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The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-12-14

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sale. FIRST NATIONAL BANK.
Have you seen all those
mechanical Toys at Jimeson &
Olson, The New Store.
Postmaster Gunderson, Of
Binford, was q caller at the
COURIER sanctum last Thursday.
He was tickled half to death over
his release from the late un-
pleasantness.
New calanders are making
their appearance for 1905, the
first one to attract our attention
being that of E. E. Downe who
has been distributing a neat one
advertising his business.
Members of Wildly Encamp.
ment No. 10, are requested to
meet at I. O. o. F. Hall, next
Thursday, Dec. 81. Remember
the date and be there. Import
ant business.
Married-At Cooperstown, N.
D., Dec. 18th, 1905, by Rev.
Oscar D. Purinton, Miss Lena
Rockford, of Burger Township,
Nelson Co.. to Mr.. Ernest Rick
forp, of Willow Township, Griggs
O..
And we will give a Special Dis
count to all churches and schools
on Xmas Goods.
JIMEsoN & OLSON,
The New Store.
County Auditor r. M. Cowen
and family have moved into
their own home-the old Con-
gregational parsonage which was
purchased by Mr.. Cowen some
time ago. They have been wait
ing to move for a long time and
are pleased that they can once
more keep house right.
Cut flowers, blooming plants,
Xmas. trees. Everything for the
holidays at Valley City Green
House. so
The COURIER was informed
last week that H. H. Reames had
died at Palouse, WASH, but we
have since learned that this was
an error. It was a second
daughter of the family that died,
Esther, and Mr.. Starr says that
they read the dispatch as saying
that father died today instead of
Esther. Two girls of the Reames
family have died.
F. w. Soule, the eyesight spe-
cialist, will be at Aliens jewelry
store again Sat. and Mon, Dec.
16 and l8, prepared to examine
defective eyes and fit glasses
when needed. Don't miss this
chance.
Cooperstown narrowly escaped
another distrous fire last Thurs
day night about nine o'clock.
One of the largest lamps in
Whidden's store took a notion to
drop to the store floor just as
the boys were locking the store
door and for a few minutes there
was somthing doing. Oscar Hal
vorson and Fred Gimblett used
the fire extinguishers to good
advantage and put the fire out.
1t was the prompt action of the
boys that probably saved the
town from a very bad fire.
CITY BAKERY. ALI orders
promptly filed. Lunches put
up for travellers. Meals served
at all hours. Hot coffee and
lunches always ready.
GRAFT Bros, Proprietors.
The young people of the
Methodist church were splendid
ly entertained at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. J. H. Langford 3
miles southeast of town on We'd
nesday evening. Ben Andersen
took them out with his four horse
team and winter chariot. mas
much as it was a beautiful moon
light night, and our zero had
cancelled his engagement for
this night; everything seemed to
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-07-15
LAWSON'S CHEAP TALK.

Iom Lawson is talking in Kansas and roasting
Rockefeller Any person who goes about smashing
things can easily get an audience in Kansas
Speaking of the Standard Oil magnate and his vast
Millions he said that the ownership of so large
sum Is proof positive that it was not obtained le
gally. Therefore the people should dicover exactly
by what methods of squeezing, flching and plumber
ing 1t was got together. This done" said Law
son. then take Rockefeller and his half billion
back over the route of ruin he made and compeI
INN to drop the booty at each twist of the road
Such means of carrying out retributive Justice
is none too drastic to suit the temper of the people
wesrled over monopoly control of the judiciary
But what of Lawson himself this saint of "Fren-
zled Finance" who obtained his fortune BY the
self-same methods of squeezing filchng and plum
derlng" charged up to Rockefeller Lawson's seat
of conscience is conveniently at the tip of his
tongue, and he makes show of feeding the goose
with the gander's in this answer:
You ask what will become of nv own fortune2
l answer 1t will have to go with the rest, for my
fortune, like all others made from the public
through the medium of stocks, corporations and
trusts, should go back where it came from"
If Lawson's fortune should go back to whence
it came, and he says it should what is to prevent
him sending it back to the people squeezed filched
and plundered!
Talk is cheap, and Lawson is no less a
rogue than those he condemns
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-07-15
PRIVATE ILLUMINATION
AND SPIRIT OF TRUTH
Continued from Page ~

the answer, that it bears witness to the revelations
OF the Father made through his only begotten Son,
Jesus, still press the objection and ask: Does
this that the interior light impresses the
intellect inward perception of its truth. If so,
1t Is no longer an object of faith. The revealed
truth becomes matter of science
But it may be said that the inner light" simply
witnesses the fact that the Bible contains Gods
vealed word. How prove that fact: To point the
finger at the heart and say, Il know it, because the
spirit has testified" is proof for infdel or
nationalist. There is motive of credbility even
for the person so believng therefore, no reason for
any assurance certainty that the spirit testl-
flying is the spirit of God VIII it be alleged that
the same spirit will testify exactly the same to all
well disposed persons regarding this truth
namely, the fact of inspirations But the number
of persons who deny this is so overwhelmingly in
the majority that it more than offsets all such
claims. VIII their denial be taken into considera-
ton! No, say the advocates of inward light !;
that denial is false, because it does not square with
our christian experience" which is the yard meas
ure for faith. If the testimony of the overwhem-
ing majority of the human deny that the spirit
testifes to them to the fact in question, then the
advocates of elmer light" must abandon what they
maintain and contend for namely, that each per-
son has within him an infallibe monitor who testl-
fes to this truth.
Apart from this little inconvenience it may be
asked: How is to know that he has this infal-
hble teacher within HIM! DO the scriptures so tes-
tify! This would lead to another inconvenience,
namely, what logicians term reasoning in vicious
circle, e., proving the inspiration by the elmer
light" and the elmer light" by the inspired word
VIII it be claimed by the advocates of this doctrine
that they have immediate and direct revelations as
to the question at issue! The only adequate proof
for this is to confirm the claim by working mir
acle. Such the proofs given by Christ when
he became "the way, the truth and the life" of the
world. No other proof will satisfy the demands of
reason, or convince the world of any claims that
may be set forth. T. d.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-07-15

caustc comment over the intolerance of his Cath
Ole majesty" of Spain Not word about the
youth of the sovereign to excuse the mischief natu
raj for boy. Nothing for Catholics to do but
ratify the of non Catholics and admit the
justice of press criticism
Now comes news from Madrid giving ex-
PLANTATION of that mschievous letter An inquiry
instituted, which brought to light the fact
that even the king himself had been ignorant of
the nature of the letter until he saw it in print,
that it had been written By Don Merry del Val
(tutor in the kings household and of his pri-
vate secretaries) and submitted by him for the
signature of the king at moment when the latter
pressed for time and had no leisure to read 1t,
and that Don Alfonso, relying absolutely upon the
discretion of Merry del VAL had affixed his name
to the missive without giving it further thought.
Strange it is that the spurious act of another
for which the king blamed never entered the
heads of non-Catholic critics at the time. More
strange because, not only was the tenor of the let
ter amazing, particularly in view of the fact that
the Spanish constitution expressly guarantees free
dom of conscience and equal liberty to all churches,
but it regarded as utterly inconceivabe that
such letter should either have been written or
published at the moment when the king was leaving
for England to pay his first visit to that country
and to its reigning family. The members of his
court and, above all, his ministers, were dismayed
by the incident, the letter in question having been
written and sent off without the knowledge of any
of the kings constitutional advisers
This Senior Merry del Val is brother of the
cardinal secretary of state. No matter. His ex-
allied family connection affords all the more reo-
son for dismissal, because from that family much
is expected and demanded by Catholics of America
as well as of Spain
1t is in order for American editors to
square themselves with Catholic readers
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-07-15
GEN. EWING ANSWERED LAST CALL.

Slowly the ranks of the nations soldiers and ha-
roes who served so bravey during the civil war are
being deserted as, one by one, they answer the 1g
giles call on the other side; and before many Years
their names and deeds will be but memories pre-
cous indeed and always to be cherished-but still
only memories to a generation whose ideals h.s.
no affinity with the past. says the Catholic Cour
ban. No drawer soldier ever answered the final
call than he whose death occurred the otla.
day at Lancaster-General Hugh BOYLE En
ing one of Ohio's famous sons, whose last years
were passed in the retirement of private life far
removed from the martial stir and glory of his
young days.
He was the last survivor of famous trio Of
which the other two were General Roeecrau~ and
General Sheridan. the Catholic major generals Of
the civil war, and among the bravest of all that
wore the blue.
General Ewing was the son of the late Senator
Thomas Ewing, and was born in Lancaster in l,2G.
lie grew up in the companionship of james G..
Blaine and William Tecumseh Sherman. both kiu--
men. He was graduated from West Point at the
age of 20, but left the service to study law prar-
ticing i'll st. Louis and Leavenworth, Kan. The
gold fever of 40 overlook the young lawyer and bs
went to California where he acquired much OK
perience but money. He was a member of the
first jury to sit in the state of California.
At the outbreak Of the civil war he was appoint
ed major Of Ohio volunteers and was promoted To-
colonel in command of the Thirteenth Ohio regi-
ment. In November 1862, he was appointed briga-
der general and took part in the operations Of
Sherman against Vicksburg.
Like his famous father General Ewing was p
devout Catholic, and until age prevented was wont
to attend mass every day. He was familiar Hc-
ure in the first pew at st. Marys church. Laucas-
ter. In that church he was baptized, and there his
funeral took place on Monday morning in the pres
ence of congregation that filled every seat.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-07-15
MARY MAGDALEN, THE PENITENT.

Very many if not most Catholic doceses are
placed under the patronage of some notable saint
The cathedral church is named after that saint. In
the Salt Lake diocese, st. Mary MagdaIen is the
patron saint. She is also named as the protector
of the great Dominican order. The feast of this
converted follower of Jesus, the peniten of Pales-
tine, falls on Saturday July D.
1t is not easy for lay Catholics, even the pious,
to remember many persons whom the Church vene-
rates saints. They may call some names during
the recital of the Litany of Saints but are with
out knowledge of the merits and sacrifices which
led to their sanctifcation. But every Catholic,
every Christian, every reader of Bible history has
knowledge of the saints who lived while Christ was
upon earth and preaching in Judea. Thus we re
member Mary, the Magdaen.
1t is not the personality of the woman so much
it is the salvation through penance that brings
the Magdalen so quickly to the mind of the re-
morseful sinner. If such great mercy and love
shown to the penitent Jewish concubine, why
not to me! If Paradise was opened to the penitent
thief on the cross, why not for me- Such are the
reflections of the soul burdened with sin If the
concubne and thief found pardon and rest in Je-
sus, nobody need be damned against his will.
1t is easy for the woman without passion to be
model of virtue and she is always the readest to
cast stones at those of her sex who yield to violent
temptation. The Magdalen was one of the fallen
Under the Jewish law, it was heinous ofense-
pardon in life, no hope beyond If she lived the
sinner today that she lived in Judea the Christian
women few who would give Magdalen shelter
and bid her sin more. 1t is the way of the
world.
As it is he who overcometh the flesh and suffers
the contumey of men who stands near to God in
his kingdom so do followers of Christ reckon the
depth and the cost of the penitence that made
saint of sinner. So is Mary Magdalen condoned in
the eyes of such who hold that virtue has merit
only when subjected to temptation So is the per-
son of Christ made more loveable by his example
of forgiveness to Mary Magdalen, and by raising
her up to the pinnacle of celestial happiness
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-07-15
BLOW AT THE WIDE OPEN TOWN.

A 'wlde-open town. always goes as part of "tbe
system with political grating. Mayor Weaver Of
Philadelphia, having dealt blow at grating. fol-
lowed it up last Saturday night with Blow 1T H.
wide-open town. Over two thousand inmates and
patrons of evil resorts were caught and brought TO
the various police stations Here, linked with
painted women, with drunken negroes and vicions
hangers-on, were men in full dress, clubmen mon
OF refinement, politicians, lawyers and men whose
faces are familiar in public gatherings and in the
higher walks of life. '-'0
"Crouching in corners of police stations. trvno
to hide behind the tinsel and occasionally too scsnv
clothing of tenderloin women were women rbnso
faces showed they of birth and breeding Tbere
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-07-15
Room FOR THOUGHT HERE.

At the marriage of the Crown Prince of Ger
many, all the splendors of military and regal
pomp we're displayed. Kings or their representa-
tives came in profusion; but still there was one
empty place in the procession. The workmen kept
away! The emperor had desired delegation of
the toiers to take their place in the great pro-
cession the toilers declined the honor. Such an
omission could not pass without notice, and prob
ably Kaiser William noticed the omission more
sadly than anyone present, says the London Cath
Ollie Times in comment
Since 1877 the Socialist voting strength has in
creased from four hundred thousand to near three
millions stupendous increase And the absention
OF these huge masses of dissdents from German
social conditions must give even the war lord
pause. For those very men are in the rank and file
of his legions. The officers are chosen from the
landed aristocratic classes the private soldiers
are devoted to Socialist ideals. With banners and
trumpets the Crown Princes marriage is cele-
brated; he has honors and recognition from every
class except that which sends three million voters
to the polls to register their disapproval of his
fathers rule There is room for thought in the
fact.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-07-15

The law passed by the Kansas legislature last
winter appropriating nearly half million to build
ing independent oil refinery to be operated by
the penitentiary convicts was declared unconsti-
tutional by the state supreme court The decision
of the court was unanimous. The oil refinery law
was considered the most direct blow struck at the
Standard Oil monopoly by the last legislature,
which adopted several measures tending to restrict
the Standard i'll handling the Kansas oil product.
A unanimous decision from a supreme court would
Indicate the unsoundness of a measure passed by
the people. Unsound because it interferes with the
vested rights of another although that other may
be protected robber. The people grow impatient.
One of these days they will want to know why it
is the courts are always right and the people are
always wrong. They may even choose their own
Interpretation of law for the evil it is meant to
redress.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-07-15

were girls not out of their teens, whose clothing
spoke of luxury, and who bore the indeliblo touch
of gentle homes These were the cast Of the re+
from the hotels and palaces Of the underworld
They had not been taken easily; in tuxedo
fought like mad to open way to escape for them
selves and the women with them In many case, tha
police held the hands of women bent suicide.
Some of these women with utter ruin and disgrace
before them, fought the policemen more effectua}lr
than the men. Some escaped, but they were few
Thus are We approaching, even in the city Of
Brotherly Love- the conditions OF ancient Sodgn.
and Gomorrah, says the Catholic Citizen. of ]T1.
waukee. And some of our church congrcgatior.
vote solidy for the kind of aldermen who win their
election on a "wide-open town platform. Witnc-.-
ing this we do not feel like eriticisng those minis
tiers who chose for their Sunday sermons topics
that have reference to municipal evils.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-07-15

A Butte special to the Chicago Tribune says
Senator>W. A. Clark and T. Augustus Heinze have
formed new political alliance and all Montana
is talking about it The new combine is preimi-
nary to next years campaign in Montana, when
Mr.. Clark wants to return to the United States
senate and Mr.. Heinze wants legislature and
friendly judges on the district and supreme court
benches In Butte Heinze is supreme politically,
and without a delegation from Butte the control
of the next legislature in the interest of Clark's
candidacy is questionable Without Carks sup
port from outside counties Henze would not stand
much show of getting a hearing before the legis-
lature of eecting friendly judges Politics
makes strange bedfelows.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-07-15
JUST CRITICISM MISLED.

1t may be remembered that before King Al
phonso left Spain for Paris and London an extra
ordinary letter. bearing his signature and addressed
to the cardinal archbishop of Barcelona, appeared
IN the Barcelona newspapers. Its substance was
cabled across the Atlantic and republished here.
According to this letter the king congratulated the
cardinal archbishop on the stand which he had
taken III opposing the opening of an English Pro-
testant church at Barcelona, and expressing him
self III the most hostile fashion concerning the
Protestant church. as well as indicating his sense
that the proposal to establish in Barcelona an ed
lice devoted to divine worship according to Pro-
testant ideas constituted an insult to the faith in
which he (the king) had been reared. A most
amazing letter
Not SO frequently of late years, but vet too
often, American Catholics have been reused TO
Indignation over the acts of the bigoted of the
Latin races. If defense were put up at all for
such exhibitions of intolerance, it only showed the
weakness of half-hearted effort in the DOING of
something that had better been left undone And
really any defense was absurd for here is the lot
ter signed by the king, and its genuneness is he-
yond dispute. On top of this here is the American
press (the Deseret News included) indulpino IN
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-07-15

The biting sarcasm of the sentence which Judge
Foster of New York imposed upon Emil H. Neu-
mer conveys more force than an hours sermon filed
with cant and verbiage. Neumer is only clerk,
one OF the small fry in the Equitable graft. Said
Judge Foster: Your methods were very crude and
bungling If you had instead of collision with
an outsider, colluded with an nsider and thereby
had your salary raised to $5OOO0 and then divided
with the other man, the result would have been
hurtful to policy holders, but possibly you would
not have been at the bar of justice" Neumer gave
the policy to Samuel Lobley, who borrowed money
on 1T and who is now in Sing Sing for the Of
Tense.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-07-15

The bitter quarrel among the faculty of the Ag-
neutural college at Logan was settled by Banker
Mccormick, president Of the board of trustees upon
ms return from Europe. Professor Kerr was sus-
tanned and his enemies bounced. Everybody bored
by newspaper accounts of this tempest among the
pedagogues will heave a sigh of relief Agricul-
ture and not church politics will form the basis of
instruction hereafter and the aim will be to raise
less hell and more hominy.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-07-15
CARD FROM BISHOP scANLAN.

feel it my duty to protect Catholics and the pub
tic 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 or 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 a document he or
sne as the case may be- should be regarded by all as
fraud and an impOster. L. SCANI4AN
Bishop OF Salt Lake.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-07-15

Deylin of Kansas City, counted as the highest
and best business man of the middle west, took to
his bed through an illness which cast all thoughts
OF finance out of his head Meantime his immense
affairs got into tangle, couple of banks sus-
pended payments, and hundreds of employees in coal
mines awaited wages due them. Sane management
will restore the Devlin credit again. as it is ascer
tanned that the assets of the estate are double the
value Of the liabilities. 1t is an unusual thing for
man. worth seven millions in property value to
go broke. 1t is also unusual for man who fails
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-07-15

A successor of Goal Oil Johnnie" in fast ways
OF spending money turns up in Los Angeles He
is Walter Scott, the cowboy miner of Death Val
ley. Scott concluded bargain with the Santa Fe
and paid over $500 cash on the guarantee that
special would take him to Chicago in forty-eight
hours. Now if Scott does not make another bet of
$4,000 that he can beat the trains time to Chicago
aboard Mexican mustang, he will not come up
to the Coal Oil Johnnie" standard of letting
loose
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-07-15

Various estimates of the payroll of Butte have
been made, but banker of that city, who is in a
position to know something of the actual figures
places the monthly distribution that takes place
there at something over two million dollars. The
last census credited Butte with 10000 inhabitants
VIGOROUSLY incorrect. But supposing it to be twice
that number, there is no city in the country popu-
iatlon considered, that show up a payroll per
capita as large as Buttes A large payroll is the
best foundation to build up a city, and If its
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-07-15

On Saturday last Goldfeld, New, was abaze
and the water was short. The sight of the tower
ing flames drove the populace mad. More cham
payne and beer and ale in bottles was DESTROYED
IN fifteen minutes than could be consumed by the
whole camp in week, and it all went to help sub
due the confagration All going to show that
"Budweiser'' has its uses as well as abuses.