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The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-12-06

An Atchison woman, when she was
a girl, was described as Slender and
as supple as a willow" Now that she
has taken on few years, she is de-
scribed as skinny as a rail" That's
the way it goes. She doesn't weigh
any more now than she ever did.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-12-06

We have heard at least nine out of
ten of our friends say that they have
had enough trouble without that, no
doubt referring to the crowning sor-
row of all, from which we are led to
believe that no one is exempt from
great worry and bother.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-12-06

When a man marries a woman for
her money, the people applaud when
she ties it so tight he can't touch it,
and then can't reconcile such sense
with the folly she showed in marrying
him.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-12-06

livery Friday. by mail per year $3.50.
Entered at the postotnce at Norfolk.
Neb., ns second class matter.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-12-06
ne Norfolk Weekly News Journal

The News. Established. 1881.
The JOurnnl. EstablIshed. 1871
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-11-23

contrary of our own and becoming more and more
complex till the needle points at last to the center
of the earth. At the pole not only the compass,
but even the sun, and stors, will cease to
be available for the usual purposes of observation;
that is if anything should happen to the chronom-
eters or ocean watches, for all will then depend on
Greenwich time. Accompanying the expeditions
sent out since 1892 were one or two scientists,
trained in geology, botany, palaeontoogy, etc. The
discovery of the pole may lead to the knowledge
of the origin and basic elements of electricity, of
gravitation, of attraction of the Hertz waves or
wireless telegraphy Take, again, that wonderful
element, ether, which is supposed to pervade all
space, and by means of which light vibrations
travel to us from the most distant stars. What
is it? Then where precisely and what is the mag
netic pole whose influence directs the marvellous
needle ON Lake Superior and the Gulf of Mexico?
So, you perceive, it is something more than the
discovery of what call the north pole that
are expecting when the pole is found
Who would have guessed few years ago that
the interior of Africa was populous and pleasant
to live in, that the ocean was teeming with life
and always changing, that rivers called currents,
are flowing through and the bosoms of the great
seas, or that the elements and fabric of the
would yield to analysis. The other questions en-
bodied in our correspondents letter we must
luctantly leave till next week
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-11-23
THE NORTH POLE.

A Park City correspondent, writing for infor-
nation on the North Polar Regions asks in what
way will the discovery of the pole add to the sum
of information now held by the world at large, and
in what way will science benefit by the exploration
of the pole and the region around it. We do not
know we have expectations; but no certainty nor
anything approaching to certainty Since Sir
John Franllin's fatal expedition to the Arctic re-
gions the United States, Norway, Italy and Eng
land have separately or collectively begun a pro-
gressve series of operations for the discovery of
this planets most intractable and inaccessible
quarter At present there lies within few weeks
of us, and right between us and inhabited CONT
nents, a circle 1000 miles across, of which we
know not whether it be land or water, or in what
way it is affected by conditions wholly different
from our own. 1t has at least half a year of con-
tnuous day. What if it be found sufficiently hab-
liable for the establishment of permanent stations
in which the production and economy of heat will
be the only serious difficulty. If, as is now almost
proved, there be properties and ingredients in the
earth's atmosphere too subtle for chemical analy-
sis, the spectroscope may detect them in region
where humidity no longer embarasses examination
The proof positive Of the existence of these prop
ertles OF Ine ar may lead 10 marvellous results.
Then deposits of many and great beds of coal may
be found, for it is conceded by biologists that
the northern and arctic regions had, some time in
the past, tropical climate.
Then what is the aurora borealis or northern
lights" Is it of earth, or of the heavens? Is it
meteoric or is it cosmis7 Does it reveal univer-
sal medium? Does it reveal magnetic phenom-
enonl
At about the seventy third degree of latitude,
ship going north will reach the rim of the mag
netic circle or pole, and must steer by rules the
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-11-23
HONOR ATTACKED.

Characterizing the attacks upon Legitimate
uses of wealth and the abuses of corporate power
as an assault upon the honor and dignity of the
business interests of the country" and eastern
temporary flags President Roosevelt and his poll
cies in long-winded screed which to the unthink-
ing mind is convincing. Analysed, however, the
screed becomes an insult to the honest and legiti-
mate business interests and puerile defense of
the piracy which has wrecked the credit of the ma
ton and made cashiers checks and "phoney" mon
ey essential to the conduct of the ordinary trade of
the nation.
Plainly, there has been no attack on any honor
dignity for those qualities have been eliminated
from the affairs of high financiers, there
honor or dignity to attack. Had the gentlemen in
control of three-quarters of the nations wealth
just appreciation of their favored position and did
they but realize that the vast majority of just com
mon folks want no more than a square deal, the
agitation against them would never have had a
cause, and lacking that would never have been.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-11-23
NEW AND OLD.

When man grows up marries and leaves the
old home, there is nothing which appeals more for
chilly to his sentimental nature than visit to the
old home There are so many things in the old
home-there is the father, bent with age, and the
mother, gray-haired with face furrowed with the
cares of the three score and ten years which have
passed all too swiftly for the just appreciation Of
the son. And there is the dishpan-the same old
dishpan. Mother says she got it as a wedding pres
ent and it has been in use ever since. That was
fifty odd years ago, and it has been used three
times day ever since Nearly $4,000 times the
dishpan has been used. The son ponders on the
three dshpans he has bought in the ten short years
of his welded life and wonders why It is not reck
lessness on his part that he should buy three dish
pans in ten years, yet is it careessness on the
part of his better half. 1t is only the difference
between the old and the new the difference be-
tween the boosted progressiveness of our age and
the horoughness of the days when our parents were
young Nowadays we build implements to sell;
that they will last lifetime is no more sought.
Rather would we have them wear out quickly so
we can sell another. Production is brisk with all
the labor-saving devices of modern times, and
sumption must keep pace. Shoe factories produce
a million pairs month. The shoes must be poor
they couldn't sell so many Tin cans cost only
trifle but they last only one season, whereas in
our mothers cellar the shelf are tin cans that
have done duty for half century. And the old
arm chair at home, of blessed memory 1t is stl:
there as solid it when boy we came
home from coasting or skating with frosted feet
and sat in it behind the stove while our mother
gathered snow to rub our pedal extremities We
have three old arm chairs stored in the garrett
They are not old in years, but they are decrepit
and fallen to pieces The furniture makers have i'm
proved methods of manufacture.
And so it goes. The world improves with age
and while we enjoy the things of beauty and use
fulness which are made for our comfort and con-
venience, we must heave a sigh for the good old
days when dishpans were made to do duty for fifty
years and old arm chairs attained not that digni-
fled title before they left the store.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-11-23
MUST HAVE HIS BEER.

Kind friends of the laboring men have for a
great many years looked out for his inalienabe
rights and prerogatives. Among the theories adj
vanced by his friends was that he must have his
beer, and they proceeded to furnish it at so much
per glass; all to the infinite profit of the friends
and the infinite woe of the laborer The saloon has
been called the poor mans club and it has been
made to appear that this club contained one of the
essential elements to happiness for the working
man. And at election times we have been led to be-
leve that the liquor man held kind of chattel
mortgage on the workers vote; that the labor vote
was somehow or other pledged to the support of
the whole business and the perpetuation of the
poor mans club.
Now these theories and beliefs have received
severe shock, and it is discovered unto men that la
boring not a unit for the saloon. Instead
they are divided on the liquor issue. They have
opinions of their own on this as on about every
other question, but the majority of them we be-
lieve are for good government, morality and en-
ightened ideals. And the result of the recent cleo
ton down at Birmingham, Ala, seem to indicate
that a majority of them feel that they can dis
pense with the poor mans club so kindly provided
by their friends for their well-beng.
Birmingham is one of the real live towns of
Dixie 1t was not ON the map until long after the
war, but in 1900 had population of nearly 10000,
and in the years since that census has grown rap
idly. It is a town of iron. Tremendous manufac-
turing enterprises there and in smaller towns trib-
utary to the city employ thousands and thousands
of mill workers. Some of these workers are south
erners some northerners, but large proportion
are of foreign extraction. Just about all the la
boring men of the city find employment in the
mills. 1t would seem almost cinch, therefore, that
the right of the laborer to 'get his BEER would not
be infringed in such community That Birmng-
ham and jefferson county should vote "dry" by
more than 1000 very startling surprise not
only to the liquor interests, but as well to the pro-
hibition forces. Here are laboring men throwing
away their rights, and CONSERVATION reigns among
their friends"
The tremendous and ever growing force Of the
prohibition sentiment finds strength and encour-
agement in the ranks of the laboring classes The
result of the vote in Birmingham is peculiarly graf
flying to men whose lives have been spent among
men who work for living. No matter what per-
sonal views may have of temperance and pro-
hbiton, the fact that laboring men in the southern
city voted the saloon out of business must put a
quietus lot of nonsense that the labor vote is
one which may be controlled as a whole. No more
impressive vindication of the laboring classes has
recently come to hand. Laboring men think, more
slowly perhaps than some others, but when they
have proposition thought out they know how to
put that thought the ballot The vote in JEFF
ferson county, Alabama, shows the trend of public
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-11-23
HARRY ORCHARD-STEVE ADAMS.

'Viewing the matter from absolute ur
prejudiced standpoint, l cannot see how there can
be the slightest doubt of the guilt of Steve
Adams. General BuIkey Wells in S. T. Tr.bns
Nov. 10
There is something frightfu about these men
Orchard and Adams, and their confessions. which
do not enrage because they freeze you. A story Of
lesser crime would excite detestation and horror
The calm relation of the most terrible crimes
known to human communities, told by these men.
turns you rigid and renders one almost incapable
of feeling. 1t overlaps sensation, the magma
ton, the emotions
1t almost fails to stir you after the first shock
of it. We have felt more active aversion for a one
man murderer than for these cold, remorseIes..
self-controlled fiends who have taken human life
by wholesale. We do not feel for them the hot in
dignation and hatred that at times fills the breast
because of some horrible murder. Our disgust Is
a loathing like what we have for a snake a toad
Were these men merely vain and empty-headed
braggarts, or after the commission of their afro
cious deeds manifested some repentance, we might
try to excuse the human race for having begotten
them, or permit spark of human feeling to light
en- in our hearts But these monsters have normal
brains, and calmly, coolly and with good memories
recite the most chilling stories of murder robbery
bigamy, adultery that, in all likelihood-snce the
world began-was ever told by human beings. They
relate the Incidents the circumstances, the actions
the expression of the faces of the murdered men,
as calmly as if their unhappy victims were dogs.
And the last gross and hideous offense of the man
Orchard was an outrage against every decent feel
ing when he plloried his innocent family and liy-
ing relatives on the high mountain of his awful
and shameful crimes.
One wonders if. in the last twenty years these
men ever darkened church door: if they ever said
a prayer; who and what sort of people were their
fathers and mothers; did they believe in God, in
hereafter, in judgment to Gomez Were they
who scoffed at religion and damned the preachers,
who squandered money in brothels and cursed the
church Had they any reverence at all for the
name of God or-are they fiends incarnated in hui
man bodies who war on human life, on the chas-
tity of married women, on the innocence and pur-
ity of young girls on the sanctity of the home.
In the words of our Divine Lord, addressed to the
man possessed of evil spirits, we may ask, elbow
many of you are there?" How many Of these Or
chards and Adams are there in our country?
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-11-23
ANOTHER WAY.

There seems to be glimmerng of sense pene-
trating into the innermost recesses of some munich
paties of the land. We read that Boston has
granted a franchise to a gas company which per-
mits it to charge IS cents thousand feet for fuel
gas That is cheaper than the Salt Lake franchise
provides, but Boston is city Of approximately
100000 people, whereas Salt Lake approximates
only $4,000. The much larger population to be
served makes it possible to perform the service
cheaper. But in addition to the provision for S.
cent gas there is another which makes for eff
cheney and economy and benefits the consumer in
no uncertain way. The gas company is permitted
to pay per cent dividends on the money invested
in them as plant and charge IS cents thousand
for the gas. But if the company wants to pay
per cent, the price of gas to consumers must be
reduced to so cents thousand. If the company
would increase its dividend rate to per cent, the
price of gas must be reduced to Is cents There is
no limit to the dividends the company may pay,
except that for each 1 per cent increase in divi-
dend there must be Scent decrease in the price of
gas. There is an appealing bit of good sense in the
proposition.
Now comes Cleveland, city of approximately
100000 inhabitants, with similar proposition in
its street car service. The Municipal Traction COM
pany offers the city Scent fare with the proviso
that the rate may be reduced at any time by the
city council when earnings exceed per cent on the
actual cost. Furthermore, the franchise is revoc-
able at any time the city wants to pay the actual
cash value of the physical property, plus 10 per
cent. The capitalization is limited to the cost of
the property, and the income is limited to 6 per
cent on that capitalization. All income in excess
of per cent net profit reverts to the people,
Here is another proposition which must appeal in
no uncertain way to the good sense of the people
of the country at large. There is no value at
tached to such franchise which may be traded in
and bartered among low-browed politicians and
high financiers If franchise is worth $4,000
900 or $100,000,000 to private corporation it is
plain that it is worth that much to the people, and
there is reason why they should pay fares suffi-
GENTLY high to provide dividends on this franchise
valuation in addition to interest on the cost of the
physical property.
People generally do not know much about pub
lie service corporations That is one reason there
are so many franchises granted in this country
which nequitable. The proposition of limiting
dividend payments to a certain fixed rate of in
terest, has been done in Boston gas and Cleve-
land traction, is one against which no argument
can prevail 1t is sensible, and could be copied with
profit wherever it is proposed to grant franchise
to any corporation in any city in the land
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-11-23

1t is remarkable how events change the history
of nations. Had the Portuguese and Spanish Jes-
uits not been driven out of Japan 300 years ago it
is safe to say Japan would have become all Cath
olic and the active japanese would undoubtedly
have converted all China and India Religious
bigotry and bitterness were back of this expulsion
of the heroic Jesuts of Japan, as the Dutch Cal
vinists made continual accusations against them
to the government
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-11-23

The meanest and most contemplate cry that
goes up from human tongues concerning eternity
is the one entitled, "No ever back to tell
u.s." Very few of these unfortunates know any
thing of st. Pauls writings or the Saviors utter
If they will not believe Moses and the
prophets, said Abraham in heaven to Dives in hell,
neither would they believe one though risen from
the dead
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-11-23
CARD FROM BISHOP sCANLAN.

feel It my duty protect Catholics and the pub
lie generally from fraud and imposition by notifying
them from time TO time that no person bearing the
name and garb OF a priest sister, anyone else, Is
authorized or permitted to solicit collect in this
diocese for any purpose whatever connected with tbs
Catholic Church without having from 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
she as the case may be- should be regarded by all
q fraud and an irnposter L. SCANLAN,
Bishop Of Salt Lake
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-11-23

The great mistake many infidels make is in as
Stunning that Christianity, or the Roman Catholic
Church, is continuation and development Of pa
gan mythologies and superstitions when it pre-
cedes any of these apostate, barbarous sects and
apostate conditions by at least 10000 years. All
these heather religions" were the result of the
great Gentle apostasy from the Petrarchal and
sublime monotheism of the Jews. We see the
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-11-23

Limiting public service corporations to GER
tain fixed percentage is not new. As long ago as
the thirteenth century its prototype in force
in London in the form of an enactment limiting
the profit of the baker, "on each quarter of wheat
Cor his own labor 3d. and such bran as might be
lifted from the meal" Which shows that fire.
quent recurrence to first principles is commend
ahsa. even in a free country
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-11-23

If man pays 800 for fiddle worth only SIS.
he is loser just $S5, but he doesn't find it out I'M
til he tries to SELL That affords an explanation for
the countrys financial condition. The people have
been paying too much for everything, especially for
stocks and securities, and they just finding it
out' There has been no loss, except to those who
paid more than the stocks were worth; the re-
sources of the country remain; the railroads and
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-11-23

sentiment in regard to the liquor business It il
sentiment that is growing rapidly that all TN.
talk of 'poor mems clubs" wherein the Iaborer co,
get his beer, cannot avail against it. And h,
most gratifying part of it all is that the aborer
in the forefront of the movement.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-11-23
TO DIR SUBSCRIBERS.

The Intermountain Catholic goes into nearly every
Catholic home this diocese Its circulation In Mon
tena, Idaho, Colorado, Wyoming, Nevada and many
other states is very large. Only reliable firms and
business advertise in the paper. All subscribers
Will find it their advantage when about to invest
purchase consult business matters to read over
the list of our advertisers. We not only recommend
bat ask for them the patronage of all our readers.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-11-23

factories here to do business just as they were
two years ago. when the shrinkage which has reach
ed its climax within the past month began. The
fiddle is good now as it ever was and the
shrunken stocks are as valuable, but the fellows
who sold at the top have lot of money they never
worked for.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-11-23

Civilization is the predominance in society of
reason over passion, knowledge over ignorance,
moral power over brute force, and these are not
possible without the predominance of strong re-
ligious institution, diviney inspired to teach
truth and to demand obedience on pain of spiritual
punishment beyond the grave.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-11-23
BOOK NOTICES.

"The Guild-Boy Play" and New Boys at
Ringdale." two new publications depicting college
life, by Rev. David Bearne s. j., will be read by
old college students with interest. Those familiar
with college life will find these stories vividy por
trayed. For sale by the publishers, Benziger Bios,
New York. Price, s. cents.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-11-23

Professor George Heron, the western socialist,
believes we should abolish the devil in order to do
away with the practice" of saving people from
him What glorious thing it would be if we
couldi How differently George Heron would act
and talk if there were no Satan to move him at
will.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-11-23

Who is a liar but he who denieth that Jesus is
the Christ! This is anti-Christ who denieth the
Father and the Son. Whosoever denieth the Son
the same hath not the Father. He that confesseth
the Son hath the Father also-St. John.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-11-23

The Methodist and Baptist foreign missionaries
are still trying to convert some of the benighted
Roman Catholics of foreign lands, according to
their publications, and in the meantime they are
letting innumerable thousands of American Prot
estant boys go to the devil Now what do you think
of that
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-11-23

truth of this when we examine carefully the great
infidels of the past 400 years. such as lngersoll,
Paine, etc. These were descendants of ances-
tors who apostatized from Catholicism in the six
teenth century.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-11-23

The first Episcopalians did not believe in hav-
ing crucifixes. And, 10 and behold, today they
adorn all their churches with the cross But, then
you should remember that human nature is incon-
sistent
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-11-23

If the universe, life, love, hate passion, etc,
originate in the fortuitous combination of mate
rial, Hfeless, senseless atoms, who first made the
atoms to combine?
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-11-23

The devil is philanthropist who never relieves
the suffering under his cares picayune
for the welfare of individuals.