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The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1908-09-18
A BIRDSEYE
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RATHDRUM.
Incorporated 1891.
One bakery.
Five churches.
One state bank.
One private bank.
One feed Store.
Mining near city.
Two drug stores
Three good hotels.
One grain elevator.
Two lumber yards,
One weekly paper.
Fine lakes near city.
Good spring water.
Two thousand souls.
Two local telephone exchanges
Splendid resort for sportsmen
Water works for fire protection.
Long distance telephone system.
Three general mercantile stores.
Fine brick public and high school building
Incorporation one mile square
Five hundred pupils in public schools
Railroads running east, west, north and
south.
Electric lights owned and controlled by pri
vate parties
Two abstract anies-incorporated
County seat. Kootenai county, Idaho, popu.
latiOn 2O00-cOurt house and Jail
| County poor farm and hospital
one fraternal hall and opera house
Situated on main line of the Northern Pacific
railway and Idaho & Washington NortherI
railway, % miles east Of Spokane, Wash.
Two beautiful parks
| Surrounded on the south and east by a ricl
| farming section which produces large Yield
| OF grains and grasses without irrigation.
Lodges-Mason blue lodge, Eastern Star
knights OF Pythias and Pythian Sisters
| Odd Fellows: Encampment, subordinate an,
Rebekah, Modern Woodmen and Roya
NeighbOrs. One Militia Co., Foresters o
America. Lady Maccabees Grand Army o
the Republic and Women's Relief Corps
Commercial Club.
Churches-Methodist Episcopal, Presbyter
ian, German Methodist and Catholic.
Rathdrum invites manufacturing enterpris
| es, wholesale houses and business OF All
kinds. Her citizens are ready and willing L
encourage and assist every helpful industr
The business men are accommodating an
courteous and Rathdrum Is good tradin
point
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-04-18
TOM M YR0T.

young in Chicago, carried away by his
zeal for the of temperance, has offered re-
ward of $50 to anybody who will produce positive
evidence that Abraham Lincoln drank strong Ii
quor. Just why the offer is made is not clear IF
the evidence should be produced the young man
would be out $50 which he probably needs and if
1t is not produced nothing concerning the personal
habits of Lincoln will result. And Just what con
nection the personal habits of the great emanci-
pator have with the present-day saloon question is
beyond our comprehension. What effect upon the
saloon question the production of the required
evidence have! What difference does it make to us.
forty-three years after Lncolns death, whether he
did or did not touch liquor
Abraham Lincoln was endowed with big frame
and a bigger brain. Common sense was his great
est attribute. He man among men, If he
drank liquor at all, it was in greatest moderation.
And whether he tasted liquor or not can in no
way affect the high place he holds in the estimation
of the world and equally cannot affect the present
status of the saloon.
The offer of $50 reward for information on this
subject Is just tommyrot-of the same kind which
Lincoln himself was given to expose
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-04-18
THE NTERMOUNTAM AND COLORADO CATHOLIC: APRIL 49, 1908

any corporation in which a director OF the Daih
was interested as stakeholder or director Inns
raised a storm of protest. and stricken out, OF
the ground that it would preclude the best business
men in a community from serving as bank dlrec'
tors because all such had other business inter
ests This was an effort to put stop to high imam
ciering on the part of bank directors. using tne
depositors' money therefor, did Morse and
Heinze with the Mercantile National and the Ma
tional Bank of North America, and which really
started the trouble throughout the country. 1t Is
to be hoped that some safe way will be found to stop
such practices but the one proposed seems too OBJ
iectionabIe from other standpoints.
Although the administration is in favor of the
Aldrich bill there is so much objection to it that
it is doubtful if it will pass at this session. The
most sensible suggestion made so far out of the
multitude of remedies proposed, is the appointment
of commission to examine into the whole ques-
ton and report at the next session of congress. In
cidentally. this will make one less embarrassing ex
PLANTATION to be given by the Republican party at
the coming presidential election.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-04-18
SAVING THE PENNIES.

A man of figures assures the American people
that if they ate quarter less meat there would re-
suit saving of S23O,OOOOOO; that if they drank a
quarter less liquor there would be about $125,0O0
900 more money to be stored away for a rainy day
He goes over a long list of other things; if we
should wear our clothes one-fourth longer we would
have $125OOO,00O spend on other things, and
if we made our hats do duty onefourth longer $15,-
100000 would result. These figures are interest
ing because everybody likes to feel that he af-
ford to get new clothes and hats and eat as much
as he wants and drink more than he needs if he
ment that all could get along with quarter less
than we use. But if the American people should in
dulge in these economies and really one-fourth.
we doubt very much if they would be any better off
at the end of the year and they would certainly not
be as we'll dressed as well fed they at pres
emit And if they saved quarter their food and
clothing bills no doubt other unnecessary things
would develop; what they saved food and cloth
ing they would spend on automobiles cigars or per-
fumery.
Economy is great virtue. But the economy
suggested by the man of figures in this instance
to be of the variety which the spigot
and lets at the bung. We don't want to save by
eating less wearing old Clothes but would like to
buy these things at more reasonable price. The
saving to the American people would result if
the profits the sale of these things we're reduced
a quarter
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-04-18
AUTOM OBILES.

Last week in New York an automobile carnival
was held, among its features being parade of the
machines, the first section of which consisted of a
motley collection of ''has beens" The committee
having charge of the parade asked everybody that
had real old machine to join this section The re-
suit was display which illustrated the evolution of
the early gasp and wheeze" to the modern six-cyl-
inder In considering industry, the growth
eff its financial operations is usually taken as an in
dcation of the progress made In the automobile
business these figures are striking Less than
decade ago 100000 would cover the total invest,
ment, while today more than 900 is invested
in the industry. But the increase in capital is not
a fair indication of the improvements made in the
machine itself. In the carnival parade the evou-
ton made manifest The committee in whose
hands the parade placed sought out all the
various types of machines and got together almost
a complete series. The parade must have furnished
an impressive evidence of the progress of the age
Ten years ago there were no automobiles in Salt
Lake. Five years ago there may have been one or
two, but the number runs we'll up into the hun
dreds There are so many indeed that the horses
III the city no longer seem to care when one goes
whizzing by at forty or fifty miles an hour. While
the speed of the machines is often beyon1 the limit
allowed by the ordinances provided for the regula-
ton of motor cars the fact that such speed is pos
sibe is a striking example of modern inventive
genius. And the fact that the automobile is only III
its infancy and has already entered into the com
merce of the nation, well as providing most per-
ious pastime for the well-to-do indicates that it
Is destined to enter largely into the field of
usefulness which it has developed on its own merits
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-04-18
EASTER.

The Feast of the Resurrection, according to St
Augustine, originated in the days of the Apostles.
Whilst each Sunday commentaries the Resurrec-
ton of Christ from the dead the church wished TO
set apart one day each year on which the ami
versary of so great an event might be celebrated
with special solemnity The day so set apart is
called in all English speaking countries Easter
which is derived either from the Teutonic word
"urston" (to rise up), or from the name of Saxon
goddess whose festival occurred about the time Of
the Pasch. As to the time of celebrating the Feast
what Is known the Paschal Controversy existed
from the most remote period of the Christian era.
The Christians of Asia Minor differed from the
entire Catholic world regarding the day of the
week in which the feast should be celebrated whilst
another phase of the controversy which was con-
fined to the British Isles had reference to the cycle
that was to be used in determining the SUNDAY ON
which it was to be celebrated
During the first three centuries the feast Of
Easter celebrated on Sunday in Rome. and tbo
anniversary of Christs death on the preceding Fri;
day Hence it is termed Good Friday being sane
titled by the death of our Lord, who died for all.
In Asia Minor the Pasch of the Crucifxion Ga term
according to the usage of the early church equally
applicable to the least of the Crucifxon as to that
of the ResurrectiOn) celebrated on the 14tb Of
Nissan; and the Pasch of the Resurrection on the
third day following. This would mean that Easter
would not be celebrated on Sunday. The cause of
the difference is easily explained In Asia Minor
most of the Christians were converts from linda
ISM They looked upon the 14th of Nissan as tba
most solemn feast of their ecclesiastical year and
wishing to perpetuate that day wished to subordi
nate to 1t the Feast of the Resurrection after thew
became Christians. The first attempt to reach mi
formity was made during the pontifcae of Anicetns
(157-l6S)' when Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna came
to Rome to consult with the Pope on the matter
The matter was finally settled by the Council of
Nice (325)
That there were Christians in Britain as early As
The second century is historically evident. Toward
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-04-18

tai and bodily life and fits him for daily living right
here and now"-whether true not, will attract
! thousands, for among the great non-Catholic
masses today, and women more concerned
for the health of their bodies than that of their
souls
Sir Frederick Traves, one of Great Britain's
most talented physicians, said the other day in
speech at Bristol that: He had met with two
kinds of folly which were constantly in rebellion
against the efforts of his arthe folly of pride and
the folly of religion gone mad" The fact is, the
ministers view with alarm the falling away of their
congregations, and they are prepared to resort to
any expedient to arrest the disintegration The
public schools and modern or 'hgher criticism are
working havoc among beliefs founded on the Bible
and private Interpretation.
Professionalism, having passed through many
phases of evolution and change, like Lutheranism
and Calvinism, is now hurrying with accelerated
motion towards final disruption and dissipation into
other and more dangerous forms of infdelity For
three centuries the followers of Luther. Calvin and
Latimer occupied the same position towards the
Church of Christ that the Samaritans. small
remnant of whom survive at Naplous the ancient
Shechem, did to the Church of Israel or the Rev
citation of God The Samaritans revolted against
the synagogue, increased and multiplied till they
threatened the subverson of the Jewish faith, then
broke up into fragmentary sects and finally dis
solved into idolatry and heather practices Looking
down from the Interchangeable heights of the nfalli
BILE and unalterable Catholic Church. the Rock of
Ages on the restless sectaries running to and fro
seeking Christ and never finding him. on Spiritism,
Christian Science, Theosophy and EmanueIism, one
Is forciby reminded of the curse pronounced in the
sixth chapter of Isais against the aposate Jews of
his time: Blind the heart of this people, and
make their ears heavy and shut their eyes, lest they
see with their eyes. and hear with their ears and
understand with their hearts, and be converted. and
| heal them
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-04-18

the close of the fourth century, the vast majority
embraced Christianity. After the arrival of the
Saxons, German tribe in 449, whose apparent mis-
sion assist the people in repelling the war
fare of the neighboring Picts and Scots, these pa
gan allies determined to root out every vestige of
Christianity Two more German tribes, the Angles
and Jutes, soon followed. These, combining with
the former the Anglo-Saxons succeeded in estab-
fishing their authority and exiting the original IN
habtants who sought refuge i'll the mountains of
Wales and Scotland They succeeded also i'll pagan
ling anew the country much so that in the mid
die of the sixth century the old British Christian
church had vanished from the Heptarchy. The re-
introduction of Christianity by St. Augustine found
the minds of the people at variance as to the Sun
day in which the Easter Festival should be
memorated. The controversy was settled in the
Council of Whitby (664). The first Sunday that
occurs after full moon which follows March 81
has been for centuries celebrated Easter Sunday
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-04-18
THE ALDRICH BILL.

The most talked of measure before the presen1
session of congress is the Aldrich bill whose auda
bic object is to provide plenty of money at times
when money becomes scarce In other words il ie
an attempt to solve the ever recurring currency
problem. Every often people become frightened
at the danger of banks failing, and make a grand
rush for their money. which they hide away for tn.
time being. This brings about the very condition
which they feared namely bank failures In the
ordinary course of business, banks keep on hand
only one-fourth Of the money entrusted to their
care by depostors, and consequently if the depos.
ltors make united demand for their money, the
bank cannot pay it back, and must close up
The Aldrich BILL to remedy this, provides that
at such time, the bank may get money from the
government, by depositng as security bonds issued
by municipalities or railroads The government
officials must first pass upon the suficiency of such
security. In order that the money so issued will
not remain outstanding too long after the emer-
gency has passed, the bank must pay the govern
ment SIX per cent per annum on the amount so
issued
Amongst the most vigorous opponents of the
measure are the national banks. One of their chief
objections is that United States government bonds
will not be received security for such emergency
currency, in cases where the bank has already is
sued up to its limit of government bond secured
currency. Thus railroad bonds are preferred to
government bonds. This has peculiar look to the
casual observer.
Another objection to the bill is that it would
take so long to get the securities passed upon and
the money issued, that the panic would be over
and the bank closed up, before the relief came.
The panic of 1907 came like a thunderbot out of
clear sky Even the telegraph was hardly quick
enough to keep ahead of it. When some of the
large New York banks got into trouble and it be.
came known that they had been dabbing in stocks
every depositor i'll every city in the country was in
a panic the next morning, and wanted his money
There certainly would not have been time enough
to enter into negotiations with the treasury of
fcias, submit securities for inspection and appro
val, and at the end of a few weeks or a month. to
get the money. 1t is like man falling overheard
from ship and the captain calling meeting of
the officers and crew to arrange for rescung him
He would be drowned before the meeting was ovon
One amendment to the Aldrch bill pronosed he
Senator La Toilette provided in substance that :
national bank be prohibited from lending money, -
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-04-18
DO 1T NOW.

Some enterprising business men, and some not
enterprisng, have signs in their offices with the
three words "Do 1t Now" as a guide for them
selves and those associated with them 1t is good
advice or it is bad advice. depending altogether on
what action is contemplated. But as general prop
osition man who gets there is one who does
things. Doing things gets to be habit, and eff
cheney grows within him. While the advice to do it
now may be considered good in most cases. in busy
world it can be well supplemented with another BE
Efficient"
In the industrial world in the business world in
every walk of life, there is a demand for men and
women who are efficient How to become efficient.
capable, is great problem. The best way is to
grow that way. And to grow that way means the
cultivation of the quality of self-reiance Sue
cesses and failures not accidents altogether
From almost the time child is born he asserts his
inherent rights. When he starts to school, uncon-
sclously he becomes leader or follower Even in
devllment there is the leader who shows the others
how and that is the the reason bad boys frequently
make successful men, they possess the quality of
initiative-of leadership.
When you see boy who doesn't plav marbles
who doesn't fly kites, run races, build boats. 90
OF his own age, that boy is not developing those
qualities which make for success At later period
in life you set him task and he will be sure TO saw
he's afraid he can't do it. Instead of growing into
success his every mental and physical process IS
making failure>o of him. Throughout his life, from
every point of view, lamentable failure is his LOT
and he needs to make continual appeals for assist
ance
Can all this be changed? Probably not after the
habit of of depending on others has engrsfted
failure upon his character. But in the wears whom
his character is growing, he can bectaught 70 do
little things. He be taught the great lesson that
doing little things opens the way to doing big things
No man ever designed skyscraper that did moi
first build block houses no man ever launched .
battleship that did not build canvas canoe The
boy that says II can't" is starting on the vronr
road. He needs prod to make him try. He doesn,t
know whether he or not until he tries and e
he doesn't try he is foredoomed to failure.
Most of the failures in life are men who &c L.
said they couldn't. Most of the successes arc r,o
who as boys learned to say Il can and willu OIL
then went and did it.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-04-18
Gard FROM BISHOP SCArIAN.

feel IL my duty protect Catholics and the pub
lie generally from fraud and imposition by notifying
them from time TO time that person bearing the
and garb of priest sister, anyone else is
authorized permitted 10 solicit collect in this
diocese for any purpose whatever connected 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 or
she. the may be. lould be regarded by all as
a fraud and imposter. L. SCANI1AN,
Bishop Of Salt Lake
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-04-18
TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS.

The Intermountain Catholic goes into nearly every
Catholic home in this diocese. It's circulation in Mon
tanar Idaho. Colorado. Wyoming, Nevada and many
other states is very large. Only reliable firms and
business advertise in the paper: subscribers
viii find IL to their advantage when about to invest
purchase consult business matters. read over
the list of advertisers We not only recommend,
but ask for them the patronage of all our readers.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-04-18

A man with vivid Imagination cannot Dc .
thief. Only one whose fancy never ple'u'1
scenes which might happen as the result OF MS
tons will permit the tempter to draw nlgh -
man who can imagine himself behind the prison w.
with fearful wife and children peering through ~
forbidding grating may not be stronger mona,
but he has mighty strong deterrent when the W
portunity presents to make away with SonlSO''
else's property.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-04-18

Now it is discovered that American am5su.t,.
receive such small salaries that they have 70 an
back on other resources in order to maintain A,
dignity of the nation. The fact that the nation ,r.
fers periodical depressions by which thousand, II.
workingmen are reduced to want and misery er
IDENTIFY increases the dignity which the ambassadors
are called upon to maintain
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-04-18

If humanity could dispense with the need Of
protection from humanity-that is, if the police
and sheriffs forces, the militia, the armies and ma
vies of the world could be oblterated and all men
were endowed with that old-fashioned trait called
common honesty-there would be less discomfort and
infinitely more peace on earth than man can mag
ine
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-04-18

the authorities in the past, it is Iam...--,
ure, attended with enormous ezp.a.. 'Oe h
suffering. The public drinking p.a.. +, ' Da0
to the peace and welfare of society anal ~eaao
abolished. 'i b
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-04-18

Some people have lots of trouble over financial
matters, while others find much to worry over in
their love affairs. If they could just get together
compare notes and add their troubles together they
could get an excellent imitation of the predcane1t
of one Prince de Sagan
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-04-18

Sunday before the local option election :. =,
linois. 5000 men in Bloomington pcIaa.I -5cr,..,
to an evangelist to vote dry. When rac vote. VIZ.
counted it was found that the fcrvo- Of The n.-
ing had cooled in 242O Of them.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-04-18

If the poison injected by the honey bee when J.
gets its business end into action is really as assert
ed, cure for rheumatism, no doubt ADMIR-
Evans would submit to being stung and smile al D
discomfort
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-04-18

Eleven hundred saloons in Illinois we're YOU"
out of business last week, from which it may be III
ferred that whole lot of people think they c'
forego the pleasure of conversation with the n''
lectual barkeep well as the liquor sold by hIrn'
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-04-18

Taking school children to Washington to see
congress in session is said to be becoming custom
in the east. No wonder the congressman felt the
need of an increased salary.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-04-18

The per capita circulation of United Stats
money is now the largest in our history It being
less than 1855; but the monthly bills arc still Out
of all proportion.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-04-18

Financial stringency evidently set hard with
the German nation. There is talk of increasing ts
kaiser's annual income, it being now only maj
ter of So, 100000
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-04-18

Thirteen hundred counties in A,......
but Utah has none of them. ua-u.......I ''r'
extensive arid territory within h.. H.--..r... %.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-04-18

The inheritance tax law adds another burden
to the heavy load the backs of the poor. for isn't
1t the poor who are to inherit the earth