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The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-11-14
The Game.

Let's laugh at the world and its sor-
row,
Let's laugh at the world and its
woes
Don't bother about the tomorrow
Let each day suffice as it goes.
Bad tempers just rile up the liver
To weep only reddens the eyes
To evils of earth just don't give "a
Brief hour, for the time, how it flies'
This life is-so short. tbs a pity
To fill every minute with grief;
Brace up! smile again and look pref
ty-
Gay faces are such a relief!
Why fancy that you're conductor
Of misery, malice and sin?
Don't give up the ship till you've
chucked a
Good bluff and INDUCED in a grin.
The burden you carry, good fellow,
Is not so much bigger than mine,
But why show a streak of the yellow
A thoroughbred will not repine.
We're here in the game! It's your ante.
Now draw to the Strength Of your
hand.
A man must stay inf he can't he
Is shy the ingredient-sand.
BROOKLYN Life
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-11-14
Who He Was.

Irwin Cobb tells a story of little,
weary negro who went into a resort in
Natchez. displayed large roll of bills
and bought a drink.
As he was paying for. it another ne
gro came in, very large and very black.
He looked at the little man and said:
"Niggah, whar you git all dat money? %
'Bah-tendah," said the little negro,
by way of a reply. "Ah think All shall
TEX bottle of dat-ah stuff. Pears
quite satisfyin' tub me-
''Niggah.' roared the big one, ',whar
you git dat money? l asst you. rs the
town bully. 1 is. 1 follow bullyin' foh
a trade. Whar you git it?''
The little negro began stuff1ng the
money back into his pockets Seems
to me-" he unused. 81 amt got huff
pockets to hold all nah wealth.
The big negro jumped at the little
one. you hear what l said?" he de-
manded. rs the town bully an I
wanter know whar you sit all dat mon
ey?"
Quick as a flash the little negro up
percut the big one, catching him on the
point of the jaw and knocking him
down. In moment the big negro re-
Vived enough to look up from the floor
and ask humbly: ''Niggah, who is you,
anyhow"
Why" replied the little one, blow
ing his knuckles, us tn pusson you
thought you wuz when you come in
Saturday Evening Post
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-11-14

An editor was sitting in his office one
day when man entered whose brow
was clouded with thunder. Fiercely
Selling a chair, he slammed his hat on
the table and sat down.
Are you the editor?" he asked.
Yes
Can you read and writer
"Of course
"Read that, then" he said thrusting
scription on il.
- said the editor, trying to spell
it out.
That's not B. it's an s. said the
man.
well. it looks like Salt for Dinners,
or Soul for sinners"
mo, sir replied the man. It's my
name-Samuel Brunners. l knew you
couldn't read. l called to see you about
that poem of mine you prined the other
day, entitled The Surcease of Scr
row.
4 don't remember it," said the editor.
"Of course you don't. because it went
into the paper under the villainous title
'Smearcase Tomorrow.
"A blunder of the compositor. | sup
pose"
Eyes. sir. and that is what am here
to see you about. The way in which the
poem was mutilated was simply scam
dalous. haven't slept a night since. 1t
exposes me to derision. People think
me fool. (The editor coughed.) Let
me show you. This first line, when 1
wrote it. read this way:
Lying by q weeping willow under
meath a gentle slope This is beautiful
and poetic Now, how did your vile
sheet represent it to the public? Lying
to a weeping widow, 1 induced her to
elope'
Weeping widow mind you. A
widow Oh, thunder and lightning!
This is too much
It's very hard, sir, very hard" said
the editor.
"Then take the fifth verse. In the
original manuscript it said, plain as
day: Take away the jingling money.
ii is only glittering dross.' In its
away the tingling money; put some
feeel liking attacking somebody with
your fire shovel. But. oh, look at the
sixth verse I write: Tn weary of the
tossing ocean as it heaves.
when ] opened up your paper and
saw the lines transformed into Pm
wearing out my trousers till they are
open at the knees l thought that was
taking it an inch too far. I fancy that
I have a right to murder that compos-
itor. Where is he?''
He is out just now. said the editor
Come in tomorrow"
Il WILL said the POLITICALLY inclined
individual land I will come armed"
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-11-14
Ills Best to Forqet.

The mean things others have said
about you.
The injury any person has done you.
The mistakes you have made in the
past, except as they may warn you in
future.
The kindness you have tried to do
others
The days when you We're better off
than you are now.
The promises other people have made
TO you.
The ill-natured gossip you have heard
concerning others.
The secrets entrusted TO your conf
dence.
The worry that binders your happi-
ness.-London Weekly.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-11-14
Entertainment VS.. Relation.

Truly the ministers are not at a loss
in these sensational times for topics to
talk about on Sundays. 1t is hard for
US to believe that their congregations
go to church TO pray and to worship
God. So much that is irrevelant to re-
ligion is introduced into their services
how can they denominate it petition,
praise or thanksgiving to God? 1t is
as if people would be entertained at
church, if they are to come at all. Are
the people getting what they want, not
what they need? And whose is the
fault? Here are some Soul-sup-
porting subjects treated of on last Sun
day: ''Tolstoi, the Man and His Mes
sage" The Measure of Our Selfhood. -
THE Universal Force 1.-THE Industrial
Problem: Labor Unions" "The Dreams
of Heroes, - The Touch of Red Some
Important Questions of the Day.
True Patriotism" Keep Your VIM
dows Open" Governor Hughes and the
Crooks Personal Liberty: What %
The Universal Mind What do you
think about it, you Catholics who went
oMass last Sunday and heard the
Gospel preached, just as you hear Mass
and listen 10 the Word OF God every
Sunday? What do you think of these
ministers and their congregations, who
take themselves so seriously and who
think that you and the rest of man
kind are going astray? Would you
stand for it? And If you did, would you
call yourselves Christians ?'-The Tab
let, Brooklyn.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-11-14
Sublime Mission of the Press.

IL appears 10 be the consensus of opin-
ION that the troubles which have come
upon the Catholics of France are due in
Some measure to the lack of a strong,
Vigilant. outspoken Catholic press. 1t
must not be supposed, however, that
this fact has been recently discovered.
Long before the breaking of the storm
winch swept away the rights of the
church in France, far-sighted French
Catholics saw the need of an influential
Catholic press. They saw that modern
conditions demand that the altar and
the pulpit must have an auxiliary in
the press. Through the press come
some OF the most insidious assaults
upon the church. and through the same
agency must defense be made. Men of
forethought saw and appreciated this
fact in France a generation ago. but
unfortunately the necessary steps for
the establishment and maintenance Of
a vigorous Catholic press was not
taken. Thirty years ago. for instance,
NJ. Baudon, president of the st. Vincent
de Paul society, in writing for the
Catholics of France, expressed himself
as follows:
The Importance of the press is not
understood enough by the faithful.
They look to the building of churches.
to the founding of communities, to the
multiplying of homes for orphans and
poor, all clearly necessary works, but
they forget that over and above these
needs there is another which the pres
sure of facts makes first of all-it is
the extension of the Catholic press, at
least in certain countries. of which
France is one, for if the Catholic press
is not supported. encouraged, elevated
to the height of its sublime mission,
then the churches. if not burned. will be
empty. the religious communities will
be expelled and the homes for orphans
and poor-nay, the very schools them
selves-will be taken from the religion
that founded them"
NJ. Baudon's words have proved pro-
phetic, in France at least What is
their value as a prophecy with respect
to conditions in other countries? Here
in the United States at present we
simply revel in freedom, but what of
the future? What bulwark are we
erecting against tides Of atheism, So
cialism and destruction? Are we suf-
ficiently alive to the Importance of the
We know very well that we are not.
We know very we'll that what NJ. Bau-
don so fittingly describes as the ''su-
blime mission of the Catholic press
appeals TO but a limited number Of
those who should be the first to see
that the work of presenting Catholic
truth through the medium of the press
is work of the utmost Importance to
the present and future of the church in
America Sacred Heart Review
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-11-14
Land of Hearts Deesire.

Where is the land Of the hearts desire
The land where men cease TO mourn
Does it rest in the west where the suns
expire,
Or east where the suns are born?
Is it hidden deep where gold rivers
flow?
rs it high aloft where the sleep winds
blow?
Or is it between, where the laurels
grow
This land of the hearts desire?
Where is the land of the hearts desire?
The land of hope fulfilled?
Goes one forth to the north where the
hills are higher?
= Or south where the fields are TILED?
Is its vastness the stretch of two cling
ing arms?
Are it's peaks of achievements above
alarms?
Or ara wales of oblivion the chiefest
OF the land of the hearts desire?
Where is the land of the hearts desire?
OF what use that the sage should
say?
So near by that the eye and the soul
aspire.
Yet a lifetime meeting of earth and
sky;
A little beyond where the marsh lights
die;
Where the deserts mirage waters lie
Is the land of the hearts desire,
Charming Pollock
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-11-14
Sowing the Wind.

The throngs of men and boys that in
all our larger cities. are now being
harangued by Socialist agitators: the
many daily, weekly and monthly publi-
cations devoted to thee propaganda of
the cause Of socialism,: the persistent.
unconcealed efforts of its leaders TO
capture the farmers vote as well as to
gain control of the labor movement.
are proof of the rapid spread. if not of
socialism, at least of Socialist ideas in
the United States. The wind is being
sown for a whirlwind whose destruc-
uVeness may make war seem like
child's play. With many citizens So
cialism eXcites no alarm; it's advocates
are regarded as mere theorizers, more
ridiculous than dangerous. But one has
only to listen attentively to Socialist
agitators to learn that with many of
them socialism and anarchism are the
same thing. And the larger their audi
ence grows, the holder they seem to
become in denouncing "the esta blished
order" There is no excuse for igno-
rance as to what the leaders of the So
claliSt movement in this country desire
and demand. The principles for which
they stand may be known for the ask
ing. They make no conceaIment of the
means at their disposal for the spread
of the movement. One hundred and
twenty-five paid organizers are con-
stantly on the road sending itemized
reports weekly to the Chicago head
quarters; every night i'm the year be-
tween three and four thousand meet
ings are being harangued by Socialist
agitators. and it is estimated that the
periodicals of the party now reach be-
tween two and three million readers
Ave Maria,
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-11-14
Did You Ever Think.

That kind word put out at inter-
est brings back an enormous percent
age of love and appreciation?
That though a loving thought may
not seem to be appreciated, it has yet
made you better and drawer because
of it?
That the little acts Of kindness and
thoughtfulness day by day are really
greater than one immense act of good
ness once a year?
That to be always polite to the people
at home is not only more ladylike, but
more refined than having company
manners?"
That to learn TO talk pleasantly about
nothing in particular is a great art, and
prevents you saying things that you
may regret?
That to judge anybody by his or her
personal appearance stamps you as not
only ignorant. but vulgar?
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-11-14
Some pIanks in DooIey's Platform.

Following are few gems from the
platform, as "Dooley" writes: We ia
vor an income tax, an incomes suit
able TO support TIL same in proper
state. We believe in rural free delivery.
Ivry farmer shud have his bills on thu
first iv tn month, On tn currency
question we have an impression that
we have said enough. Annywan who
wishes to know our opinyons on this
momentous question can look thin up
in tn files iv tn papers iv twelve years
ago, an may he lose his eyesight dom
it. An finally, an this is where we
come in SthrOng, we denOunCe an ie-
plore al an siv'ral tn policies iv tn
administration now dhrawin' to a close.
Undher this rejeem poverty has in
creased ontil it is now powerful beyond
tn dhreams iv avarice. tn laborers is
no longer worthy iv his hire, or wasn't
ontil little While ago; fortunes have
become swollen until they bust: tn
courts are no longer tn refuge iv TIL
poor and oppressed. but what they were
intended to be-
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-11-14
Difficulty Is Opportunity.

Difficulty is opportunity. One may
boast of having done difficult thing
easily, but no one wants to boast OF
doing as easy thing. There is no credit
in making easy things difficult, al
though some modern technicians seem
to think so. Won Buelow. speaking of
a certain musician, said: He has q
technique that enables MIN to perform
the simplest passages with the great
est difficulty" But there is credit in
conquering difficult things until they
can be done with ease. Said Sunday
school teacher. II have just taken a
class of boys from ten to twelve years
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-11-14
The Singing Stars.

They sweep out of the centuries, the
stars that journey high
They trace the path of ages. of eter-
mites gone by:
They move, through seeming .silences
across the field of night
And fling along the leagues of space
their flames of living light:
But somewhere in the heart of things
no wall of silence bars
And in a wondrous cadence rings the
singing of the stars.
A thousand thousand stars there be,
and thousand thousands more,
To fieck the skies we may not see, to
CLEAN in heavens floor.
And they go dwelling the years. these
lustrous gems of time
The stars that glow where no man
peers-what yon, long heights
they climb,
The hazy. distant dust of light by UNI
known suns bepearled
Sing on forever through the night that
shrouds another world.
The stars whose song we cannot hear
they roll through realms I'M
known;
Adown the ages. clean and clear. they
send their marvel-tone,
And none may know the melody they
are decreed to bear
Into the centuries to be, from centuries
that were.
For they know neither time nor space,
beginning. halt nor end
But we who dumbly mark and trace,
We cannot comprehend.
They sweep out of the centuries, the
stars that come and go.
They mirror the eternal seas whose
age-tides ebb and flow
And always. always as they run, they
touch the chords of time.
And star and star and sun and sun
make harmony sublime,
For While lopg dead creations slept the
stars have journeyed on
And with their primal chant have kept
the drumkeat of the dawn.
Chicago Post.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-11-14
WHY CONDEMN?

o why should we mortals our fellows
condemn?
Have we not erring natures like
them?
Having rich blessings from our broth
er denied,
Should we manifest tyranny or the
spirit of pride?
Should we not these blessings to 9TH
ers impart
Which shall link us together heart to
heart?
We surely, if honest, will freely admit
There's none of us worthy in judg-
ment to sit.
From our daily failures and trials we
learn
With hearts full of tenderness pity to
- turn
To cheer and to comfort all under
the sum-
There's none of us perfect, mo, not
one.
-Sana Vincent
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-11-14
Cardinal Gibbons and the meGoni
ale Twins.
lBaltimore san. Oct. l9.(


Twins, days old. are among the
prominent members of st. Mary Star of
the Sea Catholic church today, fol-
lowing a great demonstration given
Cardinal Gibbons by that congrega ton
yesterday, when he administered con-
frmation there.
Honored by a parade of 1,200 men and
300 boys, who met him at the outposts
Of the parish and escorted him through
the streets to the church. the cardinal
sprang a surprise upon Mr.. and Mrs.
Joseph p, McGonigle, 124S William
street parents of the twins, when after
learning of their presence, he resolved
to baptize them as method of showing
his appreciation for the honor due him
by the congregation.
Nothing, perhaps, could have pleased
the congregation more: and the twins
lying in their little trundle beds all un-
conscious of their rise to fame, are act
ing perfectly natural. When the twins
were brought to the cardinal he took
each in his arms and, asking what
names had been selected for them, was
told that the boy was to be James Glib
bons McoGnigle.
This seemed TO please the cardinal.
He then took both Of the children under
his especial patronage, and now every
year a llttle gOlden meoal from MN WIN
find its way TO them. The congregation
regards the twins as blessed souvenirs
Of what they say is one of the greatest
days the Catholics of South Baltimore
have had
Police Commissioner and Mrs. John
b. A. Whettle were godparents for
James Gibbons McGOnigle. Mr. John G.
Wehage, organist of the church, and
Miss Louise Wehage were sponsors for
the girl, who was named Louise Web
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-11-14
Not a Bad Arqument.

We note with pleasure that DIR. Felix
Adler of New York, speaking before
the Moral Education Congress in Lon
don, gave as the result of his thirty
years of experience in the teaching of
morals the following judgment: THAT
moral education was inseparable from
religion and that it could not be i'm
parted solely by oral teaching. The per-
sonal example of the teacher was also
necessary" Not bad argument for
the Catholic school.-The Pilot
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-11-14
An AfteTthouuht,

Why is it that our life seems full of
wrong?
That even poets, who are human birds,
Set saddest music to the saddest words,
And minSle signs and tears in all their
song?
For Chaucer's marguerites still bloom
along
Our rustic fences, herdsmen and their
herds
Know shakespeare's cookoo-cups, and
the new curds
Are hard and white. and vfolet-seent
is strong:
IT'S not because the gods are silent all,
For in Sienna the Brigata held
Their revels, and joys golden badges
wore
So sayeth sweet Folgore-carnival
Reigned blithe and jocund;-Giant
Thought has felled
The gay Page Laughter; there is
miTth no more.
Maurice Francis Egan
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-11-14
THE INSTINCT Of eENTLENEss.

The instinct of self control, or gentle
ness. of consideration and forethought
and quick sympathy. which go to make
up what we call good breeding: the alb
sence Of noise and hurry, the thousand
and one little ways by which we can
please people. or avoid displeasing them
are all taught us by our own hearts.
Good manners are the fine flowers of
civilization. And everybody can have
them. ] always say that one of the
best bred men of my acquaintance is
Mr.. Jarvis. the mason. / have known
him to come out of a cistern to speak
to me. dressed in overalls and fan
mel shirt; and his bow and his manner
and the politeness of his address would
have done credit to any gentleman in
the world.-Susan Coolidge.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-11-14
An Astronomer.

lation of Orion on the blackboard, and
was explaining where to find it in the
Sky. when. very little girl glanced UP
and said, in woe-begone voice:
~ am put TO bed at $50. but I'm going
to look for Maria tonight"
An older and wiser child explained:
Ethel doesn't know much about as
tronomy, but L do. 1 know Venus and
Mars and O'Brien, too.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-11-14
"ConqratuIations."

The best cOngratulatory thing for the
Catholic press is subscription. 1t
grows tiresome to read all the neat
things said of the Catholic press in
many and divers quarters, the reSOlu-
lions of support of Catholic societies,
the perpetual mission in the parish,
the terrible things that have happened
to French Catholics who neglected their
Catholic press, the wonderful achieve
ments of German Catholics, since they
supported and spread their Catholic
press. All this is good. splendid. reads
well ana uplifts the Catholic thought
in the heart. The subscription is the
thing. the only thing, that will make
the Catholic press pulsate with life,
vigor and vim. Words but beat the
empty air. Words are always thick as
leaves in fall, the subscription is rather
rare.-Pittsburg Catholic.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-11-14
Church Universal

age McGonigle. Mrs. McGonigle was
formerly Miss Margery V. Newman.
principal of No. 10 Grammar school. Mr.
and Mrs. McGonigle have been blessed
previously with twins, and on hearing
this the cardinal remarked:
No wonder the Star of the Sea par
ish is so flourishing''
Rev. John T. Whelan, pastor of the
church, affectionately known as 1.-The
Big White Father of South Baltimore -
reminded the cardinal that babies were
much more popular in that section than
lap dogs, and the famuos prelate smiled
apprONinelN
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-11-14
Then and There.

When prayers are asked in church for
the speedy recovery or happy death of
the sick Of the parish, does anybody SO
pray? If priests and people then and
there prayed for that intention, as is
done in some churches, wouldn't the
custom of calling for such prayers
mean something ?-Catholic Columbian,
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-11-14
A Long Sleep.

Little things frequently illustrate the
English view of American geograph
very picturesquely. An Englishman
had taken the Pacific express at Phfla-
delphia. and. feeling tired. had retired
to his berth. Just before he went to
sleep he happened to remember that he
had forgotten something. so he put his
head out between the curtains and
called:
"Portah. portah!"
The porter came. What is it sir -
he said.
please wake me when we get to
San Francisco, you know?"
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-11-14
Proud of 1t.

The Jewish synagogue on Lindeil
avenue was profusely decorated in
honor of the (new cathedraD corner
stone laying. The new Baptist church
on the line of march was similarly
deeked with flags and streamers. We
verify believe that in their heart of
hearts the Protestants of ST. Louis were
proud of us.-Western Waterman, st.
Louis.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-11-14
If
anv little word al nine

If any little word of mine
May make a life the brighter,
If any little song of mine
May make heart lighter:
God help me speak the little word,
And take my bit of singing
And drop it in some lonely vale
To set the echoes ringing.
If any little love of mine
May make life the sWeeter.
If any little care of mine
May make a friends fly fieeter,
If any lift of mine may ease
The burden of another.
God give me love and care and strength
To help my toiling brother.
Selected
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-11-14
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY.

If there be good in that 1 wrought,
Thy hand compelled it, Master,
Thine;
Where I have failed to meet Thy
thought,
1 know, through Thee the blame is
mine.
-kipling.