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The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-11-16
Father Callahan of Butte.

II ELlGION in great mining camI
II like Butte presents many fea-
lures. some serious, some ever
humorous. We use the word religion
not inthe abstract nor spiritual sense
but in the sense defined by the miner
that religion is something good if it is
''on the square," does not take up too
much time between shifts, nor inter
fere with a friendly game of poker.
To render an act of charity to a fell
| low in distress is not religion, accord
ing to the same dictionary. That act
comes naturally to the miner, with or
without religion; but in his light, it
! is religion if he drops coin into the
contribution box, let's up a trifie on
swearing and goes to church once or
! twice a year, generally about Christ
mas
This is no indictment of the Catholics
of Butte, but an explanation of the
general religious conditions of the
camp. But it will fit a good many
persons who are Catholics only when
somebody treads on the tail of their
coat and bigots abuse the Pope. Then
their religion becomes stouter than
their piety.
No young man VINO ever came to
Montana could analyze the sentiment
of the people and sense the religious
condition better theN Rev. ]. ]. Cal
lahan. Few priests can be found so
well equipped to grasp the situation
and turn it to the advantage of church
and morality, for in his person he
unites those elements of character
which make his very presence a ioy
and sunshine. When one meets him
in the world" and is charmed with his
polished conversation and tact, the re-
greet seems natural that he had chosen
the vocation of a poor priest when
ambition could so easily be gratified by
selecting another. Yet at other times.
and those were the seasons of devo-
ton in the church when Father Gala
han was either in pulpit or confess
5ional, one could not escape the con-
viction that this young priest was in
iced chosen by God for the mission |
lie is so successfully carrying out in |
he great mining camp of Butte.
Since his connection with St Pat |
ick's church, in some way it began TO
re noticed that more men attended
mass, and even a surprising number
we're present at the evening devotions.
The secret lay not in his personal mag
etism so much as in the zeal he dis
layed in hunting up the lost sheep of
he fold, and in that charm of per
lasion which the Irishman of Butte
powerless to resist.
Now that he is pastor of the Sacred
-eart church, formally opened last
unday, Father Callahan's friends ev-
rywhere in these mountains will ,
e1oice when next season sees it pushed
completion, a chime of bells in the
'wers, and the largest League of :
lie Sacred Heart among the members
his congregation. That the Young
REST chose this name for his church :
the best evidence that all these
lngs will come to pass, and are even
NV near.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-11-16

cations, and in the Fort Pierre shoals
they dug up number of marine in
vertebrates. The party also discov-
cred complete skeleton, including the
skull of the Claosaurus annectaus, and
carried it off to Princeton, where it is
mounted and viii be an object of Gu
riosity and wonder long after Grover
Cleveland turns into a fossil in Prince
ton cemetery. Montana is justly proud
OF its Claosaurus annectaus. It's pres
ence in Princeton evens up the grudge
Montana people owe to Grover Cleve-
land for calling them undesirable cit
izens.''
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-11-16
CARD FROM BISHOP scANLAN.

feel it my duty to protect Catholics
and the public generally from fraud and
imposition by notifying them from time
and garb of a priest or sister or anyone
else is authorized or permitted to solicit
OF, collect in this diocese for any purpose
WThateyer connected with the Catholic
Church without having from me permits
sion In writing bearing my seal and
signature. Should any one be found en-
gagged in doing this unlawful work of
collecting without such a document he
or she, as the case may be, should be re-
garded by all al fraud and an imposter
L. SCANLAN,
Bishop of Salt Lake.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-11-16
A Prince in His Line.

THE death of Ii Hung Cbanq 1aouo,
! i Ehlna without statesman of the
nrst rank. For nearly half a con
tuiy ne mas stood between China and
Tue ldlio-hungry powers of Europe uis
crafty and mastery diplomacy avertad
the apparently inevitable nar+i+ior 80
the ancient empire. Time and time
again his marvellous skill in intrigpe
plucked the fruits of victory from the
nettles of defeat. He was the nrinca
of prevaricators, says the Anaconda
Standard. The world has never known
greater master of the art of deceit
he made it a science.
When Japan had China by the
throat; when her victorious troons
swept the Celestial armies from their
path like chaff; when Pekin. like
ripe plum, was ready to fall into the
Mikado's hand, it was Ii Hung CHANG
who turned Japan's victory into defeat.
de appealed to France, Russia and
Germany, and as result japan was
kicked off the mainland, robbed of the
spoils of victory and forced into a no.
sltion of perpetual hostility with Rus
STA. Machiavelli himself could not
nave played the game better Whipped
to standstill, China was yet the vic
tor
Again when English aggression seem
ed destined to reduce China to the po-
sltion of a second India; when English
trade and influence were pushed like
a wedge into the heart of the Chinese
empire, Ii Hung Chang turned to Rus
sia. Banking and railway concessions
were made to the car, to check the
growing power of England, and the
Two great hostile nations were left
'narling at each other like two hyenas
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-11-16
Inquiry Regarding Purgatory.

I a n EPISCOPALIAN lady residing in
n Salt Lake, knowing something of
the innocent life led by "Auntie
I Maggie" Fitchett, the colored domestic
OF Bishop ScanIan's household. who
died recently, to a Catholic friend ex-
pressed her strong conviction that the
soul of this devout servant of God re-
Joiced in His presence Immediately
after release from its earthly she'll
The Episcopalian friend could see only
injustice in the punishment of Pur-
gatory and the uselessness of prayers
for the dead, so long as such souls led
edifying lives and did penance for their
sins While in this world. Hence this
inquiry to the IntermOuntain Catholic
The Catholic Church teaches that
prayers are not needed for those who
die in the full friendship Of God But
no one can tell who are the perfect
and sinless. God alone can penetrate
the innermost recesses of the soul.
Even in His sight, the just falls seven
times day" The just, yielding to hui
man weaknesses. even in the smallest
degree, must, before they enter Gods
presence, atone for their frailties, if
not in this life, then in the next
Here is where the consoIing doctrines
Of Purgatory comes in. It is reasona-
BILE. Nothing defled can enter Heav-
en-" A departed soul, with trivial |!
faults, or venial sins not washed away |
by penance. has to suffer something
and if not in this life, it
must be after death.
Therefore, does it follow naturally
md reasonably in the order of Provi-
ience, that Purgatory, which is de-
ined as "a place where souls suffer
or time before they enter Heaven"
las been ordained by God himself to
Durify souls and make them worthy
# infinite happiness.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-11-16
THAT REMINDS ME--
~ IRIsHMAN. o. COURsE.

T. P O'Connor. the brilliant editor OF
London, gave last week in his paper,
Mainly About People, a clever and laugh
able solution of a veXing problem He
was guest at the christening of Nine
Ella RusselTs first born son. in writing
a description of which he said:
And now here was the Conundrum OF
the day. The father of little Camille
for so was the infant christened-is
Italian and Count di Righini; his mother
an American, Nine. Russell. As he was
born at sea on German vessel, which
landed him at Cherbourg in France,
what is his nationality?
The answer is so simple that 1t Will
occur to everybody. At least it was the
answer given by one of Nine. Ella 5
friends and guests. He is an Irishman,
of course
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-11-16
THE PoPE's ADMoNITIoN

A Catholic newspaper in a parish is
perpetual mission. Let all who truly and
from their souls desire that Religion and
society defended by human intellect and
literature should flourish, strive by their
lberality to guard and protect the
Catholic press, and let every one in pro-
his money and influence, for TO those
who devote themselves to the Catholic
press we ought by all means to bring
helps Of this kind, without which their
industry will either have no results ol
uncertain and miserable ones.
POPE LEO XIII
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-11-16

Could any other than a clerical clown
act as did the Methodist Bishop Nc
Cahe and expect the pope to notice his
lmpudence! Recently at Evanston.
ILL.,, he said: When we dedicated our
church in Rome ! sent a little note to
the pope asking him to come and see
Us and give US the apostolic benedic-
tion' but l never received an answer.
although was really in earnest when
l sent the invitation" This is the
McCabe who said he would rather be
Oliver Cromwell for one hour than
catholic saint for a thousand years.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-11-16

The i'll success which so far has at
tended the efforts of England to rob the
brave Beers of their country is elicit
ing much criticism in the English press.
The London Times publishes a long
letter from a correspondent in South
Africa, who accuses the English Of
ficers of conducting the war more like
Sybarites than soldiers. 1t will be re-
membered that few weeks ago Kitch-
ener issued an order against officers
attached to mobile columns carrying
along with theIh pianos and other
'warlike paraphernalia." The London
Times correspondent, referring to the
luxurious manner in which officers
live, says:
Slackness. slackness, slackness.
Wherever you go, at stations the mil
itary fill the hotels and take up the
waiting rooms, while ordinary civilian
travellers live on the platforms. At
one place the hotels are full of military.
Champagne, Stilton cheese and other
luXuries would make you feel that you
were in Capua and not with an army
in the field"
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-11-16

The young men of Norway are jubi-
Iant over law lately passed in that
country providing that in future any
woman who desires to get married must
present to the proper authorities a GER
uficate showing that she is skilled in
The arts of cooking. sewing, knitting
and embroidering. The young women
are wondering why no certificates are
TO be required from men which shall
prove that they are able to support
their wives.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-11-16

1t is generally believed that the
Arabs. those nomadic sons of the des-
ert, developed the highest love for
their beasts of burden, the camel and
the horse, especially the latter Tho
love Tor the noble steed amonc the
tribesmen amounts to affection as ro-
mantle as it is humane. But perbans
we are wrong and should award the
honor to the Kentuckian. especia1Iv
the colonel" who said in resnonse n
a toast that woman was the most
beautiful of Gods reimbursement
the horse. Probably the colonel bad
an animal like Cresceus in mind. AT
any rate; Ketchum, the owner and
driver Of the fastest trotter in the
world, offers the best example of
what man will do in order to win
Tor his horse the fame of being the
SWlttest animal that ever ran a race or
was speeded against time. Ketchum
purposes, like the jrize fighter.
TO diet and exercise in order
TO reduce his weight, so as
to give Cresceus the advantage
of every pound of flesh lost as he
drives in the sulky. Sometimes a whip.
because of its weight. is thrown away
on the close home stretch But along
with the whip, Ketchum will throw off
some of his avordupois. 1t was an
nounced some time ago Cresceus and
his owner would come to Salt Lake.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-11-16

Montana is chock full of fossils. but
they are all under the sod, and not in
the country cemeteries, either. There
must have been a time, centuries ago.
when there was a great deal more
water in Montana than at present
when lakes must have covered what
are now vast cattle ranches, alive
with strange creations in natural his
tory which would give a Butte rounder
OF saloons the jim-jams. A party from
princeton college has been in Mon
tana lately making scientific investi-
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-11-16

The Rev. Mr. Sheldon. of Topeka. said
recently that he would rather drink a
bottle of red ink than bottle of beer.
Commenting on this, the Kansas City
Journal says: THE craving of some
men for stoimulants is awful The
main constituent of red ink is alcohol"
If the ink were black or blue. and
therefore devoid of alcohol. the fact
would not deter the incurably bibulous
from getting outside of it. saws the
Standard and Times Men with ter
rible thirst will drink anything short
of poison in the hope of quenching it.
There was the case of Person, the great
Greek teacher who at one time was
said to have drunk a bottle of black
ink when he could get no other liquor.
and at another a nauseous bolus. An
esteemed friend of ours. now bishop.
told us once that he knew of a case
wherein man servant of his. whom he
had taken on trial, betrayed so des-
perate a craving for liquor that when
he could get nothing else he drank bav
rum until he was nearly dead. Rev.
Mr.. Sheldon is right when he prefers
red ink. He knows more than Charles
Person.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-11-16

Nearly million Cinnamon are on the
verge of starvation in the provinces OF
Hui and Kiang Su, and the famine
is spreading, according to reliable re-
ports. These provinces ought TO be
good points for Carnegie to start up Ii
braries.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-11-16

In order to follow COMPREHENSIVE
the religious controversy in dialogue,
published on our fifth page entitled.
Two Brothers, our readers should be-
gin with the present number 1t is a
good idea to preserve the papers for
eference.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-11-16

According to the Salt Lake Herald
1.-THE great geologist Gilbert" prophesied
that the Salt Lake valley would some
Gay be the center of disastrous earth
quakes. Gilbert? Who can prophesy
anything about the great geologist
Gilbert?
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-11-16

If President Mckinley had survived
the assassin's bullet and was obliged to
foot the bill presented by the eight or
ten physicians for a weeks attendance,
it would have taken all his two years
salary, The fee is 100000 and your
Uncle Samuel pays the bill.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-11-16

Mr.. Sturgeon, the well known Lon
don preacher, being asked whether a
man could be a Christian and belong
TO a brass band, replied: Yes, I think
he might; but it would be a very diff
cult matter for his next door neigh
Dor to be a Christian"
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-11-16
THE REAL Peril,

Sympathizing Friend-It must be a ter
rible thing to have ones boy so far
away from home and to feel that his life
IS in danger every day. l can imagine
Just how it must seem to you
fearful Mother-O. it's not the son
that's in the Philippines I'm so uneasy
about: It's Dicky. He's joined the col
lege football team
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-11-16

in some of our Idaho exchanges late
~ local notices were given in advance
OF an exhibition OF moving pictures of
the Passion Play. Jospeh Mayer of
Oberammergau writes TO Father Ha-
mel of Clean, n. Y. that no one ever
obtained permission TO make moving
pictures Of the sacred drama" and ad-
ding: IF all Catholic papers would
expose the fraud, they would close up
the bogus Passion Play business"
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-11-16

The Intermountain Catholic ac-
krowledges an invitation to attend the
conservation to the episcopate of Mgr.
Ccnaty at Baltimore, Nov. "A.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-11-16

Montana newspaper reporters may
tell pretty fair bear stories, but the
Salt Lake pencil drivers excel them in
earthquake yarns.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-11-16

The earthquake shock that fright
ened Beaver at $3.50 Wednesday night
shook nobody in Manti until 1910.
How account for this difference in
time, Geologist Gilbert?
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-11-16

Carrie Nation is still going about the
country snatching cigars attached to
false teeth out of smokers mouths and
putting up at the leading jails.'
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-11-16

King Edward can never hope to keep
the present Prince of Wales waiting
as long as he himself waited.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-11-16

When one has to remember the foot
ball games it is hard to keep track of
all the South American wars and revo-
lutions.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-11-16

AS to Ii Hung Changes soul. it may
merely go marching on.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-11-16

When girl takes a basket of pro-
visions to poor people she feels that
she is getting a part of her heavenly
reward when friends stop and ask her
where she is going.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-11-16
OUR BOOK TABLE.
TRACTS, San Francisco. Cal.

! TRACTS, San Francisco, Cal.
Catholics feel the need of short and
| simple explanation of various points
of the doctrine, discipline and history
| of the Church. Questions constantly
! come up that demand reply and the
average layman has not the time nor
training to study learned and eXhaus-
tive treatises of theology. We are a
busy and practical people and we
therefore prefer brief and practical ex-
plantations of our religion. To supply
this demand the Catholic Truth society
of San Francisco has been doing splen-
did work for the past few years. 1t has
been publishing pamphlets admirably
adapted to the American mind, on al
most every phase of Catholic truth.
These pamphlets are by well known
authors and they form a most useful
library. The subjects are we'll selected,
the treatment is in every case satisfac-
tory. The price places them within the
reach of every reader. The priest or
layman cannot find any more useful
Catholic literature than the publica-
tons of this society
AS example of these tracts we may
mention the following of a dogmatic
nature: The Infallibility of the Pope,
by Rev. Peter c. Yorke; The Practice
of the Confession in the Catholic
Church, by the late Rev. r. f. Clarke,
S. j.; Who Can Forgive Sins" by Rev.
P. j. Danehy; What Catholics Do Not
Believe the famous lecture of Arch
bishop Ryan of Philadelphia, and
Modern Religious Scepticism," by Rt.
Rev. John Cuthbert Hedley, D. D.
The biographical list contains short
lives of Father Damian, by Charles
Warren Stoddard; Cardinal Newman"
by Rev. William Barry, D. D.; Pope
Leo Kill by Vicomte e. NJ. DeVogue;
st. Patrick, by Arthur Ryan, and
many others
In the historical line the Truth So
clety has published six standard refu-
tations of anti-Catho caIumny. They
are by Rev. Peter C. Yorke and the |
style is strorE and vigorous. These |
pamphlets al Untitled Ghosts" and /
they follow the Protestant tradition. I
both in England and the United States. /
The society has published numerous !
other tracts, about fifty in ALL They !
are printed on good paper and neatly !
bound. They should be given a wide |
circulation throughout the United !,
states. Priests and laymen could not
10 better than place these tracts in the
hands OF inquiring non Catholics.
The address of the Catholic Truth So
,iety is room 81, Flood building, San
Francisco.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-11-16
HOW o.BRIEN STOOD.

Many are the stories told of McGarry,
the original of Mr.. DUNES Mr.. Dooley'
who recently died in Chicago: but the one
which perhaps best illustrates his meth
DDS is the dialogue which took place be-
tween him and his bartender. Pat
Casey, himself a character, when a Gus
Casey. and tol, him to charge it."
rs O'Brien good for a drink" asked
Casey of McGarry, who was in back
room.
Has he had it, asked McGarry.
Gle has replied Casey.
He is" said McGarry.
During McGarry's prosperous days he
accumulated considerable money, but ii
dribbled away in unfortunate invest
ments. Ills saloon business grew smaller
on account of the deaths and removals o
his old customers and McGarry had
passed the time when he could build up
a new trade. His ways were oId-fash-
toned and he could not learn modern
method.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-11-16
SENATOR BRICKLAYER's LATEST.

SENATOR BRICKLAIERS LATEST.
good story is told of the distin
guished Senator Bricklayer He was seeL
walking around in the Grand Atlanti@
Hotel the other day smoking a cigar.
when an acquaintance accos,ed him
Senator said the acquaintance, they
say you have changed your mind as re-
CARDS
statesman. az haven't even changed my
shirtr
Then he burst into a loud guffaw, III
which all present Joined.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-11-16


Butte is taxed heavier for maintain
ing Its public schools than any other
city IN the Union exceeding $4,000 pop
ulatlon, according to the last bulletin
of the department of labor. The ex-
penditure, per capita, is S61S. Beside
this tax, the Catholics of Butte, who
comprise at least one-half of the pop
ulation, maintain two of the largest
parochial schools to be found any,
where in the west. Thus the Catholic
taxpayer, as Uncle Remus would saw
cotches it goin' and comm" while
the fact stand out that if the Catholic
parochial schools of Butte were to be
closed tomorrow, not one-fourth of the
attending them could find
room in the public schools of that city.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-11-16

You can't tell how long a road is
until you have Travelled it.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-11-16

Waffle is from wafel. a word of Teu-
tonic origin meaning honeycomb.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-11-16

No nation has yet recognized Great
Britain's self-assumed sovereignty over
the Boer republics and confirmed the
kings title to the territory. On the
other hand, international Jurisprudence
holds that Paul Kruger is still president
Of the Transvaal and his diplomatic
representatives remain accredited to
the courts of foreign nations. That be-
ing so, when the government of this
country allows the shipment of horses
from New Orleans to Cape Town to re-
cruit the British cavalry service, it is
an act in which one belligerent power
IS aided as against another belligerent.
Any attempt to land supplies to the
struggling Beers at the Portuguese port
in South Africa is attended with the
danger of capture and confiscation. Is
this fair deal, President Roosevelt?
No wonder you are deluged with postal
cards asking you to Please stop the
shipments Of horses and mules from
New Orleans to Cape Town, if possible.
and make England fight fair in South
Africa"
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-11-16
LITTLE FOLKS ANNUAL. Benzin,,

LITTLE FOLKS ANNUAL. Benzinger
Brothers, New York, Cincinnati, Chi
cago.
This little book is sold for a nickle
and viii give more enjoyment to the
little folks than a bushel of nickels. #
abounds in storiettes, just long enough
to make them interesting for John and
Mary The Church Calendar for 1902
covers the first pages.