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RESPECTED HOME OF MORGAN.
A subscriber who was interested in
the Companion's account of the re
spect shown to Mount Vernon during
the Civil war has called our atten
tion to another historic place that re
ceived similar respect and protection
—the home of Gen. Daniel Morgan, of
Revolutionary fame.
During the summer of 1912, says
our friend, I was visiting {fi the Shen
andoah valley, and in going from
Sliepherdstown to Harper's Ferry
passed a little village called Morgan's
drove. My attention was attracted to
a large, two-story stone house, which
1 discovered to be the old home of
Gen. Daniel Morgan, the commander
of the famous "Morgan Rifle Corps."
At that house Col. Morgan organized
nis famous regiment of riflemen and
•narched to Boston, a distance of six
inndred miles, to join Washington's
rmy. The men were dressed in deer
skin coats and coonskin caps and were
urmed with those long-barreled rifles
hat they used with such telling effect
n the battles of the Revolution. At
he battle of Saratoga, when Burgoyne
sked why the officers of his army
'ho were killed had been shot in the
i.ead, he was informed that it was the
'organ riflemen who were responsi
ble. He remarked that it was of no
i to fight with such an army and
hat he might as well surrender.
The old stone house at Morgan's
Orove stood unmolested during the
ivil war. Both Confederate and Fed
ral soldiers held it in almost sacred
everence. Early's men and Sheri
dan's swept past it on their raids in
!he valley, yet the home of the Mor
gans continued to stand as a noble
lonument to the memory of the great
eneral who helped to gain our inde
endence.
Youth
'a Comconlon.
"WHAT DID YOU DO?"
"A'hen the war has been won,
When our duty is done,
When our sailors come sailing the
foam
When our men of the air
Ynd the guns over there
All the nations are welcoming home
They will come to your door,
The young winners of war,
They will look you up, over and
through,
\nd in word or in thought,
They will ask like as not:
Well, we did quite a lot—
What did you?"
"When the years have gone by,
And the pages are dry,
That the story of struggle record
With democracy sure,
When we're living secure
In the strength of our soul and our
sword—
In that glorious time
To your knee there will climb,
Then a boy, or a girl, or the two,
And will say, "Some were brave
On land and the vave,
Some their everything gave—
What did you?"
OP, tf it may be at night,
You will sit by the light
Of a fire in a home that U^free.
You will sit all alone,
'Neath a roof of your own,
In some years of the future to be.
And a voice down inside
Will say, "Someone died,
Or they suffered their duty to do,
And the ones who could not
Give their all, gave a lot,
Gave their money—say, what,
What did you?"
Kit
WHAT IS MAN?
"What is man?" The question was
asked 3,000 years ago, and is still be
ing asked. Science would answer it
this way:
"Man contains about 3,500 cubic
feet of gas, oxygen, hydrogen and nit
rogen in his constitution, which, at $1
per thousand cubic feet would be
vorth $3.50 for illuminating, purposes,
lie also contains necessary fats to
make a fifteen-pound candle, and thus
rith
3,500 cubic feet of gas, possesses
ureat illuminating possibilities. His
system contains enough carbon to
make, 10,000 lead pencils. There are
nbout fifty grains of iron in his blood,
and the rest of his body would supply
enough to make a spike big enough to
Uang himself. If healthy, he contains
fifty-four ounces of phosphorous. This
poison would make a million matches,
r-r
&
kill a thousand persons. A couple
of pounds of lime make stiff bones and
'•rains.
"Sometimes he looks sour, ye.t he
contains about one hundred lumps of
^ugar and thirty spoons of salt tp
make the seasoning complete. If dis
tilled into water he would make about
forty quarts. He also contains a lot
of starch, chloride of potash, magnes
ium, sulphur and hydrochloric acid
If we tried to make him up out of
•ggs, it would take about 1,000." Al
o, if he has made good in Wall street
he has a spine made of whalebone.
Wall Street Journal.
€ACH ONE'S SUCCESS.
One's success or failure is deter
mined largely by the manner in which
the individual spends his or her leis
ufre time. It seems that many of us
are prone "to ride our hobbies" to the
ultimate. One plays cards every even
ing another shoots balls on a green
table another is a movie devotee, and
someone else is a dance crank night
after night. All these things are good
or bad in proportion to the degree in
Which they rest or improve us. We
need a more harmonious development
It Is obvious that the supreme pur
pose of life is to have a goal ahead
and to use every effort to attain the
great objective. He or she who lias
found his or her work in the scheme
of things is quite happy. We should
devote our leisure time to the acquir-
I
PGR THE
FAMtCV.\
GLEANINGS WAYSIDE.z_®
ing of greater efficiency, with a certain
amount of play and recreation to re
fresh us. The pursuit of pleasure
merely "to kill time" is a mistake.
Too much frivolity will make us
satiated and blase. In this busy world,
let us "get in the game" and use more
team play in the area of human activi
ties. So, let us ourselves for greater
efficiency and usefulness make a more
discreet use of our leisure liQie.
THE ZABERN AFFAifc.
Wltat is known as the .Zabern af
fair occurred in the town of Zabern,
Alsace, In November, 1913, and was
the culmination of tlie brutal treat
ment of the populace *by the officers
and soldiers of the Ninety-ninth Prus
sian infantry, commanded by Col. von
Beteur. Lieutenant Baron von Forst
ner, the most notorious of the officers,
had provoked several clashes between
the soldiers and the citizens, and or
dered the soldiers to bayonet any one
insulting the German flag. He him
self sabered a crippled shoemaker
which raised a great storm. He .was
tried and sentenced to forty-three
days' imprisonment, although his con
duct was strongly defended by Von
Reuter. Both Von Forstner and Von
Reuter were reported killed in Bel
gium early in the war.
INDISPENSABLE WOMANHOOD.
It is an infinitely better thing to
be a sweet and gracious and virtuous
woman than to be the foremost of
women novelists, or poets, or musical
composers. One may be both, writes
Katherine Conway. Yes, but we are
imagining a choice. Never is the book
or the statue with which the one
woman out of the one hundred thou
sand can delight the world, to be com
pared as a beneficent influence with
the happy home of virtue and honor
which any one of the hundred thou
sand may achieve. Earth's best bless
ings are its indispensable ones. Never
has worldly fame won by woman sur
passed that "blessed" pronounced of
their mother by virtuous sons and
daughters.
SARDINIA LIVES IN THE PAST.
Relics of Biblical pastoral life, plow
ing with wooden hooks drawn by oxen
reaping by the most primitive imple
ments and other occupations of the
nomadic peoples of antiquity remain
the manner of living today in Sardinia:
according to Dr. Alfred P. Dennis
commercial attache of the United
States embassy at Rome, who has just
returned from the island after making
an exhaustive study into trade possi
bilities.
"Sardinians present a living picture
of the remote past which has been
stereotyped and handed down from
antiquity," said Doctor Dennis. "Wa
ter wheels with earthen buckets, wood
en plows drawn by oxen, the scythe
and the sickle still in use in reaping
vast fields, nomadic occupations un
changed since the days of the Aryan
disperison—tribal costumes as gay and
grotesque as the trappings of the me
dieval pageant—all reproduce in the
veriest similitude the archaic life of
bygone ages."
THE POPE JMHE POIlll
"Madame will wear her blue fou
lard without doubt, and the black
hat?"
"I will wear nothing of the sort
How often have I told you, Marie
that there is no sense in your sug
gesting what clothes I am to put on
when I myself have perfectly definite
ideas on that subject? I will wear
the gray."
"But, madame, for driving in the
park, the blue is iw becoming, so
smart."
"That will do. The gray at three
o'clock, and that hat, you say loo&s
like a woman of sixty. Now you may
go."
There are times when I am obliged
to put Marie in her place. Blue fou
lard, indeed! Just to go driving in
that dullest of spots, Central park
The woman was out of her head!
Yet I was fond of her. She had
been left to me by poor Julia Har
rington, with the request that I look
after her—incidentally putting up with
her masterful French ways—and I
have grown to feel a real affection
for the creature, although at times
like the present, her ownership of me
irritates, and I often contemplate mak
inga change. But the memory of dear
Julia invariably obtrudes, and I al
ways relent. Now I have the feeling
that Marie is fastened to me for as
long as either or both of us shall live
However, I would not wear that
blue foulard, if for no other reason
than to show her that I still possess
some shreds of character.
Promptly at four-fifteen we started
forth, Marie looking as only a French
maid can look, and I probably a mere
dowdy frump in her eyes. Neverthe
less, gray becomes me. It tends to
brighten my hair and goodness
knows something is needed to make
those draty wisps less (dull! I detest
colorless hair, just as I detest color
less people.
It was a heavenl^ 4lay, a day full
of the sweetness and tenderness of
spring. The trees weYe already green
and the forsythia was out—although
that gave me no pleasure, for I dis
like its sickly yellow, and untidy habit
of growing in every difiection at once
—-and there were quantities of chil
dren and their nurses riding donkeys
—the children I mean—and a general
air of good-will seemed to ptfrVade
everything and everybody, tor I saw
no face which did not bear a smile,
and that is "going some" these days
I assure you!
Marie is fearfully gfibteked When
ever I use slang. She says it is not
comme il faut in one of my station.
11'^^"V
She never forgets and says "years
instead of "station." But then she
is French.
As we rolled gently along—Gifford
is a wonderful chauffeur and knows
my peculiarities as to speed—some
where in the upper driveways of the
park I noticed a soldier, a French
soldier, by the road, his hands in his
pockets, his head raised £s if listening.
He was just a common poilu, a boy,
one of the many who for one reason
or another are here in this country.
The sight of his blue uniform, as he
stood against the green of the park,
brought back a memory of that other
green park near Paris which I had
loved so well and from which four
years ago I had been obliged to. flee,
in a hurry.
"Do you think he would care to
drive with us, Marie?" I asked, the
war and all its horrors suddenly com
ing over me once more with renewed
vividness.
"But yes, madame~7unless
to°
proud. They sometimes are. My
nephew once refused to drive with
the Comtesse de—"
"Never mind your nephew. Tell
Gifford to stop and ask that boy if
motoring with a dull old lady would
give him any pleasure."
As we drew up, I opened the door
myself and leaned forward looking
into the soldier's young, sad eyes.
They were the eyes of youth, but old,
heaven, how old! His face was a
mass of scars, as if something had
tried to make mincemeat of it and
had been stopped before the job was
thoroughly accomplished. His poor
right hand bore so little resemblance
to what a hand should be that, after
the first glance, I could not bear to
look again. Upon his breast were
strung all the medals France can give
to her brave sons, a glittering row
bf hard won glory, and as he stepped
closer to the open door, his face ex
pressive of neither surprise nor in
quiry, I saw that he limped.
"Would you care to drive for an,
hour?" I asked, not waiting for Marie,
who is at times conveniently slow.
"Or I could take you wherever you
wish to go, if you want to go any
where. Or we might have tea."
"Madame is very good. If it does
not put madame out at all, it will be
a pleasure to do just what madame is
most desirous of doing. I should like
exceedingly to drive."
Marie, I could see, disproved highly
of the whole proceeding. She sat far
back in her corner with her lips com
pressed into a thin acidity. But her
eyes were eager.
"Very well," I said. "We will drive,
and then perhaps you will tell me
where you would like to be dropped,"
and I moved over as he took his place
beside me.
He was of peasant stock, one of
those simple, dignified creatures one
sees so often in France and never in
America. He possessed a directness,
a gentleness most appealing to an
older woman, and his story, as he told
it, held somewhat of the simplicity of
the early French poets, a naive
beauty underlying it all.
He was shy at first, and I was glad i
of that but as time passed he talked
freely, and I will try to tell you what
he said with as much of his own sim
plicity as I can remember, putting it
into English for you out of his some
what halting French.
To begin with, I asked him for his
age.
"I have twenty-three years, ma
dame. I went into the army when I
had but nineteen. That seems a long
time ago—but one does not pass the
time very quickly in the army it ap
pears longer when one is fighting.
And now, in your so beautiful city, the
days go by and I find it difficult to
believe that I have already lived here
for a whole month. Yes, it is beau
tiful, but—well, of course not Paris.
Madame will forgive me? I have
found much kindness here, much
brotherhood—and now I am waiting
for a ship which will take me to Eng
land."
"To England?" I queried, puzzled.
He smiled a twisted smile, which
took some of the repellant ugliness
from his face and gave one an idea
of what it might have been before1he
was so cruelly wounded.
"It is a long story. If madame has
the patience?"
"But I do so want to hear. Please
go* on."
"Madame very kind to take the
interest. When I came out of the hos
pital for the last tiipe, there did not
seem to be very much to do. I have
been wounded fourteen times—not,
you understand, fourteen separate
times, only five times have I been in
hospital—but after all that one be
gins to wonder what there can be for
one so—how shall I say?—so mended.
And tti® last time, when I stood upon
the stepjS in the sunshine, thought—
'if the good God does ndt show me
the way I shall fiave to stand here
until I die, and that would be a pity.'
He must have heard me because, al
most at once, two friends of mine,
two Italians, beside whom I had
fought, appeared from around the cor
ner. 'What are you going to do?'
they said. 'Nothing—what can I do?
My father and mother are both dead.
My village is dust. I have no home.
My sisters have been taken by the
Germans. There is jpothing left and
I have no place to fo at all.' 'Why
do you not come to Italy with us?'
they asked, and, as it did not matter
where I went, I said 'Yes, I will go
with you, and perhaps in your coun
try I will find work to do, work that
a man with but one hand can do.' You
see, mada|ne, it is not easy to go to
work for ju§t one hand alone. They
always w^nt men with two.
"I had been discharged from the
army, I could be of no more use there.
Oli, yes, I have my pension—forty of
your dollars a year—and I will draw
my pay" for one year after my dis
charge, so you see I have a great deal
to be thankful for. And I have some
thing else, something that was given
me by a very great man. Madame is
interested? I thought so. But wait!
Madame shall hear all about him if
she will have the patience, and' I as
sure you he is a very great man, in
deed, so great that few are allowed
to see him at all. But I have seen
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(Continued on page 7. v
THE CATHOLIC BULLETIN, OCTOfeEfc 4, Ifi?
EDUCATIONAL
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College of St. Scholastica
DULUTH, MINN.
University Affiliation Standard College Courses
j'High School, Commercial and Preparatory Courses,
Music, Art, Elocution.
VIRGINIA PLUMBING &
HEATING CO.
PLUMBING, HEATING
AND VENTILATING
Repairing and Remodeling
a Specialty
103 North Fifth Ave. West
Telephone No. 119
VIRGINIA, MINN".
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v
American Exchange Bank
VIRGINIA, MINN.
Capital and Surplus, $150,000.0#
Member Federal Reserve Bank
SAFETY BOXES FOR RENT
For Good Groceries
SEE
Jenia Bros.
234 Chestnut Street
Virginia, Minn.
CASH AND CARRY
SATISFACTION
AFETY
ERVICE
D. Greeley, Pres. H. V. Peterson, C'r
C. E. Hendrick, V.P. J. I. Frasa, Asst. C.
STATE BANK OF VIRGINIA
General Banking Business
VIRGINIA, MINN.
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BREAD
S A A K E Y
VIRGINIA, MINNESOTA
HIBBING, MINN.
MERCHANTS & MINERS
STATE BANK
HIBBING, MINN.
Banking InnunOM
Foreign Exchange
"We give service and 3% on
Savings Accounts"
DOUGHERTY & BARRETT
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
Phone No. 1
101-103 Second Ave. Hlbbing, Minn.
Hinckley, Minn. Hibbing, Minn.
Chisiiolm, Minn.
ISLAND FARM CREAMERY CO.
Gatrntey Brand Butter
Island Farm lee Cream
Dairy Products and Ice Cream
Supplies
HIBBING, MINNESOTA
RYAN BROS.
TRANSFER AND FUEL.
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Anto Transfer
Duluth and All Range Towns
507 Third Avenue Phone 46S
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DULUTH
Both Phonet t?0?
WEST DULUTH
Cal 197 Cole 276
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JAS. A. ROBB, Vice-President
J. C. McGTLVERY, Vice-President
C. B. HOEL, Cashier
F. B. MALLEY, Assistant Cashier
DULUTH DIOCESAN DIRECTORY
The Miners National Bank
EVELETH, MINN.
Capital in«l Surplus, $55,000.00
General Banking and lnsnranee
G. A. WHITMAN, President
R. M. CORNWELL, Cashier
THE
FIRST NATIONAL BANK 9F EVELETH
EVELETH, MINN.
Capital and Surplus, $100,000.00
Your BuMlness Invited
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Hotel & Cafe
417 W. Superior Street
DULUTH, MINN.
EUROPEAN PLAN Melrose 173
AND
Hotel Holland
Thoroughly Modern
Entirety New
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S. T. HUIE, Prop.
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Interior Finish of All Kindt.
Send your plans to us for figures.
Duluth Lumber Co.
Both Phones 112 364 Garfleld Ave.
Mills PALMER CO.
aULUTH, MINN.
Wholesale Fruits
and Vegetables
BEYOND
DOUBT OR QUESTION
The Glass Block
i8
The Shopping Center
of Duluth
CENTRAL BUSINESS
COLLEGE
DAY SCHOOL—NIGHT 8CHOOL
OPEN ALL YEAR
ENTER ANY TIME
KINGAID MERCANTILE COMPANY
Call or Write for Information
James R. Far icy, Manager
80 East Superior St.,
Duluth, Minnesota
"Everything for the Motorist"
DULUTH AUTO
SUPPLY CO.
Dealers and Jobbers
IN
FIRESTONE TIRES
VEEDOL OILS
MOTOR CAR ACCESSORIES
"Half the Truck Tonnage
nt
America la carried on
FIRESTONE TIRES"
Melrose 2780 E. Superior St.
Grand 621 DULUTH
PAIGE CHEVROLET
Passenger and Closed
Wholesale Grocers
DULUTH, MINN.
mm*.
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AND
REPUBLIC TRUCKS
H. B. Knudsen Auto Co.
N. W. Distributors
102-201 En«t Superior St.
DULUTH, MINN.
National Iron Co.
ENGINEERS
AND
Manufacturers
MACHINERY
Structural Steel
DULUTH, MINN.
~r'n'r lii&M—Ml, ••.Mini
Consolidated Stamp
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JOB PRINTING
Jote 'iPrintiugr. Steel Die Embossed
Stationery, Card and Wedding En
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Time and Trade Checks, Badges.
Hail order business solicited.
14 FOURTH AVENUE WEST,
DULUTH, MINN.
DULUTH BURIAL
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Manufacturers and Wholesalers
Burial Cases and Caskits
118-120 W. Second St., Duluth, Minn.
"DRESS WELL
—Never Miss the
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U U U I N
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Plumbers', Steam Gas and Water
Works Supplies
f0g*3O4 West Michigan St., DULUTH. MINN.
St. Germain Bros.
MANUFACTURERS AND
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Glnsg and I'alnt*
Quality—Service—Price
Send
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Established 1891
DULUTH, ... MINN.
RAMER'S
Chocolates Incomparable
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Distributors.
DULUTH LINEN COMPANY
Manufacturers and Wholesalers
Linen & Cotton Goods
FOR
Hotels, Clubs, Cafes, Hos
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Write for Catalogue
228 East First St. Duluth, Minn.
A S S
Manufacturer* of Art, Beveled
and Leaded Windows for
Churches, Residences and Public
Building".
DULUTH ART GLASS CO.
1727-29-31 W. Superior
St.
DULUTH, MINN.
CLYDE IRON WORKS
Manufacturers of
Hoisting Machinery
DULUTH, MINN.
Melrose 73 Grand
Duluth Ice &
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12 EAST SUPERIOR STREET
A E S S
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WHOLESALE FURMTURE.
MinnesotaMatch Manufacturing Co.
Manufacturers
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Factory and General Offlcs, o
WEST DULUTH, MINN.
F. A. PATRICK & CO.
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and Manufacturers
DULUTH.
Makers of the Famous
Fatrlck-Duluth Wool Products
Sold In Every State of the Union
Write for Catalogue.
We have not failed until we cease
trying.. Defeat is nothing_but educa
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the
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first steps to something
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THE H. C. MEINING CO.
Buyers and Shippers of
HAY, OATS, FLOUR
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Write Us for Quotations
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STAGY-MERRILL FRUIT CO.
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Western State Bank
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S17 Central Avenue
WEST DULUTH
We solicit your business
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HART TRANSFER 8 STORAGE CO
Moving Packing Storage
Office: 17 North Fifth Ave, W.
DULUTH, MINN.
Nelson Knitting Mills Go.
S105 W. Superior Street
DULUTH, MINN.
Manufacturers of Knit 6ootls
All Kinds of Yarn for Hand Knitting
Fine Interior Finish
Lumber, Sash, Doors, and
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ELLIOTT & COMPANY
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Established 1889
VICTOR HUOT
French Confectioner
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Mail orders a specialty. When in
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GOOD THINGS TO EAT
The
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aodas and
luncheons
in the
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DULUTH, MINN.
DISTRIBUTORS OF
"Duarte"
Oranges
FOR EVERY ROOM IN THE
HOUSE
KLEARFLAX
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