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The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1909-03-25

T. J. .. Lamar, Of Brunswick, was
a guest at the san Phoenix last night
Waycross journal
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1909-03-25

E o. Hinton, of Baltimore, is reg
istered at the Oglethorpe,
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-10-23
Monkey on a Big stick.
CNew York Americana


Maggie, an untamed monkey exhibit
ed in museum on Fourteenth street,
broke away from her trainer, Don Clio
vanni, yesterday and started out to
emulate the feats of Cook and Peary by
discovering the pole. Her discovery
was attended with spectacular features,
and for two hours she entertained a
crowd that blocked Fourteenth street
and Fourth avenue, watching her climb
up and down the forty -fve-foot flag
staff on the roof of the German-Amer-
lean bank building.
Maggie was finally rescued by Stee-
plejack Walter Weaver of Camden, N.
J. Weaver saw the monkey on hel
perch and offered to bring her down for
S.. He climbed up, and after a short
tussel, caught the ape and climbed
down with her. The monkey resisted
capture by scratching and biting at her
captor.
The capture was the windup of an
all-night spree INDUCED in by Maggie.
She broke away Wednesday night from
the platform where she had been per
forming and hid in the attic of the
building. About noon yesterday she
got out on the roof of the museum
building, which adjoins the bank, and
climbed over the picket fence that sep
arates the buildings to the roof of the
bank. From there it was one jump to
the pole
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-10-23
The Heart of a Child.

There is nothing theatrical about
Maude Adams. A thousand persons
might meet her in the street and not
one would think of her as an actress
She rarely walks about. To and from
the theatre she always travels in a
cab. She is intensely American. Every
thing she wears must be of American
make Never did she wear hat or gown
made in Paris. She would rather have
the applause and the love of children
than of grown ups. Once during the
height of the run of Peter Pan" when
seats could not be had for love or
money, a woman friend who has two
children and whose means are limited,
wrote to her asking if, later on, when
the rush was not so great and the OPP
portunity offered, two seats could he
spared she would be overjoyed to have
the children see the play.
BY the next mail three tickets came
from Miss Adams. With it was a note
asking that the children read the &C.
companying story of Peter Pan" ex-
planatory of the play, before going to
the theatre.
The children and the mother saw the
play and after the performance Mr..
Myers was waiting for them at the
door.
Miss Adams asks if you will please
have the children write to her their
opinion of the play" he said.
Strange woman. Those who know her
best say she is Peter Pan to the life,
a child that never grew up. When she
goes abroad she lives in convent near
Paris. That she is a woman of high
ideals and tries to live up to them there
is no doubt While not a Roman Ca
tholic, she goes to mass
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-10-23
Birds and Their Toes.
(Strang Magazine0


And let us note that the art of stand
ing began with birds. Frogs sit, and
as far as l know every reptile, be ii
lizard, crocodile alligator or tortoise
lays it's body on the ground when not
actually carrying it. And these have
each four fat legs. Contrast the fa-
mingo. which, having only two, and
those like willow wands. tucks up one
of them and sleeps poised high on the
other, like a tulip on its stem. Note
also that one toe has been altogether
discarded by birds as superfuous. The
germ, or bud, must be there, for the
Dorking fowl has produced a fifth toe
under some influence of the poultry
yard, but no natural bird has more
than four. Except in swifts, which
never perch, but cling to rocks and
walls, one is turned backward, and by
cunning continuance the act of bend
ing the leg draws them all automatic
ally together. So hen closes its toes
at every step it takes, as if ii grasped
something, and. of course when it set
ties down on it's roost they grasp that
tight and hold fast till morning. But
to birds that do not perch this mechan-
ism is only an incumbrance. so many of
them. like the plover. abolish the hind
toe entirely, and the prince of all two
legged runners, the ostrich. has got rid
of one of the front toes also, retaining
only two
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-10-23


especially so for the man on the organ
bench. How many are struggling to
acquire it?
Inc education of an organist is sup
posed to include harmony, counter
point, orchestration, improvisation,
musical form. history and host OF
kindred subjects. He must also un-
derstand the voice, be able to train
boys as well as adults, know something
about the art of diction, conduct, and
so on. ! could continue indefinitely
SO broad is the subject.
For a successful recital there are
several things necessary to acquire.
The technique for both hands and
feet should be such that the works Of
the great masters will receive an in
depreciation that will raise them above
the ordinary level and be placed in the
virtuoso class.
Virtuosity is q necessity for recital
work, not only-in the dexterity of hands
and feet, but in the general manage
ment of the Instrument, tone Coloring,
combining of stops and quick changes
of registration, in order that the
ryhthm is not broken or interfered
with.
Alexander Guilrnant says: Never
change the registration if by so do
ing the rhythm must be broken" An
orchestra always plays with unbroken
rhythm. Why, therefore, should we
hear it done all too frequently on the
king of instruments?
Rhythm is of paramount Importance
in organ playing. Break il, and the
attention of the audience is interrupted
and diverted
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-10-23
DR.. Eliot,s Definitions.

The religion of the future viii not be
based upon authority, either spiritual
or temporal
The decline of the reliance upon alb
solute authority is one of the most sig
nificant phenomena OF The modern
world
The present generation is willing. and
indeed often eager. to be ed; but ii
Is averse to being driven. and it wants
to understand the grounds and sane
lions Of authoritative decisions.
In this simple and natural faith there
VIII be no place for metaphysical COM
pleXities or magical rites much less for
obscure dogmas, the result of compro-
misses in turbulent conventions.
The new religion will make but slow
progress, so far as outward organiza-
ton goes. 1t will. however. progress
sively modify the creeds and religious
practices of all the existing churches
and change their symbolism and their
teachings concerning the conduct Of
life
Everyone now believes that there is
IN a man an animating, ruling, char
acteristic essence. or spirit, which is
himself. This spirit, dull or bright,
petty or grand, pure or foul, looks out
of the eyes. sounds in the voice and
~nnears in the manners Of each indi-
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-10-23
Santos Dumont First Flyer.

(From the New York Press.)
Pan-America rejoices that our gal
liant premier aviator, Santos Dumont,
again strides the blast to the tune Of
55 miles the hour He Is rara avis;
indeed the first who flew in public
and showed an astounded world the
miracle of a mans flight. He is a
whole world prodigy, and his name
should be fastened to a star or be-
slowed upon the first convenient com
ing comet. Brazil may cut the name
of Dumont in letters so feet high across
the face of the peak of the Sugar Loaf
mountain at the entrance to the harbor
of Rio de Janeiro as a monument of
MiltOnic majesty to the Brazilian eagle.
His father, old man Dumont, a French
man. was the pioneer coffee man in the
big Santos district of Brazil. He sold
out his plantation a number of years
ago to a syndicate. Two brothers are
quiet bankers in the city of San maulo,
Brazil. Santos was believed for long
time to be a mere nutty spendthrift.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-10-23
Tattooinq AGAIN in Favor.

There is a revival OF the tattoo habit
in Germany, according to an article
published in a Frankfort paper. Here
tofore, the writer says, it was difficult
to find a tattooed subject who had
not been decorated at one of the sea-
port towns The men were sailors.
and the few women who had fallen
into the habit were wives or sweet
hearts of tattooed men.
The tattoo artist now finds willing
subjects far inland, among people who
never saw a sailor or the sea. Re-
Gently man at Munich noticed that
the arm of a young labOrer who was
pushing a loaded luggage cart was
deliberately tattuoed. and he asked the
young fellow why he had submitted to
the painful operation and why he had
chosen the portrait of German philos-
opher to decorate his arm. That's
Nietzsche." he said. Il like his face,
and he wrote Thou shalt fight 1
like the sentiment as much as the
face" and he trudged along laborious-
ly pushing the burden.
The larger patterns from which the
tattoo artists ask their clients to make
selections include portraits of Lincoln.
Franklin Grant and Roosevelt. and
pictures of New York's highest sky
Scra perS.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-10-23
ANOTHER CHAPEL CAR.
1t Will Be Purchased and Furnished
by Priests of the Country.

Another chapel car, to supplement the
good work of St Anthony's now famous
church on Wheels is a possibility If
the near future. The project had its in
ceptiOn at the recent mission congress
in washington, when Rev. Luke Evers
Of New York started the ball rolling
with a contribution of $500 and the Of
fer to raise $500 more by his own e.
forts Father Evers suggested that the
funds for the new car should be raised
by the priests of this country eXclu-
sively and the suggestion found favor
with those present
A chapel car is worth about S12, 900
but the directors of the project hope to
secure a Pullman car that is not new
at a cost of about $4,000 This figure
includes the cost of remodelling the
car
The new car will be named Plus X =
1t viii be finished in blue, the color Of
the Blessed Mother, with the shield and
motto OF the Holy Father painted out
side 1t is to be an offering of the
priests for mission work in honor of the
Pope who would restore all things in
Christ"
No subscriptions are asked or will be
accepted from laymen or from priests
outside the United States. The Church
Extension society viii own and operate
the car. The society has found by ex-
perience that chapel cars are made self
supporting by giving them two months
of exhibition and ten months of mission
work. The Baptists have five such cars
and have employed them for years.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-10-23
THE GENERAL INTENTION FOR
OCTOBER.
Recommended by His Holiness, Plus
The Catholic Instinct.

What common sense is in the domain
Of daily life, such is Catholic instinct in
the affairs of faith. When set rules
OF action are lacking or obscure in their
application. when precedent cannot be
found, and no one is near to advise
us. then it is that common sense comes
to our rescue. and leads US through
paths where no surer guide is at hand.
In exactly the same way there are mo-
ments in the souls life when the ordi-
nary landmarks are swept away or
hidden. when action is imperative yet
error imminent and The voice of God
cannot be heard; our instinct for what
is Catholic can then be our Only stay.
This instinct is, as it were, a spiritual
sense and unerring perception of the
soul. by which we instinctively and UNI
sciously Judge or act as the infallible
Church would do. 1t was this instinct
which led the Christians of the fourth
century to shrink from Arius years
before his conciliaT condemnation: il
was this instinct which prompted the
populace of Constantinople to rise up
and reject their heretical patriarch; il
is this instinct which today inspires
even the ignorant to condemn the doc
trines of modern free-thought. More
today than ever before is the Catholic
instinct needed. Men are casting off
the irksomeness of initiating Christ and
are setting up self to be their Savior
Against such we must beware. The
Catholic instinct is fostered by a de
vout Catholic life. 1t Is the flower of
humility and prayer. 1t is the natural
result Of a life such as the Church
wishes all her children to lead. and
makes its presence felt when it is most
needed, for those who walk in Gods
r1-az-S
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-10-23
What organists Should Know.

How long will it be necessary to
study the organ before l secure a posi-
tion?" With what frequency do we
hear this well worn question pro-
pounded by the eager student. Good
'old-fashioned" work, and plenty of it.
| is about as good a short CUT to sue
cess as one can give in reply to such
an inquiry. How many students ever
stop to estimate the requirements
necessary to enter a profession before
! launching into it?
First OF all, an organist must learn
| his instrument and then to play it.
This may seem a strange assertion. II
means simply this, that filling in a
! few notes with the feet and forming
a certain number of combinations with
the stops does not constitute organ
playing at the present time nor did
it at any period in its history.
1t would be well if the ten command
ments on theory were followed more
closely by those who pursue the sub
jects of harmony and counterpart.
They are as follows:
Thou shalt form no other sounds
but pleasant ones
Thou shalt not make unto myself
any unalterable rule. Thou shalt not
bow down myself to them nor serve
them; for all rules may be broken by
thee. when thou hast learned why such
rules should not be broken.
Thou shalt not carry thy parts too
high nor too low; for the singer viii
not hold him guiltless that taketh him
out of his range.
Remember augmented intervals are
very difficult to sing, either for thy
soprano, or thine alto, or thy tenor, or
thy bass and Tor this reason are TO
be avoided.
Honor thy parts by giving each u
smooth. flowing melody, that thy music
may be long in the land that is given
thee.
"Thou shalt not have consecutive
fifths
Thou shalt not have consecutive
octaves.
Thou shalt not skip from the fifth
in the bass.
Thou shalt not bear false relation.
but keep thy automatically altered
tones in the same part
Thou shalt not double thy major
dominants nor thy minor sub-domi-
nants. thirds, nor any dissonant tones
of thy tonics or thy dominants, nor thy
sub-dominates, nor their relatives.
either major or minor"
The organist must have ideas and be
able to express them. 1t is mistake
to slight the study of other subjects
outside of music. for he must be broad
minded and versatile. ] know of no
profession that requires more prompt
ness of action and the ability of hay
ing the mind under complete control
than that of the organist. A college
education should be pursued whenever
possible. 1t may mean that one wild
be obliged to enter the musical pro-
fession little later, but it viii pay in
the end.
Concentration, always essential, is
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-10-23

do you want a position in the cho-
rus of the Merry Lark?'
Yes, sir
Can you sing"
Not very WELL
Can you read music-have you any
ear for it?"
Il have never studied music"
We'll, l am sorry, but you won't do.
This chorus has got to have girls who
can sing as we'll as look pretty
This is the substance of a converse
ton between a manager of a Broadway
show" and a young girl who wanted
to go on the stage. It is illustrative of
the Importance that theatrical man.
ayers are attaching to the value of the
knowledge Of music. To be able to
sing well is essential to the actor who
has an important part in a musical pro-
duction. But whether it be musical or
not, knowledge of music and the abili-
ty to sing, if but a little, are becoming
Of increasing value to MN,
The actress or actor with such quail
f1cations Is practically unlimited in his
or her field. is possessed of the essen
ton qualifications for leading parts in
any kind of a play if other attributes
which such parts demand are not
lacking.
certainty The aSplrant Tor stage non
ors who can sing well can demand and
get more salary from the very start
than the one who cannot sing. Not
only that, but he stands a much better
chance of getting employment.
In fact, the person wnO is thinking
Of going on the stage will do we'll 10
study music and cultivate his voice. if
he has one that will depay cultivation,
for it it is an asset that can be realized
on easily.
It is hard to overestimate the value
of the voice for this profession. here
are at least a dozen women, and as
many men, playing leading parts in
Broadway productions this year who
probably would never have been heard
Of had it not been for their voices.
Their ability to sing earned for them
thetitle Of star and not their ability
to act 1t is true that these are play
ing in musical productions, but, as one
manager sums up the question, " the
ability to sing and knowledge of mu-
sic are not only essential for musical
plays, but are also valuable assets for
any other kind"
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-10-23
Ancient county of GALWAY

A recent issue of the Galway Archaeo-
logical and Antiquarian Society's Jour
nal contained curious and historically
interesting paper from the pen of r. J.
Kelly, B. L., who is one of the society's
founders and vice presidents. The arti-
Gle is an account of the 'Forefeitures
and settlements of 1861 of lands in
County Galway. By the act of Nov. 80,
1861 of Charles II, it was declared that
all the lands, tenements and heredita-
ments of which any of the adventures
were possessed on May I. 1850 having
been allotted or set out to them or en-
joyed by them as Adventures in salts
faction of and for their adventures shall
be confirmed and made good to them,
their heirs and assigns forever" The ad-
venturers were those who advanced
money on the credit of the act of II
Charles / for the encourag cement of adj
venturers whereby the lands of the reb-
els were vested in the crown.
Two million and a half acres were so
allotted and confiscated, of which mil
lion were in Connacht. and the bOgs,
woods, loughs and barren mountains
were to be cast into these 100000. and
fifty acres each thrown into each mans
division. Six hundred and fifty thou
sand acres in each province were to be
divided in equal lots among the adven-
turers, and any adventurer in Connacht
who had 5000 acres had power to erect
a manor court, with court baron and
court leet and other privileges. In 1862
the English parliament published an
ordinance for the settling of Ireland in
which it was declared it was not their
intention to eXtirpate the whole ma
ton" Almost all the Papists who were
worth $50 were divided into four classes
Cd All persons who before Nov. 10,
1912, had combined. acted or aided all
persons who had slain any person bear
ing arms for the English. CD All who
bore arms against the parliament were
to be banished and tWo-thirds of their
estates forfeited. (3) All who had not
manifested constant good affection to
the interests of the common wealth of
England were to forfeit one third of
their estates. ca All persons who re-
sided in Ireland and had not been in
the army and manifested good affection
to the interests of the parliament were
to forfeit one-third.
On June / a further confscation was
carried out and under it, as Mr.. Kelly
shows, 60,S25 acres in the County of CAL
way of the annual value of $50.125. or
SAT- $40 total value, were confscated.
Grants were made to Williamite sup
porters, and among those who got some
was the Earl of Galway, who got &c. 4S
acres in consideration of his services.
Not an acre of the land is in his sue
cessor's hands today. A great deal of
the woods of Ireland were then DELHI
erately destroyed and dreadful waste
committed. Among the woods thus dis
posed of were the Earl of Clancarty' S
woods in grant to Lord Woodstock.
computed at S135,OO and the. woods of
O'Shaughnessy calued- at 100000, and
sold to Toby Butler for S12, 500.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-10-23
The Century Plant a Myth
(From the Seattle MINES.

The delusion of many women in Sc
attic who believe they possess a Cen
fury cactus" has been shaken by the
rude florists, who pronounce the plants
to be Just ordinary cactus"
THE regular century plant" said
Robert Shank, who was born among
flowers and has made Horticulture a
business for twenty-five years, lis not
a cactus. 1t belongs to a family of it
self. 1t has a large, broad leaf, some
times two or three feet long and several
inches thick where they branch from
the center. There are two varieties, one
the variegated and the other green
The only difference is that the varie-
gated has a white stripe along the outer
edge of the leaf. They bloom every
twenty-five of forty years A stock
perhaps eight or ten inches in diameter
shoots up from the center to a height
of fifteen or twenty feet and around
this stock cluster small blossoms. They
are neither pretty nor fragrant. They
were formerly supposed to bloom once
in 100 years.
1.-The nearest thing to a century plant
is a night-blooming cereus. 1t is cac-
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-10-23
Church Universal

ality.
The religion Of the future will not be
gloomy, ascetic, or maledlctory. 1t will
DeileVe in no malignant powers
nelther in Satan nor in witches, neither
IN the evil eye nor in the malign sug-
gestion.
Inc new religion will not rely OH
either sudden conversion in this
world, or sudden paradise IN the next
from out a sensual. selfish. or dishOn-
est life. 1t will teach that repentance
wipes out nothing in the past, and is
only the first step toward reformation
and a sign of a better future.
The new religion rejects the entire
conception of man as fallen being.
hopelessly wicked, and tending down
ward by nature; and it makes this en-
phatic rejection of long-accepted be-
llefs because it finds them all incon-
Sistent with a humane civilized, or
worthy idea of God
1t is evident that the authority both
of the most authoritative churches and
of the Bible as a verbally inspired
guide is already greatly impaired, and
that the tendency toward liberty is
progressive, and among educated men
irresistible
The new religion viii animate and
siude ordinary men and women, who
are putting into practice religious con-
ceptions which result directly from
their own observation and precious ee-
perience of tenderness, sympathy, trust
and solemn joy. 1t will be most well
come to the men and women who cher
ish and exhibit incessant. all-compre-
bending goodwill. These are the
good people. These are the only
genuine civilized persons.
The religion of a multitude of hu-
name persons in the twentieth century
may be called without ineXcusable eX-
aggeration a new relIgion'-not that
single one of its doctrines and prac-
tees is really ne win essence. but only
that the wider acceptance and better
actual applications Of truths familiar
in the past at many times and in many
places, but never taken 20 heart by the
multitude or put in force on large
scale. are new
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-10-23

tus and blooms once in about every
twenty-five years or so. The flower is
large, very beautiful and has delight
full odor One plant may have several
blossoms, but each flower lasts only one
night.
There is no such plant as century
cactus This cactus that man, have
mistaken for century cactus will
bloom in four or five years. if kept un-
der glass or about seven years If not in
a dollhouse. Because they are so long
in blooming, l suppose they have been
called century cactus and the name
has been handed down until it is con-
sidered the proper term for them. They
bloom yearly after the first blossoms
appear. They are just an ordinary cac-
tus, but they have a pretty, fragrant