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The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-10-01
LIGHTNING AND HENRY CLAY.

Kentuckians have reason to be proud of their
patriots of the past to say nothing of those of the
PRESENT. and they show commendable pride in
them Chose of the past) by erecting monuments
to their memory In Lexington cemetery they have
a statue to Henry Clay. The statue has stood for
many years to furnish inspiration to the younger
generations and to perpetutae the memory of the
great Kentuckian. But hard luck seems to pursue
that statue The press dispatches last week tell that
the statue was struck by lightning, knocking of
one of the statesman S and doing other dam
age to the marble figure. This would not merit
discussion probably, if it the first time such
a thing happened to the Henry Clay statue but we
credibly informed that in the summer OF 1903
the old statue was strick by lightning and decapi
tated.
The damage sustained seven years ago was re
paired by appropriation from the state treasury,
though it is probable there is no authorization in
the Kentucky constitution for such appropriations,
The work of repair was so recently completed that
the rededication of the newly encapitated monu-
ment had not taken place when the storm of last
week came along and used the monument for tar
get practice What significance may attach to the
circumstance that lightning should play sportive
tricks with the monument of Henry Clay
in no position to say. The incident at lease
to prove the falacy of that ancient aphorism that
lightning never strikes twice in the place 1t
also calls attention to the recent decision Of the
department of agriculture that lightning rods are
all right so the suggestion that the statue be rebuilt
and equipped with this saving device may not be
entirely out of place.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-10-01
THE PROMISE OF THE STATE FAIR.

Bigger and better than ever is the word that
comes from the publicity department of the state
fair management. The fair opens Monday and
runs out the week. The number of exhibits will
be greater than ever before and this point alone
furnishes reason enough why the fair should be
visited by everybody. All the resources of the
commonwealth will be set forth, so that one may
gain liberal knowledge of the resources and OPP
portunities of great state by studying the
hibits. And none of us knows any too much about
what is going about us, so a visit to the fair
will supply at least portion of that deficiency in
our knowledge Besides this, entertainment fea-
lures have been provided, including balloon ascen-
sion by lion and a man. The lion will descend
from height of approximately 800 feet in para
height before making his daring leap for life
Numerous other entertainment features will be
given, gladators and acrobats and one price of
admission will entitle the visitor to everything
going except, of course, the shows on the midway
and the horse races.
1t is the intention of the management TO make
the fair the biggest twenty-five cents worth of en-
tertainment instruction and amusement that it is
possible to give. With good weather, with weather
like that of the present week. the fair ought to have
the greatest attendance in the history of the in
stitution That is what the association is entitled
to, and that is surely what it will have
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-10-01
MAKING BUSINESS.

1t was a more modern mind that made .a. saw.
ing, "Al things come to him who gets out and
rustIes," than it was which made the other savir,
about the fellow getting everything if he waits
long enough for it. Certainly the business com.
binations which the country is now enjoying could
never have been put together if everybody sat down
and waited for something to turn up.
Thus the International Harvester company did
not secure its position in the world by waiting but
by going out after the business. In the course of
time it secured the trade of the nation i'm harvest.
ing machines; and then it spread out and corraIel
the business of the world. Thus the company
reached the limit; there were no more worlds to
conquer But inasmuch as growth Is an essen
tial to business health and prosperity. the Inter
national Harvester has adopted a sagacous plan
to increase the demand for their machines The
earth has been covered to be sure but if crops can
be made bigger, presto! the demand for machines
is increased.
So there you are. The trust has organized
department for the dissemination of every sort
of information of interest to farmers Every Ques-
ton relating to farms and farm life will be studied
by this new bureau, and expert advice will be given
to all inquirers And if you don't inquire, it is
probable the company will send you information
anyhow, if they can get your address
The department of agriculture at Washington
will now have to look out for its laurels, for the
International Harvester bureau of information Is
to be run on the principle that the more efHciett
the farmers become the greeter viii be the demand
for their machines Certainly the information
with the purpose behind it, ought to be correct
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-10-01

presence of the almighty power of our Creator.
And yet year after year, the centuries roll on,
and everything else is changed destroyed by the
relentless tooth of time, the self-same miracle is
daily repeated for eight days at two seasons of the
year, in spring and autumn; the first occurring
on May the fourth the feast of the translation
of the body of the martyr from Monte Vecchia
to its present resting place Naples; the second
on September nineteenth, feast of his martyrdom,
and during the octaves of these feasts.
Briefly, here are the facts of the martyrdom of
the Saint: During the ruthless prosecutions which
ragged under the Roman Emperors Dioclesian and
Maximian, Januarius was bishop of Benevento.
By the order of of the most cruel of the judges
who administered the imperial will in Southern
Italy, the bishop was arrested and, refusing to
abandon the religion of the Galiean, Christ
condemned to be devoured by wild beasts When
flung to the tigers, the beasts crouched at his feet
He was then taken out of the arena and beheaded
with many of his companions The body of the
martyr was removed secretly by some of the faith
full and buried in his little chapel at Benevento.
1t was then May the fourth 487, translated to It's
present resting place at Naples, where it reposes
in triple case-the outer one of which IS corded
and sealed-n the crypt under the high altar of
the Cathedral After the Saint was beheaded his
blood was sponged from the ground by a devout
woman and squeezed into two small glass bottles.
In time it CONCEALED, became solid in the phials
or bottles and it is the returning of this CONCEALED
blood, in May and September, which is called the
miracle of the "Liquefaction.''
When the great English chemist, Sir Humph
rey Davy, visited Naples in 1923, he was by spe-
cial courtesy seated in the sanctuary and permit
ted by the Archbishop to examine the phias before
the miracle occurred. He saw the concealed mass
slowly returning to the liquid state He also
that the seals of the bottles were intact. Return
ing to his hotel, he said to his companions: well,
do not know how it is done, but such an effect
cannot follow from any known natural cause" A
rather clever Agnostic friend of ours with whom
we travelled from Genoa to Naples and together
witnessed the miracle of the iquefaction, re-
marked to US in discussing what he was pleased to
cell "the remarkable phenomenon Il can t see
that there is any deceit or secret about the affair,
for considering the Italian character and my own
experience with it, some one in the secret would
have sold out years ago"
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-10-01

the displacement of British authority in Southern
Asia, for, take it all in ALL European civilization
has gradually leavened the Oriental barbarism OF
Empire incapable of rising of itself from the
awful social degradation of "Suttee "Thugeree
and caste" distinction.
In the menacing conditions now confronting
Great Britain in India. England has no claim to
the sympathy of any conservative government or
of any people favoring justice and fair play. There
has not been conspiracy for eighty years against
law and order against truth and righteousness,
against the crowned heads of Europe that Eng
ish premiers, English cabinet ministers and the
London Times did not encourage cheer and
support England has been the host for eighty
years of every foreign conspirator, assassin and
rebel against his own country. She has protected
the Russian Nihilist in London the French as
sassin in Birmingham and the Sandman Malta in
Liverpool. Every revolutionary organization in
Austria, Hungary or Italy received the moral sup
port of England
When Cavour was medtating the dismember-
ment of the Papal states and Kossuth rose against
his lawful Sovereign, English gold and English
encouragement were sent across the English chan
mel to their support. Week after week articles APP
peared in the London Times and other British
newspapers disclaming against Austrian tyranny,
eliminating the Holy See and Wanting the pa
triotism of Cavour, the high-mindedness of MAJ
zini and the heroism of Garibaldi and his gang of
red-shirted cut-throats.
When Cavour was organizing his revolution,
and D'Azeglio was meditating his attack on the
Italian states, the British Minister to the Sar
dinian court, Sir James Hudson, was secretly sup
porting Cavour and was using his influence with
the London and Edinburgh papers on behalf of the
revolution. The notorious Prime Minister of
Great Britain, Lord Palmerston, lent the weight
of his influence and furnished surreptitiously sup
plies from the English naval stations In the Med
terranean in the conspiracy against Austria. At
the Congress of Paris called to end the Crimean
war, Clarendon, the English plenipotentiary, and
Lord Palmerstons docile agent, in fulfllment of
his part in the conspiracy against the Papal states,
poured forth torrent of invective against the
Holy See and the Italian states.
When on May s, 1850, Garibaldi occupied Ma
pies and was meditating an attack on Rome the
British fleet gave him its moral support, English
volunteers for his army paraded the streets of Lon
don and arms and ammunition were secretly sent
to him from the English depots at Malta.
England has always helped burglars and safe
blowers to rob her neghbors homes, and now that
these thieves breaking into and playing the
mischief with her own property, England neigh
bors are simply splitting their sides laughing at
her.
The revolutionary chickens the old hen Matched
are, as those of Turcot, changed to hawks and are
threatening to do for their old mother.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-10-01
DISAPPEARANCE OF BEAUTIFUL ART

This week. through the courtesy of gentle
man recently returned from Europe, we examined
a beautiful example of medieval coister art, one
of those rare manuscripts known to connoisseurs
as illuminated" This literary treasure is fine
speciment of the work done in the monasteries of
the Christian world between the first century and
the Introduction of printing. The art of illum:
mating confined itself almost to copies of the HOLY
Scriptures, missals prayer books, books of devo-
ton and religious books. Upon these the clois-
tered artist lavished wealth of skill and pains
taking industry, and with such success that mod
science and modern taste are outclassed by the
brilliant coloring and artistic finish of many of
those designs.
1t must, however, be said in all fairness that
the art of Illuminating did not originate with
Christianity, for the rolls of Egyptian papyri with
in sixteen centuries before the Redemption are
decorated with free-hand drawings representing
scenes of Egyptian mythology, some OF which are
elaborated painted and gilded. The Romans, too,
supposed to have had some knowledge of the
art of Illuminating manuscripts, but their rolled
manuscripts were never Illuminated, for none of
those found in the uncovered cities of Hercu-
laneum and Pompeii' show any traces of the art
even in its rude beginning. Not till Christianity
came up from the Catacombs did the art of illum-
mating enter upon its road to perfection. Early
in the second century books took on their present
form in heather Rome when leaf decorations be-
gan to appear. That the art became Christian
and made much progress in the time of st. Jerome
Fourth century, may be inferred from his COM
plants of its abuses, among which were the gro
tesque figures and the enormous size of the cap
itals. Gold and silver inks we're used and the
vellum prepared calfskin) written upon was
stained with rose color or purple to bring out the
gold or silver letters.
Some of the Manuscripts abbreviated MSS) |
of this period we're written in silver on lilac
ground, the name of God being in gold but this |
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-10-01

magnificent form of copying was devoted
to the four Gospels. 1t was not JiII TIL. ...F
century the initial letter was introduced to.
most anceint MSS. it is not different tr.,.. !. 1e
1t is most interesting to FIND. N.r-.r.. @~
tells us in his Monks of the West" tla-...
same time style of art arose in Ircra.l -.
entirely original character. The mora.....
the green island were numerous aud Remove.
the missionaries sent forth from Them ;u,-.I ''t
Christianity to Scotland and taught .,....
of England the art Of illuminating. D....'
Abbot of Iniskeltra, who lived iu ri. .....
Of the sixth century. famous as an .rr-o-...
Until the beginning of the twelfth r.r..-.
great feature of these manuscripts was -r. ,....-
letter, the coloring of which was very -., IN
initial letters by degrees became larger and. r...
and at last their tails reached the vl... r,..r
of the page. Then they were carried around 81.
sides of the page. and the name of ~Ga.ri.I h..
ket' was given to this style of oran.r. n
Gothic bracket finally embraced The whole ,.''
and was called the Border, into which WEIR.
troduced foliage, flowers. animals and utua-7r..
But when printing appeared this beautiful o..
of Illuminating began to decline Still tine a,-..'
printed books were Illuminated. space l.,rr 1...
by the printer, as formerly by the o0rvi,f e..
decorations. The ornamental initial aa 6orl..,
printed at top and bottom of each page. seen +,
books printed even as late as the beginning at II.
last century, are remains of this beautiful art Bt
the art of Illuminating, at least in printers ink
yet survives and will likely always survive. in ii.
missals or mass books of the CathoG. C5urc,
which allows no art to perish that may serve IN
the worship of God.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-10-01
WHAT TO READ

Amid all the discussion as to what we should
read, what books should make up our four feet
or six feet of library necessary to securing de-
cent knowledge of the world, we believe there ID
one book which should be more widely read than
any other and that book is no other than the Holy
Bible. If one seek a standard of morality knowl-
edge of ancient customs or traditions. or facility
in the expression of his thoughts. to say nothing
of the high ideasm contained in the book Of books
he cannot afford to put the Bible aside. Among
those who cast ridieule upon the divine inspiration
of the sacred scriptures, few there are who have
a working knowledge of the contents of that book
They little know that the Bible is the foundation
upon which the literature of the modern world Is
based; and not only the literature, but the whole
fabric of our civilization No man can know 100
much of his Bible. Even laying aside the sacred
ness of the text it remains and will forever remain
the highest example of good, crisp English to'oe
found in the world. Yet the Bible cannot Dc
taught in our public schools.
After the Bible one might choose Bret Hari'
or Victor Hugo, William Dean Howells or Dumas
Bill Nye or BuIwer Lytton, Washington Irving OF
Scott Longfellow or Thackeray, find out what ne
likes and then FIJI up with the products OF MS
favorite author. If he doesn't find something III
teresting and instructive in reading some OF these
or a dozen other masters, he ought to torswear
reading and confne his mental activities to math-
ematics, politics or economies Or he might De-
come an author and make couple of best sellers
for a waiting world.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-10-01
DEATH OF FATHER LAMBERT.

Father Lambert, editor of the New York Free
mans journal, philosopher, logician, controver-
salist and above ALL great priest who in his day
pleased God died last Monday When Abner, the
son Of Ner, died by the hand of Joab. David la
mented that "a great man had fallen this day in
Israel" so when the sad news of the death of the
intellectual and loveable priest was sent out last
Tuesday, the American public, Catholic and non
Catholic, mourned that great man indeed hath
fallen We knew him well; we at times colabo-
rated with him and stood with him on the same
platform when his simplicity of manner, his be-
nightly, his tenderness of facial expression added
q fascination to his charming addresses.
And if we are asked what trait in the character
Of this very scholarly priest most strikingly i'm
pressed us, we would have to reply "Emphatically
his humility The besetting weakness of many
men when they reached the summit of popularity
and the heights of eminence, is intellectual pride
Father Lambert was an essentially great man. and
q really great man is never a proud man. "Who
thinkest thou asked the disciples who came to
Jesus, 'is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven"
"And Jesus, calling unto him a little child set
him in the midst of them; and said: Amen. I say
to you, unless you become as little children, you
cannot enter the kingdom of heaven"
Father Lambert had all the simplicity, the trust,
the unquestioning faith of a little child, and so
fixed and firm was this faith, so positive was he
in his belief in the divinity and indefectibity of
the Catholic Church, that he one time said to u.s.
"The Church of God can proclaim no article of
faith that not at once prepared to believe and
TO acoept."
His belief in the Real Presence of the Body
and Blood of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ
in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist was
like unto the conviction of St. Thomas after he
had touched the wounds of his Risen Lord and ex-
claimed: my Lord and my God" By singular
and happy coincidence the last contribution of Fa-
4her Lambert to the controversial literature of his
Church was his mastery refutation of the objec-
tions leveed against the Real Presence, and read
at the great Eucharist Congress when the Priest
Of God was on his deathbed. With the prayer of
the Church of God for the soul of each and every
of her children who enters the life beyond the
grave, we are in sympathy, and with the great
Church pray: Eternal rest give to him, o
Lord, and may perpetual light shine upon him"
Green be the turf above thee,
Friend Of my early days.
None knew thee, but to love thee,
None named thee, but to praise
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-10-01
THE G. A. R. ENCAMPMENT.

The annual encampment of the G. A r. this
year in Atlantic City, n. j., has kind of local
interest from the fact that that organization met
in Salt Lake last year. The men making up the
membership of that great body are patriots, VINO
fought and bled in defense of the nation who gave
up years of their lives that the nation might live
No higher patriotism than this is possible; no
greater sacrifice than this can no man ask All
honor, therefore, to the boys of '63, and may
grateful nation never forget the valient service
they rendered,
Some of the veterans, however. at this encamp-
ment tried to put this great organization on record
opposed to placing statue of General Robert
E. Lee in Staturay hall at Washington. They were
doubt animated by the most cherished beliefs
they have-patriotism. But is it patriotism which
would at this late day, forty-fve years after the
close of the great conflict stir up the blood and
the animosities of two generations ago? The boys
in blue fought to reunite the nation to make it
one, and when the war done and peace was
declared, it was time to put away the sectonalism
which made that possible and to bend the eff
forts toward reconciliation. A new generation has
grown up since the close of the great conflict a
generation that knows nothing of the old strife
except from study of history. They know that
slavery has been abolished, that states rights and
the rights of the federation were more closely de-
fined as result of that great conflict but to tn
newer generation the war is over, and the country
is reunited. The boys who fought under the stars
and bars have come back into the family-they are
of us-and General Lee was one of the great
est of them If it was the work of the soldiers in
the eos to preserve the Union, it ought to be the
work of the survivors of that great conflict to work
for reunited nation, in fact as well as in name
This is noble patriotism as that which carried
them through the terrors and scourge of war. 1t
is pleasing to know that the organization refused
to go Oh record against the proposition.
The placing of statue to General Lee in the
Statuary hall will not alter the decision of history
nor condone rebellion. Neither will the refusal to
permit the placing of that statue there detract one
iota from the laures won by General Lee, not only
the field of battle but in the years before and
after the war. Placing the statue there would give
evidence that the reunited nation is more than
mere statement-that it is fact. It would indi-
cate that the Mason and Dixon line is nohing more
than an imaginary point of division that has abso
lutely no significance
Just half century ago the highest patriot
ism lay in the defense of the Union, so today the
highest patriotism lies in knowledge that the war
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-10-01
ENGLISH CHICKENS COME HOME TO BOOST

Public interest in British India centers round
the case of prisoners now on trial at Bengal for
conspiracy to free their country from British dom
nation. The prisoners are regarded by the stu
dents and the young men of Calcutta and the cities
of India as heroes and martyrs of freedom. That
the conspiracy against the British possession is
widespread and menacing follows from the extraor-
binary measures taken by the viceroy and the mil
itary chiefs to suppress any patriotic manifesto
tions on the part of the people. John Burns, who
not long ago returned to England from tour of
India, warns Great Britain that all India is a
ieething mass of discomfort, and that the local
eruptions of patriotic lava but indicate tremen-
dous upheaval some day of the entire country
Every student Of history would deeply regret
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-10-01
HANDSOME BOUQUET FROM THE SOUTH

The Intermountan Catholic of Salt Lake City,
says our Catholic contemporary the New Orleans
Morning Star, is a credit to the far west. Many
of It's leading articles on religious, controversial
and moral issues are written by master of dia-
letics, trained hand and to the manor born The
editorials on Archbishop Ireland Bishop Cotton
of Buffalo, and that which appeared last week on
the Philosophy of the Blessed Eucharist were adj
mirably done. We congratulate the Intermoun-
tain on its erudtion its felicity of expression, its
culture and thinking power"
Thanks, cousin, thanks. In the language of
Oklahoma, 'you do us proud