The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-09-04

colony III Africa And now would seem the pro-
pitious time for the organization of such a colony
there, when President Roosevelt could show them
how to do it.
Objection is made to the designation of flying
machines as being of so many horsepower Inas-
much it would require only one horse to pull a
wrecked flying machine into port, it does seem a
rather humorous way of designating the motor.
Only pin-headed pedant flies off the handle
when his work is criticised or changes in it sug-
gested.
Lots of those who prate about the dignity Of la
Dor simply stand back and get in on the profits.
Still, the scent of the new-mown hay is Just
little too delicate to be appreciated by the layers
1t certainly will not be long before the doctors
announce the discovery of a new disease superin-
duced by aeroplaning Operations for it ought to
become quite fashionable as operations for ap-
pendicitis
A wireless device is announced with which a
warship be blown up at a distance of 400 or 500
miles. The invention ought to be about as valuable
to humanity the warshirs which it is intended
to destroy
The self-suficiency which requires no assistance
is an admirable trait in the pedant it advises others
of his conceit.
To good many people Sabbath days journey
means going to the baseball park
After it is all over everybody you meet tells Won
what you should have done, which shows how
smart everybody is.
There is little hope for the man who doesn't
know the difference between an embrace and a hug.
especially as applied to opportunities and decisions.
Midsummer advice to keep cool is still apropos.
Mark Twain has been ordered to cut his srook-
ing down to four smokes day. That's all Mark
ever smoked-once from the time of arising to
breakfast once from breakfast to dinner once from
dinner to supper and once from supper to bedtime
--~-e-s
Poor but honest folk, the expression which has
caused some discussion among those who are neither
promises to be dropped from tie language. For no
one boasts of either his poverty or his honesty
~-S-s
It is said the new tariff bill places duty Of AZ
per cent on anvils. But no one expects TO eniov a
less full chorus as result.
One swallow does not make a summer. It takes
flying machines in these days
Republican politicians, of course. view the eight
billion dollar crop with great satisfaction, now that
the tariff bill is passed
1t is estimated that half of the population Of the
United States, through the operation of local on
ton and statewide prohibition laws. is living IN
dry" territory. That is, there are 100000 NO.
pie living under prohibition. And yet the saloons
If Salt Lake disobey the law and disregard the
warming furnished by the rest of the country and
people say it is because election is coming on
The general welfare is the most elastic provision
II the constitution, yet nobody knows lust what # i
roo MUCH NOVEL READING.
One OF the latest warnings against too n,rob
oYel reading comes from Mrs. Humphrey WarJ
n an address at the opening of the new Carnoo;o
brary at kendal, this well known novelist roforTaJ
. novel reading, and gave it as her opinion +bat
eople who read only novels never properlv o-rro'
late them Novels were the Jam of literature o,,d
Il properly conducted persons should begin +ba;
zeal with bread and butter. Writers of novels
anted reades to be little hungry for tbem-no+
bring to them mind full of the debris If tbnu'
md plOts-and he T,roof 'AOu