davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening journal., 1911-06-03
SATURDAY SPORTS.
BASEBALL
Wilmington Tri-State VS.. York,
South Side.
season, including Fridays game.

BASEBALL
Wilmington Tri-State vs.. York,
' South Side.
= INTER-CITY LEAGUE.
DUPONT VS.. Gas Company, Front
and Union street.
= SEMI.PROFESsIONAL LEAGUE. .
New Castle VS.. Madison, at New
. Castle.
MarshalItOn VS.. Highland, at :
> .Marshallton.
Newport VS.. Rose Hill, at New
port.
ALL-WILMINGT0N LEAGUE.
Highland VS.. Ashley, at Ashley.
Parkside VS.. Merwick, at Park
side.
Yandever VS.. Orioles, at Orioles.
Hillside VS.. Rockford, at Rock
ford.
GENERAL SPORTS.
Horse Show Park, racing.
Weekly shoot, DUPONT Gun Club.
Golf, Wilmington County Club.
Tennis, Wilmington Country
Club.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-01-21
EARLY CULTURE IN MEXICO.

That an unknown, highly cultured
people, of whom neither history, tradi-
ton nor legend has preserved any rec
ord, fourished in or near the Valley
of Mexico and enjoyed spiced choco-
late and aromatic beverages from
transplanted tropical fruits grown by
them in marvelously built garden at
Oaxtepec from $500 to 1000 years
ago is the latest theory of Guillermo
Teller, regarding the recently discov-
cred garden of Montezuma.
Mr.. Teller applied to the depart
ment of public instruction for a spe-
cia1 permit to make explorations in
ing twenty-one successive caciques on
the land with codices in possession of
the National Museum has led him to
believe that the garden has great an
tiquity.
He has been devoting a large part
of four years to studying the plants
found there. Through the inscrip-
tons he has been able to CLEAN his
torical data concerning twenty-one
successive caciques. Tropical trees,
flowers and fruits were transplanted
from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec
and Central America to this garden,
and there we're grown cocoas, vanilla,
parota, yolloxochiti, mecaxochiti and
another rare flower which gives off it's
odor in the night.
These plants and their friends we're
ingredients of the delicious chocolates
which were the favorite beverages of
the Aztec lords when Cortes arrived.
The garden was visited by Acamapixie
and Ilhuicamina, the second named be-
ing identical with Montezuma 1t is
claimed that Montezuma Ilhuicamina
appropriated this beautiful garden to
his personal royal uses and pleasure.
Mexican Herald.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-01-21
MAKING INFIDELS.

William E. Curtis has been writing
for the Record-Herald of Chicago a
series of letters on conditions in Tur-
key and the countries of western Asia
The Protestant mission schools in Con-
stantinople and elsewhere in Turkey
have been extensively written up by
the correspondent, who devoted dozens
of letters to the minutiae of those in
situations. One would think that they
were the one bright oasis in the desert
of Mohammedanism around the BOs-
phorus.
Mr.. Curtis, in more recent letter,
reveals these schools in a light that
must be startling to their supporters
in Christian lands. The schools do not
make Christians, he says, while they
do make infidels. He speaks par
ticularly of one school, the Presby-
terrain mission at Beirut, where there
are between 800 and 900 young Mo-
hammedans, Jews, Orthodox Greeks,
HISTORIANS, Armenians, Druses and be-
levers in other faiths, under the in
struction of a faculty of Christians.
And they are willing to study the
Bible and attend divine services daily
and Sunday because they cannot get
the education they seek without OBJ
serving that part of the curriculum.
But, he says, educated Moslems gen.
orally lose their faith. Those who are
educated in the Christian schools sell
dom become Christians, but they soon
recognize the weakness and the use
lessness of their own religion and it's
conflict with modern progress.
For these reasons the young Turks
are infidels almost to man, although
those who occupy official positions
still keep up the pretenses of observ-
ing their religious duties and the sui
tan attends "selamlik" at one of the
mosques of Constantinople every Fri
day.
Those mission schools in Turkey re-
ceive large sums each year from Eng
disappearing Protestants. Most of
them are American schools and many
of them are richly endowed. They
seem to be a success at making in
fidels if they cannot make converts.
In this respect they resemble some of
the institutions of learning on this side
of the Atlantic. They are strong on
making educated infidels.-The True
Voice.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-01-21
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN CHINA

We noted recently the existence in
China of Trappist monastery, at
Yang-kai-ping. It is perhaps not gen
orally known that in the Middle King
dom there are not only Chinese Trap
pists, but Chinese Franciscans, Chi
nese Jesuits, Chinese Dominicans, and
other regulars. Since the Propaganda
on November %, 1916, issued a spe-
cial decree to all the missions to
establish seminaries for a native
clergy, to select the candidates care
fully from Christian families of old
standing, and to train them diligently
for their high vocation in humanistic
science, in philosophy and theology, as
well as in their native literature and
the ancient classics of China, the num-
Der of Chinese priests has steadily in
creased. In 1848 there were 1856; in
1880, 24O; in 1890, ST.; in 1900, 445;
in 1908, $50; at present the number
is 631. "They are valuable and indis-
pensable colleagues" says an authori-
tative writer-"valuable, because they
work we'll and render excellent serv-
ices in the care Of souls; indispensa-
BILE, because they know better than
Europeans the language, manners, GUS
toms, wishes and prejudices, good and
bad qualities of their countrymen'
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-01-21
MISSIONARIES IN CANADA.

The Reverend Father Boissin, a
venerable missionary, is in charge of
what is known as the Cumberland dis
trict in Northwestern Canada. This
district covers some two hundred
square miles, and is perhaps the most
barren of all the northern lands, with
the exception of the North Pole re-
gions. In this immense territory the
Reverend Father has two hundred
Catholic Indians, and to visit some
of these he has to travel at times the
entire breadth of the district of Cum
berland. There are at the present sew
eral Protestant missionaries, who
with the means placed at their dis
posal by the Bible Societies and the
Missionary Board of their respective
denominations, are doing their best to
win from the Church the few scat
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-01-21
SELF-DEPENDENC AMONG saw.
AGES.

Primitive peoples are far less de-
pendent upon one another than are
those who live in civilized communi-
ties. In the Congo, for instance, each
native builds his own house or shed,
for which he himself collected the ma
terials in the forest; he goes out on
hunting and fishing expeditions, to OBJ
tain the necessary means of subsist-
ence; he cultivates his own plantations
of yam, maize and bananas. Besides
supplying his own food, he manufac-
lures from the raw materials the yari-
GUS implements requisite for his prim-
tive state of life. He plaits his own
mats, weaves his own baskets, knits
his own nets, the strings of which is
likewise his own make. Every house
wife goes to the woods to procure the
few things required to carry on her do
nestle affairs; firewood, palm tree
nuts, leaves to fertilize the land, for
the production of her manioc and
vegetables, and to procure a certain
wood from which she obtains the red
powders called "nkula." Moreover,
she obtains from the forests copal,
fibres and threads, to be used in the
process of weaving her own clothes,
etc.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-01-21
A MEXICAN CHURCH.

Taxco, the oldest mining camp in
Mexico-the oldest, in fact, in either
North or South America-has church
which in magnifcence would do credit
to the most populous city. 1t was
built by mining magnate, Jose de la
Borda, and was completed in 1857. Mr..
Sylvester Baxter, in his work on the
ecclesiastical architecture of Mexico,
says of this church:
ga very large portion of De la
Bordas fortune having been derived
from his extensive and extraordinarily
profitable mining properties at Taxco,
he built this superb church in graft
tude for the benefits received. The
cost is variously estimated from one
to eight millions of pesos. Everything
about the church even today indicatee
that the purpose of the founder must
have been to excel everything preva
ously done in Mexico and to spare nd
expense in reaching that end. 1t Id
perhaps the most complete monument
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-01-21
BENEDICTINE NUNS IN THE
philippines.

The Prioress of community of zeal
Gus Benedictine Sisters in the Philip
pine Islands, writing to an American
Missionary Society, says: cit may in
terest Catholics to learn something of
our work here in Manila. We are a
missionary branch of the Order of st.
Benedict. Our mother house is in
Bavaria, Germany. We have been in
the Philippines three years. AS we
have no resources, we have had to
contend against many difficulties. To
defray our expenses we have opened a
school. When our means permit we
shall send several Sisters to the north
ern part of the Island of Luzon, where
the people are still pagans. In con-
nection with our missionary work we
have been entrusted by His Grace
Archbishop Harry with the duty of the
Perpetual Alteration of the Blessed
Sacrament >"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-01-21
THE SCIENCE OF LANGUAGES.

Talking of missions, it is interest
ing to note that this year the French
Academy has awarded the Stanislaus
Julien Prize, founded for the encour-
agement of research into Oriental Ian
guages, to Catholic missionary of the
Far East, Pere Vial, for his diction-
airy of the Lolo dialect, spoken by
some of the aboriginal tribes of Ton
kin. This is the first dictionary of the
kind. 1t has been compiled by Pere
Vial not from books, for the tribes
have no literature, but by taking down
the words as spoken by the tribesmen.
Like so many other missionaries of the
Catholic Church, who have done valu-
able scientific work of this kind, his
object was simply to enable other
missionaries more easily to acquire
the language of the people among
whom they go to preach. 1t is remark
able how much pioneer work of the
kind our missionaries have done. 1t
was Jesuit missionary, the famous
De Nobili who discovered the very
existence of the sacred language OF
the Bramans of India, and so laid the
foundation of the whole modern
science of language. The Protestant
missionary, Morrison, is generally
spoken of as the translator of the
Bible into Chinese, but his memoirs
show that he Transcribed most of his
version from Chinese Bible, the work
of one of the early Catholic mission
aries. And most of the languages of
the American Indians and not few
African languages were first reduced
to writing by our Catholic mission.
aries.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-01-21

tered Indians, parishioners of Rever-
end Father Boissin. 1t is needless to
say that Cumberland district is with
out railroad communication and the
Reverend Father has to travel from
the Pas Mission on snowshoes, dis
lance of one hundred and twenty-five
miles before reaching the mission
proper.
Rev. Father Rappet, an Oblate mis-
sionary, has labored in the missions of
the Canadian Northwest for over
thirty years, and has a parish cover
ing an area of 200 square miles.
There is not single line of railroad
in his parish, and the entire distance
must be covered either by canoe in the
summer time or on snowshoes or dog
train in the winter. The Reverend
Father has about 500 Indians and a
few hundred half-breeds in his vast
parish. At Isle a la Cross, which is
the centre of this district or parish,
there is prosperous Indian school
in charge of the Grey Nuns, of Mon
treal. This school has about forty
children, all Indians; many of these
are still pagans or belong to pagan
families.
Rev. Father Leboeuf, S. j. has been
lecturing in Winnipeg on the Fam.
best missions, where he had been To-
Gated for many years. The hardships
of the Jesuit missionaries and the sue.
cess that is now GROWING their work
was an interesting chapter in the lee.
ture. The lecturer himself was lost
once in the wilderness of the Trans.
vaal, for over two days. He told OF
the success of the missionaries, espe.
cially since 1896. The outbreak of the
Zulu revolt seeming to have been also
the sign of their conversion.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-01-21
IN CATHOLIC:MISSION FIELDS.

of ecclesiastical art that exists in the
western hemisphere"
1t is interesting to know that Bor-
da's son, who had entered Holy Or
ders, was the first priest to officiate
in the glorious church, that owed it's
erection to his fathers piety.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-01-21
PRIEST MURDERED IN CHINA.

Father Merigot, who had been a
French missionary in China since
1903, was murdered by natives at
Yungpeh, in the province of Yunnan.
An investigation into the cause of the
murder is proceeding The district
about Yungpeh usually is quiet.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-07-27
Alleged Dick Postscript and
Says Charles P. Taft Has
No Alaskan Interest.

WASHINGTON, d. c., July 81
President Taft sent a special message
to the Senate late yesterday shoulder
ing full responsibility for opening
for settlement and development 1880
acres OF the Chugach National Forest
Reserve in Alaska-an incident which
has become to be known as the Con
troller Bay Affair." In concluding he
brands the now famous Dick to
Dick" postscript as n wicked fabri-
cation and says that Charles p. Taft,
whose name appeared in the alleged
postscript, has no interest in Alaska.
never had, and knows nothing of the
circumstances connected with this
transaction" Moreover, the President
adds, his brother does not even re-
member that he ever met Richard S.
Ryan, representing the Controller
Railway & Navigation Company
AS for eliminating the land in ques-
ton from the reserve, the President
says that there is no danger of the
Controller Railway & Navigation
Company or any other interests mo-
Mopolizing the field, and nothing to
show that this company is in any way
connected with the Morgan-Guggen-
helm interests. Hence, he believes
that in eliminating the land he has
acted for the best interests of the ma
ton.
II wish to he as specific as possible
upon this point says the President
in his message, land to say that I
alone am responsible for the enlarge
ment of the proposed elimination from
800 acres to 1880 acres. and that I
proposed the change and stated my
reasons therefor. The thing which
the Territory OF Alaska needs is de-
velopment, and where rights and
franchises can be properly granted to
encourage Investment and construct
a railroad without comforting exclu-
sive privileges, believe it to be in
accordance with good policy to grant
them
Accompanying the Presidents mes
sage are documents, reports and maps
bearing on the case. as requested
from him by a Senate resolution of
June u last ~ deem IT wise" SAYS
the message, "to accompany the sub
OF these documents with a
statement In narrative form OF the ac-
hon OF the administration with the
reasons therefor" Here follows a de-
scrlption Of Controller Bay and en-
Vlrons and a map showing the effect
81 withdrawing tne much mooted 12.-
100 acres from the reserve. Tho Pres
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-07-27
PRESIDENT BRANDS
AS a FABRICATION

alone am responsible for the enlarge
I ment of the proposed elimination
| from 800 acres to 1880 acres, anC
that proposed the change and stated
my reasons therefor and while both
secretaries cordially concurred in it
: the suggestion was mine"
| The President says he had every
assurance at the time that the Con-
troller Railway and Navigation Com
pany was an Independent enterprise
working in all good faith, and that no
evidence to the contrary has since
been brought to his attention. "Of
course 1t was possible" he continues,
that the owners of the Copper River
Railway Company" CMessrs. Morgan
and Guggenheim) might attempt to
buy this railroad when and if it were
built 1t was possible that Mr.. Ryan
was acting for the interests of the
Copper River railroad, although l did
not believe it; but whether this was
true or not it was clear that the order
CT elimination by reason of the re-
strictions of the act of Congress
would not permit the owners OF either
railroad to shut out any other capt
taIists." Moreover, he states, the
rates to be charged would be always
subject to congressional control, and
il government ownership seemed the
wise policy under the peculiar cir
cumstances ample land for right Of
way, harbor frontage and terminals
must always remain available under
the law for government use, or if 1t
Is preferred to take over to the gov
eminent railway built by private
enterprise. condemnation is easy"
Il am as strongly convinced as any,
one of the necessity for the conserva-I
ton of our national resources,' says
the President, and as much opposed
MS any one to their monopolization by
large corporations. but my convicttonsI
on this point did not deter me from
taking the step which | hoped might
lead 30 encouraging the construction
OF a railway from Controller Bay toI
the Boring coal fields. | thought the
pairing down of the amount of public
land to be acquired for terminals by
the railway company proposing to
build the railroad was a poor policy
and one not calculated to secure in
yestment or speedy construction"
The President goes on to explain
that there are iron-bound li2ritatIons
covering the method Tor securing title
for government lands ana for this
reason, he feels no fear OF any interest
obtaining a monopoly. Briefly the res
are:
First: Not rnore than 100 acres
can be entered in single: body
BY script.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-07-27

Alaska should not be turned over to
be exploited for the profit of greedy,
absorbing. monopolistfc corporations
or syndicates. Whatever the at
tempts which have been made, no one,
as matter OF fact, has secured In
Alaska any undue privilege or fran
chise not completely under the con-
troll OF Congress, and in all the scan
dial with which the public has been
RECALLED very few specific instances
of corrupt or improper attempts TO
acquire vested interests in Alaska
have been shown by evidence that
would stand the test of judicial exam
nation. Notwithstanding this, how
ever, l am in full agreement with the
view that every care, both in admin
istration and in legislation, must be
observed to prevent the corrupt or
unfair acquisition of undue privilege.
franchise, or right from the goverh-
ment in that district. But every one
must know that the resources of
Alaska can never become available
either to the people of Alaska or to
the public of the United States unless
reasonable opportunity is granted to
those who would invest their money
to secure a return proportionate to
the risk run in the investment and
reasonable under all the circum-
stances.
ION the other hand, the acrimony
of spirit and the intense malice that
have been engendered in respect of
the administration of the government
in Alaska and in the consideration OF
measures proposed for her relief and
the wanton recklessness and eager-
ness with which attempts have been
made to besmirch. the characters OF
high officials having to do with the
Alaskan government, and even OF per-
sons not in public life, present con-
dition that calls for condemnation
and requires that the public be-
warned of the decentralization that has
been produced by the hysterieal sus-
picons of good people and the un-
scrupulous and corrupt mtsrepresen-
tations of the wicked. The helpless
state to which the credulity of some
and the malevolent scandal-monger-
ing of others have brought the people
of Alaska in their struggle for its de-
velopment, ought to give the public
pause, for until juster and fairer
view be taken investment in Alaska,
which is necessary to its development,
will be Impossible, and honest adj
and legislators will be
deferred from the advocacy and put
ting into operation OF those policies
in regard to the territory which are
necessary to it's progress and pros
Derity."
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ident then takes up the thread of his
narrative as concerns the events that
precipitated the controversy.
lie relates how Ryan. representing
the Controller Railway and Naviga-
ton Company. applied in 1909 for the
elimination of tract to enable his
company to secure railroad termi-
nails, etc. The application was re-
ferred to the Forestry Bureau and
then to the Navy Department with a
view that perhaps the Navy desired to
use Controller Bay as a reservation.
The forestry interests found no OBJ
lection to the elimination of the tract
dent writes, ito the elimination OF 49,
Controller Bay"
The Navy Departments answer was
negative" says the President and
after the matter had been considered
by the secretary OF agriculture, by the
secretary OF the interior, and the
general land Office concentration
was made to him that 800 acres with
n frontage of 100 rods on the north
west shore OF Controller Bay be
thrown open. a formal order to this
effect was finally submitted to him in
October. 1910. but when the matter
came before the cabinet late in that
month he found objection to it. His
reasons for taking this stand he eX-
plains IN his message in part as fol-
lows
Il expressed dissatisfaction with
the order because 1t purported on its
race to make the elimination for the
benefit OF a railroad company OF a
tract of land which the company
could not by lawful entry secure, for
it was a tract 800 acres in one body
when the only 100 acres could thus
be acquired In the second place, l
preferred to make a much larger
of a tract facing the entire
channel. and with sufficient room for
a terminal railway town. was will
ing to do this because / found the re-
strictions in the law sufficient TO pre-
vent the possibility OF any monopoly
of either the upland or the harbor
or channel by the Controller Railway
and Navigation Company or any other
persons or company Because OF Il
lack of time sufficient to draft mem
1randum myself, / requested the sec
rotary OF the interior, who, with the
secretary OF agriculture, after full
discussion, had agreed in my con
;lusion, to prepare n letter setting
'orth the reasons for making the lar
ger elimination, so that it might be-
come part OF the record.
a wish to be as specific as possible
Ipon this point, and to say that
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-07-27
.(contlnued from- 5000

"shall tel you how she died.
m'seur?" he repeated sixteen years
ago. when the little Meleese was four
years old and the Oldest of the three
sons was fourteen. man and his boy
came up from Churchill. He had let
tiers from the factor Mt the bay. and,
our factor and his wife opened their
doors to him and to his son and gave
them aIl that 1t was In their power to
give.
''AIon Dieu. this man was from that
glorious civilization OF yours. m'seur-
from that land to the south where
they shy that ChrEst's temples stand
on every four corners but he could nor
understand the strange God and the
strange laws of our people For months
lie had E,ecn away from the compan-
IonShip at wuincu. and la this great
Wilderness the fnrror's wife came into
mis- life as t,ir flower blossoms IL the
desert. All. m'seur. crn see now how
his wicket heart AIrbve u ncCOINpl!sh
the things and how he failed because
the glory or our w0nnuIn'd NJ, here
mas come straight down from heaven.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-07-27

Mrs. Harry b. Curtin and daughter.
Hiss Francis, and son. Harry, went to
Cincinnati, o., Thursday morning
where they viii spend several weeks
visiting relatives.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-07-27

Sprains requirS careful treatment Keep
quiet and apply Chant crlaiN'S Imminent
freely. II will renauvr tl;e sN,eneRB and
quickly reatnFo the PaFtB 10 q healthy CON.
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