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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-11-29


j. A. RUDD OF near Dayton, Texas, was
at the Rice yesterday. Mr.. Budd has had
an interesting experience in establishing
title to tract Of COCO acres Of Texas soil
In the locality OF Dayton. The Rudd tract
lay without attention from it's owner for n
numer of years and when he awoke to n
proper realization Of its vnluc he was sur
prlsed TO md squatter on the broad acres
calmly claiming ownership. 1t has cost u
deal of money and time to establish Mr..
Rudd's title TO ownership.
~
MR.. ]. W. BILES. n prominent business
man Of Louisville, Ky, Is in the city, a
guest at the Rice. Mr. Biles was a Georgia
boy who went to New York some years ago
and made his fortune among the shrewd
business men of the metropolis, and thence
TO Louisville, where he Is now president
and chief owner OF one of the largest bust
ness concerns In the South
MIR A. h. SPENCER, member OF the
lumber firm of Scroll * Spencer. was in
! Houston yesterday. Mr.. Spencer's firm are
heavy operators in lumber, besides owning
their own plant they handle the output of
several mills throughout Texas and Louisl'
+ ana.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-01-25

the beet, in order to keep out foreign
sugar
Utah's representatives in congress
are joining hands with the representa-
tives of other sugar beet states to
starve the Cuban. The heartless dec
laration is made that America has done
enough for Cuba. Even Senator Raw
Inns is with the crowd to uphold the
tariff and deny any concession to
Cuba, if we can place reliance on spe-
cial dispatches to the Salt. Lake press.
That sounds strange, recalling one oc-
casion when in a speech contemptuous
of tariff, he asked defantly, Who's
afraid of free trade?"
Alas, poor Cuba, Hungry and gaunt,
with your plaything of freedom"
your appeals fall upon listless ears in
the beet sugar belt Not voice is
raised in your behalf by either sugar
raisers or sugar eaters. You must take
care of yourself, but you can make mo
treaties with foreign nations without
the consent OF the United States" We
have done all we can for you. Look
to Spain for an example of Live and
LET live
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-01-25

tionally amiable qualities of mini and
heart and personality. Speaking Of her
at the time of her marriage 20 Don
Alfonso d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, Bar
on Corvo says: "She is now the wife
of royalty with near prospect of
throne worshiped by the POOR for her
transcendent beauty and her chart
ties, by the learned for her intellt-
gence, by her kin for her loving loyalty,
by her husband for her perfect wife
hood and motherhood. by all for her
name. Why it has pleased modern
writer's and thinkers to depict this
pearl among women as a 'poison-bear-
ing maenad. q 'venifcious bacchan
ante, stained with revolving and un-
natural turpitude, is one of those rid
dies to which there is no key"
The Baron believes that physiognomy
is an index to character, and the most
superficial study of the efffgy of Ma
dona Lucrezia Borgia must put
her calumniators to shame. In
that simple profile of fea-
lures, clean-cut, delicate, refined; in
those chaste contours so gently round
ed, so sweetly fresh and feminine; in
the carriage of that Flavian head. well
poised and nobly frank, there can Turk
no faint of degeneracy."
Her marriage with Don Alfonso was
one of exceptional happiness. The
Duchess soon made herself beloved by
all Ferrara. She issued an edfct for
the protection of the Jews wno were
the special Offsets of hatred - Chris
tians. WheL :egent of F'erra"a, she
carried her Observation-Disclosures 80 far
as to appoint Jewess to care for her
wardrobe and to engage an Israe,I!e
for her physician. She was especially
tender, to young girls, and guarded
their virtue by providing them win
suitable dowries.
Contemporary writer's arr eloquent in
describing the evenings which this ami
able lady spent in con :ersation with
poets and scholars. win artists and
musicians. Mauuzio, the great Fene-
tan painter, vas eXtrdvls1nt in lis
praise of the Duchess and his sincerity
has never been questioned. When she
died at the age Of Il, in June. 1919 she
was deeply mou ned By her husband,
and it seemed 10 onloohe"s that all
the inhabitants Of Ferrara ,hronged
around her bier.
Writer'S who. foc the sake OF profit,
have reviled the m emo"ies % AI:Xan-
der VI. and t7e Duchess Lucrezia,
have so far trarsgresse the bounds
of probability that critics irimical both
to the Borgias ana the ':9tl IL thur II
have been forced to Gemu:. N'::h IN
creasing light. 1t may Well appear that
they were more 5inned against ;han
SHINING. Now. tnat 800 years have
passed since they were the observed CT
all observers, il seems probable that
the interested will be abe to Rad their
careers in the ight Of honest, un-
prejudiced history.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-01-25
The Sober Second Thought.

THE PASSAGE of the Nicaragua
| canal bill in the house of repre-
| sentatives is so fresh in ones
memory that the names of
the only two who opposed
it are readily recalled. The vote
stood sos to 2. All the members of the
house who, for days, had bean fighting
for delay, or for a substitution of the
Panama route became panic-stricken
and voted with the majority The
overwhelming character of +he vote
cast is surprising. But it IS more sur
prsing when the reasons for such a
vote are recalled. They We're more
suited for swaying a crowd on the
Fourth of July than for moving a
body of men whose position and duties
presupposed powers of independent
thinking, says our Chicago contempor-
ary the New World I'VE intended to
build the Nicaragua canal, and we
ought to; an American company had
started the work, therefore an Ameri-
can company should finish it,
And all the time these facts
were plain, assuming what was
reported by the commission to
be true, that the Panama
route is worth to us the $40,0O0,000
now demanded by the French company;
that the Panama route will be cheaper
by $6,OOO,O0O; that it is a shorter dis
lance by 1874 miles; that the operating
expenses are smaller by 600 a
wear; that it has natural harbors at
both ends: that the Panama canal may
be made a sea-level canal, while the
Nicaragua canal will necessitate the
use of many locks; and finally. that
there is a completed railway along the
Panama route, thus insuring prompt
completion of the work.
1t is a fact that the
financial condition of the Unit
ed States is exceedingly good, and
that the surplus in the treasury is so
large that recommendations have been
made to reduce taxes to warrant what
every one believes is unnecessary ex-
penditure. The house Of representa-
tives has made mistake that for
tunately may be rectitied by the SEN
ate. For it is improbable that the fus
tan reasons that carried the house
off it's feet will have any effect there.
The logic of the situation demands
that the cheapest and best route be
selected, and the cheapest and best
route is that now owned by the Pan /!
anna company.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-01-25

Z
such men as compose the Waldeck-
Rousseau ministry. Yet we cannot
help admiring their audacity in the
face of 35000,000 Catholics who alone
Keep them in power. Father Phelan
presents the correct estimate of the
present ministry when he says ii is the
/ longest-lfved in the history of the re-
public and the one that deserved TO
be the shortest "The premier is
trickster; the secretary of war is a
man devoid of the qualities either of
gentleman or a soldier; the head of
the army is puppet; the secretary OF
commerce forceur in society as IN
the political clubs. Yet with this me-
nagerie behind him this man, Waldeck-
Rousseau, has succeeded in keeping
himself in power longer than the giants
that preceded him; simply because he
always managed in a crisis to arouse
the clergy to some overt act of hos
ulity, and then to unite all opposition
in the common defense of the country
against clericalism. All he had to do
was to wave the black soutaine and
all the bulls of the opposition began
to paw.
We feared a year ago that the
Catholics of France would finally come
together and overthrow the republic
1t looked as if further endurance of
the hated regime of insolent infidelity
We're impossible We deprecated it; as
We knew that no government brought
about by the clergy would endure in
France, and the work of the revolu-
ton would some day have to be done
over again. The clergy never yet made
good politicians; and the religious or
ders were always freaks as law-givers
for the world. Happily, our forebod-
ings turned out false. The elections
that have been held during the past
year have convinced us that the re-
public has nothing to fear from the
sacristy. That being the case, wisdom
should dictate that the priest should
disappear entirely from the political
field in France and leave the moral
and social regeneration of the country
to the people who are most interested
in its government. There can be no
lasting political reform that does not
begin with the people and is not bound
up with the aspirat ions of the people.
We are glad the Pope has taken this
decided stand and feel sure that now
his orders will be needed. The arch
bishop of Paris, one of the most pro-
nounced of reactionaries, has sounded
the retreat of the clerical forces in
Paris, and the other bishops will re-
echo the command. The Church of
France will retire from politics at the
beginning of the twentieth century to
enter it no more forever"
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-01-25
OUR BOOK TABLE.

The Catholic press in this country is
well abreast of the times in religious
and secular literature. Catholic pub
LEGATIONS are second to none in artistic
appearance and Typographical excel
lerce. Catholics of middle age remem-
Der the cheap affair called "Catechism"
which obtained in their youthful days,
and the short, dry answers they were
charged to commit to memory Snd re-
cite in tiresome monotone in the Sun
day school of the long ago, in order to
qualify themselves to receive Con-
fifmation. These answers to questions
concerning Catholic faith, while they
expressed the orthodox definition, were
not ample to fit youthful comprehen-
sion, and without oral instruction the
Sunday school scholar could not per-
ceive the real meaning of the definition.
A great advance has been made in
catechetical instruction since the convo-
cation of the Third Plenary Council of
Baltimore, and we have as a result a
series of catechisms designed to help
the youth along as he processes in
years and fits himself for the reception
of the Sacramento.
For example, we now have Kinkead's
Baltimore series of catechisms. being
"A Catechism of Christian Doctrine,
prepared and enioined by order of the
Third Plenary Council of Baltimore"
by Rev. Thomas l.. Kinkead, author of
An Explanation of the Baltimore Cat
echlsm. These catechisms of the Bal
timore series are arranged on a pro-
gressiye plan. No. 90 gives the PRAYERS
and Acts to be learned before the study
OF the catechism begins: No. contains
one-half the questions of No. /; No.
nalf the questions of No. 2: No. 2 one
third the questions of No. 3, and No.
tan explanation of the Baltimore cate
chism) furnishes much additional in
formation with copiouS explanations
and examples.
These catechisms are inteded to fur
nlsh a complete course of religious in
struction, when used as follows: No. 90
Tor very young children; No for con-
Iesslon classes and certain adults: No.
for first communion classes; No. 2 for
continuation classes; No. for two
years course for ost-confirmation
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-01-25
Dealing With Trusts.

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE sent out
letter some days ago to num-
Der of editors of newspapers of a
representative type, asking them what
they considered the best method of
dealing with the trust question. and
particularly whether they endorsed the
suggestion made by President Roose-
welt in an important speech. In this
speech Mr. Roosevelt said:
More and more it is evident that
the state, and if necessary the nation,
has got to possess the right of super
vision and control as regards the great
corporations which are it's creatures,
particularly the great business corpora
tions which derive a portion of their
Importance from the existence of some
monopolistic tendency
twenty-five answers have been re-
ceived and published, with the sigma
lures of the writer's, all but two or
three being western editors. Nearly all
the writer's heartily concur with Mr.
Roosevelt's suggestion, although some
of them think that a constitutional
amendment will be necessary to meet
the requirements of the case. Thus the
editor of the Dubuque Qa) Times
(Rep), thinks that only the federal
government can deal with the ques-
ton satisfactorily, and that it must
have more power than it now possesses
in order to do so. He adds that this
iS also the oositiOn Of Sneaker Hon
derson. Several of the writer's express
the opinion that the trusts ought to
be under federal supervision in the
same way that the national banks are,
and that they should be subjected to
Similar examination and publicity.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-01-25
New Light on the Borgias.

THE CATHOLIC CHURCH is not, of
necessity, deeply concerned in the
rehabilitation of the Borgias The
Papacy will stand even if it remains
eternally proven that Alexander VI was
sixteenth-century man of the world,
rather than an exotic. The heroic sane
tity of Francisco de Borgia is sufficient
proof that the family tree was not en-
tirely rooted in degeneraey, and the
conflicting stories of the public needs
and private habits of Alex amber make
it quite possible that we Shall have
yet to- revise our notions Of the moral
character of this great, if t good,
Pontiff, says the Catholic Transcript.
Enemies he had. bitter and rerfidi-
Gus. He lived in an age whose ideals
were not those of the twentieth CEN
fury. Money was then mighty ,ower.
1t could marshal slanderers as well as
eulogists. 1t worked FOR and against
the great. And malignity itself has
been unable to invalidate Alexander's
title to greatness. He has been assailed
by Catholics and defended By Vol
taire. He was as able as he was am
bilious, and one Pope at least ranked
him among the very greatest Of those
who had succeeded to the Throne of
the Fisherman.
The Chronicles of the House of Bor-
gia, volume fresh from the pen of
Frederick Baron Corvo, makes it clear
enough that there is very little truth
IN the worst accusations brought
against that family of notable men and
women. The Borgia women were neitn-
er poison bearing maenads" nor wen
ehcious bacchanantes." Lucrezia.
whose story has appealed to subse-
quent ages with special force, IS proven
by the author to be a lady OF exec a.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-01-25
FORCED OUT OF K. OF c.
Penalty of Hartford Catholic for Join
ing Knights of Pythias.

Hartford, Conn-James j. Quinn,
well-known lawyer and d member Of
the Hartford police board, has with
dawn from the Knights OF Columbus,
after contest with the supreme Of
1cers of the order. Mr.. Quinn accuses
Rev. Walter ]. Stanley rector of St
Joseph's Cathedral of this city, of hay
ing started the trouble by complaining
to the supreme officers of the frater-
nifty that Mr.. Quinn was a member of
the knights Of Pythias, which is under
the ban of the Church. MI. Quinn
handed his resignation last night to-
Grand Knight John F. Callahan of
Hartford Council. He says;
Some time ago / was officially in
formed that charges had been pre-
ferred against me. 1t was alleged that
/ had become a member of the Knights
of Pythias and consequently was unfit
to remain a member of the knights Of
Columbus. The author of these
charges was Rev. Walter J. STANLEY
of this city. A little later ] was Off
cially informed that | had been suS-
pended by the Supreme knight of he
order for failure to pay my dues i'm
strict compliance with the rule of the
order The member of the national
body from Hartford informed me that
the charges aforesaid were the real
reason for my suspension and that
the question of dues was only sur
face reason.
Within a few days l have been in
formed that charges will be preferred
against the grand knight and Secre-
tary of this council if / am continued
on the rolls of Hartford Council. and
further, if Hartford Council insists on
keeping me in good standing, the char
ter of Hartford Council will be re-
voked."
Mr.. Quinn says he is unwilling to
involve the council and consequently
withdraws. although he has property
interests at stake in the insurance
fund of the order, and ne protests
against being "railroaded out of the
order by snap Judgment because he
Joined the knights of Pythias.
This act of Mr., Quinn's is practically
Accommodation. He is
brother Of Rev. John J. Quinn, a we'll
known priest of this diocese, now OF
Taftviile. Father Stanley was out of
town today, but Bishop Tierney said
that, while he knew nothing of the
case of Mr., Quinn, no Roman Catholic
could remain a member of a secret or
der under the ban of the Church, and
at the same time remain a member OF
the Church
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-01-25

Editor Intermountain Catholic:
My Dear Sir:-Replying TO your IaIor
asking my approval of The lntermounta1n
Catholic since its establishment IN tGls
diocese, ] will state that I consider me
founding of a Catholic paper IN salt Lake
not the least OF the many blessings pc
slowed by Providence on the Church mere
during the past two years. Its birth &C
CURED a an opportune time. Its zeal, III
propagating Catholic truth, has hal'
since its Inception, my hearty. though
silent approval | believe with Our Holy
Father that "a good Catholic journal Is
perpetual mission in parish. and that
1t Will serve as a question box, AT a.
times, for anxious inquirers. In my visi-
tatiOns I 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, ana All
devoted priests will find IN it an able CO
operator in their missionary work. II Is
my wish that all my priests and the lalty
entrusted to my charge should encourage
your noble effort and that of the gen
erous founder of The Intermountain
Catholic. Yours sincerely,
l.. SCANLAN,
Bishop of Salt Lake.
Salt Lake CITY Oct Q 1900
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-01-25


Frederick Harrison has been saying
some unpleasant things to his fellow
countrymen. If he reflects well the
sentiments of the people, the present
war and its remote causes do not fur
nish much food for cheerful reflection.
He writes: I'm all the fifty-two years
of my memory of public affairs l recall
no time which has filled men of right
mind with anxiety and pain so deep as
the present We have cruel, chrome
war. which can end only in genera
tions of bitterness and strife. Parlia-
mentary government has become the
scorn of the civilized world. Our cher
ished principles of military service and
financial economy have been repudi-
ated. Industrial decline and disaster
are imminent. The public tone is sink
ing into a low kind of vulgar material
ism The ministers of every religion
almost but one are encouraging much
that is inhuman, coarse and immoral.
We still are in the crazy mood of the
Oriental tyrant who would not treat
for peace. but was bent on subjuga-
ton. which can only mean the exter-
mination or the transposition of an
entire nation
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-01-25
TIE PoPF'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
liberality 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, 1902-01-25

1 feel it my duty to protect CathohcS
and the public generally from fraud ana
10 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 I'm this diocese for any purpose
whichever connected with the Catholic
Church without having from me permits
sion in writing bearing my seal anG
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 he, 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, 1902-01-25

There are, according to the latest
census, 1142O,OOO Catholics in the Rus
sian empire. But the car has never
called them idolators, as King Edward
VII stigmatzed his Catholic subjects
on his accession TO the throne a year
ago.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-01-25

According to Les Missions Catho-
liques, nine Catholic bishops and 1O2
priests died in 1900 on foreign missions
in heather countries, three of the bish-
ops being murdered in China and fif-
teen of the priests dying violent
deaths. Thus the Church still contin-
ues to give testimony of the faith.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-01-25

National Academy of Sciences OF tt..
only one. Mr. Roosevelt. is % Uf-r.r
man He has two associates of the SAM
class, Secretary Hay and DIT s WI.
Mitchell The remaining tweury-furr a-.
men distinguished III business or ru.irt.-.
able men nearly all. but including rar.
remarkable for scholarship. As usual
- 600 600 citizens of the Catholic fl.r
have no representative on this "r.liarrr.
bOard.-PilOt.
British patience is apparently ua.rr-
the point of exhaustion. The Ln-E N
Times accuses the German premier of rs-
ing the English uniform as d Golrm..
iguratively speaking, and warns him
that this practice cannot Ice c1lttu.r.f
without provoking the resentment of On.
long-suffering British public. Discra.,I.
the Times doesn't stipUlate the prOrI...
time required to arouse John Bulls diane
der to fighting pitch so the "du0rm-
exercise is likely TO remain faShioutH'a L.
Germany for while yet.-Monitur.
An instructor OF ''physioIogy." .- r-
paper calls it, Professor Lombard r
Ann ArbOr. has discovered the SOL. ..
the soul in the spinal column If t.. f.
cation of the soul keeps shifting r .-.
way it is hard to forecast cOnseuu.i..
Most of the old materi8liStS locate. ..s
soul in the cerebral area. The Tim Nr.
instructor demonstrated his theur. r-
experimenting on frog, ana Whtl IS g""'
for frog is good for a man. The u
KEY will have to take a back seat We ar.
getting now to nTOtOplasm. Prof.-
Lombard removed the brain of Ca
and an hour later. when he nut Ir
of acetic acid on the foot. what Was -.
of the frog began to raise Ned. TU.ut
four hours later. d piece Of paper S.t
rated with acid was placed against
remains of the CrOaker. and the
nhvsically and metaphoricaly kies.-
Therefore Professor Lombard c0ucH.
our souls are i'm our spines verte5r4
be decided on later. But at last acCuu-
the fro" was dead. at any rate r-fr..
to recognize acetic acid i'm anv form s..
are now convinced tbat mental cruoa
ness is nothing but the result of ur.-
served curvature of the S2ine.-Cat1.'-
Universe.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-01-25

After July l, 1902, the only kind Of
pistol that can be sold lawfully in
South Carolina will be a formidable
affair twenty-five inches long and
weighing not less than three pounds.
There viii be some bootlegging in pis-
tolls done in South Carolina after that
date