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The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-01-29
IrreIiqious Berlin.

Berlin statistics show that religious
conditions in the capital of the German
empire are in a sad state. In the year
1904, of 1920 children born there, $500
were not baptized; 1888 out of 20,730
marriages were not solemnized in
church, there were $4,000 deaths and
1900 bodies did not receive Christian
burial This shows that one-eighth of
the children of Berlin are not baptized
one third of the marriages of so-called
Christians are not solemnized in church
and more than half of the dead are con-
signed to the grave without Christian
burial. Since then conditions have
grown worse from year to year, SO much
so. that officials fear to publish the
statistics. The social evil corresponds
with religious conditions, and the poor
commissioner reports 5000 deserted
wives. As you SOW so shall you reap,
and the free-thinking Prussian profess
sors who sowed the wind of unbelief are
now reaping the whirlwind of degen-
eraCy
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-01-29
New Catholic Colony.

On the great plains of western Texas.
near the southeast corner of New Mexi-
co. there has been established colony
of German and Polish Catholics from
South Bend. Ind, and vicinity. The To-
cation is known as the South Plains,
and is located west Of the town of Big
Springs. Texas. F. r. Zacharek.
South Bend attorney, and Rev. Julian
Skrzpinski. pastor of st. Stanlsiaus
church. Terre Coupee, Ind recently
+,,rned from a trip to the new settle
rnent out of a total company of forty
two who ACCOMPANIED them from South
PEND and Chicago on January 4, forty
decided to remain in the southern cline.
The altitude in this section ranges
from 1900 to $500 feet. Agricultural
possibilities are said to be very GOOD IN
the section of the country in which the
colony is located. Although situated
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-01-29
A Master of LANGUAGES.

Forty-eight languages at the end of
ones tongue! Yet this was the number
of tongues of which the Cardinal Me-
zofantf was master, and the most Won
derful thing about it was that nearly
all of these different languages had sew
eral separate dialects. Mezzofantl was
probably the greatest linguist the world
has ever known. To hear a Iangusg pc
was with him to speak it. He was a
man with three score words for every
idea, and he laid his attainments to his
excellent memory and to the fact that
once hearing word he never forgot it.
jeremiah Curtin, the translator of
QUO Vadls, is credited with speaking
sixty languages and dialects.
There are few men nowadays who
pass the mark of a speaking knowledge
OF Ten Iaguages. Six or eight seem to
be the limit. even with men of great
learning. Mithridates, Pico and Sir
William Jones were said to be masters
OF over twenty tongues, and Sir John
Bowring, Muller and Fresnel are said
TO have spoken in twenty
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-01-29
Protestant Minister.

The rapid growth and development of
the Catholic Church in New England is
nowhere more marked than in Dorches-
ter, Mass So notable has been this phe-
nomenon of Catholic advance in that
section of Boston that, on a recent
Sunday. the Rev. F. Raymond Sturte-
want. rector of Charming church, COM
mented on it. and COVE his hearers some
facts which they must have found in
terestfcg whether they viewed them
with favor or not.
He said that year ago ten of the
Protestant churches of Dorchester
took a religious census of 1000 fam
lilies living in the neighborhood of
ITpham's Corner. Less than 200 of
those families were found to be Prot
estant. or a ratio of one in five With
the building of the new ST. Williams
church he said. there will he soon
eight Catholic churches in eight and
one-half square miles Of Dorchester
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-01-29
LOSING Time.

Beware of losing or wasting inches OF
time-they are the little foxes that run
away with many days. So much can
be done in them, and with them-often
the very things for which we sigh hope
lessly. Fill them. every one. Keep
something handy-something that fits
the interval. Remember a famous law
book was written because a lord chan
cellor chose not to be idle throughout
the fifteen minutes his wife made him
wait each day for dinner. Recall, too,
all the men, noble and eminent, who
have climbed to the heights by saving
inches of time. All of us cannot hope to
become likewise emlnent-but we can
reasonably and easily make ourselves
happy with things wrought in the frag-
mentary moments which we might I'M
thriftily leave vacant. One may get an
education In inches of time. Lessons
stick all the better for having to be
learned In snatches. and reading, even
for pleasure. is ever so much better
done thus-as 1t were in sips-than in
day-Iong gorgings. There is mental in
digestion quite as harmful as physical
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-01-29
What Men Have Said.

In all things let reason be your guide.
-Solon.
There is a divine depth in silence
Robertson.
Circumstances! l make circum-
Stances.-Napoleon.
Sorrows remembered sweeten persent
joy.-Pollok.
Necessity is stronger than human ma
ture.-Dionysius.
Striking manners are bad manners
Rev. Robert Hall.
Sloth makes all things difficult, but
industry all easy.-Franklin
There are pleasures in madness
known only to madmen.-Dr. Johnson
Censure is the tax a man pays to the
public for being eminent.-Swift.
Idleness is more an infrmity OF the
mind than the body.-La Rochefourt
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-01-29
catholics in British Navy.

Il appears there are more Catholics
in the British navy than there are
members of any of the "Nonconform-
ISL denominations In the House OF
commons recently, in reply to a ques-
ton on the subject, the official figures
were thus given:
Home Fleet-Nore division. us Pres
byterians S35 Wesleyans, 9O5 Catholics
Portsmouth division, IA Presbyterians
377 wesleyans. 1863 Catholics. Devon
port division. 295 Presbyterians, GAS
Wesleyans, 1,19O Catholics.
Atlantic Fleet-271 Presbyterians. 6lC
Wesleyans. S92 Catholics
Mediterranean Fleet-339 Presbyteri-
ans. 5SS Wesleyans. 1850 Catholics.
China-2C2 Presbyterians, 314 Wesley
ans. 513 Catholics Gncluding II native
iafhOlicS)
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-01-29
Moruanic Marriaue.

The Catholic church does rot always
satisfy the moralists who write for the
Sunday newspapers. In one of these
journals a contributor who betrays
wonderful energy in raking up all the
scandals about King Leopold that have
ever been printed whispered or limited
at, writes: Leopold ended as people
of his type often do end, by marrying
the daughter of a doorkeeper, whom he
made Baroness Vaughan. The Catholic
church is singularly human when it
chooses. It is recognizing the re-
ligious O. marriage of King Leopold
with the baroness, which is more than
Belgian law will do
Apparently this writer's ideas of &C.
clesiastical policy are derived from the
relations between the Anglican church
and state His views seem to be that
the state is, and should be, the ultimate
authority on questions of conscience
When the state says that couple are
to be married, then, the church must
perform the ceremony, no matter wnat
the obstacles or impediments; when a
state says that a couple must not be
married, then if the function takes
place. it is not religious marriage at
all This it is needless to say is a
purely Protestant conception of &C.
clesiastical duty which practically de-
stroys the moral and teaching authority
of the church. A morganatic marriage
the word "morganatic" comes from
the old Gothic "morjan," to shorten
is simply an alliance between a man Of
exalted position and a woman of in
ferior rank contracted on the condition
that the woman and her children, if
she has any. shall not hold the rank or
inherit the possessions of her husband,
Of itself, both parties consenting, as
they are bound to consent before the
marriage rite can be performed. there
is nothing immoral in such a union
Catholic Times (England).
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-01-29
Two New RasiIikas.

A recent papal decree established a
new basilika in Constantinople and one
in Buenos Ayres, Argentine republic.
The Church Of the Holy Ghost was Sc
lected for the Basilika in Constantine
pie. This is the church which Plus TX
chose for the cathedral of the apostolic
Vicar of the Latins, and contains the
relics of st. John Chrysostom. The new
Basilika at Buenos Ayres is the Church
of S. Marie del Rosario, which was built
by the Dominicans under the protec-
ton of the kings of Spain when Argen
tine was a Spanish province. The
church was splendidly restored and
practically rebuilt in the 18th century,
and is today one of the richest and
handsomest churches of the Argentine
capital. The Dominicans are still in
charge of this church, which is the
burial place of many prominent gener
ais and statesmen and the depository
of many valuable trophies from the
wars of liberation.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-01-29
Converts Abroad.

The Rev. L. !. Stephens, st. Peter
church. Bristol, England.
The Rev. A. j. Field, NJ. A. OXon.,
Vicar OF RaNendsen.
The Misses Hilda and Vivian ferris,
daughters Of Admiral ferris, Il. \.
Tie Lady Muriel watkins. daughter
o. the Earl Of Lindsey.
The Rev. DR.. Hudson Of the Anglican
church of Ireland.
Louis Davies. u, Ottawa, can, son
of Sir Lewis Davies, Canada, and late
minister OF marine and fisheries, Ior-
merry an Anglican.
Miss Holmes daughter OF SIR Ken
ara Holmes librarian Of Windsor cas-
rIe and granddaughter Of the late Or:
Gee vicar Of Windsor and canon OF
s., Georges.
The Rev. :. Z. Spooner Ellington,
late eurate OF St Augustine's, kilburn,
England
The Rev. p. w. Hemans. also from
the Same church.
The Hon. Henry Lee Dillon. son and
h,lr Of Viscount Dillon, Irish Protest
ant peer.
Mrs Wayne. widow of the late Ma
Jor General John Z. Wayne OF the
British army in India.
Ad3Iph Rette. the French orator and
writer
Miss Muriel c. Downs. daughter OF
Rev and Mrs Downs 4 Presbyterian
minister of Kilbride. Scotland.
William Thomas Baldwin, NJ. A
Naddalen college, oxford.
Lady Clifford. who was recently re-
oeivod into the church. is the wife OF
Lord Clifford. a distinguished soldier
who won the Victoria Cross in the Ash
land war under Sir Garnet WolseleY
Lady Clifford is herself the daughter Of
81 soldier, General Street. and was IN
The Army Nursing service in South
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-01-29
Unity.

The Catholic church is one essentially.
Heretics and schismatics go out from
her. but they do not divide her They
go out because they no longer belong
to her. she remains one and indivisable
This is an article of faith: l believe in
One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic
Church. Its oneness is not nominal
merely nor material. 1t is not a unity
of name, so that all called Christian
belong to the church; nor does it come
from a material belief in Christ, as if
all who profess to believe, each in his
own way, in Christ, His mission, His
revelation are therefore united in His
church. The unity of the church is a
formal unity, coming out of its very
nature. The living human body is I'M
divided in itself and distinct from every
other, because it is informed with one
individual living soul; there is one liv-
ing and indivisable church distinct from
every organization pretending to the
name, because it is informed with the
one, living Holy Spirit of God.-Rev.
Henry Woods, S. j., in America"
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-01-29
Fable of the Horseshoe.

Do you know the German fable about
the horseshoe? In the olden times, in
little village in Germany. a black
smith was hard at work. The sound of
the anvil attracted the attention of the
devil He saw that the smith was
making horseshoes. and thought it
would be good idea to get his own
hoofs shod. So the devil struck bar
gain, and put up his foot.
The blacksmith saw with whom he
was dealing and nailed red-hot shoe
on, driving the nails square into the
DEVILS hoof The devil then paid him,
and left; but the honest blacksmith
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-01-29
First Hospital in America.

DR.. James j. Walsh writes to the
Medical Record that the first hospital
in the new world was erected by the
Spaniard, Cortez, in 1924. He munifi-
Gently endowed the hospital with
money and lands which had been given
him by the government for his ser
vices in conquering Mexico The hos
pdal exists today on it's original en-
dowment. The buildings are magniti-
cent. with a beautiful arcade and lawn
and is one of the most interesting land
marks in the history of hospital build
ings. Women are employed both as
physicians and nurses, and all mater
nifty cases and female diseases are
treated by them
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-01-29
De Profundis.

BY anguish which made pale the sun
1 hear Him charge His saints that
none
Among His creatures anywhere
Blaspheme against Him with despair
However darkly days go on.
Whatever's lost, it first was Won;
We will not struggle nor impugn.
Perhaps the cup was broken here,
That Heavens new wine might show
more clear,
L praise Thee while my days go on.
1 praise Thee while my days go on;
l love Thee while my days go on;
Through dark and dearth, through fire
and frost
With emptied arms and treasure lost,
/ thank Thee while my days go on.
Elizabeth Barre. Browning.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-01-29
A Dispute.

The governor-general of Alsace-Lor-
raine has been in Berlin to make his re-
port about the dispute over educational
affairs between the Catholic church au-
thorities and the state secretary of
Reichsland. The correspondence pass
ing between the disputants has been
published, and both the bishops of
Strassburg and the secretary hold fast
TO their original contentious. Bishop
Fritzen insists that he has acted en-
tirely within his rights in pointing out
to the Catholic teachers their duty in
reference to associations of school
teachers. Germania is not inclined to
the common opinion that the dispute
will find a peaceful solution. 1t con-
siders the position of the civil author-
ties as a declaration of war on the
church, since it is an open proclamation
that the church shall be allowed to ex-
ert no influence upon the teaching body
of the land and upon their work in the
schols. Still it is not likely that the
government will countenance an ag-
gressive policy on the part of the school
authorities or associations formed under
state auspices. 1t is too late in the day
to try kulturkampf. especially in a
part of the empire which is a Catholic
nghold.-America
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-01-29
sheridan,s Father.in.Law.

General Daniel H. Rucker, the oldest
retired officer of the United States
army, died at his home in Washington
few days ago, aged IS years. He was
born in New Jersey and appointed to
the army from Michigan.
General Rucker entered the army Oc-
tober Is, 1887, being appointed a second
lieutenant from Michigan after he had
seen something of military life at post
in that state. He was then % years old,
having been born at Belleville. n T.,
April %, 1872. He served continuously
in the army until February %. 1882
when at his own request, after nearly
forty-five years service and at the age
of 20 years, he was retired.
One of the daughters of General
Rucker became the wife of General
Philip H. Sheridan.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-01-29
Notable Converts.

Some converts of the year were:
The Rev James Reker, late rector of
Ascension church. diocese Of Fond du
Lac. member Of the Companions of the
HOLY savior graduate of the University
of Pennsylvania and the General Theo-
logical seminary. n. y.
The Rev. j. Ellis Butler of the Metho-
dists.
The Rev. Charles I. Smith, late rector
eli the Episcopal Colored church in
Charleston, :. c.
The Rev. Charles F. Ueeblhofer late
Lutheran minister at Eden Valley,
Mimi. graduate of the universities Of
Bonn and Heidelberg.
Brother Anthony Paul of the Atone-
ment, a Jew.
Mother Laurana Mary Frances White
or the Atonement and her community
of Poor Clares.
Miss Bowles of All Saints sisterhood,
baltimore, now nun in the Order of
the Divine Compassion.
Miss Norma McChesney, Kansas City.
q prominent member of st. Mary =
Episcopal church.
General Mathew c. Butler, U. ). A,
United States senator from South Caro-
lima
r Gilbert White New York artist,
and brother of Stewart Edward White,
the writer.
John Gore Lewis. PHI D., nephew Of
the late Rev. John and the Rev Her
bert Lewis of the Presbyterians, gradu-
ate of the University of Bonn and god
son of Scannen O'Neill.
Edward Beale Mclean, Washington,
and his wife "a former CathOlic). Mr..
Mclean is a son of the Hon. John X.
Mclean. Democratic leader and owner
of the Cincinnati Enquirer.
John Davis, late a member OF Holy
Unity Episcopal church, Manistee,
Mich. now studying for the priesthood.
Theodore Parsons Hall, prominent
citizen and scholar of Detroit.
George Lounsberry Rockwell of old
Puritan stock and prominent in Epis-
copal and Masonic circles in Ridgefield,
Conn.
DR. and Mrs. George Edward Long,
their son and daughter-in-law, Mr..
and Mrs : J. Long of Paris, Texas.
Or. Long is a brother of Protestant
minister.
Mrs Roswell Parke Sherwood, late a
member of All Saints Episcopal church,
Rayenswood. Chicago.
Miss Edith Fay, also member OF the
above church and a relative OF Ihoreau'
Bret Harte. IT., and wife. Mr.. Harte
is a son OF the ldle DISI I1dlIS' N'N
popular American writer.
Mrs. Dickerson. wife Of DR.. Dicker-
son Of Kansas City, and aunt OF VICE
President Sherman.
DR. Eugene Wasdin, l. ). A, Mem
phis. Chevalier of the Italian Order OF
IS. Maurice and Lazarus, head OF the
Government hospital and an authority
on yellow fever. having been appointed
by Roosevelt to make observations con
corning that dread disease.
Miss Mary kloman, in religion sister
Mary Oblata. of the Congregation OF
Notro Dame de Sion. Paris, formerly an
E,iscopalian: Mrs Kloman, her mother
Hon Boyd Winchester Of Louisville
Ky.
senior Isidore Quesada. secretary OF
tn independent Filipino church.
Mrs Theodore Watson Hall, Corn
NaiI-on- Hudson. \. y. daughter OF the
Int Rev. Edward Watson of the
Episcopal church and sister OF Father
Paul Of Graymoor.
Miss Emma Lore. daughter OF former
Chief Justice Lore, was received INTO
tho catholic church. The sacrament OF
baptism was administered by Bishop
Monaghan 81 Wilmington, who also
gave her first communion and con-
fi-matiOn
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-01-29
Conversation of a Doctor at Lourdes.

DR.. Boisarie, writing in the Almanac
de Notre Dame de Lourdes for 1910,
says:
"A doctor visited Lourdes. He was
not a believer in the miracles, and
stated so to the physicians of the medi-
cal bureau who examine the various
cases. He would not listen to their
arguments, but he said:
There is a woman here with half
her face eaten away by lupus. If she
be cured l shall believe He followed
the woman to the piscina, and he there
fore saw her SCARED face when she en-
tered A few moments afterwards he
saw the woman again, but the doctor
did not recognize her, for the wound
in her face was healed; in the few min
utes the sores had disappeared.
1T cannot be the same woman, the
doctor exclaimed in amazement; but he
approached her and, questioning her,
found out it was the very same per-
son.
What have you done to yourself?'
he exclaimed.
q" Nothing, she replied but 1 have
bathed in the piscina and have been
cured
THE unbelieving doctor was over
whelmed with emotion. He grew pale
and staggered, so surprised was he. He
went to the bureau, where he seemed
unable to express all he felt, and he
said to the doctors there: Here is the
woman; look at her now The doctors
at the bureau, just as he did. recognized
the cure. He then went away to the
foot of the grotto, and the following
morning he was at mass and received
holy communion, which he had not done
for many years, and which he did
not intend to do when he came to
Lourdes'
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-01-29
Poison in Green Paper.

Herr Taussig,a well known Austrian
finacier, is dead of arsenic. 1t is said
that he was poisoned by green wall
paper in his office. Tip asks a paper
hanger about green wall paper poison
ing people, and is told that it ought to
be as dangerous handling green paper
day in and day out as being in a room
papered with it, but that ne never
heard of any paperhanger or paper
maker being so poisoned. And the
same thing would seem to apply to
other cases of poison said to come 50
frequently from green dye.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-01-29
55.z11 Catholic Indians.

OF the 299,S76 Indians in the United
States 55,711 are Catholics. according
to statistics which will be published in
the 1910 official Catholic directory, pub
lished by the M. H Wiltzius company
of Milwaukee, Wis, and New York
Of the 1921 Indians in the Green Bay
CWis.) diocese 1882, are Catholics, ac-
'cording to the same authority. There
are 1873 priests ministering to the spir-
itual welfare of the Indians of the
country, the directory will state.
The Indian statistics were prepared
by the Rev. William H. Ketcham OF
the Indian mission bureau of Wash
ington Father Ketcham has been con-
nected with the bureau for years.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-01-29

territory. St Williams will be the
fourth Catholic church to be built III
Dorchester in the last ten years.
Viewing this steady growth, the
question comes up" said the speaker:
What attitude should we as Protest
ant take toward the Catholic Church
in our midst?' 1t should be-" he de-
claTed, "a spirit of good will. spirit
of true religious tolerance. The first
Catholic church built here in DOrches-
ter, in 1885, was blown up in indie
pendence day But in our day we
have learned the folly of feuds and
new spirit prevails. that of good will"
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-01-29
Cardinal SatoIIi's Greatest Service.
(From Romeo

tErOm ROne.)
Numbers OF priests in English-speak-
ing countries today will remember the
great churchman best not as Cardinal
out as Professor at Propaganda where
his lectures marked an epoch in the
Renaissance of Philosophy promoted by
Leo XIII; many more will think OF
him as the first Apostolic Delegate to
the United States. Pronounced type as
he is in many ways of the Italian ge-
MUS and temperament, he was deeply
influenced by the period he spent III
Washington. Under the regime OF
Propaganda he had great weight in the
appointment of bishops for English
speaking countries. But his most nOta-
Die service to the Church must always
be reckoned the active part he took in
the conclave which resulted in the cleo
ton of Plus Y, for it was Cardinal Sa-
TOLLS stringent arguments which per-
suaded Cardinal Sarto to cease all re-
sistanace to his election as successor
TO Leo Kill