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The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-06-03

fact as we'll as in name. But we as
suredly cannot maintain this high es-
tate il we forget the God who called
us into being and made us great as a
people for some good purpose of His
own.
II will put the question in another
way for the sake of emphasis. If you
nullify the thought of the Sabbath
and rob it of it's ~sacredness, you rem
der impossible true r~everences toward
God. And not toward God alone is
the consequent irreverent spirit
shown, but gradually the people &C
customed to make no distinction be-
tween the days as they come and go
lose practically all respect for the
higher and better things OF life, and
in just that much they step downward
and backward in the scale of civili-
cation.
"The irreverent spirit is manifest
nowadays in the home perhaps most
Of all. The children, thoughtlessly
and Observation-Disclosures they
are simply following the general So
cial trend-cease to have the thought
full consideration for father and moth
err that marks the character OF boys
and girls who grow up to be noble
men and Thus the true sweet
ness and charm of the sacred inner
circle are gone, and God pity the
young man or young woman that goes
out to take up life's battles from a
home that does not exercise a soften
ing and modifying influence upon his
whole life.
81 wish | might follow this subject
more fully, but l have depressed too
far even now. l can only hope that
this question may come as close to
your heart as it has to mine and that
you may thus realize how important
it is. Believing that it enters into
the most vital considerations OF the
life and activity and mission Of the
church today, I pray that the hearts
and eyes of all Christian people es-
pecial1y will be opened to the duty,
the pleasure, the happiness of keep
ing the Sabbath as a day of rest and
%gladness.'
"And now to our Billings friends
l will say once more that we heartily
thank you for the greeting that has
been extended to us here tonight.
We know that our coming together
will not be in vain, for we come in
the spirit of the blessed Master. L
only hope and pray that, when these
four days of delightful companions
ship have come and gone, you will
feel that the 10th annual convention
of the Montana Epworth league has
left a lasting and ennobling impress
sion upon the social life of this beau
tiful city"
Mr.. Miles pronounced the benedic-
ton and the assembly repaired to the
rooms in the basement, where a re-
ception was held and refreshments
we're served.
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[904-Montana Coal and Iron Company

1904-Montana Coal and Iron Company
The annual meeting OF the stock
holders of the Montana Coal and Iron
company will be held at the office OF
O. F. Goddard, Billings, Montana, on
Tuesday, June IA, 1904, at the hour
of ten o'clock a. M, for the election
of nine trustees to serve for the en-
suing year, and for the transaction
Of such other business as may pro-
perly come before the meeting.
P. w. SMITH, Secretary.
May IA, 1904. 9-4
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WITH WARM III OF WELCOME
Continued from Third Page.)

for the moral advancement of the
commonwealth. The west very pro
perly boasts of her freedom of thought
and action. The stilted and stereo-
typed methods and manners of some
of the older communities seen at
times ~unbearable to us. But we must
learn the lesson which has so often
been dearly bought and harshly
taught in this world, that liberty is
not license.
"This convention will consider some
of the practical phases of the great
moral questions that present them
selves to us all alike. You may not
be a church member, but that does
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-06-03

Not satisfied with being a tolerably
good republican when it comes to the
matter of the tariff, Major Maginnis
insists upon giving still further proof
of an awakening reason and nantes
tation of a desire to be on the right
side politically before his brilliant
and useful career shall have ended.
In his Grafton at Helena Memorial
day he referred in his usually elo-
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-06-03

Grotto Springs Floral Company.
Fresh cut flowers in great variety.
Special attention given to design
work. Mail orders filled on day re-
ceived. Bell telephone 95F, city sales
room; Bell telephone 79A, greenhouse.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-06-03
THAT FREAK TAX LAW.

liza T aEAN M NV
Once before TIE Gazette has re-
ferred, briefly, to tie new law gov
erning the collection OF taxes from
those whose possessions liable to tax
alton are confined to personal proper
ty only. This reference was made
at a time before the actual opera
lions of the law were in effect. Since
then opportunity has been afforded to
see the law in operation and to OBJ
serve it's workings. What was said
then concerning the statute is still ap-
plicable, with many additions and
enlargements. The law is little less
than statutory idiocy and imbecility.
The purpose and object aimed at
are easily discernible, but the manne
adopted for their accomplishment is
a sad commentary on the executive
ability of the Trainer ct the law and
those who made it's presence on the
statutes possible. AS a source OF
annoyance to a very large and worthy
class of taxpayers it would reflect
credit upon the inquisition, while as
a source of extra and needless work
ITO treasurers of counties of the class
to which Yellowstone belongs, who
are not allowed a deputy, it is also
almost fiendish in it's ingenuity. But
there are other and possibly stronger
arguments to be urged against it.
Under the law t~reasurers are com
PEELED to collect taxes without the aid
OF a levy. This leaves them withou,
a foundation upon which to make
their cancellations. 1t is true that
they have the levy of the preceding
year to guide them, but a little
thought will show the unreasonable
ness of the law in this respect. There
is no proof chat they levy of this year
will be the same. 1t may be greater
or it may be smaller. 1t the former,
the t%reasurers are required to notify
tho y1,n IF nnrcnont ,ro,on1ty tn
make good the deficiency on their tax
alton, while if the reverse turns out
to be the case they must make re-
fund, no matter how large or small
the amount, which in many instances
will probably not exceed a few cents.
Then the provision of the law holding
treasurers personally liable for the
collection of such taxes is also mani
testify unjust. By inserting this clause
the brilliant intellect that gave birth
to the deformity no doubt figured it
out that there would be no delinquent
cies and that counties would receive
every cen due them, totally disre-
gardant of the injustice OF the thing
If it is desired that no nomadic
cattle or sheepman shall escape his
just proportion OF taxation it would
seem that a less intricate and cumber-
some law could be evolved in a leg
islative mind that would accomplish
that purpose, thoroughly and effect
ually without mountaineering thou
sands and adding useless and need
less work to a lot of faithful and eff
Gent public servants. When the leg
islature next c%onvenes it is to be
hoped that some member anxious to
make a name for himself and at the
same time serve his constituents will
have the intelligence to introduce a
bill for repeal of the odious law or to
at least amend it so that it will Dear
some semblance to a creature CT SEN
sible birth and conception.
Necessity for the existence OF some
enc qualified to act in case of inca
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quent name to the war waged with
Spain for the liberation of Cuba, and
then. instead of speaking as a demo-
crat is supposed to speak when he
came to the resulting acquisition of
the Philippines, denounce the republi-
can administration, he spoke OF the
unexpected and, perhaps, undesira.
bile tasks that fell upon u.s." at the
same time expressing the utmost con-
fidence that I'm due time all these
new and vexatious questions will be
settled in accordance with equity and
right and that spirit of liberty and the
love of justice which has always been
the browning glory of this republic
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When all others are considered and
the mind finds itself incapable of
further study, the ambitious owner OF
as the only genuine and real yellow
PERIL
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in democratic success as great, the
story to be lold would be a different
one entirely.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-05-21
AUNT BUSY ON WORLDS FAIR.

Dear Aieces and Nephews-Providing your par
ents have the means and you are grown up TO be
boys and girls, say about u years of age, with
knowledge of things that YOU see, they may take
you to the Worlds fair at St. Louis. The fair
viii be great object lesson TO children of that
age. Nearly everything we read in books Will be
presented there, and people from all over the
world, dressed like the pictures we see in geograph-
les at school. How funny it viii seem to see men
from the Balkans wearing skirts like our mothers
and big sisters only the skirts are not bit fash
onable; and these strange people go strutting
about as proud as Cinderella with her glass slipper
Then may go through Jerusalem, corner
of the Worlds fair. built of wood and painted to
resemble the stone houses and public buildings in
that holy city-the city our Savior wept over, and
from whence he was taken to Mount Calvary to be
crucifed We can see the tomb where he was laid
and the church over it. almost exactly like the one
in the real Jerusalem so far away. You will ask
yourself if those little burros you see trudging
along the streets of the st. Louis Jerusalem are
the real Jerusalem burros. Perhaps you will ask
your father. and he will reply: NO. indeed; those
little fellows are from our own Colorado. Don't
YOU notice little Jennie there from Trinidad Call
her and then watch her prick up her ears
OF course, Aunt Busy's wee nieces and neph-
evs should not think of going to the big fair in
the big city. because their minds not developed
for the study it gives to their older brothers and
sisters. Therefore, do not tease your parents. Be
satisfied with childish sports at home when not at
school, and learn all you from books about the
people of the world and how they live. Then when
YOU are grown up boys and girls you will be able
to perceive and appreciate a worlds fair. Until
them papa and mamma will take their pets to the
circus when it comes to town. And you will laugh
heartier over the trick dogs than all the amuse-
ments found at a worlds fair.
Y
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-05-21
Non-CathoIic Tribute to Church,

The following editorial comment appeared IN
recent issue of the Chicago Tribune: while we
are searching the recesses of our chaste souls Tor
words to express our shuddering horror of smulta-
neous polygamy as practiced by the Mormons, we
might to our CONSERVATION find that we had been
providing our enemies with words most uncom-
fortaby applicable to consecutive poygaIny as
practiced by ourselves. Father Sherman said the
other day that in the United States during the last
twenty years there had been 100000 divorces. Faith
er Sherman stands against background which
might we'll lend him aspect of authority. Fiji
teen hundred years ago when turbulent barbarlans
settled within the confines of the Roman empire, 1t
was the Catholic church that coerced the vagrant
lust of the barbarian heart and bound one woman
to one man till death did them part. Today, when
the sacrament of marriage-,is threatened, not so
much by savage boisterousness of passion as by the
frivolity and insincerity of men and women to
whom mistaken belief has become impossible, it IS
the Catholic church that still refuses to make
single concession to legaliized promiscuity, and
that still keeps unbemished the ideal of an indis-
soluble spiritual union between man and wife. It
we cannot subscribe to the theology of the Catholic
church in this matter, neither can we fail to sub
scribe to It's practical morality. The Smoot
ought to give tremendous impetus to the demand
for uniform federal divorce law The easy route
to consecutive polygamy ought to be beset with
more obstacles. The voice of the whole Christian
community ought to become as clear and emphatic
the voice of the Catholic church"
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-05-21
San Francisco. the Queen City.

San Francisco is pressing steadily to the front
as great commercial city. The Argonaut gives
the figures to show the dominant fact that the San
Francisco clearing house transacts more business
than all the clearing houses of Los Angeles Seattle
Salt Lake. Portland, Spokane. Denver, Topeka,
Fremont, Wichita and Colorado Springs put to-
gcther." Aud no other city is jealous Of San Fran
cisco. Does she not sit like queen by the Golden
Gate? Is not her harbor the only real one for 500
miles north or south! Is not the state behind the
city the fairest and richest III native resources i'll
the Union2 Why, now that the TRANSATLANTIC trade
is beginning to take on colossal proportions, why
should not the beautiful city expand by leaps and
bounds? Since 40 the Argonauts and their de
scendants have claimed a part proprietorship in
the great place. She cannot become rich enough
or fair enough to excite anything but admiration
in the thoughts of her neighbors-
Weekly.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-05-21
THE ORIGIN OF THE DAISY.

The daisy is an Old World flower adopted into
American soil II is told that when the early Chris
tians of Britain we're prosecuted and i'll danger of
DEATH St Bruon begged his sister st. Ole, to take
her maiden companions and flee from their savage
enemies.
sought his sister but could not find her Then he
asked for a sign from heaven that he might know
where she had gone and in answer there sprang up
in his pathway flowers with hearts of gold and star
ry rays of purest silver.
Il will follow" he said And for days, which
heightened into weeks, he walked in the way those
mute guides beckoned. And at last he reached
desert place where hidden behind a rock, was the
maiden Ole with her faithful companions.
"Thus," says an old chronicle, did the dear
Lord lead the good and wise bishop by daisy chain
of flowers with hearts of gold"
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-05-21
HOW TO TELL THE TIME.

I've jus learned how to tell the time;
My mother teached me TO,
An eff you think you'd like to learn
I guess 1 might teach you.
At first, though, it's as hard as fun
An makes you twist an turn,
An mother says that they is folks
Big folks-what never learn.
You stand before the clock, JUS SO,
An start right at the top;
That's twelve o'clock, an when You reach
The little hand you stop.
Now. that's the hour, but you've got
To watch what you're about,
Because the hardest parts TO come,
To find the minutes out
You go right back again to where
You started from an see
How far the minute hands away,
Like ths-youre watchin me?-
An when you've found the minute hand
You multiply my five,
An then you've got the time of day,
As sure as you're alive.
They's folks, / know, what says that they
Don't have to count that way,
That they can tell by jus a glance
Al any time Of day.
But I don't believe no fibs like that,
Because eff that was true
Ny ma would know it. but she showed
Ne like I'm shown you.
w. w. Whitelock.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-05-21
WHAT A BOY DID.

James Pcttigrew was the smartest boy in our
class He was praying boy, and we all liked him
the better for that. Willie Hunter was real good
fellow. too and Willie and Jamie used to run neck
and neck for the prizes Either the one or the 9th
er was always at the top of the class
Examination day round and we were asked
such lot of pulling questions that, one by one,
we all dropped off, till, just as we expected the
first prize lay between Jamie and Willie
shall never forget how astonshed we were
when question after question answered by Viii
lie. while Jamie was silent; and Willie took the
prize.
went home with Jamie that afternoon, for our
roads lay together; but, instead of being cast down
at losing the prize he seemed rather to be nightly
glad. | couldn't understand it.
'Why, jamie" l said, you could have
swered some of those questions; know you could"
"Of course l could" he said with little laugh
"Then why didn't you?" / asked.
He wouldn't answer for a while but l kept
pressing and pressing him, till at last he turned
round with such strange, kind look in his bonnie
brown eyes.
Look here he said chow could I help it?
There's poor Willie-hs mother died last week,
and if it hadn't been examination day, he wouldn't
have been at school Do you think was going to
be so mean as to take prize from fellow who
had just lost his hcr!"-S. S. Advocate
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-05-21
Bio Words.

Some people pose in the use of language as
others do in their carriage says the Catholic Uni
verse, Cleveland. Afectation is not pleasing to
sensible people, and those who are always "dress
parade do not impress others in the way they in
tend. The 'big-word" people are not those who
have the widest knowledge of language We know
of man in an humble sphere in this city who was
asked by fellow servant the whereabouts of the
hay fork Co." he said, 'to the barn. turn to your
left at right angles and you will find the trident on
the perpendicular"
How some people do pose, said big raw
boned westerner named Hank Custer. "They use
great, big words Just to make people think that
they are smart | think that the weakest of all af
fectations is that of using what is called big Ian
guage, instead of those simple terms which at first
present themselves to every person of common
sense.
''At my home in Nebraska the other day young
lady astonished my household by asking the loan
of diminutive argenteous, truncated cone, con-
its summit and semi-perforated with sum-
metrical indentations.'
"Sho wanted a thimble."
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-05-21
The Potato. 4

Are any Utah farmers preparing to plant Bur
bank potatoes! They doubtless have noticed in the
San Francisco papers that the Burbanks command
large prices 1t is described as sweeter than the
ordinary potato, its inner substance is about the
color of carrot hue and is good on the palate.
Well, its origin about in this way. Luther
Burbank a couple of years ago obtained from some
obscure point in South America some potatoes.
He went to work with them, crossed and recrossed
plants until now he has several hundred varieties
of new potatoes Speaking of the tuber the Lon
don Westminster Gazette tells of varieties that
have been produced at Covent garden, some of
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-05-21

which command fabulous prices. The Northern
Stars bring e85 per one hundredweight and Ell Do
radoes G105 per pound, only there are only about
six pounds i'll the world. The expert explained to
erations deterorate and that from the wild tuber
new varieties have to be evolved. The potato IS
not thing of beauty but t is JOY forevcr.-Good-
WIS Weekly.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-05-21
Our Boys and Girls.
Edited by Aunt Busy.
con KNOWS EVERYTHING.

Knowest thou how many stars
There are shining in the sky
Knowest thou how many clouds
Every day go floating by?
Cod the Lord has counted all:
He would miss one should it fall.
KDowest thou how many flies
Play about in the warm sun,
Or of fishes in the water?
God has counted every one.
Every one He called by name
When into the world it came.
Knowest thou how many children
Go to little beds at night
That without care or trouble
Wake up with the morning light?
God in heaven each name can tell;
Knows thee, too, and loves thee well.
From the German.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-05-21

Bishop Cusack of New York, like Archbishop
Messmer, Bishop Phelan and two or three others
of the hierarchy, wears beard.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-05-21

Bishop Stang of Fall River is the first prelate
Of German name and origin who has presided over
a New England diocese.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-05-21
Denver, Colo. May Is.

Denver, Colo May Is.
Dear Aunt Busy am girl IL years old My
father is a reader of the Intermountain Catholic
! will ask you to permit me to send my recipe for
molasses candy to the little girls of Aunt Rusy's
page
Two cups of moasses, half cup of sugar one
tablespoonful of butter one cup of walnuts one
fourth easpoonful of soda half teaspoonful vanilla
Then pour into buttered pans.
ANNIE KELLY.
How thoughtful of you, Annie. A recipe for
molasses candy for the little nieces who will one
day be housekeepers is certainly appreciated. 1t
reminds old Aunt Busy of the long ago, when she
went to candy pulings. How delicious that mo-
lasses candy rolled under the tongue UNI, yum,
yum
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-05-21
LETTERS AND ANSWERS.
Diamondville. Wvo

Diamondville, Wyo., May 10.
Dear Aunt Busy-l have not written to you
for a long time. but don't think l have forgotten
YOU We are all well and hope you are the same.
We have only had few days so far this year that
were not bad days; it has been showing and
storming here ever since winter began
The Diamondville baseball team played the
Oakley baseball team here last Sunday and two
weeks before Sunday last. The first game Oakley
won BIZ score of 30 to 10, but Diamondville did
not have It's right baseball team. The second game
II was snap for Oakley up to the eighth inning,
and in that inning with the II to 3, IN favor
Of Oakley, the Diamondville team came to bat, and
after two men we're out took squirt, and before the
other man was put out five scores had been made,
and then the score was II to s, in favor of Oakley
IN the first part of the ninth inning Oakley
made one more run. Then Diamondvile came to
hat again and made two more runs before they
we're put out; and they would have made more, too,
If one Of the players had not tried to steal third
when the pitcher. who had the ball, talking to
the umpire. Please excuse me for writing such
long letter but | had not written to YOU for such
a long time that thought / would make up for 1t
now From your nephew,
ARTHUR A. KAVANAUGH.
Aunt Busy would deeply regret your forgetting
her. Arthur But don't you think you neglect her
a little! She enjoyed reading your description of
the baseball game. Aunt Busy does love baseball
and all the dear boys who play ball, too Write
soon again. Arthur, and give Aunt Busy's best
wishes to Morgan.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-05-21
St. Joseph's School. Ogden, May ).

Dear Aunt Busy thought ! would write you
little letter to tell you about the bishops visit to
our school We were so pleased to have him come,
for he was very kind. This is my first letter, so
viii not have it long. With love ! remain your
little niece MABEL SMITH.
Aunt Busy gladly welcomes her dear new niece
from Ogden She hopes that the. dear Ogden
children will have many more opportunities to see
Ri Rev. Bishop Seaman. Indeed the Ogden chill
dren are dear good little people, and Aunt Busy IS
sure that the dear bishop viii be proud of them
some day.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-05-21
St. Joseph's School, Ogden, May 5.

Dear Aunt Busy must tell you about the
good time we had yesterday. Bishop Seaman VS.
tied our school and gave us his blessing He also
gave us half holiday in honor of his visit. l am
in the third grade. would like to ms dear cid
Aunt Busy. Your loving niece,
MARGUERITE M'FADDEN.
Another little niece enthusiastic over the visit
of Rt Rev. Bishop Seaman. What delightful
time all the dear children had The Ogden chill
dren have good reason to reverence Bishop Scan
Ian, for did he not give to Ogden dear Father