in Tatsenlu buys
as many as 10000 bales, others 10000
bales. The total regular licenses Is
sued annually is given as 100000. The
licenses were formerly issued at
Chengtu. but the authority was trans
ferred to Tatsienlu in 1913.
Under the old arrangement, the tax
was paid when the tea actually passed
the local customs at Tatslenlu. Now
il is paid when the licenses are issued,
or within three months of that time.
The annual turnover is fully 100000
taels. Since the trade has been es-
tabllshed so long, 1t has probably
reached It's maximum. but with seri-
Gus competition from India, which the
Chinese have feared for many years,
the trade In Tatsienlu would decline
materially.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1920-06-03
Mayonna.lse DRESSING.

Beat the yolk of one egg In a deep
bowl, set in ice water add one-half
teaspoonful of salt, one-quarter tea
spoonful of mustard, a few dashes Of
cayenne; add tablespoonful of corn
oil and beat vigorously; add another
and a teaspOonful of lemon juice or
vinegar; beat vigorously again, then
add more oil until cupful is used and
three tablespoonfuls of vinegar. Beat
until thick and creamy. The dressing
should be stiff enough to keep it's shape
when dropped on salad. Use whipped
cream to thin dressing when it is
mixed with the salad. Various vege-
tables may be added to give flavor and
variety such as finely chopped onion,
peppers, parsley, chives or capers For
further seasoning add Worcestershire
sauce, catsups of various kinds, tabas-
co sauce and chill powder.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1920-06-03

floral tributes In the form of cabbage
and pink carrots. Every transformer
expects some day to make +. ii. Soth-
ern look like the end man in home
talent minstrel. To that end. he men,
orizes Marc AntOny's Grafton between
meals and cuDtivates a stage stride
which is Il cross between the stilt-
walking crane and a cripple with a
club foot.
In some localities which never have
n chance to see the drama except
when somebody in a touring car runs
over q setting hen. the transformer is
welcomed as refreshing change from
pitching quoits and betting on the du-
ration of the Mexican war. 1t must
he admitted. however, that not ali Of
the transforming now In progress
takes place In the rural precincts. A
pretty fair imitation can occasionally
he found I'm theaters which set man
back 81 for the family circle. This
tends TO prove that true merit often
goes unrecognized. while a superior
quality of nOnchalant nerve gets The
coin. (Copyright)
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1920-06-03
Sob rSeCond Though
BY GEORGE MATTHEW ADAMS

TINE Impulses of our Nature do not
i Lead us. they Arouse us. And
no man Is tit 10 contend gloriously for
a Fnu or for Cause until he is
thoroughly Aroused. But 20 act upon
FIRST Impulses is an unwise and
most disastrous policy.
Halter your Impulses with Sober
Second Thought.
You will never lose anything by
carefully Thinking things over before
yCu act. In fact, IL Is our Sober Sec
ond Thoughts that give us courage to
carry through successfully what comes
to us as necessary to be done. Cool
heads are always wiser than hot heads.
Halter your Impulses with Sober
Second Thought.
Most of the regrets Of the world
arse from important things done on
Tmrulse. which II but introduced at
once ~ Sober Second Thought would
Dot hare been done at all. Many a
rhan has resigned good position on
Impulse ontS, 10 be left for months and
years workinArp 10 whore he left off.
Sober Second Thought is a companion
worth cultivating.
4. Halter your Impulses with Sober
Second Thought
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1920-06-03

the valley, and brings one back to the
realization that this is a city. But
ms one follows the tiny car on its jour
ney one notices 1t passing little
truck farm with its regular rows of
beets and cabbages and its notice that
fresh vegetables right out of the farm
are to be had daily. A truck farm on
Broadway! Truly, New York Is a
city of surprises. A few rods farther
and the car is passing quaint white
wooden church that looks as though 1t
had just stepped out of the pages of
Rip Van Wrinkle.
In another direction roll out before
the eye the wide acres of Van Cort-
landt Park and beyond ii the varied
landscape of Westchester county; on
the other side the Harlem river and
more wooded and rocky hillside on
the Bronx side, with the columns of
the Hall Of Fame completing the pic
ture. Truly, 1t is view worth going
many a mile to see, never lacking In
interest or variety, and thoroughly
typical of the great city wherein 1t
lies. The city man loves that view
and goes there often to rest by look
ing above the rush and hurly-burly
and noise of the city, at the beauties
which lie on the higher level of vision.