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Show FROM A MONASTERY TO WAR. Trapplst Novice Enlists lu the Army for Service 111 China. - Two weeks ago Oscar Bachstetz whs a novice in the monastery of the Trap-pists Trap-pists at Gethsemane in Kentucky under un-der the name, Fra Stanislaus Kosc. At present he is Privte Bachstetz of the Hospital Corps of the United States army, enlisted for service in China or elsewhere for a period of three years. The son of a wealthy Austria manufacturer, Bachstetz has been In this country for nine years. He attended at-tended college for a year at Quincy, 111., and when the war with Spain broke out he enlisted in the Hospital Corps and served in the hospital at Jacksonville. While at the hospital of the Alexian Brothers he first became interested in the Trappists, and as soon as he could get his discharge from the army he went to Kentucky and became a novitiate. The Trappists Trap-pists have absolutely no come mica-tion mica-tion with the outside world, and are even forbidden to talk among themselves them-selves on any subject whatever. It Is said that not three monks at Gethsemane Gethse-mane know the name of the president of the United States or that of the governor of Kentucky.- An old piece of newspaper which came to him wrapped around a package of religious books Fra Stanislaus Kosca found the first news which had reached him out the outbreak in China. At once ho started for Louisville to enlist in th Hospital Corps. As he had not taken the final vows of the Trappist order he was free to go. Ab soon as his term of enlistment expires he declares that he will return to Gethsemane and remain re-main there for the rest of his life. |