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The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-03-25
THE FRENCH CRISIS.

W. L. S. writes in the Catholic World
| for March on the French crisis:
Our fellow Catholics in France are
at this moment PROSTATE before a
, storm of persecution as relentless and
vlndictive-save that, out of Difference
! TO modern feelings, it is free from
bloodshed-aS any that has ever before
! devastated the Christian church M.
! Combes processes to be working merely
for 'laisized state But that euphem-
ism DISCUSSES from nobody bis real pur?
pose of destroying religion aud of ere
ating a nation of infidels There can
be no other explanation of the elaborate
devices of hatred and sacrilege which
he is employing against the Catholicity
of France. From the brutal driving out
OF helpless nuns into the streets, to the
shameful spying upon public servants
to see that none of them shall say their
prayers, Combes has not only drawn
upon the arsenal bequeathed him by
his predecessors in the office of grand
prosecutor, but he has contrived new
measures of his own for the ruin of
faith, which for cruelty entitle him to
place not far from Nero, and for in
genuity raise him 10 a position by the
side of Voltaire. History will present
him to posterity as the man under
whom ancient and Catholic France de-
creed that no virginia. life, consecrated
TO the orphaned and the sick, was per-
mitted to exercise mercy and display
self-sacrifice on her soil, and that no
man who knelt to his creator should
draw a salary from the state.
The causes which have fallen to-
gether to produce in our time such a
man as Combes, and such q situation as
the present crisis, are many and COM
plicated, and take their rise not in to-
day of yesterday, but far back in
French history, and deep down in the
character of Frenchmen. To unravel !
all these causes and trace them to their |
origin would be a long task, and per- |
haps for our generation an Impossible |
one. But, whatever be the other ele- |
ments behind the disaster, of one ele- |
ment we may be crtain; and that is. |
that Catholics hav exposed themselves
to this attack by some deadly blunder. |
some fatal fault On the face of avail |
number 37,000,000. The pr0fessed inf
sake. are an insignificant minority of
some few thousands. Yet today the be-
lieving multitude are lying PROSTATE
before the unbeieying handful,
crushed. Inundated, helpless and
hopeless. Something must have gone
terribly wrong. Some deplofable fulfil
ity must have been not only committed
but persisted in. What is it? How
has it been allowed 10 go so far? In
no spirit of unsynpathizing criticism.
but with a sincere desire TO direct the i
attention of American Catholics to a
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-03-25
The BEST LENTEN DEVOTION.

One of the most fruitful and excel
lent practices for the observance of
Lent is daily attendance at the holy
sacrifice of the mass. The Irish Mes
senger gives the following reasons
which should induce those who can do
so to practice this devotion:
1t will make your heart light and
cheerful.
1t will throw holo of happiness
over your days.
1t will keep your conscience clean.
1t will bring you into constant con-
tact with the source of all grace.
1t will teach you how to live on terms
or closest intimacy with God.
Your understanding will be enlight-
ened and your will strengthened.
All the treasures of gold and precious
stones which the earth contains are
outweighed by one mass.
To assist at daily mass is a practice
which is easy and consoling.
The early risinf, which it usually
necesstates is itself great blessing of
the natural order.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-03-25
Church Universal
ST. JOSEPH.

Joseph. most honOred saint of all
with wealth of heavenly hIess5no
filled,
The first in worship at the stall
When earth adoringly was stilled.
Joseph. the perfect man and inst
The ruler Of the living word.
The model of a holy trust
Which selfish craving never stirred.
The infant Saviour loved thee much
And all his secrets with thee shared /.
And thou, his guardian, true as such.
With tender feeling for him sared.
I'd WAS ordained that thou shouldst he
The nursing father of the Lord.
A head of that dear family
Which lived on pious, sweet accord
And thou vert all vast marked for
thee,
s. gentle, loving spouse and guide:
4 strength in Jesus need, and he
NaXcd strong in wisdom by thy side
Is. thou our friend in life and death.
Md advocate our cause. that we
May Weld in peace our latest breath
10 jesus. Mary. and to thee
-}madeus in st. Anthony's Messen-
ger
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-03-25
LENT.

Winter days are sad and dark.
All the world seems whitening;
Yet the spring is coming. Hark.
Birds begin to sing.
Sunset scarcely brings a blush
Scarce a smile the dawn of day,
Still the spring is coming. Hush!
Men and women pray.
Once again wide open stand
Portals of another Lent;
Let us enter, hand in hand,
With q fixed intent.
Very simply to. accept
Whatsoever his hands dispense,
Who, a, sinless mourner, wept
Tears of penitence.
To his cross again we turn;
Love thereat her chalice fills,
Till her weeping eyes discern
Daybreak on the hills.
Hush! the spirit voices pray:
Hank! the spirit voices sing;
Nearer draws our easter. day
Gods eternal spring.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-03-25

Pope Plus absolutely denies the re-
port that had gained currency in Rome
TO the effect that he would pass the
coming spring at Castle Gandalfo. In
conversation with Signor Sala, the
pope said that he would deviate in no
way from the usages of his predeces-
sors and would not Quit the Vatican
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-03-25

The Cleveland, O., knights of Co
lumbus are holding their second annual
retreat this week.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-03-25
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
DENTIST
J. E. SCALLON. M. D..

PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON office.
suite 1910 81 South Main. Hours. . to l.
p. m. Bell telephone goo3-I.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-03-25

The German Catholic Central Soci-
ETY. has planned for a grand celebration
of its golden Jubilee, to take place in
Cincinnati on the 10th, 18th, 18th, 18th
and 14th Of next September. 1t is COM
posed of several hundred benevolent So
cieties, with membership of over So
600. In this connection there will be
held a Catholic Day. similar to the
famous Katholikentage of Germany.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-03-25
CHURCH CALENDAR.

devotion to St. Joseph.)
sunday, est. Ludger, B. c.
Monday. 21-St. John. Damascene. c. d.
Tuesday, est. Sixtus, P. c.
Wednesday, 29-St. Jonas and Comp,
NJ. NJ.
Thursday. SO-St John Climachus, Alb.
Friday. 5l-The Five Wounds.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-12-08

Our President has cover three pages.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-12-08
They Paid the Debt.

Two years ago the American Fall
Canal and Power Company bonded their
canal for Sl5,OoOOO and last week they
paid off the obligation in coin of the
realm. 1t fell due on Friday December
2nd, and the records of the recorders
office show clear release.
A large amount of land has been sold
under this system for cash, and the com
pany has also made sales on the install
ment plan that amount to over 100000
which calls for interest payable annually
The expenditures which will be made
for construction on the canal this winter
will amount to S3O,OO0OO, and most of it
is being paid out to farmers and home
makers in this county. A large amount
goes into the tills of the Blackfoot mer-
chants, and helps greatly to tide us over
the dull season which accompanies the
shortage in crops.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-12-08
Will Furnish Hand Labor.

The Japanese American Industrial
Corporation which furnishes the hand
labor for the beet fields at Garland
Idaho Falls, Rexburg, Sugar City and
Parker, will open an Office in Blackfoot
this winter under the management of
JOS. Kubosawa. They also contemplate
furnishing labor for the beet growers at
Payette and Nampa.
Plans are now being formulated for
shipping in lot of laborers next spring
who will remain for the season and then
be taken to California to work in the
vineyards and raisin fields. Our state
ment two weeks ago that J. Mori of the
local japanese Labor Association had
gone to San Francisco and would return
soon was only half correct We are now
informed that he will not return So
far as we are able to learn he settled his
obligations satisforly
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-12-08
Something in Sight.

The increase of business at the Black
foot post office indicates that it may be
raised to a second class office next year.
That will give us more clerks and better
service. Buy all the stamps and stamp
ed envelops you can during December,
January and February, and help swell
the business for that quarter. Then if
we pass the required rating on the March
report it will be short road to special
delivery of mail at our door and Offices
People in Blackfoot are entitled to as
good postal service as those on the rural
routes fifteen miles out on the plains.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-12-08
DESERTED HER CHILDREN.
Heartless Treatment of Offspring is
Before the Court.

Mrs Lizzie Weeks, the daughter of
Thos. Blaylock. former residents of this
locality, lies in jail at Blackfoot for de-
sertlon of her two children, aged two and
four years, Some years ago this family
of Blaylocks lived for a brief season on
the Trego ranch, ranch was mighty sor-
ry,) and moved from there to Idaho Falls.
The father now lives at Ontario, Oregon,
but this daughter who married a Mr..
Weeks at the age of fifteen, hasn't had
any particular husband for some time,
and recently has not even been particu-
lar, SO the evidence showed at the pre-
lminary examination. She was called
up on the carpet by county attorney
McCracken on the charge of desertlon
of the children, her step-mother at
Idaho Falls being the complaining
witness. She deserted the children at
Idaho Falls and went to Pocatello, had
very good time for while and then
went to Mnidoka where she again took
up the thread of gaiety of the shady or.
der.
In the preliminary examination she
did not seem depressed about the du-
ties of motherhood, said she was looking
out for good time for herself, and was
mmoved when the step-mother describ.
ed how she had stood in her home and
cursed the two-y -year-old daughter, who
was crying and holding out it's little
arms pleadingly toward the bosom from
which it had lately been weaned.
She is a rather attractive looking girl
of twenty-one years, and Judge Fackrell
bound her over to await the action of the
district court. If found guilty of deser-
ton she will be sentenced to not less
than one, nor more than seven years in
the penItentiary.
Now ladies, w. G. T. us, White Rib
boners, Leaguers, Endeaverors, people
who carry flowers to prisoners or soften
tllt lltdTl ol SlOHe WIN The memories
clinging round the fragrance of the
mignonette, here is chance to exercise
some of your original IDEAS This girl is
a child of the frontier, had little educa-
tion beyond learning to read and write,
scarcely remembers her mother, had a
lazy, dishonest father, developed early in
womanhood, and was permitted to run
with the boys as soon, and as much as
she chose.
We have a reform school at st. An
thony for younger people, and over at
Boise is home kept up by benevolent
folks, where wayward girls may go and
receive shelter and learn something to
enable them to get new start IN the
world, but it Is doubtful whether char.
acter like this one could be kept there
any longer than you could keep a skin
ned mink looking fat and cunning. 1t
is up to somebody.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-12-08
Launching of BattIeship Idaho.

Governor Gooding and large delega-
tion from Idaho will leave in few days
to be present at the launching of the
battleship Idaho which will take place
on the 9th at the Cramps companys
yards NY. Miss Gooding, the governors
daughter will christen the ship.
The Idaho will be one of the most
powerful battleships in the American
Navy. All the members of the Idaho
congressional delegation will be present
to lend dignity end splendor to the occa
sion, which the governor considers of
such Importance that he will insist upon
his staff and other prominent citizens of
the state being present.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-12-08
Hearing The Water Suit.

Judge Stevens has appointed Fred j
Cowan of Salmon City to act as referee
in the big water suit for upper Snake
River Valley, and work will commence
at st. Anthony on the 1lth of January
Judge Stevens, in speaking of the
matter said: The hearing of this case
and compiling the data requires man
who is exceedingly methodical IN what
he does, and Mr.. Cowan will fill the bin
He is one of the most careful and pains
taking attorneys it has been my privi-
lege to meet
The time for the hearing at Blackfoot
has not yet been announced.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-12-08
A Superb Line

One of the prettiest and most com,
plete line of holiday goods it has been
our pleasure to inspect are on display at
the Palace Drug store in this city. The
line is most complete and embraces the
useful, ornamental, unique and tasty ar.
ticles, so priced by the holiday shopper
While the line is similar to other dis.
plays carried by this firm each year, there
is also distinct difference, in that the
different articles are newer creations
with more beautiful and elegant finish
ings. The entire display is magnificent
and one in doubt as to what to purchase
for their friends or home folks, will re-
ceive ideas that will lead to very salts
factory purchases, by visiting this store
and inspecting the many useful and
beautiful presents and the endless array
of those little things that so delight the
"rummager" of stockings on Christmas
morning.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-12-08
HACKFooT FRIDAY DECEMBER 1905
mass of farmers do not attend these
meetings
"What's the matter with themo'

mass of farmers do not attend these
meetings"
whats the matter with them?'
Several things. Some think it has
no value because it is offered to them
free of charge They do not appreciate
good government with its free institu-
tions. There are others so absorbed in
their own plans and work that they do
not care to leave it even for day. If
they 60 to an institute and learn a great
deal, but nothing which applies directly
to their most pressing needs, they go
home feeling that the time has not been
we'll spent, when in reality they have re-
ceived a lot of information along lines
that will be of use to them so long as
they live. Receiving some helps this
winter and applying them next summer
is the way to get results.
If this country ever amounts to any
thing it must be the agriculturist who
makes it. If the present inhabitants do
not achieve anything it will be done by
those who succeed them. The charac-
ter and temper of the people of these
settlements will be shown in the way
they respond to the invitation to meet
with the representatives of better agri
culture at the institute next Friday, and
every merchant and other business man
will do we'll to be there to see who at
tends the meetings Allowing for few
loafers who go to everything, the meet
ing will be made up of the men who have
the best crops, drive the best horses,
milk the best cows and pay their bills
best. No community ever becomes great
without great effort, and when you look
into the institute next Friday you can
make a pretty good forecast of the ad-
vancement which the agricultural inter
ests will make in the next twelve months,
or while the present inhabitants are in
the majority
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-12-08
Farmers S Institute.

The meeting at Blacllfoot will be next
Friday. the 10TH. A good days work is
outlined to begin at ten o'clock in the
morning and finish about ten in the
evening. Social features and literary
parts will not be given prominent place,
but the time viii be devoted to practical
matters on which our bread and butter
depend. Come and bring your neigh
Dor. Mark and Heber Austin, among
others are planning to be here to discuss
the beet question.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-12-08
FROM EDITOR TO AUDITOR
The Farmers Institute Discussed By
Some Old Timers

81 suppose you will attend the far
mers' institute next week."
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-12-08

II suppose you will attend the far
mers institute next week."
YES sir"
"Will there be good attendance?"
Il don't know. A good many farmers
have told me they were coming in. The
whole population ought to come
why don't they?"
"Well, they may all come, but usually
they do not"
"What's been the past experience?'
when we have had Institutes hereto
fore, the weather has generally been
cold, or the farmers, if it was in summer
have been very busy. We have two
classes of farmers here: one class
works too hard and reads and thinks too
little. Another class doesn't think nor
work enough: nor with systematic plans,
and when they read, they read trash in
stead of something helpful"
"So?"
yes"
"What does the trashy fellow read?"
''lf he is cigarette smoker he reads
detective stories These two things
never develop a very strong mind nor
good reasoning powers. If he is fellow
of better habits and half way reformer
he reads long winded articles on the tar
itf and appeal to Reason" Neither of
them help him very much to plow or
plant or irrigate or select his seeds or
stock or any of those things which fill
the bin and the stackyard.'
"What should he read?'
'He should read anything that applies
to local conditions and enables him to
work more intellgently. Every voca-
tion, every trade has its literature now
days, and the farmer not only has papers
and magazines devoted to his calling,
but he has the Department of Agricul-
ture, one of the greatest departments of
the government to help him. He has
Gllc WluCot SCOl)C lOl CAtlClSlHS LID
ents or ingenuity, but right here he
seems to be using but very little of
either. He just works and works. We
simply jog along and raise pretty good
crop of the kind that we have been
raising, seldom make special preparation
or give it special care or get especially
good results
What experiments would you make
here?'~
"a man doesn't need to experiment.
The state does enough of that. Then it
sends out the experimentors to hold
meetings among the people to tell them
of the results. They take lot of appar-
atus along to give stereopticon views, SO
the audience can learn the results of
seasons experiments in an hour The
state pays the expense of the seasons
experiments and pays the experimentors
to go out and teach the people Yet the
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-12-08
Open Branch Store in Rexburg.

w. r. BoxWel went to ReXburg the
first Of the week to open up general
store, embracing, Dry Goods Clothing,
Boots, Shoes and Furnishings. Mr..
Boxwell is member of the firm VIM. F.
Boxwell q Son of this city and is a con
servative young business man, whom we
can "heerfully recommend to the people
of Rexburg.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-12-08
Shelly Melville.

Miss Josie Shelly of Shelly was mar
ried on Thanksgiving to Mr.. Melville
of Ammon. The following named per
sons went up from Blackfoot to celebrate
the event. W. r. Jones Sheriff. and
wife, d. o. Bevans and wife, Mrs. A. N
Anderson, Mrs. Hafer, Miss Cassie Haf
er, Misses Julia, Elma and Lille Ander-
son.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-12-08
"WOke Him JTp.'

A drunken tramp, who gave his name
as j. j. Smith was trying to get out of
town on the south bound passenger train
Sunday morning and fell from the tender,
dislocating his shoulder. The county
took charge of him, but set him free on
Monday.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-12-08

The jolly Wood choppers" and their
friends will dance Dec. Goth.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-03-04
Does a Baby Pay?

Does 3-year-old baby pay for it.
self up to the time it reaches that in
teresting age?" asked an author whose
works are among the best sellers. -
sometimes | think not. / thought not
yesterday when my own baby slipped
INTO my study and scrubbed the carpet
and his best white dress with my bot
tie of ink: and again, later in the day.
when he pasted so cents worth of
stamps on the parlor floor and poured
dollars worth of the choicest white
rose perfumery out of the window to
see it vain
He has already cost me more than
S2OO in doctors bills, and l feel that I
am right in attributing my Few gray
hairs to the misery endured walking
the floor with him at night during the
hrst year and half of his life.
what has he ever done 10 pay me
for that?
''Ah, 1 hear his little feet patterfng
along out in the hall [ hear his little
ripple of laughter because he has es-
capped from his mother and has found
his way up to my study az forbidden
hour. But the door is closed. The
worthless little vagabond can't get in
and L won't open it for him. No, 1
won't. l can't be disturbed when I am
writing. He can just cry if he wants
to. No, l won't be bothered for-'Rat.
ia. ia, go his dimpled knuckles on the
door. sit in silence. Rat, tat. tat I
sit perfectly still.
Papa
g 'Peeze, papa!
Grim silence.
BABY tum in--peeze papa!'
He shall not come in.
My papa"
I write on.
Papa says the little voice. T uh
my papa. Peeze let baby in
Il am not brute. and | throw oman
the door. In he comes, with our
stretched little arms. I catch him I'D
and his warm, soft little arms 90
around my neck. the not very clean
little cheek is laid close to mine, the
baby voice says sweetly:
I Tub my papaH
Does he pay? Well, I guess he
does! He has cost me many anxious
days and nights. He has cost me time
and money and care and self-sacrifice
he may cost me pain and sorrow. He
mas cost me much. But he has paid for
it all again and again in whispering
those four little words into my ears"
Leader
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-03-04
Sympathy.

Sympathy is food for a starving heart
Sympathy is two hearts pulling at
one load.
Sympathy is the staff on which trou-
BILE leans.
Sympathy is the cream that rises on
the milk of human kindness.
Sympathy in sorrows hour is like the
gentle rain to dropping flowers.
Sympathy is the least the rich may
give, the most the poor can offer.
sympathy is the blossom grown from
the costly bulb called personal suffer
ing.
Sympathy is well toned instrument
that readily respons to notes of veal
and woe.
Sympathy is the most powerful hui
man magnet for attracting and hold
ing friendship.
Sympathy is perfect forgetfulness of
ones self in true feeling of the unhap-
piness of others.
Sympathy is loves healing balm
spread by PHYS tender hand OH sor-
rows heart wound.