davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-06-20
n Fleeing Cloud.

The sudden subsistence of the busy promoters of
the late instruction causes the Occur d Aene Press
to remark:
The Twin Falls democratic convention which
caused such utter in political circles account
of the sensational features connected with the action
of the Mormon delegates in boiling seems to have
faded away and disappeared like fleeing cloud
from the political horizon. The result of that con-
vention will be determined at Denver and it does
not take very close observer to see what that will
be- The delegates regularly elected by the conven-
ton will be seated against the Perky Mormon
delegates elected by the rump convention. There is
question about that and any one who figures
otherwise is wasting his time. The main contest of
the fight will come off at Wallace when candidates
for state offices to be nominated 1t is there that
the Mormons will marshall all their forces and
spend their money to gain control of the demo-
cratic party We will see with what success they
come out of the contest
With but few dissenting voices, the northern dele
gates to the Twin Falls convention promised for the
Wallace convention a session of harmony to be as
sured by the hearty cooperation of the north with
the constitutional democrats of the south
With the close of the Twin Falls convention the
Ada county bunch shorn of its power to stir
up contention in the north, or to pull down the
temple of democracy the heads of the party It
given hair cut that will last until the next
irrigation season.
The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-06-20
One Small Truth.

The Twin Falls Times finds fragment of truth
in one of the utterances of the boss liar of news
paperdom-the wherein it said that the Twin
Falls section was strongly anti-Mormon The Times
takes fall out of the kicker, saying:
The claim of the Capital News that Twin Falls was
made the choice for the convention because of its
anti Mormon sentiment is rather i'll timed coming
it does after the Ada county delegation had fully
accorded in the selection of this city at the meeting
of the state central committee. The claim that this
section is strongly anti Mormon was the only bit of
truth manifest in the Capital News screed Twin
Falls county does believe there is political side to
the Mormon question and that belief is not confined
to the ranks of the democratic party and in case
the anti Mormon plank is inserted as the major
portion of the voters desire it will mean a larger
vote for the state and national ticket than ever be-
fore The question is not one for the schening poll
tcan to decide whether the democracy of this state
declares for the purity of the home but for the free
holders OF that party. few disgruntled, wou1d-be
office holders from the capital of the state seem to
have the idea that it is a case of party but of
their own sweet will which should govern the action
OF the state as whole. They claim that the supreme
court has decided the question and that all the party
can do IS lay down and stop the fight. 1t does not
occur to them that there are several laws in this
state that dead letters because the people are too
cowardly to enforce them The constitution does
prohibit poygamy but it needs healthy public senti
ment back OF 1t to insist that the constitution is bind
ing. This seems to be the point where the Ada
county democrats weak and inclined to shun
a vital question
The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-06-20
Next to the NIAGARA Power.

The Pocatello Tribune tells of remarkable water
power just harnessed in the eastern portion of Ban
mock county, Idaho, which is amazing engineering
triumph according to the description:
At cost of 100000 the Telluride Power COM
pany has completed the first unit of its gigantic by
dro-eectric power plant on Bear river, Grace,
in this county, and the tremendous resources of the
plant will be called this week to supply power to
mines in Idaho and Utah The Grace plant is
second only to the Niagara Falls plant in Importance
in this country The present installation is capable
of generating 10000 horsepower, although the power
house is designed for $4,000 horsepower When
completed to the utmost of its capacity, the plant will
represent expenditure including transmission lines
of $6,9O0OOO.
The Grace plant is located twelve miles south of
Soda Springs. This is the greatest development of
hydraulic power between the Mississippi andthe Cal
ifornia rivers 1t is said to be the greatest, with
the exception Of Niagara Falls in the world In the
building of this plant steep pipe line, five and
half miles long, with pipes eight feet in diameter,
has been constructed The cost of the pipe alone
was $75OOOO.
The plant utilizes the natural flow of Bear river
and the water stored in Bear and North lakes under
a net head of $40 feet The station building is de-
signed for $4,000 horsepower. The first pipe line
now installed, furnished 10000 horsepower Du-
plicate pipe lines will be built as the demand for
power increases
With the vast resource power at the Grace plant
The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-06-20
THE IDAHO SCIMITAR.

it is believed that it will be long time before the
company is compelled to build its seventh plant
The companys right to Bear lake and North lake
was acquired from the government, after contest
which extended over five or six years
In these lakes is impounded the entire run-of OF
the Bear river watershed which formerly flowed in
to Great Salt Lake and evaporated.
The limit of these impounding rights is estimated
at 3O,OOOOOO cubic feet.
Bear lake is twenty miles long and seven miles
wide, part of it being in Utah and part IN Idaho
North lake covers thirty-six square miles.
Besides furnishing power to the mines of Utah and
Idaho, the Telluride company furnishes light to
Provo, Logan, Bingham Eureka, Mercury Silver
City, Robinson and many other towns and mining
camps 1t also sells power in Salt Lake City.
There many wonders at the Grace plant. 1t
has 12,500-horsepower water wheel, which has no
duplicate anywhere else in the world except at Nj
agara
The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-06-20

to read one issue of The Scmitar is to read them ALL
even as has been said that to circus is
them ALL The dominant note, the thought that is
conveyed to the reader, and which is continually
hammered away upon is the editors hatred of any
thing that pertains to Mormonism
Has it not yet dawned upon The Palladium that
the paper of which it complains was established
largely for the purpose of discussing Mormonism,
opposing the control of the state by the church and
insisting that the laws against the practice of poly
gamy be obeyed? If not it is laboring under a. mis-
apprehension.
The subject is perhaps distasteful to the St. Joe
paper but it is not distasteful to very large por-
ton of the people of Idaho and of other states who
read The Sctnitar studously and ask for more.
These are persons that differ in sentiment with the
complainant, and that there many of them in the
state made certain by the result of the first real
battle at Twin Falls the Sd inst. 1t will be made
additionally certain at the polls next November, for
the beliefs advocated by The Scimtar will be sus-
tanned by majority of the voters
The Palladium is northern publication, its home
being in Kootenai county, and it environment does
not appreciation of the necessity for per-
sistent work in the chosen field of The Scimtar
1t obtain valuable information the subject by
consulting with some of the returned northern dele
gates who participated in the Twin Falls convention
The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-06-20
Press and Comment
n CaUSfic Critic.

The Pocatello Advance which represents Nor
monsm and flies the name of James H. Brady for
governor from it mast head mentions a spectacle
that has been pointed to with pride by persons and
newspapers interested in the cause it represented
In what might be called almost worldwide
perence in the sunshine and shadow Of life, we have
never seen a degrading sight than was wit
messed the streets of this city Thursday afternoon
when the returning democratic delegates from the
Twin Falls convention paraded up and down the
principal thoroughfareS under banners bearing in
scrptions that not only insulting to every Nor
resident of our city, but to every respectable
man, woman and child in the community.
1t is hard to conceive of far bemeanng
himself, far forgetting his manhood as to offer in
suit to his fellow simply because he differs with
him in his religious belief
There is more to the article of the Pocatelo paper,
but good place to stop where it brings in the stale
reference to religious belief If the banner bearers
at Twin Falls and at Pocatello had made their dem
onstraton against a religious belief, they would be
deserving of the strongest criticism that could be
uttered against them. But it must be taken into
account that the plea of religion longer covers the
multitude of sins against which the spirit of true
Amercanism is manfestng itself
Sentiment has been very patient, hoping and ex-
pecting that the religion would justify itself in
time But it fails utterly at every test 1t continues
to conspire for the control of government and for
the supremacy of vice The issue has therefore
been shorn of all the respect that clusters about
churchly affairs and presents itself only in its polit
ical and fractional aspects.
AS long Mormonism persists in remaining in
politics, it must expect to be treated the profane
advocate of doctrine that has become obnoxious to
the better sense of the state, and not a religious
organization
The parade and the banners represented a settled
conviction that public morals must be purified by an
appeal to the ballot and the participants in the dem
onstration not to be turned aside from their in
tentions by those who raise the shield of religion"
between their ndugences and the wrath that threatens
them
The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-06-20
Ne WSPapcr Merger.

A newspaper special from Moscow, Idaho tells
OF the consolidation of papers in that city:
The Moscow Star Mirror comes from the presses
today as an active democratic newspaper as it has
absorbed the Moscow Democrat, the exponent of
democracy in the county seat Heretofore the Star
ton it adopts the flag of democracy and will attempt
to lead the party without special attention to fac
tonal disturbances. The Moscow Democrat will
cease to exist, although the subscription list will
pass to the Star-Mirror. This makes the latter
paper one of the strongest democratic papers in this
part of Idaho. John Schick former editor of the
Democrat will pilot the Star Mirror through political
waters while Johnny Yost editor of the Star Mir
ror, will continue such except so far as political
doctrines are concerned The Star Mirror will con-
tlnue as twice-a-week publication.
The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-06-20
It's Special Mission.

St. Joe Qdaho) Palladium The Scimitar, the
official organ of Fred Dubois, is perhaps the best
edited paper in the state 1t is paper of editorials
and one cannot help but admire its editors STYLE
though the subject matter lacks variety. Frankly,
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-12-26

future countesses. mayoresses squlrenesSes or Suc
like
Dangerous diseases require desperate rene
dies" and the man of straw In these cases WORK
wonders
The scenery of Switzerland is umrivalled and -
diverse and varied the peoples within ITS Dor
ders Majestic mountains raise their snow-cad
peaks in silent scorn Of time and storm and man
beautiful lakes with their cosy hamlets sleeping
on their shores; magnificent glacier streams roll
ing down to the green pastures; fourlshlng cities
crowned with modern beauty and grace or the
quaint old splendor of the medieval days. In no
country in the world is such diversity of life and
manners, diversity of character and scene founC
as in Switzerland; and oh. to watch the sunrise
from the top of Rigi is to behold scene never to
be forgotten.
4 stood upon the hills when heavens wide arch
Was glorious with the suns returning march,
And woods were frightened. and soft gales
Went forth to kiss the sun-clad wales.
The clouds were far beneath me-bathed i'll light,
They gathered midway round the wooded height,
And in their fading glory, shone
Like hosts in battle overtmown
As many pinnacle, with shifting glance
Through the grey mist thrust up its shattered
lance,
And rocking on the cliff was left
The dark pine blasted, bare and cleft.
The veil of cloud was lifted and below
Bowed the rich valley and the rivers flow
Was darkened by the forests shade
Or glistened in the white cascade"
Large hearted. simple deeply patriotic, the
people of Switzerland. content in that beautiful!
land of theirs can point to past full of heroic
struggle, and let hope, to future full of rosy
promise,
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-12-26
SWITZERLAND.
Continued from page ~

progress, especially in Geneva, and Lucerne is
noted Tor It's Catholic element. | may mention
here that the world-renowned organ in the Catbo-
lie cathedral is of the chief attractions for the
tourist as it is the pride and glory of the inhabt
ants he government OF Switzerland is essential
ly democratic. The country is, divided into can
tons, and each of these cantons has the complete
right to manage It's affairs so that each canton
III certain sense is sovereign state While each
canton retains the power of internal management
general matters which concern the Welfare of the
whole state are IN the hands of a body called the
federal government. The questions of peace trea-
ties, war. weights and measures, post and tee-
graph, money and general revenue are settled bv
the federal government. The Swiss are by second
nature soldiers. Every man is soldier and he
takes to the profession of arms as readily and as
loyfuly as duck to the water The term of mill
tary service Is from seventeen to fifty and no
one is exempt unless he is physically incapable or
under the size; and. speaking about size. | sup
pose there IS no army i'll the world which has small
er soldiers, the regulation height being feet -
inches. But the saying. ."There ere good goods IN
small parcels" is very applicable to the Swiss sol
der Since the days of William Tell the Swiss
have practlced one branch of arms, and that is
rifle shooting They continually engaged AT
it, even on Sundays and the women take as much
interest in it as the men. The Swiss as a second
rate power, possess the best drilled army anonr
the nations of the earth. They are model Of
organization and regularity and this is all the
more credtable seeing that no soldier is paid for
his services patriotism alone being the moving
power. The Swiss homes are very comfortable.
and above all, neat and well kept They are con
structed for the most part of stone to height Of
eight feet and upon this basis a structure of
wood is raised. The front and back project moro
than our English American houses. and the
roof is of tiles. In Catholic homes without ex-
cepton, you will three things especiailya cru
cifx, picture of the Holy Family or some saint
and clock The Swiss have custom which /
think would be sometimes useful in America
Now, dear reader, don't think / am hard on
the women; | am not, and / imagine | hear great
many practical American men and women say
Amen" to this Swiss custom, with this after
thought, Il guess it would work all right The
custom is this. If any girl dearly 'loves lord
or, in other words looks for partner far above
her in rank, education such like the people
bring her to the right about in this way; They
dress figure up in straw and place it outside of
her window during the night, so that in the morn
ing when she looks out she receives a gentle re
mnder of what her lord when she weds him will
be likely to turn out 1t cures ''high notions. IL
fact it is the best antidote know for imaginative
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-12-26
THE LOOKOUT MAN,


(The following verses were written in 1904 for
the authors little girl to recite at a Christmas
celebration in the Lincoln public schools They
we're printed in The Commoner at the time, and
every year since repeated requests have come that
they be republished. Because of these requests
which are now coming in agai1l-and not because
of any particular merit claimed for them by the
author the verses are again republished, with the
authors love to all the boys and girls everywhere
who waiting and hoping that Santa Claus will
visit them. And may every childish hope be filled
and every little heart made glad with the coming
of the Christmas season.)
Now listen. little children and I'll tell story
And better you remember, for it means a lot to
YOU
And all who act up naughty, and don't mind their
mas and pas,
You'll get lot of presents, and lot of Christmas
cheer.
The Lookout Man is walking when the stars begin
To see if little children are in bed and fast asleep
And all who act up naughty and don't mind their
mas and pas,
The Lookout Man is watching, and he'll tell old
Santa Claus.
[ knew a little fellow once who got real bad, and
said
He didn't care for Santa Claus, and wouldn't go to
bed;
And said he didn't have to mind-O, he was awful
And didn't the leastest mite in making folks
feel sad.
But when it came to Christmas, he didn't get
sthing,
For Santa Claus had heard of him, and not thing
he'd bring
He knew that bad boys record-better mind your
mas and pas;
The Lookout Man is watching, and he'll tell old
Santa Claus
l also knew little girl who was just awful bad:
She wouldn't learn her lessons, and she always cot
so mad
If anybody told her to be still and hush her noise
Well, she was always wishing for lot of Christ
mas toys,
But when twas Christmas morning to- her wonder
and surprise,
An empty stocking hanging in the corner met her
eyes.
You see, she acted naughty-better mind your mas
The Lookout Man is watching. and he'll tell old
Santa Claus.
The Lookout Man is peepng through the windows
every night.
And counting up the children who are always act
ing right
And going off to bed at once when told it's time
to go,
And never poutng, not bit, or taking clothes off
slow.
He puts them in the good book but the bad ones in
the bad
And when he writes bad one. Q, he looks just
awful sad.
For he knows they will get nothing-better mind
your mas and pas;
The Lookout Man is watching, and he'll tell old
Santa Claus!
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-12-26
lift YOUR HATS. R0Ys.o

(Ihe practice now widespread among Cath
olics Of raising the hat when passing church. as
mark of respect to the Blessed Sacrament, seems
to have been of Irish origin. In view of this claim
the Holy Father last year authorized His Grace
the Archbishop Of Dublin to grant an indulgence
of one hundred days to the faithful of his diocese
each time they offer this mark of faith and veneer
alton. The following spirited stanzas, bearing the
title given above, by one of the many gifted
Catholic women who are now using their pens for
the credit of their faith in the United States The
name of Miss Mary Sarsfield Gilmore will recall
that of her father, once notable figure in the
American musical world).
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-12-26
DENoUNCES RoWDYISM IN COLLEGE.
President Cavanaugh of Notre Dame Points to
Serious Evil
John Greenleaf Whittier.

PRESIDENT CaVanaugh OF Notre lame FolnS 10
Serious Evil.
Notre Dame. Ind, Dec. AT the general as
sembly Of the faculty and students of the Uni
versitv of Notre Dame on Presidents day the Rev
erend DR.. Cavanaugh. in his address, deprecated
the growing levity toward authority manfesting it
self III American college Life. He declared that
obcdience to the law cf the nation must find Its
best expression in the observance of rules and laws
among college mon if the increasing restlesspess
among the people at large IS to be controlled. He
said:
From time to time we hear of rowdyism in
of defiance OF officers of the law The honest toll
and the business who love public order are
not to Ne blamed if at times they lose faith in edu
cation; if at times they ask themselves what may
he expected of the ignorant and unframed since
such lawlessness Is found in the colleges which are
preparing professional men and the leaders Of to-
morrow.
True education involves the illumination of
the mind by knowledge, the training of the will by
daily discipline and the publication and strength
enlng Of the heart by religion To this ideal your
alma mater stands dedicated. Upon her success in
realizing this great result she rests her claim to
the gratitude of Achieving this ideal she
achieves the end of her being: failing in 1t, she
would 60 down to disaster and ruin.
You therefore her crown and her glory.
Her domes and her spires might leap higher into
the heavens; the erudtion of her professors might
be the marvel and admiration of the world, her
artistic and historic treasures might be rich and
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-12-26
THE TWO ANGELS.

God called the nearest angels who dwell with Him
above;
The tenderest one was Pity, the dearest one was
Love.
arise" He said, my angels! vail of woe and
sin
Steals through the gates of heaven, and saddens
all within.
my harps take up the mournful strain that from
a lost world swes.
The smoke of torment clouds the light and blights
the asphodes.
ely downward to that underworld, and on its souls
Let Love drop smiles, like sunshine, and Pity tears
like rain!'
Two faces bowed before the Throne yelled in their
golden hair;
Four white wings loosened swiftly down the dark
abyss of air.
The way was strange, the flight was long, at last
the angels
Where swung the lost and neither world, red
wrapped in rayless flame.
There Pity, shuddering. wept; but Love with faith
to strong for fear,
Took heart from Gods almightiness and smiled
smile of cheer
And 10! the ear of Pity quenched the flame where
on it fell
And with the sunshine of that smile hope entered
into hell.
Two unveiled faces full Of JOY looked upward to the
-Four white wings folded at the feet of Him who
sat thereoni
And deeper than the sound of seas, more soft than
falling flake,
IF
nal spake:
''Wecome. my angels; ye have brought holier JOY
to heaven;
Henceforth its sweetest song shall be the song of
sin forgiven"
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-12-26
MATER DOLOROSA.

Because of little low-laid heads all crowned
With golden hair
torevermore all fair young brows to me
halo wear;
| Kiss them revently-aasl I know
The stains l bear
Because of little pallid lips which once
My name did call
NO childish voice IN vain appeal upon
My ear doth fall
| count it all my JOY their Joys to share
And sorrows small.
Because Of dear but close-shut holy ewes
Of heavens own blue
All little eyes do fill my own with tears,
Whateer their hue;
And motherly / gaze their innocent
Clear depths into.
Because Of little death-cold feet for earth's
Roads unmeet
I'd journey leagues to save from sin or harm
Such little feet;
And count the lowliest service done for them
So sacred-sweetl
Because of little dimpled. folded hands
Which folded lie
All little hands henceforth to me do have
A pleading cry;
| clasp them as they were small wandering bird
Lured home to fly.
Mary T. Field
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-12-26

beautiful beyond the dreams of fancy; her halls
might be crowded with thousands Of students from
the four winds of heaven but in the end it is upon
her sons she must depend for favorable judgment
from God and humanity
IF they religious men, if they reverence
authority and obey the law they are her vndica-
ton before the world, even before that world which
looks coldly upon her faith and traditions, but
which is constrained to confess that the nobest
product of civilization is the educated Christian
gentleman"