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The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-01-27

scattered settlers, except the Dutch
element, on farms, and these are Wis
/ tied at stated times by the Oblate
Fathers, who have charge of the en-
| tire state. The illustrious President
Kruger is on the most friendly terms
with the Catholic missionaries, and es-
peeially with these residing in Pretoria
In another paper we Shall furnish fur
Their Catholic statistics of the Orange
Free State
Like the Transvaal, the Orange Free
State is a missionary country, and alto
gether under the religious charge of the
Oblate Fathers. The chief station is at
the capital, Bloemfontein. where reside
Very Rev Father Victor-Jean Bonn
part, Superior, and Rev. Messrs. Felix
CUTLER and Victor Hecht; address.
Maison de Bloemfontein, o. f. S, South
Africa. This mission was established
Feb. >, 1870. Next in point of time, at
Jagersfontein, lives Very Rev alloy
sus Cretinon; address, Residence de
Jagersfontein, o. F. s., S. a. The mis-
sion here was established in 1881. An
other station is that of H arrismith.
where Very Rev Father Andre Tresch
resides, and this mission was founded
SO late as December, 1893; address.
Residence de Harrismith, o. f. S. S.
a. The Catholics are not over 600 in
the Orange Free State as compared
with about 100000 of the other denomi-
nations; and they are very much scat
tered throughout the country. The sys-
tenn of education is ma .ional. but small
grants are also made to the Episcopal
ian and Catholic Churches The indie
pendence of the Orange Free State was
proclaimed on April 10, 1854. The legis-
lative assembly is vested in a popular
the volksraad, of sixty mem !
bers, elected by suffrage Of the burghers
adult white males, natives or natural |
lied, with property qualification. !
Every able bodied man in the State.
above Is and under 60 years of age. is
obliged to take arms when called upon /
by his field cornet, hayig the rank of /
captain, when necessity demands it. |
over 10000 are available for defensive
purposes. Four batteries of artillery
are in the capital, Bloemfontein, where
1000 officers and men, with about 600
passed artillerists are held as a reserve
for the forts there constructed. The
State owns its railway, which paid
good dividend when the war broke out.
Trade and commerce were wonderfully
of late years. Agriculture
md coal are the chief products of in
lustry in the State. Education is well
1dvanced, compulsory to some extent,
md free for very poor children.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-01-27
MUST NOT TEACH THE CLASSICS,

The Sacred Congregation of the Prop
| uganda has made its report on the dis
pute between the heads Of the Christian
Brothers in the United States and the
French supeTiors of the classics in the
Brothers American schools.
After consideration of the statement
of the case submitted by Archbishop
Patrick w. Riordan of San Francisco.
the Congregation rules that the Amer
lean claims to greater latitude in teach
ing than is permitted in Europe ar
inadmissible
Cardinal Satolli, who drafted the re-
port, said: Just as the Americans
adhere to the National Constitution. SO
the Christian Brothers must maintain
theirs. That constitution forbids the
teaching of the classics"
The teaching of the classics in the
American schools of the Christian
Brothers" said Brother Superior Ru-
bustain, the head of the order. was
permitted for a time, it is true. but
only exceptionally. Now the field of
classical tuition is left open, as always,
to the Jesuits. We have not supported
the fundamental rules of the order"
At their annual meeting. in Washing
ton, D. c., on October u last. the Arch
bishops formally and officially indorsed
for the second time the plea of the
American members OF the order to- be
released from the rule prohibiting the
teaching Of the classics in their schools.
and deputed Archbishop Riordan to
present their views to Rome
The Christian Brothers We're intro
duced into the United States in 1916
They have four general divisions here
intended to teach the pri-
mary parochial schools, they departed
from the rule at issue and established
colleges where the classics were in
cluded in the course of studies. This
was tolerated by the French superior,
the head of the order being located in
Paris, until the election of Brother
Gabriel Marie, three years ago.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-01-27
A BUFFALO PRIESTS OPINION
OF DR.. M'GLYNN.

The death of the Rev. Dr. McGlynn
at his late residence in Newburg last
! Sunday closes the career of one of the
| most remarkable clergymen of this or
any other land.
Born in New York City sixty-twO
years ago, Edward McGlynn. after pur-
suing preparatory studies in the me-
! tropolis. was sent to the propaganda,
Rome, where he finished a notably bril-
liant course and was honored with the
doctorship of that celebrated institu-
ton. He had as fellow. students many
distinguished men, among them Bishop
Moore of st. Augustine, Fla, DR.. Burt
sell of RondOut, DR. Insolvency. of New
York and Mgr Cannon of this diocese.
From his earliest student days DR..
McGlynn was a profound thinker. He
had prodigious memory, and even
then gave evidence of the forceful elo-
quence for which he was so famous in
later life.
His first pristly appointment was as
assistant to Rev. DR.. Cummings, an
other propaganda of brilliant accom-
plishments. They were congenial spir-
it's, each enjoying the companionship
of the other until separated by DEATH
On the demise of DR.. Cummings Dr.
McGlynn succeeded to the pastorate of
st. Stephens, where for many a year
he tirelessly labored endearing himself
especially to the poor and afflicted by
his kindly word and open hand
OF splendid physique and command
ing presence, the departed priest had a
lovable nature 1t was impossible to be
in his company without being fascinat-
ed by the charm of his conversation. He
was a golden-hearted man whose sym
pathy went out to the poor and strug-
Cling of every land. His charity was
heroic; distress never appealed to him
in vain, and at the announcement of
his death many an eye grew moist and
many a prayer went up to God for his
repose.
1t was a gracious act on the part of
Archbishop Corrigan to set out to visit
the dying priest Before his arrival, !
however, the spark of life had fled, and
as the prelate gazed upon the face of
the dead, he could hardly control his !
Union and Times.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-01-27
THE PROUD MAN.

The proud man sees no light but
that which is self-sprung Although
I wholly dependent. he never ceases to
assert his independence. Ridiculous
for his folly, he never appreciates his
| emptiness. Pride" says Louis Of
Grenada, is a supreme poverty of soul
that thinks itself rich in nakedness and
believes it is in light when surrounded
by darkness. Drunk with self-admira-
ton and self importance, he cannot
form d sober conception of life, and to
do right is to pay him homage"
Pride is an upsetting sin; its prompt
ings are to destroy. 1t is unamiable:
the proud man may attract admiration
but even love does not melt his frozen,
worshiping soul Pride grows with
the decrease of other sins, and thrives
by their decay. The devil is subtle;
he will make a man proud of his very
sraces; proud that he is not proud
This arises from the nature of pride,
which produces folly. BY humanity a
man overcomes this deadly sin. and the
reward of victory in this spiritual com
bat is Gods grace. for HIS grace He
gives to the humble. and the proud He
rejects To be humble would seem. for
creatures made of clay, to be natural; to
the state of humility a man belongs
True. he is made in the soul like to
GOD; but all that ne is and all that he
will be is the gift of God. Not to us,
then. but to God let the glory be given.
Rejoice a man should at his glorious
destiny, but his joy should be alleged
by the glorious reflection that ne must
not indulge in it inordinately, that is
by self-S lorification. The admission of
Uriah Heap Will not suffice; humility
must be felt. We must be sincerely
impressed with the notion that we are
The lowliest of men. This is the humility
Of the Saints. the living sentiment of
utter unworldliness. To attain this |
virtue. which is the groundwork of per
lection. we must be meek, never giving !
way to Observation-Disclosures of speech, |
mild. assiduous in cultivating gentle |
hess Of disposition, patient. not yield |
ng to the uprising of anger, and for
giving, letting pass the trespasses of /
| brother. The labor is hard, but the
.rown viii be grand-the crown of
PEACE. How often have the words of
wisdom been repeated, that in silence
md hope strength is found. In such a
discipline will humanity be found, and
hen for destruction we shall have ed
licatiOn
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-01-27
CARDINAL VAUGHAN AND TIE
ENGLISH.

chorus of dissent has greeted
Cardinal vaughan's glowing eulogy OF
the British empire in his Christmas
passoral. says the San Francisco
Monitor. Even the English Catholic
press fails to recognize the application
Of the virtues and exalted motives at
tributed to the subject by His Emin-
ence 1t is especially difficult to ac-
cept his views in justification Of Great
Britain's criminal and cowardly at
tack on the liberties of the Transvaal.
In the course of this letter the Cardinal
says:
This British empire has been raised
up by the same Providence that called
the Roman empire into existence, and
as God used the one towards the at
tainmcnt of His own Divine purposes
of mercy, so does He seem to be using
the other. In spite of the plumbers
and crimes committed by many of her
sons in building up the empire. the
empire has made for peace, for liberty
for law and order. An empire that
has power to establish these cOndi-
tons which are preliminary to the
spread of Christianity, is possessed OF
a. great and sacred trust, not to be
surrendered until God Himself shall
demand the surrender.
The Freeman's Journal of Dublin.
reminds his Eminence that King Henry
the Eighth, queen Elizabeth and
Oliver Cromwell are among the most
conspicuous of the empire builders in
voIved in this glowing eulogy. Cath
olics, and Irish Catholics, do not usu-
ally accept the view that the achieve
ments of Cromwell, for example, were
made for and designated by God for
his own wise purposes" or made for
peace, for liberty, for law and order.
The merciless Penal Laws not yet
wholly repealed, force themselves on
our remembrance. Cardinal Moran,
in his THE Catholics of Ireland Under
the Penal Laws of the Eighteenth
Century sets forth in lucid detail the
abominable, the almost diabolical out
RACES to which the Catholics were
through the whole of the eighteenth 4
century subjected by this beneficent /
empire Christianity was encouraged I
and protected by the hanging of |
priests. Enlightenment was extended |
Dy the hanging of schoolmasters. Nor /
are more recent illustrations wantedy
If the savagery of this beneficent en-
Dire In the Soudan the wretched
naked victims of a cowardly and muir
ferrous attack were ruthlessly slaught-
cred as they lay wounded and with
ng on the ground, shrieking for mercy.
rhis performance has been duplicated
n the present war. 1t is not easy to
tccept the idea of a Heaven-sent mis-
ion of humanity in conjunction with
,uch details of brutal inhumanity.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-01-27
THE PooH-BAH OF GUAM.

(From the Sacramento (CaI) BeeD
| The Pooh-bah of the Island of Guam
! the Lord High Executioner appointed
by the United States government to
teach the poor and benighted OrientaIs
what humanity means and what Chris
tianity is. the autocratic and imperial
Captain Richard P. Leary, who is given
the title of Governor of Guam. but who
is in reality its Gar and its despot, has
issued the following order:
Public celebrations of feast days Of
the patron saints of villages will not be
permitted. The Church and its mem
! bers may celebrate the feast days with
/ in the walls of the Church. Chapel or
private residences, in accordance with
the regulations for the maintenance Of
public peace. and unless otherwise or
dered the only public holidays recog-
nizeG will be Sunday and the holidays
authorized by the United States statute
laws and by proclamation of his ex-
cellency, the president of the United
States"
The declaration of the United States
has been that we are in these far-off
islands for the purpose of bringing
peace and stability to these troubled
places, with the idea in view of convey
ing to them the blessings of civilization
anu humanity ana cCQEefrln& upon
them the benisOns of civil and religious
liberty.
And yet this Lord High Executinner
del berately interferes with the rel Us
rites and festivals of a people who have
been participating therein for over 500
years. Captain Leary knows. ie he
knows anything, that the Catholics Of
the semi-Latin countries never hold
their celebrations of the feast DAYS of
the C1intc ind
always held in the open air. in the
streets or in the groves which were
Gods first temples" And to declare
that hereafter no public celebrations of
this religious character shall be permit
ted, is to interfere, and to interfere i'm
a most shameful and infamous manner.
with the civil and religious liberties of
these people, and particularly with
their religious liberties. They have
every bit as much right to hold these
festivals of the patron saints of their
villages in the streets of those villages,
or out in the groves of the country
places, as the MethOdiSts of this state
have to hold their open air meetings
at Pacific Grove, Monterey county
And no captain general has any right
TO Interfere with them under any law
or custom ever sanctioned under the
constitution of the United States.
Captain Deary declares that ne has
issued this order because of a liability
to riots. Liability to riots from whom?
she United States government has
these people peace, stability
and order. has promised them full pro-
lection and full liberty in all their civil
and religious doings. There is no dan
ger to them Of riots on these festal
lays. except from those turbulent ele-
nentS against whom it is the duty Of
he United States government to pro-
ect them.
1t is certainly very, very poor be-
ginning in the Orient for a man repre-
ienting the United States government,
md representing it with almost un-
United powers. to start in to throttle
he innocent observances of a chiIdlike
ind harmless people in this way.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-01-27
CATHOLICS IN TRANsvAAL.

The Etat General du Personnel de la
I CoagI egation des Missionaries Oblats de
Marie Immaculee of this year contains
the following religious statistics: The
Vicarate of the Transvaal has for its
chief director the Very Rev. Father
John Mary de Lacy Q. NJ. L, Superior,
I and Pro-Vicar, who resides at johann
nesburg, together with the following
/ Priests Of the order: Rev. Fathers Isl
! dore Tresch Etienne Hammer, Louis
Francis Rousseau and Leon Marchal
Their address is Maison de Johannes
burg, p o. Box 400 AT Pretoria reside
Very Rev. Superior Alexandra Baudry,
Very Rev Giles Van LIAR, Alexandra
Procurator, with Rev Measrs. Leopold
Trabaud and Alphonse Van Heckle.
Their address is MaiSon de Pretoria,
p. @. Box 524 At Potchefstroom are
stationed Very Rev Charles Antoine
Serriere, director, and Rev. Eugene
Laurent. Their address is Residence
de Potchefstroom, P. o. Box 1876 At Ly-
denburg is stationed Very Rev. Joseph
Dupays, director, and his address is
Lydenburg, r. c. Mission. AT VIeesch-
fontein are stationed Very Rev. Eu-
gene Neel, director, and Rev. Messrs.
Cassimir-Paul Valette and Joseph-Leon
Kriss. Their address is Vleeschfontein,
Dist, Rustenburg. Of course, Trans
vaal. South Africa, is added in each
particular case From this names it
may be inferred the Priests are chiefly
Dutch, German or French, though the
very fret on the list, that of the Very
Rev Father de Lacy, is Irish. Father
de Lacy has many Irish Priests with
MIN, whose names are hidden in reIig-
ion as is the rule generally in religious
orders. The numbers of the Catholics
in the Transvaal are roughly estimated
to reach from $4,000 TO 10000, for the
most part engaged in mining business
or mechanical pursuits. The greatest |
numbers were. .eentered at johannes
burg, and with hardly an exception pre-
served their fealty to the Transvaal re- !
public. for which the fighting men are
now in camp There are only d few
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-01-27
A CARD FROM BISHOP scANLAN

feel it my duty to protect Catholics
and the public generally from fraud
and imposition by notifying them from
time to time that no person bearing the
name and garb of 4 priest or sister or
any. one else is authorized or permitted
to solicit or collect in this diocese for
any purpose whatever connected with
the Catholic church without having
from me permission in writing bearing
my seal and signature. Should any one
be found engaged in doing this unlaw-
full work of collecting without such
document. he or she. as the case may
be, should be regarded by all as fraud
and an imposter. L. SCANLAN,
Bishop of Salt Lake.
Nov. 90. 1899.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-01-27

to 1t, but so many of his Rochester
friends added their solicitation that on
saturday he decided to enter the race
ana TO permit the use of his name as a
cahdldate. The Monroe county mem
DerS OF the legislature will be unit in
urging Father Hendricks claim, and it
Is expected he will be formidable
factor in the balloting when the election
takes place in the legislature. as it is
understood that hte vacancy will be
hIIed by Catholic clergyman, mas
much as the position has been filled by
priests hitherto, including Father Ma
lone and his predecessor, the late
Bishop McNeirny of Albany, who were
both Catholics.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-01-27

well and probably. The spirit of prayer
viii live in and sanctffy the daily rou-
tine of life and its fruits viii be found
in domestic happiness. the habit Of for
bearance, acts of Christian kindness.
and loving, dutiful family; in word
in state that finds its best and sweet
est type in the first of Christian homes
the home of Jesus, Mary and Joseph of
Nazareth.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-01-27
cHIcKEN-KEARTED CATHOLICS.


1t is amazing the decorous calm as
sumed by our so-caIled leading Catho-
llcs when an aspersion is cast upon the
sisters of any of our local institutions
by some of our political officials, says
the Syracuse Catholic sun. Where is
their much-vaunted Catholic chivalry
DO We expect the Sisters to go into the
arena themselves? This is another in
9sance Of selfshnes9 ruling the roost.
Inc daily papers have raised ques-
ton OF veracity between the Sisters of
St Joseph's hospital and an individual
IN the employ of the city. We stake
our all on the Sisters word. Where are
our Catholic champions? Probably sit
ting around considering the feasibility
OF discussing the matter Out upon such
chieken-hearted Catholics.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-01-27
The Antiquity of Man.
CLondon Times.

Sir John Evans dealt with the an
tiquity of man. with special reference to
the stone age in Egypt in a presidential
address delivered b. him at the Birming-
ham and Midland institute recently He
said that forty years ago the almost uni
versal belief of those who mad but super
ficially approached the question was that
a literal Interpretation was to be placed
on the opening chapters of the Book of
Genesis, and that the chronology of Arch
bishop USHER and others in fixing the
creation of man at the year 1904 B. c. was
beyond all reasonable question. 1t was
not until 1853, when the subject was inves-
tigated by the late Sir Joseph Prestwich
himself and others, that the presence of
objects of human workmanship in as
ISOLATION with the remains of extinct
mammals in beds of gravel, sand and
loan was almost universally regarded as
studies of Joseph Landon of Saltley col
lege, Birmingham, had resulted in his
discovery in the gravels of the valley of
the Rea of an implement of the same gen.
eral type as those from many other val
ley graves in England and France. but
formed from a brown quartZ1te pebble.
and not, as usual. Clipped out of flint If
further discoveries of this kind were made
our present views as to the northern
limits of the existence of such implements
would have to be materially modified. and
area over which discoveries of this char
aCter were made might be considerably
extended. Assuming that the occupation
of the earth by man had been continu-
Gus, there must at some time or other
have been a transition from the paleolith-
ie stage culture to the neolithic but of
such transition little trustworthy indica- !
tons had as yet been found, and over
great part of Europe. at all events, there
appeared to "a great gulf fixed, which
at present is was impossible to bridge |
over in q satisfactory manner
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-01-27
A New Roof For Crystal Palace.

! Among the many improvements at
the Crystal Palace not the least in i'm
portance is the renewal of the immense
| glass roof. For some years past it has
been evident that expensive repairs
were required, and under the new man
agement of the palace this costly work
has been undertaken. The Crystal Pal
ace roof is probably the largest of its
kind in the world. It's total glass area
| is between fourteen and fifteen acres.
As is we'll known, the building was orig
inally used fer the exhibition of 1851.
After the rejection of many designs by
the commissioners MesSrs. Fox and
Henderson brought forward a scheme
of PaXton's for the erection of a glass
rooted palace on the plan of a large
palm house, which he had erected at
ChatswOrth. The pieces of glass used
for the roof were forty-nine inches long
and ten inches wide. 1t was thought
that this width would resist breakage
by hail storms. The glass weighed six
teen ounceJ to the square foot except
on the crown of the roof, where it was
tWenty-One ounces. Putty and paint
were used for fixing the glass and keep
ing the roof watertight, but when the
building was taken down nearly all the
glass was destroyed, so that in the re-
erection of the palace at Sydenham new
glass had to be put in. This remained
until the present year, but large num-
Der of ranes had been broken, mainly
in consequence CT expansion, for which
sufficient space was not allowed. In
creasing difficulty was found in keep
ing out wind and water, and in prod
ery ventilating the building. The di-
rectors, therefore. deemed it neces5 lry
entirely to renew the. roof. The origi-
nal design has been generally followed,
but a departure has been made in de-
tails The center tranSept. which has
glasS area OF about two acres, is now
nearing completion. The new pieces of
glass used measure Skis inches, instead
of 49x10 inches, and the weight is TWEEN
ty-six ounces to the square foot, with
wo-ounce glass on the crown,
instead of sixteen ounces and twenty
one ounces. In fixing the new glass
neither putty nor paint has been used,
and none will be required in maintain
ing it, The glass rests upon inverted I
iron framework, covered with lead,
which has a double webbing of the
same, a process which res1sts the eff
fects of all kinds of weather, allows for
expansion, and admits of easy repair |
where necessary. Admirable as the old |
roof was, the new work is a great i'm
upon the original, and has |
added much to the attractiveness of the |
palace building.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-01-27
FATHER MALoNE's SUCCESSOR

Rev. Thomas A. Hendrick of St.
Bridget's church, Rochester, will be a
candidate before the state legislature
this winter for regent of the New York
State University to succeed the late
Rev. Sylvester Malone of Brooklyn.
Father Hendricks name was promi-
nently mentioned last week as posi-
BILE candidate. The suggestion that his
name be considered came from outside
Rochester. and at first Father Hen
drick was disincIined to pay any heed