The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-03-26

ninety years ago, and has been q widow
for forty-five years She gave birth to
ten children, and her descendants now
number more than 200. She possesses
two great-great-grCa grandchildren.
She distinctly remembers the Napo-
leonic wars and the final fall of Napo-
leon. Those far-off events at the be-
ginning of the nineteenth century are
clearly impressed on her memory.
whereas many incidents of the last quar-
ter of century have been entirely for
gotten.
Paris.-The Matin announced Satur-
day that it will institute a suit against
lie Journal for 100000 damages because
of series of articles which the latter
paper published connecting the man
agement of the Matin and the Char
treuse affair. The liquidation of the
property tfhe Carthusian monks is a
part of the scandal now under investi-
cation by the government
Philadelphia probable settlement
of the street car strike is said to be in
sight, AS a result of numerous con-
proposition has been devised which is
said to be favorable to both sides.
London.-That the parliamentary sit
uation is most irritating is not TO he
doubted. Only the consent of the house
of lords to It's own emascuIation can ap-
parently stave off a dissolution OF par
lament within sixty days.
Premier AsQuith'S statement that the
budget will be put through immediate
ly after the passage of the veto bill by
the commons and before il is acted on
by the lords has brought about fur
Their strain between the government
and the Irish leader, John Redmond,
who adhereS to his refusal to be a par
ty TO passing the budget until abolition
of the veto is secured, believing that
the house of commons is not an in
creasingly difficult financial situation
until the lords are Oyerthrown.
If both men persist, smash is in
evitable
In the meantime d-Gcorge has
aroused the Unionists to pitch of fury
by obtaining supplies for only six
weeks, so that the machinery of the
government will come to a stop auto
matically in the middle of May if the
lords don't go away. This strategy has
aroused the utmost enthusiasm among
the radicals and is condemned with cor
responding violence by the unionists.
The posters and even the staid leading
article of the dry papers TEEN with
such phrases as dirty trick" "discred-
liable maneuver," etc. The PAIL Mall
Gazette compares the government S
action with sabotage in a French fac
tory; that is, the gain of a mill and the
smashing of its machinery by strikers
who are going to be dismissed.
The language of the Times is extra
ordinarily violent. The course of the
government is now clearly mapped out.
When parliament meets after the East
err holiday recess on March 20, the
veto" resolutions will be submitted to
the house of commons and will be sent
without delay to the. house of lords. AS
soon as occasion offers, the budget is to
be introduced.
In the certain event of the house of
lords either rejecting or postponing
these resolutions, Mr.. Asquith may
either seek guarantees" or resign.
New York.-A new humane society
which goes the older organizations one
better in the crusade has just been or
ganized It's aim is campaign against
the use of sponges.
The .ponge. according to circular
letter sent out by the new society, is
an animal which is very much alive
when fshed up from the depths of the
sea and suffers inexpressible torture
before death, which is accomplished
by allowing him to lie on the deck of
a ship in the burning sun until he ex-
pires.
-Soleil.-On charges of having
defrauded nun Der of foreigners of
large sums of money, the police of
Beau-Soleil are looking for an alleged
adventures named Nine Dupin, who
arrived in this town from Paris about
four months ago and set up as a clair
voyant in a luxuriously furnished villa.
There she received visits from a large
number Of foreigners and, it is alleged,
persuaded them that she could assure
their participation in the shares which
an association to which she belonged
possessed in drawings of city of Paris
and other bonds. According to the sum
paid by the visitor, she guaranteed
drawings of 10000 franc $4,000 francs
and 100000 francs. A large number of
people are said to have paid money on
these terms. Nine. Dupin has fed the
refuge in Ems land. The police have
learned that she was assisted in her
business by a German professor, who
gave exhibitions of hynotism.
LondGn.-The San Francisco earth
quake was referred to at Kensington
recently. when an inquest was held on
the body of Percy Russell, aged 90. who
was found dead in bed. His mother
said he was an assistant accountant Mt
a bank and had been abroad in its
service He was in San Francisco dur
ing the earthquake and afterwards went
to Hongkong. From there he came
home on A oril 2S last year on sick
leave. Mrs. Russell found that he had
Incorporate abits. She believed these
dated from the time of the earthquake,
when he suffered from the shock.
Chicago.-Rev. Father Lambert Louis
Conrardy is dying of leprosy among the
leper colony. near Canton. China, ac-
cording to a letter received here.
Father Conrardy labored among the
lepers in the Hawaiian islands for
eight years before going to China.
Before setting out for China he spent
two years lecturing in the United
states. raising about $4,000 for his
project. He bought an island in the
river. sixty miles from Canton. trans
ported there 500 lepers and built them
shelters This took $4,000. of his
money, and flon, the remainder he had
an income of s10n00 As he was physi-
clan, nurse. attendant. Office force and
executive head for the colony. and as
food cost only z cents a daV for each