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The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-10-16

show pretty clearly that the fly is not desirable
companion; that the germs of disease may be car
ried from place to place and deposited Oh our food
nay, further, that such is really the case.
But granting all this, is it not plain to our CORE
+, spondent that there may yet be a useful purpose
served by the fya 1t breeds in filth SO scientists
tell Does not the presence of the fly therefore
indicate a condition that should be remedled-a
condition of which the fly is the surest indication
Surely all the sticky fly paper and all the poison
fly paper set about houses and back doors will
not remove the condition of which the presence of
the fly is sure proof. Surely the presence of the
fly is warning to to look about and clean up
If the microscopic examinations of the fly are
correct, and we have no reason to doubt the truth
of the statements of the scientists the conclusion
is inevitable that the fly is as important in the
economies of the world as is the smallpox flag or
the scarlet fever flag posted quarantined houses
to warn the general public of the presence of the
danger 1t seems to about sensible to kill the
flies, to exterminate Them as it would be to burn
all the disease flags posted by the board of health
The destruction of the fly would amount to moth
ing than destroying the evidence that there is
filthy condition somewhere that should be rem
eded.
In the past we have called the attention of our
readers to the proven facts concerning the danger
that turks in the presence of the flies and have
urged the of screens and the greatest caution
to keep flies away from their food supplies. Fur
Their than this, we have urged our readers to keep
their premises in sanitary condition in order that
there might be breeding places for the pest about
them. We not particularly opposed to fly pa
per of different kinds in fact we make us of both
kinds about our home during the fly season, and
we keep house as free from flies as possible as
we urge our readers to do. We personally there
fore cannot be charged with any desire to court the
presence of the fly. And in all our study of the
church fail to find scintila of evidence that
the church passed upon the subject.
Besides being evidence of condition which
should be remedied we are not prepared to say that
the fly does not occupy position of real benefit
to mankind in some other way. We showed last
week how the destruction of the snakes in South
Carolina brought on a pest, and how the de-
3truction of the rats in Barcelona resulted in an
epidemic. We do not know that any disastrous re-
suits would follow the destruction of the fly; per-
laps there would, perhaps there would not Surely
t is not opposition to science to urge that we find
'ut what we doing before we do it, If it is, we
must concede that we opposed.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-10-16
"A FARCE AND A SHAM"

The national convention of the Protestant Al
lance Missionary Society assembled in Los An
gees closed its sittings last week One cannot but
admire the zeal manifested and the sacrifices made
bv the delegates who, at considerable expense as
sembled in the California city and devoted seven
davs to the study of foreign missions We have no
right to question the sincerity of their zeal or the
| honesty of their intentions. We think, however,
that the delegates were imposed upon by the an
nual reports of missionary success In Japan and by
private letters mailed by some of the missionaries
themselves. A few years ago Mr.. W. L. r. Pres
ton Canadian commissioner to Japan, leveled a
grave indictment, from the pulpit of the Parkdale
Presbyterian Church, Toronto, Canada, at the
Protestant missions in the Land of the Rising Sum-
We quote, in part, Mr. Preston's arraignment of the
missionary system and the reasons for its failure
reported by the Toronto Mail and Express:
"The duty of the west" spoke the commissioner
to Japan from Canada, "was to evangeize the east,
and that work must be done in Japan. But my
two years residence in that country satisfy that
the evangelization of the japanese can never be
accomplished by the present system. There is not
in Japan today more than one Christian mission
airy who is able to preach sermon fit for an intel
in saying that the sooner the Churches woke up to
the fact that the present system must be pulled out,
root and branch, the better it would be for them.
If Rev. Mr.. Preston could have his way he would
recall per cent of the missionaries at once and the
balance within five years. Instead of sending out
lot of boys and girls to Christianize the Japanese
and women of the greatest intelligence and ex-
perience of human need and human difficulties
should be sent, all of whom should have had ten
years in our western world cities
The Roman Catholic Church had converted
100000 Japs to Christianity, but the combined
Protestant Churches, with their immense resources
could not claim 10000. The Protestant Churches
had better amalgamate and send out a commission
to study the situation on the spot for at least a
year. and when they had gathered all the facts they
could return and report. When that report was
made, Christendom would awake and say the pres
ent system was farce and sham-Toronto Mail
and Express Aug. 80.
ga farce and sham" Of course it is Why,
Mr. Preston, right at your own door, just outside
the city of Brantford, is an Indian reservation
where 1000 Iroquois, Delawares and Tuteoes have
been for 1875 years under the exclusive teaching of
Protestant missionaries and-the shame of it
1000 of these Indians are still pagan And the 9TH
er 10000 Well, the less said of them the better.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-10-16
MURDER OF POLICEMAN REILLY.

1t is only when cold-blooded and fiendish muir
der like that of Policeman Reilly is committed in
our very midst that we awake to the alarming prey
alence of crime in our city and country. 1t tempts
the midest nature to become savage and vindictive
and almost willing to form one of party in put
ting the wretches guilty of these atrocious murders
to death by slow torture. What is the matter with
our country when trains are deliberately wrecked
held up and robbed; where women are ravshed ;
where men are knitted on the slightest provocation
where men murder each other down on the streets
to settle personal differences where men shoot wo-
men who refuse to marry them; where girls kill
lovers who desert them; where an unwritten law is
approved of by courts where an officer in the
discharge of his duty done to death as if he wera
a mad dog, and where these things are happeninp
all the time among US and are comparatively rare
IN Canada, Mexico and in South American conn
tries! 1t IS time that every American citizen con-
sidered deeply of these things for they are shame
and a reproach to us.
The annals of all tribunals and all the happen
ings of recorded time since the fall of Rome NAV
be searched in vain for prolonged and continuous
repetition, in peaceful times, of crimes and out
RACES like unto those which are disgracing orr re-
public before the nations of Europe.
The pastor of the Pilgrim CONGREGATIONAL
Church. Chicago, only three weeks ago. COMPARED
Chicago and many of our cities to hell. and de-
clared: "The worst gutton of vice and the widest
advocate of personal liberty can here see hell turned
inside out if it is possible to present such snoc
tacle on earth"
The shameful indecencies revealed by orr d.
vorce trials have ceased to surprise us but thew vet
astonish European civilization We are not sur-
prlsed, for thoughtful men among us have known
Tor quarter of century the fearful state of af
fairs IN our commonwealth. These divorce SHIFTS
trials for murder, assertions and suicides Int ra
veal the internal fires crimes and horrors that rooo
beneath the apparently calm and orderly surface If
society.
shameful corruption in our social civil and
political life is eating away our manhood and tho
shame of it is that this corruption is permitted to
90 on by our common indifference and is condoned
~ the practices of those in high places.
For half century the false leaders and tbeir
blinded followers have shut their eyes to this uni
'ersal corruption. If they continue to ignore its
existence it will kill them and the republic.
After an expenditure of hundreds of millions of
ollars popular education is it beside the issue
o ask, What has our education done for us morally
nd socially?
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-10-16
CATAFALQUE.

The Catholic Encyclopedia says of catafalqu8
written by Professor Patrick Morrison of May
nooth), the word derived from the italian word
Catafalco, means literally scaffold or elevation
but IN It's strictly liturgical sense the word is en-
poyed to designate the cenotaph-lke erection which
IS used at the exequial Offices of the Church, and
takes the place of the bier whenever the remains are
not present 1t is covered with black cloth or pail
on which there is a cross of white or some other
color.
The catafalque is usually placed just outside the
sanctuary, and is the center of the ceremonies Of
that part of the exequial office known as the absou
ton, receiving the same attention as the corpse
would If present. Lights burn around the eata-
talque during the function and it aspersed with
holy water and incensed
During the dissolution the cross-bearer stands
between the catafalque and the door of the church.
the ceebrant between it and the altar If for any
reason catafalque is impossible. its place may be
supplied by square of black cloth laid in front OF
the lowest step of the altar, and incensed and as
persed as the catafalque would be.
Formerly the catafalque was the bier on which
the corpse rested. No flowers are allowed on it or
near it, but the insignia of prelates no.
bles may be displayed on it.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-10-16
FLIES AGAIN.

Editor Intermountain CathoIic-In your paper
Of this week you print an editorial in opposition to
the destruction of the house fly, known in the
present enlightened age as the typhoid" fly. and
advance the theory that the fly serves some useful
purpose or it would not be here In the face of the
best thought and in opposition to the proved facts
of science, am somewhat surprised that your iour-
nal should permit itself to go on record in oppo-
sltlon. 1t has been the contention of the Catholic
church that it is not opposed to scientific research
scientific progress although such charges are fire.
quently made by opponents of your organization
yet here we have the church coming out fat-footed
in opposition to facts as well proved as that the
earth is round. How do you account for it?
w. I. B.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-10-16
CARD FROM BISHOP scA-IAN

lie generally from fraud and imposition by notifying
them from time TO time that person bearing the
name and gar5 OF priest sister anyone else In
authorized or permitted 10 solicit or collect in this
diocese for purpose whatever connected with the
Catholic Church without having from me permission
IN writing, bearing my seal and signature Should
anyone be found engaged in doing this unlawful
work or collecting without such a document he or
she as the may be- should be regarded by all as
irauo ana an imposter I. SCANIAAN,
Bishop of IIak
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-10-16

We do not account for it. Our correspondent
1t is plain to be seen, believes the weworn and Oft
refuted charge that the Catholic church is opposed
to progress and scientific research and bv mis-
reading our editorial "Flies and Typhoid homes
to fasten the charge down with proofs out of orr
mouth.
In the first place, the Catholic church does not
deal in flies What we say concerning flies. or what
any priest or ayman says or thinks about flies hos
nothing to do with the doctrines of the church We
are ready to grant that the results of Investigation
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-10-16
TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS

Inc Intermountain Catholic goes into nearly every
Catholc home in this diocese circulation in Mon
tena, Idaho Colorado, Wyoming, Nevada and many
other states is very large. Only reliable firms and
business men advertise In the paper All subscribers
WIN nnd 1t to their advantage when about to invest
purchase or consult business matters to read over
me hst OF our advertisers. We only recommend,
but ask for them the patronage of all our readers
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-10-16

Somehow or other we never do think much II
rnose who succeed in making us acknowledge they
were right and we wrong in any matter
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-10-16

1t is worth at least 81, 900 year to be born with
modest appetite to have learned to control ones
desires. The happiest among us are those whose
wants are few.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-10-16

The old saying that fool and his money are
soon parted is only another evidence that it doesn't
take brains to make money; if it did, the fool
wouldn't have any from which to be parted
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-10-16

And now it is said that Mars is absolutely dry,
which condition is hailed by the prohibitionists as
an evidence of the giant strides their movement is
taking.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-10-16

Most of US would rather do the things we can't
than do what we can do well.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-10-16

The beauty that is bought in the drug stores
and is applied with brush or puff is not even
skin deep.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-10-16

Most of the things we struggle for, after We
have got them we find are not the things which
bring US happiness
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-10-16

The smart set is made up of those who subsi.
tute what money will buy for what money will not
buy.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-10-16

Sometimes it is as hard to hide good deeds as
1t is to hide bad ones but the publicity in the one
case Is more pleasant than in the other.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-10-16

Some folks are poor but honest, while others are
honest but poor; but which condition is the cause
Of the other is stated in recounting the viz
tues of our neghbors
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-10-16

Anything we make ourselves we think more of
than the product of anyone else which may ac-
count for the exaggerated opinion self-made men
have of their own Importance
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-10-16

1t seems to be pretty well established that girl
who marries man to reform him generally meets
with disappointment.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-10-16

The north pole is still open for settlement. if
Santa Claus doesn't enter protest against the in
vasion of his domains.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-10-16

President Faunce of Brown university saws that
many college graduates cannot write decent bust
ness letter, but he should remember that the bows
did not go to college to learn to be stenographers.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-10-16

Inc average man looks about him and sees many
mediocre men, and some average men, but only a
few really superior men.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-10-16

Most of us had to learn a great deal before we
attained to the satisfaction of having learned
enough. Great is wisdom after we have attained
it ALL
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-10-16

During the canning season, what more natural
to expect than that there should be family Jars, or
that the cook should quit or be canned
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-10-16

We would hardly expect such hot controversy
over such a cold subject as the north pole.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-10-16

subscribers removing from one place to another
o oesr1ng papers changed should always give for
Iner as well as present address
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-10-16
REMITTANCEs.
CHANGING ADDRESSES.

hemlttances should be made by postof1ce or e1
press money orders, drafts registered letters
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-10-16
CORRESPONDENTS sorTcTTED

me reverend Clergy requested to send to TIE
- t4z4e4fLO ONIAlN CATHOLIC contribute
OF interest to their respectipe marshes
Times-promoter. (Hernando, DeSoto County, Miss.) 1898-1970, 1909-05-06
Farmers Institutes for 1909.

The Institutes will begin this year
July 10, and any community wishing
an institute this summer should make
application for same as early as pos
sible. Applications can not be con-
sidered after June. We must get in
calls for meetings early SO as-to have
time to make out routesand fix dates.
We have secured some splendid
speakers from other Southern States,
and hope to make this season the
best in the history of the work. Adj
dress all applications for Institutes,
to E. r. LLOYD, Director Farmer
Institutes, Agricultural College, Miss.
Times-promoter. (Hernando, DeSoto County, Miss.) 1898-1970, 1909-05-06
COUNTY soLoNs IN SESSION
Board Of Supervisors Transact Volume of
Business in one Days Session.

A large amount of business was
transacted by the Board of Superyis-
,ors in session here last Monday, and
an adjournment was taken until next
Monday, when arrangements will be
made to borrow money to meet the
expense of the coming term of court.
Following is synopsis of the pro-
.ceedings of Monday:
Petition of H. HI. Minis ct al to pay
r. p. Funderburk for working roads
in first district was received and filed.
Report of superintendent of edaca-
tion showed following amount of pay
certificates issued during April: White
teachers, 1900; negro teachers, $3.50.
Schools visited, eight
Petition for Sam Holloway ct al for,
road was granted and M. G.. Dickson
and D. =. Wilson were appointed a
committee to view said proposed road
and report at next meeting.
Petition of w. A. Williamson ct al
for change in Mt. Pleasant road was
granted and G. T. Thomas and j.
G. Long appointed committee to
view said proposed change and report
at next meeting.
Contract to build six bridges on Pig
con Roost road in Coldwater bottom
was let to ]. E. Birmingham for $1.44
per foot, said bridges to be completed
in so days.
Report of D. E. Wilson and M. G.
Dickson, committee appointed to in
spect roads worked by R. P. Funder-
burk was received and approved.
Petition of w. L. Mosby to have
personal assessment for 1908 reduced
was continued.
Petition of w. B. Duncan ct al for
change in Holly Springs road was
continued.
G.. T. Thomas and D. E. Wilson,
committee appointed to view propos-
ed change in road asked for by J. N.
Brown ct al, recommend that said
change be made.
Times-promoter. (Hernando, DeSoto County, Miss.) 1898-1970, 1909-05-06
FROM NORTH CAROLINA
Major Writes Of interesting Topics in a
Growing Tar Heel Town.
Mt. Airy, N. c., April 80, 1905

Mt. Airy, N. c., April 80, 1909.
am still among the mountains OF
North Carolina and am walked up ev-
cry morning except Sunday by the
dynamite explosions, tearing asunder
the solid granite in the quarry mile
away. / believe / have told about the
quarry, a wild mountain, showing at
least fifty acres or fine gray granite,
furnishing material for fine monu-
ments to perpetuate the memory Of
heroes, statesmen and loved ones all
over the land of the free and the home
of the brave,'' and palaces for the rich
bloated bondholder, as well as for
bridges, factories and paving blocks
for the cites for ihe comfort of the
poor as well as the rich. The quarry
looks like an immense snow bank and
can be seen for miles around and gives
good pay to hundreds of skilled me-
chanics as we'll as common laborers.
A railroad runs to it and cars are
loaded with huge blocks weighing,
twenty IONS or more, by machinery
easier than car is loaded with cotton
at the depots. The ingenuity and
progress of man is wonderful and at
the pace at which he is going | would
not be surprised if we are receiving
prices for the current commodities
of the planet Mars by step beyond
the wireless telegraph before Bryan
is president. But development is not
only making rapid strides in the in
dustrial arts and sciences, but ras-
cality (or graft / believe it is called
is going at the same gait. See how
easily the the execution of the laws
are circumvented by sharpers with
the use of money. But enough of
that for everybody knows as much
aboutit as / do, and might step on a
friends toe.
I have heretofore been here later
and then hundreds of white covered
wagons we're coming from beyond the
Concluded on Last Page.
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Times-promoter. (Hernando, DeSoto County, Miss.) 1898-1970, 1909-05-06

played by the tornado. In one of the
negro cabins that were destroyed was
little baby, which the wind picked
up and deposited in dry cistern.
After the storm ladder was secured
and rescuers descended into the cis-
tern and found the child unharmed.
At Aldens Station, where the storm
crossrd the railroad, bits of weed two
and three inches long were EMBEDDED
n the ends of cross ties, and near the
spot where the station stood a piece
of shingle was found driven so deeply
into live hickory that it could not
be easily extracted.
Another truthful citizen tells of
part of pane of glass that split a
seasoned post and the glass, unbroken,
is still firmly EMBEDDED in the wood.
At w. r. Halbert's place hen was
setting on a nest of eggs and after
the storm she found one of her eggs
on little patch of staw and resumed
her. efforts to increase her kind, and
she still sits aerenely amid the wreck
age and the curious crowds that are
viewing the ruins. Another example
of the proverbial perseverance of the
American hen.
A strange feature of the storms
operation around the place where AL
dens Station once stood is the fact
that all the trees that are down
IN the grove east of the track, with
one or two exceptions, were not blown
up by the roots, but were twistedIinto
several feet above the ground, many
looking as if splintered by lightning.
Several petitions for the relief Of
the storm victims are being circulat-
ed and contributions are being made.
We will attempt to publish complete
list of contributors next week.
Times-promoter. (Hernando, DeSoto County, Miss.) 1898-1970, 1909-05-06
Estray Notice.

Taken up by Alonzo Felix, 2 miles
east Of Nesbitt, Miss, April 10, 1909,
one dark bay mare about IA years old
and about IA hands high, branded on
the left hip with a crop in a circle.
Valued at $35. If not proven away
will be sold at the courthouse in Her
nande on the first Monday in Novem-
Der, 1909. This May 1, 1909.
5-6-3t7 y r. "a. LOGAN, j. p.
Times-promoter. (Hernando, DeSoto County, Miss.) 1898-1970, 1909-05-06

1t was ordered that the Board aG-
journ until Monday, May 10, 1909, at
10 o'clock a. M, then to meet in adj
iourned session for the purpose of
borrowing money for the general
county fund.