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FUTURE or THE HORSE SHOW.
Control by \. q. Vanderbilt Saves Roth
Show and the Garden.

The purchase by Alfred Gwynne yander-
blt Of the controlling interest in the National
Horse show Association gives horsemen
the assurance not only that the Horse SHOW
itself is to be continued but that Madison
Square Garden will be too profitable to the
stockholders for them to dispose Of il. II is
said hat iust before sailing for Europe few
days ago MIR. Vanderbilt and his brother
Reginald. with Judge William H. Moore,
offered to take on themselves The respon-
sibility OF continuing The show at the Gar
den.
There IL no doubt that the change in the
control Of the Horse Show Association will
bring back into the fold many exhibitors
who have not been seen AT Madison SQllare
Garden in the last few years. and il is CON
sidered highly proba BILE that with the proper
pat atronage both from the exhibitors and the
public. the succeeding horse shows will not
only he successful as exhibitions but fnan-
ciallv as we'll. When II is realized that Mr.
Nandprbilts + interest in horses Is greater
than his desire to make money out OF the
National Horse SHOW Association there is
little doubt that the greatest local exhibi-
tions are yet to be held.
The sun., 1909-02-21
AUTOMOBILE NOTES.

The export business In automobiles has man,
curious features. and IN particular those VINO
are sending cars 10 the orient often ind thA
they must comply with peculiar conditions. c. 4
Eastman. the san Francisco msnazer OF tn,
White Company. who Is now spending few day
In the East. tells Of an interesting incident IL
connecti with the shipment OF White Steamer
TO Corea:
~ few weeks ago we received an order FOL
one OF our 40 horse power cars to be sent Il
Seoul. the capital OF Corea. The car was ordered
By the manager OF large mining company.
and he gave us most explicit Instructions a. 10
how VIC we're TO make the shipment. 1t seems
that the Coreans are not favsrsbly disposed
toward automobiles. and they exclude them from
the country by imposing a prohlbItlNe lmpor
duty. on the other hand, TIC mining company.
~ the terms OF Its conces don, Is permitted tc
import machinery free OF du.y.
II want you TO box the ma 'h'ncry 50 strongly.
said our customer from Corca. that the mos
energetic custom house Inspector will have no
desire to try TO break in, Mark the hoS Mining
Machinery" In English, japanese, Chinese and
Corean and guess every thing will he all right
"Wcl sir. the box we built around the car was
. wonder. II cost us over $500 for lumber and
Iron bracing and for labor How was II built'
Well. am reminded OF that famous chapter In
Cesar wherein Caesar tells about the bridge he
built arroSs the Rhine. For substantial con
struction. that box had CEsar's bridge faded
from the landscape. II the ship carrying The
boz should hsPpen to be NJ MreSked ,ne box boz WI NJ
e. y. D. apparatus. and eventually tho in
hahtsnis Of some sullry lsle In The South Seas
packed 40 horse power White steamer"
way ana Fiftieth street. last Wcdnesday evcnin g
lo3 owners and prospective owncrs OF Chalmers
De,TC, cars Listened to r, ,%o hour lecture r on
Hsnauer, NJ. T., OF the New York School OF Auto
mobile Engineers. Most OF those present had
who were Interested were welcomed The
speaker made no effort to exploit the merits OF
subject In a broad way a. applied TO cars In
general. .,.,,.
On ns ~as ects ns Tis o. OF Vial % 1 Sar m @
mobile owners II Is expected that another lee.
,aie viii be given on Medncsd1y n.sL ~.
OF thus educating automobile buyers and user,
In the nncr points OF construction. and both Mr..
WARMLY congratulated by those present al Inc
hrst lecture.
The time has gone by" said Mr, owen with
reference 10 the lecture idea. when cars can or
Until lately o. per cent Of ali automobile buyers
have been guided chiefly hy the shallow and
half truth Wisdom OF their acquaintances FeW
men have chosen their cars on a basis Of actual
should DO
The same thing has applied 10 salesmen. The
pectjye customer armed only with The one ,ided
facts or near facts that he has been taught nv
his own house and withoS, much Fundamental
must be present In any good car.
These lectures that We are arranging for arc
they arc for our old and our prospective Gus
toners. We are willing and glad 10 have the
and snayzed by The VERY nishest standards
and nothing can 40 effectively enthus. our sales
truths as 10 hcsf an unbiased engineer OF Nj
The sun., 1909-02-21

ENGLAND AFTER DAVIS cur.
Doherty Brothers and =. u. Smith Back
In the Lawn Tennis Fold.


LONDON. Feb. 2O.-England intends to
make a strong bid for the Davis cup for the
lawn tennis cham pionship in 1909. A chal-
lenge has b cen received from Australia,
and when an acceptance is cabled the
American Association will be invited ON
cIaIiy to send team to England In the
summer to play a preliminary round az
Wimbledon.
England's confidence is based on he
quarrel between the English Association
and the All-England club has brought the
Doberty brothers and s. II Smith back
into the fold. They with +. Riseley. 4. W.
Gore and Ritchie will be available.
The sun., 1909-02-21
Fourth Victory Tor Philadelphia Cricket.

KINGSTON. Jamaica, Feb 20 Tho Phila
delrhla cricketers won the game with the
Jamaica rricketers by eight wickets ia
msica made 10 runs in he first inning and
i76 ~ the second. The Philadelphians
scored ?5? for nine wickets In the fret inning
Nicholson made 20 runs. In the second
The visitors closed their tour with four
victories and one defeat.
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CHANGING ADDRESSES.

subscribers removing from place to another
and desiring papers changed should always give for
iner as we'll as present address
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-11-13
FIGHTING THE HooKWoRM.

Whatever opinion one may entertain as to the
present system which permits the control of nat
ural products, that those who have secured posses
sion of wealth through such control are human in
their makeup and philanthropic in their expendi-
lures is at times made manifest. The latest evi-
dence of such animation is had in the gift of John
D. Rockefeller of 100000 for the study of the
hookworm. The hookworm is the latest discovery
of medical science Tits said to be the cause of the
shiftlessness and laziness of the people of the
south who have for many years been considered
merely trifing. The discovery of the hoolworm
and the infrmities which it causes has made ap-
parent the fact that the poor white trash" of the
south, as they have been called for years. are so be-
cause of the anemia resulting from infection by
the hookworm.
The Importance of the gift of Mr. Rockefeller
can. hardly be overestimated. Through his benef-
cence, the nature of the hookworm, its cause and
cure will be investigated and it is likely that some
method of treatment will be discovered whereby the
disease can be eradicated and the victims restored
to normal productive power The discovery of the
existence of the hookworm and the effects it pro
duces on its victims, raises from the people who
have suffered from its silent ravages the stigma
which has been placed upon them, and changes what
has long been considered moral infrmity to the
dignity of disease If the scientists working with
the Rockefeller million able to conquer the par
asite it will work somewhat of an Industrial revoIu
ton in the south, where the disease is most preva
lent
Anemia is said to be the chief symptom of the
disease, which exhaustion of the vital forces
and occasionally results in death 1t makes itz
victims feel as if they had the spring fever all the
year round. Its economic aspect therefore. is of
Importance to the nation though this is of second
airy consideration to the victims of the disease who
feel inordinatey tired all the time It is hoped the
results following the doctors work will prove Of
equal value with the donation of Mr. Rockefeller.
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thirty-fve with no fixed income, no trade or pro-
fession, no business, no means of making a living
by definite occupation. He has wandered through
the world and got back to the starting place in the
meantime probably accommodating a family Deepen
dent upon him for support. Perhaps he will shift
from one job to another, from one line of endeavor
to another and by necessity compelled to stick to
the most distasteful of them all
No doubt there are many who get a start i'm the
right direction and work to definite purpose
throughout their lives. These are the ones who
stand out in the world as successes, though thew
are comparatively few. They may follow the oc-
cupaton of their father, inheriting his genius i'm
certain lines and advancing within his sphere with
satisfaction to themselves and with the approval
of their own conscience. But these few have their
careers marked out from the beginning. and they
have little trouble in finding themselves process
which to many proves one of the tragedies of life
Just what system can be adopted which will
lessen the waste of time and the waste of years of
Improbable work has not been evolved. And it
may be it never will be discovered Parents are
ambitious for their children to succeed Perhaps
the child will show an early aptitude to music or
art. What child does not! With this seeming an
titude, the parents force system of training upon
their children which is not discovered to be wasted
effort for several years. Other vagaries are prob
ably followed for several years more, and with it.
all, perhaps the aptitude for some calling which
may be possessed remains undiscovered forever
and the unfortunate goes through life max
ing small advancement leading a life of toll in
which lack of interest makes his life drudgerv
The problem of finding" ones self, if solved makes
worldly success an almost assured fact.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-11-13

misfortune and death. John Walter Walsh chief
of the sept of "Walsh of the Mountains" County
Kilkenny, In his beautiful eulogy on the death of
Oliver Grace, heir of the ancient house of Cour-
town, 1894 asserts his belief in the guardianship
lily, in the following verses:
80! noble youth my bosom's pride,
Was it for thee the Banshee cried,
Amid the lonely, silent hour
OF midnight, in the fairy bower9
when sheltering bay and buwark strong
Re-echoed in her boding song,
And every cock forgot to pay
His warning welcome to the day.
"For thee, for thee, o youthful chief,
Thus swels the Banshees voice of grief,
thus turns the day to night profound,
Thus weeps the woe-struck tribes around"
Sir Jonah Darlington, in his memories and
Recollections" positively asserts that he and Lady
Darlington saw and heard the Banshee when his
neighbor, Lord Rossmore died. The historian and
poet, Thomas Darcy Magee, in a note to one of
his poems, tells us that the Banshee was no myth,
but an actual apparition whose reality was accred
tied by indisputabe testimony.
Mccarthy, the gifted poet of Munster declares
he saw and heard the "Wailing Woman" and that
"She kept her body, and so dreamlike was her
Beauty [ could have gazed for aye
Methought the of 'Aileen escaped her lips
And then the keen of that wailing spirit
caught
Wilder, sadder tone. Twas like the murmur
That night winds make, when they are sweep
ing DER
Aeoan harp-strings"
A dream or an apparition-such at any rate are
the tales that belief in the brave days of old,
when the great men of Ireland had in their fami-
lies the hereditary poet and harpist, who sang for
the warriors and chieftains deeds of valor; for
youths and maidens songs of love and chivalry, in
short,
"Who filed each mans corn from the bins
But slipped the cup of love in Benjamin's"
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ness Joneslp And he said, ''Not very good, but L
don't care I got a thousand men working for me
in the woods" Think of that, boys; he meant you;
and his wife is wearing diamonds. Your wives
aren't wearing diamonds, they, boys2 And ne
says you're working for him; thinks he's going to
get your whole wad.'"
Wherein does this language of Rev. Frank Hig-
gins differ from that of the przefghter Jeffries ex-
cept in its excess of vulgarity and slang You
have heard the preacher, listen to the pugilist;
The big fellow threw out his chest and showed
his two large fists.
Boys" said he, "did you ever seen me step
into the ring out of condition? Did you ever hear
of me telling friend to bet his money and
lose it? Do you think that I am going into this
fight with that niger for the money there is in
it? I've got money When [ step into that ring
and face Johnson you can depend that [ will be
right will be in the best condition that it is pos
sible for man to be in, and I do say, while many
laugh, that the best fight is yet in me, and don't
you, forget it. A great many people believe be-
cause am going to do few stage stunts that
am going to stay out all night with the boys. WE'LL
L will meet the boys after the fight, but from now
on | will seek my humble couch every night be-
fore 10 M, while the rising sun will find me out
in the fresh air"
These vulgar preachers and reverend rowdies
have done and are doing injury to the Chris
tan religion than battalion of Ingersolls And
let 1t not be forgotten that these clerical mounte
banks are, by invitation, the guests of accredited
ministers of the gospel who hope to revive by these
comedians and these exhibitions, interest in a
Christianity which their people have forsaken, and
without which, the occupation of the preacher like
that of Othello, the Moor, would be gone.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-11-13
THE COST OF LIVING.

The increasing cost of the things we eat and
wear has given rise to much discussion as to It's
cause and cure. The increase has been notable
during the last ten years. Its cause has been va
rlous y accounted for the cause or causes ranging
from lack of production to extravagant expendi-
lures by the state and national governments AL
most every political subdivision of the country is
in debt. The city of New York has a debt that
doubles every ten years. with no evidence that It
will cease its doubling long as the debt limit is
not reached, as long as new interpretations can
be placed the laws which will permit of further
borrowing and bonding. In the broader field. how
ever, the expenditures of different nations during
the last ten years have grown enormously. The
United States has spent about billion dollars;
Great Britain has spent in the same period some
billion, six hundred millions; France. Germany and
Russia together have spent some billion eight hun
dred million, while Italy, whose industrious and
frugal people are unable to subsist on her native
SOIL has found some $27OOOO,OOO to spend ON the
construction and maintenance of her naval estab-
hshment. To sum up, those six nations during the
their nayies sum vast as to be inconceivabe
and enough to bankrupt any less prodigal thing
than the earth itself 1t is not likely the high cost
of living will be materially reduced until the high
cost of our navies is somewhat reduced. And there
doesn't to be much prospect of a reduction in
the cost of maintenance of either our own or any
other navy of the world.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-11-13
THE CLERICAL TWINS.

In every city of our Republic there are a num-
Der of disconnected, dissatisfied and restless men
commercial and social failures-who are disposed
to shift the responsibility for their want of sue
from their own shoulders to those of more en-
terprising Under peaceful conditions. under
law and order, they have become detectives and are
inclined destroy the existing order of things with
the hope of dragging down everything and every
body to their own level These are the men who
sympathize with foreign anarchists, who applaud
murder and arson, and who war on religion as the
enemy of disorder, and the bulwark of peace. law
and authority.
We had meeting Of this class of men last Sun
day night in the Unitarian church. building os-
tensiby erected to the honor and glory of God but
loaned for the occasion that an irreligious mob
might denounce the Catholic Church and king
and kingdom with which our country is at peace
The most disheartening and singular phase of
this Sunday evening meodrama was that two Prot
estant ministers were the star characters-men for
whose cloth the Fans present in the body of the
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-11-13
THE BANSHEE.

One who assisted at Chauncey Olcott's spIendid
presentation of Ragged Robin" writes to The In
termountain for information on the "Banshee-tbe
wailing woman"
The superstition of the Banshee, if it be su
persttlon, is the widest and grandest of all the.
Irlsh oehefs. 1he peasantry do not regard her as
belonging to the order of creations as the
fairy the sylph She is supposed to be the shirt
of woman, whose destines became linked nv Soma
tragedy or accident with the fortunes of +he fam
lily she follows-the spirit assumes the form Of .
woman, sometimes young and beautiful but more
generally DID, with long dishevelled locks Hoatina
over her thin shoulders, and attired in loose white
drapery. She appears to, or is heard by the head
OF the family she guards, to warn him of some
coming misfortune. The warning is given in a ne
cullarly mournful wall at night, and resembles tho
melancholy sigh of the wind, but with the tone 81
human voice which can be heard at oreo+ dc
lance How pathetically the Irish poet reminds Ms
Glow oft has the Banshee cried!
How oft has death united
Bright links that glory won,
Sweet bonds entwined by love"
She is sometimes seen as well as heard, but rare
~ visible, except to the person on whom she ex-
pressy waits. This person must be of the "ould
stock, the representative of an ancient family or
sept, whom she never forsakes in poverty or mis-
fortune.
The descendants or heads of the historic fam
lies of the O'Briens, O'Neils, Maguires McCar-
thys,, O'Sullivans, O'Reardons, and many others,
have each their Banshee, although now reduced to
the condition of peasants. In Ulster, the great
e Mil
in Shane's castle, on Tough Neagh has its attend
ant spirit and when evil threatens a member of
the old race, her wall is heard in the woods by the
lake shore, through the ruined walls of the fallen
castle, in the vaults below and over the graves of
the warriors who have borne the name and in the
days of old followed their chiefs to battle
The Banshee of the princey family of the
o'Brien of ThOmond is supposed to be the wrath
OF young and beautiful maiden whose indiscre-
ton IN a moment of weakness brought upon her
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-11-13
FINDING ONES SELF.

The experience of nearly every man who has
been success, or who has met with such financial
reward as to satisfy him that he has found his
proper vocation, will tell you that he tried more
than one way of making living before he found
the line that suited him. To find the vocation 70
which the individual is best suited is one of the hard
est problems with which young men, especially col
lege-bred young men, have to contend in the world
Having finished their schooling in many cases the
world offers but narrow limit within which they
can lind employment that will pay them enough
to 1--we ON. And man with trained mind. mind
filled with much literature and history and ecu
nomic theories and fctions, is always and inevita
bly, dissatisfied with any position which REQUIRES
the exercise of none of the talents he possesses
although in all the world he can find no position in
which he could work with satisfaction to himself
or anybody else. AS school boy the thought that
the worlds work must be done seldom entered his
mind, and the question as to what part of the
worlds work he wants to do is seldom answered
until experience has taught him that what he has
tried is not it.
Iradesmen are jealous of their trades. and
guard against too free opportunity for Young
men to learn their business 1t is unfortunate for
the younger generation that such is the case bnt
self-preservation has made the rule necessary
Business Judgment is attained only with expert
ence, and experience is a dear teacher The re-
qulrements OF the teaching profession are such as
10 forever dlsquafy successful teacher for other
lines Lawyers require years of study and patient
work with small remuneration before thew attain
to the wisdom which promises its just reward. And
many who enter into these lnes or into other lines
alter several years of work discover that they are
not fitted for the work. and all the preparation. or
most OF It, has been wasted 1t may be the years
OF preparation have brought on debts to pay which
requires another apprenticeship in the school of
life, and the aspirant finds himself at thirty or
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-11-13
WHAT is DR.. COOK?

The records of Commander Robert E. Peary's
Arctic explorations have been submitted to the Ma
tlonal Geographic society," which after examina-
ton, satisfied that body that Commander Peary had
reached the north pole, as he claimed The records
OF DIR. Frederick A Cook have not yet been passed
upon. 1t therefore would be unbecominc for any
one to attempt to affirm or to deny the claims of
Dr. Cook as the original dscoverer of the north
pole. If he has been to the pole, he deserves all
the credit that be bestowed upon him as a
hardy explorer and heroic adventurer; if he has
not been there he has branded himself as a most
shameless impostor
just at the present time, Dr. Cook is enjoying
a controversy between his admirers and the skep-
tics who have risen around him and threaten to
destroy his north pole achievements as did his
faithless companion by affidavit destroy his claim
to having scaled Mount Mckinley But Cook rest
ed not upon the affidavit of his companion to the
summit of Mount Mckinley, but though his rec
ords are mostly cached away in the far north, he
entered into controversy, hurting his defiance at
the affidavit maker and virtually promising the
world that he would more enter the Arctic re-
glons scale Mount Mckinley again. and 90 once
more to the pole and bring back the flag he so va
hantly placed there on his first visit
The meeting between his companion and him
self was as tempestuous political convention.
Dr. Cook refused to discuss the ascent of Mount
Mckinley with the man who went with him. and
who now denies the accomplishment of the feat
thus forever eliminating his name from the hall
OF fame, but he promises to go again into the
north, where it is very cold" where the nights are
long and where the days are long. too gather I'D
the remnants of his records and bring them back
to civilization to prove all that he
has claimed for himself. 1t is well to withhold
Judgment until the records are produced