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The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-01
DANGERS TO OCEAN CABLES.
They Must Resist Attacks of Many
Submarine Monsters.
(London Telegraph.l

(London Telegraph.)
Unexpected perils await submarine
cables, even in the depths of the ocean.
Though the largest waves in a storm
probably do not appreciably disturb
the water beyond the first 100 fathoms,
if indeed they go so far, currents are
sometimes strong enough to fay the
cabfetagainst some submarine crag, and
various living creatures will do it a
mischief. Among them fishes have
long been suspected, and now the
charge has been proved in a cable con-
Meeting Sydney with Nelson. A defect
was detected, and on examining the
piece a sharks tooth was found i'm
bedded in the sheathing. As that con-
sisted of the usual thick iron wires and
their outer covering, the aggressor
must have given hard bite. The mo-
tive is not easily OWNED. Could the
shark have mistaken the cable, in the
imperfect light, for new species OF
conger, or did it, which seems more
likely, blunder against it at place
where it did not touch bottom, and
relieve its temper by a vicious snap?
A swordfsh will express its resent
ment against a vessel by driving the
bayonet at the end of its nose into the
blanks, and narwhal will use its lance
of ivory in similar fashion; each, like
the shark to its own detriment, for 1t
illustrates the maxim, Cant you leave
it alone?" by losing the weapon OF OF
Tense The conflict between shark ana
cable occurred 800 fathoms below the
surface. a depth which formerly was
supposed to be almost lifeless. But
deep-sea dredging during the last thir-
ty or forty years told different story.
In the open ocean living creatures gen
orally do not descend below few
hundred feet, though they are often
enormously abundant in this upper lay
er-the home of countless fishes, mol
lusks. crustacea, and, in many places,
of clouds of tiny foraminifera and ra-
diolaria, with a corresponding abund-
ance of seaweeds.
But living creatures follow the ocean
slopes downward to very great depths.
Sponges. at least certain kinds, go far
below the l 900 fathom line. A hydro
zoon two yards long was dredged up
by the Challenger 1000 fathoms, and
occasionally a coral or some near re-
lation may be found at as great depth.
A well known species of the former
was brought up on a telegraph cable
from more than ], 100 fathoms, and DR..
CARPENTER obtained a mollusk, gener-
ally found in shallow water, from not
much less than $4,000 feet. Even at
depths as low as Mount Everest is
high, living creatures have been ODD
tanned. but they are comparatively low
in organization.. Still, fishes have been
captured at the lowest depths, in which
cases they are often blind. Even where
they have eyes, those in that region of
eternal night would be useless, if they
were not able to turn on the light at
will by being provided with phospores-
cent organs 1t is, however, unusual
to find a shark so deep as nearly 2,OOO
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-01
PIRATES IN THE GULF STREAM
Strange Tale of Red Rovers Told by
an italian Skipper.
Gondon Chronicle

Captain Luigi Montani of the steam
ship Sardegna which has just arrived
at Naples from the United States with
a large number of emigrants. on board
recounts an extraordinary story of ad-
venture. Shortly after entering the
gulf stream, near the Mexican gulf, a
suspicious looking brigantine hove in
sight, from which piercing cries were
heard proceeding. Captain Montani i'm
mediately gave orders for pursuit, and
under threat of sinking the vessel.
brought her to a halt. He then armed
his crew, boarded the strange craft and
began to search the vessel
1t proved to be pirate ship. Twenty
five pirates, who sought to stink away
in small boats, were surrounded by an
overwhelming force and captured. They
were all Caribbean negroes or creoles
Two beautiful girls were discovered
bound to the timbers of the ship, with
their mouths gagged, and on being
freed they had a heartrending story of
brutality to tell. The brigantine had
been seized by these pirates, who
wounded the original crew and the cap
tain, whose guests the girls were, and
threw them overheard. The pirates
thereupon steered the vessel which had
a large. cargo of she goats, toward the
Antilles. Captain Montani ends by
saying that he transferred the pirates
to the Sardegna, kept them in irons and
made for Boston, where he delivered
them to the American authorities.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-01

she is found on the side of the gov
ernments against the people"
On the side of government to a GER
tain extent, yes; against the people,
no. Understand, if your wild radical
ism, which is only the other side of
despotism, has not deprived you en-
tirely of the good sense you inherited
from your mother. that two things are
equally necessary-au and lib
erty. Authority may degenerate into
despotism and liberty into license. Two
things are then to be maintained-lib-
erty and authority; two things are to
be avoided Or guarded against-license
and despotism. When authority tends
to despotism, the church opposes it,
and seeks to restrain it within its
Legitimate bounds; when liberty tends
10 license, it opposes it, and seeks to
restrain the people in subsection 10 just
authority. AS a matter of fact. the
church did not oppose the French revo-
luton because it sought liberty or
tended to democracy; it opposed it not
in the beginning, and not at all till
1t transcribed the civil order and in
vaded the spiritual, and even then in
the defense of the inalienable rights of
conscience and individual freedom. Its
league with monarchies against the
people, imagined by the fanciful apos-
tate De La Mennais, is all in your eye.
No such league exists, or ever existed.
The truth is. the church, though she
submits to all forms of government,
and leaves each nation free to estab-
lish the form it chooses, is opposed to
absolutism in the state, and inclines
to an effective constitutional order
and l think she would rather deal with
the people than with kings. This much
is certain, where she has had a pre-
dominating voice in the founding of
states, she has resisted the introduce
ton of abSolutiSm, and has given the
constitution substantially a republi-
can character. 1t must not be forgotten
that Pope Adrian 1 introduced and es-
tablished through his legatees, the no.
BILE old constitution of Saxon England,
which though suffering from the Nor
man kings, the TudoTS, and the Stu
arts, to a great extent still survives,
and makes the glory of the Anglo
Saxon race in both hemispheres, and
what is worthy of note survives in
greater purity and vigor with us An
glo-Americans than in the mother
country. A profound study of our in
situations and of history would disclose
the fact that, in so far as we have
our political system deviated from
other nations, we have only adopted
principles that the popes for more than
a thousand years labored in vain to
induce the European nations to adopt
and on the other hand. that we have
more fully incorporated into our insti-
tutions the spirit of the papal recon-
mendations and constitutions than any
other nation on earth
Nephew Dick-"How do you account
for that, seeing that the country has
always been most thoroughly anti
papal?"
ITO he Continued
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-01

up OF character, of human excellence,
OF good behavior, gentlemanliness, of
honesty, of truthfulness, of desire and
apulty TO do good. Whatever that per-
sons calling, his first thought should
De TO be man, a useful man. q true
man IN every respect and at all times.
lie may be poor man. so far as the
possession of this worlds goods is con-
cerned' and yet be an ideal man,
pure man in thought and action,
standing before God and man as one
determined to do his whole duty to
his fellow creatures as far as mis- cir
cumstances and ability will permit A
man clean in mind and body may de-
~ the world and be respected by every
one.
Let boys keep an ideal of this kind
of manhood ever before them and en-
deavor to initiate him in his virtues
and they will be likely to spend their
days in happiness and possess an ideal
family and home
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-01
ANECDOTES OF BARNUM.
Always Alive to the Value of Novel
Advertising.

1t may be said of P. T. Barnum that
he was the major domo or lord of
laughter and fun, the protean dis
penser of amusement. How well he
became known through this function
one curious incident certifies. Some
years before he died an obscure person
in some remote part of Asia wrote
letter which he dropped in the post
office near him, directed to '"Mr. Bar
mum, America The letter reached it's
destination without an hours delay.
The great Snowman .unaffectedly en-
joyed being known from the very be-
ginning of his celebrity; and when he
found his celebrity was tremendous
factor in his success he did everything
that he could think of to extend the
exploitation of his name. This was
not to nourish vain ;maginings or be-
cause he felt exalted; it was to pro-
mote business.
Around his successive homes at
Bridgeport, Conn., he was fond of put
ting something that suggested a show.
Oueerly marked cattle, the sacred COW
or an elephant were frequently among
the stock to be noticed in his fields.
On one occasion he had an elephant
engaged in blowing on the .sloping hill
where it could plainly be seen by the
passengers on the New Haven & Hart
ford railroad-an agricultural innova-
ton that he knew would get notice of
some sort in every newspaper in the
country. 1t was even said that he re-
ceived letters from farmers far and
wide asking how much hay one ell
ephant ate, and if it was more profit
able to pillow with an elephant than
with horses or oxen. His replies were
invariably frank, and were of this pur-
port:
IF you have a large museum in New
York and a great railroad sends trains
full of passengers within eyeshot of the
performances it will pay, and pay we'll;
but if you have no such institution
then horses or oxen will prove more
economical
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-01
The Bad Bow and the School.

This item is for the 15-year- old-boy
who thinks it is smart thing to act
so mean at school that he wears out
the life of his teacher and destroys the
good work which the school was in
tended to accomplish. This sort of boy
is found in country as well as city
schools. They are too big for a little
woman to thrash and seem to have no
moral sense which may be appealed
to. Now, boys, you are the architects
of your own fortunes. You can inn
prove the educational advantages Civ
en- you and become useful and worthy
citizens or you can raise Cain, as you
do in school, and probably graduate
into a brakebeam tramp. You can
make your choice. The sure way to
get into plenty of trouble when grown
to manhood is to make lots of trouble
in the schools. You ought to
have the meanness we'll licked out of
you, but the teacher can't do it, your
father won't, and the school board had
rather fire you than lick you. Fun
and plenty of it is a birthright- of the
American boy, but your type of mean
ness is not fun; it is the outcropping
of the heather in you, and you belong
to the Moros or Tagals of the Philip
pines rather than with people of civ-
ilized North America. Turn over
new leaf.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-01
AUNT BUSY HAS HER SAY.
Dear Nieces and Nephews:

Dear Nieces and Nephews:
Several weeks ago Aunt Busy wrote
to her dear boys, asking who were al
tar boys She has only heard from
one oh, what a disguised Aunt Busy.
She knows very well that there are
hundreds of altar boys who are her
nephews. Now, why, oh why, do you
not write to her and answer her ques-
ton? She is quite tempted to write to
Chicago to some altar boys of her &C
quaintance. Chicago is the place to
see the altar boys Aunt Busy will
never forget the hundreds of sanctuary
BOYS she saw at the funeral of the late
Archbishop Feehan There were over
200 boys in the procession. And such
fine handsome lads! Some were little
fellows just about years old, and 9TH
ers were almost grown young men
nearly 20.
These boys preceded a procession of
800 priests and twenty bishops, with
Archbishop Ryan and Cardinal Glib
b0ns appearing last, and it was one of
the grandest, most imposing sights
ever seen in Chicago.
Aunt Busy wishes that her nephews
could have witnessed the scene. Per
haps they might appreciate how great
is the honor to be allowed in the sane
tuary. She will wait two more weeks
for answers to her questions, and then
she will never again ask another ques-
ton if she does not receive at least ten
replies. AUNT BUSY.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-01

feet from the surface Their teeth
have, indeed, been dredged up from
profound depths. Embedded in nodules
of manganese oxide. but these have
dropped from the Jaws of fishes which
have lived and died in the upper waters
and settled quietly down to the bot
tom.
Sharks in general keep near to the
surface, a habit which makes them
such a terror to bathers Still, one
kind of a shark, more nearly related to
the dog fishes than to the dreaded blue
shark, is brought up from depths
greater than those mentioned. The
genus, which contains several species,
has a wide range, and spearlike teeth,
one of which may. have done the mis-
chief Off the Portuguese coast there
is a regular fishery for a species of this
fish. which is about five feet long; it is
caught with lines at depths of 400, and
occasionally 500, fathoms. AS it is &C
customed to live under a pressure of
about eighty atmospheres, it is dead
practically uffocated-when brought to
the surface
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-01
Though His Credit Was Good.

certain small boy, wishing to Sc
cure small amount of spending mon
ey, took this plan to secure it:
He had heard more or less talk OF
what different people are worth and
young as he is, understands this to
mean the amount of money they pos
SeSs.
He decided he must have bank ac-
count, too, and he appealed to his ma
ma for the facts of the case.
Mamma was busily engaged in an
absorbing piece of work, when two
wee arms stole around her neck, and
a little voice whispered in her ear:
Mamma, how much am 1 worth?"
Letting her work go and drawing her
baby to her, she answered. My dear
boy, you are worth a million dollars
to me-
Then please, mamma" said the
young millionaire, won't you advance
me % CENTS
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-01
MY GRANDMA.

Ny grandma sits in a rocking chair,
BY the window in the sun;
Snc wears "A soft little lacy cap,
And a big white apron over her lap,
And there's always room for a little girl
there
That's tired of frolic and fun.
My grandma has always a pocket full
OF peppermint drops and cakes;
And she knows such pretty songs that
she sings,
And stories about-oh, lots of things,
And sometimes she lets me wind the wool
For the stockings and things she makes.
She told me queer thing the other day,
Ald she says it's really true
My grandma had soft red cheeks one
And IN hair that was just as black as
mine.
And She could run and tumble and play,
And all the things L can do.
wish had known my grandma then;
How very nice it would be
If grandma were little and played with
me,
Dressing our dollies and going to tea,
And swinging and watching the bantie
hen,
And climbing the cherry tree.
But when we were too tired out to play,
And the sandman crept along,
What should I do for my grandma lap,
And her songs to drowsy me into nap?
I'm glad my grandma is old and gray,
While I'm Just little and young.
Anna Paschall.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-01
Time Table
In Effect
April !. 1902
IG[55I..K
S5tE7s1ai


r. ARRIVE.
t lI ogden. Portland, Butte.
lineage 81 Louis, Omaha Dem
yer and San Francisco - 8.a5 = m
from ogden and intermediate
--P'iAilS -................. 9.lO a m
From Caiientes, Milford, Nepbi . Ia
--ProVo and intermediate Ioints-' 9:S5 am
FROM Ogden, Chicago, st. Louis.
Kansas City, Omaha. DLnver
F and San a. F,Eianfeiseo -. $50 ON
from rom; Garfield Beach. Tooele ana
FT TeTmi3 nus ,...;......,... : 500 D.a
PRO Provo 2 and Manti -...;.:.;.,... 5:55 pm
,7G Ogden ana in.ermediatg points. $50 pm.
San Francisco ;;;;..:.:....-.... $40 pm
For Ogden, Cache he Valley
Omaha, Chicago. Denver. Kan
SAG City and St Louis -. 700 q. m.
For ST., Garfield Beach, CcOele and
For Tintic, Mercur, Provo
zNePhi and Manti ........:.,... 1856 IA
For Ogden, Butte, Helena, Port
land, San Francisco AID inter-
mediate points .;....-....:...... 9:45 a.zi
Denver. Kansas city. St Louis
and San Francisco. - .12:5o p. N.
For Ogden, Denver, Kansas
CITY, Omaha, St. Louis and
For Provo, NeDhi. Milford. Cali WV > 81
entes and intermediate points T:05 D. a
For Ogden, Butte, Helena, Port
land, san Francisco and inter
T. N. sCHUMAGHER s.'' p''
Act. Tr9f:tc Mgr.
D. e. BURLEY,
D s. SPENCER * g l. A
City ticket office. 2o1 Main street, Teie-
phone. go.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-01
An Ideal For Boys.

It is the ambition of all boys to be
men. DO they think what constitutes
manhood? The idea of most boys is
that man is one grown in years and
size and free to come and go and
act without parental or other re-
straint. Boys should be taught that
these things are not all that consul
tute manhood. 1t is something more
than mature years and size or par
entail freedom. True manhood is made
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-01

1t should be pointed out to children
with continual earnestness that the es-
sencn of lying is in deception, not in
words. A lie may be told by silence,
by eduivocation, by the accent on a
syllable, by glace of the eye attach
ing a, peculiar significance to sem
tence. And all these kinds of lies are
worse and baser by many degrees than
a lie plainly worded; so that no form
of blinded conscience is so far sunk
as that which comforts itself for hav-
ing deceived because the deception was
by gesture or silence instead Of utter
ance; and finally, according to Tenny-
sons deep and trenchant line, "a lie
which is half a truth is ever the worst
of lies"
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-01
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RIO GRANGE. WE5I!57E75Ele
Current Time Table.
II ERECT April 3, 1902
LEAVE SALT LAKE. CITY

LEA r. SALT LAKE ClTYs
NC, 6-For Grand junction, Dem
yer and points east ..'.... $50 a N.
NO. %--tor Provo, Grand juno
~ eiOp and all points east ....... 3:15 2. N
W. t-for Provo, Grand juno
NJ Ion aRd all points east...-e.... $40 pm
NO 1G-FOr Bingham Lehi Pro-
70, Heber. Mt. Pleasant Mani.
- SFdle and intermediate
w. e-EOF Eureka, Paysoa, He
per, FroYo and intermediate
~ ss...- OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 900 pm
NO; diLt'or Ogden and all inter-
mediate points ..........-.....,.. $40 pm.
W 9-tor Ogden and the west $50 a n.
~ S-Eor Ogden and the west IL 100 pm.
Nc or ogden and the west. As pm
~ aa-EEEor Park City ..--...-... 8:l5 Am
ARRIVE SALT LAKE CITY.
No. from Ogden and all in
No Cermegiate points -. $40 an.
NJ Cion and the east ..............-. 9:s5 am.
NO, iron Provo. Grand juno
NJ ooa and The east ...............12 :35 pm.
NC, @-trom Provo Grand juno
Lon and the east ....-.--.- 1850 T m.
NO; 9-From Provo, Bingham,
i1ttIeka, tfarySvale, Manti and
NJ noIler1n1ediate points ............. 500 pm,
No ION ogden and he west $50 am.
No rom ogden and the west 3:95 m.
Nc nO'A CSden anC the west $40 Z n.
No From Eureka, Payson.
rleDer' Provo and intermediate
No oOiH ~ -. -: 1890 Am.
NJ. 4-From Park City Sis . re-.
e,. Perfect Dining Car Service.
SiSTeplnS Cars 10 Chicago Without Cbarga
1,1Icket OFFICE, 103 West Second SouEh
RostoIIlce Corner. Phone SO.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-01

Poetry is ever tuning her Tyre, end
singing of that beautiful state which
the human race is capable of rising.
Hope is ever pointing her telescope to
the better time coming.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-01

Short is the little that remains to
thee of life. Live as on a mountain,
for it makes no difference whether a
man lives there or here Be like the
promontory against which the waves
continually break. but it stands firm
and tames the fury of the water round
it
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-01
xErTER-wR1TINe DIRECTIONS.

write on one side of paper only.
DO not have letters too long.
address all letters to Aunt Busy" In
ferrn aurtain Catholic.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-01

Every little bird that droops and dies
in it's nest falls as softly into God S
hands as do his saints and martyrs.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-01

Time is the most paradoxical of all
things; the past is gone, the future is
not come, and the present becomes the
past while we attempt to define it.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-01
MAMIE MARION.

Aunt Busy is very pleased to hear
from you, niece Mamie. What long
time has passed since you wrote her
before Why, it is over a year. Aunt
Busy does not like to be neglected for
SO long, so please write more regular
ly for the future. Aunt Busy knows
you are a very dear little girl, Mamie.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-01

Open thine ears to the voices of ma
ture and thou shalt hear them in con-
cert inviting thee to the love of God.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-01

If man is NOT greater than the great
things he doesvthe less said about him
and them the better.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-01
SALT Lake City. oct. q.


Ny Dear Aunt Busy: This is my
birthday and 1 am 8 years old. / am
10 have a party next Saturday. Mann
ma saws it is better to have the party
ON Saturday so my friends can stay
long time to play l viii write you
next week all about the party. Your
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-01
KATHERINE BURKE

Aunt Busy hopes that her dear niece
viii have many birthdays to remem-
her. Be sure that you write her about
Your party Perhaps your mamma
viii make you a birthday cake and put
nine little candles on it; candle for
every year of your life. Aunt Busy
used to have this kind of cake every
year for many years but she got so old
that there had to be too many candles,
and an ordinary cake was too small.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-01
LETTERS AND ANSWERS.

Salt Lake City, Oct. 26, 1902.
Dear Aunt Busy: 1 thought 1 would
write you a letter to tell you how 1
am. 1 am well; 1 go to school every
day My brother and sister go to
school, too We enjoy this nice Indian
summer.
Well. Aunt Busy, hope you will eX-
Cuse me for not writing before. l VIII
write oftener. This is all the news
have this time. Goodbye, Aunt Busy.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-01
QneIe Jack and
BIS nepbeW. BBy ys S5sst si;. H.

Nephew Dick perceives a dictinc-
ton between Catholics and Papists,
between independent" Catholics, as
he would call them, and those hope
lessly under the dominion of the Pope.
Cannot we read history" he says in
one reply to Uncle Jack, land do we
not know that popes have claimed au-
5thority over king and princes, and
that, as good Papists, you must obey
the Pope?" Those disobeying, he con-
tended, did so at the expense of their
duty as Catholics. Continuation of
Conversation VIII begins with Uncle
Jacks rejoinder.]