The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-09-24
Our literary Cable.

| The New Feeman of st. John. n B. informs ne
that Rev. Father A. B. ONeilI. c. s. G. for many
years project of English studies at St osenb.s mi
versty st John, has been offered position as asso-
cept Father ONells superiors in Canada and in
France have approved of the change and he will
leave shortly for Nore Dame Ind Tbere tht VII
lent Catholic magazine the Ave Maria is published
weekly. For months the New Freeman readers
enjoyed his weekly contributions. As maker of fine
phrFes and sonorous sentences he unexcelled and
on 'ious questions he is a reliable authority saws
our esteemed contemporary. The study of English
mas been his hobby, and his extensive knowledge
gained from years of close study of English will
make his new work pleasure to himself and great
pellent TO the periodical which he is take the
important position of associate editor Besides hav
ing for years contributed largely the columns of
the Ave Maria Father ONeill has written extensively
for the Ecclesiastical Review, Donahoe's the Cath
Ollie World and the Rosary Magazine. As a poet he
mas received his mead of praise. His book of poems
Between Whiles" published a few years ago is
well arranged collection of sweet lines.
1t is stated that genealogical researches lately con
Quoted at Berlin have disclosed fact that Richard
wagner the famous composer. was jew
There is something significant the fact that more
national Geographical congress, in session at
Washington, are Catholic countries. And it is equal
the despised Latin races Thereat the Catholic Sun
of Syracuse ironically remarks that the rampng An
gio-Saxon theoretically is better at spelling geography
than at making it.
1t is not generally known even to members of the
profession, that there is patron saint for lawyers
The recent peculiar advice given by the dean of the
the fact to our mind. His name is St Ives, whose
celebrated in the Catholic churches
and other countries the other day On his tomb in the
little church in Normandy his remains repose
is inscription in Latin stating that, although the
saint a lawyer yet he honest Judge
Pattee, in his address to several hundred students
at the law school of the University of Minnesota on
the of their graduation, said to them: Many of
you honest to be good lawyers" There is
something paradoXcal about this phrase remarks the
Pittsburg Observer, which would have been quite in
harmony with the inscription the tomb "Sanctus
Ivus advocatus, if he had left out the word good
Whate a mine of and poetry there may be in
many of converts the world will never know,
cause so seldom is it see poems from nuns i'm
print Here is one composed by Sister Anna Raphael
during the Admission day exercises at the Worlds
fair st. Louis. Very appropriate and timely, Sister
Anna Raphael selected for her theme California in
st. Louis"
Greetings to the Mississippi
Greetings from the Sunset Sea-!
From goden-chaliced blazon,
To the svery heur-de-lis.
Greetings from oaks and olives
From the cypress and the palms.
From proud Sequoas towering
Thro' September's hazy Gains.
From our mountains and valleys
From northern harp of pines Il
From our Southland in the glory
Of her orange groves and vines:
From the hermit hush of Nature
From the restless. rushing mart
80 FROM the domes of starry science sas