davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-01-20
CALL FOR BIDS

Notice is hereby given that the
County Commissioners of Valley
County, Montana, will receive sealed
bids for the County Printing, Valley
County, Montana, for the year 1909,
at the office of the County Clerk at
Glasgow, Montana, up to and includ-
ing one O'Clock PM. March 4th, 1909.
Said bids to be submitted according
to the requirements and specification
on file in the office of the County
Clerk and to be accompanied by a
certified check in the sum of $4,000,
payable to the Treasurer of Valley
County. Montana, as a guarantee
that if the bidder is awarded the
contract he will give bond and
perform the same according to law.
The successful bidder will be re-
quired to give a bond in the sum of
100000 for the faithful performance
of his contract.
All bids. to be addressed to the
undersigned at Glasgow, Montana,
and to be plainly marked on the
envelope, Bids for County Printing!.
The Board reserves the right to
reject any or all bids.
BY Order of the Board. Dated at
Glasgow, Montana, this 10Th day Of
January, 1909.
w. b. Shoemaker
County Clerk.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-11-20
AIumnae of Famous Girls Meet.

me biennial meeting of the Alumnae
ASSOCIATION of st. Marys college and
academy at Notre Dame. Ind, which
was held on Oct Is, was one of the
most notable the history of this insti-
tuition where thousands of women from
Gated
The attendance was, as usual, large.
Tor the graduates of st. Mary's are
known for their loyalty to the old school
ana for the interest with which they
follow these gatherings. Fine weather
prevailed and during the sessions of the
convention the 300 students assisted in
entertaining the guests.
The program included religious serv-
ices, musicales and the reading of papers
by distinguished churchmen and mem
pers of the Catholic laity. Among the
speakers were Rt. Rev. DR.. Morrissey
and MI. French of Notre Dame univer-
slty, DR.. James ]. Walsh of New York
and Bishop Muldoon of Rockford.
Bishop Muldoon sang the mass of
thanksgiving and Rev. NJ. ]. O'Connor
OF Chicago preached the opening her
mon. Mrs. II. Dillon Cavanaugh of
Chicago. president of the association,
presided at the meetings. The principal
paper was read by Miss Stella Hamil-
ton of Omaha
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-11-20
Their Sad PLIGHT.

NThe American daily papers that
boosted Francisco Ferrer, the Spanish
anarchist, as a humanitarian and
high-minded educator done to death by
brutal SPAIN, are in a sad plight They
are sin bad" All the well-informed cor
respondents and editors have within
the past week arrived at the conclusion
that Ferrer was a criminal-an active
advocate of riot and assassination
who got his just deserts. In the Chicago
Tribune "EX-Attache," the famous
international writer, told the complete
career of Ferrer. "FerreI," he said,
was the fountain head of anarchistic
crime on the Iberian peninsula" And
again: THE Barcelona mobs were
driven to fury by the harangues of
Ferrer." Friends of the American labor
movement who now knoN all the facts
in the Ferrer matter feel Inundated
and incensed that the executive council
of the American Federation of La
Dor made the mistake two weeks ago
by declaring by resolutions its SYM
pathy with Educator Ferrer." Evil
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-11-20
The cinarette Habit.

That it is possible to have too good
an appetite seems to be one of the
morals of story told by a friend to
the Washington correspondent of the
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Il am very fond of roasted ears of
corn" said he, land 1 eat it whenever
can get it. Some time ago, while
was in a restaurant in Texas. the
waiter put a plateful on the table, and
1 just helped myself.
When 1 had consumed the third ear
1 noticed that man across the table
was cycling me most curiously l looked
at him, and told him that I considered
roasted corn one of the most nutritious
and palatable things man could eat.
Then 1 helped myself to fourth ear
and devoured it with relish.
When L reached my hand into the
dish for the fifth, the fellow across the
table couldn't stand it any longer.
Say, pard, said he, don't you think
you could save about dollar and
quarter day if you was to board at
livery Stable3' -
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-11-20
THE SAINT.

The Little Cherubs whispered,
What strange, new soul is this
Who cometh with robe besmirched
Unto the Place of Bliss?"
Their spake the Eldest Angel,
THE robe he wears is fair
The cropping fingers of the poor
Have held and blessed him there"
The Little Cherubs whispered,
who comes to be our guest
With dust about his garments hem
And stains upon his breast?"
Then spake the Eldest Angel
Most lovely is the stain
The tears of those he comforted,
Who may not weep again"
The Little Cherubs whispered,
What strange, new soul is he
Who cometh with a burden here
And bears it tenderly?"
Then spake the Eldest Angel,
He bears his life's award
The burden of mems broken hearts
To place before the Lord.
My lips shall bow to it;
The stains upon the breast of him
Are gems thrice exquisite.
Oh, little foolish Cherubs,
What truth is this We miss?
There comes no saint to Paradise
Who does not come like this"
-Theodosia Garrison in Everybody.
Magazine.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-11-20
The "Toties Quotes" Indulgence on
All Souls Day.

Perhaps few of our readers who in
their charity desire to do all they can
for the poor souls in Purgatory are
aware of the extraordinary privileges
granted to those who habitually wear
the properly blessed medal of st. Bene-
dict, known as the jubilee medal.
BY a decree of the Sacred Congrega-
ton of 1ndulgences, dated Feb. q. 1907.
a special privilege was conferred on the
habttual wearers of the jubilee medal.
From about 2 p. m. of Nov l until sun
down of Nov. 3, on which the comment
Grafton of the faithful departed is kept,
these, after the worthy reception of
confession and communion, can gain a
plenary indulgence, applicable also to
the souls in Purgatory, as often as (to-
ties quoties) they visit a church or pub
lie oratory and there pray according to
the intention of his holiness, provided
for reasons of i'll health. monastic en-
closure or great distance cat least one
Roman mile from their residence) they
cannot visit a church or public oratory
of the Benedictines
The confession may be made on Oct.
so, Oct. 81, Nov. or Nov .. The COM
munion may be received on Nov. or
Nov. 3. These sacraments need not be
received in the church or oratory in
which the visits are to be made. Those
who habitually confess once week need
not make an extra confession, nor those
who receive holy communion daily or
almost daily
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-11-20
Canadian Council Closed.

The first plenary council of the
church in Canada has been brought to
close. No reports to the councils de-
lberations will be made public till the
results shall have been forwarded to
the holy father at Rome and by him
approved. Meanwhile, the archbishops.
blshops and theologians have returned
to their charges and it may be many
weeks before the final publication of the
acts of the council.
The council not only marked an
epoch in the history of Canada, but is
a religious event of deepest interest to
the Catholics of the United States. New
er in the history of Canada has there
been such an imposing ecclesiastical as
sembly. Other councils have been held
in the old city of Quebec, and although
bishops from other parts of Canada
were present, on account of the fact
that they were not convoked by the su-
preme pontiff of the church or his i'm
mediate delegate, they were called pro-
Vlnclal councils. But this was a ple-
nary council the delegate of our Holy
Father Pope Plus X himself presided.
1t was invested with full power, and its
action upon the important questions
submitted will have lasting weight
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-11-20
The One Open Door.

A writer in the current Juvenile
Court Record makes what seems to us
a curious statement in discussing the
movement to crush the white slave Sys-
tenn. Substantially he remarks that if
the unfortunate girls be rescued, as
every Christian force in present-day
social order is trying to rescue Them
the problem remains, Where have they
to go? What institution will open it's
doors to them? What home will take
them in and preserve them from future
peril?" So far as non-Catholic effort is
in evidence we can give no answer. If
such homes exist we cannot remember
them. There is, however, an
institution that cannot be overlooked.
The Good Shepherd homes provided by
the Catholic Church are not merely
temporary shelters. The young woman,
or the old, who enters them is pretty
certain to be stayed through life.
There she has every opportunity to
reform and to stay reformed. The very
hand of Christ, who forgave penitent
Magdalen, is stretched out to her, to
forgive her and to shelter her. She
may remain within His house for
months, or for years or for life. 1t is
not His will, in any case, that she go
forth into the world again until she
is fully strengthened, and whenever she
goes or wherever she goes, He wishes
her to know that His love is following
her, seeking to aid in all her perils
The universal war upon the white
slave system ought to have one splen-
did effect. 1t ought to make the work
done by our homes of the Good Shep-
herd more generally known and better
Let the world know that
ffr-I l1- Ia 81.
country the patient, self-sacrificing
Sisters of the Good Shepherd have
homes for those poor, desolate young
women, and that their doors ever stand
open to receive them, the arms of the
Sisters wide extended to take the I'M
fortunate ones to their hearts.-New
World.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-11-20
A Source of unbeIief.

Profanity is the prevailing sin of
America. 1t is rampant among every
class and among those of all ages. ,
1t has been suggested that men always
lose faith in that which they lightly
take on their tongues. This suggests
that profanity has tendency to deaden
the sacred things of life. "Oaths are
like the dragons teeth, said Cadmus
of old. From them spring a harvest of
armed giants of doubt and unbelief.
Their is no possible way in which you
can make God seem a myth, an I'M
reality and destroy His power over men
more easily than by taking His name
lightly on the lips" This quotation is
worthy of great consideration. for it
has been wrought out of the experience
of men.-Catholic Universe
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-11-20
A French Catholic Settlement.

A French Catholic priest, Rev. Fa-
Their Alfred Quetu, has invested between
100000 and $4,000 in real estate in the
old San Juan Capistrano Mission val
ley, and has started a French colony.
Several months ago Father Quetu
bought what is known as the Belford
ranch from the Andrew McNally estate.
Within the last few weeks Father Que
tn has closed deals for three other
ranches in the valley bottom They
have secured o. B. Cooks ten-acre wal
nut orchard, and Mrs. Amy J. Rouse's
eighty acres, planted mostly to wal
nuts. A large force of carpenters has
arrived, and several new houses and
barns are to be built upon the hold
ings at once. A we'll is being dug, and
a store is to be built and operated The
store will be about three-fourths of a
mile above the San Juan Capistranon
mission and village
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-11-20
1t Takes COURAGE,

The adage, Happy is the bride that
the sun shines on" is one that is un-
known in many lands. A Breton bride
takes it as a bad sign when the day of
her wedding dawns bright and sunny
Rain on her marriage morn is held to
signify that all her tears are shed, and
that she will therefore have a happy
married life. A New York daily prints
the following:
THE Earl of Simbrisk called the day
before the wedding the weeping day,
and the bride and her girl friends weep
as much as possible, with the idea of
getting the mourning of life over, so
that only whatis joyful may remain.
I'm some countries this result is at
tanned by sousing the bride with water
The Greeks think that thorough
drenching of the bride will bring her
lasting good fortune"
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-11-20

Holy Father. viii you tell the pope
that 1 am on my vacation, and that it
was Protestant gentleman in my par
ish who gave me $1,000 to take this trip
Say that only for that Protestant [
should be forced to stay at home 1
put this into italian Latin on hearing
which Leo showed interest.
EFT quare non facts cum Catholi-
cum?'-And why do you not make a
Catholic of him. asked the pope, lean
ing forward.
We'll, it must be that the priest, at
the thought of all his vain struggles to
convert his generous friend, forgot for
the moment the presence of the Holy
Father, for he suddenly blurted out:
Faith, not ST. Peter, no, nor the
pope himself, could convert himr
Leo did laugh. He laughed and
laughed as he had not done for twenty
years. And when the American parish
priest was leaving the chamber he re-
ceived warmer and more affectionate
goodbye from the aged pontiff than did
many great prelate"
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-11-20
There is no gainsaying

| dnce at ClurCn. I0ere is no galnSdylng
this statement.
What, then, is the cause? Many of
our countrymen do not consider church.
going as a binding obligation in any
sense. Frequently it is asserted that
we can worship God in our own hearts
and home: we can interpret the Bible
for ourselves; and although. in reality
they very seldom do one or the other
the pretense is sufficient to drug their
consCiences. We must not lay the whole
blame on the laity. Almost any excuse
would seem to justify a man in absent
ing himself from church services when
the subject of religion, that is TO say.
duty to God and duty to our neighbor
for Gods sake. is seldom inculcated.
Finally, another cause can be traced to
the fact that many of the societies for
the advancement of education. for the
development of athletic sports or for
mere social purposes have added Sun
day service such as many people were
accustomed TO assist at formerly in the
churches
What, then. is the remedy? It will
be found by giving to the people in the
churches something of God. some spirit
ual gift. some good which il would be
impossible for them to get elsewhere.
Let the minister of God speak as "one
having authority" and our reiigiously
inclined people will thrOng the temples
of Divine worship.
may add that we have no reOsOn to
complain of our Catholic people. In the
cities, the churches are crowded at each
of the five or six masses offered on Sun
day; in the rural districts in good wea-
Their and in bad. Catholics seldom find
any difficulty so great, any condition
so intolerable as to have 10 dispense
with their obligatory attendance at the
Divine services on Sunday
J. CARDINAL. GIBBONS.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-11-20
THE VALUE OF FRESH AIR.

Ninety-nine out of every hundred
people breathe Incorrectly, and do not
therefore get enough oxygen-the most
valuable of all foods, says w. r. Lat
son, NJ. D., editor of Health Culture
Magazine" No matter how much other
food they may eat, they are starving
themselves to death. The idea that
the air we breathe contains our most
valuable food will be news to many.
AS a matter of fact. the oxygen of the
air is the only real food, for it is only
when other foods taken into the stom-
ach are combined with oxygen that
they can really feed the body. The
body gets heat and motion out of it's
food. just as the steam engine gets
heat and motion out of it's cOal-that
is, by a process of burning or combUs-
ton, and combustion is oxidation.
Without food a man will live forty,
fifty. even seventy days. Without
water he will live ten or twelve days.
Without air he will not live five min
utes. This alone shows the immense
Importance of the air food to the hui
man being. Air starvation is a most
common condition. 1t is safe to say
that not one person in twenty gets into
the system enough of this all-important
element, the oxygen of the air. The
many and varied. Pallid, impure skin
lack-lustre eyes. narrow, flat chest
round shoulders, a weak, unpleasant
voice, general weakness, lack of energy
and liability to disease-all these are
among the common results of oxygen
starvation, and all these evils promptly
disappear in a few weeks when the
system is given a proper supply of this
aerial pabulum. Thousands of people
are being drugged and dieted and doe
tored for this, that and the other dis
ease, when in reality their only trouble
is that they are starved for oxygen.
the food that is in the air. If instead
of drugs and other fooIishness they
were taught how to get good sup
ply of oxygen into the body their ills
would fold their tents like the Arabs
and as silently steal away"
Now, what is the reason for oxygen
starvation? Why is it that, with an
unlimited supply of this air food all
around us, we still suffer for lack of
it? The main fault of oxygen starva-
ton is faulty breathing. The air by
which the body gets oxygen-that is
to say, the act of breathing-is the
most important physical act of our
lives. And yet in an extended investi-
CATION, which included the special ex-
animation of several thousand people,
1 found less than one per cent who
breathed properly. When you take the
case of an indoor worker. bending for
eight or ten hours or even longer over
a desk or work bench. such a person
on getting into the open air should take
special measures to get into the lungs
an extra supply of the cleansing and
air food.
The more we breathe the more we
live. From the mouse. which breathes |
one hundred and sixty times a minute |
to the elephant, which breathes six |
times minute, all through nature one |
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-11-20
shun Nervea.

Wait until you are alone to fret and
argue, then you will do neither the
one nor the other. Do not be a sensi-
tive tendril waving in the air. waiting
helplessly to fasten on the first sup
port that presents itself. Take care
never to make scapegoats of your near
est and dearest. BE mistress of your
self always; don't burden those near
you with the petty things, the fancied
or real Sights. the daily rubs, the count
less things that cannot be helped or
changed. and that all have to endure.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-11-20
Esnecially to MotLer.

We take it for granted that people
know how we appreciate them. How
often we speak the critical word! How
rarely the complimentary one! We
know very well how we feel when
others tell us how our work and our
talents are appreciated, but we are
prone to forget that our neighbors, our
friends and our fellow-workers are the
same kind of people with the same kind
of hearts. Most of us would rather
have little more ''taffy" while we are
living and a little less "epitaphy" when
we are dead few flowers on the desk
and less on the grave. Speak the good
word, and speak it in good season:
above all to mother.-The Homeless
Rov
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-11-20
MY PICTURE,

In the soft warm glow of the afternoon
| sit alone, an unfrequent boon
Alone with all the familiar things,
That fold me and soothe me like rest
full wings.
My flowers stir on the window-sill,
My bird beats his golden wires still;
But from other sounds l turn apart
To seek my picture-the Sacred
Heart
And those eyes that follow me seem to
say,
Child of My Heart, oh, come and
pray!"
[ read, I think, L move about:
The children enter with gleeful shout;
Then away they patter-I am alone!
The sun moves down to his western
throne;
The golden glow sleeps my pictured
walls,
And over the beautiful face it falls;
Ger the slender hands and the wound
marks there
Ger the haunting eyes that call me to
prayer;
And lift my heart to the Heart above,
And my spirit folds it's wings like a
dove.
Twilight and starlight softly fall,
And steal the glow from my pictured
wall;
The purple darkness gathers about,
And busy traffic is stilled without
But the crimson lamps on my mantel
start
A lifelike hue in the Sacred Heart"
And the yearning eyes in the tender
face
Follow and haunt me like touches of
grace.
And safe in the darkness my hands I
fold,
And offer my life to that Love untold.
Mercedes in the Ave Maria.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-11-20
The Rainy-Day Bride.
(Cnooacc Mo o1i,,oN

(Success Magazine.)
To speak the truth when by little
prevarication you can get some great
advantage.
To refuse to knuckle and bend the
knee TO the wealthy, even though poor.
To refuse to do a thing which you
think is wrong, because it is customary
and done in trade.
To stand firmly erect while others
are blowing and fawning for praise and
power.
To remain in honest poverty while
others grow rich by questionable meth
DDS.
To say mo" squarely when those
around you say Yes
To do your duty in silence. obscurity
and poverty, while others about you
prosper through neglecting or violating
sacred obligations.
Not to bend the knee to popular
prejudice.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-11-20
When Leo xIIILauahed.

There was told the other day an anec-
dote of Leo XIII, that is too good to let
fall into oblivion, writes the Rome cor
respondent of The Standard and Times.
The teller was an English-speaking
bishop who had come on his visit "ad
limina" and was now enjoying an
after-dinner chat. l will give the anec-
dote in the bishops words:
You know" began his lordship,
that everyone that likes to have joke
with Plus Y may have it, But it was
not so with Leo XIII in his later years.
The late pope toward the end of his life
received few in audience, dispatched the
business on hand and ended the inter
view. He scarcely ever gave one the
chance of having a little humor and
rarely laughed, even in private audi
ences. But, must say, those fortunate
enough to obtain audiences came away
deeply impressed by his majesty and
intellectual power, while some OF the
simpler folk could hardly believe that
the misunderstanding figure, almost
transparent in its leanness, belonged to
one of this mere world.
well. about ten or twelve years ago
| happened to be at the vatican on Off
cial business. / met in one of the ante
chambers an American parish priest
VINO was ABOUT 10 nave All duuleiCe Will
the Holy Father. Now, since outside
the case of priests of the English
speaking countries who have gone
through their ecclesiastical course in
Rome, all, or almost all, the others up
to recently pronounced Latin quite diff
ferently from the priests of Italy, the
audience of this good priest alone with
Pope Leo would present little diff
emily So I consented to present the
pastor to the pope and speak Latin &C.
cording to the italian pronunciation.
Well. Leo received the American gra-
ciously, gave him several privileges and
the audience was about to end. But the
good pastor had something else of
which he was anxious to inform the