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The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-11-21

ing blaze, and all are more or less susceptible to it.
While your back may be cold as you sit before the
open hearth if there is no furnace in the cellar.
there is yet the appealing invitation of the blaze to
sit before it and enjoy it. And there is many man
who would be drawn from the allurements of the
city, and many boy who likes to wander out at
night, meeting evil associates, and many girl
whose interest in the dance the theatre is greater
than her interest in the home could be drawn back
to the home by the present invitation of the
open hearth and its CHEEKY persuasion.
1t is pleasing to see the tendency among our
present-day architects to place in the homes they
are building an open fireplace 1t is recognition
of one of the oldest influences for good in our mod
ern civilization. 1t is returning to the old and
worn-out fireplace, because it has been found to be
good.
If at the same time the present social order re-
turns to that which made each mans Preside his
home, where he could always be found any time
after sunset, with his boys and girls gathered
around him, with books and magazines and papers
to read and nuts to crack, and apples to eat then
will the temperance of the old fireplace and fire
dogs be welcome innovation. In such home we
might even expect to find bootjack and purrng
old cat too lazy to go to the kitchen to eat, and
demanding that her supper be served before the
fireplace. Such homes have existed and they were
happy homes, as anybody who ever had one such
Will testify.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-11-21
WAKING UP.

That which has been done a great many times
comes TO be accepted the proper thing to do.
This IS true not only in moral and political ques-
lions but in the habit of thought. When the sa-
loon first nsidiousy entered the political arena, it
was quiet and unassuming, and it attracted no
especial attention. after it got firmly settled in its
political power it got to thinking it was all right
and any criticism that was made was considered Of
little Importance And the people were more less
Indifferent to the saloon politician and his meth
DDS. Then the people suddenly awoke and there
was a tremendous and widespread movement, which
took whole states out of the hands of the saloon e.
eemnt by abolshing the saloons. Then the liquor
interests suddenly woke up to the potentiaties of
tie new movement The first thing they did was
to promise to be good, which was a very encour-
aging promise. Then they arranged a lot of figures
sbowing-no not the amount of misery woe, Grim
inality and beastiality which resulted from their
tratfc-but how they were the conservators of the
prosperity of the nation, furnishing market for
SO many bushels of grain and so many pounds of
hops and other products of the farm; how many
men they employed how many they sent to the
grave to the penitentiary to hell; how many re-
lated industries depended upon them for their well
fare-not how many homes were paralyzed by their
traffic.
The people of America waking up to the
enormity of the whole business, and the lucubra-
lions of the saloon men are without effect. They
have forgotten their impudence, put aside their
arrogance, and are clamoring for national regula-
ton to defeat the purposes of the people of the
states to drive the saloon out of existence 1t is
remarkable hat results follow the awakening of
the consci' o.~ IF the people. 1t is remarkable
how tamel he eoloon element appears to accept
the new order Of ngs.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-11-21
OPEN FIREPLACES.

Nearly everybody who has read the story of the
early struggles Of Abraham Lincoln in the back
woods how he spit rails in the daytime and read
law by the light of an open fireplace in the cabin
home of his parents in the evening, has felt Just
a slight tinge of jealousy for the great emancpa-
tor for having enjoyed the luxury of real fire.
place, where real logs of wood were burned, and
real chimney corner where one could hang his coat
and hat while in the house. That this feeling is
general is recognized by the up-todate architects
Of the present day for all the latest houses that is
those houses which are built for people who can af-
ford the luxuries of lfe have in their equipment
a fireplace in which wood or coal can be burned but
which also usually constructed to burn gas,
which is a great deal less trouble than wood But
while this indicates tendency to give the people
of today all the luxuries Of the olden time it is
unfortunate that the rails are no longer ready to
be split, for if we had more rails to split there
would be more inclination when the evening shades
have settled the earth to gather about the open
fireplace and enjoy the luxury, even as Abraham
Lincoln enjoyed it.
There are too many homes no more than a
house IN which the occupants gather to eat and
sleep The fact that there are no open freplaces in
them may not be the immediate cause for this ten
dency to CAD, but there is something fascinating
about an open fire, as Tx Marvel has so well dem
onstrated. Before blazing hearth, if anywhere
mans mind wanders over the past and builds airy,
fairy castles which he expects to work out in the
future There the lessons of experience can be
digested and there the fancy can play upon the fu
ture. and strong resolutions can be formed and the
joys of home life brought to their highest fruiton
There is a lure and fascination about dane
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-11-21
PESTS.

1t is asserted that the English sparrow in Eng
land is an entirely different kind of a bird from
what it is in America In England, we have been
Informed the bird is looked upon as real friend
Of tie otckaTdist and farmer while here ii is
og1lzed as pest not only by the farmer, but csfc
ciay by the city dweller 1t is even asserted that
the style Of architecture has been somewhat modi
fed to make houses free from little hooks wherein
the sparrow was wont to build its nest. So great
nuisance has the sparrow pest become that the
great state Ct Utah has placed bounty m the
heads Of the birds, to collect which many s1nsn
boy has had lis sensibilites dulled, and made him
-obber Of birds nests heinous crime for small
boys only few years. Other states have also
r!aced bounty on the birds and their eggs but the
pest goes on increasing in numbers as the years
go by.
While the people of America have suffered from
the importation Of the sparrow pest it remains for
Australia to have even greater pest in the rab-
bit which was imported into the country only a
little over forty years. Some enterprisng bene-
factor took dozen rabbits there to see how they
would thrive. The six pairs of Dummies thrived and
prospered, and today the rabbit numbers countless
millions in the island continent. They literally
overrun the sheep ranges bark the trees and eat
up the vegetables and range grasses of the land.
The only way the farmer and ranchman can pro-
tect his crops and lands from devastation is to
build rabbit-proof fences around them and employ
men as rabbit killers. 1t is asserted on more or
less reliable authority that no less than 100000 men
are employed in the delectable pastime of killing
rabbits and that no less than 150,OOO,0OO rabbits
are killed every year.
The "rabbiters," as they called, are an in
tensely patriotic set of men They get good pay
for their work. and they have organized them
selves into protective association guild. 1t is
said that they could extermnate the pest, but that
they have so thoroughly organized themselves that
they will not do So for fear of running their bus.
mess. They let the young rabbits go until they
have killed off the old ones, and thus permit the
number of rabbits and proportionate number of
''rabbiters" to increase.
Only few years ago, the Pasteur institute of
Paris discovered method of destroying the rabbit
pest in Australia, which would have efectualy ex-
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-11-21
PROSPERITY.

Hard times do not show the surface as read
lily prosperity. In the busy streets of the city
point out the hungry man wandering
aimlessly about from one not hungry. On the cor
ner there may be a metropolitan crowd, but the
poverty-strcken one hides away from the public
streets. Only few of the professional FOUNDERS
try to make touch" for nights lodging. They
are in the city always. But the poor man, the la
boring man whose earnings are all too small to
meet the burden placed upon him, has no business
on the street, and is seldom found there. If he
has job, usually he has to go to it early, and
&hen the days work is DONE he returns once more
to his home.
The country is supposed to be recovering from
an era of hard times, and yet the number of auto
mobiles has increased steadily throughout the past
year, and the people generally have had money to
spend for the necessities of life, and good many
have had money to spend on the frivolites. There
are great many people, hhwever, who have not
been blessed with more than enough to eat; the
public seldom sees them, for pride keeps them away
from the public, and only when in abject misery
do they come out from their hiding places and
make known their needs.
There has been a general belief that business
would pick up after the election. 1t is earnestly
hoped that it will become better for those who have
been called upon to live without steady employ
ment. Men with steady incomes have not been
sorely pressed during the stringency, but those who
have not had that steady and sufficient income have
suffered.
1t has come that the American people have
somewhat associated politics with business and pol
iticians with business men. Under the spell of the
political talker, prosperity has been made an issue
to be settled as the politicians declare by parties.
1t appears plain however, that the political parties
have no control the crops of the farmer, that
the season of growth for cotton and corn is in no
way affected by the political parties. The produc-
ton of the mines is neither made great nor small
by the politicians. And ON these things coupled
with aggressive methods of manufacturers and
business men and the skill of the workers. depends
the prosperity of the country and of the people.
If to enjoy prosperity all that necessary
were to call a session of the congress at Washing
ton or session of the state legislature the people
would demand continuous sessions of those bodies
and demand that prosperity hang the nation at
all times. The truth of the matter IS that we as
nation and as individuals have to work out our own
salvation with the assistance of nature and the
goodness of God. 1t is, possible that those who
have accumulated great deal more than they need
can and do have good or evil effect upon certain
limited industries, but the general prosperity of the
nation IS founded on good crops and this foun-
dation the widely diversified production of the
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-11-21
AMERICAN INDIANS IN
THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY
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All these tribes, with their sub-tribes, sprang
from an Algonquin or n-Iroquois stock and
their languages with diaectic variations would in
dictate the racial stock from which they sprang.
As we advance towards and cross the Missouri
river, enter the lands of the Dacotahs and their
ofshoots, the Missouris, Poncas, Iowas, kaws,
Sioux, Omahas and Otoes, with their tribal divi-
sions. On the upper Missouri were Catlin's Man
dams and Minncetarees, having no tribal affinity
with any known Indian race, and whose language
bore resemblance to that of any other people.
In grouping the North American Indians and
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-11-21

terminated them. When. however, a representa-
tive of the institute went to Australia to demon
strate the feasibility of the scheme the "rabbiters"
saw the end of their calling in sight, and an agi
tation started which resulted in the representa-
tive returning to France without trying out his
scheme, and the business of 'rabbiting" goes mer-
rily on.
The objection of the 'rabbiters" of Australia to
the determination of the pest would appear about
as practical as an objection from the small boy
sparrow bounty seeker of America, if some scheme
were discovered to exterminate the bird nuisance
in this country
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-11-21

The English language is reputed to have at the
present time more than 100000 words recognized
by the best authorities. This is 10000 more words
than in the German, French, Spanish and Italian
languages combined. But the countries where
those languages are spoken never have any presi-
Dental campaigns to increase the richness of
their Verbiage.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-11-21
GARD FROM BISHOP SCA-TAN.

feel II my duty to protect Catholics and the pub
lie generally from fraud and imposition by notifying
them from time to time that person bearing the
and gar5 Of priest sister, anyone else, is
authorized permitted TO solicit collect in this
diocese for any purpose whatever with the
Catholic Church without having from permission
In writing, bearing my seal and signature Should
anyone be found engaged In doing this unlawful
work collecting without such q document he
She the may be, should be regarded by all
a fraud and imposter. L SEAMAN,
Bishop of Salt Lake
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-11-21
TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS.

The Tntermountain Catholic goes into nearly every
Catholic home in this diocese It's circulation in Mon
tana, 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 to their advantage when about to invest
purchase consult business matters read
the list Of advertisers. We not only recommend
but ask for them the patronage Of all readers
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-11-21

One cause for thanksgiving is that the price
of the festive turkey is no higher than it is Good
ness knows that is high enough for the consumer;
and the producer has cause for thankfulness that
the price is no lower than it is. So everybody who
has anything to do with the Thanksgiving bird
ought to be happy.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-11-21

farms and the varied climate OF the country ii-'i
nearly insure good crops than IS vouchSaleu " a.
other nation of the world. Let US all therelol9
of good cheer and remember that prosperity Is iio
a creation of legislation, but the fruit OF the III
dustry and frugality of the whole people, fouhueo
on the crops of the farmer.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-11-21

Newspaper item says there are 112 horses to ev-
cry 100 people in the Argentine Republic. Being
in the majority the horses ought to take over the
reins of government
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-11-21

Nearly everybody is familiar with silver GER
tifcates gold certificates and national bank cur
rency, but the newspaper publisher is almost the
only one who has to contend with the white paper
bill
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-11-21

They are recording pig squeals on the phono-
graph at the Chicago stock yards. Evidently IN,
tended to take the place of "Home, Sweet Home
for Chicagoans off a visit.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-11-21

Perhaps the situation would be simpifed if the
railroads would discharge all their presidents and
hire legislators to do the brain work on the trans
portation problems
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-11-21

One fortunate thing about the celebration of
the election was that there were still few toots
left in the old horn to be used in the football
games to come.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-11-21

Every in while the papers declare that
capital hesitates. We've noticed that characteristic
before many times when we thought we saw small
piece of it coming our way.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-11-21

All the elective Offices having found some one
to fill them, there still are few aPPointlVe oii'
looking anxiously about for good men and true'
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-11-21

After ALL lie is not so hurtful to the one of
whom it is spoken as to the one that speaks it.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-11-21

'Life is leaf of paper white" wrote the poet
Lowell and that may account for some OF the RICH
cost of living.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-11-21

A man in our town who recently tried to sell
his automobile said he wanted to get rid of it be-
cause he was "pinched." He didn't mean that he
had been arrested, either.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-11-21

No doubt the people of Boston will breathe cas-
Ter when they know the Atlantic battleship fleet is
once more on its way to the Atlantic coast where
it belongs.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-11-21

It does seem. too, that business will have
chance to improve after the football season Is
ended.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-11-21

When insist on having a square DEAL it is
the kind that we would deal for ourselves.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-11-21

Some women are proud of their husbands be-
cause their husbands are worth being proud OF.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-11-21

Let the agitation against the trusts go fnerrhS
on As long as we can buy S95 suits tor So'40 we
all should be happy and contented.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-11-21

Still. it wouldn't be any harder to make silk
purse out of a sow's ear than to make 1ootOan
out of silk purse.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-11-21

In trying to figure out some pleasant way to
spend Sunday how would it be for you to try going
t. church as a starter2
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-11-21

sweeping victory is not one which viii re-
o1ire the use of the muck rake-that is not neces-
sarily So
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-11-21

Sometimes when we hear both sides of story
we would like to have someone tell us the truth
about it.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-11-21

An easy conscience is the kind that our friends
have if they are more successful than we.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-11-21

Sometimes fellow who thinks he can scrap
lands unceremoniously in the scrap heap.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-11-21
CHANGING ADDRESSES.

Subscribers removing from place to another,
and desiring papers changed should always give for
1neT as well as present address
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REHTTTTANCES.

Femittances should be made by postoflce or e1
press money orders, drafts registered letters.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-11-21
CORREsP0NDENCE S0LICTTED

The Reverend Clergy requested to send to TIKI
lNTERMOUNTAIN CATHOLIC news contribution
OF interest to their respective parishes.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-11-21

entered In the Postohice at Salt Lake as seco
Class Matter)
Philip weekly review. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 1907-1912, 1908-09-25
MAKING MONEY

"Mr. Bryan is more of q money
maker than Mr.. is Taft" +" says Alfred
Henry Lewis in one OF the August
numbers of Farm and Ffreside.
"Not that this should count for or
against either. To make money
means nothing but money making.
1t is no sign of an infaliible intel
ligence to grow rich. A red squirrel
will Jump about during October's
thirty days, and lay up enough acorns
to support fifty red squirrels fifty
years. That q red SQUIRREL doesn't
know why he does this. A gray
squirrel lays up nothing; and, for
the best of it strolls languidly here
and there, and only occasionally tucks
an acorn or hickory nut under q leaf
filing it away, as 1t were, for future
reference. One goes into the SHOWS
rich the other poor, by virtue of an
instinct; just as some men make
money, and others make none by
virtue of instinct. Its no evidence
Of brains one way or the other. I've
seen gentlemen in congress, and very
fair statesmen, at that, when they
were not thinking of a reelection,
who couldn't have made two dollars
day at any trade or calling In the
world. On the opulent other hand,
there be folk who make money a.
some people make trouble, and who
only escape being bowling idiots
by never bowling. Also, there is
such thing as being overrfch.
Some wise, good soul ought to 60
into colleges and endow = Chair Of
Trade; not to teach boys how to
make money, but how much money
to make. One can make too much
money, just as one can drink to
much rum; and 50 we have money
drunkards, just as we have rum
drunkards."
Philip weekly review. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 1907-1912, 1908-09-25

The opening to settlement of the
Tripp county lands next month will
bring thousands into the state. Many
of them are going to lose out in the
drawing, for there are only 1900
farms to be obtained. Stanley and
Lyman counties, containing lands on
par with those In Tripp county,
will be visited by many of these peo-
pie and not few of them should
become interested. Our lands are
just as good as those between the
White river and the state line, and
can be obtained at much less cost.
Philip weekly review. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 1907-1912, 1908-09-25

South Dakota Is apparently a battle
field for the presidential candidates,
and all of them are coming here to
see it personally. Three who aspire
to the executives chair will be in the
state next week. Bryan is billed to
visit Mitchell Monday, and Taft with
his joyal smile, will be in that city
on Tuesday. Chaffin, the prohibi-
tion paxty's leader, visits the corn
palace city on next Thursday. Debs,
the socialist candidate, worked
through the state last week, and
Hisgen, the banner bearer of the
Independence party, will, with
his sponsor, w. r. Hearst, tour the
state about the 10Th of next month
Philip weekly review. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 1907-1912, 1908-09-25

A pleasing, good, high grade truly
favored, amber colored coffee can be
had-and without the real coffee
danger, or damage to health-by
simply using DR.. Shops new substi
tute, called "Health Coffee. Pure,
wholesome, toasted cereals, malt,
nuts, ETC., make DIR. Shops Health
Coffee both healthful and satisfying.
No 20 to so minutes tedious boiling.
Made in q minute, says DR.. Shoop.
II served as coffee, it's taste will ever
trick an expert. Test IT and see.
Sold by HI. A. Kumm.
Philip weekly review. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 1907-1912, 1908-09-25

If there are any other men In the
state like the Black Hills man who had
never before seen one whose aspira.
tions for the presidency had gone so far
as to get him on some ticket and
journyed to Rapid City to see Debs,
they should certainly have their
curiosity gratified within the next
four weeks.
Philip weekly review. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 1907-1912, 1908-09-25

The last revolution i'm Peru con-
sisted in a defeated political oppo-
nent's calling the president a
wretch" This reminds one Of the
exciting scene in one of Mr.. Howell's
novels, where the william throws the
hero's hat out of the window.