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The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-12-03
AT "BRlMST0NE CORNER. :"

The American Bible league, organized last
year for "the defense of the faith in the Bible as
the word of God" is to hold its second convention
at Boston Dec. g. I, and s, under the auspices of
the Boston branch league. The meeting place is the
historic Park Street Congregational church. which
is familiarly known among New Highlander Uni
tarians and Universalists of the older days as
birthstone corner" That was at time when the
old-fashloned hell fire sermon was popular and be-
fore Protestant theology began to suspect the or
thodoxy of birthstone
We are told that the American Bible league is
organized for "the defense of the Bible against
the misconducted criticism of the ratonalists who
now teach within the church, calling it good Chris
tianity, what Tom Paine Voltaire and others of
hundred years ago taught outside the church as
infdelity. The president of the league is William
Phillips Hall of the Hall Signal company the we'll
known business evangelist the general sec
rotary is the Rev. Dir. d. S. Gregory late manag-
ing editor of the Standard Dictionary and editor
of the Homeletic Review; the treasurer is Rush
Taggart of the Western Union Telegraph company,
and in its directorate and membership the league
includes many of the ablest scholars and Protestant
diynes in America
where VIII the harvest be after all the talk IS
overt Resolutions and speeches on resolutions
will neither convert the Unitarian nor the Univer-
salist, who ridiculed birthstone corner" in the
days agone. Denuncation of rationalists will have
the effect that water would have when poured over
ducks back. At the end some delegate will move
that every interpret the Scripture to suit
himself, and show of hands will carry the motion
Which act is tantamount to giving the Bible back
to the rationalsts the Unitarians and Universasts
and declaring that Tom Payne's Interpretation is
just as good as any other mans Interpretation.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-12-03
CANADA, ITS PREMIER, ITS ROSEATE FUTuRl
Continued from Page One.)

ton OF religion in Canadian politics is scarcely
thought of. The fact that the premier is a Catho-
lie is rarely mentioned and more rarely used for
election purposes. Sir John Thompson, a recent
Conservative premier of Canada was a staunch
Nova Scotia Catholic and one of the most esteemed
men in both public and private capacity in Canada
The qualities which led to Sir Wilfred Laurier's
success can easily be summarized. He is not of a
bold and aggressive type, his chief characteristics
are unsullied integrity, great ability, commanding
eloquence and extremely amiable disposition. He
possesses kind heart, chlvalrOus Instincts unfai
ing politeness and loveabe nature He has all
ways been keen student of political science and
an ornate and forecful writer. He was born on
Nov. 20, 1S41 at. st. Lin, in the county of LAS
somption, Quebec His ancestors came from An
Jou, France III 1860. His grandfather and father
were land surveyors in Quebec. He studied law
and at 30 years of age was elected member of
the Quebec Legislature for the constituency of At
habasca and Drummond, and remained in that ca
pacity for three years. In the next federal cleo
tions he contested the same county for the house
of commons and was elected. In 1877 Mr.. Laur:-s-
entered the Dominion cabinet as minister of in
land revenue and in that year, owing to the resig
nation of Hon. Edward Blake Mr.. Laurier was
unanimously selected as leader of the Liberal par
ty, which he has since held with great honor and
ability. Such is a striking token of the breadth
and liberaity of the Canadian people who are moro
than two-thirds British and largely Protestant Sir
Wilfred Laurer has a very striking personality
and distinguished appearance He is tall and erect
with youthful, intellectual countenance. He
speaks both English and French with grace and
polish which charms the hearer. His oratory is
ornate and beautiful and he holds the closest atten
ton of his audiences The elections which were
held Nov. B. give Sir Wilfred Laurier ma
iorty of about 10, which is an increase of 20 The
result is big surprise to both parties-the most
rabid liberal papers forecastng only so majority
There large number of Catholic members
in the Canadian house of commons and there the
question of religion is raised is it an is
sue in deliberations.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-12-03
ANCIENT ST. LOUIS.

We approach the sentimental in the church
when our eyes rest upon pictured shanr,es
~ faithful worshipcd i'll ancient times III this
republic. In American history covering church
progress to go back hundred years is to go back
to the Indians not yet driven from the eastern
bank of the Mississippi. In these days of quick
transformation in nature and civilization, rolling
back century of years is to count time as ancient
beyond that period. Therefore do we put St Louis
down in church history as an ancient diocesan see,
without sacrificing but rather charging the west
idea of the word ancient"
The Church Progress, one of the very best of the
Catholic newspapers of the country presented in
its last issue history of the ST Louis archdiocese.
grand presentation of churches and schools and
religious insttutions how they began, how they
fourished and continue to flourish Works of
charity multiplied to FIJI book not to speak of
newspaper, and every line of it to edify and
strengthen the faith we have to win America for
the Catholic church. To the writer of these lines
it is not the modern in all this which appeals to
him. 1t is the ancient. 1t is not the picture of
the present cathedral. 1t is the wooden engraving
of shanty standing out on common" with moth
ing to keep it company except another but smaller
shanty Putting you in mind of the sheepherders
wagon you off in the desert when you cross it
horseback, and know when you reach the wagon
that water may be had for man and beast. This
shanty, handy to the bank of the Mississippi,
the first church built in St Louis What a world of
thought there is in that rough picture The sheep
wagon OH the desert and the church on the COM
mon! Water in the sheep wagon and food for the
physical man. The Bread Of Life for the soul in
the church on the common. These are thoughts not
kindlcd by cathedral spires. not awakened by pro-
cessions in ubilees 1t is the simple life and the
simple things of life that man loves best; and that
which he hugs TO his heart is the old oaken bucket
and the shanty church of his childhood. Go on with
your Gothic cathedras, and hang i'll their spires
bells whose harmony will dispute the melody of "the
bells of Shandon" But what are all these to the
shanty church the common? To the warblings
of million robins greeting the morning sun: To
the piety which porceves God out in the desert and
III the sheep wagon!
Oh, for that poetic emotion which excites the
Catholic soul, give us back the missionary church
the church of yesterday!
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-12-03
THE QUEENS DAUGHTERS.

The name sounds aristocratic, and perhaps the
society would be aristocratc were it made up of
other than Catholic ladies. Not that Catholics are
entirely immune from the pride of CASTE but those
of them who devote a part of their lives to Gods
work in sense sancfy all of their time. If there
be arstocracy in the Queens Daughters it is of
that kind which yields veneration and love to Jo-
seph the Carpenter of Nazareth, even as He did
who was Subject" to Mary and Joseph after the
finding of the Child in the temple.
Those who read our Denver correspondence
and who among the cultivated does not ?-have
gathered enough information to form some gen
eral idea of the Queens Daughters, their objects
and the way they set about to attain them. 1t is
not a society where talk gets an unequal percentage
teacups and saucers though this is neither
rebuking talk nor decrying teacups. Talk and tea
cups are as natural to counting and the
tender passion. So imagine score or more of la
dies meeting at the home of another lady, and
while they talk they sew and stitch and stitch and
plan, for all this talk amounts to good deal to
poor families. Imagine this, and probably you get
an idea of the Queens Daughters, and it may be
the real one
But it may mean more than this, and we think
it does. And our conviction is strengthened
through knowledge of the personnel which names
indicate. In some way these have the sound of the
cultivated and religious woman. And having such
sound what is there in fields other than charity for
such women to do! Not to drop the charitable
feature of the society, but to unite it with benevo-
lent design For example to look after the social
welfare of working girls, those without homes or
parents and therefore compelled to rustic for
living. Nobody knows better than woman the
temptations of the girl earning slender salary.
How best to expend that salary so as to save a lit
tie of it every week. is a problem that the Queens
Daughters ought to solve for the girl We can
reach it through Catholic Girls Home where
wholesome food and comfortable shelter may be
procured for $3 per week 1t can be done it has
been done in New York for even 81 per week Not
many girls III stores earn over S. per week.
Then there is the public library. Go there in
daytime and you find ten women to one man. Wo-
men have more time to read books than men
have more time to examine what is the shelves,
more leisure to Gull the good from the bad There
are books distributed to patrons whose contents
would shame the devil. One such furnished SEN
sation for Salt Lake newspaper the other day.
There are twenty books written By Protestant
thors to one written by Catholic. Some public
Libraries are without any histories works of fic
ton by Catholic writers. fhe failt is own. not
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-12-03
THE HERALD's MORAL PHILOSOPHY.

A subscriber of the Salt Lake Herald residing
in Park City and wanting to know what obliga-
lions this country owed to Russia as a friendly
power wrote for information. The Herald gave
the substance of an interview between Mr.. Barker
an American, and the Gar at st. Petersburg in
1878. The same appeared more fully in the col
umns of this paper early last spring, explaining
that the presence of Russian fleets at New York
and San Francisco was all that prevented Great
Britain and France from aiding the Confederate
states and destroying the American union. Desir-
ing to emascuate the merit of this act of the Gar
from any virtue it possessed, the Herald quotes the
language of the monarch:
"All this | did because of love for dear
Russia, rather than for love of the American re-
public. | acted thus because l understood that Rus
STA would have a more serious task perform if
velopment broken up and Great Britain should
he left in control of most branches of modern in
dustral development"
According to the moral philosophy of the Her
aid, which is not that of Bishop Whatcley (and we
think the editor belongs to the bishops denomina
ton), confession of self-interest by one party
leases the other party from the obligation of bene
fit conferred; and this was pointed out to the Park
City man. Which amounts to saying to the neigh
Dor who helped put out the fire in your house that
he did it because of fear that his own home would
be burned down. Therefore, ''the devil thank him."
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-12-03

portrait is hanging The preservation of this por-
trait Was the wonder of all who visited the ruins
Remarkable as the incident appears there Is moth
ing in it which would incline Catholics to view the
circumstance in the supernatural order. A picture
the other stood immune from fire would come out
unframed as did the picture of Pope Leo. score
of reasons could be advanced to sustain this
tention to the one denying its possibility Protest
ants who believe that such incidents accidents
have much meaning for Catholics will be disap-
pointed when it turns out that the apparent mira
culous preservation of the picture will not promote
the canonization of Pope Leo at Rome this month.
Incidentally this disappointment will invite the
conclusion that the Roman curia, like the Nilsson
rian must be shown"
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-12-03

The armies of Kuropatkn and Oyama are fac
ing one another the Shakhe river, where they
have beeen stationary for over month. There are
occasional reports from Russian sources of Japan
ese sebacks and repuses at various points, but the
Japanese are silent as to their doings and inten-
tions. All that Is positively known is that both
armies are receiving reinforcements. General No
gi announced Thursday according to a Takio dis
patch, the capture of 1903 Meter hill the key to
the Russian Notifications at Port Arthur. The
officers at St. Petersburg are not prepared to
accept the report but if it is officially confirmed it
will be desperate blow for the gallant defenders
of the fortress.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-12-03

The Photographer of the Milwaukee Catholic
Citizen tells Congressman Fitzgerald's latest
story" which is somewhat crude and refers to an
Irish couple in Boston whose connubial bliss was
occasionally disturbed by violent misunderstood
ings. They devoted in their way, how
ever, and when the husband died he left an incon-
solable widow. A friend dropped in to see how
she getting along. and in the course of a chat
remarked: I'm glad to hear that poor Mike died
happy anyway Indeed he did Mrs. Laferty."
was the reasonably cheerful reply Sure the lasht
thing he done was to crack me over the head wild
medicine bottle, the darlin''
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-12-03

The Catholic diocese of Newark, n. j., was in
corporated last week Bishop O'Connor, with the
other trustees, viii have full control of all do
cesar properties and titles. When bishop died
heretofore all of the property of the diocese was
bequeathed to his successor. and it was necessary
for the executors of the viii to deed the property
to the bishop Under the provisions of
incorporation the title to the diocesan property will
be vested in the corporation, and transfer will
be necessary when bishop dies This move is
deemed desirable, said Mr. Kearns, the legal agent
of the diocese because otherwise the bishop, who
is the frequent recipient of gifts of land and other
goods must devise them to some one, otherwise at
his death the property intended for the church
would go to his heirs. In New England property is
all vested in diocesan corporation. In New
Jersey the different church parishes have their own
ecclesiastical corporations of which, of course, the
bishop is the head. With this incorporated asso-
citation these other bodies transfer their hold
ings, if they desire, to the new association"
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-12-03

There appears to be mystery about the reported
abandonment of the Catholic faith by the Narquise
de Monsters (nee Mary Gwendolyn CALDWELL.
Most of Catholic contemporaries are inclined
to doubt It's authenticity. The Western Waterman
says there is secrecy about the mental condition
of the lady, and has been for ten years. "Icr
condition is of imbecility," adds the Watch
man, "and her physician at Carlsbad ten years ago
expressed the opinion that her case was hopeless
one. But she is harmless, and the famboyant let
ter published as coming from her was written by
some newspaper adventurer, and should not he con-
sidered hers for a moment" The Catholic Citizen
of Rochester,, \. Y, says the Baroness Zedwich,
the other Caldwell sister who figured in the dis
patch from Rome lives in New York and is . de-
vout Catholic.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-12-03

The labor unions are agitatng Japanese exclu-
sion along lines laid down for the exclusion of Chi
nese, contending that the former menace white la
Dor as much as the other heathens do. Perhaps
they do present. but the greater peril after all is
not from the Japs within as it is from the Japs
without. When they get so far advanced in west
civilization to make everything use in this
country at price so cheap that tariffs and trusts
cannot keep their products out then we will appre-
ciste the yellow peril" in It's truest sense. If Japan
should be triumphant IN her war with Russia she
would find an outlet for her surplus population in
the new possessions she would obtain. If Japan
were defeated her people might be reduced to such
straits that great wave of emigration to the Phil
ippines, Hawaii and this country would result. In
the one case japanese Invasion of this country
would not be imminent and the agitation for anti
japanese legislation would be likely to cease. In
the other the situation would become acute and
new and difficult political-diplomatic situation
would arise
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-12-03

Though the Italian election is a month old, our
Catholic contemporaries still speculate on the pa
pal break with the non-expedit some protesting for
and some against the accuracy of news received
through irregular channels 1t is not known posi-
lively whether the pope withdrew the mandate
which in Italy since the papal states were an
,nexed to the royal domain has forbidden faithful
Catholics to approach the polls All that is known
positively is the defeat of the socialists through
Catholic votes and no rebuke from the Vatican
followed disregard of the non-expedit No other
way discovered to rout the common enemy of
church and state. Hence socialism has done moro
than any other force to reconcile the King of Italy
and the pope, if it be that they are, and affairs
turn out as optimists predict.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-12-03
7ntern1ountain Synpesium.

AN INTERESTING RELIC FROM THE SEA.
Editor ntermountain Catholic:
Messrs Ensor & Sons diving staff of Queenstown
recovered rather interesting relic from the bottom
of the sea near Bally Cotton few days ago. They
consist of some of the pumps. part of engine and
frame work of famous old steamer. namely tho
Sirius. The Sirius the first British steamer To-
cross the Atlantic. She traded for many years bee
tween Great Britain and New York and in her dat
she was one of the narvels of the although ONLY,
small wooden paddle wheel vessel Her day soo..
passed however and she had to give way a trans
Atlantic passenger vessel to the march of progress
which brought bigger ships than the Sirius out
When trading between Liverpool and Cork iu the
wear 1S47 she was lost near Bally Cotton and now
after nearly sixty years some of her pumps and
CINE work have been Htted Inc property lhHS
brought the bed of the sea is in good state
preservation and in that affords proof of the so
material used in the construction of the first British
steamer to the Atlantic, but there is trace.
of the hull of the vessel. was on the cliff the morn
ing she struck and, if by chance anyone seeing this
saw the same would confer favor by addrcsstag
ogden Utah JOHN r. sMYTH.
Who says the Church is not poetic? Even i'm the
grouping of her feasts she proves the beauty of
riety this is perfectly evnced i'm the celebration o.
the month November First. All Saints day. and tr.
second the Commemoration of the Holy Souls.
hind the veil" and Beholdng the bliss of those who
have fought the good light but more i'm keeping
with exile is the vision of those dear souls still
expiatng their sins.
Shall refuse item the sweet aims of prayer. the
kindness IF pa lie mortified tons?
Those to whom perhaps. owe all Possess
reach out their hands TO US. Shall we turn our heads
away?
if have failed to shorten their exile
their sufferings?
Perhaps it is father who calls mayhap mother
yet again a devoted brother sister. a bosom
friend
When You looked for the last time that loved
face were not consoled by the thought that You
would meet again? Then why prolons the separation
by your selfishness?
Of all the months inviting to special devotious
none is so human as November: even nature seems
to suggest the parting with life. which recalls the
last farewell.
Let US determine then, during these days hasten
the hour of happiness for those who, when earth
thought much Of pleasure.
1t is the imperative law OF nature love
forever those whom have truly loved earth.
As the poet Whittier sings:
yet Love will dream. and Faith will trust
Since He who knows our needs is just
That somehow, somewhere. meet must.
Alas for him who never sees
The stars shine through his cypress trees!
Who. hopeless, lays his dead away,
Nor looks to see the breaking day
Across the mOrnful marbles play:
Who hast not learned in hours of faith
The truth to flesh and sense unknown
That Life is ever Lord of Death
And love never lose its own.
Sacred Heart Academy, Ogden. Utah.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-12-03
TRUST YoUR MoTHER-

Many of our young girls are just beginning to
be interested in their clothes, and occasionally some
OF them show more interest than they ought to. A
proper interest in ones appearance is ONLY a form
OF unselhshness. for when you take pains to put
them on carefully it is pleasing to those with whom
you live. Any one would sooner have in the house
girl who was neat and clean than one who did not
notice an empty buttonhoe or broken shoelace. or
else thought they were too trivial to be changed
But there are a few girls who are continualIv
thinking OF what they shall tease their mothers for
next When they have their spring supply of
clothes they begin to ask for a new summer hat. or
shirt waist like the one they saw downtown. and
tney do not think they are causing trouble. No mat
ter how wealthy their mothers may be. tbev do not
wish to spend more than certain amount ON
clothes, and yet when young daughters keep asking
for certain thing though all their happiness de-
pended ON It. unselish mothers sacrifice other
things 70 please the whim, and if they absolutely
dream Of.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-12-03
CARD FROM BISHOP scANLAN.

feel it my duty to protect Catholics and the pub
lie generally from fraud and imposition by notifying
them from time to time that person bearing the
name and garb of priest sister or anyone else,
is authorized permitted to solicit collect in this
diocese for any purpose whatever connected with the
Catholic Church without having from me permission
in writing, bearing my seal and signature Should
anyone be found engaged in doing this unlawful
work or collecting without such document, he or
she, the may be- should be regarded by all as
a fraud and an impOster L. SCANLAN.
Bishop of Salt Lake.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-12-03

According to the Labor Gazette of London for
TINS month, a comparison with year ago shows
general decline in employment though there is i'm
provement in the cotton, wooden and tin plate in
dustries. From the trade union returns it appears
that the percentage of unemployed, which for last
year was IS cent, is this year 6S per cent All
over the country and in London special prepare
tons are being made by local authorities either to
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-12-03

Should the president escape open criticism by
evangelical ministers because of justice rendered
has Catholic fellow citizens, the brethren can go
for him on another count The other day he put
on the gloves along with his brother-in-aw, an
army officer. The unholy dispatches state that the
president smote the other good and hard and
laid him out with "stif right" Really the coun-
try Is going to Rome and the devil.