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The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-03-16

Heretofore when the burden of wealth became
too heavy to bear Mr.. Rockefeller, with great
flourish of trumpets, has Invested himself of some
of his millions but press dispatches last week an
nounced that he is about to give sumner the
announcement being only to gain for the oil king
the evident publicity in his ostentatious benevo
lencc. To be sure, large gifts can hardly be kept
secret but advance notice of intention to give
smacks too strongly of guile to be commendable
1t is studied effort originating in cunning brain
to test public sentiment to purchase public praise
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-03-16

One of the most successful of modern new
religions, covered by copyright laws, has been in
the limelight as the result of the fling of petit
ton for a receiver for the estate of the founder
The profits of the prophecies are estimated at $10,
100000 to S15,o00,o0o, to get portion of which is
the for the petition. Imagine the Son of
God accommodating a fortune in preaching the Cos
pei, and employing attorneys to look after His
financial interests! How differently we interpret
the words of the Master IF thou wilt be perfect,
go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor,
and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come
and follow me-" Riches was the one possession the
young to whom these words were addressed
which rendered him unfit to follow the Lord, and
he was very sorrowful. The quotation we have
made is not palindrome, and is therefore not
Scientific" but it means what it says.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-03-16

The efforts of certain individuals to live "the
simple life" are just little bit more than anus
ing. Their efforts show they are striving for art-
fcality rather than simplicity, and the affected
idiosvncrasies of diet and dress are not dictated
by sense or even decent regard for the rights of
others. Those who are really living 'the simple
life" have not discovered the fact It is merely a
matter of eating what you need dressing as custom
and prudence suggest, paying your debts, living
within your income, and not worrying yourself
with discomfort. Whiskers are not essential
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-03-16
CARD FROM BISHOP SEAMAN.

feel IT my duty protect Catholics and the pub
lie generally from fraud and imposition by notifying
them from time time that person bearing the
and garb Of priest sister, anyone else is
authorized or permitted solicit collect in this
any purpose whatever connected with the
Catholic Church without having from me permission
ir writing bearing my seal and signature. Should
anyone be found engaged in doing this unlawful
work or collecting without such q document, he or
she as the case may be- should be regarded by all
3 fraud and imDoster. L. SCANlAAN,
Bishop of Salt Lake.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-03-16

The Gar of Russia has been the victim of much
censure from Americans who little understand the
causes for the conditions in the empire which are
described in press dispatches. The car is not an
autocrat. He is just a man who has inherited the
title and all the hungry crew which has been prey
ing on the empire for centuries who would not hes
itate to place him hors de combta if he attempted
any reforms which would impair their rights
Between the demands of the bureaucrats and the
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-03-16

Strange things are happening. United States
Senator Spooner of Wisconsin, after fifteen years
service in the senate, has resigned, .to provide
competence for himself and family" in the prac-
tice of law. In the old days the law was looked
upon stepping -stone for something higher, and
a United States senatorship was always considered
honor second only to the presidency, but. in this
case at least, there seems to be reversal of the
rule, with the senatorship mere stumbling block
in the way of success.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-03-16

In ancient times Italy suffered some big inva-
Sions, but the invaders were but handful when
compared with the thousands who leave her sunny
shores every week to make new homes in America
and other parts of the world Nearly half mil
lion Italian emigrants yearly bid fond farewell
to their native land to seek fortune in newer re-
gions, and most of them never return.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-03-16

It is asserted that building permits calling for
an expenditure of $4o.OOo,OOO have been issued in
San Francisco since the fire, and that plans al
ready made for further building to the extent of
S1O0.OOo0oO Surely Frisco will soon be literally
bird of townn-another phenix.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-03-16

Idleness is waste. An hour spent in a saloon is
than idleness, for it takes time and money,
and the accumulation acquired therein units the
possessor for honest service. In these prosperous
times it is well to provide for future days and
every hour wasted and every nickel squandered is
just that much robbery of yourself. Don't be a
thief even if YOU are the victim
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-03-16

The city of Houston, Tex, is one of the cities
under Galveston" system of government, though
it is called the Houston" system there. -Four
commissioners look after the city's business. I'm
der the present system of commissioners floating
Indebtedness of 100000 was retired within year
and the city placed a cash basis. Ward politics
has been eliminated from the city's affairs by the
substitution of concentrated responsibility, and
the municipalities money buys It's worth in work
and material instead of being dissipated as slush
fund for ward heelers and favored public contrac
tors. The system in operation at Houston has ele-
waited the public ideals of political economy, has
accomplished reduction in the rate of taxation BY
abolishing useless Offices and the unnecessary ex
penses attached thereto. Municipal government
under the old system is failure, corrupt impreg-
mated with graft and incompetence, an unutterable
curse on the people living in the cities. Although
the bill to give Salt Lake charter providing for
the so-called Galveston idea of government has
been defeated, if the experience Of other towns
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-03-16

Statistics given out by the secretary of the in
terstate commerce commission on the railroad sub
ject show that the organized employees are getting
II per cent more wages than formerly, while those
unorganized get about per cent more. The COM
panies are at the same time earning S. per cent
more dividends. All of which shows the benefits of
organization.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-03-16

With all the hubbubb raised by anti-pass legis-
lation nobody seems to benefit but the railroads.
Everybody paying full fare with reduction in
rates ought to Just about double dividends if the
roads have been as grossly imposed upon by
scrupulous public as has been intimated.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-03-16

A dynamite explosion occurred last week at the
PENNSYLVANIA railroad tunnels under the North riv-
er New York, which shook up the country, wrecked
houses and shattered window glass for miles
around. Now the authorities probing into the
matter. They will no doubt find it safer to probe
into the explosion than into the dynamite itself
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-03-16

The incident of the Iroquois theatre fire is
closed. the manager of the house having been ac-
quilted last week on a technicalty of the charge
of manslaughter Thus has the blame for the great
est tragedy due to carelessness the world has ever
known been placed on one, as one by one every
body connected with the Horror has wriggled out
of the meshes of the law.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-03-16

Because an opera company in singing "Ihe
Barber of Seville" at FL Paso, Tex, omitted por-
tions of the show, the audience cornered the nan-
cial manager and demanded a refund of the adj
mission price, and got it, too Texas never does
anything by halves and doesn't propose to be done
in that way either
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-03-16

1t seems hard to say it. but there are many law
breakers in Salt Lake among the owners of auto
mobiles. who not only exceed the speed limit. but
travel thirty miles an hour faster than that limit.
Brigham street is positively more dangerous than
any railroad crossing in the city.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-03-16

The privilege of inheritance which places one
man at the head of a kingdom and another at the
head of great fortune refutes the statement that
all men are created equal. Who wouldn't choose
an honorable citizenship in America to the bur-
dens of either OF these underlingsl
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-03-16

1t is the absence of sympathy. far more than
any of it, that interferes with truth in the
estimates we make. Only through sympathy can
we even approximately know any one This alone
enables to realize, though in faint degree. the
condition OF mind, the circumstances temptations,
tendencies, motives-all, in fact, that go to make
up the character of actions Judgments formed
without any of this knowledge must be untrust-
worthy,
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-03-16
TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS.

Tie Internountain Catholic goes into nearly every
Catholic home in this diocese Its circulation in Mon
tana Idaho Colorado Wyoming, Nevada and many
other states is very large Only reliable firms and
business men advertise in the paper All subscribers
Will fiDd it their advantage when about to invest,
purchase or consult business matters TO read over
the list our advertisers. We only recommend,
but ask for them the patronage of all readers.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-03-16

with the appreciation of their citizens, it will no
doubt be brought up again at the next session, and
with the fuller knowledge possessed at that time
may be considered worthy of adoption.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-03-16

The policeman who arrested King Edward for
exceeding the speed limit in his automobile was
promoted. while the king was fined. Isn't there a
suggestion herein for Salt Lakes bluecoats!
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-03-16

Maybe the bill introduced in the legislature to
give the railroad companies a monopoly Of the coal
mining and merchandising business in Utah Is only
intended to legalize condition that already exists
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-03-16

people the gar has hard time TO maintain that
equitable poise >4ich is supposed to characterize
ruling monarchs.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-03-16

Some claimants to the possession of warm
heart cling so tightly to their purse-strings that
the warmth never escapes.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-03-16

It used to be said that one half of the world
doesn't know how the other half lives, but we are
being enlightened on the upper ten.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-03-16

a good many men seem to think that because
they provide living for their wives in this world
their wives should pave the way for their husbands
in the next.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-03-16

Some men are born great-and some have great
ness thrust upon them by the grand jury.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-03-16

The members of the legislature are reported to
be getting down to work. Rather should it be said
that they are elevating themselves to the dignity of
labor.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-03-16

The mushroom bonnet will make lis appearance
with the ides of March.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-03-16

There wouldn't be a car shortage if the inter
state commerce commission would prevent the rail
roads from destroying their equipment by wrecks.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-03-16

Miners have great many ups and downs III
their lives.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-03-16

Sometimes girls who are nice looking overlook
the Importance of being as nice as they look.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-03-16
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The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-03-16
CHANGING ADDRESSES.

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The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-03-16

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The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-01-11
Housework Promotes Health.

A busy woman has made the salts
factory discovery that her housework
provides her with all the physical cul-
ture she needs for securing health and
good looks.
She enlarges her chest and arms by
using a carpet-sweeper, strengthens
her back by bed-mal1ing, and improves
the shape of her wrists aad hands by
making pastry.
In her opinion, the hardest work
that which makes the worker pant
strengthens the lungs, but to aid this
result it is necessary to breathe deep
ly and inhale pure air. To get the
fullest benefit frcm her Homework
however, woman should rest for an
hour each day. This is the best rem
edy for faded nerves and wrinkles.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-01-11

sold a Chicago newspaper in Elgin
at that time, and usually took my
stand at the station, which was direct
ly at the head of the trestle. One
summer evening, 1 was lettering at
this station after my papers were
sold, when a brakeman remarked that
a freight had broken on the grade
north of Elgin, and that part of the
train was travelling back to town as
a runaway. l jumped on my wheel
and started for the old familiar spin
along the trestle.
1 had ridden part way when l no
ticed the train coming over the trestle
from the north. 1t was coming at a
rapid rate. l dismounted and stood in
the other track for the train to go by.
It made deafening noise as it thun.
dered along. The shrek of whistle
caused me to turn. The passenger
train had just left the estatipn and
was approaching from the south.
hesitated moment between
dropping through the trestle into the
river below and racing the train to
the end of the trestle. l decided to
ride the ties. The train came on fast
err raced as / had never raced be
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-01-11
EYES FILL WITH TEARS, YET
THEY ARE NOT SAD.
AMUSING LITTLE COMEDY
Women Try to Hide Their Emotion
While Leaking Bottle of FormaIde-
hyde, from Under Seat Con-
tinues to Do Its Duty.

Omaha-A health department at
tache, bottle of formaldehyde, four
housewives, hospital nurse and a
conductor got out of the rut the other
morning in a Sherman avenue street
car and sustained the action of an
amusing little comedy.
E. C. Damon, of the city health de-
partment, was returning on the car
with his fumigating tools and, mad
vertently, loosened the stopper of a.
bottle of for1naldehyde, which he
placed inside the car while he enjoyed
the scenery from the rear platform.
Four women inside the car soon be-
gan to think there, was something
wrong with their lachrymal glands, as
the escaping formaldehyde addressed
both their olfactory and. optical
nerves.
+ Four women were drying their eyes
with their handkerchief and the con-
ductor was in such a state of mind and
vision he could not direct his punch
to any ineligible place on the trans
fers requested.
Outside, Damon was smoking his
pipe and enjoying the scenery. The
bottle of formaldehyde was in straw
hamper and the odor escaped through
/ that receptacle.
| When the car reached the Wise Me-
mortal hospital on Sherman avenue a
nurse from that institution boarded
the car. She quickly detected the ma
ture of the odor and was amused at
the effects it had caused on her fell
low passengers.
Her first impulse was to think that
1.-The conductor was fumigating some
tainted money he had received, SO for
the minute she dismissed the matter
from her mind.
At Seventeenth and Clark streets a
stout woman got on the car and with
some effort made her way to seat.
She looked around the car with amaze
ment, and presently her perspective
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-01-11
The News In Brief.

The condition Of the shah of Persia
was slightly improved, says dispatch
from Teheran.
J. L.. Gibbons of Rock Island, Ill,
was swindled out of $500 by stranger
as he was taking the steamer at New
Orleans.
A common Austro- Hungarian min
isterial conference has decided to en-
ter into negotiations for commercial
treaties with Roumania and Bulgarian
governments.
After quarrel with her husband, R.
A. Stephenson, Helen Conger Stanley
Stephenson committed suicide at Den
yer by shooting herself in the head.
She was daughter of Edward D. Con
ger of Waco, Tex.
Mrs. Lillian Langtry has become
Lady De Battle. Her husband
father, General Sir Henry De Battle,
died of pneumonia Sunday in his
eieh:y-fourth year, and his son, Hugo
Gerald De Battle who married Lillian
Langtry seven years ago, succeeds to
the baronetcy.
Representatives of Joya Shokai, a
Japanese company of Nagasaki, have
arrived at Victoria, B. c., to contract
for supply of 500 tons monthly of
whale meat which, it is said, will be
used for food purposes. Heretofore
the flesh has been converted into
fertilizer.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-01-11
STEAD ON PEACE MISSION.
Now on a World Circling Tour to Dis
courage War.

SoNs aye W
William T. Stead of London, is in
Paris. He says he is on his way
around the world in the interest of
peace. He declares he is authorized
by the British premier, Sir Henry
Campbell-Bannerman, to say that
Great Britain, if no other country does
SO, would at the approaching second
peace conference at The Hague raise
the question of taking steps to provide
for the maintenance of international
peace. This, Mr.. Stead says, will be
done in the form of two propositions,
as follows:
First, that each country participat-
ing in the conference appropriate a
sum OF money to be used in the propa-
cation of the idea of maintaining in
ternational peace.
Second, that each country partici-
pating in the conference render obi
gatory the observance Of article VIII.
of the act of the peace conference of
1899, permitting third power to ten
der mediation without giving. offense,
between two disputing powers, and
also that the participating powers
extend the score of article VIII. SO as
to bind the signatories in case of a
declaration of war, not to begin hos
tilities for a fortnight, in which in
term friendly powers would have the
right to intervene in an attempt to adj
just the quarrel.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-01-11
Mother Sells Her Baby.

Passaic, N. because she was I'M
able to pay board bill of So Maria
Mucsinka, a good-looking Hungarian
woman of this city, sold her little son
Alexander, three. years old, to F. w.
Bacher and his wife. who agreed to
pay the board bill. In an agreement
drawn, up by notary public the wom-
an relinquished all claim to her child.
Mrs. Mucsinka, who was a widow. con-
tracted the board debt when she was
out of work . She afterward obtained
employment in mill SO as to be near
the place She left the~chlld with the
boarding house keeper as security for
the money owed. Recently Mrs. Muc-
sinka was married again, and her hus-
band refused to receive the boy into
his home. Mrs. Bacher, who formed
an attachment for the child when she
was a neighbor Of the mother, heard
about the case, and offered to pay the
board bill provided the mother would
surrender possession of the boy. The
proposal was accepted.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-01-11
GIRL HAS A PET SNAN
Turns It Loose in schooiroc
Frightens Scholars.

New York.-Pupils of the
high school have been known
NIT all kinds of jokes since th}
been in the new building prese
the city of Bath, Me-, a few "
at a cost of nearly 100000 by
w. Morse, Of New York, al
have been as varied as CO
imagined 1t has .besn-*he
ever, to lay such jokes to the b.
of the school, and recently a demure
young lady perpetrated a trick which
made any of those played by the boys
look small in comparison.
She had been studying zoology, and
had been presented with snake con-
siderab1y over IL inches in length.
This she carried to school. wearing it
as band about her hair, and then dur
ing a sly moment placed it in Prin.
cipal Coles desk In an unseen mo-
ment the reptile made its escape from
the desk and wriggled itself down on
the platform and started for an exit,
when it was seen by some of the girls.
who became SO frightened that they
stood in their chairs, and it was only
after some minutes of terror that one
of the boys managed to capture 1t.
when order was once more restored in
the schoolroom.