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Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-03-16
British Boat to Withdraw.

British Boat to Withdraw.
LONDON, March 16.-In the house
! OF commons this afternoon Earl Percy,
under secretary Of foreign affairs,
confirmed the statements that the
British station gun boat Espiegle will
be withdrawn from New Chwang i'm.
mediately after the river is opened,
as the vessel would be In considerable
danger in ease Of hostllities, while her
presence there would afford no effec.
tive protection for either life OF prop
erty.
Reports Jap Disaster.
PORT ARTHUR, March l6.--Anoth-
er passenger steamer, Argun, captured
BY the Japanese Of the coast OF Ko-
rea Feb. q. and taken to Sasebo. who
returned here yesterday, declares that
he saw two damaged warships towed5
into Nagasaki Feb. 20, one being the
Asmua and the other a cruiser, said
to be the flagship, having heavy list.
Resentment In st. Petersburg.
ST. PETERSBURG, March 16.--Re-
I ports of the abandonment OF Port Ar
thur continue to arouse the bitterest
resentment. the papers denouncing
the story as stock tobblng scheme.
One paper says: Let other countries
be fed on such tales, yet while Rus
sian blood is flowing they should not
allow people TO be disturbed by such
falsehoods Oflicial kilograms are be.
lieved and trusted by every one" The
government Is building some armored
trains for use on the Manchurian rail.
road after the model Of those used by
the British In South Africa. They
will not be used so much on account
Of fear that the Japanese will cut
the road as for the moral effect on
the Chinese robbers, who may be-
come emboldened by war. It is be-
lieved when the bandits see the iron
monsters they will not come near the
railroad.
Japanese Spies Captured.
CHE FOO, March 16.--The Russian
captured on March 13 eighteen Japan
ese spies dressed as Chinese laborers
in the village Of Wangelin near Port
Arthur. 1t Is supposed these men
landed from the fleet during Thurs
days attack. The men are being re-
moved to Mukden under the yiceroy's
orders.
i Korean Emperor to Move.
SEOUL. March 1.-THE emperor
intends to leave his town palace and
return to Kynubok. his palace In ths
outskirts OF the city. II was here
the empress was assassinated ant
from this palace the emperor fled q
the Russian legation In 1896. His
present residence Is situated In the
! midst Of the foreign legations so thai
NJ. remoyol n Kvnnbo,. win doubt
less 10 mora satisfactory 10 the Ian
anese gavernment
au.si,n student. Exneiled
pERI,IN March 1G.-Thirty Hus
aian studants several of them wo
mon have receIye., Yesterday and to
dav from the polIce notice OF their
Iexpulsion In consequence of particl
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-03-16
Japanese spIes Captured.

CHE FOO, March 16.-The Russian
captured on March 13 eighteen Japan
ese spies dressed as Chinese laborers
in the village Of Wangelin near Port
Arthur. It Is supposed these men
landed from the fleet during Thurs
days attack. The men are being re-
moved to Mukden under the viceroy's
orders.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-08-06
RIGHT YOU ARE, Mr.. PAYNE.

Postmaster General Payne explains the reason
for refusing to a Mississippi postothce after
the governor of that state, although petitions had
been filed requesting that he do Governor Var
daman it appears, is the publisher and editor OF
the Commonwealth newspaper printed at Jack
son. Miss. On Jan. 10, 1908, says Postmaster Cen
eral Payne, an article was published in the Com
monwealth $50 vile and indecent in its statements
concerning the mother of the president of the Unit
ed States as to be unfit for reproduction. The
postmaster general did not deem it proper to give
a postoffice the name of any man who has used such
language regarding any woman"
Right you are, Postmaster General Payne. The
writer of this comment is Democrat, with
halcyon memories of the chivalrous South
ern gentleman of slavery days. Therefore,
he is convinced that the governor of Mis-
sippi is an exception to the old type OF
Southerner if he penned that editorial, or did not
disclaim responsibility for its appearance in his
paper if written by some other attache of the Com
monwealth No proof of the latter being in evil
dence. decent Democrats in and out of Mississippi
cannot be too severe in condemnation of person
untitled for either the editorial gubernatorial
chair in Southern state. That assassination at
Columbus, S. c.. should teach a lesson. And we
may remark in passing that clean American people,
North and South, will no longer tolerate Islander
in politics. such that which disgraced the presl
Dental campaign of 1884, when Grover Cleveland
and James G. Blaine were the candidates of their
respective parties.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-08-06

in print, triing errors that nobody perce1ves but
some dyspeptic critic who finds fault with every
thing, right or wrong. Literary men have observed
that writers long Addisonian English are short
ideas that strength is wasted in the strict pres
eryation of good grammar and faultless rhetoric.
What is really needed in the newspaper office, what
is actually demanded by readers of the current
events of the day, is short sharp incisive COM
ment. Something akin to what Mickey Free gave
out when introducing his ballad of the Widow Ma
lone: Its not very long, but strong"
An error more fragrant than such as appear in
print, is the violation of newspaper ethics through
copying from our contemporaries without giving
them credit. Must say it, this journalistic sin
prevails to greater extent i'll the religious press
than the same is found in secular newspapers In the
catalogue of ofenses it is n9t printed in the Prep
arations for Confession, neither was it inscribed
on Mount Sinai All the same. no conscientious
editor will steal the idea of another so as to make
it appear as his own without reproachng himself
Better let paper go to press without a line of
editorial than appropriate the thoughts of others
without giving credit to such as gave them life
in priht. An amusing example of journalistic en-
terprise-amusing because of its audacity-
turned up last week in an Irish American paper
published in an interior city of Massachusetts, The
editor cut out from The Intermountain Catholic
an editorial headed: american Sons of Irishmen.'
The article. in question was inspired by recollec-
tions of youth in Buffalo prominent figure
in national politics. Evidence that the writer was
an old Buffalonian was as plain as the nose on
mans face What booted that to the Irish editor
in Massachusetts,? Nabocklish. The article APP
peared in his paper on the front page, with
scare head and subheads galore. But the most
amusing stroke of genius lay in the line-"Special
correspondence of the
Charity pleads for the Massachusetts, editor;
therefore the name of his paper is omitted here.
Perhaps the editor thought he committed no Of
tense. If so, it is not grievous ofense. Let US
bear with the faults of our brethren in humility
and patience Indeed, 'let him who is without sin
cast the first stone"
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-08-06
GINGER POP SENSATIONS.

The effervescent reporter (and he is numerous)
turns up at Columbus, o. Puts you in mind of
bottle Of ginger pop just the cork is drawn, for
he begins a story after the soda water fashion. For
instance, Miss Leonard was married the other day
to lieutenant of the Seventh cavalry and the GER
emory was solemnized i'll convent chapel, Whereat
the reporter turns loose lot of cheap, sensational
rhetoric such as-"for the first time in the history
of Columbus Catholic institutions, if not the first
time in all the history of Catholicism, marriage
ceremony"-and so forth, including this other NOR
sci: '1n the thirty-eight years history of st.
Mary's many young women have marched down the
aslcs to the altar in this retreat where the vows
of sisterhood were taken when they gave up so
many of the pleasures of the world to lead lives of
humility and sacrifice, and to realize their ideal"
What is there about the solemnization of sac
rament instituted by Christ to the interest
of the whole country, through the Associated
Press! Nothing when it is apparent that the con-
tracing parties are unknown to fame and may
never be heard of again Even though the cere-
mony took place in convent chapel, the harmony
of the proceeding is not married. neither is its sa
cred character enhanced by reason of the infrequc
cy of such affairs in such places. Miss Leonard,
who became the wife of the soldier, made no pre-
paratory vows of religious life; but her aunt Sis
ter Gertrude, was an inmate of the convent. Alice
ton for kindred, therefore, had most to do and
probably all to do with the selection of the convent
chapel for the ceremony, instead of the parish
church Convent chapels are frequently visited by
pous Catholics who find in the sweet voices of the
nuns lifted up in praise, an influence which draws
them nearer to God
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-08-06
GETTING OUT A NEWSPAPER.

Not long ago Father Cronin preached sermon
somewhere, and likely bestowed some pains in its
preparation. 1t sounded good to the people who
listened and it looked good to the priest-edtor
when he handed it to his printer When it appeared
in the Union and Times, wrong words in place of
right words destroyed the sense in a few instances.
Painstaking writers are naturally thin-skinned and
grow impatient accidents in the printing Office
So Father Cronin proceeds to take satisfaction out
of the devil, slapping him right and left in mus
cular paragraph Father Cronins devil is not the
bright fellow whom Schiller portrays in "Faustn
but the imp of mischief found only in printing
offices.
We think Father Cronin got the wrong pig by
the ear. The person responsible for errors appear
ing IN the paper is not the devil Neither can the
linotype operator be held accountable for mistakes
IN print although they be of his own making. The
proofreader is the man to jump upon and mangle
beyond recognition providing the editor is angry
enough (and big enough) to do it.
A good proofreader is worth his weight in
gold. The same cannot be said of many editors
What delightful peace seizes the soul of an ed-
torial writer accustomed to plunge into his work.
hammer and tongs, in the reflection that his own
mistakes will be corrected plurals nipped and prep
ositions Cob, those pesky prepositionsD yanked
about to their proper place in sentence. Little
words like ~of' appearing in place of ito" good
proofreader ntuitively perceives these triAes, sup
plies omitted words, and comes nearer to being the
real editor than the person who wrote the edi
torial
The prevailing notion that the writer of an ar
ticle is the fttest person to correct mistakes in
printed proofsheets of the same should be re-
vised He is not the fttest person Through some
psychological action of the mind, it goes ahead of
the writer's sentences. The right word is in his
head, the wrong word is before him in print yet he
fails to make his own correction. And he gets as
mad as hornet because he has no devil to blame
nobodysbut himself. E9
Where is the se-se of worrying over mistakes
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-08-06
KNIGHTS AND CARDINAL.

Here and there we find Catholic writers hostile
to the knights of Columbus and determined to
place the order in the list condemned by the Church
They are the ones who have opposed, and continue
to oppose anything in religious progress which has
the ring of what they are pleased to call "Ameri-
canlsm," Foreigners themselves, they counted upon
the influence and assistance of foreign ecclesias-
tics near the Vatican to accomplish the destruc-
ton of an American society of American Cath
oLes. But their efforts have gone aft aglee They
are hoisted by their own peard Lo and behold the
person upon whom they relied as Napoleon relied
upon Marshal Ney, is the very person to defeat
their plans and scatter their arguments and pro-
tests to the winds lie is Cardinal Satolli, the
papal representative now touring this country.
Not long ago, at St. Paul, Cardinal Satolh at
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-08-06

tended banquet in his honor. lie was the guest Oh
the knights of Columbus His presence alone could
safely be construed as friendly to the order but
the words he uttered in his address to the as
sembled knights emphasized his own endorsement
and the approval of Rome. No language could be
stronger.
Recently Cardinal Satolli visited Buffalo, where
again he became the guest of the knights OF Co
lumbus. Indeed wherever the cardinal appears, the
knights are on hand to receive the distinguished
ecclesiastic and do him honor This is what he said
at the banquet in Buffalo according to report
of the affair published in the Catholic Union and
Times:
1T is my special pleasure and honor to be the
guest of your right reverend bishop who has given
me such royal welcome. i feet greatly honored
at the warm reception which the city OF Buffalo
gave me. 1t is pleasure and an honor to be with
you this evening and to meet all classes OF citizens
at this reception by the Knights of Columbus. L
sincerely express to you my thanks for your kind
ness in inviting me here.
"On another occasion | frankly said and fixed
my opinion thoroughly in favor of the knights
of Columbus. | make this public declaration that
the Knights of Columbus is the first social and
civil society in the United States and as such IS
entitled to the greatest respect and honor L also
assure the Knights of Columbus and each person
here that my approval SO plainly stated in this and
other cities will follow me TO the Eternal City of
Rome, where will consider it my duty to publicly
express the highest approval OF the knights OF
Columbus.
TN Buffalo you have specially large body. [
hope it will continue to prosper. Ny gratitude for
the reception which I have received here tonight
will be lasting, and when | see the Holy Father
he will join me in Wishing you everlasting happi-
ness"
Such language should forever settle all doubt
concerning the strict Catholic status of the soci-
ETY., and forever silence the critics among Cath
Ollie writer's. But of course it will not For belong
ing to this intelligent but obstinate clique is
who puts you in mind of the schoomaster in
Goldsmith's "Desefted Village
Though baffled Oft he would argue still"
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-08-06
THAT BALTIMORE INCIDENT EXPLAINED.

Immaculate Conception Rectory, 032 Mosher ST.
Baltimore, Nd, July e.
Editor Intermountain Catholic
Politeness requires that thankfully acknowledge
vour complimentary" number of the 23rd instant
And the fact that you quote approvingy the words OF
Fathers Phelan and Lambert in re, the Immaculate
Conception church occurrence, Sunday July s. urges
me to give you the as it really was.
In passing I may mention that know and esteem
both the reverend gentlemen but, as they, in com
mon with ALL know how sensational and even mis-
leading newspaper statements often are | am sur
prised that they write giving unqualified belief to
the one-sided published accounts.
Possibly my silence is to blame. Be that as it
may. The facts are these: New pews put in this
church, nearly two years ago reduced the seating
capacity about 100. Consequently of the four Masses
on Sunday, at 6, g. 9:15 and High Mass at 1030 the
o'clock Mass, (all pewholders), is now so crowded
and the 9:15 or chdren's Mass affords space for
few adults that last Passion Sunday March 20, felt
myself compelled to make this announcement: 1.-THE
colored Catholics while free and welcome to hear
Mass at o'clock and at'the High Mass, cannot con-
tinue to attend the and 9:15 Masses for want of
room" Only necessity and understood here de-
manded the announcement.
Color had nothing to do with it, else why would
they be allowed and 1 might add encouraged to at
tend the first and the last High Mass.
AS l stated in writing, to His Eminence Cardinal
Gibbons, who knows the whole case, 1--WE are SO
pressed for space at the two Masses, and 9:15
O'Clock, that like number from ST. Plus or
Corpus Christi church. right and left of this
Church to come and continue to assist at those two
Masses, Justice to our pew holders would force
me to request them to stay and attend their own
church, at the said hours. Is it necessary to saw
referring to printed accounts of the affair
that the door of our church never closed in any
ones face, that person once in the church was
told to go out True, indeed three colored ladies'
known to me then now, did actually leave the
church, by misunderstanding my request to exchange
the pew they had entered for another which offered
them.
When all is said, this much remains. With no
real privation to our colored Catholics who have
their own parish churches; justice to the rights of
our pew holders simply demanded the announcement
made last March, namely, that colored Catholics
always very limited number-come hereafter only
to the o'clock and the 1920 o'clock Masses. And
with all respect to Fathers Phelan and Lambert. I
feel certain, that in the same situation sense OF
Justice would prompt them to do in like manner
Their printed words, right I admit in the abstract
leave untouched this concrete case No fear of any
priest attempting to draw the color line in our
churches! Outside of those in immediate charge of
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-08-06
OFFICIAL ENDORSEMENT.

Editor Intermountain Catholic:
My Dear Sir-Replyng to your faver asking my
approval Of The Intermountan Catholic since its es-
Enlistment in this diocese will state that consider
the founding Of Catholic paper In Salt Lake not the
least of the many blessings bestowed by Providence
on the Church here during the past two years. Its
birth occurred opportune time. Its zeal in prop
agating Catholic truth has had, since its inception.
my hearty though silent approval. L believe with
Our Holy Father that "a good Catholic journal is a
perpetual mission in parish and that it will serve
as question box, at all times for anxious inquirera
In my vistations shall hope to find The 1ntermoun-
tain Catholic in the home of every Catholic family,
Its mission is to espouse TRUTH justice and morality
and all devoted priests will find il able co-opera
tor in their missionary work. 1t is my wish that all
my priests and the laity entrusted to my chargs
should encourage your noble effort and that of the
generous founder of The Intermountain Catholic
Yours sincerely L. SCANLAN.
Bishop OF Salt Lake
Salt Lake City. Oct 2, 1900
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-08-06

The editor of the Ogden Standard is nothing
if not dscourtcously personal in comment, writer
evidently devoid of knowledge of the ethics of jour
nalism. For example, this from the Standard of
Tuesday Aug. 2:
"As matter of fact, it is well known that the
editor of The Intermountain Catholic has for
long time been an open enemy of Chaplain Axiom
which explains the venom and bitterness in the at
tack"
The above is a willfu deliberate falsehood. No
body could or should deny the Standards allega-
ton with more vehemence than Chaplain Axton
himself. The files of this paper contain frequent
and complimentary mention of John Axton, secre-
tary of the Y. NJ. c. A., and even as Rev. John
Axiom chaplain of the Eighteenth infantry. To
the editor he has expressed, orally and by letter
his appreciation Of the helpful tone of such edi-
torial comment to promote his work as secretary
Of the Y NJ. G. A.
Chaplain John Axton only emphasizes the in
defensibility Of his position when he places him
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-08-06

The Deseret Farmer is a new weekly newspaper
established at Provo Utah Its editor is Professor
Lewis A. Merrill of the Utah experiment station
at Logan, and It's general manager Professor John
A. Widstoe, at the head of the same institution
J. Edward Taylor of Provo is the business man
ager. Observation leads us to this conclusions
Where you find good farm fine cattle, tidy house
and barn, you find the owner a man of intelli-
gence, one who takes an agricultural paper, his
home paper his religious paper, and the weekly
edition of a secular paper, This is not too many
papers to go into farm family. Often the farmer
gets from them item of information which he
successfully applies to enrich his possessions
Think of the dollars acquired in exchange for the
slight cost of the information
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-08-06

Persons who revere General Miles for those at
tributes of dashng bravery and military skill which
promoted him from high private to the command
of the army, as we'll as those critics who condemn
him solely on political grounds viii speak of the
generals recent domestic loss in the language char
acteristic Of the American Christian citizen Mrs.
Nelson A. Miles died of heart disease at West Point,
n. Y, Tuesday, at which place she and the general
were paying a visit to their son, Sherman Miles,
a student at the military academy. The shock came
suddenly, as only the day before Mrs. Miles made
a number of calls and appeared to be in excellent
health. Usually the death of a distinguished mans
wife creates no ruffe in the world. Her personality
is ecpsed by the character who gives her his name
and protection. But the knowledge that Mrs Miles
was Sherman imparts an interest shared by few
American women. She was the daughter of Judge
Charles Sherman and niece of the late Senator
John Sherman of Ohio and General w. T. Sher-
man. Therefore she was in kinship close to the
Jesuit Father Sherman, beloved by Catholics and
admired by the broadminded of our separated
brethren.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-08-06

In many of the comments upon the results of
the Belgian elections it has been assumed that the
Catholics have suffered something of check In
reality they have strengthened their position For
this reason-that though they have lost few seats,
their total poll has beeen higher than it was in in
1900 and the true losers have been their only for
mdabe opponent, the Socialists. The Liberals have
had some gains, but at the expense of the Social
lists, who have out of the political fray with
seven seats less than they had when they entered
it. There has been considerable falling off in
the Socialist vote in almost every district
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-08-06

Were Russian on our police force he would
be the one to hold his tongue when he got bunch
on crime and its perpetrators, thereby setting an
example to some of our garrulous cops. Describ-
ing arrest of two men for a most serious Of
tense, the Telegram has this paragraph sandwiched
IN the report:
mo charge was preferred against them on the
book, the police desired to secure certain wit
nesses before knowledge of the arrest leaked out"
That's keeping |mum" in a Pickwickian sense.
The secret has probably escaped on a bicycle to
Liberty Park.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-08-06
CARD FROM BISHOP scANLAN.
Salt Lake City. Oct. 2, 1900.

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. anyone else,
is authorized permitted to solicit collect in this
diocese for any purpose whatever connected with the
Catholic Church without having from permission
in writing, bearing my seal and signature Should
anyone be found engaged in doing this unlawful work
or collecting without such document, he she.
the case be, should be regarded by all fraud
and an imposter. L, SEAMAN,
Bishop Of Salt Lake.