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The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1908-08-15
My First
Blizzard
BIZ z. II. STEPHENSON.

"A bit run down, and a good bit
nervous. and-and-likely to be 10!
worse II not attended to at once, u
WAS all the cd family doctor had to
say after hurried diagnosis OF my
case.
My mother, whose anxiety was
rather pent up anyway, began to cry.
and began to think OF Uncle Billy,
only few years my senior, who Nv.
ed in the far away West on a ranch
some twenty-five miles from a rail-
way.
l ran upstairs for the big batch Of
letters that he had written me and
that had appreciated as coming from
him, but whose con:e1tc had aever
before held more than a :em3.c inter
est for me.
What change a few words from
the old doctor had made in my way
of looking at things!
read these letters afrcsh with
anazement and with the keenest and
widest delight. l even began to pity
my uncle in his loneliness, and in one
short hour my heart and soul were
with him en- the plains.
Uncle Billy, who had gone under
similar conditions, had recovered al.
most miraculorsly, and my parents
were willing That should go, all the
more, as SO much depended on prompt
action In my case.
In twenty-four hours l was aboard
the Burlington" stoacning to the
westward for Q small Indian trading.
post, called Fort Morgan, in nothern
Colorado.
A telegram from my father had
brought my uncle to the fort, ana
there he awaited my arrival. had
left everything behind me; my school.
my graduation, my home. and my
chunrs, but had not realized 1t until
my uncle and had started across
the plains to the Big Bijou. on which
river, or rather, river-bottom, he had
bought large ranch.
talked fast and kept Is it by main
force. In self-defense. for l was afraid
to think, and the few hours neces.
sary to reach the ranch soon passed.
Uncle Billy and were soon chums
IS OF old. and as my health improved
] was coctert with my lot. We bust
ed ourselves with the summers work,
and ae the two OF us could do more
than ones alone, we had our Sa:ur.
days Oh, for getting mail at the fort
and for marketing our stun, consist.
ing of eggs and butter, for uncle had
not yet begun to market stock from
the ranch.
AZ the winter approached our trips
20 the market grew less frequent.
partly because uncle wanted to get
lot Of sod turned before freezing.
and partly because by holding OF we
could command even more exorbit-
ant rrices for our produce. The sea.
son Va nearing the holidays, and
0cre than month Nd pa1sed since
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1908-08-15
Powdered Eggs.

Powdered eggs is a greater HUI.
try in Europe than in this counu!'
The egg is dried in or out OF a vac
uum, usually at. a gentle heat o. /"
currents of air. When placed Oh ~. =.
market the dried egg IS usaS's
ground. Sometimes salt or sugar. ~'
both have been used as preserVa.'s-
Such material is merely egg IRON
which the bulk of water has Deeh =
moved. One pound Of these e'ap"
ated eggs is equal to ABOUT ~.
pounds of fresh eggs IN nu.i"' !.
value. They are Of especial Vaiue
provisioning camps ard eXpeu".
What To Eat, the Pure Fooa ''s
azine.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1908-08-15
PISTOLS NOT SOLD IN TEXAS.
But Leased for Fifty Years Instead
on Account of a Tax Law.

on Account Of a Tax Law.
A cowboy walked into a hardware
store AT Austin, Texas, and asked for
a good six shooter.
How much is it," he asked when
he had looked il over.
Il can't sell it to you," the dealer
replied, but l will lease it to you
for fifty years for SIS"
This is a dad blamed funny kind
Of joint" the cowboy said. Il don't
want to lease gun; l want to own
it,"
He started to walk out, but was
called back by the dealer, who ex-
planned that the last Legislature pass
ed a law which imposes a tax Of
so per cent. IN the gross proceeds
from the sale Of pistols.
If sold you this six shooter for
SIS l would have to pay the State
a tax of $780," the hardware man
explained. Il can lease it to you for
fifty years and won't have to pay the
State anything"
The cowboy saw the point and leas-
ed the gun.
The law which was enacted for the
purpose of taxing pistols out of ex-
istence in Texas has been in effect
more than nine months. During that
period only two pistols have been sod
in Texas, according to the tax re-
ceipt records OF the State comp.rol-
ler's Office.
One of these weapons WAS sold the
ether day in Amarillo for SIS and the
dealer made remittance of $3.50 tax
On the sale. The ether pistol was
sold at Gainesville several weeks ago
for $40 enc half OF which sum pass
ed into the Golfers of the S;a:-.
1t is said that dealers all over
Texas are evading he new law by
leasing pistols for periods Of fifty
years and more. Pistol toting is not
openly practised in any part of Texas.
Many men sill wear six shooters,
but the weapons are hidden. There
has been wonderful change through
out the southwest in this respect dur
ing the last fifteen or twenty years.
In the early days almos. every ma
tive in this region wore one or two
six shooterx in holsters attached to
a belt around his waist. TEea the
moral wave which wiped on. ganb-
ling and is about 10 do away with
the saloon in Texas came along and
the six shooter lost lis popularity.
Only a few days ago a MAJ here
was fined s1OO for carrying q pistol
Not great many years ago 81 and
costs was the usual punishment in
ficted.
1, is said thai tie fight AGAINST
carving pistols las s-ea.ly lesseloi
the mortality rate III Texas. Muir
ders are still committed, but there
has been a decrease in the indiscrimi-
nae shooting and killing that former
ly took place in the State.-New York
Sun.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1908-08-15

showing that the sea bottom II ),
SCUM mas sunk: The uplift q; y
island and the sinking Of tho W. "
tom shows that lava is being a sss w
from under the sea. 'Apslls
! Professor See gives man.
ocean depths near the A,eut;.
ands, and also near the Knr,;a
japanese Islands, and as the s.' -
| Quakes follow these subsid sno.s
evident that the cause Of these ~
l1:pances is everywhere the s,a.
namely, the expulsion of Law, wv
! un@Sf the sea- SO that the bott sa
SINGS ~, down e,s: into a narrow trough.
! IN this way the Island of IT,.
! NIPPON was raised from tho ss
Inc mole in the sea bottom lust III
OF Japan made by the expulsion :.
lava is called the Tuscaror, n. Y
from our ship Tuscarora. which s
discovered this deep trough NJ
know that the Island of Nippon c,"l
out OF there. because if It wers =.
on and thrown into the hole II v,.'|
about fill it up. In the same vav ).
Aleutian and kurlie Islands y A.
or and thrown into the adi,..,.
trenches near them, would fill nm y.
troughs which now appear there
Ii we go along in field and con.|
upon trench with a ridge beside \
We know that the ridge was made n
dirt taken out of the ditch. Il
This investigation. showing ho,
mountains are formed in the 60. n
likely to prove of profound sien,A
canoe for all the sciences which de,,|
with the earth. 1t shows clearly th,,
the sea bottoms leak even when n.
underlying rock is twenty miles dean
and chat all the mountains were on..
il Tie depths of the sea. They WON
uDlifted by earthquakes pushing M
tie land, and not at all by the shriui.
ASC VI l1C GdItl
Professor See calculates that IN.
earth is now expanding from ten IA
one hundred times more RAPIDLY than
1t is contracting under the infuenr
OF secular cooling. He discusses ain
a mountain range now forming In Ii.
sea between Samoa and New Zealand,
Here the sea is very deep and has !,
ridge to the west, just as in the en-
Of the kurlie Island. The Pacific
Ocean is erecting a wall on the west
just like the Andes on the east. TIN
chain between Samoa and
New Zealand is about 1900 mila
long and eventually will be very hish
1t is still below the water, EXCEPT 1
few of the peaks which are raised
above as islands. But in the courN
Of geological ages the western ridN
will form a high range, and then, like
the eastern side of the trough, viii
fold up and form another high ridr
parallel to the first. This is how par.
allel mountain ranges are formed. and
it is all the work of the sea, according
to simple Observation-Disclosures Ledger.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1908-08-15
E'!IL-ll q THEORY OF THE ORIGIN Or N0|TN7Ir|

Professor T. J. J. See. United States
Navy, the we'll known astronomer
has recently published an important
paper on the New Theory of Earth
quakes and Mountain Formation as
illustrated by Processes Now al
! Work in the Depths of the Sea-
In two previous papers which have
been widely read all over the world
he showed that six great classes of
i phenomena, namely, earthquakes.
volcanoes, mountain formation, the
formation OF islands and plateaus. seis-
mic sea waves following great earth
/ qEakes and the feeble attraction of
mountains long noticed in Gsodesy,
are bat different effects of the
common cause.-The secular leakage
of the ocean bottom. This forms
steam beneath the earth's crust,
which brings on earthquakes, the
earthquakes uplift islands in the sea,
and mountains along the shore by the
expulsion of lava under the land.
When the earth's crust is thus up
lifted along the seashore mountains
are produced, and some of the noun
tains break into eruption and form
volcanoes.
The expulsion Of lava from under
the sea undermines trenches in the
sea bottom, and the crust gives down
and forms the deeps often noticed
near the land. The sinking of tie
sea bottoms after an earthquake pro-
Cuces the seismic sea wave so often
to follow great earthquakes.
Thus the uplift OF the coast into
mountains and the sinking OF the ad-
jacent sea bottom into trench is the
effect Of the expulsion OF, lava from
under the bed of he sea- This e2-
puls,un Is due to steam which forms
under the sea but not under the land
and hence when the steam pressure
becomes very great it pushe out I'M
der the land and lifts the coast.
In 1899 the coast near Yakutat
cay, ALASKA, wss uplifted By great
earthquake for 100 miles, and at the
maximum the raise was forty-saven
INCl ulS SuOWS ltlCC d vast lUGAL1tN
OF lava was expelled from under the
ocean and pushed unde: the land
which was thus appraised.
In the present paper Professor See
shows conclusively that the Aleutian
Islands are merely a branch of the |
Rocky Mountains still in the ocean to |
show us exactly how all mountains |
were formed. In the deep waters just |
south of the Aleutian Islands the sea |
bottom is sinking into deep trench.
1t is from 5000 to 1000 fatnoms deep
and just parallel to the islands.
At almost every big earthquake in |
this region some one of the Aleutian
Islands is uplifted, and sometimes
new volcano breaks out. On the
other hand, a seismic sea wave fire.
quently accompanies this movement,
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1908-08-15

The last seasons seal ca: CHI is the
smallest that there is any record Of.
1t amounted to fewer than G,OO0-
about halt that of the previous year.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1908-08-15

The most receE. church census of
this country shows 40 denominations,
with I61,731 ministers, 210,199
churches aEd 32,SS3,15S members.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1908-08-15

Great attention is being given .
Bohemia to the bul!clDS o. ho
dams not only to provide water 49,.
but to lessen the damages
foods.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1908-08-15

The cry of a wounded hare re
sembles that OF child in distress.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-06-20
caIcuIatina the sunk Distance.

For a long time astronomers have
been trying to measure accurately the
distance from the earth to the sun
Once ascertained this would serve as a
unit of measure in exploring the starry
realms. The Supplying precision with
which these learned men announce the
goings and comings of celestial bodies
seems to indicate that an error of a
few million miles more or less in the
measurement of distances makes little
difference in the perfection of their cal
culations.
The calculation in trigonometry to OBJ
tain the third angle and the height are
made three months apart, which gives
quarter of the earth's orbit as a base.
But this process is very ineXact, for in
such a vast distance an infinitesimal
error in measuring one of the angles
would produce an enormous error ip the
result.
Kepler showed that if we could meas
ure the exact distance from the earth
TO one other planet it would give us
data enough from which to calculate
the distance from the sun to all other
bodies of the solar system, and since
his day this indirect method of meas
urement has been employed, the dis
tances from the earth to Mars and
Venus, the nearest planets, being the
principal objects of the attention of
astronomers. The results obtained I'M
til few years ago left possible error
of about a million miles.
In 1898 Professor Witt of the Berlin
observatory discovered the planet Eros,
which at certain times is only a few
million miles from us. Fifty-eight as
tronomers at once took concerted meas
urements. and the Able MoreauX has
just published the first results of this
gigantic work, which represents about
80 900 observations through the tele-
scope and 10000 with a camera. all at
the expense of the French government.
The distance from the earth to the
sun is proved by the time of these OBJ
servations to be 92.876,79 miles, with
possible error of about $4,000 miles,
which error, comments the reverend
astronomer, is insignificant, for it is
just in the proportion of one in 1850.
The able promises us that when all the
observations on Eros shall have been
tabulated the possible error will be re-
duced to about $4,000.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-06-20
Beauty That Lasts.

Beauty is called a dangerous gift, not
because it is not good to be beautiful
but because the girl who is pretty is
almost certain to think that her
beauty is all sufficient. With it she
imagines she can conquer her kingdom
She does not consider that beauty may
fade. 1t is something as difficult for
her to realize as death itself is to the
young; it is far off, vague, all but inn
possible.
How is she ever going to look other
than she does now, and still be her
self? And at any rate there are al
ways the means to make the repairs of
| beauty, and sufficient unto the day is
the evil thereof.
And so, in an average of more than
half the instances, she goes dancing
off about her pleasure like fly in the
sun. as full of the present, as careless
of the future. She makes no prepara-
ton for the impending fate which Is
sure to come to her if she lives long
enough She relies on her fair face, her
bushes, her dimples. her radiance, her
smiles, her glances. her sweetness.
To, please and attract is the aim of
her life, and it does not need the Gull
tivation of the sterner virtues for that.
The pretty girl ignores intellectual Gull
tivation.
Who cares for, syllogisms, lectures.
instructions? she unconsciously argues
from rosy lips Who will stop to ask
if the bright eyes have dulled them
selves over dry pages of scholastic lore?
Let who will be learned; it is enough
for her to be gay and happy. What,
then, has our pretty creature left for
the dim passage of middle-age. when
beauty has fallen away. but there still
is left the desire to hold captive what
once beauty gained?
The time is coming when there will
be deep crescents round the mouth.
whose lovely curves have been dragged
down by flaccid muscles; when there
will be fine spider-web lines about the
eyes; when there will be holows in the
cheeks; when the red and white of the
skin will have become blurred and mot
tied or overlaid with yellow sallow-
ness.
Let the pretty girl remember that in
the darkness of that middle passage the
beauty that she had before she entered
it will not signify; all faces are in the
darkness together then, the girl that
was plain with the girl that was beau
tiful. The wreck of beauty signifies,
then. no more than the wreck of what
never was beauty.
1t is the sweet voice, the kindly man.
ner. the burden of what is said, the
tender-heartedness of what is done
that tells with any effect then.
1t will not be long before she arrives
at this time, which, in comparison to
the blaze of youth, neighbors close on
the dark; and she will need then all
with which she can have filled her in
tellect and fed her soul; all that wit
and virtue and breeding can have
given her. in order to retain anything
of that kingdom to which in the early
days she felt herself born by right
divine.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-06-20
Cardinal a Good Shot.

The New York World said a few
days ago:
Cardinal Logue at a Coney Island
shooting gallery scoring bull's-eyes
gave an exhibition of ecclesiastical dig
nifty relaxed which it is agreeable to
note. Whatever role the demands of
the occasion have required the Irish
primate to fill on his visit to the
United States as direct representative
of st. Patrick at the Catholic Centen-
airy, whether in the Cathedral celebrat-
ing Pontifical mass, at meetings of the
clergy and in public assemblages, at
banquets, before the reporters camera,
at all functions, grave or gay, he has
conducted himself with a regard for
circumstances and prOprieties which
has won general admiration. The car
dinal'S frankness of mind and freedom
from affectarion, his Celtic wit and the
glimpses of his human side beneath the
church robes have combined to en-
dear him to men of all creeds. The
Vatican could have no more efficient
legate in America than he has proved
himself
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-06-20
My Own Dear Land.

(Thomas Moynhan, in the Dublin Free
mans Journal)
My own dear Land! There's none sc
fair
None half as dear to me;
And while one chords within my heart
Twill throb alone for thee.
Your valleys and your mountains bold,
And rivers running free,
Your wild glens and wild-rose bowers
Are dear as dear can be.
Your ruins old, that wake the Past
Again to memory;
Your hallow'd graves of martyred
dead,
Who died for liberty;
Each blade of grass once trampled DER
By chief and brave Ard-Ri,
Will ever wake an ardent wish,
My native land, for thee.
Oh. let me see thee smile again,
And hear thy harp once more
Breathe forth the olden strains BELOVED
Your wales and Highlands DER.
Your chains in dust that rankle now,
Oh, grant mine eyes may see,
And / will bless the hallowed hour,
My own dear land, for thee.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-06-20
The Light of other Days.

Oft. in the Silly night.
Ere slumber's chain has bound me,
Fond memory brings the light
OF other days around me;
The smiles. the tears
Of boyhood's years;
The words of love then spoken;
The eyes that shone,
Now dim'd and gone,
The cheerful hearts now broken;
Thus, in the Silly night,
Ere slumbers chain has bound me,
Sad memory brings the light
OF other days around me.
When l remember all
The friends so link'd together,
I've seen around me fall
Like leaves in wintry weather,
! feel like one
Who treads alone
Some banquet hall deserted,
Whose lights are fled,
Whose garlands dead,
And all but he departed!
Thus, in the Silly night,
Ere sIumber's chain has bound me,
Sad memory brings the light
OF other days around me.
Thomas Moore.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-06-20
The Glens of Clare.

(R. o. X. in the Irish MontbIv1
God made the winding glens of Clare
God blessed the smiling glens of Clare
And virgins fair,
And monks of PRAYER
Hallowed the lovely glens of Glare
God bless those glens so soft and green
with many brook and brake be.
tween;
And sloping down
The bracken brown
Puppies the lovely glens, 1 ween.
God bless the guardian hillsides bare.
And all the ivied strongholds there;
Where sword In hand,
For Faith and Land
Dalcassian did what man may dare.
God bless those dells so quaint and
rare,
And every homestead nesting there;
The peasants cot
is the dearest spot:
God bless its lot in hammered Clare
God bless those gentle laneways thro'
where linnets sing and ringdoves coe
And nOontide's beam
And evenings CLEAN
Linger, like me, to say adieu.
God made the lovely glens of Clare;
God bless the lovely glens of Clare;
And virgins fair
And saints at prayer
Hallow still yet the glens Of Clare.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-06-20

for number of years national presi-
dent of the United Irish League and
did effective work with voice and pen
for the Irish Parliamentary party in
their struggle for Irelands freedom.
1t will be remembered by many that
he delivered one of the most eloquent
speeches on Ireland's cause ever heard
in Columbus three years ago. His His
tory of Ireland and other books will
stand as a monument to his we'll
known literary ability. His death will
be a distinct loss to the cause of Irish
nationality and will be keenly felt by
the Home Rule party in the English
house of commons
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-06-20
Defective Sense of Beauty.

Modern women are eXtravagant. "
says Mrs. Ellen H. Richards, but it is
the conditions of our modern life, with
its loss of personal independence. which
are to blame for the extravaganza"
Mrs. Richards teaches in the Institute
of Technology and is deeply interested
in educational questions, particularly
those which relate to economic and in
dustrial training. but before every
thing else Mrs. Richards is a gracious,
! charming lady, who moves among her
| glass TASKS and Bunsen burners of her
chemical laboratory with the same
poise and dignity which her mother
probably showed in the linen room fifty
years ago. So one isn't surprised to
| find that while the Tech teacher real
ICES perfectly all the temptations which
| the modern woman is heir to, her plea
! is not the overcoming of these tempta-
! tons by mannish disregard of all pretty
things, but rather return to the old.
beautiful ideals of living, which recog-
nized primarily that things were not
really pretty" unless they were also
good
She compared the women of today
and of fifty years ago as regards the
quantity and the quality of their
dresses
Did you ever hear of the judges
wife in one of our Massachusetts
towns?" she asked, who had only three
gowns?"
Her gray eyes smiled quietly as she
watched the establishment of her TWEEN
tieth century listener. and she contin-
ued in calm enjoyment
Yes, she had her morning gown. in
which she did her housework-linsey
Woolsey, l suppose it was, spun by her
self-and she had the gown which she
wore for calls and at church, and then
she had her beautiful brocade. heavy
and rich and splendid-why, it would
stand alone! And it cost a great deal.
because It was such a lovely thing: but
she wore it and wore it, and handed it
down to her daughter. and even now
it's the most precious dress of the
daughters daughter
But compare with that inventory the
gowns of a woman Of today She must
have her morning dress. which she can
never wear in the afternoon: she must
have gowns for street wear. for din
ners. for receptions, for dances, for lee
lures. And yet-she hasn't one really
nice dress out of the lot-how can she
when she must have so many?
Its this desire for the show of
things and not for the real goodness
underneath that is the greatest extrav-
agance of modern women" declared
Mrs. Richards with increasing fervor
Instead of getting one nice gown
which will last for years and years. we
get these slazy stuffs which pull to
pieces before the season is over. And
the reason is that our sense of beauty
is defective"