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The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1902-03-07

u. II. ROSS,
City Marshall, Owosso, Mich.
Aid. Stratton presented the following report,
which was, upon motion, received and ordered
placed ON file.
Owosso, Mich, March /, 1902.
To the Honorable Mayor and Common Council
of the City of Owosso.
MISUNDERSTANDING is report of the re-
ceipts and expenditures of the City of Owosso,
for the month of February A. D. 1902:
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-12-27
THE CHRISTMAS CRIB;
THE CHRISTMAS TREE
written for The Intermountain Cath.
olic.)
DON MAGUIRE.

written for The Intermountain Cath.
olic.)
The holidays are nigh; the Joy and
mirth of celebration are already ram.
pant, and the merry peals of the joy.
bells will soon fill the air. The song
of the angels. will be heard in the
hills, and the Star of the Wise Man
will shine in the heaven of the soul.
We will kneel before the crib and of
fer our new born Savior the triple tri-
butte of our hearts, gold, franklin
cense and wyrth, the gold of our hon.
age, because He is King; the franklin
cense of alteration, because he is
God, and myrrh of love and gratitude,
because He became man through love
of us. We shall see all the pomp and
splendor of the Church ptu forth in
her celebration Of that mystery which
has given joy to angels and hope to
mantle magnificence of her liturgy,
the stateliness of her ceremonial, the
eloquence of her ministry, the melody
of her music unrivalled and mimi
table; her affairs laden in a wealth
of natures beauty and arts perfec-
ton. And now, it will be a timely
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-12-27

when completed it will be one of the
grandest railway lines in the world,
connecting tho tropics with the Frigid
zone and passing through the greatest
mining, grazing and farming coun-
tries of the world. The length of this
line will be approximately nineteen
hundred and twenty-eight miles, of
which 729 miles will be in British ter
ritory, 1875 in American, and 100 in
Mexican, connecting three nations
and opening via Hudson's bay and
Davis straight, connection between
the parts of central and northern Eu-
rope and the British Isles with a new
route across North America to the
parts of Guimas thereby enabling di-
rect communication from that south
ern port with South America, Aus
tralia, New Zealand and the interyen-
ing island empire. Thus, indeed. we
live in wonderful age, and the end
is not yet
Our mining interests near Ogden
have been making exceedingly good
progress during the past autumn along
with the Eldorado, Santa Maria and
Prince of India mines the Boston and
Magher copper property is now under
way, the company having organized
their camp and began their work of
running tunnel directly on the great
copper lode that bisects their prop
erty. This work will continue
through this present winter and by
spring will be amongst the copper
producers of the state.
Last Sunday saw the dedication
and feast mass celebrated within st.
Joseph's new church on the hill. How
ever, as this is matter of consider
able Importance in itself 1 will leave
it for special letter.
DON MAGUIRE.
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their evil ways, to bury their sins in
the old years grave and to rise with
the new years sun to life of inno-
eenee and grace. sliS1N
From the crib let us learn a lesson.
If the Christian has any end and OBJ
ject in life it is to build cribs, and,
when built, preserve them all the days
of his life. These are not material
cribs erected in their houses, but spir-
itual ones in our hearts Christ must
be born in us in a spiritual manner,
and in our hearts He must not remain
a newborn babe, but must grow and
wax strong" This will be effected if
we comply with the edmonton of the
Prince of Apostles Increase in grace
and in the knowledge of our Lord and
Savior Jesus Christ" I'll Peter, iii, 49,
By the sacrament of Baptism the
crib is erected in the heart, for thereby
the soul, which was once the abode of
Satan, is purified, sanctifed and trans
formed into a dwelling or crib for
Christ. Therefore the priest, breathing
on the face of the catechumen, says:
Depart out of him Tor herr, o unclean
spirit, and give place to the Holy
Ghost, the Comforter" Baptized per-
sons are not only figuratively, but in
reality dwelling places of the living
God; and the divine Infant, who once
reposed in the crib of Bethlehem, re-
ally dwells in their hearts. "Know
you not that you are the temples of
God and that the Spirit of God dwell
eth in you?" q Cor ii, 16)
WIZ NJ.
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practice of erecting Christmas cribs-a
practice observed not only in our
churches, but also in very many of our
homes. Since this practice IS frausi1t
with salutary lessons, and since very
few of us, perhaps, are aware how,
when and where this practice origi-
mated a little dissertation at his time
will not be out of place.
The devotion of erecting cribs orig
mated with st. Francis of Assisium,
who lived in the twelfth century, and
who instituted the Order of Minor
Brothers, afterward called Francis
cans. This Saint, whose maxim was,
LET us love the child of Bethlehem -
ordered stable to be built at Christ
mas in the forest of Grecio, and an OK
and an ass, with the necessary hay, to
be put in it, and temporary altar
erected there represented the crib. At
the proper time st. Francis, with his
brethren in the Order and their pupils
in great numbers from the neighboring
monasteries, accompanied by multi
tude of people, came down from the
mountain, all carrying lighted torches
in their hands to signify that the
night in which the Light of the world
was born should not be dark. The
Saint, filled with heavenly joy, assisted
as deacon at the mass, and chanted the
gospel, after which he preached with
transporting eloquence to the assembly
on the birth of Jesus Christ. always
referring to the Redeemer as ''the
adorable Child of Bethlehem"
Following the example of their zeal
GUS founder, it is the custom of the
Franciscans to this day to put up
Christmas cribs in their churches that
the faithful may be the more wildly
reminded of the sweet child, Jesus,
and desire to become conformable to
Him-to be childlike, not according to
the body, but according to the spirit,
in simplicity of heart and in purity of
morals. Afterward the practice be-
came more general and was introduced
into secular churches; and even many
pious Christians, initiating st. Fran
els, erected cribs in their houses.
This pious custom happily still ex-
lists, and there is scarcely a parish in
which you will not find a crib erected
in one place or another. Children, and
even adults, visit these cribs and find
pleasure in looking at the Infant Jesus
lying charmingly upon hay and straw,
and near Him, the Virgin Mary and
the venerable st. Joseph, while, repre-
sented in an attitude of alteration, are
the angels and the shepherds; and,
lastly, one turns his gaze on the dumb
animals in the stable, which appear so
harmless and guileless, seemingly cog
infant of the wonderful child that lies
in their midst.
The crib has a beautiful signifca-
ton for children. 1t awakens, fosters
and strengthens in their little hearts
religious sentiments, and is calculated
to inspire them with love for the di-
vine child. Their hearts are like tab
leaux of soft wax-impressions are
readily made, and, once made, are not
easily effaced. How much more be-
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tend the funeral, which was, perhaps
the largest that ever moved from St
joseph hel4l = was C good boy
and one who promised to be bless
ing to his parents and a credit to the
community.
AS to the murderers, it is not Ger.
tain as to whether or not the two men
now held in the city Jail are the gull.
ty parties. Their preliminary trial
took place on Friday, December 18th.
as in other cities in the central part
of our state Ogden has for the past
month had plethora of crime, house
breakers, foot pads, petty larceny
thieves have been making life double
interesting for our people, but from
time to time these things take place
in city where an abnormal volume
of thrift and improvement is on.
The new Northwestern railroad
scheme is very quietly but very ear
nestly being worked. This road is
to bisect the space that lies between
the Oregon Short Line and the South
ern Pacific railroad. 1t will run
through Idaho and Oregon, striking
the sea shore at a very well known
and most favorable point This road
will be almost 700 miles in length,
and its prospects for future prosper
ity and success is greater and better
warranted than that of any other
line built since the old Union Pacific
was completed almost thirty-f
years ago.
The party that left Ogden three
months ago to run preliminary sur
vey from Ogden to Deep Creek re-
turned with the assurance that every
thing is favorable to such line, and
the construction will avail themselves
of the advantages gained by the
Southern Pacific company in their
lake cutoff as the Deep Creek and
Ogden road will make use of a route
southwesterly across the lake, skirt
ing the east shore of Antelope island.
These matters are kept very quiet in
this city, but are none the less active
in their naturalization. Our city of
late has been the working base for
very many railway schemers. The
parties whose employers in Boston
have had them at work upon north
and south line from the British pos
sessions to the Gulf of California,
we're in Ogden last week, having COM
Dleted their work of preliminary sur
rey from York Factory, near Port
Nelson, in Hudson's bay, British North
America, to Ogden, the manager of
his little party started back to Bos-
on yesterday and after holidays will
'esume their work, passing from Og-
len to Salt Lake City, thence south
ward to the Colorado, via the Virgin
liver, directly across Arizona via Min
.ral park, Big Sandy, Dale creek,
,rossing the Hassay mountains and
Town to some point west of Tucson,
md thence through Sanora to Guy
nos. The work on this survey has al
eady taken two years, and it will re-
Iuire fifteen months to complete the
Inspection of the country to Guymos
rom Ogden and Salt Lake City, but
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Sacred Heart academy this year has
a much larger attendance than dur
mig any previous year, DoS1 IL
list Of boarders and day pupils, ant
great strides have been made in the
improvements of the institution on its
onward course. The Carnegie library
on Washington avenue is fast nearing
completion and very soon the circu
lating library of our city, whose books
are now within the city hall, will be
moved into the new building, but We
regret the loss to our library interests
in the person of Miss Emmerson, OF
our city who has so long, so well anG
so faithfully served the public inter
ests in the Ogden City circulation Ii
brary. Miss Emmerson goes from us
not that she loves Ogden less, but that
she loves a certain man somewhere
in space more. She simply quits the
library because that she is taking, OF
about to take, a course in matrimony
happiness and long life be her portion.
By the way this calls to my mind
the fact that st. Joseph's parish in
Ogden is promised within very few
months quite a matrimonial landslide,
quite a number of our best young cit
liens have been holding back until the
new church was completed, other
young men whose interests financially
hung in the balance were waiting un-
til the cut off over the lake was de-
cided. Still others were waiting for
an advance in real estate. Well now
st. Joseph's church completed. The
cut off has been secured and real es-
tate has advanced, we may therefore
expect to see wedding invitations
come to our door from the four car
dinal points of Ogden City.
A most deplorable event in our
midst was the murder on the night of
November q of young ]. Fred Nc
Cabe Fred was the youngest child
of our esteemed Catholic fellow citi
zens Mr.. and Mrs. Bernard McCabe.
The young man was Is years of age,
remarkably bright and full of prom
Use in mind and manner, amiable, and
a perfect gentleman. On the evening
of Nov q he, in company with an
other young man, attended young
peoples party and about midnight
upon returning home with the same
young man who went with him to the
party they were waylaid on Twelfth
street by two footpads who while in
the act of robbing them, fatally shot
Fred McCabe. The poor boz fell by
the wayside and the miserable
wretches who wounded him threat
ened that if he did not rise they
would shoot him again, but seeing
that they had already done the fatal
work and seeing also some parties
passing in a vehicle the robbers
turned away and escaped in the dark
ness.
Fred McCabe was removed to his
home where he died twenty -four hours
later.
When he was first shot a wire was
sent his brother, Hon. George Nc
Cabe, practicing lawyer of Washing
ton, D. c., who arrived in time to at
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thought to ask ourselves, what is the
meaning of it all? Faith aniwers: Il
is the zeal of the loved for the lover
of hte spouse for the bridegroom; II
is the expression of the creatures
gratitude for the Creators bene
ficence. But why make use of the vain
pomp and beauty of the natural and
finite to enhance the Interchangeable
glory and magnificence of the super.
natural and Divine?
We are composite beings, formed
of two distinct substances, the one
spiritual and the other material. The
spiritual part, that is, the soul, is a
prisoner in the material part, the
body, andw lille the union of soul and
body exists, the soul can perceive
things, receive impressions and ac-
quire knowledge only through the mar.
row gratings of her prison cell, that
is, through the five senses of the body.
Now, those five senses, being qualities
of material substance, are them
selves material, and can never rise
above their nature and, therefore,
can perceive only material objects.
When an object comes within reach
of the senses, an impression of the
object is made on the 'phantasia," or
imagination, but the impression is yet
material. The imagination acts upon
this impression and abstracts from it
all it's intelligibility and, SO to speak,
immaterializes it, and presents it, thus
immaterialized,, tot he intellect. The
intellect then acts upon it by pro-
cess of reasoning and draws its con-
clusion, whichc onclusion we term an
idea of the object. 1t is through this
mechanical process we get all our
ideas of the supernatural, as well as of
the natural. Hence Aristotle's maxim
the natural. Hence Aristotle's axiom:
There is nothing in the intllect which
was not first in the senses" The
church recognizes this truth, and for
this reason makes use of material
things-the crucifix, statues, pious pic
lures, cribs, etc., in order to make i'm
pressions on the senses, and through
these impressions to enable the soul to
form ideas of the supernatural and di-
vine which thos images represent. In
passing let me illustrate this truth by
a simple fact. Strangers cmoing into a
Catholic Church are struck immediate
ly by the reverence and devotion of the
people. Now, where is the cause of
this admirable reverence and devo-
ton?
1t is the Blessed Sacrament. Catho-
lies as well as other Christians adore
the invisible God, but they do more
they adore him under the visible or
sensible form of bread and wine. The
accidents or appearances of bread and
wine captivate the senses, while the
eyes of faith see God underlying. "This
is my body; this is my blood"
Of all the ceremonies recognized and
used by the church to- enhance the
pomp and splendor with which she
surrounds the celebration of the Sa-
viors birth, none is more common and
appropriate, none more apt to generate
pious and salutary thoughts, than the
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coming and Christian-like it would be
if parents would explain to their chill
dren the representations of the crib
AMI thus instruct them iT-~the >wisdep
of God than to instruct them in the
wisdom of the world. While l pen this
paper my thoughts travel back to the
days of childhood, when a devoted
mother led brother, sisters and myself
to the little crib. l shut my eyes and
still hear her soft, sweet words of in
struction and advice pouring into my
ear. See, children she used to say
to us, this figure represents Jesus
Christ, the Son of God, who for love
of us was born poor child in stable
like this. If you be always good chill
dren, if you have God before your
eyes and never do anything bad,
whether alone or with others; if you
learn well, pray devoutly and obey
willingly, the dear Infant Jesus will
be pleased with you, and will take you
hereafter to live and be happy with
Him in heaven. But if you be bad
children and will not learn and pray
and be obedient, but tell lies and steal
and destroy other peoples property
and do other naughty things, the In
FAINT Jesus will not love you, will for
sake you, and when you die he will
have to send you to hell" This lesson
have never forgotten. 1t comes back
ebay as fresh and blooming as the
day received it; and perhaps it is no
exaggeration to say that it is to les
sons like this l owe the exalted posi-
ton l now hold.
Cribs have Specification no less
beautiful for grown people. He who
has childlike, pious mind and is not
an infatuated wording, feels himself
charmingly attracted by the crib; ten
der feelings are awakened in his heart,
and with the Child Jesus he becomes
child again Even those who are filled
with the spirit and imbued with the
principles of the world are moved on
such occasions, when they see how
merry and happy the children are, too;
they themselves again rejoice over the
divine Child whom they loved when
children. They can hardly look upon
the scene without moistened eyes, and
many time, in presence OF the crib
and the happy, innocent faces which
surround it, have silent tears been seen
stealing down the worldling's and the
sinners cheek. Nor is this to be won
dered at. The scene forcibly recalls
to their minds happy "reminiscences of
their childhood's days, and they uncon-
sciously contrast the beauty and Joy of
innocence with their own scared and
blighted hearts. No doubt conscience
is doing it's stealthy work, and their
guardian angel seizes on the. occasion
of this softened mood to press upon
them the love of the Babe of Bethle-
hem. The grace of God does not rest.
The true star of Bethlehem, the Light
of the World, is risen for them once
more, and dispels the darkness OF the
shadow of death in which they were
enveloped. They see things with other
eyes; they turn from the Christmas
crib with firm resolutions to abandon
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The Deseret Evening News gave it's
readers a fine paper for the holidays.
The matter was all we'll selected, its
review of Utah and adjoining states
show the great progress of the western
states. The cuts, especially those in
the Idaho edition, were very fine. The
whole makeup reflects credit on the
Deseret News, and the Intermountain
Catholic extends it's congratulations to
the enterprising proprietors and edi-
tors.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-12-27

We direct attention to our adver-
tisers and hope all our readers will
keep them in mind when purchasing
their Christmas presents.
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Those desiring extra copies of our
Christmas edition should apply at the
Intermountain office.
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