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Show 1 ..Our Boys ana rl$.. ' Edited by Aunt Busy. This department is conducted solely" in the inter ests of our girl and boy readers ; Aunt Busy is glad to hear any time from the I r.ioccs and nephews who read this page, and 'to give j them all the advice and help ln her power Write on one Bide oi the paper only 1 Do not have letters too lone I Original Tories and verses will be gladly received mid carefully edited. fa''i receded The manuscrips of contributions not accepted will be returned. vm. nlil Address all letters to 4unt rnt- t. i Catholic. Salt Lake Ci. ' Intcrmoun ! A DREADFUL QUARREL. I Thi three worn next door m i;rlibors ' I Bol.liy ami Bessie and Kate; I Au'1 k thai is truly shocking I Of tlu-m I'll now relate. I ' ' ? J!oi and Ivato were sisicr, : And oa.-h was a "darling pet"; ; Kuir. a dainty Moinl was. -nd JJobk: gay Imiiii.tto. T-ohhy live at tlio house next door; A frolicM.iiKi little fellow Willi roguish ryes of goJdon brown, And curls u soft and yellow. Hp went. 1o ihc liomo of tho two ono day, Before they had finished tlmir dinner.' And ercodily drank their bowl of milk Th naughty little sinner! The si-ters were very angry then, And fought him .diamefully, Till Utile Bob. in fright and dread,. Ban hastily away. But next, day he returned, again, And chased them spitefully. And frightened them until they climbed To the top of the maple tree. !Now Bessie and Kate, you see. were cats Belonging to Winnifred Bo"-; And Bobby, of course, you understand, Was the next door neighbor's dog. Xevr World. i AUNT BUSY HAS HER SAY. Boar Xieces and Nephews: Aunt Busy had just jinished a little talk for her dear girls and boys, when she read the following cheery letter written I to ih girls and boys by Undo Kaymond of the CiiihoJic Columbian, so she decided to borrow Uncle Baymond's "sunshiny"' words this week and pass them on to her own dear nieces and nephews: "There is no gift that works for good more ef-fiesieiously ef-fiesieiously than cheerfulness. Everyone should 'ultivate the power to scatter sunshine and to radii! rad-ii! t gladness and good sheer. ; . "Sunny people dispel melancholy, gloom, worry, ' and anxiety from all those with whom they come in eoniaet, jnst a,, tie gun drives away darkness. When ihey enter a room full of people where the conversa tion has been lagging, and where everybody seems bored, they transform the surroundings like the sun bur-ting through thick, black clouds, after a storm, j T.verybody takes on a joyous spirit from the glad soul just entered. Tongues are united, the conversation conver-sation which, has dragged becomes bright and spirited, and the whole atmosphere vibrates ' with' gladness and good cheer. "Bomembor this in your daily home life. Do not show the sunshine to the stranger and the clouds .Hid gloom to those who love you best. Pray for our d ar friends'.' Lovingly yours, AUXT BUSY. ... LETTERS AND ANSWERS. Lowell. Ariz., Feb. 1. ltor. Aunt Busy: Dear Aunt, I hope you had a merry Christmas and & Happy Xcw Year. 1 hope you are .veil. My little sister. Bridget, is very sick wiih pneumonia. She is ." and started to school Tuesday, Jan. 17. ) am 'n the A th. (Jot rank Xo. 1 in my class in examination. I got K0 in arithmetic and US in hinpilnges. I will be 11 on the 24th of this month. Wo are going to have a mission in March. The tv alr f is very nice lie re. T wi-h al! your nieces and nephews would warite I to y0,u and cheer you up. I close, with love. I rc- uuiiu your loving niece, SARAH WESTFIELD. i V- Aunt Busy feels very cheerful since hearing I ' from lim dear little niece in Arizona. The little j lady always has interesting news, too, and Aunt Bu-y wiil be fjad to hear frequently from her. j ! Write about the mission, dear, if you will have j time, and do not forget to pray for Aunt Busy dur- j tin; mission time. 4 Meeker,' Colo., Feb. 4. 1905. Dear Aunt Bury: I received your sample copy r.W'l road, your address when you said you were cross beeaue the children had slighted you. I have never ! sr i;i you a letter before, but I will be n nephew of yours for a long time. 1 am 14 years old and am in the sevenih grade. I want to know if there is a liureh in Goldfiold, Xev. There is no church in Meeker. Colo. We have mass once in three months. I think we will go to Goldfiold. Xev. My father is there. f he likes it we will go there. I. have five brothers and two sisters. I am the oldest of all. Mamma is going to subscribe for your paper. Goodbye. Good-bye. Your loving nephew. FBAXCIS JOSEPH McDOXALD. Aunt Busy hopes to hear very often from the fin.' ehap in Meeker, Colo. What ?. beautiful name you have! You certainly have two glorious patron snims. Francis Joseph, and Aunt Busy is sure you jm;-r. be very good-Tin good-Tin -re is a fine church and a splendid priest in Tonopah, which is not far from Goldfiold. Xev., so Aunt Busy feels sure that you will hear mass very eft en if you move there. Aunt Busy is vcry pleasr.J to know that you like the paper. She trusts that your good mother will subscribe, so you will surely be her dear nephew then. Write open, Fran-eii Fran-eii Joseph. CYRIL'S WISH. (By Louisa Emily Dobree. in Catholic Record.) "Oh. but this is an awfully bad one. It was down Alston Hill the hike skidded, and it's his had. Ho has been carried into the Wilsons' cot-tace cot-tace fortunately it was near there and pater is . with hi in.' Jk "Is he really very bad?' i.sked Cyril, who saw that Jennie was in zrent grief, and as he spoke he thought of the words he had once read: "Curses, likn young chickens, come home to roost." What were those words in Italian that he had said to himself him-self in his fury at Bob's trick? He remembered well enough then just the wish that Bob might meet with some accident, a form of imprecation common among the more ignoant classes in Italy, and the wish had. been realized. - All Ihc anger died out of his heart as Jennie went on: "Pater says it is very, very bad concussion of the brain, I think, he said, and 1 heard him tell v ' mother . . 7 "What r .. "That it was a ticklish case and pacr never I, , , " j" makes the worst of anything. He wouldn't speak like that" ' ''Oh, well, you mustn't be 50 miserable. Isn't he to be brought homer' '. Jennie shook her head. "Xot yet. any way. I knew Bob would come to grief some day, he Avas so reckless and fearless. I had to come back. I was no use, and the boys are coming back they have gone to Anistnn to fetch Dr. Grayling. I am glad you are here, Cyril," said Jenni--. "it";, some one to speak to. I am so miserable miser-able about it. It seemr. years and centuries ago since wo were all in thu schoolroom this afternoon and he was full of his jokes." "Yes, it does." said Cyril. " c were all .-o jolly after you went away, laughing at the way you had been taken in!"' said Jennie sadly. "Taken in C exclaimed Cyril; ''not much taking in about burning my letter, but oh. don't talk about it!" he added, as the remembrance of his own wicked wib. rose to his mind. Jennie smiled, through her tears "It. wasn't a. lellor at all you are such a duffer you believe everything and can't take a joke." "1 saw it." said Cyril firmly, "and I have not heard, from Aunt Helen, this week, so he must have taken it from the pot-t bag." "Oh, you are so green!" said Jennie. ''Of coursi! that's what makes you such good game. Poor old Bob is full of tricks, but he would never touch the post bag or burn a letter. He found an envelope envel-ope of one of your aunt's letters and he decide? it would be capital to make vou think it was a letter lha- was all." "Really C said Cyril, frowning. "Yes; why, you might have known." "How could 1 guess C asked Cyril, adding with dignity. "I am sorry I was so angry." "Oh. don't bother." said Jennie. 'I am sure Bob would not ihink of it again. Oh, dear. I do wonder how he is here is Phil." and Jennie rushed to meet her brothers, who brought the news that 1).'. Grayling had biked back with them, and was now at the Wilsons' houses, whore Dr. and Mrs. Dering were nr. well as Bob. The days that followed were very dreadful ones to all ihe family of Holmewood. Cyril noted with not a little surprise that apparently careless as ihey were that the faith was strong in them all, and that in the hour of trouble they turned to the help the church could give them like trustful children chil-dren to their forgiving mother. There were masses said for Bob. the boys and Jennie went to communion com-munion for him. and Dr. and Mrs. Dering left their watch by the bedside to come and pray for the hie now trembling in the balance. As Cyril knelt that morning at the altar the words domine non sum dignus came from a very penitent heart, which had been cleansed by the precious blood which had flowed from the thorn-crowned Savior, had been applied to him in the confessional where he had made the most thorough and careful confession he had done for a long time. While the cloud of this great anxiety hung over Holme vood Cyril discovered a good many things Avhich not a little astonished him. He found out ihat Dr. Dering's name was a by-word among the poor, who owed much to the skill which he placed at their disposal Tor no payment in money. He found that mcch of the reckless talk and apparent carelessness about religion had been done from ja. desire to shock him. This, by no means an admirable admir-able thing, was still less bad than he had imagined it was, and altogether in. many ways he learned that things are not always what they seem. All danger was oyer and Boh, recovered before he went back to Italy, after a short time in London with friends of the Dcrings. For, in spite of all he had to do and think of, Dr. Dering, as he could not accompany Cyril himself, did not wish him to bo disappointed. Mrs. Chilton died suddenly that winter in Rome, just after Cyril had announced Jiis wish of studying study-ing for the priesthood, and it turned out that he had a vocation. When he received the tonsure which is worn in worn in memory of the crown of throns, he thought as he did many times of all that special mystery of the rosary ment. Between his soul and God there was a secret, that influenced . his whole life the speedy realization of a sinful wish that had birth in evil thoughts of hatred, and anger. For those hours and. days when it was thought Bob would not recover re-cover had taught Cyril the meaning of those words that "Whoso hateth his brother is a murderer' PICKIN' ON KIDS. I've got no usp for fellers w'at Go bullyin' little boys. A-settin' on their stummicks an' A-smashiiv of their toys; I used to do it onct myself When I was only six. But. now I'm big an' seven years I've stopped those sort o' tricks. Besides. I saw a feller onct W'a caught a little chap. An' pulled his hair an' pinched him, too An' thought ho had a snap; But suddintly a great big boy Ho come up on a run, An' walloped him to Wat the band An' made him howl like fun. You see. you never know w'at boys liar, got, a brother or A cousin stayin' over night You never saw before An' so I think it's mean to pick Or. kids w'at's weak an' small. An' can't defend themselves like men But just run homo an' squall. W. W. Whitclock, in Woman's Home Companion. KITTY CALLED THE POLICE. A pef kitten belonging to one of the sergeants at the central police station in Pittsburg, Pa., called out all the reserve police force and sent in a riot call, which brought all the officers sleeping in. the station rushing in half dressed. The electric button but-ton with which the calls are turned in arc at the side of tho sergeant's desk. The kitten while in the vacant chair at the lunch hour began playing with the buttons, with-the result that both calls were sent in ahnos; .simultaneously. Business was slow, but in a minute the officers were startled to see two patrol wagons dashing up from the stables, while half-dressed policemen ran in from all directions, di-rections, carrying the remainder of their uniforms in their hand. Catholic Xcws. STORIES OF" HEROISM. ' Aunt Busy hopes that all her dear girls and boys will read theso interesting stories froni the Success Magazine: LOST HIS LIFE FOR A DOG, This hero was a negro boy. On the last day of his life he was driving a delivery wagon for a grocer. The grocer's pet dog was following, the wagon, and. a:; it was crossing Union bridge in some way the dog fell into the water. What motive urged the boy to attempt to rescue it we have no means of knowing. Perhaps, Tie. . loved .the .dog; probably he feared his employer would hold him responsible re-sponsible for its death and would discharge him. However, he tried to save the -dog.' He left the wn- i gon and leaned over the bridge. Ho stretched his ! arm to reach the dog. Ho made a heroic struggle to rescue the struggling animal whining piteously at- him, but hu reached too far. and fell into the water. The tide was swift and it carried him under un-der tho bridge "Before help could coins he was drowned. Doctors tried in vain to save his life. He died for a dog. The dog was saved how. nobody no-body knows. . f . RARE PRESENCE OF MIND. Carl Gueldig, a small boy, about S years old, of Xew. Albany, lnd., is a hero for having saved a young man from drowning at the risk of his own life. One day last winter a large crowd was attracted at-tracted to a pond by cries for help. George Wilson had attempted to skato upon a erut of b-e. Alone he ventured upon the ice. the remainder of his party being afraid. When lie was in t lit: middle of the pond the ice broke and young Wilson, fell through. Yain were tho attempts made to throw him a rope, the ice being too thin to variant a ay one to venture upon it. After being in the icy water for overan hour, tho young man. was almost; exhausted, and the crowd of spectators began to abandon hope, when Carl Gueldig pushed, through. Throwing a-side his hat and coat, he caught the end of the rope and began to crawl 'toward Wilson, the ice wavering as it it. would break. When within about 1 en feet of the hole. Gueldig pushed, the rope inch by inch forward until Vvithin reach of Wilson. He then turned and crawled to the bank ,amid ;'. volley of cheers. As soon as he was safe, Wilson was drawn, to the shore by eager hands. AN OPPORTUNITY LOST. It was a little Italian boy who was tending a peanut stand that grasped it. and proved to me that I had lost, an opportunity to do a kind act. A blind man was walking along tho street, feeling feel-ing his way with a cane. As he came to a crossing he stopped and seemed afraid to go further. After passing by him, I turned to see what he would do. Just; then the Italian boy saw him. Without a moment's mo-ment's hesitation the boy left his stand, ran to the blind man, locked arms with him, as much as to say: "Come. I'll help you across." Instantly the man. gave himself up with-confidence to the little boy's guidance. When he had taken the blind man across he returned to his stand and continued selling sell-ing peanuts as if nothing had happened. So an opportunity was lost and a lesson taught. SHE REMEMBERED HER MOTHER, It is my fortune to know a girl who belongs to the heroic silent. Her lot is not to save a life directly, di-rectly, nor has she the applause of the public. She lives without adulation, as bright as the sun's rays, and gleaning all the pleasure possible under the circumstance.' Being possessed of a naturally sweet, rich voice, it has been her ambition to have it cultivated. To do this required the earning of money, which sbj cheerfully set about. As she is an apt tailoresso-sitions tailoresso-sitions came to her and also most of the hard work in tho shop. Xot long ago she was offered a position in the neighboring city of K . The work would be pleasant pleas-ant and remunerative. It had long been her desire to obtain lighter employment in this same city. J Here were many girl friends, and all the pleasures of a city. But her mother's health failed. She was threatened with a long and serious illness. So her daughter, after a consultation with her father and two younger brothers, wrote back, declining the proffered position, and returned again to the tailor shop, assuming in connection a good share of the household duties. Furthermore, her mother is never to know of this sacrifice; A FEW RIDDLES. Why docs a cat look first on one side and then on tho other when she comes into a room ? Because she can't look both ways at once. When does bread resemble tho sun? When it rises from the cast. What is there you cannot tako with a kodak j A hint. . ....... . . Two ducks before a duck and two ducks behind a duck and a duck in the middle. How many ducks in alii Three. . , . What animals, when beheaded, become very cold J Mice. . ( What color should a secret be kept I : Inviolate. ; , j What is the superlative of. temper! ., ' . Tempest. - f. ;,, . ';. c. ? What tuno makes every ono glad - - Fortune. What nation does a-criminal dread I Condemnation. . . , ' : ' What is wasto of time? . The middle of an hour-glass. . What animals are general brought to a funeral I Black kids. What is it. which works when it plays and plays when it works? . A fountain.- Of what trade are all .the presidents of the United States? Cabinet makers. Why is the fourth of July like an oyster? Because you can't enjoy it without crackers. What is the difference between a tight boot and' an oak tree? One makes acorns and other makes corns ache. |