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The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-11-02
Food and the Doctors.
Detroit News \

(DetrOit NeWS.)
Eat drink and be merry. for tomor-
row you die" is, in effect. the advice of
the noted English physician, Sir James
Cflchton-Browne, who has observed
with alarm the ravages of hunger in a
race partly given over to dieting fast
ing and vegetarianism. The medical
fraternity was slow in coming to the
rescue in this instance, as thousands
mad turned towards these false gods
from the good old fleshpots, against the
gluttony Of which ascetics had ragged
and rallied. Sir James calls vegetarian
ism, fasting and light eating "da-~A3r-
Gus fads,' and urges US to awake
fully to the ravages of semi-starvation
IN our midst, and to realize that one of
the main causes of such physical and
mental degeneracy as exists among us
is bad and insufficient food
Eat as much as you want" says the
kings physician. But the public will
be very timid about entering upon this
prescribed gorge lest before the savory
roast is half swallowed some meddIe-
some doctor will slap us roundly on the
back and, recovering US from our
plight, put US back on breakfast ensi-
lage and rectified milk The inference
is almost justified that by urging us in
continently from extreme to extreme
the doctors hope to eliminate the weak
leaving only the fittest to pay the bill.
Jack Spratt could eat no fat, his
wife could eat no lean, and so it was
oetwixt them both they licked the plat
ter clean,'' the nursery rhyme has it.
BY some like shift we may be able to
observe all the contrary injunctions of
the physicians-and still live
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-11-02
Far Better at Home.
Butte Inter-Mountain.)

Unless the atmosphere of Europe pc
culiarly induces insanity, is there rea-
son to believe that the American girl
who is foolish abroad is a wise maiden
at home? The causes that lead young
ladies to Europe are in a measure in
dicative Of incipient mental weakness
First, there is the class that goes sole
ly to spend money. Such young ladies
are apt to fall easy victims. Second,
there is the artistic class, whom some
body had thought could play, paint,
fiddle, etc. These are temperamentally
unbalanced. Add to it that an Ameri-
can school of fiction pirates upon aris-
tocracy, at home and abroad, holds up
a good catch as the chief aim of mai
denhood and degrades all the oldfash-
Toned American virtues by sneer and
imputation, and you have a few of the
reasons why the sister abroad worries
the home brother exceedingly. But
take heart. Few Of the sisters ever see
the pond. Most of them stay at home
and marry the men, and, as the di-
vorce courts show, their prospects are
more lively.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-11-02
Thomas at School,

He was a motherless boy and his
fathers only child, but some of the
relatives had decided that he should be
sent to boys school, fifty miles from
home, and at last the father had agreed
to the plan.
Forty-eight hours after the boys de-
parture the father received letter,
which was, although not faultless as
an example of spelling, so much to the
point, and so in accord with his own
feelings that the plans for the future
We're speedily readjusted.
Oar father" wrote the exile. "it's
all right here and I'm most homsick.
l believe, but life is very short, and
don't you think you'd better let US
spend some more of it together?
Your affectionate son, Thomas"
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-11-02
The Cosy Corner.

If every one were wise and sweet,
And every one were jolly;
If every heart with gladness beat,
And none were melancholy;
If none should grumble and complain,
And nobody should labor
In evil work, but each We're fair
To love and help a neighbor-
Oh, what a happy world 't'would be
For you and me-for you and me!
And if, perhaps, we both should try
That glorious time to hurry;
If you and Just you and /
Should laugh instead of worry;
If we should grow-just you and |,
Kinder and sweeter hearted
Perhaps in some near bye and bye
That good time might get started
Then what a happy world 't'would De
For you and me-for you and mel
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-11-02
Woman Who Would stay Young.
CBv Winifred Rlac

10y w Injured Black.
A Baltimore boy threatens to bring
suit against his mother to make her
publicly admit that he is twenty-one,
as he says he is, instead of thirteen. as
she insists on declaring.
The boy has documents to prove his
side of the case, but the mother is OBJ
durate, and the thing is to be taken in
to the court next week.
Here's looking at you, young man! l
nope you win your suit, if it doesn't do
a thing for you but help you get out
from under the thumb of a goose of a
woman who thinks more of her own
silly little vanity than she does of
teaching her son to tell the truth
What an insanity this age-concealing
business is anyway.
I know woman who has her two
children call her 'aunty" because she
doesn't want people to think she is old
enough to be their mother
She's little silly, painted, giggling
thing, without a real friend in the
world, and nobody cares the pairing of
a finger nail whether she is sixteen or
sixty. All the people who might really
like her if she were simple and honest
make fun of her about her age and are
so taken up with making fun that they
don't see some of the really good traits
the poor little thing really has. I won
der what that woman's children think
of her.
l wonder what she'll do when she
finds out, as she will find out some day,
that they laugh at her and despise her
as the rest of the world does.
oh, I'd rather be as old as Methusa-
leh and look older than the pyramids
than to see a sneer in the eyes of my
own flesh and blood when my own flesh
and blood began to see through my
silly little pretenses and idle vanities.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-11-02
The Courteous Woman.

She is not the woman who has one
tone Of voice for her friends and as
sociates and quite another for her SER
wants and the tired people behind coun-
tiers who wait upon her.
Nor is she the woman who bids Wis
itors an affectionate farewell in one
breath and in the next expresses her
thankfulness at their departure.
Certainly she is not the woman who
discusses with one friend the follies
or secrets of another.
A truly courteous woman INDUCES
in none of the petty shams and decep-
lions which make life insincere. She
has one gentle manner and voice for
all, high or low, and she never de-
means herself by personal comments
behind peoples backs which could not
be openly said in their presence,
So much a matter of gentle heart is
genuine courtesy.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-11-02
Dear Miss Valeau:
Please give me the formula for
almond Nhitener
Only a Little While.

Only little while we travel life's
weary way,
Only q little while we look on the
light Of day.
Only little while we live, and love,
and hate,
Only a little while we want, and wish,
and wait
Only little while we work at our
daily tasks.
only little while we wear our usual
masks.
only little while we trouble or please
our friends.
vnly little while we seek our selfish
ends.
ofuy a little while We struggle, and
strive, and fail,
OhlE little while We buffet against
the gale.
only little while we worry, and fuss,
and fret,
ony little while We grumble at what
we get.
ohy little while we Join in the great
worlds strife,
ooly litLIe while we share in The joys
Of lie.
0Aiy q little while We put up our daily
o0y Htrl2 uhile-but isn't it long
enough
-Somerville Journal.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-11-02
A Boy That Never Strikes Back,

Il wish it would stop raining" said
a little boy, loking wistfully at the
window
Then the grasses would not have
their drink said his mother.
But l want to see Johnny Hastings
before l go TO bed tonight, mother"
Can you not keep from Johnny one
afternoon"
oh" said the little boy, sorrowful-
ly. Il struck Johnny this morning,
and he's a boy that never strikes back
want to tell him 1 am sorry struck
him, and never mean to do so again.
A boy that never strikes back! There
can be no quarreling, no fighting, no
strife where that boy is. 1t is the strik-
ing back which makes a quarrel It is
paying an angry person in his own coin
that fills families and neighborhoods
with strife
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-11-02
An Untauqht Cow.

s, D2"n on q southern plantation the
~, ~ aands We're accustomed to 60
a. a. milking squatting down in n prim-
a,,, fashion, until the owner intro
40 no milking stools with other i'm
NJ. But the initial expert
.o,l with the innovation was not ex-
esi..E- 2 success. The darby who first
b,.,ea forth with the stool returned
e,n-sa ana battered and with an
"na. aohe my best, sab" he explained
d. Gl STOOL looked all right to me, but
W o-@Inec COW she won't sit on iti''-
0'-45E Home Con1parlion.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-11-02
What Was Between Them.

Duns Scotus was noted for great
quickness at repartee. He was a ia
vorite of Charles the Bold, who often
invited him to his table. where he tried
to call forth some of the noted sallies
OF the philosophers wit On one oc-
casion the Duke Of Burgundy, in ia
cetfous mood, asked the sage sitting
opposite him what was the difference
between Scot and sot, wording his
question like Bacon. What is there
between Scot and sot?''
The table only" replied the philoso-
pher promptly. TO the great discom-
future of his princely interlocutor, who
however, did not dare to resent the
answer which he had provoked
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-11-02
The Test of Greatness.

I believe the first test of a truly
great man is humility. 1 do not mean
by humility doubt of his own power, or
hesitation in speaking his opinions,
but a right understanding of the rela-
ton between what he can do and say
and the rest of the worlds doings and
sayings. All great men not only know
their own business, but usually know
that they know it, and are not only
right in their main opinions but usual
ly know they are, only they do not
think much of themselves on that ac-
count. They do not expect their fell
low men to fall down and worship
them; they have a curious under sense
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-11-02
How to Burn
Gas Coke

In order to use gas coke, kindle the
fire in usual way, and when burning
fairly, fill fire box with deep, even bed of
coke. Owing to its peculiar fracture and
rough grain it does not pack as closely
as hard coal, and leaves more air space,
retaining its original shape until burned
to ash Keep a large body of coke
der a low fire rather than little coke
under a strong fire. To keep low fire,
close draft in lower part of the front of
furnace, keep slide in feed door open and
damper in chimney pipe almost closed.
The damper. with which the fire can be
regulated perfectly, should be opened
only when kindling 4 new fire, and when
coke is well ignited the draft should be
shut off. Keep IA layer of ashes on the
CRATE. and when shaking stop before hot
Goals appear. This helps to keep the fire
burning slowly When leaving fire for
the night fill fire box full of coke, shut
off damper and throw on pea coke to fill
up open spaces. keeping feed door ajar,
and leave bed of ashes on CRATE to check
draft. Ashes should not be permitted to
pile Up below the CRATE so as to touch it.
A furnace that heats poorly with coal on
account of poor draft, will do much bet
ter with gas coke, which requires only
an ordinary draft
Utah Gas & Coke Co.,
Clos Main ST. Phones 1921
Salt Lake City.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-11-02

of powerlessness, feeling that the
greatness is not in them but through
them-that they could not do or be
anything else than God made them.
and they see something divine and
God-made in every other man they
meet and are endlessly, foolishly, in
credibly merciful. They do their work,
feeling that they cannot we'll help it;
the story must be told, the effect put
down; If people like it well and good;
and if not, the world will not be much
the worse
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-11-02
What Doctors Saw.

carr. ieD on your left side, for If
hea 1r5S loo great a pressure on the
intarel- sleep on the right side, for it
luno, le'es with the respiration of that
intsret.. sleep on your stomach, for 1t
lungs- eIes with the respiration of both
H. ana makes breathing difficult.
iDetL.S sleep on your back, for this
herd herd Of getting rest is bad for the
gopr r'i j, sleep sitting in a chair, for
sitjor poay falls into an unnatural po-
lel ,~r. ana you cannot get the necessary
tonnIl sleep standing, for you may
Doa,.o over and crack your skull
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-07-24

they will not fall down and probably
go rolling in all directions. The dis
advantage Of most coin holders made
for the purpose is the necessity Of
having separate holders for each
sized coin. A California man has de-
signed a coin holder which will hold
coins of any size. as shown in the il
%lustration. It is made Of two pieces
of spring wire, bent to shape and
pivoted together.
The top of one piece of wire serves
as a holder for the catch on the other
piece, so that the two sections can
be interlocked. The coins are stacked
in the holder, and the sections clasped
as stated. 1t is impossible for a sim
gle coin to become loosened, nor
can any be removed without releas-
ing the clasp. The coins can also be
thus stacked in rows without fear
of being easily knocked over.-Wash-
ington Star.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-07-24

threats that the jury withdrew and
soon returned with q verdict OF
guilty.
Rebecca Nourse was then taken
back to Jail, and on July 8 following
she was led in chains down the isle
Of the First Church Of Salem, and
was solemnly communicated from
the Church of which she had been a
faithful member. On July 10 she
was led out to Gallows Hill, in pa
lem, and hanged as a witch, amid
the hootings and excavations of the
crowd that had assembled to wit
ness the aged and infirm woman die
for crimes it was impossible that she
or any one else could have commit
ted.
Hundreds and thousands of stran-
gers have visited the old Nourse
house, but it was not until the yea1
1885 that anything was done to place
a permanent mark on the spot. Then
the Nourse Monument Association
erected a monument to the memory
of Rebecca Nourse on the old home
stead, and now the Danvers Histori-
cal Society purposes to buy the old
house to use it as a home for the
society.
The house stands a short distance
from Salem's famous Witch Hill. 1t
is on this hill that eight supposed
witches were executed at n time,
and the Rev. Nicholas Noyes said, as
the poor creatures hung in the air:
What a sad thing it is to see eight
frebrands of hell hanging there!"
The Rev. Nicholas seems to have
enjoyed the spectacle! and when he
twitted one of the women with being
a. witch she turned on him and said,
with pardonable fury:
"You are a liar! I am no more a
witch than you are a wizard; and II
you take away my life God will give
you blood to drink"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-07-24
TIE CANDLE.

Nor do men light a candle and pr i
under a bushel"-Matt. Sis.
Your candle is so small, so small,
1t makes scarce any light;
The feeble word you may let fall.
Has neither strength nor might:
And there be many greater ones
Who outshine you by far,
AS do the sky-illuming suns
Outgrow the farthest star?
But of all good sounds ever heard
There is none half so fair
AS one uncalculated word
f, That soothes some dim despair,
And what a dull sky it would be
If all the points of light
Were gone, and we might only see
The suns of wondrous might.
He who holds up his little fame
Knows not what straining eyes
May ind it guiding them from shame
Into a paradise;
All may not climb the lofty steep,
All may not lead the throng,
But each may shelter and may keep
Aglow some word or song.
I'VE know not how our candle CLEANS,
It may be sconced in gold.
Or it may send its cheering CLEANS
From some cup worn and old.
And that which fate has held apart
From pathways wide and grand,
May glow with light which nnds a heart
Attuned to understand.
The little word, the little smile,
The little song you know
These make the candle all the while
That MO pp,1St loon apInN-
And we may. think its trembling light
Uhnoticed by all eyes.
But there is greater dark of night
. When that lone candle dies.
w. D. Nesbit, in st. Louis Republic.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-07-24
REAR.END CRASH KILLS MANY
Passenger Filler Dashss Into a
Crowded Work Train at Hartford.
Men on Work Train Believed They
Had Right of Way-Railroad
officials Silent.

Hartford, Conn. - In a railroad
smash-up in the home section OF
Hartford nine workmen were killed
and thirty-fve injured, some fatally.
A passenger train On the Highland
Division of the New York, New Ha-
ven and Hartford Railroad ran into a
work train which was backing into
the city and crushed the cars.
The work train had been out with
a gang of men who were repairing
tracks, and was bringing part of
them from New Britain. It had
sixty-fve men aboard when it left
that city, and had dropped about
fifteen of them at intermediate
points. The engineer and conductor
Of the work train understood that
they had the right Of way on Track
No. 2 until Z o'clock, as the other
track had been used for traffic dur
ing the day, in order to give oppor-
tunity for the repairs.
Near the Sigourney street cross
ing, where there Is a sweeping curve,
the passenger train, which had gath
cred good speed as it came out of
the station, appeared on Track No.
q. Both engineers tried to stop, but
they had. little time, and the trains
came together in a bad smash. Some
of the trainmen and .workmen
jumped, but most of those on the
work train were caught. The en-
CINE of the passenger train tore
through the cars and piled up on top
Of the debris. .s
Dead and injured were scattered
along the street for some distance,
but many men were caught under the
wreckage. The survivors and men
from neighboring houses quickly
started the work Of rescue, and they
were soon joined by scores OF others:
Fire started in the wreckage, and
the fremen were summoned. After
auenohing the flames they became
~rescuers, and with axes and saws
worked hard until the arrival OF q
squad of fifty railroad wreckers.
In one instance 1t took an hour
and a half to. rescue one workman
who was pinned between trucks. His
head was hanging down backward,
t and he suffered agony. The rescuers
kept encouraging him while doctors
reached between the framework
which held him and treated wounds
on his face and head.
When the train left New Britain
there were sixty-fiye, workmen
aboard. Before the rescue was COM
plete darkness set in, torches were
procured and the men continued &c
labor for the remaining. dead. Ia.
Coroner Calhoun, OF Hartford
County, held a preliminary inquest
on the scene. and will summon wit
nesses for the regular hearing, when
an effort will be made to fasten the
responsibility on the train Dispatcher
of the Highland division. Superin.
tendent Pollock arrived late on the
scene, but refused to talk.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-07-24
Cayiare Grows Dearer.

Frequenters of the principal Lon
don restaurants are not a little fret
full at the sudden rise in the price of
caviare. 1t has jumped so suddenly
that the worst Is feared.
Is the supply coming to an end?
they ask. The delicacy is now serv-
ing In London at twenty-five shillings
a pound, whereas at the beginning
of the war between Russia and Japan
it was only ten shillings.
The reason put forward is that as
a result of the great war the sturgeon
fishery fell into a state of compare
tive disuetude. There is apparently
no lack of sturgeon, but the fishery
has not been worked lately, so Lon
don is crying out at the increase II
price of more than 100 per cent.
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house on the charge of being a witch,
on March 23, 1892. OF course, the
poor woman protested her innocence,
but this did not keep the justice be-
fore whom she was tried in the near
by town of Salem from committing
her to the Salem Jail. This Jail is
still standing, and is now a part of
the residence of Abner Goodell, of
Salem.
Poor Rebecca Nourse remained a
prisoner in the Salem Jail, with 9TH
ers accused of witchcraft, until April
II, when she and her unfortunate
companions were taken to Boston for
trial. The jury brought in a verdict
of not guilty, but the witchcraft de-
fusion was at fever heat at that time,
and a violent protest was made
against the verdict of the jury. The
mob in and out of the courtroom be-
came so violent and made such
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-07-24
SLAIN BY BLACK HAND.
Ransom Refused, Captors Strangle
Eight-Year-O1d Child.

New Orleans, lathe finding OF
the body of Walter Lamana, an
eight-year-old Italian boy, who was
kidnapped by the Black Hand two
weeks ago, the confessions Of several
of the participants and many arrests
excited this community, and there
were rumors of plans for wreaking
engeanc on the kidnapers, who.
failing in their demand for $4,000,
put to death an innocent child when
the pursuit became too hot for them.
The body was found two miles in
the interior of a big swamp near this
city. and was headless. He had been
strangled to death and his neck APP
parently broken, causing. the head to
become separated from the body,
when decomposition set in. The
head was found. -,
Armed deputies guarded the jail
to prevent the lynching OF i've ltal-
ian prisoners. some of whom con-
fessed.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-07-24
Giants and DWarfs.

In life giants are usually weak
minded, as well as frail of body, and
as a rule they do not live long.
Dwarfs, on the other hand, are often
nimble witted and stand a good
chance Of longevity. An Austrian
empress in the seventeenth century
took the whim to round up all the
giants and \dwarfs in her empire and
turn them in together. Apprehension
was felt that the big ones would ter
rify the small ones, but it was tho
other way. The giants were COM
PEELED to ask for protection from the
impish tricks of the dwarfs, and they
had to be separated before peace
reigned among Observation-Disclosures
Telegraph.