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The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-08-16
Diseases That Are Fashionable.

IT HE London Lancet, an eminent
medical authority, is forced to ac-
knowledge that there are fashions
or fads in remedies for sickness, just
as there are in dress. 1t says that only
a few years ago physicians relied main
ly upon antipyretics. These were grad
ually abandoned and succeeded by an
ti-toxihs and animal extracts. If the
Lancet is to be believed, these have
had their day and another set of ants
will take their place, but it does not
inform us what they will be.
The Philadelphia Record, comment
ing upon these changes, shrewdly sug-
gests that the changing fashions in
remedies may be the result of rapidly
changing fashions in diseases, and the
frequent appearance of new diseases,
which may, after all, in some cases. be
only old diseases with new and more
formidable names. If man, during his
long stay on this planet, with his ten
dency to take disease and the oppor-
tunities presented for doing so, has
not tried them all, he has been singu-
larIy negligent. 1t viii be remembered
that half a century ago the liver was
the chief seat of all diseases, and the
blue pill was the favorite remedy for
nearly every ailment. A little later
fever and ague was shaking everybody,
and Peruvian bark was in universal
demand. But we hear nowadays as
little about biliousness or the break
bone fever as we do about mercury or
quinine. Who that has come to years
of discretion does not recall how he was
dosed every spring in his childhood
with sulphur and cream of tartar,
through the summer with heroic doses
of thoroughwort. through the fall with
paregoric, and through the winter with
that diabolical compound, SIENNA and
salts? Who now hears of any one of
these medicines? What child of spirit
would consent to take them? What
parent would have the courage to sug-
gest them?
AS matter of fact, says the Chicago
the good old diseases under
which our forbears used to stagger and
still live to an unreasonable old age
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-08-16
A NATURAL ADJUSTMENT.

The friar question is settling itself
as we predicted. The authorities of
the AuguStinian order WILL it is stated.
substitute American for Spanish friars
as speedily as may be; and the heads
of the other orders will probably take
similar action. Such substitution is
not now in the history of the church.
when revolutions in the state have had
to be met, for the peoples sake. in an
accommodating spirit
Violent efforts were made by the az
gressive> and superfluous Protestant
missionary, to make the poor Filipino
of the humber class believe that
America is a Protestant country. and
that his change of government almost
necessarily involved for his we'll being.
a corresponding change in religion. The
result was certainly not in the interest
OF Americanism in the Philippines.
Even few American priests will do
much to destroy the idea of any neces-
sary connection between Americanism
and Professionalism, and will thus pro
mote peace and patriotism in our ORR
entail possessions
For the rest, the Augustinians. Dom
inlcans, Franciscans and Recollets have
IN their membership not only Ameri-
cans, but those natural missionaries
and spiritual cosn1opolitans, the Irish.
French and Belgians, who have done
SO much for our own land in the tenn
poral and spiritual order, and who can
easily take up their Spanish brethren S
work In the Philippines. And thus the
friars will doubtless remain a perma-
nent part of the religious life in the
ilippines.-Boston Pilot.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-08-16
Quiet in France.

IN UIIET prevails in France; and yet
~ it can hardly mean the quiet that
~ follows q spirit which has been
subdued and resolve that is blasted.
Rather is it the quiet belonging to pa
thence and Christian submission to
Gods will.
The DEGREES against the French re-
ligious orders have now been executed
vigorously in the eighty-six depart
| ments into which France is divided
with the exception of the departments
or Morbihan. where they will be en-
forced on Monday, and in Finistere,
where they will be carried out before
the end of next week.
Nothing really serious has happened
in Brittany or elsewhere in connection
with the resistance to the government
officials closing the recalcitrant con-
vent schools. Credit for this is large
ly due to the patriotism of Emile de
Villiers, Catholic and royalist deputy
of Finistere, to Count Albert de Nun,
to Senator Admiral de Cuverville. and
to Able Gayraud, the Catholic deputy.
who have made public speeches all
through the excited districts of Brit
tany, eXhorting the people to abstain
from bloodshed and not to attack the
government troops, and pointing out to
the hot-headed Bretons that by lawful
protestation they have good chance
of acquiring universal sympathy and
of finally redressing what they consid-
er to be their wrongs. On the other
hand, there are number of national
list emissaries in Brittany who are do
ing all they can to persuade country
folk to headstrong resistance and civil
war.
The situation is exceedingly pic,
turesque, and the beautiful briar
hedges that line every lane and road
in Brittany conceal peasants in ma
tional costume posted as sentries.
These videttes are provided with bu-
giles, which they blow as a warning of
the approach of government troops.
which are being concentrated in great
force. Peasants are collected in
groups near the villages, and have
completely deserted the fields, where
the ripe wheat and buckwheat
which are the national food of the peo-
pie, are fiattening on the soil, in i'm
minent danger of rotting. Village folk
kneel bareheaded before the nuns and
chant their hymns, and sing weird
Gallo or local songs. Young peasants
gallop about on wiry, shaggy Breton
ponies, carrying tidings hither and
thither, and there are plenty of shouts
of Long live the nuns" Long live
liberty" Down with the ministry"
etc. The locksmiths who pick the locks
of the refractory schools are protected
by a triple row of soldiers, and when
mounted gendarmes and dragons APP
pear their horses are surrounded by
dense crowds of peasantry, who press
about them. crying, Long live the
ARMY"
The military force in Brittany is now
so overwhelming that any resistance,
even if offered, which is not at all
likely, would at once be suppressed,
and the calm and patriotic attitude of
Comte Albert de Nun and the other
deputies is so unusual
that it deserves to be signalized.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-08-16

Mr.. William Dillon is no longer the
editor of the New World, organ of the
archdiocese of Chicago. Mr.. DilIons
connection with the New World spans
over eight years. He was practicing
law when he became it's editor The
newspaper instinct in the lawyer de-
veloped an editor whose easy style won
the admiration of literary people in the
west. Mr.. billions subjects We're al
ways timely and his treatment of cur
rent topics carried uniqueness with
originality. One could not help observ-
ing his painstaking effort in this direc-
ton.
Mr.. Dillon and the board of directors
could not agree, and this explains the
change. Mr.. Dillon complains that his
summary discharge was contrary to
the ethics of journalism, and sends US
his valedictory or what the editor of
the New World would have said to his
readers if he had been allowed" TAX
ing sides with Mr.. Dillon in this con-
troversy would also be contrary to the
ethics of Journalism.
Chicago is a great city, with oppor-
tunities abundant for a person of Mr..
Dillon's ability and reputation. New
York has four or five Catholic papers
where Chicago has one. We would ed
wise Mr.. Dillon, if he has money to
risk, to start another Catholic paper
in Chicago. Then he can have all the
fun he desires with the management of
the New World.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-08-16
CATKOLIC OPINION

An injunction ought to be obtained to
restrain Judge John Jay Jackson of West
Virginia from further action certain to
increase the peoples distrust of the fed
and order than all the Socialists and
Anarchists in the United States put to-
gether. Judge Jackson should go.-Cath-
ole Columbian.
It's an odd thing that the secular press.
which boasts of so many intelligent and
talented writers, usually so correct al
ways err in the presentation of matters
Catholic. The latest bull was the an
nouncement under glaring heads of the
annullment of a New York marriage by
the Pope. No Catholic needs to be told
that If true marriage had existed not
even even the Pope. could have annulled it;
that II a marriage did not exist. no i'm
pedlment existed to prevent marriage,
and that only a review by the bishop of
the diocese was necessary to establish
that fact And still the papers would
have their readers believe that the Pope
had acted in manner which was without
the jurisdiction of the local authorities
Catholic Register.
Michael Davitt whose sole claim to be
heard rests on the fact that ne was an
Irish political prisoner. appears in the
new role of defamer of Irish immigrant
girls in America The agitator tells the
oishops of Ireland to send a commission
to this country and suggests that they
Will find many Irish immigrant girls
leading lives of shame in New York or
other cities of the Union There is not
a priest on the mission here who could
not tell Mr.. Davitt that the Irish girl
here is the best hope of religion. Some
few may fall, but comparatively fewer
than in Dublin, Cork or Belfast.-Ameri-
can Herald.
A writer in one of the New Thought
publications, The Theosophical Maya
zine" warns that if the present rate of
Catholic fecundity continues. that re-
ligion inevitably must sweep the world
during the next two centuries The as
sertion seems well based. Catholicity is
about the only religion now on earth
that condemns the practice of defeating
nature. Catholic husbands and wives are
not afraid of becoming fathers and
MISUNDERSTANDING Observer.
If the Irish element in America should
place Irish priests in charge Of German
congregations and establish rules virtual
" excluding Germans from membership
IN such orders as the Augustinians and
Dominicans, the German element would
very naturally and justly object. The
spanish authorities in the Philippines
placed Spanish friars over the principal
t1npino congregations and excluded the
native from the great religious orders
rms is part of the popular objection to
the 1r1ars We ought not to try to force
on the Filfpinos a church policy which
We ourselves would not stand.-Catholic
Citizen.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-08-16
CATHOLIC FEDERATION.
President Minahan Discusses the Re
cent National Gathering of So
cieties at CHICAGO

Thomas b. Minahan, reelected pres
ident of the Federated Catholic socie-
ties, on his return to Columbus from
Chicago, gave out the following to the
State Journal:
The meeting was successful far be-
yond expectation. 1t was most repre-
sentative in character, and there were
double the number of delegates to the
Cincinnati convention, being about 500.
Letters and kilograms of congratularion
and encouragement poured in from
prelates, laymen and societies in all
parts of the country.
THE heretofore difficult problem of
unifying the various nationalities, as
also apportioning the representation
from the national bodies, was most sat
isfactorily worked out. In the conven-
ton there was individual radicalism
and conservatism, but the judgment of
the body as a whole represented the
golden mean on the important matter
of the Philippines and kindred sub
jects.
"A most pronounced sentiment of the
convention, several times emphasized
was the unanimous conviction of
manly, Independent, broad and fair
minded disposition on the part of Pres
ident Roosevelt in dealing with the diff
icult subject of religion and education
in our new possessions
THE resolutions voicing the official
expression of the convention on all the
important subjects deliberated upon
are couched in a courteous, firm. dig
nified, calm and manly tone"
Some of the Chicago papers," he
said, "misrepresented much of the con-
ventions spirit and proceedings. Cen
tering their reports on the subject of
the interviews with Archbishop Ire
land, in which he warned Catholics
against interfering in the Philippines
question, some of the dailies aimed to
have it appear that the convention de-
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-08-16
ROCKY MOUNTAIN SKETCHES.
Rev. J, ]. Gibbons, Entertaingly De
scribes Missionary's Experience.

Notes of Missionary Priest in the
rocky Mountains" from the Christian
Press association of New York, is a
llvely little book from the pen of Rev.
o. ). gibbons, and though it has had
TO wait for perusal for longer time
than 1t deserved, still the reading of
1t was a pleasure. Like the mountains
of which it is redolent, it is crisp and
breezy
1t is a book of about 200 pages, con
slsting of a dozen sketches, telling
some Of the rough experiences of a
missionary in Colorado. 1t smacks of
Ice and snow, gold and silver, humor
ana pathos, and while it will prove
interesting reading to any and every
pooy' one can heartily recommend it to
the clergy; it will prove an entertain
ING as novel, above all the one chap
Ter, Ten Days on a Sick CALI
nile the author does not attempt
anything more than mere sketch,
sun parts of the work are dramatic
ana OF high order of literary good
sense The book is illustrated with
some hne Rocky mountain scenery and
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-08-16
Utah Methodists Change Front.

T LAST the Methodist ministers of
"A Utah reluctantly admit that all
their denunciations of the Nor
mons and Mormonism,, in pulpit and
conference, has brought for reward only
Dead Sea apples. They candidly con-
fess that, so far from such propaganda
making any breaches in the faith of
the Mormon people, it has only served
to convince them that their church
thrives best under persecution.
1t has taken the Methodists of Utah
a long time TO come to this sensible
conclusion-a long time to get it into
their heads that the gospel of hate is
the gospel of the sword, such as in
spired that fanaticism which made the
Mahommedans at one time the mas
tiers of eastern Europe; the gospel
which is responsible for the persecu-
tons undertaken in the name Of re-
ligion everywhere since men forgot to
remove the beam from their own eye
before spying the mote in their neigh
boris eye.
The admissions made in conference
the other day is tantamount to the
declaration that all utterances of the
Albrittons and the lifts of the Metho-
dist sect were calumnies against the
people of Utah. and this is strength
ened by the contemplated removal of
Albritton to some place in Pennsyl-
vania, where he may get a chance TO
antagonize those who work for wages
in coal mine. Where the bishop may
send Tiff has not been made public.
He could admirably fill some snug
berth in the Philippines, which might
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-08-16
OFFICIAL ENDORSEMENT.

Editor Intermountain Catholic:
My Dear Sir:-Replying to your IaNor
asking nv approval OF The Intermountaln
Catholic since its establishment IN inns
diocese, / viii state that Z conslder me
founding of a Catholic paper In SAT- LAKE
not the least OF the many blessings pc
slowed by Providence on the Church mere
during the past two years as birth DC -
CURED at an opportune time. It's zeal, IN
propagating Catholic truth. has had,
since its inception, my hearty thougn
silent approval 1 believe with Our holy
Father that "a good Catholic journal is a
perpetual mission in a parish, and tnaI
1t will serve as a question box, at az
times, for anxious inqui-ers. In my visi-
tations l shall hope to find The Inter-
mountain Catholic in the homes of every
Catholic family. Its mission is to es-
pouse truth. justice and morality, and all
devoted priests will find m ii an able CO.
operator in their missionary work 1t Is
my wish that all my priests and the laity
entrusted TO my charge should encourage
your noble effort and that of the gen
erous founder of The Intermountain
Catholic. Yours sincerely,
L. SEAMAN,
Bishop of Salt Lake.
Salt Lake City, Oct. ., 1900
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-08-16
cARD FRoM RTsEoP scANLAN.

I 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 a priest or sister or anyone
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 permis-
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 as fraud and an imposter-
L. SCANLAN,
Bishop of Salt Lake.
Nov % 1900
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-08-16

Time has wrought great changes in
this city Of the Saints since 1890. Few
at that time could look ahead and see
Judge Powers occupying an elevated
seat in the Mormon tabernacle, which
he did the other day as master of cere-
monies at the Elks' reunion. OF course
the audience he faced was not the same
which listen to the elders of the church
on Sundays, but all the same it was the
Mormon tabernacle with Judge Pow
ers lifting up his voice and explaining
some Of the why's and wherefores of
TIE great changes.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-08-16
THE PoPE,s ADMoN1TIoN.

A Catholic newspaper in a parish is a
perpetual mission. Let all who truly and
society defended bv human inteiiect and
literature should flourish. strive by their
tberality to guard and protect the
Catholic press. and let every one in pro-
portion to his income support them with
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 OF
uncertain and miserable ones.
POPE LEO XIII.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-08-16

King Oscar of Sweden did a nobler
act the other day than winning bat
tie While yachting near the
Marstrand bridge. at Stockholm.
which was crowded with women
and children, the structure collapsed.
throwing its occupants into the water.
The king threw off his coat and assist
ed in the rescue Of twenty-three per
sons, who were taken aboard the yacht.
Is there another king in Europe who
would follow Oscars example?
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-08-16

That. priest in The anthracite coal
belt who denounced from the pulpit
President Mitchell and the leaders of
the great miners organization. at the
same time advising miners to with
draw from it, deserves all the censure
be received at a recent mass meeting
Of strikers. Another priest, residing
at Spring Valley, where Mr.. mitchell
lives, and is one of its respected cit
liens, strongly protested against the
denunciations of the first. Priests who
90 off half-cocked like Father O'Rielly
should secure. assistants to fill their
pulpits' while they can put in time TO
better perpose answering the rectory
door bell.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-08-16

In India proper the remarkable de-
cline of Brahamism and Buddhism is
followed by a corresponding growth of
Christianity, but more astonishingly by
a rise of Mohammedanism. In ten
years, according to the latest English
census, the native religions have lost
over 100000 Fifty years more of
strong drink, opium, famine and plague
viii, it is said, seal the dominance of
Hindu beliefs as well as of the native
races
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-08-16

Very few Irishmen, as a rule. re-
member the circumstances under which
Francois Thurot, in 1850, tried, in the
name of France, to make a descent on
the Irish coast at Carrickfergus. Some
very interesting details about the ex-
petition have been contributed by Mr..
Charles Roeder of Manchester to the
Isle of Man Examiner" Thurot, who
was born in 1927 and had learned Eng
fish during a stay in England, and had
there married an English wife, was a
considerable smuggler before he re-
ceived his commission in the French
navy. He was in command of five ships
when he set out on his hazardous I'M
dertaking. Liverpool was greatly
alarmed, and extensive preparations
were made for defense there and else.
where. Finally the ship of Captain
John Elliott and two others engaged
the Frenchman off the Isle of Man, and
the result was the defeat of the would
be invaders. Thurot, who appears to
have been a man of ability, beloved by
his men, and honorably distinguished
for his humanity, was killed early in
the action. The victors, it appears, had
the thanks Of the house of commons
and were immensely popular, Mr. Roe
der mentions that NJ. L. Fournier of
Beaune is engaged upon biography OF
Thurot.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-08-16

Nobody in Manila or out of it places
much stock in the reported agitation
in the Katipunan secret society to-
wards establishing a Filipino church
and making Father Gregorio Agilpay,
renegade communicated native
priest, the archbishop. Aguinaldo and
Senior Tavera are indignant at being
named presidents of the council. They
denounce the scheme as money
maS one, intended to fool the ig-
nors1L
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-08-16

and lavishly praised the hospitality of
its people. 1t was three days of pa
rade and. music and Nominations:
three days in which the small boy was
at a loss which band TO follow; three
days in which everybody who had any
thing to sell for the stomach's sake
took in more money than they ever
got from Endeavorer excursionists,
who carry along their pennies. 1t was
a great event for the Ell1s, but oh.
how much greater for Salt Lake.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-08-16

President Roosevelt will, in the near
future, receive an emphatic and direct
appeal from the Cuban government 20
call an extraordinary session of the
senate for the purpose of ratifying a
commercial treaty with the island re-
public so as to permit the stricken Gu
bans to find a market for their prod
ucts. While no official action has been
taken, President Palma and the Cuban
government understand thoroughly
that the United States is extremely
doubtful as to the wisdom of saddling
debt of $S5,OOO,OOO on the new repub-
lie, especially when the outlook for re-
deeming the bonds are not particularly
bright. When funds from this source
have been realized it is extremely
doubtful if the Cubans viii be ma
terially benefited as the need of
market for Cuban products is even
more pressing than that for money.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-08-16
IN A MINOR KEY.

When Coils P. Huntington was NOR
T n Tor the second time. Henry Ward
Beecher performed the marria{re cera-
mony. Huntington's first wife had been
dead less than one year. and he disired
the second marriage to be kept secret
Mr.. Beecher a marriage fee of s1 5an
When Huntington returned. some months
later he went through a public ceremony,
ana Beecher again officiated. He gave
Beecher another fee of $500
The great preacher had his hunnor
aroused by this second fee Turning to
Huntington, he said: 'Collis. I do wish
you were a Mormon. ''-Argonaut
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-08-16
CoNTRARY no HIs EXPERIENr,E

This isn't much of a snake" com
planned the man who had paid 10 cents
to see the sideShow THE serpent Won
exhibit on the canvas outside is as big
as a barrel and a dozen times as long az
this one
What did you expect to get for n
dinner" retorted the Snowman. big snake
cost a heap"
THAT isn't my experience" rejoined
the other. The cheaper the whisky the
bigger the snake