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The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-05-16
Colorado Catholic, Nineteenth Year.
EDUCATIONAL FAILURE,

of using what they learn. In few
cities, where there are hosts of Amer
leans, soldiers and citizens, English
is a living tongue; but for the greater
multitude of F'ilipinos it is practically
dead language.
why should a Filipino care to
learn English? Not many reasons are
conceivable. In a few cities it might
help many boy to get employment,
and in these cities English can be
successfully taught. Elsewhere it is
important only for the governing
lass, affecting, as ii does, their COM
mercial ard poll seal interests.
But for the Filipino peasantgy
there is no motive for learning Eng
lish, and accordingly they will not
and can not learn it. A new language
can only come to them with a new
life; schooling can not give it to
them. Americans commonly suppose
that these dialects are very simple
affairs, consisting at most of few
hundred words, and with no very elab-
crate grammatical structure. This is
far from being true. To speak of the
Visayan language, to which l have
given some study, the richness of its
vocabulary has been an ever-recur-
rent occasion of wonder to me, aud
the beauty and consistency Of it's
grammatical structure are obvious
enough to charm even a very impeT-
fectly trained philologist."
simultaneously with hits declara-
ton that our Philippine educational
scheme is failure in practice comes
a declaration by DR.. A. F. Chamber
lain in the Pedagogical Seminary that
it is wrong in principle. He says:
Education, no more than a nation,
can exist half-slave and half-free-its
motto, too, is liberty or death. To
educate the Filipinos, without using
to the full their language and their
/ literature, the thousandfold stimuli of
their environment, their racial tenn
permanent and ideals, their past his
tory and natural ambitions for the fu-
ture, is to stunt them in body, mind
and soul. We have let loose upon
them the soldier, the trader. the
school teacher and the missionary
and we talk about education? The
brain cure we are treating them to
at the hands of our teachers is worse
than the water cure our soldiers
gave them. In education, as in ey-
erything else connected with the new
coIonialism,' we began wrong. We
can change, if we will, for it is not
altogether too late. But it must be
complete change and an honest adj
mission of error To educate the Fill
pinos as Filipinos, and not as Ameri-
cans, is the right ideal. Let 10000
900 Malays as such develop along the
lines of their native genius and some
day the world will rejoice that they
have been. Educate them through
themselves and they will become
strong, as their kinsmen the Japan
csc have done, adding new star to
the constellation of civilized races. -
Literary Digest.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-05-16

and animated, pointing out objects of
interest to his sons. AS he passed,
the students ofthe German Ecclesias-
teal college, called little cardinals"
because of their red gloves, raised
a formidable "Hoch! Hoch!" On the
far side ofthe plaza there were as
sembled 1000 pilgrims from Cologne,
carrying flags and bouquets, They re-
ceived their emperor with tremendous
applause, presented the flowers to him
and made impressive demonstrations
of loyalty.
Passing the Borgia tower, the en-
peror and his suite entered the ia
nous court of San Damaso. Here he
and his sons were received with mill
tary honors by the Palatine guards
and a platoon of gendarmes, while the
papal colors, yellow and white, foated
in the light breeze.
The imperial carriage stopped at the
noble staircase, where Mgr. Cagiano
de AZevedo, the major-domo, helped
the emperor to ascend. He presented
the papal chamberlains, Count Pecci,
nephew of the pope; Prince Rospig-
liosi, commandant of the noble guard,
and other high dignitaries of the pom
4 ti1cal court. When asked if he de-
sired to use the elevator, the emperor
replied that he preferred to mount
the stairs.
At the first landing he was met by
the servants of the antechamber, in
rich, red brocade, fianked by members
of the Swiss guard in breastplates and
helmets with red plumes, the new uni.
form inaugurated at the jubilee The
young princes were especially struck
with the uniforms of the noble guard
Upon arriving at the Sale Clementina
the emperor was received by the major
domos and other personages of the
private antechamber. Before reaching
the ante-chamber he received homage
from a group of seven German bish.
ops who are now in Rome.
When Pope Leo was advised of the
arrival of his guests the door was
thrown open and the pontiff appeared
He was dressed in white, with the ex
ception of a small cape of red velvet
trimmed with ermine. The emperor
advanced alone making a profound
bow. The pontiff inquired in French
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-05-16

I'VE are making failure of this
scheme, a monstrous, notifying fail
ure; not ihhemediable, perhaps, but
fast becoming chronic, and requiring
instant attention from those who are
competent to modify the situation"
This rather startling statement in re-
gard to our attempt to set up an
American educational system in the
Philippines is made in an article in
Gunton's Magazine by Theodore lie
Laguna, Phi D., a Cornell man who
went to the Philippines as a teacher.
There is widespread disgust among
the Filipinos for the American educa-
tional scheme, he tells us, and the
chief desire of the teachers is to get
back to America. All this is in strange
contrast with the high hope that so
many had in the civilizing influence
of that shipload of teachers that
crossed the Pacific year and half
ago.
Dr. de Laguna attributes the failure
to two principal cause.-the quality
of the teachers, and the attempt to
impose the English language on the
natives. In regard to the teachers he
says:
"The teachers were a regiment of
carpet-baggers, come to exploit the
country in their small way, and then,
after a few years, would sail happily
home without a regret to spare. Had
everything gone smoothly with the
work here, the carpet-baggers inter
ests might have been sufficient to
keep them at their task; but with the
first breath of failure, it would he
hard to find any class of men more
liable to hopeless Encouragement.
Then, indeed, it became mere ques-
ton of living out ones time some
how and getting home again.
Few of the teachers had any con-
siderable knowledge of Spanish;
scarcely any could speak it grammati-
cally and f1uently. This was serious
handicap, not so much in the class
room as out of it. For though in these
islands only small percentage of the
inhabitants can speak Spanish, it is
none the less the established idiom
of culture. Every gentleman speaks
it, almost without exception. Thus
it happens that the American teach
er in his ignorance of Spanish, and
still more his picturesque attempts
to express himself in broken, INGRAM
NAUTICAL phrases, puts himself upon
the level of the boor and unavoidably
exposes himself to contempt"
The teacher, in time, may learn
Spanish; but the native does not care
to learn English:
'The scheme is to teach the Fill
pinos something for which they feel
no immediate need, and in which they
take no direct interest, namely, the
English language. Other subjects
have place in the program, but the
English language is practically the
sole subject of instruction.
why, then, do not the children
learn it? Some do learn it, namely,
the few that have a daily opportunity
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-05-16

as to the emperor's health. Emperor
William presented his two sons. He
and the pontiff then retired to the lat
ter's private study. The audience
lasted forty minutes. At the end of
this time the princes were summoned
and spoke to the pontiff.
The imperial party then paid brief
visit to Cardinal Rampolla
Upon mis- three previous visits to the
vatican Emperor William returned di-
rect to the Quirinal. This was not
liked by the vatican, as it is thought
he should first return to neutral
ground. 1t was appreciated, however,
by the quirinal, as to do so is consid-
cred somewhat of a slight upon the
pope. King Edward followed this
course. On this occasion Emperor
William returned from the vatican TO
the Prussian legation accredited to
the Holy See, wher he changed car
riages, his cuirassiers remaining at
the legation. This course is supposed
to imply that he wished to pay partic-
ular Difference to the feelings of the
vatican.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-05-16
CARDINAL GIBBONS PRAYER.

At the exercises heiG al the dedica-
ton of the buildings of the st. Louis
Purchase exposition on the Goth ult.,
Cardinal Gibbons made the following
invocation:
We pray Thee, o God OF might, wis
dom and justice. through whom au-
thority is rightly administered, laws
are enacted, and judgment decreed,
assist with thy Holy Spirit of counsel
and fortitude tie president of these
United States, that his administration
may be conducted in righteousness and
be eminently useful to thy people over
whom he presides, by encouraging due
respect for virtue and religion, by a
faithful execution OF the laws in JUS
tice and mercy, and by restraining
vice and immortality.
Let the light of thy divine wisdom
direct the deliberations of congress,
and shine forth in all their proceed
ings and laws framed for our rule and
government, so that they may tend to
the preservation Of peace, the promo
ton of national happiness the in
crease of industry, sobriety and use
full knowledge, and may perpetuate to
us the blessings of equal liberty.
May this vast territory which was
peacefully acquired a hundred years
ago be for all time to come the tran
quill and happy abode of millions of
enlightened, Godfearin2 and industri-
Gus people engaged in the various pur-
suits and avocatiors of life. AS this
new domain was added to our posses
sions without sanguinary strife, so
may its soil never be stained by blood
shed in any foreign or domestic war
fare.
May this commemorative exposition
to which the family of nations are
generously contributing their treasures
of art and industry, bind together the
governments of the earth III closer ties
of fellowship and good will, and of
social and commercial intercourse.
May it hasten the dawn OF the reign
of the Prince of Peace, when national
conflicts will be adjusted, not by hos.
tile armies, but by permanent courts
of arbitration.
May this internationally exposition
inaugurated in the interests of peace
anu CoHILhNiNS, nSlp W DISdh uoWu LIE
wall of dissention, of jealousy and
prejudice that divides race from race
nation from natJon, and people from
people, by proc'alming aloud the sub
lime gospel truth that we are all chill
dren of the sane God, brothers and
sisters of the same Lord Jesus Christ
and that we are all aspiring g
| glorious inheritance in the everlasting
kingdom of our common Father.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-05-16
Catholics Will Rule.

Chicago, May 5.-Archbishop James
r. Quigly, recently appointed to the
diocese of Chicago, in an address on
the work of the Catholic parochiaI
schools, declared the next generation
in the United States will be exclusive
ly Catholic and rule the world. with
in twenty years this country is going
to rule the world" said Archbishop
Quigly. Kings and emperors will
soon pass away, and the democracy of
the United States will take their
place. The west will dominate the
country, and what 1 have seen of the
western parochial schools has proved
that the generation which follows us
will be exclusively Catholic. When
the United States rules the world the
Catholic church will rule the world.
1.-The people of the east do not know
OF the importance of Chicago in the
west The Catholics know that Chi
cago is one of the great Catholic cen
tiers OF the world. In fifty years Chi
cago will be exclusively Catholic. The
same may be said of Greater New
York"
The Monticellonian., 1903-08-13
gLEvEk IDEA FUk A FOB.
How Bright Girl Can Make Her own from Pieces of Fine
 Porpoise Leather.

Since the smart girl has taken to wearing a fob, says the Woman's Home Companion, all sorts of new fobs have been introduced with the hope of pleas ing her. The leather fob is a novelty
 she makes for herself-and perhaps for
 some particular man. She makes 1t of
 strips of leather, braided, and 1t not
 only wears well, but looks well, too. She
 uses the best poTpoise-skin sine can huy,
 either in black or tan, and takes two strips about one-eighth of an inch wide and one and one-fourth yards long, and
 directly in the center of one strip she makes a small slit through which the other strip is passed In this way she forms a loop. to which the watch is at tached. The four ends are then woven over and under until the proper length is secured. About two inches is good length for a womanis s fob, a little longer if it is being made for man. She fin- ishes it at the end with ball. In mak- ing it she follows no special rule, but weaves the leather strips in and out, over and under, until good sphere is formed, using her own judgment as to placing the stitch. When the ball is as large as she desires, and then cuts off the ends as closely as possible
 Pretty leather belts are being worn, and all the belts have suddenly grown wider A very new idea is broad leather belt scattered with tiny buttons covered with silk threads. At the back the belt is decorated with fiat soft leather bow and in front fastens with a big oval-shaped. leather-covered buckle studded with the little silk but tons In bright scarlet this belt is very effective with white etamine or serge gown
The Monticellonian., 1903-08-13
LWAY ID EUROPE
New Interest in the Project of New
 York to Paris by Rail.
The Idea Is Not So Chimerfcal as It Would seem mt First Thought To Tunnel Beneath
 Behring Straits.

When few years ago some eXplor- CTS and engineers suggested an all-rail route to Paris via tunnel under the Behring straits, it was considered as the widest of dreams. But that there is more to the scheme than idle spec ulation is evident from the fact that the projectors of the new road (French and Russian capitalists and American bankers), have just filed petition with Secretary Hitchcock, Of the interior department, for approval of the proposed route. This petition will undoubtedly be followed by an application to congress for land grant through Alaska. Col. James Hamilton Lewis, of Chicago, Holmes Conrad, former solicitor for the de partment of justice, and Charles Ii. Aldrich, Of Chicago. are the attorneys for the projectors The petition, It IS believed, is a forerunner to asking the United States to neutrali2e the straits as between nations, so that. in the event of war with China and Japan or Russia, no advantage will be given to the enemies of Russia.
 The tunnel under the straits would be between Cape Prince of Wales, the most westerly point of Alaska, and East Cape, the most easterly point in Siberia, and will. according to report of the engineers, prove a comparatively easy task, for beneath the water. which in no place is over 23 fathoms. the formation is not of rock, but schist or slate. No blasting would be necessary, and the Diamede islands in the straits are so placed as to offer the most convenient means of ventilation of the tunnel. The straits, commonly reported to be from r to 90 miles wide, are actually 40, and the first island is 15 miles from East Cape: the second is 15 miles from that, and the third i've miles from Cape Prince of Wales. Harry de Windt the explorer, journalist and engineer. who with a party of Russians visited the straits in 1898. declared after he had carefully surveyed the situation, that the difficulties to be encountered in tun- neling and constructing roads in Alaska to connect with the trans-Siberian road were not one-quarter those to be en-
The Monticellonian., 1903-08-13

countered in the construction of the White Pass railroad dreamed of ten years ago by J. J, Hill, for further north the mountains diminish and the valleys, thiclly wooded to within so miles of Cape Prince of Wales, run north and south.
 According to the present plans, the Trans-Alaskan Railroad company. of which MT J. J. Frey, of Denver, Col. is president, will construct the road of 2600 miles to Cape Prince of Wales. The Russian government wNl operate the Siberian side of the road. The White Pass railroad is paying enor- mously, and il is certain that the pro- posed new road would pay equally well, for there are vast forests, tin deposits at Cape Prince of Wales. copper depos- its and gold fields of a value which is not yet known or realized.
 The entire cost of building the con- meeting lines in Alaska and Siberia. and constructing the tunnel would not be as great as that of the New York sub way It is planned to make the road single tracked for freight with sidings. and will enable a train to pull out of Paris. and three weeEs later enter New York city.
 Engines of peculiar type could be constructed to obviate the annoyance of the expension and the contraction of metal. for in midwinter the tempera- ture at East Cape is 7S degrees below, and in the summer time for brief pe- riod it is 90 degrees above. The oil cups would have to be fitted with larnps in the winter time. It is certain that within the next 12 years the electric engine will be perfected. and this will simplify the project of railroading Tn the arctic.
 Forty engineers who were sent ont by the Russian government for the sole purpose of surveying the proposed road have planned no mountain climbing or tunneling. The road by lacking would avoid the mountains from Irkutsk to Yokutsk, a distance of 2,000 miles This section is now under construction From Yokutsk the road will extend half way 10 Nerkoyansk. and then strike due northeast to Nerin Kolymsk; then south 100 miles and thence 10 East Cape. Con- vict labor would be used in Siberia, ant the forests would supply the ties and lumber for 1000 miles of sheds in Siberia and Alaska
 NJ Locqui Lobet. member of the Geographical society, and one of those interested in the great scheme, passed through San Francisco recently. ant in talking of the plans declared that F years would see the road and tun, pel completed and trains running.
 MAX OWEN.
The Monticellonian., 1903-08-13
She Didn't Cnre.


 Maplehill, Ia, Aug. IOth.-'I felt as though 1 dIdn care whether lived or died l was so miserable all the time
 In these words does Mss Nellie Barfoot, h this place, describe her condition Every woman wno Is, or ha, been, sick and sui erng will understand and appreciate just how Miss Barfoot felt, and there are no doubt many thousands of similar cases
 It Is truly an awful thing waen woman gets so low that she can say T don't care whether live or die
 But Miss Barfoot tells different story to- day, ard her words should guide every suf- ,ering woman to the path of health and hap )ness.
 T used Dodd's Kidney Pills, and l am cured. feel like new person, and l would say to every woman suffering as did, give Dodd's Kidney Pills trial, and you wlll not be disappointed. They are worthy of the highest praise.
The Monticellonian., 1903-08-13
BREAKING IT GENTLY.
Thought She Might ns We'll Firing the Undertaken Along While
 on the Way.

This is a true account of oEe persons idea of breaking tae news gently. Inc cook. whose nome was off in the country, appeared before the powers above with 6 letter in her hand, relates the New York Times.
 mum. she sad. My cousin just written 10 me" and she handed over the crumpled bit of paper with an audible snlfi.,
 Dear Mary" it ran, you had better come home al once. your father Is very eick, and 1t continued with many partlcu- lars of the illness.
 A, the end was a post script, which, like the old joke of a aomau's I. $, had tLe pith of the matter.
 s'So long as you'll be ,5.:Y!ng aip from She village, you may as well bring the ln, dertaker along with you Tn the wagon.
The Monticellonian., 1903-08-13
THIS, THAT AND THE OTHER

A harness-broken zebra is worth s10,- GOO.
 About 3,000,0O0 wage earners will be represented by the American Fedora tion of Labor convention at Boston, Mass, in November.
 The United States signal corps will establish wireless telegraph stations at Fort Davis, Safety Harbor. St Michaels, Fort Pigeons. Bates Rapids and at Valdez, where connections will be had with the submarine cable at Puget soand.
 Only three of the 15 members of the famous electoral commission of 1877 -ex-Senator Edmunds, Senator Hoar and Gen. Eppa Hunton, of Virginia the two last having been chosen on the part of the house of representatives. All of the five justices of the supreme court who sat on the commission long since passed away.
The Monticellonian., 1903-08-13
Get What Ton Ask For.

When you see an article well-advertised in the newspapers, you may be sure it a good article, for advertising only pays fl the goods are honest and possess merit. The people who make a specially of one advertised ar- ticle. like Cascarets. Candy Cathartic, for ex- ample. stake their whole business existence on its doing what. they, say it will. They must make good, as the saving is. Read CTS of this paper are urged 10 be sure that they get what they ask for. when they ask for an advertised article. for it's the good thing that is initiated and eounterfeited. Don't accept substitu!es Insist on getting the peuuinei
The Monticellonian., 1903-08-13
U. s. SENATOR FROM SOUTH CAROLINA
 Recommends Pe-ru-na For Dyspepsia and Stomach Trouble.
Catarrh of the Stomach is Generally Called Dyspepsia--- Something to Produce Artificial Digestion
 is Generally Taken. Hence. Pepsin, Pancreatin and a Host of Other Digestive Remedies
 Has Been Invented. These Remedies Do Not Reach the Scat of the Difficulty, Which is
 Really Catarrh.

TX. '. S. Senator NJ. c. Butler from E South Carolina, was Senator from
 that state for two terms. In re cent letter to The Peruna Medicine Co., from Washington, D. C., says:
 "I can recommend PeruHa for dys- pepsfa and stomach trouble. I have been using your medicine for shoH period and feel very much relieved. H is indeed a wonderful medicine be- sides good ionic. "---M. C. Butler.
 The only rational way to cure dyspep- sia is to remove the catarrh. Peruna cures catarrh. Peruna does not produce artificial digestion. Itcures catarrh and leaves the stomach to perform digestion in a natural way. This is vastly better and safer than resorting to artificial methods.
 Peruna has cured more cases of dys- pepsia thar all other remedies com bined. simply because 1t cures catarrh wherever located. 1fcatarrh is located in the head. Peruna cures it.. If catarrh has fastened itself in the throat CT bronchial tubes, Peruna cures it. When catarrh becomes settled in the stomach, Peruna cures it, as well in this location as in any other.
 Peruna is not simply 8 remedy for dyspepsia. Peruna is q catarrh remedy. Peruna cures dyspepsia because 1t is generally dependent upon catarrh.
The Monticellonian., 1903-08-13
Depressingly Cynical.

"Most people convicted of crime. D said the sociologist, "are under 35 years of age"
 Docs that indicate that people get better as they grow older?"
 Either that. or else that they be- come more shrewd and cautious."- Washington Star.
The Monticellonian., 1903-08-13
NOVELTIES IN JEWELRY.

Hatpins having hand-painted china heads are seen.
 Enameled mandolins, guitars, tennis rackets and other like things are seen among the belt buckle designs.
 A beautiful brooch is in the form of a lizard and is made of small diamonds Down the center of the back is a row of emeralds and the eyes are rubies.
The Monticellonian., 1903-08-13
 niIn.f Like .fn BNnaf.

my 5e% 5esr s@e i29aFea S9a Ee iady of her niece
 "Wen. of course. replied the niece, diff fdeatly. 1t wouldn't be proper for me to compliment myself. but some of the neiga- bors have told me they have staid awake et nghi for hours, listening to my playing. --Sa1nN Sfnrles
The Monticellonian., 1903-08-13
Not Guilty.

Sandy" said Gritty George, "here is where some sarcastic writer says dere aint much difference between us tramps an de loafers dat hang out in de country stores"
 "Oh. git out!" sneered Sandy Pikes. Who ever heard of us sittin on soap boxes? ?"-Chicago Daily News.