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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1921-09-03
Fifiy-TWo Below Zero.

The train stopped. The day. was
remarkably close. The thermometer
stood at SO in the car and the waves
of air from the electric fan were
moist, sticky and hot. The heat was
east and west, north and south. 1t
was SO degrees in Montreal, and 50
in Paris, the papers said. But in
that city on the west bank of the
Hudson, half way up, the city with
the steep hills, hot day is some.
thing to be remembered All of us
were sweltering. AS I looked out OF
the window l suddenly thought of the
Jewish girl who had left that city
some years before. The old priest
to whom she writes had quoted from
a letter of hers, written in January
1T is fifty-two degrees below zero
here and, of course, we don't go OUT
she had written.
The mere recollection of the
phrase brought a momentary re.
freshment from the heat. Fifty-two
degrees below zero! Molly was far
away, indeed. Yes, Molly was her
name.
The little Jewish girl went to the
Catholic school in that city, where
the good priest, now in New York, was
pastor then, and Sister Emmanuel was
principal of the parochial school. An.
other girl pupil was Miriam, daughter
of an Episcopalian. Curiously enough
the Episcopalian father, while wishing
his daughter to attend the Catholic
school and be under the discipline and
care of the Sisters, was fearful lest a
possible latent desire for the Catholic
religion might flame in his daughters
soul, so he made her take a solemn
pledge to have nothing to do with
prayers to the Blessed Virgin, and not
to attend any services where the
Blessed Virgin might be venerated or
solicited to intercede for any person
or cause. Miriam was a dutiful girl
and the Sisters, of course, saw to it
that the pledge of the girl was in no.
wise endangered
Yet Miriam, to whom the Sisters
never spoke of Catholic doctrine ex-
cept in the most formal and necessary
way, long ago devoted herself to the
life of Catholic Religious and teaches
the pickaninnies in New Orleans!
Molly, the Jewish girl, was ham
pered in freedom, to some extent, be-
cause her people, devout Jews, warn
ed her against the Catholic religion
Again and again they spoke to her
about keeping away from Catholic
prayers and services. Molly obeyed
as best she might. The good Sisters.
as always, were scrupulous in their
treatment of on-Catholic children,
using every care to do or say nothing
that, in any way, might be construed
as savoring of proselytism.
But one day Molly said she wished
to become Catholic. Sister Emman.
uel reported the incident to the pastor.
The priest said, BE careful not to do
or say anything that would show you
made or will make any effort to
change the girls religion. If God
wants the girl, He will bring her into
the fold"
Sister Emmanuel, always cautious
in conversation or act, always thought
full of the sensibilities Of the parents
and families Of the non-Catholic pu-
pills, was more alert than ever not to
say or to do anything to attract the
little Jewess to the Church.
But Molly persisted in her own way.
At. length, she openly declared to her
parents that she must become a Cath
Ollie. Every time she spoke of her in
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1921-09-03

family. Molly that was-the Sist
Sion now-was dead to the M
who chung to her ancient belief
customs.
Away up in Kamschatka, the
post of frozen Siberia, is a mona
OF the Sisters of Sion. There is
ly, the Jewess that was. She
to the good priest from time to
She wrote about the temperatu-
fifty-two below zero. Cold, i'm
that is, but hardly colder than wa
mothers heart.
But, after years, ray of long.
ed affection penetrated the rigid
ism of the mother. Came to \
from home, knitted sweater Je
But not a line of writing. Not a :
OF wish or greeting. In year
another. But no line. Then ca
silver watch. That symbolizes
So that, If nothing more powerf
gracious operates, time is soft,
the heart of the mother. Still II
city on the Hudson lives that !
mother. The priest, whom ever
in central Manhattan knew, be,
of the great collie dog that W,
with him, hears from the Sist,
Sion. But that Sister is still wi
line from her mother.
1t was hot in the train that
Heat follows cold, we say. :
thought ran in my mind. AS / fe
myself and thought of Molly, thu
ter of Sion, ] knew that the ice
CONCEALED the old mothers heart
melting.
Hard and humbly the converted
ess follows the path of duty for
She is serving Him as best she
The way is long. But signs poi
light in Molly's life, the light
long-chilled but non-extinct mat
love and interest. May it shine
darkness of Kamschatka to chez
brave little Jewess who took III
cross and followed Him,
Catholic "
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1921-09-03
STOCK QUOTATIONS AT SOUTH
PAUL, TUESDAY, AUGUST a
Cows and Heifcr.-

Cows and Heifers--
Gamer and cutter cows, 1900
grassy cows and heifers, 5000
choice grass heifers, 5.00@6.OO: dr.
cows and heifers. 6.00@6.75.
StOckers and Feeders
Fair to good yearTings, S.50@45t
ira good yearlings. 4:75M5.O0;
stockers, 100000 lbs, 4.7565.5O:
feeders. 900 900 lbs, 5.OOD5. so:
feeders, 900-1.0O0 lbs, 5.0O@6.75.
Dairy Cows
Common to good, 4O.0O@75.OO; L
] LOG Loo.
Hog Quotations
Heavy packers, 6.5O@7O0; good
ed hogs, .7.75@S.75; light hogs,
9.35; workers., 1926; Gull pigs,
200; good stock pigs, S.00@S.66;
TO
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.
THE ROSARY.

Not on the lutte, nor harp of many
strings
Shall all men praise the Master of al
song,
Our life is brief, one saith, and art
is long;
And skilled must be the laureates oil
things!
Silent, o lips that utter foolish
things; @
Rest, awkward fingers striking all
notes wrong!
Music, like that Gods chosen poet
p sings!
There is one harp that any hand car
play,
And from it's strings what harmo
! MES arise! - a~'
There is one song that any mouth can
A song that fingers when all sing
ing dies.
When on their beads our Mothers
children pray "
Immortal music charms the crate
full skies.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1921-08-18
GRIM RETRIBUTION.

You can say what you please about
a man escaping punishment in the
other world for his misdeeds," re-
marked one of Dillon county's we'll
known business men, but one thing
is certain-he does not escape it in
this world. Nearly every misfortune
has its origin in some little sin, some
little misdeed, some violation of ma
lures or mans laws. Not in every
case is the person upon whom the
misfortune visited directly respon-
sible. Sometimes 1t is the sin of an
ancestor or perhaps the evil influence
or an associate that ultimately
brought about the misfortune for
which an innocent person suffers.
But after all it narrows itself down
to the unalterable law of cause and
effect. 1 had a most striking and
painful illustration of this fact when
1 was a younger man. 1 had a fine
pair of mules which 1 priced very
highly An old negro man in my COM
munity wanted those mules, but /
cid not want to sell them. He asked
me to make him a price and l made
it so high 1 did not think he would
accept it. But he did and had to go
mules. He paid me half cash and l
took a bill of sale for the unpaid bal
ance. Every time 1 saw those mules
wanted them back. Cotton did not sell
high during the spring and summer
months, and when the fall crop be-
gan to come on the market the price
went all to pieces. Not many farm
ers were able to pay the expenses of
making a crop. The old negroes
paper was due the first of October
and he could not pay it. l waited a
few weeks and then took the mules
back. The old negro hated to give
them up, but he could not meet his
obligation and there was nothing
else for him to do. In some way he
managed to buy an OK and cart and
every time l saw him driving that
old OK around my conscience hurt
me. Down in my subconscious mind
something kept telling me that
had not done right, but l did not
have the courage or the manhood or
whatever you would call it to so to
that old darkey and tell him that
would extend his paper and let him
have those mules back. Several times
l resolved to do this but 1 kept put
ting ii off. One day L sent those
mules down to the water gin with a
load of seed cotton. While they were
standing on the bridge over the pier
head waiting for the cotton TO be
unloaded the old darkey turned the
corner right in front of them with
his OK and cart. The mules took fright,
reared in the air, plunged into the
mill pond and were drowned In this
tragedy there was sermon on re-
iSntion so deeply impressive that 1
shall never forget it,
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1921-08-18
Carolina.

Mrs. T. j. Bennett recently visited
her sister Mrs. Jim Mcqueen of Row
land.
Mrs. Lilly Mcdonald and children
Cf Clio are spending several days with
the formers brother, Mr.. J. f.. Nor
ton.
two small daughters, of Smithfield.
n. c., are on q visit to the former s
mother. Mrs. c. NJ. McInnis.
Mr.. n. d. Afford of st. George is
visiting relatives here.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. NJ. Morrison of
MoColl spent Sunday at the home OF
Mr. Dunk McLaurin.
Rev. c. G.. Brown left last Monday
for Montreal for n stay of several
days.
Mr.. Dan Henderson lead an inter
esting meeting of Christian Endeavor
Sunday night. Three short talks were
made on the topic, which was True
Temperance in Our Hearts and
Lives" Several good thoughts were
expressed on topics. Hearty singing
by the society and solo by Bill Nc
Innis helped make this one of our
best meetings.
The death angel entered the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Laurin McInnis on
Sunday. August 9TH and bore the
sweet spirit of their only son, James
Laurin, TO its Heavenly home. He
had been sick for almost a week but
his condition did not become alarm
ina until Saturday night. All that
loving hands and a skilled physician
could do could not stay the fatal di-
sease. For three years and two
months he was lent to earthly parents
and devoted sisters as a bright ray
OF sunshine, but God in his infinite
wisdom saw fit to call him 10 join the
throng before His throne, where
Thousands of children stand" The
little body was laid TO rest in Carolina
cemetery the following day beneath a
bank of beautiful flowers.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1921-08-18
String Beans-anu Chitterlings.

The conversation had tuned to
fall gardens and it was agreed with
out a dissenting vote that enough Veg
etables went to waste in Dillon county
each year to feed the people through
the winter. A wholesome vegetable
that grows in abundance is the old
field pea and it is easily preserved in
the form of snaps and shelled peas.
They retain their flavor and taste
just as we'll in the winter as in the
summer. Thousands of bushels of
these peas go to waste in the county
every year, and if the people would
take the trouble TO put them up in
air-tight jars they would go a long
ways towara cutting down the yege-
table bill in the winter.
Have you ever tried the drying
process with the string BEAM" in
quired Mr.. G. D. Barlow. THAT is a
simple and inexpensive way of keep
ing string beans through the winter.
You string the beans on a thread and
hang them up in the garret or some
clubhouse. The shell dries with the
bean and when you cook them in the
winter they have the flavor of the
fresh string bean and eat Just as
WELL"
81 have never tried the dried
string beam" remarked DIR. w. B.
Smith. but but it reminds me of an
incident of my young days that
shall never forget. 1 started out with
a party of my young men friends one
night to attend wedding in my COM
munity. We crossed the Catawba riv-
a in nd yhny H.
other side it began to rain and we had
cloudburst. The roads were SO
badly washed that we decided to
spend the night in a farmhouse. The
party was so large that we had to
stay in an clubhouse. There was a dis
tillery close by, but the roads were
not too badly washed for some of the
members of the party to find 1t. At
ter the distillery party returned and
the crowd was in happy and con-
genial mood some one happened tC
look up and there strung out on
sticks was row after row of chitter.
lings- In a few minutes we had fire
going, and we cut those chitterlings
into small links and roasted them on
The Goals. l don't believe l ever ate
anything that tasted quite so well
When our appetites were satisfied
there were not many gatherings left
AT daylight the old woman of the
house came out to see how we were
getting on. She gave us. a pleasant
good morning. but when she saw
what had been going on during The
night her eyes drifted toward the
empty chitterling sticks. Throwing vi
her hands In horror she exclaimed
The Lord have mercy; IL they aim
eat up every chitterling 1 had savet
10 make soap grease out off, Tha
SHOWS you, concluded the doctor, wha
Few drinks Of mean liquor will
make q man do"
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1921-08-18
THE CHIEF IN BAD.

You have got me in bad with lots
OF delinquent tax payers" said Chief
of Police Britt the other day. "I told
them that we would have to adver-
tise heir property in this weeks is
sue If they didn't pay up and many
of them got busy and raised the mon
ey. In fact, last Wednesday Just be-
fore the paper went TO press Dillon
was buster than it has been since the
fall OF 1919. But when 1 opened the
paper Thursday morning and there
was no advertisement of delinquent
taxes the first question I asked myself
was Now where do I stand?' 1 have
no desire to try to establish a re-
putation as Dillon's boss l-r-it
Is too big a job-and now what am
to do?" Chief Britt's intentions
were good, but the law says all legal
Advertisements for the sale of land
must be published three consecutive
weeks before the day of sale, and as
there are three issues of the Herald
beginning next week, August 18th
before the first Monday in September
the advertisement must appear for
the first time next week and be pub.
lfshed in the next two issues. 1t was
not Chief Britt's fault. The advertise
ment was held out for the proper is
sue at The Herald office.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1921-08-18
COUNTY NEWS.
Lake View.

Mrs. r. F. Ellington and little
Misses Davis and Hilda Ellington
spent last week at Myrtle Beach.
Miss Lizzie Powell is visiting Miss
Hattie Hood at Roanoke, Va.
Mrs. A. w. Smith has returned
home after two weeks stay at
Wrightsville Beach.
Miss Florie Ford is visiting Mrs.
W. G. Wallace at Johnsonville.
Miss Winnie Davis Smith of Mt.
Vernon, Ga, is visiting relatives near
town.
Mrs. c. L. Norman and baby Hal
c. of Chicago, are here for an extend
ed visit to relatives.
Miss Elizabeth Graham of Rennert,
n. c., spent part of last Week with
Mrs. D. X. Ford.
Miss Florence Shaw of Sumter was
the guest of Miss Ethel Simpson last
week
Mrs l.. w. Temple, Misses Alimae,
Hattie. Sadie and Lyall Nichols Tenn
pie, Mrs. Jane Temple Watson and
little Miss Betty Joe Watson are at
Wrightsville Beach for the remainder
of the summer
Mrs. Missouri. Ford of Bristol, Fla
Is visiting relatives here.
Miss Kate Stello of Charleston
spent the week end in town.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1921-08-18
Weekly Cotton Letter.

(By Savannah Cotton Factorage Coz
The cotton crop continues to de-
teriorate. not only in Georgia and
the Carolinas but also in Oklahoma,
Texas and other states. If this de-
terioration continues, the final yield
Will fall far short of the Govern
ment's estimate of S.2O3,0OO bales.
1t is reported that a private bureaus
estimate of the crop condition at this
time is 81 per cent of normal. in
dicating yield of 100000 bales.
or nearly 100000 bales less than
the Governments first estimate.
But the course of the market will
probably be governed by three fac
tors: Whether or not the Federal
Reserve Banks will assist farmers to
market their cotton over a period of
several months instead of being COM
PEELED to sell as fast as picked ::
whether or not the demand will be
sufficient to force prices up, or
whether or not the boil weevil con-
dltions continue so unfavorable that
the yield will be even smaller than
present conditions indicate.
1t is unlikely that cotton grading
from strict low middling to ordinary
will decline much, if any, from the
Present level, on the other hand, there
is a good chance for these grades to
advance, because differences in price
between the lower grades are still
too wide. If the 1921 crop is picked
as fast as it opens there will be few
low grades, and this will result in a
narrowing of differences, which
means that the owners of such cotton
will profit materially.
Japan was 'one of the first coun-
tries to experience financial crisis
Following the world war. 1t is inter
esting to know that this country has
recently bought heavily of cotton in
the South, and everyone hopes that
other far east and European coun-
tries will soon be able to enter our
markets. If they are, no doubt Amer
lean mills will follow suit, and we
will be another step nearer normal
conditions,
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1921-08-18
WHAT THE BOIL WEEVII. DID

"One of the prettiest sights l ever
saw, remarked Mr.. l.. c.. Brady.
was down here near Monck's Cor
ner in Berkley county. 1t was a cat
tie farm with $50 head of the pret-
tiest herefords and short horns you
ever put your eyes on. The farm is
owned by Nathaniel Hayward, for
merly one of the largest cotton plan
ters in Berkley county. Today Mr..
Hayward does not raise stalk of
cotton on his place. The boil weevil
found foot-hold in Berkley several
years ago. 1t cleaned up the cotton
fields, and as Mr.. Hayward said. al
most put him in the poorhouse. He
had been making from 500 to 700
bales OF cotton year; the last year
he gathered only 7S bales. Mr.. Hey
ward fenced in his place. planted it in
grass and bought some breeding cat
tie. Last year he sold $1,000 worth off
the farm and has $50 head left Mr..
Hayward is one of the happiest men
ever saw. He said he did not know
how easy it was to make a living on
the farm until the boil weevil came
along and forced him to give up cot
ton. He is done with cotton forever "
Mr.. Brady bought 5 head of
herefords and short horns from Mr..
Hayward and is getting his place in
shape for the boil weevil. He is fenc-
ing in his lands and making prepara-
tions to plant grass. He left Tuesday
night for Georgia where he will spend
several days on a stock farm select
ing more cattle. 1t is Mr.. Braddy's s
opinion that everybody should get
together and have a big cattle sale
here during fair week, This may be
the last time the people will have any
money to buy cattle and he thinks
they should be encouraged to buy as
many as they can we'll handle during
the fall. There is no doubling the fact
that the boil weevil is here TO camp
for while, and the cotton crop in
Dillon county will be cut in half next
year. 1t is the wise man who prepares
for his coming.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1921-08-18
Let Fortune Get Away.

All that glitters is not gold, but
lack Of glitter is not a certain test
for worthlessness. it was found by
gold diggers along a river in Papua.
British New Guinea. recently. While
searching for gold the men encoun-
tered bluish-gray flakish substance
which they cast aside as worthless.
Two months ago two pounds of this
substance was bought in London by
an American firm for approximately
$4,000. or eight times the value of
the same amount of gold. 1t was os-
miridium, a member of one of the
hardest metals known and used for
the tipping of fountain pens and for
delicate bearings of fine machinery.
1t is worth $500 an ounce. When
the prospectors learned the value of
the substance they hurried back to
the river and learned that tropical
rains had washed away most of the
precious stuff. BY careful work they
raked together what was left, had it
refined and sent to London.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1921-08-18
BLEASE PLEASED, AT CAMP
JACKSON ABA
Yorkville ENQUIRER.

Yorkville Enquirer.
II am delighted to know that Camp
Jackson will be abandoned" said for
mer Governor Cole L. Blease, while
in Yorkville last Thursday en- route
to the Felbert picnic.
That camp, especially since the
armistice, has certainly been a stun
bling block for Columbia and there
Is no way in the world to estimate
its cost to the capital because of in
creased immortality and all that sort
of thing.
] 1T has been the cause Of the down
fall Of many an innocent girl and IL
has caused the city of Columbia to
gain a most unenivable reputation
for immorality-a reputation that she
will be unable to live down for a
long time to come.
Now during the war while boys
or our own state were training there
it was different matter altogether
But since then some or the scum
miest scum in all the earth has con-
gregated there and there have been
numerous robberies, various other
kinds Of disorders, assaults on white
women and in fact. vice and vicious
ness has been rampant
Now understand, don't bring
that indictment against all the per.
sonnel of the camp. But the records
since the armistice show that crime
has been on the increase amone
the soldiers and there are many fine
men in camp there.
"And yet there are some of ouI
more or less prominent citizens OF
Columbia who would keep it there
They came to me and asked my as.
sistance in keeping it there. 1 have
some pretty strong friends in Wash.
ington, and it might have been thai
could have been instrumental, in
having 1t retained. Understand,
don't say that I could. But I refused
to lift finger for it What are tho
hundreds of thousands of dollars thai
1T brings to the city monthly to com
pare with the robbery of the virtue
of one woman, to say nothing of the
increase in other crime and genera
llawlessness? have no hesitancy ir
saying that I shall be pleased wher
the last vestige Of Camp jackson 1,
removed"
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1921-08-18
Honey Dew Crop II Failure.

The honey dew crop in this sec
tion is failure" said Postmaster
Carmichael, an expert on beeology,
and there will be very little honey
made in the eastern part of the state
this year. l don't know how it is in
other sections, but if honey dew is as
scarce elsewhere as it is here honey
will be worth its weight in gold this
year" For many years Mr.. Carmich-
ael has worked with and made a
study of the bee and what he does
not know about the bee family is not
worth knowing. Honey dew forms
in flower buds early in the spring"
continued Mr.. Carmichael, "and a
late spring makes a short crop. You
will remember, we had very late
spring this Year and that is the best
! explanation l can give for the short
crop of honey dew" When told that
,Orangeburg folk attributed the short
'0ney crop to the scarcity of bees.
man. of which they claimed. had
been kined by the calcium -arsenate-
molasses treatment the farmers used
OH their cotton TO kill the boil Wee
vii. Mr.. Carmichael smiled broadly.
! THE bee does not get much honey
out of the cotton blossom" said Mr.
Carmichael THE most of the honey
is gathered in April. May and Jurn
and cotton does not bloom until about
the middle of June. The bee has stor-
ed up the most of his honey before
the cotton blossom opens and even
when it opens he does not pay much
attention to it. 1t has only a limited
amount of honey dew and the bee has
too much trouble getting it out. No,
the scarcity of honey in Orangeburg
is not due to boil weevil poisoning. 1t
is due to the scarcity of honey dew
IL there is any scarcity of bees it is
because they have gone deeper into
the swamps where the cold spring
weather did less damage and honey
dew flowers are more plentiful"