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Imperial press and farmer., 1902-05-17

INDIo SUBMARINE says: "Any town emulating San Diego is likely to be left at the first quarter. That city has been at standstill since 1893" San Diego is misunderstood in many quar- ters of Southern California. It has been fenced out of close association with its neighbors by natural barriers and has had arealizatiOn of its ambi- tions postponed by a succession of misfortunes, such as protracted finan- cial disturbance, followed by an era of internal contention and that by the series of dry years. That is the side of the story which has been most widely advertised. The other side is that the people are breaking through the natural barriers, have outlived the financial depression, have brought peace where before was rivalry, and have done m ore in the last five years toward building great storage irriga- tion system than any other section of California. It has been the ha bit to throw brickbats at San Diego, but the same people will be throwing bOquets within year or so, when the fact gains general recognition that the peO- pie of San Diego have united for a campaign of energetic development,
Imperial press and farmer., 1902-05-17

IMPERIAL cannot but extend most cordial congratulations to San Diego on the brightening outlook for the early construction of the San Diego and Eastern railroad. These congrat- ulations are even more unselfish than has been hoped might prove to be the case, for the policy of carrying the sur vey through the outer edge of the Im- peral settlements places it where it will be of the least possible benefit to the valley. It can be hoped, however, that when the building of the road is at hand it will be found desirable to construct it on line which will place this valley at large in close association with San Diego and the railroad to be built through the enterprise of the peo- pie of that city.
Imperial press and farmer., 1902-05-17

right for all classes to have such right equally. The natural law is the one which would distribute the benefits of nat ture according to their greatest util- ity, and in this specific case would open the great cattle ranges to the home making settlers, for the ma king of homes is of greater utility thalls the production of cattle. trt
 As land increases in value, the cost of producing cattle on ranges increases, and the logical end is the production of cattle through intensive growth of cattle feed. The condition at present is certainly not far from that in which it IS cheaper to produce meat on the highly cultivated farm than on the wild range, and the evolution of the cattle industry is leading inevitably toward the small farmer and away from the wasteful methods of the rangemen.
Imperial press and farmer., 1902-05-17

THE Superior Court of Los Angeles county has decided that packers of ol- ives have no right to paint the fruit. The courts are getting mighty dis crimiuating these days. May be they don't know that most food product S are bought because of their beauty, rather than their food value.
Imperial press and farmer., 1902-05-17

WHEN the dry bulb thermometers re- corded 1O4 degrees in the shade the other day a wet bulb thermometer n1arked74, and allother day the wet bulb showed 66 when the dry bulb showed 101. The wet bulb gives what is known S the sensitive temperature, or the temperature which person feels when he is perspiring oil a hot day. In a dry country, where evapor- alton is rapid, there is great difference between the two, while in humid country there is little difference. It is safe to say that, while people talk of the heat of the desert, the truth is that the sensitive temperature at time of maximum heat is lower than in any humid section of the country.
Imperial press and farmer., 1902-05-17

LAST Friday Imperial had the first breeze of the sea son from the Gulf of California. It was refreshing after the prevalence of west winds contain ing little of the characteristics of the sea breeze. The gulf breeze is that which prevails in the sumner.W
Imperial press and farmer., 1902-05-17

THE papers report the club women lately in session in Los Angeles as buying an immense mum Der of sea urchins as curiosities. It has often iosities in the homes of club women.
Imperial press and farmer., 1902-05-17

SEVERAL army officers are now ris- ing to explain that the "water cure" practiced in the Philippines to force confessions from prisoners is not se- were treatment, though a little un- pleasant. It seems that subjecting prisoners to hydraulic pressure is little
Imperial press and farmer., 1902-05-17

BELGIAN hares are still raging in the East. Since it has been demon- strated that hares are more delicious than baked cats and cheaper than beef the only thing necessary to make a success of them is to get people to eat them.
Imperial press and farmer., 1902-05-17

Now THAT the newspapers are get ting tired of building railroads, there are indications that they will return to laying eggs for a season before the periodical outbreak of politics. The newspapers would have hard time of it if it were not for the three great in- dustries of building railroads, run ming poultry farms and saving the country.
Imperial press and farmer., 1902-05-17

EVER since Europe had the Diet of Worms it has had species of indiges ton, aggravated from time to time with two much Greece and Turkey and other conflicting substances. Just now it is greatly worried over Hull gary.
Imperial press and farmer., 1902-05-17

THE sad intelligence comes from New Orleans of the destruction of two million brick by fire. Now we will look for report from the Columbia river of great disaster in the drown ing of salmon.
Imperial press and farmer., 1902-05-17

more than a harmless pleasantly. It isn't, then, nearly so efficacous in get ting confession as twisting mans thumbs or punching him in the ribs, with red hot poker.
Imperial press and farmer., 1902-05-17

An, shame for him who sneers at toll And shuns his share of labor; The knave but robs his native soil, '+' While leaning on his neighbor.
 A. E. Taught in American Cutivator.
Imperial press and farmer., 1902-05-17

IT is admitted that the Beef trust has been very successful bull in the worlds meat market.
Imperial press and farmer., 1902-05-17

ESPECIAL. DISPATCH TO THE PRESS)
 LOS ANGELES, May 15.--For some days A. H. Heber, president and gen eral manager, and c. K. Rockwood, vice-president and chief engineer of the California Development Company, have been in San Francisco, in con- sutation with officials of the Southern Pacific railroad regarding the con- struction of the Imperial and Gulf road from Imperial to Old Beach, which point is to be known as Imperial Junction. It is also considered proba- ble that his road will in time become portion of the ma in line of the South ern Pacific road An Associat ed Press dispatch gives the following informa-
Imperial press and farmer., 1902-05-17

THE breeding pen is mightier than the sword in building up country.
Imperial press and farmer., 1902-05-17

structed many canals covering about 15O, ,0O0 acres, oil which settlers have located. The irrigation system when completed will cover over 8O0,00O acres of land, and will furnish large mount of tra fife for the Southern Pa cific railroad. The new road will be in operation by Septem Der next.''
 WELCOME NEWS RECEIVED
 The above news was received in Inl- perial with unbounded pleasure, for though it has been believed that a railroad would soon enter the town, this is more tangible than any pre- vious announcement, while the South ern Pacific Company has equipment which will make the building of the road proceed most rapidly.
Imperial press and farmer., 1902-05-17
Southern Pacific Railroad Takes the Contract to Con- StruCt the Road From Imperial to Old
 Beach At Once

tion regarding the result of the con | ference:
 "San Francisco, May IA. H. He Der of Los Angeles, representing the California Development Company, an nounced today that the Southern Pa fife Railroad Company has contracted with the California Development Com pany to construct the Imperial and Gulf railway from point at or near the station on the main line of the Southern Pacific railroad known as Old Beach, 65 miles west of Yuma. The road is to be constructed about thirty miles to Imperial, new settle ment now widely known. The Cali fornia Development Company ha S con-
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-22
And This in Spain

Persons engaged in Sunday school
work may be interested in learning
that there is in Spain an Association
of Ladies Of the Christian Doctrine, -
which is to be found in seventeen
cities. While its central feature is evil
IDENTIFY the teaching OF the faith, its
scope is wider still. In Seville alone,
they began in 1895 to teach the work.
ing people and poor people, who have
been badly influenced by an evil So
cialism; and there are now 118 ladies
engaged in this charitable undertaking
of saving souls. They have about 1900
members in their charge. Then there
are honorary associations, who give
money and influence to the work. The
ladies provide clothing and food for
the needy; and they go to mass with
their classes, and recite the rosary in
church with them before mass begins.
These ladies will go to the doors of
wine shops and the barriers of bull
fights to seek out and rescue their
stray sheep; and men who have even
sworn they would never enter church
have been brought back to the path
of duty. Once a year a mission is
given in each of the six centres among
which nearly 5000 members are divided.
] like especially the idea of unity and
systematic charity which plainly per
vades this association. In union is
strength.-Sacred Heart Review.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-22
First nau or Seventh.

The question of Saturday or Sunday
for Sabbath is placed in clear light
by the New York Independent by sim
ply reminding its readers of the well
known fact that by travelling around
the world in the right direction one
would lose a day, and consequently
find. upon the completion of the jour-
ney, that what to the traveller is the
seventh day of the week is the first to
those who have remained. The. indie
pendent says:
Samoa is hereafter to reckon the
days of the week after the western, and
not the eastern manner, a change of
one in the day of the week and the
month. Let US see what that might
involve. If what was Saturday now
becomes Sunday, why cannot the Jews
and the Seventh-day Baptists call it
Sunday, and both rest and worship on
the same day by this perfectly proper
convention? Or, indeed, why should not
our American Jews send their chief
the right direction, and have them come
back to find that their seventh day is
our first day? We cannot see that it
really makes any real difference where
in the week you begin to count from,
nor, indeed, that there is any begin
ming to the week. The entire difference
as to the Sabbath day is a mere con-
ventional Journalism that has no inner
ent Importance; and if any one thinks
it has, let him take a trip around the
world, and come back in line with other
people"
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-22
A Good Suggestion

A commercial traveller, in a letter to
the London Catholic Times, makes a
suggestion that is deserving of some
consideration in this country. He tells
of having read about the pamphlets
of the English Catholic Truth society
that are sold at mere nominal figure
He has learned from experience that
there is vast amount of ignorance
among Protestant commercial travellers
concerning Catholic truth. In order to
dispel some of this he proposes to pur-
chase Catholic Truth society pamphlets
and leave them in hotels and railroad
trains as he. goes on his journeys.
Travellers, as a rule he says, ARE
a very decent set of men, and 1 feel
sure they would read our explanations
in an unbiased manner Religion is a,
subject which receives a good deal of
attention in the commercial room, and
the presence of one. of the pamphlets
would do a great good" The excellent
issued by the Catholic Truth
society of San Francisco might be used
effectively in a similar manner-Cath-
Olic News
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-22

months of his death, Father Jose, un-
der which name the old man was
known all over California among the
4 Spaniards and MeXicans, devoted him
j self with zeal to missionary work and
! also acted as professor, procurator of
the college,, etc. The neat little church
at Montecito, near Santa Barbara, is
I the fruit of his energy in the last years
of his life.
/ The deceased had expressed the wish
! that he might find the last earthly
] resting place at his dear Santa Bar
bara among the brethren whom he out
/ lived by many years. The body was
| therefore brought to the mission on
Monday, Nov. 3, accompanied by the
| Very Rev. Commissary Theodor Arentz
of the Pajaro asylum. On Tuesday
| morning the office of the dead was
chanted for the deceased by fathers
and clerics of the monastery At 8
o'clock Father Joseph O'Keefe, o. F..
NJ, guardian of the Mexican Francis
can monastery at San Luis Rey, who
had known Father Jose for more than
forty years, and who is himself the
only priestly survivor of the ancient
Spanish college of Santa Barbara sang
the Requiem. The deacons were the
Fathers Zephyrin and Matthias. The
choir was composed of fathers ana
Stockman of Santa Barbara preached
in Spanish, and Father Peter, rector
of st. Anthony's college. made an ad
dress in English. Besides the fathers
mentioned there were present in the
sanctuary Rev. Father O'Reilly of
San Buenaventura, Rev. Father O'Reil-
ly of Santa Barbara, Rev. Father Pu-
jol of Ell Rio, Very Rev Theodor Ar
entz, o. F. NJ, Rev. Father Guadian
I HcrnI- No. of
Los Angeles, Rev. Fathers Matthias,
Eugene, Herman, Felix, James, Lucius,
Berthold, Idlefons, eleven Franciscan
clerics, seven novices and twelve lay
brothers. The old church was filed to
overf1owing with people from the town,
particularly Spaniards, some of whom
had known Father Jose Godayol for
half century almost.
AT the close of the ceremonies the
procession formed and made its way
to the old cemetery, in which as many
as 1000 Indians have been laid to rest
from the foundation of the mission in
1856 down to 1850. There, what was
mortal in Father Jose rests in the |
cemetery vaults that enclose the bodies |
of Fathers Gonzalez, Sanchez and |
many other religious. Of mission times |
and of our period. ~"
On the day following, Wednesday, a
iIllle peIore o CLOCK p. M, the young |
cleric, Francis Xaxier Zettel, died of |
consumption at the age of "a. Father |
xavier was born at Formosa, Canada,
Of pious family which has given seven
children to God in the religious state.
An elder brother died as a cleric here
only two years ago; younger brother
Is now making his novitiate at the old
and sister has also devoted
herself to religious life among the Sis
-ers of Notre Dame. The father is. a
wealthy creamery owner in Minnesota.
Father Xavier was ailing for several
years. but calmly awaited death to
axe him to the home of his Heavenly
Father. The funeral took place after
he customary Office for the dead and
solemn REQUIEM mass on Friday morn
ng r 7 p
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-22
Western Catholic Chautauqua.

We are informed that the name
Western Catholic Chautauqua was sub
stituted for the Columbian Catholic
Summer School to avoid misconcep-
tions of the associations purpose
caused by the somewhat misleading
title school" The word Catholic was
thought to cover all that was implied
by Columbia.
The school will again meet at st.
Paul next year, and will have the hear
ty assistance of Archbishop Ireland.
The work already under way prom
ises the most successful year in the
history of the school.
The list of speakers is not so long,
perhaps, as formerly, but it includes
names of national reputation. The
directors have not given out either
the names of the speakers or the pro-
gramme, but a promise is made that
the Western Catholic Chautauqua will
compete with every organization of the
kind in the country.
An effort was made to have the
school return TO Madison, Wis, but it
was only fair to give st. Paul another
chance. The prospects are in favor
Of a permanent home somewhere in
the northwest, possibly st. Paul, or
on one Of the lakes near Minneapolis.
Catholic Columbian.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-22
The Jews Want Converts.

The Episcopalians have now their
sisterhoods The Methodists have
theirs. The Baptists are troubled
! about what to do with their increasing
| output of overripe maidenhood. Now
| the Jews want converts for the
Daughters of Zion.''
DR.. Adolph Danziger, the distin-
guished editor of the Chicago Israel
ite, thus speaks of the project:
Look at the Sisters of the Cath
olic church, how they work sans peur
ct sans prix, and how they minister
to the sick and the dying Surely you
are not worse than they. You, too,
by grace as mysterious as divine,
could discard your finery, don sim
pie garb and form a glorious sister,
hood, helping mankind and tightening
the burden of all who suffer, regard
less of creed. But oh, how infinitely
sweeter, nobler, when your gentle
presence and loving hand aid the sick
and the lonely of your own faith! A
Jewish sisterhood of mercy! The heart
goes out in the thought Not a Miss
Gwendolyn Goldstein or Miss Sylvia
Isaacs, but Sister Miriam and Sister
Rachael and Sister Deborah You and
you alone would regenerate the Jew
ish faith. A thousand preachers ut
tering TRADES 365 days in the year
could not effect the good your activity
would. accomplish in week. Form a
sisterhood, you young women of Chi
cago! Be you the mothers of an or
der that shall spread Its benign in
fluence wherever Jews dwell. Found
an order and vow obedience to humil-
ity, to chastity, to holiness. Found an
order and have your prioress and your
garb and your sacred, inviolable home.
There may be, there must be, sanity
souls among you who are not passion
ately welded to the vanities and cruel |
ties of life: let these pure souls defy |
the jest and jeer of the world; let them |
meet, and, locking hands, let them |
say: 1--WE will do this thing to the |
glory of God and for a blessing to |
mankind" Don't let the or
phan girls go to asylums, but be you
as mothers to them. Train them care
fully lovingly, justly. Fear not for
funds. The Church of Rome could
never boast the wealth that will stand
behind you and your work. Build
great Jewish convent, found a Jewish
and spread new and glor-
ous light upon the world
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-22
THE LATE FATHER JOSE.
Last of the Spanish Franciscans in
California:
(The Monitor, San Francisco.)

(The Monitor, San Francisco.)
| On Thursday evening, Oct. 80, Father
Jose Godayol, O. F. M, quietly passed
to everlasting rest at the Orphan asy-
lum near Watsonville. With him closes
a most interesting chapter OF Califor-
MIA church history, for good Father
Jose was the last of those noble men
who had come over from Spain to work
among the people of his nationality in
the widely scattered settlements on
this coast as religious of the Francis
can order.
The deceased was born at Vich. Cat
alonia, on Jan. 16. 1929. After. com
pleting his classical and philosophical
studies in his native town, young Co
dayol, in company of three other young
men, among whom was the late Rev
James Villa of Santa Barbara, left
Spain for the purpose of entering the
missionary field in California. They
arrived at Santa Barbara early in 1854
Young Godayol, Codina and Alcina at
once prepared to join the Franciscan
order, which had just then laid the
foundation for missionary college aft
er the plan of San Fernando and
Zacatecas, which had furnished the In
dian missionaries of old.
Godayol was the senior of the three
candidates who, on July %, 1854. re-
ceived the brown habit of the Seraphic
order. Father Jose thus enjoyed the
distinction of being the first young
man to enter the Franciscan order any-
where on the western coast of North
America. Godayol was "a years of age
at the time. On July 30, 1855, the three
novices made their. VOWS and there
after devoted themselves to the study
of theology under the Very Rev. Con-
zales RubioE. Q. f. M, who had for
several years been administrator of the
diocese of California On Aug. Is 1850
the three clerics were elevated to the
priesthood at San Francisco by Most
Rev. Sadoc AiemanY, and celebrated
their first mass at the beloved old mis-
sion. From that time to within a few
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-22
THE POOR SOULS.

nearest thou sad voice pleading,
Ealing on thy name with grief?
why dost thou forget my needing?
Why refuse to me relief?
DID l not, through years unbroken,
spend my hearts best love on thee?
NOW do thou, in grateful token,
Pray for me, o, pray for mer'
Father, mother, may he calling:
wit thou list to them in vain?
Could, st thou know their woe appalling
Gould st thou judge their batter pain;
Ihen would st thou, with glad acceding
For their freedom constant pray
Mlndful that thou, too, in pleading,
WIT upraise thy hands one day!
Amadeus o. S. F., in st. Anthony s
MESSENGER
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-22
Prudence of the Church.

The recent death of DR.. Lefebvre, the
celebrated Catholic physician, profes-
sor of the University Of Louvain, re-
calls the pathological case which,
thirty-thTee years ago, created a
world wide sensation in medical circles.
Dr. Lefebvre was charged with the ex-
animation of a young girl from whose
hands, feet and side there was a flow of
blood on every Friday. In his pub
lfshed Medical Study of Louis La
teau." the eminent doctor prefixed a
paragraph which admirably summar-
izes the action of the church anent
phenomena really or apparently super
natural.
There reigns in the world" he
states, "a two fold prejudice; some
people imagine that the church is al
ways on the lookout for new revela-
tions and new miracles; others think
that she is too prudent to affirm real
facts of the supernatural order in face
of a generation vowed TO scepticism
and raillery. Both misunderstood the
church. Truth is the daughter of
heaven. When she descends among
men. whether she be popular and tri-
umphant or humble and despised, she
is always welcomed by the church,
and is surrounded with tenderness and
respect. On the other hand, the
church has no use for apochryhal
siracles or suspicious prodigies; she
has no, complacency for error; and
whel - encounters it. even though
ii be covered with the mask of relig-
ion, she denounces it without anger as
without pity"
Critical examination of the whole
series of extraordinary manifestations
TO be found in ecclesiastical history
viii demonstrate the exact truth of
this statement f the church's mo- Of
action relative - phenomena apparent
iy beyond the laws of nature. DELHI
crate she is in her investigations, and
slow to pronounce her decision; but,
once given, that decision is safe to be
unaltered by any subsequent disclosures
or discoveries of science.-Ave Maria.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-22
Hecker Memorial.

Catholic churches in this country
have long ago followed European
models, but the Paulist fathers, purely
an American society, have made a me-
mortal that is American and will at
tract national attention.
1t is in the form of a doorway in the
southern porch, and is in memory of the
founder of the society, the Rev. Isaac
Hecker. 1t is part of the decoration of
the Paulist church of st. Paul the
Apostle in New York.
The stone used is a beautiful dull
green and brown, corresponding to the
scolors Of the church. In the center is